The Samson Code

By Michael Moyes

The Samson Code investigates in great detail the mysterious story of Samson and Delilah of the Old Testament to reveal its astronomical origins. The true subject of the tale of the impetuous Hebrew brawler is the catastrophic wrenching of the earth within historic times. Discovering the starry symbolism of Samson is a key to understansing the words of Isaiah as well as John the Revelator for they also spoke in detail about the cosmos. Parallel stories exist throughout the ancient world; stories labelled as myths that are now discovered to be true descriptions of actual events. Many of these same events will be repeated in the end times...which are our times. To see the heavens as the ancients did is to unlock the full meaning of their prophetic warnings for our day. The Samson allegory is further proof of the theories of catastrophism as published by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky more than five decades ago. For and eye-opening experience, please read on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Moyes
• Release date: Jan 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301788774

Michael Moyes

Author, Michael Moyes, writes non-fiction exploratories covering mythology, astronomy and religion. He was born and raised in San Diego, California; moved as a teen to Salt Lake City, Utah and left home at 16 to work for the Hawaiian pineapple companies. He attended BYU-Hawaii, worked at the Polynesian Cultural Center,studied polynesian culture and languages. He served a 2 year mission for the LDS church in Argentina then returned to Hawaii until joining the US Coast Guard. He received a BA in History from Columbia College while stationed in San Francisco. Following the Coast Guard he has been a telephone technician and government contractor working on nuclear submarines, carriers and other US Navy vessels. At this writing he has been living and working in Kuwait for the US Army. He hopes to complete fictional accounts of his adventures and wild imaginations so he can remain home with his wife and children the remainder of his days.

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Introduction

Why should one feel compelled to make a detailed study of an obscure legend involving an immoral and violent judge of Israel who was bereft of sound judgment and whose history occupies four short chapters of the Old Testament? Because, as will be illustrated, the story of Samson is not merely an account of a man and his times but an allegory or code designed to preserve cosmic history and corroborate the words of inspired prophets. It is a song by which actual Earth-shaking events of the past are remembered and serves as a warning of similar events to occur in the near future.

An accurate decoding of Samson and Delilah will open your eyes to many ancient mysteries and prepare your heart for the harsh judgments to come upon the entire earth. The mythologies and holy books of all world religions contain very similar accounts to that of Samson the Nazarite and a close examination of the most prominent myths reveals that they are based upon the same celestial events witnessed by all ancient civilizations.

What were these events and how did they affect mankind in the days of Isaiah and the founding of Rome? How will identical events affect civilizations of the 21st century?

CHAPTER 1 / A PUZZLING TALE

A very underrated and misunderstood account from the Bible. Classical Samson (Milton). Religion and film. Hollywood to the rescue. An Old Testament Robin Hood? Modern misinterpretations. Sunday school stabs. Confusion of the jaw and the watery place. A wider perspective adds to the confusion. Samson in Japan, Polynesia, Central America, India and Babylon. Samson on a par with the gods of mythology.

We are drawn to the story like buzzards to a carcass yet we barely understand the reasons why Samson is included in our Bibles. The brief tale

of four chapters includes love, lust, intrigue, scandal, violence, blood, fire and vengeance.....all the stuff required of a successful soap-opera or big

Hollywood production. It certainly holds our interest yet we insist on watering the story down for general consumption or easy digestion for

children. It is not a story likely to be read in its entirety in a Sunday School but, rather, painfully interpreted then discarded for another few years.

A true reading, however, would reveal that Samson disobeyed the commandments, he was not prayerful nor visionary nor even repentant. And yet, he was a great hero of the Bible and we know he mustn't be ignored. He must be dealt with somehow. But how? This gnawing feeling has led to many misinterpretations of the original simple tale of Samson of Zorah of the tribe of Dan from the time of John Milton up to the present day. They are all attempts to wrest from the original story a kernel of moral wisdom or religious fervor that doesn't exist and was never intended to be conveyed.

A simple overview of the narration in Judges chapters 13 through 16 provides us with the following details about Samson:

>His parents are visited by an angel announcing his birth.

>He is declared a Nazarite and a chosen son.

>He is named Samson meaning, of the sun.

>He seeks marriage outside of Israel.

>His parents travel with him to seek a wife.

>He kills a lion with his bare hands.

>He later eats honey from the lion's carcass.

>He marries a Philistine woman.

>He poses the riddle of honey and the lion.

>He feels cheated when contestants pry the answer from his bride.

>He kills 30 Philistines and robs them of their cloaks to pay the debt, then returns home.

>His bride is given to another man by his father-in-law.

>He burns their fields and orchards with fiery foxes.

>The Philistines kill his wife and father-in-law.

>Samson avenges their deaths with a great slaughter.

>He is captured by his own people for deliverance to the enemy.

>He slays 1,000 men with the jawbone of an ass.

>He drinks miraculous water from the jawbone.

>He dwells with a harlot in Gaza.

>He removes the city gates to a high mountain.

>He meets Delilah.

>She betrays him for silver to reveal the source of his strength.

>He breaks loose from the vines, ropes and loom with the beam.

>He reveals his secret, is shorn, captured and blinded.

>He grinds at the millstone and is publicly mocked.

>He topples the pillars of the pagan temple, killing himself along with the enemy scoffers.

John Milton wrestled mightily in his last years with the meaning of Samson and created the epic poem SAMSON AGONISTES in 1671. In this semi-autobiographical work (the author suffered ridicule and blindness in his old age) Milton portrayed Samson as a repentant, Christian soul in a hostile environment who achieved self-mastery through patient suffering. The title, AGONISTES, is the Greek word for an athlete competing for a prize in the public games,

but the word also had for Milton and his contemporaries spiritual connotations. It suggested the spiritual as well as physical agony or struggle of Christ and of every Christian, Samson being regarded, like so many Old Testament figures, as a prefiguring of Christ and a type of the Christian. The word therefore also refers to the spiritual struggle within Samson.{1}

Since Milton compares Samson to his own struggling soul, he takes upon himself the

{1}MILTON’S DRAMA, A.E. Barker, p. 67 AHM Publishing Corp. Arlington Heights, 1950

justification of the incoherent acts of the brutish hero and, at the same time, rationalizes any further moral weaknesses with the familiar super-morals for super-heroes formula.

In the brief poetic narration encompassing the last day of Samson's struggle on Earth we find, for instance, that he is a truly repentant soul who was foolish in ship-wrecking the vessel entrusted to him by God. When confronted by a Philistine, who accuses Samson of senselessly slaughtering 30 good men for their garments, he defends his violent deed by explaining that these men were spies who had threatened his bride with death if she did not provide the answer to Samson's mysterious riddle.

Again, the Philistine chides the blind prisoner saying that all of his efforts to alleviate the yoke of bondage set upon Israel were in vain since they remained a nation of slaves. Samson replies that he fulfilled his mission by attempting to spark a movement towards freedom but his nation had been lulled to sleep by the mediocrity of slavery and had lost the will to follow in his wake. It was not his fault that his people chose to bleat as sheep rather than roar like lions. All of his violent deeds were performed to revive the spirits of just men long oppressed and were the design of the Almighty. Milton later assures us that, to Israel honor hath left and freedom, and that the purposes of God are fulfilled through his servant, the Nazarite.

Concerning the tragic hero's living in sin with the temptress Delilah, Milton from start to finish assures us they were legally wed. In order to cover any other incongruence in Samson's moral integrity, Milton creates a dialogue among the Israelites wherein they question his disregard for their customs and especially that of intermarriage within the tribes of Israel. The chorus, however, satisfies itself and excuses Samson with the verses,

As if they would confine th'Interminable, and tie him with his own precepts, Who made our laws to bind us, not himself, and hath full right to exempt whom so it pleases him by choice.{2}

Such is the formula which provides gods and heroes with a super-morality and excuses them from laws which are binding upon the general citizenry (although it is more commonly found in Greek mythology as opposed to the Bible). Milton strives with every verse to prove that Samson is absolved of his peccadilloes through his devout faith in God and his final selfless sacrifice for his God's name and his nation's freedom.

It is fortunate that Milton and later figures come to the rescue of Samson's character because, curiously enough, the Bible never does. In Judges we find

{2}SAMSON AGONISTES, John Milton, 1671

that our hero offered two prayers. Both pleas were self-centered rather than requests for forgiveness or deliverance of his people. His first request of God was to quench his tremendous thirst following the slaughter of 1,000 men and the second request was for the Lord to take vengeance upon the Philistines for the loss of his eyesight. Never is it mentioned that Samson married Delilah or that the 30 men he slew for their garments were guilty of any offense. Neither is it mentioned that the nation of Israel enjoyed any degree of freedom as a result of Samson's heroics.

In more recent times, certain religious groups have taken Milton a few steps further in their filming of GREATEST HEROES OF THE BIBLE. Countless liberties were taken in the script to make Samson appear to young viewers as much a spiritual giant as Daniel. He is first presented as a prayerful and wise judge of the tribe of Dan who routinely quells community disputes. He acknowledges God in all things and offers a solemn prayer at every turn of events.

Only a soul-wrenching tragedy could turn such an upright character from his faith and, accordingly, the scene was provided. It appears that in the act of killing the lion, he had promised deliverance to a young girl. But, in her panic, the girl recklessly stumbles over a cliff and meets her death. This became Samson's great stumbling block as he

begins to doubt God and turns to vices of the flesh as strongly as he had clung to righteousness

beforehand. In order to spare the innocent at heart, Samson's vices are briefly mentioned but never illustrated to any notable extent. All affairs with women before Delilah are avoided and she is portrayed as a semi-virtuous princess herself. All mysterious episodes dealing with riddles and unreasonable slaughter are likewise omitted. At a later period of his life, Samson regains his spirituality and wisdom when requested by his people to return home and resolve civil strife as in the good old days. He promptly restores the peace at home, acknowledging the hand of the Lord every step of the way.

Delilah, however, becomes incensed with his departure and begins to bargain with the Philistines for his betrayal and