Introducing Ishmael
This blog addresses last week's footnote. It revisits Bible Tribes and explores the overlooked promises to Abraham, especially the promises to Ishmael which looks to include Iran. It also revisits the problem of Benjamin. Then a long headline review.
Bible Tribes
The link here is to the Bible Tribes website. This was originally a tab on Bible Time. The amount of material just kept growing, so it was moved to its own website.
This was originally a timeline based study based on the tribe list of Revelation 7. In that chapter there is a story of "sealing" the tribes. 12,000 from each tribe are sealed. At the time when I first worked out this riddle, well over 25 years ago now, I was using a simple rule. All counts of anything in the text, whatever else they may be, are also references to time.
That rule implies Revelation 7 is a timeline, 144,000 days long. What does sealing mean for tribes? It means each tribe would seal national documents with wax and seals, just like in ancient times. I eventually found the seal date documents, this was before there was good internet search, so it was not easy.
This math based study then caused me to back up and track the promises to the tribes themselves. This is a secondary way to identify the tribes. At the time, I also learned that most tribes had small groups who already knew their tribal identity. Identifying tribes without using seal dates is usually done through promises made to the tribes. Sometimes it is done by name.
The promises to the tribes originate with Abraham and then become tribe specific by the end of Genesis. So individual tribal identities can be worked out without the use of the Revelation 7 list.
What This Falsifies
This study itself shows 2 popular theologies to be false. The first is that the "Church" replaces "Israel." This is an argument still used in Christian circles. Tucker even used it recently. He was using it to invalidate Jewish claims to being the sole heirs of Abraham. What actually happened is that the Church took root and grew within the lost tribes which had mostly settled in Rome. The New Testament ends in Rome for this very reason.
The Bible Tribes study also invalidates the Jewish claim to being the unique claimants to the promises to Abraham. The promises to Abraham do not even escape the Book of Genesis in a form where any specific tribal group can make a unique claim on Abraham.
Ultimately this is seen when Jacob blesses his sons and grandsons near the end of Genesis. A simple read of Jacob's blessings is all that is needed to see this. Tucker should have quoted Genesis and asked, are the Jews the Great Nation? Are the Jews the Community of Nations? Or are the Jews one of the other many nations that come from Jacob?
This is actually how Tucker would have invalidated Jewish claims because this is so easy for anyone to see. This is only using simple scripture to do so. Anyone, in any tradition, could go read it for themselves. This shows Jewish hypocrisy when it comes to interpreting the text and shows they cannot be trusted for anything else. Turns out, Jews often make claims on the book that even casual readers can see are false claims.
Other Promises
When I was working on Bible Tribes I was looking at the promises to Abraham because I knew they informed the tribes. So the Bible Time website starts with a series of articles that track the promises to Abraham down through Jacob. Then it shows how those promises diverge across Jacob's heirs. The Seal Dates study of Revelation 7 then provides a way to find those nations in the modern era, with modern names and geography. This story line was enough when Bible Tribes was originally written.
I did not consider that there are some important side promises that are made in Abraham's day that are outside of Jacob. There was no timeline based technique that could crack those stories. So they were outside of my scope when the Bible Tribes story was written. Those side promises are still within that general tree of tribal promises that descend from Abraham's call to leave Ur. My purpose in this blog is to address those promises.
When I was working on Bible Tribes I also did not understand the importance of the last 3 chapters of Judges where Benjamin is wiped out and merges with the Jebusites. Jerusalem is effectively outside of the promises to Abraham but retains the scriptures that come from Abraham. I also had no idea that the text was edited and that there was a tradition of manuscript editors that spring from the Jebusites. The inspired writers after David saw Jerusalem as the seat of evil. This seriously impacts the 1974 Benjamin Seal date because there is effectively NO tribe of Benjamin left to have taken part in that date.
Last Week's Blog
All of this is what I realized last Friday morning when I was proof reading last week's blog. When I worked Bible Tribes those many years ago I was Protestant. Now I am slowly becoming a Testimonian. I have a much better frame of reference for this family of problems.
This new frame of reference is better able to explain the Zionist-Iran war that broke out on February 28, 2026. We must correctly identify Iran and we must correctly identify Israel. When we do that, we can open up a bunch of interesting prophetic stories that inform what is going on. We can then do a better job of explaining what is currently going on at specific dates.
In last week's blog I used a 70 year timeline to explain we are nearing some sort of slow motion end of a 70 year interval that involves modern Israel. In that argument the math is easy to see, but I had to use reversals to explain what is going on in the light of the expected textual stories.
The need for reversals is because I was not correctly understanding Israel. When we get Israel right then the many prophetic stories about this war will simply read correctly and we can just follow them as best as we can. No more mental contortions will be needed to follow the war.
So, let me step you through the stories that we must understand in order to correctly understand Iran and then correctly understand Israel.
Covenant With Abraham
The link here is to Genesis 15 in the BRB. This chapter is the heart of all the fighting over who are Abraham's heirs. This is important because there are a series of promises made to Abraham and to his offspring. So if you are an heir of Abraham, so part of a nation that is an heir to Abraham, then certain things can be expected to go on in your national history.
It is important to note that the faith of Abraham is granted through adoption. When we personally come to faith, then we are adopted into Abraham's family. This is true no matter what nation we live in.
The national view of Abraham's offspring gives us the perspective we need to understand wars, which are always between nations. Ultimately the problem of who controls most nations is the story of Jerusalem. All other nations are either subjected to Jerusalem, or else must stand and fight it.
So Genesis 15 is a long story dealing with the start of the promises to Abraham. It begins with a vision when Joshua appears to Abraham. Abraham is most concerned with not having an heir. Joshua responds that Abraham will have an heir that will come from his own body and that eventually the number of offspring will be so large it will be hard to count. It closes with a footnote that this will also include certain lands within what is now Palestine.
Hagar and Ishmael (BRB)
The link here is to Genesis 16 in the BRB. This is the start of the story of Hagar and Ishmael. In this story Sarai talks Abraham into taking Sarai's maid as a second wife. This so Abraham can have an heir as promised.
This event is driven because Sarai is beyond child bearing age. She is using a technical detail in the promises to Abraham in the previous chapters. Joshua had not named Sarai as the mother of the offspring promised to Abraham.
This goes wrong. There is now competition between Sarai and Hagar. Hagar flees and a king of Joshua appears to her with another group of promises. The name, Ishmael, is given. He will be like a "wild donkey" among men. His hand will be against all. There are other details, but this is enough.
The Covenant
The link here is to Genesis 17 in the BRB. At this chapter we finally get the main restatement and elaboration of the promises to Abraham. There are changes in names for both Abram and Sarai. Abram becomes Abraham. Sarai becomes Sarah. There is a promise of the "contract" that will eventually come from this time forward.
Note that Abraham's new name is central to the audit pattern of inspired text. The future inspired writers will also come from a family line that begins with this promise.
What we are seeing here is the family line that will carry the contract until it becomes known across the planet. This impacts how we understand Christianity taking root in the lost tribes of Jacob. Though the tribes don't know the accurate contract because of the Jebusites, they do naturally want to hold to it.
Sarah is now promised a son in her old age. But there is also a promise to Ishmael, that Ishmael will become exceedingly great himself. And that there will be 12 "princes" that come from him. Ultimately Ishmael will also become a great people.
Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
The link here is to Genesis 21:8 in the BRB. This is the story where Hagar and Ishmael are sent away. This happened because Sarah saw Hagar mocking so Sarah told Abraham to send away Hagar and Ishmael. Joshua said to Abraham to listen to Sarah, that Isaac will also become a great people.
So by this point we have 2 different great peoples spreading out from Abraham. Bible Tribes tracks the eventual location of only one of those great peoples. Bible Tribes does not (currently) track the other.
Hagar, of course, has trouble as she departs. She then has an encounter with a king of Joshua. The king helps Hagar and then again promises Ishmael will become a great people.
By the end of the chapter we learn Ishmael gets a wife from Egypt. We also learn he grows up in the wilderness and becomes an archer.
At this point we have a major parallel set of promises given to Abraham that point at some other national people group outside of Jacob, so outside of what the seal dates identify as Europe.
The main difference is that Jacob's heirs will be the keepers of the contract. Inspired text, at least the base text, will be created through that branch of Abraham's family tree. That written story will deal mostly with events in Jacob's side of the family line. Much of it will be written by a small group of prophets who are most likely in a single family line, even all the way down to the New Testament.
Ishmael's Sons
There is a final story on what happened to Ishmael. The story is given in Genesis 25:12 as linked here. Ishmael had 12 princes, which would be expected to become 12 modern nations, just like Jacob's heirs.
In this story, we learn Ishmael's original territory was from the "border of Egypt to the gateway of Assyria." This is where he lived before the presence of all of Ishmael's brothers.
Ishmael's brothers are the heirs of Isaac, so the heirs of Jacob, so the Revelation 7 lost tribes. Those tribes held that same territory until the Assyrian deportation when Jacob's tribes were deported and moved away, mostly to Rome.
So where did Ishmael go when Joshua son of Nun brought Jacob's heirs across the Jordan and they arrived in Canaan?
In a single word: east.
Where did Ismael's heirs go after Jacob's heirs were removed to Rome?
In a single word: west.
We know them now, most generally, as the Islamic world. We should also look for 12 specific modern nations. In particular they will include the Palestinians, but also, perhaps, even modern Egypt. Ishmael's mother and wife were from Egypt. So Egypt should be on this list.
As far as I know, this entire list of 12 specific modern nations under Ishmael cannot be found using STEM tools, but we will study this again once the audit and ciphers are done.
Iran
The modern national name Iran is a combination of the scriptural names, Medes and Persians. Those 2 names show up in the prophetic stories we care about now in headlines involving the Iran war.
Is Iran part of the Muslim world? So is Iran under the promises to Abraham via Ishmael? Yes. But we also know from history that Iran is much older.
Iran, so mostly ancient Persia, is older than the stories of Abraham. Persia's history goes back closer to Noah's flood. The ark is just across the border in modern Turkey. Persia was a "walled garden" with high elevation surrounded by mountains. It would have been an ideal place for Noah's heirs to settle down.
So Persia has been inhabited by people long before Ishmael was even born. Doesn't this exclude Iran from being part of Ishmael?
We can answer this by thinking about Europe. There were also Europeans before Jacob's heirs arrived in Rome. Jacob's tribal heirs mixed with the earlier Europeans. This is ultimately called the process of adoption into the promises of Abraham.
Did Ishmael's heirs mix in with earlier peoples? Why would this be any different than Rome?
Finding Ishmael By Signs
Because there are no obvious STEM tools for finding Ishmael, we need to use signs instead. This is the same technique as identifying the tribal heirs of Jacob out in Europe, but without using the timeline. Levi, for example, is "Confederation of the Levites," which we know in English as Switzerland.
The main sign for Ishmael is that he will become like a wild donkey and that he will become an expert archer. See Genesis 16:12 and Genesis 21:20. Those 2 signs are now very evident in Iran.
The real fight over Iran is driven by Zionist goals of Iranian regime change. The Zionists want their own puppet to be running Iran. This goal for Iran is just like Zionist puppet Trump who rules the USA.
This Zionist goal for Iran is subsidiary to their goal to rule the entire world from Jerusalem. How does this goal work? By placing Zionist puppets in all capitals across the world.
In the scriptural vocabulary, the Zionists want to "ride Iran" telling it what to do as a nation. The Shah of Iran was the Zionist's rider for the people of Iran.
Like a wild donkey, Iran bucked off the Zionist Shah a couple times, the last time in 1979. It does not look like Zionists will be riding that donkey any time soon. In fact we can find prophetic passages that suggest this will never happen. Persia will not be ridden. They will buck the Zionists. I will get to that story below.
The Iranians have also mastered modern rocketry. They appeared to have built an almost unlimited supply of rockets and buried them under mountains for safe keeping. In scriptural terms these rocket skills are called "archery." Ishmael is marked by becoming adept at archery. This is Ishmael's weapon of choice. We are seeing that marker for Ishmael now in this war against Iran.
Naphtali
Iran, unlike the rest of the Islamic world, has another deposit of the Abraham related promises. This is coming from Tobit 7:3, where a branch of Naphtali was hauled away at the Assyrian invasion and ended up in what is now Iran.
I should mention that Naphtali in Europe is Germany. In history, Germany had 2 distinct parts, Prussia and Bavaria. They had different cultures and different dialects of German.
After world War II Germany, so Naphtali, was again split into 2 parts. This time, east and west. Iran has 2 ancient parts as well, Media and Persia. These 2 parts were an west/east split.
But once you see a deposit of Naphtali in Iran, you can see that Naphtali is now split into 2 parts, Germany and Iran. Iran, by the way, is a different spelling on Arian. The Germans were into this in Hitler's time as well. Again, marking 2 parts of Naphtali.
So in addition to carrying a share in Ishmael's covenantal promises, Iran also carries a share of Jacob's covenantal promises.
As far as we can tell, there is no other place as special as Iran. Iran carries the full promises to Jacob via Naphtali. This promise involves beautiful words. This is why Iran's leadership is so well educated in the humanities. Iran has a long and important literary tradition. There were times in history when Iran was the only place of higher education. This promise to Naphtali is the basis for why Iran could craft a government that survives assassinations. There is no single point of failure.
Iran is also a unique branch of Islam. This is marking it as also carrying the promises to Ishmael. By signs it would suggest Iran is the natural leader of Ishmael. Iran should eventually become 1 of 12 regional partners, just like Rome was broken up into 12 tribes.
Benjamin
So another part of the riddle of the current war in Iran is understanding modern Israel. The seal date study of Bible Tribes shows a document signing between modern Israel and modern Egypt as having taken place on the expected Benjamin Seal date.
At the time I worked this out, I presumed Benjamin was now Israel and I did not know what to think about Egypt. The other seal date documents from Revelation 12 are between tribes. Usually within tribes. The US Declaration of Independence is an example of a document within the tribe.
What I missed 25+ years ago was how Benjamin was lost before the time of Solomon. Remember, the last 3 chapter of Judges are the story of the elimination of Benjamin as a tribe. This set of stories marks how Benjamin was very similar to Sodom, like modern Tel Aviv. Judges indicates the few surviving fighters from Benjamin merged into Jebus, so they became a part of modern Jerusalem.
The other thing I did not know 25+ years ago was the story of the editors. Those began with 1) Solomon and then 2) Ahab/Jezebel, 3) Nebuchadnezzar, 4) Mordecai, 5) Ezra and 6) Ananias.
Note that these are mostly in and around Jerusalem or else following Jewish influence. These villains create classes of edits in the book we now call the Bible. These villains also create practices in modern nations that mark the hands of Zionists. Let me explain that in more detail.
Solomon
Solomon reigned in a time of peace, but mustered a virtual army to build the temple and his palace. Solomon had an Egyptian wife and we are to think of Solomon as like Pharaoh. Solomon was a builder. He set up the first central bank. Issuing claim checks for silver no longer in the vault is how he paid his slaves. Solomon made silver abundant so he could pay his slaves, nobody had to save silver themselves, they had claims on Solomon's treasure. We know this today as the international banking cartel. We know this as fiat currency. We know this as unrepayable national debt.
Ahab/Jezebel
This king and queen pair worked together to steal Naboth's vineyard. Their primary tools are now called "Lawfare" and "Secret Societies." We see this nearly everywhere to this day. Going to law against political enemies is a marker for modern heirs of this pair of villains. Having a secret group that can answer an evil letter from the queen is also a marker for this pair of villains.
Nebuchadnezzar
This king ran the largest army that we find in the set of villains. Zionists always want to control the world's largest military. They need this to enforce national debt issued to their vassal countries. They need this to increase the range of their empire.
This has moved in modern history, from Britain to the USA. The Zionists eye Russia and China to replace the USA. China, especially, because it has the biggest potential standing army. Thus Nixon opened China to trade, but eventually opened China so it could be conquered. That would be a still future war against China.
Nebuchadnezzar also created the Hebrew alphabet. The story of the hand writing on the wall is the key scripture. Those letters are a shadow cast by a human hand. Everywhere those letters are found, you are looking at the modern impact of a villain, but in particular, Nebuchadnezzar.
Mordecai
Mordecai pimped young women (and perhaps young men) to the king in order to gain access and control over the affairs of the kingdom. We know this now as the Epstein class. Zionist control over Trump, so over this war with Iran, is widely thought to be because Zionists have blackmail over Trump.
Curiously this match from Mordecai could only be made in modern politics as we have seen slow release of the Epstein files. This was not possible to figure out even 5 years ago.
Ezra
Ezra was commissioned by the Persians to setup the Synagogue system. Persians have always cared about literacy. This becomes the basis for weekly public church meetings. (Instead of private, home based meetings and schools.) Ezra's work also becomes the basis for Zionist control of theology. This established a distributed web of intellectual control over what can be publicly known about God.
The link between the Persian king and Ezra's commissioning is a hook we will use to see why Iran should win the current war.
Ananias
Ananias was responsible for editing the New Testament. He created Christianity. His particular gift was "creating narratives" that were strange compositions of otherwise correct truths.
We see the heirs of this villain every time a Zionist puppet opens their mouth in public. This is especially so of politicians who want to quote scripture, like Cruz or Graham.
Nearly every day, Trump changes his public narrative in order to see what sticks. In this activity, Trump is in the tradition of Ananias. All Zionist controlled media works this way too. They are never truth seeking, but narrative building.
Pick a Name?
Though these all spring out of Jebus and the work of the Jebusites, one of these villains will yield the prophetic, scriptural, name for this entire bunch.
The villain that matters most is Nebuchadnezzar. We would not care much about this entire work of Zionists if they did not control armies. So the villain who keeps Zionism working is Nebuchadnezzar. His statue dream, for example, illustrates the control of Zionist over the earth. It is a statue of a king or general after all.
The text does not use the name Nebuchadnezzar. Instead the text uses his kingdom's name: Babylon. We also know this by the name "Bible." Only consonants matter. Babel is Bible. The Bible captures the work of all the editors. Most of us have copies. Most of our friends do too.
Babylon runs slave construction crews using fiat currency. The slaves pay for the work. Babylon uses lawfare and secret societies. Babylon runs armies. Babylon seduces and blackmails the Epstein Class. Babylon sets up false religions. Babylon is always in control of the public narrative.
Finally, the Zionist alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet marks Babylon. Once we see Babel is marked by Hebrew, we can now begin to understand modern Israel.
Separation of Forces Agreement
The link here is to the text for an agreement signed between modern Israel and Egypt on January 18, 1974. This document is landing on the Benjamin Seal date as per the math of Revelation 7. This is the last date and last document in a series of dates and documents running back 144,000 days. The math is particularly tight in this instance. Some documents are off by a few days or months. Not here.
The document indicates that the armies involved have agreed to start pulling back, and have 40 days to begin that work. They agree to work towards a more complete peace agreement in the future. This would happen later, and Sadat, the President of Egypt would be assassinated for making such an agreement.
So from a Protestant Perspective 25+ years ago, which side of this document is Benjamin? Is it Israel or Egypt? In those days the answer was simple. Modern Israel must be Benjamin. Egypt is mostly Muslim so remains outside of the rest of the lost tribes.
But why do we find an external document involving Egypt. Why are we not finding an internal document? Or national foundation document, or something similar? This has remained a very strange case. It is not the same as the other documents in the Seal Date series created by Revelation 7.
Try Again
So with the identification of Ishmael and Babylon I have sketched out in this blog, we can try again to think about this Seal Date and related document. It is a document signed between Israel and Egypt. Who, exactly, is Israel? Who, exactly, is Egypt?
Israel uses the Hebrew Alphabet and follows a religion that is the creation of at least some of the editors. Israel is the modern heirs of Babylon. Israel operates politically following all the tricks of the editors. Israel is peak Zionism. It is the intended world capital for Zionists. It is the returning of the Jebusites.
Egypt is mostly Muslim. They occupy the same general geography as ancient Egypt. By religion they are now part of the heirs of Ishmael. Even better, Ishmael's mother and wife were from this location. So this particular seal date document, last in the series, is involving Ishmael, at least.
Additionally, we have the problem that Benjamin basically disappeared in those last 3 chapters of Judges. Somebody else should be replacing them.
Replacement
The flash of insight I had last week was to see this as indicating that Egypt, so Ishmael is REPLACING Benjamin. Ishmael is being grafted back into Jacob's family tree as part of the process of the creation of the modern nation of Israel.
This replacement, or ingrafting seems to be the lesson of this seal date.
If this flash of insight is correct, the entire story of modern Israel should be explained as the actions of a reborn Babylon against Ishmael. Israel is running some sort of process that brings Ishmael into the family of Jacob.
The written narrative of the heirs of Jacob is most of the text of the Bible. It culminates in the New Testament when Joshua shows up. But it is also the story of how a group of souls are prepared to encounter Joshua. It is a multi-century process that souls go through.
The same process must be running on Ishmael's side. Ishmael will need to be going through the entire set of stories too. So they will also go through their equivalent of the 70 years of captivity. This is just as Jeremiah wrote about. They must settle down for 70 years and wait for their time to return.
So the 70 year intervals that I wrote about in last week's blog involving Israel were reversed because I was looking at the Babylonian side of the story instead of Ishmael's side of the story. My Protestant, so Zionist, mistake.
Modern Israel is Babylon. Jeremiah's care, this time around, is Ishmael, so the Palestinians who are living in Canaan. They were driven out in 1948 by Babylonians. They will return slowly as the Persians defeat Babel and grant them permission to return.
Let me briefly take you again through the basic dates for Israel. Let me sketch out how to think again about the modern history of Israel.
Israeli Declaration of Independence
The link here is to the Wikipedia article dealing with the 1948 Declaration of Independence. This had been a civil war. Now Israel was sovereign.
So this is the "7 times" anniversary of when Babylon invaded Palestine and took sovereignty away from the locals. Now we see history just repeating.
We are taking Ishmael's side and seeing Ishmael suffer the same way as happened in the historical narrative of Jeremiah's day.
Suez Crisis
Taking the wars in order this time. This is the Wikipedia link to the 1956 Suez Crisis. This is matching a "7 times" anniversary of a group of refugees taken away to Babylon.
What military action happened in Jeremiah's day is unclear. In this war, more territory was taken by modern Babylon, increasing national territory. Babylon gained shipping access, but strangely Babylon also caused the closure of the Suez Canal.
In 2026 we are at the 70th anniversary. Babylon should start to be driven back. But most likely later in 2026.
1967 Arab-Israeli War
The link here is to the Wikipedia article for the 1967 war. This was at the "7 times" anniversary of Babylon breaking through Jerusalem's walls.
So for history to be repeating, Israel, so the Zionists are Babylon and they just took the city as a timed historical replay. No need to describe this as a reversal.
Yom Kippur War
The link here is to the Wikipedia article for the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Note curiously this article uses the Israeli war name, so the Babylonian name. It is also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, the October War or the Ramadan War.
This is the war that leads to the seal date document discussed above. It was started by the Arabs. Israel won. This is the "7 times" anniversary of the last group of refugees hauled away to Babylon in Jeremiah's day.
This should be the last time Israel gains actual territory. The are still trying, in Gaza and the West Bank, in Lebanon and in Syria. We will see if this holds.
US Embassy To Jerusalem
This is the link to the Wikipedia article for when the USA moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem. This was under Zionist US President Trump's personal direction.
This is the anniversary that reverses events from 1948. This is an ever so gentle departure from Palestine. 2 different Zionist American diplomatic missions were reduced to 1.
Current War With Iran
The current war with Iran is not yet on any date from the formation wars of modern Israel. We get to the 70th anniversary of the 1956 war later this year.
But in a more general sense, we are starting to see Biblical Persia start to assert itself for a much grander prophetic roll in the region. It is starting to assert itself in such a way that we can see how it might actually defeat Babylon on the 7-times anniversaries when Persia asserts itself very near the end of the Old Testament.
In the scriptural history these events will be dealing with the stories that surround the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple. This happened in history through a series of authorizing documents. These were usually issued by Persian kings, so that would be Iranian leaders in our day.
If the analysis I am doing here in this blog is correct, we should see these authorizing documents and the associated events simply repeat again in history. No need to reverse these stories. Iran will simply do it again.
Let me provide links to the highlight stores, at least to get regular readers here familiar what what is to come.
Let me also note that scriptural dates for these events are VERY difficult to establish. These textual stories need audit work and then more careful chart work in order to establish them with high confidence.
In what follows I sketch in the likely 70th anniversary dates given modern dates in Israel. This may not be the correct formula for finding those modern Iran dates. So as of this blog, these dates are only just a guess.
Handwriting On The Wall
The link here is to Daniel 5 in the BRB. This chapter is the story of when Daniel is called in to read mysterious writing on the wall. In the end, the kingdom of Babylon falls to Darius the Mede. This is now western Iran.
Short answer here is that when this story replays, Israel falls to Iran. Darius was age 62. Unclear how to apply that to the timeline at all.
Cyrus Helps Exiles Return
The link here is to Ezra 1 in the BRB. This is the passage where Cyrus, the King of Persia, authorizes the return of a group of exiles to build a house in Jerusalem.
How might this fulfill? Someone in Iran authorizes the refugees created by Babylon, so the actions of Israel, to return to Jerusalem and build a house.
When might this be? Unclear. I would sketch this in at 70 years after the loss of Jerusalem to Babel. So 1967 + 70 = 2037. Probably not in this current war. Probably after World War III finishes.
There must be a missing building in Jerusalem for this commissioning to happen. I would expect loss of the religious buildings in Jerusalem to happen at some point first. Maybe soon.
Arthasastha And Ezra
This is another event dealing with the restoration of the building in Jerusalem. The chapter linked here is Ezra 7 in the BRB. In this case the Persian king authorizes Ezra.
This is complex because Ezra was an ancient villain. If Zionists are in control of Iran then this would be another Zionist. If Islam is in control of Iran, then this would be Muslim. In any case this is restoring religious practices.
Nehemiah City Walls
The link here is to Nehemiah 1 in the BRB. This is the start of the story of Nehemiah. This is also before king Arthasastha of Persia. In this case the king grants permission to rebuild Jerusalem's walls. This is more of a civics works project.
Note that this would be the final formal event between the king of Persia and Jerusalem. This would have a reasonable timing at 1974 + 70 = 2044 or soon thereafter.
In all of these cases the refugees being returned are those who were taken away 70+ years before. So the people we know today as Palestinians.
Daniel's 70 Weeks
Let me close this long Bible study with the final reference to the 70 years of Jeremiah. Daniel saw how Jeremiah's letter involved 70 years. That story is linked here, to Daniel 9 in the BRB. Eventually Daniel prays about that letter which had indicated it would be 70 years as refugees in Babel.
In response to that prayer, Daniel gets a visitation. In that visitation he is told there will be 70 weeks of years that follow. So from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, so after that Nehemiah story, perhaps around 2044, there will start another 70 * 7 = 490 more years.
Turns out those years run quietly until we reach the 7 times offsets of the New Testament. So another 500 or so years until the calendar replay of the ascension of Joshua. That was when those who were watching were told Joshua would return in like manner.
Every wacko who is currently hoping for Jesus' return are off by about 500 years, at the very least.
What I have sketched out in this blog is a general way to view modern Israel and Iran. It shows how the text wants Iran to become a regional power and gain enough control over Israel in order to dictate terms to a conquered territory. The Palestinians should end up returning.
These textual stories do not demand a full removal of Israel, but it would suggest Israel is not the same once this war is over. It would also suggest all the other reaches of Zionism are also seriously degraded. Russia is fighting the same war against Europe.
We will return to this Bible Study in future weeks as needed. I have spelled out the basic parameters to identify the parties and see in general terms what is to come.
Iran History
I went looking for introductory videos on Iran in order to get a little better educated. Here are a couple that readers here might find useful.
Brief History of Iran
The link here is to a 20 minute Youtube video covering the entire history
of Iran. Most Americans do not know any of this. Not much about Iran is
taught in school.
This is another short Youtube video that covers the modern geography and
major cities of Iran. More background for understanding how strange Iran
is compared to most other countries. Mostly satellite photos and tourist
photos, but also a good overview.
We were not watching for any particular dates this past week. The main
event was Trump doing a TACO. (TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out) He had said
he was going to attack Iranian energy supplies in 5 days. He stopped for those
5 days then he added another 10 days. By Friday, so the start of the new
10 days, on the Islamic Sabbath, he had gone back on this and attacked such
places anyway. Next week should be a mess with Iran retaliating across
most GCC countries and Israel.
This is slowly inching out across the 40 days of rain. The bombs continue
to fall.
Peeking ahead, the next date is 2026-04-19. Noah's rains should stop
falling around this time. But note, smaller missiles were starting ahead.
So we will see what happens. In Noah, in 1991, in Iraq, this was a
40 day ground invasion. Trump is preparing for such an invasion of Iran.
I started this week with an upgrade to the 3d design files for the Tribes
exhibit. The Tribe of Benjamin is now shown as replaced by Ishmael.
I also cleaned up color schemes and scaling to match current practices.
I also cleaned up the various tables with indented rows so they are easier
to read.
This is the next exhibit to go through the 3d printers. Hopefully I can
get this started next week.
The rest of the week, I have been in the shop, but doing software work.
Like an old man, playing chess, I needed to focus when working on tricky code.
This has not been an easy week to focus, especially with crazy headlines
nearly every day.
Several more iterations on diary code rebuild did finally happen this week.
I found a series of problems outside of my own code and had to figure out a
work around. I tried to add digital photos to the diary, but ran into a bunch
of problems. Because of other pressing work, I have reserved work dealing
with photos for a future time.
The key addition this week was completing the code needed in our build
environment in order to produce apps that involve timelines based on the Paleo
Calendar. This includes automatic generation of personal watch dates, which
I have been studying for about a year. This includes a much better way
to generate paleo calendar related indexes for diary entries. Software to
generate these diary entries is a much better use of my own future diary
keeping time.
This build environment work is currently only used in my personal diary.
But it is mostly ready for a future charts app which eventually becomes the
Crown exhibit.
I am still very backed up with more code work from our trip to Virginia.
Ryan is still waiting on me. I expect another couple weeks of heavy coding.
The following caught my attention this week.
The link here is to a Youtube video on Mario Nawfal's channel.
This was streamed live on March 20, 2026. They are discussing the impacts
of the events in the Iran war. Nawfal was born in Lebanon. He holds
Australian citizenship. He is located in Dubai, UAE. He is not living in
a happy place.
Nawfal is closer to this war than Europe. He is figuring out his world
will never be the same. The rest of the world is farther away, and will
figure this out over the weeks to come. He is obviously trying to understand
what is happening in order to understand what he might need to do.
I am putting this here so you can study Mario's steps of grieving. He
asks Escobar about Trump making this better? Surely Trump would not wreck
the world.
My short answer: Trump is a member of the Epstein class, so Trump is an
active member of a death cult. Grow up.
Human nature wants regression to the mean, so a return to normal. Sometimes
something happens that is so bad, the world cannot return to normal. This
past few weeks is one of those events. We have only just begun.
This is a second Nawfal video, nearly a week later. Nawfal is slowly
realizing how bad the world will become. He is growing up. He lives very
close to the war. His future life will soon become very different.
My grandmother lived through World War I as a young girl in Germany.
Her German father had died with a heart attack at the start of the war,
likely upon receiving first news of the start of that war. Her English mother
could not escape Germany until the war was over. My grandmother told me many
war stories of living through that war as a girl, especially the trouble her
mother had even finding food.
The day Hitler invaded Poland, my grandmother was now pregnant and living in
Seattle. When she heard that news over the radio she went into early labor
giving birth to one of my aunts. She knew how horrible that second war was
to become. Nobody she then knew understood what was about to happen. She did.
The third war just started. Nobody understands what is about to happen.
Two times in the last 10 days, personal lots have taken me to the story in
Revelation where 1/3 of mankind will die.
Nawfal is still unaware of the trouble ahead. Watch his body language. His
mind can see the trouble. But his emotion just does not want to accept what is
coming. This is just like how everyone in 1939 was unaware of the trouble
still ahead.
Note that the guest is Luke Groman. Luke lists off how the world is
seriously changing, already with no way back. Groman has a better grasp of
the future than nearly any guest on any podcast this past few weeks. This
is an excellent summary of some of the trouble ahead. This is, of course,
provided the war only stops soon.
This post on Telegram contains more on widespread rumors of a false flag
against religious facilities in Jerusalem.
The link here is to a post on X, one of many, that hints at plans for
a false flag in the USA in order to draw Americans into the war. This one
suspects a backpack nuke in NYC.
JD Vance is doing narrative formation for the same event. Again, more
evidence of a high level, planned, Zionist, false flag.
The Iranians have much better narrative control than mentally deranged
Trump. The link here is to a post on X with a great troll video. We normally
see this man behind a podium.
The link here is to a Geopolitics Prime post on Telegram with a graphic
showing the first known Iranian missiles launched at Diego Garcia.
The Iranians would later claim this was not their missile. This may have
been an Israeli submarine launched missile intended to bring parts of Europe
into the war on Israel's side.
I tend to trust the Iranians. They are cogent and not demonstrating
mental illness.
Turns out California gets much of its oil from the Persian Gulf. This
link is to a long article on Zero Hedge dealing with Chevron's attempts to
source fuel from Texas. This is compounded by Zionist control of California.
The link here is to a post on X where Dugin likens the Iranian missiles
falling on Israel to Sodom. This is supported in the modern age by how
Tel Aviv is considered by many as one of the most homosexual cities on earth.
But, remember who Israel is? The last 3 chapters of Judges is the formation
story for our modern Babylonians. Those chapters actually echo back to
Sodom. Dugin's position is supported by the text.
I have not discussed in this blog how the story of Sodom in Genesis sits
within the story of Ishmael. This odd literary construction suggests
Ishmael's archery is the implicit mechanism against cities like Sodom.
It also suggests the need to pray for the righteous individuals who may be
able to escape. In Lot's case, he escapes the place, but not the sexual
patterns. Trump is said to have had the same patterns in his own family
as Lot had in his.
The link here is to a post on Telegram where we learn that the parts of
Iraq in support of Iran are now free to defend themselves against the Zionists.
The link here is to a post on Telegram. It details how the USA has raised
draft age to 32 and maximum enlistment age to 42. They have also relaxed
rules against enlistees with drug convictions. The USA is planning ahead
for a world war. This is more evidence that Iran and Russia will not be
short wars.
The link here is to a post on X with video of the departure of crows
from Tel Aviv. This is a well known ancient omen that the war will go bad.
Crows don't like the loosing side. The post gives a few other details on
the history of this omen.
By the way, the X user is "cirnosad" who has been particularly spot on
with his commentary on the war. I would recommend following him.
The link here is to a post on X dealing with public statements by an
important Russian general. He indicates that Iran has more offensive weapons
that Iran has currently not used. This is being stated as a warning to
the west to be careful fighting Iran.
One of the most common patterns of Zionist speech is to blame the victim.
Think of Joshua's trial. In any case, the link here is to a post on X
where Rubio blames Cuba for why people must leave there to be successful.
It is the Zionist blockade that causes this pattern. It is Rubio's fault.
The link here is to a post on X detailing a proposed Canadian law making
quoting of the Bible into a hate speech. Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it.
The link here is to a Solving The Money Problem video on X which is a
super cut of Elon Musk introducing the Terafab at Austin Texas. At least
someone has a positive view of the future. He is out to build a chip fab
in Austin to make AI and space specific chips. Much more in the video.
The link here is to a post on X detailing a recent green fireball that
came down in California. The post notes there were another 8 in the previous
week. Green fireballs can mark angelic and/or kingly visitations. Ryan and
I have seen this several times. Perhaps in these recent cases, they are
moving people from future Sodom locations.
More Later,
Phil
Geography Of Iran
Match Dates
Watch Dates
Shop Work
Headline Review
Nawfal and Escobar
Suez Moment
Dome False Flag
American False Flag
JD Vance On The Same
Iranian Spokesman Trolling
Diego Garcia
California Oil
Alexander Dugin: Missiles
Iraq Fracturing
US Draft Age to 32
Crows Leave Tel Aviv
More Weapons
Cuba
Canada: Quoting Bible is Hate Speech
Terafab
Green Fireball