Sailors
long ago boasted of seeing all seven seas
and
all four corners of Earth!
Maps
have 4 corners which represent the most distant points from the
center
(unless
it's a circular map).
Due to earthquakes, tsumanis, hurricanes and tornados ~ reforming
borders of the world ~ modern-day researchers claim there may be
five or six corners of the earth. It has only recenlty been learned
that most clouds are formed by ocean exploration ~ but again ~ the
Bible had it right, centuries ago!
All rivers run into the sea, the sea is not full.
To the place from which the rivers came, they return again.
(Ecclesiastes1:17)
The First Corners of the Earth, initially appeared in the Bible
(Isaiah 11:12):
And
gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Although
the idea that the earth is a flat plane with actual corners, has long
been discarded, the term has remained. The question asked of
researchers today: “How
can a spherical Earth have 4 corners?”
Perhaps
no phrase in Scripture has been so controversial. The Hebrew word
KANAPH,
although translated in a variety of ways, generally means
'extremity'.
It is translated borders
in
Numbers. In Ezekiel, it is translated four
corners
and again in Isaiah four
corners. In
Job, the reference is ends.
The
Greek equivalent in Revelation 7:1 is gonia.
This meaning is perhaps more closely related to our modern divisions
known as 'quadrants' .
Gonia
literally
means 'angles' or 'divisions'.
Some have tried to riducule the Bible to say that it teaches that the
Earth is square. The Scripture makes it quite clear that the Earth
is a sphere: (Isaiah 40:22).
Some have tried to say there are four knobs, or peaks on a round
Earth.
Regardless,
of the various ways Kanaph
is
translated, it makes reference to EXTREMITIES.
It
is doubtful that any religious Jew would ever misunderstand the true
meaning of kanaph.
For
nearly 2,000 years, religious Jews have faced the city of Jerusalem
three times daily and chant the following prayer: Sound
the trumpet for our freedom...Raise the banner for gathering our
exiles...And gather us together from The Four Corners of the Earth.
From the Miles Coverdale's Verson of the Bible: Revelation 7-1:
And after that sawe I foure angles stode on ye foure corners of
the earth,
holdinge ye foure wyndes of ye earth, yt ye wiyndes shulde not
blowe on ye earth,
nether on ye see, nether on eny shuld not blow on ye earth,
nether on ye see, nether on eny tree.
A
similar expression is found in Isaiah
11-12:
And he shal set vp a toke amonge the Gentilres, and gather
together ye dispersed of Israel,
yee and the outscastes of luda
from the foure corners of ye world.
The reference to the four corners does not imply that the writers of
these texts believed that the Earth was flat (although they may well
have done). The first citation above suggests more, that the four
corners were the four compass points.
MODERN
UNDERSTANDING
Iris Taylor of the”Flat Earth Society” lives on Fogo Island in
Newfoundland ~ a place that is rumoured to be one of the Four
Corners of the Flat Earth ~ being:
Brimstone
Head (of the Fogo Islands)...Hydra...Bermuda
Triangle...Papua
New Guinea.
A photo shows her standing beside the Fogo Island sign:
WARNING!
YOU
ARE NEAR THE
EDGE
OF THE FLAT EARTH.
ONE
FALSE STEP COULD BE
YOUR
LAST. NUMBER OF
PEOPLE
LOST TO DATE “0”
Iris Taylor questions, “How can a Spherical Earth have four
corners?”
Canada's wild Fogo Island is an extra-ordinary location in
Newfoundland. It's a curious place where coyotes roam the
planes...giant squid wash ashore...and the odd house clings to the
shoreline. It is part of the archipelago of miles and miles of lake
and woodlands.
According to the Flat Earth Society, Brimstone Head on Fogo Island is
of prime significance.
The
mission of the Flat Society is to promote Earth theory as well as
archive Flat Earth literature.
The Flat Earth model is an archaic belief that the Earth's shape is a
plane or disc.
Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a Flat Earth ~
including Greece until the classical period to the Hellenistic age.
“I
went to one of the Four Corners,” said a recent traveller to
Newfoundland and Labrador, who with Riley and Corbin, they were in
search of the trail that would take them to Brimstone Head. “ A
straight staircase, it was into the sky ~ the view atop was
irristible!” The Society advised them of historical evidence that
Fogo Island is quite possibly one of the Earth's Four Corners.
Another
traveller to Brimstone Head on Fogo Island wrote: “It was windy
and steep and exhausting. Our thighs burned...our ears ached with
the winds whistling! Yet, we kept climbing past a huge sign near the
top. I was amazed at the colours of central Newfoundland: the
electric yellow and natures's green floral. But we still had to
conquer Brimstone Head. Arriving at the base of the trail, we
groaned. (I didn't know why we were expecting flat trails in
Newfoundland ~ maybe because of 'the
Flat Earth Society name.
Up! UP! Up! We went until we passed the ominous sign of WARNING!
The wind was fierce!!! ( and more fierce it became), approaching
Brimstone Head!!!
“God
mde the firmanent and divided the waters which were under the
fermanent
from the waters which were above the fermanent.
And it was so. (Genesis 1:7)
And in Psalms 104:5 we read: He set the earth on its foundations
so that it should never be moved.
Author: Merle Baird-Kerr...written September 30, 2018
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