Watch Dates

This blog covers the next big set of prophetic watch dates. But first, feedback and notes on the newly printed 3d items and a GRB update. Also, some notes on the design of the new BRICS bank notes. Finally a headline review.

Travel

Ryan and I traveled this past weekend. We took the newly 3d printed Table with us on a trip to visit friends in eastern Washington. We also took the current draft print of the lamp. These items became the subject of intense conversation about the details and functions of those items.

Each item tells various stories that explain the alphabet and its related systems. These are 2 exhibits in an eventual Tent of Time. We were retelling those stories to the group in order to practice and as a review.

Table

I showed photos of the Table last week on Telegram. The printing had not yet finished, which happened late Friday night.

The Table has enough minor detail issues that it will need to be 3d printed again before it is ready to release the designs on Ezekiel's Bones.

The dogs that hold the crumbs from the table have a stiff friction fit and also have snaps to hold them in place. The friction is high, and the snaps are not aligned correctly. There is also a problem with the seam where the bottom of that case joins the exterior walls. I saw this problem in the design, but did not know how severe it would be, nor did I know how to make it better. Once assembled I saw how to fix both of these fabrication issues.

There are also a few conceptual details that need addressing. The lid needs tie downs to match Peter's vision of a sheet tied at the corners. The punctuation letters for use on the audit dogs needs to reflect kerning. Finally the back side of the lid needs rework. That back side needs to be setup so it can also be used for teaching letter drawn forms. To that end the lid's interior surface needs to be slightly different and there needs to be something like a storage drawer for more related parts.

Exhibit Size

We had discussion about the aggregate size of all the exhibits once completed and it dawned on several of us that transport will probably need a small trailer to carry everything at the same time. Not that we need a trailer now, but that is where this eventually goes.

Use of a trailer also means plastic that does not melt in Texas summer heat. I took a to-do on this point. I will be looking at how to reliably print these models in something other than PLA plastic. Basically, all the printers probably require enclosures.

Lamp Changes

When the sun started to set on Saturday we wanted to plug in the lamp in order to show it off. This also caused some discussion about the lamp. There is quite a bit of meaning in the selection of colors. Those lamps map out to other items in the exhibit. 5 total items, including the lamp, are directly related to the 3d systems behind the drawn letter forms.

The first observation is that the bulbs in the lamp probably should be white, or perhaps clear. Real flames in real lamps are all the same color, and depending on flame size they are like stars in the night sky which is one of the stories of the lamp.

The Lamp probably should be floor standing. Currently the design is table standing. The text calls out a 1 piece design, this so it can be lifted and moved around, and not fall apart, unlike some of the other similar items which are assembled in place. This makes the lamp harder to pack for shipping. Maybe there are some design changes in this area.

So when the sun went down we went looking for an outlet. This itself became an adventure as most outlets were behind furniture. That lead to more discussion about using low voltage bulbs and putting a battery in the base of the lamp. This would allow demonstration without any concern for the room to supply power. This would keep high voltage in the wall where it belongs. The battery becomes something like the oil in an ancient oil lamp.

Low voltage lights, using a "wall wart" power supply, protects anyone making copies of the lamp in the future. They do not need to be trained in safe use of AC wiring. This is especially so in countries that use 240v AC outlets were licenses for such work are sometimes required.

So I also took a list of work items for the lamp. I have surveyed possible low voltage wiring schemes. Use of clear, prewired, 3mm LED bulbs allows me to 3d design and print whatever flame shape might make sense. LEDs are much smaller than the C7 bulbs I have been using. There is considerable space savings especially in the socket area below the bulb.

This will free up space right at each lamp making room in each flower of the lamp to hold individual switches, wick trimmers, so any combination of flames can be turned on. This improves the story telling ability of the lamp for future teachers who are using the lamp with their students.

It looks like USB C wiring, with 5v LEDs, gets a design using readily available cabling parts usually used for phones. There are many different types of pre-wired parts that can be called out in the design, making wiring easy for anyone to do later. This also includes easy use of inexpensive phone related rechargeable backup batteries that can be easily tucked into a space in the lamp base. Even the cheapest of such batteries look able to run the lamp for perhaps dozens of hours. This depends some on how many LEDs are needed for each flame, something I will be testing soon.

Drive Home

We drove back over Mount Rainier in the fog and rain. Not much to see. But we did have a wide ranging discussion about the other items that make up the rest of the exhibits for the Tent of Time.

I had a tough weekend staying focused on conversation because I kept flashing design details that belong on many of the other items. I was able to debrief much of this with Ryan. The first point is the Table, and perhaps a box for the tablets, are unusual as they are square boxes, originally out of wood. For our purposes now, that means plastic with wood-like color and tone.

It looks like nearly everything else is stored in clay pots. The set of pots are used for the cipher system. So the pots are needed for the Fig Tree exhibit. But only 1 pot matters to the Fig Tree at any given time. So the other pots get used in other ways with the other exhibits, being traded out when the Fig Tree is configured for each specific cipher.

The various plans for the different ways the fig tree can be assembled are drawn on those pots. (A 3d printing challenge.) When not used under the Fig Tree, that writing is ignored and they are used as bases for most of the other exhibits in this strange museum.

It is unclear how many exhibits sit on pots. The Sower, Reaper, Silo and Well are 4 that obviously sit on pots. By this I mean fabricated at 1 cubit scale, far larger than anything we've ever done except the lamp. Each of these items, including the trees, should sit on pots as exhibit stands. Maybe other exhibits do too, we will see.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who had great feedback for us this past weekend.

GRB Updates

Ryan is continuing to work through the tagging systems of the GRB text. He has previously added paragraphing and story breaks. This to match the 2 address systems possible in the app.

Ryan has now turned to the problem of poetry formatting. This is a very tedious task. He has (mostly) finished poetry formatting in the NT, and has now turned to poetry formatting in the OT. This work is establishing sub-verse labels that can be used in future passes as targets on cross references.

Besides the technical work on the formatting itself, this work is giving him a chance to review the Greek based translation itself. There are more editing passes coming, including voice tags and some of the other tags. In this process he should have done enough work to have a high-level review of the overall manuscript.

This work has caused us to have long discussions about cringe worthy aspects of conventional English translations. Even in Greek, it is conventional to translate Joshua son of Nun in the OT, while the same name comes out as Jesus in the NT. Ditto the problem of Jacob in the OT and James in the NT. Greek is a throwback to problems we solved long, long ago, in the BRB.

Ryan chased down James and found his printed copy of Wycliffe, the first English translation of the Bible. That very early English translation also uses James instead of Jacob. This is a very old mistake. Use of James instead of Jacob hiding the tribe related message of the Book of James.

Ryan is resisting the temptation to fix these bugs so that he can fight a different fight in the notes for the GRB. He is trying to show this thing is messed up.

Other Bug Fixes

A week ago we made a change to the tags we use to mark up manuscripts. Normally we only add tags. In this case we adjusted a series of tags to allow for a new set of tags for marking up contradictions. A new C series of tags was added for this. Previously, this was a subset of the Q series, or quote, tags. This change was done so they could be formatted differently. Contradictions are now also controlled independently in the menus.

You can see an example of this as a new option in the menus of the GRB app linked above. Make sure the Contradictions option is turned on, and then go look at Matthew 27:5. That verse has 2 contradictions and there are links from that verse to the contradictory passages.

Getting all this to work created and revealed a series of other bugs, now fixed. But let me review them here for the record.

To make room for this use of C to mark contradictions, we moved the old C for counts to E for enumerations. You can also see that Enumerations is now used in the menus. Enumerations provide numbers ahead of items in lists to quickly spot lists and their lengths. This function has been around for awhile, nothing new there, other than the name. Think "Enumerated Lists."

To make room for this use of E, we had to move the old E tag, in this case to X. This tag does not show up in menus, but is responsible for making textual exchanges between apps like the BRB and the TT. This is how punctuation is fixed, and how English is made whole in the TT given textual changes from the BRB. The same function will be going on in a Greek based parallel to the TT once Ryan is far enough along to confidently release it.

OK, all that is good. But changing existing tags is a rare and risky change because it risks serious regression style bugs. We had one of these happen when we released the TT last Friday, October 25, 2024.

Making matters much worse, the Internet was down on Saturday morning. Then we were traveling without email. Then we were offline and busy as I explained above. We did not see the emergency feedback that there were troubles in the TT and SR apps as released that Friday night. Because we were traveling on Sabbath, very, very rare for us, we did not spot the bugs ourselves.

Once we were home after the weekend, we got the email. Ouch. We did an out of cycle update to the apps this past Monday afternoon to fix the exchange related bugs that had been released last Friday.

More Bugs

With today's normal Friday scripture release, there are more bug fixes going out let me review those here.

The first long standing bug has been a problem with Lots as seen in the BRB and TT apps. The bug happens when doing a lot series, but only when 2 different lots land in the same page, and then only starting at the 2nd lot on the same page.

Turns out, the lot worked, the history was updated, and the highlighting was placed on the target paragraph but the target page, already correctly displayed because of the earlier lot, would not scroll to the new paragraph.

Our code was correctly asking for the scroll, but in some browsers the Javascript call that performs the actual window scroll was not functioning. There is no real fix for a bug that is not ours.

I went back this week to see if anyone had a workaround. I found someone with the same failure of that window scroll problem. I added their hack to get around this browser bug and our lots related bug is now fixed. If anyone sees this bug again, please let me know.

Yet More Bugs

Also, there was a bug related to cross references in the quote system. In the past this was rare, but as Ryan has added subverses to the manuscripts it has become more frequent.

The bug happened when following any cross reference, usually in quote links, but also now in contradiction links. The first sub verse, say 1a, at the destination of the cross reference was always highlighted, even if the cross references wanted the second or later subverse, say 1b.

This was a very strange bug, related to use of an internal verse map and not the page as found. This bug is also now fixed. If anyone sees this bug again, also, please let me know.

Watch Dates

For about the past year we have been following a series of prophetic dates based on the 2000th anniversary of Joshua's life. His life was running 1 day in his life for 1 year in the historical timeline. For this modern run, the timeline is offset by exactly 2000 years. We will be reaching NT dates later this decade. For now, we are replaying history against the anniversary of Joshua's life.

2024-09-25 was the replay of the year of the Exodus, Pharaoh's charioteers drowning in the seas. The matched headline was Hurricane Helene and the effects of a flooding disaster in western North Carolina.

We are now shifting to the end of the replay of the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. These next dates are related to crossing the Jordan, having faith to conquer ancient Canaan, settling land promises to Caleb and then starting an 80 day interval of relative quiet.

The 7 years used to conquer ancient Canaan becomes a week now. It straddles the presidential election in the USA, and my hunch is that election will be the primary fulfillment venue. Though the related venues of Ukraine and Israel are also likely in play and all 3 venues are tied together via the Israel Lobby in the USA.

River Theme

Few of the stories from the time of conquering ancient Canaan are dated to the year, so few of them are likely to show up in headline news. The general theme of conquering Canaan can be thought of as conquering the land across the river. This shows up in all the major venues we are generally tracking in headline news.

The Dnieper river is the likely final international border for the war in Ukraine, except, though, the region around Odessa and parts of Kiev. Those areas were also historical Russian land and likely to be recovered and kept by the Russians. Watch the Dnieper in Ukraine for possible fulfillment.

The Jordan river in Israel and the Litani river in Lebanon are also interesting venues to watch. Modern Israel is a Jebusite mixture, so Canaanite. It is possible to see headlines fulfill around these rivers as well. Watch Israel/Lebanon, more likely, and Israel/Jordan, less likely, for possible fulfillment.

Washington DC is on the north shore of the Potomac river. Trump has been exiled south across that river to Florida for the past 4 years. Was this his time in Egypt? It is possible to frame the US Presidential election as crossing the river back into Washington DC as yet another possible venue. Watch the US elections for possible fulfillment.

Jericho and Ai

The original historical story of crossing the Jordan and conquering Canaan begins with the stories of Jericho, and then Ai. Neither of these stories is dated to the year, so I would not expect to see them now.

The Jericho story, in particular, has a series of counts involved in the encirclement of that ancient city. Each of those counts triggers a mercy delay. In 2000 when this story first showed up in a prophetic series there were no headlines related to Jericho, but those counts pushed the Jericho story up to the general time of 911. In that headline the walls did fall, and the first responders rushed in.

I don't expect either Jericho or Ai to be seen in the dates that are coming up soon. When we get near to the replay of the stories of 911, I will review them here in the blog.

Israel Lobby

The USA is funding about 70 percent of the war in Israel, and the USA is behind the war against Russia. As the US Congress is mostly controlled by the Israel Lobby, ultimately all main prophetic stories, no matter the venue, are likely to be ultimately blamed on Israel and the political leaders there who control political leaders in the USA. The prophetic stories bear this out, Trump himself is only an official of Pharaoh.

Let me review the cluster of dates that are just ahead. These spread across 2 calendar weeks, so some land after next week's blog. I am listing them all here now to allow readers here to think about headlines as a working set.

Watch: 2024-11-03

Monday, 2024-11-03, is the replay of the last year of Moses' life. Standard Bibles indicate that he died in this year, but Josephus records this as being an addition, that he did not die. Our read of the text from the perspective of editors would agree with Josephus.

I am listing this date for reference. It may or may not generate anything interesting in headline news. Russia's Putin is often a prophetic Moses, so if there are prophetic headlines at this date, Putin would be the obvious person to watch, but headlines can come from anywhere.

Putin has been identified as a type of Moses far longer than the 120 years of Moses that end as days on this date. So we would not expect an end to Putin's rule in Russia.

If it does match Putin, watch for something like an important speech, or directions given to others who are months away from crossing Russia's Jordan. Alternatively, watch for something that would be considered like an ascension, say a missile shot, space flight, airline flight, or whatever else that might be.

Watch: 2024-11-04

Tuesday, 2024-11-04, is the replay of the year of the crossing of the Jordan. This was the 1st year of 7 years of the conquering of Canaan. The 7th year of that war of the conquest of Canaan lands on Monday, 2024-11-10.

Most of the stories in those 7 years are not dated year accurately, so most of them would not be expected to replay again now.

Note this is overlaying the US Presidential election. Unclear until after the week is over if this election is the intended prophetic venue. Trump might be considered as a type of Joshua son of Nun who will be returning his people to a land they left many (4?) years ago.

Interesting: 2024-11-06

This is technically not a watch date, but the correctly dated annual holiday that aligns with the day of Joshua's crucifixion. This date may have something to do with the week's prophetic headlines.

This is 1 day after the US presidential election. The election itself thus backs up and aligns with the trial of Joshua. If the winner cannot be determined, then this day indicates 3 more days until resurrection, so perhaps the 3 days until a winner comes out of the tomb and is known.

Holiday: 2024-11-09

This date is the correctly dated annual holiday for Resurrection Sunday. As an annual holiday it replays by date, not day of the week. This is of course not a Sunday in this year. It is falling on a Saturday this time around. This may also have something to do with fulfillment headlines in this prophetic week.

Again, if there is trouble with the US election, a winner might be seen this date. Trouble in any other venue might see an answer at this date.

Watch: 2024-11-10

The year that Caleb was given his inheritance, at age 85, replays on 2024-11-10. This is also the last year of the 7 years of conquering Canaan. Caleb being the man who was one of the 2 men of faith who had spied out the land years before.

Headlines, of course, could come from anywhere. I would think to start by watching the US election. Trump may be a type of Caleb, given inheritance at the White House, we will see.

Watch: 2024-11-11

This is the day that replays the first year of an 80 year time of rest. At this point we return to a new state-of-play that should continue for about 80 days. After this date I would expect the general "state of play" to settle down to a new pattern.

There is another watch date on 2024-11-14, which I will return to in a future blog not related to simple historical rerun.

Headlines

Let me review past headlines that caught my eye this past week.

Israel Attacks Iran

In the early morning hours of Saturday, October 26, 2024, Israel attempted to attack Iran. In the USA it was still Friday evening. Hal Turner, for example, had reported major help from the USA so that Israel could do massive damage to Iran. Hal had reported American air refueling tankers had flown in from Europe to refuel those Israeli fighters. But, as the evening unfolded, nothing serious seemed to happen in Iran. A few lights in the skies over Tehran, and not much more.

The link above is Judge Nap's weekly interview with Alastair Crooke, a former British diplomat. Alastair does a good job of explaining what happened that night. Of 3 waves of planned bombing runs over Iran, none of them were able to even reach Iran. If Alastair is correct they will not be able to do so in the future either.

According to Alastair, the Israeli war planes detected some sort of new Air Defense systems in use by Iran. Rather that risk fighting a system with unknown capability, Israel simply launched a few long range missiles, and then called off the attack. Israel media then declared victory. Those missiles are what caused the limited damage in Iran found the next morning.

That unknown radar is likely to be a Russian supplied anti-stealth air defense system. This system means not only Israel, but the USA cannot easily bomb Iran either, with the risk of the loss of all fighters attempting to bomb Iran.

This also upsets equations dealing with NATO entering war in Ukraine, as this same system would likely be deployed there too. The lesson from the last 3 chapters of Judges, it is only Judah, so Russia, who can defeat Benjamin, so Israel. This is the first time we have seen Russia's likely hand in this war. We will reach the Judges related prophetic stories a little over a year from now.

In the interview above, Alastair also then goes on to explain Israel's generally poor position relative to their ongoing war with their neighbors. This is unlikely to end any time soon, but the balance of power in the Middle East is slowly shifting away from Israel and towards Iran and her allies.

BRICS Notes

The link here is to a Sputnik article. The designer of the new BRICS bank notes is interviewed and asked about the design features of those notes.

The article contains clear photos of the 200, 100 and 50 Unit notes. If widely adopted, these become the international replacement for Federal Reserve Notes, usually $100, currently in circulation around the world.

Very important to note is that the designer of those notes considers them a type of "Noah's Ark" meant to save humanity from a disaster that is closely approaching. In that quote he sounds like someone following this blog. He is at least demonstrating some level of Biblical faith.

Instead of using the faces of men, usually kings, like all normal western bank notes, the BRICS notes use the totem animals for the 5 founding countries. See in particular the front of the 200 Unit note. Those 5 animals are in the ark of the BRICS currency.

This is not 4 beasts, as per stories in the Bible, but close. We may need to return to this point later.

Note that by avoiding the faces of men, the designer is also likely basing his design on scripture. Joshua said to give back currency with the faces of men to the king to which it belongs. So give back to the king tax paying tokens that are marked with his face.

If every single soul did this, the currency collapses. BRICS is doing this at scale. The BRICS Unit is for international trade, not tax, and thus avoids the use of men's faces.

The circle of flags represents the equality of each country that founded BRICS, so a circle, and then the animals that go with those flags stand along side. Note how a circular table, or circle of tables, or circle of chairs, is often symbolic of equality in meetings of leaders. Native American tribes often use circles for meetings of equals. They often also insist church meetings be held in circles.

This is a severe symbolic contrast to the hierarchy of Egypt and implicit in Solomon's currency systems with individual ruling kings in some hierarchy.

The flying scroll, also known as the crown, is a tabernacle item that forms a large circle. The meeting room, or tent, where that crown is displayed, does not have a natural front. It is also a very large circle. Joshua's own house at Capernaum was 8 sided, an approximation of a circle.

The BRICS 100 Unit note then uses again the circle of flags as national icons, but instead of animals at the same positions it uses national landmarks. For Brazil it picks up the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio. This is perhaps the first time I have seen a representation of Joshua beckoning on a currency. Very strange to see.

The back sides of these notes will also have more flags, the flags of all the countries admitted to BRICS after the founders. That list is expected to grow with time.

Note that this currency design is themed from the design of the US flag. The 13 bars are fixed to the original 13 founding states. The number of stars has changed across time as additional states were added to the USA.

I would not expect BRICS to easily gain control over the international systems of exchange. The Jews have controlled this since Solomon' day. They are not going down easily. But, we are in a time in world history when we expect Joshua to arise. We will see how this unfolds.

7 Indicators of Dollar Collapse

The link here is to a Zero Hedge article that gives good graphics for 7 key indicators that suggest the USD is collapsing. The USD is what the BRICS Unit is out to replace. This is happening by greedy western mismanagement as much as it is by any action of BRICS itself. BRICS is just stepping into the vacuum.

Pepe Escobar: BRICS Momentum

The link here is to a final article on the BRICS summit. Pepe is one of Judge Nap's weekly guests and tracks Russia better than most in western media. He was in Kazan during the summit. He seems to capture the hope for deliverance from American/Jewish slavery that much of the world is placing on BRICS. There is a famous redeemer on their new bank notes, so there is a chance this time.

Deforestation During Helene

Since the first reports of Helene related trouble out of North Carolina, there have been references to deforestation atop various mountains in the area. The link here documents the story of a family with a house that survived while the forest fell down outside. The family, and their house, survived.

If this storm was amplified by Soviet era weather weapons, this may be the forest equivalent of the disintegrating steal beams seen at 911. I don't have a ready link, but the Asheville water supply lake also had trouble with electrically charged particles in the pool after the storm. That charge prevents natural settling of lake sediments across time.

This type of electrically charged lake water is a known, but very rare, problem for the Asheville water department. The water features at the 911 memorial are thought to have been chosen because water may be helpful in putting out atomic fires ignited at that location.

Rent A Mob

Kamala held her closing rally for her 2024 campaign in the Ellipse near the White House in Washington DC on October 29, 2024. The link here is to a report tracking cell phone data, with about 31,000 phones on at that location.

Cell phone data showed 91 percent of those phones previously attended Kamala rallies, with 11,000 from Atlanta and 6,500 from California. This is being called a Rent a Mob as this is not an organic crowd from the 95 percent Democrat Washington DC area.

Free Palestine Protesters

Also from the same rally, a video clip of the Palestinian protesters using another venue to make themselves known. Not Kamala supporters, but still counted as rally attenders.

More Later,

Phil