THE LETTER TO SMYRNA
 

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"THE APOCALYPSE"

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Dr. Robert F. Holt, MD

 
 
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The Letter to Smyrna

    

  "At first, John of Zebedee came with Jesus to the island of Patmos, off the coast of Asia Minor.  There he wrote the first part of the book of Revelation, with letters to the seven churches of the province of Asia, conveying the will of Jesus concerning the different problems, moral and doctrinal, that were besetting them."  The letter to Smyrna, the second letter in the group was to an important ancient city of Turkey where now is located Izmir still an important city and area. But there is very little Christian activity now here.
     Barbara Thiering writes:"John wrote that he was on the island of Patmos "on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus".   He was "in the Spirit on the Lord's day", that is, acting as a presbyter on the Sunday service, when he heard behind him a loud voice telling him to write what he saw, in a book. " I'm contending that this was not a Sunday service, but an Essene YOM KIPPUR service, and that John of Zebedee was only one of several authors of this book. 
     In her monumental book Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1992) Dr. Thiering shows conclusively that to the Essenes whoever was officiating in the YOM KIPPUR service at either Qumran of Kheribit Mird was they were indeed in "Heaven" and accomp- anied by ministering angels. These angels had names, which were adopted by individual Essenes who held the position that this angel was in charge of.  In the letter to the church at Smyrna one notes that it is addressed to such an "angel".

SMYRNA

Revelation 2:8 "And unto the angel of the church of Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive, 9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty. (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.  10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give  thee a crown of life.

      The book of "Enoch" well-liked by the Essenes, and read by Jesus and the apostles and Paul, but  suppressed by the Christian "Fathers" since the very first centuries of the Christian era is the source of much of this letter, quite incomprehensible to us now.

      Now that the book of Enoch has been "eliminated" from our Bibles we have to look at such texts as Gen. 6:4 and Jude 6, together with 1 Peter 3:18,19 to try to piece together the story of angels' intercourse with human women that was clearly given in the book of Enoch.   It is these sinning angels that Christ is referring to in his letter to Smyrna.  Making the devil responsible for the sins of these angels, they are "cast into prison" to await the final judgment.  But the ordinary people died, drowned by an act of God in the flood of Noah.

     Before this flood, thought to have occurred about the end of the second millennium, Noah built his ark in which 8 people were saved. (Referred to by Peter in 1 Peter 3:20).  

     It's a roundabout way of dating this letter to the time period of 3000 AD to 2000 AD.   But that's its purpose in the NUMEROLOGY and ASTROLOGY of the Essenes who wrote this letter to "Smyrna". 

       Still located astrologically in the "Age of Taurus" but now in the Second Millinnial day, Smyrna is sequentially the second church to be written.  Thus the second 1000 years, 3000 BC to 2000 BC.   The Essenes located the Flood of Noah during this period.   The Enoch tradition has most of the world judged at this time, and the angels who had sex with human wives and produced monster children were imprisoned in a valley they could not leave until the final judgment of God.   Some of this survives in Genesis 6:1,2, and 4.  Peter refers to the tradition in 1 Peter 3:19,20.  One must read the again available Books of Enoch to get the whole picture.   Jesus is here confirming what Peter believed, that while buried in Qumran "Hell" he preached to these souls in "Hell" that had been there since the Flood, and saved a lot of these souls, now eligible for a "crown of life".   The NOAH second sower of Matthew 13 is here, howbeit in a hidden fashion.

     Once one understands that the Essenes in the end supported a MILLENNIAL WEEK prophecy, also shown in John chapter 7, the 8 parables of Matthew 13, and Daniel chapter 12, its possible to find the same MILLENNIAL WEEK prophecy in Revelation chapters 2 and 3.   Each church and its associated candle stick stands for 1000 years, starting about 4000 BC and extending until 3000 AD. And we are now living in the 7th millennium of a "Millennial Week".

 

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