The Mystery of Zion: Israel and the Last Days provides an in-depth look into biblical prophecies concerning the end times, while identifying the role Israel will play in God's plan for all of humanity. Through research of the Bible and relevant literature, along with the gathering of information from notable pastors and individuals with profound expertise, this book provides astounding evidence that God still has a divine plan for Israel and the Jewish people.
As snow begins to fall in Sequoia, things have settled into a routine. Both Jaguar and Rebekah have opened their businesses, the merchants on Main Street are preparing for the Christmas sales season, and Zion has moved forward with her plans to open a second Caffeinator location. Her relationship with Tate has progressed, even if they find it difficult to get time alone, and Logan seems to be settling in. Just when they think everything is nearly perfect, a mysterious man appears and throws everything into chaos, threatening Logan's future and dragging Zion and Tate into a new mystery. With the stakes as high as the snow drifts, Zion must help Tate solve a murder that reminds her of the reason she came to Sequoia in the first place.
An extraordinary, deeply inspirational photo essay follows elite wheelchair racer and wrestler and Netflix documentary star Zion Clark. This stunning photographic essay showcases Zion Clark’s ferocious athleticism and undaunted spirit. Cowritten by New York Times best-selling journalist James S. Hirsch, this book features striking, visually arresting images and an approachable and engaging text, including pieces of advice that have motivated Zion toward excellence and passages from Zion himself. Explore Zion’s journey from a childhood lost in the foster care system to his hard-fought rise as a high school wrestler to his current rigorous training to prepare as an elite athlete on the world stage. Included are a biography and a note from Zion. This first in a trilogy of books to be written by world-class athlete Zion Clark.
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun). A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the Promised Land as the spiritual realm black people yearned for. But while visiting Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodus, her question for them is the same one she keeps asking herself: have you found the home you’re looking for? In this American Book Award–winning inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement, Raboteau embarked on a ten-year journey around the globe and back in time to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of black Zionists. She talked to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews—all in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. Uniting memoir with cultural investigation, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place, patriotism, dispossession, citizenship, and country in “an exceptionally beautiful . . . book about a search for the kind of home for which there is no straight route, the kind of home in which the journey itself is as revelatory as the destination” (Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones).
"A compilation of historic and contemporary art of Zion National Park with essays discussing the importance of art in the establishment of the park and how the park has been interpreted in art during its 100 years of existence"--Provided by publisher.
While scientific knowledge is based on tested truths, religion is founded on blind assent to divinely revealed truths. Such is the gap between religion and science. It appears unbridgeable. Or is it? Upon close examination of the Scriptures, from "Genesis" to "Revelation", a mystical object (depicting the Nature and Kingdom of God) emerges as the central theme of Divine Revelation. Its structural features and attributes were described in different epochs, by different biblical personages. This Hidden Structure--Mount Zion (a Cryptogram)--is variously portrayed in the Scriptures as a rock or a mountain, and frequently associated with fire (combustion). Through a combustion experiment, the three dimensional picture of this Divine Emblem--a Pictogram-was made manifest, in the first edition, replete with a pair of mathematical functions. Thus, the authentication of the Scriptures no longer depends on blind faith, but on the systematic verification of this Structure with the testimonies of biblical personages who espied and described its features long before the dawn of science. The Structure together with the mathematical functions were later determined to be a particular solution. An in-depth examination of the experimental data resulted in a general solution, giving rise to a dual Complex Structure: a Mountain and a Valley. Thus, the (carbon monoxide) combustion process is, now, expressed as a system of competing matrices of energy hills and valleys. (These results challenge some of the currently held notions in quantum mechanics; notably, the idea that there is a wave function "collapse" or a "reduction" of the wave packet in the process of measurement.) The spiritual meaning of the Hill--Mount Zionwas the focus of the first edition. In the second edition, the ValleyDeath Valleyoften identified in the Scriptures as a Pit or the Netherworld, was established as a complementary Spiritual Form (Psalms 23:4 & 28:1). These metaphysical structures represent the Ultimate Reality. While Mount Zion relates to Goodness, Death Valley pertains to Evil; together, they constitute the Complex Whole. Even so, each embodies the attributes of the othera fractal feature. As determined from the combustion experiment, the Mountain is dominant over the Valley. And given the fractal properties of the Complex Whole, Mount Zion is, inherently, the Simple Whole Form: the Emblem of Ultimate Reality, and the exemplar of Occam's razor; as evidenced by the pervasive reference to this Structure in the Scriptures. The Complex Structure, however, enabled a fuller discussion of the relative attributes of the Divine. It is useful for addressing some of the ambiguities in the Scriptures. For instance, the Morning Star is an appellation of the Exalted Christ (Rev. 22:16), yet, it shares meaning with "Lucifer", the Evil One, who is, nevertheless, the Prince of Darkness (Isa. 14:12; Lk. 10:18). By virtue of the Cryptogram, the Model of Mount Zion, the Cosmic Atonement Sacrifice has, now, been shown to be a Tripartite Agency--the Sin-offering Bullock, the Sin-offering Goat, and the Scapegoat--reminiscent of the Judaic Day of atonement (cf., Lev. 16). As Cosmic Sin-offering Goat "for the Lord", Jesus ascended Mount Zion, and then entered into the Holy of Holies, through the loss of His body (that is, with His blood). Whereas, Muhammad, as Cosmic Scapegoat, ascended Mount Zion, alive, and with an escort, then rose to the Gate of the Heavenly Sanctuary, before being banished into the wilderness-valley "for Azazel". Having descended from Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad, each, identified with Abraham's lineage: Jesus through Isaac (the prototypical human sin-offering goat) and Muhammad through Ishmael (the archetypal human scapegoat). As for the Cosmic Sin-offering Bullock for the Royal, Heavenly, High Priest, He remained, like Melchizedek, a mystery until now. The Revelation of the Cryptogram enabled the authentic interpretation of the Third Part of the Secret of Fatima (Third Secret for short). Attention is called to the last section of this Book (13.4.h) which was first published in 1993 (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-93712) and endorsed with the Divine Seal: the Cryptogram. It, especially, anticipated the Third Secret that was released in 2000; that is, to the extent that the theme and Principal Characters described in the Third Secret were portrayed there (and in other passages), presciently. Indeed, it is no coincidence that the scene of events in the Third Secret was an anonymous Mountain invested with God's Presence: towards whom the pilgrims streamed (as pre-portrayed by the Cryptogram). God's Presence on that Mountain establishes it as Mount Zion, God's Abode (cf., Ps. 74:2; 48:2; Isa. 18:8; Heb. 12:22). The Third Secret encoded a Spiritual War between two anonymous Combatants, with an ominous result: a frequent eschatological theme in the Scriptures. This edition reveals clues in the Third Secret which identify the Antagonists in the "Vision", and correlate them to those named presciently in the first edition; thus, facilitating the authentic interpretation of the Third Secret. So, the Author's foreknowledge of the Third Secret constitutes Divine ratification of the "Vision and Prophet", literally and figuratively, in fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy (Dan. 9:24). Evidence is presented in this Book, also, showing the fulfillment of several prophecies in connection with the transfer of Divine Authority from Judah to a foreigner. Indeed, several prophecies are cited pertaining to the relocation of the Messianic Capital: from the Old Jerusalem to a New City of God. In the Scriptures, Abraham paid tribute to the prototypical priest-king, Melchizedek: a foreigner to Abraham. This Personage is, often, identified in the Scriptures with the Messiah. Jesus's Messianism, however, is Abrahamic, through Judah. How, then, could He be likened to Melchizedek? Also, Jacob prophesied that the Scepter would devolve upon Shiloh (He to whom it belongs) from Judah. By the same token, Jesus cannot be identified with Shiloh, since Jesus is a descendant of Judah, through David (cf., Gen. 49:10). Furthermore, according to a Judaic tradition at Passover (commemorating a saving act): A place is usually set for (the phantom) Elijah on the ceremonial dinner table of a typical Jewish home, with the belief that Elijah would return to the house of Jacob as an unknown guesta stranger. Could these Distinguished OnesMelchizedek, Shiloh and Elijah; all of them strangers to Judahrefer to the same Personage? The implication of the foregoing discussion is the reality of another Messianic Personage (One distinct from Abraham). This issuethe idea of two Messiahsis raised, independently here, and implied in the Book of Daniel (9:24-27). The Qumran writings also made reference, explicitly, to two Messiahs. Consider the various appellations of these Messianic Personages in the Qumran texts: "Interpreter of the Law", "[Eschatological] Prophet", "Prince of Light", "Prince of the Whole Congregation", "Messiah of Aaron", "Messiah of Israel", "Heavenly Messiah", and "Priestly Messiah". And compare these with the information advanced in this Book. Other metaphysical systems are discussed also in context; and the Cryptogram is inferred to underlie them all: Heraclitus' Logos; Lao Tsu's Yang-and-Yin; and Zoroaster's Good-and-Evil. For more information go to www.mysteryofmountzion.com
The Apostle Paul compared Gentile Christians to olive branches cut from wild olive trees and grafted into the olive tree of Israel. He believed that the dividing wall separating Jew and Gentile had been removed, and to him this was the ômystery of the Gospel.ö
Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
