Only the Temporary Changes; Beyond the Reach of Time Nothing Changes

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), May 6, 2011 at 15:16

Not to make a too fine point of it, from what I have learned over the decades of changing times, the universe as a coherent and intelligent manifestation of creation (the macro) has not changed; only the subcomponent (the micro) functions within its framework have been through reorganization from epoch to epoch. Hydrogen molecules in their natural state remain in the same configuration as always, being changed only when, say being burned in fusion reaction for fuel, does it take on a difference in state.

Now how does that relate to the miniscule relationship this terrestrial speck called earth has in the universe? In a way so conversely out of scale to the enormous scheme of the universal realm, there is everything that needs to be understood; but mankind has such a limited grasp of the scope of it all, that famed astrophysicists can only theorize about it in concept, and can prove next to nothing outside the perimeter of the solar system except by assumptions (like getting past things to determine the true nature of dark matter or realizing the equilibrium of things in the midst of chaos).

In the micro, while there may be the appearance that the 'Arab' world has been a significant factor in the changes of the Middle East for centuries, it is not merely because of the ethnic differences that combined in times past to strive against unseen forces, but of a central malfeasance of general humanity that took those differences and made them cause for the strife. Saladin, for example, evidently a Kurd by extraction, won out over the Crusaders in more ways than one, even gaining a certain respect from the conquered for the treatment of the captives and defeated. Was that a basis for patterns in later history or do we see that has changed from the combined Muslim powers that be today? No, instead we see a manifest hatred for things Jewish and the Jewish state in general, a centuries old manifestation.

If we are to understand just one segment of the Muslim mentality that threatens the Middle East peace (Ahmadinejad of Iran, for example-not only threatens to 'wipe Israel from the map,' but has aspirations of introducing the al-Madhi to the world at his threat of causing worldwide catastrophic confusion), we can draw only one conclusion, that Islam does not take its measure in the world lightly. The dominant Muslim mindset does not seek assimilation; rather it seeks to conform the world to Islam, for reasons not readily manifest to the uninformed, but readily demonstrated by the alternating intifadas and hudnas over time.

As for the changes in the West for the past nearly two thousand years: why is that again? And why does Islam want a rewrite of history for their purposes of dominating Judaism, Christianity and all the rest? That is a rhetorical question for this writer. There are no comparisons, only contrasts. There are no changes being made in the eternal (universal) realm, only in the current existential (temporal) realm. Islam can only operate in the latter.

What mankind seems to be most reluctant to do is change its sinful ways and seek true spiritual guidance to obtain spiritual perfection (vis a vis repentence), thereby effecting change in relationships with each other. Seeking the love offered by having a relationship with Yeshua HaMashiach by faith is the only proven way this can be accomplished; and for the lack of a general understanding of that, Israel IS backed into a corner and a deluded world without faith will try every tactic to take advantage of that.

There is a reason the occidental mindset is in heightened contrast to the oriental, because the comparisons are few. There is only one place they come to a common understanding; and finding that relationship outside of a universal understanding of the true power of the universe is not only difficult for humanity to make a change, but it is impossible without seeking that Power in the way eternally prescribed.

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