The land currently known as the Sultanate of Oman has had several names over the centuries, many of which are still in common use around the country. Let's explore these names and their spiritual significance.

Majan/Magan/Makkan. Probably the first recorded name of this land is Majan, of Sumerian origin, around 2300 BC, and was mentioned in ancient texts until around 500 BC. Majan probably means 'Land of Copper', as this region was an early producer and smelter of copper ore. The time of Majan roughly corresponds with the Bronze and Iron Age communities of the region, such as the Hafit and Umm An-Naar cultures.

The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), including Abraham's home of Ur, and traded extensively up and down the Arabian Gulf waters. The people of Majan provided them with copper and valuable black stone like gabbro and diorite which was used for carving statues. In return, the people of Majan received bitumen, which they used for tarring and water-proofing their advanced sailing ships.

Majan came under the rule of the Medo-Persian empire, probably during the rule of Cyrus the Great around 550 BC.

Declaration for Majan
God’s Message came to me: “As men gather silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into a furnace and blow fire on it to melt it down, so in my wrath I’ll gather you and melt you down. I’ll blow on you with the fire of my wrath to melt you down in the furnace. As silver is melted down, you’ll be melted down. That should get through to you. Then you’ll recognize that I, God, have let my wrath loose on you.’” Ezekiel 22:20-22 (MSG)

"So Moses made a snake of fiery copper and put it on top of a flagpole. Anyone bitten by a snake who then looked at the copper snake lived." Numbers 21:9 (MSG)  

"In the same way that Moses lifted the serpent in the desert so people could have something to see and then believe, it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up—and everyone who looks up to him, trusting and expectant, will gain a real life, eternal life." John 3:14-15 (MSG)

• We bless this land once known as Majan to be refined and purified, just as copper ore is smelted.
• We bless their impurities and unrighteousness to be burned away, and to repent and be saved.
• We bless them to turn from their unrighteousness and to look upon the Healer, the lifted-up Son of Man, and to find eternal life!

Worship with us!: Refiner’s Fire by Vineyard Worship.  May this land of ancient Majan be purified by the Refiner! 

Matthew 18:14 Focus—‘Your Father in heaven does not want one of these little ones to be lost.’ 

Please bring these towns and villages before the Father:

Burhan, Adam district, Ad-Dakhliyah region. Population: 91

Tarban, Adam district, Ad-Dakhliyah region. Population: 52

As-Sadah, Adam district, Ad-Dakhliyah region. Population: 50

Al-Qaryah, Al-Hamra district, Ad-Dakhliyah region. Population: 2274

Qalat al-Masalhah, Al-Hamra district, Ad-Dakhliyah region. Population: 2029