believe it or not this is the completed and finished design for the building

Here is something a little interesting I found a while ago in a documentary that I have never forgotten about. There are a lot of people that believe the European Union parliament building in Strasbourg France is an attempt at creating a modern Tower of Babel. I am not totally sure where I stand on this other than to say that there are some remarkable similarities in the general design to a famous painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that was painted in 1563. There is also a significant twist of irony when you know the story about the original tower from the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible.

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:1-9

The European Union represents the whole of Europe as one political and economic entity divided up into regions that used to be countries that are now referred to as member states. The boarders are the same and the names are the same but the politics and management are very different.

This link shows some good comparison pictures and offers some further insights on the tower and its resemblance to the original painting (obviously no one has original images or blue prints of the actual first tower). It also shows a poster that was designed to promote the parliament and the EU. Below is also a brief video highlighting the main points.

It’s all very interesting to me that the purpose of the EU parliament is in direct defiance with what God did with the original tower especially when you consider the tagline implemented “Europe: Many Tongues, One Voice.” This entry on the heels of the New World Order post should get you thinking about the motive behind World Government and lend a little credibility to the fact that it is something being sought after by people in high places. Also consider the fact that U.S., Canada and Mexico may not be immune to this being in the future for the three countries that make up North America.

Pay attention to the video at 1:50:16 - 1:51:11… to me the entire thing hangs on that minute of video. Again, like in Zeitgeist, the Christian faith appears to be the only one targeted. I hope thats enough to get some conversation going in the comments section. I have a lot more to say on this topic in the future.

understand whats at stake before you gamble

Have you ever made a really big gamble, a gamble so large that if you lost you’re not sure what you would do in the aftermath of losing? Not too many people make gambles of that nature because they can’t stomach the risk of losing. With that opening statement I am sure a lot of you had pictures in your mind of a casino you have either been to or seen in a movie. However this post is going to explore the gigantic gamble we all make whether we go to a casino or not.

If you have spent any time on this site you know that I am a person of faith in Christianity. Or to be more clear, I believe in God the creator who has redeemed us to be worthy of salvation and an eternity in Heaven through the crucifixion of and faith in His only Son Jesus Christ. Now there are many people in the world that believe the Christian faith is nonsense and an old fable or a recycled pagan religion for uneducated folks. Understand that I hold my faith whole-heartedly, however for this post to be legitimate I have to admit that I could be wrong in the hopes that if you are a non-believer reading this that you can also admit to possibly being wrong in your stance. Now this is something you probably don’t spend a lot of time considering but one of the above mentioned groups is right and the other is wrong. Therein lays the gamble. Let’s examine a chart I have made below.

In this chart the vertical axis represents the two realities that can exist for Christianity. Either it’s true, or it’s baloney. The horizontal axis represents your belief to either of the realities. You can either believe or not believe. Those really are the only realities and beliefs that can be taken in this debate. Now contrary to what you might think all of us are either in the red or black column because “it’s true” and “it’s baloney” are statements based on realities that you have to have a position with.

The debate as to whether Christianity is true or not is centuries old. After long reflection I have come to realize that the debate is empty and pointless. Regardless of how much we argue that debate is going to settle itself eventually either way. The debate we need to be having is with ourselves internally whether it is right or better to be a person of faith or not. Either way, true or not, all of us are gambling either on red or on black. As you can see, it is a gamble with drastically varying outcomes.

1. It’s True and You Believe - If Christianity is true and you are a person of faith and live your life according to what the Bible teaches when you die you will be rewarded with an eternity in Heaven.
2. It’s Baloney and You Believe - If Christianity is not true and there is no afterlife you lived your life as best as you could based on the teachings of the Bible but when you die there is nothing and you cease to exist.
3. It’s True and You Don’t Believe - If Christianity is true and you don’t believe you lived your life how you saw fit but when you die there is an eternity of suffering ahead of you.
4. It’s Baloney and You Don’t Believe - If Christianity is not true and there is no afterlife you lived your life as you saw fit and when you die there is nothing, you cease to exist.

Do you see what I am getting at here? For any believer, with their “chips” on red, there is no gamble because if Christianity does turn out to be false they will share in the same fate as non believers. However if it’s true the fates of believers and non-believers are very different. Now please understand that this isn’t some scare tactic. I am by no means saying “look at my fancy chart, now repent and believe!” I am making a sincere effort to get you to think about the consequences of something that the world doesn’t want you to think about.

My chips are on red…
Beyond the chart above there is more to the reason as to why I am betting on red. A number of years ago I realized I am not a good person on my own. I don’t think any of us can say that we are. If you read that last sentence and scoffed at it I would like to know if you would be comfortable if there was a speaker in the back of your head loudly broadcasting everything you we’re thinking 24/7? Or how would you feel if people could turn on the news and get a daily run down of everything you did that day, good or bad? I know that’s not something I would not be interested in for myself. My point is that the true reflection of ourselves is who we are in secret, not what we show everyone else.

The Bible makes it clear that we have all sinned and all fall short of God’s expectations. Now if you get anything out of this post I hope it’s this next bit. God is just. He could not be perfect if he wasn’t. Therefore how could anyone be rewarded with an eternity of happiness if they had been bad and rebellious their entire lives? That can’t happen. So in God’s infinite justice, love and grace He made a way. He could spare the entire human race from a fate of suffering if just one person could get their time on Earth right. Here is where Jesus enters the picture. Christ was entirely perfect and was crucified inspite of it. On him was placed all the wrath and suffering we deserved because of our rebellion. That was enough justice for God to be satisfied. That is why faith in Christ is essential to our salvation. If someone saved our life here on earth would you not be grateful? If someone pushed you out of the way of a speeding car and took the hit for you, would you not be eternally grateful to that person?

So here is this free gift of salvation offered to us by God. All we have to do is accept it. Is it not obvious that a gift isn’t ours until we claim it as our own? If you’re a hungry person and someone offers you a meal, that meal isn’t going to do anything for you until you accept it and eat it. So as a hungry person devours a meal should we not all devour the gift of salvation offered to us by God? Have you ever wondered why Jesus is such a vital part of going to Heaven. The answer is simple, he is the way. He pushed you out of the way and got hit by the car on your behalf. Also as the one who took the punishment in our place he has been made judge of who enters and who doesn’t. In Jesus’ words “no one comes to the Father except through me”. So you need Christ and acceptance of what he did in your heart.

A parachute cannot save you unless you reach out and pull the ripcord. The good news about Jesus cannot save you unless you call on His name. Reinhard Bonnke

The last part of the formula is repentance. To put this into perspective have you ever forgiven someone that hasn’t apologized or at least shown remorse for the wrong thing they did to you? Would it not be difficult and almost impossible to forgive a person like that? Again, God is just, but also merciful. Mercy will be shown to those that are sorry and change their ways. Why should anyone that’s not sorry for what they have done be shown any kind of forgiveness, especially when they continue to just do the wrong/hurtful thing again and again?

Now I get it, a lot of professed Christians are the worst people you may know. And some of the worst things you have heard of on the news have been done in the name of religion or by priests and pastors that should know better. The word hypocrite comes to mind. All I want to ask of you is to not allow the mistakes made by others get in your way and to be responsible for yourself, not others. A lot of people ask the question why does God allow “these things” to happen or say I can’t believe in a good God with all “this stuff” going on. Humans have free will which God gave us and allows us to use. Some use it for good, others don’t. It’s really that simple. We are to blame for all the bad stuff, but that’s not a very popular stance to take. I know when I look in the mirror I don’t want to be at all responsible for the state the world is in, but I am, we all are.

The last point I want to make is the fact that we still have the faith of Christianity around after over 2000 years of trying to disprove it. I think if something were a lie that it just may have been exposed as such after all this time. Speaking of over 2000 years do you realize that the year is technically 2010 A.D., after death? Prior to that the years we’re B.C., before Christ. I don’t think people way back then had a meeting and said “Let’s start counting the years all over again based on the death of a man that never existed.” That seems highly improbable to me.

A Call to Action
At the church I go to we often watch these video’s of street interviews. Random people get asked questions about faith, God, Christ or Heaven on the spot. Some of the answers are unbelievable. Most often people are vague and say”I don’t know, I haven’t really thought about it”. If you are one of those people, get thinking! Picture a roulette wheel that is spinning and the ball is whirling around the perimeter. Red or black, where do you put your metaphorical chips? If you’re a gambler you have to put them on red, you can’t lose. The good news here is that even if terrible things have happened in your life and all this time you have had your chips on black, there is still time to move them over to red. Explore faith for yourself. God is longing for you to come home. The wheel doesn’t stop spinning and the ball doesn’t fall into place until your life is done or Christ returns. But don’t take too long, because we don’t know when our time is up. So don’t ignore this message by merely brushing  it off as unrelevant to you. Like it or not, you are gambling.

Here are some great quotes from the end of the lecture. The last one I have pulled from a documentary that I posted previously titled Money as Debt which has become painfully clear as true after having listened to the video above.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley

It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting. H.L. Mencken

The chief source of problems is solutions. Eric Sevareid

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding

Here is a link too the video on google.

You know I remember some simple truths that I was taught as a kid when it came to making a mistake and being in trouble. That lesson was that it was better to admit it and seek help rather than hiding it or lying about it. I guess that doesn’t apply to a company when billions of dollars and the opinions of the many shareholders and the entire human race are at stake. It’s my two cents that I would be more sympathetic of a company that would just admit how bad the problem is and say we messed up and we need a lot of help to fix this. But that isn’t what they did. They decided to buy search engine search terms to try and control what information people we’re getting when the searched for “oil spill” and other relevant terms.

At the end of the day an estimated 18 million gallons of oil has spilled into the waters of our planet. And those are the modest low end estimates. That figure is based on the belief that the well was spewing about 5000 barrels worth/day into the gulf (a barrel contains 42 gallons). A senior BP offical admitted to congress that the well could have been flowing as much as 60,000 barrels/day. If that is true the total in gallons would be in the neighbourhood of 219 million. It’s so disgusting to think what has happened to our planet because of our dependence on this substance.

Did you know that North America (U.S and Canada) used 21.7 million barrels worth of oil/day in 2008 according to rates posted in a wikipedia page? Using the high estimates, the recent spill would total 5.2 million barrels. That means the spill only represents 24% of our daily… yes daily use as a continent. I am not saying that in anyway to downplay the size or severity of the spill. Rather I am using it to contrast it to the astronomical volume we use. Where is the desperation for using a cleaner or renewable energy source(s) by our leadership?

Now consider if that oil had not been spilled into our water it would have been used in products that pollute our ground and add to the volume in landfills. Or it would have ended up in vehicles, machines and power plants that emit pollution into the air. So at the end of the day we have 21.7 million barrels/day (911,400,000 gallons) that end up hurting the planet in one way or another any way. Does that fact taint the luxury that we enjoy as a continent at all? I know it does for me.

I am a man that is taking a hard look at the world around me. Like most people I don’t like what I see. While I have more than I could ever possibly need in life it still isn’t enough to drown out the noise. The world offers me ear plugs every day but I don’t want them. Something is telling me to listen.

I am a man looking to do something about it. What my ears hear and my eyes see needs to be shared. Doing nothing is the worst thing I could do and helps no one.  I am simply collecting those things and presenting them to you through this site for your consideration because the who, what, why, when and where that TV and media offers us is quite different than what actually is. The motivation isn’t about getting people angry or frightened and retaliating, rather its about having a change of heart and mind and reacting appropriatly so you can be ready for what is yet to come. The bottom line is everything that is happening is about your freedom here and now and for the rest of eternity. 

I am a man of faith in God and His son Jesus Christ. What they offer is the solution to every problem we face. However, don’t be surprised when the term conspiracy is found on this site. The Bible after all is the survival guide and story of the greatest conspiracy of all… the destruction of our planet and you and I. Why I believe this to be true is because I see a world that is constantly getting worse despite the powers that be making ”best efforts” to make the world a better place. So this site is an invitation and an opportunity to have a look for yourself.

I am a man taking a chance…

original poster for the movie...

I learned about this movie by seeing clips of it through other documentaries that I have watched. I think the first time I saw a clip of it was in Zeitgeist (if you watch zeitgiest you really need to hear this afterwards). Not having known anything about the movie I found the clips rather captivating with the dialogue spoken by the actor(s).

I have watched the movie in its entirety and I have to say that this movie was way ahead of its time in some of the themes and ideologies laid out in the film. It is nearly prophetic in its depiction of what TV is about and more specifically how the news, economy and money work. Keep in mind as you watch the clip that this is over 30 years old.

Below I have inserted the “big three speeches” from the film that really nail down what the whole movie centers around. It is some pretty heavy stuff. I would love to know what some of you think of the content of the speeches in the clips. Please leave a comment.

The first two commandments are;

1. You shall have no other God’s before me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol.

Now I am not a religious scholar and I am not terribly well read and knowledgeable in all the different religions in today’s world. A lot of what I write about is based on experience and what I have learned since I have gone back to church. In respect to the final two commandments we spend far too much time apart from God. We have become too diluted with information and options when it comes to spirituality. There is far too much attention put on work and entertainment. If we’re not working we are entertaining ourselves and if we’re not entertaining ourselves we are working to pay for more entertainment later.

To keep it short and sweet in those two commandments God is asking us to not allow ourselves to have any other Gods that confuse and don’t offer us everything we need like He does. He doesn’t want us worshiping or putting our hope and energy into empty things.  He is also asking us not to turn other things into priorities over him. I’ll admit that is something that I even continue to struggle with as a follower of Christ. There is just so much stuff that begs for our attention. I have to hold in check the time that I give to TV, sports, fantasy football, video games, music, movies, work, poker and other games… and I could go on.

It is something that I recognize as being so important that recently I made a mission statement for myself and have it framed and on the wall beside my bed so I can see it everyday when I get up. I think a lot of people talk a big game about what their priorities are but don’t really lead lives that are inline with what they say. I know I have been guilty of that a lot. But then I came to the conclusion that what I do with my time is what my priorities are, not what I say. So know I make an effort to live what I talk, hence the new commitment to this site and the faith that I proclaim to have. I know in my heart that is what God desires from all of us.

the big conclusion for this series
Well here we are on the other side of our adventure through all the commandments. So here is a rough picture of the world if they we’re obeyed. There would be less jealousy and debt. People wouldn’t be killing themselves working to stay ahead of payments for things they don`t need. Because people would be working less hard for stuff they would be more rested and have more time for friends and family. People would be less stressed about finances and the condition of all their “treasures”.

People wouldn’t be lying to each other about anything so we wouldn’t have to deal with the hurt, sadness and anger that comes with lying.

No one would be stealing anything from anyone so there would be more trust of other people. There would be far less crime if no one stole stuff, money or people for that matter. Human trafficking, abductions and slavery would all take a major hit.

If no one was having sex outside of marriage we would all be more capable of monogamous relationships. There would be no std’s if everyone was just having sex with one person in their life. There would be no rape. There would be no sex trade in the world. I am also pretty sure abortion would be a thing of the past.

With no killing there would be no war and no murder. With that being true no one would have to suffer the trauma, hurt, anger and sorrow of losing their loved ones by war or someone stealing their life.

Family relationships would be stronger with kids honoring their parents. Kids would be in less or no trouble at all because they would be obeying the guidelines set out by their parents.

People would be more rested taking a day to rest the way God desires us to rest. I believe we would experience more of God’s peace if we did that and checked our tempers when it comes to misusing his name. Also we would only be brought into closer relationship if we gave him the priority he deserves and pushed aside a lot of the distractions and pitfalls that the enemy puts in the way.

That is a little bit of a sloppy conclusion. Most of the individual posts did far more justice to what I was speaking about. That said, links to all the previous posts in this series have been added to the bottom of this entry. At the end of the day I think there is no one that could honestly say that the world described above isn’t better than the one we are living in now. God wants better for us, it seems like we don’t want it for ourselves.

Lastly in Matthew Christ makes a very broad sweeping statement that goes even further than all the commandments put together.

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40

What is so great about this verse of how deep it roots are when thought about at length. Love God and love each other is the short version. If we love God we don’t put things before him. We don’t build idols in our life to distract us or offer empty worship to. We don’t abuse His name. We don’t stray and allow ourselves be out of fellowship with. Furthermore we would acknowledge and believe everything He tells us is truth which would compel us to change so much about our lives.

If we love our neighbors as ourselves (and this goes further than the people living to the left or the right of us) so much would change about our attitudes towards other people. Think about all the things that people do to you that anger or hurt you. This really is another wording of the old advice do onto others as you would have done onto you. So why do we pass hungry people in the street asking for help and pretend we don’t see them? Why do we cut people off in traffic?  Why do we lie to each other, steal, say hurtful things, do kind things for selfish reason… the list could be endless.

In every situation look at yourself as the problem and then take the proper actions to be the positive solution. If everyone started with themselves instead of looking at everyone else as the problem a world full of people would be changed. Then and only then will we ever see some real change.

previous posts in the series
Coveting
False Witness
Stealing
Adultery
Killing
Honour Your Parents
Sabbath Day
The Lord’s Name

This will be something that I dive into more in the future but for the time being I am going to post the documentary entitled improbable collapse. In short the film centers around the collapse of all three, yes three, buildings on the day of September 11th 2001. It looks at the improbability of the only three buildings that have collapsed due to fire in the entire history of modern steel building architecture all happening on the same day, in the same city. The film also present evidence as to why the offical story is far less than probable.

My question has always been if what the video suggests is true what else is the leadership of our world capable of?