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REFERENCES


One should put as much effort into reading a book
as the author did in writing it.
Thoreau



The following references are not offered as proof of this writer's conclusions, but as a beginning place for the Bible student's own research. To use; look up Author, Subject or Title in BOOKS IN PRINT, READERS GUIDE TO PERIODIC LITERATURE, MAGAZINE INDEX, Information Retrieval System or the Card Catalog in your public library. The Vertical File will also be useful. Internet search tools available to you will also be valuable.



 

A.   THE FIRST SEAL

          WAR, MILITARY FORCE

               Hot and Cold war



     1.             "World War One" and "World War Two"

                    ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA MACROPAEDIA 

                    Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

                    15th ed., 1988. V. 19, pp. 538-553.



     2.             Divine, Robert A. 

                    EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR  

                    New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.



     3.             Allen, G.

                    NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY 

                    Rosemoor, CA: Concord Press, 1971.



     4.             Skousen, W. C.

                    THE NAKED COMMUNIST

                    Salt Lake City: Ensign Pub. Co., 1961.



          WAR, IDEOLOGICAL

               The Great Delusion, Science Fiction



     5.        "...This myth [of the end of the world] the Cultists have 

               in their Book Of Revelations."

                    Asimov, Isaac 

                    "Nightfall"

                    ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, 1941.



               The Great Delusion, Philosophy, Logic



     6.        The term "sophistry" means "an argument designed to 

               deceive."

                    WEBSTER'S NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY

                    Springfield MS: Merriam-Webster Inc., 1987.



     7.        "Sophistry is not a system of ideas, but a vicious 

               attitude of the mind." 

                    Jacques Maritain 

                    INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY 

                    New York: Sheed & Ward, Inc., 1947, pp. 65-76.



          MODERN SCIENCE, ORIGIN OF 



     8.        "Astrologer-Priests, Priestly-Scribes, Temple schools...

               chaos of primeval waters... gods of chaos."

                    Mason, Stephen F.

                    A HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES 

                    New York: Collier Books, 1962, pp. 15-23.



          GEOLOGY



     9.        "We find no vestige of a beginning." 

                    James Hutton, (father of Modern Geology)

                    Mason, op. cit. p. 402.



               (In other words, "Things have always been the same." 

               2 Peter 3:8-9.)



          BIOLOGY, EVOLUTION



     10.       "The waters contained in themselves the seed of life." 

                    Trans. Gremal, Pierre

                    LAROUSSE WORLD MYTHOLOGY 

                    New York: Putnam, 1981, p. 65.



     11.       "Thales (624-546 B.C.), for example, influenced by tradi-

               tional myths which derived all things from the primordial

               waters..."  



               "Ionian School ...Materialistic Nouism and Evolution were

               taught in 5th and 6th century B.C. Greece."



               "Empedocles of Agrigentum taught that ...eyes and legs

               joined together by accident..." 

                    Jacques Maritain 

                    op. cit. pp. 47-50.



                    Mason, op. cit., p. 32. 



     12.            EVOLUTION OF SPECIES

                    Charles Darwin, (1859) 

                    New York: Norton, 1975.



                    Mason, op. cit. pp. 414-25. 



     13.       "Building blocks of life created in lab..."  Please note:

               These "building blocks of life" were "created" in an exper-

               iment which required planing, design and materials supplied

               by their "creator."  That is, the creator, apparatus and/or

               substances were not selfexistant. If this experiment proves

               anything at all, it is that an Intelligent Being capable of

               forethought AND CREATION EX NILO created everything which

               exists.



                    Jastro, Robert

                    RED GIANTS AND WHITE DWARFS

                    New York: W. W. Norton, 1979, p. 216.



     14.       "...The first living creatures evolved spontaneously [note

               the self contradictory terms] out of the inert chemicals

               that filled the atmosphere and oceans..."

                    ibid, p. 197.



          COSMOLOGY, ASTRONOMY



     15.       "Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, was an astrologer

               and alchemist."

                    George Warfel

                    (Ref's lost.) 



     16.       "...Astronomer Percy Seymour, whose studies reveal that the

               planets do indeed influence our lives."

                    Sobel, Dava

                    "Dr. Zodiac"

                    OMNI,  Dec. 1989, p. 60



     17.            Big Bang Theory 

                    Father Lemaitre, (father of "Big Bang")

                    Jastro, op. cit. p. 77.



     18.            Corwin, M., Wachowiak, D. 

                    "Discovering the Expanding Universe"

                     ASTRONOMY,  Feb. 1985, pp. 18-27. 



     19.            Davis, O. 

                    "Cosmic Creation" 

                    OMNI,  Dec. 1985, pp. 74-9. 



     20.       "Multiple realities..." 

                    Davies, Paul 

                    "The Anthropic Principle" 

                    SCIENCE DIGEST,  V. 91, N. 10, 

                    Oct., 1983, p. 24.





          CHEMISTRY, NUCLEAR PHYSICS



     21.       "New Age of Alchemy..."  

                    Wolkoir, Richard 

                    "Amazing Superstuff" 

                    OMNI  

                    Oct., 1983, p. 110.



     22.       "Success for Alchemy..."

                    Mason, op. cit. p. 50-53.



          FALSE HOPE



     23.       "Earth, after all, may become uninhabitable"

                    Regis, Edward Jr.

                    "Comet Odyssey" 

                    OMNI, V. 6, N. 9, June 1984, p. 54. 



     24.       "A planet wide cataclysm, natural or manmade, could destroy

               the entire human race. But space flight allows us to detach

               the fate of the human race from that of the planet."  

                    ibid, Dec. 1984, p. 22.



     25.       "We will have fled to another part of the galaxy."

                    Jastro, op. cit. p. 57. 



     26.       "No Deus Ex Machina will save them from cosmic 

                incineration."  

                    Rothman, Tony 

                    "This Is the Way the World Ends," 

                    DISCOVER, V. 8, N. 7, July 1987, p. 82.



          BRAZEN LIES



     27.       "Space Beings Here to Save Us While Space Wars Rage"

                    Heath, Anson 

                    NATIONAL EXAMINER, 10 Oct. 1984. p. 33.



     28.       "If Armageddon comes, so will the aliens, swooping down in

               spaceships to evacuate one-tenth of the  population in what

               Christians call "the rapture." 

                    "Story of Spacemen Broadcast By Man"

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN 

                    Tue. 8 May 1984. p. B-2.



     29.       Space Beings Give Man Key to Unlock Cosmic  Mysteries 

                    (Advertizement)

                    SUN, 14 Feb. 1984, p. 26.



          WAR, ECONOMIC

               Capitalism/Communism



     30.       "The borrower is the slave of the lender." 

                    Solomon. 



     31.       "Owe no man anything." 

                    Y'Shua. 



     32.            Allen, G., op. cit. 



     33.            Skousen, W. C., op. cit. 



     34.            Harrington, M.

                    THE TWILIGHT OF CAPITALISM 

                    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976. 



     35.            Glassman, Bruce 

                    THE CRASH OF '29 AND THE NEW DEAL 

                    Morristown NJ: Silver Burdett Co., 1986. 



          WAR, RELIGIOUS 

               Pseudo-christianity



     36.       "We are in serious opposition to the ideology of nuclear

               Armageddon because it is predeterminism  ...it is heresy." 

                    "Reagan Foes Brandish End of World"

                    Washington, (AP)

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN

                    24 Oct. 1984, p. A-13.



                    See "Predetermined" in your concordance.



     37.       "...See them as symbolic depictions of the spiritual 

               struggle between good and evil... Liberal theologians 

               tend to discount them altogether."  

                    "Armageddon and The End Times"

                    TIME, Nov. 5, 1984, p. 73.



     38.            Hunt & McMahon

                    THE SEDUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY

                    Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1985.



     39.            Cumby, Constance

                    HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW 

                    Lafayette LA: Huntington House Inc. 1983.



          FALSE RELIGION, Secular Humanism, (man as god)



     40.       "Ted Turner--flat out, no bones about it--wants to save 

               the planet."

                    Lanham, Julie

                    THE HUMANIST  V. 49, N. 6, Nov/Dec. 1989, p. 5.

               Please note: The question "Will his TV Humanism save the

               world?" acknowledges it needs to be saved and he cannot do

               it. If he could save the world, why the question?



     41.       See Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism, Muhammadism, Christian

               Science, Scientology, Spiritualism, Taoism, etc. 



                    F. S. Mead

                    HANDBOOK OF DENOMINATIONS IN THE UNITED States

                    Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985.



     42.            WORLD RELIGIONS FROM ANCIENT HISTORY TO THE PRESENT

                    ed: Parrinder, Geoffrey 

                    New York: Facts on File Publications, 1984.



                    Gremal, Pierre op. cit. 



     43.            Teen Gives Birth to New Jesus Christ

                    Clifton, L.

                    EXAMINER,  3 APRIL, 1984, p. 35.



B.   THE SECOND SEAL

          THE GREAT SWORD 

               Nuclear Weapons



     44.            Nuclear Weapons

                    Collier's Encyclopedia

                    New York: Macmillan Educational Co., 1985

                    V. 17, p. 713-714.



                    Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Physical, Medical, and

                    Social Effects of the Atomic Bombing

                    New York: Basic Books, 1981.



     45.       "The destructive effects of Nuclear War would certainly 

               lead to the disappearance of human beings."  

                    Pavlov, Alexander S., Director

                    Moscow Scientific Institute

                    (Ref's lost.)



     46.            THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WAR

                    U.S. Office of Technology Assessments, Washington 

                    D.C.



     47.       "Nuclear war would probably destroy human life on earth."

                    U.S.A. TODAY,  9 Dec., 1983, p. A-4.



     48.            THE COLD AND THE DARK: THE WORLD AFTER NUCLEAR WAR

                    The Conference on the Long Term Biological 

                    Consequences of Nuclear War 

                    Carl Sagen, Paul Ehrlich, et. al. 

                    New York: Norton, 1984.



C.   THE THIRD SEAL

          FAMINE 

               "Green house effect"



     49.       "...A famine of Biblical proportions..." 

                    Wilde, James,  et. al.

                    "Ethiopia: The Land Of The Dead"

                    TIME, V. 124, N. 22, p. 65.



     50.            Shephard, Jack 

                    "Africa--Drought of the Century"

                    THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY  

                    April 1984,  p. 36.



     51.            McDowell, Edwin 

                    "Famine in the Backlands"

                    THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY 

                    March 1984. p. 22.



     52.       "They tell story of struggle for daily bread." 

                    Kalette, Denise 

                    "The Foe Is Hunger"

                    U.S.A. TODAY, 30 March, 1983, p. A-8.



     53.            Brown, J. Larry

                    "Hunger in the U.S."

                    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, V. 256, N. 2, Feb. 1987, p. 36.



     54.            Gribbin, John R. 

                    FUTURE WEATHER AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

                    New York: Delacorte Press, 1982.



     55.            "Earthly Belches Perturb the Weather"

                    U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Dec. 7, 1987.



     56.            McCuen, Gary E.

                    OUR ENDANGERED ATMOSPHERE 

                    Hudson, WI: GEM Pub.  1987.



     57.       "Studies released by the E.P.A. and National Academy of 

               Science..."  

                    Golden, Fredric, and Branegan, Jay, et. al.

                    "Hot Time For The Old Orb"

                    TIME, 31 Oct. 1983, p. 84.



     58.            "Volcanic Winter" 

                    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN  

                    V. 256, Feb. 1987, p. 83.



     59.            Accord Sought to Limit Earth's Warming Trend

                    Gettlin, R. (AP)

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN

                    Jan. 29, 1987. p. A-10.



D.   SIGNS OF THE COMING VIALS AND TRUMPETS 

          POLLUTION

               Chemical



     60.       "...Are our rivers and ecosystems poisoned? The Duwamish

               River, Washington, Buffalo River, Ohio, Torch Lake, 

               Michigan... from 30 to 80% of the Catfish have detectable 

               to grossly visible cancers." 

                    "Fish Cancer: An Alarming Signal"

                    SCIENCE DIGEST,  April 1984. p. 30. 



     61.            "The Poisoning of America '85"

                    TIME,  14 Oct. 1985, p. 76.



     62.            "Love Canal: The Truth Seeps Out"

                    REASON,  Feb. 1981.



     63.       "...Trees from Main to Alabama are showing a decline in

               growth." 

                    "Puzzling Holes In The Forest"

                    TIME,  17 Mar. 1984, p. 68.



     64.            "Decline of Eastern Forests Alarms Scientists"

                    Shabcof, Phillip 

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 9 Mar. 1984, p. A-2. 



     65.            "The Creeping Poison Underground"

                    Maranto, Gina 

                    DISCOVER, Feb. 1985, p. 75.



     66.            "Are We close To The Road's End?" 

                    Maranto, Gina  

                    ibid, Jan. 1986.  p. 29.



          POLLUTION

               Nuclear



     67.            "The Lessons of Chernobyl" 

                    Marshal, Elliot 

                    SCIENCE, V. 233, 26 SEPT., 1986, p. 1375



                    See Three Mile Island, etc.



E.        PLAGUES

               Cancer, Polio, A.I.D.S. etc. 



     68.            Beveridge, W. I. B. 

                    INFLUENZA: THE LAST GREAT PLAGUE

                    New York: Prodist, 1977.



     69.            "Poliomyelitis" 

                    ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA MICROPAEDIA, op. cit.

                    V. VIII, p. 81.



     70.            Cancer, A.I.D.S., et. al., See the READERS GUIDE TO

                    PERIODICALS, MAGAZINE INDEX or Vertical File in your

                    public Library.





F.        BEASTS FROM THE SEA 

               Babylon, The United States of America 



     71.            Beckman, Martin "Red"

                    TO SEDUCE A NATION

                    [n.p.]



     72.            Hunt & McMahon, op cit. 



               The Bear, Russia 



     73.       "Gorbachev, the man with Iron Teeth..."

                    See: TIME or U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

                    (Ref's lost.)



     74.            Olsen, Richard E. 

                    KARL MARX

                    Boston: Twane Pub., 1978.



     75.            "Scandinavia: Newest Soviet Target?"

                    Harris, J. A.

                    READERS DIGEST, April 1984, p. 94. 



               The Beast

               Rome reborn, The "United States" of Europe



     76.            "A Plan To Reshape Nato"

                    Kissinger, Henry

                    TIME,  5 MAR., 1984.



     77.            INSIGHT,  V. 4, N. 25, 20 JUNE 1988.



     78.       "Putting Europe back together again... a European 

               Confederation..." 

                    Konrad, George  (Author of ANTIPOLITICS)

                    "A Path Towards Peace"

                    ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Mar., 1984, p. 71. 



               Mark of the Beast



     79.            For Top Level Security, The Eyes Have It

                    Olmos, R.

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 1 Sept. 1986, p. B-4.



     China and The King of the south: watch current events in Asia 

          and Africa.





G.   THE WITNESSES

          Israel: The Olive Tree (God's People--The Church)



     80.       Israel: The Olive Tree (domesticated): Judah 

                    See: Religious, Political and Social changes in 

                    Israel, 1947-67.



     81.       Israel: The Olive Tree (wild, grafted in): The Adopted

               Tribes 

               "In '78 only 27% of teenagers were interested in studying

               the Bible, in '81 that figure jumped to 41%..."  

                    Schumer, Fran

                     "Religious Revival Appearing On College Campuses"

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 15 April, 1984, p. B-1. 



     82.       "Those who went to Church regularly increased from 29% in

               '74 to 64% in 83..."

                    "Religion: Youths Fall More In Line With Parents"

                    U.S.A. TODAY, 28 MARCH, 1984. P. A-1.



     83.       "Survey Finds Clear Indications Of Revival Of Religion"

                    James Kilpatric

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 29 Oct. 1983. p. B-7.



G.        THE BURNING OF BABYLON

               Shadows of the coming event.  



     84.            "Launch Under Attack"

                    Steinbruner, John 

                    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, V. 250, N. 1, Jan. 1984, p. 37.



     85.       "The world will be engulfed by a nuclear holocaust..."

                    John Galtung

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 21 Oct. 1983.



     86.            Armageddon And The End Times

                    TIME,  5 NOV. 1984, P. 73.



     87.            Reagan Foes Brandish End of World

                    Mike Feinsilber, (AP)

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 24 Oct. 1984, p. A-13.



     88.            U.S. Soviets Agree on N-War Doom

                    Phillip Shabcoff, (AP)

                    THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN, 9 Dec. 1983, p. A-20.



     89.            "Nuclear Winter and National Security: Implications

                    for Future Policy."

                    Drew, D. M., Lt. Col. 

                    Air Power Research Institute

                    Air University Press, 1986.





A.   SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS

          SUN



                    "Missing Solar Neutrinos," or "Solar Neutrino Problem"



     90.            I. Peterson

                    "Making Sunshine"

                    SCIENCE NEWS, V. 136, 28 OCT. 1989.



     91.            "Long Term Downward Trend In Total Solar Irradiance" 

                    Willson, R. C., et. al.

                    SCIENCE  V. 234, 28 Nov. 1986, p. 1114.



     92.            "The Shrinking Sun: A Creationist's Prediction, Its

                    Verification, And The Resulting Implications For 

                    Theories Of Origins" 

                    Hinderliter, H., Ph. D.

                    CREATION RESEARCH SOCIETY QUARTERLY, V. 17, N. 1, June

                    1980.



     93.            "The Inconsistent Sun: How Has It Been Behaving, And

                    What Might It Do Next?" 

                    ibid, V. 17, N. 3, Dec. 1980



          STARS



     94.       "The Milky Way is falling..."

                    "The Great Attractor"

                    News Notes 

                    SKY AND TELESCOPE, Aug. 1987. p. 119-20.



     95.       Quasars (falling stars), Universal Black Hole, Exploding

               Galaxies... etc.

                    Watch the Heavens for the latest signs.


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