| The Concept of History Repeating Itself |
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Let’s take a look at the concept of “history repeats itself.” I just recently had a conversation with a friend, one who
knew about Nostradamus, but did not hold any belief that there was anything of value about what Nostradamus
wrote. His whole opinion was based on the argument (one he had heard before), which was, “Everything
Nostradamus wrote was so general it could fit many events in history.” He added, “With no “end time”, as a specific
window of time to see if a prophecy comes true, to limit how long one was expected to believe he predicted into the
future, his predictions could fit any number of events that come to pass, only seen in hindsight.” A subset of this
argument, due to the generality of translation-interpretation, can be stated as, “There will always be like events
occurring throughout time.”
My friend is an educated man. People who apply themselves in the areas of study, are those who are best
equipped to spot questionable arguments and propositions, and handle them appropriately. An inappropriate way is
to immediately call Nostradamus name, or worse, call me names, because I believe something they know nothing
about. An educated person will realize when he or she knows nothing, but they enjoy testing the validity of
something they see as fairly obviously foolish. Rather than make a fool of themselves, they ask legitimate
questions, based on their trained mind’s ability to rapidly find weaknesses. Therefore, my friend made a statement
that is solidly at the core of rational thought for disbelief in Nostradamus.
The reason that can be a valid argument is sometimes people do make general statements, often purposefully
designed to mislead people, because people are known to believe what they want to believe. Tell someone
something difficult to believe in the right way, and people will believe it, simply because they know no better.
Television commercials and politicians do this frequently.
Often, politicians are questioned about specific topics, and their answer is a trained “talking point”, which is so
general it is true, but does not answer the question. People hear the truth because they identify the general to a
specific, and believe that they have just heard some profound statement of truth. In reality, a discerning mind can
logically argue that the politician stated nothing of value, because “everything that was stated was so general it
could fit many times in history”, which has no particular relevance to this specific time now.
I explained to my friend that Nostradamus did not write in such generalities, and that once one knows how to read
Nostradamus this becomes clear. Simply by making this statement, I have stripped bare the argument that assumes
the premise, “Nostradamus wrote in generalities.” If that is found not true, everything based on that premise falls
apart. I countered with a statement that shows: a.) I know Nostradamus; and 2.) I know Nostradamus did not write in
generalities. The onus was then on my friend to prove to me that my premise was wrong; but before I allowed him to
do that, I explained that Nostradamus wrote in a way that the philosophy of Occam’s Razor must be adhered to, to
see how a few words can mean a lot. My friend knew of Occam’s Razor, because he is an educated man.
I have stated repeatedly, in my articles posted online, that even when one does speak in generalities, it is beyond
the scope of reason (logic based) to state that the words of Nostradamus were so general they could mean
“anything.” My friend did not make that statement; but ignorant people use the word, “anything,” particularly when
they try to repeat something they heard or read. They misquote intelligent people, who were using a sound
argument against a weaker Nostradamus opponent.
That choice of words, “anything”, would mean that if I made the general statement, “Cows run slow,” someone could
actually think I said, “Astrophysics advance the refrigeration of lawnmowers.” It is impossible to make the words that
I used have any other scope of meaning than the scope of definition the words I stated bear. That scope has
nothing to do with “anything” I wrote in the second statement. Thus, one can find “many”, or “more than one”, sense
of meaning for, “Cows run slow,” but it does not mean “anything.” The “many”, or “more than one” meaning,
becomes relative to Occam’s Razor.
To sum it up simply, William of Ockham (also spelled Occam) meant, “Less is more.” The more one adds to less,
the less freedom it has to mean more. This is why syntax is very limiting in the meaning words can have, even
though the words have many more meanings than the context of syntax allows. For example, in the statement I
made above, one assumes I am speaking syntactically, but still, the context determines the meaning.
If no one knew why I made that statement, one could define “Cows” as, “Female bovines”, in the usual sense the
word is used to mean. If I was watching a nature show on television, about the migration of whale herds, or
elephants and their young, or the moose of Alaska, one could assume I was referring to “Female cows,” different
from bovines. If I was watching an old Western movie, seeing a stampede, one could assume I was referring to,
“Cattle”, in the general sense that one word, “cow,” refers to both genders. If I was watching a show about fat
women trying to beat each other to a 50% off sale table in a discount store, one could assume I was making a
degrading comparison, by being metaphoric. If I was watching a show about people being placed under extreme
intimidation, one could assume I was meaning the transitive verb “Cow”, as “Cow ones”, or “People frightened by
force.” The point of all these possibilities is that these assumptions, based on context, could cause my words to be
interpreted many ways. That number would compound, after the words “run” and “slow” were likewise analyzed.
I have no need, at this point in this discussion, to delve deeper into how one proves Nostradamus to him or herself.
The logic is there, and the logic is solid. What I would like to do now, because after my discussion with my friend a
new thought dawned on me, is make a comparison to what the future of Nostradamus can be compared to, based
on a past known event. By my friend pointing out the valid argument, that: An unknown future cannot be
considered a “prophecy”, or even a “prediction”, if it is not known beforehand; and A prophecy (or prediction)
cannot be too distant into the future, or no value will come from knowing what the future holds, I saw the prefect
answer. That answer is found in the Holy Bible.
I make the comparison to The Revelation of John, when I tell people “generally” what The Prophecies are saying. I
do that because everyone knows The Revelation of John is about the End Times, and the return of Jesus. I do that
to make an instant connection to the divine source, in both cases being the same, the Spirit of Jesus. What I also
add to that general comparison is a statement like, “Unlike The Revelation, The Prophecies is put in understandable
terms, so a specific future is prophesied, once one understands how to read it.” We have entered into the End
Times, and approximately 200-300 quatrains are completely fulfilled, or mostly fulfilled. That which is still waiting to
be fulfilled is being broadcast as a danger to happen, through the various media outlets.
The dawning that I had is relative to my friend’s argument of time limits, which makes his argument relative to the
prophecy that is The Revelation of John. John of Patmos wrote his revelations around 90 AD. Around 30 AD, when
Jesus was preaching, dying, and resurrecting, all with the Disciples, they all believed that the End Times were right
around the corner. When John wrote his prophecy, there immediately appeared to be an urgency to go tell the
“seven churches” that where Christianity had spread. That made John’s prophecy seem to be saying, “The end is
nigh.”
Because the end was not nigh, the Church had to argue with itself, as to whether or not to canonize John’s book. It
was not so much they though John was lying, which held up its being added to the official books of the Holy Bible, it
was the argument, “It is so general in its lack of a specific time when this will occur that it could mean any number of
times.” It is hard having a parishioner ask a priest, “Is this the End Times, father?”, when all the priest can answer
is, “It is best to always be prepared.” Time after time in history, every serious earthquake, rampant spread of the
plague, and invasions by hordes of Huns has been seen as relevant to The Revelations of John. Today, with
Science having kicked the Church to the sidelines, someone saying, “Nostradamus was a prophet like John of
Patmos,” gets nothing but groans.
Let me first states that the, “It is best to always be prepared” answer is a good answer. All of the times that have
been compared to the End Times can easily be defended by assuming the actions taken by the people, led by the
Church, kept a worse ending from happening. No one can prove that defense either way. As such, a prophecy of
the End Times must be seen as completely dependent on realizing the answers to these questions: 1.) Why would
the End Times come?; 2.) What is the purpose of a prophecy?; and 3.) Do all prophecies have to come true?
The answer to number one is, “When everyone has turned their backs on God.” This answer is dependent on
realizing John was first instructed to go tell the seven churches to beware. The essence of the messages given to
John was, “Tell them they do good work, but it is the bad work they do that is the problem.” What that means is the
church plays the all-important role of keeping the people facing God, and not turned away from God. In the times
we are in now, it is “in” to be facing anywhere but towards a church. Therefore, we are in prime times for the End
Times, more than any time in history.
The answer to number two is, “A prophecy is a warning from God to change, or have something bad happen.” I
have written an article about this topic, so I refer everyone to that page in my website; but to sum it up briefly here,
the evidence shown in the books of the Holy Bible show prior warning given. Prior warning means God cares about
the people who say they believe in Him. Since Jesus came and went, He has taken over the role of giving warning,
such that The Revelation of John and The Prophecies are His. Everything in those books say, “It is best to always
be prepared, but if you have turned away from God, better turn back soon.”
The answer to number three is, “A prophecy is from God’s knowing ALL, so it is not wrong.” However, since the
purpose is because God loves His earthlings and wants them to live, it would be ridiculous to think that if God sends
a prophecy then it MUST come true 100%. God let Abraham argue for the miserable people of Sodom and
Gomorrah, when he was told in advance (a prophecy) that nephew Lot needed to move soon, or be annihilated.
The destruction was because of people too sinful to change, but God gave Abraham the chance to hold back on the
destruction, IF five people would change and not be sinful. That means the answer is, “It always depends on the
willingness of the people to realize a warning is valid, necessitating a change of course.”
This means that Jesus found reason to repeat history. He arrived in 90 AD to give John of Patmos a valid prophecy,
albeit a very obscure, metaphoric one, which has had people scratching their heads ever since. Then, in 1555
(maybe back into 1554), 1,460-something years later, he arrived again to give Nostradamus a valid prophecy, albeit
a very obscure, metaphoric one, which has had people scratching their heads for roughly 450 years. The
difference is I have been led to understand The Prophecies, and while others are beginning to see how The
Revelation of John is screaming, “This is it! We are in the End Times!”, The Revelation of John was not really
necessary to fully understand until now. That first prophecy kept everyone in check, because the people of the past
kept facing God, kept believing, and would keep changing to save the world, whenever the slightest danger
appeared. Now, the times are not that benevolent.
The times now are ones in need of a specific, understandable prophecy from Jesus. To make that possible, without
having to appear another time to a prophet, The Prophecies has everything The Revelation to John does not have.
It is difficult to be a non-believer to believe that a “beast with seven heads and ten crowns” is anything other than a
figment of someone’s imagination, bearing no resemblance to reality. Nostradamus wrote in terms that are much
easier to see in a modern sense of reality. When one learns how to read his words, a very detailed and specific
future unfolds, which is there to test, and test, and test. It can be tested just like Abraham tested the prophesied
future about Sodom and Gomorrah. Yep, that one was true, but gosh, where is Sodom and Gomorrah now? All
gone. We do not want that to be our fate.
The problem with all the details and specifics is there are so many of them. The Prophecies are so full of things to
test for accuracy that it is a very time consuming task. That is something EVERYONE (at least everyone I have
encountered so far) is to weak-backed to do. Being logical requires a dedication to searching for the truth, as the
truth is all that matters. It is easier to pretend to be logical, and after talking to my friend for about an hour, he
excused himself and never returned to pick up the topic again. He gave up. For this reason, as much as everyone
likes to talk about the general being too vague, such that anything can eventually match some event in time, given
an unlimited length of time, when told there are specifics, and it is now. Here is the premise, test it for proof is not
what they want to hear. They want the general explanation. “Sum it up for me, in a nice bundle, so I can take it
home with me and keep an eye out for this coming true or not. I’ll get back to you when I find it wrong.”
I wrote a book, The Letters of Nostradamus: Realizing a Prophecy of Jesus Christ, which attempted to sum up
Nostradamus. That “summary” uses the words of Nostradamus, found in two letters he wrote as explanation.
Trouble is that about 50 pages of Nostradamus words (in print) turned out to be about 400 pages of me turning
those words into meaningful sentences. I told that to my friend; but the dawning that I had is there is a simpler way
to sum it up. That summation is through comparing this future we have already entered with times that have already
come and gone. The general story of The Prophecies is nothing new. The specifics only make it possible to see
how the End Time is now.
In a sense, the general story that Nostradamus wrote is like another general story, written of by several authors, as
published in the Holy Bible. The whole of The Prophecies can be summed up as an episode of history repeating
itself, generally alike, yet specifically different. By knowing the result of that general story, one knows the general
result of the story we are living now. This comparison can be summed up as the chosen people of God and the
chosen people of Jesus.
Let us first look at the general story about God’s chosen people, those of the first Covenant. They were the
descendants promised to Abraham, who along with Sarah was childless at the time. One son was born after that
promise, and he had two sons, one of which was a fairly stealthy kind of guy. He did some sneaky thing, and ran
away when caught. If Esau and Jacob were to be compared to Cane and Able, Jacob would be marked like Cane,
for not doing the right things. Still, Jacob was the one who would be told by an Angel that he was no longer Jacob,
but Israel, and his descendants would receive a Promised Land.
Israel had multiple wives, and twelve sons from them. He moved them all to Egypt, after some of his sons sold his
favorite son into slavery there, and a famine came, causing them to go to Egypt for food. Seems the sold son did
well in Egypt, and he missed his family. Well after Israel died, his twelve sons had grown into tribes, which had
remained pure due to their religious beliefs, and not mingling with the Egyptians. They were given their own space,
so they could live separately; but as time went by, things changed, and a new pharaoh made the children of Israel
slaves to Egypt.
It was these people who were led out of slavery in Egypt by Moses. They were given some laws to follow, a special
ark to hold the laws, and then made to spend 40 years wandering around some pretty harsh, barren, and difficult
terrain, to prove they were worthy of receiving a land filled with milk and honey, before actually taking over that land.
The whole time they wandered, all their real needs were met, and God was always with them, keeping Moses posted
on what to do next.
The land that the people had been promised was already occupied, so God’s chosen people had to fight to win and
hold the land. With God on their side, they always won, and they held as long as they faced God, and did not turn
their backs on God. Unfortunately, they turned their back often, always needing some judge to be empowered by
God, so he could lead the people back on track, face God again, and win back what they had lost. The way the
Holy Bible tells this part of the story, one could get the impression that all of the Israelites were frequently rebellious
from God, but the reality is that part of the story was only focusing on the small fires that came up from time to time.
Small fires have to be taken care of, or they become raging infernos.
That system kept working, but one day the Israelites told their prophet to tell God to let them have a king. That was
not a good idea, said God, but like in the Tudor Tortoise (and Mr. Wizard) cartoons of old, God granted their wish
(be careful what you wish for). The king thing did not last long, before the people split into two parts of the land God
had led them to, and helped them keep it. Then, each part called itself a nation, and had its own king.
That fell apart. Both nations ended up turning away from God, thus losing God’s protection of them, which meant
angry neighbors swept in, took the land, made slaves out of the people they did not kill, and ruined life for God’s
chosen people. When some other angry neighbors swept in and killed those who had ended Israel and Judah, they
took those places for themselves. After the Jews (the captives taken to Babylon) returned to their lost land, the land
was always owned and tightly run by foreign empires. All was lost. However, nothing was lost without warning
having been given them first.
God sent warnings to prophets, in both Israel (the Northern Kingdom) and Judah (the Southern Kingdom). The
problem was nobody listened, and nobody believed. In short, God’s chosen people suffered because they lost their
faith, and turned away from God. Still, while in captivity in Babylon, a bunch of repentant Jews figured that if they
began acting the way God meant for them to act, God would give them back their land. God liked that spirit, so He
sent a prophet to promise his chosen children that he would send them a messiah, or a christo (Greek). The Jews
still carry on their end of the bargain made in the first Covenant; because they are still waiting for God to deliver on
that promise (they do not believe Jesus was the one).
With that Old Testament refresher, let us look at how the New Testament is pretty much the same story retold
(generally), only with new names and places (specifics). Jesus is like Isaac, as much as being the result of a miracle
birth to a young (maybe 14-16 years of age) virgin is, to an equally miraculous birth to a 90-year old, barren
woman. Isaac would have two children, the youngest of which would become the source of a nation of priests to the
one God. Likewise, Jesus would spawn two “children”, in the sense that his “body” would be a line of kings, and his
“blood” would be a new religion, named after his distinction as the Christ. This church would be the “youngest”, as
the original churches were Jewish synagogues, with the majority of the congregations of those churches actually
being Jews, who believed their promise from God, foretold by the prophets, was who those closest to him said he
was. Whereas God promised the children of Israel a land of milk and honey, Jesus “promised” the disciples
(eventually) the world. In a sense, Europe became the initial “Promised Land” of Christianity, with Rome the “new”
Jerusalem.
Now, before anyone gets bent out of shape over that concept, let us back up and see another comparison to the
“body and blood of Christ”. Look at the kings, with divine right to rule nations through bloodline to Christ, and the
popes (once those began after the Great Schism), with the divine right to rule nations through a spiritual connection
to Christ, as the division that occurred in the Promised Land, which became two nations, each requiring its own
king. When that happened, God’s gift to his chosen people went into decline. Likewise, after the Emperor of a
weakened Rome had a vision of the spirit of Christ, finding reason to convert to Christianity, and as emperor take
the same position in the church, as pope, the rightful spread of Christianity, as priests for the one Messiah, began to
decline. That decline is still with us today; but as of this point in our story, we have not lost everything … yet.
The story of The Prophecies is exactly like the prophecies the prophets warning Israel and Judah held. It foretells of
a horrible loss, which can be avoided. All one has to do is: 1.) realize we are going the wrong way – we are not
facing Christ, nor facing God, thus we have no divine protection; and 2.) return to being faithful to what Jesus taught
us to do. In other words, we must show faith through belief, and we must act upon that faith through belief that, for
as little as we know what to do, we will be led by the power of God, and anything can be overcome.
The story of The Prophecies is one that had to wait enough time, let enough history go by, so enough of what was
prophesied in 1555 could be seen as too accurate to be by chance. The point of The Prophecies is to prove
reason for faith by complete belief. Knowing the truth of what has happened means truth is telling what will happen,
should we NOT find faith and believe. Further, once we have tested The Prophecies for that truth, we will know
beyond any shadow of a doubt that the prophesied end will come should we NOT act on the faith and belief. The
Prophecies are the proof that God and Christ want us to believe and act accordingly. He has spoken through the
prophets, and Nostradamus needs to be recognized as one.
Now, the friend I was talking with the other day was, admittedly, not a deeply religious man. He may not have any
belief whatsoever. In these days and times, that is understandable. The decline of Christianity, over roughly 1,685
years (since 325 AD), has led us to the point that only 48% of Jews in America believe in God, and only 70% of
Christians, with the largest portion of Christian “non-believers” being Catholic. With a belief rate like that among
believers, non-believers will not want to become believers anytime soon. We are no longer spreading the word of
Jesus. We are going backwards.
We are turning away from God and Christ in droves, which means less and less we have God’s protection. While we
are counting on our technology to make up for the lack of God’s help, we are getting closer and closer to the most
dangerous times in the history of the world. We are in the End Times; and as Nostradamus called it, September 11,
2001 began the clock, ticking down the seconds of mankind’s last hour on earth.
The non-believers love to ridicule believers. Most people believe with no ability to explain why they believe, or even
clearly state what they do believe in. When something like Nostradamus comes up, the non-believers have a field
day with those who believe in him. This is because the believers do not really know what they are believing in. They
are only believing in their own abilities to discern the meaning of Nostradamus, with no ability to discern what
Nostradamus said he meant, and (for the most part) a loathing of the concept that the Holy Spirit was the source
flowing through Nostradamus, allowing his words truly to be prophetic.
The non-believers of Nostradamus love to act like they are logical in their non-belief, but they are really completely
ignorant of what Nostradamus actually wrote. When I tell them how they have to argue Nostradamus from a
perspective of unbiased knowledge, letting the words of Nostradamus explain the words of Nostradamus, … well that
is too much work to take on. They are not prepared to research, study, ponder, contemplate, and use true logic,
reason, and critical thinking to come to truthful conclusions. It is so much easier just to laugh at people who do not
think like they do.
Jesus told the disciples, in their Great Commission, to go out and spread the good news that the messiah had
arrived. They were only to tell that news to those who believed a messiah was promised to them. The disciples
were all Jews, going only to the homes and synagogues of other Jews. In that commission, Jesus also told them to
kick the dust off their sandals, as they left places where Jews did not believe their news. This means that one
cannot expect a disbeliever ever to find reason to test claims as truth. Only believers will accept that challenge, and
even though there were a lot of people calling themselves believers, there was a lot of dust being kicked off
sandals. People say they believe, but if it requires testing a claim that requires they elevate their belief to a higher
level, a lot of believers will be found really not believing.
The true test of Nostradamus falls to the doorsteps of Christians. Nostradamus was a Christian. He was of Jewish
lineage, but a devout Catholic. Nostradamus went into places where people were sick and dying of the plague, not
so much to heal, but to help those in need. After he died, the Church of Rome found reason (illogical) to ban
Catholics from reading The Prophecies, and they tossed dirt on his name for being an astrologer. Today, there are
many people calling themselves Christian, who know the name Nostradamus, and immediately see him as a “false
prophet.” That is a belief based on ignorance, because that belief has kept them from touching the subject, lest
they become infested with belief in false prophecy.
That opinion, while in total biased and close-minded, is in part a good stance to take. Christians believe in the Holy
Bible, and in the pages of that book are warnings to beware false prophets. It even identifies what they will look like,
and how they will act. However, it does not tell anyone to run away from false prophets.
If a false prophet is a false prophet, a false prophet needs to be driven down with proof that the prophecy born is
false. Drive a stake through that vampire’s heart, as the vampire will only suck the living life out of whomever it sinks
its teeth into. Tell Satan to get behind you, where you do not (cannot) face him. Do not run from Satan, because
running is a sign of fear of Satan. Fear of Satan is from having lost touch with God and Christ.
Faith, on the other hand, makes one smile and praise a prophecy from the Lord. “Let me see that thing. Mind if we
run a few tests on it, just to see if it is valid? If it really is from God, and not one of those (ha ha ha, wink) false
prophecies, we want everyone to know what it says. You know, as believers in God and Christ, we would never want
to miss this opportunity. Still, we want you to know that if the tests prove negative, we will have to make everyone
know not to believe a false prophecy.”
Now, I know there are a lot of Christians are out there that are certain that someone, sometime, somewhere, proved
Nostradamus to be a false prophet. Had to have happened, because so many people think he was a false prophet.
Well, the reality is no one has had Christ whisper in their ear, telling them how to understand The Prophecies, the
way they were meant to be understood. That is, until now. No one has yet analyzed them according to logical
systems that make understanding possible. Whatever someone from the past might have declared, it no longer
holds water. To not believe Nostradamus would bring a repeat of history, where Nostradamus becomes our modern
version of Jeremiah.
This is where the fable written by Aesop holds the answer to this dilemma, not knowing if Nostradamus should be
retested. The fable known as “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is the answer. By thinking a cry of a prophecy, one that
tells of an evil wolf coming to eat lost sheep, is false, because one before was found to be false, is when the wolf
does come and eat the lost sheep. In other words, the shepherd (Jesus – the boy- whoever) is guarding over souls,
and testing those souls is just like having regular fire drills in elementary school.
So what if it is a false drill? You get to go outside for a few minutes, breathe some fresh air, talk to some friends, go
back in and no school has burned down. On the other hand, should the alarm bells go off and everyone assume it
is just a drill, or a prank, and try to keep writing on the chalkboard, all while the building is a raging inferno, seeing
news about children dying in a school fire is something everyone and his brother will say, “There is no excuse for
them not leaving when they heard the alarm.” The same applies to the 2010 version of “Nostradamus is a prophet
of God.”
Just as everyone in an elementary school is a soul of God (and in a Christian school, a soul that believes in Christ),
the teachers and faculty are the ones responsible for the safety of the little children of God. Those become the
priests, preachers, pastors, ministers, or whatever name applies to each branch of Christianity. They are the
shepherds whose responsibility it is to cry, “Fire!”, when it is real, and not a drill. Still, they have to always be in
control. They do not want panic to set in. The instructions have to be like, “Everyone, there is a fire. We need to
do everything just like we practiced. Get in single file lines like we have been, walk the path we have walked, and go
directly to the designated meeting place for roll call. Everything will be okay, but we must act quickly and orderly”
Why would it not be any different with Nostradamus? Every religion has places where its scholars do nothing but
study the meaning of holy verses. These should be the ones who would love, and enjoy, tackling such a task,
seeing if they can see the truth of The Prophecies. The problem with that solution lies in the fact that the times have
corrupted the religions.
The schools and seminaries of religions are no longer as dedicated to seeing the value of both faith and acts,
instead choosing to argue over the issues internal to their church, where people are leaving because of societal
changes, and people are leaving because of the church’s reaction to societal changes. Churches have become big
businesses, long ago having lost most of their contact with the Holy Spirit, as least as far as being able to define it,
point to it, and pass it on to others is concerned. The churches have turned into all head, and little heart; and
people with all head have been pouring over The Prophecies for 450 years, with not much to show. Only a little
heart has produced a little glimpse of truth, here and there.
When Jesus last walked the earth as a human being, he had a small band of believers who would follow him
anywhere. That was a “little heart”, but without much mind at all. When Jesus was killed, that heart hid and
quivered. Even after his resurrection, and appearing to the disciples over a forty-day period, performing and
demonstrating miracles and preaching to them, they were dim-witted as to what to do. Jesus’ last instructions to
those disciples was, “Wait in Jerusalem until I have filled you with the power to do what has to be done.” (I
paraphrase) Once those dimwits were filled with the Holy Spirit, the world was changed.
The ability to understand Nostradamus comes when one “receives the spirit.” A little heart goes a long way when
the Holy Spirit breezes into it. One has to believe to open just a little heart.
This means that where we stand today is at a Y in the road. One path sends us down the road that mimics the
history of complete failure, and the loss of everything we hold near and dear. The other path sends us down a path
of renewed righteousness, where just like the disciples, everyone stands up and says, “I believe in Jesus. I believe
in God. And, I am too stupid to know how to do anything right, without God and Christ guiding me. Forgive me for
my stupidity Lord, and save me, so I may help save others with your help.”
Either way we go, we will be repeating history, in a general sense, with new names, places, and order of events
being the specifics. The specifics of the wrong path are what Nostradamus wrote of; and I can swear to you, you do
not want that path to materialize.
knew about Nostradamus, but did not hold any belief that there was anything of value about what Nostradamus
wrote. His whole opinion was based on the argument (one he had heard before), which was, “Everything
Nostradamus wrote was so general it could fit many events in history.” He added, “With no “end time”, as a specific
window of time to see if a prophecy comes true, to limit how long one was expected to believe he predicted into the
future, his predictions could fit any number of events that come to pass, only seen in hindsight.” A subset of this
argument, due to the generality of translation-interpretation, can be stated as, “There will always be like events
occurring throughout time.”
My friend is an educated man. People who apply themselves in the areas of study, are those who are best
equipped to spot questionable arguments and propositions, and handle them appropriately. An inappropriate way is
to immediately call Nostradamus name, or worse, call me names, because I believe something they know nothing
about. An educated person will realize when he or she knows nothing, but they enjoy testing the validity of
something they see as fairly obviously foolish. Rather than make a fool of themselves, they ask legitimate
questions, based on their trained mind’s ability to rapidly find weaknesses. Therefore, my friend made a statement
that is solidly at the core of rational thought for disbelief in Nostradamus.
The reason that can be a valid argument is sometimes people do make general statements, often purposefully
designed to mislead people, because people are known to believe what they want to believe. Tell someone
something difficult to believe in the right way, and people will believe it, simply because they know no better.
Television commercials and politicians do this frequently.
Often, politicians are questioned about specific topics, and their answer is a trained “talking point”, which is so
general it is true, but does not answer the question. People hear the truth because they identify the general to a
specific, and believe that they have just heard some profound statement of truth. In reality, a discerning mind can
logically argue that the politician stated nothing of value, because “everything that was stated was so general it
could fit many times in history”, which has no particular relevance to this specific time now.
I explained to my friend that Nostradamus did not write in such generalities, and that once one knows how to read
Nostradamus this becomes clear. Simply by making this statement, I have stripped bare the argument that assumes
the premise, “Nostradamus wrote in generalities.” If that is found not true, everything based on that premise falls
apart. I countered with a statement that shows: a.) I know Nostradamus; and 2.) I know Nostradamus did not write in
generalities. The onus was then on my friend to prove to me that my premise was wrong; but before I allowed him to
do that, I explained that Nostradamus wrote in a way that the philosophy of Occam’s Razor must be adhered to, to
see how a few words can mean a lot. My friend knew of Occam’s Razor, because he is an educated man.
I have stated repeatedly, in my articles posted online, that even when one does speak in generalities, it is beyond
the scope of reason (logic based) to state that the words of Nostradamus were so general they could mean
“anything.” My friend did not make that statement; but ignorant people use the word, “anything,” particularly when
they try to repeat something they heard or read. They misquote intelligent people, who were using a sound
argument against a weaker Nostradamus opponent.
That choice of words, “anything”, would mean that if I made the general statement, “Cows run slow,” someone could
actually think I said, “Astrophysics advance the refrigeration of lawnmowers.” It is impossible to make the words that
I used have any other scope of meaning than the scope of definition the words I stated bear. That scope has
nothing to do with “anything” I wrote in the second statement. Thus, one can find “many”, or “more than one”, sense
of meaning for, “Cows run slow,” but it does not mean “anything.” The “many”, or “more than one” meaning,
becomes relative to Occam’s Razor.
To sum it up simply, William of Ockham (also spelled Occam) meant, “Less is more.” The more one adds to less,
the less freedom it has to mean more. This is why syntax is very limiting in the meaning words can have, even
though the words have many more meanings than the context of syntax allows. For example, in the statement I
made above, one assumes I am speaking syntactically, but still, the context determines the meaning.
If no one knew why I made that statement, one could define “Cows” as, “Female bovines”, in the usual sense the
word is used to mean. If I was watching a nature show on television, about the migration of whale herds, or
elephants and their young, or the moose of Alaska, one could assume I was referring to “Female cows,” different
from bovines. If I was watching an old Western movie, seeing a stampede, one could assume I was referring to,
“Cattle”, in the general sense that one word, “cow,” refers to both genders. If I was watching a show about fat
women trying to beat each other to a 50% off sale table in a discount store, one could assume I was making a
degrading comparison, by being metaphoric. If I was watching a show about people being placed under extreme
intimidation, one could assume I was meaning the transitive verb “Cow”, as “Cow ones”, or “People frightened by
force.” The point of all these possibilities is that these assumptions, based on context, could cause my words to be
interpreted many ways. That number would compound, after the words “run” and “slow” were likewise analyzed.
I have no need, at this point in this discussion, to delve deeper into how one proves Nostradamus to him or herself.
The logic is there, and the logic is solid. What I would like to do now, because after my discussion with my friend a
new thought dawned on me, is make a comparison to what the future of Nostradamus can be compared to, based
on a past known event. By my friend pointing out the valid argument, that: An unknown future cannot be
considered a “prophecy”, or even a “prediction”, if it is not known beforehand; and A prophecy (or prediction)
cannot be too distant into the future, or no value will come from knowing what the future holds, I saw the prefect
answer. That answer is found in the Holy Bible.
I make the comparison to The Revelation of John, when I tell people “generally” what The Prophecies are saying. I
do that because everyone knows The Revelation of John is about the End Times, and the return of Jesus. I do that
to make an instant connection to the divine source, in both cases being the same, the Spirit of Jesus. What I also
add to that general comparison is a statement like, “Unlike The Revelation, The Prophecies is put in understandable
terms, so a specific future is prophesied, once one understands how to read it.” We have entered into the End
Times, and approximately 200-300 quatrains are completely fulfilled, or mostly fulfilled. That which is still waiting to
be fulfilled is being broadcast as a danger to happen, through the various media outlets.
The dawning that I had is relative to my friend’s argument of time limits, which makes his argument relative to the
prophecy that is The Revelation of John. John of Patmos wrote his revelations around 90 AD. Around 30 AD, when
Jesus was preaching, dying, and resurrecting, all with the Disciples, they all believed that the End Times were right
around the corner. When John wrote his prophecy, there immediately appeared to be an urgency to go tell the
“seven churches” that where Christianity had spread. That made John’s prophecy seem to be saying, “The end is
nigh.”
Because the end was not nigh, the Church had to argue with itself, as to whether or not to canonize John’s book. It
was not so much they though John was lying, which held up its being added to the official books of the Holy Bible, it
was the argument, “It is so general in its lack of a specific time when this will occur that it could mean any number of
times.” It is hard having a parishioner ask a priest, “Is this the End Times, father?”, when all the priest can answer
is, “It is best to always be prepared.” Time after time in history, every serious earthquake, rampant spread of the
plague, and invasions by hordes of Huns has been seen as relevant to The Revelations of John. Today, with
Science having kicked the Church to the sidelines, someone saying, “Nostradamus was a prophet like John of
Patmos,” gets nothing but groans.
Let me first states that the, “It is best to always be prepared” answer is a good answer. All of the times that have
been compared to the End Times can easily be defended by assuming the actions taken by the people, led by the
Church, kept a worse ending from happening. No one can prove that defense either way. As such, a prophecy of
the End Times must be seen as completely dependent on realizing the answers to these questions: 1.) Why would
the End Times come?; 2.) What is the purpose of a prophecy?; and 3.) Do all prophecies have to come true?
The answer to number one is, “When everyone has turned their backs on God.” This answer is dependent on
realizing John was first instructed to go tell the seven churches to beware. The essence of the messages given to
John was, “Tell them they do good work, but it is the bad work they do that is the problem.” What that means is the
church plays the all-important role of keeping the people facing God, and not turned away from God. In the times
we are in now, it is “in” to be facing anywhere but towards a church. Therefore, we are in prime times for the End
Times, more than any time in history.
The answer to number two is, “A prophecy is a warning from God to change, or have something bad happen.” I
have written an article about this topic, so I refer everyone to that page in my website; but to sum it up briefly here,
the evidence shown in the books of the Holy Bible show prior warning given. Prior warning means God cares about
the people who say they believe in Him. Since Jesus came and went, He has taken over the role of giving warning,
such that The Revelation of John and The Prophecies are His. Everything in those books say, “It is best to always
be prepared, but if you have turned away from God, better turn back soon.”
The answer to number three is, “A prophecy is from God’s knowing ALL, so it is not wrong.” However, since the
purpose is because God loves His earthlings and wants them to live, it would be ridiculous to think that if God sends
a prophecy then it MUST come true 100%. God let Abraham argue for the miserable people of Sodom and
Gomorrah, when he was told in advance (a prophecy) that nephew Lot needed to move soon, or be annihilated.
The destruction was because of people too sinful to change, but God gave Abraham the chance to hold back on the
destruction, IF five people would change and not be sinful. That means the answer is, “It always depends on the
willingness of the people to realize a warning is valid, necessitating a change of course.”
This means that Jesus found reason to repeat history. He arrived in 90 AD to give John of Patmos a valid prophecy,
albeit a very obscure, metaphoric one, which has had people scratching their heads ever since. Then, in 1555
(maybe back into 1554), 1,460-something years later, he arrived again to give Nostradamus a valid prophecy, albeit
a very obscure, metaphoric one, which has had people scratching their heads for roughly 450 years. The
difference is I have been led to understand The Prophecies, and while others are beginning to see how The
Revelation of John is screaming, “This is it! We are in the End Times!”, The Revelation of John was not really
necessary to fully understand until now. That first prophecy kept everyone in check, because the people of the past
kept facing God, kept believing, and would keep changing to save the world, whenever the slightest danger
appeared. Now, the times are not that benevolent.
The times now are ones in need of a specific, understandable prophecy from Jesus. To make that possible, without
having to appear another time to a prophet, The Prophecies has everything The Revelation to John does not have.
It is difficult to be a non-believer to believe that a “beast with seven heads and ten crowns” is anything other than a
figment of someone’s imagination, bearing no resemblance to reality. Nostradamus wrote in terms that are much
easier to see in a modern sense of reality. When one learns how to read his words, a very detailed and specific
future unfolds, which is there to test, and test, and test. It can be tested just like Abraham tested the prophesied
future about Sodom and Gomorrah. Yep, that one was true, but gosh, where is Sodom and Gomorrah now? All
gone. We do not want that to be our fate.
The problem with all the details and specifics is there are so many of them. The Prophecies are so full of things to
test for accuracy that it is a very time consuming task. That is something EVERYONE (at least everyone I have
encountered so far) is to weak-backed to do. Being logical requires a dedication to searching for the truth, as the
truth is all that matters. It is easier to pretend to be logical, and after talking to my friend for about an hour, he
excused himself and never returned to pick up the topic again. He gave up. For this reason, as much as everyone
likes to talk about the general being too vague, such that anything can eventually match some event in time, given
an unlimited length of time, when told there are specifics, and it is now. Here is the premise, test it for proof is not
what they want to hear. They want the general explanation. “Sum it up for me, in a nice bundle, so I can take it
home with me and keep an eye out for this coming true or not. I’ll get back to you when I find it wrong.”
I wrote a book, The Letters of Nostradamus: Realizing a Prophecy of Jesus Christ, which attempted to sum up
Nostradamus. That “summary” uses the words of Nostradamus, found in two letters he wrote as explanation.
Trouble is that about 50 pages of Nostradamus words (in print) turned out to be about 400 pages of me turning
those words into meaningful sentences. I told that to my friend; but the dawning that I had is there is a simpler way
to sum it up. That summation is through comparing this future we have already entered with times that have already
come and gone. The general story of The Prophecies is nothing new. The specifics only make it possible to see
how the End Time is now.
In a sense, the general story that Nostradamus wrote is like another general story, written of by several authors, as
published in the Holy Bible. The whole of The Prophecies can be summed up as an episode of history repeating
itself, generally alike, yet specifically different. By knowing the result of that general story, one knows the general
result of the story we are living now. This comparison can be summed up as the chosen people of God and the
chosen people of Jesus.
Let us first look at the general story about God’s chosen people, those of the first Covenant. They were the
descendants promised to Abraham, who along with Sarah was childless at the time. One son was born after that
promise, and he had two sons, one of which was a fairly stealthy kind of guy. He did some sneaky thing, and ran
away when caught. If Esau and Jacob were to be compared to Cane and Able, Jacob would be marked like Cane,
for not doing the right things. Still, Jacob was the one who would be told by an Angel that he was no longer Jacob,
but Israel, and his descendants would receive a Promised Land.
Israel had multiple wives, and twelve sons from them. He moved them all to Egypt, after some of his sons sold his
favorite son into slavery there, and a famine came, causing them to go to Egypt for food. Seems the sold son did
well in Egypt, and he missed his family. Well after Israel died, his twelve sons had grown into tribes, which had
remained pure due to their religious beliefs, and not mingling with the Egyptians. They were given their own space,
so they could live separately; but as time went by, things changed, and a new pharaoh made the children of Israel
slaves to Egypt.
It was these people who were led out of slavery in Egypt by Moses. They were given some laws to follow, a special
ark to hold the laws, and then made to spend 40 years wandering around some pretty harsh, barren, and difficult
terrain, to prove they were worthy of receiving a land filled with milk and honey, before actually taking over that land.
The whole time they wandered, all their real needs were met, and God was always with them, keeping Moses posted
on what to do next.
The land that the people had been promised was already occupied, so God’s chosen people had to fight to win and
hold the land. With God on their side, they always won, and they held as long as they faced God, and did not turn
their backs on God. Unfortunately, they turned their back often, always needing some judge to be empowered by
God, so he could lead the people back on track, face God again, and win back what they had lost. The way the
Holy Bible tells this part of the story, one could get the impression that all of the Israelites were frequently rebellious
from God, but the reality is that part of the story was only focusing on the small fires that came up from time to time.
Small fires have to be taken care of, or they become raging infernos.
That system kept working, but one day the Israelites told their prophet to tell God to let them have a king. That was
not a good idea, said God, but like in the Tudor Tortoise (and Mr. Wizard) cartoons of old, God granted their wish
(be careful what you wish for). The king thing did not last long, before the people split into two parts of the land God
had led them to, and helped them keep it. Then, each part called itself a nation, and had its own king.
That fell apart. Both nations ended up turning away from God, thus losing God’s protection of them, which meant
angry neighbors swept in, took the land, made slaves out of the people they did not kill, and ruined life for God’s
chosen people. When some other angry neighbors swept in and killed those who had ended Israel and Judah, they
took those places for themselves. After the Jews (the captives taken to Babylon) returned to their lost land, the land
was always owned and tightly run by foreign empires. All was lost. However, nothing was lost without warning
having been given them first.
God sent warnings to prophets, in both Israel (the Northern Kingdom) and Judah (the Southern Kingdom). The
problem was nobody listened, and nobody believed. In short, God’s chosen people suffered because they lost their
faith, and turned away from God. Still, while in captivity in Babylon, a bunch of repentant Jews figured that if they
began acting the way God meant for them to act, God would give them back their land. God liked that spirit, so He
sent a prophet to promise his chosen children that he would send them a messiah, or a christo (Greek). The Jews
still carry on their end of the bargain made in the first Covenant; because they are still waiting for God to deliver on
that promise (they do not believe Jesus was the one).
With that Old Testament refresher, let us look at how the New Testament is pretty much the same story retold
(generally), only with new names and places (specifics). Jesus is like Isaac, as much as being the result of a miracle
birth to a young (maybe 14-16 years of age) virgin is, to an equally miraculous birth to a 90-year old, barren
woman. Isaac would have two children, the youngest of which would become the source of a nation of priests to the
one God. Likewise, Jesus would spawn two “children”, in the sense that his “body” would be a line of kings, and his
“blood” would be a new religion, named after his distinction as the Christ. This church would be the “youngest”, as
the original churches were Jewish synagogues, with the majority of the congregations of those churches actually
being Jews, who believed their promise from God, foretold by the prophets, was who those closest to him said he
was. Whereas God promised the children of Israel a land of milk and honey, Jesus “promised” the disciples
(eventually) the world. In a sense, Europe became the initial “Promised Land” of Christianity, with Rome the “new”
Jerusalem.
Now, before anyone gets bent out of shape over that concept, let us back up and see another comparison to the
“body and blood of Christ”. Look at the kings, with divine right to rule nations through bloodline to Christ, and the
popes (once those began after the Great Schism), with the divine right to rule nations through a spiritual connection
to Christ, as the division that occurred in the Promised Land, which became two nations, each requiring its own
king. When that happened, God’s gift to his chosen people went into decline. Likewise, after the Emperor of a
weakened Rome had a vision of the spirit of Christ, finding reason to convert to Christianity, and as emperor take
the same position in the church, as pope, the rightful spread of Christianity, as priests for the one Messiah, began to
decline. That decline is still with us today; but as of this point in our story, we have not lost everything … yet.
The story of The Prophecies is exactly like the prophecies the prophets warning Israel and Judah held. It foretells of
a horrible loss, which can be avoided. All one has to do is: 1.) realize we are going the wrong way – we are not
facing Christ, nor facing God, thus we have no divine protection; and 2.) return to being faithful to what Jesus taught
us to do. In other words, we must show faith through belief, and we must act upon that faith through belief that, for
as little as we know what to do, we will be led by the power of God, and anything can be overcome.
The story of The Prophecies is one that had to wait enough time, let enough history go by, so enough of what was
prophesied in 1555 could be seen as too accurate to be by chance. The point of The Prophecies is to prove
reason for faith by complete belief. Knowing the truth of what has happened means truth is telling what will happen,
should we NOT find faith and believe. Further, once we have tested The Prophecies for that truth, we will know
beyond any shadow of a doubt that the prophesied end will come should we NOT act on the faith and belief. The
Prophecies are the proof that God and Christ want us to believe and act accordingly. He has spoken through the
prophets, and Nostradamus needs to be recognized as one.
Now, the friend I was talking with the other day was, admittedly, not a deeply religious man. He may not have any
belief whatsoever. In these days and times, that is understandable. The decline of Christianity, over roughly 1,685
years (since 325 AD), has led us to the point that only 48% of Jews in America believe in God, and only 70% of
Christians, with the largest portion of Christian “non-believers” being Catholic. With a belief rate like that among
believers, non-believers will not want to become believers anytime soon. We are no longer spreading the word of
Jesus. We are going backwards.
We are turning away from God and Christ in droves, which means less and less we have God’s protection. While we
are counting on our technology to make up for the lack of God’s help, we are getting closer and closer to the most
dangerous times in the history of the world. We are in the End Times; and as Nostradamus called it, September 11,
2001 began the clock, ticking down the seconds of mankind’s last hour on earth.
The non-believers love to ridicule believers. Most people believe with no ability to explain why they believe, or even
clearly state what they do believe in. When something like Nostradamus comes up, the non-believers have a field
day with those who believe in him. This is because the believers do not really know what they are believing in. They
are only believing in their own abilities to discern the meaning of Nostradamus, with no ability to discern what
Nostradamus said he meant, and (for the most part) a loathing of the concept that the Holy Spirit was the source
flowing through Nostradamus, allowing his words truly to be prophetic.
The non-believers of Nostradamus love to act like they are logical in their non-belief, but they are really completely
ignorant of what Nostradamus actually wrote. When I tell them how they have to argue Nostradamus from a
perspective of unbiased knowledge, letting the words of Nostradamus explain the words of Nostradamus, … well that
is too much work to take on. They are not prepared to research, study, ponder, contemplate, and use true logic,
reason, and critical thinking to come to truthful conclusions. It is so much easier just to laugh at people who do not
think like they do.
Jesus told the disciples, in their Great Commission, to go out and spread the good news that the messiah had
arrived. They were only to tell that news to those who believed a messiah was promised to them. The disciples
were all Jews, going only to the homes and synagogues of other Jews. In that commission, Jesus also told them to
kick the dust off their sandals, as they left places where Jews did not believe their news. This means that one
cannot expect a disbeliever ever to find reason to test claims as truth. Only believers will accept that challenge, and
even though there were a lot of people calling themselves believers, there was a lot of dust being kicked off
sandals. People say they believe, but if it requires testing a claim that requires they elevate their belief to a higher
level, a lot of believers will be found really not believing.
The true test of Nostradamus falls to the doorsteps of Christians. Nostradamus was a Christian. He was of Jewish
lineage, but a devout Catholic. Nostradamus went into places where people were sick and dying of the plague, not
so much to heal, but to help those in need. After he died, the Church of Rome found reason (illogical) to ban
Catholics from reading The Prophecies, and they tossed dirt on his name for being an astrologer. Today, there are
many people calling themselves Christian, who know the name Nostradamus, and immediately see him as a “false
prophet.” That is a belief based on ignorance, because that belief has kept them from touching the subject, lest
they become infested with belief in false prophecy.
That opinion, while in total biased and close-minded, is in part a good stance to take. Christians believe in the Holy
Bible, and in the pages of that book are warnings to beware false prophets. It even identifies what they will look like,
and how they will act. However, it does not tell anyone to run away from false prophets.
If a false prophet is a false prophet, a false prophet needs to be driven down with proof that the prophecy born is
false. Drive a stake through that vampire’s heart, as the vampire will only suck the living life out of whomever it sinks
its teeth into. Tell Satan to get behind you, where you do not (cannot) face him. Do not run from Satan, because
running is a sign of fear of Satan. Fear of Satan is from having lost touch with God and Christ.
Faith, on the other hand, makes one smile and praise a prophecy from the Lord. “Let me see that thing. Mind if we
run a few tests on it, just to see if it is valid? If it really is from God, and not one of those (ha ha ha, wink) false
prophecies, we want everyone to know what it says. You know, as believers in God and Christ, we would never want
to miss this opportunity. Still, we want you to know that if the tests prove negative, we will have to make everyone
know not to believe a false prophecy.”
Now, I know there are a lot of Christians are out there that are certain that someone, sometime, somewhere, proved
Nostradamus to be a false prophet. Had to have happened, because so many people think he was a false prophet.
Well, the reality is no one has had Christ whisper in their ear, telling them how to understand The Prophecies, the
way they were meant to be understood. That is, until now. No one has yet analyzed them according to logical
systems that make understanding possible. Whatever someone from the past might have declared, it no longer
holds water. To not believe Nostradamus would bring a repeat of history, where Nostradamus becomes our modern
version of Jeremiah.
This is where the fable written by Aesop holds the answer to this dilemma, not knowing if Nostradamus should be
retested. The fable known as “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is the answer. By thinking a cry of a prophecy, one that
tells of an evil wolf coming to eat lost sheep, is false, because one before was found to be false, is when the wolf
does come and eat the lost sheep. In other words, the shepherd (Jesus – the boy- whoever) is guarding over souls,
and testing those souls is just like having regular fire drills in elementary school.
So what if it is a false drill? You get to go outside for a few minutes, breathe some fresh air, talk to some friends, go
back in and no school has burned down. On the other hand, should the alarm bells go off and everyone assume it
is just a drill, or a prank, and try to keep writing on the chalkboard, all while the building is a raging inferno, seeing
news about children dying in a school fire is something everyone and his brother will say, “There is no excuse for
them not leaving when they heard the alarm.” The same applies to the 2010 version of “Nostradamus is a prophet
of God.”
Just as everyone in an elementary school is a soul of God (and in a Christian school, a soul that believes in Christ),
the teachers and faculty are the ones responsible for the safety of the little children of God. Those become the
priests, preachers, pastors, ministers, or whatever name applies to each branch of Christianity. They are the
shepherds whose responsibility it is to cry, “Fire!”, when it is real, and not a drill. Still, they have to always be in
control. They do not want panic to set in. The instructions have to be like, “Everyone, there is a fire. We need to
do everything just like we practiced. Get in single file lines like we have been, walk the path we have walked, and go
directly to the designated meeting place for roll call. Everything will be okay, but we must act quickly and orderly”
Why would it not be any different with Nostradamus? Every religion has places where its scholars do nothing but
study the meaning of holy verses. These should be the ones who would love, and enjoy, tackling such a task,
seeing if they can see the truth of The Prophecies. The problem with that solution lies in the fact that the times have
corrupted the religions.
The schools and seminaries of religions are no longer as dedicated to seeing the value of both faith and acts,
instead choosing to argue over the issues internal to their church, where people are leaving because of societal
changes, and people are leaving because of the church’s reaction to societal changes. Churches have become big
businesses, long ago having lost most of their contact with the Holy Spirit, as least as far as being able to define it,
point to it, and pass it on to others is concerned. The churches have turned into all head, and little heart; and
people with all head have been pouring over The Prophecies for 450 years, with not much to show. Only a little
heart has produced a little glimpse of truth, here and there.
When Jesus last walked the earth as a human being, he had a small band of believers who would follow him
anywhere. That was a “little heart”, but without much mind at all. When Jesus was killed, that heart hid and
quivered. Even after his resurrection, and appearing to the disciples over a forty-day period, performing and
demonstrating miracles and preaching to them, they were dim-witted as to what to do. Jesus’ last instructions to
those disciples was, “Wait in Jerusalem until I have filled you with the power to do what has to be done.” (I
paraphrase) Once those dimwits were filled with the Holy Spirit, the world was changed.
The ability to understand Nostradamus comes when one “receives the spirit.” A little heart goes a long way when
the Holy Spirit breezes into it. One has to believe to open just a little heart.
This means that where we stand today is at a Y in the road. One path sends us down the road that mimics the
history of complete failure, and the loss of everything we hold near and dear. The other path sends us down a path
of renewed righteousness, where just like the disciples, everyone stands up and says, “I believe in Jesus. I believe
in God. And, I am too stupid to know how to do anything right, without God and Christ guiding me. Forgive me for
my stupidity Lord, and save me, so I may help save others with your help.”
Either way we go, we will be repeating history, in a general sense, with new names, places, and order of events
being the specifics. The specifics of the wrong path are what Nostradamus wrote of; and I can swear to you, you do
not want that path to materialize.
