Big Three

This blog explores 3 fundamental Bible studies. Before that, more updates on Psalms. Then Shop Work, Watch Dates and a headline review.

Psalms (BRB)

Ryan has been continuing to work this week on the problem of finding the likely list of inspired Psalms. Given the 150 in stock Bibles he is looking for 25 to fill the Lu row in the Table of 400.

This week, Ryan made another technical change in the text of the BRB. Let me explain. The BRB basically follows the Aramaic OT tradition. That tradition does not always include the "verse 0" content typical of Hebrew and Greek based Bibles.

As of the app updates this week, the BRB now has those introductory verses. Marked with Manuscript tags if you have those turned on.

These headings appear to have been added long after the Psalms were originally written, but they are still quite old. So having them provides yet more ancient clues as to what might be going on with Psalms.

In Ryan's work in the BRB deployed a week ago, he generally labeled Solomon's "Psalms of Ascent" as being authored by Solomon. The rest being marked as either Mordecai or Ezra.

This lead to more discussion over this past weekend about who the inspired author might be. Generally speaking, we would expect to see some clue in the text as to why someone would write Psalms, and then we would look for clues in the Psalms that reflected that inspired author's actual writing purpose.

Moses?

The insight that triggered the bulk of this week's Psalms work was to narrow in on Moses as the likely original author of Psalms. There are various pieces of evidence in the text that supports this hunch. Let me list those here.

1) Exodus 15:1 is the first real song given in the text. It is attributed to Moses and sung by the children of Jacob celebrating what had happened to Pharaoh in the Red Sea. This could be the first Psalm, and thus could have been the start of a collection of songs, the rest of which show up in the Book of Psalms.

2) Numbers 21:17 is another song. This time not as long, but still recorded in the generation that came out of Egypt. This generation appears to have been singers. Probably not much else to do when wandering in the wilderness for 38 years.

3) Deuteronomy 31:19 includes a passage were Moses is told to write some song. The details of that song appear in Deuteronomy 32. Ryan currently marks this material as likely added by Ezra. But, this may be some sort of cultural memory of a canon of Psalms from Moses' day.

On this evidence, it makes sense to read through Psalms looking for any that may be informing the time of Moses. In other words, Psalms that might be from the Moses era in a general sense, either memory of Egypt and Pharaoh or memory of the plagues and red sea crossing or a memory of the time in the wilderness.

Taking Land?

After looking at Psalms this week, Ryan could tune up this hunch a little bit more. To see this point, think about the 2 year point, so after the spies had returned and the older generation was prevented from taking the land. At this point Moses does not have much reason to invest in the older generations. They don't have faith. But he is their shepherd, and Moses still carries his staff. So the Lu, the staff, is the Psalms row in the Table of 400.

So Moses is now likely going to focus on shepherding the younger generation. That generation does not know Egypt, but will still need the faith to take the land. Moses had 38 years to inculcate faith into that younger group.

So might Moses have done that by writing and teaching those young people songs that would build their faith? Looks like it.

A Moses Pass

So Ryan has been rereading the Psalms again. This time looking for Psalms with content that can be reasonably ascribed to Moses and Moses' era.

At the same time Ryan's eye for Solomon era Psalms is getting better, so Filter Solomon tags have been going into more places in Psalms than just the normal Psalms of Ascent. Psalms that reference an otherwise unnamed king, often thought to be David, are also now marked as Solomon era edits. Either they really are from David, not an inspired author, or else they are by Solomon who might have been writing about his father.

These Solomon era Psalms are also doing a better job of informing subject matter interesting to Solomon. By identifying Solomon era Psalms it makes understanding Solomon easier. This helps make Solomon the more likely editor to some earlier edited passages in the base text.

So this week the list of likely inspired Psalms is now close to the 25 needed to fill the Lu row on the Table of 400. This is all good progress on a very hard problem. More updates on Psalms in future weeks.

Big Three

There are 3 fundamental Bible Studies, that once understood, fundamentally explain the world we live in today. The first of these we've known for years. The other 2 are more recent. If I was in front of a live audience for the first time, these 3 studies are where I would need to start.

I am reviewing them in an abbreviated and written form so readers of this blog can also think about fundamental lessons. Nothing about these lessons demands any of our manuscript work. These 3 Bible studies work in any English translation, say an NIV or ESV.

Lesson 1: Revelation 7

The link here is to Relation 7 in the BRB. The passage itself deals with a timed prophecy of destruction of the land and seas. That event cannot happen until after another prophecy is fulfilled. That prophecy is the "Sealing of the 144,000."

Those 144,000 are then broken down into sets of 12,000, where each of the ancient lost tribes of "Israel" are sealed.

In normal church circles this passage is usually described as 12 sets of 12,000 people in some relation to the End Times. The Jehovah's Witnesses take it more narrowly and apply it to themselves. Or at least their original 144,000 members.

In any case, this is applied to some group of individual people if it is applied at all.

Many years ago, when I was working on the Bible Time project, I read this passage and realized I needed to use the patriarch Joseph's prison rules for counts of things in order to crack this passage. See Genesis 40 for the whole story, but the interpretive key is at Genesis 40:12.

Joseph was interpreting the dreams of the cupbearer and baker. Each item in their dreams become 1 day. Joseph established a permanent rule for all of inspired scripture, and for that matter anything else that is inspired, say actual prophetic dreams. The rule is this: Any count, whatever else it may be, is also a reference to time.

So this Revelation 7 passage, verses 5 through 8, is a timeline of 144,000 days broken up into 12,000 day intervals. This interpretation for these verses fits well the context given in verses 1-4, where the kings are told to wait until some time interval is over. That interval is under 400 years.

If you go to the trouble of drawing such a timeline, you quickly realize there are 13 end points on those 12 sets of 12,000 days. So while the list names 12 tribes, there is a hidden 13th marker. This would be the origin story, and likely the tribe of Dan, not otherwise mentioned in the list.

So what does it mean to seal a tribe?

Tribes seal documents. This is especially so with international treaties and other founding documents. In history this was done by melting wax on the parchment and then embossing it with a national seal. This was also done with signet rings and further back in time with the ends of shepherd's staffs.

In any case, I went to see if I could find a list of 13 such documents sealed by modern nations and spread out by 12,000 days each. I found them. Eventually I wrote an online book, currently the BibleTribes.org website, that goes through the gritty details.

There are several key points to this study.

1) Prophetic time continues beyond the time of the New Testament. Many American branches of Christianity think the flow of prophetic time ended somewhere in New Testament times. This is false. Any Christian group that thinks so is thus disconnected from the text, and also likely wrong on most other key prophetic and national theologies.

2) Ancient Tribes are the key modern nations. This is especially interesting for the 2 competing key brothers who were sons of Jacob. The older of those sons was Judah, now Russia. Russia has its own distinctive prophetic history, beyond our immediate scope here. Jacob's lost grandson would become Joseph, so the USA and the UK. These 2 sons essentially dominate the modern political world. World War III will be fought between these brothers. This war will trigger the events at the top of that chapter, Revelation 7:1-4, where the land and sea are ruined.

3) Troubled son Benjamin is now modern Israel. Their claims to exclusivity relative to the promises to Abraham are patently false. The Christian Roman empire has a much better claim on Abraham than do the Jews. The Jews, though, have deluded much of the Protestant Christian world. They are working towards specific world domination goals relative to the city of Jerusalem. This has quite a few other implications, but it leads to the 2nd of the Big Three Bible studies.

Once the lost tribes are given modern identities, they become very important to most other Bible studies. Every time a tribe is referenced in the text, then there is some chance that the surrounding story informs some aspect of the modern world.

It is also important to note that few of the tribes have tribal related stories at all. Most of them disappear in the Scriptural record. So when they do appear, then those stories become especially important for informing the world of today. There is 1 such story where the big 3 tribes, so Judah, Joseph and Benjamin, appear together. This is the next lesson of the Big Three lessons of the Bible.

Lesson 2: Judges 19-21

In the many years when I was a regular church attender I never heard a sermon nor a Bible study that dealt with the last 3 dusty chapters of the Book of Judges. This is a shame because they are perhaps the 3 most important chapters in the Bible for understanding most of the rest of the Bible.

Those chapters explain the fundamental origin stories of the city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will become the seat of government for the time of the Kings. Jerusalem is also the backdrop for the main events in the New Testament. So if we want to understand the rest of the text, we need to understand the origin of Jerusalem. Since 1967 the city of Jerusalem has been occupied again by Jews, so to understand anything about modern Israel we must also understand these last 3 chapters of Judges.

History

The first point from these 3 chapters is that Jerusalem was originally called Jebus, see Judges 15:8. It was the main city of the Jebusites. This group was 1 of the tribes that occupied Canaan before the crossing of the Jordan in Joshua son of Nun's day. To understand the various Canaanite tribes see Genesis 10:15+. The Jebusites have a brother tribe, the Hivites, which lends its name to the Hivite or Serpent, mentioned in the Garden of Eden stories.

The Jebusites are outside of the covenant promises to Abraham. They did not leave Egypt under Moses' direction, and they embody the Hivite challenge to Eve, what did god really say? This is the intellectual battle fought with Jewish leaders at Jerusalem in the New Testament.

There are contradictions in stock Bibles dealing with the Jebusites. First, there is the promise that they will be wiped out by divine hand, see Exodus 23:23, Exodus 33:2, Exodus 34:11, and Deuteronomy 7:1. But we later read that those going into the land must wipe them out, see Deuteronomy 20:17. Finally, we read that the Jebusites must be driven out, not wiped out, see Joshua 3:10. But finally, in the end, the Jebusites are not driven out, see Joshua 15:63, where we learn that they became the inhabitants of Jerusalem and live among us "to this day," so all the way to the modern era.

Events At End Of Judges

With that as background, those last 3 chapters of Judges detail the story of a Levite man from the hill country of Ephraim who took a wife from Bethlehem a city of Judah.

Stop here, note those tribes of Ephraim and Judah are the key tribes in the world still today.

The woman had gone with her husband back to Ephraim. But, things did not go well for their marriage and she fled home to her father in Bethlehem. The man followed her home. Eventually the husband was able to convince the woman to return home with him to Ephraim. They eventually departed for home back north, but they departed late in the calendar day.

This late departure causes a plot complication. They passed by Jebus, that is Jerusalem, but did not want to spend the night because it was not part of their tribes. Instead they head to another nearby town, a Benjamite town, in order to spend the night there.

This is where the trouble begins. The story now echos the story of Sodom and Lot, with many parallel details. Eventually the wife from Bethlehem ends up dead for what has been done to her by the Benjamites.

The husband eventually returns home and in revenge calls all the tribes to war against the Benjamites. This was in retaliation against the Sodomite like behavior he had suffered at their hands.

This triggers a hard fought war. Eventually the tribe of Judah is successful in leading the war against Benjamin. But, in the end, there are only 600 men of Benjamin remaining. No wives. No children. No others. The victorious tribes nearly lost one of their own from the Revelation 7 list.

The Book of Judges explains how 600 wives are found for those 600 men. Those 600 women were basically kidnapped. This is why, for example, Jews of today trace family lineage through the mother, not father. Later on, when reading about the Kings of Jerusalem, the written account indicates where the king mothers were from. A mother from Jerusalem indicates the king was Jewish.

The final bit of detail is that those 600 remaining Benjamites, along with their new wives, will eventually move into Jebus and merge with Jebusites for their own protection. The theology of this mixed group will include the text passed down from ancient times via Abraham but they will carry a world view of the Hivite/Serpent seen in the Garden of Eden story. They will forever be questioning what did god really say.

Forward from after the time of David, true faith is always going to be underground. They are going to create a religious reality of their own. The public never had free access to the inspired text nor the systems that prove the inspired text. This was even so in the New Testament era, which is why they crucified god when he showed up in their city.

This problem, and what to do about it, is a major subject of the New Testament. Of all the places that address this problem, the best place to start is Acts 15, the subject of big lesson number 3.

Lesson 3: Acts 15

This chapter begins with how certain men came down from Judah and interfered with the teaching of the disciples who are by now preaching at Antioch.

In this case those certain men are said to have come from the place name "Judah." This is not the Lost Tribe of Judah, but the land region of Canaan called Judah. This is the region around Jerusalem, and is a polite way to say that men from the Jerusalem area barged into their meeting.

Antioch, it is important to note, is thought to have been the 2nd largest city in the Roman Empire at the time. The disciples are starting to reach large Roman cities and a large Roman audience. They are now a threat to the Jebusite religion at Jerusalem and their control over the Roman throne.

The nominal issue stated at the top of the chapter is circumcision, but the real problem is what to do when Jebusites, those who question what god really said, show up in a meeting hosted by true disciples. This is such a serious issue that they must leave Antioch and go back and meet with the elders to discuss this matter.

The rest of the chapter explains the meeting, the discussions held, and then their decision to write a letter and send it back to Antioch. They never mention circumcision again because the real problem is men from the Jerusalem area breaking in on their meetings. But, the problem is much more severe than just who shows up at meetings.

The chapter contains a series of clues that point at the fundamental problem. A long quote from Amos sits in this chapter starting at Acts 15:6. It is discussing the raising of David's fallen tent. This quote is central to the chapter.

David started out as king over Judah alone, with a capital at Hebron. David's rival was Saul and Saul's son Ish-Bosheth. David was from Judah, and an heir to the promises of Abraham. Saul was a Benjamite, but that means a Jebusite who had adopted the text of Abraham with the world view of the serpent from the Garden of Eden. That is who barged in on the Antioch meeting at the start of the chapter.

David's throne moves to Jerusalem when David takes over the unified kingdom. He took his tent with him. His authority as king went with him. But, once David died, his "tent" was lost. Solomon was raised in Jerusalem and built at Jerusalem a new, temple based, religion. Solomon then infused Jebusite thinking into nearly everything done in the kingdom, including the original manuscripts of the texts passed down from Abraham via Moses to David.

The Amos quote, provided in Acts 15:17, then implies that essentially nobody had access to god ever since David's tent was fallen. So access to understanding the ways of god had been blocked for about 1000 years at the time Acts 15 was written. Access to god is blocked by Jerusalem and the religion centered there. It still does in our day, 2000 more years on.

The Acts 15 writers are indicating that getting rid of that influence from Jerusalem is the point of the Gospel message itself. But, now that their missions work was attracting attention from Jerusalem, they knew their work would not survive. It was why the meeting was held. That is why they responded in such a strange way.

They then create their answer and write a cryptic letter in response. Stay away from certain things is all they can say in this letter. This sounds like it is a general response to circumcision, but it is in reality a general response to all men who come from Jerusalem itself.

In this chapter they write a riddle. Some day, someone, will come along and identify the riddle and how to solve it.

The Riddle

In the end, the problem is the text of the Bible was edited, tampered, by a series of what we call "villains." Acts 15 is listing off identifying marks for 5 of the villains that had already edited what we know of as the Old Testament. A 6th would come along, and they were writing a letter and sending it to Antioch to mark a 6th editor that had not yet touched their writing, but who would soon enough.

Our modern world, both Jewish, and Christian, lives down stream from those editing passes. We have lived in this strange world for 2000 years.

With a live audience I would go into detail on the clues in the chapter, those 5 earlier individual letters that identify earlier villains, the earlier editors. I would also discuss the topics those editors introduced into our canon of scripture. Those clues in Acts 15 provide the first level of clues as to how to undo the editing work and return to a pure text. This is Ryan's current work.

With a live audience I would also explain the nature of the alphabet and how it is a standing miracle, and within it comes letter level audit and the promise for a letter perfect manuscript recovery.

Summary

These are the Big Three lessons that explain our world today. These explain why the nations rage, why Jerusalem risks burning down the world, why the USA seems unable to act on its own best interests.

These Big Three lessons also explain that hope lives in a recovered text and a new version of Christianity based on this recovered text. That text has been seen by a few American prophetic voices from the past 100 years.

Shop Work

This week has involved finishing up 3d printing work for the Vine. I went and adjusted the design to hide a copper pipe up through the central stalk of the vine. This makes the vine rigid, so it does not want to bend or wilt. Below the decorative base is a solid wood base which provides some counterweight to the rest of the exhibit. The pipe parts screw together for easier transport. The distance between levels was also slightly reduced which shortens this new version of the exhibit by about 1 foot. Watch for pics on Telegram.

The 3d printers have shifted to a reprint of the Table exhibit. This exhibit has also had a serious amount of design rework. There is a design style that has emerged on the other exhibits that has been transferred to this exhibit as well. The lid, dogs and base now all have a fine black line along the edges that mark that style. The new Table design uses vowel colored letters inside, but all external lettering is in copper. The height has been lifted to allow the lid to have a ridge that can be faced down into the box itself.

The overall shape and design is basically the same. But the lid and bottom are different, parts are labeled for easier assembly, and there is a much better artistic aesthetic. Still at least another week for this exhibit to get through the print farm.

While working on the Table, I saw some good reasons to make the chests slightly larger. By designing to the interior size, rather than the exterior as done now, they can hold a better set of standard part sizes. This includes the base on the Vine, but also a set of bases for the future Mount of Olives.

The 3rd Voron has been assembled through the frame. I am trying to stay ahead of the 3d printers for design work, when I am ahead, then I work on getting this last 3d printer assembled. We are now into fall weather and the shop is now in the low 70s, a much better work environment than this past summer.

Watch Dates

We are currently watching for the replay of the last year of Eli. This is expected on or around 2025-10-15. (Minding time zones and related calendar slop.) See 1 Samuel 4:18 for the cite.

We have already seen enough hard headlines for this, think Charlie Kirk, but we don't fully clear Eli until after that day, so the Wednesday after this blog goes out.

Eli's age when he died is also given, age 78, see 1 Samuel 4:15. Note this is 1 based, so we would count it as age 77 when he died. This is close to US President Trump, who was born June 14, 1946 and is currently age 79. Using the Birthday Calculator on BibleTime.com, Trump passed into his 80th Biblical year on April 20, 2025, so he is not a perfect match to Eli.

There is quite a bit of text surrounding the time of the death of Eli. The Ark was presumptively taken and used in battle as some sort of good luck charm against the Philistines. It had worked at Jericho over 450 years before, but the generation at Jericho had faith. The ark was not a weapon for this generation, so it was lost to the Philistines and stayed with them for 7 months, see 1 Samuel 6:1.

Those 7 months upset the normal day-for-a-year math we are using, so the timeline becomes less trustworthy starting 2025-10-16. The ark was eventually returned on a cart and remained at Kiriath Jearim for 20 years. See 1 Samuel 7:2 for that cite.

There are currently 4 Zionist war fronts, Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela and Gaza. Any of these could see an interesting headline this week. Some sort of failed battle is what we would expect.

The story of the ark remaining stationary is particularly unusual in terms of the type of story and how it provides a section of time for the overall timeline. Nearly all time intervals along the trunk timeline are established through the life, or later reign, of specific named people. These 20 years are a very strange exception. They seem to mark the general shift from shepherd style rulers to king style rulers. The ark just sits alone, symbolic of lost faith and a hint at the lost Tabernacle. The first king, Saul, will start reigning after these 20 years are over.

The ark remained stationary, and we can presume separated from the rest of the artifacts, for these 20 years. Not counting those 7 months, those 20 years begin replaying on Thursday 2025-10-16.

But, at this point, we are technically replaying an event that happened mid year, so the tail end of those 20 years lands into 2025-11-05, when Samuel was asked for a king. That event marked a fiery offering and the first year of Saul's reign, which also replays at that 2025-11-05 date. We know that replay from 2001 as the events on 911.

How much, if anything, from those Ark related Philistine stories might replay beginning next week is unclear. Normally a story needs to be dated to the year before it shows up in a timed prophetic day-for-a-year replay.

In any case, watch headlines Wednesday and Thursday next week for anything strange.

Headline Review

The following headlines caught my eye this week.

US Government Shutdown

The US Government remains shut down. Good or bad? Hard to know. The link here is to a Zero Hedge article with general commentary on the situation.

James Forestall

The link here is to a long article on Daily Pakistan detailing the death of US Secretary of Defense James Forestall. This 2023 article is interesting because it provides concrete evidence that Zionists have been assassinating American leaders since at least the mid 1940s. This is not a new thing.

I have read about his strange death in years past. Young readers here may not know his story. This is important because it precedes the assassination of President Kennedy by 14 years. As always, a murder ruled a suicide. What matters most is why. Read the article and you can see earlier echos of Charlie Kirk.

Thunderbolts: 3I/Atlas

The link here is to a Thunderbolts Project video on Youtube dealing with the 3I/Atlas comet. This video is a followup to my earlier comments on this comet, and how strange it is.

The Thunderbolts group looks at the universe using basic principles of electricity, which is never used by mainstream scientists like those at NASA. David Drew from the Thunderbolts Project finally got around to posting a video. Forgive his rough presentation style.

The 3I/Atlas comet appears to be carrying a strong electrical charge that is different than most of the celestial objects in our solar system, especially our sun. So it is interacting electrically with our system in unusual ways. Most normal comets are from our system, and share our system's average electrical charge. Not so 3I/Atlas.

This explains essentially everything that is otherwise strange about this comet. Perhaps the most peculiar feature is how the comet tail points at the sun, instead of away, like all other comets. Why? Electrical charge is why.

3I/Atlas moves strongly back into the camp of a natural comet, but the scientific community gets shown up as buffoons, including a certain Harvard professor.

Stone?

The link here is to a post on X by Marcell Fóti. This is the first post in a long thread summarizing the ancient evidence and low tech processes for making artificial stone. He has published a book on this topic and regularly makes small samples of various rocks, including granite. Much of the stone work in ancient Egypt was artificial stone, cast in place.

Lower down in the thread that starts at this post, you can see an ancient Egyptian cast stone ceiling with board marks in the top of the pour. Likely made with the expectation of a 2nd coat that never happened.

I am posting this here as a followup to my long post dealing with Eden. Because most of our current space technology is light weight, we think an artificial planet should be light weight too. Not so. Stone is a fine material. With the right modern high tech equipment, solid stone would not need to be made in small batches, but instead in huge continuous pours.

One of the main ingredients for Egypt's cast stone work was from a quarry that eventually ran out of raw material, as he explains. This ended the Egyptian's ability to create artificial stone which then became a lost art.

Power Out In Kiev

The link here is to a Military Summary Channel video on Youtube for 2025-10-10. It reviews the overnight Russian attacks on electrical infrastructure in eastern Ukraine. These attacks have been going on most nights for several days.

I am using this link as a reminder of the current situation with Trump's offer of Tomahawks to Ukraine. This has been discussed widely this past week on alternative media, let me summarize the situation as I understand it.

Putin had given some public comments at the 2025 Valdai conference that did not take Trump's Tomahawk threat very seriously. Much of Russia disagreed. Putin rarely misreads the room, this was a rare exception.

The problem for Russian leaders is finding ways to prevent the obvious nuclear war, which they seem to know will come, while at the same time defending Russians trapped in territory claimed by Ukraine and keeping NATO away from Russia's borders.

Putin more likely saw the Tomahawk threat as a point of nuclear escalation because Putin can push his red launch button. The rest of Russia is more worried about Russia being perceived as a pushover.

John Helmer, on a Dialog Works podcast this week, suggested the only real venue for escalation that does not also risk wider war is by staying inside the borders of Ukraine. Only inside Ukraine can Russia "safely" escalate the war. Even better, Russia can try and end the war by flat out winning. From now on, Russia may escalate inside Ukraine every time someone says anything stupid in the west, especially Trump.

So, after a few days, Putin relented and released the Russian military to turn out the lights in Ukraine. John Helmer calls this the "electric war" which seems to be the Russian media term for this aspect of the war in Ukraine.

The Russian military has been restricted in this activity since first contacts were made after Trump returned to office at the beginning of 2025. The Alaska agreements, whatever they were, are now thought to be over.

Russia is now escalating the Ukraine war to match western threats of escalation. This lights out strategy is a good next step. It makes modern Ukraine unlivable this coming winter. Watch for these attacks to first focus on eastern Ukraine, as you can see in the video above. Civilian refugees will need to move west, into western Ukraine. But western Ukraine will also become lights out territory. That will trigger a wave of refugees heading into Europe.

In addition to taking out Ukraine's railroads, which are mostly electric, this lights out strategy helps prevent NATO from resupplying their front line troops in eastern Ukraine. It will also limit the ability of NATO and American leaders to visit Kiev in order to give orders to the Ukrainian military.

Putin is keeping his political base happy while dodging World War III one more time. He plays this game particularly well, and will likely succeed a few more times. Paisios' prophetic words warn us to watch Turkey for a more dangerous escalation.

More Later,

Phil