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"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the Sun became black as sackcloth ofhair, and the moon became as blood..." -Rev. 6:12 (Judgements from the sixth seal to be opened by The Lion ofJudah...) Not far from our home there is a quiet little place where I can gaze down over the coastal sand dunes of Perth. It is here, on top of the escarpment some 300 metres above sea level, that I am now sitting. I can see the small groups of buildings and criss-crosses of roadways that define the city and its immediate suburban sprawl. At a glance, it all looks calm and somewhat picturesque. Off in the distance, some forty kilometres away, I can see the thin blue line of the Indian Ocean as it waits patiently offshore. On the horizon, delicately balanced on four fragile footings atop "broadcast hill", is a large water tower ovcr near the three network studios. Overhead, faint wisps of white clouds sprinkle the blue sky, reminding me of the days when we used to have enough rain to fill our dams and to water our crops. It's odd: as I sit here I am reminded of the fictional story of Superman's father, Jor-el, who tried to warn his fellow citizens of the impending nova of their star. Try as he might to tell the people of his conclusions, Jor-el was muzzled to the end by the powers that ran the planet, because his warnings were thought likely to disturb the populace of the planet who preferred to believe the official scientists' opinion on the issue. Officially there was no danger of a nova, yet Jor-el was so sure that he sent his only son off to safety in a spacecraft just before their star exploded, destroying all life on his planet. At the risk of sounding even more melodramatic, I must say that up until the second week of February this year, I did seriously consider holding back certain conclusions made from the new geophysical data I've accumulated, for fear of starting a general panic. However, when I put things into a proper perspective, I realised no one would take me seriously anyway because I'm not an accredited source of information in the key fields of seismology, solar phenomena, climatology and biblical prophecy-all of which encom pass what I will say to you 6Oday. I am just an interested party. Therefore, I can safely say that what I am about to tell you is only my correlation of what I 'believe' to be valid data with what I 'believe' to be the inviolate prophetic writings contained in the Bible. During the next ten years, the people of Earth will be at great risk of becoming extinct like the dinosaurs. We are at threat from new spectral emission levels in the Sun which may signal a major phase-change in its energy output; we are at threat from earthquakes whose triggering is related to the fluctuations of the Sun and of the Earth's orbit; we are at threat from changing climates which are killing off our traditional 'bread basket' cropping regions; we are at threat from volcanic eruptions which spew gas, lava and debris into the atmosphere, causing erratic climate and catastrophic weather like a 'nuclear winter'; we are at threat from the increased likelihood of severe meteor impacts on the Earth; and we are at threat from the loss of sufficient potable water to supply even the most basic of bio logical necessities. We are at a situation of "Imminent Threat" (IT). CONSIDER THE SUN I wrote an article for the Dec'92-Jan'93 issue of NEXUS Magazine (vo1.2#11) which dealt with recent findings concerning the Sun's apparently unusual behaviour over the last 400 years. It was entitled, "It's All Happening Now!" I draw your attention to a few key paragraphs from that article to lay the groundwork for the rest of my argument: APRIL -MAY 1995 NEXUS • 11