The Ark
of Noah landed on “the mountains of Ararat (Urartu)”, a country, not just on a
single Mount Ararat – and likewise in the biblical “land of Moriah” (Genesis
22:2) there were mountains (plural) of which Olivet was one, the “Upper Moriah”.
In the case of Noah’s Ark and the ancient
land of Urartu, I wrote:
Mountain of Landing for the Ark of Noah
Now, Doug Jacoby, following the research of
Dr. Ernest L. Martin (RIP), has drawn a parallel case between “Ararat” and
“Moriah”, in his discussion of Moriah as, in part, Mount Olivet (http://www.greatcommission.com/TheRedHeiferandtheCrucifixion.html)
….
MORIAH: THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE
Sacrifice is found in nearly every book of the Bible, and
this theme binds together all the other themes and plots in Scripture. The
place of sacrifice par excellence is Moriah. Often we hear mention of
"Mount Moriah." In a sense, there is more than one "Mount Moriah."
Just as the Ark came to rest on "one of the mountains of
Ararat," rather than on the Mount Ararat (Genesis 8:4), so Abraham
was bidden by God to sacrifice his son on one of the mountains in the land of
Moriah (Genesis 22:2):
Then God
said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the
region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the
mountains I will tell you about."
There are
conceivably a number of "Moriahs." Jesus too was sacrificed in
the land of Moriah. Is there any need to remind the reader that there are at
least ten amazing parallels, by way of foreshadowing, between the sacrifice of
Isaac and the sacrifice of Jesus? It would come as no surprise if they were
"sacrificed" and "received back" on the same mountain. The
sacrifice of Christ takes on new meaning when we understand the Old Testament
foreshadowing – in this case, with startling coincidence of detail. 5
The site of Jesus’ execution, like that of Isaac’s
"sacrifice," is never identified with the Temple Mount, unlike the
threshing floor of Araunah:
Then
Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah,
where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor
of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David (2 Chronicles 3:1).
There are, in effect, two theologically significant places of
sacrifice in the land of Moriah. The Mount of Olives is located on Moriah, and
it is probable that here both Isaac and Jesus were offered. The threshing floor
at which David stemmed the plague, indeed the very site at which Solomon
erected his magnificent Temple, were not on the Mount of Olives, but on Moriah.
The Mount of Olives we could call "Upper" Mt. Moriah, the Temple
Mount, "Lower" Mt. Moriah.
The Four Sacrifices
1
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2
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Upper
Moriah
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Sacrifice
of Isaac
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Sacrifice
of Jesus
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Sacrifices
with "resurrection"
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One
of the mountains in land of Moriah
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Lower
Moriah
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Sacrifice
to stem plague
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Sacrifice
of "bulls and goats"
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Sacrifices
without "resurrection"
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Threshing
floor of Araunah
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Solomon’s
Temple
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You
may be caught off guard by the thought that the Mount of Olives was a place of
worship or sacrifice in the Bible. After all, wasn’t this a serene place of
prayer? Was blood actually shed on this mountain?
According
to 2 Samuel 15:32, there was already a significant place of worship on the
Mount of Olives – some thousand years before Jesus was crucified:
But David
continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he
was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping
as they went up. Now David had been told, "Ahithophel is among the
conspirators with Absalom." So David prayed, "O Lord, turn
Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness." When David arrived at the summit
[place of the head], where people used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite was
there to meet him, his robe torn and dust on his head (2 Samuel 15:30-32).
Yes, the elevated location was already a place of worship and sacrifice. At any rate, the threshing floor of Araunah (2 Samuel 24, 1 Chronicles 21), located on the other side of the Kidron on what would soon become the site of the First Temple, 7 was not the only place where reconciliation between man and God took place. The place of the Head, on the Mount of Olives, near the road into the city, was also a "holy place", as 2 Samuel 15 reveals to us. ….
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This article is worth reading in full.
Along very similar lines - but with
interesting new information - we read this piece (albeit somewhat difficult to
follow), reflecting on Luke 16. I do not necessarily agree with every
identification being made here (http://www.sheshbazzardaq.com/olivet-zeytiym.html):
Olivet
Zeytiym
The Father YHWH already stood over the holy Mount Olivet Zeytiym
The Clouds are the dust of His feet - Nachum 1:3 - Lukos 9:34-35
The Father YHWH already stood over the holy Mount Olivet Zeytiym
The Clouds are the dust of His feet - Nachum 1:3 - Lukos 9:34-35
Lukos 16:19-31
….
In the above passage the
Master Yeshua Messiah seems to reveal that he knows where the Ark of the
Covenant of Elohim is located. Likewise the passage reveals that Lukos, and
therefore Paulos, also may have known where the Ark of the Covenant was
located. This is because the Ark was hidden by HaNavi Yirmeyahu in the
"Bay of Abraham" beneath Mount Moriah just before the king of Babylon
took the city. However Nagiyd Yeshua does not merely know this only because he
himself is the Word but also because it is having been written in the Word. And
for the same reason Yirmeyahu also knew where to hide the Ark according to the
written Word. The place is called "Beth HaMerchaq" which translates
into "The House Afar" which is clearly a reference to father Abraham
"lifting up his eyes" in the "Third Day" and seeing the
appointed place afar off. In Genesis 22:4 we find written "HaMaqowm
Merachoq" which translates into "The Place Afar" or "The
Station Afar" which is located upon the highest peak of Mount Moriah.
However, the highest point on Mount Moriah is not where the Temple was later to
be built, (for David numbered the people and provoked the Most High which led
to the alternative location at the Threshing Floor of Araunah the
Yebuciy-Jebusite). Therefore says David in the Psalm, "The Stone which the
builders disallowed has become the Rosh-Head of the Pinnah-Corner, this is from
YHWH". And the reason it is from the Most High is because he sent his
Messenger when David had sinned in numbering the people; and not only were
seventy thousand slain, (supernal in meaning) but "the builders had
rejected the Chief Corner Stone" meaning that David himself had done so by
his own actions and it would be Solomon his own son who would later build the
Temple. The "builders" also becoming prophetic had now
"disallowed" the highest peak location of Mount Moriah which is the
same location wherein is found Ha-'Eben Ha-'Ezel, the Stone of Ezel or
Departure which is the "Skull Face" Stone at Beth HaMerchaq, the
House Afar. The lower peak of Moriah, at the Threshing Floor of Ornan the
Yebuciy, was revealed by the Malak of YHWH as the direct result of the actions
of melek David himself, (but all things work together for the good to them that
love God). The highest peak on Mount Moriah is called Olivet and therein is
likewise found the Gan-Garden, (of olive-shemen-oil) and in the midst of the
Garden is also found the ancient winepress, (Gath or Geth). When we put the two
words together, Gath-winepress and Shemen-oil, we perceive the true meaning of
the Garden which is having been called Gath-shemeni or Gethsemane. Gan
Gethsemane is about a "stone's throw", (Lukos 22:41) from Ha-'Eben
Ha-'Ezel, the Stone of Ezel, (or Azal) which is to the side of the north just
beyond the second northern wall of the old city of Yerushalaim between the Damascus
and Herod Gates. The same place contains the stoning grounds where Stephen is
traditionally said to have been stoned, and yet again when Saulos leaves the
city by the Damascus Gate, in the Way to Damascus-Qumran, he sees the vision of
Messiah and the Light blinds him for three days. This event likely occurred
also at Golgotha where Saulos himself had just recently been employed,
(unknowingly) to oversee the fiery immersion of the "whole house" of
Stephanas. It may be perhaps Paulos was inspecting the site on his way toward
the Qumran Essene Damascene Ekklesia, (where was Ananias the Zadokite and
"the street having been called Straight") with papers from the chief
priests to hunt down and bring back any talmidim of Yeshua to Yerushalaim for
punishment. It may have been here at Golgotha, near the highest point of Moriah
called Olivet, where Paulos had received the vision of Yeshua Moshiya, the
bright and Morning Star, as he came upon the astonishing and overwhelming
evidence that this man Yeshua, whom he was pursuing, was indeed the Messiah.
2 Samuel 15:13-32 ~ And
there came the messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Yisrael are
after Absalom. And said David unto all his servants that were with him at
Yerushalaim, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom:
make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and
smite the city with the edge of the sword. And the king's servants said unto
the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever Adoni the king shall
appoint. And the king went forth, and all his household on foot. And the king
left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house. And so the king went
forth, and all the people on foot, and they stationed at Beth HaMerchaq, (the
House Afar). And all his servants crossed over by his side; and they stood by
the Olivet in the wilderness, (LXX Septuagint) and all the people marched near
him, and all his court, and all the men of might, and all the men of war, six
hundred which were present by his side: and every Kretiy, and every Pletiy, and
all the Gittim, six hundred men which came on foot from Gath, (winepress)
crossed over in the presence of the king. Then said the king to Ittai the
Gittite of the Gittim; For what reason should you also go with us? return to
thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also a goleh.
As of late have you come; and should I this same day make thee go up and down
with us, seeing I go wheresoever I go? Turn back, and take thy brethren: and
mercy and truth be with thee. And Ittai answered the king, and said, As YHWH
lives, and as Adoni the king lives, surely in whatsoever place Adoni the king
shall be, whether in death or whether in life, even there also will thy servant
be (same words as Petros and the Twelve Talmidim at Mount Olivet in Mattityahu
26:35). And David said to Ittai, Come then, and cross over with me. And Ittai
the Gittite crossed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were
with him. And all the earth wept with a loud voice, and all the people crossed
over: the king also himself crossed over in the brook Kidron, and all the
people crossed over upon the face of the way to the wilderness. And, behold,
Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the Ark of the Covenant
of Elohim: and they set down the Ark of Elohim; and Abiathar went up, until all
the people completed crossing over out from the city. And the king said unto
Zadok, Carry back the Ark of Elohim into the city: if I shall find favor in the
eyes of YHWH, he will bring me again, and he will show me both it, and the
navey-habitation of it: But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold,
here am I, let him do to me what seems good unto him. The king said also unto
Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your
two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Yonathan the son of Abiathar. See, I
will tarry in the Arabah-fords of the wilderness, until there come word from
you to certify me. Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the Ark of Elohim again
to Yerushalaim: and they tarried there. And David went up by the Ascent of
Olivet-Zeytiym, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went
barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and
they went up, weeping as they went up. And it was reported to David, saying,
Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And said David, O YHWH, I
pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. And when it was
that David was come unto ("Ros" LXX Septuagint) the Rosh-Head, (which
was where he did humbly bow himself to Elohim) behold, Hushai the Archite came
to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head.
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