Yes too bad....I suppose we could always "arm-wrestle"......

Do You Smell That



A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the

doctor walked into the small hospital room of

Diana Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery.



Her husband, David, held her hand as they braced themselves

for the latest news.



That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced

Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency

Cesarean to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.



At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine ounces,

they already knew she was perilously premature.

Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs.



"I don't think she's going to make it," he said, as kindly

as he could.



"There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the

night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make

it, her future could be a very cruel one."



Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor

described the devastating problems Dana would likely face

if she survived.



She would never walk, she would never talk, she would

probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to

other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to

complete mental retardation, and on and on.



"No! No!" was all Diana could say.



She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long

dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a

family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream

was slipping away.



But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for

David and Diana.



Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous system was

essentially 'raw', the lightest kiss or caress only

intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradle

their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the

strength of their love. All they could do, as Dana

struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle

of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close

to their precious little girl.



There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger. But

as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an

ounce of strength there.



At last, when Dana turned two months old, her parents were

able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And

two months later, though doctors continued to gently but

grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living

any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went home

from the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.



Five years later, when Dana was a petite but feisty young

girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for

life. She showed no signs whatsoever of any mental or

physical impairment. Simply, she was everything a little

girl can be and more. But that happy ending is far from the

end of her story.



One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her

home in Irving , Texas , Dana was sitting in her mother's lap

in the bleachers of a local ball park where her brother

Dustin's baseball team was practicing.



As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her mother and

several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell

silent



Hugging her arms across her chest, little Dana asked,

"Do you smell that?"



Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a

thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like rain."



Dana closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?"



Once again, her mother replied,

"Yes, I think we're about to get wet. It smells like rain."



Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head, patted her

thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced,



"No, it smells like Him.



It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest."



Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Dana happily hopped down to

play with the other children.



Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what

Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family

Had known, at least in their hearts, all along.



During those long days and nights of her first two months

of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to

touch her, God was holding Dana on His chest and it is His

loving scent that she remembers so well.



"I can do all things in Him who strengthens me."



This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, He saw me,

and He,asked: "My child, what is your greatest wish for today?" I

responded: "Lord please, take care of the person who is reading this

message, their family and their special friends. They deserve it

and I love them very much"

The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginning, but not its end.



ANGELS EXIST but some times, since they don't all have wings, we

Call them , FAMILY FRIENDS and loved ones.

The Myth Of The 12 World Pyramids



By James Donahue

March 2006



Everybody knows about the pyramids of Egypt. Most people also are aware of pyramid-type structures built by the ancient civilizations that once inhabited the jungles of Central and Northern South America.



But there are other pyramids that exist, some in China, India, and I am told that the ruins of a large pyramid also was found not long ago in the swamplands of South Florida.



In short, large stone pyramids seemed to have existed at one time in the distant past all over the world. Over the years I have wracked my brain attempting to link some common thread to this phenomenon. How could people so far apart be interested in building massive stone structures of the same basic design? What or who motivated them to take on such monumental tasks?



It was almost as if some superhuman entity . . . Lucifer perhaps . . . dropped down out of the sky to visit these people, and then gave them the instructions and the basic blueprint for the structure they were to erect. That the work involved cutting and lifting stones of phenomenal weight, it even may be suggested that there was extraterrestrial help in doing the work.



Psychic and Prophet Aaron C. Donahue has suggested that all of these colossal stone megaliths, including such unexplained mysteries as Stonehenge in England, and the strange heads peering out to sea from Easter Island, were left for the same reason. That reason was to remind us of who we are. We were to remember that we are descendents of Lucifer and that the Earth is our Mother. We were to remember our covenant to care for the Mother Earth so that we, as a people, might live and prosper for a long time.



With that in mind, I was fascinated by some writing I found on the Crystal Links website titled the Twelve Pyramids of Thoth. Thoth, identified as an Egyptian Moon god, claims to be the overseer of the great pyramid of Egypt. He says in this work that the Egyptian pyramid was the last of the 12 great world pyramids to be built.



The first, he said, is located under the ice in Antarctica. The others are in Tibet, Lumeria (a legendary lost continent in the Pacific region), Atlantis, Mexico, Peru, Europe, Australia, Canada, Middle East, United States and finally Egypt.



I believe pyramids, or at least the remnants of what may once have been large pyramid type buildings, have been found in most of these places. I am not sure about Australia but then I believe there are secrets hidden in that desolate land that are known only to the aboriginals. The locations of both Atlantis and Lumeria are either unknown or long disputed.



What interested me was a prophetic message in the information about the Antarctic pyramid. It says this structure is a portal to other planetary systems and its function is to assist in the comings and goings of alien entities who have been part of the history of Planet Earth.



“These entities came to the planet in great spaceships and interacted with hose who lived on the planet, in the water, and below the surface,” the messenger says.



The kicker comes with this: “And when this book is found, the ice shall melt from this place, revealing starships created by this pyramid, left behind as reminders of their work and interaction on your planet.”



That the book is known is a clear indication that if it is ancient, it has indeed been “found.” That we are watching with alarm the global warming reports that warn that both the Arctic and Antarctic regions are melting. Many of us could live to see the day when the entire continent of Antarctica will be exposed, as will all of the ancient artifacts that once existed there.



If a giant pyramid and starship is found there, it will change the thinking of the world forever.

In the borderland between Tibet and China there is the cave region of the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains. 25 years ago, remarkable finds of tablets with writing and hieroglyphics were made there. Several thousand years ago a people whose looks chinese archeologists are only vaguely familiar with, had been cutting phonograph record like stonedisks out of the hardest granite with a set of completely unkown tools. The 716 stonedisks found so far also have a hole in their center just as phonograph records do. From there, spiralling out towards the rim, are double-grooves. These grooves of course are not like sound-tracks but rather the most peculiar writing-system which has ever been found in China and possibly even the world. It took archeologists and scientists over two decades to decipher it. The contents are so fantastic that the academy of pre-history in Beijing didn't want to publish the report of the scientist Prof. Tsum Um Nui at first. Backed by four colleagues, archeologist Tsum Um Nui stated: "the groove-writing tells of aerial vehicles which, according to the stonedisks, existed 12.000 years ago". In one place it says literally: "The Dropa came down from the clouds with their airgliders. Ten times the men, women and children of the Kham hid in the caves until sunrise. Then they understood the signs and saw that the Dropa came in peace this time."


Finds of the Dropa and Kham races have been made earlier already in these mountain caves. Archeologists were and still are unable to ethnologically assign these only up to 4 ft. 4 in. tall humans. There are no similarities with the Chinese, Mongols or Ribetans. One could of course suggest that a few thousand years ago a Kham literate was playing a joke, or that it was mere superstition when he was talking about aircrafts. But then, what does one do about the statement, all sensations excluded, reported in other groove-hieroglyphics of a great mourning about the own airfleet's destruction during landing in the very inaccessible mountains and the lack of means to rebuild it.

Perhaps this is not surprising. If the assumption is made that our ancestors must always have been more primitive, it seems clear that they may never be found, for they may in fact not have been more primitive. The examination of this point is the subject of another Doorway Paper. (18)

17. Fleure, H. J., The Races of Mankind, Benn, London, 1930, p.45.
18. See "Fossil Remains of Early Man and the Record of Genesis", Part I in Genesis and Early Man, vol.2 in The Doorway Papers Series, Zondervan Pblishing Company.


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Henry Field, no mean authority, writing of the Iranian Plateau, pointed out that (19)

. . . as a centre of dispersion Iran has the unique position of being approximately equidistant from China, Java, South Africa, and England, where the earliest human remains have been found.

Ellsworth Huntington, whose theories of climatic influence upon history are not accepted too widely but whose knowledge in this area is unquestionable, has postulated "that during the late Pleistocene times Southern Iran was the only region in which temperature and humidity were ideal not only for human conception and fertility, but also for chances of survival" [his emphasis]. (20)

Griffith Taylor was of the opinion that Western Asia is the true home of man because of the distribution pattern of early and of primitive man. Thus he wrote: (21)

We know that the races were differentiated before the dawn of civilization. Indeed, one result of the study of the distribution of Man is to lead the writer to the belief that the so-called "yellow" or Mongolian type of man is a later product of human evolution than many Western members of the so-called White or European type. . . . .
A series of zones is shown to exist in the East Indies and Australasia which is so arranged that the most primitive are found farthest from Asia, and the most advanced nearest to Asia. This distribution about Asia is shown to be true of the other "peninsulas" (Europe is such a "peninsula"), and is of fundamental importance in discussing the evolution and ethnological status of the peoples concerned. . .
Whichever region we consider, Africa, Europe, Australia, or America, we find that the major migrations have always been from Asia.

Taylor then points out how very similar these early marginal societies were both physically and culturally, and he concludes that "Only the spreading of racial zones from a common cradle-land can possibly explain these affinities" [his emphasis].
The logic of this kind of argument has been denied by anthropologists, but their counter arguments are not very convincing. The distribution of fossil forms is clearly not ideal from the

19. Field, Henry, "The Iranian Plateau Race" in Asia, April,1940, p.217.
20. Huntington, Ellsworth: quoted by Henry Field, ref.19, p.217.
21. Taylor, Griffith, Environment, Race and Migration, University of Toronto, 1945, 2nd edition., p.88.


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evolutionary point of view. Thus, E. A. Hooton, in opposing this view that the more primitive fossils are found farthest from the centre of origin, had this to say: (22)

The adoption of such a principle would necessitate the conclusion that the places where one finds existing primitive forms of any order of animal (including man) are exactly the places where these animals could not have originated. . . . But this is the principle of "lucus a non lucendo" [finding light where one ought not to] which, pushed to its logical extreme, would lead us to seek for the birthplace of man in that area where there are no traces of ancient man and none of any of his primate precursors.

But this is exactly what we may be required to do. There are no truly primitive precursors here, because man had none.
However, while such precursors of man are absent in this central area, this is not at all true of the plants and animals which are now domesticated. One of the greatest authorities on plant and animal life from the point of view of origins and migrations was the Russian scientist N. I. Vavilov, who has since disappeared along with many others who could not wholeheartedly support the government in power. He spent many years tracing back species of plants and animals to their probable "home". A few years ago he wrote an article entitled "Asia: the Source of Species". In this he demonstrated clearly that the majority of those species of cultivated plants and domesticated animals which seemed to have accompanied human settlements from very early times can be traced back to wild forms in this area. He sums up the matter in this way: (23)

The total number of species of flowering plants in the entire world now known to botanists is about one hundred and sixty thousand. These species are not distributed equally over the face of the globe. . . .
The great majority of the cultivated plants of the world trace their origin to Asia. Out of 640 important cultivated plants, about 500 originated in Southern Asia. In Asia alone we have established five of the principle regions of cultivated plants. . . . The fifth region of origin in Asia is the Southwestern Asiatic centre and includes Asia Minor, Trans-Caucasia, Iran and Western Turkmenistan. This region is remarkable, first of all, for its richness in numbers of species of wheat resistant to different diseases. . . . There is no doubt that Armenia is the chief home of cultivated wheat. Asia Minor and Trans-Caucasia gave origin to rye which is represented here by a great number of varieties and species. . . .
Our studies show definitely that Asia is not only the home of the majority of modern cultivated plants, but also of our chief domesticated animals such as the cow, the yak, the buffalo, the zebu, sheep, goat, horse, and pig. . . . The chief home of the cow and other cattle, the Oriental type of horse, the goat and the sheep is specifically Iran. . . .


22. Hooten, A. E., "Where Did Man Originate?" in Antiquity, June, 1927, p.149.
23. Vavilov, N. 1., "Asia: Source of Species" in Asia, February, 1937, p.113.


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As the result of a brilliant work of Dr. Sinskaya, the discovery was recently made that the home of alfalfa, the world's most important forage crop, is located in Trans-Caucasia and Iran. . .
From all these definitely established facts the importance of Asia as the primary home of the greatest
majority of cultivated plants and domesticated animals is quite clear.

Although Henry Osborn wrote some forty years ago [1936], his observations as follows are still fundamentally true: (24)

Both the human and the animal inhabitants [of Europe] migrated in great waves from Asia and from Africa, in the latter case, it being probably that the source of the migratory wave was also in Asia, North Africa being merely the route of passage for the majority of the forms. . . .
The great Cultures and great cultire Races of Europe in pre-historic times came doubtless from Asia. The men who used metals, who owned flocks and herds, and who grew crops -- that is, the men out of whom it was possible to develop modern civilization -- were all immigrants in Europe who had originated and started up elsewhere.

In this extract from Men of the Old Stone Age, Osborn had in mind, not the subsequent migrations in historic times of people who brought new cultural elements, but rather the pioneers who laid the foundations.



3. Population Growth Rate Since the Time of the Flood

Estimates of time periods based on population growth rates are not very reliable. I have seen figures given for the population at the time of the Flood which run from a few hundred thousand to several hundred million. These calculations were based on certain premises which the authors who made them considered quite reasonable. In all such estimates it is these premises which are critical. It is not by any means safe to assume that great longevity would necessarily lead to a greatly accelerated population growth rate, though it seems logical to suppose that it has some effect. For example, a man whose normal life span is seventy years can reasonably expect to begin raising children by the time he is twenty-five, or approximately one-third of his total life span. On the other hand, those who lived to be eight hundred or nine hundred years old began to raise children, according to Genesis,
when they had achieved about one-seventh of their total span of life. This in itself could be expected to lead to a somewhat different population growth rate than is true today.
The number of variables involved is so difficult to evaluate that it seems rather fruitless to attempt any estimate of the number of people who perished in the Flood. On the other hand, the population

24. 0sborn, Henry, Children of the Old Stone Age, Scribners, N.Y., 1936, p.19.


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growth rate since that time can be treated with a little more precision. In the first place, the date of the Flood can be established fairly accurately from the Bible, because there do not appear to be any serious gaps in the subsequent genealogies. Moreover, the span of life soon fell to a level not greatly differing from our own, in contrast to pre-Flood longevity. Furthermore, certain information can be derived from Scripture regarding the initiation of the Jewish people as a distinct family, which is useful here.
In estimating the time required for the evolution of a new species from an old stock, it is quite customary to calculate the number of supposed mutations required to transform one type of animal into another. Allowing so many centuries for each mutation to spread significantly through a population, and multiplying this time unit by the number of mutations, a period is estimated, usually in hundreds of thousands of years, as a minimum within which such speciation could occur. These estimates, based on intelligent guesswork, are given considerable credence. The use of such methods of calculation is therefore considered quite valid.
A similar method can be applied to population increase, and this leads to some interesting results. World census figures are inevitably approximate only. This is obviously true also of mutation rates for extinct species, yet the use of such figures is nonetheless allowed. World War II created some major disruptions in population in certain groups, for which useful figures were available at the time of the 1922 Berlin census. For this review, therefore, the 1922 figures are being used, since they antedate these disruptions. Other contemporary sources give slightly variant figures, but the differences are not serious.
The population of the world at that time was estimated to have been 1,804,187,000. The human race must have doubled itself some 30.75 times to reach this figure.
According to the chronology of the Hebrew text, as interpreted by Anstey -- probably the most dependable and learned biblical chronologer -- we find that some 4,481 years have elapsed since the Flood, or 4,581 years since the birth of Noah's firstborn, at which time we may say in a manner of speaking that the present world population began with two individuals. This assumes for the sake of argument that the present population of the world is to be derived from those who escaped from the ark. Now, by dividing 4,581 by 30.75, we find that it requires an average of 146 years for the human race to double its numbers.
The same census states that the number of Jews was 15,383,815. It is readily admitted that the exact definition of the term "Jews" would be very difficult to ascertain. But allowing for the moment


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that this figure represents the descendants of Jacob in 1922, and using Anstey's date for the marriage of Jacob which he places approximately 3,795 years ago, we find that the Jewish people must have doubled their numbers once every 159 years. (25) We should not expect such figures to be accurate, but the correspondence for the period of doubling is rather remarkable and is surely significant.
Raymond Pearl gives figures which indicate that since A.D. 1630 the population of the world has doubled once every 129 years approximately. (26) He then provides a graph showing this rise from 1630 to the present time, but finds himself embarrassed by the problem of what to do with the curve from that date backward. We have reproduced this graph in Figure 2, but with a slight modification, namely, a vertical line which is intended to indicate the point in time at which the Flood occurred according to Anstey's reckoning. Any attempt to apply the present rates of increase to the world's population, if we place the first human pair some 500,000 years ago, leads to absurd results. In considering this aspect of the problem, Dudley Kirk, like Pearl, is forced to the same conclusion, namely, that the present rate of increase could not possibly have applied in the past. (27)
This may be quite true. It must surely be true if man is as ancient as we are required to believe he is by other lines of evidence held to be valid.
Yet the form of the graph shown here for population since 1630 indicates rather significantly that the curve, projected reasonably until it reaches zero population, would probably cross the vertical line representing the time of the Flood at a point indicating a very small population, thus confirming the biblical records of the early chapters of Genesis. There is plenty of time since then for the settling of the world. History shows that long migrations are made in a remarkably short interval.

25. Anstey, Martin, The Romance of Bible Chronology, Marshall Bros., London, 1913, vol.II.
26. Pearl, Raymond, Man the Animal, Principia Press, Bloomington, Ind., 1946, p.91.
27 .Kirk, Dudley, "Dynamics of Human Population" in Eugenics Quarterly, March, 1955, p.18.


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Kenneth Macgowan has shown that with respect to a Middle East "Cradle," the most distant settlement is in the very southern tip of South America, approximately 15,000 miles. (28) How long would such a trip take? He says it has been estimated that men might have covered the 4,000 miles from Harbin, Manchuria, to Vancouver Island in as little as twenty years. What about the rest of the distance southward? Alfred Kidder says, "A hunting pattern based primarily on big game could have carried man to southern South America without the necessity at that time of great localized adaptation. It could have been effected with relative rapidity, so long as camel, horse, sloth, and elephant were available. All the indications point to the fact that they were". (29)
According to de Quatrefages, 600,000 people made a trip from a point in Mongolia to China during the winter and under constant attack in just five months, covering a distance of 2100 miles;(30) and though this seems to be a staggering trip in so short a time, it actually works out to an average of fourteen miles per day. A. C. Haddon says many long migrations are known to have taken place in the past. (31)

We may sum up this chapter, therefore, by pointing out that there may well have been a very extensive Flood in the area under review; that this area was in many respects ideal for a fresh beginning; that this area may well have been the original home of the majority of plants and animal species which have since been domesticated; that this area was almost certainly the Cradle of Civilization; that from this area has since spread the whole of the world's present population; and finally that the date set by Scripture for the beginning of this movement is not unreasonable although at the present moment modern scientific opinion regarding the age of man hopelessly contradicts it.
We do not need to surrender our faith too easily. It has often happened in the past that some little discovery has completely overthrown a universally accepted theory. This may well happen again with respect to modern methods of dating the past. Rightly understood, all else in the biblical account of the Flood makes good sense. And the existence of world-wide traditions strongly supports the reality of a catastrophe which wiped out mankind still congregated in one area, with the exception of

28. Macgowan, Kenneth, Early Man in the New World, Macmillan, New York, 1950, p.3.
29. Kidder, Alfred, Appraisal of Anthropology Today, University of Chicago Press, 1953, p.46.
30. de Quatrefages, A., L'Espece Humaine, Balliere et Cie., Paris, 14th edition., 1905, pp. 135-36.
31. Haddon, A. C., History of Anthropology, Watts, London, 1949, p.123.




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a single family and a select number of animals and birds necessary for their well-being after the event was over.
In Genesis 7:1 the Lord said to Noah, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark" -- a very gracious invitation to join the Lord who was already there. The RSV has rendered this, "Go thou. . . ." This is not an invitation, but a command. In Genesis 8:16 the Lord naturally instructs Noah to "go forth" after it is all over.

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