Key Events
1 August 2016 - 30 September 2016
1/8/16, Stand-off in Armenian capital ended.  This began a few weeks ago but ended today in Yerevan.  Armenia appears to be one of the nations to join the Gog-Magog alliance in the invasion of Israel in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  In the incidemt, about 20 men took some hostages and holed-up in a government building.  They demanded the Armenian President resign and the release from jail of a political opposition leader.  Just another indicator of the instability in the Caucassus (Gog-asite) nations.  A big crowd of protestors supported the gunmen and their demands making things tricky for police to manage the situation.
1/8/16, Protestors in Yerevan jam the streets fourth summer in a row.  This month they demonstrated for the reasons cited above.  Again, it is the potential role of Armenians in the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 Prophecy that is of interest here.  The Armenian Church, a Christendomite cult that still practices animal sacrifice quite contrary to the points made in the Book of Hebrews, holds one of the Quarters in the Old City of Jerusalem.  Armenian Christendomites may play a crucial role in the seizure of the City of Jerusalem so that Muslims can join them and other cults in exercising joint control of  Jerusalem's holy places.
1/8/16, Three million people of Turkish heritage live in Germany.  We ask, if Germany is the "Gomer" of Ezekiel 38:6 would this provide a supply of invaders heading for Israel from Germany when the Gog-Magog led invasion definitely takes off?   But how many in the "three million" are Kurdish Turks?  We doubt they would join such an alliance.  Germany has also absorbed a very large number of recent Syrian, other Arabic-speaking and Cushite refugees as well.  They might readily join an attack or crusade against Israel.  Any of these people presumably add more to the 63 million refugees sloshing  around Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
This information came in a TV report about a pro-Erdogan demonstration in Germany.  The German authorities would not allow a televised speech by President Erdogan to the crowd on the grounds the event might lead to trouble on the streets.  President Erdogan and many Turks in Germany were upset at the German Authorities' action. 
3/8/16, "Focusing on their own lives and less on the meaning of life".  This comment came for a TV report about the japanese avoiding the religious temples indicating a growing secularism in Japan.  The Japanese no longer seem to consider their spritual side to life.  Of course, there is only one true Spirit for us to relate to and that is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Only the Oracles of God in the Bible can give any true or real meaning to "Life".
5/8/16, "Augmented reality versus virtual reality".  A discussion on a radio programme.  In the first, one is adding to reality for example by using a view of a lounge and using the computer to see where the couch will fit best.  One adds to or augments the scene.  Virtual reality creates a complete scene for the viewer.  Our comment is that life is being distorted in a great variety of ways with all this amazing technology.  But long-term, and that may not be that far away now, this stuff is distorting people so much that they are being ripened for Antichrist-666 to take over with his astounding ('Harry Potter' like?) powers.
9/8/16, Yet another suicide bombing in Pakistan - 70 mourners dead.  The reporter said there had been many such incidents in Baluchistan, Pakistan.  This one was at Qetta.  Some were blaming India trying to destabilise Pakistan.  Many attacks are against Shias.  In this case it seems the target was a group of lawyers.  The event underscores the point that the vast majority of Islamist killings are of muslims by muslims and rarely are others involved.
Islam spread over many ethnic groups but took the prophecy-curses on Ishmael and Esau with them.  Islam steadfastly refuses to accept that Jesus had to go to The Cross, dying, to appear before God, face to face, to pay for the sin of Adam, hence our own sin too.  Man's Sin has brought us into all this mess.  Most Muslims say Jesus was taken off the cross, recovered and never did pay the sin price (II Corinthians 5:21).  In Christendom this is often named the "Swoon Theory".  We rarely hear about that idea these days but it is alive and kicking in Islam, hence the problems that religion faces.
Islam needs to accept all that Christ did for each one of us.  Failing that, and worse, by openly, regularly and publicly mocking Christ's Sacrifice, Muslims are bringing terrible curses upon themselves.  Other belief systems tend to be more circumspect in their criticism of Christ's Sacrifice.  Muslims also bring curses upon themselves by persecuting Israel.  In fact it is their perrsecution of Israel that angers God the most.  Their anti-Israel stance is even more ridiculous considering  their Prophet Mohammad said in Sura XVII that the return of the Jews back to Israel would be a blessing from God.
Modern Muslims reject Mohammad's advice.  Some of them claim Sura XVII refers to the Jews coming out of Egypt in 1485 BC.  But that would make no sense whatsoever in AD 700 when the Diaspora of Israel, following the Roman expulsions of AD 70 and 135, clearly related to the situation of AD 700.   Mohammad in Sura XVII was addressing a question about the Jewish situation in AD 700 when the majority of Diaspora Jews lived in Arab-controlled territory or in Babylon-Iraq-Persia.  Muslims are almost unanimously anti-Israel, apart from, ironically, the governing classes in the original Arab states of Arabia and the Emirates where concerns about Iran's power drives them into a far less anti-Israel stance not far short of support though still not explicitly supporting Israel.  On that point, very few nations explicitly 'support' Israel.  On the other hand open action against Israel will definitely invoke curses on that nation under the Abrahamic Covenant.  There is no such sanction against persecution of Christians although the long-run consequence of such action is not to be wanted!
9/8/16, Putin and Erdogan get together.  In the wake of the purge now going on in Turkey after the attempted coup d'etat, a meeting for Mr Erdogan with Mr Putin is most apt.  Putin is the beneficiary or inheritor of many a purge in the former Soviet Union's history.  Not so long ago Putin and Erdogamn were in a war of words after Turkey shot a Russian fighter-plane out of someone's skies, either Syria's or Turkey's.  Worse, one of the pilots was lynched by pro-Turkish fighters.  No one in the wider world is really sure what the truth was there.  No matter because Erdogan can now put the mistake down to Gulenist devotees trying to embarrass Mr Erdogan's Government and Presidency. 
From the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 point of view, we have here a meeting between the leader of Rosh-Russia and Meshech-Moscow and the leader of Modern Turkey once home to the Romanovs of Byzantium-Istanbul and to the ancient tribes of Meshech, Magog etc.  The Tsars and Czars of Russia were both Sar and Caesar.  Leaders of both Muslims (Sar) and Orthodox Christians (Caesar) and  leader of Turkik and Slav.  Russia became the Third Rome after the original city then Byzantium and now Moscow (Meshech).
But Turkey has been involved as a member of NATO for a while now and was seeking to join the EU.  Putin would rather Turkey integrate economiically, join or align with Russia, Ukraine, perhaps even Germany, Iran etc than go with the Tarshishites (NATO-SEATO) and EU.  One awaits the outcomes here to see if they do fit the prophecies.  Definitely we have a good fit in these developments with the prophecies and enough to go on to positively encourage others to prepare to get aboard the Rapture Train rather than stay on the Gravy Train.   That's weher Faith applies.  We will never get certainty on these things.  We will get very good evidence.  Israel had great evidence Jesus wa Messiah.  Its leaders rejected Him even though many members of the general population  said "surely" this is The Son of David.  We might say now, surely these events are the fore-runners to Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  Certainly, no events in the past came close to fittinhg the current circumstances with Ezekiel.  The Sea People Wars supposedly of the 12th Century BC but really of the 6th century BC bore a resemblance to being a fulfilment but most people are almost totally oblivious to that point.  
9/8/16, "New Archaeological discovery at Tintagel".  Just caught the tail-end of this item on a NZ radio station this morning (8:45 am).  Apparently archaeologists have found a massive walled enclosure in Tintagel, Cornwall, South-West England.  The complex held items from Byzantium inside.  Byzantium was a little way north of Troy, possibly a variant of the name for Tyre, and had inherited ancient Tyre's hegeomy in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, Asia Minor.     Archaeologists were dating the building's walls to the 5th Century AD, i.e.,  after the West Romans had withdrawn.  Although the East Romans from Byzantium seemed to be having an influence there through trade or whatever.
In 28/1/16, "Magdalena River of Columbia drying up and threatens Cartaghena", we noted how far and wide Tyre's reach went in the millennium before Rome.   Carthage is also named "Cartago" in some quarters so "Tintagel" is perhaps Tin-Targo in the original form of its name.  It is generally accepted Phoenicians were extracting tin oxide from Cornwall.  Even in modern times tin smelting has continued there.  Phoenicians used tin to harden copper to make Bronze.  The so-called Bronze Age, perhaps better named "The Age of Tyre", reflects the widespread popularity of Bronze in the ancient world.  In our revised history we liken it to the oil trade of the modern Tarshishite Western Hemisphere which developed the oil trade and fostered the ubiquitous markets for oil and its by-products.
Tyrian Phoenicia's ancient hegemony is referred to in the Bible as "Tyre" but the Egyptians appear to have labelled it "Punt" the "Put" of Ezekiel 38:5.  In Joshua 19:29 the scribe calls it a "fortified city" like Troy but clearly referring to the rocky island stronghold barely off the Lebanese Coast.  Ezekiel chapters 26-8 devotes three chapters to the subject of Tyre reinforcing its importance to our understanding of both Prophecy and History or His Story.
In Matthew 21:1ff, Jesus travelled north to Tyre to meet the Syro-Phoenician woman with the demon-possessed daughter.   It is the view in these papers that Jesus did that deliberately with God the Father and Holy Spirit to provoke the Syro-Phoenician woman to make the point she so vehemently did.  The Holy Spirit moved her, clearly a Gentile believer in Jehovah, to say, "Even the house dogs get the crumbs from the master's tables".  One can almost sense here Jesus the Son telling her it is not right to give meat to the dogs" then God saying, "You tell My Son,  etc., ".  Not a disagreement between Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but a conscious concerted cooperative action before a deliberately selected Jewish and Gentile audience.  This event recalling God's direction to Elijah then Elisha;  two single men, prophets of God, pleading with Israel to repent of the sin of Jereboam etc., harried-by-the-king;  going to the region of Tyre to resurrect the dead son of two different Phoenician women; set the scene for Mary Magdalene that woman's daughter.  That 'scene' would be in the Garden of the Tomb, with Jesus as the Last Eve and a Tyrian representative of Gentiles to be first to witness the risen God-Man Who came to save the World from The First Adam's Sin.
Yet the Scribes also referred to the "daughters of Tyre" as it does to the descendants of some other groups (Ezekiel 26:6, 27:15).  We understand from these references that the world's history could all have come to a finality at the First Coming of Jesus Whose main Ministry at the beginning was to offer the Messianic Kingdom to His Generation of Israel as John had prepared the nation for this.  However, or perhaps unfortunately, Exodus 4:8 reveals, ex post only not ex ante, that Israel would reject His First coming.
Thus certain unfilfilled prophecies that could have come into play by AD 30 had to be re-scheduled, from our point of view though God already foreknew the situation, for the Second Coming.  It is Exodus 4:8 and the enigmatic situation there in connection with the resurrections of Lazarus and the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11:1-13 that opens up this possibility of this Aleph-Tav (Greek, "Alpha and Omega") Bible Code History-Prophecy Continuum.  However, it discontinued for a season as the world awaited the Christendom Era and Church Age to unfold.  The Church Age ends at The Rapture.  Not for very long after The Rapture, Christendom along with Israel and everyone else sees things through to the Second Coming.
Thus, we are now in the Tav or Last Phase where Tyre is represented by Tarshish and, for example, the Emirates and Arabia sitting atop Eden's oil are the modern "Sons of Dedan (Ezekiel 27:15).  We really have to then say the text effectively coded the situation for revelation only in The Last Days (Daniel 12:4 & 9) when Jesus' disciples "longing for one particular Day of the Son of Man" (Luke 17:22), i.e., The Rapture Day - Would see it!  When Jesus spoke to the Twelve and perhaps other disciples in the group, He said "You will not see it!"   But Yeshua (Jesus) nevertheless referred to the Rapture Generation as having to live in an era "like the Days of Noah" or "Like the Days of Lot" (Luke 17:24-37, Matthew 24:36-41 and Mark 13:32-37).  
So we now realise there had to be references to the sons and daughters of some of the ancient nations because those descendants - i.e., us -  would begin to see the pattern:  And the true History in order to explain the outstanding and unfulfilled Prophecies.  That pattern is divided into two parts:  The Aleph and the Tav or First and Last (Hebrew, Rishon v'Acheron).  The way the prophecies would have panned out had Israel accepted Christ might have been a little different to our situation.  Thus the prophecies were carefully worded, not to be ambiguous, but in order to fit either Israel-Reject or Israel-Accept scenario.  Of course, God foreknew there would be the discontinuum so that the unfulfilled prophecies would apply specifically to the Latter i.e., the Tav.  However, the prophets were carefulkly inspired in their words to craft them in order that they could equally be fulfilled under either scenario.  This is an amazing concept to realise various texts were scattered through the general text of the Old And New Testaments.  But that does seem to be the way that it is.  It is extraordinary but true!  Glory be to God!
This situation might also reveal why Jesus was 34 before He began His Ministry.  It would seem that he spent many years just being with His earthly family, perhaps running a business founded by His deceased step-father.  The point is that one could see the attempt of Herod to kll Baby Jesus and the disinterest apparent in the Temple in Jesus' bar Mitzvah year (AD 6-7) as indicating Israel's scepticism concerning the Scriptures.  Specifically, they disbelieved prophecies about Messiah and the End of the Age, Messianic Kingdom etc., and even in the History of Israel, as our theologians do today.  We can see that the prophecies still unfulfilled as at AD 70, when the Temple had been destroyed, could conceivably all be packed into a thirty year-or-so period.  We won't expand that thought here  
So these archaeologists have no idea what they are really unearthing.   What they are doing is to confirm other evidence we use to expose the falsity of modern historians, archaeologists and Egyptologists.  God is allowing this, in these Last Days as per Daniel 12:4 & 9, so that we can successfully exhort the rest of the world to return to the Bible's claims before it is to late.  If one is not saved, one will not be there in the Millennium.  It is during Christ's Millennial reign that mankind  will be able to discover its history.  Thay may well be part of our role in the Messianic Kingdom.  Unearthing the past may well be part of our 'Work' in that blessed era which is why we get a millennium to do the job.  Under current circumstances, for example with deliberate falsification by groups like Egyptologists, we are often stymied looking fro answers from the past.  However, no such difficulties in the Millennium when we can undertake the task at our leisure with our resurrected bodies tirelessly available for the task.
10/8/16, 300 Volcanos found in Indian Ocean off Australian Coast.  This comment  came during a progress report on a nation-wide radio station about the search for Malay Airline MH 370.  It apparently went off course and crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean.  Debris has been coming ashore in Madagascar, Reunion and even Tanzania.  So it does seem clear the plane, originally headed for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur enigmatically went off course.  We reported in these pages on the search in 9/4/14, “Dozens of planes and ships scour ocean for missing MH 370".  Now, in a search area off the West Australian Indian Ocean Coast covering about the same distance from Melbourne to Sydney, they have charted 300 volcanos.   Long have we been suggesting as in 29/5/14, "$70 million to be spent mapping South Indian Ocean floor" and In 30/3/15, “Mapping the ocean floor to sense what might be there”  that the crashed airliner is enabling funds to be relaease for ocean floor mapping.
Our first interest in this projct came from a lecture by Dr Fruchtenbaum on Jeremiah 31:31 where he pointed out that only if the universe and ocean depths could be mapped would God abandon the New Covenant (Brit Hadashah).  It was made with Israel.  At present, only the Church of Christ benefits from the covenant while Israel contines to reject it by failing to accept Jesus of Nazareth as Son of God, Son of David, The Promised Deliverer and the Messiah of Israel.  While working for the New Zealand Government at the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, the author received documents from three Governments, in an exercise he was doing for APEC, noting that mapping the heavens and the ocean were the "top two priorities for International Science and Economics".
However, while this is evidence the world system is being abused to meet the conditions laid down in Jeremiah 31:37, it is also becoming evident that Global Warming is about over-heating in the Earth's interior for reasons that have nothing to do with Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere.  Ice core samples suggest as much as 6-8% of the atmosphere was CO2  before the ice came.  We believe that is quite likely and that forests are currrently starved of CO2   That in turn means they cannot flourish as they did before the Great Flood of Noah that ushered in the Ice Age as the waters dried up in the form of snow that collected at the Poles and on the newly formed mountain tops.
The air-crash expert being interviewed just mentioned the 300 volcanos in passing.  His main point was about the way the investigators had worked out the ocean area the plane most likely ditched in and how it fell from the sky.  He was talking about the last few signals the plane had sent to the satellites giving clues as to its last skyward location before plunging seaward.  The point about the volcanos was pure obiter dicta and not vital to the point of his discussion.  This note therefore, or in this way, shows that vital information on one matter can be gleaned by following some other almost completely irrelevant story.
Thus, one conclusion we might draw is that there is a desperate attempt to map the heavens and oceans in order to directly challenge God's point in Jeremiah 31:37.  It is almost as if the pilot perhaps deliberately, or even someone remotely, controlled the aiircraft and ditched the plane there in the southern Indian Ocean to get funding for the Jeremiah 31:37 Project.  Of course one cannot seriously posit such an idea without more hard information.  For example did the pilots have a pre-arranged rendezvous to meet some ocean-going vessel away down there to rescue them?  Why did one of the pilots have such a route planned-out on his own personal flight simulator he had at home?
The whole event concerning MH 370 is so bizarre that one needs to explore the outer limits of the normal distribution curve to conduct a proper investigation.  With what one knows about the rhymes and reasons of Egyology distortion one is not surprised to find out there is some skull-duggery going on here to!  For example, oceanographers have noticed increasingly large waves pounding the under-sea ice shelves supporting the main land-based ice on Antarctica's continent facing the Indian Ocean.  Some of these oceanographers worry that the main land-based ice shelves could catastrophically slip into the Indian Ocean if this turbulence continues or increases.  Could these larger waves be generated by rising energy levels exuding from Indian Ocean floor volcanos and trenches covering massive rifts in the Earth's crust miles below the ocean's surface?  If that is happening on the Indian Ocean floor what about the other oceans surrounding Antarctica?
11/8/16, Putin using hybrid warfare to occupy Ukraine.  He is assigning special forces wearing a green uniform to conduct operations in East Ukraine which this commentator suggested was under Russian control.  We make the point that Gog and Gog's allies in Magog, who are overlords (Hebrew, Nasi) of Moscow and Russia, plus Iranians and Africans are arranging a diversionary  "mischief" to prepare a march on Israel and her "spoil" (Holy Places?).  The Ukraine, Latvian or Estonian feints may be a part of that diversionary tactic.
Of course anyone reading Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16, in these latter apostate days, is likely to be someone giving credence to the prophecy.  He or she therefore knows what happens to the countries who participate in the alliance.  That theoretical person might actually be implicitly encouraging the villainous parties to go right ahead.  However, other prophecies indicate that the disaster also paves the way for the Antichrist to rise to power.  Our advice is to leav matters to The One True God to sort out.  So anyone playing a game like that will get his or her fingers burned.
What one should use these prophecies for, Apostle Peter's "More sure Word of Prophecy", is to alert people to the urgent need to get their life in order with God, repent, change their minds and accept His Perfect, Good and Acceptable Will.  That is to let the Sin of Adam play its way out and for us to repent of it because God imputes Adam's sin to each one of us which is only fair and reasonable.  So if you are reading this, change your mind and accept God's Plan for your redemption through the offer God made with His Only Begotten Son, Yeshua of  Nazareth, via that Cross outside Jerusalem's city walls on Passover (Pesach) 14 Nisan AD 30.
14/8/16, Saakashvili Governs South Odessa for Pro-European Ukrainian Leaders.   This was confirmed (refer other stories listed at end of this item) on a TV programme about corruption in Ukraine.  The programme gave more background to our items listed below concerning "Georgia".  Like Russia, Ukraine seems to be dominated by wealthry oligarchs.  Oligarchs and mafias were using the port at Odessa to run rackets.  Saakashvili  had finished his term as Georgian leader and seems to be a darling or acolyte of the West with his reformist economic agendas.  He went to the Ukraine and took up citizenship of the former Soviet nation.  The current President appointed him to govern Odessa and break the powers of the local council there which seemed to be in league with corrupt oligarchs.  [We heard him on a report during the Ukrainian revolution to remove the pro-Russian President, saying "This is the beginning of the fall of the Russian Empire]. According to this latest report, Saakashvili brought in young reformist people to bring in proper regulatory control of the port's business activities.  One of these aides, a young woman, was a sort of poster-girl for the recent revolution that brought the swift Russian response to put pressure on Ukraine to remain inside Russia's influence sphere.  But many people in Odessa are either Russian or at least pro-Russian and not at all keen to become integrated with the EU and NATO.
Refer also:  
•	24/2/14, “End of the Russian Empire”, ('Russia is beginning to dissect Georgia');
•	9/4/14, “Armenia allying with Russia to dismember parts of Georgia”;
•	26/4/14, “Cossacks in Transnistia want to join Russian Federation”;
•	20/5/14, "Chechens (Gogites) deny they have fighters operating in East Ukraine";  
•	7/11/14, “Kids leaving Georgia to fight for ISIS/ISIL”;
•	15/6/15, Zoo animals on the loose after flood in Tbilisi (Tubal), Georgia (Gogia)”;  
•	25/7/15, "Former Georgian (Gogian) Premier Mikhiel Saakashvili appointed Governor in Odessa"; 
•	25/1/16, Oil puts Georgia on the map;
•	25/1/16, "The Caucasus:  A hotbed of small independent states"; and  
•	14/7/16, ISIS Leader a Georgian, Chechen, 'Christian' and Muslim".
15/8/16, "He is immortal now".  A sports commentator when Yousain Boult won a third gold medal (in the same event) at the Rio Olympics having won the gold for the 100 meters at Beijing and London.  Three consecutive Olympic wins for the 100 meters.  Mind you, American Michael Phelps has about 23 gold medals and another American swimmer has eight or so (Mark Spitz).  Another commentator was heard to say he is "a living legend".  The sad thing is that the wonders of the human body are never credited to our Creator's Glory.
17/8/16, Russia uses Iranian air base to bomb Syria.  (Refer also to 23/8/16, "Russia evicted from Iranian air base".)  The air base it had been using in Southern Russia near the Armenian border was too far away to give its jets enough fuel and time to drop heavy payloads.  Now from Iran, Russia's jets can deliver many more bombs to smash Syria even harder.  The only outcome from all this is a continual rise in displaced people from the many obliterated or semi-smashed towns and cities, villages etc.  The refugee-displaced persons count is now 63 million and rising - it seems.  Surely this is part of the plan to stir up the hordes that invade Israel in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.
Meanwhile a well-known, and often but never impartial, Middle Eastern News Service is stirring up a mountain out of the molehill argument currently boiling over every now and again concerning worship rights in Jerusalem.  When one considers the vast chaos obliterating the many muslim nations surrounding Israel and further afield in ever wiening concentric circles,  the mini-molehill surrounding Jerusalem's holy hill is being exaggerated out of all proportion.  However, that seems to make sense to us.  Considering, we suggest, without being dogmatic, that as the refugee hordes are being gathered the prize or spoil of Jerusalem is under magnification (like this document as the writer struggles with macular degeneration).  Slowly but surely, we seem to be on the track down which Ezekiel 38:1 ff takes us.
One hopes to kkeep the reader informed.  Any developments that clearly reject this hypothesis, or any in these papers, will promptly be reported.  For example, any information we receive to show that the 14-year old boy we are currently monitoring and observing as the candidate for Antichrist - The one who is given names meaning or translating as "Majesty King of Kings" and whose name then adds to 666 in Hebrew characters - IS NOT 666 .... then one will immediately report that.  Dr Fruchtenbaum, in Footsteps of the Messiah, First and Second editions, suggests the Antichrist willl arise out of the world chaos that ensues from the disastrous defeat of the Gog-Magog alliance invasion.  He says that chaos will lead to massive international governance re-organisation, probably into a Ten Nation World Confederacy somehow appointed by a World Government or perhaps a reformed UN as the world now needs.
23/8/16, "Syrian and Russian bombs no longer cynical but sinful".  The words of Mr O'Brien at the UN Security Council.  A question one must ask is why people like him do not resign after giving a speech like he did so critical of the UN on Syria's crioses.
23/8/16, "Russia evicted from Iranian air base".  A report on a TV news service.  One assessment is that Iran is split over letting Russia wage war from Iranian territory suggesting ut is "unconstitutional".  Another assessment suggests Iran was embarrassed by Moscow trumpeting the deal.  It is back to the long way around by using its own bases from southern Russia (in the Caucasus or Gogasus mountains.  Refer, 17/8/16, Russia uses Iranian air base to bomb Syria.    
23/8/16, Turkey and Syrian rebels align against Kurds and its US backers.  Turkey is getting very nervous at the Kurds growing strength in north Syria.  The Syrian rebels are also worried the prize they are fighting for will be much the smaller if the Kurds declare a new state in north Syria.  So a natural alliance is growing between the rebels and Turkey.  Unfortunately, Turkey's NATO ally the USA is committed to backing the Kurds.  Yet another terrible complication in this complex mess.   
23/8/16, USA negotiating with Turkey on Fetula Gulen's extradition.  Initial discussions have begun on this matter against the backdrop of a potential US versus Turkey proxy struggle for control of North Syria, as ISI shrinks and retreats,  by the Kurds and Syrian freedom fighters.  Turkey tacitly supports the Syrians but the Americans back them and the Kurds.  However, the US cannot risk a disastrous breakdown in relations with Turkey in the run-up to a legal battle over the extradition of Mr Fetula Gulen the leader of the Gulenists some of whom Mr Erdogan believes are behind the failed coup in Turkey a few weeks ago.  Interestingly, according to a US State Department spokesman, Turkey's supporting documentation sent to initiate an extradition process does not refer to Gulen's involvement in the coup - alleged or otherwise. Gulen said some of his supporters do seem to have been involved in the coup but he never asked or instructed them to take part.  That  suggests some Turkey-based Gulenists participated in the coup of their own volition not necessarily anything to do with Gulenist philosophy.  (Refer "Gulenism" in 16/7/16, Turkish Coup d'Etat fails after a few hours but 300 dead).  
24/8/16, Quakes of 6.2 - 6.8 in Bologna, in Italy, and in Myanamar.  Ironically, the day before one had been speaking to some Italians from Bologna and one referred to the 2009 quake that struck that region.  A very frightening quake in Bologna according to an Italian-American living near Bologna.  The Burmese quake left several 13th Century AD temples damaged.  Later in the day, we heard a report that the death toll in Italy was 247.
24/8/16, Erbil based academic urges Turkey to befriend Kurds.   Apparently a Turkish analyst but very well spoken English talking on an international television news service.  He was participating in a panel discussing the latest complications where Kurds and Free Syrian rebels were competing for control of a town being vacated by ISIS under military pressure from the two anti-Assad porotagonists.  However, whereas the Americans are backing the Kurds and Syrian rebels, the Turks are backing tonly he latter.  But unusually, as this analyst was saying, Turkey (or perhaps Mr Erdogan) apparently finds it easier now to talk to Assad rather than the Kurds!
24/8/16, Erdogan talks to Russia, Iran and Assad to resist Kurds.  As the analyst mentioned above says, Erdogan;  despite his antagonism toward Assad and still smarting from a recent fracas with Russia over a downed jet fighter;    seems less able to talk and negotiate with Kurds.  One had noticed Turkish antipathy toward Kurdsthis many years ago (circa 2000).  This was noted in the author's paper on "Middle East Crises" (refer The Cloud, URL below).  It was written following a conference discussing the Kurdish situation.  One updated it following a few weeks working with Turks in a Bank on Euston Road ("Akbank").  It is sadly and painfully obvious many Turks, themselves wonderful people,  really hate and despise the Kurds.  (Further comment below in 24/8/16, Erdogan's Turkey failed to weaken Kurds; strenghtened them instead).    
24/8/16, Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish leader wants to talk with Erdogan.  One analyst thinks that might be due to Barzani's concern about the Syrian Kurds' policy and its potentially damaging effect on pan-Kurdish aspirations.  The analyst even suggested there was some friction or even rivalry between Iraqi and Syrian Kurds.  These reports illustrate the problems of a vacuum in some sort of pan-Kurdish approach to their troubles as a divided ethnic group lacking a nation-state of their own.  
24/8/16, Erdogan's Turkey failed to weaken Kurds.  Instead, as this commentator added the Turks have only "strengthtened them".  As noted above, Erdogan seems unable to "reach out" to Kurds and find some sort of peaceful arrangement with them.  He even seems more able to reconcile with long-standing enemies than talk to a group that is a major and potentially helpful community in his own country.  Of course, he may be under pressure from fellow-countrymen and -women to hard-line the Kurds.
However, with our knowledge of the reconstructed history and actual career of the Kurds' ancestral great kings especially Nebuchadnezzar and to a much lesser but significant extent, Suleiman (Suleyman, Solomon), it is easy to see why Erdogan, and indeed the Iranians, Syrians, Arabs and others in the Middle East would be concerned about the Kurds' successes in the fracas going on in the region euphemistically referred to as the Arab Spring.  We cannot even get into discussing here problems such as general and public confusion in Turkey and elsewhere between: 
•	Suleiman the Kurd, (AD 1200);
•	Shalmaneser (or Tsar Solomon) the Assyrian (800 BC); and
•	Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean (a.k.a. Nebuchadrezzar or Nebo's Tsar of the Chards-Kurds) who reigned in 600 BC;
with the Israelite and only really peaceful King Solomon.  Those kings were part of a real history now massively distorted in the halls of academia, christendom, islamia and esoterica (masons, illuminati, adepts etc).  Turkish antipathy toward Kurds who played a major part in the defence of Troy against Agamemnon the Achean more than a millennium before the Turks themselves arrived in Asia Minor (Anatolia), is no doubt formed out of historical misunderstandings. 
Actually, as these items in Key Events for today show, one must ask why the Kurdish situation has come so much to the fore NOW!  Is there some other factor going on?  Are  we are on the verge of the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16?  Does Isaiah 48:14c have some bearing on the matter.    The Kurds are discussing the concept of a "shibeh istiqlaal".  In 28/7/16, 'Major Kurdish base bombed in North East Syria', we consider if a pan-Kurdish solution would be to set up 'shebas' or 'emirates' to ' rule' or 'administer' the Kurds.  Perhaps these 'shibehs' could be art of a principality either in Iraq, Turkey or Syria or separate principalities in each of  the three already-extant nation-states.  Such an idea was concocted (rather unsuccessfully) by the ancient Assyrians when "Esarhaddon" (circa 680 BC) became the Kurds' (chaddon) 'prince' or 'sar'.
Or, as is a major theme here, this might be part of the fulfillment of the words of Ezekiel 38:13 (Sheba and Dedan).  We suggest that the Kurds as a sort of federation or association of emirates will be sympathetic towards Israel along with the GCC which associates Saudi Arabia and the Emirates with Oman (and Muscat?).  Tarshish, Sheba and Dedan oppose the Gog-Magog-led coalition that invades Israel.  Turkey's ambiguous policies along with Russia, Iran and many African countries may get mixed-up in the invasion that Gog conspires but which God Himself then commandeers ("puts hooks in their jaws", Ezekiel 38:4, 16 and 39:2), to drive the alliance into its own destruction, rather than Israel's, at His Hands for the purpose explained in Ezekiel 38:23 and other verses.
Mr Erdogan's, and Turkey's, enigmatic policy changes may be part of the mischief of Ezekiel 38:10 where the Hebrew literally accuses the allied nations gathering against Israel as "mischief-making a mischief".  Readers are asked to carefully note this is not part of the Armageddon Force.  The latter, at the very last of the latter days, will gather on the Plains of Israel,  around Nazareth in all probability, to go through the Pass at Megiddo.  It will attack Jerusalem from that direction, not from the "mountains" or "West Bank" of Israel as in Ezekiel 38:8.  After Jerusalem, where the Jewish leader is publicly humiliated, Antichrist then drives or corrals Israel at Bozrah for ultimate destruction at his hands.
Relatively speaking, the time is now short but we are rather a long way from Armageddon and the world-wide anti-Israel army but possibly quite close to Ezekiel 38's Gog-Magog alliance of Northern-, Eastward- and Southward-of-Israel hordes challenging Israel.  In Revelation, the 'Gog-Magog' region again becomes the base for attacking Israel.  That is at the end of Christ's Millennium.  That army is led by Satan himself, not by an agent or son of his.  For that, Satan is released from the "Abyss" precisely for the pupose of fomenting one last rebvellion against God.  But That all happens at the very least 1014 years from now  if one accounts seven years for the clean-up of the detritus from the Ezekiel 38 invasion and seven years for the Tribulation.  Only in 1014 years fom now, at the very least, is this universe then melted to nothing and a new Universe is set up for believers. 
25/8/16, Militants beseige American Institute in Kabul.  Aparrently not Taliban but the so-called Halkarni network was behind this according to one report although later reports continued to use the 'don't know' tag.  Earlier, two professors were kidnapped on their way home from the university.  They have not been found.  The two incidents highlight the opposition that some religious groups have to the secular, humanist and evolutionist philosophy of life the secularists insist we all have to accept.
One is totally opposed, of course, to the physical destruction of the secularists' halls of learning as one is opposed to destruction of mosques, buddhist temples and statues, catholic citadels, masonic halls or even any den of iniquity unless they are authorised under state laws such as legalisation of prostitution in regard to brothels.  The state, of course, may burn down or close-down brothels if such things are illegal in that particular nation-state although UN regulations probably do not permit such action either.
Anyway, getting back to the proselytism of materialist humano-evolutionist-secularism, to whom, evolution is a "fact", their dogmatism annoys the rest of us, even if we are in the minority now ........
[In a debate on the radio today, a commentator said "only 48% of New Zealanders were Xtians".  Apparently 47% were not but 5% did not say what they were in the census or they stated something else.  As a caller noted, in one sense, Christians are no longer the majority in New Zealand.  But "neither are the unbelievers (47%)".  In that case, said the caller, Christianity being the biggest single group is "The Majority".  He referred to the national election results where barely 40% of the population got 50% of the seats in the House of Representatives and some voters got no representation].
...... we cannot even get churches to talk about Apostle Paul's dictum about the First and Last Adams.  That is so necessary to explaining God's Plan for Salvation and to explain the mess the world now finds itself in.   One cannot escape talkimg about the Fall of both Satan and Man and their respective Gardens of Eden to explain "The Cross" and "The Garden of the Tomb".  So there is a massive censorship going on in this world inside virtually every institution.  Also recently on television, one watched an American diplomat tick-off the Chinese for restricting discussion and debate to within a strict and narrow range of vews.  The Elephant in that room is exactly what one sees happening in the so-called westerrn democracies annd the westphalian nation-states.  As long as one discusses issues on radio, in universities and churches within the narrowly confined strictures of secular humanist-evolutionist materialism or, in the churches "The Gospol" (either undefined or ill-defined) one may not speak and one is never asked to speak.  The frustrations of this censorship inflame one's anger, obviously, but The Lord says "Vengeance is Mine" so thankfully we are not called on to do anything but speak our minds.   We enter these churches so that "Christ in you the Hope of Glory" (Colossians 1:27) can stand at the doors of the Laodicean Church adherents' hearts and knock on them to let Him enter (Revelation 3:20).  The contrast here between the Genuine Christian with the Muslim, Hindu etc., is obvious.  The Secular-Humanist-Evolutionist-Environmentalist-Materialist Man uses sophisticated means to censor us.  Whereas Muslims et al use rather crude measures.  
25/8/16, Earth-like planets common across the Milky Way.  A comment after yet another planet has supposedly been found within the so-called Goldilocks zone around a star, in this case Proxima Centauri a rather small star as far as these giant bodies go.  Like Mercury, the star's goldilocks-planet is thought to be quite close to the star but the weakness of the star's energy means it does not get "fried".   The 'discovery' is based on perceived or 'measured' perturbations of the star supposedly caused by the plamet's motion around the star.  This 'planet' supposedly has an eleven-day year, i.e., it takes just eleven days to orbit the star.  That sounds like it is travelling extremely quickly and sounds a bit dubious.  It  does not sound too hospitable fro life on that basis.  Its theoretical distance from the star makes it a possible candidate for a planet capable of supporting life under this model or framework of hopeful-thinking.  As students of the Bible, we know how ridiculous this nonsense is.  But this is nonsensical evolutionism.  We know NASA and the ESP are investigating comets because they now think that is the most likely source of life on this planet but that it evolved so deep in space that it comes from a part of the Universe we cannot even see.  And they mock the Bible and the worods of Adam who, alone in all likelihood, spoke to God about his origin s.  Adam passed that information plus a coded statement, aloing with his wife's words "do not even touch it", about what he did in the Garden of Eden that so flagrantly displeased God and brought us all into the mess we now have.
As one was writing this a few days later, one appeared himslef for four minutes or so on a local radio station pointing out that the Bible is true History etc.  The compare concluded with, "but if we fimd life on other planets that means the Christian account is wrong".  To that one agreed and quoted Apostle Paul about the Resurrection (I Corinthians15:17).  One did not get the chance to say that life has been found on Mars, or quite likely has, but that it came from Earth in one of the Velikovskian catastrophes.  But all that is being buried as Dan Brown pointed out in Deception Point.   
26/8/16, Mammoth tusks mined in Siberia.  A national radio station interviewed a journalist, Mr Amos Chappell, who managed to witness perma-frozen woolly rhinocerai, bison, extinct species of horse and mammoth tusks in the Siberian permafrost tundra.  He befriended a truck driver who travels the frozen Siberian rivers to get supplies to the mining sites.  The other miners treated him with great suspicion so he just became a good camp worker and helped prepare meals, collect water etc.  These miners do not want everyone cashing in on their secretive ivory-like treasure.  They do not like environmentalists interrupting their lucrative markets in China.  Anyway, he won their confidence and got his photos and story then returned to civilization and its wars etc.
The media concenttrated the story on its 'environmental' aspects, questioning whether the mining was disturbing the envionment and similar nonsense.  Later (28/6/16), the same radio station again played up the environmental concerns about the story.   We see here how 'environmentalism', the new world religion, is being used to cover-up the real history of this world.  The real back story here is that Dr Velikovsky expoosed how the science mafia is covering-up this sort of story to avoid embarassing questions about the way these animals met such a violent end.  Although some of this sudden devastation was probably the result of the Flood of Noah, the way some herds got stuck in frozen tundra in Siberia suggests they got caught in the catastrophe of  1450 BC after the Flood of circa 2450 BC.
Circa 1450 BC was when the sun and moon stood still as noted and perceived by those standing and observing at various points of the planet.  Details varied of course depending on the particular face of the planet one was positioned on the day.  The earth was obver-turned on its axis, perhaps because of a Venus fly-past organised by the Creator to judge the Canaanite king Adonizedek.   The Eart may have been subjected to a massive solar flare or more likely a gravity wave from deep outer space.  Such things as very rae, obviously, but whatever the physics and mechanics the event did happen as current agitation in regard to the re-establishment of Israel is today.  Adonizedek had organised a coalition of Canaanite city-kings to resist Israel's conquest of the land God had promised to Abraham.
In the 8th Century BC, the Bible records the earth's axis changing 10 degrees in the reigns of Ahaz and Hezekiah.  In the plains of Siberia, those herds could have been encased with snow as the crust tilted and remained within the Arctic Circle, as a result of the catastrophe, thus permanently encasing even entire herds in permanently frozen conditions until the modern stage of Global Warming negan to warm up the tundras.  That has been in progress since the Flood waters dried up as snow and ice.  Since the second of the two 8th century (probably mini-) catastrophes countrer-acted the first, it would seem the 1450 BC catastrophe was the most likely cause, out of the three or four mentioned in this essay, of these mammoths and woolly rhinos becoming frozen.  That event resulted in their extinction as these animals appear not to have roamed the warmer tropics, semi-tropics and warmer temperate zones.
29/8/16, "Kids ruling the roost; technology and its phones and things they play with".  Words of a truancy officer in New Zealand.  She pointed to family breakdown, especially amongst Maori and Polynesian families.  They are sleeping in and spend much time using mobile phones, I-pads etc., rather than gettting up and going to school.  Another implication of Adam taking of the Tree of Knowledge.  Now we are coming full circle.
29/8/16, School truancy; "education system not the problem; but the broken home".  The NZ truancy officer said the children are often going from house to house to see their mum or dad.  So the schools do not know where they are living from day to day.  Another sign of worsening family structures leading to the rise of a truant, unhappy and rebellious generation as the Lord prophesied for the Last Days.  A long-tun implication of technology and the consumption of the Tree of Knowledge.
29/8/16, "The new normal for 15-year olds; 8 different addresses".   The result of family breakdown in Dunedin households as revealed in the famous University of Otago Longitudinal Survey of Dunedin families.  This result is much greater stress for these teenagers.  The result of "short-term" relationships for the parents.  Only a quarter of those surveyed are living with both 'natural biological parents'.
As a student of the Bible and having lived in Dunedin between 1963 to 1979, the writer knows full well the extent to which Dunedin has abandoned the Bible for its instruction.  But Dunedin is by no means alone with this sort of result.  Part of the problem is that teaching of the Scriptures in New Zealand has been too heavily acculturated with 'kiwi-lifestyle' quite apart from a failure to teach the Bible from a Hebrew Perspective and other facets of the Bible-study methodology called for by the 3-D Aleph-Tav Programme.    But the same 'acculturation', though different in nature and type from country to country, has been a problem throughout the era of Christendom.  The Otago University Study is a very systematic attempt to document the lives of a reasonably large group of people.  It also discovered a number of 'inflammatory conditions' described as able to "get under the skin" due to loneliness, isolation, social ostracism etc.  A televisiuon programme about that problem showed a group of monkeys preening one anaother on a tree but a single alone monkey on his own on another tree scratching himself.  In effect, the poor little chsp was a leper.  We have written about lepers, especially under discussions about Simon the Pharisee, Simon the Leper and Lazarus.  We have pointed out all three people are in fact the same individual.  Lepeers who found the Syrian army had deserted its camp 
29/8/16, Mars simulation crew exits Hawaiin encampment.  This is a programme to see how a few astronauts can withstand 6 months in isolation in a Martian environment and over the long return journey (or possibly one-way) to Mars and back (unless 'one-way').   The volcanic red landscape of a site atop an Hawaiin volcano was chosen for the programme or experiment.  Today was the last day of their trial.   As will be noted in the ensuing items the very idea of going to Mars is ridiculous and impossible  As previous items have noted;  e.g., 19/6/16, 'Space station astronauts return to Earth unable to walk';  the Mars astronauts would all be incapacitated once they landed on 'The Red Planet'.  There would be little likelihood they could recover to do any work on the planet let alone get back to Earth.
That is why there is so much medical research into human physiology to see if there is some way the effects of weightlessness can be counter-acted.  There are some spin-off side-benefits to this research, no doubt.  Those benefits will be used to justify to taxpayers or shareholders the 'worthiness' of the 'research'.  After some 56 years of people going into weightless conditions in 'spacecraft' there has been virtually zero progress on thatt point.  The human body is created to live in Earth-only conditions.  That is the way God intended it.  Ironically, the only people who are going to travel in space to another place are the raptured saints who will experience their frail body instantaneously translate into their resurrected Body in The Rapture!  Dead saints will be resurrected and taken up too but we look here from the perspective of those alive at the very instant of "The Last Trump".
We ("who are alive", I Thessalonians 4:15)  will need just such a transformation in order to arrive and appear in Heaven for the Judgement Seat of the Lamb, the Marriage of the Lamb and return to Earth with Christ to bring in The Millennium.  This may sound far fetched but with Hollywood making the occasional motion picture taking Bibllical passages as a model for reality then why should we believers not also take the Bible literally?  Of course we should for we know its History is reality and the Prophecies are coming into Reality.  Mars is a very poor and unattainable second prize for the unbelievers.
29/8/16, "Something good for humanity".  Words of the leader of the Mars Simulation crew.  We would recommend trusting God's Word instead.  Far from being 'good for humanity' the Mars Project is a hoax and worse than a booby prize.
29/8/16, "Had Apollo Missions continued we would have been on Mars 20 years ago".  This was a comment picked up from another news service reporting on the Mars Simulation Programme.  The publicist, an English woman in her twenties, probably naively did not realise the significance of her point.  One wonders if the authorities wanted such things being said.  A bit later, the next day, one was talking to a political science student after hearing about the conclusion of the Simulation Programme at Hawaii.  The student noted the heavy political agenda going on in the days of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, presidents of the USA.  The rivalry between super-powers USA and USSr led to the Apollo Programme according to the political scientists.  Of course there is some truth to that.
However, as is typical of governments, they bring in a policy to cover several different objectives at the same time.   Furthermore, as a former worker with the American system, it is easy to see from the way organisational charts and jobs are structured that it would be possible to keep even tens of thoudands of employees in the dark about a programme's real or main objectives.  Our view is that the real shock to the system, that led to Apollo being abandoned, is that after five or so missions to the Moon sonar tests and drill samples revealed a quite different structiure of the Moon to the Earth.  It became obvious the two did not evolve out of the same mass swirling about the primitive sun.  That is the real problem being covered up.
The Mars Programme keeps on being extended.  Now, 2036 is the target date for a Mars landing.  Obviously from this publicist's comment, a Mars mission had been anticipated as far back as 1970 for circa 1990 as a tentative date for a mars landing.  Of course a robot got to Mars.   In two or three robots are up there exploring the Martian surface unless some sort of Orwellian Deception is underway and there is noting man-made on Mars or any comet at all.  The whole thing about space exploration is a massive con-trick.  [Refer also to:  29/9/15, NASA wants to land men on Mars in 2030;  17/9/15, "Scientists looking for signs of life on Europa;  and 19/6/16, Space station astronauts return to Earth unable to walk].
29/8/16, "I guess some integration still to come".  Words of the radio programme reporter concluding her discussion with the manager of the Mars Simulation Programme.  The wise-crack came after the manager said the people in the experiment now had to re-integrate with the rest of society.  This may simply have been a reference to some partying that could be anticipated.  Although whether the geeks on the project are party-people is perhaps doubtful.  The reporter has clearly indicated she is something of a party-girl herself.  It may have been a sceptical comment on the whole mission which really is pie-in-the-sky.
30/8/16, "Things are going faster than we can cope with".  The point cropped up in a matter on a radio programme concerning the monitoring of some regulations and the problem of technology getting beyond people's ability to cope with it.  The point had also come up in an earlier item on another broadcaster (TV)  concerning drones and automated warfare systems.  [In another theatre, one has been arguing this for many years now especially in connection with labour markets and the skills levels of the work-force]. 
One believes the problems in Gaza stem from the weapons manufactuurers.  They set-up missile, missile defence (e.g., Israel's Patriot System imported from the USA) and missile counter-attack systems triggering bombings in schools and hospitals.  A similar problem may be occurring in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Waziristan (Pakistan).   What happens in Gaza is that as the Palestinians move their missiles underground in tunnel networks, they move from time to time under a school etc., but the missile being switched-on into 'ready-mode' sends signals to the satellites that guide them.  These systems are designed to do this in order to work efficiently.  However, a missile counter-attack or defence system will be alerted by the same satellite or even via hacking into rival satellite networks, rival defence contractors are able with their missiles to take out the about-to-be-launched attack missile before it is fired.  That means a defensive missile is despatched and hits the attack missile while it is still located beneath a school in 'ready-mode'.  Under these circumstances, neither Israel nor the Palestinians can be said to be at fault.  It is the sophisticated technology killing the innocents.  
One wonders what the solution to this can be.  One intriguing idea is that economic collapse leading to a technology collapse, or an outright prohibition on these sophisticated systems, leads us back towards a more conventional bows-and-arrows type warfere taking place in the near future.   That might suit a reading of some prophecies which seem to describe such weaponry in their detail.  Whatever, the current level and rate of destruction of society's infrastructure by the civil wars in the wider Middle East is setting up more than 60 million refugees or unfortunates from displaced famileies ready for a mass advance on Israel (Ezekiel 38:4).   
30/8/16, SETI thinks it has found an artificial signal in Space.  "But we've had plenty of false outcomes in the past.  The New Zealand media are fascinated by any news from outer space.  This report came hard on the heels of an earlier report about the Mars Simulation Programme (refer above).  Of course all this is part of the subliminal urge to re-assure oneself that Evolution is true.  One finds the acronym SETI interesting for it is the name of the Egyptian pharaoh who built a fort above King Saul's at Beth Sh'ean in central Israel.  The critical point about that is Seti lived 300 years before King Saul.  So how could his fort be lying on top of Saul's?  Still, no one raises the point, apart from this writer.  A clear signal from King Seti I of ancient Egypt is deliberately ignored because of the terrible ramifications it has for Ancient Egyptian Chronology.  The Three 'Cs' of Climate Change not caused by Man, Creation and Chronology are the three major no-No's, i.e., subjects that must not be discussed, in the three 'Es' of Environmentalism, Evolutionism and Egyptology.  But the 'transparent' media are not interested in these matters.
30/8/16, Kurds pull back to East Bank of Euphrates.  Turkey is increasingly worrying over Kurdish advances or expansion westward in Syria as they drive ISIS out of the country more or less on everyone's bahalf.  But Turkey sees the Kurds as terorists.  No one seems to be able to convince the Turks otherwise to the chagrin of many of us who are impressed by both Turks and Kurds and their respective histories.  Furthermore, the Kurds are defending what they firmly believe to be their ancient homeland following their exodus from Global Warming-induced environmentally-destroyed Babylonian-Shinar homeland in Southern Iraq.    Their tragic history makes them the best operators in the region.  Everyone needs them to clear out ISIS.  They give shelter to all-comers irrespective of their ethnicity or creed.   They know what it is like to be a minority.  Even the many 'moderate muslims; who are embarrassed by ISIS' antics, look to Kurds to bring some sensibility to the region.  The Kurds are a contrast to the Shia-Iranians and supporters who persecute Sunnis though the reverse obviously also occurs.
So the Americans are having to convince the Kurds to stay East of the Euphrates [refer 1/2/16, "Russia and USA vying for influence over the Kurds"].  Like the Threat to Rome by "Crossing the Rubicon", this is an ancient indicator as to an invader's intentions.  Graciously, if this report is accurate, the Kurds are graciously complying.  So Ancient History once again makes its mark in these Middle East Crises as our paper on that subject attests.  But the Western scholars and many Middle Western or Middle Eastern and Eastern scholars;  now also inculcated with Greco-Roman philosophy; tend to reflect the dominant secular-humanist and evolutionist-materialist world paradigms and reject the True History that one tries to expose in these pages.  So they fail to analyse and explain what is going on. Thus, many are turning off their prognostications and the warriors keep turning on their weapons.
31/8/16, EU declares Ireland's tax incentives to Apple Corp illegal.  The EU wants Apple Corp to pay the Irish Government $NZ20 billion in back taxes (13 billion Euros, "nearly" $US 15 billion).  Apparently, the Irish Government allowed Apple to avoid paying tax on royalties so that it could sell phones all over the world.  But Apple then transfer-priced the royalty income to Ireland where they had to pay little or no tax.  The US Government has warned the EU that if any government should get the 'back taxes' it should be the USA.  The issue 'Sparked-off' (*) a debate about tax fairness on a NZ radio talkback programme.  One managed to get a few points across about the Tree of Knowledge and Apple (Computing) Corp, The Beatles' Apple Corp, the Amphora Jar and the 'At Sign' (@), the origins of science and technology and the role of monopolies in providing general welfare with their re-invested untaxed profits.  The compare likened one's spiel to Arthur C Clarke who "managed to tie in about five themes into one".
One has been saying for a long time that economics seems to be describing a teleological line that will converge economics, commerce, science and technology back at the Tree of Knowledge.  One has been able in the pages of Key Events as part of the 3-D Aleph-Tav Bible Study Programme to explain what the Bible does say about all this.  One ended one's spiel with a plea to the Public to consider these issues and what the Bible is saying.
(*) In-joke for NZ readers because its national telecoms company (Telecom NZ)has re-branded itself as "Spark".
31/8/16, "I've lost faith in the (Capitalist) system now".  The compare on the above-mentioned radio talkback on learning that evidently and badly the capitalist system has broken down.  He cited the Apple Corp., tax evasion business in Ireland.  One also wonders what this means with Brexit and, reportedly, Ireland's, Scotland's and Wales' desire to remain in the EU.  Northern Ireland is worried walls will have to be re-built on its border with Eire-Ireland when the UK leaves the EU.  Scotland imagines it will be better off being subservient to Brussels than be in a more cooperative, and presumably more familiar, governance regime with the rest of the 'UK' as it has been since 1603 (formally enacted in 1703).
From the Bible, one expects the North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation (NATO) to come more to the fore as a governing entity, incorporating the 'UK', perhaps along with a world-wide re-organisation.  It would remain for the EU to retreat or re-align perhaps going eastward and shedding its geographically-western menbers.  The EU may even disappear.  Will NATO, possibly including Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal and former colonies, then restore, re-integrate and re-align with SEATO (Australia, NZ, Pacific, Singapore, Brunei perhaps etc.,)?    
Aside from the Brexit-Tarshish issue, world governance will almost certainly, or anyway, have to change.  In part, this will be in the wake of this tax-royalty scandal with Apple Corp.  But there are many other issues such as perceptions about global warming, telecommunications, intellectual property regulation and royalties,  space research, antibiotic regulation, pharmaceutical research, drugs in sport, war crimes, pollution issues such as coastlines and sewage disposal, etc., etc.  The Apple Corp., matter bursting the headlines today, is less of a scandal than a plan that has perhaps gone wrong or slightly off-plan.  Although secrecy concerning 'The Plan' is a scandal anyway!
Less controversially, it may be that Apple merely over-reached its arrangement with the US Taxation Authorities.  The US in turn had negotiated arrangements with other international authorities to coordinate permits for a world-wide monopoly getting tax relief.  Did Davos perhaps agree to this at one of its secretive meetings.  Did the Bilderberg group have a say in this?   Anyway, certain  corporates are thus favoured to undertake world-wide projects collectively on behalf of governments and the world public.  Perhaps we are all supposed to understand this from our schooling.  Such 'permits';  theoretical, hypothetical or otherwise; are given with conditions, arguably, that most of these international companies have complied with.  But public opinion, perhaps not properly kept informed on 'The Plan', if 'informed' or 'schooled' at all, will ensure change.  Meanwhile, the authorities are frozen like rabbits staring into car headlights on a busy road.
That is where the current Middle East Crises come into play.  If they are the run-up to the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 fracas involving Israel then;  according to Dr Fruchtenbaum from his interpretation of Daniel's 'statues-in-the-dreams' (e.g., Daniel 2:36-45, 7:3-28);  we will then see a radical re-organisation of world governance.  On that particular point, one here believes we are already in a World Government scenario, and we have been there since at least 1945 or possibly since the League of Nations after WWI.  If so, we now only await the Ten Kingdoms and the Antichrist (whom one may know the identity of).  However, in the event Dr Fruchtenbaum's foresight is accurate, perhaps we are yet to see a more formally installed World Government which will set up the Ten Kingdoms.  The radio compare's complaint about the failings of the capitalist system simply reflect the problems all man-made systems have and that only Messiah can resolve our problems.  But first, the world will give allegiance to Satan's son (Antichrist-666) before God's son takes over.
31/8/16, "What is the answer; what is a 'fair share'?  A caller on the radio talk-back raising one aspect we have alluded to concerning the problem of the EU dictating to Ireland.  The Irish Government "in 1991" contracted with Apple Corp without, presumably, having any idea what the implications would be in 2016 to employ Irish men and women, or immigrants, in return for tax relief.  Presumably Ireland got revenue, or 'its fair share',  from highly paid employees via income and/or expenditure (VAT) taxes that it would otherwise not have got.  However, the radio compare then replied, "Tim Cook wants you to take that line".  As the caller noted, who or which is the greater monster?  Is it the EU telling a sovereign country what to do or Apple Corp?  As one here notes in the above items and Brexit implications on today's touchy subject, the Bible portrays what is about to happen further, though not much further, down the road.
31/8/16, "Tuatara genome more complex than the Human".   That is the view of a University of Otago evolutionist.  He said humans and tuataras have a common ancestor about 300 million years ago.  One would have thought, even on the evolutionist's calendars, 'our' common ancestor would have gone back further than just 300 million years. Anyway, in these pages we point out the nonsense that is Evolutionism is the religion of the modern scientist rather than the neo-Aristotelianism or neo-Platonism of his or her forebears in Europe.
The nonsense here revolves around the boundary or difference in role between "Junk DNA" and "Operating DNA".  When the scientists investigate the DNA and genomes they realise some DNA operates functions like walking, breathing, eating, etc.  To the extent DNA is a computer program there is much the same programming for;  to take one commonly shared function, i.e., walking;   e.g., for Man, Cat and Tutara.  Cats and tuataras need programming to coordinate four legs whereas humans have two legs and two arms.  Apes are a sort of half-way house where the two front 'legs' are also used as 'arms';  or the 'arms' are used as 'legs' depending on perspective.  As an idea, one could see all these differences as 'evolving' from a common ancestor.  However, one could also say it is a common piece of programming given to all three species (apes including 'humans', cats and reptiles), and to many others as well.  Fish got fins.  Birds got wings and legs.  These highly sophisticated programmed life-forms from a Creation Perspective, appeared into being with an ability and desire to procreate or reproduce.  This happened on the Fifth and Sixth Twenty-four hour Days of a Six Day process of re-formatting the Earth to refresh and recover it;  albeit in a completely differen animal-vegetable format rather than just 'mineral format;   from the disaster of Satan's fall.
One of the themes in the 3-D Aleph-Tav Bible Study, and in these pages of Key Events, is that since the Westphalian agreement to keep 'religion' out of governance (from 1648) and everyone cooperate secularly on matters such as health, defence, policing, communications etc; a reasonable idea; 'Science' began to get untheological.  Its partner, 'Theology', became increasingly unscientific as the separation then divorce proceeded.  They dethroned 'Theology' as "Queen of the Sciences" and went repuublican, so to speak!  As we now realise, the problem was that theology had become rotten and needed reform rather than chucking out the baby of True Theology.  Theology should have centered on a proper reading and understanding of the Bible.  Instead, the ejection of the bathwater of neo-aristorelian christendomite theology took the real Baby of Theology with it, leading to a total divorce between Theology and Science by about 1914.
Between the Fall of the Roman Empire (AD 400) and the end of the crusades in AD 1200, the Christendomite theologians had convinced most of the western world that the years AD 30 to AD1030 were the Millennium that Christ spole of.  The Jews of AD 30 having rejected it, Christendomites believed it had been awarded to Christendom baed in Rome though the Orthodox churches felt that base was Byzantium until it fell to the Muslims.  But the Theologians' theology about the Millennium had been quite false.  It would only come after Christendom had done its full term of duty in the absence or failure of Israel between Abraham and Jesus.  Elsewhere we refer to the distinctions between the Synagogue of Israel (Abraham to Jesus) and the Christendom Era (Jesus to Antichrist's destruction) which houses both the Church of Christ and many other christendomite "birds of heaven*" (Matthew 13:32, * or "air" according to the NASB).
So what is the millennium?  It is a thousand-year period initiated with the returning and triumphant Christ (Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth) once again re-formatting the by then considerably damaged globe as part of the introduction of His era of control of this world's affairs before the whole universe is wound down and destroyed (by 'Fire') and a New Heaven and New Earth are created for the believers' eternal existence.  In order for the 'Millennium' to take place the genomnes had to be set-up for Three Estates of man and living flesh and plant life-forms as described in Genesis 1:1 - 2:25.  The first estate would have been one in bliss in the Garden of Eden.  God foreknew, however, the Man would disobey the instruction to avoid eating of the Tree of Knowledge.  Some angels had failed an earlier but different test given to Satan.  It was The Dilemma for the Creator.  The being made either in God's Image or as a 'Son of God', as angels were sometimes described, i.e., beings able to have a unique or special spiritual relationship with the Creator unlike animals and plants, there would have to be a capacity to obey or disobey, to be good or evil, to love darkness rather than light etc.  Such beings would have to be willing to love the Creator and worship Him or have the choice not to.  Otherwise angels and men would be mere robots.
With the Man and the animals, God had to design their genomes in order to exist in the blissful state, in Eden;  should Adam have obeyed and passed his test;  or to survive for a lifetime in the fallen state outside Eden in the wider world environment that also became tarnished with the result of Adam's sin.  So a corrupted or decaying genome became part of the rule of life for Man after Adam's Fall.  "Junk DNA" is that switched-off DNA that would otherwise have been in play in Eden and indeed was for the months or weeks Adam lived there in obedience, harmony and communion with the Creator.  The Millennmium is where some of the DNA switched off by RNA following thr Fall will be switched back on.  But it will not be a complete reversal for the purposes of the Millennium.  For example, death will still come to 'carnal' men or women born into that Millennium who refuse to worship or believe in TheCreator and specifically in the redemptive plan that Jesus fulfilled for all of us.
The evolutionists assume that 'switched-off' DNA, the "Junk DNA", is inherited as per the evolutionary idea by modern species from their ancient forbears.  Since we all have common forbears at some point in the Evolutionists' Higgs-Boson-Particle-to-Man Evolutionary process, the geneticists have to try and find the boundaries between the Junk DNA, the DNA of our 'forbears' and the DNA that regulates the physical aspects of our lives now in the 'current' species formats which asssumes every species today continues to evolve, tuataras excepted it seems.  In these pages one describes this 'current' DNA as "Operational DNA". 
Thus all these Genomic and DNA studies of the modern geneticists actually reveal dramatic information revealing the complexity of the Creator's Plans for all living beings (angels and men anyway).  This 'Plan' is in the context of God's Dilemma whether to create beings who could rebel and destroy so much:  whether fallen angels; or terrorists and governments in the Middle East; or elephant poachers wiping out those magnificent animals just for a bit of ivory that is plentifully avaliable in the frozen wastes of Siberia (refer 26/8/16, Mammoth tusks mined in Siberia).
We are rarely told why some species have never evolved.  In the case of the Tuatara genome, since a priori it is an existing example of a very ancient animal that has not evolved any further;  not much anyway compared to what became from the common root a 'human';  they have to assume a different boundary line for the Tutara between its Junk and Operative DNA.  These boundaries are anyway just guess-work.  Normally, species are now defined around their "operating DNA" and the Junk DNA is shunted off-stage, so to speak.  Thus in the Tuatara geneticists mix-up some Junk DNA with operating DNA so that the tuatara genome appears "more complex than the Human's".  It is a con-job or -trick wherein they deceive themselves and ourselves but for the Grace of God.
Now, on the verge of the Millennium of Jesus of Nazareth;  and now sixteen years into what appears to be the early stage of a counterfeit satanic millennium, that will not last too much longer;  this western, materialist, secularist, humanist scientific nonsense finds itself in a massive clash with another false religion.  This time it is Islam not Christendom.  True Christians, as always like believers before Christ, get pushed out to the sidelines to watch the carnage.  In these days of Noah and Lot (prophecy recorded in Luke 17:22-37 then by Matthew 24:36-41 and Mark 13:32-37), one tries to call out the Truth but they are not listening as in the days before The Flood and Sodom and Gomorrah.  
31/8/16, "Virtual attack on Irish sovereignty".  The view of a financial expert in Europe over the Apple Corp back-tax issue on their royalties.  He is now "looking at the Irish version of Brexit".   He said the EU acknowledged Apple followed what it believed were the tax rules.  The EU is not attacking or criticizing Apple per se.   Rather, the EU slams Ireland for offering the tax exemptions in the first place, presumably away back in 1991.
From a report later in the day it emerged the EU cannot interfere with members' tax rules but the EU trade watchdog said the tax incentives amounted to a subsidy.  That was contrary not only to EU trade rules but international rules too.  Observers in Ireland noted that after the GFC their government had cut spending on onfrastructure.  Things were so bad that roads are in desperate need of $4 billion overdue maintenance.  This sparked off debates about loss of investment in 'infrastructure.  Howevere, one could argue the profits Apple derived from tax incentives contributed to the international phone and satellite infrastructure.  Everyone benefits from that, one miught argue though in these pages one notes that technology, Science and Innovation cannot save mankind from his very deep problems.
2/9/16, Major '7.1' Quake off NZ's North-East Cape.  The biggest in the Bay of Plenty region since the 1987 Edgecombe quake of 6.1 that infamously split the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company factory in half.  Today, there were after-shocks reaching 6.1.  No damage was reported.  The author felt a mild roll at 4:40 am.  Civil Defence issued a Tsunami alert until 8:30 am.  Waves of 30 cm did hit local ports such as Gisborne.  The quake was well off (100 km) the NZ coastline and had a depth of 22 km.  Tremors continued throughout the day.  About 135 aftershocks of Richter scale 2 or more between 5am and 5 pm.
2/9/16, "We need a Rethink not a Refresh on Trade Policy".  This came in a discussion on future directions in  international trade policy in the wake of a likely failure of both the Trans Pacific Trade Negotiations and similar negotiations going on between the USA and Europe.  One participant suggested a re-apppraisal about the value of trade and suggesting that the world has given 'trade' too much priority.  Of course there always has been trade.  Ancient Tyre's wealth was based on trade.  One can talk about the Great Silk Highway connecting China and Europe.  Restrictive trade practices and favoritism saw the artisans of Continental Benelux region and Northern France fleeing to England in persecution of Hugenots etc in the 16th and 17th centuries.  Babylon relied on ships bringing exotic goods to the Tower-building society that had its project coming too a sudden end.  Lebanon's maritime ports of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos, also Ugarit perhaps, and Jaffa-Joppa in Canaan-Israel, took up the post-Babylon slack.  The Red Sea rather than the Persian Gulf became a major trade route for Hiram's Phoenician maritime hegemony to prosper after its alliance with David and Solomon of Israel.  Hiram's descendants, the "Sons of Irem" of ancient Egyptian literature, re-established that maritime trade hegemony based in Carthage and eventually, in the latter half of the Christendomite era the Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Dutch former-colonies of Tyre-Carthage.  They in turn spread over the world with their colonies.
Of course it is possible to over-state the benefits from trade.  And the two sets of talks referred to here  may well be favouring trade between large companies and would in that respect lead to some sort of counter-reaction as inviolved the Hugenots et al noted above.
But the need to 'rethink' has been attested to in these Key Events pages, for example in 25/1/16, "Tectonic Quakes not Volcanic".  Elsewhere, [30/8/16, SETI thinks it has found an artificial signal in Space], one raises the need for a re-think in the Three E's of Evolutionism, Environmentalism (Climate Change) and Egyptology, specifically "The Three 'Cs' of Climate Change not caused by Man, Creation and Chronology".
2/9/16, "NZ dollar 11th most traded currency and 50th on trade size".  A business commentator on a national radio programme.  Since the float of the NZ dollar in 1985, the currency has become increasingly attractive to foreign investors.  The commentator suggested this tended to keep the NZ dollar over-valued.  If true or an accurate assessment, that could mean, in retrospect, the currency had not been as over-valued as one thought between say 1935, when the Reserve Bank system came into play, and circa 1980.  In that era (1970's onward), particularly because of high levels of inflation and low economic growth, one looked at relative CPI indices and interest rates, from country to country, to guage the extent of over-or under-valuation of $NZ.
One of the reasons for this high level of trading is that the NZ dollar is least susceptible to arbitrary fiat from governments manipulating their currency e.g., Venezuela and its vast oil-based economy.  Another reason is that via investment, the NZ dollar is still very much within the US Dollar and UK Pound Stirling Areas.  They are very important currencies so NZ's dollar, managed in a very similarly independent way to the Dollar and Pound, possibly becomes attractive to investors.  The issue though, could also reveal concerns about an increasingly wobbly international financial system within a very politically-unstable world. 
3/9/16, Columbian Government and Rebels sign peace treaty in Cartagena. The rebels known as the "Farg" have been fighting the Government since the 1960's.   Another large rebel group has still not come to the peace party so there is concern some Farg members may join it instead of operating politically in Bolivia.  Our main interest is the role of "Cartagina" here.  The city is named after Carthage.  Here is an echo of the prophecies concerning Tyre and Tarshish.  Spain, which colonised Columbia, is a mother country of Tarshish.  Spain was known as "Pontus" reflecting the ancient name for Tyre's hegemony or "Punt".  For the ancient Egyptians, "Punt" primarily referred to Israel and the maritime cities of Lebanon and probaly Lebanon's cedar forests.  Spain's ancient name is thus the origin for "Pontius" Pilate.  Are these countries going to be part of the tarshish group opposing the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 prophecy?  
3/916, Lebanese immigrants' son is new Brazilian President.  This was interesting because one of Columbia's neighbours now has a Lebanese President.  He came to power after Ms Delma Rusef, for whom he was running mate in the previous election, was impeached.  Two echos from ancient Tyre and Tarshish in these incidents in Latin (South) America.
5/9/16, "A tangle of international actors ripping Syria apart".  Comment in a discussion on television about the latest developments in the Syrian conflict.  Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Russia and the USA were the main ones implicated.  A UN Relief spokesman speaking said 19 cities in Syria were under siege.  We are now coming into the sixth year of this ridiculous conflict.  Islam, secularism, geopolitics and the institutions that practice the se things have lost all repute.  As noted below (5/9/16, "G20 seeks governance role") below, there are moves afoot to re-organise the world's institutions.  The nonsense of the Syrian, Afghan, Yemeni, Libyan and Sudanese crises confirms the interntional institutions are like Humpty Dumpty.  There is no way they can put the pieces back together again.
5/9/16, "People just want the conflict to end".   But there is little chance of that.  The Syrian conflict epitomises the world's problems.  Only the Bible can now explain what will happen.  It has the explanation.  It outlines the causes and end-results.  However, many people studying the Bible look at prophecies about Syria  that were fulfilled in the past.  They were the prophecies that contributed to the prophets' other unfulfilled prophecies being retained for future reference.  That was how the books of the prophets were retained for future use.  Isaiah, Jeremiah etc., to Malachi were the only prophets who had correctly prophesied a near-future event.  Israel's scribes recorded the near-future and the diatant-future was gathered in the canon that we have received.  It includes the prophecies already fullfilled to become history as well as prophecies for the Last Days.
Those last days could have been at the First Coming.  However, Israel's surprise rejection of Jesus, though of no surprise to God (Exodus 4:8), required the Last Day Prophecies to be rescheduled for later fulfillment.   Revelation and segments in the Gospels and Epistles of the New Testament completed the canon of prophecy.  Although Revelation mainly sequences the Old Testament Prophecies.  Jesus, of necessity, had to add the prophecies about the destruction of the temple in AD 66-70.   Jesus also explained there would be both Rapture and Second Coming.  These prophecies could only be added to the canon after it became confirmed Israel would reject the First Sign of Exdus 4:8.  There would beno need for the Rapture if Israel had accepted Jesus' First Coming.  This would be difficult for the Disciples of Jesus' "Generation" to understand but He directed them at the Last Days Generations of The Church and The Nation of Israel which would be contemporaneous.  By "contemporaneous" one means that both will occur during a dramatic period of world history.  Probably, there is a short gap between the two (Rapture ad Second Coming) in order to accommodate the Seven Year Tribulation and perhaps an additional period just before the Tribulation.  Church saints as the Tribulation commences are promised an escape from it but that could be  just a matter of days before the Tribulation starts.
Meanwhile, Syrians, Yemenites, Libyans, Iraqis, Afghans and Sudanese must be wondering if the Tribulation has already started.
5/9/16, "Factions within factions fighting each other".  (Refer II Chronicles 15:6, II Chronicles 20:22-3, Isaiah 19:2; "Egyptian versus Egyptian" etc.  See also Ezekiel 38:21,  "Every man's sword will be agaisnt his brother").  Another description of the Mid-East chaos from this commentator, a UN Relief spokesman.  Below we review here previous examples of this type of comment.  It perfectly describes a situation that Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 describes when the forces invading Israel turn upon each other with infighting at which point God Himselkf finishes them off:
•	26/1/14, “Egyptians are fighting one another”;
•	21/2/15 “Ukrainians are (artillery-) shelling themselves”;
•	20/11/15, "The problem with criminal cults; they all start killing themselves"; 
•	4/1/16, Sectarian politics destroying the Middle East;
•	4/2/16, "May God's Blessing be upon you,  ...  God Bless America;
•	11/2/16, "The war in Yemen is brother versus brother ...".  ... And 'less about Iran versus Saudi Arabia'.
•	22/5/16, "Syria's rebel groups infighting within themselves"; and
•	4/7/16, "Suicide bomber in Baghdad kills 165 and 215".
In summary, on at least eight occasions in the last thirty-three months, one has been able here to collect statements focusing on the infighting that is taking place around the world.  What these occasions do not reveal is the infighting going on in many other sectors of world life.   Where 'infighting' is suppressed for the sake or corporate unity, for example in Evolutionism, there are other even worse problems.  The persistence with which the false paradigm of Evolutionism is pursued in world policy;  as we move towerds a "secular world", as General Petreus reputedly seems to be indicating;  is damaging us in a plethora of insidious and unseen ways.  We only see the end-results of that falsity in things ranging from drunkeness to extreme behaviours of many other types even mentality instability.
5/9/16, "The Westphalian legal state versus consensus".   Coming from a discussion about the latest G20 gathering this time in Beijing.   The speaker was contrasting the two main paradigms of thinking in terms of world goovernance and trade dispute resolution.  This parallels the point one has quoted President Obama raising in connection with the Trans Pacific Trade Talks.  Do we want Chinese or Asian consensus-style trade or transparent evenly-handled and -adjudicated rules-based trade?  Not to say the Consensus approach is bad or useless etc.  But has the Westphalian system proved to be any better?   In these pages we point out that Hebrew-based concepts of justice, fairness etc., ultimately from the Bible really under-pinned European Society until the Europeans moved away from acknowledging the source of their security, peace and prosperity etc.
5/9/16, "Law versus Pragmatism and Consensus".  Another aspect of this debate apparently going on at this year's G20 Summit.
5/9/16, "Western World Order a flawed vision ...".   A commentator on the latest G20 Summit.
5/9/16, "But Chinese cannot deliver alternative coherent framework".  Some interesting developments at this summit reflecting the failure of existing world institutions.
5/9/16, "There is no 'Rule of Law' if one cannot enforce it".  This sort of comment reflects the Apostle Paul's dictum in II Thessalonians 2:7.    However, the comment came in the context of the Hague Convention which governs maritime law especially in respect of The Hague's recent decision on the South China Sea and what rights China and other bordering nations have in respect to investing in its resources. 
5/9/16, "Consensus OK for disasters like Earthquakes but Rule of Law is better".  Another point made in a discussion about the pro's and con's of law versus consensus and pragmatism.  
5/9/16, "Need for a new institutional paradigmatic framework".  Something of a mouthfull but will they dump evolutionism for creationism?  Will they install proper Egyptian chronology for the existing improper framework?  Will they recognise Global Warming is part of the Days of Noah Prophecy the Lord made?  We doubt it.  So the quite proper call will be met by something as bad if not worse than the existing paradigmatic frameworks.
5/9/16, "China wants a new set-up to replace Bretton Woods".  This emerged from a discussion about new frameworks and paradigms that the G20 Summit might be addressing.  If anything, this looks like we are being softened up for Zechariah 5:6-11.  Or, if there is no move to reform and refashion international finance and banking, there will be a mighty collapse that will in any case lead to Zechariah's prophecy being fulfilled. 
5/9/16, "Chinese multilateralism versus unipolar Bretton Woods".  One commentator's way of viewing the international competition to find a new set of institutions to help govern if not govern the world.  When Antichrist rises up through the Ten Kings at the 'End Time' or 'Last Days' of Man's mis-rule of this Earth, they will find out what "unipolar " really means!  No multilateral consesnus and nonsense in his world-view.
5/9/16, "BRIC's international relationships not getting very far".  This acronym stands for nations such as Brazil, India and China.  China has now  emerged as a senior nation as the number two economy in the world.  Napoleon's "Sleeping Giant" is wide awake.   But in this discussion on the future of world governance, this group of countries has failed to develop any new initiatives.  As we know from the Bible, the Global Plan in the Last Days involves a World Government then Ten Nations emerging out of that.  Rome's empire providss the base for this system to emerge from.  Westphalia was one stage in that process.  The European Union that emrged out of the Treaty of Rome in 1956 when the European Coal and Steel Community began the nucleus of that entity, was another step in the Plan.  The EU was an attempt to see how sevral or many nations could be collected under one umbrella.  There is a G8 get together and this G20 jamboree.  The latter is a sort of wider umbrella of the first.
The UN stands alongside all of this with its 15 nation "Security Council" which rotates membership amongst most of the nearly 200 member-state oganisation.  The UN is the closest the world has come to having a 'world government'.  Some of its agencies or sister agencies like the World Health Organisation or UNESCO have world governing responsibilities and they do get legislation following their guidelines written into member states' statutes.
The world's problems are real enough and something must change unless existing institutions get their acts together.  So many vested interests in the existing world governing institutions are responsible for their demise that it seems impossible to untangle their problems.  In sports, we can see that problem clearly emerging in doping at the Olympics or in the FIFA chaos.  The amazing fact is the world is gradually sliding into precisely the situation prophesied in the Bible.
5/9/16, "Western ideology dominates thinking about how and why people react ... ".  Exactly what the speaker was targetting here is unclear.  We note the problem of evolutionism in Western Ideology.  However, Evolutionism is probably a broadly Westren, Eastern and Middle-Eastern or -Western ideaology now.  On other matters, perhaps it might be useful to recount how at a course one attended one was taught the differences between 'East' and 'West5'.  In the east, one marries then falls in love with the spouse.  In the West, one falls in love then marries.  Family life, which starts with marriage, and which is in a disastrous state if the Otago University Longitudinal Study is anything to go by, underpins households a vital unit in the world economy (refer, 29/8/16, "The new normal for 15-year olds; 8 different addresses").  One wonders how a world government is going to tackle such issues.  
5/9/16, ".... so we need to rejig thinking and review paradigms .... ".  Another confirmation that all is not well, not only in Denmark, but everywhere.  The true paradigms come from God but the world has rejected Him.
5/9/16, ".... But what are the alternatives?"  Accept God's paradigms!
5/9/16,  "Business needs political calm for stable returns".  This seemed to be the most important reason for a reviewed world political governance system.  However, the Bible also warns that in the last days business and commerce would be terribly corrupted as Zechariah's vision of the epah with the lead weight being used instead of gold or silver depicts (Zechariah 5:6-11).   In the Bible's visions of the 'Last Days', Babylon has once again become the master or mistress of everything in politics and commerce oin a highly corrupted world situation.  It is easy to forget, though, that even in such a state, many normal things do and must carry on.  People stil get wages.  Goods are delivered to retail outlets.   Commerce still needs these things but behind those deliveries are the people working 60 hours a week for the world minimum wage - if they are lucky!  Many people are working for wages well below the minimum- or living-wage.   At 60 hours a week, excluding travel time to and from work, family life and the household begin to suffer other problems. 
5/9/16, A role for the G20 in World Governance?   That seemed to be one of the points these commentators were saying in this clutch of snippets from a debate on television regarding the objectives for the 2016 G20 meeting.  It was a sort of throw-away line perhaps but it did get this observer to sit down and take careful note of some of the matters raised in the panel discussion.  One of the two contributors was an American of Chinese ancestry who spoke perfect american English if that is not an oxymoron.  These commentarors were anything but morons,  The other was a European academic.  Both participants from the 'West' thogh the Chinese American was able to reflect a Chinese or representative Eastern view.  Whatever the merits of the points raised here, the Bible clearly demonstrates that Man's mis-rule will lead to some very serious consequences that he would not be able to tame.
8/9/16, "Mid-East problems go back to Afghanistan 2001 & Iraq 2003".  A radio interviewer discussing secularism versus Islam in governance and trying unsuccessfully to compare the position with Christianity.  The discussin was in the context of a review of a book entiitled Islam and Exceptionalism about world problems as we proceed to a "secular future" according to contributor, former and somewhat morally disgraced, US General Petreus.
However, as noted in these pages, today's troubles in the Middle East stem from 2000 BC not AD 2001 or 2003.
8/9/16, "Trying to crush ISIS promotes Armageddon".  A comment on a radio discussion in the wake of Donald Trump's announcement he wants the US military to present a plan to defeat ISIS ASAP.  Trump also wants to beef-up US armed forces.  Another commentator on the same discussion noted Belgium had a bigger standing army in 1914-18 than the USA.  The US, traditionally, did not have a large standing army because it had no real foes to speak of.  It also emerged that the grandsons of pilots of the first B-52 bombers (first launched in 1952) were currently flying them.  Though they have been upgraded a lot since then.  A lot of US military expenditure, as we have long noted, actually goes into scientific and technological research.  Things like drones and robots that can even be landed on comets are the fruit of this research among many other Good and Evil things, though more evil than good in all likelihood. 
Anyway, the more important point here is that Armageddon is the campaign where the Antichrist-666 launches the Final Solution toward eliminating Israel from world affairs.  While the hypocrisy of the world's religioins, philosophies etc., will lead to the climactic events Biblical Armageddon speaks of, it is important to acknowledge what Armageddon actually is.  The following items in these Key Events pages show how much the concept of "Armageddon" is mis-used.  They reveal the depth of ignorance in the Bible, not just amongst the uneducated but amongst the most highly educated: 
•	20/7/15, "Teaching people to survive Zombie apocalypse situations" at the 'Armageddon Expo' in Wellington, New Zealand;
•	20/7/15, "Let's hope it isn't Armageddon";
•	10/9/15, "Perceptions of the imminent second coming of Jesus affect American Foreign Policy";
•	1/10/15, "I am not sure it is the Armageddon Jane thinks it will be";
•	21/1/15, "Seven Key Events".  
•	26/12/15, "Why don't we mine Mars?" and replay of the film Armageddon starring Bruce Willis;
•	2/1/16, "Jerusalem: a very significant flash point";
•	3/1/16, "Carmageddon:  Stuck in a traffic jam in Manilla";
•	13/5/16, "It was like Armageddon";
•	19/5/16, "Antibiotic Apocalypse ... "; and
•	24/7/16, "It was like The Apocalypse".  
Explanations of Armageddon are traversed in the above items.
9/9/16, North Korea 'miniturises' nuclear bomb.   However, we are sceptical they can be "miniturised".  The whole nuclear wepaon Mutually Assured destruction by nuclear missiles is not tecjnically possible.  In their latest test today, apparently the fifth they have completed,  an earthquake of about 5.1 was felt in the region.  Nuclear explosions are clearly possible under strictly controlled conditions.  However, the concept of constructing minitures to place on missiles to send them thousands of miles to attack an enemy is sciene fiction.  Nothing like that has ever been demonstrated.  Yes, they can target missiles with amazing precision.  The Europeanshave even landed a robot on a comet.  But no onme can  deliver a nuclear warhead to explode at cprecisely the right time.  In announcing it has "successfully miniturised" a nuclear device, the North Koreans have inadvertently given us another cluse that these "miniturised nuclear weapons" are fake.  The way uranium or plutonium fuse to create the fission necessary simply cannot be miniturised.  At best these missiles simply deliver a modest sample of radio-active uranium, plutonium or polonium etc.  But that would be quite toxic wherever shrapnel lands.  It is unlikely countries would bother doing that.  In theatres like Syria, we do see massive destruction which one would have thought would deter combatants lasting for so long. But once protagonists create so much misery and mutual hatred, reason eventually disappears.  Nuclear strikes, in contrast, do not make any economic sense. 
10/9/16, "We became superior because we willed it so".  Commentator doing a book review on a natonal radio station.  The book's plot involved a hunt for a wolf pack that had survived all earlier attempts to track it down.  The lead wolf  came through the book as havin great intelligence and nous (though the reviewer used another word for 'nous').  The wolf was able to outwit the hunter.  In discussing the relative differences between Man and animals, we were told by the reviewer that we were animals but that we desired or willed to become so much higher or superior to other animals.
However, from a Biblical point of view this is noinsense.  Man and animal is a soul (nephesh, in Hebrew).  They are not "living soul" and "living creature" as most translations suggest.  Animal souls have intelligence and emotional capability as Man.  However, Man, "made in the image of God" is able to communicate spiritually with God whereas animals cannot.  Man is created in a special relationship with God via the way the verb bara is used and as the double yod  of Genesis 2:7 indicates.  There the Hebrew yatsar is written "yod, yod, tsadi, resh".  This is the only place in the Bible where that verb is used with two 'yods'.  The point of that verse is that Man was formed from the dust of the earth.  The dust is or was the detritus from rock accumulated over billions of years while the Earth was cast out into the darkest depths of space after the Fall of Satan.  The dust contains the many minerals and elements that compose a typical human body.  Most of our physical composition is water.  But the minerals in this body amount to a few dollars worth as once calculated by a biologist.  Obviously, from this, the soul of man and animal is special but in Man's case the soul can commune spiritually with God and in some cases, i.e., with believers, that happens.
It is God who "willed" Man to be in a special relationship with Him.  Animals are not in this relationship with God.  But they can and do relate to man.  Once one removes God from the equation, then one is forced to make stupid statements like the one reported here.  
10/9/16, "Ultra-nationalist Cossacks say Greenpeace staff Western Spies".  We would agree the Green Movement is the purveyor of the false Mother Earth religion (see next item) and other doctrines.  Furthermore, it is possible that their whole philosophy is based on the Greco-Roman Last Stage of the Roman Empire Plan that will see to the take-over of world governance.  It is interesting to see the Cossacks; possibly if not probably, part of the Gogite alliance of Ezekiel 38:1-6 invasion of Israel;  are upset at Greenpeace's antics as we are.  The Greenpeace movement has certainly emerged out of 'The West' and its "Greco-Roman roots".   
With its allies, fellow travellers and adherents, the broader 'Green Movement' has bound us up with so many regulations, albeit some probably quite necessary and useful, that at least a dozen trillion dollars of cash and financial bonds are sloshing around the world looking for somewhere to invest.  Vancouver, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and many other cities are facing spiralling house prices as some of that excess savings or accumulated profit leak into housing markets.  Then, houses effectively become bonds.  The coupon is not rental income as one might anticipate.  That is because it is often less expensive to leavce houses empty and uninhabited.  Thus, the expected and usually resultant capital gain each year becomes the coupon as house prices move inexorably upward.  So one can trace the housing problem back to the Green Movement's policy to bind us up with regulations.  The Cossacks are correct to view the Green Movement with much suspicion, not least because of its faulty science concerning Global Warming's anthroprogenic causes.   It is on their faulty science rather than espionage capability that one needs to expose the Green Movement.  However, it is probably getting cover from the system that now controls the world as it is being prepared for the arrival of Antichrist holding the reins of power.  This is a system where true scientific and research data is suppressed or hidden or if released, carefully massaged to suit the agenda of those purveying the data.
10/9/16, "A big victory for Mother Earth".  Words of a reporter at an encampment of American Indians on a 'Reservation' as they heard news from Washington in their favour.  The US Government over-ruled a court injunction to allow oil companies to pipe oil underneath the Indians' water  sources.  The Indians feared pipeline leaks would damage their precious and clean water.
"Mother Earth", a parallel with the Western Evolutionists' "Mother Nature",  is a Pantheistic and Panentheistic concept in direct opposition to the actual God Who created the Heavens and the earth.  These people see the life-system as maternal.  The Bible has God creating male and female but apart from animals and plants, the universe and the mineral aspects of it are neutral, neither male nor female.  
10/9/16, US and Russia to form miliraty partnership to eliminate ISIS.  The way a major television station explained today's announcement that Russia and the USA would cooperate to get a ceasefire in Syria and begin a hunt for a jointly agreed lists of terrorist groups that they can then defeat.  As always, w will have to wait and see if this latest initiative between the Russians and Americans gets underway.  There are so many other factions in the theatre that they may not succeed once again.  This time last year and again in February this year we were told we are on the threashold of an outbreak of peace.
Behind all this could be the cunning plan or mischievous mischief that Ezekiel 38:10 spetoaks of.  Russia, oine is reminded, is the underling of Gog according to Ezekiel.  "Gog" is the Nasi or overlord of Russia and Moscow or certainly overloegionrd of groups with those names whether that means Russia and Moscow of today  or to some other people who inhabit some other    
10/9/16, "A turning point; a moment of change".  Mr Kerry's words in announcing the new "partnership" as one television station described today's agreement.  Another commentator noted the 'agreement' was full of 'ifs' and conditions.   The ceasefire they have called for is supposed to begin at the Feast of Ead that the Muslims hold, this year on Monday 12 September, oddly a day after the anniversary of the Twin Towers' destruction in New York in 2001.
The ceasefire must hold for a week before the Russians and Americans begin their joint operations that will hopefully lead to some political attempts at settlement.  Earlier (refer 30/7/16, "Russia has the upper hand;  The USA and allies can only protest"), Mr Kerry had warned about the Russians trying out a "ruse".  One still wonders if this is just part of a long series of delaying tactics as the invasion of Israel is carefully prepared.  Despite the appalling chaos in so many countries around the world, the media never fail to pick up on the slightest hint of trouble as they perceive it to be in Israel. They suddenly change focus and rush stories about how bad Israel is into the limelight.  The carnage all over the world is vast.  In Israel the issues are tiny dots in comparison and not worth reporting at all in comparison to carnage in places like Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
10/9/16, "Kurds and 'Christians' join forces to fight ISIS".  Statement on a news report by an international TV news service.  To what extent the people helping the Kurds are actually 'Christian' cannot possibly be obtained without personally interviewing them.  Many people in the Middle East define themselves as Christian.  It is one way in the Middle East of declaring themselves "not Muslim" because they know they can get some recognition of that from the Muslims on the basis that a belief in Jesus the Christ is better than no belief at all.  The reports notes the Christians and Kurds both "shared perscution in iraq".
This sounds like the 'Christians are actually Assyrians who have believed in Jehovah since the days of Jonah in the 8th Century BC.  They heard the message about Jesus in the early days of the Church but it is not clear from interviews we have had of them that they really understand what happened as the Church began at Pentecost in AD 30.  Viewers then heard one of the 'Christian' soldiers fighting with the Kurds tell the reporter he "felt born again" as he "learned to fight with Kurds".  Non-Christians will not understand the significance of that comment.  Rather than discuss the theology here, the way the point was made indicates that soldier did not understand what the Bible teaches about the New Birth in Christ.  He added, "I am getting a small salary from an Iraqi Christian political party".  Although what that party is remains a big question.  Unless he is referring to the Assyrian political presence still in Iraq.  After decades of flight from Iraq because of long-standing persecution there, most "Assyrians" now live abroad and are losing identity in the scattered communities they find themselves in. 
The report concluded with the statement that Iraqi Christians are fighting for the day when they have a semi-autonomous state within Iraq.  Although it is not quite clear whether this would be a part of a newly independent Kurdistan.  A later report noted that Yezidism, the official Kurdish religion, has "elements of Islam and Christianity" within it.  So there is obviously cooperation between Kruds and Christians and , as commented elsewhere, the Kurds are friendly with the Israelis (Jews).  Anyway, one wonders what name is given to a new Christian state or autonomous province (c.f. the Kurdish concept of "shibeh istiqlaal" in 31/1/16, "73% of Iraqi new oil wells drilled are successful" and 28/7/16, Major Kurdish base bombed in North East Syria).  Will it be named the "Autonomous Province of Assyria" one wonders?  The soldier interviewed was driven out of his business and village by ISIS.  Also there had been reports of mass graves of Yezidis slaughtered by both Saddam Hussein and ISIS.  Just more evidence of the terrible mess that is the Middle East.  One cannot blame Israelis for it.  To do so merely reinforces the stupidity of not only people in the region and their leaders but the stupidity of external observers.
10/9/16, "They won't sit there listening to you for two hours but two minutes".  Someone referring to the control of media in Hong Kong's debates about relationship with China and freedom of speech etc.  The report focused on the use of social media, the Internet etc, enabling people to by-pass official state organs or media controlled by the wealthy.
In the case of this writer, this is one of the points about "Key Events".  Apart from occasional longer essays, these pages are intended to help people focus on matters for a couple of minutes.  With the Blessings in the 3-D Aleph-Tav Bible Study, the one page items are targeted at the reader who only wants to spend two minutes on  some issue. 
But looking at the comment from a wider perspective, this is the damage Internet and Social Media are bringing.  People are losing the ability to work long hours on an issue and to understand matters from as broad a perspective as possible.  This factor is leading to more chaos across the world because so much protest and debate is rather simplistic at best. 
12/9/16, "Ocean warming may turn out to be greatest challenge".  It is forcing ocean animals to migrate to formerly cooler waters.  They say the ocean is being heated by the warmer atmosphere.  We say the ocean is reflecting the extra volcanic activity that seems to be a feature of the environment in our era.  We suspect this is the result of excess heat from the Sun being absorbed by the Earth's core as a result of some dramatic change in the atmosphere caused by the ructions in the Flood of Noah.  Whatever that 'change' was, seems to have altered the balance between energy flows from the Sun and the rate at which excess heat is 'reflected' back out into space.  The atmosphere plays a crucial role here though what exactly is the role no one really knows.      
12/9/16, "Pre-cursors to life came from other parts of the universe".  That is the hypothesis being tested by NASA's probe sent  a coiple of days ago to an asteroid in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.  They also said the asteroid had never been a part of a planet and 'formed' 4 billion years ago when the solar system itself formed.  We say that is nonsense too.  The Universe was created about 15-22 billion years ago.  The asteroid is the result of some collision or catastrophe since that time.  According to Dr Velikovsky, asteroids are debris from a former planet.  However, we now know of other similar rings of debris known as the Kuiper Belt and the Ort Cloud.  Velikovsky predicted the Ort Cloud and probes discovered the unexpected Kuiper Belt.  Certainly lots of rubbish swirls around the Sun in various places.  Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus also have rings of debris surround them.  However, for a long time, we only could view Saturn's rings from Earth.
12/9/16, "I thought the world was heading to Armageddon".  Comment from a radio talkback compare musing on the downing of the Twin Towers "fifteen years ago".  This morning (12/9/16), September 11th in New York, is the fifteenth anniversary of the disaster.  Yet another example of 'Armageddon' being used in vain so to speak.  They simply have no idea what Armageddon is all about (refer, 8/9/16, "Trying to crush ISIS promotes Armageddon" where we list several other examples of using 'Armageddon in vain').
12/9/16, "Seeking assurance what they saw was not 'the end of days'".  A NZ-based international security consultant reporting what his daughter asked him that morning of September 11, 2001.  
12/9/16, "Bin Laden wanted to set up a clash between civilizations: The West versus Islam".   The security analyst above summing up one of the effects of '9/11'.  More to the point, the secularist, humanist and evolutionist West has been waging war against Bible-based Christianity since the Treaty of Westphalia.  It thinks it has silenced us.  Well, that's probably correct.  However, they cannot silence God as Ezekiel 38:23 and 39:6 indicate.   They ridicule Christians by citing nutters claiming to be Christians.  They use straw-man arguments to undermine and belittle the important matters Christians are stewards of (I Corinthians 4:1). 
15/9/16, "Islamic ideology is not the same as ours".  Words of Pauline Hanson an MP in Australia's Senate (previous maiden speech in 1996).   Some senators walked out when she spoke.  She added, "if yuo don't want to be an Australian, go back home".  Years ago she had been saying Australia was being swamped by Asians but now it is Muslims, one commentator noted.  Also, apparently, the majorioty of Musliims in Australia were born in there.  She claimed that Sharia Law will one day take over.
Our comment is that it is certainly true Muslims believe they have a responsibility to broadcast the word of Allah and impose his law on the world.  [Christians say Jesus of Nazareth will return and impose His Will on the World.  Shiite Muslims believe the Mahdi returns to do the same.  Yamadi Muslims in Pakistan think a different Mahdi comes to rule so they get persecuted in Pakistan by the Shiites and Taliban.  Of course Antichrist-666 comes before Jesus to impose his will].    Muslims get their authoritarian ideology by assuming Israel had that responsibility but lost it due to disobedience.  Ideosyncratically, they also say that Israel should never have had the role of being God's spokesmen.  They say Isaac and Jacob stole the promises and blessings that should have gone to the elder sons Ishmael (of Abraham) and Esau (Jacob's brother, and son of Isaac).  However, even assuming either of those claims were true, early Muslims, and now their descendants, never resolved what should be the situation now.  They debate whether the descendants of Ishmael (Arabians) or Esau (Edomites, also inhabitants of parts of the Arabian Peninsula) should therefore be the appropriators of these blessings, commands and roles.  The Saudis removed the Hashemites from the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina, not so much to unite Muslims in Arabia Felix but to resolve modern oil pipeline arrangements.  So Riyadh (Ishmael and Hagar) now control Edom (Mecca-Medina).   Even the Muslims do not know their ideology!  Or do they ?  Is it "Might is Right"?
16/9/16, "It all depends on bees".  The statement was part of a trailer for a radio programme that looks at science issues.  Accordingly, this episode will look at technologies to assist bees or take over their role in pollination.  Problems aroud the world with bes disappearing interests us because the word for bees in hebrew is the same word as 'Word' itself.  Thus one cann see the disappearance of the worders or bees parallels the decline in interest in The Word of God in Scripture.  That is also paralleled by a decline in the ability to properly teach or preach The Word.  Furthermore, the Gospel of John describes in John 1:14 that "The Word came and dwelt among us".   However, John 1:10 says "The World did not know Him" and that is much the situation now.  Or we could say,"The World did not know The Word when He came and dwelt among us".  Very few take these writings seriously now juat at the time The Word seems set to return if world events are anything to go by.
18/9/16, Syrian Sunni leader claims USA, Russia, Iran ensuring  Shia dominance over Levant.  The essential gist of a statement by the leader of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly al Qa'ida offshoot Al Nusra, refer 28/7/16, Al-Nusra, off-shoot of al Qa'ida, changes name and goes independent).  The spokesman or leader claimed the effect of the negotiations between Russia, the USA, Iran and probably Turkey, though he did not specify the latter, was to allow Shiites orShia Islam to dominate the Levant (Lebanon, Syria and, for the purposes of this discussion, Iraq and Jordan too).  He noted the US had handed Iraq to the Shia.  Although Saddam Hussein probably was not a religious man at all, the Sunnis effectively had the upper hand in Iraq under his US-backed regime.  Under Saddam, probably imnstalled by the USA-CIA, the Sunnis marginalised the Shia (Shiites) and Kurds.  Now the boot is on the other foot in Iraq apart from ISIS-controlled areas.  And so it sea-saws in the Middle East.
As Christians, we can see once again the Thirty Years War playing itself out this time in 21st century Middle East rather than 17th Century Europe.  In Europe, the debate, by 1648, had moved on from the Caliphate equivalent in the West i.e., the idea of Christendomite governance and onto a secular system of governance.  'Religion' was confined to the churches, mosques, masonic halls and synagogues.  For a while after 1648, Theology remained Queen of the Sciences and Philosophies in the Academy.  But the Enlightenment Movement (18th Century) then dethroned Theology from the university halls.  Humanism, then from circa 1850 Evolutionism, became the dominant paradigms of Secularism hence of the Academy and Government.  Eventually Theology was virtually expelled from the Academy and reduced to a quaint appendage to the curriculum.  
Theology became unscientific and Science became untheological. The Divorce was complete by the mid 20th Century.
Now, however, and perhaps ironically, Islam is challenging these post-Westphalia  Western Paradigms; certainly when there is an intent to impose them on the Middle East.  Of course, Islam also attempts to export its view westwards to the horror of the secular authorities who thought they had seen off the Christendomite tyranny of circa AD 300-1648.  Eastwards, Islam is encountering opposition from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Secularism.  From this, it could look like all the other 'isms' are counter-attacking Islam hence the many fronts opening up in the war against Taliban, al Qa'ida, ISIS, Wahabiism etc.
For a while, in an effort to rub Christians' noses into the ground, the media and intellectuals, their conscience pricking them in regard to Jesus of Nazareth, have been fond of saying how peace-loving and innovative Islam is. They sang its praises as a way of filling Man's spiritual vacuum.  The London Economist, in the 1980's ran a survey extolling Islam.  It favourably contrasted Islam with what it thought was Christianity.  Good at analysing Politics and Economics, its writers  blindly compared Islam and Christendomity.  One rseigned one's subscription to The Economist soon after that issue.  Now, events since 2011 have shown just how violent Muslims are to each other let alone to us infidels.   Even in that fracas we hear Western voices joining an Islamic chorus and blaming The West, Oil or Colonialism for Islam's problems.  In circa 2007, one attended a conference in London where an atheist urged the public to listen to Christians and heed their warnings about Islam's real objectives.  
Now, because of Western Science's love affair with anthropogenic climate change, everyone is finding a new challenge from Panentheism.  The Panenthiasts are using the supposed evils of carbon to trumpet causes dear to their metaphysical hearts.  For example, in Dakota, where the Sioux have "won a victory for Mother Earth" in their fight to stop an oil pipeline going under their land and water aquifers.  In New Zealand, Maori have managed to get the Whanganui River declared a person in its (his or her?) own right.   Three and a half centuries after turfing Christianity out of society and forcing it indoors to some stuffy old church buildings, corrrupted science wrongly misinterpreting exactly what is going on deep inside the Earth to cause Global Warming, has resurrected an old apparently extinct monster called Panentheism.   
Of course there are vast differences between the Christian and islamic approach to this deebate between 'religion' and 'technocracy' in the realm of governance.  Nevertheless, there are some similarities or parallels between Christendom and Islam.  The postmillennials of Christendom, like the Sunni- or Salafi- (pro-caliphate) Muslims, look to the laws of Moses and Jesus (Mohammad for Muslims) for guidance in the governance of the Babel Project.  Pre-Millennial Christians;  in a somewhat similar way to the Shia concept of a Mahdi returning to rule the world, and rescue it from chaos;  look to the return of Jesus of Nazareth to implement the Millennium or Messianic Kingdom.  That had long been promised to Israel.  Instead of coming into play at its First Offering between AD 27-30, it would be accepted and received, sooner or later (Acts 1:6-7), at its Second or Last Offering by a re-gathered Israel as it is emerging today.  Even Sura XVII of the Koran envisages such a day.  But first, Israel must repent and accept Jesus of Nazareth as she will do according to Apostle Paul and Jesus in the New Testament or according to Isaiah 53, 61 or Zechariah 12 in the Old Testament.  For Christians, Christ's rule and His Millennium will take hold not Man's plan for the Babel Project.  
To recap on "The Babel Project", we reported in 21/8/15, 'If hackers are not careful they may end up destroying or crippling the Internet', that "the problem here is yet another obstacle the world has fallen into by following the Babel Project which the Academy and Intelligentsia want the world to adopt"  They take this view on the admittedly somewhat logical grounds that since Adam had consumed from the tree of science and technology, the touch-tronic computer embedded in a tree in Eden, Mankind might as well follw that course, work his way back to building his own tree of Knowledge in the Internet etc., and be done with it.  They make the project compelling by convincing Man to join the task to  'reach for the stars' just as the ancient Babylonians attempted.  Mankind is enticed with voyages to Mars and other space-sourced goodies like close-ups of giant planets in our solar system.. Shias await the Mahdi but with no hope of that prospect.  Christians await Jesus of Nazareth with every reason to hope for that.
One also made the comment in 10/9/15, 'Perceptions of the imminent second coming of Jesus affect American Foreign Policy' (*), that "the Intelligentsia knows full well the Bible does have an outline of the future, just as its outline of the past is impeccible, but they ignore its Apocalyptic Finale.  The Intelligentsia, ignoring the Bible's conclusions, may even be using it to bring about their Babel Project and Antichrist to lead it.
These are the sorts of issues Christians are uncovering these days.  Muslims observing us are putting what we discover into a Koranistic spin of their own.  But it is a quite misleading framework they are using.  They have removed it from its proper Biblical context.  Worse, they remove it from the Bible's context that in order to deliver the Kingdom, Jesus had to pay for man's Salvation with His Terrible Sacrifice on the Cross.  But Muslims vehemently deny the Cross and accuse the disciples of faking Jesus' Death.  These errors are destroying them.
*  Mattehw Avery Sotton in American Apocalypse - Influence of Evangelicals in USA.  
18/9/16, Terrorist attack in Uri in Indian controlled Kashmir.  A Muslim-Hindu-Secular contest in this region of far North India is also affected by a dispute whether the region (Jammu and Kashmir) should be independent, under Pakistan's control or stay within India as at present.  Of additional interest is the name of the city.  It is the ancient word for 'city' found in the Bible ("Ur") amd in other ancient Middle East languages.  Nagpur, also in India, retains the name 'Ur'.  Along with Babel, Ur was a major city in ancient Babylon.
18/9/16, Jordanian politician enlists with Muslim Brotherhood to use its networks.  This came from a report about Jordan's parliamentary elections.  Another commentator said, "as soon as they are elected they will return to Amman and live on the high life there".  Apparently there is mass disinterest in electoral politics amongst voters there.  No doubt the assembly they vote for has little effective power.  Thus cynicism being high on people's lists of concerns is a problem in Jordan too.  Likewise, attempts to get Christian parties into NZ parliaments have usually relied on Roman Catholic networks in a similar way to the strategy indicated in this comment from Amman.  In these Last Days, Christians are far better off pointing to the imminent arrival of Christ's Kingdom rather than try to reform the system or re-try previous failed attempts at governance.  As an historian, one realises there are no other combinations left to solve world governance issues or problems.  Only genuine world government remains untried.  According to Bible Prophecy, it will then devolve to Ten Kingdoms.  At that point an eleventh personality will arise to take over from the Ten Kings and he will rule the World.  That is the Antichrist and it is his government that is the last before Christ's reign.
20/9/16, Latest Attempt at Syrian Ceasefire collapsing.  Apparenty because the Russians believe the Americans do not have sufficient control over the rebels.   Then the Americans mistakenly bombed some Syrian soldiers confronting ISIS.  That matter is discussed below but it appears from this latest breakdown, the rebels are without sufficient support in Syria to hope to overthrow the Government.  ISIS thinks it can control parts of Syria  and Assad believes he can stay in power.  Until these parties think there is no way they can achieve their objectives via war then and only then will they go to the negotiating table.  Meanwhile there is a stalemate and it has been like that for the best part of five years now.
That indicates the Syrian crisis and others almost as intractible in Libya, Iraq, Yemen etc., are going to ramble on somewhat longer creating an even bigger refugee and dislocated civilian population in these countries, neighbours on borders and countries further afield.  Our thesis that these wars are a preamble to the atttack on Israel gains strength.  There is no way the normal agencies that bring peace and security to the world are going to solve these crises.  Organisations like the UN, G20 etc., are conspicuously failing in that regard.   Conspiracies deep in the bowels of various organisations are beyond control of management.  Something like that may be the force fomenting a mischief, in the lands that 'Gog' leads that the Bible refers to in respect to the invasion of Israel in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  The Bible says that at some point God Himself intervenes in that mischief and Himself pulls the invasion force into Israel for Him to destroy in the manner described by Ezekiel.
20/9/16, Pentagon sabotaged Syrian Ceasefire.  That was the claim reported today from an American author of a book on Syria.  He said there were indications the head of the Pentagon Mr Ashton, the American Defence Secretary had indicated his opposition to the State Department's negotiations with the Russians.  According to the author's thesis, the Pentagon was worried cooperation with the Russians over the joint control centre to tackle ISIS and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham  (formerly al Nusra) would necessitate handing over or revealing vital US military codes, secrets or communication protocols.   This thesis would indicate why Messrs Labrov and Kerry are unable to cobble together any peace in Syria because they both have little control over their military cadres.  Even Mr Ashton is probably just a puppet of the Pentagon.  The incident, bombing the Syrian soldiers in a fort as they prepared to confront ISIS, shows that the politicaians and diplomats have little hope of controlling world affairs.
We submit weapons of mass destruction were in Iraq when the 2003 invasion went ahead under the authorisation of Tony Blair and George Bush.  Neither man could do anything else other than to go into Iraq given what their military and other departments had done under cover of previous PMs and Presidents, George Bush's father in his embarrassing case.
What this further indicates is that the world is plunging ever deeper into the Lawlessness that Apostle Paul wrote of in  II Thessalonians 2:6-7.  Governments, and indeed governance, are everywhere being undermined.  People are disobeying police, Maori in New Zealand refuse to obey "European Law", and many laws especially regulations are un-enforced often because of lack of resources.  Laws are passsed but the governance agencies' ability to police them are minimalised with funding cuts.  These things are examples of a process of undermining law.   
21/9/16, Pope gets five religions to Assisi to pray for refugees.   The current pope supposedly entitled himself 'Francis' in honour of Francis of Assisi.  More likely, he named himself after Francis Xavier the jesuit.  He is the first Jesuit Pope.  Usually, Jesuits have been the power behind the throne not on the throne.  He also has the suspicious birth name of 'George (God) Mario Bar Gog Lio'.  We are not told from which 'five religions' he drew participants for this ecumenical stunt.   But the event is proof of the ulterior agendas of the papacy.
21/9/16, Squabbling Afghan and African refugees burn down Lesbos camp.  Their escapade also caused a neighbouring orchardist's olive trees to catch fire.   The event shows again that as these refugees are gathered and eventually set on a path toward invading Israel as per Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16, they will start fighting one another once they arrive there (Ezekiel 38:21 and c.f., II Chronicles 15:6, II Chronicles 20:22-3, Isaiah 19:2; and New Testament,  Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:10).
21/9/16, Russia and USA blame each other for UN Aid Convoy bombing.  The attack took place as trucks lined up awaiting Syrian Government approval to deliver aid to Aleppo.  The truce that was set to allow aid convoys to enter cities like Aleppo now seems dead although the UN Security Counciul chaired today by NZ PM John Key seems hopeful the truce will hold so that some sort of political deal can be initiated.  The Russians claimed an Americn drone was lurking around while the Americans say only Russian and Syrian war planes could have been in the area to do this anyway.
One of the awful revelations from this was that a Syrian Red Crescent Aid chief was killed as he directed the convoy.  Worse, it emerged his son had been tortured to death by the Syrian regime.  These people are awful monsters to do such a thing to their own nationals.  How this President Assad look at himself and sit there in Damascus with his East Acton born wife, herself the daughter of refugees from some earlier Syrian crisis, clingung on and standing by.  She, presumably, was born to refugees fleeing Assad's father's slaughter of 30 000 Syrians in a 1970's uprising.  This nonsense defies imnagination.  But the whole Syria Crisis in the context of similar nonsense in Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Sudan etc.,  defies common sense.
That is why, even considering the complexities of many other wars such as the 113 year "One Hundred Years' War between France and England, or the Thirty Years War, and many other conflicts, this one in Syria paralleled by the other theatres just mentioned,  has no satisfactorily explainable cause or rationale.  The Russians have to keep the Syrian Government or Regime on course but the americans are required to coalesce many different ideologies in the various rebel groups and separate out the moderate onews from the more extreme terrorists who are mostly embedded on the various fronts with the so-called 'moderates'.  Obviously Assad's Government, the Iranians and Moscow must see any of the rebels as terrorist.  Yet for the sake of a truce the Russians seem prepareddd to accept  some of the rebels have somne sort of legitimate interest.  Yet obviously, the russians cannot find a way to put enough ppressure on Assad.  But do they want to?  If there is an ulterior motive or agenda here, one has to reiterated the words of Mr Kerry, "Is this all part of a ruse?"
More and more, in these pages, it seems to us that the Syrian crisis is the focus for many other diversions (Yemen, Libya etc.,) and is central to the mischief of Ezekiel 38:10.  The Pope's antics (see abover) should be watched alongside this nonsense for clues to realise what may actually be happening.
23/9/16, "New Zealand sleighted Russia on Crimea", says Winston Peters.  The MP, a former Foreign Minister, said the NZ Government joined the chorus of disapproval and put sanctions on Russia after President Putin offered a plebiscite to the citizens of the Crimea.  Mr Peters point seems to have been that NZ curtailed serious trade talks with Russia by using a weak excuse as a deception perhaps to avoid the impression NZ was simply following the pack anmd not pursuing its onwn strategic interest.  [Postscript:  In April 2018, Peters raised the prospect of re-continuing trade ralks with Russia but at a time when the Russians once again appeared to have poisoned another opponent of the Putin regime in England (two actually or three if the daughter of one is included).  By April 2018, Peters was in a coalition government with Labour and the Greens.  He added North Korea to a potential list of trade partners when there was not a single bit of trade going on with North Korea apart from one businessman's ventures there.  He may have had a valid point here in 2016 but by 2018 Russia's and North Korea's international antics were stretching the patience of most of us especially in waht Russia is doing in Syria with Turkey but worse with Iran.  At least Turkey has a valid concern about what happens in Syria.  Iran seems simply to be meddling in Syria.  End Postscript].   They voted to re-join Russia and leave the Ukraine.  The background was that Ukraine seemed to be levitating towards the West, the EU and away from economic cooperation with the Russian Federation.  As far as Crimeans were concerned, a majority preferred to remain aligned with Russia with many Crimeans nowadays anyway being Russian.  After the Crimean War in the 19th Century the Great Powers, in effect the UN of the time, agreed the Crimea should belong to Russia to govern.  However, Kruschev transferred governance of the Crimea to the Ukraine because of infrastructure developments that necessitated linking the somewhat isolated peninsula, a virtual island, with Ukraine.  That seemed sensible until the USSR broke up.
Of course going even further back in time, the Crimea was overrun by Tartars from Mongolia and Central Asia.  They took the region off the Circassians whose descendants now live on Turkey's Black Sea Coast.  President Putin at least let the people put the matter to the vote.  A solid majority, a better one than the Brexit and Scottish Independence Referenda in the UK, opted to re-join Russia which now governs the region.  It does seem New Zealand unnecessarily snubbed Russia by joining the sanctions regime arranged in the West to discipline Russia for this outrage as the West saw it.
Worse, New Zealand's biggest industry, the Dairy Sector, had to wear losses by diverting export products to other markets.  The effect of EU and American sanctions also diverted other milk products onto world markets causing a glut and destabilising the international market.  The basic Price for NZ dairy farmers slumped from about $8 to #3.50.  In the intervening period, markets have begun to re-stabilise and NZ's farmers are looking at a price of $5.50. 
Mr Peters pointed out that the NZ PM needlessly hurt the NZ dairy industry.  But that decision also reflects naivity in NZ's Foreign Affairs Ministry.  It also raises the question of attitudes toward Russia by 'The West'.  Is there a serious miscalculation going on?  Or do Western Leaders realise Russia and others are preparing for the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 invasion of Israel?  If they do realise that, they are not letting on.  It may also indicate why churches are avoiding prophecy because the powers ruling 'The West' want to keep the public in the dark just as George Orwell predicted in 1984.  
As we have discovered from a careful reading of the Ezekiel passage, Russia and Moscow are in fact underlings or subservient to Gog and his or its allies.  After the 1917 overthrow of the Tsars and Czars (Caesar and Sar as in Bel Shazzar), the same year as the Balfour Declaration obliged Britain to allow Jews to re-establish a state in 'Palestine', The Cossacks of Kazakhstan put Lenin into power.  The georgian Mafia with Stalin then took over and Kruschev and the Ukrainians took power in Moscow after that.  It is not clear when a Russian has been in power in Moscow.  The 'Romanov Czars' were hardly Russian either, originating in Byzantium as they did, so it may not have been until Putin that Russia has had a genbuin ely Russian strong man at the helm which may explain his popularity.  Putin cannot be such a bad lad.  He likes the Beatles! 
After a brief light note, and more seriously, whatever the true situation, we can once again point out that the true believers who are studying God's Word are learning of His Plan for the world and are rapidly becoming aware of what is really going on behind the scenes.  As one showed in another paper (Sundry Misuses) people in churches have become very narcissistic and are only concerned with "God's Plan" for their lives.  Rather they should be devoting their lives to studying God's Plan.  That is what one writing here endeavours to do.
29/9/16, Obama and Kerry naive to deal with Russia over Syria.  That is the view of some of President Obama's own Cabinet according to a commentator on NZ's national public radio station.  This reflects other reports that suggest the Pentagon was also opposed to the latest peace plan to stop fighting especially in Aleppo to enable aid to get through to hordes of people in dire straits.  It seems that a similar situation to that faced by Kennedy and Kruschev exists where the millitary complexes of USA and Russia are outside the control of democratically elected officials.  It also seems possible that automated or robotised weapons' systems are entering the fray outside the generals control.   The shooting of a Malaysian civilian aircraft over Ukraine, see event in next item, shows that aside from automated weapons' systems being outside human control, rebels like Cossacks (Kazakhstanis) are also involved and Messrs Putin, Labrov, Obama and Kerry, Ashton  et al can do nothing about these things.  
29/9/16, Report says Russians shot down Malay airlliner over Ukraine.  This emerged today but Russia vehemently denied it had anything to do with the accident.  There is a possibility they are innocent of the crime if the report we received (refer 18/7/14, “Cossack militants boasting over radio they had brought down Malaysian airliner MH 17 over Ukraine”) is indeed accurate.  This is further evidence, noted in the item above and elsewhere, that players including robots  and computing equipment are independently acting in various events without the express or even conceptual knowledge of the generals and political authorities that have ultimate responsibilty for armaments.  In this case, it is also possible the Cossacks had insufficient technical capability to handle the sophisticated weaponry they almost certainly illegally acquired, or acquired without any political  authorisation.
Considering both these reported issues today, the identity of Gog in the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 prophecy takes on even more interest.  There are forces at play in many world issues that are very hard to detect, identify or explain.  The Bible says at one point that God Himself puts hooks into the jaws of the invaders of that prophecy and God Himself draws them into Israel.  But how does God manage that?  Obviously we will see the effect but it will be impossible for us to explain it.
29/9/16, "Out of control of professional military people".  John Nance, leading expert on aviation matters commenting on the downing of Malaysian airliner MH 17.  The launcher (a "BUK") and missies were definitely Russian.  Apparently the launcher was smuggled into some rebel-held territory in Ukraine then quickly retrieved.  That lines up with our report that Cossacks were involved.  This expert advice also confirms our points in the above two items that military equipment is getting into the wrong hands which are invariably lacking in appropriate expertise to properly use it.  It also demonstrates one of our primary themes that science and technology are getting outside our control, if they ever were within our control!  That's what God warned Adam and Eve when they consumed from the touch-tronic computer, possibly embedded in a tree, in the Garden of Eden.  
29/9/16, USA threatens to break-off talks with Russia over Aleppo Crisis.  The US believes Russia is deeply implicated in bombing aid workers and two hospitals in recent days.  Even if the Russians were not involved, their client Assad is the culprit.  All this of course is dependent upon the veracity of data which is subjective, as is suggested in the latest reports of the fate of the airliner MH 17 shot down over Ukraine.  The failure of the UN, deep-seated rivalries amongst diplomats and national delegations therein and unauthorised or unregistered weapons' systems in the hands of 'unknowns' are all contruibuting to near total failuure of the world's peace and aid institutions.  It seems only a matter of time before new governance regimes must move in to take control.  The invasion of Israel by Gog et al will help accelerate that.
29/9/16, 87% of Private NZ debt is tied up in property.  Just another symptom of an isolated mass of people putting their trust in bricks and mortar.  Money sloshing around in the pockets of international investors, including New Zealanders who managed to get their hands into some overseas troughs (well-paid jobs), is flooding into property markets, mainly houses, in NZ.  But the national mantra that one should own one's first home by age thirty or thereabouts means that Kiwis will take on enormous, unwieldy volumes of debt to get into that house.  New Zealand's 'Private Debt' is more than 100% of GDP so there is plenty of potential for trouble in these figures.  On the other hand, the world situation is so dire that foreign lenders are prepared to let out risky loans at far lower levels of risk aversity to young NZ home owners.  The foreign lenders may well have to flee their current domicile so if they can foreclose on a debt on a house in NZ at least they have a house to come to. 
29/9/16, India attacks Pakistan border with "Kashmid".    Taken from an Arab speaking nation's International television news service where the reader repeatedly quoting from a "Breaking News" piece, kept on saying "Kashmid" for "Kashmir".  This is another case of this happening and again from the same source.  The previous occasion was in resppet to a crisis at Madaya in Syria.  However, on a couple of occasions when the television-studio anchor-person was speaking with someone on location, the local kept saying "Maraya" instead of 'Madaya'.  Of course "Maraya", spelled in reverse, to account for transfer from a right-left writing-language into a left-right writing-language, is "Ayaram" or Aram the old and ancient name for what is now called Syria a name derived from the old Hebrew or Semite for Tzor-Tyre.  If one thought the earlier occasion was coincidence, this event today is very interesting support for the thesis one holds in etymology and which one is promoting in these pages and in the 3-D Aleph-Tav Bible Study.
It is the Resh-Daleh thesis that points out in ancient Hebrew and Phoenician, the letters 'r' and 'd' are similar symbols within their respective alphabetic scripts.  Although the letters in the Hebrew differ significantly from the Phoenician, a similar principle of style is found in both.  The essential difference between resh ('r') and daleth ('d') in Hebrew is a tittle which Jesus spoke of.  The tittle has the effect of squaring the letter 'd' (daleth) but it is omitted in the letter 'r' (resh).  That gives the 'r' in Hebrew a visual rounded effect whereas the 'd' looks rigid, straight and square.  That same style difference exists in the Phoenician where the 'r' is a sort of rounded 'd'. and became the 'ro' of the Greek.  The Phoenician daleth or 'd' became Greece's delta   These four letters, two from each alphabet, are easily mistaken for each other especially when the writer's handwriting was sloppy.   Oddly, ironically or coincidentally, this only occurs between these four letters in their two respective alphabets.  Other alphabets directly descended from the Hebrew and Phoenician, such as Aramaean and Arabic seem to have the same problem.  Applied to the Latin word for 'Law' or Juria, we have Judia suggesting the Latin word for 'law' identified with the Laws of Judah and Israel.  There are many interesting implications from that alone! 
30/0/16, Muslims in high places concerning Fijian politician.  Fijian coup d'etat leader and now PM has a deputy and running mate named Ayoub Kayum who is a Muslim.  But one politician is concerned that other Muslims are also infiltrating the country's political offices. 
30/9/16, "The end is nigh".  Words of an Australian commentator (Ms Kerry-Anne Walsh) talking about some unusually heavy storms in South Australia.  On the way to work that morning one came across a film poster (refer next item) with another variation on this theme:  
30/9/16, X-Men Apocalypse Nigh".  Words on a film advertisement on a wall poster.  These are more flippant refences to the times predicted in the Bible as "The Last Days".  Although people are well enough aware of the general points made by the Bible, no one actually discusses the matter from any serious or analytical perspective.  What follows is a brief analysis of the Last Days.
In Hebrews 1:2, the author says "In these Last Days God has spoken through His Son" and that is clearly Jesus of Nazareth.  Considering the Bible as a whole, the "Last Days" here is effectively defined as the period that follows from Jesus' Ascension until His Second Coming.  To date, 1986 years have passed since the Ascenscion.  Again from a perspective of the the full Bible, and considering here its chronology, Mankind went through two previous eras of 2000 years before this one defined as "The Last Days Era" by Hebrews.  The two previous ones were the Era from Adam to Abraham which was a two millennium period when Conscience ruled or at least moderated fallen men's behaviour.  After that a two millennium period from Abraham to Jesus was set aside so that our Conscience would be further jolted by a System of Law for Israel, which only pricked the conscience even more (Romans 5:20).  Non-Jews could join in or participate in this system if they converted, circumcised (men only) and took on the burdens and blessings of the Laws of Moses.  That was a particular option available to Gentiles in that era which took its time to get into gear because of severl failings by the Israelites themselves.  But men failed both tests of both eras.
So came the third era of the "Last Days" which, from the Book of Hebrews perspective in its opening verses, was the Christendom era when believers, not the world in general, used Jesus' Words and commandments he permitted His Apostles (rabbis) to announce for the Congregation of Christ.  We call this last era "Christendom".  Unfortunately, throughout much of it, or until about 1648 (Treaty of Westphalia) princes and churchmen tried to enforce Christ's Laws on others.  That ws in the mistaken belief they were to impose the Kingdom of God on men their way not God's Way which is to usher it in with the return of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus of Nazareth, the World's Saviour soteriologically and physically.  Under the Covenant God made with all men via Noah and his sons, Governments are to set laws to rule and regulate society's behaviour.  Hopefully most people will of their own volition, voluntarily choose to complement society's rules via Government, required by God after the Great Flood, with the pattern and standard of behaviour that Jesus encouraged for His followers.
However, the problems and failures inherited from these eras would come to a head towards the end of the Third because of the sin of Adam, in particular the accumulated knowledge base which would increasingly get outside Man's control towards the end.  That time would be signified by the ubiquity of the touch-tronic computer that Adam and Eve touched and consumed from in Eden.  There would come a time when man's knowledge and systems would eventually lead him into trouble with his morals, environment, politics, economy, social systems, and even his health as the after-effects of the Fall begin to show up, aggregate, accumulate and, in particular, intensify and magnify in the defective genomes of each and every species.  Problems in the Environment and Economy would also magnify and intensify.  In the Bible these are the days of Daniel 12:4 & 9:  "These words are sealed up until the time of the end" (verse 4) and "end of time" verse 12.  Daniel 12:4 also pointed out that knowledge and travel would greatly increase at that end time.  We now know from the science of knowledge itself and from economics that travel and knowledge have a lot in common.  In Daniel 9:24-27, The 'last' Last Days of both Hebrews 1:2 and then Daniel 12:4 & 9 are completed with a specific seven-year period known as The Tribulation.  It is in that period that the apocalypse of Revelation takes place.  That's what the Apocalypse and its four horsemen is!
The Apocalypse is noit the End of the World!  It merely brings various things to a head.  At the end of the Apocalypse Jesus returns to firstly renovate a badly damaged and polluted Earth.  Then Jesus ushers in a millennium where He will rule directly over a world of carnal men and women who survive the Apocalypse in belief along with resurrected believers of the three previous eras who are all covered by the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus of Nazareth.  Those living in the first two eras believed on the Promised Deliverer, announced to Adam and Eve, who turned out to be Jesus of Nazareth.  Those of the Third and Last era actually know the Promised Deliverer is Jesus of Nazareth.  However, they also know and must confess Jesus of Nazareth paid the Blood Price with His death, burial and resurrection.
Just before the world's problems caused by Adam's and our Sin come to a head, Jesus of Nazareth will take out the living believers in the Last Days, instantaneously translate their bodies into a resurrected body and resurrect all the other dead believers.  He will take all believers up to that point, "The Rapture",  to Heaven to attend or be part of the Wedding to Christ.  All believers between AD 30 and The Rapture, i.e., the Bride of Christ are the Church of Christ, His Bride.  Other saints before AD 30 are Friends of the Groom.  Between the Rapture and the end of the Tribulation, those who become believers enter the Millennial Kingdom and procreate the people who in the Millennium of Peace and Goodness decide whether to follow Jesus and obey God or decide to go to damnation instead.  At end of the Tribulation, Jesus of Nazareth returns to Earth to save Israel from the Antichrist-666 who becomes the main player in the Tribulation and garners the world to destroy Israel.
Among other signs, the Jews' return to Israel, the world-wide unrest and nations killing themselves, the Days of Noah signified by the Global Warming as the iced-up flood waters at the Poles begin to melt, a world governance system radically altered etc., signify that "The End is Nigh", not Hollywood films.  Nor is the nearness of the end of days signified by an Australian commentator's description of an unusually bad storm.  Not even if that storm is another indicator that the South Pole is coming under great strain with the warming process that is ultimately a problem caused by the Earth's interior not exterior.
Those wanting to join The Rapture, a most advisable and acceptable option, need to acknowledge God's Plan for fallen Man, the redemption price Jesus paid and believe He is their Saviour.   One has to accept one is The Sinner Jesus died for and that one is the Adam who brought all this mess on everyone.  We are all deemed guilty of Adam's mistake.  By accepting the truth of that, Jesus can bring men and women into God's Planned Eternal Kingdom.  Otherwise, it is the place where eternal darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth take place and that is likely to be the least bad section of that Eternal Gloom.
30/9/16, Syrian Government now dropping bunker-busting bombs.  From a news bulletin item.  And the Russians seem to be supplying them.  These bombs can hit people hiding underground which is how civilians and resistance fighters are surviving the Syrian Government onslaught.  Chlorine and Phospherous bombs are also being used to help flush people out.  
30/9/16, "Deliberate decision to kill everyone or expel them".  From the same news bulletin above.  This is partly why we think these crises around the Middle East, parts of West Asia and Africa are fomented, i.e., to collect a massive horde of dispossessed people and drive them toward Israel which has no defence against such an onslaught.  God has though as is described in Ezekiel 38:21-22.

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