Matthew

This blog looks at the internal structure of the Gospel of Matthew. Then, comments on the new pope, probably Peter the Roman.

Table of 400

The link here is to the 400 app. The Gospel of Matthew occupies an entire row, currently listed on Pe, starting at story 425.

This book has received a bunch of attention these past few weeks as part of Ryan's continuing work in the New Testament. Looks like we now understand the literary structure of this book, and can use that structure to reasonably sort out the inspired stories within this book.

Part of this involves understanding why the NT editor copied stories around. We have long known story duplication was going on as an editing strategy. It results in the duplication of stories that are well known across the Gospels. But, why did Ananias do this?

I will go into more detail below, but at a high level, Matthew is structured into 2 major sections. The first section makes an untimed sequential run that is interpreted from the historical timeline. But strangely, this first section in Matthew starts at Abraham and ends with Joshua himself. The second section in Matthew then does something similar again. That section makes a timed run that is also interpreted against the historical timeline, this time starting from Adam. This second timed run allows it to count out time beyond the time of the writing of the New Testament. It can even run out beyond our day.

By copying stories into this Gospel, Ananias upset those historical runs and thus removed the interpretive keys for understanding what was going on within the individual stories in Matthew. Finding the inspired stories within Matthew is mostly a matter of finding which stories have matched historical interpretations. It only gets strange after our own day, which I also explain below.

Ananias' editing strategy did several things. It hid from readers the details of how Ananias' Jebusite clan was condemned by Joshua. It also removed the interpretive keys that explain in the positive what Joshua was doing in the world even while letting these villains rule the world.

To show off how these abstract points actually work, let me go through the Gospel of Matthew here. This so you can see what is going on with this book and so we all have a record of what we are currently seeing in Matthew.

Matthew

The link here is to the Gospel of Matthew in the BRB. The BRB contains the entire book as passed by history. You can also follow along in the TT app's Matthew or in the Table of 400 as linked at the top of this blog. Let me review the stories and lay out the interpretive keys for this Gospel.

Back stories, so the main interpretive stories for Matthew, are going to follow the historical narrative, and are going to be found in order across history. That history spans over 2200 years. This is the better part of a "7 times" interval from Leviticus 26 so it might be 1 complete sub-circle around the Crown object. If so, the 2nd half of Matthew may be making 1 complete pass around the history of Adam's race on earth.

Historical stories that are close to each other in the historical timeline can combine and become part of a single episode in Matthew. There is one example of the opposite, where the Exodus and Jordan River crossing are 2 different episodes in Matthew and Matthew takes care to distinguish these in history.

Chapter 1 includes a genealogy from Abraham to Joshua. This correctly matches the general structure of the front half of the Gospel of Matthew. That genealogy does move through time from Abraham to Joshua. But that genealogy goes through time via king David, which we believe to be incorrect.

That genealogy has the normal contraction that instead of David's Beth Lehem, Sychar was Joshua's home town. Joshua is named after Joshua son of Nun, of the tribe of Joseph. This explains Mary's husband's name, Joseph, which is hinting at the real tribe of his ancestry. Matthew has been edited to suggest Joshua was born in Beth Lehem.

Ananias, the New Testament editor, wants Joshua to be an heir to the throne of David, and thus imposes a genealogy and changes the town of the birth location.

So why do we have an edit accurately showing off the structure of the front half of Matthew?

Ananias seems to have known the inspired structure of Matthew, so he built a genealogy around that structure. Since we currently list this genealogy as not inspired, the letter level audit will check this point when we do that work.

Birth: Abraham, Sarah and Hagar

The bottom half of Matthew 1 and then moving into chapter 2 is a brief telling of the story of the predictions and birth of Joshua. Elements of this story pattern after Abraham, Sarah and Hagar. This is the first set of historical story matches in Matthew.

In Abraham's case Sarah was old, so could not conceive. So Abraham effectively divorced her and sired Ishmael via Hagar. But then there is a visit by Joshua and 2 other kings to Abraham ahead of the actual birth of Isaac, which marks that Isaac will be born about a year later.

In the case of Joshua's birth, there are also heavenly visitors announcing the soon birth of Joshua. Those 3 kings seem to also show up as the Magi visiting from the east, though the Magi's travel from the east may be an allusion to Abraham's own journey from the east to the Sychar region of Canaan.

Sarah's birth of Isaac was a miracle, in that case because she was so old he could not give birth. Mary's miracle was opposite. She was so young she had not known a man.

Fleeing Herod: Escape To Egypt

The historical story involves Jacob's family going to Egypt to escape famine in Canaan. The Matthew account involves a similar escape to Egypt.

After these respective escapes, there are similar stories of killing the babies. By Herod in Bethelem and by Pharaoh in Egypt.

Because of the parallelism we expect that Herod did indeed kill the babies of Bethlehem, but this was because they misunderstood some unknown prophetic writing of their own. We expect the star the Magi followed took them secretly to Sychar and away from Jerusalem for their trip back east.

Either, Herod kills in the wrong place, which we expect, or else there has been a word level substitution on Beth Lehem for Sychar. The audit should weed this out.

Leaving Egypt: John's Baptism

The Matthew account records that Joseph was told to return after Herod was dead. There is not a specific textual reference for this, but the timing of leaving Egypt may have been timed so some political force in Canaan was dead. This is unclear but curious. It may be the heirs of Jacob needed to grow large in numbers before they could safely return.

Then the Matthew story moves to John at the Jordan. Then to 40 days of Joshua in the wilderness. That 40 days reference is at the top of Matthew 4, and will mark the 40 years in the wilderness after leaving Egypt. So these historical events that are otherwise similar events and close to each other in time are divided so we as readers can identify which end of those 40 wilderness wandering years applies to which stories in Matthew.

This means that Matthew 3, with John at the Jordan ahead of those 40 days, is a match to the Exodus from Egypt. John calls for the roads to be made straight, which was the road across the bottom of the sea. John must also answer the Pharisees and Sadducees at Matthew 3:7. The coming wrath that John calls out on them is the drowning in the seas by Pharaoh and his army.

John is converting the water deluge of the Exodus to a future fire, and this may be similar to Noah. By water before, but reserved for fire. Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD by Roman fire. Noah in our day trades fire for water.

At the bottom of Matthew 3 is the story of the baptism of Joshua himself. This is still before the 40 days so it is marking the events around the Exodus. Joshua's baptism is marked by a voice from the skies. This voice is a match to the voice from the skies that boomed from the mountain after crossing the Red Sea. That voice was before the 40 years wandering in the wilderness.

Crossing The Jordan: Temptations

Matthew 4 starts with that reference to 40 days and then follows with the temptation of Joshua. Being after those 40 days means that we are to look at the stories early in Judges for the back stories to what is going on with Joshua.

In Joshua's case there are 3 temptations. Each such temptation is matched to a general battle in the conquering of Canaan. These battles happened historically in the years soon after 40 years of wandering in the wilderness were over.

The first temptation deals with turning stones into bread. His answer is that man lives, not by bread only, but by every word that comes from the mouth of god.

The center piece for conquering Jericho was the ark that contained the stone carved commandments. Words are written on stone because they are the inspired word of god. For a similar idea, consider Job. He knew inspired words should be carved in stone and wished of his own words that they would also be inscribed in stone, or with an iron pen on lead.

The second temptation involves being taken to the top of the temple. In history this was the battle for Ai, which was delayed because Achan had kept a babylonian robe and gold buried in his tent. Prophetically, that Babylonian robe has been used in lots with us as explaining how church robes prevent people from taking their own land.

In any case, the spoils from Jericho were to be kept in the treasury, ultimately to build the Tent of Time, NOT in temples as in this temptation. Religious temples are a major temptation for very many people.

The ultimate issue here is what form should meeting rooms ultimately take. What is their purpose? How are they to be funded? Moses' Tent of Time was funded mostly be spoils from Egypt. Achan was working against this when he kept back spoils. The battle of Ai shows spoils kept individually.

The third temptation involves being taken to a high mountain and being shown the kingdoms of the world. The final event in the Judges history of taking Canaan was the Gibeonite deception and the conquering of the alliance of 5 kings. Those kings are symbolic for all the kings of the world.

Joshua's retort to this temptation is that we must only serve god. When the alliance with the Gibeonites was made, the leaders of the tribes did not ask Joshua what they should do. They were serving themselves and had become allied with the kings and kingdoms of the world. This was the seed of their downfall when they asked for a king to be like all the other kingdoms.

Settling Inheritances: Move To Capernaum

By Matthew 4:12 we read that Joshua left Nazareth where he was brought up and he moved and dwelt at Capernaum. The punch line of this passage is to repent, for the kingdom of the skies has come near.

His house at Capernaum was a rebuilding of the tent from Moses' day which took root in Canaan about 7 years after crossing the Jordan. This is when the inheritances of men like Caleb, who dates that historical event, and Joshua son of Nun, were eventually settled. Joshua is likely matching his namesake, both of these men settled into their homes.

Samuel's 4 Calls, Travels: Calling Disciples, Travels

By Matthew 4:16 we find a story where Joshua calls 2 sets of 2 brothers. This was Simeon Peter and his brother Andrew and then Jacob son of Zebedee and his brother John.

This group of 4 disciples are going to match the 4 prophets across Judges. We also think these ancient prophets were the 4 previous lives of Samuel. So there is the Matthew side of this, and the historical side of this, to match the 4 times Joshua called to the prophet Samuel at night, before Samuel realized that Joshua was speaking to him, not Eli.

Then the story explains how Joshua began to travel around, eventually gathering large crowds from distant places, including Syria and the 10 cities. Samuel would do the same. Both Samuel and Joshua are said to be famous. Most other prophets were not as well known, and are not such famous figures.

These simple stories pointing at Samuel are the setup so readers of Matthew know to focus on the prophet Samuel. See 1 Samuel 7:15-17.

It was events in Samuel's life, initially the defeat of Eli, but then Samuel's warnings of the trouble of wanting a king, that would change the course of history. See 1 Samuel 8:7-9 for the curse of having asked for a king. We still suffer from that curse.

The Gospel of Matthew is now going to let us read Joshua's personal commentary on the terrible, faithless, events that were started in Samuel's day. Joshua had much to say, and this is a key passage in Matthew.

Samuel On The Mount: Sermon On the Mount

Matthew 5 starts with Joshua going to a mountain in order to preach. Samuel did the same. There are various references to Samuel on a high place, see 1 Samuel 9:25 for but 1 example. Note that Samuel's high place shifts to a roof at this particular verse and it prophetically matches the 911 events in 2001.

We will see it pass again in early December, 2025. So you should see Joshua's sermon on the mount as Joshua's commentary on the events of 911. But, more importantly, that commentary will span most of the defining events in history. Let me explain using smaller details.

Beatitudes

The Beatitudes being at Matthew 5:3 and run through 5:12. The list is 9 long, where the 9th entry seems to run on. These lists are often steps to heaven, or steps to Eden, and Joshua is spelling out character traits that mark his followers. The bottom of the list is the punch line in that people who exhibit these traits are often persecuted, as were the prophets who came before. Joshua just set the context for the rest of his sermon on the mount, those people who persecute prophets.

The persecutors that matter most were set in place in Samuel's day. First Eli, who hosted a false religion, and then Saul, the first Jebusite/Jerusalem king. The pairing of false religion and false government has stayed with us ever since. Think the Vatican, or the Israel Lobby.

Salt and Light

Matthew 5:13-5:16 deals with salt and light and a city built on a mountain, with a lamp within that city.

This is in part explaining the symbolism of mountain top references generally. They are symbolic of Eden, which can be thought of as like a city on a mountain but importantly with a lamp within.

Mountain top stories like this sermon on the mount are thus dealing with issues of Eden. Reaching Eden, like the Beatitude steps to Eden, and troubles with reaching Eden, primarily the 6 editors who prevent this.

Prologue

Matthew 5:17-20 is the prologue to a list of stories that will be following the editors, in order, in the normal way. This is located within the sermon on the mount and thus back to Samuel's day because those editors live within the Jebusite/Jerusalem kingly tradition that began in those days. They are still with us in many ways.

In this prologue Joshua connects the preserving of the text to entering the skies. This means to its smallest details including punctuation and word grouping. The Yo or pinch of the letters, and the Tag, or dot punctuation between words. But also to its extent meaning. Joshua indicates here that we must get past the content of the editors in order to enter the kingdom of the skies. So salvation only lives beyond the edited text.

Joshua will now move on, and deal with each editor in turn. Let me review that list here.

Solomon

Matthew 5:21-26 is dealing with the editor Solomon. This is mostly dealing with the relationship between Adonijah and Solomon. There was a fight over who would rule the kingdom. Solomon was from the foreign wife, so his religion is from a foreign source. Adonijah's behaviors appear to have contributed to Solomon's taking of the kingdom.

Ahab and Jezebel

Matthew 5:27-42 is dealing with the editing team Ahab and Jezebel. This content is mostly the adultery that presumably went on outside of their marriage. Then this passage suggests they may have been divorced in earlier marriages. Finally this section goes on to the issue of oaths. This is likely commentary on the show trial that brought down Naboth and allowed the taking of his vineyard. The issue of oaths may be oaths of office of people like judges. They apparently mean nothing, judges do what they want.

Matthew 5:39 references being struck on the cheek. This happened to the prophet Micah when he was called to be part of the false prophets. Micah, of course, had the true word and would thus be conflicted. Micah is the accurate prophet who predicted Ahab's death. Matthew 5:40 references being sued in court. Though out of order, this is likely the trial over Naboth's vineyard. Just give the king what we wants, otherwise end up dead.

Nebuchadnezzar

Matthew 5:43-48 is dealing with the editor Nebuchadnezzar. This content is mostly focused on the events surrounding Nebuchadnezzar's conquering of Jerusalem. Being carried away by force is a key phrase in 5:55. In particular, if the kings at Jerusalem had been more humble, in the various ways as listed, then they would not have been hauled away by force to Babylon. Better to be a vassal than to be dead.

Similar empire patterns exist throughout most of human history and in most places. This was what was lost in Samuel's day when they asked for a king.

Mordecai

Matthew 6:1-18 is dealing with the editor Mordecai. The first issue is parading around in public when doing acts of good work. These should be done in secret. Giving of alms, prayer and fasting are 3 more examples given here that echo stories found in the Book of Esther.

Ezra

Matthew 6:19-27 picks on details of Ezra. His first point is to store up treasure in the sky, not on the ground. A main feature of most temple and temple like structures since Ezra is their ornate and often gold decorations. Such decorations simply get stolen over time.

Matthew 5:24 deals with the problem of 2 masters, in particular Ezra had both god and the king as masters. In the end he could only ever have 1 master, and that would be the king. This section ends by calling temples something like store houses, and that we are not to do that. Temples were both religious centers and store houses are going to be in the central banking sense of a vault.

This caused me to think about our Tent of Time work. The inspired exhibits are high craft but not made out of expensive materials, so they do not attract thieves like gold in temples.

They are educational items like would be common for a well equipped primary school. Everyone should have ready access to copies. Those who run such places are also not to store up wealth. There was apparently 1 very expensive item, which Joshua returns to below.

Ananias

Matthew 7:1-7 finishes out the list with the New Testament editor Ananias. It starts with a warning not to judge, as Ananias did of Joshua's work. By Matthew 7:2 Joshua turns to the splinter in your brother's eye, while he has a plank in his own. The brother with a splinter was Paul. Ananias prayed for his sight. But then, of course Ananias went on to become high priest. For all that Paul did, that was but a splinter compared to the high priest.

At Matthew 7:15 Ananias is called out expressly as a false prophet, again referencing the specific story of giving Paul a prophetic word about healing for his sight after his Damascus Road experience. That same verse calls out Ananias as a wolf, but in sheep's clothing. This is a reference to the Tribe of Benjamin, that Jacob said was a wolf, today's Jews. These wolves act like a disciple of Joshua, who are like sheep.

The tree that this man was part of will be burned in fire, like in the year 70, but most likely again in our day. Finally, this story uses Ananias to warn that there are people who claim to follow Joshua, even able to give healing prophetic words, who will not themselves enter into the kingdom of the skies.

House on Rock

There is an final close to the sermon on the mount dealing with building on a rock, and not on sand. This is a reference back to the mountains carved at Shechem. Matthew 8:1 mentions Joshua coming down from the mountain, he is now back in time at Samuel and about to start moving forward in historical time yet again.

Note that this last story has dealt with Ananias and that editor likely added many more stories copied in from the other gospels in order to deflect from himself. In the BRB, Ryan has brief notes for each story about the preferred versions of these copied stories. We jump up to Matthew 12 in order to again pick up the plot of Matthew.

David: Master of the Sabbath

Matthew 12:3 references David by name. The Gospel of Matthew has now moved up from Samuel to David. This is not that far in historical time from Samuel who set Saul as king and then David who takes over the unified kingdom.

This particular passage deals with Joshua's disciples who are accused by the pharisees of doing things not lawful on the sabbath.

This story is likely explaining that all sabbath related practices are coming from this same era. So from Eli, or more precisely from the Jebusites who setup the practices of the kingdom. So we should see the religious law as being an extension of the needs of the early king. At various times in history the Pope at Rome was not only high priest, but also the secular ruler.

Joshua then explains that David himself knew this was silly, and was not practicing those laws. Joshua goes on and makes a demonstration of this and heals a withered hand on the sabbath. Withered, most likely, from excessive writing of silly laws.

Ryan and I have switched to Sundays from Saturdays, because sabbath itself on Saturday appears to origin from that era, and passages like this one condemn their sabbath practices.

Split Kingdom: Lord Zebub

Matthew 12:22-37 advances again, this time to the story of the split kingdom, referenced expressly at Matthew 12:25, where he states that every kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.

Joshua's highest level commentary is that when the kingdom split after the death of Solomon, that it was no longer able to stand, at all. This is what ultimately caused the Assyrian deportation, even though that split was decades later.

Joshua continues with his commentary and by Matthew 12:30 is indicating this was because that split kingdom was expressly now operating against Joshua as their heavenly king. The day of judgment was at the deportation, when only a few survived.

Jonah: Sign of Jonah

Matthew 12:38-41 is written in response to a question. The crowd wants a sign. Joshua says no sign will be given except the sign of Jonah. This reference to Jonah is now fixing us in history at the time of the prophet Jonah. This was just ahead of the Assyrian Deportation.

Jonah had taken a copy of the Tent of Time and its exhibits and set them up in a tent outside of Nineveh. Those Ninevites came out and listened to Jonah. The Ninevites are commended as having faith outside of the traditions of Jacob's family. Groups, like the Ninevites, tend to be harder to convince than individuals. So this is doubly commending of the Ninevites.

For Joshua's immediate audience, this same sign would be Joshua's house at Capernaum. It was setup so people could come and visit and see the systems involved in proving inspired text.

A few other copies would also be made in the decades after Joshua's ascension, like we find at Megiddo.

Joshua then piles it on, and says that he, Joshua, is greater than Jonah, and still they do not believe.

Assyrian Deportation: Parable of the Sower

Matthew 13:1-34 is the Parable of the Sower. The historical context is the Assyrian Deportation, when the people who had come out of Egypt are themselves cast into the world. The city of Rome, and thus the Roman empire, was founded at the same time in history as the Assyrian Deportation. So by geography the tribes are growing. Spread into a field like seed is a reasonable parable for this.

But the story then says someone was also sowing tares into the same field.

We know this as a parable for what happened to the manuscripts, but it is also saying there is some bad seed in the mix of people who were sown into the world. Who is that? The Jebusites, at least. The Sermon on the Mount explained already that Samuel's day is when everything setup by Moses was broken.

Those tares, so various groups of people, will be dealt with by fire at the end of the age.

Joshua's Life Mission: Hidden Treasure and Pearl

Matthew 13:47-52 now shifts to the point where Joshua is explaining his own time in history. There are 2 stories that he gives to explain his work on earth. The first part involves 2 buried treasures. First treasure is unspecified, but buried in a field. He sells everything to buy that field. The second treasure is like a merchant seeking good pearls. When he finds such a pearl he sells everything and buys it too.

This is dealing with the "field ripe for harvest." This was originally Abraham's scroll vault. Eventually it was Jeremiah's field, again, the same scroll vault. Finally, in Joshua's lifetime, he went and purchased it for himself because some treasure was buried there that really mattered to his work.

This commentary suggests Joshua needed family money from the Wake at Cana to redeem family lands near Sychar. A precise detail that is curious.

The 3d models behind the 2d letter forms can be used to recreate most of the exhibits, but not all. This unspecified first treasure likely includes a copy of Joseph's robe.

In my own case the robe came in a vision many years ago, and then was stored in my own diary until it could be recovered here recently.

This buried treasure also likely included treasure chests which themselves had decorations. In our case we recovered those designs from the Megiddo Mosaic. These are not particularly expensive items, but reaching them requires access to the land with the vault, reaching back through historical time to the originals.

Then there is the pearl of great price, likely an Eden model created by Abraham and also stored in the vault. This item is different, likely itself made out of many high quality pearls and itself expensive to reproduce. Using actual pearls as the ancient material would make it the only particularly expensive item across all of the exhibits. Pearls come from shells, which are a hint as to the overall exhibit shape.

This item is lost to history. This explains why I had to be taken there in dreams 20+ years ago. This is another exhibit that had to be personally recovered from my own past. I will use 3d printed plastic, so modern copies will not be particularly expensive.

Disciples Mission: Parable of the Net

Matthew 13:47-52 involves the parable of the net. This is referencing the fishermen being called, see John 21:1-13. The disciples are told to cast their net on the other side of the boat where they make a large catch of fish. That story is a long parable dealing with the audit process as well as manuscript multiplication.

This is also indicating that there was a large catch of fish in the sense of souls. There was a group of walk offs in that generation, including the disciples and then many more.

I have dealt with the manuscript side of this in recent blogs and will deal with it again once I have the Fig Tree with a hair net fabricated in the shop.

Matthew's Grand Run

This is the last story in the run from Abraham to Joshua himself. Matthew now turns to a different set of sequential stories also interpreted via the historical stories of the text, starting again, but from Adam.

I strongly suspect that these stories mark content that is in the additional volumes created when that Fig Tree is actually used to cipher the documents.

In any case, let me turn to the remaining series of stories in Matthew.

Grand Run (Bible Time)

We expect that there is another block of added stories in Matthew, copied in from the other gospels. Mathew itself likely picks up again in Chapter 16 and the start of what we have long called the Grand Run. The link here is to a section on Bible Time dealing with that run. That run is also mostly duplicated in Mark. Ryan currently expects that Matthew holds the inspired copy of the Grand Run.

The challenge to the grand run is determining where that run actually finishes. In the Bible Time days I ended that run as Joshua approaches Jerusalem, so around the year 1800. This was in some sense arbitrary, I was able to predict the future when that run was first penned 2000 years ago, but I did not know how to predict the future from our day. (In the Bible Time era I did not think there was a future from our day. Silly me.)

Using the chiastic structure of Matthew given the Matthew row of the Table of 400, Ryan is making a good guess that the Grand Run ends with the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24 and 25. That discourse takes place early in Passion Week and ends atop yet another mountain. This makes internal sense from his manuscript study. This also makes logical sense as the end to that prophetic series of stories. Let me explain.

Note how Revelation also ends with a great high mountain from which Eden can be seen. So now Matthew has a good cross reference, or cross check, suggesting the far right side of all timeline references end at a mountain top event.

Even though this was inside Passion Week, if the 1000 years per day timing system of the Grand Run continued, this event late in Matthew is a parable for something way out in our future, beyond when Mars is colonized.

Once the Crown exhibit gets finalized it should be possible to date these future events. I suspect Matthew's Grand Run is doing something like making a complete cycle of the time on earth of Adam's descendants. Adam and Eve essentially came down from a mountain at the start of the story.

Going up the mountain is thus going up or back to Eden for any stragglers left on earth.

Roman Army To Jerusalem

There is another way to cross reference going up a mountain to the end of a complete 70 year timeline cycle. There is a mountain event in 70 AD that I have never considered.

Joshua's earthly natural life and ministry ran for 70 yeas. He was only here on earth for 30. The last 40 were handled by his disciples. The end was seen in the events of the year 70 when Jerusalem was destroyed by the invading Roman army.

That invasion and destruction of the temple is so well known, and so well timed, that it must be the prophetic end of the 70 year cycle that began with Joshua's birth.

But, finding textual support for that event as the prophetic fulfillment of the end of 70 years has been impossible so far. What textual story indicates this was the end?

Once we are looking for someone to visit the top of a mountain, we can now show that 70 AD story to be the correct fulfillment. That Roman army climbed Temple Mount, same mountain as Abraham did with Isaac.

So the Romans climbed Mount Moriah as a marker to the end of those 70 years. This is a very curious match to both the end of Revelation and to the end of Matthew.

Ready For Audit

Ryan's recent work in Matthew has basically prepared that book for letter level audit and recovery. My own workload is still very busy, so that work still looks to be many months away. There is still very much more 3d modeling work to do first. Unlike Philemon and Jude, which we think are mostly unedited, Matthew cannot be first in the audit process. But, it is ready.

By getting Matthew mostly finished, Ryan's attention has turned to the other gospels. Like putting together a jig saw puzzle, the work gets easier as pieces are set in place because the remaining list of open pieces keeps going down.

Shop Work

The 3d print farm has been running nearly continuously this week with a complete reprint of Joseph's robe. This revision is in a white, linen, palette. All of the parts for the front of the robe are printed. Parts for the back are still being run. I will post more photos of that work as this blog goes out.

I also chased down a strange calibration bug that was seen on both of the running Voron 3d printers. When printing very long parts, which must be done diagonally on their big 350mm beds, the parts came up short. So a 360mm led light strip would print at 355mm, slightly over 1 percent short. Though 1 test print where I simply fixed the scale problem in the slicer by hand came out long, and printed at about 365mm.

For awhile I thought I was loosing my mind. Was this a software problem? A hardware problem? A calibration problem? Or worse, something that would not reliably repeat?

As a percentage it wasn't so much as to cause trouble on small parts, but for big parts, or parts that get connected into bigger structures, this was going to be a show stopping problem.

Short answer is this was a racking problem. The gantries within these printers had not been set perfectly square when they were assembled. Fixing that problem is conceptually easy. But, the squareness is set before the belts are installed, before the complicated extruder is installed. So getting in far enough to fix the problem was some work. Voron #7 is now running normal. #8 will get attention next week.

This racking problem was found while assembling large parts for the new mult-color filament feeder. Assembly of that item also resumed this week after reprints there.

Headline Review

There was a single headline that caught my attention early in the week. Then the world turned to Pope Leo.

Houthis Reach Ben Gurion

The link here is to an Al Jazera video on Youtube. It includes various video clips and light commentary of a May 4, 2024, Houthi missile strike in the parking lot and related roads near Ben Gurion airport in Israel.

Though this was not a direct hit on the airport building, it did cause many airlines to suspend service to Israel. Hal Turner reported Lufthansa, from Germany, Transavia from the Netherlands, Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Airlines, Aspen Air from Spain, Ryanair from Ireland and Delta Air Lines all suspended service by the evening of May 4, 2025. Most of that was resumed a day later.

The Houthis indicated they are declaring an air blockade against Israel because of the Genocide in Gaza. It looks like Israel intends to kill around 2,000,000 people this way. Only 1 government on earth seems willing to stop the genocide, that would be the Houthis.

The Houthis do not need to be very accurate shooters in order to maintain such a blockade. Airlines do not want their planes anywhere near a shooting gallery. (We could say airlines are flighty when it comes to war. Sorry.)

This is another possible headline in this busy month of prophetic worthy headlines. The last possible date for the start of Gideon's 7 days is still around May 23, 2025.

I would still expect fulfillment involving Saudi Arabia in some way. But, there can always be surprises. Trump's expected trip to Saudi Arabia may end up called off if the airspace in the region is unsafe.

Pope Leo XIV

Thursday this week saw the election of the next pope. The internet is covered with commentary on what this might mean, both for the Catholic church and more broadly in the world.

The link here is to an MSNBC video where these globalist news people fawn over this new pope. This just to have some specific reference for the blog. Most readers here likely know this already.

The key take away is that Leo was originally from Chicago, making him the first American pope, though he was a citizen of Peru and spent most of his time in South America.

Leo was selected as a Cardinal in 2023 and many suspect this was done so he could replace Francis. Leo cited Francis in his first remarks from the balcony in Saint Peters. This indicated to all that he is within Francis' globalist cadre.

The term "globalist" when applied to Leo, at least so far, is his stance on open borders. This is ultimately a Zionist idea. It is not possible to rule the world from Jerusalem unless there are no strong nations, languages nor cultures who could ever fight back over that rule. So Leo is part of the problem.

Our main issue from a prophetic perspective is how well does Leo fit the "Peter the Roman" prophetic word from the list of popes. That he was born in Chicago is already a match to Roman, in the Roman Empire sense of Rome, not the city of Rome.

Remember the history. When ancient Rome fell it divided east and west. London was eventually the remaining western island of Roman culture, lasting longer than Italy because London was less susceptible to foreign invasion. London's power shifted to the USA as a consequence of games played by the USA during World War II.

So Leo being born in the USA is the expected match to "Roman."

The other prophetic term in the list of popes for Leo is Peter. Of course all popes claim to be in succession to Peter, so this is a weaker term to use.

But at least as a first cut, Leo, or Lion, is a symbol for Judah. This includes Genesis 49:9 and other references through to Revelation 5:5. At essentially the same time as Leo was voted in, the Russians, so Judah, were holding their 80th anniversary celebrations for their defeat of Germany, and German ally Italy, in World War II.

Italy, of course, was allied with Germany in that war. If World War II repeats along similar national lines, Italy will ally again with Germany, as they are in NATO. Together they will go against Russia again, and together they will loose again.

That celebration was being used by Russia to host many world leaders in Moscow, most specifically interested in BRICS related issues. Russia also has a multi-polar expression of Christianity, and want a multi-polar expression of planetary governance. The hierarchy of Zionism and hierarchy of Catholicism is seen in Russia as wrong.

Russia, of course, is also the tribe of Judah able to defeat the Tribe of Benjamin, think about the stories at the end of Judges.

Peter is most likely the Apostle for the tribe of Judah. Saint Petersburg in Russia is a memory peg for this. So the term "Peter the Roman" is also pointing at the specific events in Russia at Leo's election.

So the prophetic term Peter the Roman is pointing at where destruction of the Catholic church and the city of Rome will come. The Moscow military holding parades at the same time as Leo was voted in is the match.

Russia are the ones whom the west are threatening again, as they did in World War II. Russia won't loose, though it is unclear if anyone will win. This whole story is not pretty.

More Later,

Phil