The story is not of this realm. It is of the eternal fight between the forces of light and darkness ever since time began. Men of deceit plot behind the scene, but many are unwary that they themselves are playing out the cards dealt by forces they do not comprehend. There is a Deeper State beyond the Deep State, and it is operated by demonic principalities. It's an incredible story of the world seen from a great distance. If it's the first time you hear this story, it will chill your blood. Our story deals with the Satanic forces that seek to prevent God from sitting on his throne in the Holy of Hollies. Satan knows he wins if he destroys the Temple or the Jewish people.The chosen people:
There is some confusion here, so let's get it right. Abraham belonged to a race called Hebrews. Some 4,000 years ago God asked Abraham to pack up his tents and go to a land He promised to be filled with milk and honey. Cut a very long story short, after Exodus out of slavery in Egypt and the death of Mosses, Joshua led his people into the Promised Land. By then they had grown into 12 big tribes. The land was separated into a northern part called Isreal occupied by 10 tribes. The southern region was called Judah and occupied by 2 tribes. Those that lived in Israel were called Israelites and those in Judah were called Jews. In 1948 when the state of Isreal was created, all those living there are called Israelis, who may be Jews, Israelites, Arabs, or others. For our purpose here, 'Jews' is used to loosely describe the people of Abraham.
Satan's design - destruction of Temple, Jews, and their God:
'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights of Zaphon; I will ascend to the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High"... Isaiah 14:12-14)For that iniquity, the Morning Star was cast down from heaven since time began. Thus commenced his eternal contest with the Creator for the minds of man starting at the Garden. Satan's tool of his trade is Deceit and Temptation for he understands the weakness of man. His modus operandi -- God creates, he destroys; what is consecrated to God, he desecrates; what is holy unto God, he causes abomination; God loves his chosen people, he hates and tries to destroy them. As with God who uses kings for his purpose, Satan too speaks and acts through lesser Man.
The Throne of Satan:
Our story began after the death of Alexander the Great when his empire was split into four regions among his generals. Antiochus IV came from the Selucid line that ruled over Syria. He failed in his attempt to conquer Egypt. Meanwhile political maneuvering in Jerusalem by two factions, one pro-Egyptian and one pro-Syrian, finally led to Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) to invade and capture Jerusalem in 168 BC. He wanted to Helenise his region and so he wiped out Jewish culture. He placed a statue of Zeus at the altar of Temple of Solomon and offered a pig as sacrifice, banned circumcision, instituted burnt offerings at the temple, carted away all religious holy paraphernalia, and put in Greek idols. He thoroughly desecrated the temple. This was the first Abomination of Desolation prophesised by Daniel.
Zeus was the head of the Greek pantheon of pagan deities. But who actually was Zeus? The pagan gods evolved over time and civilisations. Zeus is the Greek version of Ba-al. 'Ba-al' is a word from antiquity spoken by the people in the Levant. It meant 'owner' or 'Lord'. Over time it was used to depict a deity, and then associated with Had-baal, the God of Storm. Ba-al became Bel in Babylon, Zeus in the Grecian God of Storms and Jupiter to the Romans. Ba-al is mentioned 15 times in the Bible and it is the pagan god that Israel turned to each time they deserted their God. Rationalists reason that Ba-al is the god of the season, thus ceremonies depict deaths and decay. Ba-al ceremonies are beyond representation of seasons. They are full of depravities, of sexual deviances, intoxication, lust for materialism, sacrifices. Ba-al is no doubt a pagan god, but who is the principality behind this?
The Maccabees rose up and fought against Antiochus IV. Maccabees were the lowest social crust of the people. They were the isolated farmers, the hill-billies of the Jews. A tiny band of untrained Jews, with no adequate weapons, fought and won against a professional army many times their size. How was that even possible? The Maccabees cleansed the Temple and rebuilt a new altar.
Antiochus IV was defeated and died in 164BC. As Jerusalem prospered again under the Jews, we see the rise of the Altar of Zeus in Pergamon, also known as Altar of Pergamon, in about 156 BC. The Enemy now sits on his throne in Pergamon and the city thrived. It was a very important Greecian city in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) for many years.
Revelation 2:13 Apostle John, then a prisoner on the Island of Patos, wrote to the 7 churches in Asia Minor, the words spoken by a Voice behind him -- that of Jesus through the Holy Spirit. To the Church of Pergamon, he wrote :
"I know where you live; where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness who was put to death in your city; where Satan lives"Then came the Romans who swept through the whole region. In AD70, Roman legions under Titus captured Jerusalem and sacked the Second Temple. The Temple was totally destroyed and all spoils shipped back to Rome. The Arch of Titus in Rome celebrates this event. This was the second abomination of desolation prophecised by Jesus in Mark 13: "not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down". Because of this, many today believe the 'Wailing Wall' is not part of the Temple wall since the place was completely demolished. Like Antiochus IV, the Romans wanted a total demolishment of Jewish culture.
Meanwhile, as Satan worked to wipe out Jewish culture and religion in Jerusalem, God reciprocated. Christianity began to spread throughout the region culminating in the baptism of Constantine in AD 337 before his death. With Christianity entrenched in the Roman Empire, the Altar of Pergamon lost its prominence and disappeared from history for the next 2,000 years. Satan tried to wipe out Jewish religion, God wiped out paganism. It is an irony that from the Greeks that tried to erase Jewish culture, came the Septuagint Bible.
When Islam appeared, with a stroke of genius, the Enemy had Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik, built the Al-Aqsa mosque in AD 691 right on the Temple Mount. Solomon's Temple was built on high ground with uneven terrain and the area is called the Temple Mount. That First Temple was destroyed by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC. The Second Temple was rebuilt on the same grounds in 515 BC and completely destroyed by Titus in AD 70. The Romans built a platform over the uneven terrain and then a Temple of Jupiter on it. The Muslims built the mosque on the Roman platform. (Many mistake the Dome of the Rock as the mosque. The Dome is a shrine, they are different buildings). With the mosque in place, Satan has been rolling with laughter as he has denied the building of a Third Temple for 1,300 years. The Third Temple now cannot be rebuilt without causing WWIII. No Temple, no Throne for God. The Enemy wins
There are a few things that are intriguing of the Islamic structures, the conclusion is left to the readers.
Prophet Muhammed was ferried by his winged-horse from Mecca on a night journey to this very mosque where he ascended to heaven to meet Allah. The prophet arrived at the mosque in AD 621, decades before it was built. Well, it could be as they said, the mosque was originally just a small hut. The mosque has been rebuilt several times after destructive earthquakes. The mosque was considered as a commemoration of the prophet's ascend to heaven, yet walled inscriptions never mention that event.
This picture shows the design of the pagan Roman Temple of Zeus, the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome. Superimpose them and they fit to a 'T'.
Aniconism is the avoidance of images of sentient beings in any form which is the Islamic way, and so there are no artistic depictions of such in mosques. Yet the walls of the Dome are adorned with devilish embellishments like this image. These are not Islamic nor Arabesque patterns, and they are not found in any other mosque in the world. Muslim scholars are hard put to explain these unholy creature-like images. Is that a sign of the Enemy's topsy turvy signature - the holy Temple had cherubins facing each other, the Dome has their devilish symmetries.
Many inscriptions in the Dome and mosque declare God has no wife, thus no son, thus Jesus is only a man. Instead of focusing on Islam, the focus on 'God has no son' was obviously a chastisement of the Jews and Christians. What are we to make of these irregularities? Psychologists will say these are signs of defiance. But by Who and to Whom?
Then in 1871, German engineer Carl Human discovered some artifacts of the Altar of Zeus. If you have been reading warily, time to wake up. This is where our story exploded.
1871 - the year artifacts of Altar of Zeus were discovered and shipped backed to Berlin, something else stirred. The German Empire came into being. With the exception of Austria, other Germanic regions got together, and for the first time in history, the German nation came into being. (1871-1918 was considered to be the period of the 2nd Reich (Empire). The 1st Reich was the time of the Holy Roman Empire AD 800-1806).
With permission from the Ottoman Empire, the Germans started excavation in 1878 which lasted till 1886. All artifacts were shipped back to Berlin. The Altar of Zeus was reconstructed and housed in a building sitting on an island in the city of Berlin. They named it the Museum of Pergamon. As the Enemy was building his new Throne, the ground was being prepared. One year after excavation began, German agitator and publicist, Wilhelm Marr created the term 'anti-semiticism'. About the time they finished putting the altar back together in Berlin, a little German boy was born in 1889. His name was Adolf Hitler.
By the 1870s, as the Altar of Pergamon was reawakening, Europe was in a great arms race. Hostility was fermenting. Pergamon Museum took a while to construct, and as the Enemy sat on his new throne in Berlin, World War 1 broke out in 1914. Germany lost and lived in shame and frustration under the Treaty of Versailles. WWI devastated Eastern European Jews. Hundreds of thousands died in the war and equally many more in the pogroms that followed after the war. This was not given much publicity because there is no name attached to this tragedy, such as 'holocaust'. WWI also intensified anti-semitism in Europe that fed into WWII.The first museum to house the Altar of Pergamon was defective. Reconstruction for a new building began in 1910 and it took 20 years to complete. During this time, something else came into being. The Thule Society was formed in 1918. This was an occult society prominent for its belief in the supremacy of the Germanic Aryan race, its hatred of Jews and communist, of course its occult practices, and its emblem of the reverse swastika. The Buddhist swastika is an aniconic symbol of Buddha, symbolising eternal cycling. Thule Society had it the reverse way -- the Enemy's topsy turvy fun. Hitler was not a member of Thule whose membership listed many early Nazy sympathisers, amongst whom were Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg. Thule eventually warped into the German Workers Party which itself became the National Socialist German Worker's Party, Nazi Party for short. The Nazi Party took log stock and barrel the ideologies, hatred, symbols and occultism of the Thule Society. It was without doubt, an occult party. Heinrich Himmler, very much into occultism himself, was appointed by Hitler to head the SS (Gestapo). He was the architect of all sorts of diabolitcal and satanic rites in the German Army and a main architect of the holocaust.
By 1921, Hitler had assumed leadership of the Nazi Party. But they were still a mediocre political organisation with only a few thousand members and insignificant presence in the Reichstag (parliament). The same year when the Pergamon Museum opened in 1930, the Nazi Party suddenly had the 2nd highest number of members in the Reichstag (parliament). Party membership exploded from a mere few thousands into millions. At its height, it had 8.5 million members. Hitler was on his way to the top.
Hitler chose to hold his rallies in Nuremberg. For this purpose, he had architect Albert Speer construct a platform. Speer, certainly unknowingly, modeled Hitler's platform on the Altar of Pergamon. It was on this altar that Hitler made all those fiery, spell-bounding rousing speeches like a man possessed. Was the Enemy speaking on his throne through Hitler? From this Seat of Satan, Hitler announced his Nuremberg Laws and the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question'. Germany went into a frenzy to exterminate the Jews. The whole German nation was demonised.
The word holocaust came from the Greek 'holokaustos' which means wholly or completely burnt. In the Septaugint Bible, holocaust is used in many references for prayers and offerings. The Jews gave offerings to God for salvation. Pagan offerings were to pagan Gods and other spiritual principalities for power or other worldly benefits. As Satan sat on his throne in Berlin, he will have Jews exterminated, what better fitting way than as holocaust offering to him. In WWII, 6 million Jews were exterminated in the holocaust and a total of 60 million people died in the war. The Jews were the 10th%, the tithe, or the first offerings. The Enemy had his topsy turvy fun yet again.
"He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place." ...Lecitivus 14:13.The holocaust offering is to be performed in a 'holy place'. That's what the Bible says. Well, in Poland there is a town called Oswiecim. In Polish, it means 'holy place'. The German name for this town is Auschwitz. About 1.1 million Jews were gassed and burnt in the concentration camps in Auschwitx.
"And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered." .....Ezekiel 34:5The Jews were led like sheep to the slaughter. Literary, they were transported by trains in cattle cars to concentration camps, just the way animals are transported. Without a messiah, the Jews have been scattered all over the world such as lambs without a shepherd. And what happens to lambs without a shepherd - the wolves seek them out. Hitler's first name of Adolf is the shortened Germanic word 'athalwolf' which means 'noble wolf'.
With the Altar of Pergamon in Berlin, Germany was on a roll. They won spectacular victories all over Europe and North Africa. Its military prowess was at its zenith. But Light always overcome Darkness eventually. Germany lost WWII and officially surrendered to Allied Forces on 7 May 1945. No good ending comes to one who sells his soul to the Devil. Hitler committed suicide in a bunker and his body was burnt. He was the last holocaust for the Altar. He died on 30 April 1945, the day of greatest significance to the occult world. It is known as the Walpurgis' Night, a night where the ancients built bonfires all over their cities to ward off witches and evil spirits. (There are those who believe in the conspiracy theory of Hitler escaping to Argentina).
Germany then split into East and West Germany. The capital city Berlin itself was split into 2. East Germany and East Berlin went under USSR control. In 1948 the Soviets took parts of the Altar of Pergamon and shipped it to Leningrad. Satan's throne is now partly in Leningrad and partly in East Berlin. And so, just as Hitler rose with the Altar, the Soviets grew in size and strength. With the Enemy now in the Soviet bloc, what did he do? Same old story of anti-semitism as the Soviets expelled Jews, banned Christianity, torn down churches, desolated all Jewish cultural institutions, indiscriminately killed, deported, etc. History is unsure how many millions were slaughtered, both Jews and Soviet people.
With the Altar of Pergamon under Soviet control, the USSR and communism prospered. The East had turned Red with Eastern Europe under Soviet domination, and the far east under Mao Tse Tung. Soviet nuclear might paralleled the US. The nuclear arms race was on. The space race was on, just to demonstrate power. The Soviets won. Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space in 1961. Behind all this, communism painted the Eastern bloc red with the blood of those they slaughtered.
Some will recall that the USSR voted for the creation of the State of Isreal, as well as being the second country to recognise Israel, and supported the Jewish state with weapons in their first Israel-Arab war of 1948. This was not an act of love. The Soviets thought the new Israeali nation will be a socialist country and its creation would weaken British influence in the Middle East at the time.)
Here's another coincidence. In 1878 when excavation at Pergamon started, when the Enemy was rising, a little Russian child was born. His name was Stalin, and he was Satan's Plan B. Satan's bet on Hitler evaporated but now, under Stalin after WWII, Soviet power and dominance grew and half the world was painted Red. The Enemy, intent on world destruction, now bring the world to face a new holocaust -- nuclear holocaust. The new era of Cold War started and Berlin is now a flash point. In 1948, the US refused to ship reparations from their sector in West Berlin to the Soviets. (Soviets wanted a neutral and crippled Germany as a border state and thus demanded plentiful reparations; US wanted a Germany rebuilt and strengthened to face a new Soviet threat to Western Europe). Stalin reacted by blockading all roads into West Berlin. That was the first Berlin Crisis. The US airlifted supplies into Allied's sectors of East Berlin. Soviet blockade was inutile.
In 1958, the Soviets returned the artifacts taken from the Pergamon Museum and Satan now sat once again in Berlin. Immediately the Second Berlin Crisis erupted in that same year. The Soviets wanted all parts of Berlin occupied by Allied Forces to be relinquished to them. The French, British and US merged their sectors and denied the demands. The Soviets constructed the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie was immortalised.
After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Castro requested for Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba. Kruschev agreed as this also counters US nuclear installations in Western Europe. When US intelligence saw the Cuban missile sites being built up, John F Kennedy ordered the Cuban Blockade in 1962 to prevent further shipment of Soviet hardware. Castro asked for Soviet nuclear strikes on the US. After frantic negotiations, both sides defused the situation. Kruschev withdrew all IIyushin II-28 bombers and missiles, JFK withdrew nuclear missiles from Italy and Turkey. Now, where were the US missile installations in Turkey? In the District of Pergamon. And what were those US missiles called? Jupiter ballistic missiles.
The world will never know how close we came to a nuclear holocaust and oblivion during the Cold War era.
Immediately after WWII, Winston Churchill saw the danger of the rise of the soviet bloc as capital after capital in Eastern Europe fell behind the Iron Curtain. He prompted the US to carry out a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Moscow as he felt it was a matter of time before the Soviets gained nuclear capability. Truman rejected the idea. The Soviets eventually caught up with the nuclear race and the world entered the era of Cold War with the menacing nuclear threat over our heads.
In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Crisis, a Soviet nuclear submarine was under orders to head for Cuba. The blockade started and they lost communication with Moscow. US battleships spotted the sub and dropped depth charges to get them to surface. The cat and mouse game went on for a few days and it became intolerable for the submariners who had to resurface for fresh air. The captain judged that war had broken out and he decided to launch nuclear missiles to take out the US vessels. The second-in-command concured. Soviet protocol required a third senior officer to agree. Flotilla commander Vasily Arkhipov refused to authorise the use of nuclear missile. He reasoned the way the charges were dropped to the left and right of the sub was an indication for them to surface to talk. For his action, he faced a disciplinary court martial. For the world, Vasily prevented a nuclear holocaust.
In 1983 shortly after the Soviets shot down the Korean airliner, the Soviet satellite warning system at Oko reported a missile had been launched by the US and then followed by another 6. According to Soviet military protocols, that should have initiated an action that would have caused Soviet retaliation against US. Lt Colonel Stanislav Petrov judged it was a false alarm and disobeyed their protocols. As it turned out, it was systems malfunction. But for Stanislav, the world would have been obliterated.
The Words of Karl Marx, the Voice of Satan :
To the non-disbelievers, surely we can agree the red tide owed a lot to one man -- Karl Marx. Yet ask how much do you know of the main players. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky - they could'nt care two hoots about the poor people, the proletariats. It was all about destruction, chaos, eliminating religion (Judeo-Christianity) and power. All this madness came out of the cauldron of philosophies of atheism, naturalism, rationalism, Darwinism, anarchism, and anti-capitalism, being pedaled in Europe since Enlightenment era. Marx wrote the famous ‘The Communist Manifesto’. The draft was titled 'The Communist Question of Faith’ and question 22 called for total obliteration of religion. Marx is credited with the quote - 'religion is the opiate of the masses' although some said that came from his hero Moses Hess.
In his poem 'Human Mind', Marx declared his motivation is destruction.
Words I teach all mixed up into a devilish muddle.
Thus, anyone may think just what he chooses to think
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the face of the world,
And see the collapse of this pygmy giant whose fall will not stifle my ardor.
Then will I wander godlike and victorious through the ruins of the world
And, giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.
Still in doubt of the Satanic mind of Marx? In 'Oulanem', he wrote:
Stop, I’ve got it now! It rises from my soul....
Yet I have power within my youthful arms
To clench and crush you with tempestuous force,
While for us both the abyss yawns in darkness.
I have lost heaven,
And know that for sure.
My soul, once faithful to God,
Now is destined for hell.
I'll set up my throne above,
Cold and terrible will be the peak of it.
Superstitious trembling is at its base,
Master - most black agony.
The one who will look with healthy looks,
Will turn away, turn pale and deadly mute.
Possessed by blind and cold deathness,
Will prepare a tomb with his happiness.
You will sink down and I shall follow laughing,
Whispering in your ears, “Descend, come with me, friend.”
One is reminded of Isaiah 14:13-14 on Satan's design.
Karl Marx was born Moses Mordecai Levy, son of a Jewish rabbi. They became Christians later on. He turned atheistic and his father feared he had turned demonic. Marx actually offered to dedicate a chapter in his 'Manifesto' to Charles Darwin who politely refused as he was not anti-religion. The Iron Curtain world swooned to the Words of Marx without understanding it was the Voice of the Devil.
What is Satan brewing today :
We turn the pages of history. In 1972 came the SALT treaties and nuclear dis-armament. The centrally planned economics of communism failed and red countries reinvented themselves. Many turned democratic, socialist democrat, and allowed free enterprise as well as the re-appearance of religion in their countries. In the 1980s, Perestroika (Reformation) and Glasnost (Openess) caused the USSR to collapse in 1991. In the same year, the Berlin Wall came down. Eventually, Satan's grip waned, despite the Altar of Pergamon still remaining in Berlin.
Has the world discarded the darkness? Methinks not quite yet. In 2014 the Pergamon Museum was closed for rebranding. In will re-open in 2024. It is stirring yet again. With Germany's new economic might, its dominance in the European Union, EU in turmoil with an invasion of Islamic immigrants, rising right wing populism, and Satan on his throne in Berlin, something is brewing yet again. The EU is going to create its own army. Watch out for developments in Germany.
In recent times, Russia and US have withdrawn from the SALT treaties, bringing the spectre of nuclear holocaust to the forefront once again. US Jupiter missiles remain at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in the district of Pergamon.
What is wrong with the US :
What is one to make of Obama's bizarre behaviour in July of 2008? With his campaign team in disarray, he went to Berlin, the seat of Satan, and gave a rousing speech to a large appreciative German audience. The EU loves him, then and to this day. He was not yet president, but they received him like a great world leader. His speech was about the New World Order, same as what Hitler spoke there. One month after Obama returned from Berlin, he was nominated by the Democratic National Convention. Thereafter, his campaign became supercharged. For his nomination speech, Obama stood on a platform that was modeled on the Altar of Pergamon, exactly the way Hitler did. Was he trying to invoke certain powers?One of Obama's mentor was the socialist Saul Alinsky (who also mentored Hillary Clinton). Alinsky was socialist and godless and has been likened to Rasputin, Joseph Goebbels, servant of the devil, and harbinger of insurrection. He was famous for his book "Rules for Radicals". Obama's favorite rules are No. 5 on 'ridiculing' the opposition and No.13 "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it." Is it a wonder in the Obama era the Dems have gone to the radical left extreme and polarisation is a curse in the US today. What abomination ensued in the Obama years? Child sacrifice in the abortion legislation, the abomination of the holy sanctity of marriage, and disavowed God in all public places and services. Obama did not discriminate, expel or kill Jews, but he brought US-Israel relationship to the lowest level it has ever been in history. He put Israeli security at great risk in a deal where he handed billions of $ to Iran and practically allowed them to pursue nuclear capability despite the Iranian repeated public threats to exterminate the Jewish state. In 2014 Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets if they attempt to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. (Israeli media reported this, US media said it's rumours). It's best to let someone else do the killing. Same-o same-o Satanic scenarios.
"And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse." ... Genesis 12:2-3Apart from His convenant with His chosen people, God established His doctrine of reciprocity. This has been played out over and over again in human history but largely gone un-noticed.
The US was the first country to recognise the state of Israel in 1948. Ever since, US has been extremely generous to and protective of the security of Israel. The God narrative sees the US blessed economically, militarily, and technologically in almost a century of prosperity and world leadership. The abominations now going on in the US and the turning away from God is not going to be positive for the country's fortunes. In 2014 after the Obama threat to shoot down Israeli Jets, China's economy overtook the US to become the world number one.
In 2015, Obama interfered in the Israeli election with an all-out offensive with veiled threats, anonymous news leaks and media messages that portrayed Netanyahu as a danger to Israel with his antagonistic relationship with the White House. Polls showed Netanyahu's popularity dropped tremendously, but a last minute surge won him an unexpected victory. (There's a story of God's hand in this, but that's for another day). God did to US what Obama did to Israel - God interfered in the US election 2016. Hillary Clinton was supposed to be the hands down winner. A last minute surge from evangelist votes tipped the scales for Trump.
Are these stories and events nothing but coincidences :
A coincidence is the concurrence of events or circumstances that do not seem to have any apparent connection. To the scientific minds, the stories here are hogwash. There are no dots to connect. But what about the immensity of coincidences running throughout the Bible? Statisticians will explain the law of coincidences of large numbers. Simply expand the population of observations and it’s possible to conjure up many coincidences. Or they will say these observed coincidences are simply ‘confirmation bias’. The writer conveniently ignores what he does not wish to show
But are there coincidences which are meaningful although their occurrences have no causal relationship? Carl Jung has a word for this. He called it 'synchronocity'. The Bible then, is full of synchronocities.
What does the Bible say of coincidences? It is mentioned only once, by Jesus himself in Luke 12.7. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus described a traveler who was robbed and injured and lying by a roadside. “And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side”. From the Septaugint the word is 'sygkyria' which translates to 'what occurs together by God's providential arrangement of circumstances'.
From the brilliant scientific mind of Albert Einstein : 'A coincidence is a small miracle when God chooses to remain anonymous'.
God does his work in mysterious ways, using kings and empowering others that he choses. For reasons we do not comprehend, God's ways tend to use important Jewish holidays or patterns of dates for important events. Perhaps it is a way to communicate to us that a transcendental force is at work. The following coincidences will blow your mind :
- In 1313 BC Moses and his people had reached the frontier of the Promised Land. 12 spies were sent out to see whether the land could be taken from the Canaanites. 10 of the 12 reported negatively, only Caleb and Joshua had positive reports.
Numbers 14:1 describes the people gathered that night the spies returned. They chose to believe the negative reports. People were frightened, did not wish to fight the Canaanites and angry that God's promise was not to be. “The people wept that night.” That night was Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the Jewish month of Av. God declared: “They cried for no reason; in the future I’ll give them good reason to cry.”
God was pissed that Israel had no faith in Him and wanted to disinherit and create a pestilence for them. Mosses pleaded for the rebellion of the Jews and God relented. He punished them with 40 years of wandering in the desert, 1 year for each of the 40 days the spies spent doing their intel gathering. None of that generation 21 years old and above were allowed to enter the Promised Land except Caleb and Joshua. The 40 years was enough time for the oldies to die out in the desert.
That night on the 9th of Av in 1313 BC, God sent the Jews out to wander the desert for 40 years for atonement of their sin. That set off the mystery of the 9th of Av. Almost every sorrowful event of the Jewish people fell on this day of their calender. - The First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians and Jews taken into Babylon as slaves - 9th of Av 586 BC.
- The Second Temple was completely destroyed by Roman legions under Titus - 9th of Iv AD70.
- Jews at Betar massacred in revolt against Romans - 9th of Av AD135.
- Jews martyred in England, York Castle in an anti-semitic rioting - 9th of Av 1190.
- The Jews expelled from England - 9th of Av 1290.
- Jews expelled from France - 9th of Av 1306 (actually happened on the day after)
- Jews expelled from Spain - 9th of Av 1492.
- Jews in Rome moved to a ghetto - 9th of Av 1555. The Roman Ghetto was initiated by Pope Paul IV and lasted till 1870.
- Germany declared war on Russia and WWI started - 9th of Av 1914 (with terrible consequences for Jews).
- SS Commander Heinrich Himmler formally received approval from the Nazi Party for “The Final Solution” 9th of Av 1941.
- Mass deportation of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto to extermination camp - 9th of Av 1942.
There are no coincidences. God is real. The Enemy is real. The battles are real.