Wake Up

Chapter 1- Our Creator God

I hope this first Chapter is helpful in convincing the sceptic of the truth of Biblical pre‑Flood history, and of a covenanted mankind. Later in this book I will seek to prove to the atheist that the Holy Scriptures, were written under the guiding hand of God. Perhaps my reader should turn to pages 80-85 at this point, where they will learn the mathematical significance of the Bible codes, and then will better understand this first Chapter. The account in Genesis Ch 1 is a synopsis of both the principles of Creation, which concludes with the Millennium (equivalent to the Sabbath or seventh day of Creation). The Genesis Ch 2-3 account is explicitly written to institute and sanctify marriage between man and woman, and to establish the headship and accountability of the male to his Creator. I will explain how both of the two Biblical accounts of Creation compliment each other, and are both valid, if not completely detailed. God created man on the completion (of the panoply) of His Creative splendour throughout the universe, that mankind might appreciate and wonder at the vastness and beauty of the heavens and come to realise that a pre‑existent, awesome God had ordained this creation.

The Hebrew cabbalist Nechunya ben HaKanah believed that God was mysteriously active before the Creation of Planet Earth, over a period of 15.3 billion years, which he named as ‘a concept in the mind of God’, or phrased another way, this great tranche of time was the gestation period prior to the existence of Earth’s solar system. HaKanah reasoned that the 42‑lettered name of God, encoded into the first 42-letters of Genesis, represent 42,000 divine days, each one 365.25 terrestrial years in length (42,000 x 365.25 years = 15.3 billion years). It is written in Job Ch 38:4‑7, which I have paraphrased.^[2]

“The laying of the foundation stone of Planet Earth was watched by the angels, who shouted for joy at God’s bountiful and consistent mercies”.

This passage must mean that the angels had been created before the universe was called into being.

I believe that the Moon was placed in our solar system (as a faithful witness [Psalm 89:37] to man’s prosperity, and will prosper in the heavens as long as the righteous prosper on Earth); together with the Sun, to provide the correct constituents for our solar system to be gravitationally balanced and in their controlled orbits. In our galaxy there are three pairs of planets with a rapid-spin rate: Mars and Earth, Jupiter and Saturn and Neptune and Uranus, each pair within 3% of each other in their uniformity (that is their size, positioning, axis tilt, etc).

Planet Earth is situated in a particularly providential place for life to exist; its orbit lies in what astronomers call the ‘habitable zone’. The Sun is 93 million miles distant from Earth, and provides the source of life. If the Sun were any nearer the temperature would be too hot to sustain life, and blood would not circulate (we would freeze to death) if the Sun was further away. The atmosphere is sufficient to protect the Earth’s surface from harmful radiation, and the moderate heat from the Sun does not endanger water formation or supply. The moon, the lesser light, is c250,000 miles from Earth; if it were any closer the tidal forces would be massive, causing inundation at every high tide. God positioned the Moon to govern the movement of the sea through tides and currents, for without tidal movement flushing the otherwise stagnant un-oxygenated waters, the ultimate death of Creation would follow. I believe that God spoke Creation into being standing beside His throne, with one foot on His footstool; which was placed where Planet Earth is now located. Planet Earth is in the centre of the universe; all the stars that Abram could not possibly have counted, are counted in their distance from this throne-room of God. This being factually supported by Planet Earth apparently being uniquely imbued with life-giving water to endow God’s Creation (on what was to be the training ground of mankind), in order that a goodly number of mankind would form a worshipping global society; prior to the ultimate destruction of this mankind-corrupted Planet.^[3] This learning curve, has to be based on faith in an Almighty God, and obedience, in recognising and accepting Christ to be the only begotten Son of God. I make this statement from a word of knowledge received by me. I have received confirmatory revelation from God concerning the sequence of events leading up to Adam being formed in the Garden of Eden; and even if I am being presumptuous, my beliefs over such issues will not affect my salvation!

The oldest star discovered in the universe is located on the extreme edge of the Milky Way, some 36,000 light years from Earth but this star is in our solar system), and was thought to have been created some 13 million years ago. This star (number HE 0107-5240) is calculated to weigh hundreds of times more than celestial bodies discovered in any other galaxy. The tenth planet Sedna has recently been discovered in our solar system some 8 billion miles from Earth; its elliptical orbit around the Sun takes 10,500 years to complete. The solar system must be very old, perhaps commencing its rotation much earlier with the placing of Sedna, or a planet formed even earlier into its orbit around a magnetised force field. God choosing to reserve this space until it was time to insert a much more recently formed Sun, to regulate our orbiting solar system; as a watchmaker might regulate a time-piece.

Until the advent of space investigation, cosmologists had theorised that the heat engendered and radiated at the ignition point of the Creation explosion emanated from an infinitesimal point. The intense heat cooling rapidly but uniformly, in a similar way that a heated oven, on its door being opened, initiates the dispersion of heat throughout a larger space. These theories have largely been substantiated through further investigation. The astrophysicists of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) research team had detected fluctuations in the background radiated heat, which had been uniform, cool, smooth, and low in temperature, suggested that 25% of the hydrogen present at the explosion was turned into helium within the first 20‑second period of time, resulting in neutrons fusing together, to form elements heavier than hydrogen, helium, or lithium. Astrophysicists believe that only a rapid cooling from an intensely high temperature could have resulted in a universe that they have found to be composed of a chemical mixture of c72% hydrogen, 25% helium, and 3% of heavier elements that have become known as ‘exotic’ matter; believed to have been created within four minutes from the initial explosion.

In January 1990, American astrophysicists investigating the findings from the COBE satellite exploration, agreed with the previously expressed theory that all matter, energy and the dimensions of space and time burst forth at the creation explosion, which was calculated (assuming that the speed of light has always been constant) as occurring some c15-20 billion years ago. The release of temperature, density, and pressure gave a reasonable explanation of how the galaxies were formed and have held together through gravitational forces. The light from the most distant galaxy in the universe has travelled that distance in light‑years through space before reaching Earth. The close similarity to a perfect radiator dispersing all its energy through radiated heat, enhanced the belief that at the creation of the universe, the initial power had suffered an enormous energy degradation.^[4] Every particle of matter and energy that was initially created (the fundamental building blocks of matter and energy) was limited by the combined strength or presence of all other natural forces of energy. Some level of non‑uniformity would have been necessary to explain how star-clusters, galaxies, and eons later, clusters of galaxies were formed, but the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometers used to measure temperature fluctuation were not accurate enough to plot the path of the earliest expansion of the universe. In April 1992, using a second satellite probe (almost 100 times more precise), astrophysicists were able to verify the assumptions made from their earlier exploration.

In September 1994 the Keck telescope (the world’s largest optical instrument) was commissioned, and has (together with the Hubble Space Telescope), enabled astronomers to produce a proposed photographic image of the history of the universe, that spans the years since that initial explosion; demonstrating that the universe is between 14.5‑14.9 billion years of age; not far from the conclusions of COBE’s scientists; who produced a picture from a Microwave Map of the universe at 300,000 years of age, when light first separated from darkness, before any stars existed. The ‘opening page’ of this ‘universal scrap book’ features the universe at 0.5‑1.5 billion years of age^[5] (equivalent to infancy, before the gases coalesced and condensed into solid matter some 500,000 years following the Creation explosion). Subsequent ‘pages’ reveal the newly formed galaxies in a youthful universe. Later ‘pages’ show pictures of a fully developed universe, at which time nearly all galaxies had ceased forming new stars, and collisions within galaxies became less frequent.

In April 2000, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released results of their conclusions from the ‘Boomerang’ high altitude balloon experiment, proving that the universe has a flat geometry, and with that certainty the researchers were able to calculate the total density of the universe (mass density plus ‘space energy’ density, also known as [aka] the cosmological constant). Further research has proven that the space energy density component is c70-80% of the total content of the cosmos, which is approximately four to five times greater than the mass density initially released; from which it can be deduced that most of the mass of the universe is ‘exotic’ in nature, consisting mostly of particles that travel at a slower rate than the speed of light. NASA’s cosmologists are confident that their future programs, and those of future teams of scientists will substantiate their theories on the formation of the universe. The cosmologists measured the amount of helium in heavy-element deficient galaxies, so distant from Earth that their existence predates evidence of significant stellar burning (the result of worlds colliding). It was established that stellar burning produced greater amounts of helium that later changed in nature into more exotic elements.

One of the aids used by the astronomers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Space Telescope Science Institute of Maryland, to measure the speed of cosmic expansion, was through plotting the localities of these most ancient of supernovae. This demonstrated that the small differences between nearby and more distant type of 1a supernovas, which were among the first solid masses to form in space, on the gases coalescing, did not indicate their distance from Planet Earth, or the time of their formation. In a binary system, a ‘white dwarf’ star does not become a supernova until the solar mass of a neighbouring star is drawn into the orbit of the greater magnetic power of another larger solar mass, finally resulting in a collision. A thermo-nuclear explosion results at the end of its stellar burning cycle, perhaps 10 billion years after the collision, on the density exceeding 1.4 solar masses. Generally this evolutionary procedure produced a number of stars identified by the name ‘Population III’ stars. The more recent ‘Population II’ stars (formed from the ashes of Population III stars) are 50% richer in heavy elements (‘exotic’), which became more prolific on the formation of Population II stars, making the task of calculating the age of stars much more certain. The Earth’s sun was formed from the scattered ashes of Population II stars, which on its creation was placed into a space/time continuum. Joint research programs provide confirmation that the rate of expansion of the universe was slowing down for the first 8 -9 billion years of its history, and accelerating over the last 6‑7 billion years (but read footnote 15).

From the unified ‘Theory of Everything’, theoretical physicists have calculated that there must be a (as yet unfathomed) mathematical relationship between gravity, relativity, and quantum mechanics, and between the known and the unknowable in the natural realm to successfully coexist in a multi‑dimensional universe. This theory has substance because 15 years further into the investigation of what has been called the ‘September 1984 Revolution’, the all encompassing ‘M-theory’ has emerged that has found a mathematical relationship between five quite different theories of ‘superstrings’, each one describing exactly the same physics.^[6] Most scientists, and some theologians accept this linkage, despite the lack of testable predictions.

Modern day scientists could not know how the Creator might use a universal continuum of space/time dimensions ‘supernaturally’, sometimes halting, reversing, or fast‑forwarding time to suit a preconceived systematic design, in order to fulfil some heavenly plan. God does advise mankind throughout the Scriptures that such options were available to Him. Many geologists have concluded from the radiometric dating of rock (granite), that Planet Earth is at least 4.5 billion years of age.^[7] Equally fascinating is the report that scientists from the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey have drilled 3 km into the ice at a site known as Dome C, a most inhospitable site with average surface temperatures of minus 54°C. It is believed that the solid bedrock is only 100 m beneath the latest drilling, which despite difficulties they expect to reach quite soon. From the samples of matter trapped in the ancient air within the ice cores, palaeontologists have been able to distinguish what they believe to be eight different ice-ages that have occurred between interglacial periods over the last 1 million years.^[8]

From the skeletal remains of dwarfs and giants exhumed, and the great age attributed to these specimens, it could be construed that early prototypes of an earthling were diabolically constructed, or that man evolved from animal species. In 2001 archaeologists in Australia excavated the fossilised bones of what they believed to be a human being, calibrated as being c1½ million years of age. The fossilised bones of a female humanoid 42 inches in height that was believed to have walked upright, the bones were calibrated as being 3½ million years of age.^[9] These discoveries do not confirm the theory of an amphibious crawling creature that later evolved into a tree‑climbing ape, whose descendants evolved into man if this were so, all earlier specimens of monkeys would now be humans!

In Morocco a discovery was made of a hoard of 500 double-edged axes, each weighing 8.5 kg, 20 times heavier than a man of today’s average height could wield. Anthropologists have calculated that in order to use the axes as a working tool, a giant of even proportions, would have to have been 4 m tall and weigh approximately 250 kg. In Australia, a cache of adzes, hand axes, chisels and knives of extraordinary weight and size have been unearthed that supports the ‘Moroccan’ find. The (1 m long) skull bones of kangaroos as large as hippopotami that have been excavated, and the skeletal remains of koalas and wombats as large as rhinoceros, suggest possible experimenting with genetic engineering in ancient times, or even before God created mankind. It is believed by scientists in many fields of scientific endeavour, that the last ice‑age concluded c40,000 years ago, when the last of a race of Neanderthals became extinct, exterminated by the first humans, that the Neanderthals had supposedly developed into.^[10] Some geneticists believe that the first man with the male Y‑chromosome, which is uniquely passed from father to son (with no input from the mother) was an African born some 60,000 years ago.^[11]

Pope John Paul II has pontificated ‘ex‑cathedra’ (Latin meaning ‘from the throne’), that God may have placed a living soul into a creature that evolved into a humanoid, which this Master Creator found acceptable to be changed into His own image. I can understand an atheistic scientist not accepting God’s specific word, but the Pope! May the Lord forgive my judging the teachings of other mortals! Many Christians have accepted the hypothesis that miscellaneous genes^[12] (of unconvincing origin) evolved naturally into members of the Homo sapiens, whilst other genes mutated into stronger types of vegetation or more enduring forms of animal life. However life-forms on Planet Earth prior to mankind being formed, and the degree of precision needed to sustain that life, could not possibly have been provided by evolving naturally over a period of time (time being abstract cannot assist any change in processing formulation), for time is inert, offering nothing to civilisation except history.

The hypothesis (that is what it is; only a hypothesis) of macro‑evolution (for man), that mutations within organisms occur naturally evolving through time through various cell changes into different species, in order to survive and develop. The evidence for macroevolution being the process by which life-forms originated and developed over billions of years is unconvincing. Advocates believe that a bolt of lightning striking the various developing life forms energised them, causing mutation of their genes, perhaps over centuries; becoming capable of sustaining both plant and animal life asexually. It is the same with micro‑evolution, which is a hypothesis that mutations within organisms occur naturally leading to the elimination of the previous specie. But experimentation in laboratory conditions, reveals that any mutations lead to extinction. Despite much research, chemical evolution has not provided any answers to the origin of life

The conflicting controversial theory of the evolution of the species has beset the scholarly world since 19^th century Darwinism^[13] and is taught in our schools as incontrovertible truth. That universities, libraries, museums, and schools confidently speak, write, and teach the evolution of the species does not make the theory correct.^[14] All life forms are miraculous, and a product of design. It is illogical and irrational to believe that the gills of a fish and the lungs of a porpoise, the antennae of a moth and the radar of a bat, occurred ‘by chance’. A Master Creator developed all the magnificent variations of nature ‘after their kind’ and at the time God designated; no life specie evolved by chance over time. That God created the universe, and in establishing the Earth commanded order out of chaos has to be the opening argument in persuading atheists that God exists and is a relational, loving Father. Mankind did not evolve, but this does not disprove that time was created perhaps billions of years earlier.^[15] The fact that Christ was part of the Godhead, agreed with the Father that mankind was to be made in their image, fashioned from the dust, and the breath of life breathed into an anonymous clod of mud, reveals God’s intention towards mankind.

Dr Kei Mori of Kao University, Tokyo, Japan, carried out controlled laboratory experiments,^[16] substantiating the findings of scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories of the USA. They discovered that when oxygen and nitrogen are separated out by compression, oxygen turns blue in colour whilst hydrogen turns pink (magenta). When subject to cryogenic freezing, hydrogen solidifies into a transparent crystalline metallic latticework, later becoming opaque, but transparent veins interlace an otherwise solid ice-canopy, allowing filtered light and energy to pass through its intricate web. It was this finished ice‑canopy that separated the waters, both covering and encircling Planet Earth, filtering out harmful rays, whilst attracting short-wave energy from outer space to nourish and sustain the life‑systems created on Earth (see page 11).

I do accept that God may have allowed His first created angel, His chief musician Lucifer, aka Satan), whom He loved as a son, to use the satellite that became Planet Earth as a giant laboratory, as a creative hobby. Perhaps God assigned to Lucifer, together with his supportive angels (who had been created as workers), the task of creating life forms. Possibly the specimens Lucifer may have created under laboratory conditions (in the same way that Dolly the sheep was created) may have been artificially inseminated, or given reproductive organs allowing for cross‑fertilisation. It is known that the Nephilim, who the Bible speaks of as the ‘sons of God’, had sexual appetites towards ‘earthlings’. Some scholars believe the Nephilim were fallen angels, whilst others believe the Nephilim may have been an earlier creation of God, or of Satan. I suggest that it may be inferred from Isaiah Ch 14:12-14, that God was so appalled at the results, and of the angels rebellion in seeking to establish independence from (if not equality with) God, that He has imprisoned the rebellious angels on Earth, in order to witness what could be achieved through His personal, loving creation. Certainly four of the miscreants had been chained at the Euphrates River for their part in the rebellion (Revelation Ch 9:14). Because angels are spiritual beings that can never die, who were given self will, in order to determine for themselves whether or not to serve God.

Because God is omniscient, He knew, and it was confirmed to mankind through Daniel Ch 8:10, that one third of the angels supported Lucifer’s ambition (the senior light bearer, aka the bright morning star of Isaiah Ch 14), who would seek to replace Him, and was punished by his imprisonment on Earth’. It is not unreasonable to suppose that Lucifer was successful in producing primitive life forms during his early tenancy on the satellite that became Planet Earth. God, owing to His righteous justice, would not annul Satan’s tenancy of what became Planet Earth, but chose to leave the decision of who to recognise as the legal owner of the planet, to Adam’s progeny; for whom the tenancy had always been intended. Some scientists hold to a theory of a virulent virus decimating pre-historic animal life, which may have already been in serious decline. In various places around the world, in the same layer of sedimentation, skeletal remains of dinosaurs and footprints of anthropoids have been discovered, suggesting that one was the hunter of the other. I cannot accept that any so-called prehistoric species of animals became extinct through satellite invasion 65 million years earlier, or were mummified in a previous ice-age, and may have formed the genus of the Leviathan and the behemoth in the Garden of Eden. Equally I cannot accept that Adam named the dinosaurs and the pterodactyls, or that the mastodon and the sabre-toothed tiger inhabited the Garden of Eden.

A team of international anthropologists have declared that every mammal including man is descended from a common ancestor genetically similar to the aardvark. They conclude that the aardvark is the closest living relative to a common ancestor, reaching this conclusion because the aardvark has the greatest number of genetic features in common with other mammals. Adam was a mortal, wholly man; he did not lose immortality through original sin; but his progeny of every generation have been stained by that original sin. God foreknew that like the fallen angels, the human couple would eventually succumb to their fleshly desires to be as omniscient as God, resulting in their banishment. God in His mercy killed an animal as a sacrifice for sin, and clothed Adam in a garment that unlike the leaf would not wither.^[17]

I submit that God must have investigated Lucifer’s attempts at creation and seen them as an unholy chaos, choosing to purify through ‘baptism’ (through the ground’s inundation by sea water, before ordering the sea to retreat to demarcated boundaries, in order to create a homeland for a people made in God’s image). My reader may be thinking where did all this water come from, that does not apparently exist on other planets? It is known that a blue-green algae fossil (which provided oxygen and therefore moisture) has been found, and calculated as being a living organism c3 million years ago. The algae formed through photosynthesis on the surface of the waters emitted oxygen into the atmosphere. I wondered why and if God had provided rain clouds in the eons prior to Earth’s baptism, and then ‘put a lid on the planet’ (Genesis Ch 2:5) until the Great Flood (Genesis Ch 7:4. God’s ability to do this is spoken of in Job Ch 28:25-26). God provided the source of water vapour and moisture enhancing humidity forming the ‘waters above’, which formed into huge rain clouds holding literally millions of gallons of water formed from tiny droplets created by temperature differences carried through currents of air (as has happened since the Flood). As the clouds are pushed even higher into the atmosphere, the water congeals into ice, and would normally fall to the earth as hail or snow, but I assume when God had completed the purification of Planet Earth, He sealed the clouds (of which God is in full control Job Ch 26:8-14), cryogenically freezing and forming supernaturally an ice‑canopy, which, through filtered sunrays enforced growth and decay; as a shield from extraneous invasion from outer space, and any harmful rays from the recently installed Sun, that was engineered to act as a giant fibre-optic, throughout the 24‑hour day; bestowing the suffused beneficial pink coloured rays at dusk and throughout the twilight hours, when the direct rays of the sun were hidden, owing to the rotation of the Earth (see page 9).

Man can only guess at what transpired on the Earth in the epochs prior to God populating Planet Earth with His always intended creation of humankind fashioned in His own image. Planet Earth was renewed as stated in Psalm 104:30, therefore it was in need of renewing, my prognosis seems a reasonable explanation. It is known that a blue-green algae fossil (which provided oxygen and therefore moisture) has been found, and calculated as being a living organism some 3 million years earlier. The algae formed through photosynthesis on the surface of the waters emitted oxygen into the atmosphere. I wondered why and if God had provided rain clouds in the eons prior to Earth’s baptism, and then ‘put a lid on the planet’ (Genesis Ch 2:5) until the Great Flood (Genesis Ch 7:4. God’s ability to do this is spoken of in Job Ch 28:25-26). God provided the source of water vapour and moisture enhancing humidity forming the ‘waters above’, which formed into huge rain clouds holding literally millions of gallons of water formed from tiny droplets created by temperature differences carried through currents of air (as has happened since the Flood). As the clouds are pushed even higher into the atmosphere, the water congeals into ice, and would normally fall to the earth as hail or snow, but I assume when God had completed the purification of Planet Earth, He sealed the clouds (of which God is in full control Job Ch 26:8-14), cryogenically freezing and forming supernaturally an ice‑canopy, which, through filtered sunrays enforced growth and decay; as a shield from extraneous invasion from outer space, and any harmful rays from the recently installed Sun, that was engineered to act as a giant fibre-optic, throughout the 24‑hour day; bestowing the suffused beneficial pink coloured rays at dusk and throughout the twilight hours, when the direct rays of the sun were hidden, owing to the rotation of the Earth.

There is too much scientifically proven evidence that the universe is older than 6,000 years of age. Be quite certain that sceptical evolutionists will never accept that Planet Earth was created less than 10,000 years ago, or that Adam was the first-born male fashioned from the soil, with whom God made an everlasting covenant.^[18] It really was a covenant of grace offered universally to all of mankind. The first phrase of the first sentence in the Bible states: ‘In the beginning God created’, and the final phrase of the second verse records: ‘And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters’, or in the New International version (NIV) of the Bible (was hovering over the waters). Either way the sum total of numbers derivable by Bible Numerics, from this wholly numerical alphabet-based passage, adds up significantly, pointing to God as its constructor (read Ivan Panin on Genesis Ch1:1). My point here is that between these two verses millions of years appear to have passed by. Salvation does not depend on accepting that every word in the Bible is infallible, or that the written word cannot be interpreted in alternative ways. Some people believe that for any event to be true it has to be capable of scientific verification, but science does not hold all the answers I have come to believe that mankind’s task for the duration of unredeemed existence, is to procreate and fill the earth throughout the 6,000 years of 120 jubilees of 50 years length (see page 233), prior to the seventh day of Sabbath rest commencing (eternity outside of time).

Although I believe that Planet Earth is billions of years old, I believe that Adam was the first of mankind fashioned from the dust of the Earth, only c6,000 years ago. Progressive (or ‘step’) creationists believe that Adam may well have been moulded much earlier than most theologians believe. Progressive creationists believe in a ‘gap’ or ‘step’ theory, that God created our solar system (one of many in our galaxy), and initiated events on Earth, ‘suddenly but progressively’ through a series of steps, over an indeterminate period of time. ‘Theistic evolutionists’ have a belief in a master Creator, who may have been involved at the birthing of the universe, but acting only as a watchmaker might, by taking no further part in its future developments. Atheistic evolutionists believe that the universe was created through a single or series of chance chemical explosions. It is ludicrous to believe that existence originated from an ignition of dissimilar inflammable chemical compounds, colliding in space with sufficient force to split into new molecules. It is equally absurd to consider that vast periods of ‘time’ develop life‑giving properties.

The hypothesis of growth on an evolutionary tree, which has its roots firmly embedded in non‑living granite, is not acceptable to entomologists, who can provide a great deal of evidence of co‑dependency of dissimilar species. For example there is one particular type of fig tree that cannot produce fruit without the co-operation of the fig wasp. Both tree and wasp had to have been created within the same week, for neither species could have survived without the other. Inside the fig are ‘closed’ male flowers (a chrysalis), out of which a male wasp emerges. The wasp fertilises every unopened female flower, before eating its way out of the growing fig (forming a tunnel), the wasp then returns to its ‘chrysalis’ where it dies. The female wasp hatches some time later, at which time she visits every other flower, covering herself with pollen in the process, pollinating the ‘anthers’ of every flower; she deposits her eggs onto the female flowers, presumably passing on the ‘death wish’ to the next annual seasonal blossoming of the fig tree, and then, in an continuous life cycle, dies. The procedure is very much like the ‘bride of Christ’s’ generational cycle of evangelism.

Nuclear scientist Robert W Faid writes in his book, A Scientific Approach to Christianity of the interdependence of the Pronuba moth with the yucca plant, and of many other instances of dissimilar co-dependent species flourishing. The evidence of co-dependency rejects the random mutation theory of evolution. In a joint paper entitled The Anthropic Principle and the Structure of the Universe two physicists, B J Rees and M J Carr explained that the geometric mean size (average mass) of the human body, and of every micro and macrocosm contained in the universe, including the tiniest of protons and the largest of planets, is directly proportional to the mass of Planet Earth (which is also in direct mean proportion to the universe). Every component of a cell is interdependent and co-dependent, each proton responding to its specific function.

In 1628 AD, Dr Harvey discovered the circulatory system of blood, Haemoglobin could not fulfil its function, if the iron atoms surrounded by other atoms, did not receive sufficient current to transfer the oxygen into the human body, stimulating circulation. The life‑producing blood of all vertebrates is oxygenated and sustained by automatic spin (or mass) of the proton, and circulated by the breath of God, without which the blood could not circulate, which is substantiated by God’s word stating that ‘the life of the flesh is in the blood’ (Leviticus Ch 17:11, written c3,600 years ago). Mankind thrives in a perfectly orchestrated, ecologically balanced environment, in which Planet Earth is sustained in harmony with creation, seemingly the only planet in the universe capable of sustaining life. God’s intention for humanity is loving and benevolent, He has imposed the laws of nature upon His creation and Himself, choosing not intervene until He decides that chaos has degenerated into an unacceptable condition.

American Bible chronologist Gene Faulstich, believes that our solar system started with the conjunction of the Moon and the planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Earth at 343°(degrees), which were within 1° of geometric alignment with each other on the day preceding the rising of the new moon over Planet Earth on the 21^st March 4001 BC at the Spring equinox. He forwarded his computer findings to the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University in America, who agreed that this alignment did take place; however this affirmation does not preclude alignments aeons earlier. It would not prove impossible for computer scientists to continue plotting the orbits of the planets to establish if the planets had been in earlier alignments; such research might determine whether the Earth’s solar system was formed gradually by uniformitarianism, or put in place suddenly by God’s intervention.

Anthropologist Allan Wilson subjected to radiocarbon dating extracted DNA, from the calcified skeletal remains of what he concluded to be an early form of primate.^[19] It is unlikely that God would have experimented with animals over millions or even billions of years, whilst only allowing 6,000 years of Biblical history, for the full development potential of humanity. I confess that the contestable history of the world prior to mankind being created in the image of God almost shipwrecked my already shaky faith in a Creator God! Now that I am ‘born again’ I have no further doubts, for the Holy Spirit of God lives within me, prompting me to investigate for myself, anything I am told or read about that does not ‘feel’ right.^[20] All who turn to Christ have to lay aside the baggage of their secular education. If God chose to alter the progress of time He could easily do so, as He demonstrated in the Biblical story of the Sun standing still while the Israelites defeated their enemy (Joshua Ch 10:13), and of the Sun reversing its passage (2 Kings Ch:20), at the time of Hezekiah’s demand for a sign that his life was to be spared.

A Recently Created Planet Earth

In 1835 Carl Friedrich Gauss calculated that the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field halves in intensity every 1,400 years. Calculating empirically but in reverse from 2000 AD; in 600 AD the magnetic field had been twice as strong as it is currently, whilst in 800 BC the atmospheric pressure and temperature was four times stronger. In 2200 BC the force of magnetism would have been eight times stronger, and in 3600 BC 16 times stronger, than today’s magnetic force. Gauss and the scientists who agree with this theory argue that in 10,000 BC Planet Earth would have had a magnetic strength and the surface temperature of a cooling star, that would have sustained a surface atmospheric pressure of 970 lbs per square inch (lbs psi), far too hot to sustain even micro organism for perhaps billions of years, until the gravitational force reduced in intensity to its present 14.7 lbs psi. The theory of a space/time continuum would overcome this objection.

NASA’s Viking space missions to the Moon discovered that a 10 centimetre (cm) layer of cosmic dust particles covered its surface (as was later similarly found on Mars). The scientists concluded that both of these planets were formed at the same instant of time, but I believe this acceptance enhances the credence to the theory that the space/time continuum containing the solar system was ‘released’ into space in an instant of time.^[21] If the evidence of the blue-green algae fossil is to be believed, then that instant was c3 million years ago. It should be possible for the computer experts to trace the first ever solar eclipse, at just the moment when the main planets came into alignment with Planet Earth for the first time. The looping orbit of the ‘red planet’ Mars is plotted to be at its nearest point to Earth every 60,000 years (indicating a greater age of Earth’s solar system than the 10,000 years attributed to it by many Biblical scholars and scientists).

Russian scientist, Dr David Otway-Wray, a specialist in the theory of quantum mechanics, subjected the Book of Genesis to particle and solid-state physics, and algebraic formula, concluding that this solar system could not be any older, than between 6,000-10,000 years of age; although I cannot accept his arguments, the time continuum overcomes the objection to a greater length of time for the origination of life on Earth.^[22] Australian scientist, Barry Setterfield, extrapolated that the speed of light approached infinity approximately 6,000 years ago, empirically calculating that the decrease in the power of radiation is proportional to the slowing speed of light, which provides a measurable effect of the expansion of the universe, a phenomenon known as ‘Red Shift’. American scientist Dr Robert Gentry, has taken more than 200,000 core samples of granite at various depths of drilling, from various locations around the world and challenged the great age attributed to rock samples by some of his peers. Every examined sample contained halos of black flakes known as mica, scored into the varying laminations of granite, confirming that radioactivity had been present at the time of the crystallising of the granite. Each sample had traces of polonium 210, 218 or 214; the half-life of these three materials respectively is 22 minutes, 3 minutes, or just 164 milliseconds, suggesting that granite was formed in less than a day.

I had thought of the Bible only as an interesting storybook on ethical morality, which the British were taught as acceptable standards of behaviour in the culture of British society. To my enquiring young mind Jesus was a legendry saintly man, but nothing more than an historical figure, no more believable than the stories surrounding the legends of Robin Hood or Dick Turpin.^[23] During my mid-teens I attended Sunday school classes, but I could not accept the teachings concerning the creation of the world, the theology of a tripartite God, the incarnation of Christ, or His vicarious (substitutionary) death for the salvation of all generations, any more than I could accept the theory of the evolution of mankind taught at school. I had grown into adulthood, not convinced of Christ’s deified immortality, or that I could enter into a personal relationship with Him. I accepted the unsubstantiated theory offered by those experts who believed that mankind evolved from pre-historic times, and that Adam and Eve were just a random example of the tribe of humanity of which they were part, and that the Garden of Eden was their fairy-tale homeland. I had not thought of the Bible as a manual on how to live my personal life. I had accepted the lie that Adam and Eve were a microcosm of a greater number of ancient tribes and civilisations throughout the universe, and that the world‑wide Biblical Flood had been a localised flood covering little more than the Middle East; but once I became aware that many civilisations on other continents have in their folklore the story of a flood inundating their ancestors homelands; I knew that the Great Flood had to be a universal flood. That Roman Catholics and Jews at morning assemblies in school were excused from the morning prayers, suggested to me that there were alternative beliefs concerning understanding Biblical history and worship. As far as I could understand, the Church of England promulgated as worthy of imitation the life-style of Jesus and the cultural behaviour that Jesus’ advocated, in order to ensure that law and order prevailed.

There are more than 1 million asteroids approximately 90 m across travelling through space in our galaxy at 100,000 miles per hour (mph). If the magnetism of the Earth drew just one such asteroid into Earth’s atmosphere, the asteroid would be capable of destroying the largest of cities on impact. Scientists have located 1,700 asteroids in our solar system approximately 1 km in size, which, if colliding with Planet Earth would destroy it.^[24] Our solar system has been rotating and hurtling through space at a great speed for aeons, which has been confirmed from the recent discovery of planet Sedna as part of our solar system. I cannot believe that such a large planet could have suddenly entered our solar system without causing mass catastrophes. Therefore Sedna must always have been part of the solar system. Many small asteroids have broken through into Earth’s airspace (see footnote 25). Some space scientists believe that life‑forms could exist and evolve in other galaxies, on other ‘habitable zones’, always providing liquid water was present, or could be manufactured. There are also the problems of temperature, density, and gravity amongst many other hazards, including satellite invasion, but I can understand the pioneering spirit, and the compulsion to pursue ideas into reality. Perhaps it may be difficult to believe a loving Father God would place our solar system in such a chaotic unpredictable position, but in Matthew Ch 5:45 Jesus said that God causes ‘His sun’ to rise, implying that Earth’s solar system has been especially installed, in order to sustain God’s creation. I believe Christ’s statement to refute the view of many scientists, that life exists in other solar systems.

In recent years there has been a huge rise in the number of earthquakes recorded, and in May 2000, six planets; Mercury, Mars, Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus came into alignment with Planet Earth. Astronomers have observed that there has not been a conjunction of this many planets for 6,000 years! It is believed that the spontaneous reaction, caused by any strong magnetic conjunction, could initiate earthquakes of greater severity, and unpredictable freak weather conditions. The recently termed El Nino effect, resulting in the failure of the annual trade winds occurring) which could result in astronomic waves, and a rise in sea level, due to global warming through ozone depletion, whilst there could be an increase in the number and intensity of hurricane force winds and volcanic eruptions.^[25] Cosmologists have discovered evidence of a ‘black hole’ in our galaxy^[26] and believe that there may be others as yet undetected. Read page176 concerning the damaging effects in the ozone layer, not entirely due to mankind’s exploitation of natural resources. Nothing has befallen Earth that God did not ordain, or allow. He may not approve of the machinations of men, but in the same way that He chooses not to interfere with the self-perpetuating natural laws of His universe, He denies Himself the Creator’s right to interfere. Generally God does not frustrate the intentions even the most evil of men, but rather allows their occurrence through His ‘permissible’ will. In Job Ch:12, God says that even the animals are aware of His ‘hands on’ involvement in every aspect of Creation and redemption; therefore as man has greater intellect than the animals, with which he shares natural instincts, mankind has no excuse for not recognising God as the Creator.

The Scriptures do state that a dark, chaotic planet existed prior to God introduced order and regularity, blessing Earth with a pleasing environment, and seasonal variation, and laws of nature that were inviolate. A careful reading of Genesis Ch 1 reveals that God did not bless the first two days of Creation as ‘good’, one of which days may have been the day of Satan’s appointment as Prince of the Air (or ruler of the kingdom, see Ephesians Ch 2:2). From my hypothesis in footnotes 27 and 39, which I have suggested that Lucifer (Satan) had been entrusted with sole responsibility to guide creation along prepared heavenly paths of righteousness; there may have been a possibility that God did not destroy Satan’s handiwork (for out of evil intentions God can pursue His purposes), whilst forbidding any further experimentation. I could not believe that prehistoric animals and anthropoids, may have existed on Earth, prior to the creation of mankind, unless they had been the product of Satan’s evil experimentation, secretly carried out in thick darkness. Similarly, I could not believe that little green men with huge brains were created in God’s image, if they existed they too were something dreamed up by Satan.^[27]

Recently I heard of the research conducted by American Frank Carlisle into Ezekiel’s vision of Chapters 1 and 10. Carlisle’s analysis convinced me that Ezekiel was writing of a technology in aerial transportation of which Ezekiel (in 593 BC) had no concept, and could only describe what he saw in the most basic of details. Carlisle maintains that angelic beings during Christ’s period on Earth, were transported in spaceships (that were referred to metaphorically in 2 Kings Ch 2 11 as ‘angelic chariots of fire’), under God’s direction. I can only assume that the same technology was available to Satan, which could well mean that there is a counterfeit explanation that is set in place to deceive mankind. It is known that the Nephilim, who the Bible speaks of as the ‘sons of God’, had sexual appetites towards ‘earthlings’. Some scholars believe the Nephilim were fallen angels, whilst others believe the Nephilim may have been an earlier creation of God, or of Satan, whose home was on another planet, that I always refer to vaguely as ‘the heavenlies’. The only reference in the Scriptures to the sons of God and Satan being called by God to a planning’ meeting was in Job Ch 1:6. The Nephilim supposedly 'fathered' the Anakites, a race of abnormal proportions (Genesis Ch 6:4). My reader will need to investigate for themselves further; through sending an email to [ezekielswheels@cox.net], and drawing their own conclusions (see Bibliography on page 267).

Spiritualists believe that perfection is completed after several quality lifetimes lived on Earth. As an 18 year-old who considered Christianity to be hypocritical and outmoded, I was introduced to spiritualism which promotes communication with the dead.It is strictly forbidden in Scripture to practice the secret rites of divination or sorcery. However in the pursuit of knowledge I took part in séances and dabbled in spiritual activities, resulting in variable but interesting manifestations. I discovered through experience that spiritualism was deceptive, full of hocus-pocus and the results were to be taken with a pinch of salt. Deuteronomy Ch 18:10 12 states:

“Whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord”.

Whilst Leviticus Ch 19:31 states.

“Do not turn to mediums or wizards. Do not seek them out to be defiled by them”

The consequences are amplified in Leviticus Ch 20:6:

“As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people”.

The cursing is unmistakable in Micah Ch 5:12, where it is written:

“I will destroy your witchcraft”.

At the time I was ignorant of these warnings, but had to sincerely repent on becoming a child of the Father (being ‘born‑again’).^[28]

Reincarnationists differ from spiritualists in that they believe that people may live through many lifetimes as different life forms, perhaps as a tree, or as an animal, until they reach perfection. Reincarnation is a myth; mankind has only one lifetime, in which to seek and accept Jesus, following which (at the end of time) they will be judged. Hebrews Ch 9:27-28 states:

“Just as man is destined to die once and after that to face judgement, so Christ was sacrificed (once only) to take away the sins of many people (of every generation); and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him”.

To those who seek guidance from astrology, God says in Isaiah Ch 47:13-14:

“Let your astrologers come forward, those star-gazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up”.

God showed clearly that it was Satan who questioned God’s decree; and God asks the question of each of us, "Who was morally responsible for Adam’s original sin?" Mankind, corrupted by original sin, became an unregenerate beast of burden, equivalent in stature to a donkey (an animal that was supernaturally used by God to speak His word to the prophet Balaam), so henceforth mankind would govern the Earth, not benignly but by subjugation. Owing to his ‘Fall’ into ‘original sin’, Adam’s progeny was as much in need of a saviour redeemer as was Adam. Adam and his progeny would over their lifetime be able to decide for themselves whether or not to serve the one true God. Through repentance and application of servitude, faith is born and grows in greater conviction with maturity (being ‘born again’, and becoming sanctified into holiness, a once only experience, but part of a process. God’s response to Adam’s rebellion was (a) “Who convinced you to doubt My word?” and (b) “What have you done?” That Adam had covered his nakedness with leaves, points to Adam’s interest in protecting himself from humiliating embarrassment, when next he encountered God in the Garden. That God replaced the fig leaves with the hide of an animal, which would not deteriorate as a flimsy leaf would, was an indication of His love and willingness to accept a burnt sacrifice for personal sin (until Christ’s once-only sacrifice for the sin of all mankind). From the silence of Scripture, the animal must have been slaughtered before being skinned; an unspoken lesson that Abel pleased God by emulating (Genesis Ch 4:4, further amplified in Leviticus Ch 1:1). Adam’s concern over his appearance ultimately resulted in Narcissism.^[29]

In 1930 Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli was ruminating over the mysterious loss of energy in certain nuclear reactions. He was familiar with Einstein’s ‘special theory of relativity’ (that any moving particle or mass, emitted by the sun, embodies kinetic energy and is capable of conversion into dissimilar atomic or nuclear particles). Pauli came to the conclusion that there had to be an undiscovered subatomic particle which carried no electrical charge, so small and light, yet having a force-field, or a magnetic repulse reaction against invasion that would deflect it; causing the particles to pass between other moving particles of matter (atoms), rarely colliding. He named this undetected particle, the neutrino (which means 'little neutral one'). Pauli’s theory was proven correct when in 1956 two particles collided in space, resulting in a nuclear explosion, which was monitored by two physicists, Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. That the neutrino oscillates is proof that it has mass, and forms the greater part of the mass of the universe. Three types (or flavours) of neutrinos have been identified, namely, electron, muon and tau, which can oscillate into one of the other types, whilst moving almost at the speed of light. It has been detected that the Creation explosion generated c10 billion neutrinos for every baryon (proton or neutron) and that the same ratio was produced in stellar burning.

The Six Days Of Creation.

On the third day, God separated the seawater from the land, delineating the boundaries of the sea; the sodden land presumably dried through the effects of a supernatural wind, in a similar way to the earth drying, following the abatement of the Flood of Genesis Ch 8:1.^[30] The emerging land was presumably already covered with the enriched soil, into which plants were easily rooted. On the fourth day God set the planets of this galaxy spinning in their magnetised orbits and on the fifth day the vegetation was created in full flower or fruit, to provide food for the animals and birds (also created on this day) to feed from. On the sixth day God created humanity. He rested on the seventh day; not because He was in need of a rest, but to inform mankind of their need to rest one day in seven, in order to retain physical and spiritual health (Genesis Ch 2:2-3). There was no mention of evening and morning, or of the seventh day being ‘good’, for this day is yet to be completed.

The Hebrew sages believed that on day one, at the instant God commanded light to appear, Planet Earth was sent spinning on its axis at the same controlled rate of 1,100 mph which has been maintained ever since. Some sages believed that the tilt of 23.5° from upright took place at Creation; others believe that there had been no tilt, or a lesser degree of tilt prior to the Great Flood. It is essential for the time taken for Planet Earth to complete its daily orbit, to be of a consistent length in order to establish a consistent 24‑hour day, but this was unnecessary until the creation of mankind. The formative millennia’s has been deliberately obscured from our understanding, probably in order to build up personal levels of faith. During the first two days of cosmic creation God did not make anything on Earth, He introduced light, but His command may have been issued billions of years earlier, similarly with His separating the darkness from the light on Earth may have occurred later than the lighting of the other galaxies. I believe that God drew back the curtain, once he had prepared Planet Earth as the scene set on the creation of mankind, as happens in the first act of a play, having a backdrop of the vista of the night sky that God ‘painted’ into a moving awe-inspiring display.

The Populating of Planet Earth

God’s curse of birth pains of Genesis Ch 3:16 was over all women, we are told in verse 17 that this curse was wrought through the sin of the wife of Adam, having no separate identity. Eve was formed from Adam’s rib to be his helpmate (wife). Eve’s relationship with the patriarch was different from any other partnership. Eve was named by Adam in verse 20, subsequent to the ‘Fall,’ following which time every woman was to suffer an increase in pain through childbirth, which leads me to believe that Eve and any other women alive, prior to the ‘Fall’, may have produced ‘litters’ of children, pain‑free (similar to other animal species). Possibly, every female experienced painless multiple births before Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden. It seems unlikely to me that Eve was infertile until Cain and Abel were conceived (as twins according to the Hebrew sages, which is understandable as it is inferred from Genesis Ch 4:1-2, that Eve only had the one conception in bearing the twin boys ^[31]), and then impregnated only once more (on Seth’s birth 130 years after Creation. My belief is based on God’s injunction to “Be fruitful and multiply throughout the Earth”. This command was for mankind to obey, and only secondarily for animals! If Eve and her daughters and granddaughters had not already experienced pain‑free deliveries, how would Eve have been able to recognise the difference in the level of pain during labour. If my hypothesis is correct, any children born to one of Eve’s daughters, would have been conceived through intercourse with one of her brothers or half‑brothers, and in later years through cousins. It was unnecessary to record any other birth in the Book of Genesis, as any such children were outside of the parameters necessary to establish the royal line of succession.

In the formative years of his children, Adam as the patriarch would have taught his children and grandchildren communication skills through speech and not through grunts and gesticulations. Adam would have developed and taught his skills in animal husbandry to his pioneering progenies; and emphasised the importance of transmitting pictorial information concerning ‘local conditions’ observed, as important to the pioneers who followed in their footsteps, in their seeking to find more fertile lands, or more favourable living conditions. These pictorial messages would have been placed in prominent positions on trees and rock surfaces. It would be likely that the earliest pioneers planted seeds or crops in areas previously only inhabited by wild beasts. Seeds carried by the wind, or dropped from the beaks of birds would also have rooted in any rich alluvium soil, producing vegetation that provided food for the pioneers. My hypothesis of how mankind could have populated the world very rapidly prior to the Great Flood is reasonably well thought through, but exactly how God populated the races of the Earth with distinct racial features, has not been disclosed in the Scriptures. Just as there are many breeds of dogs, so there are many attributes of various races that are not shared universally; pigmentation of skin, bone structure, build etc.^[32] The early pioneers may have been genetically ‘interfered with’ by God. P J Wiseman in his book Ancient Records and the Structure of Genesis, developed the theme that language must have been bequeathed and not learned, for Adam and Eve could communicate with each other and with God, not only through speech, but also through a written language known as hieroglyphics^[33] recorded on papyrus, or on colophons (clay tablets).^[34] Ancient stone tablets have been excavated, supporting Wiseman’s contention.^[35] Adam probably recorded his writings using both methods, but he would have found papyrus much easier to transport!

Wiseman believed that God initially dictated verbatim all the information relating to Biblical history occurring during the lifetime of the royal and patriarchal lineage, which was stored for posterity by His ‘scribe’ (Adam). Starting with the Creation narrative of Genesis Ch 1:1-Ch 2:3. Wiseman deduced that the second of the ten colophons, and pictorial ‘back up’ would have been started by Adam, but completed by Seth (at Genesis Ch 5:1-2), and the third constructed from Genesis Ch 5:3, was initiated by Seth but completed in Genesis Ch 6:9 by Noah. Shem would have completed the second part of the fourth colophon and was the author of the fifth colophon from Genesis Ch 10:1.

Following Noah’s death Shem became the tribal patriarch, and custodian of the colophon tablets, which were passed down to Terah. Jacob transported to Egypt the complete history of the family of God prior to the Israelites becoming a nation.^[36] Wiseman believed that the colophons, which although heavier were a more permanent record than the more easily transported papyrus reed, and were retained in the home of succeeding patriarchs. Both forms of recording may have been entombed with Jacob at his death, providing the bedrock of the oral tradition. Archaeologist David Rohl agrees with Wiseman and suggests that Abraham may have entrusted the colophons to Midian, Abraham’s son by his second wife, Keturah. Jethro, the Midian priest inherited the tablets and may have instructed Moses, his son‑in‑law over their contents, which would have given Moses a recorded interpretation of pre-Flood history, that he included in his writing of the Avot,^[37] and the Torah (the first five books of Scripture, the Pentateuch on translation into Greek, or, in English, the ‘Books of the Law’). The sages believe that the contents of the Torah were dictated to Moses by God) along with his correlation of the handed down narratives.

Geologists have found evidence from the examination of magnetite specimens of hardened lava that as many as ten variations at the Earth’s magnetic poles occurred during the cataclysmic disturbance that caused the Great Flood. In the absence of a detailed transcript of events, it is reasonable to assume that no sea-creatures were taken into the Ark and that God restocked the seas and fresh waters of the world at the receding of the floodwaters. In recent times, some samples of ‘living fossils’ in fish and plant life have been discovered, which implies that some species of fish may have survived the Flood through entering into a state of suspended animation.^[38] Fish at death rise to the surface, where birds eat any remains, always accepting that other carnivorous fish do not eat the remains whilst the dead fish floats to the surface. The evolutionist erroneously states that a fish on dying settles on the sea bed, where it is eventually covered with silt and sediment. Perhaps millions of years following this entombment a tectonic disturbance occurred, which caused the sedimentary rock (that has formed around the fish fossils) to rise out of the sea, forming a new island. Perfectly formed fish fossils could only have been formed universally at a time when every fish died, that is at the time of a universal Flood. The violent repeated collision of the released tectonic plates caused tsunamis and earthquakes, and all loose submerged rock was pounded to fine ash. Every sea creatures died through ingesting minute particles of sediment through their gills; the evolutionist’s theory of uniformitarianism over the entombment of complete fossils (uneaten by predatory fish) does not hold water!

Peleg, the second son of Eber, was so named to mark the time in history in which the landmass separated into Continents, and the coastlines of every landmass became identifiable with today’s coastline. The late Russian mathematician and Biblical scholar, Ivan Panin, held a Masters Degree in Literary Criticism. In his book Bible Chronology, he gave his reasons for calculating that the Great Flood took place in c2346 BC.^[39] If Panin is correct, as Peleg was born 100 years after the Flood, it follows that the unredeemedContinents were formed by 2007 BC, for Peleg lived for 239 years. Following the Flood God did not allow for as many people to live to such great ages, and many others of God’s favours had been withdrawn. I had been fasting for three weeks whilst seeking revelation over how the lands of Earth were repopulated with people and animals after the Flood, and was heartened on Sunday the 1^st March 1998, to experience a trance.^[40]

I was sitting upon a boulder amongst a large number of people from a bygone age, some were clothed in animal skins, whilst others wore cloth. I was one of a number of the men living in a fishing village, who were listening to a man whom I knew to be Noah, speaking of the error of following a false god in order to receive short term benefits at the expense of a later but greater reward. Noah had travelled to this fishing village to advise his fellow clansmen of their need to believe only in the one true God.

I retired to bed that night, pondering over the trance, and was rewarded with a ‘revelatory dream’.^[41] I awoke having a deeper understanding of a dream that since 1983 has often been repeated to me but for which I had never previously received any enlightenment.

Again I was sitting with others of Noah’s extended family listening to their patriarch. Noah emphasised that salvation lay in believing that only the God of all creation held power over each person’s soul. Noah preached to the families concerning their sinful condition, which may have included their sexual proclivities and any experimenting with genetic engineering^[42] and cloning, in which their 'pre-Flood illuminated' minds might have indulged. Volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes accompanied by the other twin terrors of after-tremors and widespread flooding, were caused by glaciers being breached. The lives of the beleaguered villagers threatened by the consequences of the coming calamity were of deep concern to Noah. The eruption of volcanoes, together with the effects of the hot sun on the frozen surfaces of mountainous glaciers, had caused these huge creeping bulks to slowly slide, into the valley plains, engulfing whole communities that had settled in the plains between the mountain ranges. I became convinced that Noah’s words were true and I had retired to bed, confident that a watchman would awaken me if the conditions became critical.

As the new day dawned, a group of men, by shouting loudly outside my home, woke me, urging me to join them in escaping, in one of several large trading ships that had anchored in the harbour overnight. As we made our way down the steep slope to the quayside, I clearly saw the mariners and the fishermen from the village assisting their neighbouring families into the rowing boats and ferrying their passengers to the larger boats. Hastily but orderly, the rescuers rowed their empty boats back to the quayside steps, where others waited to board. The field on my right was illuminated by the multi‑coloured phosphorous globules of flaming molten lava that rained down from the sky, turning to steam on impact with the sodden ground. The field on my left was strangely dark and quiet; lightning flashes and thunderclaps added to the dramatic vista. The cliff road ahead and the valley road leading to the harbour had become impassable, having been engulfed by avalanches.

Without warning the massive wall of ice tumbled onto the quayside. The escaping villagers in the boats screamed in terror, as they were knocked overboard by the boulders of ice that rained down, holing the boats. Frightened people were wildly thrashing about in the sea, trying to avoid the avalanche over their heads. I could see that the rescue ships were raising their anchors and moving out of the harbour in which they may have become land-locked. I placed my hands over my ears to drown out the terrified screams, closing my eyes to block out the picture of the disaster that I was witnessing. I swiftly turned and ran inland clambering over a secured five-barred wooden-gate into a field and sought shelter from the strong wind, in a shallow hollow. Snowflakes rapidly blanketed the grass around my feet, as the wind banked the drifting snow around me, filling the hollow in which I stood. I silently prayed, committing myself to God. My numbed body felt no pain as I physically died. I knew that I was unequivocally and eternally saved through my own unusual baptism into Christ.

On analysing the trance and dream, I knew that I was being told that having received and accepted the Gospel, every believer is expected to respond by obedience to the ‘Call’. One cannot sit around waiting for one’s death and resurrection. Natural disasters, ill health, anxiety over how to cope in times of distress, are given to believers to test and mature their faith. It serves no useful purpose complaining to God that the unrighteous are prospering at the expense of the faithful. Each of us should serve willingly in worship, service to others, until called ‘home’^[43].

The Age of Human Government

I am convinced that a satellite storm struck the Earth causing the release of the tectonic plates, resulting in the Great Flood.^[44] The tectonic plates probably repeatedly and violently collided, pulverising the satellite material to ash because of the space storms and the deluge of rain. Normally the plates slide by each other, and more severely but less frequently, pass one beneath the other (subduction). Either way on two plates colliding, there can be massive upheaval of the land. The repeated collision of the released tectonic plates caused tsunamis and earthquakes, all loose submerged rock was pounded to fine ash and all sea creatures died through ingesting minute particles of sediment through their gills, whilst land creatures were drowned,and became part of the horizontal sedimentary bank where the carcasses were carried by the tide. German geologist Johannes Vulta at the end of the 19^th century, whilst boring core samples from the ocean floor from a ship moored in the bay of Naples, discovered that the banks of strata on the sea-bed in the deeper waters of the bay were formed vertically and sideways, in exactly the same sequence as the banks close to the shore and coastlands. Vulta’s discovery disproves the theory that fossils of anthropoids encased at deeper levels were entombed many centuries earlier than the fish and crustacean fossils found at shallower depths. The fossils lay at the level at which the species had inhabited, every fish died during the Great Flood, irrespective of sea water depth. There were no surviving predatory fish to eat the dead bodies of the smaller fish (all of which are carnivorous). Obviously the fleshly remains of predator or food bank must have been encased in silt deposits at the same time otherwise there would have been no complete fossils. That the banks were also built vertically, explains why fossilised trees throughout the world, at several excavations were buried in an upright position, through several layers of stratified sedimentation. This discovery proved that the previously accepted hypothesis of stratification (that each layer was formed horizontally on top of the previous layer) was nonsensical, for no tree deprived of air, water and light could continue to grow over several more centuries. Vulta’s thesis was reinforced by the scientific investigations carried out in the 1970’s and 1980’s, at varying depths in the Pacific Ocean from the Gloma Challenger vessel.

In 1965, researchers exploring off the coast of Peru at depths of 1,000-fathoms made a startling discovery. A powerful underwater camera filmed statues on stone pedestals, enormous stone pillars and massive areas of broken walls on the ocean bed. The photographs confirmed the presence of a city that had been inundated in ancient days, remaining submerged even today. The saline Lake Titicaca, located some 3962 m asl in the Andes mountains, has sea-shells galore scattered around its shoreline. From ground level and easily discernible on looking upwards, are agricultural terraces; seemingly cut into the mountain but as the terrain steeply rises to the snowy heights some 1524 m asl, clarity disappears. A short distance away is the huge abandoned former dockland City of Tiahuanaco, where evidence has been discovered of docking facilities for ocean‑going vessels from centuries earlier. These discoveries point to a formation of the Continents prior to the Great Flood, and to a world-wide civilisation. Following the ferocity of the Flood, the topography of the Earth must have changed dramatically, scoring huge ravines (gorges) 1,000-fathoms deep plunging one city into a deep ravine, yet powerfully forcing another city from the same land mass to a height of 5,486 m in a newly developed range of mountains; the highest of which were submerged to a depth of 7 m, totally changing the topography!

The Age of Conscience

Noah preached that the royal seed of righteousness had not been lost at Abel’s murder, but had been passed on to Seth; and in succession had been passed on to himself, of which the prophets foretold as the immaculate conception of Jesus Christ, for Jesus is the only child ever born, whose mother’s ovary was not fertilised by a man. The passage in Genesis Ch 3:15 was misinterpreted by Nimrod’s followers as referring to the seed of their beloved leader as the ‘Great Deliverer’ (of salvation). The wording is not consistent in all versions of the Bible; but, in the New King James version (NKJV) of the Bible, God was issuing the prophecy that ‘the Seed of the Woman’ would finally overcome Satan. Galatians Ch 3:16-19 states that the promise of God to Abraham was ‘to his Seed’ (singular, not the plural, ‘seeds’), meaning the one person who is the Christ. The Ten Commandments, introduced 430 years after the promise to Abraham, does not annul the promise made to Abraham. The inheritance does not depend on obedience to the law; which was introduced only to make the Israelites aware of their sinfulness until the ministry of the Seed on Earth was completed, with the defeat of Satan. A combination of Romans Ch 8:17 and Galations Ch 3:29 would read:

‘If we are the true sons of Abraham we are heirs to the promises of God, and if we are willing to share in the earthly sufferings of the man Jesus until our own resurrection in order to share in His glory throughout eternity, then we are co‑heirs with Christ.’ (paraphrased)

Bacchus (Bar-Cush, or son of Cush, alias Nimrod) was begat. Nimrod’s parentage is uncertain; he was raised, perhaps adopted, by the Cush family.^[45] In the NKJV Bachus is not listed in Genesis Ch 10:7 with the other sons of Cush. Nimrod travelled with his entourage and their flocks along the River Euphrates until reaching the Plain of Shinar (Babylonia), at the base of a snow-covered mountain range, where they settled. Nimrod as evidence of his skill as a hunter, clothed himself in a tunic made from the coat of a spotted beast (a fawn, leopard or jaguar), and the headdress of a horned animal. Each of Nimrod’s priests dressed similarly to associate their priestly role with divine authority. He was idolised, and the legend was perpetuated of him as a God. Nimrod died soon after impregnating his wife Semiramis. She claimed to have received a visitation from an ‘angelic being’, who informed her that Nimrod would be reincarnated as her son. Semiramis was immortalised as the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah Ch 7:18, Ch 44:17-19), with the introduction of an annual festival of remembrance to the mother goddess of mankind, of which early historians Athenagoras and Lucian both wrote.Archaeologists have unearthed tablets recording the marriage of Nimrod to Semiramis; and the cult was perpetuated of worshipping a ‘blessed mother and her son’ as divine mediators between bad luck and good fortune.

On the 25^th December she subsequently bore her child and named him as Tammuz.^[46] Semiramis became associated with Venus and she was worshipped as Rhea (mother of many gods). Noah had taught that one day in the future the Seed of a (blessed) woman (a virgin) would be fertilised supernaturally; and on reaching manhood, would bruise the heel of the serpent (Satan aka the ‘evil one’). Nimrod’s followers believed the misinterpretation that Semiramis and Tammuz in a later lifecycle of existence would fulfil this teaching. Tammuz the Great Deliverer, alternatively known as Zoroastra or Zero Ashta (meaning the ‘seed’), or Zoroastes (meaning the ‘seed of the woman’), was venerated as the high priest, whose soul was transferred in some mysterious way to his successor. My belief is that the successor of this mother and son as the false Messiah, would be part of the unholy trinity of the final generation. The historians, Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, recognised the legends of Osiris and Bacchus as being culturally interchangeable. The spirit behind these false gods or ‘mighty ones’ of Greek, Egyptian, and Babylonian mythology was thought to live on the Earth at the time of Nimrod’s reign.^[47]

Nimrod in Assyrian folklore was thought to be a Sumerian shepherd, who was married to the Syrian goddess Ishtar, or Astarte, a name which has metamorphosed into Easter, a pagan name celebrating a pagan festival.^[48] Many of Nimrod’s followers (following the confusion of language), migrated eastwards into Anatolia. The earliest ancestors of the Babylonian religion were an ethnic group called Hittites, who centuries later migrated from Anatolia, India and the Orient, into Mesopotamia, and later into Asia Minor (Europe) c2000 BC. Over the years the Chaldean religion had assimilated the magic and the astral features of the Mithras cult of Anatolia, fused with the Indo/Iranian worship of Cybele, demonstrated by promiscuous sexual behaviour. Abram’s father was from one of the tribes that settled in Babylonia, and that is the path through which the Scriptures thread their way. The historian Eusebius wrote that Abram was born eight years before the death of King Ninus of Ur.^[49] Ninus’ subjects accepted their king as a reincarnation of Nimrod (alias Tammuz, or Bacchus).

The inter-galactic genesis (beginning) of all created things means that nothing formed had any choice in its creation. All things were fashioned by a cosmically sovereign Creator, whose omniscience is incontestable. So far I have written of a transcendent master craftsman, a Supreme Being, totally separated from His creation; but He chose to become an imminent, relational Being, through the immaculate conception of His son. Western humanists and philosophers accept this analysis, for this explanation allows that mankind also has been given free will, to choose whether or not to follow Christ. However, those who oppose God do get angry when told that God equally has the will to reject those whose hearts are hardened towards the Godhead! Truth is fact and is universally true, whether accepted or rejected. The philosophy of the relativist^[50] is that there is no absolute all-encompassing truth, and that every theory is ‘relative’ to every other theory, that may be rejected or accepted? Mankind cannot escape from this ‘imprisonment’ on Earth, God’s will is unconditional and His final judgement certain; yet He has chosen in His sovereignty to make Himself known to His creation, because God is ‘love personified’.^[51] It is now possible to choose to be excluded from that final judgement (one’s personal exodus), owing to this tripartite Being having made Himself known through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. Christ chose to divest Himself of His divinity and to be born as a man (but to live a sinless life), in order that He might become the vicarious sacrifice (without blemish from sin) that would atone for the sins of the world. The reason behind humanity’s creation is a concept beyond the understanding of unredeemed mankind, but is a constantly explained theme running throughout the Bible.

The true seeker of the meaning of life must sense that, both individually and corporately mankind is answerable after death to a supreme court for the behaviour expressed towards others. It should be obvious that it is not a matter of chance or fortune who one’s parents are, or, what position in the community they hold, or, because of their loving sacrificial example, what position in adult life we hold or aspire to (Acts Ch 17:26). All human life in every land, living in the direst of situations, is as equally important to a loving God. The individual who chooses to commit suicide may hope that this act ends in the annihilation of their soul life (charisma) as well as that of their body, but it just is not so, for all souls individually, will, on Judgement Day, have to give an account of their conduct whilst on Earth. Non prosecution by the authorities in one’s nation of residence only means that one’s ‘crimes’ have not been detected, or that one’s unrighteousness is condoned by the godless nation one has been born into. The Bible condemns as unholy all unrighteous behaviour or thought, including xenophobia (which is not restricted to religious intolerance of other faiths, strangers, or the colour of one’s skin), racialism, homophobia, and the aversion to the cultural behaviour of another people group. It is both necessary and desirable to study the word of God for oneself, for Christ is the Word become flesh, that humanity might better understand the person of God, and His purposes for mankind’s future.

The Hebrew sages have said that the study of God’s revealed word is the highest form of worship. I would add that the noblest pursuit of Christians is the searching out of the will of God for their lives, and obedience to the Redeemer’s instruction (given at the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew Ch’s 5-7), to grasp that Christ’s claim (in John Ch 14:6) to be “the way, the truth and the life" is unequivocally true. The period of time between the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus brought many of the other space/time dimensions into focus. Christ’s immaculate conception, and resurrection from the dead into heaven, have been denied and rejected by atheists and believers of other faiths; but also by many sceptical nominal Christians, some of who are Bishops, or Bible scholars, who have never been persuaded by logic or revelation of Jesus Christ’s divinity, nor of the ongoing ministry of the baptism of believers into the Holy Spirit.^[52] Many theologians do not believe there will be a Second Coming, a millennial reign, or a Day of Judgement; perhaps they feel more comfortable through denying the inevitability.

Because Jesus was fully human yet sinless and righteous, Jesus Christ’s vicarious death on the cross, atoned for the sins of the world’s population of every generation. He has imparted His righteousness to those who call on His name and are obedient to Him. The good news of the gospel is that believers become clothed in Christ’s righteousness, for all other humans have been proven guilty of self-righteous pride, which is as filth in God’s eyes, and a state of rebellion. The acceptance of Jesus Christ as redeemer is an imputed gift of grace that enlightens the soul supernaturally, transferring knowledge from the mind to the heart, renewing and sanctifying the converted body into a temple in which the Holy Spirit tabernacles. In John Ch 14:21 Jesus said that He would ask the Father to send another counsellor (Greek parakletos), who is the Spirit of truth. Romans Ch 8 speaks of the counsellor being the Spirit of Christ, whilst 1 Corinthians Ch 2 speaks of the Holy Spirit being the Spirit of God, confirming that this divine Creator is a tripartite God. Very often it is a divine manifestation or a miraculous healing that convinces the non-believer that Christ is alive today. Jesus Christ said that He prayed only for those that the Father had given Him, and not the whole of the world’s population, Jesus says in John Ch 15:16 that You did not choose Him, but He chose you; emphasising the need of spiritual revelation to non‑believers and to those of other faiths.

Judaism involves a belief that one day a Messiah will be born (to human parents), and sent by God as a warring victorious king, therefore devotees do not acknowledge that Jesus who came as a suffering servant was that (divine) Messiah. They refer to the suffering servant as ‘the son of Joseph’, or liken the suffering servant to ‘Israel in exile’, whereas the conquering king is called ‘the son of David’. It is that same blind dogmatism as expressed by the Roman Catholic faith, that insists the Blessed Virgin Mary is a co‑mediator between man and God; wars are fought over such issues.^[53] Agnostics and atheist friends I have discussed these matters with, are totally indifferent to a possible eternity, not realising that the only choice to which one can contribute, is whether to spend eternity in heaven or in hell! Blindly those in rebellion against God adopt the attitude of ”Here today, gone tomorrow.” They care only to enjoy their lifespan, which they believe they have received through ‘chance’, as if some giant wheel of fortune or lottery decides life and death. Many who believe in a God, or in many gods, assume that by leading a devout life, and through following the dictates of their religion, they may earn rewards through their good deeds on Earth, or during a reincarnated life, or on arrival in heaven; but salvation is through grace and not by effort (‘works’). Jesus, who is fully man, yet without sin, is also fully God and the only mediator between mankind and the Creator. Our heavenly Father is a tripartite, supernatural, and relational ‘Being’, who is also personal, knowable, lovable, and worthy of mankind’s worship. Mankind has no righteousness of its own and is reconciled to Christ by grace alone. Christ’s disciples are not freed from their sinful (fleshly) nature whilst living, but no individual is tempted beyond their ability to resist temptation. On the illumination of one’s soul, the enlightened person is immediately justified, freed from the power of sin and death as a redeemed sinner, and called to reconcile others to Christ by example, as Christ’s ambassadors on Earth (2 Corinthians Ch 5:19-21). Although conversion is an immediate occurrence, it is also a continuing process until death.

Arthur E Ware (1885-1978) in his book The Restored Vision has stated that the world was created in 4075 BC (the first evening and morning being the 4^th March), and that Adam toiled in the Garden of Eden, before embarking on a 40 day probationary period as a type of wilderness experience to which Christ had been subject.^[54] I believe that I received a ‘ word of knowledge’ that Adam lived in the Garden for the exact length of time allocated for the final generation to exist, before the Second Coming (of which I write throughout this book). Ware believed that the years of the Messianic calendar are reckoned from the eighth day of Creation. Faulstich and Ware both offer dates of Creation that differ by c300 years from the date concluded by Jewish historians. The sages believed that God had determined that the seventh year of Shabbat from the first day of Creation occurred in 3,760 BC. This is why the schmitta year that commenced on the 29^th September 2000 was known in the Hebrew Calendar as year 5762 (that is 3,762 years of world history prior to Christ’s birth, plus 2,000 years of the Solar Calendar since Christ’s death).

God instructed Moses to introduce a new religious calendar year, starting from the time of the astronomical New Moon introducing the Spring season (Exodus Ch 12:1). Moses incorrectly understood the month to start on the appearance of the New Moon which was a day later than it’s formation).^[55] The first month was no longer September (which would still start the agricultural or civil calendar), but the year started from the New Moon forming after mid-March and before mid-April. The Canaanite name for this month is Abib, which means ‘young head of grain’, later it received the Babylonian name of Nisan. God stated that on the tenth day of this New Year a lamb was to be selected and set apart for the Passover meal, and slaughtered at twilight on the 14^th day as an offering^[56]. God ordained that these four days should be excluded from His Sacred or Redemption calendar, and each of the sacred years would therefore be of only 350 days in length (as opposed to the 354 day secular, or civil year), and would commence on the 15^th day of the first month, with the seven day celebration of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The omission of the four days associated with the sacrificial lamb, was to make it abundantly clear that the Passover lambs were a type of Messiah, set apart as a redemption for sin; and, 4,000 years after that first Passover, Jesus died in the place of all mankind of every generation.

It can be seen from 1 Kings 6 Ch:1 that the commencement of the construction of the Temple was started in the fourth year of King Solomon’s reign in 966 BC, 480 years after the Exodus. This passage connects the exodus from Egypt of God’s enslaved bride, to their family home and sanctuary, in which God would perpetually dwell (tabernacle) in their midst. By working backwards the Exodus must have occurred in c1446 BC, subtracting 430 Bible years from this date (the number of years to the day that Canaan was promised by covenant to Abram on behalf of His descendants), it may be determined that what is known as the Abrahamic covenant was established c1876 BC. Ware refers to five calendar chronologies throughout Biblical history, that I find confusing, but he has produced a comprehensive diary of events of Biblical history from Creation until the day of Christ’s ascension :

1. The calendar of Israel which lies on the surface of Holy Scripture.

2. The calendar of Jehovah, which differs in that it lies one day of the month, and one day of the week, ahead of the calendar of Israel.

3. The Messianic calendar exclusively based upon the years of Jesus the Messiah’s life.

4. The Roman or Gentile calendar inaugurated by Julius Caesar in 45 BC.

5. The personal chronological calendar of Christ’s life on Earth.

I am at variance with Ware (as I am with Faulstich) in that I believe that the first four days of Creation on Planet Earth were not 24 hour length days, but were governed only from the situating of the Sun and the Moon in the heavens following the end of many aeons (Genesis Ch 1:14-20), and that between the first day and the fourth day many other aeons could have taken place. I am intrigued that Ware believed the 6000 years of history were completed on the 12^th June 1933, marking the commencement (otherwise known as the consummation) of the Dispensation of the final age.^[57]

The Biblical seventh day was the Sabbath day of rest, and would have had the same length of Earth time allocated to it (24 hours or 1,000 years, which will be the millennium reign). We know from Psalm 90:4 that a thousand years is as a single day to the eternal God, so possibly 1 million years is but a fleeting moment of time. The Hebrew sages believed that the seven divine days were of inestimable length. Perhaps God used a time dimension, which may have allowed for an epoch of millions of years passing between the periods when animals, and the vegetation for them to eat, were called into existence. Adam and Eve may have been created an epoch later. There is no way of knowing; but many Christians working in all fields of science do now acknowledge that the Earth is much older than the 10,000 years formerly a sacrosanct barrier not to be breached, very much in the same way that (until it was conclusively proved otherwise,) the papacy insisted that the planets of the solar system revolved around Planet Earth.

Since becoming a believer I have believed that I am part of the final generation. The regeneration also signifies the restoration to life of the replanted fig tree, which will blossom at the end of the final jubilee. I had always believed that Christ raised Lazarus from the dead after four days, as an antitypical fulfilment that the Jewish ‘crowds’ who rejected Jesus, urged by the temple leadership, were nothing more than a ‘mob‘ of hirelings plus temple officials. The early morning ‘mob’ were few in number, most men would have been at home fulfilling their filial duties. It has been established that 80% of the Jews of Jesus’ time lived in the Diaspora, and were not even on pilgrimage to Jerusalem at this festival time. It is illogical to believe in a universal condemnation of Jewish society, based on the response of the ‘crowds’. What is really being unfolded is that the Jewish religious authorities had turned God’s laws into idolatry, and the stewards of that law were corrupt. From the seven woes of Matthew Ch 23 it can be seen that these laws were not observed by the priesthood! The scholarly rabbis who had introduced the extra 613 laws that had been built around the Ten Commandments, to limit possible infringement, meant that the true interpretation had become obscured by a jungle of tedious restrictions. Many joined the Diaspora or turned away from Judaism, because of these imposed suffocating restrictive laws upon the laity.

The leaders of Jesus’ generation elders, scholarly rabbis, scribes and teachers of the law were hypocrites who had rejected Jesus because they placed themselves above the law, because their interpretation was impossible for any devout believer in God to conform to (as opposed to the 623 laws of Judaism). The leaders were intent on engineering Christ’s death surreptitiously to protect their cosseted lifestyles; whereas the rank and file laity was turning to Christ in numbers that could have resulted in a defection that may have caused a civil war. My understanding may be too simplistic, but Jesus probably grew into adulthood as a Nazarene, as would have been his parents. His contemporaries and their parents in Nazareth were in the main Pharisees. At the age of 12, Jesus’ more exact interpretation of the Mosaic Law was seen by the priesthood at the Temple to be uniquely understandable, and expressed a greater humanitarian kindness towards one’s neighbours through an all encompassing love. On reaching the age of His baptism, Jesus spoke with greater authority than the priesthood and the rabbis. The miraculous signs that accompanied the spoken word convinced many ordinary folk that He was indeed the Son of God. His expounded word, showed the religious authorities, to be in error on their interpretation of God’s ‘laws’, His popularity with the masses left the authorities seething with rage and envy.

The toadying cronies and hirelings of the elite of the Sanhedrin, and the religious scholars, by choosing Barabbas to be freed, and calling on God to be their witnesses, were demonstrating that their willingness to agree to Christ’s death was a rejection of the true understanding of God’s word. They chose to continue following the way of the Judaism established during the exile (human philosophy). They rejected Jesus (who in truth was God’s high priest even during His ministry) The rejection by God of the current earthly high priestly system, was compounded by the high priest defrocking himself (see footnote 115). I believe that now it is acknowledged that we are saved by grace only the high priestly system, but Judaism too was rejected by the Godhead.

Autocratic regimes impose a holistic (theocratic) system of politics and religion over all their subjects, allowing for no alternative belief, or deviation from absolute loyalty. Individuals of some such people groups may have been fortunate enough to meet a Christian missionary in their homeland, or if they are especially privileged to travel to ‘Christendom’ they may have accepted salvation through having been witnessed to by a Christian. It is extremely hazardous living in any form of autocracy to publicly admit to being a disciple of Christ. In countries where Christianity is banned and there is no church in which to congregate and practice the Christian faith openly, or in countries where Christianity is a minority religion, to testify to one’s Christian faith could mean enduring imprisonment, and the prospect of being tortured to death. It is a daunting task to take the gospel message into countries where proselytising is almost a death wish, for if found guilty of profaning the holistic faith of the nation one may be deported after imprisonment, or even tortured and killed. In countries where Christianity is a minority faith, churches are often burned down, and the faithful murdered at times when the local populace are inflamed over a perceived or imagined injustice. The importation of Bibles is invariably banned, and Christian radio transmissions are often jammed under orders from the leadership of such nations.

Chapter 2- From Abraham to Christ

The Patriarchal Period.

At the time of Abram’s calling by God, the tribal worship of Abram’s ancestors to the Sun and the Moon, and to territorial gods, images of which they created in stone or wood was well established. Our father Abraham was of Semitic Indo/Arabian stock who was born and raised in the location of the Garden of Eden, and followed in the superstitious practices of his ancestors. At the age of 75 years he was commissioned by the Lord to leave his homeland, and his old ways.^[58] On arriving in Shechem, Abram received a visitation, and a promise that the land he had arrived at, was to be given to the descendants of his progeny (not of his offspring who were the seed of his faith, and would include ‘born again’ Christians, not of Abraham’s loins). Abram built an altar as a confirmation that he would be obedient to this Lord above all others. We can be certain from Genesis Ch 13:4, that he did not seek the Lord’s will (advice), when faced with drought; choosing instead to look for water in Egypt. On returning to his altar, he did begin to call on God for direction. Genesis Ch 15, explains that through spiritual intervention, that Sarai would bear Abram a son, whose descendants would inherit Canaan, having initially lived as an extended household in Canaan, until departing for Egypt for c400 years, where his household would grow into many tribes. To seal the covenant Abram was henceforth known as Abraham, whilst his wife Sarai was renamed Sarah (God added the ‘H’ God‑breathed aspirate to their names, to indicate that which appeared impossible became ‘Him possible’). The Lord promised that his (spiritual) offspring would be more numerous than the stars,^[59] whilst the male progeny of he and his wife, and of the servants of themselves and their progeny were to be circumcised on the eighth day.^[60]

Before being granted this covenant, Abram allowed Lot to take the more fertile lands, and was rewarded by the Lord promising him all the land where he (and later the federation of tribes) placed his feet, which included the whole of Philistia and modern‑day Jordan. God caused Abram to travel firstly to rescue Lot, and (after his renaming) by not sending the seasonal rain, which took him into Philistia, where his herdsmen dug wells to find sufficient water for the needs of the family and their livestock. Isaac was born in Philistia, seemingly as a sign to Abraham that his prayers. that the wives and concubines of King Abimelech of Gerar should have their womb’s unstopped, had been answered. Abimelech recognised that Abraham’s God was very powerful, and he chose to visit Abraham; at Beersheba ,outside of his homeland, where they entered into a treaty.

I believe that Isaac was a precursor to Christ, in that at the age of 37 years he was prepared to lay his life down in sacrifice (Genesis Ch 22). He even carried the wood for the sacrifice to what is now known as the Temple Mount, just as Christ carried His cross. Sarah died of shock, knowing the intention of the two men she loved.^[61] Within three years he married Rebecca, but it was 20 years before she bore him the twins, Esau and Jacob. God sent a drought, and reminded Isaac of his earlier promises to Abraham, whilst forbidding Isaac from entering Egypt. Isaac travelled to Gerar with gifts for the king, asking for the treaty made with his father to be honoured. Isaac was permitted to plant crops for the use of his household and his flocks, close to the wells Abraham’s servants had opened; and he became very rich. Out of envy the Philistines pressured Isaac to leave Philistia, by filling the wells with rubbish to prevent Isaac’s herds and flocks from feeding. Isaac chose to move out of the city into the Gerar valley, but still his household were forced to leave by the herdsmen of Gerar. Finally Isaac dug a well (at Rehoboth) far enough away from Gerar to satisfy the Philistines that their livelihood was not threatened. Later (presumably when the well ran dry) he returned to his arid home base at Beersheba, which was on the edge of the Sinai wilderness. Again King Abimelech made the journey to Beersheba, to formalise a treaty, to ensure no lasting hostility between them.^[62]

It was at Beersheba many years later, that Isaac’s son Jacob obtained by trickery the birthright that Esau had despised.^[63] Jacob received his father’s inheritance of birthright, prior to his marriage to the daughters of his Uncle Laban. It was only after Rachel bore her first child Joseph that Jacob chose to return to his homeland. This decision was made despite the fact that Esau might still carry out his vowed intention to kill his usurping brother. Laban still prevaricated by offering greater inducements to stay in Paddan Aram, but in Genesis Ch 31, the Lord ordered Isaac to return home. Rachel never saw the Promised Land, dying in birthing her second son, but Isaac returned to his parent’s home, and became the patriarch on Isaac’s death.^[64]

Joseph at 17 years of age was sold into slavery in Egypt. It is stated in Genesis Ch 37:7-9 that Joseph (an archetype of Christ, who became PM of Egypt) experienced a supernatural dream, in which the 11 planets (stars) and the Sun and the Moon bowed down before him. Joseph was the favourite son, hated by his brothers, and was being given a precursory revelation of how the Son of God was to be rejected, before being accepted by his brethren, at His Second Coming as the Messiah king. Possibly the Scriptures revealed just when the return would occur. The ninth planet Pluto orbiting the Sun was discovered in 1930, and the tenth, Sedna in 2004; I wonder if an 11^th orbiting planet will be discovered heralding Christ’s return? The Arab nations of Psalm 83, and Ezekiel Ch’s 25-29, 35, 35, have been a problem to Israel ever since, and will be until the Second Coming!

The Death-bed Blessings of Jacob (Israel)

Joseph had kept the knowledge of his Egyptian family from his father, thereby denying his Egyptian family linking in fraternity with their Israelite relatives. It was 17 years after Jacob moved with his family to Egypt, before Joseph took his two sons to visit their sick grandfather, whom, according to my reading of Scriptures, they had never previously met! It was an unusual relationship, for God enjoyed a better spiritual relationship with Jacob than Jacob’s earthly relationship with his most favoured son. But God allowed the separation for His divine purposes, as can be seen when Joseph tried to alter Jacob’s blessing of Manasseh and Ephraim. It had been God that told Jacob in which order of seniority to bless his two grandsons, who were to be blessed as if they had been created from his own loins. On giving his deathbed blessings, Jacob renounced Rueben’s birthright, transferring the earthly and spiritual birthright of patriarch to Joseph, in saying in Genesis Ch 48:21‑22

“God will take you back to the land of your fathers, the patriarchs, and as the senior of your brothers, I bequeath to you the land of Shechem, which I won through battle.” (paraphrased)

Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph’s two sons by his Egyptian wife were also granted chieftainship of their tribes, that were to be part of the Exodus. The families of all the sons became the enslaved tribes of Israel, who on leaving Egypt at the Exodus, travelled with their animals, and with great wealth that was given to them by their former masters and neighbours (Exodus Ch’s 1-14). I have often wondered how and when the Israelites made their demands for articles of silver and gold and clothing for their children to try on, the whole operation would have taken some time; and also exactly how long did the Israelites cease to work as slaves! The descendants of Manasseh and Ephraim, were the strongest (in numbers of dependants) of the tribes of the House of Israel. Their blessing was a split spiritual inheritance, between them as Hebrews and them as allowing for the Gentiles to be included in God’s blessings. It was only following the ministry of Jesus that the spiritual birthright of each inhabitant of every Gentile nation, as adopted children (on becoming ‘born again’), could allow for the primogeniture law of the firstborn son’s inheritance to apply. The Gentile could not know how to respond to God’s grace until Christ’s earthly ministry had been completed, when His Jewish Apostles and disciples delivered to them the good news of the Gospel. Clearly Canaan was to be the inherited right of the Jews until the Second Coming of the Lion of Judah, who would carry the sceptre of sovereignty Genesis Ch 49:10-11). Nebuchadnezzar was more powerful than King David had been (Daniel in Ch 2:37 names Nebuchadnezzar the ‘king of kings’). God granted revelation that through Nebuchadnezzar’s punishment for the sin of pride, restoration of even the humblest of Gentiles would be afforded through grace to enable the seeker for the meaning to life, to find salvation from their individual sins.

The sons of Abraham are not of flesh, but of faith, that is, those successors of Abraham who have undergone spiritual circumcision of the heart. Romans Ch 8;14 clarifies that those who are ‘born again’ (filled by the Spirit of God), are the sons of God, therefore the sons of Abraham are equally the sons of God. This conditional acceptance is followed by the deliberate act of being baptised into the Kingdom of God in the name of Father Son and Holy Spirit, which is a baptism into the death of Jesus Christ the Messiah (Romans Ch 6:4). It is clear that it is the sons of Abraham (which may be interpreted as ‘the sons of God’), who are the offspring of the promises of God, and not the descendant offspring of Abram. In order to become a son of Abraham, the offspring of Abram need to receive Christ personally for themselves. To become an adopted son one has to reject the unredeemed values of the world’s religious systems, trustingly and obediently follow Christ as Abraham had followed God. It was only following Jesus’ resurrection that the Jews who had rejected their Messiah through the teaching of their rabbis (that Jesus was not the awaited Messiah) that the Jew became jealous on the acceptance of the Gentile Church, of the very foundational belief that Jesus was the Son of God, who had descended to Earth to proclaim salvation.

The unconditional inheritance of the land of what had been Canaan was the inheritance of the divided Hebrew and Jewish tribes in perpetuity. The House of Israel lost the right of independent kingship, on the division of the kingdom in 930 BC. The reception of the greater blessing of Jacob that had been received by Ephraim the younger child was a split or dual blessing, that was to be shared with the Gentile nations, and in particular, Great Britain. Commonwealth Britain can easily be recognised as inheriting the blessing of becoming a fruitful vine, whose branches extend beyond national borders (becoming a commonwealth of nations, but this blessing only followed after a penalty clause of 2,520 years had been served by the Jews of the House of Israel, in accordance with Leviticus Ch 26. It is no coincidence that it takes 2,520 years for both the Sun and the Moon, to complete a full orbit.^[65] Great Britain’s ascendancy to rule the waves was granted in 930 BC, 2520 penalty years later, brought the year to 1590 AD; shortly following the defeat of the Spanish Armada, allowing Britain greater opportunity to extend the Empire. A 2,520 year period of time was allowed for unredeemed capitalism ^[66] to flourish unchecked, from the time of the destruction of the City of Babylon in 520 BC and heralded the Great Tribulation starting in the schmitta year commencing on the 29^th September 2000 AD.^[67]

The ancestors of the son of the promise (Isaac) have inherited the land in perpetuity, that can be evidenced by Jeremiah buying a plot of land in Jerusalem in the knowledge that Babylon would occupy the land. Jeremiah was not aware at the time of purchase that God would not allow kingship by any reigning Jewish king until Jesus ascended the throne. I believe that the scarlet thread of divine royalty was passed on through Zerah (transferred as per the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew Ch 1:3, as both son’s names are mentioned, see footnote 31).The Rechabites were their descendants, some of who have been part of the remnant that has always lived in the Promised Land. It was Jonadab son of Rechab, who had assisted Jehu in eliminating the remainder of the house of King Ahab from Samaria, causing the breach between the tribal kingdoms. It was a succeeding generation of Rechab who breached the divide between King Zedekiah and Messianic King Jesus by standing in the gap (Ezekiel Ch 22:30, see page 246).

From the information presented it can easily be seen that the blessing of Joseph’s eldest son Manasseh’s was bequeathed to the nation of America, who superseded Britain’s influence and invincibility in worldly terms. On the 4^th July 1776 AD, America declared independence from Britain, having been assisted in overcoming the British occupation by the French support emanating from Canada, influenced by aristocratic leaders (who were Freemasons). America fell from grace some 70 years later (70 years being the length of time between the final exile of the House of Israel, and the first of the House of Judah, which was the same 70 year length of time as the Babylonian exile). Whereas I have been writing of Genesis Ch 48, I have included further insight obtained from Ch 49, in order to complete the background information, which I believe points to the fact that Australia (which became an independent nation in 1901) and New Zealand, both Commonwealth members, received the final blessing of Manasseh’s grandson Makir, whom Joseph ‘placed on his knee’ (adopted), around the same time as America received her blessing. I believe that these two nations will continue to allow free speech, for I know that their citizens consider political correctness as so much humbug, and they resent any UN imposed restrictions. Their government will continue to support America, even when the UN and the EU choose to impose sanctions, or resort to an isolation policy, as imposed over South Africa for their racial disjointedness of which the UN disapproved. The combined force of ANZAC horse mounted soldiers delivered Judah, Syria and Lebanon from occupation by the Ottoman Empire in 1917, and in return received a special blessing from God (see footnote 149). I sense I was given this insight to better understand spiritual inheritance, through the reception of the Holy Spirit.

It was c400 years following Joseph’s death that God revealed Himself to Moses in the theophany (anthropomorphism) of the burning bush, and declared that He was the sovereign eternal cosmic Being, who was fulfilling His vow to Abraham, by moving the process of redemption on to the next stage, which was to reveal Himself to a nation as ‘I am’, the personal and relational God of Israel, the eternal Being who was and is and will be, from time past and into eternity, whose Son would be the sceptre bearer. Moses was chosen to be the earthly mediator, between mankind and a holy and righteous king, who tabernacled amongst the people; to whom He had revealed His name. God led the Hebrew tribes out of bondage and revealed His ten words (the Ten Commandments) that God expected His people to obey. Every nation was represented at God’s theophany on Mount Sinai 50 days after ‘exodusing’ from Egypt.^[68] Foreigners (aliens), were welcome to live peacefully in Canaan with the Hebrew tribes, but at the final banishment of Jews from Israel (in 135 AD), the foreigner assumed the tenancy rights belonging to Israel. Jesus told the parable of the unlawful tenants, who would not leave the vineyard of their own volition, as the illustration of what would happen prior to His return to rule throughout the millennium (Matthew Ch 21:33-46). Even at the lawful return of the Jew (in 1948), only those Jews with circumcised hearts (the Messianic Jew) were the legal tenants. I want to specifically deny any suggestion that the ‘Ten Lost Tribes’ have established a new kingdom for Jesus to return to; a belief which some denominations hold, and the evidence for that denial is found in the earlier paragraphs of this chapter. I have been a Christian for 20 years, and still have trouble disseminating truth from speculation, and from the desires of my own heart.

The Mosaic Law is ‘relational’, the Ten Commandments may be summarised as the experience of the tribal clan (or community), of the love of God, being extended to include the Gentile nations within the family of Abraham, the progenitor of faith.^[69] I was awakened early each morning throughout the period of Lent 2003 and directed back to Revelation Ch’s 2-3 and then to many other passages of the Bible, but it was not until awakening on Saturday the 6^th April that I believed I had correctly interpreted the significance of the passages to which I had been directed. I was told that Joshua and Caleb, the two righteous men amongst the 12 spies sent to Canaan, represented the Jew and Gentile who would populate the kingdom of God (Caleb’s ancestors had been Edomites). The other ten spies, who were leading members in their tribes, had rebelled against God’s word concerning entering into the Promised Land. God punished the whole nation by sentencing the tribes to wander through the wilderness for 40 years, one year for each day they had spied. The first two years following the giving of the Ten Commandments were spent in following the Lord around the desert. It was whilst at Kadesh Barnea in accordance with the instructions of the Lord (in Numbers Ch13:1-2) to send an exploratory team, one leader from each tribe, into Canaan. The tribes were sentenced for their blindness in disobeying the Lord to wander through the wilderness for 38 years. Although they lived each day of the 38 years in God’s miraculous provision, they still thought themselves to be better off in Egypt. When Jesus healed the man infirm for 38 years of his life, it looked backwards to the tribal rejection at Kadesh Barnea, and forward to the full 40 years that would follow the Jews rejection of Him leading to His death. I knew that one ‘day of years’ (a decade) mirrored each successive year representing each of the ten rebellious leaders, and this is coupled with the ten days of persecution related to the last decade of history, which the world is currently experiencing.

I believe that the various crossbred inhabitants of Samaria represented Ephraim’s stick (Ezekiel Ch 37:16 b), being the archetype of all ‘saved’ Gentiles from the nations. Ephraim, whose mother was an Arab Gentile, was the (spiritual) son of Israel, fathered from the (spiritual) loins of Jacob (whose dying blessing was to include Jacob’s two grandsons into the 12 tribes of the House of Israel). Jew and Gentile will be eternally and inseparably joined as one, grafted into the one olive tree in the redeemed kingdom of God. Together Jew and Gentile represent the 12 brothers of Genesis Ch 49, which included the two Gentile sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, whose names I believe to be written on two of the 12 gates of Revelation Ch 21:12, in place of Simeon and Levi (whose tribal inheritance became amalgamated into the other ten tribes of Samaria, that is easily identified as the Northern Kingdom). Gentile believers have been absorbed into the new ‘spiritual’ House of Israel represented by the two brothers who also represented the ten wandering tribes of Israel. I am confident of the inclusion of many Gentiles into the kingdom of God, partly through knowing that Caleb (son of Jephunneh the Kennizite from Edom, was the first male Gentile recorded as entering the Promised Land (which in modern parlance can be identified as the Kingdom of God) under the Israelite covenant (Joshua Ch 14:6, with the knowledge that the first female Gentile to enter the kingdom of God was the Gentile prostitute Rahab, who, like Abraham believed in God’s power to save.^[70]

It was whilst I was in Jerusalem at Pentecost 2004 to answer a summons received from God, a summons that I have responded to quite often in earlier years, that I was given further understanding through revelation. Primarily on each such occasion I have been told to listen to God’s message for me at the Wailing Wall, but also to imbibe the local and spiritual ambience surrounding the times we are living in. It was during 1995 that I walked towards Bethany along what I believed to be the Emmaus Road, with the Judean desert on the right-hand side of me as I walked down the hill, and pleaded for further revelation concerning the end times. I was told to wait a little longer for clarification. I believe that on a more recent visit I received the longed for revelation, that had been given to the two disciples by the resurrected Jesus whilst walking on the Mount of Olives, many years earlier. Not unsurprisingly I was directed to formative Scriptures, a précis of which I have already referred to in the opening paragraphs of this chapter. Christ Jesus unpacked the meaning of the Scriptures concerning His ministry, and may have told the two disciples that the time of a Jewish saviour replacing Gentile rule was in the future.^[71]

The Houses of Israel and Judah were currently serving their sentence for their tribal sins through their respective deportations into Assyria and Babylonia, and would remain in the Diaspora, until the final restoration to the Holy Land. The two disciples were made aware that every previous generation of Jew since the separation into a divided kingdom would be totally forgiven, once the time of the Gentiles was completed. The Jews fall from grace would be completed, because the sentence had been served, and their birthright as ‘born again’ believers following the Rapture meant that all Israel would be saved. I add the caveat that only God can separate the sheep from the goats, and judge the heart attitude of the weaker sheep from the stronger rams (Ezekiel Ch 34:11-22). This revelation was terrific confirmation of what my faith had reassured me of, but I realised that I was being given an explanation as to exactly what would be the birthright expectations of ‘born again’ Gentiles, who were no longer wishing to become God-fearing converts to Judaism, in order to be part of Christ’s kingdom. but instead sought a lasting relationship with the king of kings as Gentile ‘offspring’.

In a facsimile to the Northern kingdom of the House of Israel being punished for 2,520 years, King Nebuchadnezzar was punished for 2,520 days starting from his accession to the throne. However, as he was equivalent in stature to King David, the times of blessings for the Commonwealth of Great Britain started from the same date. On transposing 2,520 days into years, it was possible to determine that Britain fell from God’s favour in 1913. During the following year of 1914 Britain declared war on Germany, neither of the warring factions were overly concerned over the plight of the wandering Jew. World War I and II were both fought over the power to control the world’s economy, every Empire fighting for a foot‑hold into influencing (controlling) the emerging oil nations. It is no coincidence that there are 25 (5²) ‘perfect number’ years between the two World Wars, commencing in 1914 and 1939 respectively. In 1948, the Law of Return of world Jewry was passed by the first national government of Israel, nine (3²) years after the commencement of World War II. In 1997, 49 (7²) years later, on the night of the 14‑15^th September, a unique star formation was formed in the heavens over Jerusalem, when Virgo (the virgin mother) was crowned with a constellation of 12 stars as she gave birth to the new moon (under Virgo’s feet, the new‑born child [the Messianic Jew], as the numbers of believers and congregations multiplied).

The completion of the woman’s gestation period, the arrival of a specific number of Messianic believers into Israel, and the revealing of the murderous intent of the red dragon (Satan) who relentlessly pursued the Messianic Jew, for 3½ years (until 2001, in fulfilment of Revelation Ch 12:17) suggests that my belief based on the series of revelatory dreams that I received (see page 55), is that the year 2000 AD is the first year of the Great Tribulation, which was also the Chinese ‘Year of the Dragon’. It is stated in Revelation Ch 13:1 that Satan (alias the dragon) came out of the sea and stood on the shore, which I take to mean prior to considering his next plan of action. The sea represents the unredeemed Gentile world, and the sea shore is reminiscent of the beach barbeque of John Ch 21 (see footnote 104). Satan has now publicly emerged in order to develop his attack against the rest of the virgin’s offspring; which includes the non‑believing Jews living in the nation of Israel and in the Diaspora, and the Christian gentiles. The warfare Satan has embarked on is a religious war through Islamic fanaticism practiced not only in Israel in the form of a second stone-throwing intifada, that has quickly escalated into mayhem, with an increase in deaths through knifings, sniper fire, rocket attacks and suicide bombings directed against the Jew in their homeland, by Palestinian Arabs.

It is not generally known that one of the thwarted and arrested suicide bombers was found to be a carrier of AIDS infected blood, whilst in another bombing Hepatitis B was found embedded in the bone fragments of suicide victims; a diabolical way of waging war. It has not been widely publicised that where Arab land has been confiscated for the construction of the ‘disengagement plan’ fence (see footnote 178), the farmer has received due recompense, that includes the profit that would have been made over the following five years from the sale of produce harvested, and 63,000 olive trees have been planted, on the Arab farmers remaining land, not only to mellow the sight of the barrier, but also to provide further income from the olives that may be expected to fruit in five years. Another misnomer is that the Jews owned only 8.6% of Israel at the time of her restoration, but the truth is that 3.3% was owned by Israeli Arabs, 16.9% had been abandoned by the Arabs acting out of fear, or under orders of the PLO, whilst 70% was ‘Crown’ or ‘State’ land, which had been vested in the mandatory power. According to UN Resolutions, Israel has every right to govern the territories it won in any war until a just and lasting peace in those reoccupied regions is thought to be a possibility.

The elimination of Israel has been an acknowledged Arab requisite since Israel’s restoration as a nation in which world Jewry might choose to live. The agenda is supported by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the 22 member nations of the United Arab League (UAL). This religious war will escalate, and will only end with the Second Coming of Jesus, as was prophesied through me at the Wailing Wall (see pages 148, 151-156). The battle is already won, for we read in Revelation Ch 15:2-3 that following His Second Coming, the victorious overcomers were standing on the sea shore, praising the king of all nations, for the defeat of the beast and his image.

In Matthew Ch 24:3, Jesus was asked which signs would herald His Second Coming, Jesus Christ answered at length from verse 4-33 before summing up in verse 34:

“This generation (the final generation of Jews gathered to Judah) will not pass away until they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds”.

My understanding is that a generation in length of time can range between 40-100 years, and that as none of Matthew Ch 24:4-33 has yet come to pass, Christ must have been speaking of the final generation prior to His returning, on raising the ‘sleeping’ ecclesia from their graves. The final exodus will exclude many from salvation, for Peter indicated in Acts Ch 15:14 that only a holy portion was to escape judgement, and Christ Jesus said that He only prayed for those who the Father had given Him (John Ch 17:9). We know from the increase in world-wide wickedness that the kingdom of God is suffering increasingly painful birth pangs. It is to be a painful time, during which Jesus told us the love of the majority of believers will grow cold. I urge you prepare yourself through diligent prayer and action, but do not be fearful, for we are advised in John Ch 4:18, that perfect love drives out all fear.

Since Christ’s ministry His Jewish Apostles have passed on to Gentiles the good news of the Gospel, that salvation comes only through the name of Jesus, and only through grace. Becoming ‘born again’ is an unconditional Covenant, of circumcision of the heart. The condition is the birthright passed on by Christ to the truly repentant sinner on the acceptance of Christ’s forgiveness. It should be noted that Peter, to whom the keys to the kingdom had been given, was the Apostle who passed on the gift of the Holy Spirit firstly to the Samaritans and then to their Roman overlords. Philip the evangelist proclaimed Christ, but was not able to summons the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to the Samaritans, but as soon as Peter had blessed Samaria by his passing on the reception, of the Holy Spirit, Philip was transported by the Spirit of God into a distant place, where he laid hands on the emasculated Ethiopian Jew. He, being unclean (like the blind, the lame and the leprous), was not allowed entry into the temple. Now there were no exceptions to receiving salvation, all could enter into God’s kingdom through the circumcision of the heart through grace

Billy Graham once said that evangelism devoid of eschatology would get the preacher nowhere fast. Paul said in 2 Timothy Ch 4:8, that every believer who yearned for His return would receive a crown of righteousness, which persuades me that it is the duty of all believers to keep watch for the signs of Christ’s return, and to pray that it will happen in our (privileged) lifetime. On conversion I became an eager evangelist, always emphasising to every Christian, the urgency of understanding the signs of the times in which we live, and to others who oppose Christianity, their need of a saviour.

On becoming ‘born again’, I was given a supernatural gift of generosity of spirit and respect for the House of Judah in offering heartfelt prayers to God for the earthly comfort and relief of all Jews (which is the shortened name for the House of Judah), in whichever nation they are domiciled, a love which has never diminished.^[72] It was a love born out of gratitude for what I had learned from the Scriptures, of God’s patient rectitude and love towards His chosen people. I understood my deep gratitude to have been as sincere as that exhibited by the Egyptians towards the tribal patriarch Joseph and his family, in their gratitude for the wisdom he had demonstrated as PM. In a similar way that the Egyptians, at the initiation of the Exodus, had willingly given the exiles of their silver and gold (Exodus Ch 3:22) out of fear of God, I was to be a cheerful giver, giving sacrificially in my efforts to secure the prosperity of the Jews, by offering both prayers of supplication and finance in helping them ‘make aliyah’^[73] to Israel.

I wrote in greater detail in my autobiography The Lord is My Shepherd of the events that followed my wakening one morning as I approached my 49^th birthday during Lent 1983, I entered into a trance, during which I reviewed the conduct of my life, doubtful for the first time whether I would receive salvation. My conscience had been persistently arrested and returned to disquieting memories of the selfish motives behind my manipulation of circumstances to my personal advantage. Each one of my friends and relatives were paraded in front of my mind’s eye, it was as if I was looking through a photograph album cataloguing my selfish deeds. This total recall had to be a supernatural invasion of my mind; one hears of people rescued from drowning, whose whole lifetime flashed before their mind’s eye in an instant, my experience was similar to that. I was not a habitual criminal, I had what I believed to have been a healthy sex drive and a career plan, which although not altruistic, was not specifically harmful to anyone in particular. I had previously taken solace in the thought that although I was not a ‘paragon of virtue’, I was not inherently evil. Like all pantheists, I thought that there was a little bit of God in me, a little bit of pride and arrogance, and a good deal of the milk of human kindness. Any deficiency in my character was no worse than that of every other human being. Surely God was responsible for my behaviour and my every thought, good or bad. I took consolation to avoid a guilty conscience in passing blame for any abnormality or deficiencies in my characteristics on to God, as being God’s responsibility. I had inherited original sin from Adam, and the genes of my parents determined my characteristics, but my earthly inheritance did not include a gene of righteousness (God has no grandchildren).

I knew of the historical Jesus ‘objectively’, but not as an eternal divine Being, and had seen no reason to emulate Him, Jesus was no hero of mine. I became aware of my unrighteousness, and that I was responsible to God for my conduct and thought patterns, for which I would be judged on judgement day. Would I have to answer to a heavenly court for the talents given to me that I had wastefully squandered? I thought of the servant in the parable of Matthew Ch 25, who was recognised by his master as being both wicked and fearful, surely I was even more so? Suddenly I experienced a totally new sensation, a dull ringing in my ears deadening all extraneous noises accompanied by a ‘heaviness of presence’, imposed upon every inch of my body. This symptomatic weightiness impressed upon me that I was being spoken to from within my psyche:

“Alf Droy, I know every thought you have ever had, and I am aware of all your deeds. You believe that with your quick wits and your silver tongue, you can ease your entry into eternal life by charm. You have never acknowledged that you are responsible for your life’s outworking only to Me, as Lord of your life. If you surrender your life over to Me and repent of your sinfulness and accept My forgiveness, offered by grace and not performance and declare your dishonesty publicly and make restitution, I will grant you a place in heaven beside Me, your Lord, Jesus Christ. ”

I was amazed at having been spoken to by Jesus Christ, it was much later that I realised I had been divinely appointed to undertake a task for which I would be equipped, commissioned by Jesus Christ Himself! My scepticism over Jesus' claim to be the immortal Son of God dissolved into ashes. I now knew Jesus ‘subjectively’; He is alive today and had died in atonement for my sins, to pay the price for my salvation. I repented of my sin-filled life, resolving to follow and emulate Christ’s ministry, telling others whenever possible of my understanding of Biblical truth, and the urgency of the need to repent and believe. I hurriedly dressed and breakfasted, and ignoring the protocol of making an appointment, I called on the Cambridge offices of the Inland Revenue and asked for an interview with the Chief Inspector of Taxes. On being ushered into his office, I furnished him with previously undisclosed bank statements from a hitherto secret bank account, into which I had placed deposits from the various businesses that I owned, and had embezzled from. That very night I received the first of an incredible series of supernatural revelatory dreams and visions (just as had Zechariah, recorded in Ch 1,7- Ch 6,8). Over the next few days of continuous nightly revelation, I wrote down what I had seen and heard and pondered over why I had been given such insight. Surely God had more able servants in positions of authority that He could use to warn the Church? I know that God has raised up many more watchmen than myself only, just as He had 7,000 loyal subjects in Israel during the reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel who had not rejected Him (of whom Elijah was unaware, 1 Kings Ch 19:18). Each night I was taken through the earlier revelations in successive order, whereas Zechariah had apparently received his visions all on the same night. The first night:

I saw a gigantic representation of Jesus’ naked body, submerged to the waist, arms outstretched and placed on opposite banks of the River of Life, reminding me of the crucifixion. This river represented God’s main artery flowing through every galaxy and back to God’s heart. The temperature and the flow of this 'divine' river were controlled by Christ’s contact with it. I watched a cameo of a continuous column of Jews, in groups and singularly, walking across this river (from death to life) along Christ’s outstretched arms. I was told that God was the living temple, from which the River of Life flowed and was reminded of the passage in Ezekiel Ch 47:12. It can be understood that during the millennium reign of Christ, the shed leaves of the ‘trees of life’ growing on either side of the river, will provide healing to the nations and fruit to eat, whilst the Dead Sea fed by the River of Life will team with fresh-water fish. Once the ‘Being’ that was my companion, who I knew to be an angel, was satisfied that I understood that the Messiah would provide salvation of the soul and food for the body, the luminescence faded and I resumed my usual sleep pattern.

The following morning, whilst walking through from the lounge into the kitchen, I received a vision in the form of a trance:

A dead leaf fluttered to the ground in front of my eyes, startling me, causing me to blink and step backwards. The leaf blown by a wind skittered across the floor into a stream, slowly sinking to the riverbed, where it would finally decompose. I understood that this autumn leaf represented a follower of Christ who had died and become part of the River of Life, which flowed from the sanctuary of the Temple of God. I became aware that my whole being, spirit, mind, and body had been touched and changed by God’s supernatural blessings. During the following night I was reminded of the two earlier revelations before my attention was drawn to a mature oak tree growing on the bank of the river. I was told that the resplendent tree represented the empire of King Nebuchadnezzar, the archetype of emperors throughout history who, sometime in the future would prostrate themselves before the King of Kings. I heard an authoritative voice ring out: “Saw down the tree and lop off all the branches. Bind the stump with bands of iron and bronze”. Stripped of all its splendour, the lopped oak tree bridged the River of Life. I watched as a succession of Gentiles singularly and in families (who had accepted Christ as Lord and Saviour, the successive dreams giving credence to the saying ‘first the Jew and then the Gentile) crossed over from death to life. My attention was then drawn to the stump of the tree, with its roots firmly fixed in the ground. I became aware of a cross-shaped pattern at the centre of the stump, that was imposed over the inner rings, showing this tree to be sacred. I was told that later the stump would produce a shoot that would become the ‘root of Jesse’, the Holy Seed, written of in Isaiah Ch 6:13 and Ch 11:1:

“There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse”.

Metal bands had been tightened around the circumference of the tree‑stump, to prevent fraying. Written in numerals by the metal bands, were the four digits 2,0,0,0, which represented 2000 AD.^[74] “What do you see Alf?” asked the unseen angel who had visited me the previous night. Once the angel was satisfied that I had understood the revelation, the vision continued:

Again the angel asked me what I had seen, on my satisfactory reply, the metal bands were struck with the back of a long-handled mall, resounding loudly. The bands coalesced becoming an iron cooking-pot. The wood graining shimmered into eddying ripples of sluggishly circling liquid, a viscous mixture of blood and noxious fluids. Gaseous, sulphuric bubbles coloured predominantly yellow, silver and black, rose to the surface. I was told that the liquid in the pot represented the nations of the world, throughout which the Jews had been dispersed. The pot was once again struck a resounding blow, to inform me that the vista was about to change. The sun came from behind a cloud shining brightly on the nauseating concoction, suffusing the dully‑coloured contents into bright metallic colours of silver, gold and ruby-red hues. The sluggishly circulating liquid at the outer edge of the cooking-pot now increased in speed, whilst the revolutions of the liquid at the centre became too fast for my eye to register, producing an effect similar to that of a whirlpool. The thickening mixture solidified, altering in nature, transforming itself into a priceless chalice, a communion cup not formed by human hands. In reverential silence I watched through a mirror the reflected actions of the cupped hands of Jesus Christ, as He lifted the chalice and placed it onto the glass‑topped table. I received a word of knowledge that the length of the base and stem of this chalice was two‑thirds of the total length, representing the 4,000 years of Biblical history from the Fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden, to the immaculate conception of Christ.

A voice told me that throughout time, Christ’s hands had directed and sanctioned every event of world history. The bowl of the cup represented one‑third of the span of c2,000 years from the Cross of Christ until His Second Coming.The gong sounded once more and the luminescence faded away. Whilst still experiencing this dream I received this prophecy: