Stumped by UFO's

Shortly after 9pm daylight savings time this evening, only just over half an hour ago as I write this post, here in central Victoria, while I was sitting on the front porch and watching the clouds go by lit by the moonlight, I began to wonder about all this UFO phenomena and asked myself, "Would I be afraid if I saw one?"  Only two minutes later, that question was answered.

 

Just before going back into the house, as it was growing cold, I decided to take a brief walk up the driveway to scare off a rabbit that was messing around there and after I chased off the bunny and turned back to the driveway, as I turned to head back to the house, three bright lights in the sky caught my attention.

 

I looked up, toward the south-western sky, not far from overhead, and three bright lights were flying in linear formation, perhaps separated only by a few degrees of arc in the sky from one another, evenly spaced, with one leading, one in the middle and one trailing.  They made no sound, were of essentially the same brightness as each other, were far too bright for satelites (and satelites do not follow each other around in such neat formation), and were heading north east.  As they were almost directly overhead, a smaller light shot off at high speed towards the south east from the trailing light and quickly disappeared.

 

The whole thing lasted for about two to three minutes before they eneterd the shadow of the earth, so it is clear that their brightness was reflected sunlight, not their own light.  They were each as bright as the brightest stars in the sky though not as bright as Venus but perhaps as bright as Jupiter on a good, clear night.  The lights appeared to be a slightly blueish white so I imagine that is an effect of the reflectivity of the metal shells of the craft.

 

The middle one did not appear to be flying as steadily as the other two, with small, somewhat erratic deviations from its central position in the formation, jostling slightly to and fro, left and right, jittering as it were, sometimes a little closer to the leading one, sometimes a little closer to the trailing one, sometimes a little to the left or the right of the main trajectory they appeared to be on.

 

The last time I saw any such phenomenon was when I was about 12 years old, late one night outside in front of my parents' home, in suburban Melbourne.  That was 46 years ago.

Anyway, my question was answered... afraid?  No, but perhaps a touch of anxiety, especially considering I was just thinking about such phenomena which is not something I contemplate much to be honest, and there it was.

We are to expect a growing trend of strange events, but fear nothing of this world.  Fear God and worship Him only.

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Addendum 2023-11-05.

 

All too often, when describing such things as written above to someone else, they jump to the conclusion that you have yourself jumped to a conclusion, and they assume that you have not considered any other possibilities first, that you simply leaped immediately to "UFO" as an explanation (which, by its own definition, is actually the lack of an explanation) and that was that... but, of course, they are the ones making the assumptions, all too easy to do when they have not themselves been witness to the events and all too ready to dismiss such things with nary a second thought, in effect implying that the witness to the events is either stupid or gullible or given to delusional flights of fancy.

 

So, I should point out something about my approach to analysis...

 

"UFO" was the very last thing I thought of in spite of my earlier  contemplations.  Being an electronics design engineer with nearly 40 years of experience (i.e. not quite the sort of person one assumes is stupid or delusional), I am highly analytical, thoroughly logical and pedantic when it comes to details.  When I saw those things in the sky, my thoughts immediately turned to all manner of identifiable flying craft, beginning with the most obvious, whether terrestrial craft or spacecraft, and other things such as meteors, asteroids, et cetera, even missiles (God forbid!) among other things.  As I watched, my mind went through each possibility but, as it did, each possiblity was shot down by ongoing observations, strange things unlike anything I have ever seen, until all possibilities known to me were exhausted and then, and only then, I was left with "unidentified flying object", the very definition of what I had seen.

So, a friendly note on this... please be careful of how you react to people who describe such events, particularly people who, for all intents and purposes, are rational and logical and not easily inclined to delusions.  The right question to ask yourself would be, "If this is all a lie, what are they hoping to gain by it?"  Nobody goes around declaring they were witnesses to such things because they want everyone else to think that they are completely insane (that is, unless that person is already short of a few sheep in the top paddock).  So, please be careful with how you treat other peoples' strange experiences.  Otherwise, we only cause them to hide their experiences and we therefore have fewer accounts to go on regarding the signs of the times.  I am not suggesting that you simply believe whatever you hear, only that you do not write it off as nonsense without very careful consideration.

As for those things I saw, I cannot say what they were, I cannot say if they were manmade or something else (personally I lean towards the manmade explanation but, short of adequate evidence, I will not declare it so) and I cannot say who or what was piloting them, if at all.  All I can confidently say is that they were very strange and I could not identify what they were.

A Sapling about this Middle East War

A relatively small and undeveloped post about the war going on over there...

 

I do not believe it is the start of WWIII.  Of course, I could be completely wrong on that but it is my current belief that WWIII will start in an unexpected place and in an unexpected way, and starting in the middle east is hardly what one would call an "unexpected place" or an "unexpected way".

 

Many self-proclaimed "prophecy experts" (and I am unclear on how one earns such a title -- how does one become an expert on understanding events which have not yet occurred?) have stated innumerable times that the final great war will begin involving Israel, but I am of a different view.  I think it will start with an event in one of the Balkan states, or somewhere like that, leading to a preplanned invasion of Europe (specifically targeting Germany) and Turkey by Russia, and later attacks on the USA and perhaps on others by China, all leading to other nations being foolishly drawn into battle and resulting in their own great harm.  Those that avoid engaging in this coming war will probably fare the best.

 

Once it is a global war, it will then converge on the middle east with anti-Israel nations, taking their cue from Russia's trek west across Europe, and bearing down on Israel, which will itself be deserted by its very busy no-longer-so-friendly allies.  Eventually Russia and China will converge towards Israel as their battles elsewhere are flagging, the USA following them into that arena, and a standoff between Russia and the USA for a period will probably ensue.  If it occurs, that standoff will, I believe, eventually culminate in a global nuclear holocaust.  The whole war will probably last between two and three years and the ministry of the two witnesses will either bookend the war or begin during the war, and they will testify of the truth of Christ and His imminent return, with midnight being the darkest hour, the week of the nuclear holocaust.  It will not be long after that, perhaps less than a year, when they are murdered and their resurrection takes place a few days later.  It is shortly thereafter when the third woe and seventh trumpet occur, the return of the Lord, who will have His angels sweep the world clean of the remaining wicked and all that causes sin and then gather His own to himself.

 

Eventually, I will attempt to spell all or most of this out in more detail when (or maybe if?) I have the time to devote to it but, as always, I am not claiming to be a prophet, let alone a "prophecy expert" (whatever the heck that is), and everything herein written could be completely wrong.  Nevertheless, I write it because I believe that views like my own are unheard in the world and that all too many people are easily sucked into the poplular but often deeply misguided beliefs of so many so-called "experts", too many voices claiming to speak for God and yet disagreeing with each other, leading to the secular world seeing God as being somehow schizophrenic and, thus, non-existent, not a real god.   It is a great disservice to the Lord and those who unrepentantly continue on such a path will be held to account for maligning His Great Name.

 

The current war between Hamas and Israel is, I believe, simply setting the stage for the unification of Israel's regional opponents, with political, if not military, support of global powers such as Russia and China, and general opposition to Israel being fomented in extremely anti-Israeli MSM reporting of the horrors of what Hamas has done (mostly silence on that) but exaggerations and outright lies on what Israel does to defend itself.  The world must be brought to the point of standing against Israel for the end to come, for God to be shown gloriously victorious over all the nations.  It is the forces of darkness which are lashing out violently as their demise draws ever closer and, the closer it is, the worse such events will become.  Recall that Islamic states have not been unified for a long time and none of them acting alone has power to overthrow and destroy Israel but they will perhaps come to believe that all together they can.  Of course, the battle goes the way God decides, not men.

 

Trust God, not man, trust only the Ever Living God, our ever-loving heavenly Father.

 

 

A Stump about Censorship

It is growingly and glaringly apparent that the corrupt powers all around the world are desperately trying to implement full internet censorship of information, in particular from entirely independent sources that are not paid by powerful interests and are, in spite of human errors we all make, thus, almost incorruptible.  In their desperation to cling to power, all of which is built entirely on lies which are non-existent nothings that do not offer any real support since only the truth, which is the foundation for reality, can support anything at all, they seek to shut down all alternative voices and, therefore, stifle and destroy all alternative views, that is, all ideas that run contrary to their claims, those being that which attempt to justify their continued oppression, robbery and murder of others.  Independent thought, being that it will, sooner or later, draw nearer to the truth, must be completely curtailed and any person who continues in it must be destroyed.  The flailing, thrashing beast will only grow more desperate to survive and more violent and destructive as it goes to its inevitable, absolutely ineluctable demise.

However, never fear, for Christ Yeshua is the truth and Christ Yeshua has overcome the world and Christ Yeshua is the King of kings and Lord of lords and no false word can stand before Him; every one of them, with their unrepentant purveyers, will be destroyed.  God will not allow the truth to go without a voice for how can reality be voiceless and yet unreality have a voice?  That is a self-contradiction, it is impossible and can only be a momentary illusion... so, as pointed out in a post many moons ago, when all other free voices are silenced then the two witnesses will be that final voice before He returns and not a soul on earth will have the power to silence them.

Fear God, not man, and trust in the reality and truth and wisdom of God and not in the fairytales and foolishness of man.  Hope in the Lord is hope in the immovable Rock of Ages, the eternal, Ever Living God and anchored to that rock makes you immovable, too.  Ask Him to anchor you to Himself, ask with a humble and contrite heart, a heart He always hears, and you will also be built onto the eternal rock.