Columbus Day Ping!
Finding a western route to the Indies was a way to overcome Islamic domination to the east.
It is a shame that our children and students are not being taught the truth about Columbus, and view him as a murderer of the “innocent” “indigenous peoples”
Columbus wrote about prophecy. I think his book of prophecy is printed through Stanford University. He got his introduction to Queen Isabella via her spiritual director where he described his spiritual reasons for his trip. That is what prompted her to fund it. Columbus believed that he was named after St. Christopher so as the saint was known to carry Christ, he to was to carry the representative of Christ, the pope, to Jerusalem. His first trip was to discover the best route.
Ferdinand and Isabella were eager to fund the venture, partially in thanksgiving to God for having been able to drive the Moors (Muslims) out of Spain the previous year; partly because as a result of that victory overland trade routes to the spice lands (through Muslim territory) were neither safe nor reliable.
A side note: Columbus introduced the tomato and the potato to the Old World. As you enjoy an Italian dish with marinara sauce in honor of Columbus day, remember that his discoveries transformed Italian cuisine!
A clear reading of YHvH's WORD will indicate There was however a religious overtone to Fernando and Isabella rebelled against YHvH The date chosen for all Jews to be out of Spain Many tragedies have occurred on the 9th of AV (Tisha B'Av). The Destruction of the second Temple Was Columbus sent as a spy to find the new Yah'shua does not need man
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
to prepare the world for His return.
that Jerusalem must be returned to His
Chosen People before the End of Days.
Columbus' voyage and it's genesis and timing.
and commanded all of YHvH's Chosen People
out of Spain under penalty of death.
was the Ninth of the month of AV on YHvH's calendar. The Destruction of the first Temple
promised land for YHvH's second covenant Nation ?
I have frequently read Columbus’ mother was a converso from Judaism and part of his motivation was to escape discrimination.
whats a good book to read about Columbus?
The Portuguese, to whom he first turned for funds thought he was a charlatan, as he claimed the Earth was about 13,000 miles around the equator. They knew that was simply nonsense, as it had been known since the Greeks that it was 25,000 miles in circumference. Columbus had misinterpreted the units of measurement. The Portuguese (who consider other Europeans somewhat slow-witted and are really good at numbers) suspected that he had fudged his data on purpose to better "sell the deal!" They also thought he might have been working for Venice on some sort of spice shedazzle. BTW, every seafaring nation knew there was something out there to the west. After all, Iceland and Greenland already had settlers.
More columbian factoids: He was a Genoese, which means he spoke the city dialect which is really Catalan, so Ferdinand (a Catalan) and Isabella understood him very well. He also wised up a bit, and like a Hollywood guy selling a movie idea, he signed up with an agent!
It took a few years, but eventually, Ferdinand and Isabella really figured something like the 15th C equivalent of: "Whatever, he's not asking for that much, let's roll the dice with him."
PS: no one who could read and write thought the "Earth was flat." Nonetheless, Christopher Columbus, who took his first name Christus Ferens, i.e., the Bearer of Christ very seriously was a man for the ages and the fellow who got our New World on the map. But, he was human, too, one of us. And he deserves this day
It’s just a shame they are going to have to change
their name to Knights of Indigenous.
About the Knights of Columbus History of the Knights of Columbus
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