FINAL WARNING: The Shining Star
Angus cattle have been discovered in Mississippi, and a group of
these have been sent to Israel for later use.Vendyl Jones, a former Baptist minister turned archaeologist in 1977,
said to be the inspiration for the creation of the fictional movie
character Indiana Jones (though producers Steven Spielberg and
George Lucas deny it), while searching in Jericho area caves for the
Ark of the Covenant, found a clay jar containing a unique incense oil
which dated back to the time of the second Jewish Temple, and
contained the five ingredients the Bible identified as being part of the
oil used to anoint kings. One of these ingredients was an oil called
afars’mon, which was taken from the sap of the rare balsam tree that
grew near Jericho at a wadi known as Ein Gedi, near the area of
Qumran. The oil was very rare, and when Rome invaded the Qumran
community before 70 AD, the Essenes burned the only known grove of
these balsam trees, which are now considered extinct.This special anointing oil is listed in the Copper Scroll, and in 1988,
using the clues given there, a worker, Benny Ayers, who was with a
group of Christian archaeologists and volunteers (including Dr. Gary
Collett and Dr. Nathan Meyers), under the direction of Dr. Joseph
Patrich from the Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology, found
an ancient clay container wrapped in palm leaves, in a hole three feet
deep, on the floor of a cave adjacent to the one where Vendyl Jones
would later discover some incense. Professor Ze’ev Aizenshtat and
Dorit Aschengrau at the laboratory of Hebrew University’s Casali
Institute of Applied Chemistry, used Carbon-14 dating and said that the
oil was put in the container during the first century, and is believed to
be the anointing oil that was used in the Temple. The oil’s chemical
composition was such, that one drop placed in water, turned it a milky
white, just as ancient documents indicated. The substance was given
to the Chief Rabbi of Israel, and it will be used to anoint the Messiah
when he returns.Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog believes that the dye used to achieve the
blue-colored thread on the Temple garments (Numbers 15:37-40),
comes from the Segulit snail, which because of its scarcity, is very
expensive. According to the Talmud (Menahot 44a), Israel is inundated
every 70 years with these snails. In October, 1990, they were found in
large numbers on the Mediterranean beaches of Israel.