So, You Want to Travel Through Time

Ah, the unanswered and universal question: is time travel possible?

Come on, you’ve had the odd fantasy or two about it, haven’t you? Novels like Michael Crichton’s Timeline have been around forever (little pun there).

H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine long before Crichton’s Timeline, but the cinematic translations are all, bar none, terrible. So was Timeline.

Except for the castle and Trebuchet setup at the end of the Paul Walker vehicle, which was exactly as I had imagined it, most are dull. And like every film from Crichton’s ingenious books, they get so butchered that the end result never makes much sense. In the movie, the Green Knight doesn’t appear. Read it; he’s quite the, um, character.

Even the one that passed muster, Jurassic Park, still managed to leave out what I considered some of the best parts, like the river ride and the aviary accidents. We see both in later films, especially the Jurassic World trilogy, but by then. Crichton had passed on. It’s a shame that he didn’t get to see those last three films (JW I and II were the best). And with a reboot on the horizon, I just hope nobody will mess up a good thing.

More than a few films have gone back to the time of the dinosaurs, but few were notable. In fact, the formula for good dino-and-monster movies has always been to have the creatures appearing in the modern world. In the film Jurassic Park The Lost World, the movie would be terrible except for the T-Rex running loose in San Diego scenes. Now that was cool. I loved it when she destroyed a Blockbuster store.

That’s not to say that any of the six films is unwatchable; they’ve each had good and bad wrapped together in a popcorn-munching orgy. Of course, each has also had outraged critics ready to pounce the moment the first trailers were released. But oddly enough, some turned out to be scientists.

It wasn’t long at all before cries of “foul!” were heard.

“Dilophosaurus didn’t spit,” they said. “Dinosaurs like raptors had feathers!” they yelled. Then came the inevitable, “Hey! You have animals from every period of the Mesozoic Era in the same films? You’ve gone too far!”

And it’s true. The Mesozoic Era started with the Triassic period, followed by the Jurassic, then the Cretaceous periods. So much time was involved that, sure, some species would have been seeing each other for the first time. Except, the critics forgot that the first JP movie established that. They were hybrids, taken from the DNA of an unknown species, with the gaps filled in with frog DNA using Cray supercomputers for sequencing.

As for the lack of feathers, Dr. Wu and John Hammond alluded to the fact that they didn’t want feathers. The classic concept of a dinosaur was what they wanted. So, no feathers. Whatever made them create the spitting Dilophosaurus doesn’t matter; it was so gratifying to see one get Dennis Nedry. Still, in the last film, JW Dominion, there shouldn’t have been any Dimetrodons; those were lizards. But fans wanted them. Hey, they used to come in our plastic dinosaurs sets, right?

And by the way, Velociraptors were about the size of a large bird, like your Christmas goose. But they wanted it bigger. So it was bigger. It could never have opened a door, but Spielberg wanted them to. Crichton wanted them to. So they could. It’s just for movie fans, okay?

The franchise has worked because of the outstanding special effects and star power. The cast was perfect except in JP III (I was just hoping that Tea Leoni would be painfully ripped apart by something stupid like Cretaceous sea turtles or something).

And picking Grant’s phone out of what Ian Malcolm once called “Dino-droppings? Droppings? Did you say droppings?” was an unnecessary bit unless they’d found Tea Leoni’s head in there, and it was still talking. Naturally.

Nah, I’m just having a bit of fun.

But wait, time travel is possible. Well, kind of. Please watch the video I’ve brought along. I think it’s important, because there’s only one place where you can see the past, present and the future: the Holy Bible.

This presentation puts a perspective on the protestant canon that I found fascinating and motivating. It’s only a forty-five minute lesson, but it held my attention, and a few things that never made sense to me now make so much sense that I am going to start my studies over.

If you can, get screenshots of the pastor’s charts. They will help you understand the order of the Old Testament and who wrote it.

A lot of people have told me over the years that the Septuagint is ghastly fiction, horror stories full of lies and fairytales. I agreed because I didn’t know any better. But I do now. I’ve known since Easter weekend.

But now I also know why people find it appalling. It’s because they have read but not understood. Same as I. Once you see that the flow through time and events line up and you know the writers and recorded history, you’ll see that it is a resource for understanding and gaining knowledge and conviction about the word of God.

My book, which I have previously called “the cursed novel,” was written in a house dating back to 1900. It was always evident that spirits inhabited the house, but most of my novel was written there, and I wrote things that I’m not good enough to write. My imagination is good, but I don’t know where all the Satanic and demonic things came from. I had never dared type such things before. And people believe me when I tell them these details.

Why, then, if it’s easy to believe that I was given demons as ghost writers, can so many rationalize not believing in God and the idea that Moses and the prophets had divine inspiration to write and form the canonical Septuagint?

The Bible gives us a look back and a look at what’s in store for humanity. But before you can understand the future, you must first look back.

God bless you all. Please watch the full video below and enjoy!