Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto HisPatrick Reany
servants the prophets. -- Amos 3:7
17 December 2023
God has an agenda to accomplish the reformation of the earth and its global political system.
Mostly, He has revealed the broad outlines of His agenda to us in the Bible through His prophets.
I think of particularly Isaiah, Daniel, Zechariah, Malachi, and then the gospels, the writings of
the apostles, and, of course, in the book of Revelation. By these many prophecies we already
know the big events that will happen -- at least enough of them to have a rough idea of where
we are in the grand prophetic scheme of things. What we don't know -- and don't need to know
-- are the vast number of details. A true believer in Jesus lives by faith and thus doesn't need
to know all the details -- like who will win the next election!
How can one be unimpressed by the re-establishment of Israel after its 1900 years of displacement?
Why, of all nations, was it Israel to achieve this phenomenal success? The true Christian is always
impressed, the skeptic and unbelievers are never impressed. With the following explain-all dictum,
how can they ever be impressed that something supernatural and highly improbable is taking place?
Given enough time, even the most unlikely event can and will occur -- if only by randomSuch a person will never find God before it's too late. And someday, my friends, it will be too late.
chance.
(I call this the Ho-hum Dictum.)
Furthermore, it is by this dictum, that atheists and naturalists accept the highly improbableness
of molecule-to-man evolution, no matter how much time is afforded to it to happen. It is also by
this woolly thinking that the unlikeliness of the existence of a universe in which humans could
evolve is ignored, relegating the Anthropic Principle to irrelevance. The Multiverse is the Savior
of the Secularist Dogma.
There are far more fake Christians than real Christians in the world today. I would estimate by
a ratio of 40 to 1. God tells us that we need to worship God with our minds. And since we have
been born and raised in Western societies, God expects us to learn the facts around us and to be
perpetual learners, being responsible to hold to the truth and reject the lies (such as in conspiracy
theories). But He also commanded us to worship Him with our hearts and souls, and those are
where love and hate and our intuition for truth and lies resides. If you deny your intuition, you
will deny yourself a very needed access mechanism (discernment) to godly truth which cannot
be accessed any other way! And with the heart and soul, one will naturally have joy unspeakable
when the truth of the gospel is revealed in our hearts.
After His resurrection, Jesus joined two travelers from Jerusalem to Emmaus, Him being
unrecognized by them. After He had a meal with them, He revealed Himself as Jesus and then
disappeared before them. What they then said to each other was this:
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with usIf your heart has never been really excited when the scriptures have been opened unto you,
by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? -- Luke 24:32
Why was Israel reborn as a major local power, but Carthage wasn't? Carthage had a lot more going
for it than Israel ever did -- at least as viewed in the natural. In fact, why did Rome win the campaign
against Carthage, instead of the other way around? Maybe it was because God wanted the history of
the world to go northward into Europe to accomplish His own long-term purposes. If that's so, poor
Carthage. It was a Roman governor that condemned Jesus, not a Carthaginian governor, that condemned
Him. But why? If things had been only slightly different, it might have been Carthage that ruled over
Europe and the Mediterranean, and not Rome? Rome's victory over Carthage in the First Punic War
was because of a fluke. Their defeat in the First Punic War set the stage for their defeat in the next
two wars against Rome. Neither power was particularly godly, so God only had to favor His 'side',
which would then better promote His long-term agenda. In the long struggle between them, Rome won;
Carthage lost. Well, they couldn't both win, could they?
What does the Bible tell us about God's interference in the evolution of the nations?
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations,
and straiteneth them again. --- Job 12:23
And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth
up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that
know understanding: --- Daniel 2:21
He rules by His might forever;
His eyes keep watch on the nations;
Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah. -- Psalm 66:7
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all
the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of their habitation; -- Acts 17:26
God has lined up for the inhabitants of the earth many great and wonderous (and deadly) events to
transpire is a predetermined order. The exact ordering of these events won't be clear until they
happen, but their exact ordering is not as important as the dispensation which they clearly mark out.
These major events will come in two main forms: Those explainable by natural causes and those
that can only be explained by supernatural causes -- the bodily return of Jesus to the earth with all
the prior saved souls and the holy angels is one of them. We only need to read the Bible with an
open mind to gather what that is. This agenda involves how He will restore the world and mankind
to their proper states. Someday, Jesus will return to the earth to claim His rightful seat upon King
David's throne. But before He will do that, there will have to be great wars and great tribulations
on the earth, in which, it seems, that billions of people will die. Most of the apocalyptic events in
those days will be the direct intervention of God upon the earth, and some will undoubtedly be
wars and persecutions of people by other people.
The book of Zechariah talks of a plague in which people will be incinerated as they stand upon their
feet. Could this be accomplished by exploding nuclear weapons? (Bear with this long quote, please.)
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half ofThat plague sure sounds like the effects of a nuclear weapon exploding over a city. Of course,
them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and
in winter shall it be. 9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one Lord, and his name one. 10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from
Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place,
from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the
tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. 11 And men shall dwell in it, and there
shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. 12 And this
shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against
Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes
shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
-- Zechariah 14:8-12
Whatever else this prophecy is, it's nothing if not very strange for the time it was given, being
hundreds of years before the time of Christ (c. 6th century BC).
God has a time table that goes along with His agenda, and only God the Father knows all the
details of this timetable. But if God is going to make sure that mankind has those nuclear weapons
when He wants then, He may have to help them along.
Frederik Soddy, coworker to Ernst Rutherford, moved from Canada to England to work
with William Ramsay. Together, they were investigating that radioactive substance
called Radium, but all they could get was a 'weak' form of it, which was not good enough
for the experiments they wanted to perform. Then, quite by accident, Soddy found a source
of pure radium for sale in a drug store he happened to be walking past. When his boss
Rutherford came back to England, Soddy told him about the radium on sale and then they
purchased some for their experiments. They worked together on the study of Becquerel
rays that came off the radium sample. This might be only a small step in the development
of nuclear physics, on the way to the theory of nuclear fission, but a large step is just the
sum of many small steps. But God is able to 'hide' His interference in many small steps
than in one huge step. But those with eyes to see, might be able to see God's intervention
in those small steps.--- See, "Alpha Beta Gamma: History of Radioactivity", 'Kathy Loves Physics and History'
YouTube video, about 14:00 minutes in.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_CtD2UnAc
I believe that God often tips His hand to us that He is directly involved in the affairs of Mankind
by what appears to us as 'mere' coincidence. If you always belittle the higher meaning of coincidence
in your personal life, you will likely overlook seeing God trying to communicate with you.
Another needed modern technology for Bible prophecy is microwave communications. The following
lines are from an original Outer Limits episode (S1, E1) [Galaxy Being, 1963]. Hobbyist experimenter
Alan Maxwell, working on microwaves, looking for the next grand step forward in microwaves, is
confronted by his wife Carol on what she sees as his folly and waste of money.
Carol: But what makes you think that you can discover anything? Who are you?Yes, maybe it is God dropping a new discovery into our laps or minds to suit His own agenda.
Alan: Nobody. Nobody at all. But the secrets of the universe don't mind. They reveal
themselves to nobodies who care. Isaac Newton was a nobody. Michael Faraday was a
bookbinder's apprentice.
Carol: Yes, but now they have big laboratories that work on all those things.
Alan: The big laboratories spend millions of dollars, Carol, and they work slowly and
surely, and they get results, but not the big steps. Not the breakthroughs. Those come from
the human mind, not from the laboratory. Call'em inspiration, call'em intuition, maybe blind
luck, maybe it's God saying, "Now's the time."
As for that idea expressed by Maxwell that the scientific breakthroughs come from the human
mind, I can support it somewhat by a quote attributed to Einstein:
Imagination is more important than knowledge. --- EinsteinSupposedly, Einstein made this claim in an interview he had for the The Saturday Evening Post:
1929 October 26, The Saturday Evening Post, What Life Means to Einstein: An
Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, Start Page 17, Quote Page 117, Column 1,
Saturday Evening Post Society, Indianapolis, Indiana. (Verified on microfilm)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/
He supposedly also claimed the following: "I believe in intuitions and inspirations.
I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am."
But intuitions and inspirations are not rational, are they? They are of the realm of
mystics, not scientists, right? We also have serious scientist boldly proclaiming
that mathematics is 'unreasonable' in its ability to describe the world around us:
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural SciencesEugene Wigner challenged the logical connection between the mathematics used in the natural
Wigner was not able to offer a strictly rational and logical connection between mathematics and
the sciences, but could only admired the effort for is beauty and practical usefulness. The issue
here is not whether mathematics works in the natural sciences, but why it works so well, and why
it's so hard to explain its effectiveness rationally.
https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf
Now we return to the development of microwaves as one of many technologies that need to be in play
(to help enable world-wide communications), for a particular Bible prophecy to work.
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlessPart of this miracle is due to telecommunications, and part of that we owe to research and
pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies
shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also
our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall
see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put
in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and
shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the
earth. --- Revelation 11:7-10