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

Rev. Chapter 4

The Divine Throne-Room

        Skipping now to chapter 4 of Revelation, a “door was opened in heaven.”… and “a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.”   This particular “door” was opened, at least in one very real sense, in December of 2002, in that Sue Olsson of Kashmir sent me a picture of someone sitting on a throne, exactly as described here, that Sue photographed in Phalgam, Kashmir, a suburb of Srinigar.    It is a stone carving of a king with a rainbow over his head, exactly as described in Revelation 4:3 “And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like an emerald.”    In realty, the stone-carving, meant to be an obelisk, is of the same gray rock.  The gems mentioned signify a priestly ephod.

        I could describe this obelisk or stone-carving to you in great detail, but that is unnecessary, because I have a photograph of it, sent to me by Sue Olsson, may adventurous friend, who risked life and limb for about a year in war-torn Kashmir to obtain this and other pictures that document a large part of the life of the real Jesus. --- A needed supplement to the mere 3 ½ years recorded in the four gospels.

       The 4 and 20 seats and 4 and 20 elders of Rev.4:4 are the two governing bodies of the Essenes during the 3 ½ years that Jesus was an Essene Messiah at Qumran.  The priestly Essenes led by Jonathan Annas met as a group of twelve to transact business for the celibate monks of the monastery.    And the married lay Essenes, who lived in Jerusalem and at Khirbet Mazin, met with Jesus for their major meetings in the foyer of the monastery outside the monastery itself.   This was called “the Garden of Gethsemane”, and contained a table around which 12 or 13 people could sit and eat the holy bread and wine of the sacred Essene meals.    And talk to the angels and each other, which often was more or less the same thing.    While this was going on, everyone was in “heaven”, of course.  So this is how the scene is portrayed in Revelation 4:4.

Lord Shiva, the Elohim, and UFO’s

        In Revelation 4:5,  the lightnings, and thunderings, and voices, are common to all these symbolic scenes of Revelation, and portray the power of Lord Shiva and the other Elohim to radically effect the weather with their space-craft.   I have seen them do this a number of times.    Their power to do this is real, and they are real!   As at least 50% of modern Americans are well aware.   They now call these space-craft UFO’s, for “Unidentified Flying Objects”.    Some call them “Flying Saucers”, since the commonest sightings are of this shape.    The seven lamps of fire, are, as the text plainly states, identical to the “seven Spirits before the throne”, the Pleiades.  Or if you wish, another description of UFO’s, since first-century oil lamps are often round in shape, with a handle on one end and a wick on the other.   Most UFO’s are seen at night, as stationary lights.  

“Lamps of fire” to ordinary observers of the first century AD.

     Indeed, in the stone-carving of the king with the rainbow in Kashmir, there is another king or “god” directly over the first king, riding in a triangular-shaped spacecraft.   Identifiable as Lord Shiva because his son Ganesh is on his right side and his goddess Kali lounging on the left side of the space-craft.    In this scenero in verse 5, it is he that is responsible for the lightning, thunderings, and voices.    These phrases are also meant to call to mind the “giving of the Ten Commandments” on Mount Sinai.

  Four Beasts and the Sea of Glass

        The “sea of glass” before the throne in verse 6 is the Dead Sea, the southern half of which is so loaded with salt crystals that it reflects the sun like a glass mirror at sunset.  And the four beasts of verses 6-11 are the four Ages of the Zodiac that mankind has been involved with since 4000 BC and the symbolic “creation of Adam and Eve.”    The  Elohim did indeed create the “race of Adam”, but a long time before 4000 BC.   In verse 7, the calf is Taurus, and the lion (substituting for a lamb) is Aries.  The “man” is  Aquarius, and the “flying eagle” is Pisces.  Fish make a poor symbol because they can’t fight out of water.   The eagle is last, out of order on the usual Zodiac line-up for two reasons.  Reason one: the Eagle of Rome will be supplemented in might by the Eagle of the United States of America as the Age of Pisces ends.   And reason two: last is a position of honor and emphasis in any presentation.    Aquila “the Eagle”, Jesus’ co-author of Revelation is being honored by this last position.   Or, if I wish to exploit my position as a United States citizen, and my really “last” position, I am that “eagle”!  

       Here I will briefly review the indications that the Seven Churches represent the Seven Millenniums in Revelation 2 and 3.  The letter to Ephesus contains a reference to “first works” which are those of Adam and Eve (Rev. 2:5) and “fallen”.   The story is Adam and Eve “fell” from grace after eating forbidden fruit.  About 4000 BC.  And in verse 7 the “paradise of God” is mentioned, along with the “tree of life”.  The Age of  Taurus also includes the Flood of Noah.  Mentioned in the letter to Smyrna as people “cast into prison”.    See 1 Peter 3:18-20 for documentation of the Essene belief that those who drowned in the Flood are kept in a special “prison” until judgment day.

       The Age of Aries begins in the year 2000 BC in  the letter to Pergamos.  Jesus has a sharp sword with two edges like Aries the God of War. (Rev. 2:12).   Jesus as king Pravarasena I of Kashmir is described in Kings of Kashmira  page 38 as having a “jewelled sword”.   And before that as King Meghavahana, he traveled all over India with an army forcing other kings to make laws making vegetarianism compulsory.  (Ibid. pages 36,37)   Also, in the letter to Pergamos, Balaam is mentioned, a person important to Israel in the wilderness. (About 1300 BC).  The letter to Thyratira would coincide with the 1^st century BC, in which Jezebel lived.  And indeed she is mentioned in Revelation 2:20.   Jesus was born at the end of the first century, and his “coming” is mentioned in Rev. 2:25.  His birth star is mentioned in Rev. 2:28. His rule with a “rod of iron” is forecast in verse 27.   The vessels of a potter broken to shivers of verse 27 are the Essenes and their theology broken to shivers in 73 AD, not by Jesus, but by iron Rome.

        The first 1000 years of Pisces is shadowed by the letter to Sardis, in which Jesus appears “as a thief”.   Indeed Jesus was crucified at the beginning of this age “as a thief”.  A few “walk with me in white” at Masada. (Rev. 3:4) but all 960 were killed by the Romans.  Jesus escaped to Kasmir, no doubt by intervention of Lord Shiva at the very last instant before all 960 of Masada’s Zealot and Essene defenders committed suicide.

        The last 1000 years of Pisces is mentioned in the letter to Philadelphia.   Jesus has the “key of David” (Rev. 3:7) with which he restores Israel and Jerusalem to the Jews (1948 and 1967).  The “open door” of verse 8 does not really “open” until December of 2002 in the sense that I mentioned before.  And allows the real meaning of Revelation 4 to be seen clearly.    Before December 2002, we were just “guessing”!   The meaning of the lukewarm water of Aquarius (Spring 1994) I have already given.    But since I opened the door mentioned in Revelation 3:20 in December 1997, Jesus found me worthy to see the rest of the puzzle I am filling in the pieces of today.

Rev. Chapter 5

The Book with Seven Seals

       The throne of Revelation 5:1 is the throne of Jesus, called Meghavahana in Kashmir before 59 AD, and Pravarasena afterwards.     It is a portable throne whenever Lord Shiva and he decide it is time to take another “Time-Space” journey.   That they were able to accomplish what they did is a tribute to the technical ability of the Elohim, the suburb piloting of Lord Shiva, and the humor and fortitude of Jesus, who has been exposed to more traumatic history than any of us could have endured.    Verse 9 “Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof…”  As each of the seven seals is pulled off or broken off the long Essene scroll, more of history is exposed.   One supposes there were seven such trips, but since seven is a symbolic number, there were quite likely many more.

Rev. Chapter 6

The Four Horses of Apocalypse

      The four horses of Revelation chapter 6 are partly modeled after those in Zechariah 6. Zechariah’s horses are red, black, white, and grisled and bay in that order.   But Jesus in Revelation 6 describes the first horse as white, bearing a Parthian archer.   The second horse is red, and has the great sword of Aries (Mars is red, the other clue that Aries is meant).   This role was finally assumed by Rome.  The black horse stands for the Dark Ages of the early Age of Pisces.   Still ruled by Rome, but by black-robed priests, bearing the balances of the inquisition, killing everyone who failed to embrace the theological darkness of that Age.   The pale horse ushered in the Age of Islam.   “..his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.   And power was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”  

        When the fifth seal was opened, in modern times, the martyrs of former ages slain for worshipping Christ (the word of God of verse 9) and for the more accurate “testimony” of non-Orthodox churches and groups, are crying for an end of this carnage.    The answer, “More yet will be killed.”  

        To interpret the sixth seal, we must compare its sequence with similar sequences in Isaiah 66 and Matthew 24:   And here is the meaning.  The great earthquake was caused by the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The sun became black because after the new atomic “suns” exploded, the sky was darkened by an atomic cloud.    The moon became as blood when men walked on the moon for the very first time.  (1960s and 1970s).   “And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”  (Rev. 6:13)   This signifies the space age, with ICBM’s poised to destroy cities, and also an increased amount of UFO sightings, as other worlds become concerned about activities here on earth.  (Recent).

End of the Age

    Revelation 6:14 “And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.”   Not literally, but symbolically.   A new constellation, Aquarius, is now in charge.  Religious toloration is supposed to be in place, and indeed is the norm in the non-Muslim world.    The pope is apologizing for the church’s murder of so many dissidents in the Dark Ages.    Stalin is a bad memory.   Hitler is yesterday’s nightmare.    But Saddam and Al Queda are still threatening the dawn of the “Age of Aquarius”.    And the kings of the earth and the mighty men are still forced to hide in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.

Rev. Chapter 7

 Four Winds and the Sealing

         Revelation 7 is a transitional chapter.  Having now reached the “End of the Age” in chapter 6, Jesus has decided to go back and fill in some Essene history that only now is the world really prepared to know.  But in most cases, ill-prepared to accept.   Real jewels are dull alongside some of the gaudy trash that modern would-be prophets are turning out as fast as the printing presses can roll.    Whatever hasn’t happened as real history must be made to happen as fiction!  

        The four angels standing on the four corners of the earth controlling the four winds are symbolic, and can be summarized by one word – “fate”.  

        The 144,000 are Essenes, and in Essene numerology, an exactly equal number was assigned to each tribe.  Of Juda 12000.  Of Reuben 12000.  Of Gad 12000.  Of Aser 12000. Of Nephthalim 1200.  (Nephthalim are “angels”, by the way!)   Of Manasses 12000. Of Simeon 12000.   Of Levi 12000 (Jesus tells me that’s my tribe!)   Of Issachar 12000.   Of Zebulin 12000.  Of Joseph 12000.  Of Benjamin 12000.  And besides this “a great multitude, which no man can number..”

 Rev. Chapter 8

The Seven Trumpets

     The “Seven Trumpets” is another depiction of recent history that took place since 1900, not ancient history since the first century AD, as has been presumed. The first trumpet blew in 1911 and signaled the beginning of World War I.  The hail mingled with blood occurred mostly in Europe, in France and Germany.   The third part of the trees burnt up shows battles fought in the woods, like Argonne Forest.    As a time-space traveler, Jesus watched some of these battles.  The second trumpet began to sound between the World Wars, as severe Jewish persecution began.   The mountain burning with fire is Mount Sinai, symbol of the Laws of Moses.   It is cast into the sea, which turns to blood as the Jewish holocaust begins.  As World War II progresses, the war in the Pacific rages.  “and the third part of the ships were destroyed.” (Revelation 8:9)

        The third trumpet signals the start of the wars since World War II that used Jet planes and defoliating agents.   In Korea and in Vietnam. “Bitter waters” in the rivers.  

     The fourth trumpet heralds the age of rockets and ICBM’s..  The sun represents nuclear energy (H-bombs).  The moon was visited by astronauts.   And we have now sent up our own “stars”, as satellites of all types blanket the skies all over earth.   Visited from time to time by shuttle-craft from the United States and Russia.

Rev. Chapter 9  

        The fifth trumpet sounded in Israel in 1973, in the Yom Kippur war.   The bottomless pit is here the world of Islam, which attempted to destroy Israel on their most sacred Sabbath, Yom Kippur.  

        The sixth trumpet sounded on September 11-13 of 1988, and lasted until Yom Kippur of 1989, which just happens to equal “an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year.”   It was a time of revival, thousands were expecting Christ to return at any time.   And the people who were  “slain” were converted, slain in the Spirit, not literally.

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