Know The Truth Experiment

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Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him (John 7:16-18).

The Key To Knowing Truth

In the above scripture, Jesus gives us the key to knowing the truth, “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the [teaching], whether it be of God…” Then coming to know by doing that [teaching], that person will seek God’s “glory… and no unrighteousness is in him.”

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Giving You the Best Time of Your Life

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The conundrum is that time doesn’t exist; it is a metaphysical concept in our heads. And, I’m not kidding.

TIME? You cannot touch it, feel it, taste it, smell it, or hear it; yet, you feel you are immersed in it. You cannot pull it from the universe; you cannot measure it. What you see on a clock is not time. It is a time interval—how many hours and minutes from midnight, for example, or how many years from the birth of Christ (2022 AD).

How Official Time Came To Be

The following is a taste from my new book: TIME & ETERNITY, THE END-TIMES AND BEYOND REVEALED. I will share a piece of my fascinating personal story of how official time came to be—in layperson’s terms.

Tick-tock goes the clock, and the business of counting the ticks must be the most boring job. Yet, measuring the time interval between ticks has been my career for some 62 years, and it has been far from boring. In fact, it’s been totally fascinating—measuring the time between ticks! A different kind of tick–you hope for a very long time-interval between when you have wood ticks on you from going into the mountains.

Best Definition of Time

The best definition of time I know of is one from my very good friend, Chauncey C. Riddle, who has written the foreword for both of my books and is an emeritus professor of philosophy, “Time seems to be the possibility of change”. This definition is particularly interesting to me because my master’s thesis shares how to optimally measure the change in the time between ticks for atomic clocks, and, in principle, for any timing device.

The fascinating thing is that the accuracy of time-interval has improved by over a billion-fold in my lifetime of 86 years, and it has been far from boring to be part of these amazing advancements. GPS is a far-reaching example.

I believe the Lord gave me the AT-1 time-scale algorithm back in 1968 when I had the responsibility to generate time for the nation (USA), and I thank the Lord for it. Atomic clocks were relatively new and how to characterize them and how to best use them for timing came out of my master’s thesis three years earlier, which I feel the Lord gave me as well.

AT-1 Features

The AT-1 algorithm has some very unique features. Its computed output time is always better than the best clock in the contributing ensemble, and even the worst clock contributes. The readings of all the clocks are optimally combined to provide optimum performance for the output.

The short-term and long-term performance of each clock has a different noise signature. This is accommodated by having a unique filter for each clock optimally estimating both the time and frequency (clock rate) for each at each measurement cycle.

Like with artificial intelligence (AI), AT-1 senses any changes in performance, and each clock’s weighting factor is updated appropriately at each measurement cycle. Any mal-performance is detected in any clock at each measurement cycle, as well, to avoid any degradation in the algorithm’s optimum output, and that clock’s issues are dealt with appropriately.

AT-1 Time-scale Algorithm

With the success of the AT-1 time-scale algorithm, we sponsored the first International Time-Scale Algorithm Symposium. After I retired from the lab in 1992, Patrizia Tavella from Italy’s timing center in Torino took over this symposium. Several countries have shown an interest in the AT-1 algorithm, and I have helped those requesting its implementation; the last one was the State of Israel’s atomic clock system–working with the outstanding folks at NPLI (National Physical Laboratory in Israel).

Dr. Michael Granveaud came to Boulder early on to work with me regarding AT-1, and he went back to Paris and wrote the ALGOS algorithm, which has similar features to AT-1, for the generation of international official world time, which used to be called GMT. In 1972, its name was changed to Universal Time Coordinated. UTC is composed of more than 400 atomic clocks from around the world.

This UTC ensemble of atomic clocks is also calibrated with the world’s primary cesium-beam frequency standards to assure that the UTC “second” agrees with the definition—9,192,631,770 cycles of the photon associated with the ground state transition in the cesium-133 atom.

When I used to send the NBS/NIST frequency calibration value to the BIPM (International Bureau of Weights and Measures), where UTC is generated, I had to correct it by 18 ns/day—due to the relativistic correction needed because of Boulder, Colorado’s, elevation. An ns (nanosecond) is a billionth of a second. Our clocks run faster in Boulder!

The Tell You What Time It Was

Patrizia is a dear friend, and she and her two beautiful daughters came and visited us one time in Fountain Green, Utah. Patrizia became the head of the time-services group at the BIPM, where they generate UTC. They put out a monthly bulletin, and my joke is, “They tell you what time it was!” We wrote a paper sharing how one could have a “real-time” UTC. AT-1 is a “real-time” system—which tells you what time it is!

 Working on Time

For several years of my 32 years working in Boulder, I was one of the USA representatives for the BIPM/CCDS (Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Second). Now it is called the Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF). I recently learned from Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Donley, the Division Chief for the Time and Frequency Division at NIST in Boulder, CO, where I used to work, that Patrizia had asked Liz to chair a new subcommittee for the CCTF on time-scale algorithms.

It seems we have come full circle since I wrote AT-1 fifty-four years ago. I just sent Liz, who is also a dear friend, several of the old view graphs that I used to use as I went around the world telling people about AT-1—in hopes that they might help her in her work with this new subcommittee on-time scale algorithms.

How AT-1 Generates Time

Now, for those of you who have the stomach for it, I can explain in layperson’s terms how AT-1 generates time, as a fictitious software clock. And with suggestions and several improvements by my outstanding colleagues, it is still fictitiously ticking today, for the US of A. When I used to give lectures about AT-1, I would say, “Every clock is wrong; the only clock that is right is the one you define to be correct.”

So, by definition, AT-1 is the only correct clock for the USA, as the computer calculates optimum algorithmic time. If clocks had souls, each one in the USA would desire to be as close in time as it could to AT-1’s time, UTC(NIST).

Why is Every Clock Wrong?

Also, every clock’s reading is wrong because of noise and systematics that affect every clock. By characterizing the noise and systematics for each clock, we can then optimally predict AT-1’s time using that clock to do so. Now, clocks are like people; everyone is different. We can then ask the question—knowing the noise characteristics and its systematic deviations—how well can we predict the time of AT-1 with that clock?

That prediction error can be used to design a weighting factor for each clock in the ensemble contributing to AT-1’s time. If those weighting factors are optimized based on the performance of each clock, then AT-1’s timing and clock rate performance will be optimized, as a logical consequence.

The Best Time In Your Life

Furthermore, if we use artificial intelligence (AI) to sense changes in behavior that may occur over time, then artificial intelligence allows AT-1 to continually breathe toward optimum performance with each measurement cycle.

‘Voila’, we have an optimized time-scale algorithm that will always be better than the best clock contributing. And, as new and better clocks become available for the ensemble, the AT-1 algorithm optimally accommodates them with its output always being better than the best. The performance of atomic clocks seems to be improving without limit. So now, you have the BEST TIME IN YOUR LIFE! And, you didn’t even know it!

We Were Doing Our Job

I have received many awards for my work over the years. But my thoughts go to Tom Hanks’s lines in the movie “Sully,” where Clint Eastwood does an incredible job of documenting Flight 1549’s forced water landing on the Hudson River on the 15th of January, 2009. Captain Sullenberger, following a bird strike–taking out both engines—miraculously landed the Air Bus on the Hudson River.

He was made a hero as all 155 people on board survived and very few were injured. Tom Hanks, acting for Sully, says, “I don’t feel like a hero… We were a team.” He tells his co-pilot, “We were doing our job!” That is how I have felt over my career path and still feel. I love to use my time and talents to serve to always, hopefully, make the world a better place.

God Is Good

The Lord has blessed me greatly in my efforts to do so, and I am incredibly thankful to Him and to the wonderful people with whom I have been privileged to work, and for the support, I have received from my wonderful family and friends. God is good; sooooooooo good. His perfect and infinite love for each of us is manifest in every direction—most especially with the gift of His Beloved Son, who perfected the Father’s perfect plan of happiness with His infinite atonement.

Where We Are in God’s Time

In my new book, I discuss the great importance of knowing where we are in God’s TIME, which is not the human-kind of time—like AT-1. We live in the most exciting time in the history of the earth, as we live in the “End-times.” And we have the fascinating prophecy, “…that there should be time no longer” (Rev. 10:6).

I explain the great significance of that prophecy in my book, as we move forward in God’s TIME, “One-eternal-round,” and a grand celestial chiasmus. I hope you will join me to know the Lord, and His infinite love for each of us, and His timing!

Now that you know that you live in the “best time” ever, use it to be Christ-centered–to live and share His message of gladness as we prepare for His Glorious Second Coming. With that hope in our hearts, we don’t have to fear tomorrow, as the world spirals down in wickedness. Trusting in Him and doing His will makes all the difference.

David W. Allan

Time And Eternity – End Times Revealed

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David W AllanI am pleased to have finished my new book, Time & Eternity –  End-Times & Beyond Revealed. I have just sent a draft off to my son-in-law, Kevn Lambson, to format. He did a super job with my first book, It’s About Time, which was the forerunner to this blog site,  Its AboutTimeBook.com  Kevn may help me with the audio version as well. He has a great voice. We are hoping to have both ready this fall.

The contents of the book are how to best prepare for the Lord’s Coming. It is a book of hope and gives insights into God’s infinite love for each of His Children, as manifest in His perfect plan of happiness. Below is a  draft of the information that will be on the back cover of the new book, which will be written by my publisher, Boyd Tuttle.

Draft  of the BACK COVER

David W. Allan, the praying physicist, does his science with the help of the Lord, and what he has accomplished with the Lord’s help is amazing. In his meek and humble demeanor, he gives credit to the Lord for what has come forth from his hands, and he feels enormously blessed as well to have enjoyed—even now in his 86th year of orbiting the sun—the association of outstanding colleagues, who have contributed to his work and still seek his counsel.

He learned with his master’s thesis at the University of Colorado to trust in the Lord, which gave birth to the Allan variance. His message to us is, “We may not know the future, but the Lord does. To do His will makes all the difference.” If you Google “Allan variance” you will get about forty-five million hits.  And, the “Allan Variance” usefulness is still growing.

He has over 130,000 visits to his book’s website: www.ItsAboutTimeBook.com, from over a hundred nations, and it is ever increasing. Over a thousand people have based their research and Ph.D. theses on his work.

Allan has given lectures across the world, and his master’s thesis is the most cited publication to ever come out of the Department of Commerce, where he worked for thirty-two years, and his career has a long list of other exciting inventions, which he credits to the Lord. The variances he and his colleagues have developed allow one to see and characterize the different spectral-noise colors in nature that were not appreciated before.

Historically, time was determined astronomically. But then the length of the “second” was redefined in 1967 from astronomical to atomic. In 1968, Allan wrote the algorithm, AT-1, to optimally combine the readings of an ensemble of atomic clocks to generate official time for the USA, and with improvements by colleagues, AT-1 is still “ticking” today.

The “Allan variance” was used to characterize the atomic clocks to make GPS as accurate as it is. Time accuracy has improved a billionfold in Allan’s lifetime, and his contributions are significant. The output of his AT-1 algorithm is always better than the best clock in the atomic clocks contributing to the ensemble and optimally combines all their time readings.

In 2011 the international telecom community gave him the “Time Lord” award in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2015, the International Navigation community asked him to write and give a paper, as well as chair a panel in St. Petersburg, Russia, because of the importance of the Modified Allan variance for navigation.

In 2016 the IEEE/UFFC gave him their highest award with the citation, “For [his] seminal [work]…” In 2018, the IEEE, which has the largest scientific papers archive in the world, made an oral history of his life: https://ethw.org/Oral History: David_W._Allan. In 2021, they made him an IEEE Fellow.

Now, the Lord has impressed upon him to write another book: TIME AND ETERNITY, THE END-TIMES AND BEYOND REVEALED. This book could be a “game changer” in helping people prepare for the Lord’s coming. His insights and perspectives are clearly inspired and of great worth.

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David W. Allan

P.S.  My goal is simple, “Help the people of the world know of God’s infinite love and of His perfect plan of happiness in the midst of all our imperfections, and to be of service to you.” I have come to know that the  most important unit in time and eternity is FAMILY. My greatest blessings are to have a wonderful family and to know the Creator of it all. He has taught me how to be a creator and I rejoice in HIs infinite love. I believe one of my most important proofs is validating the scriptures scientifically. And, LDS Living picked up on it as well. Both of my books treat this important topic as well to counter the growing atheism in the world.

A discount price is available for my new book on the book’s preorder page.

Game Changer – The Lord’s View

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My incredibly challenging goal is to try and look through the Lord’s eyes at His beyond-description perfect plan of happiness and the beyond-comprehension promises He has for His children. While the world seems to be spiraling down, I believe the Lord’s people are spiraling up in preparation for his glorious reign as King of kings and Lord of lords.

Modern Theories Are Leading Us Astray

Most people of the world are looking to science for answers. For me, much of modern science is in the “dark ages.” While technology and technological developments have skyrocketed, modern science theories are leading us astray.

Their model of how life came to be is based on the theory of organic evolution. Which has been proven false. Modern cosmology assumes the “Big Bang” theory is how the universe came into being. That theory has been proven false, as well.

We learned in our research on the Unified Field Theory (UFT) in 1999-2005 with seven experiments that science was missing key ingredients in the Lord’s physics. It was exciting to get a taste of those in our research. We learned of a fifth dimension, which we called the Eternity domain, where God and His angels do their work of bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of Father’s children. We also learned of diallel-field lines, which, among other things, tie into an infinite store of energy and explain our prayer channel to God.

Repent and Be Converted

The people of the world worry about saving the world. The Lord’s main focus is on saving souls, which should be our primary focus as well. As the Apostle Peter boldly proclaimed, “Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19).

Dr. Avraham Gileadi, who is our church’s best expert on Isaiah has written a new book, Modern Idolatry and the End of the World. In summary, whenever we voluntarily put anything above God, it is idolatry, and the world is full of this happening in every direction, as Satan knows it is his last chance before the Lord Comes to deceive and blind the masses.

You can find a lot more detail on Abraham’s website, Isaiah Institute. He has a very insightful article (May 7, 2022) where Isaiah describes the sins of our day that is well worth reading and pondering.

My view is that idolatry is rampant. The world is more about things, being entertained, sports, computer games, and making money than praising and honoring our infinitely loving God. My personal goal is to honor Him in everything I do.

The Work of Nicola Tesla

An important current technological perspective can be gained from Nicola Tesla’s experiments showing electrical energy transfer at a distance. I have all of Tesla’s patents, and I studied his work when we were doing our UFT experiments. They were very helpful. Very few Americans have picked up on Tesla’s work; however, the Russians have done some experiments that indicate they have technologies resembling Tesla’s–causing fires and earthquakes and destroying weapons, all at a distance.

Putin Holds The Trump Card

I heard a talk by Vladimir Putin, where he shared that he learned on the streets of Moscow to always try and avoid a fight, but if a fight is inevitable, then get the first blow. I know quite a bit about their technology capabilities – having written chapters in a book about their capabilities. I have been there four times over 30 years to give talks, and the last two were invited. I have witnessed massive changes. The number of Christians per capita has increased dramatically. I have learned that all Twelve Tribes of the House of Israel are in their patriarchal blessings. They are, in part, the prophesied Assyrian assault that will attack America, if we don’t repent, but Zion will stand (Isa. 10:24). I think Putin holds the “trump card,” and he knows it.

A Purging is Coming

Many fear what they see as troubling times ahead—given the world situation, and indeed, a purging is coming, but the degree depends on our repentance. Our only hope is in Christ. It is so important that we take inventory to see if we are caught up in any degree of idolatrous activities and the sins of Babylon, which are so pervasive. Hugh Nibley aptly says, “You cannot have one toe in Babylon and have Zion!”

A Game Changer

My new book is about hope and coming to taste God’s infinite love for each of us in His perfect plan of happiness and knowing how to plan for the future. I believe my book, when it gets published this fall, will be a game changer, as you come to learn and see what I have come to learn and see as I have done the research for it–how to prepare for the days ahead and to know what is coming. It is my prayer that you will be greatly benefited by the book’s contents; it is loaded. We live in the most exciting time in the history of the earth. We have every reason to hope for a bright future as we better come to understand His Perfect Plan—filled with love for each of us. The purging ahead is a preparation for a very bright future in that perfect plan. If we are prepared, we will not fear (D&C 38:30), but have hope and God’s love in our hearts.

David W. Allan

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James Edwin Webb Space Telescope

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A new space telescope was launched on Christmas Day 2021. It is NASA’s largest and most powerful space science telescope since Hubble launched on April 24, 1990, and the largest in the world. The first images from the James Edwin Webb massive telescope were released on July 11th, 2022, and are giving us magnificent images.

 James Webb Space Telescope

The new telescope is named after the former NASA director during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, which put the first man on the moon. They nearly didn’t name it after him because during his leadership a large number of gays were fired from NASA. Correlation doesn’t provide validation, and later investigations declared that it would be “an Injustice” to blame him.

Multinational Effort

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has 20 countries participating in its enormous cost of $10 billion—the main funders have been the USA, EU, and Canada. It was launched on the 25th of December 2021 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, which was the only launch vehicle large enough to house this large disassembled JWST. It arrived a month later in January 2022 in a halo orbit configuration beyond the moon—called an L2 Lagrange point.This Lagrange point is 3.9 times further away from the earth than the moon and its halo orbit is directly away from the sun from the earth.  This is an incredibly complicated orbit configuration.  You will see why.

Light times from the moon to Earth are about 1.3 seconds and from the sun about 8 minutes to travel 93 million miles (1 AU). JWST is away from the sun and the earth about 0.01 AU from the Earth. JWST has a light time of 5 seconds to Earth. Because of its size, JWST had to be reassembled robotically in space.  Here are a couple of images that were first shared with the public on 11 July 2022 with much more exciting detail than from Hubble. Here are comparison telescope image examples.

        EDWIN HUBBLE                         JAMES EDWIN WEBB

Space Telescope Details

Each of the 18 mirrors has six actuating stepping motors to keep them focused with accuracies of nanometers (nanometer = a billionth of a meter). In the opening photo, you can see the five heat shields as well as the 18 mirrors. The images we are seeing from it of the heavens are amazing. It has a 40-degree look angle and can get images in all directions every half year, as it does its halo orbits above the earth and away from the sun nominally synchronous with the earth’s orbit period of one year.

The JWST halo orbit is highly unusual. Most all satellites orbiting the earth are in one of three configurations: LEO (low-earth orbiting), MEO (medium-earth orbiting), and GEO (geosynchronous earth orbit), with orbit periods of about 2 hours or less, 12 sideral hours, and 24 sidereal hours, respectively.

Sputnik was an LEO, as is Hubble, and as is the International Space Station (ISS) with an orbit period of 93 minutes. Russia, which has provided many scientists for the ISS, has announced its intention to withdraw from the ISS not before 2024 but before 2028. The navigation satellites (GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, and BIDOU) are MEOs. A new worldwide communication system is now being planned around LEOs. There are about 200 GEOs at the equatorial belt—orbiting synchronous with the earth’s spin period of one sidereal day and are used for worldwide communications, as they appear stationary as they orbit the earth at the same rate as the earth spins on its axis.

The altitudes of the LEOs, MEOs, and GEOs, are about 0.3, 4.2, and 6.7 earth radii. The 6.7 earth radii distance of the GEOs makes them not useful for voice communication because of the time delay. Hence, they are planning LEO configurations of satellites for worldwide (no cell towers) communications.

My Interest and Background

The JWST is particularly interesting to me for several reasons. The above picture was taken at NASA, Goddard, Beltsville, Maryland. I have been there many times for meetings, and they have hydrogen-maser atomic clocks there as well as at John Hopkin’s, nearby, which is the control location for JWST. Northrop Grumman was the principal contractor. I was invited to give a talk at Northrop Grumman not too long ago. They showed me the highly accurate gyro they had developed for Hubble. Since we lived in Boulder, Colorado, for 32 years, we knew Ball Aerospace well, and several of our friends and neighbors worked for Ball. Ball Aerospace designed and built the 18 mirrors for JWST.

My first trip to NASA Goddard was in 1964 when the IEEE and NASA sponsored a special symposium to deal with the problem of characterizing precise timing sources—like quartz-crystal oscillators and atomic clocks. Atomic clocks were new at that time. Quartz-crystal oscillators were the main timekeepers before atomic clocks, and they were plagued with long-term frequency variations called flicker noise. Mathematically, the classical variance had no convergent value for flicker noise, so this was a major problem in trying to characterize the frequency variations in quartz-crystal oscillators. Jim Barnes had developed a special autocorrelation function that mathematically converged for flicker noise. He and I presented a paper at the symposium with a solution to the flicker-noise problem. It was extremely well received.

The next year, Jim went on to do his Ph.D. thesis using this special autocorrelation function and wrote an algorithm to use an ensemble of quartz-crystal oscillator clocks calibrated by the NBS primary cesium-beam frequency standard. The NBS started keeping official time for the USA using his algorithm, which he programmed using an IBM 360 computer.

That same year, I did my master’s thesis, using this special autocorrelation function along with a powerful book Jim introduced me to by Sir James Michael Lighthill, Fourier Analysis and Generalized Functions. Page 43 of Lighthill’s book gave me the mathematical information I needed to characterize flicker noise and the several other different noise processes occurring in time and frequency metrology.

Since atomic clocks were new, a series of comparisons began in the Fall of 1965 and on through to 1970, at NBS in Boulder, to compare the best atomic clocks in the world. Bob Vessot brought his hydrogen maser from Varian in Boston and later one from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. Len Cutler and Lee Bodily brought their HP 5060-A commercial cesium atomic clock, Harry Peters brought his hydrogen maser from NASA Goddard. And we, at NBS, had the primary cesium-beam frequency standard for the USA and the official time, AT-1 time scale algorithm. Jim had been made Section Chief and had given me the responsibility for generating time; that is when I wrote AT-1 to replace his algorithm, as we moved from quartz-crystal clocks in the ensemble to atomic clocks. A twelve-authored paper came out of these comparisons, and later comparisons followed. The metric used to compare all the clocks was the square root of the Allan variance–though Don Halford, who was Section Chief after Jim, gave the metric that name later. With improvements by my several outstanding colleagues, AT-1 is still generating official time for the USA today.

Putting God into The Equation

I am intrigued with the cleverness of the JWST, and the images we are seeing are astronomically astounding. I see this focused energy on the part of so many costing an enormous budget of $10 billion to figure out how the universe came into being without God.

Most of their astronomical assumptions are based on the Big Bang theory, which has been proven false; yet they ignore the falsification data and move on with what I call the “Big Bank” theory.

For me, the truths I am sharing in my new book, Time and Eternity, the End-Times and Beyond Revealed, leave in the dust, all that they have and will share. As soon as we put God in the equation then truth and light across all spectral densities emerge with enormous promises for this life and beyond. Satan is so subtle in hiding what is most important for us in our mortal journey on this exciting spaceship called Earth. Because of the exciting results coming from JWST, they are already planning the next generation. The world says, “Look to the science!”

I was invited to be a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) because of my work with millisecond pulsars and atomic clocks. I know the ego of most of those folks in the IAU, and humility is not their calling card. Alma said it well, “Look to God and live” (Alma 37:47).

I am so happy that my work has gotten international attention that I can share God’s love; over a hundred nations visit my book’s website, www.ItsAboutTimeBook.com, and with about a hundred thousand visits per year. I believe my new book will be a game changer–being printed this Fall–Time and Eternity, the End-Times and Beyond Revealed–Giving hope and purpose to a very troubled world.

David W. Allan

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The Prophet Who Saw Our Day

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However, the Prophet Moroni goes on to give the Lord’s great promise for our day, to the righteous of the Gentiles, and of the House of Israel, which I share below. In so sharing, I open insights into the magnitude of the contributions of this great prophet in the past and yet in the future.

Moroni’s father, Mormon, tells of a grand repository in the Hill Cumorah, which was in upstate New York in the township of Palmyra, where he kept a room full of records. These were transferred from the Hill Shim, where Mormon first got them. These records contained thousands of years of history going all the way back to its creation. These records, “handed down by our fathers” include the “Brass Plates,” which covered much more information than is in our Bible up to 600 BC.

In 385 AD, the Nephite nation was destroyed. The surviving Prophet Moroni spent 36 years alone after this terrible civil war, where his father, Mormon, was killed–here in America. It was a war much worse than our own American Civil War, and during these 36 years, he still had access to the grand repository.

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Hurrah for Israel

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Now we can say, “Hurrah for Israel” as we are seeing amazing numbers of Jews coming to Christ. When Israel was made a state in 1948, there were only 30 Messianic Jews in the whole state. Now there are over 20,000 and growing rapidly. There are 250,000 Messianic Jews in the United States and 350,000 around the world, and again increasing rapidly.

Edna and I just enjoyed a powerful Academy Award Winning, documented film, The Other Side of Heaven. It comes from John Groberg’s journal documenting miraculous missionary success in the Tongan Islands. As they rejoice in the Lord’s blessing, the phrase, coming from their hearts, “Hurrah for Israel”  touched our hearts.

The Coming of the Messiah

The Jews believe that in preparation for the coming of their Messiah there will be a Mashiach ben Yoseph or Messiah ben Joseph and a Messiah ben David. I believe Messiah ben Joseph is Joseph Smith spoken of in Isaiah 11:10 (D&C 113:5-6). Messiah ben David is yet to come and will play a major role in preparation for the Lord’s Coming, as shared by Dr. Avraham Gileadi in his several outstanding books on the “Book of Isaiah”. The Savior speaks of this Servant in 3 Nephi 21:8-11.

Even though most Jews do not believe that Christ is the Messiah, The Jews feel they are at a turning point as the number of Jews in Israel is now greater than in any other country—including the USA. They feel this has implications regarding Torah Law and the need to reintroduce some ancient practices spelled out in the Torah. They believe that if they repent, they can avoid some of the destruction prophesied.

The following video has excellent insights into why the Jews, in general, don’t believe in Jesus, and some great suggestions of what can be done to help more of them turn to Jesus (Yeshua): The 3 Reasons Why Jews Don’t Believe In Jesus & Israel Evangelism Report (By Eitan Bar) – YouTube.

Now is the Time to Repent

Like the Jews, it is critical for the people in the USA to repent.  This is the Promised Land which was given to the Tribe of Joseph. Or, as the Lord has decreed, (Ether 2:10) they will be swept off. We have been given our inspired Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Let their truths ring throughout the land and help bring about repentance.

Who is Israel?

I asked that question of the Lord while setting in the Denver Temple back in 1986. I spent months researching it and found great insights. In summary, a true Israelite is someone who puts their hand in the hand of the Lord to do His will in their lives. We become ONE with God in that exalting process. Let us live and share and shout, “Hurrah for Israel!”

David W. Allan

P.S.  My new book, Time and Eternity – The End-Times and Beyond Revealed,  is in the editing process in preparation for publication.  It can be pre-ordered from the publisher, Digital Legend.

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Historian Flavius Josephus Testifies of Christ

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Flavius Josephus, the Jewish priest, scholar, and historian was born 37/38 in Jerusalem. He wrote valuable works on Jewish history, including the final Jewish revolt of 66–70 AD–including Masada, 73 AD. He wrote of Christ, “About this time there lived Jesus if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who  performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly.” Without the writings of Josephus, we would have very little access to the events and history of the people of his time. He had dreams and was taught by the Lord.

Jew – Roman – Christian

I believe Flavius Josephus was and is the most essential historian ever to know that Jesus is the Christ.  We all have unique missions.  I believe he was highly unusual as we see him as a Jew, and a Roman, and surprising to almost everyone, there is substantial extent evidence that later in his life he became a Christian Bishop in Jerusalem.

The infinite atonement of our Savior had just exploded its paramount relevance in providing salvation for the world.  The Promised Messiah not only came with His message of salvation but perfected Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness with His infinite atonement—provided a resurrection for all in due process. “And the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” (Matt. 27:52-53).

Fifty days later at Pentecost, thousands were joining “The Way”—the Christians and their contagious love for one another and for their enemies was greatly inspiring all who observed them.  This contagious love brought many of those observers into the fold as well–including later on in his life, Josephus. Three years after Jesus’ resurrection, Josephus was born (37 AD), and as an observer, he was deeply touched by the Christian conversion rate explosion.

 Josephus’ Heritage and Works

If you read Wikipedia about Josephus, they paint him as a Benedict Arnold traitor—not surprising given the world’s atheistic put down of anything Christian. His writings and life disprove this notion.

He was born of noble Jewish heritage, and because of his incredible mental dexterity and leadership, he was greatly respected by Jews and Gentiles. He became close friends with the Emperors Vespasian and Titus.

In his autobiography, he shares, “I made mighty proficiency in the improvement of learning and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.” Through the 16th – 19th years of his life, he spent with Banus, who lived “in the desert and used no other clothing than grew upon trees, and had no other food than what grew of its own accord, and bathed himself in cold water frequently, both by night and by day, in order to preserve his chastity.”1

Josephus did most of his writing in Rome. I have the book, “The Works of Josephus; Complete and Unabridged – New Updated Edition,” translated by William Whiston. I have learned a great deal from this two-column, small-print, 926-page book, which includes his autobiography (THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS), THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, THE WARS OF THE JEWS, and several other documentaries—including the extent letter in Greek he apparently wrote about Hades while serving as a Christian Bishop.2

Josephus  Authorship of the ANTIQUITIES

The authorship of ANTIQUITIES goes back to the creation—beginning with, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth;”3 His writings parallel some ten thousand verses of scripture from the Old Testament and including some from the Apocryphal writings and often give a lot more detail than what we have in scripture.4

Josephus felt God’s protection throughout his life and received guidance in his pursuits. On one occasion amidst the Romans’ and Jews’ battles’, “But wonderful it was what a dream I saw that very night; for when I had betaken myself to my bed, as grieved and disturbed at the news that had been written to me, it seemed to me, that a certain person stood by me, and said, ‘O, Josephus, leave off to afflict thy soul and put away all fear; for what now grieves thee will render thee very considerable, and all respects most happy; for thou shalt get over not only these difficulties but many others, with great success.  However, be not cast down, but remember thou art to fight with the Romans.’”5

He had other heavenly visits and helps throughout his life. 6 When we do things God’s way, we find peace in the midst of the storms. No matter where he fought or what he did for the Jews or the Romans, God was with him. He tried to keep the Jews from fighting the Romans because he knew of the Romans’ great strength, but when his own people solicited him, he fought for them. As in our “Star-Spangled Banner,” “Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just.”

Lessons from the Destruction of Jerusalem

Later, the Lord allowed the Romans to destroy Jerusalem, because of their wickedness, as Jesus prophesied. (Matt. 24:1-2) This is like Isaiah prophesied of the Assyrian assault which will occur against this “hypocritical” nation—the Promised Land of America—unless her people repent and come to Christ. (Isa. 10:5-6) As with Jerusalem, so with America, unless we repent He has “created the waster to destroy.” But the righteous have the promise that “no weapon…shall revile against… the servants of the Lord…” (3 Nephi 22:16-17)

Over the entrance of the Norlin Library on the University of Colorado Campus is the inscription by George Norlin, “Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.” Josephus wrote in detail about the final destruction of Jerusalem. Knowing history allows us to build upon the insights, inventions, and truths brought forth by others, while also learning from their mistakes that hopefully, we will not repeat.

Historical Witness of Christ

Again, I believe we all have unique missions for our mortal journey, but I believe Josephus stands out as a historical primary witness of Christ, and God was with him as part of the Divine Law of Witnesses. The second historical and spiritual witness of the Christ is the Book of Mormon and we have L. Taylor Hansen’s great book, He Walked the Americas. When I got her book, I couldn’t put it down and stayed up all night reading it.

If we ask the question, “What is the most important historical truth we can build our lives upon?” I believe it is to know the Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. The Bible has done more good than any other book because of its most important message of the Christ. The Book of Mormon is another witness for Christ. The Book of Mormon has brought more people to Christ per capita of those who have read it than any other book. It became available to the world exactly ten years after the FIRST VISION of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The fingerprint of the Lord was evident as the first 5,000 copies were printed in the Divine ratio. Christ is mentioned five times more often in the Book of Mormon than in the Bible. Knowing and believing and internalizing the great truths in that book leads to the greatest happiness in this life and eternal life beyond the veil. (John 17:3; 3:16)

I see Josephus’ life and writings helping in a major way to know the truth about the Promised Messiah, who came and is coming again.  These witnesses are critically needed at this time. The woke and millennials have most probably never heard of Josephus; yet, we have a profound historical witness for them of Christ in Josephus’ writings.  It is the Christ who can and will solve the problems the woke and millennials face if they will but come unto Him. In addition, we see serious moral decay throughout the world in large measure because we haven’t learned important lessons from history.

The atheistic New World Order folks would use this moral decay to make us slaves and to depopulate the world—according to their agenda. On the other hand, we have a lot of people waking up to their evil intent and more-and-more are turning to Christ with His great promise: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free… If the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8:32, 36)  I gave a lecture on this pivotal scripture, and you can find the link for it at the end of this article.

William Whiston –  the Translator

William Whiston, who translated Josephus’ writings lived 35 years after Sir Isaac Newton. Newton was his mentor. Newton was born on Christmas Day in 1642. Whiston was an English theologian (Pastor), historian, natural philosopher, mathematician, and a leading figure in the popularization of Newton’s enormous contributions, as the greatest scientist ever.

Whiston succeeded his mentor Newton as a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Newton, as a devout Christian student, had proved that the Church of England was wrong in many aspects of their theology, which threatened him from having fellowship at Trinity College, and he was willing to lose this distinguished position rather than compromise his beliefs. He and his friends petitioned King Charles II, and the King granted him exemption from “all holy orders.”

Whiston knew the life of Josephus probably better than anyone, and like Newton, he saw problems in the Church of England’s theology. As a pastor, Whiston was more vocal about his beliefs, and in 1710 he lost the professorship and was expelled from the university.  Whiston rejected the notion of eternal torment in hellfire, which he viewed as absurd, cruel, and an insult to God.

What especially pitted him against church authorities was his denial of the doctrine of the Trinity, which he believed had pagan origins. Which doctrine young Joseph Smith was told by God, “their creeds were an abomination in his sight…” (JS-H 19) Thanks be to God, that great vision opened the door for the world to know the true nature of God, which is eternal life. (John 17:3) Did you know the date of the first was so important that it was foretold in Enoch’s calendar? The Date of the First Vision | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)

Today, we owe a great debt of gratitude to William Whiston for providing the best English translations of the “Complete and Unabridged” works of Flavius Josephus. With the world spiraling down in anti-Christian and atheistic-satanic harassments against truth and light, we have this greatest historian—Flavius Josephus’—counterattack. It is Christ and only  Christ who can give us ultimate freedom, salvation, and exaltation. To Him and His Father, we owe praise, honor, and glory for their Perfect Plan of Happiness.

David W. Allan

REFERENCES:
1)      THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, p. 1
2)      APPENDIX, DISSERTATION 6 TO PROVE THAT THE FRAGMENT OR EXTRACT OUT OF AN HOMILY CONCERNING HADES BELONGS TO JOSEPHUS, THE JEWISH HISTORIAN; AND WAS BY HIM PREACHED OR WRITTEN WHEN HE WAS BISHOP OF JERUSALEM… pp 872-879, and pp 813-814
3)      THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BOOK 1, CHAPTER 1.1., p. 29
4)      APPENDIX, TEXTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PARALLEL TO JOSEPHUS’ HISTORIES, p. 895
5)      THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, 42, p. 13
6)      THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, footnote q, divine dreams Antiq. 3.8.9 and in the War 3.8.3,9

P.S.
I invite you to view this video: “Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free.” I put a lot of work into the content, and hope you enjoy it.

For those who have lost faith and want evidence of God’s word and His love, please read the following: Don’t Bypass “And It Came To Pass” | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com) and Gratitude For The Resurrection of Our Savior | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)

My second book, Time and Eternity – The End-Times and Beyond Revealed, is available on Amazon and on my website: ItsAboutTimeBook.com.  It is also available from my publisher, Boyd Tuttle at Digital Legend.

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Book Review – Tornado in a Junkyard

Science and Spirituality,

Guest Post: Chauncey C. Riddle

Chauncey C. RiddleChauncey C. Riddle is a long-time friend and colleague. He has recently read and reviewed the book, “Tornado in a Junkyard” by James Perloff. I found Chauncey’s observation of the material to be worth considering. I asked him if I could share his thoughts with my readers and he consented.

Chauncey is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He is a religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has written many articles for the Ensign, Sunstone, and BYU Studies. He has also written countless articles and published his book, “Think Independently”.

Book Report:
Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism

Book Review Tornado in A Junkyard(The author says that believing in organic evolution is like believing a tornado went through a junkyard and produced a functioning Boeing 747.)

Author: James Perloff, Refuge Books, Burlington, Massachusetts, 1999

Ch1. Baby Boomer Tunes Out, Turns On, Bums out, Burns out.

The author’s life as a hippie.

Ch.2 Problems Carved in Stone.

A repeat of the current Darwinian hypothesis, with wondering why some fossils stay the same through supposed millions of years.

Ch.3 Marvelous Mutations.

The discovery of genes proved a roadblock to the theory of evolution, but the idea of mutations came to the rescue. But most mutations are deadly and are not passed on. The chances of creating a new species by mutation alone are calculated by some evolutionists to be one over 3.6 x 102738.
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Optimum Living and Fullness of Joy

Spirituality, ,

David Allan Time And EternityA Brief Introduction To The Book

We can think of the Earth being like a space-ship traveling through time and eternity, and we are now at a critical juncture in the sufferings and challenges of mortality–a juncture that will bring about the end of worldliness, as we enter into the glorious millennial epoch.  Most importantly, I share how the ideal society (Optimum living and fullness of joy) will come out of the denouement our Lord has prepared. It is a book of hope and manifests the infinite love our Heavenly Father in His perfect plan of happiness brought about by the infinite atonement of His Beloved Son, which has seven steps to it.

The Decline In Our Western Morality

Douglas Murray just wrote another bestseller, The War on the West, with 503 reviews on Amazon since 26 April 2022—82% five stars. Jordan Peterson just did a podcast with Douglas Murray about his new book. It is a very scholarly, but a godless perspective, on what is now causing the decline in our Western morality and why. Many of these same problems have already occurred throughout the world, as he points out in this new book as well as in his other books

Looking Through God’s Eyes

Within my mortal limitations, as a God-loving Christian, I choose to look through God’s eyes, as best I can, to know where we are in His timetable and the glorious future He has in store for the righteous who repent with full purpose of heart and come unto His Beloved Son. I share what we can best do now, and what the path forward looks like as our Savior leads us back to the Father in His “One-eternal-round” glorious chiasmus for His spaceship called Earth. The great suffering and enormous challenges we now see throughout the world will have an incomprehensible denouement for the end-times now unfolding and beyond.  This you will see described in the book.

Three Gospels

In Chapter Five, for example, I explain how the Lord has given us three gospels to best help us prepare for His glorious Second Coming. By the word “gospel,” I take the Greek meaning: “the good news.” I explain in detail how these three gospels are the most important things the Lord has given us to prepare for His coming.

1. The gospel of the good earth will help us overcome the pollution of the earth, and how to have maximum health in body, mind, and spirit.

2. The gospel of the Bible will help all who believe in our Lord and Savior make it into the millennium where He will gloriously reign for a thousand years as King of kings and Lord of lords.

3. Then all who accept and live the fullness of the gospel will be delivered by the Son to the Father at the end of the millennium into celestial realms of glory–and into optimum living and a fullness of joy.

Because of my work with atomic clocks, I see the optimum living opportunity in a Zion society as like an ensemble of such clocks. Like people, each clock is different. Each clock has different time and performance characteristics. I believe the Lord gave me the algorithm back in 1968 to optimally combine the readings of an ensemble of atomic clocks (like an ideal society) so that the characteristics of each is fully utilized. This optimally combined ensemble then generates a time that is better than the best-contributing clock, and even the least of the performing clocks enhances the output. Just like in a Zion society, the time and talents of each individual are optimally used to help in bringing perfection to the whole of that society. As we learn and grow, the whole becomes better, because everyone is motivated by the pure love of Christ.

With improvements by my outstanding colleagues, that algorithm (AT-1) is still ticking today to provide official time for the USA. It is continually getting better as the contributing clocks get better. Timing accuracy has improved a billionfold in my life. AMAZING!

So in contrast to the worldview, which sees the world spiraling down in moral decay, my book is filled with hope and divine resolution—denouement for the world play in Father’s perfect plan of happiness in spite of all our imperfections.  The infinite atonement of our loving Lord and Savior is open to all who repent with full purpose of heart and come unto Him. My book also helps those who have lost faith; we see atheism increasing, and my book is a counter to that.

C.S. Lewis

As I share in my previous book, It’s About Time, C. S. Lewis during his teenage and apostate years, felt that the strongest force for atheism was expressed in a poem by Lucretius:

Had God designed the world, it would not be A world so frail and faulty as we see.

After J. R. R. Tolkien and others of his friends, persuaded Lewis to deeply consider Christianity, it turned his life around. As he considered Christ, he came to the conclusion that “only two views of this man are possible.

“Either he was a raving lunatic of an unusually abominable type, or else He was, and is, precisely what He said. There is no middle way. If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable, you must submit to the second. And if you do that, all else that is claimed by Christians becomes credible — that this Man, having been killed, was yet alive, and that His death [and His glorious resurrection], in some manner incomprehensible to human thought, has affected a real change. . . in our favor.”

After gaining his deep appreciation for Christianity, in regard to evil, pain, and the suffering that comes with life, Lewis poignantly states that if you “Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free will involve, . . .you find that you have excluded life itself.” He goes on to say, let us get on with living the two great commandments. (Matt. 22:36-40)  If all would do that, we would have the optimum living. It is my hope and prayer that my new book will do that–sharing the incredible promises the Lord has in store for the faithful and the righteous. His love is infinite.

David W. Allan

This new e-mail address is being provided for you to contact me. I appreciate feedback (Questions or Suggestions): gospelquestions7@gmail.com 

My book’s website now has over 116,000 visits per year and increasing from over 100 nations. It is my gospel outreach, and I am pleased to be able to share God’s love for His children. You can buy my book at the following link in hard copy, kindle, or in audio format: https://itsabouttimebook.com/purchase-its-about-time-book/

My new book is now being edited and can be preordered:

Time and Eternity: The End-Times Revealed and Beyond, Digital Legend (digitalegend.com)