D1. Abstract on the Book of Revelation
June 1, 2002
The Book of Revelation is a coded message for those living in the End Times. It was given by God directly to one who spent a great deal of time following the Human Image of God, Jesus Christ, when He was on this Earth. As such it was presented the way God usually does when He wants a message to be given to everyone. We could call this “ex cathedra” in that it was directly transmitted via God’s spokesperson on Earth. In order to preserve it until the End Times, when its message is going to be critical, God had it recorded in symbols. Once the code is broken, then the messages will be clear. Until that time, the Church has not needed these messages. It was fine for believers to read this book and get the idea that either it was already fulfilled, or too obscure to worry about, or that the final outcome where, “Good will eventually triumph over Evil” is all that we need to know. Because the symbols obscure the real meanings as did the Parables of Christ, no one ever needed to change the text, even though they could have. Religious powers in teaching as doctrine their own commandments, found this obscure book useful as their basis of authority – believing that only they were privileged enough to read and understand its true meanings.
And so, the Book of Revelation has survived almost two millennia with its messages fully intact. This story has been paraphrased by Hollywood countless times in sci-fi dramas. Yet only God the Creator/Thinker, Who knows what He will think of next, could possibly have written this account of the End Times from the beginning. God has always known the basic pattern of events and the eventual outcomes as we play out this sin drama on Earth, even though He is not controlling the decisions made by His free-willed beings. Perhaps He has just seen this drama play out countless times before on other angelic worlds and by observation He knows that sin will lead to self-destruction eventually. Now His latest universe of angelic beings will have a chance to learn the details of that scenario by observation and not by doing evil themselves. Indeed His plan of salvation for the angelic beings has already worked. But what about us?
Now as we approach 2000 years after John the Apostle penned this book, Knowledge indeed abounds. Perhaps now that we understand many of the symbols used in the Bible, we can apply the correct interpretation to this Book. Indeed, as we do that we see that so many key historic events have happened as the symbols predicted. We seem to have broken the code, which could only mean that we are in those End Times. To have broken it prematurely would have been to risk the destruction of the book itself by those it incriminates. Now, however, perhaps there are too many copies readily available to people everywhere (The gospel message contained in the Bible has almost spread throughout the world at this time, because almost anyone can get it on the Internet.).
The fact that this coded book can now be shown to make perfect sense in terms of the key historical events it recounts, would make those remaining predictions extremely credible. Imagine how incredible it would have been centuries ago to have understood what this book predicted was to come in your time. Now imagine that we are indeed living very close to the End Times that God’s Plan of Salvation has been leading up to all these centuries. Would that be something to be worried about? – something to prepare for? What if all this really is part of a master plan as we have been suggesting, where God needs this Sin Drama to play out on Earth as a prerequisite for any of His created thinking beings to live happily ever after? We would be onto something that would be the most important thing in our lives. We need to be absolutely certain that we are understanding the Truth and not being deceived into believing something that would cause us to miss out on the real meaning of our lives.
I see that in the End Times the truth will be thrown to the ground. Even the elect could be deceived by the situations unfolding around them, because the deception will be so pervasive. Is there some way to know the truth when everyone around you is believing a lie? Here is my suggestion. Talk to God all the time now and get to know Him. Then in those difficult times you will know Him also. In particular, talk to God when you’re under grave temptations to do things you really want to do, which you know are not good for you. In these times, when you fight those highly desirable temptations, tailor made for you, you ask God to not give you what you really want. The real God will then intervene and change your situation. That is how you will know it is Him and not an agent of the devil. Now is the time to talk to God, when you’re good or bad, happy or sad. This way you will develop a relationship with Him and you will know Him even when everything else around you is deceptive. In those End Times that same God will be with you to guide you through as He has been doing for you now, whenever you have asked for His help.
D1. Abstract on the Book of Revelation
June 1, 2002
The Book of Revelation is a coded message for those living in the End Times. It was given by God directly to one who spent a great deal of time following the Human Image of God, Jesus Christ, when He was on this Earth. As such it was presented the way God usually does when He wants a message to be given to everyone. We could call this “ex cathedra” in that it was directly transmitted via God’s spokesperson on Earth. In order to preserve it until the End Times, when its message is going to be critical, God had it recorded in symbols. Once the code is broken, then the messages will be clear. Until that time, the Church has not needed these messages. It was fine for believers to read this book and get the idea that either it was already fulfilled, or too obscure to worry about, or that the final outcome where, “Good will eventually triumph over Evil” is all that we need to know. Because the symbols obscure the real meanings as did the Parables of Christ, no one ever needed to change the text, even though they could have. Religious powers in teaching as doctrine their own commandments, found this obscure book useful as their basis of authority – believing that only they were privileged enough to read and understand its true meanings.
And so, the Book of Revelation has survived almost two millennia with its messages fully intact. This story has been paraphrased by Hollywood countless times in sci-fi dramas. Yet only God the Creator/Thinker, Who knows what He will think of next, could possibly have written this account of the End Times from the beginning. God has always known the basic pattern of events and the eventual outcomes as we play out this sin drama on Earth, even though He is not controlling the decisions made by His free-willed beings. Perhaps He has just seen this drama play out countless times before on other angelic worlds and by observation He knows that sin will lead to self-destruction eventually. Now His latest universe of angelic beings will have a chance to learn the details of that scenario by observation and not by doing evil themselves. Indeed His plan of salvation for the angelic beings has already worked. But what about us?
Now as we approach 2000 years after John the Apostle penned this book, Knowledge indeed abounds. Perhaps now that we understand many of the symbols used in the Bible, we can apply the correct interpretation to this Book. Indeed, as we do that we see that so many key historic events have happened as the symbols predicted. We seem to have broken the code, which could only mean that we are in those End Times. To have broken it prematurely would have been to risk the destruction of the book itself by those it incriminates. Now, however, perhaps there are too many copies readily available to people everywhere (The gospel message contained in the Bible has almost spread throughout the world at this time, because almost anyone can get it on the Internet.).
The fact that this coded book can now be shown to make perfect sense in terms of the key historical events it recounts, would make those remaining predictions extremely credible. Imagine how incredible it would have been centuries ago to have understood what this book predicted was to come in your time. Now imagine that we are indeed living very close to the End Times that God’s Plan of Salvation has been leading up to all these centuries. Would that be something to be worried about? – something to prepare for? What if all this really is part of a master plan as we have been suggesting, where God needs this Sin Drama to play out on Earth as a prerequisite for any of His created thinking beings to live happily ever after? We would be onto something that would be the most important thing in our lives. We need to be absolutely certain that we are understanding the Truth and not being deceived into believing something that would cause us to miss out on the real meaning of our lives.
I see that in the End Times the truth will be thrown to the ground. Even the elect could be deceived by the situations unfolding around them, because the deception will be so pervasive. Is there some way to know the truth when everyone around you is believing a lie? Here is my suggestion. Talk to God all the time now and get to know Him. Then in those difficult times you will know Him also. In particular, talk to God when you’re under grave temptations to do things you really want to do, which you know are not good for you. In these times, when you fight those highly desirable temptations, tailor made for you, you ask God to not give you what you really want. The real God will then intervene and change your situation. That is how you will know it is Him and not an agent of the devil. Now is the time to talk to God, when you’re good or bad, happy or sad. This way you will develop a relationship with Him and you will know Him even when everything else around you is deceptive. In those End Times that same God will be with you to guide you through as He has been doing for you now, whenever you have asked for His help.
8 June 2002
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