Key Events
1 November 2018 - 31 December 2018
1/11/18, Largest Exodus in 7-Year Syrian Civil War predicted.  That was a comment on an international television news service.  The Assad Government has won the civil war because Russia and Iran supported him.  The rebels had little chance beating that combination.  But the main upshot is that most of Assad's Syrian opponents are either in the Kurdish controlled part of Syria or in a north-eastern province nestked up on the Turkish border.  The Turkish Government, trying to protect antis-Assad rebels and working with Russias on that matter, hates Assad.  The Kurdish sector of 'Syria' is protected by 'the international community' because of the shameful way that world's nations have treated the Kurds.  We have always accepted that in past times the Kurds have somethimes used their power and weight to make life uncomfortable for other groups in the region going as far back in time as Nebuchadnezzar in 600 BC.  However, the other nations in the regions have taken their opportunities to exact retribution on the Kurds who were driven out of Lower Mesopotamia or the 'Shinar-Babylon' of modern-day Southern Iraq and the upper 'Persian' Gulf.
The desert drove the Kurds out of their ancient homeland (Isaiah 23:13) so that Arabs were presented with the opportunity to settle that region instead (Isaiah 13:20).  But "good luck" to the Arabs we say and indeed the Kurds did effectively say so over the last three millennia for the Arabs knew how to make a living out of that land once the sands had taken over.  The Kurds initially moved off to Northern Iraq until the Assyrians said move on (Isaiah 23:13) and relocated the Kurds in Eastern Turkey.  The Kurds in ancient times in part blamed the Assyrians for taking too much water out of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.  But we now know tectonic and velikovskian catastrophes and the acclerating global warming were the primary cause of the Kurds' land turning to desert.  Anyway, rather than moaning over spilt milk (or water shortages) many Kurds continued to move on from there.  The Kurds or Chaldeans who remained in north-eastern Turkey became known as Galatians.    'Kurds' even reached France (as Gauls) ancient Britain (as Gelts or Celts) where the archaeological record in East Anglia shows them settling there from circa 800 BC.  Wherever the ancient Kurds settled, they brough with them their skills in mesopotamian agriculture.
However, most non-Kurdish anti-Assad refugees are now located in one North Eastern province on modern Syria (ancient Aram).  So far the Russians will not help Assad obliterate his opponents.  If Assad does ever get to attack them, as the observeor on the TV station noted, Syria will witness its biggest exodus or outward flight of Anti-Assad survivors.  More than likely they will not be able to escape and would be slaughtered which is par for the course in Arab-Muslim history. [9/7/18]
1/11/18, "We are following journalistic ethics".  That was the claim of a couple of reporters imprisoned in Myanamar-Burma for reporting on genocide in the north of the country.  We cannot verify whether 'genocide' took place.  Almost certainly some people were killed as a result of political, ethnic or religious friction up there.
However, we don't think there are any "journalistic ethics" to "question " because the news media never let us have air-play over the Thre E's and C's.  They never let us have a say on the matter of the false 'Chronology' of ancient Eyptian history which has led to the massive confusion, crisis and chaos in the Middle East.  They never report on the massive disputes raging in Evolutionism's four or five theories ranging from neo-Darwinism, neo-Lamarckism, Punctuated Equilibrium (S.J. Gould), Velikoskian catastrophism (which we also do not share) though we do accept there were catastrophes.  They always mock the null hypothesis, or hypothesis depending on one's perspective or methodology, of Creation.  Thirdly, they ignore any debate about the role of carbon in the atmosphere and the consequential impact that has on global warming. As noted elsewhere, we believe the over-heating interior of the globe is melting the ice and bringing back the environment to the pre-Flood equilibrium in operation before the ice-caps were formed. [9/7/18]
1/11/18, Ancient copy of Odysseus-story found in Greece.  The document is dated from "The Roman Era".  Although we use here the word 'story', Odysseus almost certainly did exist.  His homeland was Ithaca on the Ionian Sea.  That location suggests his ancestors, perhaps the generation before him, nay have been  Levantine refugees either from the Phoenician maritime cities such as Sidon, Tyre and Byblos-Gebal or from northern Israel.  He certainly seems to be a genius in many ways.  He seemed to be the only one who consistenly performed well in the Trojan War.  In his post-Troy travels (circa 780 BC) he encountered a Phocaen, according to Homer.  This sailor guided Odysseus to exotic locations probably in the Mediterranean or possibly further afield.  It is quite possible Odysseus and his men saild anywhere around the world.  So the "Phocaen" almost certainly was a Phoenician probably from one of the cities mentioned or perhaps from Carthage where Aeneas son of King Priam of Troy initially fled to before settling across the Mediterranean Ditch in Rome.  So Odysseus had a maritime background living on an island in the Ionian Sea at the foot of the Adriatic (or Tyriatic) separating Italy from Croatia and Albania much like the Red Sea separated Arabia from Egypt.  
The report noted that Odysseus was a hero of Homer's Iliad and that the 'blind bard'  wrote in the "8^th Century" BC basing his information on "oral legends handed down over many centuries".  Of course we note that chronological point is bollocks.  Homer lived at the time of the Trojan war and had probably interviewed its participants as a good journalist.  It is ironic today's journalists cannot recognise their earliest forbear.  For that was what Homer was at a time when poetry and prose were much the same.  The Romans named "Odysseus" as 'Ulysses'.  The report sustains the ongoing rubbish that is written as 'History'.  We don't regurgitate it but present the True His Story by gleaning the archaeological data and triangulating the written data and run all that through the prism of the Bible. [11/7/18]
1/11/18, Germany captive ("A Prisoner to") to Russian Energy.  Originally that was a claim made by the US President Trump at a recent NATO summit.  Trump took offence that Germany should kowtow to Russia on energy and expect the USA in return to kowtow to Germany's demands on various issues and defend Germany from a Russian invasion!.  Trump also noted Poland refused to buy energy from Russia in order not to become dependent upon Russia.  The points remains valid.  By closing down all her nuclear power plants and shunning coal, Germany is indeed becoming reliant on Russian gas.  Oddly, in New Zealand, the new coalition government's Minister of Energy wants to get NZ relying on solar and wind power.  However, it is not so much the energy question that interests us rather than the link with the "Rosh" which according to Ezekiel 38:6 is teamed with "Gomer" commonly assumed to be Germany.  There has been a host of anti-Semitic Middle Eastern refugees allowed to enter and live in Germany.  Perhaps it is those people returning to the Middle East that Ezekiel envisaged heading toward Israel.  Or "Gomer" refers to a place nearer the Middle East from which the ancient forbears or ancestors of modern Germans came from. [11/7/18]
1/11/18, "LIke Muslims, Latin Americans using children as human shields".  That was a comment sourced to President Trump when he learned that families were spear-heading their children to march on the USA border with Mexico or bring them in the "Caravan" wending its way up through Mexico from Guatemala, many children in tow, in order to breach US brder posts on the Rio Grande.  The last time we British used women and children as human shields was in our own Civil War of 1642-49.  The British were so disgusted by the practice all arme=d forces were then onwards required to live in camps outside the towns in places like Arsenal and aldershot which nevertheless later became towns and cities in their own rite. [11/7/18]
1/11/18, "Combatting extremism through ideological transformation".  That is modern China's attempt at moderating North East China  who are Mongolian Muslims.  The Ouigans allegedly disrupt North Western China and are even held responsible for a bomb in a Shanghai train station.  The Secular, Humanist, Evolutionist and Materialist SHEM-ites who control today's levers of power on behalf of the purveyors of the Babel Project are busy world-wide ideologically transforming everyone to get them to fully participate in the Babel Project.  That is why we Christians are ostracised because we point to God's Way, a Better Way. [11/10/18]
1/11/18, "There seem to be more questions than answers from Hi-Tech".  That's what God implied when he warned Adam and Eve.  [11/10/18]
3/11/18, "No Virtue like necessity".  A Middle Eastern commentator quoting Shakespeare on an international television station discussing the Kashoggi-murder affair.  It seemed somewhat ridiculous the commentator in effect had to be well-versed in British literature to make a good point.  In contrast, Saudi Arabia seems steeped in medieval barbarity and this is the 21st Century!  Presumably the commentator had nothing from his own native or ethnic corpus of literature to quote from so he resorted to Shakespeare.  As we note below, he would do better to turn to the Bible but British literature is a good second best.  The point the man was making seemed to be that fears about Middle Eastern stability rested on giving the Saudi authorities a way out of this mess, letting the Saudi leadership save face somehow.  Otherwise, some fear, ensuing internal strife in Saudi Arabia; and there seem to be many dissidents locked-up there;  could jeopardise oil supplies or even the security of the international financial system.  
The murder also seems to be caught up in a tussle between Turkey and Saudi arabia for leadership of the Muslim world.  Turkey seems intent on re-establishing its Ottoman caliphate.  It has fat chance of doing that one would think but who knows what possess crazy Muslim minds.  In so saying that, we freely acknowledge the madness of the absolutist Secular, Humanist, Evolutionist and Materialist approach of the world's S.H.E.M-ites across the West, East and everywhere in between.  S.H.E.M-ites rule the roost in governance, administration, education, media, armed forces etc.  Only lieteralist, spiriut-filled Bible-believing Christians are now of sane mind.  There are very few of us left as the world plunges into depression, suicide and all the wars that result from these.  We urge the world to re-consider the claims of Jesus of Nazareth. There are those of us more than happy and wiling to explain God's Programme, the Perfect, Good and Acceptable Will or Testament of God as per Romans 12:2. 
We applaud Shakespeare and bracket him with the Beatles as the two great icons of British Arts.  However, a far longer lasting contribution to Britain has been the Jewish Bible.  As many Jewish folk tell us, 'the Jews are the People of the Book but the British live by the Book'.  For, exampe British Law including both stature and common law or customary law, and a mix thereof, emanates from Bilical principles.  Concepts such as Duty of Care (Donoghue v Stevenson, Rickards v Lothian) emanate from "Love they neighbour ...", the point being here that the Christian standard is "As God loves us and His Son gave Himself up to save us' rather than the Mosaic Standard.  The latter set many laws that were minimum standards such as 'eye for eye'.  However, the Mosaic Standard encouraged the believer to opt for the upper standard as expressed in the Law of Christ just quoted.  Many British Christians well aware of the teaching our ancestors received firstly from Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea then through the desire to translate the Old Testament from Hebrew directly into English meant that Truth from Scripture has long been available to the British.  It has long been ingrained in our culture despite the many problems we have in our society.  This may well explain the nation's success in the world and why so many around the world appreciate our Shakespeare and Beatles music.
3/11/18, "Acceptable or definitive truth"?  The question put a few weeks after  the Kashoggi murder which Saudi Arabia initially tried to cover-up.  The Saudis have admitted to the killing but have no idea where the body.  That is is very convenient from an evidentiary point of view.  Which is why the television host suggested there may only be an acceptable truth at the end of the day.  Jesus of Nazareth will supply the Definitive Truth One Day.  After all, Jesus of Nazareth is 'The Way, The Truth (אמת) and The Life'.  The Hebrew amot (אמת) literally is 'The Aleph (א) with (מ) the Tav (ת)' or one could read 'From (מ) Aleph (א) to Tav (ת)'.  However, the S.H.E.M-ites controlling this world have long since abandoned the Bible.  Little do they realise they indeed will have to answer to Jesus even though they have long-since convinced themselves and others the Bible is fiction and stories.  The Good Book is routinely ignored these days just when the very days it said would come upon this Earth are now looming up on the Horizen with rain imminent any minute now. 
3/11/18, "We need a Truth we can work with".  Procul Harum sang "Nothing but the Truth" but that idea went out the window in this discussion.  The television station hosting the discussion on what to do about the Kashoggi Affair invloved three commentators with the host interviewer who put this idea forward.  The TV host attributed the point, albeit "paraphrased", to Mr Jarrod Kushner, President Trump's adviser and son-in-law.  Trump's daughter married Kushner and 'converted' to Judaism.  One assumes there is not an ounce of anti-Semitism in Mr Trump or in his family let alone in his White House Administration.  Yet the recent massacre of Jews in a Pittsburg synagogue led to claims Trump is anti-Semitic.  So who knows?  The whole world seems to be going mad.  But we do not mind if Mr Trump is anti-S.H.E.M-itic like the author.
What seems to be at stake here is the rapprochement the White House is endeavouring to engender between Arab and Jew in a bid to solve the Middle East Crisis.  But does Israel want to cosy up to a regime in Saudi Arabia that chops up citizens like Mr Kashoggi?  Does Israel effectively support kidnapping a visiting Prime Minister as the Saudis did to the Lebanese incumbant, forcing him to resign while on his visit to Saudi Arabia?  Why did the Saudis do that?  Were they unhappy he was giving too many concessions to the pro-Iranian Hizbollah operating in Lebanon on a pro-Iranian Shiite platform and a vehemently anti-Israel stance?  Does Israel support jailing its citizens who voice alterbative opinions or even chppping them up as the Saudis seem to do.  What about the Saudi-led ostracism of the Qataris?
There is little common sense about all this.  We cannot answer those questions.  All we can do is point to the Bible which, via the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 prophecy, describes two very curious sets of alignment pro- and anti-Israel that would come into existence in the far distant future to 600 BC which is the approximate date of composition of Ezekiel's prophecy.  The World never has seen such a curious alignment in its History.  Moreover, and almost impossible to even imagine it, this is such an obscure alignment, even in Ezekiel's world, that the very possibility of it coming into reality right now before us means that any sensible approach would be to accept it as the only sensible working hypothesis to explain all the craziness.   A prophecy like this is the only thing that does answer our questions above.  It's the only game in town.  Further, the Antichrist like Alexander the Great, who may have thought he was a son of a god (like Satan), will want to reside in Babylon as its king.  Given that we may actually know who Antichrist is and how old he is, we only need to await the denouement of Gog's armies to, Biblially speaking, pave the way for the return of Babylon and its satanic king to take over the world system, oficially running it from Babylon in Southern Iraq and the upper Persian Gulf.  
3/11/18, "Stability of Saudi Arabia rests on sacrifice of one person".  By implication that will have to be Mohammad Bin Salman who seems most likely to be responsible for the death of Kashoggi.  However, one never knows for sure with the imminent rise of Antichrist.  According to Apostle Paul's understanding, the Antichrist; or at least his father Satan via his human intermediaries preparing the way for the demonic only begotten son; will have a strategy of undermining governments.  These satanic agenicies, if they already are not, will be bringing in lawlessness (II Thessalonians 2:7) before Satan introduces his son's regime.  It may well be that pro-Antichrist operatives are working away behind the scenes to create embarrassing situations for national leaders.  The latter, in this analysis, are merely nominal marionettes rather than having any real effective power.  For a longtime, technology has made things so complex that it is hardly possible for elected, appointed leaders, or monarchs, to have much idea at all of what may be going on in any particular arena be that geographical, political, environmental, commercial, legal, political, bureaucratic etc.  Tne irony of the comment above is that Jesus of Nazareth, "The Nazarene", was the one personal sacrifice that God recognised to save us from our sins.
3/11/18, Iranians attempted assassination in Denmark.  But no one really heard about this.  Perhaps it was a bad botch-up amidst some successful attempts that the Russians pulled off in Britain.  So the Iranian affair in Denmark got lost in the media noise.  After all, even the high profile kidnapping of the head of Interpol by the Chinese is buried under lots of graveyard earth.  Why a Chinese ever got to be head of Interpol tends to boggle the mind but that appears to have been the situation.  In accordance wuth the way information is selectively distributed in these days of Satan's millennium that we suggest began on 1/1/10, it comes as no surprise that the Kashoggi killing has been given such a high rating.  It is a most dreadful affair on any count.  Even more dreadful when we learned his body had been chopped into pieces and boiled down in acid in consular ofices.  The thought that anyone in any government system would lure a man into a consulate which is a place that must adhere to all international conventions on pian of serious punishment if those rules are breached, is likewise mind boggling.  The murder of the Russian dissident and oligarch Mr Levintko in circa 2007 in a Euston sushi parlour with polonium, a very international event where even the murder weapon reminded us of a nation-state, also got much press.  The assasination of the Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia also got fair and reasonable coverage because everyone was so disgusted by that.  
Really, though, the murderers are getting away with these horrific deeds.  Governments and policing agencies seem overwhelmed and unable to bring many to justice.  We know Jesus will eventually distribute justice.  In the meantime we cannot expect much.  No doubt the Kashoggi Affair will eventually die away.
Unless it is part of the end-time scenario we are looking at re the First Gog-Magog invasion of Israel coupled with the re-setting of the world's 200 or so governments.  In the wake of the widespread chaos ensuing from the failed invasion of Israel,  world governance is re-set into a world government system probably decentralizing to a ten nation Confederacy of some sort.  This is why the Kashoggi Afair is being allowed to bubble away for so long.  It must have broken media records by now.  One television station based in the Middle East had the issue top news-story for the best part of two to three weeks and its main news-comment programme ran the item on most days with various sets of contributors for as long as that and frequently, though not every day in the two or so weeks since the first two-week period.   
5/11/18, "I feel uncomfortable changing History".  The words of a radio station talkback host.  She was complaining we cannot use words like 'Nigger' any more even though it was once a complimentary term for an African from the sophisticated Niger River civilization of West Africa.  Later, that civilization disintegrated as most do around the world.  Africans began selling fellow Africans or treating them harsh;ly as they shipped their 'brothers and sisters' over to the Americas as the peasants of West Africa searched for a better life there.  Arabs and Europeans joined in with that 'slave trade'.  Often, however, as we see wuth Africans in Libya today jumping aboard very dangerous unstable and leaky boats to hop across the mediterranean probably unaware of the long distances they must travel across the sea to get to safety.  Many Africans going to the Americas did get better lives there but quite a few did not either.
It is true the History gets distorted in all this.  But how hypocritical of the woman for she will never show any interest in the falsification of ancient Middle Eastern History as we always enncvcounter when trying to alert the media to the problem.  They change history all the time by always giving air-time to the fake historians in the universities.  They never let the truth come through but that is because the media and its airwaves are controlled by Satan (Ephesians 2:2).
7/11/18, "Technological disruption, Nuclear War, Climate Change; Man's greatest challenges".  The trailer for a television programme advertised in advance by the TV station.  We are not worried about nuclear war because we do not believe those weapons actually work.  Climate change is unavoidable but people should be extra careful with their plans and realise environments they live in are likely to to change quite a bit until the world's climate reaches a new equilibrium.  Even then, climate will still spring surprises on us.  Thus, "Technological Disruption" is the most critical of these three issues.  The only way mankind can do something about this is to impose a world-wide embargo on all science and technology. That has been attempted in the past.  God stopped the Tower of Babel process in 2000 BC.  One of the reasons for the Plagues of Egypt may have been to prevent Egypt's knowledge progressing too much too quickly for God's (6000-year?) time-plan.  The Chinese (from circa AD 1000) tried suppressing knowledge.  Observing the Vatican had been restraining knowledge because of its understanding from the Bible, China (and Japan between AD 1000-1700) felt safe in suppressing knowledge.  Then Asia  watched in disgust the West eventually take up the slack after its Thirty Years Civil War.  The Vatican's sins were exposed so no one in the West was any longer interested in the suppression of knowledge (The Amish excepted).  Western Europe and the Americans then left China, Asia, The Latin American 'Indigenous' civilizations, Africa and The Pacific so far behind that the rest of the world suffered domination from the West.  That was a warning to every other nation.  Except Japan which changed its mind and went hell-for-leather to embrace technology from circa 1700.
Thus neither China nor anyone else could easily halt the progress of science and technology witout risk.  Nations that did not embrace [Hebrew acol,(אכל), 'at all', '@'] the knowledge explosion faced domination from those that did.  The 'explosion' of couyrse had its attractions just as the Tree of Knowledge did to Eve (and her daughters today).  Polynesians in particular seemed keen to accept the fruits of knowledge though no doubt their elders warned their public about the dangers of it.   The Vatican (circa AD 500 to 1700 or the Present) tried to suppress knowledge with a combination of fake theology and fake (neo-Aristotelian and neo-Platonic) science to halt the advance of knowledge.  Perhaps the only success in this ambition has been the Amish from the 17^th century to the Present.
But this observer was correct to point to the disruptive nature of social media especially.  However, the worship of science and technology is now so extreme that people believe policies they set can always be rescued by "science".  A good example of this is the almsot blind belief 'science' will find us ways to store energy from wind and sun.  The key strategy here, batteries, is weak at best.  They point to other energy-storage methods.  But one must surely have the right to be sceptical given the very little advance we have seen in this area for hundreds if not thousands of years.  All sorts of alternative systems to do so many things can be conceived, from banking to shopping, but it is very difficult finding the unintended consequences of new systems like a universal Bitcoin currency.  That's why new systems or technologies are so disruptive.  Disruption was a key element of God's understanding when He warned the man to leave that tree alone.  Man did not listen and obey so here we are!
8/11/18, "Don't come to US illegally; come legally".  Immediately after the results had come in from the US "mid-term" elections, US President Trump repeated this plea to foreigners wanting to come to the US.  Trump said, "the ecnomy is growing and we want more people because we are creating so many new jobs but please come here lawfully".  We entirely agree with this point.  Only the lawless would disagree.  But that is what the world is now that the father of lawlessness is preparing to install his son on the Earth's throne.  Even if one is being severely persecuted in the country one is a citizen of then it is wrong to break other countries' laws or international rules when vacating one's own country.  President Trump was speaking just after the Republicans had lost a couple of Governorships and quite a few seats in the law-creating House of Representatives.  But the Republicans held on to their majority in the Senate.  Although in that Upper House republicans hold a rather slim majority so that any two or three members could swing a decision there the wrong way for the President and his Republican Party which seems not to be so enamoured of him as he is of the party.          
8/11/18, "The Hypocrisy of Women".   A view expressed by a radio talkback host after discussing the news that a large number of weomen had entered the new US Congress in the wake of yesterday's election in the USA.  He was also discussing the cases where certain sports are played by both men and women but in some cases the federations of sports like synchronised swimming and netball are banning men from entering the sport at international or 'representative' levels.
8/11/18, "The 'Me Too' movement wants superiority not equality".  A follow-up comment from a listener concerning the above item.  As the Bible notes, this type of situation of an extreme feminism stalking the Earth is really the fulfillment of Genesis 3:16.  There the scribe wrote "Teshukah" (תשוקת) or 'desire'.  That word's meaning is amplified or explained, as is often the case in Biblical Hebrew,  in Genesis 4:7 and in Song of Solomon 7:10 but only in that pair of passages.  In the Garden of Eden, God predicted women would one day seek to usurp men in their respective roles.  In Song of Solomon 7:10, Solomon and the Black Woman who was presumably the Queen of Sheba may have had sexual desire for each other but could not as sovereigns engage that way.  Nevertheless, most women certainly do have such desire for husbands.  Ethiopians and readers of the Kebra Nagast wrongly conclude Solomon and Sheba had a child together (Menelik).  They did not!
Those verses explain the problem for the modern woman.  She wants her man as a lover and partner but wants to control him at the same time.  It always has been a problem.  However, God foreknew that problem, the result of Adam's disobedience like all other problems, would get dangerously out-of-control in the very Last Days.  So headlines like this one and in the previous item come as no surprise to us.  This at a time when we think we can identify the antichrist-666, hatred of the Jews and Israel is at its virtual worst ever, governments are falling like flies everywhere, but in particular and uniquely, believers are learning things about the 'Last Days' from the Bible previously kept enigmatic from all previous generations of believers.
One reason, if not the most important, for witholding understanding of certain scriptures from previous generations was so that when the time came for the last generation of believers to warn and witness to the World on the Eve of The Apocalypse and Armageddon we would know it fout of faith.  Understanding of the enigmatic passages would come.  That could only happen under the guidance of the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit pledged to all believers (II Corinthians 1:22,  5:5 and Ephesians 1:14).  Daniel 12:4 & 9 explicitly stated this unique unlocking or opening of scripture, of the mysteries of a certain number of enigmatic passages to a select group of believers, would come in a special era of greatly increased travel and education. However, other passages like Psalm 78:1-7 and 119:99-100, Isaiah 29:11,14, 41:22, 48:6, Jeremiah 30:24, and Daniel 2:28, 7:26, 8:26b (nb), 10:14 and Habakkuk 2:3, likewise point to a general time, or to a specific generation that would see them and "consider" them as Jeremiah 30:24 muses in the KJV language.  Only spirit-filled believers will of course consider these things unless they are yet mere babes in Christ still necessaily feeding on milk.  But the meat of "the more sure word of prophecy" (II Peter 1:19) necessary food for the mature stages of the sanctification process, is not something one should force-feed babes in Christ,  Nevertheless, for the mature believers it is imperative we are studying and considering them especially as we get more and more crucially closer to both The Rapture and the Apocalypse-Armageddon.
8/11/18, "40,000 year old rock painting found in PNG".  Some more evolutionist crap for our readers.  Here, we are considering an ancient drawing of an animal not seen anywhere else.  Possibly, it is some kind of cattle-beast.  The painting won't be any more than about 3000 years old, unless it is a pre-Flood item meaning it would be 4500-6000 years old. If the animal is no longer extant, it is possible the drawing represents a demonically procreated beast.  The artist may just have been an inebriated ancient Papuan doodling with a stone-age or primitive paint brush some time or another.
10/11/18, "River  Plate versus Boca Juniors - Armageddon".  Two leading Argentinian football teams came up against each other for the first time in an Intra-South American football competition similar to the European Cup.  Normally, with seeding being the way it is, there will be teams in the final from two different countries. However, in the South American tournament two competing teams in the final from the one or same country can be a little more frequent because competing teams come from fewer countries than in the European tournament.  So when these two Argentianian tems cane together in the final it was the first time for them both to face each other in the final in a tournament that has been running for 50 years.  So there was much celebration.  Both teams are based in Buenos Aires.  One, River del Plate, is more of a middle to upper class team whereas Boca Juniors is a working class team.  Hence the use of "Armageddon" as theiur rivalry is very intense.  We label such games 'local Derby's'.  But we once again point out that no one these days takes the Bible seriously.  So most people are totally unaware that God's judgements in that Seven-Year Tribulation are on the way and are no joke.
10/11/18, "What's the meaning of History?"  This question arose during a discussion between a radio interviewer and a man restoring old buildings in NZ.  He said they were part of the country's History.  It's a question most people ask considering the failure of the Academy to answer it.  Academics fail because they have, under instruction, concocted  a false evolutionist model to 'explain' History.  So it's obvious the subject cannot have any meaning.  That is as it is currently constructed.  The current architecture of world History aims to explain Man's development since the first ape-woman 'evolved' or developed that first essentially human mitochondria on the outside of one of her eggs in her womb (circa 150,000 BC or 1,000,000 BC depending on one's evolutionist theorist).    However, our model of History, based on His Story;  which is readily available in a proper Hebrew-based and correct chronology-based reading of the Bible;  is quite different and begins with Adam and Eve in circa 4000 BC.  One gives a little bit of a description of this Biblical model of History in "11/11/18, Architecture (in Georgia): showing the power of the state", refer below.
10/11/18, "Fire destroys Paradise".  Don't get too alarmed.  "Paradies" is a town in California.  The forest- and scrub- or wild-fires which are sweeping through much of California, over an area described as being as large as Belgium and Holland, left the whole town in cinders.  In terms of fatalities, this month's wild-fires have taken the highest toll ever in the USA.   "Paradise" reminds us of the place translated into English Jesus referred to on the Cross when He reassured the thief who repented in those last hours of his life.  Jesus said to him, "This day you will be with Me in Paradise" (obviously not in California).  We also use 'paradise' as a term for the Edenic situation the first man found himself in until he disobeyed the Lord God and ate from the Tree of knowledge planted there.  Are these fires a hint that the end of the age is really upon us?  Can we indeed look forward to the imminent arrival of Jesus' Kingdom that we always pray should come so that His Will is done on Earth as it is in Heaven?
In regard to the first question, we point out the current problems with hotter and drier winds, higher temperatures, heavier rains that often form massive sludge- and mud-slides in the aftermath of fires and ensuing storms, etc, are all signs of the Days of Noah.  Also, the rising temperature of the globe's interior is leading to increased frequency and intensity of both earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.  Those events too are part of the "Days of Noah".  We say that because the ice caps and mountains all formed during Noah's Flood.  But it has taken some 4500 years for us to feel the dramatic after-effects of that catastrophe.  One way the melting ice is redistributed back into the environment its water-base originally emerged from, i.e., the great caverns under the crust of the continents and ocean floors, is via cyclones, storms and higher moisture content and greater heat gradients therein.  These things are really just matters of physics.
However, a far more serious set of catastrophes descends upon the Earth during the Apocalypse or Tribulaton.  That is the Last Seven-Year period reported in Daniel 9:27 and related verses in Daniel 8:14, 12:11-12 and Revelation 11:3, 12:6.  Those judgements are the result of angelic plagues God sends to disrupt the Earth.  They are targeted agaiunst Israel to get that nation to repent and at Gentiles.  Disasters the world is currently experiencing are the result of two previous judgements by water on the Earth.  Frstly, in Genesis 1:2, after angels rebelled then secondly in the Days of Noah when not only did fallen angels involved in their earlier rebellion mated with women but also there was much other wickedness and godlessness prevailing amongst men and women like today.  However. although angels are not impregnating women, the antichrist's case being the one exception with Satan, they can and do control some people's souls unless they are exorcised.
10/11/18, "The paradigm we have to live with: One foot in both worlds".  This point arose in a radio interview with a man who has written a book about "tiny houses".  This is his solution to the world's housing crisis.  Such houses range from small houses literally constructed atop a trailer, also caravans or even house buses.  One has to find a location to park or build such things if they are not actually mobile.  Although if they are small ("tiny") they presumaby can be shufted with ease.  Large wooden houses are sometimes moved to different locations.  These things are not quite 'alternative living' because one still has to plug into sewage, or power reticulation.  Hence the comment came in that regard.  In these pages, we see this as being the lot of the Christian as he or she tries to live in this world.  We should be in the world but not of the world.  It is not easy.  Some groups such as the Amish do opt-out more or less completely, but they often either are not truly opting-out which is a bit hypocritical or they develop other unsavoury complexes.   
11/11/18, Georgia independent of USSR in 1991 but still soviet dominated.  The next few items about Georgia come from a TV documentary based on a female journalist returning to Georgia in the Caucasus region (or possibly the Gogasus) to interview people she knows or meets there.  The documentary concentrated on the ubiquity of soviet-styled architecture still dominating Georgia's landscape.  Independence from the USSR had drawbacks especially when soviet factories closed down.  Some people knuckled down to work within the soviet system.  For example, her mother "slaved away for seven years to become a member of the Communist Party".  But little by little, they (soviet communists) "were suppressing Georgian Culture".  The woman's friend remembered when her father was taken away by secret police in circa the 1930's and they "took him to Tiblisi".  In the Bible, Gog is the overlord of Russia, Meshech and Tubal which we suspect could be the Georgian (Gogian) capital.   So the following comments consider the documentary from this Biblical perspective (Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16).
11/11/18, History weighing down on my country.  One of their favourite dishes is called "Napoleon".  This reflects the extent to which throughout History Georgia has been under the domination of other nations.  Before the Soviet Union, the "Russian Empire" dominated.  In 1989, people gathered outside Georgia's parliament to protest against Soviet rule.  The police slaughtered some protesters.  They still rememebr the Russian 1930's pogrom against Georgians that Churchill mentioned to Stalin.  When this joiurnalist interviewed spoke to a fellow elderly Georgian who spoke very good English, the man's 'g' in "young" sounded like a 'ch' or even a 'k'.  He also stressed that last letter so typical of accents in those regions.  We suggest this is further evidence for the etymological research we do that indicates the 'G' in Georgia, the 'C' in Caucasus, the 'K' or 'Kh' in Khazack are more or less interchangeable.  In Hebrew (ה ,  ח ,  כ  and  ק  ) or 'H', 'Ch', 'Kh' and Q, respectively, we also have quite a wide range of sounds represented by different letters.  When transliterating as we do usually with names and places a straight swap from one alphabet system to another takes place.  However, it is often as much an art as a science how one does that.  From "ערבון" or "arabown" as Strong writes it in English phonetics, Paul transliterated "αρραβων", in II Corinthians 1:22, 5:5 and Ephesians 1:14.  Presumably, Apostle Paul could not find a Greek word acceptable to the point he was trying to make about how the Holy Spirit is a seal or pledge from God of the great things to come while we languish in this groaning and travailing world.  The sufferings of the Georgians and the fact that one of their own (Stalin) was responsible for so much suffering in the former Soviet Union attests to the trials, tribulations and torments of this world in the wake of Adam's transgression and until God rescues the world.
11/11/18, "If you demolish your past you will never have a future".  The young Georgian journalist got into an argument with an older man referred to above who had the  storng 'g' at the end of his English words who was making this point.  The ypoung jourmalist seemed to want a Russian apology.  He seemed less sure.  Was that because he knew about earlier history such as Stalin the Georgian hi-jacking the Russian revolution after Lenin died ("1924-53")?  The programme showed a bust of Stalin and a museum dedicated to him
11/11/18, "Stalin: one of the most interesting people of his era".  Words of a female custodian at the museum.  "We are not glorifying anyone", she said, "we are just recounting the facts". The young jourmalist was not so sure.  "They make you take part in his death ritual when you enter his mausoleum.  "We live in a country dominated by soviet icons but escaping our past is not that easy", she concluded.
11/11/18, "Architecture (in Georgia): showing the power of the state".  The Soviets constructed the huge buildings and massive statues shown on this TV documentary about Georgia.  Some modern Georgians are calling for their demolition.  But they do not look too unlike our own apartment blocks (in Wellington, NZ).  As an architect she spoke to said, "they remind us of our history".  The narrator said the Soviets designed them to intimidate the populace.  We note that was in much the same way the Romans of the Caesarian Empire and later Christendomite theocracy in Europe did.  Christendom built its massive cathedrals during and after the Crusades (circa AD 1100-1300).  Christendom's ideas about the Millennium Jesus offered Israel began unravelling after AD 1030 when Jesus seemed to have failed to return to Earth.  Their theology was wrong.  It was not Jesus' fault.  
The reason for that propaganda, was that Christendom had come to regard the millennium they were in since AD 30 was the Messianic-Millennial Kingdom of the Bible due to end with Jesus' return in AD 1030.  In that context, that kingdom had now come to belong to Christendom because Israel rejected Jesus in AD 30.  Muslims express that rejection as one of two repudiations.  The other being when Jerusalem and its temple fell to the Chaldeans in 586 BC.  So Muslims see AD 66-70 as the second chance for Israel after 586 BC.  Having had two chances to accept God, therefore with Israel having lost two Holy Temples to barbarian invaders, Muslims believed that the promises to Abraham had now passed on to them.  The Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians believed God's promises to Abraham  now belonged to them.  So there were three non-Jewish claimants to The Kingdom of God by AD 700.
Christendom's view, shared by Muslims who believed they are now the legitimate beneficiaries of the promises of the Abrahamic Covenant, led to suppression of Jews and of Christians who believed the Jews were still to inherit their kingdom as promised but only after the return of Jesus which will be triggered by Israel's yet-future repentance.  So against that background,  when Jesus did not return in AD 1030, the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox congregations began building massive cathedrals in a similar vein to the Soviet architcecture in Georgia in order to retain an illusion.  The Chinese no doubt did this with their Great Walll and Egypt did this via Pyramids, The Sphinx, and in temples.
The Romanised  christendomites from AD 1030 joined crusades to rescue Jerusalem from the Muslims of those days who were seen to be heretics from Christendom rather than pagans.  The grab for Jerusalem was in order to get Jesus to come back.  After holding Jerusalem for nearly a century in AD 1100-1200, then losing it again, ironically to a Kurd (Saladdin) leading the Arab Muslims, all theories about the Millennium and Christ's return  looked dangerously wrong.  So what to do.  Hence the massive architecture.  So people attempted new translatiuons of the Bible with versions like the KJV ("King James") to see what was really in store for 'Christendom'.  That led to a healthier understanding and exchange of ideas about the Bible, but within a couple of centuries by circa 1550, the new understandings led to more fracturing of the Churches.  That led to the Thirty-Years War.  
The Aftermath of that saw the rise of Secular, Humanist, Evolutionist and Materialist philosophies.  We ended up with science being separated from theology, church from state or governance, poetry from prose and mind from heart.  Since then, Science had no theology.  States had no churches.  Most of the Bible became poetry rather than prose where as there was  very little betweeen the two in the Bible where metaphors are far more literal than most people give credit these days (c.f., Psalm 78:49 and the "Evil-Angels" cum "Shepherd-Kings, a.k.a., Amalekites).  In Hebrew, metaphors are almost always virtually literal.  Likewise, prose frequently had within it words that could be read in two contrasting, varying, reinforcing or even directly opposing ways.   One needs to look at every word and sentence in context with every other in the entire corpus of the text.  
In many ways the architecture of the era of Christendom and the Renaissance-Reformation;   itself often split into two in the Post Thirty-Years War Era;  represented the dividing line between one failed system and its replacement.  The latter has also failed us as the S.H.E.M-ites (Secular-, Humanist-, Evolutionist-Materialists) struggle to keep an increasingly depressed and fractious society working hard on the Babel Project.  Furthermore, they struggle in vain to get the Islamic world to accept the S.H.E.M-ite paradigms and leave theology in the mosques.  Georgia, with its own peculiar nationalistic Christendomite cult and state church continuously suffers the after-effects from its subjugation by Russians, Mongols, Turks, Armenians, and Soviets.
Everywhere, it seems,  each new regime of Culture Paradigm uses 'Architecture' to impose its will.  Hitler and Albert Speer had great designs on Berlin with the ideas they put together.  Some even say that the WWI Armistice terms prevented Germany importing materials needed to construct Hitler's New Berlin.  So he began invading his country's tormentors.  The Jews were the ones who suffered most from that.  The USA was restricting Japanese expansion, cutting off her oil supplies on the eve of WWII.  That forced Japan to embark on further and far-reaching military conquests.  Those developments then  reinforced the ecomomists' paradigm that if goods and services do not freely cross frontiers then armies will.  Today we are witnesing hordes of impoverished people invading borders such as the USA's at the Rio Grande or the Africans attempting to cross over to Europe on flimsy and hazardous boats probably thinking they only have to cross a river rather than hundreds of miles of ocean.
Multi-lateralism took over after WWII but not to the extent  that people could as easily cross borders and goods and services do.  Bringing in other cross-breeds to mix with a nation's genetic heritage to provide a new generation of more vigour allowed for some to cross borders.  Now, deteriorating systems of governance almost world-wide, and the wars and civil wars that result, are leading to hordes wanting to escape suppression and a hard life and to explore el dorados abroad.  This situation, more than anything seems to fit the Biblical concept of "nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom".  It is really a situatrion of every man's hand against his brother's [Genesis 16:12, 27:40, Isaiah 19:2; c.f., II Chronicles 15:6 and 20:22-3.  Refer also to Judges 7:22, Ezekiel 38:21 and New Testament,  Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:10].
Noah's ark came to rest on a mountain just a little south of modern Georgia.  It looks like we have come full circle back to the Days of Noah (Matthew 24:37, Luke 17:26-7) and the imminence of The Rapture.
13/11/18, "Ice caps will keep on melting even if world achieves IPCC targets".  We have been saying the complete disappearance of the ice caps is in accordance with the ambient temperature of the globe.  The environment after that is completed will be akin to tyhat before the ice caps were formed in Noah's Flood in circa 2500 BC.
13/11/18, "California wild-fires claim 42 lives so far".  As noted above in "10/11/18, Fire destroys Paradise", these are now described as the worst event of this type ("wildfires") in modern US history.  President Trump has raised ire on top of the fire by accusing the California forest services for negligence.  Others have pointed out that the Federal Government is in fact responsible for protection of California's forests and wild lands.  Whatever is the truth it does seem a bit crass he should say such a thing even if true.  Of course, this may be just another bit of fake news or deliberate spinning of some statement made in order to ridicule the US President.
14/11/18,  Italy at loggerheads with France and EU.  We drew this comment from two items on an international television news service and conjoined them.  The heading is not a direct quote but a summation of them.  Firstly, we heard that Italy and the UN are supporting the Libyan regime (government) that operates out of Tripoli (The Polis of Tyre) while France, Egypt and Russia are backing the rival regime in Benghazi.  The latter is the Eastern part of Libya where nost of the country's oil wells are.  But Italy is also unhappy with the EU's banking and finance regimes that force it to keep servicing large volumes of debt without being able to restructure the economy in ways that could improve the country's long-term financial viability.  Germany effectively controls the EU's purse strings by virtue of the overwhelming strength of its economy.  Reading between the lines, France and Germany are ganging up against Italy.  France obviously wants to get a decent share of Libya's oil and the Germans can keep the Italians in permanent hock to them.  The British may well have a sympathetic ear from the Italians as the UK tries to extricate itself from the EU.  We believe Biblical Prophecy strongly indicates the EU will give way to some other regional grouping with Germany going to Russia's side and the western members of the EU, perhaps excluding Italy, will form Tarshish with their American cousins perhaps via the N.A.T.O alliance which after all may well stand for North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation!
16/11/18, Paris, Soho, Marijuana and Brexit.  An interesting combination but in this case "Paris" is the surname of a journalists and commentator.  He was reporting to a NZ radio station on the latest news about Brexit in the UK.  He was sitting in a cafe in Soho.  Marijuana smoke was in the air all around him.  Today, the UK PM, Mrs May, reported back to Parliament that she had agreement from the Cabinet over a proposal to put before the EU Parliament on the UK's conditions for leaving the EU.  But the very Cabinet Secretary responsible for the Brexit deal under consideration promptly resigned.  He obviously did not believe the deal he had been involved in formulating was viable.  The next question is which way Parliament will vote on the tabled proposal.  Even if a majority in Westminster agrees with it, there is no ceratinty the EU countries would agree to it anyway.  
The commentator admitted he was at a loss to explain what might happen next.  The whole process has become unbelievably complex.  No one appears to understand what exactly has been agreed anyway.  The document is a massive tome of legalese.  One commentator is even suggesting the Monarchy intervene.  All we can say is that via Biblical Prophecy this particular set of circumstances, which some say is as bad as Chamberlain in Munich in 1939 with his piece of paper from Hitler, is that things in Europe and the North Atlantic are going to dramatically change on the eve of the First Gog-Magog invasion of Israel.  This chaos over Brexit fits that plan very nicely.  Few are considering the effect on the EU.  With Italy, France and Germany not really cooperating all that well over several issues ranging from Libya, debt servicing troubles affecting the southern European states, security of energy supplies, status of the Euro etc., Britain's exit from the EU even without any deal would quickly implode the EU.  Perhaps Mrs May who never seemed especially keen on Brexit is aware that a UK exit could destabilise Europe.  Perhaps she is trying to help Europe, indeed the world, in this regard.
16/11/18, "May negotiating with her own political party - not with EU".  The UK's PM, Mrs Theresa May, is effectively doing this according to a British commentator.  In the previous iem we suggested she is also trying to hold Europe together on Britain's EU exit (or Brexit).  Some think that her agnostic views on Europe or even her preference to stay in Europe is what relly lies behind her strategy.  That might be Brexiteer propaganda from fellow Conservative MPs who want to depose her.  But the pro-Brexit Conservative MP's at least have the referendum result on their side.  So Mrs May should be getting the best deal for Britain not working part-time in some way or another for the EU.  But what exactly is the best deal for everyone concerned?  Should both the EU and the UK be looking for a good deal for all countries concerned? 
16/11/18, "British Airways considering re-locating to Spain to stay in EU".  An apparently absurd situation positied by the commentator in the previous item.  However, on our Tarshish Model it is not that silly because Spain, Portugal, Britain and parts of France were always regarded in the pre-Roman world as "Tarshish".  We know thius from a Biblical viewpoint, i.e., from Biblical Geography which we have revised in accordance with our revised ancient Middle Eastern Chronology.
16/11/18, "Her choice, no deal or no Brexit ...".  The three options being considered by Mrs May in her Brexit negotiations according to the commentator quoted in the previous item.  That was his summation.  He then added (see next item):   
16/11/18, " .... if the politicians can't, let the people decide".  Or perhaps the Queen should decide one could add!
16/11/18, Does Trivia affect outcomes in History?  Students in an end-of-year History exam in NZ had to write an essay about a quotation from Julius Caesar who apparently noted "trivia can sometimes affect outcomes in History".  Many students did not know what 'trivia' meant and were confused by the question.  The examiners said it would not matter whether they understood the word's meaning as long as they adequately demonstrated in their answer a consistent point of view.  Presumably, by thgis, one asumes if the student thought the word meant 'surprise' they would then write an answer based on how surprises affected outcomes.
In this world of social media, narcissistic selfies, in-groups doing social chat usually about trivia such as their pet dog chasing a sparrow or showing off their new hair-style, the world is now awash with trivia which is now the norm.  We suggest that was why the students were confused.  How was History affected by the Norm?  Surely abnormal situations led to historical events.  Of course from a Biblical point of view, i.e., from the Creator's perspective; for He alone knew the consequences of angels then men choosing to reject Him and then do their own thing with the Creation; there is a teleological outcome to all this.  God selflessley, omnisciently and lovingly allowed events in the universe to date to take their course.  God even created evil and darkness (Isaiah 45:7) so that the negative choices made could be possible and lead to consequences that are not at all trivial of course.  Frtunately, and by God's Grace and mercy, Matthew 24:22 and Mark 13:20 reassure us the chaos will not lead to no flesh surviving.  It will never get that bad.  Just how bad it gets before the Biblically prophesied Divine interventions bring the nonsense to a denouement is not specifically stated, short of total destruction, but we are given plenty of signposts and odometers to tell us how far we have come or gone and where we have come to.
20/11/18, Who is the Boss?  Mohammad Bin Salman? This is one unusual question currently exercising the world community.  The mystery is over the originator of the plot to assassinate Mr Kashoggi the Saudi Arabian journalist in the Saudi consulate on Turkish territory in Istanbul.  The killing is taken as a major affront to the Turkish nation making this an extremely silly thing to do.  The Saudis have deeply ofended their former imperial master.  International rules and protocols sacred to the entire concept of the mutual sharing of Embassies were torn to pieces by this outrage.  As with the weherabouts of the Late Mr Kashoggi's physical remains, the identity of this 'boss' lies unsolved.  There is not doubt who carried out the Actus Reus of execution.  Precisely who has the Mens Rea is not known, only alleged and many good points such as the Crown Prince's near absolute control of anyhting that goes on in the Saudi Kingdom casts the spotlight on him.  The aeroplanes used to ferry the assassin party to and fro various destinations able to avoid normal protocols for the take-off and landing of planes, jets or helicopters could only be approved or overturned with Prince Bin Salman's approval.  The murder-squad literally could not get off the ground without the Princes command, knowledge and facilitation.  So the intercepted phone call by one member of the squad of about 18 people, saying "tell the Boss" ... the job is done etc., again in the eyes of most observers means Mohammad bin Salman alone to be 'The Boss'.
As any reader of a Dan Browen novel will know, the identity of 'the boss' is often very surprising and not someone one would normally expect.  Our observations from various news reports and film or photos coming over the airwaves suggest a number of personalities are trying to work out a completely new and different strategy to bring resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.  In brief they are Messrs, Trump, Kushner, King Abdullah of Jordan and Mohammad bin Salman the effective ruler of Saudi Arabia.  A lot of this seems to be based on a personal relationship between Mr Kushner and Mohammad bin Salman.   With the Prince's father supposedly falling into line with the plan unacceptable to Israel that the Palestinians have presented especially in regard to East Jerusalem (see below) it looks increasingly unlikely the Kushner-Trump plan will succeed or even see the light of day.   It is also unlikely even the US White House will either be able or willing now to rely on Prince Salman in order to present whatever new plan for Israel and Jerusalem etc., it really has on file.
So we ask the question, did someone else not want any new radical plan to proceed  for the Palestine-Israel crisis to be resolved along with a broader Arab-Israeli' Peace?  There is one such person we can identify and that is the Antichrist-666.  Does his father's agents already have henchmen encircling or even inside the inner sanctum of the Prince's entourage?  That would not be uniusual or unexpected for us today.  It seems likely most governmental administrations now have insiders operating for the Devil either consciously or subliminally.  For example those sincerely working toward a Babel Project to harness the universe's attributes for the perfection of man.  If so, like the pre-planned destruction of the Twin Towers to commemorate the Antichrist's birth, a plan hatched by someone working for his boss, an unknown personality with means, sent that phone call through.  It presumably went to an office in the Prince's secretariat.
But did someone launch that call from somewhere else and use some technology to make it look like being sourced in an office of the Crown Prince in Riyadh?  Where could such a fake phone call emanate from?  The Space Station?  In one sense, the US President, as he did with a recent appointmen to the Supreme Court, is acting correctly with an 'innocent until proven guilty' viewpoint.  Even if President Trump is intensely driven by policies to isolate Iran with Saudi help, resolve Israel's problems with Saudi help, enrich his own private companies' construction contracts and those of the military-industrial state, he is correct to stand up for the principle of someone being innocent until proven guity and in the case of murder at the higher standard of "beyond reasonable doubt' rather than on "the balance of probabilities".  Yes, MBS is guilty on the lesser standard but not yet on the higher standard which is what really counts in this case.   Modern technologies enable us to catch a lot more criminals but they also make it easier to frame or implicate them as well.
We also refer to the Thomas A Beckkett incident in England some 800 years.  King Henry II yelled out in a fit of rage, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"  The man of religion had argued against the King in some matters.  Kings do not like priests telling them what to do for sovereigns were the ones who set-up priests in the first place because as former 'priest-kings' the earlier 'sovereigns' became too busy with affairs of state and governance to bother with sacrifice issues etc.  Thus Priest-Kings shed soteriological roles, sub-coontracted them to professional priests, and got on with the job of governance, diplomacy etc.  Hence Charlemagne (circa AD 800) took the crown out of the Pope's hands and placed it on his coronation head by himself leaving the pope standing by twiddling his thumbs.  But little did King Henry mean for some of his knights to go and slaughter the priest behind an altar in a holy place (church).  They did not even bother to wait for him to leave before pouncing on him.  Perhaps a similar incident happened to Prince Salman.  Henry remained King of England though under something of a cloud.  The same could happen to Mohammad bin Salman.
But such an Henry II scenario would be enough to scupper the Kushner-Trump Peace Plan for Israel and her neighbours assumning it relies heavily or crucially on Mohammad bin Salman and perhaps Jordan's King Abdullah.  The Jordanina ruler's  great grandfather unfairly lost, with American intervention or bungling, Western Arabia to the Crown Prince's Grandfatehr Abdul Azziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Saud.  Thus Abdullah's Hashemite forbears, Keepers of the Holy Places of Mecca and Medina (Midian in the Bible) became Keeper of the Holy Temple site of Jerusalem instead or alone.  No doubt they need to keep Jordan's king onside here.
Scuppering what might very well be a good plan designed by Kushner et al would pave the way for the antichrist.  The disputes between Israel and her neighbours (Jerusalem etc., see Zechariah 12:2) are very difficult issues to resolve.  They have broken the will of many government administrations.  Ultimate resolution needs to be something that only God, or his representative, could ever get past the warring parties.  And that is precisely how Satan wants it for his son.  It also happens to be the way Jehovah the Creator God (Elohim) wants it for His Only Begotten Son, the Lord Jesus the Christ or Messiah of Israel and The Saviour of the World.  Unsurprisingly, Satan and his antichrist are in the process of counterfeiting this Plan that God has.   Satan will fail and Gpd wiill succeed.  Even if the majority of the world, and indeed a majority-"many" (Daniel 9:27) in Jerusalem agrees with Satan's plan which it is entitled to do (although it will bear the cost of doing so) God has a legally over-riding unconditional covenant with Abraham and his descendants of the Son of Promise (Isaac) not with any of his other offspring (Genesis 15:12, 17).  That means God must see it through no matter how much Abraham, and/or his descendants disobey God and "profane Him" (Ezekiel 36:17-24).  Not even the majoiriuty of Christendom's theologians now believe these things in the Bible categorising them as ancient stories, mythologies and allegories.  Some of us left do literally believe these verses.              
20/11/18, Saudi King Salman wants East Jerusalem as Palestine's Capital.  Amidst the furore about his son's order to kill Mr Kashoggi, the elderly, frail and possibly mentally-tired King has reiterated this standard Muslim line that jerusalem must be Islam's Holy City.  The US plan about to be hatched (refer previous item) clearly does not envisage Jerusalem to be anything other than the Jewish nation's Capital as it should be for anyone who knows anything about Histpry, His Story and The Bible.  This statement today suggests more moves to scupper the new American Plan to resolve the Palestinian issue that seems to have support from Mohammad bin Salman.  But with people like 'MBS' who wants supporters like that.  And what value can anyone put on anything he commits to?   
22/11/18, "Total disengagement and suspicion of religion in NZ".  A comment by a retiring professor of religion at a NZ university speaking on a radio station about his lecture to be held that evening in Auckland.  So people of faith feel themselves marginalised.  He made the comment in the context of a question about the 'Gloriavale' Christian community on the West Coast of the South Island of Neew Zealand.  He continued, "they vanish from the mainstream" and "people avoid taliking about their faith in NZ.  One's observations after nearly eight years attempting to encourage discussion on matters concerning God's revelation to us via the Bible, with a display of one's Hebrew and English Bibles sitting on one's desk at work, New Zealanders do indeed run away from an mention of things 'religious'.
Of course we are not religious at all.  We are not re-binding ourselves to a different set of rules which is the esential definition of 'Religion'.  True followers of Jesus of Nazareth are His disciples and ambassadors.  Our job it to explain His Plan for the world.  We also explain how one can enter His Kingdom i.e., by "Spirit Baptism" which automatically is part of the action when we believe Jesus and what he did for us.  That is when one is Born Again, Born Anew or Born from Above.    In the author's exampe that was as a child aged 4-5 years old and in part came about from one's reading of the Bible and alongside it a book called Egermeiers Bible Stories (or some such title).  At about age 15, the author was baptised by immersion in a pool of water to symbolise and acknowledge the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth and the hope of a glorified body at the First Resurrection.  That may come at The Rapture if one lives long enough to see that Blessed Day.  Baptism is the first step on the way to becoming a disciple and ambassador for Jesus.  As ambassadors we tell people and authorities what God says about issues.  We do not force anyone to accept or adopt God's point of view.  He gievs everyone the choice to accept or reject Him as he did to Adam and Eve.
These days we are observing the long-run conseqeunces of Adam's sin and that of every generation since especially as the negative consequences aggregate and accumulate at an exponential rate.  Those are the consequences of Adam eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  We believe it was a touch-tronic computer placed in the garden to test the first man to see if he would accept God's instruction to leave it alone.  So we are atching mankind continue to ignore God and trust in knowledge, science and technology which are the new gods of our world.
24/11/18, Italy:  "Crisis between democracy and finance".  Today we received a report on an international television station news service.  The Italian populist Government seems to be on a collision course with the EU.  In "14/11/18,  Italy at loggerheads with France and EU", we noted another potential source of friction between Italy and her European partners to the north.  Alongside the Brexit issue, the EU does seem to be under a sort of siege from the north-west, the deep south and its eastern flank on immigration matters as the Eastern Orthodox-Slavic members resist Muslim refugees trying to enter Europe through their nations!  The Secular, Humanist, Evolutionist and Materialist European Commission and its bureaucrats hope to convert the Muslims to their S.H.E.M-itism.  But other more realisitic observers, especially Christian Ambassadors for Christ and evangelists, know that is unlikely given the Muslim mind-set.
Italy wants to expand its stagnant economy in traditional Keynesian Public Sector spending programmes first adopted by the ancient Egyptians when they commissioned the pyramids.  However, Italy's current debt situation at 130% of GDP is regarded as too high by the EU's Euro zone regulators.  Membership of the Euro,  to which Italy currently agrees having swapped the Lire for the Euro, means a country also has to agree to Euro-zone rules.  These rules are driven by Germany and to a lesser extent London by virtue of Britain's membership of the European Union.  Pointedly, thanks to Mr Gordon Brown and previous British Chancellors of the Exchequer, Broitain' retained the ancient Pound (or Punt in Ireland), to be independent of the Euro and so having more freedom to dedvelop its economy.  In comparison, Italy remains in a straight-jacket in the Euro as do Greece and Spain who also ran into similar types of economic sand Italy's economic ship has run into.  It's like having four reverse gears and only one forward gear as Italy's tanks in WWII were rumoured to have after their defeat at the hands of the allies in North Africa.      So Italy has a drama erupting with is the battle between "democracy and finance" as noted by a commentator on this TV programme.
However, this dispute and looming crisis that compares with Brexit, reminds us of the more fundamental dichotomy we find in things like the separation of Church from State, Faith from Reason and Science from Theology.  One cannot really separate these things of course and many of the crises in this world are exacerbated by separations like these.  The S.H.E.M-ite plan, which we suspect is the Babel Project in disguise, will ultimately trap mankind within the grip of the antichrist.  What we are now looking at is the increasing failure of existing institutions from governments to universities and from businesses to think tanks as the world tries to keep theology out of science and faith separate from reason.
As one theologian put it, "when I am a scientist I don't think about faith.  When I an in church I don't think about science".  Having abandoned what they thought to be Christianity, Western governments such as New Zealand's are instead looking at alternative religions to solve these two splits.  In NZ, it is the pantheism, paganism and panentheism of the Maori the governments are adopting.  Each year they attend a meeting of a cultic Maori Church in the Wanganui district at an annual pilgrimage.    
But the western governments are running right back into the problem that forced them to tear away from Europe's 'religions' after the Thirty Years War.  They are trying to harmonise false religion with at best poor science.  The Thirty Years War occurred because theologians, although reforming their ideas about the Bible to a certain extent amongst the Protestants, nevertheless retained too many errors in their theologies.  Those errors continued to prevent scientists and theologians  developing proper harmonies between science and theology.  Science, released from its neo-Platonic and neo-Aristotelian philosophies and paradigms moderated by Roman Catholic dogmas, briefly imroived for a season.
Essentially a mix of poor science and poor theology continued to prevent further splitting of theology and science so that today theology is unscientific and science is untheological.  In the world of political-economy, the recent decision by the US President to continue business dealings as if nothing has happened after the savage murder and destruction of Washinton Post Journalist Jemal Kashoggi shows that politics can have no ethics.  The independence of economics from the 'political' ensures the oil must keep flowing so the commerce continues uninterrupted not just for the USA but for nearly every country in the world.  This is Satan through his role as the King of Tyre according to Ezekiel 28:12 manipulating things but soon he will take direct control through his only begotten son.
Of course these dichotomies do not need to exist.  As an economist, one always found critics, opponents and even supporters, saying what we asked for in economic reform would not be "politically acceptable".  As from a Hebrew perspective, Heart and Mind can be at one in harmony and indeed should be especially in the Born Again Believer.  Likewise, the obvious distinction between Poetry and Prose does not need to be nearly as wide as it is in the West or East because in the Bible there are only subtle distinctions between the two.  This sometimes re-appears in Western music where lyrics are intended to be much closer to the bone or literal.  That is, as far as the musicians and their lyricists are concerned even though the listeners may not hear or receive what they really are trying to say.
Thus, a harmony between Science and Theology must or does exist if one believes the Bible.  It's a matter of finding it.  Of course sceptics have a vested personal and public interest; the latter because they are paid to do this, e.g., in universities and seminaries; in perpetuating that disharmony or lack of harmony.  Christendom failed that task for many reasons especially by failing to consider the Hebrew milieu or perspective in which the God-ordained ('inspired') statements in the Bible were enscribed.  Presumably, if one has faith and if God via His Holy Spirit sealing us as believers allows or permits, we can find that 'Harmony'.  Daniel 12:4 & 9 and other verses suggest that search could not succeed until near the End of the Last Days before Christ Himself intervenes.  In any event, the expression of Faith in God is the first requirement.  Then the working out of this harmony amplifies the distinction between the people of faith and those of no faith.
However, the reason for such a late occurrence in at last being able to work out this harmony 'near', or 'at', the very last hour suggests God always had a Plan to allow this.  A certain minimum level of knowledge would need to be met as Daniel 12:4 & 9 suggest and for obvious reasons we now have much better tools to do this sort of analysis.   in time to explain circumstances like the 'Days of Noah' and how the last acts of that catastrophe would be experienced by the last generation before the introduction of the Messianic-Millennial Kingdom.  For example, climate change and related collapsing biodiversities in ecosystems all around the World are the long run result or cost of Adam and Eve taking from the Tre of knowledge and the Flood at Noah's time (circa 2500 BC).  It's only stating the obvious that our present situation could not be forseen by anyone other than God.  Even though some people like Malthus did think about the way population trends in their day 200 years ago would lead to significant problems in the distant future.  Also, with the abundance of knowledge we now have especially as so much of it points in various ways to the Truth about God and that He is, we have abundant illustrations of the points God makes in the Bible that none of humanity would accept Him in its sin if He did not intervene in our affairs.  Very soon, it seems, is going to be the time to intervene.
Of course hardly anyone now beolieves the complete Bible as Jesus intimated in Luke 18:8.  That's just one of many ways we are in Noah's days for no one believed him or followed his righteous ways.  Most adherents in Christian churchesstick to certain passages they believe but reject or ignore the rest.  Brethren and Baptists only discuss Hamartiology and Soteriology.  Pentecostals only discuss Pneumatology.  By accepting the Whole Bible, we realise that one can develop the required harmony by taking the raw scientific data, without the opinion of the scientists presenting it, and matching it with the Biblical account.  But we do this by using the Bible to interpret the data not using the data to re-interpret the Bible.
Thus Italy's crisis of democracy versus finance or politics versus economy has many important parallels around this rapidly deteriorating world as prophesied in the Bible.     
24/11/18, "Amazon distribution centres are fulfillment centres".  Here we see commerce trying to meet people's spiritual vacuum by buying and selling.  Revelation 13:18 links the identification of the antichrist with the wheels of commerce.  One of Jesus' reasons for dwelling with us was that He might give us life fulfilling.  One is sure He was not referring to Amazon's ventures.
25/11/18, "We face our challenges together: The Past, Today and Tomorrow".  US Secretary of State Mr Pompeo talking to the Saudi Arabians regarding how to handle the Kashoggi murder affair.  We note the use of the the three phases of time so important to our 3-D Aleph-Tav Bible Study Programme.  
26/11/18, "UN Convetion on Biological Diversity has two years to run".  The scientists gathering at this meeting in Sharm el Sheik in Egypt just south of Israel's border at Eilat, are concerned Climate Change gets too much attention.  They also say the biodiversity is deteriorating because of climate change but they want the biodiversity aspect to get more attention or even parity in this regard with climate change.  We agree with most of this but reiterate banning the use of carbon-based fuels will do nothing to help.  The problem is far more serious than that as noted in previous items.
26/11/18, "Breakaway fringe groups intent on violence".  That was said by a commentator on a radio show talking about the week-end's riots in Paris.  Rioters were enraged by yet another tax increase on petrol and fuel and the failure of the Macron Government to redistribute income as promised in his sweeping election success.  The "Great God with us" or Immanuel Macron, Mr 333 himself, clearly has feet of clay.  he also urged the British public to support Mrs May's Brexit Plan agreed to at the same weekend in Brussels by the EU.  Now we await the decision of Westminster MPs to make their decision on the agreement.  Will MPs vote in favour, dump the government, call for another referendum, perhaps basing it on the plan now on the table, or leave the EU with no agreement?  The last option will be very interesting to say the least.
All these developments make interesting reading for the emrgence of Tarshish in the latter days although that name in the Bible may never officially see the light of day in atlases or in organisations.  We suggest "NATO" or North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation is already in place.  Not that anyone realises the actual 'T' in that acronym stands for Treaty.  But others will know from these pages that the very word 'treaty' is a variant of Tiriti or Tire-ty the mother country (Tyre, Hebrew צור) or "Tarshish and her young lions or villages" which really are the grandchildren of Tyre.
Of more practical present day significance, in every society we are now experiencing these "Breakaway fringe groups intent on violence" wander the streets of central and downtown Wellington, NZ's capital city no less, ineffectively monitored by police.  The cops get stuck in traffic jams in their flash patrol cars for 45 minutes responding to a 111 call.  That's because Governments are deliberately witholding resources from policing and law enforcement.  No doubt this is a directive from Satan as he prepares things for Apostle Paul's II Thessalonians 2:8 scenario.  Parliamentarians spend all their days debating fine philosophical niceties and spew out more laws but rarely do they enforce them, or provide for their enforcement, except when good sound individuals err in some regulation and get slammed for minor things like referring to drunkards as "drunk bumbs" aftre they trash the local toilet block.  It's not kosher to to say things like that, which are colloquially quite correct, but a man who raped a young girl many years ago got just a few months in prison.  Murderers even go free after a few years in jail.
Mr Macron is correct in that they are bent on violence.  President Assad said the same about people in Syria.  Assad then used that situation, however true it was in reality, to justify by killing his own people in a ruinous civil war.  He ran a very autocratic regime which some people apparently wanted to make a little bit more democratic.  But that is very much prohibited in Arab Muslim countries.  There people either want the Caliphate to be returned, though where it should have its capital is never agreed on (Istanbul, Mecca, Baghdad, Tehran?), or they want the retyurning Mahdi to set up his own system.   Islam is a false religion so the debate is of academic interest in the final analysis.  We know where Jesus of Nazareth will set up His capital.  It is in Jerusalem of course.  The roving gangs of "Breakaway fringe groups intent on violence" are looming up everywhere, often if not usually using social media to carry out their evil designs.  This is one of the things God's Rapture is obviously going to save us from just as God sent a couple of angels to drag Lot away from Sodom and as He instructed Noah to construct an ark to float above the waters.  Jesus is going to save us like an eagle grabbing us upwards in His Talons.  Let's hope people take note of our writings and get off the Gravy Train and get aboard the Rapture Train.
29/11/18, "Keep everyone aboard, leave no one behind".  Only Eight got aboard Noah's ark.  The rest were left behind.  The quotation here came from a discussion on the radio about how Global Warming is leading to harsher storms and floods damaging property more frequently with more intensive and extensive damage.  The burden on the insurance sector was the background story.  Insurance premiums will have to rise to pay for the damage.  Most people with investment in property and related sectors, which is most of them in today's world-economy, will find insurance premiums will need to go a lot higher yet.  That will imperil much economic activity in the long-run.  This structural problem with the international insurance business model is one of the many things one has been predicting and warning about for years.  We do this with the information we have from the Bible (Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8 and Luke 21:10) and from our understanding of God's Plan for the world.  We were attracted to comment on this statement because it reminded us of Noah.  It also reminds us our present climatic issues and earthquakes, fires, volcanos are all derivative of the increasing heat and concomitant pressure in the Earth's interior.  
These 'environmental' problems are the results of catastrophes.  Two of them happened to be world-wide floods that were God's judgements on this Earth.  The resulting post-flood heat-pressures are firstly due to Satan's rebellion in circa 4.5 billion BC according to some radiometric estimates.  Although God stabilised the globe in order to re-format it 4.500004 billion years later in 4000 BC, God planted a special Garden (Eden) in which the man was placed.  That gave extra protection but when Adam's rebellion enforced his expulsion from the Garden, he entered a world of risk from tectonic disturbance.
Then there was the  second great 'flood-judgement' in The 'Day of Noah', which God caused because of Man's sin and the women's sin by mating with fallen angels.  Thus the Earth again suffered a rigorous upheaval.  This second major catastrophe, exacerbating the effects of the first (Satan's rebellion) further weakend or destabilised Earth's structure.  That deterioration resulted in Earth ending up with ice caps and mountains.  They were absent between circa 4000 and 2500 BC.
Many of our 'environmental' problems today with their heightened concomitant insurance risk are the long-run result or consequence of the winding back of the ice caps (melting).  Also coming into play, were the warming effects of accumulated heat storage at the Earth's core.  That was because the pre-Noahic-Flood atmospheric balance that transmitted equal amounts of energy from the sun in day-time with export of the excess at night-time went into disequilibrium.  Instead, the corrupted post-Noahic-Flood atmosphere, the First Heaven of the Bible probably extending out to the Van Allen Belts, began trapping too much (thus 'disequilibrium') solar heat.  Before the Flood we had 6-8% carbon dioxide in the atmosphere instead of the current 2%.  The hard-wood forests which help cool the Earth and absorb solar heat loved that CO^2.  It's possible that cosmic rays from the Sun added two neutrons to the C^12 to make it C^14.  We suspect hardwood trees flourish on the C^14.  Nowadays, however, there is too little carbon dioxide in the air to sustain the hard-wood forests and the rest of their subsidiary and dependent micro-environments so necessaary for the equilibrium needed by the Earth's Environment.
Thus, that pre-Noahic-Flood environment disappeared to an extent that hardwoods began to be less able to compete with nitrogen-fixing plants.  Since circa 2450 BC, the levels of nitrogen deposited in soils by nitrogen-fixing plants went out of equilibrium or balance and began to poison the soils with too much nitrate or nitrite 'leaching' in and remaining there as a residual or excess 'waste' in effect.  In comparison with the pre-Flood environment the nitrogen-fixing plants began to compete too strongly against the carbon-fixing trees (mainly, also some other plants) leading to, among other things, deforestation before the current industrial situation of deforestation.  In New Zealand, the people think the dairy farmers are responsible for this country's high nitrate or nitrite content in soils and water reserves.  At the most, NZ's dairy farmers were merely tipping a balance the wrong way.  Nevertheless, they are working hard, and successfully, to prevent further leaching of  nitrogen into their environment and that of others.  But they cannot wind back 4500 years of nitrate-nitrite poisoning.
These are reasons why God through Isaiah 24:5 said, "The Earth also is polluted (or defiled) under the inhabitants thereof".  Most directly, immediately and perhaps the worst we have now, many messy pollutants are the result of man's greedy or unnecessary consumption, e.g., plastic waste especially as it has ended up in the oceans and waterways of the globe.  Much environmental degradation and many ongoing difficulties such as this latent 'insurance-risk' are the result of Man's sin in Noah's day.  Some of our difficulties are a side-effect of perhaps subsequently unleashed results of Satan's rebellion.  Onlty the returning Messiah of Israel, the Creator, is going to alleviate all this as He will do for the Messianic-Millennial Kingdom.
4/12/18, "The end of civilization and environment".  That was the claim by Sir David Attenborough at today's big Global Warming or "Climate Change" junket and Bun Fight in Poland where some "40 nations' leaders" sat listening to him.   When I was about 7 years old, David was on TV in England convincing us we were descended from monkeys or apes.  I remember calling out to my mother at that point.  She was in the kitchen next door to the living room in my parents' house in Send, near Woking, Surrey, England.  I said what David had preached on the telly.   She called back, the Bible says, "God created man from the dust of the Earth".  I was changing my mind to David's point of view but immediately changed back with Mum's statement which I have suspected ever since was God Himself imitating her voice.  God did that about 3000 years ago with young Samuel when that boy thought the High Priest Eli was calling out to him.  God communicates with us through His own Spirit infilling and indwelling us when we believe in Jesus, not through some human high priest, minister, pope, cardinal etc.
Late, I learned that the Hebrew word for 'create' there in Genesis 2:7 is yatzar (ייצר) where the root word is 'rock' from which dust comes via the process of erosion after a length of time.  So of course the dust had to have eroded from rocky material over a lengthy period of time which is one way we prove the Earth and the Universe are much older than 6000 years even though animals, men and plants are only 6000 years old.
Of course I did not know all those things back then as I do now.  Now, it appears, the apes from which we descended according to some evolutionists was in fact just one female whoe mytochondria on her reproductive eggs changed somehow so that her children in fact became 'human' and all her daughters produced what in effect were 'human' eggs of Australopithicines that became fertilised into 'embryos'.  However,  they keep changing the dates when that first happened.  About 30 years ago we were told that happened in 1 million BC somewhere in central or south central Africa, i.e., in either the Congo or Zimbabwe.  They may have a point when one takes a look at what a mess those countries are now in.  Presumably that's because the most highly evolved people are Congolese and Zimbabweians.  Certainly in the Congo, judging by the horrendous reports that come out of the country, mankind has evolved into a terribly crappy state.  It looks like the Arabians are coming close to that with the Kashoggi Affair.  How long will it be until the rest of mankind descends or 'evolves' to that degeree of degradation?
The Bible explains that the point Sir David made today was forecast in the prophecies in the Bible.  Sir David thinks Man can put these problems to right.  However, the Bible's prophecies instead declare that Jesus is returning to restore all things and put them back to right in the Millennial Messaianic Kingdom and that only he can do that, not the Churches, not the governments.  Although we can all change some of our wasteful and extravagant behaviour to ameliorate the decay.  Before the Christ's kingdom comes we first get the coiunterfeit satanic millennium.  It has already got off to a start which has been the case for eighteen years since 1/1/01.  We could call that the first binary year of 'ones' and 'zeros' but it is really 1/1/2001 which spoils the joke a bit.  The Academies are the joke.  Se the next item.  
4/12/18, "Global Warming caused by neo-liberalism". That was the claim by Mr Jeremy Corban the British Labour Party leader today.  He was in the House of Commons.  Mrs May had given him an advance copy of the G 20 meeting she had just returned from.  He was commenting on it in the House.   The G20 was in Argentina.  It is the the 'Silver-inia or -Land' of Pope G^eo^rg^e Mario Bargoglio.   Anyway, it is nonsense statements like that which turn people into sceptics concerning global warming or climate change.  That's scepticism which we criticise.  Scientists who work on the null hypothesis that there is no real temperature change only some long term cycle going on or none at all in reality, are quite welcome to theorise that way and should do so of course.  Corban made the statement for purely political purposes.  He wants to get votes for a government that will probably want to tax and spend more money on pet social welfare projects.  But governments like the one he proposes tend to spend before getting the tax revenue increasing so that there remains a reasonable balance between the two.  There is no problem spending running ahead of taxation for short periods as long as the latter can catch up and help repay what had to be borrowed in the meanwhile or interim.
Tne real problem is not neo-liberal economics whatever anyone means by that.  The problem lies in the world's academies.  They are the Western (London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Rome etc), ther Eastern (Beijing) and the Middle-Eastern or -Western depending on which side of countries like Iraq and Israel one's nation lies.  To the Chinese, Israel of the Bible is in the Middle West.  For the British, Israel is in the Middle East.  There are three Middle Eaestern academies one refers to here.  They are Zoroaster, Mohammad and the Bible.  Zoroaster is one of a clutch of philosophers who emerged in circa 500-600 BC in China (Confucius, Dao or Tao), India (Buddha) and other parts of Asia (Lao Tse).  A century or two later, the Greeks came up with Plato then Aristotle.  All tehse philospohers were a respoinse to the fall of the Jerusalem temple to Jehovah in 586 BC at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Kurdo-Chaldean Hittite .  
The only true academy is the Bible.  The others, their philosophers and their derivatives, are all false.  The Bible points out that the current environomet is the result of previous sins by Satan and mankind as we reported in previous items.  Sin, not neo-liberal economics is the cause of our current problems.  The Last Adam has to return to put right the wrongs stemming from the First Adam and his Eve.
6/12/18, "A minority dictating to a minority dictating to the majority".  This comment from the author is inspired by a radio interview where two representatives from NZ's 'rainbow community' or LGBT or people of mixed sexual persuasions ranging from homosexuality to transvestites, etc., talked about friction within their organisation.  Dissension arose from a dispute about policemen being participants in a gay (rainbow) parade through Auckland's main streets.  While the majority were happy to have the police involved, a minority was not.  The minority's antics may yet lead to the effective cancellation of their now annual rainbow parade.  In the eyes of the majority of this minority, whether from the red or blue end of the spectrum we do not know, the police (boys in blue) had become much more understanding about their sexual preferences and had greatly improved behaviour when approaching members of the 'gay' or 'rainbow' fraternity in investigations involving members of the rainbow community.  This minority, perhaps 7% of the general population, dictates to the other 93 % of us yet ironically it faces dictation from its own '7%'.  That's 0.49% of the whole population.  Less than a half a per cent is effectively dictating to the 99.51%. They call themselves the Rainbow generation.  Little do they realise that God said the days signalling the end of this age of chaos would be signified by the "Days of Noah".  That great event was itself signified by a rainbow seen probably for the first time because the atmospheric balance changed significantly enough to reveal all the colours of the spectrum in the heavens.  
But there is another stratum where this type of tyranny operates. That is in the control of the planet's wealth.  An estimated half of one percent owns or controls some 85% of the world's resources and spare capital (money).  Across the world, but especially in the USA, much of this wealth is inherited. Many 'family dynasties' manage to hold on to this wealth and indeed keep it growing at very respectable even obscene rates of return by avoidung taxes, using trusts and those vehicles to invest in housing and property.  Many houses we see around the world with no activity in them atre those owned by these trustees but raely used except for a family holiday a month a year.  This wealth minority dictates to Governments and what they may tax or what they may spend.   
Mark Twain talked about only two certainties in life.  They are death and taxes.  Neither of them bother me.  I have always been happy to pay my taxes.  I am an economist and understand their value.  Death has no sting.  The Bible is our text-book on economics.  It demonstrates that the rich should never be allowed to get too wealthy.  That is why every 50 years the wealthy had to return the extensive land holdings they had acquired over 49 years of commerce and trade back to the original owners or their descendants and families.  The Mosaic Jubilee system stopped in their tracks what these dynastic families and other inter-generational wealth accumulators manage to do in this day and age.  
Anyway, only death or the Rapture can save me from these minorities.
6/12/18, "Climate Change can spark low level and violent conflict".  This came from a news report about a defence strategy paper.  A finding of yet another study into climate change.  A journalist on this radio station reporting this headline also advised us that a leading NZ newspaper and media group is telling anyone who disbelieves humans are causing climate change to stuff off and stop posting comments on their website.  This is of course more evidence that the world is being readied for the Antichrist to take full hands-on control of governance of this planet with the ultimate goal of destroying Israel.  Any deviance from the official world line-of-thinking or 'world-view' is to be suppressed.  Even in the churches the true believers like the Narnians living amongst the Calmorenes or Telmarenes are mocked, ostracised, ignored or even perscuted with unjust criticism.  Just more evidence of the days of Lot and Noah.  The world is beginning to enter a massive change in the environment as explained in previous items that present the Biblical perspective on climate change.
6/12/18, "The World's in turmoil and its rubbing off here (NZ)".  A commentator and journalist on the radio after a couple of reports coming in from London and Paris about the chaos going on there with Brexit and anti-petrol tax riots.  In Paris, Mr '333' or Immanuel Macron a.k.a., 'The Great God with us', has tried to improve France's climate change image by heaping hefty taxes on diesel, the most polluting carbon-based fuel.  But this is at the cost of beggaring the meagre living standards of the lowest income groups in France which need diesel to get them to work in their cars and trucks, the latter probably their work vehicle as well.  Clearly we need to reduce dust, dirt and grime from our air, but that should be the target, not atempting to keep the globe cool.  This is where scientism has brought us.  The nonsense we are now seeing at every level of society is no better demonstrated in the bad science driving so much government policy these days.  We are in a less rational situation today, science-wise, than before the revolution in science and thinking of Kepler and Newton. After the peak of those two gentlemen, science has been sliding downhill ever since. The only areas things have really, significantly or noticeably improved since then are weapons, transport (albeit less healthily) and communications (in spite of social degradtion thereof) through the ether or aeros or 'air' that Satan controls according to Ephesians 2:2.
No wonder the NZ Ministry of Research, Science and Technology was not allowed to give the writer a permanent job in the ministry because of one's "religious convictions".  In other words, it was not allowed to permanently employ someone who knew from the Bible just how bad the science had become.  Now, nearly twenty years later, the world is reaping the conseqeunces of suppressing the advice of Jesus' Ambassadors on this Earth.  One is not too concerned about what happens in France.  However, London's battle or civil war over Brexit in the parliament is rather distressing.  At least one can console oneself that the UK continues to play its role  in the Bible's world History or His Story as Tarshish with all her young lions or colonies; the youngsters still in some ways tied to the matronly apron strings.  The EU is trying to prevent the UK form reaching back out to her former colonies by being very unfair to Mrs May in the UK-EU Brexit talks.  But the EU's nastiness will come back to bite it in the bumb when many others want to leave its sinking ship.  But if that is so, then it means the First Gog-Magog of Israel and Jerusalem is on the way.  Let's keep our eyes wide open.
7/12/18, "Drugs drive away depression", says drug abuser.  We say, "no they don't.  They only fuel even worse depression". The headline was the response of a young lout rolling ourt some drugs late in the afternoon.  The authorities in NZ are battling many problems of 'mental health'.  Most of it is drugs and alcohol related.  Education is of no use because these louts simply cannot be dealt with in any rational way and besides, the education they do receive is more likely to drive one to consume alcohol drugs than give an incentive to stay away from them.  This is just another sign of the terrible chaos the world is now slipping into.  Problems in Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Yemen are all bad enough but the drug and alcohol abuse and chaos at the park by the toilet block on Dixon Street, Wellington, is NZ's equivalent.  There is little qualitative difference between the two types of crises when one considers the effects and implications of this drunken and drugged behaviour continuing.  Both lead to death and destruction but via different pathways which may yet converge at some point in NZ if the authorities are not careful:  unless of course they, or some element within them, are deliberately bringing in some chaos as George Orwell predicted.
But as another commentator discussing a rather different sphere pointed out, internal disputes within the governing administrations in Moscow and Washington DC are leading to a destabilising situation on many other fronts such as Mid East policy, weapons control, North Korea etc.
10/12/18, "Internet has normalised violence and extreme sexuality".  A young British woman was murdered last week near Auckland and the radio stations were talking about it.  The court judge suppressed many details about the case this morning as it came to court.  Reading between the lines, the case involved violence and extreme sex.  Our interest in it is that these two factors were characteristics that distinguished the "Days of Noah" then the "Days of Lot" in the Bible.  The fact that the commentator was saying the Internet, i.e., Man's attempt at creating a tree of knowledge as in the Garden of Eden, was instrumental in setting the same conditions today.  Clearly we are in the Days of Lot and Noah now.
12/12/18, "He has a long experience of theatre".  That was the view of a French woman answering an interviewer's question of people in the street during one of the regular week-end Yellow-Shirts led riots in Central Paris.  The anger was directed at Mr '333' himself, Immanuel Macron, French President.  Macron has been trying to lead the world in carbon reduction and pollution control.  So he lumped a hefty tax on diesel fuelled cars via a tax.  He also needed to clean up Paris' air from diesel fumes.  One can understand that having spent one's early life in smog-ridden England.  He also needs to balance the French State books to meet EU directives on deficit spending.  All that got scuttled when he backed down on the tax in the wake of ther riots which usually seem to do their job when the Paris mob gets going.  Actually, it is usually mobs from the country such as farmers who normally cause these fracas.
The comment refers to his wife who was his drama and theatre teacher at school.  However when one considers the 'theatre' that Antichrist-666 will perform with his wondrous miracles it is especially interesting to hear this comment about ther man whose name adds to precisely 50% of the Antichrist's.  This just seems to ber another amazing coincidence that having identified one name meaning "Majesty King of Kings" that adds to 666 we also now have a name meaning "Great God with us" adding to 333 in Hebrew just as the Antichrist himself, assuming we are correct about the identity of him, is well into his 17th year.  Antichrist is now "going on 18" as Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote in the Sound of Music Song, and that was the age   Alexander began his career.  Jesus was 34 when He began His official ministry.
"Immanuel macron" is easier to calculate in Hebrew because "Immanuel" is a Hebrew word, or two really amalgamated into one.  Along with Rome (Aeneas) and London (Gog and Magog's captors), Paris (King Priam's son that Hector died for in one-on-one combat) was founded by Trojan refugees from the celebrated war that featured Odysseus, Achilles, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Patrocles, Ajax, Hector, Paris, Priam, etc in circa 780 BC.  Troy had a large Kurdish or Chaldean population.  We now think this is how those three capitols are connected with 'Babylon'.  The Chaldeans were the last to leave Babylon, a millennium after the Tower Project was abandoned, and after everyone else except the Arabs.  The latter in Abraham and Isaac's loins, so to speak, had moved out of Babylon with the aforementioned but later returned to populate the region of ancient Babylon from their Arabian Peninsula lairs in the wake of the Chaldean exodus in circa 1000 BC stimulated by the soils becoming poisoned with excess salt doe to unintended over-irrigation and excessive agriculture.  Some of the Kurds as Celts took their agrarian skills to Britain where they never looked back.
Anyway, in these pages, unlike Fakebook, novellists, poets and actors, who cannot; we who can, deal in reality drawn from observed data shaped by a framework set by the Bible's Plan of His Story. 
12/12/18, Brexit enters critical stage.  We put this headline here to brief readers on developments in this seemingly chaotic scenario.  Again, one cannot be sure how much scaremongering is fake news or media nonsense to boost sales or ratings of  media and bloggers.  Our base point is that in the Last of the Last Days of Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:10, Daniel 12:4 & 9, Hebrews 1:2, II Peter 3:8 and Acts 17:26 in connection with Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16, "Brexit", along with problems in the USA and EU, is somehow tied up in those 'prophesied' events.  The vision Ezekiel had is about the First Gog-Magog invasion of Israel.  It occurs before the Millennial-Messianic Kingdom.  The other or Last Gog-Magog invasion occurs at the end of Jesus' millennium.  The First has a seven-year phase at the end of the invasion.  In that 'phase, Israel and her friends ("Strangers") must clean up the mess and debris left behind by the destroyed invasion army.
On the sidelines, "Tarshish and her villages (or 'young lions')" and Sheba and Dedan, publicly oppose the invasion.  On the basis of present knowledge, we believe this group of nations is the Tarshish-Atlantic nations (NATO) and SEATO and the Arabians and Emirates (Sheba-Dedan-Eden) on the Persian Gulf.  From that gulf the "Ships of Chittim" sailed before the Tower of Babel and in the immediate period after the tower project was abandoned.  Eventually that trade was picked up by the Phoenicians.  They operated between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea via alliances with Israel.  The Phoenician ships or "Ships of Tarshish" in Solomon's and Jehoshaphat's time (I Kings 10:22, II Chronicles 20:36) plied the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean.
Anyway, the current daughter nations of Tyre, today's "Tarshish", do not or cannot do anything about the First Gog-Magog invasion of Israel.  Praise God, as the prophet notes, God Himself intervenes to solve Israel's (and indeed Tarshish's) dilemma.  It seems Britain is somehow laid low by the Brexit thing.  Or, she and her colonies (including USA) as well as the French, Spanish and Portuguese and Dutch colonies in the Americas (named after John Ameryck of Bristol an animal furs trader) are incapacitated so that there is nothing they can do to protect Israel.  They support Israel as being a bastion of democracy and rule of law, ideas they received from the Jews (e.g., Trial by Jury) and the Bible (e.g., Law of Contract or Covenant) anyway.  So 'Tarshish' and her villages (כפיריה) will voice opposition to the tyrannical regimes that are involved in the anti-Israel invasion.
So what, in this context, is Brexit?  Mrs May says "Brexit is Brexit".  That does not help all that much.  But if one has an inkling it has something to do with Biblical prophecy it may well be best to leave it at that.  Mrs May is a vicar's daughter.  Last time someone's daughter was our PM the farther ws one of Napoleon's British Shop-keepers.  Anyway, the crisis has morphed into a situation where Britain can go for another referendum to either confirm or oppose the results of the First.  That leads to several rather unpalatable outcomes and looks like going nowhere partly because a belated "No" to Brexit second-referendum vote might lead to demands for a third vote to break the tie (at "One-all").  Perhaps of some comfort for those fearing disaster, Europe's top court has said Britain can simply notify the EU it no longer wants to withdraw and Westminster (Parliament) can make that decision.  That would be quite simple to do.  Except that Parliament would be left in a position of ignoring a serious referendum or more fancy 'Plebiscite' on the matter.  Constitutional experts say Parliament should stand by the referendum even if it did support Brexit by a narrow margin and MP's collectively preferred to stay in the EU.   Some say the referendum campaign saw the Brexit supporters gerrymander advertising and publicity and social media to effectively rig the result to go their way.  The writer enjoins leaving the EU.  But it would be best to know that result was fairly, democratically and constitutionally  attained.
So the less bad option is to go ahead with a vote in Parliament on the 'Brexit-deal' Mrs May and her Cabinet have at last arrived at and gained the EU's support.  Parliament said it still does not like the deal so Mrs May is trying to convince Europe to make some further concessions.  Mrs May, her Cabinet and probably other MP's,  know that the EU has other potentiall more serious troubles which the media fail to focus on.  The mostly uneducated journalists from our perspective concentrate all the damage falling on Britain.  Thus, ignoring the more frenetic journalistic views on the matter, it is still possible between now and mid-to-late January the EU will come back to the party with some variations to the deal to place on the tables of the EU and UK parliaments.  Failing that, Britain walks out of the EU on the 29 March 2019 deadline and we see what happens.  As a postscript here, on 27/12/18, one met two Czechs at the 'office' at the toilet block.  They agreed with me that the EU needs to offer the UK more sweeteners to get an orderly Brexit approved by Westminster otherwise the Euy will be in big trouble.  The Czech man said he wanted his country out of the EU.  For example, the EU prevented the Czech Republic from developing its rich wine district, presumably to keep Europe's notorious wine lake from overflowing. 
Returning to our introductory comment or headline, an opinion of Catherine McBride of the Institute of Economic Affairs was suggesting there need not be any agreement with the EU because Britain simply could exit the EU and carry on trading with the World under the WTO or formerr G.A.T.T set up after WWII along with the UNO, WHO, World Bank, IMF etc., mostly at "Bretton Woods".  Even China is now ostensibly inside the WTO making it really a 'World Trade Outfit ("Organisation").  Unfortunately, the USA looks to be on the way out of WTO.  Hence a US OuTO [a double 'u' (ו) in Hebrew also equals a double 'o'].  The US withdrawal from WTO as things putter on is leaving the organisation.  Thus WTO may be without funding to maintain an adequate panel of judges so necessary for the WTO's adjudication processes in disputes.  Without the USA the WTO becomes more of a TO alone and not an especially successful or influential one at that!  Perhaps Britain and the USA could re-invigorate the WTO.  Or the US could be encouraged to remain in the WTO.  Also, if as seems likely President Trump is not going to be around much longer, the USA may anyway re-enthuse itself with WTO within a year or two.  Or, of course, perhaps we may even see NATO (as the North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation) reconfiguring as an economic and military organisation with the USA still participating in that.  Of cousre things are a bit topsy-turvy at present because of the mercurial and unpredictable Trump Effect.  It is a bit like Bridge or '500'.  One often does not know when a low trump beats a high Ace. 
Failing that, Ms McBride said Britain must prepare to leave without a deal.  That means having a back-up plan or option because without one there is no negotiating position with Europe a hand which we believe is stronger than many think because they overlook other almost more pressing problems the EU has, such as, we noted above, other EU members like the Czech Republic perhaps wanting to exit.  So that is now where things seem to be heading for.  Even the EU is beginning to prepare for a no-deal Brexit too.  After all, it also needs to have a back-up plan because the British economy makes up a big component of the EU's.  Ironically, the respective 'back-up' plans might be the way to resolve the dilemma.
Realistically, because so many British people are so unhappy with the EU, Europe must come up with some answers to Westminster's unhappiness at the status quo.  Europe has got too many other problems on its plate such as immigration revolts amongst its slavic constituents, debt problems in the ecomomies on its southern flanks, a crisis in Ukraine facing up against Russia, a debate about ethics and morality in the face of its dependence on trade with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Kashoggi Affair, a governance system of about twenty nations in a parliament almost as unwieldy as 640 parliamentarians in Westminster etc.
So we await  any concessions or other ideas from Brussels, a possible acceptance of a reformed deal by Westminster and an orderly Brexit on one hand or possible economic and financial chaos on the other.  Unless the UK decides to stay inside which presumably is always going to be unlikely because of the referendum result.  A disorderly exit, might even saprk a Zechariah 5:6-11 scenario.  But that in turn would appear to require a topling of the governance regimes currently controlling world finance and the Mid East's oil and financial reserves which may in any event be in the hands of others unknown or unidentified.  Who knows who really owns and controls Mid-East oil?  There are no public financial accounts to show where the accumulated profits of Mid-East oil since the early 1970's, and even further back perhaps, have been squirreled away.
Another implication from the forthcoming Gog-Magog invasion for the world is that many things will have to be re-ordered and re-structured presumably over the seven years Israel's friends clean up the post invasion mess.  Judging by the fire that comes down from the heavens it seems the much of the world could be in some chaos.  It seems there will be an extra-terrestrial destruction via meteors and asteroids as has apparently happened in the past according to Immanuel Velikovsky.  Then it might well be that the Antichrist begins his seven-year control of the world during the Seven-Year clean-up of the mess in Israel post-invasion.
We are lalso ooking at the possibility that just as the other two pairs of seven years in the Bible ran seamlessly together one after the other (those of Joseph's dreams and the two engagement periods or reverse dowries of service Jacob paid Laban to marry his two daughters);  the same could happen for the third pair.  This comes out of the Aleph-Tav 3-D Bible Study's First-Last analysis.  The posited fake and counterfeit Satanic millennium we believe we are now experiencing will culminate its relatively short programme with the second or last of this pair of 'seven years' after we have finished the seven-year clean up in Israel.  In the Bible, these last pair of sevens appear in two different books.  The First is in Ezekiel and the second or last in Daniel.  If our antichrist candidate is indeed the person we are looking at, currently aged seventeen, then we really could be staring down the barrel of accelerating prophecy fulfillments all the way up to the end of the Apocalypse, Antichrist's destruction and establishment of Jesus' True Messianic Millennial Kingdom.  Antichriust will claim to be operating Jesus' Millennium with his many miracles and "theatre" (refer 12/12/18, "He has a long experience of theatre" in the previous item).
Most stuff we see these days such as 'media-events', concerts, shows,  pronouncements from the UN and world governments are theatre or heavily dressed-up programmes which have little reality to them.  In NZ, governments are fond of announcing new spending programmes.  In reality, most of the programme is underway anyway.  They add a wee bit of new money then announce the whole package is new both the old and newly financed parts of the programme as one whole new programme.  One has to bury one's nose in vast swathes of budget documents to find out what really is 'new' money.  So a lot is indeed now "theatre" with Mr Trump adding a lot of Pythonesque humour to all this.  Just wait until God adds His actions.  They will be very real indeed.  As Ezekiel 38:23 says, "Then they will know that I am Jehovah".  The statement is agnostic about whether the people then will take any notice of God and listen to His point of view.  Ezekiel 38:17 suggests or even hints that people will be starting to take note of God's prophets at the very least when the first Gog-Magog invasion of Israel ocurs.  Presumably, people's reactions depend on whether any Church saints are still around, i.e., before the Rapture has taken place.
Brexit's "critical stage" may yet have far more at stake than many hitherto realise.  We can but wait and observe.
12/12/18, "The Way they (Google) organise the world's information".  That was a TV commentator's point in a question he had for a technology expert.  The main topic was how Google was going to develop a censoring search engine suited to China so that the Sino state's leaders could at the same time control what its people were thinking or trying to do. They also talked about the way information is upsetting so many things around the world.  (Refer the next item).
16/12/18, "The Information Ecosystem is broken".  That was a comment from someone contributing to a television panel discussing the implications of social media etc.  They were talking about the problems of 'fake news' and how to assess the newsworthiness of any item.  Especially concerned about the trustworthiness of media channels, newspapers and television as well as the Internet sources.  We just think this is another description of the type of trouble we were eventually going to enter once Adam had decided to take of the Tree of Knowledge in his own strength.  But Satan also at that time became the 'Prince of the Power of the Air' per Ephesians 2:2.   Now, only the Bible stands as a reference framework from which to interpret all the trends we are now witnessing.  They are the accumulated problems of Man's sin and the exaggeration of them begins to exponentially multiply.  In every administration around the world there are internal splits and divisions.  As Jesus said in Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8 and Luke 21:10, when we begin to see the event of nation against nation within the context of that Hebrew idiom then we know the Last Days of Daniel 12:4 & 9 which are themselves in the Last Days of Hebrews 1:2 possibly at the end of the 6000 years = 6 Days that II Peter 3:8 (c.f., Acts 17:26) spoke of.     
17/12/18, Scientists looking at "liquids" under earthquake zones and faults.  We have long argued earthquakes, volcanos and global warming are all part of the same equation involving the over-heating liquid rock and magma at the Earth's core.  To relieve pressure, the globe's internal turmoil has to find release in some way.  So the place is heating up like a kettle where the incoming energy supply is exported from the Sun.  But the globe is not re-exporting enough heat at night back into outer space to cream off the surplus as was the case before Noah's Flood, i.e., in the equilibrium atmospheric environment that existed from the first chapter of Genesis (4000 BC).  About 1500 yars later the atmosphere suffered disequilibrium specifically leading to more nitrogen as a proportion of the total atnospheric gas volume or mass.  That was Noah's Flood.  Subsequent catastrophes may well have further upset or destanilised the formerly delicate atmospheric-gas balance.  THese are therfreo what Jesus referred to as "The Days of Noah" which have other implications as well.  It mrans we are heading into a period of more destructive storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and stronger winds.  The winds will be  more like those that stirred up, or sucked-up as with tornadoes, water moisture in the immediate aftermath of the Great Flood as the excess water covering the Earth became 'dried-up' as snow and was deposited at the poles and on the newly formed mountains.
As a result of these catastrophes a lot of vegetation got melched and buried under ice.  It is now a source of immense volumes of methane.  As the ice melts and the methane gets exposed it evaporates into the atmosphere or fuels forest fires resulting from the excessive heating of the globe.  These disturbances also lead to problems in agriculture that will lead to food shortages due in part to famine as Jesus also predicted for the Days of Noah.                
17/12/18, "The way to stop this is an international convention".  This comment concerned the problem where courts of justice laying down temporary suppression orders on the names of people brought before them are ignored by international social media giants.  Courts in a particular jurisdiction, in this case Auckland, NZ, are putting injunctions on news media publishing as name yet media outside the New Zealand Administration get to publish the names.  In this case a serious charge of murder of a british traveller to NZ  involved name suppression although no one understands why, but British media and Google etc., did publish the man's name.  A commentator on the radio made this suggestion.  One added this example to the list one is compiling of many issues requiring international cooperation now in order to get on top of them (Key Events Key Subjects).  
20/12/18, "So much bad news, everyone's desensitized".  A comment by a member of the public at our toilets when I mentioned the problems we have here with vandalism and "urban terrorism".  I mentioned also the Kashoggi Affair.  Incredibly, this young couple down here from Auckland fed-up with Auckland's traffic problems, was totally unaware of what had happened in Istanbul at the Saudi Consulate to Mr Kashoggi about 8 weks previously.  They were so fed-up with all the bad news they had just turned off.  Apathy ruling supreme.
21/12/18, "She has a brain that operates differently".  This concerned a woman coming to study at Wellington (NZ's) Victoria University.  But she had a mental condition.  The University told her to stay at home in Canada to study because it felt it could not supervise, manage or be responsible for her medication regimes etc., necessary to help control her condition.  A local city councillor thought that was a little bit surly and mean-spirited (ceorlish or churlish in American English).  That was her summation of the woman's mental insecurity. The student apparently had an attempt at suicide in the past.  In the councillor's opinion, the student should not be prevented from coming to Wellingotn to study simply because of a "brain operating differently".
A Biblical perspective on this hones-in on the extreme Materialist Doctrine behind the councillor's comment.  We are commenting on the extreme S.H.E.M-itism that now drives world policy and which is fast becoming the prevailing world paradigm or 'world-view'.  It is unsound as we note.  Individually, each element of S.H.E.M-itism, i.e., Secularism, Humanism, Evolutionism and Materialism do have a certain amount of legitimacy and a role to play even if as an alternative hypothesis (Evolutionism).  Even the some belief structures or analysis within these elements may have a semblance of truth and reality.  There is some virtue in approaching certain problems from a secular perspective.  We do not really need evolutiuonism or theology to help us construct bridges.  Preferably we would like to keep such considerations away and build the bridge as a secular project wherein many different people with different skills, attributes and theologies can join together in a useful proiject of benefit to one and all.  Government's however, cannot manage social problems from a purely secular perspective.  
In this case, although the student's brain does manage much of her life processes as is the case for all of us, the brain is not the source of all our being through an equilibrium of chemical equations.  We do not deny some things do happen because of an unbalancing of that equilibrium.  Hallucenic drugs clearly target some of those equilibria.  However, the soul of man and animal also determines the life-form's processes and actions. In the case of humans alone, the soul is additionally inbuilt with a capacity to communicate with the Creator who is Spirit.  That is, if the created one so chooses.  God can only be worshipped in Spirit and Truth (John 4:23, Romans 8:16, I Corinthians 2:12, I John 4:2. etc.,).  People not living by this rule are liable to suffer depression, anxiety and much other distress that may well be reflected in imbalances that develop in chemical proceses in the brain or indeed in other parts of the body which travel into the brain region.  The Materialist Doctrine seeks to replace God, and the need for the soul to worship Him in Spirit, with an appropriate dose of chemicals to restore some sort of physical equilibrium.  The problem then becomes one where the patient ends up being dependent on drugs and chemicals for the entirety of a life that could be far more fulfilling if the person were to believe God and allow Him to heal him or her or better still, prevent the patient from getting into such a mess in the first place. 
21/12/18, "China has reverted to dictatorship and autocracy".  That was the view of a commentator on radio today.  He was looking at the future of NZ-China trade and commerce in the wake of the current President of China declaring himself President for life.  That's the sort of thing mad, murderous dictators in Africa do.  In the aftermath of Mao Tse Dung when Chou En Lai and Ding Shiao Ping steered China toward democracy and less autocratic government albeit via a one pary-state, various democratic and freedom-of-speech nations began to seek business, commercial and cultural links with China.  That was welcome after centuries of isolation the Chinese took upon themselves for reasons, some of them quite valid others not so, as we have noted elsewhere.  However, as the commentator noted, many people in China are being sent to re-education camps.  There are also  breaches of fairness, and international rule of law guidelines because the Chinese Government and state pirates or other Chinese actors are stealing as much technology as possible.  Several countries are now on the move to stop this situation deteriorating in the wake of a series of revelations exposing Chines corruption in these areas.
Napoleon said, "China is a sleeping giant".  He, like the writer, probably knew something of the nation's history which dates back further than France's.  He also knew the world would be shaken up by the rumbling giant as it awoke.  The Bible says very little about China except for one explicit reference to some Jews there returning to Israel in or for the Millennial kingdom.  These 'reported' (which means they could be Fake News) developments, while not explicitly noted anywhere in the Bible; unless we are missing something; probably generally add to the overall level of instability that precedes the rise of the Antichrist-666.    
23/12/18, "No earthquake, no warning, in the middle of the night".  Despite famous Krakatoa, in the Sundra Strait separating Java from Sumatra, rumbling from time to time, no one had expected today's Tsunami.  So far, it has killed 200 and injured 800 at the most recent count.  The volcano was described as 'not Indonesia's largest'.  That's prhaps news to most of us given the 19^th Century's (1880's?)  ex[plosion!  In view of the volcanic, earthquake and tsunami experiences of other parts of Indonesia especially North Sumatra and Celebes-Sulawesi, it is not surprising authorities and the public in general were caught out.  But it reminds us of those who might miss out on The Rapture.  Like Krakatoa, The Rapture is a much celebrated event mentioned in the Bible.  It has yet to take place.  Beginning in Luke 12:37-40, Jesus apparently began teaching about The Rapture though not in a fashion those present understood.  A lot of things they apparently "understood not" but rapture verses were especially enigmatic as The Lord intended.
The background to Luke 12:37-40 came when the Pharisees and Jewish leaders faced with the performance of the third of three Mesianic Miracles where Jesus cast out a demon from a deaf and dumb man nevertheless rejected Jesus as a fake and fraud.  That provoked a storm of rhetoric from Jesus toward the Jewish leaders.  He  especially or notably referred to the Queen of the South (Luke 11:31).  We now know her to be Hatshepsut ("The Sign of the Queen of the South") of ancient Egypt and Ethiopia as Josephus also acknowledged.  Although the historian was not aware of her actual name or title as we now are in these Daniel 12:4 & 9 days.  As Dr Fruchtenbaum notes, Jesus now began preparing the Disciples for the situation where the Messianic Kingdom offer was being officially rejected by AD 30 Israel through her leaders.  That meant the delay of its operation until a new repentant generation of Israel comes to light.  We suspect that is now not far away despite the current nation's "profanity" toward Jesus, the substantial body of Messianic Jews ("The Israel of God", Galatians 6:16) apart of course.
Implicit in Jesus' strategy, misunderstood by his followers which was part of Jesus' intention, was to prepare the Disciples to establish the Church Age.  That is a fundamental point Dr Fruchtenbaum brings to his discussion of the way the Gospels are constructed.  The Disciples, as Apostles, later joined by Paul and others, would have the prime responsibility to administer what would be Jesus' own Kohel (קהל) or congregation.  They would set down the mode of life for each generation of the Church of the Christ to live in this fallen and increasingly despairing and worsening world and be or get ready for the day of The Rrapture.  This extraordinary event must take place because Jesus now (by Luke 11:15) was in effect stating the Last Seven Years of Dsaniel 9:27 was now to be delayed to sometimne in the distant future.  If the Israelite leadership were to be in acceptance mode that Seven Year period would be operating there and then.  But Exodus 4:8 of course in effect precluded that being the case as God foreshadowed.
So with that Seven Year ('Tribulation') now to be in the future at the end of the Church of The Christ Age, and because it would be such a bad time when God pours out His Wrath on unbelievers the True Church (The קהל of Yeshua) would have to be rescued.  Those still living in that time would not face death.  Otherwise God would be in the position of having to kill us all off on the Eve of the Tribulation and then resurrect our newly dead bodies.  That seems illogical and stupid.  Hence the clarity of the purpose of The Rapture.  Besides, our Loving, Gracious and Merciful God does not want anyone to go through the Tribulation and would far rather see people saved via the witness of True Believers.  Thus, there is every reason to keep the Church on the ground running right up to the very moment of The Rapture whatever day it occurs on the Eve of the Tribulation however long such an 'eve' is!    Instead as the "dead in Christ arise first, we (ir they) who are alive" will be instantaneously translated into a resurrected body and be uplifted from Earth into (The Third) Heaven.  We would need that resurrected bod to do that.
So One, or The, group of Last Days believers has to be translated in this spectacular and miraculous fashiion.   Anyone missing out because they have not been poreparing or readying themselves, the subject of Jesus' teaching (Luke 12:1ff), faces at least seven years of terrible tribulation and Apocalypse.  There is still good news at that time because anyone repenting and turning to Jesus post-Rapture will still be saved.  However, many who get saved post-Rapture may nevertheless die in the meantime or be executed by Antichrist-666 for failing to worship and serve him.
So in Luke's Gospel, later, perhaps somewhere near Jesicho, Jesus with and to His Disciples; a few days perhaps before going up to Jerusalem for the Last Time for the Crucifixion in Luke 17:22-37; gave a full descritipon of the Rapture.  Later, Jesus summarised those points at the end of the Olivet Discourse as reported in Matthew 24:36-41 and Mark 13:32-37 beginning with the phrase, "But concerning the Day that only The Father in Heaven knows".  Sixteen verses are devoted to The Rapture in Luke 17 but only six in Matthew and Mark.  We conclude from this, Jesus gave two discourses on The Rapture.  The First, in the most detail He ever gave about its circumstance and timing, was in Luke somewhere on The Jericho Road perhaps but the location is not that important.  His Second or Last treatise on The Rapture was at the end of the much more extensive Olivet Discourse concerning the Last Days of Jerusalem and Judea in AD 66-70 then of Israel world-wide and in Israel at the end, in effect, of the Church Age.  All that was discussed up there on the Mount of Olives after passing by some of Herod's masonry in the Temple construction area where refurbishments and extensions were still underway having been commenced even before Jesus was born.  
Even in Matthew and Mark, the Gospel authors give slightly different emphases to Jesus' final points about the Rapture.  His comments at the Olovet Discourse primarily attended to the events of AD 66-70 and the run-up to the apocalypse.    Theologians generally disagree with one on this point, however, it does seem in these Last Daneil 12:4 & 9 Days that Jesus only intended a fuller understanding of these Rapture comments and warnings for close to the time when a much wider set of Biblical prophecies were becoming clearer.  In the context of Peter's question in Luke 12:41 (speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?") no one at the time really had any inkling at all what Jesus was talking about vis-a-vis The Rapture.  Plenty of other statements made sense to most listeners whether or not they agreed with them.  In regard to The Rapture, nor have most generations ever since understood Jesus' Words in these passages principally becuase it was Divinely intended they should not be understood until a certain critical time.  The big questions is, "Are we in that Time now?"  "Is our time now (AD 2018) those critical Days of Noah and Lot?"
The Last generation of believers in Jesus' Church; which excludes Old Testament Saints, Tribulation Saints or Millennial Saints, the latter two groups of believers still in the future of course; needed to heed or have this warning.  It remains for those who are leading a spiritual life to ensure other believers living more carnally; for we are all probably carnal at some very limited extent; to warn the others who have come to belief no matter how immature their spiritual and discipling life is.  Not only do we warn "the others" in the body but we also go out into the highways and by-ways or even under the hedge-rows and offer them the chance to join the Rapture Train.  People under the hedge-rows are those who have fallen off the Gravy Train through mismamanagement of their lives or via drugs, booze, immoral sex, pornography etc.  But the rest of the unbelievers, and some carnal Christians of course, wiill be on the Gravy Train.  Some fall of the Gravy train as opposed to genuine believers who depart the Gravy Train that Satan has the world junketting on as the End of the Last Days approaches.
23/12/18, "Some sort of underground movement".  Once upon a time, that would have referred to an extremist group plotting something nefarious out of the light of peering eyes probably, therefore, "underground".  In this case, the statement refers to a massive movement or slide of earthy material where no one could see what was happening.  It led to today's tsunami between Java and Sumatra.  The slippage may have been the collapse of a precarious shelf of some sort.  Theoretically, that shelf lay just off the coast.  Its collapse then triggered a tidal wave or tsunami.  Although the authorities seemed to prefer the former term.  The instability of this theoretically unstable shelf presumably was the result of some loosening due to previous tectonic movements or volcanic shakes of Mount Krakatoa.  As we note, the really important issue is knowing what is happening not only just deep underground but all the way through the entire interior of the globe we sit on.  Whatever we see is the far-end-point of a long chain of movements going all the way back to the Earth's core.
That's why the Bible's prognosis now is the only practical tool we have to interpret today's environmental events.  Especially important is the abibilty to link those envoronmental issues with the geo-political developments.  In turn, both environmental and geopolitical issues need to be explained in integration with the many 'issues' now besetting mankind some 6000 years after Adam's fatally wrong decision.
23/12/18, "Adam and Eve did hanky-panky in Heaven then banished to Earth".  A view of a former arms-merchant talking about shady deals he did to sell weapons to the Saudi Arabians on behalf of American, British, French and probably other  governments or on behalf of weapon-manufacturers pulling government strings to get arms-deals done with other foreign governments.  While most people would not know this, we recognise this is a typical Islamic view of the Scriptural account concerning Adam, Eve and Satan in their respective Edenic Gardens.  The Islamic view is similar to one held by some rabbinic interpretations.  Here we will explain all this.
One view we have explored is that Islam fundamentally or initially was a Jewish contrivance via Mohammad an Arab of Medina.  With some Jewish assistance, Mohammad already rightly concerned about widespread idolatry and astrology in both Jewish synagogues (the astrological mosaic on the floor in Beit Alpha synagogue in Israel) and in the Christendom of circa AD 700.  Ostensibly, Mohammad, moved to set up a reformed Christendomite religion in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.  Putative Jewish invlovement was presumably directed toward developing a religious system more sympathetic to persecuted and terrorised Jewish folk.  We can see what the Jews had to experience when we look at the way the Spaniards expelled them from Iberia once all the Muslims had been driven out of the peninsula.  There were many other anti-Jewish pogroms elsewhere in Europe.  Even if there is some truth to this model, one can readily sympathise with the Jews especially under the pressure they were finding themselves in from Catholicism all over Europe and Byzantium.  So there is no evil Jewish conspiarcy stuff here.  Besides, Islam has since become a mortal enemy of Jewry, a double-edged sword, now that Israel's state has arrived.  Muslim opposition to Israel comes despite the Koran's injunction in Sura XVII to note that the Jews return to Israel is a blessing to the world, not a curse.  In the short-term, Israel's resurgence is leading to some nasty tension world-wide but the world's genuine Christians and followers, disciples and ambassadors of or for the Christ-Messiah of Israel, i.e., Jesus of Nazareth, fully support God's Plan to return the Jews back to the Promised Land as pledged to Abraham.
So that hopefully briefy explains why such a nonsense statement came about.  The reality is that Earth immediately after the Creation of the Universe was presented to Satan and the angels as a sort of glamorous pad of magnificent palaces and places of great beauty composed entirely of precious and rare metals and gemstones of all kinds kniown to us.  Some of the metals had massive nucleii of dozens of protons and neutrons.  But God had to destroy all that and turn it all into a giant plum pudding.  Today we mine the precious stones and metals.  The higher metals, however, have been decaying because their heavy atomic structures are no longer supported by God's power.  They are breaking down which is why we can use some like uranium to generate nuclear power.
But the Islamic nonsense about God's Word in the Bible is matched by the Western Science System's abuse of the Bible and in the way it seeks to ridicule the Bible.  
23/12/18, "So What's new?"  Bribery in corrupt commercial deals.  Babylon in Revelation  is associated with corrupt commerce.  That includes what we would describe today as consumerism.  Many people mistake consumerism for capitalism which is about saving and conserving resources instead of spending and consuming ad infinitum.  "Consumerism" encourages more and more consumption to oil the wheels of commerce.  This is to produce more and more profit.  'Profit' is then invested in R&D to develop new or more sophisticated and even more luxurious or sophisticated products.  Governments tax us to supplement this spending to help cover the costs of public benefits accrued from 'research'.  In "consumerism",      branding is the main differentiation between similar types of a basic product.  Each comercial brand promotes much the same product with only minor or ephemeral nuances or differences.  For example, between two different brands of sliced bread.  Each brand competes for the purchasing Dollar, Pound, Yen, Euro, Rouble etc., by pretending to be much better than its rivals or "competitors".  Brands are also used to stimulate over-consumption.  Instead of meeting needs, the brand is used to exaggerate neds into wants and gmme, gimme more.
Much of this, especially branding, is "theatre" (12/12/18, "He has a long experience of theatre").  That's what a woman said of Mr Immanuel Macron (The Great God with us) and his attempt to quell riots in Paris of people upset at having to pay for higher fuel taxes and not having enough money left over to buy the basics.  Also, they needed cheap-to-run diesel fuelled vehicles to get to work or for their job to get the income to pay the bills.  Although one must wonder how many such people were spending too much of their budgets on unnecessary things translating wants into needs.  But the higher 'consumption' taxes around the world are one attempt at mitigating the worst (or polluting) effects of all this consumerism.  As Isaiah 24:5 prophesied 2700 years ago, the Earth is polluted with many things, "under its inhabitants thereof") and in many different ways we now belatedly know about.  For example, plastic wastes; many deliberately dumped in the oceans or rivers feeding into the seas; are poisoning the oceans and life therein.  There is lots of dirty air around the world especially as we find in China and South East Asia these days.  Or, for example, there are the oil- and chemical-polluted waters of the Niger River Delta.  Nobody is willing to shell-out the money to clean up the mess!
On another environmental front, and World-wide, but as a result of past catastrophes as we now understand from Velikovsky's work and the Bible upon which much of his research depended, the soils are polluted with nasty concentrations of nitrates and nitrites.  This is just one example of this sort of exogenous contributor to world-wide pollution that is not directly anything to do with mankind.  Since the Flood the Earth has had an over-abundance of Nirtogen in the atmosphere (about 78% compared to a probable earlier percentage like 72%) and insufficient Carbon Dioxide now only 1-2% instead of an earler 6-8%.  Forests, hardwood ones especially, have been dying out or contracting starved of sufficient carbon dioxide.  In particular, hardwood trees may have been suffering since circa 1500 BC and the Great Flood, a shortage of a special isotope we know trees absorb, known as Carbon-Fourteen (14 neutrons instead of 12 in the nucleus).  They feed on this in addition to the much more common Carbon-Twelve.  Over the Post-Flood Age (some 4500 years) hardwood trees have been especially attractive to consumers for their by-products.  As well as being indiscriminantly chopped down, hardwood forests also have been out-competed, certainly on the margins, as the better-fed nitrogen-fixing plants became relatively more vigorous.  But nitrogen-fixing plants, shrubs and trees deposit more and more nitrogenous extracts into the world's soils as they grab a bigger share or proportion of the world's 'Canopy'.  That may have had some indirect effect on Global Warming of course.
Some farming or human agricultural activities, again at the margin, have been exacerbating the nitrate-nitrite problem. But, at the most, they have been the straw that broke the camel's back.  In regard to this particular problem, with a rapidly rising population of both man and animal, we can hardly stop food production to alleviate that.  Nor can we appropriately change the atmosphere by replacing about 5-6% of the 78% nitrogen-component in the atmosphere with more CO^2 and other gases we might be short of, whatever they happen to be, in order to amend things.
So we are stuck with this stuff and dilemma.  But that precisely is what God prophesied.  However, in His Will, Plan or Testament (Romans 12:2), He has assured and promised Believers with a pledge [Greek arrabown (αρραβων) or Hebrew "ערבון"] in the indwelling Holy Spirit given to us that Jesus will return to clean things up.  Many other good things are to come with Jesus' return.  We believers are quite assured by this.  In obedience to Matthew 22:9 we wish for, hope and exhort other people to accept what really is happening.  We are encouraging them to get of their wagon in the Gravy Train and get ready to board the Rapture Train (Matthew 24:36-41, Mark 13:32-37, Luke 17:22-37, I Corinthians15:52, I Thessalonians 4:13-18 and probably Titus 2:13).  But a renovated and reformatted Earth, as only the Creator can do, will be in the not-so-distant future as all things are being placed in His Hands.
Unfortunately for unbelievers, who these days think we can fix up this mess, they will not get to enjoy all that.  They certainly cannot succeed in their curent endavours.  One should add a rider to that.  When Antichrist takes over, Satan will use theatre and imagery to make the world think he, through his only begotten son Antichrist-666, has solved our problems for us.  But his millennial-plan is a counterfeit and a mirage.  It began with the so-called "Millennium Goals" put out and managed by the United Nations Organisation.  As Jesus returns on the Last Day of the Tribulation, He will destroy Satan's short-lived counterfeit millennium.  Then some unbelievers sired by still-carnal but saved Tribulation converts entering Jesus' forthcoming True Messianic-Millennial Kingdom will enjoy this idyllic Sevenths Day of Rest and Jesus' Millennial benefits.  But the True Messianic-Millennial Kingdom has to follow the destruction of Satan's current attempt since 1/1/01 at his fake and counterfeit millennium   But carnal Millennial people live only for a century unless they acknowledge their sinful nature within that time they have on the Earth in that Age.  They still will have to acknowledge the price Jesus paid on the cross in AD 30 to pay the penalty for their sin inherited in nature from Adam and imputed with Adam's particular transgression.
Just as I had completed writing this essay, a man came into the office wanting to know "what the Bible said" or words to that effect.  I replied I had just been writing this stuff about world pollution.  When I explained all what I had written in this particular essay he pressed that we can repair all this mess.  In his simplistic view, if we each do something small like refraining from eating meat and eating only organic veges and legumes we can prevent the poisoning of soils contributed by farming and agriculture.  "I have been vegetarian for 30 years" he proudly boasted.  I pointed out tnhat we cannot feed everyone, even if there was no greed which was one of his bugbears, on organic farmning alone.  Also, as I ttried to point out, much of the dirtying of the soils was due to exogenous catrastrophic side-effects.  All these problems must be carried through to the near-end of their logical conclusion.  This is in order for God to demonstrate to Creation the created beings (Angels and Men) can only be as such, i.e., not robots and having the capacity to choose or reject God and to Love or hate Him.   
However, my visitor this morning could not accept he is the Adam who brought in all this mess as all true believers do.  That's his problem as it is for much of the rest of humanity.  For the most part, Humanity cannot accept God's version of the way things on Earth are or exist.  The problems beset us because of Man's and, before him, Satan's transgressions.  The poor chap went on about how ancient Indian and Chinese and other writings with the Bible give us all the knowledge we need to make the world a good place.  I countered with what the Bible said God warned Adam about if he partook, against God's prohibition, of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden.  Adam and Eve, after she was created out of the Man formed from the dust, were permitted and encouraged to eat from the Tree of Life and all the other trees but not from the knowledge tree.  And it's "knowledge" this man kept on prattling on about.
My visitor did not want to accept God's point that Man cannot handle knowledge except with God's tutelage or by learning directly from God and not from Man's own endeavours.  The latter we have been doing, on balance unsuccessfully, since 4000 BC.  Elsewhere, we explain that Tree of Knowledge, we believe, was a touch-tronic computer.  It seems there was a short period of time for Adam and Eve to peruse it.  They could scan or absorb through their eyes, this 'computer'.  They could watch it like a television, thus, by "touching it", to "eat" (Hebrew acol or אכל or '@' = 'at all' or 'a all') or view its 'information'.  Presumably, judging by a careful reading from the Genesis text, for a time, God seems to have permitted them to use or abuse this 'tree'.  Then He came to investigate or intervene to see what they were doing.  All this does eem to have been part of God's Plan.  Although another and perfect scenario would have developed had Adam obeyed God as The Last Adam, i.e., Jesus of Nazareth, absolutely did!  This is why Man did indeed from the outset, after being evicted from Eden, or immediately, necessity being the mother of invention, begin to garner and develop knowledge from the thorny and tough world around him also knowing what in theory was possible.
Presumably, Adam and Eve briefly were able to understand or absorb a certain body of information from that forbidden tree.  They obviously passed on that 'information' and its potential to their offspring.  They had to explain to their offspring why everyone was suffering so badly because of Adam's personal disobedience.  At least they had another sweetener to mitigate their bad news.  That is, apart from the prophecy of Genesis 3:15.  Adam and Eve knew that the pursuit of knowledge and the science of observation could yield some comforts to ameliorate problems until the Messiah-Saviour arrived as He did 4000 years later.  Presumably, Adam and Eve spent the nine centuries they lived to explain to their offspring what could potentially be achieved.  In practice, this knowledge base they started was protected.  To some extent they jealously guarded it.  They passed it on only to trusted people (often "initiates"), being aware of knowledge's damaging potential  As the Bible notes at the Tower of Babel (circa 2100 BC) man did indeed very quickly build a sophisticated knowledge base. In fact, too speedily for God's longer-run 6000-year Plan, mankind did develop knowledge bases this visitor was banging on about.
But as we are now learning, as I attempted to explain to this visitor, we simply are being over-burdened with problems as we now struggle with the long-term consequences of Adam's fatal single act of disobedience.  So only He and Eve had any concept of what life had been like in God's presence before sin.  Only Adam and Eve had any understanding of the things we could potentially do on this Earth such as disseminate touch-tronic mini-computers ("Smart Phones") to all and sundry who aspired to own one.  But here we are now finding that although as the Queen said in her Xmas speech, "humans have a capacity to do good they also do evil", we note "the evil outweighs the good".
The visitor refused to hear any more of this and walked off.  He was only out to proselytise his beliefs about ancient fake wisdom.  It's a typical case.  One gets these people knocking on the door.  They see one's Bibles and think that is a cue for them to bang on about the craziest of theories.  In these pages, we take a look at different models and attempt to analyse the world with a scientific methodology.  However, we use the Bible as our framework.  That's because we believe there is plenty of evidence, both internally and from an external perspective, that it is God's Divine Word, human transcription errors or even lost segments notwithstanding.  The Bibke is God's Word to us but in written form.  However, in Jesus of Nazareth the Word became flesh.  The approach in these pages is systematic but the approach of these weirdos is far from that.  They may not be alcoholics or drug addicts, or even dopamine drongos addicted to smart phones and the wiles of the Internet via the platforms they use.  By rejecting God's Truth in the Bible, they then begin to believe in anything at all that grabs their fancy.  it is just another aspect of the way things have deteriorated.  After centuries of manipulating the education systems to suit the Babel Project, the vast majority of the World is now deceived or at best dumbed down to virtual irrationality.
24/12/18, "In essence, in the USA, we have privatised war".  A claim made by an American on a television programme essentially about Eisenhauer's "military-Industrial Complex".  The programme specifically looked at US-Saudi Arabia arms deals.  Our view is that in an evil and distorted way, this is Keynesian economics gone mad.  The ancient Egyptians got everybody working on pyramids to maintain employment and economic growth especially when the Nile flooded and agricultural work came to a standstill.  That was also a period when they could hew great marble slabs and float them down to the construction sites using logs of wood like a raft.
In modern times, John Maynard Keynes introduced government sponsored and financed building or construction programmes and other central Government expenditure programmes to get the world out of a liquidity trap that was forcing down prices and wages especially in the 1930's Great Depression.  Later, that got out of hand and we went through a period of stagflation. Governments took Keynes' ideas too far away from the original objectives of kick-starting or stimulating the economy to get things moving rather than freezing up.  Now, it seems from this comment, we have evidence the privatisation of war has taken it out of central government hands.  Governments find themselves trying to reconcile warring parties from whom the arms dealers make profits.  Their weapons tend to destroy assets rather than people who only lose their lives as "collateral" damage or as an unintended consequence.  Then, after the 'peace is won', these same corporations selling the weapons get another round of profits from reconstruction contracts.  They rebuild the cities and buildings their weapons destroyed in the first place.  This all just shows how warped mankind and his economic systems have become.  However, if it were not for religious and philosophical arguments that translate into political conflict, these 'corporations' would not get any business in the first place.  The Sytrians, for example, should have seriously considered whether it was worth plunging into a ruinous civil war even if the cause was justified.
Added to the now world-wide consumerism phenomenon, world economics really is becoming a nonsense.  And one of the wrost side effects is pollution of the environment, not to forget diseases like cholera re-emerging with force as water and sewage reticulation systems get smashed up.  Anyway, we now seem to be in a phase where war, destruction then redevelopment has replaced pyramid building or central Government works programmes to keep people busy and keep wheels of commerce or consumerism grinding on.  The damage to the environment is probaly rapidly becoming the most limiting factor on this wild merrygoround.  The Bible tells us firstly the antichrist comes to take over.  In fact, much of the recent nonsense has been stoked by Satan in order to deceive the world into accepting his only begotten son The Antichrist.  He attempts to destroy Israel as part of Satan's plan to frustrate God's Plan based on His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  But in the nick of time, Israel will repent, and call on Jesus Who will then come to take over and run His Millennial-Messianic Kingdom.  That seems to be the main track we are now heading on.  Like lemmings going over a cliff, the world now seems gripped in a vortex that no man or system of government is going to manage or control.  It's really out of our hands now.  Let's see what happens.
31/12/18, "Egyptian Government's response to terror incidents labelled Theatrics".  This term (refer 12/12/18, "He has a long experience of theatre" ) cropped up again today when a commentator on a TV news programme talked about likely reasons and suspects for two terror incidents in Egypt today.  One was at the Great Pyramid site in Gizeh where about 12 Vietnamese tourists died.  The other, not involving tourists directly, was in the Sinai region where Egypt is being blamed for a rising terror risk by re-opening its border with the Gaza Strip.  Throughout History, the Gaza Strip has been a problem for Egyptian authorities.  In recent times, Egypt has even refused to re-take governorship of the Strip of Israel.  No one wants to rule Gaza but Hamas-style gangs it seems.
31/12/18, Syrian Kurds left in the lurch again.  This is our last comment for 2018.  Earlier in the week, US President Donald Trump unilaterally announced the US was withdrawing about 2000 troops out of North Eastern Syria where they have been acting as a defence against anyone taking on the Kurds.  The dispossessed Kurds  up there have carved out another semi-autonomous region for themselves alongside Kurdistan in North Iraq.    That left Turkey;  Messrs Trump and Erdogan having come to a private agreement on the matter;  apparently free to move its troops in to fill the vacuum.  This is on the pretext that the Kurdish organisation in North Syria is a terrorist organisation.  Apparently, even the USA has officially labelled this particular group of Kurds as terrorists.  But that may be part of the price NATO had to pay to get Turkey to join its organisation.  The Russians apparently have not branded the Kurds as terrorists in Syria either.
But Syrian Kurds would not want to live under Turkish domination in an area where the city of Membij is the main centre.  As one commentator described that, "it would  be suicide" for the Kurds to just let that happen.  So instead of facing the Turks, the Kurds have apparently begun to vacate Mambij in favour of Assad's army to move in.  Better the devil you do know than don't know seems to be uppermost on the minds of Kurdish leaders.  "After all", this commentator continiued, "until 2011, these Kurds were citizens of Syria and Mr Assad was their President".
In the debare between these commentators on a television programme discussing these matters, one said that many of the people fomenting the civil war were jihadists from Libya and even Russia where a Russian co-commentator said many former Soviet Union 'Russians' had been islamicised in very radical ways and they had joined the fray which post-Soviet Russia was not happy about and decried.  It emerged in tis debate that no one really knows what has happened in Syria over the last eight years.  Let's hope Yemen does not prove as intractible.  Apparently, some sensible movement away from chaos is happening in Yemen.  We of course see all these catastrophes as leading to the last two pre-Messianic Kingdom Seven-Year periods for Israel prophesied in the Bible.  
Anyway, it is the Kurds (a.k.a., Chaldeans, Hittites, Galatians, Celts) along with their Yezidi religious movement who remain forever stateless and liable to be punished once again by either Turks, Arabs or Persians - or all three in unison.  (If the latter aspect were to occur, perhaps even Israel would assist the Kurds).  These three groups seem determined to keep the Kurds stateless just as Europe did to the Germans for 1000 years in Europe after the fall of the Roman and Frankish empires. The world's leaders are complete pratts by not allowing this noble Kurdish Nation to find its destiny along with the other 200 or so Westphalian nation-states.  This is only giving the Kurds what nearly every other significant population group has.  No other nation anywhere near the size of the Kurds is stateless in the current world set-up.  There are some like stateless Palestinaians but at least Jordan should be their state.  The Kurds are denied even that privilege.  There is not even a discussion where their state should even be.
This 'statelessness' seems, however, to be part of their Historic Destiny.  One potentially hopeful line we can find in the Bible for them is Isaiah 48:14, "... And His arm shall be on the Chaldeans".  This insert comes amidst the best declaration of the Tri-Unity in the Bible.  But why its even there remains a mystery   Apart from the clear enunciation of the Tri-Unity of the True Godhead in Isaiah 48:12-16, we have in the midst of it this enigmatic reference to the Chaldeans, i.e., the Kurds,.  One of the pieces of the enigma jigsaw is that Babylon, named after the city of Babel in ancient Shinar-Chaldea (or Lower Mesopotamia), seems to be distinguished from the Chaldeans as a nation or people that fled thits homeland around 1000 BC as far as we can make out from archaeology, agronomy and Isaiah 23:13.  The Babylon curently being rebuilt, we believe, appears to have no room for today's Kurds.
So as far as we can tell from more recent history since Roman times, the "Babylon" in Isaiah 48:20 (circa 700 BC) is still seen as the "Land of the Chaldeans".  Now, we know that whereas it once was that, it no longer is.  Nor is it ever likely to be apart from the occasional Kurd who like members of every other nation may well end up living there as part of the financial empire that 'Babylon' will become according to Zechariah 5:12-16 where the "land of the Chaldean-Kurds" is also labelled "Shinar".  
Here is an example where we have to be careful in our readings from the Bible.  Some lands of ancient nations still bear the mark of theri name.  But the people have no link with that nation's land any more.  The Jews are one very interesting exception.  Another variant of this situation is where we really have to say the Chinese of 1000 BC or the British of 1000 BC bear little relationship to the Chinese and British today.  Yet both nations retain their ancient name.  The Kurds are in a funny sort of half-way house in this situation.  They still live not all that far away from the ancient homeland.  They officially have no designs on that former homeland as the Jews rightly have for theirs, which in any case, is part of a covenant arrangement God has with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and descendants thereof.  All Kurds want is some sort of nation-state more or less where they are now.  Whatever, 30-40 million Kurds can rightly claim they are the most victimized people after the Jews.  At least those two national groups like each other and sympathise with each other.
And the twist in the tale between Kurds and the Jews' Capital is that Jerusalem fell to the Kurds ancient leader Nebuchadnezzar.  Yet moern Israelis accept that as their punishment from God and have even retained in their scriptures that Nebuchadnezzar even eventually came to believe God as the One and Only True God.  About 1800 years later, a Kurd named Saladdin rescued Jerusalem from the Roman Catholic Frankish invaders who took control of Jerusalem for a century fomm 1100-1200.  The effect of Saladdin was to leave Jerusalem in Muslim-Arab then Ottoman Turkish hands for another 750 years as Jerusalem remained trampled of the Gentiles.  Via Nebuchadnezzar and Saladdin, God does seem to have had His arm over the Chaldean-Kurds.  World leaders would be best advised on the balance of evidence to look after the Kurds especially if they are going to continue to disallow this noble nation statehood.  Kurds languishing without their own nation is especially obscene when the world move heaven and earth to section-off 800,000 Timorese  to get a two-part nation mini-state on the tiny island of Timor just because the Pope wanted it that way for his Roman Catholic parishioners languishing in a majority Mulsom state.  There's no justice in this world but thank God Jesus is coming soon.  

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