7 Layers of Interpretation

This blog explains recent changes to our understanding of the 7 layers of interpretation. Also, this week's serious change to the fundamental 3d pen shape used in the exhibits. Finally, a headline review including notes on Ukraine.

Travel

This past weekend we were traveling. As happens so often when we are forced to sit in a car for hours, we make interesting discoveries. We did this again for our 7 layer model on our trip home this past Sunday.

If that wasn't enough, then on Monday I had a waking vision which dealt with a change in the shape of the 3d pen used throughout the exhibits. I return to pen shape change below. First, let me cover typical use and issues related to the 7 layers of interpretation.

Examples of Layer 5

In several recent blogs I have been giving examples of symbolic interpretation for many stories across the text. The most common family of symbols deal with the exhibits and the aspects of the text itself. Symbolic references are commonly referring to the primary text and additional volumes that are generated by ciphering. Those additional volumes essentially rise from the dead.

The parable of turning water into wine, for example, is based on this symbolism. Milk and honey references are another example. Body and blood references are another. All of these are using the 5th layer in our 7 layer model of possible ways to interpret the text.

History

The idea to use layers for understanding the text came in a dream at some point while we were living in Oregon. We left Oregon in 2004, so this has been a tool of ours for a long time.

Those layers mimic, in some sense, the modern computer network ISO model for understanding computer communication. That theoretical model also has 7 layers, and the top layer, the Application Layer, is even named the same. Computer literate friends at the time of that dream laughed at the similarity. The humor was coming from the idea of using an important STEM tool for studying the text. We had only just begun.

I will detail each layer as we currently understand them below. But first, for regular readers here, let me explain this past weekend's change.

Key Discovery

The key new insight this past weekend was to apply the letter definitions for the first 7 letters in the alphabet to the successive layers of the 7 layer model of interpretation.

By doing this we were able to base the 7 layer interpretive model itself within the paleo language system. So the similarity to the computer network model was simply scaffolding until we knew enough to find the actual source for the 7 layer model.

On that drive home, we were also able to categorize all of the various textual features that are marked up in the BRB. Ryan has been adding various types of markup to that app for many years. Each new markup was added to handle some issue related to his ongoing work. All of that markup now seems to fall into the 7 layer model as well.

We also made a conceptual change where the 7th layer, the upper layer, the application layer, ends up being the purpose of the Crown item in the set of exhibits. Use of the alphabet as the framework for interpreting the text demands this. More details on that below.

The lower layers are simply preparatory steps for being able to apply the text to the world. The timeline, as expressed using the Crown, is the main way to understand the flow of history in the world around us. The Bible Time related work thus shifts up to that top or 7th layer.

A final new discovery involves the 3d models themselves. They are a precursor to the text because they explain the drawn letter forms, the audit pattern, the systems of ciphering and so on. These exhibits create the written text and so they are usually the layer 1 interpretive system. You can debate me on this, some of the 3d systems may be a lurking layer 0, or Dot.

We only began to understand the existence of the 3d system in 2009, so these came well after we were using the 7 layer model against the written text.

Let me review the types of issues that 7 layer model naturally addresses. Anyone who wants to completely understand the text must know all of these 7 layers, and know how to use them. They are a powerful and useful model for breaking down obscure problems in the text. Let me start from the bottom layer and work up to the application layer.

Layer 1: Wa

The first layer of interpretation is the alphabet itself. The 22 letters of the alphabet each have 3d models that provide letter definitions. So when we look at the text, the first conceptual idea is that the text is a long running string of letters, backed up by an extensive system of 3d models.

At this layer we care how the letters are drawn, because this is a reflection of a 3d system that defines what those letters mean. At this level of interpretation, we study to know how the letters are presented on the page. Ultimately, we will care how the texts must pass the audit pattern, which also runs against the drawn form of the letters as given on the printed page.

The Wa letter is a star. So a point of light in the sky. Letters themselves are drawn in a point-to-point form. Letters connect dots on the canvas like constellations connect stars in the sky. The 3d models behind the drawn form of the alphabet also connect points in 3d space like the stars spread across the skies. An entire page or scroll of letters is also similar to the stars in the night sky. The sundial object is also like the entire 3d system itself, a system for tracking their movements.

Layer 2: Ba

The second layer of interpretation works by looking at the vocabulary words from which the written text is constructed. Each word itself has a word definition. So the lexicon is the primary tool that helps to understand data at this layer of interpretation.

The Ba letter is a tent, so like a house. Individual words are like family members living or visiting together in a tent. Those individuals give a home distinct characteristics like the letters in a word give it distinct meaning.

Layer 3: Ge

The third layer of interpretation is the running text broken up into sentences. The grammar of the language is seen best at this level.

The Ge letter is a scythe. So how the words are organized and broken down, or cut down, into sentences. This layer can be thought of as looking at the text like a field of sheafs of standing grain.

Seeing the language system where the scythe is sentences, we can interpret Joseph's dreams as indicating that his writing, or sentences, is better than his brothers, which bow down to him. That dream means his writing is inspired, theirs is not. That dream indicates Joseph was an inspired writer.

Layer 4: Du

The fourth layer of interpretation has been called the idiomatic layer. General examples have included phrases like "son of an hour" meaning "in a little while."

Seeing this as the Du letter gives a better frame for defining this layer. A Du is a purse, with 4 draw strings. When we take the time to open a purse, we find there is some treasure kept within, say a coin or other valuable in a real purse.

Those draw strings represent distant referencing. So we are going to now put quotes, either with cites or without cites, as part of the function of the distant interpretation implied at this layer.

So for example, a specific reference to a person, say Jacob, can be opened up by checking the other stories involving Jacob. We get treasure out of this purse, out of this layer, by understanding each topic more completely when we draw on those distance references, those purse strings.

The Quote Links of various types throughout the BRB and related apps are examples of a manuscript markup that is operating at this layer.

Layer 5: Fe

The fifth layer of interpretation is the symbolic layer. There are many, many, stories throughout the text that are using symbols of various types. Finding, and learning those symbols is a key skill in reading the text. In recent blogs I have been covering examples that include symbolic references to the exhibits as well as symbolic references to the various types of texts, both the base text and ciphered texts.

The Fe object is a Rake or Plow. Think of how a rake leaves behind a pattern in the ground. There is a direct relationship between the spacing of the tongs on the rake to the pattern left in the ground. Same thing happens with the bigger form of this object, a plow.

By study of the patterns left in the ground we learn about the features of the specific tool, say the rake, that formed that pattern. Another reference, better known, is like how a trapper studying bear prints in mud can tell a bunch about the bear that made those prints.

The text as we read it is the mud. Some unseen thing, say a bear, is what the text is explaining. Like a good tracker, we need a bunch of prints in the mud, so long furrow rows, in order to fully understand the bear, or whatever thing is imprinted in the text.

The symbolic passages in the text are often used to teach specific details of various actual exhibit objects. Or, to use those objects to inform some topic in the text. The context for the text is that the reader is familiar with the exhibits themselves. Usually, those objects are exhibits, or the text, or topics closely related, say the tribes or headline events. Remember, Joshua is the word made flesh, so the symbolic layer is often dealing with him.

Layer 6: Ve

The sixth layer is the prophetic layer. We previously defined this as knowing some rule, say day-for-a-year, that transfers some story domain into another story domain.

With our discussions this past weekend we are going to reserve time related prophetic rules for layer 7, which I will get to below.

All other prophetic rules, that transfer one domain to another, still live at this layer. These additional rules were unclear to us when this 7 layer model of interpretation first came in that dream. These are now very clear and Ryan uses them all the time. These are a primary tool of interpretation.

The best examples of these layer 6 rules are the lists found throughout the text. The length of individual lists indicates that it matches all other lists of the same length. Common list lengths include the villains, at length 6, the tribes at list 12 (or 13), and the alphabet at length 25.

The text itself is organized into stories that are best understood as lists of length 25, so the stories are always running the alphabet. Because there are also 25 throne room kings, the text itself is interpreting those men.

Additionally, some lists, especially alphabet lists, are chiastic. This means the first element of the list folds or matches in some way the element at the end. For alphabet lists, that chiastic folding follows the 3d model system folding, so the 25th element is usually unique.

Chiasm related features of the text sometimes come outside of a list. A common example is Noah's flood, where the story advances in the pre-flood world and then eventually ends in reverse in the post flood world.

The Ve object is a Tent Peg with 4 ropes that go off in different directions. Those ropes are similar to the draw strings on a purse. So this rule implies we are matching up texts from different, often distant, places and anchoring them together in some way. The items at the ends of those tent strings get interpreted, or anchored, when they are all tied together.

Layer 7: Jo

We previously considered this layer the Sabbath layer, where the text takes a rest on the 7th day and the reader must apply it to their world. This was our understanding when the dream first came.

Of course Joshua does much work on Sabbath, including a bunch of healing. So this interpretation for layer 7 has always been weak, and framed by a messianic Hebrew view of the text. We are now moving away from that view. Let me give a better interpretation for the Jo, or layer 7, system of interpretation.

The crown object which is either located in an inner room, or better, an upper room, is the focus of this layer of interpretation. That room sized exhibit is built following the shape of the Paleo letter Oo. It is ideally a circle, with a focal point in the middle. It is decorated around the perimeter, say of a room, with a timeline.

It represents a series of clocks running at different time scales. The various timelines in the text are displayed on the walls. Anyone visiting the room wants to know where we are in time in order to study what is going on now.

It can also be used to study history and the future. These additional uses allow visitors to that room to look far back in time and far future in time.

That Oo letter is a 2d projection of a 3d object that is shared in the Silver series with the Jo letter.

Note how we are dealing with the Jo layer, the highest layer, of interpretation. We are in the upper room. Thus the time related interpretative systems belong up on this layer. This is where we apply the text to the world. This is why time needs to be up on layer 7 in the 7 layers of interpretation.

The Jo letter is a balance, typically used by shop keepers. A fixed weight, often a piece of silver or a coin, is placed on 1 side of the balance and then an unknown item, say a handful of wheat, is placed on the other side.

In this Jo layer of interpretation the text is the currency, or known weight, and historical flow of the world is the unknown thing being measured.

The Jo letter is also the center top letter on a clock, which is helpful to understand this layer. Unlike layer 6, where the lists are short and usually internal to the text, the clock, or historical timeline, is external to the text. The events along the timeline itself are also mostly irregularly spaced, thus the need to balance them.

So the watch dates that I post here in the blog are an example of using the text at this uppermost layer.

I know from experience that this is the most interesting form of Bible study because it proves the writer of the text also controls the flow of world history. It is a proof of inspiration, and a foundation for faith.

Change In Pen Shape

We had returned home on Sunday evening. We'd had a long discussion about the 7 layers as we were driving. It was already an amazing time.

Then, Monday morning, I had a waking vision. In that vision I watched an animation of the 3d pen used in all of the exhibits. I watched as that pen changed shape, ever so slightly. It shifted from the current pen shape to another, slightly different shape.

There was a second waking vision on Wednesday morning that cleared up issues I'd had as I thought about the first vision over the previous 2 days.

The shape of the 3d pen is the most fundamental geometry used throughout the exhibits. A change to that shape is a very serious and fundamental design change. Even though the actual change was very small.

Throughout nearly all of the exhibits, the 3d pen is like the tip of a magic wand. That wand is moved around in 3d space, leaving behind a trail that becomes solid and forms the objects that make up the exhibits. There are scenes in the movie Frozen that work that way too, which might help some readers here understand how the pen is used.

To change the shape of the pen means the surfaces of nearly all 3d objects are going to be very slightly different. The overall shape is going to be the same, so a 3d version of the letter Wa is still the letter Wa. But the finishing facets of the surfaces on every specific model will change.

The 3d pen is also used in the large exhibits for parts like branches, joints and flowers. It is also used throughout the various tree limbs and on the lamp's arms and bowls. It is also used for stylistic features, like the corners on the Table and the various wall/quilt exhibits. It is also a simplified model of Eden which I expect to hang in the middle of the upper room.

Impacts

Changing pen shape is a fundamental and serious change to most of the designs across the exhibits. For most of the week all I could think about was the work involved in the change.

Though the current pen shape is defined in 1 place in a software library, that shape is mimicked in many other places. These other places that mimic the pen are the most daunting in terms of the work to apply this change.

Benefits

On the other hand, this change will bring those exhibits inline with the Crown object, and with details on the Megiddo Mosaic floor. So the micro geometry of the pen will now align the pen with the macro design I currently have planned for the Crown.

So this change is a major point of integration between the largest items in the set of exhibits with the smallest details of all of the exhibits. Finalizing pen shape obviously had to wait until I understood the overall family of exhibits. It had to wait for a time when I could fully understand the reason for the shape.

History

For years I used a spherical pen. This was difficult to 3d print and usually required sectioning and then gluing even the most basic parts.

Eventually I shifted to the current pen shape which has flat facets on the sides. This was used for the Eden model work and for all of the recent 3d modeling work.

This week's vision shifts the specific type of 8 sided flat polygon that forms the basis for the 3d version of the pen. To understand this better, here is a link to the Wikipedia article on 2 dimensional Octagons.

Octagons

This article is a good place to start since the pen moves around in 2 dimensions when drawing letters that sit on pages. This pen shape also becomes the equator or great wall, around a future model of Eden.

The pen will now become a 3d representation of a regular octagon. That regular octagon shape is drawn at the top of that page. You should recognize that shape as like a stop sign and as the same shape as around the fish on the Megiddo Mosaic floor.

Wednesday's vision clarified, though, that shape gets rotated so flat sides are up and down, like a stop sign, and not points up and down, like on the mosaic floor. This change makes that shape readily 3d printable, which it would not be if the points were up and down.

Flat sides, that face out, are also important to many of the exhibits, like the Lamp, Vine, Fig Tree and Table. All need flat sides out in order to work correctly.

If you scroll down in that article there is a section dealing with symmetry. The current 3d pen uses p8 style symmetry. The new pen will use r16 symmetry. This is the fundamental change. That change is what I saw animated in the vision on Monday.

Rhombicuboctahedron

The link here is to the specific Wikipedia article dealing with what should now be the final 3d pen shape. Note, though, there is a variant where either the top or bottom is rotated 45 degrees to the rest of the object. That variant is not very interesting because it looses symmetry. It might matter on the Eden model, we will see.

Before returning home I had planned at least a week off from shop work in order to work on software issues that have been waiting for my long neglected attention. This includes software updates on our web server and some other back end work on our websites. I had started that work last week, and needed a couple days to finish up several open issues.

By Wednesday night I was able to adjust most of the design elements across all of the exhibits. Because this is mostly done with software, only parts of the code needed much attention. The design changes are looking good so far.

Aspects of this Geometry

The pen shape is drawn within a cube with 6 units of measure across each side. In the previous design the pen had a square facet of 2 by 2 units in the center of each side of the cube.

This new design finds squares of size 2.48, or essentially 2.5 units, in the middle of each side of the cube. The circumference of the pen, so the equator, so the crown, is 2.5 * 8 = 20 units around. Nice to see a whole number.

The "unit" itself can be subdivided into 6 parts as needed. So those 20 units around, when subdivided, become 120 sub-units around. The prime factors of 120 are 2, 3 and 5. This is a hopeful setup for evenly mapping out nearly all the timelines that eventually wrap the Crown.

There is much more work to do here, but it is promising that the basis for the timeline related work is now found all the way down at the pen.

This change in pen geometry is also slightly increasing the overall volume of the pen, so it is strengthening all of the 3d printed parts that are based on the pens. That 2.5 by 2.5 unit facet makes 3d printer bed adhesion better. This change in volume also makes threaded parts slightly stronger especially around thread through holes. This improvement includes the birds, cages and the 2d drawn letters.

Flower petals and bird cages are also following this geometry. The petals are slightly smaller, and the cut corners of the bird cages are also slightly smaller. This makes seeing the birds hung within the cages slightly easier. It will also improve thread placement challenges for some of the more obscure birds.

I still have a long list of other technical work, but hope to be able to do some test prints sometime next week.

Feedback Forms Down

I did an operating system update on the production web server early this week. In testing afterwards I found the various feedback forms on the main website and in the apps were not working.

Our internal staging server went through an identical upgrade last week and it did not loose the function of those forms. In tracking it down I found those forms went down as a result of work I did setting up my new laptop. I had reset some passwords on the email server which blocked access to the production feedback forms.

Those forms were down for about 2 weeks. If you have tried to reach us recently, and have gotten no answer, this may be why. The forms all indicate the feedback was sent, but they were not actually making it through to our laptops.

We try and run a tighter operation than this, but sometimes stuff gets missed.

Headlines

The following are headlines that caught my attention this week. The headline at the bottom, on Medvedev, is important because we are starting to see the setup for the fulfillment of Revelation 20:7-9. But first, a few other notes.

Trump Accepts Qatar 747

The link here is to a brief Youtube video that reports that the US Military has accepted the Qatar 747-8i airplane as a gift. This closes the prophetic watch story dealing with Gideon and his fleece. It has been about 10 days, about the same amount of time as in 2001. This is a little longer than we would expect from the text itself.

Epstein

The link here is to a Youtube video by Buddy Brown. It deals with a press conference by current FBI officials. Those men are Trump appointees and are likely now covering up the death of Epstein at US Government hands. Presumably the various Epstein related threads lead back to the Jebusites who still control the US government.

Big Beautiful Bill

Trump's new budget is called the Big Beautiful Bill. It passed Congress this week. The link here is to Mike Adams' commentary on how there was no codification of Elon Musk's DOGE team work. As Adams points out, without such changes the USA is ultimately headed for a sudden currency collapse, like when the USSR collapsed. Adams blames this on how the 2 political parties seem to be working for the same pay masters.

I would moderate this with the idea that Trump may be thinking about mid-term elections and his need to win a few more seats. He could fix this DOGE problem after that election, should he win a better majority in congress at that election cycle.

That bill now goes to the Senate, where it is likely to be changed for the better, cutting some costs and removing a debt ceiling clause.

The open prophetic question is does this eventual currency collapse happen before, or after, the Noah Flood/Nuclear War dates in early 2029? If after, the USA may be better able to defend itself against a Chinese ground invasion. If before, it will not be able to purchase supplies from other countries as easily as it can now.

Medvedev: Last Chance

The link here is to a Youtube video by Alex Christoforou. This was his daily news summary for May 21, 2024. Alex does an excellent daily summary, usually covering the Ukraine war in various ways. I would recommend following him for anyone wanting to track that war in daily detail.

In this video Alex cites several statements by Russian officials. The first is a comment by Medvedev that this is Ukraine's last chance to do a peace deal with Russia while Ukraine remains a sovereign nation.

To understand this, you need to know that Putin and Medvedev play a game of good guy, bad guy, in their public comments. Putin speaks up the good side, and good outcomes, while Medvedev speaks up the bad side and bad outcomes, on whatever topic they both may be thinking about at the time.

So Medvedev alone is never enough to understand policy. But this comment does hint at Russian government thinking that Ukraine is not long as a sovereign nation.

But then, Alex gives another reference, this time to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. In Lavrov's comments he is discussing their intention to protect the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. So the Russians are now openly thinking about managing issues inside the Ukrainian territory. This is a big deal.

As Alex explains, Orthodoxy in Ukraine is complicated. The Ukrainians have forced a fork of the Russian Orthodox church in Ukraine. The Ukrainians are importantly now taking ownership of a key monastery in Kiev.

There are also numerous rumors of Russia gathering equipment for a large summer ground invasion of Ukraine proper, beyond the oblasts that are considered Russian territory. Previously, the Russian negotiators in Turkey told Ukraine that if you don't agree to a deal now, next time you will loose 8 oblasts instead of 4.

Taking all of these hints, I suspect that high Russian government officials are now discussing, and planning, how to occupy, and politically manage, the whole of Ukraine. This is something they have previously said publicly they never wanted to do. But now, those plans are changing.

This is now the political setup for the story in Revelation 20:7-9. The city of the 1000 years of reign, so Christianity in Russia. Surrounded by armies, so most countries in the world are taking sides. Where there is a city in a great, broad, plain, so Kiev. That has a camp of the holy, so an important monastery. Which is ultimately consumed by fire from the sky, so probably by nuclear weapons launched by the west.

Lavrov's comments show the Russians are trying to protect the city itself because of its important Orthodox Christian heritage. Western Zionists, of course, want to defeat Russia to finish their world spanning government. So the fire that destroys that city is going to be western, not Russian.

These events in Ukraine are either coincident with, or a precursor to, general nuclear war events I still expect in 2029. Hard to imagine this takes another 4 years, but the Russians are fighting a slow war of attrition. They are in no hurry in order to preserve the lives of their own troops.

President Trump puts on a good show of strength, but he is weak enough that he cannot get DOGE through the US Congress, so he cannot get peace through the US Congress either. Trump is also similarly weak when it comes to getting Europeans to accept peace. Something changing in Trump's favor at the mid term elections is the only hope for a different outcome. The date for trouble in early 2029 is after the inauguration of the next US President. Presumably a deep state, Zionist war hawk, like the man who just won in Romania. These are frightful times.

More Later,

Phil