Firstly, the African continent is much larger than most people realize. In fact, with a surface area of around 30,365,000 km², Africa is 78% larger than Russia, China, India, the contiguous USA and most of Europe combined.

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However if you look closely at ancient maps of Central Africa prior to the 19th century, you'll notice several mountain ranges located in what was formerly known as Ethiopia, and which mainly encompassed the Congo Basin, but also Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi.

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In 1665, the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher published the story of Paez in his Mundus Subterraneus, a work that focused in part on the idea that a network of underground waterways maintains the circulation of water throughout the earth. Kircher illustrated Paez's story with the fascinating map below, depicting the source of the waters in the core beneath the Mountains of the Moon.

These mountain ranges correspond to the region known as Aegypto. These legendary mountain ranges were known to cartographers as Jibbel El Kumri or Mountains of the Moon, and claimed by the Greek scholar Ptolemy to be the source of the White Nile, which supplied lakes Zaire to the north, Zembere to the south and Zaflan to the east. However, towards the end of the 19th century these mountain ranges were removed from maps on the grounds that such theory could not be proven. In the 1870s, explorer Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to report seeing the Mountains of the Moon or the Ruwenzori range, and he later affirmed that the source of the White Nile was Lake Victoria, rather than the lakes Zaire, Zembere and Zaflan previously mentioned by Ptolemy.

The Rwenzori, also spelled Rwenjura, or Rwenzururu, known to the natives as the Mountains of the Moon due to the whiteness of the snow-capped mountains, are a high range of mountains located in the heart of equatorial Africa, mainly in the Congo Basin, and bordering Uganda. These mountain ranges feature many vast, elevated forest peaks, permanently covered by ice and snow.​ 

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The numerous rivers and stream-fed lakes of these mountain ranges flow into Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake and second largest freshwater lake. Its gigantic basin crosses the borders of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, and extends into Rwanda and Burundi, forming the main reservoir of the White Nile.

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Furthermore, the Congo Basin is also exceptionally rich in natural resources. Its soil is rich in world-class mineral deposits, including cobalt, gold, copper, timber, potash, lead, zinc, phosphate, manganese, uranium, niobium and tantalum derivatives, and iron ores. It produces 30% of the world's diamond reserves and 80% of the world's coltan reserves, and holds the second-largest reserves of gas and crude oil in Central and Southern Africa. It's the world's second-largest rainforest, with an abundant and very rich biodiversity, housing a huge array of rare animals. 

By contrast, according to the official narrative and the teachings of traditional Christianity, Mount Zion is a hill just outside the walls of modern Jerusalem in what is now the State of Israel (see image below). An arid region with many drought conditions.​

Is it logical to believe that the Lord will gather vast nations from all generations on this small dry hill? 🤔

• Revelations 14:1 "Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads."

• Revelations 7:9 "After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.."

You be the judge, and we encourage you to do your own research.

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