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 CHAPTER 13

BEAST POWER

 
 
 

REVELATION

"THE APOCALYPSE"

as revealed by the "Gospel Pesher" Codes

 

  

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

 

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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