Secrets of the Bible

• Introduction
• Genesis
• The Creation of Man
• The Paradise
• The Snake - Symbol of Evil
• The Wood of Life
• The Children of the First Created
• The 10 Tribal Leaders & the 6 Days of Creation
• The Tower of Babel
• Abraham
• The Sacrifice of Isaac
• Jacob and Esau
• Exodus
• The Laws
• Joshua
• The Deuteronomy
• The Prophecies of Daniel
• The Revelation
• The Gospels

THE REVELATION

Chapter 1

     John to the seven churches that are in Asia; Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the 7 Spirits who are before His throne; and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the King of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood, and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father; to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. Even so. Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. I, John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance, which are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos, because of the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit of the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, saying,  "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the 7 churches; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

    And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw 7 golden lamp stands; and in the middle of the lamp stands one like a Son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His breast with a golden girdle. And His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire; and His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been caused to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. And in His right hand He held 7 stars; and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw Him, I felt at His feet as a dead man. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Write therefore the things, which you have seen, and the things, which are, and the things, which shall take place after these things. As for the mystery of the 7 stars which you saw in My right hand, and the 7 golden lamp stands; the 7 stars are the 7 angels of the churches, and the 7 lamp stands are the 7 churches.

     My Interpretation. As it is written by John himself, he was exiled in the Greek island Patmos, and on the seventh day of the week he came in ecstasies, holy ecstasies, and heard from behind a voice that was sound as a trump that said.

I Am the Alpha and the Ωmega, the first and the last.

     From this point starts the last part of the prophecies that proclaim the terrible disasters and wounds that will demolish the state of the enemy, and at last, the Light of the world will shine in the suffocating darkness, and the Light will dominate forever and ever, Amen. And Lord said, let the Light be born, and as God gave Birth to the Light of the creation, then the time will come for the absolute domination of the Light. Lord appeared by symbolic appearance and dress, among 7 lamp stands, and holding in His hand 7 stars. Lord speaks mostly by symbols and says; I Am the Alpha and the Omega, the On and the In, and the Coming the Almighty. So the Lord Jesus is the first and the last, and the Coming the Almighty.

    When He was on earth as Human, His disciples asked Him to show them the Father, and Lord said to them; I Am so long with you, and yet didn't recognize Me? Whoever saw Me, he also saw the Father, because the Father and Me, we are One. So the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, is God, is the Supreme Mind. There is no explanation, and there is no answer to the question; what is the meaning of three who are one? We have the abilities and authorities to search and understand the creation in land, sea and sky, but the Creator, the Supreme Mind, is not within the understanding of His creatures. The Lord simply tells us; God is Three-hypostases, and also tells us that the Light, or the Word was born before the beginning of the creation, and when He was born as Human, was called the Son of God, and as the Lord was born from a woman as a Man, He called Himself Son of Man, Son of the symbolic Adam with various meanings. He belongs to every human, regardless of race and nation. He is not a Jew, nor Greek, German or whatever, while Lord is also a Jew, as well He is a Greek and German, and Black, White, Chinese, or Aboriginal, Maori and whatever. He belongs to every human regardless of colour or nation or race, and Lord never holds any nationalist flag, though we often see some people, servants of Lord holding them even inside the churches.                

     The Lord appeared among 7 stand lamps that symbolize the churches of the faithful people. He was holding 7 stars that symbolized, and still does the earthly shepherds. The stars in other cases symbolize also the divine lights on earth, as the divine laws, the prophecies and His teaching. The dress of the Lord at the beginning of Revelation passes the message that says; the shepherds and the faithful must be clothed with dignified dresses, and without provoking scandals. The white hair as snow symbolizes real wisdom and prudence, and His feet like burnished bronze in a furnace, mean that every faithful person must be ready to walk even in fire, if is required by the circumstances to do it, and also he must transfer wherever he goes the holy fire of God.         

     The sword in His mouth symbolizes crisis and judgment that will come at the end, but the Lord appeared with His sword to warn the churches with the corrupted and lukewarm shepherds, and anyone who finds various ways to ignore His teaching or try to adapt the divine laws and messages to their passions. The golden girdle across His breast says; the real treasure of the faithful is the treasure of God, and it is near the heart, namely it is in the divine feelings of love for God and for the other people. The gold is not the known and valuable metal that satisfies the vanity, and often provokes conflicts and wars, crimes and sins, which drive people to the corruption, not the one that decorates corrupted authorities and becomes the power of dynasts who exploit and oppress the people. The gold symbolizes the spiritual and true treasures of God, and this treasure must be the treasure of every faithful man's heart. This is the gold for which the faithful is looking for, and the Christian walks dressed with this gold. This is the real treasure that really makes people rich, and offers plenty of Joy and makes the human to be thrilled, delighted.             

    The Lord said to John; don't be afraid, I Am the first and the last, and the living One; I was dead, and behold I Am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and Hades. Lord didn't become dead only on the cross, rather the opposite happen, He was liberated from the temporary death, and also He liberated from the real death all of us who believe to the Lord and follow Him. What indeed the Lord meant in here, was not the death of His materialist Body, but the Lord meant that He went away from the glory of His Highest Father and came to the earth to live as Man, and this separation was a real temporary death.         

Chapter 2

   To the angel of the church of Ephesus write; The One who holds the 7 stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the 7 golden lamp stands, say this; I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot endure evil men, and you put to them test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you, and will remove your lamp stand out of its place—unless you repent. Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the Paradise of God.

     And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write; The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this; I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear what you are about to suffer, behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tasted, and you will have tribulation ten days, be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches, he who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death. And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write; The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this; I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith, even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit acts of prostitution. Thus you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Repent therefore; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth. He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.

     And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write; The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this; I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bondservants astray, so that they commit acts of prostitution and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent; and she does not want to repent of her immorality. Behold, I will cast her upon a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds. And I will kill her children with pestilence; and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and the hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

    But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you, nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come. And he who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations; And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father; and I will give him the morning star, he who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

      My Interpretation. The first epistle applies to the church of Ephesus, but as all the epistles apply to every church of all the historical times. If it were applying only for those churches, then there wouldn't be any reason to be written in this book. The admonitions and warnings, which is a briefly repeat of His teaching applies to all the churches. We would rather say, that the 7 churches remain until our time with different forms and different names. Every people comprehend the teaching of the Word, without changing the contents of the teaching, but people comprehend in their social circumstances that unavoidably exist, and of course without adapting the teaching of the Word. The circumstances couldn't possibly change so easily, but the important is to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

      Let see what the Spirit says. He who walks among the lamp stands (among the churches), and holds in His hand the seven stars, (the bishops, and not the "fathers") says; I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance. Maybe you work hard and you may have patient and have suffered, but be careful, because the most basic foundation of the Christian is the love. You left your first love, and without love it is impossible to be in the society of the Christians.     

       At that time existed in Pergamum a Christian heresy to which the members called themselves Nicolaits. They were living in sexual debauchery,  "supporting the theory", in which they said, no more no less, that people could be closer to God by satisfying even their sexual distortions. Of course it was not only in Pergamum. The existence of this kind of heresies does not justify its existence in Christianity, while the Law that was given to Moses defines clearly, and doesn't let any margins for misunderstandings; the same also applies to the teaching of the Lord. But even so, always there are various hypocrites around, who always try to match the unmatched, and try to adapt the Lord's teaching into their pleasures and interests. So the Lord didn't mean only the Nicolaits, because the Nicolaits exist everywhere, and every time. It is a warning that applies to every Christian, and of course to every priest. The problem of sex that often falls even under the level of animal's instinct, is a real problem, it is like that fire, which as you try to blow it out, it seems the more it lights up. We are all loaded more or less with this sin, but we should repent and not ending up saying, by been enslaved to the flesh, and by been madly amorous, we are closer to God. The power of the spirit must rule over the power of the flesh, and the expansion and satisfaction of sex must be under control, and should be for satisfaction and joy in the limits, which are determined by the Law, and by the teaching of our Lord. Whoever has ears must hear what the Spirit says to the churches, and whoever is victorious I will allow him, says the Lord, to eat from the Wood of Life, which is in the centre of the Paradise of God.

     We are reminded here that the wood of eternal life for which the ancient people imagined, and was modified by the inspired Prophet in order to symbolize the true Wood of Life. The Body and the Blood of our Lord. It is not in an earthly paradise, but as the Lord said, it exists in the centre of the Paradise of God. We also may say here, that the Lord fixed the mistaken ideas of the ancient people. The Lord said; the Wood of Life is in the centre of God's Kingdom. And the Centre of God's Kingdom is Lord Jesus! But we eat symbolical this Wood of Life before we go there, as the Kingdom of God (the Lord) must be established and rule first in our soul. God doesn't change His plans and decisions, but the people used to feel the Presence of God, and were trying to interpret His plans and decisions. So it was natural to make mistaken interpretations, but the pure wish of the human to live is not a sin at all, and the Lord of life didn't disappoint the human. In their ignorance were talking about the wood of life, for which were not allowed to eat and become immortal, and indeed, the Son of God gave to the human the true Wood of Life, and opened the door of immortality that leads into the true Paradise.

      Similar admonitions apply to all the churches, which (churches) are of course the Christians. The Lord is warning us that the spirit must rule, and we must obey the laws and His teaching, and not to be enslaved to the passions of the flesh. The Lord mentioned also the story of Balaam and Balak that is written in the book of Numbers.  But this doesn't mean at all that this story took place in the desert and was related with Moses. These books were mostly written in posterior times and centuries after the death of Moses. The writers were confused with the traditions and the various fames, and they attached a lot of happenings to Moses. But as we realize, many of these writings are not matching to Moses, or to the circumstances of the desert. The story of Balaam rather belongs to some other posterior time, and rather belongs to Judges. 

      The epistle to the church of Thyatira applies to a concrete problem of that time, but again it was not only at that time. The false prophets men and women exist everywhere, and continuously try by various cunnings and sophistries to deceive the faithful people. The Lord of course punishes by the measure of the absolute justice, and certainly the children of the woman false prophet Jezebel, and Jezebel herself, were not only prostitutes but they also used to deceive the other people as well. She used to appear as a prophet, and as we know, people are from their nature easily captured in the prostitution, so how much more could be if someone appears as if brings God's messages and tells people that to be a prostitute doesn't constitute a sin. But we also understand that God is the Master of life, and therefore He can take the life any time He wants.  Because we shouldn't forget that the Lord uses various ways to save the human soul, which often we don't fully understand them.  But even so, the Lord said that He would kill her children, and of course He would never say; you go and kill them. The Lord never said something like this. Only the paranoiacs and charlatans speak about "holy wars".  God they said told them to go and kill people with their "corrupted" children, as if God wanted to punish and destroy corrupted, God would ask help from the "good" people!        

        In the epistle to the church of Philadelphia Lord says. Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie, I will make them to come and bow down (to worship in front of your feet) and to know that I have loved you.  To worship in front of his feet doesn't mean at all to worship the bishop, but to worship God in front of his feet. Meaning will make them to go and confess their sins and ask from God to forgive their sins in front of the bishop. At the same time Lord says; the confessor priest or bishop must stand at the level of that bishop of Philadelphia, and a man like him is the best confessor who can hear the confession of the faithful.

       But where can we find bishops like him? Certainly we can find some but not everywhere. But if they are not worthy then shouldn't be priests, while, and except the unworthy of the priest, which in this case is abomination, the people who didn't know much for many centuries as most were illiterate, they needed and yet need help from holy and worthy priests and bishops, who should offer even their life to help the faithful and the unfaithful as well, and should be really those stars that shows the way of the ship in a darkened and confused sky. But we see in bitterness that often the opposite happens. Instead of showing the way to the Light, they darken the way more, and the way ends up looking as impassable. Speaking about the confession is not of course a mystery, it is simply the confession of the sins of the faithful, who must confess his/her sins in front of a worthy confessor or better in front of God alone. God is the best Confessor, and we can talk to God.

      At the chapter 3 Lord speaks about the New Jerusalem; the name of the city of My God, which comes down from heaven from My God, and My new name. It sounds strange, because the Lord said, whoever saw Me, he also saw My Father, and Father and I are One. But it is not strange, because when the Lord says, ‘God, My God,' He rather means; with His Sacrifice in becoming a Man, by some way He keeps until the end of the human's period and the human hypostases, and only as Man says ‘God, My God.' Not as an Angel as very wrongly believe those who call themselves Jehovah Witnesses. The Lord said; I Am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the On and the In and the Coming the Almighty. And the On and the In and the Coming the Almighty is not an Angel. But these people because they couldn't interpret the Bible, they confuse the Archangel Michael who is to come before the end of the world.

     The name of the first book is of course Genesis, or rather we would translate it Birth, it means mostly the Birth of the Light or the Word of God. God by His Word created the world, and the Word who is the Alpha of the creation is also the Ωmega of the creation, which means the end of the creation. The Word with the Father and the Holy Spirit are together the Supreme Mind. But the Word became Man in order to save the man, and although He is Creator, He also became a part of the creation. Behold, how and before Lord suffered and been crucified, He was in some way separated from the Supreme Mind.  And this separation was a kind of death for the Lord. That is why Lord said; behold I became dead and now I Am alive. He certainly didn't mean the death of the materialist body.  

Chapter 3. And to the angel of the church of Sardis write; He, who has the 7 Spirits of God, and the 7 stars, says this; I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. Remember therefore what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent, if therefore you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come upon you. But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white; for they are worthy. He who overcomes shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.

     And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this; I know your deeds, behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name. Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and bow down your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell upon the earth. I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, in order that no one takes your crown. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it any more; and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name. He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

     And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write; The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the beginning of the creation of God, says this; I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I would that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Because you say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.  I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich, and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and nock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and I will dine with him, and he with Me. He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.                                                                            

Chapter 4 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice I heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things. Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. And around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. And from the throne proceed flames of lighting and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were 7 lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the 7 Spirits of God; and before the throne there was, as it were, a sea of glass like crystal; and in the centre and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.

     And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, full of eyes around and within; and day and night they don't cease to say. Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is to come. And when the living creatures give glory and honour and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their throne, saying. Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honour and power; for Thou didst create all things, and because of Thy will they existed, and were created.

     My Interpretation. John saw in some way the heavens opened, and Lord called him to come up. I will show you, the Lord said, what must happen after these things. John writes; I came in ecstasy, and then I saw a throne in heaven and Someone was sitting on the throne. He couldn't face the View of Him who was sitting on the throne and certainly he couldn't face the Supreme Mind. The only thing he could write was, he had the impression that the View of the Father was like jasper stone and as sardius in appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. He couldn't face the Creator, but only saw a resplendent View, and understood that the Highest appeared with this View, and appeared to a man of flesh and blood. Someone was sitting, he said, but he couldn't describe His View, because he couldn't face the Highest Mind.

     The Prophet Ezekiel also in his visions spoke about the same View of Him who was sitting on the throne. Ezekiel 1: 26,28. See also Isaiah 6. 1. But no one could describe the View of the Highest Mind, while no human with flesh could look the Face of the Supreme Spirit. Around the throne were another 24 thrones, and 24 elders were sitting on those thrones. They were clothed in white, and golden crowns were on their heads. Who are those 24 elders? It is rather obvious that the elders are the Prophets and the pious ascenders, starting from Abraham until John the Baptist. From the throne proceed flashes of lightings and sounds and peals and thunder. We should notice, that the sounds and thunders were not coming from Him who is sitting on the throne, but from the throne. All this noise symbolizes and reflects, the war on the earth, which is a war that conducts against the domination of the Lord. The throne symbolizes also the domination of the Lord, and as we saw in Daniel's prophecies, it is written very representative and symbolical, that the Ancient of the days sat on His throne, after the crushing of the beast. It is a joyful and symbolical language, and if someone could hear it, then he could "hear' the voice of God.

     In front of the throne were lighten 7 large candles. The 7 candles symbolize the 7 Spirits of God that sent on the whole earth. Without the vivifying Spirits the life would be destroyed in a little time. Life without God is impossible to exist. In front of the throne was a symbolic sea of glass like crystal. The sea usually symbolizes people and nations and languages, and this sea of crystal rather symbolizes the innumerable people of God with the entire worthy and expiated by the Blood of the Lamb.

     There were also 4 living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. The one was like a lion the second was like a calf, the third had the face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. What do the four creatures symbolize? I believe that they represent in some way, some kind of original life. In the chapter 5, 13 it is written that all the creatures of the earth were glorified the Creator. It is rather possible that some animals have also the ability and by some unknown way for us, they feel somehow the presence of the Creator, and maybe they have some way to give thanks to God. By these words of verse 13 rather say also, that the whole creation will be submitted to the Creator. As we will see also and in the chapter 12, in the kingdom of animals, there exist and prevail mostly the elements of the darkness. The nature and generally the creation in its whole entire, does not represent the Creator. 

    Let us see the visions of the Prophet Ezekiel that also speak about the four creatures. But in those visions the creatures appeared differently and with very strange symbols.

     It is written in Ezekiel's prophecies at chapter 1 form verse 5 to 14.   

     And within it there were figures resembling four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had human form. Each of them had four faces and four wings. And their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straightforward. As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man, all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle. Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies.

    And each went straightforward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went. In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lighting was flashing from the fire. And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning. Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them. The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another. Wherever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions, without turning as they moved. As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and their rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about. And whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, extended over their heads.     

     And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering their bodies on the one side and on the other. I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne, like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man. Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him. As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. 

    My Interpretation. The appearance of the four living beings with so many complicated symbols to the Prophet Ezekiel is indeed a great and complicated mystery. Most likely (supposed) the four living beings symbolize some in general original beings of the creation of life. But certainly the intention of the Lord with this symbolic appearance of strange beings was of course to pass some complicated messages, which their complete meanings will be elucidated, when the time will come for all the revelations. I don't know all those complicated meanings, and I will see the beings hypothetically only as symbols of the human. This doesn't mean of course that my interpretation is absolutely correct and completed. As 4 symbolic faces that belong to the same being, I suppose they symbolize the contradictive nature of the human. It is a nature that certainly is not according with the divine Spirit of the creation.

    The psychical composition of the human in its entirety, with positive good and divine components and the various evil interpositions that siphon from the devil, doesn't match, and doesn't represent the Creator. In other words, from the beginning the human, except his divine spirit, includes in his entirety the elements of devil with his interpositions, elements, which mean his nature and his interpositions that exist everywhere in the creation. We suppose that the 4 faces mean, that the human behaves in the same wild and destructive way as the lion, he is also indifferent as the ox, and flying rapacious like the eagle.

    The human has somewhere in his entirety, the nature and the behaviour of the lion. He has destructive and selfish instincts (elements of the devil's nature) because as the lion snatches, tears apart and eats, and indifferently causes pain and suffering, similarly the human copies it and acts by similar way. The human acts also like the ox, which is looking only for the materialist things, and as an ox is indifferent for the divine spiritual gifts, (interpositions of the devil, so to make the human indifferent about God) and the only thing the ox wants is to eat its grass, to make sex, to be lazy and have a rest all the time. The ox is indifferent for any thing else. Many people do exactly the same thing; they eat, drink, make sex, go to toilet and lie down or on their beds, indifferent for any thing else. Often they make sex like bulls, they strike sexual at any time they find opportunity and go away.

   They don't want to have responsibilities, they live in their world; they live in the world of insensibility and stupefaction. The human looks like also as the rapacious eagle, (elements of the devil's nature), with wings to fly high, (a gift of God), but instead to fly at high spiritual levels, remains rapacious, a great eater and indifferent in front of the Spirit, and indifferent in front of the suffering of the other people. He uses his spiritual wings to fall very low with cunning interests, instead of flying in high spiritual levels that approach God.              

    And from those three darkening sides of the human and diabolical nature, could emerge the holy man, could emerge victorious the strong human, who chooses to be obedient to God, and chooses to walk straight on the way that was given from the Highest. He chooses to obey the divine Law, and to obey the divine teaching, and then he siphons certainty from the conceivable View of the Lord who is sitting on the throne. He can see in his life the One who sits on the throne, he can see the Lord in a spiritual view, meaning not with the materialist eyes. Then he can beat his darkening nature, to rule and raise himself high to the throne of the Highest. Lord was standing over high and Lord was symbolical sitting on His throne. I Am here, the Lord says, if you want, you can see Me, and you can live with Me forever, and be forever happy. The choice is yours, nothing is so easy, but your choice is the necessary presupposition, otherwise you are not justified in front of the Highest.

    You must struggle, so your divine spirit will go straight in the way that matches you, and so your spirit will beat the corrupted nature, and in your struggle ask for help, and you will have help. Now of course all these are correct, and certainly the interpositions of the dragon exist in the complicated human nature. But the four living beings may broadcast also these things I mentioned, but certainly broadcast many more messages of the Lord as well, which now is very difficult to comprehend. As for example the wheel may symbolize time, and the wheel in the wheel, may symbolize the limited time of everyone's life. With the many eyes may also pass the message, that invisible eyes watch your deeds and your behaviour, etc.     

Chapter 5. And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed with 7 seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals? And no one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look it. And I began to weep greatly, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look into it; and one of the elders said to me, stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its 7 seals. And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having 7 horns and 7 eyes, which are the 7 Spirits of God, sent out onto all the earth. And He came, and He took it out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying. Worthy art Thou to take the book, and to break its seals; for Thou was slain, and didst purchase for God with Thy Blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. And Thou hast made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.

    And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with loud voice. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing. And every created thing, which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying. To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honour and glory and dominion forever and ever. And the four living creatures kept saying, amen, and the elders fell down and worshiped.

     My Interpretation. John saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book that was written inside and on the back, and was sealed up with 7 seals. No one could see them nor to read them. The symbolic book with the 7 seals is also a reference of the human history that started from the time of the Lord until the end of the world. But of course there was no man in the world who could know that there were seals, meaning no one could know what was going to happen. No one knew about the disasters and wars that were coming in the world. Therefore no one could open the seals and read them, meaning the man couldn't know what would happen. But before the Revelation in heavens, not even the Angels could know what would happen in the human's journey until the end of the world.        

    So history is pre-determined, but what that supposed to mean? Perhaps it means that God had pre-organized all those wars, slaughters, unjust, sufferings, starvations and so many other crimes that happened, especially in the 20^th century? Of course the answer is No.  Alas, if believe something like this. All these are devils and human acts, which through their passions and ambitions submit themselves to the devil. But the Highest Mind, is holding the book with the seals, namely He is the only one who knows what the prince of destruction will do in companionship with men.

  Chapter 6. ¹I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" ²I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
³When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" ⁴Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword. ⁵When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. ⁶Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart ^[1] of wheat for a day's wages,^[2] and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,^[3] and do not damage the oil and the wine!"  ⁷When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" ⁸I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. ⁹When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. ¹⁰They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" ¹¹Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
¹²I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
¹⁵Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?

 My Interpretation. But before chapter 6, let us see first who was the only One worthy to open the seals of Revelation. The only One worthy was the Lamb. John saw between the elders, a Lamb, who looked as one slain. As we realize very well, God never asked about sacrifices of people or animals, for the reason that no one is worthy, nor powerful, and neither so sinless, who could forgive sins, and atone people by making them worthy.

     And of course not the blood of any animal could possible make people worthy.  So how it was possible, that God would ask something false? The only sacrifice that God asked from a Son of man was the sacrifice of the only Sinless One, and no one else. The Word of the Supreme Mind, who was born as Man, and He was called the Son of God, and He is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Only God Himself is the life of man, and only God can save the man. Nobody else. So that slain Lamb, who was among the elders, was the Word of God, and because He became a Man, He keeps in some way and the human's form until the end. He looks like a slain Lamb, for the reason that He was sacrificed as an atonement victim, as the Jews used to slay some lamb for atonement for their sins. He is the only slain Lamb, who can atone the people. He was and is the genus of king David, not descended of David, only as Man was known as descended of David, namely that was what the people thought, but He is the Creator, the Son of man and the Lord of king David. David is also a symbol of the great and pious king, but the slain Lamb is the King of David, and the King of kings.

     The Lamb had 7 horns and 7 eyes that symbolize the 7 Spirits of God. The Spirits of God are the indispensable means of human's life, and come into the world by the Word of God, and the Word was slain for the people to live. The horns symbolize power and domination, meaning; the Lamb will be the only Ruler. The Domination of the Highest will come after the 7 bowls of His anger, which will destroy the domination of 666. When the Lamb opened the first seal, John heard the voice of the one creature, saying.

     Come and see. John saw a white horse and He who sat on the horse was holding a bow, and He went out conquering, and to conquer. Keep conquering now and at any time, and the complete conquest will come in the end. First the horses symbolize the time on which the riders gallop; and the galloping goes on until the end of the time. What do the white horse, and the Rider symbolize? Some interpreters think that they symbolize the Gospels. But the Gospels as much they write the teaching of our Lord, it don't change also the fact, that they are books, and therefore have no power by themselves. Their power is the Alive Word of God, and His living Gospel that speaks living in the hearts of the people. So the Rider of the white horse was the Word of God, and this is also confirmed by chapter 19, in which again the Rider went out, not by a bow, but by the sword of His mouth. Because at the end, He wouldn't come out to target and collect the faithful people, but He will come to judge and dominate. The sword of His mouth symbolizes judgment, but by the bow achieving the target, namely His intention is to gather His faithful people. At His first symbolic appearance Lord had the sword of His mouth, because He came to warn and advice the churches, otherwise His judgment will judge their acts and behaviours.   

     Well, He went out conquering and to conquer, and of course He does. As we know through history and until now, the war against Him, and against the faithful Christians has never stopped yet, although the Word didn't stop to conquer more and more people bringing them to the salvation. And at the end, His holy sovereignty will be complete. But against the Word went also out all the other powers of evil, the unequal economic situations, which make a lot of people suffer, and also the natural death, and the death by starvation and by the predators of earth, which often devour a lot of people, and especially in the wars.

     So at the second seal, the horse was red, and the rider symbolizes the wars. The wars haven't stop yet, and as the prophecy reveals, the terrible red horse, which symbolizes the time of wars, unfortunately will gallop until the end of the pre-determined time. We all know how the wars start, and everybody knows what interests and ambitions they serve. And by serving interests and ambitions, serving also the devil. We also know that the main characteristic of the wars is hate, and the maniac to destroy the others. The hate originated from the devil, and he always want to destroy people, for the reason that this is his nature. And of course, the so terrible condition that exist in the wars, resulted in turning people against God, because the wars cause a lot of sufferings and disasters. It is also the ignorance, which the dynasts use by evil intention, as they often maintain that their war is "God's blessed" and so the ignorance ends up into confusion and unfaithfulness. So the wars are against God's domination.

      But by the other hand, the wars bring also a lot of people close to God, because at the last moment in which the death threats every one, the only thing that remains is the hope and the returning to God. For example, in conditions of peace, how many people are interested in what the Word says, and how many people are faithful and obedient to God? So the wars have two results relating with the Word. A lot of people turn against Him, and a lot of people wake up and get saved. Therefore the Word of God is also conquering in the wars as well. 

      At the third seal the horse was black, and the rider symbolizes the unequal economic situation, which again the terrible black horse, unfortunately will gallop also until the end of the pre-determined time. "A quarts of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and don't harm the oil and the wine." The great unequal economy rules our world, and as we know the big human predators snatch the big portion of the lion. The big unequal economic conditions cause a lot of serious sufferings for a lot of people, but always they have the oil and the wine. We are reminded here of the parable of our Lord. The 5 virgins were wise enough to have oil as they were waiting for the Lord. The oil symbolizes the preparation of the soul to meet the Highest Mind, and the wine symbolizes the Holly Communion, symbolizes the Blood of our Lord. So nobody could take away the Oil and the Wine. No matter how poor someone can be, and as much he suffers from the economic sufferings, which are caused by the human predators, the preparation and the atonement of their soul nobody would take away from them, for the reason that they are God's gifts. Yes. There are economic problems, there is poverty and misery, but there is also the Oil and Wine that leads to the salvation.

      At the 4^th seal the horse was ashen, and the rider symbolizes the natural death, and the death at the wars, from starvation, and from the predators of the earth.  The horse was ashen and the name of he who sat on the horse, was Death, and Hades was following him. And authority was given to them over the fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. The horses symbolize the time, and the ashen horse of death, will gallop also until the end of the pre-determined time. But it seems that in the most horrible war of Armageddon will be killed the one fourth of the earth's population. Now of course the Death is always around, and dead people follow Hades. Hades and Death were "gods" of the Greek mythology. And it was not only Greek.

     Hades according to the Greek mythology was the son of Crones (god and goddess) and Rea, and the Death (Thanatos) was the personification of death.  The ancient Greeks used to believe also that he was the brother of Sleep. (Hypnos) Now what relation could be between the Greek mythology and the Bible, and why do we find this mythology in the book of Revelation? Why are these names used, which come direct from mythology? Well, the mythologies of the ancient people, and especially the Greek, shouldn't be put into the rubbish bin. The Greek mythology is wise, the same also the others, and indirectly pass information from prehistoric eras.

     All the tribes in their ignorance—including the Israelites—started their endeavour to understand the Creator from the mythologies, and of course it is very obvious that in Bible also are a lot of writings, which express and reflect mythological perceptions.  We also realize that many of those mythologies served God's plans by various ways, and we have already shown this phenomenon. Moses used mythological traditions and modified them to pass God's messages and turn them into symbols. We also saw that most of the 10 Tribal-leaders, which became codes, were old tribal leaders who used to be worshipped as gods. For the primitive tribes it was very natural to start with mythologies, as it was very natural to believe in false gods, and those people were innocent and pure. The ancient tribes were not evil, and they used to believe in false gods, only in their ignorance, and as we know the real ignorance doesn't constitute a sin.

     The world today worships a lot of idols and false gods, but not any more in their ignorance, but because of their cunning interests. The sin is narrow related with knowledge, which presupposes the existent of Law, but the primitive tribes didn't have knowledge and law, and therefore their simple belief in false gods was innocent and irreproachable. So God doesn't put in the rubbish the innocent mythology, but His Prophets used mythologies as symbols and as hiding places, because as we realize, many of those symbols are apply to the last time before the end. So the Hades and Death of the Greek mythology were used to be symbols of the death, and to the unknown place, in which the souls go, when there is not atonement.

     The 5^th seal talks about the patient and forbearance of God, and His patient and forbearance continues until the 7^th seal. The 7^th seal applies to the last 7 years, which starts with the 7 trumpets and then the 7 bowls of His anger, and at that time, His patient and forbearance will come to the end.  We see here, that the humans as witnesses of the Word and all the others who were slain for their faith and testimony, appeared and protested at the 5^th seal, and say; "How long O Lord Holy and true wilt Thou refrain from judgment and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth? The intention of every thing that was written is to pass some message, and the message was not applying of course to the elders or to the Angels. Further more, it doesn't really mean that the dead saints were asking for revenge, but regardless if they don't ask for revenge, their blood cries to God, and demands punishment. (We are reminded here the blood of Abel, which cries to God and asks for justice.) But the message is applies to us, and say; You have patience, as God has patience and forbearance, and His judgment will come at the right time, and until then, many more people must be saved.

     They gave them white cloths to dress, and told them to have a rest for little longer time, until many more brothers come to the Lord, and many of them are going to be killed also. So the white clothes mean that the Blood of the Lamb washed them, and the dead people should have some rest, and the alive must have patience until the end of pre-determinate time comes. The prophecy says that many more will suffer, and many more will be killed for their faith. And indeed, this hasn't stopped 2000 years after the Lord. Many Christians have suffered a lot, and many were killed in various countries, especially in Islamic countries, and in countries, which were ruled by narrow-minded communists and other dictators.

    The 6^th Seal. And looked when He broke the 6^th seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of the heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. We should read the continuation of the chapter. By the opening of the 6^th seal, there begins the domination of the last beast, which we mentioned in Daniel's prophecies. It is the domination of the capitalist economic system, which of course started to exist before the 20^th century, but in the 20^th century it stand strongly on his metal feet, and started to rule everywhere, and as it became stronger, and developed its war machine, it showed to the world its terrible nails. The beast's domination almost started with the two great terrible wars, in which the sun really became black, and the light of the moon was shining on top of lakes of blood.

     Those two wars, and especially the second had overcome in hate and crime every previous war, and indeed the blood was jolt up in the air, and indeed was making lakes, and the reflection of the moon's light had the colour of blood. It is enough only to be reminded of the first great battle between Germans and Russians, which was called Barbarossa. The Germans had gathered in the area, up to three millions soldiers, with their great and horrible war machine.  Only on this battle were killed only from the Russian side, up to five hundred thousand soldiers, and all those people were killed in two days.  Five hundred thousand people were killed in forty-eight hours.

      In that war there only were killed up to 60 million people. It is impossible to describe the many terrible crimes, the terrible sufferings and desolations, because what can we say, not only about the killings of so many millions of people, but what can we say about the concentrated camps, what can we say about Dachau and Auschwitz, what can we say about the tortures, which millions of people suffered?

     Only in Auschwitz there was killed up to 4 million people, and most of them were Jews. But only if somebody imagines naked people, hungry and miserable, to imagine pregnant women, to imagine children and old, to imagine all those people to be hungry and naked, in the terrible freezing conditions in Poland and Germany, it is enough to understand the size of disaster, of the pain and of the desolation. It was heard that when the Russians conquered Auschwitz they faced a terrible shudder, which made young soldiers hair turn white. Not even the corruption of the Roman Empire, or any other previous war in the distant past could be compared with the barbarity, the hardness and the hate of the people of the 20^th century.

      A Ukrainian man said after the war; The Germans were wicked, very wicked; (but of course it was not only the Germans), they killed a lot of innocent people in my country, and burnt a lot of villages. In a village, which was near the capital city, they used to throw live children into great fires. The whole world was terrified, and all kings and rich, the workers and generals were terrified in front of this diabolical hate, which was driven into the uncontrolled horrible war storm, and a lot of people thought it were the end of the world. They thought it was the curse of the Highest, and a lot of them used to hide themselves in caves, and others who were fighting on the mountain were trying to hide themselves in the rocks, as they hope to hide from the horrible storm of slaughter, in which they thought that the anger of God wanted to destroy them, and bring the end of the world.

     In all the caves there used to live desperate and terrified people, and how many were crying and shouting out.  Mercy, O' my God. And others who had no place to hide were shouting out; where can we go to hide and save ourselves from the anger of God? There is no place to hide. Exactly as it is written. And the residents of the mountains and of the islands went out to the war, and the mountains where heroes used to fight desperate battles, many bombs were dropped and many cannons were fired. And the islands also accepted horrible attacks, and the peaceful blue vault of the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, as registering the terrible battles in the air, registering the flashes of fire, the explosions, the huge clouds of smoke, which darkened the sky and the light of sun, and registered symbolically the hate which ruined a lot of people.

      The sun that shines in the clear sky symbolizes also peace, but the sky was black, not because of the clouds of vivifying rain, but because of the clouds of hate and the desolation. The atomic bombs also that were fallen in Japan, indeed were darkening the sky, and especially on those places, the sun became black, and was as sackcloth made of hair.  The prophecy also says, that the islands and the mountains moved out of their places, and indeed that terrible war used to enforce the people of the islands to move away, and they used to fight on the mountains, and many were killed on the mountains. We understand of course that the prophecies speak with words of spirit and wisdom, and mostly speak about people, and the people as they used to go away from their islands and fight on the mountains.

     The people were those who moved away from the mountains and islands, as they were killed. The stars had fallen on the earth, namely they were stepping on the divine laws and teachings, and a lot of people who were desperate and suffering, used to call God for help, and when their hopes were fallen, they used to insult God, and said He didn't exist. The divine lights, as the laws don't kill etc, the hope and faith in God, and generally all the divine messages are symbolized by stars of heaven, and the circumstances of the war used to throw them on the earth, meaning throwing down, as they used to ignore and disobey all the divine laws and messages, and they were considered useless, and many people lost their hope and faith. We shouldn't also forget, that the 6^th seal goes on (as well the others), until the end, while the last beast which dominates on the 6^th seal, will be destroyed from the 7^th seal, with the wounds of the 7 trumpets and 7 bowls of God's anger. And as the Lord said, before the end, "there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth dismay among the nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things, which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken".        

       So that was about the great and horrible spectacular appearance of the last and terrible beast, but people forget that the Almighty Creator is the Master of life, and there is no beast, which would take away the life from God's hands. They don't understand, that the domination of the devil must be smashed fairly in its hate, and by its own destructiveness. The sins of the evil domination will hip up like mountains and like castles, which in the end will collapse fairly to squash them. The Holy One, who is the Master of life, saved the millions of the literally and symbolic Auschwitz, who suffered the most horrible sufferings, and at the same time they became witnesses for the judgment of the beast.

     So the 6^th seal is the beginning and the end for the domination of the fourth and last beast, and then we will see the 7^th seal, which will destroy the beast and will bring the end of the sufferings. After this, and before the opening of the 7^th seal, John saw 4 Angels who stood symbolical on the 4 corners of the earth, and holding the 4 winds of the earth, not to blow wind on the earth, nor to the sea, or on the trees. After the second World War, a relative quietness prevailed in the domination of the beast, and that terrible racist hate against the people of Israel, contributed also decisive to make them return in the old country fields. So the prophecies, which used to speak about the scattering, of the Israel people on the 4 corners of the earth, and the return in the old country were fulfilled. God's plans were served even from those who used to hate the Jews and wanted to destroy them by genocide. The devil couldn't win, and he didn't.

     But unfortunately, all the Jews were not worthy, and they do not belonging to the people of God. The most worthy were chosen, and they are the 144000 of God's chosen who always follow the Lamb, and they are the most blessed. Of course this doesn't mean that only those 144000 were saved, but they are the most chosen. Before the opening of the 7^th seal, John saw a lot of people from all the nations of the earth, and no body could count them, and they stood in front of the throne, and in front of the Lamb, and were give to them white robes to dress.  They used to hold palm branches in their hands and they cried out with a loud of voice saying. Salvation is from our God who sits on the throne, and from the Lamb.

    One of the elders asked John; who are they?  And John said; you know. And he said; all these people come from the great grief, and they washed their cloths with the Blood of the Lamb, and make them white, so they stand in front of God. For what great grief he spoke about? He means the great grief of the last 7 years. In those last years, the abomination of desolation will appear, and he will be the representative of the beast, which is the servant of the devil, and is going to be great corruption, disgusting, and grief. Every honest man will disgust the world, in which will live.

Chapter Seventh.  After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. ²Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: ³"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." ⁴Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

⁵From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
   from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
   from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
    ⁶from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
   from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,
   from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
    ⁷from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,
   from the tribe of Levi 12,000,
   from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
    ⁸from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,
   from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,
   from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

The Great Multitude in White Robes

⁹After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰And they cried out in a loud voice:   "Salvation belongs to our God,  who sits on the throne,    and to the Lamb." ¹¹All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, ¹²saying: "Amen!  Praise and glory   and wisdom and thanks and honor   and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever.   Amen!" ¹³Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes--who are they, and where did they come from?" ¹⁴I answered, "Sir, you know." ¹⁵And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, "they are before the throne of God   and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. ¹⁶Never again will they hunger never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. ¹⁷For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
²And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
³Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. ⁴The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand. ⁵Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

 
   Chapter 8 ⁶Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them. ⁷The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
⁸The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, ⁹a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
¹⁰The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- ¹¹the name of the star is Wormwood.^[1] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
¹²The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
¹³As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!"

     My Interpretation When the Lamb opened the 7^th seal, there was absolute quiet in heavens for half an hour. No noise could be heard. The 7^th seal will be opened, and this seal will bring the end. It is the last seal. John saw the Angels who stood in front of God, and some others gave them 7 trumpets. Before they start trumping, another Angel stood in front of the altar, and he was holding a golden censer. They gave him a lot of "censers" to offer in front of the altar, with the prayers of the Saints. And the smoke of the censes and of the prayers of the Saints went up to God, and then the Angel took the censer and fill it up from the fire of the altar, and he throw the fire on the earth, and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lighting and an earthquake.  And then the Angels started to trump.         

     The altar has nothing to do with those known altars on which they used to sacrifice animals for atonement. The altar here is only symbolic, and symbolizes the Sacrifice of God with all the contents. As it is His patient in front of the blasphemies and the insults against the Most High, and as we know they didn't stop yet after 2000 years. It is also His mercy, the suspension of His justice, to give every opportunity for repentance, and not to judge the people before the limits of the pre-determined time finish.

     The "many censers" symbolizes all those sacrifices, the agonies, the sufferings and tortures of the faithful people, who have been slain, and suffered through patient testimony, and to turn the scale of justice against the domination of the beast, which is against the domination of the darkness. The Angel put them together with the prayers of the Saints, for forbearance and for the salvation of the people. The Angel put all these together in the golden censer, namely the golden censer is the spiritual treasure of the Saints of God, and this is the power of the Saints, because by spiritual power they came out victorious from the enemy, and this power will contribute for the lighting of the fire, which will burn the state of the evil.

      So the conclusion, which comes out from this symbolic representation is; the Altar of God became filled at the predetermined time, which finished, and so there is not any more margins for patients and for forbearance. The glass is full up. The end is very closed. The Altar became full of fire, which is the fire of judgment and punishment, and the Angel will throw the fire on the earth, because all the sacrifices were done for the humans, but they finished. So as the sacrifices finished, all the others are finished as well, and also must finish the sufferings and the prayers of the Saints and the other faithful, and then the wine press of God's anger will start. And so the punishments and the judgments will start with the bowls of His anger, to smash the beast and the state of the enemy.

     Then the first Angel sounds the trumpet, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood and these were thrown to the earth. Now what do these wounds of the trumpets symbolize? When the time comes, then the people will know better. At the moment we can only imagine how they may look like. As we understand it is not possible to know, how exactly they will look, nor what exactly means, where they will strike, and what disasters will be caused.  We can interpret the first one, as a disaster of the ecologic system, maybe from some nuclear explosion.

     But we understand that the wounds of the trumpets will not come from God. The Angels only sound their trumpets; in another words they determine the time, in which the wounds will strike. In the bowls of anger, the Angels empty the bowls, but for the trumpets, they only sound the time. As we will see, only on the 7^th trumpet, the Angel says; on this trumpet will finish the mystery of God, as the Lord revealed to the Prophets. The 6 wounds of the trumpets will be the result of the beast's domination, with the human activities, and with the known comparisons and conflicts. A nuclear explosion will cause big disasters, and certainly will be like fire mixed with a hail of objects and others, which will be mixed up with blood. We don't know any thing about nuclear weapons, but certainly it means some similar explosion, which will strike on some vital place of the planet. Not on the whole earth.

     The second wound rather will come shortly after the first, and in the same conflict, and it seems it will strike in some sea, very close to some cities. The third wound rather means some other nuclear explosion or by the use of very dangerous chemical, which will be thrown into some rivers and lakes, and as the prophecy says, many people die because of the waters, as the waters were bitter, meaning they were poisoned. It seems that these three wounds will strike almost the same time and because of the same conflict. These nuclear explosions will result in a darkening of the light of the day and of the night, on the one third of the planet. And this is the 4^th trumpet.  Not on the whole earth, but the whole earth will be terrified.

Chapter 9. ¹The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. ²When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The smoke from the Abyss darkened the sun and sky. ³And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. ⁴They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. ⁶During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
⁷The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. ⁸Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. ⁹They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. ¹⁰They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. ¹¹They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.^[1]
12The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
¹³The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns ^[2] of the golden altar that is before God. ¹⁴It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." ¹⁵And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. ¹⁶The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
¹⁷The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulphur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulphur. ¹⁸A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulphur that came out of their mouths. ¹⁹The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
²⁰The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk. ²¹Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

         My Interpretation. The 5^th trumpet is very strange and difficult to understand. It speaks about a terrible wound that will strike the world for five months. It speaks about locusts like monsters, but certainly speaks allegorical. Let see this trumpet at the moment only as it is written.

1^st A star from heaven, which had fallen to the earth.

2^nd The key of the bottomless pit was given to him.

3^rd And smoke went out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the smoke of the pit darkened the sun and the air.

4^th From the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

5^th They were told that they should not hurt the grass, or any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 

 6^th They were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the scorpions when it stings a man.

7^th They look like horses that were prepared for battle; and while on their heads had crowns like gold, their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like woman's hair, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

8^th They had breastplates like the breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses rushing in battle.

9^th They had tails like scorpions and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months.

10^th They have a king over them the angel of the abyss; his name is in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon. 

    This trumpet rather proclaims that in some five months of the first part of the last seven years, the devil himself, and without the participation of humans' activities, because of people's interests and passions, he will provoke some kind of wound, some kind of suffering disease, which will be a first-appeared disease, and unknown for the medical data, meaning clear satanic one, which will torture only those people who will not have the sealing of God, meaning of course the unfaithful people, and will torture them for five months. With the words, smoke of great furnace, and locusts, rather means a lot of rather insects or germs, which indeed will have all those strange and terrible similarities that are described. With the names Abaddon, or Apollyon, rather emphasize the fact that the devil himself will be acting, but of course, he will not show his sinister face. And as the prophecy says, he will not have authority to kill anyone, neither to harm the natural environment          

     The 6^th trumpet speaks about a war—not the Armageddon--, which will start from some countries around the river Euphrates. The four angels that were released rather can be interpreted as the four countries that will be entangled in the war. Rather Iraq, Iran and other two countries. This war will not be world war; the prophecy speaks clearly about the third of the people in that area, and about the one third of the earth. With the myriad they meant the lot of ten thousand monads. So two myriads are twenty thousands. And so it is written, two myriads of myriad. So we have twenty thousands (two myriads) multiply by ten thousands, (one myriad) which means that only the horsemen or rather the tanks were two hundred thousands. The horses, to which the heads were like the heads of lions, rather mean the developed war machines. The horses themselves didn't fight of course, the people were those who were sitting on the horses and were fighting. But the "horses" of the Revelation were fighting, and so the prophecy means the war destructive machines. Rather they are the tanks to which the heads were like the heads of lions, meaning they were look like destructive beasts. They mouths were throwing up fire and smoke, as exactly the tanks do. So the prophecy speaks about the modern war machine, with the tanks and the other modern weapons that cause the massive death and destructiveness.

     Those who sit on the horses were wearing very different war form, than the one that the soldiers used to dress at that time. Meaning that all these wounds will have some natural explanation, and most of the people will not realize that behind these wounds are evil supernatural forces. So the prophecy says; the rest of the survivors didn't repent from the deeds of their hands, but they continue to worship the idols. And as we see, the world didn't stop yet to worship them, because the capitalist way of production needs idols, and from its nature, it can't avoid to convert people and products into idols.  Between the 6^th and 7^th trumpet are some more important events.

Chapter 10 ¹Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. ²He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, ³and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. ⁴And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down."
⁵Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. ⁶And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, "There will be no more delay! ⁷But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets."
⁸Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: "Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."
⁹So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." ¹⁰I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. ¹¹Then I was told, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings."

      My interpretation. After this, John saw an Angel who was very powerful, and he was coming down from the heavens. His face was shining as sun, and his feet were like fire. He had a book in his hand, and he set the one-foot on the land, and the other in the sea. Then he repeated in front of God that during the sound of the 7^th trumpet will finish the mystery of God as He revealed to the Prophets.

     The Angel's work is to serve the pre-determined plans of the Lord, and although it is written that the Angel swore, I don't think that he really swore. He only revealed to John and to the world what would happen. Without comments, that is what John meant also. We should remember that the Apostles are part of the Bible. And we interpret the Bible by spirit, which must be connected with the Spirit of the Lord. The vow is only a human invention, as it serves mostly state needs, and it has nothing to do with God. God knows who says the truth and who is dishonest, and therefore He has no need of vows. Of course God has no needs at all, and He wants to save people because He loves them. But the love is not necessity for God, but it is component of the Supreme Mind.

      So the 7^th trumpet sounds and proclaims the prevalence of the Lord in all the nations of the world, and as Lord said; before the end, the Gospel of the Kingdom of God will be preached at all the nations. The 10^th chapter speaks again for the same fact before the end of the world, but unfortunately, all people will not be Christians, but the whole world will know about the Gospels, and all will hear, that the real Holy Word of God is no one else, and only the Lord Christ.

     Then John heard a voice saying to him; go and take the book from Angel's hand that stands on land and in sea. And the Angel said to John; take it and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey. The symbolic book is of course the alive teaching of the Lord, the whole Gospel, and that is why the Angel had the one foot on the land, and the other in the sea, meaning that before the end of the world, the Gospel will be known at the whole world. Very symbolical he holds the Gospels and stands in sea and on land. All the people will know about the appearance of God in the world in the form of Man, and regardless if all will not believe, all will know about the Gospel.

     The Angel also said; when you eat the book, it will cause bitterness in your stomach, because the teaching of the Lord presupposes sacrifices, meaning that we must limit our materialist enjoyments, and of course the privations often or rather always depress the bodily necessities and wishes. We would rather say, that the truly happy man is he who is not happy. Because it is a great sin and it is very difficult for a Christian to ignore the terrible problems and the starvation, which cause sufferings and kills millions of children and other people everywhere around in the world. And in these circumstances how he can sit at his table to enjoy his food? He feels guilty when he eats well, and at the same time he knows that this food could feed a child who is dying from starvation. Often he cannot do much to help, but he cannot also feel comfortable and enjoy his life. So it is written very symbolically, that the book made bitterer the stomach of John, as it embitters every one who chooses to make the teaching of the Gospel his own duty.

      When somebody becomes a Christian, he also chooses to limit many of the bodily enjoyments and necessities. It becomes his duty to load himself with a lot of endeavours, and rather he must give than take, and must serve than be served, and without expecting any returns. It is not an easy task to be a Christian, but many of us who get trapped into the passions, and see our selves as the centre of the world, we shouldn't get lost, and we will be saved if we return before is too late, and even if we become the workers of the last hour. But if we "eat" the book, namely if we understand and feel the teaching of the Lord, then we will have a lot of rejoicing, and then we will get the power to suffer the bitterness of privation.

Chapter 11 And there was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, "Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. ²But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. ³And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." ⁴These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. ⁵If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. ⁶These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
⁷Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. ⁸Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. ⁹For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. ¹⁰The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
¹¹But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. ¹²Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
¹³At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
¹⁴The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.

The Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
   "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,
       and he will reign for ever and ever." ¹⁶And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷saying:
   "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
       the One who is and who was,
   because you have taken your great power
       and have begun to reign.
    ¹⁸The nations were angry; and your wrath has come.
   The time has come for judging the dead,
       and for rewarding your servants the prophets
   and your saints and those who reverence your name,
       both small and great--
   and for destroying those who destroy the earth."
¹⁹Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.

    My Interpretation.  In chapter 11 the Angel transferred John by spiritual meaning to the holy city Jerusalem, and gave him a stick to measure the symbolic earthly altar, and all the worshippers in the altar. He told him not to measure out of the temple, because it was given to the nations. So we understand very clearly, that the temple and the altar are part of God's people in Jerusalem. Not the building, but the church of God, meaning the faithful people. Besides, how it was possible for so many people to gather in a building? All those who have no faith, are called symbolically, "nations", and they are the court outside the temple.

     In Jerusalem a lot of terrible things happen, and more terrible are coming especially at the last 7 years. There will appear the personification of antichrist, the abomination of desolation as it was written in Daniel's prophecies. There he will pretend the messiah, and will preach to the people of Israel and to the whole world, that he is the messiah, for whom the Prophets spoke. In Jerusalem prevail now big troubles, which as we realize getting worsen. The hate and revenge are like the teeth of the devil that devours bodies and souls. In this terrible condition, the whole world gets involved, while the interests of the grandees predominate everywhere, but there is also the religious fanatic condition, which opposes the interests of the grandees, and opposes the existence of the Israel state, and there also exists the vital interests of the people who live around this area.

    General in the world, the corruption goes deeper and deeper; not even good endeavours are possible to restrain the evil, to control it and keep it under at least some limits. The beast, or the capitalist economic system, with the grandees of wealth and power, from its nature, is the contradiction itself. The hunt for profits has no moral barriers and no limits, and as we realize, it doesn't lose the opportunity to make profit, not even from the noise. Wars for profits, and profits from wars, others get killed, and others get wealthier from the death of those who get killed. Corruption for the profit, and profit from the corruption. Marx said very correctly; if noise and fuss could make profits, then the capitalists would make and noise, and fuss. They consecrate whatever brings profits, and they also maintain that they serve people by giving them jobs.

    Even the recreational shows have been produced for main reason of profit, and they come to a plight, so the people will be like the Romaic public of the famous colosseum and arena, when the only thing they wanted was bread, and every kind of show, which would satisfy their sadism.  Many of the movies and TV shows don't care at all for the psychic health of people, and because of the profits, they show as much they can of the violence, the sadism, the crime, and every kind of distortion, because they apply to an analogous world of the same things. The governments, who approve or not, submit in the demands of the beast, and recognize through legislature all those, as they call them, "human rights". For example, instead of discouraging adultery, prostitution and homosexuality, they recognize them legally, and encourage them to match the evil civilization of the devil.

      They recognize even boys of sixteen years old the "free right" to have homosexual relations and activities. Because as they say, we don't live any more in the Middle Age; we are civilized people, they say. So most of the people settle themselves into that kind of civilization, which doesn't let anything standing. The main intention of that civilization, which is another weapon on the hands of the beast, is the removal of the people from God, and this is the most obvious characteristic of our time. The modern "civilization" pushes people away from God. Live your life, the beast says, don't stay behind the modern world, and don't believe anything. You can do whatever you like in your life, which could make you happy, and bring pleasure to you.

      And all those rights, together with the civilized right of unemployment, the civilized right of the poverty, the right of despair and of drugs, and the other great and untouched dreams of good life, of wealth, power and fame, which the hypnotized hunts in vain like his shadow, and all this abomination, and all this worshiping of the flesh, and the idols push systematically the world away from God, and drives to various kinds of corruption. Nothing can stand in the passing of the beast, and exactly as it was prophesied, it steps on the remaining by its metal feet.

       Some or rather many of materialist university teachers, teach openly the atheism, as they have the "free right" to do it, and others who pretend they are intellectuals write and drivel philosophically about relative and equivocal meaning of good and bad, and so they make people doubt in about what is good and bad. They demolish or at least they try to demolish the faith to God, by scattering the doubt and the unfaithfulness in the name of the enlightenment, of the knowledge and project. And of course they are liars, because while they preach about atheism, they never succeed to prove that God doesn't exist. Although they teach the atheism as if they are serious-looking people, and as unmistaken ones who appear as they know everything.        

      The one of the terrible result of all of these, and other's also complicated factors is; a lot of people go away from God, and this is the main intention of the devil. The other is; the road to the agitations and corruption has been opened widely, and at the middle of the road, the abomination of desolation will appear, as messiah, and he will stand in the holy city. It is possible, as he will pretend to be the messiah, maybe will enter in the city on a donkey, to "fulfil" the Prophets, and this image will be really disgusting, and it will provoke vomit.

      At the last weak of Daniel's prophecies, which is the last 7 years of the domination of man and of the last beast on the earth, there will appear in the holy city the Witnesses of God, who will preach the Word of God, and they will warn the world. They will have power and authority from God, and they will have power over the natural forces, and their witnesses will be for 1260 days, namely less than the half-week. Their voice and image will travel all over the world through electronic technology, so everyone may hear and be informed.

      The prophecy says, after the 1260 days, they will kill them, and will let them unburied for three and a half days. And as the time of the end will be very close, the people will see more supernatural miracles. But as it was at the time of our Lord, the same thing will happen and in that time; the corruption will seal a lot of eyes, and they will not understand, because as Isaiah said, the heart of the people became fat, and they will not hear with their ears, neither will see with their own eyes, because they didn't understand with their heart. The corruption, this rust that devours the soul, will make them unable to comprehend and believe to Supreme Mind. What a pity! God will arise the two Witnesses and bring them up to heavens, and as the prophecy reveals, there is going to be a big earthquake in the holy city.            

     Then the 7^th trumpet will be heard, and heavens and earth will have a crazy enjoyment. Glory to the Lord our God, thank You O our Lord, the On and the In and the Coming, the Almighty. The kingdoms of earth will understand God's truth, and all the other religions of the world will fall, all the nations will recognize and worship the sweetest Lord Jesus Christ. We remind here His words. And before the end, the Gospel of God's Kingdom will be preached at all the nations, and then the end will come. The heavens and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. But we don't finish yet, because the blind, and the unfaithful, the enslaved to the beast will not surrender, and alas, they will be destroyed by the 7 bowls of God's anger, which will strike at the last part of the last 7 years.

    Let us see the book further.

    The 12^th chapter speaks about the appearance of Archangel Michael in the world. The prophecy speaks about a pregnant woman, who appeared on heavens, she was dressed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet, and on her head was a crown of 12 stars, and she was with child; and she cried out being in labour and in pain to give birth. This woman, the forgotten woman, or "part of her" lives for thousands of years among the Israel people, and because of the circumstances she lived under different presuppositions. The woman, who was dressed like the sun, symbolizes the brilliancy of the faith of the holy people of Israel, (and general the faith) and the crown with the 12 stars symbolizes the 12 tribes of Israel. The moon under her feet symbolizes the lie and the insidious enlightenment of the dragon to which servant is the beast. The beast always tries to deceive and disappoint the faithful people, and especially is trying to convince by using the scientific enlightenment, that faith to God is a utopia, and simply they say, the faith to God was originated from the ignorance of the ancient world, and as they say, it is belonging to the past.

      But the woman, namely the faith of the people of Israel (and general the faith) remained all those years alive and brilliant; this robber moon, namely the insidious enlightenment didn't manage in the past not even now to dim her brilliancy. A big part of the people of Israel kept alive the flame of the faith and hope; they believed to the Prophets according to their understanding, and waiting for their salvation. They didn't believe in the Lord Christ, but they didn't lose their faith either, and although the coming of the Messiah appeared for them as a dream of the past, they were not disappointed. They remained faithful to God and to His Prophets. They were waiting for the Messiah by their way; by the way they used to interpret the writings of the Prophets. There were other reasons as well that enforce them not to believe to the Lord. It is very complicated subject, and indeed they suffered a lot. However the Israelites as a nation, as commander of the host, didn't believe in the Lord, but they remained faithful to God and to His Prophets. They were waiting for the Messiah according their faith, which was according to the way that used to interpret the prophecies.

     But while the Messiah already came, and they didn't believe that He came, and according to their irreconcilable faith they would keep waiting for the Messiah to come, it was already prophesied in the prophecies of Daniel, that at the last times the Archangel Michael will be raised up, and he will ensure them that the only Messiah is Him who was crucified from their ancestors.

    Daniel's prophesies at chapter 12 writes.

    Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.  But as for you Daniel conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase.

     So the prophecy says, at that time Michael the great prince will arise, and your people will be rescued, everyone who is found written in the book. The child, who will be born from the brilliant faith of the people of Israel, will be the Archangel Michael, he will tend the nations with the metal stick, and he will ensure the Israelites that the Messiah is the Lord Jesus Christ. The prophecy also doesn't speak about the whole nation of Israel but only for those who were written in the book, namely for those who kept their faith.

     And indeed for two thousand years many Hebrews kept alive the faith and hope in God; they really holy and faithful to God, but because of the circumstances they didn't believe that the Lord Christ is the Messiah. They kept only their faith. God will never judge anyone who because of complicated and contrary circumstances are justified, and many Hebrews Judaists have been worthy, while for many the faith and hope were lost, but many others remained faithful to the great dream of their salvation. Of course the Lord made them worthy, even if because of the circumstances, they didn't believe in Him. But many others became warriors of the faith and hope, and not only they fought against the faith—as for example Karl Marx—but also many Jews became grandees of wealth and of power, and therefore they became a big part of the last beast.

    Let us see further in chapter 12.

   The woman, namely the faith, cried out, and she was suffering in pain to give birth to the child. In another words the faith of the Hebrews cried out for two thousand years and said; how long O' God the Almighty we should wait for the coming of the Messiah? We are the sons of Israel! What happened to those of Your promises which You gave to Your people by Your Prophets? We are so tired of waiting so long. Yes, we believed that we are Your people, but no other people in the world suffered so much, as we suffered. So the woman was in pain, was suffering because of the pain, she was so sorry in her complaint, she was crying, and was afraid that could be lost in the endless tortures. She thought was waiting in vain, as she was waiting so long of her salvation. It appeared it was in vain to wait any longer. She was in labour to give birth, and indeed their faith and hope was cried out for two thousand years, and she suffers a lot, and especially she suffers in the terrible Auschwitz and in so many other disasters in their history.

     But when the time comes to bring the Archangel who will ensure them that the Messiah is Him who was crucified, there will be on the earth a time of the biggest distress and grief such has ever occurred since there was a nation until that time. And the dragon that speaks with the scientific enlightenment provokes endless disasters, distresses, hatred and corruption and will try to suffocate the faith and the hope of the Hebrews. So he will stand in front of the faith like a terrible shadow to darken the faith, (and the dragon stood before the woman) to bring disappointment and so he will try to destroy the faith, as the beast, which is his servant, is doing every day.

     But he couldn't do it in the past, and he will never manage to suffocate the faith and hope, and so the Archangel will come. Michael will be born as a child, namely he will come first on earth as a renewal of prophetic memory, and as I believe, this is what the prophecy means by the words "the woman, the faith, gave birth to a child". It is going to be as a new message that will come by the two Witnesses; they will preach and elucidate the Bible, and also they will encourage the faith of the Hebrews.      

     We see that the woman, the faith, went to the desert, namely she went to the desert of corruption and disappointment. Where else could she go? At that time, which is rather very near, there will be in the world the desert of corruption and desolation. In that desert the two Witnesses will feed her, namely they will encourage her for 1260 days. The duration of their testimony will be exactly 1260 days, and after the beast will kill them. The exactly 1260 days to feed the woman, and not an indefinite in duration period, was written by intention to pass a message to the interpreters, so they may comprehend that this period of the 1260 days are connected with 1260 days of the Witnesses.

    To the woman was given two wings of the great eagle to fly in the desert of corruption. And indeed the faith always fly from man to man, and nestles in people's soul and in the soul she encourage the hope, and tells to the soul, have patient, God will dominate everywhere, close your ears to the evil enlightenment of the beast. And the faith lives and relaxes in people's hearts, which don't care at all what any kind of sly enlightenment says or not says. The dragon poured water like a river to sink the faith, and this river is exactly that one, which they call it scientific enlightenment. What does the scientific and every kind of enlightenment says?  It says directly and indirectly; why do you believe into ancient myths? And it considers "scientific" that the faith is only for the "illiterate people" who feed themselves with illusions.

     This is the wiliest, and the most dangerous war of the beast, because it throws water, meaning it uses the high enlightenment to sink faith and hope. Who doesn't see this every day? But the earth swallowed the river of the wiliest enlightenment, because every earth, and especially the holy earth, hides in her entrails and in her surface alive the memories of the Saints, the tombs of the Prophets and their writings, and it is impossible for any enlightenment to contradict them.  So the earth and the holy land with its memories remains as a light of another divine enlightenment, and swallowed the cunning river of the dragon.

     The prophecy speaks about the red dragon. The red means war as in the second seal the horse (time) and the rider were red, which symbolize generally the war until the end of the days. The description of the dragon or of the beast to whose master is the dragon, we will see it after the chapter 13.

     It is written that the dragon's tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. The stars symbolize the divine lights, as the writings of the Apostles, of the Prophets, laws teachings etc. The dragon throws them to the earth and steps on them, as they do it every day, but he can't throw all of them, because many of them are impossible to contradict. He is trying to throw all of them, but how he can convince a Christian that Lord Christ didn't exist or the Apostles didn't write anything, or how can he convince a faithful Hebrew that the writings of the Prophets have nothing to do with God? So most of them remain as light of a divine enlightenment and it is impossible to contradict them.                   

    Chapter 12.  A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. ²She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. ³Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. ⁴His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. ⁵She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. ⁶The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
⁷And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. ⁸But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. ⁹The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
¹⁰Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
   "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.
   For the accuser of our brothers,
 who accuses them before our God day and night,
 has been hurled down.
    ¹¹They overcame him
 by the blood of the Lamb
 and by the word of their testimony;
 they did not love their lives so much
       as to shrink from death.
    ¹²Therefore rejoice, you heavens
 and you who dwell in them!
   But woe to the earth and the sea,
 because the devil has gone down to you!
   He is filled with fury,
 because he knows that his time is short."
¹³When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. ¹⁴The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach. ¹⁵Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. ¹⁶But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. ¹⁷Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring--those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

      My Interpretation. The prophecy says there was war in the heavens, Michael and his Angels waging war with the dragon. And the dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And when the dragon and his angels were thrown on the earth, they heard a loud voice in heavens saying, now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ has come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuse them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of their testimony, and they didn't love their life even to death.

     The great question is this; why does the devil have the right to accuse and therefore to claim authority on God's creatures? Why does God allow him to accuse them? Supposing that someone is the only owner of a block of land, and builds himself a house on this block. He is also powerful to protect his property. Then he can do with his property whatever he wants, and if he has children he may love them, punish them or forgive them for some faults they did, and acting with justice.         

      Now speaking about God, Lord is absolutely just and the Master of His creation. How can someone then go to the owner of the house, and in this case, how can the devil stand in front of God and tell Him, I also have a part and authority on Your creatures, I also have right on Your creation. When he accuses the people in front of God, it means that he has his own demands, and therefore he has some authority on the creation of God. But why? Why does he demand, and why does God tolerate him, and why does God allow him to accuse His creatures? 

      Supposing again that someone stands at front of the door of a family man, and tells him: to day your children did this and this wrong, and because they did wrong I will have the authorities on them. You must deliver your children to me, so they may suffer the punishment of the law, because by doing wrong they break the law. Then we would say about him that he is the executioner of the law, and he has the right to punish all those who did something wrong, and the father must deliver his children so they may suffer for their actions.    

      Now it seems that the devil is doing about the same thing. It appears that he has some authority on God's creatures, and God doesn't tell him, that the creation is exclusively mine. God doesn't tell him, whatever My creatures do good or bad, have to do with Me, you have nothing to do with them. I will judge My creatures, and I will judge them according the measure of absolute justice, or if I want I can acquit them. And because I love them and also I must punish them because they did wrong, I will take their position in the punishment, and I will pay for their debts according to My justice, which demands punishment. You have nothing to do with them, they are exclusively My creatures. Go away from My creation, you have no place here. But he stands in front of God and accuses His creatures. But then if the devil has nothing to do with them and if he has no authorities on the creation, and especially on the humans, then why does God tolerate him and listen his accusations? 

      So we realize that the devil indeed has some rights to accuse the humans, it seems that he has his demands on them. It sounds as he says: Your creatures did this wrong, and this unjustly, people who do wrong are belonging to me, they are not Yours. They must come with me. Namely he claims authority from God. Now if someone claims authority on some property, then it means that at least some of that property is belonging to him. So if the devil claims authority on God's creatures, then it means that some things in the creation are belonging to him.

     And therefore when people choose those things, which are belonging to the devil, then these people are belonging to him. It sounds like the devil "reminds" God a kind of "agreement" like a kind of contract, and it is like saying, a part of the creation is belonging to me. It seems that he says to God, to You is belonging only whatever is holy, good and just, and while these people are unholy unjust and evil they are belonging to me. They are not belonging to You, because the unholy the unjust and evil belonging to me. You are Holy and just and good, and You set laws in Your creation, and You said, if someone doesn't obey to My law must be punished.        

      So it seems rather clear, that all those who do the wrong in their own responsibility belong to the devil's authority, and therefore the devil has some authority, and therefore he has some participation in the creation. Now what is the conclusion? Perhaps he is also a creator and that is why he claims authority on the creation?  No he is not creator, but the opposite; he is the anti-creator, and anti-god. He is the biggest and most terrible wound and disease in the creation. He is the starting place of evil as much in the nature and in the whole human's history as well.

      It is easy to realize that the bad exists everywhere in nature. In the kingdom of animals it expresses itself by the instincts, and we realize that everywhere exist oppositions and mutual dependencies, and in almost every form of life as well. We see that there exists the instinct of love, which is presupposition for the species to exist. There are also instincts of aggressiveness and defence, instincts of survival for species, which is against the life of other species, and instincts of unjustified destructiveness, and in general we see that with the oppositions and the mutual dependencies comes a balance in the nature. In the human and therefore in the human's societies exists also that taboo tree, which was converted into symbolic tree of good and bad, and therefore in the human exists in proportion with his choices the Spirit of God and the spirit of the devil.

     Speaking about the nature we realize that in those circumstances that exist, must be some kind of balance, and therefore all seems natural and necessary. But it could be a form of nature without balance or it would exist in some other kind of circumstances and so some other kind of balance, in with no pain and agony. But the bad exists everywhere, and regardless if in the nature expresses by the instincts, yet it is bad, because it causes pain and suffering. For example the lion catches a deer and devours it in terrible pain, and often tears apart its flesh while it wriggle as it is still alive. We call this ferocity. And the human's history is full up with a lot of worse ferocities, which overcome the natural levels. Who does man obey to do ferocities? Because all the people do not commit ferocities, but the opposite, often they sacrifice even their life for the others.

     When man does ferocities he doesn't obey God of course, accept if he thinks that he does, because he has been hypnotized by some paranoiacs who of course obey to devil, and so the hypnotized man is a victim of the devil and of the paranoiacs who serve the devil. Now if man by doing ferocities obeys his instincts, then where did he find these instincts? Perhaps they were given to him from  "mother" nature, as the evil spirit wants to persuade the world? But then even in this case the nature is not a "mother", it is rather the disaster itself in the creation. So it was not the "mother" nature, not of course God, who gave destructive instincts to the animals and humans, but they are emanations of the nature of evil spirit. The bad never ever comes from God, and that doesn't change at all, if the bad exists in the kingdom of the animals or in the kingdoms of the human predators and civilized societies.

      If the human wants he can find his way out, and he has his freedom of choice between good and evil, and it means that he may make a choice between God, the Creator and the dragon that always is seeking for opportunities to destroy the creation.  We don't know of course the circumstances that used to exist when God started to create, but certainly the great dragon existed, and it seems very clearly that God created in these circumstances in which the dragon existed, because there was no other choice. As it is written in the book o Genesis, the darkness used to exist, and this darkness (not the ordinary darkness) was and is the great dragon with his darkening interpositions. We may understand it as an inevitable and darkening condition, which used to exist in the chaos before the beginning of the creation, and this condition was the great dragon, which was against God, and he was the denier of God's creation.

       And as God started to create, he was in the space of the creation, or rather we would say that he was somehow the "space" of the creation, and he had his way to introduce his negative and evil elements in the created. And these elements are his nature. The nature expresses the Will of God, but rather it expresses mostly the nature of the devil. There is no doubt at all that his nature and his interpositions exist everywhere in the creation. If God created what we call, natural creatures, without the existence of the devil, then certainly there would be another nature of life. There would be another kind of circle, without the rapacious instincts, with less species, with less reproduction of the species, and they could live peacefully in a certain time, and end up into another kind of recycling, without mutual dependences and aggressiveness, and so without pain and suffering, and without the necessity to be balance.

      There would be a source of food for every kind of life, without this food being the form of other animals, which the predators tear them apart and suffer so much. In another words there would be another form of creation. If there was not the evil spirit, then it wouldn't be the knowledge of good and bad, and the human could be born good and innocent, he would live for some time and then could pass in the Kingdom of God without any problem. And this is what exactly God wants.

      The intention of His creation is the happy life in perfect conditions, and this kind of creation is exactly the one, which represents God. It is written at the end of this book that God will create a new creation, but before the new creation, the devil must be destroyed, and he will be fairly destroyed.  And he will be enforced to disappear from the space of the creation. If God wanted for His creatures to suffer, then why God would create them? And why would the Lord have to come to the earth, to suffer and be crucified? And if the Lord wanted His creatures to suffer and be destroyed, then why was He crucified to save them? 

       But if we understand that God at that time didn't have any other choice, then what would be better? Not to create anything, and let forever exist the chaos without any life, or to create the life with all the hard consequences, which came from the interpositions of the anti-god?  Would it be any better if there were an eternal and endless chaos? Not of course. God had to create the life even with all the sufferings, which came from the existence of this anti-god in the space of the creation, but also with the beauty and enjoyments of life, and more than any thing else, God wanted to pull up a great number of people and make them worthy to join Him, and enjoy forever the life in conditions of perfection, in which will be no worries and without the interpositions of the evil spirit.  

      It sounds rather strange and unbelievable that the Almighty Creator had no other choice at that time, but clearly, if there was another choice then His creation would be perfect and according to His Will. There wouldn't be any bad at all in all the creation. And as we see, His creatures don't obey His Will, and a lot of things happen against His Will. And there is another way to understand. If there were another choice, then the Lord wouldn't come as Man to the earth. But because the Lord loves, and the love is a component of the Highest Mind, He was obligated from His love to come to the earth, to suffer and be crucified in order to save His creatures. Who is the faithful who doubts that the Lord indeed was obligated from our sins and from His love to suffer and be crucified? Perhaps He wanted to suffer insults, spiting, whippings, and a horrible Crucifixion from His creatures? Not of course.

      Why then didn't the Lord create everything from the beginning that way, so the people would not need to be saved? Did perhaps God made a mistake, and then the Lord wanted to fix the mistake? Not of course. God never makes mistakes, but as the Lord was obligated from His love to be crucified in order to save the human from the nails of the enemy, the likewise He had to create in a space, in which the evil spirit exists with all of his interpositions. Otherwise the Lord wouldn't create anything, and something like this would be bad, and the bad doesn't match with the Holy Creator. That is why also it was an absolute necessity for many millions of years to pass, and that is why it was a necessity to continually recreate the earth, because it was inevitable for the human to pass through all those pre-historic and historic guides, and he had to give every day his battle to survive, and beat the devil with Lord's Spirit and with His Sacrifice. If there were not the dragon, then there wouldn't be any reason to pass first millions of years, because the Lord would create the human from the beginning.   

      But does perhaps it mean that God is not Almighty?  Not of course. The Lord is absolutely Almighty, and as we also see, Lord from the beginning had pre-determined His plans, and by His Prophets and with this book revealed to the world what exactly would happen, and how the enemy would be destroyed, and revealed thousands of years before, that His domination will be absolute and complete. Before two thousand years the Lord revealed that there would be war in the heavens and the enemy would be thrown away from his position, and he wouldn't accuse Lord's creatures any longer. Besides we shouldn't forget, that the Creator of life is also the Master of life, and inasmuch the people suffer in this short time of life on the earth, this is nothing and it cannot be compare with the endless and happy life which the Lord prepares for the human.

      But as we see until that time the evil spirit has some rights in the creation and insists that some things are belonging to him. He holds some room in the creation, he stands somewhere; therefore he has some authority. He considers that some things are belonging to him, because are not belonging to God. The unholy and evil that exists in the creation is belonging of course to the devil. The people, who don't obey God, obey the devil, and so they are belonging to him. He accuses the people and says to God, these people became evil and so they are belonging to him.

      So this war in heaven is very revealing, and it is one of the great reasons why this book was called Revelation. It reveals not only the wars and disasters that will happen until the end of the world, but it also reveals a lot of secrets in the creation. It reveals who is the reason of all the misfortunes, and it tell us very clearly that the dragon rules in every evil and unholy, because he created it and it is belonging to him. He created the evil; it comes from him, it is his nature, and as "just" he accuses the people and says, these people did evil things, and so they belong to him.

     But he cannot take them away from God, because the Lord Christ paid for our sins, and so we stand expiated and justified in front of God. So let him strike his devil head as much as he wants, and let him claim authority. But he with his servants crucified the Lord, and so the Lord makes worthy all those people who believe and follow Him. It is written that the faithful overcame the devil because of the Blood of the Lamb and because of they word of testimony.  Their word of testimony means that they repented and confessed their sins. They asked for forgiveness; they were expiated with the Sacrifice of the Lord and so they are worthy to be with God.

      There is also other way that makes people worthy through the Sacrifice of the Lord. It is the real ignorance and the real confusion. Namely if they didn't ask for atonement because of the circumstances, in which the ignorance and confusion prevail, then they will be judged according to their conscience and according the circumstances in which they lived in. Many of them become worthy with the Blood of the Lamb even if they didn't know the Lord. But if they knew the Lord, and rejected Him without any justification, then they are belonging to the devil. But we should notice, the age, aeon, judgment is about in some limit of time. It is rather sure that expiation through some time of judgment will liberate the sinner, and restoration will come for every human.

    So the devil accuses the people in front of God and demands to take his own, but in the last years and rather just before the Everlasting Sacrifice taken away (the Everlasting Sacrifice is the Crucifixion of the Lord, which offer atonement to the people), the margins of repentance and atonement will be over. The "books" with all those who are going to be saved will be complete, and therefore there will be no more margins for the devil to stay in a place, which is not belonging to him. His place is the darkness, his actions are dark, and so he couldn't accuse any more, neither to claim any more authority.                                

     All those who belong to him in the aeon (in a limit of time, not forever) will be at that place which belongs to him, while every thing will be already separated. Finish. He will be defeated as state, and his judgment will be a matter of months. But he will persist until the end, and then there will be war between God's Angels with the Archangel Michael, against the angels of the devil. As the prophecy says, the great dragon, the anti-creator was defeated, and there was no place found for him in heavens, and he was knocked down to the earth. But then he will do as much evil he can, and he will cause a lot of disasters to the people who obey to him. After the crushing of the devil, the Archangel Michael will appear on the earth, and he will ensure the Hebrews for the Messiah, and as the prophecy says he also will tend the nations with the metal stick. He will preach the uniting of the faithful people (it is not an easy task) in front of God, and it seems he will use hard methods, to impose the unity of the faithful. No more separations of the churches, no more catholic, nor orthodox or protestant or whatever. All the faithful people must be only Christians and nothing more or less, and the faithful Hebrews will be also Christians.    

Chapter 13. ²And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. ³One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast. ⁴Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"
⁵The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. ⁶He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. ⁷He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. ⁸All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.^[2]
9He who has an ear, let him hear.
    ¹⁰If anyone is to go into captivity,
 into captivity he will go.
   If anyone is to be killed ^[3] with the sword,
 with the sword he will be killed. This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.

The Beast out of the Earth

¹¹Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. ¹²He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. ¹³And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. ¹⁴Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. ¹⁵He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. ¹⁶He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, ¹⁷so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
¹⁸This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

   My Interpretation. In chapter 13 we see first the description of the beast. The beast came out of the sea, and it had 7 heads and 10 horns. On the horns were 10 crowns, and on the heads were written names of blasphemy. This strange beast was like a leopard, it had bear's feet, and its mouth was like lion's mouth. And the devil gave him power and authority. One of the head was deadly wounded, and the deadly wound was cured. And they worshiped the devil and the beast.   

     The beast came out from the sea, meaning it came out from the nations of the world, and it had the same similarities as the other older beasts. It looked like as leopard, and as bear, and as lion. The lion of Daniel symbolizes the Roman Empire, the bear symbolizes the Ottoman Empire, and the leopard symbolizes the powers of Europe with the colonies. So its strange appearance was not surprised, because the same characteristics of the other beasts, we find them also on this last and terrible beast. That is why it appeared by the same symbols, because it didn't stop doing the same things. In the capitalist economic system coexist also all the methods of the previous beasts. It still has colonies, it still rules as Romans dictators and still behaves like the bear, which was told, get up and eat a lot of flesh.

    Whatever the others did, this also does, but this beast is much more stronger than any other previous beast, it is the high advanced historic time that is distinguished with the great capitalist development with a lot of products that makes the life easier, but it also uses various ways to corrupt the people. It rules with its horrible war machine, and with the great development of science and technology. So everyone worships the beast and says; which previous historic technology and economy, is like our time's technology and economy with so many comforts and products that we have and enjoy?  And the people admire and worship the capitalist beast, and they say; who is like the beast? Well this is very obvious in our time.

     The 7 heads symbolize the 7 forms of governing, as the economic, the democratic, the royal, the fascistic way of governing, the imperialistic, or colonial the socialist (communist) and the "theocracy" that rules in many countries. On the heads were written names of blasphemy, because all these ways of ruling the world are oppressing and exploiting the people, and at the same time most of them maintain that they rule by God's blessing, (now of course they have forgot God) and say that they rule by God's order. Of course, in the kingdom of the devil, they have to rule in some way, but they don't say the truth, and no more no less, they maintain that all these things they do are according to God's Will. To understand this, we should look through the historic and modern data with wide-open eyes, so we may realize what is correct and required. We should look the social conditions from the side of the absolute just, from the side of God. But however we see or not, this doesn't change the fact that the world is ruled by the lie, by deceiving and by exploitation. The devil accompany with the each time dynasts rule on the people, they exploit them etc, and also they try to make them believe that all these things are happening by the Will of God, and so they push them away and make them revolt against God.  They have the audacity to swear to God that they will rule the people according His Will, and therefore they legitimatise injustice and exploitation, with the wealth hipped up at the one side, the poverty and the desperation of a great number of populations at the other side, and all this injustice and evil are presented as they happen according the Will of God. Well, of course this is terrible blasphemy.

     The other way of governing says directly that God doesn't exist, and they prohibit the citizens to worship the Lord. Namely, in the one way or another, all the forms of governing blasphemy God. Other says, God doesn't exist, and other says, what we do is what God wants. They use the divine teachings in order to bridle and exploit the people. The churches were on their side and used to consecrate, and still do their evil actions. They consecrate the exploitation and the wealth, which is gained by the sweat of the people who live in poverty and in misery, and there are a lot of them who even now say; God makes the rich and the poor.

     So they used the corruption of the churches or even their ignorance and their confusion, because they remained stuck in the misunderstandings of the ancient people who wanted God to give wealth and slaves to the "pious" rich rulers. And so we see that the blessings of the churches consecrate almost all the forms of governing, which the beast uses to rule the world, and so they confirm its blasphemies. They confirm as a Will of God, all the forms of ruling, as the economic, the royal one, and all the others, even fascism, (see, Spain of Franco, Italy of Mussolini, Greece of Metaxas, of Papadopoulos, etc) which was deadly wounded at the Second World War, (people hated it too much and used to shout, down with fascism) but fascism didn't die. It is alive and is dragging itself as the snake in the other forms of governing, and while in some areas lives as vegetarian, at other areas devours flesh, in the name of the freedom and of the human rights. Fascism is the sinister teeth of the beast, and these teeth exist also in every mouth of its heads, and therefore, fascism exists less or more in every form of governing. 

     That is why the prophecy says, the beast had the deadly wound of the knife, and it was cured. And the people worshipped the beast, meaning they were submitted to the beast. So, and while it is very clear that all of its heads fight against God's domination, they also speak hypocritically and say that they serve God, and they use His Holy name to exploit the people and the nations. A very great example is the United States. God blessed America, namely whatever the grandees of America does, is "according" to God's Will. And when they make wars for their interests they also ask the population to pray on Sundays and thank God, who "support" their war. There is hypocrisy and lies everywhere.  

     The horns with the crowns symbolize the great economic and military powers, which impose mostly their economic domination on the other nations. It doesn't mean at all the United Europe. Only some of them, as England, France Germany, and among the 10 horns, the first one is the United States. It is written very clearly, that the beast will make war with its fascistic head for 42 months.          

     John saw a second beast, which was coming up from the earth, and it had two horns, which were alike horns of a lamb, and spoke as dragon. That beast used to practice the authority of the first beast, and it enforced all the residents of the earth to worship the beast with the wounded head. So this beast symbolizes the scientific and technological development, which mostly serves the beast with the heads and horns, and serves the main head (the economy of the grandees) of the beast, and enforces the people to worship it.  And was doing great and wonderful things, and who knows what other wonderful things it will do at the near future to deceive the world!

      It speaks exactly about the great and astonishing development of science and technology. The great development went under the service of the fascistic head of the beast, but its fascistic teeth exist in every head's mouth, and it developed and yet it does develop the horrible war machine, which it uses to threaten the nations and enforces them to worship the beast. The worshiping also means to be submitted, by the "good will" or by the force.  Is there any doubt? Not of course.

     The prophecy says, the second beast, namely the scientific and technologic development, said to the residents of the earth to make the image of the beast, which had the wound of the sword and has come to life. And there was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast might even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

     In another words, this image of the beast (personification of the antichrist) with the fascistic head, while the democratic head will be unravelled, will be the antichrist in personification, and he will express the ruling of the beast, with the entire supporting of the technology and science which serve the beast, and they are under its control. He, the antichrist will appear as peace maker in conditions of great distress and agitations, and of course he will appear as dictator.

     Meaning that with this form of governing, (the fascistic one) which the sword had wounded and survived, he will make war (rather the war of the 42 months) and at the same time he will speak about peace with many countries, and if some of them not submitting with the "good will" they will submit with the power of his war machine. (Well it is happening already) And so we ask here those who may doubt, which powers develop the war machine of the beast? How does the beast control, and will control the world? Well it is very obvious. The beast controls the world with its own science and technology that develops the weapons of horror, namely with that second beast.  

     That is why the prophecy says; this second beast exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and deceives the residents of the earth. Meaning this beast mocks the residents of the earth, it stupefy a lot of people by using "scientific" methods, and will tell them at the near future, we must make the fascistic image of the beast and to worship this image, which means, we must accept the fascist antichrist as our governor, and we must be submitted to him. There is no other solution, if you want to save yourselves, at this difficult time, (of terrorism and distress), you must forget the democracies. So the image of the beast is the antichrist, which will appear with the fascistic form of governing, and the second beast will enforce the people to be obedient to the antichrist.

     The great technology and science will invent in the near future, (at the duration of the last 7 years) another way of commercial exchanges, and they will enforce the people to print a number on hand or on head, instead of carrying cards and money, and they will maintain that this number will serve in better way the exchanges. In another words they will say that it is absolute necessity to control the crime, the drugs, those who avoid to paying tax etc. But all these are justifications and actions of the beast. The beast is the one that provokes criminal activities and also it trades with the crime. The beast is serving the grandees, to whom the acts are unjust and exploiting, and therefore their activities are serving the devil. So the number will give power to the grandees who will rule on the horns and on the other heads of the beast, (as many of them remained) to control the world and make people submit to them. 

       In another words, this is going to be the last and greater endeavour of the devil to make people submit, and to rule in conditions of terrible agitations, of corruption and dependence of the world from the economic form of governing. With the number he will enforce the people to be submitted to the economic head of the capitalist beast, while he will have dressed first to the world economic bridles, and enforce the people to dance his own purpose, like the miserable and chained up bear. The world will depend on the bonds of consumption, which as we see is the modern way of life, in a heap of useful, and useless objects. Therefore the world will be dependant on the strong economy of the grandees.      

      In this kind of circumstances, the antichrist who will be the personification of the beast and its representative, and he will hold in his hands the fascistic bridle, will say through his servants; or you accept the number in your body or you get lost in the deprivation and misery. Do you want to have TV, or any other thing you want? Well, take whatever you want, but first you must accept the number in your body. The money is the number. Accept the number in your body, take whatever you want and go without worries, the computers will regulate perfect all the rest. So the number is going to be very tempted, because it is going to be easy to have whatever you want, except God. But maybe the number wouldn't be obliging to buy food, and maybe the ordinary money will be around at a very limit circulation, only to buy the necessary food, as like in a transitive period.

     But God says no to the number, meaning, don't submit yourselves to the devil. This will be known everywhere by the interpretation of this book, and everyone will know that when he accepts the number in his body, then he accepts the domination of the devil, and therefore he rejects the domination of the Lord. So the number will be as some kind of elections, and the people will be asked to "vote". The economic number will be the ballot of the devil, and at the same time it will be the way of exchange commodities, but the faithful must say No, must say no, to the number and to all of its good.                           

     So the beast, or more correctly the devil, will try to have absolute domination by the economic number, while before will have tightened the world with the economy, and rule everywhere, and I strongly believe that this will happen in the last 7 years. In those years, at the second part, the antichrist is going to appear as messiah. In the first part of the week, the two Witnesses of God will appear. The beast will kill the two Witnesses, but will kill them after they finish first their testimony, in which they will prophesise and warning the world for 1260 days.

    Now why does the number 666 symbolize this number? The prophecy says that it is the number of man, and it is also the number of the beast. As we showed in the book of Genesis, the man was created in the 6^th day, which means the 6^th era. Only God knows why the creation was divided in 6 great eras of creation or in great 6 extents of recreation. No one else, neither the science is able to define by exactness the real reasons, and what God's plans been served.

So the 6^th era, registers the first 6.

   The extent of human's era, namely the duration from the time that man was created until the end of the era registers the other 6.

   The other great and last domination of man on the earth, which is mostly the domination of the beast and of the devil, registers and the other 6.

So we have the 666.

    Now we count the human's era, which is part of the great 6^th era, and is heard as number of man.

     As we showed at the subject of Genesis, the age of Adam is a code of pre-historic era, and this age is 930 years, which we multiply by the key of Daniel. So when we multiply those 930 years by the day as year, then we can find out that the pre-historic era was 338450 years. Enoch, who appears in the book of Genesis by the cryptographic number 365 aligns that we should count the years, by the year to have 365 days.

     After we have the symbolic Alleviation (Noah) in which is another 20 years. Noah, (Alleviation) was called so, because 1000 years before the end of this era, the alleviation will prevail, and at last the Saint of saints will dominate everywhere, and of course, the Saint of saints, is no one else, and only our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. The 20 years of the historic era, which started from the great flood, multiply also by the day as year, and so we can find that the historic era, until the end of the world is 7300 years. So we have altogether, pre-historic and historic eras, 346750 years. And this is the number of man.

      The simple question is; why does the devil do these things, especially when he knows that it is impossible to win?  The answer is very easy and understandable. The nature of the devil is to destroy. He is the anti-god and the terrible wound and disease of the creation; he is the main source of disasters and evil in human's history and in the nature as well. He looks like as a very dirty torrent, which wanted or not is running in its crazy journey, and as it passes, it is also carrying away whatever is possible to carry away. Whatever the torrent snatches, and as more people sunk and destroyed, more his satisfaction is. From this kind of his nature, he is cursed and judged.

  Chapter 14. Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. ²And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. ³And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. ⁴These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as first fruits to God and the Lamb. ⁵No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

The Three Angels
⁶Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language and people. ⁷He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."
⁸A second angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
⁹A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, ¹⁰he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. ¹¹And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." ¹²This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
¹³Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on."
"Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."

The Harvest of the Earth

¹⁴I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man"^[1] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." ¹⁶So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
¹⁷Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. ¹⁸Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." ¹⁹The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. ²⁰They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia

    My Interpretation. Chapter 14 confirms what is written on the chapter 13, about the number of the beast, and the kind of elections we mentioned. The Heavens are ready, namely the Kingdom of God is preparing to come on the earth. The glorified Lamb is among the most of His chosen. He is among the 144000 chosen live on the earth, or many of them are still alive, and they didn't deny our beloved Lord. They sing and play guitars, they sing a joyful hymn in front of the throne of the Highest, and no one else knows their song. Only they know it, the most chosen, because they never betrayed the King of kings, not by word, and not by act.  To be closer to Him, they also despised sexual pleasure, and they also despised little and temporary enjoyments, which please the materialist world. Who are they, and how can we localize them? Unknown. Certainly as long they lived or some of them still live, they used to walk through churches, and some of them maybe have some dignities of the church. But most of them are simple people, and they pass quietly, without annoying anyone, and they never bless the unjust.

     And another Angel was flying, and he had on his hands the eternal Gospel, to preach at all the nations, in all the languages, and was saying; glorify God, because His judgment came, and worship the Creator of the universe. The other Angel warns all those who worship the beast, and accept in their bodies the incision of devil's domination. Another Angel presages the fall of Babylon, the great and corrupted city, which is also the capital city of the beast. We will see Babylon in the continuation.

    The prophecy speaks in here about the mowing of the earth, and all the mowing will be thrown into the wine press of God's anger. All these, and many others, which we already mentioned, are the happenings of the 7 bowls, and are in the 7^th seal. The 7^th seal starts almost from chapter 7, which before was opened; the Angel sealed in symbolically the chosen people of God. The 7^th seal opens in the 8^th chapter, and as it opens, then the representation starts with the censer and the altar. Then the 6 trumpets started to sound. So every thing from chapter 8 belongs to the 7^th seal. Of course the description of the beast in chapter 13 is only a description, and it belongs to the others also, but the war of the 42 months and the incision of the beast, belongs to the 7^th seal.

  Chapter 15. And I saw in heaven another great and marvellous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues--last, because with them God's wrath is completed. ²And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. They held harps given them by God ³and sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb:
   "Great and marvellous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty.
   Just and true are your ways, King of the ages.
    ⁴Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name?
   For you alone are holy.
   All nations will come and worship before you,
 for your righteous acts have been revealed."
⁵After this I looked and in heaven the temple, that is, the tabernacle of the Testimony, was opened. ⁶Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. ⁷Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. ⁸And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

 Chapter 16. Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go, pour out the seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth." ²The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.
³The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
⁴The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. ⁵Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:
   "You are just in these judgments,
 you who are and who were, the Holy One,
 because you have so judged;
 6for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets,
 and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve." ⁷And I heard the altar respond:
   "Yes, Lord God Almighty,
 true and just are your judgments."
⁸The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. ⁹ They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
¹⁰The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony ¹¹and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.
¹²The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. ¹³Then I saw three evil ^[1] spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
¹⁵"Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed."
¹⁶Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
¹⁷The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is done!" ¹⁸Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. ¹⁹The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. ²⁰Every Island fled away and the mountains could not be found. ²¹From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

     My Interpretation. Then another sign appeared on heavens, which was great and marvellous, seven Angels had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished. From this time starts the last part of the end, and it seems that the 7 bowls will start at the second part of the "half week", and after the two Witnesses. It is going to be the last days of the personification of the antichrist. The Great Domination of the Highest is very close. We see here Angels and Saints singing the hymn of Moses, and of the Lamb, they play guitars and glorify God the Almighty. Glory to the Highest Lord, the King of the kings, and the Saint of saints, and all the nations will glorify and worship the Supreme Mind. And then the 7 Angels came out with the 7 plagues, and gave them 7 bowls filled up by the anger of God.

    The first Angel emptied the bowl in the land. It seems that this bowl will cause some nuisance on those who ignore God and accepted in their bodies the number of the beast. We understand that the refusal of the number will cause a lot of economic problems, and it will not be easy at all to say NO, to the beast. So a lot of people will submit. But as the same condition as before, the same also will be and at the last moment. We must try with sacrifices and privations to approach God, and this are not an easy duty at all for everyone, who has learn to be comfortable in his good life. But this refusal will be and the most tragically.

    The second bowl will be emptied in the sea. But we see that the prophecy says in the sea, meaning in some sea, and not in all the seas and oceans. And every living creature in the sea was dead. The third Angel emptied the bowl in the rivers and in the springs of water, and the waters became red as blood. In some rivers and springs, not in every one. The fourth Angel emptied the bowl at the sun, and it had the authority to hit the people with fire. It seems that here means literally the sun, and the people will suffer what exactly will happen by some unknown strike on the sun.

    And the 5^th Angel will empty the bowl on the throne of the beast, and darkness and confusion will come to its kingdom. Namely they will not understand, and will not repent and they will blasphemy God, because the enslaving to the beast and to the devil will have a result of sealing the prudence. And the 6^th Angel emptied the bowl on the Euphrates River; ant its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the east.   And they will gather them together for war, at a place, which is called in Hebrew Armageddon. This is going to be the great day of God the Almighty.

  Let see more closely this notorious war.  

     John saw three unclean spirits as frogs that were coming out from the mouth of dragon, of the beast and of the false-prophet. Now we know who is the dragon and the beast, but who is the false-prophet? The prophecy speaks about unclean spirits, which were like frogs. With the frogs rather means a lot of words, talking too much, as the frog make noise with its bubble when it wants to communicate with the other frogs or for some other reasons. It keeps making noise, but of course we don't talk about the innocent frogs, we talk about those lies that come out from the mouths of the three members of the unholy trinity.

    Who is the one that has never heard people in our days talking about "holy and God's blessed wars"? And who didn't hear paranoiacs and charlatans making people fanatical, and telling them that when they kill the "unfaithful" they serve God? Who didn't hear about the famous "religion of God"? At least in our time only a paranoiac would say that when someone kills and takes revenge, he serves and pleases God. So the personification of false-prophecy and so the false-prophet is going to be one of those charlatans who appear as wearing the mask of a saint, and speak in the name of God, and pretend to be prophets, and speak about "God's religion", and they maintain that it is holy duty of "God's people" to fight for the spread of their religion in the whole world.                

     Now we understand this terrible meaning, when they preach violence, revenge and war in the name of God. And we understand that there is nothing worst, than to convince people that when they kill and take revenge, they please God, and are obedient to the Creator. The world is full of hate and violence, and if they convince people that the hate and the violence brings pleasure to God, well, there is nothing worst that this belief.

        So the prophecy says, that on the 6^th bowl of God's anger, the waters of Euphrates River was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the east countries. And they gathered them together to the place, which in Hebrew is called Armageddon. We know very well that Armageddon is not only that place, but rather Armageddon with some other meaning is the whole world. And indeed the whole world is mixed up, and all the religions exist in all the countries, and everywhere exist blind fanatical and enlightened people. There are good and bad Christians, good and bad people of other religions, as also there are unfaithful, felons and servants of the devil. So confusion exists everywhere.

    The world to day is like a boiler, which is boiling, and threats to burn the world. The people of God exist everywhere, and also everywhere exists the people of the prince of corruption. The prince of corruption and destructiveness with his servants, the antichrist and the false-prophet are together the unholy and evil trinity. This trinity will give its last battle against the people of the Lord, against the Holy Trinity, against the Father, against the Son and against the Holy Spirit. They will blasphemy and they will insult the Almighty Creator, and as the Lord says, the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

    So the war of Armageddon will be the hardest, the most civilian, the most holy and the most evil. It will be the day of God the Almighty, and it will be the day before the last one of the domination of the evil trinity on earth. As we understand, during the testimony of the two Witnesses all the nations of the world will recognize Lord Christ, but of course this doesn't mean that all the people will become Christians. If that was to happen, then there would be no reason for the 7 bowls of God's anger to strike, because if it was for everyone to be Christian, then the state of the evil trinity would collapse, without the 7 bowls.

    Now why does the prophecy say, that the waters of Euphrates will dry out? The waters in Bible are applying in various conditions and meanings. The waters on which the prostitute sits symbolize people and nations and languages, the same also the sea, from which came out the beasts. The Euphrates River is symbol of people who live close to the river, and while they believe in God, they refuse the Lord Christ, so in their confusion they refuse God.  Of course it is not only those people who live around the river who refuse the Lord, but Euphrates is the centre and the starting point, and from those areas of the east starts the religionist war against the Lord. So the Euphrates River symbolizes those people.

   Let us look at it more closely.

   As with all the rivers, the waters of Euphrates run to a destination. They end up to a delta.  The people around Euphrates River also have a destination, which ends up to a delta. For many centuries they been taught and get prepared for the "holy" war, and their intention is to spread the "religion of God" in the whole world. And this is the great journey of the human river, who were taught that it is God's Will to fight one day for the domination of "God's religion" on the whole earth by using violence.

     So at that time, the waters of Euphrates will dry out, namely, all those teachings and preparations will come to an end, and at last the great day when the dream becomes reality, will arrive. The terrible condition on the world, with the great corruption, the miracles which will occur by the two Witnesses, and as they wouldn't believe in their messages, all the circumstances will light up the green light, which will open the road of Euphrates for the "holy" battle. They will interpret all these things as a calling from God to attack.

    The mixed up people who will participate in the great battle will not obey governments, besides governments are usually their spiritual leaders, and they will obey them, and the top of those spiritual leaders will be the false-prophet. The frog of the false-prophet continually will lie, and will suck the mind of those because of religionist fanatics, who didn't listen the witnesses of the two Prophets. And the frog will insist that this war is holy, and its intention is to serve God by imposing with violence His religion in the world.

     So their leader (the false prophet), as well the other spiritual teachers and leaders before him, don't express the true Word of God, because the true Word of God, never said; go to kill and take revenge, or to impose with violence to the other people the "religion of God". The true Word of God says; if you want, follow Me. Lord never said; go and impose on the others My teaching or kill them. The crisis will come from God, and God never gave authority to anyone to impose on others by violence any religion. God gave freedom, because the freedom is God's Spirit.

    Only at the end, and only at that time will God withdraw the Spirit of freedom, because when the NO doesn't exist, the YES doesn't exist also. And until that time the yes and no will exist and they will be at the free choice of human. The same thing also applies for the covered woman. Only if she wants, she may cover her face, because of her belief, and not because of her husband's decision or brother or father or son. And of course God never said to the woman to hide her face and her personality. The roots of this perception originated from condition in which the man became master of the woman because he became owner of big private property in barbarian conditions. So he wanted his wife not as an equal partner in his life, but as his private property. His women were his property, and he had a lot of them to satisfy his pleasures, and at the same time to serve him as master. They also used to sell women, and if she were a virgin she would be more valued for the master or for the father.

    They refused to understand that the woman is an absolute and an equal soul, and she has divine feelings which barbarity withers like the flowers that were cut from the profaned hand. But how can I become a Christian, or how can I follow any other religion by being enforced? It is impossible to believe in any religion this way, because this kind of faith is false, and God rejects the lie. If I believe something, then I must believe it, and not by being enforced. What will God do with a false believer, who submits himself to a religion because of fear, or for some other materialist profit?  If God wanted something like this, then God would impose it on the whole world.

     So what do we say now? The "religion of God" is above God, and it will impose as God whatever pleases the religion? Will God decide or the religion? Is it possible for the "religion of God" to stand above God? If God says liberty, the religion will say imprisonment and violence? And if God wants violence, then God couldn't impose it? So freedom of choice is God's Will, and God's Will was preached from the true Word of God, and it has been also proved in the journey of history in which God never enforced the people to believe.

      But all this proved truth is contradicted from the leaders of "God's religion", while they say that the first leader communicates with God, and do whatever God told him, and so he refuses and contradicts the Word of God, and therefore he is false-prophet and charlatan. He has a frog in his mouth, the same also the dragon and the antichrist. So this is going to be the greatest war battle, the battle of Armageddon. The battle of the truth, and the battle of the falsehood.

     This is the 6^th bowl of God's anger, because after all, they refused to listen. The 7^th bowl will be the last one. As it is written, with this bowl will be heard a voice from heavens which will say, Finish. The 7^th bowl will be emptied in the air, namely on any other domination of the beast, which it could be possible to stand. The prophecy speaks here for Babylon, which stands on top of the other cities of the other nations. We will see Babylon after chapter 17.                             

     Chapter 17.  One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. ²With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries."
³Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. ⁵This title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. ⁶I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
⁷When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. ⁸The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.
⁹"This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. ¹⁰They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. ¹¹The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
¹²"The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. ¹³They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings--and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers."
¹⁵Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. ¹⁶The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. ¹⁷For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled. ¹⁸The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."

     My Interpretation. After these, an Angel of those who had the 7 bowls said to John that he would show to him the crisis of the great prostitute who sits on a lot of waters. The prostitute symbolize the great and corrupted city Babylon, out of this city all the kings of the earth became prostitutes, and all the people of earth drunk also from the wine of her prostitution. John said; the Angel took me by spiritual way in the desert, namely they went to see the desert of the world's corruption, and John saw a woman who was sitting on a red beast, (red beast, which means the beast of wars for domination) which was full of names of blasphemy, and the beast had 7 heads and 10 horns. We are reminded here of the description of the beast of chapter 13.

    So this prostitute woman, who symbolizes the corrupted city Babylon, was dressed with all the materialist treasures of the world, and she was holding in her hand a golden glass, which was full up from the abomination and the dirtiness of her prostitution. When John saw her with so great majesty, he admired. Who knows how John saw fictitiously our modern world after the second millennia and admired! Now without repeating the same things, which is already written, let us see the interpretation.

     At first the 7 heads that are 7 mountains, on which the corrupted city is sitting. The Angel said that the 7 mountains are 7 kings. The 7 kings are not exactly kings by the form of some states, which rule the world, but they are 7 forms of governing that rule the world. As we said in relation to the beast of chapter 13, the 7 governing of the world are the known forms, the economic, the democratic, the royal, the socialist, the fascistic, the imperialistic, and the colonial or rather the theocratic. The prophecy says that the beast has heads or mountains and horns. The head means thoughts, ideas and ways how to rule the world, but while the head rules therefore it stands oppressing above the people as a mountain. The head means ideas and the mountain means oppression. So the head that rules and oppresses, it is also a mountain. The head is exploiting and oppressing. The horns symbolize domination, as the economic and technological superiority, and the various weapons. So the 10 horns symbolize the most developed powers that oppress the weaker ones. Then the Angel said; the 5 heads were fallen, and the one is, and the other hasn't come yet, and when he comes must stay for a little longer.

    In the last years, and before the crushing of the beast, all the other forms of governing will fall. There will be not any more kings or colonies with known way, nor socialism etc. The great governing of the world will be the economy with the technology, namely an impersonal mechanism with some kind of false-democracy. But in the last years of antichrist, the masks of the false-democracy will fall, and the fascistic head will appear again naked in its horrible form, and the antichrist will rule with this form of governing. The 5 of them will fall at the right time.

     But on top of all these, namely above of all those forms of governing stands the city Babylon, and so Babylon appears as 8^th and at the same time the 8^th is one of the 7 forms of governing. The 8^th governing is the economy of the city Babylon, which also is one of the 7, but Babylon rules on the economy of the other horns. The beast is impersonal and untouchable. It is a very complicated system of business with the economy, the technology, the electronic, the information industry, the military powers, as NATO etc, and with all the other forms of governing, as democracy etc.

    The 10 horns symbolize the 10 greater powers of the world. And on top of all these heads and horns, stands the economy of Babylon, with her power in which she imposes her economy to rule the other economies, and she does it, by various ways, and also by wars and threats of war by using her very developed war machine and so she dominates on the whole world. The state, to which Babylon belongs, is also one of the 10 horns, and as we see, this horn is one of the stronger states, which rule the world.

     So there appears an 8^th, which is a part of the beast, and this 8^th is also one of the 7, namely, the 7^th is the governing of the world's economy that rules, and on top of the world's economy is the 8^th, which means the economy of Babylon.  In another words, yes, the 8^th is a form of governing, and therefore is one of the 7 mountains, but it also rules on the economies of the others, and therefore the 8^th rules on the economic governing. It is the government of the governments. The 8^th   belongs to the beast, but is also the top of the beast, which is going to be destroyed.  So the beast has 7 heads, which are the 7 forms of governing of the world, and also the 10 stronger powers of the world, and on top of all these stands the super power and the economy of Babylon.

    Let us make it clearer.

    We have a beast that has 7 heads or 7 mountains, and also 10 horns. So the beast that has heads and horns, it also has a body, and its body is the very developed capitalist way of production. The capitalist system from its own nature has the tendency, wanted or not, to develop more and more, and as much it develops, so much more spreads everywhere around, and as we see it already rules in the whole world. The 7 heads or mountains, symbolize 7 forms of governing of its economic system. Some of them we can find them and the previous beasts as well. For example, in the other beasts was also the form of royal governing, or the colonial one etc. The 10 horns symbolize 10 great powers that impose their domination on the other weaker.

     In our time the most powerful horn is the United States, (we don't mean the innocent people of the United States, who certainly are many, but we mean the interests of the powerful grandees, which rule and threaten the world) and because it is the most powerful horn of the capitalist economic system, it is also the body of the beast. The top of all the horns and heads is the 8^th who is the one of the 7 heads.

Namely, the economy is the one form of governing, (the one of the 7 heads) and the economic superiority of the 8^th  (the same head) is the main economic government.

     The five forms of governing will fall in the last years, and as we realize, they have already started to lose ground, and the only thing that counts is the economic head, which often maintains that the democracy is still alive. But in reality, the grandees are those who rule the world, with the economy and wars, and their main seat is the symbolic Babylon. The second beast with the two lamb horns, which gives domination to the beast, symbolizes science and technology. This is the beast. It is not two beasts but one, as it was prophesied from Daniel, but somewhere it looks like an octopus. It has tentacles.  The grandees of the 10 more powerful horns, and the grandees of all the other smaller countries agree with the grandees of Babylon, because they have common pursuits and they get richer, and prostitute, and get drunk from the intoxicating wine of Babylon.

     But the people who suffer by various ways, they hate the prostitute, which symbolizes both the corruption and the corrupted Babylon, and they hate the corruption and the violence, and also they hate the main spring of the corruption, because in these countries including of course the United States, exist the humanists currents. There is logic, there are the humanist groups, the Christians and others, who hate the corruption and its main source, and they will contribute to its destruction.          

     So the prophecy speaks about great corruption, which as we realize it exists, and as long the world develops, goes more deeply, and the world will end up into literal abomination. But it doesn't mean at all that all people are corrupted or all they are going to be corrupted. In all the countries of the world, including of course the United States, live a lot of people who are not corrupted at all; there are also the humanists, the churches, etc. Many of them are not even Christians, and they are not because of confusion and of some other reasons as well.

      But although they are not Christians, they are humanists and they hate the corruption and its followings. They hate the drugs that trade some "good" untouchable businessmen, they hate the unemployment, they hate the trade of sex and feelings, they hate the trading of women, they hate the poverty and the desperation, of those poor countries that really starve, and also the misery of their countries. Many true intellectuals and scientists, humanist organizations, also doctors who serve life, and many others speak out and show the reasons of the corruption and of the desperation of the people, and they show that the main source of corruption is the voracious interests, which are the offspring of an economic system that devours souls and fleshes in order to exist and develop. Millions of people also demonstrate and protest, and others fight with various ways against the domination of the beast. But of course they can't change the conditions.

      The governments with all their good will, and although they hate the violent and corruption, they have no other choice than to take instructions from the bosses of the world, from Babylon, and so they ending into literally puppets in the hands of Babylon. So they adapt themselves to the domination of the beast. No body can control the beast, not even the individual grandee, because the individual grandee also has no other choice than to obey in the laws of the market, and so the beast is out of control. It is a beast that stands above the human's will, and so it stands above the human. It is the power of the devil, because most of the people and grandees are supporting the beast for their own interests, and so most of the people give power and authority to the devil. But again, in the domination of the beast exists many good things, and also exist a lot of people in many parts of the world that fight and hate the beast.

    That is why the prophecy says, they hate the prostitute, because they realize, and in their heart know what is good and correct, (they feel God's Will) and also because their sufferings. So the 7th bowl of God's anger will destroy completely the domination of the beast and the city Babylon. Not the whole dominion in which the Babylon belongs. The prophecy also says, with the 7^th bowl, all the cities of the nations will fall. Meaning all the governments, and all the forms of governing that is possible for them to stand until that time, will collapse. No other power could demolish the domination of the beast. God only will abolish every unjust state, as though one never existed.   

   Chapter 18. After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendour. ²With a mighty voice he shouted:
   "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!
       She has become a home for demons
   and a haunt for every evil^[1] spirit,
       a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird.
    ³For all the nations have drunk
 the maddening wine of her adulteries.
   The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
 and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."
⁴Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
   "Come out of her, my people,
 so that you will not share in her sins,
 so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
 5for her sins are piled up to heaven,
 and God has remembered her crimes.
    ⁶Give back to her as she has given;
 pay her back double for what she has done.
       Mix her a double portion from her own cup.
    ⁷Give her as much torture and grief
 as the glory and luxury she gave herself.
   In her heart she boasts,
       'I sit as queen; I am not a widow,
 and I will never mourn.'
    ⁸Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her:
 death, mourning and famine.
   She will be consumed by fire,
 for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.
⁹"When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. ¹⁰Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry:
   " 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
 O Babylon, city of power!
   In one hour your doom has come!'
¹¹"The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes any more-- ¹²cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; ¹³cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.
¹⁴"They will say, 'The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your riches and splendour have vanished, never to be recovered.' ¹⁵The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn ¹⁶and cry out:
   " 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
 dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet,
 and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls!
    ¹⁷In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!'
¹⁸"Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, 'Was there ever a city like this great city?' ¹⁹They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out:
   " 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
 where all who had ships on the sea
 became rich through her wealth!
   In one hour she has been brought to ruin!
    ²⁰Rejoice over her, O heaven!
       Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets!
   God has judged her for the way she treated you.' "
²¹Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said:
   "With such violence
 the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
 never to be found again.
    ²²The music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters,
 will never be heard in you again.
   No workman of any trade
 will ever be found in you again.
   The sound of a millstone
 will never be heard in you again.
    ²³The light of a lamp will never shine in you again.
   The voice of bridegroom and bride
 will never be heard in you again.
   Your merchants were the world's great men.
       By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
    ²⁴In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints,
 and of all who have been killed on the earth."

    My Interpretation. After the 7^th bowl, John saw an Angel who was very powerful, and he shouted with a strong voice and said. Fallen, fallen is the Babylon the great. And she has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. But in Babylon doesn't live only many corrupted people, but a lot of other people who have faith and love for God and love the people as well.  There are a lot of innocent people who live in Babylon. So a voice shouts from heaven and says; go away My people from the corrupted and judged Babylon, and don't communicate with her sins, and stay away from her sufferings which will come with her plagues, because her injustice and sins raised up to heavens.

      So obviously, the prophecy speaks about a concrete city, and not about a great territorial dominion. For example, if Babylon were Australia, it wouldn't be possible for the innocent people who live there, to go away, and not to communicate with Babylon, but if it was Canberra then the innocent people could do it. So the prophecy speaks about a concrete city.  Now which is this city that is symbolized with the old Babylon? Perhaps it means Paris, Tokyo, Moscow, Peking, London, Washington, or New York? Well, if something is so obvious you can't hide it. Which city is the world's trade centre? When a city stands on top of seven mountains, it is impossible to hide. The only way not to see the city is to close the eyes, but for how long? Babylon generally symbolizes the corruption, but it also symbolizes the main source of corruption of the modern world, and as the Angel said, that city which is symbolized with old Babylon, dominates on the kings of the earth. Namely it rules on the other dominations. More words are useless.

     But we repeat, in Babylon live a lot of faithful and innocent people who are people of God, and the Lord says; you My people must be careful, and don't say; Babylon is my country, and don't consecrate its corruption. Babylon is not the country of innocent people, it is the country of the corrupted grandees who trade everything, and as the prophecy says, they trade even the souls of the people. And of course the corruption spreads everywhere around, and all those, who are not of course innocent, they become corrupted and do the same things. They trade anything good or bad, they trade even the violence, they trade even sick passions of sadism and so many other sinister things for profits. And they do it with the pretext of liberty. We live in a free world, they say, and so they think that they are free to oppress and corrupt the world. Nothing can stay standing and without being exploited. They trade the feelings, the life, the love, the hope, the suffering, the grief, the pain and the joy, and all together drive the world to the great corruption.

     Whatever is converted into commodity, especially the feelings, they lose their holy meaning, while the emporium that byes and sells in purpose to make money, depraves and corrupts them, by changing their matter and meaning. Instead of feelings, they become sick passions. The Angel said, in Babylon was found blood of Prophets and blood of Saints, and all of the slain of the earth. Babylon is the last link of a long chain of murdering, because always the same reasons with the cunning interests of the rulers were killing the Prophets and the other Saints. And in this last link of the chain, how many people, who were really saints were murdered in Babylon, and how many wars and slaughters have been organized and started from the offices of Babylon?

      How much blood of the Saints has been shed in countries of Central and South America, and how much blood was shed in countries of Asia and Europe from the immunity of the grandees who rule the world from the offices of Babylon? The Prophets were not only the known Prophets of the Old Testament, but everyone who protests against the corruption of the grandees, and tries to warn them and tell them that the crisis and punishment will come, is a kind of Prophet, and how many of them have been murdered in the whole domination of Babylon? We don't talk of course about the innocent people who live in Babylon, but we talk about the grandees who rule the world from their offices in Babylon. Babylon stands in a concrete place, but her domination is everywhere around the world. She kills people everywhere by using various ways, and she does it by the pretext of democracy, of freedom and of human rights. Who are those people, who care so much about human rights in other countries, but they are "blind and deaf" about the human rights in their own country? Not the soldiers of course, neither those people who cannot effort to live in their own "free country".

     But alas, alas, because as the Angel said, her destruction will come in one hour, and the rulers of the earth will cry and grieve greatly, those who became prostitutes with her, and they will see the smoke of her burning from far away, and they will say; alas, alas, the great city Babylon, because her judgment came in one hour. And the merchants of the earth will cry and grieve, and the captains of the ships, and as many as trade by the sea, and they will stand away looking the smoke of her burning. Now which city does the prophecy means? Perhaps it means, Moscow or Peking? When the book of Revelation was written, Babylon was fallen in ruins a long time ago, and even at that time, in which Babylon was ruling, people were not going there by ships, but by horses and caravans.

     So what do they think? Perhaps they think that in the future, Moscow or Peking, will be the dominating city of the world, and perhaps the merchants will go there by ships? Or perhaps they think, that London is going to be again at the future the dominated city of the world? Whoever wants to ignore the prophecies and laughs at the book of Revelation is tragically mistaken. They are mistaken, and they don't listen to the words. Alas, alas, the great city Babylon, from which the grandees became very rich, and all the nations of the earth were deluded, and those who had ships in the sea, but again; in the old Babylon people were not going by ships, but by horses and caravans, while as the prophecy says, the new Babylon is surrounded by sea, and she will be destroyed in an hour. But let the just and pious be consoled, they may cry as humans who have love and feel sorry for the lovers of the dynasty, but be also happy, because this is the last one, there is not going to be any other dynasty after the new Babylon, her end will be joyful, as after this will be the absolute domination of the Most High.

    Chapter 19. After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting:

    "Hallelujah!
   Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
 2for true and just are his judgments.
   He has condemned the great prostitute
 who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
   He has avenged on her the blood of his servants." ³And again they shouted:
   "Hallelujah!
   The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever."
⁴The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried:
   "Amen, Hallelujah!"
⁵Then a voice came from the throne, saying:
   "Praise our God,
 all you his servants,
 you who fear him,
 both small and great!"
⁶Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
   "Hallelujah!
       For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
    ⁷Let us rejoice and be glad
 and give him glory!
   For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
    ⁸Fine linen, bright and clean,
 was given her to wear." (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)
⁹Then the angel said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!' " And he added, "These are the true words of God."
¹⁰At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

The Rider on the White Horse

¹¹I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. ¹²His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. ¹³He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. ¹⁴The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter."^[1] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

¹⁷And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, ¹⁸so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great."
¹⁹Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. ²⁰But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur. ²¹The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

    My Interpretation. After these, John heard a great voice of a lot of people saying; Hallelujah. Salvation and glory and power belong to our God. Glory and power to Him who is siting on the throne.  Glorious and powerful is the Lord, and His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot. Alleluia, glory and honour to our Lord God, who judged the great prostitute, not the wretched poor girl, to whom the barbarity of the grandees undress her, the barbarity that trades with her body and soul, while first steals her means of life, and pushes her by a number of ways into prostitution, but the prostitute herself who wretch and trade the human soul. Alleluia, because God the Almighty became King, let us be joyful and let us glorify Him. The glory belongs only to the Creator, it does not belong to any good or barbarian commander, nor to any sports man, or actor, or economic dynast, or to a confused or wise man. The glory belongs only to the Supreme Mind, belongs to our God and our Creator who is the only Perfect One.

     We glorify the Lord, and we will be very joyful when the time comes for the Lamb's wedding, of the calm and lovely Lamb, He who doesn't take but always gives, to Him who doesn't oppress, but has been oppressed and accepts the blasphemies and insults, because He loves, and every day knocks on the door of our heart, as He wants to save her, and avoids judging her. And the Angel said, write, blessed are those who are invited to the wedding of our lovely Lamb, and John bent down to worship the Angel, but the Angel said to him, be careful, don't do this, I am your comrade and a comrade of your brothers, worship only God.  It is written on the Law, "only Lord your God you will worship and only Him you will adore."  We don't worship the Angels, or John himself, as much as saint he is. We love and honour the Saints, but we don't worship them, and we don't offer them gifts, because they don't want, and they don't need gifts, and also they never trade. God doesn't trade, and the promises for materialist gifts and offerings have no meaning, or rather we say that they come from evil, which exploits confused minds.

     And then, John saw symbolically the heavens open, and saw a white horse, and the name of Him who sat on the horse, is Faithful and True.  The Faithful and True is the Word of God, who fights and judges by true justice, which means, He is never unjust for anyone, and never makes grandees in the one side, and starving children in the other, His eyes are like flames of fire, which burn against the unjust, and warms and give life to the just. Those who are thirsty for justice, they will be satisfied, the Lord says, and the time will come for His war, and will come out by His sharp sword of His mouth, to strike the nations, because they must understand, that every one has a common origin, and the true great nation, is the Holy Kingdom of God.

    The Word of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, is the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. All the other lords are false lords and exploiters. The real noble one is the humble one, who serves the human and serves the Lord. After the last great battle, John saw an angel who came down from heaven, and was holding the key of the symbolic abyss, and symbolically tightens the serpent, the same symbolic snake of the ancient people, who is devil and Satan, the accuser against the people, and tightens him for 1000 years, and shuts him and seals him, so not to deceive anyone for a 1000 years, and after that he must be released for a little while.

    We have to watch closely here to comprehend the messages. These 1000 years are a part of the second era. The second era was named Alleviation, and that means, 1000 years out of the 7300 years, the Alleviation will prevail. On those 1000 years, the devil will not have any right or any authority. When the 1000 years are over, the devil will have once more an opportunity to annoy the saints of the Highest. He will appear again with all of his troops, and he will try again, but he will try in vain to deceive the holy world of God. No one will obey him, and he will be unable to deceive any one.       

     But as he will be defeated in his cunning ways, and as he wouldn't succeed to deceive anyone, therefore he wouldn't have any right and any authority, he will not have any place to stand between the saints. Then he will try to rule again by using power and violence. He will try to dominate in a world, on which he will not have any authority, because that world will be absolutely belonging to God. That world will not be belonging to the devil at all. Then the Almighty God will destroy him completely. As it is written, fire will come from God, and will destroy him and all of his troops. He will be judged to stay forever in his darkness and in his own fire.     The prophecy also says very clearly, that during those 1000 years of the Saints on the earth, we will not live together with the previous people of God who had already died. Well yes, these people live with God, but they will not live together with the Saints during those 1000 years. At the end of those 1000 years, and after the completely judgment of the enemy, God will create a new creation. In this Spiritual Creation will live together the whole population of God, the whole Israel, with all those who lived in the many millenniums, and they will be together with those who will live during the 1000 years. I believe also, that these 1000 years will be the time of expiation for all the people who refused to believe the Lord. In the end of those years, God would destroy completely the evil, and He will be the absolute Victorious of all the creation. There will be no more interpositions of the devil; it will be a creation, which indeed will represent the Creator.   

    The materialist bodies will be abolished, and rather it seems—there are some questions in here--that it will happen from the beginning of the 1000 years. It is written symbolically that the birds of prey will satisfy by eating useless flesh.  Well, the prophecy simply says what we already know. The materialist body will be useless, and a dead body is usually only food for worms and birds of prey. Simply, the dead bodies feed worms and birds of prey. The supper of the Almighty God will be of course His Spiritual Victory against the domination of the darkness, and the abolishment of the pain and of the sufferings, which torture the humans. It will be the abolishment of the sufferings of humans who live in a materialist body, which gets sick, pains and getting old, and ends up to the recycling. The Victory of God will be also the Victory of the true Life.  No more crippled people, no more blind people, no more starving children, and no more sufferings. This is the supper of our beloved God, the spiritual victory, the victory of life, the true happiness of the people. The Lord has always various ways to make us testing our faith, and become really worthy. If we have real faith in God, then we know God, and we are absolutely sure, that nothing unholy, nothing unjust, and nothing wrong will come from God.

      A lot of the unholy writings of the Bible that are represented as God's Word originated from circumstance of ignorance, but mostly come from the cunning interests of the each time paranoiac reach rulers, and of course, wherever the cunning interests are speaking, there is also the devil who is speaking. Every thing evil comes from that evil snake, in purpose to ruin people by causing confusion and unfaithfulness. For the faithful people is also a challenge to test our faith, and if we have really faith in our beloved Father, then we will say NO. We don't accept them. We don't accept, and we will never accept that the crimes and the unjust things that are written come from God. Neither we will accept that they are related with His holy Prophets. The inspired Moses was serving God, and only the Holy God, he has nothing to do with crimes slaughters and genocides. But if we are afraid to reject them, and if we were really confused, then the Lord will forgive us, but again we will be sorry for our fear and confusion, because we didn't succeed to know better our beloved God.

    And let us see also something else.

    I remember someone who was speaking and asking questions about justice. He said; if someone commits something unjust then human justice will judge him according to his action, and according to some concrete law, will put him in prison for some time. When the time of punishment finishes, then he will be released and be a free man again. So he was asking, why does God judge people for eternal hell with tortures? Whatever wrong those people did, it doesn't justify being punished in an eternal and endless condemnation. At first, the word hell applies symbolical, and of course it is not God who made the hell. The hell is somehow the "house" of the devil. As we realized from the interpretation of this book, the great serpent has some authority in the creation. Some things that are not matching with God, these things belong to the great dragon that is the anti-creator. So the evil spirit has authority on those things which are not matching and they are not belonging to God, and the human who didn't manage to stand with God and be saved, is not belonging to God, he is belonging to the anti-god. In another words, it is not God who sends him to the hell, but it is the devil that has authority to take him, and together will go to the hell. Because while he was not expiated, and there is no way for him to be justified, his responsibilities and sins will judge him, and then he is not belonging to God, but he is belonging to the devil.

    The human justice is different, as it stands in a balance between good and bad, but when this balance goes away, there exists only the good or the bad. Then there is God or the anti-god. In this condition the human must be either with the side of God or with the side of the evil spirit. The devil accuses the people and therefore he has some authority on them, he demands to take whatever is belonging to him. That is why God shows every limit of patience and gives every opportunity to humans to repent and be saved before it is too late. Even the real ignorance and confusion would help for the atonement. But again, God is absolutely just, and the Lord has the first and the last word on the crisis of every human. If it is possible for him to be justified and saved, then God will do it. And of course the judgment is belonging to the age, in a limit of time. Not endless. It rather seems, that in the one thousand of years before the new creation, all the sinners will be expiated and the restoration will be complete for all the humans. But always we should remember the words of our Lord; be ready and awake because we don't know the time, in which the Son of Man is coming. 

    I should transfer here another remarkable opinion, of a good Christian writer and interpreter of the Holy Word, of Nikitas Ballas, in relation with the Restoration, and not eternal, meaning endless condemnation, for all those who were not expiated. Certainly the Lord of the powers and the Spring of love, will not let the souls of non expiated to suffer forever under the authority of the great dragon. So I transfer in here some of his words.   

Fortunately the predominated and totally illogical perception about the love and grace of God is not acceptable from all the Orthodox theologians. Although minority, there are enlighten people in the theological filling of the Orthodoxy, especially in the suffering Russia, who don't play games with the words, and simply they distinguish that the real teaching of the Orthodoxy is based on the unshaken foundation of the Restoration. These people, as well Apostle Paul before them, they cannot have in mind the King of the centuries to complete His Kingdom, becoming "all within all" without first subdue everyone in His Will, without attract everyone with His love, without liberate everyone from the evil and sin, and finally, without reconcile all people He created.          

But it is required to examinee deeper the perception in relation with the "free volition". As I observed, the idea of free volition stops to constitute foundation of hell's doctrine, when we accept that the people continue to have free volition after they die. So, while we accept that the eternal Gospel doesn't perimeter only in this life, and while God has as many opportunities He wants to convince the sinners to repent, certainly it is self-understood that almost all the people will accept immediately their salvation in the other life. Who is that much dull to prefer to live in the wretchedness of the hell than the happiness of the Paradise? Only a crazy would prefer to live forever in the darkness of the hate rejecting the love. Well, we shouldn't forget that human may have free volition, but God also has free volition. So at the end, whose volition will prevail? I believe that God can affect so much condition that at the end all people will return in the Spring of life.

According to many orthodox theologians the sinners will suffer from their own hate to God, by which will be obligated to live forever. I agree that there are some cases of some people who died full of wickedness and hatred especially against God.  Perhaps many will insist that even if forever were given to them the opportunity to repent, even in the other life, at least some of those people will continue to refuse the Gospel, and so in those fewer cases the hell will be literally eternal while God because of His love will preserve them forever alive, while will live within them, because God will be all, in all or in the Creation of Resurrection, God will be everywhere and within everyone. The Light and His love will embrace everyone. There will be no hidden place from God. He the same river of Love—for as many will have hatred in their hearts—will suffocate and burn. The difference is in the free volition of man, which God respect absolutely.       

This acceptance may be heard at least theoretical as logical, and of course doesn't present a mistaken image of God. But it comes in opposition with the image that Apostle Paul portrays in relation with the completed of the centuries when "all" will be submitted to Christ, when will accept Him as Saviour, will be friendly with God, and God will be within everyone. If even only one creature remains forever out of God ‘s love, even if one human never submits to Christ, then God will not be indeed the Saviour of all the people. He will be the Saviour of most, but not all of the people.        

Something else. While God Omniscient, certainly will know previously if some of His concrete creature will resist forever in the calling of the Gospel. In this case, any kind of punishment will be simply revenging in character, something that doesn't harmonize with God. In contrary of all those that some theologians maintain, God will not let any sinner in quietness, until his salvation is successful. Besides, this is the matter of Crisis. God will criticize the people in order to distinguish the truth. In the duration of Crisis is saying that all the secrets of the heart of the all the people will become known. This is equal to the "knowledge of the truth" while everyone will learn the truth for their own spiritual condition. No one would live any longer in the hallucination of sin. The "Eternal Crisis" actually is some kind of psychoanalysis, and the Doctor is Lord Christ who cures everyone by the medicine of the truth. Only those who are in mistake do not love God. The one they reject is not God, but the various mistaken ideas about God. So at the end the truth will triumph within the souls of all the people. The knowledge of the truth leads of course to the liberation.  From the book of Νικitas Ballas, "Free Christianity"

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