The Walls of Babylon

The Walls of Babylon :: Bitumen

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More than 4000 years ago, according to The Greek historian Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus,  hot bitumen was used as mortar in the walls and towers of Babylon; there were oil pits near Ardericca (near Babylon), and a pitch spring on Zacynthus.  The 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long Euphrates Tunnel beneath the river Euphrates at Babylon, in the time of Queen Semiramis ( the wife of Nimrod) was reportedly constructed of burnt bricks covered with bitumen as a waterproofing agent. Bitumen was used by ancient Egyptians to embalm mummies.  The Egyptians’ primary source of bitumen was the Dead Sea, which the Romans knew as Palus Asphaltites (Asphalt Lake). 

Sodom, the city destroyed by God was on the bank of the Dead Sea, and sank into it after being destroyed.

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^[h5467] סְדֹם çᵉdôm, sed-ome’;  Sodom = “burning”, “to scorch”, as being built on bitimunous (volcanic) soil 

Revelation 11: The 2 Witnesses

7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city,which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 

Bitumen :: Asphalt :: Pitch :: Slime

 

 

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Asphalt, also known as bitumenis a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.It may be found in natural deposits or may be a refined product, and is classed as a pitch. The primary use (70%) of asphalt is in road construction where it is used as the glue or binder  

Germany’s impressive road network partly inspired the Interstate Highway System that changed  the shape of American cities (for better and worse).  It also hastened Hitler’s rise to power.  Hitler himself broke ground on the highway system in September 1933,  and within a year construction was underway in 11 major corridors.

Jeremiah 51 : 

58Thus said the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

^[h875] בְּאֵר bᵉʼêr, be-ayr’; Slime Pits = “well(pit) of Bitumen” (37x in 33v)

^[h2564] חֵמָר chêmâr, khay-mawr’;  “slime (pit), pitch, asphalt, bitumen”  (3x in 3v)

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• from H2560;  bitumen (as rising to the surface):—slime(-pit).
• Bitumen boils up from subterranean fountains like oil or hot pitch located near the Dead Sea and Babylon. Afterwards it hardens through the heat of the sun and is collected on the surface of the Dead Sea.

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^[h2564]is used only 3 times in the bible…in reference to the: 

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Tower of Babel

Sodom

the Ark that Moses was in.

Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime^[H2564] had they for morter.

Genesis 14: War of Kings in Sodom

10 And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits;^[H2564] and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. 

Exodus 2: The Birth of Moses 

3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime^[H2564]and with pitch^[H2203],and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river’s brink. 

^[h2203] זֶפֶת zepheth, zeh’-feth; Pitch = “pitch, tar, asphalt” aka bitumen

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from an unused root (meaning to liquify);

asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun):—pitch.

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It is used only 1 other time in Isaiah when he

warns the Nations of God’s judgement

Isaiah 34 : God’s Judgments on the Nations

1Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2For the indignation of the LORD is on all nations, and his fury on all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter. 3Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll:

and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine,and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

5For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down on Idumea, and on the people of my curse, to judgment. 6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch^[h2203],

and the dust thereof into brimstone,

and the land thereof shall become burning pitch^[h2203]. 

10It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out on it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. 14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to  his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

 Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read:no one of these shall fail,

none shall want her mate:for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.

17And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

Fossil Fuels :: DEAd works

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Fossil fuels buried in the earth’s crust formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth’s sediment ROCK crust over millions of years.  Fossil fuels contain high percentages of carbon and include petroleum, coal, and natural gas.  According to estimates in 2007 the primary sources of energy consisted of:

petroleum 36.0%,

coal 27.4%,

natural gas 23.0%,

amounting to an 86.4% share for fossil fuels in primary energy consumption in the world.  Non-fossil sources in 2006 included nuclear 8.5%, hydroelectric 6.3%, and others (geothermal, solar, tidal, wind, wood, waste) amounting to 0.9% energy consumption was growing about 2.3% per year.

Petroleum

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petroleum comes from the Ancient Greek:πέτρα “petra” = “rocks”   and ἔλαιον “elaion” = ”oil.”

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It is commonly refined into various types of fuels.  It is estimated that the world consumes about 95 million barrels each day.  It is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth’s surface.  Petroleum is formed when large quantities of dead organisms, buried underneath sedimentary rock are subjected to both intense heat and pressure.  Petroleum has mostly been recovered by oil drilling (natural petroleum springs are rare).

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It is refined and separated, most easily by distillation, into a large number of consumer products, from gasoline(petrol) and kerosene to asphalt and chemical reagents used to make plastics and pharmaceuticals. Petroleum, in one form or another, has been used since ancient times, and is now important across society, including in economy, politics and technology.  The rise in importance was due to the invention of the internal combustion engine,  the rise in commercial aviation, and the importance of petroleum to industrial organic chemistry, particularly the synthesis of plastics, fertilisers, solvents, adhesives and pesticides.

Coal

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Coal is a fossil fuel that forms when dead plant matter is converted into peat, which in turn is converted into lignite, then sub-bituminous coal, after that bituminous coal (asphalt), and lastly anthracite.

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Throughout human history, coal has been used as an energy resource, primarily burned for the production of electricity and heat, and is also used for industrial purposes, such as refining metals.  Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity. 

Revelation 11 : The Seventh Trumpet 

18And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should give reward to your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great;

and should destroy them which destroy the earth.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is planning to sue oil companies, alleging they are “knowingly killing people all over the world.”

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“The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study

that there would be global warming happening

because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it

would be risky for people’s lives, that it would kill.” 

Coal contains Sulfur and other elements, including dangerous metals such as mercury, lead, and arsenic, that escape into the air when coal is burned.  Burning coal also produces particulates that increase air pollution and health dangers.  Burning coal emits large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. Iron Ore is argued to be the most integral commodity to the Global Economy, except perhaps Oil.  Iron is the world’s most commonly used metal-steel, of which iron ore is the key ingredient, representing almost 95% of all metal used per year.  Reference to Mars, Iron, and the Philosophers’ Stone.

Tubal Cain was the last descendant of Cain mentioned before the Flood.  Tubal Cain has even been described as the first chemist and a prominent alchemist because he was the holder ofPlutonic theory.  He was the King of Ur 3200 B.C.  His statue is seen here in Birmingham, AL…”The Iron City”. He is Vulcan to the pagans.  Plutonic theory (plutonism | volcanism) is the geologic theory that the igneous rocks forming the Earth originated from intrusive magmatic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion wearing away rocks, which were then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again. It proposes that basalt is solidified molten magma.  The name “Plutonism” references Pluto, the classical ruler of the underworld, while “volcanism” echoes the name of Vulcan,  the ancient Roman god of fire and volcanoes.  

^[h5467] סְדֹם çᵉdôm, sed-ome’; sodom = “burning” (i.e. volcanic or bituminous) district;

“Tubal-Cain” is the password given in the 3° of Master Mason. 

 THE LOST KEYS OF FREEMASONRY (by Manly P. Hall, 33rd ° Freemason)

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 The day has come when Fellow Craftsman must know and apply their knowledge. The lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion , which places the energy of the universe at their disposal. Man can only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly. When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands, and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to “properly apply energy”. He must follow in the footsteps of his forefather,Tubal-Cain,  who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare.

MATTHEW 15:13

Every plant, 

which my heavenly Father hath not planted, 

shall be rooted up.

How Coal is transmuted into Electricity at A Power plant

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Coal is placed in a machine called a pulverizer

which grinds the coal into fine powder

The powder mixes with hot air 

which helps to make it burn more efficiently

The mixture is moved to a furnace

The burning coal heats water in a boiler creating steam

Steam released from boiler power turbine engine  

transforms heat energy 

from burning coal

 into mechanical energy 

that spins the turbine

The turbine is used to power generator which

turns mechanical energy — into — electrical energy,

through magnets inside a copper coil

A condenser cools the steam moving through turbine

as the steam is condensed, it turns back to water

The water returns to the boiler and the cycle starts over again

 

Coal is the largest worldwide source of energy for the generation of electricity

Metals are tilled from the earth like as done by Cain which conducts the electricity and gives rise to cities.

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 The Source of all “City Development”is the knowledge of Alchemy and Chemistry, 

which gives them the knowledge 

to transmute Bitumen into Energy and Electricity. 

Luke 10 : The Seventy-Two Return with Joy

17And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject to us through your name.

 18And he said to them,

I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

 19Behold, I give to you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Lightning is one of the most dramatic effects of electricity.

Electricity is the Heart of Technology

Electricity :: The ELECTRIC CITY

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Electricity remained little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.

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He coined the New Latin word electricus(“of amber” or “like amber”, from ἤλεκτρον, elektron, the Greek word for “amber”) to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed. 

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The early 19th century had seen rapid progress in electrical science, the late 19th century would see the greatest progress in electrical engineering. Electricity turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force of the Second Industrial Revolution.  The solid-state device came into its own with the invention of the transistor in 1947.  Common solid-state devices include transistors, microprocessor chips, and RAM. A specialized type of RAM called flash RAM is used in USB flash drives and more recently, solid-state drives to replace mechanically rotating magnetic disc hard disk drives.   In the 19th and early 20th century, electricity was not part of the everyday life of many people, even in the industrialized Western world.

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The popular culture of the time accordingly often depicts it as  a mysterious, quasi-magical force that can slay the living, revive the dead or otherwise bend the laws of nature. The masters of electricity, whether fictional or real—including scientists such as Thomas Edison, Charles Steinmetz or Nikola Tesla—were popularly conceived of as having wizard-like powers.

Deuteronomy 32 : 

36For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 37And he shall say, Where are their gods,their rock in whom they trusted,

Deuteronomy 4 :

20But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt,to be to him a people of inheritance, as you are this day.

Gunpowder also known as “Black Powder”

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is the earliest known chemical explosive.  Originally developed by alchemists for medicinal purposes, gunpowder was first used for warfare about 1000 CE.^[4]   It consists of a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate (saltpeter).  The sulfur and charcoal act as fuels while the saltpeter is an oxidizer.  Because of its incendiary properties and the amount of heat and gas volume that it generates, gunpowder has been widely used as a propellant in firearms, artillery, rockets, and fireworks and as a blasting powder in quarrying, mining, and road building.

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The Source of all “War”

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is the knowledge of Alchemy and Chemistry, 

which gives them the knowledge to convert Bitumen into Explosives. 

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This gives the rulers of the world a tool to rule over the masses with fear.

“Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?” “Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount? “So before we get carried away, let’s read our Bible now,” (said, to cheers). “FOLKS HAVEN’T BEEN READING THEIR BIBLE.”“Or should we go with Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount,a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our Defense Department would survive its application.”

~ Obama

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