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The Word Café Podcast with Amax
S3 Ep. 214 Exploring the God-Rhythm: Prophecy, History, and Cosmic Influences
Unlock the secrets of the "God-rhythm" with me, Amachree Isoboye, as we enter 2025 with an exploration that promises to shift your perspective on prophecy and history. Have you ever considered whether prophecy is simply history foretold or if history itself is the fulfillment of prophecy? Together, we'll unravel how these divine patterns interlace with our actions and the flow of time, steering us away from repeating past mistakes. By reflecting on celestial influences, such as those outlined in biblical passages, we'll contemplate how entities like the sun, moon, and stars govern not just our seasons but the very essence of our existence. This episode aims to inspire and provoke thought, providing a framework for understanding the significance of time and divine orchestration in our lives.
As we journey through the cosmic influences shaping historical and prophetic events, we'll pay special attention to the shifting dynamics in Africa's oil and gas sector, illustrating how divine orchestration aligns with human endeavors. By exploring the stories of the Magi and biblical references like Job 38:31, we consider the intricate relationship between the cosmos and earthly affairs. To stay connected and continue this enlightening journey, I invite you to join us on Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube, where uplifting and insightful content awaits throughout the year. This is not just about understanding the past or present—it's about preparing for the future by recognizing the opportunities and signals of the new season approaching.
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Oh, how do we start this? First of all, before we go into anything super exciting, happy new year, 2025. Yes, then we come back to. Yes, I have to begin the show with this Good morning, good afternoon, Good evening, good, everything. How are you all doing? Beautiful, beautiful. Yes, I'm doing fine, super excited, why? And all that happened and all of that Fruitful year I must say Fruitful year, I must say, you know, we had this amazing, amazing time, amazing guest on the show and quality production, and I'm grateful. Your feedback, your responses, ah, it's been beautiful and I'm grateful.
Speaker 1:So, 2025, we begin yet again and, uh, what are we going to be doing today? I'll let you in, but I want to read something. Yes, I wrote something. I think that was last night, as of before coming. I wrote something down and I looked at it before coming on set and I said I think I should share it with us before we go into what we have for today. A lot of moving parts. Today, yes, we're going to have a lot of moving parts, piecing them together and creating that amazing collage, if you understand what I mean by that.
Speaker 1:Yep, I call this the God-read-im Mm-hmm. You know, we talk about algorithm in this generation so much that we are now subjecting ourselves to algorithms. But something came to my mind and I said let me write it down. I call it the God-redim. The God-redim can be described as the divine pattern or algorithm that governs life, creation and existence. It is a redim of God's wisdom and sovereignty, operating seamlessly through natural and supernatural processes to bring order, purpose and harmony to the universe. It reflects the interplay between human actions and divine orchestration orchestration where the infinite wisdom of god aligns circumstances, events, decisions to fulfill his ultimate plan. The concept embodies the idea that god's ways are precise, intentional and deeply intertwined with the intricate systems of creation, such as time, space, nature and even the human relationships. Like an algorithm in the digital world, the God-rhythm is dynamic, yet consistent, adapting to the individual lives while remaining rooted in divine truth and eternal principles. Hope you like that. I know you do. So what are we going to be doing today? I decided to read this because it will lay the foundation for what we want to do. Give me a minute, please Give me a minute. It will lay the foundation.
Speaker 1:So, 2024, at the, would I say, christmas period, the holiday and all of that. This thought hit me and I for a while. For a moment I was brooding yeah, brooding. I shared it with my wife Usually I do that and had a little discussions and all that and had a little discussions and all that. So every year ends, every year begins.
Speaker 1:I have come to notice or realize something that we all race against. We all race against it. I call it two sides of a coin. I'm going to go into it, relax. Two sides of a coin. I'm going to go into it, relaxed. Two sides of a coin.
Speaker 1:And this is how I describe it Prophecy and history. And you'll be wondering, I know. So I ask this question is prophecy, history foretold, or is history, prophecy, fulfilled? So the question now is what is prophecy and what is history Now? Whenever we speak of these two things, they ride on one singular factor time.
Speaker 1:When you talk about history, what comes to people's mind? I remember on the show once I talked about history, someone defining history as not what had happened or what had happened to you. Rather, it is what is happening. But this is very clear. We're talking about time. Yep, each time we talk about history, what comes to our mind is the past, somehow the present. We don't really talk about the future. But when we talk about prophecy, it is the future. It will come, surely it will happen. So how do we balance this? Because if you calm yourself down, take, uh, take stock of, say, 10 years backwards, count from 2024 backwards to, maybe you know, 2014. Keep going. If you try and put together things we heard, you heard in form of prophecy, then fast forward. You come to see that history somehow has been made. And again, those who come to understand the dynamics of prophecy don't fall prey of repeating history's mistakes, because somehow we come to know that history repeats itself, or herself, as the case may be. So you ask why do we make that same or do same mistakes? And some of the wondering, why are we talking about this on the show? You know, because somehow, when it comes to your mind, what?
Speaker 1:When you hear the word prophecy, we, we think prophecy is just tied to something exoteric, the church, spiritual. But if you look at it clearly, our lives are governed by the protocol of prophecy, of prophecy. Our lives are expressed on the scale of history, because they are all functions of time. Like I said, we have a lot of moving parts today. So I want to begin by sharing a story. We're going to begin with that We'll tell a story.
Speaker 1:When you look at the concept of time, let me lay a little foundation before we go into the story. If you go into scriptures, you see when God was creating in the beginning, when he created creation and something so unique, he created some entities and he gave them authority to govern. He created the moon and he said you will govern the night. He created the sun and he said you will govern the day. He created the stars and he said you will govern the day. He created the stars and he said you will govern, or they will govern, the seasons. All of these are functions of, or expressions of, time.
Speaker 1:Am I confusing you now? I don't think so. So I want us to lay that foundation. So the rising of the sun, the setting of the sun, the going down the moon, the movement of the stars, there is a cosmic reality that this reality, our reality, is subject to. So between that distance, they influence so much. Am I speaking too much grammar? I'm not confusing. I know I'm not confusing you, but I want us to begin the year by looking at this. So what's our story?
Speaker 1:The story we're going to begin with is the one factor has defined the 20th or 21st century, as the case may be, and that factor is energy. You understand energy, yes, energy. Energy is revealed in so many forms, but one particular one that has defined the 21st century, or the 20th and the 21st century, is fossil fuel. Yeah, that energy that comes from fossil fuel, what you know as oil and gas. And I'll read this now and we will see where we're going with all of this the 1928 Red Line Agreement so I read, the 1928 Group Agreement, better known as the Red Line Agreement was a deal struck between several American, british and French oil companies concerning the oil resources within territories that formerly comprised the Ottoman Empire within the Middle East.
Speaker 1:The origins of the Red Line Agreement can be traced back to the initial formation of the Turkish Petroleum Company, tpc, in 1912. The TPC was formed as a joint venture between the Royal Dutch Shell, the Dutch Bank and the Turkish National Bank in order to promote oil exploration and production within the Ottoman Empire. In March 1912., however, the British government, which controlled the Turkish National Bank, managed to have its shares within the TPC transferred to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The following June, the Ottoman Grand Vizier, that's, the leader, promised an oil concession to the constituted or reconstituted TPC to develop oil fields within the Oatman province of Baghdad and Mosul. Seven sisters Follow my thought. You will see where we are going.
Speaker 1:During World War I, the Allies Expropriated Dutch banks Share in the TPC and transferred them to the French government During the San Remo Conference of 1920. At the time, royal Dutch Shell Hoped that it could P could purchase the French government's shares so as to balance out Anglo-Persian's 50% stake within the TPC. I hope I pronounced that very well of France, however, brushed aside any such suggestions, since he was determined to create an independent French oil company that could compete with major British and American oil companies, which became known collectively as the Seven Sisters. Follow my thoughts. The Seven Sisters were the standard Oil Company of New Jersey, later known as Exxon. The Standard Oil Company of New York. Soconi, later Mobil, which eventually merged with Exxon. The Standard Oil Company of California, socol I beg yourCal, later renamed Chevron. The Texas Oil Company, later renamed Texaco. Gulf Oil, which later merged with Chevron. Anglo-persian, later British Petroleum, and Royal Dutch Shell and Royal Dutch Shell.
Speaker 1:The San Remo oil agreement excluded American oil companies from participation in the TPC. This fact provoked strong protests from both American oil companies, who feared that the Europeans would deny them access to foreign oil resources foreign oil sources, I beg your pardon, and dump cheap Middle Eastern oil on the world market and the US Department of State, which opposed any attempts by foreign governments and businesses to discriminate against American firms in their search for new market and business opportunities. In order to discourage the Europeans from treating American oil companies unfairly, the US Congress passed the Mineral Leasing Act in February of 1920, which denied drilling rights on publicly owned land in the United States to any foreign company whose parent government discriminated against American businesses. Neither the British nor the US government, however, wished to jeopardize relations over the issue. In 1928, the TPC was reorganized to include the Near East Development Corporation, an American oil syndicate that included Jersey Standard, soconi, gulf Oil, the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company and Atlantic Refining. Later ARCO, jersey Standard and Socorny later assumed total control over the NEDC after they bought out their partners during the 1930s.
Speaker 1:Now, signing of the red line agreement on June 31st 1928, following the discovery of an immense oil field in Iraq, and TPC negotiating regarding the division of crude oil output between the partners. Representatives from the Anglo-Persian Real Doge Shell, the company there's a very long word, there's a French word CFP, I'll just abbreviate it later Total, yes, that's how to talk him about and the near east development corporation signed. Now, when you go through this, the history, you had me use the word the seven sisters. You had me talk about or mention the names of the seven sisters. So, looking back in history, time past, how the search for energy, energy resources, oil and gas and all of that shaped the 20th and the 21st century. But this is how it came about.
Speaker 1:Now, when the Americans, from what I read, and the British, you know, were jostling for this, they did not allow other entities come into it. One name, one name, an Italian name, came into the mix. I'm trying to look for it so that we're going to see it. His name was Enrico Mattei. Mattei requested for an opportunity to be part of you know, I want a piece of the table, but he wasn't. They didn't respond to him. He actually went to meet them, as in the powers that be, then to ask for a piece of the pie, and they refused him. So Matei was the one who coined the name the seven sisters.
Speaker 1:Why the seven sisters? You know when he used that word, the seven sisters, why maté was frustrated by the dominance of the major Western oil companies, mostly American and British, which controlled oil exploration, production and pricing globally. These companies operated like a cartel, often referred to as oil majors, and worked together to maintain their grip on the resources. In producing, as in oil producing countries, matei saw their coordinated efforts to exclude smaller players like ENI yes, he was the founder of ENI as a significant barrier to Italy's energy and economic growth. He now coined them. He coined the name the Seven Sisters.
Speaker 1:Who is Matei? Like I told you today, we have a lot of moving parts. We are going to bring them together. Who is, or who was, matei? Enrico Matei was born 29th April 1906. He died 27th October 1962. He was an Italian public administrator. After World War II, he was given the task of dismantling the Italian Petroleum Agency AGIP, a state enterprise established by the fascist Italy. Instead, mattei enlarged and reorganized it into a national fuel trust which is called Inter National Aido Caburi ENI. Under his direction, eni negotiated important oil concessions in the Middle East, as well as significant trade agreement with the Soviet East, as well as significant trade agreement with the Soviet Union, which helped break the oligopoly of the Seven Sisters, you see, that dominated the mid-20th century oil industry. He also introduced the principle whereby the country that owned exploited oil reserves received 75 percent of the profits. Matei, who became a powerful figure in Italy, was a member of Christian democracy and the Italian parliament from 1948 to 1953.
Speaker 1:You know the story goes and all of that. He coined the word the seven sisters. So when I was preparing for this, I was asking myself why the seven sisters? Now, yes, don't forget, we said something about the stars, the sun, the moon, governing the cosmic reality. The seven sisters is known as the plates. Maté, from my observation and opinion, was a huge scholar who took his time to study the stars, the cosmos, how they influence our day-to-day life, and there's this particular group of stars that are called the seven sisters. Are you with me? Am I scaring you? The seven sisters?
Speaker 1:You remember in the book of Job, when God called Job to question him, he said can you? That's Job 38, verse 31. Can you bind the chains of the plagues? Can you loosen Orion's belt 32. Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the bear With his cobs? Now, this was God speaking to Job and asking him questions about the constellations, and I want to read something for you now I want to read something For you to see.
Speaker 1:Now I have a lot, like I said, with reference to their supposed effect on weather, as it's talking about the constellations now, and the like or perhaps the word means chain or bands with illusion, allusion, I beg your pardon, to their group glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangling in a silver tread. The context, however, blah, blah. Let me jump to this now. Job 38, verse 31. I'm reading the commentary canst thou bind the sweet influences of plates generally understood of the seven stars which, rising from the time of the venal equinox, bring in the spring. Canst thou restrain or hinder the influences or loosen bands of Orion by which it binds up the air and earth rising in November, and he saw the way that these companies operated like a cluster, not allowing others into the game, and he coined the name Seven Sisters.
Speaker 1:Now the question I ask is were they conscious that they were operating like the constellations? Remember what we said earlier the moon, the sun were given to govern, to influence the processes. Now one would ask what has that got to do with prophecy and history? Like I said, it all rides on the principle of time, yes, time, the cosmos, the stars, and all of that rides on the principle of time and time as we know, or rather, history and prophecy, as we know, are functions of time and prophecy, as we know, are functions of time.
Speaker 1:So now you remember the story of the Magi that came from the east. What did they say? We saw his star. We saw his star. We've been studying the stars, we've been looking at the cosmic reality, and there's something that's about to happen, and now we need to follow it. And when they followed it, it brought the star, led them to where, bethlehem, and they saw the king who was born. Was he spoken of? Was there a prophecy about the king that was to be born? Yes, mm-hmm, there was a prophecy spoken of, about the king that was to be born. So that prophecy that went forth shaped the cosmos, and the cosmos who has been given the command or the authority to govern time? This is me had all of these codes hidden somewhere and waiting for that time to come. So why are we talking about that now? Can you see what is happening in the world today If you observe what is happening in the world today? Can you see what is happening in the world today If you observe what is happening in the world today.
Speaker 1:I use the oil and gas intentionally, because the world is going through this what I call it phase and there's this jostling for energy resources in form of oil and gas, and now the big majors who have come to Africa and dealing you know, they've been dealing with Africa for over 60, 70, close to 100 years, now a century. But you know what? There's a change, mm-hmm. The time is changing. They are beginning to like leave. They are divesting their portfolios and their interest and all of that. So now it is like creating another opportunity. So I ask myself, the stars are changing. They are realigning. Why are you saying that they were given the command to govern? Yes, you will govern the day, you will govern the night. The stars will bring about the seasons and you will agree with me, our lives are all about times and seasons. What I came to do today is to uh, provoke this thought in you so that every moment of 2025 will not be taken for granted.
Speaker 1:I'm in Daniel, chapter 2, verse 21. He changes times and seasons. He deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. But this is my focus Times and seasons. He changes them and, in cause of the change, he brings down one king and he raises another king. Do you get it? He's given them the authority to govern the day, to govern the night, to bring about seasons. They play his would I say script. They play the I mean divinity's script. But in course of rising and falling, kings rise and also the others fall. So this is clear. There's a unique season coming for all of us, mm-hmm, in Africa, particularly Nigeria, it is for us to like, see it, position ourselves.
Speaker 1:What are you driving at? Are you trying to say that? Are you trying to say that the cosmos, the constellations, the stars and what have you influences our lives? Yes, that is what I'm saying, because they were given. You remember that scripture that says the sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The order of the sun is not to smite thee. The order of the moon by night, the author of the sun, is not to smite thee the author of the moon either. But do you know that certain people manipulate it? Yep, they manipulate it. But listen, that's why we're here. Their manipulations will not work this season because we know better.
Speaker 1:Now Let me tell you something. I know that for sure. I know that Certain organizations, certain people, certain families, certain groups are the end or the ending or the coming of the end of a particular season. They go to sick mediums, the horoscoping and astrologing. What do you think they're doing? What do you think they're doing? They go to sick medium. But scripture says that why do you seek the dead among the living? So, if we know it, if we know it and have that understanding, we will position ourselves. That is what I came to do today. You know, I told you we have a lot of moving parts. So that is it. Don't just walk carelessly this 2025.
Speaker 1:Why we are fulfilling prophecies we are creating histories. If we are not careful, we will repeat the mistakes of the past. Yes, so for us not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Yes, so for us not to repeat the mistakes of the past, we need to understand the direction of prophecy and position ourselves like break those, what I call it orchestration of evil. Is that what we came to do on the show today? Yes, the green, yay, on that note, and it's always exciting when thoughts like this come through, as in come to my mind and I sit down and I ponder over them and I churn over them and I trust God for the best way to bring them across.
Speaker 1:Is prophecy, history fulfilled? Sorry, is prophecy, history foretold? Or is history prophecy fulfilled? So, every day of our lives, we are fulfilling prophecy. Yes, you being ignorant of it does not stop it from happening, but you being aware, conscious of it, plays to your advantage. You position yourself All right, guys, the earth is our own fruitfulness. The earth will walk to our advantage, the earth will walk for us. And somebody will ask so what do we do as a people, as a nation, as group? I think what we should do is pay attention to the signs, pay attention to the signals, then build Yep, build. This isn't of building. What are you building Capacity? What are you building Expansion? What are you building Capacity? What are you building Expansion? What are you building your character? What are you building your zest? What are you building your energy bank? You're filling them up because there is a change. All right, then I have to leave it here, but this is what we came to do on the show. It's going to be an exciting year. I mean, I tell you more will come, we'll talk more, we'll share more. Yes, I have to say this before I leave you Go ahead, go follow.
Speaker 1:Recently I've been I've been trying to get myself into that mode of saying this over and over again. You know, go ahead, follow us on all social media platforms. You know instagram, x, tiktok, linkedin. Go subscribe to our YouTube channel. We have amazing content for you. You know beautiful content for you. This year, by his grace, we will churn out amazing content that will bless you on every level. I wish I can go on and on and I have to go so I can get more and come back and share with you. You know how we say it on the show my name is Amakri Amakri Soboye Till I come your way again. Bye for now.