Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Teshuvah...Repentance and Return
Elul 29, 5771..Sept. 28, 2011
This evening at sunset is Yom Teruah..The Feast of Trumpets or as most know it...Rosh haShannah. It is the Jewish New Year. But more correctly it is the Head of the Year. So tonight, for those of us who follow the Way of G-d, we will obey and hear the sound of the shofar...some will blow their shofar....and we will light our candles and pray...eat our challah bread and apples dipped in honey and rejoice over all that our Elohim has created and the blessings He has bestowed upon us during the past year. We will also consider the next ten days...the Days of Awe...leading up to Yom Kippur. We have been in Teshuvah since Elul 1....praying and seeking G-d about our transgressions..all the things that are within us that are holding us back from being who we should be in Him.
It feels, almost, as if G-d distances Himself from each of us during these days so that we will look inside to seek what is hindering us so that when we reach Yom Teruah...when it is said.."The King is in the field"..we can run to Him and He will reach out and touch us and our burdens will be lifted from us.
We are in the season of repentance..of returning...of Teshuvah....I have heard from so many how they feel an emptiness....even a distance from our Elohim...I say to you that it is because of the time we are in. If you examine yourself and remember, you might recall that even when you were not in truth..even when you followed the church of man....you may have felt this way during this time of year... and did not understand why. The fact that YOU came out of her and saw the truth of Torah and the Path of YHVH is a sign that YOUR desire to know and understand the deepness of Elohim was evident even then and this spoke to you in your spirit and you felt His season of renewal.
Even now there are those who do not follow truth, are still encumbered in the Babylonian lies BUT do sense the spiritual dictates of G-d, yet have not the light of truth to truly see and understand what is truly being given to them. I see this all around me and within the ministries of some who believe they are speaking in the Spiritual realm and are in the sense that He codes it and WE, if we look and ask for sight and understanding, can see and understand the true meaning of what they are receiving from our Elohim.
I give you an example of one such case....this is from SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns -- 9/28/11:
'Now is the time to resolve old issues before you move into the new season. I speak of such things as unforgiveness and bitterness against yourself and others. Allowing these things to exist in a fresh spiritual environment of possibilities would only pollute and defile clean and pristine opportunities. Enter this time with a clean heart. Examine yourself to see if you are in faith and ready to receive all that I have prepared for you, says the Lord.
Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.'
I do not follow this ministry except I look at Marsha's word to 'see' when He has given a word to be gleaned. I cannot say for sure that they not aware of this season of Elohim BUT becasue they still observe the sun day sabbath and celebrate the holidays of Babylon, I am assuming they are still in her clutches. But just as our Elhim used to ass to speak out He can and will use whom He desires and it may well be from very unexpected places.
I have no doubt the desire of this woman is to have a deep relationship with Elohim but she is only at the crest and must step completely away from the man made church and come into the truth of Torah and the true Sabbath of Elohim which is His sign between Him and His people.
So I say to YOU..and myself..let us examine our ways..let us dig deeper into His Word..His Torah. Let us seek a deeper understanding of the Way of G-d so that we can walk uprightly and in the light of Yeshua. Let us resolve old issues that are holding us back. Let us seek forgiveness and let go of bitterness. Let us seek a clean heart before our LORD so that we stand before Him blameless and pure, repentant of all things we have done in the past..let us continually say to HIm..."Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."
Let us remember what our Elohim says>....."Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am ADONAI, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says ADONAI.
And let this be our daily prayer........
"May my prayers be set before You as incense; may the lifting of my hands be as the evening sacrifice. Therefore, in view of Your mercies, I offer myself as a sacrifice, living and set apart, holy and pleasing for You. For I am to You, the aroma of Your Son, Yeshua the Messiah."
This evening at sunset is Yom Teruah..The Feast of Trumpets or as most know it...Rosh haShannah. It is the Jewish New Year. But more correctly it is the Head of the Year. So tonight, for those of us who follow the Way of G-d, we will obey and hear the sound of the shofar...some will blow their shofar....and we will light our candles and pray...eat our challah bread and apples dipped in honey and rejoice over all that our Elohim has created and the blessings He has bestowed upon us during the past year. We will also consider the next ten days...the Days of Awe...leading up to Yom Kippur. We have been in Teshuvah since Elul 1....praying and seeking G-d about our transgressions..all the things that are within us that are holding us back from being who we should be in Him.
It feels, almost, as if G-d distances Himself from each of us during these days so that we will look inside to seek what is hindering us so that when we reach Yom Teruah...when it is said.."The King is in the field"..we can run to Him and He will reach out and touch us and our burdens will be lifted from us.
We are in the season of repentance..of returning...of Teshuvah....I have heard from so many how they feel an emptiness....even a distance from our Elohim...I say to you that it is because of the time we are in. If you examine yourself and remember, you might recall that even when you were not in truth..even when you followed the church of man....you may have felt this way during this time of year... and did not understand why. The fact that YOU came out of her and saw the truth of Torah and the Path of YHVH is a sign that YOUR desire to know and understand the deepness of Elohim was evident even then and this spoke to you in your spirit and you felt His season of renewal.
Even now there are those who do not follow truth, are still encumbered in the Babylonian lies BUT do sense the spiritual dictates of G-d, yet have not the light of truth to truly see and understand what is truly being given to them. I see this all around me and within the ministries of some who believe they are speaking in the Spiritual realm and are in the sense that He codes it and WE, if we look and ask for sight and understanding, can see and understand the true meaning of what they are receiving from our Elohim.
I give you an example of one such case....this is from SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns -- 9/28/11:
'Now is the time to resolve old issues before you move into the new season. I speak of such things as unforgiveness and bitterness against yourself and others. Allowing these things to exist in a fresh spiritual environment of possibilities would only pollute and defile clean and pristine opportunities. Enter this time with a clean heart. Examine yourself to see if you are in faith and ready to receive all that I have prepared for you, says the Lord.
Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.'
I do not follow this ministry except I look at Marsha's word to 'see' when He has given a word to be gleaned. I cannot say for sure that they not aware of this season of Elohim BUT becasue they still observe the sun day sabbath and celebrate the holidays of Babylon, I am assuming they are still in her clutches. But just as our Elhim used to ass to speak out He can and will use whom He desires and it may well be from very unexpected places.
I have no doubt the desire of this woman is to have a deep relationship with Elohim but she is only at the crest and must step completely away from the man made church and come into the truth of Torah and the true Sabbath of Elohim which is His sign between Him and His people.
So I say to YOU..and myself..let us examine our ways..let us dig deeper into His Word..His Torah. Let us seek a deeper understanding of the Way of G-d so that we can walk uprightly and in the light of Yeshua. Let us resolve old issues that are holding us back. Let us seek forgiveness and let go of bitterness. Let us seek a clean heart before our LORD so that we stand before Him blameless and pure, repentant of all things we have done in the past..let us continually say to HIm..."Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."
Let us remember what our Elohim says
And let this be our daily prayer........
"May my prayers be set before You as incense; may the lifting of my hands be as the evening sacrifice. Therefore, in view of Your mercies, I offer myself as a sacrifice, living and set apart, holy and pleasing for You. For I am to You, the aroma of Your Son, Yeshua the Messiah."
Saturday, August 13, 2011
SHEMA
The Torah portion for this weekend is from Deuteronomy 3:23 through chapter 7:11.
The suggested reading from this Torah portion is the greatest commandment
found in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 that we love the Lord with all our heart, mind
soul and strength. It is known in Judaism as the Shema and begins with
asking Israel to hear and obey the Lord and realize He is the one and only
God. So please join with me that we would be a chorus of voices proclaiming on
earth and to the heavens that the God of Israel is the One and Only God.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is
one! "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your strength. "And these words which I
command you today shall be in your heart. "You shall teach them
diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in
your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and
when you rise up. "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. "You shall write them
on the doorposts of your house and upon your gates."
The suggested reading from this Torah portion is the greatest commandment
found in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 that we love the Lord with all our heart, mind
soul and strength. It is known in Judaism as the Shema and begins with
asking Israel to hear and obey the Lord and realize He is the one and only
God. So please join with me that we would be a chorus of voices proclaiming on
earth and to the heavens that the God of Israel is the One and Only God.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is
one! "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your strength. "And these words which I
command you today shall be in your heart. "You shall teach them
diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in
your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and
when you rise up. "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. "You shall write them
on the doorposts of your house and upon your gates."
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
It's a New Day!
12 Sivan....Third Day...Yom Shlee' shee
Shalom to friends, family...any who may be reading this blog. Again, I ask forgiveness for not being diligent in writing but somethings have come to light as to why I just could not seem to get it together.
For several years now I have been in a great deal of pain and it had brought me to the point of not being able to hardly walk...even stand. The quality of my life just seemed to be fading as time went by.
I finally did the right thing and changed doctors...found a really good one...and thru her diligence I now know that I have been suffering with five herniated discs in my lower back. I am seeing a wonderful pain management doctor and I am seeing a big difference in my pain and in my whole outlook.
I was struggling, trying to keep myself in line but it was really hard trying to do this because the pain was so intense and depression had set in fiercely...even more than I had realized...it was as though a wall was around me...blocking me from living a normal productive life anymore.
Healing....I knew this was available....I have had many healings in my body and have prayed for the healing of others....but this was blocked also, for some reason.
I do not understand the Way of G-d...there is no one who does....so I cannot explain how we are healed one time and not another. I injured my back when I broke my leg. The whole emergency room...patients, doctors, nurses....all were witness to my leg being healed yet I went home with a back injury that we didn't find out about till three years later!
Question our Elohim? No, I believe that my choices are the cause of my afflictions. I have gone thru one of the roughest trials in my life because I need to toughen up.
We all need to toughen up. We need to get ourselves ready for the great trials that are looming in the near future. They are there...just over the horizon....the times prophesied in the Bible. We are witnessing the beginnings now..the birth pangs...earthquakes on the increase, volcanoes erupting, tornadoes, as we have never witnessed before, weather changes...our seasons are no longer as they were but have become mingled together, diseases, famine, our farm land being destroyed, abominations within what is supposed to be the church, sexual deviations abounding among the young and old, more and more pagan apparitions of the Mary goddess and other pagan deities, perversions of every kind. Abuses of children and animals. Wolves in sheep's clothing..these are men who are the elite of the church world but are deceiving the people and leading them to destruction. The world is making way for the anti-messiah. Many are going to be fooled..the number is too many to count. The nephillim...fallen angels, are being portrayed as aliens..many will be led astray.
So many who are in the church system are already lost because they refuse to look with open eyes and hear with ears that are not deaf. The Church of Constantine...the Roman Catholic Church...has deceived billions. What has become of all those who lived and worshipped within its deception? Can one worship within a pagan church and be a apart of our Elohim's salvation when He clearly says to come out of idolatry? He is a jealous G-d and will have no other gods before Him.
What of all the Protestants who came out of Catholicism but kept so many of her ways? The mother church does not give up her children so easily. Many denominations are still within the birth canal..they have not completely left the body of their harlot Mother.
COME OUT OF HER! Seek the Way of G-d! Seek His Word...His Torah. follow His Commands..not the commands of man. This is the Old Path...He will guide you but you have to step out of the man made religion.
This is not the time to think that there is pleanty of time. There isn't. We must choose this day to become strong...to walk in courage....speaking truth....and doing what it righteous! We must walk in the Way of G-d!
I love you and want only the best for you. His Amma(servant), gloria
Shalom to friends, family...any who may be reading this blog. Again, I ask forgiveness for not being diligent in writing but somethings have come to light as to why I just could not seem to get it together.
For several years now I have been in a great deal of pain and it had brought me to the point of not being able to hardly walk...even stand. The quality of my life just seemed to be fading as time went by.
I finally did the right thing and changed doctors...found a really good one...and thru her diligence I now know that I have been suffering with five herniated discs in my lower back. I am seeing a wonderful pain management doctor and I am seeing a big difference in my pain and in my whole outlook.
I was struggling, trying to keep myself in line but it was really hard trying to do this because the pain was so intense and depression had set in fiercely...even more than I had realized...it was as though a wall was around me...blocking me from living a normal productive life anymore.
Healing....I knew this was available....I have had many healings in my body and have prayed for the healing of others....but this was blocked also, for some reason.
I do not understand the Way of G-d...there is no one who does....so I cannot explain how we are healed one time and not another. I injured my back when I broke my leg. The whole emergency room...patients, doctors, nurses....all were witness to my leg being healed yet I went home with a back injury that we didn't find out about till three years later!
Question our Elohim? No, I believe that my choices are the cause of my afflictions. I have gone thru one of the roughest trials in my life because I need to toughen up.
We all need to toughen up. We need to get ourselves ready for the great trials that are looming in the near future. They are there...just over the horizon....the times prophesied in the Bible. We are witnessing the beginnings now..the birth pangs...earthquakes on the increase, volcanoes erupting, tornadoes, as we have never witnessed before, weather changes...our seasons are no longer as they were but have become mingled together, diseases, famine, our farm land being destroyed, abominations within what is supposed to be the church, sexual deviations abounding among the young and old, more and more pagan apparitions of the Mary goddess and other pagan deities, perversions of every kind. Abuses of children and animals. Wolves in sheep's clothing..these are men who are the elite of the church world but are deceiving the people and leading them to destruction. The world is making way for the anti-messiah. Many are going to be fooled..the number is too many to count. The nephillim...fallen angels, are being portrayed as aliens..many will be led astray.
So many who are in the church system are already lost because they refuse to look with open eyes and hear with ears that are not deaf. The Church of Constantine...the Roman Catholic Church...has deceived billions. What has become of all those who lived and worshipped within its deception? Can one worship within a pagan church and be a apart of our Elohim's salvation when He clearly says to come out of idolatry? He is a jealous G-d and will have no other gods before Him.
What of all the Protestants who came out of Catholicism but kept so many of her ways? The mother church does not give up her children so easily. Many denominations are still within the birth canal..they have not completely left the body of their harlot Mother.
COME OUT OF HER! Seek the Way of G-d! Seek His Word...His Torah. follow His Commands..not the commands of man. This is the Old Path...He will guide you but you have to step out of the man made religion.
This is not the time to think that there is pleanty of time. There isn't. We must choose this day to become strong...to walk in courage....speaking truth....and doing what it righteous! We must walk in the Way of G-d!
I love you and want only the best for you. His Amma(servant), gloria
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
TIME FOR CHANGE
Nissan 9, 5771 Yom Revee'ee..Fourth Day or in the unholy Gregorian calender it is Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
What a beautiful day! It is just gorgeous outside! On a day like today we are able to look beyond all the things happening in the world. We don't want to think about bad things when the sun is shining, the sky is so blue, the clouds are so white and fluffy and the air is so refreshing. A nice gentle breeze makes the limbs of the trees, which are becoming greener with each passing day, sway gently. And the birds...the old familiar songs.....remembrance from childhood...singing....calling out because their lives are going on in the same way they have for all of time. It is all the same BUT.......BUT......
We cannot forget our world is growing closer to self-destruction. Time is passing more quickly. The earth is heaving and thrashing in the throes of birth pangs. More earthquakes...more volcanic eruptions. The weather patterns are in a tizzy..mixed up so much that it is hard to say if we are truly in one season or another.
BUT..we have been told this was going to happen. We who believe in our Elohim have read the prophetic accounts of this 'future'. We are not alone though....others 'see' it.
I watched a famous woman on TV..she is psychic....very controlled bu the underworld..or demonic forces if you will. She is a 'good' woman....good in the sense that she is not considered bad. She has lived the life of most Hollywood types as in a lot of men in her life, drinking, partying and such but she also allowed her spiritual side to be controlled. She was probably sought at an early age by the demonic forces and because she did not seek our Elohim, they were able to bring her into maturity with them.
She spoke of much UFO activity around her home....she lives in a desert area. I believe they are attracted to her psychic abilities and in the fact that she, as a medium, allows them free reign to come and go from their interdimensional worlds to our world.
These 'beings' are NOT aliens from other worlds but Nephillim or fallen angels.
She believes in reincarnation. Of course she would. this makes it easier to not be responsible for things you do in your life. You are on a journey to be enlightened and you must follow a course that allows you to experience life at its fullest.....whether on this planet or another.
This woman also spoke of what is happening with the speeding of time, the catastrophic events happening and the weather changes. And she spoke of personal change.
We also understand the speeding of time, the disheavel of the world and the weather but we, who trust in YHVH, know He will watch over us and keep us safe. And yes, we also must accept change. We must search ourselves...always...seeking His guidence as to what is not right within us. We can tackle any impurities within us as long as we trust in Him.
It is time for you who understands to make your mark and speak out to a world filled with confusion. Millions upon millions are not understanding about our Elohim. They do not understand the Way..they only know the way of man and his pagan churches. It is time to take a stand and speak of the things that are Holy. It is time to set family ties on their ear by telling the truth to those who are steadfast in their belief system that is taking them on the sure road to hell.
Are we willing to do this? To risk losing family and friends to the truth? We must!
What a beautiful day! It is just gorgeous outside! On a day like today we are able to look beyond all the things happening in the world. We don't want to think about bad things when the sun is shining, the sky is so blue, the clouds are so white and fluffy and the air is so refreshing. A nice gentle breeze makes the limbs of the trees, which are becoming greener with each passing day, sway gently. And the birds...the old familiar songs.....remembrance from childhood...singing....calling out because their lives are going on in the same way they have for all of time. It is all the same BUT.......BUT......
We cannot forget our world is growing closer to self-destruction. Time is passing more quickly. The earth is heaving and thrashing in the throes of birth pangs. More earthquakes...more volcanic eruptions. The weather patterns are in a tizzy..mixed up so much that it is hard to say if we are truly in one season or another.
BUT..we have been told this was going to happen. We who believe in our Elohim have read the prophetic accounts of this 'future'. We are not alone though....others 'see' it.
I watched a famous woman on TV..she is psychic....very controlled bu the underworld..or demonic forces if you will. She is a 'good' woman....good in the sense that she is not considered bad. She has lived the life of most Hollywood types as in a lot of men in her life, drinking, partying and such but she also allowed her spiritual side to be controlled. She was probably sought at an early age by the demonic forces and because she did not seek our Elohim, they were able to bring her into maturity with them.
She spoke of much UFO activity around her home....she lives in a desert area. I believe they are attracted to her psychic abilities and in the fact that she, as a medium, allows them free reign to come and go from their interdimensional worlds to our world.
These 'beings' are NOT aliens from other worlds but Nephillim or fallen angels.
She believes in reincarnation. Of course she would. this makes it easier to not be responsible for things you do in your life. You are on a journey to be enlightened and you must follow a course that allows you to experience life at its fullest.....whether on this planet or another.
This woman also spoke of what is happening with the speeding of time, the catastrophic events happening and the weather changes. And she spoke of personal change.
We also understand the speeding of time, the disheavel of the world and the weather but we, who trust in YHVH, know He will watch over us and keep us safe. And yes, we also must accept change. We must search ourselves...always...seeking His guidence as to what is not right within us. We can tackle any impurities within us as long as we trust in Him.
It is time for you who understands to make your mark and speak out to a world filled with confusion. Millions upon millions are not understanding about our Elohim. They do not understand the Way..they only know the way of man and his pagan churches. It is time to take a stand and speak of the things that are Holy. It is time to set family ties on their ear by telling the truth to those who are steadfast in their belief system that is taking them on the sure road to hell.
Are we willing to do this? To risk losing family and friends to the truth? We must!
Monday, April 11, 2011
A new blog.........................
Nissan 7....Yom Shaynee-2nd day
Shalom! It is a beautiful day in my little part of the world! I am well...how about you? As usual I apologise for not blogging as I have said I would but have a lot going on! I have the two daughters still living here and of course two granddaughters. My daughters are both going to school now. Maria is going to go into nursing and Jessica is going to be an engineer..and maybe a lawyer down the road. The two granddaughters keep me busy with their school work and activities...Aletha is in eighth grade and Arrin is in first.
I am enjoying the nice Spring weather...as long as it stays spring like and not too hot. I am still cautious as to whether Winter has left us completely. I can remember getting snow on Easter a as child...so I do not count anything out! But the flowers are coming up and the grasss is getting gre and the tre are budding so let us pray that Spring is here!
I betcha one word just got ya didn't it? Easter? What am I doing mentioning Easter? Well, I used to celebrate it and it is a holiday....a Pagan one. Many people..christians...are on a campaign to take the Easter bunny and eggs out of Easter and have it only about Jesus. Well how can you do that? Easter is all about the bunny and his eggs. You can't have Easter..which is really Ishtar...without that ole bunny rabbit laying his eggs everywhere as treats. No it just can't be!
I am tired of Easter...I am tired of the whole mess!
And speaking of mess....I look around..and I am actually looking around and I am wondering am I going to be able to get things cleaned before Pesach..Passover? Oh help me! So much to get done! But as the song says..."I will survive!"
Shalom! It is a beautiful day in my little part of the world! I am well...how about you? As usual I apologise for not blogging as I have said I would but have a lot going on! I have the two daughters still living here and of course two granddaughters. My daughters are both going to school now. Maria is going to go into nursing and Jessica is going to be an engineer..and maybe a lawyer down the road. The two granddaughters keep me busy with their school work and activities...Aletha is in eighth grade and Arrin is in first.
I am enjoying the nice Spring weather...as long as it stays spring like and not too hot. I am still cautious as to whether Winter has left us completely. I can remember getting snow on Easter a as child...so I do not count anything out! But the flowers are coming up and the grasss is getting gre and the tre are budding so let us pray that Spring is here!
I betcha one word just got ya didn't it? Easter? What am I doing mentioning Easter? Well, I used to celebrate it and it is a holiday....a Pagan one. Many people..christians...are on a campaign to take the Easter bunny and eggs out of Easter and have it only about Jesus. Well how can you do that? Easter is all about the bunny and his eggs. You can't have Easter..which is really Ishtar...without that ole bunny rabbit laying his eggs everywhere as treats. No it just can't be!
I am tired of Easter...I am tired of the whole mess!
And speaking of mess....I look around..and I am actually looking around and I am wondering am I going to be able to get things cleaned before Pesach..Passover? Oh help me! So much to get done! But as the song says..."I will survive!"
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Just Some Words................
Hey it is 2 Kislev...yep...another month. The days are truly going by very quickly. When I was young I would always hear the older people saying..."the older you get the faster your life goes." I now believe they were right! BUT....there is also an increase in the movement of time by our Elohim. How else will all things come to pass? I believe He slowed things down at one time and now He has speeded them up.
I found this very interesting and it goes along with the thoughts I have in my head......
Observatories on 5 continents to scan skies for extraterrestrial life
A global search for extraterrestrial intelligence
It's the 50th anniversary of Project Ozma, a pioneering search for extraterrestrial Intelligence experiment to search for signs of life in distant solar systems through interstellar radio waves.
By Marc KaufmanWashington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 6, 2010; 8:20 PM
The scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence went global this weekend as observatories in 13 nations on five continents trained their telescopes on several promising star systems.
While they don't expect their one-day joint effort will find the kind of intentionally produced signal from afar that enthusiasts have been seeking for decades, participants say the undertaking illustrates just how far the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has come.
Frank Drake made the world's first such observations at the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia 50 years ago, listening on a single-channel receiver that took in radio waves one frequency at a time. Today's technology allows scientists to receive radio signals at millions of different frequencies per minute, in addition to searching for laser-like bursts of light communication using optical telescopes.
The international star-viewing extravaganza, the first of its kind, comes at a time of fast-paced discovery in the science of exoplanets, bodies that orbit suns beyond our solar system.
Last month alone brought the announcement of the first Earth-sized planet found that appeared to be potentially habitable, as well as a study from top scientists in the field which concluded that the number of Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way alone could be counted in the tens of billions.
Suddenly, the prospects for finding planets that might have complex life and environments to support it appear to have brightened. Scientists well in the future may still conclude Earth is the only planet that harbors life, but discoveries in the last few years seem to increase the odds that we are not alone after all.
"This is a real coming of age for exoplanets and for SETI," said Drake, who remains active in the field and whose founding of the science of SETI five decades ago was being commemorated as well over the weekend.
"It shows SETI has gone truly international, and it's happening when our knowledge about planets beyond Earth is just exploding," he said. "We made predictions based on weak evidence 50 years ago and now a lot of that is, very satisfyingly, getting hard scientific support."
Practical matter
Doug Vakoch, a SETI Institute scientist who helped organize the effort, said the coordinated observing is probably most important for its practical side.
"What this weekend really does is begin the process of making it possible to track a possible SETI signal around the globe," he said. "If a signal is detected, it has to be confirmed and followed, and now we're setting up a network to do that."
The participating observatories are in Italy, India, Argentina, Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Sweden, the Netherlands, and several in the United States and Japan. Officials at the largest radio telescope in the world, Arecibo, will also participate.
The idea for the unprecedented global observation was initiated by Shin-ya Narusawa, director of Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory in western Japan - one of the largest observatories in that country. Narusawa organized a many-centered SETI observation in Japan last fall, and was invited to present his results at the biannual NASA-sponsored astrobiology conference held this spring.
There, Narusawa met SETI Institute President Jill Tarter, he proposed a bilateral and then international observation, and before long 19 observatories and research centers in 13 nations had joined in.
The telescopes will be trained in a coordinated way on a number of star systems, including Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani - the nearest systems in the Northern Hemisphere and the two that Drake observed 50 years ago in what he called Project Ozma, a reference to the princess in "The Wizard of Oz.'' (Keeping with the theme, the weekend's effort is called Project Dorothy for the heroine of the book.)
"These two stars were the best SETI targets a half-century ago," Narusawa said. "They remain the symbol of the project Ozma and so are two of the target stars for Project Dorothy."
But with more than 500 exoplanets identified in the past 15 years and 700 more awaiting confirmation, he said, the observation can be far more directed and ambitious. Some will include stellar systems that have planets which appear to be located the right distance from their suns to support life, he said.
'Earth is tiny'
While Narusawa is a scientist, he said he had another, non-scientific reason for organizing the global event. "When we do this worldwide observation," he said in an e-mail from Japan, "citizens remember the Earth is tiny and we are the same earthlings."
The SETI enterprise has, from the start, had many skeptics - scientists who say it involves looking for a needle in a haystack, and at times legislators who have been outraged that for a short time the effort received federal funding. That came to a quick end in 1993 and SETI has relied on private funding since, although the institute was allowed to compete again for federal grants late in the Bush administration.
Its biggest coup has been to win almost $30 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to build a large array of radio telescopes in the mountains of northern California. The Hat Creek array and its 42 radio telescopes are jointly run by the SETI Institute and the University of California at Berkeley, and are used for SETI observing and more traditional radio astronomy. The facility was one of the 19 to participate in Project Dorothy.
With new scientific discoveries announced regularly that support key assumptions that Drake and SETI made decades ago, and now with a global network of astronomers who agree that SETI constitutes solid and important science, Drake said he has never been more optimistic about ultimately finding intelligent life beyond Earth. Although 50 years of SETI observing has yet to come up with a signal, he said, the percentage of stars actually studied is minuscule.
He also said it's time for people to consider an initially unsettling understanding that flows from the work being done by exoplanet hunters and by SETI - that distant planets are as much a part of nature as Earth is.
"Who knows what kind of life we'll ultimately find out there?" Drake said. "It won't be like our life because it will have evolved in response to different kinds of forces. But there's no doubt about it - the underlying chemistry will be the same and that means it will be basically an extension of what we have here."
Jeremiah 31:31-37 (New International Version)
31 “The days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
... and with the people of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the LORD.
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the LORD.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the LORD.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
35 This is what the LORD says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name:
36 “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,”
declares the LORD,
“will Israel ever cease
being a nation before me.”
37 This is what the LORD says:
“Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,”
declares the LORD.
ONLY IF THE HEAVENS ABOVE CAN BE MEASURED AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH BELOW BE SEARCHED OUT WILL I REJECT ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL BECAUSE OF ALL THEY HAVE DONE.
Man has always had the brain power and the ability to reason so he could have had all of the technology that we have today a long long time ago. And there is some thought and even proof that man did make a few discoveries into advanced machinery...such as rudimentary computers and electricity. He went from being land bound to discovering how to make small boats so he could travel on the rivers and lakes around him then ships so he could sail the earth's oceans and seas and he discovered new lands and peoples.
Man is crafty....he thinks and reasons...but he does not always strive to do as our Elohim would have him do but does what he purposes in his own heart. Man is also stubborn by nature to desire to be in control of his own destiny.
It has been said that the voyage of Christopher Columbus to find new lands can be compared to man's space travel and if not for the Dark Ages Christopher Columbus would have been traveling to the moon instead of discovering America.
Some research found that a scientist had discovered steam power* in those long ago times...imagine the industrial revolution happening in the 600's!
We are seeing more and more news stories about UFO's not as it used to be reported but as if they ARE TRULY REAL ALIENS FROM ANOTHER PLANET! And it is becoming politically correct to call them Astronauts! Why? To get mankind used to the idea that these ET's are really from another world who maybe even came here in ancient times.
UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens
THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth?s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.
Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN’s little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.
She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before – and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.
From the Vatican....
One of the pope’s astronomers would happily baptize an alien if asked -- “no matter how many tentacles it has.”
Guy Consolmagno, a trained astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican’s observatory, discussed a slew of topics at the British Science Festival in Birmingham last weekend, noting that the Vatican was more up to date with the latest scientific developments than most realized.
“You’d be surprised,” he told the Guardian. An avid science-fiction reader, Consolmagno reproached the historical treatment of Galileo, the man who discovered that the Earth indeed travels around the sun.
He even complimented Stephen Hawking -- despite Hawking’s recent comments asserting that physics effectively replaced the need for God. Consolmagno called Hawking a “brilliant physicist.”
Intelligent design, he also noted, was a useless compromise that’s another form of “the God of the gaps,” calling it pseudoscience and “bad theology.”
Though he concedes the odds of finding and communicating with other intelligent life is essentially zero, Consolmagno would welcome the event. “Any entity -- no matter how many tentacles it has -- has a soul,” he said. Asked whether or not he’d baptize an alien, Consolmagno replied: “Only if they asked.”
Cosolmagno spoke at the science festival while the Pope was making his own visit to discuss science, which he called a complete coincidence.
Our Elohim gave us freedom of choice and some took it to the extreme...worshipping graven images of pagan gods and goddesses who are directly from Hasatan. He is the author of ALL lies and he desires all to bow to him. Hasatan knows what he is doing.."Let us give man a whisper in his ear to measure the heavens and search the depths of the oceans. He will break the promises all by himself."
So man in his own image wants to become as god and look to the heavens to measure it and go to the depths of the oceans and search them out because he can. This is the way of Hasatan. He desired to be as our Elohim. He was jealous when YHWH made man in His image. What better way to do away with this nuisance than to trick him into doing the things that are in direct violation to the Instructions of YHWH?
So our Elohim in His infinite wisdom slowed time down and man did not advance as he could have. Now, because man has achieved so much in just the past few hundred years time had been speeded up and we are in the last days...our Elohim has made a way and man has not accomplished what the evil one intended nor will he. Our Elohim will guide and protect us!
*Look up Heron's steam engine.
Or go to http://alexandrias.tripod.com/hero.htm
Steam power was invented way before middle ages.
I found this very interesting and it goes along with the thoughts I have in my head......
Observatories on 5 continents to scan skies for extraterrestrial life
A global search for extraterrestrial intelligence
It's the 50th anniversary of Project Ozma, a pioneering search for extraterrestrial Intelligence experiment to search for signs of life in distant solar systems through interstellar radio waves.
By Marc KaufmanWashington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 6, 2010; 8:20 PM
The scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence went global this weekend as observatories in 13 nations on five continents trained their telescopes on several promising star systems.
While they don't expect their one-day joint effort will find the kind of intentionally produced signal from afar that enthusiasts have been seeking for decades, participants say the undertaking illustrates just how far the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has come.
Frank Drake made the world's first such observations at the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia 50 years ago, listening on a single-channel receiver that took in radio waves one frequency at a time. Today's technology allows scientists to receive radio signals at millions of different frequencies per minute, in addition to searching for laser-like bursts of light communication using optical telescopes.
The international star-viewing extravaganza, the first of its kind, comes at a time of fast-paced discovery in the science of exoplanets, bodies that orbit suns beyond our solar system.
Last month alone brought the announcement of the first Earth-sized planet found that appeared to be potentially habitable, as well as a study from top scientists in the field which concluded that the number of Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way alone could be counted in the tens of billions.
Suddenly, the prospects for finding planets that might have complex life and environments to support it appear to have brightened. Scientists well in the future may still conclude Earth is the only planet that harbors life, but discoveries in the last few years seem to increase the odds that we are not alone after all.
"This is a real coming of age for exoplanets and for SETI," said Drake, who remains active in the field and whose founding of the science of SETI five decades ago was being commemorated as well over the weekend.
"It shows SETI has gone truly international, and it's happening when our knowledge about planets beyond Earth is just exploding," he said. "We made predictions based on weak evidence 50 years ago and now a lot of that is, very satisfyingly, getting hard scientific support."
Practical matter
Doug Vakoch, a SETI Institute scientist who helped organize the effort, said the coordinated observing is probably most important for its practical side.
"What this weekend really does is begin the process of making it possible to track a possible SETI signal around the globe," he said. "If a signal is detected, it has to be confirmed and followed, and now we're setting up a network to do that."
The participating observatories are in Italy, India, Argentina, Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Sweden, the Netherlands, and several in the United States and Japan. Officials at the largest radio telescope in the world, Arecibo, will also participate.
The idea for the unprecedented global observation was initiated by Shin-ya Narusawa, director of Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory in western Japan - one of the largest observatories in that country. Narusawa organized a many-centered SETI observation in Japan last fall, and was invited to present his results at the biannual NASA-sponsored astrobiology conference held this spring.
There, Narusawa met SETI Institute President Jill Tarter, he proposed a bilateral and then international observation, and before long 19 observatories and research centers in 13 nations had joined in.
The telescopes will be trained in a coordinated way on a number of star systems, including Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani - the nearest systems in the Northern Hemisphere and the two that Drake observed 50 years ago in what he called Project Ozma, a reference to the princess in "The Wizard of Oz.'' (Keeping with the theme, the weekend's effort is called Project Dorothy for the heroine of the book.)
"These two stars were the best SETI targets a half-century ago," Narusawa said. "They remain the symbol of the project Ozma and so are two of the target stars for Project Dorothy."
But with more than 500 exoplanets identified in the past 15 years and 700 more awaiting confirmation, he said, the observation can be far more directed and ambitious. Some will include stellar systems that have planets which appear to be located the right distance from their suns to support life, he said.
'Earth is tiny'
While Narusawa is a scientist, he said he had another, non-scientific reason for organizing the global event. "When we do this worldwide observation," he said in an e-mail from Japan, "citizens remember the Earth is tiny and we are the same earthlings."
The SETI enterprise has, from the start, had many skeptics - scientists who say it involves looking for a needle in a haystack, and at times legislators who have been outraged that for a short time the effort received federal funding. That came to a quick end in 1993 and SETI has relied on private funding since, although the institute was allowed to compete again for federal grants late in the Bush administration.
Its biggest coup has been to win almost $30 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to build a large array of radio telescopes in the mountains of northern California. The Hat Creek array and its 42 radio telescopes are jointly run by the SETI Institute and the University of California at Berkeley, and are used for SETI observing and more traditional radio astronomy. The facility was one of the 19 to participate in Project Dorothy.
With new scientific discoveries announced regularly that support key assumptions that Drake and SETI made decades ago, and now with a global network of astronomers who agree that SETI constitutes solid and important science, Drake said he has never been more optimistic about ultimately finding intelligent life beyond Earth. Although 50 years of SETI observing has yet to come up with a signal, he said, the percentage of stars actually studied is minuscule.
He also said it's time for people to consider an initially unsettling understanding that flows from the work being done by exoplanet hunters and by SETI - that distant planets are as much a part of nature as Earth is.
"Who knows what kind of life we'll ultimately find out there?" Drake said. "It won't be like our life because it will have evolved in response to different kinds of forces. But there's no doubt about it - the underlying chemistry will be the same and that means it will be basically an extension of what we have here."
Jeremiah 31:31-37 (New International Version)
31 “The days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
... and with the people of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the LORD.
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the LORD.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the LORD.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
35 This is what the LORD says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name:
36 “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,”
declares the LORD,
“will Israel ever cease
being a nation before me.”
37 This is what the LORD says:
“Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,”
declares the LORD.
ONLY IF THE HEAVENS ABOVE CAN BE MEASURED AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH BELOW BE SEARCHED OUT WILL I REJECT ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL BECAUSE OF ALL THEY HAVE DONE.
Man has always had the brain power and the ability to reason so he could have had all of the technology that we have today a long long time ago. And there is some thought and even proof that man did make a few discoveries into advanced machinery...such as rudimentary computers and electricity. He went from being land bound to discovering how to make small boats so he could travel on the rivers and lakes around him then ships so he could sail the earth's oceans and seas and he discovered new lands and peoples.
Man is crafty....he thinks and reasons...but he does not always strive to do as our Elohim would have him do but does what he purposes in his own heart. Man is also stubborn by nature to desire to be in control of his own destiny.
It has been said that the voyage of Christopher Columbus to find new lands can be compared to man's space travel and if not for the Dark Ages Christopher Columbus would have been traveling to the moon instead of discovering America.
Some research found that a scientist had discovered steam power* in those long ago times...imagine the industrial revolution happening in the 600's!
We are seeing more and more news stories about UFO's not as it used to be reported but as if they ARE TRULY REAL ALIENS FROM ANOTHER PLANET! And it is becoming politically correct to call them Astronauts! Why? To get mankind used to the idea that these ET's are really from another world who maybe even came here in ancient times.
UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens
THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth?s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.
Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN’s little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.
She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before – and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.
From the Vatican....
One of the pope’s astronomers would happily baptize an alien if asked -- “no matter how many tentacles it has.”
Guy Consolmagno, a trained astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican’s observatory, discussed a slew of topics at the British Science Festival in Birmingham last weekend, noting that the Vatican was more up to date with the latest scientific developments than most realized.
“You’d be surprised,” he told the Guardian. An avid science-fiction reader, Consolmagno reproached the historical treatment of Galileo, the man who discovered that the Earth indeed travels around the sun.
He even complimented Stephen Hawking -- despite Hawking’s recent comments asserting that physics effectively replaced the need for God. Consolmagno called Hawking a “brilliant physicist.”
Intelligent design, he also noted, was a useless compromise that’s another form of “the God of the gaps,” calling it pseudoscience and “bad theology.”
Though he concedes the odds of finding and communicating with other intelligent life is essentially zero, Consolmagno would welcome the event. “Any entity -- no matter how many tentacles it has -- has a soul,” he said. Asked whether or not he’d baptize an alien, Consolmagno replied: “Only if they asked.”
Cosolmagno spoke at the science festival while the Pope was making his own visit to discuss science, which he called a complete coincidence.
Our Elohim gave us freedom of choice and some took it to the extreme...worshipping graven images of pagan gods and goddesses who are directly from Hasatan. He is the author of ALL lies and he desires all to bow to him. Hasatan knows what he is doing.."Let us give man a whisper in his ear to measure the heavens and search the depths of the oceans. He will break the promises all by himself."
So man in his own image wants to become as god and look to the heavens to measure it and go to the depths of the oceans and search them out because he can. This is the way of Hasatan. He desired to be as our Elohim. He was jealous when YHWH made man in His image. What better way to do away with this nuisance than to trick him into doing the things that are in direct violation to the Instructions of YHWH?
So our Elohim in His infinite wisdom slowed time down and man did not advance as he could have. Now, because man has achieved so much in just the past few hundred years time had been speeded up and we are in the last days...our Elohim has made a way and man has not accomplished what the evil one intended nor will he. Our Elohim will guide and protect us!
*Look up Heron's steam engine.
Or go to http://alexandrias.tripod.com/hero.htm
Steam power was invented way before middle ages.
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