Antioch

This blog explores known history of Antioch that helps explain Acts 15 and our final manuscript editor. Also, some follow up to the "10 steps" headline we are currently watching. Finally, shop work, watch dates and a headline review.

Jay Dyer On Tucker

Jay Dyer is a well known apologist for Orthodox Christianity. He started Protestant, but then began to read history. In his words, the Protestant world has "1000 years of missing Christian history." No kidding. The link above is to a Youtube video of his recent appearance with Tucker Carlson. This particular link is to Jay's own channel. The video has been updated with book covers for much of the historical documentation that supports his various contentions. The video itself is 1hr 48m long.

The main difference between Orthodox Christianity and, say, Protestantism involves the Christian priesthood. Orthodoxy maintains the priesthood, as do Catholics. Protestants normally have no priesthood at all. A typical protestant church pastor is the closest match between these branches of the church.

So as Jay explains, in Orthodox Christianity, the succession of priests coming down through history is lifted up as a strong basis for Orthodox church authority. This view brings with it a much better understanding of early church history. This is what is missing in Protestantism. Protestants generally have a gap in general understanding of church history.

If these points are new to you, I would recommend the video. It was a good refresher for me. It was also good to see one of the best debaters on the subject of why Orthodoxy is better than Protestantism. (Not that I completely agree. Orthodoxy has no means of self correction.)

Our understanding is more complex than what Jay deals with. We see the problem of tampering with the text from the days of Solomon. It was also going on in NT times before Paul arrived in Rome. We could never have learned of this problem if we had been from an Orthodox tradition. In Orthodox Christianity, church members are NOT encouraged to explore the text on their own.

Back Further

Orthodoxy, in the sense of Greek Orthodoxy, does not really go all the way back to the beginning. Of course this is disputable. But there is another Orthodox form of Christianity that springs from Antioch. Their history is that of the link from the Antioch mission as described in Acts 11 and the Orthodox traditions we know now.

This form of Orthodoxy carries the Aramaic and has reasonable claims to carrying the inspired form of the text. We should know here in another few months if this is actually so.

There was another recent video on Youtube that goes into more of what is known on that very early church history. Though not exactly on the known history from Antioch to Constantinople, it covers many key details in this section of early church history.

The Church At Antioch

The link here is to a video on "The Church of Antioch" Youtube video channel. The video is an interview by Dr. Sarah Knight of a now retired professor of ancient languages, Dr. Sebastian Brock. Sarah was born in India as part of a surviving branch of that early Aramaic based faith. She earned an advanced degree in this same study. She is interviewing an important professor in this same field of study.

For anyone following our recovery work, I would strongly recommend watching this entire video.

Sarah is very polite towards her guest, so she does not push as hard on certain points as I might have. But she does know the subject well and gets her guest to explain quite a bit of the known history of the very early years of the Christian Church. He has his own rather interesting set of credentials.

Let me just warn, that as a professor in the UK, he most certainly needed Zionist credentials. He does not ascribe to Aramaic primacy. But, he does have a grasp of much of the early church history which is hard to find.

Let me draw out certain details from these videos that now make better sense of actual early church history given our understanding of the 6 villains as described in the Bible.

Ananias

So for review, the last editor as described in the text is Ananias. We first see him as giving a prophetic word over Paul in Damascus. We last see him as high priest in Jerusalem.

As a Protestant, I tend to down play the importance of the priesthood. The "priesthood of all believers" is a Protestant way to explain away the priesthood, both the OT priesthood and the Christian priesthood.

So the Acts 15 council is called after someone from Jerusalem arrives at an early missions outpost in Antioch and starts interfering with the meetings being held there by some of the early apostles.

Who would be the ultimate agent for sending those men from Jerusalem to Antioch?

Ananias.

What is Ananias' main focus in life?

The priesthood.

So the Christian, but originally, Orthodox priesthood, comes from whom?

Ananias.

So what would his goal be in transforming the Antioch church?

To create a Christian priesthood. Never mind that those don't really exist in the rest of the New Testament.

I am suggesting here that Ananias is the origin point for the Christian priesthood. This makes tons of sense.

You can start to see from this insight the linkage from the editors out to the Christian world we know from history.

Changing Our Understanding

We have previously understood that the work of the editors took root in Rome sometime after Paul's missionary work in that same city. This, of course, did happen. Paul was not Christian in any normal modern sense. So there was a change after Paul.

We could not see the problem because we see Catholics as having the history back to Paul. We miss that Catholics are a splinter group from the Orthodox. So we see Paul at the end of the NT history and just link it to Rome. We are just accepting the Catholic claim to succession from Paul. We don't know well the Orthodox story. We have a 1000 year long gap in our history, as per Jay Dyer.

Antioch Better Than Rome

Antioch has an even earlier claim than Rome. It connects back into the earlier Acts account, long before Paul's trip to Rome. The Acts 15 writers seem to know what was going on. They know Ananias is going to inject "sacrifice" and create a false religion. All forms of modern Christianity are messed up over the events in Antioch. This is what happens when men from Jerusalem come to your meeting.

Orthodox Christianity has a better claim to be the chain back to Acts 11 than does Rome. Presumably, later fights over faith in Rome itself, say with Gnostics, are when some remnant of Paul's work is finally wiped out.

Early Church Branching

There are some graphics in the second video linked above to help show how the early church split into parts down through history. The Catholics at Rome are very late to the party. The center of the action was in the Greek speaking world of Constantinople. Before Islam, that early Orthodoxy Christianity was also spread across most of the current Muslim countries and out into India.

There are records of that church also arriving in Xian, China, several centuries later. Missionaries basically traveled the silk road. Easy enough to understand. China was Christian before Russia.

But the consistent issue with all of those early Christian forms is that they pattern after the priesthood of the Old Testament. Solomon's temple related priesthood is the pattern. Solomon, himself, most likely took his pattern from Egypt. Venerating the priesthood, of course, was written into the text. It is not an inspired model.

So when the Christian priesthood is venerated, it is gaining Christian authority from Solomon. It is ultimately a creation of the editors. But, now, we can see it chaining through Antioch. The Christian priesthood was the problem being addressed in the Acts 15 letters that identify Ananias.

Manuscripts

Another important point made in the second video linked above deals with a question about the canon of scripture. As part of a longer answer, the point is made that scripture itself existed in history as an artifact that was needed in churches. It was NOT something created for regular church members nor the public at large.

Our Protestant understanding comes in part because we are after the invention of the printing press. Even after that invention, getting copies of the Bible into all churches took some time. Before that invention, copies of the Bible were very expensive works and not all churches even had copies. Much less church members.

The second video makes even more points on this history.

Church leaders would commission copies of the text for whatever their particular purpose might be. This leads to wider variations in the canon. It leads to the 5 book difference in the Syrian NT canon.

The need for a strict canon also appears to be a problem unique to Protestants. A loose canon is not so much a problem for Orthodoxy. Just like what art might decorate a church is also a loose idea. Protestants want a fixed canon because we want our Bible at home to match that of our friends.

Now, factor the loose idea of a canon against Ananias' goal of getting rid of the inspired text. By setting up a Christian priesthood in Antioch, Ananias also setup an institution that would carry forward his edited copy of the text. It did not matter exactly the books. What mattered is how it was telling Ananias' version of scriptural history. He was setting up for both his edited OT books and his edited NT books to take root in Orthodoxy.

Both the institution, and the text, come together at Antioch. That church, most likely, got the funding it needed to succeed. It got the funding it needed to make copies.

From where would it get funding? The same money lenders we see everywhere.

We can debate many nuanced details, but the location and time of where Ananias' church comes from can now be narrowed down to Antioch at the time when the New Testament was still being written. Importantly, it precedes Paul's trip to Rome by many years.

For a time, there would have been competing "Testimony" based fellowships. The Megiddo Mosaic being the floor of such a place. But they would eventually die out.

Language so Manuscript Issues

I have been working through loading of lexicon data for the Paleo Bible. After seeing these videos, and especially the points made on the huge cost of making manuscript copies, I can maybe explain some aspects of the texts as they survive now in history.

The lexicon of extant texts has prefix letters written tightly against each root word. The inspired form of this same writing wants prefix letters to be stand alone, whole, single letter, words.

Within some of the obvious prefixes, there also appears to be the embedded use of common, short, words that are also pressed against the following major root.

For the most common prefix letters, so Ba, Du, Ve, and Lu, these letters are pretty easy to identify as prefixes. But, the reason why this is pretty easy is because of what might have been a change in root word spelling.

Let me lay out a theory on this idea. The audit will eventually either confirm the theory, or reject it.

Saving Cost

Imagine you were hired to make a complete copy of the text. It will cost your employer maybe 3 or 4 man years of labor for that work. The vellum you will be using is expensive, and preparing it is also expensive.

As the scribe, you can save overall cost if you can compress out the gaps between words. The biggest cost savings is in all those gaps around single letter prefix words. Those gaps need to go away.

Ancient copies of Greek are similarly compressed. In ancient Greek manuscripts, no spaces are used between Greek words. This was done as a cost savings measure. Aramaic needed to follow the same pattern.

So what would you need to do in order to make Aramaic, so Paleo, still function without gaps between prefix words?

To compress out those between word spaces in Paleo, the technical problem is to ensure some way to spot prefix letters at the front of root words.

Added Vowels

One way to remove prefix related spaces would be to ADD vowels near the front of words that would otherwise become ambiguous without those expensive spaces. At the price of adding occasional vowels, only needed in some words, the payback is saving considerable space on the written canvas. Thus saving considerable cost in making a manuscript copy.

As I survey the lexicon, I can see that prefix letters do not have any added vowels. Root words do. I have been learning to spot prefix letters by watching for this pattern.

Adding vowels may have been done not for language reasons, as we were taught years ago, but as a cost savings strategy for making copies of very large manuscripts.

Those manuscripts were being prepared for use by priests, who could learn how to decode the now compressed texts. They were not being prepared for use by the general public.

In the more modern era, once the public is given access to printed documents, then that public must also learn the systems of compression used in those now ancient documents.

In any case, working through the lexicon, by hand, has its value. It is giving me a better understanding of the real vocabulary and how it is expressed by history. It is the mess that software will be sorting through.

Paleo Lexicon

I am balancing my code work against my lexicon work. Code work is more mental, and I am better at it in the mornings. I do feel my age. I am working lexicon work in the late afternoons and evenings.

This week I reached the 35 percent mark through the remaining lexicon technical word entries. With practice, this is getting easier to do.

Match Dates

This past week was the replay of one of the most severe weeks in the history of the Jerusalem kings. This week replayed the siege and deportation of all but those who survived inside Jerusalem's walls.

The most dramatic match to this was the "Iron Gate" effort on the part of the American bankers to stop most ground traffic of goods moving in and out of Iran. This was a nearly perfect match to the ancient siege of Jerusalem.

Iron Gate

Bessent had tried doing the same using only his computers here recently. Bank transactions involving trade with Iran were stopped. That obviously did not work to cut off Iran from the rest of the nations. International traders do not need currency. They just need product moving in each direction. They can easily swap product for product and skip currency. This is what it means to trade. It goes back in history to the silk road.

So now the American strategy has changed to actually cutting off trade across Iran's land borders. It is called "Iron Gate."

This new siege began on November 7, 2026, with closure of the Iraq/Iran border. This was essentially on date, 3 days ahead of 2026-11-09, the 3 day replay of the 3 year siege ahead of the deportation.

Iraq/Iran was the easiest border for Americans to close because the Iraqi government is mostly American vassals.

In response to closing their border with Iran, someone dropped a missile into the gas processing facilities of Iraq. That turned off the lights in the Iraq capital in retaliation for Iron Gate. Iraq is majority Shia, so Iran has many friends in Iraq. Unclear if border closing will hold, and if it does, for how many days. This remains a headline to watch.

Note also, that Bessent felt threatened by something involving Iron Gate. So he moved to a military base. Iran is reported as the threat to Bessent. But, remember, international traders behave more like criminal gangs. Think trade with Mexico. In any case, Bessent may now have trouble from anyone attempting trade with Iran, not just the Iranian government.

Abu-Dhabi Talks

On 2026-11-09, so the date for the Assyrian Deportation, the main headline was the start of Ukraine/Russian negotiations in Abu-Dhabi. American envoys hosted Russian and Ukrainian delegations who gathered there for talks.

Russians have been turning off Ukraine's power. Ukrainians are going to be left to fend for themselves this winter. Most reporting from this venue suggests Ukraine and Russia agreed to a prisoner exchange. This gives Trump something to boast about on TV. There were no substantive talks on ending the war. Europeans were said to have stayed in their hotels.

Current talks do not involve Europeans. Since Europe mostly funds this war, not much can change in the war zones. Money for the war is still created out of nothing by bankers. Neat trick, fractional reserve lending.

Even if Russia stops bombing Ukraine, the Ukrainian public may still need to evacuate to the west, to the European Union, for winter. (So into Ancient Rome, as per the 10 steps back story.)

Watch Dates

Our next watch date is 2026-11-17, so the Tuesday after this blog goes out. This is the exact date for the "10 steps" prophetic story of Hezekiah.

Trump is scheduled for a 3 day summit in China on the 3 days that follow. So he really is headed "back" so east.

Netanyahu is also said to be in discussions with various parties over a new attack on Iran. Trump would most likely not agree with the timing for this unless it is after his returning to the USA from China. But, Trump may not be in charge, so anything is possible.

A 3rd US aircraft carrier is expected to arrive in the general area of Iran over this coming weekend. It may not get very close to Iran over fear of new, longer range, Iranian missiles. So it may linger in the Indian Ocean.

10 Steps Question

In response to last week's blog, there was a question about what this might mean. In the original story in the text, the "10 steps back" appears to have been setting up for migration into ancient Rome, what is now the EU.

So in 2002, this pointed at eastern nations in Europe. This time around it points at Canada. Why would that be? Is there any meaning to those fulfillments?

If the ancient story was slowly preparing for mass migration, then perhaps the modern examples are doing the same. The obvious interpretation is that Europeans will be migrating east into Asia and/or west into Canada.

Why would that be? Perhaps nuclear war. The European public wants nothing to do with war with Russia. But European bankers need Russia's resources to maintain their empire. Russia might shoot back at some point with nuclear weapons big enough to erase or irradiate some of the small countries in Europe.

The prophetic story with the 10 steps pointing at Canada is suggesting that Europeans will move to (say) parts of Canada to escape fallout.

Email

Last week I mentioned that we are working towards shifting our email provider, planned for early December. This should not require blog subscribers to do anything. Amazon is shutting down email services at the end of first quarter, 2027, which is why we are moving.

BUT, something in last week's blog caused the msn and hotmail email services to reject that blog's inbound email. Maybe just discussing email? I don't know. I suspect those services are run by Zionists. They finally woke up and decided they did not like their users getting this blog.

The bounced email included an error code indicating this was a permanent ban on email from this blog. There is no recovery for this. We have now lost our subscribers who have email on those email platforms.

I probably need to consider some other, more modern, platforms for blog like activities going forward. This is an issue that can wait, but it is becoming acute. Email looks a little dated. Email services read their user's inbound email, and reject if they don't like the topic.

Note that late this week there was a general collapse of most Microsoft related online services. Comments on X suggest Microsoft no longer has the skilled staff needed to easily restore those services.

It is unclear if last week's email trouble is related to this week's Microsoft headlines. Perhaps last week's email trouble was a hint to what the public is only learning about now. Perhaps this is spiritual retribution.

Shop Work

Note to self. If someone gives you a spool of plastic, without a box, nor other obvious writing, make sure to read the fine print to know what type of plastic is involved.

I was given a spool of scrap plastic and assumed it was PLA. But, instead, I have been messing with PETG through certain parts of the current Reaper model. No wonder there was trouble with that plastic in the 3d printer. The slicer settings, so temps, are very different for PETG plastic.

Reaper Model

The new, large, copy of the Reaper model is now mostly off the 3d printers. Watch for pics on Telegram.

This was done mostly in PETG, which may be a better type of plastic for this sort of model. This plastic is less brittle and so less likely to break if the model itself is dropped. Assembly was the same as if it had been in PLA. My plan is to run the final copies of these models in PETG to see how it feels.

Unlike PLA, the PETG plastic is naturally glossy, so silver colored PETG would make sense for these models. PETG is a little harder on 3d printer beds. It may be easier to use for some of the other models. We'll see.

The tail of this model was printed with a high density infill. This keeps the model from wanting to easily tip forward. This is a good fix to problems with these models wanting to fall forward.

The superstructure of the wheels for the Reaper is slightly different than the Sower. There was some twisting that became evident as it was being assembled.

The cart area will be sectioned differently to prevent this in the future. This sort of problem is why I am now always doing test prints of new models with scrap plastic.

Tool Chain Work

Managing Bible manuscripts is a remarkably complicated process. I should know, I have been dealing with this for years. Our current build environment has a bunch of complicated configuration and transformation steps that evolved over years. Those steps drive how Bibles are processed and placed into our various apps.

I have been rewriting the software that manages those manuscripts. This to capture all formatting data found in Bible Manuscripts. This to reduce the number of places where configuration choices are made. This to make it easier to see and adjust steps as needed. This also to support all inbound formatting needs, including better support for interlinear data like in the Paleo Bible. Even old bibles, like the KJV, need good support for interlinear data.

Thursday afternoon this past week, this new code was finally mostly finished and mostly debugged. The newly formatted KJV interlinear files are now moving through the new build chain and showing up in a draft version of the Bible Reader.

Because so much of this is new code, we still need to test this out more completely before releasing it to our live apps. If all goes well, hopefully next week we will have something to share.

Headline Review

The following headlines caught my attention this week.

Press TV off Instagram

You can still see the creeping hand of censorship in American based high tech companies. This time Instagram dropped PressTV, along with 292,000 subscribers. When will we be rid of this plague? (I know, never.) PressTV still has a website.

Iron Gate Details

More Details

Details on "Task Force Iron Gate." It is being run out of Florida against Iran. Second link has more details, by CENTCOM. This is the main replay of the siege on Jerusalem expected this past week.

Private, Programmable, Money

This link has some details on how the USA has now legalized private, programmable, money. The main feature is all the legal ways that money can disappear. So now someone can create money out of nothing, and disappear money into nothing. This is an interesting answer to fiat currency.

Imagine if money in your pocket could simply disappear?

This would be funny if it was in a fictional movie.

Huckabee on Spiritual Blindness

This is a great laugh. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a former Protestant Pastor, accuses anyone opposing the Iran war as having Spiritual Blindness. This seems to be a topic he is familiar with.

Torture Sites

A followup to last week's report on torture sites in Ukraine. This link has a partial map of known locations. That this would be going on in modern Europe is crazy.

Abu Dhabi Pic

For reference, pic of the opening of the Abu Dhabi meetings between the USA, Russia and Ukraine. The USA was just facilitating. The 2 sides had work to do and planned out a prisoner exchange. Useful, but most likely just a show so Trump could look to be ending the war.

Egypt "Months" in Saudi Arabia

This is more on the headline of the Egyptian military in Saudi Arabia. Now approved by the Egyptian parliament, and expected to be stationed there for "months." This is 70 year echos of 1956.

Eventually Must Eat

The Iron Gate blockade against Iran received a comment from Rubio. Eventually, he said, Iran will need to eat. This is a matching idea of the siege against Jerusalem that we are watching replay this past week.

Ancient Jerusalem was being starved out by the Assyrians. Now Rubio is doing it to Iran. And, right on time. This is a war crime, to starve civilians. Ancient Jerusalem survived. So will Iran.

Pompeo Too

This is a Press TV link on the same point. Turns out the USA has been starving out Iranians for years. Rubio's comments just mark the current timeline.

Bessent to Military Base

This link is to a long form Press TV article on Bessent's move to a military base. Is he running from Iran? Or international traders? Or just putting on a show? No media source that explains why he is at a base can be trusted.

New Underground Base?

Another long form article link to PressTV. This one with details on the new Iranian underground "missile city." This is another "Abyss" to use the prophetic terms from Revelation. This is why Iran is hard to dislodge.

4 million In Spain

For the first time in 14 years, there has been a general strike in Spain. The protests are against rising living costs, including housing. Money spent in Ukraine instead of Spain. Pics are showing some of the 4 million involved. Pretty impressive. Really big, unscheduled, gatherings tend to be prophetic, even if we don't know the root story.

NVIDIA

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Mike Adam, Long Form

This top link is to a post on X reminding of Jensen Huang being driven out over the issue of running local, open source, AI models. He would resign a day after this post.

The second link is to a Bebo post on Telegram with more of the widespread speculation this is done to stop open source AI in the USA.

The third link is to a long form article by Mike Adams on this same topic. This is the deep state taking over.

Part of the accusations against him involves a Chinese spy. How would any trustworthy news source know with certainty that she is a spy? This is not possible to prove publicly, so is intentional slander by a deep state that either wants him gone, or running a certain big new chip factory in Texas.

ICC Restrictions

The International Criminal Court is one of a cluster of courts that form the international organization for the lost tribe of Dan. The USA is trying to get immunity for thug officials. The USA is lawless.

More Later,

Phil