Chapter 2: Biblical Foundation of Ophir

Hebrew: Ôwphîyr: ריפוא: o-feer’: reducing to ashes, fine gold. of uncertain derivation; Ophir, the name of a son of Joktan, and of a gold region in the East: –Ophir. [6] Ancient Hebrew: (א)A, (ו)U, (פ)P, (י)Y, (ר)R.

The shroud of confusion regarding ancient Ophir begins with it’s name rendered from the Hebrew in all modern Bibles and Bible dictionaries, we have reviewed, improperly. It begins with an Hebrew “A” or Aleph (א), not an “O.” This letter is always “A” in sound and translation. It is never “O” nor “U.” In fact, the second letter is an Ancient Hebrew WAW or U (ו) though “W” is also correct as a “W” is simply “UU” or “Double U.” Thus, you are looking at the actual origin of the chemical symbol for gold in this word as it begins with “AU” not “OW.” It should be rendered in Ancient Hebrew to English as AUPYR, AUPIR, AUPHYR or similar. They certainly did attempt to reduce Ophir to ashes but this meaning is erroneous and appears spurious perhaps exposing their intent. The origin of the chemical symbol for gold, AU, is said to be the Latin Aurum or Aurea which we will determine in the next chapter is the equivalent of Ophir. This is the kingdom of gold for the Greeks which carried over into Latin but AUPYR is the origin of that reference as you will find thus the true origin of the chemical symbol for gold – AU. It is used twelve times in the Bible and with brilliance. The Bible offers markers along the way which lead us to the isles of the East in the Philippines and nowhere else. Scholars have been confused about the origin of this word but when you truly look at the Ancient Hebrew, you

find the word for light as used in Genesis when God said let there be light. We will prove this is the same land.

Genesis 1:3 KJV And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Hebrew: Ôwr: רוֹא: light. [7] (א is ALWAYS “A” not “O”)

Isaiah 24:15 KJV Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. (LORD is YHWH, Yahuah) Hebrew: ûwr: רוּא: fires, light. [8] (א is ALWAYS “A” not “U”)

Contrast this to another use of the same Hebrew word in Isaiah. Understand that there were no vowel points as the dots you see that supposedly differentiate these two words, the exact same otherwise, were inserted around 1000 A.D. or so by the Masoretes. They are the same word in Ancient Hebrew. As much as we appreciate the Textus Receptus and you will note we use the King James Version principally in our teachings which was translated from that manuscript, we also remain aware these vowel points did not exist for thousands of years prior and somehow these words could be read and understood without vowel points that entire time. Thus, we still do not actually need them much of the time or should test them often. This is redefined as a different word that is obviously the same use in this passage not fires but light and it is rendered in Isaiah as now beginning with an “U” in Strong’s Concordance and others but it’s an Aleph (א) which is always “A” not “U” nor “O.” This verse even identifies the isles of the sea which we will later prove is Ophir even tying Ophir to this same word for light which is it’s true origin etymologically. AUR(רוא) is “light” and insert PY(יפ) for AUPYR and it renders “Mouth of Light.” [122] This is a direct identification in Hebrew of the land where Yahuah God said “Let there be light.” This is because this word in Hebrew is really AUR not OWR nor UWR which are truly ludicrous renderings especially when the first letter ALEPH (א) which is always “A,” could not be mistaken by a Hebrew scholar. As you can see, we have gone extremely deep into this topic even assessing the

Hebrew word for word and letter for letter in this pursuit. We find Ophir to be the region of light known as the Land of Creation which you will find proves out completely as the Philippines. We have what would be one of the largest oversights in Hebrew translation – one in which no actual Hebrew scholar could possibly err. We point this out early because we wish to establish a pattern you will identify in this story which has not only been suppressed in history but in Bible interpretation really working hand-in-hand. We are all to prove all things (1Thess. 5:21) lest we be deceived and the delusion in which we live, we were warned, is strong. Also, you will find we restore the name of God recorded over 6,800 times in the Hebrew Bible as YHWH never as Lord which taken back into Hebrew is the word Ba’al. We will provide charts with explanation in the back of this book because we pronounce this phonetically and you will find us using Yahuah in place of LORD in narration. Feel free to review that now if you feel the need. Let us commence with the Bible narrative.

1 Kings 9:26-28 KJV And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

King Solomon was following the edict of his father, King David, to build a temple which would house the very presence of Yahuah God. However, there is something very conspicuous about this measure on the part of Solomon. His father David had already placed the essential stock such as gold, wood, etc. into the treasury before he died and Solomon already had the necessities to build the Temple. However, he fabricates state-of-the-art, merchant marine vessels and a new seaport on the Red Sea to fetch gold and resources he already retained from his father. It does not seem to make rational sense until you understand what gold and what district this is. As we said, this work is not about gold as capital or currency but as a means to identify the most extraordinary province in all of antiquity.

This is not an exploration for opulence, it is a divine campaign for Yahuah’s gold that Adam used in the first sacrifice which we will test. This was not just any region simply yielding this mineral, but they had to have been prospecting gold in colossal bounty for Solomon’s navy fetched such fortune on the inaugural expedition. Four hundred and twenty talents of gold is $588 million in today’s market value. Low-end estimates of a Biblical talent of gold reveal a weight of 33 kilograms (75 lbs.), so we use the conservative measure for calculations though it could be considerably greater to almost double. This is 13,860 kg. (15.75 tons) of gold on one foray also requiring very large ships to transport such substantial cargo which we will check as well. This acquisition continued every 3 years for Solomon’s 40-year reign. This thereupon certifies Ophir as not just some arbitrary ground or island that materialized grains of gold but the greatest expanse of gold in history would be found there. We should find remnants of this in some form still today and we do. Many are simply unaware. Remember, this was about 970 B.C. and mining equipment at that time was minimal. This rules out even South Africa which requires bulky modern equipment to extract gold which is why South Africa’s gold rush did not even boom until around 1884 and they did not even discover gold panning in history until 1000 A.D. according to their own history. [9] One would think this ancient land would be far better documented and that is because it actually is. As this geographical knowledge has been obscured in the past century since the 1890s especially, it is not actually hard to find when we inspect the original, authoritative sources. It has been inhumed but not expunged and no longer shall it be concealed. After reading this repository we have curated, you will have to interrogate this intelligence. We hope you will thoroughly examine this yourself as our sources are among the most credible (see Sourcebook) and this exhibition of research, well-supported and vetted. We do not require nor expect scholarly consensus however on a topic scholars have remained ignorant for centuries. One of the largest questions that should nag at academics, is why would Solomon build a new port and navy on the Red Sea to fetch more resources for the temple? We find his father David had already acquired and placed all the resources needed to build the temple in the

treasury. What did the wise Solomon know that we do not? Well, much, but especially the full narrative for one, as he understood Genesis and knew exactly where the Garden of Eden, Rivers from Eden, Havilah as well as Ophir were located in region. After reading this edition, you too will discover these and though we have compiled this information, it was really already available to all of us. We are not proclaiming anything unfamiliar to true testimony but restoring a truth that the world once knew. King Solomon was cognizant the land in which his fleet would sojourn would net the same offerings that Adam used in the first sacrifice of atonement – gold, frankincense and myrrh. Before one applies backwards reasoning using these spice commodities to pinpoint Ophir, how about we conduct comprehensive research unearthing Ophir and then identify these Biblical spices especially because they originate there as they must and we will explore that too. He sought the wood that Noah used to build the ark. They did not have more value for being of superior quality necessarily but he was erecting Yahuah’s temple and he wanted elements of more reverence to Him replacing those that did not have that fundamental nostalgia. This story is far more precious than we had ever imagined and far more significant as is this land. Some scholars have actually attempted to deduce that Ophir and Tarshish are located in Britain or Spain or even the Americas but again, why would King Solomon build a port on the Red Sea to circumnavigate Africa extending the campaign by four times in duration? He certainly would not need to go to Spain for instance, when his admiral, Hiram, already had established trade routes with Spain with one of the largest fleets of ships on the Mediterranean just North of Israel in Phoenicia (Tyre). Logic does not progress in that direction especially when one finds the King of Spain named Ophir and Tarshish in the Far East in the Philippines many times over for many centuries and the British attempted to counter though they lost the debate but they won the war so they were able to effectively suppress Spain’s find. However, the British went to Malaysia and named a mountain there in 1801 as Mt. Ophir so they too, knew they were not Ophir and Tarshish. Of course, the Malays knew better and rejected that name and continue to use their local name Gunung Ledang to this day. When we first began

this journey, we were told by a friend that Britain had already settled this debate. Look back in history and you will find Spain lost it’s power but this narrative has never been disproven nor is it a new one. The world knew where Ophir was all the way up until Spain was defeated in the 1890s. There was no mystery and there should not be one today. Solomon built on the Red Sea to head East not West nor to places very close to him but to a very foreign land of foreign resources he did not have access until that time and he already traded with both Ethiopia and Yemen who are far too close. We test the ships and calculate this. Take a look at the modern Bible maps for this era and they are clueless on this topic such as the Holman Bible Atlas, those in the back of the King James Bible and those most popular on the internet. First, many of them show Sheba from Cush/Ethiopia/Ham living in the same place as Sheba from Joktan/Shem which would mean one of them would be cursed as they cannot live in the same territory since Noah divided the Earth into three separate parts for his three sons. They do the same with Havilah and many of them place Ophir in Saudi Arabia or sometimes Africa, sometimes the Persian Gulf and sometimes all three. All are wrong on this topic as we will prove overwhelmingly. These cartographers have no idea where Ophir is and most do not claim to even invoking question marks and multiple locations in speculation. Over time, those question marks disappeared without satisfying the actual query. In fact, on many maps, scholars attempt to claim Ophir in Saudi Arabia because of the name Ophira found in Saudi Arabia. The problem is they have not bothered to read the definition of Ophira [15] which means “towards Ophir” or “to Ophir” or better termed, not Ophir or on the way to Ophir. These are weak guesses based on etymologies and wordplay which do not even connect. Ophir is not just a nation, he is a person for which that nation is named because he migrated there after the Tower of Babel dispersion. Many miss the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 thinking it to be a bore yet, it is brilliant as it reveals exactly where Ophir lived and to where he migrated after Babel fell. We have derived much revelation from Genesis 10.

Genesis 10:26-30 KJV And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

Notice Joktan had thirteen sons but among them are Ophir and his brothers Sheba and Havilah. Sheba being the older of the three and the accurate Sheba from which the Queen of Sheba descended, is from Shem not Ham as her story falls right in the middle of the trip to Ophir (Ch. 7). Those are the younger sons along with Jobab. However, the Bible does not leave their geography to chance but defines it specifically as at the time of the Tower of Babel, their families lived right next to Shinar (modern Iraq) in modern day Mesha or Meshad, Iran. In the next chapter, we will fully vet this. Then, they migrated all the way to the Far East to Sephar, the Mount of the East. These are two very specific references and historic markers that one cannot mistake. Ophir, Sheba and Havilah pioneered the lands which would bear their names returning to the ancient homeland of Noah and Adam. The gold of Ophir was renowned in scripture even before the days of Solomon as Job first writes of it.

Job 22:24 KJV Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Job 28:16 KJV It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Many scholars agree the Book of Job was written before the days of Moses and is the oldest book of the Bible. Here Job is aware of Ophir even in his time as having the most valuable gold and he even ties in onyx just like Genesis 2 which is no coincidence. Job knew what this region represented and likely, where it was at least generally in direction as Noah and his sons were conscious because they once flourished there and cherished the memory of Ancient Havilah.

King David, Solomon’s father clearly was aware of Ophir even acquiring a bit of gold from there somehow. He describes the gold of Ophir as royal gold of queens and equates that to the gold of Sheba given to the ultimate royalty, Messiah, by the Wise Kings whom we have an entire chapter forthcoming.

Psalm 45:9 KJV Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Psalm 72:15 KJV ...to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba…

Isaiah 13:12 KJV Then I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

The writers of the Bible even extra-biblical texts such as Tobit, knew what Ophir represented. The Book of Tobit 13:17 (KJVA) places the gold of Ophir as the gold used to pave the streets of New Jerusalem. This gold is not just important, it is renowned and sacred from the time of Creation to the Final Day of Judgment. It mattered to Yahuah in the beginning, remains notable today and will always be precious. However, in addition to the migration of Ophir and Sheba which we will track next, Chronicles begins elaborating on specifics that assist in narrowing this.

2 Chronicles 9:21 KJV For the king’s ships (Solomon’s) went to Tarshish (Ophir) with the servants of Huram (Hiram King of Tyre) every 3 years, once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

This is a literal gold mine in scripture. We now have a distance we can test as well as resources which we will classify in the next chapters. Note, too, Tarshish is a place and it is in the same region as Ophir according

to this passage and others we will review later. There is no placing one in India and one in Britain thousands of miles apart according to the origin of this narrative. They are in the same region and they are both isles. We already know Solomon was headed East from the Red Sea because West would be ridiculously redundant to the point of increasing the journey by a factor of four. How far would the ships of that era travel on a 3-year journey? Some question this saying Solomon did not proceed that far but instead just waited to traverse wherever every three years. Many of those types will also tell you the Bible is allegory so they can change it to say whatever they want. It says what it says. One channel on YouTube even attempts to move Israel, Assyria, Babylon and even Rome into Africa which is illiterate Biblically and historically. They ignore many passages such as Abraham travelling South to Egypt (Gen. 12:10) and from Egypt, North to return to Canaan (Gen. 13:1). However, this accuses King Solomon of being complacent. This entire case proves this a 3-year round trip journey from multiple angles especially when we test Isaiah’s isles of the East at the ends of the earth. Africa is not East and not Shem’s territory either but Ham’s and wrong. We can locate this gold republic many ways and we shall.

Journey from the Red Sea Port to Ophir in the Far East on Shem’s border.