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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 21:59:28 +1100
From: <wlmss@peg.pegasus.oz.au>
To: snet-l@world.std.com
Subject: Doomsday
Doomsday - and all that.
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"....and it came about that the followers of the right turned for their
salvation to the Mighty One, known as BigMac. For it was He who had
destroyed single-handedly the evil forests of the southern continent so
that the Sacred Cow might prosper and the demonic Commies might know no
refuge......
" ....And it was written that you had better bbq chicken-eaters, those
sinful followers of Colonel Sanders, for finger-lickin' is a germful
abomination in the sight of BigMac, for so He said Himself...."
From: The Book of Coke in the year after the Pockylips 694.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Such stuff sounds daft to a 20th century person, yet such beliefs could
develop in the bewildered aftermath of a high-tech war when only fragments
of the "golden age" remain to indicate to survivors clues as to how and
why life used to be better many generations before.
Likewise what were once parochial rivalries between religious factions
in the last millennium BC are still influencing people today and this
tradition has come down to some as an honest belief that the world is
about to end - the doomsday myth!
In ancient times many cultures believed that the world would end when the
sun, moon and planets stand in conjunction at the initial point of the
ecliptic. According to the Hindus the countdown to "doomsday" started in
3102 BC. The Mayas thought it was in 3113 BC. The Ancient Mestopotamians
placed the start between these two dates. Small wonder the ancients were
fascinated with astronomy.
The Babylonian sage Berossus said: "the world will burn when all the
planets....come together in the Crab, so that they all stand in a
straight line....the future flood will take place when the same
conjunction takes place in Capricorn...."
The Norse people spoke of Ragnarok. They said Mutspell (the Mother's
Curse) would destroy the world when violent gods neglected the old
laws of peace and blood kinship.
The Irish sybil Babd foretold the coming of the Waste Land: "......trees
without fruit and seas without fish, old men would give false judgements
and legislators make unjust laws; warriors would betray one another and
men would be thieves, and there would be no more virtue left in the world."
The Persians modified the doomsday scheme, making events once-only
instead of cyclic. They further altered the myths about the nature
of Good vs Evil and heaven and hell. As always many of the changes
served to enrich and strengthen the priesthood but took humanity
ever further away from their real past.
There is evidence that from the start of the second millennium BC a
propoganda war commenced between the earth-based creators of humankind
and a new lot from elsewhere, the "heaven" gods. In a complex series of
wars the invaders ultimately prevailed and in the old tradition of "might
is right" they convinced many people that they were the good guys and the
vanquished ones were utterly bad. Life is never that simple of course.
Early in those formative times the Chaldeans worshipped Aciel, the "Magic
God" of the afterlife, guarantor of eternal life for humans. As the age of
advanced technology faded from memory from 1200 BC onwards the attrition
of the disinformation entities started to have its full impact. So we see
many centuries later Aciel being demonized by priests who pushed their
own "gods".
These entities are really only generators of confusing telepathic signals
that were once called prophecies and are now known as channelled messages.
They occasionally also take actual material form - holograms - before the
eyes of people. Pretty impressive to a naive person!
After many centuries of bitterness and confusion the dogma panned out
in some areas of the middle east to Aciel vs Jehova. To technocrats from
before 1200 BC it would have seemed ludicrous, just as many religious
dogmas of today are somewhat quaint to those who have studied ancient
history with an awareness of these processes.
Each age finds its own language for religion, a vital part of the 9000
year old quest by humankind to rediscover its origins and place in the
universe. But under the influence of the disinformation entities we have
almost lost the truth entirely and this in turn has almost led us into
the trap of destroying the entire world.
So it was that legends, myths and ideas were altered as they passed from
one generation to the next. Our own dominant belief systems were handed
down from the Jewish-Essenic and Roman-Mithraic traditions, both of
which strongly influenced modern christianity. Many of the most ancient
ideas seem bizarre because they are out of their ancient social context.
To understand these cryptic messages it is necessary to study earlier
peoples and their relgions and then see how ideas evolved with time.
The pagan Gjallarhorn became the Last Trump and the Satyrs who raised
humankind from barbarity came to be denigrated as "reptiles" or "serpents".
This notion is now being further muddled by some flying saucer cults,
drawing honest seekers ever further from the truth.
A hallmark of the disinformation entities is their frequent warnings about
the imminent end of the world. The belief also arose that when doomsday
arrived the gods would return in force. In a sense the superpowers are
protecting the world with their nukes and germs and poisons, because if
invaders tried to take this planet they'd get it, but it wouldn't be
worth keeping. This might be a smart human strategy - or it might be
that we have been tricked into preparing Sutee for Mother Earth.
Many of the world's great religions sprang into being from about 600 BC
onwards. To the Buddhists, the end of the world would involve the arrival
of a great Savior, the Buddhist Kali Avatara, Destroyer of Sin, who would
come from heaven to announce doomsday.
Blending into this tradition is that of the Greeks, for one of their pre-
800 BC Gods was the Lord Iasius, son of Archos. The Persian version called
him the Son of Man or the Messiah. By 170 BC the Book of Enoch is calling
him Christos, the Annointed One and announcing that he had been and gone
already and that his Second Coming was imminent.
Jesus of Nazereth according to the myths was born of a virgin, fathered
by an "Arc" - the very same "Archos" as fathered the legendary Iasus. He
was only one of many "Christs" at that time. These people seem to have
been gene-modified humans with arcane powers that seemed supernatural to
technically illiterate humans. These sons of the gods born of the daughters
of men were unluckily born in a dangerous world where the disinformation
entities had created the belief that anyone who literally ate them would
gain magical powers and immortality besides. Today's bread and wine
rituals are a pale vestige of that cruel and crazy custom. (Most of the
ancient technical books were eaten by illiterates with the same motives.)
We may never know what Jesus of Nazereth actually told his followers, but
he is quoted in the gospels as reiterating the ubiquitous doomsday warnings.
If true, then he was very likely involved in channelling sessions with the
disinformation entities. He was, after all, human in many vital ways.
According to the Gospels Jesus told his disciples that He would be seen
"coming in the clouds with great power and glory" and that the event would
happen really soon. "There be some standing here, which shall not taste of
death, till they see the kingdom of God."
The imminence of doomsday led many christians in these formative years
to renounce marriage as pointless, for doomsday and child-bearing were
incompatible. "Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give
suck, in those days!" This led to a major backlash against any sort of
natural sexuality which has influenced christianty to this day although
the fact that the first "pope" was sexually neurotic did not help!
However the world did not end after all because Jesus and his followers,
like so many before and since, were misled by evil forces. In fact scores
of generations passed and Doomsday still did not arrive. Many expected
it to happen in the year 1000 AD and there was immense dislocation when
people liquidated their assets and abandoned their farms. This led to
a collapse of commerce and to famines that caused great suffering, just
as might happen again soon if people cannot govern themselves wisely.
Connected closely with "doomsday" is the belief in an antichrist. The
christian version of the antichrist myth grew out of the Aciel vs Jehova
dichotomy as Antichrist vs the Christed ones. This is hardly surprising,
since by the start of the first christian millennium humanity had already
become immensely confused about what had happened and what was still
going on. Good people strived to comprehend, but the forces of evil,
often mimicing the forces for good, consistently evoked all that is
worst about human nature.
Some said Nero was the antichrist. So was Atilla and Merlin in their
time, and later it was Genghis Khan and Frederick II. Napoleon was
described by some as the antichrist, so also Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf
Hitler. In 50 years time there will be people contending that it was
Presidents Nixon or Reagan or Bush. Others may see the antichrist in
U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, true leader of the NWO.
Inevitibly any deva, spirit or other entity that puts in an appearence
will be branded by someone as a demon or perhaps even the devil himself
come as the antichrist. One school of thought in "christian" ufology
even claims that "ufo crew members" are demons.
A study of these entities both past and present soon turns up striking
evidence of powers which have been directly attributed to many major
charismatic figures in history - Pythagorus, Jesus, St Francis and
many "demons" had similar abilities.
If the antichrist were to arrive, how would we tell him apart from the
real Jesus? If the christian devil is that clever, he would be well
disguised when he arrived as the antichrist. This is a difficult question
for christians to wrestle with for history shows that many real "sons of
the gods" have been put to death by zealots acting under the misguied
belief that they were agents of the devil.
How could Jesus Christ return under those circumstances? It is claimed
he was done away with last time by a Jewish mob and the Roman authorities
in Jerusalem. Next time he might be simply blown away by some pious
honkie in a red check shirt.
The antichrist myth is a very important element in the attempts by evil
forces to manipulate the basically good and decent christian religion.
If anyone tries to apply reason and common decency then the forces of
darkness can say: "Of course he sounds convincing, but that is only
because that wicked person is under the power of the antichrist." A
cheap trick!
Doomsday has been predicted many times. William Miller fixed the advent
at March 21 1843. When Jesus failed to arrive Miller altered it to October
21. After that many of his followers, cold and tired from sitting on their
rooftops waiting in vain, even then did not give up. The adventists got a
big boost from the American Civil War - surely this was the war to end all
wars! The offshoot cults of the Millerites are still waiting, buoyed by the
belief that doomsday started on schedule but it did so only in heaven and
out of the sight of mortals.
With the approach of the year 2000 the same problems generated in the
year 1000 can be expected again. People everywhere need to be warned to
not put too much stock in this kind of talk. Only recently some people
suffered immense anxiety because they had been convinced by irresponsible
people that the end of the world would occur when comet Shoemaker-Levi
ploughed into Jupiter. Of course nothing happened.
Only by their works can we know them. Beware anybody who makes a beat-up
of the Doomsday myth. They are either plain ignorant or deliberately
promoting fear and conflict which can only result in poverty and hunger
amongst gullible but innocent people.
The Old Testament offers some succinct advice on doomsday, the non-event:
"Men may come and go, but the Earth abides."
Lawrie Williams
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Here is an example of recent "visions and prophecies" which support my
thesis that the disinformation entities are as active as ever, and as
predictable!
> Subject: JUNE 9TH Date: Sat, 11 Jun 94 22:08:00 -0400
>> From : JCOOK@SPACE.MIT.EDU > My name's Rachel Daniel,
> I'm praying that everyone whom God wants to get this message will get it...
> .... please pay attention. He has His reasons.....
> many different Christian leaders in completely different ministries around
> the world have come forward to tell about visions and prophecies that God
> has given them regarding ....... June 9, 1994.
> I forward them on to you because God has laid it as a burden on my heart
> to forward it on to my brothers and sisters in Him.....
> This is serious stuff, but also great news, so read on...
> In 1992 a South African man named Ken Clement gave a prophecy regarding
> the United States......paraphrased, we saw it on a video with ReJOYce in
> Jesus Ministries at Stanford....
> ....This is the only nation to declare Christ as their God....
> I (God) will visit the Supreme Court Myself....There will be sounds of
> praise from the Senate and the House of Representatives (declaring what He
> wants to be said), and they will know that there is only one God. I (God)
> will visit you again, America. It shall be greater than 300 years ago...
> (Great Awakening). This will be the final visitation. If you continue to
> be one, this nation shall bring the Muslims to their knees by the power
> of His Word. China will be crying (for God), Japan and Iran....
> A continuation of that prophecy given in February 1994...
> I (God) will deal with the spirit of Satanism and witchcraft and there
> will be freedom.....
> I (God) will not change My mind. The ground will shake and there will be
> a shaking in the heavenlies by My Spirit. There will be freedom in this
> nation, so it can go to other nations. Liberty and revival like you've
> never seen it. Be ready. I (God) will charge you with My anointing. It
> will be done before the end of June. It will go beyond your borders, an
> economic breakthrough.
> Last year another pastor, John Hinkle, came forward with another prophecy..
> On June 9, 1994 God will rip evil from this earth as the veil was ripped
> at Jesus' death. God will send His angels to remove from the earth all
> that is evil and offends (Matt 13- parable of tares and wheat; Daniel
> 7:21,22- saints will possess the kingdom, judgment will be made). This
> process is beginning in June, a break, a lifting, and the Church will be
> in its most glorious state.
> (THESE PROPHECIES MADE IT CLEAR THAT THIS IS NOT REFERRING TO THE RAPTURE!!)
> ......Joel 2:28-29- "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all
> people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream
> dreams, your young men see visions. Even on my servants, both men and
> women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.")
> In December 1993, David Griffith, president of Youth With a Mission,
> also came forward with a prophecy... (Mr. Griffith's prophecy targeted
> June 9, 1994 as the date for the following...
> For seven days the earth will vomit and rail. This will be followed by
> 21 days of defilement....
> .... other prophecies, but these are Cherie's and my notes. I don't
> Know what God wants you to do with this information, but I ask that
> you take it to Him and I pray that you will hear His instructions. Also,
> I rely on His Spirit to confirm in your spirit the truth of these
> prophesies..... in all of the prophecies, there is a continuing theme
> of blessings for believers but judgment for those not walking with Him.
> .....These are not rumors. They are prophesies.
> From : JCOOK@SPACE.MIT.EDU
> .....When he got into the car she warned the person that she was a
> ministers wife and that he had better behave himself. Agreed to this
> the man got in and closed the door. After a couple of minutes the man
> said to her and "The trumpet is at his lips." She turned to ask him
> what he meant by that remark and he dissappeared.....
> The officer looked at her and said "I would lady, but you are the 6th
> person to tell me that same story tonight."
> Another minister had had a word of knowledge and was told that on the
> 9th of June, this year, that God was going to rip the evil from this earth
> and the holy spirit would enter into his believers and they would be
> healing people and prophets will be coming forth and all sorts of wonders
> would be taking place....
> Another word of knowledge was stated that there would be a death in the
> White House 20 months after Clinton took office, which is also sometime
> in June or July...... I do not know if any of the people tested the
> spirits in any of these cases..... Jim Cook (jcook@space.mit.edu)
_____________________________________________________
Further reading: Any good library can provide a number of fine
books which deal with ancient religion, legends, mythology, history
and paranormal apparitions. A simple test of their quality can be made
by turning to the last couple of pages. If there are words or sentences
in capital letters and lots of quotes from the gospels then the book
will prove precious for reinforcing a chosen belief system but of no
value for those who seek to discover the truth about our past - and
future.
__________________________________________________________Lawrie