Observe the Numbers - Part 3 - Following up the follow-up

Now looking at the figures, it looks like the global pandemic death rate (daily deaths) is surging again.  I guess my initial guess was not on the money, after all, and I spoke too soon.  I wonder if it is related to a broader pattern?  Will have to wait and see.

I'll do some more digging and see if there is some way of getting a handle on this.

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Addendum 2020-04-18:

Actually, I suspect that the sudden jump in numbers of deaths is mostly (if not entirely) a result of recent revelations out of China where admission to a much higher mortality rate has been made (and is anybody surprised by that?... of course not!)  Most of those deaths would have been prior to the past week, perhaps even before March, and I suspect the numbers are yet a lot higher than has been admitted to so far, so this would severely skew the information, since all such reporting of past deaths, being that nothing is known about precisely when they occurred, are likely to be piled onto the data all at the same time, when they were finally reported and not when they occurred.

The result is that we may never know the true daily rate of deaths from this plague.  Lying governments and the criminal globalist enterprise we call "the U.N. and the W.H.O.", obstruct, skew, obfuscate and falsify data in every area into which they gain a foothold.  It is merely the way of the spirit we call, satan, the great liar and the father of lies.  After all, as pointed out in a much older blog post, the UN is the image of the beast referred to in the Book of the Revelation to John and, therefore, a type of "government" operating under the control of satan.  Remember that it is the dragon (a reference to the eternally lost, fallen one) who gives his power to the beasts and the image of the beast, that is, to their statesmen and representatives.  And what is his power?  It is the power to deceive.

I suspect that we will never see a full rollback of the rapidly growing totalitarian police state conditions now prevalent in western nations, even if the plague is completely eliminated.  That is the nature of the oppressive, controlling, evil spirit, that which we call, satan.

 

Observe the Numbers - Part 2 - Follow-up

It would seem that my post, "Observe the Numbers" (2020-03-29) was pretty much "on the money".  Note the global COVID-19 fatality rate graph (daily deaths) on this page...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/

(Scroll down for the graph, "Daily Deaths", which is the death rate, a little over half way down the page.)

You will see it peak at around April 7th and roughly level off until around the 9th, then go into a rapid decline.  Although the bars on the graph are a bit "bumpy", a smooth fitted curve would indeed show the peak around the 7th to the 8th.

Although I did say I would comment on this, right now I have little time to do so and will have to defer my post on this issue for another day.

Bread and Circuses

The expression, "bread and circuses", is, according to various sources, attributed to the Roman poet, Juvenal.  It speaks of the appeasement of the populace in an attempt to satisfy their base lusts for entertainment and filling the belly in order to distract them from the real problems resulting from a collapsing empire.

It has long been apparent to me that we live in the age of "bread and circuses".  For almost my entire 54 years of life to date, westerners have been obsessed with entertainment, mostly sports (circuses, games) and later, food (bread) with a plethora of televised cooking shows over the past three decades.  This is a clear signal of a collapsing empire, just as happened with Rome, and given that we really do still live in Rome, being a latter days version of it (consider how all of our governments and public institutions are closely related to the structures of ancient Rome), then it is not a stretch to recognise that the modern obsession with bread and circuses is an indicator of how close we are to the end.

However, what has really struck me is a popular television series, called, "Master Chef", which has risen to enormous popularity since its beginning a number of years ago.  This program, in its modern incarnation, began in Australia as a remake of a similar program that originated in Britain decades earlier.  The modern incarnation, however, has reached epidemic popularity around the world with now more than sixty countries airing their own versions of the program.

What really stands out, to me, anyway, is that this is a show which combines both bread and circuses and, given its huge global popularity, I cannot help but laugh out loud at how incredibly clear such a sign of the impending end can be and yet pass so many by unnoticed in the context of history, its apparent importance being about the show itself and its contestants rather than what it really indicates.  Such great importance has been placed on this program for all the wrong reasons.

Anyway, I thought that I would mention that in passing.

The Great Storm Just Barely Begins

I have been thinking about the Lord's visitation to me in 2011, when He came to me in a dream on the day of the anniversary of His resurrection (by the Jewish religious calendar, not the secular calendar).  We stood on a beach, something like a small, hidden cove, and the ocean was to the west, the land to the east and, looking north, there appeared a great long, dark cloud low on the distant north horizon, from as far as the eye could see from east to west.  The Lord, with His right hand, grasped my left shoulder and, with His outstretched left arm, He pointed north, saying, "Look, a huge storm is coming."  Recently, about a month ago, in the Spirit He said to me, "Now it begins."  At that moment I did not know or understand what He meant but, now, I think He was referring back to that "storm" He pointed out all those years ago.

This morning, when I finished my morning prayer, the Lord said to me, absolutely clearly, "Read Isaiah 51."  So I did...

Isa 51:1-23 ASV  Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.  (2)  Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.  (3)  For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.  (4)  Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.  (5)  My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.  (6)  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.  (7)  Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings.  (8)  For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.  (9)  Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?  (10)  Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?  (11)  And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  (12)  I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;  (13)  and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?  (14)  The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die and go down into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.  (15)  For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.  (16)  And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.  (17)  Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.  (18)  There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up.  (19)  These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?  (20)  Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.  (21)  Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:  (22)  Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again:  (23)  and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

I would recommend you look up words in Strong's concordance, words, among others, such as Rahab (H7293) - "From H7292, bluster (blusterer): - proud, strength.", wherever you do not have an absolutely clear understanding of the meaning of a word or verse in the context of the chapter and recognise its context today, remembering that Christians are Israel, also.

If you do not have a bible with Strong's numbers, you can download e-Sword, which is free bible software and, among many other features, includes copies of the bible in many versions among which is the King James version with Strong's numbers and a Strong's Concordance is also available.

Observe the Numbers

Given what I posted last time, I thought it would be interesting to observe something, not that it makes any difference to anything but my scientific background compels me to always observe and try to understand things.  My thought is that the global pandemic death rate will peak at around (roughly) the 9th of April and then flatten and decline thereafter.  It would be very telling if it does, for reasons I may mention later... if it does.  Just thought that I would mention this in passing.

Stay safe, sage, sound and saved in Christ.

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Just by the way...
... watch out for a large earthquake around the 9th and up to the 13th of April.  By large, I mean one that is deadly.  Don't know whether or not this is due but watch out, anyway.

Life in Draconia

I fell asleep in Australia and awoke in Draconia.

As I sit here the prime minister of Australia is being grilled, on television, by nitpicking and foolish young "journalists" who seem intent only on tripping him up instead of offering the support a government and nation under enormous stress actually need.  I cannot express just how vile and disgusting those on the left really are, there simply are no words.

As the prime minister said, these are draconian measures that are being implemented, and he is not taking this lightly, nor is he kidding.

So, this is life under a police state, or the beginning of it, anyway.

Do not shake hands, do not stand closer than one point five metres from another person, do not congregate in public or in private, do not go out if it is not essential, do not do what you normally do, so, do nothing.  I am not angry about this, it was inevitable because of the insane policies of the left which have made the transmission of infectious diseases across the planet easier and quicker than anything in all of history.  Knowing the wickedness of the UN, however, it will be their opportunity to exert their long-sought after totalitarian global control through their bribed-by-China, morally compromised W.H.O.  I hope and pray they never get their way.

Welcome to Draconia.

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Correction:  I mistakenly wrote here that it was on the 12th of January when I first published an update to a post regarding the seeming need for war but the correct date is the 1st of December, 2019, at the bottom of the post entitled, "Monstrous Evil" (that post published first on the 21st of November, 2019).  I said that this world needs a war, not because I like war (I despise it) but because the current state of morality and truth in western civilisation is at an all time low and has, as far as I can tell, leapt off the cliff and into the bottomless abyss, and a war seems to possibly be the only thing left that can shake the nations to the core and bring some level of correction back into the national psyche.  Such events have a historical precedent.

Well, I guess we have a war of sorts, though not the way I had imagined.  If these current events do not begin to bring some correction back into the social conscience of our societies, then only a truly devastating war stands a chance, but that will really be the end.  The scriptures tell us that it is coming, so, I guess this current crisis will ultimately have no impact aside from large numbers of lives lost.  I feel deep sadness, now, but know that for those in Christ the hope of the resurrection remains... and there is no true hope but that hope which is in the Lord.

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Addendum 2020-03-26.

I want to be absolutely clear on something in case anybody reads into what I wrote something that I definitely did not write.  This so-called pandemic is not the wrath of God.  If it was then the devastation would have been very rapid and immeasurable and there would be nothing but hopelessness confronting the godless hordes.  The widespread outbreak of a viral infection causing socio-economic collapse of western nations is, if anything at all, merely a consequence and a warning; a warning because things will only grow worse the more we ignore God and consequential because it is the result of mankind turning his back on God for far too long, the eventuality being that God is withdrawing His protection from the consequences of our sins.  This type of thing is clearly described in the Book of the Revelation to John where it speaks of the one who restrains being taken out of the way.  Anybody who has read the posts I wrote a couple of years ago, regarding the false ideas about a rapture, knows precisely what I mean.  In any case, if these events are the beginning of that final withdrawal of God's protection then we are truly in the time of the end, but only time will really tell.  Whatever time it may be in prophetic history, it is wise to be prepared as if we had already entered into the final years of mankind's self-rule.  Personally I believe that they are but, again, time will tell.

However, here is something interesting... listen to this video from 31:48 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oryu8QIcQrU 
(Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries).

Pastor Biltz points out that in the very first passover the Israelites were couped up in their houses while the destroying angel passed through Egypt killing all the firstborn but passed over the Israelites.  So, what do we see happening right now as passover approaches us in two weeks time?  People are couped up as a destroyer goes about the earth (perhaps as a sign that signifies more than just our moral failures), so this coming passover the Jews will be couped up indoors, just as it was during the first passover roughly 3500 years ago.  Not only will physical Israel be couped up indoors but, likewise, the extended family of spiritual Israel, which are the true Christians.

I recommend you watch the entire video since Pastor Biltz always has significant insights.  I do not necessarily agree with all that he says but one does not have to be in perfect agreement to learn and discover things others may offer some, even partial, insight into.

Under the Macroscope

I was thinking about the way society has reacted to this current disease problem and it suddenly dawned on me that the reaction of society as a whole on the maco scale closely mimics that which occurs on the micro scale in those who then die as a result of the disease.

From reports that I have read regarding the progression of the disease and, in particular, the conditions which lead to death of the victim, what happens is that there is an early under-reaction of the immune system to the virus, perhaps due to slowness of response or lack of response altogether caused by pre-existing factors such as advanced age, compromised immunity, etc.

What then follows, as the virus takes hold, is an eventual over-reaction of the immune system, a veritable onslaught of antibodies being produced as a result of the already widespread infection.  The consequence is that the immune system of such a person does as much damage as the virus, potentially even more, leading eventually to death.

Isn't this precisely what we have seen occur on the macro scale in society?  There was an initial under-reaction to the reports coming out of China and, later, elsewhere, and people continued in their daily lives as if nothing had changed.  This was aided and abetted by a slack, lazy, politically driven mass media who lulled the populace into complacency and foolishly believed the played-down reports coming out of a nation whose government has a clear track record of lying and suppression of the truth, even to the point of murdering its citizens.  However, since China is politically aligned with the fools in mass media, most of whom are far left leaning moral imbeciles, the warnings coming from more conservative voices were not being heard and were even being played down as alarmist and even "racist", the usual go-to for the fools of the left.

Then, as the virus took hold in European and Middle Eastern nations, the meteoric rise of numbers of infections and the ever increasing death toll lead to an over-reaction by the lefty media fools and all the complacent "me-first" masses resulting in lock-downs and the onset of total social and economic collapse.

Does this mean that western civilisation is about to perish?  I do not think so for one simple reason; western civilisation is already dead.  Dead things cannot again die.

The takeaway for me from all of this is that my experience of the repetitiveness of patterns throughout creation across both time and space and any other way one can think of is as consistent in a matter such as this current crisis as it is in the old saying that history repeats itself.  We also see this in the prophecies outlined in scripture where each prophecy has both a literal physical fulfillment and a spiritual fulfillment, and each can happen on multiple scales.  This is a pattern of patterns and it has long fascinated me, especially because of my engineering background, since I learned from an early stage that a mathematical concept used to model a physical system seems to show up in the same form over and over for all manner of different systems, and this same pattern of patterns concept seems to underly absolutely all things, physical and spiritual, because information, no matter what form it is presented in, retains its characteristics and that is spiritual reality.

Perhaps at some time in the future I will write about my understanding of just what spirit really is and how it underlies all existence and is not actually separate from physical reality but underpins every single aspect of it.  Alternatively, the Lord has other plans for me, but the revelations He has given me over the years must have been given for a reason, though I do not yet know precisely what that reason may be.  Time will tell.

Meanwhile, consider buying yourself some tonic water since it contains quinine.  I am not certain of this but in considering the drug used to treat malaria that has had success in treating this virus, that drug was developed as a result of the success of quinine in treating malaria and, in fact, tonic water is a product of the time when malaria was a widespread problem, thus its name, "Tonic Water".  The problem is that the quinine in tonic water is possibly too dilute to have any significant effect on an already infected person if it has any effect at all.  The modern drug used to treat malaria (most cases) and which has been successful in treating this new disease is called hydroxychloroquine.  As is evidenced in its name, the tail end of the name, "quine", does indeed derive from the word, "quinine", since the drug is related to quinine, though not the same in a significant sense.  Thus it remains uncertain to me whether it is that component of the drug that has the impact, in which case it might be possible that quinine, and thus, tonic water, has an impact, perhaps not to eliminate the infection but may actually slow it down or prevent it from becoming too dangerous.  However, if that part of the drug is not the effective component then tonic water may have no effect.  Nevertheless, I have several bottles of tonic water (I always keep some as a drink, anyway) and if I should find myself affected directly by this currently virulent strain of the disease, I will probably try tonic water in case it has some effect to improve the outcome.  Who knows, it just may be that simple and nothing is lost in trying, anyway.  By the way, should you purchase any tonic water due to my comments here, I take no responsibility over your behaviour but strongly advise you to only get what you may need (perhaps 4 to 6 bottles).  Further, keep this knowledge to yourself for now because I do not want to cause a mad rush for tonic water when it may end up being of no use at all, since panicking godless people behave in the most atrocious way and can do much more damage than the illness itself, and may God watch over you in any case.

Monstrous Evil

Although I generally do not post to this blog any more, this needs to be aired...

(link) The BBC - teaching British school children to celebrate "more than 100 genders"

Every time I hear of this kind of wickedness, the following verses come back to mind.​

Mat 18:6-7 KJV  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.  (7)  Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comet 

​The people at the BBC are in very deep trouble, as are those in governing authority who made law of wickedness, and every teacher, principal and administrator in every school where these things are being taught and who does not oppose it.  How many God-fearing innocent children are being subjected to this monstrous evil?  The Lord never used the word (translated into English as) "woe" lightly.  He rarely said it but always used it in a manner as to indicate deeply serious trouble for those upon whom woe would come.

This tells me that remaining time has to be short.  The western world, once a haven for truth and freedom, has become a gulag for the mind and a snake pit for the careless and spiritually blind wanderer.  If the Lord said that woe would come, then you can be absolutely certain that woe will come.

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Addendum 2019-12-01.

The world needs a war.  Yes, you read that correctly and, as much as I loathe war, the world is now at a point where the only thing that can help western civilisation to survive is war.

This gender fluidity garbage and all this safe space nonsense, sexual immorality, feminism, paganism in general, persecution of the righteous, climate alarmism based on completely falsified data and erroneous ideas, and so forth, all amounting in the end to one form or another of idolatry, is what happens when a civilisation has not seen war invade for too many generations which have grown from foetus to adult while being mollycoddled in a life of luxuriant excess, ease and self-indulgence.

Just like lightning in a storm disinfects an area of its dangerous build-up of biological pathogens, war at home disinfects a country's morals and ideologies, generally peoples' world-views, reducing the concentration of parasites among the survivors because they are forced to grow up and face reality... or perish... but unfortunately it also has an adverse effect on the rest.  Perhaps that is necessary to ensure that they help keep others from falling into this infantile morass later on.

As already mentioned, I absolutely hate war but it seems the world is in need of global lightning!  Nothing wakes you up like the crack of a lightning bolt less than 50 metres away, which is something I have experienced on several occasions, and nothing will wake up a dying civilisation like deadly invaders on the coasts and in the air.  It will be either clean up or die... no more muddling in ideological manure.

Historically, under the types of circumstances in which we find ourselves now mired, war is inevitable.  Prepare yourself because it could come at any time.

To Believe in Evolution is to Believe in Perpetual Motion

"Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine." -- Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann.

The above-stated principle has been the subject of countless experiments and the development of the physics of thermodynamics as well as many other areas, especially where energy, information and complexity are concerned.  It has never even once been falsified, not even on a small scale.

The natural process of the decay of any physical system of any significant complexity beyond natural atomic and very simple molecular and crystalline structures is such that it is in accord with the principle as stated above by Boltzmann.  Even simple molecular and crystalline structures are subject to this process and, ultimately, so will atomic structures and even subatomic particles eventually fall into decay, given a long enough time in this current universe without the Creator's intervention.  To be sure, Boltzmann, like a few others of recent history, was brilliant and incisive.  It may seem an obvious thing to us in this day and age but such things always do after somebody had the insight to recognise and point it out.

The very concept of macro-evolution, as suggested by Darwin and many others since, Dawkins in particular, would only be possible if precisely the opposite of Boltzmann's statement were actually true.  Not only must it be possible to return to a state of equal probability but, in fact, it must be possible to go to an even less probable state without intelligent intervention.  This also includes the evolution of the universe from "nothing" and other forms of evolution of increasingly irreducibly complex systems.  For such forms of evolution to be possible, it must be true that a system can progress from a more probable (less ordered, less irreducibly complex) state to a less probable (more ordered, more irreducibly complex) state.  This would defy all known physics.  The assumption has to be that there is some form of as yet unknown physics that coexists with known physics while simultaneously directly countering it.  Such a system would be complete chaos and nothing logically predictable would or could ever occur.  Yet that is not the state in which we find ourselves, so either known physics is true and evolution is false or evolution is true and known physics is false.  It cannot be both ways.  Since my computer, cell phone, electrical systems, biological systems, and so forth, all seem to operate in accordance with known physics, I think I will stick with the first of the two aforementioned possibilities.

In short, to believe in evolution is to believe in perpetual motion machines and the possibility of over-unity power generators, as such would be the outcome given that Boltzmann's statements were the opposite of the truth.  If such systems as over-unity generators were naturally possible, producing more output energy than consuming as input, the universe would have long since destroyed itself or, if not, where has all the energy gone?  More mysterious and conveniently undetectable and ever-increasing dark matter/energy that will forever elude us?  Are we now to defy the principle of the conservation of energy?  Interesting how the idea of increasing irreducible complexity through natural means also implies the certainty of an unlimited energy buildup that would utterly destroy all that complexity in the first place.  This form of reasoning is heavily used in mathematics, where one first assumes as true what one is demonstrating to be false and after rearranging the equations one arrives at a conclusion whereby the initial assumption contradicts and, thus, falsifies itself, since it cannot be both true and false simultaneously.  "Schrödinger's cat!" did I hear you say?  The concept of multiple superimposed states of varying probability pertains to measuring a system and not to the system's actual state.  It is merely a convenient tool whereby we presume all possible states exist simultaneously until we collapse the multi-valued state into a single state by making the experimental observation.  That such a multi-valued state actually exists in any real physical way is a completely unprovable claim.  Additionally, the more probable states will occur more frequently so the trend will always be from less to more probable as a system progresses through possible states and, for systems of virtually uncountable possible states, there is an uncountable number of states of higher probability than any less-than-certain state one might care to consider in the first place.  In any case, in the same manner as the mathematical approach just mentioned, Darwinian evolution and its kin are self-negating concepts.  The universe has not incinerated itself and all natural systems continue to progressively decay, moving ineluctably toward states of increasing probability.

Psa 10:4 ASV  The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Psa 14:1b ASV  The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.

Frankly, I don't believe in fairies.  Dawkins and his ilk are the biblical definition of fools.  There are many who believe in the nonsense of evolution but the most educated who do so are the greatest fools.  Their so-called "wisdom" is utterly contemptible.  Sad, really, because I am certain that Dawkins has the capacity for greatness.  He simply refuses a love of the truth.

Pride is deadly.

On Discerning the Deceiver

A relatively short post... being that I am strongly inclined to write quite long posts, perhaps a rest for these arthritic fingers -- Ross River virus induced -- would be in order now and then, especially because a very large part of my work involves CAD and coding.

Anyway, it is all very simple and quite scientific.  In science, as any sagacious sapient (yes, I used an adjective as a noun... please don't shoot me) would understand, all meaningful theories must be logically self-consistent and, being that they operate within a closed system, the universe, must be logically consistent with all other theories of things, within that same universe, that are themselves still standing so that the theory of everything must ultimately be ONE consistent and logically perfect theory.  (I say "closed universe" because, regardless of whether or not it has or has not infinite spatio-temporal extent, it is closed in that the laws of nature do not change and are consistent throughout, so all physical phenomena must operate within the confines of those laws.)  This is what one may term the "world view", whether it be based in science, philosophy, religious beliefs, whatever.  To disprove any theory, all that is necessary is to find a single logical inconsistency and the whole edifice collapses.  One can never prove a theory true because, even though some experiment may seem to validate a certain aspect of a theory, there are an infinite number of possible scenarios within which the theory, or aspects thereof, must be tested and must not fail in every single case.  It is easier simply to find just one thing that is wrong and discard the theory (often, theories are not actually completely discarded but are revised, but this is in essence the same thing since the revised theory is logically different from its predecessor and is, therefore, a different theory that merely bears some similarity to the previous one).  The success of an idea depends on how well it has withstood the onslaught of assaults from testing.  Tests must be such that they test a unique aspect of the theory which would result in a discernibly different outcome for other known theories of the same phenomena.  However, this does not ever rule out the possibility of a new and different, as yet unknown, theory that would produce the same results in this test as that theory currently under investigation, thus the impossibility of proving a theory true.  Nevertheless, the more such tests a theory does not fail under, the more trusted the theory becomes in spite of its imperfections (there are no perfect man-made theories of anything), though it is never to be accepted as indisputable fact.  It is ALWAYS disputable.  There is no room for consensus in science.  Scepticism, with an enthusiastic desire to test and discover, putting aside all expectations, is the only honest scientific approach.  A single fact can topple a theory that has stood up to thousands of tests over thousands of years but no amount of success can establish a man-made theory as perfect.  Note that scepticism does NOT equate to doubt or denial.  Scepticism is merely the initial acceptance of the null hypothesis until said null hypothesis is sufficiently well demonstrated to be in doubt. 

Moving on...

So, what has all this to do with discerning the deceiver?  Quite simple, really.

Truth is such that every aspect of it is an aspect of the perfect theory of everything and, therefore, must be absolutely logically consistent and all-encompassing.  It must be ONE.  Too many Christians make the mistake of trying to discern the lies of the deceiver by learning about all of his tricks in a vain attempt to spot them all.  The devil has thousands of years of experience in this matter... how foolish we are to think that we can outwit him.  The problem is that there is no end to the number of possible tricks that can be used to beguile one into believing nonsense, illogical scenarios couched ever more deeply in seeming truths.  That is, there are an infinite number of possible lies buried in an infinite variety of frameworks of apparent truth.  Obviously far too much to deal with.

So, rather than waste precious time trying to know all of the tricks of the deceiver, why not simply spend that time getting to know the truth?  That is tantamount to spending all of that valuable time getting to know Christ.  Once you are saturated with truth, with His Spirit (the assumption being made here that you have already received that first seed of truth, you are already born again of the Spirit, for without that seed the tree cannot grow), any lie that comes along will become apparent, not always in a direct sense but often as a deep sense of suspicion, even if you do not immediately understand why your "gut" feels that way.  Do not misunderstand, I do not speak here of basing a decision on an emotional response but merely that hidden information can trigger emotions.  It is a deep-seated sense of suspicion, a kind of scepticism, a knowledge that something is amiss without immediately knowing exactly what is wrong.  Essentially, it is the result of a deeply buried neural response to a complex pattern which has, possibly, never been directly consciously linked before.  It takes time to dig it out.  Emotional responses, as decision-makers, tend to mislead and cannot be trusted but must be carefully analysed so that only decisions based on the logical outcome of such an analysis, which takes into account all external factors, can be trusted.  An emotional response may alert you to your deep seated suspicion but, without careful analysis, no sensible decision can be made.  In any case, you will be on guard against every possible manner of deception even without knowing how it works.  Untruth will "smell bad" in a spiritual sense.  The words may appear all very flowery and appealing, even flattering (an oft-used snare) but the flowers will smell bad, if you are so immersed constantly in truth that it becomes, as they say, "second-nature".  You will sense something is wrong even if it takes you a month of Sundays to work it out later.  More importantly, becoming completely imbued with the Spirit of Truth will lead to developing the precious fruit of the Spirit which is treasured in the citizens of the eternal kingdom of God.  That fruit cannot grow if the tree's growth is stunted by a lack of proper nutrient and clean water... which is what would happen to those whose focus is always on the enemy and his schemes.

Don't waste time discovering the wiles of the devil... spend your life getting to know God and, as you draw nearer to God, the devil will flee further from you.  Soon enough you will see the deceiver coming while yet miles away.  The problem with science, as we know it, is that it is never certain of the truth.  The beauty of knowing God is that He is the truth.

Mat 6:33 KJV  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things (everything you actually need) shall be added unto you.

When Michael Called

I do not know how much longer this blog will be on-line for things are afoot and the time of completion is drawing near, but I have only few things left which I wish to expound upon via this electronic medium in the coming days and months, for I sense that I now stand on the precipice of my future, standing on the threshold of a doorway through which I must venture, never to return to the land of darkness.  However, I want you to know, even just with a minimal understanding, of one thing that has been a part of what led me to this place of walking with the Eternal God, and only by His hand could this ever have happened.  He is the one who chooses, He is eternally upon the throne, for He knows the end from the beginning, He knows all that is in our hearts before time itself.  Though I have been utterly unwilling to speak of this, even just touching upon it, in bygone days, I sense that, nearing the time of fulfilment of His word to me, I should reveal a little more for those whose hearts still waver a little that your confidence in the God you serve, the Ever Living, Ever Loving God, is never misplaced.  Bear in mind, though, that this is just a little, just one thing of many.  It may seem unbelievable to some but I have no reason to create such a fanciful story and the spirit within me does not allow me to divert from the truth, for it is the Spirit of truth and of prophecy, the Spirit of the Lord.

When I was only a sapling, one night I lay awake in bed, as I am wont to do having sufferend insomnia and depression most of my days, but one particular night was different.  I lay there, unflinching though terrified, as the radiant man walked to the foot of my bed and sat down, making the bed creak.  His face was as the brightness of day.  Leaning slightly forward, he looked intently at me and, smiling, he said aught, remaining silent as the still night.  Though he caused me no reason to fear, I was too afraid to draw the covers over my face, my visage perhaps contorted with dread and anxiety as I stared in disbelief, my heart pounding like never before.  Was it a ghost?  I did not believe in such apparitions but could not think of another explanation at that time for I was young and inexperienced, lacking in understanding and knowledge.  I was only nine.  After a minute or so, which at that time seemed more like ten, he arose and, walking to the other side of the room, vanished from before my eyes.

The day eventually came, though I suffered an almost sleepless night.  What if he came back?  Fear would grip me for the remainder of the dark hours.  Only due to extreme weariness did I finally succumb to a heavy, albeit brief, slumber.  Of course, my parents were not willing to believe me when confessing what I saw, come the daylight hours.  It must have been a dream, a nightmare... but, if so, I am yet to awaken.

No, that was no dream.  It took me forty years to finally understand who it was and, perhaps, why.  At a young age, I tried in vain to dismiss it as a dream or a visitation by the ghost of my maternal grandfather, for it happened in the land of Galicia in the northwest of Spain, where also is believed to be entombed the remains of one of the sons of thunder, Saint James.  I was in the house of my mother's childhood when this happened, though her father had been dead long before I was born.  I found out, many years hence, that he is buried in Newark, near New York in the USA, a long way from Galicia.  I have his name as my first given name and my natural father's name as my second given name, so I carry the memory of their names with me.  However, the face of the one I saw looked not a jot like the photographs of my grandfather, nor like any other relative, living or dead.  The man I saw was tall and he wore some kind of formal robe which was whiter than fresh, powdery snow on a mountain peak.  I could not describe the colouring of his skin or hair because he was completely illuminated, radiating light from within, his raiment all brilliant with the same light.  That he radiated like a lamp is something which I discovered, a mere fifteen years later, to be a real phenomenon.

Throughout my life there has been a series of people called Michael whose influence on the direction of my life has been profound.  It was only a few years ago that I got to wondering why that happened... it seemed so strange, too much of a coincidence, this stream of very influential Michaels, like a powerful river in time running through my life.  I recalled the hidden message in the names of the patriarchs leading up to Noah, and even beyond.  So, out of curiosity and, perhaps also, divine inspiration, I listed the surnames of the Michaels in chronological order and, looking up the meaning of each one on-line, taking the first proper explanation found for each name, I discovered a hidden message, a message so profound to me and so unbelievable that I sat there in shock and disbelief... again.  I felt faint, goosebumps exploded right across my entire being, my heart raced, a cold sweat broke out and I simply stared at my screen, pallid as a dead man.

The hidden message, formed by the surnames of a series of seven Michaels, five who played major roles in my life and two who played minor roles which could be ignored without loss of message meaning but whose presence only serves to reinforce the message's particularity, beginning with the first Michael who was a friend and neighbour of my parents when I was conceived, born and for a number of years thereafter, and ending with a Michael who is currently my friend and coworker and whose appearance in my life was that which caused me to wonder about this phenomenon, describes perfectly the location in which I currently live in terms of the geography, both natural and man-made artefacts, the location's name which is inherently of a geographical description befitting the area, and appears to touch upon my purpose.  The description is not generic; it is quite specific, unique in that no other location do I know of that could fit, and the message is prophetic in nature.  I cannot repeat it here for this is personal and not for the ears of the general public amongst which are far too many wicked but, of a surety, it came by the hand of the Ever Living God.  It is such that one may relate it to the most trusted of friend or family but, even then, I am very reluctant and keep it to myself, except that the last Michael has been given some limited understanding.  I merely tell you of its existence, not for my benefit but for yours, that you may believe in the Ever Living God and His Christ, that your faith may no longer falter or be swayed or diminished by what is coming upon this dark world.

Nobody else but God could have orchestrated such a thing for it requires someone outside of the limitations of causality, someone who transcends all time.  Of such there is only One.  By this did I know that the one who had visited me when I was nine years old was, most certainly, the great archangel, Michael, for if I place him within the message, his very appearance is itself a message for it provides a second witness to what the message means and, thus, why I am here.  Even within the surroundings of my location are names supporting the message, a river and a mount upon which I live, of which I dreamed almost a year before I found this place, not immediately realising it was that which I dreamed until I saw it from a new perspective, a road I had not driven before then.  Even my surname at birth is descriptive of where I am now, so what of my given names, surely they are inspired of the Lord for a purpose we are yet to see.  I had been here almost eleven years when the message was finally no longer obscured from my eyes.  Yet, there remains one part to be revealed, so the time is not yet but I believe that it is near.

Without the first Michael, without the direction his influence set upon my life, I would never have met the second and, thus, the third and so forth with the rest and, consequently, the last for I would never have come to live at this isolated place upon this mount.  Without the last Michael, I would never have discovered the message that began with the first.  Sitting down to write out a brief and abridged autobiography that listed the ways in which each Michael influnced my life, including the way that influence led to meeting the next in some indirect manner, I realised that not one of them ever knew another.  How much stronger a witness would I need for the hand of God?  My first and last girlfriends, decades in the past (for I have lived in solitude before the Lord for a great time now) were both red-heads by the name of Christine, which means of Christ.  Why?!  Between them was one by whose dear friends I came to be baptised in the Lord, and her name was Michele, the feminine form of Michael, though her surname is not part of the message for they are all men.  Perhaps it should be.  This is only barely scratching the surface, but I digress and will not speak much more on it.  There is no excuse for me to doubt... and yet, when times are tough, this evil flesh wants to do just that... doubt!  Oh, woe is me, that I should know the secrets of the eternal kingdom and yet harbour this evil in my flesh!  Who can save me from this body of death?  The Ever Living God, the Glorious One of Israel!  Who else?

There have happened to me numerous astonishing things throughout my life, even a visible mark of His ancient Name upon my right thigh, and the number of times His enemy, the enemy of life and truth, has attempted to take my life from the face of the earth and has been thwarted, if only just, by His hand, I cannot count.  I am here for a reason, as was prophesied over me shortly after the Spirit of God was upon me with power, as was spoken by the mouth of the Eternal One in eternity past, for we are His and have forever been upon His unfailing heart of eternal faith and love.  In truth, He was always with me, even from the day I was conceived.

So then, what is the meaning of the name, Michael?

It is a rhetorical question, and it declares, Who is like unto GOD?!  Yes indeed!  Who?  I know not one!

Fear not, you who are always faithful to the Ever Living God, our Heavenly Father, fear not you whose heart is set continually upon Yeshua our Salvation.  It is His good pleasure to see the salvation of our souls, even by the precious blood of His only begotten Son, who reigns with Him forever, may His name be forever praised, and to bring us into His house and with us even many wretches who have hated the wickedness of this world, to fill His house that it may be full, to fill it with us and all those in the lanes and roadways who are lame, blind, deaf, dumb, the beggars, the lepers, the hated and despised by this world of Satan's kingdom, despised for the sake of the Lord's name, for the sake of the truth, so that the wedding feast may be joyous and a great exultation in the heavenlies and upon the earth, so that all may fall before Him who is and was and forever will be, the great and eternal, Ever Living God, may the praise of His name never, for all eternity, depart from my lips, amen!

Things We Already Know

There are a ridiculous number of people claiming to have received visions from God.  Almost invariably, these are actually dreams but they like to call them "visions" for dramatic effect and to make themselves sound more important.  The vast majority of these so-called "visions" involve seeing or experiencing events which are already constantly on peoples' minds.

For example, dreaming of a massive earthquake hitting California is hardly a dream from God.  The reason is simple:  God does not inform us of things we already know or believe.  Dreams and visions from God are invariably TRUE REVELATIONS of some kind... but a dream about California being destroyed by a major earthquake is hardly eligible for the status of revelation.

Geologists have been speaking and writing about such an event for well over a century.  Cinematographers have made numerous films of such an event.  Millions of people speak about it on a daily basis and it is clear to anybody with a brain that the frequency of strong earthquakes has been on a dramatic rise over the past twenty years, informing us of where we are in accordance with the Lord's own words regarding the time of the end.  On top of it all, California is perhaps one of the most morally depraved places in the world, so much so that God's protection of it from the evil consequences of sin is by now all but completely withdrawn.  Where is the revelation in such a dream "vision"?  Is there something there, some obscure point being made that will reveal something new?  Is it any surprise, any at all, that having been bombarded by all of that information I have just mentioned week after week over many years that people are going to have dramatic dreams about a massive earthquake destroying California or any other somewhat seismically active place, for that matter?

The same principle applies to many things we hear about.  There are people calling rapture "visions" a vision from God but it is just a dream they have after spending endless days and even years reading about it, thinking about it, talking about it and so forth.  There are many such nonsensical claims being made, with people claiming that "God gave me a dream about this..." and "God game me a vision of the night about that..." and so forth.

There are simple rules of thumb you can use to protect yourself against this insanity because listening to these people or watching their worthless YouTube videos will eventually cause you nothing but great anxiety and perhaps even mislead you into taking foolish actions or missing important and genuine prophetic visions or dreams.

First, consider the main content being referred to.  This can usually be done without even watching the video or listening to the audio.  The title often says enough but sometimes you need to dig a little.  If it is claiming to confirm something already well known or widely believed then just ignore it.  Such a "vision" will reveal nothing, it has no revelational value.

Secondly, assuming there seems to be something of value, examine the content in the powerful light of the revealed word of the Lord.  Does it run counter to even the smallest point?  Remember, a single fly in the jar of perfume can make the entire thing stink.  If it stinks, flush it away.  Obviously there are claims made that can neither be confirmed nor denied by scripture but there are other tell-tale signs and, additionally, one should not concern oneself with non-scriptural prophetic claims.  It may be true or it may be false and there may be no way to tell up front before the time is passed, so it is perhaps not worth being concerned about.

Finally, having reached this point, examine the "prophet's" history if he or she has prior form.  Does this person make frequent prophetic claims?  If so, do any predictions of future events come true or are the predictions falsified?  To dodge this bullet, many have been careful not to put a timeline on their claims but claims of a generic nature are always eventually fulfilled and such "prophecies" reveal nothing new, anyway, so they fail the first test.  If seemingly true, be careful because the "devil is in the detail".  For example, in one instance a particular church group who make frequent claims of prophetic, God-given revelations (and who shall remain anonymous for the sake of the repentant amongst them) said that some bridge in a particular state of the USA was going to be destroyed.  About a month or two later, a bridge in some African location was damaged and a few people were killed and others injured.  The so-called "prophets" then claimed that this was fulfillment of their prophecy.  This is an obvious lie but the tricks can often be much more subtle so be very wary of the claims being made.  The signs of a false claim are here obvious (it happened in Africa and not in the USA, the bridge was damaged and not destroyed) but other points can be more subtle, such as the fact that such a generic event is going to happen, sooner or later, in one place or another.  Such events happen frequently enough to occur within a few months or even a few years but infrequently enough to seem isolated or unusual because of the very short term news cycles we are subjected to (typically four to eight weeks).

There are numerous other points of examination which I could go on to write about but by now I am sure that you get the essence of it and can work it out for yourself without much trouble.  As always, pray first and ask the Lord for guidance in your understanding.

In the end, true dreams or visions from God have very telling characteristics to the one who receives them and content that is not usually understood immediately and is not a subject of popular thought or ideas.  Such dreams and visions, when correctly understood, reveal something deep and previously unknown and are always concordant with holy writ.  Personally, I have had about twenty such dreams across a lifetime and I keep learning new things from a number of them even to this day... they are really quite astonishing and they have the nature of the true memory of an actual event because they never fade from memory like ordinary dreams.  They are almost always simple in structure and make a single key point, and are not cluttered with lots of meaningless and confusing things and sudden jumps from one scene to another in a seemingly random manner, as is often the case with dreams.  On one occasion I had two seemingly different dreams on the one night, waking up between them, only to later realise that, although the content of each dream was diverse, they were saying exactly the same thing in a manner just like the two dreams that Pharaoh had which were interpreted by Joseph.  This is like a "witness" dream, for there are two.  Finally, a dream from God is unmistakable because it has the quality of reality almost more than reality itself and there is a deep inner sense that it came from "above".  I have no desire to reveal the contents of the dreams the Lord has given me because most of them are of a personal nature, although a few are not and of those that are not personal I have made some references to in this blog, though sometimes some details are kept out for reasons I will not divulge here.

My desire, in writing this post, is just to help any sensible soul navigate their way through all of the "end-of-days" rubbish we are being constantly hammered with.  Such madness causes anxiety and an increasing sense of hopelessness and such is contrary to what the Lord said we should have.  This applies as much to other "information" as it does to so-called prophetic "visions" and dreams.  I hope that what I have here written will be of some assistance to you.

God is the revealer of mysteries, not a chatterbox mindlessly echoing common gossip!

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Addendum 2017-11-25.

There is a plethora of YouTube rubbish that should be carefully and studiously avoided.  For example, if you see titles such as, "Something huge is happening and nobody is talking about it!!!", or "Watch this before it is taken down!!!!", or "This video has been banned in almost every country!!!!", and so forth... just ignore them completely.  They tell you nothing useful in the title because they have nothing useful to say.  They are invariably complete rubbish, stupid ideas built up around a foolish belief in the mind of a paranoid and ignorant person.  The things depicted are almost always very ordinary but just strung together in a jumbled fashion for dramatic effect and the titles make unjustifiable demands of your time without saying anything useful.  Finally, when you see long strings of exclamation marks at the end of the title or the excessive use of them or capitalisation of letters throughout the author's writings, they are yelling at you so just ignore it and never go back to that silly channel.  I have watched a few over the years and what I have said here has been true every time without fail, so now I do not bother at all.  You are paying for Internet access and that rubbish is just costing you and you're get nothing of value from it, and perhaps just receive another dose of increased anxiety.  Every time you click on a link to one of their videos they immediately have their "views" counter incremented even if you did not view the video beyond the first few seconds and that just encourages the midget-minded, attention-seeking idiots, doesn't it?  So, do not bother any more... do yourself and everyone else a favour and discourage this stupidity.  That the author claims to be a Christian or not is irrelevant... you would be well advised to ignore that channel for the sake of your own sanity and well-being.

The End of Australia

Today, in what must be the most abominable outcome any right-minded person could witness, the same-sex "marriage" plebiscite outcome was announced, the result being that support for the overthrow of God's law governing marriage came in at 61 percent.  This is a tragedy, an unmitigated disaster and marks the end of this nation.

A nation is a large society of people, being many smaller communities who, in general, work together and agree on many things and disagree peacefully (though with left-wing fanatics, peaceful disagreement has generally ceased to exist).  Each community is a small society and all generally are under one law, the law of the land.  The basic building block of any successful human society is the God-given structure of true marriage, that between one eligible man and one eligible woman.  This forms a mini-society, indeed, the smallest possible society that can exist, a social atom.  From this union there is growth, for only this type of union has the correct balance, strength and capability to bring into the world additional people.  Society, as a whole, is built on this union.  Additionally, the basis for the success of western society to date, despite its incredible falling away from Christian values over the past century (and more so in the past ten years than in the previous ninety years), is the Christian-based system of law.  It is this that brought "human rights" into existence as a political object.  It is this that formed the basis for every right and freedom that we currently enjoy, and it is this Christian foundation that has been the basis for the incredible advancements in social welfare, living standards, science and medicine leading to the high level of technological and social achievement we see today.

However, as a result of the decline of Christian-based law over recent decades, we have been witnessing an erosion of every other part of modern western society.  Same-sex "marriage" is the final straw in this accelerating collapse because, from here, there is no recovery.  Australia is now going to fall into the abyss.  Peace will quickly leave this land.  By this action, Australia will finally capitulate to becoming another vassal state under Satan's global government, the UN, and will completely cease as a sovereign state.  Although that has been happening gradually over the years, this final turn of events destroys the very fabric that brought this nation into being.  This means that Australia, as of this day, the 15th day of November, 2017, has ceased to exist.  Only the name shall continue as a fading echo of what once was a nation of peace-loving, God-fearing people, a nation that has vanished with the eroding winds of wickedness and lies buried in the sands of time, lost forever.

The destruction of true marriage, which is precisely the aim of the same-sex "marriage" lobby, exposes their total rejection of the most sacred of human covenants and, thus, the overthrow of all covenants of any true worth.  The wicked have rejected God's covenant wrought by the blood of Christ, so now they are given over to their wicked lusts in order to destroy themselves.  They are given over to a depraved mind and to strong delusion for, in not receiving a love of the truth, they love the lie and, by the lie, they will die.

The ultimate goal is to reduce every corporate body of resistance to Satan's totalitarian control via the UN to nought, causing every human being to be disconnected from every other human being, enabling total control over every individual on Earth so that the world can be readied to receive its final leader, the son of perdition.  This has been achieved through the gradual destruction of the freedoms we have enjoyed by the tools of financial collapse, an endless war on "terrorists" and the media-managed decay of moral standards, all engineered by the wicked at the helm of the global financial system and through their various marionettes, such as the UN and various governments.  So-called same-sex "marriage" now opens the way to an onslaught of freedom-destroying, faith-denying legislation and law whose final outcome will be the mass murder of Christians across the world.  Satan cannot make the true followers of Christ Yeshua bow to him so he intends to have them all killed so that, at long last, that wicked spirit will, via the vehicle of the son of perdition, convince himself, by the worship of all people, that he is god... but he is NOT god, and he will never actually achieve his goal.  He is not of God... he is of the devil.

Great storms will come upon this land and the wicked will scream, "climate change, climate change!", but the climate that has changed is the moral climate and, with that, now comes God's withdrawal of protection against the broadly destructive consequences of sin.  It is to be expected that, in addition to the social evils that will now appear as never before, great and very destructive storms, fires and other "natural" catastrophes will come, seemingly targeting the large urban centres and the most important farming and forest areas.  Although the righteous and wise will understand, the wicked, the walking dead, will NEVER, NOT EVER understand!

Time is short.  Three days are as a day, three weeks as a week, three months as a month.