Key Events
2 May 2019 - 14 December 2019
2/5/19, “My Way and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life most favoured funeral songs”.  That came out in a survey today.  My Way became famous when Frank Sinatra made a hit of it.  Always Look on the Bright Side of Life was the outgoing theme in Monty Python’s film The Life of Brian.    The latter came in at #10 while Sinatra’s song was the most popular at #1.  Reportedly, Sinatra did not take his final demise very well at all going through life feeling he was Number One.  But death is the terrible leveller that only Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection can overcome with a great hope for Eternity.  Otherwise, each one will have to pay for the sins of the world forever in another place that is dark, and full of the sounds of weeping and the angst of teeth gnashing.  The Monty Python Team was hitting back at religious authorities who had so badly mismanaged the presentation of God’s Word in the Bible over so many millennia.  But, no matter what others may do, it is the responsibility of each individual to look at these matters for himself.  

6/5/19, “Nutella Apocalypse”.  A French factory producing the spread suffered a workers’ strike so it had to temporarily stop production.  Whether any shortages did occur has not been recorded to our knowledge.  We add this to a list of other such nonsense headlines, such as “20/10/16,  Marmageddon”,  which belittle the Word of God about the Apocalypse-Revelation.  Well, when it comes, there will not be any around to say, “I told you so”,  because all those who could make such a claim will have ben raptured out of here.

9/5/19, “Everything is very fractured on the world stage at the moment”.  The words of a commentator on an international television news service.  There was a panel discussing the tactics being practised by Iran, Western Europe, the USA’s President Donald Trump, and its Congress, the Russians, Chinese and UN over the deal to bring Iran’s nuclear industry development under international supervision.  At this point, a US aircraft carrier and supporting ships was steaming toward the Straits of Hormuz.  Commentators were thinking it would challenge any Iranian attempt at blocking the strait to impede shipping.  As an Iranian academic on the panel noted, a war was highly unlikely because the world’s economy would be thrown into chaos when all the oil industry infrastructure goes up in smoke.  That does appear to be an outcome presaged for that region (Babylon) in Revelation 18:9, 18 and in Edom (Isaiah 34:10).  But for the meantime the focus is on the region that will become the Antichrist’s home around the Plains of Shinar (Lower Iraq), and the upper Persian Gulf for which the Straits of Hormuz form the entrance to the vast Indian Ocean.

However, from a Biblical perspective, considering we may well be in the Last of the Last Days of Daniel 12:4 & 9 in the context of Hebrews 1:2; and in consideration of other intractable issues such as the Brexit issue for the UK and the EU;  Politics everywhere seems “fractured”.  There seems to be an almost deliberate attempt;  viz., Mr Trump’s threat to ramp up tariffs on Chinese exports to the USA; to upset the entire institutional framework operating in today’s world.  That includes the demise of the EU.  It tried to be a model for a union of nations to work a better form of governance.  The US experiment started along those lines from 1776 is now descending into chaos as the Congress threatens to jail the country’s chief law enforcement officer, the Attorney General.  The American system tried to maintain a balance of power between the Executive, the Legislature, and the independent Judiciary.  It’s a nice ambition but no one has even got close to achieving this for millennia.  The Americans have not fared any better than anyuone else.    For a couple of centuries, the US experiment hasn’t worked all that badly but it is definitely creaking at the seams as is Westminster under the weight of Brexit.   Thus, even traditionally stable governance systems are failing.  The autocratic regimes running Africa, Latin America and Asia don’t worry about alternative opinions but the democratic and free speech regimes get far too much division or dissension.  Neither approach seems to work any longer.

The Bible suggests all this is part of the deliberate withdrawal of Government (II Thessalonians 2:7) in the last days and the revelation of the ‘Lawless One’ who will be the Son of Satan first prophesied to come in Genesis 3:15.  A new Ten Nation governing configuration emerges in those days but the antichrist in very short order takes over and rules over the Ten Kings of whom three, apparently, rebel but unsuccessfully.  One could suggest a conspiracy is afoot to bring this about.  On the other hand, one can also see how God foresaw this happening as a consequence of six millennia of failing government that would eventually lead the world into accepting a dictator.  But the Antichrist will be malevolent.  Only the Perfectly Loving God can really give us true leadership and government (Isaiah 9:6-7) as Jesus will do when he comes to overthrow this last system mankind.  We are now able to discern a long-term perspective on our world history in a way no one else has been able to do and this;  perhaps, we cannot be absolutely certain; we are experiencing on the eve of the long-promised and -awaited Messianic Kingdom that Satan’s son will attempt to counterfeit in his brief turn at the world’s helm.

14/5/19, “We submerged 11 kilometers or 33000 feet in Biblical terms”.  The words of a scientist involved in a project to send a submarine or mini-submersible to the floor of the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific, the deepest known point in our oceans.  The deepest point in the Arctic in contrast goes down 5 kilometers or 15000 feet one presumes “in Biblical terms”.  We report this to illustrate the depths to which scientists and all their fellow-traveller academics now love to denigrate the Bible.  It comes a couple of weeks after the author had attended two separate Bible studies discussing Genesis where two women at two different meetings on the matter said “we don’t want to talk science here”.  This was a typical example of the way discussion is being censored or indeed censured in the Laodicean churches now.

However, of a more technical nature, not only did they find plastics and “lolly paper” down on the floor there in Marianna but the water had contamination from plastic and they found micro-plastics in some of the sea-life they tested.  So if they have not yet got down to mapping out the ocean floor, they could really be on their way now.  They have only just managed to develop submarines that can go down that far.  The question is, how far can naval submarines go?  And have these navies already been gathering ocean intelligence on the extent of volcanic activity over the last few decades?

What we really need to do with this new submarine technology is to find out just how unstable the ocean’s floor is.  We need them to give us an idea of the extent to which the ocean acts as a first defence against liquid magma and noxious gases emerging out of the Earth’s crust.  If the oceans are absorbing detritus from the Earth’s interior away down there on the ocean floor is that why the seas are so salty?   We see, or measure, those things in volcanic eruptions on the land surface.  Also, we need to find out how much heat in the oceans is in fact coming form underneath the ocean rather than from the atmosphere at the ocean surface.  The extent to which global temperature and environment are affected by what happens on the floor of the oceans appears to be almost totally unknown.  That is, judging by this report.  Although we have reason to suspect governments with large submarine fleets know more than what they are admitting in public.  We also need to know more about what is happening underneath the polar ice cap which this report suggests is much more practical since the little submarines only need to go half as far down.  Finally, on this issue, we need to know more about what is happening on the land mass at the foot of the Antarctic ice cap and in the ocean that flows through the three separate pieces of land on which that ice rests.  Antarctica is actually three islands not one huge land-mass.

15/5/19, “If it’s good for your heart; it’s good for your brain”.  From a nutritionist involved in research into Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease.   They believe that good food and exercise will help stave off these illnesses of the mind.  In Hebrew Perspective, as reflected in the Bible, the view is that the heart and mind are one and the same unit.  From the way the biology looked as they buried bodies after wars etc., this presumably came to be a common understanding.  It has only been in more recent times in Western Society that philosophers have split the two so that one either acts on one’s heart or on instinct or alternatively with logic, intellect and one’s ‘brain’.

It may well be that in the Self, or in the individual’s particular circumstances, these separations into dualities lead to forms of cognitive dissonance which then contribute to the widespread and growing phenomena of  Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease.  In the Secular, Humanist, Evolutionist and Materialist perspective (S.H.E.M-itism) one becomes dangerously exposed to these things.  There is no doubt spiritual development to offset this in each soul (nephesh in the Bible) to a considerable extent comes from study of one’s Bible.  Of course this split entered governance (separating Church and State) and Science from Theology.  It also split Poetry from Prose so that Hebrew poetry no longer has any basis in fact and prose which it very much does.  It may well be that a significant characteristic identifying Western Poetry is its complete distinction from Prose.   So that ‘Western’ split enters systematic theology to the extent people are no longer taking much of their Bibles very seriously.  They render vast tracts of the Bible as poetry or, eschatological or apocalyptic  literature and barely worthy of study.  Vegetables and healthy food will help but it’s the way we train our minds as well (Romans 12:1-2).

16/5/19, Cell phones are a scourge amongst the young”.  Especially in schools, said a school teacher speaking to a radio talk-back programme.  They destroy attention spans and distract students into inattentiveness to the class lesson.  The kids want the phones but parents are too weak and too readily accede to the kids’ demands.  As far as being able to keep in touch with the children if they have a phone, a justification for giving them one, the kids can still switch them off and stay incognito when they want to.  Also, outside classroom time, they are often so much engrossed with their “phone screens” they are completely oblivious to anything going on around them, commented another observer speaking after the headlined contributor.  Mind you, as far as this observer notes, that problem is found all over the place amongst all classes of society and age-groups especially on buses where people do not pay attention and shift to empty seats and move down the aisle when we all try to cram on to crowded public transport.

16/5/19, “People survived without cell phones for thousands of years”.  So why do we need them so much now?  As we would note, it was a touch-tronic computer, probably embedded in something resembling a tree that Adam and Eve consumed from as they absorbed the information available on it in order to learn, as it seems they did, about their sexuality.  Although, that was not wrong in and of itself.  It was the failure to obey the commandment not to consume from the tree that was wrong.  This phenomenon we are seeing as per this statement and the previous one for today (see previous item) is a sign that we have nearly come full circle back to that scene in Eden.  Satan inveigled the woman to try it out and the inquisitive man joined her fully aware from direct revelation from God that he should not eat of it and that he should have firmly advised or guided his woman to leave it alone.  The ubiquity of smart phones is a sign that we have come nearly full circle back to that scene in Eden.

As the ‘@’ sign itself attests alongside the meaning of the Hebrew ‘acol’ meaning ‘a all’ or ‘at all’, the nearly complete circle around the letter ‘a’ tells us we are nearly back to something ‘full circle’.  As well it indicates the ‘@’ sign which gives us access to a knowledge base on the Internet that is short of God’s standard and not the full quid. It’s an incomplete knowledge system whereas the one we postulate existed in Eden was prefect and complete as it would or could have been coming from the Creator Himself.  The Internet really represents ‘666' rather than ‘777' the number of perfection.  The point from this Last Days sign (c.f., the point in Daniel 12:4 & 9) is that we are to get ready for the final events prophesied to take place in the Bible before the Messiah of Israel (Jesus of Nazareth) returns to institute His Government of Isaiah 9:6-7. 

16/5/19, “Everyone’s declaring a climate emergency”.  Yet another regional governing body, this time in NZ, is declaring a “climate emergency”.  But the declaration gives them no powers.  Only Israel’s Messiah will give the world government powers to do anything n that regard.  Though governments will not need to solve climate or environmental problems we currently face because Jesus of Nazareth will reformat the environment anyway.  His Government just won’t allow the sort of nonsense we have had for the last six millennia to occur.  The authority is saying they are showing that they support those who are involved in a movement called “Extinction Rebellion”.  Again, they are conflating two different things which have little relevance with each other.  Although at least there is a little bit of connection when it comes to disappearing species.

However, when they mix pollution with climate change we get very serious disconnects.  Putting sewage, plastics or other industrial wastes into our waterways is clearly disastrous.  It always has been.  Even ancient pharaohs in Egypt with so many people living up and down the Nile had such problems where people upstream sometimes had little concern for those downstream.  A similar tension erupted from time to time in the Euphrates, Tigris and no doubt Asian, Indian and other African river systems.  One report today noted the greatest contribution to CO2 emissions into the atmosphere came from deforestation.  And of course those forests help absorb excess carbon dioxide if it is necessary to do so.  Removal of the trees also reduces the surface area of cooling forest cover.   Ripping that down willy nilly helped no one.  Furthermore, we havre tyo consider that the decline in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have contributed to a carbon-food shortage for the hardwoods which is why they long ago began dying out. 

The real problem is that Man has polluted this globe.  The melting ice caps indicate the Earth is returning to a pre Flood environmental equilibrium and that is an in-built stabiliser put there by the Creator.  That is not a bad thing, however it will be a rocky road getting back to equilibrium.  The Apocalypse now looks like arriving ahead of a complete retreat of the ice caps.  That’s why Jesus of Nazareth revealed to His servants that the “Days of Noah” would be a sign of His return.  The Days of Noah would be signified by the sort of catastrophic conditions the globe now faces.  But what’s happening is that all sorts of badly educated and mostly indoctrinated people are using social media to stir up commotions.  They need to re-examine their Bibles to see what is really happening.  But they refuse to hear God and His Word which is why they resort to these demonstrations of emotion.

17/5/19, “West Antarctic Ice shelf melting faster than expected”.  Another ‘global warming’ scare emerged today on a news report this morning.  This shelf faces the Pacific Ocean toward the South American side of the Pacific.  This might be related to heightened volcanic activity deep under the so-called Ring of Fire that circumvents the Pacific Ocean.  We have been learning more about the tectonic dynamics occurring in the Indian Ocean for example from other investigations such as the search for the missing Malaysian airliner MH 370.  The science mafia is hiding information about the warm-water lakes underneath Antarctica’s ice, the significance of volcanos and earthquakes on the Earth’s environment and the truth about the catastrophes that hit the Earth between circa 2450 BC and 800 BC.   All these factors must be discussed across the world to figure out the best strategies for everyone to pull together and mitigate the worst side-effects of this disequilibrium moving into a new one as the last vestige of the Great Flood finally melts away.  A full and frank evaluation of the Earth’s volcanic and tectonic situation could be something we could all get on board with and begin some serious international cooperation in mutually adapting to the new environmental reality.  The trouble is that too many people are brainwashed by scurrilous scientism so that we will not get such cooperation.  Thus only Messiah’s arrival can achieve all that as the Bible implies.   The current explanations for the existence of global warming and many unrelated but even more serious pollution problems are bogus much of the time, certainly in the global warming arena.  People are equating carbon with coal and dirt therefore associating it with pollution.  That pollution is in turn conflated with plastics being dumped in the oceans which is of course a non- sequitur.    

So, there is this persistent belief we have to stop using carbon-based products.  The ice cores in Antarctica indicate the Earth used to have 6-8% carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which means it must have had only about 72% nitrogen instead of the 78% as at present.  What is the real significance of that change?    We are being poisoned by nitrogen is one possibility.  The relative increase in nitrogen implies a dangerous increase in nitrates and nitrites in the world’s soils.  But nobody seems to think about that thus know waht the anser is.  It’s a question that needs an urgent answer.  We won’t get one because only God knows or indeed can ever know and we have no way of measuring or evaluating this issue.  And that is why Jesus must be close at hand because only God can save us from these problems.  Who knows but nitrogen might wipe us out before nuclear war or global warming.  But only when Israel repents according to the Bible.  When Israel accepts that Jesus of Nazareth is her Messiah, then the World will be blessed with Jesus’ Messianic Kingdom.  Before that, these problems will play their part in bringing into power the Antichrist-666.

17/5/19, Meth-Amphetamine drug user steals grave plaques to feed habit.  This news came through this evening.  About 40 bronze or brass plaques on the grave stones of deceased soldiers were prized away, defaced, and sold for scrap metal to raise money to buy more drugs.  NZ’s scourge is drug and alcohol addiction.  From our perspective at the toilet block we see the massive extent of this Kiwi plague.  However, nothing is done to control the problem and the current coalition government seems hell-bent on liberalizing drugs, fostering abortions and introducing euthanasia rather than dealing with the problems of housing, teacher and skilled worker shortages and better health services. 

17/5/19, 2.5 million plastic bottles of water a day to emerge from small NZ town”.  And the country is supposed to be clean and green!  That’s the problem debated today on a radio talkback programme.  The host pointed out that the Government minister approving the project is a member of the NZ Green Political Party.  He asked why she is not in the forefront in opposing so much plastic going into the world environment as it surely will.  All the evidence from the oceans about plastic being found everywhere there even 11 kilometers at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific points to the looming environmental and food chain disasters the world faces from this form of packaging.  Isaiah 24:5 foresaw this 2700 years ago.  The pallets wrapped heavily with plastic sheeting, with the bottles, add considerably to the total volume of plastic involved.  All this will be transported by a small army of trucks adding road safety concerns and vehicle pollution in an area where fruit and vegetables are grown.  Of course the problem here is that only plastic packaging systems can make the project economic or feasible.  In fact, the ubiquity of plastic in modern production systems is a crucial factor in making them viable at all.

Without the plastic, it is difficult understanding how markets can be sustained in such massive volumes they are today without it.  This is a conundrum for the modern international economy.  In the 1980's the booming and expanding oil industry, itself growing as population and technology had dramatically increased, needed to find a solution for its ‘petrochemical’ wastes.  They found they could do that by producing plastic products which in packaging opened up endless possibilities for mass production and widespread distribution of prepared and packaged foods.   But 40 years of this has left us with a massive and uncontrollable waste problem.  Recycling, as we did and sometimes still do with glass and some metal products, never really got off the ground.  Most plastic, a by-product of oil, ended up being dumped in the environment much of it unnoticed at the time or even secretly dumped at sea.  

Another Kiwi aspect from the dispute is that the water itself will be extracted and sent to China where it allegedly will be sold at considerable profit to the Chinese investors, but  “New Zealanders” will not get anything from the transactions.  As an economist, one realises there would be some ‘trickle down’ as the opponents of markets like to describe natural economic processes or outcomes; intended or unintended and not necessarily good or bad in either case.   Other observers calling in to the radio station said they were sure all the trucking would be done by Chinese workers and trucks, not by ‘New Zealanders’.  Theoretically, that should not happen because the drivers would need to read and write English in order to have a licence to drive in NZ which is not something Chinese drivers are likely to be able to do.  It would be very unfair on young New Zealanders” being criminalised for driving without a licence if foreign drivers can be given exemptions which might lead to even more dangerous roads.  However, a national driver shortage, perhaps the result of other failures in the internal economy and regulatory environment have contributed to a shortage of eligible local or domestic drivers.  

Thus, one can foresee the project will have very little or no economic value to NZ, not even from GST.  Worse, the expansion of a nearby gold mining project that would pump even more money into the NZ economy was declined by the same ‘Green’ Minister who, in effect, is now permitting a massive volume of plastic waste to be exported and eventually be dumped in the environment in China, or worse, surreptitiously into the ocean.  The whole project takes over from an existing  bottling operation already taking place in a small plant on a site where there is a natural water spring.  The existing business is contributing to the NZ economy.  Apparently, foreign funds are needed to expand the project which is where the Chinese enter.

The situation also raises fundamental questions of international governance or ownership of natural resources.  The Treaty of Westphalia led to the development of the secular nation state.  The idea of separating religion from politics was beginning to appeal in other parts of the wrold so the European model of the secular nation-state was gaining ground around the globe.  It is that process which arguably saw the rise of the so-called colonial powers of Europe.  They were bringing the Gospel of Secular Governance to the World where religion stayed inside mosques, synagogues, masonic halls and churches.  Collapsing Confucian, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Pagan regimes, or Panentheistic systems of governance throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas by the 17^th Century left vacuums for the Western European system to take root, the result we see today.    Also, the nation-state could become the vehicle by which the Earth’s resources would be managed and shared.  Thus it was not long before discussions arose concerning the question of who actually owns natural resources and how do we share them out for everyone to have equality of opportunity to use, consume or manage any resource?

In some parts of the world in 1648 many people were concentrated in small areas such as Europe, parts of India and parts of China.  But what about large tracts of land with resources therein, ranging from water to uranium, such as much of Africa, Asia, Australia Arctic regions or Antarctica where a small number of people could or would claim ownership of vast tracts of land, much of it uninhabited or even uninhabitable.  Some of these resources, like uranium, also needed a special technology  to do anything with them.  That ‘technology’ could only be developed in locations where a great many people congregated as in the Tower of Babel days.  A classic illustration of this lies in the Middle East where a New Zealander first drilled for oil.  But how did he know it was lying there under Arabian sands in such vast quantities and in exquisite quality.  That’s an interesting question that has never satisfactorily been answered.  Depending on the resource and technological advances, over time the value of some resources might range from nothing to becoming almost priceless or even vice versa as one resource displaced another by being superior for example horses versus cars which still get their prowess described in terms of their  ‘horse-power’.

So, is water an exception somehow?  Water can fall anywhere at anytime from the sky as some on the radio station noted.  Furthermore, water can evaporate or disappear into the ground, seep into various waterways such as creeks and rivers and travel or return to moisture (for evaporated water) and enter some other ‘jurisdiction’.  So can anyone legally or privately own water contained within some jurisdiction of some sort and have the only ‘right’ to use it, others asked?  To some extent they can if they store it in some sort of container like a water tank on a house roof or in a privately owned dam on one’s own property.  In general, one must assume the answer is no and that everyone in the world has rights to the water here.  Thus it’s not fair for any group to declare the water in a certain area belonged to that group and outsiders can be prohibited from using it.  

Then there is the question not of rights but responsibilities for the stewardship of water on everyone’s behalf?  For example, what about people living at the top end or ‘head’ of a river?  Do they control all the water in it because that water originated in streams and creeks in its country?  That is the sort of argument that the ancient nations of Egypt and Iraq (Assyria and Babylon) had to handle.  The search for, control and use of water is an age-old question that has never seemingly satisfactorily been answered; certainly not in an international context.  Who is required to, or has the responsibility to, care for water resources is one reason we have governments.  Regional governments such as councils and others do charge people a fee to reticulate water into houses and businesses or public swimming pools.  But, strictly speaking, we do not normally pay for water unless we do buy graded, branded or marketed specialist mineral waters and the like or, perhaps, special fluorine- and chlorine-free water.

What if one country says its water belongs to it alone as some were arguing on the radio today?  And what if that country charges taxes on foreigners who use it?  Apparently, international trade agreements and rules prohibit that sort of thing.  New Zealand, like Britain or Japan, is an isolated island with no borders with other sometimes landlocked countries.  Imagine the wars and conflicts that could result if Uganda decided it owned Lake Victoria.  That’s never going to happen.  Instead, Uganda is a member of the ten or twelve nation committee that oversees the care, management and stewardship of the Nile River system that the ancient pharaohs of Egypt used to have responsibility for. 

Overall, it does not seem anyone has satisfactorily decided what does govern ownership or use of the world’s water, especially if regions like Antarctica are accessed for their reserves most of which are in the form of ice of course.  When that ice falls into the ocean and evaporates in the oceans, the winds carry the water vapour all over the world.  The vapour falls as moisture (rain or snow) out of the sky depending on atmospheric conditions, wind patterns, temperature gradients, mountain ranges, forests etc.  Thus, as to who receives that water (rain) that has originated in Antarctica, becomes something akin to a lottery.  So if it falls in NZ, do the Chinese have a right to access it for themselves as long as they obey any laws of the foreign country from which they try to retrieve some of that water where it is clearly surplus to local requirements?  If there was a local scarcity and the locals had insufficient supply then perhaps a foreign or external user should look somewhere else for his water.

Finally, from another more Biblical perspective, are we being regulated in this regard by now irrelevant, outdated or inapplicable ancient treaties and customs written or developed in previous millennia?  Are we in some sort of peculiar 21^st Century situation where we must tear up such conventions and draw up a completely new set?  Has in fact that been done in a UN forum or somewhere?  This writer does not know the answer to those  questions.  If there is to be a new convention, how is the world going to do that?  That is where some Biblical prophecies once again appear to have some relevance.  They forecast the world one day will have to come under a World Government regime which will in turn hand over its powers to ten regions with their own ‘kings’ who in turn will cede their powers to one supreme king like Egypt’s ancient pharaohs.  They were supreme ‘emperors’ (em-pharaohs) over separate kings or individual kingdoms up and down the Nile River.  Moreover, global warming appears to be dramatically re-ordering the way water is redistributed around the globe.  Some areas once short of water now get too much and vice versa.  We believe Jesus’ words about the “Days of Noah” refer to these environmental issues because they are in effect the wind-back of the effects of the Great Flood in Noah’s time.

This ‘Biblical’ perspective suggests the world is now entering the rapid phase of the slide into a new environmental equilibrium originally disturbed or disrupted by the Great Flood in Noah’s day (circa 2500 BC).  Then, the earth’s crust sustained substantial convulsions and the atmosphere had its balance of gases dramatically re-balanced into a rather more destructive mix compared with the former stable mix whatever that precisely happened to be.  Later catastrophes of a lesser degree exacerbated matters (or added to the environmental damage).  The ‘Flood’ got underway with water escaping the depths of the earth’s crust where it had been stored since the first chapter of Genesis.   Over a ten month period, it fell as rain and snow over the globe.  The massive stocks of ice on the mountains and at the poles eventually must return to a liquid water state simply because of the globe’s ambient temperature.  Its unavoidable.  One question we have from this is whether all the polar ice in the north and south completely melts away.  Or does some Antarctic ice remain until the end of the Messianic Millennium (i.e., for another 1000 years or so) to form a base feed-stock for the rain that will continue to fall in the Millennium except where nations fail to send delegations to worship God at each year’s Feast of Tabernacles?  There is only one person who can settle these issues for us.  The first who will attempt to, the Anticgrist-666 will not but his opponent Jesus of Nazareth, the true Messiah and Saviour (soteriologically and physically) of the World will.

21/5/19, “Robocalypse is not upon us.  A trailer for a discussion on a radio station about the fear or perception that robots will eventually drive us all out of work.  Apparently the speaker to be invited onto the radio programme was going to explain what interesting opportunities lie ahead and downplayed the negativity.  However, we note the choice God gave Adam and Eve to make on behalf of all his future descendants; albeit he took the wrong or worse choice; was all about creating a being with choice who is not a robot or equivalent.  A robot cannot disobey its owner or maker.  God gave the first man that ability to do just that.  God wanted the man to obey and listen to Him but without force or coercion and on the man’s own will or volition.  Anyway, now that we may face Terminator Land (i.e., as per the Terminator films) because Adam did choose to advance knowledge his way by eating from the Tree of Knowledge, mankind is facing all sorts of very undesirable and for Man, unforeseen and unintended, consequences.  That is why we advocate people get off the Gravy Train and come aboard the Rapture Train.

21/5/19, “Is this the end of reality as we know it ... but ...”.  This is about a problem we may have referred to in the past.  If not, the following has certainly been in one’s mind.  All the technology available to us especially in computer graphics means anyone can compose a film or photograph of someone doing something even though the target individual had nothing whatsoever to do with the event the photo or film purports to portray.  In another slant in this matter, many people can already make themselves up to look like famous people.  They can then impersonate others.  Perhaps just for fun at a concert gig or comedy show for example.  Unfortunately, they can do things like assaulting or seducing women by pretending to be the famous personality.  So has that situation, if possible, ever happened?  We may never know but this type of potential situation is much more likely or feasible with the technologies at hand.  That is just another implication God foresaw when Adam grasped the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge (actually “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”).  We continue under the next item for today: 

21/5/19, “ .... it’s not as bad as the end of all reality”.   Perhaps not but the things unscrupulous evil people can or could do with modern computer graphics and  video or photo enhancement means there will be enough faction or fiction mixed with fact or truth to render a virtual end to reality.  However, that is yet more evidence for the Truth in the Bible.  The One who therein said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”, i.e., Jesus of Nazareth, added that no one “comes to the Father” (God);  and “His future Kingdom” where these problems will not beset us;  “but by Me”.

24/5/19, “Jesus loved the Philistines”.  Presumably this radio talk-back host was referring to some incidents involving Jesus and the Samaritans.  There are only three or so such incidents.  In one He healed a Samaritan leper who improbably was hanging around with several Jewish lepers.  He gave a parable involving a Samaritan which put them in a good light at the same time as setting up two wealthy prominent Jewish nobles as being uncaring of their fellow man.  What the comment reveals is the success with which modern Palestinians have convinced the world that they are the descendants of those Samaritans.  Furthermore, modern Palestinians use the Egyptologists’ suggestion that the Philistines were shown on ancient Egyptian reliefs that indicate it was the Palestinians who were living in the Land in ancient times and not the Jews as the Bible says.  Of course the Bible also records the Philistines as occupying the region we now known as the Gaza Strip.  But there’s no evidence any of  those Philistines descendants survived to modern times.  The Samaritans were immigrants from parts north and east of Israel in the 8^th and 7^th centuries BC.  By then, Philistines had either been assimilated into neighbouring tribes or had themselves migrated into a diaspora where they assimilated out of existence.  The Jews managed to remain in existence simply because their nation is the critical lynchpin in God’s Plan for the eventual implementation of the Messianic Kingdom.  That is yet to come.  This statement and the sign in the next item (24/5/19, Cartastrophe) reveals just how far rational and fact-based discussion is quickly disappearing from the scene.  Everything is now so emotive and silo-mentality driven that governance in this situation itself comes under threat leaving us with Anarchy before long.  That will be the vacuum the ten Kingdoms and Antichrist of Revelation and Daniel will enter. 

24/5/19, “Cartosrophe”.  A sign held by a child at a New Zealand School strike where the children and their teachers brainwashing them turned out at Parliament Grounds in Wellington to protest about the perceived government inaction in arresting climate change.  It’s a pity no one ever taught them about Denmark’s King Canute who was so powerful he even ruled England along with several of his descendants.  If the Globe is overheating there is nothing Governments can do to stop it.  Whatever is driving Global Warming, along with its concomitant increasingly dynamic nature of weather patterns, all Governments can do is to coordinate our responses to it.  For example, perhaps they collectively could  design new insurance models so that the costs of mitigating damage across the globe faced by some can be shared amongst us all.  Unless, of course we all suffer loss in which case any insurance model is going to fail.  Though how we do that is beyond the resources of this commentator.

30/5/19, “Police are here to withhold the law”.  Surely the man meant “uphold the law”.  We got this from a member of the public ringing up a radio station to criticize the police in New Zealand when a customs department official and the police seemed, to the caller, to be interpreting the law for themselves to prevent a woman from taking her son abroad against the wishes of the father from whom she was estranged.  The courts had ruled that she should not be allowed to remove her son from the father and take the boy to a country which has no extradition treaty with NZ, hence, in effect, resulting in a permanent abduction in effect.  Apparently, the police and customs officials ignored or overlooked a flag on the Customs Department computer system advising them to restrain the woman taking her son out of the country.  The father wanted the boy to remain in New Zealand so he could have normal parental access rights.  There was no suggestion in this case that the father had in any way harmed either the woman or the child.  It was a case of the police and customs deciding to let her go abroad at an airport weven though there were specific instructions based on the law to prevent the woman removing to son from the country and away from the father.  An interesting bureaucratic bungle perhaps but the man reporting this incident to the radio station demonstrated a poor command of language while speaking.  That, in our opinion, rather than yet another even quite serious bureaucratic bungle demonstrates the falling standards the world is experiencing from rule of law or church Bible studies to everyday speech.

30/5/19, “A stampede to the gutter”.  How a caller described the name-calling, accusations and counter-accusations circling in NZ’s parliament in the wake of its speaker describing an official as a “rapist” when the man had already been cleared of any serious impropriety and in the wake of the Opposition’s leader exposing a flaw in the parliamentary computer security systems concerning the Government’s budget for the new year and projections in future years.

30/5/19, “We’ve lost civilised interaction”, the host continued.  Mind you, he is sometimes, may one say, ‘a bit rough and ready’ in public on the radio with his correspondents.  We would see this as a world-wide phenomenon.  It may yet be another reflection of Jesus’ and the Apostles’ words, as well as those of the Prophets of Israel, in Daniel 12:4 & 9, Hebrews 1:2, Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:10, Acts 17:26, II Peter 3:8 and in connection with Ezekiel 38:21 also an historical and prophetic event yet to occur.

30/5/19, “The Internet has (permanently) changed people”.  But it has also changed the ability of individuals to “prioritize relationships with other people”.  The commentator said this is because the avid users are “interacting” with “vastly more people” than they would be able to on more conventiona, earlier or archaic media and communication systems.  The comment came from a radio talk-back host in response to problems in politics where polarization and other issues are also emerging partly as a consequence of Internet activity, social media, Fakebook etc.  Just another Tree of Knowledge issue from Eden’s Garden as we would note.  However, we dare not raise that with this particular host given his antipathy to the Bible which he is perfectly entitled to hold as he would say of people with different views to his own.  NB: Italics for words used in quotations were to indicate sense of the words the commentator used. They are not his words.  We italicize ‘Fakebook’ since we are poking fun at the name of the Internet service.

31/5/19, “Pornography is now the biggest sexual scourge facing the young”.  The statement came from a woman involved in youth counseling.  She blamed the Internet for this.  As her interviewer noted, the Internet in its very early days was steeped in the distribution of pornographic material.  This is a claim this observer can attest to while he was working with a technician in the early days of establishing links to the Internet for the NZ Government’s science policy advisor.  One was working for this organisation on temporary contract. The youth counselor speaking on the radio said “young boys from the age of nine” were deeply involved in viewing pornography on the Internet and that the practice was permanently damaging their psyches.

We claim that a literal reading of the Bible’s account in the first three chapters of Genesis show that Adam and Eve ate fruit from a touch-tronic computer in the Garden of Eden.  Adam could not easily explain what he did to his descendants because they were never to visually see the tree since God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.  Somehow, Adam seems to have encoded what he did probably in the knowledge that one day mankind would eventually develop his own Tree of Knowledge.  It is conceivable, as he experienced life for 950 years and thought about things, Adam realized that Man’s knowledge would or could be used for good or non-good, i.e., “evil” purposes.  He could have speculated that we would one day construct a tree of our own knowledge that would have good and evil consequences just as the Internet appears to be illustrating.

About 2000 years after Adam fell, Genesis 11:6 recorded that God visited Mankind at the Tower of Babel and said, “Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do”.  It is quite clear that mankind had significantly progressed technologically and was on the road to a technical capability God would not allow at that time.  We suspect now, 6000 years later, God has allowed us to reach the stage we are at because we have reached the end of the 6000 years or ‘Days’ according to II Peter 3:8 that God set aside for the consequences of Man’s disobedience and subsequent disrespect for God and His Laws and Covenants to fulfill themselves in Jesus’ Words that “no flesh would survive” (Matthew 24:22).

In this regard, we observe the following facts.  The symbol we use to interact with the Internet or ‘@’ can be read as ‘a all’ or ‘at all’.  Originally, it stood for the Amphora jar.  However, it also has the same meaning for the Hebrew אכל (acol) or ‘a all’ (א־כל).  Of course, we now access the Internet on smart phones by touching with our fingers and absorbing through our eyes, and we use the ‘@’ to direct traffic on the Internet.  Eve noted that one absorbed from the Tree of Knowledge in Eden with touch and the eyes.  We can see now how mankind has come almost full circle back to Eden’s tempting situation.  But if we choose to rely on it rather than on God, there will be destruction.  Fortunately, it seems God is going to intervene as he did at Babel though in a different way as outlined in the Bible’s prophecies.  Many problems such as pollution or the dreadful longer term effects of the Internet and its associated systems, or the many wars around the globe, threaten Mankind’s survival.

31/5/19, “If we want a ‘Well-being Budget’ we should turn off the Internet”.  That was a comment that the interviewer in the previous item made.  He was not applying the comment to pornography alone but in other ways such as social media and similar media in general.  These media are radically detrimentally re-structuring human relationships as well as institutions.  The ‘Well-Being’ Budget was the main topic of conversation on the radio station broadcasting these discussions.  For international readers, we point out that New Zealand’s Government is claiming to be the first to move away from annual Government Revenue and Expenditure Budgets based solely on GDP measures to incorporate a system of ‘well-being’ measurements in their plans.  One described these ‘well-being’ measures as rip-offs of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.  The radio compare was asking his listeners to say whether they believed Governments were responsible for well-being’ or “happiness” as most listeners analyzed or described “well-being”.

The Bible instituted Government in the Laws of Noah where God commanded murderers be executed.  That required courts hence Government in order to appoint, manage and set laws for a legal system to do that lawfully and ethically.  Very quickly that function came to include the building of towns to draw up contracts for all sorts of business and personal relationships such as marriages.  Later, mutual defence against enemies or in societies against things like disease (cholera etc) by communally building sewage systems, roads etc., became further branches of government.  The discussions here focusing on Governments potentially being responsible for our ‘happiness’ takes us so far down a path that God never intended us to follow, because obedience to His way of life brings contentment etc.  That ‘path’ makes a virtual mockery of the very concept of governance or government.  There is only one step from that situation which takes us into no governance and lawlessness.  Governments becoming responsible for every conceivable item of welfare for mankind is not what God originally envisioned for ‘government’.   But that is only another indicator that we are on the verge of the lawlessness that II Thessalonians 2:7 prophesied.

31/5/19, “Unitarianism: the idea of constant innovation through the agency of man”.  We picked up that quotation from a booklet promoting a film exhibition in Wellington, NZ in 2019.  The context was the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, an American descended from a Welsh family.  The film entitled, The Man Who Built America, was about the architect who apparently pioneered the concepts of open-plan living and “the kitchen being the heart of the home”.  Having picked up this item as we write about Man’s innivation of the Internet, we are remindd the words of Tim Berners-Lee who many years later regretted that he had helped build up some of the monstrous aspects of today’s Internet.  But the warnings were long ago encapsulated in the Biblical accounts of the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel.

4/6/19, “Israel blamed for antibiotic apocalypse”.  This is supposed to be the time when antibiotics are no longer able to work because we have been using them for trivial unnecessary medications instead of leaving them to be used for serious conditions.  In fact, several countries were named as serious perpetrators of an over-liberal usage of these things.  The television station citing Israel in the headline did so for obvious political reasons given the nature of the television station’s owners.  However, as the report continued after the headline, we learned that Ghana, Kenya, Pakistan and actually the worst of the lot, Bangladesh, were just as serious abusers of antibiotics as anyone else.  What we can say is that if the world decides to frustrate God’s Plan for Israel in the latter days as Apostle Paul outlined it in Romans 9:1 to 11:36 then it will suffer the Apocalypse.  But the world is now committed to doing just that ensuring the real Apocalypse of Revelation and many Old Testament and some New Testament prophecies foretell.

4/6/19, “Social networking sites reducing standards of public discourse”.  A commentator made this point in a TV programme about modern technologies in communications and media etc.  Part of the problem is that traditional peer review systems newspapers used to uphold are rapidly disappearing.  We say the Bible which reflects God’s view of everything and His view that we are bound for all this trouble in the wake of Adam’s fall is now the only reviewer that can maintain standards.  Even if we do try to re-establish or fortify existing peer review systems or methods to gather and filter news, the problem is that so much stuff is out there that noone can unravel fact from fiction or from faction.  Thus it is God’s Wisdom that the discourse misses.  It’s been missing ever since 4000 BC.

5/6/19, “China blocking UN Resolution on Khartoum massacre”.  Yet another crisis in Khartoum in a series that stretches at least as far back as the mid-19th century.  However, the dictators in Beijing wanted to draw attention away from their own Tienemann Square massacre thirty years previously.  The Hong Kongers would soon begin to protest about an extradition law the authorities in Beijing want to have brought through Hong Kong’s parliament in order to extradite murderers and other serious criminals back to Beijing.  At present those criminals can remain in Hong Kong unless the local authorities throw them out.   The Khartoum suppression was “an internal matter” according to Beijing.

5/6/19, “The Sudan: the latest episode of UN Security Council division”.  As the previous item shows, there is no way this UN system is going to achieve much from now on.  It is managing to feed, house and medicate a significant proportion of the people displaced by all the wars etc., but that’s about it.  That’s not insignificant, and certainly is to be welcomed and praised but the overall goals for the UN are now a pipedream.  Some sort of major restructure of the way world affairs are to be handled is in the pipeline.

5/6/19, Trump offers UK a “very big trade deal”.  The US President seems keen to wean the UK away from the EU.  One of the contenders for the Conservative and Unionist Party throne, Mr Boris Johnson, an historian and journalist with an avid interest in Sir Winston Churchill, is so keen on getting the UK out of Europe that he is happy to go into a WTO trade system.  As others have pointed out, the WTO system is itself on the way out unless it can get the necessary judges to rule on legal disputes.  Underlying that seems to be a number of WTO systems that are not working.  It replaced the post WWII G.A.T.T., or General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs.   The Americans, reportedly, are the main force blocking resolution to appointments of more judges and seem to be behind the push for reforms.  After visiting the UK and voicing support for Brexit, Trump then went straight to Ireland.  It wants to remain in the EU but we cannot understand why since EU subsidies gave it a boom in the economy only to leave Ireland flat, broke and nearly destitute when the bubble burst as the subsidies were weaned away.  We muse whether Trump tried to get Ireland to also leave the EU so that the North Ireland border issue would disappear.  That ‘Irish Question’, a slightly different one that plagued 19^th Century Britain, is what mainly tripped up Mrs May’s attempts to exit the EU in response to the Exit Referendum.

We suspect from the Bible’s prophecy about the Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 First Gog-Magog invasion of Israel, that these developments are another pointer to the eventual emergence of an entity or perhaps confederation of nations and peoples if not named Tarshish certainly covering the lands surrounding the North Atlantic (NATO or North Atlantic Tarshish Organisation).  But that would mean weaning Portugal, Spain, France and others away from the EU as well.  We have noted that the former Treaty of Rome EU is now the Treaty of Lisbon EU anyway.  And Lisbon and Portugal were the earliest parts of the North Atlantic to be settled by people involved in the Tyrian-Byblos maritime enterprise that included Sidon etc., and which the Bible refers to as “Tarshish and her young lions” (or colonies) as lions do when their prides break up.

5/6/19, “We refute it all, from the beginning to the end”.  The words of a representative of the Sudan Professional Association which is leading the charge in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities as the populate attempts to overthrow the military regime that has run The Sudan ever since the British left.  The people are heartily sick of the soldiers governing every facet of Sudanese society.  However, this also is the country that recently split into two when the South broke away but immediately fell into internal chaos as two rival leaders from the east and the west of the new southern Sudanese state would not relinquish the leadership of the new country to the other.  One thing about the Sudanese, they seem to be about as disruptive as ever as the pharaohs of ancient Egpyt found with the “Sut-en-bat” (or South and North).  However, a former queen of the Sudanese and Ethiopians, indeed of all the Africans or “Cushites” of the Bible, named Hatshepsut in the Egyptian monuments, came to belief in the God who declares Himself as “The First and the last” or “Beginning and the End” in Isaiah 48:12-16 and in other passages such as those quoting Him as the Alpha and Omega in Revelation.  She is colloquially known as the “Queen of Sheba”.  But we have proved Hatshepsut was that “Sheba”.  The ‘sut’ in her Egyptian throne name is where the term “The Suten” or “The South” originally comes from for us today to use.  Thus it is not surprising a person trying to get good constitutional government of the sort Hatshepsut and Solomon ran three thousand years ago would say “From the beginning to the end”.  We should add that Solomon’s government later fell into some corruption and King David had his faults.  But name a government that is perfect.  Well, only Messiah’s will be!

5/6/19, “We are ruining the Earth, but ...”: We agree but refuse to conflate this problem with global warming which is an almost entirely separate issue.  When we burn dirty coal we make a polluting mess but we are not affecting world temperatures.

5/6/19, Progress has to be maintained”.  A comment in a programme on a television station about the pollution of the Arras Lake and River system in North-east Turkey.  It highlights the Tree of Knowledge dilemma the world now faces in this case in a very plain statement which virtually openly admits an internal hypocrisy.  We are in a dilemma.  If we are not going forward we are going backwards.  We cannot remain still.  But that is part of what God forewarned away back in Eden about 6000 years ago.  The trouble is that as we continue to go forward, the population rises and we have to make ever growing commitments to ensure everyone gets a fair go.  Unfortunately, we then  end up polluting the entire system.

5/6/19, “Do we mend, repair and rehabilitate or is it death for the planet”?  A question raised on the above television programme about the environment in the Arras river system.  Apparently, most of the annual bird migrations that pass between the northern and southern hemispheres fly across this particular region as the birds stop off overnight to build up a bit of fat and protein from food sources in the region.  However, that food-bank is deteriorating and less able to sustain these flocks on their annual migrations which, of course, have been going on for millions of years.  It is just another demonstration of the way in which human pollution is destroying many other life systems on the planet.

The Good News (Gospel, God-spell, or what God spells out) is that Jesus is coming soon to restructure and renovate everything.  Sadly, an imposter called the Antichrist-666 will take over just before Jesus returns.  The Antichrist will deceive and tempt many people to believe in him rather than in the true Messiah and Saviour of the World.  That is probably what The Lord meant;  in the prayer around which He suggested we form our prayers;  saying, “Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil”.  Translation issues involving Hebrew and Greek systems of using definite articles effectively induced translators to produce that sentence in that particular way in English when a better translation should or could read, “lead us not into ‘The Temptation’ to follow the Evil One who was prophesied in the same prophecy given about Jesus Himself in Genesis 3:15.

6/6/19, “You-Tube controlling dissemination of conversations & crowding out others”.  This point was raised in a discussion on television about the role of media in the function of news broadcasting.  While a problem does exist here with monopolization being the risk, we have found with our attempts at broadcasting material about our Three E’s and C’s that the system is and has been heavily biased in any case.

7/6/19, “Climate change activists now radicalized as much as Islamists”.  This is even true for children being indoctrinated in schools and taught to blame anyone older than them for using carbon and thereby destroying the world.  They are unable to separate the dirt from the carbon.  Certainy coal and oil need to be scrubbed clean before or during use.  The technology to do that is age-old.  Pollution is the main issue we need to deal with especially plastics and sewage.  Indeed the hysteria on the 4C paradigm (Carbon Causes Climate Change) is obscuring the fact that not nearly enough is being dome around the globe to tackle either sewage or plastic wastes especially when both forms of waste enter waterways, rivers and the oceans.    

7/6/19, “Climate change has now morphed into a climate emergency”.   “Rhetoric, religion or what is it”, asked the radio host who made this point.

7/6/19, “We need a world-war like mobilisation to act”.  Because, in the opinion of Breakthrough, existing  international efforts which have been operating over the last twenty-five years have not yielded any results to date.

7/6/19, “The report is pretty apocalyptic”.  That was the conclusion of the radio host interviewing Mr Spratt.  But like most people she ignores the Word of God which outlines God’s Plan for the world in the light of the many problems it currently faces.

7/6/19, “A three degree increase in temperature will lead to world chaos”.   Mr Spratt quoted people like a former CIA Director who warned everyone about the consequences of too much global warming.  It would lead to all sorts of political and civil chaos.  We would suggest that is already happening with school children led on climate strikes by their teachers who are not educating them in proper science.  

7/6/19, “A threat to human survival”.  Said by a Mr David Spratt on behalf of an organisation named ‘Breakthrough’ which has just published a report on the implications of failing to act sufficiently to control carbon emissions.

8/6/19, “The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns”.  This line, apparently or purportedly penned by the late Mr William Blake a British poet and mystic, is quoted in Mr Dan Brown’s latest book Origin.  This novel or ‘work of faction’ as Mr Brown likes to say, is a ripping yarn about a fictional futurist named Edmond Kirsch.  He has discovered proof that God does not exist.  He has proved everything has evolved and continues to evolve because of the Laws of Physics.  Thus, “In the beginning were laws of physics”.  Of course the evolutionists say, “In the beginning was the singularity then came the Higgs-Boson”.

Warning: If the reader wants to read the book please ignore the next line or else the plot is ruined for you.  Anyway:  As it turns out, it is a very powerful computer Edmond programmed that controlled many critical events in the yarn.  Named Winston, the computer guides Professor Robert Langdon the intrepid linguist and mystics decoder as he strives to set off a computer program to present Mr Kirsch’s film on the matter to be broadcast world-wide.

Safe to read now if you have an intention to read Origin for your selves.    So, in order to start up a computer programme to make a world-wide presentation via the Internet and other media, Origin’s hero (no, not God) has to insert Blake’s line in the pass-word box on the screen of an old play station machine linked to the most modern and powerful super-computer Edmond designed and programmed.  A bit like HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey, this computer initially refuses to respond to the line of poetry.  That was because instead of reading the ‘ampersand’ (‘&’) as one digit in the forty-seven digit code that Blake’s line is supposed toi add up to, Professor Langdon the linguist realises he has to insert ‘et’ for ‘&’ meaning ‘and’ because the ampersand is a stylistic representation of the ancient Latin word which also happens to be the word for ‘and’ in modern French.  We use ‘ampersand’, in effect, every time when we write ‘etc., or et cetera meaning “all things” or everything.  Therefore, by inserting ‘et’ for ‘&’ the computer immediately began presenting Edmond’s research for all to see.  Earlier, at the start of the book, we read how Edmond called a meeting of a Jewish rabbi, a Muslim cleric and a Roman Catholic bishop or cardinal to a private heads-up’ meeting for a prior briefing.  Mysteriously, the rabbi and Muslim cleric are murdered.  It was fun to see hopw Brown understands ‘religion’.  In these things it is always the Roman Catholic who represents Christianity. Such a person is least capable of explaining the Word of God to the world.  Anyway, in the discussions between the actors and reading their private thoughts written in italics in the book, we are treated to a quiet extensive canvas (the professor is also an art historian) of all the evolution-creation issues that are or used to be discussed.

The computer presentation explains that we have six types of life-form in the world today but that a seventh is beginning to emerge and it will take over the world by AD 2050.  The six current phyla are plants, animals, two types of bacterium with the prefixes ‘archae’ and ‘eu’ respectively, plus two others one being fungi.  The new phyla is “technium”.  It is machines.  They have been evolving but will soon race ahead of the rest of us and merge themselves with the rest of us.  This reminded one of an old BOAC advertisement which showed many types of aircraft of the previous century spread across two pages, typically of the Economist magazine, with the pithy “after these ...” and over the page a picture of the Concorde with the caption “ ... these should come as no surprise”.  This was BOAC’s statement about evolution. Of course we all know that hundreds of research teams develioped each and every aircraft shown from the Wright Brothers’ machine to the latest jets.  We all know these machines did not evolve but Edmond Kirsch tells us they did or have been evolving and in fact will take over from humans, take us over or overtake us.  As we have said elsewhere many times have we commented on the rise of machines, robots and algorithms.  For example, in 3/1/18, Peruvian bus goes over the cliff at Devil's Corner, we said, “we face the irony of God creating beings with choice such as Humans and angels before men instead of programmed-to-be-obedient robots that we soon will become enslaved to as they take over through "Artificial Intelligence" (AI).

NB:  In Key Eventss:  Key  Subjects is a list of headings under which we have discussed the problem of machines taking us over, the main conclusion of Brown’s book Origin.

10/6/19, “Defeating the ideology of ISIS is completely different”.  That is what NZ’s defence Minister said today when he announced NZ would close down its involvement in training Iraqi soldiers by June 2020.  We have noted such insights on previous occasions but put this particular iteration of the general consensus of what to do about ISIS long term.  These S.H.E.M-ites are either unable or incapable of solving that issue.  Only by belief in God’s Plan for the World in the wake of Adam’s Fall and the Christ’s Redemption can ISIS, any Muslim or anyone else on Earth obtain an appropriate ideology, theology or ‘world-view’.  The Secular, Humanist, Evolutionist and Materialistic world-view, perfectly legal or permissible for anyone holding such a perspective, cannot defeat ISIS’ ideology.

18/6/19, “Hammer and sickle OK;  Swastika not OK”.  A young NZ politician sitting in Parliament representing a one-seat political party, is introducing a free speech bill in NZ’s House of Representatives.  He said it was OK for left-wing students to swan around the Auckland University campus with clothes bearing those traditional Communist Party symbols.   He asked, “would someone going around with a swastika be as freely able to do so”?  Probably not was his conclusion.  He added that the hammer and sickle was used by regimes in Russia and China that were every bit as nasty as the Nazis of Germany though not in regard to the Holocaust.  Is that the only difference, therefore, that makes one symbol acceptable and the other not?  A difficult question to answer.  This writer does not want to see either symbol being used but probably would agree in the final analysis because of what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany, swastikas should be banned.  Leave the hammer and sickle brigade to do what they want as long as they do not introduce or encourage some of the worst excesses of Communist Russia and China as Hong Kong folk fear on this 30^th Anniversary of the Tieneman Square massacre in Beijing.   They fear the worst case scenario after 2047 when the former British enclave formally becomes completely part of China with only one legal system.  Leave those Auckland University students to shoot themselves in the feet!

25/6/19, “Weakest man be strong as Samson”.  A point considered by the author at 5 pm today.  These words by Mr Keith Reid, lyricist for Procul Harum, for a long time remained a mystery to me.  Until I found myself having to sit at sermons and Bible studies while weak people who had little idea of what they were preaching or teaching (another line in the song Strong as Samson on the Exotic Birds and Fruit album) not only in pulpits but also in lecture halls, school classrooms, work seminars etc., as civil servants, government ministers, city councillors, Bible study group leaders, ministers, regulators (especially climate change nutters) receive much power in their various pulpits pontificating from podiums while we have to sit down and listen to them without any right to cross examine, question, debate them etc.   Just a wee gripe one felt motivated to pen at this moment. 

28/6/19, “Children terrified by Climate Change prospects”.  So the solution according to a university professor is to get them involved in the world-wide movement to stop the change.  Apparently, kids are getting freaked out by news of climate change. They cannot sleep at night and they are more concerned about climate change than about  their homework.    We suggest that it is far better to say that if we are on the verge of some sort of Noahic Day Apocalypse then Jesus is coming to fix things up for those who believe.  On the other hand, if we are just in a period where we need to take action on some critical pollution and other issues then it will not be the time of the Apocalypse anyway.  Either way, there is no need to worry.  But if one spends time brainwashing the kids into carbon neutral nonsense and methane reduction ignoring the basics of science, then they are far more likely to develop even deeper neuroses.  Otherwise, we are at the point at which only by scaring people are we going to get any action.  We Christians have long been criticized for repeatedly opting for such a strategy.  The Roman Catholic and other organisations certainly use the fear strategy.

Genuine Christians are able to promote a Hope Strategy as we are assured of such a thing by the Erevon (עברון) or Arabown of the Holy Spirit being a 100% sure thing pledge that the Scriptures are true.  Instead, children are being politicized in the campaign against climate change.  In that case we may well be witnessing the rise of a situation as recorded by the Jewish prophet in Isaiah 3:4-5; “I will give children to be their princes and babes shall rule over them .. (verse 5) .. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and everyone by his neighbour:  the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient (זקן), and the base against the honourable" ... (verse 12) ...children are oppressors (of my people Israel) and women rule over them ... verse 16 ... the daughters of Zion are haughty, walk with stretched forth necks .... wanton eyes ....... mincing .....tinkling .... feet ....”; which is a picture of the young modern woman (for the most part).  

28/6/19, “The Amish can build a house in a day and a half, but ... ;

28/6/19, The NZ Government takes eighteen months to build a handful”.  This pithy, witty but not far from the truth couplet came on a radio panel on a Friday afternoon after the NZ Government that had promised to solve NZ’s housing crisis reshuffled its Cabinet.  The Minister in charge had dismally failed manage the system to get anywhere near the official but over-ambitious target.  It’s also an interesting comment because the practitioners of 17^th century technologies are able to be far more successful than a modern technocratic nation.  The 21^st Century technologies do work but the associated regulatory restrictions from land laws, resource laws, and unfair business practices hamper and restrict efficiency in getting the job done.  However, the regulations are bad enough without a fickle public that says yes to purchasing a new house then reneges on the transaction at the last minute because they want to do something else with their money.  Sales falling through do not help the builders who have to risk lots of capital in these projects.  Even if the buyer wants to continue with the transaction, they often cannot get the funds because of banking regulations or poor management and budgeting.  Such problems are non-existent for the Amish.

Elsewhere, one has suggested that a solution to the Earth’s problems could be to return to a 17^th Century,  West European technology.  A massive international banking system crisis or fractionation of it into many other system initially via Internet banking etc., could yet see a demise of the current Babel Project or at least introduce yet another spanner in the Babel Project-works.  That would mean we are applying the Biblical prophecies of the Last of the Last Days to the wrong era like our predecessors.  Certainly along these lines is the main null hypothesis one is taking to the hypothesis that the World is plummeting toward Apocalypse.  China from the 11^th Century AD, Egypt after the Plagues of circa 1485 BC, the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire, the Great Flood or the confusion of languages at Babel in circa 2000 BC, were earlier episodes where the World’s plunge into knowledge, science and technology was derailed.  Always, however, one civilization or another would pick up the pieces, re-organize iteslf and return the project back on track.  For the first time since either the Flood or Tower of Babel, a ‘success’ of the Greco-Roman Western commercial and governance systems, the World is universally working back on the Babel Project.  The Bible’s prophecies foresee ‘End-Time Events’ occurring at such a universal situation (Daniel 12:4 & 9).

28/6/19, “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than have a frontal lobotomy”.  A witty lyric on the temporary fix one may get from alcohol or drug consumption.  Another one in this line, also from a song goes ...;

28/6/19, “Just different ways to kill the pain the same” ....; or

28/6/19, “I might be drunk but at least I’m not insane”.  Then finally in this little quartet;

28/6/19, “There’s Heaven, then Earth, then Hell, then the Blues”.  However, all these statements come from people who have rejected God’s Wisdom as outlined in the Bible.  There’s plenty of nonsense we have to put up with that gets very painful at times.  That’s true.  However, the Bible at least helps us to understand why that is the case.  It is because men and women have a natural inclination to reject God.  It is always better to accept His Wisdom and align oneself with His Plan to fix everything up after Adam’s sin.  Of course that means one has to accept it is because of what Adam did that we are in this mess.  Were any of us to have been in his shoes (or bare feet I suppose) we too would have plunged the world into this nonsense.  That’s what Jesus did.  He paid the price for all of us and redeemed or (brought and bought) us back form (or out of) this curse.  By accepting His sacrifice people’s fears and other demons (which for some situations really do become demon possession) and gremlins fade away as our consciences are relieved and we confess our sins to our Creator. Persecution of Christians aside, troubles may at times come closer or aggravate but only when one falls away from maintaining one’s spiritual relationship with one’s Creator in a steady, firm and active application.

1/7/19, “A healthy forest means healthy people”.  The finishing statement by a forestry scientist commenting on a New Zealand radio programme about the so-called  “Kauri Die-back” disease.  It is killing the kauri trees in the last 7000 hectares of NZ’s reserve forest of this hardwood tree.  “Kauri”, like hardwoods in other parts of the world, once covered vast tracks of the land.  While a lot of focus has gone on Kauri in a reserve near Auckland, NZ’s largest city, Kauri in all NZ’s other reserves are likewise afflicted, something little realised by the general public.  That’s because the scientists do not want us realizing that the whole Creation groans and travails because of the Fall of Adam.  Every genome of every type of life form on Earth is now in decay and has been ever since Adam’s Fall 6000 years ago.

Hopefully, God’s Erevon to us aside (see next paragraph), the School of Elijah is correct.  We are now at the end of this period of decay with the return of the Messiah of Israel, Jesus of Nazareth.  Currently, He stands in the wings (actually sitting at the right hand of God) ready to return and re-format this environment as the prophecies are in turn fulfilled and completed.  God re-formatted the world to replace the chaotic mess of metals, minerals and precious stones (Genesis 1:2 and Ezekiel 28:12ff) to use the dust and detritus composed of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen and other elements to form “organic” life from those “inorganic” materials.  God breathed life into the man to make him a bit more special than the other animal-souls and plants, bacteria etc.  (For a full list of the six main life forms, read Daniel Brown’s Origin.

One says “hopefully” at the star of the previous paragraph but in the believer, in other words in what (or Who actually) marks out the believer in God from the unbeliever; or believers in false gods or ‘believers’ with false beliefs about the true God;  is what Apostle Paul termed the “Erevon” or pledge or guarantee via the permanent indwelling Holy Spirit of God in the life of the true believer.  It is having this ‘guarantee’ that marks us out as those who find themselves (after years of Bible-study as ‘spirit-filled believers) agreeing with everything God says in the Bible and who understands exactly what it is God is saying in the Bible.  So we are more than just hopeful that Jesus is coming to restore all things in preparation for the introduction of His Messianic-Millennial Kingdom.  We know 100% for certain.  We know absolutely He is coming to do these things.  Others either disbelieve or say we cannot hope to understand.

Of course, there is that part where we cannot prove this so to say we know without some faith to fill the gap between ‘absolute certainty’ from ‘probability’ is admittedly an exaggeration.  It is like the “‘@’ sign”; we cannot completely close that wee gap near the start of the tail of the letter ‘a’.  Our 100% certainty has, of course, a portion of faith in the One True God, not in Hollywood or Professor Robert Langdon or Winston (in Origin).  But inwardly we are so sure that we find ourselves laughing at the machinations of the scientists and intelligentsia (or IntelligentCIA).  They cannot and will not solve the growing mass of deep-seated problems besetting the globe at this late stage of the period of the School of Elijah between circa 4000 BC and AD 2001 (a space odyssey for that is where our spaced-out illuminated specialists are taking us into - just more confusion).  A healthy respect for God’s Wisdom is what makes one healthy - Body and Soul!  Even so, Jesus will help our forests recover throughout the Millennium from the dwindling feedstock that remains.  Alternatively, Jesus may simply create some more to replace what’s left

2/7/19, “These technologies are inevitable; there is now’t we can do about it”.  The point of view of one of the commentators in the TV documentary we have been reporting on today.  That just about sums up the points we make in these pages about the ongoing consequences of Adam eating from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.

2/7/19, “The information economy still needs human labour”.  Or, one might say, “we become slaves to the terminators”.  Fortunately, Jesus of Nazareth (or The Nazar, את־נצר) rescues us from that fate Adam plunged us into or towards.

2/7/19, “Companies know all about us but not us of them”.   Or as the quotation goes a little more fully, “Companies have more and more information about us but we have less and less information about them”.  Information about companies is probably around but it is just very difficult to capture.  One could have added “governments” to companies.  In particular, one wanted to address this in respect to the Google and other  Internet search engines.  They are now so dominated by the algorithms of the previous few items that when one tries to search out information on the Internet, one only gets to sights Google’s algorithms think one wants to access.  It is now very hard to do any decent research on Google not that one is all that concerned because one’s main research is Bible-based and God has given us His Holy Spirit Search Engine.  By dint of those algorithms, the Internet is indeed becoming the all powerful dictator of Big Brother of George Orwell’s 1984.

2/7/19, “China replaces Islam with a secular ideology”.  But that masks the fact that the whole world has been doing that to Christians ever since the Fall of Christendom from Government after Europe’s Thirty Years War and the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia.  Now, the “colonialism” of Western Europe is showing what it really is and was instead of hiding behind Christian missionaries’ skirts.  That colonial power is S.H.E.M-itism or the Secular Humanist Evolutionist Materialist paradigm.  Sadly for its protagonists, that paradigm is not working all that well, though it does have some goodies to deliver or trickle down to punters with extra rewards for those who put in additional effort behind the grind-stone (the grind-stone cowboys).  Overall, SHEM-itism is a disaster waiting to fully mature, as it almost has done now, as the governing authorities ever-further fail to deal with all the world’s problems not the least of which are the lawless and drunk and drugged louts and hoodlums now coursing the Earth especially outside the toilet block in central Wellington.  Materialism drives them into the demons (fallen angelic-spirit beings) and false spirits of drink, drugs and booze (or BBC’s, i.e., Booze, Baccy, Cannabis, Condoms, computerised-games and crap-food).

The SHEM-ite paradigm allows people to gather in churches, mosques, temples, masonic halls, synagogues or whatever to hear about the nice things the preachers say  whill happen to them after they die if they well serve mankind (i.e., Big business and governments).  That bit is presumably what Mao Tse Dung termed what he understood to be ‘religion’ as the “opiate of the masses”.  However, Mao did not see nor understand what the Bible’s true message was.  The SHEM-ites need people to come to work on Monday sobered-up from Friday’s (TGIF) and Saturday’s parties which one sees all around the precinct of the toilet block here.  They party in the bars and pubs then litter the floors of the toilets with excrement and broken bottle glass mixed with wine, beer and spirits (gin, whiskey etc).  The men get the women pregnant at these panties so the state funds either the abortions of this offspring or it pays from our taxes for all the ongoing and long-run consequences of that Saturday night nonsense.  But none of that will be allowed in the forthcoming Messianic Kingdom. Those who do want to practise such things (viz., Galatians 5:19-21 or Colossians 3:5 and 8) can choose to do so in the company of like-minded people in the other place God has prepared for them.  Although, based on the information in the Bible which is not especially voluminous in detail on the point,  they will probably find that they cannot do those things in that place after all!  Perhaps they can just think about them and amuse themselves that way.

2/7/19, “Facial recognition flags for non-conformers to State ideology”.  But even for many years before that technology became available as it has in the last decade or so, genuine Christians, not pew sitters, have long ago been identified and isolated.     

2/7/19, “We are now at the whim of computer-generated bias”.  This point arose in the discussion in the previous item, this time in the context of crime control.  Not only can the wrong people bet targeted, and the truly bad and evil malingerers be missed, but predictive systems also can get horribly misleading within this “algorithm bias”.  Of course, this black hole of “algorithm bias” is just the tool the Antichrist needs to weed out any genuine Christians that will belatedly have come into belief in Jesus and God’s plan for the Last Days.  He may not succeed in destroying any alive in his reign by enforcing them to buy and sell with his mark on their forehead or hand but he could certainly use an algorithm to justify searching them out and eliminating them.  Here, though, we only are talking about people who become believers having been in unbelief at the point of the Rapture.  Those believers alive up to the moment of The Rapture need not worry.  Jesus takes us out of that situation before it starts and that is one way how we know to be ready for the last Trump of I Corinthians 15:52b and I Thessalonians 4:16-17.  The Rapture was always “Imminent”.  However, certain signs around us will show at some point that we will know the season but not the day nor the hour.  Those, especially Israel, awaiting the Second Coming will be able to countdown the days from the signing of the Antichrist Treaty with Israel’s leadership to the Third Day of Hosea 6:2.

2/7/19, “Algorithms replicate and accelerate inbuilt human bias”.   One of the key dangers in this road we are now going down.  Although a little off topic, this comment does inspire one to re-iterate another solution to all this.  That could come about with a massive financial collapse.  The world could well be forced back into a 17^th century level of technology.  That level tended to pollute the environment very little and wherever it did the environment usually got an opportunity to heal itself.  Now we need more technology to clean up all the damage bequeathed us by other technologies we have.  Also, such a scenario is one we develop in these pages as the null hypothesis to our hypothesis based on the Bible that everything is getting so chaotic once again but this time because of our human failings, that Jesus of Nazareth will have to intervene and repair, mend, re-format etc., all things.   

2/7/19, “Algorithm bias requires counteracting audit process”.  This emerged out of a discussion about facial recognition technologies.  The big computers (started off by IBM the “Solutions” company of New Jersey that supplied its Holleriths to the Nazis in Germany to use to organize the “Final Solution” of the Jewish Question) have been ‘trained’ to recognise faces from information programmed into them by mainly Caucasian men and women.  Consequently, black women are frequently unrecognized which is probably a bit of a nuisance at the immigration or passport control in many modern airports these days.  However, the issue opened up a broader awareness of quite a lot of other types of bias that inadvertently enter all algorithmic-intensive computer systems.  This is yet another example of how the delight in grasping the Tree of Knowledge in Eden has turned out to have so many bugs and pests coming with it that we all now pine for that day when Adam could have refused to entertain the idea of touching the touch-tronic computer in the Garden of Eden that God had said the Man should not eat from (for the meantime anyway we now think to see if Adam could firstly pass the obedience test that Jesus did so well when He spent 37 years living amongst us, i.e., amongst the Jews and some Gentiles living in Israel between 7 BC and AD 30).

However, finding out how we can audit the computer algorithms is impossible.  Often we need yet more of them to audit those already potentially causing trouble.  In Origin, Dan Brown has “Winston” talking about this but Stanley Kubrick had HAL dealing with the issue.  In both stories, just as ‘H’ comes before ‘I’, ‘A’ comes before ‘B’ and ‘L’ comes before ‘M’, the computer ends up controlling us.  Thus “The Terminators” are already amongst us it seems.  But God deliberately chose to create Angels then Man to have choice instead of just being robots.  Now the robots are coming to control us.  They are the “Technium” of Mr Brown’s book (op.cit).

9/7/19, “I’m sure our problems will be resolved as technologies evolve”.  A radio compare on a day when the NZ Government announced it wanted to introduce a new tax, called a fee or fine, on owners of vehicles that do not sufficiently comply with carbon-footprints, -sequestration etc.  The compare said that we do not need to take action but should let technology evolve.  We should not be trying to steer all this with subsidies etc.  Then he continued ...

9/7/19, “.. We don’t want all this the ‘world is ending’ stuff; and

9/7/19, “ .. We are smart enough to know what to do without bureaucracy directing us”.  Well it probably is a sign of the End of the Age that Jesus spoke about in reference in particular to the Days of Noah and of Lot.  He foresaw where the world’s technologies would lead it to.  In all probability, we now have the over-population Malthus et al feared.  It was not the over-population as such but the resulting strain on resources especially as technologies provide us with more so that wants become needs and necessities when really they are not.  Thus the base ‘Aggregate Demand’ broadens and/or deepens as demands stretched over an ever rising population would lead to geometric increases in demand that would or could not be sustainable.

Malthus and company were probably not so silly as to think that point had been reached in their day.  They were correct in thinking that could become problematic with a few more billions on the planet than just the one in their day.  But with our technologies not only are we unsustainably using too many resources but that also comes with concomitant waste by-products or unintended toxins, unforseen by Malthus, to produce an ever growing volume of goods and provision of ‘services’ and even more serious crisis than even Malthus could imagine.  But this occurs by also polluting the world to such a severe extent that nothing or no one apart from the Creator can resolve the chaos.

We have set in motion a number of unstoppable trends.  Many activists think they can arrest them.  However, the results would be so destabilizing that the whole system should collapse under the weight of attempted change or back-tracking.  An alternative hypothesis is that the system will slowly weaken and drift back towards a 17^th Century technology as many modern arrangements can no longer be supported especially because there will not be sufficient skilled Labour to maintain them.  Of course part of the counter to that is robots taking over much of our economy and associated technologies.  Even doctors, accountants and lawyers are said to be headed for the scrap-heap as robots do more of their work.  That is Terminator territory of course.  But one has to accept that could be an outcome.

Instead, it might become a Star Trek Episode whereby the computers on two close but rival planets in a solar system Kirk, Spock, Bones and Chekov et al stumbled across calculated the populations that would need to die in a war to control population levels and restrict resources both planets were consuming from other planetary bodies in their solar system.  Rather than having infrastructure destructing wars between the two planets, the computers calculated how many and who could be allowed to live, the rest voluntarily going into a self-destruction chamber.   God foresaw such outcomes as we are now staring into at very close range down the barrel of time.  He does not want for us to be under the control of robots.

However, Adam would not listen to the plain simple commandment given to him.  Adam could not possibly have foreseen the implications from his dalliance with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and foreseen that it would lead to many more evil outcomes than good ones or that the evil would outweigh the good.  Of course many people sincerely believe it can be the other way around and good triumphs over evil.  The Bible, however, does not see it that way hence the need for God to rescue us from the dilemma.  Satan, of course, damn well knew which way the outcomes would swing (Ezekiel 28:12).  He also knew that he could then bring his son, hence himself, into the world to take control as the chaos bore in.  But God had earlier planned to send His Son, planned even before God created Satan, anyway knowing the Man would fall.  God had prepared for that eventuality and for the six thousand years He would give for the implications of that sin to pan out or develop.

15/7/19, “Social media fomenting mass anxiety attacks since 2011".  The view of an American psychologist who shows that widespread use by youngsters of social media since 2011 is causing people of that age group and younger to develop all sorts of moral and psychological angst.  These youngsters stopped meeting each other normally and began doing all their socializing on social media.  In effect, they are going crazy en masse.  Older people of course use social media but usually within the context of other forms of social engagement.  Kids using just social media very quickly become isolated, very naive and prone to false perceptions and conclusions like climate change is destroying the world.  This author has written a book entitled The Righteous Mind.  

He also noted “The Perception Gap” has widened so that opposites understand even less about their respective opposites than formerly.  This is dramatically affecting the democratic process as politicians are scared of opposing any opinion and attempt to accommodate them rather than risk losing their position to a political rival.  He, or the interviewer on the radio station broadcasting this item, labels these ‘millennials’ as “Generation Z”.  The psychologist prefaced his remarks with the point that ‘it always has been true that each generation disparages the one following it, but we are now in a completely new ball-game in this regard’.

We suggest this last point about the Generation Z makes enhanced sense of a Biblical passage in Isaiah 3:4-5; "I will (in the Last Days ?) give children to be their princes and babes shall rule over them .. (verse 5) .. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and everyone by his neighbour:  the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable".  And in Isaiah 3:12, “ .. children are oppressors (of my people Israel) and women rule over them”.  Another point this author made of very direct interest to our stance is that as technologies like social media take firm hold they form far more negative consequences than positive ones.  Once again we have credible evidence that in these Last Days of the technological revolution, science and technology are, long term, destroying mankind as God warned Adam before the first man ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”.  We are reminded of the words of Keith Reid and Gary Brooker in Strong as Samson, “Psychiatrists and Lawyers destroying mankind, driving them crazy and robbing them blind.  Weakest man be strong as Samson while we’re being held to ransom”.  Well, politicians at least, are beginning to be held to ransom under these new conditions of “moral psychology”.

16/7/19, Has 1984 changed the scientific facts?  We ask this question in the face of reports broadcast on the radio station noted in the next item that the Earth’s atmosphere has only 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide.  One confirmed this is the volume being published by authorities Google directs us to with its search algorithms.  Put it this way, 9999600 parts per million in the atmosphere are other gases, mainly the two largest i.e., Nitrogen and Oxygen.  Those two contribute something like 999000 parts per million compared to a miserably tiny 400 parts per million for carbon dioxide.  But only 3-4 % of the carbon dioxide, let’s say 12-16 out of that 400, comes from human activity.   Therefore at most, 999986 parts per million in the atmosphere come from human induced excess carbon dioxide from coal fires, cares and oil etc, i.e., at most 16 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air comes from human activity presumably excluding what we may breathe out each time we gulp some air (for free so far).  Thus the other 384 parts of the 400 of carbon dioxide come from plants and animals including humans, breathing out the stuff from food consumption or whatever.  Those 384 parts are part of the carbon cycle that plants and young trees need for food production with photosynthesis.

 It would seem all the world’s animals and plants fart more methane than carbon dioxide but that is now being dismissed as a less harmful gas for the atmosphere because it breaks down very quickly and does not last for long in the atmosphere.  Methane is a carbon atom with four hydrogens attached to it.  Carbon dioxide is a carbon atom with two oxygen atoms attached.  Carbon monoxide which is exceedingly poisonous if concentrated too much is one carbon atom with only one oxygen atom.  That structure makes carbon monoxide much less stable thus, in most normal circumstances, easily and speedily broken down before it can do any significant harm.

That’s the biology and chemistry we were taught in the 1970's.  As far as one can make out, apart from the proportions, that is still infra dig.  It seems these cycles still exist, as far as we are reliably told.  In regard to proportions, when one was young, one used to read that the atmosphere was composed of 2-3 per cent of its volume or between 20,000 and 30,000 parts per million instead of 400 parts.  One caller to the radio station said we need a minimum of about 2000 parts per million to provide enough food for plants to just survive.  It is actually quite difficult deciphering not only what the figures are, or were, or were in older models that are now superceded by more rigorous models etc., but what do they really mean, indicate or suggest.  If plants do need 2000 parts per million are they currently suffering malnutrition because they are being starved of some 1600 parts per million or only 1584 parts per million were it not for all our industrial and consumer activities.

Or is the figure we once had of 2-3% of the world’s ‘air’ being carbon dioxide a sort of gross figure?  Is it therefore an estimate of a volume of carbon dioxide emitted at any one time from a wide variety of sources including volcanos and undersea cracks in the ocean floors where the Earth’s molten interior meets the ocean seas?  We ‘credit’ what emits or comes out.  If that is the explanation, then, as far as the model goes, the absorbing ‘debit’, i.e., what goes back in to ‘lock-up’ is normally comprised of nearly all of the input credit going on at the same time, concurrently, or simultaneously, via absorption by all plants etc?  Therefore, are they saying in effect that the “400" parts per million is somehow an “on-average” residual calculated to exist at any point in time like observing a weird quark, lepton or boson at the sub-atomic level therefore really or merely “predicted” to exist after allowing for Heisenberg uncertainties etc?  Of that “400" ‘residual’ which may or may not be harmful one supposes, 12 to 16 parts comes from industrial and household output.  The “400" is a theoretical and to some extent even measured residual after the two gross figures of input and output are netted out? 

But all that still leaves one incredulous that this imbalance is somehow so disastrously dangerous.  There is a fine margin between being the winner and runner-up in a world cricket contest and even more so when two teams tie at the end of two contests one of 50 overs and the second after one over.  One really is left with the thought that some other agenda is really afoot. 

Otherwise, even on these figures and interpretation thereof, and in the absence of a hidden or alternative agenda, one must at least begin to wonder if the world’s gone crazy or whether the “monkeys” have taken over the zoo” in the world of science, as one caller put it.  Furthermore, if this imbalance is being tipped over the edge by the 12-16 parts per million of supposedly industrial and household carbon dioxide, it may not be all that bad.  We picked up a report from the USDA that the increased use of carbon fuels in China over the last thirty years or so led to an increased carbon dioxide component in the atmosphere which drifted across the ocean to feed growing crop output in North America’s wheat, barley, corn and sorghum etc.  That put more money in the pockets of US and Canadian crop farmers.  The Chinese Premier should use that information as a bargaining chip in his trade talks with President Trump’s USA administration.  It means, in effect, that China’s industry has been subsidizing American farmers.  Chinese industry has given away free fertilizer to American farmers.  That’s charity for you.  How nice that has been of the Chinese. 

If the figures one learned about in fifth form science in NZ in the 1970's were correct, and that the air comprised of between 2 and 3 parts per hundred, not 400 per million, it seems all the books have been altered as George Orwell said would happen in the 1984 world he wrote about in 1948 in his fictional novel (1984).  But was that novel really fictional or perhaps factional or not even that but prophecy which has now become fact?  And is Big Brother actually going to be the Antichrist-666?  That is what all this is about. They keep changing the figures and history and anything else they can get away with.  That is the world George Orwell was perhaps trying to explain.  He could see from his wartime experience in the Spanish Civil War as a journalist and later in the BBC during WWII that it is often convenient to change the facts or spin or whatever.  It’s the story one can get away with that counts, not the real History.  And that is why so few people understand Real His-Story.       

16/7/19, “It won’t be a climate crisis but a financial one”.  A response to concern about the “climate change cult” which listeners to a NZ radio station talk-back programme were convinced really lay behind “climate change hysteria”.  The concern was derived through the inexplicable decisions being made about the world economy.  They would or could, as we have long been saying, so seriously distort demand and supply schedules, as the economists’ jargon goes,  that resource allocation will become erratic and chaotic.  Our view is that if this concern is valid, as it most probably is, then it is a prelude to the rise of the Antichrist-666 as the way for him is prepared by fostering lawlessness and decline of proper governance (II Thessalonians 2:8, c.f., Romans 13:3-4).  The way this is happening, as the more astute and those formerly involved in government service will understand, is that by presenting more and more legislation  via parliaments, then revealing they were passed into law after nonsensical deliberations, obviously undermines the credibility of all governments.  Outrageous behaviour by some leading politicians does not help.

However, it is via enforcement issues, especially lack of enforcement, that governments’ credibility is further undermined.  Governments routinely fail to provide sufficient funds and other resources to monitor, regulate or enforce the laws they pass.  In one’s own work environment at the toilet block in central Wellington, NZ’s capital city,  the booze and drug culture with their associated gang- and gang-land circles, routinely flout laws forbidding the consumption of these products in public places.  But the Police tell us the local government has not provided the laws to enable them to enforce drink and drug bans in this public place.  Just this morning, two part Maori law-breakers, regularly wandering around with drugs in their eyes and booze (including carbon dioxide apparently) in their breath, tell me they are not required to obey these laws and that I as a reader of the Bible should know I must not judge them.  Their thinking is utterly nonsensical and wrong.  It is the other side of the nonsense going on in parliaments.  We have never seen such a crazy set of circumstances such as this, not only in Wellington City but around the world.

While a financial collapse may well be part of the agenda behind this anthropomorphic climate change cult, we have an alternative scenario.  There is much more evidence with the preponderance of Biblical Prophecies appearing to be on the verge of fulfillment, if not already being fulfilled such as Isaiah 24:5 (pollution), that the World is entering the period of chaos forecast in the Bible’s prophecies of the “End of the Age”.  It is not at all the End of the World!  It is the end of an era of nonsense God has determined should be allowed, or permitted, to let the Sin of Adam run its course.  This is actually a very interesting plan.  It makes much sense though it is very painful for many, many people if not most of us.  Spirit-filled mature believers do understand the Wisdom of this plan and how it is working itself out especially in the realms of scientific-, technological- and knowledge-development which are really devolutionary and not at all evolutionary.  The Wisdom is that at its end, not that far away now in all probability, Jesus will come to restore order to the world after He has defeated the Antichrist who will claim to be Jesus or the real Messiah and attempt to usurp Jesus’ long-promised and long-awaited role as King of His Kingdom.  This is not just in some spiritual way as is how He operates in believers’ lives at present but in a complete physical salvation of the world as well.  The new or renovated Earth lasts for a Millennium before the entirely Eternal and New or Last Order is brought into existence at the end of the Millennium.  Most people have no idea what the Bible says about this plan so they neither  understand what is happening nor comprehend the Wisdom behind it.

16/7/19, “Dunedin stripped of its crown and it’s all downhill now”.  A headline from a NZ radio station’s hourly news bulletin.  Dunedin’s Baldwin Street is now only the second steepest street in the world.  An unpronounceable street in Harlech, Wales, now has that ‘honour’.  For Dunedin, Baldwin Street has become a major tourist attraction.  Now Dunedin in New Zealand and Wales are brought into a debate where the England & Wales versus NZ cricket match tie, see previous item, has already been raging for a couple of days now.  We wonder if there is any significance in the timing by The Guinness Book of Records in issuing its statement merely hours after the end of the now controversial World Cricket Cup where the hosts, the England & Wales Cricket Board, look slightly embarrassed by the way its team won.

Perhaps of more immediate concern for the people on Baldwin Street and in Dunedin is that the region potentially has been stripped of a major tourist attraction.  Although people will still have much more fun having marble races down Baldwin Street than down its rather tricky competitor in Wales.  There, such a race would be more like a tricky negotiation of the world’s most difficult hole in golf.  Or, it would be the equivalent of a run down a manicured Austrian Alp ski slalom versus a race down a glacier assuming the reader understands what it really is like doing that, i.e., virtually impossible with all its crevices and rocks etc.  Tourism revenues are now likely to steeply go downhill in NZ’s ‘Deep South’ but Baldwin Street will not get less steep, earthquakes or whatever excepting.  A surreptitious application of a bit more asphalt could still win the day for Dunedin.  However, Dunedin can still revel in the fact that the whole idea of marketing one’s street as the steepest in the world has taken off so weel that it has become a popular title others now envy.  Some towns even make the effort to see if they have an even steeper street to enable them to take the title off Dunedin, NZ.  Perhaps the two towns could share the title as the two steepest streets in the world and show the cricket managers below that you can share titles, cups or trophies.  The Israeli Parliament even once shared Prime Ministers as a result of a virtually tied election when neither of the two largest parties each with about the same number of votes were separately outnumbered by the minor parties.  The title may not be secure in Harlech’s hands even then.  Who knows, perhaps Afghanistan which arguably never was in the British Empire despite Britain’s attempts to incorporate it now has the steepest street in one of its Taliban-infested villages.  Afghanistan came bottom in the cricket tournament.  Afghanistan gets the ‘wooden spoon’ not an especially auspicious title.  But, the Afghans did beat the British Empire in a 3-nil test series in the 19^th Century as the Empire’s army (probably mainly Indian ‘sepoys’)  unsuccessfully tried to incorporate Afghanistan.  In a sense the British Empire did win eventually because Afghanistan was obviously dead keen to be involved in that Empire’s premier sports tournament.  The Asian sub-continent countries, and the Windies, are not rugby players, nor tennis players.  Obviously, the Afghans have more pressing issues on their minds.  But watch out Harlech, having advertised the position, so to speak, the Afghans might now be after you especially as they came last in the tournament your country co-hosted with England.   Perhaps there is a steeper street in Cornwall or on one of those Greek islands like Corfu.  At least Dunedin probably has the steepest street in the Southern Hemisphere.  In contrast, Wellington, NZ’s capital city, had the second largest wooden building in the Southern hemisphere.  It now has the largest in the world because the bigger Russian one reportedly burned down a few years ago and has not been replaced.

These titles come and go.  In the oiverall scheme of things they are not all that important and usually very transient.  However, Jesus of Nazareth will always be the son of David, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  One day everyone who does not or never did (re the deceased) acknowledge that will find out that they are one day going to.  That is when they are resurrected then sent to the place where all unbelievers of all time go. 

18/7/19, September 11 now P-Day for NZ’s teachers.  The background here is that after years of getting nowhere very fast with their employer, a succession of NZ Governments, they at long last got a big pay increase in their industrial negotiations.  Unfortunately, the much maligned computer system used to organize their pay, means they cannot get their first pay rise and back-pay until September 11.  That’s the anniversary of the destruction of the Port of New Jersey’s Twin Towers on lower Manhattan Island, New York (or formerly New Amsterdam).  For a year or so a couple of years back, this computer system used to pay the teachers had its own melt-down of sorts.  One wonders if the date of September 11 has been deliberately selected in these days of ties and stitch-ups. 

19/7/19, NZ dendrochronologist dates trees to circa 2488 BC.  This is based on an interview on a NZ radio station with a professor at Auckland University.  She had managed to sequence thousands of years of NZ (mainly Kauri) tree rings (dendrochronology) to show that they date back to about the year 2488 BC.  We date the Great Flood of Noah to between 2450-2500 BC from the Bible’s chronology.  In our analysis, the Earth on the eve of the Flood, as it had been for about 1600 years since the events of Genesis 1:3ff, consisted of one main land mass lifted out of the sea in the First Flood (the א) that had completely covered the globe since Satan’s fall (perhaps 4.5 billion BC).  However, the land mass had no mountains.  Although it probably had a sort of Masif Centrale from which the rivers flowed towards the oceans.  Initially, mankind was housed in the Edenic Garden - all two of them.  That geography remained intact until the ‘Second’ or ‘Last’ Flood (the ת) in Noah’s Day about 1500-1550 years later.  

Currently, the Afro-Eurasian Continent is the main residual of that original land-mass.  Probably, the Atlantic Ocean came into being and pushed (or pulled) the American continents (North, Central and South) apart for Afro-Eurasia.  Some other bits and pieces such as Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, perhaps Madagascar, etc, uplifted during the Catastrophe of that Flood four and a half millennia ago (circa 2500 BC).  Thus, if we think of NZ as being like a giant Mount Rangitoto emerging out of the ocean about 4500 years ago, it would take a few years for Kauri to seed and begin growing year by year, season by season, and putting on successive tree rings as their girths widened over the courses of their lifetimes.  In some years they would be starved of food and not put on much weight.  In other years the reverse.  So different sequences of patterns can theoretically allow one to set up a series or sequence of trees and work out how long they have been seeding and growing and dying generation after generation.  To some extent, the matching of different sequences of tree rings may be said to be subjective.  But then the biases could swing any which way.  So to come up with a date like this is amazing since it almost exactly matches what we would a priori have suggested had we been aware the project was going ahead.

Thus, the result is that the dendrochronologists have found their way back to 2488 BC which is almost precisely where we would have predicted them to be.  It seems reasonable from this information to suggest New Zealand’s islands, like Australia and probably Antarctica have only emerged out of or from the-sea bed four and a half millennia ago.  This seems to also support a date for the emergence of the Himalayas at the same time.   That’s because the conodonts on that mountain’s peak are only found on the floor of the Indian Ocean.  In effect, we could say, Australia, Antarctica, and NZ all emerged from the Indian Ocean.  In that pre-flood geography, the land-mass being in the Northern Hemisphere, unless the Flood’s causal agent turned the globe upside down, the Southern Hemisphere mostly consisted of the Great Southern Ocean which now merely surrounds the Antarctic Continent.  That was the ocean the British Royla Society sent Captain Cook to go and observe.

Nevertheless, the professor also talked about fossilized Kauri that also is to be found.  That wood, presumably now petrified (turned to stone), is dated to many more thousands of years in age going back ten more millennia or more.  However, they use things like potassium-argon dating for that.  Unfortunately, such methods are prone to contamination therefore miscalculation.  Even so, the mineral or inorganic material fossils are entombed within may well  be very, very old because it relates to the former mineral-only earth which like the rest of the Universe could be of any age or up to about 15 billion years old.  Even then, the inorganic material radiometrically dated can only be measured for age from the time when Satan fell and the Universe also fell into an decay or “Unsteady State” as Sir Fred Hoyle would describe it.  That catastrophe may well have occurred 10-11 billion years after God brought the Universe into being, initially for the angels, not humans.  Thus, ‘organic’ vegetation entombed within mineral or ‘inorganic’ substrate is much younger.  One cannot date organic material entombed within mineral substrate because the two are not related in time whatsoever.  They only cane to be permanently related or associated with each other as a result of the second worldwide flood, i.e., that of Noah’s time. The inorganic material has an apparent age only as a consequence of Satan’s Fall.  The Organic matter has an age as a consequence of Adam’s Fall then the generation of Noah’s wickedness that led to the Flood which mixed enormous volumes of vegetable, plant and arboreal debris, or organic material, within inorganic-mineral debris wherein it solidified over a few months as we witnessed over the ensuing months after the massive Mount Saint Helens eruption in North America in the late 20^th century.  It is sheer politically driven scientific chicanery that allows anyone to suggest the vegetable material within rocks is the same age or was merged together or formed at the same time, a very long time ago.

Under our model, those Kauri had only been around in the previous 1600 years since God put plants and trees on the judgement-stricken globe as one can read in Genesis 1:11.  So where had that fossilized kauri come from?  What most people do not think about is that the Flood was part of a world-wide concomitant geological catastrophe.  The oceans were swirling around the globe, all sorts of volcanic eruptions simultaneously occurring;  many under water as we can still see today from Mr Avatar Cameron’s mini-submarine; bearing, mixing and redistributing all sorts of animal- and plant-detritus as well as those animals that could survive the cool, or sometimes very hot, waters for periods of weeks or even months.  Thus small reptiles like lizards and geckos gradually over a ten month period drifted around to become castaways on the newly emerged land masses of NZ, Australia etc.  That’s why lizards, snails, spiders and insects are the only native animals found in NZ or on its islands.  Most birds flew here in later months and years.  Very belatedly, Phoenicians and other early explorers brought in flightless birds such as the ostrich-emu-moa, and rats and mice probably.  The dead, fossilized Kauri was detritus deposited here but brought in from some other forest-growing region on some part of the northern hemisphere land-mass.  Seeds from that rotting Kauri are most likely what provided the basis of the forest in NZ.  However, the winds the Bible describes may also have blown kauri seeds here.

We cannot answer all the questions such as why Kauri came to become a native unique to NZ with no relations anywhere else on the globe.  It may be that in isolation, NZ’s Kauri survived predators and diseases that expunged the tree from the face of the Earth everywhere else.  Or, within 2-3 thousand years, they adapted to present themselves in an unusual climatic environment here to quickly become uniquely distinctive.  Nevertheless, they may have very close relatives elsewhere.  It is advantageous for NZ authorities to make sure no one finds that out so that a mystical aura (to foster the tourism industry) may surround the kauri hardwood when it really may not be all that distinctive at all.  No doubt, whatever way one looks at the debate, each Genome God created has a very wide range of characteristics so that in a particular environment, certain basic types of plants or animals develop special characteristics that do indeed make them unique.  That is part and parcel of the environment they are within.  That is not an excuse for inventing a theory that tells us all animals and plants have been evolving over billions of years to get to be where they are now.   

This is yet another application of how, in these very last days, scientifically collected data is at long last presenting us with the much needed information to assist us in the project to harmonize observable facts around us with the Bible’s account of the World’s History be it political, biological, zoological, archaeological, sociological etc.  It would all come out in the wash at the end of the Six Millennia trial God would allow the Earth to go through to prove the extent of Adam’s folly and that of Satan and the angels who rebelled with him.  Unfortunately, we have very imperfect calendars so that we are not all that sure how far from, or close to, that period we are.  The weight of chronological evidence veers to suggesting we are extremely close to that end.

23/7/19, “I am Greek, therefore I am a sinner”.  This comment on the same TV programme as the previous item referred to the Greek national debt incurred because Goldmann Sachs, the New York merchant bank, doctored Greece’s national financial statistics in a report the bank prepared for the EU as Greece applied to join that Union and its Euro.  Greece swapped its Drachma for the Euro at an overvalued exchange rate.  Without realising it, Greeks suddenly found they had much more purchasing power for their money than would have been the case if they had kept to the Drachma.  Consequently, Greeks went on a spending sprees for a few years.  However, as their economy continued to import far more than it exported, and produce for themselves less of what they consumed financial trouble brewed.   Furthermore, many people got various subsidies in effect from German and other European taxpayers.  The financial books suddenly looked really bad and they found themselves in very deep debt.  The EU proceeded to force the Greeks into very severe austerity measures in order to facilitate the repayment of the national debt that had burgeoned to something like 130% of the alue of the country’s economy.  Greece was technically bankrupt.  But it all stemmed from the crooks at Goldmann Sachs economics department and their creative accounting.  This Greek man being interviewed felt his nation was being punished for other people’s wrongdoing.  

23/7/19, “Debt and guilt: a kind of double jeopardy”.  From a programme on TV about the history of debt, credit and money.  Coincidentally, later in the day at a Bible study, we looked at the attitude of the Christian to money.  As the Bible does, debt and sin are paralleled with each other.  Both behave in much the same way.  We take on a debt because it offers an attractive solution to providing something we want or need ahead of the day when we can actually pay for it.  However, if what we borrow was for unwise, unnecessary or even unethical reasons, and we get behind with repayments, the borrower then loads unpaid installments onto the total value of the debt with interest, often usurious.  Then problems mount.  Unconfessed and unforgiven sin leads to a build up of guilt.

Double jeopardy occurs when one is taken to court for a crime one has already been cleared with a not guilty verdict.  In effect, when one gets behind with debt repayment because it is not ‘forgiven’ or paid off or redeemed, one in effect is being accused of the same crime all over again.  Only when this overdue debt, indeed all the debt, is repaid does one become ‘free’.  One’s conscience only becomes free from guilt which really goes all the way back to the shared or imputed guilt we received as a consequence of Adam’s sin.  If one sins again and fails to seek forgiveness through the worlds Great High Priest, Jesus of Nazareth sitting at the right hand of God for the meantime, the guilty conscience comes back to haunt one.  People get very sick, either mentally or physically, or worse, both, when unforgiven sin builds up in the conscience like a debt mountain.   All our sin-debt has to be laid at the foot of the cross.  Otherwise one ends up in another place to repay one’s interminable and infinite sin-debt.  Better to take God’s free offer through the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of David, the Son of God.

2/8/19, “Give us the search codes for your algorithms”.  Actually the speaker, a government trade practices watchdog (regulator), put this into the negative when referring to Google, Fakebook et al whose search engines and storage systems give them unparalleled (or perhaps un-con-trolled) access to all sorts of personal or private information.  Also, as many commentators are noting, all sorts of institutional infrastructure from media, social media and journalism to communications is being overturned by a oligopoliy or even monopoly “Internet Platform Providers” (IPPs).   We wonder if the real situation might be that even were the IPPs to agree to give the regulators such access, they would not know how to.  The truth is that algorithms are the accumulated result of many programmers building on each others work, protocols, procedures etc., to have already in effect handed over control to more or less independent computers wherein the algorithms rside.  The IPPs may not even know where those algorithms are located.

In any case, many of us who were Internet-user pioneers have switched off using search engines, other than, perhaps, for a bit of entertainment.  The algorithms tell you what they think you should see or what they think you want to see rather than simply gathering up all the relevant items one should expect; or perhaps hope to get;  from our Boolean Commands.  Most modern users of the Internet would no longer know a Boolean Command even if it swallowed them.  The algorithms just seem to ignore whatever words you insert into the search engine.   Even if the search engine gets you to a site where one would expect top get certain information, one is often poorly served by the web designers or creators who then only give you what they think is important, relevant or useful.  It is very difficult getting to the data or information without getting an author’s reporter’s, or organisation’s spin on the information.  You never know what they have omitted.

However, the good news is that we should expect this situation to arise.  It was Satan who tempted our first parents into accessing the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil or the touch-tronic computer there in Eden.  Now, he is sucking people into heavy addiction to the ether-eal world of cyberspace, the Ether, the Dark Web, the Internet etc.  The dopamine in our brains is stimulated by the clever way algorithms play on our desires.  Satan, filled to the sum in Wisdom (Ezekiel 28:12), knows how to manipulate the human mind and soul. Now, via the algorithms, remote robot-like computers, his own angels and eventually, probably quite soon, his own son the antichrist-666, Satan is getting the world into a receptive mind to agree to worship his son as the world’s saviour.  This is all predicted in the Bible.  Even the commentators seem completely bemused by the crises beginning to envelope the world.  There seems to be no human solution in sight for any one of these crises.  Man did not listen to those wise words form the Creator.  “Do not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. 

4/8/19, Christchurch Muslim-slayer cited in US massacres in Texas and Ohio.  Over the weekend in two US cities two madmen went on a rampage with an AK 45 machine gun, or equivalent.  One of the gunmen along with his ‘sister; as we heard in one report; was killed on the spot.  The Australian madman who came over to Christchurch in NZ will no doubt get Mark Chapman type treatment, a cushy life in prison, or even eventual release under a new identity as with the Christchurch matricides in the 1950s.  That might especially be the case if this event is somehow tied up with Satan’s plans for the Antichrist-666 whom we suspect is being readied in the wings (in Western Europe) now nearly aged 18.  We will never know about Mr Tarrant’s eventual destination while he is alive.  That is because everything about the trial of the Christchurch madman will be hushed up.  Most of the evidence relating to the trial including concerning the security standards and whether the authorities did their duty in that regard; e.g., who allowed the gunman to get his firearms licence, will all be buried.  As usual, there will be no accountability apart from the suffering of the murdered victims friends and relations.

That is the way things are going in this lawless era wherein Satan seems to have taken full control of proceedings and is readying the world for the introduction of his son as The Antichrist; a subject no longer ever discussed in churches.  Now that very few people even know anything about the true Christ;  often following fake counterfeits, even if they are at all (אכל, acol, @) interested rather than being fully consumed with their daily wants and longer term ambitions; they will hardly be in any position to observe that the Antichrist is on the way and emerging before their very eyes.  If the writer still is around at that time, and especially if his target for this person is correctly identified, one will be able to observe and understand the process for the Antichrist’s supremacy.   Presumably, this will be a process rather than something that occurs ‘overnight’ although in theory the latter could be the case.  There is bound to be a process of some sort.  Even Jesus’ ministry was a process lasting about 3.5 years.  The miracle at Cana prompted His response to His Mother’s request, “ ... Mine hour is not yet come”.  That  suggests Jesus had a programme in mind and He wanted to bring in certain things or even miracles into play at times of His choosing rather than Mum’s!  Likewise, a process will see Antichrist’s supremacy arrive.  Meanwhile, in the USA, they are all blaming President Trump for the massacres in Dayton and El Paso.  They would be better off attuning themselves to the Scriptures in the Bible and getting their hearts, minds and ears ready for the Last Trump of I Thessalonians 4:16 and I Corinthians 15:52.

5/8/19, “I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past”.  A Maori culture spokesperson explaining her world-view.  One would suggest it is wiser to walk forwards at all times but with an eye keenly trained on the Past, Present and Future.  The only way one can do this is by reference to the Word of God in the Bible.  For two thousand years since circa AD 60, the Bible has not needed any more scripture to be added to the volume.  That’s primarily because “In these Last Days spoken to us by His Son” (Hebrews 1:2).  Also, along with Jesus and the Apostle’s prophecies, the Prophets of Israel provided the vast majority of prophecies for the Last Days.  Revelation puts all prophecies in the rest of the Bible into a chronological sequence.  This is the tool one needs to contrast the Past, Present and Future without having to walk in reverse.   Each generation in the past, before the New Testament was ‘canonized’, only  had earlier parts of Scripture to understand God’s Plan for the World following the demise and Fall of Adam.  For two millennia before Abraham, the World only had the first few chapters before Abraham.  Although, that very early part of human history between 4000 and 2000 BC probably had little need for much more revelation than the portion on offer in what is now Genesis until Abraham (Chapter 12).  People of those times had the knowledge of Man’s Fall, why and how it happened and they had the promise of a Redeemer, Who would be God Himself, to one day enter the World.  Before the Flood, they could even go to the entrance of the Garden of Eden and perhaps the arch-angel;  or if Jesus was there as a ‘Theophany’; could inform them or reassure them of the certainty of God’s Plan being completed.  They knew the score but whether they chose to put faith into it and believe is another matter.

The failings of the Israelite clan in its early history between 2000 and 1900 BC, and their disobedient domicile in Egypt for 400 years instead of the last two or three years of the Seven-Year world-side famine, resulted in the regimen of God’s governance for Israel being delayed.  That was for some 500 years after Abraham’s original call in Babylon (Ur of the Chaldees) when Moses took over leadership of Israel.  Even then, another 400 years of division and civil strife between the 12 tribes of Israel and invasion from abroad further delayed full introduction of the Mosaic System under Kings David and Solomon when a zenith was reached.  Things fell apart soon after Solomon’s death.

However, God’s Mosaic System for Israel’s governance had little direct relevance to other tribes apart from Israel.  That was unless a Gentile voluntarily brought himself under Moses’ regimen in order to receive its accompanying blessings (but curses as well for disobedience or falling away).  Other Gentile believers in Jehovah lived according to whatever regimen local rulers imposed and under the requirements of the Noahic Covenant God imposed on all mankind after the Great Flood.  However, Israel’s prophets’ writings did not become part of Scripture until between 800 and 500 BC roughly speaking.  Between circa 500 BC and AD 30, no more Scripture was authorized. The New Testament was composed between AD 30 and circa AD 60.  As is said, God’s revelation to mankind was progressively revealed from Adam until the last Apostle (Possibly John).  

Under this Plan, the Bible’s full codex only really needed to be ready for the last generation of Daniel 12:4 & 9 of the “Last Days” of Hebrews 1:2.  Or, at the beginning of the Last Days of Hebrews 1:2 the whole corpus of God’s Plan was completed and laid down for full understanding only in those ‘Latter Days of Daniel 12:4 & 9.    We do not have the witness of the Garden of Eden and its archangel who prohibited re-entry which meant an ongoing witness to Adam’s Fall and subsequent expulsion from what could have been an idyllic Utopia into which we would all be born.   Thus we now have the framework to explain why things are as they exist now, a very bad dystopia.  The fact of the long-run or long-term consequence of Adam’s failure to trust in God meant he had committed all further generations to find ways to make life bearable and solve whatever problems we are responsible for.   The trouble is that no matter how much we try we only makes things worse.  Now things are so bad, the environment itself is being endangered not only by the results of our sin but Satan’s too.

5/8/19, “The canonization of the Christchurch shooter”.  A New Zealand radio station in its morning news programme was interviewing an American sociologist attempting to explain the rationale of the two murderers in Dayton and El Paso in the USA over the weekend.  He said the two Americans had broadcast their intentions and motivations on the Internet just prior to executing their crazed intentions.  In their propaganda, the murderers both cited the Christchurch killer (Tarrant) as a sort of spiritual mentor.  El Paso and Christchurch seemed to be victims to anti-Muslim and foreign-culture phobias.  The Dayton, Ohio situation is not so clear-cut.  Interestingly, this sociologist used the word ‘canonization’ as if these people were elevated to sainthood.  It reflects how intensively the Catholic and Orthodox Christendomite bias has seeped into the consciousness of the intelligentsia (Intelligent-CIA), and most proles, where the believer in Jesus is not a saint because he is not famous enough to warrant such considerations.  Fortunately, Jesus of Nazareth does call us saints!

6/8/18, President Trump blames Internet and computer games for mass murders.  He said that in the wake of the massacres in Dayton Ohio and El Paso Texas over the weekend.  He also noted that the Internet facilitates the spread of the sort of hate that practitioners of these massacres seem to enjoy.  We have been noting many times the link between the touch-tronic computer in the Garden of Eden God used to test Adam on the behalf of each one of us descended from him.  We also note how mankind has returned almost full circle [‘@’] back to the Garden with his own tree a.k.a., the Internet.  Physically, the internet resides on a host of computers scattered around the world.  One suspects most are routed at some point through the USA where all the early computers in the network were located.  The Internet’s far more decentralized now although who knows, perhaps it routes through Satan’s agents these days as he prepares the way for his Antichrist-666.  Certainly the behaviour of a growing number of people, systems and organisations is deteriorating as the world continues into its slide into chaos though of a somewhat different kind to that God visited on Earth after Satan’s fall (Genesis 1:2, Ezekiel 28:12ff).

10/8/19, Refugees drown off Tunisian coast near Zarsis.  As the carnage on the Mediterranean Sea continues, another boatload of African and Asian refugees drowned as their boat capsized near this ancient port.  Our interest lies in the name ‘Zarsis’ because written using an alternative methodology to transliterate this name from its ancient linguistic roots we get ‘Tarsus’ or ‘Tarshish’.  The origin of that name goes back to the “Tarshish” of the Bible which is a combination of Man (ish) and Tyre (Tzor, Tsor or Sur).  In the Bible, ‘Tarshish’ is accompanied by her “villages” sometimes translated as ‘lions’.  Like the kings of the animal realm, ancient Tyre and her sister cities like Gebal-Byblos and Sidon, formed commercial colonies around the continental land mass stretching from The Torres Strait (Strait of Tyre) on the boundary of the Indian and Pacific Oceans to the Azores (aTzor’s) in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.   This ‘middle’ sea itself is really the Middle Tyrrhenian Sea; or, from the perspectives of ancient Tyre, Sidon and Byblos;  the left and right or western and eastern seas being the Atlantic and Indian Oceans respectively.

That’s the History but the Bible also has prophecies about Tarshish who or which seems to lead the ineffectual opposition to the Gog-Magog plan to invade Israel according to Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16 in an event to occur on the eve of the Apocalypse as far as we can assess.  Another invasion from the same entity occurs at the end of the Millennium that Jesus introduces at the end of the Apocalypse.  However, Tarshish only plays a role in the first invasion.  However, the nations that Tyre’s colonies spawned from the Mediterranean now span the Western Hemisphere from New Zealand to the UK.  The modern entity of ‘Tarshish’ (in NATO and SEATO) also seems to encapsulate other daughter nations, or perhaps grand-daughter nations, such as Portugal, Spain, France and the Netherlands the one time outer limit of ancient Tyre’s hegemony.  The Rhine spills out into the ocean at the North Sea with the Tzor-rotz-dam at what is now Rotterdam being the ancient pre-Roman port for commercial activities further up the Rhine in the Tzar or Saar-Land.  The Bible often refers to the “Daughter” of a nation which we infer means colonies in the same way lions part company within their prides to form new ones with new leaders.  In the case of the British, many settlers to Australia, Canada or New Zealand were younger family members of the land-owning classes.  British business houses such as The East India Company offered better paths to careers in their overseas operations which led to other groups leaving the homeland for ‘colonies’.  Men drafted by force or press gangs into the merchant navy often escaped by going overboard in ports of call and hiding amongst the locals.  By these various means we find the Japethite nations of the Bible appear to have proved the prophecy of Genesis 9:27.  The story of that boat wreck off Zarsis in Tunisia, a port to the south of ancient Carthage, the Punic-Phoenician base when Rome rose to power eventually absorbing Tyre’s hegemony in the West while abandoning Tyre’s Eastern hegemony, opens up a chapter from a bygone era in History and His Story with the latter’s prophetic element. 

20/8/19, “Revolution through devolution”.  An interesting variation on the more common “evolution not revolution”.  The context for today’s comment was that Maori in New Zealand were angry with ‘Pakeha-oriented’ services used in a children’s agency run by the government to care for endangered children.  A Maori spokesman said the centralized agency needed to be devolved so that Maori could introduce their own cultural methods to protect Maori children from inadequate care or even violence.  The report added that Maori women were resorting to live in refuges for women endangered by males to hide their children from the Government’s children’s agency officials.  The claim came a day after the Minister for the country’s prisons announced new plans to turn around the high rate of Maori in New Zealand’s prisons.  Although constituting about 15-20 per cent of the population, 50% of inmates are Maori.  Commentators say this reflects a racist bias toward imprisoning Maori while letting other ethnic groups remain outside jail when or if they offend.

From our observations at the toilets, it is Maori who are the majority in offending offences like drinking alcohol or consuming drugs in prohibited public areas or grounds such as those surrounding the toilet block.  The Police say they are powerless to enforce the laws so those people are not even fined let alone jailed.    However, both problems simply illustrate yet again the difficulties falling on New Zealand because its people have abandoned God and His advice on how to raise families and live our lives in this fallen world beset by the long-term consequences of Adam’s disobedience there in Eden 6000 years ago.  New Zealand is especially at risk because the entire basis for signing the Treaty of Waitangi lay around the concept of a covenant over land in the Bible when God caused the Sun and Moon to stand still in the Sky to show that He intends to fulfill allHis Promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants concerning the real estate of Israel.  A similar arrangement was envisage by the true founding fathers of the Waitangi Treaty.  But both parties have now abandoned their respective beliefs in the One True God Who is the creator of all things and the author of the world’s salvation from the nonsense it is going thorugh which currently is worse than it has ever been since the days of Noah.

25/8/19, “The Amazon needs more than prayer”.  People need to stop having soy milk with their coffee (and even stop drinking that perhaps), stop eating beef burgers and stop buying hardwood furniture.  Reports of fires all over the Amazon Basin struck world news during the week.  Some said these fires were normal by products of land clearance and other matters.  Others said, as below, there is an effective “assault” on the basin’s riches with no care towards their sustainable use.  Brazil’s ecological cowboys who undoubtedly do some damage to the environment as they do elsewhere, are obviously part of the problem.  As the items show below there are several extreme statements emerging from this situation refer below).

25/8/19, “Evolutionary forces .. The balance of Nature”.  In this comment we see that some thinkers confuse ‘evolution’ with ‘equilibrium’ and ‘balance’.  There are no ‘evolutionary’ forces.  That as we clearly explain elsewhere.  Equilibrium or balance is found everywhere.  Equilibrium is quite fundamental to the way the world reacts and defends itself from catastrophes.  Such things can occur in the realms of economics (hyper-inflation or great depression), health (Ebola or mass influenza epidemics), or from asteroids and other extra terrestrial events as Velikovskians are well aware of.  Each genome has a store of DNA that enables it to adapt to changing environments.  God put that capacity in place because He foreknew Adam would fail to obey there in Eden so God planned a DNA-RNA system to help life forms cope or at least remain in existence.  Toward the end of the 6000 year Era of the Fall, some species have not quite lasted the distance.  Although that depends on one’s definition of a ‘species’.  As many as 22 were established by NZ’s Royal Commission into Genetic Engineering held in various centres throughout NZ about 20 years ago.  Some varieties or sub-species of penguin, rhino, dolphin etc., appear to be gone but there are still plenty of all those animals to be found in various localities.  The Evolutionists do not believe in God and they believe even less in His Son’s return to restore balance to ‘Nature’ as they put it.  But he is. 

25/8/19, “An assault on the Amazon”.  Two thirds of it lie within Brazil’s borders the other 33% in the nine other countries surrounding the basin [Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and the three Guinea’s (Surinam, Guyana and French Guyana).  However, the person making the comment acknowledged there are similar assaults on hardwood forests and similar ecosystems in Africa and Asia.

We do wonder what in the past has happened to the world’s forests since the Flood. To what extent did forests survive the Flood or are they the result of a new environment since the Flood.  Could forests survive ten months under water especially if it was mostly salt water.  Many plants do thrive under water so perhaps our forests are inheritances from the original plant system established in the first two chapters of Genesis and that they mostly survived the Flood.  Why many tropical forests have disappeared in places like the Sahara is unclear.  Many feel what man is doing in the Amazon basin is long term going to leave us with yet another Sahara.  It is possible the post Flood atmosphere was drained of too much carbon dioxide so that many forests died from malnutrition, in effect, then death leading to desert, grassland or scrub.  The Bible makes it clear that Man lost his dominion over the creation by in effect ceding it to Satan which is why there are so many nihilists out there getting whatever they can from the Earth’s resources no matter what the cost.  However, bad though that is, the forests may nevertheless be reeling from the devastating effects of things like the Flood and other disasters and not just from Man’s scourges.  Yet if there were less demand for the things these forests; or their removal and replacement with other agricultural systems; seem to provide, where no other resource can meet the demand, then it becomes the materialistic hunger of people who have to fill the spiritual void in their lives with possessions and consumption that also contributes to the demise of these environments.  During the Millennium, if not in its very early days, we will see thse things recover and we will be able to enjoy them during Christ’s reign on Earth in ways no one ever could after the Fall.  As Psalm 8:6 points out, “You make Him to rule over the works of your hands”, this being the One called the “Son of Man” in Psalm 8:4 and Hebrews 2:7.  Only when Jesus returns will the “assault” on the Amazon and other evil things be stopped.

25/8/19, “Who does the Amazon belong to”?  Brazilians, the “original people who lved there” i.e., “indigenous people there before the Brazilian state was established” or to the world community?   The need to build more sophisticated societies able to do the sort of science and commerce needed to make life better for everyone saw the rise of densely populated societies while only a small proportion of humanity ventured to the farthest mostly ends of the Earth to settle there in small and isolated groups.  Also, people generally like to work and live near others and a wider range of services.  The pioneer life was not something many people readily took to.  Those that did ended up settling vast tracts of the land mass that they never used or lived on.  They became, over time, the ancestors of the so called indigenous peoples of today.  Inevitably, the world’s population would catch up with these isolated groups and say that they could not claim ownership of all the land they had settled.  Unfortunately, in many cases, they were even denied rights to what land, or water, they did use.  Where the balance lies today is still a major debate with no one really knowing what the right answers are.      

25/8/19   “A Biblical apocalypse”.  Or how one commentator described events in the Amazon last week and this week so far.  Other ‘indigenous’ documents appear to hint at things like the Bible’s Apocalypse although in reality, only the Bible’s Apocalypse really can claim to be the one that actually is going to happen.   Instead of studying what the Bible actually says about things and about God’s Plan, Will or Testament of what is going to happen, these commentators simply draw some phrase whenever they like from the Bible.  What this suggests is that they know deep down they need to properly study their Bibles.  Instead they just scorn those of us who do.

25/8/19   “The Amazon has been dying for years”.  According to the Bible the whole Creation groans and travails (Romans 8:22).  As noted above, while man in his fallen state in effect destroys the planet and his habitat in his enslavement to Satan.  He has no care for our environment.  He only desires to rebuild what he once had when he ruled on Earth as God’s obedient angelic leader that he was until iniquity was found in him.  That was when he desired to be higher than God and in effect usurp God if that were possible.  Perhaps Satan only wanted to shut God out of the Universe originally prepared for the angels enjoyment.  With some of our science, in these last days, we can behold (understand) something of this paradise they once enjoyed until a certain proportion of them fell with Satan.  Man’s desecration of the globe as he slaves under Satan’s hand is not the only problem.  The world may also be suffering from a number of post-Flood environmental situations, including from the effects of later catastrophes, which in themselves were agents of God’s disciplining of man and agents of His in order to halt man’s progress in order to fulfill the 6000 year plan or timetable.  It is that aspect of the timetable to the plan that few people seem to understand.  Many might assume there is some sort of timetable and chronology but very few understand that in the Last Days that we now seem to be in an understanding of that timetable is now, and oinly now, becoming clear.  But we need to know the History as much as anything in order to be able to review and analyze where we have got to and to understand just how much longer the globe can withstand all this nonsense.  As with explaining the scientific data we gat,her, only an understanding of the Bible’s text can assist us in that process.
     
25/8/19, “An ecological catastrophe to the lungs of the planet”.  Or how one commentator described the Amazonian Basin fires of the last week or so.

7/9/19, AD 2030;  Year of Climate Change denouement and Algorithm Utopia.  One made up this headline from a couple of news headlines in today ‘s news programmes on TV or radio.  Formerly, we have noted that the character named Ross Geller on Friends, a US TV show, made the prediction that the Internet would be a mind of its own within about 30 years.    That statement can be dated to one of the latter episodes of the show in the late 1990's.   Also, we have sometimes noted AD 2030 is the 2000^th anniversary of the Church of the Christ.  So it will be quite a year. The point about ‘climate change denouement’ is that if by AD 2030 we have not come out on top of carbon emissions by then we will not be able to stop the Earth from plunging into terrible disaster.  In regard to algorithms, the commentator on a TV documentary said the whole world will be electronically identifiable by AD 2030.  It almost seems to us from these statements that the real masters of this world and where its resources are directed etc., lets call them the Illuminati-Adepts, are well on the way to achieving their plan.  But they must also be aware that God has determined 6000 years for mankind to see if he can master the world with his science, technology and general knowledge.  God’s prediction, assuming our interpretation of the Scriptures is accurate, is that mankind cannot therefore won’t solve his problems.  Furthermore, according to God’s predictions in the Bible, man will find himself coming under the control of Satan’s only begotten son . i.e., the Antichrist-666.

But the good news is that Jesus of Nazareth is returning at Israel’s call to introduce the Kingdom of God.  That will begin with a massive renovation of the damaged globe.  The pollution or environmental damage from the apocalypse on top of our pollution will need repair for the Messianic Millennial Kingdom.  We may be involved in programmes to bring that about in some aspects but Jesus’ Creative Divine power will be necessary to start the process.  Anyway, for now, such things are more in the realm of speculation.  But these prognostications about global warming, algorithms and the Internet for AD 2030 targets do suggest the masters of the world have some inkling of God’s plans and timing of His Programme while they attempt to control churches and keep them from teaching these things from their pulpits.  Instead we get platitudes and homilies telling us to put up with suffering, work hard toward social goals, be kind to one another and avoid getting into the meat of Biblical prophecy.  Instead we should be telling the world Jesus is coming to fix everything up except for those who do not believe in Him.  They get sent to another place

11/9/19, Resignation.  Yes, today one offered his resignation to his employer.  Freed from the shackles of the toilet block in central Wellington (CBD)  one hopes to achieve some more sublime outcomes rather than just keeping public loos clean, odourless, orderly and tidy (C.O.O.T).  Today is also the birthday, assuming our calculations have correctly identified him of Antichrist-666.

29/9/19, Wind turbines not producing proper electricity (energy).  This claim came today on the talk-back radio.  Giving some technical data on hertz and cycles, he explained that the energy the wind turbines pushing into the national grid is unusable yet we pay for it.  Apparently it is a bit like adding water to ice cream so that one appears to get a dosage of the same volume but there is less cream and more ice.  The power from wind is variable.  No two turbines are generating at the same cycle.  Furthermore, much of the energy is transferred into electromagnetic radiation that goes direct to earth through the turbines’ metallic structure and then kills all life around it.  On the oceans, these wind turbines do the same thing killing crustaceans and other marine life that remains affixed to the sea-bed where the turbines reside.   

29/9/19, Vultures and sharks.  A thought today while listening to the talk-back radio  station.  They cover various controversial issues but never get to the heart of the problem or solution because they steadfastly suppress anyone trying to insert a Biblical perspective into their debates and discussions.  Nevertheless, they often do circle around very important conclusions but never get in on the kill, so to speak, because they are ignoring God’s Word on the matter at hand.  Therefore, they are like vultures circling a body below which looks like it is dead or dying but may in fact simply be taking an afternoon nap and should not be disturbed.  The vultures are too scared to go near unless the thing is dead and they can feast on its carcase.  The “body” has become a “carcase”.  A body does not imply death all the time.  For example in the question, “Is any body home?”.  They are also like sharks encircling an underwater beast but they do not smell any blood.  It may be dying but they are not sure.  They suspect something.  Nevertheless they may wait.  Then, if the beast is mortally ill, perhaps a blood vessel does burst.  Suddenly the sharks smell the blood and are swiftly in for the feast often fighting off each other to get the prize and perhaps in that process shed one another’s blood and possibly just inflame the situation into a massacre of some of the sharks on each other.  

29/9/19, First day of retirement.  Not really, because one is now on the “penultimate Crusade” (refer separate document).  Events are becoming so critical that it becomes vital for one to be relieved of the daily demands of the employer and clients and to live on the pension one receives.  This in order that one can pursue the overall project in the “Penultimate Crusade” to explain how and why key events are pointing to the last period of world trauma before the rise of the antichrist and then the second coming of the true Christ Who comes to rescue the world from the mess man has made of it.  “Jesus of Nazareth”, i.e., “The Nazarene”, “Messiah of Israel”, the “Son of David”, “Son of Man” and “Son of God” is the only One who can save us from everything.   One’s pension can be supplemented by savings which one calculation suggests will last one until one is 98 on the basis of current cost structures and zero inflation and what one draws from savings each week.  There may even perhaps be some deflation which might mean the purchasing power of one’s savings will increase over the years.

30/9/19, “Apocalypse heretics not climate change deniers”.  How one talk-back host suggested we should describe opponents of the people who are promulgating the myth that  global warming is going to destroy the world by AD 2030. “Apocalypse sceptics” was another term a listener suggested one could or should use for climate change deniers.  

30/9/19, “Disbelievers in Doomsday narratives are climate change deniers”.  One’s apologies to the journalist one is quoting here.  Our policy is to avoid names in these pages unless absolutely necessary to the narrative.  Also, she actually said, “Many young people are saying ‘those who do not believe in doomsday narratives are climate change deniers’ ”.  To shorten the statement a bit one re-worked it as above.  In our Penultimate Crusade we are using a catch-cry in a Good News/Bad News format.  We say, “the Good News is that the Kingdom of God is nigh; the Bad News is the end of the World isn’t”.  It’s bad news for those trying to usurp the world’s systems to create an hysteria about a non-existent threat but which also effectively suppresses concern we need to have about many other problems around and about.  The latest list one has constructed is as follows:

Money laundering;
International banking, (world) currency and trade issues;
Tax rules for large international conglomerates;
A living wage as work is robotised;
Copyright theft and Property Right breaches;
Nuclear technology issues;
Monitoring "looming antibiotic apocalypse" (c.f., 19/5/16, 28/4/17);
International Terrorism;
Bringing war- and genocide-criminals to international justice;
Repatriation of criminals to their 'home' country (Refer item 16/7/18); 
Planning for or adapting to Global Warming Impacts;
Poaching and trafficking of rare animals and their by-products;
Traficking of E-waste hazardous substances
Monitoring International fish stocks;
Trafficking of illicit halucengenic drugs and Drug Cheats in Sport;
Internet becoming its own mind by AD 2030:
Controlling Internet hackers and cyber-crime;
Inter-governmental cyber warfare issues (Refer item 17/7/18);
Weaponized social media and Internet (Refer item 25/3/19);
Governments too small or weak to cope with technology advances (Refer item 2/1/19);
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) evading porn-site firewall-blocks
Science unethical and untheological; Theology unscientific;
Plastics (and other rubbish) in the Oceans & food chain therein;
Cross border conflicts and human rights breaches; and
Protecting name-suppression orders (c.f., 17/12/18).

However, without a World Government or subsequent Ten Nation Government System as foreshadowed in the Binle, we doubt any of these issues can be effectively dealt with.  We do not want such a regime to come about or advocate in favour of it.  We simple say this is what Adam’s folly in Eden has fibnally brought us to.  He would not have understood all the implications of his disobedience but we do.

30/9/19, “A one minute history of New Zealand”.  On 19/7/19 in “NZ dendrochronologist dates trees to circa 2488 BC” (refer below), one reported on some interesting news about NZ’s geological history.  A few weeks later a radio talk-back host challenged listeners to ring in their one minute history of NZ. That was in the wake of a controversial decision to introduce compulsory history classes in all NZ schools.  The day ensued with all the pros and cons of such a strategy.  Here is one’s attempt at the task: “According to Auckland University, in 2500 BC NZ emerged from the Pacific floor in a catastrophe.  From 1000 BC, Phoenician shipping services Middle Easterners brought flightless birds, rats and mice here.  But tectonic disturbances in the wake of the catastrophe made human domicile in the “Shaky Isles” uninvitingly precarious.  From AD 1000-1500 subsiding tectonics and Chinese hegemony over the Pacific facilitated much ‘Polynesian’ settlement here.  As China declined from AD 1500, European settlement took over.  By AD 2000, European technology had helped NZ to become a world leader in dairying, electronics and Rugby Union”. 

4/11/19, Air-pocalypse in New Dehli, India.  Citizens in the Asian country’s capital city are suffering intense smog which reportedly is the equivalent of smoking 50 cigarettes a day.  Many are reporting to doctors with typical breathing problems.  The Government has banned even numbered car registration plates from occupying the roads until the smog clears.  Even in this predominantly Hindu-Muslim nation, the Bible’s last book The Apocalypse-Revelation.  Even though the rest of the world uses variations of apocalypse and Armageddon in the many ways we have been reporting, the world’s churches remain silent. 

14/11/19, "Severe flooding in Venice described as apocalyptic".  A television news item also reported on a radio news broadcast.  The items emphasized the issue of climate change being to blam.  Apparently, waters reached their highest point for fifty years and forced people out of their first floor apartments.  An unfinished  seven billion euro flood protection system not working yet was thopught to be unlikely to satisfactorily defend Venice from similar such floods now expected on a regular basis.  Venice is going to be in trouble with its situation with or without Global Warming.  The original idea for a city on stilts as it were goes back to the settlements in Eilat on the Red Sea at the southern tip of the Negev desert at the southernmost point of modern Israel.  Building towns or cities on swamps or sub sea-level places such as The Netherlands (Holland) may have been an attempt to establish a new settlement from the sea rather than having to negotiate with other tribes that had earlier moved into some area.  In Eilat it may have been to escape the heat.

15/11/19, “Join the Evolution today”.  A catch-line for a television advertisement of a household robot device.  It is just another way of drumming into the populace the idea that everything comes into being via Evolution.  As we know the Theory of Evolution is now only an idea and not a very good one at that with all the scientific data coming into us in these Last days of Daniel 12:4 & 9.

3/12/19, Phoenix becomes Lebanese symbol opposing sectarian politics.  This was reported today on an international television news service monitoring Lebanon’s recent political crisis.  The main issue seems to be secularists and others becoming disenchanted with moribund sectarian unity government which seems to be almost unable to agree on any policy necessary to make the country work properly.  Extreme Shiite Muslim Hizbollah, Sunni Muslims and Maronites (a type of Roman Catholicism) currently govern Lebanon admittedly having to cope with over a million Syrian refugees and an Iranian government interference in the country’s affairs via Hizbollah which uses Lebanon as a base to attack Israel.   The Phoenix or Phoenicia is of course the ancient symbol not so much of the mythical bird arising out of the ashes but reminding the world that before the Roman Empire the Phoenician league of merchant cities of Tyre, Sidon and Gebal-Byblos once ruled the seas of the western Hemisphere (Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean- or Medi-Tyrian Sea and the Atlantic East of the Azores) from the base on the Puntite base or the Bridge Land between Africa and Eurasia.  Many Lebanese see themselves as being Phoenicians and not Arabs although Arabic is their main language.  They are proud of their pre-Roman heritage and revere their flag of the Cedar Tree an important symbol of their trade those trees’ lumber represented.  Their lumber was an important export to Egypt for house cladding and construction.  The oil or sap of the cedars being the main ingredient of ancient Egyptians’ embalming oil.  Cedar wood was used in the construction of Solomon’s Temple in circa 950 BC. 

7/12/19, Leviathan raises its ugly head again in the Mediterranean.  Even though it is an under-sea gas field off the coast of modern day Israel.  Named after the monster or identity of Job 41:1, Psalm 74:14, 104:26 and Isaiah 27:1, this fact emerged to this observer from a news item about a joint announcement from Ankara and Tripoli today.  The almost non-existent supposedly Libyan Government signed an agreement with Turkey to set a strip of the Mediterranean as a corridor between Libya and Turkey across the Mediterranean.  It is a declaration of Turkish and Libyan control of a portion of the Mediterranean presumably under the Law of the Sea Conference.  It’s a strip of sea probably about 2-300 miles in width from just east of the region of Rhodes (Greece) diagonally right past the eastern end of Crete (Greek) and down to the middle of the Gulf of Sirte (Libya and formerly the Gulf of Etris or etirus or ancient Tyre-Tyrus).  Of course all this was once the hegemony of the ancient Kingdom of Tyre (the Dorians) along with its fellow Levantine confederate cities such as Sidon (subsequently the mother city of the Macedonians), Gebal-Byblos and probably places like Ugarit.  Named by the ancient Egyptians as the colonies of “Punt” or Pun-icea (Phoenicia, the Phoenix-ia) these are places which will probably eventually contribute to the invasion of Israel in the prophecy of Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.

The agreement is with a hopelessly disorganised rabble in Libya.  The UN- and EU-backed government in Tripoli (the Polis of Tyre) is in a civil war with Mr General Khalifa Haftah’s rabble controlling Libya around Benghazi on the opposite side of the Gulf of Sirte from Tripoli on its Western shore.  Many countries ranging from the UAE, Egypt, Russian mercenaries, Chad, Sudan, Italy and France are interfering in that civil war.  Within the EU, France and Italy are at loggerheads as they each support one of the opposing civil warring parties.  At times in the past, Libya was an Italian colony (for four centuries under Rome of course) while France held Algeria and Tunisia and Britain controlled Egypt.  So this maritime agreement between Libya-Tripoli and Turkey-Ankara means Turkey will have to give more significant military support to Tripoli against Mr General Khalifa Haftah’s  crowd.  In return, Turkey is looking to Libya, whatever that really means, for legal assistance in Turkey’s bid to gain access and tights to explore for oil and gas in the Eastern Mediterranean.  Turkey also fears agreements between the many other countries bordering the Eastern Mediterranean are likely to carve up the sea’s resources amongst themselves leaving the Turks out in the cold.  On the other hand, most countries in the region fear a revival of the Ottoman Empire and its hope of setting up the Moslem Caliphate once again.

Why Israel decided to name its gas field “Leviathan” thus seems to be very odd unless it portends future ruction in that part of the world as the monsters under the sea turn out to be oil or explosive gas fields. Thus, now Leviathan is not some sort of beast like a dinosaur.  Nor is it, as Dr Velikovsky surmised, the Planet-Comet Venus with its massive tail that was observable by mankind between circa 1500-500 BC, for example as a fiery dragon by ancient China, but is now reduced to a relatively invisible ion stream observable only by satellites monitoring the Sun’s ion streams that affect the Earth.  Some think it is those ion and particle waves that may have something to do with Global Warming.  Our view is that any effect from them and possibly related sunspots is minimal compared to the after-effects of the catastrophes that Dr Velikovsky says were caused by the rogue inner planets (Mercury, Mars and Venus).  The Bible declares God created and used bodies in the solar system or galaxy for His Plan (Jeremiah 10:2, 44:18, Acts 14:12, 19:35).

11/12/19, “Mother Nature has spoken”.  And the Beatles sang Mother Nature’s Son.  But God will speak soon with a much louder voice if he is not already doing so quietly would be our response.  The headline came from a NZ commentator referring to the adventure tourism debacle on White Island Volcano in New Zealand.  The volcano suddenly exploded emitting masses of dangerous gases such as Hydrogen Sulphide and Sulfuric Acid etc, plus lot of boiling hot steam and rocky missiles travelling near the speed of sound.   The little volcano lies just off the ‘Bay of Plenty’ on NZ’s coast that stretches from the top of the North Island, down and stretching across eastwards, to ‘Young Nick’s Head’ the promontory Captain Cook’s scout saw from the mast of the ship they were sailing in NZ waters in the late 18^th Century.  The Bay is the main part of the Pacific Ocean in that expanse.  It’s a more unstable part of the Shaky Isles (“Aoteoroa-NZ”, supposedly “Land of the long peaceful white cloud”, probably violent tectonically generated steam but no matter).

Years ago, not far from the mainland directly opposite White Island,  an earthquake split a major dairy factory into two (at Edgecumbe).  To the south, not far away, inhabitants in the water system of Lake Rotorua live every day in one of the three main ‘thermal’ regions of the world.  The other two are Iceland and Yellowstone Park in the USA.  However, Rotorua has a much larger population of humans, and their associated  economy and infrastructure, than those two relative wildernesses.  We have since heard the people in Rotorua have on a few occasions been asphyxiated and caught in similar tectonic upsets on a much more minor scale but they rarely hit the News.  In this White Island tragedy, all the victims were foreigners, a couple of local guides aside.  The main group being Australians some no doubt escaping for a few days forest and bush fires raging across the Tasman ditch.  As in NZ, many there say these troubles are the result of mankind using carbon in coal and oil.  The Bible says today’s global warming is part of a long process that has been developing ever since the Flood of 2500 BC (refer discussion in 30/9/19, “A one minute history of New Zealand”).  These are now the “The Days of Noah” which we explain elsewhere in these pages.

13/12/19, “A final battle for the capital (capitol)”.  In this case Tripoli in Libya.  Otherwise known as the “Polis of Tyre”, the city in north-west Libya is one of the earliest of the Mediterranean bases the Tyrian Phoenicians established with their Levantine maritime-city neighbours of Gebal-Byblos and Sidon in the early first millennium BC (circa 900 BC).  The words came from a General Khalifa Haftah who is an eastern Libyan warlord backed by Egypt, certain other Arab states and even Russian mercenaries and some EU countries.  He is attacking the city with an army of sorts.  The Government in Tripoli, General Khalifa Haftah supposedly running a rival or alternative regime in Benghazi on the Eastern side of the Gulf of Sirte (etyrus), is officially supported by the UN and EU.  However, the many countries thus represented by those two bodies are failing to give the Tripoli Government the support it really needs.  The weapons of  General Khalifa Haftah’s army speake louder than the words of the UN and EU and others.  Of course Libya’s South, quite a different people from those on the coastal strip stretching between Tunisia and Algeria in the West and Egypt in the East, gets little or no voice in all this unless its men are backing Haftah.

Another source, the television station reporting this statement from, said it may simply be a rallying call like others before it because many who would be keen to support General Khalifa Haftah are not presently doing so for various reasons such as fence-sitting or hedge-betting.  Our interest in all this, coming on the same day as other interesting events (see rest of this item), funnily enough is on a “Black Friday” NZ time or twelve hours ahead of Europe and North Africa.  Thus, to the north of the EU that other ancient base of the Maritime alliance of the ancient Levantines, i.e., the British Isles, appears to be set for a rapid departure from the EU.  A very clear break from Rome (or “Treaty of Lisbon” as the EU now is) seems to be on the cards as we suggest was always envisaged in the prophecies concerning Tarshish in Ezekiel 38:1 to 39:16.  
Brexiteers seem to have worn out their political rivals in a stunning election result in a General Election there.  “The greates democracy in the world” according to the likely winner Mr Boris Johnson’s Conservative and Union Party.  Libya and countries to the East seem to be set up under the designation “Put” in Ezekiel.  “Put” or “Punt” is the ancient Phoenician (Pun-icean) hegemony (mainly port-city states) of ancient times that is now split between the pro-Israel Indo-British wings now often pitted against the anti-Semitic Muslim middle (Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Mediterranean-Turkey (not ‘Asia Minor’s hinterland and shores on the Black Sea).  Ezekiel’s “Put” is one group  of the many nations who will line up to invade Israel (Ezekiel 38:1-6).  Thus they will be severely punished before long leaving their present troubles look like a Caribbean cruise in comparison.

The simile of an ocean cruise liner (ship) brings us to the farthest reach of modern Tarshish (ish = men, ‘tar’ = Tyre) the daughter group of nations that succeeded the former under ancient Tyre.  One uses that simile because such a cruise under the ‘Caribbean Line’ sent some 47 people onto a volcanic islet about 50 kilometers off the coast of the Bay of Plenty in the North Island on an adventure tourism excursion.  But they all got badly burned when the volcano unexpectedly exploded all around them.  Some got off lightly singed but most are now in hospital, most struggling to survive under a welter of terrible burns and severe lung damage from inhalation of toxic gases.  So it’s all go at the extremes of Tarshish while in its former centre (e.g., in Libya) ditto.  Across the Atlantic ditch, the US is formally moving to impeach its president as that country also descends into great division much as the prophecy of Ezekiel says will be typical of the armies invading Israel - Outwardly united, inwardly divided.  Jesus used a Hebrew idiom, “nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom’, usually grossly misunderstood and misinterpreted by Gentile theologians, to describe these dichotomies.  Even families seem to be divided by Brexit (UK) or its President (US).  Much the same division can be found down under in NZ where a government is paralyzed by having to cobble together three parties of widely deferring philosophies while the biggest single party single-handedly runs the opposition in Parliament and is almost as big as the governing coalition straddling three political parties different from each other as chalk is from cheese.  Perhaps the British electorate, aware of the NZ Government’s inability to act, has itself decided today to thoroughly back one political party in Westminster simply to get some resolution to some pressing issues, or at least one (Brexit) rather than having to suffer report after report or working group after working group and have nothing done as politicians continue to disagree.  To be fair to the politicians, the world has ignored God’s warning to mankind not to play around with the tree s of knowledge we are meddling with.  Things just get too complex for our governance systems to manage.  And so they are mismanaged perhaps no better exemplified than by Isaiah’s prophecy recorded circa 720 BC, “The Earth lies polluted under its inhabitants thereof” (Isaiah 24:5).

14/12/19, “China a country of 50 different ethnic tribes”.  This is where the communist giant may run into problems.  The principle of maintaining peace and stability at any cost including slaughtering protesters in the nation’s capital city square for all the world to see has to be paid for by giving te people an ever rising standard of living.  This idea goes to the principle that the ruler of China does so with the blessing of “Heaven”, the “Divine Right of Kings” of the ancient Jews, Egyptians and more recently the Europeans, as long as he does inded deliver.  If not, the populace is entitled to overthrow him.  Apparently, that latter part of the principle does not apply to the secular, evolutionist and materialist Chinese communists.  When groups like the Muslim Ouigres of North West China, the Tibetan Buddhist and the Turkik Muslims want to retain their culture, religions, philosophies or national identity, Beijing seems to take a dim view of such things and prefers “strict order”.  That situation may well give rise to future disruptions to the peaceful and stable order so that China once again will plunge into decentralized governance which more often than not means anarchy.   

14/12/19, “China hides its world order ambitions”.  After Tienneman, Deng Shiao Ping set China on a course to quietly import foreign technology, or perhaps steal it if President Trump is correct, and build up China as a major economic power.  He was assisted by the desire of many countries to expand their exports and re-establish relations with the rest of the world.  So the students, their sacrifice, and the reforms they desired were quietly forgotten perhaps until the Hong Kong riots of the last few months.  But China’s plan, hiding its brightness, was to move into a position of once again becoming a world power as China has been many times before since 1000 BC.  Back then, China’s ships came up against ancient Tyre’s and the two navies squabbled over trade and exploration rights.  King Solomon of Israel was called upon by the Chinese Emperor and King Hiram of Tyre to settle the matter.  Solomon did that by setting a line of longitude that currently separates the Australian states from each other in that continent;s east and bisects Papua New Guinea.  In those days, China’s hegemony included the American continent.  However, we doubt China wants to retake control of all those nations today.  Their trade prowess, however, may well give China much influence including in the Americas.  However, their main aspirations seem to be concentrating on the Afro-Eurasian land mass.   Just how far does China want to go and what are its limitations? 

14/12/19, “Hide brightness; nourish obscurity”.  This would sem to be a nice pithy saying almost reminiscent of some exhortations in the Bible.  The point was translated from Mandarin, written by Confucius circa 500 BC, and mentioned in a three-way discussion in a tv programme named the Big Picture which looks at some issues from a wider perspective.  In this case Confucius’ words were applied to China’s rise to power and influence in these days and comparing the current situation in China with a 3000 year history.  Of particular note to us is that utter ignorance the participants had of His Story.  That is not a criticism since everyone else waffles on without God’s perspective these days.  That is why the world is now so lost.  The programme noted, however, that Mr Deng Shiao Ping, the leader who took over China after Messrs Mao Tse Dung and Chou En Lai passed away.  All three were veterans of the Long March whereby the Communists beat a retreat to escape their enemies before the Communists took control of China after WWII.

After the political disaster where the Government army used tanks to mow down students, who were protesting against government corruption, in Tienneman Square in 1989, Deng Shiao Ping suggested they follow this advice from Confucius and hope the World’s horror at the slaughter would one day die down.

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