The Star of Bethlehem

 Thinking  about the Jewish holy days I was reminded of Rick Larsen's study of the Star of Bethlehem in which he retty much proved that Jesus was conceived, not burn but conceived, on Rosh Hashana of two BC, no sorry, three  B C.  That means He was born in early June of two bc, and on that date it just happenes to turn out that there was a conjunction of Juperter with Venus that was so bright that even today it is regarded as the brightest start that ever occurred in the sky.  Not a star of course but it looks like a star and that's what cscripture calls the celestial object that heralded Jesus birth.

I love that study and have watched the video probably thirty times by now.  It took a while to digest the facts because he moves too fast through it all for me.  he gives background starting with Kepler who looked fo rthe star in his own time but didn't find it, and when Larson investigathates the sources Kepler was depending on he find out that Kepler was misled by a tupe on a historical document.  When Larson used the right date he found a lot more going on in the sky at the time of Christ's birth than Kepler was able to find.   Larson of course has astronly software, while Kepler just had his mathematical ability to depend on.  Just as reliable as the softewar e of course and in fact the software is based on itl.

I used to be able to watch the Star of Bethlehem on You Tube but can't find it any more.  Just as I can't find some politial videos I'd depended on to prove how wrong the libs are about Trump.  They aren't there aym more either.  Gosh I wonder why.  

Anyway Larson's astronomy program turned up a fascinating event in the sky in three BC in August of that year, the planet Jupiter making three passes close to a star called Regulus, the King Planet in three conjunctions with the King Star as he puts it.  this occurred in the constellation Leo which prepresents the tribe of Judah, which also has the emblem of the lion, so the most condegenial onterpretation of this even t is that it's a sort of announcementg of a coming king to be born in the tribe of judah.  The wise men of the east would have recognized the meaning of these things.   

Then right after the sun finishes its yearly pasage through Leo it moves into the constellation Virgo which is now rising on the horizon, and this is particularly pfascinating because as it rises the figure of the virgin is shown with a new moon at her feet and that immediately calls to mind the verses in Revelation Twelve about the wonder in heaven:  a woman clothed with the sun and the moobn at her feet who is about to give birth.  Clothed with the sun is immediately understood to reference the sun in Virgo as Larson has just found out with his astronomy program, and the moon at her feet is a sign of the shchild she is to give birth to.  It's a new moon, the very beginning of that life, and the deate is Rosh Hashanah or Jewish new Year of Three BC.  Pretty fascinating,m right?

So it's not the date of Jesus' birth but His conception, the time when Gabriel came to tell Mary that she would give birth to the Messiah.   His birth would have teen nine motnths later, in June of ttwo bC.  That could have been pentecost since it occurs about thta time of year but Larson doesn't mention that.  he does mention that the conjunction of Jupiter with Venius occurs then and it is so close it becomes the very brightest object ever seen in the sky ever.    

I couldn't help noting that June is the month of Gemini which is the Twins, and Jesus has two natures, both God and Man.  

But Larson doesn't hang out very long on thse facts because he's discovered other interesting things about jesus' life as reflected in the sky.  Some six months later for instance, as the wise men are traveling to give honor to the newborn King of the Jess, he discovers that the planet Jupieter which they have been folloiwing "stops" over the town of Bethlehem whicher they are living at that time.  after puzzling it out Larson realizes that the way the "star" could "stop" is by reaching the point in its movement where it turns retrograde and travels backward, so it had to have been at that point that the wise men saw it stop right over the place where Jesus was living.  AND, oddly enough this turned out to be the date December twenty fith two bdc.  A date which of course has nothing to do with scripture but there it is.  Kind of amazing.  The astronomy program turns ed it up, it's not something Larson came up with on his own.

He speculates that the wise men might have been Jews who were descendants of a group that had gathered around the prophet Daniel at the time of the Babylonian Captivity, during that time I swhould say, and became tie astrologers and wise men of the region.  This woulde make sense because even if other wise men might notice all that interesting celestial activity around a big even t in Judea surely it would only be the Jews wouwho would particularly care about it since they would know their scriptures and the prophecies of the coming Messiah and know that this is what it was all about. WA abig enough even to get them to travel a very long distance to pay respects to the new King.

Larson also went on to discover that at the time of Jesus' crucificxiaon there were also very interesting celestial events and he refers to this whole astronomigcal story as a celestial poem of great beauty.  

Even if the Star of Bethlehem isn't on You Tube any more there may be other places it can be found, maybe even AAmazon.  It think it's worth it for anybody who might even only be interested in the astronoomy study part of it.

Of course I think this is all great evidence for the truth of scripture and the gospels but I also know that a determined atheist can find all kinds of ways to discount such things.

 Oh but I would like to see evolution theory blasted into the outer dark before I go.

Rapture Mimblings

Jesus made it clera that we would not know the time of His return, which mot of the prophetic ministries thinki of as the Rapture of the Church followed by seven years of the great tribulation for the rest of humanity followed by His descent to the earth to reign.  I keep having problems with this end times secenario but I also don't have a better way of thinking about it all so I just hope they are mostly right and I can look forward to the Rapture if we really are as close to the end as it feels.

Asfor notknowing the time it's seemed to me that an event as momentous as the Rapture of the Church wuld have to occur on one of the Jewish holy days.  Jesus was crucified on Passover, which was of course given to look forward to that event for the fifteen thousand or so years since the Exodus from egypt, and then the Church as born when the Holy Spirit descended on His followers assembled in the upper room in Jerusalem, which occurred on the Jewish holiday we call Pentecost though it has another name in Hebrew.  Two big events in Church hisory marked by Jewish holy days, so why shouldn't the Rapture also be slated for a holy day?  Rosh Hashana is the one that comes to mind, especially since it involves trumpets, but the one yethis year just came and went with no ratpure.  So maybe the Day of Atomnement?  The Feast of Tabernacles?  Or even Hannukkah or Purim?    I can't help it, those days just seem the most likely time for Jesus return.    

I'd love to go on one of them soon of course.  I've pretty much given up on having more of an effect here than I've already had if I've had any and that's iffy.  I can count three people I've influenced toward becoming believers and that's been a long time.  If people aren't going to come to belief before the Church is raputred or beofre teh tribulation comes crashing down it's going to be very hard on them though they can be saved through all that, or so the prophetic ministries say.  The pre trib pre mill ministries I mean.  

I've become more or less reconciled to the idea that I'm not going to be able to influence anyone at this point so all I can so is hope for the bewst for those I care about.  It's in God's hands.

One World Order Update

 This week's Understanding the Times radio show by Jan Markell..  Guiest Gary Kah on the one world order.    It's on You turbr this week or as always at her website Olive Tree Views, g\ot to Radio

One of her powerful ones.

Points that particularly captured my attention:

Kamala slated for a big role as of four years ago.

Pope Francis out front in a new way, confirming me in my view that he is the coming world leader known as theAntichrist.  I'm one of few yowho see it this way, while Jan and other prophecy teachers think this figure is still to be revealed.  Nope, he's here.

Kah announced a big prayer meeting online, forty days usa with a different big name leader every day.  I have no way of finding out from where I am but as usual OI worry that they have probably included some so called Christian leaders who aren't really Christains, hin which case they've sabotaged the whole effort and God isn't going to hear us as we'd hope.  Well, maybe I'I'm wrong, I certainly hope I am.  Because prayer is about all we have left, there is nothing left we can do humanly dspeakihng about any of this.

Have mercy on us Lord.

If Astonishment Qas A Scientific Accomplishemtn I'd Have the Nobel Prize by Now

 Listening to some videos about various genetic and geological topics related the creation evolution debate, keep being amazed at the certainlyw they bring to explanations that strike me as ell, not just iffy but impossible.   These are educated professionsals so therefore I must be the wrong one, of course.  How cdare I think such thoughts.  And such nice people too, Nice intelligent people, so sincere, so convinced of their knowledge.   It tkaes thousands of years to deposit the sediment in one of those sedimentary layers says he.  That's all, just that statement.  But how could it happen at all ever?  

And happen at intevals in which each deposit gets enshrined as a layer between other sediments of different kinds, each horizontal, flat stiraight and many of them extending in all directions covering many thousands of square miles, whole continents or even more than that.  The mere physical facts defy anyh explanation that assumes normal processes.  Perhaps somewhere someone has written it all out to perfection so that even I would have to agree that after all it is possible, but I haven't yet run across even a hint of such a document.   I can sort of place some layers art the borttom of the ocean but even there they wouldn't be so perfectly horizontal and stariaght and flat.  the sea floor isn't tabletop flat.   On land it culdn't be at the survfaace in any time period because nothing could have lived on such a surface, so I would have to imagine it buried beneath the surface somewhow , that surface then somehow disappearing when the next layer formes on top of it to continue the composition of gethe geollgical column.  

Then  ave asimilar problem with the genetic stuff.  How is it they can just ignore the obvious built in limitation of the genome of a given species as a barrier to any variation that could produce something other than what that genome codes for, which is the characteristics of that species and nothing else, including of course different alleles for the genes so that you get a lot of variation in traits, but nothing that could ever produce a tdifferent trait or a different anything than whatever that species is composed of.    Dawkins, Coyne, all fo the m just seem to skimright over what seems to me to be this obvious fact:  there is simply no way to get from one species to another by any of the normal processes of genetics.   Including mutation.  

Yeah I know I keep repeating myself, but really, evolution is such obvious foolishness I'm really amazed that nobody esees it.  And how could I, or any creationist be so special as to see something all those brilliant scientists can't see?  

Well, here I am again bleating into dead cyberspeace.  Sign.

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Yes I really do think my simple observtions spell death to evolution, conceited idiot that I am I guess.  And what I rwould really like to find is someone who believes in evolution but is open and honest enough to really try to think through my arguments so that I can get a god assessment of them from somebody outside my own scircle.  I need to know if I'm being clear, creting a shaprrp enough picture to be understood, especially since I may be using termonology in a personal or idiosyncratic way.   

Finding anyone who knows enough, even just the rudimentary amount necessary can be too much for people who haven't tried to follow the creation evolution debates, anyway that'as hard for starters.  then someone who doesn't know too much so that they just dismiss me out of hand and don't take the time to try to think it through.     As I've been presenting my arguments over this last month here they are pretty simpliefied and of course I'm not getting into a lot of the examples I bring up elsewhere, but I think there should be enough to make the basic argument clear.  

Mostly itl's just observations.  If you look on that cross section of the Grand Staircase to Grand Canyon area you have to see that the strata are presented as a block of undisturbed layers extending hundreds of miles.  There isn't even a hint of anykind of disturbance within a layer, and if you look at the real layers say in the walls of teh Grand Canyon you see that they are all composed of one kind of sediment, at least most of them are although there are some conglomerate layers.  But all limestone?  Al stsandstone?   Just look at it, think about it, how do you explain it, how do yougyou get a time period of tends of millions of years aout of one of those layers?  What are you imagining going on on the usurface of the earth during that period.  Where was this sedimentary layer during lall that time?  how on earth could it have been laid down so flatly horizontal under normal conditions, whether on the surface or underground or at the bottom of the ocea?   How?

And I keep coming back to Coyne's strange remark that the difference between the wolrf and the chihuahua is evidence of ev.lolution in itself, but that's eally very very odd.  He understands the gemonme, surely.  He understands that variation is built into the way DNA operates, that just having two alleles or two versions of a gene is enough to bring about a great deal of variation in a trait, and most traits are coded for by many genes, not juust one.   There's really very little difference between the worlf and the chihuahua when you think about the particulars.  Difference in size, and that's a normal variation within a genome;  difference in hair or fur color and texture, definitely built inoto the dog genome;  Difference in ear shape, nose length etc.  It's all there in the genome and if that is the case we are not talking about evolution abt all but only abourt t normal built in species variations.    SURELY he knows that.  

So you need some other way to get to a different species.  You need a new trait, not just variations on the traits already laid out in the genome of the species.  How do you get a new trait?  I don't think you can and I have never seen anyone try to make a case for it either.

And again, when you have a small number of individuals inbreeding among themselves you are going to get dramatic new phenotypes or observatibe characteristics, but at the same time you are losing genetic variability.  You have too.  When you are breeding a great Dane you have to lose all the traits of a chihuahua, you need genes for large size etc etc etc.  Whenever you select a trait you eliminate all the other possibilities, and that is a reduction in genetic variability that may rapidly end up with a great deal of homozygosity for all the main traits of your chosen breed, or in the wild whatever happens to be randomly selected, by geographic isolation.  Losing genetic variability is not the direction you would expect to bwe going if you are thinking of this as the path of evoution from one species to another.  by the time you get to your new breed or highly refined race in the wild you have a lot less ability to vary left in the genome.  You can't get evolution from that situation.  

Again I know I keep repeating myself.  But good grief, all this proves evolution is just plain impossible.     

Or show me where I'm wrong.  Please.

Liberal Lies

 Things are pretty pathetic when i can answer debate challenges against Trump while twenty supposed Trump supporters in a circle can't.  I think the young guy's name is Steve Withers but I may have heard wrong and I can't seem to get the video to come up under sthat name but I watched most of it.  he's doing something Chrarlie Kirk does from the conservative side.  As a litberal Withers puts himself in the center of a circle of Trump supporters and invites them to debate him on various challenges to their position.   I also watched the other version with Charlie Kirk and thought both Kirk and the circle of liberals he challenged were up on the issues;  I did not think the so called Trump supporters against Withers dhad even the most rudimentary qualifications to be trying to debate a challenger to their Trump support.  

he got away with calling Trump a liar.  Notobdy seemed ale to answer that.  he got away with saying Trump is a convicted femolon, who absued women, who said he would be a dictator from day one as President, who refused to sign a bill that would have protected the border, sorry told Congress menmbers to refuse to sign it, I don't think he used the one about the bloodbath against him but I probably just missed it.    

Trump is a convicted felon because they changed the laws to make him a criminal for doing nothing criminal at all;  he was joking about being adictgartor on day One, obviously for cryin out loud, good grief I can hardly believe they'd use such a piece of word twisting like that;  when he said there woudl be a bloodbath if Biden was reelected he was referring to the economic resuslts of biden's policies about the auto industry, an ECONOMIC bloodbath;  oh and he accused him of trying to overthrow the election when he was obviously just doing what liberals have done forever, including Hillary ahnd Gore, simply questioning the results of the ote count, what a cleaxy lie that one is, well they all are;  and he rejected that bill to supposedly secure the borders because the Biden administration had already thrown out Trump's own much better politicies to secure the Border an substituted this bill which would have given permission to thousands of illegals to enter.  These people just lie and lie and lie and lie and lie.  And the fact that the so called Trump supporters couldn't answer most of this is shameful.

We're doomed in so many ways it's scary, including idiotic lies.

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Soul Killing Fallen World Ideologies

I can barely find enough denigrating language to characterize the way evolutionists think about being a human being.  It's mind numbingly inane, fatuous, oh I won't go on.  Having to be constantly brought back to my mere physical existence as the explanatory foundation of everything that makes me human just curdles my blood, shrils brain cells by the millions.  How can bright people carry on as they do about such dreck.

Soul shrinker.  Like head shrinker, yeah.  All the Nineteenth Century "geniusses" shrank and shriveled us, imposed lies on us, about us, about our world, reduced us to triviality, Marx, Darwin, Freud.  Blesh.  Christianity had elevated humanity, made us better tghan we are in a fallen world but also ut us in the realm of truth where we culd be more than we are.  The materialists do nothing but destroy and pinch and strangle.  

Oh right, they like religionh as long as it fits into their materialistic framework.  Mustln't go back to orthodoxy though, uh uh, that's a big no no, but some of it is good.  I guOh I don't mean we're good, far from it, I know we're sinners, and they don't know that much.  But in our essence we are too magnificnret to be  defined by this silliness.ess I should be grateful for that much.  

WWll, fallenness is reaching its bloated fullness these days, which is tI said that wrong, but oh well.he main sign we're in the end times, right at the very end.   Everything of the fallen nature is rulling the wsorld more and more.   Liberalism Leftism, Marxism, all that, total creaziness but the fallen mind takes it for our highest good oh evil thought.  It's all converging.  Surely it will all be over soon.  I don't think most of us could keep from coming totally unglued if it goes on much longer.