This is a follow up to my last few essays.
Birth of Jesus
I have been thinking more about the birth of Jesus (read; didn't sleep too well for part of last night) and realized the following.
First, you have to realize that, with Mary conceiving Jesus in the sixth month of Elul or our August/September (Luke 1:26-27), there is no way that he could have been born in December, just 3 to 4 months later so the Church of Rome (Catholic and Christian Orthodox churches) was wrong.
Yeah, kind of obvious that Constantine high jacked the birth of Jesus so he could fool Christians into believing he was worshipping Jesus and he could continue to worship Sol, the Roman sun god.
Second, there is no way he could have been born in September or October so our archaeologists were also wrong.
So, what happened and WHEN?
The angel Gabriel visited Mary sometime between about mid August to mid September or the Hebrew month of Elul and, while he was giving her the good news, the Holy Spirit caused her to conceived Jesus.
How do we know this?
Because the scriptures tell us that as soon as Gabriel left, Mary beat it over to Elizabeth's place because Gabriel had told Mary that Elizabeth had conceived John by the Holy Spirit. When Mary arrived at Elizabeth's place, the Holy Ghost entered Elizabeth and announced that Mary was already pregnant with Jesus.
I believe that this took place in mid to late August so that Jesus would be born in April, very close to Passover because, after all, Jesus is God's "Passover Lamb" to provide us with a path for salvation from eternal damnation. I will not be surprised to find out after Armageddon that Jesus may have been born 3 days after Passover as a symbolic gesture for when Jesus would be raised from the dead 3 days after Passover or His "rebirth".
So, based on the scriptures, I see the basic timeline as being that Mary probably conceived Jesus in mid to late August, married Joseph but they did not consummate until after the birth of Jesus, they traveled in September or October to Bethlehem to pay taxes and stayed with some member of their family. After they paid taxes, Mary was probably showing a little because she would have been almost 3 months pregnant and Joseph was a carpenter so he didn't have to return home to take care of crops and animals and he could have easily found work in Bethlehem making and fixing things or building buildings, so they decided to not make the journey back north to their home during the increasing cold winter weather. They stayed in Bethlehem with their family who, for some reason didn't have room for them in their house so they slept below in a "cave" where that family kept their animals at night to protect them from thieves and predators (we would call it a basement and it was a normal practice at that time.) Mary probably gave birth to Jesus in April, close to Passover, and the angel caused the shepherds to visit Jesus, who was using a manger in their basement dwelling. Probably about a year later the Magi came to visit Jesus, bringing expensive gifts Joseph and Mary probably sold to raise the money to flee to Egypt to save Jesus' life from ye ole power mad evil royalty.
Don't believe me?
Read the Bible and pay very close attention to the details.
Do you see how just one little detail from the Bible opened up a door to the truth?
With me having read this same scripture dozens of times over the last 50+ years, why did I not figure this out years ago?
Because, when I read it before 1) we didn't have the Internet so I didn't have a way of finding out when the Hebrew sixth month was and 2), not having that information, I just read over it without thinking about it. This time, when I saw that scripture, God tapped stupid on the shoulder and asked, "Hey, stupid, when is the Hebrew sixth month?" so stupid looked it up on the Internet and it became blatantly obvious when Jesus was born, you know, probably in April so we should celebrate His birth on Passover, after all, Jesus is God's Passover Lamb.
What I want to know is why no one else, especially the church, realized this more than a thousand years ago? Were they just covering it up?
We Christians have been celebrating the birth of the Roman sun god, Sol, for 1,600 years instead of the birth of Jesus and didn't even know it. Hey, don't blame me.
BTW, I just looked it up and Passover for 2022 starts at sundown on April 15th and lasts until sundown on April 16th. Passover is always on a Saturday by the Hebrew calendar. Maybe some of you will celebrate the birth, death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus, the Passover Lamb of God, with me this coming Passover instead of celebrating the births of the Roman sun god and Roman fertility goddess on Christmas and Easter.
Hey, the pagans will continue to celebrate their birthdays along with the birth of their god, Satan, on Halloween.
You do know that Lucifer (Satan the Devil) was created by God and has a birthday, right?
LA
I have realized that you are about to see how a major city like Babylon, Ur, and Nineveh became archaeological sites, you know, not sleeping well at night.
All we have to do is study the seismic damage to other major cities in relation to the structure of LA to see what will happen.
A great example is the destruction of San Francisco about 100 years ago. The massive earthquake, nothing like this one, destroyed much of the city but it also caused fires to sweep through the city almost finishing it off and many people died.
Remember that I was in LA when they had a number of earthquakes that were just 3.5 on the Richter Scale that caused significant damage and this quake will be much, much worse and I also studied geology. Also remember that the geologists studying that area have been predicting "the big one" earthquake for decades and this will be that big one and much more.
When this much more intense earthquake hits the greater LA area, it will destroy and open up gas lines, power lines, water lines, and sewer lines plus rupturing underground storage of auto fuel at gas stations in all of the worst damaged parts of the area. This will result in massive fires throughout much of the area destroying much of what was left following the quake and most of the fire and police departments will have been destroyed with many of the emergency personnel being hurt or killed so there won't be anyone to respond to the fires and no water to put them out. We are talking a literal Hell on earth.
Almost all to all of the hospitals will be quickly turned into rubble increasing the mortality rate. They will have to bring in the Marines from Camp Pendleton and the National Guard to put up Mash units for emergency medical care that won't even begin to help the millions of injured people in the area.
Most of the freeways and bridges in that area will be destroyed and even the main streets will be damaged to destroyed, making travel difficult to impossible in many areas for at least weeks to months. Military bulldozers will have to quickly open up new, unpaved streets through that rubble.
You have to understand that, after a massive earthquake like this, there will be really intense "aftershocks" following the main quake and many will register in the 5.0+ range on the Richter Scale causing much more damage to remaining structures. These aftershocks will continue for at least 6 to 12 months making the area uninhabitable so no one will be able to rebuild anything and there won't be enough customers left for even mom and pop businesses to continue to survive.
All of the businesses in the worst hit areas will be forced to move somewhere else to rebuild with most going out of state and taking their surviving employees with them, destroying the state economy. You have to understand that LA has about one third to half of the state's population and economy and that one quake will put an end to that quickly.
Plus the insurance companies insuring that many very expensive places that are completely destroyed at once will all go broke leaving the owners of those places bankrupt so they simply won't be able to rebuild. I have seen this happen with hurricanes in the Southeast US and this will be much worse.
Last night I realized that the rich lefty commies causing most of their current problems live mostly in or at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains, which are short but very steep inclines so that such a violent earthquake will definitely cause massive land and rock slides that will destroy most to all of their homes, killing and injuring many to all of them.
Hey, God said, "Be not deceived, your sins will find you out."
For example, they show the famous Malibu area as being a beach front area but rarely show the very steep Santa Monica Mountains and even cliffs just east of those beach mansions, within a few hundred yards. You can bet that, with such a massively violent earthquake, those cliffs will come down on those rich people's mansions, destroying the mansions and killing many of those wealthy liberals. Plus, during the quake, the land will push the water away from the beaches out to sea, forming a massive tsunami that will cause problems thousands of miles to the west and the land under the water to be exposed for as far as half a mile to a mile out to sea. When that water returns to those beaches, it will come in a massive surge that will wash away just about everything, including parts of the sides of those mountains. I doubt any of the rich lefties living there will survive it all.
Last night I also realized that almost all of the greater LA area's worst and most violent gangs live and thrive in the area that will be damaged the most. Most of the state's worst and most violent black gangs live in the West and Central LA areas with one of the state's five most violent gangs, the 60th Street Gang (who put a contract on my butt just before I left in 1993: they told me so) living in West LA on 60th Street, the Latino gangs are in the Southern and Eastern areas, and the Asian gangs are on the south side of the Santa Monica Mountains, all within the most devastated areas.
You can bet that many of those gang bangers will die, many more will be injured, and they will just about all be made homeless in less than one hour.
Many of the people in that area also live in multistory dwellings that will be much more likely to collapse and kill most of their occupants and, with no emergency people to help get them out, many more will die before they can get out. My mortality rate estimate of 1 to more than 2 million was a very conservative estimate and it will probably be much higher, especially in the area between East LA and the 405 freeway, which has a very high population density.
I have also told you that both Mexico and China, along with a few other nice nations, are smuggling their soldiers into the greater LA area to attack east along I-40, when our current escalating war really gets going well, to conquer the Western part of the US and they are mostly staying in the area that will be most heavily damaged so that many of them will also die or be injured and they will all be made homeless very quickly. I expect those nations will be forced to withdraw at least most, maybe all, of those troops for medical problems and to reorganize and rebuild them.
Man plans, God laughs.
After almost all of the people have left the worst hit areas, I expect to see people trying to survive by scavenging materials they can use or sell for things like recycling to start gathering everything they can find for use or sale within those damaged and deserted structures. They will be making money by stripping out things like copper and aluminum for sale or any usable building materials they can use or sell. This has always happened following the fall of great cities like Babylon. See, history and archaeology and teach you a lot about what to expect from people.
You have to understand that it has taken us centuries to build the greater LA area and, with that much damage done within just hours, no government will be able to rebuild it in months or even a few years. You will be surprised at how fast that abandoned rubble will vanish beneath dirt blown or washed in, especially since their drainage systems will be damaged to destroyed, so there will be flooding throughout much the damaged area covering the rubble with mud. That massive civilization will seem to disappear like magic.
Within just a few decades, you won't be able to see much of the rubble beneath the dirt and mud and, after just 50 years, most of it will have been taking back by God's "nature" just like every other abandoned major city in history and, if archaeologist work the site, they will find human remains still in the rubble. Passerbies won't even know most of it is there. The greater LA area will LITERALLY become a future archeological site right before your eyes.
And God said, "Be not deceived, your sins will find you out." When God is finished, there won't be too many people left there to sin.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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