"Whatever happened to all the heroes!" They were known as the 'Lost Generation and The Greatest Generation' They willingly died so we could have a better life, a kind of collective Jesus if you like! Were these heroes the 10 lost tribes of Abraham? And once again as we keep reading on TBW did their timeline stop around 1957!

Timeline of generations in the Western world as in its Wikipedia article with notable events by CMG Lee. The retirement and life expectancy ages are approximate due to variations in place and time.

I had one of those nights last night, you know, I couldn't fall asleep, tossing and turning and a head full of rubbish which wouldn't go away. The more I tried to relax, the worse my insomnia became and the bright full moon shining through my bedroom window only emphasised the problem.

And then, deep in my subconsciousness, an old punk number from days gone by stirred and rose to the top of my thoughts, an earworm and it wasn't going away anytime soon: "Whatever happened to, all the heroes, by the Stranglers."

Whatever ever happened to, all the heroes?

I was born in Leeds, a sprawling industrial, working-class city in the north of England, situated among the other smokey grey monster conurbations of Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Bradford, I grew up among those 'dark satanic mills' mentioned in the famous Blake poem which dared suggests that Jesus will create heaven in England, in contrast to the dark Satanic horrors of the Industrial Revolution.

Does that make me a hero? Nah, maybe a working-class hero, which was considered something to be, but certainly not the kind of hero I lived amongst when I was born in 1956, you see, they were the greatest.

1956 was just 11 years after the 2nd World War had finished, as a kid, I often played in bombed-out-buildings, it's what kids did back then. The fact I fantasied and played through such a tragic pile of memories, books, magazines, old clothes, pots and pans never entered my head, the bombed-out building was a treasure chest, and I was too young to connect death to rubble and old books to tragedy. Kids create their own excitement and their own agenda.

I was lucky, though, I mean my parents were considered poor, but dad worked hard. (Is three hot meals a day and the cleanest mother in the world poverty? I don't think so. . . ) I had missed the war, and so had my dad, he had been too young to enlist.

The people who once owned the tragic pile of memories I often played in as a kid were indeed heroes. A wonderful generation. They were even known as 'The Greatest Generation,' also known as the 'World War II generation.' But there was also a people before that, called the Lost Generation, who were equally great heroes, heroes of World War 1. This generation is generally defined as people born from around 1883 to 1927. They were shaped by the Great War and of course the Great Depression and were the primary generation composing the enlisted forces in World War II.

American G.I.s land on Omaha Beach (occupied France, Europe) on June 6, 1944. . .

Now, if we shoe in the 'Lost' and the 'Greatest generations' into a Biblical generation starting in 1883, (we don't know exactly when in 1883) these two 'greatest generations' would come to an end somewhere around mid-1956 to early 1957. Historian Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe define the Lost Generation as the cohort born from 1883 to 1900, who came of age during World War I, the Spanish flu pandemic, the Great Depression and of course, the Roaring Twenties. (Have we entered a 'NEW' Roaring Twenties? Well, yes we have. . . History repeating)

The Bible tells us in Matt 1:16 that a generation is 73 years. (14 x 73 = 1,026) Now, if the Lost Generation began in 1883, and we add the Greatest Generation to it, well according to the Bible these two 'superhero' timelines ended sometime in 1956 less than a year before 1957. Greatest Generation Lost Generation

Now, why is 1956/57 significant here? Well, regular readers of The Big Wobble will know I have been researching a link to climate change and the collapse of our planet, the demise of our species, agriculture and oceans for several years now and I now have conclusive evidence of all the things above began happening in or around 1957—Coinciding with our Sun literally exploding with a record number of sunspots which mirrored a record-breaking number of major quakes -mag 6 or higher which 'coincidently' happened the same year here on Earth. (The USGS has since changed the historical data on their site reducing the number of major quakes in 1957, however, I do have backup data and a rather tame email from USGS explaining why they changed the data!) That's another story!

Of course, heroism didn't suddenly stop in 1957, of course, it didn't, but there is a historically based record of a terrible social and moral decline in the West which began in the late 50s' and early 60s', of this there can be no doubt. It's as if God pulled His divine intervention and His protective wings away from the West after the hero WWI and WWII generation, why? Could the hero generation be the last of the 10 lost tribes of Abraham? Could that even be possible?

The decline is undeniable! The beginning of the 'Godless' generations. When people stopped saying "I wanna help you." And start screaming, "it's all about me, me, me!  The early 60s of course. . . 

It's here in black and white, written almost 2,000 years ago—2 Timothy :3 explains exactly when the heroes left and were replaced with another 'sort':

3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

And so it was, and. . . So it is, but, of course, we didn't notice at the time, wow! It is all so obvious now. 

In many ways, the 1960s was a precursor to what is happening to the world in the early stages of the 2020s. The term "the Sixties" is used by historians, journalists, and other academics in scholarship and popular culture to denote the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends around the globe during this era. It's as if the 60s' was the decade God decided to pull away from helping the West any longer, just like he did to the Jews in 721 BC 608 BC and 70 AD. History repeating, after all, the West is the 12 lost tribes of Abraham, surely?

We are of course addressing the same issues today but now on a steroid overdose! Poverty, civil liberties, BLM, Antifa, MAGA, White Supremacy, and Left vs Right, LGBT issues to name just a few, only, God is long gone now, as I said, we are knee-deep in a Godless generation, step back, think about that? It's just us against us, no help whatsoever from God anymore. Unless you have His spirit of course, but that's another story.

Some use the term to describe the 60s' decade's counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, and sexuality, just look at the LGBT movement of today and the sexualising of schoolchildren and the #MeToo movement. Still, others used it to denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess, flamboyance, and decay of social order, we have had enough social order decay in the first year of the second decade of 2000 to last us a lifetime, and we are only into the 4th year.

The decade was also labelled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos that occurred during this time, but also because of the emergence of a wide range of music; from a folk music revival to the Beatles revolution to the introspective lyrics of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. New music today, Rap but with similar lyrics, rhythmic and rhyming speech still asking the same questions by the repressed poor people on the streets as what was asked back in the 60s. 

The 60s was the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning of our historic journey as human inhabitants of this world here in the west, let me explain. Around 1960 apart from all the social and political changes mentioned above, suddenly our planet began to warm up, natural disasters began to increase, our climate began to change and there was an increase in seismic and volcanic activity around the globe, it was as if, a trigger had been pulled. Oh, I almost forgot, a frenetic, wild and uncontrolled space race had begun too.

Of course, the changes were too small to notice back then but the clock had clearly started ticking, and our fate was sealed. And now with the aid of 2020 technology, we can see with the help of stats, graphs and archives we can clearly see when our world began to change forever and it was undoubtedly around 1960.

Global temperatures begin to rise in the early 60s

What is waiting for the US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa in Bible prophecy? Well, we can see, it's already happened just by monitoring how NATO handled the war and hid behind Ukraine during Mr Putin's 'special' military involvement. 

Ezekiel was commissioned by God to watch over them (the lost tribes of Israel) and they were of course blessed with power and glory, like no other nations, ever! But—Just like Israel earlier, in the last days, it is very clear to see the once mighty and powerful countries are just observers of the plunder coming before the day of Jehovah! It just couldn't be plainer to see!

What is really happening in the US and the UK recently, is there a reason behind the insanity? Is there a way of knowing where the countries are going and how the insanity will end? Well yes, there is, for people who can't already see where it's going that is. . . 

A pamphlet written by Herbert W Armstrong many years ago appears to have the answer. Download After an incredible journey of wealth and power, promised by God more than 4,000 years ago Tarshish and her young lions, England, America, Canada Australia and New Zealand will simply look on as the mighty Gog threatens to destroy their ally and friend Israel in the last days

The United States and Great Britain in Prophecy

To find out the answer we have to go back around 4,000 years to when a man called Jacob was born, who later was given the name Israel and is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites and so is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and Bethuel, and the nephew of Ishmael. Jacob is said to have had twelve sons by four women, his wives, Leah and Rachel, and his concubines, Bilhah and Zilpah, who were, in order of their birth, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin, all of whom became the heads of their own family groups, later known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel. More here

When the Jews entered the Promised Land, the 12 tribes settled in a different region and eventually the tribes split into two kingdoms. The southern kingdom was called Judah and consisted of two tribes, Judah and Benjamin. The remaining 10 tribes formed the northern kingdom and were called Israel.

In 721 BC, the Assyrians conquered Israel, the northern kingdom and deported the Israelites to an area north of the Euphrates River between the Black and Caspian Seas. (2 Kings 17). The Ten tribes who were deported never returned to the northern nation of Israel after their captivity.

The Lost Ten Tribes Of Israel

According to Mr Armstrong, The knowledge and identity of the descendants of ancient Israel are revealed by a close examination of scripture and secular history. Are the ten lost tribes of Israel linked to the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Ezekial was commissioned by God to be "the watchman" for the house of Israel. (Ezekial 2:3; 33:7). However, Ezekiel's commission was not to be the watchman of his own people and his generation, which was the house of Judah, the southern kingdom or the northern ten tribes of Israel which had been conquered by the Assyrians 120 years earlier, no Ezekiel's commission was not for Israel of his day but for the ten lost tribes of the north and their future. 

God wanted Ezekiel to sound the alarm, to warn the lost tribes of future calamities which would take over them and they would be unaware of their fate. Jehovah takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, no he wanted to warn them, giving them the responsibility for their own fate, (Ezekiel 33: 9-16). Ezekiel's warning was for end-time Israel. (Ezekiel 4: 3). In fact, we are told that the warnings were for the time near the Day Of The Lord. (Ezekiel 7:19;13:5; 30:1-3; 38: 1-29). 

Tarshish and the young lions

The prophecy in the book of Ezekiel, Chapter 38, is an actual warning of an attack on Israel in the future, from a group of nations led by someone called Gog,  who comes from Magog. Magog is said to be North West of the Caspian Sea, there are just two countries North West of the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan and Russia. Gog is the head chieftain, (leader) of Meshech and Tubal which according to Wikipedia is a Japhetite tribe (one of the ten lost tribes). However, the Indo-European group is no longer known as "Japhetite", the Hamitic group is now recognized as paraphyletic within the Afro-Asiatic family. Among Muslim historians, Japheth is usually regarded as the ancestor of the Gog and Magog tribes. According to Delilah Ann Gill, Ghayin, (Hebrew) later shortened to G, is a twisted rope or a twisted dark goat horn thus it is Gog: Dark and Twisted:

Ezekiel goes on to say Persia, Ethiopia and Put are among the coalition, Persia is modern-day Iran, (Iran's leaders despise Israel and would dearly love to wipe it off the map) and Put, which is thought to be Lybia. In verse 8, Ezekiel mentions the fact, that after many years of being left desolated, the inhabitants of the land (Jews) have been restored to Israel and will be living in peace and security at the time of the attack. Part of this prophecy was established in 1948 when the Jews regained their land after they had lost it 2,000 years earlier, however, they are obviously not living in peace and security at the moment but just this month a surprising peace deal has been reached between Isreal and the United Arab Emirates, who became the third Arab country to make peace after Egypt and Jordan.

In Ezekiel 38: 11, he claims, the coalition will invade the land of unprotected settlements to take much spoil and plunder. Ezekiel 13 claims, Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and its "young lions," (this phrase is a Hebrew idiom meaning the nations that have come out of Tarshish) will say to (Gog), "are you invading to get much spoil and plunder?" " Have you assembled your armies to carry off silver and gold?

Sheba and Dedan are what's now called Saudi Arabia and they are allies of Tarshish and its young lions. Tarshish is almost certainly the UK and was mentioned in the Bible as far back as Genesis 10. Tarshish translates to the "Tin Isles." Tin was needed in ancient times to make bronze, tin has been mined in Britain for thousands of years, something not mined in great quantities anywhere else in Europe. The “merchants of Tarshish and the young lions thereof” are the offshoots of Britain from their Empire days, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Britain ruled the oceans and used their ships to connect the world with ocean shipping roots which are exploited today by its "young lions, " The mighty US among others. Full story 

Why do I think Tarshis is The British Isles?

Tarshish is mentioned in the prophecies of Scripture as having an important role in the last days. Usually, reference is made to “the ships of Tarshish” or the “merchants of Tarshish”. If we can locate Tarshish in the ancient world we can identify Tarshish in the last- days' prophecies

Psalm 72: 10. The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. In September 2019, scientists made a breakthrough discovery by identifying tin ingots found in Israel as being originally from Cornwall. The ingots, which date back to around 1,300 BC, were discovered at shipwreck sites and a sunken village off the coast of Israel from a time that Phoenician ships dominated the Mediterranean.

Others have also pointed to the role Britain had in aiding the return of the Jewish people to their historic homeland: “Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, To bring your sons from afar, Their silver and their gold with them, To the name of the Lord your God, And to the Holy One of Israel Because He has glorified you.” (Isaiah 60:9). Cufi.org

A promise to Abraham

In Genesis 12: 2-3 God promises Abraham a great nation and tells him he will have a great name and will be blessed. God also told Abraham, I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, Genesis 13:14-16. And in Genesis 15, Abrahams's descendants would be like the number of the stars. Abraham would go on to have two sons, his first son Ishmael was born from his maidservant Hagar and the Arab nations take their origin from Ismael's sons. Abraham then had a child with his own wife Sarah and they called him Isaac. Many years after Jehovah's promise to Abraham he reconfirmed them to his son Isaac.

The beginning of Israel

Isaac and his wife, Rebecca had two sons, twins, Jacob and Esau. In Genesis 28:13-14, Jacobs's descendants would spread abroad to the west and east and to the north and south and Jacob's seed would be in of the families of the world and they shall be blessed. We see here the inheritance God promised Jacob was to encompass more than just the lands of the middle-east but the entire world. Jehovah changed Jacob's name to Israel and he went on to have 12 sons, the original ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel. Two kingdoms would derive from the twelve tribes of Israel, Israel in the north consisting of ten tribes and Judah in the South consisting of two tribes. Judah's descendants in the south were promised a line of Kings culminating in the King of Kings the Messiah. Joseph's descendants in the north were given the promise of national greatness.

As we read earlier Israel in the north was broken up by the Assyrians and its people were captured and taken to a place between the Black and Caspian Seas, which was probably eastern Turkey or northern Iran. years later Judah in the South was captured and its residents took back to Babylon but some of them returned to Judah after Babylon was conquered by the Persians, the ten tribes of the north never went back, they headed north, ultimately to northwestern Europe.

The Birthright Promises Are Fulfilled.

Mr Armstrong writes; Seven prophetic times, 2,520 years went by from the time of Samaria's fall, (the capital of Israel in the north), in 721 BC. This brings us to 1800 AD and the time according to scripture, Abrahams's descendants would begin coming into the possession of the birthright promises. Mr Armstrong goes on, the remarkable story of English-speaking nations that unfolded after 1800 is astounding (and once again proved that Tarshish and her young lions were the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, added by Gary Walton).

England Emerges.

After the war of the roses which ended in 1485, a stable government under the Tudor dynasty of Henry VII ruled England and brought them out of the dark ages. Over the next century, the tiny nation began to develop into a sea power. By the end of the 1800s, Great Britain had amassed the biggest empire ever known. The small Islands ruled over a quarter of the world's land, "the sun never sets on her Empire". The most powerful company of nations, the British Empire and the greatest single nation, the US, emerged right on schedule fulfilling God's prophecy to Abraham. With Australia, New Zealand and Canada Great Britain came into possession of some of the richest agricultural land on earth. 

The rest, as they say, is history, Ezekiel's warning goes unheard, God's desire for repentance, not punishment will never happen, the US and UK are morally in tatters, sin is rampant and both countries are heading for a fall, England, of course, lost her empire and America is slowly relenting power to China

Two declining powers

The prophecy in the book of Ezekiel, Chapter 38, gives us actual insight into the two declining powers in the last few days. What is interesting to note here is the fact that Israel's staunch allies of today, the US and the UK appear not to be able to defend Israel from the Magog coalition who merely ask Gog in a weak response, "are you invading Israel to get much spoil and plunder?" "Have you assembled your armies to carry off silver and gold?" A polite, meek diplomatic protest rather than a threat of retaliation. The US and UK have clearly lost their "Super Power" status in the future and can't come to the defence of Israel? Have today's problems brought the country to its knees in the future? Ezekiel 38:13.

And we come full swing today.

The fact that the so-called mighty power of NATO is cowardly hiding behind the nation of Ukraine during its war with Russia is a terrific yet disturbing insight into the boldness and bravery of Israel's allies in the near future, namely, the West and what they will do against Gog from Magog in the future. . . 'Nothing!'

Whatever happened to all the heroes? 

Religion 2023

Home Page 2023