Look Up Fellowship "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near." Luke 21:28

I found this Steve Quayle broadcast from last week regarding the upcoming "Save-The-Economy-Save-The-World" G-20 London Summit being held on April 2nd, 2009.

For anyone who wants to know just how close we are to things becoming unraveled and for the major end times prophecies to be fulfilled EXACTLY as predicted over 2,000 years ago, just set aside an hour and listen to this.

It's an excellent discussion that touches upon the current economic crisis, the potential of the Conficker C Worm that's scheduled to wreak havoc tomorrow, and connects it all with Bible prophecy for these last days. It's too bad that this broadcast was on 3/25 and not a few days later because I'm sure they would've included comments about all the strangeness going on in the skies around the world.

Still, it's definitely worth your time so please check it out especially since we're coming up on the end of Quayle's 90-day warning about Martial Law from back in January.

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The hits just keep on coming today! The spiritual deception continues.

Is there more behind the big General Motors (GM) news today? Could this move, in any way, indicate that a "Full Disclosure" type event is imminent?

As with all things here at Look Up Fellowship lately, I can assure you that the suggestion isn't as crazy as it seems on the surface.

In case you've been disconnected from the national news media for the past 24-48 hours, President Obama asserted unprecedented government control over the auto industry Monday, rejecting turnaround plans from General Motors and Chrysler and raising the prospect of controlled bankruptcy for either ailing auto giant.

Yet, the most shocking news came when it was announced that in an extraordinary move, the administration forced the departure of Rick Wagoner as CEO of General Motors over the weekend, and implicit in Obama's remarks was that the government holds the ability to pull the plug on that company or Chrysler.

On a side note, by my count GM lost $82 billion over the past 4 years and that's certainly a lot of money until you look at Wall Street. The financial "industry" blew through $700 billion in TARP funds in mere months! Why not “fire” Ed Liddy the CEO of AIG instead?

Here's where things get interesting.

I strongly urge everyone to read the commentary by Cryptogon titled "Obama Fired GM’s CEO; What’s Stirring Behind The Black Curtain?" While the author never really comes out and admits it, he does beat around the bush a bit and hint that this move could have some serious implications for this nation's immediate future.


Without going over everything he presents in his piece I'll just point out a few important facts:

> Board member Kent Kresa, the former chairman and CEO of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., was named interim chairman of the GM board.

> In addition to his work as a member of the board of GM, he’s also a Senior Advisor at the Carlyle Group. In other words, this directly links him to the black world of special access programs.

> In 1982 he was appointed Group Vice President of the company’s Aircraft Group and in 1986 was named Senior Vice President-Technology Development and Planning.

> Before joining Northrop Grumman, Mr. Kresa served with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he was responsible for broad, applied research and development programs in the tactical and strategic defense arena.

> Kresa presided over Northrop Grumman’s acquisition of TRW, another firm heavily linked to black projects.

Kevin writes, "What does all of this mean for GM? I have no idea. But if something really, really strange happens, it might make much more sense in hindsight. What technologies might someone like Kent Kresa be tasked with providing to GM?"

That got me thinking. If a "Full Disclosure" type event were imminent it could involve the release of new technology and propulsion (anti-gravity?) systems into the open market.

It would make sense then for President Obama to hand-pick and then place a person like Kresa at the head of a company like GM were that to become our new real-world environment because he's exactly the type of individual Obama feels would be best suited to serve in that kind of role, at that kind of company, in that kind of new world of cutting edge technology and science.

Again, remember those important questions:

> What does all of this mean for GM?

> If something really, really strange happens, wouldn't this move make much more sense in hindsight?

> What technologies would someone like Kent Kresa be tasked with providing to GM?

Food for thought.


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Green Sun? Planet X? Nibiru?

I'll just cut to the chase. In the last article I mentioned how we have "streaking lights, explosions reported all along coast" from Maryland to North Carolina (people from Maryland to Hampton Roads heard loud explosions and saw brilliant, streaking lights in the sky Sunday night; there was no immediate explanation).


One Look Up Fellowship community member (Nate - - thank you!) alerted me to this story. See if you can spot the common thread between all the eyewitness accounts:

"One 11 News viewer in Carroll County e-mailed to say she 'spotted a large fireball in the western sky. It started out being about star brightness, then increasingly got brighter and greener. As it got green, it had an orange sparkling tail...We saw it go almost all the way to the ground before losing sight of it in the trees.'"

"A WBALTV.com visitor who was in Durham, N.C., wrote the following: 'I remember seeing something greenish and changing colors. It was leaving a trail (not sure of the color). I never saw it hit the ground either because it faded, got covered by trees, or burnt out.'"

"Another wrote: 'I was driving South on Interstate 83 between 9:30 and 10:00 (Sunday) night when my wife and I both saw a streaking green light fall from the sky. It looked like a shooting star, but it was definitely falling to the ground and not shooting across the sky.'"

It should've been fairly easy because I helped you out. So, why is that common description of this mysterious object the size of a refrigerator being "green" or "greenish" significant prophetically?

Go back and read the 4-part series called "Ceres Of Events" and you'll know why. We might want to at least be mindful of the "Planet X/Niburu" predictions too. Now, let's also leave open the possibility that this has something to do with the star (not the star itself) referred to by Benjamin Creme and Share International heralding the appearance of Maitreya.

Either way, the clock is ticking and it's almost midnight.

One last bit of analysis following my review of the film "Knowing" from last week. It would seem we have a genuine detective story on our hands even though a few minutes of solid research makes it plain as day - - the Sun is about to become our enemy.

The mystery begins with the curious similarities between the characters of the film and its plot with real life. I'm told that Nicholas Cage's character resembled parts of the lives of Dan Burisch and Marcia McDowell.

Who are they? I'm still trying to sort things out myself, but I knew I was in for a wild ride when I performed a quick Google search and on the very first page was this intriguing introduction that read: "Welcome...and for newcomers, brace yourselves.The information contained within this site will challenge your worldview, and may be unsuitable for children or the naive." Of course. I wouldn't expect anything less.

As I've relayed to all of you, the film "Knowing" begins by showing us many tragedies (i.e. several mysterious plane crashes and one major subway crash) that were eerily reminiscent of all the things we're experiencing at this very moment around the world (if it's not planes, it's satellites, or submarines and other naval vessels). The cause is directly linked to changes in the Earth's magnetic field, and once the filmmakers reveal the reason for those changes we reach the film's catastrophic climax.

Interestingly enough, these two aforementioned doctors I guess have been warning the world for the last 4 years about a similar planetary crisis in our near future as well as a "Full Disclosure" event, which I've written about too. I've never heard of them until now, but I found that they have quite the following around the world. Quite frankly, there's so much info to digest about them and especially about Dr. Burisch. Apparently, his work offers us a glimpse into the "secrets of the universe" because he has worked on several top-secret projects that are classified higher than anything else in the history of the modern world. I won't get into all of that at the moment (you can read about his entire saga HERE), but will point to an interesting development. Burisch most recently pointed to a December 2008 report from NASA that stated that there was a giant breach in the Earth's magnetic field.

The article says that "NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to 'load up' the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics."

The magnetosphere is a bubble of magnetism that surrounds Earth and protects us from solar wind. So, needless to say, this was a very important discovery by NASA. It also makes last week's headline - - "Space Storm Alert: 90 Seconds From Catastrophe" - - particularly suspicious. I mean, it was suspicious enough that this news came out only days after the movie "Knowing" first hit theaters nationwide, but even more so since the subject matter of that news story EXACTLY mirrors what happens in the film.

NASA says a fierce solar storm could lead to a global disaster on an unprecedented scale. Here's a quick video to show you what this nasty "space storm" would do to our planet:




Now, here's what I found to be quite telling.

The powers-that-be were hard at work preparing us for something like this long before the film "Knowing" and the accompanying scientific news story a few days later became mainstream and popularized. In fact, I found a NASA warning titled "Solar Storm Warning: Researchers Say A Storm Is Coming - The Most Intense Solar Maximum In Fifty Years" on March 15th, 2006 or a full 3 years before the film "Knowing" opened. This report stated: "Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011. 'History shows that big sunspot cycles 'ramp up' faster than small ones,' he says. 'I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007 - - and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011.' Who's right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming."

Ok, so that was 3 years ago. Ironically, Fox News issued a story dated January 9th, 2009 with the headline "Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months," which talked about how "damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation." Sounds dire, but just to hammer home the severity of such a scenario the article goes on to tell us that "the worst storms can knock out power grids by inducing currents that melt transformers...modern power grids are so interconnected that a big space storm - - the type expected to occur about once a century - - could cause a cascade of failures that would sweep across the United States, cutting power to 130 million people or more in this country alone, the new report concludes...potable water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; immediate or eventual loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, transportation, fuel resupply and so on...outages could take months to fix, the researchers say. Banks might close, and trade with other countries might halt."


A few days after the Fox News report, the New Scientist echoed similar warnings, and ABC News openly asked "Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing?" in which they reiterated that "scientists worry we aren't prepared for an event that could zap government and cost trillions...a solar space storm that could knock out our electricity, our cell phones, even our water supply...it's happened before back in 1859...a solar eruption resulted in telegraph wires burning up... of course, the world is now covered in wires and wireless devices that could be vulnerable."

Last but not least, NASA was at it again (I guess they felt they needed to chime in following the mainstream media's reports) when they published the results of a a NASA-funded study by the National Academy of Sciences entitled Severe Space Weather Events - Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts in a 132 page report just 2 weeks later. In reaching their sobering conclusions, and to estimate the scale of such a failure, report co-author John Kappenmann of the Metatech Corporation looked at the great geomagnetic storm of May 1921, which produced ground currents as much as ten times stronger than the 1989 Quebec storm, and modeled its effect on the modern power grid. He found more than 350 transformers at risk of permanent damage and 130 million people without power. A U.S. map of vulnerable transformers with areas of "probable system collapse" encircled can be found below. A state-by-state map of transformer vulnerability is also available HERE.


My research also led me to this story titled "Solar Storm Cycle Begins Again In 2008 - Be Forewarned," which warned "now might be a good time to start backing up your to start backing up your computer files and planning for the very slight possibility of a solar storm-related power outage...According to the NOAA, a new cycle of solar storms will begin in the spring of 2008...during solar storms, huge eruptions occur with greater frequency on the sun...impact of that down here on earth varies depending on a solar storm's intensity...solar flares can send intense jolts of supercharged particles towards earth, disrupting the geomagnetic field. Intense solar flares can disrupt navigation systems (including Global Positioning Systems) and power grids...satellites can be knocked completely off course, electronics in spacecraft can be destroyed...solar storms can also cause electronics on earth to short-circuit if the blast from a solar flare is strong enough."

Did you catch that? Friends, I'm beginning to think that all these unexplained collisions and crashes are a direct result of this coming solar storm. Even the UK's Daily Mail got into the act today with this headline - - "Solar Storm Could Cause Planetary Disaster At Any Time, Warn Scientists" - - where they point out that "it could leave half of the U.S. without power within 90 seconds, without coal after 30 days, and would take the country a decade to recover...NASA can give 15 to 45 minutes warning of geomagnetic storms and power companies need 15 minutes to prepare systems for a critical event."

I almost forgot! Remember those two scientists I mentioned to kick-off this column today? They claim that there is going to be a "Big Event," which might possibly entail a "Full Disclosure" announcement, possibly resulting in panic by the populace, or a cataclysmic Earth change such as a pole shift, precipitated by the presence of an extra-solar body within our solar system. In other words, an extra-solar body appears within our solar system (Wormwood?), wreaks havoc on our planet (pole shift?), people panic, and perhaps it is revealed that there are "Aliens/UFOs" who will save us from the coming catastrophe.

Heavy stuff, huh? I also came across a related website that had an unusual graphic. Here's that cryptic warning image I was just telling you about:


So, what do we make of all of this? We have two scientists claiming a catastrophic, natural event is imminent, and that it will cause a pole shift if not "Full Disclosure" or both. We have NASA and scientists from around the world all saying the same thing (they've been warning us about this for years actually) - - that a major solar storm is inevitable and it will decimate the world. We have the #1 new film at the Box Office "Knowing" that also issues this same warning and depicts this very same scenario. We have strange things going on with aircraft, ocean vessels, and satellites that cannot be explained. We have "streaking lights, explosions reported all along coast" from Maryland to North Carolina (people from Maryland to Hampton Roads heard loud explosions and saw brilliant, streaking lights in the sky Sunday night; there was no immediate explanation). We have Pastor David Wilkerson making international headlines for his "imminent catastrophe" warning that included fires raging in cities (this prediction was made in early March or 2-3 weeks before "Knowing" opened).

Whether this means anything or not, now is not the time for us to live in anxiety and fear about what may or may not be coming upon the planet. Quite the contrary! We should be seeking God's face daily, repenting of our sins, and seeking His mercy and forgiveness, all while praying that we are counted worthy to escape the things to come.

Please join me in this pursuit by saying the following prayers:

"Father God, I know I need You because I am a sinner, but also know that I can never get to You on my own. There's nothing I can do on my own to make up for my sins; nothing I could do on my own to earn favor and forgiveness from You or to secure my place in Heaven when I die. The only thing I can do is to make a conscious decision that You sent Your one and only Son Jesus Christ, and that He came to this world for me. He took my sins upon Himself, was crucified in my place, died for me, and was resurrected so that I may live forever. I accept Him and His sacrifice, and desperately want to receive Your Son Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. When He conquered death for my sake He gave me access to You. Thank You for Your grace and Your mercy. Thank You for forgiving me and for sending the Holy Spirit to transform my life from this moment forward. I pray that You transform my life from this day forward and give me a heart and a mind that desires to not only get to know You, but to be with You as much as possible. Teach me how to live, and teach me how to share this message with others before it's too late for them. Amen."

"Dear Lord, I pray that you will not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Please think of me according to Your mercy and for Your goodness' sake, O Lord. Lord I turn from all of those sins that I committed and I ask for Your help in washing the memory and thoughts of that sin completely from my mind. Please restore me to faithful obedience to Your Word, and fill me with Your Holy Spirit anew, so that I may keep Your commands all the days of my life. Lord Jesus, I invite you into my heart anew today, and I ask forgiveness for all of my sin. Jesus, thank you for dying for my sins and for forgiving me of them through your shed blood for me on the cross. Please take away all the sinful 'old things' in my heart that defile me, and replace them with the 'good things' that you desire to grow in to my life. Please wash away all the sinful crud and tendencies toward evil and replace them with a hunger and thirst for your righteousness. I need your help, Lord God, in living this new life in Christ. Please send your Holy Spirit afresh into my life to help me, heal me, lead me and transform me. I also pray that your shed blood washes over me, protects me, and that I am counted worthy to escape the things that are coming upon this world in the form of your righteous judgment. Lastly, I pray that you have mercy on this nation even though we deserve your fierce judgment for our blatant sins that are before you. Help us to see the error in our ways as individuals and as a nation, and lead us to repentance before it's too late for us. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen."

Solar Storm, Planet X/Nibiru, "Full Disclosure," pole shift, fires or not - - we'll be ready for what's to come since we'll rely on our Lord and Savior to sustain us and see us through.

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Full Disclosure Imminent?

After last week's "Prophets And Prophecy" series I began thinking about the role that miracles will play in the near future as we begin to see several of the major end times prophesies fulfilled.

Let's look at some Scripture first to see what God tells us:

Matthew 24:24 - - "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

Revelation 13:13-14 - - "And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live."

Matthew 7:22-23 - - "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

Deuteronomy 13:1-5 - - "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee."

In each case, Christ's admonition is that we should have a healthy skepticism of miracles because miracles may produce deception. It is not that the miracle does not occur. The more important point is, does it witness to the truth? Does it witness to the ultimate reality, the will of God?

In both Jesus' instruction in the New Testament (Mathew 24:24; 7:22-23; Revelation 13:13-14) and in Moses' teaching in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 13:1-5), it is clear - - regardless of the wonder done - - if a person even implies that we are free to disobey God, the miracle is not a demonstration of God's truth. A miracle it was, but it is not validate God's truth.

We must be prepared for what's coming and pray for discernment so that we're not part of the "elect" who are deceived, and so that we can help others properly interpret things
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We know that Scripture nourishes human understanding. The Holy Bible uses an organic metaphor to describe God’s intention. It likens God’s Word to water that nourishes a seed enabling it to sprout and grow. This is a “living metaphor.” It compares the process of growth in nature with the process of growing in faith and understanding. It shows us that a mature faith is not static. It grows!

2 Timothy 3:16 - - "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"

Faith begins with simple childlike trust and acceptance. The “good news” is like a seed planted in our hearts. God’s Word is like rain that waters the seed. In the world of nature, rain and sunlight work together to empower seeds to spread roots below the surface and branches above the ground. In the realm of the Spirit, the Scriptures and God’s spirit work together to empower faith and understanding to take firm root in our hearts, and branch out into every area of our lives.


Today's Daily Bread is 2 Corinthians 5:11.

2 Corinthians 5:11 - - "Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences."

When God summoned us to His way of life, He persuaded us with various proofs that He exists, desires a relationship with us, and rules not just the universe but also the affairs of men. As often happens during our first love (Revelation 2:4-5), we desire to share our joy and new found truth with others. Most of the time, our early evangelistic efforts fail to produce any new converts to the faith. Instead, our efforts usually cause problems in our relationships.

Most lay-members, after one or two failures of this sort, get smart and desist in trying to convert their relatives and friends. They realize that nothing will ever happen without God first calling the other individual and changing his or her heart by His Spirit to accept the truth (John 6:44; Romans 2:4-5; 8:7; 1 Corinthians 2:10-14; Hebrews 8:10; Ezekiel 11:19). All our preaching and cajoling will accomplish nothing unless God moves to initiate a personal relationship with Him.

Ministers do not have such an easy out. Certainly, in their personal relationships they can quit trying to "save" those unconverted members of their families, but in their professional capacity, their job is to "persuade men." In personal conduct, counsel, sermons, and articles, they must devote their energies to showing and explaining why God's way is true and will lead to eternal life in God's Kingdom.

Today, that is not an easy task. It has never been easy, really, but the current environment makes it harder than it has been historically. For starters, though a high percentage of people say they believe in God, most people are no longer religious but secular. Religion is not a high-ranking concern, and because of this, religious issues fly under their radar and over their heads. They just do not care, and even when they inquire about them, they do not understand them because they lack the background and education necessary to evaluate them properly.

Another problem is competition. It used to be that most people at least treated Sunday, "the Lord's day," as a Sabbath and devoted most or all of that time to religious pursuits. No longer. Sunday, though it is not God's Sabbath day, is used just like any other day: for work and entertainment. If God receives a few hours on Sunday morning for worship services, most Americans - - and Europeans to an even greater degree - - think He should feel satisfied that they could spare Him even that much!

Yet, a third hindrance is the way moderns think. Too many people (especially younger adults) have absorbed the postmodern, values-neutral approach. This way of thinking considers every idea and belief as equally valid, neither "right" nor "wrong." A person can believe anything he likes - - even that the moon is made of green cheese - - and he should not be judged as "right" or "wrong." Any god one worships, or for that matter, if one chooses to worship no god, is fine, and no one god or belief system is better than any other.

In such an environment, how can we persuade anyone of the truth? Our success certainly looks bleak.

The answer lies in what Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5:9-11: "We make it our aim...to be well pleasing to Him." Our judgment does not rest on how many men we persuade, but on whether we do the job.

We are called to make the witness for God and Christ to the best of our ability and strength. Christ will judge us "according to what (we have) done, whether good or bad." How others react to us and what we say or write matters little; it is "God who gives the increase" (1 Corinthians 3:5-8). As Paul says, one plants and another waters, but what happens to the sprout is not under their control but God's.

Thus, we cannot quantify the results of our persuasion as others can. We cannot see the growth of our "business" in statistical form. The true measure of our success will be revealed in God's Kingdom, and even then, we will be unable to claim the glory for it. For in persuading men, we "do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31).

More strange news out of Japan.

What is Roppongi Art Night in Japan? From sunset to sunrise for one magical night, the entire townscape of Roppongi transforms into a giant canvas of encounters with art, culture, people, and wonders.

The highlight? Don't miss Kenji Yanobe's "Adventures With Giant Torayan," which is the gigantic mechanical sculpture (towering 7.2m above the crowd) that will be performing in Roppongi Hills Arena for one night only! Yanobe says that with the dawn of the 21st century, he has shifted his focus to the topic of revival.


Art of all types will be on display for one day only under the theme of "Encounters." Hmmm, an interesting event, described by the use of an interesting choice of words, and an interesting featured attraction in the form of a giant, fire-breathing robot.




Reminds me of another questionable "artistic invention" - - the Chronophage. Remember that?

What a weird world we live in, huh?

Called the "Suicide Forest" as well as the "Sea of Trees," the Aokigahara Forest is known for two things in Japan - - breathtaking views of Mount Fuji and suicides.

The location is so infamous that it's in the news all the time. Now, it is back in the news, being discussed by wire services and media globally, in line with current stock market and related woes.


Japan's suicide rate, already one of the world's highest, has increased with the recent economic downturn. There were 2,645 suicides recorded in January 2009, a 15% increase from the 2,305 for January 2008, according to what the Japanese government has reported to CNN.

Suicide rates are a priority for the Japanese government, which has pledged to cut the number by more than 20% by 2016. However, officials fear the number will rise with the economic crises adding to unemployment and bankruptcies.

"Unemployment is leading to this," Toyoki Yoshida, a suicide and credit counsellor, told CNN. "Society and the government need to establish immediate countermeasures to prevent suicides. There should be more places where they can come and seek help."

Yoshida has posted signs in Aokigahara Forest urging suicidal visitors to call their organization, a credit counselling service. What!?! Things are so bad that a credit counselling service is offering to help with this epidemic? They need our prayers now more than ever.

Local authorities say they are the last resort to stop people from killing themselves in the forest and have posted security cameras at the entrances of the forest. Imasa Watanabe of the Yamanashi Prefectural Government fears more suicidal visitors will turn up in the coming weeks.

"Especially in March, the end of the fiscal year, more suicidal people will come here because of the bad economy," he told CNN.

Please take a moment to pray for Japan.

SOURCE: The Copycat Effect

So, tomorrow is when the Shuttle Discovery and her crew is scheduled to return to Earth after a successful mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to install some solar wings.

I've already documented my initial observations (and that's really all they are; just casual albeit curious observations spotted by my eye) HERE, but thought it would be appropriate to do one last follow-up before the big day tomorrow. Plus, it helps that I've discovered a few more unusual "observations" to report.


THOSE WHO FORGET THE PAST ARE DESTINED TO...


First, those "observations" that could - - admittedly - - be a stretch although that are nonetheless intriguing. Did anyone else read about the "two mysterious fiery explosions in Montana within 24 hours" like I did? The first explosion occurred on Main Street in downtown Bozeman, Montana on Thursday morning March 5th. Then, on Friday morning - - just 24 hours later in the town of Whitehall (about 60 miles west of Bozeman) - - there was a large explosion, which occurred that ended up burning five historic buildings in town. I think we can conclude two explosions in two Montana towns within 24 hours is not a coincidence.

For whatever reason, I had a very strong intuitive feeling we would soon see "more interconnected news headlines coming from Montana" soon after. Sure enough, just a few weeks later we get the tragic Montana plane crash. At that point, I began to think that both were somehow connected (if not physically then perhaps spiritually). I began to think that there was a spiritual message connected with both incidents.

I'm not entirely show HOW and I'm not entirely sure WHY, but I can't shake the feeling that maybe there is something VERY POWERFUL and SPIRITUAL being played out in Montana at this time.

MONTANA = MOUNTAIN = the DOOR BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH?

Does anyone else feel as though it seems we are living in a time when messages are being very clearly delivered from the realm of Spirit? We Christians who study end times prophecy know we are passing through the doorway of dramatic changes here on Earth, so why is it so hard to believe that these "messages" and "signs" could all be related and part of the "unsealing" of Daniel 12:4?


Is there a "message" inherent to the state of Montana? I swear, I must do an entire column on the history and meaning behind each and every State Seal because it's fascinating. Talk about conspiracies! Here's another weird "observation" (from a website describing the history behind Montana's State Seal) in light of next week's London Summit to address the current global financial crisis: "They decided on a territorial motto of 'Gold and Silver; in Spanish. As legislation passed, and as various designers and artisians became involved, strange things happened to Montana's seal. The 'Gold and Silver' motto was mistranslated at one point, and was corrected from 'Oro el Plata' to 'Oro y Plata'." Well, isn't that quaint given our current economic woes and the volatile situation in Mexico right now?

The Montana situation shares "message sending" similarities to the Columbia shuttle disaster of February 1, 2003 (funny, we highlighted that mission's connection the the current one in the last piece on this subject), which interestingly enough was also about a month and a half before the "Shock And Awe" (Shekinah?) Iraq war began. Recall that the first shuttle debris was reported near Bush's Crawford ranch and at Palestine, Texas. Was the Lord sending a message to us? Is He sending messages to us again about what's coming very soon?

I went back and did some quick research on that Columbia disaster and found some more compelling info for us. My findings were nothing short of stunning.

Every Sabbath the Jews read certain portions of the Scriptures. The reading for the week commencing on Sunday, January 26, 2003 (they study the portion during the week) culminating in its reading on the following Sabbath, February 1, 2003 was Mishpatim which included a reference to the borders of Israel and prohibition against making any treaties with non-Jewish inhabitants of the Land:

Mishpatim (Laws), Shemos (Exodus) 21:1 - 24:18
23:31-32: I shall set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines [Mediterranean], and from the Wilderness [Sinai Peninsula] until the River [Euphrates], for I shall deliver the inhabitants of the Land into your hands and you shall drive them away from before you. You shall not seal a covenant with them or their gods.

On the SAME DAY, Saturday, February 1, 2003, the AP reports that U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said that President George Bush will become more deeply involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than he was in his first two years in the White House. This echoes what he said in his State of the Union Address on January 28, 2003: "In the Middle East, we will continue to seek peace between a secure Israel and a democratic Palestine." This, in turn, built off of Sharon's move on January 26, 2003 when the headlines read: "Sharon fleshes out his own 'road map'."

So, on the Sabbath, February 1st, 2003, following a week that saw Ariel Sharon overwhelmingly re-elected (although ignoring his constituents' views against a Palestinian state), President Bush's State of the Union Address, and one that coincides with the reading of Parsha Mishpatim, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates in the sky over President Bush's home state, not far from his Crawford, TX ranch, with the first debris being sighted in Palestine, TX. Six Americans and the first Israeli astronaut were aboard. This is a dire warning that should not be ignored - - the deaths of Americans and Israelis over Palestine. This is where the Middle East Road Map will lead. Could it be any clearer?




But there have been other strange happenings as well recently. One example is that shooting in Alabama involving the towns of Geneva (where the UN Racism Conference is to take place in April 2009, and where some suggest Gaza war crimes and/or the "Zionism equals racism" issue may be raised) and Samson (perhaps referring to "The Samson Option," the Israeli policy to nuke and destroy any perceived opposition, which is getting a lot of play lately with Iran and Syria acting up). We also saw the first big "Martial Law" controversy come out of this same story as troops from a nearby based were called in the "help." Again, I readily admit that this is all pure speculation, but still very interesting.

It's also fitting that a mystery that has haunted us since 1908 just happened to be "solved" as reported today: Was the Tunguska Fireball a comet chemical bomb?

Wait, I almost forgot one more thing! There's less than 24 hours left before "Earth Hour 2009" will begin. 3,900 cities and towns in 84 countries around the world will be shutting down the lights at 8:30 pm local time in one of the biggest events in history. Where will you be when the lights go out? Before the rooster crows in most American cities on Saturday morning, lights will already have gone dark in cities like Christchurch, Sydney, and Brisbane. By breakfast time on the U.S. East Coast, the cities of Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Singapore and Manila will be celebrating the arrival of the largest global climate event in history. Just before lunchtime in America, the lights will be dimming in Mumbai, Amman, and Dubai. And by early afternoon in New York, it will be lights out in Paris, Istanbul, London and Copenhagen

Anyone else think this presents a potential national security risk? Why do I ask? Can you imagine places that you would never dream of going dark participating in such an event? During "Earth Hour" you'll find The European Union Headquarters in Brussels, St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing, Washington, D.C, The Pyramids in Egypt, the Acropolis in Athens, the Broadway Theater District, the Space Needle in Seattle, and the Chrysler Building will all go dark for Earth Hour. Oh yeah, just across the wire from Sky News in Europe: "Osama bin Laden is plotting an attack against the US and its allies from his secret base in Pakistan, say reports." I rest my case.


ALL OF THIS BRINGS US BACK TO THE CURRENT MISSION


Getting back to the Discovery STS-119 Mission update. Ok, let's see if we have this right - - Discovery is supposed to launch on Lincoln's birthday, is delayed until the Ides of March, when Caesar became Osiris. It then reaches ISS (or is it Isis?) on 3/17, on the same day we learn about a bat that was clinging to space shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank during the countdown to launch, and that it remained with the spacecraft as it cleared the tower, and finally that the shuttle was accompanied by a strange, glowing orb during the mission. What you missed that in the news?

Remember when the shuttle reaching ISS was such big news on CNN? Was there some special urgency, some question of whether this seemingly routine flight would reach its destination?Maybe this video of a large glowing orb near the shuttle might explain it:



Just a reflection? A speck of space dust or debris? Maybe. Then again, with everything we've been looking at in this space over the last few days, maybe not.

Either way, the symbolism in seemingly mundane news is just stunning. For instance, what does ISS (ISiS) do on the Equinox? She spreads her solar wings!

Remember, we just had the Death of Osiris. The day this occurred was the Equinox, when the Sun begins to gain strength. Here is why Isis' wings are so important:

"Isis is one of the only winged deities in Egyptian myth. She is sometimes representative of the wind, as in the legend of Osiris. One version of the legend tells of Isis using her wings to fill Osiris' mouth and nose with air." - - touregypt.net

There's that Egyptian gods and goddesses worship thing manifesting itself in the real world again. Didn't we already prove that the so-called ruling elites of the various secret societies are the ones who believe in the return of these beings? Didn't we show how they've been performing rituals and communicating through symbolism in the real world in an effort to pave the way for their return? Didn't we also discuss how these people are unwittingly (or maybe wittingly) going to give rise to the prophesied Antichrist who is none other than Satan in the flesh himself?

As Chris Knowles of the Secret Sun wrote in response to all of this (and after viewing that video of the glowing unidentified orb): "Ah yes, the newly born sun of Horus, conceived artificially by the Winged Isis. I swear, there are times when I wonder if NAZCA - - I mean, NASA - - isn't just a billion-dollar cargo cult..."

If nothing else, I think my intent with these reports on worldwide events of this nature is to prove that there is a conspiracy, and that the conspiracy has existed since the beginning of time in the Garden of Eden. Satan is actively at work in this world using the dark forces at his disposal and influencing whomever he can here on Earth (and in space I suppose) as God will allow him to in order to advance his agenda.

That agenda, I'm afraid, is close be being realized. Consequently, our time here is short and we're about to see the fulfillment of major end times prophecies.

One final note. As I was about to wrap this up and post it to the site I found another captivating YouTube video that ties in quite nicely with all of this.

"UFO appeared on NASA mission STS-119 in control room MCC screen March 26th, 2009" Friends, that was yesterday. Are we being prepared for "Full Disclosure" or what? Don't fall for the deception - - spiritual deception - - of the worst kind!

Keep looking up!

(RESEARCH: Chris Knowles - The Secret Sun)

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For The Record...LOOK UP!!!

I've concluded that the more surreal and "out there" our reality becomes, the harder it is to talk about such things (what I see as being prophetically significant) seriously especially in a Christian forum like this. Gosh, any quick look at the Comments portion of each article will prove this sometimes!

Of course, I'm very grateful because a majority of you wouldn't be here regularly if you didn't seem to think that we were on to something, and that God - - as prophesied - - is no longer "shutting up the words" or "sealing the book" since this is now "the time of the end" (Daniel 12:4). So, that being said, these "F4 (FFFF)" columns will be more for those people who just happen to stumble upon this site.

At the same time, it will give the rest of us a chance to openly discuss certain "off-limits" topics without fear of ridicule. The theories and ideas expressed in this category will most likely reflect the very real thoughts and questions I have about a particular subject (those that immediately stir my soul and set off bells and whistles within), but to avoid the "you're-just-another-crazy-crackpot-tin-foil-hat-wearing-Christian-doomsday-wacko" label, I figured that by writing about such things under the banner of "Freaky Friday: Fantasy Or Fact?" it would give me greater leeway in exploring such ideas, and prevent people from simply writing me off from the start.

In addition, I want to officially invite you to forward me your ideas, observations, and theories as well since this is where they would be explored (some of you have already done that - - thank you).


F4: WHY DO COMIC BOOKS (POP CULTURE) SEEM TO FORETELL THE FUTURE?


I'm still in a mild state of shock over what I saw in the new Nicholas Cage film "Knowing" especially given the fact that its storyline directly mimics many real world events we're seeing today (mainly all the collisions and tragic plane crashes). This had me thinking about the prescient nature of pop culture as we've seen in the past especially in regards to 9/11.

Why is it ok for people to point to George Orwell's classic novel "1984" in such a way, but when you try to apply the same supernatural characteristics to other creative works found in pop culture like art, movies, music, and television people instantly dismiss the notion? More on that later.

For now, all I will say at the outset is that while this particular piece took me longer than usual to put together it was totally worth it. Yes, it's a long read, but I've used so much visual evidence to support my findings so hopefully that will help keep an exciting pace as you work through it on your own.

I absolutely love the work by Andre Heath of The ALIEN Project because his comprehensive knowledge of mythology and religion and their relationship to pop culture and prophecy amazes me on a regular basis. Plus, he always seems to come out with work on a subject just before I have a chance to beat him to it! Case in point, I was thinking about pop culture and wondered if we can find anything of interest in comic books when I came across Heath's newest commentary.

In any event, he has a new post up today that is curious to say the least. He found this picture just a short while ago of the new cover for the Image Comics' Savage Dragon comic featuring a extremely angry one-eyed President Barack Obama clobbering America's arch-nemesis, and number one terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden, while holding aloft the American flag, as the mutant Savage Dragon and the Statue of Liberty looks on in front of piles of WMDs (weapons of mass destruction). Have a look for yourself:


Now, I'm going to file this column today in the "Freaky Friday: Fantasy Or Fact?" section for obvious reasons. Yet, in all fairness, this find of his could be very important, considering that comics have formulated a central role in popular culture today. More than that, the question must be asked: Is this a precognitive and synchromystic view of future events yet to unfold?

Sounds silly, right? Not really. I mean, if there's HARD EVIDENCE of this kind of thing in television and movies (and not just one or two minor examples, but multiple examples, many of which are found in the most popular shows and films; think of all the examples that eerily predated 9/11 like "The Lone Gunmen" TV show) then why can't it show up in comics too? Actually, it has. The examples will blow you away!

Take the case of the comic legend John Byrne, best-known for his work on Marvel Comics’ X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. He drew a comic back in 2001, illustrating an alternative reality series of Superman and Batman called Generations, where one story takes place in the year 2008 and shows an African American in the White House as the Commander in Chief!

What are the odds of that? He not only predicted the historical event of an African-American President itself, but he hit the time frame so accurately - - 7 years in advance and before there was even a politician on the scene who might actually fulfill this scenario. Are you kidding? Makes you wonder, doesn't it?


DOES ONE ARTIST'S WORK PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS PHENOMENON?


He's not the only one either. Jack "King" Kirby is another visionary (and one of the greatest the industry has ever seen) who has also contributed a lot to this field of study. Christopher Knowles of The Secret Sun has written about this extensively over the past few years. Allow me to present you with a collection of the facts or the truth in print.

The heroic imagery of comics and the countercultural vibe of the 1970s were fueled with the language of religion - - Gods, Forever, Miracle. Yet, this synergy has always been part of the superhero's essential DNA since Action Comics #1. Why is it about comic books that seem to force us to write about these same themes decade after decade? What is it about comic books that seem to give them the uncanny ability to predict future events to some extent?

For those of you who think I'm writing way off in left field somewhere I give you Exhibit A:


This was drawn by Kirby in 1959. The so-called "Face on Mars" wasn't discovered by NASA until 1976. Take a look at the "real" photos and notice how similar these two depictions are despite being separated by almost 20 years:


What gives? How can this be?

Let's look at other examples of Kirby's work that have a definite prophetic undertone to them. One such work was called Kamandi about the "Last Boy on Earth" who is a lost soul fighting simply for survival in a world gone mad. The comic appeared in 1972,and in some ways was Jack Kirby's most personal comic strip. I bring this up because of some curious symbolism. Below is a map of the world that this character inhabits. It's the new map of the world (called "Earth A.D.") following "a great natural disaster has changed the course of all previous history" and there's plenty here worthy of its own separate column:


See anything that catches your eye that reminds you of Biblical end times prophecy? Click HERE for a larger image of the picture. Perhaps a brief overview of this short 50-issue series will help in that regard.

Jack Kirby takes us for a cool joy ride across most of the planet Earth in a rip roaring action adventure story set in the not to distant future where men no longer rule the roost, and animals have jumped up the so-called "evolutionary ladder." Today, almost 40 years after Kirby penned this opus it seems even more likely with all the genetic tampering that's going on in our world. Couple that with our unusually cavalier attitude towards nuclear power especially in Europe and the Middle East. Then, one day...whammo! It's on! Suddenly, we have Earth A.D. ("After Disaster"). Animals in Kamandi's new world are what is left of the human race with only him being truly human. Very much like the humans in "The Planet of the Apes."

Next up we have Captain Victory and His Galactic Rangers, which was Jack Kirby's completely whacked-out series from the early 80's. No one sees that material as Kirby's finest, but the ideas and concepts in that series are so completely off the wall and ahead of their time, it deserves to be better serviced than it was by Kirby's original production team. Here's an interesting page:


In case you can't read what is says at the bottom of that page I'll help you out: "A humanoid member of the 'God Squad' is prepared to descend upon planet to generate primitive code of discipline - - a first step to eventual civilization." Wow! Where have we just seen something similar to that before?


JACK KIRBY ACTUALLY FORESHADOWED 9/11!!!


Just wait! It gets better (or is it worse?). In July 2007, Image Comics released a gorgeous hardcover volume of Jack Kirby's 1983 mini-series Silver Star. Though not one of Kirby's more celebrated works (his drafting skills were beginning to wane by this point), to me it's one of his more fascinating creations. It's also rife with unsettlingly specific 9/11 signifiers that strain the definition of "coincidence." Even more than The Lone Gunmen, this series is my "Exhibit A" in the precognitive potential of the dreaming/creative mind. I'm also kind of wondering if the writers on "Heroes" haven't scanned an issue or two.

Semiotically, "Silver Star" has a double meaning. The first is a military medal, and the second is the "A∴A∴" or "Argentum Astrum," meaning "Silver Star." The "A∴A∴" was Aleister Crowley's first secret society formed after leaving the Golden Dawn. Scifi fanboy Grady McMutry (not the "creation evangelist" Grady McMurtry) was a member of this order. Those connections alone should set off bells and whistles within us (Crowley is credited with playing a key role in the establishment of what could very well one day become the prophesied one-world religion - - Scientology - - especially if this whole "Alien/UFO" agenda plays out like I suspect it will).

Tell me if you've heard this one before: the basic theme behind Silver Star is that a new race of super-powered beings is emerging, engineered to survive a nuclear holocaust. Pregnant women were given pre-natal implants that changed the DNA of their babies, but the experiments were done anonymously. The new beings are unaware of their counterparts, and in some ways unaware of their powers until they manifest themselves. Some of these people use their powers to make money.

These new beings are being hunted down and killed by "Darius Drumm", a "religious fanatic" who sees himself as the "Lord's Avenging Angel," and who wants to be the only superhero in town. Drumm gives us some frightening contemporary portents. Drumm was born the son of a super-rich Fundamentalist preacher, who led the "Foundation for Self Denial." His followers dressed in monk's robes, eschewed all worldly comfort and pleasure, and gave all of their money to Drumm's father, who used the wealth to buy into the Oil racket. Drumm kills his father, leaves but later returns, and takes over the Foundation. Drumm leads his followers to an underground cavern where they ready themselves for an apocalyptic holy war. Need I remind you that one of the translations of Al Qaeda is "Foundation?" And so we have the first eerie connection to and foreshadowing of 9/11.

This most recent revival of superheroes is not unique, but that might be precisely the point. 9/11 unleashed the sort of fears that hero fantasies address. The sort of devastation you saw on 9/11 plays itself out on a regular basis in the comics. Apocalyptic devastation is the lifeblood of today's post-Kingdom Come superhero comics. In the climax of Silver Star, Darius Drumm becomes the "Angel of Death" and sets about destroying a city. Take a look at this picture from the comic and from 9/11 below:


Knowles has flipped the photo, but you see the remarkable visual parallels, particularly in the buildings. Kirby had been a foot soldier in Patton's army in the Big One, and understood the raw terror of war better than most. Thus, we get our second eerie connection to and foreshadowing of 9/11.

The parallels don't end there though. Another disturbing precognition (the third one we've looked at now) - - the rubble left in the Angel of Death's wake is a dreaming-mind vision of Ground Zero:


Knowles accurately captured the sentiments I have about all of this when he wrote, "So, we have urban destruction from the skies, now linked to a 'Foundation' of robe-wearing, cave-dwelling, armed Fundamentalists - - financed by oil money, I might add - - not in a prime time TV show, but in an obscure old comic book from 1983 that perhaps 10,000 people read. I'm willing to bet none of them were in intelligence or national security work."

The cover of the final issue of Silver Star seems like a symbolist rendering of the 9/11 attacks - - a robed "Angel of Death," his fiery breath like a beard, laying waste to the West's towering acheivements. The vaunted hero is tiny in comparison and helpless and the Wrath of God comes down upon him. It's like a political cartoon about 9/11 from some radical Middle Eastern tabloid. Remember that this was published in the 1980s:


And there's our fourth eerie connection to and foreshadowing of 9/11. The climax of Silver Star is very much different to the original treatment Kirby wrote. In that, Drumm unleashes the "Fireangel," a dragon that destroys a microcosmic planet or something? I'm not sure because Kirby's writing could be very strange. The religious fanaticism of Drumm was also greatly amped up from the treatment to the comic. So what happened in between that so changed the tone and thrust of the Silver Star story? Hold on to your hats folks because I know you're going to think I'm making all this up! The following is just the icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.

Given comic book production schedules, it's hard to say what really happened to cause such significant changes to a key part of the entire story. However, in a comic dated a month before Silver Star #6, we find a story in a completely different comic book series featuring a terrorist hijacking, two towers, and a jet slamming into a skyscraper. No, I'm not making any of this up:


So many of the thematic strands that we now see bubbling up from the conspiracy underground (or the "Truth Movement") seem to hover around his work. It seems that nearly every major theme discussed in the more speculative branches of conspiracy research finds a synchronistic antecedent in three obscure Jack Kirby comic books. Granted, Kirby's work shows that he seemed to be very much immersed in the same themes that you and I see on conspiracy, so-called "Aliens/UFOs," and high weirdness websites. Still, I'm not sure if that explains the 9/11 precognition.

9/11 was like gasoline on the smoldering coals of Internet conspiracy research, which had been whipped up by "Behold a Pale Horse," Art Bell and the "Patriot" movement in the 1990's. The image above was taken from Destroyer Duck #5, published by Eclipse Comics in 1983. It's important to note that Kirby didn't write this story, Howard the Duck creator Steve Gerber did, but it may well be what inspired Kirby to completely rewrite the end of Silver Star. Plus, it begs the question: What are the odds - - again - - of yet another comic book from the '80s foreshadowing 9/11 with such specific detail? How do we explain that?

In Destroyer Duck #5, we see the set up for the unsettingly prescient 9/11-like scenario in this story. The CEO of "Godcorp" readies a "suitcase nuke" (that favorite bugaboo of the neoconservative Right) to celebrate the signing of a oil drilling franchise in Hoqoom, a Mesopotamian theocracy based on Iran. I swear I'm not making any of this up as the image below (which you can view in a larger form HERE) will attest to. The conflicts and tensions that played themselves out on 9/11 are presented here in reverse, with the Islamic radicals suffering what becomes a (inadvertent) suicide attack at the hands of American plutocrats. The satirical "Pahkmani the Devourer" (yes, a Pac-Man parody) and the fundamentalists of Hoqoom find their counterparts in Darius Drumm and the Foundation for Self Denial in Silver Star.


9/11 MEME NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? KIRBY ALSO WROTE ABOUT THE NEPHILIM!

One popular school of thought in the conspiracy underground is derived from an dyspeptic reinterpretation of the theories of writers like Zechariah Sitchin and Erich Von Daniken. It holds that human race is secretly manipulated and unconsciously enslaved by a cabal of evil "extraterrestrials," who created homo-sapiens as a slave race using their own "Alien" DNA and the DNA of proto-hominids. On the flip side, others suggest that these "Aliens" are benevolent and while they did have a hand in creating us, it wasn't for nefarious purposes since they are our "Space Brothers" who will come back one day to help us "reach the next level" of planetary evolution. Again, think about the conclusions drawn in the New Age movement and the new film "Knowing."

Of course, these two popular writers and their supporters on both sides don't ever consider attaching a spiritual element or explanation to all of this like we have. Yes, it's true that Sitchin was inspired by Biblical stories of the Nephilim (the offspring of fallen angels who mated with human women; a race of "giants"), but he never held to that position. Instead, he subscribed to the theory that they are truly "extraterrestrials" from other planets.

Kirby himself also subscribed to this interpretation and theory, which formed the basis of his 1976 Marvel series, The Eternals.


This leads us to researchers like former BBC TV personality David Icke who has taken these interpretations one step further and to the next level, claiming that the ruling elites of the world are devil-worshipping, shape-shifting, "Alien" reptiles who use symbolism as a form of mind control-cum-witchcraft. In this view, popular media is a minefield of symbolic spells, created to manipulate the primitive human mind (which come to think of it, probably isn't that far from the truth...) Interesting, no?

Which brings me to the backup story in Destroyer Duck #5 :


Where the main story explored the theocratic and petropolitical motivations behind a 9/11 type event, Destroyer Duck #5's backup feature The Starling (written by Superman creator Jerry Siegel) offers a comic book foreshadowing of Icke's "Alien/UFO" theorizing. In erotically charged language, Siegel describes the origin of his character, which are identical to the modern theories of the biblical Nephilim (or The X-Files, for that matter). In turn, this human-alien hybrid also links us symbolically back to Mesopotamia, via the writings of Sitchin. Wow!



The story is filled with the brutal emotionalism that made Siegel's Superman so compelling. In this scene, the sweet-faced teenage boy learns from his mother (now a best-selling novelist) that his father was a shape-shifting alien who seduced her to create this new child. In another foreshadowing of Icke et al, that sweet-faced boy is himself a shape shifting reptilian. Mind you, this was written by the creator of Superman, modern history's most iconic superhero.

Let this all sink in for a moment. Not only did the main story of Destroyer Duck #5 have several elements of the story that resonated with future events in a MAJOR way, but the back-up feature story (the one that was never officially published as this issue) also had several elements of the story that resonated with future events in a MAJOR way. How do we explain all of this?

I'm afraid that the mystery deepens. Remember earlier when we looked at Kirby's Kamandi? Mirroring the later Destroyer Duck #5, Kirby wrote his own story of a suitcase nuke smuggled aboard in airplane. In Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth #30, Kamandi and his mutant companion Ben Boxer discover a long-dead terrorist on an airplane that had been commandeered by a UFO. The terrorist is clutching a suitcase nuke, en route to some grim destination before the "Great Disaster," the nebulous Apocalypse that is the basis of the Kamandi mythology.




Remarkably, we are symbolically brought back to Sitchin's Mesopotamia by the giant statue of Marduk on the cover of Kamandi #30 (story is titled "UFO: The Wildest Trip Ever"). The desert sands of Mesopotamia (or "Hoqoom") were the cradle of civilization and now this "Alien"-made "sand pit" becomes its grave. This cover is not altogether thematically dissimilar to the Sitchin cover of his most popular book, either! The "Angel of Death" in Silver Star that we mentioned earlier also reduced the landscape to desert. Weird, indeed, the common thread that weaves through all of this. This also ties us back to Jerry Siegel, since Marduk was one of Superman's mythological antecedents.


WHAT!?! ALL OF THIS IS ALSO CONNECTED TO STARGATES?


As if all of this weren't enough, the terrorist, the suitcase nuke and the airliner are all drawn into a gigantic Stargate, or interdimensional portal, that opens in the sky above the sand dunes (attention Tom Horn!), which is EXACTLY what Christian bestselling author Tom Horn has written extensively about in recent years:




Kirby writes: "Where do UFO's come from? How do they get here? Maybe they don't travel through the vastness of space, maybe they just come through things like the Door." I'm sure both Freud and Crowley would appreciate the blatant symbolism on that image above - - a skyscraper entering a Stargate, though for different reasons. Jake Kotze would appreciate it for another reason altogether from them. So would Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, whose landmark work "The Stargate Conspiracy" was published in America exactly one week before 9/11.

Speaking of 9/11 again, I'm even more struck by the gematria encoded in the tail-fin of the Kamandi plane. Check out this image from that Kamandi #30 story:


"N" and "C" are the 14th and 3rd letters of the alphabet respectively, adding up to the mystical 17. "G" is the 7th - - add the 2 and you have 9. And we already have the 11. The two 9/11 airplanes - - Flight 11 and Flight 175 - - struck the twin towers 17 minutes apart. Kamandi #30 hit the stands in March of 1975 - - 26 years before 9/11.


GUESS WHAT? KIRBY ALSO TOLD US ABOUT THE COMING NEW WORLD ORDER


It sounds absurd, I know, and if I was to try to explain all of this to someone without showing them all the visual evidence, I'm sure their eyes would gloss over and they'd tune me out. Let's see what Kirby had to say about the New World Order (NWO) or prophesied one-world government:


That NWO, where a centralized global authority keeps the peace, was presented to us by Jack Kirby in living color in his incredibly prescient 1974 series called OMAC. And then some:


OMAC prophesied a technocratic utopia lorded over by a sentient artificial intelligence named "Brother Eye," who orbits the planet in satellite form. Keeping things calm were a literally faceless police force known as the "Global Peace Agency." In this series, Kirby forecast virtual reality, non-lethal weaponry, a kind of ramped-up organ harvesting, water wars and genetically engineered Beasts of the Apocalypse that would make DARPA drool.


Any conspiracy researcher or symbology buff worth their salt should be sitting up straight, seeing that blatant All-Seeing Eye imagery upon OMAC's chest. OMAC's mohawk haircut doesn't say "Punk Rock" (which didn't really exist back then anyway) so much as it says "Revived Roman Empire." Where have students of last days prophecy read about that? Again, it's almost certain that Kirby came across the juxtaposition of occult symbolism and world government theorizing while reading conspiracy literature. I should probably also mention how the U.S. Army's one tag line is "An Army Of One" which no doubt resonates with Kirby's "One Man Army."

Check this out though. In one particular issue of OMAC, the "One Man Army" defeats the invading force and goes to arrest the commander of the invading army, "Marshall Kafka," who is trapped in his bunker:

The bewildered look on the bearded, presumed-dead warrior's face as he is arrested by the One Man Army had a strange, real-life echo 30 years later when the "Army of One" arrested another bearded, presumed-dead warrior in his underground bunker:


Here, take a closer look. Notice the mouth agape on both men:


I know! It's absolutely surreal and defies all explanation! The rabbit hole goes even deeper though. Later, Kafka is put on trial for assorted crimes against humanity. Here he defiantly reviews the charges against him, which are essentially the same charges brought against Saddam! See for yourself:


Note the last charge is another way of saying "Weapons of Mass Destruction." The full-page shot below is an uncanny foreshadowing (how many times have I written that already today?). The hair is different - - this is cartooning, not caricature - - but the strong features (especially the eyes!) are remarkably similar to Saddam. Especially considering Kirby's tendency towards abstraction. See here:


The name "Kafka" is curious for Kirby, considering the aggressive militarism of the character. But it's worth noting that more than one commentator as referred to the trial, sentencing and execution of Saddam as something out of Kafka or "Kafkaesque" by some reporters at the time.


As amazing as all of this is, there was another frame that piqued my interest because of its undisputed and direct connection to the first Gulf War:


This panel is from one issue that seems to be a premonition of the Gulf War! I could be wrong because I was young at the time, but I don't remember even hearing the term "smart bomb" until 1991. Plus, here's another OMAC comic that was of special interest to me:


We could read this cover one of two ways. If we don't read it literally it's like a political cartoon with the outmatched One Man Army facing a multi-pronged chimera appearing out of the ether, raining fire and death. Just write "intifada" on the monster's chest, and put a triangle around OMAC's chest eye and you're set. I see it another way.

Let's analyze this cover art literally. When we do that we find that it syncs quite nicely with the ENTIRE "Alien/UFO" agenda we've looked at quite a bit in relation to the end times and the coming Great Deception and rise of the Antichrist and his one-world everything. For instance, in case you can read what it says in the lower left hand corner of the cover: "A doomsday monster - - made to order!"

Interestingly choice of words especially when you note that this battle that's depicted takes place on Mount Everest, lending an Theosophical tinge to this story. What's Theosophy you ask? Theosophy holds that all religions are attempts by the "Spiritual Hierarchy" to help humanity in evolving to greater perfection, and that each religion therefore has a portion of the truth. Does that leave you speechless? Sounds like Maitreya and his minions!


KIRBY, THE MAYAN 2012 MYTHOS, AND "ANCIENT-ASTRONAUT" THEOLOGY


In 1976, Kirby celebrated America's Bicentennial with the conspiracy-laden "Madbomb" series in Captain America. He further twisted the knife into the consensus reality paradigm with his "Ancient Astronaut" theory manifesto, The Eternals. The story opened with an archaeological team exploring a massive tomb of the "Space Gods" in South America. Kirby introduces a character named "Ike Harris" (a.k.a. Ikaris or "Icarus"), who acts as the "Basil Exposition" foil of this tale.

Harris tells his companions and the readers that a host of giant aliens called the "Celestials" came to Earth in ancient times and created three races using the DNA of apes - - Humans, the Eternals (who became the basis of mankind's god and demigod myths), and the Deviants (a genetically unstable race who resemble demons and monsters and once kept humankind enslaved). Below is a picture, but click HERE if you want to be able to read the enlarged version. Wow! How mind-blowing is all of this given our studies here lately!?!


Kirby followed up the "Madbomb Saga" with an incredibly strange story of an interdimensional Stargate opening up in the sky over the Ground Zero resonating "Zero Street." The first hero through it would be the Falcon, the 17-resonating Horus stand-in. Also, the story would involve a Texas oilman and yet another reclusive sect of mind-controlled Fundamentalist weirdos. Boy, oh boy.

I should probably also mention that after having quit Marvel Comics in 1978, Kirby went to work in Hollywood, working in the animation field. One of his first projects was a gimme- the Kamandi-esque "Thundarr the Barbarian." In this case, the Apocalypse was brought about by a Deep Impact incident, and the series itself was a grab bag of apocalyptic, occcult, and Fortean symbolism.

Along the way, Kirby was hired to do design work for one of those post-"Star Wars" pipe dreams- a major motion picture based on Roger Zelzany's 1967 novel, Lord of Light. If the Luciferian title or the All-Seeing Eye on the cover don't get conspiracy buffs in a lather, perhaps the book's premise will (for us Christian students of prophecy, you get a bonus point if you can spot the familiar name):

"LORD OF LIGHT is a novel about a future world after the destruction of Earth, conquered by men who, through ultratechnology, give themselves godlike powers and set themselves up as the old Hindu gods to rule the common people. Called The First, they have achieved a kind of immortality by transferring their identities from old bodies to new ones. These deicrats (as Zelazny calls them) through centuries of "divine" rule, have become corrupt, and only one among them will openly oppose their tyranny. He is the hero, "who was variously known as Mahasamatman, Kalkin, Manjusri, Siddhartha, Tathagatha, Binder, Maitreya, the Enlight-ened One, Buddha and Sam."

Again, was any of this done consciously? I can't possibly see how. If not, then aren't we left to conclude that these people were divinely inspired in a sense to create these stories? IT SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING, BUT JUST IN CASE, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT I USE THE PHRASE "DIVINELY INSPIRED" LOOSELY SINCE I'M NOT FOR A MINUTE SUGGESTING THAT A COMIC BOOK IS ANYWHERE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS THE DIVINELY INSPIRED WRITINGS OF THE BIBLE. My point is to simply state what I've publicly offered before - - that I believe God allows False Prophets and secular creations because He can still use them to get the secular world's attention and draw them to Him. I may be wrong, but this is the position I currently hold.

CONCLUSIONS: FANTASY OR FACT?


Again, what in the world is going on here? Surely, there's no denying that there's something we have yet to understand about consciousness at play here.

I mean, if there were only one example that was tenuous at best then I could laugh this off as a mere coincidence. When you start to see one, two, three, four and more examples time after time of events being foreshadowed in pop culture (spread out across decades and coming from various unrelated sources) it makes you wonder doesn't it?

Why is it ok for people to point to George Orwell's classic novel "1984" in such a way, but when you try to apply the same supernatural characterisics to other creative works found in pop culture like art, movies, music, and television people instantly dismiss the notion?

I mean, even if we come full circle back to the comic book cover that launched this piece (the Savage Dragon featuring President Obama and Osama bin Laden) we see things lining up with that storyline in real life headlines: Upping The Ante In Afghanistan: Obama To Dispatch 4,000 More Troops. Bin Laden Said To Be Plotting Fresh Attacks and Port Authority Doing Away with Freedom Tower Name - to be renamed One World Trade Centre. Seems like there is more to this comic story, huh?

As tempting as it is to believe that precognitive events in art are all planted by CIA spooks or men in black for arcane or ritual purposes, I think the truth is far stranger. And more compelling.

Look, being a Christian I firmly believe that while we have free will that doesn't mean that God's ultimate plan for us as individuals and as a race (His plans for humanity in general) will be thwarted. Quite the contrary. Subsequently, if events are predetermined and set-in-stone as I believe that they are then who are we (with our limited and finite brains) to say that there's nothing too all of this?

Perhaps this harkens back to a previous F4 column I wrote about Nostradamus and why God allows False Prophets to exist. These artists may not realize at the time, but maybe - - just maybe - - God is using them (a secular source) to warn the people He loves about what's coming even if many will still ignore Him in the end.

Personally, I think this is more "fact" than pure "fantasy" given all the evidence. What do you think? How do you reconcile everything we've just looked at? Are these just bizarre "coincidences" or something more? God's trail of bread crumbs warning the secular world (because we Christians already have the answers from His Holy Bible) about what's to come?

I understand that given the seriousness of everything that's going on in the world today this may seem like a strange type of thing to be writing about when it comes to alerting the rest of the world that prophecies found in the Bible are coming true (are about to come true).

However, maybe this is just another prime example of the "unsealing" Daniel wrote about in Daniel 12:4. If so, we should at least keep one eye on this sort of thing if nothing else. I'm not saying we should plan our lives around what Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry tells us in the stories they present to us. What I am saying is that there's enough here to warrant further study, and since it deals with the apparent ability to foresee events that should be of interest to anyone who studies what Bible prophecy tells us about the future.