Ark of the Covenant

Our theory about 3I/ATLAS has taken us on quite a journey.

We've seen how the SETI Wow! signal received in 1977 points us to a biblical scene from the Book of Revelation, and how it plays out with 3I/ATLAS appearing as the great sign of Revelation in the constellation Virgo.

And we've discovered how the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary appears to be emphasized in the divine proportion of Virgo as the Immaculate Constellation.

This is a wild set of circumstances.

Yet somehow it aligns with the story unfolding with our theory that God is sending us a message with 3I/ATLAS. As improbable as these anomalies are, they seem very deliberate at the same time.

And that brings us to the weird properties of 3I/ATLAS itself.

Might God also be communicating with the unique properties of 3I/ATLAS?

Why does it contain so many anomalies? Perhaps they are meant to tell us something.

Getting physical

There are at least three unique things about the chemical composition of 3I/ATLAS that stand out to scientists – things we've never seen before.

• High amounts of nickel. In natural situations on earth as well as in other observed comets, iron is much more prevalent than nickel. We are detecting the reverse. We only know of nickel appearing this way in man-made manufacturing, as the result of complex processes used to develop alloys.
• High amounts of CO₂. In other comets, we observe a higher concentrations of H2O versus CO₂. Here again, the proportions are the exact opposite we would expect.
• And then there's the unusual amount of cyanide.

We've already seen God convey messages using interstellar radio signals and mathematics, coordinating these things in time with scripture and astronomy.

Could he be doing the same here with the physical properties of 3I/ATLAS?

Why all the nickel? Why all the CO₂, and the cyanide?

It almost seems like a movie.

Sending signals across space

In the movie The Martian, stranded astronaut Mark Watney needs to find a way to receive messages from NASA using a rover camera from a previous Mars mission. Watney devises a clever system enabling him to decode NASA messages by looking up character codes in an ASCII table. 

We find ourselves in a similar situation. 

But instead of NASA sending coded messages with a rotating camera, we've got God potentially sending messages with the unique chemical composition emitted from 3I/ATLAS.

So how do we decode the message?

Well, what we need is the equivalent of an ASCII table to decode 3I/ATLAS's chemical composition. And lucky for us, science provides us just such a table. You may remember it on the wall of your high school chemistry class. 

It's the...

Periodic Table of Elements

Every element in the physical universe fits neatly into this table, and has an associated atomic number based on the number of protons in its nucleus. 

Using the table, we can translate 3I/ATLAS's unique observed molecular signature into a numeric code. 

And where will we apply this numeric code? This brings us to our next prediction.

PREDICTION FOUR

If God is sending a message with 3I/ATLAS, and part of that message is coded into its unique chemical composition, then the atomic numbers of those molecules and elements should point to scripture verses that align with previous messages.

We will translate the atomic numbers of 3I/ATLAS's composition into bible verses to see if they return a coherent message.

Where in the bible should we look, though? What book?

Well, if God is using the elements of universe to speak here – the elements of creation – we might reason that He is telling us an earlier part of the story. 

This leads us to believe God is telling us a story in Genesis.

Let's dig in.

Nickel

The atomic number of nickel is 28. Bible passages are chapter and verse, so the element nickel decodes as Genesis 2:8.

And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:8

Okay. Very 'creation'y. Like setting up a story. And doesn't Virgo rise in the east?

So... God made a garden-like world, then made humans and put them in it.

Cyanide

Next up is cyanide. Cyanide is not a standalone element like nickel. It's a molecule, comprised of two atoms – carbon and nitrogen – and a nasty one at that, extremely poisonous. 

The molecular formula for cyanide is CN. Carbon is atomic number 6. Nitrogen is atomic number 7. Chapter and verse formatting leads us to Genesis 6:7.

So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:7

And the story takes a nasty turn. 

Man just went from being placed in a beautiful garden, to now being in danger of being blotting out.

But why is God doing this, we wonder? Why is God so sorry He made man?

Carbon dioxide

Which brings us to the next molecule – CO₂. And this one is a little trickier.

Carbon is atomic number 6, that will be Genesis chapter 6 as before. 

Oxygen is atomic number 8, and there are two of them. If we start at verse 8 and proceed 8 verses more, CO₂ takes us to Genesis 6:8-16.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 

"Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and set the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks."
Genesis 6:8–16

And our scriptural story from chemistry now reaches its climax. 

It's quite surprising that the chemical anomalies of 3I/ATLAS tell such a cohesive story. And not just any story, but yet another story about the end of the world. 

Very curious. Especially since these new verses provide a clue to advance our investigation.

Layers of the hidden ark

It's curious that an ark appears in the Genesis verses we derived from the elements of 3I/ATLAS.

Why? Because an ark also appears in the Revelation verses derived from the date of the Wow! signal. 

You may remember an ark in our very first verse from Revelation...

God's temple in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple...
(Rev 11:19a)

That makes two arks. Another double. 

Remember, God means it when He does this. Maybe we should dig deeper into the ark.

Ark archetypes

There are many instances in the bible where a person or entity in the Old Testament foreshadows a greater person or event in the New Testament. 

These parallels are called types.

The ark is a significant type in the bible.

In the case of Noah's Ark, it is a vessel in which humanity is saved from a world-ending flood. In another place, the ark is a basket into which the baby Moses was placed in a river to preserve his life. In yet another, Israel keeps its holiest of religious treasures in the Ark of the Covenant, keeping it in a place of honor in the temple, and taking it before them in battle for protection.

In the New Testament an ark appears again, this time as the woman in our reading from Revelation – as Mary, the new Ark of the Covenant – the human vessel carrying the baby Jesus who will save all mankind.

So these arks are related, and their appearance in our story seems deliberate.

Getting round the ark

What if the picture you have in your mind of Noah's Ark – that image of a long wooden boat with pairs of animals boarding on a ramp – was not what the writer of Genesis was trying to portray?

What if the ark was actually round?

With limited vocabulary the author may have described its circumference as length, and its radius as width.

Building on the work of Dr. Irving Finkel, Michael Lind makes an excellent argument for this in Mystery of Noah's Ark Solved.

Lind reasons that the ark described in Genesis is shaped like a circle with a 100 cubit diameter.

The arc of the Ark

We have one missing Marian doctrine in our developing story. The doctrine of Mary as Mother of God.

We would expect God to provide evidence of Mary as Mother of God to complete the picture. The belief is widely held, but we haven't seen it as we've seen the other Marian doctrines.

With this hunch we can begin to theorize what might happen next.

We're looking for a way God might demonstrate the doctrine of Mary the Mother of God, and we know the following:

• Our verse from Revelation gave us an ark appearing in heaven, with a great sign and a woman about to give birth to a son.
• We know that Moses was saved as a baby in a basket called an ark in the river Nile.
• The elements of 3I/ATLAS pointed us to Noah being saved in a round boat called an ark.

Now wrap this into the concept of Mary as the new Ark of the Covenant...

• The Ark of the Covenant carried: the law of God (Old Covenant Ten Commandments), the bread from heaven (manna) and staff of the priest Aaron.
• The new Ark of the Covenant – Mary – carried within her womb: Jesus... the Word of God (New Covenant), the Bread of Life (His Body The Eucharist), the High Priest.

So if Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant carrying the baby Jesus...

What if we place the round ark in the hands of Virgo?

Sweet Child of Mine

It looks just like Virgo is holding a basket made for a baby.

And what do we see inside the basket, but a baby. A baby constellation. The outline of the ark bisects the lines of the virgin, leaving a baby's body with two legs inside.

Sooo cool. Beautiful, even.

It seems like we're on to something here. But how do we know the curvature of the ark's arc? Virgo's hands give us two points, and we could draw a variety of arcs with different curvatures through them, resulting in different sizes of arks.

We need a third point to latch on to.

And here our theory not only points us to an answer, but gives us a prediction we can test in the future.

PREDICTION FIVE

If God is sending a message to reinforce the Virgin Mary as the Mother of God, the arc of the ark drawn in Virgo's hands should form a baby constellation of perfect divine proportion when 3I/ATLAS is passing through a circle formed by the same arc.

3I/ATLAS will be in this position on November 28, 2025 at 12:00 UTC. exactly 17,640 days from when the Wow! signal emanated from 3I/ATLAS on August 12, 1977.

So why would 3I/ATLAS be in position to form the divine baby in the ark on November 28?

That's a little puzzling, until we return to the beginning.

3I/ATLAS was three light-days from earth at the time we received the Wow! signal on August 15, 1977. So if 3I/ATLAS sent the signal, that means it would take three days for it to arrive here, which means the signal must have been sent on August 12.

17,640 prophetic days from August 12 is November 28, 2025. That means 3I/ATLAS will be at the precise point to form the divine baby constellation exactly 49 prophetic years from when the Wow! signal was sent.

Hmmm. And you want more strangeness?

The duration of the Wow! signal was 72 seconds. In bible prophecy a 'day equals a year'. Could a 'second equal an hour'? If so, a 72 second signal is symbolic of a 72 hour transmission period at the speed of light. 72 hours is three days. Weird.

And we're not even to the grand finale.

Crowning Mary Queen of Heaven

The solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary started us our journey on the arrival of the Wow! signal on August 15, 1977.

The Assumption is connected with a long-standing belief in the crowning of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth, by her son Jesus after her body was assumed.

It's interesting to note the projected location of 3I/ATLAS in the images for December 1, 2025. It is near the top of the constellation Virgo's head, the perfect location for a crown.

A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 
Rev. 12:1

Crowning Mary Queen of Heaven and Earth is the remaining Marian belief in our investigation. The crown of stars is the final piece in the picture from Revelation.

3I/ATLAS will be in perfect position to crown Virgo on December 1, 2025. It is an incredibly strange object, catching our attention in the sky for months now, with anomalies that make us wonder whether it is of natural origin or from another intelligence. Maybe it is both.

Is God really sending us a sign pointing to the second coming of Christ and coming of the end? Is He really emphasizing the doctrines of the Virgin Mary?

If so, how would God use 3I/ATLAS to symbolically crown the Immaculate Constellation of Virgo?

If the arc of the story continues, it is reasonable to make two other predictions plus a bonus.

PREDICTION SIX

If God is sending a message to reinforce the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth, when 3I/ATLAS forms the arc of the ark drawn in Virgo's hands to form a baby constellation of perfect divine proportion – on November 28, 2025 at 12:00 a.m. UTC – it will separate into twelve pieces. The twelve pieces will not be visible to the human eye.

After separating into twelve pieces on November 28, 2025, the pieces will proceed to form the shape of a crown about the constellation Virgo's head over the next three days.

PREDICTION SEVEN

If God is sending a message to reinforce the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth, then on December 1, 2025 at 12:00 a.m. UTC the twelve pieces of 3I/ATLAS will begin to shine so as to be visible to the human eye, forming a crown of twelve stars around Virgo's head.

And one bonus signal to reward your kind attention...

BONUS PREDICTION

In order to confirm the Wow! signal originated from 3I/ATLAS, on December 1, 2025 at 12:00 a.m. UTC a radio signal on 1420 MHz will be received from the direction of 3I/ATLAS. The signal will last 72 seconds and conform to the pattern of the original signal from 1977.

Summary

We began by seeking to complete the story unfolding from a theory that God is sending us a message with 3I/ATLAS.

• Thinking the chemical anomalies of 3I/ATLAS might represent a code, we used the periodic table of elements to map atomic numbers of these elements to verses in the book of Genesis.
• The object's unusual chemical makeup led to a scriptural story of creation, human corruption and violence, and Noah's Ark as a means to survive the judgement that would end the world.
• Noticing multiple arks in both our story and scripture, we explored Mary as the new Ark of the Covenant and the possibility that Noah's Ark was actually round.
• Realizing we hadn't yet seen evidence of the doctrine of Mary Mother of God, we placed a circular ark in the hands of the constellation Virgo, and surprisingly found the shape formed a baby constellation inside the ark.
• Following the arc of the story told by our theory, we formed three future predictions:
  • That 3I/ATLAS would complete the shape of the round arc on November 28 and separate into twelve pieces, which will proceed to form a halo or crown around Virgo's head over the next three days.
  • That on December 1 these pieces of 3I/ATLAS would brighten to complete the Revelation scene of a woman crowned with twelve stars, emphasizing the belief in the Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth.
  • Finally, we predicted God would send a second Wow! signal from the direction of 3I/ATLAS on December 1, of the same frequency and duration, to confirm the first signal sent in 1977 emanated from 3I/ATLAS.

There is so much that is remarkable in this story.

The Virgin Mary is all over the timeline, starting with the Assumption and closing with the related Coronation of Mary, weaving the opening and closing scenes together like a performance. And along the way, the play emphasizes Mary's Immaculate Conception, Perpetual Virginity, and role as Mother of God.

It's the greatest hits of Mary orchestrated with heavenly bodies. God is obviously making a point about the authenticity of these Marian beliefs.

And the theme is sobering.

The second coming of Christ and end of the world are drumming in the background, unmistakably painting the scene from Revelation 12 on the backdrop of the heavens.

If there ever was a sign, this certainly is a great one.

What is the message then?

As stated before, the world is not coming to an end on December 1, 2025. This message is not about the end itself – it's a sign of the end.

Like all signs... it's meant to get our attention... to warn us of imminent danger... and point us in the right direction.

This is part three in a series on the theory that God is behind the appearance of 3I/ATLAS.