The "Copper Scroll" Bible: A Match Made in Heaven

By Michael Hearns

The mysterious copper scroll treasure map confounded biblical scholar ever since it was unearthed in a cave by the Dead Sea in 1952. Years of searching for the billion dollar treasures ended in failure and it seemed that the tantalising puzzle would never be solved. But at last, there has been a breakthrough because the numbers that were paraded as weights of gold and silver treasures have proved to be an encrypted secret archive of astronomy which only inspired psychics could have acquired.
After two thousand years, the solution to decode the copper scroll was as dramatic as the apple that fell on Newtons head – it was with a plus + sign between some of its numbers. The plus sign indicated that the numbers were to be added. It was found that the totals of pre-arranged groups of numbers that the scribes had devised, equated to the orbits of the planets together with a celestial timetable whose data was in the realms of the paranormal.
The tables with the orbits of the planets were then overlaid on a spreadsheet copy of the copper scroll using its sixty three sites of bogus treasures as the template. In the process, a picture took shape and it had a trunk at the centre while the rest of the tables developed like branches on a tree around that stem. With all that celestial knowledge on display in the silhouette of a tree, it seemed preordained to call the apparition – the Celestial Tree of Knowledge.
There was another spectacular revelation from the copper scroll where the formations with Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter on the tree were replicas of particular letters in the ancient paleo Hebrew alphabet. Those letters read like a mystical autograph which was written in the stars to spell out the author’s name as Y H W H

The facts and figures of these astonishing findings in The “Copper Scroll” Bible are here at your fingertips.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Hearns
• Release date: Apr 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9780995722521

Michael Hearns

Rather than give a generic description of my profile I will integrate it into my research activities in looking for evidence that a higher form of intelligence influenced the biblical prophets.I was born and reared in rural Ireland and our lives were ruled by religious fervour in which only the hierarchical clergy had a say. We were led to believe that there was a heaven above to ascend too for living in piety and doing what we were told but the burning fires of hell below awaited those who did not obey. The notion of a heaven in the afterlife seemed to have originated with the biblical prophets and they were considered to have been divinely inspired when they made their predictions. They had alluded to Jacob’s ladder reaching up to God and the building of the beguiling tower of Babel together with a fiery chariot ascending out of sight so the aspiration from the prophets was to soar up to the heavens. But words alone were never going to be sufficient to convince the universal audience that there was a paradise awaiting us.Years went by and I studied telecommunications in college and worked in the national Telecom Company but eventually moved to work in one of the main national newspapers. During that time Ireland underwent major changes with wide scale economic and social transformations. Along the way I drifted from the archaic world of boring Sunday sermons but I retained an interest in biblical history and am fascinated with the archaeology of the Levant. I was also interested in several of the building projects such as with the tabernacle in the Book of Exodus and other numerical data configurations in the Bible.A door opened for me when I learned that scholars have established that the first five books of the Old Testament had been covertly re-edited around 500 – 700 BCE and the various stories had been dramatized out of all proportions. So preoccupied were investigators with analysing the text to try and identify the re-editors that they seemed to have overlooked that large volumes of numbers had been also inserted including practically the whole Book of Numbers. Many of those numbers were incredible with men living to be over nine hundred years of age or with exaggerated population sizes in two censuses.It seemed to me that those numbers had to have been of tremendous importance for the re-editors to insert them in scripture. I therefore conducted an analysis and found evidence that some of those numbers equated to the heavenly orbits. Those observations began a quest that resulted with many significant discoveries over the years. Piece by piece a giant cosmic archive was assembled and it comprised of a solar calendar and recordings of the orbits of the planets around the sun. It was evident that some of the data was beyond the capabilities of mortals to acquire at that stage of engineering development.Gradually the cosmic data fell into place and it showed what the prophets were up to. They had predicted the coming of a Messiah at the time of a bright star over Bethlehem. However, nobody knew that they had plotted out his arrival on the solar calendar and listed the coordinates to identify that star over Bethlehem.While investigating the numerical data in scripture I came across the copper scroll which was found in a cave by the Dead Sea in 1952. Unlike the other scrolls with their religious contents, the copper scroll listed 64 sites where vast quantities of gold and silver treasures were buried back in antiquity. All efforts by archaeologists to find the treasures ended in failure as the descriptions of where to locate the various sites were too vague or absurd. There was a litany of numbers on the copper scroll which were listed as the number of cubits to dig to find numerical weights of gold and silver treasures. My subsequent investigation proved that the numbers were the real gems because they proved to be the indices of a long lost biblical calendar that was used to map out the future.That was what I found in my research work and the findings raise many fundamental questions. Where and how did the prophets acquire this complex archive of astronomy? Why did the re-package the data on astronomy and insert it covertly as the domestic related numbers in the Old and New Testaments? Why did they not pass on the knowledge to the Vatican and other religious institutions?Not since Samson flexed the full span of his mighty arms to bring the temple crashing down, have the pillars of conventional belief been so sorely tested. But this endeavor is not about sacking the temple, though it will certainly annul some of the myths and practices that religious establishments have rested on for thousands of years. The revelation that some of the most beautiful lyrical parables of the Bible as well as some of its most disturbing texts carried a watermark that can only be seen when held up to the light of physics and science may seem controversial at first. But the findings do unveil the format of a magnificent archive of celestial knowledge in all its multi-layered ingeniousness. This would appear to be the sign that people in every century had awaited, a compelling sign that the prophets were in contact with a higher form of intelligence when they acquired this divine like knowledge of the heavens.Michael Hearns (Author)

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The Copper Scroll Bible

A Match Made in Heaven

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Numbers on the Copper Scroll

Chapter 2 The Checksums Verify the Numbers were Intact

Chapter 3 The Calendar Indices on the Copper Scroll

Chapter 4 The Sign of the Cross on the Copper Scroll

Chapter 5 Numbers Hidden in Plain Sight

Chapter 6 Identifying the Duplicate Inventory

Chapter 7 The Dimensions of the Copper Scroll

Chapter 8 The Time of the Long Dominion of 12,000 Years

Chapter 9 The Unique Method of Biblical Encryption

Chapter 10 The Reed-777 day Calendar in the Bible

Chapter 11 Infallible Numbers

Chapter 12 The Cosmic Tabernacle

Chapter 13 Enoch’s Configurations Reign Supreme

Chapter 14 The Messiah Timeline

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Tables

Illustrations

Tables

Table 1a: Columns 1 to 6 with the Numbers on the Copper Scroll

Table 1b: Columns 7 to 12 with the Numbers on the Copper Scroll

Table 2: The Cubit Measurements

Table 3: The Ages of Adam’s and Noah’s Generations in Years

Table 4: Methuselah at 969

Table 5: Lamech at 777

Table 6: Shem at 100

Table 7: Methuselah at 782

Table 8: Mahalaleel at 895

Table 9: Lamech at 777

Table 10: Lamech at 777

Table 11: Noah at 950

Table 12: Seth at 912

Table 13: Seth at 807

Table 14: Enos at 905

Table 15: Cainan at 910

Table 16: Adam and Jared at 800

Table 17: Mahalaleel at 830

Table 18: Cainan at 910

Table 19: Jared at 962

Table 20: 777 + 777 = 1,554

Table 21: Sothic Cycle of 1,461 Years

Table 22: Shem at 500

Table 23: Salah at 403

Table 24: Reu at 207

Table 25: Serug at 200

Table 26: Nahor at 119

Table 27: 364 Days

Table 28: Three Solar Years

Table 29: 666

Table 30: Six Numbers Encircled by the Coordinates East, West, North and South

Table 31: The Equation to Form 17 Years of 6,209 Days

Table 32: Eight Periods of 777 Days

Table 33: The Years and Intercalary Days of a Calendar Timetable

Table 34: 100 Years

Table 35: 117 Years

Table 36: 217 Years

Table 37: Rows 47, 48 and 49

Table 38: 52 Intercalary Days

Table 39: 198 Intercalary Days

Table 40: 791 Intercalary Days

Table 41: 677 Intercalary Days

Table 42: 857 Intercalary Days

Table 43: 1,251 Intercalary Days

Table 44: 1.354 Intercalary Days

Table 45: 1,711 Intercalary Days

Table 46: Twenty Two Combinations of the Calendar Periods and Intercalary Days between the Greek Letters

Table 47: 777 Days

Table 48: 777 Days

Table 49: The Merged Numbers Validated by a Checksum

Table 50: The Burnt Offerings Validation Checksum

Table 51: The Second Merged Number Validation Checksum

Table 52: The Sothic Cycle of 1,461 Years

Table 53: Two Configurations of Jupiter and 344 Years

Table 54: Orbit of Mars

Table 55: 79 Years Anniversary with Mars

Table 56: Saturn and 707 Years

Table 57: Orbit of Mercury

Table 58: Orbit of Venus

Table 59: Seven Years with Mercury

Table 60: Eight Years with Venus

Table 61: The Lunar Year

Table 62: The Solar Year

Illustrations

Illustration 1: The Blue and Yellow Routes of the Ark through Solar and Sidereal Time

Illustration 2: The Lunar Month of 29.5 Days in the Surface Areas of the Ark and Incense Altar

Illustration 3: The Orbit of Mars in the Surface areas of the Tabernacle Tent and its Furniture

Illustration 4: The Orbit of Mercury in the Square Areas of the Holiest Chamber and its Furniture

Illustration 5: The Solar Year in the Surface Areas of the Holiest Chamber and the Seat and Breastplate

Illustration 6: The Period of 5,108 Days in the Square Areas of the Perimeter, Brass Altar, Outer Room and Furniture

Illustration 7: The Orbit of Venus and 777 Years

Illustration 8: A Second Appearance of Venus and 777 Years

Illustration 9: Jupiter and 1,554 Years (777 + 777 Years)

Illustration 10: The Seven Displays with Enoch

Illustration 11: The Years and Intercalary days with Saturn

Illustration 12: The Orbit and Anniversaries of Saturn

Illustration 13: The Celestial Tree of Knowledge on the Copper Scroll

Illustration 14: The Magical Configurations with the Sevens

Illustration 15: The Messiah Timeline

Introduction

The most puzzling discovery ever made in biblical archaeology was the unearthing of a copper scroll in a cave by the Dead Sea in 1952. Unlike the other Dead Sea scrolls with their religious topics, the copper scroll listed over sixty sites where vast quantities of gold and silver treasures were secretly buried. The colossal quantities of treasures listed on the copper scroll would be worth billions of dollars today. It was therefore not surprising that the lure of gold and silver treasures excited imaginations and led to archaeological expeditions trying to find the buried fortune. However, the descriptions of the sites were either too vague or nonsensical and thus not even a coin was unearthed.

The copper scroll has been the subject of meticulous scrutiny by scholars for over sixty years. Several scholars were of the opinion that the lists of treasures were just folklore myth because the enormous weights of the treasures were incredible to accept. However, many scholars believed that the treasures were real and could only have come from the temple in Jerusalem before it was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.

There were many peculiarities about the copper scroll such as that the various sites had been arranged in twelve columns as if it were a book keeping ledger. In those columns, there were so many numbers making it look like an exercise in counting or arithmetic. Those number were listed as the depts in cubits to dig at many of the sites in order to find specific numerical weights of buried treasures in talents. (A cubit was the biblical unit of measurement while a talent was equal to 35 Kg). There were also seven sets of Greek letters dispersed among the numbers of cubits and treasures on the first four columns of the scroll but what purpose they served was a mystery. At the end of the copper scroll there was a reference to the existence of a duplicate inventory, which listed the measurements and treasure item by item. However, no such inventory was found with the other Dead Sea scrolls at Qumran.

With so many numbers on the copper scroll, it was inevitable in this investigation that they would eventually be consigned to a spreadsheet table. While entering those numbers of cubits and weights of treasures onto the table, more peculiarities arose that should have previously raised eyebrows. This was where it seemed rather strange that those numbers of cubits and talents were listed very precisely. Afterall, would it have mattered to rogue prospectors how many talents were hidden at a site when the mere whisper of treasures would have been sufficient to cause a gold rush. The oddities continued where on entering the cubits and treasures from site 32, the recognisable numbers of 7 and 22 to form pi stood out. Perhaps it was just coincidence and some biblical fellow just by chance dug 7 cubits and stashed away 22 talents of treasures at a site? The idea of it being coincidence quickly evaporated however, because it was followed at the very next site were the numbers of 3, 60 and 2 were listed as cubits and treasures and they multiplied out to 360, which were the number of degrees in a circle. That was intelligent information with the numbers to form pi and a circle together and it was not what could be expected from a treasure map.

On this route less travelled, it was noticeable at site 39 that the numbers of cubits and treasures were the same as the numbers to form the biblical 364 days calendar year. Furthermore, it looked like those number had been copied from the book of Enoch. This actually was the second encounter with Enoch because the number 65 at Site 7 had already come to notice as it was the first age of the patriarch when he became a father. Two encounter with Enoch were interesting because the same numerical elements of his 364-day calendar were listed on the Dead Sea scroll 4Q394 (4QMMT) where 13 weeks of 7 days were counted out together with summations of 91 days and 364 days. It seemed more than coincidence especially as 4QMMT was the only Dead Sea group of scrolls that shared some of the language characteristics with the copper scroll. (Wolters p 11)

Those three examples with pi, the degrees in a circle and the 364 day calendar focused the attention directly on the numbers themselves without the cubits and treasures. But that line of investigation was fraught with risk because the copper had been oxidised and eroded and therefore, its numbers could not be taken for granted as being reliable. To find out how dependable the numbers were, eight different translations of the copper scroll were referenced and remarkably, the scholar had all come up with practically the same numbers. The latest translation that was referenced was by the biblical scholar, Emile Puech and he had the advantage of conducting his research after the copper scroll had undergone comprehensive refurbishment using sophisticated technology and modern scientific techniques. In his translation, Puech had listed two extra sets of numbers, which had not been legible to the previous translators. Those extra numbers were an encouraging addition but what was between them was to have an effect that was as dramatic as the apple that fell on Newton’s head - there was a plus + sign between those extra numbers.

That plus sign + indicated that the numbers were to be added together and that made them somewhat independent from the treasures. Coming on the heels of the earlier multiplications to form the degrees in a circle and the 364 day calendar, the plus sign was another indication that arithmetic was involved with the numbers on the copper scroll. It was a defining moment in this investigation and it is therefore opportune to give a snapshot overview of the secret archive of data, which was encoded in those numbers.

While conducting the analysis with the numbers on the copper scroll, it soon became apparent that they had been specifically chosen and carefully structured into particular groups. It transpired that the totals of the numbers within those groups were the indices of a unique calendar timetable. This timetable mapped out many lengthy time periods including one cycle of the zodiac of 25,920 years. Because the zodiac was associated with astrology and foretelling the future, it was an indication that the data on the copper scroll may have belonged to the biblical prophets.

Mapping out the zodiac was not just an exercise in astrology or astronomy as was revealed by the Dead Sea scrolls. The scrolls outlined how the Jewish priesthood held their ceremonial festivals in harmony with the orbits of the luminaries, which they believed was Gods time in the heavens. Therefore, it could be expected that the biblical timekeepers may have recorded the orbits of those luminaries, which were so important to their religious beliefs. It was thus a splendid surprise to discover that those luminaries were impressively encoded into the assembly kits of numbers on the copper scroll.

A picture paints a thousand word and this archive of astronomy has the numerical data and arithmetic to give a true insight into a wonderful array of knowledge. At times it will be like visiting and an archaeological site where you have to tread slowly so that the ingenious cognitive abilities of the biblical encoders can be appreciated. As the magnitude of the esoteric knowledge sinks in, the reader will wonder who were those masterminds from antiquity and how did the acquire such a prestigious understanding of the heavens? Why did they safeguard the data on the copper scroll but never tell anybody about it? Above all, because it was bound up in sacred religious ceremonies, was it possible that the cosmic knowledge symbolised the concept of a mystical paradise in the heavens?

A journey starts with the first step and so it is back to the investigation to sift through the data. That first step is with the plus sign + between several numbers on the copper scroll and how it initially featured in the investigation. The plus sign indicated that the numbers were to be added together, which was the same principle as what applies with mathematical checksums. The use of checksums was a method to future proof groups of numbers. It required that all of the numbers in a group were to be added up to form a total. That total was a quick ready reckoner to recheck later if the total was still the same. If not, then the values of one or more of the individual numbers had altered when they were copied onto a new document. The Jewish scribes used the principle of checksums when copying sacred documents and the rules for transcribing were laid down in the Talmud. (Sumner 2009 p 53)

If the scribes of the copper scroll had encased the numbers in checksums, then there were two main elements to watch out for. The numbers in checksums have to be arranged into specific groups while the totals of those numbers had to be recognisable. The possibility of forming specific groups focused the attention on those seven sets of Greek letters that were dispersed among the numbers at the beginning of the copper scroll and they seemed ideal to serve that purpose. With possible groupings identified by the Greek letters, the challenge then was to see if identifiable totals could be found.

The Greek letters again aided this quest where there was only one number in a group that had been formed by HN and OE and it was 65. That number was recognisable and remarkably, it was again with Enoch because it was the same as his first age when he became a father to Methuselah as outlined in Genesis Chapter 5. A recognisable number was required to behave as a checksum total and the final age of Enoch’s at 365 years was perfect for that role because it was also the number of days in a solar year.

The investigation had been led into the chapter in the Book of Genesis where the unbelievable ages of the first patriarchs where listed with most of them having lived to be over 900 years old. It seemed peculiar that the inscriptions of how long those men lived were like the way names and ages were displayed on tombstones. The notion of tombstones was prompted by the copper scroll because it stated that a duplicate inventory was buried in a cave with tombs at its mouth and the ages of the patriarchs were at the beginning or mouth of the Old Testament.

Those ages were in the realms of fantasy such as where Methuselah became a father to Lamech when he was 187 years old and he lived to be the world’s oldest man at 969 years of age. Methuselah’s son Lamech lived to be 777 years old. In turn, the son of Lamech was none other than Noah and he supposedly lived to be 950 years old.

‘As old as Methuselah’ was the catchphrase and his final age of 969 years might be a checksum total? It was then found that all of the numbers of treasures and the cubits between the Greek letters HN and ΣK added up in sequence to a total of 937. That number was short of Methuselah’s final age of 969 years by 32. However, there was one number missing because it had been too eroded for Puech to determine its value. If the final age of Methuselah was indeed a checksum total, then that missing number would be 32. To verify that 32 was the original value, a second checksum in parallel would be required.

The next attempt to identify a checksum began at the Greek letters ΔI and by adding the numbers of treasures down to the Greek letters ΣK, the total came to 745. This total was 32 short of 777, which was the final age of Methuselah’s son Lamech. It was the second checksum in which 32 had featured for the missing number and so it was an indication that it was the original value. The analysis continued and it was found that the total of the treasures between the Greek letters TP and ΣK added up to 100 and this number was equal to the first age of Noah’s son Shem. That total also included the missing number with its possible value of 32. It was the biblical imperative of a third witness to indicate that the missing number was indeed 32.

Those checksums had done their duty because they had confirmed