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Some parts excerpted from "Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls" by Dr. Barbara Thiering, PhD, but mostly -- as interpreted by Dr. Robert F. Holt, MD
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The Two Great Beasts on Sea and Land
We can go back in such independent presentations as the Chapter 12
sequence and the Chapter 13 sequence about to begin.
But the “going back” must be justified in that we are covering
another phase or aspect of the prophetic history not sufficiently covered
by the first presentation.
Chapter twelve is the history of 2000 years from a Gnostic
viewpoint. The religion of the Elohim themselves. And of Jesus Christ, Thomas, John Mark, the Virgin Mary and
Mary Magdalene, and of Simon Magus.
And indeed every one of Jesus’ close companions except the Herods,
Paul, and Peter. In
Chapter 13 we will go over the same 2000 years from the religious and
political view of Orthodox Christianity, the religion that prevailed, and
buried Gnostic Christianity by every means possible.
Revelation 13:1 “And
I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea,
having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, …” Consistency
demands that we at least consider the possibility that we give this beast
the same identity as the great red dragon of chapter 12. Which we already said was Ialdabaoth or Yahweh, the
aggressive evil god who tried to kill Jesus Christ as he was born.
But we will see as the symbolism progresses that although related
to Ialdabaoth, this beast is a refinement, or perhaps “created” under
Ialdabaoth’s continued rule over earth.
“and
on his heads the name of blasphemy.” (One of Yahweh’s rules,
or more accurately three of them, were related to “blasphemy”.
It was blasphemy to worship another God (Rule I),
and make pictures or images of other gods (Rule 2).
And to name another God in prayer (Rule 3).
And so now we have what we need to name this “beast coming up out
of the sea”. It is the Orthodox Christianity of Paul and Peter, finally morphed into its
final form in the fourth century AD by Constantine and Theodosius!
And the Sea it rose out of is not the amorphous sea of
nations and peoples of Daniel’s many beasts.
It is the Sea of Pisces, and limited to the time-frame of the last two thousand
years!
Revelation 13:2 “And
the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard (using the warmed-over Paganism of Greek Mythology), and
his feet were as the feet of a bear, (adopting by the early 20th
century the principles of Russian Communism as the Church’s own
political philosophy – the Russian “Bear”), and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: (but supported by Protestants
who came primarily from Great Britain to America – the British lion): and
the dragon (Pagan then Papal Rome) gave
him (this new Christian Beast) his
power (the continued political power of the Holy Roman Emperors,
progressing into modern European Political power), and
his seat (the Vatican in Rome), and
great authority.” The apostolic authority of the keys of Saint
Peter and the popes.
Revelation 13:3 “And
I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; (initially
the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ- 1st century – then
Peter and Paul- late first century – much later in Napoleon’s time –
the pope taken prisoner – and finally in late 20th century
– the assassination attempt made on Pope John Paul II)…”
Revelation 13:3b “…and his deadly wound was healed…” (Jesus recovered—others replaced Peter and Paul – the pope returned
to the Vatican after Napoleon’s temporary victories – and Pope John
Paul II recovered and blessed his assassin in an Italian prison): and all the world wondered after the beast.” As Pope John Paul II visited lands all over the world
and kissed the ground as the Vicar of Christ.
Then, with Ronald Reagan engineered the demise of Russia’s great
Communist empire. Circa
1989-1990.
Revelation 13:4 “And
they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast (Yahweh
or Ialdabaoth): and they worshipped the beast (Orthodox Christianity led by Pope
John Paul II), saying, Who is like
unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” By early 1990
even Russia had succumbed to the Christian Empire led by the Pope!
5 “And
there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; (the Immaculate Conception, Papal infallibility, etc.); and
power was given unto him to continue forty and two months (September
1987 until the Fall of 1991) Revelation 13:6 “And he (now the oil barons and Saddam Hussein, not the pope) opened his mouth in blasphemy against (the Christian and Jewish) God, (Jesus Christ and everything Christian), and his tabernacle (threats against Israel), and them that dwell in heaven.” In Gnostic Theology, the real God dwells outside all this misery and strife. And the real God will have nothing to do with Ialdabaoth, Yahweh, or as called by Saddam Hussein, “Allah”.
Revelation 13:7 “And
it was given unto him (various
Islamic rulers ending with Saddam Hussein) to
make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him (petro-power)
over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” And indeed
Saddam Hussein was not destroyed
in 1991 but lived on past the beginning of the New Millennium!
The Second Lamb-like Beast
Revelation 13:11 “And
behold another beast coming up out of the earth; (Pisces is now over, Aquarius is here, so these events must transpire
after 1994); and he had two horns
like a lamb, (the perceived coalition of Israel and the United States
of America), and
he spake as a dragon.” Whether Orthodox Christianity or Orthodox
Judaism, its all the same to Gnostics.
The religion of Ialdabaoth!
To summarize the rest of the chapter: The US under Clinton and
George W. Bush sought ever closer cooperation with the Papacy, “whose
deadly wound was healed..” The US, able to make fire come down from heaven (ICBMs), verse 13, supports the United Nations, verse 14, 15. The “mark of the beast” is the worship of the God of war (Allah, Yahweh, Ialdabaoth) and virtually everyone has it on earth. This mark can be summarized numerically as 666. An incomplete number just short of the perfect number 7. Or 777. Turned over it reads 999, just short of the perfect decimal number 1000. Or if 1000 is added, 1999. The year of the Y2K scare that terrorized all nations of the world.
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