Upper Room

This blog looks at more evidence related to dating of the Megiddo Mosaic. Also, evidence for an upper room, above the room with the famous floor. Finally, some links to Professor Sachs on Russia and some links dealing with strange stuff in the gold markets.

Dating The Mosaic

The link here is to a video on Youtube that has been listed there for 16 years. It deals with the original discovery of the Megiddo Mosaic while it was being first uncovered.

The video is grainy and square, likely something produced for broadcast on TV around 2009 or earlier. Note this is lining up with my own prophetic dreams that started my own work on this in August of 2009.

The video is interesting because of the timing, but is more important because of how it explains the rest of the discoveries at the prison that were made near the mosaic itself at the same time.

In particular, they had first excavated and dated a village at the same place. They dated that discovery to the middle of the first century, so 200 years earlier than the date they give to the mosaic.

That village is basically at the same time as the missionary journeys of the NT apostles. Since the content of the NT is heavily based on the exhibits that go with that floor, that earlier village dating may be hinting at when that room was first setup.

Again, I do not believe we can trust this sharpie wielding group of yahoos. Especially so on anything they identify as Christian. But it is another data point for understanding the mosaic.

Noah Dating of Capernaum

Joshua himself built a similar place at Capernaum. His life reran the historical timeline 1 day in his life for 1 year in history. So we watch for a famous building project on the timeline that would inform his own project at Capernaum. The building of Noah's ark is going to be the historical story he was replaying when he moved to Capernaum and built a house.

Around day 6020 is when Noah would have replayed in Joshua's personal life. This was 16.50 years into his life. Noah famously built a ship, but he also moved from the old world to the new. These are the stories that inform Joshua's move from Nazareth to Capernaum. He probably picked the Capernaum seaside in part to echo back to Noah.

Noah's ark included lower, middle and upper decks, so a 3 story structure. Moses, who built tents for the same exhibits, built an outer court, main tent, and then a "holy of holies" which was an interior special room. So we can combine various prophetic and precursor places to understand better what Joshua did at Capernaum, and thus what was built at Megiddo.

The outer court of Moses' day is not that interesting, but the NT reference in Acts 12:13 suggests that the building in Capernaum had an outer court. This explains Noah's lower deck, but leaves 2 more decks. This would be a main floor room and then an upper room.

There are many references across the text to various upper rooms, and I believe there is evidence in the Megiddo Mosaic for an upper room as well. I'll get to that evidence below.

By surveying the text we can find some exhibits were located in the main floor room and then others in the upper room. For example, 2 Kings 4:10 describes the making of an upper room for the traveling prophet. In that room was a bed, table, chair and lampstand. So it was possible to sleep in that upper room. But it was also a prophetic room, or a room for prophets who were travelers.

There is another upper room in Acts 1:13. The location of this upper room is disputable. Was it in Jerusalem? Or upstairs in Capernaum? In any case, it was a private meeting place for the key disciples and especially members of Joshua's immediate family.

Tower

Nearly every key symbol in the text has more than 1 vocabulary word used to describe it. Tower would be another term for the upper room. This term is used to describe it from the outside. Matthew 21:33 and Mark 12:1 both discuss a parable involving the building of a Tower by a land holder. He leaves it to others and then goes on a journey. This would be Joshua's house, and then his ascension.

Luke 14:28 deals with the cost of building a tower. The concern in that story is having the funds to finish the work. Given that a tower is a parable for the Tent of Time itself, it is a serious issue. Moses took up an offering for the work. Building all the exhibits is enough trouble in 3d printed plastic. Imaging building a stone building, with all the exhibits, using ancient materials and methods. This is not something that most individuals would want to undertake alone.

By the way, that Luke passage deals with the disgrace of not being able to finish. This would mean having knowledge of the system, but being unable to become a walk off because of not following through with a life of faith. Again, like building a tower, it is better to have a life of faith in community.

Matthew 25 starts with a parable of 10 virgins who took their lamps out to greet the bridegroom and bride. This parable looks to be speaking to our era when oil extruded through lamps, so 3d printer heaters, is used to prepare for Joshua's return. Even with the means to push buttons on a computer in order to produce the items, it still will be the case that some people will not follow through, neither with the items themselves, nor with their walk of faith.

Upper Room Exhibits

The key exhibits within the upper room appear to be the Crown, the Eden model and the library of ciphered scrolls. The scroll library is the most valuable part of that room. Hand made ancient texts is something the Museum of the Bible shows off well. Each such scroll is a massive amount of work, so very valuable and worth protecting and in some sense keeping from the general public.

Like a section in a public library today, the really valuable books are usually kept behind lock and key. Thus the upper room is only for the special and expensive items.

Habakkuk 2:1 discusses how the prophet will place himself on the tower and watch to see what Joshua will say to him. This room, at the top of the tower, the upper room, appears to be the special place for prophetic insight. The crown item is the timeline, which is a way to see and understand the flow of history going on outside.

By this understanding, the Tower of Babel is now a deliberate and intentional counterfeit of the inspired Tower, so Babel is a counterfeit of the Tent of Time and its exhibits.

So was there an upper room over the Megiddo Mosaic? I think so. Let me give you some evidence.

CBN Report

The link here is to the 700 Club's Youtube channel with the CBN News report on the exhibit at the Museum of the Bible.

The shot that is interesting is at the 1:23 mark in that 5:30 video. At that time, you can see the exhibit in the display hall at the Museum of the Bible. But from what would have been the northeast corner of the room. The same angle is shown again at 1:28 in this video.

You can see the stones in the middle of the room, the fish on the right and the other better known patterns farther away. What is interesting in this shot is another mosaic pattern in what was some sort of side room. This part of the exhibit is the least interesting because the decoration itself is more simple and because it means nothing to the curators of the exhibit. (At least they brought it to DC, but I digress.)

At the 2:15 mark in this video there is a drone shot of the floor as found in the ground. In that drone shot, earth's north pole is to the left, east is up. Along the north edge you can see the partially broken foundation wall that divides off that strange corner mosaic from the rest of the floor.

At the 2:18 mark is a wider drone shot of the entire original site, the view there is from the north, you can see that side area to the left/east.

The important point is that there was some sort of wall that divided off that space from the rest of the room.

At the 3:49 mark is an animation of how the building might have stood. At that time stamp, the camera is looking north. You can see how the animators put a wall between that side room and the main room, this because of the ruins of a wall at that spot on the ground.

But why would someone go to such work to put a mosaic floor into something like a closet or storage room? This is the question that needs to be answered. Leave the video paused at the 3:49 mark, we will return to it below.

Survey The Patterns

After visiting the exhibit at the Museum we traveled back across the country. For several days I was thinking about everything I had seen there. It was a forced time of reflection on what had been a whirlwind of discovery.

I eventually did a mental inventory of the exhibits that I currently understand and am setting out to design and build. From that list I thought through where each would be located in that ancient room.

Some of the exhibits display sets of 3d models that themselves spring from the alphabet. Only those exhibits get attention on the floor because they display the miracle of the writing system itself. There are 4 such sets. There are gold birds set with orange trim/cage, silver birds with yellow cages, copper birds with green cages and bronze birds with blue cages.

The white bird with a red cage is a singleton and likely seeds the Fig Tree that stood on the pedestal. That tree grows large and needs a counterweight. Either small pebbles in a large pot, or as we see at the mosaic, large stones likely with a decorative covering, can be used as the base. For Moses' era, small stones in a pot would be easier to divide up for travel. In either case, a counterweight is needed for the Fig Tree.

The orange caged gold items were east and west of the pedestal. There are 2 copies because of issues of symmetry. There are 2 mosaics on the floor for these items.

The yellow caged silver vine items stood in a corner, without a floor pattern. I expect to design a carrying case for that item for use as a base. It does not need much weight at the floor, but it gets flimsy going up, just like a real vine. It may have been anchored to corner walls.

The green caged copper table items were on the grid south of the pedestal. For easier travel, they likely had a carrying case. This is the most important and the 2 cubit size may have allowed children to play with them. It is the item for teaching how to read.

But where is the blue caged bronze items? These get displayed linearly along a base modeled to act like the Jordan river flowing into the dead sea. Shepherd's staffs, or perhaps full sized tree models, stand along the back of this exhibit, so it is 1 sided. So, it should stand along a wall, with viewing from 1 side.

To match the others, this exhibit also needs a mosaic pattern in the floor to show where it was placed. By a simple process of elimination, this exhibit must be the item that stood on that simple mosaic in that side room.

Reference Stories

This exhibit is like being east of the Jordan River, looking west at the river itself. It drains to the dead sea on the left, likely the open rectangular patch on the mosaic floor. That river flows right to left, down hill.

Ezekiel measured that river. It has 4 depths. So the exhibit's bottom has 4 heights.

The 12 rods that budded in Moses' day are along the back. Those staffs are likely holding up an upper scene that resembles a stairwell. It has a pitched top. In some sense it is like a ladder to heaven.

Jacob's various Jordan River crossing encampments deal with it. A ladder going to the skies, with the river in view. He camped there 2 times, once when leaving Canaan, the other upon his return. His return marks his authority to enter back into the promised land, itself symbolic of entering Eden in the skies.

I suspect that area had a window cut from the main room looking into that side room. Thus the foundation along that wall line, but the mosaic floor is out beyond that wall because that is where this river item was exhibited.

That window looked out into what was also the stairwell area. The exhibit was under the stairs to the upper room. Maybe that exhibit was in front of the stair that may have hugged the east wall of that side room. More likely, that stairs area had 2 structural walls, the inner wall to support a 2nd story wall, and then the outer wall that was shorter. Those 2 walls held up the staircase.

The animation at the 3:49 mark in the video linked above shows the entrance to this space, at what should be seen as the bottom of the stairs going up.

Stairs on the east of the main floor represent going up to heaven. The sun and stars all rise in the east. It is the place of going up. With stairs on the eastern side, the entire room is oriented deliberately to the compass directions on the ground where it was built.

What I am suggesting by this layout is the room containing the mosaic was purposely designed against earth's north pole. They put the stairs in the east as this is where the sky rises.

When Joshua told Nathanael that he would see greater things than the fig tree Joshua was making an allusion to the exhibits upstairs. Using Moses' era to help interpret this we can learn more. Of course Moses has likely been edited to severely limit access to high priests. But, we can infer that at a minimum, nobody went upstairs without an invitation. Just like certain sections of libraries are off limits unless the librarian trusts the library patron.

Well Placement

Take the video above and back up to the drone shot of the floor itself as found at Megiddo. Scroll to the 2:15 mark to see it.

On the far left is an ancient floor patch. A mostly circular area along the north wall, so left in the video, was filled in with smooth stones. This is an ancient patch, done when the room was still in service, but after the time when the mosaic was being installed.

One of the exhibits that is the hardest to display is the Well. This item is paired with the Silo. They are constructed by taking the gold items as a kit. Those gold items assemble into either of these 2 times. It is part of the proof of inspiration over the entire system that those items assemble into readily recognizable ancient, low tech, items.

The silo and well items are not the same height. They both have the same roof lines, and want to be exhibited with even roofs. But the well has a tank that goes below ground level, just like a real well. The well's bucket goes down into the tank, also just like a real well.

In my own planning for those exhibit items the problem is getting both of them on the same ground plain. The Sower and Reaper items, assembled from using the silver series, also want to sit on the same ground plain, with the tank of the well going down below the ground level for the other 3 items.

For a portable exhibit this means they all need to sit up on stands. There needs to be a fake ground level up from the floor of the room. Maybe using 4 pots, or maybe using boxes of some sort, or maybe using a table.

The alternative, for a purpose built room, is to dig a hole and sink the Well exhibit item into the ground. The roof line could then line up with the roof on the Silo. Then, the Sower and Reaper would sit on the floor in a natural way.

By using a hole in the floor, this lines up the ground plain of these 4 exhibits with the actual floor of the room. This is much more natural, but it can only be done in a purpose built room.

Was this mosaic placed in a purpose built room? Yes.

So might someone have dug a hole for the bottom of the well? Yes.

If the room was eventually repurposed, say after the exhibits were long gone, would someone want to fill in that hole? Yes. Without the well filling the hole, the hole itself would be a hazard to anyone using the room for something else.

Would they use original mosaic tiles for the patch? Or would just any flat stones work? Those mosaic tiles, and the process of installing them, was expensive and done for a high-cost purpose. Flat stones indicate the purpose of the room is no longer the same as when the rest of the floor was laid. The mosaic no longer matched the use of the room.

The room itself may or may not have been used in a way where the art was important. Maybe it became a centurion's office, or maybe someone's living room, or maybe shop, or maybe it became a store room.

This means the floor was in service long after the initial use of the room was no longer understood. It means the dating on the floor of around 230 AD, is not likely to be the dating for when it was first built.

Because the room itself is set to the compass direction, it pushes the dating of the room back to the time of the construction of the village itself, when this was mostly clear land, so back into the 1st century.

Back to the Shop

We are back to regular work this week. Though we are both still very tired from the drive, hopefully our usual work pace will return here soon.

We took some of the finished exhibits with us and were able to show them to friends on the return leg of the trip. There were several issues with those exhibits that became clear when we were setting them up to show them off.

I am very glad it was only friends in the room. The Vine, in particular, was a nearly impossible puzzle. It will be reprinted with builders marks to speed future users in their assembly task. The lamp also had trouble. The Nations exhibit also had good feedback, and needs a different column order.

I will show the problems, and explain, in the Telegram group when this blog goes out.

Trump

Trump has been rather amazing to watch. Nearly every day he was making news, either domestically or internationally. I trust most readers here have been following that news stream.

We were warned 2 times, both on our way east, and again on the return, that nothing so far is preventing World War III. The Europeans seem unable to stop fighting Russia. They are deluded, thinking they can win against Russia. Relations with China are not settled either, which is more dangerous to the USA.

Let me give readers here a couple key links with some commentary to help frame what is going on.

Sachs On Russia

The link here is to Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaking to a group of Europeans about the history of the relations with Russia since the collapse of the USSR.

Sachs himself is on a first name basis with nearly all the key players, so he is a primary, expert, first hand witness. The video is about 1.5 hours long, but his speech runs about 54 minutes, then he takes questions. No blame goes to Russia, they are the victims, who have been defending themselves for over 30 years.

Ultimately, Sachs is retelling the modern history of the events that follow the 1000 years as mentioned in Revelation 20, but the part that applies to us now starts at Revelation 20:7.

You can hear the frustration in Sack's voice as he tries to get Europeans to see that Russia is their neighbor, and will be for another 1000+ years. Sachs is nicely citing the scripture passage from which this struggle builds. Instead of making war, they should be making mutually prosperous peace.

At least 2 times he mentions Netanyahu by name. US foreign policy was granted to Netanyahu, and all the various coups that have taken place, though blamed on the CIA, are ultimately Netanyahu's plan for control of the earth. Sachs quickly lists off the key documents and plans for world dominion that have driven Europe and the USA mad.

Picking up the story at Revelation 20:10, we are likely reading the end of that attempt to control the world from Jerusalem, still several years away.

Crooke on Israel and Germany

This is the weekly conversation Alastair Crooke usually has with Judge Nap. Alastair is perhaps the best analyst for European and Israeli politics.

This video also deals with the implications of Vance's Munich speech. It explains how there is only an administrative Deep State in Europe, with no functioning Executive branch at all. That European Deep State was tied to the Deep State in the USA which Trump is now dismantling.

So this will be much harder for Europeans to change than it is for Trump to change in the USA. Alastair takes as a given that the USA and Russia will likely come to peace terms on their own. But that Europe may not be able to follow along.

This may be an important hint that World War III will start in Europe, say France, UK, Germany trying to take wealth from Russia.

Particularly important in this video is Alastair's references to how the Russians are trying to engage the European sovereign wealth funds in order to develop vast areas in Russia. This is very important. This is a hint that the Russians understand the financial crisis facing Europe. Without external help, most European countries will collapse to 3rd world financial status.

Most of Europe does not have the means to support a western life style for its people. The Russians are offering a way to bring prosperity to Europe through the economic development of Siberia. We can pray the Europeans will listen. Trump is eyeing Alaska in the same way for Americans.

Chemtrail Investigation

We just finished a pair of transcontinental drives. I had seen a post on X before we left that suggested that Chemtrails mostly ended when USAID was shutdown. The link here is to another X post suggesting Trump wants Kennedy to dig into this issue.

Though much of our drive was in raining weather, there were days of clear skies. For the first time in decades of doing these sorts of drives, we did not see any Chemtrails. We did see a few glorious blue skies, and we saw some good old fashioned contrails. Young readers here may not even know what contrails are, and I dare say a few old timers here probably do not remember contrails.

I suspect Chemtrails are now mostly stopped, at least by my unscientific observations.

Gold Audit, Fort Knox

For several weeks there have been various reports of problems with the bullion banks in London being unable to deliver gold to customers.

Plundering Egypt of gold is the last stage in the plagues on ancient Egypt, and so watching government level problems with gold delivery is the place to watch for that plague to fulfill in the world today. Being unable to deliver gold means the gold is gone, so plundered.

Musk and Trump have been talking about taking a tour of Fort Knox to see if the gold is still there. It may be London is empty in order to fill Fort Knox for such a tour. If so it may get moved back to London in the weeks following such a stunt. The link above is to a King World News article on this planned audit.

Most people never think about gold as a monetary metal because US Currency has been disconnected from the metals since US President Nixon closed the gold window over half a century ago. For the US public, gold coin in use by the public was confiscated in the early 1930s, so it has been a very long time since anyone used gold in daily commerce.

Recall that 100 years ago $20 USD was normally a gold coin just under 1 oz. The value of the gold in the coin was deliberately less than the face value of the coin. The difference is called seigniorage, a profit that historically goes to the party bringing the gold to the mint, or else to governments when they mint the coin. The USA was designed to have an open mint, so the money supply was not under central banker control.

Today, that $20 coin is worth over $2000, or a 100 to 1 inflation multiple. A 25 cent silver coin is now around $25 in silver. Again a 100 to 1 inflation over about 100 years. This implies an effective tax rate of 100 percent over those 100 or so years.

A 1 cent penny should have the same purchasing power as the current $1 bill. A dime should purchase around $10 worth of stuff at a store. A $20 coin should have $2000 in current purchasing power.

We are now sitting 50+ years out from Nixon's gold window closing event and we may be looking for a natural return to gold as the basis for currency. If the USA does not do this, the BRICS likely will, no matter what grandstanding Trump may do.

I have been looking for any good source that could review that history and the issues with gold, but nearly everyone currently active talking about these issues is so young they do not remember any history nor theory. Exter's pyramid is the best place to start.

Exter's Pyramid

The link here is to an article explaining Exter's Pyramid. That pyramid is usually drawn point down, with the gold at the bottom. Layers up from gold show increasing risk. The width gets wider going up to indicate the volume of trade of each instrument. In normal times this pyramid does not matter much. But in times of financial stress each of the upper layers tend to collapse down to the layer immediately below.

Gold drawn at the bottom is the smallest by volume, but because it is at the bottom it rarely gets attention in financial crisis because there are so many layers above. Financial crisis do not normally involve gold.

The pyramid is drawn upside down to show the financial system balanced on gold. When financial systems totally collapse, they collapse all the way to gold. If this idea, and graphic, is unfamiliar to you, please read this article.

The author of that article thinks we live in a different era, while Exter lived through World Wars I and II. This is a conceit of youth. Hint: World War III is around the corner. Trump is working hard to prevent that nearly inevitable war. He says so publicly rather frequently. This is why he wants peace with the Russians and soon. This is not a historical story.

Gold is important because it is an asset that does not have a counter party. So owning gold is NOT owning the work output of other human beings. Silver is similar. Gold is the base line monetary metal that is NOT based on a slave based economy. All the layers above gold (and by implication silver) in Exter's Pyramid are ultimately some form of slavery.

This is why gold and silver is so important at the end of the time in Egypt. Though it is usually interpreted as being needed for the Tabernacle, the text is explaining how slave systems work. Egyptians do not know how to value gold because they value owning slaves instead. They want the interest, which is the labor of other people. The USA became a slave economy with the Federal Reserve established in 1913. We may be coming out of it now, but the slave owners will fight this as strong as they can.

Tucker and Luke Gromen

The link here is to Tucker with Luke Gromen discussing some of these issues. They recognize something is afoot with gold, but cannot explain very well what is wrong. I think Tucker sees the problem and went looking for someone who could voice the problem. This is a start, but maybe not the best guest.

Alasdair Macleod

The link here is to a video of Paul Buitink talking to Alasdair Macleod, a former stockbroker, banker and gold trading veteran. This is a more technical talk dealing with what is currently failing in the gold related markets. Tucker should invite Alasdair on his own show.

The key take-away is how gold buyers currently want delivery of physical gold. This is not normally seen in the various gold markets. This is how Exter's Pyramid works in the real world when the higher levels of the financial world start to collapse.

Troubles in the western paper gold markets are caused mostly because of the Shanghai gold market which is a physical market for gold. This is where China buys gold. Actions there are what is causing trouble in the west.

This gold market trouble is ultimately China's attack on the western financial system. A type of asymmetric warfare that is possible because Nixon took the USA off the gold standard. That event is what opened up the Zionist window for taking over the world. The US defense from this attack is to balance the budget and return to gold backed currency, which will curtail the Zionist goal of conquering the world.

In any case, time will tell how this family of headlines ultimately unfolds. This family of related headlines points at the story of plundering gold at the end of the plagues on Egypt.

More Later,

Phil