Key Events
3 January 2018 - 30 April 2018
3/1/18, Peruvian bus goes over the cliff at Devil's Corner.  Some passengers survived.  We note the incident because the name 'Devil's Corner' probably had something to do with this incident getting so much international coverage.  We feel that 1 January 2001 was the beginning of Satan's counterfeit millennium.  This may explain the extreme events beginning to occur in politics, the climate, in genetics and the development of robots as the pace of technological advance reaches comes close to the terrifying implications that saw previous generations, most notably the amish, to try and put a freeze on technological and scientific development.  Now there are no 'holds' barring these advances.  We face the irony of God creating beings with choice such as Humans and angels before men instead of programmed-to-be-obedient robots that we soon will become enslaved to as they take over through "Artificial Intelligence" (AI).
It is possible that on 11 September 2001, Satan's son was born to a woman who gave him a Roman name meaning 'majesty'.  The child was conceived on 1/1/01.  The mother with this rather immaculate conception later married a man with the surname meaning 'king of kings'.  Her son is presumably the man's step-child.  There is no evidence he is the biological fatrher of the boy and that the parents only tied the knot several years later.  That is important because presumably Satan has to be the one to father this child (Genesis 3:15).  The Bible makes it clear it is possible for an angelic being to do this.  Our '9/11' child, in a birth celebtated by sacking the Port of New Jersey's Twin Towers in New York,  parallels Mary and Joseph concerning the true Christ of Messiah in Israel.  Angels in the sky appearing to shepherds farming Bethlehem's Passover lambs announced Jesus' birth.  The Twin Towers was Satan's answer to that. 
Ezekiel 28:12 named Satan the 'King of Tyre'.  The actual king or 'prince' as Ezekiel 28:1 addresses him, was famous for the port authorities his people controlled across half the globe in the millennium before Christ.  Tarshish, the 'daughter of Tyre', these days is Britain (distracted by Brexit), the USA (distractions involving the White House, gun control and immigration issues) and Spain (distracted by Catalonia) are in civil chaos.  Their eyes are taken off the ball concerning the machinations of the countries of the Middle East and further afield (Caucasus, Africa and parts of the Mediterranean) which are lined up to invade Israel according to Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  The prophet implied Tarshish would be incapable of doing anything to prevemt the invasion or intervene on Israel's behalf.  That will leave Israel alone and utterly dependent upon God Who indeed will act to protect Israel oin that occasion.
One crucial facet of this invasion is that  it meets Jesus' definition of "nation versus nation and kingdom versus kingdom" (Matthew 24:7).  Those were His Words conjoining a number of preliminary developments of the Days of Noah and Lot with the Last Seven Years of Daniel 9:27 or The Tribulation, or even the second half of the Tribulation.  Once Satan's son takes over, all forms of sexual perversion will be banned or eliminated by removing those who purvey them.  Once the Church is taken out, Satan has no need for inciting sexual perversion.  But the ongoing impact; especially on the environment, climate, sea and air convection currents and quakes;  of the Great Flood of Noah means they will continue right through to the end and only desist when Jesus re-formats the globe in preparation for the Millennium.  
Thus, a Peruvian bus crashing off a devilish cliff says something about a world in these opening years of the Satanic Counterfeit Millennium inexorably sliding towards the dire events prophesied in the Bible for the End of the Last Days.     
15/1/18, Democracy:  A device of corrupt bureaucrats to appoint directors.  This thought came to the writer while musing on one's own problems with, in this case, a local city government which one received the headline in the city's main newspaper, "Toxic Culture in City Council".  In many African, East European and Latin American countries the point has become quite the fact.
25/1/18, "You (journalists) turn neighbour against neighbour".   That was a tweet (on Twitter media platform) received by a New Zealand radio station in response to some issue discussed by journalists on one of its news programmes.  One is not sure of the context.  However, the comment is interesting.  It is the exact meaning of the term Jesus of Nazareth quoted in the Gospels.  He was saying there will be a time in History (His Story) when the final phase of end-time events occurs.  That phase concludes with Israel's repentance at the end of the Seven-Year Tribulation when Antichrist's anti-Israel Armageddon campaign comes to its end as peophesied in the Bible.  The significance of this term 'neighbour against neighbour' led one to collect examples from various comments made around the world.  That list, including this example, is kept in the document Key Events: Key Subjects.
25/1/18, "Dextrous manipulation: We still don't know how to do that".  The confession of a robot engineer talking about programming robots (see next item).  How wonderful then is our Creator.  For He not only envisaged the point before anything was created, God also throughout Eternity composed the mechanics of 'dextrous manipulation' and everything else.  The idea that such things 'evolved' as if mindless 'Evolution' was able to do this out of randomness, chaos or disorder (technically lack of 'entropy') is anyone's guess and falls far short of being a 'Theory' as in 'Evolution'!  [Even so, Evolutionism has been a useful null hypothesis to Creation (circa AD 1850-2000) but we would suggest they now look at something else because that model is becoming too ridiculous to be of much use whatsoever].
Nevertheless, God Himself has said there is nothing Man cannot do if he turns his mind to the subject (Genesis 11:6, Daniel 12:4).  Whether God will allow Man to proceed much further with his robots is an open question.  God created us not to be robots but to be souls who would choose or not choose as the case may be to worship and adore the Creator.  Clearly many people on this created Earth are not interested in any way to acknowledge the Creaotr.  They are succumbing to subjugation by robots if they are not careful.  Hollywood has produced a suite of movies warning us about that.  One of the most prominent actors in those movies was born in Austria where another lead actor in WWII was likewise born! 
25/1/18, "The Third Wave of Robots".   This is where, presumably, robots will have either some degree of "Dextrous Munipulation" or a complete ability in this regard.  The fact that we are getting close to this is yet another pointer to the time when God decides to "shut up shop".  Those were the words of a scientist in connection with the day that Man would investigate the very building blocks of life.  However, as an item below shows our basic atoms of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons are themselves composed of some seventen other sub-atomic particles ranging from  about six quarks and six leptons, four gauge bosons and one Higgs Boson.  (Refer 20/4/18, Many more particles or many more universes?)  
27/1/18, "Are Trump's tweets leading to Armageddon?"   A question raised today on a NZ national radio panel discussion on current affairs.  The context was that the Doomsday Clock is now set closer to Midnight ("two minutes to midnight") than at any time since the early 1950's.  The clock was set up by the scientists who designed the first atomic bombs for the US Government in WWII.  Currently, a board of directors manages the clock the original (now deceased) scientists developed.  The nature of current White House rhetoric, the US challenge towards North Korea and the rising Russian challenge together with a distinct lack of progress on the climate change side on the part of the Americans were the factors that led the current board of control of the Doomsday Clock to shift the hands towards midnight. 
27/1/18, "So close to an Apocalypse".   Another comment later in the day on the same point as above concerning the so-called "Doomsday Clock".  Regarding both statements we explain that once again they betray an abysmal ignorance of the Bible's prophecies and indeed the entire message of the Bible.  God's point is that Adam's grasping of the tree of knowledge would lead to a series of consequences such as pollution, social trauma from internet media, robots destroying traditional employment systems leading to major social problems etc.  The crises would get so great that the wortld's population would eventually look to a mesmeric world leader called the Antichrist-666.  He would then set himself up as being God.  But then he will organise an army to drive the Jews out of Jerusalem and the rest of Israel and encircle them at Bozra-Petra in order to destroy them.  That would end any chance of Israel calling on Jesus to rescue them.  Jesus would not then return to introduce the long awaited and long-promised Millennial Kingdom.
However, God will intervene in the latter days and rain down on mankind a whole lot of disasters that would be independent of the crises we are currently facing because of Adam's Fall which are of our own making, neglect or inefficiency.  Our current problems also emanate from the consequences of the Great Flood.  We can group those problems under the general heading of Global Warming.  Actually this is a process whereby the Earth overheats in the wake of the catastrophe we know to be the Great Noahic Flood of 2450-2450 BC.  All these problems will come to a crescendo with Godd adding His additional plagues as recorded in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse) but as the Bible says, no flesh will survive unless God intervenes to save us.  Before the Tribulation and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse etc, and in order to protect the Church of the Christ from the antichrist ("The Evil One" of the Lord's Prayer tyhat he "taught the Disciples to pray"), God will send Jesus to Rapture the Church off the Earth together with all the "dead in Christ".  However, these commentators, instead of talking about what the Bible actually says, instead ridicule certain points it makes with ill-advised comments like these.
27/1/18, "Emerging technologies are making this world a dangerous place".  Words of a member of the board that controls the hands on the Doomsday Clock.  Below (refer 9/3/18, "Cross border conflicts and human rights breaches") is a list of issues one assesses are making the world a dangerous place.  We add that a more efficient system of world governance is necessary to manage these problems if they are at all manageable.  In many cases they probably are not manageable.  The writer does not look forward to world government and awaits the Kingdom of God instead.
However, with one's experience and background as an economist, one realises that the world is heading into a maelstrom that was going to be conseqeuntial and inevitable ever since Adam's terrible folly in Eden.  As we note elsewhere, we are returning to a situation where a Tree of Knowledge is once again in our midst.  We refer to the Internet and the '@' used to access it by touching the screens of one's han-held mobile phones and absorb or eat information through one's eyes.  To 'a all' is the meaning of the Hebrew word (acol or 'a all') used to describe 'eating', 'absorbing', 'overwhelming' or embracing.  The other trees in the garden had fruits that went into the mouth and stomach for the body to receive nutrition or energy in the form of  'information'.  But the touch-tronic computer in the Garden of Eden waas 'good for the eyes' (Genesis 3:6) and could be accesed or eaten by 'touch' (Genesis 3:3).  What's more, the scientists claim that medical and genetic advances will allow us to live for 500 years or more.  God did design the human genome to live for up to a millennium which a full understanding of His Plan for His Story and Prophecy reveals.  However, medical science plans to add to man's lifespan in ways God has not approved nor will He allow or permit.  But the plans of mice and men are all part of the original satanic lie with all of its deceptive temptations. 
3/2/18, Illegal migrants drowned off Tzoara on Libyan Coast.  They were mostly Africans seduced by social media into thinking thay could get into Europe for the Good Life by paying Libyan people-smugglers to ferry them across the Mediterranean and into Italy then onto who knows where: Mersey-side?  Although 'Cushites', they will form part of the 21st Century Puntites who will join the First Gogite invasion of Israel when God "puts hooks into their jaws" and takes over from the Social Media Barons to achieve His Great Plan and Objectives.  "Tzoara", a variation of the ancient maritime power of Tyre (Hebrew Tzor) lies on the Gulf of Sirte (e-Tyrus) between Tripoli, Cyrenaica (Tsor-enaica). Tzoara is south-east of ancient Carthage in modern day Tunisia (Puntisia).  Carthage, now in ruins after Rome's conquest, was a daughter colony of the Tyrians, over in Lebanon just north of Israel, although admittedly after a civil war.  A row beset Tyre in a similar way that the US Colonies broke away from the British which at the early stages was a civil war between colonists that wanted to remain with the crown and those who did not.  The pro-Crown settlers were shifted north to Canada.  Across their North American domain, Britain drew one of its many colonial lines across forest and tundra, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, rather than in sand as in the Middle East some 130 years later, to demarcate the USA from Canada.  Britain also hastily drew demarcation lines across the Indian sub-continent in something of a hurry in 1947.  If nothing else, the British Empire had much practice in that cartagraphical task.
3/2/18, "The double-edged sword of social media".  That was the way a reporter described what he saw in the Africans being sucked into risking their lives and going aboard in Tzoara (Tsor, Tyre) in Libya that rickety boat in the above item.  They sit all day in their African villages consuming fake news in 'echo-chamber' social media sites and get brainwashed into illegal migration incurring massive risk to their lives.   As we have noted in "16/2/18, "Chemistry is a very powerful thing" below, the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden, the touch-tronic computer we now suggest was the tree in Eden Man should not have 'eaten' from, was likewise a double-edged sword in the hand of untrained Man.  Now we are witnessing many destructive factors in social media as it uses the Internet to spread fake news etc., in 'echo chambers' which effectively brainwash listeners paint rosy pictures of life on the other side of the fence, blackmail and bully people and spread banal trivia for people to consume rather than decent intellectual food.  (Refer also to 17/2/18, "Social media is both a blessing and a curse" and 17/2/18, "The Internet is facilitating fake news via social media").
3/2/18, Eritreans and Afghans fight each other over charity in Calais.  These people are other bands of social media consumers looking for a better life abroad rather than trying to make a better place in their homelands.  One group apparently believed the other was getting a bigger share of the food parcels.  French riot police had to intervene.  These illegal immigrants are camping out in the woods of Calais, just across the Channel from Dover awaiting an opportunity to hijack themselves onto a truck or railway wagon crossing over to England.  However, the real significance here is that these people come from countries cited in Ezekiel's prophecy about the Gogite nations invading Israel.  As we can see, at present these hordes are sloshing around many parts of the Afro-Eurasian Land Mass.  Ezekiel's prophecy refers to God putting His hooks into their jaws and drawing them toward Israel in order to destroy these anti-Semitic people.  The countries they are fleeing are among the most anti-Semitic mainly because of their Islamic religion.  May of the social media acolytes in these hordes are secular with no interest nor understanding of Israel's role in God's Plan for mankind and for the Last Days.  Some of the Caucasian nations thought to be involved in the invasion, such as Georgia, have Christendomite religions.  They are not Muslim although they probably have Muslims living in them.  Just before God sends fire from Heaven upon them, these hordes start killing one another.  This episode in Calais serves as a picture of that part of the prophecy in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 (refer verse 21).
3/2/18, "We are sleeping in mud ...  We are in Hell".  A comment from an illegal migrant camping out in the woods of Calais (refer above).  One has to ask why he left his homeland to find himself in this situation.  As noted above, a lot is due to the destructive effects of Mankind's Tree of Knowledge on the Internet accessed via social media platforms.  Yet another sign of the End of the Last Days.
8/2/18, "Syria conflict gets more and more complex".  The view of an international TV news service.  As many as 12 "major militias" are involved and named Iran militias, Hizbollah, the Kurds, Turkey, Russia, USA, Israel with clashes on its border with Syria, 'Free-Syria forces, Asad's regime,    The comment arose after US air power assisted Free-Syria forces and Kurds in the repulsion of pro-Assad forces, including Russians and Iranians, who were attacking Deir Azur in Eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.  Some Russians may have died in the attack which would further damage US-Russia relations although the US-Iran conflict is also apparent here.
8/2/18, "Syria Peace Talks dead;  Players to settle on the battlefield".  The opinion of a commentator on a news panel programme on international TV.  This came on the back of reports suggesting hostilities were increasing in Syria even in the de-escalation zones where Turkey, Russia and Assad are using this space to grab as much control before agreeing to some sort of political process.  Supposedly, according to Russia, the US is trying to get a foothold in Eastern Syria where a lot of the country's wealth lies.  One report suggested the US was sending a warning to Ankara (Turkey) to avoid hitting the Kurds in Syria.  The Kurds stand to get a strong foothold in Syria to add to their power bases in Itaq and Turkey and that is worrying the other mations in the area apart from Israel which is on good terms with the Kurds.
10/2/18, "Murphy's Law says that if anything can go wrong it will".  Hopefully our Irish friends and relations will forgive us quoting this law.  However, it was one of the commentators involved with the other issues in this set for 10/2/18 who made the quote.  He was contributing to an international television station's discussions on the increasing complexity of the tangled webs of intrigue involving "12 major militaries" fighting with other parties to the Syrian civil war.
Our interest in the point is that Syria is a cfritical part of the ancient hegomony of Tyre's control.  Really, Syria, or Aram in ancient times, applied to the strip of land around Damascus and north to the modern Turkish border then across to the cities of the Euphrates river system.  Possibly an anciernt branch of the Euphrates before some of the later post Noahic catastrophes that Dr Velikovsky referred to, the river Orontes is part of this region.  Vast swathes of the interior 'desert' of the much larger modern-day 'Syria' was never really part of Aram-Syria.  In fact, Syria-Aram the hinterland of "The Lebanon" or "Levant" which is currently independent of Syria.  "Syria" is a variation of "Tsor", the Hebrew word primarily meaning 'rock', given to Tyre by ancient Hebrew speakers (Jews, Israelites).  Tyre was the main or leading city of the maritime city-states of the Lebanon on the Mediterranean.
We make these points to show that The Lebanon and neighbouring land to the immediate East was sometimes under the same authority whether being ruled from Damascus or from Tyre, Sidon or Byblos.  AT such times, 'Syria' often was itself a part of the Tyrian or Phoenician network.  That region was part of a sort of Empire rather akin to the way the British Empire existed for much of its history - a chain of port-cities.  The Egyptians used the name "Punt" to describe Tyre's hegemony.  But from century to century the exact extent of "Punt" or "Put" varied very considerably.  A group described as the "Sons of Irem", apparently colonising parts of modern day Libya were in fact King Hirem of Tyre's colonists.  But these 'Sons of Irem' are eroneously backdated to 1300 BC rather than 800-700 BC because of the false (Egyptian) chronology identified by Dr Imamnuel Velikovsky.
In the Bible, in Ezekiel 38:5, most translations say "Libya" for the Hebrew "Put".  But modern Libya itself was the name for a larger portion of Africa than today.  Obviously, around 800 BC;  'Libya' or that stretch of the African coast on the Mediterranean we currently label 'Libya';  came under Tyrian domination.  Or, it came under the control of Carthage, one of Tyre's most important 'daughter' cities, from around 700-600 BC.  Or both statements could have been true and the control of Libya moved from Tyre's grip to that of Carthage especially after the Assyrians of North and Central Iraq on the Tigris River,  sacked Tyre.  Unfortunately the false chronology obscures all these shifts in political power and cartography (design of atlases).  Nevertheless, Libya today is only a part of the broader region of 'Put-Punt' that Ezekiel had in his purview or was writing about with, perhaps metaphorically speaking, a 7th Century BC atlas in front of him.
According to Ezekiel, who probably preceded Mr Murphy by at least two and a half millennia, we are told the one thing that will go wrong for the countries considering participation in Gog's mischief of Ezekiel 38:10 is that all of a sudden, whatever their plans would be, God will put His hooks into their jaws.  He will drag the nations of the Gogite alliance towards Israel's West Bank, quite possibly at a time not quite of their choosing nor anyone's for that matter.  God will proceed with the plan outlined in Ezekiel's prophecy.  Their plan might be to take control of Jerusalem which God turns to His advantage and purpose.  All the Humpty-Dimpty commentators will likewise be taken by surprise.  So will Tarshish, Sheba and Dedan (the Kurds, Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar etc) be utterly taken by surprise.   Mr Murphy, whoever he was, wold not have predicted this situation when he first stated his axiom.
10/2/18, "Iran has not changed its hostile profile toward Israel".  Above we show that the "Put" of Ezekiel 38:5 refers to ancient Tyre's hegemony which we now have to interpolate into the context of our current atlases.  But "Peres" in the same verse is Persia or modern-day Iran.  So this hostile Iranian profile toward Israel fits Ezekiel's prophecy very neatly.
10/2/18, "The entire region is at risk stretching from Yemen to Lebanon".  A warning today from the US State Department. Its spokeswoman was commenting on  the growing complexity of alliances and nations involved in the Syrian civil war.  As one threat disappears and another looms, these alliances are forced to change because one country's friend comes under attack from a different friend of one's alliance-partners.  The complexity is also utter confusion now.  If we extend the US State Department's range and give it a bit more detail, one can say that "from Morocco to Afghanistan and from Astana in Kazakhstan to the Congo-Kinshasha the entire region is in uproar.  This more expansive  range broadly meets the scope of nations in Ezekiel's Gogite alliance of Ezekiel 38:1-6.  
10/2/18, "The USA cannot do anything about it".  A Mr Peter Parsi commenting on the skirmishes between Israel and Syria involving Iranian militias and, or, Hizbollah, on the border between Israel and Syria.  Someone managed to shoot down an Israeli air force jet after it had taken out an Iranian drone operating near Israel's border.  Mr "Parsi" or Mr 'Farsi' is obviously of Iranian stock now living in the USA probably a descendant of Iranian refugeees who left after the Ayatollah Khomaini overthrew Shah Reza Pahlavi.  Many Iranians want nothing to do with extreme Shiite religionists.  Many are refugees but the majority probably still struggle to live in Iran to their credit and bravery.  Israel had bombed several parts of southern Syria in response to the drone attack seeking out Iranian or Hizbollah facilities in particular.  One jet on such a run got shot down.  As noted above the conflict is getting far too complex for the USA to be able to do anyhting to stop the nonsense in Syria as it is in Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan, Kashmir etc.  The UN is equally impotent.
From the Bible, we know that many of these crises are paving the way for the Antichrist to emerge.  Beforehand, there will be the First Gogite invasion of Israel.  The next, or Last, comes at the end of the Millennium so it need not concern us for a long time yet. We appear ever closer to the precipice that plunges many nations into the first Gogite invasion with so many incidents in recent weeks ranging from The US declaration that Jerusalem is Israel's capital to the rumbling Kurdish Question that is now some 3000 years old.
10/2/18, "If no one intervenes to stop the Syrian conflict then it will escalate".  Mr Peter Parsi continuing his comments on when interviewed for a major international news service.  Having said the USA cannot do much he suggested it is, "Up to the Russians" to do something".  However, their narrow interest in securing a naval and air base on Syria's Mediterranean Coast (in Latakia)  dominates their thinking  and leads to a narrow policy outcome.
Of course, we raise the possibility that Russia's participation in the Syrian crisis along with Iran's and Turkey's is a prelude to Ezekiel 38:10 where the nations that invade Israel in the First Gogite invasion firstly concoct a sort of cunning plan or literally in Hebrew, "mischief a mischief".  The original Hebrew word is derrived from weaveing, plaiting or fabricating something as in a garment where many different skeins and threads bearing a wide variety of hues and colours as well are brought into the final product.  And that is what we appear to be witnessing in today's Syrian crisis.  Yemen, Libya and Afghanistan are not far behind in parallel degrees of complexity and within the bounds of the meaing of this thought or concept from Biblical Hebrew.  Someone here is devising a very intricate plan which no individual nation, 'super-power' or collection of many nations (UN, EU, NATO) seems able to counteract or halt.  The Biblical account in Ezekiel talks about Gog and his nations making mischief but God then intervenes.  God (Jehovah) pulls the enemy nations into the crisis but not, apparently, at a time of their choosing.  Once esconced in the 'West Bank', presumably to put pressure on Jeruslem, these nations then start fighting each other, people killing oner another befoe God again intervenes with fire from heaven, earthquakes and other disasters.  Then men will know God is Jehovah or "I am Lord" in some translations.
No one is listening to Jesus' Disciples at the moment so it is not surprising God forces the point.  No one in Christendom is listening to the historians God is raising these days just as Israel ignored her prophets.  In the First Age of Conscience, likewise men ignored Noah, hence Jesus' reference to "The Days of Noah" returning once again in the Last of the Last Days.  In the Aleph run of His Story prior to Israel's rejection of Jesus of Nazareth God prepared Prophets. They, in a sense, had to outline the yet-future  His Story.  Much His Story and History had yet to unravel.  Now God is raising Historians to explain the proper History and His Story especially in the context of the revised chronology and Hebrew perspective using the Biblical framework.
If nothing else, the Syrian Crisis is a very tangled web of intrigue.  But who is weaving it or how many are weaving and plaiting these threads?
10/2/18, Russia's participation parallels Tarshish's withdrawal.  Although the USA does have a foothold in Eastern Syria, it is Russia making the main plays in the Syrian Crisis.  This point occurred to one in the wake of Mr Parsi's comments above.  Other NATO (North At;lantic Tarshish Organisation) countries such as the UK and Spain also are part of Tarshish.  Likewise, they hardly are to be seen or heard in the region at the moment.  It is as if Tarshish's leaders suspect something dramatic is about to happen.  In reality, they are simply too distracted by other issues to have the resources to be involved in Syria.  All three majors in Tarshish; i.e., USA, UK and Spain; are in the throws of constitutional crisis, among other things.  It appears they are financially bankrupt at least collectively with the US 200 Trillion dollar real accounting deficit or individually bankrupt.  Perhaps Tarshish's financial liabilities force it to collectivise, emerge as a unit and fulfill yet another Biblical Prophecy.
10/2/18, "Death to Israel and the USA".  Those words were seen on placards in Sanaa, Yemen where all the internal differences between tribes and political persuasion has led to a terrible civil war there.  Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Iranians are all heavily involved.  If nothing else, this is a very intra-Islam fight between Shiites and non-Shiite Muslims as well as secular Yemenis.  Yet Israelis and Americans are to blame!  Complete irrationality in this ancient Middle Eastern Nation once known as Sabea.  Its earliest settlers were refugees out of Shinar and Babylon along with the Chaldeans (Kurds) who migrated North instead.  This crowd seems to have migrated to the junction of the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean.  It is certainly quite a strategic commercial gateway hence the importamce of the region over three millennia.  Yemenis may have some legitimate grievances against Amercian meddling in the past.  Although it's more likely any theoretically negative meddling should be attributed to the British.  Nevertheless, t is rificulous to blame Israel for their troubles.  This blatant and ridiculously anti-Semitic rant and curson on Israel explains why these people are in such a mess.  They bring down on themselves God's curses on any nation that curses Israel.  They are likely to receive especially severe punishment since they expelled thousands of Yemeni Jews after Israel's independence.  They are appalling people with deep-seated prejudices.  They cannot even get on with each other.  No doubt a lot of Yemenis, or their children who suffer the most from the adults' stupidity, will join Gog's invasion of Israel.  They would comprise part of Punt-Put for the Phoenicians often controlled the area.  In more recent times, Tyre's daughter nation of Tarshish, i.e., the UK, controlled Aden and other parts of Yemen.
10/2/18, "A calculated escalation of Threat", was how the US State Department described the Iranian and pro-Asad threat to Israel's border with Syria.  The treat came as the Iranians flew a drone over North Israeli air space though since it was near the Golan Heights, probably the Syrians and Iranians would claim the land was Syrian territory.  This independent view, from our Biblical perspective, is interesting because we see here a combined Persia-Punt initiative that forms part of the web of mischief Ezekiel 38:10 describes above, refer "10/2/18, If no one intervenes to stop the Syrian conflict then it will escalate".  
13/2/18, "There's not so much snow these days".  A comment made by a NZ glaciologist who has been examining the length and size of South Island glaciers Franz Josef, Fox, Tasman and Brewster, for several decades.  He has been annually measuring their contraction, shortening, lengthening or occasional expansion.  He started this as a youngster and has seen a massive shrinkage in his lifetime so far.  We point out that the declining snow is a sign of the "Days of Noah" (Isaiah 54:9-10, Matthew 24:37, Luke 17:26-7).  Actually, there are still heavy snowfalls that can expand a glacier although all around the world from Kilimanjaro in Africa, to the Himalayas and perhaps most spectacularly in the American Rockies, the world's glaciers are on average shrinking and quite quickly too.  Norway, nearer the North Pole than South Island New Zealand to the South Pole, still experiences some expansion of glaciers though not necessarily in density.  As the scientist said here, sometimes there is a bit of ice recovery in the South Island glaciers probably for similar reasons to Norway's experience with the fjords in both countries.
But these people never talk about Earth's Ambient Temperature.  That states the ice must all melt eventually.  That's because, unlike many moons around the huge planets the ambient temperature of Earth is above the melting point of water ice.  However, onthe solar system moons they are frequently places where the ambient temperature of any particular moon, for may liquids, is below their melthing point.  The Sun does not warm these planets at all or only very residually.  Thus ices of many sorts do not melt on those moons, unless there is associated volcanic activity, as they do on Earth where the ambient temperature is about 15 or 16 degrees whereas water has to be below zero to stay frozen.  We do not think many members of the Public know or understand  these simple facts of physics and chemistry.  Hopefully this section helps.
As we state, the Earth before Noah's Flood had a quite different environment.  There were no muntains as such, perhaps only hills, slopes and rises for river systems which underground springs probably generated. No snow, ice or even rain existed.  If there was rain it was a  very light almost misty type of rain not like showers we normally see today.  Earth only had "mists" which presumably were a function of the interaction between water vapour in the atmosphere, temperature changes (gradient) between Night and Day plus sources underground.  Perhaps in the manner by which God re-formatted all the land and waters, the land mass used the underground water in a manner of a sort of sponge.  Water from deeper down kept the theoretically 'spongy' land surface moist so that plants obtained moisture through their roots as well as via leaves etc., to obtain necessary water from the atmosphere.
After the tectonic disruption caused by the Flood events;  perhaps with asteroids also hitting the Earth to generate the chaos that God had to bring about ("Tohu and Bohu");  the environment massively changed and turned into the system we now live with.  The mountains came into existence during the Flood along with polar ice caps, snow in glaciers and streans of water flowing down from the mountain.  All this placed greater reliance after The Flood on rain and snow for our water supplies.  The Bible explains that the waters underneath the Earth in Genesis were released from their caverns to cause the Flood in the initial impact (a God ordained asteroid?) of the catastrophe.  Then that water after hitting the stratosphere fell as rain then as snow as the waters dried up over about a ten-month period while Noah and his family and livestock sojourned in The Ark that physically saved them.  When they could leave the Ark, they found themsleves in the mountaionous terrain of North East Turkey or perhaps in the Caucasus somewhere.  The human family migrated southwards to South Iraq where the first Babylonian regime and the economy for the Tower of Babel became established.
Thus global warming is the downstream effect of the Earth's reovery forom the Flood.  Just how long it would take to get back to a new equilibrium, of which current events are just another phases therein, is open to debate.  From the Bible, we expect Jesus The Nazarene's introduction of the Millennium is not far away.  He will re-format and renovate the Globe as God did in Genesis chapters one and two.
Unfortunately, in the radio interview the discussion illustrated the probems of silo mentality.  The speaker constrained his data to the glaciers' measurements and how he recorded them.  However, his model had to use rainfall data for the nearby lowlands as a surrogate for the volume of snowfall high up on the upper glacial slopes.  These measurements also assume the system is natural and ongoing.  His model fails to realise the ice stock around the world is the one-off result of a disaster that occurred only 4500 years ago.  To the extent they do agree there was a catastrophe that generated the ice in the first place;  which they do for the most part;   they tend to think of it in terms of tens of millions of years ago.  Or they think there always have beem ice caps perhaps the result of even earlier catastrophes.  As with the Hydro Electric power schemes that feed of the water flow from the mountains containing these glaciers, Man has been drawing off a stock (as snow) of water unaware he is running or drawing it down without being conscious of a need to replenish those dams.   The way (catastrophe) that stock occurred also affected the geological structure underneath and surrounding the glacier.  The behaviour of the glaciers depends as much on the geology and nature of the stock itself for any ongoing characteristics of these glaciers.  But those events were very unusual.
Jesus referred to the Days of Noah as being a sign of the End of the Last Days when both the Rapture then the Second Coming occur.  In practice, The Rapture is what we really need to be on alert for.
14/2/18, "The United States is bankrupt".  An American economist speaking on NZ radio claimed that is the 'true' state of the US economy if one bases the national debt on "fiscal gap accounting".  This procedure attempts to publically report the true debt which includes such things as future pension liabilities, future defence commitments etc.  At present in the American Government, and in others, these commitments are kept off the national balance sheet.  [The former economist writing this blog explains that "Government acccounting is said to be different from normal commercial accounting around the world for the main excuse that national governments can raise or lower taxes.  Other institutions have to compete to raise finance.  Governments are generally assumed not to have to compete.  That is not quite true in reality but that's the way the system operates"].  The American economist also said that US Government has been spending every year 3% of GDP on defence.  He said that was "especially ridiculous when you are provoking other nations in such a way that you need so much defence spending".  He would prefer there wasn't any defence spending but he said nothing about Eisenhauer's warning about the "military-industrial complex".   The next series of items for 14/2/18 expand on this economist's comments.
14/2/18, "True US national debt is $200-trillion not 20-".  The US economist speaking on a national radio programme said the US debt obligations became a potential or long-term problem, that is now very much a reality, after Presidents Roosevelt and Eisenhaur set policies in motion in government supported health and pension schemes.  Unfortunately,  this has had an unintended consequence.  These schemes, allied to rising house prices shutting out today's young people from housing, efectively redistributed US wealth away from the young toward the elderly.  He did not observe many younger folk will inherit a lot of those assets albeit by rather arbitrary good luck or parentage.  Although the elderly after all have been the people paying into the schemes. They have been putting, as they could with relatively good wages, as much as 6% of their salary every year into a Government Pension scheme.  Now that the post-WWII  generation in many parts of the wortld is living much longer.  Thus actuarial rates have improved with better health and hygiene services.  In an unintended, unforeseen or unanticipated consequence the funding costs or Government obligations to these people are now far higher than anyone had predicted away back in the 1930's to the 1960's.   Hence the current "enormous fiscal gap" but younger 'Americans' are going to be saddled and burdened with that debt or those obligations.  He added that there has been a conspiracy amongst politicians to keep this under a lid.  Our point here is that the economist is obviously unaware that the Babylon-antichrist game is behind a lot of this (refer next item).
However, we realise the impact of science and technology or fruits of the Tree of Knowledge are also imposing other unintended consequences such as this US debt problem that Adam and Eve could never anticipate.  But that, of course, is exactly why Jesus came into this world. He came to pay for that mistake with His Life.  He won resurrection for us in order that we too, i.e., all believers in the Promised Deliverer or The Seed of the Woman of Genesis 3:15,  might not suffer eternal damnation for Adam's folly.    We now see with far more understanding why God urged, indeed commanded, Adam to leav the tree of knowledge alone.  Satan and his cronies are using those implications to set their plans in motion.  Most economists are S.H.E.M-ites and quite unfamiliar with anything Biblical so this American economist's well-made points lack that perspective or wisdom.  They also lack the Hope we have in Christ, a Hope available to everyone who repents and believes. 
14/2/18, "The modern economic system is a faith-based Ponzi Scheme".  Here we combine two separate comments in this group of items for 14/2/18 quoting the US economist talking about US debt.  The discussion considered debt of other countries which purchase the US debt through Treasury Bonds.  Of course if the US is offering this off-balance sheet debt via Treasury Bonds and other countries are showing them in their books, the international accounting system is not in balance.  Our comment there would be "everybody is probably overlooking that too"!  The American said, "It is all faith-based" and "just like a giant Ponzi scheme".  [Note: Economists have always recogniseed 'confidence' exists behind any money supply system.  Traditionally, money supply has been backed by secure assets on national books, by gold or by measured GDP activity.  In modern countries there are rarely any types of monetary corruption often seen in kingdoms in the past].
The picture this economist has described suggests we now have the most unbalanced world economic system we have ever had even amongst the most corrupt kingdoms of the past where the king's treasury melted down gold and silver coins,  mixed them with nickel or some other cheap metal and re-issued them with the same value when put back into the money supply and consequently inflated the economy with lower-purchasing power or cheapened coins.
But there is a plan all behind this and the Bible's information helps us to expose it.  One can trace its genesis to the no-nation city-dwelling human family's attempt to make a name for mankind at the Tower of Babel in ancient Babylon (Plains of Shinar in South Iraq) about 4000 years ago (Genesis 11:3-4).  The building blocks for what passes for governance these days were developed in Babylon.  The entire human family, apart from some who no doubt moved away from Babylon's rigid demands, had been living in and around  cities such as Ur and Babel in South Iraq-Babylon for several hundred years since the Great Flood of circa 2500 BC.  Revelation 14:8, 16:19, 17:5, 18:2, 10 & 21 has six interesting New Testament verses that mention a future 'Babylon' which will one day arise in this region and looks to be doing that right now.  These verses say that a great city of Babylon will be re-built and that the nations "drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornications" (Revelation 14:8).  It is a great picture of sex-mad lusting bankers controlling the world economy.  Whether the imagery is meant to apply to this or something else is not absolutely clear. But events in that region and in Arabia and the Emirates with all their valuable oil and gas reserves which are the by-product of the flooded and squelched Garden of Eden, maje the best current fit for this 'imagery'.  Revelation 18:10-21 clearly identifies the future Babylon's frenzy or love affair with trade, commerce, merchandising and, by implication, money.  It is very corrupt and probably explains why the world's current economic and financial system effectively resembles a ponzi scheme.  It is faith-based but on Satan and on his son the antichrist-666.  It has no time for Jesus of Nazareth and tries to prevent Jesus' ambassadors from publicising what Jesus has to offer.  This explains why and how the world can turn a blind eye to the 'off-balance sheet' debt obligations this American economist was talking about.  This is all part of a long-term strategy that only readers and students of the Bible can explain, expose and evaluate.  With the Bible we can point to the final solution that will be engineered by Jesus of Nazareth after Antichrist-666, who is the counterfeit Christ, has completed his tasks, apart from destroying Israel, that ends in disaster for him.     
In research we are doing regarding world governance, we have been looking at the way the United States developed.  Its famous dollar pictures many aspects of Babylon in its images.  The Yankee Dollar, actually Austria's Thaler inherited from Hapsberg days, is almost completely Babylonian apart from the image of the US founder George Washington (or possibly Mr Gog Washington) and he was probably an illuminati mason with all their antecedents in Babylon.  George Washington and others, with co-conspirators working from a masonic hall in Chiswick on the western outskirts of London, set up the conditions for a  war of independence of Britain's thirteen colonies on the American continent.  Then, after thirteen years of haggling (one for each colony ironically)  they  established an American constitution.  It would further the aims of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia aimed at exporting across the world the 'nation-state' which would govern the way in which the world's resources would be managed.  That effectively ended Christendom's rule of Western Europe.  By separating 'Church' from 'state' there where all the Cardinals such as Wolsey, Mazarin and Richlieu corruptly held the reins of Babylonian power masquerading as 'The Church', the framers of Westphalia and the conspirators or 'confederates' of Chiswickhoped to export that principle to China, India, the Americas, Africa and the Pacific.  They also wanted to separate 'Science' from 'Theology' and The Soul from The Material eventually dropping the former to become Materialism.  Europe was becoming the world's power house by then so other countries or empires gradually succumbed to these 'gospels' out of Westphalia and Chiswick. The Chiswick conspiracy all took place away from the prying eyes of the British Government of the time unless some MPs or Lords were involved or in the know.  Once they had settled the American Constitution in 1789 they incited the French Revolution and proceeded to export their philosophies under the banners of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality.   
14/2/18, "The banks own Washington DC"...  ... and they will not allow it to change the economic system.  This is quite true but the statement needs to recognise the facts of the previous item regarding Westphalia and Chiswick.
14/2/18, "Cossack reported killed in fighting near Deir Azur (Syria)".  This was a comment in a discussion about Russian personnel or mercenaries dying in a skirmish between Kurds and 'Free Syrians' repelling an attack from 'pro-Assad' forces in this Eastern province of Syria named after the ancient city of Tzor (צור) or Tyre.  However, reportedly, American bombers used air power to help the defenders.  This has caused a bit of an outrage but we are interested because the United States has Tarshish's largest army, air force and navy.  In fact, within NATO or the North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation it is part of Tarshish the daughter nation-states of Tyre.  So this part of Syria is in fact a region that traditionally was part of ancient Tyre's domain at one time or another.  That's why we include 'Syria' as part of the "Put" or "Punt" of Ezekiel 38:5.  'Put' or 'Punt' of the pre-Roman Mediterranean world included a range of colonies throughout that Sea although mainly on the African and Levantine coasts.  Places echoing ancient Tyre in their names include:  Deir Azur, Turkey (possibly the quays or bays of Tyre);  The Adriatic (A-Tyratic);   Venice (Phenice or Phoenicia or Put-Punt);   Syracuse in Sicily;  Sardinia (Tsor-adina);  the Tyrol of North Italy, The Tyrrhenian Sea (between Sardinia, Sicily and Rome), the pre-Roman nation of Etruria (E-Tyria of the Etruscans north of Rome on the Mediterranean coast of north Italy), Gibraltar (Gebal- or Byblos-Tyre), Tunisia (Punt-isia where there is a silent 'p' in  pTunisia) base for Carthage the daughter of Tyrian colonists rebelling from the mother city), Gul of Sirte (e-Tyrus), Tripoli, Cyrenaica and Memphis in Egypt at one time named "Migdol" meaning 'tower' or Tyre.
The Cossacks are from Kazakhstan although many live in Russia, Georgia, Turkmenistan, and in other Caucasus nations.  Some even live in Ukraine because they were citizens of the former USSR (Union of Soviet Soviet Republics) which President Putin is trying to resurrect.  Putin seems to desire the former soviet republics combine within a less formal arrangement more akin to the EU (European Union).   Here we have Tarshish in effect confronting Gog who is the Nasi or overlord of the Caucasus (Gogasus) nations.  We are still trying to work out where the real power here lies.  The Bible suggests Moscow-Meshech and Tubalsk-Tubal are subservient to 'Gog' who or which is either a title or region or both.  If 'both' then it is in the name 'Gog-George' that such a solution could be acceptable.  If as 'Gog' we have Gogasus or Caucasus we have a region.  If as 'Gog' we have Georgia we also have a region or nation and its capital, Tiblisi or Tubal (see next item).  The current Pope, that word being a title, has the personal family-name "Gog (George) Mario Bar-Goglio".  It means 'Gog the Mariolatrist and son of (Bar) Gog the Lion'.   The current Pope is a Jesuit who takes his papal name from Francis Xavier the philosopher and co-founder with soldier Ignatius Loyola of the Society of Jesus.  It is the military wing of the Roman Catholic Religion.  Like the Muslims the Pope desperately wants control of Jerusalem, the prize (Ezekiel 38:12) the antisemites want to take off the Jews.  Whether the Russians or others actually join the invasion remains an open question although we mostly assume they will be.  Perhaps this example help us to see that representatives of one nation or another are involved in the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 invasion but not under any authority, permission or connivance from or with their nation-state leaders.  They could be people who respond to a call to arms from a leader other than their own national leader.  He could be someone like the current Pope just as people in Europe did in the crusades.  This 'crusade' would be composed of a different selection of nations from that which manned the various crusades of the 1th to 13th centuries AD.  In other words that invasion force may in fact be mercenaries from the many places named in the prophecy.   This incident alerts us to such possibilities.
14/2/18, Former Georgian (Gogian) Premier Mikhiel Saakashvili on the run in Ukraine.   The following is a summary of an interview on a programme on an international television station news service emanating from London and the Middle East.  The former Georgian (or Gog-ian) Premier admitted he is stateless.  He had to do the interview from a hiding place in Ukraine.  The interviewer grilled him on corruption allegations back in Georgia, that he had done little while Governor of the Odessa region in Ukraine and on his actions which, the interviewer alleged, incited the Russians to wage war on Georgia toward the end of his presidency.  His post in the Ukraine was awarded to him by Ukraine's President who also gave Saakashvili citizenship, now withdrawn.   When asked if he could legitimize his politcal authority in two quite different countries, Saakashvili said he had much connection with Ukraine and cited Simon Bolivar who held posts in five different countries.  Saakashvili also claimed he was being falsely accused by corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine and Georgia.
Whatever truth lies behind this enigmatic politician's claims, we can see the general state of chaotic political and economic conditions lying in all the Gogite nations and how that would seem to be a very important pre-cursor to the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 invasion of Israel.  The world has never been as close to a fulfilment of this prophecy as it is now.  No one in the past could have come even remotely close to predicting this situation.  Except God who almost certainly is now showing us in His Bible that He has indeed via Ezekiel prophesied these situations recorded here.  The end of the invasion features all the invaders fighting amongst themselves.  That indicates, when we see this 'nation fighting against nation' in this forthcoming situation, that God had foretold this and that Jesus picked up on this in Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8 and Luke 21:10 when Jesus said that would trigger the next round of events following the reference in the Olivet Discourse.  As far as the Ezekiel prophecy is concerned, then certain people will indeed know that God is "Jehovah" (Ezekiel 38:23).
As far as the Olivet discussion is concerned, after Matthew 24:7 the events from 24:9-29 take place.  Likewise the events of Mark 13:9-25 and Luke 21:11-26 take place after the internecine killings amongst the Gogite invaders.  However, we think that the seven years of clean-up leads to world conditions that eventuate in the new world order and the ten nations out of which Antichrist gains power and authority.  Antichrist then signs a seven-year peace treaty with Israel but reneges on it after 3.5 years.  We are now thinking that the seven years of clean-up and the seven year treaty follow seamlessly although there could be a gap between the two 'Sevens'.  Half-way through the Second Seven, or 'peace treaty', most of the events of Matthew 24:9-29, Mark 13:9-25 and Luke 21:11-26 begin to occur, or would seem to from thhis current vantage point.  In the meantime, we avidly await the Gogite invasion of Israel knowing that God will defend the Jewish nation and our hope is that in the aftermath we will see a harvest of born-again Jewish folk who will join us in The Rapture.  Since 'The Rapture' is imminent, though, we cannot be certain we will be on Earth to witness the Gogite invasion even though we would seem to be so near it.  
15/2/18, "Road accident rates doubled in Colarado since Marijuana liberalised".   Apparently the 'THC's in cannabis etc., stay in the blood supply for several weeks and impair driving alertness.  Nevertheless the movement to legalise all dangerous drugs and allow people to endanger others on roads (and eslewhere we would argue) is in ful swing with even the NZ Drug Foundation in favour of complere liberalisation according to the radio-talkback contributor who made these points.  Apparently, there is a new test regime available to identify problem cases.  It uses saliva tests but it is expensive and not sufficiently reliable according to some detractors.  The contributor works in "the industry" i.e., he helps people cold turkey off booze and drugs.  He is also a registered nurse.  Apparently, according to the radio station compere, "one in thirteen road accidents is induced by legal medications but the acident rate increases to one in nine if "recreational" drugs are included.  Regarding approved medications, doctors may prescribe a medication but no one is able to monitor if they consume more than the recommended dose befor driving and become an unintended risk.
16/2/18, "Chemistry is a very powerful thing".  A woman on a talkback programme commenting on a situation in Australia the day after the Prime Minister, Mr Turnbull,  banned any of his Cabinet Ministers having a sexual relationship with fellow members of Ministerial staff.  His Deputy PM had disgraced his Government with such a liaison.  Meanwhile in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, a row had erupted over young women interns who were still university students being sexually coerced at Xmas parties and the like by senior partners at a prestigious law firm in the city.  A deceased lawyer by the name "Bungay" had been a well-known about-town lethario in the Wellington lawyer scene.  "The electricity in the workplace was crackling", said a texter on the matter commenting on a parallel situation he had found himself in.  The woman making the comment about the 'chemistry' of it said she resigned a job in London when she felt herself being drawn into a sexual affair with a married colleague.  She said she had to pull herself away which we applaud.
But the point about 'chemistry' and 'electricity' demonstrates how much the materialist paradigm is now entrenched in the world's S.H.E.M-ite psyche.  Such people have become philosophical screwballs.  No longer any consideration of the World's issues and problems from the Biblical perspective.  The first Man's disobedience, a wrongful thing in the first place, not necesarily the actual consumption of the forbidden fruit, led to a subsequent event.  Churches and the world generally prefer to ignore the brief description about what happened in the aftermath.  We will address this point here.
In the aftermath, having consumed this fruit, we note that Adam and Eve did not die or suffer any undue or immediate harm at that point.  When God called out to Adam He found the man hiding behind a shrub, bush or tree with protective foliage being the main or instructive point.  (Later God slaughtered two animals to make the point they had to die in order to give the man and woman the necesary coverage they required after the sin.  The death of those two animals shedding their skins for Adam and Eve's sake would be fulfilled by Jesus' own death on the Cross.  He too was shorn of a wonderful outer garment that the Roman soldiers gambolled to posses at the foot of the Cross).  Adam and Eve in Eden's garden covered their genitals with that foliage.  
Adam's statement, "I was naked", obviously came from the information he had consumed from the Tree of Knowledge.  That tree had something that their "eyes" and "touch" could feed on, not their mouths or stomachs.  That 'food' or information consumed via eyes and fingers; bearing in mind 'food' which goes into our mouth, down the oesophagus and into the stomach is simply chemical, physical and biological information broken down inside a mini nuclear-chamber; becomes knowledge in the mind.  It was not energy released into the bloodstream.  It was with eyes and fingers they ate or consumed (Hebrew acol, 'a all' or '@').
Obviously, as the above comment implies, Adam and Eve could not resist the resulting 'chemistry' or 'electricity' that accompanied excited genitals.  They covered their sexual organs because although there was no wrong in doing with those organs what God had them designed for, they had in effect chosen or elected to try these things out for themselves.  The more serious aspect was that which occurred after disobeying God's One and Only Command to Mankind then.  They were not to consume from that particular tree of Good and Evil information.  All the other trees had food that was only good.  This knowledge tree had information that had capacity for good or evil, the point made by Satan for as Ezekiel 28:12 stated, "You sealed up the sum ... of Wisdom" so Satan understood the point. The man did not, although he knew what not to do or what to do!  To cut a long soteriological history short, that was what the Triune God had planned or allowed for and that was for the Son of God to voluntary and out of Love to become The Son of Man and Himself pay for Man's sin.
Clearly, if that Edenic Knowledge Tree was to be later consumed from in a manner that we will do with another such tree in the New Earth, God would have accompanied them in using it;  counselling, advising, explaining etc.  That tree was a touch-tronic computer.  In most ways it was like the hand-held versions everyone has access to in this day and age.  Unlike our computers that take us into man's very imperfect Tree of Knowledge, that tree Adam and Eve consumed took them into God's Only Good Knowledge.  It was in their minds that the knowledge had the capacity to become evil.  However, it was that first act of disobedience that would lead man to replicate evil and soem goodness for the next 6000 years or so.  One assumes that if they had left the tree alone, and had ignored Satan's mostly accurate information, God would anyway;  quite likely through this tree in the midst of the Garden;  have imparted the knowledge that they needed to breed, raise families and live life as well as gaining all sots of other knowledge.  But God, The Man and The Woman would do that together.  Eventually it will be like that in our resurrected bodies in the New heaven and Earth where we will consume from a tree described in Revelation 22:2-3.
To remind mankind of all this and to point out that it was the man's decision to disobey, not the woman's, that mankind would have to circumcise the foreskin of evry boy born.  Later, God differentiated the circumcision for the Abrahamic Covenant and required this to be done on the Eighth Day or on the First day of a second week to symbolise the hope of a second eternal week for mankind to live in either God's New Universe or in a place of darkness, weeping and teeth gnashing outside that New heaven and New Earth.
17/2/18, "Social media is both a blessing and a curse".  Commentators are waking up to the extent to which social media are altering perceptions.  Among other things, many so-called refugees are in fact economic opportunists and migrants taking advantage of the genuine refugee problems and allowing themselves to be egged on by social media inducements.  They are deceived into thinking  "The Grass is Greener on the Other Side of the Fence".  Of course it more often than not isn't! This came up in a discussion on fake news and how news is being gathered, edited, or not as the case may be, and spun.  When God presented the first man Adam to the tree of knowledge, it was described as being both Good and Evil.  The Hebrew allows for as many as three translations but the esential point is that although the information or knowledge in God's tree was all Good, in the wrong hands or in untutored hands, it would become a vehicle for evil.  The world is waking up to this with Internet, social media and robots yet to come.  The world's knowledge base is a tiger by the tail.  It is clearly uncontrollable.  (Refer also to 3/2/18, "The double-edged sword of social media" and 17/2/18, "The Internet is facilitating fake news via social media").  
17/2/18, "The Internet is facilitating fake news via social media".  Thus Man's Tree of Knowledge is definitely wielding both good and bad information.  It is accesed via "The At Sign" or '@'.   In Hebrew, the word used to eat is 'acol' which alsoi could be represented as '@' or 'a all' (represented by '@').    We 'a all' of our Internet but its data is imperfect as represented by the incomplete circle around the letter 'a'.   But the circle around the 'a' begins and ends at nearly the same point.  This suggests that with our Internet we are coming nearly full circle back to what God had shown Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden i.e., a touch-tronic computer like the hand-held devices people use today.
For anyone who does not believe what Genesis says of Man's origins and the reason explained therein for his current dilemma, then they are simply being silly, obdurate and bound for disaster.  The information contained within the Hebrew text of the Bible is now revealed to be a simple code transferring information across 6000 years of human history on this planet.  Adam and Eve were the only humans to see what occurred in the Garden of Eden so they had to compose a text to enable the last generation to get the point.  Their account  had to be written in such a way that all other generations could also get an idea of the way in which Adam plunged us all into this disaster and the disasters of the last six millennia.  The Bible aslo transfers information about the world and the Universe before man was created when the angels enjoyed the beauty of the universe until some of them likewise fell but in a different way and rebellion from Man's.   Only when God intervenes and finishes His plan for mankind will we finally enjoy the true fruits and privileges the Creator desires to bestow on us.  But we have to accept God's plan involving Jesus of Nazareth in order to be part of that Eternal Blessing.  Tne New Testament explains all of that.  To reject Jesus means one is bound for Eternal existence in a place of darkness, weeping and teeth gnashing (Matthew 22:13,  Luke 13:28 and 16:22ff).
17/2/18, "Journalists and the Public are not asking the right questions".  This came up in discussions about the rise of social media and Facebook etc., as they re-shape news gathering, headlines, editing and sub-editing.  Facebook fails to exert adequate or proper responsibilities on contributors.  Although it is trying to make some amends on that.  The horse does seem to have bolted, though, and a lot of irresponsible chit-chat is forming many social and political difficulties.  Mind you, on the other hand when one does attend some lecture or the like, the session is so tightly controlled by the organisers that we nowadays get the same or similar results.
17/2/18, "What's the difference between Propaganda and Fake News?"  Some contributors to a television debate on this attempted to come to a definition.  P
erhaps Mr Dan Brown's preface to The Da Vinci Code oncerning "Fact, Faction and Fiction" is a more useful method to distinguish betwen the two.
17/2/18, "We need good journalists;  Consumers have some responsibilities too".  That was one of the conclusions from some of these discussions about social media and the way in which pure journalism is being eroded by the new electronic information systems.  In these pages, we answer the points being made by pointing out tht the problem is yet another clue that we are now near the very end of the Last Days of the Bible prophecies.  Few people read the Bible these days.  Even amongst those who do read it they do so with poor methodology as we explain in Components of Systematic Theology (In the 21st Century).  Under this circumstance, those who realise how many unfulfilled prophecies appear to be comning into their promised conclusion appear to be alarmingly scarce.  Thus the world is uninformed, by both Media and Church, how dire is its situation.
What both Media and Church really need now is a proper understanding of History from Adam to Armageddon.  One needs to understand the operation of the Bible's continuum from the Alpha- or Aleph-beginning to the Omega- or Tav-End.  Therein, at the beginning all is Prophecy but by the End all has become History or His Story.  The Pattern of the Aleph stage of world history provides a sort of template for the Last or Tav.  This is a core paradigm of the Aleph-Tav view of History.  Whereas Israel rejected Jesus of Nazareth in AD 30, modern Israel will accept Him sometime soon, perhaps even soon after the Church of the Christ completes its 2000th year (or Second Day under the School of Elijah thinking).  Whereas Israel under the Mosaic Law was God's witness in what we see as being the Aleph and Tav post Conscience-Era phases of His Story, The Church of Jesus the Messiah of Israel (or of 'the Chist') and His Apostles and Jesus' Law for living has witnesed in this 'Last Age' (Hebrews 1:1-2).  Whereas Tyre played a significant role in world commerce and governance in the Aleph stage and was also a sometime ally or friend of Israel, so too Tarshish fills that role in this Tav Round.  But the prophecies in the Old Testament also spoke of pairs of prophecies that would take place toward the end of the Era of Christendom in the two gatherings of Israel from all the countries of the world the Aleph in Ezekiel 22:18-22, 36:17-38, 37:1-28 and 38:11-12 as is happening now then secondly the Tav in Isaiah 11:11 at the end of Armageddon.  There are two Gog-Magog invasions of Israel yet to occur.  Tne First (Aleph) comes before Armageddon and the other, the Second or Last (Tav), comes at the end of the Millennium (Refer our papers on the subject).
As everyone gets into a panic over the rising chaos, disturbing levels of fake news and blatant propaganda affecting 21st century journalism in the 'Media', we are concerned that the Church has a parallel set of problems of its own.  To state or re-state them here, Firstly understanding of the Bible's Hebrew text is away below what it should be.  Secondly, the world's History is terribly distorted by the Academy and the Bible and Seminaries have in response re-interpreted and allegorised the Bible's text in order to explain it in a so-called modern context.  Thirdly, previous generations of believers had attempted to interpret or understand certain passages before the Bible itself said they posibly could have been understood.  In regard to that last point, it was obvious the Antichrist would or could not be revealed until his time or era had arrived.  Until the nation of Isrsel became a reality from the middle of the Twentieth Century, it was too early to say that the world had entered the Last of the Last Days.  Only in recent times has it abundantly become clear that there are Two Gog-Magog invasions of Israel and that the Rapture and the Second Coming although very close to each other are nevertheless quite distinctly different in timing.  All too often wel-intentioned believers have been tripped up over the third point here.  Although it is the first and second points that have had more serious long-term implications for the Church's ministry and evangelism.  Since the mid-Nineteenth Century, the Theory of Evolution has had its own unique toll on The Church's  witness and evangelism.  Altar calls and gospel services nowadays avoid any reference to the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Knowledge a d the subsequent  Fall of Adam that necessitated the Death, Burial and Resurrection of the Son of God (Yeshua b'Nazareth or 'Jesus of Nazareth') to achieve God's pre-ordanied Plan for Man's salvation.  These problems teach us that believers become so, or are 'begoten' because we are born from above, born again, born anew or begotten of the Holy Spirit who convicts us of The Truth about God and His Plan for Man's Salvation.  We can only watch these developments (or even farces) as if all is Dante's Divine Comedy after all.
17/2/18, "The young are more savvy;  I don't know about that".  In an interchange between two commentators about the problem of fake news etc., we have been discussing today, one suggested that young people are far less likely to be sucked into believeing fake news items.  Our concern amongst the 'young' is how they are reading their Bibles.  We don't see too much savviness there.
17/2/18, "It's not 'Fake News' but 'Malinformation' or 'Misinformation'".  A summary of the discussion on the problems of social media and its interaction with conventional or good journalism.  We don't think journalists ever have been that good or pure considering our failed efforts to get a decent debate in the media about the chronological problems in World History nor in a credible debate about evolutionism whch journalists uniformly accept as a fact.        
19/2/18, "The US has never been here before in its history".  US law Professor Dershovitz saying there is no place one can get truth from in the USA or "Veritas" as he labelled pure truth, the Harvard Motto.  CNN gives anti-Trump truth, Fox gives Trump truth.  Then there is 'Democratic Truth', Republican Truth' and 'Trump-Republican' truth.  A radio station interviewed him because he was in NZ as a guest of local lawyers and their societies
19/2/18, "Today there is no debate, just shouting matches in echo chambers".  Profesor Dershovitz argued for the Media, Academy and Church being involved in a proper debate but that is not happening in the US at present.  The US has only two political parties but he believes Britain, NZ, Australia, France and others with Parliamentary systems have better debate with more political parties.  He also noted one is obliged to take one of two sides or 'be for or against' on particular issues or personalities.  He had defended a Nazi in thepast and being Jewish he told us his mother asked him, "whose side are you on".  He responded he was on the sice of the Constirution which required everyone is entitled to due legal process.  He also noted that it was better a guilty man be allowed to go free than an innocent man be convicted.  It was vital the the due process go ahead.  Yet "everyone is forced to take sides", he said in respect to even his own son and mother querying him on some of the cases he has defended.  The writer can report he was forced in a hostel in Australia to say whether one was 'for' or against Mr Trump".  Obe tried to respond that one was not an American voter so that the matter had nothing to with one.  But that was not enough.  This all comes with the narcissm of the rising generation.             
19/2/18, "Netanyahu delivers warning to the 'Tyrants of Tehran'".   This was over debris he waved at them at a conference.  It was from the Iranian drone Israel shot down last week.  The term 'tyrant' is interesting because we suspect that there was a change of dynasty in Persia after they took over the Chaldean empire.  The kings named 'Artaxerxes' or 'Ahashvrosh' in the Jewish Bible, where 'Xerxes is equivalent to the Hebrew, leaves the 'Arta' unexplained.  Was it a Tyrian who took over as they did of Rome about the same time?  This is a matter we need to explore in the reconstruction and only offer the point here as a speculation at the moment.  This line of research might also explain how a Jewish woman, Esther, became queen of Persia.  She actually became a bride to a Tyrian king of the Perisans who may have usurped the throne perhaps with the connivance of the amalekite-Agagites.  That would be reasonable since both nations, Israel and the Phoenicians, had integrated careers and fortunes as the Times of the Gentiles began for Israel from 600 BC.  Both nations were thrown out of their traditional bases or homelands.  Nevertheless, we get the English world 'tyrant' from the title given to that line of Phoenician kings who did rule the Romans for a while.
19/2/18, "C.R.I.S.P.E.R technology will enable people to live for 500 years".  The news item on NZ radio put it this way, "The first person to reasch 500 years is alive today".  Crisper technology manages to return bits of DNA that drop off our genomes and that extends our lifetime.  Refer earlier items:
•	22/9/17, "We need a new transparency in Science for genetic matters;
•	22/9/17, "We are learning to investigate how life works"; 
•	22/9/17, "We want science to be morally accountable"; and  
•	22/9/17, Concern about damage to public trust in Cutting-edge or Blue-Sky science.
They also referred to Noah being 500 years old but that was the age when he had begotten his three sons (Genesis 5:32).  When he was 600 (Genesis 7:6) the Flood came.  In Genesis 9:28-9 we learn that Noah lived another 350 years after the Flood to die at the age of 950, nearly as old as Methusleh (969).  Plenty of people lived for centuries in the first generations of mankind because genetic mutation had not by then become too debilitating.  Now we see yet another example of man penetrating the very ding blocks' of life.  As a famous Chemist suggested, surely we are in the Days of Noah Jesus referred to when He talked about His return to Earth to set up His Kingdom.  "Come Lord Jesus", we pray, "and deliver us from the Evil One" who is surely waiting close by in the wings now!
19/2/18, Pro-Assad militias move to support Kurds in defence against Turks.  In yet another bizarre twist in the Syrian crisis, if it were not sufficiently complex already, we find that a joint concern begins a new romance.  The concern held by the Assad regime and Syrian Kurds is that the Turks are going to carve out an enclave, or one of a size that is not politically acceptable to people, in Northern Syria.  Apparently, the pro-Assad forces, the announcement coming from Assad-controlled Damascus, comprise Iranian mercenaries.
This pits Persians and Kurds against Turks which reflects ancient alliances that the modern analysts are totally unaware of.  Here, one wrotes of the Persians, Medes, Scythian-Russians who ganged up against Assyria in the late 7th century BC to cause the demise of the Egypt-Assyria axis.  Ninevah, in North-central Iraq, held the main power base, not Egypt's Memphis, which in reality was an Assyrian vassal state and had been since circa 700 BC.  These are considerations made on the basis of the revised chronology History we write about in these pages of the Aleph-Tav Bible Study Programme.  What we can advise out of all this is that alliances in that part of the world are very fluid at any time.  That much has become obvious to modern-day analysts.
However, they are unaware of the implications of the Aleph-Tav view of History or His Story.  That tells us that the Bible's Prophecies for the 'Last Days' will be clarified by study of the ancient events of the First or Aleph phase.  The two phases, we are now in the Last or Tav, will not be identical.  But there will be parallels.  That's because all the Biblical prophecies, apart from those applying to the actual Millennial Kingdom of God on Earth promised to Israel and the Gentile believers who partake thereof, could have been fulfilled at the era culminating with the First Coming of Jesus the Son of God, Son of David, The Promised Deliverer of Genesis 3:15 who became a citizen of Nazareth.  But that required Israel accepting the Voice of the First Sign of Exodus 4:8.  Not only did Israel reject the raising of Lazarus but most of Jesus' teching in generral.
Thus, there now has to be a Last Days phase of His Story that sees a series of events leading in effect to Armageddon.  But there are several prophecies to fulfill before that.  Interrupting the prophecies willl be the Rapture wjereby the Church of true believers in Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ or Messiah of Israel, is sent from Heaven by God the Father to take us to the Marriage of the Lamb while the world experiences The Tribulation.  But before all that, we can learn from ancient History and archaeology, adjusted and revised by the proper chronology, to decipher patterns, identify codes etc.  All that is done with both the Mind and Spirit-Soul of course.  Sadly, too many church folk only use one or t'other.  The latest news coming out of Syria, a member nation of the First Gogite Alliance to attack Israel and Jerusalem, significantly adds to the body of evidence alerting us to the very close proximity of those Last of the Last Days that the Bible writes about.
20/2/18, Digital Nations 2030 Summit says 500 years life is possible.  From an interview with a "futurist" on a national radio programme.  He said that even now an age of 120-130 is quite likely.  Most die of natural causes.  At the end of every day a strand of one's DNA strand falls off and when enough fall off you get older and older.  The Crisper technology uses the back-up system of our DNA and restores one's DNA to its original condition.  That would have to be done on a daily basis.  Presumably that is what the Tree of Life did for us in the garden of Eden.  But after Adam's Fall, the first Man and Woman could no longer access the Tree of Life so neither do we.  Until Crisper came into view.  "In Crisper we live" will be the motto for the future.  (Just a bit of cynicism there).  The futurologist said, "We will be able to replenish our DNA every day".  Later he noted it may only be the wealthy who can afford to do that.  Admittedly, "a lot of this is theoretical and experimental at the moment".  The figure of '500' is rather arbitrary, he said, but we know from the Binble the upper limit is likely to be close to a thousand years.  "At the moment we are only experimenting in the labs with Crisper".  It is not the simplest procedure scientists are not yet sure how to do some of this on an adult.  "Anyway, we need to start preparing for this" suggested the interviewer.
From a Biblical perspective, we now understand with the aid of some of the data from scientific research, that God's plan for Man to live in the Garden of Eden would probably go on for a millennium.  At the end of it everyone would receive a resurrected body for the family of God to exist in during Eternity.  Also, it seems from what did happen, that God created the genomes so that in the forthcoming Millennial Kingdom, Humans would live for nearly a millennium if one was born early in that millennium.  If one were to be born in the Third Century of Life in a Perfect Garden of Eden where Adam had not disobeyed God, that person would be 700 years old at the putative 'Resurrection'.  In fiture, such a person born in the Third century of the forthcoming Millennium will likewise be 700 years old when he receives his resurrected body.  Saints from the last 6000 years, some of whom will still be alive at the moment of The Rapture, will of course be resurrected from the Day of the Rapture.  People who come to belief in the Tribulation, i.e., unbelievers who missed the Rapture and hit the Tribulation, will procreate through the Millennium and their children will too of course.
So there does seem to have been an original intention for the human genome to live for a millennium. God had designed the human genome with that capacity and scientists via Crisper are beginning to unlock secrets that could enable mankind to engineer such a thing for himself.  God will not allow that for obvious reasons.  Whichever way one looks at things from the perspective of either of the two possible Garden of Eden Scenarios, both dependent on whether Adam would or would not obey God's command to abstain from eating from the Tree of Knowledge, God created human genomes with the capacity to live for a millennium.  In Eden, that would have entailed a daily encounter with the Tree of Life, Whomever or Whatever it was.
The author has a personal experience of an academic telling him many years ago at a university function in Wellingtoon that he believed he wouuld not have to face death  He believed science could or would one day defeat death.  That was away back in the 1990's.  What is amazing is that churches never talk about these things to explain how the Bible has set out God's Plan for mankind.  Crisper in fact just serves to confirm the Bible's mesage not run against it if one thinks carefully about the matter.  People should not rely on these plans of the World Academy or Science.  In God we should Trust, not in Science and Technology.  However, that is the way the world is going, allowing itself to follow Satan's deceptive plan that he mesmerised Adam and Eve with.  Soon, the World comes in for a rude shock that it should already be carefully noting in crises like Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan, Venezuela, the "double-edged sword of social media" etc., etc.  Believers already see the significance of those things.  Hopefully in these pages one can convince others to alight the Gravy Train and get aboard the Rapture Train by acknowledging God's Plan beginning with one's salvation in the death, burial and resurrection of the Last Adam, Jesus of Nazareth, The Nazarene, the Promised Deliverer of Genesis 3:15, the Son of David, Son of Man, Son of God.  
20/2/18, "Nature is the Creator and the destroyer too".  Central NZ was about to be drowned under a cyclone bringing rough weather to the region.  A civil defence spokesman, considering declaration of a state of emergency situation even before the storm hits, made this point like a loyal modern-day S.H.E.M-ite.  S.H.E.M-itism;  complete submission to the doctrines and religious principles of Secularism, Humanism, Evolutionism and Materialism; is the new fasces.  If one does not accept these paradigms, one is an outcast.  A complete denial of God.  God forbid we should declare Jehovah-God the Creator.  One cannot keep one's job at the Ministry of research, Science and Technology with that sort of belief.  Such are the days of Noah.  As storms and tectonic disturbances rage and the Days of Lot and of Noah are upon us, the world doggedly sticks to its Secular, Humanist, Evolutionist and Materialist Doctrines.
21/2/18, "Are Governments or Corporates bringing in Orwell's 'Big Brother'"?  A question raised on a radio talkback conversation betwen the radio's compare and a member of the public calling in.  He made the statement as one was catching up on some missed items in the July series of Key Events and one entitled, "8/11/17 "We recognised this was a significant event in History".   In that item we looked at the Digital Dissidents who ratted on the US NSA (National Security Agency).  Here the two men were looking at the extent to which big companies like Apple and Google could be making far bigger initiatives and moves on this matter.  We are not too concerned either way.  Judging by experience these things are usually the result of the interaction between both massive sectors.  Even so, the far more iportant observation is to suggest that al this is in preparation for Antichrist's takeover of the world.  None of these people are heeding the Bible's input on these matters.  But that is what to expect in 'The Days of Noah and Lot'.
21/2/18, "A Classic Coliseum Sport".  Words of Mr Jim Maxwell of Television station ABC Sport Australia when commenting on the hit and giggle version of international cricket called Twenty-Twenty.  A match is to be held between NZ and Australia in a stadium in Auckland not really designed for such a game.  The play has each team attempting to belt the living daylights out of a cricket ball and by implication the poor old bowlers for just twenty overs or 120 balls bowled.  This is in a sharp contrast with 'One Day 50 Over Matches' or 'Tests' which take five days to complete.  'Tests' typically involve some 550 overs if the match runs full time quite often with a draw after so much effort.  Thus Twenty-Twenty is purely for mass public entertainment.  The reference to the Coliseum reminds us of the Last stage of the Fourth Empire of the prophetic dreams recorded in the Bible's Book of Daniel that would only be really understood in the Last of the Last Days when "travel and knowledge will be greatly increased" (Daniel 12:4).
21/2/18, C.P.T.P.P ready to be signed by Pacific countries but without the USA.  Final documents have been circulated and the oficial signing is on 8/3/18.  The Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement became the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement.  The 'CP' was added to the 'TPP' to satisfy the Canadian Premier who also had threatened to take his country out of the pact after the USA withdrew.  Protesters in most of the signitory countries had been mounting vigorous demonstrations for years as the talks proceeded.  China is not involved and with the USA which had been demanding measures that annoyed protesters the most, also not now involved, the whole pact now seems less significant.  Furthermore, the Canadians successfully delayed the implementation  of some of the more attarctive measures that theoretically encourage more open trade and the potential benefits that has for equilibrating incomes across the world.  Trade in theory helps the incomes of the poor to rise at the expense of the wealthier.  However, other imperfections in the wortld economy, especially corruption across the board in commerce and banking, blot-out or drown-out benefits from free and fair trade.
But this pact only serves to underline once again that world governance is in crisis.  The main question here is to ask if that is the situation envisaged in the Biblical Prophecies for the End Times.  We suggest this is a true statement but we cannot be absolutely certain.  Thus faith remains the great bridge we all need at this moment.  The degree of faith required is small given the weight of evidence but, to repeat, the evidence is not certain enough for us to be dogmatic or absolute so that other options about where the world is going must still be on the table.
22/2/18, Opereation Habakkuk in WWII ... was the event that inspired a young man to write mystery trilogies in a series of novels.  This WWII operation was an attempt to restrict German U-boat activity by using ice-bergs to ferry food supplies and munitions to Britian from North America during the darkest days of that war.  But the plan was dropped.  According to a DVD one had watched about Churchill this was one of his slightly more hare-brained ideas although his innovative science advisor Harold Lindemann may have also been responsible.  Lindemann was the first person to successfully and personally test whether one could re-start an airplane engine in free-fall.  If the experiment failed it would have been a death sentence. Raised to the Peerage after the war, Lindemann became Lord Cherwell.  One once researched his papers at Nuffield College, Oxford University. That research was on behalf of an Israeli friend, an economist who taught at one of Israel's universities.  He was trying to establish if Sir John Hicks, a famous economist in those days, might have been involved as the Fifth Man in the Burgess, Philby, Mclean and Blunt cell or pro-Russian spy-ring.  Lindemann was Jewish and a Swedish citizen.  He became one of Churchill's confidantes in the famous underground War Room in Whitehall.  Lindemann had been briefing Churchill on the persecution of Jews in Germany in the mid- to late- 1930's.  If Lindemann did have some input into the scheme that may explain the reason why the Jewish prophet came to give his name to the short-lived project.
Habakkuk is a short book in the OT canon.  Habakkuk, or 'He who comes from Kirkuk' is an "oracle", as some translations translate, that speaks about the Chaldeans.  Habakkuk 1:6 says, "For, Lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of The Land (Eretz), to possess the dwelling-places (Hebrew, mishkanot, c.f., 'miskanot' in Exodus 1:11 or treasure cities instead of dwelling places) that are not theirs (Hebrew, lo-li)".
The reference to "bitterness' is to the infiltrating salt water (by osmosis) that polluted their former farmlands in southern Iraq in circa 900 BC.  Salt water from the Persian Gulf spoiled their elaborate and extensive fresh-water irrigation systems as well as invading or seeping into the underlying water-table and aquifers.  The Euphrates and Tigris rivers had lost a lot of their Turkish Highlands' reservoirs or feedstocks including ice from the retreating north-polar ice cap.  Thus the volume and force of these river-flows could no longer keep out, hold at bay, or flush out, the Gulf's salt water.  All that may have been due to some sort of catastrophe, too much intensive agriculture, or a combination of both.  At some point, perhaps nutritionally exhausted, the land in the south suddenly turned into deserts and dustbowls.  We have seen this elsewhere once the loss of soil fertility reaches a breaking-threshold.  All that forced the Chaldeans (and Sabeans of Job 1:15) to flee lower Mesopotamia (South Iraq) or part of the old land of Babylon of Ur and Babel itself.  The hastiness may refer to the suddeness of their flight or to their later rush to move in on Assyria's lands and cities, from the North, with the collapse of that empire.  Assyria came to its demise under a combined onslaught of Persians (East), Medes (North-east), Scythians (far North) and themselves in the near-north.  By circa 620 BC, the Chaldean refugees or Kurdo-Chaldeans were holed-up in modern East Turkey.  But the Kurdo-Chaldean Babylonian hold on Assyria's former empire and lands beyond that was relatively short-lived lasting about seven or eight decades.
Later, the Medes and Persians drove the Kurdo-Chaldeans into submission as they overran Assyria's former empire and took it off the Kurdo-Chaldeans.  That would also have intensely annoyed them (a.k.a., 'Hittites' from the Chitti of the Bible and the Kh-t/d of the Egyptian hiereoglyphs) in their long-term plans to recover their ancient homeland in South Iraq since colonised by tribes from the Arabian Peninsula..  So they probably got even more 'bitter" under Persian dominance.  Sadly, they had to spend most of their subsequent history under dominance of Turks, Persians, Arabs, Alexander's Macedonian Greeks and others perhaps.  The Romans did not conquer them although the Persians would have been their overlords at that time.  At other times, they have again risen to temporary dominance as the other three main Middle East groups weakened.  But there has been a general agreement in the Middle East to firstly "keep the Kurds disunited" and secondly to "never let the Kurds unite" much as Europe treated its germans for 1500 years after Rome fell.
The Kurds own internal impetuosity and sometime hastiness is also something that goes against them to their detriment.  The other nations in the region remain fearful of them.  God said, "My arm shall be on the Chaldeans" (Isaiah 48:14).  They are on friendly terms with Israel with both countries aware of their own mutual History of each other yet their is no animosity between the two nations.  There is tension between Kurds and Israel on one hand vis-a-vis the Turks, Persians (Iranians) and Arabs all in oppposition to Kurds and Israel on the other hand.  When archaeologists discovered royal Assyrian archives and learned how to read them, they found many of them were cabinet papers put before the King saying, "on the one hand ... and on the other hand ...".   It is the same with cabinet papers today.
As Galatians, Apostle Paul later wrote to the Kurdo-Chaldeans; also then living in Eastern Asia Minor or 'Turkey'; that they were "foolish Galatians" who had been "bewitched" (Galatians 1:3).  In that letter, it was the provision that 'Circumcision Party Jews' were promoting they needed to be circumcised to become followers of Jesus.  Their gullibility on that point was probably assisted by some sort of circumcision rite they already had.  Like most other ancient nations since the time of Adam, circumcision had either become a custom to remind Man of what resulted from the offence of Adam or it had been a commandment from God before Moses' for some reason not recorded in the Bible.  But that's just conjecture.  Paul gently chide them for being 'foolishly bewitched' about the need for circumcision.  It's the circumcision of the heart, a metaphor, that is now paramount as it was even under the Mosaic system (Deuteronomy  10:16, 30:6 and Jeremiah 4:4).
Both descriptions of the Kurdo-Chaldeans in the Old and New Testaments suit the modern Kurds in many ways.  But the understanding of this point of view, and indeed the connection betwen today's crucial Kurds and their Chaldean antecedents, only comes via the History that emerges from the reconstructed chronology we have built for ancient Egypt and via the consequential revisions we have established for so many other nations' histories.
23/2/18, "Fake news, Facebook and Tech-giants".  An introductoiry headline or comment for a radio interview on the topic.  The interviewer spoke to a British university professor about Internet platforms such as Twitter etc., being available to everyone including criminals and propagandists.  This is beginning to cause more harm than good and producing a counter-reaction including from Government regulators who are losing out on income from economic activity as well as the boradast of innacurate information [although we would say the BBC and its evolutionist bias set that trend long before the Internet].   Facebook's 'news-feed' was originally to be about one's family but it became a more general journalistic news service or came to be noticed for its journalistic possibilities, or 'content' via the very nature of its service as an Internet platform.  Now, Facebook especially is having to change its algorithims to wind this back and get its platform away from being an unaudited or peer-reviewed news service which fake news providers can use to push all sorts of fact, faction or fiction and mostly the latter two.
23/2/18, "The purest model has been subverted"  What can these platforms do to get out of the unintended consequence of becoming a major news media service?    The problem is that any return to the 'pure model' will be difficult now that so many countries and cities have polarised political systems.  We do not know to what extent 'Bots' and 'troll farms' are causing damage.  Facebook and Twitter have "grown like topsy" but trends have been detected whereby some 'consumers' are starting to drift away or become disinterested.  Thus, Facebook et al are trying to find new business activities especially as they are now darlings on the share- and stock-markets where their shareholders are always demanding growth in both revenues and profits.  
Facebook got itself into a place of power re NEWS but now regulators in many countries are obliging it to back away from being an alternative news service.  That is proving be hard to do with the genie out of the bottle.  [This was yet another implication Adam did not and could not possibly have conceived or imagined, let alone considered, as he reached for that touch-tronic computer in the Garden of Eden.  Fortunately God's Plan of Salvation for men and women, through His Only Begotten Son Jesus of Nazareth, has taken that all itno account.  God conceived that Plan long before the Creation (Psalm 40:7. Hebrews 10:7).  Nevertheless, today, we have to struggle along with this problem.  The Garden of Eden's Tree of Good and Evil Knowledge or Tree of Knowing Good and Evil, seemed especially enticing to Adam's woman (Eve) because she was not with Adam when God first, or had earlier, forbidden him to 'eat' of that tree when Adam was alone in the Garden with God and the woman not yet been formed out of him.  Eve only received the command via the man so she was soft-wired with the prohibition in a modern-day sense. Satan cunningly realised this.  That's why Satan (not Santa), God knowingly looking on from a distance with a solution based om Love already in mind (Psalm 40:7 etc), sweet-talked Eve with the aim of getting the man (Adam) attracted to his woman to follow suit.  It is very difficult for a man with a very attractive woman next to him to refuse her requests.  Satan's trick worked as God foreknew.  That is why the Son and Saviour (Yeshua-Jesus) elected before there was any creation whatsoever to come and save the man in the way he did (Psalm 40:7, the Gospels, I Corinthains 15:1 ff and Hebrews 10:7 etc).  To Eve, Satan's suggestions did not seem all that unreasonable.  Her man (Adam) knew not to eat of it but curiosity got the better of the Man-cat so here we are.
Speaking of the Tree of Knowing Good and Evil, we note the professor added, "there is lot of good these platforms can do for democracy and freedom".  However, in the past if one produced a leaflet or pamphlet to broadcast some news one also had to sign it and declare one's sources of finance.  Now, all that is sort of underground with the technologies involved.  So part of the problem is how to re-apply that old leaflet-model onto the Internet.  [We suggest that is impossible and just further proves our theory or model  about a touch-tronic computer in the Garden of Eden to explain the current chaos and put what Adam did to sin into perhaps the actual context it needs to be in.  No one could possibly understand the concept of touch-tronic computers and even ubiquitous hand-held versions available to nearly everyone until very recent times lending support that these are the times Daniel 12:4 & 9 spoke of].  The professor concluded, "The problems are a wake-up call to publishers - they need to build up relationships via other more traditional methods".
1/3/18, "Dysfunctional International governance systems".  That was the view of  one commentator on an international television station's news service today concerning the failure to do anything about stopping many international conflicts in places like Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, CAR, the Sahel Region of North Africa, and elsewhere.  The more specific point he was making concerned Egypt and the UAE supplying weapons to various Libyan groups despite bans on such by the UN.  He also complained that other countries such as the USA and Britain or France and the EU were not doing anything to sancrtion the Egyptians and UAE in effect passing on weapons the major countries had supplied in the first instance.
A comment like this is very interesting for it confirms the apostle's warning that in the Last Days government would be removed (II Thessalonians 2:8) to pave the way for the arrival and rise to supremacy of the Antichrist-666. 
2/3/18, "Internal obstacles (one's beliefs) hinder one from doing things or learning".  Those were the words of a woman who had not been to a public school because she was home-taught in a strict Morman household.  By the time of the interview she had become a Muslim.  Another naked attempt by the radio stations to paint Islam as a progressive and peaceful faith to be respected.  At the same time, by implying that Mormons are somehow linked to Christianity and Judaism implying negativity, and reverse-linking good and proper Christianity with evil Mormonism   The message of True Christianity is lost amidst all this noisy propaganda. This is part of the Devil's strategy using the radio and TV, for he is the "prince of the power of the air" (Ephesians 2:2), to influence things toward his goals for his son (Antichrist)  to rule the world.
The reality is that without "Christ in You, the Hope of Glory" (Colossians 1:27), one is truly lost and without hope.  But everyone gets the opportunity to enter into this happy realm.   This blessed estate is only made possible once one is born from above or born anew by God's Holy Spirit.  He convicts everyone of one's sin and by imputation acknowledging that one is The Sinner Jesus died for as one would have followed Adam's tragic example.  So many people are weighed down by the guilt from their sin and by the consequences of that sin in things like broken relationships, loss of trust, illness, poverty, addictions and the like.   Some people, although weighed down by their sin, do in fact achieve many things and indeed learn much in the process.  They are the workaholics or lovers of money who drive themselves to ever increasing levels of activity and achieving much 'fame and fortune' as they nevertheless drown out that nagging realisation that their end has to come one day for despite everything they may have achieved they are still sinners.  As that 'End' approaches, unless a sudden termination intevenes as often happens, and they find themselves having to focus quickly on what happens after that but that, even at. a very late stage in life may lead to repentence and salvation from sin.
In the Apostle Paul's letter to the Colossians, quoted in the previous paragraph, it was widely known the Jews would experience such a hope.  Perhaps one way that had been expressed was in Jeremiah 31:31-34 and other passages (Isaiah 55:3, 59:21, 61:8-9, Jeremiah 32:40, Ezekiel 16:60, 34:25-31, 37:26-28).  Apostle Paul was making it clear to the Colossians and all other Gentiles that they too were included in this Promise.  There had been an inclination among some Jewish believers to understand that only Jews would be included unless Gentiles took on the commands of Moses and obeyed that Law.  The Apostle set the Colossians aright on that matter and indeed all other Gentiles who read this letter.  This "Christ in You, the Hope of Glory" or the permanent indwelling Spirit of God would characterise the Church Age which we now suspect is coming to an end.  The Church Age, as typified by the Parable of the Sower and related parables, In God's Great Plan was to form the third dispensation following the Conscience and Israel eras.  It seems it would have the same amount of time the previous two dispensations had to make their mark on the world.  But like the two previous dispensations, this third one would complete the 6000 years God apparetly had allotted to Man's folly in the wake of his consumption from the Tree of Knowledge.   
As with the two previous dispensations, there had been believers who properly understood God's Plan for the world.  But the three eras or dispensations were more of a trilogy of shortcomings falling well short of success.  The first era fell at the Flood then at Babel.  The Second Era fell when the Children of Israel preferred to remain in Egypt where Jospeh had become the Pharaoh's 2-IC rather than go straight back to Canaan in circa 1900 BC and follow God's plan to make a nation of Israel there in Canaan, or Palestine or 'Israel'.  Then Israel "stumbled" over Jesus of Nazareth.  The Third Era, or Church Age, fell into corruption thinking the Lord would return in AD 1030 and by imposing a theocracy on the Western World when that had not been called for.  Christendom's second big mistake is to reduce the Bible to allegory, typology and metaphor and so fail to warn and prepare the world for the imminence of the 'End of the Last Days' and the appearance and rise of Antichrist  That failure in turn leads to no urgency in warning people of the need to get on the Lord's side A.S.A.P.
As the Lord had said, the end of Christendom would be like the "Days of Noah ...  and of Lot".  Despite the best efforts of some of us to warn the world, it's not interested in spite of the deeply serious problems beginning to overwhelm us.  Even inside today's Laodicean-like churches few seem to be responding to the door-knocking Jesus does though His mature saints still in attendance until The Rapture suddenly intervenes.  Those left behind and the rest of the world will quickly be faced with the maternal birth-pangs of a spate of end-time prophecies tumbling down their awful moments.  A harvest of saints will still be achieved in that short period (seven years or so) of those final times but why wait until then?  Get aboard the Rapture Train and get off the Gravy Train of this world's pleasures and consumerism by accepting God's Plan of Salvation through His Only Begotten Son, The Ancient of Days, Jesus of Nazareth, The Messiah of Israel, the Son of David and The Son of Man.
4/3/18, No more beyond? or More Beyond?  This came from a reference in a church service where the preacher was speaking about a statue of Christopher Columbus he had seen on an Internet search.  Or he had been there.  It was somewhere in Spain.  It had the inscription, "No more beyond".  He noted a lion (probably of Tarshish, Spain being a member thereof) was in the act of devouring the word 'no'.  Very symbolic of course, hinting there always is something 'More Beyond'.  This bedevils and excites at the same time the physicists struggling with the entrails of their Hadron Collider experiments at CERN, Switzerland (refer Many more particles or many more universes ? below).  But we wander off topic. 
The preacher was using this statue and its word play in a sermon touching on "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is near".  As with all covenant theologians he preaches that Jesus brought in the kingdom with the Church of the Chirist.  Such theologians, which is most of them now, typically confuse the Church of Christ with 'The Kingdom'.  They believe both are the same thing.  What Jesus actually did was to establish His Congregation.  However, it was not yet the full or particular aspect of the Kingdom of God as prescribed by the Prophets of Israel.  What those prophets wrote is not superceded, in our view, as most theologians now think.  That thinking requires them to allegorise prophecies and many other statements in the text.  They turn many passages into 'Typologies'.  Or, they simply reduce statements in the text to having purely, but effectively-subjective, spiritual implications and nothing more.
Precisely what Jesus did do in this respect is to begin the construction ("I will build")  of His Kohel or 'congregation' of those called (Hebrew, qol) by God's Spirit (Hebrew, he).  In effect, it is a congregation of people 'born again', 'born anew'  or 'born from above' or even those 'circumcised on the heart'.  Matthew 16:18 and Mark 4:3-33 give the clearest evidence His new Body is something that had been a mystery until AD 30 and would be in the future while He was away from Earth for an unspecified time.  Jesus began explaining what the next stage of God's work on Earth would be like as a consequence of that AD 30 Israelite generation's rejection of the Kingdom of God offer.  That offer is now on hold until Israel repents when a new generation some day in the (possibly very near) future does this.  That is not the Church but a new generation of the nation of Israel.  Taken literally, that is what the texts say!
To appreiate that, one needs to realise there had been an Age of Conscience alone before either Israel's or the Church's ages (eras).  After the Age of Conscience (Alone, it is still with us) God then began working with Israel, initially through Abraham, Isaac then Jacob, later on through Moses and later still through David then the Prophets.  Man's conscience still pricked him (and her) but God added to that by requiring Israel to live by the Mosaic Code of laws (Romans 4:15, 5:19-21).  However, as Romans 11:25 explains, God Himself imposed a temporary halt on His workings with Israel while, in effect, Jesus of Nazareth's Church carries out its work.  This 'Church or Kohel of the Christ-Messiah is the third age after Conscience and Israel.  It primarily works, in terms of numbers, amongst Gentiles but not forgetting its prime commitment to Jews too.  In Matthew 16 and Mark 4 Jesus was saying, God would for a time begin working with the Church of the Christ.  In both Mark and Romans this is pointed out as a "Mystery", i.e., something earlier believers could not have predicted nor underestood (because Israel's initial rejection of Jesus at rthe First Advent could not be known by Man in advance though it could be to God who did foreknowe that).  Whereas God blessed Israel primarily, but not solely, through very visible and tangible physical blessings such as good crops, wealth etc., the emphasis in Messiah's 'Church' is in receiving spiritual blessings in the main.  Members get what they need for physical existence.  If they so desire and use their energies in certain ways, some church members may acquire wealth as long as they do not worship it.   In ancient or 'Biblical Israel' certain people such as prophets and kings received very special spiritual blessings though everyone was to some exten spiritually blest.  Since AD 30, each Church member receives a full measure and permanence thereof of The Holy Spirit Himself made possible by the Son's unfathomable sacrifice.
Passages like Matthew 16:18 and Mark 4:3-33 (especially 4:22) confirm texts such as Jeremiah 30:24, Daniel 8:26, 12:4 & 9 and Habakkuk 2:3 among several others (refer Key Verses).  They make it clear certain texts in the Bible could not make any sense until the time came for them to be understood.  Their insertion aforetime is deliberate for it reveals one of the most Glorious aspects of God's Word apart from His creative Power.  One speaks here of Prophecy.  That does not mean the Kingdom of God is now here.  It means instead that certain blessings of a spiritual nature have become fully and permanently available to a select group of Believers specifically being the main privilege of the Church of the Christ.  However, just as Israel received either double blessing or double curse in exchange for certain obligations, we have a greater responsibility ipso facto to clearly explain the nature of these spiritual blessings.  No matter what argument one uses, it equally does not make any sense to pretend the Kingdom is now here in its fullest extent as hoped- and longed-for firstly by Israel's prophets and latterly by many more people both Jewish and Gentile.  The world chaos in AD 2018 alone makes that demonstrably and abundantly obvious.  In these papers, one is even suggesting that quite the contrary, the world entered a counterfeit satanic millennium on 1/1/2001 (or 1/1/01 to be perfectly binary about it).
The Apostle Paul picked up this concept of the Myetsry stage of God's work on this Earth.  Following Paul, some people even describe the 'Church Age' as the "Mystery Kingdom". And well they might do!  The words 'mystery' or 'mysteries' appear twenty-seven times in the King James Version of the New Testament.  But comprehension of them is only available to the true and usually more mature believers in the true catholic or universal Body of the Christ.  Possibly, one can almost measure one's progress in the sanctification process by evaluating for oneself how well one is appreciating this.  Many people attend churches and even read the Bible from time to time.  However, the Church of the Christ does share an interesting parallel with ancient Israel. Israel persevered through periods of widespread apostasy in its Era (2000 BC to AD 30) 'True Israel' or "The Israel of God" as Paul put it in Galatians 6:16, hanging on as a group known as "The Remnant".  They were its genuine and heart-circumcised Jews and proselytes or Gentiles who had converterd to become members of the Congregation of Israel.  With the rejection of Jesus by Israel's leadership in AD 30, the believing Remnant of Israel, i.e., Jesus-Yeshua's disciples and follwoers, founded the new body at Pentecost AD 30.
Thus God ceased persevering with Israel for a temporary period.  That was to allow Yeshua's church to bring in His 'Body' (AD 30 to 2030?) and continue God's witness to humanity.  Then, when the Church's ministry is completed, or its full number of members reached, God re-intervenes to complete the next pre-millennial stage of Israel's development.  God will remove the Church through "The Rapture" and then in the Seven-Year Tribulation, God allows Israel to be brought to a denouement we call Apocalypse and Armageddon.  At the Eleventh Hour, we believe, Israel is saved from Antichrist's destruction by Jesus when they finally call upon Him to save them soteriologically and physically.  Clearly, that is Israel and not the Church doing that.  The Church is already soteriologically saved.  It is, however, not yet saved from physical persecution.  The Rapture will bring that about.  After Israel's repentance and salvation, Jesus then introduces the Millennial Kingdom of God.  He rules theocratically for that millennium before destroying the Universe to bring in the New Creation. Elsewhere, we discuss the interesting reasons for Jesus ruling this Earth to demonstrate how much better the governance of this place could have been even with sin.  Sin still operates in that Messianic-Millenial Kingdom although only amongst the carnal folk.  We are not yet in that millennium despite what the postmillennials think.  They comprise most of modern Christendom apart from some amillennials who say there is no such things as millennia. 
In Ephesians 1:9-10, 3:3-4, 6:19, Paul expanded on the point Jesus made in Mark 4:11 about His Mystery Stage of the Kingdom about to be set up.  Furthermore, in Colossians 1:26-27 Paul realised that the Mystery Kingdom would be God's work characterised by a new and unique way with Christ the Saviour somehow being in each true believer.  The condition in Colossians would be full and permanent.  That is for the explicit purpose of explaining God's overall Plan (Roamns 12:2) of Hope and future Glory for all believers of all time.  Until, on The Cross, Jesus paid for the redemption price to release any and every believer from the penalty of sin there was no way (The Triune) God could work amongst believers as He does now with His person somehow indwelling each individual 'temple of God' that each believer is (I Corinthians 3:16, 19, II Corinthians 6:16, Ephesians 2:22,).  This privilege is peculiar to the believers of this 'Third (Church) Era'.  But that is not the Kingdom of God as the Prophets foresaw it and as God intended them to foresee it.  It is just one special aspect of God's overall Kingdom Plan (Romans 12:2) for Creation.
Hopefully one has explained the distinction between the Church Age and the Kingdom of God.  The points described above in effect differentiates believers in the Conscience-alone era from saints in the Israel-Era from Church-Era saints.  All three eras were 'aspects', to coin a term, of God's overall kingdom plan which Church believers are now best equipped to understand in the most but not perfectly ccomplete way.  Each of the Three Eras (Conscience, Israel or Church) that precede the last Millennium stage of the Kingdom Plan plays a role in the overall plan but each is no more (or less) the "Kingdom of God" than either of the other eras.  In fact, all three Eras are tests for humanity so that the Seventh Millennium of the Messianic Kingdom can demonstrate how things might have been.  The Mesianic Kingdom will be so lovely that one would assume everyone born in it would come to salvation.  The fact is that not everyone born into this world then will acknowledge Christ. And that will be yet another lesson we will discover during the Messianic Millennial Kingdom of God that Jesus first offered to Israel at the First Coming.  Again, II Thessalonians 2:7 shows that the Full God-on-Earth Millennial and Messianic Kingdom cannot possibly be here on Earth now.  For the "Mystery of Iniquity or Lawlesness" is still reigning.  That won't change until the Kingdom does come as we are still urged to pray for.  
The Church of Christ's work continues on Earth, until it goes to Heaven with all other resurrected saints when our wor here and now ceases at The Rapture.  That's when dead and living member-saints are translated into a resurrected body, of which Jesus (Yeshua) was the First Fruit(s).  As is becoming clear from Scripture, as recounted in our main paper on the subject, we are almost certainly now in the "Days of Lot and Noah" (along with the re-establishment of the Nation of modern Israel) that are the pin-pointers to that blessed event.  "The Rapture" always was "imminent" as is said, at least in the very technical sense, but previous generations did not correctly interpret the Scriptures regarding it. Logically, The Rapture could clear the way for God to begin the Last Seven Years of Daniel 9:27. That's how or why some who are alive at that moment are enabled to see it unlike Jesus' disciples in AD 30 (Luke 17:22) who would be deceased by then though they will experience it and be in it.  However, presumably the Lord also wanted to use the promise He made about the Rapture to keep every generation of believers on their toes, so to speak.  He expects us to be at the ready if for no other reason than to indicate we actually do believe or have "faith" as He put it when he asked if He would in fact find faaith on Earth when He comes again.  So believers always have been and are now today ever-ready to be lifted off Planet Earth (Matthew 24:36-41, Mark 13:32-37, Luke 17:22-37) at a Trumpet Sound's blast (I Corinthians15:52, I Thessalonians 4:13-18).  One generation at least would not see the Rapture as Luke 17:17:22 shows.
Covenant Theology School-trained preachers view the Kingdom as being solely in the Church because it has replaced Israel in the Kingdom Promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, King David etc.  They ignore the poeple of the Consciene era from Adam until the generations of Noah (2500 BC) who had died off by the time of Abraham (2000 BC).  In a fashion, Covenant Theologians are a bit like Columbus or at least the popular perception about what he was looking for.  Columbus supposedly set sail westwards for India.  Instead, he stumbled across the Americas.  Supposedly, that's why some islands he found in the Caribbean are called the "West Indies" to this very day.  Covenant Theologians and many former Dispensationalists look very far fowrad to the final Glorified state (China in the motif) believers reach but without a lot of other things (the Americas or the Millennium) happening before that.  Principally, they omit the Messianic-Millennial Kingdom in the same way Columbus and his backers supposedly overlooked the Americas on the way to China or India going westwards rather than eastwards and having to go around the huge African continent to get there.  Certainly, for believers there always has bee a blessed 'beyond' but the Bible indicates a lot more intervenes or comes beforehand.  There is a very undesirable 'beyond' for unbelievers.  In this motif that presumably is Haiti!
The Church is far better described as the First Fruit of the New Covenant.  The Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants which primarily discuss the 'Kingdom of God (or of Heaven as in Matthew) have many provisions yet to be fulfilled.  They include the resurrection of Abrham, Isaac, Jacob and David and an era when they all will walk the land with their descendants.  That is something the Patriarchs never enjoyed in their lifetimes, especially so in Abraham's case.  The Patriarchs must walk the Land they were familiar with for all this to be true not some ethereal place in a completely different universe.  It's just that there is more water to pass under the bridge before that end-scenario 'beyond' the millennium, i.e., the New and Eternal Universe to come.  That very far future universe will be every believers' home eventually but not before a sojourn for a millnnium in the Messianic-Millennial Kingdom.  So get on with that prayer for the "Kingdom to Come". 
So the preeacher invoked Christopher Columbus to explain the "Kingdom of Heaven" being "near".  Little did he realise, as most people are equally unaware, Columbus received a royal commission and sailed with letters to foreign dignitaries, signed by the King of Spain.  He was to find land in the Americas for his Jewish compatriots to colonise.  Acually, Columbus was looking for neith China nor India but for permission to settle colonists in some part of the Americas then still officially under Chinese hegemony.  Very soon after, the Europeans and Africans found China was in no position to stop them settling there anywhay because soon after Columbus, China began a long slide into political, social, eonomic and technological  decline.  In AD 1492 when Columbus began to sail the Ocean Blue, Spain gave notice that all Jews had to leave the country (the Iberian Peninsula) newly liberated from the Muslims.  Actually some immediately headed for the Asia Minor Peninsula we name Turkey today where their descendants still reside speaking an AD 15th Century form of Spanish.  That community has mostly returned to Israel.  In 1492, many Muslims remained, apparently, but the Jews had to get out.  In 1992, King Juan Carlos, God Bless him, publicly apologised to Israel for that terrible persecution.  It would be nice to get a similar apology for Christians from a Head of State but we will just wait for the Supreme Head to arrive and then we will receive justice.  There's not much point pleading for it until then.  
So although that statue in Spain makes a play on the words betwen "No More Beyond" and "More Beyond" another sub-play on the words could be to replace one of the original words, i.e., 'beyond' with the word "Jews"!  And that is becoming the catch-cry now as the world heads for apocalypse and unites under Antichrist to wipe out Israel before she comes to repent of the rejection of Jesus of Nazareth not only as 'Messiah of Israel' but also as 'Saviour' (Hebrew, 'Yeshua') from the death sentence of unforgiven sin.  The Mystery Church Age is simply the interval between that AD 30 rejection and the perhaps very-soon forthcoming acceptance of Jesus by Israel.  Yeshua-Jesus came to pay the blood-price for Adam's sin imputed to everyone of us - Jew and Gentile.  So everyone must accept Jesus in order to live in God's Eternal Kingdpom rather than the place of darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth.  It is only when Israel does this that the Full Kingdom of God of the Biblical prophecies is at last fullfilled and for a thousand years.  Just beforehand, however, the World will be dragooned by Antichrist to attempt to fulfill or bring to fruition the words "No More Jews Forever".
The preacher also trotted out the usual stuff that Columbus was trying to reach India but did not realise the Americas were in the way.  We take the view that "America" is derived from the name of an animal fur trader in Bristol named John 'Ameryck'.  He represented many travellers, colonists or missionaries since the days of Leif Eriksson the Norwegian all o whom had dealings of one sort or another with the 'Americas'.  Thus "West Indies" may well have received that name from any number of travellers going back at least half a millennium before Columbus ('bc' perhaps).  The letters and charter the Spanish king gave Columbus serves also to confirm Europeans knew very well foreign rulers governed the Americas, of course implying that they knew there were other countries and kingdoms out there but now confirmed that they knew when President Erdogan of Turkey made a recent statement on the matter.  Erdogan pointed out, in an account one read in the local Wellington daily newspaper, that Muslims had been in the Americas since AD 1180.  It now seems quite likely that the Spaniards hoped the Muslims in Cuba or in the Caribbean would take in the Jewish refugees.  That would mean the Jews would have to pay the levy Muslims charge people of other religions if they live under Muslim governance.  That may well be why some Dutch Jews, perhaps from the 'Spanish Netherlands' the Spaniards occupied in the 16th Century, decided to buy 'Manhattan' instead (we say somewhat tongue-in-cheek).
In addition to knowing that Leif Eriksson founded a colony in New Foundland in circa AD 800 when Alfred ruled Wesex in England, we know Christians would set sail from Ireland to take the Good News of God and Christianity to the 'heathen' in the Americas.  Even when the Mayflower community of Priscilla Mullins and Miles Standish settled in the woods of 'New England' in the modern USA, an Indian came across Miss Mullins and said "Welcome me Samoset".  He even knew a bit of English.  How was that possible in the early 17th Century or  thereabouts?  
In reality, the Spanish sent the Jews packing to the Caribbean where Muslims already had a mosque on Cuba when Columbus sailed past.  Columbus recorded that in his ship's log.  Modern commentators claim he must have seen a rock formation that reminded him of a Mosque.  Although why a rock formation would do that is anyone's guess.  Obviously, Columbus sailed past a 'Cuban' Muslim mosque in circa AD 1492.  Of course everyone knew the Americas were there. They even knew that from an ancient agreement brokered by Solomon of Israel that it had been agreed the ships of Tyre, Sidon, Byblos etc, would not sail any further West than the Azores and no further East than the Torres Strait separating Australia from modern Indonesia.  The Eastern hemisphere, including the Americas belonged to China's sceptre.  In Christendom's heyday, the Western Hemisphere belonged to the Pope who tried to divide it between Spain and Portugal for trading purposes!
In the wake of their particular theological revolution, the Arabs, having conquered and in many cases forced conversion of Africans and Asians, stretched an Islamic empire from Indoinesia to Cuba.  Later the 'christian' or more properly S.H.E.M-ite kingdoms of Europe displaced or supplanted Muslim rule from Indonesia to Cuba.   In India, the collapse of the Muslim Moghul civilizartion, enabled the Europeans of Portugal, Netherlands, France and Britain to supplant Muslims no doubt to the Hindus' delight.  China's long slow decline from its scientific and cultural height in AD 1000 had been unable to defend its American possessions in the face of an onslaught from Africans (mainly to 'Latin America or South America and the Caribbean) and Europeans (all over the Americas).  Perhaps because of their military superiority in Europe and Africa between AD 700 and circa AD 1300,   Muslims of various nationalities had also taken advantage of that.  However, while Muslims;  as we now seem to realise from new light shed on the matter in the most recent research; temporarily came to be in the forefront of 10th to 13th settlement of parts of the Americas or Caribbean, that would not last or have much lasting effect.  By circa AD 1200 in 'Palestine' they had thrown out the last Crusader kingdom.  It may even have been the case that the European crusaders only managed to capture parts of Israel for a century or so between AD 1100 and 1200 because between AD 1000-1200 the Muslims were too thinly stretched, militarily speaking, over their dominions from Cuba to Indonesia.  Thus in the 13th Century AD, Islam seems to have focused more going East and 'South' (i.e., into Africa) from the Middle East rather than West.  It seems the 'christian' kingdoms or nations of Europe got the upper hand dominating the American continent from about AD 1600 onwards.  Also, in the 14th Century, the "Black Death" and Bubonic Plagues devastated Europe's population.  Those pesrilences, sprouting fears amongst the populace that Doomsday had arrived, delayed Europeans by at least a century from exploiting colonial development of anywhere let alone in their first main forays therein i.e., in the Americas.
Certainly, China had lost control of the Americas.  The Apache, Arapaho, Aztecs, Cherokee,  Commanchi, Incas, Mayans, Mohicans, Sioux and other groups that had been migrating since Babel (2000 BC) to the Americas from the Asian and Pacific Ocean side of the American continent(s) could no longer rely on China's backing.  Although the Chinese had musket power well before the Europeans, when the latter did come into possession of them, they drove the Asia-Pacific nations in the Americas into a very quick submission.  Worse, it seems there may even have been attempts at exterminating those cultures and nations.
On the other hand, it was becoming clear the world's population was on the rise and that many nations were running out of resources to feed, clothe and house their people.  Africa, the Americas and parts of Asia;  some land in that latter region opening up as the northern ice cap retreated;  offered a lot of unused and unexplored land.  Unexplored in the sense that it could be searched out for potential use as places to house, feed and clothe people or even, as in the case of New Zealand, produce those goods for export to places where thetre were shortages for one reason or another.  Thus the Western colonisers, once Westphalia had set the direction for them, then brought out the Gospel of Western Governance from a S.H.E.M-ite perspective to pursue goials that would benefit all Humanity and the Animal Kingdom.  Looking back at that nowadays, few are able to distinguish those noble aims from all the other crap that took place.  Some historians like the writer here are aware of all this.  However, this historian is also aware that much of these things were anticipated or indeed prophesied in the Bible.  God's Oracles (The Bible) give us sufficient information about the past 6000 years of Human history here to be able to set up the correct frameworks for explaining what is presently beyond our minds.  The more we read of the Bible, assuming one is justified and is correctly on the sanctification path, the more we learn and see beyond our narrow, shortsighted purview as we are wont to sink into.        
8/3/18, " .. a long way to go to find a mature attitude to social media".  A well known commentator on New Zealand radio and TV said she never uses 'social media' because it gives licence to bullies to anonymously harass one.  She says she won't touch social media until there is a mature attitude to it.  There may not be time for this to 'mature' since we strongly suspect the Kingdom of God is coming before social media users an or will mature.  God's kingdom will destroy social media and all the system underpinning it.  The commentator also used the term 'echo chambers' where people simply hear the same thing being repeated and iterated to the point they will listen to no other point of view and retreat into bigotry.  They only talk to others in the virtual echo chamber they converse with.  It is silo mentality as well.  They become oblivious to anyone, anything or any event, outside their virtual smart-phone silo, going on around them in the physical environment they actually physically are in.  Their  eyes and ears are totally consumed with the virtual world within their hand-held silicon-chipped and rare-earth activated smart phones.  They really have come back full circle ["@"] to the warning God gave Adam and Eve.  But they are toatlly unaware of that.  One cannot get their attention to tell them either.  One is standing next to them but as far as they are concerned one is not on their smart phone screen or in their ear-phones so one does not even exist let alone get them to hear the words of Jesus.
9/3/18, "Cross border conflicts and human rights breaches".   A New Zealand diplomat attached to the 193-member United Nations talking about the distinctions between multilateral and bilateral agreements.  She explained that multilateral agreements are taking more time and priority because the world has many issues that can only be resolved in that manner.  She cited this problem of "cross-border conflicts" in that context.  We have identified many such issues (refer list at end of this item).  We say the Bible in the prophecy of the last stage of the Fourth Empire, the 'Roman', would  bring in a world government.  It will devolve powers to Ten Kings of ten regions that the world's 193 or so nations would gather under.  The Antichrist-666 then begins his relatively rapid rise to power as he takes control of the Ten Kings (three rebel apparently).  But he uses his power and influence to turn the tables on Israel, having earlier negotiated a treaty with the Jews to resolve all the issues that currently bedevil the Middle East, and move all the nations to assemble armies on the Plains of the Jezreel around the pass at Megiddo in preparation for the last campaign of the Tribulation - Armageddon.
But the world's problems are largely the long run consequence of man's mis-use of knowledge.  God had warned us to avoid by obeying His command to Adam and Eve to leave the Tree of Knowledge alone.  As the diplomat also said, these problems are interconnected and intertwined to further complicate matters.  Adam and Eve could not have predicted the arrival of all this nonsense we now have to resolve.  But God did.  That is why He planned to send His Only Begotten Son to pay for Adam's (and ours') mistake.
As noted in "27/1/18, Emerging technologies are making this world a dangerous place", here is the list of the many multilateral issues we have identified or collected from various sources that need world government or a more rationalised system of just ten kings rather than 193 or more:
•	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, 28/4/17);
•	International Terrorism;
•	Bringing war- and genocide-criminals to international justice; 
•	Planning for or adapting to Global Warming Impacts;
•	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;
•	Governments too small or weak to cope with technology advances;
•	Science unethical and untheological; Theology unscientific;
•	Plastics in the Oceans; and
•	Cross border conflicts and human rights breached.
9/3/18, US President trumps predecessors; secures talks with North Korea.  Today the South Koreans from a porch at the White House announced that the North Korean President had invited US President Trump to meet with him with a view to "de-nuclearising the Korean Peninsula".  After a series of provocative North Korean missile launches and nuclear device explosions that invited strong negative rhetoric and even stronger sanctions from the US, China and others, Mr Kim Jong Un seems to have acquiesced and agreed to meet the Americans with the South Koreans but perhaps in tow.  "In tow" regarding the South Koreans because the Japanese without any army or access to nuclear weapons and defensive systems are acutely nervous about the whole thing.  So the Americans find themselves as a neutra; party in that sense but a role they seem unable to exit supposing they do want to exit.  The US may prefer to keep all this boiling so that can maintain a foothold in Asia.  The Japanese still suffer from the ongoing bitterness all Koreans have for them because of WWII atrocities.  China too still wants to exact apologies from the Nips.  Apparently economic and financial sanctions are really beginning to bite and hurt North Korea.  The northeners may now genuinely be frightened they would come off a very nasty second-best in any military action which they may well believe the US would and could take.  For his part, this North Korean leader also could achieve leitimacy amongst his own people by securing a face to face meeting with the American President.  For Messrs Trump and Kim there is a cherry here in that they have been able to succeed where predecessors failed.  Already, even NZ radio talkback callers are congratulating Mr Trump. No location is yet secured for this meeting.
We wonder if the US is being overly distracted by all of this while the Gogite alliance prepares for its moves on Israel.  Even if a serious raprochement works out between the two Koreas and the USA, also with Japan and China and their vital interests in all this, the news may not be so good.  As the Americans and the West bask in the afterglow of such a development that is exactly when the Gogites could strike at Israel under the Ezekiel 38:10 plan of mischief.  Is all this just another part of a cunning plot with Russia and others using the Koreans to generate a crisis by supplying the North Koreans with nuclear devices and missiles to make it appear the North Koreans are achieving nuclear capability?  It could all be part of a wide-ranging and very cunning plan.  It takes our eyes off the real ball-game which for the meantime Russia and allies are winning in the Middle East.
So we enter yet another interesting phase in world history where only the Bible and His Story can interpret what really is going on.
10/3/18, "Dangerous for the UK national interest".  A warning from a commentator on current Saudi foreign policy strategy on a television news issues programme. But if all this is part of the manoeuvering as we enter that phase of world history prophesied by Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 then the point is rather irrelevant.  Who knows what 'national interests' can possibly survive after God deals with the 'islands' dwelling 'carelessly nearby". 
10/3/18, Jordanians worry MBS's Politics are failing in Yemen and elsewhere.  This came up in a discussion between some television commentators discussing the political and strategic moves by Mohammad Bin Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince, on the international stage.  One of them raised the question whether the UK should support the Crown Prince before he is king.  The Hashemite regime in Jordan has no love for the Al Saud because of events in Arabia in the 1920's.  The Jordanian king wears a title "Defender or Keeper of the Holy Places".  Originally, they were Mecca and Medina until the Al Saud took them off the Hashemites with American armaments.  The British responded by installing currrent Hashemite King Abdullah's great grandfather, also named Abdullah, on the throne of a new kingdom Britain set up to compensate the Hashemites for their losses in the Hejaz (Western Arabian Peninsula).  So just how 'worried' is the Jordanian regime?  Surely any failure of the Saudis is good news for them to see their ancient rival being cut down to size.  But even the Jordanians might yet be surprised by how much the Al Saud is cut down.  We suggest that behind all these machinations is a game plan to re-establish another Babylon in the regions currently controlled by the Saudis and emirates surrounding or on the fringe of the kingdom.  Perhaps the Jordanians are worried about an even worse enemy gaining control of the Saudis' realm.  On the other hand the Fall of the House of Saud could mean the Jordanian Hashemites get their former territory back again.  What some observers think might be a 'worry' for the Jordanians might yet become a golden opportunity.  Even so, it will be short-lived because the Creator has an even greater plan in process.
10/3/18, "MBS carried out a white coup against the rest of the Al Saud".  He put quite a few of his relatives under plush hotel arrest while he negotiated with them and presumably retained some of their ill-goten gains much in the same way Mr Putin seems to have done in Russia.  How much both men pocketed in their respective robin hood, or perhaps robe and turban tactics in MBS's case, remains secret.  As we note below everyone might one day soon be surprised to see the Antichrist get it all once he is revealed.
10/3/18, "UK and USA have diplomatic leverage over Saudis" ....  But that is hardly relevant if we are on the verge of the Ezekiel Gogite scenario and the pre-Armageddon invasion of Israel.    
10/3/18, "... but morally bankrupt they prefer dollars to moral or ethical sense".  A play on words here with dollars and cents.  However, there is no morality anywhere now in international relations which is why the wotld is descending into the mire prophesied by the Bible for The Last Days.
10/3/18, "Serious political crises in West Europe and USA.  Along with the next item this point arose out of commentators discussing problems on the Arabian Peninsula.  The US is in trouble as it tries to fathom or make sense of events in the White House.  It also seems to ne heading for some trouble with gun control, slaying of Black coloured people by police and and drugs.  Britain is struggling with Brexit.  Spain is close to a repeat of the terrible civil war sparked by Catalan independence, or bid for secession.  Much of Western Europe is in fact the Tarshish of the Bible mentioned in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  See next item.  
10/3/18, Serious political crises in Arabian Peninsula.  However, as with the previous item, there are problems on the Peninsula (Rome's Arabia Felix) where Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, with Egypt on the sidelines going along with the scheme, are ganging up against Qatar.  This Emirate: or Sheba as we think the Bible would have labelled it, which also may be the Kedar mentioned in the Bible;  juts out into the Persian Gulf.  Qatar is a mini peninsula off the main Arabian rectangular peninsula.  It juts out toward Iran.  Qatar shares a massive gas field with Iran.  So it has to be civil to its big Eastern neighbour.  Qatar also seems to be forging ahead with moves to become more of a secular liberal democracy.  Qatar also seems to pursue a more inependent line from its Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) partners.  But the other members seem to see the GCC as a sort of bulwark against Iran.  Obviously, Qatar cannot be so explicit about that and needs to remain on pleasant terms with Iran.
However, looming social crises, feminism and theological disputes seem set to plunge the region into very deep political chaos.  So these might well be the conditions for the 'shebas of Dedan-Eden' that Ezekiel also talked about.  As Arabia,  Europe and the US are emascualetd, neutralised, become disinterested or distracted, the Gogite horde  may move in on Israel.  We again seem to be ever closer to this scenario.
10/3/18, "The Siege of Qatar".  How one commentator described the isolation of the Emirate by its fellow GCC mates.  One commentator thinks it is the other smaller emirates who are more concerned about matters in Qatar spilling over intoi their states.  The new Crown Prince of Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) is also trying to liberalise some things such as womens' righhts in Arabia.  
10/3/18, "MBS sees Qatar, Turkey and Iran as an evil triumvirate".  It is possible how one could view things that way.  Iran and Qatar share a gas field.  Turkey has a base in Qatar.  The trouble is that Shiite Iran and quasi-secular Erdoganist Turkey do not seem to make for a very harmonious relationship.  Many Turks, even quite religious ones, would not have any love for Iran's brand of Islam.  One also assumes the majority of modern Turks prefer looking westward rather than eastward to obscurantist Iran.  However, in the Middle East, at it is now (2018), all sorts of alliances come and go, or re-align, in a very fluid situation.  No one wants to see anyone else gain a significant advantage so alliances do metamorphise with alarming regularity.  This only underscores once again the view that only the Biblical outline for these nations as they approach Armageddon now seems to make any sense.
10/3/18, Biscuit Apocalypse.  As the Middle East seems set on its Biblically prophesied course for the revival of Babylon as the Global Manipulators set up their long awaited kingdom, New Zealand television deals in trivialities.  Armageddon and the Apocalypse are getting closer but New Zealand trivialises these terrible occasions.  All that will be preceded by the Gogite invasion of Israel.  And all that has to take place up to the return of Jesus of Nazareth.  He will introduce the long awaited Millennium and Messianic Kingdom from His base in Jerusalem, New Zealanders are watching advertisements like this on their TVs.  The Advertisement features the country's national rugby team coach.  The All Blacks, appropriately dresssed in Satan's colour (darkness) are the country's flagship along with sheep.  Although the latter have declined in numbers by 70% in the last 40 years.  Cows have more than replaced the sheep perhaps tipping the balance a litle too far the bovine way necessitating a swing back towards the ovine end of the pendulum.  But that is obiter dicta.
The real problem here is that once again we have people mocking the Scriptures.  We have developed a list of the ways in which people around the world have made fun of both Armageddon and Apocalypse.  Admittedly, many people in the past unwisely claimed these terrible events prophesied in the Bible were happening in their time whether that was AD 400, AD 1657 (and the Mundi Conflagratio) or even AD 1918 onwards.  The rise of Adolf Hitler (1930-) may well have shaken Christians into realising the antichrist could yet come and that there was a definite possibility thar there would be such a unique person, sired by Satan of a Roman woman, to rule the world.  But the Nazi  leader was not the anti-Nazar of the Bible.  All this nonsense just seems to be exactly the scenario that God almost seems to have set with a virtual smile on His Face (Psalm 2:4, 37:13 and 59:8) as the world succumbs to a mass hypnosis and fails to realise that now is indeed the hour.  "Just when you least expect it, smile, you are on Candid Camera" as the late Mr Alan Funt might have said were he alive today.
In the advertisement, the NZ All Blacks coach, a Mr Steve Hansen, appears as a motor cycle gang member, dressed to the hilt in leather.  Around him one sees the imagined fires of the apocalypse.  Smoke is all around.  The scene also seems to invoke some sort of computer game which may be marketed with the advertisement but this viewer is not sure about that.  "Don't lose your biscuit" is one of the by-lines.  This is a curious Kiwi slang for 'keep a lid on' or 'keep your cool' or 'do not get so uptight, relax'.  That last phrase just about sums it up.  Even in churches there seems little appetite for even mentioning these Last Days issues.  Just relax, "she'll be right" is the national motto.  It's probably much the same in other modern secular countries.  Only the hell-bound Muslims and subterranean cultures seem interested in looking for signs of these Biblically portended days.  That is probably because they interpret these Scriptures as showing Satan will win and they want to be on the winning side.  Naturally, they want to be able to read the signs.  But why aren't Christians so ready to look for or read the signs?  That is indeed quite a mystery but the Lord did seem to know, as He would do in His Divinity, that come the Day of the Rapture, there would in fact be widespread apathy with people putting their daily activities to the fore and keeping their eyes buried under a bushel.  The Lord did not tell the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins without reason.         
10/3/18, Mr Altakriti becomes new President of UK Muslim Association.  We often find interesting names surfacing in the news.  So we comment on them.  Here we have a name based on the Arabic name for the River Tigris (Hiddekel in Hebrew and KJV transliteration), the river of Genesis 2:14.  Whereas it was once the river of Assyria and the Ninevahites whom the book of Jonah tells us repented sometime between 800-620 BC, now is under the control of Muslims or secular Gentiles.  As with the former Puntite nations who also tended to be friendly to Israedl and often gained indirect benefit from Israel's occasional obedience to the Commandments of Moses, that region of Iraq  is under anti-Israelite groups.  They are anti-Semitic because they are Muslim.  Another couple of names likewise echoing the nations that formerly were pro-Israel we have Mr Dimistoria [he of those from (mi) Tyre] a key UN official and the new UN chief (Guterras Banderras) whose names echo ancient Tyre (Tsor).  But those ancient maritime ports in the Eastern Mediterranean and on the African coast of that sea, are also now under Muslim or hostile-to-Israel regimes (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Turkey).
It is amazing how some nations mentioned in the Bible as being at least pleasant toward ancient Israel are now under very hostile anti-Jewish regimes making Ezekiel's prophecies in chapters 38-39 very interesting and worthy of examination under the very dire current circumstances facing much of Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia and Eastern Europe.
Speaking of "Ezekiel", we heard another name on a separate news item (refer next item).  This was Mr Ezekiel Vincente, a designer of patterns for clothes based on indegenous Mexican examples.  He complained that his designs are stolen from him and replicated by international fashion designers without paying him royalties.  This adds yet another small piece in a much broader puzzle, this time involving names of people.  The name helps us to define Tarshish and her young lions of kaffirs or villages in the Last Days on the eve of the first Gogite invasion of the Holy Land.
10/3/18, UK wants allies to condemn Russia for nerve gas attack.  The most interesting thing here is that this particular news item on an international television news service was immediately followed by the item noted in the last paragraph of the previous item about Mr Ezekiel Vincente.  During the remainder of the day, both items about Britain's anti-Russia condemnation and this story about the Mexican indigenous clothing designer were aired but separate from each other.  On only one occasion the did the two stories run together.  The editors later separated them in the half-hourly or hourly news broadcasts which always begin on the head of the hour throughout the 24-hour service.
Our interest is that for those in the know it highlighted once again where the Biblical outline of the many nations involved in the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 Gogite invasion of Israel actually connected two very different and seemingly quite unrelated news items.  One was about a spy and the other about a clothes designer, when in fact they had a very close connection.  Without the prophecy or being unaware of what the Bible is telling us about these days, other members of the public would be completely blind to the possibilities.  The two items running together consecutively occirred just once that day.  Each was repeated throughout the day.  After that they both went off broadcast as other more recent developments phased out the earlier items.
10/3/18, UK denounces Kremlin after ex-Russian spy is nerve gassed allegedly by Putin's gang.  The incident took place in the ancient British city of Salisbury (9/3/18).   If the Kremlin under Putin's leadership did execute the attack which also affected a British policeman and some other bystanders, then it is a statement with particular emphasis when it takes place in such a prestigious place.  It strikes at the heart of England although we need to remember this agent was a Russian spying against his own people.  'Salisbury' left the UK Government with no option after Mr Litvinenko was assassinated using polonium in Euston, London in November 2006 while the writer was living in that area of London (Bloomsbury). At the same time as this Salisbury incident, another Russian agent living in England was murdered in his house.  So all three incidents meant that Russia had to be 'disciplined'.  But the two recent incidents, Mr Scripol and his daughter in Salisbury being the one Putin and his Russian Government claim is a set-up, could be just another cog in a plan where 'Gog', whoever or whatever he or it is, sets up a big web of mischief over many different theatres to deceive other pro- or not-so-anti-Israel nations while he or it organises a massive invasion of Israel's 'West Bank' as it was when Jordan annexed it but now is mainly east, south or central to the main land-holding of modern Israel.   So these incidents add to our extensive log of developmnets that seem to fit the circumstances envisaged in the prophecy of Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  We can but watch and wait.  That is instructive and relevant because we are also meant to be on the watch for The Last Trump and The Rapture.
10/3/18, "Antarctic Treaty nations working together in peace and harmony".  Yes, that does seem to be the case - at first sight.  In 2007, however, the other partners were alarmed that Russia at her Vostok base was drilling deep down through the ice to see what lay in the warm-water lakes underneath the ice.  On returning to NZ that year for a brief visit, the writer asked NZ's lead writer on the IPCC reports if he were aware of a lake underneath the ice.  I suggested that presented evidence that the south polar ice cap was melting from underneath as much as anywhere else in the ice cap.  I suggested that had nothing to do with anthropomorphic global warming (i.e., caused by mankind's activities).  He casually replied that there were in fact at lest 130 such lakes under the ice and on the land surface away down there some 3000 meters under the ice coiver.
A few years later, from a spokesman for the same organisation the lead writer worked for, I learned that they officially did not see the impact of those lakes under the ice as having any material significance for "another 400 years".  It's rubbish like that which makes one realise the 'international peace and harmony' down there is actually part of a conspiracy to hide certain truths from the world's public.  This is especially hard to take when one realises we pay big taxes to fund those Antarctic research stations.  We never get to see what really happens there in any detail.  We only get the briefest and most heavily sanitised accounts of the things they are doing down there in all this "peace and harmony".
If there is indeed so much peace and harmony down there, then why has not some of that trickled down or up depending on perspective, to help the world with all its other troubles.  The best conclusion is that the so-called 'peace and harmony' down there is in fact a sham.  Even if the nations can work together down there, it is often the case that when the ships arrive back on the ice in the summer to relieve and re-victual the remaining employees, in their respoective national bases, they find much disharmony.  Those who had winter down there through six months of darkness are often found sitting in their own small pad, not communicating with their fellows, depressed and argumentative.
It really is a sham down there.  One thing we can and do learn from that is Man can never hope to spend months or years trapped in a tin can hurtling through space to some other planetary destination.  Six months to Mars would probably lead to disaster as they disembark on the Red Planet.  Their most likely occupation once there would be to have a jolly good fight in honour of the War God Aries-Mars-Marduk.       
11/3/18, "It's now a battle between Globalists and Nationalists".  That was Mr Steve Bennarman speaking at a French political party conference for Marine Le Pen's French National Front.  Just before this conference, he had been the banner man for Mr Trump's campaign to be US President.  But he had just been sacked, fired or perhaps laid off by the President whose White House administration appears to be in some sort of chaos.  That is unless that is being organised of course.  One never knows in politics nor cricket.  However, this is an interesting observation and it does seem as though people around the world are sitting up a bit and realising that there seems to be some sort of drive toward some sort of new international governance system.  The existing set-up;  even with its international arms in finance (IMF and World Bank), Justice (ICC), Trade (WTO) and the UN and its various sub-groups like the Security Council;  is no longer effective in countering world problems.  While some prefer to ra-align world governance, the Internationalists or Globalists and especially with their pet global-warming theory which they seem to be using to bring about a new order like that which the Bible prophesies, seem to be leading the race.  The Nationalists are beginning to fight back especially via immigration restrictions, trade as the USA seems to be doing or ethnic cleansing as the Burmese, Syrians, Sudanese, Congolese and others seem to be doing.  However, whatever trends we see in the ral world, and the outcomes are quite simply looking disastrous at the moment.  Only the Bible with God's Plan for the world which Romans 12:1-2 asks us to observe, teach, explain or promulgate, now ,makes any sesne for the world in these Last Days of Adam's Folly.
14/3/18, USA threatens to go it alone in Syria.  That's what it told Security Council members if the Russians, Syrians and Turks did not honour the ceasefires supposedly arranged to rescue neutral civilians trapped in war-zones around Damascus (Goutha suburbs).  However, the US President said he wanted to pull out of Syria and leave it to other countries to fix up the mess.
14/3/18, "The US is prepared to act if it must", said its spokeswoman Nicki Haly.  About 400,000 residents are trapped inside the Goutha region, she added.
14/3/18, "Does the Security Council count for anything now in international relations?"  That was the refrain from the UK spokesman at the same Security Council meeting as the previous item.  This is another clear reference we believe to a gradual softening up of the current international preparing for a new regime in international relations.  Our question is whether this new order is the one we believe is explained in the cryptic prophecies of the Bible.
14/3/18, "Former League of Nations, now the UN failed for the same reason".  That reason, according to the speaker, is member nations are putting their own interests ahead of the international body's responsibilities or obligations.  That opinion, quite an accurate one as far as we can perceive, came from an academic  observer based in Muscat.  The city (or region) is a sort of emirate on the Arabian peninsula (formerly "Muscat and Oman").  He was participating on the same television news programme discussing issues raised in the previous item here.
So with this commentator from Muscat, we have yet another perspective on the failure of the post WWII set up, sometimes referred to as "Bretton Woods", aimed at resolving first-half 20th Century international problems.  Those problems, many of them 'institutional' and having roots in 19th Century events, were generally thought to be causes of WWI & II.  But the intervening 'Peace' experienced a huge boom-bust economic cycle following the Armistice of 11/11/18.  Some people say the boom-bust cycle was in the middle of that 'War', taking the view WWi & II were one long war betwen 1914-45.  The intensity behind that inter-war boom-bust cycle may have been due to a concentration on economics rather than on politics in the old 'Politicaleconomy'.  Perhaps we made a similar mistake in the 1980's and 90's so that now we are having a lot of political wars!
But the key thing to note here is that after The Armistice everyone began to focus on the 1920's economic boom and the 1930's Great Depresion.  The IBRD ('World Bank' or International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and the IMF (International Monetary Fund) were established to manage international economic isues while the League of Nations was restructured and expanded into the United Nations Organisation.
In connection with our modern international structures and how they emerged out of the 19th Century system of 'Politicaleconomy' we need to mention the fall of Christendom and its theocratic systems.  In the mid 17th Century Christendom in Europe gave way to the Secular, Humanist and Materialist paradigm to be later (mid 19th Century) supplemented with the Evolutioniust aspect.  Thus 'Political-economy' emerged as a formal study from the new S.H.E.M-itism of world governance that developed between 1648 and 1812 (the end of the Napoleonic Wars).  The evolutionist aspect received its boost with Lyell, Darwin and Lamarck as the 19th century progresed and they put modern 'respectibility' to Aristotle's basic ideas on the matter.  Then, at 'Bretton Woods' they in effect formally separated Economics from Politics and made 'One' into 'Two' though in reality governors continued to mix the two like cocktails especially during the neo-Keynesian period of the 1960's and 70's.
Bible students realise all these machinations in world governance and politicaleconomy are just the teleological course human politics and economics inevitably must make as Adam's Fall runs its course.  By the way, this is not fatalism.  It's realism because over the last 6000 ytears we have gone down various courses in different partrs of the world, learned from some mistakes and moved into the course we are now in.  In tandem, there are certain paths or streams of technological advance that inevitably converge down a particular pathway that God foresaw long before even the Creation.  These things must run their course as the last four empires of the Times of the Gentiles of Daniel's prophecies work their way out.  The Age, Era or Dispensation of Israel and the Gentiles (officially 2000 BC to AD 30) gave way to the Gentiles handling everything their way in effect from about 600 BC onwards.  The rejection of Jesus' Messiahship by Israel in AD 30 meant that the Era of Christendom would emerge from the ashes or decay of the Roman Empire.  Christendom, and the Wetsphalian System it gave birth to;  alongside Hinduism, Bhuddism, Confucianism, and latterly Islam, etc., in other parts of the world; would itself go through a few stages culminating with a World Government and Ten Nation regimen that the Antichrist-666 will usurp and bring things to  Apocalypse and Armageddon.  Then will come the Messianic Millennial Kingdom of God that Jesus of Nazareth will introduce on His Return when today's Nation of Israel will repent while under siege by Antichrist and call on Yeshua-Jesus of Nazareth.
14/3/18, "Trump wants Enablers, Validators, not Advisors in his White House".  But there are few people with any power or influence to be enablers.  So what happens to most 'underlings' is that they have to learn how to make excuses as validators.  If one is more fortunate, one may be an advisor but they are rarely held responsible for any advice they do give.  In many ways this statement says much about the dilemma for modern governance.  No one knows how to address many problems and even if they do they will have neither money nor power to effect change or a solution.  So, at best, one becomes a validator over time.        
28/3/18, "In this hall of mirrors it is hard to know what's fake or real".  Here an interviewer was speaking to some gusts on his TV show about the UK's Brexit referendum.  Narrowly won by those wanting to exit the European Union, it now seems the vote was rigged by a sophisticated brainwashing campaign.  That is alleged to have happened recently with US Presidential and other international elections in Africa and perhaps elsewhere. Fakebook and Cambridge analytical seem to have illegally used data collected by the Internet chat platfom (properly 'Facebook') to shape people's opinions.  In our view, if that is indeed possible then it says a lot about the voters, their education, intelligence and general philosophy about life.  As those of us who are students of the Bible are aware, we are now in an age of mostly philosophically blind people.  It is statements like this that surely confirm our suspicions about where the world is heading in these Last Days.  We seem to be on the eve of the rise of the antichrist-666 and the in the 17th year of the satanic millennium with all its 'goals'.  This millennium is set up for this antichrist child now dwelling among us.  According to the Bible, antichrist enters the world's situation in a parallel manner, framework or template to the true Christ who incarnated in 7 BC.  Antichrist, now a teenager if our putative candidate is correctly identified, is under preparation for his role in the antitype.  Of course, we cannot be dogmatic about this but the public should be aware that a scenario like this is forecast in the Bible and there is mounting evidence we are now in that period also described as being like the Days of Noah and the Days of Lot.
28/3/18, Jarrod Kushner buys 666 Fifth Avenue, New York. He paid a lot of money for the imposing building sitting in downtown Manhattan.  With a Jewish man, son-in-law of the US President Trump and family friend with the Netanyahus of Israel, Bibi being Israel's current Prime Minister, we have a juicy story to tell with the antichrist-666 possibly looming in the background somewhere in Western Europe's political union.  Does it act as a harbinger of the end-time international political system of a world government devolving into a Ten Nation system.  It is envisaged in most interpretations of the two prophecies in the dreams or visions given to Nebuchadnezzar one-time king of Babylon, and Daniel one of Israel's prophets.  Those prophecies date back to between 600 and 550 BC.
28/3/18, "Most places are not populated",  Oh really?  Yes, actually.  Two thirds of the globe is water.  If one stretched all its scientists head-to-toe across the globe, two thirds would sink.  Even more of the globe  is under ice or is inaccessible mountains with only the occasional yeti.  That was the point the Chinese Government was making here to explain why they were not very concerned that a space station they had launched was now out of control and hurtling towards the Earth's surface.  Weighing about 8 tons, it would give one a nasty knock on the head if it struck one.  China said it would let anyone know in advance if they were in any danger but until the thing got much closer they could not say with any confidence where it might come down.  As it happened, a few days later we heard the defunct space lab did fall into the South Pacific Ocean.  There, only seals, penguins, whales and other marine species might have suffered.  However, New Zealand may consider it had a close call.
The underlying thing here is the propaganda surrounding so much 'space research'.  What they are really doing is anyone's guess.  At the base there seems to be a genuine belief that mankind can one day traverse the universe and discover new things.  The Bible makes it clear that the hope for new things actuslly only rests among those who agree with God's Plan for humanity in the wake of Adam's Fall.  Those who do not agree with that plan, including the bit that tells one how to be renconciled to God through His Only Begotten Son's personal sacrifice he made for us on the Cross in Israel in AD 30, never get to enjoy the future universe and New Earth God is planning for those who believe Him.  That includes those in the past who believed Him and some more likewise in the near future and during the Millennial Kingdom that now seems not far away.
However, the statement also highlights another point made in the Bible.  The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants (Isaiah 24:5) who, ipso facto, do not cover all that much of the Earth yet they have made a massive mess of the vast tracts of the globe they do not inhabit.  That's also a direct result of Adam's Folly.  If one is correctly reading and understanding God's Plan, it suggests we have come very close to the end of a sixth millennium.  And this is the full amount of time God is prepared to allow the nonsense of Adam's rebellion to have its effect on the Earth and its environment.  That's partly why we are examining the End Time prophecies very closely.  But many other issues also lead us to that strategy.  
28/3/18, "Don't go up and sniff it".  The response of a British observer commenting on what one should do if China's defunct space station should crash land ner you.   He ade, "if you keep clear of it by a hundred yards you should not come to any harm from chemicals, radiation etc".
28/3/18, "Maori, Muslims and Transexuals (but not Christians) represented".  Words of a feminist eulogising over a 'trail-blazing' conference celebrating women's rights.  Of course there was no mention of women's responsibilities.  But that's par for the course for this type of gathering.  It's unlikely any Christian women would have been at the conference.  Far from defending the legitimate rights minorities should naturally receive, especially those unfortunate folk born as 'eunuchs' as the Biblical English language puts it, this conference seeks to impose weird minority opinions on the majority or in contravention of basic biological, physical and chemical laws or contrary to God's commandments on certain matters.
While Maori and transexuals may be legitimately seeking some redress over injustice or discrimination, Islam is asserting it is the only way to go and believes everyone must bow the knee to Allah the Moon god.  These other groups only betray either ignorance or hypocrisy if they align themselves with Muslims as being an oppressed group.  Indeed, by embracing Muslims they automatically reject the words and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, "The Nazarene".  He is the Son of God and is the only one that is going to put all wrongs to right.  However, to be a beneficiary of that one must now, or before one's decease, bow the knee to Jesus as we Christians do and accept Him for His terrible sacrifice made on our behalf if only we believe.
3/4/18, Saudi Crown Prince 'MBS' defends Israel's right to exist.  One wonders if that came in the wake of and/or as a result of Mohammad Bin Salman's trips to the US and UK recently.  Did Israelite's Fairweather Tareshishite friends hace a wee word in the Crown Prince's ear that the Jews were OK and that they would be good friends in Saudi Arabia's campaign to restrict Iran (Peres or Persia in the Bible).  In the UK, commentators saif he was seeking legitimacy for his role as effective Crown Prince and Regent of Saudi Arabia even though his elderly father is still alive.  As far as anyone knows, the current Saudi King (Salman) is fit and well, physically and mentally.  But his crown prince seems to be making all the running in day to day governance and foreign affairs.  The Crown Prince also seems to be on friendly terms with the US President's Jewish son-in-law who has just purchased a massive building on 666 Fifth Avenue, NY!
If Saudi Arabia and its satellite emirates or 'Shebas' comprise the Sheba and Dedan-Eden (or Shebas of Dedan-Eden) or perhaps emirates and sultanates over the ancient Gardebn of Eden-Dedan then we have further confirmation of a grouping of nations that would call out to the Gogite invasion force about to enter Israel as per Ezekiel 38:13.  Apparently, they ask, "are you come to take spoil;  hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey, to take away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?"  At the moment we see Jerusalem as being the more likely 'spoil' for this conspiratorial confederation of evil.
Furthermore, as we have been reporting the Kurds also want to establish themselves under a new political configuration which they describe as a "Shibeh istiqlaal".  They too are increasingly joining an orbit or informal alliance bringing together the Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula; Yemen, probably, excluded unless the Saudis manage to install a completely compliant regime in there; and of course with Israel and the Tarshishite nations of NATO (North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation).  In Britain, Spain, Portugal they are daughter countries of Tyre whereas the Latin Americans, Polynesians, Singaporeans, Australians and Kiwis (the latter three officially part of SEATO) are the grand-daughter countries being colonies, Kaffirs, villages or young lions of Britain, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands (Holland).  The Dutch 'Netherlands' are so-named because they were so far away from Tyre by the time one began sailing up the Rhine from the Rotz Dam (Rotterdam or Tzor-Dam).  One became even more isolated from Tyre (or Carthage) further on up the headwaters of the Rhine known today as the Saar (Tsar or Tsor = head river).
Few are taught these data points from History and Geography because there is a vested interest in the Greco-Roman alliance or cabal in the Academy to push the glories of Greece and Rome and overlook the fact that anything glorious about Greece, hence for Rome, came from Tyre (Dorians), Sidon (Macedonians) and more importantly Jewish refugees (Ionians).  These 8th century emigres from the Levant (not 13th as the Egyptologists would have everyone be;lieve) rescued the Achaean Greeks from the ravages of the Trojan War and the 8th Century Assyrian expansion and revived the region by 600 BC into a thriving commercial, philosophical, scientific, engineering hub.
All that History only becomes available by unlocking it with the help of the Bible and Dr Velikovsky's chronological reconstruction itself based on the Bible.  And that revised History is necesary to understand what really may be happening with MBS's shenanigans.  Whatever, one keeps watch.
6/4/18, "In custody battles it is always difficult separating fact from fiction".  And of course we should not forget to mention Mr Daniel Brown's "faction".  In ths example of this now fundamental and ubiquitous truth, the point arose out of a radio  discussion about children claiming to be sexually abused.  This was within the context of custody battles in family courts in New Zealand.  Such cases typically involve two 'parents' or perhaps a grand-parent or some other relative versus one or both parents fighting over custordy of children or grand-children, nieces or nephews, adoptees etc.  Behind all that, as we point out, is the sin of the world.  After 6000 years that is now accumulating through the generations.  More and more family breakdown occurs to the point of becoming endemic.  Genetic factors abound and many 'mental' problems could also be part of the decline in the human genome as the result of Adam's expulsion from the Garden of Eden and its 'Tree of Life'.  In general, of course, men and women have children but they fail to think deeply enough about what they are doing or who they are with in raising a child.  Differences arise and multiply in depth and frequency and trouble starts etc.  This is all part of the sin nature.  We want things but don't think about other factors in that desire.
In particular, the problem raised by the interviewer is that when a child in these situations alleges sexual interference of some sort, the prevailing view or even paradigm is to give credence to the child's statement.  In effect, that reeuires the adults to prove the child is not telling the truth.  It was in that particular context that the above statement was made.  When interviewing everyone difrectly or even indirectly involved it is difficult to separtae the truth from falsehood.  As Mr Brown might point out, a child may have some knowledge of sexuality but confuses that with other material to have a factional perspective.  But where is the boundary between fact and fiction in there?
9/4/18, "You suddenly realise how little we know ...".  Specifically, in this example, about Man's origins as per the so-called Theory of Higgs-Boson Particle to Man Evolution.  As we have noted this is no longer a theory but merely an idea.  Even then, according to anthropologist Progessor Lee Burger, recent discoveries render the anthropologists' understanding of man's origins is far from an exact science.  We would say it cannot even claim to be science.
9/4/18, "...The model is almost certainly wrong ...".  Indeed it is wrong.  We say Man was put on the Earth, 6000 years ago.  That was in that wonderful act of reformation of this Earth or globe in Genesis in the Bible perhaps 4.5 billion years after Satan's disobedience.  That resulted in the Earth being banished into the darkest recess of the Universe until God said "Let the be Light".  God then returned our Earth to its present galaxy that had been in existence since the Creation of the Universe.  God placed the globe in orbit around a small star in that Galaxy named "The Sun".  Then God took a lifeless rock, a smaller globe, and placed it in orbit around the Earth to work with the Sun in regulating seasons and times etc.  God had already provided His Light in the first three days.  Presumably, that remains somehow while the Sun and Moon regulate things.
Unfortunately, the First Man disobeyed God as Satan had done.  Adam's descendants fell ito such wickedness that after about 1600 years, God flooded the Earth.  At the same time mountains arose as the crust buckled.  The ice caps formed as the waters of the Flood dried up.  Some of the excess watre returned to the great vaults under the Earth's surface whence it had originally escaped in the God ordained and controlled catastrophe that led to the Flood.  The original land mass was split into two main continents, the Americas on one side and the Afro-Eurasian on the other.  A number of other islands, some huge ones like Greenland, Australia, Madagascar, the big islands under Antarctica etc., and others that are tiny also appeared at that time.  But the Flood also destroyed or fossilised many species.  Under much heat and pressure, they became enmeshed in mineral materials that exhibited apparent ages based on rediometric dating.  However, most of the radio-active elements used for those dates are really contamninations.  Thus many human bones and those of similar looking creatures like apes were all jumbled up into all sorts of heaps as they tried to flee the Flood's impact.  Modern anthropologists are now searching for and finding such deposits of human and animal remains.  But they use these things to build a theory or idea to contradict the Bible's record of Man's origins.  They also seek to ridicule the Bible's comments on our origins.  However, their latest discoveries only appear to be confirming the Bible's claims not refute them.  Sadly, most people who read or study the Bible no longer can be bothered arguing their corner and default all the arguments to the Scientists.
Rather than explain what the scientists and anthropologists are discovering within the context of God's outline of Earth's Creation, reformation and recovery from disaster and catastrophe they prefer this so -called 'Theory of Evolution'.  But their theory, from the statements we collect amd report here, lies on very soft ground and absence of clear factual observation.
9/4/18, "We have to rebuild the picture of how we came to be".  By using the framework outlined in the previous item.
9/4/18, "The image on that T-shirt is flawed".  He refers to the shirts that show a small hunch-backed ape on the left transforming through about 6 hominoid shapes to a modern Human waling with a hat, umbrella and briefcase.  That picture of 'evolution' is a caricature in many ways, of course, but it does fairly accurately represent what scientists have effectively transmitted to humanity.  It reveals that their model always was silly.  In the past, no one ever entertained any such idea.  Aristotle in some incipient way may have been an evolutionist, but he stands out like a lunatic amongst his peers on that matter.  Cartoonist Mr Gary Larsen was famous for some of his cartoons on evolutionism.
9/4/18, "We are not a pure-breed but a mongrel or mut".   Professor Burger's theory says that many different strands of early humans existed alongside one another for long periods of time with much intermingling between them.  This discovery has only made it more difficult tracing back to the first hominid (surprise, surprise!).  In our model, the findings are evidence, not proof, each one out of the original set of genomes;  that God formed inside and, or, outside the Garden of Eden;  would have had a much wider spectrum of genes, in that very first generation, as they proceeded to mate within each of their own and only their own "kind" (or miyn in Hebrew).  Only sometime after the Fall do we find a lot more speciation where animals begin to selectively intra-breed or naturally select with particular members of their own kind or family.  That would only be ape with ape or human with human and could not possibly form completely different genomes over billions of years as the evolutionists believe.  In any event, there is no evidence life as we know it on Earth has been around for any more than about 6000 years.  Nor did already evolved species arrive here on comets or asteroids even if in only amoebic or bacterial form.  The process by which different varieties within a 'kind' or 'miyn' appeared meant that members of each sub-species were losing genetic information, not gaining it.  More precisely, this is devolution (loss) not evolution (acquisition or gain).  
Biblically speaking, the appearance of many sub-species ('speciation') could be a natural consequence of Adam's Fall because God then denied all life access to the Tree of Life.  It is also possible that speciation would have occurred if the Fall did not take place.  However, we are forced, as the evolutionsts are or should be, into dealing mainly with what we observe not with what we speculate on.    In fact, that is what really defines sub-species.  Each one represents a loss of certain genetic information or a suppresion thereof.  As some genetic research now seems to show us, as the result of very recent discovery, 'loss' might more accurately mean 'suppression' of a gene which somehow reactivates in a later generation.  However, the process of damage or mutation in each generation, as the male and female genetic information in the foetus is processed in the female wombs, produces permanent loss or damage.  Mutations best express what the Bible means by the Fall of Adam in its impact on future generations.  That's why we suggest succeeding generations inherit Adam's sin and we are imputed with his original rebellious action even though none of us did the actus reus.  If a gene is merely 'suppressed', only under uncommon or perhaps exceptional circumstatnces does a certain gene once again express itself within a sub-species that had not used it for many generations.  It is even possible that via the RNA mechanism, God Himself can turn on or off certain genes within our genomes, perhaps at the Junk DNA level.  Our scientists have barely touched or explored the 'Junk DNA' and it may be doubtful man ever can peer into it.
Hence, as we now see or discover (deep under the oceans) many different varieties emerged out of the original genomes as life progresed from Adam's Fall some 6000 years ago.  This is an important point in our Bible-based model.   If God created or 'formed' the genomes, foreknowing the man would fall, and deliberately or purposely built within the species this ability to proliferate into a vast array of sub- and sub-sub-species, that may be another way, even via Adam's fall, to demonstrate God's creative glory via a proliferation of a vast array of varieties within each species.  But as the Plan goes, there would be a limit of that flowering as the created order began to lose energy, virility or fecundity after about six days or six millennia.  That would manifest itself as the disappearance or extinction of sub-species.  Other factors such as human wickedness, poluution and greed; or silly ideas about the potency on human sexuality via certain animal by-products;  also cause species to become extinct.  The environment, affected by the reversal of the initial damage caused by the Flood with ice caps etc., also causes some species to become extinct.   
A paralklel is in the way God blessed Israel via the Modaic Covenant.  In the latter, God provided Israel all the envoronmental factors the Land needed to be much more productive than any other land area.  After the Romans ejected Israel from "The Land" (Eretz Israel), that same land (re-named 'Palestine') suffered deprivation as many other parts of the globe did for other reasons to do with Adam's fall and indeed from Satan's Fall as well.  We experience the latter via catastrophes from outer space (asteroid hits) or from within, i.e., the churning interior of our globe leading to earthquakes and volcanos.
Instead of seeing Man as a mut or mongrel, the Bible asks, "What is Man that Thou art mindful of him" (Psalm 8:4).  But this is part of the stupidity of evolutionism.  It is forced into degrading man.  That is what Satan wants Man to do. He laughs all the way to damnnation when scientists say that sort of thing.  Certainly Man fell with Adam but Jesus of Nazareth was God incarenate.  That is why we are the way we look like - made in God's image because our form is the one that the Son of God took on at His incarnation which God foreknew would occur.  God has a special role for mankind.  Unbelievers will miss out on that.  As they go to their deaths, they fall into ridicule as this 'professor' is doing when he sees himself as a mere mut or mongrel.  We do say some people act like animals but that is being unfair to the latter.  Better to say some people act like demons.
9/4/18, "Next discovery in human evolution where were are not currently looking ...".  The spokesman here also said it would be in a time zone we are not curently looking for or at.  As we note elsewhere, NASA and ESA are both now saying early life forms came here on comets as Velikovsky, Hoyle and Wickramsingh argued in the 1960's.  That already meets the requirement in this headlone statement.  We have to look so far out into space we are literallty going backwards in time.  But this is all nonsense.  The statement is really an admission that the whole Theory of Evolution is bogus.  They have not been able to come up with any credible explanation of the 'Theory' now just an 'Idea'.  To say the next discovery is out of time and space simply shioves the theory completely out of any basis in fact or observation.
9/4/18, " ... we are embarrassed; there are not enough people out there looking".  It is not surprising.  Why go searching for something that is not there?  Professor Burger is speaking humbug.
9/4/18, "Kurdish bid for independence back-fired".  That was the claim by an up-front and frank intrerviewer speaking to a representative of the Iraqi Kurds on a television programme. She stoutly defended thier decision to at least give Kurds a chance to say what they preferred.  She explained how the Iraqi system had not been fair to the Kurds.  The discussion only served to reveal how terribly unfair the modern international system is on them.  Many minorities suffer similar problems in many parts of the world.  In the Kurdish example, the population concerned is very big betrween 30 and 40 million.  When one considers a religious minority in East Timor numbering 800,000 received independence at the end of the 20th Century, the Kurdish diaspora is especially invidious.
Most people find the Kurds to be an enigma.  Unlike the Jews who have their Bible and a lot of other well-documented reports to attest to their history, the Kurds, as one of their own historians admits, have lost information about their history between about 1500 and 600 BC.  We say the Velikovsky thesis that explains how ancient Egyprian history has been massively distorted by a chronological error of six centuries or more, has had a direct impact on Kurdish history.  One effect of that error is that the world's historians do not realise Chaldeans from Babylon in South Iraq, Hittites, Galatians, Celts and the Kasdim of the Bible are the same main group who have lived throughout the centuries as the Jews have.  Almost as miraculously as the Jews, the Kurds have managed to remain a distinct nation through four millennia since the Tower of Babel incident resulted in the division of the human familty into different groups, languages and latterly nations.  A curious statement in Isaiah 48:14 (KJV) says, "his arm shall be on (or "against" in NASB) the Chaldeans".  Thsi is embedded within a passage about "The First and Last" being sent by "God and His Spirit".  The broader passage in Isaiah 48:12-16 is essentially about the Divine Tri-Unity of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit agreeing the Son should be 'sent', presumably to Earth, as the Incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth means.
So is the Kurdish situation today an integral part of God's overall plan?  Habbakkuk 1:5 says, "Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously:  for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you".  God says He will send the Chaldeans, "that bitter and hasty nation", who will take land that is not their's and "possess the dwelling places".  Most theologians say that referred to events in circa 600 BC.  However, Dr Velikovsky demonstrated in his writing that in 600 BC the other nations were well aware of the international politics, diplomacy and military manoeuvering of the Chaldeans, Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Scythians (Russians), Egyptians, Ethiopians, Tyrian-Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Sidonioans etc.  In Jerusalem, in the court of King Josiah, the Jewish Government was internally debating the international geo-political situation with understanding.  That's not the situation now with today's Kurds.  In circa 600 BC, many advisors, bureaucrats and academics realised the Chaldeans, or Kiurds, along with sometime allies such as Medes, Persians and others were growing in strength and population more quickly and with more energy than decaying Egypt.  Others in Jerusalem's court believed Egypt was still the powerful United States that had dominated world politics since Abraham's day when Egypt was beginning to become the leading world nation and 'bread-basket'.  Even in Roman times, Egypt maintained its latter ability but politically and militarily it was a vassal to Rome since the Latins needed Egypt's grain to keep the citizens of that vast city on River Tiber well-fed.  So Jerusalem's bureaucrats had a point when some of them said Josiah should allow Egypt's Pharaoh Necho (Ramesses II) to pass through Eretz Israel with his army to bolster Assyria's defences against the growing threat of the Kurdish-Median-Scythian alliance.  Instead, Josiah listened to his pro-Chaldean advisors anmd went toi intervene.  He lost his life, delayed the Egyptian army so that Assyria's fall, and Egypt's, became certain and his sons watched as the Kurds later came to destroy Jerusalem and its temple.
Today, the world's administrators are ignoring our claims from Dr Velikovsky's research that today's Kurds, are those Chaldeans of Habakkuk's oracle.  Indeed, "Habakkuk" in Hebrew could mean 'He who comes from Kirkuk' which is the main city the Kurds prize in north Iraq today. They see Kirkuk as the capital of their hoped-for 'Kurdistan'.  Indeed many Kurds there refer to parts of North Iraq as "Kurdistan".  In the September 2017 referendum, described by the interviewer as something that "backfired" on themn, the majority of Kurds voted in favour of an independent Kurdistan.  The threat is real although they labour for other solutions such as a type of emirate or principality they describe as a "Shibeh istiqlaal".  Other nations use the Kurds to fight for their interest or to help them smuggle people and goods into other nations.  The 'smuggling' does not endear them to the regions governments, especially the Turkish one.
At present, Kurds appear to be aligning themselves with Israel, Tarshish (UK, USA, Spain, their 'colonies' or young lions etc) and the Emirates of the Arabian Peninsula.  All these groups have some common interests, not least Tarshish's embarrassment that it has left the Kurds in the lurch for so long.  However, much more significantly,  this seems also to be the alliance that will ineffectively oppose the Gogite invasion of Israel prophesied in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  If indeed that is the situation now emerging with that Gogite invasion very close at hand, then Habakkuk's oracle really could be coming into play now.  Only God's saints, and probably only some of them who do the study required, do understand.  We are watching the world situation for the time when this oracle comes into play.  We have observed it has not yet done so.  Those who do think it refers to something in the past are blinded by a false history, not only in geo-politics, but in the origns of man as the previous item explains.
13/4/18, Black Friday for NZ oil sector.  The NZ oil industry claimed it was blind-sided by a NZ Government decision to begin restricting oil and gas exploration licences in NZ ocean waters.  Most of NZ's oil exploration occurs at sea.  Existing licences will be able to run their course which means some exploration will continiue.  But most of that work will in future be managed from Australia because of economy of scale reasons.  That will reduce jobs in NZ in that sector according to industry spokesmen.  However, out of all the discussion the following point was perhaps inadvertently dropped into the discussion.  We pick this up in the next item.
13/4/18, The Wolrld needs more light oils but NZ exploration closing down.  A lot of new oil discovered around the world is heavy or dirty.  It requires more energy to refine.  Use of heavy crude leaves more waste by-product.  That has to be re-cycled in various ways such as in plastics to offset higher refining costs.  However, oil found in New Zealand allegedly tends to be of lighter crude, according to a spokesman today.  There was no explanation why that is.  Oil industry spokesmen are notoriously secretive with details.  But we are aware of the crucial point here. The world's main reserve of light oil is that found under the sands of the former region of Babylon.  On today's maps that is the region around the Persian Gulf, and the area around lower Iraq.
In order to reduce reliance on that oil from that volatile political and religious sector, the world has been working on two strategies.  The first is to find lighter oils somewhere else.  And that is where NZ apparently is seen as a bright spot in that probably mostly futile search.  The only reason Babylon has all that lovely light crude is that it is the detritus form the former Garden of Eden all compresed and squelched-up during the Great Flood of Noah's Day.  The oil indistry either does not want to recognise what caused that 'Babylonian' crude to come into being or it simply does not know.  Therefore it does not know why that light oil came into being.
Of course, God knows how and why this occurred.  This is one reason why He sits in the Heavens and laughs (Psalm 2:4, 37:13, 59:8) at Man's games.  As Ephesians 2:2 explains, "Satan, the Prince of the Power of the Air (Ether), from his position also manipulates the world situation.  Mankind sits as a puppet between these two string pullers.  Those of us born anew, born from above etc., undertsand all this because we prove the Perfect, Good and Acceptable Will or Plan of God (Romans 12:2).  We are enabled to do this with the promise of Colossians 1:27, "Christ in you the hope of Glory", the "mystery" that Apostle Paul realised would be explained to the Church of the Christ (Messiah) but only after He had paid the Blood-Price on that Roman Cross for Human redemption.  Also part of that 'Mystery' is the fact of the permanent indwelling of God's Holy Spirit ruling the life of the Believer only becoming possible after the Crucifixion and Resurrection.  This enables the Believer to more fully understand the Bible which is God's account of History (His Story) and future History or Prophecy.  Unfortunately, too many believers get side-tracked into irrelevancies such as pentecostalism and fail to concentrate on the main thrust of God's Plan for the World in its dire mess.  Thus they are, or become, less able to explain all this to the world at large as part of their witnessing and ambassadorial functions.
Anyway, at the end of "The Age", or at the end of Six-Days = Six Millennia according to the School of Elijah and II Peter 3:8 in the Bible, Babylon becomes the base for the Antichrist-666.  So control of that Middle East oil, especially in the absence of any other significant sources, and all the wealth that goes with it for example in the massive sums of capital stashed away by the oilmen's revenues and profits gives one virtually absolute control of the world's finances and merchandising.  As a by-line, the current political disturbances in Saudi Arabia, the Emirates etc, seem to be part of a longer-term strategy to remove 'Arab' control from management of the region.  They will be pushed aside for the Antichrist and his Babylonians.  Additionally, because of their nonsensical and irrational religious views based on Islam, they are being divided and conquered.
In summary, on Black Friday, April 2018, away down in NZ, the Government inadvertently assisted the Antichrist in his strategy of gaining a strangulehold on the world economy via control of Middle East Light Crude.  That's the real story.  However, the debate runs along lines that the world is moving away from use of oil, gas, coal etc., which admittedly have undesirable pollutants to some extent.  The argument runs along the lines that consumers and producers are moving toward renewable sources of energy using batteries; which have a nasty habit of exploding and pose other waste-product problems;  solar energy, wind-generated energy opposed by another group of nutty Greenies on account of ghastliness, wave turbines which harm sea-life etc.  Although these things can be harnessed for specialised circumstances, even people in those situations still need the traditional energy sources, or what have become that over the last two centuries.  The debates are illogical and are based on scientism not true science as the proponents of so-called clean renewable energy claim.
Another option is to reduce consumption and revert to a 17th Century economy which used windmills and steam.  People even used vaccines then to protect them from virulent diseases like smallpox.  So life was reasonably 'civilised' even then!  The Amish in the USA still very successfully live much like that.  Such a strategy is feasible.  The way things are going perhaps that is even where the world might return.  It might even be the sort of society the True Messiah will run judging by some of the details of the Messianic Kingdom in the Old Testament Prophecies.  However, Babylon's other projects like space research and exploration, assuming those are genuine ambitions and not simply a tool being used by Satan to further fool the masses as he prepares to take on full control of the world through his only begotten son the Antichrist-666.  But he only wants to do that in order to destroy Israel.  That will stop Israel from calling on Yeshua (Jesus of Nazareth) to bring in His long awaited Messianic Millennial Kingdom.  Hitler's Third Reich and now the Satanic Millennium beginning in 1/1/2001, are the counterfeit attempts at a 'Millennium'.  Between AD 30 and AD 1030, Western Europe thought its 'Christendom' was the Millennium.  However, should Israel successfully be destroyed by Satan, so that the nation does not fulfill the prophecies for her last Seven Years of Daniel 9:27.  If that were to be the outcome, it's also when God does walk away from this universe, covenants with Israel and indeed Judgement Day.  But that won't happen because Israel will repent.  Satan knows the game is on.  Those not on Christ's side are thus on his side and that is the outcome they are looking for.  This Black Friday we are once again reminded of these things.
14/4/18, "An insult to humanity".  A commentator speaking on television about the allied (Western, NATO) response out of frustration to Assad's use of chemical bombs to kill his own citizens.  The Western S.H.E.M-ites are wringing their 'Humanist' hands as Assad carries out these animalistic activities.  We should remember Assad is a biochemist trained in England where he worked from many years before going back to Damascus.  He returned to Syria with his English-born (Acton) wife to help Daddy, Hafes Assad, govern Syria in the old man's last days, the heir apparemt, Bashir's elder brother, having died in some sort of (air?) accident.  One could not describe the Asads as 'Humanist'.
In the UN Security Council, only Russia and China opposed any action to discipline the inhumane Assad.  The commentator's main point here is that two countries should not be able to use a veto power to prevent any action at all against such monstrous behaviour by Assad's regime (perhaps rather than the family man in his private capacity).  So the US, UK and France; with the latter apparently more bullish about the weekend's bombing of Syria's chemical infrastructure than the US and UK;  used ships, planes and missiles to deliver Assad a well-deserved message.  Perhaps the UK PM and the US President were worried about calls they should consult  Parliament and Congress respectively.  There may be constitutional conventions bearing down on them more heavily than President Macron whose system appears to give him a relatively freer hand.  Congress and Parliament require their governments (US and UK) to consult them about 'going to war'.  This action hardly equates to that.  But there are enough squealers out there, generally uneducated in our view, naive about History, who say "Parliament" (or "Congress")  must be consulted.  We say this is a matter of executive action.  Are the American soldiers in North East Syria there with Congress's approval?  We think not.
Incidentally, France's interest in that part of Syria and Lebanon, or 'The Levant" is that its people have been there since Crusader days.  Many who joined the human wave or flood that comprised many of the Crusades actually stayed and settled in the region especially in the century of the 'Frankish Kingdom' there of kings Baudoin I - III.  In the early days of Tyre's colonisation of the Mediterraneran, in the millennium before Rome's ascendancy, the South of France looked to the cities of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos as 'Home'.  Indeed, as those Tyrian-Phoenician colonists looked 'homeward' to the rising of the Sun in the Eastern end of the Mediterranean from their Western end of that 'sea', they looked to the land of the Levanah berry used to dye textiles.  Thus 'Levanah' became the Levant or the 'rising ' of the Sun, and the French verb to rise or arise, i.e., 'eleve', survives today in the modern nation's language.  It is of little surprise, therefore, that events like this in Syria should weigh so heavily on the French Psyche.
The US, UK and France are all in NATO. Turkey, also officially in NATO, even supported the action.  Interestingly, Turkey also is in consultation or even cooperattion with Russia and Iran, definitely not NATO members.  These three appear to be dividing  Syria into their individual spheres of interest.  So that is one of the many complex sub-themes going on here.  But NATO is also the North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation as we love to write.  Although not officially, of course, nevertheless its member states, togerther with 'Sheba and Dedan', almost exactly parallel those who will oppose the Gog-Magog invasion of Israel in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.
However, the more immediate consequence of all this is that the Aleph or First Gog-Magog invasion of Israel seems ever closer.  Not commented on at the time but Gazan protesters have been testing Israel's defences on their border with Israel on the Gaza Strip.  They are doing this with human wave tactics with Hamas terrorists hiding out amongst them.  One protester was a US-certified journalist and Hamas card-holder.  The Israeli guards shot him dead.  While Tarshish-NATO is wringing its hands over chlorine gas bombs being dropped on Syrian cities by the country's leaders, there seemed to be more hand-wringing over the shooting of this 'journalist' in the latest Gaza protests who should not have been a member of Hamas if he were a truly neutral press-man!
The more important focus is on the hordes numbering some 60 million lurking around Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey anf further afield who may soon be whipped up into a perfect storm of milllions descending on Israel, in Gog's mischief or cunning plan, in a literal human wave.  Israel has no defence for that.  But God has!
14/4/18, "Six times since 2017 Russia vetoed inspection of alleged Syrian Government chemical weapons use".  This is why many nations are extremely frustrated at the impasses blocking any sort of resolution to the Syrian crisis and indeed Yemeni, Libyan, Sudanese crises too.
14/4/18, "A break-down in the system".  The conclusion of the commentator in the previous item.  He referred to the UN set-up thatr emerged out of WWII and the former Leaguer of Nations that emerged out of WWI.
14/4/18, "Russia leads breakdown of post-WWII 'rule-based' architecture".  The way another commentator expressed the point about the world's existing governance system on the television programme discussed in the previous two items.  He added, the Russians are doing this by "chipping away" at the International Agreement on chemical warfare negotiated last century after the two World Wars.  We say from our reading of the Bible that indeed the system is degrading.  The process is deliberate.  The world's global manipulators seem to be driving us toward that goal.  Their plan seems to be to replace it with a world government that will devolve into ten regions covering every current nation, city state, principality etc.  That is the model predicted in The Books of Daniel and Revelation in the Bible.
14/4/18, "Iran now pulling the strings in Damascus, not Russia".  The view of one commentator talking about the attack on Syria's chemical weapons infrastructure.  He added, "If the Russians want to put a brake on Assad they need to consult with Iran".  This is interesting from the point of view of the Bible's list of nations cited in the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 Gog-Magog invasion of Israel.  There, Peres-Persia, i.e., modern-day Iran, is a key player along with 'Cush' or Africa and Put-Punt or ancient Tyre's pre-Roman hegemony over the African and Levantine portions of the Mediterranean Sea.  Turkey's coastal regions on the Mediterranean probably are included within "Put-Punt".  It's Turkey's hinterland taht seems to have been the original home of the Gog-ites who somehow are the overlords of the people they took control over as they fled north of the Caucasus (Gogasus) Mountains (or Cis-Caucasus).  And we know the rulers of Byzantium migrated to Moscow and Russia.  The massive refugee population of about 60 million people in this region in their make-shift camps or refugee centres for the more fortunate "displaced persons" may yet comprise the horde that invades Israel.
If Iran is indeed edging Russia out of influence in the region, as happened in, or in parallel with, events in the millennium before Christ during the decline of Assyria, it is possible on some readings of the Biblical text that the Russians and Moscovites, although in subsejection, are not involved in the actual invasion.  On this understanding, the Russians are themselves part-victim of the cunning mischief or plan "Gog" whomever or whatever he or it is in this 'plan' to invade Israel.
14/4/18, "Israel worries about declining Russian influence over Iran in Syria".  That was the view of yet another commentator on developments between Russia, Turkey, the Assad regime and Iran in Syria.  This makes one wonder if Israel's government  might be starting to look at the Bible to explain the current dangers surrounding them.
14/4/18, Israel's Western allies stirke Syria at midnight 13 April.  Dr Inmmanuel Velikovsky has an explanation why Friday the 13th in any month is unlucky.  It is when the Angel of the Lord passed over ancient Egypt and slayed the eldest sons in every unbelieving Egyptian household.  For Israel, it had already been the 14th when God Himself (Exodus 12:23 refers to "The Destroyer") struck Egypt.  Israel counts the beginning of a new day from sundown or sunset.
14/4/18, Tarshish strikes Syria on 3500 anniversary of Israel's First Pasover.  We do not exactly know the year that God struck Egypt at that first Passover-Pesach.  But that first Pesach was very close to the year 1482 BC.  That means the strike on Syria, coming a few days after Israel hit a base and killed some Iranian or Hizbollah fighters, was on its 3500th anniversary.  Or put another way, this strike came on the 3500th anniversary of Israel's international presentation as a nation.  Until then, Israel had begun as a clan.  Then Israel progresed to becoming a subjugated people within the boundaries of another nation, like today's Kurds.  So 3500 years ago this day; perhaps, we stress and underline; Israel first became an official nation in the world's eyes.  Although God anyway saw Israel as that well beforehand.  As far back as circa 2000 BC, and even before the history of the World, God approached Abraham about making a great nation of his seed.  A few days later, Israel celebrated her 70th anniversary day of the founding of the modern State of Israel.
The bombing of Syria's chemical bomb-making facilities was not a specific NATO action, although the three countries involved are in NATO. So we are drawing a bit of a long bow referring to "Tarshish" in this headline.  If we are in the eve of the  nations referred to in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 getting ready to invade Israel, this timing of the Israeli and 'Allied Tarshisite nations' might be very significant.  The strikes may be used as an excuse to attack Israel by the Gogite nations.  That may be part of the broader startegy.  Herein are yet more interesting observations to quietly note as we may be about to enter that very significant final phase in this world's chaotic affairs brought on by Adam's sin.
14/4/18, "Message to Iran, and other nations:  You're next".  That was the feeling of one commentator answering questions about the significance or effect of the UK, US and French bombing of Syria's chemical plants used for bomb-making.
14/4/18, "1956 US opposed UK, France:  2018 the US is onside".  This was a reference to British and French cooperation with Israel as the two owners of the Suez Canal attempted in 1956 to wrest back control of the Canal and its corporation from Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser.  In this situation, Israel had already struck Syria, only a few days before.  Officially, there was no coordination between Israel and the three NATO countries.
14/4/18, "Westphalia is the West's failure".  This little quip comes from the author who misheard the UK PM speaking on TV when she referred to the West's failure to find some solution to the Syrian crisis.  "West's failure" for a moment sounded like 'Westphalia'.  But this humorous aside holds more truth than one might initially realise.  The West has been exporting the principles of world governance based on Secular, Humanist, Evolutionist and Materialist (S.H.E.M-ite) perspectives devoid of any philosophical, religious or theological input.  This does not really work as we have now found out.  Many countries are in fact preferring to resort to tyrannical, autocratic, oligarchic, military or dictatorial rule and government.  The Westphalian governance system emerged out of a Europe disenchanted by the Christendomite system that had pravailed for a little over a millennium since the fall of the Roman Empire.  But it coincided with a disdain for attempts at harmonising the Bible and science.  An inappropriate Christendomite attempt at science-theology harmony between circa AD 100 and AD 1648 made for a very nasty and very complete divorce between Science and Theology at the same time Governance separated and divorced from the Church.
In our research, we are identifying the proper basis for harmonising science and theolgy but fixing the parallel problem in governance is beyond us and in fact highlights the Bible's point that only Messiah's Kingdom or Governmant will succeed.  But that won't be until the Millennium which is probably not that far away now!  It is especially hopeless as the Secularists are also waging a major war with Muslims who believe their Mahdi is about to return, though little do they realise it will be the Antichrist they will soon be forced to worship.  In India, Hindus are challenging Muslims and Bhuddists are doing the same in Myanamar.  Islamic nations are trying to impose strict Caliphate governance to rule but other nominally seular regimes such as Russia and China are opting for secular authoritarianism.  Under President Gorbachev, Russia experimented with some form of Orthodox Church governance to handle the 'spiritual' element in relations between people.  There is very little sign of that with Mr Putin.  Certainly, China is following a purist secular and materialist approach to governanve but that is probably a quite agreeable objective for the vast majority of modern Chinese.  China's regime seems wedded to evolutionism but one could hardly describe it asd Humanist.
16/4/18, "Sizzling devilry - The return of Lucifer".  The way a local TV station advertised the new series of a TV programme entitled "Lucifer".         
17/4/18, "Stars do actually sing, and on Earth we hear them".  That headline grabs us.  More precisely, the vibration of distant stars creates sound waves that can be picked up by us.   The second clause in italics was not part of the original quotation but it reflects what the passage in Hosea says.  Technically speaking, astronomers are able to focus their telescopes on certain nearby stars, even though they are light years away from Earth.  Although it takes light several years to reach us, and the sound even longer presumably, some stars are close enough to 'hear' what they are singing or perhaps chiming or vibrating (Psalm 89:5, Isaiah 44:23, Hosea 2:21).
19/4/18, "We need a long term plan".  An interview with the new Governor of New Zealand's Reserve Bank, its equivalent central bank to the Bank of England, Federal Reserve Board etc.  He was talking about the need to offset risks in economic activity.  He said it is necessary to take action now with the long term in view.  False science concerning things like coal and oil use causing an overheating globe are driving some of these 'risks'.  Although clearly there are some very dangerous risks with plastic wastes in oceans, sewage etc., poured out into oceans by large cities, poor bank regulation leading to yet another massive banking collapse etc (refer to our list at the end of Key Events:  Key  Subjects).  Then he said, "If NZ can't lead here who else is going to"?  One can just hear the Governor of Uganda's central Bank, or Japan's, or France's, or of any other country saying the same thing about their nation to listeners in their countries to get them to put their shoulders behind these bogus wheels.  This is the sort of calculated collective startegy these wallahs attending international conferences pick up and disseminate in their areas of responsibility back home.
We are not fooled by this propaganda.  Furthermore, we know there is only one long term plan in town and that is the one Apostle Paul wrote about in Romans 12:1-2.  Long before God created Man, He had made provision for the eventuality that the first man would reject His command and rebel.  That part of the plan, not the whole plan, was for the Son of God to become a man and pay the penalty for the First Adam's sin.  The Last Adam, i.e., Jesus of Nazareth, would take the penalty for that pon Himself and lead all believers into an eternal life in a resurrected body for Eternity, unbelievers going to the place of weeping, darkness and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 22:13, 25:30 and Luke 13:28).   So there already is a long term plan.  In His messianic Kingdom, Yeshua will promulgate it.  Actually, it seems God has allowed 6000 years for the folly and nonsense we are now experiencing at the extreme compared to previous generations.  This is coming down on us now as the bad fruits of science and technology accumulate in their overall impact and complication of major issues.
20/4/18, Many more particles or many more universes?  This comes from notes taken off a DVD about the 2010-12 experiments seraching for the Higgs-Boson Particle at the CERN Experimental Station ("Hadron Collider") in Switzerland.  Before going into any detail, they arrived at a point by mid 2012 where there were either many universes each with their own unique Cosmological Constant or yet more sub-atomic particles to be discovered which would increase the number beyond 17.  Assuming there is a multiplicity of universes, each unique universal constant must have its own unique value.  In our universe's situation, the Cosmological Constant  has to be so precise that any slight deviation from it or change to it would greatly upset the structure of everything we know of in our universe.  Our presence in the universe could not even be possible without the precision of this Constant.  The other point of view is that the six Quarks, six Leptons, four Gauge Bosons, i.e., 16 sub-particles that make up electrons, neutrons and protone all surround the basic Higgs-Boson but that there are more to discover.  As at AD 2012, seventeen sub-atomic particles seem to exist.  Apparently, if the writer has not misinterpreted the information, these seventeen little things make up the protons, neutrons and electrons which we once understood comprised an atom.  However, the alternative view to the multi-universe view seems to be gaining ascendancy at the moment.  They used a diagram to illustrate where the theoretically undiscovered sub-atomic particles would fit around, or within, the existing structure or model.  So apparently there are still more sub-particles to search for.  They seem to have the equipment to do that.  The mind boggles at the experiment needed to find other uiverses.  However, if there is a myriad of other universes out there presumably these sub-particles travel in and out or between them which may explain why they seem to exists either as waves or as particles.  If they netr or exot a unoivesre they may be seen as like a wave.  In a way this is a parallel with Black Holes which cannot be seen but which are in existence judging by the various rays Black Holes seem to emit.  Looking for more universes reminds one of the item 4/3/18, No more beyond? or More Beyond?
Apart from God's Third Heaven, which either exists outside this universe or as a second universe in science-type language, there cannot be any other universes.  Thus, it looks like they are going to have to look for more sub-atomic paiticles.  It does not look like God will allow much more time for this sort of experiment.   
In a later interview on a NZ radio station (26/4/18) we heard that the Hadron Collider system or machine was made possible with the development of computer chips that could count millions or even billions ("10^6 or 10^9") of photons produced when they smashed electrons etc., against each other.  That interview was about scientists and doctors combining CERN Physics with X-Ray technology to produce better imaging of bones etc., to show presence or absence of proteins, fats, diseases in our skeletons etc.
24/4/18, Incel man in Toronto blames women for his murderous rampage.  "Incel" stands for involuntarily celibate people.  In this case it was a man who then got into a van and drove down a footpath killing a few people and injuring many others.  Initially thought to be a terrorist incident, it was in a manner of speaking, or one might suppose, but is not defined as so.  The fact that there is even a 'movement' of involuntarily celibate persons, as far as men are concerned anyway, suggests another example how the prophecy of Genesis 3:16 is being manifested in these Last of the Last Days.   This is where God prophesied that one of the consequences of Adam's disobedience in Eden would be that the women would seek to, or aspire to, usurp the man's role in this world.  If men are not willing to toe-, or kowtow to, -the-'feminist' line, it seems, according to some people in this movement, that women are making that a demand on their side of a marriage contract.  That would oindeed be an other interesting perspective to Genesis 3:16.  it would not be without costs or sacrifice on the part of any such women actually doing that, or so the prophecy implies if one undersatnds the limited range meanings in the Hebrew "Teshukah".
26/4/18, "Just another dark corner in the Internet".  A reference in the Incel issue above of a "kind of distopean thing".  Apparently the term "incel" originated in a feminist circle on the Internet.  This is another illustration of the harm being caused by Man's Tree of Knowledge.  How much better it would have been for one and all if Adam had left well alone God's tree in Eden and wait for God to invite him to use it which may well have been the case if Adam had passed God's test.  Satan knowing that, thus was very quick to intervene after God formed and created the woman from Adam.  One might wonder that if Satan had not intervened the man would have passed the test after all.  If so, perhaps that is a reason why the Son of God intervened in man's behalf in such a terribly costly-to-Himself way?   
26/4/18, "Something broken with the human species at the moment".  A woman who is a professor of Maori studies at a NZ varsity.  She was commenting on the research that says many jobs will disappear to robots.
27/4/18, President Trump off to London on Working Visit on 13 July 2018.  But it won't be a state visit.  He is going to have discussions with Mrs Theresa May who, according to another commentator, is in no position to visit Washington at present.  Nevertheless, Trump had a high level and very pompous meeting with the new French President whose name, Monsieur Emmanuel Macron, means "The Great God With us".  This name is easily transliterated into Hebrew for obvious resons and it adds to 333 or half 666. A meeting with the British Government becomes more urgent after the Trump-Macron tete-a-tete.  Trump probably needs the British more than they need him in this regard.  The Germans and French are always looking for ways to get a closer ear to Washington than the Brits.  But the common language will always be a card the British have on the others vis-a-vis Washington unless Spanish takes over in the US Capitol.  Despite the massive Latin influx into the US, perhaps a hundred million or so, the Iberian tongue seems unlikely to supplant English for a while.  Of more importance is the growing identification of Tarshish which we say is what NATO is really all about.  And all this on Black Friday.  For that seems to be looming for Israel if the First (Ezekiel) Gog-Magog invasion of Israel is highly imminent. 
27/4/18, Will it be a Black Friday in London this July?  i.e., because Mr Trump hits town.
30/4/18, "Believe or disbelieve:  Politics has skewed the issue on Climate Change".  A radio compare's summary of an email he had from a listener on his talkback programme.  The point of discussion was the level of sea rise in the oceans as a result of global warming.  It became clear that the three to four meter rise anticipated for about now some fifty years ago by some of the earlier prognostics in outfits like the US EPA is now measured in just inches or even less in centimeters.  In our opinion, there definitely is politics in science where, for example, those with the most dire forecasts do so to ensure funding security from politicians or other benefactors.  Politics in science certainly has considerable impact.  However, it is the base model that is faulty.  That base ignores Velikovsky, his analysis of previous catastrophies afflicting earth and of course God's Word via His Oracles courtesy the Jews in the Bible.  
30/4/18, "Three meters or sixty centimeters by AD 2100"?  The compare in the item above referring to the latest IPCC (60 cm) forecast and comparing it with  the opinion of the Wellington City Council (supporting the three to six meter sea-level rise) in a computer game designed to brainwash children in a gimmicky virtual-reality 3-D goggle toy.  One listener noted that the wreck of the Hyderabad on the NZ Hauraki Gulf used to be down at low tide when one could see it.  Now the wreck is in the sandhills indicating the land in that region has onsifderably lifted up out of the sea (or driven the sea back). That is not especially indicative of a rising sea level.  The compare noted that the same can be seen in the once-port town of Rye in England that is now inland.
30/4/18, "Increased volcanic activity contributing to rising sea levels"?  That was one "theory" one radio listener had.  We would say that his 'theory' is much closer to fact than he realises.
30/4/18, "Climate change is real but it won't destroy us".  So there is no reason to "tax the hell out of us" to control the problem.  The view of another listener ringing into this radio station discussing rising sea levels and climate change today (30/4/18).
30/4/18, "Determining sea level changes of centimeters is impossible to measure".  The view of an experienced surveyor.  Although NASA claims it can measure these things, this contributor was highly sceptical of that view.
30/4/18, "NZ tilting to the East by 10 centimeters a year".  That was how the compare of the radio talkback session reported in the previous five items for 30/4/18 summed up the debate for that afternoon.  He said that he held this observation back for the duration of the debate over the airwaves that afternoon to see if anyone twigged to that point.  Apparently this is the well-researched view of NZ's scientists.  The tilting is the result of the movements of the two tectonic plates NZ straddles where one plate is moving underneath the other.

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