An interesting article was written about the Great Stone at Mount Nebo, on a website of: 8th US/ICOMOS International Symposium:Heritage Interpretation Charleston, South Carolina, May 5-8, 2005. Top page of 12.
Observation: Large and interesting archeological artifacts such as Romanmilestones and a large circulartomb "door" have been saved from loss in theiroriginal locations off-site and placed in the grounds of the memorial of Moses. Just what they are, where the came from and why they are there is not, in everycase, immediately clear to the visitor.
How interesting, they say it is a tomb "door". But they don't know what tomb it comes from.
And they don't realise the stone only fits one tomb in the world. The Garden Tomb.
Special thanks to Kimberly Ballard, for her research on the above.
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| The Great Stone, Mark 16:4 |
UP DATE on May/5/2011, By Simon Brown
Was the Great Stone taken to mount Nebo in the first place to be erected on the site, not where Moses was buried, but where Moses died.
This would make perfect sense to why the Byzantines moved this stone from the Tomb in the garden. This could be the connection.
In the very old village next to the present Mount Nebo,monastery. Where the stone was found in the beginning, there could possibly be some kind of markings where Moses died. You see many places in the bible were preserved and God made it clear, Moses body will remain hidden, But God did not say, Moses place of death would not be known.
Moses to Die on Mount Nebo
48 On that same day the Lord told Moses, 49"Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. 50There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. 51This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites. 52Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel."Deuteronomy 32:48.52.
The Death of Moses
1 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land-from Gilead to Dan, 2all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,a 3the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. 4Then the Lord said to him, "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it."
5And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. 6He buried himb in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. 7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. 8The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over. Deuteronomy 34:1 to 8.
And this would be the perfect connection with the stone from the tomb of Jesus, with Mount Nebo, and the bible prophesy, Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him."
Bible verse's by New International Version 1984.
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And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. Mark 16:4.
I am Simon Brown, Thank you for reading this article, may God bless those who seek him, in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. |
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