When the Glory of God came riding on a cloud
L M Leteane | Friday September 12, 2014 14:45
‘Glory’ in Setswana is usually translated as kgalalelo, and in my Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms, this relates to the Sumerian term GAL: kalo in modern Tswana, thus, ‘GALA-lelo’. In Sumerian, LU.GAL meant ‘king’ – but literally ‘great or glorious one’. ‘Angel’, I explained last week, was AN.EL (‘Sky Lord’) though EL (Illu in Sumerian) is literally ‘Shining One’. AN.GAL, therefore, still meant ‘Glorious [One] of Heaven’.
Last week, we identified Baha’u’llah as “one like unto the Son of Man” who sat on a white cloud (Rev. 14:14-16), the latter referring to his lofty, peaceful teachings just as the ‘white horse’ of the Ephesus Church spirit (Rev. 6:2) referred to Paul’s reformed, non-violent approach to proselytization after his ‘Damascus’ experience. An ‘angel’ had emerged from the Temple and commanded ‘he who sat on the cloud’ to “thrust in [his] sharp sickle into the earth, and the earth was reaped”. This ‘reaping (harvesting) of the earth’ is not understandable unless one is familiar with the symbols used by John.
I had decoded and revealed, in prior articles, that ‘earth’, in Revelations, though not directly explained and thus subject to misinterpretation, signified a people’s ‘standing ground’ – their cultures, beliefs and religions. As such, the lamb-like ‘Beast’ that rose out of the ‘earth’ (Rev. 13:11-17) symbolised a Power (Protestantism) that emerged through religion (the Reformation) in direct contrast to the first ‘Beast’ (Catholicism) which emerged from the ‘sea’ (meaning “peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues” – Rev. 17:15), i.e. through the conquest of peoples, mainly the ‘barbarian’ nations of Europe.
The ‘sickle’ that the Lofty One used to ‘harvest the earth’ was thus a peaceful, religious weapon – in direct contrast to the sickle used by the second angel of Rev. 14:17, who harvested the ‘vine of the earth’ i.e. the most prominent religion. This ‘vine’, I explained, referred to Judaism which, through Abraham the founder of ‘monotheism’, is the unbroken ‘string’ that connects Pauline Christianity, Islam and the Baha’i faith. The Jews were thus the ‘grapes’ that clung to this ‘vine’ and were ‘harvested’ and crushed by the millions through the ‘wrath of God’ by the ‘horse’ of Adolph Hitler, the second ‘angel’.
We will need to understand what ‘horse’ means. The ‘horses’ of Rev. Chapter 6, we noted above, symbolised the means of proselytising. The ‘white (peacefully persuasive) horse’ thus runs parallel with Ephesus, the first ‘Spirit of the Churches’ (Rev. 2:1). The ‘red (bloody) horse’ that ‘takes away peace’ (Rev. 6:4) pairs with the bloody Smyrna Church period of the religious persecution of Christians under ‘pagan’ Rome, when believers were thrown to the lions in circuses. The ‘black (obfuscating) horse’ pairs with the Dark Ages of the Pergamos Church period in which the Pauline Church of Rome surfaced and Christianity was given a new twist by Constantine, obscuring its true, Gnostic teachings.
Finally, the ‘pale (deathly) horse’ of the Thyatira Church took over as the Church became all-powerful and ruthless, torturing and executing tens of millions in a blood-soaked 1260 years of absolute rule that effectively ended in 1798, but whose Spirit of ‘killing all opposition’ continues in a subtler, largely undetected way to this day. ‘Pale’ (or ashen), of course, warns the ‘Saints’, Gnostics, that the Spirit will look ‘white’, drained of blood, but will continue to brand and ‘kill’ Gnosticism as ‘occult’ – a focal target, I explained in prior articles, of Pauline Christianity. Indeed, ‘occult’ is now equated with ‘evil spirits’ and people accept that without question; without wide, bold and independent reading.
The final two symbols we need to understand are ‘fire’ and ‘double-edged sword’. I have paired these because they both refer to the way a message is preached (not ‘spread’, or ‘proselytised’). A tongue likened to a double-edged sword (e.g. Rev. 1:16) means one that uses incisive, unbeatable logic to drive a message home. ‘Fire’ proceeding from the mouth means fiery, emotion-triggering speech – much like today’s evangelical preaching (in later articles we will thus see what the ‘lake of fire’ in which Satan and the False Prophet are cast actually means). As such, the third angel of Rev. 14:18 who had ‘power over fire’ meant Dietrich Eckart, a dramatist who knew all the tricks of how to whip up people to emotional frenzy; who taught Hitler the fiery, emotive speeches. Nazism was his proselytising ‘horse’: his vehicle for spreading hate messages to crush the Jews, the ‘grapes’.
How does Baha’u’llah feature in all this? The year 1844 was earmarked, in the Book of Daniel, to be a time the Jews were being finally readied for their New Jerusalem: when the ‘time of the Gentiles’ had ended: the ‘end-days’ of prophecy 2300 years after the Artaxerxes Decree of 457 BC (Dan. 8:14) that first allowed Jews back into Jerusalem. In line with Leviticus 26:27ff, the Jews were also being prepared for their seventh and final chastisement after which, like silver (Psalms 12:6), they will had been “refined in the furnace seven times”. Baha’u’llah’s appearance was to be in these ‘end-days’.
As we will continue to see, everything about Baha’u’llah was timed to be the fulfilment of one who will come in the ‘Glory of God’. Even his name means ‘Glory of God’! On the other hand, using Daniel’s prophecy, Christian Adventists like William Miller calculated and pinned Jesus’s glorious return ‘in the clouds’ to 1844 – leading to their famous ‘Great Disappointment’ when ‘he did not’. However, in that same year, in Persia (now Iran), the Bab (the Gateway) was, like John the Bab(tist), busy announcing the imminence of ‘One who God will make manifest’ (compare John1:15, Matthew 3:11)...
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