There is a saying that
figures don’t lie but liars figure. The
question is however is how much we can trust the prophecies of the Bible. I mean the real prophecies; the ones that
haven’t happened yet. Yeah, that makes
all the difference, doesn’t it- whether or not the event already happened when
the prophecy was made. Sir Isaac Newton
got caught in one interperation of Bible prophecy. Through reading the Bible he became convinced
that the law of gravity would be repealed in the year 2061. That date is a lot closer than it used to
be. There are a lot of people living now
who will still be alive then. But first
let’s get into the prophecy of Daniel – and I mention Daniel because a lot of
the Jesus prophecy centers on the timing of the coming of the Messiah. Chuck Smith taught that you start timing the
count-down clock from the year 445 BC and count using 360 day years (God told
Chuck to use the Babylonian calendar) and you come to the exact date of April 5th
of 32 AD. According to Chuck Smith and
others there was an eclipse of the full moon the night after Jesus was
crucified and this is one of the “signs and wonders” spoken of in the second
chapter of Acts attributed to the OT prophet Joel about “The moon will turn to
blood and I will pour out my spirit on all flesh”. I guess I wonder whether the Holy Spirit was
poured out on “all” flesh. These days
manifestations of the Holy Spirit have about been legislated out of existance
by the pastoral community. Of course I
don’t believe the key portions of Daniel were written anywhere near that
early. Rather than 520 BC or whenever
Chuck thinks it as written I believe a date of 170 B C is much more suitable. This was the period of the Jewish Macabees
where Jewish patriotism was in flour and people had messianic
expectations. Even so it was some two
hundred years from then to 32 AD. This
is the point where “the sixty-nine weeks” expire and the “countdown clock” is
put on hold. In fact ALL prophecy has
been put on hold. This is another reason
why Christians want “the final week” to start ticking off again and they’re
raptured and the 70th week can begin and the final seven years will
be the Great Tribulation commences and Israel finally “discovers Jesus” as
their savior. The regathering of the nation of Israel is the one prophecy that HAS been fulfilled in the last two thousand years, and it's a big one. Of course the Three Wise Men from the "east" (Persia) were said to be astrologers, and there are a bunch of detailed calculations they made predicting the timing of the birth of Jesus. A lot of them centered around the constelation of Leo. Among other things these people like Chuck believe Jesus was born in one BC and not four or six BC. They need that date to make their other dates work.
We now come to the
present day and mankind has a definite problem.
We’re greatly limited on how fast space ships can travel due to the
constricting laws of physics as well as the bounds of human endurance of G
forces. The fuel costs along of
accelerating to the speed of light alone would be prohibitive. And it would be necessary to greatly exceed
the speed of light if we were even going to travel to the neighboring stars (like the bright star Sirius for jinstance) in
any kind of a reasonable time frame. And
keep in mind that at that speed radio transmissions from space would take every
bit as long to reach earth. It would be
ten years before a radio transmission would get through and that would be
one-way without a response, which would be another ten years. Clearly mankind has a problem. The only salvation would be that some Higher
Power, it could be a space alien civilization or possibly what you’d call an “angelic
being” or something needs to look down on us inhabitents of planet earth with
pity and try and help us out by giving us the needed technology. Unfortunately I believe repealing the law of
gravity “just like that” is still an intrinsic impossability because of the way
our space and our matter is “formatted” with the Higgs bozon and all the other
bozons. The only solution as I see it is
to reformat space itself. What this
would do is limit the mass and gravity of an object to the objects within the
reformatted space field. The only “gravitational
field” would the tiny one generated by the space ship itself. In terms of light you would have your own light that would conform to the formatting of your little space segment. If you had a fleet of ships they would all be within the space segment so you would see them. They would not be cloaked except to the outside world. You could do radio transmissions within your little space segment. But we still have another problem as readers
of former postings of mine have already anticipated. Like I
say space would be “reformatted” so that it no longer related to either the
space or the light or the gravity of this space we know. But the problem is how do we transmit the
needed power for rocket thrust from THAT “engineered space” to the space we are
all familiar with. Since the ship is
traveling THROUGH our space and it basically isn’t the space it occupies- - - -
there would be none of the acceleration problems that would arise were the
craft traveling through it’s OWN space.
Hypothetically it could travel through it’s own space if you could
generate a field that big. This would
genuinely be a craft “lost in its own space”.
By the way - - - like the problem
with HDDVD and Blue Ray disks, you have
the battle of the formatting. Each
person who genetically engineers his own space (that’s a bad term) would have
his own formula algorithm for generating his own space so that each “space”
would be an island unto itself. You
would be cloaked from us on planet earth but they would also be cloaked to EACH
OTHER so that you could play some gigantic game of hide and seek out
there. I don’t know how Sir Isaac Newton
gleaned the date 2061 from reading the Bible but I believe there are web sites
on the subject. At that point since we
were effectively reduced to weightlessness in THIS universe or “space” then space
craft speeds could be greatly accelerated.
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