HAPPY AND BLESSED NEW MOTN DAY TO ALL, FOLLOWING GOD'S HEBREW CALENDAR. FROM NOW SUNSET SUNDAY UNTIL SUNSET MONDAY.
TIME TO0 MAYBE DO A LITTLE EXTRA BIBLE STUDY, PRAYER, MEDITATION.
WE ARE HEADING INTO THE LAST MONTH FOR THIS SACRED YEAR ON THE HEBREW CALENDAR. NEXT MONTH WILL BE THE FIRST OR NISAN OR ABIB MONTH, AND THE SPRING FESTIVAL OF THE PASSOVER AND FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD....A TOTAL OF 8 DAYS ALTOGETHER. THERE ARE DOZENS OF PASSOVER/UNLEAVENED BREAD STUDIES ON MY WEBSITE.
THE FIRST MONTH WAS THE MONTH ANCIENT ISRAEL WAS DELIVERED FROM SLAVERY UNDER THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE.
SINCE THEN OVER THE CENTURIES, MANY ISRAELITE NATIONS HAVE MOVED, GROWN, SETTLED, AND COLONIZED, ESPECIALLY THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM, WHO WAS PROMISED TO SPREAD OVER THE EARTH AS A VINE OVER A WELL. ALL BACK IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
BUT SOMETIMES AS BRITAIN EPHRAIM [AND INDEED THEY ARE] COLONIZED IT WAS NOT ALWAYS WITH CAREFULNESS, KINDNESS, AND PATIENT UNDERSTANDING.
TWO MOVIES I'VE BEEN WATCHING OF LATE; THE FIRST WAS BRAND NEW TO ME BUT DONE ON 1979. IT STARS PEOPLE LIKE BURT LANCASTER, PETER O'TOOLE, SIMON WARD, BOB HOSKINS AND JOHN MILLS.
IT'S THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF ISANDLWANA: IN JANUARY 1879, ARROGANT OFFICIALS OF THE BRITISH COLONY OF NATAL. THE BRITISH ISSUED A LIST OF UNAUTHORIZED ULTIMATUMS TO THE ZULU NATION. WHEN THE ZULU KING REFUSED THEIR DEMANDS, THE BRITISH EMPIRE DECLARED WAR, WELL A CERTAIN "OFFICIAL" DECLARED WAR [WITHOUT PARLIAMENT SUPPORT. AND IN A SERIES OF SILLY AND STUPID TACTICAL BLUNDERS, A GARRISON OF 1,500 BRITISH SOLDIERS FACED AN ARMY OF 25,OOO ENRAGED ZULU WARRIORS IN WHAT WOULD BECOME THE MOST HORRIFYING DISASTER IN BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY.
THE MOVIE IS "EPIC" - THOUSANDS OF TRUE MODERN ZULU PEOPLE USED, DOZENS AND DOZENS OF HORSES. FILMED IN AFRICA, GREAT SCENERY.
AS YOU WATCH THE MOVIE YOU CLEARLY SEE THE .... FRANKLY STUPID BRITISH LEADERS MAKING KINDERGARTEN MISTAKES, FILLED WITH EGO AND VANITY THAT OOZES OUT LIKE A VAT OF MELTING BUTTER.
THE BIGGEST MISTAKE WAS PULLING THE ZULU INTO A BATTLE, WHERE THEY WERE NOT ONLY ASTRONOMICALLY OUT-NUMBERED, BUT WITH THE TACTICAL MISTAKES, THEY HAD NO CHANCE OF COMING CLOSE TO WINNING.
WHEN YOU STUDY THE BATTLE TACTICS OF THE GREAT BRITISH LEADERS OF PAST HISTORY, LIKE, DRAKE, NELSON, WELLINGTON, YOU SEE CLEARLY FROM THIS TRUE STORY, HOW INEPT AND FIRST-GRADE NUMB-HEADS WERE IN CHARGE OF THIS BRITISH GARRISON OF SOLDIERS.
THE MOVIE IS CALLED "ZULU DAWN."
THE SECOND MOVIE IS ALSO ABOUT THE BRITISH AND THE ZULU WARRIORS.....CALLED SIMPLY "ZULU" - PRODUCED IN 1964.
THE CAST INCLUDES STANLEY BAKER, JACK HAWKINS, AND MICHAEL CAINE
IT IS ALSO EPIC AND AS IT SAYS ON THE BACK COVER OF THE DVD..... "A TOWERING CINEMATIC ACHIEVEMENT. AN ASTONISHING TRUE STORY. AND A BATTLE FILM IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF FOUR FEATHERS; AND GUNGA DIN. FILMED AGAIN IN EXOTIC LOCALES OF AFRICA."
THIS TIME THE BRITISH HAD LEADERS OF THE CALIBRE OF NELSON AND WELLINGTON. HOW THEY FINALLY EARNED THE RESPECT OF THE THOUSANDS OF ZULU WARRIORS AND THEIR LEADER, IS QUITE REMARKABLE.
WAR IS HORRIFIC.....HORRIBLE..... SOMETIMES IT SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS, WHEN IT'S IN YOUR POWER TO DO SO. SOMETIMES IF PART OF A NATION'S WAR MACHINE, THE FIGHTING IS BROUGHT TO YOU, AND FOR THE SECULAR WORLD, I GUESS YOU TAKE YOUR STAND.
BOTH MOVIES ARE QUITE SOMETHING. THE 1964 MOVIE SHOULD FOLLOW THE 1979 MOVIE FOR CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. I DO NOT CARE FOR "WAR MOVIES" AND I WATCH VERY FEW INDEED, BUT THESE TWO ARE TRUE STORIES, TRUE HAPPENINGS, OF THE OFTEN TIMES BRUTAL HISTORY OF THE EXPANDING OF THE BRITISH [EPHRIAM] EMPIRE.
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