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The 10 Days of Awe

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What is the curse of the Sotah woman? How did Yehshua die paying the price of the Sotah woman? What does that have to do with world events today? How is Climate Change connected to the curse of the Sotah woman?

The 10 Days of Awe describes the final ten years of judgment in this final 120th Jubilee Cycle of this 6th millennium (2024-2033). The extreme heat domes around the earth, droughts, floods, cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, and wars are all explained once you understand the cup the Sotah woman must drink, having been suspected of adultery. It is not, and never was climate change or global warming.

When the curses of this temple ritual are implemented, the 10 plagues of Egypt in these last days come to life. Once you understand that the 10 gods that Yehovah attacked in the Exodus are the same ones He is attacking today, but with different names, then world events take on a whole new understanding.

Joseph Dumond’s uncanny ability to understand the Jubilee Cycles of Leviticus 25, along with his understanding of the Holy Days of Leviticus 23 and a huge blessing from Yehovah, revealing these truths to him, has enabled him to correctly predict the middle of the week of the Daniel 9 prophecy. That middle of the week was the year 2020. He has been the only voice warning about 2020 since 2005. You can read about this warning in his other books, The Prophecies of Abraham, Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 and The 2300 Days of Hell.

Dumond began to warn about the next big event, the Abomination That Makes Desolate, which only Joseph Dumond warned was coming in the fall of 2023. He even went to Jerusalem to watch it being built and warned his readers as it progressed. No one else has done this.

The Elijah Trilogy consists of The Restoration of All Things, The Abomination That Makes Desolate, and this book The 10 Days of Awe.

The 10 Days of Awe is going to stun you with historical facts that will upset you with your religious upbringing, but once those facts are seen, they cannot be unseen. The world is going to suffer from famine on a worldwide scale, unlike anything ever seen before. Read this book as fast as you can and share it with others. Time has run out. The Abomination has now been revealed, the 7 Trumpets have begun to sound after which the 7 vials will be sounded out. This truly magnificent and God-inspired book explains where we go, when and who is about to be slaughtered. You do not have time to waste. Order it now and begin to read it the moment it arrives.

The Stones Cry Out Part 1

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When I wrote Stones Cry Out, I wanted it to be one of our FREE books so everyone would have it. It is more of an encyclopedia than a book to read. It will be your quick resource book; you will have access to every question about any calendar, how it got started, and who started it. You will also learn the history of how the Mishnah was assembled, when it was assembled and why. Then, you will learn how that information was transferred into both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud until it reached its final stage in the Mishneh Torah. Along with this progression, the calendar also progressed and changed long after 358 C.E. when Rabbi Hillel first published it. But…what was before the Hillel calendar? What does the Mishnah record about those things?

The Stones Cry Out was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered, demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.

You can know; it is not a mystery.

As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in trying to send out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen, proved to be more and more dangerous over time. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.

Then as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period starting with the Hasmonaeans, up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led into the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, then the Babylonian Talmud and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added is compounded over time.

The Stones Cry Out, Part 1 explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. In understanding these facts, it is then possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were then mixed and later changed. By explaining all this history, I will be able to help you the reader understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, the Hillel calendar to have always been in use since Mount Sinai. Not understanding the history of the calendars is why most authorities dismiss the tombstones as too confusing to use. Once you understand The Stones Cry Out Part 1, Part 2 will be very easy to grasp.

Daniel 7:25 tells us he will change the appointed seasons and commandments. Many assume Constantine did this when he made Sunday the Sabbath. Few have considered the calendar’s many changes and how they relate to us today. Hidden in this proverbial swamp of confusion is the truth about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Sabbatical and Jubilee years reveal the truths about the calendar that have been hidden for almost 2000 years.

We are in the very last days and Yehshua warned us that during this time:

Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.

Mat 24:11 And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.

Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.

Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.

Paul also warned Timothy about these last days, warning that some would leave the truth and begin to follow demonic teachers:

1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

Paul again warned the Thessalonians that the Great Falling away would take place in the last days. How can you fall away if you have never come to know the truth? So who is Paul talking to? Those who are called and answer that calling begin to walk this road of restoration back to Yehovah, and then at some point along that walk, they change and leave this walk following the teachings of demons to false calendar.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

2Th 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.

2Th 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,

2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.

We must endure until the end. We must not let ourselves become offended by personalities and leave the faith once given.

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Philippines Set to be Hit by Fifth Major Storm in Less Than a Month

Tropical Storm Usagi is days away from making landfall, after Typhoon Toraji,

Severe Tropical Storm Trami, Typhoon Yinxing and Super Typhoon Kong-rey

Agence France-Presse

Monday November 11, 2024

The Philippines issued new weather warnings on Tuesday as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago, days after thousands were evacuated ahead of Typhoon Toraji.

Now a weakened tropical storm, Toraji blew out to sea overnight after causing relatively limited damage and no reported deaths.

But Tropical Storm Usagi was now just two days away from the country’s northeast coast, the national weather agency said.

The government said it had evacuated more than 32,000 people from vulnerable areas in the northern Philippines ahead of Toraji’s Monday landfall, weeks after Severe Tropical Storm Trami, Typhoon Yinxing and Super Typhoon Kong-rey killed a combined 159 people.

Most of that tally came during Trami, which unleashed torrential rains that triggered deadly flash floods and landslides. The government did not report any substantial flooding during Toraji’s passage.

Usagi’s 75km (47 miles) an hour winds may start churning big waves along the north-east coast late Tuesday ahead of an expected Thursday landfall, when it is forecast to have strengthened into a typhoon, the weather service said.

“Mariners of small seacraft  are advised not to venture out to sea under these conditions,” it said in a bulletin.

While the government reported no casualties from Toraji, it said about 15,000 people were still sheltering at mainly government-run evacuation centres.

Utility workers on Tuesday repaired damaged bridges, restored electricity and cleared roads blocked by landslides, fallen trees and power pylons, the civil defence office said.

The full extent of the damage to private homes was not immediately known, but 29 towns and cities were still without power even as ports reopened and young people in nearly 600 towns and cities began returning to class.

After Usagi, the weather service said Tropical Storm Man-yi, now near the Northern Mariana Islands, may also threaten the Philippines next week.

About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the archipelago nation or its surrounding waters each year, killing scores of people and keeping millions in enduring poverty.

A recent study showed that storms in the Asia-Pacific region are increasingly forming closer to coastlines, intensifying more rapidly and lasting longer over land due to climate change.

Open Letter to the Leadership of the Philippines

To the Leadership in the Philippines, both religious leaders and political leaders. You are now facing the fifth major storm to hit your nation in one month. Massive flooding, landsides and destruction of property is about to come again. Does anyone ask why?

Your religious people will tell you to pray harder and to be better people. Your political leaders have to rebuild infrastructure, like bridges, roads and communications systems that were destroyed by the flooding, and they have no money to do so. Filipino businessmen lose their inventory and have to start over. They can never get out of the impoverished state, because each time they invest in products and storefronts, another flood destroys it and wipes them out yet again.

Does anyone ask why these disasters keep coming?

In 1521 Magellan brought Christianity to the over 7000 Philippine Islands and you have become one of the most religious nations in the world. You have scriptures on your jeepneys, tricycles, buses, billboards and the sides of buildings. After 503 years, of being the only Christian nation in all of Asia, what has it gotten you?

You are about to have the fifth major storm strike your shores once again and there are four more storms churning off your coasts as I write this note to you.

The Philippines is Southeast Asia’s most disaster-prone country. As of November 11, 2024, they have had 12 typhoons hit the country this year affecting at least 4.2 million people and displaced over 300,000.   The recent typhoons have exacerbated pre-existing fragilities destroying roads bridges businesses and access to safe water and sanitation.

But this is normal. You are accustomed to getting 19 to 20 storms a year destroying lives as they come and go annually.

Does anyone ask why these things continue to happen and why they are getting worse year by year?

I have been coming to the Philippines since 2005. Despite the huge amounts of flooding that have continued to come year after year, I continue to tell you that in 2026, the world will face a drought that is going to be severe and last until 2033.

24 And then I will walk contrary to you and will punish you seven times more for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword on you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant. And when you are gathered inside your cities, I will send the plague among you. And you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight. And you shall eat and not be satisfied. 27 And if you will not for all of this listen to Me, but will walk contrary to Me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you also in fury. And I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. (Leviticus 26:24-29)

This is the 5^th curse of Leviticus 26. The other five have come exactly when they said they would during this final 120^th Jubilee cycle. Famine is coming next!

For the exact same reason Yehovah sent the flood in Noah’s day, He is sending these endless typhoons on you today. Are you and your leaders hearing His voice?

As it was in the days of Noah is a pattern He established for judgment on the world at that time. He then executed judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah at the exact same time in the Jubilee cycle.

God also performed the same judgment in Egypt in the time of Joseph when He sent the famine on the world at that time. Only Noah and his family, only Lot and some of his family, and those who obeyed Joseph survived.

We compare each of those Jubilee cycles in the chart below. Notice the current year you are in the top chart and compare it to the ones below.

God is sending the two Witnesses in these last days, and they will stop the rain around the earth for 3 ½ years. With no rain there are no crops and water sources will dry up. Millions are about to die, and no nation is getting ready. Those two witnesses are expected to begin to work in 2026.

Are you leaders in the Philippines preparing or warning the people telling them to stock up on water? Enough water for them, their family, their animals and gardens for seven years? Do you have enough water for the millions in Manila and all your major cities for those seven years? Do you have enough food stockpiled for a seven-year famine? And again, I ask, what are you doing to stop the next cycle of severe tropical storms from hitting and devastating your country with flooding, wiping out the food you have stored?

God gave the world the Ten Commandments. Most people claim to obey them. It is the fourth one they will not keep. It is the fourth one that commands them to also keep the Holy Days of Leviticus 23 and 25. When the major streets of Manila and all your cities have kids playing in them on the Saturday Sabbath and Holy Days, when the horns and traffic are silent on those Sabbaths, then the typhoons will become a thing of the past; then the floods will disappear; then the landslides will stop; the BIG ONE and the major earthquakes will be a historical footnote. But until you begin to obey, you can expect calamity to follow calamity, keeping you in a constant state of impoverishment, and you now know that famine is coming very soon.

4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged until He has set judgment in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His Law. (Isaiah 42:4)

12 Give glory to Jehovah and declare His praise in the coastlands. (Isaiah 42:12)

The coasts, the islands, the Philippines, the Filipinos, are waiting for His Law to be presented to them. Do not fear. Declare these truths to the people.

5 The coastlands saw and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, and drew near, and came. (Isaiah 41:5)

9 Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you. (Isaiah 60:9)

The Filipinos are waiting for some leader to declare these truths to the people. Once they do this then the nation will declare them to all of Asia and those who are left in the world.

19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape from them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, drawers of the bow; to Tubal, and Javan, to the far away coasts that have not heard My fame, nor have seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations. (Isaiah 66:19)

Where are the leaders teaching the Torah to the Philippines? Who are those courageous leaders doing this in these last days? Be Strong! Fear Not! Tell the people to obey Yehovah.

5 The coastlands saw and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, and drew near, and came. 6 They each one helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, Be strong. (Isaiah 41:5-6)

COP 29 Kicks Off Aiming for Money

The UN has released the following information about Climate change. I am sharing this here not to promote the UN initiative on Global Warming. On the contrary, I am showing you this so you understand what Yehovah is doing and can compare one to the other.

I want you to pay attention. While describing the situation and giving you lots of scientific reasons to back the problems, they blame it all on the industrial revolution and those countries that have been blessed by the wealth from that industriousness. To help fix the climate change problem they want the money from the western nations to subsidize the poorer nations against the changes caused by Global Warming. They want the money, not the solution to the problem which is to obey Yehovah and keep His Torah around the world. Yes, it is that simple.

What Is Climate Change?

Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

Burning fossil fuels generates greenhouse gas emissions that act like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun’s heat and raising temperatures.

The main greenhouse gases that are causing climate change include carbon dioxide and methane. These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. Clearing land and cutting down forests can also release carbon dioxide. Agriculture, oil and gas operations are major sources of methane emissions. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases.

 

 

Humans are responsible for global warming

Climate scientists have showed that humans are responsible for virtually all global heating over the last 200 years. Human activities like the ones mentioned above are causing greenhouse gases that are warming the world faster than at any time in at least the last two thousand years.

The average temperature of the Earth’s surface is now about 1.2°C warmer than it was in the late 1800s (before the industrial revolution) and warmer than at any time in the last 100,000 years. The last decade (2011-2020) was the warmest on record, and each of the last four decades has been warmer than any previous decade since 1850.

Many people think climate change mainly means warmer temperatures. But temperature rise is only the beginning of the story. Because the Earth is a system, where everything is connected, changes in one area can influence changes in all others.

The consequences of climate change now include, among others, intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms and declining biodiversity.

 

 

People are experiencing climate change in diverse ways

Climate change can affect our health, ability to grow food, housing, safety and work. Some of us are already more vulnerable to climate impacts, such as people living in small island nations and other developing countries. Conditions like sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion have advanced to the point where whole communities have had to relocate, and protracted droughts are putting people at risk of famine. In the future, the number of people displaced by weather-related events is expected to rise.

Every increase in global warming matters

In a series of UN reports, thousands of scientists and government reviewers agreed that limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C would help us avoid the worst climate impacts and maintain a livable climate. Yet policies currently in place point to up to 3.1°C of warming by the end of the century.

The emissions that cause climate change come from every part of the world and affect everyone, but some countries produce much more than others. The six biggest emitters (China, the United States of America, India, the European Union, the Russian Federation, and Brazil) together accounted for more than half of all global greenhouse gas emissions in 2023. By contrast, the 47 least developed countries accounted for only 3 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Everyone must take climate action, but people and countries creating more of the problem have a greater responsibility to act first.

 

 

We face a huge challenge but already know many solutions

Many climate change solutions can deliver economic benefits while improving our lives and protecting the environment. We also have global frameworks and agreements to guide progress, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Three broad categories of action are: cutting emissions, adapting to climate impacts and financing required adjustments.

Switching energy systems from fossil fuels to renewables like solar or wind will reduce the emissions driving climate change. But we have to act now. While a growing number of countries is committing to net zero emissions by 2050, emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to keep warming below 1.5°C. Achieving this means huge declines in the use of coal, oil and gas: production and consumption of all fossil fuels need to be cut by at least 30 per cent by 2030 in order to prevent catastrophic levels of climate change.

 

 

Adapting to climate consequences protects people, homes, businesses, livelihoods, infrastructure and natural ecosystems. It covers current impacts and those likely in the future. Adaptation will be required everywhere, but must be prioritized now for the most vulnerable people with the fewest resources to cope with climate hazards. The rate of return can be high. Early warning systems for disasters, for instance, save lives and property, and can deliver benefits up to 10 times the initial cost.

We can pay the bill now, or pay dearly in the future

Climate action requires significant financial investments by governments and businesses. But climate inaction is vastly more expensive. One critical step is for developed countries to support developing countries so they can adapt and move towards greener economies.

 

 

To get familiar with some of the more technical terms used in connection with climate change, consult the Climate Dictionary.

 

Africa is Demanding a Bigger Slice of the Climate Finance Pie

Updated Nov 13, 2024, 7:11am EST

African countries and activists are in Baku, Azerbaijan this week for COP 29 pushing for increased investment in climate-related projects as well as the reform of the global financial system.

Central to the discussions is the setting of new climate finance targets to support developing countries in climate adaptation and mitigation. The proposed “New Collective Bargaining Agreement (NCQG)” is meant to replace a 15-year old commitment by developed nations to provide $100 billion annually to developing countries, which was only achieved in 2022 after years of missed targets.

Reforming the financial architecture to unlock more funds to back clean energy projects also remains a major concern for African participants at the conference. The African Development Bank (AfDB) unveiled a new program to factor Africa’s environmental resources such as using carbon sinks in estimating the continent’s wealth, allowing countries to access greater funds from international markets.

Preliminary estimates by the bank indicate that carbon sequestration alone could have boosted Africa’s nominal GDP in 2022 by $66 billion, a 2.2% increase.

“That means that the countries can have larger headroom to take on more financing and invest them for the greening of their economies,” said AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina in a statement. “Therefore, such a move is important for re-computing Africa’s debt sustainability.”

Developing countries, many of them in Africa, are disproportionately affected by climate change despite accounting for just 4% of global emissions. They also often lack sufficient resources to combat climate change.

 Redistributing the West’s Wealth Won’t Solve Climate Change

The UN climate summit in Azerbaijan, taking place from Nov. 11-22, is happening in the shadow of Donald Trump’s election, and many key leaders won’t even show up. With low expectations set before it even began, the summit will nonetheless see grandiose speeches on the need for a vast flow of money from rich countries to poorer ones. Unrealistic even before Trump’s victory, such calls for trillions of dollars are misguided and sure to fail.

The main problem is that wealthy countries — responsible for most emissions leading to climate change — want to cut emissions while poorer countries mainly want to eradicate poverty through growth that remains largely reliant on fossil fuels. To get poorer countries to act against their own interest, the West started offering cash two decades ago.

In 2009, then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised “new and additional” funds of US$100 billion (C$1,394,418,140) annually by 2020 if developing countries agreed to future carbon cuts. The rich world didn’t deliver, and most funding was simply repackaged and often mislabeled development aid.

This fiasco notwithstanding, developing countries now want more money. In 2021 India stated that it alone would need US$100 billion annually for its own transition. This year, China, India, Brazil and South Africa agreed rich nations should increase their financing “from billions of US dollars per year to trillions of US dollars.” All this was predicted back in 2010 by UN Climate Panel economist Ottmar Edenhofer: “One must free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.” Instead, “we are de facto distributing world wealth through climate policy.”

But it is hard to squeeze billions, much less trillions out of a rich world that has its own problems. Cleverly, campaigners and many developing countries have rebranded the reason for these transfers by blaming weather damage costs on rich world emissions and requesting compensation for “loss and damages”.

Factually, this is an ill-considered claim because weather damages from hurricanes, floods, droughts, and other weather calamities have actually declined as a percentage of global GDP since 1990, both for rich and poor countries. Deaths from these catastrophes have plummeted.

But this rebranding is a great way to increase the ask. At last year’s climate jamboree, politicians agreed

Since today’s poorer countries are going to be responsible for the vast amount of emissions in the 21st century, the real challenge is to hasten the day they can switch to green energy. This isn’t achieved with enormous reparations payments. Instead, governments should focus on spending much less, but much more efficiently, on innovation. Spending tens of billions of dollars annually on low-CO₂ R&D to innovate the price of green energy below fossil fuels will drive down the price of future green energy, eventually making it rational for all countries and especially the world’s poor to switch.

Such a sensible proposal is what politicians should agree on at the UN climate summit. Unfortunately, the global climate process has lost its way. Most of the focus this week will instead be on the need for huge transfers of wealth. These were never going to happen, even before Donald Trump’s election — but now they are utterly unrealistic.

Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus, visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and author of “False Alarm” and “Best Things First“.

National Post

Cop29: 1.5C Has Been Passed – so speed up the green transition

Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge on emissions is an encouraging step at a frightening moment

13:26 EST Tuesday, 12 November 2024

Predictions that this will be the first calendar year in which the 1.5C warming limit enshrined in the Paris Agreement is surpassed provide a stark backdrop to the UN’s 29th climate conference. This year – 2024 – has already seen the hottest-ever day and month, and is expected by experts to be the hottest year too. Addressing delegates on Tuesday, the UN chief, António Guterres, referred to a “masterclass in climate destruction”. The escalating pattern of destructive weather events, most recently in Valencia, is a warning of what lies ahead.

When the 1.5C figure was included in the 2015 deal, it was known to be a stretch. The treaty says countries must hold the average temperature “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels” and aim for 1.5C. Busting this target in 2024 will not mean it has been definitively missed; the measurement of global temperatures relies on averages recorded over 20 or more years. But the crossing of this threshold is a menacing moment. Around the world, people as well as governments and climate specialists should take notice – and act.

Whether temperature data will sharpen minds and negotiations in Azerbaijan remains to be seen. Cop29 got off to a rocky start with a row over carbon markets, which are used by rich countries and businesses to offset their emissions by paying for environmental protection elsewhere. New rules were pushed through despite objections regarding the sector’s history of fraud and false promises. Donald Trump’s victory last week points to renewed conflict regarding the role of the US, not only in relation to fossil fuel expansion, but also institutions such as the World Bank, which must lead on climate finance – and in which the US is the dominant stakeholder.

The fallout from Mr Trump’s election and the political crisis in Germany mean that leaders of several of the world’s richest nations did not travel to Baku. But Sir Keir Starmer took the opportunity to announce an ambitious new climate goal for the UK. Several months ahead of the deadline for updated nationally determined contributions – as the carbon pledges made by governments are known – Sir Keir accepted the recommendations of the UK’s Climate Change Committee and committed to cut emissions by 81% compared with 1990 levels by 2035.

Especially given the poor record of the last prime minister, Rishi Sunak, on climate, this is a significant step from the UK and builds on recent announcements on green investment for which the climate secretary, Ed Miliband, deserves credit as well. There is no doubt that the threat to life from climate disruption is rising – and with it the threat of the political instability that is caused when lives and livelihoods are destroyed, as they have been in eastern Spain.

The priority for this round of climate talks is the financing of the green transition, and the urgent necessity for rich countries to support poorer ones. New taxes on fossil fuel companies

Exo 7:14  And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is hardened. He refuses to let the people go.

Exo 7:15  You go to Pharaoh in the morning. Lo, he goes out to the water. And you shall stand by the river’s brink until he comes. And you shall take in your hand the rod which was turned to a snake.

Exo 7:16  And you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let My people go so that they may serve Me in the wilderness. And, behold, until now you would not hear.

Exo 7:17  Thus says Jehovah, In this you shall know that I am Jehovah. Behold! I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

Exo 7:18  And the fish in the river shall die, and the river shall stink. And the Egyptians shall hate to drink of the water of the river.

Exo 7:19  And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their canals, and upon their pools, and upon every reservoir of their waters, that they may become blood. And blood shall be throughout all the land of Egypt, both in wooden and in stone vessels.

Exo 7:20  And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded. And he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants. And all the waters in the river were turned to blood.

Exo 7:21  And the fish in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

Exo 7:22  And the magicians of Egypt did so with their secret arts. And Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.

Exo 7:23  And Pharaoh turned and went into his house; And he did not set his heart to this also.

Exo 7:24  And all the Egyptians dug all around the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river.

Exo 7:25  And seven days were completed after Jehovah had stricken the river.

Yehovah has warned us that if we do not obey, then He will send the plagues of Egypt on us in the last days.

Deu 28:52  And he shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down, throughout all the land. And he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given you.

Deu 28:53  And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you.

Deu 28:54  The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his sons which he has left;

Deu 28:55  so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.

Deu 28:56  The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Deu 28:57  and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her sons whom she shall bear. For she shall eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in your gates.

Deu 28:58  If you will not observe to do all the words of this Law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD,

Deu 28:59  then Jehovah will make your plagues remarkable, and the plagues of your seed great and persistent plagues; with evil and long-lasting sicknesses.

Deu 28:60  Also, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid. And they shall cling to you.

Deu 28:61  Also, every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this Law, Jehovah will bring them on you until you are destroyed.

Deu 28:62  And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of Jehovah your God.

Deu 28:63  And it shall be, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. And you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.

Today, Pharaoh is represented by Satan, the god of this world. The rivers being turned to blood are easy to see. Looking back over the past seven years, you can see how many of the world’s rivers have dried up. We have reported this to you many times. 2024 represents the first day of the 10 Days of Awe, and this year will be the hottest year on record, surpassing the 1.5 degree Celsius we are supposed to stay below, according to the Paris Accord.

But this first plague alternates between rivers drying up entirely and turning into raging torrents the next year, washing out entire towns. Hurricane Ellen and its devastation in the Carolinas or the atmospheric river that destroyed the Valencia, Spain region a few weeks ago are the latest examples of cases in point.

The second plague has been stirring in my mind since I wrote the 10 Days of Awe. How would the frogs be manifested or recreated in these last days? How was Yehovah going to implement this plague on the world?