DO YOU BELIEVE IN SIGNS?

HOW ABOUT THE AUGUST 21ST TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE?

If you sign your name to something, what does it leave behind? Your signature of course! We saw God’s signature this past week, but few even know it.

Across the United States people traveled hundreds of miles to great viewing locations where the 70-mile wide path of the solar eclipse would make its swathe clear across America, from one end to the other. The solar event affected almost every state in the Union.

Twelve states received the shadow of almost near-total darkness. Indeed.

America has a serious condition. That condition is lack of awareness about what is happening in our culture and in the world at large. We are “IN THE DARK”.

I can’t live carefree and happily as I did when a child, being taught to look forward to the Return of Jesus Christ. So many pictures filled my mind with joy when I thought about Him coming on the clouds, arms stretched wide, with the sunlight of His glory streaming all around Him.

At that age I had no clue about the enormity and intensity of the events that have to occur before the Lord’s One and Only Return.

But even reading my Bible as a young girl I noticed that events described in church with regard to Christ’s Return did not always line up with the Biblical account. Absorbing the prophecies with a child’s mind I was able to pare away the man-made determinations from the pure truth of what the Bible said.

Do you believe in signs? You should! All the prophesied events appearing around us bear the SIGNature of God. The enormous number of earthquakes and volcanoes, often simultaneously exploding around the planet give huge evidence of massive Earth changes.

Romans   8:22  says, “All creation groans” in anticipation of His coming. He is the Creator and King of the Universe. Would it not make sense that His nearing arrival -  this shift of energies - influence the heavenly and earthly bodies? If one considers the inherent power accompanying the One who created everything from nothing, and thinks that power doesn’t somehow precede or surround Him or influence anything He touches – then they are very wrong.

Creation longs for its original pristine state…the one in which God looked happily upon His work, thinking that it was very good. Man has come a long way in defiling this planet, not just its ecology and environment, but spiritually as well. This planet’s ground has been soaked by the remnants of wars, greed and lust.

Many say the “signs” are speeding up. It certainly seems that way. Everything seems to be happening faster and faster as though it is building to a crescendo.

 Earth is suffering what the Lord says are “Birth pangs”, just as a woman in labor suffers increasing pain and tremors, knowing something is about to be birthed. She hopes that as the quickening occurs, it will soon be over, and she will be able to see the magnificent result of the suffering she endured.

Jesus Himself spoke about the signs of His Return in Matthew 24 and Mark 21. I won’t go over them all, but He mentioned earthquakes which have always captured my interest.

The increase in the number, frequency and intensity of these events has become profound. As a child I remember remarking when our TV announced an earthquake in some far off part of the world. It didn’t happen very often.

Granted, our scientific community didn’t always have the seismic measuring instruments then that we do now. We also didn’t have the instantaneous methods of communication which we do now with the Internet. However, I was careful to watch for these events as a child, being interested in science, and also knowing the prophecies. So inwardly I watched as over the years the number of earthquakes has increased such an amount as to note radical changes in tectonic plate movement.

Dutch Sinse has an amazing earthquake watch site, where he shows in three dimensions the number, location and depth of all earthquakes around the globe on a daily basis. Based on years of watching the patterns, he can often predict these events and where they will occur, based on his knowledge of the tectonic plates, and how pressure under them reacts.

  

          

Checking his site on August 18^th, three days before the eclipse, I heard him say that those next three days would be rife with large earthquake activity. The quakes would include a swarm of long dormant volcanic action, along with Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier showing pressure from the West coast, along the California coast, as well as some quakes on the New Madrid fault line.

The New Madrid fault line over Middle America is not mentioned as often as the Cascadia region which starts around Oregon and precedes down along California, nor the San Andreas line which follows the Cali coast. But the New Madrid fault zone may play a greater role in America’s future than we can possible know at this moment.

                     

 This large, solar eclipse we witnessed on Monday, was the first of two complete solar eclipses which will occur within seven years of each other. Seven years from now, on April 8, 2024, there will be another total solar eclipse, again reaching across the entire U.S. but this time, it will make a path that resembles an X mark over America. X marks a spot right over the New Madrid Fault zone, right where the southern tip of Illinois meets Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri and Indiana.

This is where the Missouri and Ohio rivers join. If a huge earthquake would happen to occur there, it could easily divide America into three sections, causing enormous flood devastation. That possible event could even shape our coastlines far differently than we see them now.

This last eclipse, which was the first in ninety-nine years to cover the United States, happened on the Jewish holiday, the 1^st of Elul, which is 40 days from Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

(The 1918 solar eclipse was followed by a “huge flu pandemic that killed 50-100 million people worldwide”, according to Steve Ciccolanti.)

The first day of Elul ends the Jewish year of 5777, the year of “completion”.

Jewish historians always associated lunar eclipses with God’s judgements toward Israel. But they have always associated solar eclipses with God’s judgement upon other nations. The fact that the eclipse occurred on a Jewish holiday, and involved the entire United States, points to the idea that God was saying something to America, in particular.

Mark Biltz, on his Youtube video “The Coming Signs And The 40 Days” says he feels this forty day time period is of extreme importance. He mentions that “WW I started with a solar eclipse over both Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.”

                    

          “Mark Biltz – Blood Moons and Past Recent Eclipses”

He also states that when the U.S. lost their greatest war casualties was after a solar eclipse crossed the U.S. in roughly the same path as last Monday’s event.

There is also a verse in scripture where Jesus says,

“A wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign but no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah”. (Matthew 16:4).

Long ago I always equated that verse with Jesus being in the earth three days before the Resurrection, just as Jonah was in the whale’s gullet for three days. However, during the research I did for this article, one of the websites I visited mentioned that it was 40 days from the time Jonah announced to Nineveh until the time that the city turned around and repented to God for their wickedness. Basically they had 40 days to decide.


BUT THE MOST STUNNING THING HAPPENED!

     

        ASSYRIAN ECLIPSE OF BUR SAGALE        Jonah 1-4

          

History also records a solar eclipse accompanied Jonah’s dire announcement  across Nineveh, (now called Mosul), on June 15^th, 763 BC. Called the Bur-Sagale eclipse, Steve Ciccolanti describes it as one of the most famous events of ancient history.

                                  

                 Steve Ciccolanti with brief Intro

                              IS THE USA IN THE BIBLE? - STEVE CICCOLANTI

So from the date of the solar eclipse (1^st of Elul), until Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, when the Hebrew people historically acknowledge their sins and repent, is a period of forty days.

       

 

   DON'T BE LEFT IN THE DARK!

                                                       

Michael Snyder on his Economic Collapse blog says, “A day of reckoning coming for America is fast approaching, and those that are wise will recognize the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.”    

        ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG - MICHAEL SNYDER

Funny how this solar eclipse brings us to September 23^rd and another critical, monumental sign in the heavenlies, one that only happens about every 2,000 years. And this time will be the first time in human history that this constellational alignment will occur exactly as described.

In Revelation chapter 12 it states:

“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars”.

The verses go on to describe the woman giving birth to a “manchild”, who is caught up to heaven, and the woman being chased by a dragon into the desert, but a hole opening up in the desert, swallows and protects her.

Traditionally, Bible scholars had taken this symbolism to mean Mary the mother of Jesus, giving birth to Him, who was caught up into heaven at the ascension. But the rest of the verses remain a mystery.

However, in intervening years, astronomers and sky-sign watchers have discovered that an almost identical constellation alignment occurred immediately before the birth of Christ.

Some also speculate that this peculiar astral alignment gave the “Star of Bethlehem” its brilliance. It could be what the shepherds saw and also what the “wise men” from the East followed.

Immediately before the birth of Christ, the constellation of Virgo, “the virgin” was right below the star pattern of “Leo”, the Lion. The planetary body Jupiter moved into alignment into the constellation’s so-called “womb”, and stayed there, over the same period of time equivalent to a human gestational period.

                

         Biblical Mysteries (The Star of Bethlehem)

                   

This is happening again on September 23, 2017, with a small difference.

According to www.watchfortheday.org rumors activated in 2014 that the eclipse between the blood moon tetrad of 2014/2015 would kick off the start of the Great Tribulation. According to that author, the 1^st eclipse occurred 1,260 days before Sept. 23, 2017. (1,260 days in the books of Revelation and Daniel refer to the 3 ½ year equivalent of half of the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble”, or “Tribulation”…the latter half being the worst time to endure.)

Some scholars surmised that perhaps Sept. 23^rd, 2017 was the halfway point suggesting it would fully occur from April 2014 to April 2021. But according to “watchfortheday.org” that wouldn’t line up correctly with the Jewish feast days.

The seventh trumpet, (considered the very end of the Tribulation) occurs right before Revelation chapter 12.

In addition to the woman clothed with stars symbolizing Mary, who birthed Messiah in Bethlehem, the female figure can also be interpreted as Israel. The twelve stars could portray Israel’s tribes. The child still represents Messiah Yeshua, born of the tribe of Judah, from Jesse (the Root), and  of the House of David.

As mentioned previously, the astral line-up which occurred in approximately 3 B.C. is slightly different than the astral alignment of Sept. 23^rd, 2017.

Only 9/23/17 narrows the alignment to the fall equinox. Only in 2017 will the moon “under her feet”  occur a few days after a new moon.

Leo, around her head, comprises nine main “stars”, but on only this occurrence do Mercury, Mars and Venus provide the 10^th, 11^th and 12^th reflective bodies to make up “12 stars”.

The most unique part of all is Jupiter. Although it lines up within the framework of Virgo every dozen years, in 2017 Jupiter enters “the virgin’s” womb. A woman’s travail and pain of childbirth are equated with “tribulation”. Will Jupiter leave Virgo just as the “Tribulation” begins?

The reasons above explain why only in Sept. 2017 do all the pieces fit.

The author of “watchfortheday.org” also suggests that Jupiter will be in the sign of Taurus on the 9^th day of AV, 2024 (also a year of solar eclipse across the U.S.).

In Hebrew, Taurus equates to “Coming Judge”.

We must recall Matthew 24:

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And there shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”

“SIGNS” mean portents, warnings or foreshadowing of things to come.

Those who said in the past, “Oh people have talked about Jesus coming back for hundreds of years”, did not live in a time period when a synchronicity of signs occurred, as is happening now. The Bible warns those who foolishly mock.

Israel became an official nation again in 1948, fulfilling Bible prophecy. As the Jewish people have been drawn there in modern times again, from many other nations, Bible prophecy is fulfilled.

Isaiah 66:8 reads,

“Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.”

When questioned by His disciples how they would recognize the timing of these events He responded, after a long passage of certain signs to watch for…Mark 13:28 and 30:

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when her branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near.”

“Verily, I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.”

Many Bible scholars believe verses 28 and 30 go hand in hand, marking the rebirth of the nation of Israel. They also believe that the generation of those who live to see these events would not die before the Return of Messiah.

A biblical generation is seventy years. Israel became a nation again in 1948. Add 70 years and it brings us up to 2018. I am not setting dates. Just telling you what I have learned over the years. You can draw your own conclusions.

I can’t placate myself with mind-soothing imagery of being whisked out of "Oz" like the proverbial “Dorothy”, as a large majority of the Christian church does.

The proffered scriptural basis for the rapture theory is extremely flimsy. An entire dogma has sprung up on the basis of a only a handful of verses cobbled together and rationalized.

But that's so easily imagined by the soft, spoiled, American-pasteurized Christian, expecting fast food, fast fixes, comfort, ease, and luxury that neither the rest of the world nor millions of martyrs of the past could have ever conceived.

Neither Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Corrie Ten Boom, Nora Lam, nor millions of God's Chosen People of the Holocaust, would have considered themselves so "special", so privileged, that they could escape the ravages of the hurricanes of history that devoured them, and their loved ones in spite of fervent faith.

Yes, they hoped to live. But like the long list of heroes of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11:33-35, we must ponder the possibility that we too may be called to give our all for our faith in God...

"Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection..."

REMEMBER THAT THE CROWD OF MARTYRS IN REVELATION 7:9-14, THOSE DRESSED IN WHITE, WHO WOULD NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST - WAS BEYOND NUMBER.

IF YOU THINK YOU WILL ESCAPE, YOU WILL MISS THE CLUES, EVEN AS THEY HAPPEN BEFORE YOUR EYES. YOU WILL SAY, "ON NO, THAT CAN'T BE THE 'MARK OF THE BEAST BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T BEEN WHISKED AWAY YET".

OR YOU WILL SAY, "OH NO - THAT COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE THE ANTICHRIST, BECAUSE AFTER ALL , WE HAVE TO BE "RAPTURED" BEFORE HE APPEARS."

YOU WILL TAKE THE MARK. MISS THE BOAT, AND POSSIBLY LOSE YOUR HEAD ANYWAY...IN THE PROCESS.

              

Believing that one will be magically carried away before the horrors begin is escape-fantasy promoting apathy. It provides an excuse for not focusing on Christ’s soon Return or the actual events preceding it.

It allows people to put off repentance, allows them to hang onto their greed, self-focus, and put off living a life pleasing to Our Messiah, except for Sabbath Day, and even then maybe living the "saintly life" only for an hour or two.

I truly believe we are living in the final generation before the Return of Jesus/Yeshua.

The thought of going through all the huge events expected to occur does not thrill me. 

However, having an idea of what may come, allows me to strengthen myself psychologically, and increases my faith because it stirs me to greater depths of getting to know the Lord and His Word.

The thought doesn’t frighten me either. Always the curious sort, and an observer of history, I hope to be documenting all the details. Knowing that my Rock, the Lord, is protecting me, chases away fear.

What does make me happy is the thought of seeing my Messiah face-to-face, receiving a brand new body (which doesn’t grow old, fat, or get sick). And seeing the wheezing Earth cleansed and refreshed, (hadash) with even more gorgeous vistas, but with pure air and water to take in, as we soak in the Light of His Glorious Presence, where He rules from The New Jerusalem during His New Millennial reign on Earth. The New Golden Age of Earth.

That - and HE is the Light to hope for at the end of the dark tunnel of Tribulation.

            

                         "JerusalemDescending" Joel Chernoff -                                                                                                                    

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IS THERE OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE?

                   

Whether summer or winter, we look up into the majestic night sky, with millions of stars twinkling in our eye-sight, and ask, "IS THERE OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE?"

That's one topic I have thought about ever since I was a small child. Even as a little girl I was a voracious reader. My mother used to regularly get a paperback called Fate Magazine. I would always read it too.

     www.fatemag.com

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_(magazine)

I had to beg to be allowed to stay up past seven o'clock to watch the original Star Trek series, with Captain Kirk. William Shatner is the actor many of today's children would associate with TV ads for Hotwire.com's cheap travel tickets.

                   

              William Shatner    -  Captain Kirk -  Star Trek  Circa 1960's

Now he's jowly and hefty. But back in the sixties he was sleek and muscular, many young women's idea of a "dreamboat".

Captain James T. Kirk and his sidekick Dr. Spock, furthered many children's interest in science. There was warp drive in their engine to travel faster than the speed of light.

They battled and befriended many alien creatures inside and outside The Federation. It may be from where the roots of "multi-culturalism" sprang.

Surely Star Trek's tenets and technology have sky-rocketed the imaginations of more than one generation to the stars in the hunt for extraterrestrial life.

As an adult, I still read many books in the necessity to balance my Christian beliefs born by the Bible, with the scientific knowledge and technology of today.

Last night again, reading the preface to Paul Davies' book, "The Fifth Miracle - The Search for The Origin and The Meaning of Life", I was propelled back into biology class. In memory, I sat in a hard plastic seat, attached to rows of fake-wooden, vinyl covered desktops, listening in fascination while the teacher almost echoed physicist Paul Davies' words:

"How precisely did life begin? What physical and chemical processes can transform non-living matter into a living organism? This much tougher problem remains one of the great scientific challenges of our age. It is ...currently being tackled by an army of chemists, biologists, astronomers, physicists, and mathematicians.

"On the basis of their research, many of them conclude that the laws of nature, are, to put it bluntly, rigged in favor of life. They expect that life will form wherever conditions permit - not just on Mars, but throughout the universe...If they are right, it will mean that life is part of the natural order of things, and that we are NOT alone." Page 12 

It would be so easy as a Christian to write off any semblance of deep thought on the topic and respond: "That's simple. God created everything."  Don't delve into the deeper issues because that would be dangerous to your faith - heaven forbid!

Perhaps your faith can't stand a little probing. You banish anything that would take you away from standard doctrine because you are part of the unthinking herd, who because they cannot think on their own, revert back to easy catch-phrases and simplistic ideas.

On a jet flight one time I read the most astounding article in the airline magazine. Because it was over twenty years ago, I can't locate the specific article. But there are similar theories splashed all over the Internet and YouTube, that discuss Earth's planetary conditions as being peculiar as to be ultimately perfect for the formation of life.

As David Waltham said in his book, "Lucky Planet", Earth has had an overall stable climatic history. That would be an extremely important factor in the list of determining elements necessary for the cultivation of life on any planet.

"Fine-Tuning For Life On Earth" author Dr. Hugh Ross cites some of the criteria absolutely necessary for a planet to sustain life. The list is so long that I'll name only a few:

1)  " Galaxy size and type"                                                                                                                   

2)  " Star formation history in parent star vicinity"

3)   "Solar wind"

4)   "Quantity of galactic dust"

5)  " Surface gravity"

6)   "Axial tilt"

7)   "Rotation period"

8)   "Magnetic field"

9)   "H3 production - "If too small simple molecules essential for life won't form..."

The article describes specific types of life forms, for example one-celled vs. multi-celled organisms. Some would not count as viable since they don't last long enough to establish continuation. Some of those would include "extremophiles".

These are usually one-celled organisms that can survive in the harshest conditions...whether lava pools and magma, or in the midst of glaciers, or in the ocean's deepest depths.

      

Since many scientists have recently been convinced by the discovery of extremophiles on Earth that life can exist under extreme, unknown conditions on other planets, it has stirred the astrobiology community. Yet, if a life form cannot exist long enough to propagate, and become "intelligent" or "sentient" then it hardly matters.

                               DRAKE EQUATION

Frank Drake's equation describes the possibilities of other life forms springing up on other planets, but so many other factors would have to exist for that life to develop into intelligent communities, technological societies, and space-faring civilizations.

Essentially, any truly intelligent alien civilizations would be so many light years apart from us in not only development, but also so mathematically unlikely to have simultaneous existences, that the  possibilities of extraterrestrial creatures visiting Earth, become highly improbable, despite the UFO phenomenology our culture embraces.

As an "intelligent design" advocate, Dr. Hugh Ross may consider the Genesis chapter 2 account of Adam and Eve as metaphorical. There are some inconsistencies in the Genesis account which would lend credence to this idea.

For one, who were the women that Cain and Seth married and had children with? Surely it could not have been their sisters. Even back to the very purest bloodline, certain genetic abnormalities would have been bound to form. This must have meant there were other human beings on earth for Adam and Eve's sons to marry and procreate with.

If we go back again to the Genesis account of Creator God saying, "Let there be light", scripture seems consistent with "the Big Bang Theory".

If the  quantum universe is made up of tiny vibrating strings or waves of sound, it merely proves God's Word by way of His Voice could have set everything in motion.

Genesis two cannot be a play by play chronology.

In Genesis 2:5 there were "no shrubs of the field [that] had yet sprouted, for the Lord had not yet sent rain upon the Earth".

Therefore there would have been absolutely nothing for Adam to eat.

In verse 2:7 the account continues, "Then the Lord God formed [from the Hebrew word "yatsar"- to form, potter, fashion, make, frame" man, as evidenced by Strong's H335.]

Man in Hebrew comes from the Hebrew word, "Adam", which means "man or men (plural), persons, " and is often translated as mankind, in its usages in the Old Testament.

So this could actually be translated as "mankind" or "human beings", if one accepts the literal translation that implies man collectively.

And then again, "Adam" again comes from a root word H1119, meaning "ruddy", "red", or to show blood in his face, (as when we blush or get angry)...in other words in evidence of showing emotion.

Then, after Jehovah CREATES man, presumably with no place to go or live, if one considers this a chronological account...only then does He, in Gen. 2:8...

"plant(ed) a garden [nata-a], Strong's Hebrew verb H1953, meaning to come from a primitive root. It's definition would be "plant, fashion, fix, establish (often used figuratively) - a garden, H1588 "gan", meaning garden, enclosure, garden of plants, "toward the East in Eden, and there He placed [H7760] "suwm" (to put, set, lay, lay upon, direct toward, establish)...Adam.

Now if God created Adam, but placed him in a garden of young shoots, unless Adam was extremely fond of bamboo, or grass, and this being AFTER he created Adam, then God's newly-made creature must have been famished before he finally had something to eat...waiting for those seedlings to produce food.

That's another reason to believe that this is not an exact, chronological account so much as a recounting of the story for generations of clans and tribes.

In verse 2:9, which if it is chronological we must assume it is sometime even later, the Bible says, "Out of the ground the Lord caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, the Tree of Life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil."  This sounds like symbolic allegory to me.

Otherwise, Adam is hungrily digging for young shrubs, has little shade and no tree branches to protect himself from the sun, nor to create a soft bed amidst the field.

Of course because God is God He could have caused the plants and trees to spring up instantaneously, but the language used here implies otherwise.

But if this account is not chronological, and therefore probably not literal, we must assume it is a cultural, Hebrew legend, similar to those engendered in many world cultures. Like others, it was retold orally, passed down generation by generation, to reinforce the account of God creating mankind.

THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE LEGEND IS NOT TRUE.

Many legends have bases in fact, far back in the mists of time. Not all legends are myth.

FOLK LORE IS LEGEND PASSED ORALLY OVER TIME

"A myth is a traditional, typically ancient story with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental worldview of the people. The purpose of myths is to account for the origins of something, explain aspects of the natural world or delineate the psychology, customs or ideals of a society."

"A LEGEND IS A TRADITIONAL TALE HANDED DOWN FROM EARLIER TIMES AND BELIEVED TO HAVE A HISTORICAL BASIS."

When you become aware of scripture as also being "literature" , although written by divinely inspired authors, you realize that they used literary devices such as analogy, and many other great writing techniques.

The fact that the Bible in Genesis 2:7 speaks of God creating Adam from the dust of the earth surely shows we have the same carbon-based physical origin, which is the basis of all life on planet Earth.

I believe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God. But a reader must take into account literary devices and cultural settings.

Can we take every single word of the Bible as literal truth? I was raised in a fundamental Baptist background whose answer would be an emphatic "yes"!

I must, for the record state that I do CLING to the Word of God unashamedly, though many of us have been mocked in recent years for doing. I believe in a literal fulfillment of the Bible, and every word of prophecy contained therein.

But over the years, getting to know my Divine Creator Yahweh better, I would venture to say we can take the Bible literally only MOST of the time. If you understand the way especially the first five books of the Bible, the Pentatuch or Torah, were handed down as an oral tradition, and later as a written one, you can see that although Adam and Eve may have been very real persons, their names are SYMBOLIC.

The God I know loves numbers, since there are hidden numeric codes underlying everything on earth, including scripture. These numerical patterns actually connect words and key doctrines together, showing that even over the course of millennia, no human author could have deliberately coded these numbers, behind the letters and sequences of words.

But Creator God also loves words, literary devices, uses humor, wit, irony, poetry and other methods to hone the message to mankind that He wove through the ages, via the psyches of male scribes, prophets and witnesses of history over millennia.

Adam, in Hebrew means "the red earth" according to Strong's concordance, Hebrew word H121". This denotes in the Biblical account that Adam was made from Earth's clay, which is red.

Eve means "life", "living" or the first woman "mother of all living". Again, according to Strong's Hebrew definition H2332 "chavvah".

So it would not be outside of the realm of logic to say that the Genesis account is an ancient cultural meme based on a possible true account.

I know there are some in the church that would count these words as heresy, or a departure from faith. But I am not willing to unhook my brain from my beliefs as so many intelligent and even educated Christians often do.

Those same people would make up some excuse for why Christian women no longer attend church with head coverings as Paul espoused the early church goers to do, in Corinthians.

He also commanded women not to speak in church. Does the majority of the Christian church abide by these laws today? NO. Then we know that not every word of scripture is either applicable in every case, or to be taken as absolute, inviolate law, except perhaps in the case of the Ten Commandments, and "Love thy neighbor as thyself".

Granted, much of scripture has been confirmed by archaeological evidence and historical documentation. In addition, fulfilled prophecy is one of its biggest indicators of veracity. I am NOT saying "Don't rely on scripture". I just mean, read it with understanding. One has to come to know who God is in order to understand the life-breathed words He has preserved for us.

The Genesis story offers a permanent explanation for God's providential hand in the formation of life on Earth, as opposed to some seeded vapor-riding tail on a comet or embedded in a meteor speeding toward our planet.

Granted, during the Bill Clinton presidency scientists claimed that extra-terrestrial life had been discovered in a Mars meteor fragment. However, that determination has always seemed a little 'iffy' to me.

          MARTIAN METEORITE DEBATE - LIFE?

Excited debate still continues to this day over whether the 300-micron-wide carbonate globs are really minute fossils, or if they might be something else. The mineral magnetite was also detected within the meteor fragment samples, by electron microscopes. Apparently the microscopic worm-like "fossils" are labeled "large organic molecules". This could be interpreted as "life". Scientists lined up on both sides of the argument.

An opposition group consisting of chemists and geologists proposed other ways the Mars meteorite material could have formed. Some speculated the existence of "nano-bacteria". Some researchers believed the experiment's slides had been contaminated before examination under the e-microscope.

Dr. Hugh Ross's article, "Fine Tuning For Life on Earth", explains that such minute, pre-life forms, like the ultramicroscopic organisms found in extreme temperatures here on earth, similar to the infinitesimal specimens found on the presumed Mar's rock, could not possibly be considered true, viable life forms due to their overly simplistic nature.

I've also been reading Isaac Newton's "Principia". In the preface on page XI, Stephen Hawking states that Newton is considered the father of the study of calculus, planetary motion, mechanics and the theories of light and color.

Hawking also comments about Newton:

"He secures his place in history by formulating gravitational force and defining the laws of motion in his landmark work 'Principia'.

"There Newton fused the scientific contributions of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and others."

Hawking also says, "Principia,' the first book on theoretical physics, is roundly regarded as the most important work in the modern history of science and the scientific foundation of the modern worldview."

"Principia -On The Shoulders Of Giants - Isaac Newton (edited by Stephen Hawking)


              

 

Yet it is recorded that Isaac Newton spent more of his time studying Biblical End-Time prophecies and Bible codes, than he did on his studies in physics, astronomy, and celestial mechanics!

SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S DANIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE 1773

You can read for yourself online how Newton believed the world (as we know it) would end in 2060.  Newton may have believed that rather than a complete annihilation of Earth, 2060 might be the date of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and His reign during the New Millenium.  

His documents are in the public domain and can be read at the link above, as well as more information at www.isaacnewton.org and ISAAC NEWTON - BIBLE CODE PIONEER .

Newton, like modern day personage Chuck Missler, took an avid interest in Bible codes. These are remarkable numerical patterns underlying the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Old and New Testaments.

      COSMIC CODES: HIDDEN MESSAGES FROM THE EDGE OF ETERNITY

                     

Like Ivan Panin, a Russian mathematician in the 1800's, before our computer-accessible era, Newton discovered key passages in the Bible were connected by humanly impossible numerical patterns, proving Biblical scripture's divine origin.

Chuck Missler, once a military code specialist, wrote his now-classic book, as seen above. He too has been interested in Panin's monumental discoveries, hand-deciphered over the period of his entire life-time.

EVIDENCE OF DESIGN

GOD IS A MATHEMATICIAN

BIBLE NUMERICS EXAMINED


So, Newton's brilliant, scientific mind was able to absorb and accept the principles of Divine Creator, and Intelligent Design.

        www.intelligentdesign.org

As per the Intelligent Design website above, the concept is described as "the theory of Intelligent Design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."

INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND CREATIONISM JUST AREN'T THE SAME

The anthropomorphic principles embraced by one of all-time's brilliant scientific minds, must carry some weight.

You will certainly notice that most alien species depicted by artists and science fiction writers for the last century, have described them as bipedal, binocular beings, with one head, two eyes, two arms and two legs. Despite skin coverings of all colors, textures, and materials, the bipedal, upright form signifies the best use of bodyweight, spinal capacity for carrying and working, dual eyesight for anticipation of enemy attacks on either side, along with some form of communication ability.

I have often mused on mankind's arrogance in believing that he is the only life-form in the universe composed up of trillions of galaxies, suns and planets.

Even the Bible describes created beings other than mankind, who exist in other dimensions. Weird creatures with spinning wheels, and four faces surround God's throne, if one believes the Biblical account.

Archangels inhabit the "Third Heaven", a sphere apparently above our physical plane, only accessed by interdimensional portals.

Exactly what kind of "fiery chariot" in the sky, exactly DID pick up Elijah in plain view of Elisha? II Kings 2:11

Consider the possibility that life began on Earth and might therefore spread to other galaxies. Perhaps we are a "Goldilocks" planet for that primary purpose.

Despite the seeming-overwhelming evidence that Earth has been visited by creatures in vehicles not native to our planet, and that pre-Neolithic archaeological remains support theories of Nephilim giants and other mis-shapen creatures having roamed the Earth, we must be willing to examine alternate theories.

In recent years, the Vatican has been preparing for alien visitation and/or disclosure. Mount Graham observatory in Arizona, run by Jesuit priest scientists, use their ultra high tech  L.U.C.I.F.E.R. telescope to ply the seas of the skies. They are anticipating the approach of intelligent alien life.

   
          VATICAN: ALIENS ARE OUR BROTHERS


Also, in May 2008, Director of the Vatican Observatory, Jose Gabriel Funes, was cited in the official Vatican newspaper, "L'Osservatore Romano", as stating that extraterrestrial aliens are our "brothers". He remarked that aliens may not only be more "evolved" than human beings but possibly even superior.

Vatican astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno wrote an article explaining his concepts on intelligent life in the universe, saying he would gladly baptize an alien. But he thoroughly rejects both Creationism and Intelligent Design.

            I'D LOVE TO BAPTIZE AN ALIEN



The famous, late, secular UFO researcher, Jacques Vallee', concluded after years of research, that what everyone called ET aliens were actually beings from an alternate dimension.

This viewpoint is gaining popularity.

Currently some leaders of the Christian community, such as Tom Horn, Steve Quayle, and others, believe UFO's are a manifestation of spiritual beings, bad angels, or Nephilim giants. Recorded in ancient texts, sculptures, glyphs, and paintings are accounts of Nephilim beings who co-habited with human women to bear a race of "supermen".

These half-human, half-supernatural super-beings are said to be mythologized as the legendary, renowned Greek and Roman gods of Hercules, Jupiter, Nimrod the Babylonian King, and others whose memories still remain.

These men believe that Meso-American, Native American, and even Middle Eastern and  European accounts of huge giants whose bones have been buried, or exhumed and hidden for centuries, are springing onto the scene again as the cannabilistic Nephilim.

The extra-Biblical book of Enoch sheds some light on this phenomenon - the Nephilim who are said to return at some point at the end of our historical time period.

Horn, Quayle, Alberino and others believe that "disclosure", or the governmental revealing of UFO and alien phenomena, are merely a reflection of proof that spirit beings from the angelic realm will once again emerge from trans-dimensional portals, posing as "aliens". And that these same supernatural creatures may play a role in the rise of the AntiChrist and other end-time prophecies.

I have not yet determined what to think about these postulations. I have always believed that technology and artificial intelligence would play a huge role in the enforcement of the "Mark of the Beast" upon mankind. I never considered that beasts, themselves, would play a role in end time chronology.

With the rise of the D-wave computer and suppositions of "multiverses" there is much to mull over.

Yet, I can't get the ending out of my mind, of the movie series based on Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End".

Even my young grandson, with little training, recognized the alien leader, holding a child's hand on either side, for who he really was.

"It's the Devil!" exclaimed my grandchild.  The large amphibian-like Luciferian character, who had hidden himself from humanity for decades, finally revealed who the inhabitants of the spaceships actually were.

        
Christians are often ridiculed and looked down upon by the rest of the world for "checking their brains at the door", and rejecting science out of hand. But many famous scientific minds throughout history were dedicated men of God. Christianity does not have to exclude science from its purview.

Indeed, to make informed decisions about what is currently transpiring, and what may happen in the near future, given our position on the End-Time prophetic time-table, we need to be able to make some enlightened choices.

The Church at large needs to be a little more open-minded when considering the science and technologies that are shaping our world  - often overnight. We don't have to accept everything. But we do need to get "up to speed" on the realities of our present time , and know how to address the issues at hand.

Perhaps it is Believers in Messiah Yeshua (Jesus), who will take to the stars during the "Millennial Reign of Christ" - Earth's soon-coming Golden Age - if enough of us embrace the pertinent aspects of science from a scriptural worldview.



      www.biblebookofrevelation.com/ch20.htm       www.matthewmcgee.org/millen.html

                
 Zechariah 14:5          Joel 2:1          Isaiah 25:6          Isaiah 2:3          Zechariah 8:3
  

                  Isaiah 66:10                     Revelation 3:12                  Revelation 21:2