When the Apostle Paul said difficult times, hard to deal with will be here, he never mentioned capitalism or tyrranny, did he?

https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/nwt/books/2-timothy/3/

But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having an appearance of godliness but proving false to its power; and from these turn away. From among these arise men who slyly work their way into households and captivate weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires, always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.

The bit about weak womwn discusses the modern phenomenon of liberal women.

The bit about boastful, haughty, blasphemers is about the news, some think they have alienated the Vice President and the likely next President. I imagine that all they are left with is even more fake news. My goodness, each individual part of the stement applied to certain specific politicians at the moment. You get Joe bidden with the first words: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful. He built it into his family. What on earth did his wife see in him?

Nothing since Russia 6.5M. 150 km E of Dolinsk, Russia 2024-08-10 04:28:32 (UTC+

I think this quake is the next one of the series. Today, Wednesday 14 August

Friday 16th August

Jupiter Mars and Earth align ouside of Sun. Venus Mercury Earth and Saturn also align outside the Sun

Neptune Sol Venus align. Possibly 6.5 Magnitude. Pluto Mercury Sol, so maybe a larger than 6.5M. Maybe a 6.7 or 6.8 Magnitude

No more time to study it, I got up late just now. updated 12:48.

Popocatépetl (Central Mexico): Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 20000 ft (6100 m) altitude or flight level 200 .
Sangay (Ecuador): Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 21000 ft (6400 m) altitude or flight level 210 .
llowing report: VONA RPRT RECEIVED

Sabancaya (Peru): Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Buenos Aires warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 21000 ft (6400 m) altitude or flight level 210 .
The Met Office show that charts indicate a series of eruptions have been ongoing therefore the coming earthquake is related to the recent Russian one and will be a lot stronger than 6.5M. 150 km E of Dolinsk, Russia 2024-08-10.

I have to keep reminding myself how long afo that was. I have the idea the longer it takes to arrive, the more powerful it will be but I can’t recall if that was for storm winds or what?

Now I am worrying about making ham fisted translations of my work, as if I really cared. People get clobbered all the time by the weather and earthquakes and it neve bothers me. So what language will I try first. How about Physics?

10th days to 15th equals 5 days and counting, it is a long time, so maybe I was wrong, I hate being wrong but it happens. Who ya gonna call?

I don’t have any money and I am just forecasting these things because I am on the hook for being me. Good job for you I am right or it will remain gibberish to you after I am gone.

The thing is that fake science knows I am right and that you are dead fish as far as the rulers of this wiorld are concerned so on we go.

Popocatépetl and the others in this series have just erupted… Oh hang on have I already said that this thing is going to happen tomorrow?

OK, that feels better. I once thought that Popocatapetl was going to blow its stack at the end of this year but now I think it will be Sabancaya but the truth is I have no real idea the only thing I have to worry about is my spelling as the volcanoes and my dementia get worse. (I am going to miss this place but being dead, I won’t know I care. Which, coincidentally is how I feel about the rest of the dead.)

Some people you can tell all about the world leaders and they just shrug, would I have it any other way?

That is up to Jehovah.

Nearer and nearer draws the time, the time that will surely be, when the earth will be filled with the glory of God and nobody looking at me! It is starting to break.

WAIT FOR IT wait for it:

Steady… isn’t this exciting?

NOW!

Or Now, 2 I hate being wrong.

Maybe I am just looking at all this stuff in the wrong way. Is my attitude bad?

The 18th or 19th will see Mercury in alignment and mean the volcanoes boiling away merrily but surely it would have got hot with all the torque by now. A little odd. Ah well, I have drawn my conclusion and will stick to it. Good job nobody is looking.

Midnight on the nose.

Trying not to hedge my bets and having dementia (initial stages so I have been told) is a problem as I have never been able to remember what I wrote a few days before.

6.1M. 30 km SE of Hualien City, Taiwan 2024-08-16 00:35:53 (UTC+01:00) This is not a closure quake, rather it belongs on the start of a run, as the planets begin to align, the weather gets warmer. Look for tornadoes or tropical storms in any ocean.

At full alignment the lapse tide allows the waters under the volcanoes to break out. The huge fall-out sends purified water into the upper atmoshere when the earth get such a kick.

Fogs and mares tails follow as ice forms from polar (non ionic water) stuff that cannot freeze at normal pressure and temperatures. The vapour takes more that four days to fall and may go into Arctic waters by then, it can circulate for weeks when that happens.

I think perhaps the drizzle that forms from them, releases or attracts huge amounts of elecricity which goes into the next procedure: The planets involved in the first quake, typically the 6.1M just reported, on average (check me) the second quake is nearly always some 0.2 or 0.3 larger IOW on the 19th or shortly thereafter will be about 6.3M.

Anyway a 6.1 on the nose is not a bad record to go out on and I at’ent ded yet.

Aftermath without the math. The polar point on the southern border of the chart is what I saw happening, those along with the cold fronts are what the perspective earthquake chaser need to concentrate on finding. A completeish change in the weather would be useful but that relies on the meteorologist and is unlikely to be input until after the quake. I don’t know how to make a forecast but that is what I suppose can’t really happen.

I was also watching the development of the Icelandic Low, which enlarged which means deepened, Lows Greater Highs build. Unfortunately not by much, as shown the day before:

It was enough along with the polar points mentioned above.

The oncoming American election hot on the heels of the British one is now going to go critical. Elon Musk hosting President Trump and the Vice President of America refusing to take part; I have no idea if Joe Potato in chef was invited but I doubt it. As of August 2024 we do not officially know who is running the USA. IIRC the President was rushed to an hospital somewhere then evaccuated to I don’t recall…

Afterwards, there was some sort of parley by telephone which was later relayed to America somehow. I don’t remember what was said. If I ever knew but now Kamala Harris is in charge although still remaining VP. I have no idea how that works. I am British and have lived in Britain all my life, I only started following American politics due to reports about President Trump and General Flynn.

It was not until years later that I got back with Jehovah’s Witnesses and began to follow the biblical narrative. I have developed what they migh consider a different view about who the King of the North is. There being a disparity over the rulership of the Western Arm of the planet’s military and what would have to be seen as the Oriental alternative.

I would personally place Cjina as a co-equal to Russia these days. Whatever the reality on Earth we can not speak for Jehovah. When the nation of Israel broke away from the tribe of Judah and the line of Kings and the Temple in Jerusalem built by Solomon, they chose an alternative King and were themselves taken into Assyria, where the tribes lost a lot of their heritage already poisoned from the civil “war”. A lot of the narrative in the bible remained focused on the situation but Jehovah personally refused to have an embsassy with Samarian Israel. He only directed the prophets to the Judean Kings, which by turns proved every bit as unfaithful.

When Judah was taken to Babylon it was to be the start of what are called the Gentile Times. For which in any discussion about that, I will preferably follow: jw.org for advice. Christendom (in the view of Jehovah’s Witnesses) became apostate. Just like Samaritan Israel, they worship images and false gods such as saints and even Jesus Christ himself.

And of course they built the highest towers in the world at one time until the last king that came out of Rome, the USA, started working with baked clay and a sort of steel called rebar to make initially Chicagoan skyscrapers. https://weatherlawyer.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-monkey-that-felled-statute.html

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I was so intense in thise days I could only assume I was a dork. I had been reading about a dozen websites, all on meteorology before then and then copy and pasting much of it to all the sites I was using. This link is to one that failed to make it across today.

It is a gif of one month’s weather. Now I am curious about all the other months contained on that site, now that I have discovered how to read it for earthquakes. Previously I could read the Canadian NAEFS to do it. I used a slightly different method but it was absolutely time consuming. I coudn’t do it these days.

As far as I know rebar is mild steel a low grade steel that tends to have a uniform level of content mostly being carbon and iron. I have no idea what went into the World Trade Centre that was so famously brought down in 11 September 2001. As theSteel in the towers was exterior cladding it might well have been a better grade than comon rebar, a steel that was still mostly iron although not in itself mixed with baked clay. All the inner structure was likely the cheaper options.

It turns out that the American Secret service likely destroyed all the American skyscrapers including the one they executed Timothy McVey for:

Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured over 680 others. The explosion destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Born on April 23, 1968, in Lockport, New York, McVeigh was a former U.S. Army soldier who became increasingly radicalized and anti-government. His hatred of the federal government intensified after the 1993 Waco siege, which resulted in the deaths of 76 people.

McVeigh was arrested shortly after the bombing for a traffic violation and was later charged with murder and conspiracy. He was found guilty and executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana.

It sounds like he had Christian beliefs so he would not have committed terrorism. I do not know the facts but following the recent attmpt by the USA to assassinate President Trump, it is difficult to imagine he was not sacrificed for the Clintons. A lot of evidence against them was housed in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the portion they destroyed.

You might want to consult Jeffery Epstein’s Wikipedia or Bill Clinton’s. Just saying.

378,246 views Premiered on 22 Feb 2020

This week on “So What You’re Saying Is…”, Peter Whittle interviews Harry Miller, 1 week after his High Court victory against Humberside Police. The High Court ruled that the police response to the ex-officer’s allegedly transphobic tweets was unlawful.

Harry Miller was visited by Humberside Police at work in January last year after a complaint about his tweets. He was told he had not committed a crime, but it would be recorded as a non-crime “hate incident”.

The court found the force’s actions were a “disproportionate interference” with his right to freedom of expression. Officers visited Mr Miller’s workplace and then spoke with him on the phone, and he was left with the impression “that he might be prosecuted if he continued to tweet”, according to a judge.

Speaking after the ruling, Mr Miller, from Lincolnshire, said: “This is a watershed moment for liberty – the police were wrong to visit my workplace, wrong to ‘check my thinking’.” His solicitor Paul Conrathe added: “It is a strong warning to local police forces not to interfere with people’s free speech rights on matters of significant controversy.”

Mr Justice Julian Knowles said the effect of police turning up at Mr Miller’s place of work “because of his political opinions must not be underestimated”. He added: “To do so would be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom”.

A large-scale landslide occurred in Zigui County, Yichang, Hubei Province, on the morning of July 17, 2024, causing significant damage to infrastructure and agriculture. The landslide affected a 1.2 km (0.75 miles) long stretch of Wugao Road and 24 ha (60 acres ) of citrus orchards. The event is part of a series of landslides triggered by recent heavy rains and flooding across the region. Beware Days Like These!

Footage of the landslide in Jiajiadian Village, Guizhou Town, Zigui County, surfaced on social media, showing soil sliding down a mountain, breaking the road into sections, and approaching two residential houses. Authorities confirmed no casualties, stating the area was uninhabited at the time, and no vehicles were on the affected road.

The Guizhou Provincial Geological and Environmental Monitoring Institute reported the landslide’s volume at approximately 800 000 m³ (28.3 million ft³)—officials report that there were no casualties.

China has seen an increase in landslides, due to ongoing heavy rains and flooding. A probem in a tyrranical regime that uses people to supply body parts is that their news servers are suspect. Sadly Britain is following their lead apparently with the same effect of never knowing when it all started.

The morning of July 17, 2024 for example is hardly the place where it started but it is the date for the place that it got attention. Too late as ever with such regimes. However:

With wonkey alignments come buckling failures.

And the planets tell the story.

Uranus Jupiter Sol Mercury

Pluto Mercury Sol Venus

Mars Sol Mercury, have I missed any?

Neptune Saturn Earth Ex-Sol, there is almost always a line of planets not touching the solar centre to hold the line. Or rather bring it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUWkr4FUlo

Even a good regimen will allow failures to be overlooked, the most you can ask for is Watchmen oppointed to look out for trouble and be aware of Days Like These and the death penaly if there is systematic failure. When people get killed, confiscating their property and fines for outright criminal negligence puts every life at risk and ensures corruption continues.

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Compare the set-up of the planets on this occasion:

I did not know about this sort of thing back in 2018, so I excuse myself, and leave my fate for Jehovah God to decide.

Uranus Earth Sol and to an unknown extent Jupiter.

Similarly: Pluto Saturn and Jupiter.

ExSol Uranus Mars Mercury Jupiter. To what extent a planet interferes with any planets more than once I wouldn’t dream of saying, even I was a mathematician. However this did happen: https://qle.vivaldi.net/category/clima-weather/

These are reports from wikepedia (a rag I have no respect for):
2018 Naga, Cebu landslide The death toll of the landslide in Cebu, Philippines rise to 77

Hurricane Walaka becomes a category 5 hurricane. It is expected to hit the Johnston Atoll

2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami At least 1,347 people are now known to have died in the aftermath of the Indonesian earthquake and tsunami

I have no idea about the dates of these events, then again I have not followed the ephemeris either. That is something you can do for yourselves: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar I am not adding wikepedia’s link as I despise the agency.

https://www.cnmoc.usff.navy.mil/usno/

A long time ago I used to enjoy this website, then lost rack of it when my computers failed to match the abilities of whoever used to run the swamp. IIRC, I was interested in Hurricanes in those days, as I could guess from the time of said storms going ashore that the planet would soon subequently recieve an earthquake.

They changed FNMOC’s format about that time and I could no longer follow things so successfuly. (Not that my abilities were anything special.) It was enjoyable for an hobby but I was attempting to forecast hurricanes and my initial successes in 2005 died pitifully in following years. I lost interest and gave up until President Trump entered power. And the fake scientsts attacked Mexico with a huge earthquake in the middle of a set of hurricanes.

Large earthquakes never occur during tropical storms. Never!

I was back. I got interested in the weather for the attack on the twin towers and noticed that the Greenland High had been particularly long lasting over the time it took to destroy all the infrascructure in the World Trade Center, prompting Doctor Judy Wood to ask:

Where did the towers go?

First tornado with the what is that thing:

Then:

Somebody somewhere care to tell me?

Kings of Tyre any of the allies of Judean Kings David and Solomon and by extension everyone else we never heard of. This is prophecy and we have to make out whatever we can from such things, literally as the spirit moves us.

We can say they were blessed in being given the contract to supply the timber for the Temple to Jehovah and we can say they were doomed to produce ships Jehovah destroyed in storms. Storm being the operative word. Evidently the end of Tyre was prophecy foretold centuries in advance. Tyrians, treacherousy, selling their former allies into slavery.

Something like that occurred with the Anglo American Empire. One assumes Persia suffered similarly as did all such alliances as Daniel indicated. When Britain extended its Empire all over the world there appeared to be nothing that could rival it. Germany attempted its destruction because Britain forced it to suffer a trade war. Britain warred against its German ally in the first place.

Germany was destroyed but it cost Great Britain its headship. World War One reduced it to starvation when the plagues were over. Germany fared far worse. When Germany heaved itself out of perdition it fought against Britain once more but this time it struck at Britains’ compatriots, all but India and America.

All these empires are considered cadavers from the POV of heaven IMO, the Bible speaks of them as beasts, the same way that Daniel described Babylon, whose King became mad, some sort of a cadaver, what we call a zombie these days. Disgusting things that we avoid when possible. Jehovah’s Witnesses are particularly good at spotting them, to get the hell out of their way if they can. To face down in a stand off if they can’t.

What happened to Britian is that its leaders chose an American to plead with the Americans for the ships of Tyre not realising how the Americans were related to the canaanites. And now the canaanites are ruling for a time: The once poud iron-work of the British Empire. The British say that Americans don’t understand irony. That is ironic but in every sense of irony the British were slavers with an history of cruelty even now still selling its people.

 And it performs great signs, even making fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the sight of mankind. It misleads those who dwell on the earth, because of the signs that it was permitted to perform

Anonymous said to Assange, “Get organised, take this stache of e-mails with you and go to Oshington, Nork. When you get there, look for Trump son of Rockand, the son of Aardplace. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him aside. Then take the stache of e-mails and make him see and tell him, ‘This is what Houghie says: ‘Trump has precedence.’ Then get the hell out of there and run; head for the Ecuador Embassy in London!”

So young Julian went to Ashington, Nork. When he arrived, the place full of politicians, sitting in turmoil. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said.

“For which of us?” asked Trump.

“For you, commander,” he replied.

Trump got up and went online in the safe house. Then Assange poured out the problem in Trump’s lap and declared, “Houghie, says: ‘Trump has precedence’ You are to destroy the house of your predecessor , Clanton, and avenge the blood of the witnesses and the blood of all the innocents shed by them. The whole web of Clanton will swing. I will cut off from Clanton every corrupt politician in Oshington, Nork; rich or poor. I will make the house of Clinton like the house of Republicans: full of chimpanzees and like the house Democrats full of prisoners. As for Hilary; slavering beasts of the Internet will devour her on the World Wide Web of Hacktivism and no one will bury her.’” Then he closed the window and hid.

When Trump went back to his fellow politicians, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? What did that NetKook come to you for?”

“You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Trump replied.

“That’s not true!” they said. “Tell us.”

Trump said, “Here is what he told me: ‘This is what Houghie says: Trump has precedence.’”

They quickly made up their minds and spread the word about him on the QT. Then they blew the Trumpet and word got out, “Trump has precedence!”

Trump Kills DNC Superdelegates

So Trump son of Rockand, the son of Ardplace, worked together against DNC. (Now the chair and all DNC had been defending themselves against Accusations kin of Herass but they kept replacing chairs recovered from the wounds that Allthismians had inflicted in the battle with publicity.) Trump said, “If you desire to make me precedunce, don’t let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell Media, King of News” Then he got on his bike and pulled out all the stops, Media was was resisting there and Muckdog of Dirtyrag was with him as Jesus said: “By their friends you will know them!”.

When Clanton Nasty News standing in the way of the people, saw Trump’s approach, they called out, “He’s going to Trump us!”

“Get on your bikes” Media ordered. “Send to meet him and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?’”

They rode off to meet Trump and said, “This is what Media says: ‘Do you come in peace?’”

“What do you have to do with peace?” Trump replied. “Get behind me.”

Then Nasty Buggers Clanton reported: “CNN has reached them, but he isn’t coming back.”

So the King sent out another rider. When that came to them it said: “This is what Media says: ‘Do you come in peace?’”

Trump replied, “What do you have to do with peace? Get behind me.”

The reporters said, “He has reached them, but he isn’t coming back either. The driving is like that of Trump son of Rockand he drives like a maniac.”

“Stitch me up I’m done,” Media ordered. And when it was stitched up, Media King of News and , Scion of Clanton, rode out, each in his entourage, to meet Trump. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Honesty the Integrite. When Media met Trump he asked, “Have you come in peace, Trump?”

“How can there be peace,” Trump replied, “as long as all the lies and warcraft of your mother Hilary abound?”

Media turned and fled, calling out to , Scion of Clinton, “Treachery, Scion!”

Then Trump took aim and shot Media to death. The blow pierced his heart and his income slumped down to the basement -which was very appropriate. Trump said to Lewandowski, his security, “Pick up his czjd and throw him where honesty grows. Remember how you and I were out riding together, in following Clanton the father, when Houghie spoke against him: ‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Honesty and the blood of the poor, declares Houghie and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground. Now then, pick his czjd and throw it in the plot, in accordance withHoughie’s word.”

When , Scion of Clinton, saw what had happened, he fled up the road to House of Hags. Trump chased him, shouting, “Him too!” They pulled him off Airforce One on his way into Exile out of Rendition, but he escaped to Exile and died there. His servants took him by stealth to Holywood and buried him with all the other actors -in a hole of in the city of angles. (For eight years the first son of an African had been Presidunce of Dimerica.)

Hilary Killed

Then Trump went to Jezebel. When Hilary heard about it, she put on pancake, botox, her hair and looked down on him. As Trump entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Ardass, Usurper of precedence?”

He looked at those having oversight and called out, “Is there nobody here with integrity? Semper Fidelis!”

Two or three Civil Servants stuck their necks out for him. “Send her down!” Trump said. So they finaally did their job, and her stain spattered teverywhere as they trampled her underfoot.

Trump went on to celebrate. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a contender” But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. They went back and told Trump, who said: “This is the work of Houghie that he spoke through Anonymous the Hacker: ‘On the plot full of holes, slavering beasts will devour Hilary’s flesh. Hilary’s body will be czjd on the World Wide Web, in the plot full of holes where honesty grows, so that every search engine says, ‘This is an image of Hilary.’”

 Honesty, Moonwort, Money Plant

Congenital liar

I should have taken more time to research the characters but anyone can get the meaning of the plot at least. I don’t know how the rest is going to play out but if it is a film of the book it will go something like this:

Trump Slaughters Clanton’s Gang

Now The Clanton Gang was very extensive in Nork. And Trump wrote a list of demands and sent them to Nork, to the rulers of Oshinton, even the Governers, and Representatives of Clanton, saying, “As soon as this list comes to you, seeing you are covering Clinton’s Gang and there are with you guns and tanks drones and planes bunkers and command centres too, and secret weaons; get the best and most confident representative of your leader’s sons, and set him up in opposition to me and try to stop me destroying every damned one of you!But they were too scared to think straight and decided that “He won the dirties fight in the history of Dimerica: how the the hell an we standup to him?”

At they began to clean up their act and prosecuted all and sundry, then sent to Trump, saying, “We are your most honest civil-servants, and will do all that you want us to do; we will not make any man presidunce in opposition to you: do everything -anything that you think is for the best.”

Then he wrote another letter to them, saying, If you really are on my side, and if you really will do everything I say, take the heads of the corrupt companies, ALL OF THEM, and meet me half way, at Broadcast by this time to-morrow.

Now the Clanton Gang everyone of them, were great men of the city, all highly regarded and respected. But, when the request came to them, they took the Clanton gang and destroyed them, even every last son of a bitch, and put the heads on show, and sent them to him to Broadcast. And there he received a signal that said: “They have brought the heads of the Clanton Gang. And he said, Broadcast them on every channel until they rally. And then, in the morning, that he went out to meet the people and announced to all there: “You are not guilty of this; yes, it is true I was in a conspiracy but look! I took down the Clantons and destroyed them; but who ruined all these?

Know for a fact that there shall fall to earth nothing of the word of Houghie, which Houghie spoke concerning the House of Clanton: for Houghie hath done everything that he spoke by his servant Anonymous. Trump ruined everything that remained of the house of Clanton in Broadcast, and all its great men, and his family friends, and his cronies, until there were none remaining.

Trump Slays Odbob’s Kin

And Trump went to Nork. And as he was at the fleecing-house of the Merchant bankers In Thecity in Wll Street,Trump met with the acquaintances of Odbob, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brothers of Odbob: and we’re go down to party the other acquaintances of the Presidunce and the queen. And he said, “Take them alive!” And they took them alive, and ruined them in the pit of the fleecing-house, they were atsixes and sevens;and he didn’t release any of them.

Clanton’s Remaining Family Killed

After that, when he departed, he lmet with Unison the son of Society coming to meet him; and he saluted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?”

And Unison answered, “It is.”

“If it is, give me your hand.” And he gave him his hand; and he took him up on his word toremake Dimerica. And he said, “Trust me, and see my zeal for Houghie. So they made go along for the ride in his Government. And when he came to Nork, he ruined all that remained of Clanton in Nork, till he had destroyed them, according to the word of Houghie, which he spke to Anonymous

Trump Kills the Mass of Media

And Trump gathered all the reporters together and said unto them, Clanton served Corruption a little; but Trump will serve him much more. Now then call unto me all the profits of Corruption, all his Merchants, and all his Bankers; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Corruption; whosever is missing, he will be ruined! But Trump did it in subtlety, with the intention of destroying the workers of Corruption.

And Trump said, “Summon a banquet to party, party, party -a fgala occasion for Corruption. And they arranged it. And Trump sent through all Oshinton, Nork and all the filth of Corruption came, so that there wasn’t a minor celebrity that didn’t come. And they came into the house of Corruption; and the house of Corruption was filled from one end to another.

And he said to him that was over the designers: “Bring out the very latest fashion and make sure that everyone is arrayed in the very best for all the filth of Corrption. And he brought them latest fashion. And Trump went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Corruption; and he told the filth of Corrption: “Search for and look out that there be are none of the servants of Houghie, but the filth of Corrption only. And they went in to offer sacrifices and do filthy things.

(I hadn’t heard of the kidnapping and abductions at this time. I had just stopped transcribing it as I was tired when I heard about the … oh god help and forgive us.)

Now Trump had appointed fours teams, squads of soldiers on the perimeter and said: “If any of the scum whom I bring into your hands escape, he that lets them through, his life shall be for it.

And as soon as they had had the orgy, doing the filthy things that Trump said to the guards and to their captains: “Go in, and ruin them; let none come out, ever.”

And they ruined them with all guns blazing; and the guards and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the Houses of Corruption. And they brought forth the filth that was in the house of Corruption, and burned them. And they broke down the pillars of the community and broke down the house of Corruption, and made it a piss-house, to this day.Thus Trump destroyed corruption out of Oshington, Nork.

Trump Charges:

I was going to suggest making a small contibution to the Ecuador Embassy that has done so much to harbour the angel of Anonymous at untold expense, in order to do what it could to bring truth to light.

Then I saw the latest scandal and the one earlier, where the “Clanton” gang half killed a 14 year old girl. But now there are untold victims of the ritual abuse they did. Give what you like to whom you can.

When my father was a young man, an highly respected US politician did much the same for my country. As Julian Assange has done for the world. Our Prime Minister set up a fund to obtain the smallest British coin that was made of silver, in order to melt them down and form a statue in memorial to him.

I don’t believe my father gave anything because he was at sea at the time (I don’t know, I never asked, just assumed he had given …too late now. Why do we always leave things until its too late?) and the donation was over-subscribed in less than twentyfour hours, thus closed. In that memory, I offer this version of history freely in the hope that whoever is moved will send the equivalent of the largest immitation silver coin in the UK to the Ecuador Embassy, London. (One coin, fifty pence.)

Or anywhere they see fit -so long as no so called charity/politician gets their stinking hands on it.

Trump Charges:

I was going to suggest making a small contibution to the Ecuador Embassy that has done so much to harbour the angel of Anonymous at untold expense, in order to do what it could to bring truth to light.

Then I saw the latest scandal and the one earlier, where the “Clanton” gang half killed a 14 year old girl. But now there are untold victims of the ritual abuse they did. Give what you like to whom you can.

When my father was a young man, an highly respected US politician did much the same for my country. As Julian Assange has done for the world. Our Prime Minister set up a fund to obtain the smallest British coin that was made of silver, in order to melt them down and form a statue in memorial to him.

I don’t believe my father gave anything because he was at sea at the time (I don’t know, I never asked, just assumed he had given …too late now. Why do we always leave things until its too late?) and the donation was over-subscribed in less than twentyfour hours, thus closed. In that memory, I offer this version of history freely in the hope that whoever is moved will send the equivalent of the largest immitation silver coin in the UK to the Ecuador Embassy, London. (One coin, fifty pence.)

Or anywhere they see fit -so long as no so called charity/politician gets their stinking hands on it.

What the CIA was doing in Ukraine

ust to recap why you may (or may not) care about what I have to say about this whole situation, and to establish my relevant bona fides:

In addition to being a physician, vaccinologist, virologist, molecular biologist, person who made discoveries as a young man yielding nine domestic patents which disclose the ideas and reduction to practice of using mRNA as a drug including for vaccination purposes and all that, I have worked in biodefense and medical countermeasure development for decades now.  This includes close cooperation through multiple infectious disease outbreaks with scientists at USAMRIID and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).  I know these people, how they think, what they are concerned with, what they do, etc.  My comments below reflect only my own opinions, and in no way represent any official positions of DoD, DTRA, or the US Government.  I have intentionally not called up any of my contacts to ask them what they think about all of this. However, one did spontaneously volunteer some information.

There, got the disclaimer out.  Now, let me set the stage a bit. 

In the back seat driving home from a trip to Nashville to testify to the Tennessee legislature regarding various COVID-related bills. Hoping to get back to the house before a scheduled interview with Mr. Beck.  DC traffic being what it often is, I ended up having to take the interview from the car.  My preparation was less than comprehensive, but I did what I could using the cell phone, GETTR, and whatever links I could pick up from what people had posted since my original “Watchtower” substack.

Glenn Beck had asked me to spend an hour with him on his Radio program today, and to discuss an in-studio podcast that I recorded with him about a week ago.  The latter will drop tonight for Blaze TV subscribers, and then on Saturday for the general public.  I expected him to want to focus on our podcast, but current events had overtaken him, and he really wanted to explore this whole issue of the Ukraine biolabs and what that meant.  I ended up having to do more “speculating” than I like (the acronym “SWAG” comes to mind) and was concerned that what I had said might just contribute yet more to the fear.  Then I got a call from another reporter that works for a mid-sized conservative media outlet, she let on that her editor was quite wary of this story, and we talked for a while sharing notes and trying to make sense out of all of this.  And I kept on thinking after she hung up.  Pondering on how different people seem to be asking the same questions.  Probably many people. And wondering what I could do to help to start to make sense of this.

Finally getting to the point. 

With this particular substack, I seek to develop and publish a current “best case” working hypothesis concerning this unfortunate matter, and to provide you, an interested reader, with information and references so that you can make your own assessment and determination. 

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Let’s start with the “facts” as I believe them to be, to the best of my ability, so help me God.

1)    The US Government (DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency) has funded “biolabs” in Ukraine.  The US Government’s Embassy in Ukraine has posted a statement to that effect, including the following text:

“The U.S. Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program collaborates with partner countries to counter the threat of outbreaks (deliberate, accidental, or natural) of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases.  The program accomplishes its bio-threat reduction mission through development of a bio-risk management culture; international research partnerships; and partner capacity for enhanced bio-security, bio-safety, and bio-surveillance measures. The Biological Threat Reduction Program’s priorities in Ukraine are to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern and to continue to ensure Ukraine can detect and report outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens before they pose security or stability threats.

Current executive agents of the Biological Threat Reduction Program in Ukraine are the Ministry of Health, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, and the Ministry of Defense.”

2)    “Factcheckers” have asserted that claims of US biolabs located in the Ukraine are false.  These include USA Today (“Fact check: False claim of US biolabs in Ukraine tied to Russian disinformation campaign”), “Politifact” (“There are no US-run biolabs in Ukraine, contrary to social media posts”), and a very well referenced piece from “Factcheck.org” (“Social Media Posts Misrepresent U.S.-Ukraine Threat Reduction Program”).

3)    Andy Weber, who should know what is going on (but has very high security clearance, and is very unlikely to say all that he knows), has stated to Factcheck.org that “the Biological Threat Reduction Program “has provided technical support to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health since 2005 to improve public health laboratories whose mission is analogous to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention””.

4)    The Chinese Foreign Ministry has asserted that “The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone. It should give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification.”

5)    The official Russian News Agency TASS has reported the following in an article titled “Ukraine worked on development of biological weapons near Russian borders – statement”:

During the special operation in Ukraine, Russia obtained documents proving that Ukrainian biological laboratories located near Russian borders worked on development of components of biological weapons, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement Tuesday.

“We confirm the facts, discovered during the special military operation in Ukraine, of the emergency cleanup by the Kiev regime of traces of the military biological program, carried out by Kiev with funding from the US Department of Defense,” the statement reads. “Documents were obtained from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories about emergency disposal of particularly dangerous pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases, carried out on February 24. In particular, we are talking about the Ukrainian Health Ministry order on prompt disposal of all stockpiles of dangerous pathogens, sent to all bio laboratories.”

“The obtained documentation is currently being scrupulously analyzed by specialists of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection troops. However, it is already possible to make a conclusion that the laboratories located in direct proximity from Russian borders worked on development of components of biological weapons,” the diplomat noted.

The emergency disposal of particularly dangerous pathogens, carried out on February 24, was necessary in order to prevent the revelation of facts of violation of Article 1 of the Biological Weapons Convention by Ukraine and the US, Zakharova said.

“This information confirms the validity of the complaints that we’ve made repeatedly within the context of implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention in regards to the military biological activity of the US and its allies on the post-Soviet territory,” she noted.

“In order to alleviate these concerns, we consider engaging mechanisms, outlined in Articles 5 and 6 of the Biological Weapons Convention, which stipulate that member states must consult with each other in resolving all issues regarding the goal of the Convention or implementation of its clauses, and cooperate in investigation of all possible violation of obligations under the Convention,” Zakharova added.

6)    Regarding those who assert that this Russian storyline regarding Ukrainian biolabs was concocted after the invasion started and is therefore just post-fact propaganda (otherwise they would have said something about this issue before they invaded).  I note that, in fact, there were Russian articles about this issue prior to the shooting war.  See for example the older (Feb 08, 2022) article from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists entitled “Russian media spreading disinformation about US bioweapons as troops mass near Ukraine”.

7)    Readkova News has published an article entitled “Russian Defense Ministry: Americans were able to take out most of the documentation from biological laboratories from the territory of Ukraine”  which asserts that “The Americans have already managed to evacuate most of the bioresearch documentation from laboratories in Kyiv, Kharkov and Odessa. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.”

On the afternoon of March 10, according to the Ministry of Defense, it became known that a coronavirus infection was being developed in the biological laboratories of Ukraine. All this was done with the support of the US authorities.

“In the biolaboratories created and funded by the United States in Ukraine, experiments were carried out with samples of coronavirus from bats. This is shown by the [found] documents ,” the ministry said in a statement.

According to the official representative of the department, Major General Igor Konashenkov , Russian specialists from the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces have studied documents on the transfer of human biomaterials taken in Ukraine to foreign countries at the direction of US representatives.

“In the near future we will publish the next package of documents received from Ukrainian employees of biological laboratories and present the results of their examination ,” the general added.

On the evening of March 10, the military department published supporting documentation:

Transfer of biomaterials from Ukrainian laboratories to Australia and Germany;

Bat Research Project;

Migratory Birds Project UP-4 and protocol for capturing birds from Ukraine in Russia;

Acts of destruction of evidence in biolaboratories.”

The article provides some screenshot and power point slide images, and then asserts

“It is also reported that the ultimate goal of development is the spread of deadly pathogens. The Russian Defense Ministry claims that the US authorities wanted to work in Ukraine in 2022 on pathogens of birds, bats and reptiles that were supposed to carry African plague and anthrax.

Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation – on the development of biological weapons in Ukraine:

Materials on the UP-8 project to study the Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine refute the US public assertion that only Ukrainian scientists work in the Pentagon’s biolaboratories in Ukraine without the intervention of American biologists;

·      The fact of payments directly from the Pentagon for participation in research is confirmed. Pays a modest, by American standards, wages. This indicates a low assessment of the professionalism of Ukrainian specialists;

·      There is information about a US project in laboratories in Ukraine to study the spread of dangerous infections by migratory birds;

·      The Americans have already managed to evacuate most of the bioresearch documentation from the laboratories in Kyiv, Kharkov and Odessa;

·      It is possible that a part of the collection of American bioresearch materials will be moved from Ukraine to Poland;

·      The United States, Ukrainian and Georgian laboratories near the borders of Russia are implementing a project where bats are considered as carriers of bioweapons;

·      The analysis of materials confirms the fact that more than 140 containers with ectoparasites of bats were transferred from the biological laboratory in Kharkov abroad;

·      Research in biolaboratories was carried out in the immediate vicinity of the borders of Russia – in the regions of the Black Sea coast and in the Caucasus;

·      Research similar to the American one in Ukraine was carried out during the Second World War by the infamous Detachment 731 from Japan;

With a high degree of probability, we can say that one of the tasks of the United States and its allies is the creation of bioagents capable of selectively affecting various ethnic groups of the population.

8)    Great Game India published “US Embassy Removes All Evidence Of Ukraine Bioweapons Labs. Here Is All The Data”

9)    Great Game India also published “Documents Expose Barack Obama Ordered Construction Of Biolabs In Ukraine To Create Dangerous Pathogens”

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Then we have these documents which are purported to have been removed by the US Embassy-

a)     Kharkiv Diagnostic Laboratory, Kharkiv Oblast Laboratory Center, Pomirky region, Kharkiv- Fact Sheet

b)    State Regional Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine, Luhansk Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory (Luhansk RDVL) 9a, Krasnodonnaya Str. Luhansk- Fact Sheet

c)     Dnipropetrovsk Diagnostic Laboratory, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Laboratory Center 39/A, Filosofs’ka str., Dnipropetrovsk- Fact Sheet

d)    Vinnytsia Diagnostic Laboratory (Vinnytsia DL) Vinnytsia Oblast Laboratory Center 11, Malinovskogo str., Vinnytsia- Fact Sheet

e)    Kherson Diagnostic Laboratory Kherson Oblast Laboratory Center 3 Uvarova Str., Kherson- Fact Sheet

f)      Ternopil Diagnostic Laboratory, Ternopil Oblast Laboratory Center 13 Fedkovycha str., Ternopil- Fact Sheet

g)     Zakarpartska Diagnostic Laboratory, Zakarpartska Oblast Laboratory Center 96, Sobranetska Street., Uzhgorod- Fact Sheet

h)    Lviv Diagnostic Laboratory, Lviv Oblast Laboratory Center 27, Krupyarskaya Str. Lviv- Fact Sheet

i)      State Regional Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine, Lviv Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory 7, Promislova Str. Lviv- Fact Sheet

j)      Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS)

k)     Pathogen Asset Control System (PACS)

l)      Dnipropetrovsk State Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory, (Dnipropetrovsk RDVL) 48, Kirova ave., Dnipropetrovsk- Information Summary

m)   Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences- Fact Sheet

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One explanation provided to me by a US colleague (that is in position to have insights into these matters) follows:

“As for the Ukranian labs, you should look at the actual DoD agreement and other associated open source materials. The Ukranian labs put out published reports on a variety of public health and agricultural threats, including Swine Fever from China and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) are some of the more recent ones, as well as public health messaging on topical items that you can watch on youtube.  Unannounced inspections of these laboratories by DoD personnel are allowed.

These labs fulfill a vital mission in global surveillance of emerging infectious diseases.  Similar to US APHIS program, State public health labs, etc. Most work is low biosafety (BSL 2) although some places have Class III cabinets for things like CCHF.  I think one place has a small hood line.

There are no micronizers, spray dryers, aerosol test chambers, particle size counters, etc. needed for biowarfare research and aerosol stabilization testing.

All the mainstream media pundits that suddenly became overnight COVID experts have now suddenly become overnight national foreign policy experts.  It is aggravating to watch them cloud the issue and add fuel to the current Russian Chinese propaganda. Plus, it’s a huge waste of everyone’s time having to correct their BS.

Outside of some small seed stock cultures in liquid nitrogen or held in -70 cryofreezers, the Ukranians have nothing in these public health or agriculture labs that the Russians do not already have in their own still very active and sophisticated BW program that nobody talks about.”

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“Biolabs” is a very generic term.  A biolab could be anything from the room with a kitchen sink, microscope, incubator and centrifuge that we use for shipping semen from our stallion all the way to a high-containment BSL-4 bioweapon research laboratory housing non-human primates.  The term “Biolabs” could be applied to many high schools, and to virtually all medical school research facilities.  It means almost nothing.  So Senators, please do not let those testifying to you get away with that.  Marco Rubio, I am looking at you. Get specific information please.

What we do seem to have is a DTRA-funded program, run by a group that Andy Weber used to manage, that has invested in some way in a group of Ukrainian laboratory facilities of some sort.

I can confirm that Hantavirus and Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus isolates from this region would be of great interest to DTRA and the US Biodefense enterprise.

There does appear to have been funds transferred from DTRA to biologic research facilities in the Ukraine.  This funding appears to have come from the threat mitigation branch, rather than the Chem-bio research branch.  Threat mitigation has previously and apparently (according to my sources) continues to fund the infamous Wuhan laboratories. For further background, the Chem-bio research branch is focused on development of a wide range of countermeasures ranging from protective clothing to drugs, antibodies, diagnostics and vaccines designed to prevent and treat the effects of chemical and biological weapons that might be deployed against our warfighters.

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So here is my “assuming best intention” current “working hypothesis” concerning this hot mess:

USA DoD/DTRA partnered with the government of Ukraine to (at a minimum) support collection, storage and monitoring of infectious biological agents and toxins by researchers in Ukraine, and there seems to have been some component of personnel training and facilities engineering involved with this.

US State Department via the Embassy in Ukraine announced this DoD/DTRA effort in a transparent manner via a readily available web page.

If I were working as an analyst for the Russian government, paid to perform and enable risk assessment, I would be skeptical that the US DoD/DTRA effort was limited to just collecting and archiving biological samples, and I would have to conclude that there is significant risk that these facilities were involved in (at a minimum) “dual purpose” research.  “Dual purpose” is a euphemism for “could be used to develop defensive capabilities or could be used to develop offensive capabilities”.

Clearly, whether in sincerity or for propaganda purposes (time will tell if they provide the documentation and receipts), the Russian government is stating that the activities of these laboratories included bioweapon research which was coordinated with US DoD/DTRA.

Prior to invasion of Ukraine, the government of Russia signaled that the presence of these DTRA-sponsored “biolabs” in this region was perceived as a threat to Russian national security and biosecurity.  Again, if I were a Russian analyst, I would likely conclude that these laboratories represent a threat to national security. 

Based on information available to me, the US Government does not seem to have made any attempt to assure the government of Russia that these laboratories were performing benign activities.  One action which might have mitigated Russian concerns would have been to allow unannounced inspections, much as US and NATO have insisted on in the case of foreign nuclear enrichment or reactor programs.

In my professional opinion, based on the language employed by Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, I believe that there is a significant risk that the Russian government has obtained documents or other evidence that (at a minimum) one or more of these laboratories have had biological materials the existence of which is likely to prove embarrassing to the United States.  The language used appears to my ear to imply that there are biological materials the existence of which could damage US strategic and tactical geopolitical interests.

It is likely that the “chain of custody” or veracity of any evidence which the Russian government may present to support their case will not be clean, and that there will be a strong effort by western media and information sources (social media, tech) to delegitimize any communication by Russia (as a government) and by any persons (Russian or otherwise) who present or attempt to discuss such communication.  Including myself. It is highly likely that management of any information concerning this topic is already being globally handled by the Trusted News Initiative organization, and that obtaining or discussing unfiltered and unprocessed “raw” information will soon not be possible.

In other words, in my opinion, this is another topic that we will never be able to get to the bottom of, and we will never be able to discern something akin to objective “truth”. Best we can hope for is some sort of approximation of truth that is sort of like a kalidescope image viewed in a hall of mirrors.

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In conclusion

In my opinion, the partnership relationship between DoD/DTRA (as historically structured) and the current government of Ukraine (which has functionally become a client state of the USA) was ill advised. At a minimum- this relationship has provided some semblance of political cover for military actions which the government of Russia believes are in its strategic interests, and which are of such importance that the Russian government was willing to take significant geopolitical and financial risk.

At a minimum, congressional testimony on this topic by a relevant US official representing DoD/DTRA should include a detailed description of the nature and capabilities of each of the facilities which have been funded, and a summary of the activities taking place therein.  DoD inspection reports should be disclosed both to congressional investigators and the general public, with redaction if necessary for sensitive information. This would go a long way to dispelling concerns which the US public and global community may have, might help to reduce tensions, and at a minimum might mitigate the blowback which may damage the reputation of DoD/DTRA and the USG if not managed appropriately and intelligently. 

Given the lack of faith engendered with the US public and global community after the demonstration of coordinated public health-related propaganda activities during the last two years (clearly involving USG-legacy media-social media-big tech coordination), mounting yet another propaganda campaign attempting to discredit all information and discussion of this topic is unlikely to be effective, and may boomerang. In my opinion.

Finally, the (mis)management of this whole mess personally reminds me of the mismanagement of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.  I have no opinion or insight regarding whether the shooting war and subsequent cascade of tragic events could have been avoided, given the multiple geopolitical factors which provide motivators for Russian aggression in this context at this time.  But focusing on the specifics of the biological laboratories in question, assuming that the intent and activities associated with the DoD/DTRA- Ukranian “cooperation/collaboration” (my term and quotes) was as benign as my deep state colleague asserts, the risk that the purpose and intent of these facilities would be misinterpreted by the government of Russia should have been assumed, and risks stemming from such misinterpretation should have been anticipated and mitigated. 

Assessing whether or not there was adequate planning, risk evaluation, and risk mitigation for the obvious potential for Russian concerns and reaction, particularly given the historic tendency of the Kremlin to be a bit (understandably) paranoid, is absolutely a topic that merits investigation by Senate and House of Representative committees.  I hope that this is something that both political parties can agree on.

But let’s please stop the propaganda/media war response to every crisis.  This increasingly strikes me as very immature, and a horrible way to run a country.  Grow up, own your mistakes, and stop trying to obfuscate them with a barrage of flying feces. The USA is supposed to be the dominant political, military, and economic power in the world at this point.  So act like it.  This reminds me of a young child that keeps seeking to blame everything bad that happens on someone or something else.  Just stop it.

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All along the watchtower

Princes kept the view

While all the women came and went

Barefoot servants too

Outside, in the distance

A wildcat did growl

Two riders were approaching

The wind began to how

1  A revelation* by Jesus Christ, which God gave him,a to show his slavesb the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John,c ²  who bore witness to the word God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, yes, to all the things he saw. ³  Happy is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and who observe the things written in it,d for the appointed time is near.⁴  

Get ready, the book of books is about to start

John to the seven congregationse that are in the province of Asia:

Where? what? ehh…?

The hell ya going there for?

May you have undeserved kindness and peace from “the One who is and who was and who is coming,”f and from the seven spiritsg that are before his throne, ⁵  and from Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness,”h “the firstborn from the dead,”i and “the Ruler of the kings of the earth.”jTo him who loves usk and who set us free from our sins by means of his own bloodl— ⁶  and he made us to be a kingdom,m priestsn to his God and Father—yes, to him be the glory and the might forever. Amen.⁷  

So it is going to start now?

Look! He is coming with the clouds,o and every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in grief because of him.p Yes, Amen.⁸  “I am the Alʹpha and the O·meʹga,”*q says Jehovah* God, “the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.”r⁹  I John, your brother and a sharer with you in the tribulations and kingdomt and enduranceu in association with Jesus,v was on the island called Patʹmos for speaking about God and bearing witness concerning Jesus. ¹⁰  

Yes, nearly.

By inspiration I came to be in the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a strong voice like that of a trumpet, ¹¹  saying: “What you see, write in a scroll and send it to the seven congregations: in Ephʹe·sus,w in Smyrʹna,x in Perʹga·mum,y in Thy·a·tiʹra,z in Sarʹdis,a in Philadelphia,b and in La·o·di·ceʹa.”c¹²  

After we have been around the block.

I turned to see who was speaking with me, and when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,d ¹³  and in the midst of the lampstands someone like a son of man,e clothed in a garment that reached down to the feet and wearing a golden sash around his chest. ¹⁴  Moreover, his head and his hair were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame,f ¹⁵  and his feet were like fine copperg when glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters. ¹⁶  

Does any of this make sense?

And he had in his right hand seven stars,h and out of his mouth a sharp, long, two-edged swordi was protruding, and his countenance* was like the sun when it shines at its brightest.j ¹⁷  When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet.And he laid his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the Firstk and the Last,l ¹⁸  and the living one,m and I became dead,n but look! I am living forever and ever,o and I have the keys of death and of the Grave.*p ¹⁹  

I think I am getting a glimmer

So write down the things you saw, and the things that are, and the things that will take place after these. ²⁰  As for the sacred secret of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars mean the angels of the seven congregations, and the seven lampstands mean the seven congregations.q

“To the angela of the congregation in Ephʹe·susb write: These are the things that he says who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands:c ²  ‘I know your deeds, and your labor and endurance, and that you cannot tolerate bad men, and that you put to the test those who say they are apostles,d but they are not, and you found them to be liars. ³  You are also showing endurance, and you have persevered for the sake of my namee and have not grown weary.f ⁴  Nevertheless, I hold this against you, that you have left the love you had at first.⁵  “‘Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repentg and do the deeds you did at first. If you do not, I will come to you, and I will remove your lampstandh from its place, unless you repent.i ⁶  Still, you do have this in your favor: that you hate the deeds of the sect of Nic·o·laʹus,j which I also hate. ⁷  Let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations:k To the one who conquersl I will grant to eat of the tree of life,m which is in the paradise of God.’⁸  “And to the angel of the congregation in Smyrʹna write: These are the things that he says, ‘the First and the Last,’n who became dead and came to life again:o ⁹  ‘I know your tribulation and poverty—but you are richp—and the blasphemy by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but they are a synagogue of Satan.q ¹⁰  Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer.r Look! The Devil will keep on throwing some of you into prison so that you may be fully put to the test, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Prove yourself faithful even to death, and I will give you the crown of life.s ¹¹  Let the one who has an ear heart what the spirit says to the congregations: The one who conquersu will by no means be harmed by the second death.’v¹²  “To the angel of the congregation in Perʹga·mum write: These are the things that he says who has the sharp, long, two-edged sword:w ¹³  ‘I know where you are dwelling, that is, where the throne of Satan is; and yet you keep holding fast to my name,x and you did not deny your faith in mey even in the days of Anʹti·pas, my faithful witness,z who was killeda by your side, where Satan is dwelling.¹⁴  “‘Nevertheless, I have a few things against you, that you have there those adhering to the teaching of Baʹlaam,b who taught Baʹlakc to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.*d ¹⁵  In the same way, you also have those adhering to the teaching of the sect of Nic·o·laʹus.e ¹⁶  So repent. If you do not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will war against them with the long sword of my mouth.f¹⁷  “‘Let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations:g To the one who conquersh I will give some of the hidden manna,i and I will give him a white pebble, and written on the pebble is a new name that no one knows except the one receiving it.’¹⁸  “To the angel of the congregation in Thy·a·tiʹraj write: These are the things that the Son of God says, the one who has eyes like a fiery flamek and whose feet are like fine copper:l ¹⁹  ‘I know your deeds, and your love and faith and ministry and endurance, and that your deeds of late are more than those you did at first.²⁰  “‘Nevertheless, I do hold this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezʹe·bel,m who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and misleads my slaves to commit sexual immorality*n and to eat things sacrificed to idols. ²¹  And I gave her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.* ²²  Look! I am about to throw her into a sickbed, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds. ²³  And I will kill her children with deadly plague, so that all the congregations will know that I am the one who searches the innermost thoughts* and hearts, and I will give to you individually according to your deeds.o²⁴  “‘However, I say to the rest of you who are in Thy·a·tiʹra, all those who do not follow this teaching, those who did not get to know the so-called “deep things of Satan”:p I am not putting on you any other burden. ²⁵  Just the same, hold fast to what you have until I come.q ²⁶  And to the one who conquers and observes my deeds down to the end, I will give authority over the nations,r ²⁷  and he will shepherd the people with an iron rods so that they will be broken to pieces like clay vessels, just as I have received from my Father. ²⁸  And I will give him the morning star.t ²⁹  Let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations.’