Secrets of the Bible
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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.
As John
writes, he was exiled in the Greek
island Patmos. On the seventh day of the week he came in
holy ecstasy, 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 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
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, the time will come for the absolute domination of the Light. Lord appeared by symbolic appearance 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 the Father, and Lord said to them; I Am so long with you,
and yet to recognize Me? Whoever saw Me, also saw the
Father, while 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? This
is God, the internal of God, the unique and unlimited God, and we have not ability
nor authority to search
God Himself, for He Himself never becomes
a subject of human's research.
We are free to search and understand the creation
in land, sea, universe, but not
the Creator Himself. Our
knowledge or search about Him is very limited. Simply, the Lord
Christ is God, is the Light
or the Word of God, and when
He was born as Human, was called the Son of God, and of
course, not a Son by the known way, not as usual by natural father and mother. And while was born as a Man,
for our salvation from Devil's authority, He called
Himself Son of Man, Son of the symbolic Adam by
various meanings.
He belongs to every human, regardless of race and nation. He
is not a Jew, nor Greek, German or whatever, while the Lord is also a Jew, as well
He is a Greek, German, Black, White, Chinese, Aboriginal, Maori and
whatever. He belongs to every human regardless of colour,
race, nation; Lord never
holds any nationalist flag, though we often see some people, servants of
the Lord
holding flags even inside the churches!!
The Lord appeared among 7 stand lamps that
symbolize the churches of the faithful people, and holding 7 stars that
symbolize the earthly shepherds. The stars symbolize also divine lights on
earth, as divine laws, prophecies, His teaching. The
kind of His dress
rather passes
the message saying; the shepherds and the faithful
must be clothed in dignified dresses, without provoking scandals. The white
hair as snow I think symbolizes real wisdom and
prudence, and His feet like burnished bronze in a furnace, mean that every
faithful one
must be ready to walk even in fire, if it is required
by the circumstances to do so, and also must transfer
wherever 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
by His sword to warn the churches and 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.
I think the golden girdle across His breast says; the
real treasure of the faithful is the treasure of God, which
is near the heart, it is in the divine feelings of love for God and
for the other people.
By the way,
crisis according to my understanding, does not necessary mean judgment or at
least not only judgment. Except some analogous judgment and atonement, or
salvation in Lord, alas to the one who has debts to Devil, alas to whom the
Devil has claims on, also crisis means understanding God, it means, at last I will hear
the whole truth about God, I will comprehend everything or more about God, and so,
hopefully not too late. I will reject all misunderstandings and lies that
I knew as true about God.
The gold is not of course the
known and valuable metal that satisfies the vanity, and often provokes conflicts
and wars, crimes and sins, driving people
into corruption, neither
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 one of
every faithful man's heart. This is the gold for which the faithful is looking
for, and the Christian walks dressed in this gold.
This is the real treasure that really makes people rich by
offering plenty of Joy making human
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 pain and temporary death.
According to my understanding what the Lord meant by these
words, was not exactly the death of His
material Body, rather He
meant He went
away from the glory of His Highest Father to live as Man, and this separation
was a 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.
As
I believe
The
first epistle applies to the church of Ephesus, (Ephesus was a
Greek city closed of Izmir, Turkey)
but as all the epistles apply to
every church of all the historical times, while
the same admonitions and
warnings apply diachronically to all the churches.
The 7 churches or more, which means
His One split Church remain until our time by
many forms and different names.
He recognize them all, not because they fully express His
Will, but because He loves and wants to save the people regardless their
doctrine.
In the first epistle to
Ephesus says. He who walks among the lamp stands (among the
churches), and holds in His hand the seven stars, (the bishops/leaders, not the "fathers") says; I know your
deeds and your toil and perseverance. Maybe you work hard and you have patient and have suffered, but be careful, because the
foundation of
the Christian is the love. You left your first love, and without love is impossible to be
part of Christian
society.
At that time
there was a Christian heresy
in Pergamum
(Pergamum was a great Greek city in western Asia Minor, which came under Roman
control in 133 B. C.)
the members
of which called
themselves Nicolaits. They were living in sexual debauchery,
"supporting the theory", in which they said, no more no less, that
faithful people could
get 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 and the teaching of the Lord defines clearly, and let
no margins for
misunderstandings. But even
so, always there are various hypocrites around, who always try to match the
unmatched, trying to adapt the Lord's teaching into
their pleasures and interests. So the Lord didn't mean only the Nicolaits,
while the Nicolaits
exist everywhere, and every time. It is a warning that applies
diachronically to every Christian, and of course to every priest.
The problem of sex that often falls
in very immoral levels
it is a real problem, it is like that fire, which more you blow it
off, it seems more it lights up. We are all
less or more guilty
of this sin, but we should repent and
struggle to beat it, not ending up saying, by
been enslaved to the flesh,
and madly amorous, we are closer to God! The power of
spirit must rule over the power of
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.
It is true, it is difficult to control the desires of flesh, but if we struggle,
we can do it! Whoever has ears must hear what the Spirit says to the
churches, and whoever is victorious I will allow him to eat from the Wood of Life, which is in the centre of the Paradise of God,
the Lord says.
We are reminded here
about the wood of eternal life for which the ancient people imagined, and
this belief 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, never was in the material world,
but as the Lord said, it exists in the centre of the
Paradise of God. We also may say here, that the Lord fixed by
these words 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
Himself! But we eat symbolic
this Wood of Life before we go there, which means we declare
our faith to Him, and accept Him as our Saviour, while the Kingdom of God (the Lord) must be
established and rule first in our soul.
God doesn't change His plans and
decisions, people were those who
in all historic times feel the Presence of God, trying to interpret His plans and decisions. So it was natural to make
mistakes, but
of course, 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; not to be enslaved to
the passions of the flesh. The Lord mentioned also the story of Balaam and Balak that
it 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 to Moses. These books mostly were written in posterior times, centuries after the death
of Moses. The writers were confused
by the traditions and the various
fames, and so very wrongly 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
time of Judges.
The epistle to 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 any guilty 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
appeared as a prophet, and as we know, people are from
their nature easily captured of the prostitution, so how worsen could be
if someone appears as if brings God's messages telling people that to be a prostitute doesn't
constitute a sin! Mentioning about
the death threat, we also understand that God is the Master of life, and
therefore He can take it any time He wants.
We shouldn't forget also
that the Lord uses various ways to save the human soul, which we don't
fully understand. But even so, the Lord said that He
Himself 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". In the epistle to the
church of Philadelphia Lord says. Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of
Satan, who say 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 himself, 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. As
I believe these words might constitute a reference to confession as well. Perhaps the Lord says; the confessor priest or bishop must stand at the
level of that bishop of Philadelphia; a man like him is the best confessor who can hear the confession of the
faithful. However, 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 in front of God alone.
If we have no confessor, we can talk to God
confessing our sins.
God is the best Confessor!
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, also saw My
Father, and Father and I are One. But it is not strange at
all, because when the Lord says,
"God, My God" He rather
means; by His Sacrifice of becoming a Man,
in some way He keeps until the End of the human's period and the human hypostases.
So 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
of course, the On and the In and the Coming the
Almighty is not an Angel. But these people because obviously
did not interpret the Bible correctly, they confuse the Archangel Michael who is to
come before the End of the world.
The Word of God, the Father and the Holy
Spirit are the Supreme Mind. The Lord God. 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
God, from His Father.
And this separation was a kind of death. That is why
the Lord said; behold I became dead and now I Am alive. He
certainly didn't mean the death of the material 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.
As I believe
John saw
in some way the heavens opened, and was called
by the Lord
to come up. I will show you, the Lord said, what must happen after these things. John writes; I came in ecstasy,
(ecstasy which also mean, by some way, standing out of
myself) 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!
Well 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
in this View, and appeared to a man of flesh and
blood. Someone was sitting, he said, but he couldn't describe His View,
while couldn't face the Omniscient 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 Creator. Around the throne were another 24 thrones,
on which 24 elders were sitting.
They were clothed in white, and golden crowns were on their heads. Who are those 24 elders?
Rather 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 itself. I
believe it symbolizes and reflects the war on the earth, which is a
non stopping war 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 symbolic,
after the crushing of the
last beast, the Ancient of
the days sat on His throne! It is a joyful and
symbolic language indeed!
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 there was a symbolic sea of glass like crystal. The sea usually symbolizes people and nations
and languages, and as I think, this sea of crystal
rather symbolizes the innumerable people of God 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 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 don't know, but I
believe 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. Is it
is possible some animals to have also ability and by some unknown
way for us, they might feel somehow the presence of the Creator, and maybe they
might have some way to give thanks to God?
We don't know, but rather it is possible!
By these words of verse 13 rather say also, the whole creation will be submitted to the Creator. As we will see also and in the chapter 12, in
the nature, 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.
But as it is written, all creatures will glorify God; the
whole creation will be
submitted to the Holy Creator.
Let us see as a quick
parenthesis 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
As
I believe
As a
parenthesis: The appearance
of the four living beings by so many complicated
symbols to the Prophet Ezekiel is a great and complicated mystery
indeed. Most likely (supposed) the four living beings symbolize
some in general original beings of the creation of life. This
is only fantasy of course, but certainly the intention of the Lord
using
this symbolic appearance of strange beings was to pass some complicated messages, which
as I believe, their entire and complete meanings will be elucidated, when the time will
come for all the revelations. Obviously I don't know these
complicated meanings, so I will see the beings hypothetically
and 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 symbolize the contradictive
nature of the human. It is a nature that certainly is not according the divine Spirit of the creation. The psychical composition of the human in its
entirety, distinguished by positive good and divine components and
also the various evil
interpositions that siphon from the Devil,
which doesn't
match, and doesn't represent the Creator. In other words, from the beginning the
human, except his divine spirit, includes and the elements of
reptilian mind. Devil's interpositions/elements,
or Devil's nature exist everywhere in the creation.
I suppose that the 4 faces mean, the human behaves in
the same wild and destructive way as the lion, human is also indifferent as the ox, and flying rapacious like the
eagle.
The human has somewhere the
nature and the behaviour of the lion. We
have destructive
and selfish instincts elements of the Devil's nature.
As the lion
indifferently
snatches, tears apart and eats,
causing death pain and suffering, similarly the human often copies it
(especially in wars) and acts by similar way. The human acts also like the
lazy ox, which is looking only for
material things, and as an ox is indifferent for the divine spiritual gifts, (interpositions of the
Devil, so to
make the human be indifferent about God),
while the only thing the ox wants is to eat its grass,
to make sex, to be lazy and have a rest all the time.
Many people do exactly the same thing; eat, drink, make sex, go to toilet and
lying down, indifferent for any thing else. Often they make sex
like bulls, they strike sexual at any opportunity and go away.
They don't want to have responsibilities, they live in their world; in the world
of insensibility and stupefaction. The human looks like also as the rapacious
eagle, (elements of the Devil's nature),by
its wings to fly high, (a gift of God), but instead
of flying at high spiritual levels, remains rapacious, a
great eater and indifferent of the Spirit, and also indifferent of
the suffering of the other people. He uses his spiritual wings to fall very low
in cunning interests, instead of flying in high spiritual levels
that approach God.
And out of 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
the divine teaching, and so 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 material eyes.
Then
can beat the darkening nature,
ruling on the nature and so
raise
himself high to the throne of the Highest. The Lord was standing over high
sitting symbolic 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,
or rather the struggle has to be yours, nothing is so easy, but your will and
struggle constitutes the necessary presupposition, in
order to beat the reptilian nature and so be justified in front of the Highest.
You must struggle, so your divine spirit go
straight in the way that matches to you, and so your spirit will beat the corrupted
nature. In your struggle ask for help, and you will have help. Now of course
all these are correct, and certainly the interpositions of the
symbolic snake exist in the complicated human nature.
But the four living beings may broadcast more messages of the Lord as well,
which now is very difficult to comprehend. As for example the wheel
might symbolize time, and the wheel in the wheel,
might symbolize the limited time of everyone's life.
By the many eyes might 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.
As
I believe
John saw
in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book that was written inside
and back, and was sealed up by 7 seals. No one could see them nor read them.
Obviously, the symbolic book of the 7 seals is also
a reference of the human history, started from the time of the Lord until the end of the
earthly world. But of course no man
would know there were seals, meaning no one would know what was going to happen
in the journey of history. No
one knew about the disasters and wars that were coming in the world. Therefore no one could open the seals and read them,
while no one knew what would happen. But it seems
before the Revelation, not even the Angels knew
what would happen in the human's journey until the End.
So history somehow 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
20th century? Of course the answer is No. Alas, if
we believe something like this. All these are
Devil's
and human's acts, which through our passions and
ambitions submit to
the Devil. But the Highest Mind, is holding the book with the seals,
meaning He is the only one who knows what the
men submitted to prince of destruction will do.
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?
As
I believe
John saw between the elders, a
Lamb, Who looked as slain.
As we understand, God never asked about
sacrifices of people or animals, while no one is
worthy, nor powerful, neither so
sinless, who could forgive sins, and atone people by making them worthy
of God. And of course the shed blood of animals could
not make people worthy. The
shed blood of humans or animals satisfy only the Satan. So the sacrifices were
somehow payments for pleasure to Satan. Never to God.
So how was it possible, that God would ask
something false? Ancient people that been confused by their
traditional gods, thinking very wrongly that even God asked for sacrifices!
The only sacrifice that God asked from a Son of man was the sacrifice of
the only Sinless One. And the
Sinless One is the Word of God, who was born as
Man, an was called the Son of God, He is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Only God
Himself is the life of man, and only God can save the man. No
body else.
So that slain Lamb among the elders, is 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, while He was sacrificed as an atonement victim, as the Jews used to
slay some lamb for their atonement.
He was not descended of David, only His earthly Mother was,
and so only as Man was known as descended of David. That was what people
wrongly thought, while He is
not a descender of human, but the
Creator of human, He is the Word, the
Son of God and the Lord of king David. So, 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, that
come
into the world by the Word of God. 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. And conquering of the Lord means salvation of people.
First, and
according to my belief, the horses symbolize the time on which the riders
gallop. The galloping goes on until the end of the time. What do
the white horse, and the Rider symbolize? Some interpreters think they symbolize the Gospels. But
not of course, the Gospels, although the Good
News write the teaching of our Lord, it does not
change the fact, they are books, and therefore have no power by themselves.
However, the white horse itself that gallops, meaning the hopefully meaning that is
transferred in time, certainly symbolize the Gospels. But the power
of Good News is the Alive Word of God,
He is the living Gospel that
speaks living in the hearts of the people. So the Rider
is the Word of God, and the white
horse symbolize the time in which transfers the Good News of the Rider.
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 will come to
dominate and bring crisis. The sword of His mouth symbolizes
crisis, but by the bow achieving
the target; His intention is to gather His faithful
people. At His first symbolic appearance Lord had the sword of His mouth,
intending to warn and advice the churches, otherwise His
absolute justice 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, 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 Satan, as the unequal economic situations, which make a lot of people
suffering, the
natural death, and the death by starvation and by the predators of earth
as well, which often devour a lot of people, especially in the
wars.
So at the second seal, the horse was red, and the rider symbolizes the wars. The wars
never stopped, 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, what
kind of interests and ambitions they serve. And
so, by serving interests and ambitions,
clearly serving also the Devil. We know that the main characteristic of the wars is hate,
destructiveness, to destroy the others. The hate
originated from the Devil, and he always want to destroy people,
while this is
his nature. And of course, the so terrible condition that exist in the wars,
make people turning against God, because the
wars cause a lot of pain, sufferings, disasters. It is also the
problem of ignorance, while
the dynasts 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.
However,
the wars bring also a lot of people close to God, while at the
last moment in which the death threats directly every one, the only thing that remains is the hope and the returning to God.
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 to 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
people always 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 Father, and the wine symbolizes the Holly Communion,
it 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 suffering, which is caused by the human predators, the preparation
and the atonement of their soul nobody would take away from them. Yes. There are economic problems, there is poverty and misery, but there is also the Oil and
Wine that leads to the salvation, and so to the real life.
At the 4th seal the horse was ashen.
The rider of the ashen horse 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 by sword, and
by famine and by 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, perhaps 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
not only Greek.
Hades according 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 believed he was
also 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 are not to 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 mythologies, and of course, in Bible also are a lot of writings that
express and reflect mythological perceptions.
We also realize that many of those mythologies served God's plans by various
ways. Moses used traditional "gods", and mythological
traditions and modified them in order to pass God's messages and
converted them into symbols,
as the 10 Tribal-leaders, for example, who became
codes, though had been worshipped as gods. For the primitive tribes it was very
natural to start by
mythologies, as it was very natural to believe in false gods, and those people were
more innocent and pure than a lot
of Christians.
The sin is narrow related with knowledge, which presupposes the existent of Law,
but the primitive tribes had not knowledge and law,
and therefore their simple belief in false gods was innocent and irreproachable.
So the Hades and Death of the Greek mythology have been
used as symbols of the death, and to that unknown place, in which the souls go
for unknown time, but in time, how long??, no one
would know, when there is hopefully atonement.
The 5th seal
refer about the patient and forbearance of God, and His patient and
forbearance continues until the 7th seal. The 7th seal
applies to the last 7 years, which starts by the 7
trumpets following by the 7 bowls.
We see here, the humans as witnesses of the Word and all the others
who been slain for their faith and testimony,
appeared protesting at the 5th 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? Of
course, the intention of every written is to pass some message, and
again 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 are
asking for revenge, but asking or not for revenge, their blood
is the one that cries to God, and demands punishment.
(We are reminded here the blood of Abel, of every Abel
that cries to God seeking
for justice.) So the message applies to us,
saying; 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 from the day of crisis, which means will not come in
the day of crisis, and so, the Devil will not have at all any authorities on
them.
They gave them white cloths to dress,
telling them to have a rest for little longer time,
until many more brothers and sisters 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, they are cleansed and white, and the dead people should have some rest, and the alive must have patience until the end of pre-determinate
time comes. As the prophecy says,
many more will suffer, and many more will be killed for their faith. And indeed,
this never 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 that ruled by narrow-minded communists and other dictators.
As I believe
The 6th Seal. And looked when He broke the 6th
seal, there was a great earthquake; 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.
The opening of the 6th
seal, is the domination
of the last beast, the terrible beast of Daniel's
prophecies. It is the domination of the capitalist economic system, which of course started before the 20th
century, but in the 20th century it standed
strongly on its metal feet, and as it became stronger,
and developed the war machine, it showed to the world its terrible nails
and teeth. The beast's domination almost started by the
two great terrible wars, in which the sun really became black,
and it will be more black, and the light of the moon
shined 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,
armed with their great and horrible war machine.
Only on this battle been killed only from the
Russian side, up to five hundred thousand soldiers in two days.
Five hundred thousand people killed in forty-eight hours.
In that war only,
as it is known, were killed up to 60 million
people. It is impossible to describe the terrible crimes, the
endless sufferings and desolations.
What can we say, not only about the killings of so many
millions of people, but what about the concentrated camps, about Dachau and Auschwitz,
about the terrible tortures that
millions of people suffered?
The history is known, and people who survived have a lot of horrible stories to
say.
Only in Auschwitz were
killed up to 4 million people, and most of them were Jews. But only if
one imagines naked people, hungry and miserable,
imagine pregnant women, children and old, to be hungry and naked, in the
terrible freezing conditions in Poland and Germany, it is enough to understand
the size of disaster, of pain and desolation. It was heard that when the Russians conquered Auschwitz they faced a terrible
shudder, which made young soldiers hair turn to grey. Not even the corruption of the Roman Empire, or any other previous war in the
distant past could be compared with the savage, the barbarity, the hardness and the hate of the people of the 20th century.
An Ukrainian said after the war; The
Germans were wicked, very wicked; (but
it was not only the Germans, and of course not all the
Germans), they killed a lot of innocent people in my country, and burnt a
lot of villages. In a village, near the capital city, that
was levelled to the ground, they were
throwing live children into great fires. The whole world was terrified,
kings and rich, workers, soldiers and generals were
terrified in front of this diabolical hatred, which was driven into
an
uncontrolled horrible war-storm, and a lot of people
thought it was 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 other ones who were
fighting on the mountain were trying to hide themselves
behind rocks, and in caves, hoping to hide
from the horrible storm of slaughter, in which they thought the anger of God wanted to destroy them, and bring the end of
the world.
In all the caves lived
desperate and terrified people, and 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. As it is written. And the
residents of the islands went out to the war, and the mountains where heroes
fought desperate battles, many bombs
dropped and many cannons fired. And the islands also
received horrible attacks, and the peaceful blue
vault of the sky symbolical 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 that darkened
the sky and the light of sun, and registered symbolically the hate
that ruined a lot of
people.
The sun that shines in the clear sky
symbolizes also peace, but the sky was black.
It was black, not because of the clouds of vivifying
rain, but because of the clouds of hatred and desolation. The atomic bombs
also in Japan, indeed darkened the sky, and especially on
those places, the sun became black, and looked like as sackcloth made of
hair. The prophecy also says, 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 killed
on the mountains. We understand of course that the prophecies speak
in words of spirit and wisdom, and mostly speak about
people, while the people departed
away from their islands and fought on the mountains.
The people were those who moved away from
the mountains and islands, and killed. The stars,
which means divine lights,
had fallen on the earth, while
people were stepping on the divine laws and teachings, and a lot of
desperate people in their
suffering, called God for help, and when their hopes
were fallen, they insulted God,
saying 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
threw them on the earth, while
they ignored and disobey all the divine laws and messages,
considering as useless, and many people lost their hope and faith.
We
shouldn't also forget, that the 6th seal goes on (as well the others), until the end, while the last beast which
dominates on the 6th seal, will be destroyed by the 7th 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". Which
means, that the sun will really become and literal
black as sackcloth made of hair.
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.
There is no beast,
there is no power that could take away the life
from God's hands. They don't understand, the domination of the
Devil must
be smashed fairly in its hatred, by its
own destructiveness, and mostly by its own tools. The
sins of the evil domination will hip up like mountains and castles, which in the end will collapse
fairly to squash Devil's domination. The Holy One, who
is the Master of life, saved the millions of the literal and symbolic Auschwitz, who
suffered the most horrible sufferings, and at the same time they
also became witnesses for the judgment of the beast.
After this, and before the opening of the 7th
seal, John saw 4 Angels who stood symbolic on the 4 corners of the earth,
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. The
terrible racist hatred against the people of
Israel, contributed also decisive to make them return in the old country fields.
So the prophecies that spoke about the scattering
of the Israel people on the 4 corners of the earth, and their
returning in the old country fields
fulfilled. God's plans served even from those who hated
the Jews and wanted to destroy them by genocide. The Devil couldn't win, and did
not.
But unfortunately, all the Jews were not
worthy. The most worthy 144000 were
chosen, those who always follow the Lamb, and
are the most blessed. Of course this doesn't mean that only those 144000
were saved, simply are the most chosen. Before the opening of the 7th
seal, John saw a lot of people of all the nations of the earth,
so many that no one could count them, and they stood in front of the
throne, and in front of the Lamb, and were given white robes to dress.
They hold palm tree branches in their hands and cried out
in 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,
making them white, so they stand in front of God. For what great grief he
spoke about? He meant the great grief of
the last 7 years. In those last years, the abomination of desolation will appear,
the Antichrist, and he will be the representative of the beast,
which is the servant of the Devil, and there 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!"
As I believe When the Lamb opened the 7th
seal, an
absolute silence prevailed in heavens for half an hour. No noise could be heard. The 7th
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 trumpeting, another Angel stood in front of the altar, holding a
golden censer. Some others gave him a lot of "censers"
to offer in front of the altar, together 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, to throw the fire on the earth,
and peals of thunder followed and sounds and flashes of lighting and an earthquake
occurred. Then the Angels started to trump.
The altar has nothing
of course to do, with those known altars on which they used to sacrifice animals for
atonement. This altar is only symbolic,
it symbolizes the Sacrifice of God with all the
contents, including His patient in front of the
blasphemies and insults against the Most High, and as we know
yet to stop 2000 years after the Lord. It is
also His mercy, the suspension of His justice, to give every opportunity for
repentance, avoiding to judge people before the limits
of the pre-determined time is over.
The "many censers" symbolizes all those
sacrifices, agonies, sufferings and tortures of the faithful people, who have
been slain in order to
help, so the scale of justice
might turn against the domination of the beast;
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, while
the golden censer is the spiritual treasure of the Saints of God, and this is the power of the Saints
as well, while by spiritual power they came out
victorious against the enemy, and this power will
contribute for the lighting of the fire that will burn the state of
the evil.
So the conclusion
that comes out of this symbolic representation
is; the Altar of God became full at the predetermined time, which now is over,
and so there is no more margins for patients and for forbearance. The glass is
full up. The end is near. The Altar
became full of fire, which is the fire of judgment,
and the Angel will throw the fire on the earth, because all the sacrifices
occurred for the humans, but finished. So as the sacrifices
finished, all the others are also finished, and the
sufferings and prayers of the Saints and
faithful must be finished as well.
And so the "Day" of crisis must come, which is also the "Day" of Alleviation,
that also presupposes the crushing of Devil's domination.
The first Angel sounds the trumpet, and
there came hail and fire, mixed with blood and will throw 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
might look like. Of course it is not possible
to know what exactly means, where they will strike, and what
size of disasters will cause.
I think we might
interpret the first one, as a disaster of the ecologic system,
probably by some nuclear explosion.
But we should understand
clearly, that the wounds of the trumpets will not come from God. The Angels only sound
their trumpets; do not cause the disasters, they
only determine the time, in which the wounds will strike. In the bowls of anger, the Angels empty
the bowls, (but again, the bowls were not full up by some
God's "oddity"; in other words, God did not full the bowls, the people and the
Devil did it), while about the trumpets, they only sound the time. As we will see, only on the 7th
trumpet, the Angel says; on this trumpet will be
finished 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, of the human activities,
resulting of the known
contrasts and conflicts. A nuclear explosion will cause
a great disaster, and certainly will be like fire mixed with a hail of objects and mixed up with blood.
The second one rather will come shortly after the first, and in the same conflict.
It seems it will strike in some sea, very close to
some cities. The third one rather means some other
nuclear explosion or by using 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
became bitter, meaning contaminated/poisoned. It seems that these three wounds will
strike almost the same time and because of the same conflict. These nuclear
explosions will result a darkening of the light of the day and of the night, on
the one third of the planet. And this is the 4th 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.
As I believe
The 5th 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 rather
constitutes allegorical references,
or even literal. Let see this trumpet at the moment only as it is written.
1st A star from heaven, which had fallen to the earth.
2nd The key of the bottomless pit was given to him.
3rd 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.
4th From the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given
them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
5th 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.
6th 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.
7th 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.
8th 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.
9th They had tails like scorpions and stings; and in their tails is their
power to hurt men for five months.
10th 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,
(but having the right to do it because of people's interests and passions
provided it), he will provoke some kind of wound, some kind of suffering
disease, which will be a first-appeared disease, 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. By 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 6th trumpet speaks about a war,
not the Armageddon, which will start from some countries around the river
Euphrates. The four angels that will be 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. By the myriad 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 only the horsemen or rather
the tanks will be two hundred thousands.
The horses, the heads
of which were like the heads of lions, rather mean the
developed war machines. The horses in old time wars didn't
fight of course, the people sitting on them were fighting. But
as we read, the "horses" of the Revelation were
fighting, and so clearly, the prophecy means
destructive machines. Rather refers to the
war-tanks, the heads
of which were like the heads of lions, meaning they
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,
using the tanks and other modern weapons that cause massive death and
destructiveness.
Those who sit on the horses were wearing
very different war form, masks etc, which the soldiers
were not dressed at that time. We also notice that all these wounds will have some natural explanation
as well, and
so most of people will
not realize that behind these wounds are hiding evil supernatural forces. So the prophecy says; the rest of the survivors didn't repent
from the deeds of their hands, but continued to worship the idols.
And as we see, the world
yet to stop worshipping idols,
because simply, the capitalist way of production needs
idols, while this is its nature;
it trades by idols, making profits by idols, and so it cannot
avoid converting people and products into
idols.
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."
As
I believe
After this, John saw an Angel who was very powerful, and
was coming down from 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
saying that during the sound of the 7th
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 really swore. 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;
it has nothing to do with God. God knows who says the truth and who is
dishonest, therefore He has no need of vows. Of course
God has no needs at all. The Lord
wants to save people because loves them. But the love is not necessity for God, it is
a great component/inherent of the Supreme Father.
So the 7th 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 10th
chapter speaks again about the same fact before the end of the world, but
unfortunately, all people will not be Christians, though the
whole world will know about the Gospel of the Word, and all will hear, that the real Holy Word of God is 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. The Angel had the one foot on the land,
and the other in the sea, meaning before the end of the world, the Gospel will
be known at the whole world. Very symbolic 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.
Well, the teaching of the Lord presupposes sacrifices,
and so bitterness. I think the bitterness of the stomach is a reference
to the fact that we must limit our material enjoyments, and of course
the privations often or rather always depress the bodily necessities and wishes.
I would rather say, that the truly happy man is
the one who is not happy. Because it is very difficult
including sin for a Christian to ignore the terrible
problems and starvation that cause sufferings and kills millions of children and
a lot of other people as well
everywhere around the world. And so, in these circumstances how
can one sit comfortable to
enjoy food? We feel guilty when we
eat well, and at the same time we know that this
food could feed a child who is dying from starvation. Often
we cannot do much to help, but we cannot also
feel comfortable and enjoy life. So,
I think, that is why it is written that the book, the
teaching of the Gospel bitters the stomach of John, as it embitters every one who chooses to make the
teaching of the Gospel his own duty.
When some one
becomes a Christian, chooses also 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
at least return
and become the workers of the last hour. But if we
"eat" the book, if we understand and feel the teaching of the Lord, then we will
have a lot of rejoicing, and so 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.
As I believe In chapter 11 the Angel transferred John by spiritual
way to the holy city Jerusalem.
Gave him a stick to
measure the symbolic earthly altar, and all the worshippers on
it. He told him not to measure out of the temple, because it
was given to the nations. But of course we should notice, the outer of the
temple is not a useless place, and so the nations as well! We understand
very clearly, that the temple and the altar are part of God's people in
Jerusalem. Not the building, but the faithful people. Besides, how
is it 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,
but again the people of nations are also people, and God loves them too.
In Jerusalem a lot of terrible things
happen, and rather more to come 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 about.
Falsehood! In Jerusalem prevail now big troubles. The
hate and revenge are like the teeth of the Devil that devours bodies and souls.
In this terrible condition, the whole world involved,
while the interests of the grandees predominate everywhere.
But there is also the religious fanatic condition
that oppose the
interests of the grandees, and opposes the existence of the Israel state, and
of course the vital interests of the people
who live around the area.
General, the corruption
in the world goes deeper
and deeper; good
endeavours are not good enough to restrain the evil,
to control and keep it under at least some limits. The beast, or the capitalist
economic system, mostly of
the grandees that dominates by the
wealth and by military power, is the
contradiction itself. The hunt for profits has no moral barriers and
limits, it doesn't lose any opportunity to make profit. Wars for profits,
selling weapons for profits, and profits
come out of the wars, others killed,
and others get wealthier from the death of those who get
killed. Means of corruption for profit, and profit
resulted from the corruption. Marx said it correctly; if noise
and fuss would make profits, the capitalists would
make and noise, and fuss. They consecrate whatever brings profits,
literal whatever make profits without any hesitation, and also
maintain they serve people by offering jobs.
Even the recreational shows produced for main
intention of profit, driving
people to a condition of the
Romaic public of the famous colosseum and arena, when bread
was required, and every kind of show that would
satisfy sadism. The show
industry no care at all about
the psychic health of people, while in order to make more
profits, show as much they can violence, sadism, crime,
atheism, and every kind of
distortion, because simply they apply to an analogous
world of the same things. The governments have no choice and
approving or not, are enforced to
submit
to the demands of the beast,
recognizing through legislature all those, as they call them, "human rights". For
example, instead of discouraging adultery, prostitution and homosexuality, they
encourage all these things while recognize them
legally, in order to match
the evil civilization of the Devil.
Men get marry men,
imagine, men get marry to one another lawfully! What they are doing? A child
they say, does not need a mother and father, two moms or two dads are fine!
Well, even the nature does not agree with them. What comes out from "weddings"
like these! Better not to say... Even teens boys
have the "free
and legal right" to have homosexual
relations and activities. We live
no more in the Middle Age, they say; we are civilized people
now!! Well, civilization is good,, but
this kind of civilization is sick,
it doesn't let anything
standing. The main intention of that civilization, which is another weapon of
the Devil, is to make people go
away from God, and this is the most obvious characteristic of our time.
The modern "civilization" pushes people away from God.
There is no God the liars say, live your life,
do not stay behind the
modern world, believe nothing, do whatever you like in your life, whatever
make you happy, and whatever offers 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 dream of good
life, of wealth, power and fame, which the hypnotized hunts in vain like his
shadow, and all this abomination, drives to various kinds of corruption. Nothing
can stand in the passing of the beast, exactly as it was prophesied, it steps on the remaining by its metal feet.
Some of materialist university
teachers, teach openly the atheism, since they have the "free right" to do it, and
other "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
abolish or at
least they try to abolish the faith to God, by
scattering doubt and
unfaithfulness in the name of the enlightenment, knowledge and project. And of
course they are liars, because they preach atheism,
but 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
if they
know everything. They
are Liars.
The one of the terrible result of all
of these, and other complicated factors
is; a lot of people go away from God, and this is the main intention of the
Devil. To drive people away from
God. The other is; the road to the agitations and
corruption has been widely opened, and so
at the middle of the road, the abomination of desolation will appear, as
messiah, and 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 vexing.
At the last weak of Daniel's
prophecies, the last 7 years of the domination of
man and of the last beast, 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 will have power over the natural forces, and
as it is written, their witnesses will be for 1260
days, less than the half-week. It seems 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 let them unburied for three and a half days. And
as the time of the End will be very close, the world
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 ears, they will not
understand much, because, as Isaiah said, the heart of the people became fat, and
so will not hear with their ears, neither will see
with their own eyes, because didn't understand with their heart.
Then the 7th trumpet will be
sound, and heavens and earth will have a crazy
enjoyment. Glory to the Lord our God, thank You Oh 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.
The 12th chapter speaks about
the appearance of Archangel Michael in the world. The prophecy
mention also about a
pregnant woman, who appeared on heavens, she was dressed the sun, and the moon
was under her feet, and on her head was a crown of 12 stars, and was
pregnant. She cried
out been in labour and in pain to give birth. This
woman, the forgotten one, 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 the sun,
symbolizes the brilliancy of the faith of the holy people of Israel, (and
general the faith of Christians) and the crown of
12 stars symbolizes the 12 tribes of Israel. The moon under her feet symbolizes
the lie and the insidious enlightenment of the dragon to whom 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,
(not true scientific but often appears as scientific, by using
falsely the name of science) that faith to God is a utopia, originated from the ignorance of the ancient world, and
belongs to the past.
But the woman, or
the faith of the
people of Israel, and general the faith, remained all those years alive and
brilliant; the robber moon, meaning
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 to
the Lord Christ, but they didn't lose their faith either, although the coming of the Messiah appeared for them as a
lost dream of the past.
But 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 interpreted
the writings of the Prophets. Other reasons as well enforced them not to believe to the Lord.
This issue is indeed very complicated
subject, and indeed they suffered a lot. However the Israelites as a nation, as commander of the host,
didn't believe to the Lord, but they remained faithful to God and to His
Prophets. They were waiting for the Messiah according their faith, which was
according the way that interpreted the prophecies.
But while the Messiah already came, and they didn't believe 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, that is what I believe, and
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 to God; they
were really holy and faithful to God, but because of the circumstances 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 Christ made
them worthy, even if because of the circumstances, they didn't believe
to Him. 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, symbol of the
faith, cried out, while she was suffering in pain to
give birth to the child. In another words the faith of the Hebrews cried out thousands
of years saying; 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 waiting so long. Yes, we
believed that we are Your people, but no other people in the world
ever suffered so much, no other one. 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, while was
waiting so long for 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 suffering and crying out for thousands
of years, because of the repulsive racism,
by which they also been taught by the circumstances to be, and in the
terrible Auschwitz and in so many other disasters
in history.
But when the time comes
for the Archangel who will ensure them that the Messiah is Him,
the Crucified One,
there will be on earth the biggest distress and grief such never occurred
before since there was a nation until that time. And
the Dragon that speaks falsely by the
"scientific" enlightenment,
will cause endless disasters, distresses,
hatred and corruption trying to suffocate the faith
and hope of the Hebrews, and general the faith. So he
will stand in front of the woman like a terrible
shadow to darken the faith,
(and the dragon stood before the woman) to cause
disappointment and destroy the faith,
to drawn the woman .
But couldn not do
it in the past, and will never manage to suffocate the faith and hope, and so
the Archangel will come. Michael will be born as a child,
meaning 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,
or the faith, gave birth to a child". It is going to
be as a new message delivered by the two Witnesses,
as I believe.
We see that the woman, the faith, went to
the desert; she went to the desert of corruption and
disappointment. This is the symbolic desert, the desert of
corruption. And as we see this desert is here, everywhere around. The two Witnesses
will feed her in the desert, meaning 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,
I believe, by intention to pass a message that the
period of the 1260 days is 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 encouraging
the hope, saying, be
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,
caring lo longer in what any kind of sly enlightenment says or not.
The dragon poured water like a river to drawn the faith, and this river is exactly that one, which they call
falsely "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
so it considers "scientific" that the faith is only
for the "illiterate people" who feed themselves by illusions.
This is the wiliest, and the most dangerous
war of the beast, because it throws its river,, meaning it uses the high
enlightenment to drawn faith and hope. Who doesn't see this every day? But the earth swallowed the
wily 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
so, it is impossible for any enlightenment to contradict them.
The earth and the holy land in
its memories remains as a light of another divine enlightenment,
which swallowed the
cunning river of the dragon.
So the wily river that the Devil vomits to drown the faith!
And as Isaiah says; when the enemy comes as river, the Spirit of the Lord will
raise a flag against him...
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 divine lights, writings of the
Apostles, Prophets, laws, teachings etc. The dragon
throws them to the earth and steps on them, as people
do it every day, but cannot
throw all of them, because many of them are impossible to contradict. He is trying to throw all of them, but how
can he convince a faithful 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 Prophets have nothing to do with God? So most of them remain as light of a divine enlightenment and it is impossible
to be contradicted.
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.
As I believe
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
us? Supposing that someone is the only owner of a block of land,
he is also a builder and builds for
himself a house on this block. He is also powerful to protect his property. Then he can do with
in 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 by justice.
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 people in front of God,
obviously
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 have authority
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 that he
is the executioner of the law, and has the right to punish all those who did something wrong, and
so the father must deliver
his children in order to pay and suffer for their actions.
Now it seems 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, e,
look, the creation is exclusively mine,
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 do it
according the measure of absolute justice, or if I want I can acquit them.
It is up to Me! And because I love them
but I must punish them
because they did wrong, I will take their position in the punishment, and
so 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 no, he stands in front of God and accuses
His creatures. Well, 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 let us admit
it, while it seems rather clearly that the
Devil
indeed has some rights to accuse the humans, he
has his demands on them. It sounds as he says: Your creatures did this wrong,
and this unjust, people who do wrong are belonging to me, they are not Yours.
They must come with me. Obviously he claims authority
on God's creation, and if
someone claims authority on some property, then it means that at least
a part of that property belongs
to him. So if the Devil claims authority on God's creatures, then it means that
some things in the creation belongs to him.
Therefore when
some people choose the
belonged to the Devil, then the
Devil has authority on them. It sounds like the Devil "reminds" God a
kind of "agreement" like a kind of contract, like saying, a part of the creation
belongs to me,
to You belongs whatever is holy,
good and just, and since these people are unholy unjust and evil they are
mine. They are not Yours.
God is Truth, Love, Holy,
Justice,
Goodness, while the Devil is the father of lie, of
hate, of injustice, of unholiness, he is bad, evil, and whoever acting according
his spirit belongs to him.
So , all
those who do the wrong by 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? Is
perhaps,
he also a creator and that is why claims authority on the creation?
No he is not a creator, the opposite; he is the anti-creator,
the reptilian mind of the creation, the most terrible wound and
disease in the creation. He is the starting place of lie and
evil as much in the nature and in the whole human's history as well.
The bad exists everywhere in
the creation. In the kingdom
of animals it expresses by instincts,
resulting oppositions and mutual dependencies.
There exists the instinct of
parental love
that is presupposition for the species to exist. There are also instincts
of aggressiveness and defence, instincts of survival for species, which is
against other species, and
instincts of unjustified destructiveness, and so,
out of the oppositions and mutual dependencies a
balance prevails. In human and so
in the human's societies as well, exists
the symbolic tree of Good and
Bad, and
so in the human exists in proportion
of his choices the Spirit of God and the spirit of
the Devil.
In these
circumstances must be some kind of balance, and therefore all seems natural and
necessary. But could be a form of nature without balance or could
exist some other kind of circumstances and so some other kind of balance,
without 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 so, because has
been hypnotized by some paranoiacs who of course obey to Devil, and so the
hypnotized is a victim of the Devil
and of the paranoiacs who serve the Devil. If the human wants might find his
way out, while has freedom of choice between
good and evil, between God/Creator, and the Dragon that always is seeking for opportunities to
destroy the creation.
We don't know of course
what kind of circumstances existed
when God started to create, but certainly the
Reptilian-mind existed, and so it seems
rather clearly that God created in these
terrible circumstances while
there was no other choice. As it is written in the book o Genesis, the
Darkness
existed, it was like the face of
the abyss, and this symbolic Darkness is the
Great Serpent by his
darkening interpositions. We may understand it as an inevitable and darkening
existed condition in the chaos before the beginning of the creation, and
this condition was the Great Serpent,
who was against God, and the denier of God's creation.
He will be destroyed.
We might understand
it as if he was the "space";
rather we would say he was somehow the "space" of the creation, and
so he had his way to introduce his negative and evil
elements in the created. And these elements constitute
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, less reproduction of the species,
living peacefully in a certain time,
ending into another kind of recycling, without mutual dependences and aggressiveness, and so
without pain and suffering, and so without the necessity to be balance,
or this kind of balance.
There would be a source of food for
every kind of life, without causing other animals
life, where the predators tear them apart
making them 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
would be born good and innocent, would live for some time and 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 that represents
the Will of our God.
At the end of this book It is written
that God will create a new creation, but before the new creation, the
Devil must
be destroyed, and will be fairly destroyed.
And so will be enforced to disappear from the space of the creation. If God wanted for His creatures to suffer, then why
would God
create us? Further, why
would come to the earth, to suffer and be crucified? And if wanted His creatures
to suffer and be destroyed, then why was He crucified to save
us? To save us
from whom? From Himself? Not of course, but to save us from Devil's authority.
Now if we understand
very well that at that time there
was not other choice, then, what would be better?
To create, or not to create anything,
to be or not to be, and so let be forever the chaos
of non existence, without any life, or to create the
life in all hard consequences, that
caused by the interpositions
of the reptile?
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,
that caused by the existence of this
Serpent that existed in the space of the creation.
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.
Besides, If there was 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 Father, He was obligated from His love to come to the
earth, to suffer and be crucified in order to pay the Devil
for our debts, and save His creatures. Who is the faithful
one 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.
Or why did not create from the beginning perfect conditions without any existed
bad so the man need no salvation?
Did perhaps God made a mistake, and then wanted to fix the mistake?
Not of course.
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
by this book revealed to the world
what exactly would happen, and how the enemy would be destroyed.
The Lord 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 would
not accuse Lord's creatures any longer. Besides we shouldn't forget, that
the Creator of life is also the Master of life, and inasmuch people suffer in
this short time of life on earth, this is nothing comparing with the endless and happy life which the Lord prepares
for the human.
But until that time the evil spirit
has some rights in the creation,
insisting that some things belongs to him. He
holds some room in the creation, he stands somewhere;
therefore has some authority,
considering that some things belongs to
him, because comes from him, and so do not
match to God, and not belongs to God. The unholy and evil
of the creation belongs of course to the
Devil,
and people, who don't obey God, obey the Devil, and so
are belonging to him. So that is why accuses
people because when people become
evil belong to him.
So this war in heaven is very revealing, and
I think this very issue is one of the great reasons
to call this book Revelation. It reveals not only the wars and disasters that will
pressed the End, but it also reveals a lot of
secrets in the creation. It reveals about the reason
of all the misfortunes, telling us very clearly that
the Serpent causes misfortunes and
sufferings while rules in every evil and unholy, because he
created it and so it belongs to him. He created the evil;
it comes from him, it is his nature, and as "just" he accuses people
saying, these people did evil things, and so they belong to him.
But he cannot take us
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.
He cannot win, because he crucified the Lord,
crucified God, and so the Lord makes all those people who believe and follow Him
worthy. It is written that the faithful overcame the Devil
by the Blood of the Lamb and by they word of testimony.
Their word of testimony means they repented and confessed their sins.
They asked for forgiveness; they were expiated by the
Sacrifice of the Lord and so are worthy to be with God.
There are also other ways
to make people worthy through the Sacrifice of the Lord.
One of them is the real ignorance and real confusion.
Namely if they didn't ask for atonement because of circumstances
of
ignorance and confusion, then they will be judged according to their conscience
and according the circumstances in which they lived in. Many become worthy
by 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 things
become very difficult. But we should notice, the age, aeon, judgment is
about in some limit of time. I hope so! But it is rather sure that expiation through some time of judgment will liberate the sinner, and
restoration will come for every human.
But of course it is a great disaster and very painful for some one to be under
the reptile's authority even in very short time.
As the prophecy says,
during the war in heavens the Great
Reptile was
defeated, and there was no place found for him in heavens, and was knocked down
to the earth. But then he will do as much evil he can, and 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 tending the
nations by the metal stick. No more
nations! He will preach the complete uniting of people
in front of God, it is not
at all an easy task, and
so it seems he will use hard methods
in order to impose the
unity of the man. No more nations,
no separations of the churches, no
doctrines, no more catholic, orthodox,
protestant or whatever. All people must be united under Lord
Christ. This is the
Body o Christ, the salvation, the life and the
happiness of His creatures.
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.
As
I believe
Chapter
13 describes the beast. It came out of the sea
having 7 heads and 10 horns,
and on his horns were ten diadems,
and on his heads were blasphemous names!
The strange beast was like a leopard, it
his feets were like those of a bear, and the mouth
of it was like lion's one.
And the devil gave to this beast power and authority.
One of the head was deadly wounded, but surprising the
deadly wound was cured. And people worshiped the devil and the beast.
The beast came out of
the sea, meaning it came out of the nations of the
world, and it had the same similarities as the other previous beasts. It looked like a
leopard, had feet of a bear,
and mouth of a lion. The lion of Daniel,
according to my understanding, is a symbol of the
Roman Empire, the bear of the Ottoman Empire, and the
leopard symbolizes the powers of Europe with their colonies,
and the New World started after the discovery of America. So its
strange appearance was not really surprised,
while we find the same
characteristics of the other beasts, in this also last and
terrible one. That is why it appeared by the same symbols, because
it is the offspring of the others, and also, it
never stop doing the same things. In the capitalist
economic system coexist also all the methods of the previous beasts. It still has colonies,
yet it rules
and speak as Romans dictators and
often it 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
the other ones.
It is the high advanced great capitalist development
distinguished of a lot of products that
makes the life easier, but it also uses various ways to corrupt people. It rules
using its horrible war machine, and
by 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 much comfort and products we have and enjoy?
And people admired and worshipped
the capitalist beast, saying; 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, the
colonial/imperialistic, the
communist/socialist and the "theocracy" that rules in many
countries, mostly Islamic. On the heads were written
blasphemous names, because all
these ways of ruling the world are oppressing and exploiting
the people, and at the same time some most of them
appear as they rule by God's blessing,
and orders, and others ignore Him, or teaching their people
that God doesn't exist! Now of course all of
them even the democratic and even the royal one have forgot God,
we don't need God they say. Of course, they have to rule in some way, but
they don't say the truth. They
use blasphemous names, (the oath to God itself is already a
blasphemy), maintaining they rule their people by
God's justice, and according to God's Will.
The true democratic one, could be according to His Will, but
true democratic never really existed.
In
general, the world is ruled by the lie, deceiving and exploitation. The
Devil accompany with the each time dynasts rule on 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.
Well, I do not mean of course that prime ministers
themselves serve the Devil. A prime minister might be better in morality than a
bishop, and some of them are indeed, but good or bad ones have no other choice
than serving their form of governing; if one denies some one else will replace him! However some one
must be there, and so it is not about good or bad presidents or prime ministers,
but about the form of governing they serve, which was not invention of any
president or prime minister any way.
They swear to God they will rule according His Will, and therefore they legitimatise injustice and exploitation,
and so, 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 that exist in societies, is
presented occurred according the Will of God. Well, of course this is terrible blasphemy.
The other way of governing
(communist) says directly that God doesn't exist,
prohibiting the
citizens to worship the Lord. So, in the one way or
another, all the forms of governing blaspheme God. Others
say, God doesn't exist, and others say, what we do is
according to His Will! They use the divine teachings
in order to bridle and exploit the people. The churches are on their side
consecrating injustice and
evil actions. They consecrate the "legal" exploitation
and wealth, gained of 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 so the poor
as well!
They confirm as a Will of God, all the forms of ruling, as the
economic one, the royal one, and all the others, even fascism, (see, Spain of Franco, Italy of Mussolini, Greece of Metaxas, of
Papadopoulos, South and Centre America, Africa etc) which was deadly wounded at the Second World War, (people hated it too much
shouting, down with fascism)
but fascism didn't die. It is alive and is dragging itself as the snake in the other forms of governing.
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, which
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 through the Devil all of its heads
deny God, God doesn't exist they say, or fight against God's domination
by other ways, some also speak
hypocritically and say that they serve God, and so
they use His Holy name to exploit people and nations. Well, how
many wars started in the name of God, and by His will and blessing? Both sides
use the name of God, and each of them claims God's blessing and help!
People of Iraq "have God in their side", and Americans "have God in their side" too!
The horns with the crowns symbolize the
great economic and military powers, which impose mostly their economic
domination on the other nations. Not the United Europe.
Perhaps some of them, rather England, France,
Germany, and among the 10 horns, the first one is the United States. It is
written very clearly, it will make war with
its fascistic head for 42 months. Which
one is it?
John saw a second beast
that was coming up from the earth, which had two horns, like horns of a
lamb, but spoke as dragon!
That "second" beast practiced the authority of the first beast,
enforcing all the residents of the earth to worship the beast
by the wounded head. So obviously,
this "second" beast symbolizes the scientific and technological development,
(mostly military one) the one that
mostly serves the beast with the heads and horns, (not
the public) serving also 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!
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,
especially the military one. The great development
submitted under the service of the fascistic head of the beast, but its
fascistic teeth exist in every head's mouth, while it
developed and still does,
the horrible war machine used
in order 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.
The
prophecy says, the second beast, 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 who do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
In another words, this image of the beast
(a
man, personification of the Antichrist) by the
fascistic head, (while the democratic head will be unravelled), will be the
Antichrist in personification,
a man, and he will express the ruling of the beast
supported by the technology and science
that serve the beast, and
controlled by the beast.
He, the Antichrist will appear as peace maker in conditions of great distress and agitations, and of course he will appear as
dictator.
Meaning will appear in
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 will speak about peace with many countries, and if some of them not
submitting by the "good will",
then will submit by the economic
power, or by 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 by its own science and technology that develops the
weapons of horror, namely by that second beast.
That is why the prophecy says; this second
beast exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence,
deceiving the residents of the earth. Meaning this beast mocks the residents of the earth, it stupefy a lot of
people even scientists 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
(man) 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, who will
appear in 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, by which
will enforce the people to "print" a number on hand or on head, instead of
carrying cards and money, maintaining 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. Using the
number, will enforce people to be submitted to the economic head of the capitalist beast, while he
will have dressed first to the world economic bridles, and so
enforcing people to dance his own purpose, like the miserable and
chained up bear. The world will be depended on the bonds of consumption, which as we see
it is the modern way of life, in a heap of useful, and
useless objects. Therefore the world will be depended on the strong economy of the grandees.
In this kind of circumstances, the
Antichrist by holding the fascistic bridle, will
demand submission; 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. The money is the number. Accept the number in your body, take
whatever you want and go well without worries, the computers will regulate perfect all the rest.
Do not worry! So the number is going to be very
tempting, 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,
perhaps, 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, and so everyone will know that when
one accepts the number in his/her
body, accepts the domination of the Devil, and therefore 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
people 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 will
have already tightened the world by 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 6th day, which
means the 6th 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 6th 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 6th era, and is heard as number
of man.
As we showed at the subject of Genesis, the
age of Adam is the 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
by the number 365
is the symbol of year to have 365 days. Multiplying also the
code of symbolic Alleviation (Noah) which is another 20 years,
by the day as year, and so we find
out that the historic era, until the End, is 7300 years. So we have altogether, pre-historic and historic eras, 346750 years. And
as I believe, this is the number of
man.
I
believe also that the 1000 years is the "Day" of Crisis! In this "day"
everything will be complete, including the Atonement and Restoration of every
human, of every one! According to my belief, this is the Day of Crisis.
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
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.
As
I believe
Then
another sign appeared on heavens that was great and
marvellous. Seven Angels had
seven plagues, the last ones, and
by them the "wrath" of God is
over. 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, so,
it will not be easy at all to say NO, to the beast. It seems a lot of people will submit.
The second bowl will empty in the sea.
In the sea, meaning in some sea, 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 literal the sun, and so
people will suffer this unknown stroke
of the sun.
And the 5th Angel will empty the bowl
on the throne of the beast, and darkness and confusion will come to its kingdom.
Meaning those people will
not understand, will not repent, instead
they will
blaspheme God, while the enslaving to the beast and
Devil will have a result of
sealing prudence. And the 6th Angel
will empty the bowl on the Euphrates River;
and its water dried up, so the way might be prepared for the kings from the east.
And they will gather them together for war, at a place
that is called in Hebrew Armageddon.
Let see more closely this notorious war.
Three unclean
spirits as frogs come out of 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, like frogs.
Obviously the frogs means a lot of words,
false words, talking too
much, making noise as frogs, which come out
of the mouths of the three members of the unholy
trinity.
Who is the one who never heard people in our
days talking about "holy" war,
and so God's "blessed wars"? And who didn't hear paranoiacs
making people fanatical, telling them by killing 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 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 wearing the mask
of a saint, and speak in the name of God, pretending to be prophets,
speaking about "God's religion",
(all religions made up by humans, not by God) and they maintain that it is
holy duty of "God's people" to fight in order to
spread their religion in the whole world.
Now we understand this terrible meaning, when they preach violence, revenge and war in the name
of God. Actually there is nothing worst than
this, nothing worst than people to
be convinced that when they kill and take
revenge, they please God. The most
dangerous belief is the one that makes killers "obedients"
to God. The world is full of hate and violence,
so how much more would be, when people are convinced that
the hate and the violence pleases God?
Well, there is nothing worst that this belief.
So this is the terrible Armageddon. It is not only a concrete place, the whole
world is Armageddon...
Now why does the prophecy say, 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 a symbol of people who live close to the river, and while
they believe to God, they refuse Lord Christ, so in their confusion they refuse God. Of
course it is not only those people who refuse the Lord, but
those
countries around Euphrates is the fanatic centre and the starting
point. So the Euphrates River symbolizes those people.
Let us look at it more closely.
As all the rivers, the waters
of Euphrates run also to a destination. They end up to a delta.
The people around Euphrates River also have a destination
that ends up to a delta. For many centuries they have
been taught and get
prepared for the "holy" war, the intention of which 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.
But of course God does not want any one to believe that way.
So at that time, the waters of Euphrates will dry out,
meaning, all those teachings and preparations will
come to an end, and at last the great day where the
dream becomes reality, will arrive. The terrible condition in the world, the great corruption, the two Witnesses,
etc, 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.
And this is the 6th bowl of God's
anger, because they refused to listen.
The 7th bowl will be the last one. As it is written,
by this bowl will be heard a voice from heavens
saying,
Finish. The 7th 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 about 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."
As
I believe
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 drunk
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 blasphemous names, 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 in all the
material treasures of the world, and was holding in her hand a golden glass,
which was full up of the abomination and
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 the 7 mountains are
7 kings. Well, the 7 kings are not exactly kings by the form of some states
that
rule some countries, but they are 7 forms of governing that rule the world. As we
said in relation to the beast of chapter 13, the 7 governings
of the world are the known forms, the economic, democratic, royal, the socialist/communist,
the fascistic, the imperialistic/colonial,
and the "theocratic"
one. The prophecy says 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. They are not the hills of Rome, No. 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.
Well, certainly, in the
last years, and before the crushing of the beast, all the other forms of
governing will fall. There will be no more kings or colonies with known
way, nor socialism etc. The great governing of the world will be the economy
supported by 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
so the Antichrist will rule by 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 8th and at the same time the 8th is one of the 7 forms of
governing. The 8th
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, (the economy of the
grandees) with power by which she imposes her economy to rule
on the other economies, and she does it, by
using various ways, and also by wars and threats of war by using her very developed war machine and so she dominates
almost 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 8th, which is a part of the beast, and this 8th is
also one of the 7. Namely, the 7th is the governing of the world's economy that rules, and on top of the world's
economy is the 8th, which means the economy of Babylon. In another words,
yes, the 8th is a form of governing, and therefore is one of the 7 mountains, but it also rules on the economies of the
other ones, and therefore the 8th rules on the economic governing. It is the government of the governments. The 8th
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.
We can find some of them and
in 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, but I don't mean of
course the innocent people of the United States, but the interests of the powerful grandees,
not only US grandees, but from all the countries around the
world who rule and threaten the world,
and because it is the most powerful horn of the capitalist economic system, it is also
like the main body.
So, the economy of the grandees is
on top of all the
horns and heads; it is the 8th
which 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 8th (the same head) is the main economic
governing.
The five forms of governing will fall in
the last years, and as we realize, are loosing already
ground, the only one that
counts is the economic head that speaks falsely about
democracy.
Speaks very falsely while grandees are those who rule the world,
by the power of economy and
by wars, and their main seat is the symbolic Babylon.
Not the people by democracy. The second beast with the two lamb horns that gives domination to the beast, symbolizes science and technology. This is
the beast. It is one, not two, as it was prophesied
by 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,
while they have common pursuits and get richer,
becoming prostitute, as getting
drunk by the intoxicating wine of Babylon.
But the people who suffer by various ways, they hate the prostitute, hate the corruption and the violence, and also they hate the main
bearer of corruption, because in these countries
including of course the United States, exist humanists currents. There is logic,
free scientists, professors, humanist groups, Christians and
others, who hate the corruption and its main source, and will contribute to its
destruction.
They hate the drugs,
hate the unemployment, hate the
trafficking of sex and feelings, they hate the trading of women, the poverty and the desperation, of those poor countries that
really starve, and also the misery of their countries. But of course they can't change the conditions.
The governments in all of
their good will, and although they hate the violent and corruption, they
have no other choice than take instructions from the bosses of Babylon, and so they ending
up into literally puppets in the hands of Babylon. So
they adapt themselves to the domination of the beast. No one 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
of 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 Babylon belongs. The prophecy also says,
by the 7th bowl, all the cities of the
nations will fall. Meaning all the governments, and all the forms of governing
that is possible to stand until that time, will collapse. No other power could demolish the domination
of the beast. God only will abolish every unjust state, while no one ever
really just 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."
As
I believe
After the 7th bowl, John saw an Angel who was very
powerful, and he shouted with a strong voice saying.
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 live not only grandees
and other 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
saying; go away My people from the corrupted and
judged Babylon, and don't communicate with her sins, stay away from her
sufferings that will come with her
plagues, because her injustice and sins raised up to heavens.
So obviously, the prophecy speaks about a concrete city,
not about a great territorial dominion. For example, if Babylon were
Australia, it would be impossible for the innocent people who live there, to
go away, but if it was Canberra, then the innocent people could do it. So the prophecy speaks
about a concrete city. Now which is this
new city Babylon? Perhaps, Paris, Tokyo, Moscow, Peking, London, Washington, or New York? Well, if something is so obvious,
nothing can hide
it. Simply, which city is the world's trade centre?
It is the city that dominates and
stands on top of the world,
and so it is impossible to hide. 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 again, in Babylon live a lot of faithful and innocent people,
and so the Lord says; you My people must be careful, 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
of the whole world who trade by
everything, and as the prophecy says,
they trade even with the souls of people. And of course the corruption spreads everywhere around, and
so all do the same things. They trade by anything good
or bad, they trade even by the violence,
by the sick passions of sadism,
trade with drugs and so many other sinister things for profits. And they
do it in 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. The
feelings, the life, love, hope, trade with suffering, the grief, the pain and the joy,
become objects of trade, and all together drive the
world to the terrible 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, changing
their matter and meaning. Instead of feelings, they become sick passions. The
Angel said, in Babylon was found blood of Prophets and of Saints, and all
of the slain of the earth. It is to understand that
Babylon is the last link of a long chain of murdering, because always the same
reasons and the cunning interests of the
rulers were killing the Prophets and many other
Saints. And in this last link of the chain, how many people, who were really
saints been murdered in Babylon, or
out, while many wars and slaughters have been organized
in the offices of
Babylon?
How much blood of the Saints has been
shed in countries of Central and South America, in countries of Asia, Europe,
Africa from the immunity of the grandees who rule the world from the offices of
Babylon? Besides, the Prophets were not only the known
Prophets of the Old Testament, while 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.
So how many of them
have been murdered in the whole domination of Babylon? I
don't talk of course about the innocent people who live in Babylon, but
about the grandees who have no country, but 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 does it by the pretext of democracy, of
freedom and of human rights. Who are those people, who are
the ones who care so much about human rights in other countries, but they are
so "blind and
deaf" about the human rights in their own country? Not the soldiers of course,
who often have no other choice, but only to kill, 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 mean? Perhaps it means, Moscow or Peking? When the book of Revelation was
written, Babylon was fallen in ruins long time ago, though
even at that time, when Babylon was ruling, people
mostly were going
there by horses and caravans.
Alas,
alas, the great city Babylon, from which the grandees became very rich, and all
the nations of the earth deluded. 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.
Glory and love to the Lord.
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.
As
I believe
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 real prostitute herself who wretch and trade
by 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, not
to any good or barbarian commander, nor to any any other
human, it belongs only to our God the 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
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 us
avoiding judging us. 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 might be. We love and honour the Saints, but
we don't worship them, we don't offer them gifts, because
simply, they do not
want, and do not need gifts,
and never trade. God never trades,
so the promises of
material gifts and offerings to God and His to His saints
have no meaning, or even worsen...
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 on 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, the accuser
of 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 last era.
The last era
is the Alleviation, (Noah)
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 authority. When the 1000 years are over, it seems that
the Devil will have once more the right (??) to
annoy the saints of the Highest. He will appear again with all of his troops,
and 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 belong to God. That world will not belong to the
Devil at all.
Now of course, the question is why would he do it, while
would know that his destruction is coming next! It seems that under some unknown
reason he will be obligated to do it, and 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, 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. As
it is written, 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 crisis, of punishment and 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
that indeed will represent the Creator.
The material body will be abolished, and rather it seems--there are some questions
related with this matter--it will
be abolished 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 material body will be useless,
and a dead body is usually only food for worms and birds of prey. Simply, the
material bodies like all the dead bodies
will be useless. 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 sufferings, which torture
the humans. It will be the abolishment of the sufferings of humans who live in a
material body, which gets sick, pains and getting old, and ends up to the recycling.
This is the supper that "feeds" our Holy Father, it is the
true happiness of His creatures, and the Victory of God will be the Victory of the true Life.
No more crippled people, no more blind people, no more starving children, no more
pain and 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 to God, then we know God, and we are absolutely sure, that nothing unholy, nothing unjust, nothing wrong will come from
our 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
rich 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.
Let us see also something else.
I remember someone who was 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 is
over, 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 been punished in an
eternal and endless condemnation. At first, the word hell applies symbolic, and
whatever the hell might mean, 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 Serpent. So the evil spirit has authority on those
things that do not match and
do not belong to God.
So the
human who didn't manage to stand with God and be saved, is not belonging to God, is belonging to the
Serpent. 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 to be justified, his responsibilities and sins will judge him,
not God, and as long will be judged belongs to the
Devil.
The human justice is different;
it stands in a balance between good and bad, but when this balance goes away,
then must be good or bad, God or
the Devil. In this condition the human must be either with the side of
God or with the side of the evil spirit. The Devil accuses people and therefore
has some authority on them, he demands to take whatever belongs
to him. That is why God shows every patience,
suffering our blasphemies, and giving every
possible 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
to be justified and saved, God will do it. And of course the judgment belongs to the
eon, in a limit of time. Not endless,
I believe.
Repeating again, I believe that in the one thousand of years before the
new creation, all sinners will be expiated and the restoration will
be complete for all the humans. This is what I believe, and
what I hope, but always we should remember the words of our Lord; be ready and
be awaken because we don't
know what
time the Son of Man is coming.
We should not forget these words, remembering that regardless
what we want and what is good to believe, we do not
know everything..
And again, be ready and be
awaken for the
coming of the Son of Man. Don't sleep! We give glory to our lovely Highest Lord, we give glory to our lovely Holy One, we give
glory to the Holy Trinity, we give glory to our lovely Father, we give glory to the Son, and we give glory to the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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