Because, the truth is stranger than fiction.

"The Truth is stranger than fiction." Prophecy is the forthtelling of God's Word. Whether it’s the prevalence of Israel, Babylon, the non-mention of the United States in the End of the Age Days, ‘wars and rumors of wars’, exploitation of pharmaceuticals by mega-corp’s [globalists], human-trafficking, beheadings, the tracking of everyone and everything that “no one might buy or sell unless they have the mark”, the Last Days read like the news and geopolitical strategy of every State, as if lifted from the pages of Scripture. “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,” (Isa 46:10). What characterizes the Last Days, End Times? Deception. "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come...", "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” “For thy merchants [corporations] were the great men of the earth [globalists]; for by thy sorceries [pharmakeia = drug use] were all nations deceived. (2Ti 3:1-13; Rev 18:23) Knowing the End from the Beginning makes me an Optimist. Daily life makes me a Realist. Question Everything. Read voraciously. “The past is prologue.” And, since history repeats, apply practical principles to prepare for what lies ahead. Thomas Jefferson warned of the disastrous policy of centralized private banking (Federal Reserve), Eisenhower warned us of the subsequent “military-industrial complex”, JFK exposed their "sphere of influence", and men like Dietrich Bonheoffer (Op. Valkyrie) laid down their lives, “that others might live”. To avoid the impending Econopocalypse, we must realize “the answer to 1984 is 1776.” “Without a revolution, Americans are history.” Without Revelation there will be no Revolution.


"If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" (Jhn 3:12)

"The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spirtually discerned." "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." (1Cr 2:14) (Jhn 3:6-7)

Seeking to understand dark sayings, mysteries, and mis-stories.
Reading news of the weird and connecting the apparently unconnected.

Logos. Symbols. Enigmas. Riddles. Encrypted. Inscribed.
Words. Pictures. Sayings. Rhymes. Decrypted. Explained.

As was before, so it is, and will be.......until.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Ben Rich (Lockheed - Skunk Works: Ben Rich) - 'We Can Travel Among The Stars':

“… Now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do”:

Gen 11:6   And the LORD 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.
NKJV - now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
NLT - "Nothing will be impossible for them!
NIV - "Then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
ESV - "And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
WEB - "And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
HNV - "Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Jesus said, “If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly things?” (Jhn 3:12)

Ben Rich (Lockheed - Skunk Works: Ben Rich) - 'We Can Travel Among The Stars':
"We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity...Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do."

To end run FOIA requests on UFO’s, private corp’s now possess data:
“Testimonial evidence exists that corporations have become the ultimate repository of the nation’s UFO secrets. A number of whistleblowers have emerged revealing how corporate control has been achieved. A recently deceased corporate whistleblower revealed how during the mid-1980s, he worked for six months as an archivist for a large aerospace defense contractor based in California.  It was a temporary assignment with his employer at an obscure office building. The archivist found many files dealing with flying saucers and extraterrestrial life. The files contained: “Reports, photos, media materials (tapes, films, video cassettes) and material from crashed saucers.” When asked where the files came from he revealed the “materials came from everywhere. CIA, Air Force, Navy, Army, DARPA, NORAD, DoD, FBI, and government officials to name most.”
If the archivist’s testimony is accurate, this means that prior to the mid-1980s UFO files were taken out of the possession of U.S. government agencies and military departments due to security concerns. One reason for this is that the proprietary rights of corporations would enable UFO files to remain hidden from the prying hands of congressmen, and private citizens using the Freedom of Information Act first passed in 1966 and strengthened in 1974.

"The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun."  (Ecc 1:9)

Sounds like ‘Fringe’ to me.

CERN.

Stargate.

The six fingered ones of Genesis 6:

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Implant humans with computer chips, like horses

(Rev 13:16-17)   And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  And that no man might buy or sell, [...]
http://forthtell.blogspot.com/2010/09/god-hates-you-hate-him-back-making.html

The King of Saudi Arabia advised Obama to "implant computer chips in Guantanamo" detainees, "like horses."
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/28/us-foreign-policy-ge.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/198178

Complaining about information overload in the time of Ecclesiastes - Cory Doctorow at 12:59 PM Sun

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/28/complaining-about-in.html :

We've been talking about information overload for a long time -- the Gutenberg era was characterized by a panic over all the damned books all over the place, but even Ecclesiastes is worried about infoglut:
"Complaints about information overload, usually couched in terms of the overabundance of books, have a long history -- reaching back to Ecclesiastes 12:12 ("of making books there is no end," probably from the 4th or 3d century BC). The ancient moralist Seneca complained that "the abundance of books is distraction" in the 1st century AD, and there have been other info-booms from time to time -- the building of the Library of Alexandria in the 3d century BC, or the development of newspapers starting in the 18th century.
But what happened in the Renaissance was, like digital technology in our own time, transformative. It took overload to an entirely new order of magnitude. Up to this point, every existing book had been copied by hand -- a task that could easily take one copyist a year or more. Books were expensive commodities, most often produced on commission and paid for in advance. The great medieval libraries accumulated manuscripts by the hundreds, but few people ever had access to that many books.
The printing press changed that. First developed around 1453, the new technology invented by Gutenberg had moved beyond the experimental phase by 1480 and spread to some two dozen major urban centers, with many other short-lived presses in operation. Contemporaries at first raved about the great speed with which books could be printed, and also about the drop in price -- by 80 percent on one contemporary's estimate in 1468."
Information overload, the early years (via Making Light)
(Image: Engraving of printer using the early Gutenberg letter press during the 15th century, Wikimedia Commons)
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/28/complaining-about-in.html

Thursday, September 16, 2010

War is Peace - Orwell (1984) (Green Peace - Angry Kid - YouTube)

"By peace he shall destroy" ...

(Rev 6:8)   And I looked, and behold a [Green] horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

(Rev 6:20)   And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

Dan 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

Green Peace - Angry Kid:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GreenpeaceVideo#p/search/0/BY7875_rv1s

(Mar 13:12)   Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

FT: Computers set for quantum leap By Clive Cookson in Birmingham (September 16, 2010)

(Dan 12:4)   But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 

FT: Computers set for quantum leap By Clive Cookson in Birmingham (September 16, 2010)
A new photonic chip that works on light rather than electricity has been built by an international research team, paving the way for the production of ultra-fast quantum computers with capabilities far beyond today’s devices.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8c0a68b0-c1bc-11df-9d90-00144feab49a.html

CNN: Lure of better life leads to sex slavery

(Rev 18:11;13)   And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her [Babylon]; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:  [...] And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 

CNN: Lure of better life leads to sex slavery
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/16/human.trafficking.claudia/index.html?hpt=C1

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Lord Bertrand Russell and "The Powerful Minority" (God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible [Or Non-sense if you are willingly ignorant] by CJ Werlemen) - Part 3

"Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?" Bertrand Russell (London, 1927)  As quoted in Werlemen's book, setting the tone for his opening diatribe on the book of Genesis.

Does this mean, if Werlemen were God, he would have created robots?
How can you miss the point, that life is about forgiveness, reconciliation, and a future.
Life is a test, to see how we handle free will.
To see if we will walk after your own lusts, eat, drink, for tomorrow we die. (2Pe 3:3; Luk 12:19)
Or if we will lay down our life, moment by moment, day by day, that others might live. (Jhn 15:13; Jhn 10:11)

If you read enough quotes from the elite, several disturbing trends start to emerge.
Here are a couple more quotes from Russell.

“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing... War... has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full... The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's... There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority...”
- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

"Except for a powerful minority..."?  Here is what that that powerful minority, the elite, have in store for you and I ...

"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. . . . The Nazis were more scientific than the present rulers of Russia. . . . If they had survived, they would probably have soon taken to scientific breeding. Any nation which adopts this practice will, within a generation, secure great military advantages. The system, one may surmise, will be something like this: except possibly in the governing aristocracy, all but 5 per cent of males and 30 per cent of females will be sterilized. The 30 per cent of females will be expected to spend the years from eighteen to forty in reproduction, in order to secure adequate cannon fodder. As a rule, artificial insemination will be preferred to the natural method. . . . Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton." 
- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

You see, once you put the State in charge (ruled by a powerful minority), and you've removed God (from which all our rights derive), that powerful minority can dictate to us what rights we are entitled to.  (Democracy, the classic divide and conquer tool, as is oft said,  is “like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”   In the U.S.,  we were given a Republic, not a Democracy, big difference.  The rule of law versus the rule of the majority.)  And of course the elite know how to divide and conquer us, the masses.

That powerful elite didn't just include the Russells.
(If you haven’t heard or read Alan Watt, you haven’t got a clue about history.  Remember, “history is bunk”, said Orwell.

"back to Charles Galton Darwin, he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves. He said because we must retain our abilities for self-preservation but the masses will not need it anymore because the state will be making all their decisions for them."
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.net/transcripts/Stan_Monteith_Interview_with_Alan_Watt.html

How can we reconcile such a remark, by the grandson of Charles Darwin, and what Darwin himself said about slavery?  How odd that Darwin is purported to be the source for the abolition of slavery of mankind (as some contend).  And yet his grandson, makes it clear, the State (ruled a powerful minority) is to dictate to us what our rights are.   Are we not still enslaved?

“Just to get back to Galton Darwin for a minute, talking about slavery, when he said that "the world has always had slavery in one form or another." He said, "we are simply in the process" (this is in the 1950's) "we are simply in the process of creating a more sophisticated form of slavery."  What he meant by that is a system where you'll be truly, truly in belief that you are free. In fact, you'll think you've never been so free; and look at it today, when 60 percent of people's incomes through various taxations, direct and indirect, is taken right back out of their pocket again. Taxation is a form of slavery when your labor is taxed. That's the law. That's the law you see. It's always been the law. It was always common law too, long before they put it in books, and yet the people do it as though it's all quite natural because their parents did it too.
[...]

Here's [another] statement before I finish with Charles Galton Darwin. Again, a guy who belonged to the Futurist Society, the Royal Institute of International Affairs and all the big boys who run the world and run the real government. On page 189, he's talking about slavery existing down through society and down through time:

"One of the triumphs of our own golden age has been that slavery has been abolished over a great part of the earth. It is difficult to see how this condition can be maintained in the hard world of the future with its starving margins, and it is too be feared that all too often a fraction of humanity will have to live in a state which, whatever it may be called, will be indistinguishable from slavery."
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_86_Dabbling_Darwin_and_the_Old_Boys_New_World_Order_Mar102008.html

What exactly did Galton Darwin mean when he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves.”  Alter how?  What form?

"Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally." - Francis Galton, first cousin and associate of Charles Darwin, circa 1883

"What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction." - Sir Francis Galton (1905)
And so, it is not hard to believe, the Darwins took “advantage” of their “superior” knowledge.

In Darwin Family, Evidence of Inbreeding’s Ill Effects By Nicholas Wade (Published: May 3, 2010)
Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, may have been right to worry that his children’s health had been affected by the inbreeding in his own family, especially that of his wife, Emma Wedgwood, who was his first cousin. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/science/04darwin.html

It is amazing to realize, number one, there is an elite class to this day.  This elite class gave us a theory on our origin that lays the framework for taking away of our natural, inherent, rights, which are endowed by our Creator.  It is a irrefutable fact that there is an elite class.  History is replete with examples of the elite dominating and exploiting the masses.  And number two, to what extent is our world currently impacted by the elite?

"When you go back to the writings of Charles Galton Darwin, quite a big character up there with eugenics, he was also a physicist in the 1940's and '50's and he wrote "The Next Million Years."  In that book it's almost a question-answer type of scenario, almost on the style of Plato where he had these dialogues with real or imaginary people, but it's a way to get their information out to their own friends.  Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of Charles Darwin, you'll find it's interesting because their purpose is hereditary. It's so closely inbred that the bankers will turn out bankers who will stay bankers and the guys into eugenics and so on will stay in the same field for generations. They're almost like clones of their parents they're so inbred and it's the closest thing there are to clones when you have three, four, five, six, generations of inbreeding between two families.
[...]
but Galton Darwin himself understands this. He knows his history and he has access or had access to archives, as all the big ones do. Archives that are kept closed to the public where the real histories and complete histories are kept.
Some professors admit to this, that they – maybe one in 60 or one in 80 – are eventually given access to certain archives and even then they have to be very careful what they're allowed to tell the public.  People should read Charles Galton Darwin's "The Next Million Years," a fantastic read because everything he talked about then wasn't coming from his own mind. He'd been at many, many global meetings in his day with the elite, his own class, where all of this was discussed.
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_86_Dabbling_Darwin_and_the_Old_Boys_New_World_Order_Mar102008.html

Again I ask, what exactly did Galton Darwin mean when he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves.”  Fast forward, or back to the future, you might say, and look what the futurists are discussing?
Why the future doesn’t need us by Bill Joy, cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, notes, “our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.  […]
Ray [Kurweil] gave me a partial preprint of his then-forthcoming book The Age of Spiritual Machines, which outlined a utopia he foresaw - one in which humans gained near immortality by becoming one with robotic technology. On reading it, my sense of unease only intensified; I felt sure he had to be understating the dangers, understating the probability of a bad outcome along this path.
I found myself most troubled by a passage detailing a dystopian scenario:  [...]
On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car or his personal computer, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite - just as it is today, but with two differences. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consists of soft-hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race.
[continued …]
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

And this isn’t fringe science.

Financial Times: Google and NASA back new school for futurists [Singularity U – Ray Kurzweil]:
Google and NASA are throwing their weight behind a new school for  futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become cleverer than people.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b162dfc-f168-11dd-8790-0000779fd2ac.html

Truth is so much stranger than fiction.

Again, I ask CJ, what would he have created?  Robots?

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible [Or Non-sense if you are willingly ignorant] by CJ Werlemen - Part 2

(Jesus Lied. He Was Only Human - Debunking of the Christian myth. (by CJ Werlemen) is not yet available for purchase, nor is there a sample chapter available.  So, in the mean time, I will methodically plod through and expose Werlemen's "mindless" review of Scripture. This is the second in a series of blog posts labeled under the tag "Scoffers".)

(2Pe 1:19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy;

(Isa 46:9-10)   Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning ....

(Isa 28:13) But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

How does God authenticate His Word?  By writing history in advance, or forthtelling the coming of persons, times, or events.  This observation was covered earlier (see 'About' tag on blog).  "Declaring the End from the Beginning."  Setting aside the myriad of prophetic passages that have detailed persons, times, or events, that have transpired.  Let us review our current technologically advanced society.

(Rev 13:16-17)   And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  And that no man might buy or sell, [...]
Moore's Law is catapulting humankind into the future.  On the horizon, is an event called the Singularity.  We are on the verge of a technological conversion, a change so rapid, so invasive, man and machine will merge.  As fiat digital currency becomes the norm, as the cashless society emerges, it doesn't take much imagination to see how, "no man might buy or sell" unless they "receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead"  Take note of the specific detail, "all", read that everyone, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond".  If you haven't noticed, a smart grid, an inter-connected system for control, is readily being set up.  The global police state is being set up before our very eyes.


'Little Buddy' GPS device keeps tabs on your kid... ^
From the October 27, 2009 13:15:21 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

UPDATE: School to put GPS devices in students' backpacks... ^
From the August 31, 2010 21:17:37 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars... ^
From the August 27, 2010 18:52:50 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

California students get tracking devices... ^
From the August 28, 2010 12:52:04 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

SPY: Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing... ^
From the July 23, 2010 11:37:35 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.


Children tracked by satellite to stop bad behavior... ^
From the April 23, 2009 12:05:11 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Students' well-being tracked to improve lives... ^
From the October 23, 2008 14:47:44 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

TRACKED: GPS Helps Cities Catch Goof-Offs... ^
From the November 16, 2007 00:18:10 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

CAUGHT BY THE GPS: CELLPHONE TRACKED CITY WORKER DODGING WORK... ^
From the August 30, 2007 22:13:43 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

California gang members to be tracked by satellite... ^
From the March 16, 2006 23:56:11 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

NY Sex Offenders May Be Tracked By Satellite... ^
From the April 22, 2005 12:44:09 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Reading Scripture is like reading the news.  Here are ten trends, laid out in Scripture, demonstrating Him who declares the "End from the Beginning":

1. The Struggle for Jerusalem
2. Weapons Proliferation
3. The Rise of Islam
4. The Magog Invasion
5. The Rise of the Far East
6. Biotech & Global Pestilence
7. The Rise of a European Superstate
8. The Decline of the U.S.
9. Global Government
10. Global Religion
http://www.khouse.org/strategic_trends/

Like I said, CJ is willingly ignorant.  Because, if he really wanted to know Scripture, he would humble himself and read commentaries by contemporaries or those who have gone before.  Many of his absurd assertions, can be readily answered with a little digging and an open mind.

"When one examines a hologram in natural (uncollimated, noncoherent) light, it has no apparent form nor attractiveness. However, when one examines it with the laser with which it was formulated, a three-dimensional image appears. When one examines the Bible in unaided, natural light, it "has no form nor comeliness that we should desire it."3 But when we examine it illuminated by the Light that created it, the Spirit of God that put it all together in the first place, we see an image: the image of the One that every detail in it illuminates, the promised Messiah Himself." (System Design of the Scriptures?: Our Holographic Bible by Chuck Missler http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/230/)

Jhn 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word [Jesus], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

Col 1:16   For by him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 

Jhn 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Jhn 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Jesus is the Son of God, He is the Light of the World.

CJ contends, "God created light and darkness on day one and the sun and the planets didn't come until day four. So where did the light come from?  No Sun, no light.  Oops!"

Wrong sun, it's Son, the Light of the World.  God was the Light!

"But when we examine [the Bible] illuminated by the Light that created it" ... it make sense.

"Here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken."

You see, Scripture isn't laid out in a straightforward manner.  It was distributed over time and space, to different individuals.  For whatever reason, and I don't need to know the exact reason, God chose to involve humankind in the distribution of his message.  And what is his message?  God loves you and wants you to love him back.

(Jhn 15:13)   Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Jesus Lied. He Was Only Human - Debunking of the Christian myth. (by CJ Werlemen)

(2Pe 3:3-5) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, [...] For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water [...]

"But residing in the heart of [CJ Werlemen's] journalistic mediocrity was a quiet discontent. An irritation greater than the discomfort of a long taxi ride with 'Delhi belly'. And what irritated him most was other people's mindlessness. To him, nothing exceeded the mindlessness of seemingly intelligent people believing they were eating a dead Jew in the form of shi$$y wine and stale crackers." (About CJ)
http://www.cjwerleman.com/about-cj.html

(This will be the first of many posts, as I go through and review CJ's assertions about "mindless" Christians.)

I will take CJ's statement at face value, "seemingly intelligent people believing [...]" leads me to believe he has a beef with the Catholic Church and not Jesus. Any serious student of the Scripture can readily observe that communion was meant to be symbolic. (Transubstantiation, the Catholic doctrine does not align with Scripture. Where in Scripture does it say the wine and bread are literally turned into the blood and body of Christ?)

(Mat 26:26-29) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

(Attention to detail reveals, "I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine." Why didn't he say blood, if it was meant to be literal?)

(1Cr 11:24-26) And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Reading the above passages, their straight forward interpretation is, the bread and wine represented his body. How foolish, how silly, to insist, literally, one is eating the body and blood of Christ. How absurd!

I suppose in the end it will turn out, that he, like Dawkins, is nothing more than a silly little boy whose never grown up and accepted the reality that he is accountable to his Creator. For, as it stands, the foundation upon which all philosophy sits is, "How did we get here?", has yet to be empirically proven.  And I suppose, just as Dawkins admitted, intelligent being(s) (i.e. aliens) seeded earth (Expelled: No Intelligence Required. - Stein), so too CJ must first defend his thesis, that Jesus lied, by first convincingly bringing forward evidence of humankind's genesis. (By the way, it's funny to watch Dawkins squirm as he queried about his beliefs. CJ likes funny, right?) And to date, I have not seen evidence to support a non Intelligent being theory on humankind's origin. (I am product of the Public school system and State undergraduate / graduate degrees.) To this day, I have found the theories of Big Bang chemical evolution, stellar and planetary evolution, organic evolution, macro-evolution lacking.  (Micro-evolution or adaptation to one's environment can be readily observed.  But lateral, specie to specie, macro-evolution, has not been observe red, nor found to be defensible as would hold up in a court of law.  (Again, I've taken all the courses, and read the rebuttals to the various, so-called "missing" links.  (Read Bones of Contention by Lubenow for an excellent breakdown.)

“Creation and evolution are inferences based on circumstancial evidence.  Creation and evolution are thus theoretical inferences about history.  […] neither qualifies as a scientific theory (both are outside of empirical evidence).”  “Creation and evolution are best characterized as explanatory scientific models which are employed to correlate and explain data related to origins.” (Gish)

The task then, is to weigh the evidence, and find which theory is best supported.
As I've said, I've been through the programming (school) and found by questioning everything, evolution as a satisfactory theory on origins, to be lacking.

Guaranteed we'll find that CJ is "willingly ignorant" of Scripture (as I've shown above, let's read Scripture, and not mix Catholic doctrine, "Solo Scriptura").

Can't wait to get my mind on CJ's book, "Jesus Lied"!

(Oh, I'm praying for ya buddy!)

Saturday, September 11, 2010

On 9/11 … (What is "Operation Northwoods"?)

On 9/11 … (What is "Operation Northwoods"?)

We must defend against “enemies both foreign and domestic”:

“Those who sacrifice Liberty for Security deserve neither.” - Benjamin Franklin
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

"I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

“The answer to 1984 is 1776.”

Considering Franklin’s statement above, what is so patriotic about the Patriot Act?

What characterizes the Last Days, End Times? Deception.

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come...", "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” “For thy merchants [corporations] were the great men of the earth [globalists]; for by thy sorceries [pharmakeia] were all nations deceived. (2Ti 3:1-13; Rev 18:23)

The following warning was given by the:
President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term [“military-industrial complex”]
in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961:
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

JFK understood Eisenhower's concern and elaborated on the issue:
JFK’s Address before the Press (1961):
Today no war has been declared — and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions — by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security — and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.
[Read entire quote here:]
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

Operation Northwoods (Wiki)
Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a false-flag operation plan that originated within the United States government in 1962. The plan called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other operatives to commit genuine acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which the US had recently labeled as communist under Fidel Castro. One part of the Operation Northwoods plan was to "develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington."Operation Northwoods included proposals for hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. The plan stated:"The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere."Several other proposals were included within the Operation Northwoods plan, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Operation Amalgam Virgo (Wiki)
Amalgam Virgo 01 (June 1-2 / 2001) Operation Amalgam Virgo is a CINCNORAD joint task counter-terrorist and field training exercise (FTX) carried out in Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida on early June 2001. NORAD sponsored the multi-agency planning exercise involving the hypothetical scenario of a cruise missile or UAV launched by a terrorist group [1]. Osama Bin Laden was pictured on the cover of the proposal for the exercise. Key military players involved in the exercise also included personnel from the 1st Air Force battalion, the U.S. National Guard, the U.S. Reserve forces, and the U.S. Navy.Several naval ships including the USS Yorktown and the Navy Aegis cruiser were dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico as part of the multi-service anti-cruise missile operation. Military land personnel from the 1st Air Force also engaged in gathering radar information on low-level targets by using the Joint-Based Expeditionary Connectivity Center (JBECC), a mobile shelter capable of being deployed to high-risk regions while providing early warning signals on cruise missile attacks.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_Virgo

What Do The Sears Tower; WTC, and Terror Drills Have In Common?
Remember that on September 11, 2001, NORAD was conducting a war games drill that simulated planes flying into towers.
http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/09/what-do-the-sears-tower-wtc-and-terror-drills-have-in-common/

Information Warfare
(Infowars.com – “Because there is a war on for your mind.”)
The Anniversary of 9/11
If even the 9/11 Commissioners don’t buy the official story, why do you?http://www.infowars.com/the-anniversary-of-911/print/

“Those who sacrifice Liberty for Security deserve neither.” - Benjamin Franklin
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Who controls the media?
Why do we believe anything they say?
“What is Truth?”

Monday, September 6, 2010

Tears For Fears

Mad World (Tears For Fears)

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Goin' nowhere, goin' nowhere
Their tears are fillin' up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dyin'
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world

Children waitin' for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sits and listen, sits and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dyin'
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dyin'
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world
A raunchy young world
Mad world.

Bertrand Russell (The Impact of Science on Society - 1953)
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. . . .

Establishment Media Pushes Brain Eating Vaccines
Aug 3, 2010 ... The establishment media and the scientific dictatorship are promoting brain-eating vaccines that virtually lobotomize people and rewire ...
www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-pushes-brain-eating-vaccines.html

Inception (2010): Dream by injection … movies prep us for what the future holds, 'Minority Report' is now a reality ...

Today on Drudge: Pre-Crime Technology To Be Used In Washington...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/pre-crime-technology-to-be-used-in-washington-d-c.html

Today on Drudge: Software Predicts 'Criminal Behavior'...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/software-predicts-criminal-behavior/story?id=11448231

‘Pre-Crime’ Reaches Number 1 Google Trend Spot
http://www.infowars.com/pre-crime-reaches-number-1-google-trend-spot/

Google and CIA Invest in a Minority Report-Like Technology That May Make Our World a Less Certain Place
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-jacobson/google-and-cia-invest-in_b_664525.html

WIRED: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come.
[...]
“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.
[...]
It’s not the very first time Google has done business with America’s spy agencies. Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 — and then became the backbone for Google Earth.
This appears to be the first time, however, that the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time. No one is accusing Google of directly collaborating with the CIA.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/#ixzz0vn5qNxKC

Darpa Wants to Predict Deadly Pathogens with ‘Prophecy’
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/darpa-wants-to-predict-deadly-pathogens-with-prophecy/#ixzz0vnC593Lx

Google Flu Trends: We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity.
www.google.org/flutrends/

Group Calls for Hearings Into Google’s Ties to CIA and NSA
http://www.infowars.com/group-calls-for-hearings-into-googles-ties-to-cia-and-nsa/print/

A History of Google Government Ties – (Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data)
In 2005, In-Q-Tel , described as a venture capital firm set up by the CIA to “identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States national security interests,” was linked to Google through the sale of the corporation’s stock.
Google sold Keyhole, Inc., to the CIA’s In-Q-Tel in 2004. Keyhole does work in “geospatial data visualization applications” of the sort that work as the engine behind GoogleEarth.
In addition to Google, the CIA and the spook community have compromised Facebook and the social networks. Last December, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the US Department of Defense, Department of Justice and three other government agencies for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations.
Facebook, like Google, is also linked to the CIA’s In-Q-Tel. The social network received venture capital from Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel. Dr. Anita Jones also served on the In-Q-Tel’s board. She had been director of Defense Research and Engineering for the US Department of Defense.
“Although the project was initially conceived by media cover star Mark Zuckerberg, the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel. There are only three board members on Facebook, and they are Thiel, Zuckerberg and a third investor called Jim Breyer from a venture capital firm called Accel Partners,” writes Tom Hodgkinson of The Guardian.
http://www.infowars.com/google-accused-of-criminal-intent-over-streetview-data/print/

White House Emails Show More Extensive Improper Contact With Google
http://www.nlpc.org/print/2957

Issa wants answers on White House’s Google ties
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/108183-issa-wants-answers-connected-to-white-houses-google-ties?tmpl=component&print=1&page=

Top Secret America: Google Launches Cover Up Of [censored articles] ‘Google Spies’ Story
http://www.infowars.com/top-secret-america-google-launches-cover-up-of-google-spies-story/print/

Operation ‘Perfect Citizen’ = Big Brother:
"The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government...feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security," said one internal Raytheon email, the text of which was seen by The Wall Street Journal. "Perfect Citizen is Big Brother."
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704545004575352983850463108.html

Top Secret America: A hidden world, growing beyond control:
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
[...]
1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
[...]
Today's article describes the government's role in this expanding enterprise. Tuesday's article describes the government's dependence on private contractors.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/

Google Founders’ Ultimate Perk: A NASA Runway
In the annals of perks enjoyed by America’s corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes’ drive from their offices.
[...] federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes’ drive from their offices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/technology/13google.html

Financial Times: Google and NASA back new school for futurists [Singularity U – Ray Kurzweil]:
Google and NASA are throwing their weight behind a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become cleverer than people.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b162dfc-f168-11dd-8790-0000779fd2ac.html

President Eisenhower warned us of the “'Military-Industrial' Complex”:
President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term [“military-industrial complex”] in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961:
“A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction...
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

Saturday, September 4, 2010

"You Americans, you think you can escape history. You live in the present." - The American (2010)

Rome fell SEPTEMBER 4, 476AD.
In the centuries preceding, Rome was overrun with illegal immigrants: Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards and Vandals.
They first assimilated, many working as servants, but soon came so fast they did not learn the Latin language.
Though militarily superior and marching on advanced road systems, the highly trained Roman Legions were strained fighting conflicts worldwide, and eventually troops had to be brought home from the frontiers, such a Britain.
Attila the Hun committed terrorist attacks, wiping out whole cities.
Rome had a trade deficit, having outsourced its grain production to North Africa, and when the Vandals captured that area, Rome did not have the resources to retaliate.
"Bread and the Circus!" Citizens of Rome were kept distracted with violent entertainment in the Coliseum and Circus Maximus, living on welfare and free bread.
One Roman commented:
"Those who live at the expense of the public funds are more numerous than those who provide them."
Tax collectors were "more terrible than the enemy."
Rome was crippled by huge government bureaucracies and enormous public debt.
A history of court favoritism, infidelity, exposure of unwanted infants, perverted bathhouses, and sexual immorality led 5th-Century historian Salvian to write:
"O Roman people be ashamed...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us."
American Minute with Bill Federer
www.AmericanMinute.com

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Freedom is slavery. - INGSOC - 1984

Waiting for Goldstein to appear on the television in the background.
(http://forthtell.blogspot.com/)

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

1Cr 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1Cr 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1Cr 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1Cr 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1Cr 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

"In the future ("seven years from now"), America has lost the war on drugs. The highly addictive, debilitating, and illegal Substance D, made from a small blue flower, has swept across the country. In response, the government develops an invasive, high-tech surveillance system and puts in place a network of informants and undercover agents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly_(film)

A Scanner Darkly (Trailer):
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wip/us/med/scanner_darkly/scanner_darkly_a_tlr2_qt_500.mov

Substance D:
Fox News Makes Excuse for CIA’s Afghan Opium Cultivation
http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-makes-excuse-for-cias-afghan-opium-cultivation/

"Mexico’s opium production more than doubled from 2006 to 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, while marijuana output jumped 39 percent.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-20/legal-acapulco-gold-gets-calderon-s-consideration-as-drug-killings-climb.html

Rev 18:23 [...] for thy merchants [globalists] were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries [pharmakeia] were all nations deceived.

Rev 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries [pharmakeia], nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Making light of dark matter.

Wired: Darpa Wants to Predict Deadly Pathogens with ‘Prophecy’ & Psychic Doctors
The Pentagon’s far-out research arm has been zeroing in on the danger of mutating pathogens, and the corresponding problem of drug resistance, for years now. The agency is already funding tobacco-based vaccine production, a seven-day plan to thwart biothreats, and prescient viral infection detectors. And they’ve even set their sights on psychic medics, with a 2007 program that sought to turn docs into all-knowing illness predictors.
Now, Darpa wants the powers of premonition to wipe out viral threats altogether. They’re hosting a workshop for a new program, called “Prophecy,” that’ll develop methods to predict the rate, location and likely mutations of viral agents.
Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/darpa-wants-to-predict-deadly-pathogens-with-prophecy/#ixzz0yKaLy500

Darpa Goal: Psychic Doctors
The Predicting Health and Disease (PHD) Program will generate methods to assess whether an individual will develop an infectious disease prior to the onset of symptoms. While current methods diagnose and treat after an individual reports to a physician, the PHD Program seeks to alter this paradigm by identifying changes in the baseline state of human health through frequent surveillance....
Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/darpas-nose-for/#ixzz0yKbsIJnF

Scriptural stance on psychics:
Lev 20:6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Lev 20:27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

Lev 19:26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Lev 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Deu 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Deu 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deu 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Deu 18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
Deu 18:14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

Isa 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Making light of dark matter:

The Men Who Stare at Goats - (2009)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) is a book by Jon Ronson based on research by John Sergeant about the U.S. Army's exploration of New Age concepts and the ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats

Remote viewing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remote viewing (RV) is the ability to gather information about a distant or unseen target using paranormal means, in particular, extra-sensory perception ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing

Trends Part 2 and Part 3

The moment it happens, it's history.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Santayana

Orwell (1984) “He who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past”. 1984 (Orwell)

Think of the trends that will be observed in this blog in terms of a pyramid.
The base layer of the pyramid is the bedrock of Scripture (search Title: "Trends" in this blog). The middle tier is comprised of Info War trends:

1. Economic Crisis
2. World News
3. Police State
4. World War
5. Big Brother
6. September 11
7. War on Terror
8. Constitution in Focus
9. Medical Tyranny
10. Science & Technology
11. Border Control & Illegal Immigration
12. U.S. News
13. Iraq
14. Washington Politics
15. Iran
16. Media

http://www.infowars.com/

The third set of trends, the top tier, can be thought of, as a focused laser, using the lens of Scripture to illuminate issues commonly reported in the media that characteristically End Times phenomenon.

1. Technology (Rev 13:17; Mat 24:15; Dan 12:4)
2. Pharmakeia ("Sorcery") (Rev 18:23)
3. Human Trafficking (Rev 18:13)
4. Archaeology
5. Occult (Lev 20:6; Rev 16:14)
6. Globalists (Rev 18:23)
7. Beheading (Rev 20:4)
8. Singularity
9. Scoffers (2 Pet 3:3; 2 Tim. 3)

"Declaring the End from the Beginning":

Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me,
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure[....]

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Trends

Mat 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Mat 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Mat 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Luk 4:17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Luk 19:35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
Luk 19:36 And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way.
Luk 19:37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
Luk 19:38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Luk 19:39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
Luk 19:40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Luk 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Jesus held his contemporaries accountable for not understanding the times!
"This thy day" was a specific reference to a mathematical prophecy laid out in the book of Daniel by which the exact day the Messiah ("the King that cometh in the name of the Lord") would be revealed could be calculated.

Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

"The idiom of a "week" of years was common in Israel as a "sabbath for the land," in which the land was to lie fallow every seventh year.2
[...]
The Book of Daniel is actually one of the most authenticated books of the Old Testament, historically and archaeologically, but this is a convenient short-cut for our purposes here. It is critical to realize that the Book of Daniel existed in documented form almost three centuries before Christ was born. [see the Septuagint translation ~ 270 B.C.]
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1996/46/

For an overview of this amazing mathematical prophecy, read:
Palm Sunday Surprise: The Unexpected King by Chuck Missler
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1996/46/

For a detailed review see Sir Robert Anderson's seminal work:
The Coming Prince Sir Robert Anderson (1841-1918)
http://philologos.org/__eb-tcp/

"Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."

"This includes a mathematical prophecy. The Jewish (and Babylonian) calendars used a 360-day year;4 69 weeks of 360-day years totals 173,880 days.
In effect, Gabriel told Daniel that the interval between the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem until the presentation of the Messiah as King would be 173,880 days.
The "Messiah the Prince" in the King James translation is actually the Meshiach Nagid, "The Messiah the King." (Nagid is first used of King Saul.)"
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1996/46/

The 70th Week
There is a remaining seven-year period to be fulfilled. This period is the most documented period in the entire Bible. The Book of Revelation, Chapters 6 through 19, is essentially a detailing of that climactic period.
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1996/46/

The 70th Week (seven year period) encompassing the Great Tribulation, later 3 1/2 years of the final seven years before the return of Christ, is yet to be fulfilled. Considering, that the exact day that the Messiah would reveal himself was laid out centuries in advance, in writing. And, as has been pointed out, "this period [End Times, Last Days] is the most documented period in the entire Bible." A set of trends can be distilled by meticulously, logically, seriously, studying the Bible for references to this time. The following ten trends interweave and intersect with every part of our lives, they are the topics discussed by every geo-political strategist, and they lead inexorably to a specific time on the near horizon.

1. The Struggle for Jerusalem
2. Weapons Proliferation
3. The Rise of Islam
4. The Magog Invasion
5. The Rise of the Far East
6. Biotech & Global Pestilence
7. The Rise of a European Superstate
8. The Decline of the U.S.
9. Global Government
10. Global Religion
http://www.khouse.org/strategic_trends/

God has never been inexact. His plan was laid out in advance before time began. He has forthtold his plan, and we can be prepared by understanding the times in which we live. As prophecy is the forthtelling of God's Word, this blog will point to the exactness God has laid out in Scripture, as it is reported in the news and views of today.

Monday, August 30, 2010

What characterizes the Last Days (End Times)?

Deception. Look at the first passage below and you will see the character description of the average individual of the Last Days. Does the description of the individual strike you as someone who values truth? This passage culminates with the observation that, "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." Furthermore, the second passage exhorts the believer to, "let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [Antichrist, Lucifer, the Dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan];". "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him [Antichrist], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." Therefore it logically follows, as deception increases, conspiracy (the act of conspiring to deceive) increases. I suggest that, just as information exponentially increases in lock-step with Moore's law, so too, lies and deceit increase exponentially. (Take note, Lucifer is called the 'Father of Lies' (John 8:44), and each passage describing the Last Days (End Times) characterizes that time (the time in which we now live) as The Age of Deceit.)

2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
2Ti 3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men], as theirs also was.
2Ti 3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
2Ti 3:11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me.
2Ti 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
2Ti 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
2Th 2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Th 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
2Th 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
2Th 2:17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

"Science falsely so called":

Considering that cosmic evolution was a one-time event thus precluding a purist empirical explanation of how we got here and likewise its anthropogenesis theories, Big Bang chemical evolution, stellar and planetary evolution, organic evolution, macro-evolution (specie to specie), it must be recognized that a quantum leap of faith is required by adherents to science falsely so called. The point being, no human was there in the Beginning, nor can we replicate the conditions (empiricism) at the Beginning, thus forcing insurmountable chasms to be hurdled to arrive at the conclusion that the perfect conditions to create, incubate, and sustain life were mysteriously facilitated by Chance. (Watch Richard Dawkins squirm as he is forced by Ben Stein ("No Intelligence Required") to recognize an Intelligent Being, (or beings, aliens in Dawkins case), created life on Earth.)

1Ti 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called[.]

“He who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past”. Orwell (1984)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingsoc

1984: Prophesying the death of Empiricism:
Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society. As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago.
[...]
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for ‘Science’. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. And even technological
progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/1984.pdf

A key understanding as to how the world works, is to recognize, that just as elites have controlled the masses throughout history, our day and age, is just as controlled (if not more), but with different shades, veneers, facades. It is crucial to understand that the Darwins were part of the elite caste. And the tool of Darwinism factors into the control of the masses. Darwinism enslaves the mind, blinding humanity to the reality, that man is created in image of God, created for the express purpose of communing with God. Created with the ability to imagine and create the impossible.

Gen 11:6 And the LORD 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.

The Superman and the enslaved masses:
In the 1700’s, it really took off with all the different writers amongst the interbred elite, like Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin's family only interbred with one other family for generations and that was the Wedgwood family, the famous pottery Wedgwood’s of England, and his grandfather married one. This father married one. Charles married one and then when his wife died, he married his mother's sister, another Wedgwood. They're all Wedgwood’s and Darwin's all mixed together, you see, until they bring some other outside blood—to Galton's, another sweet bunch who believed in population reduction. They end up with, or Charles did, anyway, had ten children from his first wife and even died in childbirth or two died in insane asylums very young. Too interbred, you see.

[...]

It's like the "Matrix One" movie, because they show you in the Matrix movie, since the elite, themselves, they ultimately give you those movies. You're cheering on the guy you think is the good guy, but you've got it all mixed up, you see. This is themselves they're talking about. The new and Neo Anderson, Andra from the Greek Andros - man, Neo ANDERSON - The new SON OF MAN, The new messiah. The new messiah. The Superman with all these superpowers. You see that's where Superman comes from. It's the superpowers. That's what gets us into the next age. Those who can't do that will not be allowed into the next age. It's no coincidence it’s identical, this Freemasonry of the European elite. There's no coincidence. It's identical within dualistic theology, a caste system.
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Reality_Check_Alan_Watt.html

Charles Darwin's family tree tangled with inbreeding, early death
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=charles-darwins-family-tree-tangled-2010-05-03

In Darwin Family, Evidence of Inbreeding’s Ill EffectsBy NICHOLAS WADE (Published: May 3, 2010)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/science/04darwin.html?_r=1

Darwin Dynasty Cursed By Inbreeding by Zoё Macintosh
http://www.livescience.com/history/charles-darwin-inbreeding-100503.html

What I believe.

Each of us should be assured by the logical conclusions of our worldview, the convictions that impact our daily actions, our relationships, and ultimately, our destiny.

Let everyone be fully persuaded in his own mind.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Rom&c=14&t=KJV#vrsn/5

First, let's be clear, what I believe, is what I believe, and you are free to believe whatever you want.

Statement of Faith
WE BELIEVE the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God (II Timothy 3:15 -17; II Peter 1:19-21).

WE BELIEVE there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:26; Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; John 14:15-26).

WE BELIEVE in the deity of Christ (Isaiah 9:6; John 8:58; John 10: 24-30; Titus 2:13); His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:34-35); His sinless life (Hebrews 4:15; II Corinthians 5:21; I John 3:5); His miracles (Matthew 8; Mark 2:5-12; John 2:11, 23); His vicarious and atoning death (I Corinthians 15:3; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 2:9; I Peter 3:18); His resurrection (John 2:18-22; John 11:25; I Corinthians 15:4); His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Mark 16:19; Ephesians l: 19b-21); His personal return to earth in power and glory (Acts 1: 9-11; Revelation 19:11-16).

WE BELIEVE in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature, and that all are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ, and that only by God’s grace, through faith alone, are we saved (John 3:16-17; 5:24; Romans 3:21-26; Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 3:3-7).

WE BELIEVE in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are not unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5:24-29; Revelation 20:11-15).

WE BELIEVE in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ (John 17:20-23; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 12:12-14; Galatians 3:26-28).

WE BELIEVE in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by Whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life (Romans 8:13-16; I Corinthians 6:19-20; Galatians 5:16-25).
http://www.ccpacifichills.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=249&Itemid=6

'The God Who Is There':
Recognizing the Chief Scientific Architect has the technology to preserve His message through time, age upon age, eon to eon.
As it follows, we have not been left alone in this universe. On the contrary, God put into play, long ago ("before the foundation of the world"), truths that point to this very fact. God loves us and desires a relationship with us.

Preservation of the Word of God:
Isa 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Luk 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

His message was not an after-thought, rather a fully synthesized plan, prepared "before time began".
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

66/40: System Design:
"The great discovery is that the Bible is a message system: it’s not simply 66 books penned by 40 authors over thousands of years, the Bible is an integrated whole which bears evidence of supernatural engineering in every detail!" (66/40 with Chuck Missler - Getting Serious about the Bible)
http://www.khouse.org/6640_cat/

System Design of the Scriptures?: Our Holographic Bible by Chuck Missler
Informational Properties:
The hologram exhibits some very profound properties beyond the three-dimensional image. In fact, it is one of the most profound means to distribute information throughout a given media. All of the information it contains is distributed over the entire image surface. One can remove a portion of the hologram without losing the image! Drill a hole in the hologram, and one can still view the entire object by simply moving one's eye to a more convenient angle (some resolution, or sharpness, will be lost however). Cut the film into pieces, and each piece contains the complete image.2

An engineer who is designing a communication system in anticipation of hostile jamming, or other countermeasures, needs to employ several critical techniques to be effective. In addition to taking advantage of available error detection and correction techniques, he will also attempt to spread his message throughout the available bandwidth. He will avoid clustering his message into areas which would increase his vulnerability to jamming or interference.

It is provocative to notice that the Biblical text evidences these same techniques. Where is the chapter on baptism? Or salvation? Or any specific critical doctrine? Every major theme is spread throughout the 66 books making up the total message. There is no concentration of any critical element in any single location. One can tear out a surprising number of pages and still not lose visibility of the essential message. (Some resolution or clarity would be lost, however.) This design intent of distributing the vital elements throughout the entire message system is even highlighted by Isaiah:

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isaiah 28:9,10
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/230/

The 'more sure word of prophecy':
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

The Heptadic Structure of Scripture

Everyone who explores their Bible quickly discovers the pervasiveness of Seven: there are over 600 explicit occurrences of "sevens" throughout both the Old and New Testaments. As many of our readers are aware, there are also prevalent evidences of design hidden behind the text.4 The "Heptadic" (sevenfold) structure of Biblical text is one of the remarkable characteristics of its authenticity. What about these disputed 12 verses?

There are 175 (7 x 25) words in the Greek text of Mark 16:9-20. Curious. These words use a total vocabulary of 98 different words (7 x 14), also an exact multiple of seven. That's also rather striking.

Try constructing a passage in which both the number of words and the number of letters are precisely divisible by seven (with no remainder)! The random chance of a number being precisely divisible by 7 is one chance in seven. In seven tries, there will be an average of six failures.

The chance of two numbers both being divisible by 7 exactly is one in 72, or one in 49. (This is a convenient simplification; some mathematical statisticians would argue the chance is one in 91.5 ) This still might be viewed as an accidental occurrence, or the casual contrivance of a clever scribe. But let's look further. The number of letters in this passage is 553, also a precise multiple of seven (7 x 79). This is getting a bit more tricky. The chance of three numbers accidentally being precisely divisible by seven is one in 73, or one in 343. This increasingly appears to be suspiciously deliberate.

In fact, the number of vowels is 294 (7 x 42); and the number of consonants is 259 (7 x 37). Do you sense that someone has gone through a lot of trouble to hide a design or signature behind this text?

As we examine the vocabulary of those 98 (7 x 14) words: 84 (7 x 12) are found before in Mark; 14 (7 x 2) are found only here. 42 (7 x 6) are found in the Lord's address (vv.15-18); 56 (7 x 8) are not part of His vocabulary here.

This is, conspicuously, not random chance at work, but highly skillful design. But just how skillful?

With 10 such heptadic features, it would take 710, or 282,475,249 attempts for these to occur by chance alone. How long would it take the composer to redraft an alternative attempt to obtain the result he was looking for? If he could accomplish an attempt in only 10 minutes, working 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, these would take him over 23,540 years!

But there's more. The total word forms in the passage are 133 (7 x 19). 112 of them (7 x 16) occur only once, leaving 21 (7 x 3) of them occurring more than once; in fact, these occur 63 (7 x 9) times.

If we examine more closely the 175 words (7x 25), we discover that 56 (7 x 8) words appear in the address of the Lord and 119 (7 x 17) appear in the rest of the passage.

The natural divisions of the passage would be the appearance to Mary, verses 9-11; His subsequent appearances, verses 12-14; Christ's discourse, verses 15-18; and the conclusion in verses 19-20. We discover that verses 9-11 involve 35 words (7 x 5). Verses 12-18, 105 (7 x 15) words; verse 12, 14 (7 x 2) words; verses 13-15, 35 (7 x 5) words; verses 16-18, 56 (7 x 8) words. The conclusion, verses 19-20, contains 35 (7 x 5) words.

It gets worse. Greek, like Hebrew, has assigned numerical values to each letter of its alphabet. Thus, each word also has a numerical ("gematrical") value.

The total numerical value of the passage is 103,656 (7 x 14,808). The value of v.9 is 11,795 (7 x 1,685); v.10 is 5,418 (7 x 774); v.11 is 11,795 (7 x 1,685); vv.12-20, 86,450 (7 x 12,350). In verse 10, the first word is 98 (7 x 14), the middle word is 4,529 (7 x 647), and the last word is 791 (7 x 113). The value of the total word forms is 89,663 (7 x 12,809). And so on.

Individual words also tell a tale. (click for Greek), deadly (v.18) is not found elsewhere in the New Testament. It has a numeric value of 581 (7 x 83), and is preceded in the vocabulary list by 42 (6 x 7) words, and in the passage itself by 126 (7 x 18) words.

This all is among the legendary results of the work by Dr. Ivan Panin. (See inset below). In fact, he identified 75 heptadic features of the last 12 verses of Mark.7 We have highlighted only 34 heptadic features. If a supercomputer could be programmed to attempt 400 million attempts/second, working day and night, it would take one million of them over four million years to identify a combination of 734 heptadic features by unaided chance alone.7
http://www.khouse.org/articles/2000/201/