New & Noteworthy - November 2026

VERITAS VOS LIBERABIT

THE MYSTERY

THE AUTHORS

THE PENTATEUCH

THE FIVE BOOKS

GENESIS - EXODUS - LEVITICUS - NUMBERS--DEUTERONOMY

CHRONOLOGY:

Genesis 15:13

The LORD said to him (Abram) - Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.

Hebron, Canaan

The CAVE of the Patriarchs - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob - was erected by King HEROD in the FIRST CENTURY BCE

Abraham died 450-BCE-----(see September)

FOUR HUNDRED YEARS LATER:

Queen Cleopatra of EGYPT was the last pharaoh.

50-BCE - MOSES

MOSES and the ISRAELITES began the EXODUS.

EXODUS 3:6-10

When the Lord (the God of the Hebrews - 3:18) finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God; engraved on the tablets (32:16).

The Lord said to Moses: Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke (34).

Moses died 10-BCE

And Joshua entered Canaan; he took/conquered JERICHO.

Birth of JESUS the CHRIST:---AD/CE.

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law and the Prophets. I have come to fulfill them (Gospel of Matthew 5:17).

BOOK OF HEBREWS

For when there is a change of the priesthood there must also be a change of the law (7:12)

For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah (7:14) and in regards to that tribe, Moses said nothing about priests.

7:21-22 - But he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: You are a priest forever. Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

By calling this covenant "new", he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear (8:13).

9 - The first covenant: Worship in the Earthly Tabernacle

9:11 - The Blood of Christ. When Christ came as high priest he did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

For this reason (7:15) Christ is the mediator of a new covenant - that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance - now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

9:28 - So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

1 JOHN 3:8

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.

Hebron, Canaan

The CAVE of the Patriarchs - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob - was erected by King HEROD in the first century BCE.

GENESIS 21: 8-13

Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac. The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. But God said to him: Do not be so distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through ISAAC that your offspring will be reckoned. I will make the son of the maidservant into a nation also, because he is your offspring.

He will be the father of twelve rulers and I will make him into a great nation (17:20).

The moon: Nanna/Sin - titular deity of UR

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'Whatever is an enemy of Gabriel' (who has by God's grace revealed to you the Koran as a guide and joyful tidings for the faithful, confirming previous Scriptures)

Without TRUTH there cannot be JUSTICE –

Without JUSTICE there can be NO PEACE.

Celebrating

OCTOBER 9, 1988

MY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY

ARIZONA

The years 1988 until 2010 were devoted TO WRITING.

WRITING is the ability to make language visible and permanent: For Posterity. And communicate at long distances: TRADE.

Imagine life without written story-telling: We would sit around the pit-fire talking - using hands, facial expressions and vocal sounds.

But once writing had been invented in Sumer (Mesopotamia) there was no hold; in no time the written word was adopted by other nations. The Phoenicians invented a shortcut - the alphabet - jotting down the merchandise loaded on their ships for trading. The Greeks used this method for writing/putting down the conversations in their towns' market place - philosophy: "love of wisdom"; love of knowledge/learning. Western civilization: the idea of democracy, was born in Athens.