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Isaiah continued his ministry until about 690 B.C. His name means: "helper". And he did everything he could
to help and warn the people of the impending catastrophes. After the death of King Ahaz, Hezekiah was King
of Judah and during his fourteenth year another catastrophe was expected.
Isaiah 28:2: "Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying
storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand."
A "mighty and strong" heavenly body was to be cast down to Earth.
Isaiah 29:5-6: "Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the
terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. Thou shalt be visited of
the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of
devouring fire."
Isaiah 28:21: "For the Lord . . . shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange
work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act."
This refers to the "strange act" in the valley of Gibeon when Joshua witnessed a meteoric shower and
commanded the sun to stand still. Isaiah knew of this happening and says the new catastrophe will be similar
to it.
The prophet referred his readers to the "Book of the Lord". Isaiah 34:16: "Seek ye out the book of the Lord,
and read: no one of these shall fail." Evidently this book belonged to the same series as the Book of Jasher, in
which the records of the days of Joshua at Gibeon were preserved. Other ancient records must have been in
the "Book of the Lord". The Book of Jasher is once more avail-able, but the other book is still lost.
There were more catastrophes in the years ahead, but there is not sufficient room here to list all of them.
Planets of our Solar System were greatly disturbed by the destruction of Lucifer-Maldek, and its moon
Lilith-Malona. The Chinese say: "In the tenth year of the Emperor Kwei, the eighteenth monarch since Yahou,
the five planets went out of their courses. In the night stars fell like rain. The earth shook."
Mars and the Earth suffered more from Lucifer than any of the other worlds. The two moons of Mars have
already been mentioned, however, other facts must be added. How could Jonathan Swift have guessed not
only their number (two), but their size and their short revolutions? Homer knew about the "two steeds of
Mars" and Virgil wrote about them. Asaph Hall gave the names of Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Panic) to these
two moons. These names were suggested by Mr. Madan of Eton, England because the ancients said Mars had
two steeds and gave them these names. It should also be mentioned that Voltaire told of these moons in the
story of Micromegas more than a hundred years before their discovery!
Phobos, the inner satellite, revolves at the distance of 5800 miles from the center of Mars, and 3700 miles
from the surface; it completes a sidereal revolution in only 7h 39m, a period less than one third that of the
planet's rotation. As viewed from the planet, therefore, it rises in the west and sets in the east. No other known
satellite in the solar system revolves in a shorter interval than the rotation period of its primary.
The distance of Deimos from the center of Mars is 14,600 miles, and its period of revolution is 30h-18m. It is
smaller than the inner satellite (5 miles?), and only one third as bright. The size (diameter) of these satellites is
not exactly known. Phobos is about ten miles in diameter and Deimos is about five miles in diameter.
In mythology, the two steeds were yoked when the Greek god of war, Ares (Mars) prepared to descend to the
earth on a punitive expedition. This sounds like the two artificial satellites (steeds) of Mars were used together
for launching plateforms before Mars sent spaceships to the undisciplined Earth in ancient times. To "yoke"