Last year scientists announced that they were putting the finishing touches to a storage facility which would provide protection for the biodiversity of plant life on this planet in the event of cataclysmic disaster. Buried under hundreds of feet of solid rock on a remote island within the Arctic Circle, the facility has been designed to withstand the ravages of climate change and even thermo-nuclear war. It's been called the 'doomsday vault' and the 'Noah's ark for plants'. But up until now there hasn't been a 'Noah's ark for people', at least not in the worldly sense of the word. Well that may be about to change. Within the next decade, scientists working for the International Lunar Exploration Working Group hope that a 'Noah's ark for people' could be constructed, this time on the moon. The idea is, that in the event that some global catastrophe wipes out civilization, such as an asteroid impact, accelerated climate change or thermo-nuclear war, our civilization could be rebuilt from the information stored in this remote facility.

Quote: ""A basic version of the ark would contain hard discs holding DNA sequences and instructions for metal smelting and planting crops. It would be buried in a vault just under the lunar surface, where it would be tended by robots. Transmitters would send the data to heavily protected receivers on Earth in the event of a catastrophe. If no receivers survived, the ark would continue transmitting the information until new ones could be built.

According to the article, the European Space Agency is already preparing experiments aimed at discovering whether or not plant life could survive in a biosphere on the lunar surface. If their experiments prove successful, scientists postulate that it may be possible for this archive of human civilization to be expanded into a genetic vault of life from earth. Over the past few nights I have been watching the film Planet of the Apes. In the film, four astronauts are sent by the United States of America to begin a new colony on some remote planet. Thousands of years pass on Earth, while for the astronauts who are travelling at near light speed, time passes very slowly. Eventually the astronauts land on what they first believe to be an uninhabited planet, but later discover to be their own planet some 2000 years in the future. The astronauts find that civilization has been wiped out by nuclear war, and that Earth is now governed by a race of highly evolved apes. I enjoyed watching the film. But it is of course heavily influenced by evolutionary and atheistic ideology, as is today's news...

Quote: "Dr Foing says that although there is no evidence that an asteroid is currently on a collision course with Earth, craters on Earth and the moon "indicate that asteroid strikes have occurred often" over the lifetime of the solar system. "The damage to the Earth's environment from a large impact can be catastrophic, with fatal consequences for life. It is widely believed that the dinosaurs went extinct because of such an impact event 65 million years ago. "

I must admit I am fascinated with the idea of exploring the far reaches of the universe and the possibility of travelling to other planets. In my mind, that is a desire God has created within the human heart, to search out all the things that He has created (Proverbs 25:2, Ecclesiastes 1:13). And the Lord has given us the authority to subdue His creation and to take dominion of it (Genesis 1:28). But unfortunately today's news reveals the fallen side of man's nature... a belief that this universe has been created by mindless evolutionary processes, that there is no loving God that cares for His creation, and that ultimately man is in control of his own destiny. These things could not be further from the truth. Man's efforts at self-preservation are ultimately futile, for God is in complete control of world events, and will not let man destroy himself. Men would also rather believe that there is no God, and that that this 'Noah's ark for people' will secure the future of the human race. They will not come to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, the real 'Noah's ark for people', the One Who's side was opened wide for you and me. Of course while God will preserve mankind in keeping His promise to never again destroy the earth with a flood (Genesis 9:16), He will judge this world for its wickedness, and this world and all its works will be burned up (2nd Peter 3:10). Mankind's future does not lie in colonizing the moon or indeed any other planet. For after this world is burned up by fire - following the thousand year reign of Christ (Revelation 20:4), God will create new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness (Isaiah 65:17, 2nd Peter 3:13). Then the saved of earth will be able to enjoy God and His creation for eternity. Life was not created by mindless, evolutionary processes, but life is meaningless when you don't know the Creator. His name is Jesus Christ. Come to Him for salvation today.

John 1:10-12
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:

Source Telegraph

Dubai, the new Babylon?

There are great plans in Falconcity, Dubai - "Falconcity of Wonders". They are planning to build the Dubai Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a Great Wall like in China, Dubai Tower of Pisa, Dubai Taj Mahal, Dubai Grand Pyramid, a neo-copy of the ancient Lighthouse of Faros, and even the Dubai Eiffel Tower. Makes me wonder, if there would be any better places to invest - like a place to live and infrastructure, in those vast, barren areas of the Middle-East, own by Arabs, for all those Palestinians, who now are funded by us poor "EUteers", too? Looking at Dubai today, some even wonder, is this the new Babylon?

However, I fully agree with those Bible scholars, who understand Revelation 17 to be a description of the destruction of Babylon the Spiritual, and Revelation 18 being the cameo of the fall of Babylon the Commercial.

But the ancient city of Babylon, that old town in the area now called Iraq, never completely ceased to exist - although just before Saddam Hussein's rule it had dwindled to a more or less village than a city. As we learn from the history, the city of Jerusalem was also destroyed in full so many times, and so soon it always arose. I firmly believe, that the Babylon of Revelation 18 will be in that same old ancient city of Babylon. Isaiah 13-14 and Jeremiah 50-51 are yet to be fulfilled - as happened with Tyre, Eze. 26. And that very end of Jeremiah 51 expressly speaks about the land of the Chaldeans, and how the book of prophecy, meant for Babylon, will then be cast into the midst of Euphrates; "Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her".

Thus, it is safe and sound to believe, that Babylon will raise again, rapidly - as will the Antichrist, too - and to a mighty splendour, and then it will be destroyed in full, as it has been prophecied, "for in one hour is she made desolate" (Rev. 18:19). The Bible more or less "demands it". And the Babylon the Last will be rebuilt on its ancient site on the Euphrates river. The fact, that the epicentre of the world finance of today, seems to transfer towards that part of the earth, in my opinion shows lucidly, that the world as we know it may not be too far from those events prophecied - and yet to come.

Ge. 11:6: "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

Once again, a new try is on-going. But another, great gathering is advancing, too: "For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Cor. 6:2)

For which kingdom are you building?

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Saad al-Hariri’s Mostaqbal party agreed to a constitutional amendment that would allow Lebanese Armed Forces Commander Michel Suleiman to be elected president. Up until now, Hariri and his March 14 allies (the date of the 2005 Cedar Revolution) had resisted Suleiman’s candidacy; Lebanese democrats are generally loath to have military men serve as President of the Republic, especially after the last nine years of former commander Emile Lahoud’s presidency. But more importantly, Suleiman is Damascus’s number one choice to fill the now vacant spot. 

“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.”
—Isaiah 17:1

So called "doomsday vault" has been constructed deep inside Spitsbergen. Purpose: to hold and save vital crop seeds in case of future doomsday-like event, call it thermonuclear war, an asteroid collision or any other event that might destroy seeds on which our future is based.

The project is sponsored by the government of Norway which subsidises $9 million to create a vault 120m deep inside the rock-solid geological structure of Svalbard, part of which is the Spitsbergen.

The vault will be equipped with dual blast-proof doors, motion sensors, airlocks and walls of steel-reinforced one meter thick! This unquestionably shows that we have something serious here and not yet another survival or cult group play of "buy cans, a gun and hide in the mountains" sort. Apparently not only single units or groups of people believe that something catastrophic may well happen in the future. Even governments seem to take it on a level that by far crosses the typical country preparations for war like: creating fuel reserves, food supplies, shelters, emergency procedures etc. This vault is run by Norwegians but it's meant to be international as all countries willing to participate will be allowed to donate samples of crop seeds that they think are worth securing. And this thing is supposed to hold them safely in an unimagineable timeframe of up to one thousand years! Well, apparently mankind and thus their highly positioned representatives think we are still able and capable of hurting ourselves so much that a catastrophic scenario of extinction can not be ruled out.