Star Field Ceiling

This blog continues to explore a star field ceiling as a possible exhibit. Also, a review of 911 in order to understand a Tucker interview and possible headlines this fall. Finally, the next batch of watch dates and a headline review.

Upper Room Ceiling

Last week I used Ezekiel 1, and related references, to suggest the ceiling in the upper room was likely decorated with a northern hemisphere star map. Let me continue by starting out with the practical problems of building such a ceiling.

Grand Central Station

Perhaps the most famous American star ceiling is on the interior of the waiting room at Grand Central Station in NYC. That ceiling was an intentional part of the original station design. This seems to have been to distinguish Grand Central from Penn Station which had massive skylight windows for the roof. That star field ceiling was part of the original construction. It was then refurbished in the late 1940s, and then refurbished again around 1994. It remains there to this day.

The original architects used 10 watt incandescent light bulbs for the stars, a rather interesting innovation at the time. I understand the 1994 refurbishment replaced individual bulbs with fiber optics from centrally located light boxes still located up near the ceiling itself.

The video linked above covers the rail history of NYC, but with a special focus on Grand Central. After the 6 minute mark they explain that specific ceiling artwork itself. It is a piece of artwork, not exactly a sky map.

But, most important to us here, that famous ceiling was installed BACKWARDS. The builders were given the star map, and then projected it straight up against the ceiling, where they painted a mirror image. Even more strange, Orion is still correct when viewed from the main floor because of a quirk in the original artwork.

The ultimate issue is that as people, we are used to having maps of earth, and paper maps are just small versions of earth, both observed from above. Sky maps are inverted and mess with users of such maps.

This Grand Central star map example demonstrates the difficulty of getting a star map onto a ceiling, and the troubles that even commercial contractors have had with this task.

Possible Exhibit

So let me sketch out what this might mean in terms of an exhibit as part of our normal set of exhibits.

I can imagine downloading a list of stars from the internet and running that list through some software to produce a set of 3d printable ceiling tiles that lay out the stars, and likely constellation lines, for a circular section of a ceiling. This is not at all conceptually hard to do.

I would imagine mapping the northern sky out from the north star to some point below the celestial equator. This would be in order to capture the entire ecliptic and to capture the constellations that stretch down some distance below the celestial equator.

It could be done for a flat ceiling, or else for some sort of dome. Maybe both, maybe at a couple different room sizes. Presumably for either a circle or dome, there would need to be flat panels to connect with the room's actual walls.

A domed ceiling would presumably hang from the actual ceiling of the room inside the building where everything is installed.

There are building codes for things like false ceilings which may impact details of fabrication, but at this point we are looking at the conceptual design of such a thing.

Constellations

The list of actual stars does not bother me to much, but what is more interesting to me are the constellations. As I was working on last week's blog I found that there are 88 modern constellations that cover the complete sky, but in ancient times there were 48 constellations. Strangely the same number of bumps around the 2 fish on the Megiddo Mosaic floor.

Those 48 constellations are going to be more interesting because those are more likely to map to passages in the text. They are all figures of something, and most of those things are in the text. Those constellations are also more interesting when used to find individual star locations. Modern astronomers still use constellations to talk to each other about individual stars.

The various articles on Wikipedia that deal with the constellations clearly indicate when a constellation is both ancient and modern, or if the constellation is only modern. Ancient constellations were known and documented from the second century. Once European explorers reached the southern seas they filled in the modern set of southern constellations.

The common documented reference that is used to determine if any particular constellation is ancient is the Almagest, a document written in the 2nd century, so around the time of the Megiddo Mosaic. I wanted to know more about that document, and hunted it down in particular to find that list of 48 constellations. I stopped that hunt because of a bunch of other interesting issues with the Almagest.

Almagest

The link here is to the Wikipedia article that explains that ancient document. Here is the first paragraph from that article. "The Almagest is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170) in Koine Greek. One of the most influential scientific texts in history, it canonized a geocentric model of the Universe that was accepted for more than 1,200 years from its origin in Hellenistic Alexandria, in the medieval Byzantine and Islamic worlds, and in Western Europe through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance until Copernicus. It is also a key source of information about ancient Greek astronomy."

The Almagest was broken down into 13 sections called books, and each section had quite a bit of information about ancient astronomy and the sky itself. This was written well before the development of modern Astrology, and before the time of Copernicus and modern Astronomy.

Ptolemy includes a list of 1022 stars and gives their coordinates using an ecliptic coordinate system, not the equatorial system used by modern astronomers.

At this point we might be looking at a possible list of stars for our reference ceiling, which is interesting. We presumably get both a list of 48 constellations and 1022 stars known in ancient times for use in an exhibit.

Dating His Observations

The article goes on and indicates that Ptolemy dates his observations around the year 138. But because these are ecliptic locations, they are tied to the shifting track of the sun. This allows the data to be checked by modern astronomers as to accuracy. Checks like this have been done against this ancient source of data since as early as 1901, so before computers.

Ptolemy's data itself indicates that data was not recorded in 138, but instead, his star list was actually recorded from observations of the sky done between the years 48 and 58.

This was before his birth, so he was plagiarizing some earlier list. This was not uncommon for Greek writers of his day, but it is a surprising discovery from within this ancient body of writing.

Once I got to this point in that article I was immediately struck by an idea that regular readers here may also see.

Ultimately what I am attempting to do is build the 3d design files for a family of models that are described in the inspired text and originally re-fabricated by Joshua at his house in Capernaum. Those same exhibits would then have become part of what the original apostles were setting up in other locations, like at Megiddo.

If a star field ceiling was part of that original setup, then star field data would have been part of the original bundle of exhibits that were being copied around between the years 30 and 70, and beyond, until such time as Christianity took over.

For Joshua's original house, that ceiling could have been painted using notes originally taken by observing the night sky. But someone may have wanted a precise list of stars, and their locations, written down on a list, in order for exhibit builders to more easily paint their own ceilings.

Also, such a list may provide correct names for the most interesting 1000 or so stars. It may also have provided a definitive list of what are now the 48 ancient constellations.

Ptolemy's data, from the years 48 through 58, may have been a copy of the Apostle's official star field list.

So we may also be looking at another example of New Testament era work that leaks out into the popular culture, about like how some of the ciphered volumes may have leaked out into the Gnostic traditions of that same era.

Wow.

Other Renderings

To cover this data within the set of exhibits, there are some simpler ways to render a star map besides using a fancy ceiling.

The 2 most obvious would be either a wall mounted exhibit, so the equivalent of an ancient quilt, or perhaps as a circular table top with a star map on the table.

The problem with such a table is the risk of trouble like on the Grand Central Station ceiling. The builders there transferred the star map up to the ceiling without turning it around. This seems a natural problem because we don't normally turn maps over in order to use them. Star maps are very strange in this regard.

A wall hanging quilt would be better than a table for this reason. It would allow use of the quilt 3d library already in the exhibit design files.

The patriarchs, who lived in tents, may have sewn stars onto the inside of their own tents. The Moses era Tabernacle, which was also a tent, may have been similarly decorated. So David's fallen tent may also have been similarly decorated.

Stars

Once we turn to the idea of stars as part of the upper room exhibit, we can now search the text for the term 'stars' to see if we are looking at stories that are implying there is a star map in the overall set of exhibits. Let me hit some examples in order to complete this study.

Genesis 15 records a vision by Abraham that involved stars. Briefly, Abraham was childless at the time. Joshua encouraged him and by vs. 5 said to Abraham to go outside and look at the stars, and to try and count them, for so his offspring would become.

This may be one of the stories that informs the star field exhibit, no matter what form it may take. Consider this story to have the basic meaning to Abraham as recorded in the text. But then also see it as a parable to later readers about the stars and what they mean.

The first point is that there is a map between stars and people. So parables like the feeding of the 5000, and groups of 100 people, are simply elaborating on the idea that there is an implied map between the stars and people. By Jacob's generation this includes tribal maps too, which is also seen in the feeding of the 5000.

That chapter continues, and Abraham is told he was brought to this land so that his offspring could inherit it. Relative to the stars in the skies, this would imply that Joshua's plan for Adam was to be brought to this star system.

Then it continues, that Abraham's offspring will be trapped in Egypt for 400 years, but will then come out. Again, some sort of parable about movement around the stars.

Most of the star references across the rest of the text use stars symbolically, as a way to understand the scale of Abraham's offspring. This use could also mean that Abraham's heirs will one day inhabit the stars. There are a few other stories, though, that may be referencing the stars as seen inside the exhibits. Here are a few of those.

Psalms 147:4 suggests each star has its own name. So named star lists are perhaps important to the text. This points at Ptolemy's list of stars.

Jeremiah 49:16 discusses a nest in the stars, and how Joshua will remove people from that nest. That reference may be speaking to the upper room and the use of stars in that place. So prophetic for loss of the Tabernacle and attendant exhibits.

Ezekiel 32:7 discusses putting out the stars. Again, a possible threat that the exhibits will be taken away.

Daniel 8:9-12 is also referencing stars in a context of taking away the holy place. This is very difficult to understand how it might apply, but it is also suggesting stars are part of special places.

Daniel 12:3 includes another reference to stars, and indicates that wise men shine like the stars. This is probably a parable about how wise men know the stars.

Joel 2:10 and 3:15 deal with the loss of the stars. As a parable this would again imply loss of the exhibits.

Obadiah 1:4 also includes travel to the stars like a nest, and being brought down from that location. The upper room with stars may be called a nest. It is a place that is lost when Joshua is angry with people who disrespect their inheritance.

Matthew 24:29 and Mark 13:25 see the loss of stars as an end-times event. Nuclear war and nuclear winter would cause loss of stars, but if this is being applied in the wrong domain, it could be indicating something about the loss of the exhibit items, say when they were lost along with the other exhibits at the same time as the loss of Megiddo.

Revelation 6:13 discusses the loss of stars along with the loss of figs from a fig tree. Pairing of stars and fig trees is a give away that the topic is the Tent of Time and the loss of the exhibits, and not loss of stars in the sky. The grammar here suggesting stars are just as much part of the exhibits as the fig tree.

So by this list we can see there are enough places across the text dealing with stars to suggest that a star map is likely part of the exhibits. This should not be left out of the list, but included in the final set of 3d printable exhibits.

For the various reasons spelled out here, I accept the need for a star map as part of the exhibits. This will probably be done as a wall hanging, so it can be built and displayed by anyone building the complete set. If we ever end up with a specific room where we can build a ceiling, we'll rethink the actual ceiling problem at that time. That problem will simply be transferring a star map from a quilt rendering to something more complex.

Let me turn now to watch dates and headlines, but let me do this a little indirectly.

911

911 was perhaps the most dramatic headline in the prophetic date series that started with Nixon's resignation in 1974. The current series of dates that we are following in this blog will pass the 911 stories again this coming fall. Let me review those dates now because we are seeing interesting headlines related to 911, which I will get to below.

The exact timing of 911 mapped to a prophetic replay of the Samuel era high place sacrifice and the process of getting Saul as the first king. In effect, this was the story of Jebusites, renamed as Jerusalemites, taking over the rule of the heirs of Jacob. See 1 Samuel 8:6, 1 Samuel 9:12 and Acts 13:21 for the various related textual passages.

Saul's first year as king replays in our current series on November 5, 2025. This was the most accurately timed story for events at 911 in NYC. So if everything remains the same, this is when we would look for a similar headline.

The narrative story of 911, with 3000 killed when 2 columns are pushed over, is told in Judges 16:23-31. That story does not exactly line up with 911 on the timeline. It had room for what I described at the time as mercy delay in 2001. That delay is about 60 days, so from a theoretical replay, of that specific story, on September 5, 2025 until November 5, 2025.

The dramatic topical match from this Judges 16 story speaks for itself. The issue for me in 2001 was explaining what was effectively a 2 month offset. I suspect this early story was the decision date when someone in some government, somewhere, decided to blow the towers. It probably had something to do with the dancing Israelis who were arrested on 911 itself.

If we now see this story through the lens of the Jebusites taking over the kingdom, then we can perhaps explain the glee of those dancing Israelis at 911. This event gave the US government extensive public support for cleaning out the middle east, especially for Israel's benefit.

Killing their own is an Israeli military strategy, curiously known as the Samson option, so the death of Jews working in those towers would not have been a concern. Though we would learn later that many in NYC did know what was going on and were not at work that day.

How will this replay in 2025? This is still very much unclear. As always, the actual headlines in late 2025 will let us know for sure. We can see the current prophetic date series is generally dealing with wars around modern Israel, so a replay of the 911 headline is a current concern even this time around.

Alex Jones, July 25, 2001

Less Edited Version

The link here is to an 8 minute video on Youtube from Jones' July 25, 2001, broadcast. The second link is the same broadcast, but slightly less edited which runs about 9 minutes. Both are on Youtube, but on different channels. Videos like this tend to disappear.

At the time, Jones was mostly seen on cable systems in Texas, he was not yet nationally known. This video is not a specific prediction, but he is very much on the topic of another major false-flag terrorist event inside the USA. He lists the earlier, 1993, bombing of the Trade Centers and the OKC bombing as 2 earlier examples of what he expected to see again.

Young people tend to not know that someone attempted to blow up the Twin Towers in 1993 using a car bomb in the below ground garage at the WTC complex. Do not confuse that weak 1993 bombing with the 2001 bombing that actually brought down the towers. Jones references that 1993 Twin Towers bombing several times in his July 25, 2001, broadcast.

Premonitions and predictions not only preceded 911, but also the OKC bombing. Prophetic circles that I was part of at the time picked up both the OKC bombing, and the 911 attack. Intercessors at the time were unable to pray off these events, not really understanding the severity of what was shown prophetically.

Also, for the record, Pravda wrote an article about the same time as the Jones interview linked above. Pravda was specific, and said the towers would be bombed on some precise date in August of 2001. (They had a precise date, I do not now remember that date.) The Pravda warning was absolutely correct in terms of venue and details, but it had the wrong date. Later, when asked why their date was off, they simply answered that plans change.

That seems to be a quality of the 911 story itself, and why we get a couple different prophetic stories, but only 1 of them on the precise date. The other had the precise details. Saul became king because "You have rejected me (Joshua) as king, therefore I have rejected you." The Benjamite, Saul, a Jebusite, took over the USA at 911. (As if they had not already done so years before, but I digress.)

Something similar would be expected in the fall of 2025 as well. I will review these same dates again as they get closer later this year.

So, let me move on to this week's important video also dealing with 911. This was set off by a Tucker interview. Here is the link.

Tucker with Rep. Curt Weldon

The link here is to a Youtube video on Tucker's channel. In this video Tucker interviews Curt Weldon who served in the House of Representatives during 911. Watch the video to understand how involved Weldon was with the US military in his position in Congress. Weldon, though, was not an insider, but an honest American serving in Congress. We can only wish the rest of Congress was the same.

Weldon had enough evidence at the time that he knew 911 was some sort of inside job. Like Jones, Weldon understood Bin Laden, the supposed mastermind of 911, to be a CIA asset. So if the public story was true, then the CIA brought down the towers. But, Weldon's actual story of what happened is far more complex than that.

This video is perhaps one of the most important that Tucker has ever released. Weldon's own testimony is stunning, including being essentially run out of office because of what he knew. He and his family were victims of the same sort of dirty tricks as Trump. Understanding Weldon's story provides back story to Trump's legal troubles after 2020.

Weldon is now calling for a presidential commission to publicly investigate what really happened at 911. He is making the alternative media rounds, and has also been on with Alex Jones.

We can hope that Weldon gets his wish. The problem, of course, is that such a commission, to fulfill any sort of real mission, must ultimately expose the Jebusites that were behind this entire sordid affair.

We can also hope that instead of getting an exact headline replay of either of the original 911 prophetic stories, that instead we see headlines matching something like what Weldon is calling for. So, the start of a presidential commission in early September, 2025, and then some sort of conclusion in November of 2025.

Again, we can only hope.

Watch Dates

This blog goes out on April 18, 2025. There are several prophetic dates that follow soon after in a new prophetic date cycle. Let me review those here.

2025-04-20 is the first day of a day for a year replay of 40 years of peace as mentioned in Judges 8:28. The last day of those 40 days is 2025-05-29.

Within those 40 days is the story of Midianite oppression and deliverance at the hand of Gideon. The story of the Midianite oppression was 7 years, so 7 days this time around. That story of Gideon includes the account of his famous fleece.

The latest date when that story of Gideon could begin is 2025-05-23, but most likely it will begin at some unpredictable point ahead of that date. We will watch headlines to find the actual start.

Medina

The link here is to the Wikipedia article on the city of Medina, located in modern Saudi Arabia. That article provides a precise map so near, but not on, the Red Sea. This is the modern Midianite city, so it locates the expected venue for this watch date as in or around modern Saudi Arabia.

We would expect to see some sort of 7 day long prophetic event involving either this city, or more generally Saudi Arabia or possibly just the Red Sea.

The Gideon story involves trumpets and torches which may give some sort of clue as to the expected headline. Many commentators have speculated that if the Israeli occupied US Military were to strike Iran, that Iran would answer with missile (trumpet) attacks on Saudi oil (torch) installations.

One of Judge Nap's regular guests, Max Blumenthal, hinted this week of a rumor that Israel is planning to use their controlled Arab assets for a ground invasion of Yemen. The current bombing campaign is unable to stop the Houthis. A ground invasion would most likely require Saudi help. So this is a very likely match to the Medina watch date.

Also, via one of Judge Nap's regular guests, John Mearsheimer, the NYT published a report that the USA turned down a Netanyahu plan to bomb Iran. That report also indicated that a larger invasion, involving Israeli commandos, was rescheduled for the fall of 2025.

Think about those 911 dates given above to frame this. Given what happened after the towers actually fell, we could expect something similar against Iran by, say, mid November. If you watch the Tucker interview linked above, you'll see that after 911 the supposed villain, Bin Laden, was in Iran. If the USA was actually doing what it said happened at 911, the USA would have attacked Iran. Maybe that was just a prophetic observation? We will see.

As always, the headlines on the ground are the final determiner of these prophetic stories, everything else, like I have given here, is speculation.

Martin Armstrong on Gold and War

Martin Armstrong has been making the social media rounds for the last several weeks. He has generally been defending Trump's desire to use tariffs. In particular he has been refuting academic claims that the Great Depression was caused by American tariffs. So refuting people like Jeffrey Sachs, a regular on Judge Nap. Sachs does not look to even be paying attention to what Trump is doing, unable to understand the skill of deal making and trading. Armstrong has had a similar, career long, influence over national finances. Armstrong is a less public, but just as important, peer of Sachs.

Armstrong claims that it was sovereign debt defaults of 1931 that were the immediate cause of the Great Depression. Those (mostly European) bonds had been sold to American retail investors who lost both interest payments and their principle.

For reference, the crash of 1929 bottomed in 1932, so after the debt default of 1931. That sovereign debt default created a loss of American household wealth which then transmitted into the collapse of 9000 banks.

I have picked the video above from a list of similar recent Armstrong videos. In this particular video he also ranges widely over important geopolitical issues. Nearly all of the content in the video linked above may be interesting to readers here. Hint: Dial up the playback speed if you can still track what is being said.

Armstrong points out that Trump is using tariffs to address balance of trade issues. Balance of trade calculations show net funds flows between countries. The USA is essentially always on the negative end of those flows. He points at a technical issue in those calculations that matters when thinking about China. US interest payments are part of the balance of trade numbers. So countries which hold significant amounts of US government debt will see inflows to their country from interest payments. Those payments are not otherwise tied to current product trading flows.

As China is one of the largest holders of such debt, it will naturally see an imbalanced trade deficit unrelated to their manufacturing base and products sold into the US markets.

This suggests to me that China's first response for defending its 150K+ small businesses selling on Amazon will be to dump US Bonds in order to stop the inbound interest flows. This would leave some headroom for those companies to continue trading with the USA. But dumping bonds is also trouble for the US bond markets and could cause more trouble in other ways.

Martin also goes long into issues of Europeans preparing for war against Russia. His position is that the Euro currency was built with several mistakes, including lack of consolidation of sovereign debts, as he personally warned them at the time.

Europe does not want to admit fundamental flaws in their union. Instead, leaders there want to fix that problem by conquering Russia. By capturing Russia's natural wealth they can pay down debts and bring some level of prosperity back to western Europe. (Martin has spoken of this and written a book about it, driven by European bankers.) He adds that this is why China will come to Russia's defense, as China would eventually suffer the same fate should China ever permit Russia to be defeated.

Martin has long argued that gold price moves are tied to geopolitical uncertainty. He gives some brief evidence of this in the video above. When he attacks gold bugs he usually does so along these lines. Gold bugs normally don't properly explain what moves the price of gold.

Martin argues that recent gold price moves are because big money expects the Europeans to go to war with Russia. Big money expects European debt will be canceled when this is over, because big money expects Europe to loose. Central banks the world over are accumulating gold because they know government bonds will become worthless, just like 1931.

I have shared in years past in this blog about how Ryan and I were both shown the line of eventual Chinese invasion in the continental USA. The Chinese will stop advancing mostly along the Missouri River, with a carve out in Texas that defends itself.

Martin is laying out the basic steps to how the world will end up in World War III. Like the previous 2 world wars, it starts in Europe and spreads out to more distant parts of the world.

A final note on this, the Europeans are also controlled by what in the USA is called the Israel Lobby. The common European political philosophy is driven by that same lobby, similar to Democratic Party philosophy in the USA. They operate in secret and cannot stand truth seeking. That same lobby ultimately wants a world capital in Jerusalem. This soon coming war is the last phase of a plan running since the last 3 chapters of Judges.

Shop Work

The wiring harnesses for the rewire of the original Voron are now together. That upgrade includes a filament cutter for use with a filament feeder. Turns out that cutter needed a screw that I did not have in current inventory. Another screw assortment was ordered and delivered from Amazon. Then when loading software, it needed a different memory chip, another small Amazon order and delay.

Everything that matters is now reassembled on that printer. The main software load has been done but 2 more controllers still need software. Once the rest of the software is loaded, maybe by the time this blog goes out, there are a few system checks and then the panels can be put back on and it can be moved off the bench.

The 3d print farm has now finished printing all the parts for the 3rd Voron. Assembly for that printer should begin next week.

The Box Turtle multiple filament feeder kit for use on Voron also arrived this week. It was shipped from China and to my surprise arrived just fine. I don't know if the shipper paid tariff or if being a small package it just slipped through.

Tracking the package showed it left Shanghai via UPS. It went to Anchorage, then Louisville, then Seattle, then Tacoma, then back to Tukwila (at Seattle again), and then finally on to Kent. It was a wandering world traveler of a package. If I need to order another of those, it will come from an American supplier that I recently found at Beaverton, Oregon.

Printing of the plastic parts for that Box Turtle kit has begun. Most of those parts will be run on the new Voron. The 3d print farm should return to running exhibit parts by next week.

More Later,

Phil