Posted by
Charles Corban (Chad) Higgins on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:09:07 PM
Dedicated to Trevecca University Theology Department
This article is longer than normal. Here is an over view of key concepts to a new understanding of Revelation. If something sparks your interest in the abstract you can read all or some of the main article. This post assumes you have some familiarity with Revelation. Otherwise you won't understand this.
Abstract
-Instead of a rapture of only believers, all of earth, animals and all created order even the wicked are raptured.
-Rapture is volutary as you have to avoid being in a place on earth that gets burned up.
-Instead of having interludes that show heaven, heaven is brought to earth and the people dressed in white are in an edenic heavenly earth.
-Instead of reading the book as a chronlogical progression it is more like a collection of views concering one great day of the Lord armageddon event with an extended introduction and conclusion about the millenium.
-Armageddon is about God fighting not people fighting so much. It is a wipe out against God haters.
-Many of the difficult scriptures can be explained by the term Son of Man (son of man- the greek is on capitalized showing it is Jesus) being the vice regent of Jesus, a human prince from God's perspective He delegates his authority to.
-The ocean gets burned up by a disturbance in the magnetosphere and one third of earth is hit by cosmic wind and solar particles throwing enough ocean into space to lower the sea to below the continental shelf (Scientists can't explain why the continental shelf is the same all the way around the world, as if designed for the ocean to be at that level, the sea would be more calm.)
-Earth gets green housed and the right combination returns earth not just to its pre flood condition where you could live to be hundreds of years old but also to garden of eden fruitfullness.
-Instead of mystery Babylon being in Iraq it is a world system centered in NYC but includeing all major tradeing port cities world wide.
Part I: Cosmic or Heavenly Perspective Chapters 1-5.
1) Chapter one has the idea of everyone seeing Jesus. It is backwards to place this at the end of the tribulation when it is at the start of the book. It is more like everyone sees Jesus as a mountain of fire going east to west (Mt 24:27) or an explodeing supernova coming with the clouds (Revelation 1:7) at the start not the end of the tribulation. The seven churches of Asia are analagous to a grape like cluster of stars called Plieadies. It is supposed to traditionally be a sign favorable to the Jews with sweet influences (Job 9:9, 31:38). It fits the seven stars held in the hand of Jesus in Revelation 1:16 as something that illuminates earth or even burns it up in certain places. It all depends on what happens to the magnetosphere. The magnetosphere stops the ocean from being blown into space and also the earth from being burned up by solar wind till it looked like Mars.
2) Revelation Chapters 2 and 3 are about the seven Churches of Asia minor. I think they were real at the time but also have prophesy in the messages to them. The main thing I want to point out is some of the eight he who overcomes statements can't apply to all believers of all times. There are two approaches to Revelation, litteral or allegorical. How many people can sit on God's throne (Revelation 2:26-28)? How many people can be a pillar in God's temple when there are only two mentioned in the Bible (1 Kings 7 & Revelation 3:12)? What this leads me to is the existance of a person most Christians don't know about. The Bible talks about David the Prince in the Old Testament. David the prince is the fully human vice regent of Jesus on earth spoken of in Jeremiah 30:9, Hosea 3:5 and Ezekiel 37:15ff. He is the one who sits on God's throne given him by Jesus in Revelation 2:26-28. You might have thought all believers of all times sit on God's throne, but that is wrong. Only one person can sit on a throne. And in Solomon's temple there were two pillars. One called Jachin, the other Boaz. These forshadow the end time David Prince and his wife I think who will live to be old as olive trees in the temple during the Millenium. Not only are they Jews, they are also Levites and even from the Priestly line called Cohenim. You might want to read my fiction blog called 2900 AD: Memoirs of David the Prince to help you imagine how all this works out. (As a side note here I think an explaination for the Queen of the South in Matthew 12:42 is the wife of the Prince. Otherwise you have a difficult saying of Jesus where the Queen of Sheba is condemning the Jews in the day of Judgement. Or my better view is that the Queen of the South judges her people with righteousness.)
3) Chaper 4:6 has the glassy sea that is also in Revelation 15:2. One application for this is that hydro power from dams or under water wind mills is OK, but forget wave, wind or solar. Earth will be under a cosmic cloud with 24 hour luminesense but not the sun beating down on us. It will be totally different. Chapter five is the heavenly perspective and the one place that does go back in time where it is saying who is worthy to open the scrolls. When it comes to climate change it isn't about the ocean going up, it is about it going down in the long run.
Part II: Seals, Trumpets, Thunders and Bowls.
1) The seals, trumpets, thunders and bowls are all about the same event with each from a different perspective.
A) The seals are the perspective of the end time David Prince (he is the white horse rider not the antichrist). Seals are associated with kings. Both the seals and the bowls say every island and mountain was moved out of its place (6:14 & 16:20). This can only happen one time. The idea that time progresses from seals to bowls is wrong. The only way for every island and mountain to move out of its place is if the ocean goes down hundreds of feet. Then from the perspective of a person standing on an island it would be moving out of its place and the mountains also relative to the sea. How many times can a third of the earth get burned up? All these have to be about the same thing. It is the stereo effect similar to how the four gospels tell the same story each from a different angle.
B) The trumpets is from the perspective of the end time prophets. Trumpets are associated with prophets. The multitude in white that is lead to springs of living water is on earth not in heaven. If it was in heaven why would they need to be lead to a spring of living water (Revelation 7:17)? See it is on an earth returned to its edenic state and the multitude has to go all the way from Alaska to Jerusalem includeing walking across the bottom of the Bering sea as on dry land like from Exodus exept on a grander scale.
C) The thunders are from the perspective of the people, the great multitude. Psalm 8:2 says that praise has been ordained from the mouths of babes and infants to silence the foe and the avenger. How does that happen? It is the thunder of the multitude yelling at the sea shore before the ocean goes down. It will include the voices of babies. That is when the mountain of fire comes from heaven to burn up a third of the earth's surface in a circle like it says in Revelation Chapter 8.
D) The bowls are from the perspective of the priests serving in the temple. This section speaks of the temple in heaven. I see it as being the temple in the clouds due to its new relation to the sea and the earth being edenic. The angels with the bowls are actually priests since the word for angel can simply mean messenger. The hundred pound hail stones (Revelation 16:20) come from an asteroid or comet hitting antarctica and the melting ice makes the hail. The ice is miles deep there Byrd land and goes all the way down to the bottom of the ocean. I wonder if demons kept in chains are released from there as it says in Revelation 9. Then that would be the abyss.
Part III: Perspective of Jerusalem.
In between the thunders and the bowls are some other perspectives on armageddon. Chapter 11 is the Jerusalem perspective. Notice the two end time prophets who either are Moses and Elijah or someone like them dish out the fire from heaven. But Jerusalem doesn't get any of the fire. Chapter 12 is about the woman in child birth, national Israel. This is a Jerusalem perspective from the exile. Contrary to those who in the past have said the third of stars that fall from heaven are demons I would rather just let stars be stars. Israel in exile, the half of world Jewery about 6 million people does see a disturbance in the magnetoshpere over about a third of earth that is spoken of in the Seals (Rev. 6:13), Trumpets (Rev. 8:5ff), Thunders (Rev. 10:1) and here in chapter 12 in verse 4. But they aren't getting hit by it, it is just there for them to see. The beast claims responsibility for the fire (Revelation 13:) and even the bowls mention the same fire in Revelation 16:8.
They go into Siberia three and a half years after a tsunami almost gets them as they cross the dry Bering sea floor. That is what that stuff means about the dragon pouring water out of his mouth (Revelation 12:15-17).
Part IV: The Beast and the Harlot.
This is where it gets interesting and applies to our current situation. To be honest I think it is the Pope, Obama and Hillary Clinton. Culturally, this kind of speculation has been accepted even as a form of entertainment. But then again if they really are evil you might eventually end up in the gulags for saying these kinds of things.
1) The pope was Nazi. He said he tried to avoid being in the Nazi youth. Eh, I still don't trust him. I think he is the beast with two horns who comes out of the earth.
2) Obama is left handed and it is like Revelation 13:2 where it says the beast had the feet of a bear. They call lefties south paws. So the idea is when you see Obama sign legislation in the future, maybe after they shoot him and he lives and is in a rage he will be like a bear swatting with his front paw crushing people with laws. Revelation 13 says the first beast who comes out of the sea (Obama born in Hawaii) is wounded by the sword but lives and gives his authority to the second beast.
3) Hillary Clinton has some strange things about her. Like she shows up just in time in NYC for 911. Then there were two freak tornadoes in the NYC area before she was reelected in 2006. One went from Masepequa to Amittyville, like Amittyville Horror. Masepequa had two indian forts. A sign it is wrong to build ground zero, Amittyville horror being about building on a cemetary and the twin towers analagous to the two indian forts?
That isn't all, the other tornado when toward her house in Chapaqua (means land of rustling leaves in Native American Language) it spun aroung a cop car and went along side the tapanzee bridge. One of the curses of the Old Testament is that you will be so afraid you will flee from a rustling leaf. The idea here is that Hillary would intimidate the Jewish people with mere words to give up their land and blessing in Jezebel style.
Recently I saw a picture of Hillary in Indonesia giving a thumbs up to a crowd. Here face was tense and it didn't matcha and seemed obscene with the way her hand was. I though to my self "this is witch craft against simple unsuspecting people". Witch craft is often on a street level, the punch being standard uncleaness and not so sophisticated.
Part V: The two Harvests. Chapter 14 has some strange things about angels proclaiming the gospel flying in heaven. There are two angels with sharp sickles who harvest the earth. Again, I need to check it more, but the litteral reading here may mean that Christians get killed along with the wicked if they are in the wrong place at the wrong time (Matthew 13:29). If there is no rapture as traditionally concieved of then the fire from heaven that burns up North and South America is going to get some Christians too who are there for whatever reason: They just got saved, they were too sick to flee, had too many children to flee, their theology stopped them from fleeing.
To support this idea you will notice that the first angel with a sickle gets a good ripe harvest. The second gets a rotten harvest of sour spoiled grapes if I have my understanding of the greek here correct.
Revelation 14:20 means that NYC with the ocean down below the continental shelf will have horses (figurative) of blood raceing out of it all foamy and red mixed with ocean water after the tsunami turns it with one two punches into a giant washing machine, wave trains up the hudson and also the LI sound. That is why the 200 miles as an exact measure stands out. Why would he say exactly 1600 stadia if it were an allegory?
Others have pointed out there isn't enough blood in the world to cover Israel five feet deep. It has to be blood frothing on the top of the water and mixed in.
Part VI: The Great City. This chapter starts out with a statement in verse 2 that makes me think some of the wicked and demons will be confined to Manhattan for the Millenium. It is turned into a haunt for demons and a cage for every unclean bird. I imagine the twisted wrecked burned out sky scrapers will look like bird cages.
The city gets totally burned up with fire (Revelation 18:8). But then a tsunami totally washes it away. Maybe Manhattan will be just a rock.
A great mill stone is thrown into the sea, probably Le Palma Island (Revelation 18:21). It looks like a mill stone. It has over a dozen of the world's observatorys on it, it being the worlds steepes island. There is a block of strata that is to be blown off some time in the future where 500 million tons of rocks will fall into the sea. Luke 17:30ff could be describing Le Palma, a roof top figuratively speaking. It also talks about one taken and another left. It doesn't say men or women as infered by translators. Two will be grinding, two will be in a field, two will be in a bed, table or incline. It is the craziest thing that some translators put two men will be in a bed when the word men is not in there. A great end time world wide earth quake would fit the scenario for Le Palma to do this. They calculate the initial tsunami would be a half a mile high. The tsunami would devestate Morocco. Brazil would not be spared from a Tsunami and neither would NYC. The only question is if the tsunami would be bigger.
It is like NYC has a mill stone tied around it's neck, but is harming the little ones (abortion) anyway so as if to tempt the Lord to throw into the sea (Matthew 18:6).
Part VII: The perspective of Jesus. That is how I see chatper 19. It has birds feasting on leviathan. This means plieadies stars burning up the legendary chaos monster ocean. Leviathan is the mythological creature feasted on here apocalyptically.
Revelation 19:2 says litterally that those in white had their blood delivered out of the hand of the harlot. For some reason translators fix it to fit the idea that those in white are in heaven and it reads avenged the blood of His servants. I need to look at it more, tell me if I am wrong.
Jesus finishes the tribulation so that the book can move on to Millenial events in the last few chapters and beyond.