Computer Danger

Many of us are wary of handing over our lives to another person, especially in a situation where there is no escape if things go wrong, so when we learn of increased risks in modern air transport we are naturally concerned, and recently there have been too many crashes with enormous loss of life.

Lion Air Flight 610 plunged into the sea off Indonesia because the pilot “lost (the) fight with his software,” Canadian Transport minister Marc Garneau chillingly told a Wednesday press conference announcing the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8.

There was nothing wrong with the basic mechanics of the aircraft: Its engines, wings and control surfaces are all believed to be working fine. Rather, the passenger jet may have killed 346 people for the terrifyingly modern reason that human pilots were unable to override a malfunctioning computer.

The cause of the Lion Air crash — and the suspected cause of the recent downing of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 — is a little-known piece of software known as MCAS, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System.

The 737 MAX 8 has heavier and more fuel-efficient engines than prior editions of the 737, a change which causes the aircraft to pitch upwards ever-so-slightly after takeoff.

Rather than instructing airlines to warn their pilots of this quirk, Boeing simply equipped the MAX 8 with MCAS, a program that would automatically tilt the nose downwards to compensate.

Unaware of this automatic system, which was interfering with normal flight because of erroneous information, the pilots fought the computer until the tragic end.

We have always been led to believe that the pilot can, in emergency take over the manual flying of the airplane, but often we tend to believe that our technology cannot be wrong .  In the final analysis though, the man is to be trusted more than the machine, and pilots should be trained to accept  that responsibility and be provided with a simple switch which places the entire control of the plane back into their hands.

Until this is done and that doing made public, some of us will be doing as little flying as possible!

‘For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways so that the banished one may not remain estranged from Him.’  2 Samuel 14:14.

Migrant Landing an “Act of War”

Italian police have arrested a German sea captain who had rammed a much smaller military vessel which was trying to prevent the illegal landing of 53 African migrants on the small Italian island of Lampedusa. She was led away in handcuffs after her failed attempt to get permission to land  and was arrested for “resisting a warship”, an offence that carries up to ten years in jail.

Italy and Europe have tired of the endless stream of African migrants who seek to force their way into Europe, aided by “human rights” organisations who provide ships which encourage people smugglers to launch groups of African migrants on overcrowded rubber dinghies which have no chance of crossing the Mediterranean.

Unknown thousands have drowned in the process, even as we saw with the boat people attempting to reach Australia and enter illegally, but after rescuing these drifting migrants this captain refused the offer of the Libyan government to disembark them in Tripoli, and instead took them to Lampedusa, nearly sinking the small government vessel in her attempt to force the acceptance of these migrants upon Italy.

The logical conclusion of such acts, were they not to be resisted, would be the end of nation states as we know them, and the orderly  acceptance of genuine refugees in dire need would end. Each nation has the responsibility  to care for  and govern its own people, and if it fails to do this, for any reason, other nations have the right  to decide  how to respond, depending on the circumstances.

Very often  it seems that these are migrants fleeing the results of Islamic violence and war, who seek to bring their dangerous beliefs into Europe, where a peaceful Christian civilisation is already suffering Islamic terrorism. Were it not for the set boundaries of nations, European civilisation as we know it would perish.

Deuteronomy 32:8, ‘When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.’ NIV.

Acts 17:26, ‘From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.’ NLT.

We are going to see an even stronger European response  to this growing problem before long, when the prophesied ‘Beast’ Power emerges in Europe.

The Jews Today

There are Two main cities in Israel, but they could hardly be more different.  Jerusalem is still centred on the old walled city: historical, Palestinian/Israeli, choked with tourists, so ‘religious’ that parts virtually shut down for the Sabbath, and the orthodox Jews make their presence felt with their black hats, ringlets and public praying – reminiscent of the Pharisees of Jesus Christ’s day.

Tel Aviv is humming. Centred on the beach. The Sabbath sees the streets almost empty, but the beach is crowded with sun worshippers, an endless parade of hedonistic, sun bronzed Israelis, macho, muscled IDF soldiers, and still feminine girls, despite their gun toting service in the army for three years. There is no Sabbath on the beach. The musak never stops and it seems half the population is racing back and forth on electric scooters and bikes, some carrying two or three people at highly dangerous speeds.

It used to be that there were 3 kinds of Israelis. The orthodox religious black hats, the liberal religious Jews, and the secular Jews with no religion. Now we are told that a fourth group is emerging, combining a liberal, free and easy approach with a nationalistic bent, almost like the state has replaced their religion, maybe due to their experience in their army. This seemed more evident in Tel Aviv.

In fact, neither city appeals. Christ was rejected in Jerusalem, Matthew 23:37, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”,  and Tel Aviv  has never known Him.

The Jews have been replaced  as God’s chosen people by Spirit Begotten Christians of all races – Spiritual Israelites, Galatians 3:28, ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.’  They are the ones who will assist Christ in the reconstruction of both cities, after the coming Great Tribulation, and in their rule, after Christ’s return, in the future Kingdom of God.

The Dangerous Liberal Left

In a very interesting article in the Jerusalem Post, Maayan Hoffman came out with, maybe without realising it, some very Biblical truths,  quoting from Dr Michael D Evans at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference:      “The Liberal Left has convinced America and Israel [in fact the whole West] that the war on terror cannot be won through military action.” He went on to say that the liberals are “attempting to  fracture even our will to win,” the war on terrorism.

The Liberal Left tactic is better just to talk with people, since we are basically all the same and reasonable at heart, rather than  bring criminals to justice or stop them committing crimes.”

“The Liberal Left kills the soul. The terrorists kill the body,” he said.     “It is very important for you to fight…. the ideological terror war that exists.”  “It exists.”

 

This is essentially the message brought to us in the Bible.  We have chosen sin, helped along by Satan, and it is part of Satan’s plan to bring down the entire West, to undermine any concept of right and wrong, of good and evil,  so that we are simply left  with shades of grey to chose from.

Leviticus 26:18-19, ‘And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.’ (Read the whole chapter to receive God’s warning)

The fact is that we are not all basically the same and reasonable at heart, because  the Koran differs from the Bible and preaches hatred and violence rather than love,  which is why its fruits are so bitter, why the jihadis delight to blow up  men, women and children, and expect to be rewarded  with 70 virgins in Paradise.

The result if we don’t fight, is what we see in Syria and the Moslem lands; a nightmare,  for Satan loves to see humans kill each other. No wonder half the Moslems try to flee to the Christian West!

Why Western Troubles?

In Israel today there is apparently growing concern about the Western assault on Jewish symbols and the rising tide of anti- semitism in the West.

Now it seems that the Star of David  and the Kippah, which Jewish males wear on their head, are not safe to wear in Germany. Angela Merkel has said, “I cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah every where, all the time in Germany.”  But she allowed pro- Iranian protesters to march through Berlin shouting anti- Israel slogans, and waving banners reading “Zionism is racism’ and ‘Child Murderer Israel’.

Why is it that , though a third of the world’s flags contain a religious symbol such as the cross or the Muslim crescent, the star of David is banned in some nations, or unsafe to wear?   No other symbol is unsafe in the West, where Jewish cemeteries are often defaced  and claims are made such as ‘ Israelis behind ISIS’ or ‘The holocaust never took place.’

Why do we see antisemitism growing in the halls of academia, where it masquerades as anti- Zionism, hiding behind the mask of pseudo- intellectualism and creeping into the mainstream?  This rewriting of history attempts to legitimise the case against  a Jewish homeland, and is  finding its way into our parliaments and Congress where it has never been seen before.

Read the book of Hosea to see that God is angry at His people for forgetting Him and His Laws.  Israel (That is, Britain  and the US,  part of the 10 Tribes)  have rejected their God, and Jerusalem holds Gay Pride marches, in their hypocrisy.

Hosea 8:14,  ‘For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples [Islamic mosques etc.]; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.’

Last time in Jerusalem ?

It’s been years since I was here in Jerusalem, actually the largest city in Israel, as well as its capital. I found it hot and rather humid in comparison to winter in Australia.

I  took my first drive out to a village South of Jerusalem, called Tekoa, the hometown of the Prophet Amos.  The GPS in the car took me a long way round through several Arab villages, something the Jews would never contemplate. But when I ended up in a dead end, it was a kind Palestinian who got in his car and led me to the correct route.

Arriving at a Tekoa, it was obviously a Jewish town, though it was surrounded by the West Bank. The comparison was clear: neat, tidy,  trees, shade, no litter or rubbish, and the infrastructure quite Western. I felt sorry for the inhabitants of the West Bank, who had been unable to achieve the same facilities.

In fact Jerusalem ranks as Israel’s poorest city, and I suspect that the 36.5% who are Muslim figure in that number. Christians are just 1.8%. Strangely for a Western county, Jewish women produce an average of 4.3 children and the Arabs 3.3% (2017).  In total 31% are religiously observant.

But here, something new is happening. A new Interior Ministry report shows a significant increase the numbers of the city’s Arab residents requesting Israeli citizenship, up 47%  from 2015. most Arabs are “residents” not citizens. They are entitled to social services and rights like health, National Insurance and employment rights, but do not hold passports or citizenship.

Citizenship brings better jobs, use of Ben Gurion Airport and safeguards the rights of residents of Jerusalem. These new applicants often try to hide it from the Palestinian Authority and Hamas activists, but secretly many of them already have passports.

This trend reflects a recognition that maybe the Arab leadership are making many mistakes. Who would want to live in Syria, or Iraq?  Israel is obviously better, and many Arabs must be asking what could be the cause of those very bitter fruits in their nations?

The Election Lessons

Australia’s election result was epitomised by the shameful, targeted defeat of a previous Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who had become the prime target for his disbelief of man’s responsibility for global warming, and his biblical stance against gay marriage.

Tony Abbott is a rare occurrence among politicians – an honourable man, whose strong leadership made our borders secure, when around the world they are falling. He lives his life  by firm Christian principles, which the duplicitous socialist left 5th columns such as Get Up, abhor, for they hate morality and conservative Christian values, and it has become fashionable to follow them. So, he paid the price for the victory of the silent majority, because the poisonous left spent their time and effort on bringing him down, rather than defending their socialist policies which would have ruined the economy.

What is most disturbing about this  is that the claim that the global warming  is man made is totally false, as are the claims that 97% of scientific consensus backs up man’s responsibility. This figure stems from a survey of peer reviewed science papers conducted by John Cook, a professor at George Mason University in the US.

But actually,  only 34% of the papers  stated a position on the CAUSE          of global warming, and only 33%  (97% of 34%)  blamed humans as the cause.

So that means that in truth,  only one third of scientists lay the blame on man’s activities, two thirds reject that, but how many of those deceived youngsters realise that? The majority of scientists then, recognise that changes in the world’s climate  are quite natural, and have repeatedly occurred.

Common sense also shows that burning coal, for example, only releases carbon dioxide that was converted from the atmosphere by pants and trees long ago.. It only puts backing the atmosphere what came out when the earth was warmer, when all those tees grew, and the earth did not come to an end then, nor will it now.

The prophecies in the Bible tell that this is true, picturing a time in the future when civilisation returns to a truly greener way of life. Isaiah 30: 23-25, ‘Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures. The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder that has been winnowed with the shovel and pitchfork. And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 35:1-2, 6-7, ‘The wilderness and the land will be glad;  the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.  It will bloom abundantly and even rejoice with joy and singing.  The glory of Lebanon will be given it. Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy.  For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water.  In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

So, thanks Tony. You were the sacrifice which brought rescue from certain damage to Australia from the deceptive left.

 

 

 

 

 

Satan’s New Clothes

Have you sometimes felt that we have entered into a different world where there are no absolutes any more, just shifting sands with no bedrock upon which we can stand firm? Or is it just because I have lived a long timed can remember a world where there was right and wrong,  good and evil, where common sense and reality prevailed over dreams,  and  fanciful wishes were just that, dreams best left behind once we awoke.

Nowadays, it seems more and more people live an Alice in wonderland existence  denying even that they are male or female despite the evidence, and demanding the right to be what they are not, and woe betide anyone who dare state the obvious when the drawbacks appear. One woman in Britain who did just that, on line, was quickly arrested in her own home just recently, for refusing to play along with such fantasy .

All the indications are that if Labour wins the coming election, it will become a ‘Hate Crime’ here, to state publicly that you believe the Bible, because of such verses as Romans 1:24, 26-27, ‘Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.’ NIV.

We have already seen marriage and the natural family successfully attacked, so now the left has moved on to thought, speech and religion, and even our children are being brainwashed at school to accept this bizarre sexual juggernaut which threatens the stability of society.

Israel Folau may have broken his contract but he was right to stand up for his beliefs, and to speak out against such evil. In the end we would be held in a tyranny of evil if we did not speak out, and the only winner would be its source, Satan the Devil.

Take Care Australia

It is a tragedy for Venezuela that when President Maduro was about to leave, Russia persuaded him to cling on. Its people are starving, inflation is rampant, and basic medical supplies do not exist. Hugo Chavez, corruption , oppression and economic ignorance drove this oil rich nation into the ground.

But we can learn from those who still support Maduro, whose evil policies to avoid.   They are Vladimir Putin, Communist Cuba, and the source of most of the world’s terrorism, Iran. There are those in the West who backed this evil regime too.

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbin backed Chavez, as did former ‘Greens’ leader Bob Brown in Australia , who encouraged  the following of “a different and better way…”

Lets beware these left wing leaders who would lead their gullible young followers down the path to ruin.

It is significant that their policies are based upon atheist communism, the rejection of God’s Commandments and Laws. Many years ago the ancient Jews turned away from their God, and the result was what we see today in Venezuela, and what we are about to see here if Labour gets its way, when quoting from the Bible will bring imprisonment.

Isaiah 3:1-9, New Living Translation

‘The Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will take away from Jerusalem and Judah everything they depend on: every bit of bread and every drop of water, all their heroes and soldiers, judges and prophets, fortune-tellers and elders, army officers and high officials, advisers, skilled sorcerers, and astrologers. I will make boys their leaders, and toddlers their rulers. People will oppress each other— man against man, neighbor against neighbor.  Young people will insult their elders, and vulgar people will sneer at the honourable. In those days a man will say to his brother, “Since you have a coat, you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of ruins!” But he will reply, “No! I can’t help. I don’t have any extra food or clothes. Don’t put me in charge!” For Jerusalem will stumble, and Judah will fall, because they speak out against the LORD and refuse to obey him. They provoke him to his face. The very look on their faces gives them away. They display their sin like the people of Sodom and don’t even try to hide it. They are doomed! They have brought destruction upon themselves.’

 

 

Change Good into Evil?

Now it is becoming the norm for those with Christian belief to have to apologise or face the sack because their Biblical beliefs are no longer politically correct. We see it more and more in sport and in services where the CEO is homosexual.

We also see it where those who recognise that Islam is a grave danger to world peace because of the Koran’s violent instructions which inspire the Jihadis, now find themselves persecuted for their right to express that danger.

This is a blatant attack by the atheist left upon Christianity and free speech which must be defended by all freedom loving people and parties. The left’s technique is to attach ‘phobia’  to the word homosexual and Islam, but it is not hatred of those people, but what some of them do, which breaks God’s Laws, ie.  sodomy  or murder.

Thus  the left attempts to change evil into good through their political correctness. Isaiah 5:20, ‘Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.’  Berean Study Bible.

What should Christians do in response? Express your righteous indignation by writing to a newspaper in your country and voice your beliefs while you can, or your right to do so may soon disappear!