Here are replies to your questions as promised. (Written June 7 2004):
Why would they write everything in Hebrew or Greek and then use and English acronym DVD ? Doesn't make sense.
"DVD" is easier to say than 'digital versatile disk' and is written easier than CD-Rom, especially if you were trying to tell an ancient person the name of the item that we know as a small silver sided 'wheel'.
A time traveller (messenger - angel) told the ancient person (who either wrote the original text or related what he was told to someone else later). In Hebrew, DVD transliterates as the Hebrew characters for "dvd" (unable to reproduce them here), but when this was related to other people as a sound and then much later translated into Greek, then Latin, then Old English, then 'modern English', then American English, etc. etc., the vowel sounds of "a" and "i" were added.
It is the later vocalized translations of Hebrew and subsequent Greek interpretations of the letter sequence DVD into David that have covered over the acronym that was told to the ancient person.
A DVD that held less information than a 5 1/4" Double-sided (not even double-density) floppy disk ! ??
The digital versatile disk (called a cd-rom in the mid 1990s)
Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean contains 132 sub-directory folders with a total of 2,398 files that use 351MB of disk space.
When this is 'set-up' to the hard-drive it places only 22 files in a folder it names 'Mediterr' and date stamps most files to 12:00:00AM.
In the default Windows 3.1 File Manager window, twelve of these files are visible on a 386/486 IBM PC with the mediterr.exe programme file having a data value of 143,442 kb.
When a 'property' request is done on this file, it gives 144K.
No. The DVD did not hold less than a 5 1/4" Double-sided floppy disk.
The data files placed on a Hard Drive at setup only take up 1.56MB.
The file that gets highlighted and clicked upon to make the book with seven seals "open" has 144K of data.
Why would the John writer, presumably ignorant of binary number systems and the idea of binary data storage, care to specify the byte size of a computer file?
How would he even understand what that meant? Why was he told this ?
John was being visited by a time traveller who was showing him the
Ancients cd-rom on a computer for an important reason - but John was under the impression that this was one of God's angels, who had told him (as reported in Revelations 1:19) to "Write the things which thou hast seen..."
He saw the twelve lots of 12:00:00 but reports he was told the number 144 thousand in Revelations 7:4.
So he did what he was told - he wrote it down - even though he probably did not really comprehend what he was being shown.
The name of this book of the Bible itself answers why he was told this number.
"Revelations" has to do with disclosing, uncovering, or unveiling what previously was hidden, making known what had been secret.
John was told the numerical value of the highlighted file that made the 'sun-disk' (wheel) operate. This was significant, as the time traveller was explaining to John that previous Middle Eastern 'prophets' who viewed this cd-rom ended up with 'sun-disk/god' religions being formed due to their encounters.
John later reports in Revelations 13:9-18 that he was told which religious group was going to form the un-holy trinity religion, whose Mark had 666 verses and whose members were forced to worship the first beast (in the form of a Lamb. cf. Rev 13:11-12 and 14:1).
The time encounter with John of Patmos was one of a series of warnings to ancient people that religions had been formed due to misunderstandings about earlier encounters with time travellers.
Also, John was being told that the Romans were changing (going to change) the original Hebrew form of the "Jesus teachings" into their own version of 'Christianity' - and add extra words to verses to make their doctrines appear biblical.
How does he (Ron Pegg) know time travellers ran Windows 3.1, anyways? or Groliers?
Using the original ancient Hebrew meanings of the texts instead of the given Old English word meanings for the Bible, Ron Pegg has discovered that just like the DVD verse under discussion, other verses in the Bible describe Windows 3 and three specific cd-roms that were shown to ancient 'prophets' - one being the Grolier cd-rom. (Refer Mr Pegg's PaRDeS Booklet # 7. Too much to post here.)
Windows 3 Operating System described in the Bible(extraction used with permission)
The Windows 3 operating system's File Manager Screen is {relatively} clearly stated in a sequence of original Hebrew words of 1Kings 7:4-5 but the added English words and amended sentence structure hide the message in "And {there were} windows {in} three rows, and light {was} against light {in} three ranks. And all the doors and posts {were} square, with the windows: and light {was} against light {in} three ranks."
Removing the added words gives; "Windows three. Rows light. Against light three ranks. All the doors and posts square. With the windows light against light, three ranks".
In
Strong's Concordance Word 4237 "light" means 'window' but comes from Word 2372 which specifically means 'to have a vision of' as in 'to perceive'. Therefore Etymology of the word "light" conveys the feel that there is some type of vision in a window.
This reads as; "Windows 3. Rows perceived. Against three perceived ranks. All the doors and posts; square within the perceived windows. Against three perceived ranks.
This is saying that "Windows 3 (the operating system). Rows seen (the rows of windows in the File Manager). All the doors and posts (the scroll bars and borders) within the windows are square".
Why are we told twice "Against three perceived ranks" ?
We are being told that these words are encoded, therefore we need to recheck the Etymology.
Word 7969 "three" as an ordinal number means 'third'. Word 6471 "rank" means 'to stroke' but comes from word 6470 which means 'to tap'.
So "Against three perceived ranks" = 'against the third perceived to tap' and because the English translation has rearranged the original word sequence, this gives "to tap against the third perceived {window}".
So does the Windows 3- File Manager's screen have three square windows, and do we stroke (click the mouse) in the third window ?
Yes. To run the
Ancients CD-Rom we need to click on the appropriate highlighted in the third window - the one containing the programme.exe file.
Why a 386 and Windows 3.1 ?
The minimum computer requirements needed to run and operate the
Ancients cd-rom are a 386 CPU, MS Windows 3.11, MS-Dos 6, SVGA Monitor, an Audio Board, and a double-speed CD-ROM Drive.
It would not be necessary to take a Pentium 4 computer with all the modern features because it would not enhance the presentation in any way.
The saying "Less is Best" applies here.
A side issue that I have no way of investigating is "Was this technology used because time travel was perfected in the mid 1990s ?
Taking a Greek word, making a simplistic translation into English, and the looking into the etymology of the English translation does not sound like sound reasoning to me.
We are trying to discover the original word used and the meaning of that Greek word. It has been found that most often the modern English given translation that we know does not reflect that original intended meaning.
It is the Old English scribe's interpretation and translation of the original Hebrew and Greek words that have changed the meanings of the words. Translation into modern English has further compounded the problem.
Etymology tells us from where words originated, and in
Strong's Concordance, it can be clearly seen that many of the given Old English words from the Bible do not even use the known root Greek or Hebrew meanings.
Mr Pegg asks the question "Why have the scribes used different meanings than the known root meanings" to which he suggests an answer "The scribes had a religious agenda, and as such made the verses say what they thought or were told to make them say".
When, as shown in the verse under discussion, the original root meanings of the Greek and Hebrew words are employed in place of the given religious interpretation, a new 'hidden' meaning is revealed.
I hope to post as a separate topic how and why Mr Pegg searches for the original meanings.
Ok, now that we've removed all this Greek to English to Latin = round : book/roll, where's the connotation of roundness ?
Revelations is written in Greek.
Strong's Concordance provides us with the meanings of the Old English words used in the New Testament. Greek word referenced # 975 "book" means a roll, but has been written in the Bible as having four different interpretations - being either 'a bill, book, scroll, or writing'.
But the primary meaning is "roll" and not one of the interpretations.
However, 'roll' is an English word. So what did this English word mean back in John's time ?
In John's time they spoke Latin. An English dictionary tells us that the word 'roll' comes from Latin 'rota' meaning
wheel.
So while we say roll, and John wrote the word roll in Greek (biblion), at that time, in Latin it would have been known as a "rota".
The 1611AD Old English translation of the Bible incorporated ideas and was partly derived from the Latin Vulgate Bible (among several others).
Therefore it can be seen that the Latin word
rota (meaning wheel) has a language connection to the Greek word
biblion that we now know in English as
roll.
(See separate posting on Mr Pegg's methods and reasons.)
"Where's the connotation of roundness ?" - a wheel is round and it rolls !
How could the time traveller and John understand each other? I'm sure our understanding of the language used back then is a little off, so even if he took courses or something they couldn't communicate completely.
The
Ancients cd-rom was produced in English, French, German, and
Italian.
Latin was the language of ancient Rome. John was in a Roman prison.
It is my understanding that he probably understood Latin - so if the time traveller spoke Italian or even better, Latin, then this would sufficiently address this question.
So how'd the computer get back in John's time?
A Time Machine ! ?
I personally do not know, but Time Travel is the prime conclusion drawn from the volume of the available evidence presented by Mr Pegg.
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