Ophir

Ophir

Thomas Allen

King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon; and they went to Ophir, and brought from there gold, to the amount of four hundred and twenty talents; and they brought it to King Solomon. (1 Kings 9:26–28)

Ophir was famous for its gold: “. . . three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir . . .” (1 Chronicles 29:4) and, also, Isaiah 13:12, “I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.” Psalm 45:9 reads, “. . . at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.” Job 28:16 reads, “It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir. . . .” Other verses mention Ophir concerning gold.
To voyage from Ezion-Geber to Ophir and back required three years: “For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks [or baboons]” (1 Kings 10:22). Ezion-Geber was a seaport of Edom (Idumaea) on the northern extremity of the Gulf of Aqaba near modern Aqaba and Eilat (Elat) and was part of Solomon’s kingdom.
Ophir must have been a port and located where ivory, apes, and peacocks (or baboons) were naturally available or could be imported. Several locations have been proposed for Ophir. They are the Arabian Peninsula, India, southern East Africa, Malaysia, and Peru.
1. The Arabian Peninsula is the most popular location, although people disagree where on the peninsula Ophir is located.
One possibility is the southwest coast along the Red Sea, where gold was once mined. Thus, Ophir was located in modern-day Yemen. According to Genesis 10:29, Ophir was adjacent to Havilah and Jobab and was associated with the Queen of Sheba (1 King 10:1–10), “the queen of the south” (Matthew 12:42). Ophir may have included part of the adjacent African coast. In ancient times, Yemen was known for its gold production. (To traverse the length of the Red Sea and return should have taken much less than three years. An excuse offered for taking three years is that the ships had to halt when the weather became excessively hot.) Unger, Fausset, Davis, and the Millers favor this location.
Another proposed location is southern Arabia (modern-day Oman) bordering the India Ocean. Smith favors this location.
Still, another possible location of Ophir is between Susa and the Persian Gulf. Because of the winds, a voyage from Ezion-Geber to this location and back might have taken three years. (If this was the location of Ophir, then overland caravans would have been quicker.) Thayer favors this location.
2. India offers several possibilities for the home of Ophir. Favoring India is the algum or almug tree, which is apparently sandalwood, a native of India. Also, the other products mentioned being obtained in Ophir are found in India.
One of the proposed locations of Ophir is the Malabar Coast near Goa. Another possible location is the east side of the Indus River delta. If this is the correct location, the gold of Ophir would have come from Kashmir. Josephus favors the Indus River delta.
3. Several locations along the east coast of Africa have been suggested. They range from the Red Sea to Mashonaland (a region in Zimbabwe). The ruins found in Zimbabwe have been offered as the location of Ophir. Gold has been mined in this area. However, Sofala, an old but now ruined port in Mozambique, which was once known for exporting gold, is a more logical location.
4. Mount Ophir in Johor, Malaysia, is a possible location. This area is known for producing gold. Three years may be needed to journey to here from Ezion-Geber and back.
5. Dankenbring presents the most speculative location of Ophir: Peru. In the evidence that he gives to support Peru is that hieroglyphs on tablets similar to those used in Solomon’s time have been found in Peru and Brazil. Moreover, gold was abundant in ancient Peru. Traveling from the northern part of the Red Sea to Peru and back certainly would have required three years.
Although the location of Ophir is not known and may never be known with certainty, many places have been offered as possible locations. They include Arabia, India, Africa, Malaysia, and Peru.

References
Dankenbring. William F. Beyond Star Wars. Omak, Washington: Triumph Prophetic Ministries 2009.

Davis. John D. A Dictionary of the Bible. Fourth Revised Edition. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1957.

Davis, John D. The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible. Revised by Henry Snyder Gehman. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1944.

Fausset, A.R. Fausset’s Bible Dictionary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1949.

Miller, Madeleine S. and J. Lane Miller. Harper’s Bible Dictionary. 6th ed. New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1959.

Smith, William. A Dictionary of the Bible. Revised and edited by F. N. and M. A. Peloubet. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1979.

Thayer, Charles S. “Ophir.” A New Standard Bible Dictionary. Melanchthon W, Jacobus, Edward E. Norse, and Andrew C. Zenos, editors. New York, New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1926.

Unger, Merrill F. Unger’s Bible Dictionary. 3rd edition. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1960.

Copyright © 2021 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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Some Comparisons of Bidenites with Deplorables

Some Comparisons of Bidenites with Deplorables

Thomas Allen

The following compares Bidenites with Deplorables. (Bidenites are the supporters, promoters, and owners of Biden  the Usurper and include left-wingers, most Democrats, RINOs, many neoconservatives, presstitutes, the Deep State, big business, and Chinese Communists.) As these comparisons show, Bidenites and Deplorables live in different worlds. Overall, Bidenites are inclined to be statists and centralists and want to impose themselves on others and tell them what to do. Consequently, Bidenites do not want to leave the Deplorables alone. Conversely, Deplorables are generally inclined to be libertists and decentralists and want to be left alone.

While Deplorables want to make America great, Bidenites want to make China great. Moreover, Bidenites want to make America in the image of China. Unlike Deplorables, who place the United States first, most Bidenites are globalists and, therefore, prefer foreigners ruling the United States.

Deplorable are producers and favor independence and freedom. Bidenites are parasites and favor dependency and enslavement. While Deplorables prefer making their own decisions, Bidenites prefer having presstitutes, politicians, and bureaucrats making their decisions.

Deplorables seek a rising standard of living. However, Bidenites seek a declining standard of living — at least that is the result of the policies that they promote.

Moreover, Deplorables favor the people possessing the means (arms) to defend themselves from an oppressive government. However, Bidenites prefer standing disarmed before a Hitlerian Trump. They like the idea of people lacking the means to defend themselves from a dictator like Trump.

Furthermore, Bidenites are big promoters of censorship; they want to suppress all speech with which they disagree. Most notable is their demand that neither Trump nor any of his staff be allowed to write any book for publications. Also, they want all Deplorables who write or have written anything favorable about Trump removed from all social media platforms. On the other hand, Deplorables favor free speech — even for Bidenites.

Honest and fair elections are what Deplorables want. Contrastingly, Bidenites want to win elections at all cost — even with massive cheating and stealing if necessary. Thus, they are moving forward to institutionalize election cheating and stealing so that they will never lose another election. While stealing elections, Bidenites preach democracy —they must save democracy by stealing elections.

Whereas Deplorables want justice, Bidenites want vengeance. Deplorables want people like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden tried for the crimes that they have blatantly committed — a justice that has yet to come. (In the case of Biden, he has publicly admitted to a crime.) That the Bidenites want vengeance is evidenced by the impeachments of Trump for crimes that he did not commit and their vindictiveness toward Deplorables.

Many Bidenites want to send Deplorables to concentration camps to be deprogrammed and reeducated and indoctrinated in proper left-wing thought using torture if necessary. Bidenites must resort to such horrific methods because they know that truth, logic, history, and argument is on the side of the Deplorables. Yet, most Deplorables prefer to convert Bidenites with reasoning, logic, and argument although they know that most Bidenites are incapable of reasoning and thinking logically and that Bidenites are incapable of understanding why any sane person would oppose their enslaving, impoverishing, dehumanizing agenda.

Although Bidenites like to brag that they believe in science, the only science in which they believe is politicalized science. Unlike most Deplorables, Bidenites do not accept real science. Most Deplorables act like true scientists: They question the science and know that, with few exceptions, nothing is finally settled scientifically. Contrary to the beliefs of Bidenites, Deplorables know that a consensus does not decide science (the consensus is often wrong). 

When compared with Deplorables, Bidenites generally have a much less sense of humor and a much lower threshold for negative criticism. Also, Bidenites are more narcissistic and fearful than Deplorables.

Moreover, Deplorables typically live more joyful lives than Bidenites, who are typically unhappy and miserable. Whereas Deplorables want Bidenites to “see the light” and recognize and accept the truth, Bidenites want to annihilate the Deplorables. Thus, Deplorables show more compassion and love than Bidenites.

Most Deplorables adhere to the constitution that the founding fathers gave the country. Also, they cherish traditions. On the other hand, nearly all Bidenites prefer the constitution that Lincoln gave the country, which is the current constitution of the United States. Moreover, Bidenites hate traditions and seek to destroy them. (Unfortunately, most Bidenites and Deplorables do not understand the difference between the two constitutions because they look similar. Under the constitution of the founding fathers, the federal government has few specifically delegated powers; all other powers are reserved to the States and the people [bodies politic] thereof. Also, under the constitution of the founding fathers, there were 13 “we the people” (now there are 50 “we the people”). Under Lincoln’s constitution, all power is vested in the federal government, and the States have only those powers that the federal government condescends to grant or allow them. Moreover, there is only one “we the people.”)

While Deplorables want to save what little is left of American and recover what has been lost, Bidenites want to destroy what is left. They want to deliver the coup de grace.

As shown above, the United States are divided into two camps: one that wants freedom, the Deplorables, and one that wants oppression, the Bidenites. Can the two camps be reconciled? Probably not because Bidenites go out of their way to alienate Deplorables. Bidenites do not want to unify the country. Their ultimate goal is the annihilation of the Deplorables and to turn the country over to the globalists under Chinese control.

Copyright © 2021 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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More on the COVID-19 Vaccine

More on the COVID-19 Vaccine

Thomas Allen

Amazingly, but not surprisingly, a large number of people are begging to be vaccinated with an experimental vaccine that the FDA has not approved. Moreover, these people are imploring to take voluntarily an experimental vaccine without compensation, and they assume all the risks. Since the vaccine manufacturers assume no risk, they have little incentive to produce a safe and effective vaccine — especially, since governments are buying all that they can produce. On the contrary, big pharma is incentivized to make vaccines that cause chronic disease, which generates future sales for drugs to treat these diseases and which they seem to have successfully done with the COVID-19 vaccines.

These vaccines are being rushed to market before clinical trials are completed. Consequently, vaccinated people are being used in a large-scale genetic experiment. And this is for a disease with a greater than 99 percent survival rate.

Repeatedly, governmental health officials have said that whether COVID-19 vaccines prevent the spread of COVID-19 is unknown. In the trials, these vaccines were not evaluated for their ability to prevent inflection or transmission of COVID-19. They were evaluated in their ability to lessen moderate to severe symptoms. However, vaccinated primates still contracted COVID-19. Why would anyone want to be vaccinated with a vaccine that may not and probably does not prevent them from catching COVID-19 — especially, since effective and safe treatments, such as hydroxychloroquine and zine, are available to treat the disease?

Even if these vaccines provide some immunity, how long that immunity lasts is unknown. If one can still catch and transmit COVID-19 after vaccination, does it provide any immunity at all?

Moderna and Pfizer make their vaccines from messenger RNA (mRNA). The idea behind these COVID-19 vaccines is that the RNA in the vaccine will enter the cells of the vaccinated person and cause the cells to produce and secrete the spike protein for COVID-19. Then, the body will respond to this viral protein by producing antibodies. However, this technology has yet been proven to work as promoted. Moreover, vaccines using mRNA have never been used in humans. Thus, the long term effects are unknown.

RNA can convert to DNA, and this DNA could become linked to a person’s DNA. That is, the COVID-19 vaccines can make a person into a genetically modified organism (GMO). When the person becomes a GMO, his immune system attacks his body and may cause organ failure.

By the medical definition of “vaccine,” these mRNA vaccines are not true vaccines. Unlike true vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines do not improve a person’s immune response to the infection. Nor do they prevent a person from getting infected. They are experimental gene therapy whose the long-term effects are unknown.

However, mRNA may overstimulate the immune system and cause long-term chronic inflammation (rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson’s disease are examples of long-term chronic inflammation diseases). Most of the common side effects of these COVID-19 vaccines result in inflammation of the brain.

The mRNA used in the COVID-19 vaccines is synthetic. Natural mRNA deteriorates quickly. To prevent this rapid deterioration, the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines use polyethylene glycol (PEG). Unfortunately, about 70 percent of Americans have antibodies to PEG. According to the FDA, these PEG antibodies may be the cause of anaphylaxis. (Anaphylaxis is a sudden allergic reaction resulting in decreased blood pressure, smooth muscle contraction, and shortness of breath.) Anaphylaxis from the COVID-19 vaccine occurs in about 1 in 45,000, which is about 17 times the rate caused by other vaccines. Thus, some health authorities recommend that people with severe allergic conditions not take the COVID-19 vaccine. Yet, the CDC recommends that these people be vaccinated! However, the CDC does recommend that people allergic to any ingredient of the vaccines not be vaccinated and anyone who has an allergic reaction to the first shot should not take the second shot. 

Others who should not receive COVID-19 vaccines are people with rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, chronic Lyme’s disease, acquired immune deficiency, and similar inflammatory diseases. Also, people who have diseases associated with xenotropic murine leukemia virus (XMRV) should not be vaccinated. (XMRV has been associated with certain cancers, such as prostate cancer, weakened immune systems, autism, and other diseases.). Likewise, people with significant cardiovascular issues should not be vaccinated. Besides people who suffer from the aforementioned diseases, the people most susceptible to the adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccines are those who take the seasonal influenza vaccines and, because of genetics, Blacks and Hispanics (Indians and mestizoes). 

Moreover, women of childbearing age may risk infertility if they receive these COVID-19 vaccines. (WHO recommends that pregnant women not get the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine because the vaccine may cause late-term miscarriages.)

One important aspect of these COVID-19 vaccines is that they may worsen COVID-19 disease by antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). Having received a COVID-19 vaccination could place the vaccinated person at a higher risk of death or injury if he later contracts COVID-19. Likewise, people who have had COVID-19 and then are vaccinated could have a higher risk of death or serious injury.

Furthermore, only a few frail elderly people were used in the clinical trials. The death rate of such people rises after vaccination. Thus, some health experts recommend that the frail elderly not be vaccinated.

Among the many unknowns surrounding these COVID-19 vaccines are how long will the mRNA remain stable in the body. Also, what happens if the mRNA degrades too rapidly, too slowly, or not at all? What happens if the body keeps producing antibodies?

Some health experts believe that the long-term effects of these COVID-19 vaccines will lead to a significant increase in neuroinflammation diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), some types of cancers, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, bladder problems, kidney diseases, psychosis, and sleep disorders.

Of the people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine by December 18, 2020, 2.79 percent suffered one or more health impacts. This compares with a less than 1 percent reduction in infection from the Pfizer vaccine and an overall noninstitutional infection fatality rate of 0.26 percent. (For the Pfizer vaccine, the relative risk reduction may be between 19 and 29 percent, which is less than the 50-percent threshold needed for licensing.)

As mentioned above, the noninstitutionalized infection fatality rate for COVID-19 is 0.26 percent. For people less than 40, the rate is 0.01 percent. So, why assume all the risks that are or may be associated with these experimental COVID-19 vaccines?

Many people are dying or becoming seriously ill from COVID-19 vaccinations. Most of these deaths and injuries are concealed and never reported by the presstitutes. When one of these incidents is posted on a social media site, the site quickly removes it. If such incidents do become public, they are considered coincidental and irrelevant. Unless the death occurs almost immediately after vaccination, it is contributed to another cause. 

Furthermore, nearly all of the people who are reported as dying from COVID-19 died of something else — ventilators being one of the unmentioned, important causes of death and terror and isolation being other important, unmentioned causes. No virus is needed.

Based on the effort that politicians, presstitutes, big tech, governmental health officials, establishment scientists, and others have expended to silence people who have revealed potential dangers and problems of these COVID-19 vaccines and even people who question their safety and effectiveness, these vaccinations cannot survive examination. Such attacks against scientists, health experts, and others should make people highly suspicious of the safety and effectiveness of these COVID-19 vaccines.

All of this for a virus that no one has ever isolated and identified. No one has ever proven that COVID-19 exists.

Political leaders, health officials, and presstitutes have continuously and habitually lied about the so-called COVID-19 pandemic (when deaths from suicide and drug overdose are removed, deaths in 2019 exceed deaths in 2020 in the United States — so where is the pandemic). Why would they not also lie about the COVID-19 vaccines?

References

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Mercola, Dr. Joseph. “How COVID-19 'Vaccines' May Destroy the Lives of Millions.” https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/31/covid-19-vaccine-gene-therapy.aspx?ui=684b40cdac888b48995fb5507fa878c3c3a7... Accessed February 1, 2021.

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Mercola, Dr. Joseph. “Side Effects and Data Gaps Raise Questions on COVID Vaccine.” https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/26/covid-vaccine-side-effects.aspx?ui=684b40cdac888b48995fb5507fa878c3c3a7bf689... Accessed January 26, 2021.

Nass, Dr. Meryl. “Pfizer Admits Vaccine Does Not Prevent COVID.” https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/29/pfizer-admits-vaccine-does-not-prevent-covid.aspx?ui=684b40cdac888b48995fb5507...Accessed January 29, 2021.

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Copyright © 2021 by Thomas Coley Allen

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