Psalms Code - The Secret of the Lord - Almanac of Mankind

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Psalms
Code
The Secret of the Lord
Almanac of Mankind
Savasan Yurtsever

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Psalms Code
The Secret of the LORD
Almanac of Mankind
Savasan Yurtsever
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Table of Contents
Introduction 10
1924
Tsunamis and Floods - Mining
Explorations - British Mount Everest
Expedition 1924 - Volcano Eruptions
- Removal of the Lid of King
Tutankhamen’s Sarcophagus -
Lord’s 1946 Visit to Earth
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1946
Tsunamis - End of World War II -
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1969
Richard Nixon - Watergate Scandal -
Woodstock Festival - First Man on
the Moon - Zion/Mars Colonization
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1982
Syzygy - The Jupiter Effect –
The Death of a Prince
118

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1987
The Mars Declaration
132
1991
George H. W. Bush –
The Gulf War
156
1992
Collapse of the Soviet Union -
Discovery of the Bible Codes - The
[U.S.] Energy Policy Act of 1992 -
Space Based Surveillance -
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
(ICSI)
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1993
1993 World Trade Center Bombing -
Archaeological Proof of King David
- The Great Flood of 1993 -
Inauguration of a New U.S.
President /Bill Clinton
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1997
Favorable Events Occurring at the
Islands of the World -
Administrative and Judicial
Decisions –
Civil Unrest in Africa -
Women’s Move into Key Offices -
Fires, Explosions, Crashes -
Earthquakes - Floods - Tornados -
Lights in the Sky - Solar Eclipse &
Power Outages - Inauguration -
Space Missions - Mars Expedition -
Environmental Issues - Record
Breakers and Firsts -
Commemorations
216
2000
The New Millennium Celebration -
The Year of Genetics - The Great
Planetary Alignment
248
2002
High-Speed Communications -
AIDS - Bird-Flu - Mars Expeditions -
Human Cloning - Change in Earth’s
Surface - Illinois Death Row
Clemency - The Godless Americans
March - The Earth Summit
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2008
Space Missions - Cities of
Mars/Zion - Change of U.S. Daylight
Saving Time
312
2009
The Year of Anti-Semitic Remarks -
Obama - Extended Poverty
[Financial Crisis] – 28-Year Cycle of
the Sun - New Presidential Elections
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Afterword 390

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Psalms Code
Almanac of Mankind
Introduction
The world is full of lost souls, some who would even
steal, beg or borrow just to witness a proof of God's
existence. The Bible, according to the most, is nothing
but the "tales of the old", and God "does not exist".
What if the Bible is not the "tales of the old" but an
almanac of mankind for events past, present and yet to
happen?
Let us illustrate our thesis, then. Let's pick three
random years within the 20th century - say, 1982, 1992
and 1993. What happened on Earth in 1992 that made
the news? 1992 is the first year since 1922 without the
Soviet Union and the Cold War, as at the end of 1991
the Soviet Union denounced itself.

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What else? 1992 is also the year Michael Drosnin found
about Bible Codes during his visit to Israel. The Energy
Policy Act of 1992 came into effect the same year,
paving the way for the utilization and promotion of
alternative energy resources across U.S. 1992 is also the
year a breakthrough in "in vitro fertilization" (used for
test tube babies) has been developed in Brussels,
Belgium.
The Bible, mainly the Psalms, through "keywords" and
"key phrases" have foretold the mentioned events
thousands of years before they actually "came to pass"
before our very eyes!
The events of year 1992 are foretold in Psalm 92.
Psalms is the 19th Book of the Bible. 19th Book + Psalm
92 = year 1992 events! The same logic applies to any
year in the 20th, or the 21st century. Wonder what will
happen in year 2009? Look up to Psalm 109! How
about year 1982? Study Psalm 82!

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Three layers cover the verses provided in Psalms. On
the first layer, the verses are just prayers, praises to the
Lord. On the second layer, the same verses serve as an
almanac of events bound to happen on Earth within
that year. The third and the final layer unfolds the
galactic events that await on God’s Calendar for the
year in question.
Year 1982
To interpret the 82nd Psalm, one needs to look above -
to the heavens. A rare event took place up in space in
1982, called a “syzygy”, which, according to the 1974’s
best selling book “The Jupiter Effect” was expected to
trigger several catastrophes on Earth within the same
year.
Who is the audience God addresses in this Psalm? We
know that the audience is at a meeting with the Lord in
the “congregation” (assembly).

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The meeting is held for God is to judge and analyze the
performance of the audience. “Ye are gods; and all of
you are children of the most High” reads the verse,
hinting that the meeting is held among God and the
children of God.
Yet, a verse later we are given another clue: “But ye
shall die like men and fall like one of the princes.” If
the audience is the children of the Most High, how
could they die like men? The answer is simple: the
audience is neither men, nor the children of God, but
planets! Planets that “walk on in darkness”. Planets
that “know not, neither understand”, and “shall die
like men, and fall…” – exactly as the verses define!
The year is 1982 - when all the planets gathered on the
same side of the Sun, forming a planetary alignment, a
syzygy – a “congregation”. The verses illustrate The
Lord as the Sun, and the planets as “the children of the
most High”. The entire Psalm hints us the importance
and the effect of planetary motions on human lives.

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The verses also warn about the death of a prince in
1982 with the line “… fall like one of the princes”. The
King and the former Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
died on June 13, 1982.
Year 1992
1992 marks as a pivotal year in the history of mankind.
It is the first year without the Soviet Union and the
Cold War since 1922, as the 1922 Treaty on the creation
of the Soviet Union has been denounced on December
12, 1991.
The Bible refers to the Soviet Union as “workers of
iniquity”. This comes as no surprise since Russia, in her
Communist days, promoted and favored the rights and
needs of the working class. “All the workers of iniquity
shall be scattered” reads the verse, and so it was! The
union of Soviets was no more. The verse is found
within Psalm 92 - the Psalm that is spared for the
events of year 1992. Not anywhere else!

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1992 is also the year Michael Drosnin found about
“Bible Codes” during his visit to Israel and Eliyahu
Rips (one of the world's leading authorities on group
theory - a field of mathematics underlying quantum
physics). Rips used a computer program to locate the
codes in the Torah.
The 92nd Psalm refers to the computer as an
“instrument of ten strings” (a computer keyboard used
with ten fingers!), and explains the usage of computer
on the Bible with the phrase “upon the psaltery”. The
next verse that follows reads “O Lord, how great are
thy works! And thy thoughts are very deep. A bruitsh
man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this”
in reference to the spectacular nature of the Bible Codes
and the holy wisdom behind it.
The phrase “fresh oil” used in Psalm 92/Verse 10
alludes to alternative energy sources, or “The [U.S.]
Energy Policy Act of 1992” which aimed at:

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“restructuring energy markets in the United States.
Energy efficiency programs, the use of alternative
fuels and renewable energy, research and
development programs, and various tax credits and
exemptions are mandated in the Act.(51) Programs
that have the greatest impact on petroleum”.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications
/chronology/petroleumchronology2000.htm - Accessed May 31, 2009.
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The 11th verse within the 92nd Psalm that reads “Mine
eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine
ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up
against me” refers to the establishment of United States
Strategic Command by George Bush, in, yes, year 1992:
"On June 1, 1992, President George H. W. Bush
established the U.S. Strategic Command out of the
Strategic Air Command (SAC) and other Cold War
military bodies, now obsolete due to the change in
world politics."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Strategic_Command -
Accessed May 31, 2009.
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Last but not the least, the 92nd Psalm/13th verse that
reads “those that be planted…” refers to the
development of the “intracytoplasmic sperm injection
(ICSI)” method of single sperms directly into female
eggs ("those that be planted") by Andre van
Steirtegham in Brussels, Belgium, in 1992 – a
breakthrough in “test tube baby” pregnancies.
Year 1993
The year 1993 is remembered for:
1) World Trade Center Bombing
2) The Great Flood in U.S.
3) Inauguration of a New President into the
White House - Bill Clinton
The Bible, namely the 93rd Psalm, foretold all three
events thousands of years before they actually took
place and “came to pass” before our very eyes!

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The 1993 World Trade Center bombing occurred on
February 26, 1993, when a car bomb was detonated
below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in
New York City.
The Bible calls the World Trade Center “the world” in
the first verse, and explains how it “is stablished, that it
cannot be moved”, hinting that no major damage
would be caused by the attacker who “is clothed with
strength”, “wherewith he hath girded himself” in
allusion to the yellow Ryder van that was loaded with
the 1310 lb. bomb used in the bombing.
1993 is also the year Tel Dan Stele was discovered in
Israel – the archaeological proof of King David. The
second verse “thy throne is established of old: thou art
from everlasting” alludes to King David, the author of
most of the Psalms. The discovery of Tel Dan Stele
proved once again that a king named David is not a
fictional character, but a king who actually did reign in
Israel.

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The third verse is self-explanatory: “The floods have
lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their
voice; the floods lift up their waves.” The Bible is
clearly warning the sons and daughters of Jacob
regarding a most deadly flood bound to take its toll
across the US in year 1993.
"The Great Flood of 1993 was among the most costly
and devastating ever to occur in the United States,
with $15 billion in damages. The hydrographic basin
affected covered around 745 miles (1200 km) in
length and 435 miles (700 km) in width, totaling
about 320,000 square miles (840,000 km²). Within
this zone, the flooded area totaled around 30,000
square miles (80,000 km²)[2] and was the worst such
U.S. disaster since the Great Mississippi Flood of
1927, as measured by duration, square miles
inundated, persons displaced, crop and property
damage, and number of record river levels. In some
categories, the 1993 flood even surpassed the 1927
flood, at the time the largest flood ever recorded on
the Mississippi." [The Great Flood of 1993 – Wikipedia]
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Finally, the keywords “throne” and “reigneth” allude
to a new president in the White House; namely Bill
Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States. Bill
Clinton took office in 1993 and served as a president
until 2001.
Conclusion
The sub-title of the book is inspired by Psalms 25:14:
"The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him;
and he will shew them his covenant". The covenant the
Lord signed with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not an
exclusive contract, or an agreement but an almanac, a
history of events promised to the Patriarchs and their
seed directly by the Lord!

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The Psalms Code - The Secret of the Lord studies
several years and exhibits how, through keywords and
key phrases, the mentioned events were foretold in the
Bible roughly 3,000 thousand years before the events
became real! No software or knowledge of Hebrew is
required to unlock the codes found in the Psalms!
Anyone, living in any nation can witness and harness
the codes with their own Bible written in their own
language.
In God's Eyes, the future as we know it is nothing but
past. It is all history to Him. The future events up until
the year 2050 A.D. are given in Psalms. The first Psalm
refers to year 1901 A.D., and the last one to year 2050
A.D. events. Why the year 2050 A.D.? The answer may
be hidden in the 90th Psalm, “a prayer of Moses the
man of God”:
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:
we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years
and ten; and if by reason of strength they be
fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and
sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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1990’s was the last decade of the 20th century and the
2nd millennium. The 90th Psalm refers to year 1990 A.D.
When we add “threescore years and ten” to 1990, we
end up at 2060 A.D. (1990 + (3 x 20) + 10). If we add
“fourscore years” to 1990, we end up at 2070 A.D. (1990
+ (4 x 20)). The last Psalm points to 2050 A.D. Moses
highlights 2060 and 2070 A.D. “… For it is soon cut off,
and we fly away” reads the verse.
Moses makes a reference to an event that will happen
in 2060 or 2070 A.D. which may cause a remnant
among the people of Israel to “fly away”, to leave
Earth, or be taken up by the Lord in order to pursue
life on another planet; possibly on planet Mars - the
biblical Zion, as hinted in several verses in the Old
Testament.
Last but not the least, year 2070 A.D. is a “syzygy” year
– the year of another grand planetary alignment that
takes place in the heavens every 88 years.

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We should also note that each astrological age lasts
about 2,150 years. The Earth is currently in the Age of
Pisces. In year 2150 A.D. (a hundred years or a century
after the year 2050 A.D. the last Psalm refers at) the
Age of Aquarius will start. Since there are 12 signs in
the Zodiac, a full cycle of ages is completed in about
25,800 years (2,150 x 12) forming a “Great Year” or
“Platonic Year”.
Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years
long, on average, but there are various methods of
calculating this length that may yield longer or
shorter time spans depending upon the technique
used. Unlike sun-sign astrology where the first sign
is Aries, followed by Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo,
Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn,
Aquarius, and Pisces, whereupon the cycle returns to
Aries and through the zodiacal signs again, the
astrological ages proceed in the opposite direction or
order. Therefore, the current age, which comes before
the Age of Aquarius, is Pisces. It has been said that
we are currently shifting into the "Aquarian Age".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Aquarius -
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Though it may be hard to predict what will happen in
the upcoming years based only on the given data in the
verses, by the end of the year in question, it will be a
breeze to interpret what the verses have referred to all
along. The Psalms - an almanac (of mankind) it is, and
one precious and brilliant one indeed! Much beyond
that, it is THE "living" PROOF of GOD!
An event mentioned in a certain Psalms is likely to take
place within the associated year almost 99% of the
time. But certain events show and prove that an event
mentioned in Psalms could also "realize" itself within a
maximum of three years from the year or Psalm of
reference.
Isaiah 46:
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am
God, and there is none else; I am God, and there
is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and
from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will
do all my pleasure:

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Finally, contrary to our expectations, a particular event
signaled in the Psalms may actually never happen at
all. The above verses make clear: “My counsel shall
stand, and I will do all my pleasure” says the Lord. It is
God who decides what will happen next! Not us, the
mankind, or our expectations.
Deuteronomy 32:
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no
god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound,
and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver
out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I
live for ever.
There is a God. The LORD of Hosts is His Name. There
is a proof. Psalms (inspired by the Most High roughly
3,000 years ago) is His gift to us, the mankind. There is
no doubt. Psalms enlists all major world events bound
to happen on Earth between 1901 AD and 2050 AD.
There it is. There it was. There it will be!

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1924
• Tsunamis and Floods
• Mining Explorations
• British Mount Everest Expedition 1924
• Volcano Eruptions
• Removal of the Lid of King
Tutankhamen’s Sarcophagus
• Lord’s 1946 Visit to Earth

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Psalms 24:
1 <<A Psalm of David.>> The earth is the LORD'S, and
the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein.
2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and
established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who
shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath
not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn
deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that
seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and
mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is
the King of glory. Selah.

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Introduction
Several floods were recorded across the U.S. in 1924
hinted in the verses with the key phrases “upon the
seas”, “upon the floods”. 1924 is the year Western
Maryland Floods of 1924 were observed. Floods also
hit Louisiana, North Carolina and Washington A
tsunami hit the Coney Island in N.Y and three
instances of tsunamis were recorded at the U.S. island
of Hawaii (then a territory of U.S.) within 1924.
Some major coal, gold, silver, copper and diamond
mines were found in U.S. and across the globe in 1924,
signaled in the 24th Psalm with the verse “The earth is
the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof”. “Uncle Sam”,
the nickname for the largest diamond ever discovered
in the United States was found in 1924 in
Murfreesboro, Arkansas.

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Largest deposits of the rare metal platinum were also
discovered in 1924 by German geologist Dr. Hans
Merensky, in South Africa. One of the most productive
single mines in world history, based on combined
production of lead, silver, copper and zinc, Mount Isa
Mines in North-West Queensland, Australia, was also
found in 1924.
1924 is co-remembered for the British funded attempts
to summit the highest mountain on Earth – Mount
Everest, hinted in the 24th Psalm with the phrase “Who
shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who shall
stand in his holy place?” 1924 is not the year Mount
Everest was summited for the first time in history.
However, a second British attempt was launched to
achieve the feat during the year.
A righteous man would achieve the honor of
summiting Everest, as the Psalm defines, and the New
International Version translation of the same Psalm
that reads ” He will receive blessing from the LORD
and vindication from God his Saviour” pre-signals the
knighthood [Sir] Edmund Hillary would receive in
honor of the feat in year 1953.

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An array of volcano eruptions took place around the
world in 1924, one at the tallest mountain on Earth
(when measured from the sea-floor), Mount Kilauea,
Hawaii, signaled in the verses with the phrase “Lift up
your heads. O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
doors”.
“Who is this King of glory” asks the Psalmist. The King
of Glory, or “Melekh Hakavod “ in Hebrew is one of
the Names of God mentioned in the Bible, symbolically
used in this Psalm for the historic event that happened
in 1924 – the removal of the lid of King Tut’s
sarcophagus. King Tut was and still remains a king of
glory in human terms.
A serious attempt to summit the highest mountain on
Earth (when measured from the sea-level) Mount
Everest, volcano eruptions on the tallest mountain in
the world (when measured from the sea-floor) Mount
Kilauea, the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s mummy
and opening of the (invisible) gates (of the tallest
ancient monuments of the time – pyramids) would
mark 1924 a year full of historic events that would pave
the way for Lord’s visit to Earth in 1946.

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Tsunamis and Floods
[Key phrases: upon the seas, upon the floods]
The Western Maryland Floods of 1924
http://www.whilbr.com/assets/uploads/wcco008s.jpg –
Accessed Sept. 30, 2009.
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A total of four tsunamis were recorded at U.S. shores in
1924. Several floods were also recorded across the U.S.
in 1924 hinted in the verses with the key phrases “upon
the seas”, “upon the floods”.

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A tsunami hit the Coney Island in N.Y and three more
tsunamis were recorded at the [then] U.S. territory of
Hawaii within 1924
1924 is the year Western Maryland Floods of 1924 were
observed. Floods also hit Louisiana, North Carolina
and Washington...

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Mining Explorations
[Key phrase: The earth is the LORD's, and the
fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein]
Several coal, gold, silver, copper and diamond mines
were found in U.S. and across the globe in 1924,
signaled in the 24th Psalm with the verse “The earth is
the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof”.
“Uncle Sam”, the nickname for the largest diamond
ever discovered in the United States was found in 1924
in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Largest deposits of the rare
metal platinum were also discovered in 1924 by
German geologist Dr. Hans Merensky, in South Africa.
One of the most productive single mines in world
history, based on combined production of lead, silver,
copper and zinc, Mount Isa Mines in North-West
Queensland, Australia, was also found in 1924.

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The discovery and mining of Earth’s precious ores
would only tell half of the story behind the 1924
mining rush. The verses speak of yet another find. Not
a precious metal, but something that has to do with
humans, hinted in the verses with the line: “…the
world and they that dwell therein”.
The Taung Baby, a 2.5 million years old skull of a 3
years old baby, an early hominid species that walked
upright, was also discovered in 1924 in Taung, South
Africa – one of the oldest human fossils ever found.
The Taung Baby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taung%27s_child.jpg –
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British Mount Everest Expedition 1924
[Key phrase: Who shall ascend into the hill of the
LORD? Or who shall stand in his holy place?]
Mount Everest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Everest_as_seen_from_Drukair2.jpg -
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Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth when
measured from the sea level. Is it the highest mountain
on Earth when measured from the sea floor? No.

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Mauna Kea, one of five volcanoes which together form
the island of Hawaii (10,203 meters above the floor of
the Pacific Ocean) is the tallest mountain on Earth,
depicted in the verses with the line: “For he hath
founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the
floods”.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, and
the highest point on the Earth's crust, as measured by
the height above sea level of its summit, 8,848 metres
(29,029 ft). The mountain, which is part of the
Himalaya range in Asia, is located on the border
between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet, China.
The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is
Chomolungma or Qomolangma means "Saint
Mother"), and the Chinese transliteration is
Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng which refers to Earth Mother;
the Chinese translation is Shèngmǔ Fēng, which
refers to Holy Mother. According to English accounts
of the mid-19th century, the local name in Darjeeling
for Mount Everest was Deodungha (meaning "holy
mountain"). [14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest -
Accessed on Sept. 30, 2009.
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The British Mount Everest Expedition 1924
The British Mount Everest Expedition 1924 was—
after the British Everest Expedition of 1922—the
second expedition with the goal of achieving the first
ascent of Mount Everest. After two summit attempts
in which Edward Norton set a world altitude record,
the mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew
"Sandy" Irvine disappeared on the third attempt.
Their disappearance has given rise to mountaineering
history's most notorious unanswered question:
whether or not the pair successfully climbed to the
summit. Mallory's body was found in 1999 but the
resulting clues did not provide conclusive evidence as
to whether the summit was reached.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mount_Everest_Expedition_1924
- Accessed Sept. 30, 2009.
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The British mountaineers did not make it. The second
British attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest
was a failure. The verses are clear: “He that had clean
hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his
soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully” could make it
to the top [for the first time]. The right man did not
appear on the “hill of the LORD” until the year 1953.

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Sir Edmund Hillary
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Edmundhillarycroppe
d.jpg - Accessed Sept. 30, 2009.
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20
July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand
mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the
age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing
Norgay became the first climbers known to have
reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were
part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by
John Hunt.

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Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in
secondary school, making his first major climb in
1939, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier. He
served in the RNZAF as a navigator during World
War II. Before the successful expedition in 1953 to
Everest, he had been part of a reconnaissance
expedition to the mountain in 1951 and an
unsuccessful attempt to climb Cho Oyu in 1952. As
part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic
Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in
1958. He would later also travel to the North Pole.
Following his ascent of Everest he devoted much of
his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through
the Himalayan Trust, which he founded. Through his
efforts many schools and hospitals were built in this
remote region of Nepal.
They reached Everest's 29,028 ft (8,848 m) summit,
the highest point on earth, at 11:30 am.[15][1] As
Hillary put it, "A few more whacks of the ice axe in
the firm snow, and we stood on top."[16]
They spent only about 15 minutes at the summit.
They looked for evidence of the 1924 Mallory
expedition, but found none.[17] Hillary took the
famous photo of Tenzing posing with his ice-axe, but
since Tenzing had never used a camera, Hillary's
ascent went unrecorded.[18][19]

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Tenzing left chocolates in the snow as an offering and
Hillary left a cross that he had been given.[10]
Additional photos were taken looking down the
mountain in order to re-assure that they had made it
to the top and that the ascent was not faked.[19] The
two had to take care on the descent after discovering
that drifting snow had covered their tracks,
complicating the task of retracing their steps. The
first person they met was Lowe, who had climbed up
to meet them with hot soup.
“Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.” —
Hillary's first words to lifelong friend George Lowe
on returning from Everest's summit [5][10]
News of the successful expedition reached Britain on
the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The
group was surprised by the international acclaim that
they received upon arriving in Kathmandu.[10]
Hillary and Hunt were knighted by the young
queen,[20] while Tenzing received either the British
Empire Medal,[16] or the George Medal from the
British Government for his efforts with the
expedition.[21][22] It has been suggested that Indian
prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru refused permission
for Tenzing to be knighted.[21].
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On top of the world: Tenzing on the summit of Mt
Everest. Photograph taken by Hillary, 29 May 1953.
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Volcano Eruptions
[Key phrases: Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be
ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, Lift up your heads, O
ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors]
Kilauea, Hawaii.
Photo taken May 22, 1924
http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-developments-and-little-
history.html?showComment=1206138540000 - Accessed Sept. 30, 2009.

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Thirty-two volcano eruptions were recorded in 1924
around the world. With the addition of seventeen
volcanoes that were actively erupting prior to, and
during 1924, a total of forty-nine volcano eruptions
were active during the year.
Volcano eruptions are not rare events. The total
number of volcano eruptions of 1924 was not historical
extremes in either number or size. What makes 1924
volcano eruptions noteworthy is explained in the 24th
Psalm as:
7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift
up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory
shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong
and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them
up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory
shall come in.
“The King of glory shall come in.” The gates, eternal
doors are to lift up their heads. The Lord is to visit the
Earth in year 1946.

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The Bible is clear: The Most High dwells “in” high hills,
high mountains – often in the highest available within
the terrain.
As we shall see when we study the year 2008, Olympus
Mons (Mount Olympus) on planet Mars is the highest
mountain in the Solar System. It is about three times as
high as Mount Everest. The Olympus Mons caldera
and peak marks the “Most High” spot in our Solar
System.
Psalms 68:16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is
the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the
LORD will dwell in it for ever.
Psalms 48:1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to
be praised in the city of our God, in the
mountain of his holiness.
Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last
days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house
shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it.

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Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say,
Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the
LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he
will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and
the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all
my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of
the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover
the sea.
Isaiah 25:6 And in this mountain shall the
LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of
fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat
things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well
refined.
Isaiah 25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand
of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden
down under him, even as straw is trodden down
for the dunghill.
Isaiah 30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night
when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of
heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come
into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty
One of Israel.
Isaiah 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy
mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine
house shall be called an house of prayer for all
people.

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Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the
bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 11:23 And the glory of the LORD went
up from the midst of the city, and stood upon
the mountain which is on the east side of the
city.
Ezekiel 20:40 For in mine holy mountain, in the
mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord
GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of
them in the land, serve me: there will I accept
them, and there will I require your offerings,
and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all
your holy things.
Joel 3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD
your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain:
then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
strangers pass through her any more.
It is thought provoking to see that the Psalmist makes
references to Mount Everest, volcanic eruptions, gates,
eternal doors and Lord’s visit to Earth all in the same
Psalm.

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On God’s calendar, 1924 was destined to be the year a
second historic human attempt to summit a holy hill of
the Lord, namely Mount Everest, the highest mountain
on Earth (when measured from the sea level) would be
due.
Several volcanoes would erupt during the year on
tallest mountains of the Earth (when measured from
the sea floor) - gates, “everlasting doors” would be
opened, or “lift up their heads” so that the Lord would
“come in”.
The entire Psalm highlights the tallest naturally formed
landmarks on Earth – mountains, and in between the
lines, the tallest ancient architectural monuments of the
time – pyramids, and refers to them as the houses and
the gates of the Lord.

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Volcano Eruptions of 1924
Volcano Country / Location Eruption Start Date Eruption Stop Date Max VEI*
Acatenango Guatemala 1924 Dec 18 1925 Jun 7 3
Yake-dake Japan 1924 Nov 16 1926 Jan 27 2
Ebulobo Indonesia 1924 Nov Unknown 2
Iriomote-jima Japan 1924 Oct 31 Unknown 4?
Tongariro New Zealand 1924 Oct 1924 Nov 2
Galeras Colombia 1924 Oct 1927 3
Merapi Indonesia 1924 Sep 10 1924 Sep 12 ± 1 day 1
Asama Japan 1924 Sep 7 1924 Sep 29 2
Fournaise, Piton de la France 1924 Sep 3 1924 Sep 13 2
Komaga-take Japan 1924 Jul 31 Unknown 2
Kilauea United States 1924 Jul 19 1924 Jul 29 0
Tongariro New Zealand 1924 May 22 Unknown 2
Fournaise, Piton de la France 1924 May 19 1924 May 23 (on or after) 0
Kilauea United States 1924 May 10 1924 May 27 2
Karangetang [Api Siau] Indonesia 1924 May Unknown 2
Tandikat Indonesia 1924 Apr 1924 Apr (?) 1
Kolokol Group Russia 1924 Mar 13 Unknown 2?
Batur Indonesia 1924 Mar 1924 Mar (?) 2
Irazú Costa Rica 1924 Mar 1924 Apr 2
Izalco El Salvador 1924 Mar Unknown 2
Raikoke Russia 1924 Feb 15 Unknown 4
Unnamed Russia 1924 Feb 15 Unknown 0
Raung Indonesia 1924 Feb (on or before) Unknown 2
Pavlof United States 1924 Jan 17 Unknown 2
Tongariro New Zealand 1924 Jan 9 1924 Jan 30 2
Babuyan Claro Philippines 1924 Unknown 2
Ketoi Russia 1924 Unknown 2
Bam Papua New Guinea 1924 Unknown 2
Okataina New Zealand 1924 Unknown 1
White Island New Zealand 1924 Unknown 2
Puracé Colombia 1924 Unknown 2
Askja Iceland 1924 (?) Unknown 0?
Soputan Indonesia 1923 Nov 27 1924 Jan 18 2
Popocatépetl México 1923 Nov 27 1924 Mar 7 1
Etna Italy 1923 Oct 9 1925 Feb 1
Papandayan Indonesia 1923 Mar 11 1925 Mar 9 1
Kuwae Vanuatu 1923 1925 2?

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Santa María Guatemala 1922 Jun 22 2009 (continuing) 3
Concepción Nicaragua 1921 Dec 1926 May 2
Nyamuragira Dem Rep Congo 1921 1938 Jan 17 ± 3 days 0
San Miguel El Salvador 1920 Aug 14 1925 2
Masaya Nicaragua 1919 1924 2
Tungurahua Ecuador 1916 Mar 3 1925 Dec 1 ± 30 days 4
Azul, Cerro Chile 1916 1932 Apr 21
5+
Vesuvius Italy 1913 Jul 5 1944 Apr 4 3
Stromboli Italy 1910 May 1931 Jul 3
Kilauea United States 1906 Dec 2 1924 Feb 0
Victory Papua New Guinea 1890 (?) 1935 ± 5 years 2
Yasur Vanuatu 1774 (in or before) 2009 (continuing) 3
* VEI: Volcanic Explosivity Index. Size or “bigness” of eruptions on a
scale of 0-8.
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Volcano
A volcano is an opening (or rupture) in the Earth's surface
or crust, which allows hot, usually molten rock, ash, and
gases to escape from deep below the surface. Volcanic activity
involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or
features like mountains over a period of time.
Volcanoes are generally found where two to three tectonic
plates pull apart or are coming together. A mid-oceanic
ridge, like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes
caused by "divergent tectonic plates" pulling apart; the
Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by
"convergent tectonic plates" coming together. By contrast,
volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates
slide past one another (like the San Andreas fault).
Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching of the
Earth's crust and where the crust grows thin (called "non-
hotspot intraplate volcanism"), such as in the African Rift
Valley or the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel
volcanoes).
Finally, volcanoes can be caused by "mantle plumes," so-
called "hotspots;" these hotspots can occur far from plate
boundaries, such as the Hawaiian Islands. Interestingly,
hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar
system, especially on rocky planets and moons.
http://www.armageddononline.org/volcano.php -
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Is Everest the Tallest Mountain?
The highest mountain is not necessarily the tallest,
considering the difference in height between the peak and the
surrounding base of the mountain. There is no precise
definition of surrounding base, but Mount McKinley,
Mount Kilimanjaro and Nanga Parbat are possible
candidates for the tallest mountain on land by this measure.
The bases of mountain islands are below sea level, and given
this consideration Mauna Kea is the world's tallest
mountain, rising about 10,200 meters (33,500 feet) from the
Pacific floor.
Ojos del Salado has the greatest rise on Earth - 44,029 ft
from the summit to the bottom of the Atacama Trench about
350 miles away, though most of this rise is not part of the
mountain. Nor are they necessarily the largest. Mauna Loa
is the largest mountain on Earth in terms of base area (about
2000 mi2) and volume (about 10,000 mi3), although, due to
the intergrade of lava from Kilauea, Hualalai and Mauna
Kea, the volume can only be estimated based on surface area
and height of the ediface). Mount Kilimanjaro is the largest
non-shield volcano in terms of both base area (245 mi2) and
volume (1150 mi3). Mount Logan is largest non-volcanic
mountain in base area (about 120 mi2).
The highest mountains are not necessarily those farthest
from the centre of the Earth, because the figure of the Earth is
not spherical. Sea level closer to the equator is several miles
farther from the centre of the Earth. The summit of
Chimborazo, Ecuador's tallest mountain, is usually
considered to be the farthest point from the Earth's centre,
although the southern summit of Peru's tallest mountain,
Huascarán, is another contender.[1]
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Olympus, Arsia, Pavonis and Ascraeus Mons
(Mountains) on Mars
http://www.google.com/mars/ -
Right To Left: Great (Khufu) Pyramid, Pyramid of
Khafre and Pyramid of Mankaure
Aerial photography, taken from Eduard Spelterini's
balloon on November 21, 1904
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Spelterini_Pyramids.jp
g - Accessed Sept. 30, 2009.

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Removal of the Lid of King Tutankhamen’s
Sarcophagus
[Key phrases: This is the generation of them that seek
him that seek thy face, O Jacob, Who is this King of
glory?]
The burial mask of Tutankhamen
on display in the Egyptian Museum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tuthankhamun_Egyptian_Museum.jpg -
Accessed December 5, 2009.
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“Who is this King of glory” asks the Psalmist. The King
of Glory, or “Melekh Hakavod “ in Hebrew is one of
the Names of God mentioned in the Bible, symbolically
used in this Psalm for the historic event that happened
in 1924 – the removal of the lid of King Tut’s
sarcophagus. King Tut was and still remains a king of
glory in human terms.
Tutankhamun
(alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon),
(1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of
the 18th dynasty (ruled 1333 BC – 1324 BC in the
conventional chronology), during the period of
Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. His
original name, Tutankhaten, means "Living Image of
Aten", while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of
Amun".
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“This is the generation of them that seek him that seek
thy face, O Jacob” reads the verse. Could Tutankhamen
be a descendant of the biblical Patriarch Jacob? Is that
why the Psalm mentions the face of Jacob; indirectly
referring to the face of Tutankhamen with the line: “…
that seek thy face, o Jacob”?
The original name of Tutankhamen was
“Tutankhaten”, meaning “living image of Aten”.
“Aten” is the name of the God introduced to Egypt by
pharaoh Akhenaten (“effective spirit of Aten”).
Aten
The name of the Egyptian deity Aten transliterates
into the Hebrew word Adon.(25) Adon, which is
translated by English Bibles as "the Lord" (and
Adonai, translated as "my Lord") is used along with
Jehovah (Yhwh) in the Bible as the exclusive personal
names of God. Moreover, in ancient times, the name
Jehovah (Yhwh) was written, but never spoken.

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Whenever the written name Jehovah (Yhwh) was to
be read out loud, Adon (Aten) was voiced
instead.(26) The written form of Adon is infrequent,
however, its limited usage is significant, especially in
the first six books of the Bible (See under "LORD" in
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance), where it is
reserved for the following applications alone: Moses
addresses God using the title Adon/Aten (Exodus
4:10,13; 5:22; 34:9; Numbers 14:17; Deuteronomy
3:23; 7:26; 10:17); Moses, himself, is addressed both
by Aaron (Ex.32:22; Num.12:11) and by Joshua
(Numbers 11:28) using the title Adon/Aten; and
Joshua also addresses God using the title Adon/Aten
(Joshua 5:14 b; 7:7).
As mentioned above, there is an established
relationship between the literature of the Egyptian
18th Dynasty and the Bible. Psalm 104 is an
embellishment of the Hymn to the Aten which was
found by archaeologists at the city of Akhetaten.(27)
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Akhenaten, also known as pharaoh Amenhotep IV,
according to Sigmund Freud in his book “Moses and
Monotheism”, has pioneered the world’s first
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Akhenaten – Amenhotep IV
Biblical Moses?
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Akhenaten
Akhenaten, A Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of
Egypt, he ruled for 17 years and died in 1336 BC or
1334 BC. He is especially noted for abandoning
traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing
worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes
described as monotheistic;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten#Akhenaten_and_Judeo-
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He [Akhenaten] rejected the worship of Amun, the
principal state god of his forefathers, in favor of the
the sun disk, the Aten. He abandoned Thebes, then
the religious capital of Egypt, and moved his
government to a virgin site in Middle Egypt known
today as El-Amarna; it was near this new capital city
that he had his final resting place prepared.
http://guardians.net/hawass/articles/Mystery%20of%20the%20Mumm
y%20from%20KV55.htm - Accessed December 5, 2009.
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Ahmed Osman [an Egyptian-born author and
Egyptologist] has claimed that Akhenaten's maternal
grandfather Yuya was the same person as the Biblical
Joseph. Yuya held the title "Overseer of the Cattle of
Min at Akhmin" during his life. [52]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten#Akhenaten_and_Judeo-
Christian_monotheism - Accessed December 5, 2009.
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Joseph
The story of Joseph is told in Genesis, chapters 37-50
(one of the longest continuous narratives in the
Bible). The favorite son of his father Jacob, Joseph is
sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous brothers, but
rises to become Pharaoh's viceroy, and brings the
Children of Israel (i.e., of Jacob) to Egypt to live in the
land of Goshen.

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Joseph is one of the best-known figures in the Torah,
famous for his coat of many colors [his father Jacob’s
gift to him] (although this is a possible mistranslation
of the Hebrew phrase "kethoneth passim ‫ֶת‬‫נ‬ֹ‫ת‬ ְ‫כּ‬ ‫ים‬ ִ‫סּ‬ַ‫פּ‬"
which means a "shirt with sleeves".[3]) and for his
ability to interpret dreams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_%28Hebrew_Bible%29 –
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If Akhenaten is Joseph’s grandson, could Akhenaten
also be Tutankhamen’s father?
Recently Ahmed Osman has claimed that Moses and
Akhenaten were one and the same person, supporting
his belief by interpreting aspects of biblical and
Egyptian history. This would mesh with Osman's
other claim that Akhenaten's maternal grandfather
Yuya was the same person as the Biblical Joseph.
Others have identified Akhenaton not with a Pharaoh
of close to Moses' times (usually identified as
Rameses II) but with the Pharoah who appointed
Joseph as his vizier.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Akhenaten#Osman.27s
_Theory - Accessed December 5, 2009.
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In 2007, Zahi Hawass and a team of researchers made
CT Scan images of the KV 55 mummy. They have
concluded that the elongated skull, cheek bones, cleft
palate, and impacted wisdom tooth suggest that the
mummy is the father of Tutankhamun, also
commonly known as Akhenaten.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten#Pharaoh_and_family_depicti
ons - Accessed December 5, 2009.
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In 1922, Howard Carter, (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939),
English archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered
Tutankhamen’s intact tomb and received worldwide
press coverage.

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Howard Carter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Howard_carter.jpg –
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In 1924, Howard Carter opened the lid of King Tut’s
stone sarcophagus in search for the mummy of King
Tut. The news spread like wildfire across the globe.
Carter visited the U.S.A within the same year, and gave
illustrated lectures about the discovery of King Tut’s
Tomb.

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The New York Times
Feb. 13, 1924
• "GOLD-CASED MUMMY OF TUT-ANKH-
AMEN IS FOUND IN COFFIN"
• "Opening of the Sarcophagus Reveals Pharaoh
as He Was Laid to Rest 3,300 Years Ago"
• "SPECTACLE IS DAZZLING"
• "IT HAS CROWN AND SCEPTRE"
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The stone sarcophagus of King Tut,
with its cracked lid
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutshrine10.jpg -
The sarcophagus of King Tut without the lid
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutshrine4.jpg -

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A model photo of King Tut computer generated from
CT scans of King Tut’s mummy
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DQk-PjsLD-
A/RzqcjLNXKXI/AAAAAAAAAts/N6JPFJ4H974/s400/capt.e85555894d30451e8c
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On November 4, 2007, the mummy of the boy pharaoh
Tutankhamen was removed from his stone
sarcophagus and was put to display in his tomb in the
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The real face of King Tut revealed to the public
on November 4, 2007
(AFP/Cris Bouroncle)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DQk-PjsLD-
A/Rzqci7NXKWI/AAAAAAAAAtk/zLwapakhaf8/s400/capt.sge.qww09.041107
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[Key phrase: and the King of glory shall come in]
The 24th Psalm highlights the Island of Hawaii on four
accounts. One, it is the home of Mauna Kea, the tallest
mountain on Earth (when measured from the sea
floor). Two, volcanic eruptions would be due on Mount
Kilauea in 1924. Three, tsunamis would hit the island
within the same year (“upon the seas… upon the
floods”). The National Geophysical Data Center
(NGDC) reports three instances of tsunamis for Hawaii
that hit the island during 1924. Four, it is the most
probable location, a possible “presence” site of the
Lord’s future visit to Earth 22 years later in 1946,
depicted in the 24th Psalm with the verse “and the King
of glory shall come in”.

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1946
• Tsunamis
• End of World War II
• Lord’s 1946 Visit to Earth

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Psalms 46:
1 <<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A
Song upon Alamoth.>> God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be
removed, and though the mountains be carried into the
midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad
the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the
most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he
uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our
refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what
desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;
he burneth the chariot in the fire.

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10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted
among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is
our refuge. Selah.

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Introduction
When we move 22 years forward in our time travel
within the verses of Psalms, in the 46th Psalm we read
the verse:
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be
troubled, though the mountains shake with the
swelling thereof. Selah.
“Though the waters thereof roar...” A clear description
of tsunamis… National Geophysical Data Center
(NGDC) enlists almost countless instances of tsunamis
across the globe for 1946, especially for Hawaii. Almost
all of them had a severe magnitude of 8 or more.
A war would have to end in 1946 as hinted in the 46th
Psalm with the key phrase: “He maketh wars to cease
unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and
cutteth the spear in sunder…” The war that ended in
1946 was no other than the World War II, ended on
December 31, 1946 for the United States when
President Harry Truman delivered Proclamation 2714,
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1946 is a year to mark for it is one of the two years
within the 20th century that the Lord visited the Earth;
hinted in 46th Psalm with the key phrase “The LORD of
hosts is with us”.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of
Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

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Tsunamis
[Key phrases: Though the waters thereof roar and be
troubled, though the mountains shake with the
swelling thereof]
The tsunami of April 1, 1946 broke over Pier No. 1
in Hilo Harbor, Hawaii
The man in the foreground (lower left) became one of
the 159 deaths on the islands
Credit: NOAA
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As our year 1924 study exhibited, we knew it would
happen. We knew the Lord would visit the Earth
sometime soon. We were also expecting Hawaii to
move up to headlines when He did. It is in the 46th
Psalm that the good news is given: “The LORD of hosts
is with us”. The LORD has arrived on Earth, in year
1946. As expected, Hawaii would have to be the major
site of His “presence”.
Mystery of Deadly 1946 Tsunami Deepens
By Sarah Davidson,
LiveScience Staff Writer
Posted: 06 December, 2004 9:00 a.m. ET
The word tsunami is Japanese for "great harbor
waves." On the open ocean, however, they are barely
noticeable, looking from the surface like any other
wave. But underneath, a tremendous well of energy
lurks.
A mystery surrounding one of the most destructive
tsunamis of the 20th Century just got more puzzling
as a seafloor search failed to reveal the smoking gun
scientists expected to find.
On April Fools Day in 1946 an earthquake off the
coast of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska spawned a
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One wave as high as a 13-story building hit locally.
Others raced across the Pacific, killing dozens and
leaving a trail of destruction that stretched to
California and even South America.
The earthquake was too small to spawn the huge local
wave, many scientists agree, and they have struggled
for decades to figure out what happened. The leading
theory has been that the earthquake triggered an
underwater landslide, generating a one-two punch.
But a seafloor-mapping project by Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, designed specifically to look for the
cause of the tsunami, didn't find evidence to support
that theory.
"We found no landslide where there should have been
a landslide, where I was positive there had to be a
landslide," Gerard Fryer, a geophysics professor at
the University of Hawaii, told LiveScience. "I was
stunned that there was nothing there.
The first wave of the tsunami on that April 1st nearly
six decades ago reached the big island of Hawaii in
about five hours. The Hilo waterfront was destroyed.
Surges as tall as two- and three-story buildings
pounded several coastal villages. In Haena, the
tsunami reached its maximum height -- in Hawaii,
anyway -- of 45 feet (13.7 meters). The calamity
killed 159 people in Hawaii and caused $26 million in
damage -- in 1946 dollars.
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End of World War II
[Key phrases: He maketh wars to cease unto the end
of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the
spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire]
Mushroom cloud from the atomic explosion over
Nagasaki rising 60,000 feet into the air on the morning
of August 9, 1945
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A war would have to end in 1946 as hinted in the 46th
Psalm with the key phrases: “He maketh wars to cease
unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and
cutteth the spear in sunder…” The war that ended in
1946 was no other than World War II.
On December 31, 1946 President Harry Truman
delivered Proclamation 2714, which officially ended
hostilities in World War II.
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Proclamation 2714
Presidential Proclamation 2714 was signed by
President Harry S. Truman on December 31, 1946 to
officially declare the cessation of all hostilities in
World War II. Even though the actual combat of the
war ended May 8, 1945 in Europe and September 2,
1945 in the Pacific, the state of war was not lifted off
of Japan and Germany in order to give a reason for
the necessity of occupation troops in these countries.
Once the War Crimes Trials were over, the hostilities
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The signing of Proclamation 2714 is the reason why
the U.S. recognizes its World War II veterans as
anyone who has served between the dates of
December 7, 1941 and December 31, 1946.
The declarations of war against Japan and Germany
in 1941 were officially lifted as follows:
• September 8, 1951: Forty-nine nations
sign the Japanese Peace Treaty in San
Francisco, officially ending World War II
and re-establishing Japanese sovereignty.
• October 19, 1951: President Truman
signs an act formally ending World War
II. (After having Congress abolish the
state of war with Germany).
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[Key phrase: The LORD of hosts is with us]
Emblem of the United Nations
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1946 is the year the Lord visited the Earth; hinted in
46th Psalm with the key phrase “The LORD of hosts is
with us”.

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7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of
Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
A year later, in 1947, the LORD left the Earth, as clearly
declared in the 47th Psalm with the verse:
5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with
the sound of a trumpet.
God has gone up! Up from the Earth, to heavens - may
be back to Zion/Mars; His dwelling place, to His holy
mountain - Olympus Mons - the tallest, the “Most
High” mountain in our Solar System.
The Jubilee Year
The Jubilee Year of the Hebrew tradition is observed
every 50 years. Jubilee means “ram”. The Jubilee year
is announced by a blast on an instrument made from a
ram’s horn during that year’s Yom Kippur, “the Day of
Atonement” - the holiest day of the year for religious
Jews.

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Leviticus 25:
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of
years unto thee, seven times seven years; and
the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be
unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile
to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month,
in the day of atonement shall ye make the
trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and
proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all
the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto
you; and ye shall return every man unto his
possession, and ye shall return every man unto
his family.
11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you:
ye shall not sow, neither reap that which
groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it
of thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you:
ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every
man unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or
buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall
not oppress one another:
15 According to the number of years after the
jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and
according unto the number of years of the fruits
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16 According to the multitude of years thou
shalt increase the price thereof, and according to
the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the
price of it: for according to the number of the
years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another;
but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD
your God.
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The Laws of the Jubilee Year
The laws of the jubilee year were such as to enable
each Jew to begin life again on an equal basis. Thus,
all land sold since the previous jubilee had to revert to
the original owner, this ultimately meaning the
original families to whom the land had been assigned
after Joshua's conquest of the land. All Jewish slaves,
including those who had voluntarily accepted a
continuation of their slavery after their term had
expired, had to be released and given a grant to enable
them to begin life anew. If applied perfectly, these
provisions would insure that no individual amassed
excessive wealth, nor would any Jew be reduced to
perpetual poverty and servitude.
All the agricultural laws of the sabbatical year, such
as leaving the land fallow, were also in effect in the
jubilee year. As the laws of the jubilee year depended
on all the 12 tribes living in their own land, the Jews
who returned to the Land of Israel after the
Babylonian Exile no longer kept these laws.
(Encyclopedia of Judaism)
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Could the Lord be visiting the Earth every 50 years? Is
that why the Jews observe a Jubilee year? If so, when
would be the Lord’s next visit be due?
Since the Lord’s first visit within the 20th century took
place in 1946, and the Lord “is gone up with a shout” a
year later in 1947, His next visit would have to be due
50 years later, in 1996.
What does the 96th Psalm say about Lord’s 1996 visit to
Earth? Or does it say anything at all?
Psalms 96:
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be
glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein:
then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he
cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the
world with righteousness, and the people with
his truth.
Yes, the Lord did visit the Earth again in 1996! “For he
cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth” reads the 96th
Psalm confirming Lord’s second visit to Earth within
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Let’s study the 1945-1948 world events and see what
the aftermath of Lord’s first visit of the 20th century
might have been.
United Nations, the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund were all founded on the last days of
1945. United Nations was officially founded on 24
October 1945, the World Bank and I.M.F. on 27
December 1945.
In the same year, the Zionist World Congress
approached the British government to discuss the
founding of the country of Israel. For United States, the
hostilities of World War II officially ended on
December 31, 1946. The U.N. held its first meeting in
London in 1946. In 1947, on November 29, the United
Nations General Assembly voted to partition Palestine
between Arab and Jewish regions, which resulted in
the creation of the State of Israel. Israel declared
independence on 14 May 1948. Finally, the U.N.
adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in
1948.

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Flag of the United Nations
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United Nations
Following in the wake of the failed League of Nations
(1919–1946), which the United States never joined,
the United Nations was established in 1945 to
maintain international peace and promote
cooperation in solving international economic, social
and humanitarian problems. The earliest concrete
plan for a new world organization was begun under
the aegis of the U.S. State Department in 1939.
Franklin D. Roosevelt first coined the term 'United
Nations' as a term to describe the Allied countries.
The term was first officially used on January 1, 1942
when 26 governments signed the Atlantic Charter,
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On 25 April 1945, the UN Conference on
International Organization began in San Francisco,
attended by 50 governments and a number of non-
governmental organizations involved in drafting the
Charter of the United Nations. The UN officially
came into existence on 24 October 1945 upon
ratification of the Charter by the five permanent
members of the Security Council—France, the
Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United
Kingdom and the United States—and by a majority
of the other 46 signatories. The first meetings of the
General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, and
the Security Council, took place in Westminster
Central Hall in London in January 1946.[4]
Since its creation, there has been controversy and
criticism of the UN organization. In the United
States, an early opponent of the UN was the John
Birch Society, which began a "get US out of the UN"
campaign in 1959, charging that the UN's aim was
to establish a "One World Government." After the
Second World War, the French Committee of
National Liberation was late to be recognized by the
US as the government of France, and so the country
was initially excluded from the conferences that
aimed at creating the new organization. Charles de
Gaulle criticized the UN, famously calling it le
machin ("the thingie"), and was not convinced that a
global security alliance would help maintaining
world peace, preferring direct defence treaties
between countries.[5]
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World Bank logo
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/World_Bank_Logo.s
vg - Accessed December 11, 2009.
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The World Bank
Founded: 27 December 1945
The World Bank is one of two major institutions
created as a result of the Bretton Woods Conference
in 1944. The International Monetary Fund, a related
but separate institution, is the second. Delegates from
a wide variety of countries attended the Bretton
Woods Conference, but the most powerful countries
in attendance, the United States and United
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From its conception until 1967 the bank undertook a
relatively low level of lending. Fiscal conservatism
and careful screening of loan applications was
generally accepted practice at the World Bank during
this early period. Bank staff attempted to balance the
priorities of providing loans for reconstruction and
development with the need to instill confidence in the
bank as a reliable institution suitable for
investment.[5]Bank president John McCloy selected
France to be the first recipient of World Bank aid; two
other applications presented at this time from Poland
and Chile were rejected. The loan was for $987
million, half the amount requested, and came with
strict conditions. Staff from the World Bank
monitored the end use of the funds, ensuring that the
French government would present a balanced budget
and give priority of debt repayment to the World
Bank over other foreign governments. The United
States State Department also acted at this time to
inform the French Government that Communist
elements within the Cabinet needed to be removed.
The French Government complied with this request
and removed the Communist elements from the 1947
coalition government. Within hours of this event the
loan to France was approved.[6]
The Marshall Plan of 1947 caused lending practices
at the bank to be altered, as many European countries
received aid that competed directly with World Bank
loans. Emphasis was shifted to non-European
countries and, up until 1968, loans were primarily
earmarked for projects that would directly enable a
borrower country to repay loans (such projects as
ports, highway systems, and power plants).
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International Monetary Fund
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Founded: 27 December 1945
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an
international organization that oversees the global
financial system by following the macroeconomic
policies of its member countries, in particular those
with an impact on exchange rates and the balance of
payments.

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It is an organization formed with a stated objective of
stabilizing international exchange rates and
facilitating development.[3] It also offers highly
leveraged loans mainly to poorer countries. Its
headquarters are located in Washington, D.C.,
United States.
The International Monetary Fund was formally
created in July 1944 during the United Nations
Monetary and Financial Conference. The
representatives of 44 governments met in the Mount
Washington Hotel in the area of Bretton Woods, New
Hampshire, United States of America, with the
delegates to the conference agreeing on a framework
for international economic cooperation.[11] The IMF
was formally organised on December 27, 1945, when
the first 29 countries signed its Articles of
Agreement. The statutory purposes of the IMF today
are the same as when they were formulated in 1943.
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1969
• Richard Nixon
• Watergate Scandal
• Woodstock Festival
• First Man on the Moon
• Zion/Mars Colonization

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Psalms 69:
1 <<To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm
of David.>> Save me, O God; for the waters are come
in unto my soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am
come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine
eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the
hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being
mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored
that which I took not away.
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins
are not hid from thee.
6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts,
be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be
confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame
hath covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an
alien unto my mother's children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the
reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen
upon me.

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10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,
that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a
proverb to them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was
the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in
an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy
mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let
me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the
deep waters.
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the
deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her
mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good:
turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender
mercies.
17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in
trouble: hear me speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me
because of mine enemies.
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and
my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

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20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of
heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there
was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my
thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that
which should have been for their welfare, let it become
a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and
make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy
wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell
in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;
and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast
wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not
come into thy righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O
God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will
magnify him with thanksgiving.

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31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or
bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your
heart shall live that seek God.
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not
his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and
every thing that moveth therein.
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of
Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in
possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and
they that love his name shall dwell therein.

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Introduction
In order to interpret the message of the 69th Psalm
fully, we must picture the entire Psalm as a prayer of
President Richard Nixon addressed directly to the
Lord. Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the
United States who served from 1969 to 1974.
”I will praise the name of God with a song” reads
another verse in allusion to Nixon’s ability to play the
piano and write songs.
The 69th Psalm alludes to the future Watergate scandal
with the key phrase “Let not the waterflood overflow
me”, figuratively voiced by Nixon in an illustrative
prayer.

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The legendary Woodstock rock festival was held the
same year. The tension between President Richard
Nixon and the anti-war, pro-peace “hippies” is also
depicted in the verses with a Nixon’s curse of the
crowd: “Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not;
and make their loins continually to shake” – a clear
description of the face and body of a rock music lover,
a Woodstock attendee.
1969 was the year of lunar landing, the first man on the
Moon. “I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing:
I am come into deep waters” reads another verse in
allusion to the lighter gravity of the Moon and the U.S.
Apollo program that sent three men into the deep
space, and put the first man on the Moon for the first
time ever in the history of mankind.

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The final verses of the Psalm that reads: “For God will
save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they
may dwell there, and have it in possession. The seed
also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love
his name shall dwell therein” highlights Zion, the
planet Mars and depicts how the U.S. (“and they that
love his name”) will again fathom the task of
colonizing it (“will build the cities of Judah”), much
like the way the U.S. put the first man on the Moon in
1969.

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Richard Nixon
[Key phrase: I will praise the name of God with a
song]
Richard Milhous Nixon
(January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Nixon.jpg –
Accessed December 15th, 2009.
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The 69th Psalm spared for the events of the year 1969 is
one long prayer figuratively voiced by the President of
the year – Richard Nixon.

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The entire context of the Psalm describes the trouble
that faced President Nixon in 1969 and in the years to
come: the Vietnam War, his tension with the
Woodstock community, his much-debated visit to
China and the Watergate scandal that would finally
lead to his resignation from the office.
The key phrase “I will praise the name of God with a
song” alludes to Nixon’s ability to play the piano and
write songs. Not too many U.S. Presidents are known
for their musical talents or their ability to write songs.
But it is in the 69th Psalm that we run into the verse: “I
will praise the name of God with a song” – 1969 was
the first year of Richard Nixon’s presidency.

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Nixon playing the piano,
Beverly Hills, California, 1962
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Richard Milhous Nixon
(January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th
President of the United States from 1969–1974 and
was also the 36th Vice President of the United States
(1953–1961). Nixon has been the only President to
resign the office and also the only person to be elected
twice in both the offices of the Presidency and Vice
presidency.
Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After
completing undergraduate work at Whittier College,
he graduated from Duke University School of Law in
1937 and returned to California to practice law in La
Habra. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the
United States Navy, serving in the Pacific theater,
and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander
during World War II. He was elected in 1946 as a
Republican to the House of Representatives
representing California's 12th Congressional district,
and in 1950 to the United States Senate. He was
selected to be the running mate of Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the Republican Party nominee, in the
1952 Presidential election, becoming one of the
youngest Vice Presidents in history. He waged an
unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960,
narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy, and an
unsuccessful campaign for Governor of California in
1962; following these losses, Nixon announced his
withdrawal from the political scene. In 1968,
however, he ran again for president of the United
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The most immediate task facing President Nixon was
a resolution of the Vietnam War. He initially
escalated the conflict, overseeing incursions into
neighboring countries, though American military
personnel were gradually withdrawn and he
successfully negotiated a ceasefire with North
Vietnam in 1973, effectively ending American
involvement in the war.
His foreign policy initiatives were largely successful:
his groundbreaking visit to the People's Republic of
China in 1972 opened diplomatic relations between
the two nations, and he initiated détente and the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union.
On the domestic front, he implemented new economic
policies which called for wage and price control and
the abolition of the gold standard. He was reelected by
a landslide in 1972. In his second term, the nation
was afflicted with economic difficulties. In the face of
likely impeachment for his role in the Watergate
scandal,[1] Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. He
was later pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford, for
any federal crimes he may have committed while in
office.
In his retirement, Nixon became a prolific author and
undertook many foreign trips. His work as an elder
statesman helped to rehabilitate his public image. He
suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and
died four days later at the age of 81.
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Watergate Scandal
[Key phrases: Let not the waterflood overflow me,
They that sit in the gate speak against me]
The Watergate complex,
where the break-in occurred
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The Watergate scandal of 1972 is foretold in the verses
of the 69th Psalm with the above key phrases. President
Richard Nixon was accused of having a tape recording
system that recorded several conversations at the
Watergate office complex located in Washington D.C.
The scandal was named after the office complex it
occurred in; called “the gate” and “waterflood” in the
verses.
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The Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the
United States in the 1970s. Named for the Watergate
office complex in Washington, D.C., effects of the
scandal ultimately led to the resignation of Richard
Nixon, President of the United States, on August 9,
1974. It also resulted in the indictment and
conviction of several Nixon administration officials.
The scandal began with the arrest of five men for
breaking and entering into the Democratic National
Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on
June 17, 1972. The subsequent investigation by the
FBI connected the men to the 1972 Committee to Re-
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President Nixon's staff conspired to cover up the
break-in.[2] As evidence mounted against the
president's staff, which included former staff
members testifying against them in an investigation
conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it
was revealed that President Nixon had a tape
recording system in his offices and that he had
recorded many conversations.[3][4] Recordings from
these tapes implicated the president, revealing that he
had attempted to cover up the break-in.[2][5] After a
series of court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that the president had to hand over the tapes; he
ultimately complied. Facing near-certain
impeachment in the House of Representatives and a
strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon
resigned the office of the presidency on August 9,
1974.[6][7] His successor, Gerald Ford, would issue a
pardon unto President Nixon.
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Woodstock Festival
[Key phrases: They that hate me without a cause are
more than the hairs of mine head, Let their eyes be
darkened, that they see not; and make their loins
continually to shake, I was the song of the drunkards,
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in
their tents, I became a proverb to them]
Woodstock Poster
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/b/b7/20091009151745!Woo
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“They that hate me without a cause are more than the
hairs of mine head” alludes to the 300,000 Woodstock
attendees (also called “hippies” by some). The word
“hair” is not used without a reason in the verses. Hair
was a 1968 Broadway musical that had a deep impact
on the “hippie” line of thought and lifestyle during the
late 60’s and 70’s.
Hair
Hair is a 1979 film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway
musical of the same title about a Vietnam war draftee
who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies
on his way to the army induction center. The hippies
introduce him to their environment of marijuana,
LSD, and unorthodox relationships.
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The Woodstock Festival was held 43 miles southwest
of the town Woodstock, New York in 1969. 300,000
people attended the festival. Several popular rock, folk
and blues bands of the day took the stage at
Woodstock during the “3 days of peace and music”
event.

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The hidden tension between the “hippie”, “pro-peace”,
anti-war Woodstock crowd and President Nixon is
highlighted in the Psalm with the verses: “I was the
song of the drunkards”, “Let their habitation be
desolate; and let none dwell in their tents”, “Let their
eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
loins continually to shake” – a clear description of the
lifestyle, face and body of a rock music lover or a
Woodstock attendee.
Woodstock Festival
Although the festival was remarkably peaceful given
the number of people and the conditions involved,
there were two recorded fatalities: one from what was
believed to be a heroin overdose and another caused in
an accident when a tractor ran over an attendee
sleeping in a nearby hayfield.
Yet, in tune with the idealistic hopes of the 1960s,
Woodstock satisfied most attendees. There was a
sense of social harmony, the quality of music, and the
overwhelming mass of people, many sporting
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After the concert, Max Yasgur, who owned the site of
the event, saw it as a victory of peace and love. He
spoke of how nearly half a million people filled with
possibilities of disaster, riot, looting, and catastrophe
spent the three days with music and peace on their
minds. He states that "if we join them, we can turn
those adversities that are the problems of America
today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful
future..."[4]
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The verse “I became a proverb to them” alludes to the
historical phrase “Nixon goes to China” that emerged
in the late 1970’s, which meant, “it took Nixon to go to
China”, several years after Nixon’s visit to China.

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Nixon Goes to China
The phrase "Nixon goes to China" or "Nixon in
China" [1] is a historical reference to United States
President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's
Republic of China in 1972, where he met with
Chairman Mao Zedong. As a political metaphor, it
refers to the enhanced legitimacy that hardline leaders
possess in making peace with opposing countries or
political movements, or reforming aspects of the
political system they have been strong supporters of.
A more explicit variant with the same metaphor is
"Only Nixon could go to China" or "It took Nixon to
go to China"
Nixon's China visit was of particular significance
because it marked the beginning of a process of
normalization in Sino-American relations — the two
countries had been estranged for many years as the
U.S. was ardently anti-Communist and China had
viewed the United States as its top enemy. Because
Nixon had an undisputed reputation of being a
staunch anti-Communist, he was largely immune to
any criticism of being "soft on Communism" by
figures on the right of American politics. The phrase
"Nixon going to China" is thus an analogy that
refers to the unique ability that hardline politicians
have to challenge political taboos and third-rail
issues.

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The phrase emerged by the late 1970s, several years
after Nixon's visit to China. An early example of use
of the phrase was its use by Democratic congressmen
Tom Foley in 1977, who stated, "It took a Nixon to
go to China, and it may take a Democrat to balance
the budget."[2][3] Its best known use, however, came
in 1991 in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country, where "Only Nixon could go to China" is
quoted by Spock as an "an ancient Vulcan proverb".
In the context of the film, it is stated as a reason why
James T. Kirk should escort the the Klingon
chancellor to Earth for peace negotiations. The phrase
has been widely quoted since then.
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First Man on the Moon
[Key phrases: I sink in deep mire, where there is no
standing, I am come into deep waters, I am become a
stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
mother's children, hear me speedily]
First step on the Moon
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The verse: “I am come into deep waters” alludes to the
U.S. Apollo space program that took three U.S.
astronauts into the deep space and up on the Moon. “I
sink in deep mire, where there is no standing” reads
another verse in allusion to the lighter gravity of the
Moon. “I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and
an alien unto my mother’s children” reads the Psalm,
reporting from the viewpoint of Neil Alden
Armstrong, the first man “alien” to set foot on the
Moon.
“Hear me speedily” reads another verse in allusion to
the telephone call Nixon placed to Armstrong on the
Moon, the longest distance phone call ever and called it
“the most historic phone call ever made from the White
House”.

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Zion/Mars Colonization
[Key phrases: For God will save Zion, and will build
the cities of Judah, they that love his name shall
dwell therein]
Nixon visits the Apollo 11 astronauts in quarantine
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The final verses: “For God will save Zion, and will
build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and
have it in possession. The seed also of his servants shall
inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell
therein” highlight Zion, the planet Mars and how the
U.S. (“and they that love his name”) will again fathom
the task of colonizing it (“will build the cities of
Judah”), the same way the U.S., the only nation in the
world with the national motto: “In God We Trust”,
succeeded in putting the first man on the Moon.
On January 5, 1972, Nixon approved the
development of NASA's Space Shuttle program,[107]
a decision that profoundly influenced American
efforts to explore and develop space for several
decades thereafter. Under the Nixon administration,
however, NASA's budget declined.[108] NASA
Administrator Thomas O. Paine was drawing up
ambitious plans for the establishment of a permanent
base on the Moon by the end of the 1970s and the
launch of a manned expedition to Mars as early as
1981. Nixon, however, rejected this proposal.[109]
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1982
• Syzygy
• The Jupiter Effect
• The Death of a Prince

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Psalms 82:
1 <<A Psalm of Asaph.>> God standeth in the
congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the
gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the
persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the
afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand
of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they
walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth
are out of course.
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children
of the most High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the
princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit
all nations.

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Introduction
To interpret the 82nd Psalm, one needs to look above - to
the heavens. A rare event took place up in space in 1982,
called a “syzygy”, which, according to the 1974’s best-
selling book “Jupiter Effect” was expected to trigger
several catastrophes on Earth within the same year.
The entire Psalm hints us the importance and the effect
of planetary motions on human lives.
Three layers cover the verses provided in Psalms. On
the first layer, the verses are just prayers, praises to the
Lord. On the second layer, the same verses serve as an
almanac of events bound to happen on Earth year by
year. The third and the final layer unfolds the galactic
events that await on God’s Calendar.
The verses also warn about the death of a prince in
1982 with the line “… fall like one of the princes”. The
King and the former Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
died on June 13, 1982.

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Syzygy
[Key phrase: Ye are gods; and all of you are children
of the most High]
Syzygy
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Who is the audience God addresses in this Psalm? We
know that the audience is at a meeting with the Lord
in the “congregation” (assembly).

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The meeting is held for God is to judge and analyze
the performance of the audience. “Ye are gods; and all
of you are children of the most High” reads the verse,
hinting that the meeting is held among God and the
children of God.
Yet, a verse later we are given another clue: “But ye
shall die like men and fall like one of the princes.” If
the audience is the children of the Most High, how
could they die like men?
The answer is simple: the audience is neither men, nor
the children of God, but planets! Planets that “walk on
in darkness”. Planets that “know not, neither
understand”, and “shall die like men, and fall…” –
exactly as the verses define!
The year is 1982 - when all the planets gathered on the
same side of the Sun forming a syzygy – a
“congregation”. The verses illustrate The Lord as the
Sun, and the planets as “the children of the most
High”.

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Syzygy
In broadest terms, syzygy (pronounced / sɪzɨdʒi/) is a
kind of unity, especially through coordination or
alignment, most commonly used in the astronomical
and/or astrological sense.[1] Syzygy is derived from
the Late Latin syzygia, "conjunction," from the
Greek σύζυγος (syzygos).
In astronomy, a syzygy is the alignment of three
or more celestial bodies in the same
gravitational system along a straight line. The
word is usually used in context with the Sun, Earth,
and the Moon or a planet, where the latter is in
conjunction or opposition. Solar and lunar eclipses
occur at times of syzygy, as do transits and
occultations. The term is also applied to each
instance of new moon or full moon when Sun and
Moon are in conjunction or opposition, even though
they are not precisely on one line with the Earth.
The word 'syzygy' is often loosely used to describe
interesting configurations of planets in general. For
example, one such case occurred on March 21, 1894
at around 23:00 GMT, when Mercury transited the
Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus
both simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from
Saturn. It is also used to describe situations when all
the planets are on the same side of the Sun although
they are not necessarily found along a straight line,
such as on March 10, 1982.
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The Jupiter Effect
[Key phrase: the foundations of the earth are out of
course]

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The Jupiter Effect, a bestselling book of 1974, pre-
warned that the expected syzygy of 1982 could trigger
several catastrophes on Earth. The scientists were
skeptical about the idea and found it to be an
exaggerated and a pessimistic view regarding the
aftermath of the 1982 Syzygy.
The Bible, however, warns that the cons are wrong for
“the foundations of the earth are out of course”! No
major catastrophes took place in 1982, but later in late
90’s, we all know that earthquakes, tsunamis and
tornados of almost all scales did hit the Earth one after
the other and caused hundreds of thousands of
casualties on Earth.
The Jupiter Effect
The Jupiter Effect is a bestselling 1974 book by John
Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann, which predicted
that an alignment of the planets would create a
number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake
on the San Andreas Fault, on March 10, 1982. The
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Astronomers had long been aware that there would be
an alignment of the planets on that date, when
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto and
Saturn would be on the same side of the Sun, within
a 95 degree wide interval. But no effect could be
expected as the gravitational effect of the other planets
on the Earth's crust is minimal even at their closest
approach. The book sought to partially sidestep these
objections by considering the effect of the alignment
on the Sun, and hence on the solar wind, which in
turn is known to affect weather on Earth.
Atmospheric conditions on Earth can alter the speed
of its rotation. The effect on the Sun would also be
quite small, however, and in fact there had been an
even closer alignment in the year 1128 without
incident.
There was some influence by the planets, with high
tide calculated at 0.04 millimeters higher than
normal. In April 1982, Gribbin and Plagemann
published a lesser-selling book, The Jupiter Effect
Revisited, theorizing that the effect had actually taken
place in 1980, despite a lack of alignment, and had
triggered the eruption of Mount St. Helens. In his
1999 book "The Little Book of Science," Dr. Gribbin
said of his theory "...I don't like it, and I'm sorry I
ever had anything to do with it."
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The Jupiter Effect
by Larry Gedney
The Geophysical Institute has been receiving
inquiries about dire events, including earthquakes,
that are supposed to plague the earth in 1982 because
of something to do with alignment of the planets.
This leads us again to comment on the "Jupiter
Effect," a name taken from the book published in
1974 by astronomers John Gribbin and Stephen
Plagemann. While the book was undoubtedly a
financial success, it has caused much needless
concern and has proven to be a scientific flop.
Briefly, the authors proposed the following bizarre
chain of events: When the planets are aligned on one
side of the sun, the tidal forces create sunspots which
create solar flares which create streams of solar
particles which enter the earth's upper atmosphere
which changes the weather which slows the rate of the
earth's rotation which triggers earthquakes. Got it?
Among other unpleasant happenings would be the
modification of rainfall and temperature patterns and
the disruption of radio communications. Of course,
the increased solar activity would also produce
spectacular auroras.
To begin with, the basic concept (as depicted on the
book's cover) is that in 1982 all the planets will be
lined up like a row of soldiers on parade, and this just
isn't so. In fact, the smallest angular separation of the
four major planets--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
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There are many other weaknesses to the "theory."
Two are that the tiny tidal bulge created on the sun
will be several million times smaller than that raised
on the earth by the moon, and there are no proven
connections between solar activity and the earth's
rate of spin. Further, a check of the Geophysical
Institute's records on solar activity for early 1982
reveals no anomalous behavior aside from occasional
"storms" which are to be expected.
None of this, however, should be taken to mean that
Alaska will not experience earthquakes in 1982. It
will, because it does in any given year at the rate of a
couple dozen a day, most of which are too small to
feel. The chances that large earthquakes anyplace in
the world during 1982 can be attributed to triggering
by the "Jupiter Effect" are, for all practical purposes,
nil. Most scientists have never taken the proposal
seriously anyway. Famed seismologist Charles
Richter of CalTech, for instance, was led to observe in
1974 that it was "pure astrology in disguise." "In
fact," he said, "it is very close to pure fantasy."
John Gribbin closes the episode in the July 17, 1980
issue of New Scientist where he retracts his theory,
claiming that he was "too clever by half." (By this he
explains he means that if he had jiggled the figures a
little differently, he could have predicted the Mt. St.
Helens eruption.) It is as one of the book's chief
critics astronomer Jean Meeus tersely commented in
1975, "The Jupiter Effect does not exist."
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The Death of a Prince
[Key phrase: fall like one of the princes]
Thousands of years before the arrival of year 1982, the
Bible informed about the death of a prince in 1982!
Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia died on
June 13, 1982. He was a king, not a prince when he
died. However, he had actually given effective control
of the country to his half-brother, Crown Prince Fahd.
During the official reign of Khalid bin Abdul-Aziz, the
Crown Prince Fahd served as the actual king, and King
Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, the formal king, as the
informal Crown Prince. The two half-brothers had
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Khalid bin Abdul Aziz,
King of Saudi Arabia
(Arabic: ‫دلاخ‬ ‫نب‬ ‫دبع‬ ‫زيزعلا‬ ‫لآ‬ ‫دوعس‬ b. 1912–June
13, 1982) was King of Saudi Arabia from the
assassination of King Faisal in 1975 until his own
death in 1982. Khalid was named Crown Prince in
1965, after his older brother (and only full brother)
Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud declined a place
in the succession. He was not very interested in
politics and gave effective control of the country to
his half-brother, Crown Prince Fahd. Khalid's
preparation for ruling a modern state included his
accompanying Faisal on foreign missions and
representing Saudi Arabia at the United Nations. He
was more liberal in terms of informing the press of
the rationale behind foreign policy decisions.
Khalid bin Abdul Aziz
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1987
• The Mars Declaration

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Psalms 87:
1 <<A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.>> His
foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the
dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.
Selah.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them
that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with
Ethiopia; this man was born there.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was
born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the
people, that this man was born there. Selah.
7 As well the singers as the players on instruments
shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

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Introduction
The biblical “Zion” is synonymous with planet Mars.
When “Zion” is mentioned within a Psalm, we can
almost 100% be sure that an event concerning Mars is
due within the corresponding year of the verse.
1987 is one of them. “The Lord loveth the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob” reads the verse in
allusion to Mount Olympus, the highest (“Most High”)
mountain in the Solar System located in the Eastern
Tharsis region of the planet along with three other
volcanoes of lesser height - Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis
Mons, and Arsia Mons.
In 1987, The Planetary Society published “The Mars
Declaration”, a full-page ad in the Washington Post,
calling the people and the “spacefaring nations” of the
world to participate in promoting further Mars
exploration and a manned-mission to Mars; hinted in
the Psalm with verse “Glorious things are spoken of
thee, O city of God”.

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The verses foretell how, in the future, those who will be
born on Mars shall be considered special in the eyes of
the Lord, and by those born on Earth.
Finally, the verse “the highest himself shall establish
her” hints us how the Lord Himself will personally
“establish” Mars.
Psalms 102:16:
When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall
appear in his glory.

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[Key phrases: The LORD loveth the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob, Glorious things
are spoken of thee, O city of God.]
This mosaic of Mars is a compilation of images
captured by the Viking Orbiter 1
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As we have studied in year 1924, the Lord dwells in the
holy mountains. The first verse of the 87th Psalm reads
“His foundation is in the holy mountains”. “Glorious
things are spoken of thee, o city of God” goes on the
Psalm concerning to-be-built cities “Moab” and
“Edom” right on Mars. As our year 2008 study will
further exhibit, two “albedos” [plains] named “Moab”
and “Edom”, named in 1958, have existed on Mars
maps for decades now.
Following the highly successful Viking 1 and Viking 2
Mars exploration programs of NASA, launched on
August 20, 1975, shut-down on May 21, 1983, the
mankind now had a valuable database of information
about Mars collected with the Viking orbiters and
landers.

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NASA’s Viking Program
NASA's Viking program consisted of a pair of space
probes sent to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each
vehicle was composed of two main parts, an orbiter
designed to photograph the surface of Mars from
orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from
the surface. The orbiters also served as
communication relays for the landers once they
touched down.
It was the most expensive and ambitious mission ever
sent to Mars. It was highly successful and formed
most of the database of information about Mars until
the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Viking program
grew from NASA's earlier, and more ambitious
Voyager Mars program, which was not related to the
successful Voyager deep space probes of the late
1970s. Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975,
and the second craft, Viking 2, was launched on
September 9, 1975, both riding atop Titan III-E
rockets with Centaur upper stages. Each spacecraft
consisted of an orbiter and a lander. After orbiting
Mars and returning images used for landing site
selection, the orbiter and lander detached and the
lander entered the Martian atmosphere and soft-
landed at the selected site. The orbiters continued
imaging and performing other scientific operations
from orbit while the landers deployed instruments on
the surface.
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NASA’s Project Viking Patch
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The success of NASA’s Viking Mars exploration
program brought Mars up on headlines across the
globe. All of a sudden, people started talking about
Mars [named after the Roman God of War, also known
as the “Red Planet”] studying its features, forming
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To stop the United States from “pulling back from the
new frontier of space”, The Planetary Society, a public,
non-profit organization was founded by Bruce Murray,
Carl Sagan, and Louis Friedman in 1980. The rest was
history. In their own words:
The Planetary Society
In 1980, the United States, which had so boldly sent
human emissaries to walk on the Moon, was on the
verge of pulling back from the new frontier of space.
NASA and the U.S. political leadership were content
to limit space missions to operations as a “trucking
company” to and from low Earth orbit. Planetary
exploration, so enthusiastically begun in the wake of
SPUTNIK and EXPLORER, was to be eliminated
from NASA’s charge, even as VOYAGER was in the
midst of its triumphant mission to the outer planets.
We were sitting there watching the coffin being
nailed shut, and what was inside was imagination
and vision. With Carl Sagan, we determined to
change that. We believed that many members of the
public—inside the United States and outside—
passionately wanted the great adventure of space to
continue. The trick would be to convince the
politicians that this was true. We chose to do this by
forming a grass-roots organization for those who
cared about space exploration, so together we formed
The Planetary Society.
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In 1981, Senator William Proxmire targeted NASA’s
SETI program for elimination. With his considerable
persuasive powers, [Planetary] Society President
Carl Sagan, convinced Proxmire to spare the
government program.
In 1987, The Planetary Society published the Mars
Declaration in the Washington Post, calling on the
spacefaring nations to join together to send humans
to explore the Red Planet.
Through a series of public demonstrations and
technical partnerships, we promoted robotic rovers as
planetary explorers. In 1997, Mars Pathfinder carried
the rover Sojourner to the planet’s surface, and the
age of rover exploration began.
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THE MARS DECLARATION
The Planetary Society
More than 130,000 people have signed the following document
to show their commitment for human exploration of the planets.
Mars is the world next door, the nearest planet on
which human explorers could safely land. Although il
is sometimes as warm as a New England October,
Mars is a chilly place, so cold that some of its thin
carbon dioxide atmosphere freezes out at the winter
pole. There are pink skies, fields of boulders, sand
dunes, vast extinct volcanoes that dwarf anything on
Earth, a great canyon that would cross most of the
United States, sandstorms that sometimes reach half
the speed of sound, strange bright and dark
mountains shaped like pyramids and many other
mysteries.
Mars is a storehouse of scientific information —
important in its own right but also for the light it
may cast on the origins of life and on safeguarding
the environment of the Earth. If Mars once had
abundant liquid water, what happened to it? How did
a once Earthlike world become so parched, frigid and
comparatively airless? Is there something important
on Mars that we need to know about our own fragile
world?
The prospect of human exploration of Mars is
ecumenical—remarkable for the diversity of
supporting opinion it embraces. It is being advocated
on many grounds.

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• As a potential scientific bonanza— for example, on
climatic change, on the search for present or past life,
on the understanding of enigmatic Martian
landforms, and on the application of new knowledge
to understanding our own planet.
• As a means, through robotic pre-cursor and support
missions to Mars, of reviving a stagnant
US.planetary program.
• As providing a coherent focus and sense of purpose
to a dispirited NASA for many future research and
development activities on an appropriate timescale
and with affordable costs.
• As giving a crisp and unambiguous purpose to the
U.S. space station—needed for in-orbit assembly of
the interplanetary transfer vehicle or vehicles, and for
study of long-duration life support for space
travelers.
• As the next great human adventure, able to excite
and inspire people of all ages the world over.
• As an aperture to enhanced national prestige and
technological development.
• As a realistic and possibly unique opportunity for
the U.S. and the USSR to work together in the
spotlight of world public opinion, and with other
nations, on behalf of the human species.
• As a model and stimulant for mutually
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• As a means of reconversion of the aerospace
industry if and when massive reductions in strategic
weapons—long promised by the United States and
the Soviet Union—are implemented.
• As a worthy application of the traditional military
virtues of organization and valor to great expeditions
of discovery.
• As a step toward the long-term objective of
establishing humanity as a multi-planet species.
• Or simply as the obvious response to a deeply felt
perception of future calling.
Advances in technology now make feasible a
systematic process of exploration and discovery on
the planet Mars—beginning with robot roving
vehicles and sample return missions and culminating
in the first footfall of human beings on another
planet. The cost would be no greater than that of a
single major strategic weapons system, and if shared
among two or more nations, the cost to each nation
would be still less.
No major additional technological advances seem to
be required, and the step from today to the first
landing of humans on Mars appears to be
technologically easier than the step from President
John F. Kennedy's announcement of the Apollo
program on May 25, 1961, to the first landing of
humans on the Moon on July 20,1969.

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We represent a wide diversity of backgrounds in the
fields of sciences, technology, religion, the arts,
politics and government. Few of us adhere to every
one of the arguments listed above, but we share a
common vision of Mars as a historic, constructive
objective for the technological ambitions of the human
species over the next few decades. We endorse the goal
of human exploration of Mars and urge that initial
steps toward its implementation be taken throughout
the world.
Yes, I support the Mars Declaration and am happy to
have my name associated with it. If you are
interested, xerox this page, sign here and send it to:
The Planetary Society,
65 North Catalina Ave., Pasadena,
CA 91106. USA
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A Chronology of Mars Exploration
• Mars 1960A - USSR Mars Probe - (October 10,
1960)
* Failed to reach Earth orbit.
• Mars 1960B - USSR Mars Probe - (October 14,
1960)
• Mars 1962A - USSR Mars Flyby - (October 24,
1962)
* Spacecraft failed to leave Earth orbit after the
final rocketstage exploded.
• Mars 1 - USSR Mars Flyby - 893 kg - (November
1, 1962)
* Communications failed en route.
• Mars 1962B - USSR Mars lander - (November 4,
1962)
* Failed to leave Earth orbit.
• Mariner 3 - USA Mars Flyby - 260 kg -
(November 5, 1964)
* Mars flyby attempt. Solar panels did not open,
preventing flyby. Mariner 3 is now in a solar orbit.

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• Mariner 4 - USA Mars Flyby - 260 kg -
(November 28, 1964- December 20, 1967)
* Mariner 4 arrived at Mars on July 14, 1965 and
passed within 6,118 miles of the planet's surface after
an eight month journey. This mission provided the
first close-up images of the red planet. It returned 22
close-up photos showing a cratered surface. The thin
atmosphere was confirmed to be composed of carbon
dioxide in the range of 5-10 mbar. A small intrinsic
magnetic field was detected. Mariner 4 is now in a
solar orbit.
• Zond 2 - USSR Mars Flyby - (November 30,
1964)
* Contact was lost en route.
• Mariner 6 - USA Mars Flyby - 412 kg - (February
24, 1969)
* Mariner 6 arrived at Mars on February 24, 1969,
and passed within 3,437 kilometers of the planet's
equatorial region. Mariner 6 and 7 took
measurements of the surface and atmospheric
temperature, surface molecular composition, and
pressure of the atmosphere. In addition, over 200
pictures were taken. Mariner 6 is now in a solar
orbit.
• Mariner 7 - USA Mars Flyby - 412 kg - (March
27, 1969)
* Mariner 7 arrived at Mars on August 5, 1969,
and passed within 3,551 kilometers of the planet's
south pole region.

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Mariner 6 and 7 took measurements of the surface
and atmospheric temperature, surface molecular
composition, and pressure of the atmosphere. In
addition, over 200 pictures were taken. Mariner 7 is
now in a solar orbit.
• Mars 1969A USSR
* Launch Failure
• Mars 1969B USSR
* Launch Failure
• Mariner 8 - USA Mars Flyby - (May 8, 1971)
• Kosmos 419 - USSR Mars Probe - (May 10, 1971)
* Failed to leave Earth orbit.
• Mars 2 - USSR Mars Orbiter/Soft Lander - 4,650
kg - (May 19, 1971)
* The Mars 2 lander was released from the orbiter
on November 27, 1971. It crashed-landed because its
braking rockets failed- no data was returned and the
first human artifact was created on Mars. The orbiter
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kg - (May 28, 1971)
* Mars 3 arrived at Mars on December 2, 1971.
The lander was released and became the first
successful landing on Mars. It failed after relaying 20
seconds of video data to the orbiter. The Mars 3
orbiter returned data until August, 1972. It made
measurementsof surface temperature and atmospheric
composition.
• Mariner 9 - USA Mars Orbiter - 974 kg - (May
30, 1971 -1972)
* Mariner 9 arrived at Mars on November 3, 1971
and was placed into orbit on November 24. This was
the first US spacecraft to enter an orbit around a
planet other than Earth. At the time of its arrival a
huge dust storm was in progress on the planet. Many
of the scientific experiments were delayed until the
storm had subsided. The first hi-resolution images of
the moons Phobos and Deimos were taken. River and
channel like features were discovered. Mariner 9 is
still in Martian orbit.
• Mars 4 - USSR Mars Orbiter - 4,650 kg - (July
21, 1973)
* Mars 4 arrived at Mars on February, 1974, but
failed to go into orbit due to a malfunction of its
breaking engine. It flew past the planet within 2,200
kilometers of the surface. It returned some images and
data.

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• Mars 5 - USSR Mars Orbiter - 4,650 kg - (July
25, 1973)
* Mars 5 entered into orbit around Mars on
February 12, 1974. It acquired imaging data for the
Mars 6 and 7 missions.
kg - (August 5, 1973)
* On March 12, 1974, Mars 6 entered into orbit
and launched its lander. The lander returned
atmospheric descent data, but failed on its way down.
kg - (August 9, 1973)
* On March 6, 1974, Mars 7 failed to go into orbit
about Mars and the lander missed the planet. Carrier
and lander are now in a solar orbit.
• Viking 1 - USA Mars Orbiter/Lander - 3,399 kg -
(August 20, 1975 - August 7, 1980)
• Viking 2 - USA Mars Orbiter/Lander - 3,399 kg -
(September 9, 1975 - July 25, 1978)
Viking 1 and 2 were designed after the Mariner
spacecraft. They consisted of an orbiter and lander.
The orbiter weighed 900kg and the lander 600 kg.
Viking 1 was launched from the Kennedy Space
Center, on August 20, 1975, the trip to Mars and
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The lander touched down on July 20, 1976 on the
western slopes of Chryse Planitia (Golden Plains).
Viking 2 was launched for Mars on November 9,
1975, and landed on September 3, 1976. Both landers
had experiments to search for Martian micro-
organisms.
The results of these experiments are still being
debated. The landers provided detailed color
panoramic views of the Martian terrain. They also
monitored the Martian weather. The orbiters mapped
the planet's surface, acquiring over 52,000 images.
The Viking project's primary mission ended on
November 15, 1976, eleven days before Mars'
superior conjunction (its passage behind the Sun),
although the Viking spacecraft continued to operate
for six years after first reaching Mars.
The Viking 1 orbiter was deactivated on August 7,
1980, when it ran out of altitude-control propellant.
Viking 1 lander was accidentally shut down on
November 13, 1982, and communication was never
regained. Its last transmission reached Earth on
November 11, 1982. Controllers at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory tried unsuccessfully for
another six and one-half months to regain contact
with the lander, but finally closed down the overall
mission on 21 May 1983.
• Phobos 1 - USSR Mars Orbiter/Lander - 5,000 kg
- (July 7, 1988)
* Phobos 1 was sent to investigate the Martian
moon Phobos. It was lost en route to Mars through a
command error on September 2, 1988.

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• Phobos 2 - USSR Phobos Flyby/Lander - 5,000
kg - (July 12, 1988)
* Phobos 2 arrived at Mars and was inserted into
orbit on January 30, 1989. The orbiter moved within
800 kilometers of Phobos and then failed. The lander
never made it to Phobos.
• Mars Observer - USA Mars Orbiter (September
25, 1992)
* Communication was lost with Mars Observer on
August 21, 1993, just before it was to be inserted into
orbit.
• Mars Global Surveyor - USA Mars Orbiter
(November 7, 1996)
* Initiated due to the loss of the Mars Observer
spacecraft, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) mission
launched on November 7, 1996. MGS has been in a
Martian orbit, successfully mapping the surface since
March 1998.
• Mars 96 - Russia Orbiter & Lander - (November
16, 1996)
* Mars '96 consisted of an orbiter, two landers,
and two soil penetrators that were to reach the planet
in September 1997. The rocket carring Mars 96 lifted
off successfully, but as it entered orbit the rocket's
fourth stage ignited prematurely and sent the probe
into a wild tumble. It crashed into the ocean
somewhere between the Chilean coast and Easter
Island. The spacecraft sank, carrying with it 270
grams of plutonium-238.

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• Mars Pathfinder - USA Lander & Surface Rover
- (December 1996)
* The Mars Pathfinder delivered a stationary
lander and a surface rover to the Red Planet on July
4, 1997. The six-wheel rover, named Sojourner,
explored the area near the lander. The mission's
primary objective was to demonstrate the feasibility of
low-cost landings on the martian surface. This was
the second mission in NASA's low-cost Discovery
series.
After great scientific success and public interest, the
mission formally ended on November 4, 1997, when
NASA ended daily communications with the
Pathfinder lander and Sojourner rover. Click here to
go to the official Mars Pathfinder page at JPL.
• Nozomi - Japan Mars Orbiter (July 3, 1998)
(Planet B)
* Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical
Science (ISAS) launched this probe on July 4, 1998 to
study the Martian environment. This would have
been the first Japanese spacecraft to reach another
planet. The probe was due to arrive at Mars in
December of 2003. After revising the flight plan due
to earlier problems with the probe, the mission was
abandoned on December 9, 2003 when ISAS was
unable to communicate with the probe in order to
prepare it for orbital insertion.

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• Mars Climate Orbiter - USA Orbiter -
(December 11, 1998) (Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter)
* This orbiter was the companion spacecraft to the
Mars Surveyor '98 Lander, but the mission failed.
You may read the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap
Investigation Board's report or see an overview of the
mission.
• Mars Polar Lander - USA Lander - (January 3,
1999) (Mars Surveyor '98 Lander)
* The Polar Lander was scheduled to land on Mars
on December 3, 1999. Ground crews were unable to
contact the spacecraft, and it was declared a loss.
NASA concluded that spurious signals during the
lander leg deployment caused the spacecraft to think
it had landed, resulting in premature shutdown of the
spacecraft's engines and destruction of the lander on
impact.
• 2001 Mars Odyssey - USA Mars Orbiter and
Lander/Rover- (April 7, 2001) (Mars Surveyor
2001 Orbiter)
* This Mars orbiter reached the planet on October
24, 2001. This satellite will conduct mineral research
and serve as a communications relay for future Mars
missions. It is expected to serve in this capacity for
the next five years.

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• Mars Express - European Space Agency Mars
Orbiter and Lander - (June 2003)
* The Mars Express Orbiter and the Beagle 2
lander were launched together on June 2, 2003. The
Beagle 2 was released from the Mars Express Orbiter
on December 19, 2003. The Mars Express arrived
successfully on December 25, 2003. The Beagle 2 was
also scheduled to land on December 25, 2003;
however, ground controllers have been unable to
communicate with the probe.
• Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission - USA
Mars Rovers - (June/ July 2003)
* These Mars rovers were launched in 2003.
"Spirit", also known as MER-A, was launched on
June 10, 2003 and successfully arrived on Mars on
January 3, 2004. "Opportunity", also known as
MER-B, was launched on July 7, 2003 and
successfully arrived on Mars on January 24, 2004..
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (August 2005)
* The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was
launched on August 12, 2005 for a seven month
voyage to Mars. MRO will reach Mars in March
2006 and begin its scientific mission in November
2006.
• Future Mars Missions - USA - (2005 and
beyond) …
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1991
• George H. W. Bush
• The Gulf War

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Psalms 91:
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my
fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the
fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his
wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and
buckler.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor
for the arrow that flieth by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor
for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at
thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the
reward of the wicked.
9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my
refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any
plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to
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12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou
dash thy foot against a stone.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the
young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under
feet.
14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will
I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath
known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will
be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour
him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my
salvation.

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Introduction
Once again, the Psalmist is very clear on who, what,
and how of the main event concerning the year 1991 –
the Gulf War.
The second verse that reads “I will say of the Lord my
God; in him will I trust” points to no other than the
United States of America - the only nation in the world
with the national motto “In God We Trust” which is
printed on all U.S. coins and money bills..
A war is signaled in the verses with descriptive phrases
such as “the snare of the fowler”, “the noisome
pestilence”, “the terror by night”, “the arrow that flieth
by day”, “the pestilence that walketh in darkness”, and
“the destruction that wasteth at noonday”.
The enemy of the U.S. and the opposers of the due Gulf
War are also foretold and defined as “the wicked”, “the
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The U.S. would have to fight the war abroad (“it shall
not come nigh thee”). The Gulf War was the first war
ever to be televised across the globe “live” signaled in
the 8th verse with the line: (“it shall not come nigh
thee”) “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and
see…”.
Even the final number (or ratio) of the rival vs. U.S.
casualties are given: “A thousand shall fall at thy side,
and ten thousand at thy right hand…” – a ratio of 10 to
1. The official figures of the total U.S. and the coalition
casualties were less than a thousand.
Starting at the 14th verse, the Lord personally speaks
and describes how He will help the U.S. win the war
for “he [the U.S. President] has known my name”.
“With long life will I satisfy him” reads the verse.
The U.S. President of the day to be crowned with
victory and a long life directly by the Lord was no
other than George H. W. Bush, Commander in Chief of
the U.S. Army in 1991, aged 85 as of 2009.

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George H. W. Bush
[Key phrase: my God; in him will I trust]
George H. W. Bush
41st President of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_H._W._Bush,_President_of_the_Unite
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The opening verse is clear on identifying whom the 91st
Psalm is addressed at: The U.S. President and the
U.S.A. “I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and
my fortress: my God; in him will I trust” reads the
second verse in allusion to the U.S. National Motto: “In
God We Trust” that is printed on U.S. coins and paper
bills.
In God We Trust
In God We Trust is the official motto of the United
States and the U.S. state of Florida. The motto first
appeared on a United States coin in 1864 during
strong Christian sentiment emerging during the
Civil War, but In God We Trust did not become the
official U.S. national motto until after the passage of
an Act of Congress in 1956.[1][2] It is codified as
federal law in the United States Code at 36 U.S.C. §
302, which provides: "In God we trust" is the
national motto".
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U.S. Dollar Bills
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/USDnotes.png –
Back of a US 20 Dollar Bill with the U.S. Motto
“In God We Trust” printed just below
“United States of America”
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/1in_god_we_trust.jpg
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The entire Psalm describes how the LORD is
determined to help the U.S. and the U.S. President
throughout the war that was due in year 1991.
Psalms 91:
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee,
to keep thee in all thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest
thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13 Because he hath set his love upon me,
therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on
high, because he hath known my name.
14 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:
I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him,
and honour him.
George H. W. Bush, born in 1924, a World War II
veteran, the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army in
1991 was to be awarded a victory and a long life (aged
at 85 as of 2009) is signaled in the last verse:
Psalms 91:
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew
him my salvation.

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Persian Gulf War
On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein,
invaded its oil-rich neighbor to the south, Kuwait;
Bush condemned the invasion[46] and began rallying
opposition to Iraq in the US and among European,
Asian, and Middle Eastern allies.[11] Secretary of
Defense Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney traveled to
Saudi Arabia to meet with King Fahd; Fahd requested
US military aid in the matter, fearing a possible
invasion of his country as well.[46] The request was
met initially with Air Force fighter jets. Iraq made
attempts to negotiate with Bush through a deal that
would allow the country to take control of half of
Kuwait. Bush rejected this proposal and insisted on a
complete withdrawal of Iraqi forces.[11]
The planning of a ground operation by US-led
coalition forces began forming in September 1990,
headed by General Norman Schwarzkopf.[46] Bush
spoke before a joint session of the US Congress
regarding the authorization of air and land attacks,
laying out four immediate objectives: "Iraq must
withdraw from Kuwait completely, immediately, and
without condition. Kuwait's legitimate government
must be restored. The security and stability of the
Persian Gulf must be assured. And American
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He then outlined a fifth, long-term objective: "Out of
these troubled times, our fifth objective — a new
world order — can emerge: a new era — freer from
the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice,
and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in
which the nations of the world, East and West, North
and South, can prosper and live in harmony[...] A
world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the
jungle. A world in which nations recognize the
shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world
where the strong respect the rights of the weak."[47]
With the United Nations Security Council opposed to
Iraq's violence, Congress authorized the use of
military force,[46] with a set goal of returning
control of Kuwait to the Kuwaiti government, and
protecting America's interests abroad.[11]
Early on the morning of January 17, 1991, allied
forces launched the first attack, which included more
than 4,000 bombing runs by coalition aircraft.[11]
This pace would continue for the next four weeks,
until a ground invasion was launched on February
24. Allied forces penetrated Iraqi lines and pushed
toward Kuwait City while on the west side of the
country, forces were intercepting the retreating Iraqi
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Bush made the decision to stop the offensive after a
mere 100 hours. Critics labeled this decision
premature, as hundreds of Iraqi forces were able to
escape; Bush responded by saying that he wanted to
minimize US casualties.[11] Opponents further
charged that Bush should have continued the attack,
pushing Hussein's army back to Baghdad, then
remove him from power.[11] Bush explained that he
did not give the order to overthrow the Iraqi
government because it would have "incurred
incalculable human and political costs.... We would
have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect,
rule Iraq."[48]
Bush's approval ratings skyrocketed after the
successful offensive.[11] Additionally, President
Bush and Secretary of State Baker felt the coalition
victory had increased U.S. prestige abroad and
believed there was a window of opportunity to use the
political capital generated by the coalition victory to
revitalize the Arab-Israeli peace process. The
administration immediately returned to Arab-Israeli
peacemaking following the end of the Gulf War; this
resulted in the Madrid Conference, later in 1991.[49]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush#Persian_Gulf_War
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The Gulf War
[Key phrases: the terror by night, the arrow that flieth
by day, the pestilence that walketh in darkness, the
destruction that wasteth at noonday]
Clockwise from top: USAF aircraft flying over
burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops in
Operation Granby; Camera view of a Lockheed AC-
130; Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer
Vehicle
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The 91st Psalm clearly describes one serious war the
United States would have to fight in 1991. With key
phrases such as “the terror by night”, “the arrow that
flieth by day”, “the pestilence that walketh in
darkness” and “the destruction that wasteth at
noonday” extensive aerial bombing using missiles is
signaled in the verses.
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Technology
Precision-guided munitions, such as the United
States Air Force guided missile AGM-130, were
heralded as key in allowing military strikes to be
made with a minimum of civilian casualties compared
to previous wars, although they were not used as
often as more traditional, less accurate bombs.
Specific buildings in downtown Baghdad could be
bombed whilst journalists in their hotels watched
cruise missiles fly by.
Precision-guided munitions amounted to
approximately 7.4% of all bombs dropped by the
coalition. Other bombs included cluster bombs, which
disperse numerous submunitions,[93] and daisy
cutters, 15,000-pound bombs which can disintegrate
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Global Positioning System units were important in
enabling coalition units to navigate easily across the
desert.
Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)
and satellite communication systems were also
important. Two examples of this is the US Navy E-2
Hawkeye and the US Air Force E-3 Sentry. Both
were used in command and control area of operations.
These systems provided essential communications
links between the ground forces, air forces, and the
navy. It is one the many reasons why the air war was
dominated by the Coalition Forces.
Scud and Patriot missiles
The role of Iraq's Scud missiles featured prominently
in the war. Scud is a tactical ballistic missile that the
Soviet Union developed and deployed among the
forward deployed Red Army divisions in East
Germany. The role of the Scuds which were armed
with nuclear and chemical warheads was to destroy
command, control, and communication facilities and
delay full mobilisation of Western German and Allied
Forces in Germany. It could also be used to directly
target ground forces.
The US's Patriot missile was used for the first time
in combat. The US military claimed a high
effectiveness against Scuds at the time.
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The enemy the U.S. would fight against (and defeat) is
given in the following verse:
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the
young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample
under feet.
The [first] Gulf War was fought against Iraq. Opposers
of the Gulf War may have been Lebanon, some Islamic
nations and China.
The war the U.S. would fight in 1991 was to take place
abroad, outside the U.S. soil (“but it shall not come
nigh thee”).
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come
nigh thee.
The war officially started on January 16th, 1991. That
night, the U.S. President, the Commander in Chief of
the U.S. Army, may have been taken to a secret place
for hiding as a precaution. The Psalm begins with the
verse:

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1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the
most High shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty.
The President, though having being kept in a secret
place as the war started, would literally “see” or watch
and witness the war from his haven.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and
see the reward of the wicked.
* * *
The Persian Gulf War was a television event. CNN
broadcast round-the-clock coverage of unfolding
events. Americans saw footage from cameras placed
on smart bombs as they struck Iraqi targets. The
stealth fighter, designed to avoid radar detection was
put into use for the first time. General Norman
Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell became
household names as citizens watched their direction
of the conflict.
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The Gulf War was a "televised war". For the first
time people all over the world were able to watch live
pictures of missiles hitting their targets and fighters
taking off from aircraft carriers. Allied forces were
keen to demonstrate the "pin-point" accuracy of their
weapons.
The US policy regarding media freedom was much
more restrictive than in the Vietnam War. Most of
the press information came from briefings organized
by the military. Only selected journalists were
allowed to visit the front lines or conduct interviews
with soldiers. Those visits were always conducted in
the presence of officers, and were subject to both prior
approval by the military and censorship afterward.
This was ostensibly to protect sensitive information
from being revealed to Iraq, but often in practice it
was used to protect politically embarrassing
information from being revealed. This policy was
heavily influenced by the military's experience with
the Vietnam War, which it believed it had lost due to
public opposition within the United States.
At the same time, the coverage of this war was new in
its instantaneousness. Many American journalists
remained stationed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad
throughout the war, and footage of incoming missiles
was carried almost immediately on the nightly
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A British crew from CBS News (David Green &
Andy Thompson) equipped with satellite
transmission equipment travelled with the front line
forces and having transmitted live tv pictures of the
fighting en route, arrived the day before the forces in
Kuwait City, transmitting live television from the
city and covering the entrance of the Arab forces the
following day.
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The final number (or ratio) of the casualties are also
given in the verses:
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come
nigh thee.
For every single soldier the U.S. would lose, the rival
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Casualties - Iraqi
The exact number of Iraqi combat casualties is
unknown, but known to be heavy. Some now estimate
that Iraq sustained between 20,000 and 35,000
fatalities. [63] A report commissioned by the U.S. Air
Force, estimated 10,000-12,000 Iraqi combat deaths
in the air campaign and as many as 10,000 casualties
in the ground war.[66] This analysis is based on Iraqi
prisoner of war reports. It is known that 20,000 Iraqi
soldiers were killed.
Coalition losses to enemy fire
190 Coalition troops were killed by Iraqi combatants,
the rest of the 379 coalition deaths being from
friendly fire or accidents. This number was much
lower than expected. Among the American dead were
three female soldiers.
This is a list of Coalition troops killed by country.
United States - 294 (114 by enemy fire, 145 in
accidents, 35 to friendly fire)
United Kingdom - 47 (38 by enemy fire, 9 to
friendly fire)
Saudi Arabia – 18 [73]
Egypt – 11 [74]
United Arab Emirates – 6 [75]
Syria – 2 [76]
France - 2
Kuwait - 1 (as part of Operation Desert Storm) [77]
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1992
• Collapse of the Soviet Union
• Discovery of the Bible Codes
• The [US] Energy Policy Act of 1992
• Space Based Surveillance
• Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)

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Psalms 92:
1 <<A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.>> It is a
good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing
praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,
and thy faithfulness every night,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the
psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy
work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts
are very deep.
6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool
understand this.
7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all
the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall
be destroyed for ever:
8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies
shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be
scattered.
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an
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11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies,
and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that
rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he
shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD
shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall
be fat and flourishing;
15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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Introduction
1992 marks as a pivotal year in the history of mankind.
It is the first year without the Soviet Union and the
Cold War since 1922, as the 1922 Treaty on the creation
of the Soviet Union has been denounced on December
12, 1991. The Bible refers to the Soviet Union as
“workers of iniquity”. This comes as no surprise since
Russia, in her Communist days, promoted and favored
the rights and needs of the working class. “All the
workers of iniquity shall be scattered” reads the verse,
and so it was! The union of Soviets was no more. The
verse is found within Psalm 92 - the Psalm that is
spared for the events of year 1992. Not anywhere else!
1992 is also the year Michael Drosnin found about
“Bible Codes” during his visit to Israel and Eliyahu
Rips (one of the world's leading authorities on group
theory - a field of mathematics underlying quantum
physics). Rips used a computer program to locate the
codes in the Torah.

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The Bible refers to the computer as an “instrument of
ten strings” (a computer keyboard used with ten
fingers), and explains the usage of computer on the
Bible with the phrase “upon the psaltery”. The next
verse that follows reads “O Lord, how great are thy
works! And thy thoughts are very deep. A bruitsh man
knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this” in
reference to the spectacular nature of the Bible Codes
and the holy wisdom behind it.
The phrase “fresh oil” used in verse 10 alludes to
alternative energy sources, or “The Energy Policy Act of
1992” which aimed at:
fuels and renewable energy, research and development
programs, and various tax credits and exemptions are
mandated in the Act.(51) Programs that have the
greatest impact on petroleum”.
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The 11th verse that reads “Mine eye also shall see my
desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my
desire of the wicked that rise up against me” refers to
the establishment of United States Strategic Command:
On June 1, 1992, President George H. W. Bush
world politics.
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Last but not the least, the 13th verse that reads “those
that be planted…” refers to the development of the
“intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)” [method] of
single sperms directly into female eggs by Andre van
Steirtegham in Brussels, Belgium, in 1992 – a
breakthrough in “test tube baby” pregnancies.

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Collapse of the Soviet Union
[Key phrase: all the workers of iniquity shall be
scattered]
Flag of the Soviet Union
The “workers of iniquity”, the term the Bible uses for
Soviet Union, “shall be scattered” reads the verse in
Psalm 92. Who would believe that a nation, the council
of the Russians, so strong, so technologically and
military-wise advanced could part into several smaller
nations and denounce itself almost overnight by the
end of 1991? In 7th verse the Bible is clear that the
Soviet Union would be obsolete just when she
“flourished”:

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7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and
when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is
that they shall be destroyed for ever:
The Bible informed about a world without the Soviet
Union, and without the Cold War centuries before a
Union of the Soviets came into existence on Earth. The
Psalmist was precise: The U.S.S.R was to be history in
1992.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was
a constitutionally socialist state that existed in
Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A soviet is a council, the
theoretical basis for the socialist society of the USSR.
The Soviet Union was officially established in
December 1922 as the union of the Russian
(colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian,
Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics
ruled by Bolshevik parties.
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On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as
president of the USSR, declaring the office extinct and
ceding all the powers still vested in it to the president
of Russia: Yeltsin. On the night of that same day, the
Soviet flag was lowered for the last time over the
Kremlin. Finally, a day later on December 26, 1991,
the Council of Republics (a chamber) of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR recognized the dissolution of the
Soviet Union and dissolved itself (another chamber of
the Supreme Soviet had been unable to work during
some months before this, due to absence of a quorum).
By December 31, 1991, all official Soviet
institutions had ceased operations as individual
republics assumed the central government's role.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1985-1991)
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Discovery of the Bible Codes
[Key phrase: Upon an instrument of ten strings, and
upon the psaltery]
Bible Code Matrix
The third verse in 92nd Psalm speaks of an “instrument
of ten strings”. What could that “instrument of ten
strings” be? A harp?
The oldest depictions of harps without a forepillar are
from 4000 BC in Egypt and 3000 BCE in Persia
While most English translations of the Bible feature
the word 'harp', especially in connection with King
David, the Hebrew word is nevel, a type of lyre with
10 strings and not a harp at all.
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The phrase “an instrument of ten strings” is Psalmist’s
allusion to the modern day computer, used (played)
with ten fingers – a computer keyboard! The Psalmist
tries to explain the usage of a computer “upon the
psaltery” – the Psalms and the Bible.
The next three verses that follow explain the
complexity, the holiness and the spectacular nature of
the Bible Codes – a work of Lord’s hands, and His deep
thoughts.
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through
thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy
hands.
5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy
thoughts are very deep.

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6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a
fool understand this.
1992 is the year Michael Drosnin heard about the Bible
Codes during his visit to Israel. While he was there, he
went ahead and visited mathematician Eliyahu Rips,
the discoverer of the Bible Codes, and witnessed the
Bible Codes unfold before his very eyes right on Rips’
computer. Drosnin wrote two books on Bible Codes,
“Bible Code” (1997), and “Bible Code II” (2002).
In 1997 Drosnin published his most famous book,
Bible Code, which asserts that the Bible Code predicts
the future and that events can be affected by our
actions. The book also states that many famous
assassinations -- both past and future -- were foretold
in the Bible, and that the code can be interpreted with
the help of a computer program.
The book also implies that extraterrestrials delivered
the message of the Bible encoded with these
prophesies[1], and that the code contains predictions
of disasters and an apocalypse to occur between 1998
and 2006. Drosnin wrote a second book in 2002
named The Bible Code II: The Countdown.
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The Energy Policy Act of 1992
[Key phrase: fresh oil]
The phrase “fresh oil” used in verse 10 alludes to
alternative energy sources, and “The [U.S.] Energy
Policy Act of 1992” which aimed at:
fuels and renewable energy, research and development
programs, and various tax credits and exemptions are
mandated in the Act.(51) Programs that have the
greatest impact on petroleum”.
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The Energy Policy Act of 1992
The provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 are
aimed at restructuring energy markets in the United
States. Energy efficiency programs, the use of
alternative fuels and renewable energy, research and
development programs, and various tax credits and
exemptions are mandated in the Act.(51) Programs
that have the greatest impact on petroleum include
the following:
- Alternative Minimum Tax Exemption. As of
January 1993, independent oil and gas producers can
take greater deductions against the alternative
minimum tax for percentage depletion and intangible
drilling costs. This encourages domestic exploration,
and could increase U.S. oil production slightly.
- Alternative Transportation Fuels. The mandate
to phase in alternative fuels in government and
private automobile and truck fleets will eventually
cut into petroleum use for transportation. The Act
sets a national goal of 30 percent penetration of non-
petroleum fuels in the light-duty vehicle market by
2010. (52) Natural gas, electricity, methanol, ethanol,
and coal-deprived liquid fuels are among those set to
replace petroleum in vehicle fleets. The fleets of four
or more automobiles alone in 1991 comprised 9
percent of the automobiles in operation.(53)
Additional displacement by truck fleets will further
impact petroleum use Cleaner Trucks, Buses, and
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- Energy Efficiency Standards. The Act requires
the Secretary of Energy to set efficiency standards for
all new Federal buildings and new buildings with
federally backed mortgages. Efficiency standards for
commercial and industrial equipment are required
also. The primary effect of these standards on
petroleum will be a reduction in consumption of
petroleum heating fuels.
- Research and Development. Programs to reduce
consumption of imported oil include the development
of oil shale and advanced oil-recovery techniques as
methods of increasing domestic oil production.
Research into high-efficiency heat engines and high
temperature superconducting electric power systems
are intended to lower dependence on oil imports by
reducing petroleum product consumption. Research
into the development of renewable energy
technologies for the production of electricity could
also reduce petroleum consumption.
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Space Based Surveillance
[Key phrase: Mine eye also shall see my desire on
mine enemies]
The emblem of the U.S. Strategic Command
The 11th verse reads:
11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine
enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of
the wicked that rise up against me.
The verses allude to the space based surveillance and
intelligence of the “enemies” [of US]:

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U.S. Strategic Command
On June 1, 1992, President George H. W. Bush
world politics.
The Command unified planning, targeting and
wartime employment of strategic forces under one
commander. Day-to-day training, equipment and
maintenance responsibilities for its forces remained
with the Air Force and Navy.
Its mission is to provide the nation with global
deterrence capabilities and synchronized DoD (United
States Department of Defense) effects to combat
adversary weapons of mass destruction worldwide. It
must enable decisive global kinetic and non-kinetic
combat effects through the application and advocacy of
integrated intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance (ISR); space and global strike
operations; information operations; integrated missile
defense and robust command and control.
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Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
[Key phrase: those that be planted]
“those that be planted”
The 13th verse mentions the phrase “those that be
planted...” A verse earlier, the very Psalm describes
how the “righteous” will “flourish like the palm tree”,
and “grow like a cedar”. The verses refer to the boom
of 90’s “test tube” babies achieved through “in vitro
fertilization” (IVF).

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With the help of a new technique in IVF application, a
method developed by Andre van Steirtegham in
Brussels in 1992, injection of the single sperm cell
(“those that be planted”) directly into the female egg
improved the fertility rates and the success of IVF.
In Vitro Fertilization – (IVF)
a process by which egg cells are fertilized by sperm
outside the womb, in vitro. IVF is a major treatment
in infertility when other methods of assisted
reproductive technology have failed. The process
involves hormonally controlling the ovulatory
process, removing ova (eggs) from the woman's
ovaries and letting sperm fertilise them in a fluid
medium. The fertilised egg (zygote) is then transferred
to the patient's uterus with the intent to establish a
successful pregnancy. The first "test tube baby",
Louise Brown, was born in 1978.
The other very significant milestone in IVF was
the development of the intracytoplasmic sperm
injection (ICSI) of single sperms by Andre van
Steirtegham in Brussels, 1992. This has enabled
men with minimal sperm production to achieve
pregnancies.
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Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI, pronounced
"eeksee"[1] or "icksy"[2]) is an in vitro fertilization
procedure in which a single sperm is injected directly
into an egg. This procedure is most commonly used to
overcome male infertility problems, although it may
also be used where eggs cannot easily be penetrated by
sperm, and occasionally as a method of in vitro
fertilization, especially that associated with sperm
donation.
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Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
This is an in vitro fertilisation procedure where the
egg and sperm are fertlilised in the laboratory. With
ICSI, the same preparatory procedure is used as with
standard IVF. The woman will be given fertility drugs
to stimulate her ovaries to develop many eggs. The
eggs are collected and the sperm are retrieved from the
male partner for fertilisation in the laboratory. In
some cases, men with almost complete failure of sperm
production or a blockage may require a small sperm
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In the laboratory under high-powered microscope, a
single live sperm is selected and injected into the fluid
centre of the egg. A holding pipette stablises the egg
from one side and from the opposite side a thin, hollow
needle containing the selected sperm is inserted into
the egg. After the procedure the eggs are placed into
cell culture overnight and observed for signs of
fertilisation. Any resulting embryos are transferred
into the uterus as with IVF a few days later. ICSI is a
major advance in treating severe male infertility. It is
a relatively new technique, first used in 1992.
In most cases of male infertility the sperm are unable
to penetrate the outer coating (zona pellucida) of the
egg and so fertilisation through natural conception or
IVF is not possible. With ICSI, very few sperm are
required and the ability of the sperm to penetrate the
egg is unimportant.
The fertilisation rate per egg using ICSI is about 70%.
ICSI may be recommended where the male partner has
abnormalities in the number, quality or function of
the sperm. It may also be advised in cases where
previous conventional IVF treatment resulted in
failed fertilisation of eggs or a low fertilisation rate.
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The Bible okays test tube babies and confirms their
healthy future:
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;
they shall be fat and flourishing;

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1993
• 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
• Archaeological Proof of King David
• The Great Flood of 1993
• Inauguration of a New U.S. President -
Bill Clinton

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Psalms 93:
1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the
LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath
girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it
cannot be moved.
2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from
everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have
lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of
many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh
thine house, O LORD, for ever.

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Introduction
The year 1993 is remembered for:
a) World Trade Center Bombing
b) The Great Flood of ’93 that hit the U.S.,
c) Inauguration of a new U.S. President - Bill
Clinton
The Bible, namely the 93rd Psalm, foretold all three
events thousands of years before they actually took
place and “came to pass” before our very eyes!
New York City.
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The Bible calls the World Trade Center “the world” in
the first verse, and explains how it “is stablished, that it
cannot be moved”, hinting that no major damage
would be caused by the attacker who “is clothed with
strength”, “wherewith he hath girded himself” in
allusion to the yellow Ryder van that was loaded with
the 1310 lb. bomb used in the bombing.
1993 is also the year Tel Dan Stele was discovered in
Israel – the archaeological proof of King David.
The Tel Dan Stele is a black basalt stele erected by
an Aramaean king in northernmost Israel containing
an Aramaic inscription to commemorate his victory
over the ancient Hebrews. The inscription is a
fragment but it has generated excitement among
biblical scholars and biblical archaeologists because
the letters '‫דודתיב‬' are identical to the Hebrew for
"house of David." If these letters refer to the Davidic
line then this is the first time the name "David" has
been recognized at any archaeological site. The
scholarly consensus among archaeologists and
epigrahers is that the fragment is an authentic
reference to the Biblical King David.[1]
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The second verse “thy throne is established of old: thou
art from everlasting” alludes to King David, the author
of most of the Psalms. The discovery of Tel Dan Stele
proved once again that a king named David did reign
in Israel.
The third verse is self-explanatory: “The floods have
lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their
voice; the floods lift up their waves.” The Bible is
clearly warning the sons and daughters of Jacob
regarding a most deadly flood bound to take its toll
across the U.S. in year 1993.
The Great Flood of 1993 was among the most costly and
devastating ever to occur in the United States, with $15
billion in damages. The hydrographic basin affected
covered around 745 miles (1200 km) in length and 435
miles (700 km) in width, totaling about 320,000 square
miles (840,000 km²)[1]. Within this zone, the flooded area
totaled around 30,000 square miles (80,000 km²)[2] and
was the worst such U.S. disaster since the Great
Mississippi Flood of 1927, as measured by duration,
square miles inundated, persons displaced, crop and
property damage, and number of record river levels. In
some categories, the 1993 flood even surpassed the 1927
flood, at the time the largest flood ever recorded on the
Mississippi.
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Finally, the keywords “throne” and “reigneth” allude
to a new president in the White House; namely Bill
Clinton – the 42nd President of the United States. Bill
Clinton took office in 1993 and served as a president
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1993 World Trade Center Bombing
[Key phrases: clothed with strength, wherewith he
hath girded himself, the world also is stablished, that
it cannot be moved]
World Trade Center
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The year is 1993. The Psalm (the 19th Book of the Bible)
at hand is numbered 93. The 19th Book, 93rd chapter of
the Bible (19+93=1993) illustrates a place called “the
world”, and someone “clothed with strength” next to
one another.
The verse describes someone (a bomber?) “clothed
with strength” (a bomb?), “wherewith he had girded
himself” (with bombs?).
The keyword “the world” represents the World Trade
Center in New York City. “The world also is
stablished” reads the verse, hinting that no major
damage would be done to the “World Trade Center” in
a possible attack by the anonymous person who is
“clothed with strength” and “hath girded himself “.
Though the bombers tried to knock down the North
and South Towers of the World Trade Center in the
1993 attack, they failed – just as the Bible foretold that
they would – “the world is stablished that it cannot be
moved”.

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The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
New York City. The 1,500 lb (680 kg) urea nitrate-
hydrogen gas enhanced device[1] was intended to
knock the North Tower (Tower One) into the South
Tower (Tower Two), bringing both towers down and
killing thousands of people.[2][3] It failed to do so,
but did kill six people and injured 1,042.
The attack was planned by a group of conspirators
including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima,
Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Abdul Rahman
Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. They received financing from
Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle. In March
1994, four men were convicted of carrying out the
bombing: Abouhalima, Ajaj, Ayyad and Salameh.
The charges included conspiracy, explosive
destruction of property and interstate transportation
of explosives. In November 1997, two more were
convicted: Yousef, the mastermind behind the
bombings, and Eyad Ismoil, who drove the truck
carrying the bomb.
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Archaeological Proof of King David
[Key phrases: Thy throne is established of old, thou
art from everlasting]
King David
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David is the king who began the building of the Holy
Temple (the holiest place of Jews) which was
completed by his son King Solomon. He is also known
as the author of most of the Psalms.
David was born in Bethlehem, the same town where
Jesus was later born in. The expected Messiah of Jews
is believed to come from the line of David.
In Jewish messianic tradition and eschatology,
messiah refers to a future King of Israel from the
Davidic line, who will rule the people of united tribes
of Israel[1], and herald the Messianic Age[2] of global
peace. In Standard Hebrew, The Messiah is often
referred to as ‫ךלמ‬ ‫חישמה‬, Méleḫ ha-Mašíaḥ (in the
Tiberian vocalization pronounced Méleḵ
haMMāšîªḥ), literally meaning "the Anointed King."
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The second verse: “Thy throne is established of old,
thou art from everlasting” refers to King David, who,
according to the Bible, did exist and ruled Israel - now
archaeologically confirmed with the discovery of Tel
Dan Stele.

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Tel Dan Stele Inscription
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David
David (Hebrew: ‫ִד‬‫ו‬ָ‫דּ‬, Modern Dawid Tiberian dɔwið
"beloved", Arabic: ‫دواد‬ Dāwud) was the second king
of the United Kingdom of Israel according to the
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a
righteous king, although not without fault, as well as
an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet (he is
traditionally credited with the authorship of many of
the Psalms). The narrative depicts him throughout
his life as conflicted between his ruthless ambition
and lusts, and his desire to serve God. The biblical
chronology sets his life c.1037 - 970 BC, his reign
over Judah c.1007 - 1000 BC, and his reign over the
united Kingdom of Israel c.1000 - 970 BC.

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The Book of Samuel is the primary source of
information on his life and reign; there is little
archaeological evidence to confirm the Bible's picture
of David (although the Tel Dan stele suggests that a
king named David founded a Judaean royal dynasty
by the 9th-century BC), but his story has been of
immense importance to subsequent Jewish and
Christian culture.
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The Great Flood of 1993
[Key phrases: The floods have lifted up, the floods
have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their
waves]
Missouri River’s damage to US Highway 63
as an aftermath of the Great Flood of 1993
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Could the Bible be any clearer on describing a flood?
“The floods lift up their waves” reads the verse.
Result? The Great Flood of 1993 – “the most costly and
devastating ever to occur in the United States, with $15
billion in damages”.
The Great Flood of 1993
The Great Flood of 1993 was among the most costly
and devastating ever to occur in the United States,
with $15 billion in damages. The hydrographic basin
affected covered around 745 miles (1200 km) in
length and 435 miles (700 km) in width, totaling
about 320,000 square miles (840,000 km²)[1]. Within
this zone, the flooded area totaled around 30,000
square miles (80,000 km²)[2] and was the worst such
U.S. disaster since the Great Mississippi Flood of
1927, as measured by duration, square miles
inundated, persons displaced, crop and property
damage, and number of record river levels. In some
categories, the 1993 flood even surpassed the 1927
flood, at the time the largest flood ever recorded on
the Mississippi.
Costs and damage
Some locations on the Mississippi River flooded for
almost 200 days while locations on the Missouri
neared 100 days of flooding.

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On the Mississippi, Grafton, Illinois, recorded
flooding for 195 days, Clarksville, Missouri, for 187
days, Winfield, Missouri, for 183 days, Hannibal,
Missouri, for 174 days, and Quincy, Illinois, for 152
days. The Missouri River was above flood stage for 62
days in Jefferson City, Missouri, 77 days at
Hermann, Missouri; and for 94 days at St. Charles in
the St. Louis metropolitan area. On October 7, 103
days after it began, the Mississippi River at St. Louis
finally dropped below flood stage.
Approximately 10,000 homes were destroyed as a
result of the flooding, with 15 million acres (60,000
km²) of farmland inundated, and the whole towns of
Valmeyer, Illinois and Rhineland, Missouri were
relocated to higher ground.[1] The floods cost thirty
two lives officially; however, a more likely target is
suspected to be around fifty people, as well as an
estimated 15-20 billion dollars in damages.
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Inauguration of a New U.S. President –
Bill Clinton
[Keywords: throne, reigneth]
Bill Clinton is the 42nd President of the United States
who first took office on January 20, 1993. As a rule, the
Psalms signal a new U.S. or Israeli president with the
words “throne” and/or “reigneth” – usually when they
are both used together in a verse and/or a Psalm.

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William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
(born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19,
1946)[1] served as the 42nd President of the United
States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest
president; only Theodore Roosevelt and John F.
Kennedy were younger when entering office.
Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time
economic expansion in American history, which
included a balanced budget and a reported federal
surplus.[6][7] Based on Congressional accounting
rules, at the end of his presidency Clinton reported a
surplus of $559 billion.
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1997
• Favorable Events Occurring at the
Islands of the World
• Administrative and Judicial Decisions
• Civil Unrest in Africa
• Women’s Move into Key Offices
• Fires, Explosions, Crashes
• Earthquakes
• Floods
• Tornados
• Lights in the Sky

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• Solar Eclipse & Power Outages
• Inauguration
• Space Missions
• Mars Expedition
• Environmental Issues
• Record Breakers and Firsts
• Commemorations

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Psalms 97:
1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the
multitude of isles be glad thereof.
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him:
righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his
throne.
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies
round about.
4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw,
and trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the
LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the
people see his glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images,
that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye
gods.
8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of
Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art
exalted far above all gods.
10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the
souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand
of the wicked.

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11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the
upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks
at the remembrance of his holiness.

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Introduction
Year 1997 is a good example of how, at times, Psalms
provide only the headlines, or category headings of the
events to expect within the year in question. No
specific event is hinted or illustrated yet almost all
major event headings that would shape the year are
provided.
When we study the keywords, and the key phrases
given, it is obvious that 1997 would be a tough year.
With keywords and key phrases like “fire”, “burneth
up”, “lightnings”, “trembled”, “the hills melted like
wax”, “clouds”, “darkness” - all signs of natural
catastrophes, the Bible pre-warns us about a year to be
remembered with civil unrest (especially in Africa),
floods, tornados, earthquakes and judicial cases and
decisions that would interest and affect the lives of
millions of people.

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The year would not end without providing any room
for positive events though. Favorable events were to
happen at or regarding the islands of the world,
women were to take key offices, space missions would
continue to be carried on up above the Earth, and
environment related issues would be taken seriously
and considered by majority of nations.
Several firsts and record-breaking events were to
happen in 1997 - hinted by the keywords “exalted” and
“far above all”, that would make 1997 a year of
progress and achievement for mankind.

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Favorable Events Occurring at the Islands of
the World
[Key phrase: let the multitude of isles be glad
thereof]
Simply put, the key phrase “let the multitude of isles
be glad thereof” hints us to expect favorable events to
happen at or regarding the islands of the world during
1997.
* * *
February 22 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an
adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was
born in July 1996.
March 26 - Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New
Guinea, ending the Sandline affair.
April 22 - A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the
Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government
commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages.
One hostage dies of a heart attack, 2 soldiers are killed by rebel fire,
and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain.
May 1 - United Kingdom general election, 1997: The United
Kingdom's Labour Party ends 18 years of Conservative rule.

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May 3 - Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest
1997 for the UK with Love Shine a Light, the most successful
Eurovision entry ever.
May 31 - The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's
longest bridge spanning ice covered waters, opens between Prince
Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.
June 1 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
July 1 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to
the People's Republic of China.
June 11 - The British House of Commons votes for a total ban on
handguns.
July 13 - The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for
burial, alongside some of his comrades.
August 26 - The Independent International Commission on
Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of a peace
process.
September 5 - The International Olympic Committee picks
Athens, Greece to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
September 11 - Scotland votes to create its own Parliament after
290 years of union with England.
September 18 - Wales votes in favour of devolution and the
formation of a National Assembly.
October 17 - The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with
full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of
Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the
Cuban Revolution 39 years before.

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Administrative and Judicial Decisions
[Keywords: Righteousness and judgement,
judgements]
Judicial and administrative decisions are made every
year – not just in 1997. However, the year 1997 is
mostly remembered for the judicial cases debated in
media throughout the year on such as O.J. Simpson’s,
Louise Woodward’s and Ramzi Yousef’s cases.
* * *
January 21 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives to be disciplined
internally for ethical misconduct.
January 23 - Mir Aimal Kasi is sentenced to death for a
1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed
2 and wounded 3.
February 4 - O.J. Simpson is found liable in civil court for
the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.
Simpson is ordered to pay $35,000,000 in damages to the
families of the 2 victims.

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February 4 - Ipswich Town footballer Adam Tanner, who
had recently failed a drugs test, is banned from football for 3
months at an FA hearing. Some consider this to be a
relatively lenient punishment as he had admitted taking
drugs at the first attempt and shown remorse for his
behaviour.
February 4 - British Home Secretary Michael Howard
informs Moors Murderer Myra Hindley that she will never
be released from prison. Mr. Howard has made the decision
in agreement with a recommendation made by his
predecessor David Waddington in 1990.
February 10 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major
Gene C. McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after
hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
March 4 - U.S. President Bill Clinton bars federal funding
for any research on human cloning.
April 14 - Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on
July 22 he is sentenced to 5 years in prison.
April 16 - Houston, Texas socialite Doris Angleton is
murdered in her River Oaks home. Roger Angleton later
admits to the crime in his suicide note. Despite being found
innocent of the crime by a Texas jury, he is later arrested by
the United States Department of Justice on similar charges.
May 22 - Kelly Flinn, the U.S. Air Force's first female
bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge
in order to avoid a court martial.
June 2 - In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is
convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role
in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

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June 5 - Kim Hyun Chul, son of Kim Young Sam, president
of South Korea, is charged with bribery and corruption
related to the awarding of government contracts.
June 13 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for
his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
June 19 - The fast food chain McDonald's wins a partial
victory in its libel trial, known as the McLibel case, against 2
environmental campaigners. The judge decides it was true
that McDonald's targeted its advertising at children, who
pestered their parents into visiting the company's
restaurants.
July 23 - Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust
charges against chipmaker Intel.
September 3 - Arizona Governor Fife Symington is
convicted of various crimes tied to his real estate business,
effectively forcing him out of office.
October 30 - In Newton, Massachusetts, British au pair
Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death
of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
November 10 - A Fairfax, Virginia jury finds Mir Aimal
Kasi guilty of murdering 2 CIA employees in 1993.
November 12 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of
masterminding the World Trade Center 1993 bombings.

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December 5 - John O'Shaugnessey, 32, admits the rape and
murder of 9-year-old Kayleigh Ward at Chester Crown
Court. The trial judge sentences O'Shaugnessey, of Blacon,
Chester, to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he
should serve at least 30 years before being considered for
parole.
December 8 - Myra Hindley, one of the Moors murderers,
arrives at the High Court of Justice, to contest a recent Home
Secretary's decision that she should remain in prison until
she dies.
December 18 - Myra Hindley loses her High Court appeal
against the government's decision to keep her behind bars for
the rest of her life.
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Civil Unrest in Africa
[Key phrase: Confounded be all they that serve
graven images, that boast themselves of idols]
“All that serve graven images” are to be “confounded”.
Who does the Psalm refer to? Africa! A civil unrest in
Africa during 1997 is signaled in the verses.
* * *
January 18 - In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members
kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers, and seriously wound
another.
March 21 - In Zaire, Etienne Tshiksekedi is appointed prime
minister; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his
cabinet.
April 3 - The Thalit massacre in Algeria: All but one of the
53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
April 22 - France supports the new transitional government
in Zaire, withdrawing its support of Mobutu Sese Seko.
April 22 - Haouch Khemisti massacre: 93 villagers are killed
in Algeria.

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April 23 - 42 villagers are killed in the Omaria massacre in
Algeria.
May 16 - Mobutu Sese Seko leaves Kinshasa, eventually
settling in Morocco.
May 17 - Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.
June 16 - About 50 are killed in the Dairat Labguer massacre
in Algeria.
July 27 - About 50 are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in
Algeria.
August 3 - Between 40-76 villagers are killed in the Oued
El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria.
August 7 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The bombings of
the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
and Nairobi, Kenya kill 224 people and injure over 4,500;
they are linked to terrorist Osama Bin Laden, an exile of
Saudi Arabia.
August 20 - Over 60 are killed, 15 kidnapped in the Souhane
massacre in Algeria.
August 26 - 60-100 are killed in the Beni-Ali massacre in
Algeria;
August 29 - Over 98 (and possibly up to 400) are killed in
the Rais massacre in Algeria.
September 5 - Over 87 are killed in the Beni-Messous

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September 19 - 53 are killed in the Guelb El-Kebir massacre
in Algeria.
September 21 - The Islamic Salvation Army, the Islamic
Salvation Fronts' armed wing, declares a unilateral ceasefire
in Algeria.
September 22 - Over 200 villagers are killed in the Bentalha
October 12 - 43 are killed at a false roadblock, in the Sidi
Daoud massacre in Algeria.
November 17 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6
Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut.
December 24 - 50-100 villagers are killed in the Sid El-
Antri massacre in Algeria.
December 30 - Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December
30, 1997: In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, 400
are killed from four villages in the wilaya of Relizane.
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Women’s Move into Key Offices
[Key phrase: the daughters of Judah rejoiced]
Women had already started marching into the key
offices in both the corporate world and the
administrative arena since the start of the decade. It is
in 1997 that we see a female “Secretary of State” in US.
* * *
January 22 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female
Secretary of State, after confirmation by the United States
Senate.
March 13 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister
Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
June 26 - Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of
the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the
16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna
Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the
1997 General Election.
November 11 - Mary McAleese is elected the 8th President
of Ireland.
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Fires, Explosions, Crashes
[Keywords: Fire, burneth up]
The keywords “fire” and “burneth up” hint us to
expect fires, explosions and crashes within 1997.
* * *
January 17 - A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS
payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
February 4 - On their way to Lebanon, 2 Israeli troop-
transport helicopters collide, killing 73.
February 23 - A small fire occurs on the Russian space
station Mir.
March 11 - An explosion at the Tokaimura nuclear waste
reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level
radioactive contamination, in the worst nuclear accident in
Japan's history.
March 18 - The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks
off while en-route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash,
killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all
An-24s.
April 11 - Fire damages the Turin Cathedral in Italy.

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April 14 - Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of
Mena, 7 miles (11 km) from Mecca; 343 die.
April 29 - Two trains crash at Hunan, China; 126 are killed.
August 6 - Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam
International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.
June 8 - A United States Coast Guard helicopter crashes
near Humboldt Bay, California; all 4 crewmembers perish.
July 11 - Thailand's worst hotel fire at Pattaya kills 90.
September 26 - An air crash in Indonesia (likely caused by
smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area) kills 235
people (see Garuda Indonesia Flight 152).
December 17 - The Ukranian aircraft VK-42 crashes into a
mountain in Greece, killing 62 passengers.
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Earthquakes
[Keyword: trembled]
The keyword “trembled” signals us that earthquakes
are inevitable in 1997.
* * *
May 10 - An earthquake near Ardekul, in northeastern Iran,
kills at least 2,400.
September 26 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of
Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St.
Francis at Assisi to collapse.
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Floods
[Key phrase: The hills melted like wax]
Could the Bible define the aftermath of global warming
any better? “The hills melted like wax” – floods are to
follow!
* * *
A recent NASA paper in Nature found that the world's
fastest glacier, called the Jakobshavn Isbrae, nearly doubled
its speed from 1997 to 2003. The speedy ice stream's
quickening coincided with a break up of the floating ice that
extends from the glacier out into the ocean, called an ice
tongue. In 2003, this one glacier added to the world's oceans
an amount of water equal to about 4 percent of the estimated
rate of sea level rise.
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April 18 - The Red River of the North breaks through dikes
and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand
Forks, Minnesota, causing US$ 2 billion in damage.
July 7 - The Great Flood begins in southern Poland.
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Tornados
[Keywords: clouds, lightnings]
The keyword “clouds” and “lightnings” warn us to
expect tornados within 1997. The second deadliest
tornado of the 1990s hit the U.S. in 1997.
* * *
May 27 - The second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in
Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
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Lights in the Sky
[Key phrases: Light is sown, all the people see his
glory]
1997 was the year comet Hale-Bopp made its
appearance above the Earth. The Phoenix Lights,
(“light is sown”), were observed the same year.
* * *
Its lengthy period of visibility and extensive coverage in the
media meant that Hale-Bopp was probably the most-observed
comet in history, making a far greater impact on the general
public than the return of Halley's Comet in 1986, and
certainly seen by a greater number of people than witnessed
any of Halley's previous appearances. For instance, 69% of
Americans had seen Hale-Bopp by April 9, 1997. It was a
record-breaking comet—the furthest comet from the Sun
discovered by amateurs, with the largest well-measured
cometary nucleus known after 95P/Chiron, and it was
visible to the naked eye for twice as long as the previous
record-holder. It was also brighter than magnitude 0 for
eight weeks, longer than any other recorded comet.
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March 13 - The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, AZ.
March 22 - The comet Hale-Bopp makes its closest approach
to Earth.
* * *
March 26 - In San Diego, California, 39 Heaven's Gate
cultists commit mass suicide at their compound. in March
1997, the Heaven's Gate cult chose the appearance of the
comet as a signal for their mass cult suicide. They claimed
they were leaving their earthly bodies to travel to the
spaceship following the comet.
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Solar Eclipse & Power Outages
[Keyword: darkness]
A solar eclipse within 1997 is hinted with the keyword
“darkness”, which also alludes to power outages.
* * *
March 9 - A solar eclipse in China, Mongolia and eastern
Siberia [allowed observers there to see the Hale-Bopp comet
in the daytime].
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Inauguration
[Keywords: reigneth, throne]
1997 is the year Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his
second term. As we have seen in 1993, the keywords
“reigneth” and “throne” signaled the inauguration of
his first term just the same.
* * *
January 20 - U.S. President Bill Clinton is inaugurated for
his second term.
May 2 - Tony Blair is appointed Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom by Elizabeth II.
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Space Missions
[Key phrase: high above all the earth]
Space missions are almost always hinted with the key
phrases “high above”, and “high above all the earth”.
More space missions are hinted in the 97th Psalm that
would be carried out throughout 1997.
* * *
February 13 - STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the
Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from Space
Shuttle Discovery.
April 21 - A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people
into earth orbit, in the first space burial.
June 25 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with
the Russian space station Mir.
October 15 - NASA launches the Cassini-Huygens probe to
Saturn.
November 27 - NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring
Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of
the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.
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Mars Expedition
[Keyword: Zion]
The biblical “Zion” is synonymous with “Mars” – the
planet.
* * *
July 4 - NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface
of Mars.
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Environmental Issues
[Keyword: habitation]
The dictionary definition of habititation is “a dwelling
place”. The Earth is one big and so far the only
dwelling place for us the mankind. Keeping it clean,
unlittered, and unpolluted is the least we can do in
return for all the things she offers us for free!
* * *
December 3 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121
countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and
deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the
United States, the People's Republic of China, and Russia do
not sign the treaty.
December 11 - The Kyoto Protocol is adopted by a United
Nations committee.
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Record Breakers and Firsts
[Keywords: exalted, far above all]
Firsts, and “firstborns” are valued and “exalted” in the
Bible. Several firsts were to happen in 1997, and several
world records were to be set.
* * *
March 22 - Tara Lipinski, 14, becomes the youngest
women's world figure skating champion.
April 21 - A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people
into earth orbit, in the first space burial.
September 7 - The F-22 Raptor makes its first test flight.
October 4 - One million men gather for Promise Keepers'
"Stand in the Gap" event in Washington, DC. [Largest
gathering of men in American history, surpassing even the
Million Man March].
October 4 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history
($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurs at the Charlotte,
North Carolina office of Wells Fargo. An FBI investigation
eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of
approximately 95% of the stolen cash.

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October 15 - Andy Green sets the first supersonic land
speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble
of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at
Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985
km/h (763.035 mph).
October 16 - The first color photograph appears on the front
page of the New York Times.
October 27 - Stock markets around the world crash because
of a global economic crisis scare. The Dow Jones Industrial
Average follows suit and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to
7,161.15. The points loss exceeds the loss from Black
Monday. Officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the
first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading.
October 28 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average
gains a record 337.17 points, closing at 7,498.32. One billion
shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the
first time ever.
November 10 - Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI
Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form
MCI WorldCom (the largest merger in U.S. history).
November 19 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey
gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all 7
babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive
infancy.
December 19 - The highest-grossing movie of all time, James
Cameron's Titanic, premiers in the U.S.
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Commemorations
[Keyword: remembrance]
Several commemorations were observed in 1997,
bringing millions of people together for the events.
* * *
September 6 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes
place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 2 billion people
worldwide.
September 6 - A Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene in Moscow
concert, celebrating the city's 850th anniversary, draws 3.5
million people.
September 5 - Mother Theresa of Calcutta dies of heart
failure in Kolkata, India.
October 17 - The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest
with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in
the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive
battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.
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2000
• The New Millennium Celebration
• The Year of Genetics
• The Great Planetary Alignment

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Psalms 100:
1 <<A Psalm of praise.>> Make a joyful noise unto the
LORD, all ye lands.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his
presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath
made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and
the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his
courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his
name.
5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and
his truth endureth to all generations.

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Introduction
Year 2000 marks the first year of a new millennium –
the third since the birth of Christ. The first two verses
ask the people of the world to celebrate the event, the
arrival of the new millennium, and “Make a joyful
noise unto the LORD, all ye lands”.
Year 2000 is co-remembered as the year major
advances in genetics were accomplished. The 100th
Psalm, spared for the events of year 2000, is clear in the
third verse: “Know ye that the LORD he is God; it is he
that hath made us, and not we ourselves” in allusion to
genetic research and God’s credit and role in the
creation of genes - the basis of any and all genetic
research. If there is a field such as “genetics”, it is
because there are “genes” – God’s signature in the
blueprint of man. Finally, the verses end with the line
“and his truth endureth to all generations” in allusion
to the spectacular capability of a single gene’s
endurance in carrying the imprint, “the truth” of its
owner for generations, for millenniums.

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The New Millennium Celebration
[Key phrase: Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all
ye lands, come before his presence with singing]
Without a doubt, a thousand years is a long period of
time in human terms. However, for God, a thousand
years is just a day! Our millenniums mark only a single
day on Lord’s Calendar.
Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the
night.
The opening verses of the Psalm demand a celebration,
“come before his presence with singing”, “make a
joyful noise”. What is to celebrate? Why make a joyful
noise?
The very next verse gives the answer:
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The creation of man! This comes as no surprise as that
is what the Jewish New Year celebration Rosh
Hashanah is all about – a New Year celebration and a
commemoration of the creation of man.
January 1, 2000 was not the official date of Rosh
Hashanah (Jewish New Year) observance. Yet, the
verses call for one regardless, almost just for the
occasion, as it indeed was a new year and a new
millennium, but only on the Gregorian calendar.
A millennium equals to a thousand years. Year 2000
was the third millennium since the birth of Jesus Christ
– the start of the Gregorian calendar.
The Gregorian calendar was proposed by a doctor (Dr.
Aloysius Lilius), and decreed by a Pope (Gregory XIII),
after whom it was named on February 24, 1582. Unlike
the Gregorian calendar that bases its start on the birth
of Jesus Christ, the Jewish/Hebrew calendar bases its
start on the creation of the world.

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… adding 3760 before Rosh Hashanah [Jewish New
Year] or 3761 after to a Julian or Gregorian year
number after 1 CE will yield the Hebrew year.
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The year 2000, then, points to year 5761 on the
Jewish/Hebrew calendar – not a nice and round
number as 2000 is.
The new millennium was observed only on the
Gregorian calendar in year 2000. The equivalent year
5761 is not a millennium year on the Jewish calendar.
The closest millennium year on the Jewish calendar
would be year 6000.
In between the lines, through the recognition of the
Gregorian calendar/millennium based on Christ’s
birth, the 100th Psalm makes a reference to Jesus Christ,
and his potential return within it.

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The Year of Genetics
[Key phrases: it is he that hath made us, and not we
ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his
pasture, his truth endureth to all generations]
Adam & Eve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_002.jpg –
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In May 2000, scientists in Japan and Germany
reported in the May 18 issue of Nature that they have
unraveled the genome of human chromosome 21,
already known to be involved with Down syndrome,
Alzheimer's disease, Usher syndrome and Lou
Gehrig's disease.
In June 2000, The Human Genome Project (HGP)
consortium announced a major milestone: It has
assembled 85 percent of the sequence of the human
genome - the genetic blueprint for a human being.
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The year was 2000, the dawn of the new millennium.
The 100th Psalm is a short one – only five verses. It is
mainly devoted to genetics and the celebration of the
new millennium – a rather thought provoking two
subjects to mention at once! Finally, man, created by
the Lord, has succeeded in “mapping” the genetic
blueprint of himself - right at the dawn of a new
millennium.

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The third verse reads: “it is he that hath made us, and
not we ourselves” in allusion to the genetic blueprint of
man (and the Creator of it all), now for the first time in
history, almost (85%) complete.
The third verse ends with the line: “we are his people
and the sheep of his pasture” in reference to Dolly the
sheep – the first mammal to be cloned by man.
In between the lines, the Bible hints how “cloning”
may precisely be the way us, the mankind, might have
been first created! In Genesis 1:27, we read:
So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female
created he them.
What was created at that moment in time, on Day Six
of Creation, had no life or form. The male and female
that were created on Day Six could possibly have been
just “genes” of the future Adam and Eve, cloned to
God’s [DNA] image first!
It is later in Genesis 2:7 that we read:

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And the LORD God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The form, the body of Adam, and later Eve, were
shaped and provided much later than the creation
[through cloning] of their genes!

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Dolly
Dolly
(July 5, 1996 – February 14, 2003), was a female
domestic sheep remarkable in being the first mammal
to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the
process of nuclear transfer.She was cloned by Ian
Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin
Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was born on
July 5, 1996 and she lived until the age of six and was
dubbed "the world's most famous sheep" by Scientific
American.
The cell used as the donor for the cloning of Dolly
was taken from a mammary gland, and the
production of a healthy clone therefore proved that a
cell taken from a specific part of the body that could
recreate a whole individual. As Dolly was cloned
from part of a mammary gland, she was named after
the famously busty country western singer Dolly
Parton.
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The biblical millennium started in year 1990 as
illustrated in the 90th Psalm authored by Moses. Our
calendar, then, is 10 years ahead of the biblical one.
But, God is aware of both calendars. He has date-
stamped and provided the events highlighted in
Psalms according to our calendar.
As the context of the 90th Psalm illustrates, the new
millennium is to host the “wrath” and “anger” of the
Lord. We have the Gulf War in 1991, the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1992, the Great Flood and the first
World Trade Center bombing in 1993, 9/11 attacks,
Second Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic, the mad cow
disease, the bird flu, the swine flu, global warming,
droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and financial
crises that killed, wounded or hurt hundreds of
thousands of people all around the world ever after.
All in all, the journey of man’s time-travel from a single
gene to a full-blown man commemorated in year 2000
with a world human population that now passed the 6
billion mark.

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The Great Planetary Alignment
[Key phrases: Serve the LORD with gladness: come
before his presence]
May 5, 2000 Planetary Alignment
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The Psalms, as we have seen in the study of year 1982,
in its outmost layer, foretells the major events destined
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If we re-read the entire Psalm, all five verses, and
picture the audience who is invited to celebrate a major
event as planets, rather than people, we end up with an
inter-planetary interpretation of the year 2000.
The planets, “all ye lands” or “the sheep of [Lord’s]
pasture” are invited to:
1. “Serve the Lord with gladness” – to continue
observing their orbits.
2. “Come before his presence”, “enter into his
gates” and “into his courts” – to come closer to
the Sun.
In May 2000, the five brightest planets aligned
within 20° of the Sun, as seen from the Earth. This
could not be observed since they were too close to the
Sun.
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On May 5, 2000 the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will be more or less
positioned in a line with the Sun. Additionally, the
Moon will be almost lined up between the Earth and
Sun. Although this has led to many dire predictions
of global catastrophes such as melting ice caps, floods,
hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. there is absolutely no
scientific basis for these claims. The distance to the
planets is too great for their gravity, magnetic fields,
radiation, etc. to have any discernible effect on Earth.
In fact, we won't even be able to see this alignment,
as all the planets will be on the opposite side of the
Sun from the Earth.
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The “planetary” interpretation of the verses begs that
we turn our eyes to the Sun [symbolized in the verses
as The Lord].
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Solar Maximum
The Sun with some sunspots is visible. The two
small spots in the middle have about the same
diameter as our planet Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun920607.jpg –
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Solar maximum or solar max is the period of greatest
solar activity in the solar cycle of the sun. During
solar maximum, sunspots appear. Solar maximum is
contrasted with solar minimum. Solar maximum is
the period when the sun's magnetic field lines are the
most distorted due to the magnetic field on the solar
equator rotating at a slightly faster pace than at the
solar poles. The sun takes about 11 years to go from
one solar maximum to another and 22 years to
complete a full cycle (where the magnetic charge on
the poles is the same).
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Something very strange happened on the Sun during
March 2000. The south magnetic pole of the Sun faded
away!
A Star [the Sun] with two North Poles
An ultraviolet image of the Sun
at solar maximum
Image credit: SOHO
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Normally, our star [the Sun], like Earth itself, has a
north and a south magnetic pole. But for nearly a
month beginning in March 2000, the Sun's south
magnetic pole faded, and a north pole emerged to take
its place. The Sun had two north poles.
"It sounds impossible, but it's true," says space
physicist Pete Riley of Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC) in San Diego. "In
fact, it's a fairly normal side-effect of the solar cycle."
Every 11 years around solar maximum, the Sun's
magnetic field goes haywire as the Sun's underlying
magnetic dynamo reorganizes itself. The March 2000
event was simply a part of that upheaval.
"The south pole never really vanished," notes Riley.
It migrated north and, for a while, became a band of
south magnetic flux smeared around the Sun's
equator. By May 2000 the south pole had returned to
its usual spot near the Sun's southern spin axis--but
not for long. In 2001 the solar magnetic field
completely flipped; the south and north poles swapped
positions, which is how they remain now. [As of
April, 2003.]
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MINIMA AND MAXIMA OF SUNSPOT NUMBER CYCLES
Sunspot Year Smallest Year Largest Rise Fall Cycle
Cycle of Smoothed of Smoothed to Max to Min Length
Number Min* Monthly Mean** Max* Monthly Mean** (Yrs) (Yrs) (Yrs)
- 1610.8 -- 1615.5 -- 4.7 3.5 8.2
- 1619.0 -- 1626.0 -- 7.0 8.0 15.0
- 1634.0 -- 1639.5 -- 5.5 5.5 11.0
- 1645.0 -- 1649.0 -- 4.0 6.0 10.0
- 1655.0 -- 1660.0 -- 5.0 6.0 11.0
- 1666.0 -- 1675.0 -- 9.0 4.5 13.5
- 1679.5 -- 1685.0 -- 5.5 4.5 10.0
- 1689.5 -- 1693.0 -- 3.5 5.0 8.5
- 1698.0 -- 1705.5 -- 7.5 6.5 14.0
- 1712.0 -- 1718.2 -- 6.2 5.3 11.5
- 1723.5 -- 1727.5 -- 4.0 6.5 10.5
- 1734.0 -- 1738.7 -- 4.7 6.3 11.0
- 1745.0 -- 1750.3 92.6 5.3 4.9 10.2
1 1755.2 8.4 1761.5 86.5 6.3 5.0 11.3
2 1766.5 11.2 1769.7 115.8 3.2 5.8 9.0
3 1775.5 7.2 1778.4 158.5 2.9 6.3 9.2
4 1784.7 9.5 1788.1 141.2 3.4 10.2 13.6
5 1798.3 3.2 1805.2 49.2 6.9 5.4 12.3
6 1810.6 0.0 1816.4 48.7 5.8 6.9 12.7
7 1823.3 0.1 1829.9 71.7 6.6 4.0 10.6
8 1833.9 7.3 1837.2 146.9 3.3 6.3 9.6
9 1843.5 10.5 1848.1 131.6 4.6 7.9 12.5
10 1856.0 3.2 1860.1 97.9 4.1 7.1 11.2
11 1867.2 5.2 1870.6 140.5 3.4 8.3 11.7
12 1878.9 2.2 1883.9 74.6 5.0 5.7 10.7
13 1889.6 5.0 1894.1 87.9 4.5 7.6 12.1
14 1901.7 2.6 1907.0 64.2 5.3 6.6 11.9
15 1913.6 1.5 1917.6 105.4 4.0 6.0 10.0
16 1923.6 5.6 1928.4 78.1 4.8 5.4 10.2
17 1933.8 3.4 1937.4 119.2 3.6 6.8 10.4
18 1944.2 7.7 1947.5 151.8 3.3 6.8 10.1
19 1954.3 3.4 1957.9 201.3 3.6 7.0 10.6

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20 1964.9 9.6 1968.9 110.6 4.0 7.6 11.6
21 1976.5 12.2 1979.9 164.5 3.4 6.9 10.3
22 1986.8 12.3 1989.6 158.5 2.8 6.8 9.7
23 1996.4*** 8.0 2000.3*** 120.8 4.0
Mean Cycle Values: 6.1 113.2 4.7 6.3 11.0
* When observations permit, a date selected as either a cycle minimum
or maximum is based in part on an average of the times extremes are
reached in the monthly mean sunspot number, in the smoothed monthly
mean sunspot number, and in the monthly mean number of spot groups
alone. Two more measures are used at time of sunspot minimum: the
number of spotless days and the frequency of occurrence of "old" and
"new" cycle spot groups.
** The smoothed monthly mean sunspot number is defined here as the
arithmetic average of two sequential 12-month running means of
monthly mean numbers.
*** May 1996 marks the mathematical minimum of Cycle 23. October
1996 marks the consensus minimum determined by an international
group of solar physicists.
April 2000 marks the mathematical maximum of Cycle 23.
However, several other solar indices (e.g., 10.7 cm solar radio flux)
recorded a higher secondary maximum in late 2001.
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/SOLAR_DATA/SUNSPOT_NUMBERS/maxmin.ne
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2002
• High-Speed Communications
• AIDS
• Bird-Flu
• Mars Expeditions
• Human Cloning
• Change in Earth’s Surface
• Illinois Death Row Clemency
• The Godless Americans March
• The Earth Summit

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Psalms 102:
1 <<A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is
overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before
the LORD.>> Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry
come unto thee.
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in
trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I
call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my
bones are burned as an hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I
forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones
cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl
of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house
top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that
are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my
drink with weeping,
10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for
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11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am
withered like grass.
12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy
remembrance unto all generations.
13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the
time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and
favour the dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD,
and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not
despise their prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and
the people which shall be created shall praise the
LORD.
19 For he hath looked down from the height of his
sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the
earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those
that are appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his
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22 When the people are gathered together, and the
kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened
my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of
my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth:
and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of
them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt
thou change them, and they shall be changed:
27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no
end.
28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and
their seed shall be established before thee.

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Introduction
It is hard to believe but Psalms, written almost 3,000
years ago, foretells the advances in high-speed
communications of 2002 with the key phrase: “when I
call answer me speedily”! 3G, third generation of
telecommunication hardware standards, became
commercially available to consumers in year 2002.
About half of the 102nd Psalm is devoted to two
diseases – AIDS and the bird-flu. “My days are like a
shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass”
alludes to the speedy aging process of AIDS.
The rare mentioning of certain bird species within the
verses found in 102nd Psalm, namely “pelican”, “owl”
and “sparrow” accompanied by the “prayer of the
afflicted” mentioned in the first verse, allude to the
bird-flu. The first human infection of bird-flu in the
U.S. occurred in 2002.

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As we shall study in detail later in this book, Zion of
the Bible is synonymous with the planet Mars. 2002 is
the year The Mars Odyssey found signs of large water
ice deposits on Mars.
The 18th verse speaks of “the people which shall be
created”. On December 27, 2002, Clonaid's (a human
cloning company) chief executive, Brigitte Boisselier,
claimed that a baby clone, named Eve, was born.
2002 is also the year major changes on Earth’s surface
started to take place, such as the disintegration of a
large section of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf, the
Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide and the European
floods - hinted in the verses with the phrase “as a
vesture shalt thou change them [the Earth and the
heavens] and they shall be changed”.
The 20th verse reads: “To hear the groaning of the
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George Ryan, the governor of Illinois, eleven days after
the end of 2002, “on January 11, 2003, just days before
leaving office, commuted (to "life" terms) the sentences
of everyone on or waiting to be sent to Illinois' death
row – a total of 167 convicts – due to his belief that the
death penalty could not be administered fairly. He also
pardoned four inmates”.
The 15th verse speaks of “the heathen” that “shall fear
the name of the LORD”. Who are the heathen that the
verse alludes to? The Godless Americans! The Godless
Americans March that “occurred in Washington, DC
on November 2, 2002 was reported as including over
two thousand atheists, freethinkers, agnostics and
humanists in a mile-long parade down The Mall”.
Finally, the Earth Summit (a.k.a. Johannesburg
Summit) of 2002 held in South Africa brought several
heads of the state together, hinted in the verses with
the phrase “all the kings of the earth”, and “when the
people are gathered together, and the kingdoms”.

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High-Speed Communications
[Key phrase: when I call answer me speedily]
The second verse could not be clearer in defining the
advances in telecommunications destined to happen in
year 2002. 3G, third generation of telecommunication
hardware standards, became commercially available to
consumers in year 2002.
3G is the third generation of telecommunication
hardware standards and general technology for
mobile networking, superseding 2.5G. It is based on
the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
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3G networks enable network operators to offer users a
wider range of more advanced services while
achieving greater network capacity through improved
spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area
wireless voice telephone, video calls, and broadband
wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Additional
features also include HSPA data transmission
capabilities, which provides users with data rates up
to 14.4 Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8 Mbit/s on the
uplink.
The first pre-commercial 3G network was launched
by NTT DoCoMo in Japan branded FOMA, in May
2001 on a pre-release of W-CDMA technology. The
first commercial launch of 3G was also by NTT
DoCoMo in Japan on October 1, 2001, although it
was initially somewhat limited in scope; broader
availability was delayed by apparent concerns over
reliability. The second network to go commercially
live was by SK Telecom in South Korea on the 1xEV-
DO technology in January 2002. By May 2002 the
second South Korean 3G network was by KTF on
EV-DO and thus the Koreans were the first to see
competition among 3G operators.
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AIDS
[Key phrases: for my days are consumed like smoke,
and my bones are burned as an hearth, my bones
cleave to my skin, my days are like a shadow that
declineth, I am withered like grass, He weakened my
strength in the way, he shortened my days]
An AIDS Patient
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Scien
ce/Images/Content/aids-patient-984747-ga.jpg - Accessed May 15, 2009.
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The key phrases describe the pains caused by a deadly
disease - AIDS – some of which are loss of substantial
amount of weight (“my bones cleave to my skin”) and
rapid aging (“I am withered like grass”).
The sixth and the seventh verses describe the solitude
and the quarantined life of an AIDS patient with the
verses:
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like
an owl of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the
house top.
A two-year World AIDS Campaign was launched in
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World AIDS Day
Berkeley, California (Monday, November 25, 2002)
December 1, 2002 marks the 15th annual World
AIDS Day, the purpose of which is to support the
estimated 36.1 million people across the world living
with HIV. This year, World AIDS Day coincides
with the two-year World AIDS Campaign 2002-
2003. The Campaign’s focus on eliminating stigma
and discrimination is reflected in its slogan “Live and
Let Live.”
Stigma and discrimination are the major obstacles to
effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Fear of
discrimination may prevent people from seeking
treatment for AIDS or from acknowledging their
HIV status publicly. People with or suspected of
having HIV may be turned away from health care
services, denied housing and employment, shunned
by their friends and colleagues, turned down for
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In some cases, they may be evicted from their homes
by their families, divorced by their spouses, and suffer
physical violence or even murder. The stigma
attached to HIV/AIDS may extend into the next
generation, placing an emotional burden on children
who may also be trying to cope with the death of their
parents from AIDS.
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/news/2002/11nov/112502worldaidsday.
html - Accessed May 15, 2009.
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Live and Let Live Poster
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Bird-Flu
[Keywords: pelican, owl, sparrow, the afflicted]
As we read the 102nd Psalm, all of a sudden we are
given the names of certain bird species, namely
“pelican”, “owl” and “sparrow”. The context of the
verses alludes to the pains of an AIDS patient. While
describing the AIDS epidemic, the same Psalm hints us
about another – the bird flu.
Both diseases are infectious and transmissible from
human to human. Both diseases are deadly. AIDS has
no known cure; Bird-flu is somewhat treatable with
Tamiflu. The “afflicted” or the infected is usually
quarantined in both diseases. AIDS is believed to have
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AIDS traced to African monkeys
Friday, June 13, 2003
LONDON, England -- An international group of
scientists has traced the ancestry of the virus that
caused AIDS back to strains found in African
monkeys.
Two different monkey virus strains combined in
chimpanzees to create the HIV virus which was then
passed on to humans, the scientists told the journal
Science.
Earlier studies had shown that humans contracted
the virus that attacks the immune system from
chimps, but were unable to determine where the
chimps got the virus from.
More than 25 million people have been killed by the
AIDS virus that kills white blood cells and causes the
body to become defenceless against infections with an
estimated 40 million people living with HIV,
according to a report by the U.N. last year.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/06/13/monkeys.ai
d/ - Accessed May 15, 2009.
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The first human infection of bird-flu occurred in U.S. in
2002.

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Mars Expeditions
[Keyword: Zion]
Artistic impression of the 2001 Mars Odyssey
on Martian orbit
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As our year 2008 study will further illustrate, the
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Year 2002 was a milestone in Mars expeditions. For the
first time in history, large amount of water ice deposits
were located in Mars.
The water on Mars was good news! After all, no water,
no life. All of a sudden mankind could now count on
Mars for a possible future, a possible life on its current
desert soil.
13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion:
for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is
come.
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,
and favour the dust thereof.
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February 19 [2002] - NASA's Mars Odyssey space
probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its
thermal emission imaging system.
May 26 [2002] - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of
large water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
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Human Cloning
[Key phrase: the people which shall be created]
Brigitte Boisselier (left)
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The 18th verse is clear: “The people which shall be
created shall praise the LORD” - in allusion to the first
human clones, “the people which shall be created”,
cloned in, yes, year 2002.

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On Friday December 27, 2002, Boisselier, a Raëlian
bishop and CEO of Clonaid, announced at press
conference in Hollywood, Florida that Clonaid had
successfully performed the first human reproductive
cloning.
Boisselier said that the mother delivered Eve by
Caesarean section somewhere outside the United
States and that both were healthy. Dr. Boisselier did
not present the mother or child, or DNA samples that
would allow for confirmation of her claim at the press
conference. It has subsequently become apparent that
she announced the birth before genetic testing to
evaluate whether the child in question is actually a
clone: Dr. Boisselier was therefore stating her belief
that her procedure had resulted in a clone, not
announcing results showing that the child was a
clone.
Shortly after the announcement, Korean prosecutors
raided the offices of Clonaid's Korean branch,
BioFusion Tech. In the process, the prosecutors
removed records from homes and offices while barring
two representatives of BioFusion Tech from leaving
the country. An official company statement revealed
that three Korean women applied to become surrogate
mothers. Officials of BioFusion Tech told the
prosecutors that 10 Korean women wanted to clone
themselves and have filled out applications.
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Human Cloning
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically
identical copy of a human being (not usually
referring monozygotic multiple births), human cell,
or human tissue.
In December 2002, Clonaid, the medical arm of a
religion called Raëlism, who believe that aliens
introduced human life on Earth, claimed to have
successfully cloned a human being. They claim that
aliens taught them how to perform cloning, even
though the company has no record of having
successfully cloned any previous animal. A
spokesperson said an independent agency would
prove that the baby, named Evá, is in fact an exact
copy of her mother. Shortly thereafter, the testing was
cancelled, with the spokesperson claiming the
decision would ultimately be left up to Evá's parents.
In December 2004, Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, Clonaid's
Chief Executive, claimed in a letter to the UN that
Clonaid has successfully cloned thirteen children;
however, to protect them, their identities cannot be
revealed to the public.
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Change in Earth’s Surface
[Key phrases: as a vesture shalt thou change them,
and they shall be changed]
Stromboli Volcanic Island
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The 26th verse hints us to expect a change in the
“vesture”, the “clothing” of the Earth during 2002. The
global climate change related events caused average
global temperatures in 2002 to be the highest ever
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On January 31, 2002 a large section of the Antartic
Larsen Ice Shelf began disintegrating, consuming about
3,250 km (1,254 miles) over 35 days.
During August 2002, European floods ravaged Central
Europe.
In August 2002 a 100-year flood caused by over a
week of continuous heavy rains ravaged Europe,
killing dozens, dispossessing thousands, and causing
damage of billions of euros in the Czech Republic,
Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary,
Romania and Croatia.
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On September 20, 2002, the Kolka –Karmadon rock-ice
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The Kolka-Karmadon Rock-Ice Slide
The Kolka-Karmadon rock-ice slide occurred on the
northern slope of the Kazbek massif in North Ossetia,
Russia on September 20, 2002 following a partial
collapse of the Kolka Glacier. It started on the north-
northeast wall of Dzhimarai-Khokh (4780 m or
15,682 feet above sea level) and seriously affected the
valley of Genaldon and Karmadon. The resulting
avalanche and mudflow killed 125 people (including a
film crew of 27 people and Russian actor Sergei
Bodrov Jr.).
A 500 foot (150 meter) thick chunk of the Kolka
Glacier travelled 20 miles (32 km) down the
Karmadon Gorge and Koban Valley at over 62 miles
per hour (100 km/h). The outflow of mud and debris
measured 200 meters wide and 10 to 100 meters
thick. Two villages along the gorge were under
surveillance as flood waters backed up along the
choked rivers. It finally came to rest in the village of
Nijni Karmadon burying most of the village in ice,
snow, and debris. On September 25, a first round of
explosives intended to break up the avalanche flow
was unsuccessful in reducing flood waters lapping
through the village of Gornaya Saniba.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolka-Karmadon_rock_ice_slide -
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Finally, on December 30, 2002 an eruption on the
volcanic island Stromboli off the coast of Sicily
caused a flank failure and tsunami. The island was
later evacuated.
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The mentioned events were all aftermath of a change in
the environment, the surface of the Earth, mostly due
to global climate change.
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the
earth: and the heavens are the work of thy
hands.
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea,
all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a
vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall
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The Extreme Events of 2002 (EEI)
[January-June 2002]
Saturday, 01 June 2002
Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria –
Worst winter in nearly four decades.
Japan reported its first case of human casualty after
the discovery of mad cow disease. A rare winter
drought condition continued to threaten the water
supply of the eastern states of U.S. Affected states
include New Jersey, New York, Maine, Vermont,
Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
Northeast also had the warmest winter in decades.
Extremely high temperatures combined with dry
winds hit southern India from May 10 to May 16.
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January
Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Snowstorm
Death toll: 9
The worst winter storm in nearly four decades for
buried southeastern Europe with heavy snow falls.
Athens was covered by up to 8 inches of snow, a
unusual phenomenon. In Italy, some canals in Venice
froze for the first time in seventeen years. Even the
Egyptian capital, Cairo, which is on the opposite side
of the Mediterranean felt the cold temperature and
received heavy rain. Normally, rainfalls occur only
three times a year.
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January
Poland
Severe winter weather
Poland experienced one of its harshest winters in
decades. Since last October, weather related death toll
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January-February
North America
Record warmth
Most areas experienced above normal weather. State
of Wisconsin had its warmest January in 108 years.
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January
Japan
Mad cow disease
Japan reported its first case of human casualty after
the discovery of mad cow disease.
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January-March
Eastern U.S.
Drought
A rare winter drought condition continued to
threaten the water supply of the eastern states of U.S.
Affected states include New Jersey, New York,
Maine, Vermont, Maryland, North and South
Carolina, and Georgia. Northeast also had the
warmest winter in decades.
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January-March
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Montana,
U.S.A.
Severe drought
These states are much less populated than eastern
states. However, severe drought can easily cause
wide-spread forest fires in these states.
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January-March
Gulf area, U.S.A.
Temperatures extremes

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The daily high and low temperatures of New Orleans
from January 2002 to early March 2002 were either
well above or well below normal. Record
temperatures above 80 as well as rare occurrences of
snowfall in January alone.
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February
Bolivia
Hailstorm
Death toll: 50
Flash floods caused by a strange hailstorm killed 50
and injured 150 in La Paz, Bolivia's capital.
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March
Ecuador
Torrential storms
Landslides and floods caused by two-week long
torrential rains killed 13 and left 6,000 homeless. A
newly born El Niño in Pacific may extend the rainy
season which typically runs from November to April
furthermore.
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March
Northern China
Drought and Sandstorm
Three years of persistent drought in the area not only
create agricultural production downturn, but also
sent the worst sandstorm ever to the capital of China,
Beijing. Most sandstorm originating from Mongolia
Republic traveled southward then eastward to reach
the populated east coast provinces of China. The
winter drought condition extend eastward to Taiwan
for the first time. Japan and Korea also felt effects of
sandstorm of a lesser scale and the sand is expected to
reach the west coast of the United States in about one
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March
Hong Kong
Red tides
Red tides have been observed near Hong Kong's
shoreline. Red tides are results of single-celled algae
blooms which form visible brownish clusters near the
surface of the water. Usually the red tides are non-
toxic. A small number of species can produce
neurotoxin which is lethal to shellfish, fish, birds, and
marine mammals.
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March
Hindu Kush Region,Afghanistan
Earthquakes
Death toll: 3/3/2002: 100 3/25/2002: 800-1,200 (and
100,000 homeless)
The earthquake on March 25 (6.1 on Richter's Scale)
is weaker than the one on March 3 (7.4) in the same
region. But its center is only 6 km from the surface
and make it a shallow earthquake and has more
killing power.
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March
Alaska, U.S.
Record snow fall
25.7" of snow fell upon Anchorage, Alaska on March
17, 2002. The snowfall surpassed the old daily record
of 10.1" (1979) and the 24-hour record of 15.6"
(December 29, 1955). the date and for any 24-hour
period.
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March-April
Eastern, southern and central U.S.
Un-seasonal weather and temperature extremes

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Record warmth in March: Highest temperatures
reached 84-89oF in cities in Florida, Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee. Summer in April: 30-degree
above normal temperatures were felt from Midwest,
Northeast to Mid-Atlantic Record high temperatures
were set in 81 cities on April 15, another 81 on April
16, and 30 more in the next day.
Some examples: New York: 96oF (4/17/02)
Philadelphia: 95oF (4/17/02)Record rain falls in one
day in South Florida was recorded on April 14, 2002
Winter in April
Winter storms returned to northern part of the
Central U.S.(Minnesota, Wisconsin and northern
Michigan). Near record snow fell. Record low
temperatures were set in northern Maine.
April-June Northern Rockies, Central Rockies, and
Southwest Drought
Drought has spread from the Great Plains to
Southern California, and from Canada to Mexico.
The El Niño will dump more rain on states near the
Equator and deplete moisture from northern states
this winter. Montana, and Wyoming are into their
fifth year of drought. Ranchers are selling cattle.
Topsoil is eroding into dust. The scene reminds
people of the Dust Bowl. Colorado, Arizona, New
Mexico, and Utah are all in severe drought condition
which will make this summer a tough season for
forest fire fighters.
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April-June
Mexico
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May
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, U.S.
Floods
Death toll: 9
Wet weather stalled over the Mississippi and Ohio
River Valleys between May 12 and 15 causing floods.
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May
Southern India
Heat wave
Death toll: 450
Extremely high temperatures combined with dry
winds hit southern India from May 10 to May 16.
The heat wave stay much longer than the ones in
1996 and 1998 and killing more people. The highest
temperature reached 120oF in some areas.
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May
Haiti
Floods
Death toll: 21
Flash floods and landslides destroyed 600 homes and
left one thousand people homeless.
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May
Jamaica
Torrential rains
Death toll: 6
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May
East of Mississippi River
Record snowfall and un-seasonal cold in May

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Temperatures were well below normal in the second
half of May. On May 18, some new records on the
latest snow date fall were set from northern
Pennsylvania, New York to New England.
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June
Western China: Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Xinjiang
Floods
Death toll: 223
Homes destroyed: 80,500.
Shaanxi is the worst hit. It received record 489 mm of
rain from June 8 to 10. At least 13 bridges and 29
hydroelectric stations were washed out.
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June
Southern and eastern Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, southeastern France
Torrential rains
Death toll: 3 and 1 missing
Overnight heavy rains flooded the streets and
causing damages on properties.
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June
Southern China: Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang
Floods
Death toll: 230
Flood season starts from June. El Niño will bring
more rains, cyclones and strong tides this summer.
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June Western U.S. Forest fires Burned area: over 1.5
million acres. The hardest hit areas: Colorado, the
Southwest, and southern California. Among the most
burned areas: Blackjack Bay Complex fire (123,239
acres burned) and Hayman fire (120,000 acres
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The most publicized one is Hayman fire near Denver
and is the largest ever forest fire in state history. It
has burned 25 homes since June 8 and forced six
thousand people to flee their homes.
The high temperature and gusty winds combined
with severe drought condition in Colorado make fire
fighting very difficult. More than 2300 fire fighters
are working to contain the fire. Estimated cost to
contain Hayman fire: US$50 million.
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June
Honduras
Floods
Death toll: 10
Overnight torrential rains causing floods which
destroyed 1000 houses. Honduras monsoon season
starts from late May ending the eight-month of
drought. Concentrated and intense rain falls was
causing floods in various areas around country in the
first two weeks of June.
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June
Ural Mountains, Russia
Floods
Heavy rains flooded more than 1000 homes.
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June
Western U.S.
Abnormal temperatures
From May 30 to June 1, there were 170 new daily
record highs on both side of Rockies. Normally, the
temperatures stay near 80o.104oF, Goodland, KS
(5/31)106oF, McCook, NE (5/31)102oF, Pueblo, UT
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June
Chile
Torrential rains
Record rain falls (125 mm) ever in 24 hours flooded
Chile.
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Source: Extreme Events, June 2002
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http://www.globalwarming.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=
view&id=73&Itemid=27 – Accessed May 15, 2009.
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Illinois Death Row Clemency
[Key phrases: To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to
loose those that are appointed to death]
George Ryan –
The 39th Governor of Illinois
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The 20th verse signals a clemency, a pardoning of the
capital punishment, the death penalty of numerous
prisoners:
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose
those that are appointed to death;
George Ryan, the governor of Illinois, eleven days after
the end of 2002, “on January 11, 2003, just days before
leaving office, commuted (to "life" terms) the sentences
of everyone on or waiting to be sent to Illinois' death
row – a total of 167 convicts – due to his belief that the
death penalty could not be administered fairly. He also
pardoned four inmates”.
George Homer Ryan
(born February 24, 1934 in Maquoketa, Iowa) was
the Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1999
until 2003. He was a member of the Republican
Party. Although Ryan became nationally known
when he "raised the national debate on capital
punishment" by issuing a moratorium on executions
in 2000[1], his 35-year political career was tarnished
by scandal. Investigations into widespread corruption
during his administration led to his retirement from
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Ryan entered federal prison on November 7, 2007, to
begin serving a sentence of six years and six months.
As of December 10, 2008, he is housed at the satellite
prison camp adjacent to the Federal Correctional
Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Ryan first gained national attention in the area of
capital punishment when, as governor, he declared a
moratorium on his state's death penalty in 2000.
"We have now freed more people than we have put to
death under our system," he said. "There is a flaw in
the system, without question, and it needs to be
studied."[11] At the time, Illinois had executed 12
people since the reinstitution of the death penalty in
1977 (with one execution, that of Ripper Crew
member Andrew Kokoraleis occurring early during
Ryan's term), but had been forced to release 13 people
based on new evidence. Ryan called for a commission
to study the issue, while noting, "I still believe the
death penalty is a proper response to heinous crimes,
but I want to make sure ... that the person who is put
to death is absolutely guilty."
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The Godless Americans March
[Key phrase: the heathen shall fear the name of the
LORD]
The Godless American March Poster
http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/media/DVD-GodlessDVD.gif -
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“Atheists from around the country came to bear the
cold and to express their rejection of religion.”
http://www.nobeliefs.com/GAMOW/GAMOW12.htm -
Accessed May, 2009.
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The 15th verse mentions “the heathen” that “shall fear
the name of the LORD”. Who are the atheists the verse
points at? And what will they do in year 2002 that will
carry them up on headlines?
The group of disbelievers in God, “the heathen”, is the
Godless Americans. The event alluded was their march
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The verse reads: “the heathen that shall fear the name
of the Lord”. On their official site, the Godless
Americans have the word “God” (“the name of the
Lord”) found on the U.S. paper money bills (“In God
We Trust”) crossed out and replaced with the word
“US”.
The Godless Americans March which “occurred in
Washington, DC on November 2, 2002 was reported
as including over two thousand atheists, freethinkers,
agnostics and humanists in a mile-long parade down
The Mall”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godless_Americans_March_on_Washing
ton - Accessed May 15, 2009.
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The following slogans are quoted from the original
website of the Godless Americans.
• Beware of dogma.
• God is just pretend.
• Recovering catholic.
• Nothing fails like prayer.
• The christian right is neither.

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• I believe in life before death.
• Religion is myth-information.
• Religion stops a thinking mind.
• My karma ran over your dogma.
• So many christians, so few lions.
• Blasphemy is a victimless crime.
• God, protect us from your followers.
• There is no sin greater than ignorance.
• Come the rapture, can I have your car?
• Fundamentalism stops a thinking mind.
• Religions are just cults with more members.
• Your kids and my taxes go to St. Pedophiles.
He's your god. They're your rules.
• You burn in hell.
• At first they burn books. Eventually they
burn people.
• I've got nothing against god. It's his fan club
I can't stand.
• Fundamentalism means never having to open
your mind.

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• When religion ruled the world they called it
the dark ages.
• Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those
who find it.
• Guilt, fear and mass insanity. Three cheers for
christianity.
• You found god? If nobody claims him in 30
days, he's your's.
• To err is human. To really screw things up
you need religion.
• The only problem with baptists is they don't
hold them under long enough.
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The Earth Summit
[Key phrases: all the kings of the earth, when the
people are gathered together, and the kingdoms]
The Earth Summit (a.k.a. Johannesburg Summit) of
2002 held in South Africa brought several heads of the
state together, hinted in the verses with the phrase “all
the kings of the earth”, and “when the people are
gathered together, and the kingdoms”.

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The World Summit
The World Summit on Sustainable Development,
WSSD or Earth Summit 2002 took place in
Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4
September 2002. It was convened to discuss
sustainable development by the United Nations.
WSSD gathered a number of leaders from business
and non-governmental organizations, 10 years after
the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. (It was
therefore also informally nicknamed "Rio+10".)
An agreement was made to restore the world's
depleted fisheries by 2015. It was agreed to by
negotiators at the World Summit.
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The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable
Development was adopted at the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD), sometimes
referred to as Earth Summit 2002, at which the Plan
of Implementation of the World Summit on
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The Johannesburg Declaration builds on earlier
declarations made at the United Nations Conference
on the Human Environment at Stockholm in 1972,
and the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
While committing the nations of the world to
sustainable development, it also includes substantial
mention of multilateralism as the path forward.
In terms of the political commitment of parties, the
Declaration is a more general statement than the Rio
Declaration. It is an agreement to focus particularly
on "the worldwide conditions that pose severe threats
to the sustainable development of our people, which
include: chronic hunger; malnutrition; foreign
occupation; armed conflict; illicit drug problems;
organized crime; corruption; natural disasters; illicit
arms trafficking; trafficking in persons; terrorism;
intolerance and incitement to racial, ethnic, religious
and other hatreds; xenophobia; and endemic,
communicable and chronic diseases, in particular
HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis."
Johannesburg Declaration 19
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2008
• Space Missions
• Cities of Mars/Zion
• Change of US Daylight Saving Time

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Psalms 108:
1 <<A Song or Psalm of David.>> O God, my heart is
fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I
will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy
truth reacheth unto the clouds.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy
glory above all the earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy
right hand, and answer me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will
divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is
the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my
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10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will
lead me into Edom?
11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt
not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of
man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that
shall tread down our enemies.

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Introduction
Out of several events that the year 2008 is remembered
for, the Bible, thousands of years ago, has highlighted
the space missions [to be] accomplished within 2008 as
the primary events to watch for during the year.
When we study the events that took place in 2008, we
realize that the Bible is right again. Year 2008 is indeed
marked with extraordinary feats accomplished in space
through space missions executed by government and
for the first time in history, privately owned space
agencies from around the world.
The Bible was also aware of all changes in daylight
saving time that affected the U.S. and the Israeli
people. The phrase “awake early”, mentioned twice in
the entire Psalms is used in the 108th Psalm for the
second time in allusion to the change of daylight
saving time that got into effect across the U.S. in 2007
and caused the U.S. people to wake up an hour earlier
between November 2007 and March 2008.

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Space Missions
[Key phrases: above the heavens, above all the earth]
Famous "Blue Marble" photograph of Earth,
taken from Apollo 17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg –
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2008 was a busy year for space exploration. Several
feats were accomplished in space most of which were
firsts in the history of mankind.
January 14 - At 19:04:39 UTC, the MESSENGER
space probe is at its closest approach during its first
flyby of the planet Mercury.[13]
February 7 - STS-122: Space Shuttle Atlantis
launches to deliver the European-built Columbus
science laboratory to the International Space Station.
[28]
March 9 - The first European Space Agency
Automated Transfer Vehicle, a cargo spacecraft for
the International Space Station, launches from
Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
April 28 - India sets a world record by sending 10
satellites into orbit in a single launch.[52]
May 25 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft becomes the
first to land on the northern polar region of
Mars.[54]
September 17 - The International Astronomical
Union classifies Haumea as the 5th dwarf planet in
the Solar System.[92]
September 28 - SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the
world's first privately developed space launch vehicle
to successfully make orbit.[101][102]
October 6 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft
makes its second of 3 flybys of Mercury, decreasing
the velocity for orbital insertion on March 18,
2011.[106][107]

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October 22 - The Indian Space Research
Organisation successfully launches the
Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft on a lunar exploration
mission.[123][124]
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Cities of Mars/Zion
[Keywords and key phrases: Moab, Edom, the strong
city, That thy beloved may be delivered]
Artist's impression of the Phoenix spacecraft
as it lands on Mars
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2008 is the year NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made the
first landing on the northern polar region of Mars
where water is found. No water, no life!
Before we study the tale of the two cities named Moab
and Edom mentioned in the 108th Psalm, we must first
understand the concept of “Zion” mentioned 154 times
in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).
In Biblical literature, and in the Bible itself, “Zion”(or
“the mount of Zion”) is one of the most controversial
concepts. All we know about “Zion” is that it is a place,
a dwelling place.
Zion (Hebrew: ‫יּוֹן‬ ִ‫צ‬; Tiberian vocalization: tsiyyôn;
transliterated Zion or Sion) is a term that most often
designates the Land of Israel and its capital,
Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back
almost three millennia. It commonly referred to a
specific mountain near Jerusalem (Mount Zion), on
which stood a Jebusite fortress of the same name that
was conquered by David and was named the City of
David.

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The term Zion came to designate the area of
Jerusalem where the fortress stood, and later became a
metonym for Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the city
of Jerusalem and the entire Promised Land to come,
in which, according to the Hebrew Bible, God dwells
among his chosen people.
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We learn from the Bible that Zion:
1. Is where the Lord dwells.
2. Has assemblies.
3. Hosts a wilderness.
4. Hosts waste places.
5. Hosts a desert.
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7. Is a place of deliverance - arrival.
8. Is a place of “pick-up” - departure.
9. The Lord will create a cloud and a smoke
by day and a flaming fire by night on mount
Zion and on her assemblies.
10. The Lord will turn the wilderness of Zion
into garden of Eden.
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Isaiah 4:5 And the LORD will create upon every
dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her
assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the
shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all
the glory shall be a defence.
Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the
LORD hath given me are for signs and for
wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts,
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Isaiah 10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD
of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be
not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee
with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee,
after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a
tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not make
haste.
Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he
will comfort all her waste places; and he will
make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert
like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the
voice of melody.
Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health unto
thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith
the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast,
saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh
after.
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The verses speak of ancient cities “Moab” and “Edom”.
We know that they existed thousands of years ago, but
today, they are nowhere to be found. Where else do the
two cities exist? If we locate where Moab and Edom are,
we might have a chance to find out where or what Zion
is.
Searching through the maps of the Earth will not be of
any help in delivering any results regarding [to be] cities
named “Moab” and “Edom”. They are nowhere to be
found on current Earth. Well, then, may be we should
look up, rather than around.
When one visits Google Mars website, and does a
search on “Moab” and “Edom”, there they are! Up on
Mars! They are not cities, yet! But two albedos named
“Moab” and “Edom” back in 1958 are already in
existence up on Mars - turning our eyes on to Mars as
the strongest candidate for what or where Zion really
is!
Moab and Edom are classified as albedos. What is an
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Albedo
An albedo feature is a large area on the surface of a
planet (or other solar system body) which shows a
contrast in brightness or darkness (albedo) with
adjacent areas.
Historically, albedo features were the very first (and
usually only) features to be seen and named on Mars
and Mercury. Early classical maps (such as those of
Schiaparelli and Antoniadi) showed only albedo
features, and it was not until the arrival of space
probes that other surface features such as craters
could be seen.
On bodies other than Mars and Mercury, an albedo
feature is sometimes called a regio. On bodies with a
very thick atmosphere like Venus or Titan,
permanent albedo features cannot be seen using
ordinary optical telescopes because the surface is not
visible, and only clouds and other transient
atmospheric phenomena are seen.
The very first albedo feature ever seen on another
planet was Syrtis Major on Mars in the 17th
century. Today, thanks to space probes, very high-
resolution images of surface features on Mars and
Mercury are available, and the classical nomenclature
based on albedo features has fallen somewhat into
disuse. It is however still used for Earth-based
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However, for some solar system bodies such as Pluto
and Ceres which have not been visited by space
probes, the best available images show only albedo
features. These images were usually taken by the
Hubble Space Telescope or by ground-based
telescopes using adaptive optics.
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Now that we have located where the two cities Moab
and Edom may actually be built at in the future, let us
then examine the other features of Zion and check
whether they fit in the general specifications of Mars.
Zion:
1. Is where the Lord dwells.
[Mars is the site of Olympus Mons, the
highest known mountain in the Solar
System.]
2. Has assemblies.
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3. Hosts a wilderness.
[So does Mars.]
4. Hosts waste places.
[So does Mars.]
5. Hosts a desert.
[So does Mars.]
6. Is a place no man seeks after.
[Due to its current desolate nature, so is
Mars.]
7. Is a place of deliverance – arrival.
[The home of final Exodus where, at the
end of days, a remnant among Israelites
will be delivered to?]
8. Is a place of “pick-up” – departure.
[The name-twin of Zion on Earth (i.e.
Jerusalem) is where the remnant will be
taken/picked-up at?]

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9. The Lord will create a cloud and a smoke
by day and a flaming fire by night on
mount Zion and on her assemblies.
[A final Exodus for Jews at the end of
days when they will be taken up to
Mars. Like the first Exodus, a pillar of
cloud will guide the Jews once again,
this time on Mars and its “assemblies” –
satellites.]
10. The Lord will turn the wilderness of Zion
into garden of Eden.
[The wilderness of Mars will be turned
into a garden, a new Garden of Eden, by
the Lord.]
The story of Mars and its importance for the Jews starts
with Patriarch Jacob’s travel to north, to Haran, in
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Genesis 28:
11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and
tarried there all night, because the sun was set;
and he took of the stones of that place, and put
them for his pillows, and lay down in that place
to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up
on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven:
and behold the angels of God ascending and
descending on it.
13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and
said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father,
and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth,
and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to
the east, and to the north, and to the south: and
in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of
the earth be blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep
thee in all places whither thou goest, and will
bring thee again into this land; for I will not
leave thee, until I have done that which I have
spoken to thee of.
16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he
said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I
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17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful
is this place! this is none other but the house of
God, and this is the gate of heaven.
18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and
took the stone that he had put for his pillows,
and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon
the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place Bethel:
but the name of that city was called Luz at the
first.
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will
be with me, and will keep me in this way that I
go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to
put on,
21 So that I come again to my father's house in
peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar,
shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt
give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Following the dream Jacob experienced during his
sleep, known as the “Jacob’s Ladder”, he woke up “and
took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it
up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it”. He
promised spending [tithing] 1/10th of all that God
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Genesis 29:
1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came
into the land of the people of the east.
2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field,
and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by
it; for out of that well they watered the flocks:
and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and
they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and
watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon
the well's mouth in his place.
4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren,
whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the
son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they
said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his
daughter cometh with the sheep.
7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it
time that the cattle should be gathered together:
water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks
be gathered together, and till they roll the stone
from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
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The hidden symbolisms evident in the verses are:
• The stones Jacob used as a pillow were piled up on
one another forming a pillar – Olympus Mons on
Mars was formed by piled up clusters.
• Jacob called the place “House of God”, “Gate of
Heaven” – The Lord dwells in Mount Zion [Isaiah
8:18] - Olympus Mons on Mars is the highest
mountain in the Solar System [the Most High
dwells on the Most High spot in the Solar
System]. A two-way travel between where Jacob
slept and Mars is hinted within the name “Gate of
Heaven”.
• God promised Jacob that He would give the land
Jacob slept upon to him and to his seed – The
ladder Jacob saw in his dream symbolizes a two-
way travel between Zion “the city” on Earth and
Zion “the planet” [Mars] in the Solar System.
• The vow of “1/10th” - Mars has a mass equal to
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• The stone that covered the well’s mouth, a “well
cap” - The water on Mars is found at the polar/ice
caps [of Mars].
• Jacob and Esau were twin brothers. According to
Genesis 19:30-38, Moab was the son of Abraham's
nephew Lot by his elder daughter. The Bible refers
Edomites as descendants of Esau, and the Book of
Genesis mentions “red” a number of times in
describing Esau and explaining his alternate name
Edom.
Years later, "Jacob was once simmering a stew,
when Esau came home exhausted from the field.
Esau said to Jacob: "Feed me, I pray thee, with that
same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his
name called Edom". (Genesis 25:29-30) – Mars is
known as the “red planet”.
• The name “Zion” appears 154 times in the Tanakh
(Hebrew Bible) – The distance between the Earth
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Olympus Mons on October 19, 1998,
Image by the Mars Global Surveyor
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in the
Solar System. Although three times higher than
Earth’s Mount Everest, Olympus Mons would not be
difficult to climb because of the volcano’s great
breadth. Covering an area greater than the entire
Hawaiian volcano chain, the slopes of Olympus Mons
typically rise only a few degrees at a time. The low
gravity of Mars combined with a relatively static
surface crust allow volcanoes this large to build up
over time. This representative-color image was taken
last April by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft
currently orbiting Mars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olympus_Mons.jpeg –
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The albedo [plain] named Moab on Mars
http://www.google.com/mars/ - Accessed May 24, 2009.
The albedo [plain] named Edom on Mars

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Moab and Edom on Mars
Olympus Mons, Moab and Edom

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Wide view of the Olympus Mons aureole,
escarpment and caldera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olympus_Mons_alt.jpg –
Olympus Mons compared to Arizona
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This 3-dimensional image was created from several
images of Olympus Mons. Each image was taken from
a different spacecraft position and combined with a
computer model of the surface topography to generate
a perspective view
http://www.olympusmons.com/mars/photo06.html -
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Earth and the Moon from Mars
Taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera of Mars Global Surveyor
on May 8 2003 at 12:59:58 UTC. South America is visible.
Courtesy NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems [1] [2].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_and_Moon_from_Mars_PIA04531.jpg –
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Of Zion [Mars] and
Olympus Mons [Mount Zion]
The Cause
Why will a delivery be needed to Zion? We learn from
the Bible that following an era of wealth and
abundance on Earth, an era of prophecy will begin;
“your sons and daughters shall prophesy, old men
shall dream dreams, and young men shall see visions”.
The era of prophecy will be coupled with “wonders in
the heavens and in the Earth, blood, and fire, and
pillars of smoke”. “The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood”. Finally, following
the wonders in the heavens and in the Earth, life on
Earth will cease to exist [Isaiah 51:6].
Joel 2:
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice
in the LORD your God: for he hath given you
the former rain moderately, and he will cause to
come down for you the rain, the former rain,
and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the
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25 And I will restore to you the years that the
locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the
caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army
which I sent among you.
26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied,
and praise the name of the LORD your God, that
hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people
shall never be ashamed.
27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of
Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and
none else: and my people shall never be
ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I
will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your
sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your
old men shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I pour out my
spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and
in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of
smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and
the moon into blood, before the great and the
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In the end of days, the Sun, the Moon and all the stars
will stop emitting and reflecting any and all light on
Earth. A total darkness, as if by a solar eclipse, shall
cover the Earth, and possibly our Solar System just the
same. Several deadly quakes shall be observed on both
the Earth and other heavenly bodies [planets].
Joel 3:
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened,
and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and
utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens
and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be
the hope of his people, and the strength of the
children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your
God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then
shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
strangers pass through her any more.
In Isaiah 51:6, the people delivered to Zion are asked to
look up to the heavens, then look down upon the Earth
(“beneath”) with the exact viewpoint of an observer
looking down to Earth from Mars, and witness it
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Isaiah 51:
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look
upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall
vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax
old like a garment, and they that dwell therein
shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall
be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be
abolished.
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall
return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they
shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning shall flee away.
The Delivery
In Joel 2:32, we learn about the remnant who will enjoy
the luxury of being saved from the Earth and delivered
to Mars. The Lord will determine the group who will
be taken up. But the remnant may also self-form by
those “whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord”,
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Joel 2:
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
shall call on the name of the LORD shall be
delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem
shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and
in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Zion – The New Home of the Righteous
In Isaiah 33, we are told that the Lord dwells on high,
and it is where the Lord will rise, lift Himself up. Both
the sinner and the righteous will live on Zion at that
promised time. However, the evil-doers who called on
the Name of the Lord and qualified to be delivered to
Zion shall not escape the judgment and the fire that
awaited them in Zion. The righteous, however, will be
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A new Jerusalem will be built in Zion, together with a
tabernacle at the heart of it, that, unlike its counterpart
on Earth, will not be taken down, removed or broken.
Rivers and streams will flow in Zion, but no ship will
pass by or seen (“wherein shall go no galley with oars,
neither shall gallant ship pass thereby”). This is no
surprise, as we know by now that there are no seas on
Mars. Unlike giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune that have no solid surfaces (lands) and are
mostly atmosphere (gas/fluid), Mars hosts a giant
solid surface but no seas.
Isaiah 33:
3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at
the lifting up of thyself the nations were
scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the
gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to
and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high:
he hath filled Zion with judgment and
righteousness.
10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I
be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth
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12 And the people shall be as the burnings of
lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the
fire.
13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done;
and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness
hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us
shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among
us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh
uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of
oppressions, that shaketh his hands from
holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from
hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from
seeing evil;
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence
shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be
given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty:
they shall behold the land that is very far off.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is
the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he
that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of
a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a
stammering tongue, that thou canst not
understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities:
thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation,
a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not
one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,
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21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us
a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein
shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant
ship pass thereby.
22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our
lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
The Lord promises to “build up” Zion hinting its
current desolate nature. As the Earth, and the known
planets except Mars will “wax old like a garment” and
“they shall be changed”; all life on them will cease to
exist [Isaiah 51:6]. But the remnant of the Lord who
have made it up on Mars will continue to live...
Psalms 102:
12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and
thy remembrance unto all generations.
13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion:
for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is
come.
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,
and favour the dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the
LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute,
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18 This shall be written for the generation to
come: and the people which shall be created
shall praise the LORD.
19 For he hath looked down from the height of
his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD
behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose
those that are appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion,
and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together, and
the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he
shortened my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the
midst of my days: thy years are throughout all
generations.
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the
earth: and the heavens are the work of thy
hands.
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea,
all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a
vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall
be changed:
27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall
have no end.
28 The children of thy servants shall continue,
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Finally, while the Earth and the other planets vanished
away before the very eyes of the delivered remnant
already dwelling at Zion, life, as we know it, will
miraculously blossom at the mountains, the hills and
the rivers of Zion.
Joel 3:
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
mountains shall drop down new wine, and the
hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of
Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain
shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and
shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall
be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against
the children of Judah, because they have shed
innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem
from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not
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In Isaiah 35:9, the Bible reports that “no lion shall be
there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it
shall not be found there” - hinting that no lion or beast
of any sort shall be transported up to Mars. The exact
term used in the verse is “go up” – up from the Earth!
Mars – “the wilderness and the solitary place”. On it,
“the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose”.
Isaiah 35:
1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be
glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and
blossom as the rose.
2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even
with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall
be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and
Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD,
and the excellency of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm
the feeble knees.
4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be
strong, fear not: behold, your God will come
with vengeance, even God with a recompence;
he will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and
the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the
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7 And the parched ground shall become a pool,
and the thirsty land springs of water: in the
habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be
grass with reeds and rushes.
8 And an highway shall be there, and a way,
and it shall be called The way of holiness; the
unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for
those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not
err therein.
9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast
shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there;
but the redeemed shall walk there:
10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return,
and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy
upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and
gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
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Mars soil
Image taken by the Opportunity rover on Mars
Isaiah 35:7:
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the
thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of
dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds
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Data from Mars orbiters and landers have suggested
that any past water on the Red Planets’ surface
probably came from subsurface moisture bubbling up
from underground. But a new study of Martian soil
data implies that Mars’ atmosphere was once thick
enough to hold moisture and that dew or even drizzle
hit the ground. Geoscientists at the University of
California Berkeley combined data from the Viking 1
and 2 landers, the Pathfinder rover, and the current
rovers Spirit and Opportunity. The scientists say
tell-tale signs of this type of moisture are evident on
the planet’s surface.
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/25/mars-atmosphere-once-
held-enough-moisture-for-dew-or-drizzle/ - Accessed May 24, 2009.
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In between the lines, the Bible implies that life on Mars
existed way before the delivery of the remnant up to
Mars at the end of days. That man and woman alike
did live on Mars prior to their “fall” or “cast off” to
Earth. The Bible uses the word “return” regarding the
remnant’s space travel to Mars hinting the fact that
what seems like our first promised journey to Mars
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Psalms 108:
9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast
out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who
will lead me into Edom?
11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?
and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our
hosts?
Isaiah 51:
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall
return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they
shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning shall flee away.
In the 102nd Psalm, the dust and stone of Mars are
mentioned: “For thy servants take pleasure in her
stones, and favour the dust thereof.” As a result of
Adam and Eve’s breaking God's law, Adam is cursed
by God: “for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
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Was Adam created on Mars? Did God’s “dust to dust”
curse actually allude to Adam’s future voyage from
and back to Mars? May be. Adam, in Hebrew means
“red”. Mars is known as the “red planet” due its iron
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MARS
Mars. Taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: Philip James (University of Toledo),
Steven Lee (University of Colorado), NASA
Mars, known as the "Red Planet," is named after the Roman
god of war. It is the fourth planet from the sun. It is the only
planet whose surface can be seen in detail from the earth.
And when looking at it through a telescope, the surface of
Mars has three outstanding features- bright areas, dark
areas, and polar caps.
The bright areas of Mars are reddish rust-brown in color and
cover about two-thirds of the planet's surface. They are dry,
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The dark areas of Mars cover about one-third of the planet's
surface. They form irregular patterns, and generally appear
greenish-gray or bluish-gray. These dark regions have
historically been called maria (seas), even though the areas
don't contain any measurable amounts of water. The color,
shape, and size of these areas vary from season to season.
The polar caps of Mars are small areas located at the planet's
north and south poles. The polar caps appear white from
earth, and are thought to contain large amounts of frozen
water. Like the maria, each polar cap grows and shrinks with
the changing seasons. They appear to evaporate and shrink
during the time when they are pointed towards the sun, then
freeze and grow larger again while turned away from the
sun.
Mars has an off-center orbit. At one extreme of its orbit
Mars loops 42.4 million km farther from the Sun than at the
other. Its average distance from the sun is about 141,700,000
miles. At its closest approach to earth, Mars is 48,700,000
miles away. The rotation of Mars is very similar to that of
Earth. And like Earth, Mars' tipped axis causes seasons.
Because Mars moves faster when close to the sun, and slower
when farther away, its seasons differ in length. Northern
spring lasts 52 Martian days more than fall. Mars rotates
once every 24 hours and 37 minutes. One year on Mars
takes about 687 earth days. The surface conditions on Mars
are more like the Earth's than those of any other planet. The
temperature on Mars ranges from -191F to -24F.
The mass of Mars is slightly more than that of Mercury. (It
is the third smallest.) Its mass is 0.11 (Earth being 1).
Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos. Deimos, which
hovers 20,123km above Mars, orbits every 30 hours. Phobos,
which hovers at only 5,973km, orbits in less than 8 hours.
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Fact Sheet
Planet Name Mars
Latin Name/Greek Name Mars/Ares
Symbol
Year Discovered/Discoverer N/A
Mass 0.64191 x 1027 kg
Volume (Earth = 1) 0.149
Density 3.94 gm/cm3
Surface Gravity 371 cm/s2
Escape Velocity at Equator 5.02 km/s
Mean Equatorial Radius 3,397 km
Albedo (Percentage of light reflected) .15
Mean Temperature at Solid Surface 186 - 268 K
Motion
Sidereal Rotation Period (Earth Days) 1.02595675
Rotation Direction Direct
Orbit
Sidereal Orbit Period (Earth Years) 1.88071105
Mean Orbit Velocity 24.1309 km/s
Orbit Eccentricity 0.09341233
Mean Distance (Semimajor Axis) from Sun 227,936,640 km
Inclination of Orbit to Ecliptic 1.85061 degrees
Inclination of Equator to Orbit 25.19 degrees
Natural Satellites Phobos, Deimos
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MARS
Mars (pronounced / mɑrz/) is the fourth planet from the Sun
in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the
Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet"
because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent
on its surface.
Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having
surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the
Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts and polar ice caps
of Earth. It is the site of Olympus Mons, the highest known
mountain in the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, the
largest canyon. Furthermore, in June 2008 three articles
published in Nature presented evidence of an enormous
impact crater in Mars' northern hemisphere, 10,600 km long
by 8,500 km wide, or roughly four times larger than the
largest impact crater yet discovered, the South Pole-Aitken
basin.[6][7] In addition to its geographical features, Mars’
rotational period and seasonal cycles are likewise similar to
those of Earth.
Until the first flyby of Mars by Mariner 4 in 1965, many
speculated that there might be liquid water on the planet's
surface. This was based on observations of periodic
variations in light and dark patches, particularly in the polar
latitudes, which looked like seas and continents, while long,
dark striations were interpreted by some observers as
irrigation channels for liquid water.
These straight line features were later proven not to exist
and were instead explained as optical illusions. Still, of all
the planets in the Solar System other than Earth, Mars is the
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Radar data from Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter have revealed the presence of large quantities of
water ice both at the poles (July 2005)[9] and at mid-
latitudes (November 2008).[10] The Phoenix Mars Lander
directly sampled water ice in shallow martian soil on July
31, 2008.[11]
Mars is currently host to three functional orbiting
spacecraft: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter. With the exception of Earth, this is
more than any planet in the Solar System. The surface is also
home to the two Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and
Opportunity) and several inert landers and rovers, both
successful and unsuccessful. The Phoenix lander recently
completed its mission on the surface.
Geological evidence gathered by these and preceding
missions suggests that Mars previously had large-scale
water coverage, while observations also indicate that small
geyser-like water flows have occurred during the past
decade.[12] Observations by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
show evidence that parts of the southern polar ice cap have
been receding.[13]
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are small
and irregularly shaped. These may be captured asteroids,
similar to 5261 Eureka, a Martian Trojan asteroid. Mars can
be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Its apparent
magnitude reaches −2.9,[5] a brightness surpassed only by
Venus, the Moon, and the Sun, although most of the time
Jupiter will appear brighter to the naked eye than Mars.
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The Planet Mars
Mars has long been the subject of human fascination. Early
telescopic observations revealed color changes on the surface
which were originally attributed to seasonal vegetation as
well as apparent linear features which were ascribed to
intelligent design. These early and erroneous interpretations
led to widespread public interest in Mars. Further telescopic
observations found Mars' two moons - Phobos and Deimos,
the polar ice caps and the feature now known as Olympus
Mons, the solar system's tallest mountain.[3] These
discoveries piqued further interest in the study and
exploration of the red planet.
Mars is a rocky planet, like Earth, that formed around the
same time, yet with only half the diameter of Earth, and a far
thinner atmosphere, it has a cold and desert-like surface. It is
notable, however, that although the planet has only one
quarter of the surface area of the Earth, it has about the same
land area, since only one quarter of the surface area of the
Earth is land.
Panoramic View of Mars
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/gallery/press/20070110a/manyrovers_half_annot_
1lyr_br.jpg - Accessed May 24, 2009.
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Mars Curse
The high failure rate of missions launched from Earth
attempting to explore Mars has become informally known as
the Mars Curse. Some suggest, in jest, that there is some
supernatural force trying to prevent or punish the
exploration of Mars. The Galactic Ghoul is a fictional space
monster that consumes Mars probes, a term coined in 1997
by Time Magazine journalist Donald Neff.[4][5][6]
Of 38 launches from Earth in an attempt to reach the planet,
only 19 succeeded, a success rate of 50%. Twelve of the
missions included attempts to land on the surface, but only
seven transmitted data after landing. The majority of the
failed missions occurred in the early years of space
exploration and can be explained by human error and
technical failure. Modern missions have an improved success
rate; however, the challenge, complexity and length of the
missions make it inevitable that failures will occur.[7]
The U.S. NASA Mars exploration program has had a
somewhat better record of success in Mars exploration,
achieving success in 13 out of 18 missions launched (a 72%
success rate), and succeeding in six out of seven (an 86%
success rate) of the launches of Mars landers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars -
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See Also: NASA’s web page for Mars:
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/mars_worldbook.html -

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Change of US Daylight Saving Time
[Key phrase: Awake, I myself will awake early]
Time Zones of the World
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight2.html -
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The phrase “awake early”, repeated two times in the
entire Psalms, the second one being here, alludes to the
change of daylight saving time that got in effect in 2007
across the U.S., added about a month to daylight
saving time, and caused the U.S. people to wake up an
hour earlier between November 2007 and March 2008,
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The verse “Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and
harp: I myself will awake early” is first mentioned in
Psalm 57 and highlights 1957 as the end of daylight
saving time observation in Israel. Due to the global
energy crisis because of the aftermath of the Yom
Kippur War, “Summer Time”, or daylight time
observation was enacted again in Israel in 1974.
* * *
The federal law that established "daylight time" in the
United States does not require any area to observe
daylight saving time. But if a state chooses to observe
DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set
by the law. From 1986 to 2006 this was the first Sunday
in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in
2007, it is observed from the second Sunday in March
to the first Sunday in November, adding about a
month to daylight saving time.

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U.S. Daylight Saving Time Schedule:
[2006: April – October]
2007: March 11 - Nov. 4
2008: March 9 - Nov. 2
2009: March 8 - Nov. 1
2010: March 14 - Nov. 7
2011: March 13 - Nov. 6
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html -
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Since 1996 European Summer Time has been
observed from the last Sunday in March to the last
Sunday in October; previously the rules were not
uniform across the European Union.[26] Starting in
2007, most of the United States and Canada observe
DST from the second Sunday in March to the first
Sunday in November, almost two-thirds of the
year.[28] The 2007 U.S. change was part of the
Energy Policy Act of 2005; previously, from 1987
through 2006, the start and end dates were the first
Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October, and
Congress retains the right to go back to the previous
dates now that an energy-consumption study has
been done.[29]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time -
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2009
• The Year of Anti-Semitic Remarks
• Obama
• Extended Poverty [Financial Crisis]
• 28-Year Cycle of the Sun
• New Presidential Elections

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Psalms 109:
1 <<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> Hold
not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the
deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken
against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of
hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give
myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and
hatred for my love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand
at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and
let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:
let them seek their bread also out of their desolate
places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the
strangers spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither
let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation
following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with
the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted
out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he
may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,
but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might
even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he
delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his
garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and
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19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth
him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded
continually.
20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the
LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy
name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou
me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded
within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am
tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh
faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they
looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to
thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou,
LORD, hast done it.

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28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let
them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let
them cover themselves with their own confusion, as
with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea,
I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to
save him from those that condemn his soul.

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Introduction
Year 2009 is marked as a tough year for U.S. – for the
sons and daughters of Jacob, with a financial crisis
bound to extend its toll, the potential assassination of
the new president within the same year he took office
(paving the way for a possible new presidential
election), and rise of anti-Semitism around the world.
Is it not spectacular to realize that a person living in,
say, the 14th century could really have pinpointed
several major events of year 2009 hundreds of years
before they actually took place by just studying the
Bible? Truly amazing! Truly out of this world!
The Inspirer who inspired the Bible knew it all and had
it all written, centuries before the foretold events
actually “came to pass” before our eyes.

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The Bible is not the “tales of the old”, but a book of
prayer, a book of history and more than anything else
an almanac of mankind for events past, present and yet
to happen.
The covenant that the Lord signed with Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob is not some kind of an agreement, or an
exclusive contract, but an almanac of events promised
to the Patriarchs and their seed exclusively by the Lord
of Hosts.

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The Year of Anti-Semitic Remarks
[Verses 1- 5]
The first five verses signal that 2009 would be co-
remembered for the anti-Semitic remarks made during
the year (“for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth
of the deceitful are opened against me”).
The verses speak of a “compass”, an unofficial alliance
of leaders who would utter anti-Semitic remarks
around the world in year 2009 one after the other.
Due to the highly political nature of the anti-Semitic
remarks, a list of all that were uttered within 2009 is
omitted from this book. For those who are curious, a
simple web search at yahoo.com or google.com for the
phrase “anti-Semitic remarks” will reveal several
results for further study.

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Obama
[Verses 6- 20]
109th Psalm alludes to a president – a new president
who has just taken office. 2009 is the year Obama took
office in the US. Could it be that the phrase “take his
office” - a term used for presidents when they are
voted into the White House, refer to him?
Verse 8 (“Let his days be few; and let another take his
office”) gives us two clues. One: The president in
question has just taken office. Two: He might not
occupy the office for too long.
Verse 7 (“... let his prayer become sin”) hints us yet
another clue about the president – a prayer made
exclusively by him. Does something such as an
“Obama’s Prayer” exist? It should if the verses are
referring to Obama and not to some other president.

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Israeli Paper Publishes
Obama Western Wall Prayer
JERUSALEM (AP) - A written prayer that Barack
Obama left this week in the cracks of the Western
Wall, Judaism's holiest site, asks God to guide him
and guard his family, an Israeli newspaper reported
Friday.
"Lord—Protect my family and me," reads the note
published in the Maariv daily. "Forgive me my sins,
and help me guard against pride and despair. Give
me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And
make me an instrument of your will."
The paper's decision to make the note public drew
fire. The rabbi in charge of the Western Wall, Shmuel
Rabinovitz, said publishing the note intruded in
Obama's relationship with God.
"The notes placed between the stones of the Western
Wall are between a person and his maker. It is
forbidden to read them or make any use of them," he
told Army Radio. The publication "damages the
Western Wall and damages the personal, deep part of
every one of us that we keep to ourselves," he said.
Another Israeli paper, Yediot Ahronot, published an
article Friday saying it had also obtained the note but
decided not to publish it to respect Obama's privacy.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-07-25-
2842174531_x.htm – Accessed April 5, 2009.

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Obama at the Western Wall
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D924TL4G0&show_article=1 –
Accessed April 5, 2009.
* * *
Obama's Prayer:
The Intended Audience (updated)
Barack Obama wanted the world to know that he can
pray like a Christian. Thus, he penned a ‘note to God'
on stationery from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem,
and he generously gave a copy to the "international
media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after
he wrote it at the King David Hotel." Thus says the
Ma'ariv spokesman in defense of his newspaper, which
may be the subject of a criminal investigation for
publishing the ‘note to God' which Obama gave to the
paper.

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For, interestingly, not only Ma'ariv was a recipient of
Obama's generosity, so was Yediot Ahoronot (YA), the
most popular Israeli daily. YA also obtained the ‘note to
God' from Obama but declined to print it, ironically,
"to respect Obama's privacy."
Given the claim of both Ma'ariv and YA that it was
Obama who generously gave them a copy of his note,
immediately after writing it and preceding its
placement in the wall, then one must wonder about the
hullabuloo over the yeshiva student who allegedly stole
the note from the wall and gave it to Ma'ariv, which
published it the next day.
Obama’s Handwritten Prayer
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_prayer_the_real_audienc_1.
html - Accessed April 5, 2009.

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The last hint we are given about the new president is
outlined in verse 19 as “the garment which covereth
him” – a steel/ballistic vest, perhaps? It is not too
extraordinary for a president to wear a steel vest, but
when Obama wore one at his inaugural speech, it
made the news. The reason was simple. What Obama
wore was not a steel-vest, but an ordinary suit look-
alike [vest] made of bullet-proof fibers.
President Obama Wears
Bullet-Resistant Suit at Inaugural
Barack Obama had more than the Presidential 'beast'
limo taking care of his safety yesterday. According to
some reports, he wore a suit made by a clothier
specializing in bullet-resistant clothing during the
inauguration ceremonies.
While no one from the U.S. Secret Service have yet to
mention any details about the garment's structure,
some are speculating it may have come from the line
by Colombian designer Miguel Caballero. As we
noted last year, Caballero is well known for his super
tough but flexible and business appropriate clothing
(see pic at right), such as the $7,500 polo shirt that
can stop a shot from a 9-mm revolver.

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Due to some of the unfortunately rising levels of
dangerous conflicts in Colombia and other parts of
Latin America, the need for this type of clothing has
also led to a spike in sales.
According to Caballero, many of his garments offer
more than three levels of ballistic protection and they
are about seven times more flexible than the Kevlar
vests that are usually worn. Designers that use
Kevlar tie together dense strands of the material (500
to 1,500 filaments per strand of yarn, according to
Slate), which is then weaved into the clothing.
With close to 2 million people on hand to watch the
president-elect take the Oath of Office, the level of
security was understandably tight and every
precaution was taken to ensure safety for all.
Earlier this month, we noted that President Obama
will be using the safest Presidential limo ever built,
the so-called Cadillac One (or simply, "The Beast"),
whose toughness rivals a tank and seals off like a bank
vault in the event of a potential attack.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/president-oba-1.html -
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Extended Poverty [Financial Crisis]
[Verses 21-26]
The verses above warn that the financial crisis of 2008
will continue in 2009 across the U.S. [and around the
world just the same] - people losing their jobs, homes
and even families.
The Bible illustrates the financial status quo of 2009
with the verse: “My knees are weak through fasting;
and my flesh faileth of fatness” - in allusion to poverty
and the lack of financial strength to buy food, let alone
anything else.

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28-Year Cycle of the Sun
[Verses 27, 28 and 30]
Every 28 years, Jews around the world celebrate Birkat
Hachama (“Blessing of the Sun”) early at dawn, with
the first lights of the Sun. 2009 marks the year for a new
Birkat Hachama observation.
The verses point to Birkat Hachama with the key
phrases “this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done
it”, in allusion to Sun and the universe, “Let them
curse, but bless thou: when they arise”, the Psalmist is
asking even those that utter anti-Semitic remarks to
observe the Birkat Hachama early at dawn “when they
arise” and finally, if they do observe the event “let
them cover themselves with their own confusion, as
with a mantle” – wrap their head with talitots (“as with
a mantle”), the way the Jews do when they utter their
blessings during the Birkat Hachama.

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Birkat Hachama
Birkat Hachama (‫תכרב‬ ‫המחה‬, "Blessing of the Sun")
refers to a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation
of the Sun once every 28 years, when the vernal
equinox, as calculated by tradition, falls on a Tuesday
at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun
completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when
the world was created.
According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle
known as machzor gadol (‫רוזחמ‬ ‫לודג‬, "the great
cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the
"Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of
this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times
365.25) days. The last time that it was recited was on
April 8, 2009 (14 Nisan 5769 on the Hebrew calendar).
This coincided with the day before the Jewish Holiday of
Passover (Hebrew: ‫חספ‬).
The same blessing is recited upon experiencing various
natural phenomena, including lightning, comets, and
meteor showers; as well as upon witnessing wondrous
natural topography, such as great mountains, rivers
and vast wilderness.[1] When recited for these other
experiences, the blessing is recited alone without
additional verses or Psalms etc. The text of the blessing
itself is as follows:
"‫ךורב‬ ‫התא‬ ‫ה‬' ‫וניהלא‬ ‫ךלמ‬ ‫םלועה‬ ‫השוע‬ ‫השעמ‬ ‫תישארב‬"
"Blessed are You, LORD, our God, King of the
Universe who makes the works of Creation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkat_HaHammah -

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Of Pessah, Peoplehood and the Sun
Men wrapped in talitot participate in the special
Blessing of the Sun prayer
Apr. 7, 2009
YOSEF ISRAEL ABRAMOWITZ,
THE JERUSALEM POST
At 6:22 a.m. on Wednesday, April 8, the sun will peak
over the imposing 800-million-year-old mountains of
Edom, bathing the Arava Valley below in light, and
triggering one of the rarest and least-known Jewish
rituals: Birkat Hahama, the Blessing of the Sun, is
celebrated every 28 years in Jewish communities around
the world, across the spectrum of Jewish observance.

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This year, the blessing dawns as we burn our hametz
and prepare for that evening's Seder. The next magic
moment in history when the blessing falls on Erev
Pessah will be 532 years from now.
Sixteen hundred years ago in Babylonia, the rabbis
codified the Talmud, and with it, the Birkat Hahama
ritual: "Our Rabbis taught: One who sees the sun in its
season, the moon in its power, the stars in their paths,
and the planets in their order, says, 'Blessed is the
Maker of Creation.'" (Masechet Brachot 59b). "And
when is the Sun in its season? Abaye says: Every 28
years, when the cycle resets and the Spring equinox
falls in Saturn on Tuesday evening, the eve of
Wednesday."
According to the Book of Genesis, the Sun, Moon, and
stars were created on the fourth day (Genesis 1:14), and
so the celebration of Birkat Hahama always occurs on a
Wednesday morning. The Sun is traditionally greeted
with a blessing and Psalms: "Blessed are You, Ruler of
the Universe, who makes Creation." It is believed that
every 28 years at this moment, the celestial bodies orbit
back to the exact place in the heavens where they stood
at the Creation.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562930406&pagename
=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull – Accessed April 8, 2009.
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Thousands attend special 'sun' prayer
Back-dropped by the Dome of the Rock Mosque, in the
Al Aqsa Mosque compound, Jewish worshipers
participate in the special "Blessing of the Sun" prayer
at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Wednesday

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Apr. 8, 2009
ap and jpost.com staff,
THE JERUSALEM POST
Over 50,000 people took part in the Birkat Hahama
prayers at Jerusalem's Western Wall on Wednesday
morning.
The special event, a blessing of thanks for the world's
creation, occurs when, the Talmud says, the sun reaches
the same spot in the firmament as when it was created.
It will not occur again for another 28 years.
Following the event, all roads surrounding Jerusalem's
Old City were blocked. Police have requested that those
attending the ceremony leave the Old City using public
transportation.
In hundreds of places around the world, observant Jews
planned to rise before dawn for outdoor prayers and
dancing.
In New Zealand's capital, Wellington, Rabbi Haim
Dovrat said it was a "re-staging of the heavens as they
were at the beginning of time." Dovrat led the rare
blessing at the city's Webb Street Synagogue about an
hour after sunrise.
It was a "special celebration" as New Zealand's 7,500
Jews were the first in the world to give the blessing, he
said.

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In Greenwich, Connecticut, Jen Sonenklare said she is
taking her children to a beach ceremony in their
pajamas.
"This is the first time I've ever heard of this holiday,"
said Sonenklare, whose husband is Catholic. "If you
want to give your kids a religious identity, this'll give
them something fun to remember."
In Manhattan, a rabbi was to lead a gathering near the
United Nations. Another group was to pray on the deck
of a 17th-story penthouse near ground zero, the site of
the demolished World Trade Center.
A Birkat Hahama ceremony in 1981 was held on the
107th-story observation deck of the World Trade
Center's South Tower, and the rabbi is dedicating
Wednesday's blessing to the memory of those who died
in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Organizers of a ceremony on the boardwalk in Long
Beach, New York, on Long Island, said they would
distribute sunglasses to worshippers. But they might go
unused; the forecast was for a cloudy morning.
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement scheduled live
Webcasts from seven locations as the sun moves across
the Earth, starting at 8 a.m. local time in Christchurch,
New Zealand, followed by events in Brisbane,
Australia; Jerusalem; London; New York; Colorado
Springs, Colo.; and Honolulu.

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In Offenbach am Main, near Frankfurt, Germany, some
of about 3,500 Jews in the town - mostly immigrants
from the former Soviet Union - were to mark Birkat
Hachamah in front of their synagogue.
"For some, it'll be the first time - and the last time,"
said Rabbi Menachem M. Gurewitz of the elderly
members of his congregation.
"The blessing is an affirmation of God, not as creator,
but as the power that keeps the universe in existence,"
said Rabbi J. David Bleich, an expert on the holiday who
wrote a book on the subject. "God didn't just create the
universe, then go on an eternal sabbatical. He's like a
generator of electricity: If it doesn't keep on working,
the lights go out."
An especially colorful ceremony was reported by The
New York Times in 1897, when a rabbi was arrested for
presiding over the ritual as hundreds of Jews assembled
without a permit in a city park. He and another rabbi
tried to explain what they were doing to a police officer.
"The attempt of a foreign citizen to explain to an
American Irishman an astronomical situation and a
tradition of the Talmud was a dismal failure," the
Times reported, adding that the officer, wondering
"whether some new infection of lunacy had broken out
... seized the rabbi by the neck and took him to Essex
Market Police Court."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562942983&pagename
=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull – Accessed April 8, 2009.

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New Presidential Elections
[Verses 20, 29 and 31]
The phrase “right hand of the poor”, mentioned in
verse 31 (together with its context) alludes to a new
presidential election; a brand new opportunity for the
US people to vote a new president into the White
House [with the votes they hold in their right hands].
Unlike the former, the latter and the new president is
highly likely to possess a world view that will not
tolerate anti-Semitic remarks or actions by anyone,
anywhere.
The results of the election, or the election itself is bound
to disappoint and confuse the anti-Semitic world and
will be a heaven-sent “reward” for them – a holy
vengeance.

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We are living in an era of atheist marches, “atheist
buses” – public buses with ads on them that read:
“There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and
enjoy your life”, that run down the streets of major
cities around the world every day.
A London bus carrying the
Atheist Bus Campaign advert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atheist_Bus_Campaign_Citaro.jpg –
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The Atheist Bus Campaign
The Atheist Bus Campaign aims to place "peaceful
and upbeat" messages about atheism on transport
media in the UK, in response to evangelical Christian
advertising.[1] It was created by comedy writer
Ariane Sherine and launched on 21 October 2008,
with official support from the British Humanist
Association and Richard Dawkins.[2] The
campaign's original goal was to raise £5,500 to run
30 buses across London for four weeks early in 2009
with the slogan: "There’s probably no God. Now stop
worrying and enjoy your life."
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion,
agreed to match all donations up to a maximum of
£5,500, providing a total of £11,000 if the full
amount were to be raised. The campaign reached that
target by 10.06am on 21 October and had raised
£100,000 by the evening of 24 October. The
campaign closed on 11 April 2009, having raised a
total of £153,516.51.[3]
The first buses started running on 6 January 2009 -
800 are running around the whole of the UK and it is
also planned to place 1,000 adverts on the London
Underground featuring quotations from famous
atheists. Subsequently, two large LCD screens have
been placed on Oxford Street, central London.[4]

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Since the target for the buses was reached many times
over, and the buses are now on the streets, visitors to
the Atheist Bus website are now being encouraged to
donate to the general campaigns of the British
Humanist Association instead through a new, linked,
campaign called The Next Stop. However any further
money given to the main campaign will go to a
second wave of adverts after the donation site closes
on April 11.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist_Bus_Campaign -
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Is it not time the believers in God marched down the
same streets to show respect and praise to their
Creator? Is it not the time a minimum of a billion men
and women from across the world marched down the
streets of their capital cities the same day with signs in
their hands that read: “Thank you Lord”, “Lord Is”,
“Lord rules!”, “Lord is awesome!”, “Forgive us Lord”,
“All praise belongs to Lord”?
Is it not the least, us, the mankind can do for all the
things God gave us for free? And if not now, just
when?

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• Special Thanks to:
The LORD
• Many Thanks to:
1. Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.com
2. Yahoo
www.yahoo.com
3. Google
www.google.com
4. Flickr
www.flickr.com
5. Theophilos Bible Software
www.theophilos.sk
I also would like to thank my online friends
Chylon Budagher and Angela Adair-Hoy for
their views, comments and sincere friendship
through the years.

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• Contact Author:
Savasan Yurtsever
savasanyurtsever@hotmail.com
www.psalmscode.com

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