THE STORY OF MOUNT HERMON
8-7-2018
8-7-2018
By
Dr. Stephen Jones
In
the third chapter of Deuteronomy, Moses mentioned Mount Hermon in verse 8 while
talking about Israel’s conquest of Og, king of Bashan, and Sihon, king of
Heshbon. These were both giants, and at least one ancient account tells us that
they were brothers. Sihon’s bed frame was said to be 4 x 9 cubits (vs. 11), or
about 13½ feet long.
The
territory of these two kings was on the east side of Mount Hermon. Bashan
extended from Gilead on its southern border to Mount Hermon in the north.
Heshbon was just south of Bashan in the land of Moab.
Deuteronomy
3:8 and 9 says,
8
Thus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the
Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of Arnon to Mount
Hermon. 9 (Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call
it Senir.)
Jesus
was transfigured on Mount Hermon after visiting Caesarea Philippi, which was
located at its base (Matt. 16:13; 17:1). This adds credence to the view that
Mount Hermon had become the symbol of the New Jerusalem. The old Mount Zion was
part of the old Jerusalem that God's presence had forsaken in Ezekiel 10
and 11, and so the place of God's presence was symbolically represented by
Mount Hermon—the new Mount Sion.
The Angels
that Sinned on Mount Hermon
While
the biblical account of “the angels that sinned” (2 Peter 2:4) is quite
limited in detail, ancient traditions claim to know much more information.
Whether these traditions are true or not can hardly be established today, but
it might be helpful to piece some of those traditions together in order to
understand what men believed in times past.
The
Book of Jubilees 4:15 tells us:
15
And in the second week of the tenth jubilee Malalel [i.e., Mahalaleel] took
unto himself as wife Sina, the daughter of Barakhel, the daughter of the sister
of his father, and she bore him a son in the third week, in the sixth year,
and he called his name Jared; for in his days the angels of the Lord descended
upon the earth, those that are called Watchers, that they should teach
the children of men to do justice and right over the earth.
Jared’s
birth took place in the year 460. The tenth Jubilee dates from 441-490 (years
from Adam). Jared was born in the sixth year of the third week of the Jubilee.
This agrees with the dating of the Masoretic text of Genesis, and shows also
that a Jubilee cycle was just 49 years, with the 50th year serving
also as the first year of the next Jubilee cycle.
The
traditions tell us that some of these “watchers” [eir,
“guard,
watcher”] desired to take some of the earthly women as wives. From then on,
there were said to be both good and evil watchers. Daniel 4:13 thus tells us “a
Watcher, a holy one, descended from heaven” commanded that the Babylonian “tree” should
be cut down. This is thought to imply the existence of unholy watchers, as the Bible
appears to make this careful distinction.
The
circumstance of the unholy watchers’ plot is the subject of chapter 13 of the Book
of Enoch:
1
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days
were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And the
angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one
another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men 3
and beget us children.” And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: “I
fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall
have to pay the penalty of a great sin.” And they all answered him and said:
“Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations 5
not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.” Then sware they all together
and bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they
were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of
Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn 7
and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of
their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel,
Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel,
Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their
chiefs of tens.
The
leader of the fallen watchers is named Semjaza. It is said that his fellow
conspirators descended upon one of the three summits of Mount Hermon in the
days of Jared. We are not told specifically if these watchers hatched their
plot prior to their arrival on Mount Hermon, or if upon their arrival they saw
that the daughters of men were beautiful and then conceived their plot.
The
Book of Jubilees tells us that the watchers sinned in the days of
Jared, the father of Enoch. Both the Book of Enoch and the Book
of Jubilees
inform us that Enoch himself was the one who reprimanded these watchers and
their Nephilim offspring—the giants. Enoch was born 622 years from Adam, when
his father Jared was 62, so these unlawful marriages are said to have taken
place in that general time frame.
Since
the flood took place in the year 1656, the problem continued in the earth for
over a thousand years before they were destroyed by the flood.
The Nephilim
Problem Continues
Genesis
6:4 tells us that in some way the problem occurred again after the
flood, resulting in more Nephilim. These spread throughout the region in the
days of Moses and survived even to the time of David. Genesis 6:4 says,
4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward,
when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to
them.
The
point is that it was believed that the event of Gen. 6:4 occurred on Mount
Hermon. Its close proximity to Bashan and Heshbon may lend support to this
tradition.
The False
Manifestation of the Sons of God
This
could be seen as an early attempt to thwart or to usurp the prophecy of
Christ’s transfiguration on the same mountain in Matthew 17. Christ’s
transfiguration was the occasion of a divine decree establishing the TRUE Son
of God, as opposed to these false “sons of God,” as they are called in Gen.
6:4.
Likewise,
if we have come to Mount Sion of the heavenly Jerusalem, as Hebrews tells us, then
we are the true sons of God. Whatever happened in Genesis 6:4 was a counterfeit
sonship movement. Somehow, they knew long ago that Jesus Christ would be
glorified on Mount Hermon (Sion), and that it was the earthly symbol of the
heavenly Jerusalem—so they decided to try to fulfill the prophecy in their own
unlawful manner. Most likely, they were motivated also by the knowledge that
the sons of God were destined to rule the earth, so they attempted to usurp
that position as “sons of God.”
In
Matt. 17:5 God says, “This is My beloved
Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!” When we understand that
there was a false group called “the sons of God” in Genesis 6:4, we can see
that the divine pronouncement was meant in part to identify the TRUE Son of God,
the Heir of the world.
Peter
also testifies of that day in 1 Peter 1:16-18,
16
For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the
power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His
majesty. 17 For when He received honor and glory from God the
Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “This
is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”— 18 and we ourselves
heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the mount.
John
was there as well, testifying in John 1:14,
14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
In
other words, if the false “sons of God” came down on Mount Hermon as a
counterfeit sonship movement, then it would make sense that the true Son of God
would go to the same location to be transfigured and to receive His
commendation from the heavenly Father.
The
Hebrew root of the name Hermon is charam, which means “seclude or
devote.” This was also the word used to describe the temple site in later
years, for it was a holy site devoted to God’s use. Likewise, Jericho was a
city that was “devoted” to God. This meant that ownership of Jericho and its
wealth had been usurped by false gods to build false kingdoms, but that the
Israelites were to put all of it back under the jurisdiction of God to be used
for Kingdom purposes.
So
also Mount Hermon was considered a holy mountain. It had been “devoted” to the
watchers who sinned, but Jesus went there to reclaim it as the place of true
Sonship in a picture of the manifestation of the true sons of God.
Mount Hermon
and the Phoenix
Mount
Hermon is located on the border of Syria and Lebanon. It is the main source of
water for the whole area, supplying even the water for the Jordan River and for
Lebanon. In ancient times this whole area was known as Phoenicia, or “land of
the Phoenix.”
The
occultists usually look to Phoenicia and Mount Hermon as their source of
religious, philosophical, and technical knowledge or illumination. The Greek alphabet was
copied from Phoenician. Many of the English letters are also copied from
Phoenician. The Hebrew prophets themselves wrote their books in “Phoenician
Hebrew” prior to the Babylonian captivity, when their alphabet was changed to
the Aramaic letters of Babylon.
Phonetics
is the study of the sounds of speech. The word itself is derived from
Phoenician.
The
phoenix itself was the main symbol of Phoenicia and, by extension, the watchers
who descended upon Mount Hermon. When the flood destroyed them, they were able
to rise again somehow, as Gen. 6:4 says. This is encompassed in the symbol of
the Phoenix rising up out of its ashes.
The
Nephilim survived at least to the time of David, and it is believed by
occultists that not all of them were destroyed. Some survived, but because of
continual interbreeding, they no longer appear as giants. Nonetheless, the
present world rulers of Babylon (at the top) believe that they have Nephilim
blood and that this is the secret of their spiritual power.
Occult
Freemasonry
In
the occultism of Freemasonry, the numbers 3 and 33 are very prominent. Hence,
the three-sided triangle is basic to the study of trigonometry, made famous by
Pythagoras. He was a famous Greek mathematician who was schooled in Sidonia,
the biblical Sidon, which was one of the main cities of Phoenicia.
Freemasonry
has 33 degrees in its hierarchy, although they claim that the 33rd
degree is purely honorary. The question is: Why 33 degrees? The answer is seen
in the fact that Mount Hermon is located at 33.33 degrees north, 33.33 degrees
east. This is based on the Paris 0 meridian, which is 2.2 degrees east of
Greenwich.
The
Paris meridian was important to Freemasons and to the occult in general,
because by using that reference point, Mount Hermon was pictured as the goal to
be achieved in studying their “mysteries.”
Furthermore,
33.33 degrees represents 2012.9 nautical miles. Hence, Mount Hermon is located
2012 nautical miles from the equator and 2012 nautical miles from the Paris 0
meridian. Many occultists thus have believed that the end of 2012 will
culminate their long quest for power since the Nephilim were destroyed, first
by the flood and later by the Israelites.
Will
they succeed? No, they will fail just as surely as the original Nephilim failed
as “sons of God” to secure authority over the earth. Occultists have a long
history of searching for hidden knowledge and divine truth, so that they can
try to fulfill the prophecies by carnal means. They actually believe in God,
and they know the laws of God, but they do not want to comply with the path
that God has set forth in Scripture about how to become a lawful son of God.
One
would think that if they were so intelligent, they would just accept Jesus
Christ as their King, for then they could become legitimate sons of God. But
they do not want Jesus Christ to rule the earth. Their motive is to usurp His
place and to make Jesus just one of their “ascended masters,” but not THE
MASTER of the Universe.
But
Jesus Christ was the only one who was willing to die for us, and He was also
the only one who was eligible to die for us, being without sin. None of the
usurpers were willing to die for the sin of the world. They all wanted others
to die for them.
The Year
2012
The
occultists think of the American eagle as the symbol of the Phoenix, and at the
London Olympics of 2012 the closing ceremony portrayed the rise of a Phoenix
out of the flames of the nations. This sent a message that these modern Nephilim,
who call themselves Olympians, intended soon afterward to complete their
long rise out of the destruction of the flood.
From
complete destruction, they slowly gained secret power in “Mystery” Babylon, but
their pride demands recognition. For this reason, they plan to emerge from the
shadows of secret rule to open acceptance by all the nations in the world as
the saviors of the world.
Of
course, God has a different idea. The biblical sons of God are the overcomers
who recognize Jesus Christ as the rightful Heir and King of the earth. The
Nephilim are the unlawful usurpers.
The
point is that the year 2012 was very important in the upper degrees of
Freemasonry and other occult groups. They viewed it as the window of
opportunity for them to become the manifested sons of God.
It
is again “as the days of Noah” (Matt. 24:37).
It
is said that the Mayan calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012. Some place the date in
October of 2011, but what is important is that certain occultists believe that
2012 was their window of opportunity. This belief is what motivated them to
establish their New World Order by the end of 2012.
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