Key Events
1 March 2017 - 24 June 2017
1/3/17, "God shall judge you".  What the Russian Ambassador said to the UN Security Council when the rest of the council voted today to sanction Assad's Syria for using chemical weapons in the civil war there.  The Council responded to a report presented to it on the matter.  China joined Russia in placing a veto on the resolution.  Our interest here is that God says He is indeed going to "Magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am The Lord" (Ezekiel 38:23).  God's statement here is in response to the failed invasion of Israel of Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  The aftermath will include disasters raining down on other nations scattered further afield ("Those who inhabit the coastlands in safety").  Depending on how one reads the text and depending on a precise reading of the Hebrew words rather than solely relying on English translations (NASB here) there will be, according to Ezekiel 38:22, Pestilence, blood, torrential rain, hailstones, fire and brimstone descending on the invaders of Israel as they ascend the West Bank.  According to Ezekiel 39:6, fire descends on Isles carelessly dwelling around and about.  It is generaly assumed "Rosh" (Russia), Meshech (Moscow) and Tubal (Tubalsk in Russian Siberia?) are part of the invasion force.  That assumption is probably or even almost certainly correct so the Ambassador's words will come back to haunt him assuming he is still around then.  That time may not be far away. 
But why did the Russian ambassador invoke God all of a sudden?  In fact, within days he was dead!  One line of research we are looking at is that "Gog" being the 'leader' or Nasi (Overlord) of Russia of Russia is somehow a religious leader.  That 'leader' wants control of Israel's Holy Places.  Could that leader be none other than Gog Mario Bar Goglio or today's Pope?  Is Jerusalem the "spoil" of Ezekiel 38:12?  Will this Pope try to unite Muslims, Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christendom to rid the Jews of Jerusalem?  We know the Pope has been in talks with Russian Orthodox and Russian Catholic religious leaders.  Mr Putin has publicly acknowledged he gets on better with The Pope than with various Western Leaders.
Judging by the Ambnassador's rather surprising demise God is already signalling whom He is going to "make Himself known to"! 
3/1/17, "Swamp creatures and ratbags in both US political parties".  And Hypocrisy is everywhere accordinmg to a guest specialist commentator on a radio talkback programme.  The comment probably typifies politicians in most countries.  This is another reason for suspecting the 'removal' of governments in preparation for the rise of Antichrist (II Thessalonians 2:7) is on the way.  That situation probably arises via a number of processes or developments including too much corruption and cynicism amongst politicians leading to public scepticism of the parlimentary and governance systems currently in place.
1/3/17, "Driver-less cars linked to the Internet a hacker's paradise".   Someone's comment on a programme about cars of the future and the level of automation that will be possible in them.  At one point the geeks showed how a car could be started from remote on one's watch so that when one got to the garage the vehicle will have warmed up nicely.  All well and good we would say as long as someone in the garage does not get Carbon Monoxide poisoning.    The concept of a hacker taking control of one's braking system or acceleratror generated the comment above.  Really this is an example of technology almost for technology's sake.  Are these tools really worthwhile?  All part of the dilemma of Adam taking of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (a touch-tronic computer?).  The Internet-Tree which man is setting up, represented by ['@'] is almost becoming one's master for those who will let it.  The technology is there so it must be used as pervasively as possible.  
9/3/17, "There are forces around us which we don't understand".  A Comment from a well known British journalist on a New Zealand national radio programme.  She said this in the wake of the revelation that WikiLeaks now has a whole batch of leaked downloads from the CIA.  These downloads explained how the agency had developed electronic methods to monitor people using televisions or mobile phones etc.   However, the CIA itself had been hacked so that others were able to use these facilities to hack around for other nefarious purposes [Refer 21/8/15, "If hackers are not careful they may end up destroying or crippling the Internet].  The CIA maintains it needs to secure protection for Americans from dangerous criminals and terrorists.  She also said "most of us" do not know how this is done.  However, some of us do have a reasonable idea.  Then again, those of us who understand the Bible and od's warnings about consuming from a tree of knowledge is that without God's tutelage or mentoring, we are unable to handles its seductive fruits.  it looks good but hidden problems surface sometime later.
While employed at the US Embassy in Wellington, New Zealand (1986-92), one  was astounded at the rate of change in the workplace engendered by computers.  No sooner had one mastered one process or software programme than a new one had to be introduced, learned and understood.  The worker barely had any chance to show productivity gains from the electronic equipment before he or she was introduced to yet another program to be mastered.  At NZ's MoRST or "Ministry of Research, Science and Technology" (1993-98), one was supplying all sorts of useful information from a computerised database one had learned to analyse with the use of Boolean Commands.   Then a new computer program was purchased to analyse the database but one did not get the training to do that job.  Someone else got the work.  Using methods like that the Wellington 'Swamp Masters' (Roman Catholics and Masons) were able to eliminate an employee they did not like becuase of one's "religious convictions".    One noticed that by being the only other person who had practised using that program, apart from the technical advisor or 'in-house geek', one was moving into position as an integral member of the organisation's team.  But that had to be prevented at all costs.  As one later found out from other employees at MoRST, it was one's 'religious convictions' (never explained) that saw one left adrift at age 45 with little hope of any further meaningful professional employment by 1998.  As one now realises, in 1998 we were on the eve of the millennium wherein Satan would announce his impending takeover via his son the Antichrist-666.   
As noted, frequent changes brought on by computerisation meant that again and again one had to adapt to a new work method.  But one also foresaw back then in the 1980's, reinforced by the writings of George Orwell and Alvin Toffler, the additional potential for danger if everything was "computerised".  Now those warnings are swooping back to the US Government system's roost.   The English commentator explained how the British end of the American surveillance system contributed to the situation.  To demonstrate that 'tie-up', it was Englishman Sir Tim Berners-Lee who 'invented' the World-Wide Web (WWW) in March 1989.  According to WikiPaedia, Lee put forward a proposal for an Information Management System and performed the first Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) "for both client and server" via the Internet in November 1989 some eight months later.  Berners-Lee is currently Director of the WWW Consortium (W3C). Apparently, a British company put in the successful bid for a contract to link the United States' many University supercomputers.  None of the US computer companies, nor Snow White (IBM) nor any of her Seven Dwarves (Burroughs, Hewlett Packard, ICL etc.,) were interested in the project, we are told!  That situation has reverse echoes of the conspiracy to establish the United States and its constitution from Chiswick's Masonic temple.  It only adds to the suspicion that world affairs and events follow a path directed to some extent by shadowy forces active in Man's affairs.
While they may to some extent be directed by some agency, these trends are also directed by an inevitable set of conclusions that cannot be avoided as man struggles with Satan's original temptation to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Of course Satan could foresee that track that Man would be impelled down.  As of course God does too!  We are now struggling to cope with the intoxication of the ripened fruits from the Tree of Knowledge that Man has constructed over the last six millennia much of it now available on The Internet.  Perhaps if Man (Adam) had obeyed God's first command to Mankind we would have consumed from the tree of Knowledge God put in Eden.  Instead, we are stuck with a Tree of Knowledge wherein the fruits look and initially taste good but like booze they bring on an intoxicating blend of other troubles.  We cannot find complete solutions for the ensuing side effects, unintended consequences or problems.  That tends to leave us vulnerable to greater forces that we might label Satanic.  Aside from the former Anointed Cherub's degree of interference in Man's affairs our societies try to manage what is learned through institutions such as universities in the West or Taonga or Mentors in the East.  At one time in the West, the Vatican's stranglehold on the learning institutions tried to prevent the development of new knowledge unsurprisingly fearing the long-run impacts.  The Amish took this to another extreme to hold a complete moratorium on the use of any technology appearing after circa AD 1700.  China; either because of internal dissension or corruption, or by choice like the Vatican, opted to back away from further technological development some six or eight hundred years ago.  Certainly Europe left China behind as she threw off Rome's shackles after the Galileo Affair.          
From a Biblical perspective and its prophecies about Tarshish, since Britain and the USA lead Tarshish and its armed forces and surveillance systems, the developments noted in this essay become interesting for our Tarshish Thesis of the Last Days.  We believe NATO stands for the North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation and that SEATO stands for the South East Asian branch.  As preparations are planned for the Gogite alliance of Ezekiel 38:1 ff and the grab for Israel's spoil;  Tarshish, her 'young lions' or 'villages', Sheba and Dedan (provisionally regarded as The Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kurds) one presumes are restricted to voicing their opposition from the sidelines.  Viewed from one cartographical projection, one frequently used as UN backdrops for the media cameras, nations to the north and south of Israel invade whereas nations on the sidelines to the East, i.e., the Kurds, Sheba and Dedan and the nations on the sidelines to the West (Tarshish) look on, take no action and voice timid protest.  No matter, God says He will deliver Israel not her terrestrial allies.  But Israel's own reliance on the 'Ethernet' and related technologies, along with an increasingly incapacitated Tarshishite network, will be found wanting.  Much of the world's technological infrastructure, inefffective against the human hordes descending on Israel's "Mountains" (Palestinian West Bank), may collapse in the face of the after-effects of God's methods to protect Israel and punish her enemies and perhaps the fair-weather friends as well!  Only God would be able to defeat such an invasion force that Ezekiel describes.  The post-invasion clean-up of the mess gives us some more indication of the extent or size of this invasion force.  Even if Israel's (and allies') electronic systems do not fail, it is doubtful they can have any rrealistic defensive effect against a human wave of perhaps more than a hundred million refugees, 'internally displaced persons' (IDP's) and terrorist gangsters mixed with all of them.
9/3/17, "Deep State, powers in the Bureaucracy".  A commentator on another radio station later in the day talking about NZ Government Ministers who want to take on their departments but find that very difficult to do.  They were commenting on Mr Trump's threat to "drain the swamp" in Washington DC.  Mr Trump now finds himself being counter-attacked by the "Establishment" with "death by a thousand leaks" presumably as The Swamp descends on The White House.  NZ Government Ministers fear much the same thing happening to them.  According to this view, which one wholeheartedly agrees with, if politicians push the bureaucrats too hard, they may find information from their department not forthcoming as or when they want it or in the format they ask for.  That might be tricky if the bureaucrats then supply the opposition parties with some ammmo to attack or embarrass the Minister who then has to wriggle and squirm in the Parliamentary Debating Chamber as she or he attempts to answer a question put by an Opposition Member in the Chamber of the NZ House of Representatives.  . That is why many of us who have tried to dry out The Reclaimed Land in Wellington sympathise with Mr Trump wanting to "Drain the Swamp" in DC.      
10/3/17, "We are in dire need of a World Government to stop technology destroying us".  [See also 30/7/15, Exponential growth curve in all technologies combining in multiplier effect beyond Human ability to 'get its head around';  5/8/15, "The Creature escapes from its Creator"].   The words of Stephen Hawking reported today on a NZ radio station.  Hawking is especially concerned about the potential for evil from Artificial Intelligence (AI) a visitor advised as one wrote this paragraph.  Apparently, Hawking sees technology having the potential to destroy us.  Surprise, surprise that precisely is the view the Bible prophesied before Adam ate (Hebrew acol or 'a all' or '@') of the Tree of Good and Evil Knowledge.  Not that Hawking believes in or agrees with the Biblical statements course.   Inadvertently, he is therefore also predicting the World Government that Daniel's Prophecies implied 550-600 years ago.  Unless there is indeed a World Government officially yet to come, in these pages we believe there has been a form of world government in place since 1945 or perhaps since the former League of Nations (circa 1918).  Even further back, because most of our modern 'nation-states' trace their origin to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, one could take the view World Government has been in place for some 370 years or so.  One could argue that the decline of China in the East between AD 1000-1600 and in 'The West' the failures of the Roman Empire (to AD 400) then Christendom (AD 400-1600) resulted in a joint approach to world governance in Westphalia's 'nation-state'.  Gradually, the Eastern Hemisphere bought into Westphalia [The Raj in India (18th Century), the Japanese 'Meiji Restoration' (19th Century), NZ maori (Mid 19th Century), Korea and China (20th Century), etc].    Really, if one is using one's interpretations of the Biblical prophecies in a correct manner, the World Government is going to roll-up the 200 or so current nation-states and a dozen or so city states.  It will re-format them into just Ten Kingdoms or Presidencies.  That way the Ten Regions [Daniel 2:33, 41-44, 7:7-8 ("Ten Horns", verse 8 an 11th horn, then three removed), 7:20, 24, Revelation 12:3, 13:1-4, 16:14, 17:12ff] would make logical sense in accord with Governance Theory.  'Ten regions' could work more effectively than the now unmanageable  status quo.  In 17th to 20th century levels of information and technology, 200 nations satisfied most ethnic and practical realities concerning 'governance'.  In theory, 'The Ten' would act with bettter coordination, greater economies of scale etc.  In theory, they should be able to deal with the problems of famine, flood and fighting in civil wars that are causing such massive hordes of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) to emerge in world affairs.  So the developments we are now witnessing come as no surprise to Bible Students.
The following is a brief list of bullet point problems we can identify that need a much more efficient wotld governance system to resolve:
•	Money laundering;
•	International banking, (world) currency and trade issues;
•	Tax rules for large international conglomerates;
•	A living wage as work is robotised;
•	Copyright theft and Property Right breaches;
•	Nuclear technology issues;
•	Monitoring "looming antibiotic apocalypse" (c.f., 19/5/16);
•	International Terrorism;
•	Bringing war- and genocide-criminals to international justice; 
•	Planning for Global Warming Impact;
•	Poaching and trafficking of rare animals and their by-products;
•	Monitoring International fish stocks;
•	Trafficking of illicit halucengenic drugs and Drug Cheats in Sport;
•	Internet becoming its own mind by AD 2030:
•	Controlling Internet hackers and cyber-crime; and
•	Governments too small or weak to cope with technology advances.
13/3/17, "Invention of the World-Wide Web" (1989).  Supposedly 28 years ago today when Englishman Sir Tim Berners-Lee 'invented' it!  Lee is now the Director of the WWW Consortium (W3C) which, according to WikiPaedia,  "overseees the continued development of the Web".  According to Mr Keith Houston's book Shady Characters "Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities" (Penguin Group 2013), the '@' sign was added to keyboards around 1971.  Again, that seems to have been a decision made in England by a team of computer engineeers.  They borrowed the symbol used particularly by the Spanish for the near-full amphora [@] jars used in trade and commerce.  It is not clear whether that group included Sir Tim.  However, Lee's invention or concept of 'The Web' built around the computers and servers of the newborn Internet featured as part of the Opening Gala to Britain's 2012 Olympic Games.  That event is widely held as one of the most successful ever and one that did not bankrupt London.  In fact, that Olympics considerably enhanced London's infrastructure with some planning that ran "more independently" of the World Olympic Committee's requirements and more in tandem with London's own long-term infrastructure development plans.  That is something Auckland in New Zealand needs; some decent long-term planning for its infrastructure.  Unfortunately, Auckland needed that planning a century ago!
It is an intriguing qustion why London (or Britain) should have been so critical in the set-up of the Internet and WWW.  To investigate further, we need to look at London's history.  Hence the reason for this wee essay.
London appears to have made enormous strides in the 350 years since its Great Fire (1666).  [It is often said that year was one of three that were vital in British History (the others being 1066 and 1966)].  More seriously, the legend that London's Guildhall and walls were founded some 2700 years ago by fleeing Trojan emigres to Britain as a result of the Trojan War Homer wrote about in circa 750 BC.  That date makes perfect sense to us because under the historical reconstruction with the revised Egyptian chronology, we date the 10-year Trojan Siege by the ancient Greeks to circa 780 BC rather than circa 1300 BC.  We believe the Celts were the Kurds, Chaldeans (Celteans) or Hittites that became the landless "Kasdim" of Isaiah 23:13.  That happened sometime between 1000-800 BC.  From their Assyrian-supported Eastern Turkish base (Eastern Asia Minor or Eastern Anatolia) some of these 'Galatians' (or Kurdo-Celts);  like modern Middle Eastern refugees initially flooding into southern and central Europe; in circa 800-700 BC began drifting across Europe's continent to Britain.  
As agriculturalists from the recently destroyed farmlands of South Iraq (The Land of Shinar, Genesis 11:2, Zechariah 5:11) they probably found rich agicultuaral opportunities in Britain's by comparison virgin-land ice-free and given warmth by the Gulf Stream from the Caribbean.  Or, by travelling via Tyrian ships plying the Black Sea, Aegean (Achean) Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic they also reached Britain and Gaul (France).  So London's heritage:  like that of Paris in Gaul-France, founded by King Priam's younger son;  or Rome in Italy, founded by Aeneas probably also a member of Priam's Royal Family;  goes back to 'Babylon' certainly in one sense.  That is in the sense that Britain's ancient Celts were descendants from the "Landless Chaldeans" (Kasdim in Hebrew) of Isaiah 23:13.  Circa 1000-800 BC, we estimate, Lower (Southern) Iraq, or "Shinar", had become a wasteland as a result of irrigation mistakes and other environmental issues.  Thus we wonder how London, Paris and Rome may figure in Prophecy with that 'Chaldean' Heritage and that Bible-based analysis of ancient Middle Eastern and ancient European History (His Story).
Thus, apparently, we find the Internet and subsequent WWW gained their birth from businesses or individuals based in England and probably in London.  How much of that was planned?  And planned by Whom?  Why was London chosen to begin the job of linking all the United States supercomputers?  Why didn't any American company take on the task?  They were not interested according to some sources.  It was only because some innovative British computer engineers saw the project tender that they grasped the nettle in London.  Or, Chiswick-style, was there a deliberate plan to get that job done in London?  Did high-powered people in America want to hide this work across the Alantic in London as they did with promotional filming for the Apolllo Moon Landings.  In that example, they used Sir Robert Falcon Scott's meteorites he dragged across Antarctica from the south polar desert plateau to a few kilometers short of Scott Base or forward base thereof.  Even so, today, the USA claims the Internet to be something it effectively built.  That is true to the extent that most of the early computers being linked were American, in American universities and in US-based research institutions etc.  Now these resources are increasingly coming under the attack from enemies called 'Hackers'.  Who really are the hackers, or whom do they really work for, one wonders?
One might also consider these things in the context of the American War of Independence and subsequent Constitutional experiment finally drawn up (at Chiswick) 13 years later in 1789, the year of the French Revolution.  One wonders here if we are all being subjected to a fiction to hide historical truths and disguise plans for world governnace?  Has that been in order to more efficiently execute modern Babylon's Tower of Babel Project?  Also, one must ask, whether the 1789-engineered split of the Thirteen American Colonies away from the Crown and from the UK Parliament's influence, at a crucial time during a serious illness afflicting King George III, is really about obscuring the Bible's prophecies about Tarshish?  America got its 'British' name from Mr John Ameryck a Bristol-based merchant who imported furs then beavers and perhaps squirrels from the Ameryckas well before Columbus and amerigo Vespucci travelled in those parts.  Eric the Red Viking had settled in the Ameryckas even before the British in circa AD 800!
One must ask if the official 'History' we get rammed down our throats really conceals plans not only for world governance but also for future directions of Tarshish and/or Babylon.  In the Bible, in Isaiah 14:12, Ezekiel 28:15 and Luke 10:18 we see how the fallen and sinful Satan is seen as the real manipulator or puppeteer controlling the strings of the marionettes of Babylon and Tyre.  Adam unknowingly had ceded that opportunity to Satan by rebelling against God's One and Only Command not to do something!  But it will be Babylon the Antichrist will choose to rein over as he defeats all the other kings and The King of Babylon arises once more as supreme world leader as one was away back at the Tower of Babel in circa 2000 BC.  That's the last or most recent time when mankind was coralled into a One World Project (a new World'-Wide Work?).  Despite the long-standing independence of Tyre-Tarshish, Babylon will eventually bring that block to heel as the Satanic Counterfeit Trinity prepares its task to destroy Israel before she repents and calls on Jesus of Nazareth. 
Alternatively, as we note elsewhere, there are other currents sweeping things along.  There is a considerable extent to which we are witnessing developments that always have been part of a long-term logical economic, political and social development as resources of all sorts (the economists' Land, Labour and  Capital) permitted or dictated.  For example, by the existence of all that beautiful oil underneath the Arabs' lands.  No matter waht the world tries to do to ignore or replace that oil's usefulness, perhaps to stop global warming, that Middle East oil is going to dictate certain economic realities for a while yet.  At this point, one could ask if, even before Time began, God actually ran that film for Himself to view before the story began, and put elements of that story into the Bible as Prophecy integrated with the History (His Story) found in the Bible?  That leads to questions about the extent to which; and how did; God's Hand guide the Bible's composition?  Is that why the Bible is the only inspired or God-Breathed book in the World?  If so, that is why one must study it to understand God's points concerning the history and future of mankind (His Plan).
Questions one must ask about the Internet, its origins; the probability it will become a mind of its own by AD 2030 the 2000th anniversary of the Church of the Christ, the 30th year of our putative antichrist-666;  and its contrast or contradistinction to God's own Tree of Knowledge that He placed in the Garden of Eden, impel us to accept God's Word on the History and Future of this world's affairs.
15/3/17, "I am responsible only for diplomats...." said Mr Labrov the Russian Foreign Minister.  Someone asked him about Russian military intervention in a fracas in Eastern Libya where a group of rebels over-ran an oil facility near Benghazi.  The country is in the midst of a three-way civil war broadly between Benghazi, Tripoli in the West and The South or the desert interior.  "Tripoli" or the 'Polis of Tyre' is next door to Puntisia-Tunisia home-base of ancient Carthage.  Rome's bete noire.  From other news items we learned that Russia lost a lot of business in Libya when the West (Tarshish) supported rebels ganging up on Gadaffi.  Mr Labrov also, or a bit later, noted that Russian diplomats covering Libya had to do so from Tunisia, presumably in the capital Tunis.
15/3/17, " ... You would have to ask the 'servicemen'".   Mr Labrov having said he was only responsible for Russia's diplomats more or less revealed here why Mr Kerry failed to get any cooperation with Russia over ending Syria's civil war.  Obviously, whoever really tells Russian soldiers what to do was not cooperating very much with either Mr Kerry or Mr Labrov.  That adds fuel to our contention that governments around the world are becoming more and more incompetent and out of control of many things ranging from their armies' involvement in civil wars to taxation (c.f., multinational Internet companies paying no tax to world governments or getting special 2% tax rate deals from the Irelands of this world).
So if we assume Russia's politicians or courts have little or no control over their government's armies are any other nations in control of their armies?
15/3/17, Algeria and Egypt will have to help solve Libyan Civil War.   This emerged from a television discussion about alleged Russian intervention, albeit on a mionor scale, in the Libyan civil war.  Commentators on the programme doubted Russia had much 'skin in that game' and that anyway the Egyptian air force was probably more instrumental in assisting a rebel group seize an oil facility near Benghazi.  This is just another chaotic situation in a growing list of world trouble spots.
15/3/17, "The conflict is not about territory but terrorism".  This is a claim the lobby for Palestine is making to accuse pro-Israel groups of changing the narrative about the Palestine-Israel conflict.  They say Israel is spending large sums of money and making big efforts to convince media to focus on terrorism rather than on the territorial rights of the Palestinians.  They claim casualties the Palestinians suffer in places like Gaza are being obscured by a concentration on a need to fight terrorism.  Of course, one should not forget, Turks say the same about Kurds, Russians about Chechens and Georgians, and Indians about Pakistanis.  In a Blessing entitled Terrible Territory of Tyrants we attempt to show the origin of words like territory and Tyrant.  They both derive from the name Tyre and the Tyrians who dominated the early Roman colony before it threw off the shackles of Tyrian-Carthaginian domination especially in the brief era of Rome's Tyrants.  Terror-ism comes from the same root via the 'Tyrant' highway.
The Tyrian and Carthaginian model of the corporation or company delving in trade and commerce setting up a colony was pioneered by these rulers away back in the millennium before Rome's Empire.  From their turreted castles or forts (French forte, English fought),  Tyrian or Carthaginian employees, often mercenaries or foreigners, protected their masters' trade goods such as metals, precious stones, fabrics, foods, spices or even animals.  The Empires of Chaldeo-Babylon, Medo-Persia, Macedon-Greece then Rome arose to challenge that model and rule with 'governments'.  But TYre's ancient system still outlasted those forms of governance in entities like the 'City of London', Port Authority of New Jersey (with its Twin Towers), The New Zealand Company, the one-time East India Company or the former Hanseatic League in northern Europe and still today in Egypt.  In that Land of the ancient Pharaohs new pharaohs or tyrants heading the military are really part of the company that rules Egypt.  That is not unlike the East India Company which formerly ruled the South Asian sub-continent when Robert Clive became its commander.
This Tyrian model, however, tends to spawn tyrants and bullies.  Following the fall or decline of the Roman Empire, various forms of what might best be labelled Christendomity moderated some of the excesses of the Tyrian model.  Christendom, not without internal faults of its own, gradually brought in Government, Governance and Parliaments to set rules or boundaries over which the corporations, companies and businessmen could not cross over.  Corporates were also made to pay taxes to Governments for things like defence and Law and Order.  The latter came to hold for everyone not just law and order for the corporate interest alone.  More successful companies today are those that try to limit or restrict the sociological effects of bullying or management by fear (of losing one's hard-to-get-job) without the stick of Government or Church hanging over them (now very rare in the 21st century).  So Tyre's colonies tended to become ruled by Tyrants.  They employed or ensured bullies kept the troops in the lower echelons under control.  This method is a sort of control-by-fear.  Recently an observer discussing Egypt 6 years after the Arab Spring said it was once again back under a system of "control by fear".  No one engages in any political discussion in Egypt.  Everyone stays at home rather than risk imprisonment by joining or by being anywhere near a protest march.  This method of control was described as worse under General Sisi than it had been under President Mubarak who was Mr Sadat's right-hand man thirty years ago when he became 'President' on Sadat's assissination.  Some 'Tyrants' are worse than others.  As governments decline, or are removed as Apostle Paul warned (II Thessalonians 2:7), Tyrian-style oligarchies will come to the fore.  They may even form the basis of the Ten Nations of Biblical Prophecy (Refer, 10/3/17, "We are in dire need of a World Government to stop technology destroying us").
16/3/17, Rights, Duties and Liabilities of a person bestowed on NZ river.  The Wanganui (or Whanganui) River is now a person as Maori Panentheism begins to bite into New Zealand's Law.  The Secularists, having rejected God are now forced or obliged to accept worship of Creation as Apostle Paul warned in Romans 1:21-2, 25.  They've thrown out Jesus (Yeshua) and now must face mythical beings and creatures.  Both the Maori and Pakeha Elders;  the latter representing everyone not Maori unless Pacifica and Chinese can come under 'Maori';  have rejected Jesus.  They also reject Joshua, the Solemness of the Day of the Sun and Moon standing still not long after Joshua met the "Captain of the Lord's Hosts (or 'Host of the Lord', Joshua 5:14, NASB)" and all God's advice to Mankind.  Now chaos is sweeping down on NZ as people invest in houses and enterprise-restricting bureaucracy rather than job-creating activity in industry and other forms of economy.
Drunkenness, Drug addiction and family break-up often because of the 2 aforementioned 'Ds' now afflict NZ.  Problems with the whole plan and philosophy of the New Zealand Company are coming to light in things like the crisis in managing the urban monstrosity around the Manukau and Waitemata Harbours of Auckland City.  Earthquakes are wrecking parts of NZ's Southern Shaky  Island viz., Christchurch and the ccommunication and transport links between Christchurch and further South with the nothern half of the South Island.
Granted, companies are given the status of person in Law.  That's because ultimately a person in a company, its head or another representative can be treated in exactly the same way as a person or individual.  A company must pay tax and someone can be jailed for not paying the company's tax.  A company is a congregation of people so 'personhood' is not only logical but necessary to maintain Law.  Few, if any, duties, rights and responsibilities implicit in a Legal System can be applied to a river.  If the river floods and takes someone's life, does the river go to jail for manslaughter or even murder.  How do we tell if the river had Mens Rea or not in deciding whether the Actus Reus of drowning someone was     executed with purpose and/or motive?  Did the river intend to drown the person?  If the myths and legends are anything to go by, yes rivers have deliberately drowned people.  But what sanction can we place on a river if it deliberately drowns someone or a cow drinking from it?  If a Government department was negligent in constructing a viewing platform, with nails rather than bolts, over a cliff by a creek and a party of students are killed and injured when it collapses, someone in the organisation can be jailed or fined for negligence or even manslaughter.  No one can fine a creek or river if someone is drowned in one.  But this is NZ now.  Similar things are happening elsewhere as the world's former Panentheist religion once again tries to come to the fore.  The irony is that secular states having rejected Theology at Westphalia in 1648 are now in the forefront of effecting this major religious development.  We all thought the agreement was to leave religion and esotericism in the synagogues, mosques, churches, masonic halls and covens.  Not so now, apparently, for a river is now a person and needs protection from wicked evil fallen Men.
17/3/17, "The Universe does not seem to be designed for life to exist".  This came from an American 'Quantum Physicist" talking on a national radio programme.  
17/3/17, "In science we make predictions".  The US Quantum physicist again.  He said this in the context that Creationists using the Bible 'do not'.  Of course we do and in fact the Bible's principal method in confirming the Creation is that Israel being the only "created" nation is proving the Creation of the Universe and life on this planet alone (spirit-being angels excepted) by the way it is currently fulfilling Prophecy.  The Grandaddy Prophecy now would seem to be the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 Prophecy on the back of the Ezekiel 37 Prophecy ('The Dry Bones Valley').
17/3/17, "We don't know how life started here on Earth ... ".  The US Quantum physicist again.  NASA and the European Space Agency are now saying the early stages of Evolution occurred elsewhere in the universe.  They add, "but some of those early organisms arrived here on earth and further-developed from there". As we often note, Messrs Velikovsky, Hoyle and Wickramsingh in the 1960's and 1970's were saying that.
17/3/17, " ... But we might find out in the next ten years ...".   The US Quantum physicist again.  According to Bible Prophecy we are also going to find out that God is going to do something about all this nonsense in the science realm.  What we think this means that the world's population will have been so brainwashed by then that anything they purport to 'prove' will be accepted no matter what anyone else says.  The current theory that man's carbon use is overheating the globe is a classic illustration of the way people's minds are being manipulated.  They are being mesmerised by faction.  The facts get lost in the debates.  fake news is the outcome.  The Antichrist will out-perform today's global manipulators who are almost certainly preparing the way for him with all this noonsense.
17/3/17, "We are now scientific".  Said this US Quantum physicist in contradistinction to some commetns he made on the Galileo Affair.  He defended Galileo when Arthur Koestler convincingly demonstrated that Galileo was only jumping on the Helio-centric bandwago and was not activel proving the model as Kepler was.  With this comment the American only revealed just how 'unscientific' he is.  
17/3/17, "Science is a process for discovering facts".  The US Quantum physicist again.  Really, science is about testing an hypothesis and null hypothesis both based on a measure of existing or known facts and observations and making predictions as part of that testing process.   In part he is correct but he cannot call the Theory of Evolution 'science' because as NASA and the ESA have said, the early stages of evolution occurred in places we cannot possibly observe far, far out into the Universe.  It does not even get off the science ground.  Evolution is merely an idea.  It is not a very sensible one at that given the volumes of information around us testifying to the main hypotheses of the Bible. 
17/3/17, "There may be different systems (of life) out there".  Years ago the London Economist suggested in its weekly science section that by discovering an alternative "Biosphere" to the standard DNA-RNA system we see here on Earth, scientists woud in effect prove that it was possible ours could have evolved.  In the two or three decades since there has been no progress whatsoever in that regard.  They rally are clutching at straws. 
17/3/17, "The greatest story ever told - Why are we here"?  Really that is a question but those were the words of the US Quantum physicist we are quoting at the moment.   It is not a story but His Story.  Adam received some critical information from the Creator which we have in our Bibles.  Why not listen to his words?  Here, we trust the words entrueted with Adam rather than the prattle of modern atheistic or agnostic scientists.  Although Adam made a terrible decision on our behalf, over-turned and corrected by Jesus of Nazareth, that does not mean God left him bereft of any information about 'why we are here'.  
17/3/17, "There is no evidence of purpose in the Universe ....".  US Quantum physicist we are quoting at the moment.
17/3/17, " ... But that does not tell you there isn't one ....".  US Quantum physicist we are quoting at the moment.
17/3/17, " ... and as far as we can see there is no reason to believe a Deity has a purpose for it".  Indeed there was one according to the Bible.  Job 38:4-7 explains that the universe was initially created for the angels (technically 'spirit beings'.  Whether God intended to follow up with fleshy Man is left unanswered although some have tried to do that and used the answer, "yes" to explain that Satan then fell in a fit of jealousy.  Satan only became jealous of Man after his fall.  But the First Man also fell.  The Bible explains how How and Why the Universe came into being.  It also explains that after God's Salvation programme is complete (for angels and men) this univesrse is destroyed and a new one created.    So the Universe was created to test living, sometimes described as "sentient" beings or 'creatures' in order that a family of God could be formed for Eternity.  The Universe houses Earth for the purpose of Man's existence.  The Earth had been used as a special pad or apartemntn for Satan also in effect a testing room to see what he might do if left to his own devices.  he was cast off the earth after his Fall.  The Earth was re-fomatted into today's environment, albeit now damaged by catastrophes necessary for judgement of man's misdemeanours (e.g., Noah's Flood).  The man originally was placed in Eden but he was driven out after his fall.  So the Bible certainly provides plenty of evidence to answer the questions raised by this American quantum Pysicist.
17/3/17, "If science seems to contradict the Bible ... change your interpretation of it".  This American quantum pysijcist said he was quoting Moses maimonides, a Jewish sage, with this point.  We quite readily gainsay that.  We say all science needs to be interpreted within the farmework set out by the Bible.  This is a major project harmonising Science with the Bible but it is a mainstay of the 3-D Aleph-Tav Bible Study.  Therefore, we say, "If science seems to contradict the Bible, change you interpretation of the science".
17/3/17, "Gravity is the weakest force in Nature".  At this point, keeping away from theology and philosophy, our American quantum pysicist said something quite interesting here.  They ttalk about gravity, magnetism, the 'weak force' and the 'strong force'.  So apparently gravity is the weakest!   We could not comment on that but it sounds quite interesting whatever the ramifications turn out to be.  Apparetly, as he continued, we can create gravity waves simply by waving our hands in the air.  Perhaps if a butterfly in the South Pacific flaps its wings there will be a hurricane in the North Atlantic after all as Chaos Theory supposedly suggests!
17/3/17, "Dark Matter is a new type of elementary particle and forms a massive portion of the Universe".  Again, keeping away from theosophy we have an interesting point from our American quantum pysicist.   This dark matter seems to be the result of the Fall of Satan via God's judgement on the Universe.  This means the Universe is clearly desecrated and will require destruction before God can re-create with a "New Heaven and Earth" as Revelation 21:1 states.  It seems that Sir Fred Hoyle was convinced the Universe was a stable entity ("Steady State")  because light from very far regions seemed to indicate thus.  Only nearer, in therms of the space-time continuum, to our position in the Universe do we in fact see this dark matter.  It even seems possible to distinguish a boundary where dark matter begins or ends depending from which point one comes from in the Universe.  We siggest this is interesting evidence in support for the thesis that Satan and the angels used the Universe before man and that Satan fell as per Ezekiel 28:12ff.
17/3/17, "The Hadron Collider is the Gothic cathedral of the 21st century".  Slipping back into his own personal theosophy our American quantum pysicist made this observation.  We observe  that mankind is on a sort of journey 'around the a' so to speak as we use the @-sign to access our Internet or Tree of Knowledge with our touch-tronic computers.  We are on the way to getting down to the very building blocks of nature that would force God to "Shut uo Shop" as one 19th Century French Chemist reputedly said.   As 'The @-Sign' suggestes we have come nearly full circle back to Eden's garden.  God wants us to acknowledge this and turn to His solution for man's salvation both physical and soteriological, the Latter being far more crucial than the First.  It is not a cathedral one needs to enter but one's own personal space wherein God's temple should be (II Corinthians 6:16, Hebrews 3:6).  If it's not, then the individual has to start thinking and re-thnking or repenting.
However, he overlooked the point that those Gothic cathedrals were propaganda offensives from the vatican et al to deflect disbelif in Christendom after the Crusades failed which in themselves were part of a programme to regain Jerusalem so that messiah would return.  Jesus' continuing refusal to return according to their warped thinking led to scepticism amongst the masses the vatican etc., wanted to control.  So they went in for art and construction to impress the proles and riff-raff.  Thus, we conclude, as noted above, the Hadron Collider is simply a propaganda tool to convince men God isnt'!
17/3/17, "Material has been transferred between Mars and earth".  Our American quantum pysicist said this in the context that "No planet is an island".   That's not news to this observer who attended a relevant lecture at the US Embassy in Wellington in circa 1990.  Then, a team of scientists from Pennsylvania Universsity told us they had found "rocks from the Moon and Mars".  They lay on the surface of the ice on a desert plateau near the South Pole.  We later learned that was the region Captain Robert Falcon Scott gathereed rocks to drag back to base.  He and his team died on the way but the rocks were recovered and sent to London where they have remained ever since.  Stanley Kubrisk even used them for some photo shoots for Moon Landing promotions in circa 1969.  Of course the main point here is that Dr Velikovsky's work is once again being used but without giving him any of the credit.  Although as we know from a brief interview with the chief executive of NASA they do examine his work.  Not only are these people mind-manipulators, they steal other people's research and give the true discoverer no credit.   There is very little integrity left in modern science.  We should not be surprised.  Since Galileo, Theology has become unscientific and science has become unethical and untheological
17/3/17, "It costs as much to make a robot for Mars as to make a Bruce Willis movie".  Our American quantum pysicist said this to try and justify the enormous expenditure we pay to get this information.  It would be far better to listen to the Bible and look after one another than venture into all this nonsense.  However, this is all part of the Babel Project.  So it has to happen!  Given the other observations by this character with his "gothic cathedrals" and "hadrom colliders", one has to ask if all this space research is any more use to us than a Hollywood Movie.  Is all this science really 'Hollywood'?  Where there does seem to be some useful infromation from this 'science' it usually confirms what we know already know from the Bible anyway!
22/3/17, Lone nutter rams 40 pedestrians and kills policemen in Westminster rampage.   Another in a series of rage incidents alongside the terrorist threats now pervading Western Europe as well as Afghanistan, Moscow, the Philippines and even Australia.
23/3/17, Don Rumsfeld's Unknown unknowns.  A commentator put these into a matrix of four quadrants as follows:  Known Knowns; Known unknowns; Unknown unknowns and Unknown knowns.
24/3/17, "Blind faults aggregate energy to make bigger quakes".  The words of a seismologist trying to explain Kaikoura's big quake.  We doubt this nonsense.  Earthquakes are the end-result of pressures from the over-heating interior of the globe.  It is over-heating because the atmosphere no longer balances the input of the sun's energy with the earth's ability to expel heat gained during the day at night.  It does do that to some extent but not sufficiently it would appear.  It's not carbon dioxide in the air that is causing the problem.
25/3/17, "Geneva Five already off to a bad start".  A comment about yet another round in the UN drive to halt the Syrian conflict or civil war.  Assuming this war is part and parcel of the overall Gog-Magog Plan to invade Israel there is no surptise here!  By 1/4/17, the talks were abandoned without a "breakthrough".
23/5/17,  "Pluto has five moons and a magnetic field akin to planets and comets".  A startling revelation from the spacecraft voyaging past the little planetoid.
23/5/17, "Kuiper Belt has material 'kicked out' of the solar system".  Another revelation from the spacecraft voyaging past the little planetoid Pluto.  We picked up on this back in 21/1/16, "Jupiter bumped it to an erratic outer orbit".  There "Kathy Campbell on a NZ radio station afternoon (1:45 pm) chat show .... also said , 'There are odd movements in Pluto's orbit that have long been suspected to be caused by some other large object exerting gravitational force on Pluto".  The Kuiper Belt is a little outside Pluto's orbit and even further out is yetr another similar sort of 'belt.  We would say the far out one is a 'third' belt of detritus like the 'Asteroid Belt' between Mars and Jupiter and the Kuiper Belt.  So they are going to steer this spacecraft to hopefully find the Ninth Planet' as some are referring to the "other large object exerting gravitational force on Pluto".  They think Pluto gets pulled and torn by pressures from Neptune and the Ninth Planet whenever they are on either side of Pluto as all three travel around the Sun at those vast distances.  That probably means that it could be centuries before all three actually line up sufficiently in unison to effect pressure on Pluto which has revealed large stress fractures on its surface in photos taken by the sapeccraft's fly-by.
25/3/17, "Assad snubbed Di Mistura the UN envoy".  A comment from a former doctor now working for the Syrian Free Rebels.  He also said Assad had no interest in a political solution of any sort.  That would certainly suit the plans of the Gog-Magog conspiracists.  The UN diplomat of Swedish and Italian extraction is now seventy years old and is a former diplomat.   There was talk of him retiring but he still seems to want to carry on. 
25/3/17, "Jupiter is a bully planet and hurts others".  That point came from the report noted previously in 21/1/16, "Jupiter bumped it to an erratic outer orbit".  Of course we are re-iterating Dr Velikovsky's point, confirmed by NASA's chief,  when these statements are made.  All he in effect said was that bully-boy Jupiter "bumped" or "kicked" Mars, Venus, and a bit earlier mercury, into the Sun's inner solar syatem.  Left unsaid, Jupiter could not have kicked or pushed the Moon to revolve so closely around our globe without smashing Earth in the process.  Obviously, therefore, God did that six thousand years ago after rescuing the earth from its lonely vigil away out in the Universe's darkest recesses after being expelled there by God following Satan's fall.
28/3/17, "1177 BC the year Bronze Age civilization collapsed".  That's the view of an American archaeologist interviewed on NZ's Government-owned national radio station.  This station is noted for trotting out the official world line and the line of thinking revealed below is an excellent example of that.  In the following paragraphs (essay) we are going to track the nonsense in this official line.
This archaeologist's explanation relied on the standard false chronology we speak of.  But there was one interesting point that arose.  The archaeologist summarised the extent to which his Fellows (co-adherents, fellow professors etc.,) now believe the collapse of civilizations in the past, specifically when several different nations or 'cultures' at the same time, all collapsed.  Significantly, he noted much but not all of this was due as much to environmental factors as to formal invasions, political or military factors.  
He said "1177 BC" is now conventionally used as a marker year in the same way AD 476 is cited for the Fall of the Roman Empire that he noted had seeds of collapse sown long before that year.  He later claimed the date was based on a known datable event.  That was the second invasion of the so-called "Sea Peoples".  Supposedly they invaded Egypt twice between circa 1190 and '1177'.   Although the Sea Peoples, according to this archaeologist, "are still one of the factors involved" in the "many large powerful nations' collapse" around this time;  i.e., ending the so-called 'Bronze Age';  they experienced other harmful  environmental things as well.  That period, "which not many modern people know about" was "catastrophic" as devotees of Dr Velikovsky might be amused to hear.  But this author-writer does know a lot about these events and learned from Dr Velikovsky that the conclusions reached by the Academy on the eras of the Bronze Age etc., are based on a mangled chronology that effectively fabricates fake dates for the histories of all these "powerful nations" referred to.  But one also learned from the Bible.  The way events are framed in this modern archaeological view bears no resemblance to the Bible if taken as an integrated whole.  Hopefully that point becomes clear as we proceed.
The radio compare's guest archaeologist described the supposedly closing stages of the Great 'Bronze Age' as the "time of 'King Tut' (Tutenkhamen), and pharaohs Akhenaten, Ramesses and Hatshepsut".  They were Egyptian monarchs who ruled between 1450 and 1250 BC according to the false but conventionally accepted chronology.  This chronology, according to Peter James et al  (Centuries of Darkness), is accepted more for its "familiarity" than any basis in "reality".  Under these monarchs (pharaohs), of whom we have clear archaeological and written evidence, often with much detail, even if their regnal dates in the Calendar of Time are quite wrong, Egypt indeed was the most powerful and largest nation in the ancient Middle East and possibly the most populous in the World.  Ancient Egypt probably was more powerful than the Indus and Chinese civilizations emerging in East Asia.  We sometimes refer to ancient Egypt as the 'United States' of the ancient world.  Babylon had declined to comparitive insignificance six to eight centuries after the Tower of Babel fiasco i.e., circa 2000-1200 BC.  In our arrangement of the ancient history Babylon lost its agricultural fertility as a result of some environmental catastrophe.  That we think happened somewhere between 1000 and 800 BC although an earlier date is possible.
After that mini survey of the Bronze Agey, the archaeologist noted "copmparisons with today are more than a little alarming".  He said this later Bronze Age was a time when the Trojan War and Bible stories like Exodus occurred.  At that point we need to react strongly and point out The Exodus was circa 1485 BC, not 1177 BC, while the particular 'Trojan' War he was talking about occurred in circa 780 BC not circa 1200 BC.  Although, earlier Twentieth Century AD archaeologists had pushed back that war by six centuries.  They did that by  linking mercantile exchange (trade) between ancient Mycenae with the 18th Dynasty of Hatshepsut et al.  But they placed both cultures in the wrong 15th Century BC by virtue of the a priori assumed dates for the Egyptian pharaohs including Hstshepsut.   What modern archaeologists have done is to erroneously push the Trojan War backwards in time by four centuries and The Exodus forward two or three centuries by using two countervailing errors of a similar magnitude.  That tool effectively enforces a re-write of the Bible which is an extraordinarily terrible thing to do but churches have let The Academy get away with that!  Thus Churches, Bible Schools and the Academy habitually and erroneously equate many ancient events that in fact are up to six or seven centuries apart.   In the Christendom's case, it consequently fails to understand, or misses out on understanding, exactly what the Bible is talking about in terms of God's Plan for Humanity (and Angels though much less is said about the latter).   Thus Christendom tells its adherents The Bible tells them about God's plan for their lives, which is true for everyone in as much as everybody has to answer to God in His Plan.   Everybody gets resurrected but if that is in the Second or Last Resurrection then it bodes damnably for such people.   The Bible does, however,  explain to everyone what God has in store for Humanity in Eternity and it explains how this present life can be lived in fulfillment and understanding.  That is to say, from their long-term study of the Bible, mature believers come to realise why things in this world are the way they happen to occur in one's generation.  The unbeliever, in contrast, live his life chasing dreams and philosophies.  If everyone was aware at the thorough reliability of the Bible in its His Story, hence in its Prophecy, then they too might have been led towards a fulfilling life.  Sadly, especially for the last two centuries, the Bible's veracity, mostly or in particular through its Historicity, has been undermined, indeed destroyed as far as unbelievers are concerned.  Its veracity (Truth) being doubted or dismissed means that Jesus' Words, "I am The Way, The Truth and The Life;  No one comes  to the Father except through Me" is either a preposterous lie or Truth.  The Bible's real His Story almost certainly renders that statement also true.  Thus the attempt to destroy the world's History of the main Biblical Period (4000 to 7-5 BC then (probably) AD 27- 66;   for example per this archaeologist's survey of part of that period (circa 3000-1177 BC);  is nothing less than a plot to deceive the World and whip everyone into line to carry out what we describe as the Babylon Project, the Second or Last Tower of Babel Project. 
To return to this archaeologist's canvas of the Bronze Age and its decline, he referred to the languages of the time that we can understand to some extent.  He cited Akkadian, Hittite, Egyptian and "Linear B".  No mention of Hebrew one notices.  We think Hittite and Akkadian are effectively Chaldean although in changed form between circa 2000 BC (Akkadian-Chadean) and Hittite circa 800 BC onwards.  Dr Velikovsky thought "Linear A" is one of the languages we know but in a different script.  Michael Ventris intelligently or insightfully guessed "Linear B" was Greek.  Ventris' contemporaries, and later students, presumed what they were reading was or would be an early form of Greek.  They became surprised to discover quite a lot of Classical Greek words being used in Linear B supposedly six or more centuries before they appeared in later (Classical) Greek documents.
This archaeologist, an American, noted, "ancient texts tell us there were famines but we cannot find the physical evidence like bodies".  That of course is a very real difficulty archaeologists have little hope of reconciling.  This is the sort of occasion in research where conjecture or theorising has a place and is permissible.  Furthermore, tell-tale markers he described such as a city being destroyed by fire without any evidence of arrowheads found in the defensive walls suggested an internal insurrection of some sort.  Such things can occur as we see in modern Syria or Sudan when they are the result of political breakdown or famine-induced starvation leading to riots inside the city.  He has evidence for such ideas from Biblical accounts not that he would admit that of course.
Here he made another reference to what we can learn from History.  "They were globalised for their time period" but "not quite like us today'.  That statement was part of the parallel with our era he had suggested judging from the ancient events they think they have observed in the archaeological record.  He was referring to our climatic and political disturbances.  They are on a truly global scale not just from a Middle Eastern perspective (or 'Middle Western' from an East Asian perspective) away back in the "Late Bronze Age".  That era was when most other parts of the World were under- or un-explored let alone developed for civilization of any significance apart from small isolated communities struggling to build up some sort of civil society. 
The "1177 Bronze Age Ending" ructions, he thinks, toppled Mycenae, the Hittites,  pre-Israelite Caananites, Syrians, Assyrians and Babylonians among a few more others (presumably Mitanni, Elamites etc).  "When one went down lthere was a  domino effect .  Only Egypt remained standing though in a sort of pyrrhic victory for it was not much of an international power after 1177 BC.    Egypt controlled gold.  Afghanistan had tin.  Copper was in Cyprus.  Thus he referred to the tin trade for its use in hardening copper.  In that era there was much trade in raw materials and finished goods.  While we disagree with the chronologies of these kingdoms the trade was certainly a fact.  But when is the crucial question and precisely between whom?  The kingdoms he thinks "collapsed" in unison or like "dominos" in reality were alter egos of later groups e.g., the Mitanni were Medes and Hittites were Chaldeans or Kurds, the latter still occupying the same tracts of land in South-eastern Turkey (Asia Minor, Anatolia) the Assyrians gave them between circa 1000-800 BC.  Ancient 'Elam' is actually the early stage (probably circa 900-600 BC) of the great Medo-Persian Empire (550-330 BC) that stretched from India to some places in Europe and North Africa.  Their false chronology also leads to a false map of the ancient Middle East and further afield. 
Then he stated, "Hammurabbi ruled in Babylon".  Noticeably or pointedly, he did not give a precise date for this famous Babylonian leader.  The archaeologist surprisingly and boldly announced, "Hammurabbi was the one who did an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth".  For more on this matter and the origin of the Mosaic Law refer to the Blessing entitled Who or What was Hammurabbi?  This is an especially pernicious abuse of Real His Story by the false historians.  In his Genesis commentary, Dr Fruchtenbaum has two dates for Hammurabbi.  One is circa 1800 BC and the other is around 1200 BC.  That gap of six centuries is the main one we keep noticing in our studies on false chronology.  Dr Fruchtenbaum has obviously drawn from two different sources for his references to Hammurabbi but his editors failed to notice the two different dates.   That mistake highlights the problems that emerge when chronologies are so badly wrong.  One date comes three centuries before Moses (circa 1485 BC) and the other three centuries later.  Again, we see how a major error gets split into two countervailing errors, this time driving the one character, Hammurabi, into two different centuries sone 600 years apart.  It's the closest anyone can get to time travel!    Above, we showed how a countervailing error brought two different events [Trojan War (780 BC) and Exodus (1485 BC)] that were six or seven centuries apart to approximately the same time or era (1177 - 1200 BC).
In this example, vis-a-vis Hammurabbi, the archaeologist and his clique or mafia deconstruct what Moses' significance was.  They abuse the Creator's Plan revealed in His approaches to Moses.    As the nations after the Tower of Babel (2000 BC) began to discount God and believe in gods, The Creator raised up Abraham to begin a nation that would act as a priest nation and become a place for believers around the world to look to for understanding about God's Plan for the World.  That plan included the arrival of the "Promised Deliverer" or the child born of a woman without a man's seed (Genesis 3:15).  Israel would be the nation to produce this Saviour.  Its Feasts would describe the Plan in a certain amount of symbolism incorporated within ritual.  Its Law of Moses (not "Hammurabbi") would provide a legal basis on wich to Judge the Saviour and authorise Him to pay for the sin of Adam and rescue Man from his hopeless predicament brought on by the 'First Adam' in circa 4000 BC.  There is more discussion on this in the Blessing referred to above.
Ninevah and other cities were abandoned and then we had a period of 'Dark Ages' which in Greece supposedly lasted from 1177 to 800 BC.  Although in the early days of modern 'scientific' archaeology, Greece's Dark Age extended from circa 1300-700BC.  It is generally assumed that in the dark Age of the 'Near' or 'Middle' East, people lost the arts of writing, construction, fashioning and decorating ceramics etc.  It "took a little while for the "Phoenix to rise from the ashes" again.  One inserts 'again' here for that term about the Phoenix actually relates to the Phoenicians not to the supposed recovery of cities like Ninevah after 500 years of Darkness (1300-800 BC).  In the history of the movement amongst the dipthongs in language the 'cia' replaced the 'x'.  The 'v' replaced the 'ph' then the 'tia' replaced the 'cia'.  So that 'Venitia' or Venice at the head of the A'Triatic' Sea (Adriatic) can actually be linked back to that former hegemony that ruled the Medi-terranean and Tyrhennian Seas for the best part of a millennia before Rome Sacked Carthage in the Third Punic (Phunician) War.  The true story of 'The Phoenix' refers to Tyre, Carthage then Britain when Julius Caesar had to invade the British Isles to stop carthage using that base to launch counter-attacks on Rome as the 'Phoeniocians' of Britain were attempting to do.  Caesar very successfully mopped up that resistance just as he did amongst the Gauls in De Belico Gallico.  
Instead of telling us the true extent of the Phoenician's mercantile and colonial enterprises in the millennium before the Roman Empire as the true chronology reveals, the archaeologist merely raised the Phoenicians and the Israelites from the gloom of the Darkened Age (Endarkenment) into a short-lived regional prominence after 1177 BC.  It was when the big cats were temporarily out of action.  As they once used to say, "the mice came out to play when the cats were away".  It was as if the Israelites and Phoenicians came out of nowhere and only briefly shone a localised limelight in the Eastern Mediterranean
In fact, this archaeologist lumped Jews and Phoenicians in with The Sea Peoples. thereby painting them as anarchist or anti-society.  That placed the Israelites and Phoenicians into the history of the world as a quasi nihilistic and barbaric wave of wandering migrants and refugees.  That is a far cry from the noble calling God had and still has for Israel.  The modern or latest Jewish State is still in the sights of the Anti-Semitic Academy as the bad boys in town.  In January, in Paris, it was even resolved by 70 nations that Jerusalem should be removed from Israelite control and be internationalised.  Now, in this latest more fashionable modern Academic framework, those so-called 'Sea Peoples': actually Greeks and Persians battling for control over the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean in the late 6th Cenury BC; an era well documented by the Classical Greeks of that time; were just one factor in the demise of 'The Bronze Age'.  When one knows the real history of the 'Sea Peoples' as Dr Velikovsky amply ilustrated in his book The Sea Peoples in the Ages in Chaos series, aided by later information coming to light since the good Doctor's death, one is reminded of Monty Python's Flying Circus's attempts at painting history.  Now we truly do need an Inquisition of some sort to investigate the claims of modern archaeologists.     
So who were the Sea Peoples, asked the archaeologist?.  "We only know them from the Egyptian records".  "They appear to have invaded Egypt twice and came from exotic-sounding places like Shardana (Sardinia) and Shekelesh (Sicily)" he noted from the 'Egyptian records'.   "The only one we know about for sure", he said, "is the Peleset or the Philistines"!  The Peleset over-ran everyone.  "He said, I have decided the sea people were a bogey man and not really responsible for the Bronze Age decline.  The 'Sea Peoples' were comprised of families migrating from destitution like American families in the US dustbowl (early 20th century AD).  The Sea People do some of the destruction but not all.  Drought, famine and earthquakes also had a significant effect."  Reviewing the opinions of archaeologists of the previous few decades, he felt "the 'Sea People Argument' was too simple and that climatic disaster, which may also hhave been climactic, was also a big factor".  Dr Velikovsky goes even further and ponders to what extent effects from the warring planets in the inner solar system had on pre-Roman civilizations.  Massive conflagrations of fire apparenmtly destroying some cities have to be integrated with our modern understanding of the ancient past (4000-1000 BC).   Dr Mazar, an Israeli archaeologist, has gone on record (see David Rohl, A Test of Time) that carbon dating of objects before 1000 BC may be too unreliable to be taken seriously. 
We also know of Mr Daniel Hillel who wrote about some environmental disaster that afflicted ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) especially in the south where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers joined before flowing out to the persian Gulf in the delta around Basra;  the region of Babel, Ur and ancient Babylon (Chaldea) formed over centuries by the strongly flowing rives bearing silt from the Turkish moutnains and reservoirs.  Whether a Velikovskian-scale catastroophe or some other environmental factor on a lesser scale than 'catastrophe' happened here we do not know.  It is possible the rivers simply lost some of their head-waters for some reason, perhaps even because of over intensive agricultural production.  Hillel felt that intensive irrigation led to salts overpowering the soils of Lower mesopotamia turnig the land into a US-style dustbowl.  So certainly, from this discussion, the listener was made aware of some 'environmental' factors leading to a destabilised Middle East before the great 6th Century BC Persian Empire but the chronology, dates and sequence  (CD's) of all these things is in much doubt.  When the CD's of one or two events are thrown into chaos many more connected with them likewise become undateable.  Not only Political and Social History become a nonsense but geographical, geological, biological, zoological and other histories also become fiction or perhaps faction (c.f., Dam Brown, Da Vinci Code) if they are lucky.      
Summarising the previous three paragraphs, we suggest the great environmental disaster this archaeologist was looking for occurred around 1000 BC.  It was the sudden collapse of the Lower Iraqi (Mesopotamian) basin that turned the farms of Chaldeo-babylon into desert.  There was a major exodus of these 'Hittites' or the 'Kh-t' or 'Kh-d' of the "ancient Egyptian records".  They migrated all through the 'Fertile Crescent' as far as Egypt (the Nile being part of that 'Crescent' according to Middle Eastern commentators).  The Bible, in Isaiah 23:13, suggests their land turned to desert and if Hillel is correct that was very sudden.  The assyrians appear to have re-settled these landless chaldeans and they are the people we now know as Kurds.  That seems to be the generally accepted version of events in the Middle East.  The West's archaeologians and historians have mixed that disaster wth the ructions between Persia, Athens, Sparts and Egypt in the 6th century BC.  Again, an up-to-500-600 year error in chronology places, in the same time (era), two major ructions in the ancient Middle East possibly a century too early for one and six centuries too early for the other.
He claimed support for his suggestion about the effects of environment in the supposed collapse of the so-called "Bronze Age".  That 'Age' is often divided into Early, Middle and Late stages.  Though we are still in the Bronze and Copper Age as we are in the Iron and Stone (Ceramic) Ages.  In support he noted "in 2010, a Frenchman started doing pollen cores in archaeological sites".  An examination of cores from places in Syria, Cyprus and Israel, seemed to reveal "a major climate changing era 1200-900 BC".  Thery had read texts "from Hittite sites" saying "there is famine and people are dying of starvation".  He cited Ugarit and Hazor as cities where the walls fell down for some reason but apparently not due to invasion but more likely to civil war within the city induuced by the consequences of famine.  With no evidence of arrow heads buried in the defensive masonry of the walls, what one normally expected to see in an invasion, what else could have caused these cities to fall?  What really caused their destruction?
He then talked about the impact of earthquakes on ancient societies and cities.  He prefaced his comments by referring to the recent evidence being collected by seismologists.  He speculated there might have been a series of quakes months or years apart where a succession of quakes "unzipped the energy of a faultline" to build up pressures that eventually felled the city.  He noted, "such seismological processes can take 60 years or more to mature".  [Lookout New Zealand was the message sotto voce].
Thus archaeologists and seismologists now wonder if "sites that seem to fall down due to quakes happened through the period 1225 and 1175 BC in places ranging from Greece through to Israel".  This 'unzipping' seismological process he described as an "earthquake storm".  "By piling up one upon another these misfortunes one ends up with a perfect storm that people could not survive".  At Troy (Gallipoli), Mycenae (Greece, between Athens and Sparta), Hazor and Megiddo in Israel, archaeologists can see walls tilting from the vertical.  They even detect quake damage from a number of periods in History.
"Remember this is the Bronze Age which started in 3000 BC", he noted at this point.  We do not think it is possible even to define and declare any such thing as a Bronze, Iron or Stone Age.  Even if there is a beginning to the Bronze Age, or to any other 'Age', the only ones we would suggest are the Aluminium (1945?), Plastic (1950?) and Nuclear Ages (1920? Rutherford splitting the atom).  The ancients had no plastic, aluminium and certainly no nuclear energy.   We would suggest that use of bronze or any other form of smelting would have first occurred between 4000-3000 BC (Genesis 4:22).  But it would have taken a century or so post-Flood for any smelting industry to re-commence in say 2350 BC.  Those would be the Biblical dates we can place for these 'Ages' and Genesis 4:22 implies from very early days in Man's history (or His Story) both Bronze and Iron were used contemporaneously!   Our specialist continued, "The environmental conditions broke down trade routes, supplies of goods and raw materials and the supply of tin from Afghanistan.  Being cut off from tine (oxide) to smelt Bronze forced smelters to "turn to iron which anyway seemed a better all purpose metal  especially for things like weapons and ploughshares.  Then "into the power vacuum the Israelites and Phoenicians entered post 1177 BC".  Finally, in his summary before going on to warns us what we ned to learn from Hiso=tory, he noted, "From the Phoenicians we get the alphabet".  Actually its from the world's first spoken and written language, Hebrew, that we get alphabets.  Though certainly some symbols used in later Phoenician alphabets are now found in English (Latin) with some adaptations 
Warning the modern Public he concluded, "so looking at all this I started seeing parallels everywhere with Wall Street collapses and Greek economic crises etc".  Then, "I do not want to be like Chicken Little saying 'the sky is falling in' but "we are not immune from a parallel crisis.  We will collapse at some point.  China and India did well in that former Bronze Age Collapse in the Middle East.  The Hittites did not know what was happening to them.  But, I give higher marks for us and suggest we can make a better go of pulling out of our series of crises".
Au contraire, our conclusion is that the collapse we are now witnessing is because of the many false paradigms now underpinning all thinking in this 21st Century.  And no more or better is this illustarted than in the outmoded system of Dates (Chronology and Sequence) that leads people to describe so falsely the ancient histiory of the world.  That History is so badly falsified that the Bible, which is a true and accurate record of man's history kept for us today by the Israelites (Jews), is no longer given any serious credence in its His Story, Prophecy, injunctions, warnings but also promises for those who believe. 
31/3/17, "It's everywhere, you can't stop it".  A woman talking about the availability of pornography especially on the Internet.  Many parents in New Zealand voiced concern today that boys were learning about sexuality.  One parent interviewed said, "I don't want my daughter going out with a boy who is learning sexuality from porn sites on the Internet".  The writer had contractual work with NZ's Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MoRST) between 1993-8.  Unofficially, one helped the young systems manager (a "bisexual") set up Internet for the Ministry.  Admittedly one only acted as a guinea pig in assignments.  In one such exercises one had learned how to 'ftp' (file transfer protocol) which later moved on to 'http' or hyper-text transfer protocol.  The latter enabled one to jump from one site linked to another.  But ftp required one to trawl through various sites, changing directories and sub-directories etc., which put up files to share.   Descriptions of bondage sex regimens was one of the earliest sites of documents available in those very early days of "The Internet" if one goes by the date of 1989 for thes establishment of the Internet then called the "Ethernet".  One still uses ethernet cables to link one's computer to the Internet.
The Bible points out that it was a matter concernig their sexuality that obliged Adam and Eve to withdraw behind shrubs to 'hide' themselves from God after they had eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  No doubt as they trawled through the various icons or pictures they fell upon the sexual nature of the Man in a file somewhere.  [The MoRST systems manager suggested I look at the bondage site.  That experience only confirmed how rotten the world has become].  Adam and Eve decided to see what happened as they followed instructions perhaps in the guise of moving film of the sexual act.
One should add, at this point, God probably did intend to let the Man use that tree of knowledge.  But that would be under God's own personal tutelage and mentorship.  So the information Adam and Eve obtained, but on their own account before permission had been given - the actual act of disobedience -  would not in any way be pornographic.  That information would have been detailed information from that Edenic Tree of Knowledge.  Many generations have tried to understand the relevant passages.  Those who knew Adam, which would be many people since most humans lived nerly a millennium in the early days of human procreation, no doubt heard first hand what he did in Eden.  Perhaps even members of his own family, and certainly his wife (Eve), helped him compose a message for all future generations to absorb.    The problem was how to transmit or narrate that message through many generations when most times no one could even conceive of a thing like a computer as we do today.
In the very early days and generations after the Fall, people, i.e., the growing human family, were still hopeful the Promised Deliverer, who would reverse Eden's tragic error, would soon arrive.  Eve thought Cain was the Promised Deliverer ("I have birthed a man The Jehovah").  Then the father of Methuselah ("When he dies he The Promised deliverer will come") hoped the death of his son would see the Messiah-Deliverer arrive.  It may be the human family aware of Methuselah's righteousness, and of his father's,(Genesis 5:21-4)  in an Age when evil and corruption rapidly spiralled the human family into degradation with the women mating with fallen angels all totally against God's wishes, thought the passing of methuselah might bring the Saviour.  In fact, in a way, it did because Noah built an ark to save eight humans and many animals from the disaster of the Great Flood.
Certainly by the death of Adam after which wickedness probably accelerated the world was aware that it had a long march to go through before God would intervene in the way He had promised in genesis 3:15.  The task then became one of transmitting what Adam had passed on and making sure it got through to which ever generation would in fact be the last before God should have to or decide to intervene.  We need to realsie that to some extent the extreme wickedness of mankind in effect forces God's Hand though that is never the actual case.  The TTree of Konoledge and the Tree of Life were locked away in the impenetrable garden of Eden once Adam had sinned.  Niw we see mankind building another Tree of Knowledge called the Ether-Inter-net.  It is something Satan has power over since he is The Prince of the power of the air (Greek aeros or  ether).
So it is noot surprising the human family is learning about sexuality from the modern tree of knowledge.  Humans should be learnignabout these matetrs from The Word of God.  That was how God had intended it for after Adam had have passed the test that was to resist touching that touch-tronic computer embedded in a Tree, Hod would have taught Adam about his sexuality and things would have been happy ever after.  But Adam failed that test so now Man would have to learn about sexuality a bitterly bad way.  And how much misery it has been for so many people thoughout so much time (6000 years).  Only now can we understand what Adam was talkiing about in his descritpion of what happened so long ago in the Gaeden of Eden when he disobeyed that one simple instruction God gave Adam.
Now we have come nearly full circle as '@' implies.  To eat of the Tree in hebrew was to  acol or 'a all'.  We can represent the universal 'a' and put an incomplete circle around the letter 'a' to get '@'.  Our tree of Knoowledge (The Ether- or Inter-net) with all the pornography available on it even since its early days showing how pervasive that incident in the Garden of Eden was, is testimony that we have nearly come full circle back to that fatreful day in Eden 6000 years ago.  We have had Six days or Six thousand yearsof time for the Fall to reveal all its ugliness.  Now as a modern biochemist with a nice wife born in East Acton in London presides over the sarin gassing of Syrian children in the Syrian War.  When highly educated and articulate 'good people' oversee the use of gas weapons to kill innocent children we have yet another sign the world is in thr gripof some evil not known since the days of Noah.  Hence we are watching The Days of Noah return (Matthew 24:37, Luke 17:26-7). 
31/3/17, "They want to make carbon copies of themselves".  On the eve of a launch of a newly restructured Government child welfare agency a leading critic of the organisation being re-vamped made this point about Maori children being turned into westernised young people with no interest in their Maori history or culture.
As we have noted elsewhere, although some Christians in Britain in both private and public society, e.g., the Queen  herself, wanted to bring the message of Jesus of Nazareth to the Maori of New Zealand other later settlers were not so enthused.  Later European colonists coming to "The Shaky Isles" with the New Zealand Company enterprise, and the British Foreign Office that was more interested in the Gospel of Westphalia than the Good News in the Bible, were only interested in a better life, wealth and secularism.  After the Treaty of Waitangi,  no longer honoured in the way it should have been by either party as noted below, New Zealand affforded the second, third and fourth sons of the land owners in Europe to set themselves up as landed gentry in the South Pacific.
Private Enterprises like The New Zealand Company selling golden opportunities for success amongst Europe's disaffected, disenchanted and disinherited had goals in common with the exporters of Westphalian Governance.  The latter quite rightly believed Government was necessary around the world for crime fighting, security, defence, communications within and across state borders and even things like educating workforces to execute and manage these tasks.   So Public-Private Enterprises, thought to be so new and innovative in the early 21st Century, were actually commonplace in the 17th to early 20th Centuries;  The East India Company being one outstanding example.
However, a rising world population, with some 18th and 19th Century projections going through the roof, concerned or even frightened politicians into looking for more efficient ways to garner world resources.  Alongside that was the desire amongst many to promulgate what we define as The Babel Project.   Essentially this Babylonian enterprise seeks to establish a Tree of Knowledge modelled on the one the First Man had access to should he choose to eat of it or consume its fruits.  God commanded the First Adam not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge God had placed in the Garden of Eden.  That was, of course, a tree of perfect knowledge but in consuming of it wrongly 'evil' would occur.  And the first point Adam had to obey waas to leave it alone until or unless God approved consumption of it which one assumes would have taken place if Adam had been obedient as the Tree in the Book of Revelation 22:2 suggests.
Nevetheless, Adam in disobeying that advice or "commandment" committed all of his descendants into a life of hard often unrewarding work, death and disease.  It seems as though God also altered the genomes and the way they would behave by using various RNA switches so that the evils of disobedience would have to be experienced.  In that way, possibly, God in part effected as per Isaiah 45:7 and later for the Millennial Kingdom per Isaiah 65:20.  We note from Isaiah 45:7 that God actually had to create Evil in effect out of nothing in order for His prophecies to be fulfilled.  It seems obvious tut Adam recounted to his contemporaries what he had seen of that knowledge tree in the Garden of Eden.  That is in part why we have his account because he wanted all his descendants to understand his predicament and in a sense perhaps even apologise to the rest of us.  Not that he need apologise for that is exactly what Jesus of Nazareth did on the Cross.  He took all responsibility for that mistake.  As Adam neared the end of his life he realised his more immediate descendants aimed at developing a knowledge tree for mankind.  But Adam also targeted his comments at the last generation which he possibly realised would more or less get back full circle ['@'] to the point he effectively started everyone on.  Likewise Jesus had to target some of His comments at the last generation of His Church of Christ to prepare us for the Rapture (c.f., Luke 12:41, 17:22).  Daniel 8:26 and 12:4 & 9 also tell us that certain matters in the Bible would and could only be understood by the Last Generation of believers as God has to intervene in this World's affairs before it is too late.  Antichrist's plan to destroy Israel will be one of those limits that will provoke God to intervene.    
Anyway, successive generations of Adam took up the task of this Babel Project as we like to describe it.  We name it the 'Babel' Project after the events of Genesis 11:1-9 but it is probably reasonable to speculate the human family was exploring knowledge and what it could do to ease mankind's discomfort in the sixteen or so centuries before the Great Flood of Noah.  Presumably Noah's family carried all sorts of knowledge on-board the Ark as well as animals.  After all, Noah and his sons did construct the Ark!   This 'pursuit of knowledge' may be part of what is implied in "making a name for ourselves".  Among other things, the Babel Poject seeks to garner Knowledge, and Human and Environmental resources, as well as the money and finance to make its commercial wheels efficiently revolve, in order to make humans' life better and more enjoyable.  However, behind that objective which keeps the masses contented and willing to contribute towards the effort;  as well as keeping wars and civil riots to a minimum;    there is also the desire, still, to reach for the heavens (Genesis 11:4) and "make for ourselves a name" (NASB).  So we now spend up large to explore outer space and explore the depths of the oceans, land masses, genes, genomes, cells and atoms.  God, on the other hand, is setting us 6000 years to follow through with these follies before He re-enters to "shut up shop" as one former Chemist said of man's desire to search out "the very building blocks of Life".
The Treaty of Waitangi has been used, it has now turned out, to prepare a Model Westphalian state.  It has been designed to export lessons learned from NZ's governance to other nation states.  Quite often representatives from legislatures of other new countries are seen in Wellington's Parliamentary chambers to watch proceedings from the Speaker's gallery usually at Question Time, 2:00 pm, Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's.  Needless to say, few signing the Treaty in 1840 in the bay of Islands had such notions.  They were celebrating the discovery that the Sun and Moon had indeed stood still in circa 1450 BC as the orbits of the two bodies were confused over a 24 hour period by some massive energy ball of some sort of via some manner such as Velikovsky described.  Whatever exactly happened, it was clear to genuine Christians that God had caused the nations to get a message that He was going to carry through with His Plan for Israel's Kingdom culminating with the Millennnial-Messianic Kingdom yet to come of course. 
That's why the Missionaries and others cobbled together the process whereby a treaty document came out from Britain for NZ's Maori chieves to sign.  The Treaty would guarantee Land Rights for Maori in the face of a massive non-Maori invasion of settlers.  Those guarantees were modellled on God's Plan for Israel via the abrahamic Covenant.  Unfortunately, the Christians and any others involved really had no right to set up a contract or covenant like this.  Only God can effect such a thing.  Nevertheless, having drawn the Treaty up and signing it, an effective vow between two groups was solemnly negotiated.  Acknowledging God's template for guaranteeing a nation's land rights, the two parties should abide by it.  But neither group now acknowledges nor recognises the Biblical events also described in Maori folklore, and in many legends of nations around the world, that underpinned the Treaty of Waitangi.  Initially, the secularists in the Governance and Corporate block that wanted to set-up NZ Inc., just rolled up the treaties that various griups of maori Chieftains around New Zealand signed and shved th e bundle into a drawer in a large Wooden building in central Wellington acropss the road from the House of representatives.  Now, Maori are moving back to their pre-Missionary religion and re-introducing Panentheism, their former belief structure, back into negotiations with the Government concerning not onl protection of their local inheritance but for vast tracts of new zealand including rivers, mountains and ocean.  
Meanwhile, the Westphalian system from the South China Sea to Antarctica to Greenland is struggling with ways via international governance to effect a Westphalian tenet that all the earth's resources are to be shared and sensibly and sustainably exploited for the benefit of the entire human race.  Of course, sotto voce, the Westphalian system also wants to grab what it needs of the earth's resources to promulgate the higher aspects of the Babel Project in those major projects such as exploring outer space etc.  One side effect of this is that a very small number of individuals control a massive share of the Earth's resources and capital.  That leads to calls for more income equality etc.
So there are many tensoions in all this.  But to return this essay to the headline,           one of the most important resources for all this is 'human capital'.  Unfortunately, the genomes are failing to supply the people with the energy, drive and intelligence to prosecute these many plans for the Babel Project.   By removing children from societies that do not want to participate in these plans;  preferring the lifestyle of their former indigenous culture;  Governments can have them tutored by people that are in tune with 'The Project' even if at a subliminal level via "you need a good education these days to survive".   Indeed the Babel Project requires its employees to produce clones of its current crop of servants and employees in order to maintain the sustainability of the Babel Project.  Unfortunately, not in every case do the children want to follow their parents' paths in that regard.  But Christians looking forward to God's Millennial Kingdom have no interest in this Babel Project and its lofty aims.  Som of its less lofty objectives are valid at the level of helping people to struggle with daily life.  So we participate at that level even if it is just in cleaning toilets at the minimum wage rate!	  
31/3/17, "Massive problems in Maori Communities".  For example, they are more likely to get put into custody awaiting trial, more likely to stay in prison longer before getting parole and they have more very deep-seated problems in families.  Recidivism rates among Maori who have been in jails is relatively high in New Zealand compared to world average.  Jails simply are  failing to work in Maori rehabiltitation after serving sentences for serious or even minor crime (e.g., driving offences). 
As the previous item points out, Maori have also abrogated the Treaty of Waitangi's real rasion d'etre.  But more of that in the big essay immediately below.
31/3/17, "Wellington, New Zealand's capital, could be cut off with a 'disastrous' earthquake".   We will continue here, believe it or not from the last sentence immediately above but interrupt that comment with this report out of Wellington this day.
This latest update on the potential perils that could face Wellington, Capital City of NZ Inc, emerged out of the Mayor's office in a statement issued today.  Later in the day, the Minister for Statistics, a scientist as it happens, said the building his staff worked in was leased from a Weliington landlord and stood in the precinct of the Wellington Port Company.  The building's structure, the Minister noted, behaved well in the Kaikoura quake, under the testing circumstances, although a few staff could have been injured or killed if the quake had occurred in business hours (it struck at midnight).   However, buiilding standards set for a structure of its type in more recent times to take account of new understandings in earthquake science actually failed in the technical sense.  That was because the Kaikoura quake was much longer than anticipated by those who set the standards and it may have witnessed loss of life if the quake had occurred on a normal working day in work hours.  Saving lives is the first objective behind these building standards though preferably they are expected to save the building too.  The building shook about 100 times, a lot more than planned or designed for, as the 800 ton Hiroshima Bomb equivalent quake shook the lower South Island and, less directly, the capiral city.
In all this, the old name for New Zealand, "The Shaky Isles" rears its ugly head again!  This is where we lead into the issue raised above about how and why Pakeha and Maori have abrogated the Treaty of Waitangi's real raison d'etre.  But for reasons we are now going to outline, New Zealand's former colloquial name  The Shaky Isles and the original ethos behind the Treaty of Waitangi, and the implications thereof, were brushed aside for an even  bigger issue - World Governance!
'The New Zealand Company Plan' had a possibly fatal Achilles heel as the geologists and other professionals in related disciplines in the early 19th Century aggressively took hold of Europe's Intelligentsia.  They became members of the Uniformitarian Philosophy (School) and have been ever since.  That 'European' philosophical paradigm shift came in the wake of two very important and world shattering events (revolutions).  Arthur Koestler described these people as Aristotelians and Platonists and 'neocon' fellow travellers).  The Treaty of Waitangi has to be looked at in the context of two earlier 'revolutions'.  We wil also see that in trying to establish a new society in the wake of failures in France and the US, no one wanted to know that New Zealand's isles were prone to geological reasons for skakiness, upturning and disaster. 
Firstly, the US secession from the UK in 1776 and its eventual and ensuing resolution of the knotty problem of the unwieldy US Constitution in 1789.  [Both events organised from a Masonic Hall in Chiswick a few miles West of Buckingham Palace].  Also in 1789, coincidentally, presumably because it was too much effort to run two at the same time, at the concluson of the First, the Second political convulsion occurred in the form of the French Revolution and its concomitant Napoleonic Wars (concluding in 1812).  [France has had five 'republics' since it overthrew its monarchy in 1789.  The US has had many amendments to its 'constitution' and of course a civil war in the 1840's.  For London it's been business as usual].  
By 1840, from a European point of view, especially in places like London, Paris and Amsterdam, the professionally charted lands of 'New Zealand' (viz., Tasman and Cook) looked like an ideal place to develop a model Westphalian nation-state in a typically European meteorological climate.   New Zealand would be used as a model example for new states in Asia, Latin America and Asia.  The US was heading into civil war as Waitangi was signed and France's governance still presented many problems with at least another republic having succeeded the 1789 format.  So perhaps a new start in New Zealand, named after a re-claimed island in the Netherlands (Holland), would be the best medicine for a movement struggling to get its Babylon Project up and running or on a more solidly directed path lost after the fall of the Roman Empire circa AD 400-450 and the Chinese experiment circa AD 1000-1400.  'Team- or Project-NZ' would take lessons ('learnings' as 'lessons' are now more fashionably styled) from the failures in Paris and Washington (while London was anyway achieving notable reforms without 'revolution' though not without robust argument and debate).  So the world witnessed the establishment of a company along the lines of the then relatively successful East India Company (incorporated into the 'British Empire').  That new venture would be "The New Zealand Company"; a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as the modern jargon goes.  Across the ditch, in Sydney, Australia, a government managed by descendants of 'convicts' (often poorer British people struggling to survive by pinching a loaf of bread from a shopkeeper circa 1780-1800) initially had the job of overseeing European affairs in the Maoris' Aoteoroa ('NZ').  Just as the East India Company eventually gained control over the Western side of the Indian sub-continent, the British Foreign Office expected New Zealand to the west of Austrralia would come under that country's orbit initially via the New South Wales (NSW) Government since (AD 1901) confederated with the other 'Australian Federal states'.   It was also expected as late as 1901 that New Zealand would join the Australian Confederation but soldiers returning from the Boer War apparently swayed public opinion to remain independent of Australia's Commonwealth.   
So, by 1840, next door to the emerging but somewhat disorganised Australian 'federal' states ('West', South', The 'Northern Territory' NSW and then 'Victoria seceding from NSW) themselves across the Indian Ocean from the emerging Anglo-Dutch South African Westphalian nation-states, New Zealand long-term was seen as a potentially better model.  That was partly because of the 'successful' signing of a formal agreement with the majority of New Zealand Maori apparently, and quite often genuinely, contented to participate in the project.  The British Foreign Office felt it had enough on its plate to be bothered much with New Zealand but the Gospel of Westphalian Governance had a much broader appeal than the Foreign Office's strategems.  That was until the French made a bid to set up a Francophone state like Tahiti but based in Akaroa near Christchurch ironically now shaken badly by quakes in 2010-11 and by nasty forest fires in 2017.  If the British Foreign Office was only lukewarm about the Babylon and Westphalian Projects, the French could always be stirred-up to stimulate the 'FO' into action.  So a Mr Hobson was despatched to sign the Maoris into Britain's expanding empire.  Even in moodern times countries like Mozambique, Togo, Cameroun and The Gambia are keen to join the 'British' Commonwealth.
Anyway, volunteers or 'settlers' were encouraged to leave Europe, mainly from Britain, and journey to far away New Zealand after the Waitangi Treaty was signed with Maori tribal leaders in 1840.  Warnings about the country's geological instability and propensity for civiliization-destroying earthquakes and volcanos were ignored by the new science and philosophy mafias taking control of Europe at the time.  Under the Uniformitarian Principle they said that the rivers, mountains and glaciers we see are the result of eons of time wherein very slow and gradual forces like flowing rivers and slow-moving glaciers forged the environment we see today after millions of years of evolution.  Later we learned the world's outer crust comprised slow moving plates that quietly and un-noticeably massaged our plains and mountains.
By 1840, these philosophy and science mafiosa had inherited or usurped the West's universities and intellectual institutions in the wake of the long slow decline of the Christendomite regime that held sway until The Renaissance.  The Christendomites, as we now realise saddled by a lot of corrupt theology, held equally inappropriate or unrealistic philosophies (circa AD 200-1600) but there was some recovery in thinking (circa AD 1600-1750).
By the early 19th century, the Christendomite recovery ran out of steam.  Along with his God-fearing colleagues, Newton, not a Christian but a Unitarian who believed in God, could not resolve a conundrum that appeared to make God a brilliant Creator-watchmaker but lousy repair man as they studied the Cosmos.    That enabled the science mafia to begin to completely eject God and/or Theology from the ranks of Academia.  Mid 19th Century, Uniformitarinaism then found a spokesman in the Darwinian movement that enabled a complete rejection of God from the equation of the universe and all that lies therein and creation or re-formatting thereof.  If secular governance was to be successful, it was not just Christianity that had to be disarmed, isolated and sent packing to churches, masonic halls, synagogues, mosques etc.  Other religions, or non-Western philosophies (Buddhism excepted it seems) had to go as well though ironically at this late stage Panentheism is rearing its ugly head again in New Zealand's politics and in politics of the US and Canada as a result of pressure from the indigenous movements there.  Thus it was the alliance of Uniformitarianism and Darwin (or neo-Darwinism to be precise) that became the religion of the New Zealand secular state.  The Christians in New Zealand suppressed, that policy nevertheless has come up against opposition from Maori concerned about the children of their dysfunctional familes, all too common by 2017 sadly, being taken away to make "carbon copies" of the typical Western Humanist Secular Evolutionist Man (or Woman).  [refer 31/3/17, "They want to make carbon copies of themselves" and 31/3/17, "Massive problems in Maori Communities"].
New Zealand is now heading for considerable trouble as a result of the failings of these 200-year old paradigms.  Not that the paradigms of the the previous thirteen or fourteen centuries of Europe's thinking had been much good either.  Europe's paradigms and philosophies did not turn out to be as bad as the paradigms of the Penentheistic or Pantheist Maori religion.  Many Maori had become Christians by 1840 due in part to the new understanding they had of the day when the sun and Moon stood still which they read about in Joshua 10:1-43 in the Bible.  Also, faced with extinction by new diseases entering New Zealand with NZ Company settlers and subjugation from the imperial ambitions of one of their own tribal leaders, a significant majority of Maori leaders decided to enter the Covenant ("Treaty" or "Tiriti") of Waitangi with Britain's Queen (Victoria or Wikitoria).  Some Maori elders had previously met with King William IV and come back with a covenant he had signed with them.  The author has met Maori in Wellington who say they have another such covenant with "The Prince of Wales" over their land holdings around Wellington's or Port Nicholson's port area at the end of Taranaki Street and thereabouts.  Which "Prince of Wales" was not mentioned.  The claim may be apocryphal of course.  Even if valid it is unclear what real political force such arrangements or agreements have.  Although at a public meeting held by Wellington's City Council to get 'public' approval for a major port area redevelopment including some high-rise buildings, one Maori elder popped up and reminded the Council of its covenant with a veiled reference rather than through direct statement.  The WCC's proposition was thrown out and abandoned.  Even so, and certainly when Antichrist's Government gets moving those 'covenants' may well be torn-up along with the Waitangi Treaty!   Anyway, by AD 2017 there are, or may be, several well-entrenched agreements or covenants the NZ Maori hold with "The British Crown" that the NZ Company (read Government) apparently has little control over.  To what extent the assets under those covenants are coming under a pantheist cutlure remains to be seen and is something to be avoided at all costs.
Now, in March 2017, New Zealand faced with many paradigm errors coming home to roost, its Wellingtion Mayor advises us that the port which would be a vital life-line for the city's capital would be severely compromised by another good quake or shake.  Its port already has been significantly damaged or at least weakened and undermined by the last shake a few months ago (Kaikoura, 14/11/16).  One scurrilous theologian attempted to pin the blame for Christchurch's massive 2010-11 quakes on the city's sexual immorality.  That city is no more or less morally deficient than any other even if it does name itself "Christ-Church".  One imagine if one is going to name one's city "Christchurch" one would attempt to maintain certain standards but it is unlikely God punished the city on that score.  Elsewhere we have noted other scores that might have qualified for punishment although we cannot be dogmatic or certain about such things.  However, what about New Zealand's abrogation of the original premises that underpinned the Treaty of Waitangi in the context of Joshua chapter 10?  Both parties, Maori and Pakeha are guilty now of that theological abrogation.  Neither party's leaders any longer make any reference to that His Story.  That's because the modern Pakeha and Maori generations, some worthwhile exceptions on both sides excepted, now dis-believe all that His Story.  As at April 2017:
•	Auckland with its "dysfunction" (refer below);
•	Kaikoura and its Panentheistic or perhaps Posiedonic Culture around whales and other marine life;
•	A wrecked main state highway and national train carrier between Kaikoura and Wellington-Picton; 
•	Flooded Edgecumbe;
•	Enflamed Banks Peninsula; and
•	Metamphetamine-infested Northland, home region of the possibly-swindled (by their own leaders as much as by the British) Maori tribes that signed 1835's Declaration of Maori Independence; 
There really are some problems for modern NZ Inc.  Its economy, by all accounts, is chugging along quite nicely.  Especially when one considers the international problems bedevilling most other economies.  Nevertheless, it is relying too much on immigration that is causing traffic gridlock, extra pollution from cars and trucks on roads, especially with 10-20% of the national road and rail highways out of action for a year or more.  There is a level of homelessness, possibly not seen in NZ Inc before, that even some backward countries might even be embarrassed by!   Much of the 'homelessness, judging by the unsavoury characters many are, as we see at the local toilet block, may be due to no one wanting to rent out rooms or houses to them because of so much misbehaviour.  Often one sees women with several children but no father in sight appealing for help with accommodation.  Many economic problems stem from failure of personal behaviour.  But aside from those observations, much of the economic activity in NZ Inc at the moment is in the building, tourism and gastronomical sectors which do not generate the sorts of investment that produce longer term wealth sources.  In the Building sector, much of the activity is in replacing old, damaged or destroyed stock.  In that sense the statistical models describing "economic-growth or-activity" are misleading.   So things may not be nearly as good as they seem! 
The Treaty of Waitangi also has to be set in the context or terms of the ancient historical Treaty that divided the world into China's Hemisphere (Torres Strait to the Azores) from the West's (Tyre-Tarshish).  A few centuries ago, Rome's Pope used the same line of longitude to divide the two hemispheres into hegemonies for Spain and Portugal.  Details of that ancient line's historicity are suppressed within a welter of masonic secrets and Academic chicanery.  Some people, somewhere in Government, especially perhaps within Beijing's Mandarin Class,  may know about them but dare not reveal relevant information to the the Public.  The point here is that New Zealand and many Pacific Ocean isles should never have come under the West's hegemony or orbit.  Nor should the Americas have come under Western hegemony.  They did because of the fall of China between AD 1000-1400.  Now that China is re-emerging as a major and well organised international power it may well be that 'The West' will find it quite easy to hand back NZ to the Chinese as it did, on China's very own shores, with Hong Kong-Macao.  The Hong Kong Lease lasted exactly a century (1897-1997). Now, perhaps, The West will give up the (in effect) two century-leases held over New Zealand and other Pacific isles held by Europeans.   If the Chinese do indeed reclaim and take back that responsibility it seems it is coming with a few poison pills in store for Beijing.  The Mandarins there know what to do with the populace it it complains too much!  Confucianist-Marxist-Materialist- Secular Mandarins that have never had any exposure to a Christianising influence leave Western Dictators for dead!  Of course, all this must take place witin the newly emerging international governance system that the world's leaders are currently grappling with.  Much may now depend on what Antichrist-666 decides and of course that means the return of the True Christ (Yeshua B'Nazareth or 'Jesus of Nazareth) is not that far away either!
31/3/17, National air carrier switches from '767s' to '787s' but where are '777s'?  This is a tongue-in-cheek question we pose here to draw attention to the importance of "The Number Seven".  It is important for John's Gospel where his 'Sevens' reflect and represent the nature of the Godhead.  John's 'Sevens' of references to 'I am'; then the seven miracles he recounts; and his selection of seven discourses Jesus made; all form the framework to his particular Gospel Account.  In contradistinction, the Antichrist Trinity is composed "666", i.e., short of the full quid.  In the event item 17/2/16, "'Think of the number 7 says IMF Chief" we note a distinguished persona also surprisingly glorifying  that number.
1/4/17, "Israel is not taking any notice of anybody else".     We don't blame them but encourage Israel to take notice of the Words of Jesus of Nazareth.  The context was a discussion about the prospects for a "Two-State Solution" for the Palestinian-Israel conflict.  We say the 'other' state for the Palestinians should be Jordan in any case.  Even today, Palestinians are close to a majority in Jordan.  In this discussion, the numerous Jewish settlements dotting various parts of the 'West Bank' are seen as an obstacle to putting together an efficient Palestinian state because of the way the settlements effectively cantonise the region.  That is further reason why Jordan should therefore be that state and the Gaza Strip should be returned to Egypt to govern.  Besides, 
1/4/17, Fearless girl faces down raging bull on Wall Street.   About a newly erected statue of a young woman staring at the long established monument bearing a raging bull signifying a long run of success for Wall Street Stock markets.  "It is all about empowering women" said one bystander.  This is interesting considering the women who will transfer the economic system back to Shinar in Southern Iraq and the Upper Persian Gulf, the old stomping ground of the Babylonians.  As the Bible points out, the Chaldean Babylonians were driven out by the land turning into desert.  But the Bible also points out that Antichrist will one day establish his base there.  Ultimately, the entire human family traces its history back to Babyon and that is why God has this region in view in the prophecies.
Babylon will in the near future draw everyone back to its circle.  In one way, the main part of the Bible depicts Man's post-Flood history as beginning out of Babylon and in the Last Days once again returning Man's affairs back there.  Current economic trends point out how that could be thhe case.  Women seem to be involved in transferring the business side of those affairs there.  However, Genesis 3:16 suggests the woman's "desire shall be unto her husband".  For a long time the meaning of this has been disputed.  The word for desire here is   "Teshukah" and is only found in Genesis 3:16, 4:7 and Song of Solomon 7:10.  In each case there was a quite different situation.  To interpret the Genesis 3:16 passage one really has to decide between the other two.  Or both could be in view in the earlier Genesis passage.  On balance, while a woman will have sexual desire for her man she will also entertain ideas of taking him over or letting her ambitions and internal desire for self-actualization predominate or subsume her God intended attitude toward her husband.  In these Last Days we are witnessing a major drive by women to take hold of the reins of power and assert or empower themselves in the world.  This parallels a discovery in the genomes which shows that the male chromosome is weakening at a faster clip than the female chromosome.  That suggests, on average, women will be empowered with greater drive, energy and ambition than men in the Last Days thereby signifying yet again that we are at the end of the six millennia mis-rule of this Earth since Adam's fall.  And so the young woman faces down the raging bull!         
3/4/17, "People don't know where the stem cells come from".  A couple of New Zealansers went blind after 'stem' cells were used in an experimental approach to cure  their macular degeneration.  The writer is under pressure from the local hospital to have Avastin injected into his eyes to halt progresson of macular degeneration, or side effects of diabetes on the eyes.  But stem cells, unless they come from one's own body or at the very least from another human, presumably carry links with the Junk DNA we have.  By "not knowing" where these cells came from, perhaps a pig for example, then inserting them into what the Bible refers to as another "Kind", is very dangerous.  The medical and science mafias are now so enamoured with their beliefs that they embark on dangerous experiments without "knowing" if good or evil will be the outcome.  This is yet another twist on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil from the Bible.  Adam and Eve have passed on to us what they experienced in the Garden of Eden and we should take careful note.  On the one hand we fail to grasp the consequences of knowledge.  On the other hand, the close proximity we now are to establishing Man's Tree of Knowledge acccessed by '@' or acol (a-col, literally, 'a all') the Hebrew word to eat, is a code or clue in the Bible that we have very nearly come full circle back to the Garden of Eden where we have built our own, or mankind's,  virtual Tree of Knowledge by this 21st Century.  However, we still cannot access any Tree of Life as Adam and Eve were able to in the Garden of Eden.   If we ever do get near that, as one former French Professor of Chemistry once observed, God will say, "Gentlemen, time to shut up shop".   
Scientists know little about the background (Junk) DNA we are constructed with much of it switched off and apparently either useless, out of date or inherited.  Junk DNA once had a purpose, they believe, which is put down to a previous evolutionary requirement.  Supposedly the genes our ancestors had to grow wings or four legs have been switched off in that background Junk DNA.   We put the reasons for having Junk DNA is that  if Adam had not sinned then we would all have been procreated in the Garden of Eden without sin, death, illness etc.  Some of our Junk DNA was necessary for those blessed living conditions that Adam and Eve did indeed enjoy for a short season.  However, the fall of Adam and our banishment from Eden's Garden and its Tree of Life meant that certain parts of the DNA in every species' Genome was turned off by the RNA.  In the Messianic Kingdom, there will need to be another set of switches turned on or off as the case may be so that the Biblically prophesied conditions of the Messianic Kingdom can occur.  For example the ability of repentant sinners born during the Millennium, as descendants of the repentant carnal sinners who entered the Messianic-Millennial Kingdom, being able to live beyond one hundred years (Isaiah 65:20).  This will not be relevant to our resurrecetd bodies but to those of the carnal saints who enter the Messianic Kingdom by virtue of their repentence during The Tribulation.  Animals too will benefit from some RNA-DNA switching or re-switching.  The carnal humans entering the Messianic Kingdom on the Earth;  renovated or re-formatted in a similar way to what happened in Genesis chapters 1 & 2;  will include all Israel that survives The Tribulation.  Also, there will be a certain number of Gentiles who also come to belief during the Tribulation or after The Rapture occurs.  Another example of life in the Messianic Kingdom is that lions and wild animals willl eat grass not flesh of other animals (Isaiah 65:25).
In the meantime, under the effects of the Curse following Adam's Fall,  our bodies are susceptible to all sorts of ills either from the environment or from failure of some sort in our personal genome.  Those 'ills' lead to death of course.  Each individual human or animal genome is unique, though of course they can be classified into species, so one really should only use stem cells from one's own body and even that could lead to some unintended consequences.
Although the following points have been made elsewhere, this issue once again illustrates the failure of both Science and Theology to develop proper methodologies of research and study.  Scientists don't even, or ever, think of the possibilities we have outlined here reagarding the reasons for the complexities of Genomes including the vexed issue concerning Junk DNA.  That's because Theologians no longer believe in any sort of Messianic Kingdom so they do not look for any of the implications we suggest here.  Likewise, because Theologians no longer give any room for the Fall of Satan long before man's domicile on this Earth, they fail to advise Astronomers that they should be able to see somewhere out in the Universe a break between a steady-state unfallen Univerese (pre-Satanic Fall) and the boundary where Satan's Fall took place behind which, or on our side of that boundary, we see a chaotic, dusturbed Universe with Black Holes, Dark Matter and other oddities.  It is that boundary that forced Einstein to put a constant 'C' alongside his equation E=M (Energy equals Mass).  Einstein squared the constant in case it was a non-positive number because a negative would indicate a collapsing universe and there was not sufficient evidence of that to allow for a negative constant.  There is only evidence of chaos and Dark-Matter-ness suggesting something went wrong somewhere, somehow or sometime in the past.  In Luke 10:18, Jesus said, "I saw Satan fall" (c.f., Isaiah 14:12-15, Ezekiel 28:15) but one well respected orthodox Christian (Anglican) theologian privately told one he "did not believe Jesus made any such statement".  Modern theologians simply throw out much scripture as ahistorical.
The ability to harmonise these matters, especially so late in the day, is further evidence of the Glory of God.  We can see that God has been winking, as Apostle Paul is sometimes translated in another context, at Man's apparent success in the last five centuries at displacing Him from Science's realm.  However, as is often the case as we experience so many times, just when it looks like something has become the norm suddelnly everyting falls away.  We feel that is happening in 'Science' right now.
The Bible notes that only in the Last Days would Mankind be able to bring about such harmonies that we can now compose between the Bible and 'Science'.  The upshot here is that our current stock of scientific observation now renders the dictum that "Man is without excuse" (Romans 1:20) a virtual absolute.  He really should be accepting now God's Word in Scripture and looking to The Word Who became Flesh (John 1:14).  It already had been a most reasonable statement when Apostle Paul made the point back then to the Romans of his day (circa AD 60).  When it comes to accepting or rejecting God, He specifically is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  He is Jehovah the God of Israel.  Indeed Israel is a Created nation in order that that God can be expressed in those very terms.  One of the reasons for so much hatred of modern Jews and Israel today.  This is part of God's Plan for Israel and the whole of mankind.  The nations trying to destory Israel, for example the seventy lining up in Paris [16/1/17, Seventy nations want Jerusalem to be an International City] will learn that lesson very quickly the Bible warns us!
6/4/17, "We ask for God's Wisdom as we face this troubled world".  That was US President Trump's prayer as he launched missiles against the Syrian air force after it appeared Assad had dropped gas bombs on his own countrymen.  One hopes the prayer was genuine.  One shares his opinion here but one also awaits and prays for The Last Trump of I Corinthians15:52 and I Thessalonians 4:13-18.  On the other hand, an Arab commentator added, "this brings us back to the days of George Bush Junior and the Iraq invasion of 2003.
6/4/17, "They think of Trump like Jesus".   Today, the US President ordered the despatch from the Mediterranean Sea of some 50-60 ("59") Tomahawk missiles to take out a Syrian airport in response to Mr Assad's air force dropping sarin gas bombs on Syrian civilians a few days previously.  [Postscript, 27/4/17, A French team confirmed that was the gas used].   The statement came from a televison programme in turn reporting on a Syrian radio station interview with a local Syrian refugee who thanked the Americans.  He had witnessed a massacre of 400 people in his home city, hence the statement.  Syrians have been frustrated the USA will not tip the scales against Assad who has powerful backers in Russia and Iran.  So this has been a welcome initiative from a Syrian refugee perspective.  But the Syrian went overboard in likening Mr Trump to "Jesus".  This is typical of the religious nonsense that is afflicting the world juat as the secularist-humanist-evolutionist paradigm is beginning to break down.  Religions and secularism, with their false theorems, are breaking down internaly and clashing againt each other as they collapse. There isn't a better demonstration of the terrible consequences of a failed theology as in Islam notable for its massive division between Shias and Sunnis.  The West splits between two hegemonial aspirants, i.e., Russia and USA, or three if one wants to count the dying EU.
On the same TV programme, a later interview with a security analyst, he said, "we now may have to wait and see if Russia gives Assad the go-ahead to attack the 1000 US troops in Syria".  They are mainly helping the Kurds but like some Russian soldiers fighting with Ukrainians in East Ukraine they are fighting or training there on an arm-length basis.  These 'boots-on-the-ground' are not quite officially Russian or American 'servicemen' but enough to make the 'other side'  lay claim and counter-claim about super-power intervention.  Formerly, such soldiers were "mercenaries".  But the distinction now seems more blurred than ever.  And we don't know if in fact they are 'service-men' or private corporates with some sort of interest in certain regions.
It is all getting very, very messy indeed. According to the analyst above, "Assad is aware that if Russia can keep its strategic interests alive under a Syrian leader other than Assad then all the current Syrian President can look forward to is exile in Moscow and virtual isolation in Russia for the rest of his life".  So, it seems, Assad is prepared to warn Sunnis in Syria that he will take out as many of them as possible if their activity in Syria leads in any way to his demise.  Hence the ferocity of the gas attack according to this analyst who says "the thinking in Assad's mind might not be something we can easily contemplate.  But it sure makes sense to him".  
Our view is that the intricate alliances and ever-changing webs of coordination between many different parties throughout Syria;  including many other nations acting in their various regional interests; is part of the cunning plan referred to as part of the Gogite conspiracy to invade Israel per Ezekiel 38:10.  The confusion of the Syrian crisis is made further complex by the wider ring of disastrous conflicts stretching further afield in Libya, Yemen and Somalia, and Afghanistan.  [Postscript, in late April 2017, the UN announced that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen after two years of the latest civil war now numbers 19 million and thus exceeds the Syrian crisis in that regard (12 million?) but being in a less "strategic" area of interest the crisis was getting insufficient attention according to the UN].
Amidst all that, only Israel remains stable.  Yet it is seen as being a major problem that needs to be resolved in order to bring solutions to the wider ring of crises.  Even at the most recent Arab summit the member nations looked to the Israel-Palestine dispute as the equally biggest concern on their books along with the Syrian problem.  [Postscript: Although within weeks Saudi Arabia  and other Arab nations would be trying to isolate neighbouring Qatar over policy differences].  How Israel can in any way be seen as responsible for a litany of crises stretching from Tunisia to Afghanistan is totally ridiculous.  The only possible explanation for all this rubbish is that the world system is reaching the denouement forecast or prophesied in the Bible.  There are very few of the Lord's servants around these days who are even dimly aware of these things.  As The Lord Himself said at one point in Luke 18:8, "Will He find faith when He returns?"
7/4/17, "War, revolution, state collapse and Plague - 4 Horsemen of income redistribution".  An historian commenting on the main ways in which income inequality; on the sort of scale we see these days again; is reversed.  He used an apocalyptic motif to illustrate the theory.   We would suggest there is a fair amount of veracity in this succinct statement.  However, we say that each era; in any region of the world under a different combination of resource bases (material and human) plus geographic, climatic and environmental differences etc;  has been a unique instance.  Never has one of these apocalyptic events been the same because the circumstances were not.  They all had unique characteristics which God has made sure are recorded in one way or another.  During the Millennium and even beyond we will have opportunities to review all these instances, learn and wonder and marvel at the Great Plan God had in mind should Adam fall in the Garden of Eden.  It might be painful for us to experience, though not as great pain The Lord Hismelf had to suffer on our behalf.  
7/4/17, "How is it that God's cures are always worse than the perils?"  Perhaps to teach us that the bad always out-performs the good.    
7/4/17, "Luther thought Tyranny was the best form of government".  One had not heard that point being made before.  The point was made in a radio interview about Martin Luther and his antisemitism.  After an early period in his life when he sought understanding with Jewish folk and through them the Hebrew perspetives needed for a good understanding of the Bible, Luther grew antagonisitc toward Jewry.  Jews he met with still refused to accept Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah and Saviour of the world.  Like many of his contemporaries (Byfield excepted) he failed to properly study God's Plan in the Bible for the Salvation of Israel.  Luther thought the Jewish nation in his era would repent.  That was especially due to their belief the 6000 years of the School of Elijah was nearly concluded (even though they were only 5600 years past the Fall of Adan).  However, on closer Scriptural inspection, Luther et al should have realised that in God's Plan (and Prophecy) Antichrist's Campaign of Armageddon against Israel is the main act that culminates the end of the Sixth Millennium.  At the very least, that required Israel being a nation once again in the Middle East and that did not occur until 1948.
Many of Luther's contemporaries identified the antichrist with each successive pope of the Papacy.  At best, one pope may become the false prophet for the antichrist but no pope ever will be "The Antichrist" and most definitely the pope is not the person in the putatative candidate we are closely watching.  Luther had hoped during the mid-16th Century rapprochement between Jews and Christians that Israel would then fulfill Romans 11:1-2, 24b, 25 and 26.  Of course Luther also mistakenly thought the Church was Israel so he expected the Jews to rejoin once the reforms Luther worked for were instituted.  That clearly did not happen and nor should it have.  Therefore, we would see that as being silly because as stated by Nicholas Byfield (1608), a younger or later contemporary of Luther, the salvation of Israel would have to be accompanied by a return of the Jews to the land of Israel.  Thus a lot of background thinking in Luther's day was built on false paradigms.  Or he simply carried too much baggage from his Roman Catholic background into his reforms undermining the good things he did such as exposing the corruption of 'indulgences' as taught in Roman Catholic philosophy.  
The return of the Jews back to "The Land" ("Eretzainu") did not happen until our time (officially 1948).  Furthermore, in the 16th Century, with the then  widespread interest in the theory of the School of Elijah that a full 6000 years were to be allotted to Man's mis-rule on Earth, it is only now that target seems to have been reached as we enter the Twenty-First Century AD and events concerning modern Israel really do seem to be fulfilling prophecy.  Of course, it is possible we might be wrong too and might be guilty of reading too much into the prophecies and into world events.  However, it is easily observed that a mounting campaign against Israel is being mounted by many nations (16/1/17, Seventy nations want Jerusalem to be an International City).  And we are about 6000 years past the Fall of Adam.  Whereas on God's Plan we are about to enter His Millennium of Rest Satan has another plan.  In parallel with the School of Elijah idea and II Peter 3:8, God signified by His 'setting apart' (or "sanctified") of the Seventh Day from the other Six in Genesis 2:3.  However, Satan is using the start of this millennium (1/1/01) to seduce mankind into a world of technological marvel drawing us away from God's much better Plan.  Satan and his minions hide behind the Theory of Evolution to convince mankind there isn't even a God at all.    
In another mis-reading of the text, Luther and his contemporaries took Jesus' words in Matthew 24:22 and Mark 13:20 ("except those days be shortened") to apply to their time and place.  That meant 'six thousand years' did not need to be taken literally but only approximately.  (Our calendars are so confused that we cannot be too sure just how near we are to the 6000th year).  Although Europe in the mid-16th Century may have been in turmoil or looked like entering even more trouble as it did (1618-48) many people of that time confidently expected that 6000 year period would be truncated by about 300 years - to suit them.  They thought Adam fell in 4100 BC.  Although we now realise it was about 4000 BC.  They also thought the 'Mundi Conflagratio' or MVnDI ConfLagratIo (MVDI CLI = MDCLVII = AD 1657) heralded the end of the Sixth Millennium.  All that of course came on the heels of the view in AD 1030 that Jesus would return to close off His Millennial reign that theoretically had been instituted at Pentecost AD 30.    That belief in turn initiated the Crusades as Christendom attempted to bring Jerusalem back under control for Christ via His Church.  They were oblivious to the fact that Jesus will do this all on His Own.  It is a statement of fact that conditions faced by Luther et al were not as bad as they are now and clearly several more centuries, including a period named "The Enlightenment", would pass by after he died.  So much of what he said or believed can be shown to be poorly thought out.  
However, in respect to Luther's use of the term 'Tyranny', it may well be that our modern scholars are the ones somewhat short of the full quid in their analysis.  The very word 'tyranny' comes to us via the Tyrians who governed the Romans for a period in the middle of the First Millennium BC.  Those governors were known as "Tyrants".  This title 'Tyrant', now a common English word for a dictator or a very controlling person, is derived from the city named 'Tyre' which in turn is derived from the Hebrew Tzor (Tsor) a word meaning 'rock'.  Just how 'tyrannical' those Phoenician governors of Rome actually were is open to debate.  Certainly the antipathy built up between Roman citizens and their Tyrian overlords figured prominently in their Three Punic Wars against Tyre's other big colony of Carthage.  Perhaps the actions of those 'Tyrants' in part explain why Rome had an ongoing struggle with the Tyrian-Carthaginian-Phoenician hegemony for five or more centuries (circa 700-200 BC).  Rome's 'Tyrants' were probably more like corporate executives than Hitler-style dictators.  The emerging Chaldeo-Kurdish colony of Trijan refugees They may well have ruled Rome like the East India or New Zealand Companies did for India and New Zealand respectively. 
Tyrannical corporations (Tyre, Genoa, Venice, The Hanseatic League, East India Company, Hudson Bay Company, New Zealand Company) have quite often been useful forms of Government.  They can be controlled democtratically via shareholder systems.  On the other hand, there needs to be a governing authority to monitor any excesses they imbibe in.  Just as every set of company accounts must be audited by an independent accountant so too company activity needs to be monitored by some external governance structure.  Since Westphalia (1648) those 'governors' have been nation-state Governments (a few principalities such as Monaco, Leichtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, the Vatican, Sikkim or District of Columbia aside).  When just one company rules the waves there are no external competitiors just internal ones.
This is really how colonization begins.  In ancient times it began with agreements between a corporate and a local or indigenou people omanagement of resources in a locality.  Ancient Tyre needed ports for its vessels as they transported merchandise across the world.  In the Western hemisphere, ancient Tyre; and its allies cum competitors such as Sidon and Gebal-Byblos;  was the most notable practitioner of that process.  Luther knew how Venice and Genoa were administered in their good days and he may have been aware of Tyre's history.  In fact, 'Venice' is a variation of the word Phoenicia the name derived from "Punt" the name ancient Egyptians used for the Phoenician city-states and Israel.  "Punt" is the origin of many words in English but one meaning was 'bridge' as in 'pontoon'.  "Punt" is the origin of 'point' in the sense of a 'head-land' at the entrance of a harbour so important for Puntite-Phoenician shipping.     Modern scholars dispute these histories we refer to because they are trying to discredit the Bible.  In so doing, however, they lost the track Luther apparently was going down with this statement.   One can see how anti-Christian people [antichrist, I John 2:18, "even now (circa AD 80-90) there are many antichrists"] can thus abuse the statement to show that we believe in tyrannical-dictaorial systems where people do as 'we' say!   Luther was a Roman Catholic reformer and was presumably trying to escape such institutions.  However, he does not necessarily represent Christianity anyway.  His world-view etc., may well have brought him closer to proper Christianity and away from a competitor belief system known as 'Catholicism' but that is as far as it goes.   
Thus, Martin Luther said and did things we can righteously frown on.  Nevertheless, not everything he said was necessarily bad or wrong and these points about the real meaning behind 'tyranny' show why we need to be careful making such judgements.  Today, the word only means the most harsh and unfair type of governance we could have.  But by learning about the ancient or ogiginal meaning of 'Tyranny', especialluy as it was used circa AD 1600, we learn a far more sophisticated version of History.
Luther probably did not use the word 'tyranny' as we would interpret it.  We think of tyranny as being evil.  The Bible requires man to govern.  Governance may be via parliaments, monarchs or corporations as long as all these entities govern properly.  In the USA they additionally went to great lengths to separate the main arms of governance into the Legislature via the House of Representatives (Congress and Senate), the Executive (Presidency) and the Judiciary (Courts).  Even today Governments and corporations are working in "public-private partnerships".  The Roman governments run by the Tyrian Tyrants possibly came about because the settlement founded by the Chaldean-Trojans invited the Tyrians to enter a governing partnership a bit like the Maori of New Zealand with the British Crown - the NZ Company waiting in the wings.  However, as the Maori found out the imported governors did not properly abide with all the terms of the contracted invitation and perhaps did not honour the contract-covenant-treaty (Maori, "Tirity") as much as they should have.  Out of ineptitude, or perhaps because of inappropriate conduct (Governor Grey) British governors failed to ensure Treaty Principles were maintained letting NZ Company entrepreneurs pay just lip-service to the Treaty of Waitangi.
As we today understand them, governance treaties between difference nations were built on the idea of the Tyrian system but were considerably modified by The Treary of Westphalia.  That 'Treaty' was really the earliest form of the modern United Nations.  Modern principles of governance emerged out of Westphalia.  Certainly, Westphalia drew lessons from many earlier systems even from the theocracies of post Roman Empire Christendom.  From 1648, there was a growing recognition that many parts of the world were facing over-population or were unable to produce sufficient food of decent quality and nourishment.  Long-term, they assumed, that situation would become more acute.  Some people like Malthus are now seen as excessively pessimistic on that point but the issue of effective governance of world resources for everyone emerged in those days.
It was also recognised that some groups lived in regions which had vast untapped resources but the populations there were too small or technologically illiterate to develop those resources.  The Westphalian system recognised that meant exporting technology and governance to efficiently develop those resources for the whole world's benefit.  Taht was partly how ancient Tyre developed port colonies by making the commercial opportunities attractive to the local population as well as the business houses of Tyre, Sidon and Gebal-Byblos.  Under the Westphalian concept, world development also meant sending out teachers and other enablers to develop societies acrioss the world.  Those professionals could help the indigenous natives generate resources, income and wealth to share across the entire human family.  In some cases, for example in New Zealand, many Maori leaders between AD 1800-40 saw advantages in hooking the Maoris of Aoteoroa-New Zealand  into this system.
It is usually assumed the Maori of New Zealand lived in splendid isolation from everyone else.  However, from the research we do, there is emerging evidence that quite the opposite was the case.  In Australia, the Aborigines who had among other attributes mapped the entire continent and named counties there referred to New Zealand as "The Shaky Isles".  It was not an hospitable environment compared with many other places in the world especially compared with those 'Aborigines' rock-solid terra firma.  New Zealand's Maori were people who had dared to brave the quakes and volcanos to eke out a living in 'NZ'. Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and British ships had been sailing by for four centuries before the Treaty of Waitangi.  Perhaps Vikings (circa AD 800), Genoese and Venetians dropped in even before the Portuguese.  Whatever, the Maori of New Zealand were keen enough to explore various trading and governance opportunities with Europe by at least AD 1800.  There was at least 3000 years of history behind such things.    
Certainly by the 19th Century New Zealand Maori were debating the best way to organise Maoridom to deal with the Westphalian Europeans.  Not every chief or tribe had the same idea.  Te Rapraha thought the Maori tribes should be united under one leader to manage such interaction or treaties with the Westphalian system.  He unsuccessfully led a drive to do that by trying to bring the Maori under his leadership.  In the Northland province; i.e., the North Island north of Auckland City of today; an 1835 Declaration of Independence was drawn up by the tribes up there.  However, five years later some of those same Maori Chiefs opted to go with the Treaty of Waitangi (ToW) instead.
On paper, the terms of the ToW looked very good.  The impetus behind the treaty was indeed very favourable to Maori.  It was based on principles behind the Bible's Abrahamic Covenant that God the Creator had with Abraham and his Israelite descendants.  But the New Zealand Company executives quickly gained control over the early parliaments, rolled up the various copies of the treaties signed around the country and shoved them into a drawer in a government department.  That's lip service for you!  Certainly from a Maori perspective the New Zealand governments in Wellington became quite tyrannical in the modern sense we have of that word.  It is good to note that some redress has been made over the last three decades or so.  Although we seem to be going a bit overboard on that score and ovelooking the responsibility governors and companies have to sustainably develop the earth's resources for everyone's benefit.  On one hand we must restore Maori rights to traditional agricultural lands and fisheries.  But to suggest entire rivers and regions must be closed off to any sustainable resource use and place them under panentheistic stewardship goes too far in another wrong direction.  Interestingly, the conflicts that are going to now develop resulting from that philosophical divide are another harbinger of the Last Days because the sinful and lustful nature of mankind will again overwhelm the good things we are trying to do.  Only the return of Jesus of Nazareth, Messiah of Israel, will solve that probllem.  But just before He does, the Antichrist will arise to show the world what real modern-day tyranny is like.
7/4/17, "Floods, fires in Christchurch, the Four Horsemen, My Goodness".  A Talkback radio host musing while awaiting phone calls.  The day before the town of Edgecumbe;  well away from Chrisrchurch nearer the other end of NZ in the northern or upper half of the North Island;  had been swamped with flood waters as a river stop-bank failed after heavy rain in the Taupo catchment area of the North Island of New Zealand.  This is another case of how readily someone refers to a Biblical event when describing a current situation concerning negative and destructive events.  It shows how much the Bible is still in people's vernacular and folklore even though they are almost totally ignorant now of its contents for the purpose of sensible dicussions about what God's Word is saying to us in these Last Days.    
12/4/17, Does Russia want Ukraine and Crimea in exchange for Assad?  This point appears to have emerged after King Abdullah of Jordan spoke to Mr Trump in Washington a couple of days previously (see next item below).  The United States and the West are placing business-, trade- and contact-sanctions on Russia because of its takeover of The Crimea.  This seems, therefore, to be  a sticking point preventing better relations between Russia, the USA, Britain, Germany, France etc.  We regard that as absurd.  Away back in the Crimean War in the early 19th Century it was agreed that the Crimea should be part of Russia.  The Russians needed a decent warm-water international port for economic development in accordance with the Westphalian paradigm to improve the world's lot through better governance and harmonious, efficient and sustainable use of the world's resources for all mankind.  With an eye on continued Global Warming and retreat of the ice caps even back then, the Russian (Tsarist-Czarist) Government had plans to link the sea routes of the Arctic with those up the Black-Sea-Danube and Aegean-Mediterranean routes.  The Crimea was, and is, a vital cog in developing that maritime network.  From that perspective it seems more credible if Russia were to manage the Crimea as was the case until Kruschev the Ukrainian circa 1965 used the Soviet Union governance structure to re-assign the Crimea to the Ukrainian state of the USSR.  In effect, the management and/or governance of The Crimea only became an issue again following the break-up of the former Soviet Union circa 1990.  Even then, in an environment of rapprochement between Russia and the West, no one seemed especially bothered who governed The Crimea.  Recently, however, the Crimeans seem to have fairly voted to ga back with Russia.  Thus, one wonders what the fuss is all about unless there are links with the "Mischief" of  Ezekiel 38:10.  
In President Kruschev's day, part of the soviet Union's attempts at better utilization of resources in Crimea, Ukraine etc., included southern Russia and the Caucasus regions,  the Caspian Sea and The Aral Sea.  As a Ukrainian member of the Soviet Union, Kruschev definitely used his influence in the formerr USSR to re-assign the Crimea to the Ukrainian administrative district of the USSR.  Apparently, that was to assist better planning requirements.  As an aside, New Zealand is currently tied up in knots with its version of its own planning legislatioion in the very unwieldy Resource Management Act.  That Act is now having to require giving a river (the Wanganui) the status of a person.  In the comparative normacy of the former USSR's planing legislation, one can see the logic in putting The Crimea within the Kiev-Ukraine administrative region.  If the people vote to change the governing body to administer public facilities then that should be permitted.  To make a masssive row over those sets of circumstances when one considers the other intractible problems around and about, The Crimea does seem to be a bit of a storm in a teacup.
In the recent chaos within the Ukrainian Government while it dallies over whether to align with the West and the sickly EU, stay neutral (probably not a realistic option) or remain largely integrated with Russia's sphere of economic interest, the Crimean plebsicite to return to Moscow-Russia admittedly was hastily arranged.  That seems to have caused outrage in the West, although again why, given the brief history just explained, is enigmatic.  It seems the British, French and Turks may have forgotten their early 19th century history.
There is an even earlier history of course.  One must remember further back that the Tartars invaded the area along with the various Turkik, Mongol and Hun migrations, as they emerged out of central Asia and into the Western end of the Eurasian Continent.  But the Tartars displaced the Circassians when they arrived in "The Crimea".  One wonders if we get the word 'crime' from all this stuf!  The Circassians have been refugees in North-Eastern Turkey ever since.  Should they be returned to the Crimea?  Should the Circassians of Turkey in fact administer the Crimea?  Of course like the Kurds' problem a return of an ethnic group to their original homeland is a task largely beyond anyone's control without a lot of magnanimous concessions.  But that has been happening with Israel.  That is why we regard the return of the Jews back to Israel the first of the gatherings of the Jewish Peoples "from all the countries wherein they are scattered" (Ezekiel 20:34) must surely be God's work. If God did not have a direct hand in the re-emergence of Israel then it remains a fact that the event was prophesied.  It was an event that seems so unlikely considering the problems of Kurds or Circassians and others nowadays.  The modern-day observer needs to think about these things.
If the Crimea-Ukraine situation is being used by the West to hem-in, encircle  or 'control' Russia, by whomever is actually doing this, again can we conclude it is part of the cunning plan or 'Mischief' (Ezekiel 38:10) that 'Gog' is fomenting before invading Israel?  But remember it is God (Ezekiel 38:4) who puts His Hooks into the jaws of the horde that eventually will invade Israel according to the extensive prophecy of Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  The kings, presidents, bureaucrats, generals, diplomats and aid agencies are mere pawns in all this.
12/4/17, "Jordan's King Abdullah suggests Russians plsying Three Dimensional Chess".  Apparently, the King visited Washington this week.  In the clutch of events reported today (12/4/17), the anniversary of the first man, a Russian, to go into 'space' in a rocket (Commander Yuri Gagarin) we find ourselves being drawn back to decisions made by the 'world community' in 1947-8 or even further back to 1918-22.  In connection with this item, we have to go back to the US support for Abdul Azziz Ibn Abdul Rahman Ibn S'aud and the joint desire to bring all Arabia (The Arabian Peninsula) under one king, i.e., S'aud.  Although of course this may have been America's desire more than the old king's!  Anyway, to do that, Abdul Aziz Ibn S'aud courted the Americans anxious to build oil pipelines across the Arabian Peninsula to the Red Sea for reticulation of Black Oil (Texas Tea)  to Europe, Africa and the Americas.  But that entailed driving the Hashemites, descendants of one branch of Mohammad's family, out of their Holy Places, Mecca and Medina, and that part of Western Arabia known as The Hejaz ruled by Emir Sharif Hussein.  [He was the "Sheriff of Mecca and Medina Holy Places to stay" according to one's poem about the Kurds published in Chancery Chatter the American Embassy of Wellington weekly rag for staff].
Thus the Arabs of the Eastern Nedj conquered their Edomite and Midianite cousins in the Western Hejaz.  That prompted the British to install Sharif Hussein's two sons, Faisal and Abdullah as kings of Iraq and Jordan two other territories that had come under Westphalian British hegemony in the wake of the WWI disaster.  Britain, in hock (debt) to the USA, and in moral hock to the Hashemites for their support of Lawrence of Arabia, had no opportunity to resist the American strategy which has produced disastrous results.  That disaster now bedevills modern Israel, Lebanon and Jordan as they attempt to house refugees originally from the Hejaz, and their many descendants .
The Iraqis overthrew Faisal but the Jordanians, mainly prompted by the British,  reluctantly accepted their Hashemite king.  Jordan is still ruled by a member of that clan, now of the fourth generation i.e., King Abdullah II.  Abdullah I's son was unfit to rule so the grandson of Sharif Hussein became king of Jordan aged about 16 years old.  He became known as "King Hussein".  He married a couple of English women, divorcing the first, so his children, one now the current king, look quite English and only slightly Arab.
By now, of course, the Jordanian 'Royal Family' has quite a lot of expertise in Middle Eastern and International relations so it is not all that surprising that QEII, King Abdullah and Mrs May have the ear of President Trump a mere novice on many international concerns, although Mr Trump's naivity may not necessarily be such a bad thing if the new American President turns out to be a breath of fresh air as he tries to sweep away the cobwebs in cupboards of power or drain the swamps controlling world capitals.  MInd you he might also be acting as an unwitting agent of Antichrist's followers who are keen to see this man do his bit to undermine governance even further across the world.  Who knows but perhaps President Trump has signed-up to the Antichrist's agenda currently being managed for the putatively emerging world leader.  
12/4/17, Afghans and Kurds fight in French refugee camp.  Now that the Kurds are administering large safe zones in Iraq and Syria it seems odd that Kurds are refugees stuck on the sea coast near Calais trying to get into the UK.  Afghans there make a little bit more sense but the real issue is that many of these people are economic migrants not refugees.  Mind you, the Kurds are special when it comes to our own British heritage for they are descendants of the group that stayed in Asia Minor as others (as "Hittites", "Celts", "Galatians" and "Chaldeans") migrated across Asia Minor (Turkey), westwards through Troy, across Europe and eventually into Eastern England bringing agriculture to East Anglia around 750 BC.  Over the centuries those East Anglian Kurdo-Celts moved westwards across the British Isles including into Ireland.  Those 'Kurdo-Celts' were subsequently driven further West across Britain in part by later invaders such as Romans, Saxons and Normans (Norsemen or 'Vikings').  One can understand the rationale for Kurds to still want to come to Britain 2750 years later under that perspective.  Can one really shut them out under that perspective?  It would be ceorlish (churlish) to do so.  The point now is that we must all obey government rules on passports, migration etc., and not try to get around or break the rules.  That goes for Kurds too no matter how grievous their complaint is.
To see Kurds and Afghans fighting in these make-shift camps brings us to the point about the refugee hordes numbering over 60 million [Postscript June 2017: UN says "65 million"] who are sloshing about in the Middle East region and further afield.  One suspects many of them are likely to become part of the Ezekiel (First) Gogite invasion of Israel.  In the camp at Calais, we see another example of these people turning on one another as Ezekiel 38:21 explains.  Although we understand the Kurds will not comprise any part of that horde.  We are now looking at the possibility Kurds willl have begun to establish their "Shibeh istiqlaal" and effectively form part of the pro-Israel Sheba-Dedan axis in the Middle East.  This alignment will be squeezed between Iran and Syria-Iraq (Ezekiel 38:13).  For other examples of this sort of thing refer to Key Subjects in this series of Key Events Papers. 
12/4/17, Fundamentalist Muslims fight Palestinians in Sidonian refugee camp.  A leading intermational news service interviewed the Lebanese Foreign Minister while he visited Sidon.  He wanted to tell "Sidonians" they were just as much part of Lebanon as the rest of the coutnry's cities.  Sidon gave its name to Macedonia as its inhabitants were forced to flee away back in the 8th century BC under pressure from Assyrian, then Kurdo-Chaldean and Persian hegemonies.  The television station unaware of Sidon's true ancient significance, was more interested in the fighting in a nearby Palestinian camp.  The Foreign Minister's response is in the next item but here we have noted some ancient historical context to his comments.
12/4/17, "Lebanon dealing with UN request of 1948 now abandoned by the world".  Thsi was the Lebanese Foreign Miniister's response to a television news team asking about the fighting in a refugee camp near Sidon.  The Minister noted that in 1948 the UN asked Lebanon to house refugees from the Palestine Mandate in the decision to allow the Jews to have an independent state in their ancient homeland of Israel.  At the time, India also was witnessing a masive dislocation of two million Muslims and Hindus as the Plan to keep the Raj intact foundered on Pakistani President Jinna's demand for an independent "secular" state for Muslims.  So theBritisha nd the UN were under much pressure to find homes for people not wanting to live in newly formed nation states.  The Lebanese chief could have added the points we make in 12/4/17, "Jordan's King Abdullah suggests Russians plsying Three Dimensional Chess" about Lebanon's 'Palestinian refugees'.  He then added that "little by little the world has walked away from that request and left the Lebanese to deal with its aftermath".  The leaders of Burma-Myanamar, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are likewsie left to deal with the impact of international governmental decisions in 1948.
12/4/17, "Israel blockading Gaza".  No, Egypt and Israel are blockading Gaza.  The journalists almost universally fail to point out that Egypt also blockades Gaza .  Israel and Egypt control the air, borders and sea but not the tunnels all under Gaza.    Israel wanted Egyot to take over sovereignty of the Gaza Strip after the 1967-73 wars but the latter refused to get involved.  This sort of one-sided statement is typical of the media and the world's anti-Israel propaganda which is actually aimed at God Himself and against His Son Jesus of Nazareth (c.f., Psalm 2:1-2) who is coming to restore order to this Earth.
But that Blessed Day and Hope only happens after the world hands itself over to Satan's son the antichrist-666.  He will mysteriously bring peace and resolution to the world's problems partly because Satan puts his Dogs of War on a leash.  Antichrist will wonderfully resolve the diplomatic and military disputes that countries currently seem unable to deal with.  In fact diplomacy at the moment merely deteriorates matters as the mandarins, bureaucrats and soldiers (Humpty Dumpty's men) all keep changing strategy as new 'administrations' of 'governance' come and go in the two hundred or so 'countries' or 'nation-states' of today.
So we see yet another small dig at Israel, another snub.  Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is the one whom this commentator targeted but he made the point, "We control the skies, the Sea and the borders around Gaza but not the underground tunnels".  In New Zealand in the mid 19th Century, The Maori in the North Island fighting against the British in the 1860 "Maori Wars" in New Zealand, perfected the art of resistance using tunnels and trenches (more the latter).  The Europeans in WWI, learning from The Maori, and ISIS in Mosul, showed how effective tunnels are  in war.  London, during WWII, showed how tunnels could be used in defence.  Neither Egypt not Israel control those Gazan tunnels so both countries have independently resorted to blockading the Gazans.
In another story on Gaza it appears the PLO Government in Ramallah has had to cut salaries of Gazan public servants to save money as funds from donors have dropped in recent times.  The PLO, Fatah and Hamas have been trying to cooperate more after an agreement to try and settle political, theological, tactical and strategic differences but this attempt at rapprochement seems to have made very little progress.  If they cannot agree amongst themselves how can they find agreement with Israel, one must ask?  But there are fundamental dichotomies between Palestinians.  Many, if not a majority, are secular.  Many of them, however, see themselves as part of a "Pan-Arab" world.  Unfortunately, many Arabs do not see them in the same light.  There are those who see themselves as Muslims in a world that is either awaiting the Mahdi, on one side of the Islamic divide, or that believes in the re-establishment of a universal Caliphate to return on another side of the Islamic Divide.  The Caliphate versus the Mahdi's return is the biggest single Islamic division and it is one that has a clear parallel in Christendom's Post- and Pre-Millennial strains.  So therein lies a big divide, for Islam and Christendom as it happens, via a certain degree of commonality in reading of the same basic Biblical text.  One might thus place Shias, Pre-Millennial Christians and certain Orthodox Jewish groups in one divide and Sunnis, Post-millennial Christians and other Orthodox or even some more liberal Orthodox Jewish groups in the other.  Then again, they all come up against the Secularists, Materialists, Humanists and Evolutionists to set a sort of Tr-Lateral Divide.
At that point one can posit a common strategic interest shared by the Secularists, all over the world, who find common insult against Islam with others.  For example, the Communists and Confucians in China, Hindus in India, Zoroastrains in Iran, and Daoists and Buddhists mainly in Asia.  Thus we see today many conflicts right around the Islamic fringe.  But is Islam taking to these opponents in a Holy Jihad or are the others all having a go at Islam?
Or are both points in action right now?  If that is so then it would seem we have even more ammunition to show that the world is in deep trouble.  It is in the kind of trouble envidaged in some Biblical passages.  The time now seems ripe for the First Ezekiel Gogite Invasion of Israel then the antichrist's rise to influence in not world power are imminent, probably in that order.  That, in turn, means the Rapture of the True Church of Christ ("wherever the living Body of Believers is there the Eagle(s) will occur  In His Talons, The Lord snatches us upwards as per what one might describe as "The Key Rapture Passages" in I Corinthians15:52, I Thessalonians 4:13-18, probably Titus 2:13, Matthew 24:36, Mark 13:32 and Luke 12:40 & 17:22-37. 
13/4/17, "Commercial Banks use derivatives to rob their clients".   Today, derivatives were defined as a "side-bet" on the fortunes of a junk bond made up of a "package of 'securitised' mortgages".  In reality, the mortgages were made up of "garbage loans", said an author today who specialised in books on the security of the modern world's financial system.  He spoke on a national radio programme today.  He had recently finished another book on the failings of the world's financial system.  He made some pointed statements of great interest to the Bible student.  He gave us the critical financial data pertaining to the 2007-8 crash.  He said there was by 2007 $1 trillion in junk mortgages but $6.5 trillion in the associated 'side-bets' (The Derivatives).  Experts were saying that even on the worst estimate of mortgage default rates (failure, delinquincy) of 20%, the system stood to lose $200 billion.  But it had lost similar amounts before.  He noted 5% was considered too risky and 1-2% an ideal or historic norm for mortgage failure.  So the problem was deemed not 'so bad', or so they thought  "The reality", the author said, was that 20% of the derivatives would also go under and that amounted to a loss of over $1 trillion and that did almost prove to be too much to handle.  One assumes they have still not unbundled all the derivatives to see where anything of value actually lay.  In theory, someone stands to make a killing out of some 'written-off'-by-T.A.R.P schemes.  In the meantime tax-payers bailed out the failed bankers, insurance sector etc.  He also noted the last crash began in "spring 2007" (April) beginning with the fall of Northern Rock in the UK.  After that, the rot set in and took about 18 months to work itself out with Bear Stearns, Lehman etc., in the USA also going under.
He lay much of the blame for the 2007-8 problem on the complexity of the system.  He said there was tooo much power residing with a small number of very big, if not too big Banks.  Perhaps more seriously, the US Government removed the Glass-Steagel Act.  That law had been enacted in the USA by a 1930's Congress to stop a repeat of problems like those leading to the 1930 Great Crash re-emerging in the future.  In that historic occasion, trading on share margins helped stack that crisis in a similar way to the mortgage Derivative bets.  These situations arise via shady, shadowy or unscrupulous financial instruments being arranged by banks in effective alliance with the ratings' agencies which in the United States in circa 2005-7 steadfastly refused to mark-down mortgage bond ratings in the face of clear evidence many people were not repaying their mortgages.  So the creditworthiness of the mortgage packages on which the derivatives were comprised was seriously overstated.
Goldmann Sachs was not only making these things up but selling them to their own clients and then taking out insurance;  i.e., a bet that their own clients would lose;  covering any potential losses incurred on the derivative concerned.  They collected the fees to bundle-up the derivatives then knew they would cash-in on insurance payouts when the thing collapsed.  They paid little for the insurance deals because everyone assumesd, going on Ratings Agency data that it would be highly unlikely the mortgages would go bust.  But Goldman knew better!   They were oblivious to the possibility of the insurance company going bust under the weight of payouts to Goldmann Sachs and others participating in that rort presumably assuming (correctly on that occasion) the Government would have to bail-out the failed insurance sector
One provision in Glass-Steagel had prevented banks from merging retail and merchant banking operations.  The provision kept Merchant Banks in a particular class or sector, insurance companies with their large cash holdings, and retail savings banks, savings and loans companies etc., all in other separated sectors.  Securities watch-dogs could regulate and prevent massively complex interweaving financial deals or instruments from poisoning the entire financial system.  On the other hand, it lso restricted the accumulation of capital packages to finance development and economic growth.  In the last two decades of the Twentieth Century, technological developments probably offset any losses to economic growth from capital shortages or restrictions.  Glass-Steagel kept mismanagement in one sector to within that one sector and kept most of the fall-out from spreading abroad through every other sector.  The 1990's US Congress "knew better than the 1930's Congress".   However, there is another possibly even greater problem here.
The Glass-Steagel Act certainly helped prevent financial corruption.  But the way it did that also prevented organisations carrying out some of the large tasks necessary in this world such as maintaining energy sources, developing the Third World or advancing communications.  Certainly in the field of communications there have indeed been massive apparent advances post-Glass-Steagel.  But, the Third World now seems to be in an even greater mess in part because of dramatic changes in world climate.  A lot of 'Third World' infrastructure made possible by liberated financial markets has either been destroyed by civil wars or by mismanagement.  Removing Glass-Steagel also helped to mobilise world plans to control the climate.  We have noted in these pages that climate control is impossible though we can and should develop methods to protect or re-locate resources to adapt to the structural realignments in climate.  That again also needs much finance which, it is argued, received a boost from the removal of Glass-Steagel.  But by again restricting the ability of finance houses whether retail banks, savings societies or the insurance sector with all of its wealthy backers these developments will slow down or be mothballed.  Economic growth and GDP per capita may decline assuming population keeps on increasing.
Soh here, once again, we come up against the problem of knowledge; the tree thereof that we have developed over the last six millennia;  and how we handle these problems or 'challenges' for Good or Evil.  Ultimately, the problems are beyond us, as God warned Adam and Eve.  Or, if somehow it is witihin our grasp to mitigate them, that is only by having to put up with tyrannical and arbitrary governance as the author interviewed said would be the 'outcome' in ragard to the next financial collapse.  That one will "dwarf all others", he noted, "and finally exhaust our ability to either prevent or manage climate change etc".
Towards the ned of the interview, the author moved to speculate on what the next crash would look like and have to deal with.  In terms of the Prophetic Calendar we are using in these pages, and in view of the imminency of Zechariah 5:6-11 we have been noting, these comments come at a very opportune time.   Zechariah's prophecy, with the relevant women possibly already in place to effect a dramatic turn of events in relocating the world's fiinancial system, resonates with this author's comments.  As he said, "in 2018, or whenever";  e.g., a decade after 2008 "the IMF will be the only institution with any liquidity left to bail out the central banks in the next great World Financial Breakdown".  We note a woman now heads the IMF and for the first time in its history this has happened!  The IMF will need to use its SDR's (Special Drawing Rights) to rescue the financial system unless it introduces a new world currency.  But that will mean the end of world finance as we know it because the SDR not the dollar will become the world's reserve currency (which in itself may imply a new world currency and the possible end to all others.  Or, he noted, we can look to alternative political solutions like extreme dictatorship. [That, we note, may turn out to be a euphemism for Antichrist-666].  We also note the comments that world communications have beeen able to thrive despite financial restrictions.  One wonders if Ephesians 2:2 ("Satan is the Prince of the Power of the Air") has some application there.  
Referring to "Complexity Theory", he said "this shows that as the size of the financial system increases, e.g., doubles, the associated risk rises by a much bigger factor".  He suggested by 'Ten'.  Mr Rickett said one way to rectify things i.e., to forestall a further even bigger collapse, is to decomplexify the system and break up the largest banks.  He likened this to a ski operator realising the snow is unstable at his piste.  He fires off cannons to trigger the looming avalanches before the skiers go out to play.  But the big banks control the governments so unless they decide they need to break themselves down that particular solution is either not going to occur or very unlikely to.
All this makes very interesting reading for those of us following the Bible's prophecy about the financial system bering returned to Babylon (Zechariah 5:6-11).  But his point about a different political solution echoes what the Bible says about the last two stages of world governance as it emanates out of the Roman then Westphalian Phase of the Roman Syatem.  The first of these last two stages is the World Government that may already be with us via things like the UN and IMF.  Unless those institutions are to be dismantled to make way for a true and formal-in-name world government to take centre stage.  Whatever or whenever the World Government Phase takes place it will devolve to the second of these last two stages.  This one is counter-intuitive or even paradoxical to the norm in these things where the few merge to one.  It will be a Ten Nation Confederacy.  But the Bible tells us these ten kings or presidents then hand over all power and authority to the Antichrist-666.
24/4/17, "The City of Auckland is dysfunctional".  A statement broadcast nation-wide this morning.  Very timely as the author is about to embark on a holiday visiting London and Melbourne, cities that hum really well in contradistinction to Auckland, NZ.  The latter as we hint at above [31/3/17, "Wellington, New Zealand's capital, could be cut off with a 'disastrous' earthquake"] was never planned to exist as such a big extensively-spread out urban conglomeration around a narrow volcanic isthnus.  The point about Auckland being "dysfunctional" was the view expressed by a well-known commentator on a national radio programme.  "You would have to say that when the city's transport authority tells its workers to leave work early in order to get home to families etc", the commentator opined.  Later in the day another commentator over nation-wide airwaves said the Auckland problem seems to be related to people's greed in housing and renting them out on air B&B rather than housing local New Zealanders.
24/4/17, "No one's doing anything about it".  Words of the commentator referred to in the last line above analysing the Auckland problem.  New Zealand's housing stock is not only failing to expand sufficiently to meet demand for accommodation, the inadvisably-located state houses, and many properties housing elderly married, single or widowed-divorced people with two-three spare and unused bedrooms, means that the existing stock is used very inefficiently.  Land-banking, council regulations and concern to maintain home-owners apparent wealth in their relatively expensive and costly houses prevents kitset homes being built for a fraction of the cost of the existing housing stock.  (Much cheaper houses can be built by using recycling waste). That also leads to homelessness and over-crowding because people are prevented from building low cost accommodation.  In the early 1990's, the Israelis packed hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ethiopian Jews (Falashas) into shipping containers outside towns like Acco but that is banned under regulation by New Zealanders on the excuse we don't want shanty towns.  Furthermore, a significant chunk of the stock is less than fit for healthy living being too damp.  Mould and damp are the result of poor construction and cladding [Postscript: the latter now also under scrutiny since the Grenfell Building disaster in Ladbrooke Grove, Kensington, London, 18/6/17).  These sorts of difficulties are indeed very hard to resolve.  For example, New Zealand's superannuation strategy and inheritance structure could be ruined by a house price collapse where ten thousand dollar homes could go onto market when average current values if houses is close to a million dollars in Auckland.  Furthermore relationship-failure, mainly within families, means some people effectively get thrown out to fend for themselves.  The fail to and end-up on the streets.  Alcohol and drug consumption makes many others unwelcome in our homes thus making them homeless as well.   Many people lying around on streets and in cars are either tramps or people who keep falling out with other people to the point no one will abide staying in the same house with them.  There are some in a trap of nowhere to stay so they cannot open bank accounts and receive welfare payments.  It seems absurd such people cannot be given some sort of cash payment.  Even so, people in that trap probably got there because of failure to maintain civil relations with other people and thereby become homeless and without address.
Even when one gets into a higher-rise building like a tenement where people have their own private room, usually quite small, and share other facilities like kitchen and bathroom, there are many inefficiencies.  For example, people having short-term stays in these places of six months or a year leave food in the communal freezers when they depart.  The food stays there for years because no one knows whether it can be thrown out.  The freezers get dirty because no one cleans them.  In the particular example in view here, most of the tenants are non-English speaking.  The longer-term residents are eventually forced to get a fridge-freezer unit put into their own small room and use that.  So now the tenement has four fridge-freezer units fully-stocked with food that are unused and getting dirty over time with mould etc.  The electricity charge borne by the landlord is higher than necessary as a result.   But he does not care for he simply raises the rent to the tenants.  There is no communication between tennants because of the language problems and the poor values of this particular group of  immigrants, refugees from Confucianism, Marxism and Materialism.  Furthermore, as one has established, they are hostile to Christianity seeing it as deviant "Westernism".  Really, this is the state of the world now!
Using this microcosmic domestic issue concerning the day-to-day running of a downtown Wellington tenement with seventeen rooms and about 28 (93% Chinese) tenants in those rooms, we show here that there are indeed many inefficiences all over the housing sector especially in NZ.  These issues no doubt affect housing everywhere in the world.  In NZ, many people live in homes with wide-open internal spaces, sometimes also with large gardens, that are effectively a wasteful luxury especially compared to the average 'tenement' room and communal areas with a carpark for a garden.  In the example here, the massive immigration in NZ includes many Chinese and other Asians often here short-term with poor English Language skills.  This means that the language complexities needed to explain the intricacies of living more efficiently simply, and safely, cannot be explained.  One had a similar difficulty in Harlesden, London, living in a large flat owned by an Irishman next door, taking cash-only rents.  Most of his tenants were Bulgarians, Romanians and Poles.  With them, we had the same difficulty we have with the Chinese in the Wellington, NZ, tenement regarding these communication difficulties for safety and efficient cooperative living.  So reform and efficientcy in the management of the tenement goes begging.
Many of these problems are due to poor individual personal disciplines.    And this is where the Bible again comes in to play to show why and how these problems are becoming more and more deep-seated because of Adam's sin.  People are becoming increasingly selfish and narcissistic.  They get sick of living in the tenement then work the rest of their lives attempting to pay mortgages they can only hope to repay the day before their last breath.  That in turn drives up the prices of already scarce private apartments or stand-alone houses.
Building and Resource Management Act regulations prevent the constructuion of caravan homes in parks, container homes, trailer homes and many other very-low-cost housing units that may only be constructed of short-life materials but which can be erected smartly and quickly with portable amenities nearby.  One could construct housing areas as in ancient Beth She'an in Israel where houses had no bathrooms because everyone went to the communal bath-houses.  Even in recent times in the UK and France that sort of housing stock was available and still is today in places like tenements just described above.  Principles and prophecies from the Bible also help us to understand why problems like these in housing are just another aspect of the major problems bedevilling us now that we are at the advanced stage of the outcome God warned would occur if we consumed from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  
24/4/17, "Dubai, one of the growing parts of the world at the moment".  Also Abu Dhabi and Qatar emerging as significant places as the New Zealand Government decides to spend $50 million plus on a trade show in Dubai.  "NZ needs to show that it can manufacture things other countries need.  It should not be a Ferns, Waterfalls and Maori art show" as a former Labour Government Minister once described such trade shows.
As everyone struggles to find a raison d'etre for New Zealand's attendance at such a show, we are aware that the main reason why this region is "a growing part of the world at the moment" is that the region will one day be part of the Babylon Hub and centre that will become the home of the Roman Antichrist much as Alexander the Sidonian patricide (a.k.a., Alexander the Great) made it his home as he boozed himself to death as he slowly began to realise he was a mere mortal like everyone else.
People may wonder why a "Roman" 'antichrist' would want to make ancient Babylon his base rather than Rome.  Well,  Alexander the Great did and he was a Greek-speaking Macedonian (or Sidonian).  Interestingly, our young antichrist candidate lives in another city of the former Roman Empire, not in modern Rome although through his mother he is quintessentially 'Roman'.  Alexander never returned to Macedonia or Greece.  Why did he not?  We suggest that is because he understood the king of the world would have to rule in Babylon.  Aristotle was Alexander's teacher and tutor.  No doubt the Greek Philosopher in circa 340 BC knew quite a lot about Babylon's history between circa 2450 and 2000.  Perhaps he advised Alexander to stay there.  Alrexander's generals wanted to stop fighting for world control and begged Alexander to stop at conquering Pakistan (or Baluchistan).  Then they started fighting amongst themselves after Alexander's Empire split into four regions very soon after his early and untimely death.  
But the near-future Antichrist will succeed where Alexander failed.  We are now discovering information that Rome, Paris and London were all established as capital cities by refugees from Troy who were mostly descendants of Kurds (Chaldeans, Galatian-Galts or Celts).  No doubt non-Kurdo-Chaldean indigenous groups had villages in London before the Kurdo-Celts moved in.  That is why the current rulers in these capitals today warn Iran, Syria and Turkey to refrain from molesting Kurds in their countries.
However, that history provides a somewhat tenuous link between ancient Babylon;  and Peris, Rome and London.   No doubt the Antichrist will be taught that history and so desire to go back to the land of his forefathers even though he disregards the gods thereof (Daniel 11:38).  Satan invests in efforst to get men  to believe in many gods but that is merely to distract them from the One True God.  That will not be a necessity for his special son for obvious reasons.  Anyway, during Rome's Imperial phases, few of them really believed in those gods anyway so there is even less reason for the rising Antichroist to have any interest in them.  Also, as we have been witnessing with ISIS, many temples to the old gods such as Bel's Temple, have been destroyed by those gun-toting nihilists.   
Aside from the Antichrist's desire to base himself in Babylon, the problem today of independence for Kurds, descendants of Babylon's last Exodus (900 BC?);  much in the same way as Israel needed independence for Jews;  is a very hard nut to crack, although not one, we think, Antichrist will have any interest in solving.  But things are not being helped by Syrian, Turkish and Iranian harassment of Kurds.
Another reason why a 'Roman' will easily regard Babylon as 'home' is that is where everyone came from.  Except that the ancestors of today's Kurds were the last to leave as they were forced out by an environmental disaster.  They were forced to live where they are now found with little or no hope of returning to Southern Iraq and Babylon-Shinar.  Although that is a political reality they are prepared to accept as long as they get something to replace their ancient loss.  Despite probably disinterest, perhaps Antichrist will appear to resolve that millennia-old problem.  Israel, Babylon, The Kurds are all huge issues now enveloping the world as it enters the Last Days prophesied by the Bible.  As the Gospels indicate (Matthew 24:8, Mark 13:8) the last prophecies to be fulfilled will come in a crescendo like the labour pains of a pregnant woman in the course of her 8-9 month pregnancy.  
The "growth" around Dubai is of no surpise to students of the Bible who are aware of that Book's theme that at the end of time all post-Adamic Fall human history will re-orientate back toward the land of the Tower of Babel.  Indeed, in Dubai, the world's tallest building now stands.  The world's tallest building no longer stands in either New York or Malaya.  Building 'towers' is the sign of the those who are aware of the World's true history - the intelligentsia, the masons, the Illuminati etc.   They are manipulating the world's resources and governance systems to re-institute the Babylon Project as outlined in Genesis 11:3-4.
We can see Satan's hand behind the Tower of Babel excercise via various Biblical passages such as at the original temptation of Adam and Eve.  However, in additional back-up for that claim, in Ezekiel's typology of Satan as the "King of Tyre" reflecting the mercantile city-state's emphasis on building towers to mark-out fortresses for storage of precious cargo and merchandise, there is another connection between Satan and Towers.  Also, Satan used the Twin Towers of the Port Authority of New Jersey to announce the birth of his son (we think so anyway though no one can be sure at present).  All around the world, cities are building towers to symbolise their identification with this satanic plan for mankind that seems to be in full-swing now that we have passed the start of Satan's counterfeit millennium that began on 1/1/01.      
28/4/17, "More bugs becoming antibiotic resistant".  In an emerging problem for Satan's counterfeit millennium, microbiologists and governments are concerned about the widespread mis-use of antibiotics, their indiscriminant use, and their appearance in many manufactured foods.  All that combines to expose bacteria etc., much more to antibiotics hence their ability or propensity to adapt and resist the antibiotic.  The problem becomes more acute for people with immune systems already weakened by some condition and being hoispitalised.  Fit and healthy people with strong immune systems are  at less risk.  However, this is becoming such an internationalised problem that individual governments can do little to combat the problem.  Also, the search for and development of new antibiotics to replace those becoming of little use is not financially worthwhile for pharmaceutical companies thus the investment in new resistant anibiotics is falling dangerously low.  Later in the day, another expert commentator explained "the bacteria mutate a resistance more or less by chance but the widespread use of antibiotics increases the probability a particular bacteria becoming resistant.   She even suggested the bacteria themselves can transfer resistance.  She concluded, "this is frightening, real and people are already dying because of the problem".  She cited countries like India where antibiotic use regulation is very lax compared to NZ. 
It is just another example of how Man's attempt too grasp, consume from and manage the fruits of science and technology, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, is bedevilling the human project.  It is yet another reason for our Saviour and Messiah of Israel to return as He promised, re-format this Earth and introduce His Messianic-Millennial Kingdom.  This is yet another harbinger of the Last Days Era prophesied in various Biblical passsages is now upon us.  We are in the Days of Noah, the Days of Lot (Isaiah 54:9-10, Days of Noah, c.f., Matthew 24:37, Luke 17:26-7).
30/4/17, "Bears, Birds and Bees, but we see it as an economic issue".   One view of a member of the public asked for his opinion on a television news programme.  He was talking about Global Warming-Climate Change.
30/4/17, "The earth comes first".  A woman voicing her opinion on the same question posed in the item above.  Her comment shows that the Panentheists are taking over all around the world as it fulfills the Prophecy of Romans 1:25. 
30/4/17, Kurds and Arabs fight ISIS in Northern Syria.  And the US is helping them with some commandos.   Turkey has asked the Americans to stop this support.   So one can see another risk arising here as the Turks and Americans, allies in NATO could come to blows.  There is ointerest here because once again there seems to be good relations between Arabs and Kurds.  In our historical model, the Kurds have long accepted the arabs had the right to move into ancient babylon, the Plains of Shinar, because Arabs were able to make a go of the land turned to desert and wildeness by the environmental disaster that we refer to elsewhere (The Middle East Crises - A New Perception, page 4).
We are looking at the possibility Kurds willl have begun to establish their "Shibeh istiqlaal" and effectively form part of the pro-Israel Sheba-Dedan (Arabian) axis in the Middle East squeezed between Iran and Syria-Iraq (Ezekiel 38:13).
30/4/17, Iranian Kurds now fighting for better situation.  This was a matter reported on a television station when a film crew was talking to an Iranian Kurdish guerilla group operating near Iran's border with northern Iraq.  The location was on the Iraqi side of the mountain ranges involved.
30/4 - 31/5/17, Don Stewart's Imminence Tour of London and Melbourne.   o    the Author is on leave travelling to London and Melbourne.  Described as The Imminence Tour, one is investigating the Imminence of the First Gog-Magog Invasion of Israel, the rise of Antichrist-666 and The Rapture in order to discuss these matters with folk in Britain (London).
6/6/17, Tillerson Rex says "USA reduced Carbon Foorprint without need for the Paris 2015 Accord ".  He added that since 1990 the US economy had doubled in size and its population significantly increased.  Yet its carbon consumption, or use, has declined by 30% since then.  The US Secretary of State, visiting NZ today, gained this nick-name from some environmentalist wag.  Greeneies are mostly nutty but at least sone have a clever sense of humour on occasion.   One commentator said Rex Tillerson is the only US Cabinet member with some sense.  Another commentator noted that the US has only pulled out of the Paris 'Protocol' but has remained in the main working group.  In any case, under the Protocol, the US could always change its commitments or financial contributions.  To some extent, therefore, Mr Trump has skillfully played to his voting public without seriously affecting international relations.  There appears to have been a lot of huff and puff over Mr Trump's announcement of the previous week.  Then he said, "the US is 'withdrawing' from the Paris Climate Change Agreement".  It's only pulling out of the Protocol.
The people complaining about Mr Trump's attitude to the 'PCC' Accord seem loathe to acknowledge that he has also pulled out of the Left-Hated Trans Pacific Trade Pact.  It seems Mr Trump does no good in anyone's eyes judging by the media commentariat.
We would point out that in these Last Days there is indeed a lot of silly comment around the place.  Most people's thinking has now been darkened by nearly two centuries of evolutionism and the resulting materialist paradign that ensued from that.  Since 1648, the Western Hemisphere has lurched toward secularism.  That led to the view that non-secularism be restricted to matters within churches, synagogues, temples, masonic halls (lodges) or even mosques.  Now, with  "radical Islam" on the loose these problems are becoming more acute.  Although the radical muslims are closer to the true ideals of Mohammedanism than the liberal modernist Islam many practitioners proselytise in the West.  Theose 'liberal muslims are trying to look more Christian than the Christian with their versions of Islam that conveniently overlook Islam's bloody past and the cruelty of its founder according to later biographers of Mohammad.
Tha abandonment of Creation led to what could only be expected, i.e., "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" (Romans 1:22)  according to Apostle Paul.  That is only to be expected as we have noted at length in previous entries.  The conventional wisdom says we need to reduce carbon inputs into the atmosphere or at least hold them at current levels.  Despite the fact that ice core measurements indicate the atmosphere had 6-8% carbon dioxide before the catastrophe that caused the ice packs to form.  In parallel to that foolishness, the western evolutionist and secularist system is clashing hhead-on with the even more inconsistent  framework of Islam.  The Muslims' attempts at harmonising 'science' with 'Islam', for example as expressed in the rival ideas of Messrs Fetula Gulan and Erdogan of Turkey, are a lot worse than Christendom's attempt at such a thing between AD 100-1648.  But rabid, arrogant, opinionated and biased secular evolutionism allied to materialism is about as bad as the other approaches to explaining life and the universe.
So the almost universal media orchestrated rants and condemnations against the US 'Trump' Presidential Administration's withdrawal from the PCC  comes as no surprise.
Finally, for this event ('entry'), we note that Paris has now been involved in two significant Last Days Conferences.  Firstly, the PCC of 2015 then the early 2017 Seventy Nations Meeting that castigated Israel's West Bank and Jerusalem policies.  As we have noted elsewhere, we are exploring the evidence showing that Rome, Paris and London became established cities and capitals under Chaldean-Trojan refugees from the Campaign of Troy circa 780 BC (not circa 1300 BC according to the false chronology).  This is interesting from the following perspectives:
•	That Antichrist-666 emerges from the former Roman Empire;
•	Tthat he has Babylonian antecedents; and
•	The Chaldeo-Celtic-Kurdish settlers and Trojan refugees founding Rome, Paris and London were formerly refugees from Lower Mesopotamia (South Iraq), i.e., "The Land of Shinar" (Genesis 11:2, Zechariah 5:11) the region of "Ur of the Chaldees" and Babel.  Their exodus from 'Shinar' occurred as the result of environment changes causing their land to turn into desert (Isaiah 23:13).  
Dr Fruchtenbaum says the Antichrist, who, Biblically speaking, must be born of a Roman woman will seek to return to Babylon to reign and rule the World.  [He directly applies applies Genesis 3:15b to Daniel 8:23-26 and 9:26-27.  But concerning this king and the fall of Babyon see also Jeremiah 50:42, 45, 51:4, 51:48, Acts 7:4, Revelation 18:2.  We note Alexander the Macedonian Patricide (a.k.a. - 'The Great') based his last yearsdid that also for about seven years.  There is even more sense for the Chaldeo-Babylonian-Romano Antichrist to seek to return to the ancient land from which his satanic father lured man into the great Tower of Babel (Science and Technology) Project that we now dub the "Babel Project".  As more and more commentators are noting this new Tower of Babel or Tree of Knowledge is not neutral but delivers many good and ecil results.  Or more pointedly, the evil outcomes ultimately seem to outweigh the good.  For a very brief time, Satan's antichrist-son will deceive people into believing he has reversed that net-negative and turned it into a net-positive but it will be due to a mixture of deception, behind-the-scenes restraints on certain warmongering dogs Satan regularly releases to do his dirty work, and occultism.  As the satanic millennium has been proceeding since 1/1/2001, much oreoaration is bringing this to a speedy conclusion although much history since the Fall of the Roman Empire has also been instrumental in establishing this last era before the Return of the Christ (Yeshua B'Nazareth, Jesus of Nazareth).      
6/6/17, "Turning health deserts into gardens of Eden in Christchurch, NZ".  Another reason why Christchurch may have been targeted for that terrible earthquake it suffered in 2011.  There is a love affair the city has with the anti-Biblical Antarctic Programme.  Data from that programme is being manipulated to support things like the 'PCC' Accord of 2015.  Instead of showing that the after-effects of the Flood of Noah are coming home to roost and that the Earth is heating up for reasons other than carbon dioxide emmissions into the atmosphere, that data is being used to deceive the world into using alternative supposedly renewable energy sources.  Therein lies the 'hoax' President Trump is reported to believe is the case re global warming.  Such actions will not correct or adjust the globe's rising heat.  The damage to the world economy by enforcing redundancy of about 30 trillion dollars worth of infrastructure used to produce carbon-related energy will cause far more economic harm than environmental benefit.
Also, there is an intense desire among many prominent non-Christian Christchurch citizens to see the stone church building in the city square as of more importance than concentrating on The Church of The Christ being a body of active Christians.  [Postscript:  A survey a few days later reported that 43% of citizens wanted the cathedral restored].   As such, Jesus' believers can and do  meet anywhere at any time for prayer and worship.  They don't need that derelict old quake-ravished building that has nothing like the antiquity of similar structures around the world.  
Now we see the city effectively or indirecty belittles the offensiveness to God of the behaviour of the Man and Woman in that vegetable Garden of Eden.  Adam and Eve disobeyed the commandment to leave the tree of knowledge alone.  They became embarrassed about the knowledge they acquired from that tree (a touch-tronic computer embedded in a tree).  They need not have been embarrassed  had they obeyed God and awaited His teaching on the matters they learned about from absorbing informtion from that Tree.  The knowledge they acquitred was not bad.  The original or perhaps primary sin was the disobedience to the command not to consume knowledge from that particular source, or not until they had received permission to use it.  We now deal with all the consequences of that episode.  Adam could not have anticipated all the drama that would ensue (4000 BC to AD 2017+) and he lived 930 years to observe just how much nonsense would ensue from his original sinfual action.  Howevere, that is why Jesus The Christ (and of Nazareth) had to take on human form.  He did foresee Adam's sin and offered Himself to bear all the consequences of Adam's sin.  Jesus placated our offended God for Adam's actions after eating of that Holy Tree of Holy Knowledge.  It would be better for Christchurch to teach its people how to eat properly, i.e., eat good food without over-eating and honouring the Bible's advice rather than treat the Bible merely as a source of terms to use for any advertising purpose people deem useful or applicable.  The city's churches, as some individual believers there are doing, should be explaining exactly what was so offensive to God by Adam doing what he did.  They should explain that Adam's transgression is both inherited by us and imputed to us as is Christ's righteousness, death, burial and Resurrection to Glory.  Jesus paid that price for one and all who believe (John 3:16) there on that Cross outside Jerusalem's inner-city walls.  However, what we usually see emerging from Christchurch these days is the Crusader Cross of AD 30-1300.
In writing the above, we stress that it would only be due to the name the city has taken for itself i.e., "Christ-Church" that might direct God's particular attention to any of its activities.  By and large, Christchurch, either from God's or anyone else's perspective, is not doing anything that could be regarded as especially godless in objective or purpose.  Christchurch is no different to any other city.  Where it is peculiar is in its name and in its accociation with some 'science' that is very highly charged with certain political, theological and philosophical objectives determinedly godless.  Any other city is as guilty of mocking God as Christchurch except that other 'christchurch's (e.g., in England) and other cities, as far as one is aware, do not name themselves after God or His Only begotten Son and then do things that might arguably inflame God's anger.  Even so, for the meantime, God may well look past that name and leave that city and all others to await His Judgements in The Tribulation.  But if it can be said Christchurch has been singled out in some way or for some reason to suffer nasty earthquakes for some reason then one suggests one might look to the points made herein.  Furthermore, for years a 'Wizard' lampooned God in the 'Cathedral Square'.  The city's main rugby team adopted the name of a brutal set of semi professional- and rabbble-armies (The Crusaders) that randomly decimated Jews and genuine Christians along the way to its hopeless task of recapturing Jerusalem for 'Christ'!  One certainly cannot build any dogma of any sort on these matters, as some do,  though the mis-use of scientific data derived from Antarctic research is iniquitious by any standard.   Hopefully, some people reading these points might take time to introspectively examine himself or herself in regard to his or her soteriological position with God.    
6/6/17, "Cyber threats and attacks getting ever more pervasive and numerous".  That was the gist of an advertisement pointing out that we need protection from hackers, trojan horse software etc., as the Internet gets evermore involved in modern life.  This is yet another aspect of the implication of Man accepting Satan's encouragement and getting himself hooked into  developing his own imperfect (666) Tree of Knowledge after having tasted of God's Perfect Tree (777) in the Garden of Eden circa 6000 years ago.  God's Tree was of perfect knowledge ('777') when the Man and Woman 'tasted' that 'touch-tronic' computer, possibly literally embedded in a tree of some variety as we have discussed elsewhere.  The Tree (Internet) under construction for the Babel Project is imperfect (666).  It is accessed by using "@" or the achol (literally 'eat' or consume, absorb, overwhelm, flood, embrace) of Genesis, i.e., the 'at all';  or 'nearly all', as the circle around the 'a' is incomplete.  This signifies that we have nearly come full circle back to Eden and to demonstrate the incompleteness of Man's Tree of Knowledge.  Just as the Tower of Babel was never completed, nor will the Babel Project today be completed.  In Man's vain hope that it will be completed, Satan has the human race around his little finger and ripe for the rule of Antichrist-666 ostensibly to help him out of the chaotic hole he has dug himself into.  For the meantime, scientists and technologists and their media friends are attempting to encourage everyone to look to science and technology to solve the world's ills.
6/6/17, "A race to the bottom of the brain stem".  That was how one Google ex-employee described how the search engine and Internet service companies such as facebook etc., manage to get people hooked into computer and mobile phone use.  Interestingly, many years ago, Mr Arthur Koestler in The Ghost in the Machine, wrote that if we could somehow control people at the base of the brain stem we could reduce many of the world's wars and disputes.  Perhaps the world's manipulators are using computers and smart phones to do this.  Judging by the way the terrorist operatives are using the Internet and its services that policy seems to be backfiring.  Also, as we have reported elsewhere (24/7/16, 30/7/15, 5/8/15, 16/9/15, 20/9/15, 29/9/15, and 1/11/15), The Internet will become a mind of its own by AD 2030 the 2000th anniversary of the Church of Christ.  Is that a deliberate tactic from Satan?
The chap, interviewed on a well-known one hour documentary programme on television, explained that brain studies combined with "the writing of computer code to get the brain addicted", comes in the wake of "millions of computer experiments".  They track poeple's "likes" in order to place a whole lot of things for one to look at on one's device of whatever sort exactly at the unique time one is likely to be most receptive to respond by following their lead.  He also described the process as "engineering search engines to get you more addicted to your device and use it more".  Also, "they use a natural defence-mechanism hormone in the brain to get you to chck your device more frequentky".  That means, of course, more chance to keep you enslaved to the fruits of the Internet.  And, one might add, keeping one away from hearing God's voice especially via the Bible.  They are also using apps that can be downloaded from the Internet which track the body's signals from exercise, eating, sleeping etc., so that the data can be transmitted back to Google etc., for them to hook you even more into Internet Addiction. 
As a practitioner, user and experimenter with the Internet since its early days of more common usage in the early 1990's (1993) this observer, a twenty-four year old in Internet-use and a thirty-one year old computer (PC's, laptops) user, has long-since weaned himself off the novelty of all this.  The Bible becomes a far more interesting vehicle of knowledge to delve into.  Therein, perhaps after decades of study by oneself, God Himself seems to use methods of His Own, akin to, or parallel to the ones Satan's agents arre using today (Ephesians 2:2).
6/6/17, "I was uneasy with all this brain hacking".  That was the reason why the Google employee above resigned his job.  If only people in other professions were so ethical.  The steam or impetus could be taken out of the Babel Project.  But this time around, with the sixth millennium apparently at a close, the Satanic replacement millennium is getting underway.  Satan's is a fake or bogus stooge for the one God is preparing for the world (Revelation 20:2, 3, 4, 5 & 6).  This statement and the one above chimes in well with what we have been saying for a long time about the deceptive powers Satan's son the antichrist will use to deceive and flatter other powerful decision-makers in this world. 
6/6/17, "Creating dependent behaviour".  The former Google employee noted above that there is a "giant experiment" going on to do this.  We would see this as part of the process Satan is using to effect his millennium into practice.
6/6/17, "Technology can be used for good or bad".  A comment from someone on a television programme about what is happening with Internet devices referred to immediately above.  It was given as though the commentator had come up with some deep philosophical statement or theory of everything.  Yet the statement appears in Adam's account regarding the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" (KJV translation).  No one these days takes much notice of what Adam wrote and Moses ensured would be handed down to us today.      
6/6/17, "Technology is never neutral despite claims it is".  The second part of the discussion referred to immediately above.  Again, that is what God understood and foresaw when He commanded Adam to leave the Tree of Good and Evil Knowledge alone.  If Adam had passed that test of obedience, we presume, or assume, that God would have let Adam use it.  In that scenario, we  again assume, man's consumption from that tree would have been under God' s personal tutelage because the information the man could learn from this tree  may have been a part of the plan God had for the Man to follow out the commands of Genesis 1:28, 2:15, 18, 19b.
Besides, in Revelation 22:2, in the Eternal Age to come; in the Second, New or 'Last' Universe; we consume from a Tree of Life planted on the New Earth which is our eventual Eternal residence.  However, in Genesis, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge were individual trees in the Garden.  Adam and Eve could, and presumably on occasion did, consume from the Tree of Life in Eden.  In the new Earth, the two trees appear to become one.  That suggests the one tree was deliberately divided into two separate individual units in order that God could place a test before the man to test his love for God, his faithfulness, trust and obedience in or to God.  That was necessary.  It was necessary from a free will point of view.  For otherwise the man is just a robot or machine.  Ironically, in these Last Days, man is either being taken over by robots and losing jobs to them or we are becoming robotised by the dictats of modern living.  There is less and less choice about what one can do in this lfe.  Now there are many restrictions on activity.  There are restrictions imposed on us or enforced either by health and safety, or by environmental pressures, or from work pressures.  There is pressure from building home and family and the demands on education or extra-curricular pressure on school children and by extension on the rest of the family.  
To illistarte the non-neutrality of technology one can, for example, point to many processes in industry where pollution of some form occurs.  Often that is because a certain technology allows us to pollute through heavy concentration.  Instead of the occasional homestead burning a bit of coal or wood on a log fire, the pollution dissipating and disappearing to the naked eye or nose, we now can build massive power staions belching out vast concentrations of smoke and waste gases.   Then technology invents machines that measure more and more accurately the toxins and wastes that result from industry and population concentrations we see today in big cities polluting the coasts with high concentrations of sewage.  But the increasing sophistication of the measuring equipment we have makes the problems of polution seem far more dangerous than our naked eye perhaps had informed us.  There is nothing neutral about technology and by implication the science and information that are components of that applied knowledge ('technology').  There are always unintended consequences from knowledge and its appplication.  Some unintended consequences may have benefits for sure.  However, beneficial or harmful, they are never neutral.  One could suppose that in the final analysis, on occasions there might be a neutral consequence but we may never notice, identify or record it so for all intents and purposes that statement, "they are never neutral", is effectively true!
6/6/17, "Israel merely chased a fleeing army in the Six Day War".  Or "just a chase with live fire".  A couple of statements from an Arab commentator on a television programme, watched today, about Israel's victory over its Arab neighbours in the June 1967 war.  The documentary commemorated the 50th anniversary of the war.  The producers tried to suggest Israel was helped by acts of extreme ineptitude on the part of Arab military commanders.  For example, they said Egypt's President Nasser lied to King Hussein of Jordan on the first day of the war and told him reports that all Egypt's air-fields and war planes were still intact.  They had been taken out within hours of the war's commencement.  Jordan then miscalculated its entry into the war.  The producers tried to imply Israel was far superior in power and readiness to the Arab armies.  They implied Israel manipulated the situation to vastly increase its territory.  Israel did double its size in the wake of the victory although much land did eventually return to Egypt (the Sinai).  But Israel is a small country.  It's the size of Holland or Belgium or not much bigger than New Zealand's largest Province (Canterbury).
The jibe about 'merely chasing' a fleeing army, however, backfired badly on the producers.  In the Bible, Leviticus 26:7 prophesies, "and ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you on the sword".  In the next verse, "and five of you shall chase a hundred; and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight".  The context here is that Israel would be protected from her enemies in even miraculous ways if she abided by the Covenant she signed with God via the mediator Moses.  It was a contract which required Israel to play a part if benefits were to accrue.  The New Covenant in Jeremiah, however, is Unconditional.  God honours it no matter what anyone does.  Likewise, the Abrahamic Covenant  is unconditional for all those circumcised under it.
In 1967, Israel was, as it still is, not obeying the Mosaic Covenant.  But that covenant has been "finished" because Jesus of Nazareth met its onerous conditions for and on behalf of Israel.  What Israel does not yet acknowledge is Jesus' fulfillment of many prophecies that He is the Messiah of Israel, the Only Begotten Son of the Father in Haven and the Saviour of the world via "The Cross".
Thus the comment above makes something else rather more obvious.  God intends to fully complete and fulfill every element of the Abrahamic and New Covenants.  (There are several aspects of the Festivals mandated under the Mosaic Covenant that also need fulfillment because they did not get fulfilled by the time Jesus arrived on Earth to offer the Kingdom of God to Israel).  The Abrahamic Covenant was followed up with the Davidic and Land Covenants althhough to some extent one could regard the latter two subsidiary points or elements of the Abrahamic.  That unbelieving Israel managed to chase so many enemy soldiers in June 1967, even in a time of disobedience, only goes to underscore and reinforce the understanding that God is finishing His Plan for Israel and the World and the final stages look to be in an acceleration phase (or The Last Phase)
Thus, it would appear, or we believe, it will not now be long before Israel does come to her theological senses and accept Christ's Work that He did for all of us and for Israel in particular.  A cheap jibe by the mainly secular though Islam-sympathising documentary makers actually reveals a far bigger issue.   Even Mohammad (circa AD 700) in the Koran, in Sura XVII, foresaw the then Diaspora Jews scattered around the world; although many within the Arab empire of the time; returning to the Land of Israel.  Once there, Mohammad said, Israel would receive great blessings.  [He did not observe the distinctions between the 'return' from around the world as prophsied in Ezekiel 20:33 ("in wrath") versus the situation of Isaiah 11:11; "A second time").  But today's followers of the Koran seem to ignore all that.
As one writes this, we are witnessing a re-alignment in the Middle East where the Gulf states (GCC), with Qatar being pressured into obedience by the others, are  lining up with Egypt, the Kurds and Israel (de facto) as world problems get out of hand.  The GCC looks like becoming the 'Sheba and Dedan' of Ezekiel 38:13 where they voice opposition to the Gog-Magog invasion of Israel but take no action, like Tarshish, to prevent it.  As noted many times, we seem to be on the eve or precipice of that event.  This only serves to show even more that we  are quickly coming to some sort of denouement at the least.  Whether it is the one prophesied for the Last Days in the Bible is technically a moot point but in faith we have to urge everyone they need to take these things seriously.
The jibe about Israel chasing her enemies was quite unnecessary.  It belittles what had happened in that Six Day War.  We apply to that war the events of the Six Days of reformatting the Earth after it was destroyed in the judgement of Satan (Ezekiel 28:12 ff).  That's how significantly God treated that war.  Man did not plan the opening of that war on the first day of the week to conclude it on the eve of the last day of that week thereby to parallel God's Act of Re-formation of the damaged Earth.  God showed how His Creation of Israel and fulfillment of His Promises to Abraham would confirm He is Creator and re-formatter of the Earth.  He will re-format the Earth for the Millennial Kingdom.
The Six Day War was also a sign to Christendom.  Its age is nearing completion as we approach the end of the sixth millennium (Sixth Day, II Peter 3:8) and Christendom's share of those six millennia.  Our Age (AD 30 to circa AD 2030) got its own 'Two Days' just as there were Two Days for the Era of Conscience (4000-2000 BC) and the following Era of Israel (2000 BC to 7BC).  We now seem, assuming the School of Elijah view that 6000 years are given to post-Adamic-Fall History is correct, to be preparing for the Seventh Millennium of Rest in the Millennial-Messianic Kingdom.  There will be plenty to do and plenty of work in the Millennial Kingdom but this time around it will be completely rewarding and fulfilling and for the carnal folk therein sweaty - but fulfillingly so!.     
After the Church is Raptured and dead saints are Resurrected from their earthly graves, or perhaps even from the the actual day of The Rapture, Israel's last seven-year stint under the "Times of the Gentiles" finally starts its time-clock.  Separated, as it has been, from the other 483 years or '69 sevens' (Daniel 9:26-7) 'The Last Seven' begins its awful role in bringing both Israel and the recalcitrant World to heel as God uses its judgements in one last attempt to get men to repent.  Some will do so and all Israel at the conclusion of the period will repent.   Then the producers of that TV programme will be revealed to have very defintiely "shot themselves in the foot" as we say.
8/6/17, "I am a secular Muslim and did not fast at Ramadan ...".  Someone explaining on a televison programme his particular slant on Islam and his beliefs.  He continued ....
8/6/17, "...  I  am half-Shiite and half-Sunni; one parent on each side"..  This shows how in Islam as well as in Christendom, e.g., with Anglicans and Roman Catholics, or with Jews and Christians, people from each system who marry ("marry out") often leave their children with little understanding of which way to go.  This only reinforces the need these days for able Bible teachers to be allowed to use their gift.  We need to explain from the entire Biblical text exactly what God has handed to us in documents from Adam himself and from others inspired by the Holy Spirit to breathe God's Word to the world.  The churches are preaching either very narrow or limited perspectives of God's Word.  Or they preach false doctrine in many cases as the Apostles warned would happen in the Last Days. A lot of confusion has developed over the millennia and the comments of this son of Muslim parents gives us a gllimpse of problems in Christendom by glancing over to look at the grass on the other side of the Islamic fence.  Actually, Islam, by framing itself in neo-Christian concepts of peace and love manages to attract many potential adherents to Christianity to the tenets of Islam.
8/6/17, New human fossil found in Africa, 190000 years old.  The report went on to suggest this discovery means there was more than one source of early humanoids (homonids).  This claim was reported on International TV today.  Of course these dates are unreliable.  Often what is measured is the age of the mineral material encasing the fossil.  Or the dating actually refers to the age of some contaminants in the rock, silt, clay or whatever embedded the fossil.    Most fossils are only 4500 years old because they were formed in the Flood of Noah.  They were encased by material that has been decaying on Earth ever since Satan's fall.  That is what most readiometric dating is based on.  The heavier mineral elements have been decaying ever since Satan's Fall which may have been as long as 4.5 billion years ago.
8/6/17, Final results in UK Election.  Conservative and Unionist Party 318, Labour 261,  SNP 35, Liberal-Democrat 12, DUP 10, Sinn Fein 7, Plaid Cymru 4, Green 1.
8/6/17, "The Internet has become a breeding ground for extremist ideology".  That was the view of UK PM Theresa May.  She advocates allowing spy agencies to de-encrypt internet traffic to track down these sorts of ideology.  The trouble is that encryption is also used for efficient banking services.   Others said there isn't really any technoology that can successfully do this.  The ideologues one is chasing will simply move off to some other platform.  In France, recently, some people were using old computer-shared-games to swap information below the spy agencies radars using an old out-of-date communication system.
10/6/17, "I've never seen an administration like this".  A commentator on an international televioion news service referring to the White House appearing to support Arabia while the State Department seemed to support Qatar in the GCC versus Qatar dispute or as we would say, if our Biblical Geography is correct, " the Sheba-Dedan argument".  What this possibly reveals is that Tarshish, her villages of 'Young Lions', Sheba and Dedan are terribly distracted by internal divisions and domestic political problems.  It is in a vacuum like that we might expect a push into Israel by the Gog-Magog Alliance.  These domestic issues troubling the fair-weather pro-Israel alliance could be the factor that suggests they are sidelined when the invasion occiurs.
One commentator suggested that with two businessmen in the White House and State Department respectively the apparent indecision, contradiction or conflict in responses coyuld be part of a deliberate play.  If so, of course, it may be a play on a completely different ball game that the GCC crisis is masking.  After the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 invasion, the resulting world chaos may then lead, or ostensibly leads, to a radiaclly new wortld goverrnance programme that leads to the rise of antichrist.  We just have to keep watching these spaces if for no other reason that they are so bizarre that some sort of further chaos can only be just around the corner a situation for which we all need to be prepared. 
12/6/17, Mid East Analyst says EU will attempt to broker peace in GCC row.   This would be the result of the USA and Britain being too concerned about their own internal political problems to be bothered much with a stupid philosophical row within the GCC.  But he believed alhtough some sort of peace will be negotiated, the GCC will effectively remain "inactive".   That's a good word for the situation both Sheba and Dedan and Tarshish et al will be in; come the invasion.  Another analyst pointed to the new French President getting involved after his massive win in a landslide in France.  We note his name adds to 333 when transliterated into Hebrew.  [Postscript, August 2017:  He seems to have got involved in the Libyan crisis.  Perhaps he sees that as haviung greater priority although commentators suggests he will nbot get very far with that problem].
These are interesting comments from our perspective wherein we are also looking past the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 prophecy of the Gogite invasion of Israel to the rise of the Antichrist out of the nations of the former Roman Empire.  This empire never got to rule the world but through its precepts, the USA, Europe and other places are busy spreading Rome's gospels around the world in what we call "Westernism".  This philosophy is technically defined as 'society and culture emanating from Greco-Roman Philosophies and to some extent Hebrew as well'.  In practice the Hebrew and Tyrian roots to Westernism are dropped and Greece and Rome dominate the discussions.   Elsewhere, we point out that Greece's glorious classical era is effectively the flowering of Ionian (Jewish emigres to the Aegean) and Dorians (Tyrians doing the same) who flooded into that region in the 8th Century BC.   They fled the Levant (Israel and lebanon) after the Assyrians and Chaldeans destroyed those countries in their invasions of 722 BC and 586 BC.  Many fleeing the Levant to Greece left prior to the invasions e.g., from about 750 BC.  The Assyrians and Chaldeans relocated many Jews to Iraq after the 722 and 610-0586 BC invasions.  However, after a few centureis the Classical Greek culture of 600-500 BC gradually lost track of its Levantine roots.  By 300 BC the Greeks under Aristotle and Plato were deriving philosophies foreign to Hebrew and Tyrian roots.  The Tyrians (Phoenicians), however, tended to descend into terrible pagan practices like offering babies for sacrifice to gods.  Unfortunately, that tended to blacken their reputation.  It never recovered.  Their contribution to Western and Mediterranean society, commerce etc., for a millennium prior to Rome, built on Tyre's alliance with israel, has been much understated ever since just as the more important Hebrew contribution has been.  
13/6/17, "I love the technology".  A radio listener asking a radio compare if he was a fan of the Americas' Cup Yacht Race currently running in Bermuda.  The compare said he "blew hot and cold over the issue".  The listener said the technology of the yachts and racing fascinated him.  This shows us how difficult it is to get people to look at the issues raaised above, e.g., 6/6/17, "Technology is never neutral despite claims it is";  6/6/17, "Technology can be used for good or bad"; and  6/6/17, "I was uneasy with all this brain hacking".  
13/6/17, "Restore the damn thing; restore it to its former glory".  A radio compare running a talk-back programme in New Zealand.  One subject of the day was the restoration or re-building of the delapidated Christchurch Cathedral.  For an hour or so the compare and his listeners talked past each other as they all confused 'restoration' with 'rebuilding' a new structure.  Some thought that "restoration" meant "re-building".  Confusion all around.  
We made some recent points about this in 6/6/17, "Turning health deserts into gardens of Eden in Christchurch, NZ".  An earthquake felled the cathedral and much else in Christchurch six years ago and still no one has done anything about restoring it, clearing all the rubble away or restoring the building.  However, the main argument behind 'restoring' it was its heritage value and other sentiments that we can summarise as 'acts of worship of the creation'.  Instead of the Glory of God being the focus, the glory of the building is deemed more important.  The ruined building in focus here has its "glory" according to the statement above but all the people ringing up were disbelievers.  The compare even referred to it as "the damn thing".  Damnation looks like being his long-term residence.
For the rest of the world, it needs to repent, acknowledge its Creator and consider Him and His Glory.  The Plan of God outlined in the Bible demonstrates His Glory.  The Bible is essentially a Doxological document attesting to the "Glory" of God.  We can see how the radio compare then classically represents those fulfilling Romans 1:21-23.   The consequences of Adam's sin required of God a drastic Plan to redeem the fallen Man.  God had not done anything like what he did through Jesus of Nazareth for the angels.  In order to be just to the fallen angels, God had to consign Mankind to a fate like their's unless there was some other way around the matter.  The solution came to be that God's own Son in an act of Love;  not Reasoning, Intellect nor Rationalization;  i.e., voluntarily the Holy Triunity went along with the Plan outlined in the Bible.  The complexity yet simplicity of that Soteriological Plan is just one aspect of a demonstration of God's Glory.  That's who we worship.  We do not worship the glory of a building and ignore God's.   
13/6/17, "Our digital age attention spans are shortening".  A point made in connection with advice on radio about writing a good CV for these days.  This is another by-product of the technology now virtually enslaving mankind.  Long term, it cannot be good for knowledge because people will become incapable of devoting enough attention to the long hours of research needed to develop science, engineering and techhnology.   Nor will they have sufficient attention span for the study of God's Word in the Bible.
15/6/17, "Addiction to technology not being lookde at".  Algorithims are leading us more into Internet use by pressing subliminal buttons that researchers have discovered can be hooked into to get us to use the Internet more and ore.  It seems almost like a sort of fructose in the food phenimenon wherby food manufacturers found that by simly adding Fructose to a food item people purchased more.  It seems Eve's eyes were nt the only organ in her body that desired that touch-tronic computer in the Garden of eden.  Once again we have vital observations emerging from the research annd science community to confirm the Biblical record.  Today of all days Man is without excuse to believe the word of God.  Although jesus talked about the heresy of Pharisees, Sadducees etc., with the following verses [Matthew 10:15, 11:22-24, Mark 6:11 and Luke 10:12-15] they are equally applicable to today's situation where we have so much information about the world and universe around us. It should be obvious to everyone we desperately need God to rescue us from our woes.  Yet people refuse to accept the obvious. 
15/6/17, "We need to change from the economic orthodoxy of the last century".  The speaker here was also pointing out that we will be ablle too use technology to measure and manage economy.  However, as the main point, technology will ever more change the way economy works.  Though it is hard to see how basic principles of Supply and Demand will change all that significantly.  We undersatnd there are some exceptions to those rules but they are rare and unlikely to completely takeover on a wave of new technologies.   Again, that was implicit in God's warnin g to Adam in the Garden of Eden but it has taken us the best part of six millennia to work out just how true this is.  As the Bible intimates, we will not be able to control this multi-headed monster and it will gobble us up if given half a chance like the super-computer Hal on 2001 A Space Odyssey.  All that happened in 2001 was than Satan began to formally take control of many events on the Earth in these Last Days as he prepares the way fior his son (possibly born on 9/11/01) through the agency of his equivalent of John the Baptist/Elijah, i.e., The False Prophet. 
15/6/17, "New technologies are making decisions for us".  Another statement that rings true with God's warning to Adam that he should not eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  God did not create us to be robots but willing sentient creatures who would desire to love and worship God.  Now, Man's decision to turn away from God is leading him to enslavement to robots, computers (bots) or Artifical Intelligence (AI).  Clearly many people around the world are concerned about this sort of development especially in regard to the future of their jobs.  They need to know the Plan of God foresaw this long ago.  The Plan of God through His Only Bbegotten Son (John 3:16) is the strategy He is following as per the Bible to save us from all this nonsense.  [c.f., 24/3/16, "Technology issues today 'fundamentally different";  30/6/16, "Mankinds last invention: making Artificial Intelligence";  14/12/16, "Systemic problems";       6/6/17, "Technology is never neutral despite claims it is"].
18/6/17, "Stay away from social media; focus on real things".   These were the words of the Indian national cricket captain on the eve of an important test match.  He said that he found all the tweeting etc., he regularly engaged in tended to drag him away from concentrating on his batting anf fielding skills.  We would like to see this sage advice applied to what might be more important than cricket and that is The Word of God!
However, in these pages and in our papers, we admit there needs to be a decent tool available to enable people to properly and beneficially read the Bible with a method especially designed for this century and all its technological issues.  The individual needs to be able to read it at a level satisfactory to let one see how one  can delve into it but not without firstly getting the drift of its main themes.  In Components of Systematic Theology (In the 21st Century) one elaborates on this issue.  Probably, one could have put these points more elegantly or accurately.  More succinctly, people there days do not really have the reading skills to absorb the Bible's Truth.  One reason is that business reports, newspapers and much other documentation we use is written in a quite different way to Scripture.  For example, in Psalm 78:49 the Hebrew is deliberately corrupted to alert the reader that a play on words has been invoked to dramatise a point, and add an extra point.  That concerns a literal event recorded in the history documented in Exodus.  Since this is done in a Psalm, the scribe is permitted to do this with a little bit more frequency or a bit less subtly than in an historical book like Exodus.    That is one reason why the 3-D Aleph-Tav Bible Study is being composed in order to give people a relevant and useful aid in their Bible study.  Furthermore,  the Bible also makes it plain in various Scriptures that certain portions were written for understanding only in the Last Days when those prophesied events would actually take place (c.f., Daniel 8:26 and 12:4 & 9).  A view held in Roman Catholicism and in other parts of Christendom is that the entire Bible is equally understandable to every generation.  That's why they resort to reliance on allegorical, typological, metaphorical and spiritual interpretations of the text.  That view is clearly quite wrong in our opinion.  Alternatively, some parts of the Bible, that every generation could understand. For example the whole corpus of Mosaic Law.  However, that was only for application in Israel between Moses and the First coming of Messiah.  It did not apply to previous generations or those since Jesus.  For the latter group it acted as a sort of tutor or explanation aid for believers (Galatians 3:24-25). For Israel, it prepared the way for the Messianic Kingdom in AD 30 at the Only Coming of Messiah- had all Israel, via its leaders and public following them, accepted Him.  But faced with all the problems as they are and all the technical issues people find it easier to blob out on social media and its 144 character messages.
18/6/17, "98% of DNA does not code for proteins ....".  In reporting this, we are not sure the statement is factually correct or a proper scientific fact.  It came from a television drama about a scientist specialising in genetics, a married woman with husband and children, having an affair with  a stranger.  She met the lover after a court case or hearing of some sort art the Royal Courts of Justice down the road from Fleet Street in central London.  It started off quite torridly in a secret room her male partner had access to at the courts.  He turned out to be a drop out from MI5 0r 6.  he knew all about ecret nooks and crannies around London's streets that were not covered by CCTV monitors.  All this was very Orwellian in that respect.  This DNA used to be styled "Junk DNA".  It is generally assumed that DNA is what we inherited from our forbears on the evolutionary tree accumulated over 4.5 billion years.  Most of it is useless because we have evoved onwards from it.  This is rubbish.  God had to put DNA into every species ("Kind" in the Bible) that would operate for the Garden of Eden, assuming Adam did not fall.  Also God had to put in DNA that would work in a fallen environment should Adam fail to obey as he did.  Then the DNA has to be changed yet again to facilitate the conditins of the Millennial Kingdom.  However, whether "98%" is the correct figure is open to dispute.
18/6/17, " ... We will not conquer space".  Another pearl of wisdom from this 'geneticist' in a television drama.  Since many people resort to drama, arts or music to express deep philosophical, scientific or theological concepts, for example in the 'Concept Albums' of the misicians, we feel this report is worth documenting here.  Everyone in the world of science seems to be committed to us exploring space and meeting up with ither civilizations in distant realms of the universe.  It seems Star Trek has captured not just the imagination of most of the world but its concept of reality.  Students of the Bible know that apart from angelic spirit beings, there is no other life in the Universe.  Furthermore, the angels that do traverse the Universe at present are fallen angels.  Siince God has spoken to us in these Last Days via His Only Begotten Son (Hebrews 1:2, John 3:16) there is currently no need for God's obedient angels to travel through space to pass on revelation to us.  Apart from those angels, there is no other life, "sentient" or otherwise, out there.  It is sad to think these wise statements only come from an adulteress in a drama.  At least the view gets expressed in a world where the Word of God gets no look-ins whatsoever apart from people misquoting Biblical texts or publicly misinterpreting them.  
20/6/17, "It was like the end of the world".  Expression from a survivor of forest fires ravaging Portugal in summer temperatures of 40 degrees.
23/6/17, "El Kuds Day celebrated in Iran".  "El Kuds" is Jerusalem.   That Muslims hold this as a holy day is ridiculous.  It is Israel's capital, not Islam's.  In Arabic, the term means The Holy City.  It certainly is because it lies in The Holy Land which is a perfectly appropriate name for Israel.  The ancient Egyptians called it "Punt" or the Divine Land or God's Land.  That is why these Middle East nations use the term but it is now tied up with the hypocrisy of Islam.  Iran or Peres-Persia is one of the nations that joins in with the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 invasion of Israel.  So it is interesting to see this bit of news broadcast from a Middle Eastern Television News Service in these very unusual days.  
23/6/17, "Vowel sounds in Maori are very similar to Japanese".  Heard this evening on the radio about a new 'app' to translate languages with voice recognition.  The 'app' used several languages but not NZ Maori because there is no one around the world to help them develop thwir product for Maori.  So they are thinking of using Japanese.  Our interest here is that the peculiar vowel phenomenon probably indicates that the Pacific region had a language that used vowels in a distinctive way but as other groups moved into Asia and the Pacific (from the West, i.e., the Middle East or Babylon) the speakers of that distinctive vowel sound system ended up on the fringes of Asia (Japan and Polynesia probably somewhere north of New Zealand perhaps as far north as Taiwan).    Hence Maori hd some similarities with Japanese through this 'fringe-link'.  The point may help us when looking at other languages in other parts of the world during different eras.  In the Millenniun, we will all learn from each other; i.e., from  those of us who believed and were saved since 4000 BC;  what happened to the human family as it explored the Pacific between NZ and Japan probably some 4000 - 5000 years ago. 
24/6/17, "Father, Son and Jihad".  The title to a television programme about a family in the Middle East with one member involved in jihad.  The station concerned has been involved in rows about media freedom.  It claims transparency and respect for people with religious views, homosexuals, the poor and oppressed etc.  However, when it comes to Christianity or Judaism, it feels quite free to lampoon us.  Nevertheless, even though certain countries, including Israel and Saudi Arabia, want the station to be closed down by its public owner;  we still advocate its right to lampoon Jews and Christians.  Egpyt even imprisoned some of the television station's journalists but later freed them some twelve months or more later.  While one cannot speak for; or on behalf of, Jews and Israelis, religious or secular;  one can speak for the followers and disciples of Jesus of Nazareth.  On His behalf, as an Ambassador of the Christ (II Corinthians 5:20, Ephesians 6:20) one can say that vengeance is His Prerogative.  That is assuming all His claims are True, as we do.  Jesus of Nazareth will indeed bring judgement and justice to that situation.  Assuming He is The Creator, as the Bible declares, which again we entirely accept, He will have every right to do what He wills.  We simply report here what this television station broadcast.  One did not bother watching the programme.
The Tri-Unity the Muslims and this TV station mock is a vital surety for our salvation.  No man could pay the necessary sacrifice for the sin of Adam unless God Himslef came to stand-in for the man.  Wothough the Three Persons of the tri-Unity, it would not be possible for the 'Son of God' becoming the 'Son of Man', albeit via the "Seed of the Woman", to pay that price.  Then the Muslims claim Jesus' disciples spirited Him off the Cross before He died.  The whipping Jesus received so emaciated Him that Jesus barely resembled a human by the time they  hung Him on the Cross.  It would be impossible to then present Jesus as early as Sunday morning as a resurrected man.  Muslims open themselves up to the Warth of God with that sort of claim.

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