Updated: 10/30/04
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PROPHECY
"Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom. . . . And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and
famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be
from heaven. (Lk. 21:10 -12.) "Then shall they deliver you up to be
afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations for my
name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and
shall hate one another." (Mt. 24:9 -10.)
And there it all is in my Bibles. Are these guys
actually seeing the future? Then I realize one cannot actually SEE the future
because man has free will, and he is NOT an actor on the stage of life. Man
is not reading and acting out the script written for him. Yet, these things
seem to ring true.
WHAT THEN IS HAPPENING?
First of all, man is man. Mankind has certain attributes,
which causes him to act and think in certain ways under certain conditions and
circumstances. Now, if you fuse religion into the complex and busy activity of
man, what do you have? You have a being who is too busy to think. You have a
believer. That is, one who will take the word of some authority instead of
finding out and relying on the truth and facts of the matter. Knowing this
fact, that man is a believer and not a thinker (as a rule) then you have all
the facts you need too predict what mankind will do under most circumstances of
life.
Man will not all believe the same fables and myths.
Some will believe myth "C", while others will believe myth
"P", and still others will believe myth "M". And these
beliefs will clash, locally and worldwide. These beliefs are not only religious;
they are also political and economical.
If the ancients knew anything, they certainly knew
that even on a local scale, man will over produce his progeny, and soon he is
in a squabble with his neighbor over who owns the water hole, the land between
them and the wild animals that roam both of their lands. Besides, the neighbor
believes wrongly.
By projecting these simple facts on to a local or
even a world wide scale, one will at once see that at sometime in the future,
there will be too many beliefs, too many people, too little land, and thus, too
little food, resources, animals and such. Knowing that too little food brings
famine, and famine means unhealthy bodies, one also knows these conditions will
bring about many pestilences. Too little food and land will certainly bring
about wars and terrors of all types. So any honest ancient thinker who would
sit down under a nice shade tree for a few days, could come up with these same
Biblical prophecies. One does not need to be divine to think. One does not need
a revelation to arrive at the truth.
But how about the prophecies involving volcanoes,
earthquakes and terrible weather? For us, that is easy because we know science.
We know a lot about the geological past of the earth. But even for the
ancients, they too could know of these things by reading the past. That is, by
going over the historical stories and myths of their history which ever ancient
civilization carries in its culture.
We need to clarify something here. These statements
in the Bible are not original and did not originate with Jesus or the apostles.
These things are written in the Buddhist's Texts, and we cannot stop there.
These things were copied from the records of the ancient peoples of Sumeria and
ancient Egypt. These things were written down as historical and scientific facts
by the Egyptians and the Sumerians. They claimed that all parts of the earth had
been under water at several and different times. They said that the earth never
stops changing, but that the major changes were spaced at great intervals of
tens of thousands of years. They further wrote, that when these major changes
did happen, they happened with great force, turmoil, and great loss of people,
land and nations. Chaos reigned. Fear reigned. Death reigned. They also said
history ran in great cycles of tens of thousands of years.
If the ancients knew this, which most of the
traveling and thinking ancients did, it was very easy to project that; at some
future time (given man's attributes) the same thing would happen. When it did
happen, it would be the end of that age, those people and those nations. A new
people would arise out of the rubble, as had happened in the past. Some would
revert to the basics and live like cave men, tribes or savages. Some would
build a new civilization that understood and still had the knowledge of the
past. They would therefore, seek to eliminate the errors and pitfalls of the
past. Thus, a great, strong and just civilization would arise (as had been the
experience of the past). And it would coexist with the barbarian concept of
survival. That concept is that every family or tribe must exist for itself
only.
They also knew, that gradually man (being man) would
revert to the old ways of greed, belief, war and hostilities. Soon, because of belief,
knowledge will be forgotten and set aside. The forces of belief and religion
will begin to replace the scientific knowledge and the civilized behavior of
the golden age, which arose following the chaos. How did they know this? Their
myths and histories explained it in great detail. That is exactly what happened
in the past great upheavals of the earth. So, it would happen again.
So looking carefully at the prophecies given to us
about our future, we suddenly find we are simply looking into the past, looking
at what has already happened to ancient civilizations told to us by the
Sumerians and the Egyptians.
In explaining this to a preacher friend of mine, he
asked, "But, how about the signs in the heavens? There are no parallels
for these things from the ancient texts that I ever read."
Oh? Yes there are! We will skip over the fact that
the Sumerians tell us about powered flights, chemical and mechanical science
and such. The Sanskrit myths (copied from the Sumerians which they call - history)
tell not only of powered flights, but also of air wars, bombings, strafing of
people from these aircraft, dog fights and the like. We will even skip over the
stories that they tell about astronauts who visited the planets and became
great national heroes on their return. These stories are told in great
scientific detail. They even tell how to build these things. These stories were
first translated into English in the early to middle eighteen hundreds AD. Of
course, in our scientific ignorance of that age, we classified all these
histories as myths, and gave them little attention. The monks, however, date
the origin of these tales to a civilization which was destroyed in the last
great earth upheaval over fifteen thousand years ago, and an earlier one at
some thirty thousand or more years ago.
It was only after we REINVENTED the atomic bomb that
their myths suddenly became undeniable history and tuth. These Sumerian stories
exactly describe the explosion itself. They exactly describe the aftermath and
results, of hair falling out, of skin melting, of the following blindness, of
getting rid of all contaminated metal, of washing in water to decontaminate, of
fleeing from the cloud of death, of slow horrible deaths, of later grotesque
births and on and on. There is NO doubt. They knew about and used atomic
energy. They also wrote about lasers used to kill, used to quarry stone, cut
underground caves, carve and shape metal, to treat disease and such. Remember,
this was translated in the middle 1800's. But, we will skip over these things.
But, we cannot skip over the ancient HISTORICAL
records of China and Egypt. The Chinese tell of a very early time (over 20,000
years ago) when the emperor killed a great number of his wise men for failing
to predict a time of great chaos and destruction in which the earth was washed
over by a great tidal wave. The heavens and stars changed their course in the
sky and the seasons were introduced. There are two easy explanations for this.
First, earth could have come into contact, or close contact, with another body
from space such as a comet, asteroid or another large body. Second, the poles
could have slipped, as has been recorded in the geological record of earth's
past history. Other explanations may also be valid.
Up until this time, the orbit of earth around the
sun and its daily rotation was three hundred and sixty days. That is where we
get our early math, the division of the circle and such. The moon divided the
year into thirteen parts, or months (moons). Prior to this catastrophe there
were no seasons, as we know them. It was a very comfortable world watered by
the mist of fog at night. The temperature stayed about the same at each
latitude. It was hot at the equator and progressively cooler as one preceded
away from the equator. That is why the plants were so prolific, grew so tall
and made such enormous coal beds. The Bible hints at this, "There was no
rain in those days but a mist covered and watered the earth." The Bible
myth says, that after the terror, God gave the promise of no more flooding of
the earth by giving us the "rainbow". The rainbow only comes with
rain.
When the catastrophe came, the spin of the earth was
speeded up. The incline of the poles happened and chaos reigned. People, who
had never seen frost, suddenly had their crops killed. What was happening?
Before the catastrophe, the people could plant anytime of the year and harvest
was whenever the plants were ready.
The emperor sent wise men throughout the area, east
and west, north and south to determine the times, the signs (stars) and the
seasons. A planting and harvesting calendar was desperately needed. All
surviving peoples of the earth had to do this. So, all around the earth,
archeologists find stone circles, buildings, temples, stonehenges and such,
oriented to calculate the seasons. These were observatories erected to solve
the problem of the new seasons, which the catastrophe had introduced upon the
earth.
It was therefore, learned that there were now three
hundred and sixty five and a fourth (365 1/4) days in a year and that the
seasons were four (spring, summer, fall and winter). The stars now became very
important because by studying the stars, one could tell what part of each
season they were in. All known ancient civilizations EXCEPT Egypt altered their
calendar. I can only assume that Egypt did not do these things and change their
calendar because there was little change in their weather. Their planting and
harvesting depended more on the flow of the Nile River (from the ice collected
on the mountains and drainage from the fog) than on anything else. What they
did do was to continue to have a 360-day year, as before, and at the end of
those days they celebrated five "No Days". Ever forth year they
celebrated six "No Days". Well, at least they figured it out.
The point of all of this is, it has happened many
times in the past and it will happen again sometimes in the future. The
ancients also tell us that these things usually build up, somewhat slowly at
first and then accelerate to a furious pace until "All hell breaks
loose." Weather becomes violent and unpredictable. Earthquake and volcanic
eruptions become more numerous and more severe. Sometimes whole large landmasses
disappear into the sea and new lands and mountains emerge. We know this to be
true by looking at earth's geological record. (Ask your local geologist if this
in not a true record of the past history of our earth.)
Now that you know all of this (and there is no doubt
about it) there is no need to place an artificial fear into the people by
saying, this normal activity on the earth is some kind of supernatural dabbling
into the lives of people, nations or civilizations. I am saying, it will happen
again - and again, on this very earth, every tens of thousands of years. Is it
that time again?
The problem is not the happening. There is little to
nothing we can do about that, except to try and be ready for it. The problem is
the fear placed into the minds of gullible and lazy non-thinking people
by their authorities, (the teachers of these beliefs, religions, prophecies,
plans of salvation, heavens and hells). The problem is the chaos these child
like beliefs create in our society. The problem is the divisions of society,
which these beliefs cause. The problem is the dividing of mankind into the good
and the bad, the saved and the lost, the right and the wrong.
The problem is that the right, the good and the
saved think themselves better and more in tune with reality than the rest of
mankind. And thus, they commit many horrible atrocities against the
"others". The others being those who are different like the
Catholics, the Protestants, the Baptists, the Jews, the Moslems, the Hindus,
the Buddhists, the Shintos, the Animists, the Atheists, the Gays, the Blacks,
the Yellows, the Reds, the Whites, the Democrats, the Republicans, the
Scientists, the Educators, the Halls of Higher Education, the English, the
Irish, the Americans, the Indians, the Croats, the Serbs, the Iranians, the
Iraqis - anyone that is different. (Would you like ten pages of this, or do you
get the point?) All right!
Man can calculate the future, but he cannot SEE the
future. These earth catastrophes may take place next week, next century, next
millennium, or in the far off future. Take place, they will. But, we cannot
park civilization on the side of the road and wait.
It is hard enough on society, trying to drag this
anchor of prophecy, religion and belief around with us. How are we ever going
to drag these people (believers) into the reality of the present and help them
to become productive and responsible parts of society? How are we going to help
them become honest thinking people, instead of being socially destructive and
slaves to these teachers of the untrue and the unbelievable? How are we going
to deal with their narrow, immoral ethics which causes them to: kill doctors,
commit voter fraud, rant and rave against legitimate business, suppress
justice, censor thoughts and writings, legally contort large sums of money from
the common treasury of this country to finance their narrow immoral
institutions, get laws passed which repress and discriminate against those who
are not believers in their religion, tell lies about their opposition, regulate
love and affection, tell scary and untrue stories to little children (and claim
the myths are true), place fear and guilt in the minds of intellectually
defenseless people, and on I could go.
It was the activities of these superstitious religions
that caused untold tragedy in the history of mankind. These activities not only
destroy nations and civilizations, they also destroy individuals and turn them
into the slaves of their authorities who use them for their own personal gains
of power, prestige, pleasure and profit. This is being done in religion,
politics and business. So, they burn, boycott, smash, kill, lie or whatever
their authorities suggest.
And through it all, they will tell you that they are
right and you are wrong, they are good and you are bad, they are saved and you
are lost. They are of God, you are of the Devil. They believe whatever their
authorities tell them to believe. They do whatever their authorities tell them
to do. They are slaves because of their own inability to reason, to separate
fact from fiction, and to accept fact and truth after they find it.
They do not believe in man's free will. They do not
believe in the facts of science. They do not believe in their own abilities to
make honorable and healthy choices in life. They do not believe man has the
ability to render justice. They do not believe that we should govern ourselves,
but that some deity should be telling us what to do. They do not believe that
man should think and honestly question his beliefs. They do not believe man
should search for the truth of religious matters. They do not believe life has
any meaning apart from their religious beliefs. They do not believe man can, or
should, try to solve his own problems. They do not believe in death. They do
not believe in other intelligence in the universe outside of their own deities
and devils. They do not believe women should decide whether they should be
pregnant or not. They do not believe society should be able to tell them to
follow its rules. They do not believe man should be able to drink or smoke.
They do not believe mankind should be permitted to enjoy sex unless they are
married to their sex partner and are producing a baby. They do not believe in
sexual variations or pleasures.
But, the very worst of all is, they do not
believe man should have, or does have, the RIGHT to honestly think for himself.
They do not believe man should have the RIGHT to analyze and to question the
believer's religious authorities. They do not believe man should have the
RIGHT to govern himself.
BUT THEY DO BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE THE WISDOM
TO TELL THE REST OF US WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG. THEY DO BELIEVE THAT
GULLIBILITY AND IGNORANCE IS A DIVINE REQUIREMENT. THEY DO BELIEVE THAT
MAN DOES NOT HAVE FREE WILL.
AND THEY DO BELIEVE
IN PROPHECY!
Copyright July 1999 Thomas
E. Blaylock, Jr.