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- Chapter 1,356 The Magic Slate
¡ª¡ªIn response to this mutiny, a series of particularly interesting events took place: Two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation of Israel, men of honor who had been elected to the congregation, stood up together in the presence of Moses and gathered against Moses and Aaron, saying: "You are presumptuous, and the whole congregation is holy, and the Lord is among them. Why do you exalt yourself above the congregation of the Lord?"
Moses was initially shocked by these rebellious words and even "fell on his face to the ground", but he quickly recovered and proposed the following "test"
He proposed that in order to test whether the 250 rebels were as "holy" as they claimed, each of them should fill a copper censer with incense, light the incense, and go to the Ark of the Covenant.
He said that this would allow Jehovah to ¡°make holy whomever he chooses.¡± Moses¡¯ challenge was accepted by the rebels. ¡°Then they each took a censer, filled it with fire, put incense, and stood with Moses and Aaron. "In front of the tabernacle door"
As soon as these people stood still, ¡°the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole congregation.¡±
It seems that God wants His "beloved chosen people" to know what He is going to do 3 seconds in advance: "The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, "Get out of this congregation, so that I may destroy them in the twinkling of an eye." After hearing this Then Moses, the prophet and the high priest, "fell down on their faces to the groundand fire came out of the ark and consumed the two hundred and fifty who were offering the incense."
?? Later, the Israelites said to Moses, "We are dead! We are destroyed! We are all destroyed! Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the Lord will die. Shall we all die?"
It seems that the Israelites learned a useful lesson. They were so intimidated by the power of the Ark that they no longer dared to carry out any major rebellion.
On the contrary, during the rest of the wandering period in the wilderness, except for the occasional whispered complaint, everyone obeyed Moses and followed his instructions meticulously. This was Moses' motivation to build the Ark of the Covenant.
Moses obviously desperately needed a miracle-making machine like the Ark of the Covenant. Here you can see one of the aspects of human nature. If you don¡¯t have strong intimidation or spiritual or even divine power, it will be difficult for you to bring a group of people together, let alone be so obedient.
What¡¯s more, once he has this machine, he will use it without hesitation
However, motivation and ability alone are not enough to achieve a satisfactory result. Therefore, the next question is: Did Moses have the opportunity to prepare the appropriate blueprint for the Ark of the Covenant? Did Moses have the opportunity to create some kind of "reserve energy material" for the Ark of the Covenant, that is, to supply the Covenant? Some kind of energy released by the cabinet?
The answer is yes: Moses had ample opportunity to do so. To understand why this is said, it is necessary to review the main experiences of Moses' life, where the answer lies
One of the most important life events is that Moses met Jehovah at the burning bush. The location of this event has convinced scholars that Moses spent at least part of his 40 years in exile in these remote mountainous deserts. spent on
He may even have spent most or all of his time in exile in these places. In fact, Western academic circles unanimously agree with this view.
A knowledgeable Egyptologist once said that Moses may have lived in Sinai for 25 years, in a place called Mount Serabit, only 50 miles away from Mount Sinai.
In recent years, researchers have climbed Mount Serabit to visit it. It stands on the steep and desolate plateau south of the center of the Sinai region. On the flat top of this mountain, there are the remains of what is said to be the residence of Moses
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There are mainly obelisk altars and elegant stone pillars. There must have been a spacious Egyptian temple there. Moses, as a high priest of ancient Egyptian religion, was probably very satisfied with this place.
If he really killed an Egyptian overseer and fled as the Bible says, then this remote and unknown place would be relatively safe for him
Between 1904 and 1905, the great British archaeologist William Gundespetrie had thoroughly investigated it. At that time, he also excavated some fragments of stone slabs. The stone slabs were engraved with strange hieroglyphic letters and phrases. Later proved to be Semitic-Canaanite, related to ancient Hebrew
Secondly, the area around Moses¡¯ residence on Mount Serabit was once an important mining and smelting center. From about 1990 BC to 1190 BC, brass and turquoise were mined and processed there.
These dates mean that Moses may have stayed here in the 13th century BC, just before he led the Israelites out of Egypt. At least this speculation is correct in time.
This relic also used a set of letters related to Hebrew, and its time was roughly during this period, which also shows that this opinion is more credible
However, what really arouses my interest is the point highlighted above, that is, Mount Serabit also played a similar role as an industrial and metallurgical complex, where mineral deposits throughout the region were extensively mined.
Scholars believe that if Moses had lived there for a long time, it would have been almost impossible for him not to have knowledge of the minerals and metal deposits in the southern Sinai region.
After the researchers visited Mount Serabit, they drove a rented jeep across the desert to Mount Sinai. In a sense, calling this area a "desert" is a mistake.
Because although there are large stretches of sand here, the countryside is mostly made up of steep and withered red ridges with almost no grass growing on them. The valleys are occasionally dotted with a few small oases, one of which is covered with ancient palm trees and stretches to the foot of Mount Sinai.
In the 4th century AD, a small Christian church was built here, and its location is said to be on the original site of the so-called "Burning Bush"
The chapel was later greatly enlarged, and by the 5th century AD it had become a veritable cathedral, protected by the Christian Church of Alexandria, Egypt.
In the 6th century AD, the Roman Emperor Justinian greatly thickened the walls of this monastery so that it could withstand the attacks of marauding Arab nomads.
By the 11th century, the entire church complex was finally dedicated to Saint Catherine. Today it is still known as the "Convent of Saint Catherine". Many of the buildings built in the 5th and 6th centuries are still there today.
On the precipitous summit of Mount Sinai at a height of 7,450 feet, there is an ancient monastery main church with several outstanding icons, mosaics and paintings, some of which are almost 1,500 years old.
There is a walled area in the square outside the church with dense raspberry bushes. The monks believe that it is the "burning bush" mentioned in the Bible.
This statement is of course wrong. Besides, everyone knows that Mount Sinai is the "Mount Sinai" mentioned in the Bible. This has not been conclusively proven at all.
But in fact, some of the legends told by the monks here can be traced back to at least the 4th century AD. Those legends connect this special mountain with the "Mountain of God" mentioned in the Bible, and it is said that The source of the information on which this connection was based is long lost today.
Not only that, some legends from local tribes also believe that in the language of the Arab nomads, Mount Sinai is called "Jeber Musa", which means "Moses' Mountain"
Academic circles also connect the "Mount Sinai" in the Bible with the mountain of the same name today. Although a few different opinions agree that the "Mount Sinai" mentioned in the Bible is in this area, they think it is from the same nearby mountain range. several other peaks
After climbing Mount Sinai, researchers have no doubt that this mountain is indeed the mountain that Moses visited "in the third month" after he led the Israelites out of Egypt.
The researcher stood on the edge of a cliff at the top of the mountain. Below, miles of rugged and desolate plateau gradually descended into the dry plains in the distance.
There is mist suspended in the light blue air, as if it is still. To be precise, it is not silence, but stillness.
Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and the plateau looked very cool and dry. I saw a goshawk circling in the sky, flying to eye level, shining in the sun, and then disappearing from the traveler's sight.
They personally experienced some of the feelings of Moses thousands of years ago. They stood on the top of the mountain for a while, staying in that ruthless and aggressive place for a moment. Moses chose this place to receive the "Ten Commandments" from God. This is really It couldn't be more imaginative or more appropriate.
But, is the purpose of Moses, the Hebrew magician, really coming here to receive the tablets of commandment?
There can be another explanation for his actions. Wasn¡¯t Moses¡¯ real purpose always to make the Ark of the Covenant and put some kind of huge energy material, that is, that natural substance in it?
He already knew at that time that the kind of substance could be found on this mountain top. This proposition was extremely speculative, but scholars often indulge in this kind of speculation, which also left a little room for imagination for future generations.
If Moses knew that there was some powerful substance buried on the main peak of Mount Sinai, then what exactly was that substance?
Scholars have already proposed an answer, that is: the so-called tablets on which God wrote the "Ten Commandments" are actually two meteorites. This conclusion is far consistent with Wolfram's "Holy Grail Stone". He said that a group of angels Bringing the Holy Grail Stone to the ground
Some leading scholars who study the Bible also take this fascinating possibility seriously, and point out that there were some beliefs in meteorite worship in ancient Semitic cultures. They also say: the commandments written on the commandments were sealed in the closed In the container, this?The approach seems a bit unreasonable
The purpose of engraving the law on the stone must be for everyone to see Therefore, it can be assumed that the Ark of the Covenant contains not two tablets of commandment, but a sacred stone, a meteorite found on Mount Sinai.
If this inference is true, then you can guess what elements are contained in "a meteorite found on Mount Sinai". This element is radioactive or has certain chemical properties. If Moses really wanted to create a powerful and lasting energy material and put it into the Ark of the Covenant, he is likely to use this element
No matter how you say it, this guess is not beyond the reasonable range
Moses may have been processing something on Mount Sinai, and the Bible does not rule out this speculation. On the contrary, many chapters of Exodus contain unusual and confusing passages that lend themselves to this. explanation of
After the Israelites "encamped under the mountain there", the so-called "appearance of God" soon occurred. Then "Moses went to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain."
At this early stage, the Bible does not mention fireworks or any other special effects that would soon appear. The prophet Moses only ascended Mount Sinai to have a secret conversation with the Lord. No one witnessed this conversation.
Significantly, one of the first instructions Moses received from God was: You are to set a boundary for the people around the mountain, saying, "Be careful that you do not go up the mountain, nor touch the borders of the mountain; whoever touches this mountain Yes, he must be put to death he must be stoned to death or shot with arrows he must not live."
If Moses really planned to process a certain substance on Mount Sinai, it goes without saying that he would have had a strong reason to demarcate a martial law area. The boundaries were clear and demarcated by "God"
"Stone to death, or shot through with arrows", this fate will certainly prevent the bold and curious people from peeking at what he is doing on the mountain.
Only in this way can he continue to convince people that he met God on the mountain
No matter what, this scene started after three days after Moses went up the mountain. On the morning of the third day, there were thunders and lightnings and dense clouds on the mountain, and the sound of the trumpet was so loud that all the people in the camp trembled
There was smoke all over Mount Sinai, because the LORD came down on the mountain in fire, and the smoke of the mountain went up like a furnace, and there was a great earthquake all over the mountain.
At first, it seems that Moses was alone on the mountain part of the time and in the camp most of the time. However, God soon said to Moses: Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and commandments that I have written. God gave it to you
This is the prelude to the key event that is about to take place on Mount Sinai, that event is Moses receiving the two stone tablets, which he will put into the Ark of the Covenant. The verses describing Moses are also accompanied by more special effects: Moses went up the mountain, and there were Clouds cover the mountains
The glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered the mountain for six days. On the seventh day He called Moses out of the cloud. The glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the Israelites. Moses went up into the cloud and went up the mountain, and he stayed on the mountain for forty days and nights.
Did it take forty days and nights for the omnipotent God to hand over the two stone tablets to Moses?
Such a long period of time seems completely unnecessary. However, if Moses was not receiving the "Commandment Table" at all, but was processing or refining some kind of concentrated stone-like energy material to put into the Ark of the Covenant, then to complete this It's very likely that he'll need that much time for a job
From this perspective, the "fire" on the top of the mountain, which the Israelites interpreted as "the glory of Jehovah", is probably really a kind of terrible radiation, which either comes from some kind of device or from some kind of chemical reaction process. The prophet Moses was using them to process and refine that energy material
Although this hypothesis sounds a bit strong, it is certainly not as bizarre as the descriptions of the two stone tablets in the Old Testament, the Mishna, the Talmud and most ancient Jewish legends.
It is said that the ten commandments are written on this special thing, and they were written by God himself.
Just as the Bible deliberately emphasizes: After the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he handed him the two tablets of the law, which are tablets of stone written by God¡¯s fingers.
Moses turned around and went down the mountain, holding two tablets of the law in his hand. This tablet was written on both sides. The words on this side and the other side were the work of God. The words were written by God and engraved on the tablets.
Therefore, from a theological perspective, the tablets received by the prophet Moses are extremely holy and of great significance. There is no doubt that these two tablets contain laws written by God himself, and therefore can be regarded as part of God.
From the perspective of the Bible, among the things God gave to mortals, nothing is more precious than these two commandment tablets. Some people might think that Moses would take good care of them, but he did not??This
Instead, in a fit of rage, he shattered these pure and perfect gifts from God.
Why did Moses do this incomprehensible act? "Exodus" explains that it was because the unfaithful Israelites did not believe that Moses would come back after forty days on the mountain, so they made a golden calf and worshiped it.
As soon as Moses returned to the camp, he saw the Israelites offering sacrifices, dancing and worshiping in front of the idol. Witnessing this bizarre scene of apostasy, the prophet "became furious and threw the two tablets at the foot of the mountain and broke them to pieces."
He then burned the golden calf, executed about 3,000 of the worst apostates, and restored order
The above is the Bible¡¯s official account of how Moses broke the stone tablets and why. However, these commandments on the tablets are obviously of life and death and are extremely important, so they must be replaced with new ones.
So God told Moses to return to the top of Mount Sinai and pick up two new tablets of commandments. Moses acted according to God¡¯s instructions. ¡°He stayed with the Lord for forty days and nights and the Lord wrote the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments, on the two tablets. superior"
Later, Moses came down the mountain with two tablets of commandment, just like the previous time. However, if you carefully study the relevant passages in the Bible, you can find that there is indeed a significant difference between Moses coming down the mountain twice. He came down the mountain the second time. When he went down the mountain for the first time, his "face shone," but the Bible did not mention this strange phenomenon.
What makes people wonder is, what made Moses¡¯ face shine?
The authors of the Bible naturally thought that it was because Moses was close to God, so they explained: "The face of Moses shone because the Lord spoke to him."
But in fact, there should be a more reasonable and scientific explanation (to be continued) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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