APOCALYPTIC EXAGGERATION and 

ESSENE-SPEAK

==VOCABULARY

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PARALLELISM

      In the study of the Bible, words mean what we think they mean. "Vocabulary" is everything. To our discovery that the 144,000 of Revelation 7 and 14 are Essenes, we went to a parallel scripture sequence in Isaiah 66 and by using Essene vocabulary found a prophecy of the atomic bomb prior to Israel becoming a nation on May 14, 1948. By using the technique of PARALLISM, specifically paralellism with Isaiah 66:6 and onwards, we found ourselves at the proper place in Matt. 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. And began to understand how Jesus' 'Parable of the Fig Tree' fits into the historical picture of what happened in Israel from May 14, 1948 through 1967. Now we turn back to the seven angels of Revelation 14 and 18 and discover that the 4th angel is really a word picture of 'Saturn' as the Roman god of the harvest. The 5th angel looks like he might "harvest" also, but says nothing and does nothing. The 6th angel, like Elijah, comes from an altar and "has power over fire". 

On these pages we are learning that Jesus Christ as the script writer for Isaiah 66 as well as the 4 Gospels and Revelation has used Apocalyptic exaggeration as well as Parallelism to reveal to a few but hide from the vast majority of Bible readers and would-be prophets what his real agenda would be at the end of the Age of Pisces, just starting when the Gospels and Revelation were being written.  

    The stories would not have a popular ending, but as a student of both history and human nature, he knew how the Age would indeed end.  With the villains (the Jews) becoming the heroes, and the supposed hero (the Roman Catholic Church) shown to be a "wolf in sheep's clothing".   But "Little Red Riding Hood" must make it back to Grand-mother's house. So the "Wolf" and her many pups must not know that.

   Early Writings (page 15) "Soon we heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave the day and the hour (Aug. 6, 1945 at 8:16 AM) of Jesus' coming.  The living saints (Jews that survived the Jewish holocaust), 144,000 in number, knew and understood the voice (deliverance from total annihilation), while the wicked (including, sad to say -- Seventh-day Adventists) thought it was thunder and an earthquake (symbolic of the Atomic Bomb)."

    Jesus provided those who thought they would become the heroes in these Bible stories with their own little scripts, which they played out quite faithfully, not knowing that they were each playing bit parts.  Because people in general are not very bright or clever, at least in the area of Bible study and interpretation.  Except, of course for me and my readers of this web site!

   Such was the case with Hal Lindsay, who was scripted to play a major bit part in researching and writing his world-famous and very popular book, "Late Great Planet Earth"

     After the events in Israel predicted in a very disguised form by the 4th angel of Revelation 14, but more clearly in Isaiah 66 had transpired, Hal Lindsay and his fellow writers and Christian evangelists saw these events as a game-changer, and rewrote old prophecies to make themselves the heroes, not the Jews.  This became the message of the 5th angel of Revelation 14, the first cock-crowing message of Mark 13:35.  Which lasted for 40 years.  Until it was greatly diminished on September 11, 12, and 13 of 1988.  But is still popular as the "Left Behind" series of books and movies.

    A series of Seventh-day Adventists, starting with Victor Houteff, who formed "Shepherd's Rod", and thee "Davidians" caught on that Seventh-day Adventists were not the one-and-only Israel, and moved from Southern California (Adventist "heaven") to Waco, Texas ("earth").  His wife moved his religious enterprise from a section of Waco named Mount Carmel to a newer and smaller "Mount Carmel".   Houteff was one of a series of "Elijahs" to which I must append my own religious activities of the 1980s and 1990s. On Houteff's death an ambitious couple took his place,  Ben and Lois Roden. Ben Roden saw the real Israel as the place he should really be, and besides being "Elijah" he saw himself also as "the Branch", so the "Davidians" became the "Branch Davidians". After Ben Roden's death, his wife Lois allowed a new, much younger "prophet" to take over the Mount Carmel complex.  Vernon Howell, aka "David Koresh".  Typical of other "British Israel" and "Patriot" groups of the late 1980s and 1990s, Koresh stashed firearms, trained his followers as a militia, and prophesied a confrontation with the US government. A confrontation long prophesied by Ellen White, augmented by his own fertile imagination and radical ideas.

      This confrontation indeed occurred in February 1993 and after a 51 day standoff, on April 19, 1993,  the Mount Carmel complex, surrounded by ATF and FBI swat teams, burned to the ground killing Koresh, along with  74 other people, including 21 children of which 17 were Koresh's own children with various women at his compound. 

     Together with other events that occurred during the period of 1992 - 1994, I am labeling the fire at the Branch Davidian compound as part of the message of the 6th angel of Revelation 14. (the second cock- crowing message of Mark 13:35.) 

     Meanwhile, the original first 3 angels' messages of Revelation 14 are still being given, but not loudly, by Seventh-day Adventist preachers and in some of their books, and Harold Camping, not a Seventh-day Adventist, is making more "noise" on his billboards and with his successful radio show.

  No longer dragged into the sky by angels, Camping's raptured saints will walk up cloudy stairs dressed in their Sunday best.

     All these modern scholars have failed to learn that the Essenes wrote the Biblical prophecies they were using, and failed to learn the Essene  "VOCABULARY" we were able to show gave exaggerated apocylyptic meanings to ordinary words. By knowing information about the ESSENES that recent scholars have persisted in ignoring, (because to accept this information would likely cost them their jobs and cause a major crisis in various churches), I have shown on these pages incredibly accurate prophecies that have been fulfilled concerning Israel, and even concerning modern wars and weapons such as the atomic bomb. 

   As we continue, on these pages it will become evident that Jesus apparently knew about William Miller, Ellen White, my brother Leon Holt and his wife Onycha at Smyrna (almost) SDA church and their pastor Alan Stump, Hal Lindsay and his like-minded "failed prophets", myself with my "Elijah Revival" of the 1980s, Houteff, the Rodens, and Koresh, and of course that I am writing these pages, and why.  And Yes, he knew what would happen on 9-11-2001 a long, long time ago.  The terribly disappointing message of the 7th angel of Revelation 18. We will still use a technique long used and relied on by these former scholars, the technique called "PARALLELISM".  And we will, of course retain and use the knowledge we have gained about

the 144,000 (Essenes)

You have now either rejected  what I have

tried to teach you so far, or, if you

agreed with it and learned it, have

sufficient knowledge and

"vocabulary"

to continue reading and understanding

 the messages from

the 7 "angels" of Revelation 14 and 18.

Only now, to the background I have given

 you of examples of how the Essenes used

 exaggerated apocalyptic expressions and

 ESSENE-SPEAK, a new

"vocabulary"

I have added the long-used, reliable tool of 

"PARALLELISM"

Revelation 14:6 "And I saw another angel (another message, another heavenly messenger) fly in the midst of heaven, (in this context, Qumran, the "heaven of the Essenes") having the everlasting gospel  (Essene rules, doctrines, and teachings, not Paul's adaptations of these rules, that eliminated most of them, allowing Christians to be "saved" because Jesus had kept these rules) to preach to them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, (a "loud voice" first raised by William Miller, and later by Seventh-day Adventists) Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."(these here have Astrological meanings -- 4 Ages)
Revelation 14:8 "And there followed another angel, (another message, another heavenly messenger, now the second in a series of 7, six of which are in this chapter, and the seventh in chapter 18) saying, Babylon (in this case not literal Babylon in Iraq, but the Vatican in Rome) is fallen, is fallen, (the repetition of "fallen" represents 2 "millennial days", or 2000 years) that great city, (the "great" expands the meaning to everyone the Vatican has influence over, including Protestantism) because she made all nations drink of the wine ((the Catholic Mass)tof the wrath ("wrath of God", hell, purgatory) of her fornication."(the Church's dogma, invention)
Revelation 14:9 "And the third angel (third message in this series) followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast  (here Roman Catholicism))and his image,(the Protestant Churches who are likewise Trinitarian and keep Sunday as their weekly holy rest day) and receive his mark (Sunday worship) in his forehead, (believe it to be God's blessed "Holy Day" in place of Saturday the 7th day of the week), or in his hand, work on Saturday-- 
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented  with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb;  11 "And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever recieveth the mark of his name.  
Revelation 14:12 "Here is the patience (remnant, what is left) of the saints (the Essenes): here are they (the Essenes) that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus (Essenism)."

Vocabulary Definitions Summary

for  Revelation 14:6-12

Babylon -- not literal Babylon in Iraq, but the Vatican in Rome, who inherited the power of Pagan Rome after the Emperor Constantine made Roman Catholicism his state religion

beast -- not one of the 4 beasts of chapter 4, but one or both of the beasts of Revelation 13, in this context a "beast" that has exercised power for almost 2000 years, the Roman Catholic church

commandments of God -- to the Essenes represented more than the 10 commandments, but included also dietary requirements and feast days in addition to the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath

earth -- in the series, "heaven, and earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters",  "earth" is the Age of Aries, from 2000 BC until the birth of Christ in 7 BC

ever and ever -- by repetition, 2 millennial days, or an Age -- 2000 years

everlasting gospel -- Essene rules, doctrines, and teachings, not Paul's adaptations of these rules, that eliminated most of them, allowing Christians to be "saved" because Jesus had kept these rules

faith of Jesus -- Essenism, with all its requirements, Jesus, even while living in India, kept the Sabbath day Sabbath and was an evangelist for Vegetarianism

fallen, is fallen -- by repetition, represents 2 millennial days of the Essene Millennial Week prophecy, identifying Roman Catholicism as the "Babylon" referred to by the second angel of Revelation 14. No other religious and political power reigned for almost 2000 years during the Age of Pisces

forehead -- minds, doctrines, beliefs (Jews wore phylacteries containing scripture on their foreheads)

fountains of waters -- in the series, "heaven, and earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters",  "fountains of waters" is the Age of Aquarius, slated to begin in 2000 AD but instead begun in 1844 to fulfill a promise to the Essenes in John 14:1-3.   Begun for the Jews in May of 1948. The "waters" seen as the "Holy Spirit" who presents us with new ideas and messages not necessarily sanctioned by organized religions

great city -- the "great" expands the meaning to everyone the Vatican has influence over, including Protestantism

heaven -- still the Qumran monastery, "heaven" to the Essenes, secondarily, the Age of Taurus, when the gods still walked on earth

hour of his judgment -- not the "end of the world" as mistranslated by King James' translators, but the end of the "sea", the Age of Pisces

image (of the beast) -- another group (modern Protestants) who slavishly copy and obey the major dogma of the Roman Catholic Church -- the almost 2000 year old "beast" of Revelation chapter 13

Lamb -- Jesus Christ, Essene Messiah from 29-33 AD, declared the "Lamb of God" by the Essene John the Baptist in 29 AD

loud voice -- a "loud voice" first raised by William Miller, and later by Seventh-day Adventists 

mark (of the beast) -- the two major identifying doctrines forced on Christianity by the Roman emperor Constantine in the 4th century in exchange for granting the Church legitimacy as his state religion -- the doctrine of the "Holy Trinity" and Sunday observance substituted for 7th day Sabbath observance

no rest -- a reference to the Sabbath commandment, broken by most Christians for 2000 years

patience -- remnant, or that which remains, used in Adventism for themselves as the "Remnant Church"

saints -- Essenes and those who live like Essenes, practicing "good works" not so-called "justification" by faith (without good works)

sea -- in the series, "heaven, and earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters",  "sea" is the Age of Pisces, from 7 BC until the year 2000 or 2001.  But shortened because of the Jewish holocaust

tormented with fire and brimstone --  the Catholic doctrines of hell and purgatory spelled out in detail -- also a reference to homosexual and pedophilic priests using Sodom as an example

wine --  the Catholic Mass, "bread" is not added because it has so many other meanings

wine of the wrath of God -- the Catholic doctrines of hell and purgatory have been used to control the ignorant and superstitious for 2000 years

NOTE that without knowing how the Essenes distort word-meanings and how they lived and what they believed the reader cannot really know that the Qumran Essenes were the most dedicated and stringent Seventh-day Sabbath-keepers of that Age. And that they were total vegetarians.  Such people can and will torment themselves and others with all sorts of weird and unusual identifications of the "mark of the beast" and the "image of the beast" and see every new world leader as a potential "Antichrist" intent on either severing their heads or throwing them into prison.

 

 

ISAIAH 66

shows, by comparing the prophecy to history, that the "voice of noise from the city", "a voice from the temple", "a voice of the Lord rendering recompence to his enemies", is the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, at 8:16 AM.

 

 and that the "nation born at once", "in one day", as "Zion travailed", and "brought forth her children" of  verse 8 is the very old, but now "new" nation of Israel, declared on May 14, 1948 and attacked by all her Arab neighbors the next day, May 15, 1948.

 

     By using our technique of PARALLISM both historical and Biblical, we find ourselves at the proper place in Matt. 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. And discover that the 4th Angel's message of Revelation 14 is about the coming of Christ, as the "reaper of the summer harvest" to Israel, first by the Atomic bomb "trumpet" in 1945, and later by the UN mandate and announcement of May 14, 1948.

Revelation 14:13 "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. 14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat  like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
The word-picture is that of Saturn, the 7th heavenly body seen by the Ancients, and the Roman God of the Harvest.

Revelation 14:15 "And another angel (the 4th angel) came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy  sickle and reap: for the time  is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth  was reaped."

Vocabulary for Rev. 14:13-16

another angel -- 4th angel of Revelation 14

earth was reaped -- of grain, of people, of Jews

golden crown -- Jesus as King of kings, and judge

harvest of the earth -- shows the word picture to represent Saturn, the Roman god of the harvest

loud voice -- in this case the atomic bomb, by parallelism with Isaiah 66:6 and history, the day and the hour is August 6, 1945 at 8:16 AM

reap -- accept as an offering, kill, store in groups

sharp sickle -- the badge or icon of the "reaper"

Son of man -- by frequent usage, Jesus Christ

temple -- the temple of the Creator God, the heavens, the temple described in Isaiah 66:1-3, indicating it is time for another Zodiac Age to begin

time is come -- as above, it is time for another Zodiac Age to begin

the dead -- the Jewish dead of the holocaust before 1945, they "died in the Lord" not as believers in Jesus Christ as "Lord" but either as believers in Yahweh as Lord, or "because" of Jesus, labeled as "Christ killers" by the Nazis

they may rest -- "rest" here indicates the Sabbath, which both labels the dead as Jews, and indicates the beginning of the Sabbath (7th) millennium

their works -- Jews believe in good works, NOT in "justification by faith"

white cloud -- in this case the white cloud produced by the detonation of the atomic bomb

SUMMARY: Here I have used both ESSENE-SPEAK and historical and Biblical PARALLELISM to show that the 4th angel of Revelation 14 is describing the same events in Israel as Isaiah 66, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, and surprisingly Ellen G. White's visions. Jesus has cleverly hidden this angel's identity and purpose by using pagan and Jewish symbolism to describe him.   Not a generic "Christian" angel like the first three angels.

 

The 5th ANGEL
Mark's 1st  Cock-crowing

Mark 13:35

Revelation 14:17 "And another angel (the 5th angel) came out of the temple which is in heaven (indicating time, 40 years after 1948, or 1988), he also having a sharp sickle." (the vacant threat of a harvest that never occurred) The "secret rapture" that never occurred, except in fiction books.
Matthew 24:40 "Then shall two (men) be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken and the other left." 

Luke 17:32 "Remember Lot's wife. 34"I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other left."

Matt. 24:37 "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Luke 17:26 "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and took them all away."

Luke 17:28 "Likewise also it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all."

Vocabulary for Rev. 14:17, Matt. 24:40,41 and Luke 17:26-29

another angel -- 5th angel of Revelation 14, and the first cock-crowing message of Mark 13:35

coming of the Son of man -- allows for the meaning given it by the Secret Rapture preachers, but the Essenes allow more latitude, the "Son of man" of the Age of Aquarius is the constellation Aquarius itself, a vast group of distant suns, not a "man", or "god-man".

Second meaning, "The Age of Aquarius began in 1988."

days of Lot -- in an almost parallel series in Luke 17, the days of Lot are cited, primarily meant to be contrasted with the days of Noah, but suggestive to writers like Hal Lindsay of conditions during the "Rapture" and ensuing "Tribulation

days of Noe (Noah) -- by paralellism, clearly the intent of Jesus here, to promote a sudden and unexpected "Rapture".  However, a closer look at the original story shows Noah preached this 120 years (hardly sudden or unexpected) and even those in the ark had 7 days advance warning

destroyed them all --  taken literally by such writers, all those not taken up in the "Rapture", not just those in Sodom

drank -- implies excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages, to which we should now append, by parallelism and general principles, drug usage with all its connected evils

eat -- implies excessive eating, gluttony, and obesity, -- obvious now in the US, while much of the world is starving, and US processed food companies are accused of exporting obesity to the Third World countries

left -- one "taken up" in the Rapture, one left in the field working, having not been "saved"

Lot's wife -- in the Bible story "turned to a salt pillar", in the original Sumerian, "vaporized", -- using the last meaning, indicates Hiroshima and the threat of nuclear annihilation 

married wives -- contrasts with Luke's description of the days of Lot, where these two phrases, "married wives, and were given in marriage" are omitted -- in Matthew the impression is given of over-population, -- in Luke's version, of an increase in homosexuality -- both true in that later 20th century

rained fire and brimstone -- taken literally by those expecting Jesus to punish non-believers in the Gospel at his Second Coming

same day -- the "Rapture" to occur during one 24 hour day, as the earth turns, not during an extended period of weeks or months

sharp sickle -- the badge or icon of the "reaper"

Sodom -- where homosexuals live, allowing those Christians with various other sins and bad habits to make homosexuality the one unforgivable sin

taken -- taken up by the Rapture, actually in common usage "taken" by a heart attack, accident, or lightning strike or other natural disaster

took them all away -- an alternative reading of "destroyed them all" but stated in such a way that those who wish to preach a "Secret Rapture" can envision millions of people disappearing simultaneously, not because they're dead, but with Jesus in the clouds

two (men) -- used as an example of other events all occurring simultaneously

two men in one bed -- in the Lot  and Sodom context, male homosexuals, -- does not prove, however, what homophobics wish to prove.  If by parallelism we teach a Secret Rapture, then the homosexual "taken" was "saved" and the homosexual "left" was lost, temporarily at least

two women -- used as an example of other events all occurring simultaneously

temple -- the temple of the Creator God, the heavens, the temple described in Isaiah 66:1-3, indicating it is time for another Zodiac Age to begin, in this case altered by the "this generation" prediction made by Jesus in Matthew 24:34, thus: 40 years after 1948

SUMMARY: Here we see how it is possible to cobble together cafeteria-style some Biblical support for a "Secret Rapture" to occur 40 years after Israel became a nation.  But the Revelation 14:17 description of the 5th angel  does not really describe the angel doing anything at all.  The angel blows no trumpet, and gives no message.  He holds up a sickle but doesn't use it.  A precise description of what actually happened in 1988. NOTHING of prophetic importance!

 

The 6th ANGEL
Mark's 2d  Cock-crowing

Mark 13:35, 14:30,66-72

Revelation 14:18 "And another angel (the 6th angel) came out of the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe."  
Revelation 14:19 "And the angel (the 6th angel) thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."
Malachi 4:1 "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."

Vocabulary for Rev. 14:18-20,

 Malachi 4:1, 5-6 

another angel -- 6th angel of Revelation 14, and the second cock-crowing message of Mark 13:35

altar -- the defining moment of the life of the Biblical Elijah was when, while standing by an altar of rough stones at Mount Carmel in Israel, an altar soaked with water on which was a slain animal also soaked with water, he offered up a confident prayer, -- and fire came down from heaven in the sight of thousands of Israelites and burned up the sacrifice, the altar, and the water in the ditch around the altar

blood -- blood on both sides was shed at Mount Carmel, and 74 Branch Davidians were killed, but not sufficient to warrant the description of "up to the horses' bridles for 1600 furlongs" (over 200 miles) -- the really bloody events occurred in 1994 in Africa and Haiti -- 1994 is still, however in the time period I am assigning to the "Elijah Message" of the 6th angel

branch -- it may be just coincidence or serendipity that Malachi 4 contains both an apt description of what happened to the Mount Carmel compound and also contains the word "branch", part of the name of the "Branch Davidians" -- I'll let my readers decide.

burn as an oven -- a very hot fire, like the fire that consumed a group of "Branch Davidians" in Waco, Texas

came (out of the altar) -- not from the temple, not from "heaven", and not the "Son of man", in this case a man, not a divine being --- however, unlike the 5th angel, who did nothing and said nothing, this man-angel said a lot and did a lot

children -- the younger generation in any religious group, certain that the fathers don't know what they're talking about, it's Elijah's job to convince them that the fathers have knowledge that's useful and needed

curse -- I believe it's significant that the Old Testament ends with the word "curse", but it's only a threat that need not occur

day, day cometh -- usually interpreted as the "day of the Lord", "judgment day", or the day Jesus Christ returns, but in my chosen usage here, April 19, 1993 when a man who claimed to be "Elijah" (among other claims) was burned up, along with 73 others at a compound others who also claimed to be "Elijahs"  had named (appropriately) "Mount Carmel"

Elijah the prophet -- the Biblical model for unauthorized critics of the status quo, always a scary and dangerous model to follow, followed first by Victor Houteff, then Ben and Lois Roden at Mount Carmel, then David Koresh, whose group became the fiery sacrifice.  I became an "Elijah" in 1986, but have not as yet suffered Koresh's fate.

fathers -- the older generation of every religious group, who resist change,  Elijah's job, to facilitate change, and bring in new ideas

gathered the vine -- studied Biblical prophecy, and criticized Catholic (and Protestant) theology

he -- here "Elijah" not Jesus, "Elijah" does not need to come from anywhere else, he's here already

her grapes -- Roman Catholic dogma, such as the "Mass", Sunday sacredness, celibate priests, etc.

lest I come -- Jesus doesn't really come as expected, just threatens to come

loud cry -- not a "nothing happened" message, like the 5th angels message, but a startling, news-making message, seen on television around the world, -- the events at Mount Carmel were front-page news for at least 51 days

power over fire -- everyone since the Stone Age has had some "power over fire", but Elijah was the only Biblical human who by prayer could bring down fire from heaven hot enough to destroy objects and humans

sharp sickle -- the badge or icon of the "reaper", this angel, however, reaps grapes, not grain

smite -- many are hopefully waiting for Jesus to "return" and treat every group badly but their own

the vine -- here, not grain (as with Saturn, the 4th angel) but grapes are being harvested by "Elijah", Koresh, trained as an Adventist, was anti-Catholic, anti- Sunday-keeping, and sometimes at least, a vegetarian -- the "vine" here stands for Revelation's "Babylon", the Roman Catholic church, the message of the 2d angel, "Babylon is fallen -- because she made all nations drink of the wine -- of her fornication" Rev. 14:8

Not David Koresh, but I, another "Elijah" of Koresh's era, was in the process of learning "Gospel Pesher" in 1992 and 1993, and "Gospel Pesher" reveals that "the vine" indeed stood for that group of Essenes who eventually became the Christian (Catholic) Church.  This group saw Rome as the eventual capital of the world.  Jesus Christ helped them in their efforts.

trodden (without the city) -- unauthorized studies (inside=authorized, familiar, outside= unauthorized, unfamiliar, labeled usually "heretical"  or "anathama") such studies are hard work, and earn the student nothing but trouble

wickedly -- there is no question but that what Koresh was doing was "wicked" so far as what the government and the public knew, and so the compound was reduced to "stubble"

winepress of the wrath of God -- God, however, occasionally wishes to make adjustments in dogma now used to control and exploit people, thus Rome's grapes are being "pressed" in God's winepress

SUMMARY: Here I identify the last (6th) angel of Revelation 14 as "Elijah", whose confrontational style became a model for some of us in the 1980s and 1990s, the proper time for this angel to appear.  David Koresh of Waco, Texas, was one such person, I was another. He was killed in a spectacular fire.  I'm still here causing trouble. These web pages are part of that trouble.

 

The 7th ANGEL

Mark's "Morning"

Mark 13:35,36,37

Mark 13: 35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house (Yahweh-Allah) cometh (with his terrorist children), at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing; or in the morning; (the morning of 9-11-2001) 36 Lest coming suddenly (in your own airplanes) he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you (the Jews)I say unto all, (Christians, Infidels) Watch."  
Revelation 18:1 "And after these things I saw another angel  (the 7th angel) come down from heaven (literally, out of the sky), having great (explosive) power; and the earth (Manhatten, NYC) was lightened (illuminated) with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying ("Allah, allilu Akbar") "Babylon the great (Satan) is fallen, is fallen--"

Rev. 18:2 "--and is become the habitation of devils (the "Great Satan), and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird (helicopters). 3 For all nations (the UN building) have drunk of the wine of her fornication (Wall Street),  and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich (World Trade Center), through the abundance of her delicacies. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God (Yahweh-Allah) hath remembered her iniquities. 6 "double unto her double according to her works"--8 "Therefore shall her plagues come in one day--" 17 "For in one hour". 18 "saw the smoke of her burning." 19 "In one hour--made desolate."
Malachi 4:1 "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest  I come and smite the earth with a curse."

Vocabulary for Rev. 18:1-3,5,6,8,17-19

Mark 13:35-37, Malachi 4:1, 5-6 

another angel -- 7th angel of Revelation 14, 18, and the final angel of the series.  The "morning" message of  Mark 13:35

all -- not just Jews, not just Christians, every religion

all nations -- a place where "all nations" are represented, the place where the United Nations building is located, -- specifically, New York City

Babylon the great -- originally, literal Babylon in ancient Iraq, then later, by the Essenes, Pagan Rome, persecuter of Jews and Christians, -- in the Middle Ages, Pagan Rome's successor, the Vatican, -- after September 1987 and Reagan's secret pact with the Vatican, includes the United States of America, -- by 2001, includes New York City as the commercial heart of the US 

burn as an oven -- a very hot fire, like the fire caused in the twin towers of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 after two large passenger jet planes were intentionally crashed into them by fanatical Muslim terrorists shouting "Allah is great" 

come down from heaven -- none of the other angels in this group of 7 angels "come down from heaven".  Angel 1 flies "in the midst of heaven". Angel 2 and 3 follow angel 1 still flying "in the midst of heaven." Angel 4 comes out of the temple, and calls to the "Reaper" to reap. Angel 5 comes out of a temple also, but a temple in heaven.  He has a sickle, but does nothing with it.  Angel 6 is an earth angel, coming out from an altar with power over fire, and reaps the grapes of Babylon. But the last angel, angel 7, actually comes down from heaven.  To judge Babylon twice. In my interpretation by burning the Twin Towers of the World Trade center.

children -- the younger generation in any religious group, certain that the fathers don't know what they're talking about, it's Elijah's job to convince them that the fathers have knowledge that's useful and needed

cried mightily -- by means of the improved world- wide media coverage, -- people world-wide could within moments see what was happening to the Twin Towers on their own television sets in China, Japan, Saudia Arabia, Africa, South America, India, Australia, and World-wide

curse -- I believe it's significant that the Old Testament ends with the word "curse", but it's only a threat that need not occur

day, day cometh -- usually interpreted as the "day of the Lord", "judgment day", or the day Jesus Christ returns, but in my chosen usage here, April 19, 1993 when a man who claimed to be "Elijah" (among other claims) was burned up, along with 73 others at a compound others who also claimed to be "Elijahs"  had named (appropriately) "Mount Carmel", -- now, 7 1/2 years later, on another memorable "day" two other buildings are burned containing a lot more people than were at Mount Carmel.  That day was September 11, 2001.

desolate -- with the exception perhaps of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb, no more desolate scene went world-wide in moments than that seen on 9-11-2001

devils -- not imaginary devils of religious dogma, but the real devils of greed, debauchery, crime, degradation, poverty, prostitution, and dishonor

double -- two, the twin towers

earth lightened (with glory) -- the presumed glory of martyrdom by the fanatical Islamic extremists, the "glory" of the World's attention

Elijah the prophet -- the Biblical model for unauthorized critics of the status quo, always a scary and dangerous model to follow, followed first by Victor Houteff, then Ben and Lois Roden at Mount Carmel, then David Koresh, whose group became the fiery sacrifice.  I became an "Elijah" in 1986, but have not as yet suffered Koresh's fate.

fallen, is fallen -- the repetition (2 millennial days) signifies a "fallen" (sinful, not repentant) Age of Pisces

fathers -- the older generation of every religious group, who resist change,  Elijah's job, to facilitate change, and bring in new ideas

foul spirit -- equivalent to devils in this text

God -- Yahweh - Allah, not Jesus, -- the Book of Revelation recognizes Jesus as a high priest and prophet, not as "God"

great power -- the explosive power of thousands of gallons of jet fuel, burning brightly

hateful bird -- the "birds" flying amongst the tall buildings of New York City would, to an ancient prophet, be mostly helicopters, -- but jet airliners crashing into sky-scrapers would definitely be "hateful birds"

he -- here "Elijah" not Jesus, "Elijah" does not need to come from anywhere else, he's here already

lest I come -- Jesus doesn't really come as expected, just threatens to come

master of the house -- thought to be Yahweh - Allah by those flying the jet planes

merchants of the earth -- with offices in the World Trade Center, whose stocks were traded on Wall Street, not far away

nations of the world -- represented in the United Nations building

one day -- September 11, 2001

one hour -- 8:46 a.m. – 10:28 a.m. (one hour by apocalyptic exaggeration)

proud -- opposite of "humble" and "contrite", proud pretty well describes the attitude of New Yorkers, and the rich who control the world on Wall Street

remembered their iniquities -- the Islamic fanatical extremists felt they were doing what they did in retribution for a thousand years of real and imagined injustices by westerners back to the Crusades and before

sins -- the "sins" of the "Great Satan" (the United States) included allowing women to dress provocatively and enjoy equal rights with men

sleeping -- this surprise attack was made possible by inattention and lack of imagination on the part those whose jobs were to provide security at our airports and protect our country from such terrorist attacks

smite -- many are hopefully waiting for Jesus to "return" and treat every group badly but their own

smoke of her burning -- the prevailing images of this disaster are of smoke, and people jumping from burning buildings to their deaths

strong voice -- the terrorists were indeed "heard" and their point was made world-wide

stubble -- what was left of the World Trade Center after 9-11-2001

suddenly -- this attack was almost totally unexpected

watch (noun) -- a specific time of the day deemed important by the Essenes, -- designated in Mark 13:35 as evening (6 PM), midnight (12 M), cockcrowing (3 AM), and morning (6 AM)

watch (verb) -- to keep alert and avoid surprise attack by known and unknown enemies, -- an attitude and actions woefully lacking on the part of the US government on 9-11-2001

waxed rich -- Wall Street is where fortunes are made (and lost)

wickedly -- the wickedness practiced on the streets and in the apartments of New York City equals or exceeds most of the cities of the world, -- at least so as viewed from a fanatical religious viewpoint

SUMMARY: Here I identify the last (7th) angel of Revelation 14 and 18 as the attack by Islamic extremist terrorists on the World Trade center in Manhattan, New York City.  Not as much damage as Jesus Christ was expected to do, but pretty impressive, anyway.  The only angel of seven angels who actually came from "heaven" to "earth".  Elijah (6th angel) continues to try to make peace between the fathers and the children.

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