The spirit, the seal, the horse and the trumpet
| Friday March 21, 2014 14:37
Revelation is perhaps the most ill-understood book of the New Testament, mainly because people do not understand that the same events are repeatedly described using different images and symbols e.g. the First Spirit occurs in the same period as the First Seal and the first (White) Horse. Instead, many interpreters place some symbols in the future whereas – as we will see – just about everything therein has already happened. As such, “spirits” referred to particular doctrines, “horses” symbolised Rome’s approach to these doctrines, “seals” referred to a change in the political landscape, and “trumpets” and “plagues” to the specific forces and events that changed that political landscape. The only thing to note is that – per my Truth-Matrix – the “trumpets” and “plagues” only begin from the Fourth Spirit of the Church.
The recurring figure ‘seven’ reflected the seven stages by which both the tenets of Judaism and the Gnostic message of Jesus were to be usurped and compromised. Nevertheless, in the First (Ephesus) Spir-it of the Churches, differences in religious doctrine were espoused relatively peacefully – which is why in Rev. 6:2 it is symbolised by a ‘white horse’. But the fact that the horse was called to “go forth and con-quer” reflects Paul policy of running a race to win it by any means (1 Cor. 9:20-27). Indeed, after stoning Stephan (S’tab-Aan) to death in 34 AD, Paul usurped Stephan’s intended role of “Aan (i.e. John) the Scribe” and began ‘white-washing’ the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity in his epistles.
The spread of Paul’s doctrines was further facilitated by the 65 AD stoning of James the Just by Paul’s successor the ‘Wicked Priest’ Aanus ben Aanus (‘Aan, son of Aan’), and the 70 AD genocide of Jews by Rome. Although Paul’s teachings looked harmless enough – even greatly considerate of Gentiles – they heavily compromised the Gnostic teachings of Jesus, as explained in prior articles.
Like Paul’s own Road to Damascus experience, the Second Spirit of the Smyrna Church (actually, AD 136 to 323) was cleverly designed to first persecute Christians (as symbolised by the Red (bloody) Horse that ‘took away peace’), then “whole-heartedly” embrace them. Naturally, severe persecution – or the guilt of having conducted it – makes one pliable to almost any compromise or “way out” offered. As such, Rome suddenly oppressed Christians – the bloodiest “10 days” (i.e. “10 years”) of Rev. 2:10 occur-ring AD 303-313 under Emperor Diocletian – only for persecution to suddenly fall away when Emperor Constantine had a ‘vision’ of Christians triumphantly fighting under him. His “compromise” came in the form of a ‘sweet-smelling’ hybrid of Hellenistic, Pagan and Jewish outlooks – which John the Revelator lambasts as the doctrine of “those who say they are Jews but are not (i.e. of Paul – a Roman citizen: Acts 16:37-38)”.
In those more tolerant times, an open, ideological tussle emerged between Gnostic and ‘Paulian’ Chris-tians. As it intensified and began to disturb others, the Third Spirit of the Pergamum (Pergamos) Church (323 to 538 AD) was released – a Black Horse with “measuring scales” (these will be explained in a fu-ture article). This new period began with Constantine convening the fateful Council of Nicaea where all contentious issues were debated and doctrine was decided – the outcome of which entrenched the biblical Canon, changed the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday, and resolved that Jesus was part of a ‘Holy Trinity’ that, together, made up God. Any opposing views were henceforth viewed as “heresy” and were eventually punishable by death.
The Black Horse (which was released by the opening of the Third Seal) thus symbolised the total dark-ness that John saw enveloping the true Gnostic message of Jesus. Indeed, by 538 AD, all resistance to the Church by the ten main tribes of Europe was defeated and the Church reigned supreme. Since per is “by means of” and gamos is “marriage” (e.g. monogamy, bigamy, etc.), we can see why the goal of “Per-gamos” was to consummate the “marriage” of Church and State into a force of unbelievable power.
The Fourth Spirit of the Thyatira Church (AD 538 to 1798) saw the Fourth Seal broken, only to release the Pale Horse. ‘Thyatira’ sounds like Theo-tira (“Work of God”); theo is “God” and tira is a “pulling” or “effort” – thus “work” (tiro) in Setswana. This longest spirit of the Church encompassed the Dark Ages when the Church ruled unchallenged because the light of knowledge and enquiry was extinguished, al-lowing the real aims of the Elohim (Illuminati) to be carried out with impunity. Why a “pale” horse? The Church looked ‘white’ (i.e. pretended godliness) but it had the ashen, blood-drained colour of “Death” (see Rev. 6:8). Indeed, using the combined weight of State and Church, it judged and killed tens of mil-lions of “saints” – i.e. Gnostics and mystics (who were unfairly bundled with fortune-tellers, spirit medi-ums and dabblers in “black magic” and “witchcraft”, and thus also labelled “devil worshippers”).
The Church of Rome’s Thyatira period of ruthless dominance in world affairs lasted 1260 years – from AD 538 to 1798 – before its power waned dramatically when it “received a fatal blow, yet lived” (Rev. 13:3). This, as we will explain next week, signified the Protestant movement; one through which, never-theless, the now-reformed Church continued to live and propagate.
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