The following report is from Israel 365 News:
Amazon has just unveiled the plans for its new corporate headquarters that will stand in Arlington, Virginia, directly across the Potomac River from Washington DC. The announcement inaccurately describes the design as a “double helix” but scholars of ancient history and the Bible will readily recognize the ancient model for the design: the Tower of Babel.
Construction on their second corporate headquarters is expected to begin next year and when completed in 2025 at a cost of $2.5 billion. It will include 2.8 million square feet of new office space distributed across three 22-story buildings. The location is less than four miles from the Capitol Building. John Schoettler, head of Amazon’s global corporate real estate portfolio, announced the second half of the project designed by architecture firm NBBJ.
The natural beauty of a double helix can be seen throughout our world, from the geometry of our own DNA to the elemental form of galaxies, weather patterns, pinecones, and seashells. The Helix at our Arlington headquarters will offer a variety of alternative work environments for Amazon employees amidst lush gardens and flourishing trees native to the region.
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Though it is true that DNA is arranged in a double-helix, the architectural design is not, in fact, a double helix that appears like a ladder that has been twisted into a corkscrew. The design of the building is, perhaps, a single helix with a spiral walkway ascending the exterior of the building. The architectural design of the Amazon building does, in fact, closely resemble that of a ziggurat, a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia. A ziggurat has the form of a terraced compound of successively receding stories or levels.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Two points to make:
Firstly, the fact that Amazon is essentially building a high-tech headquarters opposite the Capitol building really just shows you who is more powerful. The mega corporations like Amazon carry much more power and control then the phony American government. The President and many of those in power are just placeholders and a face for the broad masses to think they have real leadership and freedom of choice. The bigs will continue to get bigger, while the little guy is more poverty stricken.
Could this also be some of those “innovation centers” we reported on?
The second point is addressing the reference to the tower of Babel.
I believe that the article’s connection to the tower of Babel is partially incorrect. Most people when they think of the tower of Babel think of this giant spiral-esk tower that was being built to literally somehow ascend into space and to God’s throne. This comes from many artist renditions that all of us have probably seen from our youths.
[1] And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. [2] And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. [3] And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. [4] And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. [5] And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. [6] And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. [7] Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. [8] So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. [9] Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:1
The article references what is known as a ziggurat. Oxford dictionary defines a ziggurat as “(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).” These structures are much more pyramid shaped.
This is not a spiral tower as most people think it is. This is why it is to be careful around graven images depicting biblical events and stories.
There is actual archeological proof that the tower of Babel is not a “myth,” and it looked similar to the above picture.
The following videos contain scriptures that are not from the KJB, but the other information mentioned is fairly accurate.
All of this is not to say that the spiral-looking structures are not historical structures, but it is not depicting the tower of Babel.
However, it is very typical of the lost world to mock commonly accepted biblical depictions of something. So it does not surprise me if Amazon is subtly mocking that account of the Bible – to show off just how powerful they are. Steve Jobs and Apple did something similar in their advertising for the Macintosh. Jobs thought that the forbidden fruit in Eden was an apple (a common idea held by most professing Christians); so Jobs thought he was mocking that. But I refute that concept in book “The Lord of Glory” proving from the scriptures that it actually was a grape: but I digress.
Hopefully you learned you something today, and were given further validation that the King James Bible has it right yet again. Plus, how the mega corporations are seemingly declaring they are the ones more powerful than the government.
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