Wednesday, November 29, 2023

I've been

 

aware of the Rastafarian movement since I was 19 years old. Thats over 40 years now. I had never ever seen "Jah" (The word they use for God) referred to outside the context of that movement...ever...in 40 years...Nowhere else but in that movement.

Nowhere have I ever seen it used outside of it.

Nowhere.

Let alone Christianity.

Then yesterday flipping through the illustrated Bible Dictionary 

contained in this reference Bible I happened across a few weeks ago

(for free at a thrift store :-)






Je'sus 
(Gr. and Latin form 
of the Heb. Joshua, 
or 
Jehoshua, 
the help of Jah, 
or Saviour).


From the


"Jehosheba (“oath to Jah” ) Daughter to Jehoram, king of Judah, but her mother is not mentioned. She married Jehoiada, the high priest, being the only woman of Aaron’s line who married into a royal family. She assisted her husband in preserving the young Joash (see ), ( 2 Kings 11:2). 


Jehoshua (“his help is Jah” ) . ( Numbers 13:16). 


(King James Version

16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.)


Jehovah . Jehovah-Jireh (“Jah will see” ) The place where Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac. Lost. ( Genesis 22:14). Jehovah-Nissi (“Jah my banner” ) Place of an altar built by Moses in memory of a victory over the Amalekites, on Horeb ( Exodus 17:15). Jehovah-Shalom (“Jah is peace” ) Place of an altar built by Gideon in Ophrah, in memory of the salutation of the angel, “Peace be unto thee” ( Judges 6:24). Jehovah-Shammah (“Jah is there” ) The name of the city in Ezekiel’s vision (Ezekiel 40; Ezekiel 48). Jehovah-Tsidkenu (“Jah our righteousness,” in Jeremiah 23:6 ). Supposed to be one of the titles of the Messiah. It was the prophetic name of a king to be raised up (a branch of David), who will reign and prosper, executing judgment and justice, Also, it is to be the name of the Jerusalem of the future, as the city of the great king ( Jeremiah 33:16)."


FYI

APRIL 18, 2018

(When I wear a bracelet?

When I look at it?

I think:

"Fuck this world and all the nonsense, corruption, oppression, rampant consumerism, materialism etc."

Thats why I wear one sometimes Lucy :-), it helps me remember whats important sweetheart.


And:

Alright

"Jah = God."


So yeah.

Jah is a name for God.

:-).

Sweet.

I dig it :-).


Ask Ethan Notes

Ask Ethan: Why is there something instead of nothing?

I wanna thank him for writing this…

Ethan Siegel is a Ph.D. astrophysicist and author of "Starts with a Bang!" He is a science communicator, who professes physics and astronomy at various colleges. He has won numerous awards for science writing since 2008 for his blog, including the award for best science blog by the Institute of Physics.

“And yet, there's always this nagging unanswerable question underlying each step we can answer: why is it this specific way, instead of all the other ways we could've imagined it? Here's as far as science has taken us.”

(First bout of fallacious thinking?

“Fallacies are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument. Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim. “instead of all the other ways we could've imagined it”

Just because you can imagine it “other ways”? Doesn’t provide the “evidence “make it so.)

“Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe, if you think about it on a truly fundamental level, is that it exists at all. And yet, not only does it exist, but there’s matter within it, which obeys the same rules everywhere and at all times, and assembles according to the physical laws (5x) governing reality to create, among other things: atomic nuclei, neutral atoms, molecules, stars and planets, galaxies, and a large-scale cosmic web. Not only that, but in at least one relatively unremarkable corner of this Universe, a planet arose some 4.5 billion years ago where life survived and thrived, eventually giving rise to an intelligent, self-aware species that can ask deep questions about the Universe they inhabit.”

“This is one of those questions, I’m sorry to say, that science not only doesn’t have a satisfactory answer for right now, but will probably never have one. Although there’s a lot we can say about this question, we face fundamental limitations by the very nature of the scientific enterprise. Here’s why.

(Ecc 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.)



“How did we get to be here?

“There’s an enormous difference between a “why” question, which science isn’t really well-equipped to answer, with a “how” question, which is the bread-and-butter of what science is good for. If we were to ask the question of why we’re all here, there isn’t a scientific way to approach this question: we can’t formulate a testable hypothesis and derive what sorts of things we can go out and measure to answer that. Even if we determine the underlying rules that reality follows, there’s a limit to what we can derive from them: we can derive physical consequences that stem from those rules and some set of initial conditions, but we cannot derive any sort of purpose behind those consequences using the tools of science.”



(Few things here: “there isn’t a scientific way to approach this question: we can’t formulate a testable hypothesis and derive what sorts of things we can go out and measure to answer that.

So that’s also applies to the scientific approach for the multiverse does it? 

“derive what sorts of things we can go out and measure”?  

“Even if we determine the underlying rules that reality follows” 

Where did the rules come from? They just created themselves, did they? Why haven’t they continued to do so then? Why are there not “more rules governing our reality” just arbitrarily showing up on the scene if they “create themselves.”

“we can derive physical consequences that stem from those rules and some set of initial conditions” 

Again, How did those get there? Where did they come from? Design implies a designer.)

“but we cannot derive any sort of purpose behind those consequences using the tools of science”

Jonathan Edwards wrote in the 1700’s “the disposition to communicate himself, or diffuse his own FULLNESS, was what moved him to create the world” (The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol 1, Banner of Truth, 2005, Chapter I, Section II). 1703–1758 was a pastor and theologian. thought by many to be the greatest theological mind that the New World has ever produced. His preaching, which helped spark the First Great Awakening, emphasized man’s sin, God’s judgment, God’s sovereignty, the necessity of personal conversion, and justification by faith.)

“The question of “how” we got to be here, on the other hand, is one that science can tell us literally everything about. Especially if we’ve already done the hard work to understand the laws of science, from the biological and geological and atmospheric evolution that’s occurred here on Earth to the chemical evolution that’s occurred through the differing environments of space and on Earth to the particle-based evolution that occurred inside stars and in the crucible of the Big Bang, we can put those pieces of the story together to understand precisely how this Universe gave rise to our Solar System, our planet, the origin of life, and after some 4-ish billion years, even a full-fledged human being.”

(Dear Ethan: Again

“the laws of science” Where did they come from?

“Biological, geological, atmospheric, chemical, and particle-based evolution” have not, do not, and will not ever create the information needed (as we will see) for life. And if it did? Why aren’t new life forms creating themselves? Nowhere, ever does any of that explain where the information needed for life came from, so, no that doesn’t not explain “the origin of life” 

Genesis 2:7 “the Lord God formed man from the dust of the earth”. Subatomic soup you are walking around in, not dirt per se and? It’s where we will return to, “dust of the cosmos” eventually. The creator can create and give life from the subatomic realm we walk around in and don’t ever see/experience (much).

“Although that story — of how we came to be the way we are — still has a few gaps in it as far as definitive knowledge is concerned, these are gaps that are forever shrinking as we accumulate more and more knowledge about: the laws and rules that govern the Universe,

(They just decided to come on the scene all on their own did they?)

the past and present phenomena that have occurred here on Earth,

and the great variety of possible outcomes, 

(Second bout of fallacious thinking, that’s assuming they were possible “the great variety of possible outcomes”. What if, there wasn’t any “great variety of possible outcomes”. What if this was the only possible outcome given the initial conditions we had? “There is no measurable, observable evidence of any “great variety of possible outcomes” None, zero. It is faulty logic to assume that because we have THIS outcome (realized), not “A” outcome (a possibility), then every conceivable combination we can think of has to exist. No, it simply doesn’t “have to” all the evidence we have points to “THIS” outcome not “every conceivable combination we can think of”. What if? This universe is the only conceivable outcome that could have possibly happened given:

“given similar starting conditions,”

These invented themselves? These just decided to come into existence all on their own? Where did they come from?

"that occur or could have occurred elsewhere in the cosmos."

(Theres no “observable, measurable evidence” (His words) of “similar starting conditions” that “could have occurred elsewhere in the cosmos”. None.  Ethan? Dude? Can you formulate a testable hypothesis and derive what sorts of things you can go out and measure here? That’s assuming that they “could have occurred” without any evidence pointing to it what so ever.  Just because you: “could've imagined it” (your words) doesn’t make it so.

The wisdom of this world is foolishness to god my brother. 1 Corinthians 3:18-19

 Here’s what Ethan and others don’t want to admit, THIS universe is the only possible outcome we KNOW we have had, given the “starting conditions” that were present as the universe came into existence. They just simply refuse to admit it to themselves.)

“We still don’t know how, specifically, life originated from non-life, how many planets once existed and were either destroyed or ejected at some point in our Solar System’s past, or what predecessor stars existed that enabled the Sun to form with the properties it possessed at its birth.’

(“We still don’t know how, specifically, life originated from non-life” You never will because only life can create life. This is what all the “testable measurable observable” evidence we have says. (Again, your words) 


“The knowns

This isn’t to undersell what we actually do know, which is perhaps the greatest achievement of the entire enterprise of human civilization. The fact that we have asked the Universe so many questions about itself and how it works have revealed an incredible amount of information.

(Information is the key word there: 

“the disposition to communicate himself, or diffuse his own FULLNESS, was what moved him to create the world” (The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol 1, Banner of Truth, 2005, Chapter I, Section II)


“Biologically, we understand:

 the inheritance of traits 

and the role that mutation and selection plays, 

leading to what we commonly know as Darwinian evolution. 

(Does nothing to explain where life came from, just what happens once it’s on the scene)

We understand that Darwinian evolution is not a fundamental law, (So glad he gets that right BTW)

but rather that inheritance is driven by genetics

which was further developed by Gregor Mendel. 

(was a German-Czech biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. And he “established many of the rules of heredity”,) 

The Big Bang theory It was first proposed in 1927 by Roman Catholic priest and physicist Georges Lemaître. Also BTW)

“And Mendelian genetics, while profoundly important, itself 

is a consequence of the genetic code written down in every plant, animal, and fungus’s DNA, discovered by James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin.

(Dear Ethan: Where did the code come from? Genetic code is information, in every plant, animal and fungus, every living thing has “genetic code”. Information doesn’t create itself, it does not “Evolve” its always the result of a brain, an intellect, trying to tell you something , this is what all the testable, measurable and observable evidence says and its really simple what that brain that created all that genetic code in every living thing that’s ever lived is telling you, I am real, I am here…Or? Put another way? Your creator has shown you “the disposition to communicate himself” to you.)

“But DNA is simply a molecule: assembled and synthesized together out of atoms through a series of chemical (and biochemical) reactions. And chemistry is just a consequence of atoms and molecules (and ions) reacting together in an environment with a temperature or energy gradient: a complex process, sure, but one whose interactions and reactions can be understood at a fundamental level.’

(Wrong! It’s not simply “a molecule” but one that contains the genetic code (information) that that every “plant, animal, and fungus’s” that has ever lived has possessed. It makes it quite a bit different from being “simply a molecule”.)

“All told, we can trace back the astrophysical origin of every element found in the periodic table using modern science.” 

(Just wanna point out as Stepen C Meyer mentions in his book the return of the god hypothesis, that modern science was developed by Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes , Maxwell, Babbage…and they went to nature looking for evidence of God in the laws of nature that govern it’s existence. These guys wouldn’t be where they are today if those guys hadn’t laid the ground work for them.

Design is evidence of a designer. Picture)


“Going back to the beginning

In fact, this is one of the most important properties of science overall: the notion that, if you understand a physical system well enough, then simply by providing

a set of initial conditions for that system

plus the physical laws that govern it,

(that’s two or three cases of ‘initial conditions” BTW. Where did the initial conditions and the physical laws of nature that govern it come from?)

“then we’ll be able to calculate that system’s properties, or at worst, a probabilistic set of outcomes for that system’s properties, at any arbitrary moment as far into the future as we like. This, in many ways, is the heart of what science is: “our best and most accurate models of reality, and an attempt to account for all observable and measurable phenomena in the process.”

(Dear Ethan:

Why is this standard for what the heart of science is:

“our best and most accurate models of reality, and an attempt to account for all observable and measurable phenomena in the process.”

Why is that same standard specifically NOT applied to the concept of the multiverse? Particularly, observable and measurable?)


“Moreover, we can learn what “seeds” of structure — or initial conditions — needed to be in place to give rise to what we observe at later times.”

(How many times we goanna hear about initial conditions and not address how they might have gotten there to start with? And? I’ll throw in “the laws of nature, science etc.”?)

“Unfortunately, we can only access the information contained inside our cosmic horizon, which is all part of the same fraction of one region where inflation ended some 13.8 billion years ago.’

(Maybe? “we can only access the information contained inside our cosmic horizon” ios by design? Maybe? Theres only information there because your creator is telling you he is real.

Ecc 3:11 etc…

Psalm 19:1 “the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork.”)

“we know that, after the primordial soup from the hot Big Bang cooled off, we were left with a slight overabundance of matter compared to antimatter. It’s as though, during the earliest phases, for every 500 million antiquarks that were present, there were 500 million and one quarks that were present. For every 1.5 billion positrons that were present, there were 1.5 billion and one electrons that were present. And while we know some general rules that allow us to create a matter-antimatter asymmetry from an initially symmetric state, we have yet to unpack precisely how our Universe generated the matter-antimatter asymmetry that gave rise to our existence.”

(“while we know some general rules that allow us to create a matter-antimatter asymmetry from an initially symmetric state”

The universe shoulnt have had a million and one pieces of matter for every million pieces of antimatter, it should have been equal (canceled themselves out) yet they aren’t. Why?

“we have yet to unpack precisely how our Universe generated the matter-antimatter asymmetry that gave rise to our existence”

Let me clue you in, it wasn’t the universe that generated the matter-antimatter asymmetry.

Theism “belief in the existence of a god or gods, especially belief in one god as creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures.”

There is more observable, measurable evidence of a theistic entity acting upon his creation, than there is evidence of a multiverse. You just listed three yourself. Somehow information got in the DNA molecule, 10 billion years after the universe formation with the highest temps we know about and traveled at the speed of light (close to it anyway) and it didn’t degrade all of that goes against information theory which says information degrades over time and distance and environmental extremes. It speaks for itself, it really does.

“we have yet to unpack precisely how our Universe generated the matter-antimatter asymmetry that gave rise to our existence.

Dear Ethan: it might have something to do with the design (implies a designer) of those initial conditions you keep mentioning 😊. Maybe? Perhaps? Just sayin yo…)


“We don’t know what many of the specifics of cosmic inflation were, or how, precisely, it came to an end to create the hot Big Bang.”

(There are two main schools of thought here: 1 It was “programmed that way” Awesome, what did the programming? 2 It was set up on a “time delay” type mechanism to go off when certain conditions were right. Awesome, what entity decided that? Im goanna go with the same entity that wrote all the genetic code for every plant animal and fungus that ever lived, hey my position has as much “observable and measurable” evidence as the multiverse hypothesis, so why not?)

“We don’t know how the fundamental constants (about 30) came to possess the values that they have, and how we came to have the four fundamental forces (and, seemingly, no others) within our Universe.”

(Dear Ethan: Dude you keep talking about initial conditions but not explaining how they got there. They might just have had something to do with the values that the fundamental constants have and and how we came to have the four fundamental forces (and, seemingly, no others) within our Universe.”

“The bigger questions

It leads to a question that almost everyone — physicists and non-physicists alike — has asked themselves at some point or other: did things have to turn out this way, or could they have been different?”

(The fact that is testable observable and measurable is this: Things turned out like they did, not any other way that we know of that can be tested measured and observed. That’s what certain astrophysicist just do not like. Where is there any evidence of any ‘different laws of physics that may have existed in other universes?” You don’t have any, all we know is THIS universe came into existence in the manner that it did (Realized, materialized) not “A” universe possibly coming into existence (One possibility of many), this one. This “it could have turned out different” ignores what you said “the heart of what science is” testable measurable and observable not “what you want/wish it to be”, “it is what it is”.)


“If you were to run the clock all the way back to the earliest state we can say something physically sensible about, the inflationary state with the same initial conditions ours possessed, would you get the same Universe with the same:

fundamental constants,

laws of physics,

hot Big Bang,

sets of species of particles and antiparticles,

matter/antimatter asymmetry,

and dark matter and dark energy


(Dear Ethan: How many times you goanna mention “initial conditions”? The point isn’t would you get the same universe or not with the same initial conditions, the point is, using your words for defining the heart of science: “our best and most accurate models of reality” is: this is what we got! Missing the point like an idiot misses the punch line much?)

“Visualization of a quantum field theory calculation showing virtual particles in the quantum vacuum. Even in empty space, this vacuum energy is non-zero, but without specific boundary conditions, individual particle properties will not be constrained.”

(Few things: 1) Empty space isn’t “Nothing” its still space, its just empty. Just like a parking lot without any cars in it is still a parking lot. It doesn’t magically turn into nothing just because no cars are in it. It’s still “something” a parking lot, Likewise with space. It’s still space (something) even if its empty! So how did “the empty space” get there? 2) Where did the specific boundary conditions come from? I’ll give you a big hint, from the same place that the initial conditions and the four fundamental laws that govern every interaction in the universe and all the genetic code for every plant animal and fungus that has ever existed and matter asymmetry and came from. How about that? Easy peasy.)



“it’s irresponsible to equate “empty space” with the philosophical concept of “nothingness.” (100% Agreed Gerald Schroader “believe in god in 5 minutes, you tube look it up.)

“But what about the fundamental constants? What of the laws of physics themselves? What about the number of forces, the types of particles and antiparticles that are allowed to exist, and the properties and existence of poorly-understood entities like dark matter and dark energy?

The truth is: we don’t know.”

(100% wrong. YOU don’t know, others of us have known for 1000’s of years what the source of everything is.

Colossians 1:16-17 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.)

“You might be able to imagine, in your mind, a state of pure nothingness (Or a Multiverse) that’s even more “nothing-like” than this, but that doesn’t represent anything physically real.” 

(Neither does the multiverse, again with the two different sets of standards that science isn’t supposed to have.)

As we were saying in the beginning:

“And yet, there's always this nagging unanswerable question underlying each step we can answer: why is it this specific way, instead of all the other ways we could've imagined it? Here's as far as science has taken us. ”Just because you can imagine it “other ways”? Doesn’t make it so. “You might be able to imagine, in your mind”, anything, “but that doesn’t represent anything physically real.”)

“The best we can say — assuming that we’re sticking to science and not moving into the realm of theology, philosophy, or pure imagination — is that the reason there’s something rather than nothing is that “nothing” cannot exist compatibly within our Universe.”

(Exactly.  “Nothing” only exists, outside our universe. Our universe was created with the express purpose of having matter in it, and by extention us since we are made of matter. It’s the way it was designed. Matter is primary. This is testable measurable and observable way more so than any multiverse hypothesis.

How about those initial conditions yo? Think that might have had something to do with that? Your creator designed it for you to enjoy it with him.)

“Of course, that leads back to the original question: why? And for that, dissatisfying though it is, science has no answer. The Universe is the way it is, (and as far as being measurable and observable? It’s the only one we know exist.) and though we strive to understand it as best we can, 

we are compelled to be humble before the great cosmic unknown. 


(Again, 100% wrong, and just call “the great cosmic unknown” what it so obviously is and what all the measurable and observable evidence point to: A theistic entity acting on his creation. Anything but God with these guys. Being humble before it isn’t enough, it created the universe and gave you life, it deserves Worship!)

“The only advice I can give you is this: beware of anyone who claims to “know” the unknown. They may or may not be fooling themselves, but you certainly shouldn’t allow them to fool you.”

(“beware of anyone who claims to “know” the unknown” 

Dear Ethan: Like what? That life and consciousness came from nonliving things without one centile of evidence to support that? Is that the “beware of anyone who claims to “know” the unknown.” That you are speaking of? Or that “all the other ways you could have imagined it” being created is logically valid without any evidence to support it? 

People? Let me tell ya this, “They may or may not be fooling themselves, but you certainly shouldn’t allow them to fool you” 

“you can fool some people sometimes

But you can’t fool all the people all the time

So now you see the light

Watcha goanna do?

Stand up for your rights.”


Another piece of advice I would like to give you is this:

Be ware of individuals who say: “the heart of science is our best and most accurate models of reality, and an attempt to account for all observable and measurable phenomena in the process.”

And then try and tell you the concept of the multiverse is scientific even though its not observable or measurable. They are speaking out of both sides of their mouth. There is one set of standards for what they don’t wanna believe and another set of standards for what  they do wanna believe, and those are the types of people I would be warry of. 


Now it’s personal. I know this guy pays attention to what I write and present, so 

DEAR ETHAN:

How is that possible? That I know that? Without any one having ever told me? Without any “evidence”? To what power would you attribute the fact that I know you pay attention to what I write and present? 

I’ll give you another one, How could 2 people know over 11 years ago as soon as their eyes met that they WOULD be together someday? Not might, WOULD and then it plays out just like that? Over 11 years later? How is that possible? I’ll give you a big hint, it’s the same power that created the initial conditions, physical constants, and four fundamental laws of nature that govern every interaction in our “measurable, and observable model of reality.” And is responsible for matter antimatter asymmetry as well.

Another thing, when somebody accurately predicts numerous things across various areas of academic endeavor? Over the course of 10+ years? With no formal training in those fields of academic endeavor? And gets more things correct than the so-called experts in their respective fields across the same time span? The same entity mentioned above is using them to tell others what they know about the unknown. I got an ancient text and millions of changed lives to support my faith in what I believe in, what do you got?


“The works of the Creator, ever present to our senses, give a living and perpetual testimony of his power and goodness far surpassing any evidence transmitted through human testimony.”- Charles Babbage.

The more you know about your world? In particular the subatomic one and cosmic superstructures? The more you can only reach one conclusion. 😊.

Science doesn’t demand 100% proof. It goes with overwhelming evidence favoring one option over all the others. 

Why do you insist on holding people of my faith to a higher standard than you hold the adherents of yours to? When we so obviously have more “testable, observable, measurable,” evidence for ours than you do for yours?

I gotta table. Stop by sometime.

I honestly like you, I really do BTW.






























 




 









Consider it to be an Intro

 

Daniel 8:23-27 meaning


Daniel 8:23-27

King James Version


23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, 

when the transgressors are come to the full



a king of fierce countenance, 

and understanding dark sentences

shall stand up.

24 And his power shall be mighty

but not by his own power

and he shall destroy wonderfully

and shall prosper, 

and practise

and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.

25 And through his policy 

also he shall cause craft 

to prosper in his hand

(Since 2019 Microsoft has invested 13 Billion in Open AI.

In a week?

It made back 63 billion, 

Almost a 500% return on its initial investment.

In a week.

You should know where I'm going with this...eventually lol.

Hey, gotta start somewhere.

You Might wanna ask yourself 

Why isnt that a bigger story 

than what you are hearing about?)


and he shall magnify himself in his heart

and 

by peace shall destroy many


(Bloomberg November 20, 2023

Who Controls OpenAI?

("OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit 

"with the goal of building 

safe and beneficial 

artificial general intelligence 

for the benefit of humanity.


"The for- profit subsidiary is fully controlled by the OpenAI Nonprofit," 

whose "principal beneficiary is humanity, 

not OpenAI investors.")



he shall also stand up against 

the Prince of princes; 

but he shall be broken without hand.


26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.


Yeah, gonna be all about this for a lil bit.


Back to the article:

Daniel 8:23-27 meaning

The Vision of the Ram and the Goat Explained:


A king will come from one of these Greek kingdoms. He will be deceptive, crafty, powerful, and will destroy many men, including many Israelites. He will defy God and glorify himself as God. The prophecy is true that he will halt the temple sacrifices, but he will ultimately be killed. This prophecy concerns both Antiochus Epiphanes and the antichrist in the end times.


(That last line is what a lot of people just dont seem to be able to fathom. It does not have to be one way or the other.

It's both.

Or?

It's parts of both etc...)


Daniel is sick for many days, and still does not fully understand what he saw."


"Throughout the Bible, God reveals that He allows things to run their course. He allots time for kingdoms and rulers to repent, or suffer the inevitable consequences of cause/effect which He installed in the moral universe. All human action is overseen by Him and allowed by Him. God told Abraham that He was giving the Amorites four hundred years to repent of sin, while knowing that they would not turn away from their wickedness (Genesis 15:16). King Solomon writes that there is a time for everything, “every event under heaven,” appointed by God (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11). The days of every single man and woman’s life is numbered and determined by God (Job 14:5). Simultaneously, every person has a real choice, and their choices have immense impact on the world, and even upon eternity. Examples would include the immense impact that Adam and Eve’s decision had upon the world (Romans 5:12), and the fact that heavenly beings are watching the decisions and actions of humans in order to understand the wisdom of God (Ephesians 3:10). (For more on this subject, read our Tough Topics Explained: Founding Paradox) ."

(Founding paradox is a good read BTW).

"Given the insights about the spiritual dimension at work revealed by this vision recorded in Daniel 8, we can deduce that this strike against God’s people was satanically-inspired."


"It would follow that Satan’s top priority would be 

to stomp out God’s people

and terminate the lineage of the promised Messiah, who is destined to supplant Satan as the ruler of this world (John 12:31)."


("terminate the lineage 

of the promised Messiah, 

who is destined 

to supplant Satan"


We see it over and over and over again.

Six or seven times.

(Hey, another subject for a different day, but here are a few:


Genesis six and the pollution of mankind's blood line 

via the rebellious angels who mated with women.


Moses and the killing of the first born in Egypt.


Herod and the killing of infants after Christ birth.

There's three or four more but like I said, that's for a different day :-).


"he was represented by a horn that grew larger 

than all the other horns before it"

(Horn here signifies power or strength.)


"The Abomination of Desolation 

(in other words, a wickedness which causes horror, something so evil it is disturbing and shocking)..."

(So why aren't all these evangelist 

talking about it as being gods trip wire again?)


"However, the truth according to this vision given to Daniel is that Antiochus Epiphanes’ motivation was the oldest, foremost temptation, the deception that Satan whispered to Eve in the Garden, “…you will be like God…” (Genesis 3:4). Antiochus called good evil and evil good, which is a practice God judges (Isaiah 5:20)."


"This Abomination of Desolation that Daniel witnessed in this vision took place roughly four hundred years after this dream, and roughly two hundred years prior to Jesus’s prophetic assertion that the sign of His return would be when Israel saw the “Abomination of Desolation spoken of through Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place” (Matthew 24:15). This indicates that something like what occurred during the time of Antiochus Epiphanes will occur again in the future (as of this writing in 2023). It is common for prophecies to have two or more fulfillments. It is also common for the second fulfillment to take a different form from the first.


(I think that is what a lot of people are missing.

The above underlined statement that is.

Again, 

from Matthew Henrys commentary on Joel 2:

"Those on whom the Spirit is poured out shall foresee and foretell that great and terrible day of the Lord, and expound the wonders in heaven and earth that go before it; (Sept 23rd, 2017, new Comet) for, as to his first coming, so to his second, all the prophets did and do bear witness,

He then references Revelation 10:7

“But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”)


"So this second “Abomination of Desolation” could have materially different characteristics and still fulfill the prophecy. However, Jesus’s prediction seems to anticipate that the careful observer will be able to discern that the sign has occurred, since Jesus tells His disciples that whoever sees this sign should “flee to the mountains” (Matthew 24:16).


"The abomination of Antiochus Epiphanes’ rule was hundreds of years away in the future from Daniel’s lifetime, but according to Jesus, the Abomination of Desolation will occur again in the last days (Matthew 24:15). Like many visions in the Bible, this has partial and future fulfillments."


"There are many parallels to the way this boastful horn (Antiochus Epiphanes) is described and the boastful horn (also known as “the beast,” or “the antichrist”) of the end times (Daniel 7:8, Revelation 13:5)."


"Antiochus is noted for his skill in intrigue, that he operates with shrewdness." 

(Microsoft made back 500% on it's initial investment in a week.

Sound shrewd?)

"His justification for persecuting the Jews was to paint them as hateful enemies to all other men. He was crafty as well as violent."

(How about crafty?

Sound crafty?

Making back 500% on you initial investment in a week?

(and a whole lot of other things accomplished at the same time mind you.)

"His status as king was accomplished through opportunistic 

political maneuvering and populist appeal


("OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit 

"with the goal of building 

safe and beneficial 

artificial general intelligence 

for the benefit of humanity.")


"not by right of inheritance. He would cause deceit to succeed by his influence."


"And so it will be in the future for the antichrist. His deceptive abilities will be noteworthy:

(Just gave you an example)

“…the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.”

(2 Thessalonians 2:9-10)"

"He will be so deceptive and persuasive that even the leaders of Israel will trust him. He will enter into an agreement with Israel:

 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week” in which he too will ban the sacrifices in the temple, just as Antiochus had, “ but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering.”

(Daniel 9:27)

"The antichrist, the man of lawlessness, will defy the true God and claim that he is god, just as Antiochus would magnify himself in his heart and would oppose the Prince of princes,
 calling himself “God Manifest”:

“…the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.”

(2 Thessalonians 2:3-4)"


"Thus, this prophecy has near and far implications. It is filled partially by Antiochus Epiphanes, but seems to also be a foreshadow of the man of lawlessness in the end times. In either case, for Daniel, it pertains to many days in the future. Daniel would live to see the Medo-Persians conquer Babylon (Daniel 5), but nothing beyond that. He is already advanced in years while witnessing this vision. God reveals these things so that Daniel will record them, to assure His people that He is sovereign over all, on His throne in heaven, and that even during the most wicked of days, He will ultimately win."


"Much of what is written in Daniel is mirrored by the vision Jesus gave to John in Revelation. God’s throne is referenced roughly forty times in Revelation’s twenty-two chapters, and every adverse circumstance recorded is first authorized to occur from God, who always occupies the throne. Thus, the messages of Daniel and Revelation both make clear that God is the sovereign ruler over all. Nothing occurs that He does not allow. He does not sleep or slumber, but is the keeper of Israel, and of the entire earth, irrespective of what circumstances we might observe occur (Psalm 121:4-8).


"Daniel concludes his account of this angelic visitation and the vision given to him: Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. This supernatural encounter was so overwhelming for Daniel it knocked him down, so that he was lying in bed for days. He was both physically spent, exhausted, and ill, sick."

(The day I was doing the end time schematic presentation?, 

the day I did the presentation on the true church 

being the one that believed the two witnesses were who they were? 

I went to bed early in the afternoon, 

I got up for a lil bit in the evening 

and then went right back to bed 

and got up around 8 the next day.

All told?

Close to 13 hours in bed,

Didnt happen till right after I was done.

I just felt like I had been hit by a truck.)


"This is common for such occurrences. 

When God 

pulls back the veil 

that separates us from the spiritual world

(Gonna borrow that wording BTW :-)

those who encounter it are often struck with fear, ailment, or confusion. We are far more fragile than we realize. We tend to be oblivious to the spiritual dimension, but it is fully aware of and focused upon us (Ephesians 3:10).


(40 years ago we had astronomers saying the act of the universe being brought into existence was by forces we couldn't possibly hope to understand. Now days we got physicist saying that the likelihood of another existence after this one, in a different form than the one we currently experiencing is greater than 50%. 

Point is scientist are seeing the science support 

what some of us have known for a while.

That being the case?

Dont you think it's time not to be:

"oblivious to the spiritual dimension"?)


"This is likely a reason why God tends to speak to us through prophets, through messages given to messengers to spread to the people at large. We can read these words given to Daniel without having to experience the curtain being pulled back on the spiritual dimension."

(And he picks people such as to limit the "collateral damage" so to speak, to their families, businesses, flocks etc. Translation, people without large families or lots of responsibilities, be it a family, a business or a congregation etc. The messenger's responsibilities are to his master and no one else.)


"Daniel, however, received samples of this supernatural world and was overwhelmed each time."

(Resonates...big time.)


"There was none to explain it, there was no further explanation from God. If we put ourselves in Daniel’s place, it would be difficult to imagine the fall of the mighty Babylonian Empire. It would be even more difficult to imagine 

a mighty power coming from the west, 

which at that time was puny in comparison to the great empires of the east."


(I wonder who that could be?

"a mighty power coming from the west"?)


"We are able to better understand it because we have the benefit of hindsight, seeing the partial fulfillment through Alexander the Great, the Seleucid dynasty, and Antiochus Epiphanes."


"Daniel was faithful, despite lacking understanding. He recorded the prophetic vision for future readers. 


(Over and over doing the presentations on the end time schematics the other part of my soul kept telling me:

"Were gonna save these scrolls."

(We rolled up the schematics like you would a scroll for storage until a later date)

"Someday people are going to be looking through reading them like they did back in ancient times."

So nice to have somebody who understands and supports you and doesn't think you're crazy etc.

And a few years ago I had a friend who affectionately called me Daniel :-).

If I ever had an alias?

it would be

Daniel Richards

Or Daniel Marley lol)


"We are able to study and ponder it to this day because of Daniel’s obedience. 

(God couldn't care less about your comfort. People just do not understand this. The more uncomfortable he is making you? The bigger purpose he has for you, so no, God couldn't care less about your comfort, what he really cares about is listed above:

OBEDIENCE

FAITHFULLNESS.)


"He did not hide the vision in fear 

nor withhold the details of his fragility."

(Resonates)


"At the heart of all prophetic visions from God is the truth that He is sovereign over the events that happen on earth, and no matter how difficult times become, no matter how many evil rulers rise and fall, God is above all and His will be done. If we add to this the lesson of Revelation, no matter how dire circumstances might be, God always calls us to be faithful witnesses, and not fear loss, rejection, or death. Daniel is an excellent example of what it looks like to be a faithful witness, an overcomer (for more, read our Tough Topics Explained: Overcomers )"


"if we add this to the lesson of Revelation..."

:-).

"If you are going to read the book of Revelation? It MUST be done in conjunction with the book of Daniel."


"MUST"

No maybe.

Not any: Hey you might wanna check it out.

No: Might wanna take a look at it, etc.

"MUST"


Guess who said it?

Scroll down and find out :-).











Billy Graham


p.s.

Im working on putting a case together that we have witnessed the first public act of "Artificial SUPER intelligence" Not the Artificial General Intelligence that the main stream media keeps telling us is years away. This is far beyond that. They are years behind, although some seem to be catching up with this ongoing Open AI saga.

Artificial general intelligence was here years ago. It's way past that now.

I've got about 40 or 50 news stories I've read.
Links I've saved etc.
Countless screen shots 
and excerpts from those stories.
History/Time line of events.
Quotes from some of the major players etc.

To think,
that I have underwent
the intense
spiritual training that I have
for the last decade +?

And to not be able to tell 
who/what 
my/our 
nemesis is 
when he shows up on the scene?

Foolhardy in my oppion.


Remember?


The Two witnesses and
AIAC
(Artificial Intelligence Anti-Christ)
Both come on the scene 
at the start of the end times.

Since 2019?
Microsoft has invested 13 Billion in Open AI.
In one week?
It made back 63 billion, 
Almost a 500% return on its initial investment.
In a week.

It's simply not Humanly possible.
Where's the other example you got 
of something like that ever having happened?

Exactly.

Why aren't you hearing any more about it than you are?

Exactly.

I got about five or six more pieces of evidence to organize and put together in a comprehensive, organized format, so give me a minute lol.

Besides

Remember this?




"AI will be at the center of future financial crises — and regulators are not going to be able to stay ahead of it. That's the message being sent by SEC chair Gary Gensler, arguably the most important and powerful regulator in the U.S. at the moment."

(500% return on it's investment 
in one week.
What could go wrong?)


Consider this an opening statement if you'd like.

more coming shortly.


I hope lol.

Hey were moving and stuff

Give me a break lol.