Silver Springs State Park, Ocala, Florida
He (Seleucus IV Philopator) will be succeeded by a contemptible person (Antiochus IV Epiphanes) who has not been given the honor of royalty. He will invade the kingdom when its people feel secure, and he will seize it through intrigue. ~ Daniel 11:21
Antiochus IV Epiphanes – North
- Ruled 175-164BC
- Antiochus was Philopator’s younger brother. He was NOT the rightful heir to the throne. (meaning he ‘has not been given the honor of royalty’) The rightful heir was Philopator’s son who was given to Rome as a hostage when he was just seven years old, in trade for Philopator’s brother, Epiphanes
- He gained the peoples security by distributing wealth and good will among them
- The ‘intrigue’ was the fact that he had Heliodorus murdered, and he also made himself co-regent with Philopator’s remaining son who was an infant at the time. A few years later, Epiphanes had the infant/child killed.
- He gave himself his name after taking the throne (originally he was Mithradates). His new name means ‘God Manifest’
- His eccentric and unpredictable behavior led people to call him ‘Epimanes’ behind his back – meaning ‘The Mad One’
- He enjoyed going out incognito and hanging out with those who lived immorally
- Ephiphanes was involved in an incident that started the metaphor of drawing/crossing a ‘line in the sand’.
“In 168 BC Antiochus IV Epiphanes led a second attack on Egypt and also sent a fleet to capture Cyprus. Before reaching Alexandria, his path was blocked by a single, old Roman ambassador named Gaius Popillius Laenas, who delivered a message from the Roman Senate directing Epiphanes to withdraw his armies from Egypt and Cyprus, or consider themselves in a state of war with the Roman Republic.
Epiphanes said he would discuss it with his council, whereupon the Roman envoy drew a line in the sand around him and said, “Before you cross this circle I want you to give me a reply for the Roman Senate” – implying that Rome would declare war if the King stepped out of the circle without committing to leave Egypt immediately.
Weighing his options, Epiphanes decided to withdraw.” (quote from Widipedia)
There will be much more on Antiochus IV Epiphanes, as verses 21-32 are mostly about him.
Born 215BC Died 164BC
Another beautiful day!
We rode our bikes all over, but our main destination was the Park Entrance. We parked and walked all around, ate some lunch while watching the glass-bottom boats cavort around the Headsprings, then biked back home. Just a nice, fun leisurely day.
Since I don’t have much to write about, here’s some information as well as trivia I found on IMDB about the TV show, Sea Hunt which was on the air for four seasons; 1958-1961. There were 155 episodes.
In case you don’t know about Sea Hunt, or have forgotten, here’s a synopsis of the show:
As the early days of SCUBA diving opened up a new world, Sea Hunt portrayed diverse underwater adventures. Mike Nelson (played by Lloyd Bridges) is in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, and although this does not play into most episodes, it supports his diving expertise through training in and work with the Coast Guard and Navy which includes demolition. Mike finds himself in adventures that include performing rescues, solving mysteries, conducting undersea exploration and scientific experiments, testing new technologies, fighting crime, and locating anything from sunken ships to satellites and spacecraft. Sometimes, he is just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and we experience him resolving the situation and getting himself out of a predicament. Voice-overs help viewers understand what in taking place in the silence of the deep and to gain from his knowledge as he also explains his thoughts to educate us in and entice us to go into the fascinating world he visits in each episode.
Several episodes feature Lloyd Bridges real-life young sons Beau and Jeff Bridges, as well as other soon-to-be stars early in their career.
When Lloyd Bridges complained about the weight of his twin air tanks during topside re-takes, the art director designed twin tanks made of balsa wood and had them painted silver. Only in the earliest episodes is Bridges using real tanks for above-surface scenes.
Lloyd Bridges (I) decided to leave the show after four seasons because the producers wanted to emphasize cops-and-robbers plots, while he wanted to focus more on environmental themes.
When the producer wanted Mike Nelson to wear a gray wetsuit, he had to have one specially ordered. Objecting to the high price, the producer bought a can of spray paint, sprayed it himself, and had two of the crew hold Lloyd Bridges (I)’ arms up while the paint dried. When it did, Bridges couldn’t put his arms down–the dried paint was too stiff. The producer wound up spending the extra money for a gray wetsuit anyway.
According to the Manchester/Reid biography of Winston Churchill, Churchill rarely watched television but did occasionally enjoy watching this show.
Mike Nelson’s boat is called the Argonaut.
This was the first foreign show ever broadcast in Spain.
The Sea Hunt theme music was recorded by several orchestras, including those of Buddy Morrow and Patrick Cowley. In every case the record label credited the composition to “Ray Llewellyn,” a mysterious pseudonym believed by most researchers to belong to David Rose. An alternative theory is that “Llewellyn,” who also provided the music to I Led 3 Lives (1953), Meet Corliss Archer (1954) and Highway Patrol (1955), was an umbrella pseudonym used by Rose and other composers at Ziv Productions who were working on low-budget or non-union projects.
Actor Jack Ingram was the owner of the boat used on Sea Hunt. It was a 1961 33 foot Trojan Express Cabin Cruiser yacht used by Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson in the last season.
Catchphrase from the show, when Lloyd was looking for something … “Then I saw it!” On one episode he said “Then I saw it, but it was only an old boot!”
Here’s a list of just a few of the now famous people who appeared on Sea Hunt:
Leonard Nimoy, Jeff and Beau Bridges, Larry Hagman, Robert Conrad, Jack Nicholson, Morgan Brittany, Bruce Dern, and Ted Knight. With a cast of over 400, I’m sure there are more. 😊
Friday was a rain day, so there’s nothing to report.