Many of those who acknowledge the Son of God believe in the “Rapture”, but there is disagreement amongst them as to when it occurs.     But if it does occur, would you be ready to be taken by the Son of God?

I was sceptical once about biblical understandings, but as my life changed, I read and reread the bible over many years to get a better understanding of myself and where my life was going.     However, the so called “Rapture” had me puzzled.

There is nothing definitive in the Bible about the “Rapture”, but there is a lot about redemption and being redeemed.     The “Rapture” and its understandings has been debated by the church elders since the Wycliffe Bible of 1395 AD and by the church followers since the King James Bible of 1611 AD.     Today the “Rapture” is mainly an eschatological, theological position, held by many Christians, particularly within branches of American evangelicalism.

The Rapture

The “Rapture” is primarily based on three statements in the New Testament, ie:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 and 1 Corinthians 15:50-52

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18  (New King James Version – NKJV)
The Comfort of Christ’s Coming
4^:13  But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep (died), lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.

¹⁴  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus (Or: through Jesus sleep).

¹⁵  For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep (dead).

¹⁶  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.     And the dead in Christ will rise first.

¹⁷  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.     And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

¹⁸  Therefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11  (New King James Version – NKJV)
The Day of the Lord
5^:1  But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

²  For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

³  For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman.     And they shall not escape.

⁴  But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

⁵  You are all sons of light and sons of the day.     We are not of the night nor of darkness.

⁶  Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober (self-controlled).

⁷  For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

⁸  But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

⁹  For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰  who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

¹¹  Therefore comfort (Or: encourage) each other and edify one another (build one another up), just as you also are doing.

1 Corinthians 15:50-52  (New King James Version – NKJV)
Our Final Victory
15^:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

⁵¹  Behold, I tell you a mystery (hidden truth):  We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—

⁵²  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.     For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

The Meaning of Rapture

The word “Rapture” comes from 1 Thessalonians 4:17, in the phrase “shall be caught up “.
It was stated as harpazō in the original Greek Manuscripts.     The KJV translates Strong’s G726 of harpazō in the following manner:  catch up, take by force, catch away, pluck, catch and pull.     In Biblical usage harpazō means:
– to seize, carry off by force.
– to seize on, claim for one’s self eagerly.
– to snatch out or away.

Now with the reading and rereading of the New Testament statements of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 and 1 Corinthians 15:50-52 many have concluded that the “Rapture” is a reality in the End Time Prophecies.     That is the Lord (Messiah, Son of God, Yahusha) will rapture the believers before the wrath of God (Yahuah) is experienced.

The sentences of 1 Thessalonians 5:3  “For when they say,  “Peace and safety!”  then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman.     And they shall not escape”, indicates a time around the beginning of the Tribulation.     Or could it be the Great Tribulation due to destruction and woe?     The sentence in 1 Corinthians 15:52 “at the last trumpet” indicates a time when the Kingdom is proclaimed.

It all depends upon the interpretation of the other related prophecies.

The Problems With The Rapture

When is it really?

End Time biblical prophecy can be traced back to the prophet Obadiah of a time between 873 and 841 BC.     The prophets since Obadiah have also made End Time predictions.     These predictions have been proven over time by historical accounts up until a certain point of understanding.     Yes!     Biblical Prophecy has eventuated.     It is held true to date.

The point of understanding reached in the End Time prophecies is up to the catalyst that causes Tribulation.     Is the “Rapture” this catalyst?     Or is it war and/or the threat of the annihilation of Jerusalem that results in a Seven Year Covenant of Peace.     Peace?     Well!     Many will think so at first.

The understandings of “Tribulation” are based on assumptions made on and about the End Time prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments.     These assumptions, although thought to be true, will only be proven by time.     However, the clock is still clicking and time appears to racing away.     Soon time will run out for one’s redemption.

According to one’s own assumption of Tribulation, the Rapture could be Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib or even Post-Trib.     Tribulation is a seven-year period, which is divided into two 3.5 year parts.     The first 3.5 years is referred to as “Birth Pains” as it leads up to the Great Tribulation of the last 3.5 years.     Peace has truly evaporated by the time of the Great Tribulation.

Tribulation begins with the opening of the “First Seal”.     There are seven seals of anguish, the last seal ushers in Trumpets.     There are seven trumpets that herald great trouble.     The last three trumpets bring woe upon mankind.     The seventh trumpet proclaims the Kingdom of the Lord (Yahusha), which ushers in the Seven Bowl Judgements.     I really hope that you are one with God (Yahuah) long before all this.     These judgements are horrendous.

In the case of Pre-Trib, will the “Rapture” take place either before Tribulation or when the Seven Year Covenant of (false) Peace is signed or just as the “First Seal” is broken?     No body really knows when.     But, it is only a matter of time.     Will you be ready if and when it happens?

In the case of Mid-Trib, will it take place just after the Great Tribulation commences and hopefully before the “Fourth Seal” is broken?     I for one do not want to be around when there is widespread death on earth!     A fourth of Earth’s population will perish.     I hope you seek God (Yahuah) and accept the Messiah (Yahusha) long before this.

Post-Trib is about the time of the “Fifth Trumpet” and/or the “Seventh Trumpet”.     At this point of time, the “Day of Wrath” has come and/or the Kingdom is proclaimed.     It has been hell on earth since the “Fourth Seal”.     I can understand why people are praying for a Pre-Trib Rapture.

What Are You Willing To Believe?

I have news for you.     Good news for some, bad news for others.     Tribulation is knocking on the door of time.     Biblical prophecy and history indicate this.     It is soon to come.     Very soon!

If and when does the “Rapture” actually takes place?     I honestly do not know, but I know what happens in the Seven Year Tribulation.     So!     If the “Rapture” is to be, then I hope the sooner the better.

I myself can tolerate some hardship, but the Tribulation is a time of horrendous distress.     If the “Rapture” is a gift of God (Yahuah) to get one over and/or out of the Tribulation experience, then one should prepare themself accordingly.

Redemption and redeeming is mentioned throughout the bible.     All God (Yahuah) wants one to do is accept Him as their fatherly God.     To love Him and walk in the way of His Son!

The Son of God (Yahusha) died through crucifixion for the redemption of ones sins.     The Messiah, the Son of God, is your Saviour.     So!     Accept the grace of God (Yahuah) and walk in the “Way” of the Messiah (Yahusha).     The Messiah abided by the Ten Commandments and taught the benefits of love and how to show it.

Well!    Are You Ready?

Don’t miss out on God’s (Yahuah’s) grace of salvation.     If the Rapture is to take place prior to Tribulation, make yourself ready to be taken.     It could happen any time now.     So!     Don’t miss out.

Redeeming and redemption occurs throughout Tribulation until the Fifth Trumpet and after that if you have not obtained the seal of God (Yahuah) you will face the three Woes and suffer the Seven Bowls of Judgement.     Do you want to chance this?     Reject God (Yahuah) at your peril.

Don’t miss out on being raptured by God.     For God’s love abounds.     Be sealed and blessed by God (Yahuah) today.     Seek the love of the Messiah (Yahusha) and prepare yourself for the Second Coming.

Don’t be foolish and loose your soul.     Tribulation is a spiritual battle about worship and the works of one’s faith.     Have faith in God (Yahuah) and the Messiah (Yahusha).     Take part in the first resurrection and don’t worry about the second death of the Great White Judgement.     Be with the Saints and the Messiah as they reign for a thousand years.

Well!     Are you ready?
If not, seek God and the Messiah today.
If you are, then I will probably see you in the near future.
Anyway be sealed and blessed by God (Yahuah) and enjoy the millennial reign.

The Messiah Yahusha was crucified on the day of Passover for the redemption of mankind.     His rejection, alienation and atonement affected His soul greatly, so He rested in the Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea over the 15^th day of the first month.     The 15^th day of the month is always a Sabbath Day of Rest, as is the 8^th, 22^nd and 29^th days of each month.    Because the Feast of Unleavened Bread began on this Sabbath day, it was regarded as being a High Sabbath Day.

All but two disciples deserted Yahusha when He was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper, on the day before Passover.     He was denied trice by his disciple Simon called Peter before the cock crowed the next morning, being the Day of Passover (the 14^th day of the first month).

Yahusha was judged by the understandings of man from about midnight to dawn.     Dawn (about 6am) and sunrise constituted the first hour of the Israelite twelve-hour day.     Those of the Sanhedrin and the chief priests then took Yahusha to Pontius Pilate to be mocked, then judged.     This would have been during the second hour (possibly between 7am and 8am).     It was the third hour in which Yahusha was crucified (about 9am).     The cross had to be carried, the person and any signage had to be attached to the cross, then the cross anchored in place before the crucifixion took place.

When the Messiah Yahusha was crucified amongest the two thieves, He asked His Father (Yahuah) to forgive them (being all those involved in his fate), for they do not know what they do.

By the fourth hour, the Messiah Yahusha would have been in mental agony due to the enormous weight of the sins of mankind.     He was so concerned about being our saviour that He scarcely felt his physical pain.

By the fifth hour the weight of our sins and two hours of crucifixion was taking His breath away.     He worried about His Father (Yahuah) rejecting Him through the burden of sins that He carried.     At Noon, the sixth hour, darkness covered the cross until the ninth hour.     Then the darkness shifted over to Jerusalem and the Temple, whilst light shone upon the cross.

At the ninth hour (about 3pm) Yahusha cried out:  “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” (“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”).     Then the Messiah Yahusha cried out again “Father into Your hands I commit My spirit”.     With this He took his last breath and yielded up His spirit.

It was then that the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, ending the reign of the priestly order.     The Glory of God (Yahuah) had left the temple, the earth quaked, graves were opened and many bodies of the saints (righteous people) were raised.     Because the hidden holy place could now be seen, the spirit of God (Yahuah) became available to Jews, Israelites and Gentiles alike.

Jospeh of Arimathea and Nicodemus, (a Pharisee that came to Yahusha before), prepared the body of the Messiah for burial during the evening, (being the time of the Passover observation), until just before the dawn of the next day.     They had to complete the burial task before the dawn of High Sabbath Day of the 15^th, which commenced the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

The Messiah Yahusha rested in the Tomb over the 15^th day of the first month, until the dawn of the next morning.     He arose early, during the dawn of the next morning, being the first day of the following week, the 16^th day of the third week of the first month.     Mary Magdalene, Mary (the mother of James) and Salome came to anoint Him early in the morning when the sun had risen, but the tomb was empty.     Yahusha showed himself to Mary Magdalene after the other women had left.

There are two books that determine our spiritual fate.     The Messiah Yahusha offers redemption of your impure ways so you will not be blotted out of the Book of Life.

The Book of Life is for the righteous and a Book of Death is for those that walk in the paths of impurity.     How you live your life by the works of your faith determines which book your name is written into when you die.     The living must be remorseful for the wrongs that they commit and seek their salvation.     The dead are judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.

Why don’t you take advantage of the salvation that God (Yahuah) offers?     Seek your redemption; be remorseful of your iniquities and walk in the “Way” of the Messiah (Yahusha).     Be saved from spiritual death.

For over the past two thousand years people have heard about wars and rumours of war.     Nations have risen against nations and kingdom against kingdom.     There have been famines, pestilences and earthquakes all around the world. 

However, up to the twentieth century, not everybody was either aware or concerned about these things.     Life continued as normal for most, for the wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes did not specifically affect all the people at any given time.     However, for those whom were affected, it would have been a time of sorrows.

By the 20th century, people began to communicate worldwide.     People were better educated and became more aware of the world around them.     However times of sorrow prevailed.     Wars and rumours of war, famines, pestilences and earthquakes also prevailed.

Wars

The worst wars to date were WWW 1 and WWW 2.
World War One (WWWI) disrupted many countries around the world.     The lives lost and the hardship that followed was a time of sorrow for millions of people.     It was declared to be the war to end all wars, but it wasn’t the case.

World War Two (WWWII) was a horrendous waste of lives.     About 4% of the worlds population had shattered lives, whilst the rest had their lives changed forever.     Although many lives were changed for the better over time, peace was and still is elusive.

Major conflicts and wars of the 20th Century:
1899–1902, Boer War, about 46,000 deaths and 30,000 wounded.

1914–1918, First World War, about 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded.

1917–1922, Russian Civil War, about 259,000 deaths and over 1 million wounded.

1919, Third Afghan War, about 2,000 deaths and over 600 wounded.

1919–1921, Irish War of Independence, about 2,300 deaths, countless wounded.

1922–1923, Irish Civil War, about 1,700 deaths.

1936–1939, Spanish Civil War, between 465,000 and 500,000 deaths.

1936–1939, Arab Revolt in Palestine, about 5,874 deaths and 15,500 wounded.

1939–1945, Second World War, 70 to 85 million deaths and countless people wounded.

1944–1948, Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, about 260 deaths and 912 wounded.

1947, Partition of India, there were about 200,000 to 2 million deaths, whilst 10 to 20 million people were displaced.

1948 onwards, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, more than 31,000 deaths and 32,000 wounded.

1948–1960, Malayan Emergency, about 8,575 deaths and 3,685 wounded.

1949, Yangtze Incident, 42 deaths and 73 wounded.

1950–1953, Korean War, just over 4 million deaths and 1.25 million wounded.

1952–1960, Kenya Emergency, about 23,000 deaths.

1955–1959, Cyprus Emergency, 547 deaths.

1955–1975, Vietnam War, about 1.450 million to 3.595 million deaths and countless wounded.

1956, Suez Crisis, about 4,000 deaths and over 5,800 wounded.

1962–1963, Brunei Revolt, 46 deaths.

1963–1966, Indonesian Confrontation, 838 deaths, 402 wounded.

1963–1967, Aden Emergency, 491 deaths, 2,282 wounded.

1968–1998, The Troubles (Northern Ireland), 3,532 deaths, over 47,500 wounded.

1982, Falklands War, 904 deaths, 2,432 wounded.

1990–1991, Gulf War, up to 54,000 deaths, over 75,000 wounded.

1991–2002, Sierra Leone Civil War, 50,000 to 70,000 causalities, 2.5 million people displaced.

1992–1995, Bosnian War, about 101,000 deaths, over 2 million people displaced.

1998–1999, Kosovo War, over 13,500 deaths, 1.2 to 1.45 million people displaced.

Major conflicts and wars of 21st Century:
2001–2014, War in Afghanistan, over 241,000 deaths.

2003–2011, Iraq War, figures are disputed, could be 268,000 to 295,000 deaths.

2011–present, Libya Conflict, figures are disputed, up to 30,000 deaths.

2011–present, Syria Conflict, figures are disputed, could be 500,000 to 600,000 deaths, about 11.5 million people displaced.

2014–present, Yemen Conflict, about 377,000 deaths.

2014–present, Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, over 11,000 deaths, about 1.2 million people displaced.

Famines

During the 20th century an estimated 70 to 120 million people died from famines across the world.     In the 21st century up till 2021 about 690 million were starving.     In 2021 it was estimated that 41 million people were at risk of starving to death.

Famines in the 20th Century:
1921-1922, Soviet Union famine, about 9 million people died.
Massive crop failures due to drought were largely ignored by Vladimir Lenin’s government, which did not respond until it was too late.

1927, North-West China famine, around 3 to 6 million people died.
The famine was triggered by drought and made worse by local warlords and harsh taxes.

1929, China (Hunan) famine, about 2 million people died because of drought and conflict.

1932–1934, Soviet Union (Ukraine) famine, between 7 to 8 million deaths.
People died as a result of Josef Stalin’s massive industrialisation programme in which the government seized grain for exports.     It needed the hard currency to buy industrial equipment.     When people in the Ukraine reported a famine, Stalin punished them by refusing to send them food aid.

1942–1943, China (Henan) famine, about 5 million deaths.
People died as a result of a combination of invasion by Japan and grain seizures by the Chinese army to feed its troops and finance the war.

1943, India (Bengal) famine, between 2.1 and 3 million deaths.
People died as a result of crop failure, the exporting of foods by India’s British administration to Allied soldiers fighting in World War Two, the end of rice imports from Burma following Japanese invasion and a lack of food price controls by the British administration.

1946–1947, Soviet Union (Ukraine and Belorussia) famine, about 2 million deaths.
People died because of drought and government policy, ie: the re-enforcement of agricultural collectivisation policies after World War Two.     This was the last famine in the Soviet Union.

1958–1961, China famine, between 10 and 30 million deaths.
People died as a result of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward.     His plan involved modernising agriculture and increasing grain production.     Farmers were collectivised into communes of about 25,000 people and had to give the state a large percentage of their crops.     Officials often exaggerated the size of harvests and in many places the entire grain harvest was seized together with livestock, vegetables and cash crops.     China’s leaders appeared to have been unaware of the severity of the famine.     From 1958 until 1961 China doubled its grain exports and cut imports of food.

1970–1979, Cambodia famine, between 1.5 and 2 million deaths.
People died of famine following a decade of conflict.     The first during the civil war from 1970 to 1975, then during the brutal Khmer Rouge era until 1978 and finally in the aftermath of the Vietnamese invasion that ended Khmer Rouge rule in 1979.

1995–1999, North Korea famine, between 2.8 million and 3.5 million deaths.
People died because of a combination of flooding and government policy.

Famines in the 21st Century:
2005–2006, Niger famine, caused a food crisis, which impacted about 3.3 million people, including 800,000 children under age five, in 3,815 villages.

2006, Horn of Africa famine, caused a food crisis, affected about 5.9 million people.

2010, Sahel famine, well over 25 million people were affected.
The Sahel part of Africa includes from west to east parts of northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, northern Burkina Faso, the extreme south of Algeria, Niger, the extreme north of Nigeria, the extreme north of Cameroon and Central African Republic, central Chad, central and southern Sudan, the extreme north of South Sudan, Eritrea and the extreme north of Ethiopia.

2011, East Africa famine, due to drought affected about 9.5 million people.

2016–present, Yemen famine, has affected over 24 million people to date.

2017, Somali famine, due to drought affected about 6 million people.

2017–present, South Sudan famine, has affected about 4.9 million people.

2021–present, Madagascar famine, has affected more than a million people.

2021–present, Tigray War famine, has affected about 5.5 million people.

Pestilences

Pestilence today refers to a fatal epidemic disease.
Epidemic is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.    Pandemic is a disease that is prevalent over a whole country or the world.

During the 20th Century there were over 50 pestilences.
However, during the 21st Century there have been about 70 pestilences and still counting.

Pestilences of the 20th Century:
1855–1960, Worldwide, Third Bubonic plague pandemic, 12–15 million deaths (mainly in India and China).

1876, Ottoman Empire, Bubonic plague epidemic, 20,000 deaths.

1894–1929, Hong Kong, Bubonic plague (part of the third plague pandemic), 20,000+ deaths.

1896–1905, Bombay, India, Bubonic plague epidemic (part of the third plague pandemic), 20,788 deaths.

1899, Porto, Portugal, Bubonic plague outbreak (part of the third plague pandemic), 132 deaths.

1899–1923, Europe, Asia, Africa, Sixth Cholera pandemic, 800,000+ deaths.

1900–1904, San Francisco, United States, Bubonic plague epidemic (part of the third plague pandemic), 119 deaths.

1900, Sydney, Australia, Bubonic plague epidemic (part of the third plague pandemic) 103 deaths.

1900–1920, Uganda, African Trypanosomiasis epidemic, 200,000–300,000 deaths.

1901–2009, Kuru, Papua New Guinea, Kuru epidemic, 2,700–3,000+ deaths.

1903, Fremantle, Western Australia ,Bubonic plague epidemic (part of the third plague pandemic), 4 deaths.

1906–1936, Ceylon, Malaria outbreak, 80,000 deaths.

1910–1911, Manchurian, China, Pneumonic and Bubonic plague epidemic (part of the third plague pandemic), 60,000 deaths.

1915–1926, Worldwide, Encephalitis lethargica pandemic, 500,000 deaths.

1916, United States, Poliomyelitis (polio) epidemic, 7,130 deaths.

1918–1920, Worldwide, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 pandemic (Spanish flu), 17–100 million deaths.

1918–1922, Russia, Typhus epidemic, 2–3 million deaths.

1924, Los Angeles, United States, Pneumonic plague outbreak, 30 deaths.

1924–1925, Minnesota, United States, Smallpox epidemic, 500 deaths.

1927, Montreal, Canada, Typhoid fever epidemic, 538 deaths.

1929–1930, Worldwide, Psittacosis pandemic, 100+ deaths.

1937, Croydon, United Kingdom, Typhoid fever outbreak, 43 deaths.

1937, Australia, Poliomyelitis (polio) epidemic, unknown deaths.

1940, Sudan, Yellow fever epidemic, 1,627 deaths.

1942–1944, Egypt, Malaria epidemic, unknown deaths.

1946, Egypt, Relapsing fever epidemic, unknown deaths.

1947, Egypt, Cholera epidemic, 10,277 deaths.

1948–1952, United States Poliomyelitis (polio) epidemic, 9,000 deaths.

1957–1958, Worldwide, Influenza A virus subtype H2N2 pandemic (Asian flu), 1–4 million deaths.

1960–1962, Ethiopia, Yellow fever epidemic, 30,000 deaths.

1961–1975, Worldwide, Seventh Cholera (El Tor strain) pandemic, 36,000 deaths.

1968–1970, Worldwide, Influenza A virus subtype H3N2 pandemic (Hong Kong flu), 1–4 million deaths.

1971, Staphorst, Netherlands, Poliomyelitis (polio) epidemic, 5 deaths.

1972, Yugoslavia, Smallpox outbreak, 35 deaths.

1972–1973, United States, Influenza A virus subtype H3N2 epidemic (London flu), 1,027 deaths.

1973, Italy, Cholera (El Tor strain) epidemic, 24 deaths.

1974, India, Smallpox epidemic, 15,000 deaths.

1977–1979, Worldwide, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 pandemic (Russian flu), 700,000 deaths.

1979, Sverdlovsk, Russia, Anthrax leak, 105 deaths.

1981–present, Worldwide, HIV/AIDS pandemic (Human immunodeficiency virus), 36.3 million deaths (as of 2020).

1984, Western Sahara, Bubonic plague, 64 deaths.

1986, Oju, Nigeria, Yellow Fever epidemic, 5,600+ deaths.

1987, Mali, Yellow fever epidemic, 145 deaths.

1988, Shanghai, China, Hepatitis A epidemic, 31–47 deaths.

1991, Bangladesh, Cholera epidemic, 8,410–9,432 deaths.

1991–1993, Latin America Cholera epidemic, 8,000 deaths.
Affected Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala.

1994, India, Bubonic plague and Pneumonic plague, 56 deaths.

1996–2001, United Kingdom, Bovin Spogiform Encephalopathy (BSE) [Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD)] outbreak, 178 deaths.

1996, West Africa, Meningitis epidemic, 10,000 deaths.

1998–1999, Malaysia, Nipah virus infection outbreak, 105 deaths.

1998–2000, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Marburg virus outbreak, 128 deaths.

Pestilences of the 21st Century:
2000, Central America, Dengue fever epidemic, 40+ deaths.

2001, Nigeria Cholera epidemic, 400+ deaths.

2001, South Africa, Cholera epidemic, 139 deaths.

2002–2004, Worldwide, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, 774 deaths.

2003–2019, China, Southeast Asia and Egypt, Asia and Egypt Avian Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 (Avian influenza) epidemic, 455 deaths.

2004, Indonesia, Dengue fever epidemic, 658 deaths.

2004, Sudan, Ebola outbreak, 7 deaths.

2004–2005, Angola, Marburg virus outbreak, 227 deaths.

2005, Singapore, Dengue fever outbreak, 27 deaths.

2006, Luanda, Angola, Cholera epidemic, 1,200+ deaths.

2006, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo,  Bubonic plague epidemic, 61 deaths.

2006, India,  Malaria outbreak, 17 deaths.

2006, India, Dengue fever outbreak, 50+ deaths.

2006, Pakistan, Dengue fever outbreak, 50+ deaths.

2006, Philippines, Dengue fever epidemic, 1,000 deaths.

2006–2007, East Africa, Rift Valley fever outbreak, 394 deaths.

2007, Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola epidemic, 187 deaths.

2007, Ethiopia Cholera epidemic, 684 deaths.

2007, Iraq, Cholera outbreak, 10 deaths.

2007, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Mexico, Dengue fever epidemic, 183 deaths.

2007, Uganda, Ebola outbreak, 37 deaths.

2007, Netherlands, Q-fever epidemic, 95 deaths.

2008, Brazil, Dengue fever epidemic, 67 deaths.

2008, Cambodia, Dengue fever epidemic, 407 deaths.

2008, Chad, Cholera epidemic, 123 deaths.

2008–2017, China, Hand, Foot and Mouth disease epidemic, 3,322+ deaths.

2008, India, Cholera epidemic, 115 deaths.

2008, Madagascar, Bubonic plague outbreak, 18+ deaths.

2008, Philippines, Dengue fever epidemic, 172 deaths.

2008–2009, Zimbabwe, Cholera outbreak, 4,293 deaths.

2009, Bolivia, Dengue fever epidemic, 18 deaths.

2009, Gujarat, India, Hepatitis B outbreak, 49 deaths.

2009, Queensland, Australia, Dengue fever outbreak, 503 cases, 1+ deaths.

2009–2010, West Africa, Meningitis outbreak, 1,100 deaths.

2009–2010, Worldwide, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (Swine Flu) pandemic, 18,449 deaths (reported to the WHO), estimated death toll 284,000, possible range 151,700–575,400 deaths.

2010–2019, Haiti, Cholera (strain serogroup O1, serotype Ogawa) outbreak, 10,075 deaths.

2010–2014, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Measles outbreak, 4,500+ deaths.

2011, Vietnam, Hand, Foot and Mouth disease epidemic, 170 deaths.

2011, Pakistan, Dengue fever outbreak, 350+ deaths.

2012, Darfur, Sudan, Yellow fever outbreak, 171 deaths.

2012–present, Worldwide, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak, 941 deaths (as of 8 May 2021).

2013, Singapore, Dengue fever outbreak, 8 deaths.

2013–2014, Vietnam, Measles outbreak, 142 deaths.

2013–2015 Americas, Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) pandemic outbreak, 183 deaths.
It was first reported in the French region of the Caribbean island of St Martin and it spread rapidly throughout the region.     It was then identified in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

2013–2016, Worldwide, Western African Ebola (virion) virus epidemic, 11,323+ deaths.     It was primarily concentrated in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

2013–2019, China, Influenza A virus subtype H7N9 (Avian influenza) epidemic, 616 deaths.

2014, Madagascar, Bubonic plague outbreak, 292 deaths.

2014, Odisha, India, Primarily Hepatitis E but also Hepatitis A (Jaundice) outbreak, 36 deaths.

2014–2015, Flint, Michigan, United States, Legionnaires disease (Flint water crisis), 12 deaths.

2015 India, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (Indian swine flu) outbreak, 2,035 deaths.

2015–2016, Worldwide, Zika virus epidemic, 53 deaths.

2016, Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yellow fever outbreak, 498 deaths, (377 in Angola, 121 in Congo).

2016–2021, Yemen, Cholera outbreak, 3,981 deaths (as of December 2020).

2017, Peshawar, Pakistan, Dengue fever outbreak, 69 deaths.

2017, Gorakhpur, India, Japanese Encephalitis outbreak, 1,317 deaths.

2017, Sri Lanka, Dengue fever outbreak, 440 deaths.

2018, Kerala, India, Nipah henipavirus infection outbreak, 17 deaths.

2018–2020, Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, Ebola epidemic, 2,280 deaths.

2018–present, Italy, New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (NDM-CRE) outbreak, 31 deaths (as of September 2019).

2019, Philippines, Measles outbreak, 415 deaths.

2019, Kuala Koh, Malaysia, Measles outbreak, 15 deaths.

2019, Samoa, Measles outbreak, 83 deaths.

2019–2020, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, Dengue fever epidemic, 3,930 deaths.

2019–2020, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Measles outbreak, 7,018+ deaths.

2019–2020, New Zealand, Measles outbreak, 2 deaths.

2019–present, Nigeria, Lassa fever epidemic, 247 deaths (as of May 2021).

2019–present, Worldwide, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, 6–23 million+ (as of February 21, 2022).

2020, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola outbreak, 55 deaths.

2020, Nigeria, Yellow fever epidemic, 296 deaths (as of 31 December 2020).

2021–present, India, Black fungus (COVID-19 associated mucormycosis) epidemic, 4,332 deaths.

Earthquakes

Earthquakes have a Magnitude key ie:
ML = Local magnitude (Richter)
MS = Surface wave magnitude
Mw = Moment magnitude

In the 21st century up until 2020, earthquakes have killed more than 657,000 people.     Many more have been injured and made homeless.

In 2020, there were 8 quakes of magnitude 7.0 or above, 116 quakes between 6.0 and 7.0, 1689 quakes between 5.0 and 6.0, 12,720 quakes between 4.0 and 5.0, 38,964 quakes between 3.0 and 4.0, and 85,253 quakes between 2.0 and 3.0.

2021 was a very active period for global seismicity, with 19 major earthquakes, three of which were over 8.0 in magnitude.     So far in 2022 up to February there has been 27 earthquakes between 6.0 and 6.9, 246 earthquakes between 5.0 and 5.9 and 1,723 earthquakes between 4.0 and 4.9.

Worst Earthquakes of the 20th Century:
1902, China, Qing dynasty, Turkestan earthquake, Magnitude 7.7, 10,000 deaths.

1905, India, Kangra earthquake, Magnitude 7.8 Ms, 20,000 deaths.

1906, Ecuador and Colombia, Ecuador–Colombia earthquake, Magnitude 8.8, 500-1,000 casualties.

1907, Tajikistan, Qaratog earthquake, Magnitude 7.3 Ms, 12,000 deaths.

1908, Italy, Messina earthquake, Magnitude 7.1 Ms, 82,000 deaths.

1915, Italy, Avezzano earthquake, Magnitude 6.7 Ms, 32,610 deaths.

1917,Samoa, Samoa earthquake, Magnitude 8.5, 2 deaths.

1920, China, Haiyuan earthquake, Magnitude 7.8 Ms, 273,400 deaths.

1922, Atacama, Chile, Vallenar earthquake, Magnitude 8.5, 100 deaths.

1923, Japan, Great Kantō earthquake, Magnitude 8.2, 142,800 deaths.

1927, China, Gulang earthquake, Magnitude 7.6, 40,900 deaths.

1931, China, Fuyun earthquake, Magnitude 8, 10,000 deaths.

1934, India, Nepal–India earthquake, Magnitude 8, 12,000 deaths.

1935, Pakistan, Quetta earthquake, Magnitude 7.7, 60,000 deaths.

1938, Banda Sea, Indonesia, Banda Sea earthquake, Magnitude 8.5, 17,000 deaths.

1939, Turkey, Erzincan earthquake, Magnitude 7.8, 32,700 deaths.

1939, Chile, Chillán earthquake, Magnitude 8.3 Ms, 28,000 deaths.

1944, Argentina, San Juan earthquake, Magnitude 7.8, 10,000 deaths.

1946, Aleutian Island, United States, Aleutian Islands earthquake, Magnitude 8.6, 165-173 casualties.

1948, Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), Ashgabat earthquake, Magnitude 7.3 Ms, 110,000 deaths.

1950, India-China, Assam–Tibet earthquake, Magnitude 8.7, 1,526 deaths.

1952, Kamchatka, Russia, Severo-Kurilsk earthquake, Magnitude 9, 2,336 deaths.

1957, Alaska, United States, Andreanof Islands earthquake, Magnitude 8.6, no casualties.

1960, Morocco, Agadir earthquake, Magnitude 5.8, 12,000 deaths.

1960, Chile, Valdivia earthquake, Magnitude 9.4–9.6, 1,000-6,000 deaths.

1962, Iran, Buin Zahra earthquake, Magnitude 7.1 ML, 12,225 deaths.

1963, Kuril Islands, Russia, Kuril Islands earthquake, Magnitude 8.5, no casualties.

1964, Alaska, United States, Alaska earthquake, Magnitude 9.2, 115 deaths.

1965, Alaska, United States, Rat Islands earthquake, Magnitude 8.7, 131 deaths.

1968, Iran, Dasht-e Bayaz and Ferdows earthquakes, Magnitude 7.4, 15,000 deaths.

1970, Peru, Ancash earthquake, Magnitude 7.9, 70,000 deaths.

1970, China, Tonghai earthquake, Magnitude 7.1, 15,621 deaths.

1972, Nicaragua, Nicaragua earthquake, Magnitude 6.3, 11,000 deaths.

1976, China, Tangshan earthquake, Magnitude 7.6, 242,000 deaths.

1976, Guatemala, Guatemala earthquake, Magnitude 7.5, 23,000 deaths.

1978, Iran, Tabas earthquake, Magnitude 7.4, 15,000 deaths.

1980, Washington, United States, Mount St. Helens earthquake, Magnitude 5.1, about 57 deaths.

1985, Mexico, Mexico City earthquake, Magnitude 8, 10,000 deaths.

1988, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), Armenian earthquake, Magnitude 6.8 Ms, 25,000 deaths.

1990, Iran, Manjil–Rudbar earthquake, Magnitude 7.4, 50,000 deaths.

1999, Turkey, İzmit earthquake, Magnitude 7.6, 17,127 deaths.

Worst Earthquakes of the 21st Century:
2001, India, Gujarat earthquake, Magnitude 7.7, 20,085 deaths.

2001, Peru, Southern Peru earthquake, Magnitude 8.4, 145 deaths.

2002, Afghanistan, Hindu Kush earthquake, Magnitude 6.1, 1,000 deaths.

2002, United States, Denali earthquake, Magnitude 7.9, 0 deaths.

2003, Iran, Bam earthquake, Magnitude 6.6, 26,271 deaths.

2003, Japan, Tokachi earthquake, Magnitude 8.3, 0 deaths.

2004, Indonesia, Indian Ocean, Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Magnitude 9.1, 227,898 deaths.

2005, Pakistan, Kashmir earthquake, Magnitude 7.6, 87,351 deaths.

2005, Indonesia, Nias–Simeulue earthquake, Magnitude 8.6, 1,313 deaths.

2006, Indonesia, Yogyakarta earthquake, Magnitude 6.4, 5,782 deaths.

2006, Russia, Kuril Islands earthquake, Magnitude 8.3, 0 deaths.

2007, Peru, Peru earthquake, Magnitude 8, 519 deaths.

2007, Indonesia, Sumatra earthquakes, Magnitude 8.5, 23 deaths.

2008, China, Sichuan earthquake, Magnitude 7.9, 87,587 deaths.

2009, Indonesia, Sumatra earthquakes, Magnitude 7.6, 1,115 deaths.

2009, Samoa, Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Magnitude 8.1, 192 deaths.

2010, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Magnitude 7, 160,000 deaths.

2010, Chile, Chile earthquake, Magnitude 8.8, 525 deaths.

2011, Japan, Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Magnitude 9, 20,896 deaths.

2012, Iran, East Azerbaijan earthquakes, Magnitude 6.4, 306 deaths.

2012, Indonesia, Indian Ocean, Indian Ocean earthquakes, Magnitude 8.6, 10 deaths.

2013, Pakistan, Balochistan earthquakes, Magnitude 7.7, 825 deaths.

2013, Russia, Okhotsk Sea earthquake, Magnitude 8.3, 0 deaths.

2014, China, Ludian earthquake, Magnitude 6.1, 729 deaths.

2014, Chile, Iquique earthquake, Magnitude 8.2, 6 deaths.

2015, Nepal, Nepal earthquake, Magnitude 7.8, 8,964 deaths.

2015, Chile, Illapel earthquake, Magnitude 8.3, 14 deaths.

2016, Ecuador, Ecuador earthquake, Magnitude 7.8, 673 deaths.

2016, Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands earthquakes, Magnitude 7.9, 0 deaths.

2017, Iran and Iraq, Iran–Iraq earthquake, Magnitude 7.3, 630 deaths.

2017, Mexico, Chiapas earthquake, Magnitude 8.2, 98 deaths.

2018, Indonesia, Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, Magnitude 7.5, 4,340 deaths.

2018, Fiji, Fiji earthquake, Magnitude 8.2, 0 deaths.

2019, Albania, Albania earthquake, Magnitude 6.4, 51 deaths.

2019, Peru, Peru earthquake, Magnitude 8, 2 deaths.

2020, Turkey and Greece, Aegean Sea earthquake, Magnitude 7, 119 deaths.

2020, United States, Alaska Peninsula earthquake, Magnitude 7.8, 0 deaths.

2021, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Magnitude 7.2, 2,248 deaths.

2021, United States, Chignik earthquake, Magnitude 8.2, 0 deaths.

2022, Afghanistan, Afghanistan earthquake, Magnitude 5.3, 28 deaths.

Tectonic plate movements are the main causes of earthquakes and volcanic eruption.     In the 20th century there were about 76 large volcanic eruptions, which caused over 83,000 deaths.     So far in the 21st century, up till February 2022, there have been 46 large volcanic eruptions, which resulted in about 4, 700 casualties.

As Time Goes On

In respect to wars and rumours of war, nations rising against nations and kingdom against kingdom, famines, pestilences and earthquakes, these are becoming worse and worse all around the world as time goes on.     You do not hear or see about all these things due to a veil of blindness that is upon this world.

But now is the time to become aware of the Time of Sorrows.     Open your eyes and listen.
Sorrows leads into Tribulation and then travails like birth pains.
It is time to get your hands on the Bible (KJV or NKJV preferred) and start reading.

It is now February in 2022 and people are watching Russia invade Ukraine.
But!     Do people know what is really going on.

Get yourself a Bible or go to website such as this: https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/tools/
Read… Ezekiel 38 and 39

Gog, the prince of Rosh, is forming the land of Magog.     Meshech and Tubal will yield.     But watch Syria, Persia and Israel.     Israel will strike when provoked.     But it will come at a cost.

Be Aware of Tribulation

Tribulation is near!
Look out for the Prevailer.     The one who presents and/or proclaims the seven-year covenant of peace.     He is the deceptive Antichrist.     Do not follow him.

The seven-year covenant of peace comes at a cost… one world government, common religious belief and common economics.     It may look good on the surface, but the big reset will cause nothing but trouble.     They say that the Jews will start their daily sacrifices about 6 months into Tribulation.     Watch out for this… it is a sign of the time.

The antichrist will go out conquering and to conquer for he seeks power.
But peace will be taken from this Earth and people will start killing each other again.     Then scarcity will come upon Earth.     Prices will rise, but the oil and wine, (the people of God), will not be harmed.

Now is the time to yield to God and follow the Messiah     Repent and walk in the way of the Messiah.     Read the Bible for direction.     For what follows this is widespread death on Earth.     Over a fourth of the people of Earth will be killed by the sword, with hunger, with death (probably through fright) and by the beasts of the earth.

Do not be stupid.     Seek God now and accept the Messiah and his ways.
Seek redemption before it is too late.

May you have solace through the grace of God!

Is COVID-19 the plague that wipes out mankind?
Is COVID-19 part of the plagues of the end time?
No it isn’t.     The End Times may be close, but they have not started yet.
Maybe 2022 or just after.

COVID-19 does appear to be a man made laboratory virus, which mysteriously appeared in China.     However, no one is going to know for sure if COVID-19 was being designed as a weapon of war or not.     But COVID-19 can be a debilitating virus that can cause death if someone has other serious health issues.

Influenza (Flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses.     However, different viruses cause them.     COVID-19 is caused by infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was first identified in 2019.     The flu is caused by infection through the various influenza viruses.     COVID-19 seems to spread more easily than flu.     However, the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 should slow down as more people become fully vaccinated against it.

Getting Things Into Prospective

The Third Plague pandemic from 1855 to 1960 was a major bubonic plague pandemic that began 1855 in Yunnan, China.     It was literally spread by ships all around the world.     The contaminated ship dwelling rats disembarked at various ports and so did the infected sailors and passengers.     During the pandemic there were about 12 million noted deaths in India and China.     Perhaps it was over 15 million worldwide.     Nobody really knows the true number of deaths due to the lack of records kept.     The pandemic was considered active until 1960, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year.     It should be noted that the world population in 1855 was about 1,260 million and expanded to about 3 billion in 1960.

The Asiatic Flu or Russian Flu although stated as occurring between 1889 and 1890 actually lasted until 1895.     The viral pandemic could have been a disease caused by either that of an influenza virus strain of either A/H3N8 or A/H2N2 or perhaps the human coronavirus OC43.     This viral pandemic occurred through various blunders with the cause and treatment, hence many results are uncertain.     The first outbreak occurred in Bukhara of the Russian Empire between 1889 and 1890.     It spread in Russia by the use of their railroads and spread worldwide by ship due to transatlantic travel.     It spread in less than six days to become a pandemic.     The Asiatic Flu or Russian Flu killed about 1 million people out of a world population of about 1.5 billion.     It was the last great pandemic of the 19th century and is among the deadliest pandemics in history.

The Spanish Flu started in the USA in February 1918 and was caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus.     It became a pandemic as it infected around 35% of the world population before becoming endemic by 1920.     About 500 million estimated cases were recorded with 25 to 50 million deaths.     However testing was crude and a lot more people could have had it and possibly the death rate could have been between 17.4 and 100 million.     People would die within 5 days of infection.     It was estimated that between 1 to 6 per cent of the global population would to die due to the infection of the Spanish influenza virus.     During this time period the world’s population was about 1,800 to 1,900 million.

The Asian Flu pandemic between 1957 and 1958 was a global pandemic of influenza A virus subtype H2N2.     It originated in Guizhou in southern China.     The number of deaths caused by the Asian flu pandemic is estimated between one and four million worldwide, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.     The world’s population was about 2.860 to 2.900 billion during this time period.

The Hong Kong Flu outbreak between 1968 and 1969 was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus.     It killed between one and four million people globally.     It is recorded among the deadliest pandemics in history.     The world’s population was about 3.500 to 3.600 billion during this time period.

The Swine Flu pandemic occurred between January 2009 and August 2010.    The H1N1 influenza virus caused it.     It was the third recent flu pandemic involving the H1N1 virus.     The virus appeared to be a new strain of H1N1 that resulted from a previous triple re-assortment of bird, swine, and human flu viruses, which further combined with a Eurasian pig flu virus, which lead to the term “Swine Flu”.     Although it began in January 2009, it was first discovered in the United States in April 2009.     The World Health Organization from June 2009 to August 2010 declared it as a pandemic.     The reported number of deaths was 284,000 people.     However, due to conflicting reports from various health sources, the number of infections and deaths seem to be less than what they could have actually been.     The world’s population was about 6.788 to 6.916 billion during this time period.

How Lethal Is Covid-19?

Is the COVID-19 virus as lethal as the Spanish Flu?
No!     The recorded cases and death rate of COVID-19 is lower, whilst the world population is much higher with 7.9 billion in 2021.     Up until the 29^th of December 2021 there were 283 million reported cases with 5.41 million deaths worldwide.     The case and death counts are much, much lower than the Spanish Flu in number without taking the world population into account.

COVID-19 is an infectious Coronavirus disease, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.     Most people who fall sick with COVID-19 will experience mild to moderate symptoms and recover without special treatment.     However, some will become seriously ill and require medical attention.     People with underlying health conditions are most at risk.     Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 include respiratory symptoms and include fever, cough and shortness of breath.     In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome and sometimes death.     Coronavirus can also affect the inner surfaces of veins and arteries, which can cause blood vessel inflammation, damage to very small vessels and blood clots.     This can bring on heart problems.

Vaccination

The most acceptable vaccines against COVID-19 are produced by BioNTech, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Oxford, AstraZeneca.     These vaccines are not designed to cure COVID-19.     Their aim is to protect you against COVID-19, especially if you have an underlying health condition.

As with any vaccine there can be side affects due to a myriad of reasons.     Today people are vaccinated against a range of bacterial and viral diseases.     This is an integral part of communicable disease control worldwide.     Vaccination against a specific disease not only reduces the incidence of that disease, it reduces the social and economic burden of the disease on communities.

Those people, who choose to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and perhaps wear a mask, show a regard for their own wellbeing and that of those around them.     Unfortunately there are some who feel that vaccination and or mask wearing infringes on their rights.     They forget about the rights of others who choose to minimise their risks of being infected by COVID-19.     Statistics are starting to show that the non-vaccinated are becoming the super spreaders and that they inturn suffer the most from the affects of COVID-19.     There is something in that old adage – Prevention is better that cure.

COVID-19 Symptoms

The most common symptoms are: fever, cough, tiredness and/or loss of taste or smell.     The less common symptoms are: sore throat, headache, aches and pains, diarrhoea, a rash on skin, or discolouration of fingers or toes and/or red or irritated eyes.     People with mild symptoms who are otherwise healthy should manage their symptoms at home.

The most serious symptoms include: difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, loss of speech or mobility or confusion and/or chest pain.     Seek immediate medical attention if you have serious symptoms.     Always call before visiting your doctor or health facility.

How COVID-19 Spreads

The virus can spread from an infected person’s mouth or nose in small liquid particles when they cough, sneeze, speak, sing or breathe.     These particles range from larger respiratory droplets to smaller aerosols.     This is why it is recommended to wear facemasks.     It lessens the spread of COVID-19.

Breathing in the virus can infect you.     The COVID-19 virus can also remain viable on different surfaces.     It can remain viable for up to 4 hours on copper, 24 hours on cardboard and up to 72 hours on plastic and stainless steel.     You can be affected by COVID-19 if you are near someone who has the disease or by touching a contaminated surface and then touch your eyes, nose or mouth.     The virus spreads more easily indoors and in crowded settings.

On average it can take 5 to 6 days from when someone is infected with the virus for symptoms to show.     However it can take up to 14 days in some cases.

A close contact is someone who has had face-to-face contact or has shared a closed space with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.     A close contact has a higher risk than other people in the community of developing COVID-19, including casual contacts.

Quarantine

Quarantining may differ from country to country or even state to state.     But in Australia if you are a close contact and even if you have no symptoms in 72 hours, you must continue to self-isolate for a full 10 days.     After the 10 day isolation period, a further test is required before being released.

However, in Australia the following applies if you have tested positive for COVID-19:
(1) Tested positive, but no symptoms (asymptomatic):
If you are fully vaccinated, you can stop isolating if 10 days have passed since you first tested positive, and no symptoms have developed during this time.

If you are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, you can be released from isolation if at least 14 days have passed since first testing positive and no symptoms have developed during this time.

Some states and territories may release you earlier if you have a negative PCR test before being released and no symptoms have developed.

(2) Tested positive, symptoms improving and no longer have a fever:
If you are fully vaccinated, you can stop isolating after 10 days of first testing positive if you have no fever and there is a substantial improvement of respiratory symptoms in the previous 72 hours.

If you are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, you can stop isolating after 14 days of first testing positive if you have no fever and there is a substantial improvement of respiratory symptoms in the previous 72 hours.

Some states and territories may release you earlier if your symptoms have improved and you have a negative PCR test before being released.

(3) Tested positive, still showing signs of respiratory symptoms:
If you are fully vaccinated, you can be released from isolation if it has been at least 14 days since your symptoms began, you haven’t had a fever during the previous 72 hours, there has been a substantial improvement in your respiratory symptoms and you are not significantly immunocompromised.

You may be released earlier if you have 2 consecutive negative COVID-19 PCR tests taken at least 24 hours apart after day 7 from onset of symptoms.

If you are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, you must meet the same criteria, however your isolation period will be at least 20 days.

(4) Tested positive, significantly immunocompromised:
In addition to meeting the above criteria, people who are significantly immunocompromised must meet a higher standard and will require additional assessment.     Regardless of your vaccination status, you will be released from isolation when you return 2 negative PCR tests, at least 24 hours apart after day 7 from when your symptoms began.     Your doctor should decide whether the COVID-19 symptoms have stopped.

People who have met all of the above criteria are not considered infectious and they can be released from isolation, including a return to a high-risk setting such as a healthcare facility.

Anyone recovering from a COVID-19-related illness should continue to follow all physical distancing rules, ensure proper hand hygiene and wear a mask or PPE where appropriate.

But note!     All of these procedures can change anytime on the whim of any government.

Omicron

Omicron is a variant of COVID-19.     It is milder, but more highly infectious then the Delta variant.     It replicates up to 70 times more than the Delta variant.     Many countries deem that the Omicron variant will affect the majority of their population.

The PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test detects the genetic material from the COVID-19 virus.     The nose swab PCR test for COVID-19 is an accurate and reliable test for diagnosing COVID-19.     But due to Omicron, people who do not really need to be tested are abusing the testing sites.     Hence the PCR testing facilities are being swamped and the test results are being released too late for beneficial quarantine.

Governments in Australia now deem that COVID-19 Home Testing is the way to go because Omicron is a milder form of COVID-19.     The COVID-19 Home Test kit is an over-the-counter, rapid self-test that detects SARS-CoV-2 antigen and provides results in 15 minutes.     People will be able to purchase a test kit from some supermarkets, pharmacies or online from selected suppliers.     This will take a load off the hospital and vaccination clinics.     Those who test positive are to self-isolate.     Only those with critical symptoms will need hospitalisation.

However, is Omicron the mutant to end COVID-19?     Around 1920 the Spanish flu mutated and ended.     Some researchers are now thinking that Omicron could actually hasten the COVID-19 virus transition from pandemic to endemic.     Something endemic is regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.

If this is the case and COVID-19 becomes endemic, then in the future, the COVID-19 virus vaccines could be used the same way that Flu vaccines are utilised for those who are deemed to need it.

All we can do is hope that COVID-19 becomes endemic, real soon.     The sooner the better!

I wish you good health!
Look after yourself and get vaccinated.     It is pointless to suffer needlessly.

God bless you.

Why do I promote biblical teachings but ridicule church traditions?

Let me begin…
The “Bible” is the source of Judeo-Christian teachings and is considered to be of “The Word Of God”, hence is of truth and righteousness.     It is written in a way where there are meanings within meanings and more so when you utilise the expressions of the original languages of Paleo-Hebrew and Koine Greek.

The teachings of the bible also encourage one to test what is written, but never to add to or take away from the older teachings.     So!     From this point of view, I will tell my story.

My Background

As a child I lived a fantastic life and enjoyed the freedom to explore and experience life during the fifties and sixties.     I was both loved and punished by my parents in their attempts to guide me in life and I am very grateful for their endeavours.

My parents gave me the traditions of birthdays, christmas, boxing day, easter and bonfire night and as a child I enjoyed every minute of these traditions.     I grew up thinking that I had more uncles, aunts and cousins then I actually did.     I was taught that the love of family was the most important thing, and it is still very important to me.

Over the course of the trials and tribulations of my life, frustration and even despair was experienced.     I walked away from the church and had discussions and arguments with God as my life progressed.     A lot of soul searching went on.     I even threw away my old tattered Kings James bible.

In my later years I had the need to find my inner persona and spirituality and sought different sources.     I also developed a desire to do my own research on ancient history.     This quest led me to question my belief in God and creation.     Whilst reading about Gilgamesh and the Sumerian nation as being the cradle of civilization, I noticed the similarities that were written in the bible.

Back To The Bible

So!     My quest in valuating the bible began.     By using the information contained in both the NKJV and NRSV Bibles and with the help of The Book of Yasher (Jasher), I constructed by own timeline of biblical events from Adam to the Apostles of the Messiah.     This timeline has proven to be pretty accurate.

Reading and rereading the Bible in order to construct my timeline led me to take an interest in biblical prophecy.     I am still reviewing this biblical prophecy to this day.

In reading and rereading the Bible I have come to question the traditions of the church.     By church, I mean the greater majority of the churches today, not one in particular.

My Understandings

God’s righteousness evolves around God’s Law, which is deemed to be the Ten Commandments.     The Ten Commandments, as given by Moses, is a covenant between God and man.     It was broken by both the people of the Kingdom of Israel and later the Kingdom of Judea.     Both Kingdoms were lost and never reinstated.

Do not be confused by these Israelite Kingdoms and Israel today.     They are not the same, but Israel today is a part of biblical prophecy and it will be decimated.

The Ten Commandments is applicable and binding in both the Old and New Testaments.     You have to live by them in order to receive the grace of God.     The following of the Ten Commandments is your works of righteousness.     Break them, then you sin.

But!     What many do not realise is that the Sabbath Day, as quoted in the Ten Commandments, goes beyond the four Sabbath Days of Rest per month.     The Sabbath Days also incorporates the seven Feasts Of The Lord.

The Messiah, the Apostles and the Church, up to about 300 AD, abided by the Ten Commandments, Sabbath’s and Feasts Of The Lord.     When the Millennial Kingdom is established on earth, the Ten Commandments will be written in both your mind and heart, it will be part of your psyche, and the Sabbath Days and Feasts Of The Lord will be followed.     So why doesn’t the Church teach such things today?

The Church

The problems of the traditions of the church today stems from paganism!
The Church of Rome from about 325 AD started to change biblical Hebrew Calendation to the Roman Julian Calendation.     The Church of Rome then started to fuse Pagan Traditions with the teachings of the Apostles.     Christmas became a religious festival in the Church of Rome about 336 AD and Lent and Easter followed.     Christmas, Lent and Easter are non-biblical and actually break the covenant of the Ten Commandments.

The decision that I have made to base my religious ideology on that written in the Bible, rather then follow the misguided traditions of church, has not been an easy one for me.     It is difficult to give up on traditions held since childhood.

But I seek salvation through redemption.     It starts with repentance to gain solace.     Then abiding by the Ten Commandments.     You must accept the Messiah as both redeemer and saviour.     Then start walking in the “Way” of the Messiah as taught in the New Testament.

Adjustment

I have also adjusted my life to suite the Lunisolar Calendation as given by Moses rather than the Gregorian (Roman) Solar Calendation introduced in 1582 AD.     I did this so I could follow the Sabbath Days and Feasts Of The Lord as directed in the bible.

I have also been posting biblical teaching videos on Facebook.     I am doing this to gain peoples attention to biblical teachings including biblical prophecy.

In regards to biblical prophecy, all has been fulfilled to a certain point.     That point being the signing of the Seven Year Covenant!     That means that we are about to enter the seven years of Tribulation, that is the one of the End Times.

I personally seek redemption and I want you to do likewise.
With Tribulation, turmoil acts like birth pangs, it progressively gets worse.    You will know that you are in Tribulation by the signing of the Seven Year Covenant and/or by the Third Temple worship of the Jews.

After three and a half years, the Abomination of Desolation takes place and life becomes dismal.     Just a month or so after the Abomination of Desolation, redeeming takes place.     This is what I seek and I want you to be redeemed as well.

Plea

I do not want you to suffer the Woes of Tribulation, so if you have not done so, please seek God Almighty today.     Start a conversation with God and seek his righteous ways.     It seems difficult at first, but it becomes easier as you become more earnest.

Today I see Christmas as a false premise.     To me, it is only a get together feast time for family and friends.     A time to get together and put the past behind you!     But you should do this anytime problems arise.     When you read the New Testament, you will understand what I mean.     And yes!     I still send Christmas cards to those that still follow old family traditions.     Knowing one is loved and still thought of is still important to me.

The Church today and its teaching of the traditions of man, has a lot to answer for.     Alias!     Bible prophecy also answers that.

My minds eye has been opened to a soon to be time, best described as Hell On Earth.     I do not want you to take the worldly wide path in life, for I seek a walking companion of the difficult narrow path of salvation.

I am not a preacher, but a Watchman.    I warn when I see biblical danger.
Only you can save yourself.     I beg you to find God – a.s.a.p.     When Tribulation kicks in it will be very difficult without God’s protection and you will have less than 3.5 years to repent.

May you find God today!
God bless You.

How would you feel if you were duped into thinking that a particular manifesto was a great thing to behold, yet it deceitfully had clauses that could strip of your liberty, sovereignty and even your personal wealth?     Would you abide by it, challenge it or totally reject it?

What if a wily and sophisticated politician presented a manifesto of his thoughts and ideas to a worldly body to have it registered and accepted as legal advice?

Would you go along with it?
Maybe it would be done in a sneakily manner and you won’t know about it until it has been signed off.

This politician seeking praise would state that we have a complex social and environmental crisis that needs to be solved holistically.     He would also affirm that climate change is an all-encompassing threat to the world in which we live.

His manifesto would cover poverty, technology, science and modernism, with criticism about the anonymous influences of mammon, new colonialism and free trade treaties.     He would show a preference for cooperative measures rather than have the imposition of austerity measures, when it comes to either national or global financial control.

To get his agenda across the world body, he would insist that we embrace the moral dimensions of problems that we have viewed primarily as scientific, technological and economic in our modernistic viewpoint.

This false manifesto would be presented to the world in such away that it appeases the main stream of thought held by many people.     Many people would even see the outline of this manifesto as a blessing.     However, the real problem lies in the hidden details.     The details of which, will cause tribulation throughout the world.

But how will this wily and sophisticated politician and his false manifesto fool many?

With Regards To Poverty

His manifesto would cover mercy and care for the poor.     He of course would desire to be a bridge for helping the poor.     He would state that respect for creation and human dignity go hand in hand.     Well!     It sounds good.

It would state that poor nations are ill prepared to adapt to the effects of climate change and will bear the brunt of its effects.     This of course is a commonly held view.

However, there would be statements about there being a dual need to respect and protect our common home.     Also, there would be a need to respect and protect the dignity and lives of the poor.

It would be stated that the poorer nations would suffer even more problems in the future.     They would suffer in particular from rising sea levels, droughts, warming and extreme weather caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

There of course would be a call to end poverty and share the world’s ecological space.

With Regards To Technology

There would be a push to control aspects of technology.     Many today would be in agreeance with this.     But one must be careful here, for technology can be used as a two edged sword against its benefits for you.

Greed through technological advancement would be made an issue and that there should be a way to both limit and direct technology.     Maybe technology could be used for the progression of healthier, more human, more social, more integral types of services.     This of course would be a benefit for all.

Of course, technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels, especially coal, oil and to a lesser degree gas, would need to be progressively replaced without delay.

It would be stated that the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources would make this world more sustainable and reduce global poverty.     However, technology used for communication purposes could be seen as being desirable, as long as checks and balances are in place.

It all looks good on the surface.     But the problems with renewable energy sources concerning cost of manufacture, requirements of manufacturing and component longevity would be either ignored or hidden.

With Regards To Science

This manifesto would push for a compassionate ecological concern for the planet and people.

The manifesto would have arguments, such as, fossil fuels in general and coal in particular, threaten the poor.     Also those fossil fuels are a threat to the prosperity of the poor.     Why?     Because fossil fuels are the major cause of climate change!

The manifesto would claim that we are witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system.     This of course would be due to the great concentration of greenhouse gasses in our upper atmosphere.     This would promote an urgent need of a true world political authority to govern what needs to be done.

The cyclic of nature of Earth’s environment would be ignored.     There would probably be no mention of the Sun’s solar activity affecting our atmosphere.     The current tectonic plate movement, which is causing an increase in earthquake activity and volcanism probably, will not come into the equation.     Perhaps the current atmospheric pollution caused by volcanic activity would be dismissed.

The manifesto would push the fact that our Earth is our common home.
Demands would be made for more ecological conversions, covering personal, communitarian and institutional needs and requirements.     There would be calls for ecological solidarity and liberation, for care of the Earth is an integral matter for our survival.     Of course, ways of action will be shown and there would be offers of engagement for a new ecological dialogue.

I wonder who would take charge of this?

With Regards To Modernism

The manifesto would stipulate that there is interconnection between nature and people.     We should defend the rights of nature and develop a sense of the oneness of humanity.

It would also show that there is an overall decline in human life and a breakdown of society.     The current global order needs to be changed.     Through mismanagement it destroys the environment, oppresses the multitudes and makes us blind to the beauty of creation.

The manifesto would seek to correct this mismanagement.     It would state that we should pursue a form of connectedness through different faith-based groups, civil society and institutions.     We should demand climate justice for the destruction of our planet, which is perpetrated by mining companies, businesses, multinational corporations and greedy countries.

All this sounds like the left-wing Marxism, which is currently permeating society throughout the world.

Also, it would be stated in the manifesto that we would have to pay for our ecological debt.     There has to be reimbursement for the harm we have done to the environment, communities and individuals that are suffering now and in the future.     There would be a need to cultivate a desired ecological culture, as a way of outgrowing our ecological destruction.

But!     Will they ignore the fact that the biggest polluters are not necessarily the wealthiest nations!     If they do ignore the fact, then the wealthy abiding nations would be penalised in many ways by the actions of the poorer nations that don’t really care anyway.

This manifesto would promote ecological education and faith advocacy for environmental care.     Ecological citizenship should be sought as a practical path to witnessing the environment.     Also we should be committed to the care of indigenous communities and their cultural traditions.

There would be a call to a better life, a world with more justice, peace, equity and sustainability.     A civic renewal!

Looks Can Be Deceiving

On the surface, this false manifesto seems to be stating some obvious true feelings.
But!     As they say:   “The proof is in the pudding”.

However, this false manifesto would also be full of innuendo, things and statements that could be easily twisted to suite the narrative of another agenda.

What if this wily and sophisticated politician was a despot in the making and the worldly body sought absolute power.     This false Manifesto could be used to rule the world.     Could it be the harbinger to One World Order?     Could it seek a commonality in religion and also a commonality in economics?

How is a world body going to change the world’s behaviour in regards to climate change?
They would have to coerce the richer nations into changing their political outlook and financial structure.     They would have to offer something worth thinking about and of course it would also be a lie.     Well!     How about the “Great Reset” and what it has to offer.

Time will tell if this false manifesto and the “Great Reset” is a conspiracy or not.

But!     Think about this.     If the world body signs off on this false manifesto and something like the “Great Reset” comes into play, then you should begin to worry.     If it is as bad as the conspiracy theorist’s claim, then all hell will break out.     Arguments will break out between family members and groups, nations will come against nation.     All will be vying for their rights and the world will be in chaos.     The world would be under tribulation.

Could this false manifesto shortly come into being?     Oh!     Laudato Si.
Just wait and see….

May the love of God (Yahuah) and the sacrifice of the Messiah (Yahusha) lead you to salvation.

Why Are Dates Important?

Dates allow you to give an account of time.
Time is usually expressed by minutes and hours or through a calendation of days.
Calendation allows you to understand the events of a specific date.
Years, months and days allow you to specify a date of an event.

So!    What dates are important to you?
In a worldly sense:  Birth dates are used to celebrate your arrival into this world and to determine your age.    Marriage dates are used to celebrate the bond and commitment you make to another.    Death dates are used to announce the end of one’s life.

Many today live their life by a particular means of calendation.    The advent of this calendation can either be true or false, joyful, pleasing, forbearing, difficult to endure, saddening, sorrowful or even painful beyond belief.    It always ends in or with the death of a person or some event.    It surely ends with the death of you.

In a righteous spiritual sense:  Dates are used to save your soul.    Dates are used to express the Sabbath days of rest, the beginning of months and years, the days of celebration and the feasts of God (Yahuah).    These are the dates through which you seek the grace and glory of God (Yahuah).    If you live your life through this particular means of calendation, you seek salvation and an eternal life.

The advent of this form of calendation leads to days of prayer, the love of God (Yahuah) and salvation through his son the Messiah (Yahusha).    These are the dates where you seek redemption from your iniquities and sins.    These are the days of joy that lead to your salvation through the Grace of God (Yahuah).

The Written Times

It has been written that those who deny God, (Yahuah), are driven by worldly pleasures and that this world is lorded over by Lucifer.    So!    If Lucifer is lord of the earthly realm, then this world is a sinful place.    You must overcome the trappings of this world.

To overcome this world, you must seek the Grace of God (Yahuah) through the repentance of your iniquities and sins.    Just start by talking to God (Yahuah).    The more you talk, the more you will pray.    The more you earnestly pray, the closer to God (Yahuah) you will get.

The Second Coming of the Messiah (Yahusha), (which is soon to come), is at the end of Tribulation.    The Messiah (Yahusha) is coming to dethrone Lucifer and set up his Millennial Kingdom.    If you give over to the trappings of this world, then you will abide with Lucifer.    Lucifer gets sent to Hell!    Do you want to go with him?

If you want to be saved, you must prepare yourself for this event, the return of the Messiah (Yahusha).    He (Yahusha) will come as a thief in the night.    If you have not prepared yourself, you will be left behind to face the miseries that follow in the Great Tribulation.    You do not want to go through such tribulation; it will destroy many.

God’s (Yahuah’s) Dates

The dates that God (Yahuah) has set upon this material realm are coming to fruition at a rapid rate.    The period of God’s (Yahuah’s) Grace ends within the Great Tribulation.    You do not want to be here to suffer the Woe’s of the Wrath of God (Yahuah).    You want to seek the Grace of God (Yahuah) before you die.    The sooner the better for you!

So!    What dates has God (Yahuah) set to seek his Grace before you die?

Moses gave Enoch’s Calendation to the Israelites, which started with Genesis 1:14-18 The History of Creation  (New King James Version).    ¹⁴ Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;    ¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.    ¹⁶ Then God made two great [luminaries] lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.    ¹⁷ God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,    ¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.    And God saw that it was good.

So!    This type of calendation is lunisolar for both the sun and moon are required.
The sun rules the day, so the day starts at dawn and ends at dusk.    The moon rules the night, but is part of the day.    So the moon rules between dusk and the dawn of the next day.    The stars and the moon determine the seasons of the days ahead.    The moons lunation is about 29.53 days per month, hence the moon determines the month and how many days are within a month.    There are of course 12 months to a year, which contains 4 seasons of 3 months each.

It should be pointed out at this time that the original Enoch calendation had 360 days in a year with 30 days in a month.    It appears that when the windows of heaven were opened and the all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, the rotation of the moon around earth and earth’s rotation around the sun changed.    Noah’s calendation changed after the “Flood” to 364 days a year with 29 or 30 days in a month.    It appears that God (Yahuah) was making the earth anew again after the Flood.    However, after the Tower of Babel, 365 days a year came into effect.

The New Moon occurs either on the 29^th or 30^th day of the lunar month.    The day after the occurrence of the New Moon is called New Moons Day.    New Moons Day is the 1^st day of the following month and begins at dawn.

The Earth rotates around the sun every 365.242 days.    So!    The sun rules the years.    Because there is a difference of time between the rotation of the moon around the earth and the earth’s rotation around the sun, a sabbatical month is added every so many years to realign the time of calendation.    This occurs seven times over a nineteen-year period.

Know Your Calendation

God (Yahuah) gives you Grace through your obedience to His word.

Exodus 12:1-2/6  The Passover Instituted (New King James Version):  ¹ Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,    ² “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
⁶ Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month.    Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

So!    What calendation are you following?    Have you noticed something strange here?

The Gregorian Calendation starts the year with January.    Passover and Easter are intertwined and occur at various times between March and April.    Yet!    God (Yahuah) is telling you that the Passover occurs on the 14^th day of the 1^st month and this month is the first month of the year for you.    You cannot find the Grace of God (Yahuah) through the Gregorian calendar, for it is based on the sun only.    It is solar calendation, designed by man.

The Grace of God (Yahuah) is given to you through the righteous works of your faith.    The covenant between you and God (Yahuah) is written in the Ten Commandments.    Abiding by the Ten Commandments is your works and also the commitment of your faith in God (Yahuah).    So!    The Grace of God, (Yahuah), is determined by the Ten Commandments.

Feast Times and Dates

Exodus 20:8-11 The Ten Commandments  (New King James Version)  ⁸ “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.    ⁹ Six days you shall labour and do all your work,    ¹⁰ but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.    In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.    ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.    Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

However!    The Sabbath Days are also amongst the seven Feasts of the Lord (Yahuah). Leviticus 23:1-2  Feasts of the Lord  (New King James Version)  ¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,    ² “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts…”.

The Feasts of the Lord (Yahuah) are given in Leviticus 23:3-44, they are as follows:  The Feast of the Passover, The Feast of Unleavened Bread, The Feast of Firstfruits, The Feast of Weeks, The Feast of Trumpets, The Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.    All of these feasts are either determined by Sabbath Days and/or include them.

So!    All of these feasts are linked to the Ten Commandments, through Sabbath days.    Hence your participation in them, according to their respective allocated dates, shows your respect of God (Yahuah) and your desire of His Grace.

Yes!    I know that the priestly acts of redemption for man can no longer be performed, even for these feasts!    But!    Our Messiah (Yahusha) is a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.    Through his crucifixion, death and resurrection, he became our redeemer and saviour.    All you have to do with these feasts is follow God’s (Yahuah’s) personal desires for you.    Each feast has personal requirements, which are acceptable to God (Yahuah).

Specified Dates

Now!    New Moons Day is a Sabbath Day of thanks giving to God (Yahuah).    It is a day of personal consolidation and evaluation; activity is required so it is not a day of rest.    But the count of the week starts from it.

Six days you work and on the seventh you rest.    So!    With simple mathematics, the Sabbath Days of Rest are the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd and 29^th days of every month.    The feasts of Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles verify the 15^th and 22^nd Sabbath Days.

Have you noticed something else?    Easter, Lent, Christmas and even Hanukkah are not included as the Feasts of the Lord (Yahuah).    The time has come to walk away from any church that celebrate such feasts.

Importance of Dates

So!    What dates are really important to you?
If you reject the notion of God (Yahuah), I will guess that you will carry on with your worldly life.    What you do in life will be of your choosing.    But know this!    God (Yahuah) rejects those who reject him.    If you reject God (Yahuah) throughout Tribulation and into Woes, both body and soul will be destroyed.

However!    If you are seeking the Grace of God (Yahuah) to receive your salvation, then you should consider what I have informed you of.    God’s (Yahuah’s) glory increases as you move closer to Him.

Do you want to save yourself?
Seek the Grace of God today, before it is too late.
Then utilise God’s (Yahuah’s) calendation as a testimony of your faith, both to and in Him.

May the love of God (Yahuah) and the sacrifice of the Messiah (Yahusha) lead you to salvation.

Precambrian Period (4.500 Bya – 0.542 Bya)

The Precambrian time period covered both the Hadean and Archean Eon’s.
The first stage of the Precambrian period was in the Hadean Eon, when planet Earth formed and the sun became its source of heat. The formation of the moon also occurred, then the formation of planet Earth’s magnetic field began.

It is during the Archean Eon that Craton’s formed on planet Earth through tectonic plate movement, terrestrial bombardment and volcanic activity.     Continents and Super-continents are formed and deformed through the activity of Craton’s.

A Craton is a large block of crustal rock that forms part of the Earth’s crust.     They are considered to have been stable and subjected to very little geological changes over a long period of time.     However, Craton’s do undergo a series of events, which include the growth stage, drifting, formation and deformation of both oceanic and continental crusts.

4.600 – 4.500 Bya
Our Solar System was created as the Sun developed eight known planets and other hypothetical entities.     The planets were gradually built up by the cosmic dust, which revolved around our young sun in a flat disk of gas and dust.     The known planets of our solar system all formed within 100 million years of each other, from the gas and debris that our sun had accumulated.     Note:  Bya = Billion years ago.

Today our Solar System includes four terrestrial planets such as Mercury (4.503 Bya), Venus (4.600 Bya), Earth (4.543 Bya) and Mars (4.600 Bya).    There are also two gas giants, Jupiter (4.503 Bya) and Saturn (4.503 Bya), plus two ice giants, Uranus (4.503 Bya) and Neptune (4.503 Bya).    It is also thought that our Solar System has at least five dwarf planets, an asteroid belt, numerous comets, and a large number of icy bodies, which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune.

4.500 – 3.800 Bya
Jupiter, (it is thought), was originally no bigger than our own planet Earth and was about four times further away from the sun than its current position.     However, the Sun’s gravitation pulled the four outer planets closer until they stabilized themselves.

It is thought that Jupiter’s migration took around 700,000 years to reach its present day orbital position around our Sun.     The migration probably started about 2 to 3 million years after Jupiter began its life as asteroid, far from the sun.

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the other three outer planets, (it was also thought), were created about the same time as Jupiter, about 4.503 Bya and were also about four times further away from the sun than they are today.    Saturn, Uranus and Neptune would have had similar orbital journeys to that of Jupiter.

Jupiter’s journey resulted in an inward spiral-shaped movement into the solar system, with an orbit around the Sun that resulted in an increasingly narrowing path.

Jupiter was and still is a Trojan asteroid magnet.    Trojan asteroids are a large group of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun.    Today there are about 50 percent more Trojan asteroids in front of Jupiter than behind it.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune became the vacuum cleaners and refuse blowers of our Solar System as they took their 700,000 year migrational journey.    They interfered with the settling space debris of our Solar System, which resulted in the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB).    Their gravitational push and pull effect also had a disturbing, if not destructive affect on the inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

It should also be noted that the “Nice” model of Solar System development claims that the outer planets developed close to the Sun and moved outwards over the same period of time.     The formation of our Solar System and planet Earth is ambiguous, so let us stick with the accepted versions for now.

4.400 – 4.270 Bya
The Yilgarn Craton, (the bulk of present day Western Australia), was formed and contains zircon crystals in the crust of the Jack Hills portion of the Narryer Gneiss.     They have been estimated to date back to about 4.400 billion years ago, (its area is greater than 650,000 km2 / 250,966 mi2), is rich in minerals and iron ore.

4.388 – 3.750 Bya
The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB), (now located on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, 40 km southeast of Inukjuak, Quebec), was created due to a sequence of metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic events.    The associated sedimentary rocks forming the greenstone belt are considered to be some of the oldest rocks on Earth.    However, due to confliction with aging techniques, the true ages are still unresolved.

Metamorphic Mafic Rocks (e.g. mafic schists and gneisses, amphibolites) are derived from mafic igneous rocks, mainly basalts and andesites and of lesser importance, gabbros.

Metamorphic relates to rock that has undergone transformation by heat, pressure, or other natural agencies, such as the folding of strata or the nearby intrusion of igneous rocks, ie: “metamorphic gneisses”

Mafic is used to describe a silicate mineral or igneous rock that is rich in magnesium and iron, and is thus a portmanteau of magnesium and ferric.     Mafic rocks also have an association with volcanic activity.

Ultramafic Rock, are igneous rock, with a very low silica content and rich in minerals such as hypersthene, augite, and olivine.     These rocks are also known as ultrabasic rocks.     Examples include: peridotite, kimberlite, lamprophyre, lamproite, dunite, and komatiite.     Volcanic ultramafic rocks are rare outside of the Archaean eon.

4.300 – 2.570 Bya
The Superior Craton is now situated in Canada, covering Quebec, Ontario, S.E. Manitoba and northern Minnesota in the USA.     It is the biggest Craton formed during the Precambrian and Archean period.     The Superior Craton, (about 1,572,000 km2 / 606,953 mi2 in size), formed about 4.300 billion years ago and underwent geological changes until about 2.570 Bya.

4.100 – 3.800 Bya
The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) occurred approximately between 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago (Bya).     The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) brought the Hadean Eon to an end and continued into the first Eoarchean Era of the Archean Eon.

The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) caused the lunar cataclysm, which made significant changes to the Moon’s surface environment.    Collisions of asteroids, comets and foreign objects not only affected our Moon; they also affected the early terrestrial planets in our inner Solar System, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

It is believe that water originated from the bombardment of the icy constructed comets during this time.     Hence it is also thought that they could have sparked the DNA chemical building blocks for life.     But all this is just conjecture at this point of time.

Archean (Archaean) Eon (4.000 – 2.500 Bya)

The start of the Archean Eon is only defined by the isotopic age of the earliest rocks and it is divided into four Era’s:
Eoarchean Era          (4.000 – 3.600 Bya)
Paleoarchean Era     (3.600 – 3.200 Bya)
Mesoarchean Era      (3.200 – 2.800 Bya)
Neoarchean Era        (2.800 – 2.500 Bya)

The Archean Eon began about 4 billion years ago (Bya) with the formation of Earth’s crust and extended to the start of the Proterozoic Eon 2.5 billion years ago (Bya).

The atmosphere of the early Archean Eon would have been putrid, toxic and anoxic.     The Earth’s crust was still forming and volcanic activity was rampant.    Volcanic gas permeated the atmosphere that would have contained carbon dioxide (CO²) and some water vapour (H²O).     It is thought that photodissociation took place as photons reacted on certain molecules, but the amount of free oxygen (O²) emitted was very small in the beginning of the Archean Eon.

The Eoarchean (Eoarchaean) Era (4.000 – 3.600 Bya)

In this first stage of the Archean Eon, which spans 400 million years, it is thought that planet earth formed a solid crust with lava flowing on the surface.     But due to the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) mayhem would have taken place.     Impacts would have caused dust and debris to be flung into the atmosphere.     Larger objects would have fractured and penetrated the Earth’s crust, whilst spewing lava everywhere.

4.031 – 3.580 Bya
The Acasta Gneiss was created and metamorphosed as Tonalite gneiss in the Slave Craton, which is now in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

4.030 – 2.580 Bya
The Slave Craton is now part of the North Western Canadian Shield, in the Northwest and Nunavut Territories of Canada.    The Slave Craton, (covers about 300,000 km2 / 120,000 mi2), includes the 4.031 billion year old Acasta Gneiss, which has some of one of the oldest dated rocks on Earth.     It is dominated by greenstones, turbidite sequences created about 2.730 – 2.630 Bya and plutonic rock formation about 2.720 – 2.580 Bya.     Older gneiss and granitoid rocks underlie large parts of the Slave Craton.

The Slave Craton is divided into a West-Central Basement Complex, the Central Slave Basement Complex, and an eastern province, named the Hackett River Terrane or the Eastern Slave Province.     These two domains of east and west are separated by a 2.700 billion year old suture, which is defined by two isotopic boundaries running north to south over the Slave Craton.

3.900 – 2.500 Bya
It is thought that Chemoautotrophs developed during this period of time.     However, no fossils have ever been found for this period of time, nobody knows what the first organism were really like.     People only surmise.

Chemoautotrophs are organisms that derive energy for their life functions from inorganic chemicals.     They feed on chemicals that are good electron donors, such as hydrogen sulfide, sulfur, or iron.     Chemoautotrophs are able to “fix” carbon by taking atoms of carbon, from inorganic compounds, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), and use them to make organic compounds such as sugars, proteins, and lipids.

Most chemoautotrophs are extremophiles, bacteria or archaea that live in hostile environments, (such as deep sea vents of volcano’s), and are the primary producers in such ecosystems.

3.800 Bya
A dramatic second phase of planetary migration occurred between the outer planets about 3.800 billion years ago.     This was triggered when the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn became briefly locked together.     Saturn took exactly twice as long as Jupiter to complete an orbital circuit around the sun.     Not only was there a destabilizing effect on Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were also affected as well.

This instability was corrected as Jupiter migrated inward, whilst Saturn, Uranus and Neptune migrated outward.     After a few million years these outer planets settled into stable orbital positions, very close to those we see today.

The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) came to end about 3.8 Bya.

3.800 – 3.700 Bya
The Isua Greenstone Belt, (now in South Western Greenland), is considered to be an Archean apatite greenstone belt.     It is thought that the belt is aged between 3.7 and 3.8 billion years old.     The belt contains variably metamorphosed mafic volcanic and sedimentary rocks.     Its origin and association with graphite is a potential used as a biomarker.

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, (now in northern Quebec, Canada), is thought to be 3.750 billion years old.     The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt contains 3 major components:
(1)  Cummingtonites, (metamorphic amphiboles), which forms most of the belt.
(2)  Mafic and ultramafic sills that intrude the amphibolites.
(3)  Banded iron formations in sedimentary rock that formed in sea water.

The formation of these rocks in the Earth’s crust indicated fast flowing steams and rivers, plus extreme tidal activity in the forming oceans.    This more than likely was caused by volcanic and tectonic plate activity, both affecting the Earth’s crust.

The Moon was also closer to Earth and undergoing its own volcanic activity.     The Moon would have had a massive impact on Earth’s early forming oceans causing extremely high tidal activity.     Hurricane-force winds would have been prevalent on planet Earth.

Earth was still experiencing very hostile conditions, hence bacterial activity in an anoxic environment cannot be proven at this time.

3.630 – 2.800 Bya
Vaalbara – the unproven supercontinent.     It is thought that Proto-continents started to form due to movement of the Earth’s crust.     It has been postulated that the earliest known supercontinent was Vaalbara, which formed about 3.636 billion years ago.     They surmise that Vaalbara consisted of the Kaapvaal Craton, (now in eastern South Africa), and the Pilbara Craton, (now in north-western, Western Australia).     E. S. Cheney named Vaalbara in 1996.

Hence the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons are thought to have some of the oldest rocks in the world and they contain well-preserved Archaean microfossils.     Athough the existence of Vaalbara is thought to be possibly between 3.630 and 2.800 Bya; it can’t be unequivocally proven.

Paleoarchean (Palaeoarchaean) Era (3.600 – 3.200 Bya)

This is this second stage of the Archean Eon, which spans 400 million years.     This era is defined chronometrically and is not referenced to a specific level of rock formation.

3.600 – 3.500 Bya
Early Life?
They say that undisputed evidence of the early life on Earth seems to date from at least 3.5 billion years ago.     So!     Did the split between bacteria and archaea occur during this time period?     I don’t think so!

Planet Earth was in a state of flux, life requires stable conditions.     Life can exist in extreme, but constant conditions.     However, tectonic plate movement, volcanism, a toxic atmosphere, tsunami’s, hurricane force winds and soil erosion are not conducive for life formations.

3.600 – 3.300 Bya
The Narryer Gneiss Terrane of Western Australia is composed of a tectonically interleaved and polydeformed mixtures of granite, mafic intrusions and metasedimentary rocks in excess of 3.3 billion years old.
However, some parts of the Narryer Gneiss Terrane have been estimated to be in excess of 3.6 billion years old.     These rocks have experienced multiple metamorphic events over time, resulting in amphibolite or granulite rock conditions.

3.600 – 2.500 Bya
The Dharwar or Karnataka Craton, (now in South India), is part of the Indian Shield.     The bedrock in this region formed between 3.600 and 2.500 Bya.

The Dharwar Craton lies roughly between Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad, and Mangalore in the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh states.     It has been a relatively stable geologic terrain for the past billion years.

3.500 – 3.200 Bya
The Singhbhum Craton is now part of the supracrustal provinces in eastern India.     It originally started to form about 3.510 Bya, but under went two magmatic episodes between 3.470 to 3.440 Bya and 3.365 to 3.285 Bya.

3.500 – 3.200 Bya
The Pilbara area, northern Western Australia, has shown evidence of four large meteorite impacts between 3.5 and 3.2 billion years ago.

Although microbial mat fossils such as Stromatolites were found in 3.48 billion year old sandstone in Western Australia, bacterial activity during this time cannot be proven.     Why?     Old sand granules can be compacted to form new rock.

Stromatolites are layered bio-chemical accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by biofilms (microbial mats) of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria.

3.500 – 3.200 Bya
The Kaapvaal Craton, including the Barberton Greenstone Belt, (now in South Africa), underwent two tectonic episodes of terrane accretion about 3.5 and 3.2 Bya.

The Barberton Greenstone Belt, also known as the Makhonjwa Mountains formed about 3.500 to 3.200 billion years ago.     It is situated on the eastern edge of Kaapvaal Craton of the Swaziland–Barberton areas of South Africa.     It is known for its gold mineralisation and for its komatiites.

Komatiites are an unusual type of ultramafic volcanic rock.

Ultramafic Rock is an igneous rock with very low silica content and is rich in minerals such as hypersthene, augite, and olivine.

3.500 – 2.600 Bya
The Mauranipur and Babina Greenstone Belts in India formed between 3.5 to 2.6 billion years ago due to volcanic activity.

3.460 – 3.300 Bya
The Zimbabwe Craton is now in an area located in Southern Africa and is thought to have been formed 3.460 to 3.300 billion years ago and was part of the ancient continent of Western Gondwana.

The Zimbabwe Craton apparently formed from the suture of two smaller blocks, the Tokwe Segment to the south and the much smaller Rhodesdale Segment, (Rhodesdale gneiss), to the north.     These rocky segments have been dated to be around 3.460 billon years old.     The Tokwe and Rhodesdale Segments probably stabilized about 3.300 billion years ago.

3.300 – 3.200 Bya
The Bastar Craton, (now in India), is composed of Archaean nuclei of tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite gneisses, enveloped by older granite–greenstone belt with banded iron formation (BIF).     The Sonakhan Group of Bastar Craton of the central Indian shield is comprised of volcanic sedimentary rocks.

Mesoarchean (Mesoarchaean) Era (3.200 – 2.800 Bya)

This is this third stage of the Archean Eon, which spans 400 million years.     The era is defined chronometrically and is not referenced to a specific level in a rock section on planet Earth.

The Sun’s luminosity during the Mesoarchean Era was thought to be about 70% of its current value.     This may have cancelled out any influence of a greenhouse effect that may have been operating.     Planet Earth is thought to have had a continual warm surface during this period of time.

Earth’s atmosphere was still greatly affected by volcanic activity.     Ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and neon, seems to be present in this early atmosphere.     It is thought that the carbon dioxide (CO²) levels were decreasing.     However, more water vapour (H²O), nitrogen (N) and additional hydrogen (H), was entering the atmosphere due to volcanic out gassing.     The amount of free oxygen (O²) emitted was still small, but increasing.

Volcanic and tectonic plate activity was still greatly affecting the flow of steams and rivers.     The moon was still closer to Earth, but slowly moving away and cooling down.     The gravitational pull of the Moon would still cause extremely high tidal activity on the forming oceans.     The winds would still be of hurricane force.

It is also thought that Photosynthetic organisms started to appear between 3.2 and 2.4 billion years ago and they began to enrich the atmosphere with oxygen.     However, there are different opinions about this.     At this point of time, planet Earth’s environment would still be too hostile for life.

3.200 Bya
The Kaapvaal Craton, Zimbabwe Craton, and Limpopo Belt, (now in southern Africa), are made from Archaean type terranes and contain crust material from at least 3.200 billion years ago.     They are underlain by a thick, (250 km / 160 mile), layer of buoyant mantle from which garnets and diamonds are being produced.

3.100 – 2.500 Bya
The Baltic Shield (or Fennoscandian Shield) is a segment of the Earth’s crust belonging to the East European Craton and was formed by tectonic plate activity between 2.500 and 3.100 billion years ago.

The Baltic Shield represents a large part of Fennoscandia, (now north western Russia and the northern Baltic Sea).     It is composed mostly of Archean and Proterozoic gneisses and greenstone.     However, the scouring by the ancient glaciers and the acidity of the soil has destroyed all the palaentologically interesting materials, such as fossils.

3.100 – 2.083 Bya
Ur – the smallest supercontinent.
The landmass known as Ur, (a proposed supercontinent, but smaller than present day Australia), formed about 3.100 Bya.     However, Vaalbara, (a previously considered proto supercontinent), was still in existence.     Was tectonic plate upheaval taking its toll?     Maybe Ur was beginning to form as Vaalbara was breaking up.     This is also open to conjecture.     Maybe Ur merged with Vaalbara.     Anyway, the two Cratons of India, the Western and Singhbhum Cratons, were thought to be apart of Ur.

3.000 – 2.600 Bya
The Saharan Metacraton is a description of the continental crust in the north-central part of Africa.     It contains the oldest rocks in Egypt, which are about 2.700 billion years old.     Where as rocks in southern Libya and eastern Chad have been dated between 2.900 and 2.600 billion years old.     The original Craton from which this formed could have been 3.000 billion years old.

3.000 – 1.850 Bya
The Tanzania Craton is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere in central Tanzania.     Some of the rocks are over 3 billion years old.     The Tanzania Craton forms the highest part of the East African Plateau.     The rocks in this area were intruded by granites and under went Migmatization in different events that date back to 2.900, 2.700, 2.400 and 1.850 Bya.

2.980 – 2.880 Bya
The Rio Maria Crust, (now of Southeastern Amazonian Craton, Brazil), formed 2.980 to 2.880 billion years ago due to the dating of the zircons found there.

2.900 Bya
The Pongola Glaciation occurred around 2.900 billon years ago.     It is currently the oldest known glaciation in the planet’s geologic history.

2.900 – 2.700 Bya
It is thought that huge pulses, due to tectonic plate movement, started the formation of island arcs and oceanic plateaus planet wide from 2.900 to 2.700 billion years ago.

2.880 – 2.860 Bya
The Rio Maria Granite-Greenstone Terrane, (now in the Amazonian Craton of Brazil), has a formation of Sanukitoid rocks due to a shear event around 2.870 billion years ago.     The Rio Maria Granodiorite has yielded zircon of up to 2.880 billion years old.     The granites from Rio Maria terrane are aged around this time period.

Sanukitoids are a variety of high-Magnesium (Mg) granitoid andesite found in convergent margin settings.

Granitoid or granitic rock is a variety of coarse grained, plutonic rock — granite or similar which is composed predominantly of feldspar and quartz mica.

Andesite is an extrusive rock intermediate in composition between rhyolite and basalt.     Andesite lava is of moderate viscosity and forms thick lava flows and domes.

2.845 – 2.803 Bya
The supercontinent Vaalbara finally broke up between 2.803 and 2.845 Bya.

2.803 Bya
The landmass Ur also broke up at this point of time.     Maybe Ur and Vaalbara collided and broke up together?

Neoarchean (Neoarchaean) Era (2.800 – 2.500 Bya)

This is this fourth and final stage of the Archean Eon, which spans 300 million years.     The era is defined chronometrically and is not referenced to a specific level in a rock section on planet Earth.

The Moon by now is having a greater influence on planet Earth.
As the Moon orbits around planet Earth it stabilizes the wobbling of Earth on its axis of rotation, which now oscillates between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees.    Because Earth is tilted on its axis, the formation of the four seasons makes planet Earth more conducive to the formation of life.    But oxygen was still limited to small quantities in the atmosphere.

The Earth’s Crust was thickening and dusty on the surface.     Minerals and matter would permeate the surface of Earth’s crust through tectonic plate movement and volcanic activity and in time formed soil and buried Paleosol after certain events.

Also!     The scarcity of records for tectonic activity and intrinsic channel changes, hamper the interpretation of stratigraphic events at this time.

Paleosol, (fossil soils), is the matter buried within sedimentary and volcanic deposits.
Ephemeral ponds and alluvial sequences could have been the sources of the deposited Paleosol organic matter.     However, the Paleosols soils that formed during this period have no relationship in their chemical and physical characteristics to the present day climate or vegetation.

2.720 – 2.655 Bya
The Superior Craton, (now in Canada and USA), (it is thought), was going through various geological developments between the western and the eastern part of the Craton.     The western part of the Superior Craton appears to have had five major orogenic belt developments such as:
The Northern Superior Orogeny 2.720 Bya, the Uchian Orogeny 2.720 – 2.700 Bya, the Central Superior Orogeny 2.700 Bya, the Shebandowanian Orogeny 2.690 Bya and the Minnesotan Orogeny 2.680 Bya.

The eastern part of the Superior Craton appears to have had two major terrane collisions.     The first major collision was when the Rivière terrane from the east collided with the Hudson Bay terrane located at the west side 2.700 Bya.     A collision with the Uchian orogeny concurrently happened at the south and the west regions.

The second major collision concerns the NE Superior Craton and implies that active anorogenic magmatism took place during the accretion of the Southern Superior Craton, perhaps between 2.690 and 2.655 Bya.

2.720 – 2.100 Bya
Kenorland (a supercontinent) was formed about 2.720 billion years ago as a result of a series of accretion events due to tectonic nucleation.    The tectonic plate movement, (it has been thought), brought the Kaapvaal, Karelian, Pilbara, and Superior Cratons closer together.    These Cratons and other island arcs seemed to have coalesced into one large landmass and formed Kenorland.

It appears that Kenorland suffered from extreme volcanism.    Between 2.480 and 2.450 Bya, protracted tectonic magma plume rifting occurred and this contributed to the glacial events between 2.450 and 2.220 Bya.     It is thought that Kenorland finally broke up about 2.100 Bya, about 400 million years into Paleoproterozoic Era.

Next we enter the Proterozoic Eon between 2.500 to 0.541 Bya, which was the era of continental shield formation and oxygen build up events.

So! What Really Happened in the Archean Eon?

The people who formulated their premise on the Archean Eon based their ideas on the works of others who preceded them.     From time immemorial, people have questioned the origins of the universe and life itself.
From the 1800’s people started to chemically analyse the atmosphere and material things, questioned life and the biblical understandings of their time.

Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, encourage people to challenge biblical reasoning and many people sort to explore their own ideas and concepts about their existence.     In 1927 it was thought that an expanding universe could be traced back in time to an originating single point.     This became the theory of the “Primeval Atom”.     In 1929 it was concluded that galaxies were drifting apart.

The people who chose to reject the biblical understanding formulated the “Big Bang” theory.     The “Big Bang” was based on assumptions and conjecture.     It is a flawed theory.     However, people wanted things to fit into their own reasoning.     From the “Big Bang” came the postulating of the formation of the universe and our solar system.     Then came the formation of planet Earth and the beginnings of life.

Now the postulating has entered the Archean Eon and the time of reckoning has come.     Isotopic testing of rock is flawed due to contamination of material in the “Parent Daughter” relationship of the isotope (half-life) decay of elements.     It may well work under specially controlled laboratory conditions, but it fails in fieldwork.

The originality of the material is not known, nor observable in its original state or source.     Testing of the same rock using various types of isotopic testing, gives great variations in the dating.     In many cases people have averaged different results to fudge the required results to suite their understanding.

None of the data that I have presented in this thesis can really be proven.
It isn’t really about lying.     It is just about unfounded assumptions and conjecture.     What I have presented is fundamentally, the imagination of others.

What are your thoughts about the Archean Era?
It seems to be a good story, but slightly perverted.

From the Big Bang To Now

I have recently painted a picture of our planetary evolution from the Big Bang to the Bombardment Of Earth at the end of the Hadean era.     The next step in evolution of life on planet Earth starts in the following Archean era.

However, did the “Big Bang” really happen?     Or is it just conjecture?
There is now dispute among many scientists and some cosmologists about the “Big Bang” theory.

It appears that the “Big Bang” idea is an unproven theory and is based on speculation.     As more scientific knowledge is explored and physicists delve in quantum physics, the “Big Bang” idea sits on shaky grounds.     The techniques and the postulated theories used to extrapolate what happen are now appearing to contradict what is acceptable to the understanding of the physics of space and matter.

So!     What is going on?

Well!     It is all about what you are willing to believe and what you know.
Perhaps the thinking went back to Isaac Newton with his assumptions of an eternal, infinite universe.     Although Newton was very clever, he was not always right.

There was dissension between Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton over certain proposed theories.     However, Newton’s insight into mathematics, planetary motion and universal gravitation had an indelible influence on many scientists to come.     Many of his insights are still applicable today.

Charles Darwin and his thoughts lead others to Darwinism, which became a theory of biological evolution.     Darwin postulated many things and wrote many books upon his thoughts.     His reasoning was very thought provoking for his time and many scientists have even elaborated on his thoughts and works, even until the turn of this century.     But with our current knowledge, Darwinism fails to hold water and is dismissed on many levels.

It seems however, that Cosmology stemmed from the ideas behind Darwinism.     But!     How?

Many people have questioned religious teaching since the popular 1611 King James Bible was published.     Non-believers have always thought about different types of theism to suite their own theology.     The “Big Bang” was expounded by many atheists to suite their own ideology.

Since there are more non-believers and atheists than believers of the one almighty God, the idea of the “Big Bang” became mainstream and widely taught without question of authenticity.     The belief over the past 50 years or more was if it was written and talked about often, then it must be right.     But gossip is not necessarily true or right.

Conceptual Thought

Polytheism perhaps goes back to Nimrod, (great grandchild of Noah).
However, most of our knowledge in the western world goes back to ancient Greece.     They had gods that were neither transcendent nor capable of creation.     The Romans continued the belief in these gods, although they gave them different names.

Many non-believers still carryon with the belief and or attributes of other gods.     Non-believers accept the concept of the “Big Bang”, for it seems to fill a void in their understanding.     Atheist argued against the biblical idea of creation and the “Big Bang” idea gives them an acceptable viewpoint as to the beginning of our Universe.     Others also believe that the Universe has always existed and the creation of planet Earth is just a natural development of the universe.

It is religion that seeds the mind of men.     Whatever your religious thoughts are, they affect your outlook to the world around you.     People of different religious persuasion will view the world around them differently, accordingly to their religious outlook.

Religion is not just about faith and worship, it is also a pursuit or interest followed with great devotion.     Religion goes beyond the 12 major religions of the world, which are considered to be Baha’i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.

Atheists have no belief in any gods at all; they are supposedly against theism in general.     If atheists were against theism, then they would theoretically be against the belief in Satan, demons, angels, karma, heaven, hell or anything else that relies on the supernatural and or biblical perception.     But according to their upbringing and subconscious thoughts, they could well harbour such thoughts.     But even if they were fundamentally against theism, they would be religious in their thoughts through their own following of non-belief.

Cosmologists are human; they are affected by religion to one point or another.

If Cosmologists were or are of a particular religious persuasion, then their thoughts would oscillate around or upon a particular concept.     With the concept of “Birds of a feather, flock together”, the Cosmologists in the past conceived the “Big Bang” theory.

Theoretical Thought

The ideology of the “Big Bang” was derived from the works of others, whether proven or not, to formulate a theorem of understanding of the beginning of our universe.     It appears that Cosmologists incorporated the works of Isaac Newton, Immanuel Kant, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Adriaan van Maanen, Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann, Willem de Sitter, Albert Einstein, Edwin Powell Hubble and Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître to formulate their theorem of the “Big Bang”.

In the 1920s and 1930s many cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state Universe, some complained that the beginning of time, (being implied at that time), would import religious concepts into physics.

Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, coined the term the “Big Bang” theory on BBC radio on the 28th March 1949.     He rejected the subjected theory as he went on to promote Panspermia as the origin of life on Earth.     Hoyle found the idea that the universe had a beginning to be pseudo science, resembling arguments for a creator.

Hoyle argued that the universe was in a “steady state” and went on to co-formulate the Steady State theory.     However, Hoyle’s ideas were not always accepted either.     The discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation in the 1960’s helped the “Big Bang” theory to gain victory over the steady state model.

As people of different political, ethnic and religious persuasions entered the realms of Science and Cosmology, questions were asked of the “Big Bang” theory.     If the “Big Bang” started with a singularity, what was the singularity?

You cannot get something from nothing, for nothing is void of anything.     So!     What was the catalyst that caused the event?     Was it something known or unknown?     Something had to exist, but due to circumstance it was unobservable.     This quandary has created a field day for Scientists and Cosmologists of Judeo-Christian faith.     They now exploit the singularity as being God, the Creator.     Back to “Genesis” they go.

So!     Now the “Big Bang” theory is becoming unpopular among some cosmologists.     Some still resist the change in thought, whilst others seek new explanations such as the Cyclic Universe.

The Cyclic Universe is an alternative to the Big Bang (Inflation) Theory.
It utilizes Brane Theory that starts with a bang caused by the collision of two branes.     Who or what the branes are is a mystery.     Gravitational Waves and Dark Energy come into play for expansion, but then due to the weakening of gravity, contraction occurs.     Contraction continues until the two branes crunch together resulting in a bang to create next cycle. Of course, all this is based on speculation and is unproven.

The Ekpyrotic model suggests our universe is the result of a collision of two three-dimensional worlds on a hidden fourth dimension.     But it then continues on with the theories of the Big Bang.     Well!     That’s way out there.

The proposed Plasma cosmology attempts to describe the universe in terms of the electrodynamic properties of the universe.     This proposition is still in the theoretical stage of consideration.

There are other theories, which rely on either a quantum fluid of hypothetical massless particles, multi-universes or even a holographic mirage from another dimension.     Gee!     Try and prove that with evidence and observation.

Problematic Evidence

The “Big Bang” theory fails scientifically by its disagreement with evidence and observation.     If the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is the end to a observable beginning, then anything between it and the singularity cannot be observed and it is just speculation.     And that speculation appears to be based on a faulty premise.     So!     The “Big Bang” cannot be proven factually.

The CMB radiation appears to be omni directional, which makes the singular point idea suspect.     Also the background radiation is too weak, too smooth and its temperature spectrum is too low to suite the “Big Bang” Theory.

The discovery of dark energy that is used as a means to explain the speeding up and expansion of the entire universe is just a hypothesis.     Dark energy has never really been discovered and a recent scientific experimentation could not validate dark matter.     You cannot call it a lie, just misleading.     Since dark energy is used to postulate the expansion of our universe in the “Big Bang” theory, the theory itself falls well short of the truth.

The theories used to explain the “Expanding Universe” of the “Big Bang” theory seem to contradict accepted scientific reasoning based on Newton’s and Kepler’s laws.     So they really defy accepted principals.

Radiometric Dating, used in validating the “Big Bang” theory, was based on meteorite and lunar material.     But how can you tell if the samples were actually original.     The originality of such is not observable.     Dating is based on a ratio of Parent to Daughter due to half-life (decay rate) of an element.

However, decay rates are not constant and vary over time, they are also random.     Also, how could they tell if the parent samples were not contaminated by other daughter elements, because they were not purely original?     So the dating is open to corruption!

Redshift is used with observations in astronomy and extragalactic movement.     Redshift is a phenomenon where electromagnetic radiation, (such as light), from an object undergoes an increase in wavelength.     Redshift is perceived whether or not electromagnetic radiation is visible.     The increase in wavelength is equivalent to a decrease in wave frequency and photon energy in accordance with wave and quantum theories of light.     The opposite of a redshift is a blueshift, where wavelengths shorten and energy increases.

The Calculation of Redshift (z) is based on either wavelength or frequency.
The three types of Redshift are the Relativistic Doppler, Cosmological redshift and Gravitational redshift.

Relativistic Doppler is based on Minkowski space in mathematical physics and is used for motion.

Cosmological redshift is based on the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric, which is proposed as an exact solution of Einstein’s field equations of general relativity.     The Cosmological redshift is used as FLRW space-time, in the expanding Big Bang universe.

Gravitational redshift is utilized in any stationary space-time calculation and also in Schwarzschild geometry.

There are problems with Redshift (z).     How do you know if the light observed is affected by an unknown source?     Well!     You don’t.

Using a spectrometer to identify the chemical composition of matter appears to give the best results.     But spectrometers have calibration problems and false results are given with unknown compounds.     This is why space probes are sent to check things out and usually scientists are surprise by the observed results.

Cosmologists used Redshift (z) in order to calculate the distance of stars and planets.     And doing so, they use Hubble’s Law.     The Hubble Law states that the radial speed of a galaxy is proportional to its distance (v=Hd).
The Hubble Law is used to find the distances of far-away galaxies.     However, it requires the Hubble constant, which is a guess at the best of times.     The Hubble constant has been a quandary for many years.

The velocity, (speed), of a galaxy is measured by the Doppler effect.
The Doppler effect is based on the light emitted from a source that is shifted in wavelength by the motion of the source.     If you do not know the real origins of the source or what unknown thing could be affecting the source, then the Doppler effect is just a guess.

So!     Redshift (z) is a guess at best.     Redshift (z) is flawed when calculating the distance of stars and planets.

Black Holes also cause a dilemma with the “Big Bang” theory.
Measurements of known black holes have shown that the diameter of the black holes varies in proportion to their mass.     The minimum size of a black hole is called the “Rieske Minimum Black Hole Mass”.     This size is reached when the gravitational force stops the light from escaping.     The minimum diameter for the smallest possible black hole is certainly massive and not the size of a pinhead.

And all this leads us back to the singularity, which is presumed to be photon that was compressed until it exploded.     Well!     Where did the photon come from?

A photon is a type of elementary particle.     It is deemed to be the quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation. A photon is produced whenever an electron in a higher-than-normal orbit falls back to its normal orbit.

A strong atom can pull an electron from a weaker atom due to circumstances of quantum physics and chemical reactions.     This also would affect its orbit.

During the fall from high energy to normal energy, the electron emits a photon, which is simply a packet of energy, a source of light.     But for the electron to reach a higher state it needs to absorb a photon.     The photon is destroyed as the electron is energized.     So does a Photon exist omni presently?     Back to the Creator we go.

Back To Genesis

If the creator is perceived to exist as an energized force of creative, righteous, free will, then all is good.     If this thinking entity talks to itself in the midst of creating, then it has the ability to create by its word.     This entity is also considered to be the Supreme Being, which is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent.     Then why is it not recognised as the creator and ruler of the universe?

The creator, God Almighty, could have simply willed that photon into existence and compressed it with the might of its thought.

So according to Genesis of the Bible:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.
So the evening and the morning were the first day.”

The term day in the bible comes from the Hebrew word Yom.
Yom can be used as a concept of time covering such things as:

• Period of light, (daytime).
  It can be contrasted with the period of darkness (night).
• General term for time.
• Point of time.
• Sunrise to sunset.
• Sunset to next sunset.
• A year (in either a singular or plural sense).
• Time period of unspecified length.
• A long, but finite span of time, such as: age, epoch or season.

Geneses in the bible is also used to establish calendation to determine the Sabbath days and Feasts of God.     Many proponents of the bible take Yom to mean the literal day.     But taking Genesis in the literal sense also creates problems in today’s understanding of time and development, especially that of a universe.

I think that a time period of unspecified length is both reasonable and more accurate in the scheme of things.     The truth is… only God knows.

In Summary

The “Big Bang” itself is just a scientific theory that fails by its disagreement with evidence and observation and known laws of physics.     The beginning of our universe in the material realm by the means of a creator is looking more plausible.

The interpretation of Genesis in the bible is mainly taken in the literal sense.
I feel that it was given in simple way to establish worship through Sabbath days and feasts.     The concept of a day being a time period of unspecified length is more feasible to me.

So!     Who or what created our universe.     The only plausible answer is:
God (Yahuah) did!