

The City of God, the Bride of Christ, and the Second Death According to Revelation of John

Copyright 2018, 2019 2020 Herndis Macri

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Version/Edition September 2020.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

About The Author

Introduction

Why John Is The Best Source

Problems in Modern Christianity

Problems in Modern Spiritualism

Problems in Science

Problems in Ordinary Consciousness

The Revelation of John

Revelation Conclusion

Appendix

The Christian Belief System, Events, and Definitions

Techniques for Listening to God

End Notes

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About The Author

My Background:

I am a retired person with a diverse professional background in technology. Although my favorite subject as a teen was Physics, religions and other mystical writing captivated me because I saw everything as an opportunity in discovering our true Reality or the limits of our subjective consciousness. I began reading the bible and meditation in my early teens. I am not a formally accredited bible scholar, but have been sincerely seeking God and Truth all my life. Other than covering the bible and other religious works, I will try to contribute my understanding in the light of my personal subjective mystical and spiritual based methods, mental exercises, and spontaneous experiences over the past 55+ years to my current situation as a 72 years old retiree. I am making an attempt to look at this scripture anew, taking apart its belief system, looking for what John actually wrote and where it leads me, irrespective of my assumptions and what current Christians believe to be the gospel truth. Frankly I always found Jesus a bit of a puzzle in relation to God, but after reading John's works in detail, John presents a Jesus who is deliberate, remarkable and truly unworldly Godlike, not just in power but with a unique compassion, as an example of an ideal companion of God and our ideal sibling for all of humanity.

I was born a Roman Catholic but did not attend church regularly unless forced by my mom and later on by my wife, not because of lack of spiritual belief, but by a conviction that most church sermons weren't authentic, overly simplistic, nor promoting real Christianity as a personal discipline. They just seemed to promote a passive practice of an overly cliché phrased religion. It felt like I had to check-in my mind at their door before entering and listening to any church sermon – becoming like a puppet believer. The process of trying to keep myself awake and alert during a sermon was mentally akin to having my nails pulled out very slowly off my fingers, one by one. Of course not all sermons were that bad, but too many have been. It is easy for pastors and priests to string together many overused Christian clichés hoping that some may stick on our shallow memories. Often without any convincing arguments why one should. But I always found the saying of Jesus to feel true, except for some of his declarations, but now in hindsight after writing this book, I see that I was misled more by our modern Christian creeds than by what Jesus actually said about himself and God.

As an introverted teen in the 1960's, I was keen about science, religions and mysticism. I practiced a form of mindful meditation. I studied most religions, sacred traditions, normal science, pseudo-science, occultism, native and eastern religions, psychic research, modern prophets, etc. ... being very open minded enough to look at any reality theories or belief systems, hoping to discover true reality, whether it is materialistic or divine. I didn't mind wading through a waste dump of false claims and prophets. Yet after all that I eventually became convinced that, whatever someone tells you, their secondhand knowledge will probably hinder you from incorporating your own firsthand life changing conscious realizations.

I have written these books under a pseudonym solely for privacy and to not be vain. Please pardon my many revisions in my effort to do improve it and feel free to contact me at HerndisMacri@gmail.com.
INTRODUCTION

I wrote this book in an effort to understand Christ solely for my own salvation. But I also only hope that it will be of some benefit to others, and pray that it is not in any way become a hindrance, and according to John, all true knowledge should be obtain internally by your own subjective effort and conscious realizations from the Holy Spirit of Truth, Christ, God and not just by reading academic worldly arguments. If it were not so, Christ would have written copious works for us to be saved with just an easy read.

Also in reference to what Revelation states in the end, " _[18] For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: [19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.",_ I am not adding or removing any part of this Kings James Version. I am only writing a commentary and analysis, trying to understand it, just as many others have before me. We should all thank John and all be humbled by John's exquisite writing.

This analysis of John's Revelation is a sequel to _"How to Believe in Christ According to the Gospel of John"_ book. This book will make more sense if you read my other book first. If you have read a recent version of my other book, _"How to Believe in Christ According to the Gospel of John"_ , you will find some sections to be exactly the same since these sections cover common aspects of John's teachings. They have some shared sections in common. For example, the two books share the same following sections:

About The Author

Why John Is The Best Source

Problems in Modern Christianity

Problems in Modern Spiritualism

Problems in Science

Problems in Ordinary Consciousness

The Christian Belief System, Events, and Definitions

Techniques for Listening to God

End Notes

You may wish to skip the next sections and go directly to the section on Revelation.

WHY JOHN IS THE BEST SOURCE

I believe that the works of John the Beloved probably has the best possibility of reflecting the teachings of Christ. There are more early copies of John's Gospel than the other Gospels. After all did not abandon Christ and lived many years after Christ left. The Gospel of John has nuances that ring true to me, and more so by the contrasting frailty, ignorance, and misunderstandings accounts in his Gospel, and is not always in agreement with the other Gospels. As a pastor once told me, John's Gospel stands alone. One should expect the many witness accounts of a single set of tragic events to be full of contradictions for any real and true historical event. Likewise, one should not be surprised by the disagreements and mismatches between the four Gospels.

In other non-Christian religious tales or belief systems, their divine heroes are depicted as spotless, without any candid humor or story contradictions, and their tales are surely not surrounded with clueless, shallow, petty participants and disciples. But unlike other religious belief systems, the Gospels are unique simply by having Christ surrounded with clueless, shallow, petty participants. There are some subtly humorous quotes attributed to Jesus, in the many times he reluctantly had to rephrase answers with a variety of analogies, metaphors, and parables, often repeatedly stating his frustration on how clued out the public was, and even towards his own close followers. The Gospels show all the complexities of real events involving very contemporary-like foibles and dynamics. The numerous recollections of very extraordinary psychic miracles are amazing, and perhaps more amazing is how much pettiness is shown by the masses, leaders, and Pharisees who by their unimaginable shallow envy, greed, and pride, sought to deny and kill Jesus.

John was given a special task. Sadly, the other disciples were all martyred and only John was spared and allowed to live on to write about it (see John [21:23]). John was the only apostle among the twelve apostles that stood undeniably faithful to Christ. John was the only disciple to attend Christ's trial and Christ's crucifixion. Because of his full faithfulness, as decreed by the resurrected Christ at the end of the Gospel, and much to the angst of the other disciples, especially Peter, Christ said " _If I will that he_ [John] _tarry till I come, what is that to thee?_ ". John was spared martyrdom. John is also the first male disciples to arrive at the tomb after the Resurrection. He is the apostle who wrote Revelation, a unique work of prophecy while in exile.

The Gospel of John contains a belief system that is continued in his Revelation - John's prophetic vision. Unfortunately the Gospels are a secondhand written down documents, multi-translated descriptions, multi-copied, so caution has to be taken by the reader, since any worldly-wise materialistic interpretation will always be wrong. You can bet on it that my book will be wrong as well and will likely be full of misinterpretations. Having said that, I think it is still worth reading this book and my effort to understand John's belief system. You should avoid being an Armageddon-nist, and also avoid extracting any believable physical prophetic time-line of events, for your own worldly gain or survival.

Salvation in John's Revelation:

John presents in Revelation, a cohesive continuation of his belief system from his Gospel. In fact the Gospel of Matthew [13:30-40] also lays out Revelation's plot and provides most of the keys to the mysteries: _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest: ..._ _He that sows the good seed is the Son of man;_ _The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil;_ _the harvest is the end of the world_ _; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire_ [same as the second death's lake of fire in Revelation] _;_ _so shall it be in the end of this world._ " And in comparison, in Revelation [22:10-12] it states: " _Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. [11] He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. [12] And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."_ A God that even tolerates and allows evil to remain unchecked in Heaven and on Earth until the Judgment is seldom admitted by Christians.

So you can see that the Revelation plot is not an odd isolated fanciful plot solely dreamed up by John. The Revelation plot, in a parable, was indeed mentioned in the Gospels by Christ before the writing of Revelation. The proposition that evil, demon seeds, empty husks or weeds, what may seems conscious and with some inner Light, or potentially good, both good and bad must exist unhindered, with their free will to reincarnate and to repeat their evil or good till the end of time's Final Judgment. Both good and bad are readied for the final harvest and separations, for some of them to possibly enter into the City of God. This makes perfect sense, as an explanation for why Christ's physical death did nothing to prevent the recurrence of sins, horrors, homicides, and abuses that he witnessed in his time and God's allowance for evil to continue to be in our present world. In fact it gets much worse as Judgment approaches since the good are harvested first and the remaining earthbound populace's density of evil will increase.

Christ and God also did not forgive all the sins for us all on Earth, as some think he promised, but God has provided a narrow venue for salvation, encouraging us to be the good seeds and sons of Man and to listen to God, Christ and the Spirit of Truth within us. Only the good can allowed into, and to exist and be in harmony with unselfishly pure in Heaven. Christ did not bring God's Kingdom on Earth to exalt Israel as some other sacred land, as some Jews expected. With this worldly "evidence" of God's unfulfilled promises to save us, clean us of our sins and the elimination of all evil and suffering from our world after the Crucifixion, atheists use God's "seemingly unfulfilled promises" as a shallow excuse to justify their disbelief in God. Some stating, "I refuse to believe in a God that allows such cruel death and suffering."

PROBLEMS IN MODERN CHRISTIANITY

Is modern Christianity what Christ taught? Some books have been written criticizing common Christianity as being watered down. The formal organization of Christianity started soon after the Roman persecutions. Before the 5th century the beliefs were varied and the religion's worldly-wise leaders took measures to trim it down. Here are some questions and answers.

Is it easy to be a Christian? Pure Christianity is by far the toughest religion to follow. The true early Christians did not passively submit to torture and death just because they liked it, but by truly believing in and following the teachings and the example of Christ. Christianity seems to require a suppression of all of our survival instincts, procreation instincts, social approval and praise and status, wealth and worldly security, and all the other worldly pleasures and passions. For example, it requests that followers to be celibate, give up worldly goods, turn the other cheek when attacked, give the shirt off their back when asked, hate and deny their worldly life, avoid the honor or praise of men, serve and feed all those in need, seek martyrdom when challenged to deny their beliefs, and much more – but there is a very sound logical and prophetic reason why this should be practiced, as revealed by John. Yet it is still a most rewarding religion based on its ideals in the pureness of body, heart, mind, will, and the awareness it advocates in the self-sacrificing unselfish Love, Spirit, and Light, as demonstrated by Christ. Unfortunately, very few can, and even those who often spoke and saw Jesus directly had a very hard time following his teachings and example. Yet billions currently believe themselves to be true Christians.

Can one comprehend something you haven't personally experienced firsthand? If someone hands you an advanced book on the theory of "everything" or a book on someone's mystical experience, it helps you very little unless you obtain the same subject intelligence, talents, insights and abilities of the authors. If you don't, you will just stare at the equations or marvel at the fuzzy extrasensory experiences, or symbolic expressions when reading these books. They will not enlighten you. As stated in John [1:5] _"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness_ [worldly men] _comprehended it not."_ So with this disclaimer, please keep this in mind as we both try to understand John's works and his extraordinary experiences. If you are part of the darkness then it will be hard. Yet God has invited both the wicked and the good to the banquet of the bride of Christ or the new Heaven City of God, but only those having the proper divine consciousness or "garment", that will hide their shame and sins, will be chosen to enter.

Can we be saved if we continue to sin? Christ did not say, just think and " _believe_ " in me and no matter what you do, your job is done. Christ did not needlessly tell parables about the struggling un-nurtured spiritual tiny seed or message from God in us, the harvest separating the sheep from the goats, the dark sins inside us, our enslavement to worldly attachments, and our blindness to spiritual truths; if we were already saved by his blood or if salvation was just a matter of uttering a few words of belief before we die. Yes He forgave sins, but also told them to sin no more as a prerequisite to true lasting forgiveness. But "sins" in those days where often thought to be the cause of all physical sicknesses since they had no knowledge of germs or natural causes and accidents, so when he healed the physically sick, they assumed their sins where also healed and forgiven. There were very few instances where an act of sin is healed where no physical sickness was present. Adultery was one of these non-sickness sins that he forgave with the admonition to sin no more. Modern Christianity idea of Christ's forgiveness is not entirely in line with the Gospel of John.

How many times will God forgive an unrepentant sinner? The Gospels and Revelation both state that the evil ones must be given the maximum amount of time, till Earth's end, to try to redeem themselves on their own terms and time, or alternately truly identify themselves as the unrepentant demon seeds or fallen souls of in the spirit of rebellion (Satan). So in the meantime, the good and **Just souls** of Light have agreed to and are willing to surrender and be treated **unJustly** by the evil ones, and to suffer so that the evil and these **un-Just souls** can be given ample time for justice – they are left to remain evil and forgiven "seventy times seven" - Matthew [18:22]. They evil ones are given all of our and God's patience and Love right to the end. This is why Christ did not seek revenge on Herod for killing his dear friend John the Baptist, but instead only prayed for John and later deliberately exposed himself to a creul crucifixion. This is the true reason why Christians, knowing God's plan, submit themselves to the violence of evil in order to grow in God. This is the true reason why we must immediately forgive and not judge all who sins and trespasses upon us. As the ideal examples of fatherly and motherly goodness and love, we must give our love and patience to the evil, to save them. They need and are given more time.

What is the second death? The first death is assumed to be the death of the physical body and not the soul, and the Second Death, as mentioned a four times in Revelation, is defined as the death of a lost soul, weeds, or "chaff". It is described in the Final Judgment of all souls. The unforgivable souls and followers of Satan are not in Christ's Book of Life (as Light gives Life, as Christ is the Light and is the Word from God) and are not in other books regarding their good deeds. These evil souls are cast into the Lake of Fire, assumed to perish, as Christ said in Matthew [10:28]: " _And fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him_ [I. e. God] _who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."_ Modern Christians are not aware of this second death.

What are we to do on Earth? Strangely, some Christians don't see the requirement for good deeds. It is understandable that we'd all like a God who will love us unconditionally, tolerating all souls – good or evil. Most Christians believe that Christ has already paid a price for all their sins, and therefore guaranteeing their full salvation, so some Modern Christians believe that our deeds have little bearing on whether we get saved or not. Except it seems that God does not do all the deeds needed for our salvation. It may be that our deeds are not for God's needs, but as a testament to prove our own goodness. Our test for admittance into Heaven is to decide to be good and do good deeds even if we exist in a godless dark and evil world, because we consciously decide to be so even without any hint of any reward. After all God has also solely decided to be a good God in a Universe alone with no other gods in God's abyss of non-existence before creation. As companions of God, we have to pass the same test, to be companions with God. In Matthew [20:1-16] it states the importance for us do some deeds for God, by stating: " _For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner_ [God] _who went out early in the morning to hire_ [us] _laborers for his vineyard_ [( the vineyard is also the place where Christ is symbolized as being the "vine" and our souls are symbolized as the "branches" to be "pruned" or "tested" to be made fruitful producing the good "seeds" or the good deeds)] _... Saying_ [that] _whatever is right_ [(I. e. done right in the vineyard)] _, you will receive."_ The verses also mention that you will receive exactly the same payment whether you were first to labor in God's vineyard for the whole day or whether you were the very last one to arrive to work in God's vineyard - even for just a very short time. So the reward is the same, and is not measured, like the simple companionship relationship. The verse continues by , "... _So the last_ [to arrive to work in the vineyard] _will be first, and the first last_ [to receive the reward into the Kingdom of God] _. For many are called_ [to work and prove themselves] _, but few chosen_ [to enter into companionship] _._ " This first being the last and the last being the first is also mentioned a few more times elsewhere in the Gospels. It also highlights a difference between being invited to work versus being chosen to receive your payment. The difference being determined by your good works in God's "vineyard" and your connection to the vine of Christ. " _For many are called_ [both the evil and good, to help Christ the bridegroom as the vine] _, but few chosen_ [to enter the banquet of the New Heaven, the City of God]" This is not a new situation, in the Old Testament God tried to find just a handful of good men in an effort to spare the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah from destruction, but almost all men were found to be evil in their hearts. Similarly in Matthew [22:10] God decides to invite many, even if some are evil, so God's "... s _ervants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found,_ _both bad and good._ _And the wedding hall_ [reception area] _was filled with guests.",_ except that not all of those invited into the wedding reception hall are chosen to enter the wedding feast. To be chosen, a soul must have worked in God's vineyards, hard doing good deeds, enough to be chosen to enter His wedding banquet. A soul mentioned among the guests who is rejected is the one " _which had not on a wedding garment_ [for showing his good deeds and hiding his naked sins]", and by that rejection by God, the soul is bound (removing his spiritual free will) and thrown " _away, and_ [is] _cast ... into outer darkness_ (losing spiritual consciousness) _;_ [where] _there shall be weeping_ (fear) _and gnashing_ (aggression) _of teeth_. [I. e. those who abuse each other are given the Second Death, spiritual death]". _For many are called_ [to the gates of the wedding hall reception in the City of God], _but few are chosen_. _"_ The pure wedding garment is what we need to create for ourselves, which should be a sinless covering that hides our naked shame and sins (and our corrected sinless divine garment, replacing Adam's shamed sinful clothing after disobeying God and obtaining the ability to judge something evil). All of Chapter 25 in the Gospel of Matthew stresses that to enter the wedding or the Kingdom or City of God, one must do the good deeds or works, utilizing all of our God given abilities or talents to help God and others, to be kind to everyone, and treating everyone as our own self. In Matthew [40:25], it states " _Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me._ ... [so be kind and helpful to all, otherwise you will be] _... cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels"_. We can be forgiven of our past sins or mistakes, but we must be able to hear God's plan, to enable us do God's good deeds, and be able enter into eternal life with God. We should not think that God is a slave driver. God is not a puppet master; He does not force us do the right thing. God wants us to independently and consciously decide to be as good as God without cause or rewards. Christ could have cured them all, the whole world, without being with them in person, but the physical healing for just our body is not as important as having a loving live personal relationship with each other. That is what we are supposed to do as Christians.

Can evil live peacefully in Heaven? If God allowed evil souls to enter the City of God, how would such bad souls cooperate with good souls in heaven and with God? Would they be any better than Satan? Would God entertain evil companions? Would God just stand back and accept insults from them forever? Would God be a fool? While many near death experience (NDE) anecdotes depict non-judgmental life reviews, with God embracing them in a "light" of pure love, they are often told that they need to return to their physical body to complete their good deeds. God encourages them to accumulate good deeds for their salvation. They are not told to just return, forget their sins, and have a good time! If souls were only needed just to worship God and not be His co-workers, then yes, God could forgive us all, since He would not need us to do anything, but only require us to be simple puppet worshipers. God's instead needs companion co-creators having God's Will, God's Conscious Light and God's divine Truth. So while God tolerates some evil angels in Heaven, in the end evil cannot be a co-creator in Heaven. Satan's sins are not forgiven if evil remains evil to the end.

What is the destiny of our religiously guarded sacred lands on Earth? When in John's Revelations, the End Times Last Judgment happens; Earth is depicted as a desolate flattened scorched Earth. Some souls are cast into the Lake of Fire, and some are allowed to enter the City of God. The City of God is described to measure the same as a cube descending from Heaven with a diameter size of about half that of planet Mercury or slightly smaller than the Moon. If you calculate this volume, it would be large enough to accommodate more than 47,000 trillion 1000 sq. ft. with 10 foot high ceiling apartments. It also mentions another quantitatively comparable number: Revelations states that 100 trillion angels surround the throne of God. Mentioning the " _second death_ " in both the Revelation and the Gospels means that there will not be a universal rapture that saves us all, good or evil, on earth. The chosen land of Israel is not mentioned as the City of God or the location for God's return. It seems blasphemous to fight over any physical land for religious reasons. In other words, there are no sacred lands or real estate on Earth.

How much time are we given to repent? Christianity is a bit different from other religions. In other eastern religions like Buddhism, a soul is allowed to have as much time as it wishes in as many incarnations it wants. Some other religions allow you to redeem yourself via many cycles of reincarnations. While NDE accounts seldom mention any judgments within one only soul's life review, except we are allowed to solely judge our own actions by oneself, this does not mean that there will never be a truly final judgment for what we have done. We are not judged by God, but we are judged by Christ, our peer Jesus of Adam's lineage. We are given a limited time-line to live or reincarnate on this time limited physical Earth. In Revelation, the Earth eventually becomes a scorched Earth. You are to either die by the truly final and complete second death, or you will be chosen to enter the City of God. The end times City of God becomes the new Heaven and new Earth. The NDE accounts do confirm a soul's need to complete many good deeds for good reasons. In John [9:4] Christ states " _I_ [and we] _must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work._ " Scientifically speaking, at the end of the physical Universe, entropy or chaos and its energy dissipation by the ever expanding universe, our world will become truly physically dark and cold and the " _he night cometh"_. Stars will have vanished, and no new stars will be created, and one will not be able to anything around us – in utter darkness. As far as our destiny, we are judged just like justice is practiced on Earth, where this worldly justice system convicts us by a jury of honest and pious peers, and we are condemned to live out our lives with only those who are just as evil and like us. A evil criminal is isolated from the good society to be placed into a society of criminals like themselves, which is called a penitentiary or jail. God will place the good souls into Heaven among their good kind, and God will place those who torture others by fear (and tears) and aggression (with the gnashing of teeth) into a land of "t _ears and gnashing or teeth_ " - as described by Christ. Time is not infinite within this one creation and we are not given infinite time to become good.

Why didn't Christ become an author and publish a "How to Be Saved" best seller? Christ did not hand write his own Gospel or Revelation for good reasons, since John [1:4-5] states " _In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not._ " Therefore regarding Christ, as the Way of Love, having the Truth or Divine Reality or the Spirit of Truth (Holy Ghost), and the Light, breath, and Life of God in Him, then you should not be surprised by the statement that the darkness of the worldly-wise, or the common masses, cannot comprehend any written message describing His divine Life. It is very naive for me or others to believe that any objective physical writing, including this one which you are reading, or seeing miracles can facilitate your divine salvation or your belief in a conscious living Christ and God. Only you subjectively alone can, if you have some consciously nurtured Light in you. Only by your own earnest conscious effort and faith, can you comprehend Christ and God's Light. As stated in the Gospel of Thomas [ **70:1-2]** regarding finding that seed of God's Life or the conscious being in you, _"Jesus says: 'If you bring it into being within you, (then) that which you have will save you. If you do not have it within you, (then) that which you do not have within you [will] kill you.'"_ Saying that you need to discover your real divine self, or your ego or personality will be discarded by your divine soul, like a false thought is quickly forgotten as soon as we know the truth. It has been left only to us mortals to write down about our personal spiritual struggles. We alone are left to lift our neighbors on our own shoulders, to love others as your helpers. Also Christ states in John that the parables were given not to instruct others. The parables were given solely to confound the world, to fulfill prophecy predicting their non belief in Christ. Also as stated in Mark [4:33] Christ gave puzzles to the public but instructed the complete straight truth to his disciples, " _And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples._ " Christ did not speak in parable puzzles to his disciples because they were able to hear the plain divine truth and not worldly abuse it for gain. Christ pointed out how the Pharisees interpreted religious text literally by the "letter of the law" rather than by the the "spirit of the law". If Christ had left us with writings, how would the text be interpreted by our worldly experts? Anyone can be beaten down and convinced to be good, but force proves nothing.

Can someone truly believe in Christ without experiencing some Christ like consciousness? Can one see the Light in Christ without experiencing a little of the Light in oneself? After all in John's writing, Jesus' spirit is far beyond a simple contemplative state reached by normal meditators. Christ was not only in the presence of the Spirit, but instead Christ is in the center of the Spirit of God (, abiding with each other). Christ is like a higher dimensional creature, able to be above our reality by existing, seeing, and controlling future/past time (precognition), abiding in our thoughts (telepathy), able to see fate/prophecy (regarding sin and redemption), and Christ's being exists beyond space and matter (levitation, materialization). As a seemingly time-space independent being, Jesus is described as being with God from the beginning of physical time. In other words, his consciousness and identity is space-time independent and therefore able to nullify all space-time laws at will. So to be able to believe in Christ you should at least have had some insights into his level of existence.

Is Christ a way to reach and see the face of God? If one does not recognize the Jesus as the Christ, then one is also not recognizing the Face of God which abides in Him. As stated in John [10:27] _"My sheep_ [and those who belong to Christ] _hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me."_ Since Christ, having the Light, Life and God dwelling in him, as a true " _living soul"_ made by God's own breath of Light _,_ are you a son of God in being able to recognize the primary Son of God, are you in the Book of Life as described in John's Revelation, or are you one of his "sheep" as described in the Gospel of John? To insure your salvation in eternity, Christ points out that our sole task in life on Earth, decreed by God, is to first of all seek/desire Heaven, see/hear the Light, and believe in Christ by the method of Loving your God with all your being, in body, mind, and soul. Except that recognizing Christ may not be enough since even the Devils can see and recognize Christ as the Son of God, in Matthew [8:28-29] it recounts that "... _there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of_ God?" We sleeping mortals seem to be more blind than these mere devils that can immediately recognize Christ. It turns out that even stones can see Christ, because in Luke [19:37-40] " _... the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, saying: 'Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!' And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, 'Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.' But He answered and said to them, 'I tell you that if these should keep silent,_ _the stones would immediately cry out._ _' And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out._ " The difference between us, as mortal physical beings, and the devils and stones, is that our consciousness is not as mobile like the devils, which can jump into various material bodies or even inanimate stones or objects. Satan entered Judas after Judas hardened his heart against Christ. It is the nature of divine beings, devils and other spirits, are able to inhabit various material lining and non-living objects. Normal humans are spiritually blinded and trapped in their worldly egos and bodies and are not aware of these divine abilities. Some NDE accounts tell of souls experiencing various living forms. An independent and physically non-emergent consciousness is free to inhabit any material form in any time. By listening for the voice of Christ and by asking him to enter into your soul, you will truly see the divine Christ, as described in Revelation [3:20] " _Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me._ " So Christ and God can move within the consciousness of us, without our fear of harm, as would be done if some demons are allowed to enter into you. Seeking and listening to God and Christ is the per-requisite to seeing Christ.

Can one understand God from reading and formal education? If Christ was here, he would say that true divine knowledge and wisdom can only come from the divine sources, the Holy Ghost (the Spirit of Truth) which abides as a separate entity in Christ, or from your own faith and relationship with God. God also abides in the same manner in Christ. The Holy Ghost is described as a "comforter" that teaches us wisdom/truth in sleep, dreams, and visions, blesses us with abilities as we seek the Kingdom of Heaven or the City of God (with talents, healing, psychic abilities, love, and wisdom). It is the internal hearing/seeing of the quiet voice from God that whispers in your dreams, in your gut, in your epiphanies of truths, in your deep meditative contemplation, in your burning questions, in your love and joys, and in your conscious realizations. John [6:13] states " _However when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth; for_ _He shall not speak from Himself_ _, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak; and He will show you things to come._ " In other words, the Holy Spirit of Truth is a true witness of the true divine reality, which also covers future world events, along with other omniscient and omnipotent psychic abilities. It is interesting that the Holy Ghost as a separate identity or being is also spiritually modest, like Christ, in that neither of them spoke about their own innate abilities apart from what God gave them. Christ reaffirms the notion that no literature or lectures using our external worldly words can teach you as well as the Spirit of Truth. Your meaningful subjective spiritual experiences change your being and your world view by your first-hand experience of knowing and seeing the spiritual reality behind waking reality's veil. Worldly education or logical religious arguments will never bring you closer to knowing God. Only your personal relationship with God brings you closer to God.

Why would God hide some spiritual laws and truths? There is a reason for this, as Christ said: Matthew [11:25] " _I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes._ " No worldly agenda/gain is allowed to profit from this Godly knowledge. Because some truths can move mountains, heal sick, and forgive sins by the good, but if this divine knowledge is ever placed in the hands and minds of the worldly wise or dark ones, the divine knowledge would enable them to do enormous evil and chaos. In Mathew [7:6] it states _"Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls_ [divine wisdom] _before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces."._ This enormous evil, abuse, or chaos would create real paradoxes and upset the fate of the world set by God. How tempting it would be to change any future event if it was revealed to you, and how much more tempting would it be if it was about your own future. God is protecting us by limiting the power available to our worldly evil persona. There is a divine reason and censor to prevent this. No wonder why science will have a hard time finding them, only to exploit them for industrial misuse. Fortunately God has designed a universe with spiritual safeguards. In the Spirit, one can imagine cooperation among other divine beings to be extremely important, any tiny evil fragment remaining in a soul could accidentally cause harm, so " _these things_...[of divine knowledge] _hast_ [God] _revealed them_ [only] _unto_ [the sinless] _babes._ ". Our life on Earth is really a triage to determine whose life can be saved and healed by Christ, or whose life is truly lost like Satan and all his blind followers?

Is Christianity nonsense, scientifically? Science which began with Rene Descartes, states that the normal physical world without God's divine intervention will unfold according to the worldly, mechanically unconscious and "simple" mathematically and quantitatively predictable objective relationships that can be mathematically modeled by scientific laws. This is Rene Descartes' dualism, between the natural philosophy (nowadays called science), and spiritual divine intervention or what he called mind or consciousness (" I think therefore I am"). In Science, divine intervention is definitively not studied nor considered, because no pragmatic mathematical mechanical predictive models can be discovered in it. Only religions, and recently psychic research, have some interest in divine intervention or consciousness/mind over matter. Not surprisingly, science by refusing to study or look into events involving divine intervention or miracles, have now unanimously concluded that no event has ever been found to disobey their scientific laws. It is like in their decision to perform experiments only in yellow colored rooms ( I. e. the natural world devoid of divine interventions), later proudly conclude that they have never seen any non-yellow rooms (divinities or unnatural worlds) and state that there is no need for God in science. Yet they now hypocritically speculate about non-provable, unverifiable, non-falsifiable theories for alternate universes that do not follow their own scientific methodology for validating any scientific hypotheses. Logic states that one cannot prove the negative or non-existent, non-falsifiable existences or events. On the other hand by definition, a divine truth cannot be scientifically verified or tested since miracles have no causal traceability. The only viable "scientific methodology" equivalent methodology for the spiritual world would be verified precognitions and telekinesis, but for these divine events, no mechanical scientific models can be constructed or derived from them as a causal model or science for miracles. I have always hoped that there can only exist one truth and one reality, and it should to be discovered to be the same by both a true science and a true religion, or by Descartes' body (objective science) and mind (subjective religion) – probably not in my lifetime.

Christ's divine psychic abilities as told in the Gospel can be compared to eastern masters, and the accounts of the miraculous abilities of monks, ascetics, Sufi, and other wise men in history. The difference is that, in Christ, the abilities are fully under his conscious control, reproducible, and Christ goes one step beyond just having miraculous abilities, by reaching into the fabric that binds all of humanity and the origin of all creation as the Way, Son of God and the Son of Man. I don't think Christ is unrelated to other religions, since the first ones to recognize the importance of his incarnation where, after all, three wise men from the East, or Magi, who were probably not Jews. Jesus spent a portion of his childhood in Egypt, and possibly also exposed to Egyptian religions. We do know that there were as many sects of Judaism in His time, just as we currently have many sects in modern Christianity. But we don't really know much about his childhood and education.

Can Christ be accepted in this world? If Christ was here today with the vast powers he exhibited, the leaders of the world would declare him a treat to the world... since nothing could defeat him. They would see him as an extremely powerful psychic, able to tell what all men did, think, conceive, and know, as well as know all events past, present and future. He would be able to levitate, materialize and dematerialize at will, remotely kill, resurrect himself many times, or cure anyone at will... basically able to defy all known laws of natural non-divine science or physics. Yet with all these abilities, Christians are wary about describing Christ as an extreme psychic. Perhaps they fear the encouragement or the connotation to the dark arts, as a gateway or temptation to hell (...probably a very wise advice). But Christ was not shy in talking about miracles, stating that they are to be naturally expected if one primarily seeks first the Kingdom of Heaven, with a deep conscious communion, hearing the Word and Will of God, and the Holy Ghost or the Spirit of Truth, by stating in Matthew [6:33] _"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."_ Those who work solely to develop these divine abilities normally cannot control them. Jesus the man and, as the Christ, just had them as a byproduct of his divine consciousness, being with the Word, Light, Life, Love, Truth, and the Grace of God being in him, applying them only in harmony with God's Will, as the Son of God. By being more perfectly aligned with God, as Adam once was, Christ is transformed to return to God as a redeemed Son of Man, as one of Adam's lineage fully healed – which may be the reason why Christ claimed himself to be the vine from the tree of God by God's breath in Adam, from which we may be allowed to be the branches than can bear the good fruit. Christ was more than a psychic. While Moses could not see the face of God directly and survive, but Christ, with God residing in Christ, like God's breath was placed and lived in Adam, some of his disciples where able to see/witness the face of God, Life, and Light residing within Jesus, and they did not perish! So, not being of the Darkness, but part of Light with ability to see and _comprehend_ the Light or God in Christ, believes in Christ.

The Gospels portrays Jesus as extremely humble, compassionate, non-vengeful, having an extreme sense of self-restraint - considering the powers he is shown to have. So, the New Testament's God that was presented indwelling and showing thorough Christ, God is a bit different from the Old Testament's God or LORD. It is a God of non-judgment, forgiveness, healing, self-sacrificing and infinitely compassionate – not a vengeful, jealous, or an eye-for-eye bean counting accountant-type. An ordinary person with similar powers would have abused these divine powers for revenge, vanity, judgments, grudges, and comforts. Jesus did not. Yet many believe he was harsh and temperamental with little evidence.

But John stated that Jesus, as the Christ, was much more than just an extreme psychic; he was the Way, the Truth and the Life by which we can seek God and Heaven, and be with God. We are asked to listen to God to be able to do God's good work so we can be qualified as sons of God. Likewise to obtain the salvation through Christ, as the Way (of Love in Him), the Truth (of the Holy Spirit in Him), and the Light (of God in Him), we are asked to listen for Christ's voice, as we are asked to listen to God, as stated in Revelation [3:20] " _Behold, I_ [Christ] _stand at the door, and knock:_ _if any man hear_ [listen] _my voice, and open the door_ [invite Christ in] _, I_ [Christ] _will come in to him_ _, and will sup_ [and nourish your soul-spirit-self ] _with him, and he with me."_ just like the bread and life given to us by the words from mouth of God. Being in Christ and God insures our divine wellbeing. This is also in reference to John [6:56-58] _"He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever."  
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PROBLEMS IN MODERN SPIRITUALISM

Is spiritualism another form of materialism? Some Christians, New Age, Agnostics, and Occultists believe that to believe in non-physical forces, planes, or karmic laws, makes one a spiritual person. Spiritualism or the belief in the unseen is not faith. Believing in psychic forces does not make us a divine being; it only makes us a materialist trying to manipulate forces on another non-physical level. But still no matter how higher dimensional may be their belief, such a belief and ability is still just another material level or world. It does not make us unselfish, self-sacrificing in Love, divinely virtuous, listeners of God, nor part of God's plan. It is just an extension of their worldly-wise thought based ego narcissism into a level that should not be theirs. Like Satan being in Heaven, is eventually cast out of Heaven by Michael the archangel on the last days of Judgment.

On a personal level, I began as a Roman Christian, but since sermons did not address my childhood spiritual convictions and experiences. In my early teens I began studying many types of religions, psychic research, occult books, science, and psychology, any reality belief system. I began my much disciplined conscious exercises from my early teens onwards. All went well but I always knew that God wants us to use our divine gifts to perform God's work as good companions.

There is a pattern of divine failure among those who took up "spirituality" after experiencing some spontaneous divine insights or powers. Seduced by worldly-wise materialistic thinking or ego agendas, many were led astray, abusing their divine gifts, only to lose their selves and their gifts – selling out their selves out for the praise from men and for the power over men.

There is no divine science, occult science, nor psychic science since "science" has to do with predictable causality – causality with force and matter relationships that have causality event traceability within energy matter conservation law regimes. The divine has an absolutely non-deterministic or causal Free-Will. The Spirit does not occupy space and does not have any component dependencies, otherwise it cannot have and entirely non-deterministic free will. Those worldly minded seekers who sought some occult science to manipulate the spiritual realm eventually asked stupid questions, "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" The answer would be an infinite number, since spirit does not occupy space-time, but can still experience it.

"Abide" in the bible is used often to indicate some kind of consciousness merging into each other, or to be closely connected. Consciousness does not have volume or area and therefore is not of this world by time, content, volume, or area. It would be wrong to imagine a composition or component type of relationships between Christ, being "in" the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost being "in" God. Those are worldly concepts.

Free will is solely from God. Yet spiritualists seek to have it and use it without knowing the greater divine plan. Christianity from Genesis to Revelation describes a divine plan beyond just having magical abilities.

Is there anything in spiritualism not already mentioned in the Bible? Spiritualism believes in divine omnipotent and omniscient abilities. The Bible mentions the same divine or spiritual abilities. Regarding the list of psychic or spiritual abilities to → Christ's abilities:

* precognition → prophecy,

* telekinesis → walking on water, calming the seas, turning water to wine

* materialization → water to wine and Christ's creating food for feeding thousands with a few * pieces of bread and fish,

* telepathy → Christ's knowing the heart and minds of the Pharisees, speaking in tongues or simultaneously telepathically broadcast directly to the minds of a diverse crowd each in their own native language, knowing the past of anyone,

* possession, mental projection, or out-of-body experience → casting devils into swine, appearing and disappearing within a crowd, exorcism,

* necromancy → raising the dead and speaking or commanding the dead,

* psychic healing and surgery → present and remote healing of the sick by command, forgiveness of sins, killing the barren tree

* reincarnation → Christ mentions John the Baptist incarnation and Elijah, being seen by Peter and John with the spirits of Moses and Elijah.

Some spiritualists like all occultists believe that there is a science behind miracles. They write books on how to transform their thoughts into reality. They provide methods on how to visualize their desires as if they have been already materialized and are in their present reality. There are even books on gathering riches by these methods, for example "Think of Grow Rich" and promoted in motivational circles. Even Christians practice it in Prosperity Christian Evangelicalism. I have read enough in this field to believe that it can lead to selfishness and narcissism – the antithesis of Christ's Way. Some may actually achieve precognition and other divine talents only to manifest their own faults later on. I can understand their pursuit for happiness and freedom, even of it becomes delusional, but at what cost? On the other hand, many Christians refuse to study or remark on Spiritualism as much as Scientists. I think that since Spiritualism is very popular today, its failing and benefits should be addressed if one seeks to help everyday Christian. Orthodox Christian churches are experiencing lower attendance because they do not provide the deeper teaching of Christ. They have lost the Spirit of Truth.

Unfortunately spiritualism does not include the final judgment or spiritual conclusion similar to Revelation. Most of them believe in a NDE type of self-evaluation judgment right after every physical death (the first death – only the death of the body). But the Gospels also point to a second death as well: the destruction of the soul in the final judgment solely for the wicked. Spiritualists believe in progressive incarnations leading to perfection with no time restrictions or limits, which would suggest that spiritualism does not believe in a limited physical space and time restricted universe. It does not address the fate of those failing to reach perfection. It does not provide details on perfection, except for the increase of divine abilities and enlightenment. That is where Christianity strongly disagrees. God does not allow rebellious mini-gods or demons to exist beyond the end of the Universe. But God allows evil to be evil and good to be good on earth, and hell and heaven to exist, until the end of time, but does not allow for evil beyond the final judgment or this Universe. A new Universe is created in the form of a New Earth and a New Heaven is created only for the chosen few to enter. Spiritualism does not mention this. It encourages each soul to be selfish gods. That is what the Spirit of Rebellion, or Satan, wants us to believe in, since Satan wants to be a god as well.
PROBLEMS IN SCIENCE

Can science cover all aspects of reality if it ignores the pure "I AM" consciousness or observer?

**Seeking with Objective Science versus with the Subjective Consciousnes** s **/Spirit** :

Science seeks external objective truth or reality via quantitative mechanical measurements resulting in predictive mathematical models of reality. Even when the senses are interpreting scientific models based on objective methodologies, we can only subjectively consciously grasp reality via the comprehension and interpretation of the information derived from our senses. But we can't get around the eventual consumption of all truth is obtained only from one's own subjective efforts and from our limited achieved levels of awareness or insights, even when the truth was produced from the efforts of non-subjective, scientifically objectively measured findings. Out living subjective realizations are not achieved from dead creeds, teachings, and theories. According to the Gospels, no amount of waking or sleep thinking will save you - you have to "see" and "hear" reality at a level suggested in the Gospels.

_I became convinced that one cannot_ _consciously comprehend_ _what one has not directly experienced._ That is why John [1:5] " _And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it._ " No amount of books on your bookshelf or in computers will elevate your subjective awareness without your effort and conscious comprehension of reality. Can one try to comprehend reality by second hand talk and sleep-like internal dialogs? Can we use assumptions/axioms, logically deducted knowledge, liberal uses of metaphors/analogies, and whatever limited amount of evidence based quantitative science available in achieving the spiritual consciousness of Christ?

Science is not interested in and is not concerned to comment on our comprehension or our subjective conscious life, but is more concerned with fine tuning pragmatic predictive quantitative models. Science gets paid for technological results. As far as science is concerned, science would be perfectly comfortable in denying the existence of all our subjective consciousness and God. As a result, science without any divine compass is a dangerous force, since it is focused on tools independent of spirit or Light, so with the extremely rapid development of AI and quantum computing, that will glorify worldly knowledge, man will be tempted even more to forget God and worship the fruits of worldly mechanical consciousness - the darkness.

Institutional Religions have a horrible history of declaring divine facts solely by pontifical decree, or by presenting seemingly reasonable logical arguments to back extraordinary religious beliefs. Emanuel Kant, the famous philosopher, wrote a good treatise criticizing their dependence on "Pure Reason" or non-empirical knowledge (a-priori knowledge, information purely deduced solely from pure reason or logical deductions, prior to experience or empirical evidence). Scientists are a bit less guilty in declaring facts solely by "pontifical"/authoritative decree, or by extrapolating empirical facts to their false conclusions, since they have their better scientific methodology, like a litmus test for reality, that requires all theories proposed should also contain a plausible experimental prediction so that by its failure will allow one a means to falsify it. Science also insists that a theory should have a predictive model, depicting a semi-visual understanding of the forces involved in affecting the results. But by their know-it-all pride, very few scientists are willing to accept any unexpected data that may be in conflict with their existing laws. One cannot present anomalous data to them unless a model is first proposed to assure them that the paranormal data is not in violation of causality or reality, which obviously excludes all miracles. By definition, miracles cannot have within this material plane or dimension, any causal traceability/origins, so miracles will never be able to propose a physically verifiable model or falsifiable hypothesis. Yet science, like some religions, speculates on non-falsifiable theories, like many universes, and other branes in string theory. Yet Science ridicules any speculation on Heaven as one alternate Universe.

Yes, Religion or our subjective divine experiences do not have a reliable truth verification methodology as robust as science, since miracles are not normally reproducible on demand to be witnessed by many, many times over, unless you are Christ. The Gospels and Revelation try to depict a higher dimensional model of reality involving God's plan, our creation, our purpose, and an outline for our salvation or damnation. Having said that, this book, in its interpretation of John's works has to rely a bit on surmising facts via plausible "pure reason" deductions as well - sorry, but at least I am admitting my hypocrisy here.

But it is also hypocritical for science to explore reality by examining the extremes of physical phenomena, knowing that it is in those realm that one can extend one's knowledge. For example, a flat earth belief was perfectly well suited for villagers that did not wander to far away from their homes, but when they needed to travel to or examine far away, extreme regions, they discovered that their flat earth belief was entirely wrong. Likewise prior to Newton's gravitational laws, one did not need to know Newton's laws of gravity when one threw one stones and arrows, but when one needed to fire cannon balls a few kilometers, one had to examine and refine our knowledge of gravity, momentum, force, and inertia. And finally one did not need to know how light worked when one burned only candles, but when electric lights became available, this more extreme "candle of light" needed to be examined and used, then the properties and laws of light, blackbody radiation, and quantum mechanics was required in the creation of more efficient electric bulbs. Science has a blind spot regarding the subjective consciousness we and all life contains. It has no interest in examining the extremes of consciousness, in the same way it pursues the "non-conscious" physical extreme regimes in its pursuit to pry out the physical laws of reality. It does not examine the extreme consciousness regimes of extraordinary persons in its pursuit to pry out the consciousness laws of reality. It only pursues non-conscious physical behavioral psychology.

The examination of normal everyday consciousness will not reveal the "laws" of divine spiritual existence. It requires the examination of the extreme subjective conscious experience of extraordinary conscious beings. Consciousness is more complex than just our normal everyday waking state, just like reality turned out to be much more complex than the flat earth belief of the dark age generations.
PROBLEMS IN ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS

Can the study of only waking consciousness cover all aspects of consciousness? As previously we stated that science discovers reality by examining the extreme events: events under tremendous pressure, extreme speed approaching the speed of light, events occurring in femtoseconds, events in the gravitational extremes of black holes. Likewise psychology, or the study of human consciousness in the pursuit of studying our internal subjective reality, should also examine all of the extreme ranges in consciousness. We should be examining the consciousness of our best divine and brilliant minds. Instead we study the mediocre. The study of the extremes in consciousness exemplified by the saints, the NDE experience, and Christ in the Gospels is the prudent choice of study if one is to discover the reality laws of consciousness.

In the subjective experience, in our waking "worldly" consciousness, as the most common level of consciousness, we entertain thoughts on relationships, components, qualities, ethics, science, religion, history, traumas, but these waking "thoughts" are something that one can indeed also experience in ordinary dreams or sleep. So by just thinking with worldly waking thoughts, these thoughts or state of awareness, do not elevate us much higher than normal sleep thoughts, since we know that even deep sleep can contain them. As well, normal physical sensations in the waking state are not that much different form lucid dreaming sensations. Emotions of joy and fear in sleep states and waking states are basically the same. Other mammals probably have the same, and in some degree have similar worldly thoughts or thoughts and emotions based on instincts for worldly survival. Some of our mental states are probably similar to normal mammalian brain emergent phenomena. But if one experiences a conscious state that cannot be verbalized as a normal waking state, then perhaps one can say that something special has happened in one's consciousness unveiling a deeper reality. For example, using an old analogy, how can a blind man comprehend color without experiencing it? How can one _comprehend_ and thereby truly believe in God without experiencing God or some spiritual consciousness or information that is not causally knowledgeable (e. g. prophecy/precognition). No wonder scientists, who personally do not try to subjectively experience divine forces, dismiss it all as incomprehensible nonsense. How can one _comprehend_ a higher or deeper reality and consciousness without taking the very sincere and intense effort to experience it? If the universe opens like a torn veil revealing its secrets before you, which would be hard to describe in words, but "sticks to your skin" for months or years, then perhaps it is real. Some of these experiences have been described as akin to jumping into a higher dimensional existence, looking down on "Flatland", or seeing the future and past together within the context of a type of divine Will. Many near death experiences, by accident or severe illness, will artificially give one a glimpse into the non-material spirit's higher dimensional existence, by temporarily unbinding us from our brain emergent earthbound thoughts. Jesus said the same in the Gospels - John [1:5] "A _nd the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not._ "

Science does not study extraordinary conscious states. Our normal conscious state is very fragmented. To experience the truth, as a prerequisite, in order to be truly consciously comprehending the truth or enter into a hyper awake reality awareness, one has to go deep with sincere intent and effort into your own consciousness, extracting your true self-awareness, higher self, and spiritual I-ness from this world. This "extraction" of your true divine identity must be separated from your material worldly identifications, material awareness and fragmented identification or ego. These are mostly caused by our uncontrollable desires, normal worldly concerns and worries, persona identifications, sensory distractions, or emotional addictions. This process of "uniting yourself" is done so that you can unify all your "bits of conscious fragments", so you can unit them into your contiguous (whole) and continuous (time lasting persistence) self-awareness of your Spiritual Self-awareness. In that united conscious state, one truly and unmistakably awakens into a new being, a conscious rebirth into a new reality apart from your worldly state. This new-being state is as different as the wakeful state is to the sleep state. This new rebirth is a self-aware wakefulness state is extremely different to our normal wakeful state. In other words, you will feel like you are "reborn" or re-awakened from your normal waking states and will realize that your former worldly waking state is truly a state of sleep of a delusional ego. In that new united state your being expands outwards into a contemplative eternal state that some call, "in the presence of the Spirit or God".

In a dreamer's sleep state; there are accounts of living relatives communicating in the spirit state but within a dream like setting, with the perceived undercurrent of God's plan or the Will in the world. Also in such dreams, and sometimes swiftly in a waking state with some time distortion, other living personalities "visit", presenting their present and future life situations. But their shallow worldly waking persona are not the "visitors" in these dream states, but rather something more than their worldly or waking personalities. They visit or communicate into the sleeper's dreams from their pure soul or spirit being levels, since they talk and predict about their own destiny, as if they are speaking in a very detached manner about their physical personas as being confused, "sleeping" ignorant and embarrassingly weak. These living souls in their visitations to the dreamer speak about themselves, like actors speaking off-stage about their stage persona or their "theatrical" part in an actively unfolding play, feeling almost helpless in trying to fix their unfolding destiny. So when we speak of sleep, waking, and the more in-the-light consciousness, the soul is not the same state in any of them. Each state is a different consciousness state " _garment"_ having different abilities and knowledge (power and glory) for the soul. " _Garment"_ in reference to Matthew [22: 8-14] is one's right conscious level or state, to quality you with the right and spiritual preparedness to enable you to chosen to be allowed to enter into Revelation's City of God. Now, I must say that in some NDE experiences, you become the visitor, communicating to your related deceased spirits/souls, likewise discussing your earthly persona, desires, past, and destiny as well.

But with the belief from experiencing the above independent non-material, non-brain emergent property of consciousness or state, then one should be able to accept that there should exist some level of consciousness beyond our corporal existence.

But there is also another ordinary human limitation in truly comprehending divine reality that is the inability to remember after returning to the normal waking state these experienced states of awareness. Although on every day one may experience the waking state, at night in our dreaming state we seldom comprehend the waking state, no matter how many times the waking state has been experienced. Likewise your extraordinary divine revelations and experiences soon become incomprehensible and dim memories. In this manner we can understand that, while the disciples frequently witnessed and experienced the extraordinary Light in Christ, they remained confused, fearful, and doubtful when not in Christ's presence (e. g. Peter's three denials). Their faith solidified only after Christ breathed the Holy Ghost (the Spirit of Truth), on them, giving them the permanent _"remembrance"_ of their states in the divine Light, and therefore retained the courage to spread Christ's Ministry (John [8:32] _"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."_ ).

Can we assume that we can spiritually evolve and change? Whereas Darwinian evolution is not possible within one individual, since only through breeding and death does the whole species evolve, not within a single individual life. But with the above conscious physical independence or the divine enlightenment for an individual consciousness, then an individual's conscious "evolution" is possible, allowing an individual spirit to reach higher consciousness. The ramification for conscious evolution within a lifetime is huge. Trying to save our spirit in a lifetime and across many lifetimes (reincarnations), spiritual cooperation among these individual consciousness or spirits becomes extremely important, as evident in Revelation's immortal depiction of Satan's rebellious spirit frequently battling the angels and Christ. Also since consciousness or the spirit cannot be a physical component, or a mechanical worldly object or effect, or any physical emergent property, then one must assume that consciousness' evolution for an individual must be in a form of becoming towards (returning to) what was one's original being, existence, or state; rather than becoming something entirely different or new. This is similar to Socrates' idea that learning is just a form of remembering what we already previously knew, rather than being a process of learning something new – like the fallen prodigal son returning to the City of God. It also is reminiscent of being like a fallen angel, who evolves by returning to God or where it descended from. In many NDE experiences the soul is given all the knowledge of the creations, confirming the Platonic/Socrates World of Ideas, wherein all ideas/learning are preexisting in the higher spiritual realm of God, ready to be remembered by the "inventors" of this world. Our consciousness or Light came from one source, God, and God asks us to return as his own. Like they say, all legal tender (money) must return to its country of origin, to be cashed/redeemed/rendered, for it to be realized, realizing their true value (in God), otherwise this "paper cash" is just an unfulfilled promissory note (an unfulfilled promise from God).

THE REVELATION OF JOHN

John wrote the Gospel of John, and later on in captivity, and he wrote his Revelation directly from Christ, from visions and prophecy in the spirit state and realm.

We have to assume that his works, and some of the other Biblical scriptures, can be dissected literally into spiritual facts that are non-contradictory into a coherent spiritual view of reality - in other words, created from a consistent belief system or model of reality. We also have to assume that the scribes of the Bible, as true believers and as dedicated professional scribes, took diligence in preserving the spiritual facts and works passed down from generations to generations. There is some evidence that they adopted a type of checksum method by counting the letters, words, and paragraphs to validate copies as being true copies. As a result, I will try to literally interpret the text as much as possible, unless the statements suggests the text to be symbols, signs, similes, parables, abstractions, or indescribable events beyond our vocabulary.

I haven't found Revelation fraught with symbolisms and vagueness. If I thought John's vision were just odd dreams, then I would adopt the methods for interpreting dreams and visions as hinted in Exodus [37], by Joseph in Egypt. For example, in Exodus [37:7-9] " _For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold,_ _your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf._ _... And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold,_ _the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me._ _"._ In Joseph's dream, he is given two visual representations for the same audible verbal information or statement, namely: "You will be raised in stature and be made a leader of a vast multitude." From personal experience, I have experienced lucidity in dreams where I witnessed the verbal audible spiritual message slowly translated into the visual dream, in that the audible sentences are broken down into a sequence of words, each translated into pictures, and then assembled, incorporated, and then translated to a visual storyline involving mundane objects incorporated into a sequence of events. The audible "words" were translated into pictures and actions, appropriate to the contents of my brain's own content of personal experiential and cultural images, or cultural symbols. The translated instructional words to images, interacted together to create a visual sequential storyline dream message version of the verbal message. For example: if the verbal message is "Be strong and get over your troubles." then the dream created by translating "strong" for "horse" image, and "get over" would be translated to the house "jumping over", and "your troubles" could be translated to the horse jumping over a "tall hedge of thistles".

Some spiritual dreams are given in a pure form, clearly, like a normal conversation, or even in print form, like a newspaper vision where the message is plainly printed and displayed in for you to read clearly in a very conscious waking state, within the dream, similar to what some call a "lucid dream". I think John's Revelation is a lucid higher spiritual reality state fully conscious experience. Revelation is unlike some spiritual or precognition message dreams that are created as visual story lines, stripped from the pure spiritual verbal message, because these "word sentences" are translated or filtered through the networks of our personal brain, I. e. translated or opaque by using our brain's constructs, wiring, contexts, or cultural image symbols. The images are strung together like Christ's parables, playing together to create a visual dream, or sequential story, or truth in a dream storyboard message. Because by translating the original spiritual abstract message, or the pure auditory, or the pure spiritual message into a parable dream, the original message has a better chance of being remembered after waking up than the intangible auditory or abstract spiritual instructions. It allows it to be imprinted with more depth and richness into your memory for easier recall in the waking state. So, I am sure Joseph's dream was a message from God that was present first in a verbal form from God, before being translated into pictures of objects in actions experienced and memorized in his brain. The brain used his life experience's repertoire of his most common places, objects, or events, to translate the pure instructions into that which is more familiar and emotionally meaningful. This is done in order for him to retain and remember, in his transition from the state of sleep to the state of wakefulness. As you must have experienced, the remembrance of dreams fades quickly after you wake up. In other words it is easier to remember the sequence of instinctual life objects (sheep - fence - dog - farmer) than the abstract sequence of meaningless numbers (4-8-6-3). In this case the Truth, or verbal sentence given by the Spirit of Truth, is hard to remember, since it is more abstract and worldly foreign than a sequence of metaphors, analogies, or parables, composed of meaningful, common day, experiential worldly components like the above instinctual life objects (I. e. sheep - fence - dog – farmer). In fact one can memorize extremely long lists of numbers, by translating each abstract list of numbers (e. g. 3, 1, 4, 9) into common worldly pictures (e. g. hat, shoe, hare, and horse). The recounting and later reciting the abstract list is done by recalling the elements list of worldly images, one by one, while translating the worldly images back to their respective abstract representations. In other words, we humans are simple worldly creatures genetically made to remember images proven to be historically essential for our survival, safety and nourishment. So we have an inherent ability to remember common food types, treats for our wellbeing, human survival skills or actions, meaningful domestic or wild animals; and the most story sequences involving them all. But we do not have an inherent ability to remember relatively modern artificial ideas, numbers, bits, and concepts; and any storyline or sequence involving them.

Nevertheless, I don't think Revelation has been written to be plainly understood as a whole by the worldly wise. Christ purposely used parables to hide spiritual truths from the worldly souls who may wish to block or alter prophecies from being fulfilled according to God's plans, or profit from spiritual knowledge or predictions for material gain, it may be that John is purposely obfuscating Revelation's truth into symbols and parables to allow only those who have ears and those who have eyes to truly see and hear the naked truths in Revelation.

The plot outlined in Revelation is not a simple tale of Christ returning, conquering and becoming the king of earth. It involves many, many trials, temptations, and steps on Earth that make up the final sorting out or harvesting to save only the good seeds, souls, or some of us, apart from the evil seeds weeds or dark ones. As stated before, in the Gospel of Matthew [13:30-40], the plot for John's later work in Revelation was previously disclosed, by writing: _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest: ..._ _He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; 38 the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore_ _the tares are gathered and burned in the fire_ _; so shall it be in the end of this world."_

The Earth is a kind of war field triage to test and sort out those who are good seeds, those that bear fruit and are part of the vine of Christ and his Way, Truth, and the Light; from those souls who are the evil weeds that are aligned with Darkness or Satan. The evil souls or weeds are mercifully allowed by God to sin till the end times, and are not pulled or extinguished from the ground or prevented from existing or reincarnating. The evil ones are forgiven by God in death and are allowed to re-live again. The evil souls are allowed to exist among the good sons of Man and God. This is done in the hope that these lost souls can develop into the good seeds, bearing fruit and good deeds, and to become part of, and to be attached as branches of Christ, as the true vine that gives us access to God. God has invited both evil and good souls to the wedding for the return of Christ, but although many are invited and given the chance to arrive at the gate, very few are, sadly, chosen to enter the City of God. God as the gardener of the vine, Christ, prunes or tests the branches (us) to enable us to bear more fruit and do the good works of God. We are given the opportunity to do many good deeds, to be written into the Book of Life as credits for our own salvation in the final judgment, for qualifying us as eternal co-creators or brothers of Christ.

The evil weeds are spared for a while and must not to be pulled out or destroyed before the end times. This is done to prevent the good seeds from being affected, or collaterally damaged. The good seeds also need to prove themselves in a field of weeds, as Christ's true faithful good seeds, and they must forgive and accept in love, absolutely without any judgment, the world made by God, their fate, and the evil done by the bad seeds, Satan, and Darkness, right to the very end. By this, the Christian reality or Christian belief system, guided by their Spirit of Truth, Christians do not judge or condemn others, God, and their own fate; but instead Christians will sacrifice all their needs, solely to care, love, and nurture their own and all others to be ever facing and seeking God.

Some interpreters of Revelation state that Revelation is a description of the inner-man's spiritual evolution, from a corrupt body to a divine transformed-resurrected body. This may be true as well, but my comments will only pursue an external interpretation and divine prophetic plan.

The King James' Version of Revelation is shown in bold _italic_ and the biblical excerpt quotes in comments are given in non-bold _italic_ text, my comments follow the " **→** " arrows.

Christ's Revelation to John:

Rev.1 (Revelation 1)

[1] The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

[2] Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

[3] Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

[4] John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

[5] And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

[6] And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

[7] Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

[8] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

→ John ( _the servant of_ Christ), in the spirit state, is given information that would be hard to translate using just the words of his era, so when words are lacking, analogies, metaphors, symbols are used by angels and spirits in visions to help John remember what to write when he returns into his physical state. As well, the information is kept camouflaged, sometimes in parables, in a manner to keep some portions that should only be revealed for the few sons of God (" _and_ [for] _they that hear the words of this prophecy"_ ).

At this point, John in the spirit, as given by Christ and his angel, sees Christ, regarding the return of Christ, as a message to the existing 7 churches, from a source that comprises of 7 Spirits serving the throne of Christ. Christ is described as the faithful witness and the one that " _washed us from our sins in his_ [Christ's] _own blood"._ It is also stated in Hebrews [9:22] regarding what it takes to be forgiven of sins: _"And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission._ [of sins] _"._

Jesus is described as " _the first begotten of the dead",_ perhaps in reference to his resurrection after being dead and resurrected in a transformed new body on the 3rd day. Although Christ in John's Gospel stated that He has layed down (died) and raised himself many times before, he is still described as the one who was the first to raise himself from the dead. It makes more sense, if Christ was Adam, the father of us. It would be more of a complete story, if God helped Adam to redeem himself and be saved, to enable him to return to the Garden again. By this Adam would be able to save his progeny of sons and daughters, and return to _"_ [wash] _us from our sins in his own blood"_ and to gather his generation back into the City of God or the His new Garden or Eden, giving all of us the eternal salvation from the fruit of the Tree of Life in Eden.

Christ's blessing allows his followers to have a divine role with God as co-creators, making them into " _kings and priests unto God",_ like Christ, as divine administrators.

The seven churches, stars, angels, and lights could be referring to a divine number 7. During that time some believed that man had seven spiritual aspects or physical-to-spiritual interface points within a human body, for example: divine will and awareness, love, prophecy, truth, peace, life. Hindus say 7 chakras or acupuncture centers. The physical anatomy describes the seven major ductless glands (penial, pituitary, thyroid, thymus, adrenal, pancreas, and sex organ). Catholics mention the 7 virtues and the 7 vices. Either way, there are various spirits with special roles in Heaven. These divine numbers may suggest that God's creations follow some numerically repeatable structural or building pattern. He states that the seven spirits refer to seven angels, that later appear as seven stars. The seven churches as shown in the vision are represented by the seven candles (symbolism as beacons of knowledge).

These early churches were the sources of Christian insight "shining to spread" the truth of Christ. The seven divine angels are represented symbolically as seven stars, residing in the Heavenly sky as stationary Lights or beings in heaven. But in terms of having a divine healing, in converting our corrupt body to a divine transformed-resurrected body, the seven churches or lights could be referring to the seven essential links between or physical body and our divine spirit, as centers or organs that can align themselves to our divine body or spirit. But, I am not pursuing this line of analysis.

Throughout Revelation, as in a dreams and visions, the identities in the spiritual visions, or in the Spirit, may morph back and forth, changing between being represented as abstract symbols, or morph into concrete physical representations, I. e. candles, stars, angels. This is understandable since the physical world events are realizations or materializations into matter, from the divine execution or commands from the Will of God from the world of abstract concepts or ideas. This is similar to the Platonic world of thoughts and ideas, that can be manifest or translated from the world of ideas into a physical event and objects, for example, in Matthew [17:20] _"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall_ [be able to divinely command and] _say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." So_ it may be that when John "sees in the Spirit", he may be seeing simultaneously both the physical object and its divine origin, command, or Word, for example: he sees that seven candles are representatives in the divine thought realm as a source of Light (Awareness of the Truth).

Fortunately, whenever this symbol-picture or verbal-information fluctuations occurs between the vision's identity tag or its symbol, Christ or his angel volunteer, is also there to help John with some clues. In the Gospels Christ helps his listeners by pausing and rephrasing parables or symbols when they are poorly understood by his followers. But in the Gospels, Jesus also admits to purposely camouflaging the truth in parables, rather than speak plainly the truth, since he does not want to "throw peals among swine". As stated in John's Gospel, Darkness cannot comprehend the Light, and would only abuse the pearls of truth. Christ eventually spoke plainly the Truth to his disciples, just before and after his crucifixion.

As visions in these Spirit experiences, Christ is addressing more than worldly events, He is addressing prophetic spiritual judgments, heavenly struggles, and the fate of light and dark beings. As a result, these visions or visitations of John in Revelation make many linking stitches that weave through many tiers of symbolic manifestations: covering the various tiers of worldly events, emotional situations, spiritual rebellions,

Unlike in the Gospels' resurrection and departure of Christ, where only his 11 disciples witnessed his departure, Revelation states that Christ will return physically, descending for all to see his arrival, in that " _every eye shall see him... and all kindreds of the earth shall wail"_. Interestingly for the first time, in our current technological era, this era is the only era in history when it has become physically possible to have the whole world simultaneously witness His return in the sky, where " _every eye shall see him... and all kindreds of the earth shall wail_ [and lament] _"_.

John Sees Christ:

**[** _9] I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ._

[10] I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

[11] Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

[12] And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

[13] And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

[14] His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

[15] And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

[16] And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

[17] And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

[18] I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

[19] Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

[20] The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

→ It mentions the voice of Christ as sounding like a trumpet and rushing waters. In Ezekiel [1:24] God is heard "... _like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army;"_ Christ's voice could be a combination with all that abides in him, like many drops or souls, exist in the ocean, as God, like a vine with many branches, or souls. The voice is Christ is important, because later in Revelation [3:20] it states: " _Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."_

The angels as abstract beings, as real creations of God, are clothed with the image of a star, and the churches are represented and clothed by the image of a candle. Jesus is Christ, a Son of Man, as one that who sows the good seed, and a Son of God, as one who is from God. Christ listens to the Will of God, and has God in Him. Christ has the Light, Life, and breath of God in Him, perhaps even more than just the living breath that God injected into Adam in making Adam's soul. Remember that God is also Light, and his breath is Light that enlightens Life.

Jesus may also be the redeemed Adam. Matthew [13:30-40] defines " _He that sows the good seed is the Son of man"._ The sowing of the good seed, may mean doing good deeds for God, or is doing what Adam was created for, as the special garden keeper in the special garden in Eden. So a man who does good deeds in accordance to the will of God, is truly a good son and faithful son of Adam, carrying on the works of his father, Adam, our father and the primordial son of God, and Man. So any man who seeds, like a good "gardener in Eden", and does the good deeds for God is therefore a son of Man

Christ describes himself as " _I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last_ :" Just as Adam was the first begotten son, by the breath of God, Adam was the Alpha or the beginning or first son of God. But Adam, by failing by the temptation of Satan, posing as the snake in the garden, Adam and Eve were banished from the heavenly eternal life and lush Eden to die, return to dust, forget and be reborn. Jesus as the anointed son of God is tempted just like Adam, by the temptations from Satan. But Jesus succeeds to resist and rebuffs Satan's temptations, to again be the as a true obedient servant. Christ becomes the caretaker of the Trees in the Garden, especially the Tree of Life of everlasting eternal life. Christ becomes our shepherd to help us, as the lineage of Adam, or sons of God, to help us to return back into the City of God, the new Eden.

Whereas Adam failed, Christ becomes the true and " _faithful witness"_ of God. Christ, described as " _the first and the last",_ may be in reference to Adam, as the _first_ living soul from dust, or the _last_ begotten son of God. Otherwise Christ may also be described as the " _first"_ to be transformed and resurrected into Heaven, and " _last"_ could be referring to last, as a being and existing right to the end of time, or being the Last Servant of God. The first and last is also the unique Savior that is required to serve and save us all. Christ is required to wait until all of us are saved. Therefore Christ, as in the parable of the vine workers, the first in worker in God's orchard becomes the " _last"_ servant to receive his reward in Heaven. _"The first and the last"_ may also be referring to Christ existing from the beginning of creation, and being able to survive till the end of time or end of creation, being the first and last soul to exist in God's creation.

Adam and Jesus Christ definitely have similarities. Adam was a created specifically to garden, as keeper of the Tree of Life and other trees, similar to the parable of Christ as _"he that sows the good seed"_ in Matthew [13:30-40] which lays out the plot of Revelation: _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest:... He_ [Christ] _that sows the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world;"_ Whereas for Adam, in Genesis [2:8-15]: _"God planted a garden eastward in Eden And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."..._ " _And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it._ " Christ as the Son of Man, and also, as he who seeds the good seeds or to " _dress it_ ", returns to again be in charge of the Tree of Life and other trees in Eden, to give eternal life to those in the Book of Life, or to those who have done good deeds. While Adam originally had responsibility and access to all trees in the garden, after his failing, Adam was ejected out of the Garden. Adam lost his role and responsibility. The Cherubim or Angels take over Adam's responsibility in caring and guarding access to the Tree of Life, to wait for Christ in becoming the keeper of the Tree of Life of everlasting life. It is no wonder that Christ has the ability to give us eternal life from this tree. It is fitting that the new keeper of Eden is Jesus, again a human and son of Adam.

So Jesus, as Christ, may be the resolution or redemption for Adam's sins, as the " _last._ " Likewise, Mary is the mirror soul of Eve. In the Gospels, Jesus says that the first will be the last to receive his rewards in Heaven. In Matthew [19-30] _"Then He said, "But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first"_ may be in reference to the workers in the vineyards of God. In other words, the first to become a son of God, doing the works of God will be the last to receive his rewards. The workers, in the parables, objected to this seemingly unfair queuing reward system, but it makes sense since in Heaven the first able servants should help the weak and unable ones, so the first begotten son of God from the lineage of Adam, is destined to work until to the last, so that all his brothers who are disabled, or the lesser able sinful siblings, lineage or " _lost sheep_ " can be rescued from earth before he himself enters Heaven and is rewarded by God. In contrast to Heaven's laws, where the most strong and spiritual sons of God must first of all help those who are the weakest in spirit, here on our own Earth, our dark worldly wise richest and strongest on Earth are the ones who exploit the most feeble minded, poorest and weakest in body. Here on Earth, the strong and wealthy survive on the backs of the weak and are the first to feast and be rewarded.

The Bible has repeated patterns or stories of failures followed by corrections, even in the creations of God. One should assume that God does not wish to be a puppet master, since such puppets would be devoid of real consciousness, life and free will – hardly the kind of companions God would want to have. The problem in making creations in His image with His omnipotence (will) and omniscience (consciousness and knowledge), is free will, unless a man's free will is in alignment with God, problems arise. Divine Consciousness, the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, is fine as long as his creations do not rebel, or use their Will against God, or disrupt or harm other souls in Heaven. I guess one can see the frustrations of having the knowledge of gods, but not allowed to use the same free will to create your own universe as God. Unless a soul seeks to understand God and understand and accepts that God has indeed created you and others as a perfect creation of Life and Light, only then we can really be a part in harmony with God's universe, otherwise one becomes a spirit of rebellion and make judgments against God – like Satan – and perish in self-banishment by self-isolation and seek darkness from God's being and Light. Unfortunately selfishness often results in ignorance (darkness) and stupidity.

Christ is consistently described in Revelations, having white hair, fiery eyes, a destructive or judgmental tongue or sword or power, and bronze like feet, and having a strange voice like the sound or waters (Revelation [14:2] " _a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder:")_ . This description is also in agreement with Daniel [10:5-6] "... _my eyes_ _... behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: 6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude."_

The following verses describe the 7 churches [ _Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea._ ], their specific trials and specific rewards. The trial of a church speaks about individual's trial, and the given reward given to an individual. The rewards are different from the first church to the last, seemingly becoming more exalted.

Christ states that he has " _the keys of hell and of death",_ in other words Christ is the gatekeeper and judge as the bridegroom, determining who enters into the wedding place in the City of God, his bride, and who is left behind.

Christ's Message To The Church In Ephesus, in John's Era:

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[1] Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

[2] I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

[3] And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

[4] Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

[5] Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

[6] But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

[7] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

→ Through John, Christ is sending a message for the current affairs of Ephesus, one of the 7 churches or as represented as a candle in Heaven, guided by one of the angels (in the symbolic image of a star). Christ has the power to give immortality, by the Tree of Life.

Christ is again talking only to the sons of God, or listeners of God (those who can really consciously hear with God's Light in them) or those who are from God, promising them as descendants of Adam (the " _whence thou art fallen_ "), that like the redeemed Adam, will be allowed back into the garden to become immortal again with the eating and drinking from the fruit given by Christ from the Tree of Life, returning the fallen back as gods and sons of God again, like prodigal sons. The sons of God may be in the lineage from Adam, Eve, and her seven children and descendants (Adam " _begot sons and daughters_ " [Genesis 5:3-4]).

The reward for this 1st church _Ephesus_ is _"to eat of the tree of life"_ for labor for the " _first works_ " " _left thy first love"_ (love first your God) and not following " _liars_ " or the heresy of false prophets ( _Nicolaitans_ who may have advocated fornication, as love cults). Otherwise Christ will "... _remove thy candlestick out of his place" -_ remove his guidance.

Christ's Message To The Church In Smyrna:

[8] And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

[9] I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

[10] Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

[11] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

→ Christ warns, judges, and encourages the next church. For the first time the " _second death_ " is mentioned. Later on, it is mentioned a few more times as when " _death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death._ " The second death is the death or complete separation from God, the essence of Life, Light, Love, and Truth – a truly horrible situation. It is probably the total destruction of the soul, whereas Hell is a place to possibly rehabilitate sinners. The bottomless pit or hole has some resemblance to what some scientists call a Black Hole, is theorized as having no dimensions internally, where all that enter get smeared to the surface of it, since there is no space-time inside it. It is also a place where the laws of the universe or reality do not apply (the abyss). It may be a place of time suspension, or stasis. In Revelation it is a place where Satan is sent in bondage or put on hold for a thousand years.

If this 2nd church _Smyrna_ is faithful, it is given the " _crown of life"_ and _"shall not be hurt of the second death."_ for being cast in prison, pain and death, but will be rewarded if they keep and their retain belief in their God. Not been given the second death should also be the result of eating from the Tree of Life, the life eternal via martyrdom/death, as the reward mentioned in the message for the first church.

Christ's Message To The Church In Pergamos:

[12] And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

[13] I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

[14] But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

[15] So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

[16] Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

[17] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

→ Christ is given power by the sword in his mouth, like the breath of giving life, he has the breath sword of judgment or commandments (" _he which hath the sharp sword with two edges ;_ "). The " _Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block... to commit fornication_ " and the _Nicolaitans_ was an early Christian cult of free sex-love, free-adultery, or "love-feasts" by falsely believing they are all now free to sin as much as they wished, by Christ's grace and sacrifice and therefore are no longer needing to keep God's commandments.

For the first time he states about giving life and a new identity or name to those faithful and believing to " _give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."_ It is a very mysterious verse, perhaps referring to giving a permanent [as in cast in stone] pure [white] identity to the soul, so that their belief in God rather than Baal, or false prophet, will not waver.

This is the reward for the 3rd church _Pergamos_ passing the trial by " _holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith"_ which involves holding firm to your real identity – a solid identity written in stone in forever believing/being in God.

Christ's Message To The Church In Thyatira:

[18] And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

[19] I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

[20] Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

[21] And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

[22] Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

[23] And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

[24] But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

[25] But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

[26] And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

[27] And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

[28] And I will give him the morning star.

[29] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

→ Christ admonishes the next church _Thyatira_. In this Christ has the power not only to judge, but to kill (" _I will kill her children with death_ " for her " _fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols._ "). Unlike in the Gospel of John, where Christ did not judge, except to criticize those without the Light in them (the Pharisees) and to point out deeds of sins and omissions (" _I will give unto every one of you according to your works_ _.")_ Here Christ is a warrior against evil.

The reward to this 4th church _Thyatira_ is the " _morning star"_ or Christ who rules with an " _rod of iron"_ for resisting Satan and fornication and doing " _my works_ " or works/will of God, gives them " _power over the nations"_.

Christ's Message To The Church In Sardis:

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[1] And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

[2] Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

[3] Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

[4] Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

[5] He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

[6] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

→ Christ is given the power to kill souls with his ability to blot out their name from the Book of Life, thus condemning them to the second death. Christ is also given power over who enters Heaven or Hell. In other words, he is the gatekeeper to his City of God which descents from heaven on the last judgment.

The reward of the few of the 5th _Sardis_ church is to be " _ready to die_... _hold fast, and repent... I will come on thee as a thief,... be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father"_. Many are invited to the wedding feast of Christ and his Bride, the City of God, but few are chosen to enter. One " _which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. ...clothed in white raiment",_ the required clothes or having the pureness of Christ-like consciousness to be allowed in by Christ, to enter the City of God, since if one is not in the proper garment/consciousness, one is dammed into the darkness and the second death.

Christ's Message To The Church In Philadelphia:

[7] And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

[8] I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

[9] Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

[10] Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

[11] Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

[12] Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

→ Christ states that he has the power to give a soul a new name, or allow a soul to take on a new life or name or be reborn into a new identity as a member of the City of God, to be allowed to enter the City of God, or new Jerusalem, descending from Heaven to Earth. Christ also has the power to divinely open or shut a door, perhaps referring to Matthew [7:7] " _Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you._ "

The reward for the 6th church _Philadelphia_ is to have the new name of Christ on him for " _kept my word, and hast not denied my name"._ A name to allow us to be placed under a different group or kingship, as in becoming a member in the City of God, with the name God and the new name of Christ (" _I will write upon him my new name._ ")– but Christ's new name is not given.

Christ's Message To The Church In Laodiceans:

[13] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

[14] And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

[15] I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

[16] So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

[17] Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

[18] I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

[19] As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

[20] Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

[21] To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

[22] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

→ It is interesting that Christ states " _that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. [16] So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.",_ in that they are complacent in their perceived richness, basically saying that God can work through a strong relationship with Him, in either strongly denying but eventually repenting, or strongly believing in Him, but can't work with agnostics, or indistinguishable " _lukewarm_ " believers/deniers, who never feel the need to repent. Many Christians are lukewarm, just stating belief but keeping their distance from God. He advises them to be " _zelous"_ and not be " _lukewarm"._

John repeats the " _sup with him and he with me_ " as given in his Gospel. Christ in consciousness " _goes into him_ " in consciousness, but also states that one must have the conscious will, ability, and earnest volition to _"_ _hear_ _my voice, and open the door"_. The real spirit or consciousness is mobile in that the telepathic intimacy of two conscious being is beyond worldly comprehension, and in that form the two fields of awareness do indeed " _sup_ " or relish together in the Light of God. In that closeness, they can sit on the same throne, Christ with God and thee with Christ. Christ has stated in the Gospel that he has the bread and living water of life, I. e. both the primary "ingredients" in ordinary "soup". It can be assumed that with the mutual "sup", Christ would then share his Way, his Truth or the divine reality unknown to us, and his light and life, as given to him by God to pass onto us to enable our own redemption and salvation.

Christ shows his power to exalt a faithful soul " _that overcometh_ _"_ to be with him, on the " _throne_ " in the " _City of God_ ," - the new heaven.

The reward for the 7th church _Laodiceans_ for " _knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me"_ is " _sit with me in my throne"._ Christ also states that He overcame (was redeemed like Adam), by stating to those who " _overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne._ " Also one should have the " _white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear_ [as Adam was in Eden]", and also reminds the wealthy, who may say " _I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;"_ , but in fact they are really " _wretched, and miserable, and_ [spiritually] _poor, and blind, and naked:",_ by their worldly pride and materialism.

John Is Transported To Heaven:

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[1] After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

[2] And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

→ The previous 7 messages to the 7 churches were given for John's present time, but below the future is revealed to us. Here John, in a physical body, has a vision, seeing heaven, after which he transported to a spirit realm. He sees the throne in heaven which should be the seat of God. It is interesting that he gets the impression that a trumpet, which should only be able to make frequency tone variations, seems to be able to vocalize, as if the trumpet is " _talking with me_ ". This is similar to previous voices sounding unnatural as John heard Christ's " _voice as the sound of many waters"_ [1:15].

[3] And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

[4] And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

[5] And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

[6] And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

[7] And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

[8] And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

[9] And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

[10] The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

[11] Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

→ The symbol of lamp as spirits is translated for us _"seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God."_ I am assuming the seven Spirits are the first line of servants near God. The could be the seven spirit aspects of God, similar to love, light, life, glory, and power. Those interpreting revelation as map for our individual redemption, the seven spirits could represent some seven of our senses or components needing purification.

John sees various creations, some with " _full or eyes_ " outside and " _full of eyes within",_ indicating diverse unworldly omniscient consciousness, with _"six wings"._ Indicating many powers of movements, made by the Creator or God the Father, since he " _hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."._ All those being near God, are rightly worshiping God.

It is interesting that beasts (with one having a human face) are in heaven, suggesting that all life, human or not, are also conscious beings in heaven. Spirits can inhabit animals, as indicated when Christ cast evil (fallen) spirits into swine, so such spirit may take on the appearance of the animals they inhabited in the spirit realm. There are accounts of NDE experiences where one experiences a full spherical 360 degree vision, as suggested by " _four beasts full of eyes before and behind"._ Also, in Luke [19:40] " _And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.",_ which suggests that any material object (a stone(s)) has the capability to host a spirit that can recognize Christ (another example would be demons cast in swine and the scriptures in Leviticus, in the practice of transferring sins into sacrificial animals). After all, Adam was created as a living soul out of dust, with the breath (Life/Light) of God. In other words, consciousness can inhabit any part of creation, except that the consciousness or breath and light of God, of that independent non-emergent consciousness (which is not necessarily a panpsychism type of consciousness), will experience the limited worldly knowledge, logic, and time frame and informational structure reference of that living or inanimate object, while inhabiting that vessel or host. Hopefully while in that vessel, the soul is retaining its spiritual identity, apart from the object in which it inhabits, and therefore that soul is not being a lost soul in that object or animal it inhabits. So man was evolved, via Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Christ to more perfectly contain God's light, having the components more suitable to comprehend God's being.

Some may object to the idea of us being in a perpetual worshiping state in Heaven, but " _worship_ " in this context is more like an infinite awe in the conscious comprehension of one's own created "I-ness" as a separate unique soul, while in the full present awareness of ALL, being of the same SEA of "I-ness" of similar infinite souls, within the infinite creation of the _"many mansions_ ", perhaps in the City of God or universes created by the uttered Word from the breath of God. It is not a narcissistic slavish simpleton worshiping act, but an incomprehensible expression of awe. God not only created the materials of the Universe, but also all the states of consciousness (Light), emotions, and all subjective existences/souls. God is not just a consciousness or material, concepts, etc. - but "something" wonderfully incomprehensible.

The Book With Seven Seals:

Rev.5

[1] And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

[2] And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

[3] And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

[4] And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

[5] And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

[6] And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

[7] And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

[8] And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

→ The book is in the right hand of him who sits on the throne. It should be God who is sitting on the throne. The request for a worthy **man** from either heaven, earth, of under earth (hell?) to open the book and they locate Christ, as the Lamb who had been slain, and the Redeemer of Adam's lineage, is shown to be the only man worthy to open a book having _Word_ s to be proclaimed/released, but temporarily kept closed with 7 seals, which later is shown to contain the commands for the four horses of the apocalypse. The Lamb is has attributes of " _having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."_ or 7 forms of Will/Power (horns) and 7 forms of Consciousness/Glory (eyes), and may be referring to the previously mentioned seven churches he controlled and gave advice to as Christ's " _seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."_. So Christ is identified as both a man from earth (" _the Root of David,_ "), who has the seven Spirits of God in Him, who was slain and is the holy leader of the " _harps_ ", " _prayers of saints_ " and the " _new song_ ".

Only The Lamb/Christ Is Worthy To Read From The Book With Seven Seals:

[9] And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

[10] And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

[11] And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

[12] Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

[13] And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

[14] And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

→ A new song is also mentioned later on sung on earth against the sinful. Christ " _hast redeemed us to God by thy_ [His] _blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;"_ to be priests and kings.

The book mentioned is a book of prophecy or realizing commands, indicating what MUST come to pass in the future, and which contains 7 sealed/determined set of events, as in the expression " _your fate is sealed_ ". "Sealed" also means bound to, closed and secured to, as in having yourself sealed to God, or Satan. It later mentions a number of angels serving God as being equal to (" _ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;" 100,000,000,000,000)_ 100 trillion angels. God who is on the throne holds this book, and gives it to Christ. The City of God, in a later verse, is describes as a cube volume that could easily accommodate more than 47,000 trillion 10 foot high ceiling with 1000+ sq. ft. area apartments or perhaps _"mansions"_ as mentioned in John [14:2 ] " _In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."  
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It is interesting that all creatures on and under Earth, all worship God, hinting that all living creations have some spiritual component allowing them the ability to see and worship God (" _And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever._ "). It should be no surprise, since there are a billion trillion stars in the universe. As well, God has probably already created a myriad of Universes and living conscious beings, as an unbounded, limitless creator. One should also assume that there may be more than one City of God in the Universe, even if not entirely physical.

The Six Seals Opened:

Rev.6

[1] And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

[2] And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

[3] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

[4] And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

[5] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

[6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

[7] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

[8] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

[9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

[10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

[11] And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

[12] And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

[13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

[14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

[15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

[16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

[17] For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

→ In summary, the symbol of horse is a form of power, method of power and the result of it. There are six events released by Christ, as the Gospel's Lamb of God, but in this return in Revelation, he is more of a Lion.

The Seals being broken is symbolic of releasing from and breaking binding contracts or allowing evils or evil men to have freedom, and relinquish protections which the seals provided. For example, the second seal is broken " _to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another"._

The First 6 Seals Of 7 Seals:

1 - The first horse pure white, with a Crown, and power to lance or projectile to conquer, but no calamity is described by the breaking of the first seal, only an ability, and not the immediate action, to conquer evil is released. Later on at the end of Revelation, Christ or the Lamb is described as riding a white horse that conquers evil. White color is to clean.

2 - The red horse brings an evil purge, the seal allows that " _they should kill one another"._ War results with killing each other by lacerations or the sword, as in most deaths. Red is the color of blood and war.

3 - Then a black horse with a balance, pause, or equilibrium of power results after the killings. It mentions some commerce for food with some prices. Black is the color of death.

4 - A pale horse, perhaps hinting under nourishment where commerce is impacted, food becomes bartered, suggesting famine. Heat and luxury wine or goods are limited (protected) becoming scarce, as in all normal wars unfolding. Pale is the color of famine ( _with hunger"_ ).

5 - Death from starvation, chaos (Hell), cruelty, from scavengers (beasts). Martyrs who died following the orders from the word of God in times of adversity ask for help to those proclaiming their faith to others. They ask God to " _judge and avenge"_ remove the wicked and their murderers from earth. They are accepted in Heaven, to wait for their fellow sons of God.

The earth continues to kill the faithful and unselfish. After all the martyrs are killed (" _their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed"_ ) then the final seal to punish the remaining wicked still alive on earth is opened.

6 - Massive earthquakes, atmospheric bombs, meteors, scourge the surface of the earth. The remaining survivors seek bunkers underground (" _hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;_ "). All remaining evil ones start believing in the wrath of God. This sixth seal continues with a period of lull or peace in the following passage. Old Testament Book of Joel in verses [2:30-31] has a similar end time prophecy description: _"And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come"._

Just Before The Seventh Seal Is Broken:

Rev.7

[1] And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

[2] And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

[3] Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

[4] And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

[5] Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.

[6] Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.

[7] Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.

[8] Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

→ There is a lull in tribulations to allow God to rescue, protect, take ownership of, or seal and claim the spirits of a small number of 144,000 of the children of Israel, servants of God or sons of God.

The Great Multitude Praising Before The Throne:

[9] After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

[10] And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

[11] And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

[12] Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

[13] And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

[14] And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

[15] Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

[16] They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

[17] For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

→ This unusual calm period (" _that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any_ tree.") occurs between the end of the sixth seal and the seventh seal. The described " _a great multitude, which no man could number,"_ seem to be only heaven - " _These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb._ " They are those who survive the tribulations or troubles on earth without sinning/killing (Luke [17:33] _"Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it."_ ), are cleaned/forgiven by the blood/grace of Christ and are looked after by Christ (" _hunger no more, neither thirst any more")_.

Seventh Seal Introduces 7 Trumpets:

Rev.8

[1] And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

[2] And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

[3] And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

[4] And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

[5] And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunder, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

→ The final 7th seal introduces a specific and very unusual exact time of ½ hour of silence, to provide for 7 trumpets to be sounded to introduce calamities mainly from outside earth (" _there was silence in heaven")_. This follows the shaking/earthquakes from within earth. The events called are mostly from the heavens, unlike the seven seals which were disasters solely done by men on earth. Trumpets are sometimes used in court to announce the arrival of a visitor from a foreign land, or in this case from above (outer space). The external sources of plagues following the seven trumpets blown seem similar to the plagues given to the Egyptians aimed at rattling it to release its children from the bondage of their sinful overlords.

The First Three Angels Sound The First Three Trumpets:

_[6]_ _And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound._

[7] The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

[8] And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

[9] And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

[10] And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

[11] And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

→ Like the Egyptian plagues, the trumpets bring forth hail and fire from above (perhaps a comet containing frozen methane hydrates or a super volcano eruption), and then a mountain sized meteor, or a large top of a volcano hits the seas. A third of the sea dies. Today, more than half of the seas are already dying due to climate change and pollution. The waters are poisoned by a falling bright comet or meteor, as another calamity from above as a visitor, announced again by a trumpet call.

The Forth Angel Sounds The Forth Trumpet:

[12] And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

[13] And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

→ The forth hardship is from above, the physical darkening of a third of the sun, moon, and stars.

The Fifth Angel Sounds Fifth Trumpet, For The First of Three Woes:

Rev.9

[1] And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

[2] And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

[3] And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

[4] And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

[5] And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

[6] And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

[7] And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

[8] And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

[9] And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

[10] And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

[11] And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

[12] One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

→ The fifth angel allows Christ or perhaps another angel, who comes from the heavens like a falling star, to open the bottomless pit to release unusual shaped like locusts of iron, gold, seemingly looking like flying helicopters with faces of men, war machines, sounding like chariots (sounding like turning wheels/gears) as tormentors of the remaining dammed, the " _those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads."_ It gives only poisonous torments without killing the dammed, the darkness or those without the Light and don't believe in Christ or God, but follow their fallen angel of Death to the bottomless pit. It is interesting that the dammed can't commit suicide, suggesting some kind of technology that makes them physically immortal but still tortured, hinting on some future DNA altering or nanotechnology or protective exoskeletons. It also mentions " _to hurt men five months."_

The Sixth Angel Sounds His Trumpet, Releases 4 Evil/Fallen Angels:

[13] And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

[14] Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

[15] And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

[16] And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

[17] And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

[18] By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

[19] For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

[20] And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

[21] Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

→ " _Four"_ angels (perhaps they are evil angels because it states that they were bound on earth and because they release destruction on 1/3 of men), waited for 1-yr/1-month/1-day/1-hr, are released by the sixth angel's trumpet call, which release two hundred million horsemen or machines of death killing more, leaving only the hardened unrepentant evil souls (believing in dark/lifeless material idols rather than life). It is currently hard to imagine such a large army, but a country with a billion population could have an army of that size. The army fire " _out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone."_ which is a good description of our modern day military equipment. But since it mentions 4 angels holding back this army, it may be suggesting that 4 countries are supplying the 200 million men army. The army kills 1/3 of men (perhaps worldwide). Some calculations suggest that in Armageddon's battle, about ½ billion die.

The Seventh Trumpet With The Mighty Angel (Christ) With A Little Book:

Rev.10

[1] And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

[2] And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

[3] And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

[4] And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

[5] And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

[6] And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

[7] But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

[8] And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

[9] And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

[10] And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

[11] And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

→ The seventh angel with a little book, has the description of Christ's previous appearance and states that he is _"who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:...the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."_ As promised before at the end of the Gospel of John, parables will end and knowledge will be given plainly so that _"the mystery of God should be finished"._

There are hints of some kind relationships between the large angel and John, suggesting the relationship between John and Christ. John is given more information but told not to record what the seventh angel does. It mentions some cessation of Time or an end for this Universe or Earth. In the next verse, the City or temple of God is revealed, so it is assumed that it signifies the end of time for at least, the Earth. The angel's " _book_ ", John is told to consume but not write some of the prophecy, but to prophecy it to some future reincarnation of John. It seems that John will probably be involved as a major reincarnated prophet in Revelation's end times.

The seventh angel starts the events that will eventually defeat Satan (" _the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.")_.

The Temple Of God:

Rev.11

[1] And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

[2] But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

→ John is told to measure the temple/City of God, except for the court. It tells John not to measure the Gentile's outer court, outside the temple. It mentions that for about 42 months the holy city's court is under foot by the gentiles outside (" _without"_ ) the temple, but is not measured. It is strange that the size should be kept a secret. Of course this court should be larger than the temple of God. Later on a spirit has a different golden rod and that spirit measures the City of God for John to record.

It suggests that the unholy gentiles will be tread under the holy city for 42 months, while thereafter 2 saints prophecy for a bit more than 6 years (2260 days). Not sure if the holy city refers to the real City of God since the City of God will be descending later on in Revelation 21, so it is probably referring to a city in Israel's temple, altar, and outer court.

The Power of Two Witnesses:

[3] And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

[4] These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

[5] And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

[6] These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

[7] And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

[8] And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

[9] And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

[10] And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

[11] And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

[12] And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

→ Two saints/witnesses as the two candlesticks of God, walk on earth with supernatural powers causing any force that is used kill them to be reflected right back to kill the killers. Like Moses and Aaron, the two as peacemakers, and as God's light to the unrepentant, also bring plagues to the evil (" _power over_ w _aters to turn them to blood")_. As well these witnesses are protected by " _if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed",_ is the same method used by God to inflict back to the Egyptian Pharaoh's effort to kill the Jews back (e. g. the Passover killing of the firstborn). Their defense against evil is not direct, but indirect since Christians are not allowed to defend themselves by using direct violence, punishment, or defense against the evil ones persecuting them, but must turn the other cheek to allow " _He who is unjust, let him be unjust_ still" and in Revelation [22:11] and Gospel of Matthew [13:30-40 ] _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest:"_ ), so these witnesses must only be protected passively by mirroring back or reflecting back the forces attacking them. After their testimony, they allow themselves to be killed and be resurrected after three and a half days. The world rejoice when they are killed by the beast, released out of the bottomless pit, but soon after that, they are resurrected by God and ascend to heaven. With this, the world is in great fear.

**The 2** nd **Woe of Three Woes:**

[13] And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

[14] The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

→ After the three saints ascend, seven thousand die by an earthquake.

The Seventh Angel (Christ) Sounds Again, The Third, Last, Last Woe of Three:

[15] And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

[16] And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

[17] Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

[18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

[19] And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

→ The Earth is finally won and becomes a part of all kingdoms of God, _"this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever."_ Christ is to judge to " _destroy them which destroy the earth."_ This is a very appropriate condemnation of today's climate change deniers and industrial capitalists that are destroying our Earth. At this point the seventh angel begins the incarnation of Christ into his conquered kingdom, and the judgment of the dead, preparing all nations to be ruled by Him. So in the following verse below, another mother is brought forth from heaven ( _temple of God_ ) to earth to conceive Him in the following verse.

The Birth of God's Ruler of All Nations:

Rev.12

[1] And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

[2] And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

[3] And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

[4] And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

[5] And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

[6] And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

→ The new Virgin Mother gives birth to Christ, identified as " _a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron",_ to rule all nations. Satan, the dragon, or fallen angel also descends from heaven, along with a 1/3 of heaven's stars or his fallen angels, chasing Her, trying to destroy the child and her. She escapes for 6 years in the wilderness, and the child/Christ is returned to God in heaven.

It is interesting that God requires Christ to again physically incarnate via a Holy divine intervention to influence mortal pregnancy, as was done with Virgin Mary, rather than to be made from dust as Adam, or as a materializing/dematerializing human, as Christ tended to appear and disappear from in front of his disciples and crowds. It is also strange that the new Mary is left behind. In the verse 17, later on, it suggests that it is a reincarnated Eve, rather than just Mary who gives birth to Christ, stating: " _dragon was wroth with_ _the_ _woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God"._ Perhaps since Eve came from Adam, now through Christ, as the redeemed Adam comes from Eve, in a complete causal circle, so some of mankind can be redeemed, to return to that special part in the garden of Eden, to become immortal by having access again to the garden's Tree of Life via Christ or Adam who originally was created to look after that special tree and others in Eden.

Archangel Michael Fights Satan, And Satan Is Cast Out Of Heaven:

[7] And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

[8] And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

[9] And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

[10] And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night

→ Satan while in heaven as mentioned in old testament Bible in Book of Job, kept accusing Job or man of not being worthy of God's favor, accusing/maligning and tempting him and other men. So finally Satan and his fallen angels are conquered and removed from heaven by Michael the archangel and God's angels, and cast to earth.

It is interesting that God has previously allowed Satan to remain in heaven and " _accused_ [judged] _them_ [us/mankind], like Satan did against Job and Adam] _before our God"_ up to this point, and it does not inexplicably state that Satan was ousted before this time. It is interesting that Satan's sin is judgment by the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, which Satan obviously has and succeeded in tempting Adam and Eve. Although Adam was prevented from obtaining immortality from the tree of life, Satan was allowed to remain in heaven as an immortal. Unfortunately that knowledge of good and evil is the root of the spirit of rebellion against God, allowing one to have the ability to object or criticize God and therefore separate us from God, which is death. It takes much light, love, and compassion for one with that evil knowledgeable/ability to see the perfection in God's work, I guess Satan did not.

Satan fails in the fight, and he and none of his followers can be found remaining in Heaven because he " _prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven"._ Satan (the dragon) is finally defeated by Michael with the help of Christ.

Later in Rev 22 [11] _"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: ..."_ basically explains that not only does God tolerate both earthly and heavenly evil to persist on Earth as well in Heaven to the near end, therefore God let even Satan and his evil angels or devils to stay in Heaven, in the same way God let evil souls to continue to reincarnate on Earth, giving all a change to redeem themselves right up to the very END TIME, right up to the time of their Second Death and Final Judgment. God hoped that they could qualify for entry into the City of God or Kingdom of God right to the end. God showed mercy even to Satan, hoping to redeem him, as a fallen angel, right to the end.

The Blood of Christ Defeats Satan:

[11] And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

→ Satan was also defeated with the help from the righteous believers and the blood of Christ, and those who are willing to die for righteousness, and to allow " _He who is unjust, let him be unjust still_ " ([22:11]). The _blood of the lamb_ , their testimony, and the love for the light and not the lifeless/darkness world they lived in could be said to be three components of Christ – the Way/blood, the Truth/testimony, and the Light/life, enabled them to defeat Satan.

**The Last Woe, Vengeful Satan Descends On Earth** :

[12] Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

[13] And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

[14] And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

[15] And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

[16] And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

[17] And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

→ Satan, banished from heaven is enraged, still tries to kill the Mother of Christ, and interestingly other children of God. If she is like the incarnation of Eve, who also " _with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained"_ as God told Eve _"_ Genesis [3:16]... _in pain you will bring forth children"_ when he banished her from Eden. It reaffirms the theory that Eve is the mother of the sons of Man and son of God "Exodus [3:20] _Eve; because she was the mother of all living_ ", the chosen ones who kept the commandments of God.

The woman is saved but Satan continues his war with the rest of her children/mankind on earth. It is interesting that 2 wings are given to her. One could interpret it to be saying that she was given the 2 wings of physical plane, to enable her to evade a physical Satan. The mouth of Satan could be referring to the mouth of a great dam and the mouth of earth being an earthquake opening a great geological fault.

Satan's Give Power to His Minions On Earth And the 7 Heads Of The Beast :

Rev.13

[1] And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

[3] And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

[4] And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

→ On earth, Satan brings out a Beast from the sea (from among the vast amount of people on earth). But in this case it seems that each head of this beast is a person, since one of the seven heads is wounded and survives, meaning that it is an individual's head of a person. Which suggests that the Beast may be 7 people with 10 powers or means and for each of their means or power they have ten titles, authorities or crowns, in other words, the Beast has 700 power facilities. With this minor healing miracle, the world surrenders and worships the beast/person. The beast is worshiped as God - the blasphemy. The people become Satanists since they " _worshipped the dragon_ ". It later states in [13:14] that he was wounded " _by a sword_ ".

The Darkness, Satanists Worships the Beast:

[5] And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

[6] And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

[7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

[8] And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

→ The Beast becomes the _"mouth-_ piece _"_ or individual leader to speak for Satan, to cause war for 3 ½ years with the dammed on his side. Satan seems to be having a blasphemous fit. And the darkness or lost souls, who are not in the Book of Life, continue to worship Satan and his Beast _._

**The Remaining Saints Resist Violence** _:_

[9] If any man have an ear, let him hear.

[10] He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

→ **A** **warning to the faithful with little Light remaining on earth, to not enslave (lead into "** _captivity"_ **), kidnap, or defend yourself by killing ("** _with the sword"_ **), but to hate your material life and let your life to be voluntarily taken by the evil ones. This is probably the only preparation you need – to surrender your soul to Christ and submit your body to evil.**

Matthew [5:39] " _But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."_ and " _let evil be evil"_ to you _._

The Second Beast Performs Miracles:

[11] And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

[12] And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

[13] And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

[14] And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

[15] And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

→ A new beast with possibly only one head appears, who now has many more miraculous powers than the last one who only survived a deadly wound. This one beast, or man, performs miracles, and resurrects life in the lifeless and creates an image of the first beast and forces all to worship or be killed. This is the test, to give up your life by testifying your belief in God and the Word, Light, and Love of Christ. Matthew [6:25] _"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it."_

If this would happen in the next thousand years, this could be interpreted as the creation of an artificial life or intelligence able to identify those who do not worship the beast (like a golden calf) to be put to death – and to their salvation.

The Satanists Marked By Number Of The Beast:

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

[17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

[18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

→ Only those who worship the beast remain since all who refused to worship the beast are killed by now. Those worshiping the first or second beast, who performs miracles, are forcibly marked by the beast's identity of 666 or the name of the beast/fallen-man individual. The name or symbol which has 666 in it could be based on numerology, a unification/national logo, or geometric figure having 6 aspects/patterns repeated 3 times. But he can be simply be identified by his killings, injustice, amorality, and absolute dictatorship and control over people.

Christ With 144,000 Pure Souls Marked by God and the First Angel's Voice:

Rev.14

[1] And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

[2] And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

[3] And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

[4] These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

[5] And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

→ Previously God " _will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."_ and Christ had marked 144,000 (or possibly " _the hundred forty and four thousand,"_ meaning 4,140) of his followers with God on their forehead to resist Satan. These 144,000 pure redeemed honest virgin followers " _firstfruits"_ of Christ, with God's name on their foreheads, have no _"guile_ ", give no lies and are sinless, assist in defeating Satan and those with the mark of the Beast, with a new song to confront the leaders and the 4 beasts, bring wrath to the followers of Satan, and having the mark of the beast.

There is a mention of a voice " _a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder:"_ which suggests as being the first angel brings forth a song to proclaim a message by the first fruits. There follows 6 more voices of angels adding to seven angels making declarations, messages, or preaching.

Second Of Seven Angels Descend To Preach About the Wrath Of God:

[6] And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

[7] Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

The Third Angel Declares Babylon Fallen:

[8] And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

The Forth Angel Condemns Those With The Mark Of The Beast:

[9] And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

[10] The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

[11] And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

→ A terrible fate for the non-believers, followers of Satan, is described above. In Proverbs [9:10] it states that _"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding."_ It is foolish not to worship God, with all your body, mind, and soul once realizing that your wonderful Life and Being is solely a creation of and from God. The only evil that you can imagine in the world is solely from your fellow members of mankind and Satan's foolish narcissistic Spirit of Rebellion. Every living fresh breath of life you breathe is solely by God's creative grace, yet these lost souls are hard headed and stupid enough to follow Satan, mankind's enemy from the very beginning in Eden.

Those Who Still Have Faith In Jesus Will Be Saved:

[12] Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

[13] And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

[14] And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

→ We are told that it is much better to die by faith in Christ, because your good faith and belief in the Light and good deeds (" _works"_ ) will be accounted. Christ, the new child " _sat like unto the Son of man"_ , descends from with a sharp sickle to harvest. The "sharp" sickle must be referring to the harvest of the wicked who are "hardened". As in Matthew [13:30-40] " _He that sows the good seed is the Son of man",_ Christ is here for the harvest.

Fifth Angel And The First Reaping:

[15] And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

[16] And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

→ Christ and the angels reap the harvest, not mentioning any specific crop of souls but later in [18] it states that the sickle harvested souls are " _cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God._ " meaning that the bad souls are taken. Christ may be gathering the good seeds first, whereas the next sharp sickle in the following verse [18] gathers the evil ones.

Sixth And Seventh Angel Reaps The Grapes Of God's Wrath:

[17] And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

[18] And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

[19] And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

[20] And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

→ There are two more angels: one with a sharp sickle and one with power over fire. The power of fire could signify the fire of war. God's wrath, squeezes blood from the "grapes" harvested using a sharp sickle by a second angel (not Christ).

A furlong defined as 660 feet or .125 of a mile. In this case with a diameter of 1600 furlongs (" _thousand and six hundred furlongs_ " **)** square of each square unit being 660ft*660ft squared each, piled to the 6ft height of a horse, so1600 square furlongs units, which are converted by * 660ft wide * 660ft long * 6ft height of a horse bridle or head, to be converted to cubic feet being = to over 4 billion cubic feet. If referring to a normal human body blood volume of 1 cubic foot, then total blood volume squeezed from the wine press is probably representing 4 billion people. This was done just outside a city. (My original calculation in my past edition had it figured out to be ½ billion people for some strange reason.) The killing of four billion would make sense if they were killed by the power of fire or atomic explosions.

The Seven Angels With The Last Seven Vials Of Plagues:

Rev.15

[1] And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

[2] And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

[3] And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

[4] Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

[5] And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:

[6] And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.

[7] And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

[8] And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

→ The sea of glass mingled with fire may be referring to the aftermath of killing 4 billion by fire or atomic power, causing sand to melt into glass. The victors stand on the sea of glass " _having the harps of God_ ", having victory over the evil ones of the beast on earth. The vials are given by one of the holy beasts around the throne to the 7 angels. The evil ones are going to be exposed to 7 plagues by the seven angels released from a heavenly temple tabernacle. The temple may be in the City of God in heaven, before the descent to Earth, but the temple is closed to man until the end of the 7 plagues as the wrath of God to those with the mark of the Beast.

The 7 Vials Of Plagues To Those With The Mark Of The Beast:

Rev.16

[1] And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

[2] And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

[3] And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

[4] And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

[5] And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.

[6] For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

[7] And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

[8] And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

[9] And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

[10] And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

[11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

[12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

[13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

[14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

[15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

[16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

[17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

→ **The seven plagues from vials poured from 7 angels are:**

1 - sores,

2 - death of many (sea of dead blood),

3 - rivers/water contaminated,

4 - scorch/burns,

5 - smoke/darkness, They " _gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed"_

6 - no water/dried rivers, " _out of the mouth of the dragon ,.._ [the] _beast_

and " _false prophet_ " come out as spirits of the devil.

7 - some air borne contamination or plague. " _vial into the air"_

Between the 6th and 7th vial of plagues, fallen angels or spirits of devils, having miraculous powers, perform miracles seducing the world to go to war against God to an area called Armageddon. The quote " _Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame."_ may be related to Matthew [22 1-14] " _he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen."._ The wedding garment is the appropriate divine conscious state appropriate for the " _wedding garment_ " required for entering into the City of God at harvest time? It hides our nakedness or Adam's first use of the knowledge from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that was his first sin (sight of our own nakedness and shameful deficiency), death, so Adam and also we, as sons of Adam/Man, were therefore banished from God's Eden or God's companionship.

It is interesting that in [10], it states that the throne of Satan (" _seat of the beast_ ") becomes " _full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain_ _"._ It suggests that darkness is devoid of consciousness or is a total sensory deprivation experience, in that; even pain is a better alternative to having no sensation at all. This presents an odd reason why only suffering seems to exist in Hell, in that in Hell one has no joy, life, or light sensations from God, except for the existence of painful (lifeless) sensations. It seems to suggest that the life, joy, and love sensation from God, as the light, is missing in Hell's darkness.

**The 7** th **Vial Is Poured:**

[18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

[19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

[20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

[21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

→ After Armageddon the 7th vial is poured, earthquakes leveling the cities, islands, and mountains, followed by hail about 50 lbs. (" _weight of_ _a talent_ ") or about a one foot cubic size ice. The Armageddon atomic war's nuclear winter or earthquake's volcanic smoke's darkening and cooling of the sky can produce hail. Even huge 1 mile high ocean tsunamis by earthquakes could cover and level vast areas clean and flat.

Angel Identifies The Great Whore:

Rev.17

[1] And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

[2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

[3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

[6] And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

→ John is introduced to the great whore, named MYSTERY, sits on seven heads and ten horns, as mentioned in [12:3] for the dragon, across many waters. It seems to describe an organization or corporation (a business body/corpus) except that later on it states " _woman which thou sawest is that great city"_ containing great artisans, producing many desirable goods with great wealth. It is like the great city of Satan.

The Self-Destruction Of Babylon After Christ Defeats Her:

[7] And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

[8] The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

[9] And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

[10] And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

[11] And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

[12] And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

[13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

[14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

[15] And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

[16] And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

[17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

[18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

→ The angels that brought the 7 plagues explain the symbols to John:

1 - seven heads are seven mountains or places

2 - ten horns are power of ten kings

3 - the kings on the mountains give their power to the beast/Satan

4 - waters are the world's people supporting the Harlot, immoral, calling herself "mystery" which is a great city, ruling the earth.

5 - The Beast wages war with Christ and his followers, but the Beast is defeated.

6 - After the defeat of the wicked, God hardens the heart of the " _ten kings"_ rulers (" _these_ [ten kings] _shall hate the whore" ..."God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will_ _)_ to turn against and destroy their own wicked Babylon city. God can manipulate the wills of the darkness, since they have relinquished their divine free will to Satan, so as God had hardened the heart of the Egyptian Pharaoh in Exodus, to allow all the plagues to play through before releasing the Jews from Egypt, God manipulated the hearts of these kings to hate the harlot. As well, God punished the Egyptians and the Pharaoh by reflecting back onto themselves the Pharaoh's own wishes and actions to hurt his own people. The Pharaoh had decided to kill all the first born Jewish sons, but God backfires, reflects, or mirrors Pharaoh's wish so that the Egyptian first born sons all die instead (which is the Passover). It seems God does not respect the evil will of the wicked, since he judges/harms them in exactly the same manner as they judge/harm others, and he also removes their will/freedom in the second death ( _"bind him hand and foot...and cast him into outer darkness"_ ). This reflection of ill will is indicated in Matthew [7:1] " _judge not least be judged_ [by the same judgment you give that you yourself have judged the other]"). It is also another example similar to evil judgments as stated in Matthews [7:2] " _For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." -_ God does not punish, He only directs evil actions back to its own evil origin.

The verse _"The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."_ confirms the vision's symbolism of sea or water to really represent large populations of people. The great sinful organization of Babylon is destroyed by their own worldly sinners after losing the war against Christ. They self-destruct by God hardening the hearts of them to turn against their own, that Whore City they loved so much. Soon after, they realize what they did and greatly morn. God very seldom inflicts harm directly, instead he causes evil's ill will to be turned against or be reflected back to evil itself. I can't remember of any writing stating that God ever harmed anyone directly.

Plagues Fall On The Defeated Babylon:

Rev.18

[1] And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

[2] And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

[3] For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

[4] And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

[5] For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

[6] Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

[7] How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

[8] Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

[9] And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

[10] Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

[11] And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

[12] The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

[13] And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

[14] And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

[15] The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

[16] And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

[17] For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

[18] And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

[19] And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

→ An angel beaming with light, lights up the whole world, destroys her in one hour. John gives details of how in one hour (" _in one hour is thy judgment_ ") this great city of delights, sorcery, technology, riches, and sin is devastated to nothingness in a very short time after the previous devastation by their own sinners, the " _ten kings",_ by God putting hate into their hearts to hate their own Babylon. The one hour destruction suggests some gamma ray of light burst type of nuclear bomb. The entire world morns. The city is described as having great coastlines. There still are some good seeds to be saved (" _Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins ")_ before the plaques are released on her. Apparently many still remain alive to fight the last war against Christ. Many inhabitants are evil foul spirits, devils, and merchants.

The Complete Destruction Of Babylon:

[20] Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

[21] And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

[22] And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

[23] And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

[24] And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

→ An angel completes her destruction by throwing a great millstone, meteor, or rock into to sea that covers up Babylon. It mentions that Babylon used sorcery to deceive all nations. Many still remain alive to fight one more war against Christ. It could be that what remains, are only ghosts or spirits, roaming on the earth.

Christ Descends To Destroy Satan and Others:

Rev.19

[1] And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

[2] For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

[3] And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

[4] And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

[5] And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

[6] And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

[7] Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

[8] And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

[9] And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

[10] And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

[11] And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

[12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

[13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

[14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

[15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

[16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

[17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;

[18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

[19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

[20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

[21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

→ Christ, strengthened and clothed with the power and suffering of the saints, returns to slaughter Satan and his followers, some with the second death by using a sharp tongue or sword, in contrast to how Christ healed the sick in the Gospel accounts merely by saying the word (Matthew [8:8] "... _speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed._ "). There is some mention to anticipate for " _the marriage supper of the Lamb"._

Christ's name is stated to be " _called The Word of God."_

The birds on earth consume the flesh of the tyrants and evil. The beast, including the false prophet are " _cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone" -_ the second death _._ Satan is not the beast, but is the dragon, since later on Satan is thrown into the bottomless pit.

Satan Is Bound For 1,000 Years Using The Bottomless Pit:

Rev.20

[1] And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

[2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

[3] And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

→ _S_ atan is made inactive or bound into the bottomless pit, another dimension or realm, to not interfere in the First Resurrection's generation of the holy to be with Christ on earth. So that Christ can walk among the ones, who believe and see His Light, on earth for a thousand years. The non-believers are not allowed to reincarnate for a thousand years, so that they are to wait until Satan is released again with them.

The First Resurrection Live With Christ For A Thousand Years:

[4] And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

[5] But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

[6] Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

→ The first Resurrection, is the thousand year period when the believers and Christ solely occupy (" _reigned with Christ a thousand years"_ ) the earth and the others are prevented from being reincarnated so that " _the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished."_ Likewise, the holy ones are allowed to reincarnate in the first Resurrection, and are sparred from the SECOND DEATH (since others who are not in the Book of Life or have bad works/deeds, are prevented from reincarnating, to wait for the Final Judgment for all souls, and " _must be loosed a little season short season_ " with Satan at the helm, and they will be judged again, with the possibility of getting the Second Death in the Final Judgment.)

In verse 5 (" _the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.")_ , Revelation is reaffirming the belief in reincarnation, which the Roman Catholic dropped from Christian beliefs in the 5th century A.D. As well, since Christ was also able to cast demons or bad spirits into swine, then one should assume that good spirits are also independent of physical vessels, allowing them to be spiritually and consciously mobile to allow their souls to inject themselves into other human lifelines, reincarnations, or forms, and having the possibility like Christ to appear and disappear at will. In other words, they possess spiritual immortality, by their immortal souls. No wonder Christ chided those concerned with their mortal comforts, clothing, nourishment, or safety. It also seems that Christ is able to restore earth to health for the first generation that will not die the second death, or be part of the final judgment.

After 1,000 Years Of Peace With Christ On Earth, Satan Is Released To War:

[7] And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

[8] And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

[9] And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

[10] And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

→ Satan is released after 1000 years and again deceives the people, " _the number of whom is as the sand of the sea",_ to battle against the saints and the holy city, but God, for the first time, directly intervenes directly from Heaven, to defeat them by the (" _fire came down from God out of heaven"_ ). They are devoured by fire, and [10] Satan joins his beasts are cast into the permanent lake of fire, in torture forever, perhaps by the second death. It may be that Satan, as a former immortal, is allowed to exist perpetually in torture, whereas evil mortals are entirely eliminated from existence by the second death.

The Dead Stand Before God And Are Judged By Their Deeds In The Books:

[11] And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

[12] And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

[13] And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

[14] And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

[15] And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

→ **It is important to note** that for the first time, it is not Christ, but ONLY GOD does the final judgment since " _the dead, small and great, stand before God"_. As stated before, one cannot see the face of GOD and still exist as stated above in Revelation [20:11-12] " _from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them._ " and later on John says [21:1] " _I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."_ ). So it is God, not Christ, who casts evil into the second death, the extermination, by the God's gaze on the wicked (" _I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened_ "). It is also God's gaze that destroys the sea, earth and heaven, replacing them with the new Heaven and New Earth. The _"sea"_ could be a symbol of the vast population on earth.

The final resurrection of all that died and were in the sea and hell to be judged from the Book of Life, and other books on their deeds in front of God (It suggests that those who were dead, or in hell, are judged again by the Book of Life and other books, and if again judged evil or not having Life by not being in the Book of Life, were cast into the Lake of Fire, the _second death_. Also, it seems to suggest that only the dead are present in the Final Judgment (" _the dead, small and great, stand before God_ "). It previously stated that for those who incarnate within the First Resurrection, will not have the Second Death, because it states that after the thousand years when Satan is released and returns, [8] "... _to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.[9] And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints",_ stating that the population at the time Satan returns has both the bad and the good, Satan attacks (" _the camp of the saints"),_ and the bad (" _to gather them together to battle")_ against the good.

This verse stating that the souls (" _were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works._ ") is in contradiction to modern Christianity which generally teaches that Heaven is granted to all by Christ's crucifixion, by the blood of Christ so that all sins are forgiven – yet these verses clearly state that one is judged by our deeds or works as well. The blood of Christ may be specific, for the redemption of Adam and for the chosen people and who believe, to allow Christ to become their bridegroom in the City of God. On the other hand, sins may be forgiven by Christ, by seeing his Light and believing in Him and God, and following in his Will or Way, being in his Truth, and with his Light, having done good deeds, as true servants, accepting God's creation without judgment but with only praise and glory to God.

The recording of the soul's deeds in a book seems to be in agreement with NDE experiences' life review. In the life review, deeds are not judged, but only recorded truthfully without judgment only at that single time of death. Also in NDE, almost all are told to return to try to finish some deed, with an angelic statement that their works in that life are not finished, so even in the near death experiences, there is a recording and what events are important are pointed out to the soul. Their works and deeds are important in their path to salvation, which is also in contradiction to modern Christianity's belief that only belief in Christ is needed for salvation, unless the process to truly believe in Christ can only be accomplished by the result of enough divinely inspired good deeds.

What is the garment needed to enter the City of God? From my personal experience, when one has the Christ like consciousness awakened in oneself, or the Light in us, and being in the Light, our awareness does not judge others, but is only graced in bliss in the real presence and companionship of God, without any worldly concerns, knowledge, or good and evil in our awareness. In the Light, or in the Christ Consciousness state, one is devoid of sin in our hearts. Light does not hold onto darkness (one cannot entertain any evil thoughts or ill will), so in that eternal spiritual present state of Spiritual Self-awareness, one is truly free from any sinful state, and all our past sins. One should assume that Hell is destroyed since those who remain are only those in the City of God, who do not reincarnate and are in their immortal physical bodies residing in the City of God, therefore there will not be any reason to retain Hell, since Satan, the fallen angels, and all those who occupied it have been destroyed by the second death or bound forever.

New Heaven And Earth, City Of God, The Bride Of Christ From Heaven:

Rev.21

[1] And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

[2] And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

[3] And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

[4] And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

[5] And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

[6] And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

[7] He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

→ A new tabernacle or holy city is created by God to replace heaven and earth for all remaining souls not taken by the Second Death to occupy. The new "city" is finally explained to be the bride of Christ/God, as stated, the _"holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."_ In the Gospel, the parable of the groom inviting the Jews to attend his wedding to the bride is in reference to this new heaven and earth replacement, the City of God.

A reference to the wedding of Christ to this new City is hinted in Matthew [22 1-14] _"And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. 7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. 9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. 10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen."_

As mentioned in [16:15] Christ stated _"Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame."_ Ironically Adam and Eve were the first to demand for their need of clothes after eating the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and now God and Christ is seemingly getting back at them, by insisting that they be properly clothed (clothe in righteous thought). Jesus retaliates against the lineage of Adam and their desires for the external man-made material appendages or technology (clothes) in Matthew [6:26-34] saying, " _Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So_ _why do you worry about clothing_ _? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;_ _and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these._ _Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,_ _will He not much more clothe you_ _, O you of little faith?"_

It is amazing that the Gospels are confirming this part of Revelation, in that the bridegroom as Christ weds the new City of God and Heaven, inviting all (good and bad " _as many as ye shall find"_ ) but only the few good seeds by being dressed properly without the stains of sins and evil deeds, respecting the occasion are chosen to stay. Obviously having the wedding garment refers to being clothed in the compatible reverent Christ Consciousness. In Revelation all, good and evil, are invited with the opportunity to attend the feast within the new city, but only the worthy, clothed in the Christ Consciousness which is essentially Love, are allowed to stay, those without the holy garment are cast to the Second Death. The first wedding invitees that were supposed to be all the good souls of God, are led astray by worldly desires, and therefore God opens the door for all, good or evil, to attend, the good and perhaps some of the dead and in Hell can be qualified to enter into the new City of God, by keeping the Way by deed, being in God's Truth and Light.

So what is that " _garment_ "? If indeed it is the Christ Consciousness, then Christ was right in stating that one needs to " _drink his blood and eat his flesh_ " as a means of having Christ in us, just as Christ had God in Him. This has to be done by being able to listen to the voice of Christ, and knock at the door to invite him to mutually sup, as stated in Revelation [3:20] " _Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me._ "

God is pointing out the errors in Adam and mankind's desire to clothe themselves in man-made technology - the modern clothes. Practically speaking, the technology, or external needs of men, makes us dependent, our bodies weaker, and currently more mentally inept. If one views our conscious soul to be independent of our physical vessels or bodies, then as conscious immortal beings we can move our consciousness wherever and whenever we please, as Christ was able to demonstrate. He had no need of food, or wealth or clothes, just like John the Baptist, and no fear of death. How would such a civilization exist? It would be a civilization, incomprehensible, except by the few mystics and those who have experienced profound NDEs. These would be invited and chosen to stay in the City of God. A civilization materially pursuing Adam's and Eve's "clothes" would eventually merge with their lifeless technology, and slowly deny and destroy their inner Light or divine consciousness. They would be extremely worldly, technologically smart, and knowledgeable without comprehension, as the darkness cannot _comprehend_ the Light.

The Second Death And The City Of God:

[8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

[9] And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

[10] And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

[11] Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

[12] And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

[13] On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

[14] And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

[15] And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

[16] And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

[17] And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

[18] And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

[19] And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

[20] The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

[21] And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

[22] And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

[23] And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

[24] And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

[25] And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

[26] And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

[27] And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

→ It again confirms that the City of God is the bride of Christ. _"that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God"._

The second death is destined for the wicked who " _shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."_ and it later states than only the good written in the Lamb's (Christ's) book of life will be allowed to enter the City (" _holy Jerusalem"_ ).

It states that it has no temple, since God and Christ are the true temple (" _And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it."_ ).

The measurements of the city are taken by an angel. A furlong is defined as 660 feet or .125 miles. 12,000 furlongs = 1,500 miles. The description of the new City seems like some celestial planet or spaceship that is a 1,500 mile cube or half the diameter size of mercury or a bit smaller than our 2,159 mile diameter wide moon. So 3,375,000,000 cubic miles * 140,608,000,000 cubic feet per cubic mile / 10,000 cubic feet of a normal 1000 sq. ft. x 10 ft. height apartment = 3,375,000,000 * 14,060,800 = 4.7 *10^^16 apartments = 47 thousand trillion apartments which is much more than all the of the souls that ever existed on earth. It was previous mentioned that there were 100 trillion angels in heaven. These numbers are comparable. It has enough room for divine beasts, and other life that may have existed in other worlds or planets. There is no mention that this city is the only city of God.

The Tree Of Life In The City Of God:

Rev.22

[1] And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

[2] In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

[3] And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

[4] And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

[5] And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

→ And as promised by Christ, having the fruits from the Tree of Life. His bread of Life and living waters from his throne are given to the inhabitants. For the first time men will be able to " _see his_ [God] _face"_ and not die.

Christ Encourages John To Write Revelation:

[6] And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

[7] Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

[8] And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.

[9] Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

[10] And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.

[11] He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

[12] And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

[13] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

[14] Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

[15] For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

[16] I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

[17] And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

[18] For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

[19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

[20] He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus

→ As stated by Matthew [13:30-40] which foretold Revelation's plot: _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest"_ which is the same as the above Revelation 12th chapter: [11] _"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.[12] And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."_ It was explained in Matthews that this is decreed for at least three reasons. One being that by pulling out or eliminating the evil from the world, the good may be disturbed in their path to salvation, just as the act of pulling weeds from a field may destroy the good grain among them, and two, by eliminating the evil, stopping their lives, one is shortening their opportunity to repent and be redeemed into good seeds, and lastly, three, by eliminating the evil weeds, the good grain may miss in doing the good deeds in a world of strife, missing the opportunities in glorifying the God and love others, as true martyrs and believers of Christ.

John summarizes the message for our salvation, saying that we should " _do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."_ and _"to give every man according as his work shall be."_ **Amen.**

REVELATION CONCLUSION

In the above last verses, is the complete circle of redemption of Adam's lineage that were banished from Eden, after acquiring the ability to make judgment on God's creation and themselves, as good or evil. Their ability to criticize or judge is the foundation of the Spirit of Rebellion and Satan who criticized God. Those who can enter God's City no longer judge God or his creations, but fully love and fully accept and approve and praise their own existence and his creations.

It also resolves the Adam and Eve's complaint about their lack of clothes by the reference that those who were required to be properly garbed according to God's requirements, and not by using Adam's "fig leaves" before entering heaven.

The Light/Life breath of God entered Adam, us, and Christ a descendant of Adam was able to have the complete God in Christ, so that all man could be able see the face of God and not perish, as stated in Revelation [22:4] _"And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads._ ", to believe and be consciously in Him, the Way, Truth, and Light.

For in Genesis [3:22-24] it states:

3:22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

So finally Adam, Eve and their righteous lineage are given immortality by the fruits of the Tree of Life in the City of God.

Earth is a an odd triage for the sorting out of souls into evil and good streams, to separate the chaff from the grain, or a place where souls of Light, the gods, or the Sons of God, are allowed to prove their worthiness to allow them to enter the City of God and not have the Second Death.

As Christ always warned against the literal interpretation of the Words in the Bible and the Torah, is the sad reason he did not write. He states that the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Ghost, will teach all of us what is needed to the Sons of God, in their quiet moments in meditation, seeking God, and listening to God's Will, to do His good selfless deeds through some harsh tribulations.

How can we believe in Christ merely by stating a stream of words? To believe in Christ we have to be a Witness/seer of Christ's Light, witnessing and seeing the Light and God in Christ, using our own cultivated light (mustard seed of faith planted by Christ/God) and in the intense meditative state of listening to the still, quiet voice of God and Christ and to knock and invite Christ's Consciousness merged into us.

God has not only created the physical objects and events but also our soul and mind, and in our soul he has created the Light or that special Conscious State in which we are forgiven of our sins, just like hell is also a state of negative tormented emotions of anger and fear. God has created the son of God for us internally as the Light, and those without Light cannot comprehend what they never experienced, I. e. the Light of God or those who have the Light in them.

If we are in or of the darkness then we cannot _comprehend_ or believe in Christ, because " _And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not._ "

END OF REVELATION
APPENDIX
THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF SYSTEM, EVENTS, AND DEFINITIONS

John's belief system comprises of a set of beliefs, events, and definitions. We must keep in mind the dangers of dissecting truth from dead written words, but they can become questions for you to ask your Spirit of Truth or Holy Ghost to teach and guide you into true understanding.

God:

God is, as God states: " _I am that I am", "I am a jealous God", "_ _God is light_ _; in him there is no darkness at all.", "God created the heavens and the earth.", "Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.", "God of gods.", "LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God"._

God, the " _I am that I am",_ has no material face or a physical representative image, but Christ from God, has God in him to allow us to see the Light, the divine consciousness, or the face of God through Christ and not perish. From the personality of Christ, one can derive the "persona" of God, as the light and life → love.

**God as a creator:** If God is the creator of reality or the stream of traceable determinism, then emergent material consciousness does not apply to Him, being the creator of darkness (the void), matter (the physical realities) and consciousness (the Light, _God is light; in him there is no darkness at all."_ ). So, no created material concept, experience, existence, concepts, or consciousness can represent God. The consciousness of Christ and God, are not identifiable within anything in the materialistic or spiritual worlds, any relationships within these worlds, or any of the emotions, thoughts, concepts or ideas. Having no darkness in God, as beyond the pure Light like Christ, the darkness or worldly-wise cannot _comprehend_ or properly obey or do His Will, love, and worship God. All souls with the Light, humbly worship God around his throne in the conscious realization that without God, they and all of creation would cease to exist, except _"by every word that comes from the mouth of God." -_ Matthew [4:4].

**God as a destroyer:** since no one can see the face of God and survive, the face or gaze of God is used to destroy the old earth and heaven, and in the last judgment's final death, the second death (John [1:18] " _No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.",_ John [4:12] _"No man hath seen God at an time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.",_ Revelation [20:11-15] _"...from whose face_ [of God] _the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. [12] And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out..._ [by] _books_ [ and ] _book of life: .... according to their works...were cast into the lake of fire...the second death ... whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.",_ Proverbs [9:10] _"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom...",_ and Matthew [10:28] _"... fear him_ [God] _which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."_ This is the second death. Also God, as the Gardener, God is presented as the creator of Adam which later is the redeemed Christ by stating in John [15:1] "... _my Father is the husbandman [Gardener]. 15:2 Every branch in me_ [Christ] _that beareth not fruit he [Gardener_ [God] _] taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he_ [God] _purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 15:5 I_ [Christ] _am the vine, ye_ [us] _are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned_ [by the Second Death] _. 15:7 If ye abide in me_ [Christ] _, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."_ So God is the creator and destroyer, making Adam and Christ, and the lineage of the sons of God [abide in Christ and God] and sons of Man [the good seeders], the Christ, to enter the City of God in Revelation.

**God as a personal God:** Since John mentions quite often that God resides in Christ and Christ with all his three aspects, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, can also be in you, as a son of God, a son of Adam, and a son of Man, who seeds the good seeds. As a personal God, Mark in [12:30] states "... _thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment._ " In other words, cease to be like Adam, repent your evil judgments and deeds, and cease blaming God for your faults, as done my Adam in Genesis [3:10-12] Adam states " _I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. ..._ [then God asks] ... _Who told thee that thou wast naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? ..._ [then Adam replied] _, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate._ " In this passage, immediately after consuming the ability to make judgment for himself as to whether something is Good or Evil, Adam judges God's creation of Adam to be naked and becomes fearful (the beginning of Man's _"weeping and gnashing of teeth"_ ), hides his self-condemnation, lies to and blames God, and then blames another, "the Woman" (" _"The woman whom You gave to be with_ me,"). Adam ceases to have a personal God by his own act of distancing from God, by judging God. Jesus was Christ by having God within ("abiding in") Jesus, as well Jesus has the Holy Spirit of Truth, as John calls the Holy Ghost. Adam did not repent or admit to sin, nor prayed to God to ask God if he could eat the "apple", trusted Satan, a stranger, and his Woman and Adam sought to become God's without the wisdom or the all knowing ability of God. They sought absolute Godly free-will without the knowledge of God regarding its future consequences (the typical immaturity of juveniles and criminals). The Spirit of Rebellion in Satan infected Adam and Eve to wanted a different Universe and independence and separation, and the loss of a personal relationship with God. The concept of having an intimate personal relationship with God is unique in the Christian New Testament in contrast to the Old Testament jealous LORD.

**God as a child:** God is never presented by Christ as an old bearded overbearing patriarch, but instead presents a Heaven populated with the pure minds of babes. The Gospels repeat the notion that one must be a babe, reborn again anew, to enter Heaven, have God in us, and to have the knowledge of the Spirit of Truth. God is the raw creative imagination or force most often seen in our very young children's imagination. The unimaginative manipulating rich, worldly-wise, judgmental, violent, and liars among us are not allowed to corrupt Heaven and be with God, but God allows babes, children, pure in heart, forgiving, accepting, joyful, and positive souls, similar to God, to reside in God (the Light), Christ (the Way), and the Spirit of Truth/Holy Ghost (the Truth). Children are asexual in nature like the angels in Heaven.

References regarding these creative pure in heart babes: in Matthew [11:25] Jesus states _"I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.",_ in John [3:5] Jesus states _"...unless one is born of water_ [from Christ] _and the Spirit_ [of Truth] _, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.",_ in Luke [17:1] Jesus says _"it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.",_ and lastly in Matthew [18:3] _"Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."_ and Matthew [19:13] Jesus states " _Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them;_ _for of such is the kingdom of heaven_ _._ "

Word:

The Word can be interpreted but not limited to information, concepts, commands, and knowledge. It should be a low entropy, less chaotic, highly structured state. As information, it defines and describes what is created.

In the Gospel of John

1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men."

Christ refers to the Word as the command or Will of God, which Christ listens, obeys, and lives by the Word that is with God. Matthew [4:4] states _"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."_ Christ also defines those who listen to God, as being all sons of God, and those who in his name seed the good seeds or deeds are the sons of Man.

Light:

The Light, or the divine consciousness of God, is Christ's consciousness ( _"_ _God is light_ _; in him there is no darkness at_ all."). While Light is a word used as a force/energy that allows awareness to perceive reality, nowadays, one would more simply call it "consciousness". Matthew [6:22] states " _The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."_ Meaning that _"thine eye be single",_ so that your conscious identifications or personas of your being (eye) should be singular (single) and united, or having a contiguous (sameness/united) consciousness, united Self in the Present Moment (singular I AM) and not possessed with multiple identities or personal "demons".

The " _light"_ is not just the normal waking state consciousness, but a state in which God's presence in God's world is perceived, as in " _witnessing the Light_ ". "A _nd the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it_ [Light] _not._ " - in other words, darkness, or the worldly beings, cannot comprehend that which it cannot experience or have in its being, the consciousness of Life and Light, or the " _I AM_ " that is a non-emergent consciousness, independent of creation, as the creator.

It does not say that darkness or demons will not recognize the "Light" enough to not identify those who have it and therefore not persecute them, since evil legions in the possessed, are all frightened by the Light, recognized, and named of Christ. It just means that that the darkness have nothing of it in them to enable them to comprehend it. Some Bible translations have replaced " _comprehend_ " with " _overcome_ " - a typical worldly-wise interpretation emphasizing physical action, emotions and violence, rather than the essence of Christ's Light/Consciousness.

One should remember that God has not only created all of the material multi-dimensional worlds/universes/souls, but the whole spectrum of subjective experiences or consciousness from which all the created living, and perhaps darkness, that His creations can pick from.

Adam and Eve's first fear (embarrassment) and anger (disapproval) was described only after they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, by this acquired new ability to judge themselves and others and God, they are able to decide and freely judge their own sin/nakedness/shame, enabled by that knowledge and the subsequent ability. The freedom to criticize or make judgment is not gray, but black and white, true or false, good or bad, which is a quick to judgment type of binary thinking, rather than having a wider merciful contextual judgment within the grand scheme of God's creation. It is an ignorant judgment that results in the spirit of rebellion.

The Tree of Good and Evil, may have some aspect of consciousness, since one has to "see or hear" it with the light in order to judge it. Christ Consciousness is also tied to the other tree, the Tree of Life, since from Him comes eternal life, and sustenance (breath of Holy Ghost, Living Water, the Bread of Life).

Although, Jesus within the lineage of Adam and by the consumption of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (judgment) becomes the Righteous Judge, as the Christ in Revelation, assigned to judge all of the lineage of Adam (I. e. us). The Tree of Life is a symbol or representative for the life experience, higher/god Christ Consciousness, which when we have it, makes all past sins and judgment impossible to comprehend when we are within that Consciousness or state, and therefore achieving the promised conscious immortality in the Light. It may also be related to the meditative consciousness or state, in which one is unable to judge or be aware of sin. That deep meditative state, akin to Christ Consciousness, by being self-cleansing and forgiving.

The goal is to get to as close to God's consciousness via Christ Consciousness/Light, to let it become our _"wedding garment"_ that Christ states that we must wear to qualify in being chosen for entering into the City of God, and not have the second death in Revelation.

Life:

This is represented in relation to Light, Breath, and the breath of God. If darkness did not have the Light/Life and therefore cannot comprehend the Light, then it cannot be a part in the essence of conscious Life which must have Light in it. As well, within Life as consciousness, the best part of it is expressed as Love, just as many have stated, God is the breath of Life/Light and therefore Love, and used Light in creating all that there is. Heaven is also described often by Near Death Experiences (NDE) as a place of pure Love. The dead (material beings) have no life/light in them and therefore cannot comprehend the Light/Life/Love, what they never experienced.

Breath:

Breath is referred in Genesis to have given Life to Adam, as the breath of Life from God.

Biologically used in reference to being essential to all land air breathing creatures, and used once for Adam, as well as when Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit _"And when he had said this, he_ _breathed_ _on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:" -_ just like God breathed into Adam in making his " _living soul_ ".

In this case Christ may be summoning or emitting the Holy Ghost, or Spirit of Truth, to assist them. In consciousness, God, Christ, the Holy Ghost, and all the heavenly beings reside in each other, as One, but not in a physical sense of containment, but in what is capable by the Light or consciousness. Christ may have passed to his disciples what was "in" him. Some have stated that in Near Death Experiences (NDE) experiences that the tunnel of Light is the breath of God.

Water or Living Water, Bread:

Christ says that he is the Water, as the Living Water that comes from him. John [7:37] states " _If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)_ "

It is also used as part of immortality, in never thirsting or eating again. John [6:56] states " _He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him._ " Or in reference to Revelation [3:20] states " _I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."_ Of course, this is not cannibalism, only the consciousness link between two spirits, or companionship with God, or its antithesis - the spiritual death (second death) if one is separated from the consciousness of God. It points out that Adam's lineage, as sons of Man that sow good seeds for the Kingdom, with Christ as the Son of God, both in combination, bears evidence that through Christ and God, Adam and his lineage will be able to consume the Tree of Life, and through Him/Christ, Adam's lineage can forthwith receive the immortality that was withheld from Adam and Eve because of their disobedience, and in that immortality with no thirst nor hunger, the benefits of that consumed fruit from the Tree of Life is only given upon entering the City of God in Revelation for those good seeds chosen by Christ according to their deeds.

Water is also used in reference to thirst for knowledge, in that Christ answers all questions via the Holy Spirit (also named as the Spirit of Truth by John). Water is also used to clean or cleanse away sin, as used in baptism.

Divine Interventions, Sons of God and Man, and the Generations of Mankind:

Christ is described as the only begotten Son, and Christ defines anyone from God is a son of God, and also defines those who can listen to or are from God, are indeed gods. While God is described as the creator of the Word, Light, and Life, as well as Satan, Angels, and the Universe before Earth. The bible chronicles more than one creation or generations of mankind, via divine interventions:

1 – The first generation in Genesis chapter 1, covers the creation of the universe and on the sixth day on this chapter, is the creation of Man, as the first mankind, coming right after the _cattle and the kind that creepeth_ , this generation of mankind was made in the image of " _us_ " Gods: "Genesis [1 _:26_ ] states _And God said,_ _Let us_ _make man in_ _our_ _image, after_ _our_ _likeness_ _: ... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ... male and female.."_ It refers to " _us_ " gods, perhaps referring to his angels and Satan before Satan's fall to tempt Eve, otherwise may be referencing to other co-creator gods – being in contradiction to a single creator belief or pointing to a cooperative co-creation act, perhaps with other co-creators (his angels). Also in Genesis 3 _"us"_ is mentioned again after Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, _"And the_ _Lord_ _God said, Behold, the man_ _is become as one of us_ _, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:" The_ bible does not mention other Gods, except in the reference stating that God being a jealous God and perhaps hinting to other Gods, or the sons of God. The Word, Light, and Life were the first real creations, from which or with Christ, Holy Spirit, and Angels could have been created. The first creation of mankind may be classed as the " _Sons of Man_ " unless it should only be used in reference to the pure lineage of Adam, and most likely not the " **Sons of God** ", both mentioned often in the Bible. Matthew [13:30-40] defines " _He that sows the good seed is the Son of man",_ so by this definition this generation may not be entirely sons of Man since God later says that they are full of evil and therefore seed bad/evil seeds. In the first creation of man, God makes both sexes in one action, unlike the second creation of mankind (Adam and Eve). Also there is no mention of hiding the Trees of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and other Trees from this mankind generation since they are not in or have access of the special garden east of Eden where Adam and Eve worked.

Also by creating this generation of mankind ONLY in the mere "image" of God, rather than by God's own essence, his own air-breath or Light which makes Adam his own son, it is assumed that these beings made were made with the same image/pattern like the gods, then it may explain how it may be feasible or easier for God, gods (or devils), or sons of gods to enter mankind, as is evidenced by the spirit possessions mentioned by Christ, the exorcisms, and in Matthew [8:31] states " _So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.",_ as lastly how the redemption of sin was practiced in Leviticus [16:21-22] states: " _He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goats head. He shall send the goat_ [scapegoat] _away into the desert in the care of a man appointed for the task_ [of killing it] _. The goat will carry on itself all their sins_ [devils] _to a solitary place;_ " this indicates the ability of transferring "spirits" of evil/souls or sins to other living forms/images/patterns to be dispatched from the physical earth and mankind.

Genesis [3:29] states " _God created he him; male and female created he them. ... male and female ..."_ sexes were created on the same day, in contrast to how God made Adam and Eve.  
The first mankind was made with two sexes in one action, for the purpose of immediate procreation to _"be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion",_ unlike the making of Adam solely to " _till_ " the ground of the garden east of Eden.  
Also on the sixth day, it mentions Genesis [1:30] states _"And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food."_ , which means that God considers all animals to have the breath of life in them, except that for the first creation it does not state that they each had a _"living soul"_. Perhaps, God is elevating beasts closer to the first generation of mankind. This also affirms the possibility of souls or devils being cast into "living" animals (Matthew [8:31] states _"cast us ... into ... swine"_ ).

2 - The second generation in Genesis chapter 2, after God's official holy 7th day of rest, being the 8th day, God again makes another Man, as the second creation of mankind. Some scholars think that the double creation of mankind was a biblical typographical error, but considering the pain the scribes went through in making sure copies were true, I prefer to literally interpret it as correct. So while the first chapter of Genesis created the first mankind, Adam and Eve are created in the 2nd chapter of Genesis [2:5] states " _God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground....watered the whole face of the ground. 2:8 God planted a_ _garden eastward in Eden_ _2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and_ _breathed_ _into his nostrils the breath of life; and_ _man became a living soul_ _."._ Genesis [2:15] states that " _the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it._ "

This generation of Man is a direct injection of God by his own living breath, creating a " _living soul_ ", rather than the 5th day creation of mankind " _in his own image"_ , as a special single creation of just one man being uniquely created directly by God, could be defined as a " _Son of God_ ", or could just be another copy of mankind, as a "s _ons of man_ ". God states the reason for creating Adam, as being specifically created as a solitary non-sexual caretaker to look after a special portion or garden east of Eden, containing the Tree of Life (immortality) and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (judgment). God after making this special man from earth, " _took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.",_ and does not state that Eden was part of earth.

The first generation are not mentioned to have access to the special Trees of God, and one should assume that they are not the typical trees as we know, but trees in another realm. Eden is akin to immortal Heaven protected by angels, since Adam's first sin gets him and Eve banished out to normal earth and death.

Adam as Man and God's gardener for Eden, would have sowed only good seeds in Eden and therefore, as defined by Matthew [13:30-40] " _He that sows the good seed is the Son of man"._ like the other " _sons of Man_ " to come like Jesus, descended from Adam,

3 - The third creation is the creation of Eve from the rib of Adam. Genesis [2:21] states "A _nd the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man._ " as a companion of Adam. This is also very different in how this mankind (Eve) was created, different from the first creation of mankind in chapter 1, where male and female are created in one action together in _"in our likeness...his own image",_ and different in how Adam was created. Adam and Eve become the special workers for His special garden east of Eden. It is assumed that these special trees, including the tree of good and evil, and the tree of life and immortality, were kept from the first creation of mankind created on the 6th day. But by chapter 6, after Adam is banished and breeds in normal earth, God observes that all of mankind has evil in their hearts.

4 - A forth creation of Man is implied, since Adam and Eve were banished from Eden, that special garden that they were supposed to look after. They went out somewhere east of Eden. The first sin from the lineage of Adam was committed by Cain. Cain killed Abel his brother. Cain inherited from his parents, Adam and Eve, the Knowledge of Good and Evil. That lineage ability to judge gave him the capacity to be evil in his thoughts, and actions. He judged God and his brother Abel.

In Nod, Cain must have married the first generation of Mankind's daughters created from the sixth day in the first chapter. Since Eve had no daughters when her only living son, Cain, went into Nod. Genesis [4:16] states " _Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch._ " One could call this creation of interbreeding between the offspring of Adam and Eve and the first creation of mankind (that were made with " _Let us make man in_ _our_ _image, after_ _our_ _likeness...in his own_ image"). After Cain left, Eve later had Seth and daughters. One could argue that Adam and Eve's banishment from the garden was a devolution creation/modification change from possible perfection and immortality in Eden, to mortality, due to their disobedience, into our worldly scientific anthropological time-line of human evolution. Here is the beginning for Christ's redemption of Adam's lineage or the sons of God, as branches off the vine of Christ, to be judged by Christ as branches attached to Christ, whether the branches (us) bear fruit or do good deeds and enter the City of God, or not and be cut off from the vine and given the second death in the last judgment, see John [15:1].

5 - This fifth generation is very odd, reminiscent of the virgin Mary being visited and impregnated by the Holy Ghost, because it happens when **the true** " _sons of God_ " breed with the daughters of men. Genesis [6:1] states " A _nd it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the_ _sons of God_ _saw the daughters of_ _men_ _that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said,_ _My spirit shall not always strive with man_ _, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."_ Here these sons of God are gods [some have speculated to also being devils or fallen gods/angels] from heaven, and not definitely not part of Adam's progeny, "impregnate" mankind in the same manner as the Holy Ghost saw the Virgin Mary in creating Jesus. These sons of God create " _mighty men which were of old, men of renown."_ (perhaps referring to Goliath and Samson). Perhaps, the sons of God were the original co-creators with God (" _let us create man"_ ) _,_ since by Christ's definition they are able to listen to the Will of God, or are from God, and therefore can do divine creation or divine interventions like God. This is similar to the ideas of Zeus/God and his lesser gods. Also it states " _My spirit shall not always strive with man_ _, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years._ " which coincides to the scientifically verified limitations of human life - the oldest verifiable person so far has been Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France at 122 years old. But immortality is available to anyone, even if one dies, if one has a continuous memory and contiguous identification between incarnations like Christ, in which God's spirit strives forever. Remembrance is a gift from the Spirit of Truth.

6 - The destruction of the first generation of man – an evolutionary change.  
Genesis [6:5] states " _God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them."_ Here God mentions the same assembly of man and his creatures that were created in Genesis chapter 1, on the sixth day, or what seems to include all animals that can breathe air. At this point after eating the fruit of good and evil, and having lesser gods, fallen angels, or general angels breed with mankind, God determines that mankind has evil in their hearts (intent/emotions) and mind (plans/thoughts). It points out that redemption must correct this. It asks us to love one another like oneself - nurturing our fellow seeds/souls that have been planted by Christ, for us to be redeemed and harvested in the end times for entry into the City of God. To this end, it can be assumed that only a select lineage of Adam, who "begat" Noah, are allowed to survive the flood, as well as pairs of other animals in Noah's ark. A destruction of part of mankind is still a type of creation since mankind's evolution as a whole is changed. This is after the " _sons of God_ " inbreeding into Adam's lineage, maybe beginning the redemption of mankind through Noah's family. I am not sure if the first creations of mankind's "genes" are also in Noah's children, along with the "genes" of Adam, Eve, and the true " _sons of God_ ".

God in Genesis [6:11] promises to Noah that "... _neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."_ At this point or soon after the Exodus, may have decided to let evil be evil and good to be good until the end time harvest for entry into the City of God, as stated in Revelation [22:10-12] " _Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. [11] He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. [12] And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."_

7 - There is another sub-generation by the selection of Abraham and Sarah, in the selection of one who is able to listen to and fully obey God, enough to be willing to sacrifice his own son, Isaac. God only tests Abraham's hearing and obedience, as a new lineage steam, whether he and his lineage is deserving of the eventual sacrifice of God's own son Jesus the Christ for their salvation. Noah, Abraham, and David are sub-lineages of Adam towards the birth of Jesus. It would seem odd for an all-powerful God to depend on the unfolding struggle of Adam's lineage, but that is for the redemption of human disobedience.

8 - This generation is the creation of Jesus Christ, again being half human (son of Man) and part God (Son of God) via the Holy Spirit of Truth visitation, to redeem/change perhaps only the second of mankind's generation via Mary, Adam's lineage and the generation from the lost _sons of God_ 's lineage, which Christ refers to many times in the Gospel of John, that God wants to " _render unto God ... that are God's"_ and _"not of this world_ " (see John [8:22-24]). Jesus refers himself as being both a Son of God and a Son of Man (son of God and Adam). Matthew [13:30-40] defines " _He that sows the good seed is the Son of man"._ One could argue that there may be another generation, after the Spirit of Truth or Holy Ghost is released from God as the Comforter to reveal the truth about yourself (evil or good) and divine reality we live in, along with the gifts of the spirit (PSI abilities and consciousness of what is Real/True) to enable the disciples to overcome their fear of death and martyrdom to facilitate/prepare the generations of true Christians for the City of God.

9 - This generation on Earth is implied in Revelation, as those specially selected and allowed to incarnate on normal Earth during the thousand year period ruled by Christ, and are assumed to be in Christ's Book of Life, as martyrs, or Sons of God, and those having Christ's Light (consciousness or seeds), Way, and Truth in them. Perhaps, this generation has Christ in them, as instructed by Christ in Revelation [3:20] " _Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me._ "

10 - This generation is only implied by the Final Judgment selection of those keeping their faith and deeds, not falling into the hands of Satan or the Beast, and via Christ, as the first redeemed member of the lineage of Adam as Jesus, since " _no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."_ is _chosen_ only by Christ to enter the City of God or Kingdom of Heaven arriving on Earth, to escape from Earth, acting as the final ark, similar in purpose to Noah's ark, but this time selecting souls written in the Book of Life and other books of deeds in the possession of Christ (mentioned in Revelation).

11 - The end time destruction by the Second Death those of the darkness, lost souls, weeds, or _"chaff"_ , as well as the end of Earth, is a destruction of fallen angels, fallen sons of God, and some of mankind or sons of Satan. They are denied their freedom/will by being bound _"hand and foot_ " (Matthew [22 1-14]), and as being from darkness are thrown back into darkness.

The bible presents a God that can create universes, but thereafter tries not to intervene or undo the causal laws from which the Universe has been created. In other words, once the causal laws are set and if mistakes are done by His creations, very small micro divine interventions are done to assist his creations individually to consciously redeem/correct themselves. In other words, God seems to appreciate our hardships and human dramas or sufferings taken by our free will and voluntary actions to perfection, in our process of returning to God.

There is no obvious mention on the salvation of animals and plants into the City of God, except for the descriptions of beast like creatures surrounding the throne of God in heaven. Perhaps his other creations have different paths of salvation since in Revelation [4:6-7]; it states that _"round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. [7] And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle."_ But just as the Ark was used to save all his good creatures, one could assume that the City of God will do the same.

Believe, Belief, Faith:

Christ says that belief in him is a process of consciously "seeing" the Light or God in Jesus, as from God, the Son of God to " _bear witness of the Light_ ", to see the face of God that resides in Christ.

As an experienced meditator, one can recognize other meditators by seeing the same calm focused field of awareness and peace in others. Likewise, one can believe in Christ by seeing the same precious light one consciously nurtures and has in oneself as being the same Light in Christ. Since Jesus does not walk physically among the worldly-wise, how can one "believe" in this manner without seeing him? By experiencing and therefore comprehend the qualities of the Christ consciousness, Light or the " _small mustard seed_ ", one can more easily take steps towards experiencing, believing or comprehending the Light, Word, and God in Christ. " _Bear witness_ " means to consciously perceive and therefore comprehend with your own personal "light" as being the same Light being alive in Christ and in you. This will help you become like Christ - a servant of God, a son of God, and one who wants and can listen to the Will of God.

The way to God is given by what Christ had abiding in him. One must comprehend the Light of God by having it within oneself. One must have the Truth, from the Holy Spirit of Truth in us. And lastly to also have in us the Way and follow the Way of Christ, which is to follow his behavior, the full obedience and alignment with the Will of God, to Love others as oneself, to forgive sins against us, accepting all sinners, and finally to have NO JUDGEMENT or pretense to know nor judge what is truly good or evil in God's creation – as sons of Adam's true atonement and cure for having consumed the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Mark [11:24] states " _Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."_ This is faith or a belief without material evidence, as having faith in the unseen God by divine sight. God provides what you need even before you ask it, not what you think you want/desire selfishly, which is the gift from Satan or the Spirit of Rebellion.

Prophecy:

Precognition, or clairvoyance, is the clear sight of the future. Fulfillment of prophecy or foreseen future events are protected, rather than subverted. Prophecy is also a means of knowing the Will of God, and the spiritual undercurrent or context behind the destined event required by God's Will. Doing God's Will means that you know his Will as it will be realized in the future – the prophecy. There is little evidence of prophets trying to undermine or bend prophetic events to their advantage. Only the worldly-wise try to undermine or bend prophetic events to their advantage.

It is extremely wrong for Christians to try to bend the hand of God in naively trying to facilitate the early onset of Armageddon by impatience or in their belief of having the rapture. Caiaphas wanted to prevent Jesus from becoming the high priest in Israel or attracting negative Roman attention, yet he believed that Jesus' death would fulfill the written words of prophecy that would return and unite all the scattered Jews back into Israel. As the high priest, Caiaphas thought he could manipulate God's plan to Caiaphas' desires, schedule, and direction, trying to sidestep destiny, and to fulfill a desired alternative fate. Caiaphas, as a leader, and Judas, as a zealot, wanted worldly power and glory on earth, for Israel, for some imagined worldly gain and power. They wanted Jesus to save the land of Israel, but instead by the crucifixion, later on in about 70 A.D after Israel's successful rebellion against Rome, Caiaphas' Israel was leveled to the ground by the Romans. Likewise, Herod heard about the prophecy of the Lord's birth from the wise men, and like Caiaphas, tried to change fate or God's Will by trying to kill every newborn in the region.

Unless a prophecy comes directly to you firsthand, then one is left to try to interpret mere second hand knowledge of prophecy, not meant for you, on a worldly and false/dark/selfish level. Yet the worldly wise are perpetually narcissistic and can't resist trying to bend God's hand or his prophecy to match their own will. No wonder Jesus said, " _I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes._ " So in your study of John's works, please avoid having a worldly bunker-like physical survivor agenda or attitude. Let us just humbly seek the truth.

The Way, Truth, Light, and Life of Christ:

Christ repeatedly states that he is the three essential ingredients: Way, Truth, and Light to God and salvation. Here are some references from the Gospel of John:

[3:18] _"He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth_

not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of

the only begotten Son of God."

[3:36] _"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth_

not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."

[5:44] _How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek_

not the honour that cometh from God only?

[10:9] _"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall_

go in and out, and find pasture."

[10:18 ] _"I have power to lay it_ [my body] _down, and I have power to take it again._ "

[14:6] _"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:_

no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

[15:10] _If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have_

kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

[15:12] _This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you._

First Epistle of John [5:7] _For there are three that bear record in heaven,_

the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

The other Gospels provide more instruction on Love for God and seeking Heaven first, above all else. Love is the antidote for the poison of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It quenches our need to judge. It actively helps, accepts others and never condemns others and events. It restores and quietens our soul. It is the garment needed as a prerequisite in your entering the City of God or Kingdom of Heaven. Love enables your ability to _"seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." -_ Matthew [6:33] _._

John mostly stresses being a witness to Christ's divinity, the Light and God in Him. It seems that the Way has to do more with having the Christ Consciousness (and therefore " _abide in my love"_ ), or the compatible awareness in you, to not be the darkness but to be able to comprehend the Light, as given in Genesis and John [1:5-10] states "A _nd the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ... He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not._ ".

In the Gospel of John [14:6] _"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."_ the Trinity aspect of Christ is mentioned. Unless one has all three parts of the Christ by consciously and truly believing that Christ is exists and can be welcomed into you, one cannot approach God:

1 - the **"** _way"_ _,_ as in how to live, having the same virtues and Will of Christ **doing God's good works** , and behave like Christ, and being a son of God by listening to God and seeding good seeds or doing the good works of God into fruition,

2 - the **"** _truth_ **"** in having the **Spirit of Truth in you** or able to see the reality of God and his kingdom presently in your midst, as John calls the Holy Ghost, knowing and seeing the true reality of the Spirit and God's realm, far beyond the knowledge of the worldly-wise, and lastly,

3 – having the **"** _life",_ as being the Ligh **t** or Life **consciousness** essence that God did breath into Adam, making Adam a " _living"_ soul.

Christ, as the Way, repeats the imminent harvest of the good souls (the seeders and the good seeds, sheep, fruits) for entry into the new Heaven, City of God, the bride of Christ for the last judgment, and being exempt from the Second Death of the evil dark souls (the fallen weeds, chaff, wolves, and liars) as described in John's Revelation. With this in mind, Christ asks his followers or siblings to group together and feed and care for his sheep (find and nurture their fellow brothers of Light to salvation, and not approach or fight the dark ones, but leaving them undisturbed, because as Matthew [13:30-40] stated: _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest:..._ _He that sows the good seed_ [sheep] _is the Son of man_ _; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares_ [goats] _are the children of the wicked one_ [Satan] _; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil;_ _the harvest is the end of the world_ _; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire_ [second death] _;_ _so shall it be in the end of this world._ "). Christ is our older sibling, or the vine and we are his branches, as he stated in Matthew [12:50], " _For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."_

Christ states that he has layed down his life and raised it many times before, saying [10:18] _"I have power to lay it_ [my body] _down, and I have power to take it again._ ", and just before his arrest for crucifixion, God verifies his ability to raise Christ from death many times before, by replying to Christ saying [12:27] " _Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. 12:28 Father, glorify thy name."_ And God replied: " _Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."_ Also in Matthew [17:1-3], " _And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.",_ so in these verses, there is plenty of evidence that Christ defeated death and transformed many times before, contrary to a common Christian belief of only one resurrection and transformation of Jesus the Christ.

Lastly, in the First Epistle of John, [5:7] " _For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one"._ Notice that John does not say the " _Son_ ", but some assume it to be Christ. Whether Christ is the Word or not Christ still has a special place on the right hand of the throne in reference to the salvation of Adam's lineage. John repeated that all are one in heaven, that by accepting Christ into us, because God is already in Christ, then we become one with God via Christ. In Heaven we are individual but are also one within each other abiding as one, which is impossible to represent physically, but when dealing with the spirit or pure consciousness, independent of matter, there are no restrictions or laws for those who solely by themselves make the laws of the universe and create them.

Will of God, and doing the works of God:

Jesus states that his Way, or behavior, requires aligning your will with the Will of God, not asking or working for what you want, but what God and God's plan or what prophecy, revealed personally to only you, dictates, to not upset prophecy, or God's divine plan.

This is basically aligned with the idea that selfish desires or wants by the many, would just play into the hands of the devil, or produce chaos in the shared fate of humanity. It proposes a very narrow path for mankind, in which all must cooperate and align themselves. This is very similar to the popular notion of time travelers trying to avoid upsetting the timeline of history, or what is the best timeline for humanity. In this case God is presented as the master planner in time and space and the sons of God as his time-masters, for the salvation or harvest of a special family humanity, as sated by Jesus, our divine sibling, in Matthew [12:50], " _For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."_

In Matthew it states that " _Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word_ [or command] _that proceeds out of the mouth of God_." In this case God's Will is also the Bread or Flesh of Christ, allowing us to carry out the Will of God, or the Word (commands) from God. Also what came out of God, as breath, gave Life to Adam, as bread or Will of God can sustain life. Likewise, Christ states in [ _6:56_ ] " _He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,_ _dwelleth in me, and I in him._ ", [4:32] _"But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of"_ _,_ and similarly in Revelation [3:20] He states _"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door,_ _I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me._ _"_ ). It was Adam's not following God's Will in the Garden by eating the forbidden fruit of Judgment or of the Knowledge of what is Good and Evil, that condemned Adam to death. Now by doing the Will of God and Christ, the living bread or flesh can be consumed. As Christ now having the Tree of Life in him, we as a progeny of Adam are branches of the vine of Christ, can be feed with his life to become everlasting. So to believe in Christ is a bit more than belief, but taking in Christ, or becoming part of Christ as siblings of Jesus ([6:53] _"..._ _Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you."_ ). Notice that he refers to the "Son of Man", the sower of good seeds, by doing the good deeds or Will of God and being part of Adam's fallen lineage,

For most of us, God does not give us our morning minutes, telling us what to do or not to do. Our trial in this dark seemingly Godless world is to do good entirely by our own choice. Not because God will reward us. Not because we will be liked by many, or because we like to feel especially chosen or selected and protected by a personally assigned Godly champion covering our backs. Not because of self-interest. We must decide to do good, even with the assumption that this is our only lifetime, even if no God exists, and seeing how Evil always wins materially. But because we want Love and Goodness, even to our detriment and with more suffering. Even if the Universe turns out to be a dead creation, we have consciously decided to make it a loving creation. This is our challenge – to be Good entirely by our own choice, in our won utter darkness, to prove to God and to yourself that you are not one of those weeds/evil in the harvest, even without His guidance or presence, and to prove ourselves worthy of His companionship and to be proven to be a trusted and a good solitary creator on our own – just like God, who is a sole and solitary creator.

Christ did not subject himself to abuse and to the will of Evil (e. g. Pharisees). We avoid evil acts on us, and we flee from abuse, because not all challenges are from God. To be sons of God, we must try to better listen to God's Light to guide us in our decisions affecting others. Here's the dilemma, if we don't listen earnestly for God's Omniscient Will, we are left on our own dim perceptions to take actions, lashing out in darkness in the ignorance of our effects, and not knowing the time and place for what has to happen. Christ knew his full prophecy and waited for his time to act, John [2:4] states " _Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come._ ". So to be able to listen to God means more than knowing what to do next but also your whole plot or prophecy, or role to be carried out, fully seeing why and what has to be done. It is not a simple act or servitude in our tolerance to allow evil to remain evil, and good to be good until the harvest, but we act wisely under the guidance of God, as sons of God who are able to _"hear"_ and " _see"_ God. By this we, Matthew [7:6] _"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you."_

Our free will cannot be allowed to be evil and have immortality. The next Ark, City of God under Christ, contains only the good immortals who carry out the Will of God, with access to Eden's Tree of Life which gives eternal life and immortality. God does not need mindless eternal worshipers, but seeks to have souls who have the Godly conscious omniscience (omniscience and Light) total knowledge or the Truth from the Spirit of Truth, and the Godly will of omnipotence, the Way of Christ, to do the good deeds for God.

Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth:

This is a divine force, or intervening force, or a non-corporal state in which one communicates with helpers. The Holy Ghost, who comes from God like Christ, and the Holy Ghost is a son of God by Christ's definition, is portrayed as a "comforter" who teaches, instructs and guides us, shedding light on our real faults, sins and " _nakedness_ ", and provides memory, talents and abilities, and enlightens us with the Truth in a spiritual initiation. John calls the Holy Ghost the Spirit of Truth in his Gospel. Only after the disciples are given the breath of the Spirit of Truth, the disciples become fearless in spreading Christianity (John [8:32] states _"And ye shall know the_ _truth_ _, and the truth_ [from the Spirit of Truth] _shall make you free."_ )

Garment/Clothes and Consciousness and Free Will:

In general the consciousness of Christ is the Light symbol, allowing us to see true reality and how God is the creator. It is refined by the spirit, faith, meditation, belief, righteousness, and virtues. In the bible clothing is also used as a symbol of consciousness. _Isaiah [61:10]"I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels."_ Garments refer to consciousness and virtues, while a facade or mask refers to a worldly personality/persona.

In deep meditation, I personally experienced the change in consciousness being instantaneous, sometimes accompanied with an "audible" snap and a "swoosh flood over the body" as if one is transformed into a new body or attire of consciousness, entirely different from our normal waking state, as if awakened into the spirit world. With this insight, one can see that the bible uses "garment" as a symbol of a "new consciousness", for example when Adam ate the apple, he realized that he had no clothes, which may be a realization that his consciousness was "lacking", inadequate or hard to accept. In the Revelation [16:15], " _Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame."_ , this is told in reference to the returning Christ and the City of God, warning us to be wrapped in our best level of spirit and consciousness or Light. It suggests that Christ will come to rescue and take away only those with the proper consciousness/spirit/garment, as suggested in Matthew [24:40-42] " _Then there shall be two men in the field; one will be taken, and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left. Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.",_ and in Luke [17:34] _"I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left."_

Remember that the level of your Free Will is the other side of the same coin containing your level of God's consciousness. As a son of God, your Free Will is the small portion of your father and God's Power, while your consciousness is the small portion of God's Glory. As you lose your consciousness, you also lose your free will. A mechanical being has no free will (- even scientists agree on this). God readily overrides the "free" wills of the worldly-wise and evil men, e. g. Exodus [4:21] hardened the heart of the Pharaoh, Deuteronomy [2:30] " _God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate",_ and in John [13:27] Jesus commands Satan to do, what will condemn Satan and Judas " _And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly."_ Also in Revelation, even the fallen angels have lost some of their free will, in Revelation [9:14] _"...Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels_ _which are bound_ _in the great river Euphrates._ Also in reference to the wedding of Christ, or the descent of the City of God in Revelation and the end of Earth, Matthew [22: 8-14] " _Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. 9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. 10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found,_ _both bad and good_ _: and the wedding was furnished with guests. 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.",_ this passage points out, that to be allowed to enter the City of God, you must be ready to enter with the right consciousness, spirit, light, cleanliness, and righteousness, otherwise one has wasted our Will to repent and enlighten ourselves, and therefore God will remove our Free Will, or ability to do without material causality or mechanically, as symbolized by the deactivation of our limbs (Matthew [22:13] _"bind him hand and foot"_ ). This is a just punishment to atheists who believe they have no real consciousness and no real free will, since by the final second death, they get what they believed themselves to be, dark and dead material beings.

The symbol of gaining abilities, interest or "talents", are also used as a substitute for our need to gain righteousness, abilities to serve God and be a Light in the world, or channel of blessing to those in need. It is interesting that the punishment for those who lead a life of strife, selfishness, and rebellion are appropriately given the same world, or the second death, of their addiction, forever causing pain or receiving pain, exactly as shown in movie and TV showings where we abuse each other emotionally (dramas), where we are placed in fear and tension (thrillers, horrors, crimes, wars), and finally where we take pleasure in ridicule, lies, and failures (comedies). The merciful God is just giving the darkness what entertains them and what they can comprehend – darkness.

Human Judgment:

Although one can witness evil without judging it, many times judgment is mainly a judgment of disapproval, dislike, rejection, condemnation, or criticism of people or perceived reality. The ability to misjudge could be viewed as a prerequisite to some evil deeds.

Adam in seeing his nakedness, Adam made a judgment on his lack of clothes, suggesting that by obtaining worldly knowledge from the fruit knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam obtained the ability and pseudo "righteousness" to judge and suggest shallow worldly "improvements" to God's creation – Adam's suggestions for improvements were for only man made items of clothes or man's technology or solutions of man's own making, but as Matthew [6:27] states _"Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?",_ rather asking for a closer companionship with God _._ As well, Adam's desire to cover himself or hide his nakedness with clothes is an aspect of dishonesty. His desire to hide is nakedness could be interpreted as hiding his real makeup or nature, seems like his first attempt to hide something from God or lying. After all, he was not hiding his nakedness from Eve, and there was no one else there.

Is Adam's new "talent" the ability to Lie? Is it the beginning of evil, since [Revelation 22:15] " _whosoever loveth and maketh a lie"_ is cast into the lake of fire _,_ the second death in the final judgment. A lie or untruth is a description of something that does not exist in reality, an alternative existence/fact, not done by God.

Adam and Eve do not repent or confess to their disobedience in eating from the one tree that God forbade, but instead lie and blame/judge God or God's creations. Adam blames God's creation, Genesis [3:12] _"The woman_ _whom thou gavest to be with me_ _, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.",_ then blames Eve, and then even Eve redirects blame to the evil serpent, _"The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."_ Their failure to own their sins, by directing blame to others (God, Satan, Eve) is a characteristic feature of ego-self-love narcissism and the loss of love for God. Do you wonder if God would have forgiven them if they had only confessed to their wrongdoings instead? Evil or being able to selfishly judge others is always done with some sense of being logically right in its delusional judgment or blame.

With the ability to Judge something in reality made by God, as good or evil, desirable or undesirable, useful or not useful, cursed or blessed, Adam, as a creation, is given the ability to reject and curse himself (the unforgivable sin of self-condemnation, or self-inflicted shame) or others, as a creation, and indirectly reject creation/reality, and/or hate God. As a result of judgment, which Christianity discourages, God states in Genesis [3:22] " _The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever._ " since an immortal man would be able to hold a grudge against God for eternity (like Satan), in other words, man would be able create an eternal hell for himself, hating God, and therefore self-condemn himself to cease and be without God, Light, and Life, in other words, perish.

Narcissism, or false ego-image-self-love, is psychologically known to have as its base, a self-loathing judgment. Self-loathing is a condemning self-judgment, as mentioned above, part of the gift of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (I. e. the ability to see evil or good, or judge something as evil or good). Adam first judgment was against himself, not only making a judgment on God's creation, but a shaming or self-loathing of his own body and seeing his shameful nakedness. Revelation [16:15] states _"Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame."_ is not referring to physical clothes but to the consciousness of Adam restored to the non-judgmental pure Christ Consciousness (Light). Those with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), in their struggle to hide their conviction/judgment and self-condemnation, by knowing that they are inwardly corrupt and evil, hide themselves from God in shame and fear (as did Adam and Eve), and therefore anxiously fight against their own self-image, by denying culpability and God, and seeking the adoration of men/public. The personality traits typical in NPD are: sense of self-importance, fantasies of unlimited success/power, "special" entitlement, high-status, excessive admiration, unreasonable expectations, exploitation of others, non-empathy, envious of others, arrogance, blaming others, falsely taking credit, and prideful behaviors or attitudes. Surely by these traits, that resemble many of the Roman Catholic seven vices, disqualifies one from an eternal life and access to the Tree of Life and the City of God.

God and Christ can forgive non repeating sins but how can one forgive a repeating sin? Criminal courts are lenient to first time offenders and unintentional crimes, but how can society let loose those repeat offenders having little remorse. Their rehabilitation can only come from sincere acknowledgments, repentance and desire to change, so likewise God is no different and can't forgive repeated self-inflicted offenses/sins, such as self-condemnation, self-shame, or other non-repentant sins, since their forgiveness can only come from their own efforts. Those NPD souls with self-loathing, and self-shame must forgive and cure themselves of their own NPD personality traits. " _Repentance_ " is essential, since without consciously lighting your own sins, your own sins will be unconsciously repeated, and repeat offenders cannot enter the City of God.

Unfortunately, just like evil, judgment or free will to form a judgment without God's omniscience, or complete knowledge, most likely will be a wrong stupid judgment. Adam and Eve assumed that they had the knowledge and understanding to properly identity evil/good or judge for themselves. Their simple declaration that they were naked, without questioning their own knowledge, is an attribute of darkness, evil, and ignorance. Judgment, or wishing things to be different (from one's own self-will), is like wishing to have God's Omnipotence/Power without God's Omniscience/Knowledge/Consciousness. Obvious this can only result someone suffering, chaos and a detour from Christ's path. After all, most evil acts are done by people who think they are doing the right thing, using their non-omniscient judgment. Few, if any, carry out deeds that they know are wrong – yet by this, many sins are committed.

Christ reminded us to not judge in Matthew [7:2 and 15:11] " _For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again._ " and " _Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man._ " Love is the unconditional acceptance of God's creations and our reality, and the cure for our judgment illness. Only in Love can one overcome the judgment curse from Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Love only helps and does not condemn. It is your cure.

Divine Judgment:

Divine judgment is not always forgiving, contrary to some Christian beliefs. In NDE experiences, most are given a life review without any hint of condemnation or judgment, but that does not mean that it will always be so, since it states that God's judgment will be delayed till the end times, since Revelation and Matthew [13:30-40] states _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest:..."._ The NDE experiences to pose works to be completed by the soul, to return and correct some faults or bad deeds in them, so whether one return from a NDE or return to another reincarnation, in both cases one returns to complete an error or duty, which one would term as karmic duty to make good deeds to be recorded in the Book of Life, which will determine the outcome of the sole judgment from God and Christ in Revelation or the end times.

Jesus stated that he did not need come to judge since almost all did not recognize him as the Son of God, and by their failure, they were already self-judged as not the good sheep of Jesus (John [16:9] states _"Of sin, because they believe not on me;")_. He state that God at the time did not judge, and judgment was given to Jesus. Later after the transformation, Jesus releases the Holy Ghost or Spirit of Truth, it will judge: John [16:8] states _"And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:"_

In Revelation, Christ returns to judge the world, the living and the dead using the Book of Life and other books, according to their deeds. The weeds/goats and the good seeds/lambs are sorted out, one to have the second death, and the other to enter the City of God, New Heaven, New Earth, or the Kingdom. God is actually the agent to destroy old earth, old heaven, Satan and his seeds by the Second Death. Revelation [20:11-12] described God: " _him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. [12] And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works."_

Evil and Sin:

Lessening Evil and Sin is the primary goal of all religions and God.

Exodus [20:4-5] _"You shall not make unto yourself any graven image ... Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them",_ are the second and third sentences in Moses' commandments from God, and these sentences are not just referring to physical idols, but are referring to thoughts or images produced in our minds, or other respected "great" minds, as well as our worldly thoughts that are quite often simple sequences of mental images of desirable physical objects. Avoiding these idols, helps us to maintain our true conscious identity as an immortal, non-material, non-worldly soul

In meditation/prayer one tries to be in the Light, in the presence of God, without thoughts/ideas/images/idols blurring or becoming a barrier, separating our Spirit from Him. This may be the true message of this commandment. This may be the reason why God names himself as "I am that I am" - referring his identity to no material images, as being the primary commandment.

These thoughts, ideas, images, or idols that distract your Spirit from feeling and seeing the presence of God, do so by making you believe that you are them – the thoughts, ideas, images, or idols in your mind, and distract you from being released into your true divine identity.

These distracting mental images also has to do with your own self-image/persona or self-identification of what you "believe" to be your, rather than a kindred in the Spirit with Christ. These temptations and desirable false identifications, or Narcissistic self-images, is the root of most evils. It is the idealization (making a self-image idol) of selfishness, rather than in our realization (becoming into being) as Sons of God. It is our " _sleep_ ".

It is assumed that the angels and other sons of God were created before man. The origin of Evil has been depicted as the initial spiritual disobedience against God, as in the Rebellion or Satan, or the disobedience of Adam and Eve in judging God's creations and themselves.

Evil has a complex origin, and is allowed to exist among us, freely, until the final " _harvest_ " or Revelation's end times. In Matthew [13:30-40] it states: _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest: ... He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil;_ _the harvest is the end of the world_ _; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire;_ _so shall it be in the end of this world._ " And similarly Matthew [25:31-46]: _"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."_

So as a result of this edict to allow " _both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest"_ , Satan in the old testament seems to be tolerated by God (in Job [2:2-6] _"And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."_ Astonishingly, God gives Satan permission to again torture and tempt Job.) God allows Satan to tempt Eve, Job, Jesus, and in Revelation allows Satan to try to try to kill the returning Christ child in Revelation. This scenario willed by God, allowing evil and suffering to exist till the end time harvest, should remove some atheist arguments, and justify Christ's directive for all of us to tolerate, forgive, and have compassion for evil ones, to allow evil to proper/grow among us rather than be terminated before the end times. This is done in the hope that the abundant amount of grace and time provided to the evil ones, will allow them to mend their ways and be saved. In their reincarnations, they are given opportunities to improve themselves, and no judgments are given in their life reviews, only to be free to judge their life entirely on their own. The principle to guide a soul to perfection is stated in Matthew [7:1-2] " _Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." ,_ which is a bit more merciful than the strict law in Exodus [21:24] " _eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."_ The good and Just are sometimes treated unjustly, sometimes as martyrs, so that the evil and the Unjust will be given a gracious amount of Justice and forgiveness, and are given as much time as possible to repent, before the end time's arrival of the City of God.

God also regretted in allowing circumstances that resulted evil to reside in the heart of mankind in his first creation, as stated in Genesis, right after the sons of God and/or fallen angels mated with mankind (see Genesis [6:4-6]). But as in the seeding of souls for the last harvest, the planting of demon seeds may be part of the gift of free will, as part of divine powers that God bestowed to His children and all creations.

Many atheists and agnostics declare themselves to be non-believers, stating that they cannot believe in any Creator or God, if that God or Creator willfully created a world where pain and distress exists. So the atheist's "judgment" or belief in their own internal ability to judge good and evil, or disapprove anything manifested in reality, are placing themselves as God's equal, wishing to have their our custom made universe (the original rebellion in heaven) that would be in perfect harmony without any free will, good or evil. But God has made made his creations to have true free will for deeds of evil or good, and self-consciousness for witnessing (or to be conscious of) evil or good in their own deeds.

Many vainly say "better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven". The problem is that these self-named "gods" or rulers are also part to the creation - they are condemning, and indirectly self-condemning themselves. Also, sorry to disappoint them, no one/soul rules in Hell.

Evil is also part of the darkness (the void) that God separated from and before Light, pure consciousness, or the "I AM", the pure Observer/Witness of God's presence and the consciousness component of Life was created. So as stated by John in his Gospel, _"_ _darkness cannot comprehend the Light"_ (Christ or God). Darkness is the realm of the worldly-wise, lifeless objects, artificial intelligence, technology, quantitative/empirical applied science, which is the study of nature not influenced by divine forces (see the Dualism of Paul Descartes). Divine forces also include those angels that once were in the Light but voluntarily choose or rebelled to be separated from the Light/God and became part of the darkness (e. g. Satan).

Darkness prefers to accumulate and be among its own kind since it cannot comprehend the " _light_ ", the dark dead lifeless things such as money, properties, commodities – things of Nature and the Worldly. Evil man seeks these things, and has no need for non-tangible God-Life-Light-Consciousness, and will actively ridicule and punish others who have the Light.

As depicted in movies, Evil is like a "vampire" or "walking dead", seeking living blood or living brains, due to evil's darkness and not having the Light or true Life in themselves. Just like _"weeds"_ or _"tares"_ that do not produce fruit but feed selfishly off the good plants, these "weeds" will pulled out only at the end time and will be burnt by the second death. Evil will seek to destroy the Light or make worldly abuse of the Light and its abilities, seeking occult arts or the psychic abilities in the sons of God, for their own material gains.

As well, the evil darkness seeks lifeless additions, just as did Eve and Adam in their confused desires for lifeless materialistic clothing to hide their shame, not understanding what is stated in the Gospel of Matthew [6:26-34] " _Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So_ _why do you worry about_ _clothing_ _? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;_ _and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these._ _Now if God so_ _clothes_ _the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,_ _will He not much more_ _clothe_ _you_ _, O you of little faith?"_

Adam and Eve lost faith in the perfect creation of God, with the forbidden knowledge of Good and Evil (they also became paranoid/fearful of Evil's possibilities), criticized God's creation, becoming blind to their own innate Light, non-corporal ability to experience God's creation, and immortality. As a result they experienced, for the first time, fear and anger over their new nakedness, as well as shame, self-loathing, and self-judgment. As well, their nakedness was a self-judgment of evil, since Adam after their eating/gaining the knowledge of good and evil or the ability to make judgment, hiding from God, said in Genesis [3:10] " _I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself._ ", since God asked them in Genesis [3:11] " _Who told thee that thou wast naked?"_. As stated in John [3:20] _"For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.",_ and being evil in their own eyes, Adam and Eve wanted to put themselves into the darkness, by covering their nakedness under a light blocking material, clothes or fur. Their judgment is also superficial since they judge their appearance rather than appreciating their innate living soul. By their self-image-loathing (self-loathing shame) they then are seeding their desire to have an external beauty, via lifeless attire and self-idealization or self-external-image in the past and future, rather that pursuing their, in the present moment, living self-realization which brings into realization or reality, a living soul more intimately, as a companion and child of God. So in their darkness/evil knowledge their self-loathing becomes the foundation to their selfish narcissism – the antithesis of Christ's Way.

As part of Darkness, or the study of the lifeless (clothes as the beginning of worldly desires), it may be that science and space exploration is a misguided delusion of the worldly wise, in that an advanced civilization of God can simply move in the Spirit into whatever life forms it wishes, across space and time, as suggested by the abilities of Christ, in the various events stated in the Bible, such as casting out of devils, as conscious entities, from the bodies of possessed people. The mobile ability of the spirit in the physical is also demonstrated in the appearances of Moses in spirit form with Jesus, the voice from God from Heaven in the clouds, and the dematerialization (disappearances) and materialization/appearances of Jesus to and from the crowded places. As well, similar spiritual traveling abilities are given in personal Near Death accounts. That may be the reason we have not been visited by intelligent aliens. On the other hand, if visited by aliens, they may well be the product of the Evil that have been banished into the physical universe, who are left to only use materialistic technologies to travel, rather than by the Spirit, or by the innate abilities of the sons of God and Light.

Evil as Chaos, is chaotic ignorance or mere stupidity (not having the Truth nor knowing reality, nor worldly and nor divine, and nothing from the Holy Ghost/Spirit of Truth). Entropy is evil since the big bang creation or in the beginning was by the Word, indicating an extreme low entropy or chaos and with high organization/functions or high information/intelligence initial state. As the universe unfolded, the ignorance/darkness spread. Would a smart soul follow a narcissistic Satan whose agenda is to simply destroy him?

Lastly, the darkness misunderstands Christianity, by mistakenly believing in material spirituality, assuming that, if one just verbalizes sounds, verbal affirmations of belief, perform self-inflicted corporal denials, self-flagellation, material showoff acts of holiness, or having brilliant worldly brain thoughts/ideas of religious discussions, then he will be given access to Light and Heaven – in this manner. Darkness cannot " _comprehend"_ , or truly " _hear_ ", or " _see_ " the Light.

The prophets and Christ stressed the importance of fulfilling prophecy, or the Will of God for the beneficial destiny of mankind. The religious leader, Caiaphas, believed in prophecy enough to want to change it or manipulate it for worldly benefits. Herod believed in prophecy enough to want it unfulfilled by killing babies. Spiritualism and Occultists want prophecy or precognition foreknowledge of the future to alter it to their desires, and not to fulfill God's Will for mankind. There is no attempt to listen to God's intent for us and to fulfill. Precognition is sought but NOT its context on the reasons why it must be allowed to happen or fulfill. This is part of the Spirit of Rebellion, for the worldly to become godlike irrespective of the chaos and evil they produce.

The litmus test for Evil is the absence of unselfish Love, the Way of Christ, and the existence of hate for your brother. As stated in the Gospel of John [2:9-11] _"He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."_ As stated in John [3:15] _"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him."_ You cannot join your brothers in Heaven while having hatred for any brother.

Second Death:

The following four instances of the "second death" being mentioned are in the following.

It is defined as not being faithful unto death: Revelation [1.10]: _"...behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. [1.11] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the_ _second death."_

It states that it happens after the First Resurrection lasting 1000 years, as a period of reincarnation of only good souls, because the " _dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished."_ and that [1.11]: " _he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the_ _second death_ _hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."_ Satan, after the first resurrection 1000 year period ruled by Christ, _"must be loosed a little season."_ to do battle, to be defeated, and the rest of his souls to be judged.

It mentions that even the already dead are judged, and hell are both cast into the lake of fire. Being thrown into the lake of fire, is the second death: Revelation [20.14] _And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the_ _second death_ _."_

The type of sins deserving the second death: Revelation [21.8] states _"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the_ _second death_ _."_

There are some references in the Gospels to the second death, as being cast into the lake of fire. Without the belief in Christ then the realm of " _weeping and gnashing of teeth_ " or hell is mentioned in Matthew [22:12-14] _"And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a_ _wedding garment_ _? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen."_ is stated in reference to being invited since all are invited good and evil " _as many as ye shall find"_ to Revelation's City of God, or the wedding of Christ. If the soul is invited, but fails to put on a holy consciousness or garment that is unsoiled and clean of sins, having done good deeds as a prerequisite to being chosen and allowed to enter the City of God, then the soul is rejected and cast into the lake of fire and given the second death.

The plot of Revelation is also mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew [13:30-40] with the statement: _"Let both_ [the good and the evil] _grow together until the harvest ... He that sows the_ _good seed is the Son of man_ _; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore_ _the tares are gathered and burned in the fire_ _; so shall it be in the end of this world.")._ The Gospel of Matthew is confirming the plan to let evil prosper unchecked up to the end of Revelation, so that Christ can judge all souls if they are allowed to enter the City of God, to be rescued from a scorched and destroyed Earth or be left behind to perish in the lake of fire. Also both good and bad are invited to the wedding feast of the Bride of Christ, the City of God, but while all (good and bad) are invited, few are chosen, and the chosen must be wearing their unsoiled wedding garments, otherwise they are the weeds in the final "weeding" out of the harvest and are cast into the second death's lake of fire.

The second death is also implied in Matthew [22:13] when God see an invitee to Christ's wedding to the Bride of Christ (the City of God) being in the wrong garment (consciousness, light, or spirit) " _Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.",_ because to be bound " _hand and foot"_ it signifies the loss of free will, which is the other side of divine consciousness, being divine free will, so the offender also losses his light to be thrown back into the darkness – the second death.

Ironically the Second Death may just be the type of real death that stubborn atheists wish for themselves, in accordance with their belief that there is no free will, no afterlife, no soul survival, no true divine consciousness, and the final and complete destruction of their soul and life.
TECHNIQUES IN LISTENING TO GOD

This chapter provides some short notes on the methods I personally have used to seek the Kingdom of Heaven. A more comprehensive book titled "Mindful Meditation and Prayer According to the Gospels" is available.

Christ gave hints on how to listen to God. Some non-Christian systems and science present some technical hints as well on how to " _still_ "/focus/control your mind to listen to God or the divine inside or simply to become more awake or consciously alive to have a more stable sane emotional life and robust and healthy personality.

Christ pointed out some factors preventing your ability to listen to God, for example: having worldly concerns (Mark [10:25] " _It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God._ "), seeking the praise of others (John [12:43] " _they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God."_ ), having worldly or material interests distract you like weeds on your spiritual farmland, lack of effort or desire for the spirit, or false/vain intentions/vices rather than the seven virtues to gain the Way or behavior/righteousness of Christ, and finally if you have the spirit of rebellion or pride or a need to be disobedient to God or harbor atheistic convictions and have no faith in the possibility of God. Christ who listened perfectly to God had three aspects: the Truth of Christ (the Spirit of Truth/Holy Ghost) by having the higher consciousness' _eyes to see_ and _ears to hear_ the Truth/reality, the Light of God or consciousness that gives life to you soul, making you a living soul like Adam, and finally the behavior of Christ's Way to love one another, not judge or hold grudges, and his peace which is helpful in stilling/quieting your mind's internal dialog enough to listen to God.

In order to still your mind and "hear" God in spirit, and not with ears, you need to withdraw from the world mentally, feeling, and awareness, so that in that vacuum from sensations or senses, worries or worldly thoughts, and body awareness or physical presence, you can come to a state of being solely within your pure spiritual identity – this will awaken you.

It helps to believe in your spiritual self and expect it. One can't find something unless you have at least a vague ideal/image for what you are looking. So read about God and think about God and your real spiritual self, and not your false persona and idols, your image in society, your stuff, your gains and losses, your pride, guilt or shame.

You can start to withdraw for your "world" of lies which mainly in a PAST-FUTURE self-drama, by concentrating on your present worldly time frame, by focusing on your physical NOW: what you do Now and your Now conditions, and not on your "past or future" lies (your past failures/pride and future desires/avarice). This can be done in many ways. Do the tasks, that are normally done unconsciously, but instead do them in the NOW, do them purposely under full awareness and consciousness in the present. This exercises your free/divine Will, given by God, is your path toward your free conscious Will self, to assert you as a Spirit, as your true identity. You need to cultivate conscious decision making (Will) and conscious self-Soul-awareness (Light) and the caring servant of God and Life.

The following steps are not sectarian practices, and can be applied even if one is a non-believer, but I believe an atheist will be handicapped. It simply cultivates your conscious will to control your awareness for any intentions. I have inserted " _in the Spirit_ " because even if you are not "spiritual" you will " _feel"_ to be in a realm of self-control, self-awareness, and a soul-spirit-self new identity, independence, or freedom and never felt before bliss or " _spirit_ ". On average, it probably will take up an hour a day for a few years. There are many other similar methods practiced by various religions and even scientists that can be leveraged by your intent to listen to the Spirit. But like the act of swimming, even after years, one does not float effortlessly – you will still need to tread water to keep afloat.

The following three Steps or exercises should be done concurrently and it may take many years of practice before getting a level of spirituality, but the acts of focusing your attention no matter how tedious, painful, annoying, or frustrating, the immediate after effects will astound you. It is like any exercise, like weight lifting, that although painful while doing it will give you great feelings of wellbeing and self-poise, after these "painful" exercises, for the rest of the day. If done in the morning, you will find that in your remaining day you will be much more patient, in control, peaceful, centered, imaginative, inventive, inspirational, and productive.

Step One: Now before you can practice meditation, you need to relax and withdraw from the physical awareness that binds you and prevents you from " _being in the Spirit_ " as John states in Revelation [4:2]. This can be done if you can control your subconscious, or at least get your mind to cooperate. This, in modern terminology, is called self-hypnosis or doing a self-hypnotic induction, which means giving yourself internal commands to relax your body, withdraw pain or distractions from your body, which undermine your ability to be in the non-physical spirit. Sit on a hard chair (a hard chair will prevent you from daydreaming or falling asleep, and when you get better at it, you can lie on your back to reduce physical pain distractions), and give internal dialog sentenced commands to yourself. Scan of your body and detach: Pick a part of your body, one at a time in sequence, saying any of the following: "I am relaxing my left arm", "your left arm is relaxing", "all pain is leaving my left arm", "I am not aware of my left arm", "I am removing my consciousness from my left arm", "All health and perfection is being restored into my left arm". Do this for all parts of your body while visualizing the respective part selected. While you are doing this, keep in mind that while you are becoming less aware of your body, your agenda is to become more aware of the Truth of your spiritual awareness or light or your real identity apart from this world, as an independent divine spirit, a son of God, and one who is seeking to listen to God. Some mindful meditation books describe some of the methods, but by not having the spirit/God in the practice, you will never be able to go beyond rudimentary physical and mental benefits – it will not bring you to what John of the Cross describes as a contemplative union.

Actually the visualization exercise of clearly seeing, in your mind's eye, the part of the body selected, when visually perfect it, will automatically bring you into the spirit state, because one cannot have the ability to visualize as clearly as one can in a real dream without automatically causing your body to become fully relaxed and detached from your conscious awareness. This process also leads into lucid dreaming, where you retain waking conscious and free will in the dream state, where you will be able to control the dream or thought distractions, to allow you to become an independent divine spirit. In other words you become more independent of your physical brain structure or worldly person, which will lead you into the spiritual realm.

Step Two: Consciously in the NOW moment, do what we always do unconsciously, for example: walk, breathe, observe/feel/see/hear, dream, and so on. Each of these activities can be used to assert you Spirit identity. By consciously breathing, or any task normally done unconsciously by your autonomic system without out your awareness or thinking involved, you gain the spiritual Will to overcome your worldly self, and to overcome your worldly institutionalized conditioning. It will make you aware of yourself as the conscious controller (the (the brain activity normally in the left frontal lobes) so that you are gaining awareness of your spiritual capabilities. It does not really matter which yogic breathing method you adopt, just choose one, but do it consciously, focusing in the present moment. Initially you should sit on a hard chair, because beginners tend to fall asleep when they are too comfortable, upright for about 15 minutes consciously breathing once a day. When getting distracted or falling asleep is not a problem, you can graduate yourself to a lying down on a very comfortable bed.

Alternatively walk consciously one a day: decide to take a short walk, noticing as much as possibly how you walk, the pace, gait, etc. and then decide to consciously decide when to place one foot ahead of the other, the stride, the frequency, the pressure or gait, and alter it as much as possible to prevent your walk from becoming autonomic.

Perform a housekeeping task consciously, for instance cooking, cleaning, tidying, etc. - so make your bed consciously, deciding to perform the tasks out of the normal sequence, the speed, the method, every day.

Perform the task of conversations in your daily life, as a conscious exercise, instead of talking about your problems, listen consciously to others, absorbing in the present time, their small nuances, tone, facial expressions, the stance, and listen. Do this on a daily basis when you interact with sales clerks, friends, and family, and above all be kind and loving.

Step Three: Doing the above worldly actions, under your spiritual Will or volition, they will give you the tools/abilities to proceed to the next level: your control over your awareness, focus, or concentration in consciousness. This is a harder task, but the previous conscious exercises in the NOW, will help you gain focus or concentration. Although I don't recommend it for everyone, I used to practice memorizing a shuffled deck of cards or cards numbered 1 to 52, and recalling the sequence of about a random 100 digit number or 52 game cards, or perform conscious memory associations between a selected word by drawing a perfectly penciled straight line, similar to a "Word Associations Network" but also labeling the association as either as "part of", "function", "event association", "descriptive attribute", or one can use the classification of When/Where/What/How/Why/Who.

Observe how your subconscious pushes thoughts into your stream of thinking. Gain control over what thoughts you are willing to pay attention to or ignore. This helps you withdraw your slavish attention to whatever thoughts pop into your stream of consciousness. If you do not regain your spiritual worldly independent conscious Will, there is little hope in focusing your spiritual attention to listen to God.

Step Four: After the prerequisite acts of concentration, relaxation, and visualization exercises, you can practice listening to God while " _in the Spirit_ ". As you progress you may feel or hear an audible "snap", or rush over your body as a distinct real and dramatic shift or "awakening" into a new state of being, just like waking from sleep, but in this case you are awakening form a wakeful state – true! You will gain a full self-awareness of your spiritual being, apart from your body, persona, and the rest of the world, in a blissful state of peace, a divine " _presence_ ", without any worldly judgments or concerns, where you would not mind to reside in it for eternity.

Final Step: After step 4, when one is awakened into one's own spiritual self-awareness, the next step is to proceed to visit other souls in the spirit, and finally visit and receive Christ to save your soul, as stated in Revelation [3:20] " _Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me._ " Alternatively, you can internally seek the kingdom of heaven and contact God.

Just keep an eye on the results and note them in a diary - just in case you have negative results for some reasons. Keeping a diary of dreams helps in monitoring your mental health – your dreams should give you more insights and guidance, not nightmares.

Please keep your motivations and intentions pure and unselfish. Remember that your thoughts or intentions are real, and whatever you visualize, your images or thoughts will be interpreted as commands and will be realized by your subconscious. So if you are angry or negative, please do NOT practice meditation, since negative thoughts or desires will be taken as destructive commands by your subconscious. You should not pray with evil or negative feelings in your heart.

As you do these tasks as stated in Matthew [6:33] "... _seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you._ ", many gifts of the spirit will be given to you, such as PSI related gifts, be careful not to look for them or let these gifts temp you or distract you, and never let your worldly self or social personality or ambitions use them, otherwise these "gifts" will be your undoing.

Of course, you don't need to do any of the above steps if you are innately sincerely always in an attentive listening mode for God. In that mode your thoughts are silent, in the present and void of past and future worries, in faithfulness to the invisible spiritual reality around you - in a natural contemplative state of spiritual awareness. That is why some are naturally sons of God and sons of Man solely by their own nature, and do not need any help from books, since the Spirit of Truth is their ever-present teacher. If you already have the ability to listen to God or Christ (" _if any man hear my voice_ "), Christ asks us to knock and open up, since Christ is the right door, as stated in Revelation [3:20] " _Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me._ ".
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By now, the reader has probably concluded that my analysis is a bit personal. Although religious, I have always naively hoped that science would find and accept God. But as Christ stated, the darkness or the worldly wise leaders, or the "Pharisees" of our age, will never comprehend and will refuse to believe and have the light of God shine and expose their naked sins. I have to confess my weakness, in that I try to believe in Christ via logical arguments. I am in a perpetual struggle, trying to reconcile the divine act of creation with what I know in science. So please forgive me for digressing with the following argument.

Genesis may be describing a big bang like scenario from which differentiation or splits occur as time progresses, e. g. in physics this is called symmetry breaking, the breaking of sameness, the not distinguishable, _"the same was in the beginning"_ to non-sameness (I. e. separation/identifiable). There is some difficulty in trying to "define" God, Word, Light, Life, and Love within any scientific context. Using some of the Greco-Roman concepts at the time, especially Plato, from God comes the Word (ideas/concepts), and from the Word, the Word defines laws of creation from which Light is realized, Light is a one word concept for Consciousness, From this consciousness, which requires a means to observe, comes the word/law for Light, and from each Observer/Consciousness, in awe of the observed universe created by the Word, the observer experiences and becomes a Life. While the portions, or other beings not having the _"light of men"_ or darkness (not life) is differentiated from man, as the "worldly" men referred many times by Jesus later on in the Gospel, and the "weeds" in Revelation.

Metaphysically one could logically argue that from the One, God, only the many can come. And perhaps from the many, in the End Time, the many can merge into the One, if there is an end at all, which I doubt. From Nothing (non-material, nameless, image-less, just " _I AM_ ", non-what-ness) something can arise. In science this is called "Zero Sum": the notion that the whole of universe's energy, antimatter/matter, must sum up to Zero, or nothing, otherwise there must have been something "before" the Big Bang(s). So true "nothing" truly "existed" before the Big Bang(s) or creation. This may surprise many, that something could be nothing when added up.

In reference to something that one cannot "scientifically" verify, say a particular dimensional alternate creation, a parallel creation having different laws or dimensions or hyper-dimensional, and in being not-related to any of the our laws; one could correctly say that it is nothing to us since it is outside our domain of possible verifiable experiences. It is like saying, that to a 3 dimensional person, a 2 dimensional person or God is non-existing, or nothing. It is like saying that no matter how much red color I give you, it will not help you paint blue. Red is non existent in reference to blue.

But Nothing or the Infinite (God), as the nameless, has the freedom to conceive of anything to be named, since it is not contained or bounded, or defined/limited. Like God, only nothing, or infinity has no laws, no boundaries, and no restrictions. Interestingly, as a new born child, a child can much more easily conceive an alternate universe. Similarly in physics, it believes that from a singularity point, of no material dimensionless position, like the child, as an infinitesimal point, having no area or volume, the greatest creativity can unfold. Paradoxically the dimensionless and space-less, singularity/single point, can by moving, unfold, from one dimension, to two dimensions, to three and so on, - like the construction of an flat 2 dimensional paper sheet made into a 3 dimensional origami... to a three dimensional object like us. The lower two dimensional world is invisible to us, or nothing to us, and likewise the one dimensional world being is "nothing" to a 2 dimensional world being, and finally, to a non-dimensional point type God, that started the Big Bang, then all the other nth dimensional beings arising out of it, to those higher dimensions beings, a point is "nothing". So logically we can conclude that, indeed, the unbounded non-being "nothing/infinity" made something (the beings with images). God is unbounded, impossible to imagine, with infinite freedom.

It is also theorized that the nothing that is the "center in" a black hole, which is space-time curled around itself, has no laws within it, since no laws defining space-time is within a black hole, or all laws break down within it, therefore it can be conjectured that it can spawn new "bubble" universes with alternative laws within it.

Here I am assuming that space-time is required as the medium holding our laws of the universe, since anything outside space-time, is undefined to us. By the way, one can view the expansion of the universe, as the process in which new space-time is being defined.

It would be tempting to imagine that the Boltzmann Brain hypothesis, as being the way God was created, but it would beg the question → who made the quantum chaos per-requisite, resulting in a low entropy Boltzmann Brain creation, arising from pure chance from a limitless timeline.

In physics, the observation or information consumption (measurement) by a consciousness, collapses the various many quantum states/values possibilities of what reality an observer can classically observe, I. e. QM multi-valued superposition or possibilities) to a single value classical measurement or observation that creates reality without paradoxes, in conjunction with other reality collapsed facts in the waking mind of man. In a sense, then our Light from God or our consciousness makes our classically collapsed reality, a non-paradoxical consistent single valued reality that we experience. So the Light of Christ, as the ultimate Observer, may be the QM creation of the world.

The Word may also be representing thoughts or information, which is stated to have been with God, and with His thought or thought conceptualization, all things are created. In other "words" thoughts arising or from the Mind of God, is the creator of concepts and thoughts and information. The Mind is the creator, via thoughts, created all life. This may be just an anthropomorphic fault of our human imagination, trying to imagine the mind of God. Genesis also presents the world being created, first with ideas or words, similar to the Platonic World of Ideas, e. g. the concept of numbers, such as the idea or classification of "two" as the abstract idea behind all realized instances of 2-pair existences of similar objects, or of the abstract counting number 2 without any objective or concrete reference to any particular of any 2 "of what" existed, or "before" any instances or manifestations of any two objects in the material world. Therefore, God is the creator of ideas, concepts, and all types of information, or the Word as part of all that there is. So when God created the singular word "soul", it became an abstract template to instantiate or creates the concrete multitudes of "souls".

Because in our personal experience in the practice of meditation, we can assume that creation comes from some mental concepts. There is the distinction between the meditative conscious Observer and the thoughts it creates, and the internally observed or created thoughts one tries to control. This separation between idea and God (as absolute consciousness) is similar to the meditative process in which one realizes that our thoughts ("Words") are not an intrinsic part of our pure Observer Self (inner "god"). Our conscious Observer Self is the creator of our thoughts, and asserts its independence by controlling its own thoughts, and by withdrawing from them, The Observer's self-awareness or self-identification or in our assertion that it is not identified, or attached to these thoughts. So in that meditative practice we can in turn realize within this process, the similar relationship, that God has with the Word, Light, mankind, and his creations.

Later on in Genesis, man is described to be created in the image of God, which implies that like us, who believe that we can create our own thoughts/Word, in the same manner or relationship in our true Self, like God created the Word, since we were made in his image to have analogous mini abilities.

As "gods", we would like to imagine that we are similar, as mini co-creators in the image of God, and hopefully eventually be a companion with some god like omniscience and omnipotence in Heaven with God. But as Christ stated regarding himself, he had God's omniscience or sight, but not God's omnipotence or power, since Christ is not selfish or self-Willed, but faithfully abides with and follows the Will of God. If Christ is the better Adam redeemed. Adam having had the fruit of good and evil, and therefore able to judge, gossip and imagine lies, or do evil, then it would make sense that a redeemed Adam, must restrain his will to fully abide/surrender solely to the good Will of God, in other words, to only have a Will that does only good deeds, or the works required by God. As Christ stated in John [14:12] that " _Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these"_. In other words, God is choosing those among us who will not cause chaos and misery in Heaven. This is the sacrifice that all Christians are asked to do, to circumcise your own will and to listen to God's Will, by focusing their internal conscious Light or Christ like awareness, to listen with their whole body, mind, and spirit and be quiet and be still internally to be able to hear the almost silent voice of God's Will, to enable you to do the good deeds on which you will be judged.

To listen with their whole body, mind, and spirit, being quiet and still internally is the true essence of the practice of mindful meditation. But without the goal of listening to God, mindful meditation is an empty and limited practice. Without God, it would only be a simple mundane exercise of mental concentration, or a process of controlling of thoughts like mental gymnastics. As in mindful meditation, one of the ten commandments state that _"thou shalt not have any graven image before me"_ , which states that one should not use any visible materialistic objects as a representative of one's true identity, just as the commandment states that no materialistic object or imagined image shall be used as the identity of God. This is the same commandment used in mindful meditation: You are not allowed to interrupt your sense of self-awareness, and not be distracted or identified or involved by any stray worldly thoughts, images, or emotional concerns.

God is infinite and unbounded just like infinity or the paradoxical nothingness, which is something which cannot be represented by any bounded limited image or idea. The _"no image before me"_ literal interpretation of the first Commandment does not allow for any life painting or life sculptures, especially images of God, in holy places. We must also do the same in our practice of deep contemplation, in the presence of the Spirit, to also have no images in front of our consciousness to distract us, otherwise thoughts, material identifications, or more desires would arise in our consciousness, causing our separation from being in your own pure Spiritual Self-Consciousness. This practice is the seeking for the nameless, image-less presence of God or Heaven.

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