Posted on 04/09/2016 2:57:32 PM PDT by No One Special
Food for thought: are we now in the end times of the bible?
Origin of the concept: The first scriptural mention of the ‘End of Days’ is found in Numbers: Balaam, a prophet from Mesopotamia, east of the Holy Land, was asked by Balak, king of the Moabites, to curse the Israelites, told him instead of the final defeat of the Moabites by the Israelites: “Come, I will advise you...what this people will do to your people at the end of days.” – Numbers, 24:14
But, according to the Book of Deuteronomy, the end of days will not come until the Nation of Israel returns to righteousness, obedience to God, and to the ancient Promised Land. The Moabites, said to be descendants of Lot and his daughters, still occupy much of the Promised Land. They are the present-day Palestinians and some Jordanians.
Moving along to the New Testament, Christians connect the end of days with the expected return of Jesus. And we find references hinting at to what to expect in the ‘end times’:
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils -1 Timothy, 4:1
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. -2 Timothy, 3:1 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, -2 Peter, 3:3
End of Days and Science Why would someone trained in the traditional scientific disciplines of mathematical physics even contemplate such an esoteric question? How does it relate to the TDVP paradigm shift to consciousness? One of the most striking things about TDVP is that it impacts every discipline, every question, and every branch of human thought. It does so because it adds a third detectable variable to the content of multi-dimensional reality, in addition to mass and energy. This third variable of content is not as easily observed and measured as mass and energy, but without it, there would be no symmetrically stable particles surviving the big bang, in effect, no physical universe. Is it some unknown form of mass and energy? In a way, yes, because it affects the behavior of mass/energy particles, but actually, no, because it cannot be measured as either mass or energy. It would be more accurate to say that matter and energy are forms of it. And like a primary form of consciousness, it shapes the history of the universe at the quantum level.
Is the third form really somehow related to consciousness? You might think that that is pure speculation because science has no meaningful definition of consciousness. But there’s a reason for that, science is asking the wrong question. Science has been asking: “How can consciousness be explained in terms of matter, energy, space and time?” And no answer is forthcoming because science should be asking: “How can matter and energy be explained in terms of consciousness?” That’s the basis of the paradigm shift: the mindset represented by the question: “what is consciousness made of?” is replaced by the understanding that everything is made of consciousness. If everything is made of consciousness, everything works toward a logical end.
End of Days and Current Events If you’ve followed my last few posts, you should know that I’m not political; or more accurately, I’m apolitical, with respect to liberal and conservative agendas. I am disillusioned with both of the major political parties. This is not an easy position to maintain because those who do have political agendas, or even those who favor a particular party doctrine, tend to interpret any statement or concept that appears to contradict their party line as identifying the one who says it as being in an opposing political party. And soon we have a polarized situation wherein even the most politically neutral person is branded by both liberal and conservative as wrong, and thought to be one of the crazies on the ‘other side’.
I'm not a believer in conspiracy theories, or vague prophecies that can be interpreted after the fact, as needed. But I do believe that reality and the intelligence behind it are ultimately logical, and that human history is filled with patterns that can help us to see what’s coming. Winston Churchill paraphrased philosopher George Santayana when he said: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” This appears to be a truism, but it also appears that the human race as a whole almost never learns from history; so even those who do recognize the causes and effects of mistakes and disasters that have occurred in the past, are doomed to witness the repetition of historical disasters along with the rest of humanity.
Conditions that Herald the End of Civilizations A number of societies, nations, even great civilizations have flourished on this planet in the past, declined, failed and disappeared. We know of relatively recent ones, like the Sumerian, Minoan, Mayan, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and the British Empires. Even though dying civilizations don’t record the causes of their decline very well, because they didn’t really understand what was happening to them, we have hints of the patterns that preceded their fall. If they had understood what was happening to them, they may have been able to take steps to avoid their demise. Can we learn from past mistakes? Here are some of the conditions that exist as civilizations approach their end:
Motivated by ego, rulers, whether posing as divine beings, kings or scientists, portray themselves as superior, and therefore entitled to maintain control by whatever means
· The rulers, isolating themselves from ordinary people with their wealth and power, become convinced of their own superiority and the stupidity of the masses
· The rulers disguise their increasing personal desires for wealth and control with concern for the welfare of the masses, genuine at first, but increasingly feigned as they fail to be able to live up to their promises, and fear losing their wealth and power
· Dependence and victim mentality, encouraged by the rulers, through propaganda disguised as education, destroy ambition and productivity
· The masses, believing the promises, come to believe that they were entitled to things that other individuals have created, and expect the rulers to deliver things that they cannot
· Mob mentality: people do things as groups that they would never do as individuals
· The rulers create fake prosperity by producing phony currency of exchange and they create drama pitting groups against each other to cover their inability to solve problems
· The masses become disillusioned with the rulers who, time after time promise great things and fail to deliver
· There is rioting in the streets, and the rulers are overthrown, but those who replaced them are even less capable because their only qualification is anger and disillusionment
· Internal violence increases exponentially and the civilization decays from the inside with immorality, hate and greed
· The civilization either disappears or is absorbed by another civilization
It appears to me that the patterns of impending failure of the structure of civilization are all around us now. How long can our once Democratic Republic survive?
Will we go the way of past civilizations?
In the 1800s, the French political historian Alexis de Tocqueville was very insightful: he warned that the American form of democracy might easily lead us back to tyranny, albeit of another form, because the freedom of radical equality could promote materialism and the selfishness of individualism, causing us lose interest in the future of our children and meekly allow ourselves to be led in ignorance by an elected despotic class, all the more powerful because it professes to operate for our good. He suggested that the democratic republic of the USA would be viable only until the President and members of Congress become motivated to buy votes with promises of wealth and prosperity for everyone, which they will ultimately be unable to deliver. An elected despotism claiming to be a democracy will produce masses more or less uniformly alike, equal, and constantly seeking petty pleasures, unaware of fellow citizens, and subject to the will of a powerful state which can promise immense protection from the difficulties of life. Tocqueville compared a potentially despotic democratic government to a protective parent who wants to keep its citizens as "perpetual children", and which presides over people in the same way a shepherd looks after a "flock of timid animals". But human beings are not sheep, and some will eventually realize that they are being manipulated by politicians motivated by ego and greed. When this happens, because the US is a world power, it will ultimately bring global collapse.
Israel is defeating the Moabites, de Tocqueville’s prediction has come true.
I imagine that, too. We’ll see.
I was going to say that, except to note that since 1940 we’ve split the atom and made big explosions. Arguably, however, things have been more stable, not less, as a result.
lol. Though I think King of Terror is Nostradamus, not Revelations ;)
The writers of the New Testament wrote THEY were living in the end times, the end times for them being the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Jewish nation, which occurred in 70AD. Probably one of the few times, if ever, an entire nation has been eliminated.
Ed Close (author of this article) will be presenting at the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies Conference in Chapel Hill, NC June 8th to the 12th.
In addition, Vernon Neppe and Claude Swanson will also be presenting. All three are excellent theoretical physicists with extensive degrees and research backgrounds studying consciousness.
Over 45 years in the making......you're still waiting...........
“How can matter and energy be explained in terms of consciousness?” That’s the basis of the paradigm shift: the mindset represented by the question: “what is consciousness made of?” is replaced by the understanding that everything is made of consciousness. If everything is made of consciousness, everything works toward a logical end.”
Ed is 100% on target with this statement. If you think of all the scriptures relating to rapture it is easy to understand that the “raising up” is really a consciousness shift.
No, the same generation Jesus was talking to would see the end. This is the same thing He said in the first and last verse of Revelation “He who testifies to these thins says, ‘Yes, I am coming soon.’” . You cannot read the Letters of the early church without realizing that they expected the “end of time” before they died - and so it was.
Omg - not this again
One time when I was in a feisty mood I actually spoke to the local Jehovah's Witnesses about the end times and used the argument that without nuclear weapons the US and Soviets would likely have already had WW III releasing every bit of poison gas and biological weapons they had in their arsenals. You could tell they were way off their script.
So far End Times prophets are running zero for several thousand with a few dozen still inconclusive.
I wonder how many End Times prophets would be willing to subject themselves to Deuteronomy 18:20-22?
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
TDVP is an acronym for “Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm,” a Theory of Everything model developed by Vernon M. Neppe. That’s from the search page, don’t know if that’s the same TDVP or not.
It’s what I would have guessed. For sure.
Freegards
Yep. Paul Samuelson said “Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!” Likewise, end times hucksters have predicted around 2000 or so of the last zero end times (though I suppose they will eventually be right).
The Great Sign in the Heavens, described in Revelation 12:1-2, will actually occur on September 23-24, 2017. How is that for close?
Sorry but humans have been predicting the end-of-times since three days after Jesus returned to heaven. ALL of them wrong.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
Wear clean under ware and live a good life. Don’t waste time by sitting and waiting or looking over your shoulder. God will end it when he is ready, not one second sooner.
Exactly - thanks for the post
Edward R. Close is a Physicist, Mathematician, Cosmologist, Environmental Engineer and Planner, and international consultant. He was a charter member of the U.S.G.S. Systems Analysis Group where he developed state-of-the-art mathematical optimization programs, hierarchical modeling techniques and fractal geometry models of coastal geomorphology, storm cell development and other environmental modeling applications.
Pursuing an active research program in environmental remediation, he has made a series of breakthrough discoveries in using non-toxic compounds in mold research that have benefited millions. He is a charter member of the internationally known Integrated Health-Care Professionals Council. He has authored numerous technical papers and five books, including the groundbreaking “Transcendental Physics, Integrating the Search for Truth”. He developed the mathematical “calculus of distinctions”, which is very relevant in the current book. He described a brief (several pages), but never refuted first published proof for the famous Fermat’s Last Theorem 3, which will appear in the companion volume to this book, Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad. He has also developed several new theorems of consciousness, and contributed important engineering applications.
Dr. Close is Principal Engineer and Director of Research and Development at EJC Advantage, LLC. He is currently Science Editor of Telicom (journal of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) (www.thethousand.com), and also a Fellow of the Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization.
Both Dr. Neppe and Dr. Close can be regarded as pioneers of the new interdisciplinary science of Dimensional Biopsychophysics, in which dimensionometry, consciousness and the interface of the biological, psychological and physical are integrated together, as in their remarkably innovative model of the Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm.
Are you that confident that you would enter into an agreement with me that I would come to your house on September 21, 2017 and give you $1000 for you to take your entire family out to your final dinner in exchange for you signing over all your property, bank accounts and vehicles to me as an exchange?
C’mon Hot, your gonna have to pony up a soul with that grand!
I believe we are near the end of the Age of Grace. Then follows the 7 year Tribulation, and then the 1,000 year Millenial Kingdom on earth.
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