Russia

This blog deals with headlines out of Russia late last week. Apparently this was the plague of gnats. A few more dates are coming in quick succession which I cover here. The plague series dates likely lives as a band on The Crown tabernacle item which I also explore in detail here, especially the problem of building such a thing.

2023-06-09 Kakhovka Dam Blog (Paleo.in)

The link here is to the June 9, 2023 blog where I dealt with the resumption of the plagues series. The destruction of the Kakhovka dam appears to be the plague of frogs, though around a week late.

In that blog I suggested to look for prophetic replay of the next plague, the plague of gnats, about 1 month later. The dam was a little late, so it was unclear if we are on the normal mid-month schedule or if this might have changed to end of month. The plagues are generally mid-month, so the best estimate for the plague of gnats 13014-06-15 (2023-06-22) would be the tight expected date.

Key Events in Wagner Revolt (rt.com)

On Friday, 1 day after the expected mid-month prophetic date, there was a strange event in Russia. Western media immediately labeled it a coup attempt, while the Russians called it a rebellion or revolt. The link here is to an RT article that summarizes what happened.

As background, the Wagner Group is a bunch of mercenaries currently fighting on Russia's behalf in Ukraine. They operate more commonly across Africa. There has been tensions between that group and the Russian military. There is no formal signed contract, for example.

There was an apparent attack on a Wagner base from the rear, ostensibly by Russian military. This was the stated reason why Prigozhin, the leader of Wagner, took a group of maybe 8000 men, and drove north towards Moscow. He wanted the removal of 2 specific Russian generals. This certainly grabbed everyone's attention.

By early Saturday morning Putin had given a televised speech and called for Wagner to lay down arms. Putin called this an armed rebellion. The city of Moscow took civil defense measures in preparation.

By Saturday evening the Wagner units turned back. This was after Wagner units had been bombed on the freeways and after they had fired back and shot down Russian military aircraft killing 39 Russian flight crew. Prigozhin himself was banished to Belarus.

This was all a very strange episode. The details were something you might expect in a strange Russian spy novel. If Putin himself had not been on TV, it would have been much harder to believe that it even happened at all.

Putin's First Address (rt.com)

The link here is to an RT article with the key points and the video for Putin's early Saturday televised speech.

The fact that he had to take the stage suggests this was serious. But, it is a very strange episode. Paul Craig Roberts weighed in suggesting how very strange this was.

Paul Craig Roberts (Youtube.com)

Roberts gives several examples where generals often compete with each other. There could have been internal fighting between generals in Russia. Putin is likely surrounded by a set of generals that feed him what they want him to know. So Prigozhin might be in the right, that there is trouble with certain generals.

On the other hand, Prigozhin himself might be the trouble. Those Russian generals might be on to him as a CIA agent or similar.

Yet another possibility is that the CIA or other NATO interests are stirring up trouble in Russia by making them unable to trust east other. The west generally prefers to take over countries by internal revolt rather than external invasion. So this could be one of their tricks.

As outsiders we will never know what happened for sure.

In the end, Prigozhin was banished to Belarus. This puts him in a very interesting geographic location. This could be used as a staging ground for another invasion of Kiev. So, some are speculating that this whole thing might be a Russia ruse to distract the west from some greater military plan. Feigning weakness or confusion is a war strategy all by itself.

Finally, the Russians are also using this event to weed out mutineers. Anyone who joined in has shown themselves to be disloyal to Russia itself. This might also have been yet another intentional purpose for this event.

The plague of gnats fulfilled in the past with the grounding by the FAA of US commercial airliners over a problem of rivets in wheel wells. So this plague in the past was an internal political event that caused confusion in the public. In that case the public had to wonder what was going on, either the planes were not safe, so should have been dealt with earlier, or they were safe, and should not have been grounded.

Calling Wagner forces to lay down arms is similar. Shouldn't these concerns have been handled easier and earlier in private?

This plague includes a statement that Pharaoh could do this by his secret arts. This would agree with the idea that this was done by the CIA or other western interests.

Future Dates

This series continues, and Moses will confront Pharaoh 'in the morning.' On the prophetic timeline that marks a mid-prophetic month headline, so this means to watch for a headline at the calendar month break.

If we are now correctly tracking tight to the schedule, watch for confrontation with Pharaoh on or very near 13014-07-01, (2023-07-08). Putin is most likely in the office of Moses for this series. Pharaoh is some (perhaps secret) leader in the western world.

At this point I am watching for Putin to say something publicly against either western leaders generally, or some specific leader personally. In the text, Moses is warning of escalation, which would be the logical thing for Putin to warn about.

In relatively quick succession, at 13014-07-15, (2023-07-22) we would expect to see the warning of the start of a prophetic 3 day (so in our time 3 month or 90 day) 'plague of flies.' Remember, the underlying term in this plague is 'Arab.' This was Obama in the past run of this plague series. Prophetic Egypt is eventually left in ruin by the Arab. Whatever is starting at mid July, it should last for 3 months, with a culmination ending 13014-10-15 (2023-10-20).

The Crown Tabernacle Item

This series of plagues headlines begs the question, where does the plagues timeline show up in the set of Tabernacle items? For that matter, where does any timeline show up?

I believe the answer is on an item called 'The Crown.'

I had started to pray about this item a few weeks ago when I woke one morning thinking about clocks. So I went to work looking at clocks. That became an update to the clock app and the first of what will be several 3d designs for 3d printed clocks. I posted a picture about this to Telegram and updated clock.paleo.in last week.

The clock is the starting point for understanding the crown.

At the highest level of resolution around the clock face there is the equivalent level of detail as 7 consecutive shepherd's staffs. They form into a ring with the same physical size as 7 such staffs. So the circle of the crown is around 14 feet across.

The shepherd's staff itself is intricately designed. Besides room to audit and record 1 line of text, the staff has 1 square for each day in a common calendar year. By using the trim on the line of text, a shepherd can also carry an annual calendar, permanently marked with months and days and holidays. The other side of the trim can be used to mark that year's Sabbaths and the current day of the year.

Circling 7 such staffs into a ring is not only forming a high resolution clock, it is also a timeline map for 7 years, the 7 staffs. It can also be thought of as a single year, with better than day accurate resolution. The 12 months are like 12 hours and are also like 12 stars atop the crown.

Because of its size, and the natural viewing spot in the center, it needs to hang from a ceiling. Standing in the middle is like standing in the middle of a large clock.

At the 6:00 AM / 6:00 PM spot on this clock/crown there is a gap. This gap picks up the issue of leaps. For a 12 month common year, the gap is closed. For a 13 month year, or when looking at all months in 7 years, the gap is 'open' and bridged. In the case of Sabbath years the gap is bridged with another 30 days.

Narrow Door

Many places in the text use a narrow door as the basis for a parable about entering into everlasting life. These parables are built upon the gap in the crown. A narrow door is a leap time. These are the times set aside for Joshua. When we meet with him at his appointed times we are entering through that narrow door.

The crossing of the Jordan is another place where the narrow door parable applies. Crossing the Jordan is like entering into Eden. The crown object appears to explain a component of the crown as setup in the Tabernacle.

When the heirs of Jacob crossed the Jordan they were told to fetch 12 stones out of the riverbed. Those stones were carried on their shoulders, eventually to the meeting place.

Those 12 stones are taken from the national narrow door. I now think they are used for counterweights on the crown. 12 strings tie the stones through ceiling pulleys to the 12 hour points/stars around the crown's top.

The stones must be lifted to shoulder height before the crown is lifted into position. When held at shoulder height those stones are tied to the crown after it is assembled on the floor. When the stones are then put back on the ground the crown is lifted into a shoulder height (or higher) position.

It takes 12 leaders working together to place the crown in its normal lifted position. If it is a peg board design, like the staff, then it cannot be changed without 12 in agreement. They can lower it, change it, and return it to its raised position. Individuals likely cannot do this work alone. The team needed to lift the stones is a source of audit/agreement in this item's design.

Other Crown References

All inspired references to crowns appear to be references to this crown. The crown of thorns, for example, tells us that this crown indicates when blood is shed on earth by the same community that gave Joshua that crown.

The throne room kings, so the inspired writers, all have crowns of their own. This suggests that they each have bands of date details around this master crown. This gives rise to the various timeline bands we have used in the past.

To estimate the size, think about giving each king 1/2 inch of vertical space on the interior face of this crown. Of that 1/2 inch, perhaps 1/4 inch is labeling and 1/4 inch is a standard row of peg holes to mark dates and events. At this size, the crown comes in over a foot tall.

The plagues narrative is likely being taken from, or read off of, 1 of those bands on the crown. One of the kings, in this case likely Moses himself, is responsible for that ring. The plagues are about 42 days long, so 42 months or 1/2 way around a 7 year circle.

The design of the crown itself will probably show a reflection of the plagues on the 2nd half, though this is still to be verified. The reflection in the Exodus era would have been at the crossing of the sea. So the reflected time would have been the various troubles that happened in the first 3.5 years after leaving Egypt. We may have missed reflections in 2008, and reflection might get us to near 2029 on the current set.

The detailed time lines that we see across the text, from Noah's flood, to the various NT time lines, are all likely their own bands on the interior face of the crown. Each band is assigned under some inspired writer which then draws in back story to that band. Each band then aligns vertically with all others and with clock-like notations around the inside top of the crown.

Finding all those bands is not going to be easy, but there are quite a few of them already in my Bible Time era notes. The interior face of the crown is thus the basis for a future timeline app as I have discussed here previously.

Estimating Work

This is by far the largest object I know of so far. Just by English idiom, the crown is likely the 'crowning achievement' of the process of building the tabernacles items.

I do not yet have a detailed design. So I cannot start this yet. But, I began thinking about the 3d printing work that will be needed to build the crown.

The 7 staffs are 5 cubits long, so the natural division of the crown is probably 35 panels of 1 cubit or 18 inches each. Another panel or 2 for the narrow door. Each of those panels is likely over 1 ft tall.

On my current gear, at a 6 inch panel size, which allows room for connecting tabs, my current printer beds will require over 300 multi-hour prints to pull this off.

A printer with a bed size that could print cubit length panels makes more sense. So it needs a printer that can print 18 inch long pieces, maybe 1 inch in depth for the fastener tabs used at the connections between panels.

As I thought about this more I also realized the clock faces for the higher resolution clocks could also use a larger format printer. The bigger clock faces, 10 inches or 12 inches, cannot be easily sectioned without messing up the art on the face.

I also realized the pot for the fig tree and pots for any additional trees could also use a larger format printer. The pot for the fig tree is also its carrying case, so it is a large cylinder that holds the limbs, leaves and figs.

Some of the limbs on the fig tree also could use a large format printer so they could be printed as 1 piece.

Taken together, a printer with a much bigger bed is a much better tool to finish these larger sized tabernacle items.

Larger Printer Beds

I went looking at printers that could print these curved crown panels. The standard bed size that fits this is 350mm X 350mm. This is just under 14 inches square. Diagonally this bed is around 19.5 inches in size, which is enough for 1 cubit long panels if the 12+ inch height is printed as height off the bed. This would also allow them to each be curved and together form a complete circle.

A 350mm X 350mm bed size is about as large as can be made before needing excessive stiffening in the printer members. Bigger printers exist, but they need very heavy frames, larger motors and more powerful drive electronics. All of this quickly adds cost about that 350mm size. So 350mm is also a sweet spot for printer cost.

I have spent several days studying the question of which printer. I normally run Prusa printers, but for this use I do not like their large format printer. Their XL printer is tuned for multi-color printing and not very well tuned to this task. It is also expensive, ~$2000, especially relative to the best alternative.

Instead I am looking for a Voron v2.4 printer with a 350mm X 350mm X 350mm build area. This is a fully open sourced printer design. There is a large community of people who use and supply parts and mods for this design. The printer is supported by the slicing software I use for the rest of the printers in the farm. There are several different suppliers of ready to build Voron 2.4 kits.

The prices for these Voron kits have dropped considerably in the past year or so. For several years incomplete kits were running around $1500 pushing the total cost up near the Prusa XL. But, there is now a complete kit that is well regarded offered by Formbot at $899. This is not much more than the Prusa MK4 kits which are considerably smaller. Here is the link to this particular Formbot model on their website.

Formbot Voron 2.4r2, 350 x 350 x 350 (formbot3d.com)

Thomas Sanladerer built one of these Formbot kits in a live stream about a year ago. He built the slightly smaller 300mm version. In his build, he included a bunch of mods that are not needed for this work.

Sanladerer had some specific things he suggested Formbot should do differently, including different motors, stainless steal fasteners and a better wiring harness. Formbot has made all of those changes in their current kits. They also include the Raspberry Pi which was not included in many other earlier kits at much higher cost.

Sanladerer now lists this printer as his favorite. This for a bunch of good reasons. If you watch his video on Youtube you will also see he melted the bottom of the case. He did this because he left off the cooling fans from the bottom of the printer before he started running it.

The same Formbot Voron printer is available from aliexpress for the same price. Both sources suggest around 3 days for delivery from a warehouse in the USA.

To further make sure this printer would work, I downloaded the design files and assembly instructions. The documentation is on par with the documentation for the Prusa printers. Voron docs are not difficult to follow. It will take time to build because of the number of parts, but pretty much every assembly has clear detailed art for the assembly process.

It should be relatively easy to maintain the finished printer in the future. I scanned Amazon for replacement parts, like large PEI sheets and belts. These and many other replacement parts are readily available there.

Software support is also pretty good. It runs Klipper on the Raspberry Pi. Klipper software does input shaping which when tuned well dramatically speeds up the printer itself. Sanladerer suggested it will run at twice the feed rate of the oldest Prusa printers that I am currently running. I've seen videos of people testing 3x the speed on this 350mm Voron. This speed is possible, but might be pushing it.

There is a potentially useful multi material upgrade called the Enraged Rabbit. Multi material upgrades allow the printer to automatically switch filaments mid-print. This is usually used for multiple colors. I use multiple colors on clock faces, for example. I currently switch filament by hand which requires the printer to be attended for the filament change. That upgrade could be easily added in the future.

Help

When I was in prayer about this Joshua told me to be like Moses and ask for help in building out this set of Tabernacles items. I do not do this very often, but let me ask readers of this blog to consider gifting one of these printers for this work.

While I am at this, let me ask if anyone wants to pick up website costs for the next few months, that would also be helpful.

More Later,

Phil

End Notes

For future reference, more articles dealing with recent events in Russia.