Mount Skull

George Orwell once wrote that reality is inside the skull. Friend,

we live inside our own heads. We live inside the skull.

We have eyes that see outside the skull. But what

we think and what we choose inside the skull, our skulls,

will determine our eternal destiny. There is a universe in

each and every one of us that is inside our heads.

The skull is the fortress that protects the mind and

the soul. And don't ever estimate the power of a

skull to save your soul. In many cultures, a skull

is a symbol of death. You see a skull and

you say, oh, no, death. This is a paradox idea,

since a skull houses the brain that is the center

of life. The library of memories, the biological book full

of feelings, of our fears and sins, of our hopes

and dreams. It's all inside the skull. People ask, well,

what are the books the records of our life? Friends,

The book is your own brain. It's inside your skull.

When God goes through the books, he'll go through your

own memories. The largest human skull to ever be ever

found is the skull of a Denosovan man called the

Dragon man, you're looking at a picture of it. His

skull was discovered on the Senghu River in northeast China

when the water lever went down a man found it.

The dragon Man's skull was hit for eighty five years.

He was so afraid to share it. He put it

in a well, and as he was approaching death, he

got so guilty he said, I had this skull wrapped

in this cloth in the middle of a well. And

it turned out to be a Denosovan skull. Not Paleontoaliic,

not palaeontologists, but anthropologists had been looking for a real

copy of a Denosavan scale.

Why I mean skull.

Why Because at Denisova Cave in Siberia, which is the

hot spot for the study of ancient ancestors in the

police diason era, which is nothing but post flood ice age,

they noticed that there was DNA of a race that

was larger beneath the Neanderthals. They found a hybrid a

little girl that was part Neanderthal and part Denisovan, and

so they knew that Denisovan man existed, They just didn't

know what he looked like. Well, DNA analysis has now

identified that skull that was found of the dragon Man

as a Denosovan sample, and boy as it changed the

way we look at the ancient world. They also found

in that cave at Denisova a chlorite bracelet with a

hole in it that required high speed drilling techniques. In

other words, technology that was so precise and so advanced

that we only see it in modern times. The DNA

of that hybrid little girl indicates that someone like her

or her they wore that bracelet, and so it humanizes

this ancient human being before Neanderthals. And here is a

reconstruction of her face.

As you can see.

The Denisovan's friends are as close to what we can

get to Noah and his three sons, Hem Sham and Jayfith.

Their skulls were larger than ours, their teeth were huge,

their bodies were strong beyond ours. They were able to

live at high altitudes. They were giants to make that

chlorite bracelet. They were giants intellectually, so to speak. Noah

built an arc that went from the Old world to

the New World with treasures inside of that boat. It

took technology given from Christ with a master brain and

brute strength to build an arc that would take humanity

and the animals from the old world to the new

and the great cataclysm that was the flood. If we

were to see Noah today, you'd probably look a lot

more like a Denosovan giant than one of us.

Now.

Of course, the artists don't like putting good clothes on them.

They make him look kind of brutish. But you cut

his hair, you give him a clean shave, you put

some glasses on him, and he looks like, you know,

an Arnold Schwarznigger with a big brain. See, so it

matters how you interpret the evidence. Now, look at the

human skull to the left, and I'd like it if

I could have some water up here, gentlemen, just bring

me a water if you could.

If you look at the.

If you look at the human skull of the left,

the Denosauvan skull of the dragon man of the right,

notice how big the brain case is. A post flood

man was huge.

Now.

It took technology to build the arc that saved humanity.

If we were to see Noah today, he would probably

look a lot more like a Dnisavan giant than one

of us. Friends, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,

and don't forget it. We would have looked puny, sickly

to Noah and his family. We think we look good,

but they knew what really looked good. According to early tradition,

especially early Syriac Christians, Noah carried Adam's bones onto the

Ark and he later dispersed them to his children, who

took Adam's bones to the ends of the earth. And

according to this tradition that has many sources, many layers,

Noah gave adam skull to his oldest son, Sham. Sham

is often equated as Melkezedic by the ancient Rabbis in

their Midrastic commentary and discussion on the Old Testament. And

it was believed that adam skull was taken to Mount

Mariah the area there, and buried there by Sham. Why

would he do that, because as you connect the dots

in scripture, Jerusalem is at the center of the earth.

The Garden of Eden was at the center of the earth.

And so it is believed, and I think it's profoundly

clear that the city of Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives

in Mount Mariah, is located at the very spot where

the ancient Garden of Eden used to exist. A little

spring flows out of Eden called the Geehone, which is

the name of one of the four primary rivers that

we see there at the in the garden of Eden. Okay,

let's see here getting some feedback on that. It's all right, okay.

All four of the gospel narratives proclaimed clearly that Jesus

Christ was crucified at a place called the Skull, the

hill of the Skull. How many remember that when you

read the Bible the hill of the Skull. In Latin,

the word for skull is Calvary. Now Mount Calvary is

not the mountain you take horses up, it's Mount Skull.

In the Aramaic it's gaalgatha. The Hebrews very similar. Gagagatha

comes from the verb galaal that means to roll or

to roll away, implying something round. Galilee is built on

the same verb, a wheel is round, goalaal. It rolls Galilee,

you go around the lake. Jesus died on Mount Skull gaalgatha.

In the Calvary, the angel rolled away the stone on

Mount Skull near the where the garden tomb was located

nearby Matthew twenty seven thirty three. And when they came

to a place called Gaugatha, which means the place of

a skull for Matthew Mark fifteen twenty two. And they

brought him to the place called Gaugatha, which means the

place of a skull Louke twenty three thirty three. And

when they came to the place which is called the skull,

there they crucified him and the criminals, one on the

right and one on the left John nineteen seventeen. So

they took Jesus and he went out and bearing his

own cross, to the place called the place of a skull,

which is called in Hebrew Gaugatha. It wasn't until the

time of Constantine the Great that jesus place of crucifixion

was fixed as the traditional site, located at the Church

of the Holy Sepulcher. It was claimed by Constantine's mother,

the Empress Helena, that the true Cross was found right

there where the Church of the Holy Seer is. So

they built a church there and the place of the

true Cross. They believe it had been found dug up,

and they had some dreams going on to kind of

authenticate it. Now there was only one problem. It was

built over the temple to the Emperor Jupiter that had

been constructed the second century BC. There was no Holy

side of crucifixion there. The early Christians didn't think that way.

They didn't go to the Temple of Jupiter and call

it the place of Gaugas or where they could have

a cross. The early Christians looked to the Mount of

Olives for the new Jerusalem. They knew the prophet Zachariah

that one day the Lord's feet would come down and

touch the Mount of Olives. And they also knew because

of their evidence, that Jesus had died at the summit

of the Mount of Olives. He had ascended from the

Mount of Olives. The triumphal entry was from the Mount

of Olives. He was arrested the Mount of Olives. He

would pray in the Mount of Olives. Why did Christ

hang out in the garden of Goseimite because it was

as close to Eden as he could get. And the

evidence suggests that Jesus died on the summit of the

Mount of Olives in proximity to the altar of the

Red Heifer. Hebrews thirteen will indicate that and there, facing

the veil of the temple on the eastern mountain. He

saw it rent and there the drama of salvation was

worked out. The early Christians looked to the Mount of Olives.

They believed the city would shift from the old Jerusalem

to a new Jerusalem, a new Eden on the Mount

of Olives. The Mount of Olives was the place where

so much happened in Jesus' life.

Friend.

When Jesus died, there was a sacred altar. As I mentioned,

it was called the altar of the red heifer. And

it was called the altar of the red heifer because

it had so much significance. The ashes of a perfect

red heifer would be taken after the sacrifice in which

the red heffer was burned to ashes, and it would

be used for purification of the dead. Now, the Hebrew

word red in Hebrew is the word atom. It was

the atom heifer sacrifice. This was the most sacred altar

in Israel's history. Nine times the sacrifice of the red

heifer occurred. The tenth time was Jesus. And the red

heifer means literally the atom heifer, the red heifer, the

atom heffer. So why was this so much connected to

the dead Hebrews nine thirteen fourteen let's look at a

text here. For if the sprinkling of defiled purses with

the blood of goats and bulls, and with the ashes

of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who threw

the eternal spirit, offered himself up without blemish to God.

Purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living

God the Hebrews thirteen, verse ten. For we have an

altar from which those who serve the tent have no

right to eat, talking about the altar of the red heifer.

For the body of those animals whose blood is brought

into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice

for sin are burned outside the camp. That happened at

the altar of the red heifer. So Jesus also suffered

outside the camp in order to sanctify the people through

his own blood. And then here's the call in verse thirteen. Therefore,

let us go forth to him. Where what does it

say in the text? Outside the camp and bear the

abuse he endured. There's an altar. It was found at

the near the summit of the Mount of Olives, the

most sacred altar in Israel's thinking. The Atam Heifer altar,

the altar that purifies us from contact to the dead,

and the cross of Christ was placed on the eastern

summit there at the Mount of Olives, in proximity that

altar has indicated by Hebrews thirteen. Therefore, let us go

out to him who endured camp the camp and endured.

Got to him out outside the camp and bear the

abuse he endured verse fourteen. For we have no lasting city,

but we seek the city which is to come, when

Christ's feet will touch them out of Olives. The book

of Zachari the Holy city in the book Revelation will

come down, and that spot where Jesus died will be

the center of the universe, and there the throne of

God will be planted where God the Father and God

the Son went through this awful atonement, and the river

of life will flow from the Mount of Olives. Friends,

Christ died on Mount Skull. The place identified by the

early Christians is Adam Skull, at the altar of the

red Heifer, the Adam Heffer, outside the gate at the

center of the earth, where Eden used to be, where

Eden will be once more. We have all come into

contact with the dead every day of our life.

Did you know that?

How many of you know that you touch the dead

every day of your life? You don't know that. I'll

tell you how. In Ephesians two five, Paul says we

were dead and our sins God made us alive in Jesus.

And one Corinthians fifteen twenty two, Paul says, an Adam

all die, but in.

Jesus all are made alive.

We all touch the dead man Adam, and our DNA

and our fallen nature that we acquire from Adam, just

the fact that you are a child of Adam. The

deadness of Adam is in your nature, your DNA, your body.

And so we must be purified, not just from the sin,

which is the sin of our bad choices, but we

must be purified from the sin that is the contact

with Adam that makes us evil intrinsically. Some people don't

believe we have a fallen nature. I've talked to them. They, oh,

we don't have a fallen nature. It's just when we

do bad things. Friends, that's a shallow view of human nature.

We are children of Adam by nature. We are intrinsically

dark inside our heads, our skulls. We don't even know

what goes on inside of our minds. And without Christ,

we cannot redeem our nature's We cannot become holy as Adam.

Was before the fall.

It takes a radical, miraculous transformation to save humanity. Why

because we have touched the dead Roman seven twenty four.

Paul says, wretched man that I am, who will deliver

me from this body of death? So you see, the

sin problem is not just a matter of whether or

not I do bad things or not. The sin problem

is whether or not I am bad? What is wrong

with my attitudes, my nature? When I strive to survive,

when I want to hide instead of come to God.

That is that messed up dead stuff.

We get from Adam. We all touch Adam every day

of our life. We're all doomed by nature because of

Adam's sin, and this is the dead stuff inside every

one of us that needs a savior. Adam's nature is

in our heads, in our skulls. Inside our skull is

the dead man Adam and his heifer wife Eve. I'm

not trying to diminish her here, but the masculine the

feminine merge in this imagery of the red Heifer. Christ

died at the altar, the Adam and Eve Altar, the

red Heifer altar. That points back to our first parents

who blew it. He died on the Mount of Olives.

That was Mount Skull, adams skull. For us, Peter and

Paul understood Isaiah fifty three well.

They knew.

That Jesus was the suffering servant who died on Mount's

skull for every human being. If you go to the

church to the Holy Sepulcher, there is a mural that

gets it right, even though the location is wrong, at

the Church of the Holy separcherl. In that mural you'll

see a picture of Jesus hanging on the cross, being

taken down from the cross, and just beneath him as

a hole in the ground, a grave, and there's a

skull beneath the cross. And those early Christians understood that

was Adam's skull. The hill of the skull was the

place where Adam's skull had relocated. And so all four

gospel accounts go out of their way to make that

point Isaiah fifty three, four to six. Surely he has

borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed

him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. But he was

wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.

Upon him was the chastisement that made us whole. And

with his stripes we were healed. All we like sheep,

have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way.

And here's the phrase, the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity of us. All Christ became collective humanity on

the cross. The Hebren verse six says that God had

caused to meet literally in him, all of our iniquity,

every sin ever committed, every conscious act of disobedience, every

guilt feeling was siphoned into not siphon was funneled into

the mind and body of Christ in gaseimine to the cross.

He lived out the human race from Adam to the end.

And your life and my life was in Christ on

Calvary's cross. So what does it mean that he did

all of this. It means that our heads were put

inside of his head. On the cross of Christ. The

cross becomes the nexus where God and man meet, and

where all men and all women meet. In Christ on

Calvary's cross, it is the divine joining ground one Peter

two four and five. The Bible says he himself bore

our sins in his body. What does it say on

the tree? Why that we might die to sin and

live to righteousness?

I like this part. By his wounds, you have been healed,

referring back.

To Isaiah fifty three, for you were straying like sheep,

but have now returned to the shepherd and guard of

your souls. We have no idea what Jesus went through

in Calvary's cross for us friends, Think of your worst

day you've ever had in your life?

Can you think about it? Only a few of you

have bad days?

Right?

Okay?

I can think of everybody's bad day in your head.

Who's ever lived? Would that be a good thing? Think

of every person's life with all of its bad stuff

in your head at one time. A human being can't

do this. So when people think that Christ was just

like us, no, he was not just like us. Christ

was specially engineered as a human being to relive the

entire experience of humanity in the flesh, to bear our

sins in his body on the cross. See it's one

thing to speak of Christ as our substitute that he is.

He died for our sins, but friends. At the deepest level,

Christ became us. In the cross of Calvary. We refused

into the mind of Christ. There is not a part

of us that was not with him that he did

not embrace intimately, so that he and us become one

in the death, beryl and resurrection on the cross of Calvary,

the Great exchange his life for our death, his future

for a hopelessness. The contradiction of sinners against God's law

and nature was injected into his skull on the cross

of Calvary. Adam's sin, Adam's thou almost a thousand year

life in his head and every other life also billions

of people's hearts and minds were throbbing in the heart

and mind of Jesus in his death agonies on the cross,

we are told in the spirit of Prophecy, he could

barely feel the physical pain. Adam's sin is the root

of all our sins. And when John saw Jesus at

his baptism in John one twenty nine, John knew that

Jesus was the answer to Adam's sin. He said, behold

the lamb of God who takes away the sin of

the world. In the gardnicaseimne, which means the oil pressed.

In the Aramaic, the sweet oil of the Holy Spirit

was being pressured, pressed out of Christ, who had always

been the source of the Holy Spirit from the beginning

of time and through all eternity. The Book of Hebrews

says that he was nine fourteen that Jesus was offered

up in the eternal spirit. The Holy Spirit became the

fire of the altar, and we were told in the

Gospel of Luke he began to sweat these great drops

of blood in the Greek Thrombosis thromboi, that clots fell

to the ground because of the pressure. He would not

have survived five minutes under that physical pressure if an

angel had not strengthened him, hooked him up to the

divine respirator, so he can dure the stuff and go

through it, so that every life gets sifted and he's

able to live and experience the horror blackness of eternal

rejection at.

The end of the millennium.

In his own experience, Jesus became the God forsaken God

on Mount Skull, the son of God like a baby

crying the night for his daddy, and he could not

find his father in the night. Abba Abbah, Daddy, Daddy, Father,

Why my God, My God, why have you forsaken me?

Adam ran away from God in the garden. Christ called

out to God on Mount Skull to find him in

the darkness of this horrific supernatural atonement experience that he

was going through. Now, don't let anyone tell you for

a minute that all Jesus did was reveal the love

of God on the Cross of Calvary. If the cross

was not a necessity, then it is a not a

revelation of anything. He had to die, and that is

the revelation of the love of God that he did it.

But if he really didn't, if there was no need

for him to die for our sins, if he didn't

need to shed his blood, then to die anyway means nothing.

In fact, is an act of foolishness.

Friends.

The law of God, that is the nature of God,

is character. God could not allow sin to get off

the hook because the universe would collapse. And so God

was in Christ not counting our sins against us and

bearing it all from Adam to the end in the

great atonement. Human being, the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ,

until he had relived humanity to the end of time,

every person, whether they're saved or not, Christ died for

the ungodly two Father, forgive them, he cried out from

Calvary's cross. They know not what they do. None of

us really know what we do at the deepest levels.

That David said, teach me truth in the inner man

in Psalms fifty one, after he sinned with Bethsheba. Everything

we've ever done wrong was racing through his mind. The

dark stuff that psychologists like to dig into that probably

they shouldn't. It was going through his mind. He could

not escape our sins. To save us from our sins,

he had to address every one of them, and so

he became the sin bearer. When Jesus hung on Calvary's cross,

Adam and Eve, Noah, Shamham and Jayfath, and all of

us the children of Adam to the end, we met

in Jesus' skull. And when Jesus was done with all

our sins in that universe that is his own experience

and mind as the son of God, when he was

done dealing with it, there was nothing left to condemn.

Nothing left to condemn. The Book of Hebrews says he

sat down at the right hand of God after he

made a purification of sins. Because friends, he dealt with

everything wrong you have ever done, and he dealt with

it in such a way that you can come home

to God without being browbeaten about how bad you are.

That you have atonement in your life? Do you have

acceptance in your life that the great God of the

universe is a law that cannot be changed, loves you

more than himself with who is the law? And he

brought us home in Jesus. I'd like to share with

you a small piece of chapter seventy eight in the

Desire of Ages. Before I do, let me just affirm

Jesus paid it all on Mount's skull. Christ got it

done on Mount Calvary. It is finished. That play we

had last week, it is finished. I may view are

here for that? Raise your hand high. How could you

just feel the Holy Spirit in this place? Taken to

a large extent from the chapter and Desire of Ages,

it is finished I could tell, but woven with creativity

and prayer and in literary mastery to create what it did,

and all the help of everybody who pulled in, and

nobody was arguing trying to look important. You could sense

the Holy Spirit. And we even had somebody who had

the beard in the Age of Jesus.

You know, for Jesus, I.

Won't mention him by name, but we're grateful. But the

point is that everyone pulled together to make it happen,

and the merry Magdalene part praised God for that. It

was just beautifully done. And I had a chance for

the first time because I wasn't doing infrastructure work, to sit.

Back there and soak it in.

And it was for me what I needed last week,

and it has affected me this week. God be praised.

I like to share with you a small piece of

Chapter seventy eight, The Desire of Ages, the very first

sermon ever preached. I quoted this passage. I actually wrote

a song based on this, the zarib Ages, page seven

to fifty five. The spotless Son of God hung upon

the cross, his flesh laughed. The story of the stripes.

Those hands so often reached out in blessing, nailed to

the wooden bars, those feet so tireless on ministries of love,

spiked to the tree, that royal ahead pierced by the

crown of thorns, those quivering lips shaped to the cry

of woe, and to all that he endured, the blood

drops that flowed from his head, his hands, his feet,

the agony that racked his frame, and the unutterable anguish

that filled his soul at the hiding of his father's face,

speaks to each child of humanity, declaring, it is for

THEE that the Son of God consents to bear this

burden of guilt.

For THEE.

He spoils the domains of death and opens the gates

of paradise. He who stilled the angry waves and walked

the phone, kept billows, who made devils tremble, disease free,

who opened blind eyes and called forth the dead to life,

offers himself upon the cross as a sacrifice. And this

from love to THEE. He the sin bearer, endures the

wrath of divine justice, and for thy sake becomes sin itself.

I mean, I've heard theologians right all kinds of things,

and nothing gets as good as this. This is the

best theology outside the Bible I've ever seen to describe

what Jesus went through in Calvary's Cross. For me, and

you and I would rather understand the atonement in my

heart than have a head knowledge that doesn't work in eternity.

Dear heart, Jesus put my life inside his skull. He

put your life there, and he would not let me go.

He would not let you go. He atoned for everything

so that in the judgment day there'll be no reason

to feel anything other than acceptance before God. He has

given us an everlasting righteousness. The Book of Daniel says

to bring in everlasting righteousness. Paul It calls it a

right now righteousness in Romans three. That is good enough

for the judgment day. Dear heart, we all have heads,

we all have hearts inside our skulls. Christ carried all

of us in his heart and mind in the most

intimate kind of way and a death grip that is

life for us on the cross at the summit of

Mount Skull.