Comments on: Water from a Walking Rock

By: Jack Gutknecht

Jack Gutknecht — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:51:16 +0000

In reply to Asher. billar should be spelled "pillar"

By: Asher

Asher — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:31:56 +0000

Maybe Paul was just used the illustration of the real Rock which is Jesus as in 1Cor.10 to relate to that rock Moses strike. As the body of Jesus gives off water, the billar which followed them was also a symbol of Jesus. Jesus is everything. He is the real rock that gives off water in the wilderness, He is also the billar or whatever that followed them, He is the corner stone, He is also the rock in the story of the two house builders: one builds on sand, and the other build on Rock.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 14 May 2017 07:26:17 +0000

1 Cor 10: 4 says plainly that the rock was Christ and that it was spiritual. Jesus said that we live by every word that proceeds from the mouth Of the living God and his words are spirit and life. Could it be that Christ was with the Israelites speaking to them the words of life, the words of God and which include the Ten Commandments as well as the levitical laws?. Could it also be that he spoke many other things to them that are not recorded. Moses and his aide Joshua son of Nun Exodus 33: 11

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 02:40:47 +0000

Jesus is the only God that man has ever dealt with. I hope this edifies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGmDmPsvJ4U

By: Paul Ballotta

Paul Ballotta — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:09:57 +0000

Hatshepsut was given a royal coronation no different than the male possessors of the title Pharaoh (Great House) and she also is purified in a ritual involving two gods. In this instance, Amon and Khonsu, each pouring water over the soon-to-be god incarnate king. In her temple at Deir el-Bahri these words were recited during the second purification ritual in which the queen is led away by the god Kheseti:
“Leading the way to enter the ‘Great House’ (by) the ‘Pillar of his Mother’ (a priestly title) of the ‘Great House’ (for the) purification of ‘Great House.'”
At the completion of the coronation the god Horus says “Thou hast established thy dignity as king, and appeared upon the Horus-Throne” (“Ancient Records of Egypt, vol.2, by James Henry Breasted, pp. 99-100).
Thus does the pharaoh become the god-incarnate “Living Horus,” and thus was the meaning of the argument, “Its Jehovah in our midst or not?” (Exodus 17:7).

By: Paul Ballotta

Paul Ballotta — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:11:18 +0000

That is, the star-studded night (?).

By: Paul Ballotta

Paul Ballotta — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:07:05 +0000

The connection between the word “hokhmah” or wisdom and the title of “huk” which is a type of priest doesn’t pan out so good when you consider that ‘”hokhmah” is actually “chokhmah” with the letter ‘chet’ and not ‘heh,’ though the expositors of the book of Zohar tend to overlook such differences. The phrase “strike rock” in Psalm 78.20, or “hikkah tsur” is probably our best clue of the tradition of “hekau” found in this work that was written after the conquest of Northern Israel by the Assyrians in the late 8th century B.C.E.
The word “tsur’ means ” rock, cliff wall” and the likliest candidate would be the Valley of the Kings where the pharaohs were interred. The Lord said to Moses in Exodus 17:6, “I will be standing before you there upon the rock (tsur) in Horeb.” This being in the western Sinai this is not to be confused with Mount Horeb in Midian (northern Arabia) and so the name could be derived from the god Horus, The Israelites were headed in the direction of the torquois mine at Serabit el-Khadim, where there was a sanctuary of the goddess Hathor whose name is comprised of the word for house (het) and the name of Horus (Heru) and this was very sncient, dating to a time when Horus was a sun god and the name Hathor originally referred to the portion of the sky in the east where Horus had domain.
“Upon the rock in Horeb” could refer to the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut behind which is a cliff wall where the western sky rests upon (the Lord standing upon the rock) an her temple was dedicated to Hathor (House of Horus, hinted at in the name Horeb where the letter ‘bet’ also means house, in keeping with Zohatic interpretations) and the goddess represents the start stirred night sky as well.

By: Paul Ballotta

Paul Ballotta — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:09:55 +0000

Correction; Genesis 1:27

By: Paul Ballotta

Paul Ballotta — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 05:35:18 +0000

As you can tell I’ve haven’t had any formal schooling in this field but it was ever since that nice lady at the little radical bookstore in a brownstone neighborhood of Brooklyn who let me browse and Budge’s “Egyptian Magic” revealed to me the concept of “hekau” or “words of power,” it has been an obsession of mine. This theory thst I borrowed from past thinkers has brought me to the concept from the Gnostics and Kabbalists concerning the eternal Father and Mother expressed as “Yahweh and his Asherah” in the 8th century B.C.E., who constitutef the first two letters of the tetragramaton; YHVH. I’m reminded of the “Matrix” films in which a computerized reality simulator was ultimately a creation of s man and a woman who were the original programmers of this Mega-computer like the inescapable truth of God being both male and female in Genesis 1:28.

By: Paul Ballotta

Paul Ballotta — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:37:51 +0000

An alternative account of the water from the rock comes from Psalm 78:20 where it is God who performs the miracle, “Behold, (He) struck (the) rock.” Here the Hebrew is “hikkah tsur,” and again as I noted previously, this word ‘huk” has significance,, though I was incorrect about its meaning being “great medicine man,” the term “huk” is an unknown title bestowed on Hesy-Ra that designates a priestly office:
“In the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus, every medicine man is a priest of Sekhmet, the lioness-goddess wife of Ptah, just as Hesy, here the great medicine man, is ” HK” (unknown title) of the lioness-goddess Mehyt, wife of Onuris” (Sacred Science, p.143).
In the interpretations from the mystical book of Zohar, which vary at times, the water that issues forth derives ultimately from the source of God’s primordial attribute of “wisdom” (hokhmah) and the rock that was struck symbolized the physical universe which is as diversified as the galaxies expanding away from one another in the attribute of “understanding” (binah), thus alluded to in Proverbs 3:19; “Jehovah founded the earth by wisdom; He established the heavens by understanding,”
Wisdom/hokhmah is identified with the past and understanding/binah is the future and referred to as “the world to come,” making the tombs of the Egyptian royal elite decorated with scenes of the afterlife a likely symbol for “the world to come.”
In a tomb from the early dynastic period at Hieraconopolis, we have what is known as the painted tomb (#100), which has the first known wall mural depicting a scene with boats on the Nile (Moses is instructed to take in his hand the staff used to strike the Nile and strike the rock in Exodus 17:5-6, a subtle connection to the past) and the artists who were commissioned to decorate the tombs were formerly pottery painters:
“From this point on, pottery decoration declined rapidly as the professional craftsmen of the day turned their attention to decorating the palaces an tombs of an emerging aristocracy,. Artistic energies that had once been devoted to producing fancy containers that would capture local trade markets in the Early Gerzean period, now came to be dominated by the interests of the same local magnates who would soon unite Egypt by force of arms” (‘Egypt Before the Pharaohs” by Michael A. Hoffman, p.133).