Speculation: Terre de Iesso
Note: This study will be more speculative than my others so far. I want to share an interesting discovery, while reminding the reader, as always, to test everything and that our only teacher is Messiah.
Background context: Revealed: The Land of Jesus - Strait is the Gate. The premise of this video is that the camp of the saints is located in the “Terre de Iesso” (Land of Jesus) that is found on old maps.
My finding is that this location for the camp of the saints (and Mount Zion) is consistent with the geography in The Book of Enoch. (See my Bible study for evidence that Enoch is scripture!)
Mount Zion?
I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above. And I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards the south. And as for those towards the east, was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those towards the south of red stone. But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the throne was of sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains Is a region the end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed.
Is the middle mountain, Mount Zion in the north?
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion in the far north, The city of the great King.
But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the [sides] of the north.
Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
Going back to Enoch:
And from thence I went to another place of the earth, and he showed me a mountain range of fire which burnt day and night. And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which joined with any other. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of these, and it excelled them in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne.
This passage seems to describe the same seven mountains.
This high mountain which thou hast seen, whose summit is like the throne of God, is His throne, where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit the earth with goodness.
And the fourth quarter, named the north, is divided into three parts: the first of them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas of water, and the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds; and the third part contains the garden of righteousness. I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth ...
The seven mountains appear to be in the north, along with the gardens of righteousness.
And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. [...] I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow.
Mount Zion is in a place of great darkness, where no flesh walks, in the darkness of winter. This all sounds consistent with it being located in the extreme north.
The Camp of the Saints
And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.
Is “the place for the elect and righteous” the same as the camp of the saints in Revelation 20:9? Of note is that this location is in the north-west here in Enoch.
They went up over the width of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.
And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the north. [...] And the angel who went with me said unto me: ' These shall bring the measures of the righteous, And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous, That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever. The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect, And those are the measures which shall be given to faith And which shall strengthen righteousness.
And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth, And set me down at the end of the heavens. And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy, And the resting-places of the righteous. Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels, And their resting-places with the holy.
The Two Seas
And after these fragrant odours, as I looked towards the north over the mountains I saw seven mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and cinnamon and pepper. And thence I went over the summits of all these mountains, far towards the east of the earth, and passed above the Erythraean sea and went far from it, and passed over the angel Zotiel. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness ...
It looks like the Erythraean Sea is to the east of the seven mountains.
I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its waters into the Great Sea. And these two come from the north to the sea and pour their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east. And the remaining, four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, two of them to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge themselves there
It seems that there are two main oceans in the world: the Great Sea and the Erythrean Sea. Could these be the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, respectively? The Great Sea is west of Jerusalem:
For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.
It will happen in that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
In the following verses about the two seas, the “ends of the earth” are also mentioned, as we saw above in Enoch 18:6-9:
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
The battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
A Possible Map?
Here is my latest understanding of the true geography, based on the scriptural evidence:
Relative sizes of features on this map and my annotations are approximate and may not be to scale.