Weird Stuff About Mount Hermon
By Green Eyed Videos on Nov 13, 2022
What is so important about Mount Hermon?
This well-known mountain holds some of the most significant, historical events.
It is the tallest mountain in Israel and most intriguing.
It lies in the upper corner of Golan Heights and borders Syria and Lebanon.
Learn more about this interesting location…
Hey friends, Bethel here.
Today I wanted to talk to you about Mount Hermon.
Mount Hermon (/ˈhɜːrmən/ HUR-mən) is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range.
Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon and, at 2,814 m (9,232 ft) above sea level, is the highest point in Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
On the top, in the United Nations buffer zone between Syrian and Israeli-occupied territories, is the highest permanently manned UN position in the world, known as “Hermon Hotel”, located at 2,814 metres (9,232 ft).
The southern slopes of Mount Hermon extend to the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, where the Mount Hermon ski resort is located with a top elevation of 2,040 meters (6,690 ft).
I actually tried to do this video outside a few minutes ago and it’s so cold today that it just, I had to redo it.
So now we have bad lighting and I’m inside, but hopefully this works.
This well-known mountain is actually a little mysterious and a little bit controversial.
So I’m going to do the best that I can, but I really wanted to talk about it because I have been doing a Bible study on some other things, but Mount Hermon came up and for whatever reason it just stuck and I felt like the Lord wanted me to dig into it and I’m just sharing what I learned from that.
Its name actually means a mountain cluster.
So interestingly, there are three main peaks in this region with Mount Hermon being the highest.
The size of this range is about 30 miles long and 15 miles wide.
It lies in the upper corner of Golan Heights, the northern tip of Israel, which borders Syria and Lebanon.
However, Golan Heights is a disputed area and at this time the UN has declared a buffer zone for this region.
This is the tallest mountain in Israel.
At the base of this mountain form the headwaters of the River Jordan.
Psalm 133:3 says,
“As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion:
for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.”
In the Land of Zion – Library of Rickandria
So, Mount Hermon is also thought to be the mountain of transfiguration when Jesus was here.
Jesus Christ: Man, Myth or God in the Flesh? – Library of Rickandria
It’s referenced in Matthew 17 and 2 Peter 1.
In the book of Matthew, the disciples were all at Caesarea Philippi before the scriptures that talk about the Mount of Transfiguration.
What’s interesting about that is that some scholars believe that the mountain would have been Mount Tabor, but the historian Josephus found that during the time Jesus was here, that that mountain was actually surrounded by a wall and it was inhabited at the time.
So many people believe that Mount Hermon was the more likely location because even in Mark 9, it was talking about how the disciples were alone.
So maybe possibly meaning that this mountain would have been uninhabited at the time.
I believe it’s Mount Hermon just from the research that I’ve done.
Mark 9:2 says,
“And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.”
So, Mount Hermon is where Joshua also defeated the Anakim and that’s described in Joshua 11 through 15.
Anakim were the sons of Anak.
The name itself most likely means long neck or tall.
The Hebrews thought this powerful race was the Nephilim described in Genesis 6.
Giants in the Bible – Library of Rickandria
Consequently, these sons of Anak were believed to be giants and that’s described in Numbers 13.
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong and the cities are fortified and very large and besides we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Another term used to describe the giants was Rephaim and that translates as terrible one.
So, this group of people lived in Canaan and surrounding areas.
Where King Og was said to rule over about 60 cities in the area of Canaan, the Israelites eventually ended up conquering these cities.
Deuteronomy 3:8-11 says,
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon?
nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
So just so you know, the common cubit was most likely the measurement that they took from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, and it was about 18 inches on a male.
And there are different measurements for the different regions in that area and the royal cubit is actually even a little longer.
But most people believe it was about 18 inches for a cubit.
Many believe that Goliath, the giant that David defeated was also a descendant of Anakim.
And we see from scriptures that he was six cubits in height, which would have been about nine feet six inches.
1 Samuel 17:4-7 says,
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron:
and one bearing a shield went before him.
So, if we remember right, when the Israelites were going into the promised land, God made it very clear not to be afraid.
Unfortunately, the Israelites were afraid, and they let their fear get in the way of the promised land.
Many of them were not able to enter the promised land because of their disobedience to God.
Numbers 14:36-38 says,
And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
On Mount Hermon, there was an ancient temple there that they discovered and it’s called like Chazer-Anter.
I’m not sure how to pronounce it exactly.
But this area is believed to be the same area where the fallen angels came down and fornicated with women or made an unholy oath to fornicate with women of the human race.
And that is described in the book of Genesis, in the book of Jude, and in first Enoch, which isn’t a biblical source.
But interestingly, this is the same region where the Israelites were fighting against giants.
What’s curious is why these evil spirits gather in these high places.
These high places were often destroyed by righteous rulers that would then come into power.
These places were described in certain situations as being corrupt and they were doing unholy and just awful practices in those areas.
2 Kings 18:3-4 says,
And he (referring to Hezekiah) did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made:
for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it:
and he called it Nehushtan.
One of the things that I feel like relates to the high places is that Satan is referred to as the Prince of the air.
He does enjoy going to these high places because he likes to be rebellious to God and because it symbolizes some sort of power in a way being up above everything.
Ephesians 2:1-2 says,
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
So, we know that Satan is always trying to be like God, and it even says that the unclean spirits are searching the air.
In Luke 11:24 it says,
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Satan is constantly trying to be like God and in the process, he tries to corrupt and twist what God has created.
This mountain range also acted as a boundary, specifically the northern boundary of the Amorites discussed in scripture.
It is also the boundary that was given to Abraham before the land was claimed.
Genesis 13:14-18 says,
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. 18
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
So why are these high places so important to the enemy?
And why is there such a quarrel about Mount Hermon?
To this day, there are still quarrels going on about this region.
This region is actually referred to as Golan Heights, and there has been dispute over that region like you wouldn’t believe.
It affects the countries all around it and Israel, of course.
Many say it’s because of the resources that are found there, but could it be something more?
Is this area considered sacred for a reason?
The fact that Jesus went up this mountain was transfigured before his closest disciples meets with ancient biblical figures and the voice of God is heard is a big deal, and I think that it should really make us aware of what the Lord is trying to tell us with that message.
Not just the fact that it’s amazing, but also the fact that where it happened and what happened on that mountain after the history that’s happened in the region.
God is the Alpha and the Omega, not Satan.
God created and owned the high places, and God will have the last word.
Luke 9:34-35 says,
While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them:
and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son:
hear him.
I still feel like this mountain has great significance, and I hope you found that it was interesting and learned a little bit like I did.
I hope you have a blessed day, and I look forward to seeing you all again soon.
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REVERSING HERMON: LECTURE WITH DR. MICHAEL S. HEISER (RIP) – Library of Rickandria
Weird Stuff About Mount Hermon