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Since the dawn of civilization, there have been three pillars of power that have held sway over humanity: government, finance, and royalty. Politicians are the people who make the laws that govern us. Finance is the engine that drives our economy. Royalty is the embodiment of power and prestige, both open and hidden.

Finance is the lifeblood of nations, and government, finance, and royalty are its key components. Politicians are the ones who enact the laws that govern the financial system, while finance is the system that manages the flow of money and credit. Royalty, on the other hand, is the group of people who own and control much of the financial system and the world. History books show us that just after the French Revolution, the royals became aware the changes coming could not be stopped. They organized with the bankers to keep control of their vast financial wealth. Well hidden away, for example, the king of France after the revolution was still the Duke of Orleans and still owned a large amount of land in Paris even until now. That was a small amount of what he owned and is vastly wealthy. There is still a King of France today. Henry V11, even though not officially recognized. Other Kings, such as the King of the Holy Roman Empire, still exist. He was even a member of the European Parliament.

The Risks of abusing Power When people in positions of power abuse their authority, it can have far-reaching consequences. Politicians who misuse their power can erode the public’s trust in government and damage the country’s reputation. Financial fraud by corporate executives can destroy shareholder value and lead to criminal charges. And royals who flout the rules can bring embarrassment and shame to their families. When people abuse their power, they not only risk their reputations and careers, but they also jeopardize the institutions they represent. Hence, they have developed very closed family groupings. Who marries into these families being very controlled. Only recently has there been a much wider group of people chosen from.

Overtime, the parliamentary system of governments developed. These were simple governments. As the population grew and technology increased, managing countries became more complicated and a management system developed. Bureaucracy. This grew larger and larger as things became more complicated. With size, they became more intransigent and unresponsive to political whims. No longer were they Civil Servants. In numerous instances, they became the masters. Which is very evident in what has happened in the USA lately. Government employees abusing their power to maintain control and the elected government almost powerless to stop it.

Meanwhile, the role of the politician was reduced to one of show for the people. Puppets picked in a popularity contest by people who are generally ill-informed. The winning prize is you get to run the most complicated business in the country. Where decisions you make are not only financial, but will determine the life and death of some. Your country Inc. There are three important areas in which Civil Service, finance, and royalty are connected: taxes, spending, and borrowing. Taxes are the main way that governments raise money to spend on public services and goods. Civil Servants set tax rates and for ensuring that taxes are collected efficiently. Finance professionals help to design and implement tax systems, and they also play a role in advising governments on how to raise and spend money. Royalty also has a significant impact on government finances. In many countries, royals often have a significant influence over government spending, as they can request funds for pet projects.

The Power of Interdependence In a world that is increasingly interconnected, the power of interdependence should not be underestimated. Civil Servants, financiers, and royalty all have a vested interest in promoting and protecting interdependent relationships. Interdependence is the key to maintaining stability in a world that is constantly changing. By working together, different groups help each other weather periods of upheaval and ensure that everyone benefits from periods of prosperity. When interdependent relationships are strong, everyone involved is better able to withstand shocks and challenges.

The Age of Laodicea

The letters to the churches have led to some debate. Are they just letters with no other meaning apart from their face value, or are they the different states that any church can fall into if the relationship with Jesus falls away? Could it be the ages of the churches through time, or some combination of all three? Revelation 3:14 is where you will find the letter. At that time, the city of Laodicea was a wealthy trading and medical city. Ideal for the vision of riches and the problems of riches. The name Laodicea means “people’s rights,” and has there ever been a time when people’s rights have been an issue? It is sometimes translated as “the people judged”. The industrial revolution is well under way when the Age starts. Worldwide trade is making many rich, and that is reflected in the church, with the congregations also becoming wealthy. This Age of widespread wealth started in the 1800s. We see that 1844 is an essential date, but it is more accurate to say the Age of Laodicea starts in the 1840s.

It was also renowned for the Council of Laodicea, which changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday to avoid prosecution.

Why is it the age of the church and not something else? In Revelation 4, John sees a door to heaven open, and what is said is, “After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this. What will take place after this, giving it a time component? After what? It must be the letters, for that is what proceeds before it. If it is after, then the proceeding must be a timeline, which makes the letters a prediction of the future of the church. Not that these are mutually exclusive. But we will look at the timeline. Laodicea is the last letter and will run through the second advent of Christ. When did it start? There is a famous picture of Jesus standing at a door and knocking. The door has a handle only on the inside. This was painted in 1851. It is called The Light of the World. By Holman Hunt. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock is written under it. Rev 3.20 Another clue to this age starting in the mid-1800s is Daniel 8–14. Daniels talks about 2300 days, which, when converted to a day, is a year. 2300 years from when the temple started to be rebuilt. That takes us up to 1844. There were movements to claim that Jesus would return. It was felt that if the arrival of the messiah had a seventy-week prediction and that proved to be accurate, then the 2300 days would be accurate as well. The movement was called Millerism, but it was also called Adventism. It caused a great deal of embarrassment when it proved to be wrong. Why was their interpretation wrong? Let us look a little closer at Millerism and what was believed at the time.

Millerism

William Miller was a lay preacher and student of the Word. He saw that the seventy-week prophecy was exactly right, and there was another period in Daniel 8. He worked out a timeline based on some dates. So the only start date he could come up with was the one that started the seventy-week period. When he calculated it out, the date was 1844. He started to preach this and started a magazine called Signs of the Times. This spread around the world. However, it proved to be wrong. There were many reasons given for why it did not occur. The scripture read, “And the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?” 14 And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.” They took it to be an instant event, but it was the start of a process. The end of the age in Revelation and Matthew is a series of events. So, not the Second coming, but the beginning of the events that would result in the second coming.

There were numerous other events that took place in 1844. The Bahá'í faith The history of the Bahá'i faith goes back to 1844, when a young Iranian man who called himself the Báb said that God would soon send a messenger who was to be the latest prophet. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon faith, was murdered. But more impotently, Bingham Young, the real driving force behind the religion, took over. The rise of false religions is covered more in The White Rider, which will be in the next instalment. Furthermore, the YMCA started.

Charles Darwin

Even though The Origin of the Species was published in 1857, it was written before that date. On January 11, 1844, Darwin mentioned his theorising to the botanist Joseph Hooker, writing with melodramatic humour, “It is like confessing a murder”. Hooker replied, “There may, in my opinion, have been a series of productions on different spots and also a gradual change of species. I shall be delighted to hear how you think that this change may have taken place, as no presently conceived opinions satisfy me on the subject.”

By July, Darwin had expanded his “sketch” into a 230-page “Essay”, to be expanded with his research results if he died prematurely. In November 1844, the anonymous author published the sensational bestseller The Natural History of Creation.

Karl Marx

Karl Marx was a writer for various radical magazines and an activist. In 1844, he met with another activist named Friedrich Engels. Engels had just spent two years in England and had written The Condition of the Working Class in England. This greatly influenced Marx. They worked together, and then Marx worked alone. By the end of the year, he had written in great detail all the major components of what we today call the Communist Manifesto. People's rights, the name of Laodicea. Interestingly, the main funder of Karl Marx was also the main funder of Charles Darwin. The Rothschild's.

Samuel Morse

The first electronic transmission was sent in Morse code. The beginning of electronic communication and the age of computing. What is needed for the mark of the beast? The first message was “What has God wrought”. Truly profound statement.

Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII became the new Pope, taking over from Gregory XV1. This did not happen in 1844, but in 1846. Understanding what happened here is important to understanding the age of Laodicea and the next chapter, The White Rider. I will remind you that Laodicea means “people’s rights”. Pope Pius was the first of the so-called liberal popes. Pope Gregory, being an orthodox pope, believed in the divine hand on the pope and that he had ultimate authority. Under Pope Pius, new rights were given to various groups and committees. Gregory's authoritarian power was based on the model given by God and his authority. Now, groups of men were given the right to make judgements on what God really meant. This is where the role of the White Rider takes over until, finally, today we have a non-Christian Pope (Jesuit).

The three most profound events that affect our modern time all came about in the same year, 1844. The year that the Age of Laodicea began. Within two years, the last of the four had occurred.

It was the end of the ages that Daniel covered and the start of Revelations. Except for Daniel 7, Revelations takes up the end of the age. The first thing that happens in Revelations is the arrival of the White Rider in Rev. 6.

Let’s look at the white horseman. This is what I write about in the next chapter, and it will be controversial.

Fallen fallen is Babylon the Great

This event is about to come upon us. So, I thought I would dig up some scriptures and see what we can glean to give us a better idea of how this is going to unfold. I wonder which, if any, of the videos on YouTube are accurate. This event is mentioned twice in Revelations 18-2 and 14-8. Fallen fallen is Babylon or something close to it, is mentioned in Isaiah 21. That's the same passage to line up with. However, before we look at these scriptures, let us look at who and what Babylon is.

What is Babylon the Great?

Rev. 18 is a good place to start.

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.

For all nations have drunk
the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”

The highlighted section provides relevant information. Foremost is sexual immorality, which is backed up with descriptions of it as the great whore, the harlot, and the mother of prostitutes. Secondly, it is a city of merchants and great wealth (bankers), created by an immoral lifestyle. One of its names in Rev. 17 is the great city. It does not say it will be military-based wickedness.

In Revelations 17, it describes there being seven heads, with Rome being the sixth. The usual list of names for the seven includes Assyria, Nineveh, Egypt, Phoebes, etc., which were before Babylon. These are included as they were the most dominant nations of their time. It does not make sense to me, and it is because they miss the point of what Babylon is. Nineveh was the largest city until that time, and its population was 120,000, but it was not a city of merchants. Babylon's population was 250,000, and it was a new kind of city that the world had not seen before. Furthermore, in Zechariah 5, there is a picture of a woman in a sealed basket. This basket was taken to the land of Shinar. Shinar is another name for Babylonia, whose capital is Babylon. The woman in the basket was wicked. This is why the name Babylon is used to describe this entity. Military dominance often goes with financial dominance, but is not an essential part of being Babylon. So to be Babylon, you must be the most immoral nation and be financially dominant. These nations that become dominant are described as heads, with Rome being the sixth head. Rome morphed into the Holy Roman Empire, which ended with the Third Reich. Reich is a German word for the Holy Roman Empire. A change happened with the Second World War. The Breton Woods meeting started the change, but the actual change from Europe being Babylon to the USA was signed in to being on a single day when, on the 27^th of December 1945, the IMF was signed in to being, but at the same time the US dollar was made the reserve world currency. The moral collapse had happened from the roaring twenties through the prospect of war. People did things that they would not have done normally, but once the line was crossed, there was no turning back. That makes the USA the same age as King Saul when he died. The USA is Babylon, or more correctly, the seventh head of the Beast that Mystery Babylon (the woman in the basket, wickedness) rides on. Zechariah 5 gives us another look at the characteristics of Babylon. The flying scroll is a curse that goes out against the thief and against a false witness. That is dishonest gain with no justice. With the way banks and multinationals operate these days, this is rampant.

Revelation 14 has to do with the 144,000 and the change in what is being preached. Until the fall, they preach, “Fear God and give him glory because the hour of his judgement has come, and worship him.” We have seen that start in the 1970s and get more pronounced to become a common ministry today. In Rev. 18.2, the cause of the fall is described next. “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passions of her sexual immorality.” This reinforces the fact that the fall has to do with immorality and not military strength.

Revelations 18

Most Revelations are events with a short timeline. Following that precedent, let us look at Rev. 18 as a timeline. Firstly, a powerful Angel lightened the whole earth with its glory. We have seen that over the last couple of years in the USA with the rise of Donald Trump. All kinds of revelations have come out about corruption in the government of the USA. Some know what has been going on, but all will know soon. There will be an attack on sexual wickedness, the double standard of justice, which is mind-boggling in the USA (Hillary and Bill Clinton's endless scandals), and thieves. What the banks have been doing.

Fallen Fallen is Babylon the Great.

We will see the exposure of high-profile people involved in paedophilia. There will be some high-profile preachers going to jail for a long time. We are going to see former Presidents go to jail, and there may even be a hanging. Do not be surprised to see Barack Obama hanging from a rope. The theft of vast sums of money is being exposed. There will be major scandals in the FBI, DoJ, and CIA. The corruption is so widespread and profound that there are far too many to list. The main ones to look for are sexual wickedness, theft, and justice.

The future.

There are many stories about Fallen Babylon being destroyed in one hour by fire. This is in Rev. 18, and it is true that this will happen. However, if you are reading Rev. 18 as a timeline, then there are two things that happen in between. Firstly, the call for God's people to come out of the cities. As mentioned before, that is every city with over 250,000 people in it. Secondly, the President said that she has suffered no harm and that the USA is as great as ever. On that statement, just about instantly, KaPow. A lot has to happen in Europe before that takes place, so it would be a minimum of seven years but more likely fourteen years.

Warwick

Earthquakes and natural disasters

New Zealand's coming disaster.

Do earthquakes and other natural disasters mean there is God's judgement happening, or is it just for the Old Testament. A question that has come into prominence in New Zealand recently. A well-known pastor has claimed that the earthquakes in Christchurch and other major earthquakes have been just that. He pointed out the statistics for Christchurch for numerous crimes was very high. That homosexuality and liberal humanism was also rampant. So I asked myself a question. Does God use these kinds of events since Jesus and the New Testament or do we just live in a world of time and chance, and it is inevitable that we will get hit by an earthquake in New Zealand. The islands have numerous fault lines running through them. We don't get many scriptures from a historical standpoint in the New Testament about earthquakes. We have, when Jesus died and gave his last breath, there was a great earthquake and the curtain in the temple was ripped. An angel came down from heaven and when his foot touched the earth, there was an earthquake and the stone blocking the door of the tomb rolled away. In Acts 16;26 there was an earthquake when Paul was in prison and the prison doors all opened. So, does God used earthquakes since Jesus came? The answer is yes. But is every earthquake an acted of God, probably not, but it is wrong to believe it never is. When an earthquake strikes, we need to search to see if God is saying something. There are several principles that transcend the old and new testaments. Leviticus 18;24-30 is one of them. If you practice wickedness, then the land will vomit you out when you make it unclean. A scripture used by the Pastor to back his statements.

What do we look for? To start with, why did the whole of New Zealand get to hear this warning. This pastor has a very checker past and should have been ignored. However, for some reason the entire of New Zealand heard it as it made the secular news. I do not think the devil would like this made public. It has the hand of God written all over it. As we rush headlong into the end of the age, there are numerous scriptures that say there will be a great increase in wickedness in the last days. 2 Timothy 3;2-5 is a perfect example. The result of which will lead to a great increase in natural disasters, and, of course, earthquakes is one of them. New Zealand has no exemption from this horrendous increase in wickedness that all other countries are suffering. In fact, we are probably worse than most countries. For nine years we had a gay Prime Minister who attacked the moral standards of New Zealand with her social engineering. Once she was ousted, we got what, we thought, would be a better government. However, we did not look at the principles of wickedness properly. Things like murder and adultery etc. are listed many times, but these are the result of the turning away from a more basic principle. Which is, love your neighbour as yourself. In the Old Testament it is spelt out a bit more and that is to look after the weak and poor, the widow and the orphan. Now, for the last eight years, New Zealand has suffered a government that has attacked these very foundations of God's purpose. As a nation, we have done very will financially, but this money has not got down to the poor, and we have large numbers of people living in poverty. We have seen recently this battle between the globalist elite and nationalism. New Zealand is totally controlled by the globalists, and we have seen our government follow a wicked Globalist agenda time and time again. The rich both in New Zealand and overseas are asset striping the wealth of the country. The result of this murderous agenda is tens of thousands of Kiwis suffering and dying before their time. Christianity in New Zealand has seen the collapse of faith in the mainstream churches. We have also seen the rise of the Mega church and the preaching of the new gospel. The 'all you need is love' or 'what you need is to enjoy everyday life'. Very few churches are full of life and power. The bible says this wickedness will result in natural disasters. Are the earthquakes striking New Zealand the result of wickedness? The answer is a great big fat YES.

 So the question is not “is this the result of God's punishment” but why Christchurch? Did Christchurch draw the short straw, and it was just bad luck, or was there more to it. The Pastor described the wickedness of Christchurch with a list of the main sins. But Wellington has far more people supporting liberal humanism and the Utopian agenda that goes with it. Auckland has a far greater Gay community, violence and other religions than Christchurch. The two things I see as the main reasons that Christchurch was chosen ahead of other cities are, The Wizard of Christchurch and his being made an official representative of the city. This is not just the one man but an organisation that has official pixies going all over the city casting spells and the Christians there have just stood by and did nothing. The formal worship of another God. B The appointment of a woman bishop to the largest congregation in Christchurch. This appointment is open rebellion to the word of God by most Christians in the city. They also had several court cases that resulted is unjust convictions of weak and defenceless people. These are real disaster resulting sins.

So where to from here. We have a Pastor being used by God to give us a warning for which he has been attacked. Not only by the secular media but by Christians and Christian media up and down the country. Now, to add more to this story, there is another way you can bring disaster onto your country. This is to do harm to Israel. Recently, a remit was put forward in the United Nations to split Israel up. To take away land and to split Jerusalem, and the country that put forward this remit was New Zealand. You would think that New Zealand would be friends with Israel, and you would be right for the people. However, our Government has been abducted by Globalist lapdogs who do what they are told. They have no idea of the calamity they can bring upon New Zealand.

Have the people listened to the warning, NO. Has the church listened to the warning, MOSTLY NO. Have we continued to act in an increasingly wicked manner, YES? There will be another major disaster. To date, we have been blessed with very little lose of life. If we do not turn dramatically back to God, the next disaster will result in massive loss of life.

Warwick Frederikson

GOD AND SCIENCE ARE NOT ENEMIES

The theory that the universe had a beginning, as opposed to just an eternal existence, is now mainstream cosmology. Mathematical models in the 1920s, derived from Einstein’s theories, predicted an expanding universe. Then Edwin Hubble explained that the red shift of light coming to us from other galaxies was caused by those galaxies moving away from us. Then in the 1960s it was discovered that the background temperature of the universe was exactly that which would be explained by a “very early and very dense state of the universe, which was predicted by the Big Bang model.” No less a person than Stephen Hawking says, “Almost everyone now believes that the universe, and time itself, had a beginning at the Big Bang.”

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1.

The Big Bang, this immense explosion of energy into matter, included photons – “Let there be light” – Shazam!

The fact that there was a beginning has significant repercussions, because of something called the Kalam Argument. This originated with a Christian philosopher and was then taken up by some Muslim scholars in North Africa at the beginning of the 12th century. The argument has three parts:

1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

2. The universe had a beginning.

3. And therefore, the universe had a cause.

The first part of the argument is not the kind of thing that can be proven one way or the other. However, in our observations of how the world works, the premise is constantly confirmed and never falsified, meaning that we have better reason to believe it is true, than to believe that it is false. As explained in the book, if we hear a loud bang, and you ask me what made that noise, and I say “Nothing, it just happened,” you’d think I was a raving loony.

And with The Big Bang accepted by most cosmologists as the theory that best fits the evidence as it is known today, it would seem that a cause for the universe is a very plausible theory.

Of course, a cause by itself does not automatically lead to a personal Creator, although apparently the Kalam Argument does argue for one. In my next post, I’ll cover some things that do indicate the likelihood of intelligent design.

None of the above constitutes proof of the existence of God. I don’t believe we will ever receive proof in this life, and I don’t want us to. As noted in a previous post, I believe that certain knowledge of the existence of God would give us the same status as Satan – who knew God, still rebelled, and has no way back. As it is, our rebellion is forgiven through our faith.  “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith.” Ephesians 2:8.

GOD AND SCIENCE ARE NOT ENEMIES – PART II

A bit more from the book I read recently – “The Case for a Creator” by Lee Strobel. In my last post, I quoted some scientific evidence contained in the book for the universe being caused by something.

 In the arena of physics, something called the Anthropic Principle points to not only a cause, but to intelligent design of the universe. The book says, “all the seemingly arbitrary and unrelated constants in physics have one strange thing in common – these are precisely the values you would need if you want to have a universe capable of producing life.” The probability of all these values occurring by chance is so huge that they boggle the mind.

For example, the force of gravity is precisely set to allow life – a breathtaking image given in the book, is that of a massive ruler that is the length of the whole universe, and is marked out in inches. The length of the ruler represents the range of force strengths existing in nature. Gravity is quite weak, while the strong nuclear force is 10 thousand billion billion billion billion times stronger. Increase the force of gravity by just one of those gazillions of inches on the intergalactic ruler, and life would not be supportable.

The cosmological constant, or the energy density of empty space, has to be fine-tuned – too strong, and matter would be repulsed so strongly that galaxies, stars, planets could not be formed – too weak, and the big bang would have been quickly reversed as all matter became subject to an immense attractive force. The fine-tuning is estimated to be 1 part in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!!!

In physics, a phase space is a space in which all possible states of a system are represented, with each possible state of the system corresponding to one unique point in the phase space. The original phase space is the phase space for the properties of the universe immediately after The Big Bang. Eminent physicist Roger Penrose estimates that the accuracy required to fine tune the original phase space to the conditions that actually existed (and which went on to support life) is 1 part in 10,000,000,000^123. He goes on to say you can’t even write that number out in full – there are more zeroes in it than there are particles in the universe!

There are many more constants that need to be precisely tuned to an accuracy that, even taken isolated, seriously challenge the idea of our universe being created by random chance.

As I mentioned previously, there is no proof of the existence of God. Personally, having read this book and others by both Christian and atheist authors, neither do I see any proof of the non-existence of God. I am fascinated by the wonder of our universe and the beauty of our planet, and reading about all these conditions that need to be set just so, strengthens my faith. The apostle Paul wrote: “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” Romans 1:20.

God bless,

Chris

BLIND FAITH, INTELLECTUAL ASSENT, AND SALVATION

In response to a “test” from a Pharisee (a leading sect of Jews in New Testament times who were focused on countless rules) Jesus said “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38.

The bit that intrigues me is “all your mind.” I think that there is an idea out there that says in order to be a Christian, you have to turn off your brain and refuse to grapple with issues such as evolution and metaphysics. Another passage in Matthew (18:2-4) says that we will never enter the kingdom of heaven unless we become like little children, and this is sometimes used as a reason for settling for blind faith.

But I don’t think kids have blind faith. They are curious, they ask questions – any parent of a 4-year-old will tell you that “Why?” is their little one’s favourite sentence starter. Kids soak up learning and want to grow up as quickly as possible to be more like their Mum, Dad, or older sibling. I do think that they are trusting and accepting of their parents and teachers, and are likely to believe what they are told. But occasionally, you can almost hear the cogs grinding away in their heads as they absorb their new nuggets of information and work to fit them in with their existing knowledge and experience.

So I reckon that loving God with all our minds involves engaging the brain he created in us to work through issues and challenges to our faith. I want to know what Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, and many others say about our world and about my faith. And like the kids, I would like to go away and let the cogs whir away until everything falls into place. Occasionally, my brain hurts! Occasionally, I encounter an issue that I cannot reconcile with my faith. When this happens, I am comforted by a story told by Paul Little in his book “Know Why You Believe.” He relates that in 1861 the French Academy of Science published 51 scientific facts that controverted the Word of God. But today, no scientist in the world believes a single one of those “facts.” I believe that one day, maybe on the last day, every scientific fact or theory that currently casts doubt on the existence of God will be explained.

However, “all my mind,” an intellectual assent to the evidence for the Christian faith, is important but not sufficient. I have to also love God with all my heart and all my soul. My heart is a metaphor for my emotional engagement with God – relationship building, awe, adoration, love, worship. My soul as used in the Bible is really my whole being. My body, my intellect, my emotions, my sociality, my spirit, all need to be aligned in an active full-on faith, a willingness to grow and learn, and a determination to hold on in the face of strong challenges. And like the kids, trust The Teacher when He answers my questions.

My report card says “Christopher could do better and needs to improve. He should pay more attention in class and work harder to apply learnings in his daily life. Luckily, he does not have to pass this test in his own strength.”

God bless,

Chris

The USA in the tribulation. I am basing these thoughts on when the bible talks about an eagle it is a symbol, and we see the symbol for the US is an eagle. Now The USA has had its cities destroyed. The military will get destroyed if they attack, and because everything has got so high-tech, it would quickly lose all functionality without the logistical support. Because of corruption, most of the US military are for show and not for war. Russia, with a relatively small budget, has produced superior fighter aircraft. Hopefully, I will not be a lone voice, but the Lord will get this message out. Even though the USA will not be powerful, it will be the main opposition to the Antichrist and possibly a safe haven. I get this from where the eagle is mentioned, so let us have a look at where the eagle pops up. Rev 9 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!” That could be an American satellite or TV like Day star over the internet, but most likely radio transmissions or even a ship on the ocean broadcasting. I am suggesting that Christian radio from the USA will still be broadcasting at this point of the tribulation. The next mention Rev 12. The woman is given eagle wings to escape from what comes from Satan's mouth. This is the Christian Israelis escaping to somewhere safe. Do two or three American Aircraft Carriers send in planes and helicopters before Jerusalem is given over to the nations? The Antichrist is trying to hurt them and the Americans are rescuing them. This means they are enemies. If so, it is great news for them for of all the inhabitants of the world, only them and the 144000 are safe. A broken USA and a few other countries fighting the Antichrist to the end and the day of the Lord. This doesn't preclude a section of USA society is in the hand of the Antichrist and a battle is still in the land.

Now let's go back to the 144000 and Rev 14. The first angel flying over head says, “Fear God and give him glory because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.” This is what the 144,000 are preaching, and it must come before the fall of Babylon. The second angel cries “fallen fallen is Babylon the Great.” I am starting to see the fear God and repent and judgment has come being preached more and more. For more about the 144000, go to the blog “Fear God” the cry of the 144,000. If you have an overwhelming desire to preach “Fear God and give him glory because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.” You could well be part of the most select group of people that creation will ever see. The problem with knowing who they are is their lack of numbers. 144000 in a population of around 8 billion is one in every sixty thousand people. What they are saying will not be reported in the media or the vast majority of Mega churches. The Media these days is so controlled they could be active right now, and we are just not hearing it. This is a great worry to me as they are a key to times and dates. Keep an eye out for people teaching Fear God.

I often hear and read leave the USA, emigrate. But I am sure the USA is the place to be for Americans. Just make sure you can leave the cities and go to a place you have prepared. It is when the female president is saying I am no widow and have not suffered the loss of children.

So, in summary, we will look at the sequence of events.

Things will be revealed. We are seeing this in the current USA elections.

144000 cry Fear God and repent.

Financial collapse.

The queen declaring she will never be a widow or poor. Likely a female President. The last American President.

Violent attack.

Mega churches are in the large cities, so they will be no more.

The Christians in the country who lived there or fled there are going to have a move of God that will be indescribable. Never before and never again will such a thing happen in the flesh. This is not in the scriptures but a prophecy.

The USA becomes the nemesis of the Antichrist.

Christ's return.

There are some things in Revelations that are over a longer period, like the white and red horses. But there are some things that are the beginning of the end. The sign of the women in the heavens and the great calm before the 144000 appear.

This is happening now with the current USA elections. What we have seen with the Democrats and Republicans' corruption is mind-blowing. Because this is a spiritual thing, we are only just beginning and as the US heads to the November elections we will be shocked at what we will see.

The End is here now, we are living it, so be prepared.

Who are the hundred million in Revelations

You may be asking yourself what is the title about? They get a number of mentions in Revelations and once in Daniel 7.

 In Revelation 5 they just get mentioned as a number 10,000* times 10,000 sometimes called myriads of myriad  or one hundred million and as a great multitude. This number is also mentioned in Daniel 7. Let us pick out the scriptures that mention this group of people and put some light on them. The following is a list of scriptures that mention these saints. I feel a quick look will help clarify the subject.

Rev 6 9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

10They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” 11Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

Rev 7 9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshipped God,

 saying:“Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!”

Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”

I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Therefore, “they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

‘Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them, nor any scorching heat.

For the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd; He will lead them to springs of living water. ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes”

Rev 14 . There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labour, for their deeds will follow them.”

Rev 15-2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. 3 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb,

Rev 20-4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands.

They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Daniel 7-10 A stream of fire issued and came out from before him;

a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him;

When you pull the scriptures out about these people you get to understand how honoured they are. This hundred million are the first resurrection. It is pretty obvious that this is going to be the very opposite of the rapture. If you are a big rapture fan you are not going like the outcome of this essay.

Why 100 million? This number gets mentioned twice, once in Daniel 7 and in Revelations. The multitude standing before the throne. In Rev 5 it is a little unclear as to who they are. It mentions angels and then two numbers. Thousands of thousands and 10000 time 10000. Elders, angels and others. It would not make sense to say millions of angels and a 100 million angels when other scriptures say an uncountable number of people.

Just to side track for a moment this give us some idea of how many angels there are. If we say this is the same description as Daniel 7 then it is only one million. He says one a thousand thousands. That this thousand thousands served him and the 10000 times 10000s stood before him. This description of standing before him is the same as Revelations 6-11. This is the saints coming out of the tribulation.

 The description of standing before the throne is also linked with standing beside the sea of glass. The picture of the sea of glass and before the throne means that they are no longer on earth, they have died on earth.

How do they die or why? These are they that have come out of the great tribulation. Not before and not after but during. This is saying that 100 million saints are going to die during the tribulation. But why? Rev 15 describes it as 'those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands'. Rev 20 says 'those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands'. When the tribulation has started and those who can stand and be killed for that stance will be regarded as having victory over the Beast. This is very similar to Jesus as they killed him and thought that they had won but it was Jesus that had the victory because his purpose was to save us. He saved us by dying for our sins. Are there going to be internment camps and gas chambers? Maybe, but I suspect that not being able to buy and sell well kill most people. Starvation no access to medication, no power for heating will kill tens of millions. But violent deaths will take its toll as will.

What is so important and so blessed about these saints. The first idea they they are something special is Rev. 14 Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labour, for their deeds will follow them.” Then we get the real story in Rev 20 Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection.

  On one hand you have the rapture story saying we are not going to go though the tribulation. That every thing is going to be lovely and happy and who knows where you will end up. On the other hand we have a hard death but staying true to Jesus during this time will result in you coming back to life and reigning with Jesus for a thousand years. I speculate that this will not only include the thousand years but when we enter the new earth as well. There is another group that well rise in the first resurrection.  Those who had their heads cut off in the name of Christ. We see horror stories from the Middle East of beheading. These people will rise again to reign with Jesus. We get a chance to apologise for not coming to their aid. According to legend, Paul was beheaded so you will get to met him.

The rapture is truly an evil doctrine. It is making people completely unprepared for what is about to take place over the next ten years. It is making the saint in the USA ill prepare to be the only country fighting the Antichrist. Making the saints in the rest of the world weak for fighting and dying but gaining victory over him.

So do you want to be part of the first resurrection or do you think that your calling is to go through the tribulation and be part of the new world. There are two different types of people left. I hope you will take my word on this because working through the word will take a lot of work. The scripture I will use is that there are two people working at a mill, one is taken and one is left. Firstly, there must be enough people to use the product produced from this industry. Secondly, the person left is an Israelite how is taken to Israel.  Then there are the other left to populate the world. The word says these people will be rare as gold but gold is not that rare. If you want to survive I will give you the only advice I know. That is to remove Google, Twitter and Facebook completely out of your life.

Warwick

Why is the answer to did creation take seven days or 14 billion years Yes

Why is the answer to the question was creation done in seven days or 14 billion years yes. That's a unusual statement so lets see what the crazy man is talking about. The answer is in genesis 1. In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth.

Let us start with the earth and go back to the heavens. The Hebrew word used here for earth is haaretz this means earth, land, soil, dirt  etc.. Soil is made up of mixtures of elements and each element is made up of atoms. Atoms are made up of electrons spinning around a nucleus of protons and neutrons. Our main subject is this realm but let us have a quick look at the heavens.

Paul tells us there are at least three heavens. This third heaven that Paul tells us about is a place where Jesus dwells. So it is highly unlikely there would be a fourth heaven above it. If we look at scriptures you see three very distinct heavenly places; Paradise, Sheol, (called Hades) and the other we will call the kingdoms. The kingdoms are places that surround the earth and Paul tells us about them in Ephesians 6 – ‘For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.’ So we have three distinct places, three distinct heavens.

If we look, can we see any effect that these realms have on us physically? We have shown by modern science that we can only see 1 to 3% of our universe. The rest we describe as dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter being 30% and dark energy being the remainder, even though invisible energy would be a better description. However, we can see the gravitational effect dark matter has on us. So we can guess that one or more of the heavens has gravitational fields. They were all made at the same time and all disappear at the same time. The second heaven or kingdom is very close because beings can move from one to the other with ease. Often you will read that the heavens are made up of paradise, the stars, and the sky; paradise being a realm that God promises as a home to those who know and love Him. However, the stars and the sky cannot be called the heavens in a Genesis 1 sense because these are made up of atomic particles. These came into existence when God made the earth not  the heavens.

Let us get back to the 14 billion year or seven days problem. The bible doesn't tell us much. It says God made the universe that

the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Hebrews 11.3  says so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.’ and several times it says that the universe was stretched out. The big bang theory of the creation of the universe is the current accepted science model. It has a few problems and gets more each day. It is popular because it seems to be in direct opposition to the bibles seven days. Number one on the list of problems is that if there was a big bang the universe would have a particular shape to it. But it doesn't and there is an amazing evenness to the galaxies, the brightness of the most distant galaxies is not right and to the non Christian they are all moving away from us which makes the Milky Way the centre of the universe.   It was argued that it is an optical illusion caused by even expansion. However I was watching a lecture by an atheist called Lawrence Krauss, a genius and a gifted speaker. He was saying that none of the arguments for us not being the centre of the universe were any good but his one. It seemed really good but when you looked closely at it, it required the galaxies directly in front of us to be travelling at twice the speed of light. This is not possible and he effectively proved we are the centre of the universe. I was a bit overwhelmed to think that we are the centre of the universe. Static universe does not fit the maths, expanding universe does not fit the observation. It is as though some guiding hand stretched out the universe in a controlled manner so that every thing was even and in the place it should be. Fits the observation, the maths and the scriptures. What about the universe being made of things unseen. We can not see individual atoms or the protons,neutron and electrons they are made up of. However, when you pile them to get in a big enough pile you can see them. That is you and me. There has been a lot of news about a thing called the Higgs boson. This is a particle produced by the Higgs field that gives things mass. This field and the bosons are completely unseen and we can only see the results of it. Hebrews says things, plural, so in time I speculate that they will be saying that the Higgs field is just one of a number of fields that give the universe substance. This Higgs field was found at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. CERN being the name of the agency a hadron is a name for a group of particles that protons and neutrons are a part of. They have been zooming the protons around and smashing them into each other. They have shown that Hebrews 11.3 was a very accurate description.

Now this description that the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Is this a description of matter floating around the universe waiting for gravity to join it together. The maths says that is impossible as 14 billion years is on where long enough. So it must be a description of the earth itself before the sun ignited. The land had no shape and there was no life. The  world was covered in water and it was dark.

Let’s have a quick look at time and our galaxy. Time is a puzzle because it is actually minutely different for everybody. Time is affected by the speed you are travelling at. So if I go into the kitchen to make my wife a cup of tea, the act of walking into the kitchen slows down my time zone. You can also question whether time rally exists at all. Everything around us is just a sequence of events that start with the smallest things reacting in their natural parameters affecting the next thing and so on. Each thing affecting the next and larger thing. We measure these things as time as one thing moves to the next. But rather than giving empirical value to time we say that this perception of time is just in the mind of the observer and in fact has no empirical value to the sequence itself. That when went things travel faster it is not time that is slowing down but a kind of resistance is forming that slows the sequence down. This resistance is probably caused by the Higgs and other yet unfound fields. One of these wave fields is acting like fiction. The down side to time not having an empirical value and is nothing more than a though in the mind of an observer of sequential events is that both time travel and space travel will be impossible. All those Scifi programs will be ruined.

 Some of the latest string theory is removing time from its equations.

We have two perceived time zones, the one we are aware of that changes with speed. There is also the time zone that our spirit has. Our spirit is from God and God’s realm has a time zone. Because even in heaven things happen in a sequential manner. Time in effect is the measure of things that happen in a sequence with each event affecting the next in the sequence. We measure time in terms of the rotation of the earth but in the beginning there was no rotation of earth so the beginning of Genesis is a sequence of events that happen not in our time, but in God’s time. The time man is allotted to live is in relationship to our spirit’s time.  I reason this because we are now aware that the speed of light is slowing down.  A day of our time could appear as billions of years in the past. If the relationship of our spirit’s time is changing to our flesh time our life expectancy is going to change. If light is slowing down then time is speeding up. Our ancestors would have had far longer life spans than ours although our spirit’s life span would be the same.  This view of our perception of time can explain how we get seven days or fourteen billion years being yes but we will soon see a better reason.

Lets get away from time and back to the universe.

So when God said let there be light it was not a big bang experience but he ignited the sun - now let’s see what happens.

God saw that the light was good and God separated light from the darkness. What can this mean?  Let’s speculate. To separate light from darkness is not just separating day from night for all night is shadow and our nights are not without light but just a lot less light. As we discussed previously, four places have been created ... and one is a place without light. So there are no electromagnetic waves hitting Sheol, they must pass straight through.

Then Genesis 1:5 ends with the most overlooked words in the Bible by far. The real reason why the answer to the question is yes.

‘And there was evening and there was morning on the first day.’

Evening comes before morning. The day ends at sunrise which makes the first day any amount of time you want it to be because it does not have a start. The first day could be a billion years long or just 15 minutes. Now the sun is ignited and the solar system is starting to warm up we should see the results.

The second day and from now on we are dealing with actual days or one rotation of the earth.

‘And God said let there be an expanse in the midst of the water, and let it separate waters from waters. And God made the expanse and separated waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. God called the expanse heaven and there was evening and morning on the second day.’ The earth is heating up and the sky is getting cloudy. Remember that the clouds were one big covering that did not rain.

The third day

The next verse describes how the process continued until land appeared. Then on the land God put vegetation. Vegetation has the same kind of DNA structure as humans. In fact we are all 60% the same DNA as bananas. We are as much as 80% the same as some trees, although after reading this some of you may think that my percentage is a lot higher.

The fourth day

When the scriptures talk about making the sun, moon and stars it is talking about positioning them to rule the day and the night. God would not have created the vegetation the day before to die in the dark. This is making an elliptical orbit of the earth to create seasons and placing the moon in the right place to create tides and things like that.

The fifth day

Everything is now in place to make the higher creatures. The DNA was made a little more complicated to virtually the same as what man was going to have. All living things have the same DNA structure. This complex double helix molecule is the base of life. The double helix molecule is a program that allows creation to maintain the same form. It is an incredibly complex series of connections numbering in the billions. The probability of this occurring naturally is zero. Evolution is now incompatible with scientific theory. Though probably not so funny when you think it is the main source of racism. Making Darwin the father of racism. There is a benefit to evolution for Christians.  If you look at evolution from any science; from biology, chemistry, mathematics and even palaeontology it fails. Just pop over to the creation sites and you will get overwhelmed with rock solid proof. If you are really smart and want to believe it you have to really lie to yourself. If you are not so smart then it fails at a holistic level. You don’t need to understand the science and you can see it as a lie. Just look at the majesty of creation and you can’t help but see it was created and that is also inbuilt into our being.

Sixth day

This is the end of the creation story and the beginning of our story.

One last little point ... when the Lord gave Moses the story of Genesis and described a day - if he didn’t mean a day in Moses’ time, He would not have said it unless he meant one physical day.  Light was moving faster so time was going slower and remember that there is a time zone for our spirits. At this point when God was teaching Moses they must have been the same. The average age was 120 compared to our 80. That is two thirds, so we need to multiply the five days that the Lord created everything before man, by two thirds. So that means God created creation in three and a third days of our time.

I hope you find my take on Genesis enlightening and interesting..

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God bless you

Find this subject matter of time and space interesting. I highly recommend Chuck Misslers Beyond series. Follow this link Beyond time and space.