Restatements and Review:

God's Nuclear Touch

Thesis Statement

 

          Biblical descriptions about the Presence of God depict a force that resembles nuclear energy, and radiation science will provide a new lens to view and reinterpret Bible stories, miracles, commandments, and rituals, as critical components of an ancient survival manual for living and thriving in a highly-radioactive, Fukushima-like, environment.  It might also provide physical, technological support for some of the hard-to-fathom things the Bible states as historical facts:

1.      God existed as described

2.      visited the Earth,

3.      physically came and went in a sparking cloud

and

4.      is still with us today…

because all radioactive substances stay slightly radioactive and are never completely inert.    

 

God’s Nuclear Touch suggests that certain ancient rituals were forerunners to modern health, sterilization, and preservation processes, like the wave offering was the predecessor of food irradiation techniques. It also suggests that radiation exposure was the cause underlying many incidents of Biblical preservation phenomena.  Studying the text should reveal more ways to apply Biblical irradiation techniques to preserve other perishables with organic content such as the above-described articles: shoes, clothing, art, artifacts and maybe even our physical bodies as well.

Author’s Note:  Reading about this ritual marked the moment
                             that God’s Nuclear Touch began.

          I have always found studying the engineering and science of ancient civilizations to be a fascinating pursuit.   After all, the notion that we are the first generations possessing brilliant technical minds on this planet seems ridiculous in light of archaeological evidence of ancient acheivements.  Six years ago, I went through a difficult phase in my business and personal life. I began reading the five books of Moses each night and they provided both solace and wisdom.  One such night, I was studying one of the less interesting parts of the Bible -- detailed descriptions of offerings, commonly thought of as “sacrifices.”  These ritual acts were observed only during the times when the God of the Israelites was stated to have been literally present with them there, in the desert and later in the Promised Land.  I recognized something called the Wave Offering as having strong similarities to a modern technical achievement that involves using gamma rays to “nuke” (and thereby kill the bacteria in) certain foods. 

          The idea that this modern technique was present and utilized during this ancient period was fascinating... but a more earthshaking question emerged: Could the presence of God have been (and therefore still be) radioactive?  

          I then began a serious investigation and found hundreds of examples of what appears to be the same force we understand and utilize today.  I then sought the consulting services of Radiologists, Biologists, Pathologists, Physicists, Plasma Physicists, and Religious leaders. 

          During this research period, a meaningful comment came from a Professor of Radiology...   “Alan, you blindly theorize these ideas and they somehow turn out to be medically correct!”  I quickly passed on the credit by acknowledging the detailed Biblical accounts as the primary source of the information and offered the wise religious comment that regardless of our perspectives, “truth is truth.”   The combined results of “blindly” theorizing and ongoing stimulating study, are embodied in the God’s Nuclear Touch.

 

CHAPTER FOUR

Like A Moth To A Flame

 

          Anytime God  communicated verbally--from the Burning Bush that was not consumed, the top of Mount Sinai and the cover on  the Ark of the Covenant--the mechanism employed was a radiant, glowing flame.

 

          In re-telling the story of the Exodus Moses says no less than ten times

that at Mount Sinai, "God spoke to you (giving the Israelites the Ten Commandments) from the middle of the flame" (the burning mountain top).  Deuteronomy 5:22  reveals that the audible sounds were too loud and the assembled Israelites said, "Why should this great fire consume us?  If we hear the voice of God our Lord anymore, we will die!"  Moses responded in a proud way declaring, "What mortal has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we did, and has survived?"  A divine Public Address system indeed!

 

          In this case, and others like it, the mysterious audible voice of God described in the Text can be directly linked with a substance known as plasma.

 

          I don't mean the blood component.  I mean plasma the highly energized

gas.  Sometimes called the fourth state of matter, plasma exhibits properties not normally found in ordinary solids, liquids and gases.  It is literally the stuff of which stars are made.  As modern science knows, it has very interesting characteristics.  When certain types of gases are energized by electro-magnetic radiation fields, the resultant plasma can produce an awesome display that:

 

·        glows brightly

·        emits lightening bolts    and

·        produces acoustic (mechanical) radiation... audible sound!

 

          Plasma has been used commercially to make a high quality stereo living room speaker system called the Plasmatron.  In this system, vocal and musical sounds emit from a flame, which operates on a plasma mixture of electricity and gas. 

          Was plasma also the radiating mechanism for a Divine P.A. system?

 

          Also used industrially to clean and coat many materials, plasma (in a vacuum chamber) hardens the surfaces of tools and plates gold for decorative use on jewelry.  Compact discs (CD's) for music and data are "aluminized" and silicon wafers, as mentioned above, containing integrated circuits are etched and coated by using plasma in this same contamination-free environment. 

 

          Most modern synagogues burn a “Ner Tamid,” an eternal light, symbolically continuing the fire that was commanded to be maintained on the Temple altar in perpetuity.  Most churches and temples have traditionally lit candles as a part of ritual ceremonies. Oil lamp and wax candle flames behave like a plasma.  To test this, carefully place a magnet near a lit candle (adult supervision required) for a moment and watch what happens...(it should bend in towards the magnetic field). 

 

          These flames are now often simulated by incandescent electric bulbs, not the oil and wick lamps of old which behave like plasma.  Perhaps in complying with local fire codes we might have removed the mechanism for the "Divine Plasmatron." Could this substitution of convenience partially account for the increasing difficulty in hearing the still small voice amidst the cacophony of 21st century life?

 

          Plasma was also the apparent amplification mechanism for God's voice from above the cover on the Ark of the Covenant where the Biblical accounts tell us the Tablets of the Law were housed. 

 

          A vacuum-coating expert was asked about creating a plasma without a vacuum, in air as the Bible describes.  He asked why anyone would want to do such a thing, knowing that it would produce a spitting, smoking, sputtering mess (like the blinding sparks and smokey cloud produced by fireworks, or an arc welding machine--an excellent example of an atmospheric plasma system that requires a protective mask.  "But if you really need an atmospheric plasma,"  he said, "just set up an anode (+) and a cathode (-), and use a radio or electrical source nearby to strike the glow in the gap between the two opposing electrodes."

 

          At first this was puzzling. The smoking and sputtering was well-described in the Bible, where God came, went, and rested above the Tabernacle: a sparking cloud by day, and brilliant fire by night. But where were the electrically opposite poles that would faciltate the plasma to support His presence?  My confusion vanished after careful review of the construction of the Ark.  God told Moses, paraphrasing Exodus 25:10, to; Build an ark of Acacia wood.  Place a layer of gold on the inside and another on the outside (forming a sandwich of conductor/insulator/conductor).  On the cover, hammer out two cherubs facing each other with wings spread outward and their faces down, so that I can give instructions for the Israelites by means of a cloud in between them (see Illustation 4, Ark = Arc?).  To quote the scripture details exactly...

 

“And they shall make an ark of acacia wood, two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.  You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make upon it a rim of gold around it.
          Exodus 25 19-22 continues:  “And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners.  Two rings shall be in one of its sides, and two rings in its other side.  And you shall make poles of Acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.   You shall put the poles into the rings by the sides of the ark, so that the ark may be carried with them.  The poles shall be in the rings of the ark, they shall not be taken from it.

          You shall put into the ark, the testimony that I shall give you.   And you shall make a cover of pure gold, two cubits and a half shall be its length and a cubit and a half its breadth.   And you shall make two cherubim of gold, of hammered workmanship shall you make them, in the two edges of the cover.

Make one cherub on one end, and the other cherub on the other end of the cover, you shall make the cherubim on its two edges.   And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings on high, covering the cover with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another.  The faces of the cherubim shall be (inclined downward) toward the cover.  Put the cover upon the ark (after)  you put the testimony that I shall give you inside the ark.   And there I will meet with you, and I will talk with you from above the cover, from between the two cherubim, which are upon the ark of the Testimony.   (There) I will give you commandments concerning all things for the people of Israel.”

  

          So if one cherub was connected to the inside layer (anode), and the other connected to the grounded outside layer (cathode), the Ark might have been the atmospheric direct current plasma system described by the expert.  The plasma glow and arc could have created the fiery cloud and acted as a broadcast system on top of the cover, when fueled, by a nearby energy source, meaning the highly radioactive Tablets of the Law that were ionizing or even fissioning inside. They were also jump-started by a religious ritual (see Chapter Eight, "The Ark was a Weapon") that created a virtual short circuit. Technically speaking dense smoke from burning incense changed the dielectric constant between the electrically-charged opposite poles.  

 

          Was this the way that Divine words were heard by Biblical ears?

“When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him, he heard the Voice of one speaking to him from the cover that was on top of the Ark of Testimony, from between the two Cherubim and He spoke to him. (Numbers 7:89)

 

Illustration: Ark = Arc? Divine Communication Device  

          Can the rediscovery of a Divine communicator give us a second chance to listen and speak? Can we again be attracted to the revealed truth,

                                 “Like a Moth to a Flame?”

     The Ark of the Covenant held Tablets of the Law that emitted an extremely high level of energy from inside.  If this was a device for Divine Encounters producing ionizing radiation as we know it today, the “fiery cloud” and audible Divine communications could indeed have occurred.

 

 

CHAPTER FIVE

I Myself, ...Not An Angel 

 

          In order to understand the physical effects of Divine Encounters,

it is helpful to review the Biblical accounts that describe the highest levels

of God's (Radioactive?) Glory... personal visits where He appeared instead of sending a messenger.

 

The following narration includes:

 

                   The earliest Divine Encounter describing the

                   future enslavement of Abraham's descendants.

 

                   The arrival of Jacob's family to Egyptian soil.

 

                   Egyptian Government policies toward the Hebrews.    

 

                   The circumstances that led up to the killing of the first born.

 

                   The final Exodus out from the decimated land of Egypt."

 

         

Recounting a few of these story-lines and circumstances, provides a solid platform on which to build more meaningful discussions about:

 

the devastating effects apparently caused by

 

extremely high doses of radiation,

 

when  God  personally  intervened

 

i n   t h e   a f f a i r s   o f  

 

A n c i e n t  B i b l i c a l   N a t i o n s.

God informed Abraham what the future held for his descendants...

those children born to him through his wife Sarah: 

         

          "Know for sure that your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs for four hundred years” (counting from his son Isaac's birth until the Exodus from Egypt was exactly this amount of time).  “They will be enslaved and oppressed.  But I will finally bring judgment against them." (Genesis 15:13-14)

 

          Although his children and grandchildren visited this land,  his great grandson was the first to emigrate there.  This was not by choice. 

Joseph son of Jacob was:

 

                             first plotted against, then

                             left in an empty water storage cavern to die and finally,

                             sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, to be

                             rid of their father’s obvious favorite, forever.

 

          We are told that God blessed Joseph in all his affairs and he went from being a slave in prison to Viceroy (second in command under Pharaoh) and placed in charge over all Egypt.

 

          His career started by accurately interpreting the dreams of lower government officials.  Then, no-one but Joseph could understand and explain two similar dreams of Pharaoh where...

          - seven healthy ears of corn were devoured by seven sick ears that derived no benefit from eating the meal and then,

          - seven healthy cows were devoured by seven sskinny and sickly cows that derived no benefit from eating the healthy ones.

 

          From these dreams, Joseph made Pharaoh aware that a great famine would strike the entire region in seven years and Joseph was placed in charge of all planning and preparedness.  He was reunited with his father and brothers and had them all move into the Goshen district of Egypt to enjoy a life of plenty.

 

          Joseph's dying wish prophesied:  "God is sure to grant you special providence (treatment) and bring you out of this land, to the land He promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob". 

 

          He made his close relatives swear that when this event occurs,

 

 

"You must bring my remains out of this place."

 

          Soon thereafter, the status and accomplishments of Joseph were strangely forgotten.  The beginning of the Book of Exodus states:

 

"A new King who didn't know of Joseph came into power over Egypt."   

 

          Some say this refers to one of the conquering Hyksos, a Dynasty of foreign usurpers of the Egyptian throne.   However, the native born legitimate heir to the throne, Ramsees II is generally thought to have been the infamous Pharaoh of the Exodus.

 

          The story continues with Pharaohs decree to the Egyptian people:

 

"The Israelites are becoming ... too numerous and too strong for us.

 

          This fearful remark intended to motivate the Egyptian nobility, priesthood and citizenry alike to back a devious and terrifying plan of enslavement and infanticide in an attempt to rectify the situation.  This statement also indicates Israel's unusual fertility, health and vitality as well. 

          “We must deal wisely with them.  Otherwise they might increase so much that if there is a war, they will join our enemies and fight against us, driving us from the land."

                       

          Conscription Officers and Taskmasters were assigned to control them in a harsh forced labor manner, to build the cities of Pithom and Ramsees.  This manner of work was specifically designed to weaken and break their bodies in:

                            

·              the fields (gathering straw)

·              in the mud-pits (making bricks and mortar)

·              in work crews breaking, cutting and hauling stones  and

·              on the masons' scaffolds of the construction cites.

 

          Regarding the continuing high birthrates, a method was employed to stem the unprecedented population growth.  The midwives that serviced the Israelite community, were ordered to kill all Hebrew male infants at birth perhaps by not allowing them to breathe their first breath.  Then no-one would blame Pharaoh for it would appear that a mysterious plague befell the unborn of the community.

 

          To understand the underlying desperate concern of Pharaoh, just examine the numbers.  The Bible states that 70 in Jacob's family arrived in Egypt, and by a census that counted six hundred thousand males past the age of nineteen, it is conservative to extrapolate that more than two million men, women and children left just 210 years later!!!

 

          None of these  "wise" tactics worked!  The Israelites grew stronger and (because the midwives refused to carry out the order of Pharaoh) their numbers continued to increase.  When all devious attempts to cure the problem only made matters worse for this Divinely tormented ruler, he decreed that all male infants would be cast in the Nile River.

          Into this incredible scene comes a Hebrew infant male with special abilities noticed by his mother at birth.  The child was hidden, nursed and cunningly floated down-river into the arms of the bathing Princess Bithia. 

 

                        The daughter of Pharaoh raised, adopted and protected  this boy she named Moses as her own son. 

 

          As a man, he sought to know and be a part of his heritage.  Moses actually killed an Egyptian who was beating a fellow Hebrew.      

 

          Forced to flee the empire for this crime, this special Egyptian-Hebrew man (with a distinct speech impediment); settled in a foreign land; married a princess; fathered a son and shepherded large flocks of sheep for his new family (which included a wise and wealthy father-in-law known as Jethro, the Sheik of Midian).

 

          Some years later, Moses observed something curious and unusual on a nearby mountain, thought by locals to be the home of God.  Upon closer inspection, he found a "burning bush" that was not devoured by the radiant / glowing flame all around it.  From the middle of this plasma-like glow he heard the Voice of God for the first time.

 

          During this Divine Encounter, he was asked to lead the Israelite people out of Egypt so they could receive the land promised to his ancestors. 

 

          This man that God later referred to as "the most humble man on Earth," felt inadequate and insecure about:

 

1)      His credibility with the powerful Pharaoh of Egypt and

          even his own people, after all...

          how would anyone believe in this Divine mandate?

 

2)      His ability to properly communicate (having a speech impediment).

3)      His small chance for success against overwhelming odds.

 

          Moses therefore repeatedly declined the offer and requested someone more qualified be chosen for the job!  God said,  

 

"I know in advance, he (Pharaoh) will not let you leave unless he is forced to do so.  I will then display my powers and demolish Egypt, performing My miraculous deeds in the land"  (Exodus 3:19,20).

 

          The text in Chapter 4 vs. 17 & 22 further states...

"Take this staff in your hand, with it you will perform miracles.

 

...Say to Pharaoh, Israel is my firstborn. 

I have told you to let my son go and serve me.

If you do not let him leave, I will ultimately

kill your own firstborn son."

 

Moses then reluctantly accepted the enormous task as long as his brother Aaron was to share in this historic responsibility.

 

          As most everyone knows, the brothers demonstrated impressive power to force The Ruler of Egypt to "let my people go."  Pharaoh responded with a Divinely manipulated ambivalence.  On again / off again emotional attitudes towards the release of his Hebrew slaves through nine devastating plagues, are vividly described in Exodus 7: 19 - 10: 29 (and partially explained in Chapter Eight herein).

 

          The most destructive Biblical example of Divine energy, which the God’s Nuclear Touch equates with radioactivity, is frighteningly portrayed in the tenth and final plague (see Exodus 12: 29), where all the unprotected first-born in Egypt are indeed killed ... as prophesied and promised. 

 

          "It was midnight.  God killed every first-born in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, sitting on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as every firstborn animal.

 

          Pharaoh stayed up all night, along with all his officials and all the rest of Egypt.  there was a great outcry, since there was no house where there was no dead.

 

          (Pharaoh) sent for Moses and Aaron during the night, 'Get moving!' he said 'Get out from among my people-you and the Israelites!' " 

 

        If radiation is the agency of Divine intervention in human affairs, then every living thing including the Israelites, would have been bathed in virtually lethal doses as God passed through the land of Egypt during this final plague. 

 

          Our modern arsenal includes a weapon that produces a selective radioactivity capable of creating a similar type of (apparently nuclear) incident.   Neutron bombs selectively destroy organic tissue and leave valuable buildings and belongings intact in a similar fashion to the Biblical description of the mass devastation in Egypt.

 

 

          But two puzzles regarding this selective destruction process remain:

 

1)           How did the Israelites survive while the Egyptians died?

                                                     and

2)           Can we biologically determine how God recognized first-born

              humans and animals and told them apart from younger siblings?
                                               

Answer #1

 

          Each of the rituals of the Passover Seder may have been specifically designed to counter the effects of intense radiation released nearby.  Why else would so many of the procedures below need to be followed?  The exact instructions are contained in Exodus 12:

 

          “Speak to the entire congregation of Israel, saying:  In the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for each house.  And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the souls, according to how much each man will eat.

 

          Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year.  You shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats.  And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month.

 

          The whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

 

          And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses in which they will eat it.

 

          Eat the meat in that night, roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

 

          Do not eat it raw, nor boil it in water, but roast it with fire including its head with its legs, and with its inner parts.

 

And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning.  That which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

 

          You shall you eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste.  It is the Lord’s Passover offering.

 

          For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment; I am the Lord.

 

          The blood shall be a sign for you upon the houses where you are staying. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the deadly plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

 

          This day shall be a memorial to you and you shall keep it as a festival to the Lord throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

 

          Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

 

          In the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you.  No kind of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, only that (work) may be done by you.

 

          Be careful about the Unleavened Bread for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt.  Therefore shall you observe this day in your generations as an ordinance for all times.  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat only (Matzoh) unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.  Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses.

If anyone eats leavening, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or born in the land.   You shall eat nothing leavened in all the areas you live, eat unleavened bread.

          Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them: Draw out and take a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.  And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and strike the beam over the door and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin and none of you shall go out from the door of his house until the morning.

          For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians and when he sees the blood on the beam over the door and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not let the destroyer come into your houses to strike you.

 

          You shall observe this ritual as an ordinance to you and to your children forever.’”

 

          The above "Passover" precautions, mandated in the Biblical Text, were:

 

          Stay indoors;   Indoors provided the shielding of the home, a cardinal rule to prevent harm from radiation exposure.

 

          Paint a sign of lamb's blood over your door-posts;  Although their homes were in an isolated district freshly painted blood alerted or "cried out" to God to stay even further away (distance is another cardinal rule).  For more details on the protective nature behind this mechanism, see Chapter Eight: Blood Work Section.

 

          Gird your loins;  Additional shielding to protect the male and female genitalia could add some protection, especially if women's breasts were covered with a good form of insulation. 

Note:  It would be interesting to see if Israelite and other ancient Middle Eastern women used brassiere like breast cups or wrappings that contained radiation insulating materials as protective over or under garments.

 

          Put sandals on your feet;  Insulation from ground is a normal precaution to prevent being struck by lightning and other stray high voltage electrical discharges that are known to come up from the ground during electrical storms. 

 

          Hold your staff;  This could prevent a fall if disorientation occurred.

 

                        Eat the roasted offering (along with the entire meal) quickly;  Digesting free radical scavenging foods containing onions, garlic and horeradish, then called bitter herbs, at the time of radiation exposure might help to prevent cell damage from occurring. 

            When this Biblical force decided to surgically act and then retract, it demonstrated the last of the three cardinal rules of radiation protection ... time.  These Passover rituals evidently served to save the lives of the seder participants, by protecting them while the intense Divine Encounter killed those that did not partake in the ceremony.

 

Answer #2

 

...is not easily explained and must have required a bio-genetic understanding that surpasses our own.  Yet, God’s Nuclear Touch reveals three clues.

          First, the only reference to these killings made by the Egyptian people in a grief-stricken state of panic, specifically says that the killings were not as selective as they were intended to be.  “Egypt imposed itself strongly upon the people to hasten, to send them out, for they said, “We are all dying.” (Exodus 12:32).

          Second, the firstborn of Israel may have also been affected.  The census numbers of the males at least, in relation to the general population don’t quite add up, as follows: “Moses made a tally of all the male first-born Israelites,  as God  had commanded him.... the tally of the first-born over one month old was 22,273.” (Numbers 2:42,43).

 

          It doesn’t take a mathematician to see that this number is extremely low...
six hundred thousand divided by twenty two thousand, or approximately one out of twenty-seven males!   This statistic may indicate the unfortunate reality that not only the first-born of Egypt died that fateful night as was the intention.  Perhaps (as some commentators have suggested) most first-born Israelites did not heed the warnings and carefully follow the protective rituals.  Others say this was a result of the law that mandated firstborn males be killed by drowning.

 

          When analyzing the selective nature of the Genesis prophesied punishment, another mysterious Biblical statement bears mention.  In Exodus 13:2 God’s words provide the third clue:  “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast is mine.”

 

This scenario proposes that if serious scientific research into question #2 is conducted, we might soon find a radio-biological answer in some physical identifier of a mothers first-born.   

 

          Many other Biblical passages state that wombs are Divinely opened.   In Exodus 30:22 we see that, “God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, opening her womb.  She conceived and bore a son and said, ‘God has taken away my reproach.’ ”

          Perhaps a form of Divine radiance opens every womb and permanently earmarks the firstborn event? (see Divine Conception in Chapter Seven, for more on this). 

 

 

Flat Bread - Yeast Dead?

 

 

          There is additional evidence that the Divine Presence emitted a form of a nuclear radiation in the details of the aftermath (of the killing of the first born).  The next morning, another form of unprotected organic material was apparently dead as well.  The text explains that, in a great hurry to leave, the only food taken was previously prepared dough to make bread:    "The people took their dough before it could rise.  Their leftover dough was wrapped in their robes and placed on their shoulders."

 

          When the loaves were ready to eat, the bread was flat and hard like a cracker.  Unlike softer pita bread and other unleavened cakes of the Middle East, this dough had leavening and should have risen! Therefore, in addition to lack of time to rise, the same radioactivity that killed the first-born a few hours earlier, likely killed the yeast cultures of ancient Egypt and partially account for the mysteriously flat bread we call  "Matzoh."

 

          Six weeks after this Divinely escorted departure, Moses climbed Mount Sinai and was given the Tablets of the Law during a forty day period. 

 

          Although the Israelites previously beheld amazing miracles and wonders associated with the Presence of their God, some of them thought Moses died on the mountain and rebelliously sought a new god to lead them back to Egypt in the Golden Calf incident. God then refused to personally escort them forward on any more of their journeys, for fear His powerful Presence would surely kill them due to their stubborn behavior.  Instead He proposed to send an Angel to lead...

 

          “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Depart, and go up, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,  To your seed will I give it,  and I will send an angel before you to drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,  to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in the midst of you.  For you are a stiff-necked people and I will probably consume you in the way.’

 

            And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned and no man put on him his ornaments.  For the Lord had said to Moses,  ‘Say to the people of Israel,  ‘You are a stiff-necked people;  I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and consume you.   Therefore take off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do to you.’

 

          And the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mountain called Horeb.”

        Moses returned and the people mourned and removed their jewelry from that moment on, as a sign of true repentance.   They needed the protective Shield of Abraham to lead them safely to the Promised Land or no one at all.

 

          These acts of repentance and additional pleas from Moses, made God  reconsider.  So the Israelites were once again continually bathed in the radiance of Divine Encounters with the Presence of the Divine being who once remarked:

                         ‘I Myself, ...Not An Angel.’

CHAPTER SIX

     

The Dark Angel of Chernobyl     

 

          Many long-term effects of exposure to moderate levels of radiation are indicated throughout Biblical accounts of everyday life in the Israelites' desert community.  Constantly exposed to God's radiance, their mental, physical emotional and spiritual health and behavior were intertwined and strongly influenced by these Divine Encounters.

We have now an histoircally unique opportunity to compare the remarkable new data from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to the Biblical accounts. 

 

 

Leprosy

 

          This main Biblical disease was a constant concern after the Israelites' Divine Encounter at Mount Sinai, when they began a forty year period of living in what was apparently a highly radioactive environment. 

 

          Biblical leprosy is medically inconsistent with the disease as we know it today.  However if we analyze the information in the light of modern medical knowledge of both Hansen's Disease (leprosy) and Radiation Necrosis (radiation burns virtually identical in appearance to leprosy), a recognizable pattern emerges, showing three separate conditions.

 

          As previously discussed in Chapter One, God made a rare appearance that severely injured Miriam.  Moses cried out to Him to heal his older sister, and Aaron appealed:

 

 

           " let not Miriam be like a stillborn child, who comes from the womb with its flesh half rotted away" (Numbers 12:12).  So God commanded her to be quarantined away from the camp for a period of at least seven days.
          Several Biblical passages ascribe a whitening of the skin type state

to be Leprosy.  For example,  "when the cloud left its place over the tent Miriam became leprous, white as snow," (Numbers 12:10) and at his first Divine Encounter, Moses was given a miraculous sign to demonstrate that he was indeed sent by God.  " ... he brought his hand to his bosom; then he withdrew it and it and behold, his hand was leprous white as snow... he returned his hand to his bosom; then he removed it from his bosom and behold, it reverted to be like his flesh." (Exodus 4: 6&7)

 

          These whitening conditions (like frostbitten or water logged fingers) resemble the effects of "sloughing" from radiation burns on dark colored skin, as much as, or more than they appear to be leprosy.

 

          Biblical diagnosticians had to determine if this apparent disease was contagious.  Priests were instructed in the Text to isolate anyone with skin blemish symptoms for at least seven days outside the camp.  The affected area was declared "clean" if it appeared status quo or healing on its own (indicating a normal blemish or likely radiation burn).  If the affected area was getting worse it was deemed to be leprosy...which has a three year infectious incubation period and thereafter exhibits a constant degeneration of the skin.

 

“And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ‘When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a swelling, a scab, or bright spot, and it is on the skin of his flesh like the disease of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.   The priest shall look on the disease in the skin of the flesh and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the disease looks deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a disease of leprosy.  The priest shall then look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

 

          If the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and it looks to be not deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up him who has these signs of the disease for seven days.   And the priest shall look on him the seventh day and, behold, if the disease appears to have stayed in place, and the disease has not spread over the skin,  then the priest shall shut him up for seven days more. The priest shall look on him again on the seventh day and if the disease is somewhat dark, and the disease did not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean.  It is a healing scab and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

 

          But if the scab spreads out in the skin, after that he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again.   And if the priest sees that, behold, the scab spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean... it is a leprosy.” 

 

          If the Biblical priests knew how to tell the difference between these

two conditions, we should also separate their respective symptoms into two categories and then re-determine if Biblical leprosy in humans was indeed Hansen's Disease.

          Another strange anomaly is that clothing, cookware and buildings were affected by a fungus or other type of growth, and the text calls it tzaraat, the Hebrew word for Leprosy.  Spreading yeast or mildew-like blotches on clay pots, bricks, plaster walls and clothing, may have been the result of an unrecognizable and perhaps radiation exposed organism.  Because this condition appeared in the Israelite community only during their Divine dessert Encounters, it was evidently considered a part of the same disease.

          The simultaneous existence of radiation necrosis and this third condition bearing the same Hebrew name, should therefore not cause us to dismiss the idea that the Biblical leprosy that effected humans, could indeed have been Hansen's disease.

 

 

Diseases of a Spiritual Origin

 

 

          As discussed in Chapter Two, radiation gains entry into the body via its weaker areas.  Many holistic healers and many religious scholars feel that all adult diseases start with a spiritual weakness.

 

          Common sense and our knowledge of psychosomatic illness dictate that emotional burdens of sin and guilt, might physically lower immunities and raise allergic reactions due to negative thinking and the loss of will to live.

 

          If this ancient religious / new age concept has any basis in fact, a radiation exposed generation that returns to Biblically mandated orthodox rituals and moralities, may prove more fit to survive, than a society exhibiting unrestrained, immoral and criminal behavior.  Perhaps the religious revival now occurring in the former anti-religious Soviet Union, is helping to curb some of the physical damage associated with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 

 

        A lymphatic leukemia patient in Moscow was recently interviewed.

He is convinced that his life threatening condition of three years, relates to the ever spreading reach of the "Dark Angel of Chernobyl."

 

          His testimony states that the only reason he is still alive, is:

Each Friday night he leaves the city to enjoy his family's country home, and all day Saturday, he does nothing but lay down and sleep. 

          Unaware of the theory proposed herein, or Biblically mandated Sabbath rest, this unsolicited story demonstrates principles taught for a hundred generations.  Calmness and stress reduction often associated with meditation and spirituality, certainly contribute to effective and healthy  immune  systems  in  our  bodies, while  aggravation  and  increased  stress  are  known  killers.

 

 

Cancer

 

          As discussed in Chapter 3, free radicals are the destructive chemicals common to radiation damage and tumor formation.  They are highly toxic to cells and cause them to die or become malignant.  Many studies have shown that certain groups are more susceptible to free radical damage from radiation and therefore prone to higher cancer rates. 

 

          A recently published study shows that... Jewish women have much higher incidences of breast cancer.  Is it coincidence that the breasts are the most susceptible organ in the human anatomy to radiation and resultant free radical damage?   This medical news and the recently uncovered and well-publicized fact that ... North African Jews are ten times more prone to radiation damage, must tie in to the events of the Biblical Exodus that occurred where the entire story took place!

 

          Maybe this is the first known example of an unpopular theory called

Lamarckism.   A contemporary of Darwin, Lamarck believed in Natural Selection and the existence of a tendency for genes to pass down information about certain physical events that affected an organism during its lifetime.

 

          Maybe radiation can damage or mutate our DNA, affecting future generation’s characteristics and tendencies.  Graphical portrayals of radiation exposure, producing monster like beings depicted in "sci-fi" thrillers like The Time Machine are entertaining, but so far unobserved in our non-fictional reality.  Perhaps a real world tolerance or susceptibility to free radical damage was radiation induced by Biblically described Divine Encounters and genetically transferred to the Jewish populations of today (as discussed in this book and indicated in this World Health Organization cited study).

 

The Anti Cancer Gene - Medical physicists theorize that a radiation resistant population must somewhere exist and many efforts are underway to find and study their genetic structure.  A Professor of Radiology, from Columbia, to contribute to this research.  Together we propose that the direct father to son descendants of the Biblical Levites (especially the sons of the High Priest Aaron, known as Kohanes) might be this elusive group.  They now have been found to possess a genetic marker

          God’s Nuclear Touch recommends that tumor databases, kept all over the world, be checked by family name and with family member verifications when possible, to see if Levys, Cohens and other father to son members of this family have lower cancer rates.  In spot checking the paternal lines of my Levite and Kohane friends and acquaintances; fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers almost never had cancer!  Chapter Eight: Blood Work Section, reveals that blood diseases such as Leukemia are prevalent in those Kohanes and Levites who are exposed to higher than normal ambient radiation and do not follow Kosher dietary laws and other behavioral commandments.

          If detailed surveys prove this informal spot checking to be true, follow up studies could furnish us with a radiation and cancer resistant gene.  They should also provide insight as to the effectiveness of Kosher, Hallal and other orthodox dietary laws and resting practices in preventing tumor formation in Jews, Muslims and others (see Chapter Seven "Religious Rituals = Physical Survival").

 

          Perhaps more detailed scientific study of Biblical afflictions will reveal  methods to combat the devastation of our own late 21st century plagues. 

C a n c e r,  r a d i a t i o n  p o i s o n i n g  a n d  i n f e c t i o n were fought using the Divine rituals and commandments contained in the Torah, Koran and other Religious texts which evidently helped ancient Hebrews, Muslims and their descendants to fight these problems for three thousand years.

These rituals indicate that ancient Hebrews had problems handling radiation. Medical studies are revealing similar problems in modern Jews. 

          Therefore new physical interpretations of Biblical Commandments may provide a revisiting of the Torah as a survival manual for the men, women and children of this irradiated region  (and the rest of our highly energized world) who are tragically sick from exposure to…

 

                     “The Dark Angel of Chernobyl.”

     Philosophical note:  After completion, God's radiance filled the Tabernacle for the first time...as if Divinely experiencing the freedom and joy of children frolicking in a safe playground.  Meaningful comparisons between God's magnificent control over this force and the unleashed chaos of Chernobyl nuclear reactors (in various states of melt-down) might reveal information of value to help salvage this endangered part of our modern world.

 

The full September 1995 New York Times article, repeated from Part 1: 

 

          U. S. studies have shown that Jews are more susceptible to the damaging effects of radiation than non-Jews, which means that Jewish  residents of the  Ukraine could be more likely to suffer from the after-effects from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

    According to the studies, Ashkanazi Jews are three times more likely to such effects and North African Jews up to ten times more susceptible.

    These results were disclosed yesterday by Dr. Keith Baverstock, a radiation scientist in Rome for the World  Health Organization.  Baverstock, a British radiologist who is monitoring the effects of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion, says that no one has explained the reason for the seeming higher risk for Jews.”

 

          God’s Nuclear Touch surmizes that ionizing radiation, as described in the Biblical texts, caused the problem in Jews and the other Semitic races.  “

          This study coincides with additional unexplained data that reveals Jewish-American women are three times more likely to contract breast cancer. 

Conclusion: Israelites must have been physically transformed by highly-radioactive environmental factors, which damaged them and continue to affect their Jewish descendants.  The genes of their ancient ancestors apparently mutated by their exposure to what is described as: 1) The physical presence (and radiance) of God  &  2) Lingering radioactivity from Divine Encounters (what the Author calls God’s Nuclear Touch) contained in radioactive artifacts and fissionable materials in locations that were exposed during 1,400 years of Biblical events that occurred between 3,300 and 1,900 years ago.

Conclusion:  The Exodus, in the Old Testament, took place in Northern Africa and the Jews there have intermarried less than their European Ashkanazi relatives.  Therefore their inherited susceptibility remains higher - ten times higher than gentiles, based on a cleaner gene pool that is closer to the original. In this case, cleaner, or less corrupt is not better. Intermarriage would likely lessen the negative affects of the collective condition.

Note that later chapters in this book discuss why these studies provide evidence that Jews (and anyone else exposed to higher than ambient amounts of radiation) should eat Kosher meats.

In summary, the Bible describes God as being and dwelling amongst the Israelites for more than a thousand years and the genetic make-up of their descendants proves it is true.

 

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