In 1997, I wrote a letter to Senator Feinstein with regard to increased counterterrorism spending for the study of terrorist groups whose motive is based on millennium prophecy. As an American and Global citizen, I was concerned about the possibility that the motive may extend globally and that it may also involve millennium prophecies which were not necessarily limited to the Book of Revelations which is the focal point of "Project Megiddo".
http://www.fbi.gov/library/megiddo/publicmegiddo.pdf
The generic millennium prophecy is an end of time prophecy which is concomittant the arrival of a saviour for the faithful. It is not unreasonable to assume that individuals will martyr themselves to the cause with some kind of proactivity. IMO - this proactivity is most likely to be a suicide bomber - the truck bomb seems to be the favored mode.
The letter I wrote to Senator Feinstein was sent by her to the National Security Agency and NSA's Neil Gallagher responded to her with the assurance that counterterrorist funding would be not be encroched upon by special interest groups as was the concern of Senator Biden at the time.
If the increased counterterrorist funding was spent on "Project Megiddo" then this report - IMO - has the following shortcomings:
(1) The report was drafted from people outside the FBI - seperate from the FBI's Behaviourial Sciences Group. This latter group - IMO - was probably on the scene in East Africa. The putative motive for these bombings probably came from Osama bin Laden's "Al Quaeda" terrorist network and consisted of a protest of the entry American soldiers into Saudi Arabia (the monthly date - August 7 - coincides which the arrival of American soldiers in Saudi Arabia) and the perceived treat that Americans pose to the three sacred mosques of Islam - Mecca, Medina and the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The motive for the East Africa bombings was apparently based on the latter - the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This example was omitted from "Project Megiddo".
(2) A critical argument of those spiritual leaders that foment generic millennium prophecy is that 'God only knows the time of the prophecy's manifest'. Missing from "Project Megiddo" is the possibility that this is not a true statement primarily because of the Mezuzah passages in Deuteronomy. These passages can be interpreted and - IMO - I consider this to a valid interpretation - that the Mezuzah is God's warning of a coming Apocalypse and thus, an implicated motive of God for a chance of a time of redemption in religious parlance and/or, in poltical parlance, to prevent the sociopolitical scenario of the Apocalypse and Armageddon and to replace God's warning with a lasting peace of Nations
from a letter to Raye:
"According to "The Bible Code" - the Mezuzah is Hebrew for "doorpost" ("The Bible Code"; pg 206) or "doorframes" as the key search word at Bible Gateway ( http://bible.gospelcom.net/ ). The Mezuzah is NOT is in Isiah (my apologies) but rather it is in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21 ("The Bible Code" pg 206).
"The scroll [in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21 ] is called the "Mezuzah". It contains the 170 words that, from all the 304,805 words of the original five books of the Bible, God commanded to be kept in a secret scroll and posted on every entrance of every home [my comment - as warning of the coming Apocalypse Times ].
"In 5760" and "in 5766", the years 2000 and 2006, are encoded in those 170 words.
"World War" - the only time it is encoded in the entire Bible - appears in the same place, and crosses one of the sacred verses.
"Atomic Holocaust" - the only time it is encoded in the Bible - also appears in the same two years in the same two verses of the scroll."
- The Bible Code"
The discussion of the Mezuzah was omitted from Project Megiddo.
(3) IMO - an objective approach to the study of generic; millennist groups is a caveat that anthropologists use in the study of cultures and their dynamics. This scientific tool is called cultural relativity and, in so many words, it basically says that, in the study of cultures, it matters what they believe and how their beliefs work for them and not what the observer believes as their belief system imposed on the former. Project Megiddo violates this protocol with judgemental descriptors of i.e. "right-winged" groups and validates the criticism of those who feel targetted for their First Amendment rights. This change in approach would also expand "Project Megiddo" from the domestic to the conderation of cultures on a global scale. Recently, thirty-four Iranians were arrested as part of a group which believes that "The Twelth Iman" or "Mahdi" is returning at the turn of the Millennium to seek justice. This example is but one of what seems to be a convergence of independent prophecies around the Millennium. The Mayan calendar is another example - The Fifth Cycle of the 25,000 year-old Mayan calender has an interpreted ending date of December 23, 2013 - an event involving the Sun is prophecized. IMO - Project Megiddo cannot ignore this convergence of independent; Millennium prophecies but, it does.
(4) The Book Revelations implies a Trinity of Evil - two beasts and a false prophet which I have interpreted as Satan/Lucifer; the Antichrist (Son of Satan) and an Anti-Pope as a false prophet. IMO - Project Megiddo underestimates the manifest by addressing mainly Satan as the protagonist. IMO - the links of Armageddon and Apocalypse prophecies to issues surrounding the rise of Antichrist should be considered. In regard to the latter; prevention forged with a mediated; lasting peace in the Middle East seems to be an essential precedent for the prevention of Armageddon. The perspectives of Ezekiel are curious is this regard as Israel is condemned to violence by Arabs over land rights. IMO - prophecies are inherited by each generation for direction and manifest of human agenda. IMO - our generation has inherited millennist prophecies as issue and the responsibility as citizens to set precedents and to create proactivity that effectively deals with the issues and the implications of what I call 'prophecy backlash'.
--- Philip
