Gen 24:1
And Abraham was old,
and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Gen 24:2
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
Gen 24:3
And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Gen 24:4
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Gen 24:7
The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
Gen 24:10
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master
were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Gen 11:31
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
- Ur = "flame"
- city in southern Babylonia, city of the Chaldeans, centre of moon worship, home of Abraham's father, Terah, and departure point for the Abraham's migration to Mesopotamia and Canaan
Chaldees:
- a territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf (n pr m)
- the inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris
- those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension)
kas-dee'; (occasionally with enclitic) כַּשְׂדִּימָה Kasdîymâh; towards the Kasdites into Chaldea), patronymically from
H3777 (only in the plural); a Kasdite, or descendant of Kesed; by implication, a Chaldaean (as if so descended); also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people:—Chaldeans, Chaldees, inhabitants of Chaldea).
Gen 15:7
And he said unto him, I
am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Mat 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Mat 2:2
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Babylonia ( / ˌbæbɪˈloʊniə /; Akkadian: , māt Akkadī) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-
southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran ).
So what then? Christianity comes from Babylon in Iraq. Which is east of Jerusalem.
Because Abraham the Father of Faith, originated in Ur the land of the Chaldeans from which the wise (astrologers) who saw the star of the King of the Jews came.
I had no idea that Universalism was actually a Christian doctrine from the early church in the East.
Which is where the church came from, hello?
That is really interesting, because I always thought that Babylon refered to Egypt...
Maybe they are symbolic.
Because now what comes from the east is Allah and Muhammad and the muslim religion.
And they have their own beliefs concerning univeralism and having many wives to mary when they go to heaven.
Kind of like what the Pharisees asked concerning who's wife would the woman be seeing she had seven husbands?
Everything is backwards..
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