Zecharia Sitchin: The Anunnaki Lecture

you a question and that is why is Jerusalem sacred and anybody in the audience tell me Chris White mentioned six other times in the Bible almost as many times as God but that's not the reason why Jews Christians and Muslims venerate Jerusalem and why Jerusalem is without doubt the the issue that is behind all the talks about peace or no peace in Israel in the near East etc I think one could say starting from the latest backward that Jerusalem is venerated by the Muslims because according to a single passage in the Quran one memorable night Muhammad was visited by the angel Gabriel who took him to Jerusalem and not to makeup but to Jerusalem and there there was a waiting for him a white winged horse called by no coincidence Barak who took him to heaven for a one night's visit to heaven where he met angels and all the previous prophets as the Muslims call them Jesus and Abraham and Moses etc so Jerusalem is venerated by the Muslims because that is where the angel took Mohammed had to be taken from there to heaven so from Jerusalem and from a particular spot there in Jerusalem he went to heaven forever ancients and others are there and if you then ask why was it taken to Jerusalem and not to Mecca you say well you have to go back a little in history because Mohammed in creating a new religion borrowed from the Jews borrowed from the Christians and that's a the the latest previous one to him Jesus who was acting the whole story of Jesus his his life and his death is connected with Jerusalem so the Muslims the duration of Jerusalem is linked backward to the Christian veneration of Jerusalem so why do Christians venerate Jerusalem well of course because that's where the whole story of Jesus has taken place the stop Last Supper which was really a celebration of the first night of the Jewish Passover holiday and there was the other events that followed it took place in Jerusalem but why was Jesus in Jerusalem so when we go back again and say well because as the New Testament says it was a tradition that the family of Jesus kept that devout Jews were required and were encouraged to make three annual big pilgrimages to Jerusalem Passover being one of them there is even a little vennett in the New Testament they turn on previous such pilgrimages Jesus as a boy was going and because it turned out he was hiding from from the family because he did not want to go back to Nationalists so he hid from them so it was a family tradition to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and celebrate Passover in in Jerusalem so why was Passover celebrated in Jerusalem why were Jews required or encouraged to make three annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem well because that's where the temple was the temple that Solomon built and later on after its first destruction it was rebuilt and the old story of the of the building of the temple is connected with the exodus from Egypt because the the temple I was supposed to be principally housing a final place of rest for the Ark of the Covenant in which the two tablets with the Ten Commandments were yet so you go back to the to the story of the temple and the Jewish requirement by by God's request and command that that those those tablets of the Covenant shall be kept the specific place on in Jerusalem as other question is why was that in Jerusalem and as I sit down I want to start by showing you that if anyone with any knowledge of history geography topography development of civilization would be asked to choke to choose a place to keep there the Ark of the Covenant the last place would be virtual amis simply put Jerusalem should not be normally where it is so having answered myself the question and white Jerusalem through all those various religions we will start by finding out that it just doesn't make sense for Jerusalem to be where it is if you just read the Bible or follower theology etc unless unless you happen to be one of those who read searches books and find out that there was a totally different reason for locating Jerusalem where it is and that's what we are going to talk about yeah darkness at noontime well if the people trust their neighbors make it darker okay okay okay so here is the first light of this afternoon which shows you a map of the ancient Near East supposed to the points of it that's up okay so this is the ancient Near East which hasn't changed much geographically over this past several thousand years this is the Mediterranean Sea the eastern part of it which was called the Great Sea at the time in biblical times and this is the Persian Gulf which was called in those days the lower sea this was sometimes also called the upper see the lower sea and the area of ancient civilizations and ancient events was really between those two two seas and this is the the Red Sea which featured in biblical tales as you can see even at a glance that the hardly any cities and settlements anybody living in all this area this is today's Arabia Saudi Arabia and this is really basically desert desert lands with hardly any rainfall and these ancient civilizations developed and grew along rivers in this area the the plain the basin of the Euphrates River and the Tigris River two of the rivers of the of the Garden of Eden two of the four and the Garden of Eden and this is where the very first civilization non-civilized that of Sumer developed little farther north Babylonia a little farther north Assyria a little further north the Hittites and so on and visit was called through the Fertile Crescent because like a crescent it made half circle and then down the Mediterranean coast again you see settlements and then there was the night civilization Egypt and Nubia the Sudan etc and the trade routes which are shown maybe in the second slide and the trade routes between the those civilizations to the east and those to the western South were along this connecting the connecting land called Canaan in the Bible the Land of Israel Palestine in modern times after the Philistines who occupied this part of the of the coast and the trade routes actually followed Gog geography and they were really either this way and once one reached from there here there were two ways one was called in until Roman times via Maris or the way of the sea following the coastline first the Sinai Peninsula into Egypt and the other was called the Kings Highway which was on this side to the east of the Jordan River as down here and here there was really nothing and when I mean nothing I will run when I mean nothing I will show you that if you look just a few kilometers outside of Jerusalem which is here if you look outside this is what you see you see barren hills so this is a familiar sight of Jerusalem the Temple Mount and then you just see rocks except where somebody came and built a house or a settlement otherwise it's all wrong and one of the problems of Jerusalem is of the whole of the land of Canaan was the question of the shortage of water there was total dependence just on rainfall since there was no major River the the hallow'd the Jordan River isn't much more than than a Brook and especially in these days and the the struggle to supply that place with water was a continuous one I have chosen this light to show you an aerial view this is the Temple Mount this whole area the Temple Mount with the walls that if you visit Jerusalem you can follow them this way and this is the old city and again where the people came and built their houses but when you just leave leave the built-up area again all you see is rocks an interesting aspect of this aerial view for which I not offer --- Assyria but without really know exactly how they looked so I didn't want to include the picture as if that said so but and and they the whole device this chest or are inlaid with God inside and out with will which could be a transmitter actually was called it fear which literally translated from Hebrew means the speaker because that was the device through which God spoke with Moses in the desert and during the exodus and so this was the plan of the first temple the Temple of Solomon and the most important part was this Holy of Holies and now we jump through the ages there was as I showed you the Roman period when Jesus was and then there was the Byzantine Christian period and around that in the middle seventh century AD we are now into AD the Muslims coming out of Arabia started to to seize the lands this is the deal the deal is they seized the parts of North Africa and they seized the parts of Europe in the Balkans and this is the eventually parts of Spain so there was quite the Muslim trust starting in the seventh century from from the ancient Near East from from what's because today the Middle East into Asia Africa and Europe at both ends Spain on the one side and Turkey Albania on the other side and this is how Jerusalem looked during the Muslim or period that lasted from about 615 not numbers 650 ad - and the collapse of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the 1918 when the British captured the Palestine so you you you deal with [Music] more more than seven seven centuries and during which time Jerusalem remained more or less they were it was centuries before and in Jerusalem was never never a not only a capital of any of the Muslim caliph IDEs or or other political or well entities it was not even an administrative centre the administrative centre for the land that's called by the labna Palestine was Damascus in Syria and the the local the local administrative regional regional center was ended in a town called lambda not Ramallah but which is a few miles away from from the coast that were Jaffa is today so Jerusalem was totally neglected there was of no particular consequence to the Moslems for the seventh or whatever centuries they were in control of it and as a matter of fact at the time of the British capital of Jerusalem in 1918 where a census was taken of the population of Jerusalem the total population was about 75,000 and perform sixty-five percent were Jews the total Muslim population out of that was twelve thousand and the rest were Christians so historically there was absolutely no connection between the Muslim world and the Muslim religion with which you loosen accepted one night trip by Mohammed to do evidence nevertheless that one night and where it started from seemed important because the first caliph rulers positive ruler from what is now the maskers decided to build a housing housing building around the rock which was the heart of the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple and so the structure is called the way it's functions the dorm of the rogue because there is a dawn that this thing wishes decide and all the pictures you never see of Jerusalem because of the dawn and they don't is a gilded it's not made of gold but it's gilded and the interesting thing is in the overlap and so he from he why the interesting thing is that the dome the dome which is not a typical Muslim roofing was brought over from a place in Lebanon but that caliph who reigned from Damascus by the Khalif from a place in Lebanon called Baalbek and there a place that was revered from antiquity in every of times and followed by the grapes and followed by the Romans and followed by the Byzantines and followed by the Muslims etc everybody came and built their house of worship a church a mosque whatever on that place in involve ed and the Khalif just took the dome and it was the covering or ceiling of the Byzantine church at Baalbek and moved it and used it in Jerusalem so this is the story of the Dome of the rock which is the dominant structure as you look at pictures of Jerusalem and this is a close-up of the of the gilded gilded down if you want to know exactly the location by the way in my book the earth chronicles expeditions of which I have a copy here but it's dark so you can't see it but they David may have some extra copies I write I liked about Jerusalem I write about some of the things I'm going to tell you about and I have this map and that I prepared for the book and it shows that the Dome of the rock is exactly located over the area where the Holy of Holies you remember the tripartite architecture of the Temple of Solomon and this was the Holy of Holies and the Dome of the rock is built precisely over the dead spot this is how look from above from the ceiling down to the rock - the rock on which the art covenant stood this is the very ornate ceiling inside the whole thing is very decorative and and this is a diagram that shows more precisely I wouldn't go into the details it's in my book but this is again shows DeLorean how this structure and precisely covers it and now travelers in the 18th but mainly in the 19th century well when access was a little easier to the Temple Mount and at other times under Muslim control always I found out depicted that well this is where the Rocky's this depicted a cave a cave under the rock the cave and sometimes two caves one below the other and this was so predominant and I went over I don't know how many but any any source I could find of a map a sketch from an eighteenth and nineteenth century travelers always showed at least one at least one and sometimes two caves under the rock this is the rock and these are the caves and I was especially fascinated when I came across this would cut the choice that they were actually stairs leading from the floor area above there were the rock with the Rocky's stairs leading down the walls are covered with carpets and somebody is spraying or whatever now this whole thing intrigued me because one of the mysteries surrounding the the Holy of Holies the dark of the coroner is that at some point and they Ark of the Covenant disappeared there is our story likely or not I don't know and that says that when the Queen of Sheba visited someone they had some hanky-panky as her son was born and the son who was born when the Queen of Sheba already that was back in her land and went back to Jerusalem and unable to claim kingship is Jerusalem he at least decided to have some important relic from Jerusalem and he stole the Ark of the Covenant and took it back Giorgio Pia the traditional and Ethiopia at the time was used to be called Abyssinian and there was that they have the opium kings though they were I converted to Christianity really all the descendants from the line of Solomon and the during world war ii and the they had the opium king was in exile in jerusalem because the italians captured Abyssinia I called one of his titles was the Lion of Judah Judea now this is a an unlikely story because the Queen of Sheba came from Sheba which was inside in the in Arabia and not in Africa so but anyway some some have written about it and it's a fascinating tale there is some underground the church cut into the rock at some place in Abyssinia where the Ark's supposedly he seen but only by by the high priest of the amount of the Ethiopians but according to the best information provided by the Bible itself and there is a verse in the Bible that says that when Jerusalem started to be invaded by the Babylonians we eventually captured it and eventually destroyed the temple they are the priests hid the A --- around here so let's say this corner and the southwest corner of the retaining wall of the platform I mentioned that the lower and - the more ancient sections you go the bigger and more massive are the stones so here is a sketch photograph in a sketch this is a photo this is a sketch or so whether you visit or when you have the aerial photographs this is the part you see this is the part that was similar a little more here the the Wailing Wall and you see how many more courses went down more ancient and you see how bigger now bigger the stone blocks became the more you went down and this is even more prominent and when you go to this end of the world as it was extended they did the plaza in front of it extender and you go to this spot not here which I showed you before but you go here now these buildings here were not destroyed for whatever reason too many of them or whatever but there is a way to go in which was opened with great physical archaeological and political difficulty and this is where you are if you enter if you enter that area which I showed you you are about here and then you go some steps down and then there is another level below it and then there is another level below it and the same story that the lower you go the older and the more massive the structures are as you go as if you go in here and continue all the way until the exit it is called the archeological tunnel as you go there and you start to walk not on this level but on that level and you pass by some very interesting spots on one spot there is a sign and it says if I can read at this point it's located opposite the foundation stone which is the site of the Holy of Holies so without going back with all the slides you remember what I showed you the actual and I wonder whether there is a connection if you go to one lower cave and one other cave whether there's a connection and according to this there is or there was another spot is another one further north along the wall and which says that it was a secret passage again maybe it was used maybe it was not used by the priests to either smuggle out the Ark of the Covenant now along that tunnel it's it's tunnel simply because there are those other buildings that were not removed but this was an open area in antiquity at the time of the first temple you come across some colossal stone blobs that are not ground-level which continues further down and down so these are stone blocks the area is too narrow to capture the the size of them and I tried it in different ways this is the group that was with me and they all wore red white heads so that we were to recognize them in the cloud except I mean I wore a blue one and bring the captain and I don't know if David would recognize himself you know Chris but anyway so this is a colossal stone block and this is another shot of it it starts there and it continuously couldn't couldn't get the the end of it and these are stone blocks away about 600 tons each now in case you wonder what it means 600 tons don't block the largest and the largest single stone block in the Great Pyramid of Giza is 25 tons so this is at least 40 times more sometimes used when when Cadillacs will work a deluxe I said it's like piling up 300 Cadillacs on top of each other and querying it somewhere and then trying to bring it over here and lift it and put it on top of other courses because this goes down and down and down as I've shown you [Music] again you Union you know you can guess my explanation who could carve and Quarian lives in place such colossal stone blocks and but saying archaeologists not not nuts like me saying archaeologists of course try to explain it somehow now this illustration is from a most recent book on the subject an expensive book bye bye bye bye highly regarded archaeologists who show you how simple it was to move the stone blocks you quarried them you put them on the cart and you brought them to where they should be and then do to not use you know two boys would do it no problem in case you say well but it was it's still a problem he well sudden say yeah but these people were ingenious so they use the stone block as the actual you say they took a stone block and they built the wheel around it and that's how they rolled it to the place you see even one gives them instructions so okay now so now to sum it all up and we now are realizing that there existed a vast stone platform by the time David came there indeed by the time Abraham came there because the first time Jerusalem as ears Shalem from which Jerusalem comes ear solemn the city of Shalem already existed at the time of Abraham because when in the Bible Genesis 14 there is a story of an international war of an invasion of let's call it Canaan by by Vikings an alliance of kings from the east and Abram was involved in defending well what I say was the spaceport in the Sinai Peninsula and whenever the whole thing was over in recognition of his saving captives including his nephew lot and recouping the the the booty and so on he stopped him made a stop at the city of Shalem ear Shalem and the the king was the high priest and it clearly says the high priest of the El Elyon of the God most high in is the imply blessed Abraham and Abram was offered to keep some of the booty instead I will not doing that I I did not do it for for this kind of reward refers to to the God most high as as Java Java and so that was already at the time of Abraham at least a thousand years before the time of David so there was already sake sacredness to this place so here you have this vast platform here you have this City of David below with the feeling leading up this is a cut of it and if you try to calculate and the work involved the quantity the quantity of earth-moving and stones at stone blocks and others to fill up and create as a level stone platform was a huge huge undertaking and which obviously there was beyond the ability of two guys with the car and the only only similar place but much much more impressive and more and bigger and then there is a place called Baalbek in Lebanon which probably not by coincidence they can live in borrowed they give the domed from there the Christian one the bishop thing one and used it to use a dome as the ceiling for the Dome of the rock in Jerusalem and this place is called Baalbek in Lebanon which I visited again with with and one of my groups and it is referred to if you drive there on the way there are signs saying with arrows to the Roman ruins and any Roman ruins because the the the last ones to build their temples there after they removed the previous religious temples were the Romans and there is a will a series of temples the largest of which was to Jupiter and this temple to Jupiter right here and was the largest one in the Roman Empire larger than any temple to Jupiter even in Rome itself and what you see there if you visit it is that this place again unlike the one in Jerusalem is that is built layer upon layer upon layer of stone blocks that are more colossal the lower and the more ancient times you go to the place is a stone platform of half a million square feet parts of it are encroached by now by buildings by modern residences but this is at this northwestern corner and was this temple to Jupiter leading from a very complex and very impressive I must tell you structure even after 2,000 years what remains of it to this so this particular northwestern corner is the one that draws the most attention because as you start to climbing up and going west you climb from there there than West you start meeti --- en individuals and this one is fond of Enoch who were taken up to visit the the Nibiru their Sumerian tales about the dapa and madryn King and others some some were privileged to be taking the loft as Gilgamesh wanted to be taken and successfully for him and this is since depicting the symbols of kingship were granted to Kings [Music] and here we come to the question why is Jerusalem important according to all the information that I culled from the tablets is that when they started to settle here and put into full operation the reason they came here which was the need for gold with which to protect the atmosphere on their own planet and they built a spaceport they built a Mission Control Center they would turn from which in Sumerian was do run key the place of the point heaven earth they also sometimes was referred as the navel the navel place because all the other places were equi distant from it and it so it was in the center and the layout was such that a landing corridor landing and takeoff but the landing corridor was formed like that it's with the Mission Control Center here and the space for them now all that was wiped out by the Daniels after the deluge a new layout had to be created it could not be done there anymore because it was covered with millions of tons of of mud so this one was the layout of the landing corridor after the deluge according to my conclusions and it again was anchored on the two most prominent peaks in the Middle East the twin peaks of Ararat it had to pass through and include the landing plot platform which if you recall the whole tale of the Giants on the Philly mover here and before the deluge and after the deluge which means that the platform at the to exists even before the deluge and it remained so it was included in the layout Twin Peaks were formed here where there were no mountains which is the two Great Pyramids of Giza and equi distant from there and from there was chosen the point to serve as Mission Control Center as a new navel of as in you Dorothy so when you complete this home layout and you see that this place eventually known as Jerusalem is equidistant is in the center and is exactly the same from the same triangles in the same landing pattern as the previous one but you now understand why Jerusalem is where it is it was not intended as a settlement for people the platform built there smaller than the one involved that was to serve as one of the key points in the contacts in the relationship in the bond between heaven and earth and here is a quote from The Book of Ezekiel about why Jerusalem is where it is and if the Lord says thus has said about the oven this is Jerusalem in the midst of the nation's I place them and all the men are in a circle round about them now what could be more explicit then to explain this design so this is why Jerusalem is where it is in a place that is no water there is no reverse and is no rose and is nothing so the two peaks in visa the two artificial mountains were emptied especially the Great Pyramid was emptied of its guidance equipment when there's rivalries between done that big glance I call them in my book the boss of gods and men the pyramid Wars the equipment was removed in the Sinai Peninsula and was the spaceport and this is an Egyptian depiction of the silo that was there but and that's by the way the two places where Gilgamesh she went to Baalbek and the spaceport but the spaceman that's again very few people then not even after I wrote the body in my book that there's an actual tablet Sumerian tablets mentioning Abraham but that's a story in itself I so there is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah which again in you know a Sumerian text is explained in greater detail in especially something called they arrive ik that in the end in the rivalries between the various unlucky Glen's and nuclear weapons were used to wipe out the spaceport leaving a great crater and then breaking the peninsula to this day and to this day if you visited as iron people with me where you see in the myths of pure white limestone mountains there is this whole area with a barren through broken up grave like rocks totally burned through and likened to this thing and this is the sum total of it there were four places that served as links between Earth and Nibiru between us and Anunnaki the post diluvial spaceport Giza Baalbek and Jerusalem so Giza was emptied of its equipment in the pyramid walls this one was destroyed in a nuclear holocaust and this is in ruins from a Greek in Roman times and the only one that is left as a portal is Jerusalem what would happen to Jerusalem and all the prophecies about the end of days are we I think I'll skip it but anyway there is a prophecy of in Ezekiel about the final war of gog gog of Magog and the thing that that makes makes me feel like a chill in my spine and when I read that prophecies because he says you know of all the nations that will join in that final world and to attack what is today the Land of Israel the first one that is listed in Ezekiel is Persia which is today's iran and i will not put on the lights to read it because I respect spoken long enough but and and I wonder I told it earlier they I wonder whether my parents they basically up for just because they like the name or because of some profound reason which they themselves didn't know because the most specific the most specific prophecy in the whole Bible all a New Testament included with all the prophecies about Armageddon and all that in this that says that god yahwah says I will return I will return and make sure solemn where the seat royal seat of of David shall be established by his descendants I will return and make Zion again a center for the nation's and that is in the prophecies of Zechariah so if after this long talk you want I can still show you exactly where in Zechariah so when we talk about Armageddon and one has to realize that it's really a name of a place in Islam it comes a distortion of har Megiddo on the Mount of Megiddo which was a strategic place from time immemorial and in my book the end of days which preceded the one I showed you in that book I say that the prophecies that the Bible are called the end of days which are not that they of Lord that there with the Lord is the return of the planet the return of the planet itself is not I'm stressing not imminent and therefore I am really second when I see articles and movies in this that really frighten people that is the end and then monsters are coming to - to use as food or or whatever and I say Cliff Lee please stop stop the nonsense they were the ones who will come not on the day of the Lord not the planet but they will come at what the Bible calls that they the end of days the end of days when there will be finally return but preceded preceded by by great trials and tribulations will happen I say so in my book the end of days I stuck my neck out and and I still stand by it will be happen this century essentially because this century is still essentially the last century of the Age of Pisces and this is when the return will take place and it is probably again no coincidence that in excavations very recently near Megiddo at the foot of Mount Megiddo the first remains of the first Christian Church in in in the Land of Israel after the life and death of Jesus and the remains were found at the foot of Mount Megiddo and they're a beautiful mosaic floor was discovered and what is the design on that floor vices vices the Age of Pisces so these are the predictions and prophecies of Zechariah thank you [Applause]