COMMENT: We may find prophetic significance in the related circumstances. The name of the wedding room was The Versailles Hall. The Michelin Guide to Paris, carries two pages on the original Versailles, and mentions that: "Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were the last French sovereigns to live at Versailles. The Revolution scattered the magnificent furniture. The palace was deserted and threatened with demolition. Louis-Philippe saved it by paying 23 million francs from his own purse and converted it into a museum dedicated ‘To All the Glories of France’. A complete restoration was undertaken after the 1914-1918 war, thanks to a large gift from Mr. J. D. Rockefeller and credits provided by the Ministry of Fine Arts."

Pears Cyclopaedia 1988-89 explains the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, as "ending the first world war. The first half was devoted to the organization of the League of Nations ." The provisions of the treaty virtually guaranteed the onset of the Second World War, which led to formation of The United Nations, with headquarters in New York.

The Michelin Guide to New York City tells us that this was built on ground costing $8,500,000, provided by Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr..

For years, students of prophecy have held that the League of Nations - U.N. World Government sequence represented the "wall of untempered morter" of Ezekiel 13:10-15 which God would cause to fall to the ground.

The hotel collapsed on the day chosen for the release of the most expensive Hollywood film ever, "Pearl Harbor", the essence of which is an unexpected national disaster.

The question is this: Is The Almighty using this coincidence of shocking portrayal of death at an instant to announce, to all the world, the impending prophetic equivalence upon the sphere of world government? [It also happened, incidentally, 120 days prior to September 21, 2001, which terminates a significant period in pyramid time measures, as projected over many years by students of the subject.]

From "Science" (Journal of the American association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 292, 1 June, 2001, p. 1643:
"The Genetics of Caste"
Anthropologists have long believed that the elites of India’s ancient Hindu caste system are descendants of European invaders who arrived about 5000 years ago. Now, modern population genetics has confirmed that at least some Indians’ genetic relatedness to Europeans rises with caste rank. Although outlawed in 1960, the caste system continues to be "the main feature of Indian society," according to anthropologist Partha Majumder of the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta. Researchers from the United States, the U.K., and India capitalized on that phenomenon by comparing DNA from caste members in an area in southeast India with DNA from people around the world. The researchers collected DNA from 265 males representing eight castes in Andhra Pradesh, then compared it to samples taken from 400 men from around India and from 350 Africans, Asians, and Europeans. In comparing the groups they analyzed three types of DNA; mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA, inherited only from women), Y chromosomal DNA (passed on only through men), and 40 genetic loci in plain old nuclear DNA. Overall, "the upper castes are significantly more similar to Europeans than are the lower castes," says lead author Michael Bamshad, a geneticist at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Among upper castes, those with the greatest genetic affinity with Europeans were the priestly Brahmins. The study also shows that it’s much easier for women to move up in caste. The mtDNA in all castes was more similar to that of Asians, but Y chromosome markers showed, in contrast, that men in the upper castes were closest to Europeans. Until now, says Bamshad, there have been few "objective data to support the idea of Indo-European mixing, much less mixing related to caste rank." Mark Weiss of the National Science Foundation, which funded the study, calls the findings a "beautiful example of the interplay between culture and genetics."

From The Toronto Globe and Mail of 2 June, 2001,
Son kills Nepal’s royals in spat over marriage. It was reported that "astrologers had advised the royal family that the Crown Prince, aged 29, should not be allowed to marry or produce children until after he was 35. If this directive were not followed, the King would die, the astrologers warned, according to the reports. King Birendra, 55, was known to pay close attention to the views of his astrologers." Christians are aware of God’s view of such practices, as seen in the early chapters of Daniel, wherein that Prophet exceeds all such astrologers through God’s imparted wisdom.

The Weekly Telegraph No. 515 of June 6-12, 2001
carried the obituary of Marie-France MacCarthy, a Heroine of the French Resistance, who helped Allied pilots shot down over occupied Europe to escape to England."Her extraordinary courage, strength of will, initiative and selflessness qualities which had remained largely hidden during her sheltered childhood blossomed when she joined the French Resistance." Those aided were mainly American and Canadian airmen. She was later awarded the Bronze Star by the Americans and the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille de la Resistance by the French. Her birth date was the day that the Germans signed the peace treaty at Versailles, June 28, 1919. She was the eighth child, in a strongly anglophile and very musical French family.

The same issue of The Weekly Telegraph carried the obituary of Sir Harold Ridley, "an ophthalmic surgeon who overcame the doubts and hostility of fellow practitioners in Britain to establish an operation for treating cataracts; over the last half-century it has saved the sight of some 200 million people across the world." He "began to formulate an answer to the problem during the Second World War when, as a surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, he operated on injured pilots. He noted that slivers of perspex from cockpit canopies which had become embedded in the eye did not produce any adverse reaction and speculated on the possibility of making lenses out of such material. From 1942, Ridley was away from Britain in remote parts of Africa. On his return home at the end of the war, he began to work with John Pike, an optical scientist." Sitting in his Bentley in Cavendish Square he learned from Pike that ICI could produce a suitable (lense) for £1 each. The two men agreed there and then that they would never seek to profit from this invention.

Against opposition, he proved that he could perform the necessary surgery.

The Toronto Globe and Mail of June 8, 2001 carried the obituary of Charles Templeton, a widely known personality. Headed "He made his name as an international evangelist and then turned his hand to politics, inventions, broadcasting and to writing a string of popular novels", the article explains, in a six-column illustrated spread, the varied aspects of this man of many parts. He was, for a time, a popular evangelist who worked for a time with Billy Graham, but later turned from his former evangelical commitment to other interests.

The same issue of The Globe and Mail, under a front-page heading "An underwater city yields fabled treasure" and an inside page "20,000 treasures under the sea? Possibly" the article, by David Keys, London, is a follow-up to the item in the June Prophetic Expositor regarding that underwater city of Herakleion near Alexandria, Egypt, which was destroyed by a sudden earthquake and landslide 1,800 years ago. "A team of marine archeologists has recovered giant statues, massive hieroglyphic inscriptions, sacred objects from a huge temple and hundreds of fragments of gold jewellery.
‘History is materializing in our hands,’ Egypt’s culture Minister, Farouk Hosni, told a news conference in Alexandria yesterday."

"The fact that artifacts remain untouched indicates the city’s 5,000 residents had little time to rescue anything, or to save themselves. ‘As the ground failed, as buildings toppled and the water swept in, there would have been total panic. Many inhabitants would have been crushed by falling masonry,’ said Professor Jean-Daniel Stanley, senior oceanographer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., who has been working at the site.
Dr. Goddio’s team has brought to the surface a colossal statue of a beautiful Egyptian queen dressed as the goddess Isis and two other giant statues, each up to 5.7 metres tall. One portrays a mid-first millennium BC pharaoh and the other portrays the divine personification of the Nile’s annual flood, the god Hapy. The statues come from the main building excavated over recent weeks, the Temple of Amun, the Egyptian ‘creator of the universe’ who is equivalent to the Greek god Zeus, king of the gods. The city seems to have been well regarded by the Greeks because they named it after the best known of Zeus’s many offspring, the hero Herakles (Hercules).

Inside the temple, the archeologists have found dozens of items of bronze ritual equipment, including ladles, basins, figurines of gods, a mirror, and even a musical instrument (a sistrum) in the shape of the Egyptian goddess of love, Hathor.
They have also discovered a vast stone stele from the second century BC, covered with 18 square metres of hieroglyphs and Greek inscriptions that will take several months to decipher.
So far, in excavating the temple, the team has found human bones from up to seven victims, including a child who was apparently crushed by falling masonry.
In the city’s harbour area, all the ships appear to have been submerged as they lay at their moorings. The archeological team has found 10 merchant ships, and future excavations will examine their cargos.
Travellers, such as the Greek Herodotus, who visited Egypt in 450 BC, wrote about Herakleion and its temple dedicated to Hercules. Other ancient accounts described the city’s luxury and its decadence."

Proof of the identity of the city is found in a fourth-century BC black basalt monumental stone bearing the name Ro Heneth inscribed in hieroglyphic writing, which probably means "mouth of the river."

The Toronto Globe and Mail of June 8, 2001 carried an item which tells us the outcome of that complaint laid with the Ontario human rights commission by Mr. Freitag, who is Jewish, concerning the recitation of The Lord’s Prayer by the Legislature.

Under the heading "Prayer ruling clips wings of rights body", the article begins: "Ontario’s highest court firmly told the province’s human rights commission yesterday to butt out of the internal affairs of the legislature- whether they appear discriminatory or not.
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that if the legislature wants to recite the Lord’s Prayer every day, as it has since 1792, it can go right ahead and do so.
The court rejected the very idea that the commission is empowered to decide whether the use of the prayer imposes a Christian stamp on society.
‘The House must be absolutely free to set its own guidelines for how its legislative sessions will be carried out,’ Mr. Justice George Finlayson wrote for the court. ‘The Standing Orders that detail the operation of parliamentary procedure must be considered privileged and insulated from outside review.
The 3-0 ruling took issue with the very idea that the commission viewed itself as capable of looking over the shoulder of the Speaker an act the commission then tried to insulate against appeal by saying it didn’t constitute an actual decision.
‘The submission that the Commission does not regard its behaviour as constituting a decision reflects badly on its administrative process,’ Judge Finlayson wrote on behalf of Madame Justice Louise Charron and Mr. Justice Marc Rosenberg.

The issue arose after Henry W. Freitag, a citizen who has previously challenged the use of the Lord’s Prayer at municipal council meetings complained that the legislature routine was equally offensive.
Mr. Freitag, who is Jewish said it infringed upon his right to equal treatment and discriminated against him on the basis of creed.
Despite a formal request from the Speaker that the commission not meddle in the internal affairs of the legislature, the commission decided to deal with the complaint.
Shortly afterwards, it ruled against Mr. Freitag. It said there was insufficient evidence that he had been subjected to unequal treatment on the basis of creed, and that the matter could more appropriately be pursued in court as a constitutional violation.
However that left a precedent the Speaker wanted struck down. Namely, that the human rights commission had a right to inquired into legislative internal affairs.
The Speaker accordingly appealed to Divisional Court, which allowed the appeal.
In upholding the Divisional court ruling yesterday, the court of Appeal said that interference with the Speaker is tantamount to interference with ‘the mother of all parliaments’ in Britain, from which it obtained its constitutional life.
‘With or without the Standing Orders, the Speakers’ activities as they relate to the internal procedures of the legislature are protected by the same constitutionally entrenched privileges that protect the independence of the Legislature itself,’ the court said.
Mr. Freitag, 72, is listed as an intervenor in the appeal. He won an earlier fight to keep the Lord’s Prayer out of town council meetings. However the court said yesterday that they are quite different than the meetings of a legislature.
Many town councils observe a minute of silence at the beginning of their meetings instead of saying the Lord’s Prayer. Mr. Freitag said that his victory had come at a high cost death threats and hate mail.

The Weekly Telegraph No. 516, June 13-19: "EU in turmoil as Irish reject Nice treaty" The rigidity of wording with which the treaty was prepared is its own undoing. The Irish (who have received lavish hand-outs from the EU in anticipation of subservient agreement) have voted "No" by 54% thus rejecting the treaty and causing a political crisis. Other anti-federalist groups in the rest of Europe are now demanding a similar right of veto to the Irish.

The same issue of The Weekly Telegraph, under the heading "Homosexuality ‘is divinely ordered’" reveals "A RADICAL rethink of Church teaching on homosexuality that declares it to be ‘divinely ordered’ is revealed this week in a catechism commissioned by the Archbishop of York, writes Victoria Combe.
The second most senior churchman in the Church of England, the Most Rev. David Hope, has given the new catechism his imprimatur and describes it as ‘a celebration of Christian living’. Written by Canon Edward Norman, canon and treasurer of York Minster, a highly respected theologian who writes ‘meditations’ in The Daily Telegraph, the catechism seeks to define Anglicanism for the first time since Thomas Cranmer wrote The Book of Common Prayer in 1662. In the section on sexuality, he contradicts official teaching and the views of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
‘Homosexuality,’ says the catechism, ‘may well not be a condition to be regretted but to have divinely ordered and positive qualities.’"
COMMENT: We will await Christ’s Return for the truly authoritative verdict on this voice from the Laodicean Church! (For our thought on this, consult Revelation 3:14-16: And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.)