Milk and Honey

This blog explores a pattern of writing that subtly involves the Tent of Time exhibits. This may be how much of the New Testament was written. Also, notes on the death of Pope Francis and shop status.

7 Layers of Interpretation

Long time readers here should be familiar with the 7 layer model that we use to interpret the text. Let me list those layers here for review, top to bottom.

7) Application -- The text rests.

6) Prophetic -- Some rule maps passages to a different domain.

5) Symbolic -- Items in the text have secondary meaning.

4) Idiomatic -- Usually short phrases have secondary meaning.

3) Grammar -- The grammar of sentences provides the literal meaning.

2) Vocabulary -- The meaning of words, often built from spelling.

1) Alphabet -- The meaning of letters driven by the 3d systems.

Most of the time we read English translations of the text. When well done, those translations are attempting to preserve the layer 3 meaning of the text as given to us by history. There are times, though, when we as modern readers need to move to the other layers in this stack, especially the upper 4 layers.

Ryan's recent work in the New Testament is suggesting that much of it was written with a simple, everyday, grammatically correct layer 3 meaning, but using a set of layer 5 symbols, themselves mostly drawn from the exhibits. This work is causing him to restore much of the New Testament text.

In order to understand what is going on, I need to walk readers here through some simple examples so you can see the pattern, then we can look at some complex examples from the Epistles.

A Land of Milk and Honey

The link here is to Exodus 3:7 in the BRB. Let me quote the bulk of verses 7 and 8 so you can think about the problem. "I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Mizraim and I have heard their cry from before their oppressors because I know their sorrows. I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Mizraim and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey."

Normal Meaning

This passage makes sense even to modern readers. This is telling us that the heirs of Jacob are going to be brought back to the good land were Abraham first sojourned over 500 years earlier.

Most modern readers of that passage treat "milk and honey" in an idiomatic way. So layer 4 in the layers of interpretation. Layer 3 makes less sense because the land itself does not literally flow with milk and honey. Heifers flow with milk and bees with honey. So to read this passage we shift up from layer 3, to layer 4 and everything makes sense.

Or does it?

Trouble

The reason that the 70 members of Jacob's family first went to Egypt is because the land of Egypt was able to survive through a terrible famine while the land of Canaan was unable to support Jacob's family through that time. So now a much bigger family is going to return to Canaan?

One way to fix this problem is to see Joseph's brothers as being unable to listen to the prophetic words given through Joseph. So it wasn't a problem with the land, but the people. Joseph's brothers probably did not have the faith, nor discipline, to store up food like Joseph in Egypt.

While this may be true, Egypt is fundamentally better at surviving drought because the drainage area of the Nile river. It covers about 1.3 million square miles. Large parts of that area are in the tropical areas of Africa, including Lake Victoria. So the Nile river is essentially never going to run dry. So the Nile river delta is almost never going to loose irrigation water.

So a heavy drought in Egypt can be fought with (manual) irrigation. While in Canaan that is no so easy. Especially before electric pumps, the Jordan river is not going to be able to irrigate the highlands closer to the coast.

Wikipedia suggests that there are around 7,700 square miles of land in the Nile Delta, while modern Israel is around 8,300 square miles, most of that in the Negev desert and the highlands. There is no river delta area like in Egypt, no steady supply of water flowing past farm land.

So even the large land references in that Exodus passage appear to be idiomatic, large in terms of how Jacob's heirs would not be competing with Egyptians for land, but not actually larger, if at all, than the land of Egypt itself.

Symbolic

Another way to look at this reference to "milk and honey" is to move up the layers of interpretation. From the layer 4, idiomatic interpretive layer, to layer 5, the symbolic layer of interpretation.

Casual readers don't often do this because passages like this involving Moses' commission don't seem to need a symbolic interpretation in order to explain them. Not needing to move up to layer 5 is the trick here. We must learn to force ourselves to move up to layer 5 when reading pretty much every passage in the text.

Failure to regularly use the symbolic layer is actually a big problem with understanding the text itself, including especially the writings of Paul. I will return to Paul's writing below.

So what are the symbolic meanings for Milk and Honey?

1 Peter 2:2 provides the starting definition. Milk is symbolic for the pure word that babies need in order to grow. So milk is symbolic for the pure text, so the audited text. That cite in Peter is also hinting that readers of the larger body of writing, the ciphered text, must start with the base text and know it first.

Going back to the call of Moses, we can try and interpret it using the symbolic layer 5. Moses was sent to bring the people out of the oppression of the Mizraim. To bring them to a place were there was milk, a pure copy of the text. This is the first part of the symbolic meaning of why Jacob's heirs were taken out of Egypt.

Once we see the reason for Moses' call as being related to ideas, then Canaan is much better than Egypt. There is no Pharaoh in Canaan. Abraham's scroll vault is in Canaan. There is freedom to seek truth in Canaan. (Unless you let the Jebusites take over. I digress.)

We can of course read about what happened once they left Egypt. They setup a copy of the exhibits in a tent and then learned how the audit system worked. While wandering in the wilderness, they could remove any editing done to the text while in Egypt. They could shed Egyptian thinking.

So layer 5, the symbolic way to interpret text, works better than the idiomatic layer 4 interpretation normally used when reading the term milk.

So what about the idea of honey?

If milk is the base text, so passing audit, honey is likely something also related to the text. Honey comes from a swarm of bees. It should be evident that a good guess is going to be the swarm of additional volumes that spring from the base text.

By doing a word search on honey we can find many milk and honey references that usually point back to the original milk and honey reference used with Moses on the mountain. These do not help with finding the symbolic definition of honey.

But, there are a few places that touch on the meaning of honey directly. In Ezekiel 3:3 we find the prophet eating the roll, of a scroll, and it is described as sweet as honey. Revelation 10:9-10 also finds the prophet being given a scroll, which is both sweet like honey, but it becomes bitter once it is digested.

So this argument is suggesting the milk and honey of the promised land is the base texts, clean milk to spiritual babes, and an advanced text, the honey, the additional volumes, so food for prophets. Of course these additional uses of honey suggest the content of the additional volumes may cause trouble once understood.

If we continue to survey the other references to honey, we find there are 2 stories that also use the symbolic layer 5 definition of honey. Honey does point at additional volumes. But in these other stories we will learn more about what honey is good for. Let me review them here, they follow the same literary style as we will see later with Paul.

Samson's Riddle of Honey

The link here is to Judges 14, where we find an extensive story dealing with Samson, honey, and a fight with the Philistines involving a riddle involving honey. So this story is not going to define honey as additional volumes. This story demands we already know what honey means.

Briefly, the story is about Samson marrying a Philistine woman, and at the wedding feast 30 men become his companions. He then tells a riddle, the prize being 30 sets of clothing. The riddle involves honey from the carcass of a dead lion.

At this point, the number 30 is interesting, because this appears to match the theoretical number of possible ciphers used to generate addition volumes. So here in this story, honey is the center piece of a riddle involving the ciphered text. This story may thus be adding that cipher definitions should be expressed on cloth, so embroidered, for light weight travel when part of the exhibits. Probably not clay jars as I have previously suspected. In any case, back to Samson's story.

A symbolic story is now forming around Samson's story of the lion. He is basing his riddle of honey as coming from the carcass of a dead lion.

Once we see honey as the ciphered documents which come from the base text, and once we know the base text must pass audit, then we can see all edited text as like a lion, that wanders around seeking whom it may devour. That lion must be killed via the audit process such that honey can form in what is left over.

So the riddle that is the centerpiece of that chapter makes sense to anyone who uses a symbolic, layer 5, interpretation and who also knows the Fig Tree and cipher system as the source of those symbols.

The Philistines are not going to know the riddle because they do not know the source of Samson's strength, which is the inspired text and the additional volumes.

Of course we also know Samson's source of strength is his hair. His hair, by the way, will be symbolic for the net that crosses the top of the Fig Tree, so there is yet another symbolic match from Samson to the exhibit systems.

When Samson's hair was cut, his strength was lost. So symbolically the Fig Tree is lost.

But, Samson's hair could grow back. This is also a feature seen in stories about the inspired text. The ciphered documents can be lost across seasons of history, but the vine, fig tree and cipher systems can be rediscovered, the whole system can grow back. This is because the alphabet itself can be used to regrow most of the other systems.

This story involving Samson has essentially a complete symbolic, layer 5, meaning. Just as he married a foreign wife, so too had the entire nation. Their documents were already getting corrupted. But, by killing that lion, the honey could flow again.

Note how this story of Samson is taking place long before we get into the historical list of villains that matter in Acts 15. So even in Samson's day the people who came out of Egypt are struggling with keeping the letter perfect inspired text and they were struggling with keeping the additional volumes.

Saul And Jonathan

If you read the link here to 1 Samuel 14 you will find a long story dealing with king Saul battling the Philistines. The story is long and likely heavily edited. But if some of it turns out to be inspired, that inspired core likely involves how the victory over the Philistines was won by Jonathan. Jonathan's victory is marked by how Jonathan ate honey by dipping his staff into a hive.

Here we have a story with 1 clear vocabulary word we know has symbolic meaning. Given that word, we can develop the symbolic story that was left in the text for future readers to understand.

Saul, of course, had prevented anyone from eating anything, including honey. Saul had ordered this of his troops using a threat of death. Jonathan broke Saul's rule and so Saul ended up in an awkward position. Saul's troops supported Jonathan and Saul relented from killing Jonathan.

This passage reads like a simple literal, layer 3, historical story. Nothing in the story forces us to see a symbolic story. But, since we can now take honey as having a symbolic meaning, we can now ask questions about the rest of the story. Pay attention to this process of taking 1 known symbolic term. A single symbolic term is often enough to find the symbolic meaning for the entire passage.

Did the writer of this passage use the story of Jonathan's honey intending us as readers to learn something otherwise hidden? Yes.

This story indicates that king Saul had prevented the public from reading the additional volumes that are called out symbolically as honey.

Remember, Saul is from Benjamin, so from Jerusalem, so a Jebusite. He is not faithful to the tradition set in place by Moses. This story of Saul is indicating when the honey from the land of milk and honey was lost. It is importantly tied back to Moses. It is indicating this was a key point in history.

Jonathan, who may later become David's prophet Nathan, was still eating honey, so reading the additional volumes. This honey was the source of Jonathan's strength.

This story would also then be explaining how the kingdom would slowly collapse. The Jerusalem kings will work to stop the public from reading the additional volumes. The cipher texts would disappear under the rule of the kings. The restoration of David's fallen tent, an idea in Amos and Acts 15, is picking up the detail that David would be the single exception to this general rule.

These 2 examples involving honey help to illustrate what Ryan is seeing across the New Testament Epistles. The New Testament Epistles read as simple historical accounts. But, they are riddled with symbolic references indicating they are of the same literary form as I have just introduced here.

By carefully reading the Epistles, layer 5 symbolic interpretations start to leap off the pages. Those stories become a set of profound symbolic writings.

Table of 400

The link here is to the Table of 400 app. The permanent link is off the front of Paleo.In. Over the last several weeks Ryan has been making steady progress working in the New Testament materials, so the bottom rows of this table.

The first point to notice is that the New Testament material has been expanded to cover the bottom 10 rows of the 25 rows in the 25 x 25 table. So that material is now pushing 40 percent of the story coverage of the entire table.

This is a little strange because in normal Protestant Bibles the New Testament is around 25 percent of the overall content. So the New Testament material is now starting to dominate our thinking about eventual coverage. This makes sense if the Old Testament turns out to be more heavily edited than the New Testament.

In a recent blog I suggested Jude appears to be mostly fine, without heavy editing, itself with an alphabet run down across its verses. I will get to Philemon below which is similarly free of editing. Others parts of the New Testament, especially the Gospels, have had much more editing

I suspect that the editing we know of in the New Testament was done at an identifiable place and time along the timeline of Acts. We should eventually find a specific event in the New Testament that caused editing to take place. The final bits of the New Testament would thus have avoided heavy editing, as we see with Jude and Philemon, because it was written after that event.

The 400 app is also showing how there is now way more material from the New Testament than we have ever included in this table. The TT app is basically this same material, but presented as a book. So this also marks the most material in the TT since we began building the TT app in the middle of 2016.

Philemon

The link here is to the Book of Philemon in the BRB. This is a simple and short Pauline epistle. Let me summarize the story here. Paul writes to Philemon and the assembly that meets in Philemon's house. Paul has heard that the action of this group is towards fruit in works and knowledge of Joshua.

Paul then commends Onesimus to them, and then explains that Onesimus will be able to help them, he should be welcomed by them as a useful partner.

Finally, Paul asks that they prepare a lodging because Paul intends to come and visit with them.

If you scan the full letter in the BRB you will see there are very few vocabulary words that might have some sort of symbolic meaning. The letter itself seems to be a layer 3, literal, letter.

But remember the trick I introduced above. Look for a single known symbolic vocabulary word and it becomes possible to unpack an entire symbolic story from an otherwise literal story.

By scanning that story again there is 1 single word that changes the letter. The group that meets at Philemon's house is to prepare a "lodging" for Paul.

What is that lodging?

We normally read this as room, like a guest room. Maybe a guest house, or whatever would make sense given their culture.

But the word lodging has a symbolic meaning. The Tabernacle, or Tent of Time, or House at Capernaum, or the room that held the Megiddo Mosaic.

By taking lodging symbolically, this is not a guest room. Paul is asking them to prepare an exhibit room or meeting room. By finding that single symbolic word, we can unpack the entire letter.

Onesimus appears to have learned HOW to produce those exhibits. Onesimus has become useful to Paul, and so also to Philemon and to the group at Philemon's house. Paul is asking those people to leverage Onesimus' knowledge and to fabricate a complete room of exhibits so that once Paul comes to visit, Paul himself can make use of them.

With this symbolic meaning set in place, we can take Paul himself in a symbolic sense too. Paul is symbolic for Joshua.

Joshua wants this group to produce a copy of the Tent of Time so that Joshua can come and fellowship more completely with this group.

This simple little letter that seems to be private business between Paul, Philemon and a few others, now has profound meaning for anyone else in history that wants Joshua to show up in their midst. Any such group needs a place and skill and desire to do the work. Then it needs someone to teach them what to build. Once built, Joshua can come. Wow.

Personal Application

Let me just give some feedback on this particular letter.

Since coming to the Seattle area about 2 years ago we have been doing Sabbath Reads in a state park not far from the house. About a month ago, soon after returning from Washington DC, we were told to stop going to the park and instead to stay in the shop. This so we could sit among the exhibits like the group that met at Megiddo.

We were also told to shift to Sundays instead of Saturdays. Generally speaking, Sabbath keeping on Saturdays is a Jewish, so a Jebusite, practice. The Christian tradition appears to be remembering the correct day.

There appears to be some timeline support for this. But I need time for more work before I am certain. At some point, I would expect to do some fiddling with the Sabbath Reads entries in the calendar app. But, that waits for more work to come first. The Crown object needs to get farther along before I mess with the time library.

We made this change in our weekly practice before we saw the meaning of Philemon. Now we have textual support. Build a room with the exhibits so that Joshua can come and make use of them. Joshua does not seem to care if that room is a shop area in a garage full of 3d printers and littered with old car parts.

Other Epistles

Philemon is but 1 example of what Ryan is finding in the New Testament epistles. There are many more such stories that unpack using a symbolic interpretation.

Most of them are written such that anyone who does not know the symbolic meaning will miss what is going on. That meaning is usually coming from the exhibits that most readers were supposed to already know. Once someone looks for those symbols, those symbolic terms unpack meaning in surprising ways.

I will return to more examples in future blogs. We have much more to cover this week.

Shop Work

This week I turned most of the 3d printers over to the problem of printing exhibits. In particular to testing a 22 inch reference cubit, instead of the 18 inches used previously. This was to see what happens when the exhibits are scaled up to match what we saw at the Megiddo Mosaic in Washington DC. At the same time I have started to do test prints with a different filament supplier, based in Vancouver, WA.

To start this work I rewrote certain pieces of the build environment for the exhibits. Previously, the build environment was configured to the letter size expressed in inches. Typically this was 2 inches, but exhibits like Joseph's Robe use a 1 inch letter size.

2 inch letters had an implied cubit length of 18 inches.

I had been bothered by the problem of abandoning letter size as a way to call out exhibit size. This past week I realized I could leave the old system alone and add on a cubit based length as an alternative for specifying the scale used for any specific exhibit.

The Table exhibit, which had been built in 2 inch scale, with an implied cubit length of 18 inches, could now be explicitly specified at an 18 inch cubit length instead.

Once that new code was shown to be generating the same sized parts as it was with 2 inch letters, it was easy to change to a 22 inch cubit and rebuild the 3d models from the existing design files.

This was also the first real test of the designs themselves. Certain aspects of the designs do not scale. Bolts, heat set inserts and fishing line are of an absolute fixed size and do not scale. This was the first real test of those items, and so far those features are staying in their correct size. The lamp may still have trouble, we will see.

22 inches was a good choice of cubit length to match the Megiddo Mosaic floor that we saw when we visited the Museum of the Bible earlier this year in Washington DC.

I was mostly interested in the new code, especially the correct scaling values and a new set of colors for the plastic. So I 3d printed one of the Dogs that go into the Table exhibit. I will post some photos on Telegram when this blog goes out so you can see what is going on.

The big surprise was how the new parts had a certain feel that was very different than the old set. They have a certain heft that makes them feel better when handled. They feel much less likely to break.

Scaling Math

As I thought about what was going on I realized certain math explains the problem, which I want to explain here for a permanent record.

The old design used 18 inches for the cubit length, and the new design is using 22 inches for cubit length. This difference in length is a scale value and what matters is the CHANGE in this value from the previous version to the new version. Here is the math.

22 inches - 18 inches = 4 inches of increase

So the increase is 4 / 18 = 22.2 % increase.

You'll see that in the photos, no real surprise.

But the parts came off the 3d printer with a very different feel. As I thought about what was going on I realized the 3d printer is working by volume, not linear distance.

What math describes that?

Imagine an 18 inch cube becoming a 22 inch cube. What percent increase is that?

18 inches * 18 inches * 18 inches = 5832 inches ^ 3

22 inches * 22 inches * 22 inches = 10648 inches ^ 3

So the percentage increase of the volume is...

(10648-5832) / 5832 = 82.6 % increase

This percentage increase is measuring something like the heft of the parts. They feel much more robust and substantial than at the old scale.

Because the 3d printed parts are printed mostly hollow, this is not a near doubling in plastic. The increase in used plastic is yet another value very much dependent on the geometry of specific parts. There is no simple number for that, but at the very worst case it would be this same 82 % increase.

But the overall exhibit becomes much more robust and has a better feel in the parts when we shift from an 18 inch cubit to a 22 inch cubit. Imperfections from the printing process start to fade. I can tell already that assembly will generally be easier as well, as the nozzle size gets smaller relative to the new part in these same proportions.

22.5 inch Cubit?

The parts that came off the printer do not have any obviously measurable distances, either in English Units nor in Metric Units. This is not a good situation for future builders as there is no good way to check parts coming out of 3d printers in the future.

After playing with those parts I started thinking about a 22.5 inch cubit length. This would essentially be using the Big Assyrian Cubit, at least a known cubit from history, but not that common.

At that cubit length, the 2 inch letter size with an 18 inch cubit would become an exact 2.5 inch letter size with an exact 22.5 inch cubit. The basic grid size for items like the Dog would become an exact 5/8 inch. This cubit size creates parts that are easy to measure and check using normal English unit measuring tools.

I am going to let this sit a few days. This is a little longer than I would have expected from looking at the Mosaic floor. But, part size will be even better in terms of heft.

For future builders, several points in the fabrication process get much easier with larger parts, especially threading. Larger parts are also safer when children are around.

The volume increase math goes like this...

22.5 inches * 22.5 inches * 22.5 inches = 11390.625 inches ^ 3

For a 95.3 % increase in volume over an 18 inch cubit. Nearly double.

Colors

I am also test printing using a different filament color selection. I am testing the letter models that go with the Table exhibit. So these are nominally the rainbow colors. But the filaments that we brought home from our field trip to Vancouver are less Lego-like, and more like what a professional artist might select for a project like this. Again, check the Telegram photos to see how this is turning out.

One of the spools we brought back from Vancouver is in the range of a wood brown, but not the best one we could have selected.

We have more issues with color samples and I expect another order of sample sized spools so we can continue to iterate through possible 3d filaments for the rest of the exhibits. Wood tone browns are important to the Table, but also the Vine and Fig Tree. So far, I am setting out to build the Dogs that tuck under the table. The 3d print farm will get to the other models here soon.

If we ever get to the point where we were making many copies of these exhibits it is possible to imagine either having custom colors made specifically for our work, or else for us to set up a filament extruding machine and cook our own. Not an issue for now, but a theoretical issue in the future.

Printer Configuration

Also in the shop this week I started configuring the software on the original Voron. To help make all of this easier to track I renamed the Vorons, v7 for the original Voron, v8 for the new Voron and v9 for the Voron still in a box waiting to be built.

I then setup the internal machine names and the router's network configuration to match these names so I could manage them from the main desktop computer in the shop. Nothing unusual, same as when setting up any other computer server on the network, of which there are several.

I ended up with a network error I have never seen in 30 years of configuring networks. When both v7 and v8 were turned on, the first printer turned on would spoof the 2nd printer. All network connection attempts to the second printer would always get routed to the first printer instead. It did not matter which printer was turned on first.

I checked the MAC addresses and they are different. In the end I had to turn off IPv6 on the router and then the network would work as normal. If anyone reading this has ever seen this error, or even knows the correct name for searching, please let me know. It does have something to do with IPv4 uplift to IPv6.

Death of Pope Francis

Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21, 2025, the day after Easter. Chances are good he was holding out for one last Easter.

The official funeral takes place on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Many world leaders are expected to attend, including US President Trump.

Curious, US VP Vance, who is Catholic, was the last foreign visitor to see Francis while he was still alive.

Francis is not going to be buried in the normal vault below Saint Peters, instead he will be buried across town.

The link above is to a Youtube video explaining the procedures that are followed after the death of a Pope.

Particularly interesting is when the Cardinals gather to select the next Pope.

That meeting of the Cardinals may be our expected prophetic headline for the Midianites. We will debate this once we see what is going on in the Middle East a few weeks from now. Trump is also going to be visiting Saudi Arabia within our expected prophetic window, so that future trip of Trump may be our expected Midianite headline.

I regularly track a few of Judge Nap's guests, especially Alastair Crooke, who is usually on with Judge Nap on Mondays. Judge Nap had Crooke on as normal on Monday this past week, hours after the death of Francis.

Judge Nap is Catholic and has been a guest speaker and teacher at meetings in the Vatican. He gave a short remark about this to Crooke. The Judge hoped one thing from the next pope, that the next pope would be Catholic. Unspoken in that remark is that Benedict XVI was not Catholic when measured by his behavior while in office.

Francis has been trouble. The best way to see this is through the prophetic list of popes first published in 1595. That list also probably informs our expected start of nuclear war in 2029, so it is important to review now that Francis has died.

Prophecy of the Popes

The link here is to the Wikipedia article explaining the Prophecy of the Popes. The list was said to be attributed to Saint Malachy, a 12th century Archbishop of Armagh, who wrote the list before the invention of the printing press. That list itself was then published in 1595 by Benedictine monk Arnold Wion.

This is a prophetic list of the Popes, which like all other such things, is disputed by many. The normal attack is that the popes through 1595 fit the list well, but after that they do not. So the argument normally goes that this list of popes is a back-dated 1595 forgery.

Of course the article goes on and gives the entire list and the likely prophetic matches up through Benedict XVI who was elected in 2005 and then resigned in 2013 and died in 2022. Such a list should not be possible if the list is a complete forgery.

I have explained in previous blogs that popes follow the rules of the high priest given in the Hebrew OT, and they serve until they die. Ryan and I both doubt that office is inspired, but that does not matter much here. The edited OT has informed the world for 2500+ years. It can inform Catholic priests too.

For completeness here, I should note that the founding of the City of Rome was at the same time as the Assyrian deportation. There was a priesthood in Rome long before the arrival of Christianity. That priesthood changed theology to Catholicism in the early 300s. But its roots are likely traced back across the Assyrian deportation all the way back to Solomon and his temple work.

When Benedict was still active I tracked his movements and speeches. Much of it was streamed online by the Vatican itself. Benedict was fascinating to me because of how often he told his Catholic Cardinals and Bishops to pray to Jesus and then do whatever he, Jesus, told them to do. Benedict was demanding a walk of faith from the Catholic hierarchy. I remember watching Benedict say this to a room of Bishops in Washington DC, who seemed unable to even comprehend that Jesus could speak, much less would speak to the men in the room. Benedict was obviously a man of prayer. Retiring in 2013 gave him a chance to pray full time. Good for him.

So though I am not Catholic, I was a fan of Benedict. But then in 2013 he resigned/retired. This has almost never happened in Catholic history. It is against the rules. Those rules appear designed for a specific feature. Old men get tired and loose their fight. This natural cycle would mean the organization is not going to be changing much except when a younger man takes over. This is a feature of reigning as priest until death. This is not a bug.

So how did Francis get into the office? There must have been pressure on Benedict to resign, AND, there must have been enough corruption in the Cardinals to select a non-Catholic as pope.

Prof. Glenn Diesen recently made clear that there is an Israel Lobby in Europe, strongest in the UK, France and Germany.

I would suggest it most likely holds blackmail against most of the Cardinals and can dictate who they want as the next Pope. This is likely why Francis, as Judge Nap's non-Catholic, made it into office. Because the current African and Arab invasion of Europe is driven by this same lobby, we might expect them to order up a pope from a far away place like Africa. We will soon see how this plays out.

The Last Pope Prophecy

Let me explain the bottom of the prophetic list of popes and what might go on when this next Pope is selected here soon.

The list begins with Celestine II who reigned from 1143. This is pope #1 on that list. Skipping #2 through #110, we arrive at #111, Benedict XVI.

Like nearly all the others in the list, for #111 there is a short Latin phrase, meaning something like the Glory of the Olive. There are a couple ways this could match Benedict himself, as given in the Wikipedia article.

But then the structure of the list shifts with an incomplete Latin language sentence indicating that "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit..."

Francis, that non-Catholic, seems to represent that persecution itself. He was active alone, without Benedict, the past 3 years. He was not a catholic pope, but the personification of persecution. He was not named in the list because he was not a correctly elected pope upon the death of Benedict.

Then the list shifts down and identifies #112 "Peter the Roman." This man gets a whole paragraph, not a short phrase. Let me quote the English as translated on Wikipedia...

"Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End."

This is picking up the term "Tribulation" which may have entered the popular vocabulary because of this entry in this list. This prophecy suggests something like continuous tribulations until the city of Rome itself is destroyed.

What matters most to us here is looking for how well the next pope fits the description of "Peter the Roman." If this next pope fits that description well, then it will align with other prophetic stories dealing with nuclear war.

I still expect the nuclear part of that war to begin in early 2029. I have no idea how that spreads out across the world, nor forward after 2029.

We could argue that the non-nuclear part of that war is really started already, with fighting in Ukraine and with the UK, France and Germany sending troops there.

I don't have a specific schedule related to Rome itself, but the Prophecy of the Popes would become a witness to nuclear war reaching Europe too.

War India/Pakistan

The link here is to an RT article listing off what is known about the start of war between India and Pakistan. It started with a supposed terrorist attack by Pakistan in India.

In our modern world of false flags we have no idea who might really have done this. Someone may want war in Asia as the start of war with China. We will see.

War With China

As I have said here many times, Ryan and I were shown the extent of a ground invasion by the Chinese in the continental USA. Basically all lands west of the Missouri less an area in Texas. I mentioned this last blog.

This Youtube video is of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Gordon Chang which first appeared on Epoch TV on April 16, 2025. Chang is an expert on China. Near the end of this 30 minute interview Chang gives some evidence as to why he expects the Chinese to invade the continental USA.

War preparations are going on now in China for this invasion. The Tariff spat with Trump is not helping. As Chang explains, this will be the first time since 1812 that a foreign army has fought on American soil. Our prophetic understanding is now shifting to known war preparation.

If there is a detailed schedule to this, we do not know where to find it. The open question involves the Noah related dates in 2029. Does China move before or after this date? We currently expect this after, but this is only an educated guess.

Water On Mars

The link here is to a Youtube video of The Angry Astronaut covering a recently published paper dealing with known water deposits on Mars. The short answer is there is now enough known water on Mars to support a colony of at least 1,000,000,000 people.

This alone is interesting, but watch the video. About the 7 minute mark in this 21 minute video he shows a map of where this water is located. There is an elliptical line around the general area, itself on the equator and otherwise away from the north pole where water might have existed in the past. This new location is in a place on Mars where none of us would likely know where it is.

But, to the upper right on that same map, near the edge of the ellipse, you will see the location of Olympus Mons. That is the highest known mountain in our solar system and is the great high mountain mentioned in Revelation 21:10. The key idea in that passage is the great high mountain is located in a place were there is no longer any seas.

What is so fun about this discovery is that any future Mars colony will want to be located near water. This water discovery would naturally draw such a colony to near the location called out in the text. So if anyone ever asks you, Where is the water on Mars? Answer this way: Slightly south and west of Revelation 21:10.

More Later,

Phil