The following is the first in a series of five or six ahamoments any Bible student should be aware. This is #1

1. ^{II Corinthians 4:16} Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. ¹⁸ So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2. Story or History? The bible is NOT a storybook! It is His-story.
3. Switzerland (Ha-Levitical Confederacy “LVTCL”) on their coinage; The Levite Confederacy. “Ha” in Hebrew means “the”… The Levite Confederacy.
4. In 1492 Columbus sailed out of Spain. (5 out of 6 navigators were of Hebrew-Israeli lineage)
   1. 1492 (1492 – 1503 the Spanish Inquisition) the Jews were ordered out of Spain
5. Cleopatra: (Antiochus, king of the North vs the Pharaoh Ptolemy; King of the South)
   1. Ezekiel 38 & 39; Daniel 11:45
   1. Antiochus III [king of the north] gave his daughter “Cleopatra I” to Ptolemy V [King of the south] in marriage to his underage son. This is the Cleopatra of notoriety.
6. Shibboleth vs Sibboleth (Jordan) This test of the Ephraimites and the Gileadite language enunciations.
   1.  Any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another. (Merriam – Webster dictionary)
   1. Resulting from Judges 12:6…the Gileadites would say, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.'” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the ‘sh’ sound, they (Gileadites) seized that Ephraimite soldier and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
      1. What other language cannot pronounce the “sh” sound in their language?  Ans: Hawaiians. My bank agent at PNC in Grandville is Hawaiian. He confirmed that his people struggle to use the “sh” sound.
      1. Might this mean that as the world repopulated after the flood and dispersed after Babel, the Ephraimites migrated to “some of the islands of the seas” [Isaiah 11:11] Hmmm? The church of Philippians and the Philippines Islands? They had to come from somewhere around the Middle East after Noah settled there.
7. To remain in Spain, Jews had to change Hebrew names to Christian names, move, or die.
   1. Secretly they used the first letter of their tribal names to spell their “new” Christian names. Possible examples: Reuben to Robinson, Roberts, Richard, or the like, and the same with each tribe using the first letter of their founding fathers.
   1. Example: Tribe of Simeon could be renamed Simons, Simmons, Simpson, Simonson, Simonelli, etc.
   1. Problem: Joseph and Judah both begin with the letter “J”. God foresaw this issue 2,500 years before the Spanish Inquisition. Joseph, while in Egypt had two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. Jacob who was renamed Israel by God, adopted them as his sons, just as he identified Reuben, his firstborn. That means Joseph’s people were represented through his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh. No duplication of the tribal name’s first letter. Joshua became Ephraim, and Manasseh.

Rev. Dr. JStark – 2024