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Evidence of Sodom? Meteor blast cause of biblical destruction, say scientists
Times of Israel ^ | 11/22/2018 | Amanda Borschel-Dam

Posted on 11/22/2018 9:25:06 AM PST by Olog-hai

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists has a new theory for why all human civilization abruptly ended on the banks of the Dead Sea some 3,700 years ago.

According to analyzed archaeological evidence, the disaster of biblical proportions can be explained by a massive explosion, similar to one recorded over 100 years ago in Russia. […]

As reported in Science News, at the recently concluded Denver-based ASOR Annual Meeting, director of scientific analysis at Jordan’s Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project Phillip J. Silvia presented a paper, “The 3.7kaBP Middle Ghor Event: Catastrophic Termination of a Bronze Age Civilization” during a session on Environmental Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.

According to the paper’s abstract, the scientists discovered evidence of a “high-heat” explosive event north of the Dead Sea that instantaneously “devastated approximately 500 km².”

The explosion would have wiped out all civilization in the affected area, including Middle Bronze Age cities and towns.

Silvia told Science News that the blast would have instantly killed the estimated 40,000 to 65,000 people who inhabited Middle Ghor, a 25-kilometer-wide circular plain in Jordan. …

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To: gleeaikin

I believe that Abraham was supposed to be in the 1800s BCE and the Sumerians were before 2000 BCE.>>>>>>>>>>

That is correct. The bible describes Sodom and Gomorrah as an incident from antiquity. The Jewish nation had not been even formed and the followers of Jehovah were in nascent stages, a minority within a larger pagan matrix.

The Sumerians recorded the event in their clay tablets , describing a war between the gods of heaven ( Anunaki) and the gods of earth ( Marduk et al). According to the story The Earth gods lost that battle and had to abandon the earth
and the civilizations they supported. Only Egypt and Babylon
survived with the memories of Marduk intact. It is after these gods abandoned the earth that the Supreme being Yaweh exercised a dominion over the entire world, and the Jewish culture solidified into the deep tradition we know of today.

The Sumerian legends say that 7 devices were dropped throughout the ME, destroying the human city/civilizations established by Marduk and his fellow gods, both male and female. They fled the earth, and some say one day they will return. Lets hope not, they have nothing but enslavement for humankind. Some today say that Allah is a remnant of the god Marduk and his entourage, not to be confused with Yaweh in any way, who is completely separate altogether.

Annunaki ( Igigi) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anunnaki

Marduk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marduk


81 posted on 11/30/2018 2:55:16 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

If Abraham lived 175 years he could have lived from 2000bce to 1825 bce. He could have lived from 2075 bce to 1900 bce. Abraham was moved with his father from UR to Haran and then Abraham moved from Haran to the “land God showed him”. So Abraham could have see some of the destruction of the Sumerian cities or was moved by God to protect him and the “great nation that was to spring from his loins thru Isaac”

The Bible in Revelation describes two big meteor impacts yet to come...as well as “wars in the heavenlies” with Satan and his angels thrown down and locked out of Heaven. Oh the crap storm that is going to fall upon the Earth will be horrific!


82 posted on 11/30/2018 3:11:26 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6

So Abraham could have see some of the destruction of the Sumerian cities>>>>>>>>>>>>

I agree, the damage was so horrid that large areas would have been very much like Hiroshima and Nagasaki afterwards. This kind of damage would have been visible for hundreds of years if not longer. Whole cities disappeared leaving only the imprint of their foundations.

Abaraham’s era would have been post apocalyptic.Indeed Yaweh showed the Jewish people where they needed to travel to avoid the sickness associated with these poisoned areas.


83 posted on 11/30/2018 3:16:01 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Certainly would have made an impression....”Never Anger Yahweh!....or as Psalm 2 states...”kiss the Son lest you perish before he has gotten just a little angry”


84 posted on 11/30/2018 3:23:58 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: Jmouse007

He spoke with his word and nature responded. No one is saying God didn’t do these things. God destroyed Goliath but David’s faith and a “flung” stone were His instruments.

Interesting....we are speaking of God flinging destructive celestial objects and David who also executed God’s judgment by flinging a stone!

Do remember that Revelation speaks of two celestial objects that will hit the Earth as a result of angels blowing Trumpets!

Do remember in Daniel the dream that the King had of the the stone that fell out of heaven that destroyed the multi element image/statue that grew into a great mountain to fill the entire Earth.

It seems that in space, the inhabitants there will hear the Earth scream!


85 posted on 11/30/2018 3:38:33 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6

Lot chose his land from Abraham to include the area of Sodom, avoiding conflict with Abraham.

Surely there must have been signs of the former apocalypse.

My bet is that somewhere in some writings about the period something would have been mentioned about poisoned land or areas of strange growth and sickness.


86 posted on 11/30/2018 4:17:13 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SunkenCiv

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87 posted on 11/30/2018 7:00:53 AM PST by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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To: gleeaikin

Images of the Wahba Crater:

http://www.pbase.com/adnan_masood/wahba_crater

‘The Wahba Crater, largest of its kind in Middle east, is a spectacular and impressive site. The crater is approx. 2.5 km wide, and the cliffs drop steeply 270 meters to a flat base, in the centre of which is a huge salt pan. There has been much speculation as to the origin of crater. It is not known whether the crater was formed by a meteorite impact or by volcanic activity, in the form of an underground explosion. ‘


88 posted on 11/30/2018 3:45:09 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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