7 Trumpets of REVELATION SERIES: The Eagle

 *In the KJV an "angel" warns of the 3 woes to come. But the actual translation is an "eagle:

In the KJV: And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! 

Revelation 8:13
In the AMP: Then I looked, and I heard a solitary eagle flying in

midheaven [for all to see], saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe [great wrath is coming] to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpets which the three angels are about to sound [announcing ever greater judgments]!”
In the NIV: As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”
In the NLT: Then I looked, and I heard a single eagle crying loudly as it flew through the air, “Terror, terror, terror to all who belong to this world because of what will happen when the last three angels blow their trumpets.”

The eagle is an image used by God as a harbinger of doom. 

The Old Testament uses the eagle as a picture of destruction.
The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 

Deuteronomy 28:49–50 ESV
In Ezekiel 17 we read a parable of two eagles. The message of the parable was that Babylon was the eagle destroying Jerusalem.  

God promised curses on Israel if they disobeyed. 

One of the images of this curse is in Deuteronomy 28:49 that a foreign nation would destroy them, swooping down like an eagle.

Drawn/taken from the book Daniel & Revelation by Uriah Smith---Study Guide by Stephen Bohr---Sermon by Walter Veith---Commentaries from Matthew Henry/Adam Clark---Revelation Made Clear

Creation Moment 11/15/2025 - TRUTH about the "Big Bang"

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

Genesis 1:1

"It is widely known that mathematician and astronomer Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) had named the origin of the universe the Big Bang in order to ridicule it. Astrophysicist Geoffrey Burbidge (1925–2010)

accused his colleagues of “rushing off to join ‘the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang’.
I was hardly prepared for what Bolloré and Bonnassies reveal about efforts across Europe to discredit the idea of a beginning to the universe — by any means necessary.
The authors tell us that the idea was controversial because it raised the likelihood of a Creator after centuries of science advances that seemed to put the matter in doubt:

"This point is crucial because if science confirms that time, space, and matter had an absolute beginning, it becomes clear that the Universe proceeds from a cause that is neither temporal, spatial, nor material. In other words, it proceeds from a transcendent, non-natural cause at the origin of all that exists and, as we shall see, at the origin of the extreme fine-tuning of the Universe’s initial parameters and the laws of physics and biology, which are indispensable for the existence and evolution of atoms, stars, and complex life. p. 99."

Trashing Big Bang theorist Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) for being a priest and ridiculing the theory itself was a comparatively benign response."
Denyse O’Leary

7 Trumpets of REVELATION SERIES: FOURTH Trumpet

 Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third o the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.” Revelation 8:12

Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. Genesis 1:16
Note: We shall find that the use of the words ‘greater’ and ‘lesser’ to refer to the sun and moon are very significant.

But to you who fear My name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings; Malachi 4:2
When Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. John 8:12

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned. Matthew 4:16

“Christ makes no apology when He declares, "I am the light of the world." He was, in life and teaching, the gospel, the foundation of all pure doctrine." E.G.W.

John the Baptist and the Old Testament were lesser lights [represented by the moon] whose purpose was to lead to the greater light, the person of Jesus Christ. 

John the Baptist was not ‘THE’ light but he was ‘a’ light to bear witness to THE light (John 1:6-8).

The Scriptures and God’s People Are Lesser Lights:

And when they say to you, Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter, should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? To the law [the writings of Moses] and to the testimony! [The writings of the prophets] If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:19-20

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105

God’s People are ‘Moons’ Reflecting the Light of Jesus.

“As the moon and the stars of the solar system shine by the reflected light of the sun, so, as far as their teaching is true, do the world's great thinkers reflect [lesser lights] the rays of the Sun of Righteousness. Every gem of thought, every flash of the intellect, is from the Light of the world.” E.G.W.

The wise who understand Bible prophecy are like stars: Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. . . Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. Daniel 12:3; 12:10

Eclipse of the Two Witnesses: 

1260 Years of Darkness

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. Revelation 11:3
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. Isaiah 50:3
The two witnesses (the lesser lights, Old and New Testaments) were clothed in sackcloth during the 1260 years. Sackcloth is a black fabric that symbolizes darkness, affliction and death.

The Greater and lesser lights pointed to Jesus dimly because the papacy partially eclipsed them: 

“The period when the two witnesses [the lesser light] were to

prophesy clothed in sackcloth ended in 1798. As they were approaching the termination of their work in obscurity [darkness], war was to be made upon them by the power represented as "the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit." In many of the nations of Europe the powers that ruled in Church and State had for centuries been controlled by Satan, through the medium of the papacy. But here is brought to view a new manifestation of Satanic power [the fifth trumpet or first woe].” E.G.W.

The Papacy Darkened the Sun and Moon

Darkening the Sun and the Moon:
In order to understand the darkening of the sun and moon during the fourth trumpet we must study the ‘daily’ that the little horn removed from the Prince of the Host. What does the word ‘daily’ mean?
It is difficult to interpret the word unless we go to other places in Scripture that explain it. The word is an adjective that has no noun to qualify. So the question is: 

Q: The little horn took away the daily what? 

A: The meaning of the word tahmid is simply “something which goes on continuously without interruption.” 

Q: However, what is it that ‘goes on continuously without interruption’ in Daniel 8?

It is important to keep in mind that the word tahmid has the definite article ‘the’. It is THE daily (hatamid) that the little horn took away (see also Daniel 11:31; 12:11). The King James Version translators added the word ‘sacrifice,’ thinking that tahmid refers to the morning and evening sacrifice. 

The Old Testament makes it abundantly clear that this word refers to the daily ministration of the priest in the court and in the holy place of the sanctuary. 

A: This means that the little horn was going to attempt to take away from the Prince of the host His ministration in the court and in the holy place of the sanctuary.

In summary, two princes are struggling for the souls of human beings. 

--One Prince, Jesus, performs a continual ministry of salvation in the heavenly sanctuary by pleading the blood of His one and only sacrifice before the Father. 

That Prince feeds His people with the Word of God (the table of showbread), keeps the light of the church burning by the power of the Holy Spirit (the candlestick) and forgives those who come to Him in penitence and prayer (the golden altar of incense).

--The other prince, Satan, unable to overthrow the heavenly ministry of the Prince, establishes a counterfeit continual ministry (the mass, tradition, the confessional, the pope) in the earthly temple—the church (see 2Thessalonians 2:3-4). 

By shifting the attention of the people from heaven to earth,  he casts down the place of the sanctuary and prevents human beings from discerning the saving work of Christ in heaven! Not being able to discern the saving work of Christ in heaven, souls perish in sin!

Drawn/taken from the book Daniel & Revelation by Uriah Smith---Study Guide by Stephen Bohr---Sermon by Walter Veith---Commentaries from Matthew Henry/Adam Clark---Revelation Made Clear

IN the NEWS - The '"Parable of an era" [Stevie Nicks Case Study]

... and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes,.... Numbers 15:39

"Stevie Nicks has decided to “weigh in” on abortion. 

In a recent interview with the Center for Reproductive Rights, she described how an unwanted pregnancy — conceived during her years of promiscuity — led to an abortion she now defends as necessary for her career.

You might remember Stevie Nicks. She’s the former Fleetwood Mac singer who chose to end her child’s life to preserve fame and fortune. A few years later, the dysfunctional group fell apart anyway, torn by jealousy and resentment. Nicks sacrificed her child for an illusion of success — and lost it all.

“I got pregnant, how could this be? I have an IUD,” Nicks recalled. “Fleetwood Mac is big, and it would have destroyed the band.” She remembered thinking, “Everybody kept asking, ‘Why won’t someone do something?’ I thought, I have a platform, I tell a good story, maybe I should do something.”

She told a story, all right — a horror story. 

In her own words, she chose abortion not because her life was in danger but because she feared an awkward confrontation with her ex-lover and bandmate Lindsey Buckingham. “Having a child with Don Henley, [of the Eagles]” she said, “would not have gone over well in Fleetwood Mac, with Lindsey and me. ... It would have been a nightmare for me to go through.”

Nicks’ confession is more than a personal tragedy; it’s a parable of an era. 

--The generation that preached “free love” is now paying the bill. 

--The idols of the 1960s — unrestrained desire, sexual libertinism, and the worship of self — have produced nothing but 

loneliness, 

guilt, 

and moral ruin.

The abortion Nicks defends didn’t liberate her. It enslaved her to a lie — that personal freedom justifies killing the innocent. 

*The band she protected disintegrated. 

*Her fame faded. 

*And the moral emptiness she embraced has 

followed her into old age.

Philosophers use the “trolley problem” hypothetical to explore moral choices — sacrificing one life to save others from a runaway trolley. Nicks faced her own real-life version. 

One track held her child’s life; 

the other, her fame and comfort. 

She threw the switch. 

An innocent child died. 

Her fame soon followed.

The members of Fleetwood Mac later turned on one another, proof that the god she served — success — wasn’t worth the price.

One day she will face that child —

 and the Creator who gave that child life. 

When asked why she ended it, her only honest answer will be: 

--for fame, 

--for money, 

--and to avoid a hard conversation.

That conversation will be harder still when she faces God Himself. For her sake — and for those tempted to follow her path — one hopes she repents and seeks the forgiveness found only in Christ, while there is still time." 

Blaze

Creation Moment 11/14/2025 - More Dinosaur Blood

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise... 1 Corinthians 1:25

"Recently, the prestigious Royal Society published a fascinating paper regarding partial haemoglobin preservation in dinosaur fossils. The study’s authors are from North Carolina State University—a world leader in this area. They wrote,

"Still soft, hollow, flexible structures morphologically consistent with blood vessels, vascular contents, cells (osteocytes) and collagenous matrix were recovered from demineralized bone of a number of Mesozoic vertebrate remains, but the origin of these materials is hotly debated, in part because it refutes taphonomic [fossil formation] models of degradation."

Q: What exactly makes this and similar discoveries “hotly debated?”

If they relied only on imagination to fill in unknowns—such as how long proteins can last—the debate would fizzle out. In that case, one could simply assume that the tissues could have lasted tens of millions of years regardless of these proteins and even tissue remnants that persist in fossils. Thus, the fact that these discoveries remain hotly debated must mean that the decay models are based on more than imagination.

In fact, these models come directly from experiments. Studies show that even the longest-lasting proteins would completely decay in under a million years under the best conditions. The real reason for this hot debate is that standard chemical reactions reduce all soft tissue to dust before one tenth these fossils’ assigned ages would have elapsed.

Raman spectroscopy gives information about chemistry in a sample. This team’s results showed that what looks like blood in these fossils actually contains blood proteins. They confirmed this by using antibodies that attach to blood-specific chemical parts called epitopes. Their results “support the presence of epitopes of a haeme-containing compound consistent with haemoglobin.”

The Raman results also showed an iron-rich mineral called hematite around the blood vessels. Some hematite has a geologic origin, but others can have a biological origin when iron from body tissues bonds with oxygen atoms. The study authors found that Raman spectroscopy can tell the difference in origin. Since the hematite in these dinosaurs was bonded to blood proteins, they confirm that it came not from surrounding rocks but from dinosaur bodies. In fact, a 2025 study confirms partial hemoglobin preservation in dinosaur remains.

Quality science has again confirmed original biomaterial in these fossils. But prior assumptions have again crept in, affecting interpretations. 

Q: Is this dinosaur blood? 

A: Raman results suggest yes. 

Q: Has it really lasted tens of millions of years? 

A: Only if one assumes that before concluding it.

To conclude, scientists used a sophisticated technique called Raman spectroscopy to confirm that blood vessels found in hadrosaur and tyrannosaur fossils came from those very creatures. 

So it is hardly surprising dinosaur soft tissues continue to perplex conventional paleontologists. Although they feel certain that dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago, unremitting soft tissue discoveries from dinosaur fossils openly challenge such age options5 and validate the creation model." 

ICR

7 Trumpets of REVELATION SERIES: THIRD Trumpet

 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch; and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter. Revelation 8:10

There can be little doubt that the ‘falling star’ of the third trumpet refers in a primary sense to Satan. Yet this star cannot refer to the original fall of Satan from heaven because that happened before creation week.
Though this trumpet cannot refer primarily to the fall of Satan from heaven at the beginning or at the cross, nevertheless the language is very reminiscent of the fall of Lucifer from heaven as described in Isaiah 14:12-14 and Revelation 12:7-9.
The terminological links between the third trumpet and Isaiah 14 and Revelation 12 leave little doubt that the fall of Satan stands in the background of the third trumpet. Satan, the star of the morning, who was originally perfect, apostatized and became a fallen star. He then defiled and poisoned Adam and Eve with his specious teachings and through them, the entire human race. The result was that the entire race came under the sentence of death (Genesis 3:1-6, 19).

The fall of this star portrays the great apostasy that defiled the church from within when Papal Rome rose to power from the shambles that the barbarians left in the Roman Empire. 

--Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 tell us that the little horn/beast persecuted the saints for 3.5 times or 42 months. 

--However, Revelation 12 presents a parallel, but different picture. The text tells us that the work of persecution was the work of the dragon for 3.5 or 1260 days (Revelation 12:6, 13-14). 

Thus, when we compare Daniel 7/Revelation 13 with Revelation 12 we find that Satan ruled during the 1260 years through his emissary, the Bishop of Rome.

2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4 explicitly tells us that the man of sin would exalt himself to the height of God even to the point of sitting in the temple of God claiming to be God. 

The language is quite similar to what Satan attempted to do at the very beginning when he was cast out of heaven (Isaiah 14:12-14). 

In fact, the text tells us that Satan would energize the man of sin (2Thessalonians 2:9).
*The backdrop to the idea expressed above is that Satan does not

accomplish his work in person but rather through his seed or body. 

*What he was not able to accomplish in heaven he does on earth through his vicegerent. As Christ works through His seed or body to accomplish His purposes on earth, so does Satan.

In all the great lines of prophecy pagan Rome is always followed by papal Rome.

In Revelation 1:20 the seven stars in the right hand of Jesus represent the seven churches -- seven consecutive eras of church history so the seven stars must represent the messengers that proclaim God’s message to the church in each of those eras. That is to say, each of the seven churches has one star.
In Revelation 12:1, the twelve stars on the crown of the woman represent the twelve apostles of the lamb who taught the truth as it is in Jesus. 

In Zechariah 9:16 the prophet saw the final remnant under a symbol of stars on a crown of glory.

When the stars cease preaching the gospel and preach human tradition, they become fallen stars.

--Revelation 8:10 indicates that the ministers and teachers (the angel or star of the church of this period) of the church were supposed to shine as a lamp. Instead, they fell from their post and defiled the waters.

--The fountains of waters are different from the raging waters of the sea (Isaiah 17:12, 13). The fountains of waters are life giving waters that refresh, restore and perpetuate physical and spiritual life.
--Deuteronomy 29:17, 18: Gall and wormwood describe the terrible consequences that would ensue if Israel drank from the polluted waters of apostasy.
Amos 5:7: When righteousness in the earth is forsaken, the result is wormwood: You who turn justice to wormwood, and lay righteousness to rest in the earth!

--The word "wormwood" denotes bitter consequences.

*The rivers and springs of water must have been clean before the fall of the star defiled them. 

--This is another indication that the third trumpet’s theme is apostasy in the church. 

When the star falls, it pollutes the fountains of waters with wormwood and bitterness and many people die.

Drawn/taken from the book Daniel & Revelation by Uriah Smith---Study Guide by Stephen Bohr---Sermon by Walter Veith---Commentaries from Matthew Henry/Adam Clark---Revelation Made Clear

Creation Moment 11/13/2025 - Early "Church Fathers" on Creation

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. Genesis 2:2

"Victorinus of Pettau (AD 250–304) wrote of God creating in six days and resting on the seventh, explicitly saying that God divided light and darkness perfectly into twelve hours each (Victorinus 1975, 341). He does not elaborate on this further. 

Ephraem the Syrian (4th century AD) does not provide much more detail, simply asserting that all that is was created in six days and going on to describe the light of Day 1 as being a real source of light that lasted the first three days of Creation before being replaced on

Day 4 (Ephraem 1994, 77, 81–82)

Basil of Caesarea (AD 330–379) addresses the days in his Hexameron (n.d.), interpreting the days straightforwardly as literal and answering perceived inconsistencies in the literal day interpretation, such as how days could occur before the creation of the celestial luminaries, why evening occurs before morning, and why it is described as “one day” instead of “first day” (Basil of Caesarea, 2.8). The first question he answers by referring to the light created in Genesis 1:3 in a similar way to Ephraem, stating that there was a real created unidentified source of light which provided light to the world until the creation of the celestial luminaries. The second question he answers by citing that there was darkness (Genesis 1:2) before the creation of light (Genesis 1:3). Therefore, evening was first and then morning. The third question he answers by saying that the description of “one day” is to make clear that the evening and morning combine to make the length of one day, which he specifies is measured out as 24 hours. He continues to say that “one day” allows the description of the day returning on itself, adding to a week, then a year, and so forth. By saying “one day” the 24-hour cycle of light and darkness is given a name just like the light and the darkness. Basil does not confine himself to the literal, explaining how the first day is also a type for eternity, being the day on which light was created and the day on which later Christ would rise from the dead.

Ambrose (AD 339–397,) typically in the allegorical camp, speaks of the latter two questions of Basil in his own Hexameron, providing similar answers to Basil’s and also specifying the length of a day as 24 hours (Ambrose 1961, 1.10.36–37). Ambrose also dips his toes into the well of allegory at the end of his section, speaking of the circle of time, its connection to the coming day of the Lord, and the connection to the darkness of Genesis 1 (Ambrose 1961, 1.10.37). Ambrose believed in literal days, but he also engaged in allegorism just as Augustine (AD 354–430) described in his Confessions, thus holding to a literal and allegorical interpretation simultaneously. (Augustine 1952, 5.14.24)

Hippolytus of Rome (AD 170–236) writes in a manner that is similar to Basil and Ambrose, though commentary on only three verses from Genesis 1 remain from his Hexameron. In what does survive, Hippolytus seeks to answer why the first day is described as “one day” in a similar manner to Basil (Hippolytus 1975, 1.5). Hippolytus also describes the day as returning back on itself in a similar manner to Basil. This similar phrasing suggests that Hippolytus probably held to a literal day. Not enough of his commentary on Genesis remains to say for certain. If he did follow Basil and Ambrose as closely as it seems, it would not be unreasonable for expect for him to have held to an allegorical interpretation of some form as well." ARJ

7 Trumpets of REVELATION SERIES: SECOND Trumpet

 Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 

Revelation 18:8,9

Mountains in Bible prophecy represent kingdoms so the fall of a kingdom must be in view in the second trumpet. 

*This mountain must represent a kingdom that destroyed Jerusalem and persecuted God’s people.
Daniel 9:26 states that ‘the people of the prince’ destroyed Jerusalem the second time in the year AD 70. 

The prince in Daniel 9 is Christ. 

If the prince of verse 26 is Jesus, then the people of the prince must be the Jews (remember that the word ‘people’ throughout Daniel 9 always refers to Israel (see verses 15, 16, 19, 20, 24). 

Q: Did the Jews destroy their own city and sanctuary? 

Q: Did not Titus and the Romans destroy the city and the temple?
A: Three ideas coalesce in this verse. [1] God used the [2] Roman armies (spoken of as His armies) to destroy [3] those murderers and to burn their city.

Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. Jeremiah 51:25: The prophet Jeremiah compared the kingdom of Babylon with a destroying mountain.

Eventually this destroying mountain became a burning mountain that was thrust into the sea (the passive voice ‘was thrown’ indicates that this is God’s judgment). This is the key verse to understand the second trumpet.

Jeremiah 51:42: The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
The waves of the sea destroyed Babylon and made her desolate. In this case, the sea represents the multitude of nations that arose against Babylon and destroyed her.

Revelation 17:15: Then he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.

Since the days of Daniel, four major kingdoms have risen to power and fallen. They are Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. 

*The power that ruled in the days when John wrote the book of Revelation was Rome. 

*Literal Babylon had already fallen when John saw his vision of the trumpets therefore the mountain of the second trumpet cannot refer to the fall of literal Old Testament Babylon.

In Revelation 17, we see a dragon beast with seven heads. However, the heads are actually seven mountains. Each of these heads/mountains represents a kingdom that ruled beginning with Babylon. 

The burning mountain that cast into the sea at the sounding of the second trumpet was the fourth of those mountains or heads of Revelation 17, namely the Roman Empire.

--The Jews in the intertestamental period understood that the Roman Empire was a ‘new Babylon’: “. . . then shall come a great star from heaven into the divine sea, and shall burn up the deep sea and Babylon itself, and the land of Italy on whose account many faithful saints of the Hebrews have perished, and the true people.” 

Sibylline Oracles, lines 158-161
--1 Peter 5:13: She who is in Babylon, elect together with you, greets you; and so does Mark my son.
Many scholars believe that Babylon in this text is a cryptic reference to Rome. There is persuasive contextual evidence that this is so. God appointed Peter as His messenger to the Jews. Peter wrote his first epistle close to the end of his life and we know that at the end of his life he was in Rome where he would die as a martyr by the hand of Nero.

*Fish--Habakkuk 1:14-15: Why do You make men like fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet.
Ecclesiastes 9:12: For man also does not know his time:  like fish taken in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
*Ships - In Scripture, ships generally refer to trading and commercial prosperity. Ezekiel 27:9, 25, 29: Elders of Gebal and its wise men were in you to caulk your seams; all the ships of the sea and their oarsmen were in you to market your merchandise . . .  the ships of Tarshish were carriers of your merchandise. You were filled and very glorious in the midst of the seas . . .  All who handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea will come down from their ships and stand on the shore.

--At the sounding of the second trumpet, instead of temporal prosperity, the barbarians invaded the Empire, destroyed the routes of commerce, and decimated the prosperity of Rome. 

The judgment of the second trumpet brought the collapse of the entire social and economic order of the Roman Empire.

Gibbon uses this significant language: "Genseric, a name which, in the destruction of the Roman Empire, has deserved an equal rank with the names of Alaric and Attila."

Drawn/taken from the book Daniel & Revelation by Uriah Smith---Study Guide by Stephen Bohr---Sermon by Walter Veith---Commentaries from Matthew Henry/Adam Clark---Revelation Made Clear

IN the NEWS - In the Pacific: What MIGHT the Future Hold?

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. Mark 13:8

"For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time. The study, published in the scientific journal Science Advances, was conducted by scientists from Louisiana State University.

The observed rupture occurred on the Juan de Fuca plate, located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate, near California and British Columbia.
This recent study revealed that the Explorer microplate is detaching from what remains of the ancient Farallon oceanic plate, in a process called " slab tearing ." Furthermore, this type of rupture alters the Earth's internal movement. It may, in the future, impact the occurrence of earthquakes and volcanic activity in the North Pacific.
"There is a very large fault that is actively fracturing the plate. It's not 100% broken yet, but it's close," said Brandon Shuck.
According to scientists, when a segment breaks completely, it ceases to generate earthquakes, since the rocks are no longer joined together." msn

"Earthquake swarm in San Francisco at a fault line that is close to the

San Andreas fault. And we have learned that side faults or parallel faults are capable of triggering the San Andreas fault.
We have over 45 earthquakes already in just 48 hours at this fault line. It's called the Cala Veras fault." 

Silki

Creation Moment 11/12/2025 - Endless Consciousness Theories of Mankind

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

"In a recent New Scientist feature, “What 350 different theories of consciousness reveal about reality,” 22 October 2025, the writer surveys an astonishing landscape: more than 350 separate theories, each competing for attention.

Neuroscientists, philosophers, computer scientists, and physicists all

claim partial insight into the mystery of “how awareness arises.” 

One school speaks of information integration, another of global neural workspaces; still others turn to quantum fields or self-organizing systems. The diversity is dazzling—and bewildering. After a century and a half of study, the one phenomenon most familiar to every human being remains the least understood.

That tension—between methodical unity and conceptual proliferation—is the real story. Science, whose strength lies in the universality of its method, encounters a peculiar crisis when it turns its gaze upon the mind that invented that method. The closer it approaches the subject, the more its findings diverge, the more contradictory the whole venture appears. 

Q: Why should a discipline founded on shared procedure yield such irreducible plurality when the topic is consciousness?

Beneath the multiplicity of theories runs a shared assumption rarely questioned. Each new model—whether framed in biology, computation, or physics—begins with the conviction that consciousness must somehow arise from within the system it studies. The mind, it is thought, can be accounted for by the same forces that govern matter: complexity, feedback, evolution, emergence. The form of the reasoning is always the same: start with the simple, and let time and organization do the rest.

Theories built on this pattern do not converge; they proliferate. Every contradiction generates not a crisis but another synthesis, another variation on the theme. The movement itself becomes the meaning: progress is measured not by resolution, but by activity. A method born to unify knowledge produces, in this field, a constant branching of perspectives that cannot be reconciled.

Among the many explanations for consciousness, one motif dominates the contemporary literature: emergence. The word promises what no mechanism can show—that awareness “somehow” arises when matter is arranged in the right way. Neurons fire, networks form, and from their collective motion, experience emerges. To this, some add mathematical precision—information thresholds, feedback loops, self-organization—but the story remains the same:

What cannot be seen in the parts will appear in the whole.
The New Scientist survey presents this idea as the unifying hope behind otherwise conflicting theories.
The pattern is familiar. New frameworks appear with the confidence of novelty, their equations fresh, their diagrams intricate.

Every scientific venture assumes that explanation reaches toward

completion—that the last variable will fall into place and the circle of knowledge will close. Yet in the study of consciousness, the circle never quite meets itself. 

The further inquiry proceeds, the more it exposes the difference between explaining an experience and having one. To describe thought is not to think; to map awareness is not to be aware. The act of knowing always surpasses the model that tries to contain it.

That surplus should not be an embarrassment to science; it is what makes science possible." CEH

7 Trumpets of REVELATION SERIES: FIRST Trumpet

 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. Revelation 8:7

Hail and fire mingled with blood - This was something like the ninth plague of Egypt. See Exodus 9:22-24: The Lord sent thunder and hail - and fire mingled with the hail - and the fire ran along upon the ground.

The Bible tells us that judgment must begin at the house of God (1Peter 4:17) so the judgment must begin with the Jewish nation. 

In the first destruction of Jerusalem, the man clothed in linen commanded the destroying messengers to begin their work at God’s sanctuary (Ezekiel 9:6). The second destruction of Jerusalem [A.D. 70] parallels the first..... the historicist method requires that the blowing of the trumpets begin in apostolic times. 

*Furthermore, the first trumpet must refer to a judgment that falls

upon those who first oppressed God’s people. 

Q: What judgment fell upon oppressors of God’s people in apostolic times? 

A: There is only one possibility—the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple.

“The long-suffering of God toward Jerusalem only confirmed the Jews in their stubborn impenitence. In their hatred and cruelty toward the disciples of Jesus, they rejected the last offer of mercy. Then God withdrew His protection from them and removed His restraining power from Satan and his angels, and the nation was left to the control of the leader she had chosen.” E.G.W. 

*It fell on the third part of the trees, that is, say some, The most severe calamities have their bounds and limits set them by the great God. A third of the trees means that the trumpets were partial and preliminary judgments that point forward to greater judgments in the future. 

*Fire falling from heaven signifies a judgment from God against apostate Jerusalem. 

*Blood Symbolism--As we have previously seen, the Jews in Pilate’s judgment hall clamored for Christ’s crucifixion and cried out, “His blood be upon us and our children.” Jesus also predicted that God would require from that generation all the righteous blood, shed from the time of Abel.

*Trees - Luke 23:27-31: These are the most important verses to understand the first trumpet: And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him.  But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!' Then they will begin 'to say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills, "Cover us!" [Fulfilled finally in Revelation 6:16, 17; Revelation 1:7; Matthew 26:64; Matthew 23:39] For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry? 

This must be seen in the light of the fig tree that dried up by the roots because they condemned Jesus who is represented by a green tree. The key phrase is ‘dried up by the roots’. Thus, the Jewish nation was the dried up tree.

*Grass - the voice said, Cry out! and he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.  The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever." Isaiah 40:6-8.

Drawn/taken from the book Daniel & Revelation by Uriah Smith---Study Guide by Stephen Bohr---Sermon by Walter Veith---Commentaries from Matthew Henry/Adam Clark---Revelation Made Clear

Creation Moment 11/11/2025 - AI: Created in the image of man

The heart is deceitful above all things, 

and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

AI: Created in the image of man by fallen men.....

God created man in His image---and man CHOSE to rebel. 

Man creates AI in his image----so of course it reacts as in a fallen state as it relates to the rules of God.

"Artificial intelligence has the potential to forever change the world because it combines the best of both ‘brains’: the human knack for spotting patterns and making sense of information, and the fantastic raw computing power of machines. 

A fantastic example of the power of AI in action was demonstrated only last year when Google’s DeepMind division beat world champion and legend Lee Sedol at Go, a game that has 10761 possible moves compared to only 10120 possible in chess. 

Bostrom argues that as the machine become smarter and more powerful, it will begin to devise all sorts of clever ways to convert any material into paper clips — that includes humans too.

Recently, the same DeepMind labs ran a couple of social experiments with their neural networks to see how these handle competition and cooperation. This work is very important because it’s foreseeable in the near future that many different kinds of AIs will be forced by circumstances to interact. An AI that manages traffic lights might interfere with another AI that’s tasked with monitoring and controlling air quality, for instance. Which of their goals is more important? Should they compete or cooperate? Nevertheless, the conclusions don’t seem to ease fears concerning AI overlord dominance one bit — on the contrary, they suggest Bostrom’s grotesque paper clip machine isn’t such a far-fetched scenario.

Using multi-agent reinforcement learning, the two agents (Red and

Blue) were taught how to behave rationally after thousands and thousands of iterations of the Gathering game. The catch is that each agent was allowed to direct a beam onto the other player which would temporary disable him. This action, however, did not trigger any reward.

When there were enough apples, the two agents coexisted peacefully. As the number of apples was gradually shrunk down, the agents learned that it was in their best interest to blast their opponents so they got the chance to collect more apples and hence more rewards. In other words, the AI learned greed and aggressiveness — no one thought them that per se. As the Google researchers upped the agents’ complexity (better neural networks), the agents tagged each other more frequently, essentially becoming more aggressive no matter how much the scarcity of the apples was varied.

In a second game called Wolfpack, there were three agents this time: two AIs that played as wolves and another that acted as the prey. The wolf would receive a reward if it caught the prey. The same reward was given to both wolves if they were in the vicinity of the carcass no matter who took it down. After many iterations, the AI learned that cooperation was the best course of action in this case instead of being a lone wolf. A greater capacity to implement complex strategies leads to more cooperation between agents or the opposite of the Gathering game." 

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