Sacrifice

This blog looks again at the sacrifice filter rule. Then more updates to the 400. Then shop work and finally watch dates for next week.

A Little History

We first understood the problem of additions in early 2016. This was when we realized that Acts 15 contains a riddle dealing with editors. In that chapter there are terms given that apply to the general types of edits. Those general edits introduced concepts into the text that did not originally belong.

The first of those terms is "sacrifice." It was introduced into the manuscript by Solomon. He wanted sacrifice in order to make his fancy new temple into an active place rather than a modern art museum.

By the middle of 2016 we had made public the very first draft of the TT app. This was mostly Ryan's work, I was his tech support. In that version of the app, Ryan ruthlessly removed passages that seemed to fail by any of the rules of additions introduced in Acts 15.

This early removal process included any passage having anything to do with sacrifice.

By late 2018 we were starting to look for internal structure and worked out a hunch that there might be a grid involving 400 stories. Originally that 400 number was a stretch goal, but over the years that number of stories grew, first to 500 and now to 625 stories. We expect to change the URL for that app here soon. Having been burned with the number, we just don't want to change that URL more than 1 time.

In Ryan's most recent work in this area he has slowly and selectively added back some stories dealing with sacrifice. This is because there are different uses of the sacrifice idea across the text. Some of them look to be inspired.

I am writing this to bring regular readers here up to speed on our current thinking and issues with the term and some of the stories found in the text. Sacrifice, in the Solomon sense, is still out by Acts 15 rules. But there are stories that look inspired and discuss sacrifice in different ways. Be careful not to bring your Protestant training to a text that uses the term in some strange way.

Defining Sacrifice

Ryan and I both remember when Jordan Peterson first started giving his interpretation of stories in the Bible. Of course for Jordan, there is no idea of inspired scripture, but he does want to take the whole Bible as given.

Jordan also looks for psychological interpretations. He found one, and was well known for defining "sacrifice" as something like a synonym for "investment." You give up something now, say 4 years for advanced schooling, a sacrifice, on the hope of a better paying job in the future. So schooling and the time and money spent is a sacrifice.

Note how this use of the term "sacrifice" is not the normal religious use of the term at all. The religious sense is as a payment for sin debt. So instead of an investment forward, like Jordan's use, sacrifice in the Bible is digging out of a pre-existing debt created by sin. Which, of course, we are born into like being born into slavery.

The technical term for this more common use of the term sacrifice is called "propitiation." (My spell checker even knows the term.) Propitiation is an "appeasement" to cover an otherwise just judgment. We know the normal story, the punishment for sin is death. Animal sacrifice was a temporary payment, and then Christ's death was a final propitiation for sin, a payment to cancel sin debt.

So Acts 15?

So which definition is Acts 15 using?

Acts 15 is pointing at Solomon. Whatever Solomon introduced we should have nothing to do with. This means stay away from either Solomon's practices, as we might see again soon in Jerusalem or this means stay away from related additions especially in the New Testament text that build upon Solomon's original plan.

Remembering, of course, that Solomon edited the earlier history to conform to his sacrificial system introduced at the temple in Jerusalem. So just because something is earlier, does not mean it really preceded Solomon. And just because the New Testament is long after Solomon does not mean it is free from Solomon's influence through Ananias, the New Testament editor.

Ryan is struggling through this question as he works the Table of 625. There seems to be some use of the concept of sacrifice more like Peterson's use of the term and less like standard Christianity. Some of that is returning as Ryan continues his work. Let me ease into this with an example.

Isaiah 53

The link here is to Isaiah 53 in the BRB. I suggest making sure Quote Links are enabled in the options menus and that Filters are turned on as well.

This chapter has some of the prophetic stories that fulfilled in Passion Week. Isaiah 53:7-8 are partially quoted in Acts 8:22-23. In particular how Joshua was led like a lamb to the slaughter.

Was Joshua killed like a Passover Lamb? Yes.

But was that death propitiation for cosmic sin debt? Or was his death all about condemning the flat out evil rulers of Jerusalem?

Was that death simply to show their religious response when God showed up? Did they kill him because they simply hated him for speaking truth to their power?

Ignored in the Protestant understanding is that the rulers of Jerusalem are heirs of the Jebusites. They are not honest heirs of Moses nor the patriarchs. Getting our heads around that problem has helped to get our heads around these others problems.

In any case, Ryan has learned to beware of subtle stories that have strong Protestant meaning. The technical problem is to not miss something the stories may be teaching, but which is not exactly conventional. He is returning stories like that in Isaiah 53 not because it is enforcing Protestantism, but because it may be teaching something else.

For the rest of us, including myself, we need to watch Ryan as he slowly works through this new area of discovery and study. More on this in future blogs.

400 App

Ryan continues to do heavy work in the table of 400 app. This week he made more changes in the first row, the Dot row, of the table. This early manuscript material is now coming into clearer focus.

Again this week, Ryan and I took Wednesday off from normal work and went for a drive. This time all the way around the Olympic Peninsula. The forecast for the house was a high of 96 degrees. A good day to abandon the shop.

On the drive we carefully reviewed the top row of the Table of 400. That row is updated publicly as part of the 400 app update going public as this blog goes out.

I knew I needed to look carefully at this list of stories because Ryan was telling me all sorts of strange things that he suspected was going on with those stories. His view is now given in the row level notes pop up if you want to read some of his details.

As Ryan was driving, I was working from a draft of that table that was on his tablet. He was talking to me from memory as I read each story. I was then using the Vine pairs and River pairs to look at the matched stories from across the row. Wow.

With the exception of the Creation Week story, nearly everything in the original Genesis story up through Genesis 23:20 is found in that top table row. The 2nd row in the Table of 400 will pick up more from Genesis. That second row is still to be worked.

Across this first row, there are a few minor tweaks Ryan has made to the English, a few places that fail by filter rules. But otherwise this row is a complete coverage of the original material. No stories are being skipped along the way.

Nearly all the letter folds from both the Vine and from the River have some sort of reasonable explanation. These folds were often times powerfully explaining passages that are otherwise obscure.

Even the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 have important interpretative stories found across those folds. Let me summarize that important point here. When you marry the person that Joshua has planned as your spouse, what you get are long runs of healthy families, generation after generation. This matters because each soul goes around again and again and again. When you mix in, say, a second wife, like Hagar, or a second husband, like the Serpent, then you mess up your own family line. You mess up your own soul's future when you marry the wrong spouse. This is a very serious lesson told against both the pre-flood and post-flood genealogies.

There are times when Joshua steps in to protect these lines, say when he warns Abimelek about not taking Sarah from Abraham. But most of the time, we ourselves need to be careful about these things.

In general the events after Abraham arrives in Shechem are folding back to events in Eden, around Noah's flood and around the Tower of Babel. All of those early stories have interpretations that are similar to what is going on with Abraham. Joshua is managing family lines and circumstances in the lives of the people of faith.

The destruction in Noah's day and the destruction of Sodom are also interpreted through these story folds. Joshua culls out evil. He is actively managing the earth. He preserves remnants, say Noah and his family, or even Lot, but he does not put up with evil forever.

There is much more to learn from study of the Table of 400 top row. Ryan has added some written notes in the pop up for that row. So if you try it yourself first, and find it is not obvious what is going on, you can see what Ryan saw as he worked out this first row of the Table.

There are still many more rows to work. But this is a great start. The structure of the text is providing an interpretive framework for understanding the stories. This is coming just from the structure of the text. Once the reader knows the details of the story then these connections can be easily seen.

Shop Work

It was a short week in the shop. We were driving Wednesday. It was hot other days.

I was able to finish software calibration on the Voron v8 for use with PLA. It was moved back to its stand. It now awaits part designs for the Sower and Reaper, which should be ready next week.

I also finished 3d printing the 4th chest. This is the Bronze Chest which has artwork related to the items in the River exhibit. Watch for a pic on Telegram. The chests are beautiful. Because of the heat, I did not push the printers like normal. We left town on the hottest day.

I am feeling a sense of urgency on this work. I keep waking up with prophetic visions and other insight as to design issues with the exhibits. Let me share a couple of those insights from this week.

Table Exhibit

I am trying to not reprint any exhibits until I have a first draft of all of them. But, as I progress I sometimes learn enough to see trouble on previous items.

The 3rd chest, the Copper Chest, carries the checkerboard pattern of the Qu Map. This was previously the lid for the Table. That chest also carries the pilgrimage path which was buried inside the Table.

By removing these topics from the Table, the Table can now take on exhibit related lessons that I could not see before. In particular, the Table's lid is now the graph paper on which letters are drawn. On the current draft of the Table, currently in the shop, this graph paper was hidden on the back side of the lid. Now, that graph paper is top and center on the lid, it is the main topic of that exhibit.

There were a series of important lessons that were worked out years ago dealing with the drawn letter forms. Where are those lessons to be taught? On the now more interesting Table lid.

This rebuilt table exhibit will explain how letters are stroked. It will explain how the pen width is worked out. These are precursor lessons for explaining where the audit pattern originates.

The Table will become taller, with more stuff tucked in drawers. It will also be redesigned to stack with the same system designed into the feet and lids of the chests.

Crown Exhibit

This exhibit is one of the upper room exhibits. It is ultimately the timeline, but with a design challenge of hard to work out graph paper. Like so many other things, I woke up Thursday this week with a new insight about how this item needs to be designed.

The trick? The historical timeline should not be drawn strictly linearly, but should be broken down, conceptually wrapped, into blocks or units of 30 years. This is particularly strange because historical time is usually measured in units of 50 years, called Jubilees. This seems unnatural, but it has powerful uses.

First off, using any blocking at all along the trunk timeline makes that timeline wider, so 30 units instead of 1 unit, and it makes the timeline shorter, so in this case 1/30th of the length if run linearly.

With some other factors coming from the Megiddo Mosaic floor, it looks like the crown exhibit will have the same diameter as the short distance across that floor. So it is starting to dial in with likely details.

Stated slightly differently, the timeline becomes 30 times wider instead of 30 times longer. This has interesting and useful implications even for printed or online versions of the timeline itself.

Then what happens is those runs of 30 years will naturally align with the calendar months which are also 30 days long. So the master historical timeline is drawn to show where the calendar is located whenever a day-for-a-year replay is underway.

These same bunches of 30 years also show what groups of 30 years are together when that trunk timeline is running again at a ratio of 30 to 1. Say during Joshua's ministry year. This insight implies more details for the crown. The annotation outside and parallel to the historical timeline can now be understood as adding details from the New Testament.

Possible Tweak

This conceptual canvas design MIGHT have 1 odd quirk. The BibleTime.com chronology of Joshua's life places his birthday on Thursday, 10989-08-29 AA (17 Feb 754 AUC). This was the Roman holiday of Quirinius, which is how I dated his birth 25+ years ago when I worked this out.

It seemed at the time that the text was dating his exact birth date by naming the holiday. The ruling governor of Syria at his birth having the same name as the holiday at his birth which drove the precise date for the census.

Note that Joshua is going to run 1 day for each historical year starting on his birth day.

So, if we want to put Adam's timeline on a 30 division graph paper, we might expect the actual birthday 2 days later, on Sunday, 10989-09-01 (19 Feb 754 AUC)

This would be the start of a month, and it would be the start of a week. It would then force all replays of the timeline from Adam to begin on the first day of both months and weeks wherever they may be found.

The month break at 30 to 1 is obvious to understand. But the week break is also interesting. Passion Week runs 210 to the hour, so the week break, a prime factor of 7, landing on a month break, and landing on his birthday, would be a setup for very clean passion week 210 years per hour replays too.

Current watch dates would be 2 days early if this turns out to be so. This is because we would take the 2000th anniversary as having happened 2 days later than currently graphed.

I am not going to go deeper on this possible change until I work back to the start. In Adam's case there are undated stories in Eden before the fall. There are also dates ahead of Joshua's birth that are going to be on the timeline too. These dates back up to the visit in the temple announcing the pregnancy of Elizabeth. So the actual place where months and weeks and days and years all align may be a few months earlier. That birth date for Joshua may still be correct because it is not really at the start of the timeline.

Prophetic Insight

Getting this sort of insight this week suggests I will be working out that exhibit in detail here soon. I would have thought that all related historical dates need to wait for audit level manuscript work, but that may not be the case.

There was feedback from the BibleTime.com website that came in on this same prophetic morning. This sort of feedback is pretty rare. Most feedback is someone trying to sell me something, like office and restroom cleaning services. So this was also very strange prophetic timing.

Even stranger, that feedback included a list of all the cites in the main historical timeline where the Septuagint differs from the conventional dates in Hebrew/Aramaic.

The risk of Septuagint dates being correct are what prevents me from building this exhibit. Now I don't need to track them down myself. I may now also be able to prove the Aramaic side correct by some mathematical means freeing me to build this exhibit now. We will see. Strange times indeed.

Headline Review

Let me lump together a few headlines and then the match dates and watch dates that are currently interesting.

Trump's 50 Days

On Monday, July 14, 2025, Trump was back on the issue of supplying weapons to Ukraine. Trump finally made the Ukraine war his war, instead of Biden's. That same day, Trump also gave Putin 50 days for a peace deal, otherwise more sanctions. Lindsay Graham would later add, watch out for day 51, hinting at an attack on Russia.

Trump is so insane I don't want to even comment on this, but let me add some key points for anyone not paying attention.

Trump's first point was that Europe, so NATO, would be buying the weapons from the USA. So this is a financial deal that benefits the USA, so Trump sells this to his TV audience as a good thing, Trump is always looking for deals. (Hint: Weapons of war are almost always a bad thing. Especially selling them to someone else.)

Of course nobody in Europe has money for weapons. The money is being created out of thin air by central bankers. This is ultimately a central banker's war.

The Money Leg

The link here is to a recent Youtube video with Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Benjamin Netanyahu. I have generally unsubscribed from anything related to Jordan Peterson because the bad company he now keeps has generally corrupted his good character.

In any case, this video was recommended to me as related to the war in Ukraine. In it, Netanyahu lists the source of his power. First is money, so the international and central bankers running a cartel since Solomon's day. Second to Netanyahu's power is military, so currently the US Military. The third source of his power is politics, so the Israel Lobby's control of American politicians.

The war in Ukraine is ultimately Netanyahu's war. Trump will fall in line.

Western banking interests want Russia in pieces and control of Russia's $75T in natural resources. This to allow a world capital at Jerusalem. Russia cannot stop this war until they deal directly with the head of this snake. There have been prophetic words within the Orthodox Christian world that Russia will eventually do exactly this. I will report back on this once I have more documentation in hand.

50 Days?

Last time, when Trump was bitching at Iran he gave them 60 days to submit. At the end of those 60 days Israel bombed Iran triggering a 12 day war. Trump, at that point, was obviously speaking on behalf of Israel.

Is Trump speaking on behalf of Israel yet again? I think so. The best proof would be to prove someone in Israel, or in their banking cartel, or in their military, counts time in units of 10 days. Whomever does that is in control of Trump's strings, no matter the war front.

Most people planning events, like vacations, pull out a calendar and look at dates. They care mostly about weekends and holidays. Normal people also care about a few month breaks like New Years Day. They also care about the date for their monthly paycheck. Paycheck cash helps plan vacations, say.

Normal people do not count time in 60 day intervals, nor 50 day intervals. But Trump has now done this 2 times. If we take Graham at his word, the USA intends to bomb either Moscow or Saint Petersburg on an already planned date on a cycle that was also used to plan the bombing of Iran.

This already tells us there is 1 planning office for both wars.

The last time anyone publicly used 10 day intervals was at the French Revolution when 7 day weeks were dropped in favor of 10 day weeks. So maybe the same people who drove Napoleon mad, and had him invade Russia, are now driving Trump mad and want him to invade Russia again? (End Phil's rant.)

End of the 50

The end of Trump's 50 days, the 50th day, given Monday, July 14, 2025, as day 0, is Tuesday, September 2, 2025. So Trump means either September 1, or September 2, 2025.

This is late in the time of Samson judging. We are watching Friday, 2025-09-05 for the replay of Samson's last year. Recall that his death patterns 911, but that 911 was on a mercy delay from this actual story. So Trump's 50 days are not directly pointing at anything obviously interesting. But then neither did his 60 days point at anything interesting and yet it was still very interesting.

Israel to Occupy (southern) Syria

The link here is to an X post where Netanyahu is announcing his intent to occupy southern Syria. This video is dated early on 2025-07-17, so at the transition between the end of Jair judging at the start of Jephthah judging, as per Judges 10:3 and Judges 12:7.

Most comments on that post believe Israel will eventually occupy all of Syria.

Ceasefire in Syria

This is another X post on the same topic, cease fire in Syria mid week.

Possible Coup In Syria

We are also watching 2025-07-17 as the start of Jephthah's reign. This may also be going on in Syria. Hal Turner has been reporting on a possible coup being carried out against the leader of Syria. It may take another few days to see how this works out.

Watch Dates

Next week, 2025-07-21, so Monday, is called out as the 300th year from the Exodus. See Judges 11:26. This anchors various mercy delays related to Jephthah, especially delays dealing with his daughter. I would not expect those stories to immediately fulfill. The Epstein Files are the current headline with similar content. The fundamental topic is abuse of young women, even to death. See the link below.

Also next week, 2025-07-22, so Tuesday, is the last year of Jephthah Judging.

Finally, next week, 2025-07-23, so Wednesday, is the first year of Ibzan judging. See Judges 12:7

Tucker on Epstein at Turning Point

Tucker Carlson was recently at Turning Point USA. The link here is to a Youtube video of his talk. He was bravely dealing with the Epstein file problem. This is not going away. Perhaps because we are not yet up to the story of Jephthah's daughters, which with mercy delay stretches into next year.

The Turning Point political base is mostly young people and Tucker is one of several fan-favorite speakers at that venue. That fan base is no longer blindly supporting genocidal Israel. This is said to be causing trouble for the Zionist backers of Turning Point itself.

This should be obvious. Who wants to be affiliated in any way at all with a genocidal maniac?

That fan base is now also seeing Epstein as one of Israel's agents. This is a fundamental shift that I thought I would never see. Genocide is causing a collapse in American Christian brands that have affiliated themselves with Israel.

American young people are shifting to Orthodox Christianity and to the Septuagint OT text. These shifts are not synchronized, I would expect the textual shift to pop up in otherwise Protestant houses of worship.

I never expected this to show up in Bible Time comments, but it did this week for the first time. This shift is real. Turning Point is just 1 small example of a major shift in the trend.

More Later,

Phil