Israel was in Armenia and the Caucasus, not Palestine

* I received confirmation for the below ideas in the dream, The Jews were in the Caucasus and other stuff.

The theory I will present here is that ancient Israel actually was located in Armenia and the Caucasus region. Hence, Jerusalem likely was located near mt Ararat and Yerevan, lake Sevan was the sea of Galilee, the Caspian sea is simultaneously the dead sea and the red sea (which are the same), biblical Egypt actually was based around the Volga river draining into the Caspian sea, and mount Sinai likely was around Afghanistan (though I am less certain about this last point).

Motivation and Precedent

I believe the location of Israel was falsified after the Romans and Catholic church lost control of Armenia. Desperate to uphold the theory to its citizens that they still were the true leaders of religion, they pretended like the holy city was in a different spot in their empire.

Perhaps this sounds crazy, but there actually is precedent for something exactly like this already occurring in the Muslim world:

Many believe that the original location of Mecca was actually in Petra Jordan for various reasons (source 1, source 2, here is a documentary from Dan Gibson). The motivation for the historical swap was that the caliphates lost control of Mecca (i.e. Petra), so falsified the location so as to pretend like they still had control of the city (which would have been very important to their existence since they claimed to be the religious leaders called of God to the Muslim World).

Scriptures

Here are some scriptures that don’t make sense in the context of Israel being near Palestine.

The Bible says Egypt is to the north of Israel (Genesis 13:1, 9-12, 14-15).
The Bible says the dead sea is to the east of the river Jordan (Deuteronomy 4:49).
The Bible says that when the Israelites waited on the east side of the river Jordan to attack Jericho, they were next to the red sea (Deuteronomy 1:1).
The sea of galilee is to the east of the river Jordan (Josh 13:27).
Apparently you can sail to Tarshish from both Joppa and Eilat (despite you having to sail all the way around Africa to sail from Joppa to Eilat)(Jonah 1:3, 2 Chronicles 20:36, 1 Kings 9:26-28).
Jonnah Magically hiked 500 miles to Nineveh from being dropped off by the whale in 3 days (Nineveh, Jonah 2:10, Jonah 3:1-3).
Ephraim is not landlocked (map, Josh 16:8), Zebulon is not landlocked (Josh 19:10-11), and the borders of Naphtali actually do touch Judah (Josh 19:32-34).
It doesn’t make sense for an east wind to drive the red sea back from Moses’s perspective in Exodus (Exodus 14:21).
Moab magically borders the Jordan river (Deuteronomy 1) despite having its upper border be the river Arnon.
Is the dead sea east or west of the river Arnon (Josh 12:2-3)?
If you read the Book of Mormon, Nephi was able to get to the red sea far too quickly.

Genetic Studies

As the following study shows, Jews are genetically much more similar to people from the Caucasus region than they are to Palestinians.

The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses Open Access – Eran Elhaik & Author Notes

The Caspian Sea

The Caspian sea aligns much with my theories. According to the Bible, when God parted the red sea, he did it gradually through wind:

Exodus 14:21
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

This doesn’t make sense for the red sea, which is thousands of meters deep. However, on my estimated crossing point from the Volga delta directly across southeast, that region of the ocean is less than 5 meters deep so actually could have been parted by the wind.

Moreover, according to the scriptures, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah should have been on the dead sea (Genesis 14:3). However, the scriptures also say that Sodom and Gomorrah were supposed to have been destroyed by volcanoes (Genesis 19:24–25). This doesn’t make sense because there are no volcanoes near the dead sea, unlike the Caspian, which is surrounded by volcanoes and even has underwater volcanoes.

Similarly, according to the scriptures one of the first “world wars” happened in the dead sea valley among kingdoms surrounding it (genesis 14) – which doesn’t make sense because the dead sea is far too small and barren for there to be any grand kingdoms near it (unless you count a tiny village as a kingdom).

And finally, according to the Bible there should be underwater civilizations in the dead sea -because it used to be a valley with kingdoms before it was flooded – something that archeologists have fruitlessly searched for in the official dead sea. Contrast this to the Caspian sea, which indeed has many underwater cities. And as a side note, the Caspian sea is in the right spot – east of Armenia – in accordance with how Lot went east from Abraham (Genesis 13:11).

Why Armenia Makes sense

Geographically, it really does have a perfect location – surrounded by beautiful mountains and lush green hills and plains perfect for agriculture. If there is any place in the middle east that would be considered a promised land, it really seems to me like that place indeed is Armenia, and certainly not Israel which is mostly desert.

Also noteworthy are the prophecies of how the temple mount will cleave in two during the second coming. This makes sense, given that Yerevan and Mt Ararat (which I believe are very close to ancient Jerusalem) are surrounded by volcanoes (Mt Ararat is a volcano) – so all this volcanic activity easily could split a mountain in two.

Similarly, end times prophecy has that Jerusalem will be destroyed and the saints will flee to the mountains (Matthew 24:15–16, Zechariah 14:2-5). In the context of modern Israel, this doesn’t make sense, because in that case the mountains are in Lebanon and the west bank – which as Muslim controlled territory surely are not any safer than Jerusalem. Contrast this to Armenia and Georgia, in which case the mountains would the be Caucasus mountains – which indeed have historically been a safe haven where people in the region flee to during invasion. And logically speaking, if the Christian world in Georgia and Armenia wars against the Muslims in Turkey and Azerbaijan, it makes sense that they would retreat up into the Caucasus if faced with defeat.

And finally, Israel’s 40-year voyage through the wilderness from Egypt to the promised land makes more sense in my model since the distances therein are much larger.

Israel Archeology

Dead sea scrolls

Modern research shows that the dead sea scrolls were made from materials that likely would not have been common in Palestine, indicating that the material for the parchment was brought there, not created there (source).

Thus, to me it seems highly likely that the dead sea scrolls were considered relics and as such were brought to Palestine by early Christians.

Phoenician

Much of the “archeology” in Israel showing Hebrew inscriptions is misstated, because ancient Hebrew had the exact same alphabet and was basically the same language as Phoenician. Thus, these archeological finds don’t prove anything other than that Phoenicia was present in Palestine – which we already knew.

Many (if not most) coins and artifacts connecting Palestine to the Jews have been shown to be fake (example 1, example 2, example 3, more examples). Moreover, much other archeology is “pseudo archeology”. Here is an example: many claim some random fortress (called Masada) discovered by the dead sea must have belonged to Herod. While it’s technically possible this is true (but very strange for Herod to base himself in the most remote and desolate part of his kingdom), the direction of the archeology is wrong: This type of thinking uses the preexisting historical theory to determine how archeological finds are interpreted, rather than new finds being used to alter how we interpret history.

Archeologists have shown that the estimated size of the settlement near Jerusalem (sometimes called the city of David) was only a few thousand people – a far cry from the 2.7 million people in Jerusalem as described by the ancient historian Josephus. Similarly, it’s still not even clearly known where the temple mount actually was, seeing the specifications for Solomon’s temple are much larger than the ruins discovered near the supposed “temple mount” (discussed here).

Atheists will be eager to note that there is basically no evidence the Jews ever existed in Israel, there is no relationship between Egypt and Israel as described in the Bible, and what little evidence there exists appears to be very speculative and contrived.

Stuff about Armenia

Erebuni Fortress (wiki)

The foundation story doesn’t make sense to me. It seems very odd for a conquerer to pick a random patch of just conquered land and move his capital and religious center to that place. Clearly Erebuni Fortress is even older than established history suggests.
The fort was also a religious center – from the Wikipedia article: “Surrounding the hall was a double-rowed twelve-column open portico with benches along the walls. An altar for sacrifices was located at the left wall.” (interesting that they had 12 columns).
The fort has images of a God stepping on Lions and Bulls (here and here), which aligns with symbolism in scriptures (Psalm 91:13). This also aligns with traditions in Solomon’s temple and Mormon temples of Oxen supporting things. And of course, this is a symbol for how the true God tramples under feat the Gods of the surrounding nations – which were typically represented as bulls.

Hayk – the patriarchal figure of Armenia (wiki)

His story is very similar to the story of Abraham in how he lead his people to their promised land.
He also was a military leader who had great victories overthrowing kings – something not mentioned about Abraham in the traditional Bible – however, many apocryphal sources also describe Abraham as a leader who defeated kings. Both figures were said to have defeated a king who was a giant (in Abraham’s case, this was Og, King of Bashan).
He had a special relationship with the Armenian god Khaldi, just like Abraham.
The Armenian word “pertaining to Armenians” derives from the word “Hayk” – much like how we see the word “Israel” means both a nation and a specific patriarch.

And finally, as is established, Armenia is one of the oldest Christian nations, aligning with my theory. Similarly, the Caucasus actually has many different groups of Jews who aren’t traders, but rather are farmers and have stayed there for millennia, even developing their own language (such as the Judeo-Tat). Moreover, if you study Armenia, it has a long history of deportations and genocides, from its earliest days to the modern world – again aligning with how we would expect the holy land to have been treated. And finally, much like the state of Israel, Armenia has a similar history – it used to be an ancient kingdom, but since the time of Christ it has largely been conquered by other nations (Rome, Persia, Ottomans, the Byzantines, etc.) – it was only at the fall of the soviet union that it was once again reestablished.

Also, it is my belief that much of Caucasus history is false or lost. If you look at pictures of the Caucasus, there are many ancient abandoned cities in the mountains, of which the history is largely unknown. Moreover, if you have been following the mud-flood, tartaria, (as described on sites like: (Stolenhistory.net, Stolenhistory.org, theunexpectedcosmology.com, falsehistory.net/, reddit.com/r/CulturalLayer), you should be aware that much of the history of Russia has been falsified – which thus extends to the Caucasus and Armenia since they were part of Russia. Focusing on Armenia, this article (There is something weird about the history of Armenia) again emphasizes that much appears unknown / false / mysterious about its history. Which is all to say that it might be easier for the history of the Caucasus region to be fake than you might initially expect.

Connecting mt Ararat to Jerusalem

Many old maps connect mt Ararat to the location of the garden of Eden and the landing point of Noah’s ark (this article has a few), as well as many biblical rivers and locations.

And just a note on old maps: many of them have this thing where the borders of countries are highlighted different colors – in my view such color highlighting is all added after the fact – since old maps didn’t have colors; thus you should ignore the weird highlights that modern people inserted (though these color highlights don’t necessarily contradict the ideas presented in this essay).

As I will show, according to various traditions, the location of Adam’s tomb, the landing spot of Noah’s arc, mount Ararat, the garden of Eden, and Jerusalem are all exactly the same place. Therefore, if we connect the dots, that should place ancient Jerusalem near the foot of mount Ararat (or right next to Armenia’s capital city, Yerevan).

Connecting the Location of Adam’s tomb to Jerusalem

1. The Cave of Treasures (Christian Apocryphal Text)

This Syriac text connects Adam’s burial site to the region around Jerusalem. According to the narrative: Noah, after the Flood, took Adam’s bones with him on the Ark and later reburied them at the site of Golgotha, which is traditionally within Jerusalem.

2. Jewish Midrashic Traditions

Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer: A Midrashic text that connects Adam’s burial to the area of the Temple Mount, regarded as the spiritual center of the world. Some rabbinic interpretations suggest that Adam was created from the earth of the Temple Mount, and his body was returned there upon his death.

3. Ethiopian Traditions

In Ethiopian Christianity, Adam’s burial site is also connected to Jerusalem, sometimes incorporating narratives from the Kebra Nagast, which emphasizes Jerusalem as central to biblical history and redemption.

Connecting Adam’s tomb to the Location of Noah’s Arc

1. The Cave of Treasures

This Syriac Christian text explicitly ties Adam’s burial to the region where Noah’s Ark landed. According to the narrative:

After Adam’s death, his body was placed in the Cave of Treasures near Eden. Later, Noah retrieved Adam’s bones before the Flood and took them aboard the Ark.

When the Ark landed on Mount Ararat, Noah buried Adam’s remains near the landing site.

2. The Book of the Bee (Syriac Christian Text, 13th Century)

This text parallels the Cave of Treasures in its narrative:

It describes how Noah carried the remains of Adam (and other patriarchs) during the Flood and buried them on Mount Lubar (a traditional name for the landing site of the Ark, sometimes identified with Mount Ararat).

3. Armenian Traditions

Armenian apocryphal traditions, often tied to the location of Mount Ararat, include legends about Noah carrying Adam’s remains and either burying them at or near the Ark’s landing site.