Does the Equator of the Earth Have Any Link to the Death of Abner?

      Look, we all know that you can 'forge' Bible links that weren't intended by God to be forged into links!  May I not be guilty of that!  But a genuine problem is that the words of the Bible seem to have amazing links to so very many important and spiritually related things that it could be useful for people who are on the borderline of being believers to know that the Bible is full of proofs and circumstantial evidences of God the Father Almighty being the architect of all creation, choosing to work through His Son Jesus to accomplish this.  Jesus has many titles, but one of these is 'the Word', which the Bible is also called.  (Christian's think it, the Bible, is also the Word of God.)  A great many Christians refer to the Bible as 'the Word'.  And in a strange way the Bible really also is 'bread' from Heaven.  Manna was once eaten by journeying Israelites in the Sinai Peninsula...it was a bread that fell from Heaven onto the Earth for the followers of God to eat.  For 40 years it fell reliably and was a staple of their nomadic diet.  It maintained their life in an otherwise almost lifeless wasteland.   And Jesus taught us to think of Him as 'bread' in some manners.  Jesus said that bread could be equated to His body at the Last Supper, when He broke bread in His hands and told His disciples that it was His body, given up for them.  So Jesus is linked to the Bible and to bread, bread is linked to the Bible and to Jesus, and the Bible is linked to Jesus and to bread.  These are fair and long accepted analogies.  But Creation was formed by God working through Jesus, and the things in our sky can be for signs and wonders in various cases scripture says.  And much deliberate design was put into the architecture and dimensions of the physical objects floating around in space, including our planet Earth, and including our mathematical constants and physics constants.  God knew we would one day develop such constants and knew which units of measurement we would use.    

     Take the Earth for instance:  it reputedly has a circumference of 24,901 miles around the Equator. (Not every source gives exactly the same number!  Surprising for the year 2023!)  You know the Equator, right?  That line that wraps around the middle of the planet Earth like a BELT.  Like a belt that Jesus wrapped around the waist of His bride the Earth?  Or around Mankind's home planet.  Like a hug He is giving His bride perhaps?  Fanciful, but anyway.  As for BELTS, Christians are told to put on the whole armor of God...the powers and protections God granted us.  And the belt is called the 'belt of TRUTH' in those passages.  Jesus called Himself 'the truth' in a way.  He said 'I am the way, the TRUTH', and the life'.  So, Jesus was a belt of sorts and the equator is a belt of sorts.  And the 'belt' we call the equator is supposedly 24,901 miles in circumference.  Never measured it myself!  Trusting the data available!

     Jesus was called the WORD and the Word is spoken, it is composed of sound waves when it refers to the spoken word, and sound waves travel at 767 miles per hour.  At least that is a commonly given speed.  Never measured it myself.  If you divide the distance around the equator by the speed of sound and use 24,901/767 you get 32.465 hours.  That is about how long it would take a sound wave to circumnavigate the globe at the equator (a belt of TRUTH?)  That is almost how long Jesus lived in Earthly years, not hours.  His exact age at the crucifixion is unknown.  Good scholarly guesses disagree despite several of the scholars providing very powerful seeming evidence...that leads to differing conclusions.  We don't know, or at least don't know which to believe.  But that happens to be a plausible ball park number for his age at death.  32 years 170 days is what it would come out to I guess, for time spent outside of Mary's womb.  32 years, and around 5 and a half months.  That means nothing, necessarily.  Just mentioning it.

     How about the speed of sound, though...767 miles per hour using the English units when traveling through standardized atmospheric conditions.Is that relatable to the Bible or to Jesus?  Maybe!  Go to the 7th Protestant Bible book, the 6th chapter.  See what's going on in the 7th verse.  Is it relatable to Jesus without having to stretch any or much?  This verse 7 would be found in Judges (the 7th book) Chapter 6.  In that verse the Word is coming to a back-slid area of Israel which God has allowed the powerful Midianite people with their camels and their numerous warriors to attack and defeat and oppress.  Read it below:

6 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. ² Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. ³ Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. ⁴ They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. ⁵ They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. ⁶ Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.

⁷ When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, ⁸ he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. ⁹ I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. ¹⁰ I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”

¹¹ The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. ¹² When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”

¹³ “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

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      The Word came to the Israelites, to God's sinful people downtrodden because of their sin of turning aside to gods that were not even gods, along with whatever other sins they were engaging in!  The sound of it must have traveled then as now at about 767 mph through the air.

      What about the Earth's diameter?  Could it be relatable to Jesus the Word of God.  The diameter is supposed to be 7,926 miles at the equator.   What if that is again divided by the speed of sound as 767 miles per hour?  You get 10.334 hours for sound to travel the distance of Earth's equatorial diameter.  So what scripture is at book 10, chapter 3, verse 34 of a Protestant Bible.  Here it is in context with a few other verses for background.  It is around 1020 B.C. as we would count time.  David is trying to become king of all Israel as Samuel, a righteous priest and prophet of God, anointed him to become one day.  He is trying to fight a righteous war (in so far as is possible with a war!) against the household of his predecessor King Saul so that there will not be lingering hatred towards him once he should one day win the war 'fairly':

3 The war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time. David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

Abner Goes Over to David

⁶ During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had been strengthening his own position in the house of Saul. ⁷ Now Saul had had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”

⁸ Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said. So he answered, “Am I a dog’s head—on Judah’s side? This very day I am loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his family and friends. I haven’t handed you over to David. Yet now you accuse me of an offense involving this woman! ⁹ May God deal with Abner, be it ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the Lord promised him on oath ¹⁰ and transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and establish David’s throne over Israel and Judah from Dan to Beersheba.” ¹¹ Ish-Bosheth did not dare to say another word to Abner, because he was afraid of him.

¹² Then Abner sent messengers on his behalf to say to David, “Whose land is it? Make an agreement with me, and I will help you bring all Israel over to you.”

¹³ “Good,” said David. “I will make an agreement with you. But I demand one thing of you: Do not come into my presence unless you bring Michal daughter of Saul when you come to see me.” ¹⁴ Then David sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, demanding, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

¹⁵ So Ish-Bosheth gave orders and had her taken away from her husband Paltiel son of Laish. ¹⁶ Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back.

¹⁷ Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, “For some time you have wanted to make David your king. ¹⁸ Now do it! For the Lord promised David, ‘By my servant David I will rescue my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.’”

¹⁹ Abner also spoke to the Benjamites in person. Then he went to Hebron to tell David everything that Israel and the whole tribe of Benjamin wanted to do. ²⁰ When Abner, who had twenty men with him, came to David at Hebron, David prepared a feast for him and his men. ²¹ Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once and assemble all Israel for my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

Joab Murders Abner

²² Just then David’s men and Joab returned from a raid and brought with them a great deal of plunder. But Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, because David had sent him away, and he had gone in peace. ²³ When Joab and all the soldiers with him arrived, he was told that Abner son of Ner had come to the king and that the king had sent him away and that he had gone in peace.

²⁴ So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you let him go? Now he is gone! ²⁵ You know Abner son of Ner; he came to deceive you and observe your movements and find out everything you are doing.”

²⁶ Joab then left David and sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern at Sirah. But David did not know it. ²⁷ Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into an inner chamber, as if to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and he died.

²⁸ Later, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner. ²⁹ May his blood fall on the head of Joab and on his whole family! May Joab’s family never be without someone who has a running sore or leprosy^[a] or who leans on a crutch or who falls by the sword or who lacks food.”

³⁰ (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

³¹ Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and walk in mourning in front of Abner.” King David himself walked behind the bier. ³² They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept also.

³³ The king sang this lament for Abner:

And all the people wept over him again.

³⁵ Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”

³⁶ All the people took note and were pleased; indeed, everything the king did pleased them. ³⁷ So on that day all the people there and all Israel knew that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

³⁸ Then the king said to his men, “Do you not realize that a commander and a great man has fallen in Israel this day? ³⁹ And today, though I am the anointed king, I am weak, and these sons of Zeruiah are too strong for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil deeds!”

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     So Abner could not deliver the victory to the one he had wanted to deliver it to.  They were too unrighteous, even vilifying Abner.   Joab saw Abner as a danger and possibly a rival  (as Rome's representative, Pontius Pilate, was told Jesus meant to be concerning Caesar.)  Abner was taken by Joab into an inner chamber.  (That was done by both the Hebrew priests and later by Pontius Pilate during the hours of Jesus' torture.)  Abner was spoken to by someone with harmful intentions to kill him.  (Jesus was spoken to by the Jewish priests and leadership on the night of His torture.  They had harmful intentions to kill Him.)  Abner was stabbed in the side, killed.  (Jesus was killed on the cross, then stabbed in the side with a Roman's spear - Longinus spear?)  Abner means Father of Light.  (Jesus is and was the Light of the World.  He is called that very thing in scripture.)  Right at verse 34 David spoke about how Abner's death was evil and unjustified.  (Jesus' death was evil, unjustified and unrighteous.  He was not an evildoer, not a law breaker.  Those who killed Him had ulterior motives, one of which was that they felt that their position of power was under threat.  Jesus had expressed great unhappiness at how the Jewish leaders of His day conducted their business:  corrupt, greedy, and self-serving!)

     To summarize this speed of sound/Jesus /Bible connection, there are numerous ways in which it seems the Creation itself points to Jesus, and links with the Word of God seem to be one way in which those connections are made and the Creations author, the God of Abraham who is also the Father of Jesus, are identified!  The Creation does indeed testify that Yahweh is its author and Yehoshua (Jesus) was part of all his Father's work from the beginning.  It testifies to it in many profound ways.  Should man ignore this and celebrate scientists not as method-bound principled seekers of facts (which would be quite alright I think) but instead as easily all too easily believed and authoritative 'erasers of God' from the true story of His own great accomplishments in crafting this Creation we dwell in?  We err hideously in allowing science to specialize in the mischaracterization of the Father's unthinkably masterful work.  And any glory they garner by fabricating origin stories will be of scant consolation to them if they are ultimately judged worthy only of an eternity in Hell.  Scientists, do not be used by the Devil!  Let your work only ever exalt the God who made you!  Do not be used as a pawn either directly, or by allowing yourself to be made into voiceless scenery in a gargantuan farce.  Your own eternity is very important to God your Father, and you must not let your skills be used to mislead your brothers and sisters.