When trumpets plagued and the earth shook

2213,L M Leteane,,2013/october/01,2013-10-01 23:15:00, | Friday May 9, 2014 00:00

As detailed in prior articles, the farsighted strategy was to “capture” and degrade Gnosticism (Messiah Jesus’ teachings) in seven stages – hence, John reveals, the Seven Spirits of the Churches. The Ephesus spirit (34 to 136 AD) first subtly effaced Jesus’ teachings through Paul’s literary efforts – thus the White Horse of relative peace. The Smyrna spirit (136 to 323 AD) then heavily persecuted ordinary Christians – symbolised by the red (bloody) horse – but later seemed to relent and offer a “sweet-smelling” (myrrh–like) compromise that fused “pagan”, Judaic and Christian elements into a hybrid religion made palatable to the ordinary, the non-Elect. This ushered the Church into a new, dark, religiously blind era symbolised by the Black Horse. The compromise enabled this new Pergamos spirit (323 to 538 AD) to thrive and the Church to become a lofty institution that could eventually enforce the marriage of Church and State into a union of unimaginable power and wealth (per-gamos means “by marriage”).

It was during the Pergamos spirit that the first “trumpet” sounded in 395 AD (Rev. 8:7) and the first bowl of “plagues” (Rev. 16:2) was poured out – both associated with the earth. “Trumpets” and “Plagues” referred to forces and changes in the political landscape. Indeed, for it to ascend (Tswana: pagama) the Church had to first overcome resistance from the ten “barbaric” tribes of Europe that made up the “ten horns” of the Beast that was Rome – beginning in 395 AD when the Goths led the first serious invasion into the Eastern Roman Empire. They briefly overran Rome itself in 410 AD. The Goths – under their leader Alaric – began their invasions from the cold, northern part of the Roman Empire and are thus likened to a “cold hailstorm” that strikes the “third part of the earth” (i.e. Europe).

The second “Trumpet” (Rev. 8:8-9) and “Plague” (Rev. 16:3) are associated with the sea. The Vandals, under their leader Genseric (but slyly spurred on by Bishop Theophillus), left present-day Germany by sea (the Mediterranean) and destroyed the Alexandria Library in Egypt (the ‘burning mountain’) – to the utter delight of St John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople. By the time he died, Genseric had seen the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Huns – under their leader Attila – are the third Trumpet (Rev. 8:10-11) and Plague (Rev. 16:4), and are associated with rivers and fountains. They attacked Rome at its river strongholds (mainly the Danube and the Rhine), typically commencing these attacks from the mountains – the sources of these rivers. They are likened to a shooting star because they came, flashed brightly, and then quickly faded from the scene when their leader Attila died in 453 AD.

The Heruli, under Odoacer – the fourth Trumpet (Rev. 8:12) and Plague (Rev. 16:8) – invaded Rome itself with its seven hills: the seven heads of “the Beast”. They are associated with the sun and other celestial objects. Their “lofty” victory, however, was not as it seemed; it merely paved the way for Papal Rome to emerge. As such, it was the Heruli leaders who “succumbed” in 493 AD and began to adopt the hybrid religion. Next, the three “horns” (tribes) of Dan. 7:7-8 were “uprooted” from a total of ten: first Clovis, King of the Franks, in 508 AD; then the Vandals in 534 AD (after unwittingly aiding the Church) – and finally the Visigoths were defeated in 538 AD. The rest of the Ten Tribes did not offer resistance and became subject to the new Holy Roman Empire. It was thus in 538 AD that Church and State officially merged and papal authority reigned supreme throughout Europe.

This done, the fourth Trumpet and Plague led to the Fourth Spirit: the Thyatira Church (538-1798 AD) and its Pale Horse of Death. Being an off-white colour, “pale” appears pure but is not; it appears to offer Life but only carries Death. Indeed, by the end of its 1260-year run as a supreme political and religious power, more than 50 million people had been mercilessly tortured and killed by Papal Rome. The Thyatira spirit had put on the royal purple colour of temporal power and was contrived to escalate from excess to excess until, inevitably, this mighty Beast of the Church had to be “wounded” – but only superficially (Rev. 13:3). Accordingly, by 1798, the pope was made to “lose” all political power.

Religion-wise, under the Protestant Reformation and the Church of Rome’s own counter-Reformation, the slandering, torture and murder of women as “witches” continued unabated – as did other excesses – and, ultimately, all doctrinal reforms were merely cosmetic. As “they” knew, a “fresh”, feel-good atmosphere enabled the main thrust of Paul’s brand of Christianity to continue unchecked – cleverly given, once more, a palatable new coating. The simple strategy, used on Paul himself by his invisible controllers, was this: spur things on to reach an extreme – as in Paul’s overzealous persecution of Christians – and then offer a compromise or “way out” that assuages the conscience but, at a subtle level, is even more misleading. This is the way of the Illui (Eloi) of old, the Illuminati, who still rule us unseen.

 

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