When the Glory of God came riding on a cloud

‘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.