Revelation
The Revelation to John is the last book of the New Testament and is well known for its End Days prophecy. This is another book that Newton spent a lot of time working on. It is well known for being difficult to interpret. The book itself claims to be a report of a dreamlike vision. This is the obvious reason for the unusual writing style.
I now have a page by Jim Wright, who interprets some of Revelation with some help from the words of Jesus (in Matthew). The Seven Seals
Revelation
of the Essenes
(Also online here - http://www.global.org/Pub/DSS_Revelation.asp
- http://reluctant-messenger.com/essene/revelation.htm)
A earlier text is available within The Gospel of the Essenes by Szekely, a translation of old manuscripts that exist in both Aramaic and Old Slavonic. The Essene version is a short and easy to understand description of the End Days. In this version we get a description in human terms of what the end will be like. Much of the text is recognizable from the Biblical version.
Comparison of the two versions shows that short sections containing Essene imagery have been removed from the Bible version and replaced with longer sections containing other descriptions of future events.
The surviving Essene version seems to be almost the complete text and it describes the End Days very clearly for us.
The book gets underway with the narrator hearing a voice:
And his voice filled the air with the sound of rushing water;
And in his hands were seven stars,
And when he spoke, his face was streaming light,
Blazing and golden like a thousand suns.
And he said, 'Fear not, I am the first and the last;
I am the beginning and the end.
Write the things that you have seen,
And the things that are, and the things that will come after;
The mystery of the seven stars which fill my hands,
And the seven golden candles, blazing with eternal light.
The seven stars are the Angels of the Heavenly Father,
And the seven stars are the Angels of the Earthly Mother.
And the spirit of man is the flame
Which streams between the starlight and the glowing candle;
A bridge of holy light between heaven and earth.
Following this introduction the narrator is taken to a gathering of thirteen elders around a throne.
And then I saw in the right hand
Of him that sat on the throne,
A book written within and on the back,
Sealed with seven seals.
And I wept, because the book could not be opened,
Nor was I able to read what there was written.
And one of the elders said to me, 'Weep not.
Reach out your hand and take the book.'
And I reached out my hand and touched the book.
And behold, the cover lifted,
And my hands touched the golden pages,
And my eyes beheld the mystery of the seven seals.
In the next section the seven seals are linked to seven angels. Men sin against each of the angels; pollution and destruction is predicted and described.
And I saw, and beheld the Angel of the Air,
And between her lips flowed the breath of life,
And she knelt over the earth
And gave to man the winds of wisdom,
And man breathed in.
And when he breathed out, the sky darkened,
And the sweet air became fetid,
And clouds of evil smoke hung low over all the earth.
And I turned my face away in shame.
And I saw and beheld the Angel of the Sun.
And between her lips flowed the light of life,
And she knelt over the earth
And gave to man the Fires of Power.
And the strength of the Sun entered the heart of man,
And he took the power, and made with it a false sun,
And he spread the fires of destruction,
Burning the forests,
Laying waste the green valleys,
Leaving only charred bones of his brothers.
And I turned away in shame.
I will not quote all seven here, the aptness of the descriptions will be obvious. The final angel, the Angel of the Earthly Mother, whispers a message that man does not hear. At this point the narrator asks if he may hear it; the message is that man has abused the gifts of nature and turned his face away from God.
The angels then prepare to blow their trumpets, first throwing burning incense from the altar onto the Earth.
The first angel sounded,
And there followed hail and fire mixed with blood,
And they were cast upon the earth.
This last section may refer to the war in the Middle East, predicted to occur by 2006 in the Bible Code.
The second angel sounded,
And a great mountain burning with fire
Was cast into the sea
And blood rose from the earth as a vapor.
The comet impact predicted for 2006 in the Bible Code perhaps, here we get an extra detail that the Bible Code does not provide; it lands in the sea. The third angel is missing from this text.
The fourth angel sounded,
And there was a great earthquake;
And the sun became as black as sackcloth of hair,
And the moon became as blood.
There are a number of earthquake predictions in the Bible Code, as we have seen. The atmosphere is likely to become opaque for a while following a major comet impact, possibly for years. Earthquakes may be triggered in many places by the shock of the impact.
And the fifth angel sounded
And the stars of heaven fell onto the earth
Like figs from fig tree
Shaken by a mighty wind.
This might mean shooting stars, a rain of debris following the comet, perhaps.
And the sixth angel sounded
And the heaven departed as a scroll when rolled together.
And over the whole earth there was not one tree,
Nor one flower, nor one blade of grass.
And I stood on the earth,
And my feet sank into the soil,
soft and thick with blood,
Stretching as far as the eye could see.
And all over the earth was silence.
It is difficult to be sure what is being described here, it may correspond with the Bible Code for the year 2010 'days of horror, darkness and gloom.'
The seventh angel heralds the appearance of a man with a rainbow on his head and a book in his hand. He then speaks to our narrator.
'O Man, would you have this vision come to pass?'
And I answered, 'You know I would do anything
So that these terrible things did not come to pass.'
The angel says that men have fashioned their own destruction, but he also says that there is always hope.
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel,
When he shall begin to sound,
The mystery of God should be revealed to those
Who have eaten from the Tree of Life
Which stands forever in the Eternal Sea.
And the voice spoke again saying:
'Go take the book that is in the hand of the angel'
And I went to the angel, and said to him,
'Give me the book,
For I would eat from the Tree of Life
Which stands in the middle of the Eternal Sea.'
And the angel gave to me the book,
And I opened the book,
And I read therein
What had always been, what was now, and what would come to pass.
I saw the holocaust that would engulf the earth
And the great destruction
That would drown all her people in oceans of blood.
And I saw too the eternity of man
And the endless forgiveness of the Almighty.
The souls of men were as blank pages in the book,
Always ready for a new song to be there inscribed.
The book described here may be the Torah, fully decoded in the period after the End Days. This implies that there is indeed hope, if there are still people working on the books following the Time of the End.
There is a clear break in the vision here; our narrator feels his feet on the ground once again. He just has time to give thanks in a short prayer before the voice comes to him again.
The next part of the vision turns attention to the question of saving people, the vision repeats, but this time it is from the perspective of the people rather than that of the angels.
But again the voice spoke,
And again my eyes were drawn away
From the splendors of the realm of light,
'You may walk on the right path
And through your being course the golden stream of the Law,
But would you leave your brothers
To plunge through the gaping chasm of blood,
As the pain-wracked earth shudders and groans
Under her chains of stone?
Can you drink from the cup of eternal life
While your brothers die of thirst?'
And my heart was heavy with compassion.
At this point he describes seeing a battle between the Earth Mother and a foul beast. The Earth Mother is overcome and crushed by this beast.
And from the mouth of this beast there poured armies of men,
Brandishing swords and fighting, one with the other.
And they fought with a terrible anger,
And they cut off their own limbs and clawed out their own eyes,
Until they fell into the pit of slime,
Screaming in agony and pain.
This might be a description of the world being destroyed by pollution, and then a bitter war. The narrator calls out to the fighting men, to try to persuade them that it is futile to fight now.
And I spoke in a loud voice, saying,
'Brothers, drop your swords and take hold of my hand.
For you the days of buying and selling are over
And over too the days of hunting and killing.
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn
Because no man buys their merchandise any more.
And as our fingers clasped,
I saw in the distance a great city,
And there was a great earthquake,
Such as was not since men were on the earth,
So mighty an earthquake, and so great.
And the great city was divided into three parts,
And the cities of the nations fell.
This suggests that there will be an unusually powerful earthquake, one that affects a large area.
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven,
Every stone about the weight of a talent.
This description corresponds well with my last Bible Code example: 2012, comet, it will be crumbled, earth annihilated. The weight of a talent is about 30 kilos, so a hail of rocks this size would be very destructive.
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone,
And threw it into the sea, saying,
'Thus, with violence shall the great city be thrown down,
And shall be found no more at all.'
This seems to indicate that although the comet may fall into the sea, there will be a major city destroyed completely. Presumably one that is near to the coast, which is true of many major cities, so we must wait and see.
The next part of the narrative describes the empty city and its guilt, and then returns again to the men that are being saved.
And my brothers laid hold of my hand,
And they struggled out of the pool of slime
And stood bewildered on the sea of sand,
And the skies opened and washed their naked bodies with rain.
'Lo, the mountain of the Lord's house
Is established in the top of the mountains
And is exalted above the hills;
And all people shall flow to it.
Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of God;
And he will teach us of his ways,
And we will walk in his paths:
For out of the Holy Brotherhood shall go forth the Law.
Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men,
And he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
And God himself will be with them, and be their God.'
And in the middle of the river stood the Tree of Life,
Which bore fourteen kinds of fruits,
And yielded her fruit to those who would eat of it,
And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
