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By What does the Bible actually have to say about celestial signs? Ever since 2008 when a pastor from Tacoma, Washington by the name of Mark Biltz announced that he had discovered an astronomical phenomenon that might point to the date of the Lord's return, there has been much hoopla over what he calls the Blood Moon phenomenon. The resulting Blood Moon mania has simply swept Christendom over the past few years, causing some to conclude that a significant prophetic event will befall the world in September 2015. David Reagan and I will discuss this theory and answer the question above on our latest television episode.

Watch below or click an icon above for a mp3 and transcript. Celestial Signs Dr. Reagan: We need to emphasize the point that the Bible does teach that there are signs that can occur in the heavens that can have some spiritual significance.

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In fact, the Bible begins by stating that, doesn't it? Nathan Jones: Yes, the Bible does frequently talk about signs in the skies. Because these phenomenon have and will occur, people are as a result taking these Blood Moons really seriously. Let's look Genesis 1:14, 'And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night.

And let them serve as signs to mark seasons, and days and years.' Reagan: That was the fourth day of Creation. God put the lights in the heavens and He said that they are there to be signs as well as seasons for us. So, there are celestial signs God provides. For example, the one that comes to mind immediately would be the special star in the heavens that led the Magi all the way from Iran down to Bethlehem. That would be a special sign in the heavens.

Nathan Jones: The Star of Bethlehem, exactly. Reagan: Or, I think of the special sign that occurred when Jesus was crucified. There was a total eclipse and total darkness followed by a great earthquake. Those are signs from the heavens. Plus, Jesus told us that we are to watch for signs in the end times, and a great variety of them are signs that come from the heavens.

I am reading from Luke 21:24 where it says, 'They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be led captive into all the nations and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles.' Jesus is talking about the Jews here. Then in verse 25 He says, 'And there will signs in the sun, and moon, and stars and upon the earth dismay among nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves.' Now He's talking about the Second Coming of Jesus in particular.

So, at the Second Coming of Jesus, there's going to be some spectacular signs in the heavens. This is also mentioned in a number of places in the Bible. Therefore, it's not crazy to say, 'Let us look at a particular sign' or 'Here is a sign that is going to occur and maybe something is going to occur as a result of that sign, but it's just that this particular sign is not something that has never occurred before.

Rather, it is something that has occurred in the past.' But, again, only one Feast Tetrad was spot on out of eight times. Only one was an omen of something great that was going to occur in Israel. Feast Tetrads Nathan Jones: With all the Blood Moon mania going on as of late, there must be something major happening related to the Jewish people. What is going on right now that would concern a Feast Tetrad? Reagan: We are indeed in the midst of a Feast Tetrad, one that Pastor Mark Biltz has been talking about.

It is the only tetrad falling on Jewish feasts that is going to occur in this century, according to the calculations of NASA. That's the reason that Biltz is putting so much emphasis upon this particular tetrad. As a reminder, a tetrad is when we have four total lunar eclipses, or Blood Moons, in a row over a period of two years. A Feast Tetrad is when you have a tetrad that falls on Jewish feasts. We are in the midst of a Feast Tetrad right now, falling in 2014-2015. The first total lunar eclipse started in April 15, 2014 on the Feast of Passover. The second one was on October 8, 2014.

The third one has already occurred on April 4, 2015 of this year on the Feast of Passover. The final one of the four Blood Moons is supposed to occur on September 28, 2015 at the Feast of Tabernacles.

Right now we are on the very threshold of the fourth Blood Moon in this Feast Tetrad. That's the reason that there's this great expectation that something very significant is going to occur in either Israel or in the whole world.

You've got to keep in mind that when this Blood Moon Theory was first discovered by Mark Biltz, there was a lot of talk that this tetrad pointed to the Second Coming of Jesus. People have backed away from that claim, and most have, and now are talking instead about it just being a major event that will occur in Israel. Certainly this tetrad is not pointing to the Second Coming of Jesus. Nathan Jones: Is that your conclusion then that those who are saying this tetrad is going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus are incorrect?

Reagan: Right, no, I don't think this tetrad is marking the Second Coming at all. You could give us some reasons why this tetrad is not going to be the Second Coming. Nathan Jones: I think those who look at this tetrad being significant to the Second Coming of Jesus either put the Rapture at the Second Coming, or they don't believe in any Rapture at all. For the Second Coming of Jesus to happen, you'd have to have seven years of Tribulation upon this earth.

Then you have all the events of the Tribulation that must occur. You have to have the Rapture of the Church happen before the Tribulation. You have to have the Antichrist rising into becoming the one-world leader. You have to have God's 21 judgments fall upon the world. You'd have to have seven years pass in order to have Jesus Christ return. There are a tremendous number of events that have to happen before the return of Jesus Christ. Therefore, there's no way that Jesus is going to return by September of 2015, unless it's the Rapture of the Church, and that is a whole separate event from the Second Coming.

Reagan: Furthermore, I think we need to emphasize the fact that the Bible teaches over and over that we cannot know the date of the Lord's return. Nathan Jones: No, not at all according to Jesus in Matthew 24:36,44. Reagan: We can know the general season, because we are given signs to watch out for, but we cannot know the date of the Lord's return. In fact, when Mark Biltz first came up with this concept, he was challenged on that point. He very strongly defended the idea of date-setting because of the fact that the Feast of Tabernacles had a rather indecisive date and people didn't know for sure when it would exactly occur. Biltz gave many, many arguments to support the fact that you really could know the general date. Later on, Biltz backed off that claim and he hasn't emphasized that in his recent teachings.

But, there are still some people who think that maybe this September 28th could be the date of the Lord's return. Nathan Jones: This teaching came out of the Hebrew Roots Movement though, right? Reagan: Yes, it did. It came out of the Hebrew Roots Movement which unfortunately is a Judaizing movement trying to get Christians to live under the Mosaic Law. Sure, it is legitimate to look out for signs in the heavens, but this tetrad is a sign that has no validity in the past except for one time — the Six Day War — and that war actually fell in the middle of the tetrad. We've got one Feast Tetrad out of eight that has any significance.

Again, that's not very good odds. There is a reason why people associate this year's total lunar eclipse with the Second Coming, and it's a very good reason.

Not only does Luke 21:24 tell us there are going to be supernatural phenomenon in the heavens, but one of the greatest of passages on celestial signs is found over in the Minor Prophets, and that's in the book of Joel. In Joel 2:30 the prophet makes a very interesting comment.

God is speaking there about the Second Coming of the Messiah. He says, 'I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth: blood, fire, and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.'

So, very definitely supernatural phenomenon in the heavens, but this passage is not talking about the Feast Tetrads. Joel is talking about a supernatural event. Joel is not referring to some natural phenomenon. And why is that? Because it is impossible for there to be a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse at the same time.

Nathan Jones: 'Why is that?' Some might ask. Well, you need sunlight to create a shadow on the moon.

Reagan: Well, yes, it's just not possible to black out the sun and still have a lunar eclipse. The result is that Joel has to be describing a supernatural phenomenon which God Himself orchestrates and produces in the heavens during the Second Coming of Jesus.

It's not some natural phenomenon that has occurred in the past and is going to continue to occur again in the future. We need to keep that in mind at least with regard to the idea of some sort of natural phenomenon being a sign of the end times. This reference in Joel to the Second Coming is supernatural in nature. I think that your point is very important concerning whether this tetrad could be pointing to the Second Coming of Jesus. We've got to have a literal interpretation of the Bible first off, which tells us the world will face a period of seven years called the Tribulation that has to occur before Jesus' Second Coming. When this point was first brought out after Biltz first proposed his theory, people immediately responded by saying, 'Hey, Mark, there has to be a seven-year period of Tribulation.'

He responded like, 'Well, the Second Coming could happen because this is January of 2008. The Tribulation then could begin in September or the fall of 2008, so count forward seven years and you get 2015.' Nathan Jones: There you go. The time has passed, so not anymore could we fit in the Tribulation. Reagan: Biltz even put an article to that effect on his website. Later on, when the Tribulation did not begin, he backed off that and began to talk more in terms about this tetrad being some major event that would occur in Israel.

One thing I would point out is that you are not taking any big risks whatsoever if you say in the future in this two-year period of time from 2014-2015 something important is going to happen in Israel. Nathan Jones: Every day something important happens in Israel!

Reagan: Important things are happening there all time, and even more so now than ever before because all of end time prophecy focusing upon Israel. The whole world is focusing on Israel. The Bible like in Zechariah says that in the end times the whole world is going to come against Israel, and that includes the United States. That's just what we are seeing today. More and more major events are going to occur in Israel. So, nobody takes a chance if they claim, 'I say to you in this two year period of time in the future something important is going to happen in Israel.' Something important will happen in Israel.

So, again, there's really no big risk here of saying something big is going to happen and it will happen to fall on a feast day. In the of our study of the Blood Moon phenomenon, Dr. Reagan and I will look at other sensationalist prophecies that of course didn't come true. By What in the world is a Blood Moon? Ever since 2008 when a pastor from Tacoma, Washington by the name of Mark Biltz announced that he had discovered an astronomical phenomenon that might point to the date of the Lord's return, there has been much hoopla over what he calls the Blood Moon phenomenon. The resulting Blood Moon mania has simply swept Christendom over the past few years, causing some to conclude that a significant prophetic event will befall the world in September 2015. David Reagan and I will discuss this theory and answer the question above on our latest television episode.

Watch below or click an icon above for a mp3 and transcript. Super-Rare Celestial Event Nathan Jones: A Blood Moon is a complete lunar eclipse. The earth passes between the sun and the moon and the shadow of the earth passes across the moon. The light from the sun bends around the atmosphere of the earth to give the moon a reddish color like blood. Reagan: So not all lunar eclipses are full? There's partial eclipses and also total eclipses?

We are talking here about total eclipses that cause the moon to appear red? Nathan Jones: Correct. Reagan: Alright, now how rare is this? Nathan Jones: During the 20th Century, for example, there were 229 lunar eclipses, but in total only 81 totally covered the moon. In the 21st Century, there are going to be 228 lunar eclipses, and of those 85 will be total eclipses.

Reagan: Total eclipses will be 85. There is something even more rare than that, I understand.

It is what's called a tetrad. What in the world is a tetrad? Nathan Jones: A tetrad is four total lunar eclipses that occur over the course of two years. Reagan: Four over the course of two years, okay. How often does that occur?

Nathan Jones: Very rare. There's only been 87 tetrads since the time of Christ. In this century alone there will be eight tetrads. In some centuries there are never any at all.

Reagan: With only 87 tetrads since the time of Christ, we are talking about something very, very rare? Nathan Jones: Yes, a tetrad is very rare. Reagan: There's something even rarer, and that's what Mark Biltz discovered.

That's what I call the Feast Tetrads. What is that? Nathan Jones: That's when the Jewish feasts actually fall on the same dates as those four total lunar eclipses. We're talking about the Feast of Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles. Reagan: I think there was a Feast Tetrad in 1967-1968? Nathan Jones: Yes.

Passover happened on April 24, 1967. There was a Blood Moon on that day. Then on Tabernacles of October 18, 1967 another Blood Moon occurred. Then the next year a total lunar eclipse happened on Passover again on April 13, 1968, and then on Tabernacles on October 6, 1968. Reagan: That's four Blood Moons occurring over a period of two years and they all fell on the Jewish feasts of Passover and Tabernacles. Nathan Jones: Super rare! Supposedly there's been only eight since Jesus.

Three Tetrads Dr. Reagan: The crucial point here is that Mark Biltz argues that these particular Feast Tetrads tend to be omens, or prophecies, or harbingers of major events that are going to occur in Israel. He gives us some examples. What three examples does he really focus on? Nathan Jones: Biltz focuses on three example and the eighth tetrad in particular.

One example of a Feast Tetrad supposedly occurred in 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled all the Jews out of Spain. The second one was 1948 when the Jewish State was created. The third is attributed to 1967 during the Six Day War. Reagan: On the surface those events sound very, very, important for those are three of the major events in Jewish history: 1) when the Jews were expelled from Spain, 2) when the nation of Israel was re-established and, 3) when the Six Day War occurred. But, there is a problem here, and the problem is that the first one of those is not legitimate because the Blood Moon Feast Tetrad occurred after the event. While the Jews were expelled in 1492, the tetrad didn't occur until 1493 and 1494. Therefore, the Feast Tetrad could not have been a harbinger, or a prophecy, or an omen beforehand of any kind for the Jewish people.

Nathan Jones: Yes, this Feast Tetrad totally missed by a full year. Reagan: Totally missed!

The second Feast Tetrad Biltz pointed to has to do with the re-establishment of the State of Israel which occurred on May 14, 1948. But again, the Feast Tetrad occurred a year later. It occurred in 1949-1950 and so again it was no harbinger or prophecy. Nathan Jones: Yes, the Feast Tetrad missed the event again by a whole year! Reagan: So, out of the eight of these Feast Tetrads that have occurred since the time of Christ, there has been only one that would serve as a prophecy, or an omen, or a harbinger of something great that was going to happen in Israel. That was the Six Day War in 1967, because the Feast Tetrad actually happened on 1967-1968.

The war really occurred after the first Blood Moon of that tetrad in 1967. Nathan Jones: And, of the eight Feast Tetrads, the first five fell on nothing of significance for the Jewish people. Reagan: Nothing of significance — whatsoever! One out of eight is not very good odds.

Nathan Jones: I wouldn't bet on them. No, I wouldn't.

In the of our study of the Blood Moon phenomenon, Dr. Reagan and I will look at what the Bible actually has to say about celestial signs. By Knowing prophetic wars are around the corner, how can Christians have hope for the future? In this 'The Truth Will Set You Free' episode, Pastor Vic Batista of Miami's Calvary Chapel Aventura and I will discuss the end times war found in Psalm 83.

Hope for the Future Nathan Jones: One of the best parts about studying Bible prophecy, besides getting to know God better and His plan, is to alleviate fear and to give us hope. When you know what is coming down the road, and you know there are some wonderful events coming down that God has promised, we learn that God always keeps His promises. Knowing that gives us hope for the future. Without hope people worry all the time. The say, 'Oh, man, the future looks terrible!

There is going to be so much disaster and destruction.' Certainly, some of that is in play, but we know the big picture when we study Bible prophecy. The big picture is that Jesus wins!

Therefore, those who believe in Jesus Christ win as well. One day we will live in peace and righteousness and justice in Christ's Kingdom for 1,000 years and then on into the eternal state. Evil is defeated and destroyed and out of here. That's all something to be excited about!

Vic Batista: I just want to jump and cheer! People often wonder how I can teach Bible prophecy with a smile. They believe prophecy is all gloom and doom. No, it is not all gloom and doom. I smile because I know what the Bible says and so are not fearful of the future. As a matter of fact, we look forward to the wonderful promises that God has in store for us. Nathan Jones: Amen, that is so true!

Yes, there is gloom and doom in prophetic events. There is destruction. But, that is the process that has to happen in order to destroy evil and defeat Satan. The end result will be a remnant of people all throughout human history who have put their faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ.

Those are who God wants to live with forever in His home in Heaven, also called the New Jerusalem. The reason why we were created s to have fellowship with God forever.

Yes, we need to get through these birth pains as Jesus called them before we get to the actual birth. Vic Batista: Absolutely. Definitely in the future you and I need talk about the New Jerusalem so that people can learn about what awaits us.

Nathan Jones: Exactly, because there's a lot of hope with Bible prophecy. Yes, there are tremendous events described in the Bible about the terrible days ahead, but God has a purpose for all those trials. God has given us that information, the foreknowledge, because He wants us to know what horrors are ahead so that we put our faith and trust in Him. We need to accept Jesus as Savior and so know that we will participate in the rapture of the Church. We will be out of here and protected by God before God releases His wrath upon the world, because our Heavenly Father always protects those He loves. Vic Batista: People also need to understand that the judgments that are coming are often times against those who are against God, those who disobey God. That is why it says in Revelation 9:20, 'But the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

They did not repent of their murders and their sorceries or their sexual immorality, or their thefts.' We find that this wrath and judgment is not against those who trust in Christ, but on those who are rejecting God. Nathan Jones: Exactly. God's wrath is for those who are disobedient. In other words, those who continue to rebel against God.

Those who call evil good and good evil. They are the ones who'll face the wrath of God. God's wrath is not for those who have accepted Jesus as Savior. We are promised in 1 Thessalonians 4 and 1 Corinthians 15 the Rapture of the Church — the taking up of the believers in Christ off this planet before God's wrath comes down upon it. That is what wrath truly is. It is what Hell is — the final judgment.

These judgments are for those who want God to leave them alone. They don't want anything to do with their Creator and they want to live their life on their own.

God acquiesces. He steps back. But, they still live under His wrath, as John 3:36 says. God's wrath is a sentence to Hell for their rebellion. Hell is punishment for rebellion against God. Vic Batista: Hell is only right because if God is a just God He will have to punish sin.

Nathan Jones: You wouldn't want the child molester, the rapist, the crook that robbed your house, to not see justice? We are like them; all of us! We are sinners, too. People tend to have so much trouble dealing with the reality that we are all enemies of God. We have all sinned against Him.

We all hate Him. We have all rebelled against Him. We have broken His law continually. But, God doesn't want to lose all of humanity, so He sent His own Son, His perfect Son Jesus Christ, to die in our place and take God's wrath upon Him. When we put our faith and trust in Jesus, the wrath of God moves off of us and it moved onto His Son while He was on the cross.

Once that happens, when God looks at us, He sees us as sinless and holy because of Jesus Christ. We are forgiven, and we don't have the punishment of Hell anymore. We can grab hold of that promise of the Rapture of the Church. Vic Batista: What a wonderful way of encouraging people! There is hope.

God loves you. Our Heavenly Father sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins. Whoever believes in Jesus Christ will have eternal life.

Today is the day of salvation! We never know just how much time we have left. So, therefore, this is the day that God has given us to repent and turn from our sins and turn to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. That's why the Bible says in John 3:16 that 'God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son. And that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.' Place your trust in Jesus Christ. He is coming very, very soon.

Nathan Jones: Take to heart what we have been talking about. You can see in the news every day the hatred against Israel, for the nations surrounding Israel want to destroy her. Bible prophecy is being fulfilled right before our eyes! That means Jesus is coming soon. So ask yourself, 'Are you ready?' In the of our survey of the Psalm 83 War, Vic and I will look more at Israel's enemies' insidious plan.

By Why are some churches betraying the Jewish people? In this 'The Truth Will Set You Free' episode, Pastor Vic Batista of Miami's Calvary Chapel Aventura and I will discuss the end times war found in Psalm 83. The Church's Betrayal Vic Batista: I remember before I first became a Christian I had a dislike for the Jewish people, but never really understood why. Now I know that the Enemy influences so many so they'll have a prejudice against God's people. Therefore, we need to be careful because Antisemitism is inspired by Satan's demonic influence.

Thank God when I was born again and I began to read the Bible the Holy Spirit began to show me the plan that God has for the Jewish people and how much He loves them. It really changed my perspective toward the Jewish people. Nathan Jones: Praise the Lord! We are definitely seeing many churches and church leaders giving up their traditional support of Israel and turning against the Jewish people and supporting the Palestinians. The Palestinians are the descendants of Israel's enemies.

How many churches are now siding against God's people? Can you believe Christians actually are hating God's people. When I use the term 'God's people' obviously the Church, those who believe in Jesus as Savior, are God's people as well. But, God has never said that He has gotten rid of the Jewish people as His people as well. Many of the Jews of today have turned on God and they don't believe in His Son, Jesus Christ.

As a matter of fact, 85% of the Jewish people in the world are Secular Humanists. They don't believe in God whatsoever. And yet, God has promised that one day a remnant — a third of the Jewish people — by the end of the Tribulation will accept God and Jesus as Savior. So, we are going to see the Jewish people transformed from Secular Humanists to Messiah followers of Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach.

One day a Jewish remnant are going to follow Jesus. That the Jewish people will one day be saved, that's another reason why Satan hates them. Satan wants to thwart God's plan. To accomplish that goal, he must destroy the Jewish people. I think that hatred that Satan has is emanating and effecting the whole world to hate Israel unlike any other country on the planet.

Vic Batista: God is not through with His people. That is what we read in Romans 11 in Paul's writing. He wrote, 'I say, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, or the tribe of Benjamin.' God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew.

I believe another ploy of the Enemy is to make people think that God is over and done with the Jewish people and that the Church has taken over, right? Nathan Jones: Exactly. Romans 9-11 are fantastic chapters to read about God's will for the Jewish people, though they are three of the chapters most churches today avoid. Churches do so because they believe the Jewish people are done in God's plan. He didn't destroy them completely when the Romans destroyed Israel in 70 AD.

God cast them aside and He put His focus on the Gentile world to give them with the Gospel. There is a time coming when the Gentile world and those Jews who have accepted Jesus as Savior will be raptured off this planet. Believing Gentile and Jew alike will be taken away before this time of Jacob's trouble, this Tribulation period that's coming. One of the reasons for this Tribulation and for the end time wars come against Israel is to get the Jewish people on their knees and get them to give up their Secular Humanism and turn to God and His Son, Jesus Christ, at Savior. Vic Batista: Excellent point, Nathan!

We know that those people who believe that God no longer loves the Jews clearly would have tear out those chapters in Romans, right? Nathan Jones: They would have to. It is scary especially among the liberal denominations how they will study through Romans, but they will skip right over Romans 9-11 as though these chapters didn't even exist.

That is tragic because the Church has had such a strong influence in our country traditionally in supporting Israel. Israel has received a lot of support from the United States because of our Judeo-Christian roots. But, as we continually and very quickly abandon our Judeo-Christian roots, we are seeing that the United States politics are turn against Israel. We are seeing churches as they become more liberal and apostate turning against Israel. This hatred that Satan has for the Jews is permeating both Christians and non-Christians alike for the purpose of destroying Israel. This Antisemitism then is the setting for Psalm 83, where we see the beginning of a coalition of nations that want Israel destroyed. Israel has repelled quite a number of attacks from these nations.

As soon as they became a nation in 1948, the infant nation repelled the five strong nations surrounding them. In 1967, Israel not only repelled these hostile neighbors again, but took a lot of what is now called the Occupied Territory, the land that originally the UN promised in the Balfour Declaration to Israel, so they can now better defend themselves. The world and now sadly many churches want the nation of Israel destroyed. The result, when we look at some of the end time wars, three of them are against Israel. The Psalm 83 War is the first between Israel and the nations directly surrounding Israel. The Ezekiel 38 & 39 War is next and contains an outer ring of Islamic Nations and Russia trying to destroy Israel, but fail.

By the end of the seven-year Tribulation at Armageddon, finally all the nations of the world come against Israel in the attempt to try to destroy her. Vic Batista: Once again we see God's hand protecting the Jewish people. God's hand is upon all these events.

That is believers in Christ should not fear, because we know what is coming. We also know where our foundation lies, right? Nathan Jones: Exactly! That's an excellent point. In the of our survey of the Psalm 83 War, Vic and I will look at how among all this turmoil Christians can have hope for the future.

By Who are the Psalm 83 nations planning Israel's destruction? In this 'The Truth Will Set You Free' episode, Pastor Vic Batista of Miami's Calvary Chapel Aventura and I will discuss the end times war found in Psalm 83.

Antisemitism on the Rise Vic Batista: Nathan, in the last segment you took us through Psalm 83:1-4. Could you recap?

Nathan Jones: Asaph was the author of this Psalm, or song. He was one of King David's prophets and musicians. Asaph was a seer and he could see as the Lord gave him prophecy about the future. What he prophesied in Psalm 83 he wrote in song format, though we don't have the music today. 'Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, and do not be still, O God!

For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.' ' Vic Batista: When we look at verse 4 we hear those very words spoken frequently by those in Islam and to some extent what we are hearing happening in the United States of America. Antisemitism is going to increase to the point to where these Psalm 83 nations want to come and destroy Israel. That is really the focal point, right?

Nathan Jones: Exactly! The enemies that surround Israel are what we are talking about — Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Gaza and Egypt. Those are the nations that want to destroy Israel. They are the traditional enemies of Israel all the way back to Joshua's time period.

It was prophesied that Israel would have to deal with these nations, and certainly over time, they've had many wars with Israel, but Israel never subjugated the nations around them. Today we are reading about this prophecy that Israel's enemies want to destroy them as a nation, but Israel hasn't been a nation since 70 AD. The Roman's destroyed Jerusalem and dispersed the Jews. The Jewish people wandered without a homeland for almost 2,000 years. Finally, in May of 1948, Israel became a nation again. So, all of a sudden Bible prophecy scholars are seriously looking at Psalm 83 because Israel is a nation once again.

Today we bear witness to the Islamic hatred of Israel. It's interesting that Israel's enemies historically in the Old Testament were scattered and divided. Now, they are all united by Islam, by a religion, that consistently wants to destroy Israel. Islamic leaders make statements all the time about the destruction of Israel. They create intifadas where they try to get the Arab people in Israel to rise up against the Jewish people living there. Iran is desperate to make a nuclear weapon which the Ayatollahs aren't even hiding anymore the fact that they want to use it to destroy Israel.

ISIS' goal is to not only march through Iraq and Syria, but then through Jordan and conquer Israel. The UN makes resolution after resolution against Israel. They too want to destroy Israel. So, there is certainly a satanic hatred just burning with uncontrolled rage towards Israel right now. Vic Batista: That's why I encourage Christians to pray for Israel. These are God's chosen people. God still loves them, though His focus has been on the Church for the last 2,000 years.

It's amazing to me what Satan puts into the heart of man, because he is really the one who is behind all this hatred of God's people. Nathan Jones: Ephesians 6:12 tells us that, 'For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.' And so, behind all our world governments there are satanic principalities and powers working behind the scenes. There is a spiritual warfare going on behind this global rise in Antisemitism. Satan has always hated the Jews.

He hates the Jews because God made promises to the world which through them would bring the blessing of His Messiah. Jesus came from the Jewish people. The Jewish people also provided the Bible. God promised the Jewish people that a remnant of them would one day be saved and they would become a priestly people during this Millennial Kingdom, which is still yet to come. Satan believes that if he can destroy the Jewish people, he can thwart God's plan. We know that Satan will never be victorious in that goal. Right now, though, Israel has got to go through quite a refining fire as the nations surrounding them want them destroyed.

That is where Psalm 83's prophecy comes into play. The Confederacy of Schemers Nathan Jones: In verse 4, we're left with no doubt that these nations who are against Israel are gathering together to decide how to destroy Israel.

Their purpose is to make Israel 'remembered no more.' The only way to accomplish that is the complete genocide of the Jewish people, to utter destroy the Jewish people. Now we get to Psalm 83:5-8 which says: 'For they have consulted together with one consent; they form a confederacy against you: The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites; Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria also has joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot.' That list of nations can be kind of confusing because Psalm 83 was written in 1,000 BC, so 3,000 years ago.

These are the names of the nations that surrounded Israel at that time, but they have modern counterparts today. It is interesting how we can turn on the news and watch and see these very same nations today want Israel destroyed. When Psalm 83 talks about the tents of Edom, that is the Palestinians who are the descendants of the Edomites. They're the Palestinians and those who dwelled in Southern Jordan at the time. Concerning the Ishmaelites, Ismael was the father of the Arabs, so the passage is talking about the Arabian nations.

Moab is also the Palestinian descendants of today who lived in central Jordan at the time. The Hagrites, or the Hagarenes, is another name from this passage. There's a little debate over this reference, but many Bible prophecy scholars believe their the Egyptians. Gebal is Hezbollah which occupies northern Lebanon. Ammon are again the Palestinian descendants who once covered the northern Jordan area. Amalek was also the Arabs, and they are the ones who now live in the Sinai Peninsula.

Philistia, the Philistines, is Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Tyre is up north, and they today are Hezbollah from southern Lebanon. Assyria is the Assyrians who once covered northern Iraq which pretty much covers the land that ISIS is taking over right now. Vic Batista: All those nations surround Israel? Nathan Jones: Yes, they do.

And, these nations in Psalm 83 are not prophesies as the nations that Ezekiel 38 & 39 are prophesying about. The Gog & Magog War of Ezekiel 38-39 contain Russia, Iran, Turkey, Libya and Sudan and all those 'Stan nations. Psalm 83 are not mentioning those.

It also is not talking about Armageddon, which covers all the nations of the world against Israel. Psalm 83 particularly names the countries that directly border Israel. Vic Batista: Excellent point!

This is exactly how the world is lining up today. I noticed two things, Nathan, when you were reading verse 5 specifically. 'For they have consulted together with one consent and they have formed a confederacy against you.' We see how the enemy, Satan, is bringing all these nations together to form a confederacy all united in one consent to destroy Israel.

Nathan Jones: Surely people are wondering just how could the nations surrounding Israel join together. Until Islam, these nations were totally separate and they did not get along well.

They would frequently attack each other. But, then when the religion of Islam conquered the Middle East, it united the people with a common religion. Honeywell Truesteam Humidifier Troubleshooting Manual. Yes, there is infighting in that religion, especially between the Sunnis and the Shiites, but overall as a religion they agree on one major thing — death to the Jews!

In the of our survey of the Psalm 83 War, Vic and I will look at why the Church is betraying Israel. By What nations comprise the inner ring of countries planning Israel's destruction?

In this 'The Truth Will Set You Free' episode, Pastor Vic Batista of Miami's Calvary Chapel Aventura and I will discuss the end times war found in Psalm 83. The Inner Ring Vic Batista: Related to the Ezekiel 38 & 39 War, there is another end times war — the Psalm 83 War. Any thoughts on the Psalm 83 War in terms of timing? Nathan Jones: One of the nine prophetic end time wars is the Psalm 83 War. I believe that it the first in the series of nine prophetic wars. The Psalm 83 War comes of course from the Psalms, which were written back in 1,000 BC, so we are talking about 3,000 years ago when this prophecy was written. Vic Batista: Amazing!

Nathan Jones: Psalm 83 was written by Asaph the Seer. He was not only a musical leader for King David, but he was also a prophet, a seer. He prophesied a time when Israel would have to subjugate the nations surrounding them. Throughout history, Israel has never subjugated all the nations that have surrounding them. Bible scholars have wondered why is that the case?

We read about Ezekiel 38 & 39 where those now-Islamic nations are attacking Israel. With Israel at the center, these nations form an outer ring of nations.

But, the inner ring of nations are missing. The nations that directly border Israel cannot be found in the Gog & Magog War. When I say those bordering nations, I'm referring to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Gaza — those nations which are directly bordering Israel. They too hate Israel with a passion. They want to see Israel destroyed. Those nations are left out of the very detailed description of nations in the Ezekiel 39 & 39, so therefore it tells us that this Psalm 83 War must happen before the Ezekiel 38 & 39 War because those nations aren't in play against Israel when Russia comes down to destroy Israel. Those bordering nations hate Israel, and so they would definitely be part of any coalition coming against Israel.

And yet, they are not mentioned in Ezekiel 38 & 39. We then know that there must be a Psalm 83 War before the Gog & Magog War. Asaph the Seer Vic Batista: Excellent point! Let's read through Psalm 83 and look at these wondrous prophetic events.

As we look at Psalm 83, Nathan, can you start out there in that passage and let us know what exactly we looking? Nathan Jones: Psalm 83 is a psalm, a song, by Asaph. When you read through the Psalms, remember they were actually sung as songs. The music was lost over the centuries, so when we read the Psalms, they kind of read funny because they're a translation from Hebrew. Their songs probably rhymed and made a lot more sense in Hebrew. Psalm 83 was a song of Asaph, and we know from other psalms that Asaph wrote that he was a prophet. He was actually called a seer.

Because Asaph was a prophet, God would let him see into the future, and so his songs were those prophecies. Crafty Counsel Psalm 83:1-4 reads in the New King James: 'Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, and do not be still, O God!

For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.'

' Vic Batista: That right there has a lot to say with what you were just sharing in terms of Israel's enemies. Nathan Jones: This passage says that the enemies of Israel have decided that they want to come together to plan on destroying Israel as a nation.

We have to remember that Israel hadn't been a nation since the year 70 AD when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and Israel. The Romans totally destroyed the Temple and scattered the Jewish people all across the earth. Israel hasn't been a nation for almost 2,000 years. But, here we read this end time prophecy and Israel is a nation once again. In May 1948, Israel became a nation again.

People are starting to take some serious consideration about this prophecy because to have these end time wars against Israel as a nation there has to be a nation. Now Israel is a nation again. Asaph is introducing the enemies of Israel. You can imagine the leaders of Israel's enemies hiding in a dark room conspiring about the destruction of Israel. That is the setting of Psalm 83. Vic Batista: That's a good way to introduce the Psalm 83 War.

This is an incredible prophecy unraveling right before our very eyes. Everything just lines up wonderfully with what it going on today and what we see is going to transpire in the near future.

Nathan, as we look at these prophecies we believe that it shows that time is running out, especially for anyone who doesn't have a relationship with the Lord. We don't know when these windows of opportunity are going to close, right? Nathan Jones: Exactly. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, could come back at any moment to rapture His Church — to take those who believe in Him as Savior off this planet — proceeding seven of the worse years in all of human history. The Bible calls that coming terrible time the Tribulation. It's what Jeremiah 30:7 calls the time of Jacob's trouble.

We don't know when Jesus will come back, so it is very important that we now give our lives to Jesus Christ. Pray in your heart something like, 'Dear, Jesus, please forgive me of my sins and be my Savior.' Jesus promised to forgive us of our sins when in repentance we put our faith and trust in Him. When we do, He'll give us a new life, the hope of the Rapture of the Church, and living forever with Him in Heaven. Vic Batista: The Lord loves you and He has a plan for your life. Once saved from your sins and the judgment of Hell, God's Holy Spirit will have moved inside of you. If you were to die today, you would have eternal life because you have placed your trust in Jesus Christ.

That is Good News! In the of our survey of the Psalm 83 War, Vic and I will look at the increasing rise in Antisemitism. By Is there a moral reversal going on in Western society? In this 'The Truth Will Set You Free' episode, Pastor Vic Batista of Miami's Calvary Chapel Aventura and I will discuss the end times war found in Psalm 83. The Moral Reversal of Society Vic Batista: Nathan, I pray for our politicians to understand what the Bible foretells so they can maybe make better decisions. Nathan Jones: I hope so. When a country fears God and obeys His commands and reads His Word, then law makes sense.

We have a sound foundation for judicial decisions. The world then makes sense. But, when you destroy the biblical foundation, then the judges rule whatever they feel like and government runs based on popularity polls and not the Word of God. We make bad decisions when it comes to our treatment of Israel and our own people. Persecution of Christians starts coming as well. We are certainly seeing more persecution of Christians in this country. The whole nation starts unraveling.

By cutting God out of our system, we are seeing our nation unravel. But, if we turn to God and the Bible, God's Word will give us an accurate view on how to handle world politics. Vic Batista: You hit on a very good point.

We must turn to God. Everything important to life begins with a relationship with Jesus Christ. All of what we are seeing happening is because people are void of a relationship with Jesus, and so therefore the decisions they are making, whether they are personal or in government, we see the disastrous effects of them. Nathan Jones: Exactly! Unfortunately, good becomes evil and evil becomes good in society's mindset, because they don't have the Bible to turn to. Without God in our lives, without the Holy Spirit directing us, our sin nature takes over and we want to do anything that will satiate the lust of our sin nature.

That's when we start calling good evil and evil good. We are seeing that very reversal in society today. When people are marching all across the country in support of thugs who kill cops, we've got a problem here in this country. Vic Batista: The Bible says that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but our war is spiritual.

Therefore, a lot of this societal angst is a ploy of the Enemy to shift our focus from what is really going on. The strategy is to keep us distracted by other things. Satanic Anger Vic Batista: Islam and the Gog & Magog War are going to come eventually, but in the end, we know that the Lord is going to destroy both Islam and all these coalition nations. Before their destruction, Ezekiel 38 & 39 also tells us about all those Islamic nations that surround Israel that are going to try to engulf in a sense the people of Israel? Nathan Jones: Yes, there is a hatred of the Jews that goes beyond sound reasoning. Islam hates the Jewish people with a passion. This push for a Palestinian State by those very same people who were actually the invaders of Israel back in 1948 and then were left behind by their countries and not allowed to go back to Syria and Jordan, these are the people who are calling themselves Palestinians.

In truth, the Palestinians are really Syrians. The Palestinians are the ones who want to push for a country within Israel's borders. They know that if they can get Israel back to its pre-1967 borders that Israel would become defenseless.

Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv would only be about nine miles away from the Palestinian State, an easy target where the Palestinians could shoot down Israel's planes with missiles. Israel would become defenseless. That the Palestinians real strategy behind the call for a Palestinian state. If you remember former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he was before the current President Rouhani, all the time Ahmadinejad was declaring that he should wipe Israel off the map. The whole world is focused on Iran building a nuclear weapon. The leaders of Iran, the Ayatollahs, on a daily basis say they plan on destroying Israel.

And so, we know that Islam wants to destroy Israel, because just like you said, it is principalities and satanic powers behind these events. Satan hates the Jewish people and he wants them destroyed. If he feels he can destroy them, then he can thwart Jesus' return. Vic Batista: That is why I think it is so good to study Bible prophecy. When we do, we begin to get a glimpse into what is really going to happen and how things are going to end up.

We see the world players are lining up, and the prophetic events are lining up, right before our eyes. In the of our survey of the Psalm 83 War, Vic and I will look at the 'crafty counsel' of those who want Israel destroyed. By Will the rise of Islam bring about increasing warfare?

In this 'The Truth Will Set You Free' episode, Pastor Vic Batista of Miami's Calvary Chapel Aventura and I will discuss the end times war found in Psalm 83. Increasing Wars and Rumors of Wars Vic Batista: Our topic this week is the Psalm 83 War. Some of the signs on the end times Jesus provided in Matthew 24:6-7 and also in Luke 21:9-10. One of those the Bible clearly tells will be wars and rumors of wars. Nathan, I know you have some incredible statistics regarding all the wars that are going on today. Could you talk a little bit about those wars once again? Nathan Jones: One of the ten signs that Jesus gave in Matthew 24 declared that there would be wars and rumors of wars.

In other words, as we got closer and closer to the end times before Jesus' return, wars would increase both in frequency and intensity. Certainly we are experiencing that today. As a matter of fact, during the 20th Century the world experienced one of the greatest number of wars in all of history combined. The death toll was greater in that century than any other in history. About 160-187 million people were killed in all the wars of the 20th Century. That total is more than the total of all the wars that came before. In the 21st Century, where we are 15 years into it, has seen just an incredible amount of death, especially from the Islamic wars as ISIS marches across the Middle East and with Russia invading the Ukraine and skirmishes breaking out all over the globe.

Right now there are 38 wars and skirmishes happening! We are living in the middle of a tremendous time of warfare. It never seems to end, right?

Our nations seems to just jump from one war to the next. There never seems to be a time of peace. The Lord had said that would be the case the closer we got to His return. Vic Batista: Many people don't realize what's really going on around the world.

Sometimes we only focus on certain parts of the news when they show you some fighting in a certain location, but when you look at it globally, the warfare is an astronomical number. Nathan Jones: Correct. The news is very limited in its scope. I don't know what it is about international news in America, but we only focus on one of two things.

You have to go and watch news from the BBC or other news outlets outside the United States via news feeds to actually see what's going on globally. There are a tremendous amount of skirmishes and wars happening all over the planet that never really make it into the news. Vic Batista: Absolutely. The Bible talked about all these wars and rumors of wars in the last days, and of course we have seen some of those occurring even in our time. Even some end time wars could start in our time and go into the Tribulation. I'm talking about the Gog and Magog War of Ezekiel 38 & 39.

Could you recap what will go on in that end times war? Nathan Jones: Ezekiel 38 & 39 provides the most detailed description of an end time war, this being one of the nine prophetic wars that the Bible talks about. In this war it says a leader from Russia will create a coalition of Turkey, Iran, all those 'Stan nations such as Turkmenistan, Libya, Sudan, and other nations. They will join to form a coalition to destroy Israel. Russia's purpose is to plunder Israel and steal its wealth. Israel will be at a time of peace and unsuspecting of an attack according to Ezekiel 38. When these nations come against Israel, the force will be so huge that even the mighty Israeli Defense Forces cannot possibly stand up against this coalition.

As this coalition comes against Israel, that's when God steps back into the world when it comes to supernatural protection. God Himself destroys these armies with a tremendous earthquake. He sets them against each other. There is hail and there is fire.

The Lord even burns the homelands of this countries that are coming against Israel. The result of the Gog & Magog War from God stepping in will be the destruction of the power of Russia and Islam in the Middle East. Israel becomes a new super power in the world.

Ezekiel 39 says that the Jewish people will know there is a God and they will all turn to Him, though not His Son Jesus Christ just yet, but definitely back to God. The Rise and Fall of Islam Vic Batista: We're seeing this Islamic movement towards Russia right now. And, right now, we are seeing Islamic mosque popping up everywhere around the world, even in my own neighborhood. I live in the Miami Garden's area in Florida and a few blocks away we see this new building being built, and it actually will be a Muslim mosque. Here in the US we are seeing mosques pop up everywhere. Nathan Jones: Building mosques is almost being encouraged.

Sadly with much of our liberal establishment, they believe in appeasement as a sound political strategy, but it is not. Remember just before World War II when Neville Chamberlain embraced Hitler and basically handed Poland and the Czech Republic over to him. Chamberlain was claiming that if Europe gave into Hitler's demands, the Germans would leave the UK alone. Hitler did not leave anybody alone! He continued to march across Europe and Russia and went on to bomb Great Britain.

Something like Chamberlain is happening today. Our politicians are trying to appease Islam, hoping they won't attack us. But, Islamic militants call the United States the Great Satan and they call Israel the Little Satan. They proudly proclaim that their goal is to destroy as commanded by the Koran all infidels, which are those who do not believe in Allah. There is no getting around their belief. It's foundational to their creed. The command is in their belief system that infidels must be destroyed or turned into second class citizens and pay a special tax.

And so, this idea of appeasement just doesn't work. Appeasing Islam is scary, just like you said. We currently live in a country that has religious freedoms, and I praise the Lord for it, but when an ideology wants to destroy us, you don't invite it in and support them in building mosques on every corner and training camps throughout the country! Vic Batista: That is why I believe we need to educate ourselves on these type of events, because sometimes television and even our President says certain things about Islam being a peaceful religion. And yet, look at 9/11. There was nothing peaceful about that! Nathan Jones: No, not at all.

Bush at that time came out saying that Islam is a religion of peace and that we don't need to deal with it directly, just terrorism. Then the Obama Administration came in and embraced Islam and gave power to known groups like CARN. They have ties to Islamic military and terrorist groups.

This is scary stuff! In making these concessions, we as a nation are basically saying, 'We give up! We surrender. Islam, we expect you to win, therefore we are going to step back.'

When you study Bible prophecy, you realize that Islam will not win in the end. Due to the Gog & Magog invasion, it looks as though God will break the back of Islam before we get into the Tribulation time period. There will be a one-world religion in the start of the first half of the seven-year Tribulation, but Revelation reveals that Satan will overthrow that Harlot religion and he will demand all the world worship himself through the Antichrist. There cannot be Islam competing with the Antichrist religion.

We read in the Bible how the Antichrist will persecute both Christians, these new believers in Christ whom we call the Tribulation Saints, and the Jews. It doesn't say anything about him persecuting other religions. This Harlot religion of Revelation 17 is a brand new, one-world religion, because Islam is most likely destroyed before the Tribulation begins. If our politicians understood Bible prophecy, they would not be appeasing Islam, because Islam is on the losing side. It is not on the winning side.

In the of our survey of the Psalm 83 War, Vic and I will look at the moral reversal going on in society. By 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is a very important segment of Scripture — in fact, it is vitally important. The reason is that in these two verses, the Apostle Paul lists a series of sins which can disqualify a person from Heaven: 9) Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10) nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. All the sins listed in these two verses are still prevalent today, and have become even more so in recent years, but only one has been converted by society from a sin to a virtue, and that is homosexuality. From Shame to Celebration All the other sins listed — idolatry, adultery, fornication, thievery, greed, drunkenness, reviling and swindling are still frowned upon by society in general, but not homosexuality. It has been transformed from a perversion that was once considered to be illegal to an acceptable and even lauded form of behavior.

The turning point came in 1999 when President Bill Clinton decided to declare the month of June to be 'Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.' He repeated the proclamation in June of 2000. Nine years later, following the Bush Administration, President Barack Obama resumed the practice but expanded the scope of it by declaring the month to be 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.' And so, we have descended to the level of moral depravity where our nation is now celebrating sexual perversity! Like the nation of Judah in Old Testament times, we have 'forgotten how to blush' (Jer. A Marker of Depravity There is a second way in which homosexuality is a unique sin. The Bible identifies it as a way in which to gauge a society's descent into moral depravity.

It was the defining sin that motivated God to pour out His wrath on Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:1-26). And in the book of Romans, Paul identifies it as the sign of a society begging for the wrath of God (Romans 1:18-27, particularly verses 26-27). There is a myth in Christianity that keeps many people from realizing how terrible the sin of homosexuality is.

That myth is the mistaken idea that 'all sins are equal in the eyes of God.' This concept is true in only one sense — all sins condemn us and require a Savior to reconcile us to God. But there are definitely sins that God considers to be worse than others, and for that reason, the Bible teaches that there will be degrees of punishment in Hell (Luke 12:47-48). Sins that are singled out in the Bible as being particularly heinous in God's eyes are idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:25-31), blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:31), pride (Proverbs 16:5) and unforgiveness (Matthew 6:14-15). Sexual immorality is another (1 Corinthians 6:18-20). The Unscriptural Defense The defenders of homosexuality and same-sex marriage contend that those involved 'were born that way.' And so, they argue, just as Black people have no control over how they are born, we have no more right to discriminate against homosexuals than we do Black people.

That argument sounds good on the surface, but it will not stand up to rigorous examination. First of all, it has never been proved that people are born as homosexuals. Second, there are many former homosexuals, whereas it is impossible to change one's race. And most important of all, we need to keep in mind that all of us are born with a sin nature which expresses itself in various ways. In that regard, there are 'natural born' thieves, adulterers, murderers, liars and gossips.

Does that excuse their behavior? Of course not! And if you are going to use the lame argument that a person is a 'natural born' homosexual, then can't the same argument be used to excuse the behavior of a pedophile or a zoophile or any other sexual perversion? Glorious News The incredible good news is that sexual immorality of any kind, whether it be heterosexual or homosexual, can be overcome and forgiven through repentance and faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior. Consider this statement from the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:11, presented immediately after his listing of sins that will condemn us before God: Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Praise God for his mercy! But do not think that you can mock God by continuing to willfully participate in these sins after you have placed your faith in Jesus (Hebrews 10:26-31). By The First Amendment to our Constitution is the bedrock of our freedoms. It reads as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances. The Establishment of Religion Clause We know for certain from the writings of the Founding Fathers that the first phrase of the amendment was intended only to prohibit the establishment of a state church, such as the Church of England. And that is the way in which the amendment was interpreted by our Supreme Court for more than a hundred years.

It was not until the mid-Twentieth Century that the Court began to expand the meaning of the clause from separation of church and state to separation of religion and state, resulting in a considerable diminishment of religious freedom, like the prohibition of the Gideon's organization from distributing Bibles inside schools. The Free Exercise Clause The second clause in the First Amendment is now the center of controversy. It is usually referred to as 'The Free Exercise Clause.' It was designed to protect the right of people to practice their religion as they please. Accordingly, it would seem reasonable that a conservative, Bible-believing Christian should be able to refuse to participate in any way in a same-sex marriage ceremony — whether as a photographer, baker or wedding planner. Yet, that is exactly what the Gay Mafia is condemning in our nation today.

(When I used the term, Gay Mafia, I am referring to radical homosexual activists who are determined to cram their sexual perversion down the throats of everyone, and who are particularly incensed toward Christians who believe the homosexual lifestyle is a sin against God.) Difficult Issues The issues raised by the Free Exercise Clause are not always easy ones. For example, we might all agree that a voodoo group should not be allowed to practice child sacrifice, but what about a Muslim woman who wants to work for the TSA, but who demands that she be allowed to wear a burka? What about religious practices which have been outlawed in the past because they were unpalatable to the Christian majority in our nation? I have in mind such things as: • The handling of snakes in worship services by primitive Christian churches. • The practice of polygamy by Mormons and Muslims. • The rejection of blood transfusions for minor children by Jehovah's Witnesses. Now that political power in our nation has shifted to the hands of those who despise conservative Christianity and religion in general, we are experiencing more and more challenges to the Free Exercise Clause with respect to all religions.

My Response to the Attacks on Christians My response to the Gay Mafia is this: If Bible-believing Christians should be forced to provide their services for same-sex marriages, then: • Should a Jewish printer be forced to print anti-Semitic placards for a Skinhead organization? • Should a Muslim or Jewish catering service be forced to supply pork chops for a catered event? • Should businesses owned by Muslims, conservative Christians and Orthodox Jews be forced to supply abortion insurance for their employees? • Should adoption agencies of any religion be forced to provide their services to homosexual couples? • Should a Christian be forced to remove a cross lapel pin or necklace as a condition of employment?

• Should an Orthodox Jewish man be forced to remove his yarmulke as a condition of employment? • Should a militant Atheist or devoted Humanist be forced to supply services to a Christian church? • Should a member of a homosexual church who is a baker be forced to prepare a cake that contains a scripture condemning homosexuality? Drawing the Line Where should the line be drawn? The Religious Freedom Act of 1993 was meant to protect the free exercise of religion. It was passed overwhelmingly by the Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton. Twenty states have since passed similar laws.

Those laws are not meant to harm anyone. Rather, they are designed to protect religious people from discrimination and persecution.

The current assault on these laws is a manifestation of the rapidly increasing secularization and paganization of our society. Once these laws are repealed, the next step will be to demand that religious organizations like churches and ministries be restricted from abiding by their creedal statements, putting them in a position where they will be forced to hire homosexuals. And then, of course, there are the unconstitutional 'hate laws' which the Gay Mafia will insist be applied to beliefs and words instead of just actions. And if you think that is unthinkable, then think again. What if you had been told 20 years ago that within the next few years same-sex marriage would be approved by states and would even be endorsed by churches — would you have believed it? Our society is on a fast train to Sodom. Accommodating Sin What is particularly appalling to me is the way in which several liberal denominations have rushed to accommodate the demands of a pagan society to ordain homosexuals and to approve same-sex marriage.

Do the leaders of these churches really believe that God is going to bless what He has condemned? Even a so-called Evangelical like Andy Stanley, pastor of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, has stated that he sees nothing wrong with forcing Christian businesses to assist with same-sex marriages! His justification for this radical stand?

'Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity.' Well, first of all, that is not the essence of Christianity. The essence of the Christian faith is to develop a personal relationship with Jesus.

And second, it is not the responsibility of Christians to aid and abet others to sin against God and His Word. A Challenge The time is long overdue for Christians to stand up and be counted. When the Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that the Ten Commandments could not be displayed on the walls of our schools, Christians quietly acquiesced.

When the Communist Party of Poland ruled in 1984 that all crucifixes had to be removed from the walls of Polish schools, the Catholic leaders and children of Poland went to the streets and said, 'Over our dead bodies!' The Polish government backed off. Will Christians take a stand in this country, or will we allow the Pagans and Humanists to run over us?

By In May the head of the Boy Scouts of America, Robert Gates, our nation's former Secretary of Defense, announced that he is in favor of the organization allowing homosexuals to serve as Scout leaders. His group had already dropped its ban in 2013 on homosexual boys becoming Scouts. Not to be outdone, the Girl Scouts of America immediately announced that they are allowing transgender boys to join their organization. Actually, the GSA's drift from its founding Christian principles has been much more thorough, beginning with its decision in 1995 to allow Girl Scouts to substitute words for God in the Girl Scout Oath. Alternatives include Allah, my Creator, the Force — or whatever. The Boy Scout Oath includes the following words: 'On my honor I will do my best. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.'

How can an organization have a pledge to be 'morally straight' when it endorses a sexual perversion that is condemned by God in His Word? When homosexuals decided they wanted scouting organizations that affirmed their lifestyle, why didn't they form their own organizations for boys and girls? Why did they decide to bring harassing law suits to try to force existing scouting groups to give in to their ungodly demands?

The reason is simple: they wish to erase the Christian foundation of all such private organizations. What they are doing with Scouting is just a part of their overall assault on the Christian heritage of our nation. I went all the way through Scouting, from a Cub Scout to a regular Scout to an Explorer Scout — and I was greatly blessed as Scouting reinforced the Christian principles taught to me by my parents and my church. It breaks my heart to see Scouting be destroyed as a positive moral force in our society.

I am literally appalled by the BSA's consideration of allowing homosexuals to serve as Scout leaders. Talk about letting the foxes in the hen house! I know the danger first hand. In 1953 while I was en route to the Boy Scout Third National Jamboree in California, a homosexual Scout leader from Ft. Hood, Texas attempted to molest me. Court proceedings in recent years have revealed that the BSA has covered up many such molestations for years. I can only hope that if the BSA adopts Bill Gates' recommendation, the organization will be covered up with law suits by the parents of young men who end up being molested.

One good thing is that there are moral alternatives in Trail Life USA for boys and American Heritage Girls for young women. There are also a number of groups that are affiliated with Christian denominations, like the Royal Ambassadors of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Royal Rangers of the Assemblies of God. By Franklin Graham has one brother, Ned, and three sisters — Gigi, Anne and Ruth. The best known of his siblings is Anne Graham Lotz, who is widely recognized as an outstanding Bible teacher.

She has a ministry called AnGeL Ministries which is located in Raleigh, North Carolina (). In May of this year, Anne wrote on her website that she believes Jesus is going to return soon 'to take all of His followers to Heaven with Him in what is referred to as the Rapture.'

She warned that for those unbelievers who are left behind, 'God's judgment is coming and it's going to be ugly.' She further wrote: While this [the Rapture] will be deliverance for His people, can you imagine the impact on our nation, let alone the world, when suddenly every single authentic Christian disappears?

Institutions will collapse. Banks will close. The Stock Market will plunge. Planes will fall out of the sky.

Cars will crash on the road. Government in America at every level will disintegrate. Families will be torn apart. In the unprecedented turmoil, our nation will be vulnerable for our enemies to seize the moment and attack us.

There will be mass chaos, confusion, fear, grief, despair, anger, threats, danger. Anne pointed out that God's judgment leading up to the calamities caused by the Rapture would probably not come in the form of a nuclear strike or an ISIS terror attack. Rather, it is most likely to be like the judgment of God described in Romans 1 where it speaks of God backing away and lowering His hedge of protection and allowing evil to multiply.

By Let's just get down to the bottom line right here at the start. The answer is, 'Absolutely not!' Increasingly, in the name of tolerance, I am hearing people, even Christian pastors, say, 'All three of the world's great religions are monotheistic. And since they all believe there is only one God, then they must all worship the same God.' It sounds so logical, but it is completely untrue. The God of Islam Take Islam, for example. The god of Islam, named Allah, is an aloof, impersonal and arbitrary god who is never once referred to in the Quran as a god of love.

The Christian God, Yahweh (Exodus 3:14-15), as revealed in the Bible, is a caring and personal God (1 Peter 5:6-7) who never changes (Malachi 3:6 and Hebrews 13:8). He is also revealed to be a triune God — that is, one God in three persons (Matthew 28:19). He is also constantly portrayed as a God of love (1 John 4:7-21). Further, Christians believe that Yahweh manifested Himself in the flesh in Jesus of Nazareth (John 1:1-14), and therefore Christians worship Jesus as God (Matthew 28:19, John 20:28 and Philippians 2:5-11). Muslims argue instead that Jesus was just a prophet of lesser stature than Mohammed. And, in fact, they even deny that Jesus died on the cross or was resurrected. They contend that an imposter died in Jesus' place and there was never any resurrection.

The Quran specifically denies that Jesus was the Son of God (Sura 112:1-4). Likewise, the Quran denies the triune nature of God (Sura 4:171). So, how can it be said in truth that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, when Christians worship Jesus as God, whereas Muslims deny the deity of Jesus? There's just no way to reconcile these diametrically opposing viewpoints. The God of Judaism What is particularly baffling to me is the number of Christians — even Evangelicals — who often assert that 'Christians and Jews worship the same God.'

It is true that we Christians worship the God revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures. But the Jews do not worship that God because they deny that He was ever manifested in human form, as their own Scriptures prophesied that He would be (Isaiah 9:6-7 and Micah 5:1-2). The reality is that Christians worship Jesus as God, whereas Jews dismiss Jesus either as a deranged human being or — at best — a misguided prophet who was self-deceived into believing He was the Messiah. On the Jewish website called 'Judaism 101,' you will find the following comment about Jesus: Jesus is simply not a part of Judaism. He is irrelevant to our religion. To ask a Jew, 'why don't you believe in Jesus?'

Is like asking a Christian, 'why don't you believe in Zeus?' How then can it be said that 'Christians and Jews worship the same God'? They simply do not.

A Future Time of Unity But one day the Jewish people will begin to worship the one and only true God. The Scriptures clearly teach that in the end times a great remnant of the Jews will accept Yeshua (Jesus) as their Messiah. This will happen at the end of the Tribulation after two-thirds of the Jews have been killed by the Antichrist, and the remainder come to the end of themselves and receive Jesus (Zechariah 12:10, Matthew 23:27-39, Romans 9:27 and Romans 11:25-26). The Scriptures also indicate that many Muslims will turn their hearts to Isa (their name for Jesus) and will receive Him as their Savior. In fact, the prophecies picture Jews and Muslims living together in peace as common believers in Jesus as their Savior, with their nations being connected by a great highway (Isaiah 19:19-25). It is a tragedy to believe that Christians, Muslims and Jews all worship the same God and that therefore Muslims and Jews can be saved apart from faith in Jesus as the Bible's promised Messiah. Such a misguided belief results in loving Muslims and Jews into Hell.

We are on the verge of a significant change of Universal Age, and it is now important at this time to become fully aware that we are in fact surrounded by millions of other worlds teeming with intelligent life. Most of them are vastly more advanced than our own world, living on higher Planes/Dimensions with a higher vibration-rate than Earth's dense-physical 'Third Dimension'. A large group of these worlds have been closely watching over us since WW II with millions of their Motherships invisibly surrounding us, ready to assist us at any moment to fulfill our Ascension up to a Fourth Dimensional 'New Earth'. They also have had an important function in shielding us from any unwarranted intrusions or attacks by those Forces of Darkness that unfortunately still exist within our Galaxy.

However, they have never wished to directly interpose themselves on our World, as any interference without our express invitation would be wrong karmaically. Most of us, as the 'Explorer Race' have volunteered to come to Planet Earth expressly to partake in a planetary experiment in overcoming/resolving the Duality inherent in our Universe of Good and Evil - the eternal fight between the Forces of Light and Darkness - the Positive versus the Negative. This difficult process has actually been assisted by our being shrouded from contact with all the other Worlds under a Higher level Spiriutal Agreement made in volunteering to participate in the 'Duality Experiment' as a 'Veil of Forgetfullness”, so that we could pursue this experiment on behalf of the Cosmic Creator without distraction or undue outside interference. However, this 'Veil' also became a part of a post 'Lucifer Rebellion' 'Quarantine' imposed upon our Planet over two-hundred thousand years ago, along with 37 other Planets in our Local System of Satania, a section of our 'Milky Way' Galaxy/Local Universe of Nebadon by the ruling Grand Universe Hierarchy. This 'Veil' has had the effect of cutting us off from direct contact with all the other surrounding Worlds and of any knowledge of their inhabitants.

On the other hand this 'Veil” has given us a unique opportunity to concentrate, un-influenced by outsiders, on our special Planetary experiment in exploring the ultimate extremes of Duality between the Forces of Good and Evil. We have undertaken this difficult task in order to develop new solutions, not only for our own World, but also for the benefit of many other Worlds. In addition, this 'Veil of Forgetfullness' has at the same time prevented us at any time from opting-out of our agreed Earth Planet experiment and escaping to the peace of the Higher Spiritual Planes. Our Space Brothers from more advanced worlds have had to limit our knowledge of their presence to only to those Earth Humans who either had a direct connection with them in a previous life or who had over many lives developed an extra-sensory psychic ability to communicate through channeling. Nonetheless, our Extraterrestrial visitors have at times tried to communicate directly with either our Governments or our media, especially so in a wish to warn them of the extreme dangers of our development and use of atomic weapons, and particularly the Hydrogen bomb.

They did also have come to warn us of the coming 'Earth Changes' associated with the ending of one Major Age Period and the approach of a New Age. However, Governments fearing the loss of their control over us, have conducted a major 'Cover Up' of U.F.O.s and Extraterrestrial visitors since World War II, and at the same time intimidated the World's Media into ignoring any reports of their appearances in our skies. In the meantime, the Governments have quietly created their own secret files of all the numerous UFO sightings supplied by their Military Forces and filed them away in Top-Secret Archives, even though having at the same time secretly interacting with some of these extraterrestrial visitors. As an example of the US Government's cover-up of UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrials over the years, only recently the true secrets of the well-known Roswell flying saucer crash in 1947 have been revealed, this being done by a non-governmental source. When a 'Flying Saucer' was reported on the 8th of July 1947 to have crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, a US Air Force retrieval team was immediately sent to the site of the crash.

Among them was an Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Nurse, Matilda MacElroy, who was given the task of attending to the sole survivor E.T. In the crashed craft out of the two other crew members. She turned out to be the only person on their return to the Military Base who was able to communicate with the E.T.

Survivor through telepathy, which nobody else was able to do. She was given the task of communicating with the small E.T.

Female Being, whom she was to name as 'Airl', who had refused to answer any questions other than through her. After being helped by Nurse MacElroy to learn English through the use of many books borrowed from the Base's Library on all sorts of Earth subjects over a 16 day period, Airl was to give an extraordinary telepathic message, and only through Nurse MacElroy, which was transcribed by a Government stenographer. This gave many details the workings of what Airl described as the 'Evil Old Empire' which had been working within our area of the Universe - fortunately much of which has since then been disbanded and removed, although remnants still do operate on Earth as the 'Dark Cabal'. (The outside derived 'Dark Forces of Darkness' have also been vividly described in the Creator God Horus (Heru) messages in Chapter 10 of The New Earth - Book 1).

Following the E.T.' S death 6 weeks later, brought on by electric shock treatment by US Government operatives to force revelations out of her, Nurse MacElroy was debriefed and sent into forced retirement by the US Air Force, but managed in the confusion to retain her own copy of the transcripts of the interviews. These were duplicates of the 'Top Secret' transcripts also kept by the US Government, the existence of which they have never revealed to the public. 60 years later on, Mrs.

MacElroy sent her copy of the Transcripts to Lawrence R. Spencer, the Author of 'The Oz Factors' (which she had read after he had contacted her by phone in 1998) not long before her death at the age of 83. Mr Spencer has bravely published this as the book 'Alien Interview' (this can be read from the Free Link at the end of Book II). On the night and early hours of February 20-21, 1954, while on a 'vacation' in Palm Springs, California, President Dwight Eisenhower 'went missing' and was taken to Edwards Air Force Base (previously Muroc Airfield) for a secret meeting. This was to be a 'First Contact' meeting with Extraterrestrials by the US Government and was the beginning of a series of later meetings with other Extraterrestrial Races. The Extraterrestrials of this visit were described as being of a 'Nordic' appearance and they came to make a request for President Eisenhower to stop pursuing the Nuclear Arms Race and not to continue to develop the highly dangerous Hydrogen Bomb.

However, Eisenhower's Administration responded that they could not do this so long as the Soviet Union also continued its own nuclear build-up. During the Extraterrestrial Negotiations, various other Government personnel took the unique opportunity to investigate the varied collection of spacecraft which had landed on the Airfield. Later on in 1954, there was to be another meeting between the Eisenhower Administration and some quite different Extraterrestrials. These were a renegade race of Zeta Reticulians, better known as the 'Grays', because of their gray colored skin. They have hairless bodies and a large head with big round dark eyes, the result of having to live many thousands of years underground on their Planet after contaminating the surface with a nuclear war with their more advanced Zeta Reticuli compatriots. The Grays were no longer able to reproduce themselves through normal physical means and had to rely on 'cloning' their bodies to continue life and therefore they were gradually dying out. They were also of a generally non-loving and self-serving nature.

They were hoping to engineer a transference of Human Earthling DNA genetics to enable them to once again physically reproduce themselves. It was in the latter part of 1954 that they landed at Holloman Air Force Base and requested the making a of Treaty with the U.S. Government in exchange for some of their more advanced technology. They identified themselves as Zeta Reticulans originating from a Planet around a Red Star in the Constellation of Orion which we called Betelgeuse. They stated that their Planet was dying and that at some unknown future time they would no longer be able to survive there. A Treaty was eventually signed between them and the U.S. Government for them to re-engineer their failing DNA with that of Earth Humans in exchange for their spacecraft technology and weapons.

The Treaty that was agreed on stated that the Aliens would not interfere in our affairs and we would not interfere in theirs. We agreed in return to keep their presence on Earth a secret and provide them with large underground Base facilities under the 'Four Corners' area of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. They were not make any Treaty with any other Earth Nation. They would be allowed to make abductions of Humans on a limited and periodic basis for the purpose of medical examination and monitoring of our development, with the agreed requirement that the Humans would not be harmed, and be returned to their point of abduction with no memory of the event. They were also required to furnish the Government with a list of all Human contacts and abductees on a regularly scheduled basis.

However, after over a period of forty years they had proved to have failed to either supply very meaningful new technology or to keep their word on the amount and degree of abductions. This applied particularly to women and children taken up to their Mothership for experimental surgery, as well as to their frequent mutilation of cattle in a continued effort to extract genetic codes. As a result, the U.S. Government had gradually closed down most of their extensive main underground Bases by the late 1990s, leaving them to carry on with only much more limited facilities for a short period. There have indeed also been many other U.S. Government meetings with Extraterrestials. In fact, J.F.

Kennedy was about to give a major speech on the day he was assassinated (by an Agent of Earth's 'Secret Government') in which he would have revealed the existence of Extraterrestrials ( click on this following link to his intended speech: ). As we know, this speech was unfortunately never given. In fact the Galactic Federation had planned to make a first major appearance with their space craft within a short period following Kennedy's Speech, and this plan had to be abandoned. It would no doubt have ushered in a major change of direction in Earth's future development.

Apart from these secret contacts with the U.S.Government, there have also been many thousands of unofficial reported 'Flying-Saucer' or UFO sightings as well as quite a few direct contacts made to individuals. Although they became well-known to limited circles of Earth's 'Lightworkers', they have always been totally ignored by the mainstream Media through behind-the-scenes Government control. One of the first major 'Contactees' was George Adamski, who wrote several books in the mid 1950s detailing his physical contacts with Venusian, Saturnian and Martian Space visitors and of his journeys up in their Scout-ships to their large Motherships overhead.

In his second book 'Inside the Space Ships', he describes in fascinating detail the interiors of these Motherships and his many conversations with their Commanders and other onboard personnel. A few years later, Dino Kraspedon, a Brazilian, also published a book describing his unexpected meeting with the Captain of a 300-foot Flying Saucer Scout, who gave him much useful scientific information about space travel and their methods of propulsion. Among other things, the Captain explained how they can move at enormous speeds through our atmosphere by creating a vacuum around the Scouts by ionizing the air surrounding the craft to prevent atmospheric friction. He was also one of the first to give us information on the approaching 'Earth Changes'. ( For extended excerpts from 'My Contact with Flying Saucers' by Dino Kraspedon and the George Adamski books, see the Link at the end of this Book II) In the last 16 years there have been a growing number of channeled E.T. Messages published in various books and specialist magazines, particularly those coming from the Galactic Federation (see the 'Updates' in Chapter 10) and also more recently from The Andromeda Council (see link at the end of Book II).

Another extraterrestrial phenomenon that has become well-known during the last twenty years have been the thousands of perfectly formed 'Crop Circles' which mysteriously appear overnight in fields of cereal crops, especially so in Britain, giving us many beautiful and highly complex patterns. Photographs of them have been well documented in various books and on the Internet.

Likewise, there are also the many photographs on the Internet and books of 'flying saucers' or Scoutships. These are ones that the Space Visitors have permitted us to see through lowering their higher vibration rates down to our 3D level.

There are thousands of huge Motherships stationed invisibly overhead, many of them over hundreds of miles in diameter, and as they mostly operate on the 4th and 5th Dimensional vibrational levels which is invisible to our 3D physical sight. Although our Space Visitors have up to now been limited to few Earth contacts, they promise that they will soon be making their first major appearance as part of a 'First Contact' Mission, once Earth's major Governments have made their long awaited 'Disclosure' announcement of the existence of Extraterrestrials.

This 'First Contact Event' will probably be made through providing a mass sighting of their spacecraft over several of Earth's major cities. They would then follow this up with a series of actual Earth landings in order to give us detailed information about themselves and to provide us with various useful technologies, such as the use of 'free energy'. However, they have in the meantime made contact with over 160 Earth Governments requesting them to make a full 'Disclosure' announcement before they will make an appearance. Of course the various Governments have 'dragged their heels', as they not only fear the loss of their power to rule over their citizens, but even more so from the dire effects of any revelations of their past massive cover up of E.T. And UFO contacts.

However, at least a few Governments, under considerable public pressure, are beginning to open up some of their Secret UFO files to the general public. The French Government has recently promised to now open some of its secret UFO files to researchers, as well as the British Government, who announced in March 2008 they will start making its UFO documents available through the Ministry of Defense, and which would feature hundreds of documented UFO sightings gathered over the last 10 years across the UK.

On the 12th of February 2008 the United Nations convened a secret gathering at the United Nations Headquarters in New York with Delegates of 28 major countries to discuss the increasing and unprecedented numbers of UFO sightings during 2007 and 2008. Security around the meeting was intense: everyone was searched at the entrance; pens, pins, key chain items were collected and even Member's UN Security Cards were temporarily taken in custody. This meeting was attended by over 40 Representatives of 28 Member Countries. A document from the Galactic Federation was circulated in the meeting in which a request was made that all the countries represented should make a full disclosure of E.T. The Galactic Federation were offering to provide in return such useful technologies as new forms of 'free energy'. A debate then followed on how the UN might respond to this offer, if at all - we presume the answer was indeed negative.

A similar document was later sent by the Galactic Federation directly to the relevant Ministries of all the attending 28 Member States. Ever since World War II, the Galactic Federation of Light has been trying to give a warning to our major Governments, as well as to Earth's Scientific Community, on the extreme dangers of developing nuclear weapons. They also expressed an especial concern about our developing the Hydrogen Bomb and they informed us that Hydrogen is a basic 'living' element permeating all our surrounding ether. A large scale use of Hydrogen bombs could set off a massive chain-reaction conflagration throughout the Ethers of Space in addition to destroying our Planet. In fact the Galactic Federation has been forced to intervene countless times to disrupt our setting off nuclear devices in particularly dangerous situations. This they can do by simply neutralizing them at their point of use.

Another important part of their mission was to alert us of the impending 'Earth Changes' as part of the ending of a Major Universal Age. They have told us that the present ending of the two-hundred million year-long Grand Universal Age, is a time when all our Universes, Galaxies and Solar Systems must collectively move up a step to higher dimensional planes. This also coincides with our own Solar Ring and Milky Way Galaxy having just completed a long orbit around the Great Central Sun of the Universe, and is also the Zodiacal ending of Earth's 2000 year-long Piscean Age. The Piscean Age commenced around the time of the Birth of Christ, and ends on the 21st of December 2012 (as foretold in the ancient Mayan Calendar). That will be the start of the new 'Aquarian Age', long been prophesied as bringing in a 'Golden Age of Peace' on Earth. There have been many other prophesies concerning these coming End-Times, such as in the Bible's 'Book of Revelations'.

These are referred to in the Christian Bible as the 'Final Day of Judgement' and also the promised 'Second Coming of Christ'. The same message has also been given in more recent times by the growing number of 'New Age' Esoteric Schools of Higher Spiritual Knowledge. Humanity on Planet Earth, along with the other inhabited worlds of our Solar System, is thus about to make an 'Ascension' up to a higher 'Dimension' or vibrational plane. We on Earth are already moving up from our past dense physical 'Third Dimension' vibrational level to rising degrees towards the 4th Dimension. We and all living things have gradually been upgraded, through an inflow of powerful higher Celestial energies to now over 3.52 D and will soon be moving seamlessly further up into the Fourth Dimension.

After a period as a Fourth Dimensional Planet Earth following Earth Humanity's Ascension after the 21st of December 2012, we shall then be moving further on up to the existing 5th Dimensional Earth. Those of Earth's inhabitants at that Ascension time that are ready to Ascend up to the Fifth Dimension will themselves move up to the 5th Dimensional Earth, along with all those already on our after-death Fourth Dimensional 'Summerlands' Spiritual Plane. Most of the advanced 'Lightworkers' working and teaching down on Earth have themselves come down here as 'Starseeds' from other Planets and Star Systems. Having already experienced living on higher Dimensions and more advanced worlds, such an Ascension will not be such a big deal for them.

On the other hand, many of the younger Souls starting out on their long evolutionary Ascension on this 'Seed Planet' for new Human Souls, may not yet be ready to make a move up to the Fourth Dimensional level, and will be relocated by the Galactic Federation to other worlds capable of supporting a Third Dimension vibrational level. However, Planet Earth badly needs to go through a vibrational reformulation as well as a major surface cleansing of the worst of the environmental detritus and destructive effects made by its present inhabitants, as this will have a negative effect on the higher dimensional layers, which are all based on the fundamental 3D core. This will be undertaken by the Galactic Federation's Forces whose technology can do this within at least a couple of years or more. During this Planetary cleansing period certain 3D surface areas may need to go through some fairly major upheavals. However, most of us already beyond that basic 3D level will not feel experience the disruptions as they will have been placed suspended animation, also known as a state of 'Stasis'.

However, those who are in areas of severe disruptions will lifted off by the Galactic Federation's Scout Craft and taken up for a temporary period to the overhead Motherships. Others in areas of danger may alternatively choose to be taken down into the interior hollow 'Inner Earth', the home of an existing Fifth-dimensional civilization named 'Aghartha', which will barely be affected by the 3D surface cleansing. This Ancient Civilization which has up to now not revealed itself to us surface dwellers, lives an advanced and almost perfect life within the hollow interior and the underside of Earth's 800 mile thick outer planetary crust. Here there exist a pristine environment of verdant landscapes, rivers, lakes, crystal cities, all of which are illuminated by its own interior Sun which shines as the high-density crystalline core at the very center of Planet Earth. [More information on the Inner Earth is available at the link to 'The Inner Earth & Realm of Aghartha' at the end of this Book II] Those not at this time ready to make their Ascension up to the Fourth and Fifth Dimensions, will therefore be relocated to an existing Third-dimensional level. There they may have to start on a new round of Third-dimensional physical evolution lasting anything upwards to 26,000 years until a new Galactic Age commences.

Those still firmly rooted to the lower Third Dimension vibration with their barely controlled extremes of emotion and concentration on their own self-interest at the expense of others, would in any case find themselves unable to stand up to the higher vibrations of the Fourth Dimension. There they would experience intolerable discomfort and be unable to learn vital evolutionary lessons such as learning to overcome their many uncontrolled emotions and lower level desires. Those yet wishing to move up to the higher Dimensions need to concentrate on changing their motivations of pure self-interest expressed at the expense of others.

They need to move away from their physical 'survival-mode' of subjective concentration on their self-interest, with its natural tendency towards a competitive individualism and the domination of others. They have to learn to embrace a new attitude of a less selfish service to others without always having a subjective motive of purely personal gain. They eventually will have to learn to give 'Unconditional Love' to others combined with a spirit of cooperation, mutual tolerance and an allowance for the faults of others.

We may possibly be acquiring a 'Second Sun' within our Solar System. According to Christ Michael this would be through an 'ignition' of the Planet Jupiter into a brighter Nova of Light. This new energetic source of Light-energy would cause a magnetic Pole Reversal on Earth, during which time Earth will come to a brief stop and reverse its direction of rotation.

The Sun will then be rising in the West! This process would cause some fairly major 3D surface changes as well as a possible five degree alteration of the Earth's Polar Axis, setting in motion some major earthquakes, extremely heavy winds, tidal waves, and floods. That these Earth Changes have previously happened on Planet Earth in the past has been well-documented in geological studies, with entire continental landmasses either being submerged beneath the oceans, or raised up to become some of today's highest mountain ranges. Seashells and skeletons of fish have been found high up in the Himalayas and the Andes. The great plains of the USA from Mexico to Alaska are known to have been under the sea, and today's Eastern coast of America was the 'shore-line' of what are now the Appalachian Mountains. The North and South Poles have also been shown to have moved rapidly to new positions with the evidence of dramatic surface and climatic changes left behind. An aspect of this was first discovered in 1799, when frozen bodies of mammoths were unearthed in the tundra of Siberia, their stomachs containing freshly eaten grasses and leaves normally belonging to tropical regions thousands of miles to the South.

Former tropical coral reefs have also been discovered as far north as Spitzbergen, within what is now the Polar Circle. Coal deposits found in Antarctica indicate that the area was once covered by equatorial forests. We need to also become aware that Mother Earth/Gaia is herself a highly evolved Spirit ensouling the Planet. She now awaits impatiently for the long-desired Ascension of her 3D surface dwellers up to the Fourth and Fifth Dimensions. She has up to now had to maintain a long and painful duty of supporting a lowly evolved combative and turbulent Humanity as part of her Celestial service 'Contract'. However, she also needs to cleanse her 3D Planetary core of all the past pollution, damage and detritus that Humanity has accumulated on her surface. The many areas of interior blasting within her crust and Humanity's increasing extraction of oil has also caused her much 3D physical distress.

Oil is in fact the very 'life-blood' of her planetary body, part of the system that helps to lubricate the tectonic plates and thus help keep them properly locked together. An insufficient quantity of this substance at the intersection of two major continental plates resulted in the massive underwater Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami of December 2004. Humanity has to now undertake a process of erasing all past negative 'Karma' before we can Ascend to the Fourth or Fifth Dimensions. We at this Eand of Age time need to balance out all our past Karmaic debts with those that we have previously harmed and at the same time give forgiveness to those that we consider may have wronged us in the past. Many of those long repressed emotional hurts and historical grievances which have accumulated over thousands of incarnations held as deep scars within our DNA and our Soul's memory, now need to be brought to the surface, resolved and finally transmuted.

At this time we can indeed see much of this resolving of past Karma going on as a world-wide activity within the many settlings of past historical grievances. This is particularly visible in the present day conflicts within the Middle East, where we see the re-surfacing of the old Christian-Muslim conflict which was first generated, and never properly resolved, during the time of the Crusades. In conjunction with the ending of the present major Universal Age, there is at this time being enacted by the Celestial Hierarchy a major removal within our Galaxy of all the Forces of Darkness. Most of this darkness came in from a particularly evil outside infestation of darkness originating in a totally corrupted Grand Universe Creation out in the Great Void. It infected the outer regions of our surrounding Seventh SuperUniverse of Orvonton millions of years ago and spread to our own Galaxy/Local Universe of Nebadon.

Now, at last we are coming to an end of over 500 million years of this pervasive darkness which had so subtly infiltrated the outer areas of the 'Realms of Light'. It has left behind a scene of much destruction and damage, which is only now being thoroughly cleansed within our Galaxy by the Galactic Forces of Light. (more information on this at the end of Book I, in Chapter 10). Since Planet Earth was put in 'quarantine' over 200,000 years ago after the Lucifer Rebellion, it has also had to undertake the function as a virtual 'Prison Planet/Remand Center' for many of the most negative and destructive Beings within our Universe brought here for reform. Also, it had to fulfill its original role as a 'Seed Planet' for young Souls starting out on their long Ascension and evolutionary path up from the Animal Kingdom.

They have had learn how to control their as yet undeveloped animalistic emotional responses, which have a tendency to descend into violent conflict when conditions get difficult. By experiencing the many conflicts between each other they are eventually forced over time to evolve a deeper respect for the 'sanctity of life', which will then allow them to move on up to higher worlds. Planet Earth was at its creation within our Galaxy/Local Universe of Nebadon also given a role as an 'Experimental Ecology Planet', in which new life forms and varieties of plant life were to be developed. All the diversity of biological life found throughout the Universe has at some time been brought here by the 'Life Carriers' who have the job of physically creating new and improved life forms on a new experimental Ecology Planet. Also there were many of the original extraterrestrial Human settlers of Planet Earth who were brought here millions of year ago in the Motherships of the Galactic Federation as a specially selected team of volunteer 'Celestial Gardeners'. They came having made a solemn pledge to help in the development of new and better varieties of plant and animal life for this new Galactic Museum under a long-term 'contract' to remain here as Stewards of Earth until a virtual 'Garden of Eden' was finally established.

Although they were eventually dragged down into lower and lower levels of dense 3rd Dimension physicality, and which was mainly caused by the various invasions by the Dark Forces within our Galaxy, they nevertheless maintained a Sacred Pledge to return here repeatedly until their job was finally done. Millions of years later, many are still here as the many ecologists who attempt to carry on the work of developing a yet more beautiful and diverse Planet. This Planetary role as a Biological Showcase for the Galaxy explains the amazing rich variety of plant and animal life which we now enjoy. Our Planet is even now, despite Man's past destructive activities, considered by the other inhabited Worlds as being one of the most beautiful and green Water-Planets within the Galaxy. The future levels of Earth are destined to further develop this great wealth and variety of life to even greater heights, into a true Celestial 'Garden of Eden', not only for our own enjoyment, but for the education and enjoyment of all the other Worlds who will be visiting us. Apart from co-creating with our Galactic friends a beautiful green new world, we will also be developing many new and improved social systems from the learning gained through our difficult experiences of resolving positive-negative Duality. We shall become an exemplary 'Showcase World' for the rest of the Galaxy and Grand Universe.

The Earth's previously Third Dimensional inhabitants will have moved up from our previous inherent focus on pure 'self-interest', to one of developing an enlightened attitude of 'serving others' for the benefit of the whole. We shall be a loving and cooperative society which incorporates a deep respect for the integrity and rights of others. We will thus have developed a strong attitude of mutual respect for others out of our trials of resolving the positive-negative duality experience. This will in future be governed by a central Political Principle which mandates 'that we take all possible steps to avoid intruding into, or causing harm, to another Being'. This Political Principle can be encapsulated as: 'Do unto others only as you would have them do unto you'. Chapter 1: ANCIENT PROPHECIES Many Biblical predictions have for long told us clearly and graphically of the coming 'Final Day of Judgment', the 'Second Coming of The Christ' and of our final reward of an Ascension up to the Heavenly realms.

The old Biblical 'Final Day of Judgment' was traditionally divided into several different sequences, starting with the 'Rapture', in which those who are 'just and faithful to the ways of the Lord' are lifted up to the Heavens to avoid the 'Tribulation' which follows. Then will the 'Wrath of the Lord' descend upon those who have failed their Final Judgment followed by a great cleansing of Earth. A small 'Remnant' who repent and learn to change their ways would possibly survive the Tribulation and emerge from their hiding places underground and in caves to commence a glorious new Millennium, a prophesied 1,000-year Golden Age of Peace, to be started off with the Second Coming of The Christ to Earth as the 'Prince of Peace, King of Kings and Lord of Lords'. Isaiah describes the Tribulation graphically in the Old Testament: 'Behold the day of the Lord cometh cruel both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the Land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of Heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the Sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the Moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the World for their evil and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the Terrible.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man the Golden Wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the Heavens, and the Earth shall remove out of her place'. [Isaiah 13: 9-13] The New Testament gives four major prophecies of the Final Day of Judgment and the Second Coming of The Christ: from the Apostles Mark, Luke and Matthew, and the Book of Revelations by St. John of the Island of Patmos. In the Gospel according to St Luke, Jesus speaks of the 'Signs before the End' and the 'Second Coming': 'The days will come, in which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from Heaven. And there shall be signs in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the stars; and upon the Earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth: for the powers of Heaven shall be shaken.

And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh'.

[Luke 21: 6, 10, 25-28] Likewise from St Matthew: 'For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the Angels of Heaven, but my Father only'. [Matthew 24: 21-22; 29, 36] In the Book of Revelations, St John the Divine was given a vision in which a High Angel broke seven seals, each containing a revelation, a future vision: 'And I beheld when he had opened the Sixth Seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of Heaven fell unto the Earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

And the Heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And when he had opened the Seventh Seal, there was silence in Heaven.

And I saw the Seven Angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. 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. And the second Angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. And the third Angel sounded, and there fell a great star from Heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is called Wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the seventh Angel sounded; and there were great voices in Heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever'.

[Revelation 6:12-14; 8:1-2 & 7-11; 11:15] The Buddhist tradition also foretells the end of the present civilization 2,500 years after the birth of the Buddha, at which time mankind will be redeemed by Maitreya, the future Buddha. The exact birth year of the original Buddha is not known, but the earliest of several dates is 566 BC, thus confirming the timing of the predicted changes to occur after the end of the 20th Century. In the early 1830s the Church of the Latter Day Saints was founded on the prophecies given to Joseph Smith by an Angelic Being, named Moroni, and on Smith's subsequent discovery, under Moroni's direction, of buried golden tablets of great antiquity inscribed with much ancient wisdom which was to become 'The Book of Mormon'. The Mormon teachings repeat the Biblical warnings of great judgments which were coming upon the Earth, with great desolations by famine, sword, and pestilence. 'And when that day shall come they shall be visited of the Lord of Hosts, with thunder and with earthquake, and with a great noise, and with storm, and with tempest, and with the flame of devouring fire'.

One of the best known of more recent psychics and clairvoyants, Edgar Cayce, gave between 1901 and 1945 thousands of trance 'readings'. Cayce became well known for his trance diagnoses of illnesses and 'miracle' cures, later to be documented and confirmed by medical science. He also gave many predictions of future events which were to be proved unusually accurate. For the end of the Twentieth Century he predicted earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and catastrophic changes to the Earth's surface: 'The Earth will be broken up in many places. The early portion will see a change in the physical aspect of the West Coast of America. There will be open waters appearing in the northern portions of Greenland. There will be new lands seen off the Caribbean Sea, and dry land will appear.

South America shall be shaken from the uppermost portion to the end, and in the Antarctic off Tierra del Fuego Land, and a strait with rushing waters.' [3976-15, Jan 19, 1934] 'The Earth will be broken up in the western portion of America.

The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the East coast of America.'

[3976-15, Jan 19, 1934] 'There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make for the eruptions of volcanoes in the Torrid areas, and there will then be the shifting of the poles - so that where there have been frigid or semi-tropical areas, these will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow.' (3976-15, Jan 19, 1934) 'In the next few years, lands will appear in the Atlantic as well as in the Pacific. And what is the coastline now of many a land will be the bed of the ocean. Portions of the now East coast of New York, or New York City itself, will in the main disappear. While the southern portions of Carolina, Georgia, these will disappear'. [1152-11, Aug 13, 1941] Cayce also refers to ancient records of Atlantis hidden underground in a secret chamber near the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, covering the entire history of mankind from pre-Egypt to the end of the 20th Century - which is, said Cayce, '.that period when there is to be the change in the Earth's position, and the return of the Great Initiate to that and other lands for the folding up of those prophecies that are depicted there'. [5748-5] [ From the 'Life Readings' by EDGAR CAYCE.

Copyright 1971, 1993, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451, U.S.A. And used by permission.] As we consider the possibility and the implications of these predicted Earth Changes, we can be quite certain that physical changes of enormous magnitude have already occurred many times during Planet Earth's long history. Chapter 2: A HISTORY OF UPHEAVAL We tend quite naturally to regard 'our Earth' as a stable and unchanging home, a 'sure stronghold' which could never be substantially disrupted. Our confidence may from time to time be shaken by major earthquakes and typhoons, but these soon pass over, and we prefer to regard them as minor temporary upsets in an otherwise comfortable and predictable environment.

There is however much geological evidence of sudden and major structural changes having taken place on Planet Earth in the past; and it is not unreasonable to consider the possibility that what has happened in the past may well be repeated. Historical accounts written many centuries ago bear witness to previous planetary disruptions. Immanuel Velikovsky has made a major contribution to research in this area; his 'Worlds in Collision', written in 1950, assembles numerous Biblical and ancient historical references to such events, drawing substantially on contemporary accounts from the Middle East and lower Mexico. He quotes, for example, a long inscription in hieroglyphics on a shrine of black granite found at El-Arish on the border of Egypt and Palestine. It reads: 'The land was in great affliction. Evil fell on this earth.

There was a great upheaval in the residence. Nobody could leave the palace during nine days, and during these nine days of upheaval there was such a tempest that neither men nor gods could see the faces of those beside them'. This inscription corresponds with the Bible, Exodus 10,22: 'And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days'. East of Egypt, in Babylonia, the eleventh tablet of the ' Epic of Gilgamesh' refers to the same events: 'From out of the horizon rose a dark cloud and it rushed against the Earth; the land was shriveled by the heat of flames. Desolation stretched to heaven; all that was bright was turned into darkness.

Nor could a brother distinguish his brother. (For) six days the hurricane, deluge, and tempest continued sweeping the land, and all humans back to their clay were returned'. The Ancient Egyptian historian Ipuwer witnessed and survived this earthquake, recounting that: 'The towns are destroyed, Upper Egypt has become a waste. The residence is overturned in a minute'. [Papyrus Ipuwer 2:11, 3:13] From his research into ancient documents, Velikovsky concludes that the Earth was forced out of its regular motion by the close approach of the body of a Comet: a major shock convulsed the lithosphere, and the area of the earthquake was the entire globe. Terrific hurricanes swept the Earth because of the change or reversal of the angular velocity of rotation and because of the sweeping gases, dust, and cinders of the Comet.

He supports this contention of worldwide disruptions with similar quotations from historical records of Mexican tradition. The Mexican sacred book 'Popol-Vuh', the 'Manuscript Cakchiquel', and the 'Manuscript Troano' all record how the mountains in every part of the Western Hemisphere simultaneously gushed lava. The volcanoes that opened along the entire chain of the Cordilleras and in other mountain ranges and on flat land vomited fire, vapour, and torrents of lava.

Velikovsky quotes 'Manuscript Troano' and other documents of the Mayas which describe a cosmic catastrophe during which the ocean fell upon the continent and a terrible hurricane swept the Earth. These records provide graphic accounts of hurricanes which broke up and carried away all towns and forests. Exploding volcanoes, tides sweeping over mountains, and raging winds threatened to annihilate Humankind, and actually did annihilate many species of animals. The face of the Earth changed, mountains collapsed, other mountains grew and rose over the onrushing cataract of water driven from oceanic spaces, numberless rivers lost their beds, and a wild tornado moved through the debris descending from the sky. The ancients referred to the physical agent that brought darkness and swept away houses and trees and even rocks and mounds of earth as 'Hurakan', from which our present word 'hurricane' is derived. Hurakan, it is recorded, destroyed the major part of the Human Race.

In the darkness swept by wind, resinous stuff fell from the sky and participated with fire on water in the destruction of the world. For five days, save for the burning naphtha and burning volcanoes, the World was dark, since the sun did not appear. In a later book, 'Earth in Upheaval', Velikovsky supports Biblical and other historical references with currently visible geological evidence of past upheavals. He describes, for example, an area in Alaska to the north of Mount McKinley which has a frozen layer of 'muck' composed of a jumble of trees and extinct animals, such as the mammoth, mastodon and super-bison. This was analyzed by Professor F.C. Hibben of the University of New Mexico, who concluded: 'There is ample evidence that at least portions of this material were deposited under catastrophic conditions. Mammal remains are for the most part dismembered and dis-articulated, even though some fragments yet retain, in their frozen state, portions of ligaments, skin, hair, and flesh.

Twisted and torn trees are piled in splintered masses. At least four considerable layers of volcanic ash may be traced in these deposits, although they are extremely warped and distorted.

'The presence of volcanic ash indicates that a volcanic eruption did take place, and repeatedly, in four consecutive stages of the same epoch; but it is also apparent that the trees could have been uprooted and splintered only by hurricane or flood or a combination of both agencies. The animals could have been dismembered only by a stupendous wave that lifted and carried and smashed and tore and buried millions of bodies and millions of trees.

Also, the area of the catastrophe was much greater than the action of a few volcanoes could have covered.' During the late 1830s Hugh Miller made a special study of the Old Red Sandstone in Scotland in which an abundant aquatic fauna is embedded. The animals embedded within it are seen in very 'disturbed' positions. Miller writes: 'Some terrible catastrophe involved in sudden destruction the fish of an area at least a hundred miles from boundary to boundary, perhaps more. The same platform in Orkney, as at Cromarty, is strewn thick with remains, which exhibit unequivocally the marks of violent death.

The figures are contorted, contracted, curved; the tail in many instances is bent around to the head; the spines stick out; the fins are spread to the full, as in fish that die in convulsions.' In 1901 a quick-frozen mammoth was found in Beresovka, Siberia, so well preserved that its eyeballs were fully intact. It still had buttercups in its mouth and the content of its stomach indicated that it had been eating temperate-zone plants, no longer growing in that area.

Lull, Director of the Peabody Museum at Yale, reports the discovery in his book 'Organic Evolution', confirming that: '.a fractured hip and fore limb, a great mass of clotted blood in the chest, and unswallowed grass between the clenched teeth, all point to the violence and suddenness of its passing.' Rock geology shows that there have been major uplifts of land-masses around the globe. The great massif of the Himalayas is estimated to have risen to its present height since the last Ice Age of over 11,000 years ago.

Likewise the Andes in South America also show evidence of having been thrust upwards eleven thousand years ago. Many other researchers have identified evidence of major geological changes during our Planet's long history; indeed, there are many areas in which even a casual observer can see such evidence for him or herself, as for example when erosion shows cross-sections of hillsides miles from the present coastline displaying deposits of seashells. An interesting example, quoted in 'Doomsday 1999 A.D.'

, by Charles Berlitz, can be found in Bolivia. The stone city of Tiahuanaco is so old that its broken pottery shows pictures of Pleistocene animals. Although Tiahuanaco is now at an altitude of 13,500 feet, too high for a population to live, its docks and quays indicate that it was once a seaport and that it rose with the Andes when they were created 11,000 years ago. Immanuel Velikovsky summarizes these sudden geological changes: 'Wherever we investigate the geological records of this Earth, we find signs of catastrophes and upheavals, old and recent.

'Mountains sprang from plains, and other mountains were levelled; strata of the terrestrial crust were folded and pressed together and overturned and moved and put on top of other formations. Igneous rock melted and flooded enormous areas of land with miles-thick sheets, and the ocean bed flowed with molten rock. Ashes were showered down and built layers many yards thick on the ground and on the bottom of the oceans in their vast expanse. The shores of ancient lakes were tilted and are no longer horizontal and the seacoasts show subsidence or emergence, in some places, of over one thousand feet. 'Rocks of the Earth are filled with remains of life extinguished in a state of agony. Sedimentary rocks are one vast graveyard, and the granite and basalt, too, have embedded in them numberless living organisms. Shells have closed valves as they do in a living state, so unexpectedly came the entombment.

Vast forests were burned and washed away and covered with the waters of the seas and with sand and turned to coal. Animals were swept to the far north and thrown into heaps and were soaked by bituminous outpourings. Broken bones and torn ligaments and the skins of animals, both of living species and of extinct species, were smashed together with splintered forests into huge piles. 'The evidence is overwhelming that the great global catastrophes were either accompanied or caused by the shifting of the terrestrial axis, or by a disturbance in the diurnal and annual motions of the Earth. The shifting of the axis could not have been brought about by internal causes, but only under the impact of external forces. The state of lavas with reversed magnetization, hundreds of times more intense than the inverted terrestrial magnetic field could impart, reveals the nature of the forces that were in action'. [ 'Earth in Upheaval', by Immanuel Velikovsky – 1955 – Buccaneer Books Inc., Cutchogue, NY, USA.] Set against the wider time-frame of the many dramatic surface changes which have already occurred, current predictions of major physical 'Earth Changes' may now perhaps seem less extreme.

There is plenty of evidence that the Planet's very geography has in fact been dramatically changed many times before, and likewise, there is no scientific evidence to support the contention that such changes will not happen yet again. Human Earth civilizations have also come and gone.

Most people today look at the story of Humanity and assume that it has lasted for only six thousand years or so, but there have in fact been many much older civilizations, such as Lemuria (or Mu) in the Pacific Ocean and the legendary Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean. Chapter 3: PROPHETS OF OUR TIME In March 1994, NBC television network broadcast a program entitled 'Ancient Prophecies', covering both ancient and contemporary predictions of Earth Changes. It was seen by millions of American and Canadian viewers and prompted over 24,000 enquiries.

A major feature was the prediction by Gordon-Michael Scallion of violent and significant geological changes coming to Earth by the end of the Millennium. Although these events have not yet manifested, they still remain a potential possibility for the near future, and therefore their details are worth taking into consideration. Scallion had worked in the field of communications and education until 1979, when he experienced a health crisis which left him with the 'gift of prophecy'. Some of his more notable prophecies were the 1992 Californian earthquakes on April 22 and June 28, Hurricane Andrew in Florida, and the Mississippi floods of 1993. Viewers of the March 1994 program were shown a Future Map of the United States: 1998-2001 which Mr Scallion had visualized through his inner sight. Published by his company Matrix Institute, the map showed major geological changes in the United States occurring in two distinct phases: A first super-mega California earthquake in the 10-15 magnitude range causes a fracture along a line from Eureka to Bakersfield and southwest to the Gulf of California-Baja. Gaps and fissures occur running the length of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys.

Flooding inundates much of the coastal area of California, causing some of the existing land mass to become islands. In a second major Californian earthquake the Central North American Plate is thrust violently upward on a tilt, causing much of California to go under the sea. Higher elevations remain as islands and become known as the Isles of California. A large part of the land mass west of a line running from Newport Oregon to Tucson Arizona breaks away and sinks within minutes.

This line forms the new West Coast of the United States, and with Phoenix, Arizona, becoming a major seaport. Along the Eastern seaboard, coastlines from Maine to Florida are also pushed inland for many miles. Atlanta Georgia becomes a new seaport. Florida is reduced in size by more than half and all the Florida Keys disappear beneath the sea. In the center of the American continent, a wide belt of water floods the Mississippi basin, connecting up with the Great Lakes, which themselves rise and expand, cutting off the Eastern part of the United States from the West and effectively creating two separate landmasses. Scallion envisaged the Earth's magnetic pole shifting twice to the west: seven degrees at first, and then a further six degrees as a result of magna displacement through a shifting of the Earth's core.

As a contributory element he saw a large heavenly body entering our solar system, the 'Blue Star', causing a realignment of Earth's position within the system. We should always bear in mind that although these events have not yet manifested themselves, they are all potentialities that can be seen from higher spiritual planes. Although they have in fact been delayed and greatly modified by the relatively good progress made by Humanity since that time, elements of them will nonetheless still manifest, although probably to a lesser degree, and at the appropriately set Divine time for our final Ascension.

Another 'Future Map' of America was channeled through Lori Adaile Toye, between 1988 and 1991, transmitted jointly by the Ascended Masters Saint Germain, Kuthumi, El Morya, Mother Mary, Sanat Kumara, Sananda, and other Masters of Earth's Spiritual Hierarchy. It was published as the ' New World Atlas' by Seventh Ray Publishing of Payson Arizona. This material demonstrated remarkable similarities with the map produced by Mr Scallion.

Much of the American West Coast was to be inundated, from Washington State down to southern Oregon, with the ocean covering most of California, Nevada and Utah. This created a new coastline extending from the Rocky Mountains, near Denver, down to Phoenix, Arizona.

Similarly the Mississippi River on this map expands into a wide inlet, running up to an enlarged Great Lakes area, with the East Coast partially flooded, and the bottom tip of Florida sinking under the ocean. Again much of the same outline was prophesied from yet another source: Hypnotic past-life regression is an established technique in which the patient under hypnosis is able to recall specific episodes from his or her past life or lives. The pioneering past-life and prenatal work of Dr Helen Wambach PhD is reviewed in her two published books Recalling Past Lives (Harper & Row 1978) and Life Before Life (Bantam Books 1979). Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Usb Driver For Windows 7. Having demonstrated this technique to her satisfaction during a series of group workshops, Dr Wambach wondered how it would work when applied to the future.

She therefore began giving similar workshops offering participants a chance to look ahead at their possible future lives through hypnotic progression, projection not into the past, but into the future. Dr Wambach was at that time being assisted in her research and experiments by Dr Chet Snow PhD, who also then himself became her subject for a series of future life projections in 1983. Dr Snow was at that time an historian/archivist working as a civilian employee of the United States Air Force, subsequently obtaining a Hypno-therapy certification and now practising regression therapy. The fascinating record of these future projections under hypnosis is related in Dr Snow's book 'Mass Dreams of the Future'. Under hypnosis, Dr Snow described, aloud, visions of his future life at the end of the 20th Century.

Here he sees himself living on a remote ranch north of Phoenix Arizona, in a small community which had been set up both as a school for the development of psychic communication skills (mental telepathy) and as a survival base for the foreseen coming 'Earth Changes'. He recounts that their small community was then busy laying-in stocks of food and other supplies, which were now becoming both expensive and scarce through changing weather patterns. In the world news, the weather was becoming increasingly unpredictable, with freak storms, record heat and cold periods, drought and exceptional rainfall around the globe. The world stock markets and financial systems were also collapsing. In a time period of a year later, Dr Snow was made aware that a major earthquake had just hit the Pacific Rim area.

The coastline areas of southern California had sunk, submerging the once densely built-up coastal areas under the sea. Mount Fuji had erupted, causing much of Japan to sink and triggering a chain of earthquakes and eruptions all around the Pacific 'Ring of Fire', including the West Coast of America right up into Alaska.

By the end of two weeks, television and radio were now telling everyone that 'the worst is over'. As Dr Snow, still under hypnosis, recounted: 'The water is receding slowly and we'll just have to adjust to the new situation.

The Federal Government is already setting up temporary relocation centers farther inland and everyone is talking of rebuilding. A lot of cropland has been permanently lost however, not to mention so much of the Southern California coastline.' Moving forward a couple of months, he reports that there followed in Southern California a far more devastating earthquake than the previous one: 'It accelerated the sinking of major areas along the West Coast so that the coastline moved up to within a couple of hundred miles of Phoenix Arizona, and only the mountain areas remained above water all the way up to Oregon. In the south, the Gulf of Mexico surged inward over Texas; our part of Arizona was more or less cut off to both the east and west by water.' Moving yet further ahead in time, Dr Snow continues: 'At first everything appeared totally black around me. Then I realized that the sky was completely dark now.

The weather had also worsened as tons of dust and volcanic ash were thrown into the atmosphere by this second series of eruptions. Although the worst occurred during the first few weeks of havoc, the Sun simply did not return. Most green vegetation in a wide belt of the temperate zone withered and died.' [ 'Mass Dreams of the Future', by Chet B.

Snow and Helen Wambach - Deep Forest Press, Crest Park, CA – 1993] One must bear in mind when considering such predictions, that all timings and sequences of future events can never be entirely accurate, as projection forward in time can only be made up of potential future. In all evolutionary progress, a sequence of real-life 'cause-and-effect' events must always first of all take place, constantly being subjected to the changing modifications of individual 'free will'. Although a fairly accurate view projected forward is possible from higher planes, Humanity's inherent gift of 'free will' causes unexpected modifications in any future sequence of events. Also, any future direction these take is always subject to the total progress of Humanity's 'Collective Consciousness' during that period.

This explains why we our now being informed by 'Higher Sources' that much of the severity of the previously predicted 'Earth Changes' has since been greatly modified, thanks to the fairly rapid spiritual and evolutionary progress of Humanity in recent years. And now, approaching predictions of future Earth Changes from a totally different source, there have been since World War II an enormous quantity of channeled communications from Higher Spiritual Realms on the coming Earth Changes. A few selected examples follow: The Master Hilarion, an Ascended Member of Earth's Spiritual Hierarchy: 'The cities will become piles of rubble. The beautiful woodland scenes will be flattened by the might of terrible storms. Great earthquakes will rip the mantle of the planet apart in a patchwork of destruction never before seen on the Planet in the entire history of the race. 'Continents sunk thousands of years ago will rear up out of the ocean to show man that his civilization is not the first, and that this is not the first time that his efforts have been crushed by catastrophe. 'The atmospheric storms, which will roar across the surface, will tear down forests of trees at a single swipe, and raise water out of the natural reservoirs of lake and ocean to spread destruction and inundation far inland from the shore.

Nothing will remain of the once-vaunted civilization that men have built for themselves. 'During the last portion of the Tribulation, the light of the Sun and the Moon will be shrouded out completely for long periods, and the very air that is breathed will turn to a foul miasma in the lungs.' [ HILARION, channeled by Maurice B. Cooke in 'The Nature of Reality'. Published 1979. Marcus Books, Bradford, Ontario, Canada] The Master Jesus-Sananda: 'And there shall be a mighty earthquake and it shall split in twain the country of North America, and it shall be as nothing the world has known before, for it shall be that there shall be a great part of the great land of the North Continent go down, and a great sea shall form within her center part from Canada into the Gulf of Mexico.

'And the waters of the Mediterranean shall wash over the land to the North, unto the polar zone, and it shall return unto its place, and the Black Sea and the Mediterranean shall become one sea. And there shall be great changes within the borders of Asia. 'Africa shall be changed - her shoreline shall be broken to the West, and great rivers shall flow within the desert. 'Ye have been told time and time again that the Earth shall shift upon her axis, and so shall she.

There shall be a change of climate. That which is now the barren North shall become semi-tropical. Trees shall bear semi-tropical fruit and the fauna shall be that of a new species. And that which is the impassable barrier of the South Pole shall be penetrated and Man shall discover a new continent within.' [ JESUS-SANANDA, channeled by Sister Thedra in 'The Prophecies From Other Planets Concerning Our Earth' - The Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara, Sedona, Arizona ] Brother Philip, of the Abbey of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays in the Peruvian Andes near Lake Titicaca, gives us transcripts channeled from the 'Great White Brotherhood' in his book 'Secret of the Andes'.

He quotes Sanat Kumara, a highly evolved Master from Venus who assumed the role of 'Planetary Logos of Earth' over 18 million years ago: 'And now we enter this great period of Initiation. The skies of Earth will become fantastic.

I say verily that pen has not recorded nor voice uttered that which shall become a great sign and display in the skies of the Earth, for the elements themselves will have control for a short period of time. There will be great rainstorms and floods. You have heard how it rained forty days and nights. That is nothing compared to what it will rain. Perhaps it would be forty months. The entire face of the Earth shall change.

It will become unrecognizable. 'Very soon the winds shall howl, sooner than we can realize. It is already upon us, for I have witnessed it on the plane which is just above that of physical expression upon the Earth, and that means that if it descends one more plane it shall find reality.' [ The Master SANAT KUMARA, channeled by Brother Philip in 'Secret of the Andes' - Leaves of Grass Press, Novato, California.] Another source of channeled information originates from the Star systems of the Pleiades. The Pleiadians are a planetary Race which has been closely connected with Earth and the Human Race since our early arrival on this Planet; they themselves come from the same Human evolutionary roots in distant pre-Earth times on other planets. They have developed a prosperous and peaceful society within their own Star system, and have always maintained a close watch over Earth's development down through the ages. In the book 'The Pleiadian Workbook', channeled by Amorah Quan Yin, the 'Pleiadian Emissaries of Light', speaking through their spokesperson, Ra, give an important insight into the wider context of the coming Earth Changes: 'You and your Planet are undergoing a unique and wondrous transition in your spiritual evolution at this time.

You are preparing for a quantum leap unlike any that has ever occurred before. In order to help you understand this more fully, I must first tell you about the orbit of the entire Galaxy around the Great Central Sun of All That Is. Just like your 'Solar Ring' (our term for a 'Solar System') orbits around the Galactic Center, the Galaxy itself moves through space in the form of continual, connecting circles, like a great Cosmic Spiral. 'At the completion point of a multi billion-year single circular orbit around the Great Central Sun, our Galaxy connects diagonally to the next 'ring' on the great Cosmic Spiral. When this diagonal move from one ring of the great Cosmic Spiral to the next takes place, all of the planets, solar systems, and their inhabitants simultaneously take an 'initiatic' step into a new evolutionary cycle. This is occurring now.

You are not only at the end of a 26,000-year Earth/Sun/Pleiadian cycle; the entire Pleiadian system, which includes this solar ring, is at the end of a 230,000,000-year orbit around the Galactic Center, and the entire Galaxy is at the completion of its infinitely longer orbit around the Great Central Sun. 'Prior to the end of 2012, Earth will undergo a spiritual and physical house-cleaning, corresponding to what have commonly been called the 'Earth Changes'. These changes, which have already begun, intensify both externally and internally as your Solar Ring moves deeper into the Photon Band, a high-frequency Cosmic emanation from the Galactic Center. You have been in and out of the edges of this Photon Band for a few years now, and, after the year 2000, will start to be completely immersed in this band for the next 2000 years. 'Floods, earthquakes, changes in land masses, volcanic eruptions, and finally a complete pole shift, will all take place within the remaining years prior to the year 2013, at which time the Galactic Solar Initiation of Earth, as a Mystery School and home for the Cities of Light, will finally take place.

You who now live on Earth must choose whether or not you are ready to become spiritually responsible Human Beings in order to remain on Earth beyond that time. Those who do not wish to remain on Earth will be taken to another planet in a different part of the Galaxy where karmic lessons and third-dimensional evolution will continue.' [ Ra, spokesperson for the collective Pleiadians Emissaries of Light, channeled by Amorah Quan Yin, in 'The Pleiadian Workbook', published 1996 by Bear & Company, Santa Fe, NM, USA.] A more detailed background on the nature of the Photon Belt/Band is given to us from another Pleiadian Source, in this case by Satya, Astrologer, Keeper of the Records for the Pleiades and the Central Pleiadian Library of Alcyone. Alcyone not only is the Central Star of the Pleiadian Constellation, but also functions as the Great Central Star within this quadrant of the Milky-Way Galaxy for our own Solar System. 'Your Sun is spinning as the eighth Star of the Pleiadian spiral, and the Pleiades are themselves spiraling within the Galaxy as the whole Galaxy spins on its axis.

Your Solar System travels through the Photon Belt and when Earth precesses the Ages of Leo and Aquarius, and then you orbit through the 'Galactic Night' during all the other zodiacal polarities of the Great Ages - Cancer/Capricorn, Gemini/Sagittarius, Taurus/Scorpio, Aries/Libra, and Pices/Virgo. At this time, you are moving into the Photon Band as you are leaving the Age of Pices and moving into the Age of Aquarius. 'Photon Bands are 7th-Dimensional 'Donuts of Light' that emanate from the vertical axis of the Galactic Center.

They spin around and around through the Galactic Center into the darkness of the Galactic Night. Galactic Centers [a central Galaxy vortex that appears as a 'Black Hole'] are of 9th-Dimensional pure darkness, and yet, as they spin on their axes, the astounding power of their vortexes shoots out 9th-Dimensional Galactic Synchronization Beams. These Synchronization Beams spin out of the Black-Hole Galactic Centers, torqued by the galactic axial spin. These beams, belts, axes, and horizontal planes with Black Hole vortexes in their centers are 8th-Dimension organizational systems of intelligence. In the Milky Way Galaxy, this 8th Dimensional brilliance is part of the Light that belongs to the Galactic Federation, holding the Galaxy in form by means of the 'information-highway' Photon Bands.

All Stars existing permanently within the several Photon Bands generate spirals that capture other Stars, and these special 'Photon Stars', such as Alcyone, then function as Galactic Federation Libraries. 'Your Sun is linked to the Pleiades by means of a spiral of Stellar Light radiating out from Alcyone. Star Light is 5th-Dimensional Light that moves out through the Stars of the Pleiades - out from Alcyone, through the Pleiadian Stars of Merope, Maya, Electra, Taygeta, Coele, and finally via Atlas to your Sun. Thus in your legends, Atlas holds Earth on His shoulders in space. Each Pleiadian Star, except Alcyone, which is located in the Photon Band eternally, travels through the 7th-Dimensional Photon Band for 2000 years of Earth time.

Each Star in the system then travels through the Galactic Night for varying lengths of Earth time. 'The Stars close to Alcyone, such as Merope and Maya, are in the Photon Belt for more time than they are in the Galactic Night. Your Solar System spends the most time out in the Galactic Night - 11,000 years in the Dark and 2000 years in the Light. What does this mean? Various members of the Solar System become very dense while in the Galactic Night, and this generates experience called 'Karma' - feelings in our 4th-Dimensional bodies on the spiritual level that seek expression and then translate as actions down on the Third Dimension physical world. Bodies traveling in the 7th-D Photon Bands become less dense, more multidimensional.

As a result, their acquisition of the Photon Light cleanses their emotional bodies and intensifies vibrations in physical bodies. 'The 7th-Dimension 'donuts' of Photonic Light coming from the Galactic Center are information highways that stimulate the nature of 'curiosity'. The desire for union, for twinning, for new expressions of both sides of a Duality, derive from this passion of seeking. This seeking is what causes the rods of 7th-D Photonic Light to curl back on themselves to the Galactic Center, forming them into 'donuts'. The Galaxy would disintegrate into empty space without the nucleus of gravity in the Central vortex, from which pulses of Photonic Light then shoot out. 'See your own Solar System as a disk with the Sun in the center and all the planets whirling around it.

That disk is divided into twelve zones, the Twelve Great Ages of the Zodiac. As the planets move through these zodiacal zones, you can locate where a planet is in relationship to the Sun in these zones with astronomical ephemerides. For now, it is enough for you to know that Earth first entered the Photon Belt during the Spring Equinox of 1987 and has been steadily moving into it further - one week more each side of that entry point each year. The border of Photonic Light is currently inching across the disk of your Solar System. Earth was first in the Photon Belt from March 16 to 23 in 1987, then for three weeks in 1988. The Photonic slice in the Solar Disk increases by two weeks each year, and precisely half of your Solar System will be immersed when the Photon Belt reaches your Sun by the Winter Solstice 1998.

Eventually Earth's entire orbital path will be engulfed in this tidal wave of Light after the Winter Solstice of 2012. Eventually, the whole Solar System will be totally in the Photon Band. During the next 2000 years, it will be travelling all the way through it.'

[ Satya, channeled through Barbara Hand Clow, in 'The Pleiadian Agenda', published 1996 by Bear & Company, Santa Fe, NM, USA.] Our forthcoming LIGHT BODY through Mary Mageau Humanity is experiencing a great awakening as we currently enter this time of transformation. Many of us are searching for deeper meaning in our lives as we change jobs, end old relationships, begin new ones, relocate to new places and dream bold, creative new dreams. All around us we witness to the fact that ordinary people are now asking questions, demanding answers and requesting greater accountability from our governments, churches and large institutions that hold power over us. And what is the driving force behind these world wide events? This scenario for change that is occurring everywhere is being driven by the waves of Light that are continually bombarding our Solar System and the Earth plane.

And in the near future all who choose to fully participate in the new raising of consciousness will be transmuted into higher dimensional bodies of Light. Within a 2,000 year period our Solar System passes through a band of extreme high energy. This band has been referred to as the Menasic Radiation or the Photon Belt. It is a period of intense 'Light' that we have now entered and which will bring all life forms within it into a new and higher vibration.

This Photon Light-energy has the capacity to lift all of life into a higher frequency dimension. It carries the seeds for the potential enlightenment of all Beings as the atomic structures within the very cells of our bodies, are tuning themselves to match the rising frequencies. We are shifting from a Third-dimensional carbon based body (that is, from one that matches the 3D vibratory rate and direction of atomic spin characterized by the electrons that make up carbon) to a Fifth or higher dimensional crystalline body (that is to one that matches the 5D atomic spin and frequency of crystal). So too the bodies of animals, plant life and all upon and within Earth are making this transition with us, as is our entire Galaxy. Our Light Bodies are also being activated as these new energies recalibrate our dormant DNA strands that contain the blueprint of ourselves as Divine and fully Conscious Beings. Currently most of Humanity has only two functioning strands of DNA, intertwined into a double helix. This portion of our DNA structure contains information pertaining to our biology - such as our individual features and the genetic information passed on through our family lines, e.g.: a paternal grandfather's tendency toward arthritis, or a mother's genes for musical talent.

These two strands also hold the genetic codes for our physical evolution. But there is another part of our DNA structure that has to do with the spiritual component of the Human Being, one that science has not presently considered. If one is persuaded that the Human Being consists of a Soul embedded within a biological body, then it should logically follow that the genetic links within each individual would also contain spiritual information. And if this is so what has become of it? Many of these spiritual elements were deliberately turned off in our ancient history because there was a struggle to control this aspect of a Human Being.

Very Dark-energy Extraterrestrial forces, who were also genetic engineers, desired to keep the development of Humankind firmly under their control. They achieved this through the use of genetic manipulation to produce fear and domination. This event occurred in Atlantis, over 13,000 years ago, when the Human DNA molecule was breached. When these Dark Forces unravelled and reprogrammed our DNA, they were able to shut down and isolate many of its strands and Human DNA was reduced to only a double helix.

The disconnection of our original DNA manipulation resulted in a 'Veil' being placed between our five physical senses and our spiritual awareness. However there was a promise given from the Higher Realms. At some time in our future we would be allowed to develop again according to the divine blueprint of the original plan. In the meantime Humanity had to undergo a long and painful period of spiritual development. Those guiding our spiritual heritage have sent representatives to assist us to elevate our thoughts and desires, so as to grow spiritually and regain our lost abilities. These advanced souls include the prophets, Jesus Christ, Muhammed, the Buddha, Archangel Michael and many others.

[Mary Mageau White (Sestriel)] Chapter 4: CLEANSING PLANET EARTH Just as many of us may prefer to view our Planet as timelessly stable and unchanging, closing our minds to past and possible future disruptions, many also have a parallel view of Planet Earth as an inanimate object which we may exploit and abuse at our pleasure. The 'Higher Wisdom' however gives us a view which is now gaining increasingly wide acceptance on Earth: that Mother Earth/Gaia is a living sentient Being, to whom we owe not just our respect, but the privilege of being permitted to reside and evolve upon Her surface. Goddess Mother Earth, or Gaia, as she is also known, is a very High Being belonging to an earlier wave of Creative Light Beings.

She is correctly referred to in the 'female' as she has retained a certain predominantly female characteristic. Having already completed her own first Great Cycle of Evolution and returned to the Godhead in a past Great Universal Age, she was then given further 'Higher Service', a chance to become a 'Planetary Being' through 'ensouling' the body of Planet Earth. She was later given the assistance of a 'Planetary Logos', usually a highly evolved soul who maintains contact between all the evolving sentient lifeforms within and on the surface of a Planet and its ensouling Being. Up to now this has been the role of Lord Sanat Kumara, who was originally trained for this service on Planet Venus and to where he has now returned. It is he who has provided the vital link between Mother Earth and the Mineral, Plant, Animal and Human Kingdoms. However, at this time of the great Changes of Age, he himself will be shortly moving up to even higher service in another area of the Universe.

The Master ZEN TAO: 'That Being whom you know as Mother Earth, the Goddess Gaia, is a very powerful Being, possessing profound wisdom and power. By the invocation of a single word she can transform the whole nature of her Being. Although she has released partial dominion on her surface to Humanity as Planetary Guardians of the mineral, plant and animal life so that Humanity may learn therefrom, ultimately Gaia controls the Planet and the nature of what manifests on its surface.

Nature is her nature. 'This planet is now approaching a time in its evolutionary cycle when it will change dramatically, rather like a snake throwing off its old skin. Every so many thousands of years, no matter whether Humanity is incarnated on Earth or not, this planet goes through a metamorphic change as part of its natural cycle.

As our physical bodies replace themselves every seven years, so does the planet's body. This is essential for the planet in order to preserve the creative, the reproductive nature of its being. So at its appointed time the planet goes through a cycle of transformation. This necessarily involves major movement of the planet's landmasses, movement of the waters, and the restructuring of the matter of the Earth.' [ The Master ZEN TAO, channeled by the Ramala Centre, Glastonbury.] We should recognise, however, that the need for a thorough cleansing of Planet Earth at this time is more than a matter of regular end-of-cycle procedure.

Planet Earth has up to now served as host to many Souls of younger evolution and also of many more aggressive and destructive Souls from other parts of the Universe for a period of over twenty six million years. Earth is well-known within our Milky Way Galaxy as being a 'school of hard lessons' for resolving all the aggressive and destructive tendencies that have arisen out of yet undeveloped emotional Heart-centers which yet lack the qualities of caring and love. Many throughout the Universe have chosen, whilst resting on the higher Spiritual Planes between physical incarnations, to come here in order to work out their naturally aggressive and destructive tendencies. This they eventually achieve through the outworkings of the Law of Karma when living within a relatively harsh and backward Physical World filled with conflict. There are also many millions of young 'Ascendant Souls', commencing out on their long evolutionary path of eventually becoming fully Conscious Human Beings, who have been placed on Planet Earth to learn their first elementary lessons after moving up from the Animal Kingdom.

Here they have to first learn the social arts of containing conflict between themselves, developing their environment and creating a functioning economic system. And here they have their first chance to learn to discriminate between 'good' and 'evil', and over time develop a more fundamental respect for the 'Sanctity of Life'. By living through much painful conflict generated amongst themselves, they will gradually begin to see the advantages of not always resorting to pursuing their own self-interest at the expense of others through harming them. They are forced to learn when life becomes particularly difficult to overcome their initial natural reaction to kill and maim each other in order to get what they want, especially when these actions are rapidly turned back upon themselves by those they have attacked. The poor economic and environmental difficulties they often find themselves in are usually the result of their own inability to properly organize themselves socially and economically. Thus they soon need to become aware of developing, or to be instructed in, the social arts of politics and economics for their future well-being. From the higher Spiritual Planes there can be seen over Planet Earth a surrounding great black cloud of negative thought that has been developing over a long period within the Ethers surrounding Earth.

This great cloud of black negativity is now at last being finally cleansed at this time of the ending of a long Universal Age through Humanity now beginning to resolve and cleanse all its past Karma. However, there still remains a major physical cleansing to be done of all the massive damage, pollution and detritus left on Earth's surface by a hitherto poorly organised Humanity: SANAT KUMARA: 'Before the New Age can begin on Earth, our Planet will be rewarded for its years of service at the lowest level, by undergoing a thorough cleansing of its surface, removing and neutralizing our cumulative environmental damage and the dark cloud of accumulated negative thought which now surrounds us. 'The physical manifestation of this great cleansing will be precipitated by a tilting of the Earth's axis resulting in the Planet being literally 'shaken up'.

This will cause an expansion of her molecules to a more tenuous, less dense aggregation, thus allowing a higher vibration rate. 'The cause of the destruction that shall come upon the Earth is from Man's own thinking. The Elements! They are intelligent life! They are part of the Infinite One, and because they are part of the Infinite One they will not respond to Man's negative thinking any longer. And they will rebel, causing great tidal waves and great winds.'

[ The Master SANAT KUMARA, channeled by Brother Philip in 'Secret of the Andes' - Leaves of Grass Press, NOVATO California] The Master ZEN TAO: 'The Mineral Kingdom is under the control of Humanity. Humanity influences the Mineral Kingdom by its own thought-forms, by its own patterns of behaviour. Humanity can, and must, co-operate with that Kingdom if it is to continue on its evolutionary path on the Planet Earth, but for so long has the Mineral Kingdom been abused and vandalized by Humanity in order to serve its own ends, no matter what the cost to the Mineral Kingdom, that this co-operation has broken down.

It is because of this that Humanity now approaches a time of planetary transformation, when the minerals of the Planet will move, will vibrate to a different note. If Humanity does not change to that note, does not recognize it, then it will perish. 'So be aware that this moment of rebirth is coming. The timing and the nature of the changes are known only to the Creator.

Whilst Humanity can, and will influence these changes, it can not and will not prevent their happening. The test for Humanity lies in its acceptance of the Earth Changes as a natural and necessary happening, as an event which it has chosen to experience.' [ The Master ZEN TAO, channeled by the Ramala Centre, Glastonbury.] Because Planet Earth has largely performed a role as a 'sacrificial host' to the less evolved and the more aggressive/destructive types of Humanity, she has suffered considerable physical abuse and pollution to her planetary body. Further evidence of Planet Earth's great sacrifice is offered in this beautiful testimony by the Angelic Being, ELOUAI: 'Greetings to you, my Beloveds. I am Elouai and I am a 'Builder' of manifested Matter.

I am not upon your Human line of evolution, but I am not one of what you call the Nature Forces. I stand with a company of others outside your Planet. I am not a space Being from another planet. My home is within the higher dimensional vibrations of space. I want to communicate to you what we feel about your Earth and your work. My companions and I are among those who dwelt in space and were brought here long ages ago as companions of the Solar Logos who created this particular Solar System. 'We are builders within his Solar Realm.

Every planet that is formed is in a dynamic state of life and of growth, drawing to itself the substances of nourishment and releasing that which it cannot assimilate. Thus, there are those forms and manifestations of energy in creation which are the unused, unintegrated, unresolved and untransmuted results of the creative process. 'As in all living systems, until perfection and complete wholeness are achieved, there are in the body of the Solar Logos, which is the Solar System and all its Planets on all their levels of being, those forces and energies which correspond to waste material. These must be transmuted and reintegrated into the cycle of life as raw material for future creativity. In the evolutionary movement forward through time, this residue which is left behind must be gathered up and purified, and then returned to the Creative cycle; it cannot be allowed to accumulate or to express itself within the evolving body as centres of unintegrated and separate energies existing out of timing and out of place, hence becoming sources of evil. 'Please understand that for various reasons, Earth was set aside for the special task of being the 'purifier' for your Solar System for a period of time. Hence, there were attracted to your world those elements which I have mentioned of unresolved, unintegrated matter, energy and life to be harnessed into the denser nature of material form.

Left in their exposed state, these energies had the power to impact harmfully upon the sensitive fabric of the Solar Being and upon the other Planets and their life-forms, being like a toxin within the systems of your own bodies. 'However, by being encapsulated into dense matter within the body of Earth, their vibrations could be slowed down and shielded from the body of the whole until these energies could be purified and reintegrated harmoniously and in love into the whole. As this was done, the Purifiers and Redeemers came to Earth as well as those who will yet be Purifiers and Redeemers in destinies yet unperceived and perhaps undreamed of by you. Earth became a schoolhouse in the experiences of confronting and resolving the challenges of primitive creativity and evolution. 'Your Planet became an arena for the interplay of the forces of evolution on many levels and the forces of non-integrated life and energy from many sources, some quite primitive and others more evolved, but all within a sidetrack of evolution that placed these energies outside the communion of the whole. Thus, Earth became analogous to a kidney in the body of the Solar System, regulating and transmuting the energies throughout the system, removing impurities and returning to the body of the whole only what is harmonious and integrated with the progressive evolution of the whole.

Beings who had become tainted with energies of retrogressive evolution or devolution would come to Earth to be cleansed and reunited with the whole. 'In this fashion, your Planet has performed a tremendous service to all lifestreams and all planetary systems within the solar family, enabling them to continue their patterns of development with greater ease.

'No Planet or Being is asked to perform such a transmutative and sacrificial task endlessly, nor is it allowed to do so. The time must come when it takes up its own pattern of growth, new service and development.

Now Earth seeks and is given Her redemption in a vast initiatory process occurring throughout the total body and life of the Solar Father. We who have associated with Earth since Her inception, now look upon this time as one of beauty without measure, joy without comparison. 'Those forms which still remain within unregenerated aspects of primitive and separative expression will be lovingly removed, with respect for their essential Divine nature, to other areas which have newly taken on the transmutative function. Now a vast work of purification is upon us to cleanse and beautify Earth as one would beautify and enrobe a bride before her marriage; in this fashion we greet Earth in Her time of great joy and accomplishment. This event seeks its expression through your hearts and minds and your dedication.

'Earth will always remain a place of special strength and contribution. Now she must progress with Her own evolution more rapidly than she could do if she remained within the service of transmutation. Because of this, you now see a great flood of population incarnating in order to take this opportunity for purification that they may maintain their link with solar evolution; otherwise they must sleep the long sleep to be reawakened in a future time in a future land.' [ ELOUAI, an Angelic Being channeled in 'Links With Space', published 1970 by Findhorn Press, Findhorn, Forres, Scotland] Those who continue to fear the possibility of the coming 'Earth Changes', should perhaps consider whether in fact our present civilization, with its sprawling Human development and pollution across the surface, as well as with so much poverty and starvation and constant wars is in fact really so worthy of continuance.

On higher levels, the Ascension of Humanity and the rejuvenation of Planet Earth, regarded as one of the most naturally beautiful planets within our Galaxy, is in fact seen as a coming event of great joy. SANAT KUMARA: 'The Earth is a beautiful world, vastly more beautiful than some of its neighbours. I have always loved the Earth beyond all other creations, for I see within it a melody that has not yet escaped into the Ethers. I see it crying as one bound! But it shall not be deprived its Celestial Song much longer.' THE COUNCIL OF NINE (A high level circle of Great Beings whose role is to maintain the energy-balances within the Universe): 'May we explain to you that your Planet Earth is the most beautiful that exists in the Universe.

It has a physical variety that no other planet has. It has a varied climate that no other planet has. In all the Universe there is no planet in existence that has the physical characteristics of Planet Earth. It is the rarest of beauties, and it does attract souls which, once they have come, would like to come back again.

'It is of a different nature from any other planet. It has aspects of all planets: it is like a composite of the Universe, with all the positive and all the negative aspects, and all in between, and this is what attracts Souls. It has with it a gravitational pull that is different from other planets, and because of this a Soul begins to feel – for the first time – a physicalness. Souls become adapted to their physical bodies, and they forget the freedom and pleasures they have without it. The Planet is a dense planet, and it in turn then gives a different feeling to the body, but it is actually experienced within the Soul of the individual.

It feels pain, it feels pleasure, it feels sorrow, it feels happiness. The physical body has different feelings than in all the other planets and in all the other Souls that exist. In other systems, other galaxies, there are other physical Beings that do not have the density of this Planet. Here the Soul begins to feel in a different way than it had before, and it has the feel of desire. It is pleasure and pain. Yet this has become very important for the evolutionary growth of the Planet, because it was originally the Planet of Balance' 'The Earth was created to be a paradise.

When souls achieve harmony it will become a paradise again. But when we say a paradise we speak of a paradise of creativity, one that brings knowledge, one that brings joy and love; a paradise in which people may heal themselves or may even experience pain, if they wish. It is not a paradise where all challenge, all growth, or all pain will be removed. It will be a paradise where people, through their own experience, may evolve their own understanding of their connection with the Universe, accept their own responsibility for themselves, for their fellows, for Planet Earth, and therefore for the Universe, and may bring all of that, including themselves, into perfection.'

'This your Planet is a planet of Balance, for you to learn to balance between the Physical and Spiritual worlds. Planet Earth is the only one of its kind, the only planet of total free choice/free will in the entire Universe, the only planet created for the balancing of the spiritual with the physical, in other words, the creating of Paradise. 'Humanity has created corruption within, which came about because people became more involved in physicalness than in attempting to balance and understand. But now your Planet Earth is at a point where it may move out of balance quicker than at any other point. This is time for Humanity to begin to understand this, to live on this planet of great beauty with a true balance of spiritual and physical, and to live in unity with the Creator. Your purpose is to live in true balance, in manifestation of love, in connection with the Creator, in that which was created.'

'It is a time of awakening. It is a time to understand that within the self, people hold the key for bringing Planet Earth to its fulfillment; and that free will is never interfered with; and the destruction of Planet Earth is not necessary. This must be understood clearly, for the free will of Humankind can bring fulfillment to Planet Earth. 'Planet Earth is on the threshold of transformation. It is on the threshold of releasing Souls and Beings from bondage, so they may continue to elevate, and purify Planet Earth so the Universe may continue its path When the Souls on Earth have finally recognized their reality and understood, they can then be released, and they can provide teachings and understandings for others in other Galaxies and Solar Systems in the Universe It is a glorious time right now to live on your Planet Earth in physical form.' [ The Council of Nine channeled by Tom – 'The Only Planet of Choice' compiled by Phyllis V. Schlemmer & Palden Jenkins, published 1993 by Gateway Books, Wellow, BATH, Britain.

ISBN 1 85860 004 9] Chapter 5: THE HIGHER PLAN The Planetary Being known as Gaia/Mother Earth, having reached a certain point of major change in her development, now awaits her initiation to the Fifth Dimensional Plane. She is held back only by the slowness of her surface Humanity to raise its own vibration rates and consciousness and thereby undertake a joint 'Ascension'. The resolution of conflict between the various members of Humanity is still a matter in progress. The Ascended Master, KUT HUMI (Koothumi), a member of Earth's Spiritual Hierarchy: 'To understand why Earth is in its present turmoil, we must flash back in time to the great civilization of Atlantis.

Oh Yes; Atlantis really existed! Not as a figment of science fiction, but as a tangible civilization in Earth's past history. 'Man's purpose in experiencing life anywhere in the Universe is to grow in evolutionary experience and to master each phase in his eternal life. And how do we master the Third-dimensional environment of Earth? First, by getting to truly 'know ourselves' - who we are, what we are, why we are here.

Second, by learning to control all aspects of this environment. Third, by understanding Earth and its relationship to what lies beyond the Third- dimensional environment. 'In Atlantis, Man had advanced to a remarkable degree of control and understanding of this Third-dimensional environment, and was at a point where he could have led Earth and its inhabitants into the Fourth-dimensional experience of physical-spiritual growth. Instead, some who possessed advanced knowledge began to abuse and pervert this knowledge by enslaving other men, and by misusing their spiritual powers in various other ways. When this abuse of spiritual power became too widespread, it set into motion certain karmic forces which resulted in the eventual disintegration and destruction of the civilization. This destruction did not occur in one giant cataclysm, as may be commonly supposed.

Rather, it occurred as a process of decline that lasted over thousands of years. 'During this period of degeneration, the continent of Atlantis gradually broke apart and yielded its major portions to the Atlantic ocean. Over a period of time, the inhabitants of this once great civilization migrated to various parts of Earth, taking with them the remembered skills and technologies, resulting in the archeological wonders that fascinate us today. Modern archeology is for the most part at a loss to explain such evidences as still exist in Central and South America, in England and Egypt and elsewhere around Earth. Eventually the memory of the glorious civilization that once existed faded entirely, except in the awareness of the Adepts who possessed the Arcanum, and in the subconscious minds of former Atlanteans. 'What has all of this to do with the unfolding Divine Plan? Just this: Atlantis was not the only great civilization that has evolved on Earth.

There have been others lost to antiquity, such as Lemuria. Each time that Mankind has advanced to the level of a Lemuria or an Atlantis, it has had within its reach the opportunity to raise Earth's level of consciousness to Fourth-dimensional awareness and it has failed. Each failure was due to the misuse of spiritual powers. 'In the past, this could be condoned because there was still another chance. Now, however, we have reached a point in Earth's history and in Galactic evolution where the transition into Fourth and Fifth-dimensional consciousness must be made. 'Man is now being made aware of certain galactic facts of universal, immortal life.

As you know, our Solar System is a part of the Milky Way Galaxy. Our Solar System revolves around the Great Central Sun of the Milky Way Galaxy in an orbit that takes 206 million years, as you calculate time. Let us refer to this revolution of our Solar System around the Galaxy as the Great Cycle Orbit. Our Solar System was created over four and a half billion years ago. This corresponds to 22 Great Cycle Orbits of our Solar System around the Great Central Sun of the Galaxy. In the Will of Divine Mind, as communicated to the Spiritual Hierarchy of our Solar System, this completes the time cycle in which our entire Solar System is to remain in its present state of evolution. As the Aquarian Age dawns, we begin to move into a new orbit around the Great Central Sun, and to move into a new vibration where no expression below the Fifth Dimension can continue to exist on Earth.

'Man first began to experience life in our Solar System 206 million years ago, at the beginning of the present Great Cycle Orbit. The Divine Plan is for all Human life within our Solar System to achieve at least the awareness of Cosmic Consciousness by the end of this orbit, which is reaching its conclusion now with the end of the Piscean Age.

This means that Man of Earth must immediately become aware of what Cosmic Consciousness is and take the necessary steps to raise his individual level of consciousness to that state of awareness. Failure to do so will result in temporary self destruction! Man of Earth, in his present state, simply cannot tolerate the new incoming vibration. 'Within this Great Cycle Orbit, there have been a number of lesser cycles.

When the Atlantean civilization failed to reach its development potential, this left only the 26,000 year cycle of the Zodiac to complete the Plan. As the present Piscean Age draws to a close, this 26,000 year cycle, concurrently with the Great Cycle Orbit, comes to an end. 'At this moment, Planet Earth is the only planet in our Solar System where Man has not yet reached the Cosmic level of awareness. This level of consciousness must now be rapidly attained in order to fulfill the Divine Plan.' [ The Ascended Master KUT HUMI, channeled by Joseph Whitfield in 'The Treasure of El Dorado', published 1977 by Treasure Publications, Roanoke, Virginia, USA. ISBN 0-912119-02-0.

] [Kuthumi is Earth Chohan (Director) of the Second Ray of the Seven Rays of Service. The Second Ray is the Yellow Ray of Intellect and Science, concerned with Mind and Intelligence in the intellectual understanding of Divine Laws. His previous Earth incarnations were as: Aristotle; John the Beloved; Lao-Tze (China, 6th century B.C.); Theodosius (Emperor of Rome, 4th Century A.D.); St.

Columba (known as the Apostle of Caledonia, who helped to convert Scotland to Christianity, 5th century A.D.); St. Francis of Assisi (Italy 12-13th century A.D., founder of the Franciscan Order) and Leonardo da Vinci (Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and scientist, 15-16th century A.D.] More former Earth Change Prophesies: Although most of these were made well over twenty years ago and at that time represented only a future potential, we continue to include them as some may yet become a future reality. The Master SANAT KUMARA: 'Our entire Solar System is now coming into the Great Initiation.The Earth shall be surrounded by a golden corona. It is stepping into a higher rate of vibration. You are going from a Third Density, through the Fourth to a Fifth Density world. This must necessarily take place as you pass through the heart of the great 'Cosmic Cloud' [Photon Belt]. And then shall the prophecies, as recorded by Joel and many of the others come true; when the Sun shall turn blood red and the Moon shall be red as the ruby, and the day shall be gone and it shall be dark upon the Earth for a period of two weeks.

There shall be much confusion. And the oxygen will be reduced upon the Earth for a short period, followed by periods of great moisture, baking heat and parched areas alternating with great moisture.

Almost everything upon the face of the Earth will be destroyed. 'We are now on the border of this Great Initiation, we are heading closer and closer to its centre and fulfilment. That is why Christ returns to the Earth: because always the great Master of a Solar System incarnates and gives aid to the planet which is lowest in progression in that system.

'Yes, those who say catastrophe comes are true; they speak with truth; but the Earth will not end. It shall become new, as it is written. It does not say the world will end. It says there shall be a New Heaven and a New Earth; not a new Earth through the destruction of the old, but a new Earth - the old made new.' [ The Master SANAT KUMARA, channeled by Brother Philip in Secret of the Andes - Leaves of Grass Press, Novato, California] The incarnation of the Master Sananda as Jesus of Palestine marked a two-thousand year lead up to the Biblical 'Final Day of Judgment' and the 'Second Coming of The Christ'. Jesus-Sananda presently holds Office for the Earth planes as World Teacher.

Here is part of his 'Second Coming Announcement', channeled by Nada-Yolanda on August 17th 1966. Nada during her life channeled the Spiritual Hierarchy as the Founder of the Mark-Age Center, now situated at Elk Valley, Northeastern Tennessee. 'I speak in the name of Jesus, Lord of this World and of all which concerns this Earth sphere.

I am he who is known as the Christ, and through this Channel announce my coming unto Earth once more. It is my intention that all who know and believe in this shall see and shall welcome it in the flesh. I have not come again before this present time, for Man was not ready to receive his Lord. 'Our Lord and Master of this Universe, known as Lord Michael [Christ Michael, Sovereign of our Local Universe of Nebadon], and he who is my Master Teacher, Lord Maitreya, are conversant with and in command over all universal laws and material laws physical to those particular dimensions. 'You have been alerted to these days and these times in the last two thousand years, since the resurrection of my body and my personality. In that time and in that consequence I never have ceased to work continuously in the efforts to bring forth this Second-Coming announcement. In the days ahead we prepare all for it; one here and another there, many, crying out the word and the announcement.

'I now enact the role given unto me throughout the ages: to be your Way-shower, to be your Prince, to be the Lord of the World and all that involves the Earth Planet.' [ Channeled by Nada-Yolanda in 'MAPP* to Aquarius: Mark Age Period & Program' - Mark-Age, Inc., P.O.

Box 10, Pioneer, Tennessee 37847, USA] Planet Earth is destined, following the 'Ascension Event' of the 21st of December 2012, also the start of Aquarian 'New Age', to commence its initial step up in vibration levels to the Fourth Dimension. At that time, the great Spiritual Being ensouling our Planet, Gaia will Ascend up to the Fifth Dimension, along with many other Earth's inhabitants that are ready to Ascend up to this higher Dimension.

However the vast majority of Earth Humans will need to experience a further 3600 years at least on the Fourth Dimension, which they will do on a totally cleansed and reformulated 4D Earth. The existing Fourth Dimension Earth, which we know as the 'Heavenly Realms' or 'The Summerlands', a beautiful world of Peace, Love and enhanced 4D surroundings which we go up to after our 3D 'Death Experience', will be itself moving up at Ascension time to the Fifth Dimension.

Likewise, the existing 5th Dimension Earth will similarly be stepping up to the Sixth Dimension, and the existing Sixth Dimensional Earth up to the Seventh Dimension. Following the Ascension Event nine months later (21st of September 2013), our present 3D World will finally commence its 'Cleansing/Earth Changes', which could take the Galactic Federation Teams and Earth Lightworker volunteers up to four years. During this period, most of Humanity (other than the Lightworkers taken up to the Motherships) will go into 'Stasis' (a form of suspended animation), from which they will wake up within the same apparent calendar period from an experience of 'No Time', to a thoroughly cleansed and refreshed beautiful Fourth Dimensional New Earth. On the then 4th Dimension they shall once again regain a full 'Spiritual Consciousness', and be able to communicate with our neighbouring Planets and other Higher Spiritual Worlds. As the Master RAMALA outlined in the early 1990s: 'The great Beings who govern matter through their knowledge of Infinite Law are trying to quicken the vibration of the Earth, to bring into operation a quicker and a higher frequency. In so doing there is what appears to Man to be confusion and disruption, for he is held between the sluggishness of his own body, caused by his past behaviour, and the attempt by the Lords of the Planet to bring him into a higher frequency of consciousness.

'These Great Beings are intervening so that Man shall not be destroyed, for within his body there is the great atomic structure of the Cosmos, and in his sluggishness, when that moment arrives, and it will, when the Earth uprights on its axis, if this outer quickening had not been put into motion, then the atomic structure of which Man is built would explode, because the force of the uprighting will bring into operation a great atomic expansion of the Planet. 'I will not go into the molecular structure and describe the behaviour of the atoms at that moment of change, but due to changes in pressure there will be a great transformation of the Earth's structure. There could be great devastation all over the Earth. It has, of course, happened before. You may read in the literature of ancient Man, and in the Bible, of similar occurrences. 'The cataclysm, which you would call a catastrophe, is really not a catastrophe: it is a step forward in the evolution of the Earth.

Remember, that to die is not a finality, and that those who do die in the cataclysm to come will experience an increase in their consciousness, for in that moment of death they will learn. 'To you, perhaps, the concept of Armageddon is frightening. It signifies the release of energies beyond the control of Humanity, but if Humanity did but know it, it rarely controls its own environment. Because of its great intellectual progress Humanity has been led into believing that it is the master of its fate, that it is the master of the physical World, that Humanity alone decides the path on which it walks. But those of you who are aware of the God in all things, who recognize that the Divine Plan alone manifests on this Earth, know in your heart that the Cycle which is now beginning was planned aeons of time ago. It has been seen on other levels and has been prophesied by many Beings. It is a necessary path of evolution for this Earth.

You are here, therefore, as witnesses to that path of evolution. Within your innermost Being is the knowledge of what is to come.

It may not be with you on a conscious level, on a level which you can pull down into everyday physical reality, but within your heart is the knowledge of what is to come and the part that you must play in it.' [ The Master RAMALA, channeled by the Ramala Centre, Glastonbury.] Chapter 6: TIME FOR CHOICE The 'Day of Judgment' is traditionally a time at the end of a particular phase of planetary evolution when an assessment of each and every Soul's attainment is made to determine those who are able to join the move up to a higher plane, and those who must start again elsewhere at the beginning of that phase in order to re-attempt the lessons they have failed to master. There are practical reasons for this assessment. Those whose vibration rates are below a certain level, reflecting a lack of evolutionary progress, will not be able to make the transition to the higher vibrational dimensions; they would find the intense vibrational light-energy of the Higher Spheres too painful.

They would also no longer have the opportunity to express the many lower instincts and emotions which they have not as yet fully mastered, nor would they feel at all at home in such an elevated world of refined sensibilities. All the Masters and Guides communicating at this time therefore stress the present urgency for us to resolve all our past hates and hurts as soon as possible. This we must do whilst we still have the opportunity left within the remaining testing environment of the dense Earth physical plane. This dense physical plane will soon no longer be a part of Planet Earth, and it is only at this very basic level that we can make rapid progress in resolving and transmuting past karma. By contrast, when we reside on the higher spiritual planes, we live in such a relatively perfect and peaceful environment that many of the more backward characteristics within our Soul do not surface or show up, making it much more difficult to reform or resolve them. If on the other hand, we do manage to tackle and master those tests we set ourselves down on Earth within the short time-frame left before the Earth Changes, we shall have thus made one of the greatest advances in our millions of years of evolutionary development.

For those whose destiny unfortunately hangs in the balance, between Ascension and starting over again on the bottom rung of the ladder of Evolution, an eleventh-hour special effort to reform our inherent faults may yet turn the scales. This time of Tribulation is the traditional 'Dividing of the Ways', the 'sorting of the wheat from the chaff'. Especially on this Planet, endowed as we are with a full expression of free will, every individual has the opportunity to make those significant choices moment by moment. Indeed in this present period of final resolution, the many opportunities will be multiplied and magnified by the increased Light-force energies now being beamed down to Earth by the Spiritual Hierarchy.

The Master HILARION, an Ascended Master from Planet Earth and a member of Earth's Planetary Hierarchy, made this comment some time past on the 'Tribulation' and the opportunities for Mankind: 'The Tribulation that has been planned for many thousands of years is descending upon the Earth. It will be recognized early by some who have remained aware of the Higher truths, but most will fail to see that the Last Days are upon them until near the end of the time of trial. 'We have previously spoken of the arrangement for Humanity by which rebirth and karma were to allow individual souls to learn the main spiritual lessons and to settle the debts incurred when that learning process led to the harming of others. It was thought at first that this great Plan would permit virtually all of Mankind to achieve the basic goal, which was to escape by its own efforts from the wheel of rebirth and the karmic necessity. 'But this hope was not realized. The temptation of Man's own base nature and the whisperings of the forces dedicated to his destruction proved, again and again, too strong for many souls whose resolve and whose spiritual sight were not sufficiently developed. 'For this reason a new Plan was devised in order to allow for all those whose steps had faltered, a final chance to gain the goal that had been set for Man.

This Plan was laid some twelve thousand years before the present, at about the time that the great continent of Atlantis sank to its final destruction beneath the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. All of the details of the new Plan were carefully worked out at its inception and have not been changed in any important degree since that time.

'One of the most important components of the 'Tribulation' was the necessity that all those who appeared unlikely to have reached the required level by the end of the rebirth arrangement were to be given the chance to make the right choice during the period in question. At the inception of the plan for the Tribulation, it was not known and could not be foreseen exactly how many souls this necessity would apply to.

But as the millennia passed and the time draws near, it became clear that a number in excess of four billion souls would require this last desperate chance to succeed where before they had failed. 'Prior to the passage of the Earth through the 'Cloud' [Photon Band] in space, a sign will appear in the sky, to indicate to those who have realized the truth, that the last days have come. This is the sign of the Son of Man spoken of in the Scriptures. Those who fail to understand and heed the meaning of the signs in the Heavens will not be able to escape the final, dreadful weeks and months of the Tribulation by a subsequent change of heart. All of those who earnestly and with the whole heart change their old sinful ways and take up the cross of service and dedication to their fellow man will become entitled to what the Scriptures call the 'Rapture'.

'The Rapture is essentially an escape from the horrors of the Tribulation, to a place of safety where those who have assembled there can work and learn in order to prepare themselves for the great task of reconstruction which will begin literally minutes after the Day of Wrath has terminated.' [ The Master HILARION, channeled by Maurice B. Cooke in 'The Nature of Reality'. First published 1979.

Marcus Books, Bradford, Ontario, Canada ] This theme was also commented upon in the recent past by the Master EFI of Mars: 'Now for this day are they being prepared, when each and every one shall be put into another place, that which is prepared for them. Some shall be freed from all darkness; these shall be free to go and come throughout the Galaxy, and they shall know no barrier. Others shall be put into a place wherein they shall till the soil with their bare hands; they shall have no implements, they shall have no tools, no machines. They shall have no memory of their past, of their science or of their fortune of the past. Such shall be the destiny of them which betray themselves.'

[The Master EFI of Mars, channeled by Sister Thedra in 'Prophecies for Tiahunaco' -The Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara, Sedona, Arizona, USA ] Those who fail to reach a point of being able to Ascend to a higher plane at this 'End Cycle ' of Resolution and Self-judgment, will themselves recognise the need to start over again on another Third-Dimensional Planet in some other Solar System which will still have facilities for such living. Particularly heartless and destructive souls may even find that their soul/spirit requires a return to a yet lower level, to start again in a Second-Dimensional world within the Mineral Kingdom. This is not a punishment, it is simply an objective reflection by your Higher Spirit/Soul of the fact that your lower personality-self would not be able to function at the new higher vibration rates.

These Souls would find that they need once again to start over again and learn to become less ego-centered, to rise above the narrow view of self-interest and the unbalance of taking from others of that which has not been earned or is rightfully theirs. They have to learn to keep a karmaic balance by giving the same in return as they have received from others.

Through keeping a proper balance between giving and receiving, they will come to learn all the joys of living in a peaceful and cooperative world, the great benefits derived from the respecting and caring for others, of learning to express unconditional love to all other life forms. The CHRIST: 'Whatever form the healing of the Human world takes during these next few years, know that it is for the good of all.

Do not be concerned with the fate of those who reject my Spirit. Their story is far from over.

I am caring for each one in the manner of his or her greatest need. The Human world is in good hands. When you and much of Earth's present biological life have been sprinkled throughout the stars, and th.