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Storm Warnings

Bob Neumann, 1996

Every morning we turn on the radio or the television to listen to the AM media cheerleaders. They all have but one desire, to keep you listening so they can have an audience to listen to their sponsors attempts to sell you their names. Did you ever notice that each aspect of this positive self-reinforcement is privately funded? The news is brought to you by….. Now for the sports with ….. presented by ….. The weather sponsored by …. The 8:15 traffic update, a courtesy of … Market and Dow Jones updates, etc., etc., etc..

How long have we been told we are an information based society. Remember when a specific supermarket tabloid advertised itself with the statement, “inquiring minds want to know.” Knowledge is useful tool in many regards. But today we are relatively unchanged from the situation of our ancient fore father’s. While we are able to see, hear, and even experience both national events and international situations literally as they occur, it is still historical in nature. They are past tense as they occur.

In spite of our glut of media sources we still live in the “victim scenario.” At any moment a cataclysmic event could occur and the “fabric of their lives” is soiled, stained, or even shredded. Take a week to study any television news desk. NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, whatever, whoever. They all are generic in essence, having the same assets, sources, technology. Their only difference, if one may call them that, is their somewhat in exhaustible source of noted expects. Each news source appears to have a “noted” expert, and “esteemed” statesman, a “renowned” specialist who can discuss each sudden change in events, almost as they occur. Imagine having a stable of sources as diverse, and specific in their fields, as CBS has or NBC, or CNN, or ABC? Before the dust settles they have a source of information who will be able to “spin” the data as you receive it.

Helpful, is it not.

But, information, with the appropriate commentary is still historic in nature. In spite of all our effort, of all our technology we are helpless in the face of the catastrophic. Little has changed in the last 6000 years it seems. All our efforts to study, to categorize, to theorize the patterns of nature and the random acts of man does little to warn us of what will happen. Like Lewis Carroll we can discuss all the possibilities with “cabbages and kings”, but we can not look beyond this moment with certainty.

Or can we?

Within each social structure of the ancients, there was a definite hierarchy. Leadership and the chain of command were quite extensive. Yet no matter the structure, no matter the strength of the individuals. They were vulnerable to the unexpected, the unforeseen. One aspect of survival lies close to the line we modern theorists would call paranoia, to look for the things we can not see.

A uniform aspect of ancient cultures is the creation of a method or means to deal with the catastrophic. Today we might call it superstition, or classify it as religion. In time all appears to have developed both structure and ritual. The quality of the structure and extensiveness of their external ritual depended upon their record of success. Basically the longer the culture society survived, the higher in stature and more ingrained in their life style became their ritual.

The greatest civilization and cultures of our history had the most dominate and intrusive “religious” systems. What today we would consider to be the level of “cabinet secretary” or “national security adviser” was in reality the High Priest, the Chief Court Astrologer, or most successful necromancer. A common archeological fact is that the largest, or most ornate, or the central located structure of a major city was either the place of worship / sacrifice or the national treasury building. Quite often they were both.

But the main tie between all these ancient societies and their ability to both fore warn and foretell is that they failed. They all have been destroyed, or merely buried by the sands of time. All but one that is, and in many ways is quite incredible. By far the oldest and long running social/racial group also has the most successful record of prognostication. In fact their historical and religious writings are extensively prophetic in nature. Prophecies that come to pass, and prophecies yet to be fulfilled.

The Ancient Hebrew Nation, alive today in direct and indirect descendants have given us a great library of commentary and philosophy based on the Tenach. The Tenach is based on the Books of Moses – the Terah, and the Historical Books, the poetic books, and the prophetic books. Yet in every single book, whether the law, the Psalms, or the history of the kings, there are a set of integral characters. In the ancient language of the Hebrews they we called “Nazi”. We translate it as Prophets. A single prophet or “Nabi” seems to appear at each major, unctier in Hebrew History. Moses was a “Nabi”, King Saul, David, and Solomon were also prophets. They foretold and foresaw what would happen to individual people, cities, and nations. Events that would occur within hours, or at the end of this present millennium.

You may say that I am going to push some religion at you, prostiletize “innocent” minds. Not hardly.

You might ask what importance is ancient writings for today? None, if they did not have this problem of being fulfilled as we watch. You know like, what big deal of 3200 year prophecy coming true in the summer of 1996? Imagine 1000,000 people dead, world power shifts, economic collapse. Yeah, bummer, unless it involves you.

Hillary Clinton (here of her?), got involved in a book recently about a “global village.” Interesting concept, if you look at it from a historic point of view. And she has her own Shaman and her own chancellor. Maybe, just maybe, we have come full circle. Science and technology doesn’t work! So drag out the astrologers and the court magicians! And maybe a Hebrew Nabi, like Daniel will step forward and forewarn us of what will occur.

That now leads to a major obstacle. If these ancient prophets were, and are, incredibly accurate. Why? And if their source of information was Divine Inspiration , then why are there no prophets today tied into this same source. Today we have numerous groups that describe themselves as descendants of these “Divinely” established roots. And from these roots we have the extremely numerous and non aligned religions that we call Judaism, Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, Bahai, Mormonism, Scientology, etc.

Two things seen to link them, strangely enough. All seem to be divinely inspired in origin, and all currently deny present inspiration or revelation. A true Nabi stepping forth today would be as threatening to the status and as Elijah was in Ahab’s court. Likewise the ancient Prophet Hosea stated the word of the divine (*NIV will tell my servants the prophets)

Then again according to the Great Prophet Isaiah who states (*I am God and there are no others) (I change not) (I tell the end from the beginning) (I am about to do a new thing so you can’t claim previous knowledge)

Historically we can see the accuracy level of these prophets. In fact as their level of accuracy increased, their life expectancy decreased. In a chilling example of intense negative feed back Isaiah said (*30: Tell your prophets…). For his devotion to duty the good Isaiah at a “ripe old” age was said to have been drawn and quartered by then King Mannasah. Such was the payment for integrity and accuracy in the “good old days.”

The question that now must be raised is whether the age of the true prophet ended with the Tunic. According to the Rabbi’s of Modern Judaism it did. Christian and Islam scholars disagreed. So do the more recent heirs of the Hebrew writings.

The Messianic Origins of Modern day Catholicism and Christianity are aviation, but strangely denied at every turn. Remarkably the documents called the New Testament speak of the fulfillment of ancient prophecy in the birth, life, death, resurrection of Yeshua ben Joseph. The one called the Christ-Jesus. Likewise they continue to prophecy of His Second Coming, likewise fulfilling ancient prophecies concerning the “End of the Age”, or “The Day of the Lord”.

According to the writing of Saul of Tarsus, Rabbi turned prophet/apostle. The movement called “The Way” was based on the concept of prophets and apostles at large, functioning in the mainstream. As “The Way” moved counter to it’s Hebrew roots the name changed to a generic “Christianity” and so did it’s foundation of prophets and apostles.

Strangely enough the next mega-religion to arise on the world scene was Islam. It also came forth from Hebrew roots with individual revelation. This will bathe pattern that all following sects, movements, and cults. While it’s roots appear to be Hebrew, it’s writing basically refute and counter all that is modern Judaic in nature. But what is interesting these writings, called the Koran acknowledge Abraham, Moses, and Jesus as their major sources of prophecy. Yet the Koran is basically devoid of prophecy, except when it speak of the “End Times” scenario.

And the two main characters is the return of Jesus, the Prophet of Nazareth to defeat the great Satan and to restore the Ancient Nation of Israel. And the arrival of a new person of which little is said. He is called the Mahdi.

Of the three great present day monotheistic religions, all speak of “The End Times”, but only one speaks of functional prophets in their foundational writings. Yet all would look to see a Divinely Directed Nab. The clincher is that in the recorded prophecies of this Jesus, and in the Apocryphal writings of one John the Revelator. This would be part of the scenario prior to His Return.

But what else did He speak of to look for, what storms would be seen to forewarn the events spoken of, but so easily{document stops here}ignored.

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