A Tale of Two Migdals ...

Josephus tells us, Nimrod and some of his men had planned to build the tower high enough and then defeat God with their army ....

Jesus seems to be very well aware of this:

Luke 14:28 For which of you having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down, and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it 29 Lest, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him, 30 Saying: This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down, and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him? 32 Or else, whilst the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace.

Now, let's recall what Josephus said about Nimrod's motivations. He was trying to save man from another Flood. So, this is in a way a tale of two saviours.

We are waiting for the celebration of the birth of the true one. We are also waiting for His return.

It's a false one who is in Genesis, and another (or according to Rob Skiba even same) false one who'll be on the scene in Apocalypse before Christ returns.

Now, because this blog is very Genesis oriented, just barely strays into Exodus and Joshua for chronology reasons, I have more than once spoken about that first post-Flood false saviour.

What was the exact word used for the tower structure of Nimrod ? It's Migdal.

I looked it up in Hebrew English interlinear, but I already was sure that was the word I would find.

There is a tower in the life of Jesus too. Some say that He was born in Migdal Eder, my friend Damien Mackey being one of them. I am not sure, but it would be fitting, for this very definite anti-Nimrod to also have His own migdal. When I looked up a cross-reference in Genesis 35:21, I saw this is translated as "Flock tower" — a very fitting place of birth to the Shepherd of our souls.

Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.

But, I also find it interesting, the present day ruins of this tower and perhaps even the original tower itself, are the right size for ... a rocket. What I think Nimrod's tower was intended to. Let's prefer Bethlehem over Cape Canaveral, Bajkonur and Babel.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
III Lord's Day of Advent, Gaudete
17.XII.2023

PS, if you prefer the Church of the Nativity, consider that a tower meaning "tower of the herd" could have been where the shepherds saw the angels./HGL

Credits: Nativity and the Migdal Eder
Damien Mackey
https://www.academia.edu/111586247/Nativity_and_the_Migdal_Eder

When were those Dinosaurs From?

Radiocarbon in dino bones
International conference result censored, by Carl Wieland
https://creation.com/c14-dinos

A team of researchers gave a presentation at the 2012 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Singapore, August 13–17, at which they gave ¹⁴C dating results from many bone samples from eight dinosaur specimens. All gave dates ranging from 22,000 to 39,000 years, right in the ‘ballpark’ predicted by creationists.

I am no longer predicting a ball park like that for the Flood.

22,000 BP = 20,000 BC = the carbon date, according to my tables, of sth like 2850 BC, a bit more than a century after the Flood.*

39,000 BP = the actual carbon date for the Flood year itself, for 2958 BC.**

A creature as big as a typical dinosaur (typical to our imagination, not average), would have carbon that's decades old. This means, if the dinosaurs a) were from the Flood, and b) not contaminated, then they would carbon date older than 39,000 years.

However, before we totally dismiss these bones from being from the Flood itself, how about ... at least Morrisson Formation or Hell Creek Formation is at a Uranium ore deposit. And that's where many of the dinosaurs of the US were found.

Uranium near Carbon 12 can send off neutrons, which augment the neutron content into the carbon and make for more Carbon 14.

Barring that, I suggest, the dinosaurs could be post-Flood specimens.
/Hans Georg Lundahl

*Creation vs. Evolution: New Tables
http://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-tables.html

**Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: So Far Confirming my Theories
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2022/09/so-far-confirming-my-theories.html