Inside a Monastery on an island in Lake
Tana. Local legend has it that the Arc of
the covenant was kept here for a long time...
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Since the first Greek edition of our Bible,
in the Old Testament there is mention of Ethiopia in several
places!
- The most interesting writing about
Ethiopia you will find in the book of prophet Isaiah ( 716 to 687 BC
) chapter 18 : "Land of whirring
wings beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, sending ambassadors on
vessels of papyrus over the waters. Go swift messengers to a nation tall
and smooth, to people feared near and far, a nation mighty and
conquering, whose land the rivers divide"
On verse 1 and 2, there is no doubt that he
is talking about Ethiopia! And continues:
"3All
inhabitants of the world you who live on the earth, when a signal is raised
on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown listen!
4 For
thus the lord said to me: I will quietly look from my dwelling like
clear heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the flower becomes
ripening grape, he will cut of the shoots with pruning hooks and the
spreading branches he will hew away.
6 They
shall all be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the
animals of the earth. And the birds will summer on them and all the
animals of the earth will winter on them!
7 At that time
gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and smooth
from people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering , whose
land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion the place of the name of the Lord
of hosts."
In the above we
first read a warning in paragraph 4 to 6 and
then in paragraph 7
there is a hidden message which is still puzzling
me:
He is clearly
talking about Ethiopia and in the last sentence about the Arc of the
Covenant as the name from that time was 'Zion' or 'mount Zion'
also the Jews at that time believed that GOD reside on the 'mercy seat'
between the two cherubim!
The hole
passage is labeled "An Oracle concerning Ethiopia". Here, I
strongly believe that it was not an 'oracle' but most probably he had
direct information from the high priests and their intension regarding
the danger approaching from Babylon! In which case I understand that the
priests had advance knowledge about the Jews of Ethiopia and therefore
the escape rout was already planned!
Please take
time and read for yourself passage 18 in the book of the prophet Isaiah!
- Prophet
Amos who lived between 783 to 743 BC in chapter 9:7 writes: "Are
you and the Cushites (Ethiopians) all same to me sons of Israel? says
the Lord"
- Prophet
Zephaniah during the reign of king Josiah in Israel, sometime between
640 and 622 in chapter 3:10 writes:
"From beyond the rivers of Cush
(Ethiopia) my suppliants, even the daughters of the dispersed will bring
me offerings"
Other relevant chapters:
The Babylonian
captivity foretold:
- Prophet Jeremiah chapter 18:23. King
Zedekiah send Pashhur and the priest Zephaniah to prophet Jeremiah for
consultancy. The prophet answer to them "Thus says the Lord: I will
give king Zedekiah of Judah and his servants as well as the remaining
people of this city into the hands of king Nebuchadnezar of
Babylon".
Also prophet Jeremiah, on another paragraph is
telling in advance that after 70 years all Jews taken hostage to Babylon
will return home...
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The
Exodus
Rafting in Ethiopian rivers!
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During
the ‘Exodus’, most Jews followed Moses along the
known route through the Red Sea and the Sinai. At that time, I
believe another group, either because they lost the main group or
deliberately because of a disagreement, went south. This southern route
was not well guarded and Pharaoh’s soldiers followed the main group
anyway. The destination of the breakaway group was the highlands of
Ethiopia, a known route since it had been used in times past by the
Pharaohs to bring in their elephants, other goods, and maybe even
slaves.
These group of
Jews had only to follow riverbeds and finally arrive in a very fertile
land: the Ethiopian Highlands! For many the Ethiopian highlands was like
the
promised land! Anyway the river Ghion in Ethiopia, supposedly was flowing out of Eden mentioned in the Old
testament is today's blue Nile!
Many events are leading
to the above idea:
- There is mention of Ethiopians
in Iliad and Odyssey from Homer,
- Repetitive mention of
Ethiopia in the old
Testament (see last paragraph)
- Herodotus very accurate
description at 500 BC of this route and the mention of an old town of 'Meroe'
existing between Sudan and the joint of Takase and Nile river!
Despite what the
historians and scholars believe, it is only natural to have a very
ancient civilization in the fertile Ethiopian Highlands! Let us not
forget that Lucy and Salam, two very old standing 'pithicus afarencis'
were found here!
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