Tuesday, August 4, 2026

The Prophet Daniel - Babylonian Astronomy


In Chapter one of the book of Daniel we discovered that Daniel and his companions were considered to be "...ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his realm." These young men were skilled; technically accurate; and probably had a great deal to do with why a group of MAGI would travel to Jerusalem to bear gifts to a Jewish King. I have strong suspicion these MAGI were among those trained (by others who had been trained) by Daniel himself; who was to be made CHIEF OF THE MAGI (Daniel 2:48).

Magicians: החרטמּים. Root is חַרְטֹם pronounced (Khar-tome)

  • diviner, magician, astrologer
  • engraver, writer (only in derivative sense of one possessed of occult knowledge)

Astrologersהאשּׁפים. Root is אַשָּׁף pronounced (Ash-shawf)

  • necromancer, conjurer,
  • (TWOT) astrologer, enchanter, exorcist

This term "MAGI" appears (7) times in the AMP Bible's text.
Other translations render it as "wise men."

Passage           Hebrew           Meaning                    Greek         Meaning    Strong's #

Daniel 1:20      החרטמּים        "the magicians"        μάγους       Magous      H2748 - G3097

Daniel 4:7        חרטמיּא            "the magicians"       μάγοι         Magoi        H2749 - G3097

Daniel 5:7        
לחכּימי               "to the wise men"   μάγους      Magous     H2445 - G3097

Matthew 2:1                                                                 
μάγοι        Magoi        G3097

Matthew 2:7                                                                 
μάγους      Magous     G3097

Matthew 2:12 Not actually in the Greek text. Term is inserted.


Matthew 2:16                                                               
μάγων        Magon     G3097

***  The Greek term "MAGOS" is according to the Strong's "Of foreign origin" ***

 רב מג (H7248) 




SO. A FOREIGN WORD (LOAN WORD) IS USED IN THE BIBLE





When the Magi finally arrived to offer gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh the Empire of Babylon was no longer in existence. The Empire that ruled over much of the former Babylon was none other than the Parthian Empire


Many people falsely believe there were three (3) kings that brought gifts to the baby Jesus. As a youth I would portray one of these men bringing gifts to the Messiah at a Christmas-time Musical All Souls the Episcopal church I attended with my parents. However the text never declares there were three (3) Kings. It declares there were (3) three GIFTS. 


The most accurate depiction is that there was a great caravan that travelled with these men who brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Yeshua's parents. Gifts they would need to flee; and, to survive economically in Egypt during their period of hiding from Herod. While these men were in fact PERSIAN'S from PARTHIA it is my own belief that these were MAGI who had probably been trained by those; who had been trained by others...

By those who had been trained...by Daniel the prophet in Babylon.

A man who had SERVED in the courts of several Ancient Kings. Both of Babylon & of Persia.

* Nebuchadnezzar. King of Babylon
* Cyrus King of Persia
* Darius the Mede King of Persia


When I was in college I took Astronomy because I thought it would help me to better understand the Bible and its use of astronomical symbolism. I also thought (in error) that we would be looking at the heavens through telescopes. Boy was I in for a surprise. I spent most of the time in Lab doing Math. 

MATH. MATH. MATH (EYES GO WIDE AND PULLS HAIR OUT). SCREAMS IN AGONY.

FYI I am NOT a Math guy. As boring as that was I would discover that the Babylonians had calculated (to within 6 minutes) the amount of time it takes for the earth to make a complete rotation around the sun. 6 Minutes. That's how close they got to today's calculations which use powerful microprocessors to make such precise calculations.

They watched the heavens almost as it were an obsession. Why would they do such a thing? What was their own fascination with the Heavens based upon? The Babylonians weren't the first people group to watch the heavens with precision. 

Before them the Sumerians also observed the heavens. Why? Why so obsessed
Friends I have a strong suspicion it is related to the 200 + impact craters
.

You know. The ones that pepper the face of our ecosphere we call planet Earth. Below I have listed the top 12 confirmed impact craters based upon their estimated rim-t0-rim diameter.               



Since taking Astronomy in College I have been curious about the many impact craters which exist upon the face of our planet. I also have great interest in the field of archeology; and, archeoastronomy. Among the most ancient site that currently hold my attention are the uncovered pillars at the site in Turkey called "Göbekli Tepe." 

The Göbekli Tepe comet strike theory proposes that ancient stone carvings at the 11,000-year-old archaeological site in Turkey depict a devastating swarm of comet impacts that triggered the Younger Dryas, a 1,200-year mini ice age.


(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of Edinburgh has found what they describe as evidence of a comet striking the Earth at approximately the same time as the onset of the Younger Dryas in carvings on an ancient stone pillar in southern Turkey. The group has published their findings in the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry.
Prior evidence based on ice cores taken from Greenland has suggested that a strike by a comet may have led to the onset of the Younger Dryas—a period of Earth cooling that lasted for approximately 1000 years. Other evidence also suggests that the cooling period caused groups of people to band together to cultivate crops, leading to the development of agriculture, which in turn led to huge leaps in technological innovations and societal developments, i.e. Neolithic civilization. In this new effort, the researchers describe evidence they found on a stone pillar at Gobekli Tepe (the oldest known temple site) that aligns with the ice core findings—that a comet struck the Earth in approximately 10,950BC.
The pillar was created by the people of Gobekli Tepe and now appears to have served as a means of commemorating a devastating event—perhaps a comet breaking up and its remnants crashing into the Earth, causing an immediate environmental impact around the globe and possible loss of life (one of the characters on the pillar was of a headless human.) The team fed likenesses of the images carved onto the pillar (known as the vulture stone) into a computer to determine if they might be linked with constellations.
Doing so revealed associations between characters on the pillar and astronomical symbols in the sky for the year 10,950 BC. The fact that the people took the time and considerable effort to create the characters on the pillar suggests something very important must have happened during the same time period that the Greenland ice core suggests a comet struck, approximately 10,890BC."

 

Within the New Testament Yeshua ("Jesus") gives the command TO WATCH

FOR WHAT?
WHAT ARE WE INSTRUCTED
TO WATCH FOR?
 

“Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not WATCH, I will COME upon you AS A THIEF, and you will not know what hour I will COME upon you." Revelation 3:3

"For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a THIEF in the night." 1 Thessalonians 5:2

"But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that THIS DAY should overtake you as a THIEF." 1 Thessalonians 5:4 

 

FRIENDS. WHAT DOES A THIEF DO?

 ***  THE THIEF REMOVES WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM ***
FROM THE MASTER'S HOUSE.

CHEW ON THAT NEIGHBOR. CHEW ON THAT. ONE MORE TIME NOW.

*** THE THIEF REMOVES WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM ***
FROM THE MASTERS HOUSE.

WHEN MESSIAH COMES. HE REMOVES WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM,
FROM THE MASTER'S HOUSE - FROM HIS FATHER'S HOUSE

HOW DOES HE REMOVE THOSE WHO DON'T BELONG?
BY BURNING THEM UP WITH FIRE. WHY? BECAUSE THEY ARE TARES.

TARES ARE GATHERED INTO BUNDLES AND BURNED

I HAVE GREAT SUSPICION THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD
MAY IN FACT BE A SOLAR MASS EJECTION; OR,
A STRIKE FROM A COMET, METEOR, OR ASTEROID

MUCH LIKE IN "THE KNOWING"


"But the day of the Lord will come as a THIEF in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up."

"Behold, I am coming as a THIEF. Blessed [is] he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."


Could the instruction to WATCH have something to do with The Day of the Lord/LORD?
Could it have something to do with Meteors? Comets? Asteroids? Aliens? A Solar Mass Ejection? 
Whatever it is we are TO WATCH FOR comes from the Heavens above us.

Friends. I have been studying this book (Revelation) since I was a 12 year old child. 
Here is what I can tell you. 

Revelation Warns us repeatedly of objects that will come from the heavens.

Wormwood: (Revelation 8:10–11)A great star, burning like a torch, that drops from the sky and poisons a third of the rivers and freshwater springs, making them bitter.
 
Burning Mountain: (Revelation 8:8)An object described as a great mountain burning with fire that is hurled into the sea, turning a third of the ocean into blood.

Falling Stars: (Revelation 6:13 & 8:10)Stars that fall to the earth from the sky, often interpreted by readers as literal meteorsasteroids, or symbolic spiritual entities.

 

Lunar Eclipses often follow Solar Eclipses by 14 days

 

Perhaps it has something to do with the Day of the LORD?

The Day of the Lord comes "as a thief in the night."

1 Thessalonians 5:2

The Day of the Lord will come "as a thief in the night" in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise; and, the elements shall melt with a fervent heat; the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Therefore since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct; and, godliness looking for and hastening the coming of the Day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire and the elements will melt with fervent heat." 

2 Peter 3:10

I ADJURE YOU TO STUDY OUT WHERE & HOW THE FOLLOWING TERMS                          APPEAR IN THE BIBLE'S TEXT:

    • MELT
    • MELTED
    • MELTING
    • DISSOLVE
    • DISSOLVED 

The Day of the LORD "is a day of judgment" upon the earth.

Joel 1:15

The Day of the LORD shall come "as destruction from the Almighty."

This destruction is slated for BabylonIsaiah 13:6; Joel 1:15

The Day of the LORD is "a day of vengeance."

Jeremiah 46:10

The Day of the LORD "comes with wrath and fierce anger..."

"...To lay the land desolate; and, to destroy the sinners out of it."

Isaiah 13:9

The Day of the LORD "...is a cloudy day; it shall be the day of the heathen..."

Ezekiel 30:3

The Day of the LORD   

"Therefore if you will not WATCH; I will come upon you as a THIEF; and, you will not know what hour I come upon you."

"The Sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood
before the great and terrible day of the LORD come."

Joel 2:31 

SOLAR ECLIPSE + LUNAR ECLIPSE


"If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will fetch you" DEUT. 30:4 (RSV)

*** Compare to other translations ***

"When I shall receive (fetch) the congregation [THE RAPTURE] I will JUDGE uprightly.                             The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved." Psalm 75:2-3

"The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is oved exceedingly" Isaiah 24:19

"And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine and as a falling fig from the fig tree." Isaiah 34:4



In the Old Testament the Living GOD visits Abraham and asks him to count the stars. He encourages Abraham to become an observer of the heavens themselves (Genesis 15:5). 

I wonder WHY He did that?

Just imagine YHVH (יהוה) declaring to Abram. "I really want you to become intimately familiar with the Heavens above; and, the Stars within them." Everything YHVH (יהוה) did/does has a REASON

Including this statement to Abraham.

Since College I have had the opportunity to listen to many other men who are much wiser than I; talk about "Cycles of Catastrophe." They have changed my ideas about the WHY behind the almost obsessive observance of the stars by the ancients; and, WHY we should STILL be obsessive about them even today.

I have produced (Part 1) of a 3 Part Series I am currently working on regarding Revelation chapter 8; and the Incoming objects that will cause catastrophic loss of life; just as in the Days of Noah. You can find more about it at the following link:

https://10-virgins-parable.blogspot.com/p/wormwood.html


If you click the link above 
you can view my film.

Apophis - Wormwood is coming. 




What if the government of the United States of America already knows.
What if they already spent TRILLIONS to build a breakaway society.

A Society THEY intend to SURVIVE the APOPHIS Impact.





There is a man named Randall Carlson; and, another named Graham Hancock who both assert that the Earth has undergone repeated catastrophes roughy every 10,500-13,000 years. Essentially "cycles of destruction."  Below is a photograph created during one of their episodes together.

(Left to Right: Joe Rogan. Graham Hancock. Randall Carlson)

The discovery of Gobleki Tepe and the T Stones that seem to record a catastrophe; are of significant note due, to their geographic location proximate to the Mt. Ararat in Turkey where Noah's Ark allegedly rests. There are some speculating that these were built by Noah; or his children after the Great Flood to record the cataclysmic event literally in stone for all the world to see. 

GOBLEKI TEPE

The Great Flood (Noah's Flood) seems to be one of these great periods of cataclysmic upheaval.



BELOW YOU WILL SEE LISTS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS ALONG THE ECLIPTIC


  1. MUL MUL
    𒀯𒀯 Many Stars/Star Cluster—the Pleiades (in Taurus)

  2. MUL GU4.AN.NA
    𒀯𒄞𒀭𒈾 Bull of Heaven—Taurus

  3. MUL SIPA.ZI.AN.NA
    𒀯𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾 True Shepherd of Anu—Orion

  4. MUL ŠU.GI
    𒀯𒋗𒄀 Old Man/Enmešarra—Perseus

  5. MU LGÀM/MULZUBI
    𒀯𒆛/𒀯𒉽𒈿 Shepherd’s Crook—Auriga

  6. MUL MAŠ.TAB.BA(GAL.GAL)
    𒀯𒈦𒋰𒁀(𒃲𒃲) (Great) Twins (Lugalirra and Meslamta’ea)—Gemini

  7. MUL AL.LUL
    𒀯𒀠𒈜 Deceptive Digger—Cancer

  8. MUL UR.GU.LA/MULUR.MAḪ
    𒀯𒌨𒄖𒆷/ 𒀯𒌨𒈤 Great Carnivore/Exalted Lion—Leo

  9. MUL AB.SÍN/MULÀBSIN
    𒀯𒀊𒉆/𒀯𒀳 Furrow—Virgo

  10. MUL ZI.BA.AN.NA
    𒀯𒍣𒁀𒀭𒈾 and MULĜIŠ.ÉRIN 𒀯𒄑𒂟 Scales—Libra and lower part of Virgo

  11. MUL ĜÍR.TAB
    𒀯𒄈𒋰 Scorpion—Scorpius and Legs of Ophiuchus

  12. MUL PA.BIL.SAĜ
    𒀯𒉺𒉋𒊕 Pabilsag (Ninurta)—Sagittarius

  13. MUL SUḪUR.MÁŠ(KU6)
    𒀯𒋦𒈧(𒄩) Goat-Fish—Capricorn

  14. MUL GU.LA
    𒀯𒄖𒆷 Great One (Enki/Ea)—Aquarius

  15. MUL KUNMEŠ
     𒀯𒆲𒎌 and MULZIBME 𒀯𒍦𒈨 The Tails of the Great Swallow—Western Fish of Pisces

  16. MUL SIM.MAḪ
    𒀯𒉆𒈤 The Great Swallow (Southwest Pisces, Epsilon, Pegasi)

  17. MUL A.NU.NI.TUM
    𒀯𒀀𒉡𒉌𒌈 (Northeast Pisces) and

    MULLU.LIM
    𒀯𒇻𒅆 Anunitum— Andromeda)

  18. MUL LÚ.ḪUĜ.ĜÁ
    𒀯𒇽𒂠𒂷 Hired Man—Aries, Triangulum and the Head of Cetus



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The Prophet Daniel - Babylonian Astronomy

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