Gospel of Mark, Gideon's Fleece

This blog looks at the Gospel of Mark. Then it turns to Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, a prophetic match to our watch date, expecting in part, Gideon's Fleece.

Gospels Work in 400

Ryan has continued to make steady and stunning advances across the Gospels. For those who may be following his work, let me suggest using the 400 App, linked here.

This week's update includes a reordering of the gospels. The order you will find there now is Luke, Mathew, Mark and John. This is the traditional order, but with Luke pulled to the front.

This ordering solves a problem with duplicate and cross referenced stories. Some duplication of stories is going to be inspired because those stories allow the gospels to be stitched together to build an overall understanding.

But, for any given story, there should be a single authoritative source, with usually later references simply picking up details or just referencing something already known in the reading order.

By putting Luke first, and leaving the rest in historical order, the story cross references happen without becoming forward references. So this is probably the correct inspired order.

Aside from this change in order, the big work this week was in the Gospel of Mark. All of the gospels have been trouble, but finally, Mark now looks to be solved.

The big leap for solving Mark was to realize the tail of Mark, where it duplicates Matthew's Grand Run, is the main edit in Mark. By dropping Mark's copy of that material from Matthew, the rest of Mark fell neatly into place. Let me give some of the details of this work.

Mark Details

The best way to see this is by looking at the row for the Gospel of Mark in the 400 App linked at the top of this blog. Mark is now on the Pe row and starts at story 425. As always, subject to future revision, but changes are getting less likely as the overall work progresses.

Mark is now another complete book that is now mostly ready for letter level audit work. Like Matthew, it includes additions so it cannot be used as a starting place for that work. Jude and Philemon look to be the best starting places.

The Gospel of Mark fills in 1 complete row in the Table. This means that there are 25 sections that generally follow the 25 letters and glyphs in the Paleo alphabet.

Mark, as currently cut, has identifiable alphabet related Chiasm. Most of the stories also follow known themes for the specific letters. See the pop up for the left heading of that row in the 400 App for a specific list of notes on that glyph mapping and folding.

Mark's Use of Tribes

But Mark has another detail that is also interesting. Across Mark, but not following the same breaks as the stories, Mark provides a set of parables, so a parable run, with details that match the Revelation 7 list of the tribes. This particular tribal run starts at Judah, so Russia, and runs the Revelation 7 order forward across about 1/2 of Mark. After the mid point, and a parable about Dan, Mark then runs the tribes in reverse. So Mark is using another Chiastic structure, but for the tribes. Let me hit a few examples so you can see what I mean.

Mark begins with the baptism at the Jordan. As a tribal parable this is matching the Primary Russian Chronicle's account of the national baptism of the Russian people on the Dnieper River at Kiev a little over 1000 years ago. The starting event for the millennial reign, that Putin so frequently references.

This is off to a good start. Let me skip ahead to Simeon.

To make this work, Ryan had to restore the story of the beheading of John the Baptist. This was needed in part to fill out the stories across this row. From a tribal perspective this matches Simeon and the French Revolution, when the French went around beheading anyone they did not like. They are a vile group, a vile tribe, which is why Jacob said he never wanted to enter their council.

For American readers here, let me mention Manasseh, Mark 1:40-45, where we are called Lepers. This because we live in a colony all alone, apart from the rest of the world, just like a bunch of lepers in a leper colony also live alone. Skipping ahead some more...

At the center of Mark, at 4:35-41, is the story dealing with Dan. This is the tribal inflection in Mark. Dan is only mentioned 1 time in the middle. This story of Dan deals with their natural fear of drowning.

As a national parable it is a match to the Netherlands, it deals with the way much of that county is located below sea level. Many people there have drowned in the sea when dikes have failed.

After this point Mark runs the tribes again, but in reverse order. This is so the Tribe data is also chiastic. The tribes ending again at Judah. Let me hit a couple examples from the back end of Mark.

Returning to the USA in the latter half, Mark 6:30-44 is also a parable on the USA. We live in a wilderness, all alone from the rest of the tribes. (Like a leper colony, see above.)

Travel to that place was by ship, also a historical match to the problem of travel across the Atlantic. Joshua taught those remote crowds many things. (Protestantism's best feature, study the text for yourself.)

But it was getting late. The USA formed late in historical time. The USA studies the text in ways few others do. It may colonize Mars, which is also very remote and late.

Because it was getting late, like late in the age, then there is the feeding of the 5000, also under Manasseh. This is the story of manuscript recovery and more interesting, multiplication. By sitting under the USA, it suggests strongly that it will happen here. (This is getting personal.) Skipping more stories...

Mark 8:14 is the last story in Mark and it sees Judah being cautioned about the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod. Russia avoided the Jewish Old Testament, and they avoided the Latin translation of that same text. They avoided Zionism. But, they are then chastised for not accepting the story of the feeding of the 5000, nor the story of the feeding of the 4000. (Ouch, another manuscript parable we don't yet understand.)

This story at the tail of Mark, about Judah, so Russia, indicates our work will be hardest for the Orthodox branches of Christianity to accept. But, by Mark 8:22-25 they will eventually accept the recovered and multiplied text as well.

I've only given a highlight of Mark. Most of these tribal stories in Mark can be easily matched to what we know about the individual tribal stories from the Bible Tribes work from 20 years ago. This study probably needs a Bible Tribes page somewhere.

Ryan's work in Mark also leaves me with another Bible Time related riddle. Mark clearly starts with the baptism of Russia at the start of the 1000 year reign. Many of the other tribe related parables in Mark map modern aspects of the tribes. The French Revolution and the isolation across the Atlantic of the USA are but 2 more examples. So is Mark a timeline of those 1000 years? Maybe not precisely timed, but skipping along events that may have precise prophetic dates? These are future questions that need attention once work begins in earnest on the Crown exhibit.

Trump to Saudi Arabia

The link here is to a Youtube video of an NBC news report of Trump's arrival in Saudi Arabia. Trump was expected to make several stops, including Qatar, who as the article reports, is gifting a 747-8 for use as a temporary Air Force One.

Other sources gave details for this plane, specifically a 747-8i, built in 2012, with 436 flight hours and 200 cycles. It is configured for 76 passengers and 18 crew. With such low flight time it is essentially a brand new plane. It has been up for sale, but without a public asking price. Such a plane with standard interior is worth around $370M. With its current interior it is thought to be worth somewhere around $400M. It is said to be currently at a Boeing facility near San Antonio, Texas.

When I first heard of this gift I suspected it would need to be disassembled to inspect it for hidden bombs and listening devices. That marks the prophetic story which I will return to below. The video above confirms that initial hunch. In order to use the plane, it will need to be disassembled.

Though that disassembly has some cost, most commercial jets are similarly disassembled for airframe inspections throughout their service lives. There are contractors who specialize in this work. The Boeing facility near San Antonio may be one such place where this work is done. This is a normal maintenance task that may sound bad, but it is a normal service event that would also allow rewiring for the communications gear needed for US Presidential use.

The problem is that the US Constitution precludes receiving of foreign gifts by US government officials without Congressional approval of such a gift.

Unmentioned in the report above, Congress has already given blanket approval for all gifts to the US Air Force, so the plane will likely be given specifically to the US Air Force in order to fall under that standing approval. Even more specific, the USA has already received far larger gifts from the government of Qatar, and this may be considered yet another part of those gifts.

Victor Davis Hanson Comments

The link here is to a Youtube video with much more detail on the history of problems with the current Air Force One, and the late replacements. Qatar has already made substantial gifts to the US Military. This plane is not the first such gift from that country to the USA, nor is it anywhere near the largest such gift, as he explains. The video ends with Hanson's personal history of receiving gifts for the Hoover Institute. Large givers tend not to want anything in return, only small givers and small gifts tend to want favors in return.

Pictures of Inside of Plane

The link here is to an X post by Lord Bebo with a selection of photos of the inside of the plane. This was the Emir of Qatar's private jet. You can see why Trump would be attracted to this plane, the internal aesthetic is very similar to the tones of gold Trump has used for decorating his properties for most of his adult life.

This plane does out class the existing 40 year old Air Force One. From the side of Qatar, you can see why they might give it away. It will eventually find a home in someone else's museum, outside of their tiny country.

The need to turn that 747 into an empty shell for inspection caused Ryan to remind me of an old prophetic headline, where another plane was gutted and left on the ground. Turns out we were unknowingly already looking for this 747 headline.

Hainan Island Incident

The link here is to the US Navy's history website to an article detailing events which would become known as the Hainan Island Incident. Let me summarize the key points here.

The incident began on April 1, 2001, off the coast of China. An American spy plane, an EP-3 Aries type plane, was accidentally struck by an overly aggressive Chinese patrol fighter jet. The Chinese jet crashed, with loss of the pilot. The American plane was damaged and made an emergency landing on Hainan Island, which is Chinese territory but off the south coast of mainland China.

The crew raced to destroy intelligence data aboard the plane before it landed. How successful they may have been in that work is unclear. Think listening devices on the 747.

Upon landing, the Chinese detained the crew. The Chinese also wanted as much data as they could get from that plane. Ultimately they totally disassembled the plane. Then they left it for parts on the tarmac at the airport where it had landed.

For the next 11 days the Chinese kept asking the USA for a formal apology.

After 11 days a deal was reached with the USA, and the crew and plane were returned. The crew was returned to a base on Whidbey Island in Puget sound. (A short ferry ride from the location of the 747 factory near Everett, WA.) The parts for the plane that were spread around on the ground were picked up in China and returned to a base in Georgia where a Lockheed crew later reassembled it and returned it to service.

That Hainan Island Incident happened the first time I was watching headlines for a prophetic replay of the story of Gideon and Gideon's fleece. That was the same story we are watching for now. The 747 gift is a direct match both to our expected watch date and back to Hainan Island.

At the time when I first saw this headline in 2001 it made no sense as to why it would be the prophetic match until I looked up details on the specific type of spy plane.

EP-3E Aries II

The link here is to another US Navy website describing the exact type of plane involved in the Hainan Island Incident. The full name is what matters most. In 2001 it took a few days before I thought to get a dictionary definition on Aries. This is only easy to spot if you know your constellations, which we will solve with a star map exhibit. I digress. An "Aries" is a "male sheep with a golden fleece."

Even the current English idiom of the word fleece, or test, comes from the Biblical story of Gideon and his fleece. So the shell of that spy plane was called a fleece, by name. It was a match to the prophetic story of Gideon.

The Chinese had placed a fleece on the tarmac and asked for the tears, or dew, of an apology from US President Bush. President Bush was eventually given back his lost plane. The diplomats worked out language so in English, President Bush did not apologize, but in Chinese he did.

Now, let me review the full prophetic story of Gideon so we can think about Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, which is another, current, expected, replay of Gideon and his fleece.

Story of Gideon

The link here is to Judges 6 in the BRB. The story of Gideon begins at this chapter and runs through the end of chapter 8. This is a fairly long prophetic passage, with lots of text that could be informing current headlines.

In the BRB you will also see much of the story is marked up with various filter tags. These mark the parts of the story that Ryan currently suspects might not be inspired.

There are 2 time references within this interval that provide the timing for the prophetic interval we are currently expecting. The outer interval, that connects to the trunk timeline is at Judges 8:28 and is an interval of 40 years. So in a day-for-a-year replay, is 40 days. Those days began 2025-04-20 and end 2025-05-29. Within those days are another 7 days, which in history was 7 years. That time interval is called out in Judges 6:1.

Textual Challenges

This is a good example where the simple read of the text wants these 7 years to not be overlapped. But the total of all such possibly non-overlapped times fails a long distance timeline across the Book of Judges itself. At 1 Kings 6:1, there is a 480 year reference that spans from the Exodus to the start of Solomon's Temple. That interval forces out these short times during the time of peace at the front of Judges.

Additionally, if those 7 years are NOT sequential, then they want to start at the beginning of those 40 years. If not at the start, then by yet another simple read of the text perhaps these short intervals would be at the end of the 40 years. Neither of these reads is not born out by actual headlines.

All we can really do is treat those embedded time references as always floating withing the containing years of peace.

Key Events Of Gideon

You can read the entire story of Gideon for yourself. You may see something I am currently missing. Maybe another week and something more will become evident. Let me know if you spot something I am currently overlooking. There is at least another week before this may be over.

As I see it so far, US President Trump is playing the part of Gideon. He has traveled off to Midian, so Saudi Arabia, and then Qatar and then the UAE. Though there seemed to be some doubt about traveling to Turkey, he ultimately returned home on Friday, May 16, 2025.

The text explains how Gideon ultimately defeats Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, so Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.

Financial Deals

Most of the headlines coming out of Trump's trip deal with the dollar value of the deals that Trump has been signing along the way.

Many of these are trade deals, such as selling US Weapons to countries in the region. Some of these deals are capital investments, often times new factories, back into the USA. Some of these totals are not being explained publicly, at least as far as I can currently see.

The Trump administration is generally attempting to avert a federal level bankruptcy. To do this they must stop the issuance of new net debt going on since the time of Nixon. The Arab world sells oil for dollars. They currently control about 20 percent of the world's wealth. They cannot keep using those dollars to buy US debt.

Selling weapons, or Boeing airplanes, or selling new factories in the USA are a better way to avert a United States national collapse. It should also boost the internal US economy which also helps avert such a collapse.

So by seeing Trump as Gideon, we see Trump defeating these nations, and bringing some sense of financial victory to the balance of trade that is currently crippling the US Economy. Ultimately, this is the story of Gideon defeating Midian that is the heart of this prophetic story.

Financial Famine

Judges 6:4-6 involves how the actions of Midian had caused famine in the land. In some sense this ties back to Kissinger's trip to Saudi Arabia. That trip first setup the Petro Dollar system that has kept the US Dollar propped up since Nixon's day. So Trump's trip this past week is tied to the prophetic stories of the fall of Adam. Kissinger took Nixon to China in those days too, and the 2001 replay of Gideon was related to the other side of those prophetic events in and around 1974.

Central Bankers need a reserve currency that they can perpetually inflate, and Kissinger's work 50 or so years ago was the trick. But, it also brought on the curse of the fall on American workers. No longer would the ground yield its increase. Only by the sweat of our brows would there be prosperity in the USA. Before Nixon, a family of 4 could live comfortably on the wages of 1 worker with only a high school diploma. Now it takes both parents with advanced degrees to pull of that same prosperity.

So by bringing factories back to the USA, some level of broad prosperity may be possible again, something seen in the prophetic components of this story. This USA likely has other, more serious issues, to be fixed before that can happen.

Actual Famine

The text of Gideon also deals with actual famine, in this case we can see the actual famine as currently going on in Gaza.

Trump explained from the stage how he did not like what was going on with famine in Gaza, this getting a round of applause from his audience. His comments also showed some negative body language from his Zionist attendants who had flowed in from the USA along with Trump.

Trump was able to start the return of food to Gaza, even getting arch Zionist Mike Huckabee to announce the return of food to Gaza. There are technical disputes with this. The Zionists don't want food to return right away.

What is curious about Trump taking the side of Gaza is that he was marking that Gideon, the hero in this prophetic story, is on the side of the Christians of Gaza and against the Jews of Jerusalem. Trump is similarly conflicted in Ukraine, sometimes on the side of the Christians of Russia, sometimes on the side of the Zionist bankers ruling the rest of Europe.

This may be just an aberration, or else it is a hint to the more distant dates on this prophetic date series when we reach the replay of the New Testament stories. Those stories are also against the heirs of the Jebusites. Those replays are in the last year or so of Trump's scheduled time in office.

Gideon's Fleece

Then there is also the story of Gideon's fleece. The link here is to that story in the BRB, located starting at Judges 6:36 and running through verse 40. Gideon uses the fleece to decide if he should go war.

If you back up 2 verses you can see the context. Gideon has called for help from across all the tribes. Unclear, but apparently nobody came.

So Gideon again sent to Manasseh, and they did come to Gideon's help. Of course Manasseh is the modern USA, so this is ultimately an American story. Finally, Gideon does the same again with Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali. These tribes also come to Gideon's help. That would be Austria, the location of OPEC, then Greece and Germany. Ultimately Trump was raising funds from OPEC countries. Unclear what Greece and Germany would have to do with this.

Once this subset of tribes has arrived, Gideon is not sure what to do. He is under staffed, and does not have a whole army. Not having Judah and not having Benjamin are key to the modern situation. Some of what Trump is doing, generally speaking, does not have support of parts of the US Congress. The text is telling us what Trump misses from congress. Judah so Communists, so Democrats, and Benjamin, so American Zionists are Trump's weak points.

Not having full backing is why Gideon was so hesitant about going to war.

Gideon then uses a fleece as his test. Gideon wants to see dew on the fleece and not on the ground. Then, demonstrating his hesitancy, he runs the rest again. That second time he wants dew on the ground and not on the fleece.

This is the hesitancy that we see in Trump as a prophetic Gideon. He is hesitant over the problems and battles that face him. The gifted 747 sitting in Texas is his fleece. If not fully disassembled yet, it will be, in order to check it before accepting it as a gift. It is his fleece, the skin of a sheep.

The dew and the two tests are likely the struggle in Congress over that gift. Trump ultimately wants that plane as part of his presidential library and so his permanent legacy.

But, who is Trump fighting, ultimately?

Hints At Benjamin

The link here is to the old section on Bible Tribes dealing with Benjamin. That tribe is identified with a Seal Date in 1974 which identified Israel as the lost tribe. A mistake in those days was not to recognize that document identified both Israel and the Arab world as Benjamin.

The matched Apostle is Judas, who was eventually fully replaced by Matthias. The same should happen at the tribal level, Israel should ultimately be replaced on the map of lost tribes by the Arabs.

The starving people in Gaza are on Gideon's side, they are on the Arab side. So when Trump gets an ovation over support for the people of Gaza, it prophetically hints at that replacement. Trump, though, is a timid warrior, and we will need to keep following the prophetic story in future months to see how this turns out.

In any case, we have our expected matched headlines for the prophetic story of Gideon and Midian. The next set of dates begin on 2024-05-30. I will return to them in a future blog.

Shop Work

We are traveling this weekend, which is the Feast of Weeks. I generally like to finish off projects before travel, and have been working on reprinting the Tribes/Seals exhibit and reprinting the Robe exhibit.

Tribes Exhibit

The Tribes exhibit was only partially reprinted. To save 3d printing time and plastic, I left this exhibit with 1 inch letters. But, 2 areas needed attention and were reprinted and then replaced into the current exhibit.

The tribe name plates were reprinted with a white background instead of the gray that had been used before. This change was in part to match the style of the new Robe reprint. It also increases the contrast for vision impaired users.

The tribe name for the tribe of Dan is now in the same color scheme as the other tribes, but it is not the same in terms of the story. To fix this, Dan has an added "+" to mark that it is being added to the front of the tribe list. Dan is not otherwise found in Revelation 7 where the tribe list is originally from.

Also, on the Tribes/Seals exhibit, the letter tiles were reprinted to use the same white squares with colored letters as used on the reprinted robe. The basic white background of this exhibit looks much better. This reprint was also done to help with vision impaired users and to increase the contrast for everyone so they could be more easily seen from far away.

Robe Exhibit

The Robe exhibit reprint was completely finished this week. This full reprint was done in part because the Robe did not use the current design for the back.

Like the Tribes exhibit, the Robe can now be transported in parts and easily assembled into a single large exhibit. Because column order is so very important to this exhibit, the panels also have 3d printed panel numbers on the back. This so the order of assembly can be checked before the set is assembled into a single large panel.

The front of the Robe was reprinted with a white base color and then it uses colored letters with a thin black trim. This change was done to make Joseph's robe match all other references in the text to important robes. This includes references to the robe in Elisha' day, then Joshua's robe at the cross, and finally the robe mentioned in Revelation.

This reprint also makes the Robe much easier to see for anyone with a vision problem. It is a wonderful piece of art in its own right. I will post photos on Telegram when this blog goes out.

Filament Feeder

I also did some reprinting of some of the parts in the new Voron filament feeder. This because there was a tricky over-inking problem on the Voron when these geared parts were first 3d printed. The reprints were done instead on a Prusa Mini using PETG. They printed quickly and with good enough calibration.

The Vorons need more filament specific calibration. This work takes time and needs to be done for the PLA that will be used on future larger exhibit pieces. None of this has been done so far, and it made no sense to spend that time on plastic that was not going to be used later in the 3d printing for large exhibits.

Headline Review

The following headlines caught my eye this past week. Some are in support of the prophetic story outlined above. Then there are others that are just interesting.

Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Israel has blocked all food going into Gaza since March 2, 2025. The link here is to a Reuters report on the resumption of "Humanitarian Aid" that should start again by the end of May, 2024.

Note the use of deceptive language in that report. Humanitarian aid sounds like non-food supplies. This wicked news service is covering for the Zionists because they run that wire service. Controlled media is getting more and more useless.

The UN and other food agencies have objected to the delay. The UN food workers want immediate access themselves to Gaza. Modern Israel needs to remember the principle, you reap what you sow.

Drugged Up EU Leaders

The link here is to a post on X by RT which shows the leaders of the UK, France and Germany doing drugs on their train ride out of Ukraine. They had been in Ukraine to see their drug using friend, Zelensky. What a sick crew. They were probably testing some of Zelensky's stuff.

The leaders of the EU have appeared to be deranged brain-dead lunatics for many, many months. Now we have concrete evidence as to why. They cannot be clear thinking, which is why they are leading their nations to radio active ash. Putin would later also comment in a way that caused translators some dispute. He called those leaders idiots, apparently a Russian idiom for drug-addled.

More of Ukraine

This link is to an X post by Alan Watson which suggests Putin is setting Russian sights on the next tier of Ukrainian territory, should no peace deal be reached here soon. This means Russia intends to pick up 4 more oblasts in eastern Ukraine which are of mixed Russian and Ukrainian speakers. This territory would include Odessa and that territory would also cut Ukraine off from the Black Sea.

Control of Odessa would give Russia sovereign control of territorial waters in the Black Sea. This is in part why Turkey objects to Russian control of Crimea.

Youtube and X have been flooded with various reports that Ukraine's eastern flank is collapsing. The Russian pace of advance is increasing, in part because Russia's war of attrition is finally bearing fruit. Summer weather is making advances easier, and is said to continue until fall.

Report on Fall of Syria

This link is to a post on X by Tim Anderson. It does not cite sources, so it may be false news. But it purports to be following a Chinese report on the fall of Assad' Syria, mostly through the work of western security services like the CIA and Mossad.

Gifted 747-8

The link here is to a post on X dealing with the gifted 747-8 from the family of the Emir of Qatar. This report shows the interior.

A Road to Death

A strange aspect of some of the occult religions is that they require public statements about the harm they intend to do. The link here is to an X post by our favorite mortician, John O'Loony, which takes the drug manufacturer's name Astrazenica and runs it through a Latin language translator.

What are the odds this name was chosen by random chance? That entire industry is a disgrace.

More Later,

Phil