Order of the Orbs
(Part 1 of 3-part novella)
by Michael Mitchell Maxim
Chapter 2
Max, the presenter, was only minimally nervous. He had written and rehearsed a presentation, but he expected he would improvise his words from his first draft as he went along. Though he pretty much had the words of the presentation memorized:
We might take note at this point of a particular biblical number. Four zero. The number 40 is the biblical number for testing and judgment.
Max clicked the remote he used to control the image being projected onto the movie screen overhead accompanying his presentation. An image of the number 40 filled over half of the screen.
After spending 40 years shepherding goats in the wilderness Moses was sent back to Egypt to deliver God’s judgment to pharaoh. Before entering the promised land, the ancient Israelites were tested throughout 40 years of wandering in the desert. Jesus was tested by Satan after 40 days and nights of fasting beyond the river Jordan. Forty is God’s number for testing and judgment.
As you know, today is the year 2020. We are exactly 40 years from Newton’s calculated year of 2060 and the final judgment. Is Newton’s calculation of 2060 accurate? Will there be 40 years of testing that culminates in the year 2060? Ultimately only time will tell. But let us notice one of Newton’s encrypted notes in which he references the 37th chapter of Genesis, verse 9.
Max read the verse:
Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”
Most any Bible student will recognize this verse as describing a dream that was dreamed by Joseph, one of the twelve sons of Jacob. And this dream incorporates the sun, the moon, and eleven stars– key elements of Newton’s great time piece, our solar system. After reading this verse we might ask the question, “Were these eleven stars mentioned in verse 9 simply imaginary stars that Joseph’s mind fabricated in a fleeting dream? Or were these stars in Joseph’s dream inspired by God? And if so, were they intended by God to represent a physical reality on display in our night sky every evening? If they were, exactly which eleven of the myriad stars would they be?”
Max paused, and stepped from behind the podium for a closer connection with his audience. He stepped forward to the edge of the stage. His closeness and lowered voice intimated the air of secret knowledge. Max then spoke with a soft but confident tone.
I now know the answer to that question. And the key to revealing the answer is four numbers– 4144. I call it the Quad.
Max clicked his remote and a new graphic appeared on the overhead screen. It was the cover of a book. The full cover was black, with white letters that read: The Quad. The center of the page was a black-and-white checkerboard graphic depicting four quadrants of a square. The top two quadrants contained the numerals 4 and 1. The bottom two quadrants contained the numerals 4 and 4. Underneath the graphic it read: God’s Amazing Four-in-One Prophecy Composed of 4 numbers Using 1 and 4.
Newton’s great time piece is based upon four numbers. And these four numbers unlock the biblical prophecies of Revelation, Genesis, Daniel, and Ezekiel. These prophetic books are all interconnected. 4144 is Newton’s missing key. Newton could never know this key. He was nearly 300 years too soon. But now it is quite clear. This year, 2020, is the year of perfect vision. 2020 vision. The year when eyes are opened to see. Newton’s search ended 293 years ago at his death in 1727. He had calculated the key date of 2060. But as we enter his final 40-year countdown, there is another key date we must observe. Not the year 2060. But the year 2006.
Max had used his projector to display the numbers 2060 on the movie screen overhead. By clicking the remote, an animation activated and the last two numbers of 6 and 0 rotated on the screen– 2060 became 2006.
That’s the year the 4144 key was established in human history. 2006.
At that moment in Max’s presentation time froze. Watcher had returned from hall duty and tapped the floating control screen to bring the 3D player to a halt. He then re-engaged the unseen.
Ok. I’m back. Always on call.
Watcher did a quick assessment of the 3D presentation screen and surmised that the image being displayed was too far advanced for the amount of time the tape had been playing in his absence. He then realized his mistake.
Oop. Looks like I forgot to rewind that tape before I left. You’ll need to go back to the beginning of Max’s presentation to get a complete comprehension. Letttt. Meee. Taake care of that. Ok. Here.
Watcher reset the 3D player from the floating screen and started Max’s presentation from the beginning. The images in showroom 2 faded out and were replaced by more images of Max beginning his presentation. At once the unseen again began watching Max.
A Shining Star
Tape 2 began playing in 3D from the beginning in showroom two. For the watchers it was like being there. Max was standing at the podium on a small stage. His first image was projected on the screen over his shoulder and showed a black background with a noticeable four-pointed star in the center. The words A SHINING STAR displayed above the image. As he had strode to the podium he couldn’t help but notice that there were only two dozen attendees in the audience. But he told himself that was good. This would be his first presentation of the evidence he had accumulated over the previous decade. And he would need multiple iterations to refine his presentation. Having a small audience would help him feel less out of norm.
Abruptly the 3D display in showroom 2 broke away from Max’s theater presentation. Briefly the unseen watchers saw a scene of Max sitting alone at The 2B’s. A local diner. The carved wood sign out front was embellished with birds and bears– two B’s. But the carving also depicted the flight of two bumblebees. Which engendered the mystery. Many patrons dropped by to inquire about the two b’s. Are the 2B’s a reference to birds and bears? Or to two bumblebees? Max sat silently at a table near the front glass. A dipping bird on the table repeatedly bobbed its spherical head into a glass of water, pausing only to swallow and gaze through the front glass as if pointing with its whetted beak. The local movie theater could be seen through the glass across the street. The marquee overhead read–
Order of the Orbs
7PM Tuesday.
The 3D image in showroom 2 cut away from The 2B’s cafe and returned to Max’s presentation inside the theater across from the cafe. The unseen continued watching.
The little movie theater where Max was speaking was the only speaking venue available in the metropolis of Truth or Consequences. The owner had agreed that Max could use the theater for free on a week night if the attendees purchased tickets to see his presentation. The theater had been built in the 1960s. It was pretty… or… not so pretty, now. But it had, over the last half century, acquired a handsome patina on the sloping concrete floor– a sticky film of slowly aged soda syrup with the distinct smell of pickle vinegar that sometimes crackled beneath your feet. It was the old owner’s version of “slip-and-fall” insurance.
Max cleared his throat and began his very first stage presentation–
A Shining Star. If there had been a gravestone, that’s how the epitaph might have read. It was a life of 76 years that began in 1930 and ended in… 2006. A sometimes controversial life, though highly acclaimed. But this was not the life of a man. Nor a woman. This was the life of Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system.
Max clicked his remote and an image of sepia brown flashed on the screen depicting a man attired in what appeared to be the hodgepodge styles of America’s Great Depression. Max introduced the man in the image:
On January 23, 1930 astronomer and re-searcher Clyde Tombaugh working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona photographed a portion of the evening sky that contained a moving star. Clyde then rephotographed that star six days later on January 29th. Tombaugh’s discovery of a moving star was confirmed on February 30, 1930. That moving star was a new planet observed within Earth’s solar system. And on March 24th that year the name Pluto, from the mythological god of the underworld, was assigned to the discovery.
From its “birth” in 1930 to its demise in 2006, Pluto was recognized as the ninth planet in our solar system. And today Pluto still circles our sun as it has for thousands of years. But Pluto is no longer classified as a true or classic planet. Pluto is now classified as a “dwarf planet.” On August 24, 2006 a convention of the International Astronomical Union (the IAU) was held in Prague. The outcome of this meeting was the creation of a new set of astronomical standards for classifying entities of our solar system. Under these new classifications a celestial object must meet three requirements to be classified as a planet. First, it must orbit our sun. Second, it must have a large enough gravitational field to compress itself into a spherical shape. And third, it must have cleared the neighborhood of its orbit. This third requirement means that over millennia the object must use its gravitational field to function much like a vacuum cleaner and pull in all smaller objects within its orbital zone.
Pluto has not cleared the neighborhood of its orbit. Pluto orbits our sun within the Kuiper Belt, a region on the outer reaches of the solar system where tens of thousands of objects orbit the sun. They are mostly ice. Collectively the objects within Pluto’s neighborhood have over 50 times the mass of Pluto. Consequently Pluto cannot be considered to have cleared its neighborhood.
So Pluto is now classified as a “dwarf planet,” a new classification created by the IAU at the 2006 convention. Currently the IAU has recognized only five objects in our solar system as dwarf planets– Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris, and Ceres.
Max was getting into a groove. He wasn’t much distracted by anything, and his prepared notes flowed into his mind and across his lips unimpeded:
Now that planet Pluto has fallen from favor, our solar system is recognized as having eight classic planets and five dwarf planets. These are arranged in an alignment of 4144. Four classic. One dwarf. Four classic. Four dwarf. And therein lies a mystery of God hidden in plain view.
Max paused. Standing in silence.
It’s a mystery that Newton could never see because he lived nearly 300 years too soon. It’s a mystery that could only be understood after the recent demise of Pluto and the resultant revelation of the Quad– 4144.
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