THE REVELATION OF JESUS
THE BOOK OF
REVELATION EXPLAINED
The Revelation of Jesus
The
Book of Revelation
PREFACE
This Book of Revelation is the greatest of all the books of the Bible.
It is the Revelation of Jesus, and it is the least
understood, as it is written in symbols and allegories such
as different colored horses, a dragon, different kinds of
beasts and other images, to such an extent that none of the
Christians down through the ages, nor the Covenant-breaking
Baha'is, could fathom its meaning. As God gave this
Revelation to Jesus Christ, only Christ (Baha'u'llah) or
Jesus on his return could know the meaning of this book.
Therefore, `Abdu'l-Baha, the delineator of Baha'u'llah's
Revelation, explained accurately the 11th, part of the 12th
and part of the 21st chapters. The rest of the book has been
left sealed to the Christians and to the Covenant-breaking
Baha'is.
There have been many attempts by the Christians to
interpret this great Book of Revelation. These include
attempts by both the Seventh Day Adventists and the
Jehovah's Witnesses. In the Baha'i Faith there are two main
attempts: (1) The Apocalypse Unsealed by Robert F. Riggs,
copyright 1981, published by Philosophical Library, Inc.,
showing that this is not an approved book; and (2) God
Speaks Again: New Keys to the Book of Revelation by Ruth J.
Moffett, Baha'i Publishing Trust, P.O. Box 19, New Delhi,
India.
For many years Ruth Moffett tried to get the
National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and the
Guardian, Shoghi Effendi to approve the manuscript of her
book for Baha'i publication, with no results. Finally, in
1977 she got the Baha'i Publishing Trust of New Delhi, India
to approve her book.
For many years Mrs. Moffett was one of
the greatest Baha'i teachers in the United States. She would
go from city to city throughout the country putting on a
great campaign, having the Local Spiritual Assemblies make
her appearances highly publicized by setting up lectures in
prominent auditoriums. Out of these lectures she would get
several scores of seekers to sign up to attend two weeks of
daily firesides. Most of these students became
believers.
Leland Jensen was a third generation Baha'i,
with his grandparents on his mother's side being among the
earliest Baha'is in America. Leland Jensen's parents, Daisy
Dell Petersen and Christ Rowland Jensen, were both Baha'is
before they married each other in 1911, and they met
`Abdu'l-Baha when he visited both Kenosha and Racine,
Wisconsin in 1912.
Leland Jensen was born in Burlington,
Wisconsin on August 22, 1914. His family then moved to
Kenosha, then to Chicago, Illinois, then to Racine, and then
to Sturtevant, just west of Racine, where the Jensen family
first met Mrs. Moffett. Later, when the Jensens moved back
to Racine, and Mrs. Moffett put on a campaign, Leland, who
was about seventeen at that time, went through Mrs.
Moffett's firesides where she gave among other teachings her
interpretation of the Book of Revelation. She taught these
interpretations throughout the United States. These
firesides were most successful in bringing in new believers,
sometimes doubling or tripling the number of believers in a
town. However, these explanations were erroneous. Being
erroneous, they have done much harm to the Cause of God,
leading the sheep to the slaughter. Don't get me wrong, Dr.
Leland Jensen considered Mrs. Moffett to be one of his
mentors and he had a strong bond of affection and admiration
for her. She didn't lead the people astray purposely, for
she had a strong belief that she was gifted. She claimed
Baha'u'llah gave her the "keys" for the interpretation of
the Book of Revelation, and being that she used these
"keys," she believed her interpretations were authentic:
"The recognition of the 'Keys' as originating from a Divine
Source [Baha'u'llah] eliminates controversy and establishes
unity, harmony and clear understanding, opens the door of
inner significance and thus preserves the truth. This is the
only method that is authoritative and authentic, clear and
satisfactory... the reader is asked to sincerely consider
the Authoritative - Authentic Method, using the MASTER KEY,
which is given by One Who is come as the Revelator, the
World Educator, the Manifestation or Voice of God
[Baha'u'llah], speaking to mankind for this Day..." (p. XV,
New Keys to the Book of Revelation).
Peter tells us: "First
of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of
scriptures is a matter of one's interpretation, because no
prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by
the Holy Spirit spoke from God." Footnote: "Other
authorities read: 'moved by the Holy Spirit holy men of God
spoke'" (The Second Letter of Peter 1:20,21).
Mrs. Moffett
is telling us that Baha'u'llah gave us the keys to interpret
scriptures, whereas in reality He passed the keys to
interpret on to His son
`Abdu'l-Baha, in the Kitab-i-'Ahd
(Book of the Covenant), making him the authoritative
interpreter of Baha'u'llah's Revelation as well as that of
other Holy Scriptures. `Abdu'l-Baha explained the 11th
chapter, part of the 12th chapter and part of the 21st
chapter of the Book of Revelation. His interpretation of the
11th chapter pertained to Muhammad and Ali (Muhammad's
establisher), who interpreted scriptures written by
Muhammad. 1260 years later they returned as The Bab and
Janabi Quddus, his establisher, who had the authority to
interpret scriptures. The 11th chapter contains the prophecy
of the coming of the seventh angel who would also (as did
Janabi Quddus) have the authority to interpret scriptures.
`Abdu'l-Baha explained that the seventh angel, as
prophesied, will come and establish the kingdom.
`Abdu'l-Baha stated in Some Answered Questions, P. 66:
The
seventh angel is a man qualified with heavenly qualities and
character. Voices will be raised, so that the appearance of
the Divine Manifestation will be proclaimed and diffused...
- in that day of God, the Spiritual and Divine Kingdom will
be established, and the world will be renewed...
(ibid.).
This seventh angel will be able to accomplish
this as he fulfills the prophecies for the return of Jesus
the High Priest, as prophesied in Zechariah 3:1-10. As the
return of Jesus, he gives the authentic and correct meaning
of the Book of Revelation.
There are prophecies in the New
Testament for the return of Jesus Christ. Baha'u'llah
fulfilled the prophecies for the second coming of Christ
seated on the throne of David, but not the prophecies for
the return or the second coming of Jesus. If He had claimed
that He did, He would have been an impostor. Jesus said:
"For many will come in my name [Jesus], saying 'I am the
Christ,' and they will lead many astray." Therefore, as a
necessity, the return of Jesus must be another person, as
Baha'u'llah only fulfilled the prophecies for the return of
Christ, not the return of Jesus. `Abdu'l-Baha only
explained the 11th, part of the 12th and part of the 21st
chapters of Revelation, as these pertained to the coming of
The Bab and Baha'u'llah, and as `Abdu'l-Baha did not
explain the meanings of the remaining chapters, and as the
Book of Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, then
only Jesus on his return can explain the remaining
chapters.
Daniel gave the dates for the return of Jesus.
The first date was 1260 AH, or 1844, which was the return of
Jesus as the door. The second was 1280 AH, or 1863 AD, for
the return of Christ (Baha'u'llah) and the third is 1335
solar years from the victory of Muhammad in 628 AD, which
brings us to April 21-29, 1963 AD when Jesus (not Christ)
began his ministry by being opposed by Satan.
INTRODUCTION
The Book of Revelation is the greatest book
in the entire Bible, and it is the book that is most
misunderstood. Nobody knows the meaning of this book, as it
is written in symbols, allegories and a style or fashion
that makes it almost impossible to decipher its purpose and
its significance. That is why preachers neglect it almost
completely. This was the intent of God. That is, He kept it
a mystery so that only the return of Christ, Baha'u'llah,
and the return of Jesus the Lamb, Leland, would be able to
unravel the mysteries that are enshrined therein. This was
intended to provide proof that these two are the ones sent
by God, so that all mankind could turn to them and benefit
by Baha'u'llah's Revelation of the Kingdom, and by Jesus'
explanations and commentaries to establish that Kingdom in
the world. `Abdu'l-Baha, the delineator of Baha'u'llah's
Revelation, revealed the meaning of the 11th chapter, the
first six verses of the 12th chapter and a few verses of the
21st chapter. This is so all of mankind in this world would
know of the meaning of the Book of Revelation. To all of the
rest of the world it remains a complete mystery, except to
the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant, who have
been taught the meanings by Jesus (Leland).
In
approximately 96 AD, John, the youngest of the twelve
apostles of Christ, was in the area of Asia Minor preaching
the gospel of Jesus Christ. He was taken prisoner and exiled
by the Roman Government to Patmos, a penal colony. While
imprisoned there, John received the Revelation of Jesus
Christ on his first coming, in the form of visions which
were revealed to him by an angel sent by Jesus. John
immediately addressed the seven churches which existed in
Asia Minor at that time, revealing to them the visions which
he had received.
Symbolically, these seven churches
represent the seven conditions of Christianity, both good
and bad, that would both inflict and benefit the believers
in Christianity. This message from Jesus was sent by the
angel of Jesus to these seven churches, thus the Revelation
of Jesus Christ was recorded and preserved until this very
day.
Jesus was a Universal Manifestation, as were the
prophets Adam and Baha'u'llah. The rest of the
Manifestations - Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, and
Muhammad - had Revelations that were for certain peoples,
for the purpose of building them into very great
civilizations. Jesus told his apostles and disciples to go
out and teach the nations so when Baha'u'llah came there
would be Christians living in all nations. When these
Christians are converted to the Baha'i faith by the return
of Jesus the Lamb they will be able to persuade these
specific civilizations to become Baha'i. The reason why
Jesus gave this Book of Revelation is so that at "the close
of the age" in 2000 AD (Matthew 24:3) the whole world would
become Baha'i.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ reveals to
all of mankind that which will come to pass after the time
John received Jesus' Revelation, until the time when God's
Kingdom is established on earth as it is in heaven. This
Revelation, however, was not to be understood or correctly
interpreted until a specific, preordained time when Jesus
would return and give its true explanation. Therefore the
meaning of the visions that John received and recorded in
the Book of Revelation are hidden in symbolism and
parallelism.
This is the time for the mystery of those
verses to be understood. The one whom God has ordained to
reveal the true meaning of His Word is alive in the world
today and doing the work of God. He is prophesied throughout
the Holy Scriptures by various titles. He is the return of
Jesus, Joshua the High Priest, the Seventh Angel and the
Lamb, to list but a few. This Promised One who fulfills the
prophecies for the return of Jesus the Lamb is Dr. Leland
Jensen.
Now is the Day of Judgment which precedes the
establishment of God's Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
All of mankind will hear the Lamb's explanations and
commentaries. The Revelation of God, which began with Adam
approximately 6000 years ago and ends in this cycle of man's
existence with the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, will now be
established. The diverse religions which man has invented
and holds fast to will be destroyed. Those who cling to
these false religions and/or their own theologies will
perish also. These are the things that are revealed by the
angel of Jesus to John, his disciple.
The explanations I
have given here are an attempt to put together, verse by
verse, this great message so mankind may receive the
blessing of the knowledge of God's plan for mankind in these
last days. This is for your salvation and security during
the oncoming catastrophes.
Preachers neglect the Book of
Revelation almost completely because its symbols,
allegories, and style or fashion make its purpose and
significance almost impossible to decipher. This was the
intent of God. That is, He kept it a mystery so only the
return of Christ, Baha'u'llah, and the return of Jesus the
Lamb, Leland, would be able to unravel the mysteries that
are enshrined therein. This was to give proof that these two
are the Ones sent by God, so all mankind could turn to them
and benefit by Baha'u'llah's Revelation of the Kingdom and
by Jesus' explanations and commentaries to establish that
Kingdom in the world. `Abdu'l-Baha, the delineator of
Baha'u'llah's Revelation, revealed the meaning of the 11th
chapter and the first six verses of the 12th chapter as well
as a few verses of the 21st chapter. This is all the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is know of the meaning of the Book of
Revelation, and to the rest of the world it remains a
complete mystery, except to the Baha'is Under the Provisions
of the Covenant, who were taught the meanings.
The Adamic
cycle began 6000 years ago in 4000 BC and ends at the end of
this century. The Revelation of Baha'u'llah will be
established by 2000 AD, at the end of this cycle of man's
existence. The diverse religions which man has invented and
holds fast to will be destroyed. Those who cling to these
false religions and/or their own theologies will perish
also. These are the things that are revealed by the angel of
Jesus to John, his disciple.
Through the Grace and Divine
Blessings of God, I have been brought into the presence of
His Promised One and have received the explanations he gives
for this Revelation of Jesus. The explanations I have given
here are an attempt to put together, verse by verse, this
great message so that all of mankind may receive the
blessing of the knowledge of God's Plan.
The following
interpretations of the Revelation of Jesus are the only true
interpretations, as they are the interpretations of Jesus,
not the Christ, but Jesus the High Priest after the order of
Melchizedek: "We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of
the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind
the curtain (veil), where Jesus has gone as forerunner on
our behalf, having become a High Priest after the order of
Melchizedek" (Hebrews 6:19-20).
REVISED STANDARD
VERSION
(Unless Otherwise Indicated)
REVELATION CHAPTER
1
1 "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him
to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he
made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
2
"who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of
Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
3 "Blessed is he who
reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those
who hear, and keep what is written therein for the time is
near."
To begin, this shows that the Revelation of Jesus
Christ was not of his own creation, but was given to him by
God, which also shows that Jesus was not God as the
Christians believe, and that it was not the Revelation of
John. It also shows that the Book of Revelation was a book
of prophecies that were to take place in the future. It
pertains to nothing that was happening at that time or prior
to that time. This is also repeated in different words in
chapter 4, verse 1: "After this I looked, and lo, in heaven
an open door! And the first voice, which I had heard
speaking to me like a trumpet, said, 'Come up hither, and I
will show you what must take place after this.'"
4 "John to
the "seven churches" that are in Asia:"
This is Asia Minor
which is now Turkey. The seven churches were in the far
western portion of Turkey.
4 (cont.) "Grace to you and
peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and
from the seven spirits who are before his throne,"
This
refers to God Who makes Himself known through the seven
appearances of the Holy Spirit in the Divine Manifestations
[other than Jesus Christ] prior to the coming of
Baha'u'llah. These are Adam, Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster,
Buddha, Muhammad and the Bab. The "throne" is the throne of
King David, which Baha'u'llah sat upon.
5 "and from Jesus
Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and
the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has
freed us from our sins by his blood"
Jesus explained that
he was a "witness" of the One True Invisible God, Whom he
referred to as the Father, as he was the first to believe in
himself, and was thus the "firstborn of the [spiritually]
dead".
Jesus said: "My kingship is not of this world"
(John 18:36), but he also said he would come again.
Jesus
explained that the wine or "blood" was a symbol of his
Covenant. It is through his Covenant that the Christians are
to receive their salvation. The Covenant of Jesus is that he
would come again. Jesus placed his Covenant in heaven (the
heaven of prophecy), thus keeping it hidden. This Covenant
refers to the Covenant of Baha'u'llah Who fulfills the
prophecies for the second coming of Christ. Thus,
Baha'u'llah is the second coming of Christ. Baha'u'llah
brought the Kingdom of God. He is the One that all
Christians should turn to for their salvation.
6 "and made
us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."
The meaning of
"priest" here doesn't mean "priest" as in the Catholic
Church. Rather, it means teacher. According to page nine in
the Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha, everyone must teach.
There is no professional priesthood or paid clergy in the
Baha'i Faith.
It is prophesied that Jesus would come again.
Baha'u'llah fulfilled the prophecies for the second coming
of Christ. Baha'u'llah did not claim to be, nor did He
fulfill the prophecies for, the return of Jesus. Leland (the
land) fulfills the prophecies for the second coming of Jesus
the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (see the Book
of Hebrews).
With the passing of Shoghi Effendi in 1957
all the believers were to turn to his son, the first
International Baha'i Council. Jesus Christ and Baha'u'llah
were both called "Christ" because both were descendants of
King David. The meaning of the word Christ is a male sperm
descendant of King David who is anointed. Jesus was a
descendant from David through his physical father, Joseph,
the husband of Mary (Matthew 1:6-16 and Luke 3:23-31). Paul,
who did a lot of research in the archives, wrote in Romans
1:3-4: "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was
made of the seed [translated from the Greek word sperma] of
David according to the flesh; And [only] declared to be the
Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness
[the Holy Spirit]," which made Jesus a Manifestation of God,
not God. The Son refers to the potency of Jesus' Revelation,
whereas the Father refers to the potency of Baha'u'llah's
Revelation. If God was Jesus' physical father, Jesus could
not be the Christ, for God is not a descendant of King
David.
The difference between Jesus Christ and Baha'u'llah
is that none of Jesus' ancestors sat on the throne of David
except David himself. In Psalms 89 it is recorded, "Thou
hast said; 'I have made a Covenant with my chosen one, I
have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your
descendants for ever and build thy throne for all
generations'" (Psalms 89:3,4). Baha'u'llah's Covenant is the
continuation of the Covenant God made with David. In His
Covenant, Baha'u'llah, who is a male sperm descendant of
King David seated on the throne of King David, passed this
lineage down to His son `Abdu'l-Baha. `Abdu'l-Baha continued
this lineage in his adopted son, whom Shoghi Effendi placed
as the head or president of the future Universal House of
Justice, the first International Baha'i Council. This
council was Shoghi Effendi's non-biological son that he had
the Baha'i world turn to upon his passing.
There is a
wicked witch prophesied in this Book of Revelation. This one
who fulfills the prophecy for this wicked witch had the
"Hands" kill or destroy Shoghi Effendi's son so she and the
rest of the "Hands" could take over the administration for
their own aggrandizement and empowerment. They then set up a
wall around their Covenant-breaking violation, forbidding
the Baha'i world from using their intellects that God gave
them, denying them the right to use the principle of
"independent investigation of the truth" which Baha'u'llah
gave them so they could know the truth. The "Hands" had to
set this wall up, for if their followers were able to
investigate the truth they would find they were in a
Covenant-breaking cult. This wall of oppression is an
essential part of all Revelations (Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 31). It
is a test to see if the so-called believers would go against
the Covenant for any reason. However, the Bab said the true
Joseph is a vine that goes over the wall of
oppression.
Jesus was the firstborn of the dead, because he
ratified this Covenant with his blood. That's how he saves
us from our sins, by ratifying this Covenant with his blood.
That is, it is through his Covenant that the Christians are
saved.
7 "Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every
eye will see him, every one who pierced him; and all tribes
of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
8
'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, 'who is
and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.'"
For the
Christians, the "clouds" are the false interpretations of
the clergy of Christendom. For the Baha'is, the clouds are
the wall of oppression that prevents the wicked followers of
Jezebel (Ruhiyyih Khanum) and the Covenant-breaking "Hands"
from investigating the truth for themselves. They are wicked
because they don't use the intellects God gave them to know
the truth, nor do they apply the principle Baha'u'llah gave
them of the "independent search for the truth." Daniel
prophesied: "Many shall purify themselves, and make
themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do
wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those
who are wise shall understand" (Dan. 12:10).
The prophecy
for the one who comes "with clouds and every eye will see
him" pertains to Jesus on his second coming. He will be on
international hookup on all the TV stations of the world,
and on the internet on your computers. Even the people in
Central Africa who live in rondavals (mud or straw huts)
will see him. This will happen right after Iraq destroys New
York City, the seat of the Beast, because Saddam Hussein is
to be assassinated by either the US or the UN. Then "all the
tribes on earth will wail on account of him." To wail is to
make mournful and painful sounds. You'd think the Christians
would be in great joy when they see Jesus returning on a
cloud, given the way the Christian clergy puts it. Then why
the wailing? It's because, as put forth by Madam Albright
(who is not too bright), "If Iraq bombs New York City then
the United States would wipe Iraq off the face of the earth
with a large barrage of nuclear weapons." Thus everyone will
realize that this is the Battle of Armageddon in which
one-third of the people will be dead in one hour (Rev. 9:15,
18:17). This war will be fought between the Christian
nations, as were the First and Second World Wars. The white
race will all but disappear. Christianity can't bring peace
among Christians, how can it bring peace to the world?
Therefore, Jesus Christ never claimed to be the prophesied
"Prince of Peace." He said: "I have not come to bring peace
but a sword" (Matthew 10:34). If he was the Prince of Peace
he would be the biggest failure in the world, as we have had
nothing but war ever since his advent.
Right after New
York City is evaporated there will be 144,000
Covenant-breakers who will repent and come under the
provisions of the Covenant.
Some of the Covenant-breaking
Baha'is will see for the first time that they were wicked
for going against the Covenant and, throwing off their
shackles, they will return to the Covenant. The rest will
die very painful and untimely deaths. As they are
spiritually dead now, they will then also be dead
physically. They will find in the next life that they are in
the outer fringes of the nethermost gloom for there is
nothing worse on this planet than a damned
Covenant-breaker.
8 "'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says
the Lord God, 'who is and who was and who is to come, the
Almighty.'"
The first and the last refers to the Divine
Manifestations: "From these statements therefore it hath
been made evident and manifest that should a Soul in the
'end that knoweth no end' be made manifest, and arise to
proclaim and uphold a Cause which in 'the beginning that
hath no beginning' another Soul had proclaimed and upheld,
it can be truly declared of Him Who is inasmuch as both are
the Exponents of one and the same Cause..." (Kitab-i-Iqan,
p. 161).
9 "I John, your brother, who share with you in
Jesus the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient
endurance, was on the island called Patmos on account of the
word of God and the testimony of Jesus."
Patmos is an
island in the Aegean Sea about 60 miles southwest of
Ephesus, about 150 miles east of Athens. It is about 10
miles long, 6 miles wide, treeless and rocky. John was
banished there under the persecution of Roman Emperor
Dalmatian on the Sabbath ("the Lord's day") and, through
spiritual inspiration, a voice like a trumpet, meaning that
it was clear, told John to write what he saw in a book (the
book of Revelation) and send it to the above cities. At the
time that John was writing, Christianity had broken up into
over 22 sects, with new ones still being created. The seven
churches signify the good and bad parts of the Christian
beliefs. There was only one that didn't have anything wrong
with it, and that was the church of Philadelphia.
10 "I was
in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a
loud voice like a trumpet
11 saying, 'Write what you see in
a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to
Smyrna, and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to
Philadelphia and to Laodicea.'
12 Then I turned to see the
voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven
golden lampstands,"
The "seven lampstands" are the seven
churches (congregations).
13 "and in the midst of the
lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe
and with a golden girdle round his breast;"
In some
countries the magistrates wear a silken girdle around their
waists to signify their authority. The "golden girdle"
signifies that this person has authority from God.
Baha'u'llah referred to His Revelation as a robe, and the
"son of man," means he is a man who has a physical father,
and here he is the second coming of Jesus the Lamb.
14
"his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as
snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire,"
Jesus on his
second coming is now eighty-one years old and fulfills this
prophecy. His eyes are sort of red like a flame of fire.
15
"his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a
furnace,"
On his feet and his hands his skin is very thin
with no fat or muscles under the skin, making his hands and
feet look like reddish burnished bronze.
The feet of bronze
(brass and tin) "refined as in a furnace," means his feet
are as if they were burned in a fire. The "feet" symbolize
understanding, and molten brass is one of the most blinding
metals, indicating that his explanations show the splendor
of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah. The word "splendor" or
glory is the meaning of the word "Baha."
15 "and his voice
was like the sound of many waters;"
Revelation 17:15
explains these "many waters": "The waters that you saw...
are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues", meaning
Jesus the Lamb's explanations and commentaries establish
Baha'u'llah's Revelation which will unite the entire
world.
16 "in his right hand he held seven stars, from his
mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword and his face was like
the sun shining in full strength."
The "seven stars" are
the angels of the seven churches and the "sharp two-edged
sword" that cuts for either good or for bad are his
explanations and commentaries. They are so clear that anyone
reading them can see that they expose the corrupted
teachings of the churches, so they can turn to Jesus the
Lamb and be saved. But the miscreants and malefactors are
for the fire. He exposes the corrupted takeover of the
Baha'i faith by the Arch Covenant-breakers (lawbreakers),
the wrongdoers, so those who are searching for the truth
will find it in the explanations of Jesus the Lamb. Those
who turn away from Jesus the Lamb are also for Death and
Hades, the fire. His face was "like the sun shining in full
strength," for those who have had the good fortune to meet
him could see his face shining like the sun.
17 "When I saw
him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his
right hand upon me, saying, 'Fear not, I am the first and
the last,
18 and the living one; I died, and behold I am
alive for evermore, and I have the keys of Death and
Hades.'"
Here Jesus is saying that he is "the first and the
last." He is the first Jesus and the last Jesus that comes
at the end of 6000-year cycle that started with Adam in 4000
BC and ends in 2000 AD. He is Alpha, meaning he is
symbolized by the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, the
letter "a." There are 27 letters in the Arabic alphabet.
Jesus, being represented by the first letter, has the value
of 1. The second letter is "b," which signifies the Bab, and
has the value of 2. The Bab had 19 Letters of the Living,
and 1+2+19=22. The letter "h" represents Baha'u'llah. In the
Arabic alphabet, "h" has the value of 5, and 22+5=27, making
the full value of the alphabet.
Also, Jesus, represented by
the first letter "a," has the value of "1;" The Bab,
represented by the letter "b," has the value of "2;"
Baha'u'llah, represented by the letter "h," has the value of
"5;" and the return of Jesus, again represented by the first
letter "a," has the value of "1." Added together
(1+2+5+1=9), these equal nine. Nine is the number of ABHA.
That is, Jesus on his first coming has the value of "1," The
Bab has the value of "2;" Baha'u'llah has the value of "5;"
and Jesus on his return as the High Priest after the order
of Melchizedek (Heb. 6:20) has the value of "1;" Again,
1+2+5+1=9. Nine is the highest single number or the complete
number.
Jesus, being "the first and the last," has the keys
of Death and Hades, that is, all the religions of the world
have become apostate. The Baha'i faith became apostate when
Ruhiyyih Khanum did away with Shoghi Effendi's plan, thus
going against Shoghi Effendi, therefore going against God
by deleting the executive branch from the House of Justice.
The Will and Testament, which is the charter of the
Universal House of Justice, states, "The legislative body
must reinforce the executive, the executive must aid and
assist the legislative body so that through the close union
and harmony of these two forces, the foundation of fairness
and justice may become firm and strong, that all the regions
of the world may become even as Paradise itself" (Will and
Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha, p. 15). Without the executive
branch there could be no justice, and without justice there
could be no Universal House of Justice. What Ruhiyyih Khanum
and the "Hands" set up, a Universal House of Justice without
the executive branch, is not Baha'u'llah's Universal House
of Justice. In fact it is not a House of Justice at all.
19
"Now write what you see, what is and what is to take place
hereafter."
What is meant here is Jesus on his return has
the keys of Death and Hades, and he has relegated what
Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands" set up, which is in
opposition to Baha'u'llah's House of Justice, to Death and
Hades. That is, Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands" and all that
follow them are relegated to Death and Hades, along with all
the followers of all the other apostate religions. We are
now on the very edge of the great catastrophe in which
two-thirds of mankind will be destroyed, with one-third
being destroyed in one hour, which is prophesied later on in
this book of Revelation.
20 "As for the mystery of the
seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven
golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the
seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven
churches."
The one that has "the seven stars" in his right
hand is Jesus the Lamb. The "seven churches" are the seven
alive revealed religions. There are no Adamites left in the
world. The Adamites have all been absorbed into the
succeeding Revelations. Therefore, the first alive revealed
religion is Judaism, or the religion of Moses, as found in
the Old Testament. The second is Hinduism, the religion of
Krishna. The third is Zoroastrianism, the religion of
Zoroaster. The fourth is Buddhism, the religion of Buddha.
The fifth is Christianity, the religion of Jesus Christ. The
sixth is Islam, the religion of Muhammad. There are no Babis
left in the world as they have either all died off or have
been converted into the Baha'i faith, therefore it is no
longer an alive religion. The seventh is the Baha'i faith,
the religion of Baha'u'llah. The word angel here means
messenger or the Divine Manifestations of the seven
religions.
The "seven churches" are prognostications of the
last days, or right now. All of the churches' religions are
guilty of the same things, especially Christianity and the
Baha'i faith.
REVELATION CHAPTER 2
1 "To the angel of
the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the
seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven
golden lampstands.
2 'I know your works, your toil and your
patient endurance, and how you cannot bear evil men but have
tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and
found them to be false;
3 I know you are enduring patiently
and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown
weary.
4 But I have this against you, that you have
abandoned the love you had at first.
5 Remember then from
what you have fallen, repent and do the works you did at
first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand
from its place, unless you repent."
This refers to the
Christian faith and the Baha'i faith. The word "apostles"
refers to religious leaders. In the Christian faith it
refers to the clergy of all denominations. In the Baha'i
faith it refers to the "Hands" and their bogus so-called
Universal House of Justice. They are bearing up for His
name's sake, meaning they are Baha'is in name only, and they
have not grown weary in their endeavor to establish their
corrupted form of the administration, doing away with the
executive branch. But without the executive branch they
cannot have justice (Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha, p.
15). If they don't repent, they will lose everything. They
have left the love that they had at first, the love of the
provisions of the Covenant (Will and Testament). They have
created a theology around their violation to justify it.
6
"Yet this you have, you hate the works of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate."
These Covenant-breakers "hate the works
of the Nicolaitans," although they are the Nicolaitans. In
every age there are groups of people who rise in active
opposition to the Covenant of the Revelator, who are
symbolically like the Nicolaitans and who obstruct the
progress of His Cause.
7 "He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I
will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the
paradise of God."
To the Christians, "to eat of the tree of
life" is to go by the Kabbalah tree given by Abraham, as
found in Chapter 10, Part One of this book. To the Baha'is,
'Abdu'l-Baha has stated that the tree of life is the
Covenant. The Covenant-breakers eat of the fruit of the tree
of life which is the 12 basic principles of the Baha'i
faith, but to receive eternal life they must eat of the tree
itself, that is, of the Covenant. Unless they abide by the
Covenant, meaning all of its provisions, they will surely
die. This is eternal death; that is, it is everlasting.
8
"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words
of the first and the last, who died and came to
life.'"
This refers to Jesus on his first and second
coming. As Jesus gave this Revelation, he has returned a
second time at the end of this century to give these
explanations or interpretations. His authority is through
the greater Covenant. He has come in the prophesied name,
address, date and mission. (See Part One for fuller proofs.)
He reestablishes the International Baha'i Council which
Shoghi Effendi had set up as the embryonic Universal House
of Justice, which was his son and was to be his successor,
and that the Covenant-breaking "Hands" bypassed to set up
their headless monster.
9 "'I know your tribulation and
your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who
say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of
Satan.'"
This refers to the Baha'is who remained true to
the Covenant by accepting the son of Shoghi Effendi, which
was the first International Baha'i Council with
`Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son, Charles Mason Remey as its
president and continuation of the guardianship. Baha'u'llah
was a descendant of King David who was of the tribe of Judah
(Jewish), making the guardianship Jewish. Mason Remey, a
gentile, was, by adoption, grafted into the tribe of Judah.
Many claimed the continuation of the guardianship succeeding
Mason Remey, but they were not grafted in, therefore they
are those who are the synagogue of Satan. Also, Rex King,
who came to the guardian Mason Remey trying to force him to
make him his successor, was designated "Satan" by the
guardian, Mason Remey.
10 "Do not fear what you are about
to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you
into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you
will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will
give you the crown of life."
This applies to both
Christianity and the Baha'i faith. For Christianity, the
"ten days" are the ten centuries, or the thousand years
during which the Pope took the Bible away from the
Christians and gave the corrupt catechism in its place.
As
applied to the Baha'i faith, the ten days are from 1959,
when the "Hands" dismantled the first International Baha'i
Council and set up something else, until ten years later in
1969, when Dr. Leland was incarcerated having the "stone
[wall] with seven eyes [watch towers]" before him and, after
being visited by an angel, became cognizant that he was the
return of Jesus fulfilling the prophecies in Zechariah
chapter 3. Dr. Leland is being faithful and is carrying out
all the things that have been put before him.
More likely,
however, this has not been fulfilled yet. This could take
place right after Saddam Hussein of Iraq is assassinated by
the United Nations (the beast), underwritten by the United
States, a plot which is already in the making with the code
name "Jackhammer." Then the Iraqis, according to the
prophecies of Nostradamus, will destroy the United Nations
building and the city of New York along with it. "Ten days"
later this will start World War III, with the United States
retaliating by nuking Iraq. This war will be fought between
Christian nations, with the white race being decimated,
nine-tenths being killed.
11 "He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers
shall not be hurt by the second death."
Whoever arises to
sally forth on their trusted steeds to conquer the evil and
help to establish the Kingdom will not be hurt by the second
death. The first death is the death of the spirit, so those
that are alive in spirit will not be hurt with the death of
the physical body.
12 "And to the angel of the church in
Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp
two-edged sword.
13 'I know where you dwell, where Satan's
throne is; you hold fast my name and you did not deny my
faith even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful
one, who was killed among you, where Satan
dwells."
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, reestablished
Nimrod's Empire and was the head of the Trinitarian religion
that was invented and established by Nimrod's wife
Semiramis. Nimrod's Empire consisted of an area extending
from the Middle East all the way to the straits of
Gibraltar. Nimrod claimed that his star was Saturn, giving
us the name of Satan. He was executed for heresy and his
body cut up into chunks and a chunk was sent to each nation
of his empire. When his wife Semiramis received a chunk of
her husband's body, she became furious and vowed to get
even. She became pregnant and claimed that her womb was the
habitation of the Holy Spirit, and that the fetus inside her
womb was the reincarnation of Nimrod. When it was born into
the world, Semiramis called her son Bar Nin, the son of
Nimrod, and claimed he was the incarnation of his father,
Nimrod. Thus she created the Trinitarian god lie which
consisted of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. This
Trinity doctrine crept into other religions including
Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity.
When Cyrus
the Great, a Zoroastrian believing in the One True Invisible
God, conquered the Babylonians, he not only had the Jews go
back to the site of the city of Jerusalem that had been
destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and allowed the Jews to rebuild
their temple, he also expelled from his empire he had just
acquired, the Pagan religion of the Trinity to Pergamum.
From Pergamum this religion crept into Christianity, and at
the Council of Nicea, this Pagan religion was voted in as
the official religion of the Roman Empire. In 325 AD,
Constantine made an edict that this Trinitarian religion was
the official religion of the Roman Empire and that everyone
must accept this or be put to death. However, most of the
true Christians left Rome and went to the northern part of
Europe and multiplied. Later, in the eighth century,
Charlemagne went up to the Saxons in the northern part of
Europe with an extremely large army and forced all these
people, after he lopped off a million of their heads, to
accept this Pagan Trinitarian doctrine.
14 "But I have a
few things against you: you have some there who hold the
teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling
block before the sons of Israel, that they might eat food
sacrificed to idols and practice immorality."
The "food
sacrificed to idols" was that Christianity was becoming
infected with Pagan concepts. A common doctrine to all
Christianity today is that Jesus' sacrifice of his physical
flesh on the cross gives us forgiveness of sins. This goes
along with the concept that God is vengeful and wrathful and
demands payment from sinners for their sinning. The payment
is death. Christians think Jesus made the payment for their
sins with his own death.
In order to receive the blessing
of this, they must eat his flesh and drink his blood, as it
seems to say in the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John.
This is called the Eucharist or communion.
These ideas come
from Paganism, not from the Bible. The Pagans would offer
food from their crops to the gods of those crops. They would
then eat the sacramental food with the understanding that it
was the body of that god, and they would receive a
supernatural blessing from this. They would eat the food
that had been "sacrificed" to their idol.
Paul explains
that it isn't the food that will harm them but their belief
that it is the body of the god, that is, their idolatry,
which can harm them.
1 Corinthians 8:1-8:
"Now concerning
food offered to idols: we know that 'all of us possess
knowledge.' 'Knowledge' puffs up, but love builds up. If any
one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know
as he ought to know.
But if one loves God, one is known by
him. Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we
know that 'an idol has no real existence,' and that 'there
is no God but one.'For although there may be so-called gods
in heaven or on earth - as indeed there are many 'gods' and
many 'lords'- yet for us there is one God, the Father, from
whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord,
Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom
we exist. However, not all possess this knowledge. But some,
through being hitherto accustomed to idols, eat food as
really offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak,
is defiled. Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse
off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do."
1st
Corinthians 10:19-21:
"What do I imply then? That food
offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons
and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with
demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of
demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the
table of demons."
The Christians, who had recently been
practicing pagans, were making the mistake of thinking the
flesh and blood of Jesus, that is, the bread and the wine,
were for real and not just symbolic. They thought Jesus was
God incarnate, and that he sacrificed the food of himself
instead of them sacrificing it, and now all that was left
for them to do was eat it and they would receive the
supernatural blessing of being saved; that is, the blessing
of having their sins forgiven so they wouldn't have to die.
They believe they eat him when they take communion.
This
Trinitarian religion of Pergamum, in the world today as
Christianity, holds fast the name of "Christ," but when they
take the Eucharist they believe they are eating the body of
Jesus and drinking his blood and thus have Christ in them.
They do this rather than eating the bread which was a symbol
for digesting his teachings and drinking the wine which was
a symbol for believing in his Covenant (see John 6:35). This
practice of the Christians is similar to the Pagans eating
the "food sacrificed to idols." This practice was taught to
the Christians by Balamite and Nicolaitan teachers.
15 "So
you also have some who hold the teaching of the
Nicolaitans."
16 "Repent then. If not, I will come to you
soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth."
Thus
Jesus has come a second time and he is warring against the
Pagan Christians with the "sword of his mouth." These
explanations are the explanations of Jesus on his second
coming.
17 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some
of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with
a new name written on the stone which no one knows except
him who receives it."
To those Christians who conquer
(overcome their pagan indoctrination) the promised return of
Jesus gives the "hidden manna", which are these
explanations, and these explanations are not found in any of
the Christian or Baha'i writings. Therefore it is called the
"hidden manna". The tribes of Israel ate the manna that came
down from the sky when Moses took them out into the desert
in the exodus.
The "white stone with a new name written on
it" is the greatest name of God as given by Baha'u'llah. The
name of God given by Moses was given only to the high
priest. God is not the name of God. God is what He is. All
the Israelites were given these consonants in the name of
God: YHVH, but only the high priest was given the vowels.
The full name of God was kept from the Israelites because to
take God's name in vain was against the fourth commandment:
"You shall not take the name of God in vain: for the Lord
will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain." The
high priest would go into the Holy of Holies once a year and
he would whisper the name of God for the remission of the
sins of the people of Israel. Jesus did not give the
Christians the name of God, because he called Him Father.
But those who become Baha'i are given the new name of God.
The name of God was originally written on a white stone, but
copies are now written on paper. It is given in either
Arabic or Persian letters and is arranged like a logo or
graph so as to make it difficult to read. Each person who
becomes a Baha'i is given the pronunciation of that name.
When one prays to God and calls Him by His name, He hears
their prayers.
18 "And to the angel of the church in
Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God, who has eyes
like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished
bronze.'"
This refers to Jesus on his second coming, and
these explanations are his explanations.
19 "'I know your
works, your love and faith and service and patient
endurance, and that your latter works exceed the
first.'"
The "latter works" of the Christians are that in
this day, with the use of modern technology in
transportation and communication, Christianity has spread
rapidly and extensively around the world. The same thing
applies to the Baha'i faith.
20 "But I have this against
you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself
a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to
practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to
idols."
In the Christian faith it is the doctrine of the
Trinity created by Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, that
corrupted Christianity. All the idols of paganism entered
into Christianity under new names. Paganism conquered
Christianity rather than Christianity conquering paganism.
In the Baha'i faith, "Jezebel" is Ruhiyyih Khanum. The
"food" is the teachings of Baha'u'llah that are sacrificed
to the idols of imagination. Ruhiyyih Khanum has the Baha'is
sacrificing the provisions of the Will and Testament of
`Abdu'l-Baha, including the provision for the executive
branch of the House of Justice, as she has completely done
away with the head or executive branch and has her followers
eating the food of a headless monster, a House of Justice
without its head (the executive branch), created by her to
replace the food given by `Abdu'l-Baha in his Will and
Testament. The "practice [of] immorality" is
Covenant-breaking of the worst kind, condemning the
mainstream Baha'is to both physical and spiritual death.
21
"I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her
immorality."
God has given Ruhiyyih Khanum the time from
the passing of Shoghi Effendi in 1957 to the present to
repent, but she refuses to do so.
22 "Behold, I will throw
her on a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I
will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her
doings;"
Those who follow the immorality of
Covenant-breaking of Ruhiyyih Khanum are on a sickbed with
the worst of all diseases, spiritual leprosy. This will
strike her children (followers) dead, both physically and
spiritually; physically in the oncoming great
catastrophe.
23 "and I will strike her children dead And
all the churches shall know that I am he who searches mind
and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works
deserve."
You Covenant-breakers following Ruhiyyih Khanum
(mainstream Baha'is), God knows what is in your minds and
hearts. Unless you repent, you will get what you
deserve.
24 "But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not
hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the
deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay upon you
any other burden;"
This refers to the Christians who are
unaware of the "deep things of Satan". Covenant-breaking
Baha'is are much more stubborn and worse than Christians
because the Covenant-breaking Baha'is are loyal to the Arch
Covenant-breakers, and therefore they refuse to investigate
the matter for themselves. They do this, thinking it will
earn them brownie points and move them up in the
administration.
25 "only hold fast what you have, until I
come."
The Christians should "hold fast" until the message
of the return of Jesus comes to them, avoiding being
converted to the Covenant-breaking Baha'is, which is sure
death.
26 "He who conquers and who keeps my works until the
end, I will give him power over the nations,"
These are
those who come under the true Baha'i faith, reestablished by
the return of Jesus. Those who conquer will be a part of the
true administration that Shoghi Effendi set up, which the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is threw out. They will be part of,
or the mentors for setting up the World Order of
Baha'u'llah.
27 "and he shall rule them with a rod of iron,
as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself
have received power from my Father;"
This refers to Jesus
on his second coming, who is reestablishing the true Baha'i
faith that was broken by the Covenant-breakers. He receives
power from the Father, Baha'u'llah, by reestablishing the
administration of Baha'u'llah.
28 "and I will give him the
morning star."
The "morning star" is the establishing of
Baha'u'llah's World Order in the world and all the people of
the world will come under this World Order of
Baha'u'llah.
29 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches."
This means the people should
lend their ear to hear what the fulfillment of the
prophecies in the Revelation of Jesus are for their own
security, safety and salvation.
REVELATION CHAPTER 3
1
"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words
of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.
I know your works; you have the name of being alive, and you
are dead.'"
These are those who had fallen into the
quagmire. In Christianity they are those who struggle with
Jesus on his return. The more they struggle the deeper they
go down in the bog. Jesus throws a strong cord for them to
grab hold of (his explanations and commentaries). The more
they struggle to defend their Paganism (three gods in one
god), the deeper they go. Some of them have become Baha'is
under the violation. Their second condition is worse than
the first, for in Christianity they don't close their minds
to the explanations of the Lamb. The Covenant-breakers are
also deep into the mire, but they are the most narrow-minded
people in the world. They swallow the gobbledygook of their
captors. They are told that the ones who are firm in the
Covenant are Covenant-breakers. They are so closed-minded
that they believe this LIE without investigation, so the
strong cord Jesus throws them is rejected; therefore, they
go deeper and deeper into the bog. When their whole body is
sunk into this filth they are dead and unable to grab hold
of the strong cord.
2 "Awake, and strengthen what remains
and is on the point of death, for I have not found your
works perfect in the sight of my God."
These
Covenant-breakers are under a wall of oppression, forbidden
by their slave masters to know the truth, and that keeps
them asleep. Here God is telling them to awake and come out
from their stupor so they can strengthen that which remains
of the truth, but is to the point of extinction, for what
they are doing in this great violation is imperfection in
the sight of God. Here God is telling the Covenant-breaking
Baha'is to come out of this hell hole they are in.
3
"Remember then what you received and heard; keep that, and
repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and
you will not know at what hour I will come upon you."
Here
he is telling them to remember the Revelation of Baha'u'llah
that they had received, and the plan of Shoghi Effendi that
was thrown out by their slave masters, and to keep that plan
and repent that they are with the Covenant-breakers. Also,
if they don't awake, the great catastrophe will fall upon
them, and they will lose everything.
4 "Yet you have still
a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their
garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are
worthy."
There are some in this Covenant-breaking outfit
who are innocent; that is, they haven't gobbled the
gobbledygook of the violators of the Covenant, but they
don't know where to turn to get the truth. These innocent
ones will grab hold of the strong cord of Jesus the Lamb,
but the goon squad will try to indoctrinate them into
becoming full-fledged Covenant-breakers.
5 "He who conquers
shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot
his name out of the book of life; I will confess his name
before my Father and before his angels."
Those "who
conquer" are those who grab hold of the strong cord of Jesus
the Lamb and are pulled out of quagmire of
Covenant-breaking. The "white garments" are the pure
teachings of Baha'u'llah. Jesus the Lamb on his return will
not blot their names out of his book, the Lamb's Book of
Life, and the Lamb will confess their names to his Father,
Baha'u'llah. The angels are the congregation surrounding
Jesus on his return.
6 "He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches."
Those who have an
ear, that is, those who don't have earplugs in their ears as
the Covenant-breaking Baha'is do, should lend an ear because
God is leading them aright. The Spirit here refers to
Jesus.
7 "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia
write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the
key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and
no one opens.'"
"Philadelphia" is the city of brotherly
love. It is the only city where Jesus finds no defects. This
refers to the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant,
that Jesus on his second coming raised up. He has the key of
David. None of the other Baha'is know that Baha'u'llah is a
descendant of King David. If you ask a Baha'i under the
violation who Baha'u'llah is descended from, they will say
Zoroaster. True, but Zoroaster had only daughters, one of
whom married the king, and Baha'u'llah descended from this
lineage through Zoroaster's daughter. Zoroaster means "seed
of the woman."
This lineage of Zoroaster through his
daughter united with the lineage of David at the time of
Bostanai, who was seated on the throne of David. The first
Imam, Ali, arranged the marriage between Dara, the daughter
of the last king of the Zoroastrian, Sassanian dynasty, and
Bostanai, who was a descendant of David seated on the throne
of David. Baha'u'llah descended from this union between Dara
and Bostanai.
If you ask a Christian, "What is the meaning
of the word 'Christ?'" They may say, "Lord," or "God," or
"Savior," or maybe, "It's the last name of Jesus, as in Mary
Christ or Joseph Christ." Or they may say, "The anointed."
But the anointed of what? The full meaning of the word
'Christ' is an anointed, male (sperm) descendant of King
David. The very first verse of the New Testament is, "The
book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
son of Abraham." Luke gives the true genealogy of Jesus back
to King David (Luke 3:23-31). If Jesus was not a son of
David through his genetic father Joseph, he could not be the
Christ. Christians will tell you that God was the father of
Jesus, but if God was Jesus' physical father, Jesus could
not be the Christ, for God is not a descendant of King
David.
Paul said in Romans, "Concerning his Son Jesus our
Lord, which was made of the seed [sperma, in Greek, KJV] of
David according to the flesh" (Romans 1:3, KJV).
Also, for
Baha'u'llah to be the return of Christ, He had of a
necessity to be descended from King David. The following
prophecy refers to Baha'u'llah.
"For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his
shoulder, and his name will be called 'Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace,' Of the
increase of his government and of peace there will be no
end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom to
establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The
zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this" (Isaiah 9:6,7).
8
"'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open
door, which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but
little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not
denied my name.'"
This refers to the Baha'is Under the
Provisions of the Covenant, who are few in number, and who
have "an open door, that no one is able to shut." That is,
whatever they establish, no one can do away with. They have
set up the second International Baha'i Council with both the
legislative branch and the executive branch that the
Covenant-breakers (mainstream Baha'is) threw out. The
legislative branch and the executive branch are integral
parts of each other. They cannot be separated and still be
Baha'u'llah's House of Justice. The Baha'is Under the
Provisions of the Covenant have kept the word of God (Will
and Testament; therefore, that which they have set up and
God will establish in this world is the true House of
Justice.
9 "Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of
Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie -
behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet,
and learn that I have loved you."
The word Jew here refers
to the Baha'i faith. Baha'u'llah was of the tribe of Judah
(a Jew), therefore the believers in His Revelation were
prophesied as "Jews." Here the Covenant-breakers who claim
to be Baha'is (Jews) are not, but rather they are a
"synagogue of Satan." In the great catastrophe these
Covenant-breakers will come and beg to get back into the
true Baha'i faith.
10 "Because you [Philadelphia] have kept
my word of patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour
of trial which is coming on the whole world, to try those
who dwell upon the earth."
The Baha'is Under the Provisions
of the Covenant (Philadelphia), who have kept His word, will
be kept from the "hour of trial" the nuclear war, which will
only last one hour.
11 "I am coming soon; hold fast what
you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
12 He who
conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God;
never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the
name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new
Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my
own new name."
The peoples of any religion who overcome
their indoctrination and become part of the congregation of
Philadelphia, the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the
Covenant, will become as "pillars in the temple of God," the
true Baha'i faith. That is, they will be the strong ones in
faith and in activity, and in teaching and spreading the
faith. They will be given the greatest name of God. The name
of the city of God is "Baha'i" and Christ's new name is
"Baha'u'llah."
13 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches.
14 And to the angel of the
church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's
creation.
15 I know your works: you are neither cold nor
hot. Would that you were cold or hot!
16 So, because you are
lukewarm, and neither cold not hot, I will spew you out of
my mouth.'"
These are those who are neither for nor against
the Baha'i Revelation and against those who are the true
Baha'is, so God spews them out of His mouth.
17 "For you
say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not
knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and
naked.
18 Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold
refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to
clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from
being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may
see."
The gold refers to the golden criteria which is that
the Promised Ones are prophesied by name, address, date and
mission. In scriptures Baha'u'llah was prophesied by the
name "Baha'u'llah" (translated into English as the "Glory of
God, or Lord"). This is found all throughout the Bible. The
address where He is to be found is as prophesied in Isaiah
35:1,2, on Mount Carmel in the valley of Sharon. The date is
prophesied in Daniel 12:11 as 1290 days/years; that is, it
was 1290 years from the proclamation of Muhammad to the
proclamation of Baha'u'llah in 1863. Baha'u'llah's mission
is that of the Prince of Peace: "For to us a child is born
to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his
shoulder, and his name will be called 'Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.' Of the
increase of his government and of peace there will be no
end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to
establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from this time forth and for evermore" (Isaiah
9:6-7).
The "white garments" refer to the explanations and
commentaries of Jesus the Lamb, which keep their nakedness
of understanding from being seen. The "salve to anoint their
eyes" makes it so they can see the proofs showing how the
Promised Ones fulfill prophecies. That is, Jesus Christ on
his first coming, Christ on his second coming as
Baha'u'llah, and Jesus on his second coming as the high
priest or Jesus the Lamb, are each prophesied by the name in
which they will come, the address where they will be at, the
date of their advent and the nature of their mission. This
is so only one person fulfills the prophecies for each
Promised One when he comes.
19 "Those whom I love, I
reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent."
That is, if
those who God has chosen to be His believers at the coming
of a Promised One don't fulfill their calling, God will
"reprove and chasten" them. In the Bible it states that many
are called but only a few are chosen.
20 "Behold, I stand
at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens
the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he
with me."
For instance I send out this message that both
the return of Christ (Baha'u'llah) and the return of Jesus
has come and if anyone "hears this voice and opens the
door," Jesus on his second coming will come into their
life.
21 "He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me
on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my
Father on his throne."
"He who conquers" is one who
overcomes his indoctrinations into the lies of the clergy
and of the Arch Covenant-breakers. He will be invited to sit
with Jesus the Lamb on his throne and share with him in his
glory.
22 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
says to the churches."
What is meant here is, those who
don't have their fingers in their ears, "let them hear what
[Jesus] the Spirit, says to the churches," or congregations,
both Christian and Baha'i.
REVELATION CHAPTER 4
1
"After this I looked, and lo, in heaven an open door! And
the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a
trumpet, said, 'Come up hither, and I will show you what
must take place after this.'"
This doesn't mean there was a
physical door. What was happening was the "door" of prophecy
was open to things about to happen now. None of these
prophecies pertain to the past, that is, before John
received these visions. The bulk of the prophecies are for
right now, during the return of Jesus the Lamb, or before
the year two thousand.
2 "At once I was in the Spirit, and
lo, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the
throne!"
The "throne" that he saw in the heaven of prophecy
was the Davidic throne and who he saw "seated on the throne"
was `Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son Mason Remey.
3 "And he who
sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian, and round the
throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald."
The
"jasper" is sometimes called the bloodstone, as it is the
color of blood. In this case Mason Remey had inherited the
bloodline of King David from his father, `Abdu'l-Baha.
`Abdu'l-Baha adopted Mason Remey and gave him a token of
this adoption as an inheritance. Shoghi Effendi, as the
executor of `Abdu'l-Baha's estate, delivered to Mason Remey
an envelope containing a small packet with blood and hair
from Baha'u'llah. A note was written on the outside envelope
in Shoghi Effendi's handwriting:
"Of all the remnants of
Baha'u'llah's all-sacred Person, the most hallowed, the most
precious, confidently delivered into the hands of my brother
and co-worker in the Cause of God, Mr. Remey" (Shoghi, March
1922).
Another note was hand-written on the packet
itself:
"Coagulated drops of Baha'u'llah's All-Sacred
Blood and Ringlets of His Most Blessed Locks presented as my
most precious possession to `Abdu'l-Baha's 'dear son' Mr.
Charles Mason Remey as a token of my Baha'i affection and
brotherly love. Shoghi"
Thus `Abdu'l-Baha, who was a
descendant of King David, adopted Mason Remey, making Mason
Remey a descendant of King David. This lineage is to last
forever. When Shoghi Effendi placed Mason Remey at the head
of the embryonic Universal House of Justice, he was
continuing this lineage of David, with Mason Remey and his
descendants to be the presidents of the Universal House of
Justice.
The "rainbow" is a symbol of the Covenant: "I set
my bow in the cloud and it shall be a sign of the Covenant
between me and the earth" (Genesis 9:13). "Emerald" is green
and is a symbol of peace. The Covenant of Baha'u'llah
establishes peace in this world. The Covenant-breaking
Baha'is broke the Covenant by going against Shoghi Effendi
and his plan for establishing the Universal House of
Justice. As well, they went against `Abdu'l-Baha by
violating his Will and Testament, by doing away with the
executive branch which is an integral part of the Universal
House of Justice and gives that body justice (Will and
Testament, p. 15). Without justice there can be no Universal
House of Justice. These Covenant-breaking Hands, in order to
secure their takeover of the administration for their own
aggrandizement and empowerment, lied to the believers,
saying without any foundation or proofs that Mason Remey had
broken the Covenant and that he should be shunned. Without
any investigation on the part of the mainstream Baha'is they
gobbled up this poison from this poisonous cauldron of
deception without any investigation on their part, making
them so sick on this venom that most of them will never
recover and thus, will die in their sins as
Covenant-breakers. In order for some of them to recover, God
has sent them a physician with the right remedy who is very
spiritual, and a doctor of natural medicine as well. This is
the return of His beloved SON, Jesus the Lamb who gave this
Revelation, and therefore he is the only one who has the
correct interpretations of this book of Revelation.
4
"Round the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on
the thrones were twenty-four elders, clad in white garments,
with golden crowns upon their heads."
These "twenty-four
elders" are the twenty-four apostles of the second coming of
Jesus the Lamb. They are a part of the second International
Baha'i Council set up by the Lamb. Mason Remey set up a
second International Baha'i Council and then disbanded it,
explaining that the head cannot create the body and the body
cannot create the head. Mason Remey's authority comes
through the Lesser Covenant, which is the Covenant that the
Manifestation makes concerning His successors. In this
Covenant there are no provisions for the second guardian to
reestablish what the "Hands" threw out. This is the work of
the return of Jesus the Lamb, who has the authority of the
Greater Covenant. That is, he was prophesied in both the Old
Testament and in this Book of Revelation.
5 "From the
throne issue flashes of lightning, and voices and peals of
thunder, and before the throne burn seven torches of fire,
which are the seven spirits of God;"
This has both a
spiritual and a physical explanation. The "throne" is the
Davidic throne with the guardian seated upon it. The
"flashes of lightning" signify the rapidity with which the
message of the kingdom with a descendant of David seated on
the throne will flash throughout the world at the appointed
hour, enlightening mankind. "Voices" will be heard both for
and against. The "thunder" signifies the voices raised in
derision by the Covenant-breakers rejecting the
guardianship, but mostly raised by the clergy who will be
pounding on their pulpits crying, "Antichrist!
Antichrist!"
Also at this time, World War III will start
and the lightning will be the ballistic missiles with
nuclear warheads that will be going to their targets
lighting up the night sky, and the thunder will be the
explosion of the nuclear bombs.
6 "and before the throne
there is as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And round
the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living
creatures, full of eyes in front and behind:"
The "sea of
glass" is the Revelation of Baha'u'llah and His Covenant
that is made clear as "crystal" by the explanations and
commentaries of the Lamb. The "four living creatures" are
the four nations that are the first to become Baha'i states
or nations. Before they became Baha'i, chapter 13 calls them
the four beasts because they are secular, not spiritual. But
when they become Baha'i through the explanations and
commentaries of the Lamb, these living creatures or nations
will have "eyes in front" which means they will foresee the
future, and eyes "behind" meaning they will be cognizant of
the past and will have learned a great lesson from it, for
one-third of mankind will have perished from the nuclear war
which will be over in one hour. This war will be fought
between the four beast nations: England, France, the United
States and Russia. All the cities in America with
populations of 100,000 or more will be destroyed. After this
they will become the first Baha'i nations. Then they will be
living creatures (meaning, spiritual).
7 "the first living
creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox,
the third living creature with the face of a man, and the
fourth living creature like a flying eagle."
The "lion" is
the symbol of England. Before Russia became Communist it had
the symbol of the "ox". After the nuclear war Russia will
again adopt the symbol of the ox. At one time France had the
symbol of the fleur-de-lis, but after World War II it took
the symbol of Charles de Gaulle ("the face of a man"). And
of course the symbol of the United States is the eagle.
8
"And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings,
are full of eyes all round and within, and day and night
they never cease to sing, 'Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God
Almighty, who was and is and is to come!'"
An angel is
pictured having two wings. A cherub is pictured as having
four wings and a seraph is pictured with six wings. These
depict degrees of spirituality. The "eyes all around and
within" mean they are cognizant of their spirituality all
around them and within.
9 "And whenever the living
creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is
seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever,"
This is
when they accept the guardianship of the Baha'i faith, and
that it "lives for ever", meaning there will always be a
guardian (descendant of `Abdu'l-Baha), seated on the throne
of David and seated at the head, as president of the
Universal House of Justice. "For ever" means this
guardianship will last at least the duration of the full
dispensation of Baha'u'llah, which is to last a half a
million years. "Thou hast said, 'I have made a Covenant with
my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant I will
establish your descendants for ever, and build your throne
for all generations'" (Psalms 89:3,4). Baha'u'llah, in His
Proclamation, on page 89, said He "ruleth upon" the throne
of King David. In His Covenant He continued this Davidic
lineage by appointing His son `Abdu'l-Baha to succeed Him.
`Abdu'l-Baha adopted Mason Remey to be his son, so this
lineage would pass to the gentiles as prophesied:
"The
scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver [Davidic
lineage] from between his feet [reproductive organs], until
Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people
be" (Genesis 49:10, KJV).
As you can see, this was in the
Plan of God from the beginning. Baha'u'llah was of the tribe
of Judah, but this was to pass from the tribe of Judah to
the gentiles when Shiloh comes. The ark of the Covenant was
kept in Shiloh (1 Samuel 4:3) and it is to be returned to
Shiloh, and "unto him shall the gathering of the people be."
This Shiloh is none other than Jesus the Lamb on his return.
He is to gather the people from all over the globe, who are
now with the Covenant-breaking Baha'is, who have been
separated from the Covenant by their slave masters, the Arch
Covenant-breakers, Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands." Shiloh
is now in possession of the Covenant, and anyone wanting to
come back under the Provisions of the Covenant needs to take
hold of the strong cord of Jesus the Lamb, which is his
explanations and commentaries. If they don't do this, they
will die in their sins, and hell will be too good a place
for them.
10 "the twenty-four elders fall down before him
who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives for
ever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne,
singing,
11 'Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive
glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things,
and by thy will they existed and were created.'"
The
"twenty-four elders" are members of the second International
Baha'i Council that has the Davidic king, a descendant of
`Abdu'l-Baha, for its president. They are very busy in
reestablishing the Covenant (that the "Hands" threw out)
back in the world.
REVELATION CHAPTER 5
1 "And I saw in
the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll
written within and on the back, sealed with seven
seals;"
This is the guardian Mason Remey who is "seated on
the throne" of David, being a descendant of David by being
the adopted son of `Abdu'l-Baha. An adopted son has all the
rights and privileges of a natural son including the
kingship. The "scroll" (or book) written within is the
Kitab-i-'Ahd (Book of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah) and that
which is written "on the back" is the Will and Testament of
`Abdu'l-Baha, that `Abdu'l-Baha sealed with seven seals.
This Will and Testament shows Mason Remey's authority to be
the guardian.
2 "and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with
a loud voice, 'Who is worthy to open the scroll and break
its seals?'
3 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the
earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it,
4 and
I wept much that no one was found worthy to open the scroll
or to look into it.
5 Then one of the elders said to me,
'Weep not; lo, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of
David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its
seven seals.'"
Jesus said he was the root and offspring of
David, "I Jesus have sent my angel to you with this
testimony for the churches. I am the root and the offspring
of David, the bright morning star" (Rev. 22:16).
As Jesus
gave his Revelation in this book of Revelation, and as he is
the root and offspring of David, only Jesus on his second
coming can give the explanation of his Revelation.
Baha'u'llah, a descendant of King David seated on the throne
of King David, is the return of the root of King David. As
this is His scroll written inside and on the back and sealed
with seven seals, certainly He could explain His Covenant,
as He wrote it; but He didn't explain His Covenant.
Therefore only Jesus the Lamb on his return can explain
the Covenant (scroll) of Baha'u'llah. Jesus on his first
coming was the sacrificial Lamb, but he returns as the Lamb
with seven horns and with seven eyes (verse 6). The seven
horns are the seven alive revealed religions. Living
religions mean those that have congregations. The Adamic
religion and the Babi religion no longer have followers. The
seven alive religions are Judaism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism,
Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha'i faith. The book
that has seven seals is the Will and Testament of
`Abdu'l-Baha that he sealed with seven seals. What is being
said here is that only Jesus on his return can explain the
Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha.
6 "And between the
throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, I
saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven
horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of
God sent out into all the earth;
7 and he went and took the
scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the
throne."
Jesus on his return as the land (Leland), "took
the scroll" [out of] the hand of him who was seated on the
throne," the guardian Mason Remey. Thus the authority that
the guardian Mason Remey had was taken out of his hands by
the return of Jesus. That is, Mason Remey was trying to
reestablish the executive branch (that the Covenant-breakers
threw out) back into the Baha'i faith. The executive branch
is now being reestablished among a whole new contingent of
followers called The Baha'is Under the Provisions of the
Covenant.
8 "And when he had taken the scroll, the four
living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before
the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of
incense, which are the prayers of the saints;"
The four
beast countries, England, France, the United States and
Russia, become the first Baha'i nations through the
explanations of Leland the Lamb.
9 "and they sang a new
song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to
open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst
ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people
and nation,
10 and hast made them a kingdom and priests to
our God, and they shall reign on earth.'"
The "new song" is
the explanations and commentaries like those found in this
book. Priests means teachers. "And "they shall reign on
earth" refers to the Baha'i administration (the true Baha'i
administration set up by Shoghi Effendi but abolished by the
"Hands"), that the Lamb reestablishes.
11 "Then I looked,
and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and
the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of
myriads and thousands of thousands,
12 saying with a loud
voice, 'Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power
and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and
blessing!'"
Jesus was the "Lamb who was slain" and he
returns as Jesus the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes.
As you can see he is the only person on earth that can
accurately explain all the verses in this Book of
Revelation, as he revealed it. Jesus promised salvation to
those who believe in him on both his first and second
coming. He has now descended from heaven on the clouds of
the indoctrinations of both the Christian clergy and the
Arch Covenant-breakers of the Baha'i faith.
13 "And I heard
every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth
and in the sea, and all therein, saying, 'To him who sits
upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and
glory and might for ever and ever!'"
This will come only
after the miscreants and wrongdoers are punished and
destroyed in the hell's fire of the on-coming thermonuclear
war (Rev. 22:12).
14 "And the four living creatures said,
'Amen!' and the elders fell down and worshipped."
REVELATION CHAPTER 6
1 "Now I saw when the Lamb opened one
of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living
creatures say, as with a voice of thunder, 'Come!'"
Here
the Lamb is to explain one of the issues that had been kept
secret by God from Christendom and from the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is. That is, that the Lamb was to
appear in the United States, one of the four living
(spiritual) creatures. The other three living creatures are
England, France and Russia. These are also to become Baha'i
nations, making them living creatures. America will say,
with a voice of thunder that will be heard by the entire
world, to come into the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, because
the Lamb, Jesus on his return, resides in America.
2 "And I
saw, and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow; and
a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to
conquer."
"White" symbolizes purity. It is without flaw. In
this case it symbolizes the pure religion of God. The
"horse" symbolizes power and great strength. The "rider" is
a Knight of Baha'u'llah. He was knighted by Shoghi Effendi
in March of 1954 as a Knight of Baha'u'llah. He has a "bow"
(it didn't say he had any arrows). This bow is the symbol of
the Covenant: "I set my bow in the cloud, and it will be a
sign of the Covenant between me and the earth" (Genesis.
9:1). The bow that this Knight of Baha'u'llah is carrying is
the Covenant of Baha'u'llah; that is, this knight is the
return of Jesus the High Priest, as prophesied in Zechariah
3:1-9. The "crown" is the symbol of authority. A crown being
placed on his head refers to the fact that he is Jesus the
High Priest: "Take from them silver and gold, and make a
crown and set it on the head of Joshua [Jesus]... the High
Priest" (Zech. 6:11). So the knight on the white horse is
Jesus the High Priest on his second coming, and he goes out
"conquering and to conquer" the evil forces of this world by
reestablishing the Covenant of Baha'u'llah that the
Covenant-breaking "mainstream Baha'is" threw out. The other
horses symbolize evil forces in this world and are seen as a
red horse, a black horse and a pale horse.
3 "When he
opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature
say, 'Come!'
4 And out came another horse, bright red; its
rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that
men should slay one another; and he was given a great
sword."
Ever since the Russian Revolution, the Russians
have been called "the reds." The rider is perhaps Yeltsin,
who is sick with a failing heart and is a drunkard, and he
has in his hand the nuclear button. The "great sword" is the
nuclear missiles. Thus he will take peace from the earth.
5
"When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living
creature say, 'Come!' And I saw, and behold, a black horse,
and its rider had a balance in his hand;"
The "black horse"
is the symbol of the United Nations (UN), and it has "a
balance in its hand". The United Nations balances the trade
among the nations. When Roosevelt set up the United Nations,
he was going to call the heads of the nations to the Nevada
proving ground and explode a nuclear device as soon as it
was perfected. He was then going to proclaim Baha'u'llah to
the world and have all the nations simultaneously disarm,
and give the nuclear weapon to the House of Justice. But he
passed on before his plan could be carried out, and the UN
became a body without the spirit, a beast. This will be
discussed further when we get into chapter 13.
In some
states the picking of a candidate is not by a primary
election but by a caucus. When the two highest candidates
are tied and they can't break the gridlock, they will then
pick another candidate who is high on the list of contenders
that both the front-runners can accept and this candidate is
thus nominated. This person is called a black horse because
he took the place of the higher candidates. In the same way,
the United Nations set up by Roosevelt wasn't set up as the
Baha'i Universal House of Justice as Roosevelt intended, but
instead the United Nations, the black horse, a beast, a body
without a spirit, was set up.
6 "and I heard what seemed to
be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying,
'A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley
for a denarius; but do not harm oil and wine!'"
The United
Nations deals with all kinds of problems and situations,
such as world trade which is symbolized by "wheat" and
"barley", but it warns, "do not harm oil and wine."
In the
Mid-East crisis the United States made war on Iraq over oil.
Iraq will be one of the most predominant threats to the
United States, as Nostradamus predicts that Iraq and Saddam
will get their revenge after Saddam is assassinated by the
US and the UN (blue hats). "When Saddam dies then the great
destruction." The Iraqis will retaliate by bombing the UN
building with a nuclear weapon that will destroy New York
City. It is estimated that ten to 30 million will die in
that blast.
"Wine" is the symbol of the Covenant. Just as
the so-called mainstream Baha'is broke the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah, the United States broke the Covenant of the
United Nations by interfering with the internal affairs of a
foreign country, making war on Iraq over "oil", as George
Bush put it, "for our own interest." He owns oil wells in
Kuwait. Kuwait is the nineteenth province of Iraq, which
England cut off from Iraq in 1921. If this country and the
UN don't stop this monkey business of interfering in foreign
affairs against Iraq, it will result in World War III.
7
"When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the
fourth living creature say, 'Come!'
8 And I saw, and behold,
a pale horse, and its rider's name was Death, and Hades
followed him; and they were given power over a fourth of the
earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with
pestilence and by wild beasts."
"Pale" is a sign of
illness or death (spiritually). This sickness (corruption)
is found in the world's religions (including the Baha'i
faith), in its governments, its legal system, its courts,
its commerce, in the medical and pharmaceuticals, in fact in
almost every phase of human life. And "Death, and Hades
followed him; they were given power over a fourth of the
earth." The United States, with its corruption, controls a
fourth of the earth with its armaments and its money. It
gives aid to a fourth of the earth, such as the state of
Israel. In this way the United States controls these
nations, threatening famine and pestilence by wielding the
power to withhold aid to those nations if they break away
from supporting the US in the UN, which these nations might
do if they didn't get this aid from the US. "And by wild
[meaning not spiritual] beasts [nations]," are meant the
allies of the United States, such as England and France.
9
"When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and
for the witness they had borne;"
Those who were "under the
altar" are depicted in the Great Pyramid of Giza as the
chamber of the saints, which is directly under the Great
Step or altar stone.
This altar stone is the period of Babi
and Baha'i martyrs. They were martyred for their beliefs in
the Word of God from The Bab, the forerunner to Baha'u'llah,
and of Baha'u'llah Who fulfilled the prophecies for the
return of Christ. There were ten thousand Babi martyrs and
twenty thousand Baha'i martyrs.
The "Word of God" refers to
Jesus who is called the "Word." The followers of Jesus are
called Christians and were martyred by Imperial Rome.
However, more Christians were killed by the Holy Roman
Empire than by Imperial Rome. At the time of Pepin III and
Charlemagne, the Christians killed by them were the ones
crying, "Lord, when will you avenge our blood?" And he said,
"Wait a little while until the full number come in." The
full number are those who Stalin killed in the Soviet Union,
and those who were killed by the beast nations in World Wars
I and II.
10 "they cried out with a loud voice, 'O
Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before thou wilt
judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the
earth?'
11 Then they were each given a white robe and told
to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow
servants and their brethren should be complete, who were to
be killed as they themselves had been."
"Each were given a
white robe" indicates their sins were forgiven. They were
told to "rest a little longer until [their full] number is
complete," after their fellow servants are killed as they
were killed. This applies to the martyrs of the religions
(Word of God) of The Bab and Baha'u'llah. At the time of the
proclamation of The Bab and of Baha'u'llah, ten thousand
Babis and twenty thousand Baha'is were martyred. These
martyrdoms took place right after The Bab made his
proclamation in 1844. This date of 1844 is depicted in the
Great Pyramid at the start of the altar stone which is
directly above the chamber of the saints, or the chamber
representing the martyrs of true Christianity.
12 "When he
opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a
great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth, the
full moon became like blood,
13 and the stars of the sky
fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit
when shaken by a gale;
14 the sky vanished like a scroll
that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed
from its place."
There will be four winds of destruction,
and the Bible doesn't list them in chronological order. This
is referring to the last of the four winds. This last wind
of destruction is best explained by Charles Hapgood in his
book The Earth's Shifting Crust, for which Einstein wrote
the foreward. It was also explained by the guardian Mason
Remey, who was not only the guardian, but was also a great
architect of the highest rank, having graduated from the
most prestigious universities. I will give you but a short
synopsis:
About every 11,000, to 16,000 years the crust of
the earth breaks loose and slides over the mantle. Between
the crust and the mantle there is a layer of molten magma or
lava that is soft and slippery, making it very easy, with
only a little force, for the crust to slide, like a person
on roller skates. This is caused by the great weight of a
lopsided continent in a polar region, which is now evident
in Antarctica. The last polar shift took place eleven
thousand years ago. The Hudson Bay area was over the North
Pole and suddenly the Hudson Bay area moved south and Arctic
Ocean moved over the North Pole. In northern Siberia, large
herds of woolly mammoths grazed on the lush grasslands and
then all of a sudden, within a few hours or days, northern
Siberia moved into the Arctic Circle, instantly freezing the
woolly mammoths into frozen solid carcasses. For thousands
of years the Chinese carried on an ivory trade with the
ivory taken from the almost inexhaustible supply of mammoth
tusks. Mammoth meat has been served in some of the most
elite restaurants in Paris. Some of the mammoths were still
standing and were found to have undigested food in their
stomachs and one was found with a buttercup caught between
its teeth. At the same time the continent of Antarctica move
from a lush grassland and coniferous forest, like we have
here in Montana, into the Antarctic Circle. The proof of
this is that huge coal deposits have been found in
Antarctica. In order to have these coal deposits it had to
have coniferous forests.
Antarctica is eccentrically
located from the South Pole. Antarctica is twice the size of
the United States and has large mountain ranges, like we
have here in Montana. On top of these mountains there are
large deposits of ice, from a mile to two miles high. This
ice has accumulated in the last eleven thousand years. This
is at the brim of Antarctica, and each year about 100 feet
of new snow is deposited causing these ice-covered mountains
to exert pressure on the crust as the earth spins on its
axis. This pressure on the crust causes the crust in the
eastern hemisphere to move northward. The Greenland ice cap
works in tandem with this by exerting pressure on the crust
in the western hemisphere so it moves southward. This
constant pressure on the earth's crust is causing the
increase in the number of earthquakes that is taking place
now. The crust has been doing this for hundreds of years,
but in the last few years earthquakes have increased
dramatically.
The further Antarctica moves from the South
Pole, the more lopsided it becomes and the faster the crust
moves, and the hotter the magma becomes from the friction of
the crust on the mantle. The hotter the mantle becomes the
more slippery it becomes. Every day now the crust moves
faster, and at the appointed hour, God will cause that which
will cause the limbs of mankind to quake, then all of a
sudden the crust will break loose altogether, and the North
Pole will be in the Lake Baikal area of Siberia and the
southern tip of South America will move into the Antarctic
Circle. The Western Northern Hemisphere will move southward
and it will practically move under the water of the
equatorial bulge. The lower regions of California will be
below the Pacific Ocean and the Baha'i temple in Wilmette
that is under Covenant-breakers' control will be halfway
submerged. Missoula, which now is 3200 feet altitude, will
be a seaport. This is what is meant by "every mountain and
island will be moved from its place."
15 "Then the kings of
the earth and the great men and the generals and the rich
and the strong, and every one, slave and free, hid in the
caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
16 calling to
the mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the
face of him who is seated on the throne [the guardian], and
from the wrath of the Lamb [Jesus on his return].'"
After
this is all over there will be all new maps made, for new
continents will arise out of the sea and portions of other
continents will be submerged. The old world will be rolled
up and a new one will be rolled out in its place. The
Covenant-breakers who went against Shoghi Effendi, and did
away with his plan and did away with the executive branch of
Baha'u'llah's administration will be completely obliterated
because they have refused to use the intellects that God
gave them and the principle that Baha'u'llah gave of the
independent search for the truth, thus they will be
completely cut off due to their own ignorance. They will be
like the Jews who were waiting for the coming of Jesus, but
when he came they rejected him, thus they were ignorant that
Jerusalem would be destroyed and they along with it. There
is no one so blind as those who refuse to open their eyes.
These people are the losers in both this life and the next.
REVELATION CHAPTER 7
1 "After this I saw four angels
standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the
four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or
sea or against any tree."
Ali is the fifth angel and he is
the establisher of the Revelation of Muhammed. Quddus, the
sixth angel, is the establisher of the Revelation of the
Bab. Leland (the land, Zech. 3:9) is the seventh angel and
he is the establisher of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah. The
"four angels" came before Muhammad. Paul, the establisher of
the Revelation of Jesus the Christ, is the fourth angel.
Joshua, the establisher of the Revelation of Moses, is the
third angel. Shem, the establisher of the laws of Noah, is
the second angel, and Enoch, the establisher of Adam's
Revelation, is the first angel.
At the present time the
four winds of destruction are being held back by the four
angels at the River of Euphrates (Rev.9:16).
2 "Then I saw
another angel ascend from the rising of the sun, with the
seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to
the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and
sea"
This "angel" is the seventh angel, the establisher of
Baha'u'llah's Revelation, who has the "seal of the living
God" in his forehead. This seal is the intellect that is
located in the forebrain of the seventh angel. The "sun" is
a symbol of Baha'u'llah.
3 "saying, 'Do not harm the earth
or the sea or the trees, till we have sealed the servants of
our God upon their foreheads.'"
This means God will keep
the catastrophes from happening until the seventh angel has
"sealed the servants of God upon their foreheads". That is,
the nuclear war is held back until the seventh angel has
sealed 144,000 people on their foreheads, meaning 144,000
people will use their intellects, which are located in the
forebrain, to determine truth from falsity, instead of going
on blind faith like the indoctrinated Christians who follow
the corrupt clergy (who sell Jesus Christ on the cross for
the dollar), or like the deluded Covenant-breaking Baha'is
who blindly follow the Covenant-breakers' religious cult
created by Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands," and their
invention of a headless monster located on Gollum Street on
Mt. Carmel.
4 "And I heard the number of the sealed, a
hundred and forty-four thousand sealed, out of every tribe
of the sons of Israel,"
Israel means those who strive with
God, meaning that of the Baha'is who are under the violation
of the Covenant, only 144,000 of these five to eight million
Covenant-breakers will use their intellects and read the
explanations that are found here in this book, that are
given by Jesus on his return, to save his people who will
listen.
5 "twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of
Judah, twelve thousand of the tribe of Reuben, twelve
thousand of the tribe of Gad,
6 twelve thousand of the tribe
of Asher, twelve thousand of the tribe of Naph'tali, twelve
thousand of the tribe of Manas'seh,
7 twelve thousand of the
tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand of the tribe of Levi,
twelve thousand of the tribe of Is'sachar,
8 twelve thousand
of the tribe of Zeb'ulun, twelve thousand of the tribe of
Joseph, twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of
Benjamin."
When Salamancer the 5th conquered the ten tribes
of Israel in 721 BC, he took them into Assyria (Iraq) and
Media (Iran). Baha'u'llah, Who was of the tribe of Judah,
which was one of the two southern tribes, came from Iran and
made His Proclamation in Iraq. Therefore, the first people
to believe in Him were from Iran and Iraq. When Baha'u'llah
left Iraq to go to Constantinople, then to Adrianople and
then to Acca, those who came with him were thus a remnant of
these twelve tribes. When other people from around the world
became Baha'is, they were grafted into these twelve
tribes.
When these Baha'is from around the world became
Covenant-breakers by going against Shoghi Effendi and the
Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha, the tribes of Israel
were dispersed a second time. Only 144,000 of these
Covenant-breakers will come back under the Provisions of the
Covenant. The rest are for the fire because they refuse to
use their intellects that God gave them and the principle of
the "independent investigation of the truth" that
Baha'u'llah gave them. They remain Covenant-breakers and
nobody can save a Covenant-breaker as long as he refuses to
know the truth. They are behind a high wall of oppression,
created by their slave owners. And as long as they allow
themselves to remain behind this wall of oppression they
will never know the truth. Jesus said, "Seek ye the truth
and the truth will set you free." In order for them to seek
the truth they need to be jarred loose from their lethargy.
Nothing will jar them loose except a great catastrophe or
calamity. This will happen when New York City is nuked by
Iraq, which in turn will happen when Suddam Hussein is
assassinated by the US. America has called for this
assassination and the code name for it is "Jackhammer." When
this happens approximately 30 million people will be killed,
and 144,000 Covenant-breaking Baha'is will repent and come
under the provisions of the Covenant. But the multitude of
Baha'is will not come under the provisions of the Covenant
until after the nuclear war which will last about one hour
(Rev.18:17,19).
9 "After this I looked, and behold, a great
multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from
all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the
throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with
palm branches in their hands,"
Here it shows that the
people of the world will become believers. They will stand
"before the throne" of David with a descendant of David and
of Baha'u'llah seated upon it, "and before the Lamb" (the
return of Jesus as the Lamb) and they will become spiritual
and get white auras (white robes). The palm branches
symbolize submission to the Covenant.
10 "and crying out
with a loud voice, 'Salvation belongs to our God who sits
upon the throne, and to the Lamb!'"
Baha'u'llah said
kings are signs of God. This refers especially to the
Davidic kings who are seated "upon the throne" of David as
the guardians at the head of the Universal House of Justice.
Salvation comes through these kings on the throne and
through "the Lamb" who is the seventh angel, the establisher
of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
11 "And all the angels stood round the throne and
round the elders and the four living creatures, and they
fell on their faces before "the throne" and worshipped
God,"
An "angel is a man [generic, i.e., male or female]
qualified with heavenly attributes and character" (W&T, p.
66). The throne is the throne of David with the guardian
seated upon it. The "elders" are the twenty-four Apostles of
the Lamb who are members of the second International Baha'i
Council. "The four living creatures" are the United States,
England, France and Russia after they become Baha'i nations.
Before that, in the King James Version, they are called
beasts, as they do not possess a branch of the Holy Spirit.
12 "saying, 'Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and
thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for
ever and ever! Amen.'
13 Then one of the elders addressed
me, saying, 'Who are these, clothed in white robes, and
whence have they come?'
14 I said to him, 'Sir, you know.'
And he said to me, 'These are they who have come out of the
great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made
them white in the blood of the Lamb.'"
The multitudes
"clothed in white robes" are those who "come out of the
great tribulation." This has two meanings. In one case the
multitudes are those who come out of the great thermonuclear
war. In the other, Baha'u'llah explains in the Kitab-i-Iqan
that the tribulation is the great oppression, and the
multitudes are those who come out from under the oppression
of what is called "the mainstream Baha'is" or "Baha'i World
Faith" which was imposed upon them by the wicked witch
Ruhiyyih Khanum and the Covenant-breaking "Hands" when they
went against Shoghi Effendi and did away with the "Plan of
God" that Shoghi Effendi had set up. After the nuclear war,
the multitudes that are left will come out of the oppression
that they were under and will become part of the Baha'i
faith that was brought by Baha'u'llah, delineated by
`Abdu'l-Baha, set up by Shoghi Effendi, and is now being
established in this world by the Lamb, who is the return of
Jesus the High Priest. The "blood of the Lamb" is the
Covenant. Jesus said the wine and the blood are symbols of
the Covenant. Being washed in the Covenant saves those who
have been hoodwinked and bamboozled by Ruhiyyih Khanum, the
"Hands," and their phony, headless House of Justice that has
no justice at all. The Covenant also saves the multitudes of
Christians and the adherents to other major religions who
survive the great catastrophe.
15 "Therefore are they
before the throne of God, and serve him day and night within
his temple; and he who sits upon the throne will shelter
them with his presence."
The "temple" refers to the Holy of
Holies, which is symbolized in the King's Chamber of the
Great Pyramid. This is where the Covenant is placed in the
Ark of the Covenant, and the high priest (Jesus on his
return) stands before this Ark of the Covenant and takes it
out and explains it to those who are teaching the true
Baha'i faith. There is only one person in the world who,
according to scriptures, is allowed to enter the Holy of
Holies and stand before the Ark of the Covenant and
interpret the Covenant of Baha'u'llah (Kitab-i-'Ahd) and
Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha. Without this
interpretation, the people are fuel for the fire.
16 "They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; the sun shall
not strike them, nor any scorching heat."
"They shall
hunger no more" either physically or spiritually, for there
will be an abundance of food. They will have the spiritual
bread that is the true teachings of the Revelation of
Baha'u'llah, and they will drink the pure wine which is the
true Covenant of Baha'u'llah. The nuclear bomb is the same
as the sun, in that the nucleus of the hydrogen atoms are
smashed into one another causing them to explode. They will
be free from the thermonuclear war that is about to fall
upon mankind.
17 "For the Lamb in the midst of the throne
will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of
living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their
eyes."
The "Lamb in the midst of the throne guides them to
the living waters", which are the waters of life, which are
not only the true interpretations of this book, but also
include the true interpretations of all the Christian and
Baha'i prophecies, thus leading all of the peoples of the
world to "the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven"
that Jesus asked us to pray for and Baha'u'llah brought.
This prayer is called the Lord's Prayer and it is the only
prayer Jesus revealed. This prayer is fulfilled in the
Covenant of Baha'u'llah which the Covenant-breaking Baha'is
violated, thus leading five to eight million Baha'is astray
and into perdition (utter destruction). Through his
explanations and commentaries, the Lamb gets the Christians
and the Baha'is back on the right track again. The only hope
for safety, security, and salvation for anyone is the living
waters that the Lamb guides the people to. God so loved the
world that he sent His beloved son, the Lamb, back into the
world to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. The
main way God tests the people is He sends a Promised One who
has been prophesied in Holy scriptures. Each of the Promised
Ones is prophesied by the name that he will come in, the
address where he can be found, the date for his appearance,
and his prophesied mission. The Lamb fulfilled these
prophecies. How can anyone miss him if they use their
intellect to examine the proofs?
REVELATION CHAPTER 8
1
"When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
heaven for about half an hour."
This is the start of the
four winds of destruction and a "half an hour" is but just a
short period of time between the finishing of this book and
the start of the great destruction.
2 "Then I saw the seven
angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given
to them."
This refers to the seven things that are about to
happen.
3 "And another angel came and stood at the altar
with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to
mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden
altar before the throne;"
Gold represents the spiritual,
which is from God. The "golden altar" is Shoghi Effendi. The
"angel with a golden censer" is the seventh angel who is the
return of Jesus the Lamb who is from God. The "golden
censer" means the divine censer. The golden censer is the
vessel which holds the incense as it burns. The "golden
altar", or Shoghi Effendi, is the divine altar on which the
Baha'i faith is administrated. The Baha'i Covenant-breaking
Baha'i world could not differentiate a handful of gold from
a handful of feces, so the deluded followers went with the
feces, which is the violation of Ruhiyyih Khanum and the
"Hands." What the "Hands" gave the Baha'is in the place of
what God gave us is nothing but a bunch of bull feces. I use
the French word "feces" here in place of the Anglo Saxon
word that begins with "s" and ends with "t," as this is
considered to be more polite. The "throne" is the Davidic
throne that was to exist forever which the Covenant-breaking
Hands threw out. The "incense" is the explanations and
commentaries of the Lamb that "mingle with the prayers of
all the saints" who are firm in the Covenant and follow the
Lamb wherever he goes (Rev. 14:4). As the advent of the
appearance of the Lamb fulfills prophecy, it is required by
all to be guided by his explanations and commentaries. For
those who are in opposition, their abode is hell and
damnation.
This golden altar comes before the Holy of
Holies in the sanctuary. It is symbolic of sacrifice except
animals are not sacrificed here. Rather, incense is offered.
The sacrifice is represented here by incense, but it is
elsewhere represented by an iron rod which represents the
line of sacrifice of Jesus, Muhammad, the Bab and Shoghi
Effendi. This golden altar is symbolic of Shoghi Effendi,
the one who came to set up the administration.
In the
temple are boxes and altars. The first lies in the courtyard
and is symbolic of Muhammad. The next, as depicted in the
Great Pyramid of Giza in the Great Step, is symbolic of the
Bab. The next is the golden altar of incense, and the final
one is the ark of the Covenant itself. This is the Universal
House of Justice.
Incense was used in the past when a large
number of people were assembled into large buildings without
adequate ventilation. Due to the fact that people seldom
took baths, the stench was so putrid it was almost
unbearable, so they used incense to smother or quench the
bad odors. How this applies to the world today is that all
the damnable corruption in Christianity and in the Baha'i
faith stinks to high heaven. The incense here means the
explanations and commentaries of the Lamb. The corruptions
of Christianity are many. These corruptions have caused
great confusion, splitting up Christianity into 22,000 sects
and denominations, each claiming they are right and the
others are wrong; thus, they testify against themselves. In
the Baha'i faith, the Arch Covenant-breakers have led the
five to eight million Baha'is astray. The damage is that
they threw out of the administration one of the two integral
parts of Baha'u'llah's Universal House of Justice, the
executive branch (W&T, p. 15), which includes Baha'u'llah's
descendants and the Davidic lineage including the throne of
David that is to last forever. Baha'u'llah said on page 89
of His proclamation that He, "the Ancient Beauty ruleth upon
the throne of David" (The Proclamation of Baha'u'llah, p.
89). Baha'u'llah was a direct male sperm line descendant of
King David seated on the throne of David. He continued this
lineage in His Covenant. This is the lineage that the wicked
Covenant-breakers threw out. They will burn eternally in
hell for
that, unless they repent and come under the
provisions of Baha'u'llah's Covenant and the Will and
Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha. Saints are praying that the old
world order will be rolled up and a whole new one will be
rolled out in its place.
4 "and the smoke of the incense
rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the
angel before God."
The incense, which symbolizes the
explanations and commentaries of the Lamb, "rose...from the
hand of the angel before God", who is the seventh angel and
who is the return of the Lamb. The seventh angel is
explained by `Abdu'l-Baha in Some Answered Questions on page
66. He explained that this seventh angel would establish
the true Baha'i faith in the world. The "prayers of the
saints" are the prayers of those holy ones who remained firm
in the Covenant of Baha'u'llah.
5 "Then the angel took the
censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it
on the earth; and there were peals of thunder, voices,
flashes of lightning, and an earthquake."
This angel starts
this process, symbolized by taking "fire from the altar and
throwing it on the earth." The "peals of thunder" are the
clergies pounding on their altars against Baha'u'llah and
the angels. There will be voices raised both for and against
the Revelation of Baha'u'llah and His World Order. The loud
noises are the explosions of the nuclear bombs and the
"flashes of lightning" are the missiles lighting up the sky
during the nuclear war. The great "earthquake", one like the
world has never witnessed before, will take place after the
nuclear war.
6 "Now the seven angels who had the seven
trumpets made ready to blow them."
The following events
that take place are not in sequence.
7 "The first angel
blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed
with blood, which fell on the earth; and a third of the
earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up,
and all the green grass was burnt up."
This is the nuclear
war that is about to take place now. This war will be fought
primarily between Europe, America, Iran, Iraq and Saudi
Arabia, which is about a third of the planet. The white race
will come almost to an end. They will be an oddity to the
rest of the peoples.
8 "The second angel blew his trumpet,
and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was
thrown into the sea;
9 and a third of the sea became blood,
a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third
of the ships were destroyed."
This "mountain" is a burning
meteor, the size of a great mountain, maybe a mile wide.
Baha'u'llah prophesied in the Tablet of the Holy Mariner
that this meteor would drive the Covenant-breakers off of
Mt. Carmel. This meteor will heat up when it enters the
atmosphere. Because it will become white hot, it will heat
up the entire sea, boiling the water. It will cause tidal
waves, maybe a mile high, that will cause buildings on
coastal areas to be washed away.
10 "The third angel blew
his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like
a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the
fountains of water."
The "fountains of the water" are the
mountains where the rivers get their water.
11 "The name
of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became
wormwood, and many men died of the water, because it was
made bitter."
In the nuclear war, both Russian and US bombs
will be involved.
The Ukranian word for "wormwood" is
Chernobyl. The connection between wormwood and nuclear
fallout became clear when one of world's worst nuclear power
plant accidents happened at Chernobyl.
12 "The fourth angel
blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a
third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third
of their light was darkened; a third of the day was kept
from shining, and likewise a third of the night."
When
these nuclear bombs explode, they will cause so much debris
to be caught up into the air, that in a third part of the
earth the shining of the sun, moon and stars will not be
seen, either in the day or night.
13 "Then I looked, and I
heard an eagle crying with a loud voice, as it flew in mid
heaven, 'Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at
the blasts of the other trumpets which the three angels are
about to blow!'"
The "eagle" pertains to the United States,
as its symbol is the flying eagle. "Mid heaven" is between
the earth and outer space, that is, in the atmosphere. It is
in the United States (in Montana) that the return of Jesus
is found, and he is telling the world that this nuclear war
is just one phase of the great catastrophe. There are three
"woes" to come, meaning that the nuclear war will be the
first woe or wave of destruction. During the second woe a
meteor the size of a great mountain will hit the earth. This
will cause such a jar to the earth that the world will
suffer the greatest earthquake as has ever been experienced,
probably twelve on the Richter scale, and if it hits in the
sea it will cause great tidal waves, maybe a mile high, that
will wash away many people. It will probably hit in or near
the Mediterranean sea and wash the Covenant-breakers off of
Mt. Carmel. It was prophesied by Baha'u'llah in the Tablet
of the Holy Mariner that a burning meteor will drive them
out. Then the last of these woes is the earth's shifting
crust.
REVELATION CHAPTER 9
The first eleven verses in
this chapter refer to Islam.
1 "And the fifth angel blew
his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth,
and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless
pit;"
This "star" was Omar, one of the strongest of the
believers of Muhammad. When Muhammad made his proclamation
it was to Omar, Abu Bakr and Ali. Omar drew out his sword
and cried that if anyone comes against Muhammad he would
have to pass over him. When Muhammad was on his death bed
and his head was resting in the lap of his youngest wife he
was telling the believers that were with him in that room
that they should turn to Ali as his successor, but there was
a lot of buzzing going on among those present. They were of
in opposition to having Ali succeed Muhammad. Ali wasn't
present in that room. At the time, he was out someplace
taking care of some religious errand. Muhammad, seeing that
they were in opposition to his choice of Ali, cried out,
telling them to get his secretary. He was going to have his
will written down. But the buzzing kept going on, deciding
what they should do. Some said he was delirious with a high
fever and didn't know what he was saying. At that time
Muhammad died. Omar immediately ran out of the tent and
there was a large number, maybe thousands, of the faithful
waiting to get some news, knowing their beloved Muhammad was
very sick. Omar raised his hands high and cried out that the
beloved prophet had just passed away. Then a great cry went
up from the multitude, "What will we do, what will we do?"
Then Omar raised his hands once more and said, "We will
elect a successor, and I nominate Abu Bakr." Then another
cry went up from the multitude in one acclaim: "Abu Bakr,
Abu Bakr." Thus they elected Abu Bakr to be Muhammad's
successor. When Ali returned from his mission and heard what
had taken place, and that nothing now could be done to
change it, he had no other choice but to go along with it,
as he didn't want to have a division. Thus the corruption in
Islam took place upon the death of Muhammad.
The first
thing Abu Bakr did was to go into the Middle East, declare
war on Rome and take over the whole Middle East, although
Muhammad said the Moslems could only have defensive
wars.
Abu Bakr set up his headquarters in Damascus. The
Bani Umayya, who were enemies of Muhammad, had been forced
to surrender to Muhammad. They decided since they could not
win, they would join the Moslems and then try to take over
Islam. Thus, when Abu Bakr set up the throne in Damascus,
the Bani Umayya made another kind of war. Mu'awia, the son
of Abu Suffian, the arch-enemy of Islam, went down into
Arabia and raised up a strong army of staunch supporters of
Islam by telling them lies, similar to the way the Christian
clergy from the beginning told lies upon lies.
2 "he
opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft
rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun
and the air were darkened with the smoke from the
shaft."
The "bottomless pit" is the pit of error. Abu
Bakr's army, on its way up to Damascus, stopped off in Egypt
and acquired chariots, for the Egyptian chariots were the
finest made. When they got to Damascus they were not allowed
to kill Muslims as it was against the teachings of
Muhammad.
3 "Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth,
and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the
earth."
The "locusts" were these chariots. The "scorpion's"
sting is in its tail. Two men rode on these chariots, with
one driving the chariot and the other sitting backwards
between the legs of the driver with a blow gun that shot
darts. These darts were poison-tipped but the poison didn't
kill, it only made their victims very sick to the point that
they wished they were dead.
4 "they were told not to harm
the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but
only those of mankind who have not the seal of God upon
their foreheads:"
Muhammad forbid a scorched earth policy
in warfare. The seal of God on their foreheads means they
used their intellects to accept Islam. Muhammad said they
didn't have to believe, but they must be obedient to the
Koran.
5 "they were allowed to torture them for five
months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the
torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man."
When these
chariots went through the streets of Damascus the people
came out to witness what was going on. As the chariots
passed by, many of the people were stung with these darts.
The purpose of this was to have them turn against the
leadership of Abu Bakr, and put the Bani Umayyeds at the
head of Islam.
6 "And in those days men will seek death
and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will
fly from them.
7 In appearance the locusts were like horses
arrayed for battle; on their heads were what looked like
crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,"
The
"crowns of gold" signify that they were spiritual Muslims,
but duped.
8 "their hair like women's hair, and their
teeth like lions' teeth;"
That is, the Arabs had long "hair
like women", whereas the Muslims in the Middle East who had
been under Roman rule had short hair and were clean shaven.
The Muslims in Arabia, prior to accepting Muhammad, ate raw
meat and filed their teeth so they were able to tear raw
meat apart like carnivorous animals.
9 "they had scales
like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was
like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into
battle. These breast plates were their armor.
10 They have
tails like scorpions, and stings, and their power of hurting
men for five months lies in their tails.
In the "tails" of
the chariots were dart blowers. When the Bani Umayyeds drove
their chariots in the attacks, one man would stand to drive,
while another would sit backwards between his legs. The one
sitting would use either a bow or a blow gun to shoot poison
arrows at his victims as they lined up along the sides of
the streets to watch the chariots that were driven by
"women".
11 They have as king over them the angel of the
bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abad'don, and in Greek
he is called Apol'lyon."
The "king over them" was Mu'awia,
and in Hebrew he is Abad'don and in Greek he is Apol'lion,
meaning the destroyer.
13 "Then the sixth angel blew his
trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the
golden altar before God,"
"Horns" in this sense are symbols
of sovereignty. This originated with Nimrod who took the
horns off the bull and placed them on his own head, showing
his sovereignty over the herd or empire of many nations. The
"four horns" here represent four nations, which today hold
the veto power on the Security Council of the United
Nations. They are the United States, England, France and
Russia. President Roosevelt set up these four nations, along
with China to be the charter members of the United Nations.
These four nations will be the first Baha'i nations. These
four nations, represented by "four horns of the golden altar
before God," are on the altar of sacrifice because they are
to be the sacrifice to establish peace in the world. The war
will be fought primarily between these four nations, and all
of their cities with a population of one hundred thousand or
more will be destroyed. A third of mankind will be
killed.
14 "saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet,
"Release the four angels who are bound at the great river
Euphrates."
These "four angels" who are over the four
nations have been holding back the nuclear war. They are
bound "at the great river Euphrates." The river Euphrates
flows through Iraq, where the great city Babylon was
located, and where Nebuchadnezzar ruled over his empire.
When Nebuchandnezzar destroyed the city of Jerusalem, he
brought the Davidic king and his throne to Babylon.
Baha'u'llah descends from this lineage of Davidic monarchs
in Babylon.
This is also the place, in the city of Baghdad,
that Baha'u'llah was exiled to and where He made His
proclamation to His first believers. Today, this is the
place where the United States made an illegal war on Iraq,
as the US was interfering in the internal affairs of a
sovereign nation. They killed thousands of innocent Iraqis,
men, women, and children, and then had the United Nations
slap sanctions on these men, women, and children, causing
mass starvation, suffering and other types of horrors
including the deaths of nearly half the babies. The American
people allowed this to happen because they were fed all
kinds of sick propaganda by the media which is the
mouthpiece of the beast. The day of reckoning is fast
approaching where the bread that the US cast on the waters
will return to them sevenfold. Nostradamus prophesied that
Saddam would get his revenge for the evil that was cast upon
his country. This retaliation will be in the form of a
nuclear strike on the United Nations building in New York
City, "the seat of the beast" (Rev. 16:10, KJV), which will
destroy the entire city of New York. This will start World
War III (the battle of Armageddon, Rev. 16:16).
15 "So the
four angels were released, who had been held ready for the
hour, the day, the month, and the year, to kill a third of
mankind."
The "hour, the day, the month and the year" are
already predetermined and it will happen precisely according
to God's time scale. Jesus said: "But of that day and hour
no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,
but the Father only" (Matt. 24:36). Therefore the Son on his
return won't know the day nor the hour, as it says that the
Son won't know, but only the Father, Baha'u'llah, will know.
I don't know of anyplace where Baha'u'llah revealed the day
and the hour. However, the month and the year are knowable.
This will happen right after Saddam Hussain is assassinated.
This will take place right after the Iraqis nuke New York,
in retaliation for the US and the UN assassination of their
beloved president. What would happen if the Iraqis should
happen to assassinate Bill Clinton? You can be sure that the
United States would retaliate severely.
16 "The number of
the troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten
thousand; I heard their number."
As this will be a nuclear
war, there will not be very many people engaged in fighting
this war. Yeltsen will press the button and then Bill on the
hill will retaliate and he will press the button, and that
will be just about it. Therefore, this applies to the
megatonage, or the amount of nuclear energy that will be
unleashed in the nuclear war.
17 "And this was how I saw
the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the
color of fire and of sapphire (hyacinth) and of sulfur, and
the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and
smoke and sulfur issued from their mouths."
In the King
James translation it isn't sapphire at all but "jacinth"
which is "hyacinth" and this is colored brownish, reddish or
orange zircon (golden). These colors are the colors of the
explosion of a nuclear bomb.
18 "By these three plagues a
third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and
sulfur issuing from their mouths."
A "third of mankind"
will be killed by these three things: "fire, smoke, and
sulfur". There are three ways that a nuclear bomb kills.
First is the radiation of the bomb. If you get 1000 RADs of
radiation you will die instantly as it will destroy your
nervous system. The next thing that comes is the heat that
also will kill you immediately. And the third thing that
kills is the percussion.
19 "For the power of the horses is
in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like
serpents, with heads, and by means of them they
wound."
These are not "horses" at all. They look more like
snakes that propel themselves with their tails. This is what
John saw in his vision: a nuclear missile that is propelled
by its "tail" and the "head" is a nuclear bomb.
20 "The
rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did
not repent of the works of their hands nor give up
worshipping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze
and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or
walk;"
As you already know, the nuclear war will be fought
in only a third part of the earth: Europe, America, the
Middle East and Russia. The people in Mexico and Central and
South America are for the most part Roman Catholics. Their
clergy will tell them that, because of their Icons (idols),
they were saved from this great destruction and the people
will take on a much stronger belief in their idols. This
will also be true in Asia and Africa. In Asia, the 800
million Hindus, Episcopalians and Buddhists are also idol
worshippers. In China and in India the same thing exists.
They all worship the idols they pray to and they will all
believe their idols saved them.
21 "nor did they repent of
their murders or their sorceries or their immorality or
their thefts."
Therefore they go on as they did before, not
realizing that there will be three more waves of destruction
coming: a meteor hitting the earth, a great earthquake and
the earth's shifting crust. Those who crawl out of the pit,
the nuclear war, will be caught in the snare, the meteor
hitting the earth.
REVELATION CHAPTER 10
1 "Then I saw
another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a
cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like
the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire."
This "angel"
is "mighty", meaning he will be able to fulfill his mission.
He has the knowledge to expose the Covenant-breakers who
took over the Baha'i faith and corrupted it.
The "heaven"
he comes down from is the heaven of prophecy. He is the
prophesied seventh angel in the next chapter (11) whom
`Abdu'l-Baha said was yet to come. He is the prophesied son
who is to return and establish his Father's (Baha'u'llah's)
Kingdom.
In the Book of Acts it is recorded that Jesus was
seen ascending into heaven wrapped in a cloud and that he
would return in the same manner. When we see this "angel"
described as descending "from heaven, wrapped in a cloud",
we know this angel is the return of Jesus.
Although this
person fulfills the prophecies for the return of Jesus, he
is not the same person of Jesus of Nazareth, but another
person, just like John the Baptist was the return of Elijah,
although he was not the same person of Elijah. This was
explained by Jesus on his first coming.
The "cloud" is the
misrepresentations of the clergy who teach the people false
expectations and imaginations regarding the return of Jesus.
They expect the return of the exact same Jesus who was alive
2000 years ago. Because he is wrapped in this cloud, the
people who are waiting and praying for his arrival won't
recognize him. The Christian clergy have so misrepresented
Jesus to the world that this angel won't fulfill their
expectations. These misrepresentations come from the Trinity
doctrine which is pagan. This doctrine is not found in the
Bible. It crept into Christianity at the Council of Nicea in
325 AD. Because of this Trinity, Christians now believe the
incarnate god lie - that Jesus is God. Therefore, they
believe Jesus' physical body resurrected and is still alive
and they expect that he will float down out of the sky one
day.
The Christians of today are like the Jews who didn't
recognize Jesus as their Messiah, and the Christians of the
past who didn't recognize Muhammad as the Comforter
(paraclete) of John 14. The original word was "Ahmad" and it
was translated as "comforter." This was a prophecy for
Muhammad. Likewise, the Muslims didn't recognize the Bab and
Baha'u'llah, because of the indoctrination of their clergy.
Jesus on his return is hidden in a cloud and so he is not
recognized as the Promised One who was to come and establish
the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
The "rainbow" is a symbol
of God's Covenant with man. There are greater and lesser
aspects to God's Covenant. The greater Covenant is the
promise God makes to send us spiritual messengers, such as
Jesus and Baha'u'llah. This Covenant is given through
prophecies of their coming. The lesser Covenant is the
directions these Manifestations give to guide the people
after they are gone. This is given in their
writings.
Having this "rainbow" over his head indicates
that this "angel" comes fulfilling the greater Covenant by
fulfilling prophecy, even though he is not a Manifestation.
It also indicates that through the intellect he is
knowledgeable of Baha'u'llah's lesser Covenant. Therefore,
he is able to explain the Covenant even after it was lost
due to the Arch Covenant-breaking Baha'is who threw it out
and led the whole Baha'i world astray.
The phrase "his face
was like the sun" shows again that this is the return of
Jesus. In Revelation 1:16 it described Jesus' face as "like
the sun shining in full strength."
Baha'i scriptures refer
to the Covenant as "like the sun." The meaning is that he
is turning to the sun of the Baha'i Covenant. Jesus on his
return is a follower of Baha'u'llah, facing towards the
light of Baha'u'llah. So the Covenant will dawn forth above
the horizon of this angel's understanding and his face then
reflects this light of the Covenant to the people.
"His
legs like pillars of fire" means this mighty angel will
appear during the time of the impending nuclear war or first
wind of destruction. The Christians must come out of their
lethargy and turn to this mighty angel so they may find the
Second Coming of Christ, Baha'u'llah. The duped followers of
the man-made cult of Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands" must
turn to this mighty "angel" for guidance so they may come
back under the Provisions of Baha'u'llah's Covenant which
Ruhiyyih Khanum and the Hands threw out. Without this
guidance they are fuel for the fire.
"Fire" has another
meaning which is spiritual. `Abdu'l-Baha wrote:
O God, my
God! Praise be unto Thee for kindling the fire of divine
love in the Holy Tree on the summit of the loftiest mount:
that tree which is "neither of the East nor of the West,"
that fire which blazed out till the flame of it soared
upward to the Concourse on high, and from it those realities
caught the light of guidance, and cried out: "Verily have we
perceived a fire on the slope of Mount Sinai." O God, my
God! Increase Thou this fire, as day followeth day, till the
blast of it setteth in motion all the earth....
This is
the "fire" which blazes out from the Tree of Life. It
appeared to Moses as a burning bush on Mount Sinai. This
Tree of Life, referred to as the Kabbala, was depicted in
the teachings of Abraham as being covered with a flaming
sword and having ten globes of light. This Tree of Life is
another symbol for God's Covenant. The fire is the light of
divine guidance and the ten globes indicate ten Promised
Ones. Nine of them are above ground, and these are the nine
Manifestations who have come in this cycle. The tenth one is
at the base of the tree in the ground itself. It is called
Ha Erets - The Land (Le land) - and the Tree of Life is
planted in this land. This Leland, the tenth Promised One to
come in this cycle, is the return of Jesus. He fulfills
prophecy making him part of the greater Covenant even though
he is not a Manifestation of God. "His legs are like pillars
of fire" because he stands in the fire of divine guidance.
His message is founded in the Revelations of Jesus the
Christ and Baha'u'llah, the return of Christ.
2 "He had a
little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on
the sea, and his left foot on the land,"
This is the same
"scroll" mentioned in Revelation 5. This is the scroll, or
book, written within and on the backside (or outside) sealed
with seven seals. John says he wept much because no one in
heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to break the
seals to open the scroll or to look into it. But then the
Lamb, who is Jesus, comes forth and takes the scroll, and he
is worthy to break the seals. This scroll is the Baha'i
Covenant which has two texts, the Kitab-i-'Ahd written by
Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. The
Will and Testament is the part written on the outside and
the seven seals are on the outside part of this scroll. When
the Baha'i world received this Covenant it was sealed up and
its meaning was not understood.
The scroll (the Covenant)
is open in the hand of this mighty angel, again showing that
this angel is Jesus, the Lamb who was worthy to break the
seals. Now that the seals have been broken, the scroll is
"open in his hand", meaning the veils or seals on this
Covenant have been removed and the true meaning has been
made known.
This scroll is mentioned in Baha'i scripture,
"In mine hand I carry the testimony of God.... This is the
sealed and mystic Scroll, the repository of God's
irrevocable Decree, bearing the words which the Finger of
Holiness hath traced, that lay wrapped within the veil of
impenetrable mystery, and hath now been sent down as a token
of the grace of Him Who is the Almighty, the Ancient of
Days. In it have We decreed the destinies of all the
dwellers of the earth and the denizens of heaven, and
written down the knowledge of all things from first to
last."
The "sea" represents the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
The other Revelations are like rivers that lead to the sea.
The angel setting his "right foot on the sea" indicates that
he is very knowledgeable in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
The "land" is Le-land - Dr. Leland Jensen - the Lamb.
Having "his left foot on the land" means he also bases his
explanations on his own understandings, being the return of
Jesus. Because of these explanations the people find the dry
ground of firmness in the Covenant and their feet do not
slip upon it.
3 "and called out with a loud voice, like a
lion roaring; when he called out, the seven thunders
sounded."
This mighty angel, Jesus the Lamb, is a
descendant of the tribe of Dan. In the 33rd chapter of the
Book of Deuteronomy, Moses' blessing to Dan was that Dan
should be a "lion's whelp." This "lion" is also mentioned in
Baha'i scripture.
"Should it be God's intention, there
would appear out of the forests of celestial might the lion
of indomitable strength whose roaring is like unto the peals
of thunder reverberating in the mountains. However, since
Our loving providence surpasseth all things, We have
ordained that complete victory should be achieved through
speech and utterance ...."
The "thunder" has to do with
the wrath of God.
"This greatest of bestowals came as a
lightning-flash of glory to the righteous, but to those evil
ones who broke the Covenant, it was the thunderbolt of God's
avenging wrath."
The thunder is the sound of God's wrath
for those who violate the Covenant. This is when the people,
out of ignorance and greed, disobey and oppose God's Plan.
So the "seven thunders" are seven roarings against seven
violations of this Covenant. This angel knows the meaning of
the Covenant, so he is able to discern when it has been
violated, and then thunders against that violation. The
"loud voice" means the message of this angel will be heard
by all the world.
The Covenant was initially violated in
seven different ways by the Hands. Also, because of their
initial violation, the Covenant was violated six more times
by others, so there are seven thunders, as the Covenant was
violated a total of seven times since the passing of Shoghi
Effendi in 1957.
These seven violations - forming apostate
sects of the Baha'i Faith - are, in chronological order: the
"Hands" whose group is called Baha'i World Faith; Mason
Remey - the Orthodox Abha World Faith; the Orthodox Abha
World Faith then split off into several more sects: Jamshid
Maani (Meghnot) - the Faith of God; Joel Marangella - the
Orthodox Baha'i Faith; Rex King - the Orthodox Baha'i Faith
Under the Regency; Donald Harvey (Jacques Soghomonian) - the
Remey Society; and Anita Coryell - the Friends group.
These
violations serve a purpose in that the light of the Covenant
becomes known through the contrasting shadows of darkness -
disobedience and opposition to the Covenant. Disobedience
and opposition to the Covenant - the violation of it -
exposes the people's lack of knowledge. This is the
ignorance which made them susceptible to falling prey to
that violation.
Thus, these violations reveal what the
people don't know or understand. This shows there are seals
or veils on the Covenant. When these are opened, the reality
of the Covenant becomes known, but before the seven seals
are opened the reality of the Covenant is unknown.
4 "And
when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write,
but I heard a voice from heaven saying, 'Seal up what the
seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.'"
At
the time that John was having this vision, he was instructed
not to record what the "seven thunders" had said, so the
book does not describe what these seven thunders reveal.
This was because the seven thunders reveal what are the
seven seals on this scroll and the time for them to be
revealed was nearly 2000 years in the future.
The "seven
thunders" correspond to the seven seals on the Covenant,
which are seven unexplained and veiled provisions in the
Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. These were deliberately
sealed up and left unexplained by `Abdu'l-Baha. He left them
sealed up so that the violating Hands who were to come
sometime after him, would not be able to completely destroy
the Baha'i Faith from off the face of the earth. Because of
these seven protective seals, the Covenant survived the
violation and is re-established back into the Baha'i faith
by the Lamb.
The sound of the seven thunders can be heard
only after the seals are opened and explained. That is, the
people are then able to hear the sound of these thunders,
whereas before this, the people didn't hear these seven and
they didn't understand them because they were sealed
up.
The seven "seals" are veils on the meaning of seven
mysterious provisions in the Will and Testament of
'Abdu'l-Baha. Shoghi Effendi pointed out that there were
mysteries in the Will and Testament that would not be
revealed until after the foundation of the UHJ came into
existence.
When this most great edifice [the UHJ] shall be
reared on such an immovable foundation, God's purpose,
wisdom, universal truths, mysteries and realities of the
Kingdom, which the mystic Revelation of Baha'u'llah has
deposited within the Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha,
shall gradually be revealed and made manifest.
The
foundation of the UHJ, which is the International Baha'i
Council, came into existence in the spring of 1991. It was
at this time that the mysteries began to come to light.
These provisions have to do with a dichotomy in the Covenant
and how it leaves only one possible successor to Shoghi
Effendi.
These mysteries were left unexplained and remained
as veils. They are, in order of occurrence in the text of
`Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament:
1. "He is the Expounder
of the Word of God and after him will succeed the first-born
of his lineal descendants."
This means Shoghi Effendi will
not be succeeded by another infallible person. Shoghi
Effendi's successor was his lineal descendant, the
International Baha'i Council which he set up in 1951. This
Council was the embryonic UHJ having both parts of the
Covenant, the executive head and the legislative body.
2.
"The sacred and youthful branch, the Guardian of the Cause
of God, as well as the Universal House of Justice to be
universally elected and established, are both under the care
and protection of the Abha Beauty, under the shelter and
unerring guidance of the Exalted One...."
This means there
are two parts to this Covenant and after `Abdu'l-Baha only
the heir of both parts has the infallibility (the care and
protection, the shelter and unerring guidance) to be the
leader of the faith. These two parts were passed down
through two separate family trees, that of the Abha Beauty,
Baha'u'llah, and the Exalted One, the Bab.
The part
inherited from the lineage of Baha'u'llah is called the rod,
or branch of wood, meaning the Davidic kingship which is to
be the president of the UHJ. The Covenant to the Davidic
lineage is symbolized by wood because wood comes from trees
which reproduce themselves, and the Davidic kingship
reproduces itself father-to-son. This king is the head of
the UHJ.
The part inherited from the lineage of the Bab is
called the rod or branch of iron, signifying the appointed
or elected body of the UHJ. The Covenant for this body is
symbolized as iron because iron comes from iron ore in the
ground which is then put through an extraction process. This
process is dependent upon the intellect of man. Therefore
iron symbolizes the extraction process by which the
multitude of nations provide, through election, the
membership of the body of the UHJ.
When combined, these two
parts constitute a branch of gold, the infallible leader of
the Baha'i Faith, the UHJ itself. The rod of wood is the
executive branch and the rod of iron is the legislative
branch. Only an entity having both parts would be under the
care and protection, the shelter and unerring guidance of
God, meaning conferred infallibility. After Shoghi Effendi,
only the IBC had both parts. This UHJ will unite all of
mankind under one branch or tree.
3. "It is incumbent upon
the Guardian of the Cause of God to appoint in his own
life-time him that shall become his successor, that
differences may not arise after his passing."
This means
Shoghi Effendi has the authority to appoint the UHJ, instead
of waiting for the Baha'is to elect it, as this was to be
his successor. The difference is that of the dichotomy, the
two different parts of the Covenant. This instructs Shoghi
Effendi to appoint a body that is the unification of the
iron and wood, the two different parts of the Covenant.
4.
"Thus, should the first-born of the Guardian of the Cause of
God not manifest in himself the truth of the words: - 'The
child is the secret essence of its sire,' that is, should he
not inherit of the spiritual within him (the Guardian of the
Cause of God) and his glorious lineage not be matched with a
goodly character, then must he, (the Guardian of the Cause
of God) choose another branch to succeed him."
This means
that only the child of Shoghi Effendi can inherit the
conferred infallibility after him. Shoghi Effendi had no
first-born biological son to inherit "the spiritual within"
the conferred infallibility, so his son was the IBC, another
kind of branch - the golden branch. It does not mean another
genetic descendant of Baha'u'llah can step forth to claim
the infallible guardianship of Shoghi Effendi. Nor does it
mean that there will be spiritual sons to inherit the
Davidic kingship.
5. "By this body all the difficult
problems are to be resolved and the Guardian of the Cause of
God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life
of that body."
This means that after Shoghi Effendi, the
guardianship will continue but it will not be the infallible
leader of the Baha'i faith. Rather, it will be the
hereditary, father-to-son position of the Davidic Kingship,
the president of the UHJ. This guardianship is not inherited
from Shoghi Effendi and is not his successor. Shoghi Effendi
did not place himself as the president of the UHJ because he
did not inherit that throne of David from `Abdu'l-Baha. A
different person was grafted into that family tree to
inherit the throne of David. This was Charles Mason Remey.
So the other guardians after Shoghi Effendi are not
infallible as they are not his successors but are restricted
to the position of the presidency of the UHJ. Since it is a
hereditary position any "spiritual sons" are out of the
picture to be this guardian.
6. "This House of Justice
enacteth the laws and the government enforceth them. The
legislative body must reinforce the executive, the executive
must aid and assist the legislative body so that through the
close union and harmony of these two forces, the foundation
of fairness and justice may become firm and strong, that all
the regions of the world may become even as Paradise
itself."
This means that in order to have justice there
must be a House of Justice composed of both of these parts:
the executive and the legislative. Without the legislative
branch to make just laws and the executive branch to enforce
those laws, there will be no justice. Without justice there
will be no peace and the world will not become the paradise
of the Kingdom of God.
7. "All must seek guidance and turn
unto the Center of the Cause and the House of
Justice."
This means the UHJ and the Center of the Cause,
Shoghi Effendi, are infallible, independently of one
another. The UHJ is infallible, independent of an infallible
guardian, meaning the UHJ does not get its infallibility
from the president, it gets it from the Covenant (from
Baha'u'llah). This does not mean the guardians after Shoghi
Effendi are infallible by themselves without the UHJ, it
means those hereditary presidents of the UHJ such as Mason
Remey and Joseph Pepe Remey are not infallible at all.
The
seven seals are now opened; that is, the meanings are
deciphered and unraveled by the Lamb in the process of
exposing the seven violations. A thunder sounds when each
seal is opened because this is the thundering against the
violation of the Covenant.
If John had written down what
was revealed to him in his vision of these "seven thunders",
the violations wouldn't have happened. The purpose of this
was for God to test the so-called believers to see if for
any reason they would go against the Covenant, and sure
enough the whole Baha'i faith became Covenant-breakers,
except for a very few. Unless they change their ways, their
lot is for the fire, as they refuse to investigate the
matter for themselves. The reason God allowed this to happen
was for a learning experience, so that in the future, for a
full thousand years, no one will violate even a hair's
breadth to the right or to the left.
5 "And the angel whom
I saw standing on sea and land lifted his right hand to
heaven
6 "and swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who
created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in
it, the sea and what is in it that there should be no more
delay,
7 "but that in the days of the trumpet call to be
sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God, as he
announced to his servants the prophets, should be
fulfilled."
This "trumpet call" is the sounding of the last
of the seven trumpets that were given to seven angels in
Chapter 8.
As explained in Chapter 9, Ali, who was the
establisher of Muhammad's Revelation, is the fifth angel and
Quddus, the establisher of the Babi faith, is the sixth
angel. The "seventh angel" is the last of these seven angels
to come and he is the same person as the mighty angel who
comes down from heaven. This is Leland, Jesus the Lamb, the
establisher of Baha'u'llah's Revelation. He fulfills and
establishes the faith of Baha'u'llah, and explains its
"mysteries." He is the establisher of the Baha'i faith as
Paul was the establisher of Christianity. His mission is to
re-establish back into the world the Covenant of the
Universal House of Justice, including the executive branch,
which the Covenant-breakers threw out, and to set up the
courts (Zech. 3:7).
When the mighty seventh angel sounds,
"the seven thunders" he tells the world that this is the day
of judgment.
In 1st Corinthians 15:51-52 it is written:
"Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and
the dead will be raised imperishable and we shall be
changed."
The sounding of the trumpet means the seventh
angel gives his explanations and commentaries in which he
explains the remaining mysteries which were left hidden by
Baha'u'llah and `Abdu'l-Baha. For instance, `Abdu'l-Baha
only explained the 11th chapter and part of the 12th, as
applying to the past, and part the 21st chapter of
Revelation. Therefore, none of the peoples of the world,
including the Christians and the Covenant-breaking Baha'is
who were led astray by Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands", know
the meaning of the rest of these chapters. They are in
complete darkness, a blackout. These explanations are
essential for the safety, security and salvation of the
people of the world. Without these explanations one-third of
the people will perish in one hour: "So the four angels were
released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the
month, and the year, to kill a third of mankind" (Rev.
9:15).
The followers of all the past Revelations cling to
their outworn shibboleths which can't solve the problems of
today, or give them salvation. It is like a farmer who is
trying to get his dead horse to stand up and go to work.
These past religions have no solution to the problems of
today's world.
God sent Baha'u'llah with the solution - a
Universal House of Justice. In order for that UHJ to have
justice it must have all of its intrinsic parts.
The
essential ingredients of the UHJ, the legislative and
executive branches, are provided for in the Will and
Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha: "The legislative body must
reinforce the executive, the executive must aid and assist
the legislative body so that through the close union and
harmony of these two forces, the foundation of fairness and
justice may become firm and strong, that all the regions of
the world may become even as Paradise itself" (Will and
Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha, p. 15).
The Covenant-breakers
threw out the executive branch, which is an integral part of
the Universal House of Justice. Without this executive
branch there can be no justice, and without justice there
can be no Universal House of Justice (UHJ) and without the
UHJ there can be no peace. Without world peace we will still
be plagued with all the world problems. This will lead to a
total perdition of two-thirds of the earth's
population.
Any explanations of this Book of Revelation,
other than the one that Jesus the Lamb gives, are erroneous
and false. The explanations that are given here are
authentic, as this Revelation was given by Jesus. Only Jesus
on his return as Jesus the Lamb, the high priest, could
explain this Book of Revelation. "First of all you must
understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter
of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came
be the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit
spoke from God" (2nd Peter 1:20, 21).
Jesus the Lamb on his
return is authentic as he is prophesied by name, address,
date and mission. The name that he came in is "the land" (Le
land, Zechariah 3:9). His address is the "stone with seven
eyes" in Deer Lodge, Montana (Zech. 3:9). This stone with
seven eyes lies between two mountains of bronze (or copper;
Zech. 6:1). The mountains at Butte and Lincoln Montana, have
the two largest deposits of copper or brass in the United
States, and Deer Lodge lies between these mountains.
The
Lamb began his mission with being opposed by Satan during
Ridvan 1963 AD. "`Abdu'l-Baha's Tablets make it clear that
this prophecy refers to the one-hundredth anniversary of the
Declaration of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad, or the year 1963"
(Baha'u'llah and the New Era, p. 303, 1950 ed., or p.250,
1980 ed.).
The "mystery of God" which is to be fulfilled in
the days of the "seventh angel" has to do with the
fulfillment of the Covenant.
One of `Abdu'l-Baha's titles
was "the Mystery of God." This is related to his Will and
Testament which contains the seven mysterious provisions
which were unexplained and veiled. This verse (Rev. 10:7)
shows that these provisions will be explained by the seventh
angel, and these explanations make it possible for these
provisions to be fulfilled.
The mystery of God is the
dichotomy in the Covenant - its two different parts - and
how they are to be united. This mystery has to do with the
successorship.
Page 3 of the Will and Testament
`Abdu'l-Baha states that there are two Holy Trees and two
surging seas. The two Holy Trees are the genealogies of
Baha'u'llah and the Bab.
Baha'u'llah pronounced: "Ye are
all the leaves of one tree and the drops of one ocean."
This indicates that the two holy trees would be united into
one tree. This one tree is the Tree of Life, the family tree
of the Covenant. It is a family tree because the heritage of
this Covenant has been passed down as a family inheritance.
This Tree of Life of the Covenant began in one family tree
which was that of Abraham. The two parts of the Covenant,
the wood and the iron, were included in this one tree and it
passed down through Abraham's son Isaac to his son Jacob and
then to two of Jacob's sons, Judah and Joseph. The part of
the Covenant concerning kings (the rod of wood), went to
Judah and the part concerning the multitude of nations (the
rod of iron), went to Joseph.
The kingship sprouting from
the tribe of Judah was that of King David and this passed
down through father-to-son descendants, finally coming to
Baha'u'llah.
The other part of the Covenant concerning the
multitude of nations went from Joseph to his son Ephraim.
The name Ephraim is also a word which means "multitude of
nations." This part of the Covenant was not attached to any
strict genetic descent and we find in the 2nd Psalm that it
was given to Jesus.
Because the Jews rejected Jesus, their
Messiah, and after them the Christians became apostate, the
part of the Covenant symbolized as iron reverted to the
family tree of Abraham's son Ishmael. This was predicted in
the 11th chapter of Romans. The Manifestation Muhammad is
descended from Ishmael and he had this iron rod. From
Muhammad it passes to the Bab Who was a descendant of
Muhammad.
The Mystery of the Kingdom is the Plan of God to
unite these two parts of the Covenant. `Abdu'l-Baha
instituted the mystery of the kingdom in two ways. Firstly,
he joined in marriage his daughter, Daya'iyyih, to a
descendent of the Bab, Mirza Hadi Afnan. This was a literal
union of these two branches or family trees. The offspring
of the union of the genealogies of wood and iron in the
marriage of Daya'iyyih and Mirza Hadi Afnan was Shoghi
Effendi who, being descended from both the branch of wood
and the branch of iron, was the "Golden Branch."
In his
Will and Testament `Abdu'l-Baha points out over and over
that Shoghi Effendi is descended from both trees, states
that he is both Afnan (iron) and Aghsan (wood) and appoints
Shoghi Effendi to be his successor as the Center of the
Cause.
Shoghi Effendi married Ruhiyyih Khanum, but they
never had children. Thus, the Branch of Gold never became a
genealogy, a physical family tree.
Secondly, `Abdu'l-Baha
outlined in his Will and Testament the inseparable
functioning together of these Institutions: the rod of wood
- the guardian - the executive branch of the Universal House
of Justice; and the rod of iron - the general body of
members constituting the legislative branch of the Universal
House of Justice. Together they are the judicial branch.
Shoghi Effendi proceeded with `Abdu'l-Baha's plan, the
mystery of the kingdom, and furthered its development in his
announcement of the formation of the International Baha'i
Council on January 9, 1951.
Shoghi Effendi placed
`Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son Mason Remey as the president of
it, the head, the rod of wood. Shoghi Effendi appointed all
the members himself, forming the body of it, the rod of
iron. This included a female liaison officer who conveyed
Shoghi Effendi's guidance to the body. The rod of iron,
designating the spiritual, non-genetic successorship, is not
limited to an actual physical lineage. It does not have to
be passed on through physical successors. Thus the iron rod
can be passed on through appointment to someone who is not
genetically related.
This IBC was Shoghi Effendi's only
possible successor.
A branch of wood - the male successor
to the throne of David - cannot alone be the successor to
anything but the rod of wood, the kingship, the executive
branch. A branch of iron - the appointed or elected members
of the UHJ - cannot alone be the successor to anything but
the rod of iron, the legislative branch. It is only when
these two rods of the Covenant, these two branches of
government, are inseparably joined to function together that
they constitute the full successor to Shoghi Effendi as the
branch or rod of gold.
Thus the "mystery of God", those
mysteries in the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha are all
bound up into one mystery which is the Plan of God, the
Covenant itself.
This mystery is alluded to in the Bible as
the mystery of God's Will and the mystery of the
kingdom.
"For he has made known to us in all wisdom and
insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose
which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of
time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and
things on earth."
"... that is, how the Gentiles are
fellow heirs...."
This means that the mystery of God's
Covenant is that the gentiles - those people who are not
descended from Abraham - will inherit the kingdom. That is,
ultimately, God's Covenant has to do with ones who are not
genetic descendants of Abraham. The gentiles inherit the
kingdom because not only has the kingship gone over to
adoption but also the peoples of the world have a share in
electing the body of the UHJ. `Abdu'l-Baha did not openly
explain how this plan was to be fulfilled. This was because
in the process of this mystery coming to its fulfillment,
the Covenant was to be violated repeatedly, but its
fulfillment is in the International Baha'i Council appointed
by the return of Jesus, Dr. Jensen.
8 "Then the voice which
I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, 'Go, take
the scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who is
standing on the sea and on the land.'"
The "scroll" is the
Covenant, which has two texts, the Kitab-i-'Ahd, the
Covenant of Baha'u'llah, and the Will and Testament of
`Abdu'l-Baha. It is open in the hand of the mighty angel,
because this is Jesus the Lamb who broke the seven seals and
explained the Covenant.
9 "So I went to the angel and told
him to give me the little scroll; and he said to me, 'Take
it and eat; it will be bitter to your stomach, but sweet as
honey in your mouth.'"
At the end of the 2nd chapter of
Ezekiel it describes the "scroll", and he is instructed to
eat it and afterwards to go speak to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel chapter 3 describes the bitterness of his spirit
when he realizes the House of Israel's rebelliousness, its
apostasy and remoteness from God. Baha'i is Israel under its
new name.
10 "And I took the little scroll from the hand
of the angel and ate it; it was sweet as honey in my mouth,
but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter."
To eat
the scroll means to digest it, to understand the Covenant.
In order for the reality of the Covenant to be digested
(that is, to be truly understood), there has to be a
violation, a darkness and oppression to occur first to test
the strength of this Covenant. Thus the Covenant is bitter
once it is digested. This is the bitterness that the
Covenant and its lovers must undergo at the "Hands" of the
violators, who have bamboozled the so-called mainstream
Baha'is into their Covenant-breaking violation of the
Covenant, and they are severely oppressed.
This oppression
is that they are forbidden to investigate the matter for
themselves. This bitterness is depicted in chapter 11, which
describes the total spiritual bankruptcy of the followers of
the "Hands."
This bitterness is also the bitter results of
the violation of the Covenant. In chapters six through nine
it describes what happens in relation to each seal being
opened. These events are the consequences of the Covenant
having been violated. The entire world will have to go
through four waves of destruction in order to destroy the
evildoers and purify those who will repent and come into the
sanctity of the Covenant. Those who accept Baha'u'llah's
Covenant and abide by it will be saved.
11 "And I was told,
'You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and
tongues and kings.'"
Under the instructions of Shoghi
Effendi's 10-year plan of 1953-1963, the faith had spread to
every physical part of the globe, to all of its peoples, and
the Baha'i writings had been translated into every language.
This means we will now go back in time a little bit to
examine the violation of the Hands who took over the Baha'i
faith after it had spread to many peoples, nations, tongues
and kings.
This next chapter was explained by `Abdu'l-Baha
in chapter 11 of the book Some Answered Questions, pp.
53-71. He explained it as ap-plying to the past, to Islam
and not to the Baha'i Faith, likewise with chapter 12 of
Revelation.
However, when meditating on `Abdu'l-Baha's
explanation of the 11th chapter it becomes apparent that it
applies word for word to the ones who violated the Covenant
after Shoghi Effendi died, and to their opposi-tion to the
Covenant. This viola-tion against the Baha'i Covenant runs
parallel to the viola-tion that occurred in Islam which was
explained in `Abdu'l-Baha's commentary on chapter 11.
`Abdu'l-Baha knew that the real meaning of chapter 11 was
applicable to the violation of the Baha'i Covenant but he
did not give that explanation. This was in accordance with
verse 4 of chapter 10 where it says, "Seal up what the seven
thunders have said, and do not write it down." So
`A-bdu'l-Baha did not openly explain those seven meanings of
the Covenant, and he did not write down the explanation of
how the Baha'i Covenant would be violated, as that event was
still in the future.
This means there are more explanations
about chapter 11, such as other meanings for the three woes.
Some of these will be given at that point in the text.
In
the first verses of chapter 11 it says to measure the
temple, the altar, and those who worship there but to leave
out the outer court and measure it not. When applying the
meaning of this to the greater Covenant, it refers to the
measurements, or dates, given by Daniel for three
ap-pearances, or returns of the Spirit (Jesus): in 1844 as
the Bab, in 1863 as Baha'u'llah, and again in 1963 as Dr.
Leland Jensen.
But there was a Manifestation who came after
Jesus and before the Bab, whose coming was not prophesied,
or measured, by Daniel. This was Muhammad who brought the
Religion of Islam. Thus, in terms of the Greater Covenant
the courtyard symbolized the coming of Muhammad and His
Message - Islam.
When you investigate the tabernacle of
Moses, which was a microcosm of the macrocosm, the meanings
become plain. Here is a diagram of the layout of the
tabernacle (see diagram).
This courtyard surrounding the
actual temple was open to the public, it consisted of an
area surrounded by a fence made of cloth, and the temple was
hidden from view behind this fence. When applying the
meaning of this to the lesser Covenant of Baha'u'llah it
indicates that the veils on this Covenant would remain even
after the other parts of this temple were ex-plained. That
is, despite the Covenant being explained, the veil on
people's understanding of it would remain.
The courtyard is
the area that one must pass through before reaching the
temple. This area is defined by the veils surrounding it.
Thus the cour-tyard corresponds to what the Baha'is must
pass through before they at-tain to the true understanding
and establishment of this Covenant. The tests to bring out
the truth of the Covenant and the events to occur before its
establishment were not measured; that is, they were not
explained ah-ead of time; they were kept veiled. These
events are depicted in the 11th and 12th chapters of
Revelation, and thus `Abdu'l-Baha explained the na-ture of
the events, but he described them as applying to the history
of Is-lam, whereas their real application is to the Baha'i
Faith.
For instance, this can be seen in `Abdu'l-Baha's
explanation of the three woes. `Abdu'l-Baha says, "The first
woe is the appearance of the Prophet Muhammad, the son of
Abdu'llah -peace be upon Him! The second woe is that of the
Bab -to Him be glory and praise! The third woe is the great
day of the manifestation of the Lord of Hosts and the
radiance of the Beauty of the Promised One. The explanation
of this subject, woe, is mentioned in the thirtieth chapter
of Ezekiel, where it is said: 'The word of the Lord came
again unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus
saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! For the day
is near, even the day of the Lord is near.' Therefore, it is
certain that the day of woe is the day of the Lord; for in
that day woe is for the neglect-ful, woe is for the sinners,
woe is for the ignorant. That is why it is said, 'The second
woe is past; behold the third woe cometh quickly!' This
third woe is the day of the manifestation of Baha'u'llah,
the day of God; and it is near to the day of the appearance
of the Bab."
This shows that the first woe which is
described in chapter 9 of Revela-tion is that of the
violation during the cycle of Islam. Accordingly, chapter 11
should describe the second woe that occurs during the cycle
of the Bab and chapters 12 and 13 should describe the third
woe to occur during the cycle of Baha'u'llah. But
`Abdu'l-Baha described Chapters 11 and 12 as again applying
to events in the cycle of Islam and does not describe the
Covenant-breaking that occurs during the Babi and Baha'i
dispensations: the violations of Yahya, and Muhammad-Ali.
`Abdu'l-Baha veiled the meaning of these chapters by
explaining them as applying to the past. This is in
accordance with chapter 10 where it says, "Seal up what the
seven thunders have said, and do not write it down."
This
chapter has another interpretation which pertains to today;
therefore, `Abdu'l-Baha left it to be explained by the
second coming of Jesus, the Lamb.
`Abdu'l-Baha said, "There
are many meanings in each word of the Apocalypse" and
Baha'u'llah said, "Thus it is recorded: 'Every knowledge
hath seventy meanings, of which one only is known amongst
the people.' and again, He also saith: 'We speak one word,
and by it we intend one and seventy meanings; each one of
these meanings we can explain.'"
The general text of
`Abdu'l-Baha's commentary follows with modifica-tions to
apply it to the history of the Baha'i Faith and its
Covenant. The following commentary is based on
`Abdu'l-Baha's explanation in Some Answered Questions, pages
53-71. The original text of `Abdu'l-Baha's interpretation is
interspersed with these deepened explanations without
quotation marks to allow for ease of reading.
REVELATION
CHAPTER 11
In the beginning of the eleventh chapter of the
Revelation of Jesus to St. John (RSV) it is said:
1 "Then
I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told:
'Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those
who worship there,"
"This reed is a perfect man who is
likened to a reed,... Whatever he ut-ters is not from
himself, but from the real flute player, and it is a divine
inspiration. That is why he is likened to a reed; and that
reed is like a rod, that is to say, it is the helper of
every impotent one, and the support of human beings. It is
the rod of the Divine Shepherd by which He guards His flock
and leads them about the pastures of the Kingdom."
This
rod is the Covenant in that the Covenant designates the reed
who is that person who is to shepherd the flock. This person
was Shoghi Effendi who was like a staff in the hand of God.
Whatever he uttered was not from himself but was a divine
inspiration. These persons are also sym-bolized as the
temple itself, as they are the ones inside it, fulfilling
its reality, which is spiritual.
"'The angel stood,
saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar,
and them that worship therein';(KJV) that is to say, compare
and measure: measuring is the discovery of propor-tion. That
is, the relationships between things. Thus the angel said:
'Compare the temple of God and the altar and them that are
praying therein. That is to say, investigate what is their
true condition, and discover in what degree and state they
are, and what conditions, perfections, behavior and
attributes they possess; and make yourself cognizant of the
mysteries of those holy souls who dwell in the Holy of
Holies in purity and sanctity."
This temple is provided by
the written Covenant which measures out the service at the
altar, that is, the mission of the successors to Baha'u'llah
who were in the station of sacrifice, and the identity of
these successors was likewise openly given: `Abdu'l-Baha,
Shoghi Effendi, and the UHJ.
2 "but do not measure the
court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given
over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy
city for forty-two months."
In the temple of Moses, the
courtyard was an area surrounding the sanctuary and outside
of it. This courtyard was open to all the regular people who
weren't priests. Thus, the courtyard symbolizes the general
body of believers. These believers circle around the temple,
that is, the leader of the Faith. This courtyard also
signifies the administration that the mass of believers
participate in, as that is where they perform their service
and make their offering. This courtyard is the rest of the
administration outside of `Abdu'l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi and
the Universal House of Justice: It is the Hands, the
National and Local Houses of Justice and the other auxiliary
institutions.
This administration is "not measured" by the
Covenant in that the persons who serve therein are not
identified by name in the Covenant. It is also "not
measured" because the Covenant only mentions that the Hands
assist the Guardian and that we will have National and Local
Houses of Jus-tice, but all the rest of the details
concerning the functioning of the ad-ministration are not
given in the strict text of the Kitab-i-Ahd and the Will and
Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha. Shoghi Effendi supplied most of
these details of the administration, and he directed the
Baha'is regarding the evolvement of the administration such
as in his 10-year plan of 1953-1963. In this plan he guided
them as to the raising up of spiritual assemblies, and gave
many instructions relating to the administration and to
outward or material things such as the purchase of land and
the con-struction of Baha'i temple buildings.
In the
beginning of this stage we are now in, which began after
Shoghi Effendi's death when the Hands conquered the Baha'is,
the Covenant was outwardly preserved (that is to say, the
house which Shoghi Effendi built), but outside of this, the
outer court was taken and given to the gentiles. Here, the
gentiles signify those who were not faithful to the Cause of
God, indicating the Hands of the Cause of God. `Abdu'l-Baha
warned of the fate of this house, and the Faith itself, if
the Covenant was opposed:
The well-built house will be
razed to the foundation, it will become like a useless tomb,
the commands will be delayed and the waves of the sea of
favor will be retarded. The sea of assurance will be cut
off, the Breath of Life will cease to blow, the sails of the
life-boat will be destroyed, the bright dawn will become
dark evening, the dawning-point of desire will be covered
under the clouds of regrets; all these troubles will become
useless and all these sheddings of blood will be fruit-less;
the pure blood of the martyrs will become defiled and the
remembrance of the blessed Bab... will disappear from among
men, and his influence will become non-existent. The whole
fifty years of the troubles of the Blessed Perfection, the
looting and plundering, the imprisoning threatening by
dagger and sword; the shackles and chains will become
forgotten and without result. It will become the source of
joking and quarreling among the enemies, the source of their
gaiety and rejoicing.
The holy city that will be trampled
underfoot for 42 months is the Covenant. The temple and its
courtyard are found within this city of the Covenant,
meaning that the successor to Baha'u'llah and the existence
of the Baha'i administration (but not the details) are both
provided for in this Covenant. So, the Hands will take over
and control the body of believers, for the city is the
habitation of the believers, and they will take control of
the administration.
They will trample the Covenant
underfoot for three and a half years. During the first two
years of their takeover, the Hands said they would remain
under the guidance of Shoghi Effendi's instructions
concerning the house, i.e., the Universal House of Justice.
That is, they professed that they would honor this Covenant.
At this time it was only the National Spiritual Assemblies,
the rest of the administration, the general mass of
believers and the properties and funds that they took
over.
But in November of 1959, the Hands threw out Shoghi
Effendi's instruc-tions for the evolvement of his
International Baha'i Council (IBC) into the Universal House
of Justice. Roughly three and a half years afterward, these
instructions would be resurrected by the faith of a Promised
One, meaning that after three and a half years this promised
Defender would come forth in defense of the Cause of
God.
This prophesies the duration of the rule of the Hands
when they would have sway over God's people. During this
time the Covenant was trodden under foot, which means that
it lost its glory. But the Holy of Holies, which is the
internal reality of the Covenant, was preserved and
safe-guarded by God and this internal reality would descend
upon a Promised One in the year 1963.
This three and a
half years is a prophecy of a Promised One, which took place
in the year 1963, and when the period of three and a half
years expired, the Covenant (the Holy City) began to prosper
again. Anyone who examines the state of the Covenant at the
hands of the Covenant-breakers thirty-three years ago, and
who sees it now, will recognize how it is again honored.
This is the outward meaning of these verses of Revelation;
but they have another explanation and a symbolic sense,
which is as follows: this temple of God, the Covenant of
God, is divided into two parts. That is, the Holy of Holies
and the Sanctuary or Holy Place. One is the fundamental
basis which comprises all spiritual things, that is to say,
it refers to the spirit and the divine force; this does not
change nor alter. It is the Holy of Holies, which is the
essence of the Covenant of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses,
Christ, Muhammad, the Bab, and Baha'u'llah, and which lasts
and is established in all the prophetic cycles. We cannot
truly understand this essence but we recognize it as divine
guidance. It will never be abrogated, for it is spiritual
and not material truth. It means perfection, sinlessness,
infallibility. The successors to the Manifestations are
inwardly in this spiritual condition.
This divine force,
this eternal Covenant will never be abolished; nay, it will
last and remain established for ever and ever. This spirit
will be renewed in each of the different cycles, for at the
end of every cycle the spiritual Covenant of God (that is
to say, the spirit) disappears from amongst those people
where it once dwelt, and only the form subsists among
them.
Thus, among the Hands, at the end of the ministry of
Shoghi Effendi, which happened three and a half years (42
months) prior to the coming of the promised Defender, the
reality of the Covenant of God disappeared from their midst;
only a form without spirit remained. The Holy of Holies
departed from among them, but the outer court of the
Covenant - which is the expression used for the body of
believers, the administration - fell into their Hands. In
the same way, the fundamental principles of the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah, which are the greatest virtues of humanity,
have disappeared. Only a lifeless and imperfect form has
remained in the hands of the clergy, the "Hands."
The
foundation of the Covenant of God, which is spiritual and
which brings the virtues of humanity, cannot be abrogated.
It is irremovable and eternal, and is renewed in the cycle
of every Prophet.
The other part of the Temple, the Holy
Place, the Sanctuary, refers to the material world. This
comprises the individuality of the successor, that is, the
actual person. This part of the Covenant of God, which
refers to the outward form, changes in accordance with the
times.
For instance, the first successor of Baha'u'llah
was `Abdu'l-Baha. Then it was Shoghi Effendi. Next, it was
to be Shoghi Effendi's son and successor, the International
Baha'i Council. The International Baha'i Council was to pass
through four different forms or stages to finally evolve
into the Universal House of Justice, which itself will be
composed of different individual members over the passing of
time.
Briefly, what is meant by the term Holy of Holies is
the spirit of the Covenant which will never be modified,
altered or abrogated. It is divine guidance and the
protection of God. The Sanctuary means the earthly, or
material aspect of the Covenant, the successor to
Baha'u'llah, the person having the divine guidance. The
courtyard means the administration and the believers; and
the City is the Covenant itself. This Covenant, which is
described as the Holy City, was to be trodden under foot for
three and a half years.
3 "And I will grant my two
witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and
sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
These "two witnesses"
are the Kitab-i-Ahd, the tablet of the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah, and the tablet of the Will and Testament of
`Abdu'l-Baha. That is, these two tablets comprise the book
of the Covenant. The meaning of "witness" is one by whose
testimony things may be verified. The Covenant is the
testimony by which the identity of the leader of the faith
is verified and thus the Covenant, which has two texts, is
the wit-ness. It is by the testimony of this Covenant that
the presence of God on earth may be verified. Thus the
purpose of these two tablets is to bear witness or testimony
to the presence of God in the temple of God.
Further, the
meaning of a witness is one who is martyred, one who is in
the station of sacrifice. The tabernacle of Moses was called
the Tent of Witness but it was also called the Tent of
Martyrdom. The two witnesses are symbolized by two cherubim
of glory looming above the Ark of the Covenant in the
tabernacle.
The Hebrew word for witness and testimony is
"'ed," pronounced "ayd." The equivalent of this in Arabic is
the word "'ahd," as in Kitab-i-Ahd. Thus, the Covenant is
the testimony and witness. This is where Baha'u'llah and
`Abdu'l-Baha put their testimony as to who would succeed
them, or where the friends could find the presence of God
after their departure.
The commands of these two witnesses
would be performed for a period of 1260 Baha'i months. This
means the Covenant would have effect for a period of
sixty-five and a half years before the Hands would do away
with it. Sixty-five and a half years from May 29th, 1892,
when Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-Ahd went into effect, brings us
to December 13 of 1957. It was at this time that the
National Spiritual Assemblies (NSAs) of the Baha'i World
began proclaiming allegiance to the Custodian Hands, ending
their allegiance to the Covenant and consolidating the
usurpation of the Hands. The Bible says you cannot serve
both God and mammon (man). The NSAs decided to serve mammon,
and not God, when they decided to follow the Hands. The
Custodian Hands were elected by the rest of the Hands as the
successor to Shoghi Effendi. This body of Custodian Hands is
not provided for in the Baha'i Covenant but is a manmade
creation of the Hands. This was to replace the suc-cessor
Shoghi Effendi himself had appointed which was his SON, the
first International Baha'i Council (IBC), which was the
Universal House of Justice in embryo. The 1260 months
brings us to the time when these Custodian Hands first began
to take command of the Baha'i faith.
The meaning is that
the Plan of the Hands is now in effect over those believers
and the Plan of God has been supplanted and no longer has
any effect over these people. The effect of the Covenant is
that it bestows life on the body of believers. When the
Covenant ceases to have effect over the body, this life is
withdrawn, the spirit disappears, and only the form
subsists. The form that subsists is the body of believers
and the administration. In addition, the form subsists in
that the Hands did not do away with Shoghi Effendi's IBC
entirely. They kept it around, but prevented it from coming
to life and being born into the world of activity. They
prevented it from taking command of the Baha'i Faith as the
real successor, the son of Shoghi Effendi. Thus, in their
hands, the IBC was an empty husk without spirit.
The
Kitab-i-Ahd was the root, and the Will and Testament the
branch, like Baha'u'llah and `Abdu'l-Baha. It is said they
are "clothed in sack-cloth..." One meaning of "sackcloth"
is that they were to be clothed in old raiment, not in new
raiment; this is because the Covenant is the same Covenant
of the past which has been around for thousands of years,
but the peoples of other religions did not know its meaning.
Even the Baha'is did not comprehend the Covenant, or its
importance, or its power. In other words, in the beginning
the Covenant would possess no splendor in the eyes of the
people, nor would the Cause appear new.
Also, sackcloth
was a garment worn as a sign of grief, thus it is
as-sociated with mourning for the dead. The Covenant takes
effect only at the death of the one who made it. Baha'u'llah
and `Abdu'l-Baha's deaths were received with much grieving
and mourning on the part of the friends. Thus, outwardly
these texts of the Covenant are clothed in sackcloth, the
garment of mourning. Again, the Covenant is described as
being clothed in sackcloth in the book of Ezekiel where it
refers to the Will and Testa-ment as a book on which are
written words of lamentation and mourning and woe.
4
"These are the two olive trees, and the two lampstands which
stand before the Lord of the earth."
These two are likened
to "olive trees" because at one time all lamps were lighted
by olive oil. In addition, the olive branch is a symbol of
the descendants of David in the kingly line seated on the
throne of King David, and both Baha'u'llah, who penned the
Kitab-i-Ahd, and `Abdu'l-Baha who penned the Will and
Testament, were descended from this line of kings seated on
the throne of David.
Therefore, these two olive trees are
the two books from which that spirit of the wisdom of God,
which is the cause of the illumination of the world,
appears. These lights of God were to radiate and shine;
therefore, they are likened to two candlesticks. The
candlestick is the abode of the light, and from it the light
shines forth. In the same way the light of guidance would
shine and radiate from these two illumined tablets of
witness.
Then it is said that they "stand before the Lord
of the earth", meaning they are standing in the service of
God, and educating the creatures of God, such as the
barbarous peoples of the entire world. Because of the
Covenant, the Baha'is were educated in such a way that, in
those days, they reached the highest degree of civilization,
and their fame and renown be-came worldwide.
Standing
before God means also that these two are the bystanders, the
witnesses to the presence of God. That is, these two tablets
of witness testify of the presence of God on earth in the
persons of the successors to Baha'u'llah.
5 "And if any
one would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and
con-sumes their foes; if anyone would harm them, thus he is
doomed to be killed."
That is to say, no one would be able
to withstand the Covenant. If a person wished to belittle
its teachings and law, he would be surrounded and
exterminated by this same law which proceedeth out of the
mouth of the Covenant. This means that those appointed in
the Covenant have the authority to expel Covenant-breakers
from the Faith.
Everyone who attempted to injure, to
antagonize and to hate the Covenant would be destroyed by a
command which would come out of their mouth. And thus it
happened. All the Covenant-breakers were vanquished, put to
flight and annihilated.
6 "They have power to shut the
sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their
prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn
them into blood and to smite the earth with every plague as
often as they desire."
This verse means that during this
time, the Covenant itself would be the supreme commander.
The law and teachings of the Kitab-i-Ahd, and the
explanations and commentaries of the Will and Testament, are
a heavenly bounty. If the ones appointed in this Covenant
wish to give this bounty, they have power to do so. If they
do not wish it, "no rain may fall." In this connection rain
stands for bounty.
Then it is said, "they have power over
the waters to turn them into blood." In the days of Moses it
is said that he turned the Nile to blood. The mission of the
Kitab-i-Ahd is likened to that of Moses leading the people
to the promised land and the power of the Will and Testament
to that of Joshua crossing the Jordan and actually taking
them into that land. That is, the Kitab-i-Ahd appointed
`Abdu'l-Baha who, with his explanations in the Will and
Testament, leads them toward the promised land, and that
Will and Testament appointed Shoghi Effendi who would have
taken them into that promised land, but the people chose not
to follow him. When the people refuse this guidance, it
means their death. So, if they wished, they could turn water
into blood, which also means that, for those who deny the
Covenant, that which was the cause of their life becomes the
cause of their death. The Covenant is the source of life.
The Hands were provided for in the Will and Testament but
it was this Will and Testament that they turned away from.
That is to say, that which was the cause of their life,
through their ignorance and pride, be-came the cause of
their death. So the power of the Hands, which was to bring
the message of Shoghi Effendi to the Baha'is, and which was
like a lifeline for the Baha'is, became, due to the
opposition, denial and pride of the Hands, the cause of the
death, destruction, dispersion, degradation and poverty of
the Baha'is.
`Abdu'l-Baha said these two witnesses have
power to destroy the na-tions, meaning the National
Spiritual Assemblies were spiritually destroyed by declaring
loyalty to the Hands. The real power of this Covenant was to
convert the manmade governments of the nations to the World
Order of Baha'u'llah, thus Shoghi Effendi's plan, the
constitution of the Universal House of Justice, was to take
his appointed IBC to the stage of an actual legal,
officially recognized court, that is, an actual governmental
body, having a sovereignty, and not just a solely religious
body such as the ineffectual church councils of Christian
religions. In its final stage, this body would be the
Universal House of Justice. The Hands did away with this
plan for the Kingdom of God on earth and because of this,
the na-tions of the earth will be destroyed in the
catastrophes.
Then it is said: "Smite the earth with every
plague, as often as they desire," meaning that the Covenant
also would have the power and the material force necessary
to educate the wicked and those who are op-pressors and
tyrants, for to this Covenant, God granted both outward and
inward power, that it might educate and correct the
ferocious, blood-thirsty, tyrannical nations, which are like
beasts of prey.
These plagues are also the plagues
described in the book of Revelation which come to the people
because of the violation of the Covenant. That is, the force
of the Covenant is such that, when the people attack it,
great harm comes upon them, and sometimes this harm is so
great, others are swept into it.
7 "And when they have
finished their testimony, the beast that ascends from the
bottomless pit will make war upon them and conquer them and
kill them,"
The testimony is finished when the
commandments of the Covenant have been performed, the
institutions have been set up, the divine message is
delivered, the Law of God promoted, and the heavenly
teachings propagated. The intent is that the signs of
spiritual life might be manifest in souls, and the light of
the virtues of the world of humanity might shine forth, and
complete development should be brought about among the
Baha'is. That is the whole purpose of this Covenant - to
bring about the establishment of the Kingdom of God on
Earth. The initial ac-complishment of these things took
place in the days of Shoghi Effendi. He set up all the
institutions provided in the Will and Testament and the
message was being delivered all around the earth in his
ten-year world spiritual crusade. So the entire Baha'i world
was poised to enter into the promised land.
"The beast that
ascends from the bottomless pit will make war upon them, and
conquer them and kill them" means that the Hands, who
attacked the Covenant from the pit of error, and who rose
against the Kitab-i-Ahd and against the reality of the Will
and Testament - in other words, the love of God - would
create a beast, and this beast was their replace-ment for
Shoghi Effendi's son. This beast was the nine Custodian
Hands which the full body of Hands elected to run the
faith.
"The "beast will make war upon [these two
witnesses]," meaning a spiritual war. The beast, the
Custodian Hands, would act in complete opposition to the
teachings, customs and institutions of the Covenant to such
an extent that the virtues and perfections which were
diffused by the power of the Covenant among the peoples and
tribes would be entirely dispelled, and the animal nature
and carnal desires would conquer. Therefore, this beast
making war against the Covenant would seem to gain the
victory, meaning that the darkness of error coming from this
beast was to have temporary ascendancy over the horizons of
the world and kill the two witnesses. In other words, it
would destroy the spiritual life which the Covenant spread
abroad in the midst of the nations and entirely remove the
divine laws and teachings, treading under foot the Plan of
God. Noth-ing would thereafter remain but a lifeless body
without spirit.
This was all because the Hands had decided
that, since Shoghi Effendi had left no will and no genetic
son, the passage in the Will and Testa-ment, "...after him
will succeed the first-born of his lineal descendants," was
left unfulfilled. Their twisted concept is that the Covenant
was changed by God Himself and therefore they were free to
institute whatever plan they found suitable for the future
progress of the faith. But this behavior towards God's
Covenant, His testimony, has been exposed in Baha'i
scriptures.
8 "and their dead bodies will lie in the
street of the great city, which is allegorically called
Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified."
This
means that, just as Jesus was crucified, Shoghi Effendi's
plan was crucified. This plan was to be the fulfillment of
Jesus' Covenant. Their "dead bodies" refers to the teachings
of the ones appointed in the Covenant. These successors are
the hollowed out reed, their teachings are the Plan of God,
the Will of God Himself. From this hollowed out reed we get
the leadership, instructions, guidance, training,
directives, explanations, the law and the command of God
Himself. That is, the direction they give, the course they
chart, their heading, their objective, goal, and intention,
their entire purpose and mission is to lead the people to
the promised land, and take them into the New Jerusalem, the
Holy City, that they might abide there
forevermore.
Divorced from the explanations of
`Abdu'l-Baha and the instructions of Shoghi Effendi, the
people don't have the correct understanding of God's Will,
the Baha'i Covenant. So "their dead bodies" means the Plan
of God was taken away from the people (and taken out of the
Baha'i ad-ministration) who remained like a dead body
without spirit. This is be-cause there is no spirituality
without the Covenant. The people may have access to the
Baha'i scriptures, but without the Covenant they will not
receive the true meaning, and thus the spirit of the
believers is cut off.
`Abdu'l-Baha said, "The Covenant of
God in this day of manifestation is a lifeboat and ark of
salvation. All true followers of the Blessed Perfection are
sheltered and protected in this ark. Whoever leaves it,
trusting in his own will and strength, will drown and be
destroyed." The ocean is the Baha'i Revelation. The people
cannot cast themselves out of the Covenant and into this
ocean and expect to survive. They cannot transmute the
waters of that ocean into the breaths of life, the wine of
understanding. It is only the power of the Covenant that can
turn water into wine.
The "street" means in public view or
out in the street mean-ing in the courtyard, the public
area. It was in the courtyard that the plan was killed off
when the "Hands" got control of Shoghi Effendi's Ten Year
Plan, because in getting control of that, they got control
of the Constitution for the Universal House of Justice
(UHJ). Shoghi Effendi placed the "Hands" in charge of
carrying out the Ten Year Plan, so this was very easy for
them to pull off.
The body of the IBC was kept in public
view, meaning the Hands kept mentioning it in certain
messages, outwardly pretending to be proceed-ing with Shoghi
Effendi's planned development of this IBC, but the spirit of
this had already departed because they had secretly thrown
out the Covenant.
The place "where their Lord was
crucified," was Jerusalem. God's Plan, or Covenant, for the
Kingdom of God on earth is the Holy City, New Jerusalem. The
temple of this city is the successors to Baha'u'llah. The
meaning of "Sodom and Egypt," is that when the Hands threw
away this city of the Covenant, God's Plan for the Kingdom
of God on earth, the New Jerusalem, they replaced it with
Sodom and Egypt. Sodom means the body of the Custodian Hands
and Egypt is the next body they created next. This was a
body elected in 1961, and the Hands named it after Shoghi
Effendi's IBC. Outwardly it was the same entity as Shoghi
Effendi's IBC, but the resemblance was in name only.
Therefore, there were two dead bodies lying in the street.
The "Hands" took dominion over the Covenant. It was at this
time that the plan of God and the divine teachings first
disappeared, and a body without spirit remained.
9 "For
three days and a half men from the peoples and tribes and
tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to
let them be placed in a tomb,"
As it was before explained,
in the terminology of the Holy Books three days and a half
signify three years and a half. The meaning is that for
about three and a half years the nations, tribes, and
peoples would look at their bodies. That is to say, they
would make a spectacle of the Plan of God. Although they
would not act in accordance with it, still, they would not
suffer their bodies --meaning the Plan of God - to be put in
the grave. In appearance they would cling to the Plan of God
and not allow it to completely disappear from their midst,
nor the body of it to be entirely destroyed and annihilated.
Nay, in reality they would leave it, while outwardly
preserving its name and remembrance. This was because the
Hands, after they took over the Faith in November of 1957,
professed over and over that their intention was only to
carry out the instructions of the beloved guardian, Shoghi
Effendi, and even promised that they would do so, and the
Custodian Hands continued this. However, in November of 1959
the Hands decided not to carry out the instructions of
Shoghi Effendi after all and altered the Plan of the
evolvement of Shoghi Effendi's IBC into God's UHJ. The Hands
killed off this plan for the body, but they continued with
their own plans for the evolvement of an IBC into a UHJ as
if the plan of the IBC was still in existence, when in
actuality the plan was already dead from their
Covenant-breaking.
So outwardly in appearance they were
continuing with the plan for Shoghi Effendi's IBC to evolve
into God's UHJ by outwardly preserving its name and
remembrance, but in reality they had abandoned the plan of
God for another plan of their own. These dead bodies, the
Custodian Hands and the IBC, like a corpse, has been exposed
to public view for three and a half days, each day being
counted as a year, and this period is the time from November
of 1959 when the Hands threw out Shoghi Effendi's
instructions once and for all, until April of 1963 when the
promised one was to come forth.
If we convert these days to
19 day Baha'i months we get the exact date.
Those "peoples,
tribes, tongues and nations" signify those who are gathered
under the shadow of the Baha'i Faith, because at this time
the Baha'i Faith had spread to almost every nation, (except
the Soviet Union), people and tongue, and to all tribes of
the earth. But these millions, now going by the name of
Baha'i, were actually in allegiance to these Hands and not
in allegiance to the Covenant. So they were not permitting
the Cause and Law of God to be, in outward appearance,
entirely destroyed and annihilated - for there are prayer
and fasting among them - but the fundamental principles of
the Plan of God, which are faith and belief, with the
knowledge of divine mysteries, have disappeared. The light
of the virtues of the world of humanity, which is the result
of the love and knowledge of God, is extinguished, and the
darkness of tyranny, oppression, satanic passions and
desires has become victorious.
The people forfeited all
that these two witnesses had established, which was the
foundation of the Covenant of God, and destroyed the virtues
of the world of humanity (which are the divine gifts and the
spirit of this Covenant) to such a degree that truthfulness,
justice, love, union, purity, sanctity, detachment and all
the divine qualities departed from among them. In the
religion, only prayers and fasting persisted. This
con-dition has only grown worse for them. It was as if these
two witnesses were dead, and two bodies were remaining
without spirit.
10 "And those who dwell on the earth will
rejoice over them, and make merry, and exchange presents,
because these two prophets had been a tor-ment to those who
dwell on the earth."
Those "who dwell on the earth" refers
to the other religions, such as the religions of
Christianity and Islam. When they saw that the character of
the Baha'i Faith was entirely changed, the Covenant of God
forsaken, the Davidic lineage discarded and the executive
branch abolished, that virtues, zeal and honor had departed
from among them, they became happy. The people rejoiced that
cor-ruption of morals had infected the people of Baha, that
they had become infected with the spiritual disease of
Covenant-breaking, which is spiritual leprosy, and that they
would, in consequence, be overcome by other religions. Thus,
has it come to pass. Witness this people which had attained
the summit of power, how degraded and downtrodden they are
now.
The other religions "exchange presents" with one
another, meaning they will help each other. These "two
prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the
earth." Meaning, the two witnesses overcame the other
religions of the world and conquered them. The other
religions were jealous because the Baha'i Faith was unique
in that it was the first world religion to have a clearly
authorized Covenant written by the Pen of its Founder. This
Baha'i Covenant overspread the earth, and through its power
masses of the followers of other religions converted to the
Baha'i Faith. But after Shoghi Effendi's death in 1957, Time
Magazine (which is owned by the Catholics) published an
article showing there was a lot of secrecy over the
successorship of the Baha'i Faith, that different ones were
arguing over the successorship, that the Hands were now
running the Faith, and that this was not in accordance with
what had previously been expected from the instructions in
the Covenant, which was public knowledge even amongst
non-Baha'is. Now the leaders of these religions rejoiced,
claiming that the Baha'is were no less corrupt than the rest
because it was apparent to everyone that there was some
tricky business (hanky-panky) going on with this matter of
the Hands becoming the leader of the Baha'i Faith.
11 "But
after the three days and a half days a breath of life from
God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great
fear fell upon them that saw them."
"Three days and a
half", as we before explained, is three and a half years. It
is not the dead bodies that the "Hands" created which are to
resurrect but the two witnesses that are to resurrect in new
bodies. In the resurrec-tion, the bodies that died do not
resurrect. No! These have rotted and decomposed and gone
back into the earth, so the "Hands" body of the Custodians
and the false IBC they created in 1961 went on to rot as a
headless body, a manmade government having the label of the
Universal House of Justice but in reality being only a
headless beast monster - a body without a head.
The reality
of the Covenant had departed from amongst the followers of
the "Hands" and only a mutilated form remained. Thus the
"Hands" changed the spirituality of the Plan of God into
materiality, and virtues into vices. The love of God had
been changed into hatred, enlightenment into darkness,
divine qualities into satanic ones, justice into tyranny,
mercy into enmity, sincerity into hypocrisy, guidance into
error, and purity into corruption.
Meanwhile, in another
place in the world, the two witnesses were being
resurrected. This resurrection was the same light returning
in a different lamp. That is, the light returns in a new
body. Those two witnesses are the Covenant, including its
institutions which the Kitab-i-Ahd established and the Will
and Testament and 'Abdu'l-Baha further explained and
delineated.
"A breath of life from God entered them" means
those foundations and teachings would again be established,
and their establisher is Jesus, the Lamb, the High Priest
after the Order of Melchizedek. This breath of life is that
invincible spirit of faith in God's Covenant. After Shoghi
Effendi's death, this spirit was preserved and sheltered in
the sanctuary of Jesus the high priest. In the prototype or
microcosm of God's Plan symbolized in the temple system of
Moses, the High Priest would go into the Holy of Holies and,
having the vowel sound of the name of God, pronounce, or
breathe out, the name of God for the forgiveness of the
people's sins. The meaning is that it is only through faith
in the Covenant that we are set free from sin and can attain
to eternal life. At that time it was only in Jesus, the
Lamb, the High Priest that the light of faith in God's Plan
was preserved.
The "great fear" is the fear of God burning
in the hearts of those who perceive this Covenant and are
faithful to it. This fear of God is that - out of their
great love for
God - the true believers want to please Him
and are afraid they will disappoint Him. This fear of God is
their shield and protection from spiritual downfall. The
disease of Covenant-breaking is that they lose their fear of
God and are no longer protected from spiritual
downfall.
After "three days and a half", which by the
terminology of the Holy Books is three and a half years,
these divine teachings, heavenly vir-tues, perfections and
spiritual bounties were again renewed by the ap-pearance of
the Promised One. The holy breezes were diffused, the light
of truth shone forth, the season of the life-giving spring
came, and the morn of guidance dawned. The Covenant again
bestowed life and illumined the world with the light of
truth.
12 "Then they heard a loud voice from heaven
saying to them, 'Come up hither!' And in the sight of their
foes they went up to heaven in a cloud."
This is like the
metaphor of the ascension of Jesus on his first coming
described in the Book of Acts 1:9 and this ascension of the
Covenant is also depicted in Baha'i scriptures. The "cloud"
is that the people's under-standing of the return of Jesus
and of the Covenant is clouded with false theologies and
beliefs. The "heaven" that the Covenant ascends to is the
heaven of God's presence on earth in the prophesied return
of Jesus the Lamb who comes in this cloud. The meaning is
that due to the explanations and commentaries of Jesus the
Lamb, the Covenant would become so ex-alted in the minds of
the believers that they would attain to a greater and deeper
comprehension of its import and a higher understanding of
its meaning, causing them to advance to a new level of
spiritual evolvement. This was yet in the future. Meanwhile,
amongst the non-believers, the understanding of the Covenant
remained cloudy, such that they could neither perceive nor
comprehend it.
13 "And at that hour there was a great
earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven thousand
people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were
terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
The "hour"
in Baha'i scriptures pertains to the coming of a Promised
One. Also in Rev. 3:3 it says, "If you will not awake, I
will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I
will come upon you."
The hour preceding this one was that
of the hour of transition. With Baha'u'llah's death in May,
1892 the faith entered into a new hour. `A-bdu'l-Baha said
they were in a new hour. This hour pertained to the
transfer of the light of the faith from the East to the
West. This period of time was called the period of
transition by Shoghi Effendi, meaning the transition to the
establishment of the kingdom of God on earth.
The next
hour, the one mentioned in this 13th verse, begins at the
point that the light has been successfully transferred from
East to West. This was on April 21st, 1963. This is when
Jesus the Lamb fulfilled the prophecy of Daniel 12:12:
"Blessed is he who waits and comes to the 1335 days." This
gives the date of 1963. The 1335 years are from the victory
of Muhammad in 628 AD: 628 + 1335 = 1963 AD. It was on this
date that the faith had a victory in that the return of
Jesus began to fulfill the prophecy of Zechariah 3. This was
with his being opposed and accused by the Satan of that
period, Rex King, at the convention of Mason Remey's
fol-lowers to elect a National Spiritual Assembly in Santa
Fe, New Mexico.
In this same year, further to the West from
New Mexico, on the Hopi Indian Reservation in Arizona, Elder
of the Hopi Tribe, Grandfather David had a vision of this
light. He saw it in the form of a seven-pointed star rising
from the East. He told his people the meaning of this star
was that the Pahana ("Bahana" or "Baha'i"), or the
long-awaited Hopi White Brother was alive in the world,
specifically in "Massaua" or Missoula, Montana. The Hopi
White Brother was the establisher of the Baha'i Faith, Dr.
Leland Jensen, as the number seven indicates the Seventh
Angel. Therefore the seven-pointed star is symbolic of Dr.
Leland Jensen. It was the mission of "Blessed is He" (the
Return of Jesus the high priest who came in 1963) to
establish Baha'u'llah's Court, the Universal House of
Justice which was fulfilled in the establishment of the
second International Baha'i Council in Missoula, Montana
that is to evolve into the Universal House of Justice
according to Shoghi Effendi's four-stage plan.
The Hopis
were instructed to cease their migrations and settle down
when they received the sign of this star. This occurred at
the birth of Jesus. The earliest Anasazi dwellings date
from that time. Anasazi means "enemy" in the Navajo language
and this was their word for the Hopis. Those cliff dwellings
were the early settlements of the Hopi tribe. Thus the last
time they had received a vision of this star was at the
birth of Jesus.
The advent of Jesus in 1963 caused a great
stirring and upheaval in the world at that time, especially
in America. It is like the divine message is the sun; its
heat and light are perceived by those who turn to the sun,
the believers, but even those who remain unaware, like the
beetles under the ground, can feel the heat of this sun.
This was expressed in America as the 60s flower-child
revolution which espoused Baha'i principles such as the end
of warfare, the removal of prejudice, equality of men and
women, the end of extremes of wealth and poverty, etc. This
movement was rapidly followed by an upsurge in evangelical
Christianity called the "Jesus Freak Movement" which was
characterized by a renewed interest in the Bible among young
people.
The "great earthquake" which occurred at that hour
was also that of the earth-shaking doubts which plagued the
believers. The great earthquake began to occur at that hour
of April 21st, 1963. It was on this day that Rex King began
a secret campaign to get the believers to accept him as the
next guardian even though he did not fulfill the criteria of
being a son and appointed. This inserted doubts about the
Covenant in the minds of these believers. It was from this
time that this seed of doubt was im-planted and grew to the
point where eventually all the believers fell away through
whoring after false guardians.
After Mason declared to Rex
King that Rex was Satan, Rex went to Joel Marangella and
convinced him to declare himself the guardian based on a
letter from Mason saying that after his death Joel would be
the next guardian. However, this letter did not make Joel
the next guardian as he would first have to be a son of
Mason and only then could he be ap-pointed by Mason as the
next Guardian. Rex and Joel started a theology that Joel was
the "spiritual" son of Mason and formed their own splinter
group separate from the Baha'is who accepted Mason as their
guardian. Afterward, Rex split from Joel, taking many of the
believers with him to form another splinter group. Based on
the false theology of "spiritual" sons, Donald Harvey
claimed to be the successor to Mason after Mason's death,
and all the remaining believers except for the two Knights
accepted this. In this manner, all the believers were
eventually killed off in this spiritual earthquake of
doubts.
At the same hour that the Covenant was being
resurrected in the fulfill-ment of prophecy by the seventh
angel, Jesus the Lamb, on April 21st 1963, it was being
violated by the Covenant-Breakers who, under the guidance of
the "Hands," were electing their bogus UHJ. This was not
elected in accor-dance with the provisions of the
Covenant.
The most simple and clear-cut provisions for the
coming into existence of the UHJ are: it must be elected by
all the nations (that is, by their National Houses of
Justice); the ones participating in this election must be
believers; it must have the Davidic King guardian for its
hereditary (non-elected) president, the executive branch;
and it must be established on the foundation of Shoghi
Effendi's four-stage plan, taking it through a gradual
process of evolvement starting with an ap-pointed
International Baha'i Council, developing into an officially
recog-nized International (World) Baha'i Court, transforming
into a duly elected body (Supreme Tribunal) and finally
efflorescing into the universally elected Universal House of
Justice.
In 1963 there were approximately 170 nations in
the world and, according to the Will and Testament the UHJ
must be elected from National Houses of Justice in every
nation as it is not meant to be merely international but
universal. When the "Hands" called for the election there
were only 48 National Spiritual Assemblies which had yet to
evolve to the stage of sovereignty befitting the title
"House of Justice." Many of the other na-tions were thought
to be represented under the auspices of "Regional Spiritual
Assemblies," thus many nations did not even have National
Spiritual Assemblies of their own. None of the nations of
the United Soviet Socialist Republics and its eastern
European satellites behind the "iron curtain" (altogether
between 15 and 30 nations) had Baha'is residing in them at
this time, nor did they participate in this election.
The
persons participating in this election were not obedient and
faithful believers in Baha'u'llah, that is, in His Covenant,
but were those who had turned their backs on this Covenant
and followed after the "Hands," essentially forming a new
sect of Baha'i.
This so-called "UHJ" did not evolve after
the four-stage plan of Shoghi Effendi, as the "Hands" not
only monkeyed with its first stage by ap-pointing their own
new members to it, but totally by-passed its second stage,
the International Court (which Shoghi Effendi repeatedly
insisted was an essential prelude to the true UHJ). They did
this in order to separate the Davidic King from this
plan.
Finally, there was no Davidic King seated as the
executive president of this so-called UHJ, as the "Hands"
had spuriously and treacherously labeled him a
Covenant-breaker (which is an authority they did not have)
and forbade the friends from associating with him or
investigating his claim to the guardianship.
As this bogus
UHJ fulfills none of the most simple and basic provisions of
God's Covenant for its creation, it is not formed after
God's law but is only a manmade creation. At best it could
only be an International Spiritual Assembly but as it was
created by Covenant-breakers it is actually a headless
monster. Thus, there is no spirituality coming in contact
with this body. There is no divine guidance inspiring the
decisions of this "UHJ" that the deluded followers of the
"Hands" now turn to as the representative of God on
earth.
The first decision of this headless monster was to
ratify the "Hands'" decision that the guardianship had come
to an end. This was a dastardly act because, of course, even
the UHJ does not have the authority to alter God's Covenant.
By acquiescing to and participating in this election the
body of believers under the "Hands" were now also outside
the provisions of the Covenant, making them
Covenant-breakers. This Covenant-breaking sect of the Baha'i
faith is now the largest group of "Baha'is," calling
themselves the Baha'i World Faith.
"And a tenth of the city
fell" means the future of the Cause was cut off from these
people. The City is symbolic of the Covenant. This Covenant
is also symbolized as the Tree of Life. Shoghi Effendi, in
writ-ing of the process of the Divine Plan of God's Covenant
with man for this 6,000 year period of the Adamic cycle,
stated that the 10th stage of this Covenant lay yet in the
future after 1963:
"Then, and only then, will the vast,
the majestic process, set in motion at the dawn of the
Adamic cycle, attain its consummation - a process which
commenced six thousand years ago, with the planting, in the
soil of the divine will, of the tree of divine revelation,
and which has already passed through certain stages and must
needs pass through still others ere it attains its final
consummation. The first part of this process was the slow
and steady growth of this tree of divine revelation,... as a
direct consequence of the light and warmth imparted to it by
a series of progressive dispensations... and of the vernal
showers of blood shed by countless martyrs in their path.
The second part of this process was the fruition of this
tree, 'that belongeth neither to the East nor to the West,'
when the Bab appeared as the perfect fruit and declared His
mis-sion in the Year Sixty in the city of Shiraz. The third
part was the grinding of this sacred seed, of infinite
preciousness and potency, in the mill of adversity, causing
it to yield its oil, six years later, in the city of Tabriz.
The fourth part was the ignition of this oil by the hand of
Providence in the depths and amidst the darkness of the
Siyah-Chal.... The fifth, was the clothing of that
flickering light,... in the lamp of revelation, after an
eclipse lasting no less than ten years, in the city of
Baghdad. The sixth, was the spread of the radiance of that
light,... in Adrianople, and later on in the fortress town
of Akka, to thirteen countries in the Asiatic and African
continents. The seventh was its projection, from the Most
Great Prison,... across the seas and the shedding of its
illumination upon... the American, the European, and
Australian continents. The eighth part of that process was
the diffusion of that same light... [starting in 1944] over
ninety-four sovereign states, dependencies and islands of
the planet,... utilizing the agencies of a newly emerged,
divinely appointed Administrative Order, and which has now
culminated in the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Baha'u'llah's Mission [1952-53]. The ninth part of this
process - the stage we are now entering - is the further
diffusion of that same light over... both the Eastern and
Western Hemispheres, through the operation of a decade-long
world spiritual crusade whose termination will, God willing,
coincide with the Most Great Jubilee commemorating the
centenary of the declaration of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad
[1963]. And finally the tenth part of this mighty process
must be the penetration of that light, in the course of
numerous crusades and of successive epochs of both the
Formative and Golden Ages of the Faith, into all the
remaining territories of the globe through the erection of
the entire machinery of Baha'u'llah's Ad-ministrative Order
in all territories, both East and West, the stage at which
the light of God's triumphant Faith shining in all its power
and glory will have suffused and enveloped the entire
planet. This present Crusade, [1953-1963]... will...
contribute effectually to the accelera-tion of yet another
process of tremendous significance which will carry the
steadily evolving Faith of Baha'u'llah through its present
stages of obscurity, of repression, of emancipation and of
recognition... to the stage of establishment, the stage at
which the Faith of Baha'u'llah will be recognized by the
civil authorities as the state religion,... a stage which
must later be followed by the emergence of the Baha'i state
itself, functioning, in all religious and civil matters, in
strict accordance with the laws and ordinances of the
Kitab-i-Aqdas,... a stage which, in the fullness of time,
will culminate in the establishment of the World Baha'i
Commonwealth, functioning in the plenitude of its powers,
and which will signalize the long-awaited advent of the
Christ-promised Kingdom of God on earth - the Kingdom of
Baha'u'llah - mirroring however faintly upon this humble
handful of dust the glories of the Abha Kingdom. This final
and crowning stage in the evolution of the plan wrought by
God Himself for humanity will, in turn, prove to be the
signal for the birth of a world civilization, incomparable
in its range, its character and potency, in the history of
mankind - a civilization which posterity will, with one
voice, acclaim as the fairest fruit of the Golden Age of the
Dis-pensation of Baha'u'llah, and whose rich harvest will be
garnered during future dispensations destined to succeed one
another in the course of the five thousand century Baha'i
Cycle." (May 4, 1953)
God instructed us to heed the voice
of Baha'u'llah, He in turn instructed us to heed the voice
of `Abdu'l-Baha and `Abdu'l-Baha turned us to Shoghi
Effendi. What path is there to the kingdom if we cannot or
will not heed the voice of God? Shoghi Effendi laid out the
path to the kingdom, and the faithless "Hands" and those who
opted to follow them turned aside from that path and devised
a new way of their own which is the path that leads down to
Hell and damnation and the black pit of doom and
destruc-tion. Now, because of those God-damned
Covenant-breakers, the entire world has to go through the
four winds of destruction.
This deluded body of people fell
away from this 10th stage, the glorious future of the faith
that was cut off from them when the "Hands" did away with
Shoghi Effendi's four-stage plan for the evolvement of the
UHJ.
The "seven thousand people [who] were killed in the
earthquake" are men-tioned in the Old Testament as the seven
thousand persons of Israel who did not succumb to the
violation of Jezebel in the days of Elijah the Prophet.
Jezebel was the queen over the northern kingdom of Israel,
which was the ten tribes that split from the tribes of Judah
and Benjamin (forming the southern Kingdom), and thus
separated themselves from the Davidic Kingship. Jezebel led
the ten tribes of the northern kingdom into the apostasy of
the worship of Nimrod (Baal) and Ashtoreth (Semiramis). This
Northern Kingdom of Israel is a prototype of when Israel
under its new name of Baha'i separated from the Davidic
Kingship when the "Hands" opposed Mason in 1960. The queen
of this northern kingdom of Israel was Jezebel, a prototype
of Ruhiyyih Khanum. This will be elucidated more fully
toward the end of this Book.
The meaning is that there
were 7000 persons between 1957 and 1963 who did not succumb
to the "Hands."
These 7000 were all the known followers
under Mason and the ones who would have accepted Mason but
were prevented from hearing of his claim to the Davidic
Kingship by the oppression of the "Hands."
Gradually,
because of their doubts, their lack of absolute faith in
God's Covenant, even these 7000 persons perished
spiritually, and only two believers, the two Knights of
Baha'u'llah, remained faithful to the provisions of the
Covenant for the successor to the Davidic Kingship: that he
must first be a son and then be appointed by the previous
guardian in his lifetime. These two were the only ones upon
Mason Remey's death in 1974 who knew and accepted that
Joseph Pepe Remey was the next guardian after Mason. These
two Knights were the "rest [that] were terrified and gave
glory to the God of heaven" meaning they had the fear of God
in their hearts.
These two Knights were firm in the
Covenant all the way through the violation of the Hands.
They are the earthly counterpart to the two witnesses in
heaven (the Kitab-i-Ahd and the Will and Testament)
sym-bolized by two cherubim of glory watching over the Ark
of God's Covenant.
14 "The second woe is past; and, behold,
the third woe cometh quickly."
There are many meanings
concerning this subject of "woe". This woe is not the actual
coming of the Manifestation but in that day woe is for the
neglectful, woe is for the sinners, woe is for the ignorant.
The "ignorant" are those who oppose the Manifestation on His
coming. The "sinners" are those who break the Covenant after
His ascension. The "neglectful" are those who remain unaware
of His coming and those who profess belief but who neglect
His Covenant. These three conditions are in themselves three
woes. `Abdu'l-Baha has already explained the woe of those in
opposition to the Manifestation at His coming, so the woe of
the sinners and the neglectful are left to explain.
The
meaning of "woe is for the sinners" (the woe of
Covenant-breaking) is mentioned in the second chapter of
Ezekiel, where it is said: "And when I looked, behold, a
hand was stretched out to me, and, lo, a written scroll was
in it; and he spread it before me; and it had writing on the
front and on the back, and there were written on it words of
lamentation and mourning and woe." This scroll is the book
of the Covenant which has two texts, the Kitab-i-Ahd and the
Will and Testament. The front part is the Kitab-i-Ahd which
came first. This also is the part that is within, as it
describes it in the fifth chapter of Revelation as a "scroll
written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals."
The Will and Testament is the part written on the back as it
comes after the Kitab-i-Ahd and is sealed with seven seals.
These words of lamentation, mourning and woe found in the
Will and Testament refer to the violation of Mirza
Muhammad-Ali; that is, `Abdu'l-Baha's description of his
violation in the Will and Testament.
Baha'u'llah also used
the term "woe" in reference to Covenant-breaking. He said of
those who would oppose `Abdu'l-Baha, "Woe, great woe, betide
him that opposeth and injureth Thee.... the fire of hell
torment him who is Thy enemy".
`Abdu'l-Baha, quoting
Jesus, said, "`Woe unto the world because of of-fenses, for
it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by
whom the offense cometh. Wherefore if thy hand... offend
thee, cut them off and cast them from thee...' And in the
21st chapter and 38th verse of the Gospel of Matthew, He
says: 'But when the husbandmen [stewards] saw the son, they
said among themselves, this is the heir, come let us kill
him and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him
and cast him out of the vineyard and slew him.'" This
describes the violation of the "Hands," the woeful violation
of the Covenant in the Baha'i Dispensation. This woe is
mentioned in the Bible where it says of the conclave meeting
of these "Hands" when they took over the faith, "Woe to the
rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan,
but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my
spirit,..."
These "Hands" in order to take over the
Baha'is, threw out the executive branch, the son of
`Abdu'l-Baha (Mason Remey), who was to receive the
inheritance of the Davidic throne or kingship. This
hereditary king, Mason Remey, was to take his seat as the
president of the UHJ, but instead the "Hands" did away with
Shoghi Effendi's instruction for how to progress to the UHJ
in order to try to do away with this kingship. Then they
claimed that Mason had broken the Covenant and declared him
to be a Covenant-breaker but they did not have the authority
to do this - they had only usurped that authority. In doing
this the "Hands" were able to op-press the right of the
believers to independent investigation of the truth. The
believers dared not associate with Mason or any of those who
accepted his claim as they would then be, likewise, under
the threat of removal by the "Hands."
The "woe" of the
neglectful indicates the trials that come to the people. For
those who claim belief in the Manifestation but neglect His
Covenant, the "woe" is that they fail the test and succumb
to the leaders of Covenant-breaking or fall into doubts and
temptations. Those who are neglectful and remain unaware of
Baha'u'llah's coming includes all the rest of the people on
earth. These do not escape from woe by trying to stay out of
the issues. Woe comes to the earth itself because the
viola-tion on the part of those who were in heaven, the
heaven of the Baha'i faith, sets up a negative vibration
that affects even the material world.
An example of this
is the earthly "woe" that occurred with the flood when the
peoples who received Adam's Covenant violated it. They
brought great destruction on themselves but the other
peoples on earth suffered also. Another example is that at
the coming of Moses there was a great physi-cal catastrophe
that consisted of many plagues: the waters of the Nile were
made foul and undrinkable, the plagues of the frogs, gnats
and flies, the death of the cattle, the boils which became
sores, the heavy hail, the locusts, the thick darkness and
the death of the first-born of men and cattle. Likewise,
`Abdu'l-Baha explained that an earthquake occurred in Shiraz
after the martyrdom of the Bab: the city was in a turmoil,
many people were destroyed and great agitation also took
place through diseases, cholera, dearth, scarcity, famine
and afflictions, the like of which had never been known.
Remaining uninvolved is no protection but is like the
ostrich with its head in the sand.
It says in Baha'i
scripture that the earth will suffer for the woes that have
been inflicted upon Baha'u'llah's Covenant: "May the world
and all that is therein be a ransom for Thy woes." Thus, in
the eighth chapter of Revelation it says, "Woe, woe, woe to
those who dwell on the earth..." and in chapter 12 it says,
"woe to earth and sea."
Due to the three main violations
during the Baha'i Dispensation, there are three further woes
that will afflict all the peoples of the earth after the
first wind of destruction, WWIII. In this book of Revelation
it describes the woes of violation that occur in Islam, the
Babi Faith and the Baha'i Faith as the bottomless pit and
the pit of error. So in chapter 9 it says the pit is opened
with smoke coming out, and that there is an angel of this
bottomless pit. In this chapter (11) it says the beast that
ascends from the bottomless pit makes war on the two
witnesses, and then it says the second woe is past and the
third woe is soon to come. Then in chapter 12:12 it says woe
"to earth and sea," meaning the next is a combination of woe
to those who call themselves Baha'is - that is, the sea -
and woe to those who are on the earth - that is, those who
are of other religions. Thus in chapter 13 it describes a
beast coming out of the sea and another coming out of the
earth.
The woes are what happen to those who take the
wrong path. God has set aside a great station for all of the
believers. This station is so great that to have just a peek
of it would so overwhelm a believer that he would commit
suicide in order to obtain it; so God keeps it veiled from
us. In order to get this very great station, one must earn
it and pass all the tests. Those who go against the plan of
God lose this great station and in the next life are
dispirited, as they have lost everything. The Holy
scriptures call this condition Hell. The losers in this day
are those who cling to the takeover of the faith by the
Covenant-breaking Hands. It is like in the days of
Baha'u'llah when they clung to Mirza Yahya and in the days
of `Abdu'l-Baha when they clung to the takeover of Muhammad
Ali.
Getting back to the violation of the Hands, this in
itself was three beasts and three woes. The body of the
Custodian Hands was the first, the IBC they elected in 1961
was the second and the UHJ they elected two years later in
1963 was the third. That is why it is said, "The second woe
is past; behold the third woe cometh quickly!"
So, as it
says in verse 6, the water was turned into blood, meaning
the people were in opposition to the Covenant, but Jesus
turned water not into blood but into wine. This is the wine
of the New Covenant: that is, after all these violations of
the Hands have occurred, Jesus was to return in 1963 and
give a new understanding of this Baha'i Covenant. The only
way to escape from the multiple woes of this day is to find
the Covenant and remain firm and steadfast.
GOD GIVES THE
SOLUTION
15 "Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and
there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdom of
the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His
Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever.'"
Revelation
8:2 depicts seven angels who receive seven trumpets. The
first four were the four angels holding back the four winds
of destruc-tion (Rev. 7:1). Ali, the establisher of
Muhammad's Revelation, is the fifth angel. Quddus, the
establisher of the Bab's Revelation, is the sixth angel, and
the seventh angel is Jesus on his second coming, Leland (the
land), the establisher of Baha'u'llah's Revelation.
Daniel
gave three dates for the return of Jesus: 1844 in the Bab
(or "Door"); 1863 in the return of Christ, Baha'u'llah and
1963 for the return of Jesus. He is prophesied by many
titles: the Lamb, the High Priest after the order of
Melchizedek, the knight on the white horse, the seventh
angel, Blessed is he, etc. These are just a few of his
titles.
`Abdu'l-Baha explained the seventh angel: "The
seventh angel is a man qualified with heavenly attributes,
who will arise with heavenly qualities and character. Voices
will be raised, so that the appearance of the Divine
Manifestation will be proclaimed and diffused. In the day of
the manifestation of the Lord of Hosts, [during the
dispensation of Baha'u'llah] and at the epoch [the 100 year
anniversary of Baha'u'llah's proclamation or April 21st,
1963 ad] of the divine cycle of the Omnipotent which is
promised and mentioned in all the books and writings of the
Prophets - in that day of God, the Spiritual and Divine
Kingdom will be established, and the world will be renewed;
a new spirit will be breathed into the body of creation; the
season of the divine spring will come; the clouds of mercy
will rain; the sun of reality will shine; the life-giving
breeze will blow; the world of humanity will wear a new
garment; the surface of the earth will be a sublime
paradise; mankind will be educated; wars, disputes, quarrels
and malignity will disappear; and truthfulness,
righteousness, peace and the worship of God will ap-pear;
union, love and brotherhood will surround the world; and God
will rule for evermore --meaning that the Spiritual and
Everlasting Kingdom will be established. Such is the day of
God. For all the days which have come and gone were the days
of Abraham, Moses and Christ, or of the other Prophets; but
this day is the day of God, for the Sun of Reality will
arise in it with the utmost warmth and splendor."
When
`Abdu'l-Baha says he will arise, this means he will arise to
combat the Great Violation of the Covenant-breaking "Hands"
and reestablish back into the faith the plan of Shoghi
Effendi, that is, to have the International Baha'i Council
go through the four stages to be-come the Universal House of
Justice, with the descendant from David, `Abdu'l-Baha's son
Mason Remey, seated as its president. By reestablishing
God's plan he is establishing the Kingdom of God on earth as
it is in the heaven of God's plan. The "kingdom of the
world" means the man-made governments already in place will
become Baha'i nations. One by one they will join their
sovereignty into God's plan and when all nations are ready
for this, there will be a universal election, inclusive of
all nations, to elect the Universal House of Justice.
16
"And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before
God, fell on their faces, and worshipped God..."
In the
past the number of holy souls was always twelve; but this
great Day of the establishment of God's Kingdom as an actual
sovereign government requires that the number should be
doubled. These "twenty-four" great persons are followers of
Baha'u'llah and of Jesus the Lamb.
These twenty-four elders
"sit on their thrones" showing that they are the Apostles
who have returned with Jesus the Lamb. On the Thursday
evening before he was crucified, Jesus gathered with his 12
Apostles at the Last Supper and made a Covenant with them,
saying, "You are those who have con-tinued with me in my
trials; and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a
kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my
kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of
Israel."
These "elders", or Apostles, are judges meaning
they are members of the court - the International Baha'i
Council. The first set of twelve are seated in the
International Baha'i Council. These twelve are the gates
through which "the blessed enter into the City of God"
mentioned in Revelation 21:12-14. The second set of twelve
elders are also Apostles; they are the backup, or
substitutes, for the twelve gates so that there will always
be twelve gates in session. These twenty-four elders are
"before God" meaning that while serving in the IBC they are
in the presence of God.
In the Dispensation of Moses this
Plan of God was symbolized in a wor-ship system having the
tabernacle at its center. The innermost sanctuary of the
tabernacle was called the Holy of Holies which contained the
Ark of the Covenant. This ark was sheltered beneath the
wings of two cherubim of glory. These two cherubim are
symbolic of the two witnesses in heaven and the two Knights
were the two witnesses on earth. Moses taught that the
presence of God hovered between these two cherubim above the
Ark of the Covenant. Inside this ark was God's Plan for the
Universal House of Justice. The force of God's Covenant is
such that it ensures the presence of God on earth at all
times. There is never a moment where God has abandoned us.
God has made a Covenant with humanity that He will never
leave us alone and today the presence of God on earth is the
second International Baha'i Council which is the Universal
House of Justice in its infant stage.
17 "...saying, 'We
give thanks to thee, Lord God Almighty, who art and who
wast, that thou hast taken thy great power and begun to
reign."
These elders are humble and submissive to the Will
of God and do not prefer their will above God's Will. It is
through this extreme humility and submission that they are
prepared to receive the divine guidance. They give thanks to
God for sending the Manifestation, Baha'u'llah, and for
sending His Establisher, Dr. Leland Jensen, who is Jesus on
his return as the Lamb. Baha'u'llah's establisher will issue
the truth of the Covenant which is the spirit of the world
of humanity bestowing everlasting life. It is only through
this Covenant that the Baha'i Revelation can be truly
understood.
Through His Universal House of Justice - which
has been set up in the world by Jesus, the Lamb -
Baha'u'llah will subdue the world through spiritual power,
not through war and combat. This Universal House of Justice,
the second International Baha'i Council, will conquer the
na-tions through peace and tranquillity, not by physical
force. It will establish this heavenly kingdom through true
love, and not by the power of war. It will promote these
divine teachings through kindness and righteousness, and not
by weapons or harshness.
God's son, the second
International Baha'i Council, will so educate the nations
and peoples that all the racial, cultural, political and
religious differences will be overcome. This child is the
fulfillment of the prophecy in Isaiah 11:6-9:
"The wolf
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling
together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and
the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The sucking child
shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child
shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt
or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the
sea."
These animals are symbols of nations and peoples.
They are symbolized by beasts because they are not
spiritual. The child that leads them into the Kingdom is the
second International Baha'i Council when it has evolved into
its second stage. It is different than the earthly man-made
governments in that it is created by God Himself. Just as a
human being has a soul and animals do not, this child has
spirituality, whereas the governments of the world do not.
The "sucking child" is the UHJ in its infant stage (the
second International Baha'i Council) and the "weaned child"
is this UHJ in its next stage of development (the
International Baha'i Court). The authority of this Court
will be acknowledged by the four beast nations after the
thermonuclear war. After that, one by one, the different
nations will be ready to join this body. At this stage it
will become internationally elected. Finally, when each and
every nation is ready to participate there will be a
universal election. This takes it into the stage of the
Universal House of Justice.
This in turn will lead to a
great spiritual civilization. The former spiritual sickness
of humanity - war, hatred, prejudice, fanaticism, etc. -
will be completely removed, and all the peoples will attain
perfect union and reconciliation and will be gathered under
the shadow of the blessed tree of life, this Baha'i
Covenant. But before this can come about the world will see
a thermonuclear war fought between the United States,
England, France and Russia.
18 "The nations raged, but thy
wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for
rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those
who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying
the destroyers of the earth."
The nuclear war will be
followed by the wrath of God - three further winds of
destruction in the form of natural catastrophes: the meteor,
the great earthquake and the shifting of the earth's crust.
This is because the other nations that are not directly
involved in the nuclear war will not repent of their former
ways. Their governments will still be corrupt and their
peoples will still follow their apostate religions. They
will not turn to the one true God, but will cling even more
fiercely and trium-phantly to their former ways. This
includes the followers of the Covenant-breaking "Hands." All
this is in opposition to God and these nations must also go
through the winds of destruction and be purified.
The
"dead" that are to be "judged" refers to those who are
deprived of the Spirit of God. This spirit was explained by
`Abdu'l-Baha: "Today the pulsating power in the arteries of
the body of the world is the spirit of the Covenant - the
spirit which is the cause of life. Whosoever is vivified
with this spirit, the freshness and beauty of life become
manifest in him, he is baptized with the Holy Spirit, he is
born again, is freed from oppression and tyranny, from
heedlessness and harshness which deaden the spirit, and
attains to everlasting life."
Those who are deprived of
the Spirit of God refers especially to those "Baha'is" who
are not under the Covenant but who are under the takeover of
the Hands. They are deprived of the spirit as this spirit is
cut off from those who are not firm in the Covenant.
Baha'u'llah wrote, "He who denieth the Covenant and the
Testament is rejected by God..." and 'A-bdu'l-Baha also,
"Any soul who violates the Covenant and Testament in the
least degree, immediately he is cut off..." and, "Know ye
this: that if any person is the least doubtful about the
Covenant, he is immediately cut off - although he may be the
greatest among men. The harmful results of such an event
will appear in the future; therefore, give your utmost
attention to this question."
This is the time for these
Covenant-breakers to be judged with justice meaning that
they must account for their deeds and receive their just
deserts. Their deeds will be weighed in accordance with
their motive for doing them. God knows the innermost secrets
of men's hearts. If they did good deeds purely for the love
of God, they will be rewarded; but the deeds done in the
name of the Hands and that bogus UHJ are worthless. No
reward will ascribe to them for those deeds because such
deeds do not promote the true Cause of God, His Covenant or
His Plan. Many of these people believe that service in that
administration which the Hands took over (and which is now
under the auspices of the bogus UHJ) will bring them
automatic salvation. Poor, misguided followers of the Hands!
This concept is totally absent from the writings of
Baha'u'llah, `Abdu'l-Baha or Shoghi Effendi. These positions
in the administration are just that - positions, not
stations.
The only way to receive one's station, the one
that has been reserved particularly for you by God, is to
first of all turn to His Covenant. It is not enough to say
you believe in Baha'u'llah. You must be in connec-tion with
Him through His Covenant. This Covenant was given by
Baha'u'llah and further explained by `Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi
Effendi; but after Shoghi Effendi died, this Covenant was
thrown out of the Baha'i World Faith by the Hands. The only
source of salvation for any of these people is to turn their
backs on the false plan of the Hands and receive the divine
elixir of the true Covenant of God from Jesus the Lamb. But
the vast majority of these so-called Baha'is will not do
this be-cause in reality they are under the rule of death.
They do not have sal-vation and cannot be set free from sin
because they will not turn to God's Covenant. Instead they
look to men, and turn to them for leadership. They see this
as their salvation thinking to advance themselves by
at-taching themselves to this person or that person who is a
high muckety-muck admired by others. They are dead to the
true and absolute Reality that it is only what God thinks of
them that establishes their position in the grand scheme of
things and that mere mortal men cannot advance them one jot
in this life or the next. Only the deeds done purely out of
love for God will accrue to your spiritual advancement. This
is the service that is acceptable at the threshold; but the
deeds done to be seen of men are as worthless dust staining
the heart.
Finally, the judgment has to do with God's
Promised One. God sends His Promised One into the world and
how the people treat him and what they think of him is their
judgment of themselves. He is like a mirror and what they
see is only a reflection of themselves. As it says in 2nd
Samuel 22:26-8, "With the loyal thou dost show thyself
loyal; with the blame-less man thou dost show thyself
blameless; with the pure thou dost show thyself pure, and
with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse. Thou dost
deliver a humble people, but their eyes are upon the haughty
to bring them down." Everyone's salvation is in their own
hands; it is between them and God only. The judgment of
their relationship to God is through the presence of God on
earth in His Promised One; that is, through whether or not,
and to what degree, they believe in him.
The righteous of
God's people are referred to as "thy servants, the prophets
and saints, and those who fear thy name." They will be
rewarded by God's endless bounty which He will shed upon
these holy ones causing them to shine like stars on the
horizon of eternal honour. This is because God will confirm
them in their efforts to establish the truth of
Baha'u'llah's message in the world. `Abdu'l-Baha wrote,
"Truth is God's guidance, it is the light of the world, it
is love, it is mercy. These attributes of truth are also
human virtues inspired by the Holy Spirit." The righteous
will have victory.
The "destroyers of the earth" are those
persons who are neglectful of God's Will. These are
primarily the corrupt governments and the corrupt clergy.
The governments of the four beast nations in the UN security
council - the US, England, France and Russia - will destroy
one-third of mankind in one hour of the oncoming
thermonuclear war.
The "destroyers of the earth" are also
that for thousands of years the corrupt clergy has been
destroying the "earth" of men's hearts from being able to
turn to God. In Christianity they have done this by
inserting mythical Jesus in the place of the real Jesus who
only wanted to turn the people to the One True Invisible
God. Amongst the Covenant-breaking, so called Baha'is, this
was done by in-serting the Hands' plan in the place of God's
Plan. Now a bogus UHJ takes its seat in the temple
proclaiming itself to be the presence of God. The other
world religions have done the same thing each after their
own fashion and they are all apostate.
These "destroyers"
will finally be forced to realize that they are entire-ly
deprived, but then it will already be too late as the
nuclear destruc-tion will be upon them. Their blindness will
be manifest, and the truth of the visions of seers such as
Nostradamus will be plain to all. The world will be forced
to recognize the knowledge and wisdom of the people under
guidance, those under the provisions of Baha'u'llah's
Covenant. They will stand in stark contrast from the
ignorance of the people of error. Thus the destroyers will
be destroyed as they will be exposed and the peoples will
turn to them for guidance no longer.
19 "Then God's temple
in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen
within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, loud
noises, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy
hail."
In Moses' dispensation, he set up a physical tent
called the tabernacle in which there were two chambers: an
outer one called the sanctuary, and an inner one called the
Holy of Holies in which was the Presence of God
('shekinah'). Moses appointed his brother Aaron to be a high
priest in this temple, and Aaron's descendants to be the
high priests after him, one at a time in succession. In this
physical Holy of Holies was the Ark of the Covenant (a box)
covered in gold, and in this box Moses placed his Covenant
and the scrolls of the law. The Holy of Holies was so sacred
that the only one allowed to enter the presence of God in
the Holy of Holies was the high priest. Standing before the
Ark of the Covenant, he would read and meditate on the
meaning of the Law, discern the meanings and explain them to
the king and the ordinary priests who would then teach the
people. Once a year the doors of the temple would be opened
wide, and the people could see the Holy of Holies and the
Ark of the Covenant. This system protected the unity of
Israel because it provided for one unified understanding of
the Law as taught by one high priest.
The Mosaic system of
worship was recognized by the Christians as being a shadow
and imitation of what was to come in the future. There are
several significant aspects to this. The Dispensation of
Moses was primarily concerned with the physical realm due to
the level of evolvement of the people of that time. It
prescribed many ordinances concerning the regulation of the
details of daily living. But when Jesus came he said, "my
kingdom is not of this world." His Dispensation gave
virtually no instructions about physical living but was
primarily concerned with spiritual education and prophecies
of future events. In addition to this he had no biological
children - his physical lineage did not continue - but his
successors were his spiritual children, i.e., the
Apostles.
Jesus' kingdom was not of this world but he
taught the believers to teach his Gospel - the good news of
the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in
heaven. This Gospel of Christianity and the Covenant of
Jesus was that anyone could be grafted into this promise
through the spirit of faith. Jesus' Covenant was primarily
for the gentiles (the nations) and this Covenant was not
under the Mosaic dispensation but transcended it. For these
reasons Jesus' Covenant could not be placed in the physical
Holy of Holies, but only in the temple in heaven, the heaven
of prophecy of future events concerning God's Plan. The
temple in heaven is the ideal temple, not made by hands.
This is why it was written, "For Christ has entered, not
into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one,
but into heaven itself...."
The Book of Hebrews, chapters
5-10, explains that Jesus, though not an Aaronic high
priest, is the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek.
As the high priest he institutes a new Covenant of spiritual
successors, ministering in the true sanctuary in heaven.
It is in the Holy of Holies of this temple that the full
meanings of the Covenant (the Kitab-i-Ahd and the Will and
Testament) are found. Only a High Priest after the Order of
Melchizedek, Jesus on his return, can enter the Holy of
Holies of the temple in the heaven of prophecy in order to
explain the meaning of the Covenant to the people. Through
his explanations and commentaries he takes this Covenant
from the heaven of prophecy and places it in the Holy of
Holies of the temple in the heaven of fulfillment.
In the
book of Hebrews we are told Moses was instructed to build a
temple or tabernacle in the wilderness: "... when Moses was
about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying,
'See that you make everything according to the pattern which
was shown you on the mountain.'" Moses was raised in the
household of the Pharaoh in Egypt and had access to the
libraries at Alexandria which contained the blueprints of
the inner chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid of
Giza. These blueprints were the "pattern" and the "mountain"
was the Great Pyramid. When Moses was on Mt. Sinai God
reminded him of those blueprints that he had been shown in
his youth. The tabernacle which Moses directed to be built
thus had the same pattern as that of the pyramid, having an
outer courtyard and a tent with two chambers: the outer
sanctuary (or Holy Place) and the Holy of Holies.
In the
Great Pyramid of Giza, the Holy of Holies is depicted as the
'King's Chamber.' It is the chamber of the King of kings and
Lord of lords, Baha'u'llah. Soon after Dr. Leland Jensen had
made his proclamation in Ezekiel's Temple in Deer Lodge on
April 29th 1971, he began to explain the meanings of the
passageways and chambers of this great edifice. The
passageways are a chronological time scale. The Ascending
Passageway starts with the exodus of Moses in 1456 B.C. and
becomes the Grand Gallery (outer courtyard) with the advent
of Jesus, specifically, when he began his mission in 30 AD.
The Grand Gallery comes to an end at the Great Step (the
altar) with the proclamation of the Bab in 1844. From the
start of the Great Step, the pathway of the chronological
time scale continues as it passes through the Ante-Chamber
(the sanctuary, pertaining to the Bab) and comes to an end
at the entrance of the King's Chamber (Holy of Holies) which
indicates the proclamation of Baha'u'llah on April 21, 1863
when He appeared in the Holy of Holies, beginning His
mission.
Baha'u'llah was in this 'King's Chamber' when He
wrote His Covenant, 'Abdu'l-Baha was in it when he wrote the
Will and Testament, and Shoghi Effendi was in this Holy of
Holies when he continued the Covenant and expounded it to
the world. But the full understanding and meaning was never
revealed to others. Shoghi Effendi said those in his time
they were standing too close to these documents to
comprehend their full meaning, only in the future would they
be revealed and understood. Then when he set up the first
IBC he said future generations would view it as the greatest
event, second only to the three central figures of the
Baha'i Faith (the Bab, Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha).
The
Hands and Mason Remey destroyed this edifice of the Holy
Council. What Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi
established while in the Holy of Holies was thrown out
before it became manifest in this material world. Now there
is only one narrow course for its reestablishment: the High
Priest after the Order of Melchizedek. There is only one
room in the temple that contains the Ark of the Covenant:
the Holy of Holies. The High Priest alone has the authority
to go into that Holy of Holies, stand before the Ark of the
Covenant in the presence of God, take the scroll (Rev. 5:1)
and reveal its full meanings. This High Priest has already
returned. The Holy of Holies itself prophesies of him.
In
the Holy of Holies of the Great Pyramid are 100 red granite
stones lining the walls, which represent 100 years. These
100 years are the same 100 years that 'Abdu'l-Baha related
to the prophecy of Daniel in reference to the great teacher
- "blessed is he who waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days"
(1335 years). 'Abdu'l-Baha explained that this 1335 year
date corresponded to the 100-year anniversary of
Baha'u'llah's proclamation on April 21st, 1863. The great
teacher, "blessed is he," was to come on April 21st, 1963.
It was on this date that Jesus the High Priest after the
Order of Melchizedek came out from the heaven of prophecy
and went into the heaven of fulfillment of that prophecy. He
began his mission on April 21st, 1963 when he was opposed by
Rex King, the Satan of Zech. 3:1. It was at this point that
he entered the Holy of Holies. God had prepared him for his
mission. Dr. Leland was raised a third generation Baha'i. He
sacrificed and taught the Faith his whole life, and he rose
up to defend the Faith, thus God brought him into a highly
spiritual state of enlightenment in which he was able to
perceive the true spirit of the Faith.
To continue with the
prophecy: The floor of the Holy of Holies was covered with
108 stone slabs, representing 108 years, and the ceiling is
made of 9 beams, representing 9 days. These 108 years and 9
days is the time from the date of Baha'u'llah's Proclamation
on April 21st, 1863 to the proclamation of Jesus the High
Priest after the Order of Melchizedek on the ninth day of
Ridvan, April 29th 1971 (a Baha'i holy day).
Dr. Leland
Jensen, who fulfills these prophecies, is the only person
who entered the chamber into the presence of God before the
Ark of the Covenant on April 21st, 1963, to fight against
Satan. The proof of this, and the proof that Leland is the
High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, is that he alone
fulfills the prophecies for Joshua (Jesus) the High Priest
of Zechariah chapter three, who is opposed by Satan and who
wears the dirty garment.
In 1971, after his proclamation
and while in the Holy of Holies (i.e., the spiritual state
of comprehension, knowledge, discernment, realization and
understanding), he saw the scroll (the Kitab-i-Ahd and Will
and Testament) in the Ark of the Covenant, but he could not
comprehend its full meanings as it was sealed with seven
seals. In 1969 he had entered into Ezekiel's Temple in Deer
Lodge, Montana, a replica of the ideal temple of the heaven
of prophecy, which, with its physical completion in 1912,
became a symbol of the temple in the heaven of fulfillment.
After he entered this temple he began to fulfill his
mission. He began to break the seven seals starting in 1971
with his explanation that the passageways of the Great
Pyramid were a chronological time scale giving the dates for
the appearance of the seven Manifestations before the advent
of the twin Manifestations of the Bab in the Ante-Chamber
and Baha'u'llah in the King's Chamber. He continued to break
the seals, which were in seven sets of seven. With the
breaking of the seventh seal he was able to look into the
scroll and comprehend the full meaning of this sacred
document.
Jesus on his return, Dr. Leland Jensen, is the
High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek. Enshrined in the
Holy of Holies is the Ark of the Covenant which contains the
two tablets of the law: the scroll of the Covenant, written
within and on the back, and the Kitab-i-Aqdas. The meaning
of "the ark of his [God's] covenant was seen within his
temple" is that Dr. Leland Jensen was in the Holy of Holies,
comprehending the full meaning of the scroll. To be in the
Holy of Holies is to be in the spiritual state of
comprehension and understanding of God's Covenant.
Only the
High Priest can go into this Holy of Holies and explain the
meaning of the Covenant to the world. Only Dr. Leland Jensen
has the authority as the High Priest, Jesus the Son, to go
into his Father's house in heaven (Baha'u'llah's
Revelation), open wide the doors and teach the true and
hidden meaning of the Covenant and Testament. Thus the
temple in heaven was "opened" by the explanations of Jesus
the Lamb, who promotes and protects Baha'u'llah's Covenant.
Ultimately this temple in heaven signifies the plan of
God. When the veils have been parted so that the eye can
see all the way into the Ark of the Covenant, the eye would
also see the Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies. The Holy of
Holies signifies the essence of the Divine Law, the eternal
reality of the Law of God, which is renewed in every
Dispensation. This means the Divine Teachings and heavenly
mysteries are established and understood and the path to the
fulfillment of all that God has promised in all past
dispensations has been laid bare for the seeker. The essence
of the teachings of God will be realized in the world of
existence, and the darkness of ignorance and lack of
knowledge will be dispelled. The renown of God will
overspread the East and West, and the proclamation of the
Cause of God will fill the world, until it becomes a new
world, and enlightenment will prevail.
And "the ark of his
covenant was seen within his temple" also means the
prophecies have been fulfilled, the Covenant has been
explained and the hidden meanings of the Covenant have been
made known. Thus, the Ark of the Covenant is
visible.
Before this, the people had been separated from
the Will of God. This was because after Shoghi Effendi's
death in November of 1957, the Hands went to look for his
Will and Testament. They told the people that they couldn't
find this will and that there was no will; therefore, they
would have to themselves decide the future of the Baha'i
faith. In reality, Shoghi Effendi had already given the Will
of God to the people in a public cablegram in January of
1951, six years before he died. This set up an early stage
of the UHJ as Shoghi Effendi's successor according to the
instructions in the Covenant itself. But the Hands cancelled
Shoghi Effendi's instructions for the development of the
UHJ. Thus the Baha'is under the Hands no longer knew what
God's Will was. This Will is symbolized by the Ark of the
Covenant in the Holy of Holies.
The only person allowed in
the Holy of Holies is the high priest. Jesus the Lamb has
returned as the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek.
He has gone into the Holy of Holies and taken the scroll of
the Covenant (the Kitab-i-Ahd and the Will and Testament)
out of the Ark and explained their meanings. Through the
explanations and commentaries of the Lamb, those who are
following the Arch Covenant-breakers (Ruhiyyih Khanum and
the Hands) - and who are adhering to their headless,
manmade "Universal House of Justice" can come out from this
dastardly violation of the Covenant. With the return of
Jesus the Lamb, the High Priest after the Order of
Melchizedek, the divine Covenant is found, and the people
can adhere once again to the Will of God.
Once they turn to
God's Will, they will continue to be guided. This is through
the re-establishment of Shoghi Effendi's son in the world.
Whereas Moses set up the temple, Jesus on his first coming
appointed his Apostles. It says in the New Testament that
these Apostles and the members of the household of God were
the temple, "... members of the household of God, built upon
the foundation of the Apostles... the whole structure is
joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in
whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God
in the Spirit."
Jesus on his return also appoints his
twelve Apostles. This appointed body forms the first stage,
the foundation, of the Universal House of Justice. This is
the second International Baha'i Council (sIBC) and it is to
evolve into the UHJ after passing through various stages
according to the Will of God given through Shoghi Effendi -
Shoghi's four-stage plan.
And there were "flashes of
lightning, loud noises, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and
heavy hail." It was in the spring of 1991, shortly after Dr.
Jensen had appointed the IBC, that the message of the hidden
meanings of the Covenant first became known amongst the
Baha'is who had accepted him. Afterward a storm of
Covenant-breaking occurred from a few who did not want to
accept the truth of the Covenant. Loud noises were raised
both for, and against the Covenant. An "earthquake" of
doubts took place, and even those who professed belief fell
into trials and temptations. Eventually, however, a hail of
torments beat upon these violators of the Covenant. Even as
they witnessed the followers of the Lamb going forward, they
themselves were degraded and dispersed.
Likewise, when this
message goes out to the world, there will be a great storm.
The lightnings of the anger and the wrath of God will flash.
The message of the seventh angel thundering against the
violation of the Covenant will resound around the entire
world. The apostate faith of the Covenant-breakers in their
false "UHJ" will be shaken. A hail of torment will beat upon
the violators of the Covenant. And those who profess belief
in Baha'u'llah, but who do not accept His Covenant
unreservedly, will fall into trials and temptations. The
violators of the Covenant (those who follow the Hands and
their false "UHJ" ) will be degraded and dispersed, and the
faithful Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant will
be cherished and glorified, for they cling to the Book of
the Testament and are firm and steadfast in the Covenant.
These are those who "follow the Lamb wherever he goes." To
them the doors of success and prosperity will be opened in
all directions, and the signs of goodness and heavenly
blessings will be made plain.
The "flashes of lightning,
loud noises, peals of thunder, earthquake, and heavy hail"
are also symbolic of what will take place in the material
world when the seventh angel sounds his trumpet; i.e., this
book. The "flashes of lightning" are the inter-continental
missiles which will streak across the sky, "peals of
thunder" are the exploding of the nuclear bombs. The "heavy
hail" is the fallout. The "loud noises" are the sounds of
destruction and the groaning of the people, and the
"earthquake" is the fear that will overwhelm
them.
'Abdu'l-Baha in the book Some Answered Questions
explained the first six vers-es of chapter 12 of Revelation
as applying to Is-lam. In his explanation the drag-on
pertained to corrupted Islam, to the dynasty of the Umayyeds
who dominated the Muhammadan reli-gion, and the son of the
wom-an pertained to the advent of the Bab. The Babi
dispensation only lasted for 19 years and was re-placed by
the Revelation of Baha'u'llah. Although 'Abdu'l-Baha's
explanations of the first six verses of chapter 12 were true
and fit the situa-tion, he didn't explain the rest of the
verses, 13-17. The reason is that there is another
explanation of chapter 12 that pertains to the Revelation of
Baha'u'llah, and the estab-lishing of His king-dom in the
world today. "Every knowledge hath seventy meanings,"
(Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 255). This is as follows.
REVELATION
CHAPTER 12
1 "And a great portent appeared in heav-en, a
woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet,
and on her head a crown of twelve stars;"
A "portent" is a
sign. This sign appears in the heaven of the Revela-tion of
God. This is also in the heaven of prophe-cy. As Baha'u'llah
fulfills prophecy, He comes in the potency of the greater
Covenant. He became con-scious of being the Mani-festation
through a vision of a beauti-ful maiden. This maiden is the
“woman clothed with the sun,” and is that Revelation which
was revealed by Baha'u'llah.
The "sun" with which she was
"clothed," and the "moon" which was "under her feet," are
symbols of the greater and lesser Covenants of Baha'u'llah.
The sun symbol-izes Baha'u'llah and the greater Covenant, as
He brings the direct light of innate infallibility, being a
Manifestation. The moon symbolizes `Abdu'l-Baha and the
lesser Covenant. As the sun confers its light upon the moon,
so too does Baha'u'llah confer the light of infallibility
(conferred infallibility) upon `Abdu'l-Baha and the
subsequent successors who reflect the light of Baha'u'llah’s
Revelation.
The sun produces the light, and the moon
reflects that light. The lesser Covenant exists in order to
reflect the Revelation to the people. Thus, the light
coming from this woman shines out in various degrees, in one
de-gree of light in the greater Covenant and in another
degree of light in the lesser Covenant. The degree of the
light of the sun, the greater Covenant, is the Revelation,
and the de-gree of the light of the moon, the lesser
Covenant, is the explana-tion and in-ter-pre-ta-tion of that
Revelation.
The mission of Baha'u'llah's Revelation is the
birth of God's Covenant into the material world. This
Covenant is some-times com-pared to the Holy City (the
Jerusa-lem of God), sometimes to a bride, and again to the
new heav-en and new earth. For instance, chapter 21 of
Revela-tion says, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth;
for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away;...
And I saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down out of
heav-en from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband...." The reason for these various symbols is that
this Covenant shines out in various expressions from the
will of God as expressed through the various successors of
Baha’u’llah.
The lesser Covenant of Baha'u'llah was further
delin-eated by `Abdu'l-Baha. The culmina-tion of it was set
forth by Shoghi Effendi in his four-stage plan for the
evolvement of the UHJ. This four-stage plan is the
constitution of the UHJ and was the first heaven. The first
earth sig-ni-fies Shoghi Effendi's appointed body of the
IBC. It says the first heaven and first earth passed away.
The meaning is that the heaven of Shoghi's plan and the
material expres-sion of it, his appointed IBC, was done away
with by the corrupt Hands.
This woman is also a symbol of
the Law of God, the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, that
after-wards took ref-uge with Dr. Jensen. This is re-ferred
to in Baha'i scriptures as the "Maid of Heaven, the
Offspring begot-ten by the Spir-it of Baha" meaning this
Covenant was revealed by Baha'u'llah.
The four-stage plan
of Shoghi Effendi is another expression of this lesser
Covenant, and is depicted as a bride in chapter 21 of
Revelation. It is depicted in Baha’i scriptures as the
“handmaiden” sent out by the maid of heaven.
“Whereupon
the maid of heaven looked out from her exalted chamber . . .
thereupon she summoned unto herself one maiden from her
handmaidens . . . and commanded her: ‘Descend into space
from the mansions of eternity, . . .’ She then descended
with such an adorning as to illumine the heavens and all
that is therein . . .”
The handmaiden sent out from the
Maid of Heaven, is the four stage plan of Shoghi Effendi
which is born of the lesser Covenant.
As the message of
Jesus is "the Son" in rela-tion to the message of
Baha'u'llah "the Fa-ther," so this lesser Cove-nant is the
“Offspring begotten of the Spirit of Baha.” The existence of
this offspring in the abstract realm (or heaven of God’s
plan), is symbolized as female. When it is depicted as being
manifest in the material world, it is symbolized as male.
The true meaning of the Revelation bearing the title of the
“Son of God” now becomes apparent. It is the mission of
Jesus on his return to establish in the world this son --
the International Baha’i Council -- the manifestation in the
world of Baha’u’llah’s lesser Covenant as set forth in
Shoghi Effendi’s plan. In other words, the lesser Covenant
is the offspring of Baha'u'llah which comes to fruition in
the IBC/UHJ.
With the return of Jesus, the Covenant is
renewed. The New Jerusalem, Jesus' new Covenant, descends
out of heaven with him on his return. The new heaven is the
reestablishment of the Covenant in the world by Jesus the
Lamb and the new earth is the appointment of the body of the
IBC with Jesus appoint-ing his twelve Apostles. It says,
"...on her head a crown of twelve stars." These twelve stars
are the twelve Apostles of Jesus on his return, who are the
promoters of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha,
and the educators of the people, shining like stars in the
heaven of guidance. There is now no way to the Father except
through this Son, the IBC.
2 "she was with child and she
cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery."
The "child" she carried was the first embryonic
International Baha'i Coun-cil (IBC) which was to succeed
Shoghi Effendi.
Her "pangs of birth" refer to the great
difficulties, troubles and afflic-tions that fell upon this
Covenant in bringing forth its child. This was due to the
Hands who took over the faith and violated this Covenant.
They did away with the plan of Shoghi Effendi and set up a
plan of their own, by-passing the embryonic IBC.
She was
"in anguish for delivery" means the woman was in need of
assistance, as the time of birthing was upon her. With the
death of Shoghi Effendi this IBC was to be born into the
world, but because of the Hands this process was
arti-ficially terminated. The return of Jesus the Lamb, Dr.
Leland Jensen, comes to the aid of this woman. He is the
doctor who would de-liv-er her. That is, not only would he
reinstitute this Covenant in the world, but in so doing
would set it free of these troubles and afflictions. So this
son is delivered by the return of Jesus. Jesus on his first
coming had the title “Son of God” because he delivered the
message of the “Son of God.” Just like the ice-cream man is
called the “ice-cream” man, not because he is ice-cream, or
is made out of ice-cream, but because he delivers ice-cream.
Jesus on his return brings the fulfillment of Jesus’
mission, he delivers the Son of God, the IBC, into this
world.
This maid of heaven, the lesser Covenant of
Baha'u'llah, fell into the greatest difficulties and endured
great trou-bles and afflictions until a per-fect offspring
was produced, i.e., the lineal descendant of Shoghi Effendi.
This perfect offspring was to be reared in the bosom of this
Covenant, which was as its mother. The child referred to was
the IBC, which was in truth born from the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah that was delineated by `Abdu'l-Baha and further
developed by Shoghi Effendi in his four-stage plan. That is
to say, the holy real-i-ty of the IBC finds a reality in the
kingdom of that Cove-nant. Its existence is in and through
that Cove-nant. This is because it is the child of the maid
of heav-en, having been prom-ised by that Cove-nant, on page
11 of the Will and Testa-ment of `Abdu'l-Baha as the lineal
de-scen-dant of Shoghi Effen-di. Also, page 12 of the Will
and Testa-ment of `Abdu'l-Baha instructs Shoghi Effendi to
appoint his own successor, so he set up the IBC as an
appointed, not elected, body which would go through stages
of evolvement, finally evolving into its stage of maturity,
the UHJ. So this four stage plan is likened to a servant or
handmaid of the lesser Covenant as it provides for the
bringing forth of the IBC/UHJ, the child of the lesser
Covenant.
Because of the op-pres-sion of the Hands in their
take-over of the Faith, the child was carried up to God, to
be born into the world at a later date.
3 "And another
portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with
seven heads and ten horns, and seven dia-dems upon his
heads."
The color red is associated with the Baha'i Faith.
A drag-on is a winged serpent, indicating the reli-gious
intel-lect, in this case the twisted intellect of the Hands.
The "red drag-on" represents the Hands of the Cause of God
who had no real existence after the pass-ing of Shoghi
Effendi. Ruhiyyih Khanum res-urrected them and had the
Baha'is turn to them in-stead of to Shoghi Effendi's son,
the first IBC, which Shoghi Ef-fendi designated as his
suc-cessor.
With the passing of Shoghi Effendi, his widow,
Ruhiyyih Khanum, said she seized the power and au-thority of
the lead-ership of the Faith. This leadership was seized
from Shoghi Effendi's son, the first IBC. Ruhiyyih Khanum
had the Baha'i world turn to the Hands instead of to the
IBC. These Hands positioned themselves as the reli-gious
head (or cler-gy) of the Baha'i faith. Then they had a
con-clave and vot-ed themselves to be the ones who would
carry out Shoghi Effendi's plan, which, two years later in
1959, they abol-ished for a plan of their own.
Shoghi
Ef-fendi's plan was for the IBC (with the members he had
ap-pointed) to go through four stages: the International
Baha'i Council; an Interna-tional (or World) Baha'i Court to
be established on Mt. Carmel in 1963; then at a later date
its body would be elected, becoming the Su-preme Tribunal;
and then in the full-ness of time it would efflo-resce
(blossom), when the whole world became Baha'i, into the
Universal House of Justice.
Shoghi Effendi's coun-cil had
`A-bdu'l-Baha's son as its head (or president): its
executive branch. The Covenant-break-ing Hands did away with
the ex-ecutive branch and final-ly the IBC al-to-gether,
establishing a headless monster in its place in 1963, which
they shame-fully called the Univer-sal House of
Justice.
The "seven heads," as in 'Abdu'l-Baha's
expla-nation, are seven dominions. When Shoghi Effendi
appointed his Hands he assigned them to a region or
domin-ion. These assign-ments were divided up into seven
ar-eas of the world: the Holy Land (Palestine), America
(North and South), Africa, Asia (includ-ing the Middle
East), Europe, Britain and the Pacific (Aus-tralia,
in-cluding the islands in the Pacific Ocean).
The "ten
horns" of this dragon were the ten auxiliary boards, two on
each continent, that reported to the Hands, through which
the Hands controlled and in-timidated the Na-tional
Spiritual Assemblies and thus all the believers.
The "seven
diadems upon its head" are seven powers and au-thorities
that the Hands usurped in order to permanently assure their
posi-tion:
1. Direction of the Institution of the Hands of
the Cause of God, instead of the guardian directing the
Hands..
2. Making and implementing the decisions as an
assembled body of members constituting the leadership of the
faith, in the place of the IBC leading the faith..
3
Appointment of the successor to Shoghi Effendi, instead of
the guardian's appointment of his own successor.
4
Direction of the National Spiritual assemblies, instead of
the IBC directing them.-.
5 Direction of Shoghi Effendi's
Ten Year Plan, instead of the IBC directing it..
6 Direction
of the IBC, instead of the council directing them.
7 Naming
and expelling "Covenant-breakers" instead of the IBC
expelling them.
The first person the Hands expelled was
Mason Remey, the guardian, but with-out a guard-ian the
Hands ceased to exist.
4 "His tail swept down a third of
the stars of heav-en, and cast them to the earth. And the
dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child,
that he might de-vour her child when she brought it
forth;"
A "third of the stars of heaven" refers to the
laws, which can be di-vid-ed into three parts: teaching the
Cause, liv-ing the life and firm-ness in the Cove-nant. The
third part which the Hands threw out of the Baha'i faith was
firm-ness in the Covenant, as they threw out the Covenant.
This inevi-tably led to the other parts being thrown out as
well.
"And the dragon stood before the woman who was about
to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she
brought it forth" means the Hands were standing near the
woman to take over her child, the promised lin-eal
de-scendant of Shoghi Effendi. The Hands were waiting to get
pos-session of the promised descendant, which was to come
from the line of Shoghi Effendi.
This child was set up by
Shoghi Effen-di in 1951. This was the first IBC-, the
Uni-versal House of Justice in embryo. This council never
met as a body and was not activated, meaning it was still in
the womb and not yet born into this world of activity during
the days of Shoghi Effendi. The members of this council were
appointed by Shoghi Effendi and not elected. They re-ceived
individual instructions from Shoghi Effendi, and he
an-nounced to the entire Baha'i World that this em-bryo
would be born into the world of activity by 1963. The Hands
sought to take over this entity.
5 "she brought forth a
male child, one who is to rule all the na-tions with a rod
of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his
throne."
This "male child" was the IBC, the promised lineal
descendent of Shoghi Effendi, which was conceived from the
Covenant. The iron rod is a symbol of power and might,
meaning that with divine power and might it will shep-herd
all the nations of the earth. The rod of iron by which the
child rules the nations is the mandate of the lesser
Covenant through which the IBC- has conferred
infallibili-ty.
In 1959 the Hands ignored this child in
embryo and set up some-thing quite different, going against
Shoghi Effendi. The child was “caught up to God” meaning it
was preserved in God's plan with God's Promised One, the
return of Jesus the High Priest, or the Lamb. This is
because the will and desire to honor Shoghi Effendi’s
instructions and establish them in the world was kept alive
in this Promised One. It was also caught up to his throne,
the Davidic throne that 'Abdu'l-Baha's son, Mason Remey, sat
upon, because at that time this Promised One was not yet
con-scious that he was the Promised One but was ad-hering to
the leader-ship of Mason Remey. This child is depicted as
descending back from heaven in chapter 21 as the bride or
handmaiden. This means that the four stage plan is
reinstitued through the new Covenant of Jesus, Dr. Leland
Jensen when he sets up his Apostles as the IBC.
Consider
how this verse corresponds to what hap-pened. The plan for
the evolvement of the IBC was thrown out by the Hands. It
then departed from them and went to the Prom-ised One who
was now the center of God's Kingdom. Eventual-ly, Shoghi
Effendi's son was born into the world as the second IBC,- in
1991.
6 "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she
has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for
one thousand two hundred and sixty days."
The Covenant fled
to the wilder-ness, meaning to the vast coun-try of
Ameri-ca. America was the place where the Promised One dwelt
and thus it be-came "the place prepared by God;" the abode
and dwelling place, and the center of the Covenant.
Twelve-hundred and sixty days (or three and a half years)
after the Hands destroyed the reli-gion of Baha'u'llah, in
1959, the child of the Covenant of God became manifest
through the Promised One who came in 1963.
The IBC was not
to be elected but was to become the Baha'i World Court with
the members appointed by Shoghi Effendi. The Hands got the
whole plan of Shoghi Effendi all messed up, mak-ing it a
great deba-cle. Their object was to set up a Univer-sal
House of Jus-tice out of nothing, without going through the
four stag-es, as Shoghi Effendi's plan called for. Their
plan elim-inated the World Court stage and the elect-ed
Supreme Tribu-nal stage and zipped to electing what they
designa-ted a Universal House of Justice.
The true UHJ must
be elected from all nations. This so-called UHJ was not
elected by all nations, as there were no Baha'is in Russia
or in the many nations of the Soviet Un-ion at that time.
And if that isn't enough to show that the UHJ created by the
Hands is false, it also ex-clu-ded the guard-ian, which is a
must in order to have Baha'u'llah's Uni-ver-sal House of
Justice as set forth in the Will and Testa-ment of
'A-bdu'l-Baha. This was such a glar-ing violation of the
Cove-nant that the guard-ian, Mason Remey, in his first
encyclical let-ter, expelled these Hands from the Baha'i
reli-gious faith for Cove-nant-breaking.
They are
Covenant-breakers of the worst sort. All the Baha'is should
have shunned them. Instead, they stayed with them and caught
their spiritual disease of lep-rosy. In order to get rid of
this horrible disease it re-quires the remedy of the divine
physician, Dr. Leland Jensen, who was sent by God. He was
prophesied by the name he would come in, the ad-dress where
he would be found, the date of his ar-rival (1963), and by
his mis-sion to cure this dreadful, al-most fa-tal
spir-itu-al disease. Those lepers who refuse his medi-cine
will die in their sins, and there is no freedom of choice in
the next life, so they can't come back and have a second
chance. They have to have his medicine now in this life.
7
"Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting
against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels
fought,"
The name Michael means "one like God." This
Michael is men-tioned in chapter 12 of Daniel as "the great
prince." Baha'u'llah's father sat on the throne of King
David, mak-ing Baha'u'llah the great prince and this verse
refers to Baha'u'llah, who Manifested God. Michael (one like
God) is Baha'u'llah Who is a Manifestation of God. His
angels are God's heavenly army led by the Knight of
Baha'u'llah seated upon a white horse (Rev. 6:1-2 and
19:11-16). This knight is Dr. Leland Jensen who was knighted
a Knight of Baha'u'llah by Shoghi Effendi in 1954.
This war
was foreshadowed in the writings of `Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi
Effendi.
"We have only to refer to the warnings uttered by
Abdu'l-Baha in order to realize the extent and character of
the forces that are destined to contest with God's holy
Faith.... He... uttered these prophetic and ominous words:
'How great, how very great is the Cause! How very fierce
the onslaught of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth.
Ere long shall the clamor of the multitude through-out
Africa, throughout America, the cry of the European and of
the Turk, the groaning of India and China, be heard from far
and near. One and all, they shall arise with all their power
to resist His Cause. Then shall the knights of the Lord,
assisted by His grace from on high, strengthened by faith,
aided by the power of understanding, and reinforced by the
legions of the Covenant, arise and make manifest the truth
of the verse: "Behold the confusion that hath befallen the
tribes of the defeated!" Stupendous as is the strug-gle
which His words foreshad-ow, they also testify to the
com-plete victory which the upholders of the Greatest Name
are destined eventually to achieve.'"
"Evidences of
increasing hostility without, persistent mach-i-nations
within, foreshadowing dire contests destined to range the
Army of Light against the forces of darkness, both secular
and religious, predicted in unequivo-cal language by
Abdu'l-Baha, necessitate in this crucial hour closer
associ-ation of the Hands of the five continents and the
bodies of the elected representa-tives of the national
Baha'i communi-ties the world over for joint investigation
of the nefarious activities of internal enemies and the
adop-tion of wise, ef-fective measures to counteract their
treacherous schemes, protect the mass of the believers, and
arrest the spread of their evil influ-ence."
Shoghi
Effendi said this Army of Light was the Knights of
Baha'u'llah. The Knights of Baha'u'llah are the two knights
who remained firm in the Covenant. These knights are
supported by the legions of the Covenant. These legions are
the new believers, including the 144,000, raised up by the
knights. These are the angels of Michael and they fight
against the dragon, that is, the cult of the
Cove-nant-breakers.
These Cove-nant-breakers who follow
the Hands accuse the true Baha'is, who are faith-ful to the
Cove-nant, of being the Covenant-breakers. They shun the
true Baha'is, and thus have created a wall of oppression
which keeps the pure-hearted and sincere seek-ers from
investigating the truth of the Cove-nant and captive in
their apostate group.
The heav-enly army is the prophesied
144,000 of Revelation chapter 14. The battleground of this
war in heaven is over the minds and hearts of these 144,000.
The false teach-ings of the drag-on are thrown down from
hav-ing a posi-tion of ascendancy in their minds. These
false teach-ings of the Covenant-breakers will be thrown
down once and for all, and that will mark the point in time
when the Kingdom is es-tablished.
8 "but they were defeated
and there was no longer any place for them in heaven."
That
is, the dragon and his angels were no longer spiritual. The
dragon is not spiritual but a con-cept of an ugly, mythical,
winged monster that was concocted by the Arch
Covenant-breakers to replace the provisions of the Covenant
that they abandoned. Thus, there was no longer any place for
them in heaven, as heaven is the abode of the believers.
9
"And the great dragon was thrown down, that an-cient
ser-pent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the de-ceiver
of the whole world - he was thrown down to the earth, and
his angels were thrown down with him."
The "devil"
symbolizes the mind's rejection of the truth and of the
Promised One. This appropriately applies to the
Cove-nant-breakers. With the passing of Shoghi Effendi they
set up a headless monster in the Baha'i faith in place of
the true Uni-versal House of Justice. Thus, the dragon was
"thrown down to the earth" mean-ing it was no longer
spiritu-al, but secu-lar. Being cast down from heaven to the
earth symbolizes that it lost all of its spiri-tuality,
be-coming complete-ly apostate.
Ruhiyyih Khanum, the wife
of the guardian, Shoghi Effendi, was spiritual. Shoghi
Effendi gave his wife, Mary Maxwell, the name Ruhiyyih
Khanum, which means "spirit-like lady." The Hands of Shoghi
Effendi were also spiritual. But when Ruhiyyih Khanum
murdered her hus-band and seized the reigns of author-ity
and set the Hands up to make the decisions in the place of
Shoghi Effendi's son (the first IBC--), they were no longer
spiritual but counter-feit; a fake. The an-cient serpent is
the twisted intellect of the Arch Covenant-breakers, and
their angels are the goon squads (ninco-m-poops) that they
send out to keep their delud-ed fol-lowers ignorant.
10
"And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, 'Now the
salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and the
authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our
brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and
night before our God.'"
"Now the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ
have come" refers to the re-establish-ment back into the
Baha'i faith of the Davidic Kingship (which the
Covenant-break-ers threw out). The Greek word Christ means
Messiah ben David, a descen-dant of David that is anointed.
Baha'u'llah is a descen-dant of David through the line of
kings seated upon the throne of David, from Solo-mon on
down. Baha'u'llah was anointed with the Holy Spirit, as was
Jesus. Baha'u'llah's descendants are the re-established
Davidic Kingship, beginn-ing with Abdu'l-Baha, then His son
Mason Remey, and Mason's son, Joseph Pepe Remey Aghsan, and
his son.
The "authority of his Christ" is the authority of
the guardian, as the executive, to enforce the Baha'i laws
in the world, both the laws of the Aqdas as well as those
legislated by the UHJ. Without this power of enforcement the
Baha'i civilization is a reality on paper only.
The
"accuser of our brethren" is the Arch Cove-nant-breakers, or
the dragon. Without founda-tion they ac-cuse the brethren,
who are loyal to the Covenant, of being Cove-nant-break-ers.
This artifice and stratagem is a maneuver to deceive and
outwit the de-fenders of the Covenant. It's a device, a
trick, a red herring to obtain ad-vantage by twisting the
facts. They call the faithful "Covenant-breakers" to detour
their followers from realizing that they them-selves are the
Cove-nant-breakers. This keeps them from investi-gating and
recog-nizing their plight as followers of the treacherous
corrup-tion of the violation of the Covenant by the Arch
Covenant-breakers, to whom they are now loyal.
These
accusers have "been thrown down" meaning they are exposed as
having been the Covenant-breakers. In other words, the
corrupt administration set up by the Hands will be cast down
from its position of exaltation in the minds of the 144,000,
who then will see it for what it is: a monster.
11 "'And
they have con-quered him [the dragon] by the blood of the
Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not
their lives even unto death.'"
Blood is a symbol of the
Covenant. Thus, the blood of the Lamb is the Covenant that
he con-quers both the apostate Chris-tians and the dragon.
This is the greater Covenant of prophesied name, date,
address and mission fulfilled by Dr. Leland Jensen.
"And
they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the
word of their testimony" means that the Lamb with seven
horns and seven eyes has explained the testimony of the
sacrificial Lamb, who is the Spirit of Prophecy. In
Revela-tion, chapter 19, verse 10 it says: "For the
testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy." By these
explana-tions of the prophe-cies by Jesus the Lamb, the
Kingdom of God is established.
"The word of their
testimony" also means that these 144,000 testify to their
belief in this Covenant. They will be followers of the Lamb.
This battle is won through the explanations and commentaries
of Jesus the Lamb, Dr. Leland (the land) Jensen. Those who
teach these explanations and commentaries are those who
accept God's Covenant, including every clause of
'Abdu'l-Baha's sacred Will and Testament, as championed by
the one who comes in the name, date, address and mission
prophesied for the return of Jesus the High Priest.
12
"'Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell there-in! But
woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to
you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is
short!'"
Those who "dwell" in the heaven of the Baha'i
Revelation are those who believe in Baha'u'llah's Covenant,
the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant.
Again,
"the devil" symbolizes the mind's rejection of the truth and
the Promised One. When the Covenant-breakers see that their
wickedness is exposed they will come down in great wrath for
they know "that their time is short." They are the great
losers in both this life and in the next, as God has
prophesied complete victory for the legions of the Covenant,
led by Jesus the Lamb.
Those who usurped the
administration for their own aggrandizement and empowerment
violated every clause of 'Abdu'l-Baha's sacred Will and
Testament, leading the Baha'i world that followed them down
the road to total destruction. This will be along with all
the other corrupt religions, in the judgement in which
everyone will receive what they deserve: "O ye peoples of
the world! Know, verily, that an unforeseen calamity is
following you, and that grievous retribution awaiteth you.
Think not the deeds ye have committed have been blotted from
My sight. By My beauty! All your doings hath My Pen graven
with open characters upon tablets of Chrysolite."
That is,
after the 144,000 have been gathered and sealed on the
forehead and saved from the op-pression and apostasy of that
Covenant-breaking admin-istration, the four winds of
destruction will be let loose upon earth and sea. This is
also ex-plained in Rev. 7:3. These four winds are: a
thermonuclear war, a meteor striking the earth, a great
earthquake and the earth's shifting crust.
13 "And when the
dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he
pursued the woman who had borne the male child."
The dragon
"had been thrown down to the earth," means that the Hands
are then exposed as being secular, no lon-ger spir-i-tu-al,
but apos-tate, that is, untrue.
The outward emphasis made
by the group under the Hands is upon "living the life" and
the twelve basic principles of the faith. Thus they pursue
the morality of the Faith even while cutting off all
attainment to it through their violation of the Covenant.
This is described in Romans 9:30-32: "What shall we say,
then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have
attained it, that is, righteousness through faith; but that
Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law
did not succeed in fulfilling that law. Why? Because they
did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on
works."
So followers of the Hands pursue the image of
being firm in the Covenant claiming, for instance, that
living up to the laws is firmness in the Covenant, whereas
that is living the life only. In reality, their salvation
and righteousness is not through works but through faith
only.
14 "But the woman was given the two wings of the
great eagle that she might fly from the serpent into the
wilder-ness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a
time, and times and half a time."
This wilderness is
America (freedom from religion or seperation of church and
state). The two wings of the eagle is an allusion to America
as the eagle is the symbol of the United States.
In terms
of the greater Covenant, that is, the Revelation of
Baha'u'llah, this woman was brought to America in 1893.
The
"time, times, and a half time" is also expressed in some
places as three-score and a half. That is a "time" can mean
a "score" of 20 years. This gives three times of 20 years
each, plus a half time (or half a score of ten more years),
total-ling 70 years. If taken from 1893 when the Baha'i
faith was first pro-claimed in America, the 70 years bring
us to 1963, the year when the Promised One comes forth in
America.
Daniel prophesied the 1963 date, "Blessed is he
who waits and com-es to the thousand three hundred and
thirty five days." These are 1335 solar years from the
victory of Muham-mad in 628 AD to the year 1963 AD.
628+1335=1963. In Baha'u'llah and the New Era it states,
"`Abdu'l-Baha's Tab-lets make it clear that this prophecy
refers to the one-hundredth an-ni-versary of the Declaration
of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad, or the year 1963." This is the
date that "Blessed is he" Jesus the Lamb (Leland) began his
mission.
In terms of the lesser Covenant (the plan of
Shoghi Effendi for the evolvement of the UHJ), this woman
was brought to Amer-i-ca in 1963. This is when the
Covenant-break-ers established a headless mon-ster on Mt.
Carmel in place of the woman in 1963. So the woman fled from
them, coming to America.
Time is a continuation or
suc-cessive existence capable of division into measurable
propor-tions; a decade is a period of ten years. The times,
two times, and half a time is three and a half decades, or
35 years. This period began in 1963, when Jesus the Lamb
began his mission, and thirty-five years later brings us to
1998 when he will have a com-plete victo-ry.
If we take
the 70 years (mentioned previously) from 1921 when
'A-bdu'l-Baha's Will and Tes-ta-ment took ef-fect upon his
death, it brings us to 1991 when the em-bryon-ic IBC-- was
finally born into this world. This 70 year gestation period
-- which starts with the con-ception -- is the time during
which the spirit of the Cove-nant is nour-ished and then
gives birth to the second IBC-.
This Covenant is
symbolized as a woman or female, it is the bridge between
the spiritual and material worlds. The union of spiritual
and material in the world order of Baha'u'llah is through
the attracting force of this Covenant. Because it is not
only material but has this female aspect making it
spiritual, the second IBC is not merely secular as is the
false "UHJ" of the Hands; it is alive and can grow and
learn, developing from perfection to perfection.
"Verily,
I say unto thee that the gifts of thy Lord are encircling
thee in a similar way as the spirit encircles the body at
the beginning of the amalgamation of the elements and
natures in the womb; the power of the spirit begins then to
appear in the body gradually and successively according to
the preparation and capacity to receive that everlasting
abundance."
With this IBC/UHJ at its center and head, the
Baha'i faith, unlike past dispensations, is like a living
organism and will never become trapped in dead traditions
and dogmas.
15 "The serpent poured water like a river out
of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the
flood."
The serpent is the twisted in-tellect of the
Covenant-break-ers. The water is their twisted con-cepts
that come from their mouth against the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah, which is the woman. The flood is the
main-stream Cove-nant-breaking Baha'is pouring out their
venom (corruption) against the Covenant. (There is a
parallel to this in Scandinavian proph-ecies. )
Shoghi
Effendi warned, "They will assail not only the spirit which
it inculcates, but the administration which is the channel,
the instrument, the embodiment of that spirit."
16 "But
the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth
opened its mouth and swal-lowed the river which the dragon
had poured from his mouth."
The earth is "the land" (le
land). Dr. Leland Jensen came to the help of the woman, the
Revelation of Baha'u'llah, and "the land," Leland,
swal-lowed up the river. This can be compared to the event
of Moses' serpent (intellect) swallow-ing up the Pharaoh's
priest's serpents. That is, Moses' arguments won out over
Pharaoh's priest's argu-ments. So the explanations and
commentaries of Jesus the Lamb will win out over the five to
eight million Covenant-breaking Baha'is. Their lives will be
cut very short, as this argument will be cut off by the
thermonuclear war that is upon us, and they will perish in
its fire (hell's fire).
17 "Then the dragon was angry with
the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her
offspring, on those who keep the command-ments of God and
bear testimony to Je-sus. And he stood on the sand of the
sea."
The dragon was angry with the woman, that is, angry
with the Covenant of Baha'u'llah. So the dragon makes war on
anyone who abides by the Covenant of Baha'u'llah. Those who
"keep the commandments of God and bear the testimony of
Jesus" are the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant;
they ac-cept the explanations and com-mentaries of Jesus the
Lamb.
The "rest of her offspring" are the 144,000 who have
signed a card with the apostate group, but they will leave
that apostasy. And when they come under the provisions of
the Covenant, they will be persecuted by the
Covenant-breaking administration.
The dragon is seen
standing on the sea shore. The faith is often symbol-ized as
an ocean in which the impurities are brought up out of it by
the waves and cast onto the shore as foam. Thus the ocean
cleanses itself. So it is upon the shore or the beach, where
all the sand is found, that the im-purities have been cast
out to, and this is where the dragon stands, again showing
that this dragon is the aposta-sy. The sands are the
millions of Baha'is under the apostasy of the Hands.
When
we apply these verses from chapter 12 to the past, as
`Abdu'l-Baha did in his explanation (see "Some Answered
Questions," pp. 77-82), we discover that the first flight of
the woman, New Jerusalem, into the wilderness, was after
Jesus was crucified. Jesus was crucified at Jerusalem so
this spirit fled from that place to Mecca. `Abdu'l-Baha,
commenting on chapter 12 of Revelation wrote, "He then saith
that the woman fled into the wilderness, that is, the Law of
God was carried out of Palestine to the desert of Hijaz [the
area of Mecca], where it remained 1260 years . . . " The
Dispensation following that of Jesus was the dispensation of
Muhammad. Muhammad moved the prayer direction from Jerusalem
to Mecca.
Applying these verses to the events of the
Dispensation of Muhammad, 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that the
dragon is corrupted Islam. Islam started to become corrupt
after Muhammad died and Omar announced that they would elect
a successor instead of allowing Muhammad's appointed
successor, Ali, to take his position at the head of Islam.
This election formed the Sunni branch of Islam headed by the
caliphate. The result of this corruption was that the enemy
of Islam, Muawia, was elected to be the Caliph in 661 AD.
Muawia's dominion was from Palestine.
Chapter 12 mentions
the 1260 days twice (Rev. 12:6, 14) because ultimately, the
woman fled from Palestine twice. This dragon that had
"pursued the woman" and chased her into the wilderness was
corrupted Islam. The dragon ruled the Mid-east for 1260
years. Adding the 1260 years to 661 brings us to 1921 when
this dragon lost its power after the Ottoman Empire sided
with Germany in WWI.
'Abdu'l-Baha's explanation of what
happened with the Revelation of Muhammad has a direct
correlation to what happened with the Revelation of
Baha'u'llah. As Omar and his followers threw out Muhammad's
successor and plan, and established something of their own,
so to did the Hands throw out Baha'u'llah's successor and
Plan, and established something of their own. The reason
'Abdu'l-Baha gave the explanation he did is because he knew
that the same thing would happen in the Baha'i faith as was
prophesied numerous times by Baha'u'llah
Himself.
REVELATION CHAPTER 13
1 "And I saw a beast
rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with
ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its
heads."
The "beast" is the United Nations. It is a "beast"
because it is secular, lacking the spirit. It was set up by
Franklin Delano Roosevelt who died before he could
spiritualize it with the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
Roosevelt was secretly a Baha'i. This was because it was
politically unwise to let it be known that he was a
Baha'i.
The "sea" is the sea of God's Revelations,
beginning with Adam's Revelation, and including
Baha'u'llah's Revelation.
The "ten horns" are the Oil
Producing Exporting Countries (OPEC) which were formerly
part of the dragon, most recently ruled by the Ottomans and
known as the Ottoman or Turkish Empire. The countries in the
Ottoman Empire gained their independence when the dragon was
conquered by the beast in 1921. One by one, these countries
then joined the beast or the United Nations. These countries
are Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Libya,
Tunisia, Algeria and Saudi Arabia.
A "diadem" is a crown,
so the "ten diadems" refer to the kings or rulers of these
ten OPEC countries.
The "seven heads" represent the seven
alive, revealed, apostate religions which exist in the world
today. They are the Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian,
Zoroastrian, Muslim and Baha'i religions.
Each of these
religions carry a "blasphemous name," meaning each religion
became corrupt through the interpretations of the clergies
and governments of the nations which came into existence
from these various religions. The Baha'i faith became
corrupt through the interpretations of the Arch
Covenant-breakers, Ruhiyyih Khanum and the Covenant-breaking
Hands.
2 "And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its
feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's
mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne
and great authority."
The description of the "beast" is
symbolic. The "leopard" represents the Holy Roman Empire.
The word "leopard" is a contraction of two words: the French
word "pard," meaning panther; and the Greek word "leo,"
which means lion. Leo, the lion, was originally the symbol
of the Saxon people, and pard, the panther, was the symbol
of the Franks. When the Saxons and Franks were amalgamated
to become part of the Holy Roman Empire, their unification
formed the body of the beast and their symbol became the
leopard.
In the 11th century the Russian Orthodox Church
broke away from the Holy Roman Empire. They have the "bear"
as their symbol. Therefore, the "feet like a bear's"
represent Russia after it became atheistic in the Soviet
Union.
In the 16th century England, led by Henry VIII, also
broke away from the Holy Roman Empire. England had once been
ruled by the Saxons, so the symbol of England became the
"lion", and the mouth "like a lion's" represents
England.
Later this same "beast" will be described as
having the wings of an eagle. The eagle represents the
United States. Daniel, in chapter 7 verse 4, sees this eagle
being plucked off the lion. This represents the United
States' Declaration of Independence which took place on July
4, 1776, making this country independent of England.
The
"dragon" again refers to the Bani Umayyed or Ottoman
(Turkish) Empire, which in 1921 was conquered by the
beast.
The "power" of the dragon is the oil. When these
countries joined the United Nations they gave the beast "his
power and his throne and great authority."
3 "One of its
heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound
was healed, and the whole earth followed the beast with
wonder."
The head with a "mortal wound" represents the
Zoroastrian religion of Persia, which was once the largest
empire in the world. In the seventh century the Muslims went
into Persia and conquered the Zoroastrian people, almost
completely obliterating that religion. A small fragment of
believers did remain and that religion continues to exist,
but these followers were never able to rebuild their
dynasty.
4 "Men worshipped the dragon, for he had given his
authority to the beast, and they worshipped the beast,
saying, 'Who is like the beast, and who can fight against
it?'
5 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and
blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority
for forty-two months;"
The Islamic Faith, which had been
taken over by the dragon, had almost conquered the entire
Roman Empire and a lot of Christians were converting of
their own free will from the Christian Faith to Islam. Part
of this conversion was due to the fact that the Aramaic
version of the Bible prophesied Muhammad by name. Also, a
great deal of the conversion took place due to the people's
realization that the Christians had become idolaters. In the
churches and homes of the Christians were found icons, or
statues and pictures derived through their imaginations of
what Mary looked like with the divine child in her arms. The
Catholics prayed to Mary with the divine child in her arms,
and the Christians said their prayers before statues and
pictures of their imagination of the likeness of Jesus. This
was pure idolatry, and idolatry is forbidden in the second
commandment.
Leo III, who was the Emperor of Rome at that
time, was very disturbed about this mass conversion to Islam
that was taking place. He called a synod, or meeting,
between a large number of senators and bishops from around
Europe. The decision was made that idolatry had to go. Leo
III then issued a decree that all the idols in the churches
should be destroyed. He sent out an army called the
iconoclasts to destroy all idols: statues and pictures,
including murals, in the churches as well as in the
cathedrals. They were successful in destroying all the idols
in the Christian churches from Constantinople to Rome.
However, when Leo the III's army reached the City of Rome
they were opposed by a large army of Italians who had been
raised up by Gregory II to drive these men back to
Constantinople and therefore save the statues (idols) in the
Roman Catholic Church and in Northern Italy. This same
Gregory II later became known as the Pope Gregory II.
When
the emporer, Leo III, issued his decree that all idols in
the Christian churches should be destroyed, Pope Gregory II
wrote a letter of rebellion to Leo III, separating the
Province of Italy and the City of Rome from the Roman
Empire. This act was prophesied in II Thessalonians 2:3,
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
come, except there come a falling away first, and that man
of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." This man of sin
is mythical Jesus, and statues or pictures of him were
placed in the temple to be worshipped as God in the place of
God.
After Gregory II sent this letter of rebellion to Leo
III, a document known as the Donation of Constantine was
sent to Stephens II at the Court of Pepin, in the year 754
AD. The document was said to have been written by
Constantine the Great during the 4th Century. In truth it
was a false document which had been forged in Rome by either
a monk or by Christophorous, a papal notary who delivered
the document to Stephens II. By this, another prophecy of
Paul was fulfilled: "And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" (II
Thessalonians 2:11).
The Constantine document proclaimed
that "the Bishop of the Holy Roman Church should be higher
and prince over all the Bishops in the whole world and that
all things concerning worship of God and belief of
Christianity to be undertaken or confirmed are determined by
his judgment." In other words, the rights of Peter should be
given to the Bishop of Rome.
One thousand years passed
before the Catholic Church gave up the claim that the
Donation of Constantine Document was valid. "Since the
middle of the 19th century the contents of the Constantine
Grant have been considered fraudulent by the Catholic
Party."
The beast had its beginning in 731 AD when Gregory
II wrote his letter of dissidence to Leo III separating the
City of Rome and the Province of Italy from the Byzantine
empire and the Province of Italy and the City of Rome began
their war of independence from the Roman Empire. In this
war, the Papacy was aided by the Franks who were a Germanic
tribe living in Gaul, which is now called France. These
Franks were Trinitarians and had as their symbol the pard
(panther). On December 25, 800 AD the Papacy crowned
Charlemagne as King of the Franks, to be the Emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire. By force, Charlemagne had conquered the
Saxons, forcing them to become Trinitarians and to be a part
of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Saxons were also a Germanic
people, living in what is now Germany. They had the leo, the
lion, as their symbol. When these two Germanic tribes were
forced to become united under the Papacy they formed the
body of the beast which now rules the world. Their symbol
became the leopard.
From its beginning in 731 AD the beast
is given power to "exercise authority for forty-two months."
Using the time scale of the Holy Text, which is one day is
as a year, these forty-two months are twelve hundred and
sixty (1260) years. Thus the beast was given the same amount
of time as the dragon had, to rule the world. By adding 1260
years to the year 731 AD, we see that the beast will come to
its end in the year 1991 AD. This is the year that the
establisher of the Baha'i faith, Dr. Leland Jensen, set up,
on January 9, 1991, the second International Baha'i Council
that will go through four stages to become the Universal
House of Justice.
6 "it opened its mouth to utter
blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his
dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven."
The
"blasphemies against God" are the false teachings and lies
invented by the clergy of this beast. Because of these lies
the true religion of God has been made corrupt and is now
apostate. The mass of mankind has been led astray by these
lies which the beast invented.
7 "Also it was allowed to
make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority
was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and
nation,"
This started to take place at the time when the
Holy Roman Empire was established.
The "saints" represent
the one million Christians who were killed by order of the
Papacy in the inquisition because they would not accept
Trinitarianism and the lies which the Papacy had created.
8
"and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose
name has not been written before the foundation of the world
in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain."
The
"foundation of the world" is the second International Baha'i
Council that was formed by the second coming of the Lamb on
January 9, 1991 and will become the Universal House of
Justice by the end of this century.
Those "who dwell on
earth" are those who accept and follow the corrupt teachings
of the beast; that is, those who don't accept the Lamb's
explanations. They are deflected from this by following the
theologies of the church, and the theologies of the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is.
The foundation of the world
also refers to God's purpose for mankind from the beginning.
This purpose is explained in Genesis, chapter 1 verse 6:
"And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.'"
"Our" refers to the
Manifestations of God, i.e., Adam, Moses, Krishna,
Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, the Bab and Baha'u'llah.
These Manifestations were in the likeness of God because
they were endowed with the Holy Spirit and reflected God,
like a mirror reflects the sun. God's purpose for mankind is
that man will also become created in His Image by turning to
these Manifestations and acquiring the Divine qualities that
They reflect.
Those people who "worship" the beast can
never achieve that purpose which God has intended for them;
therefore, their "name has not been written before the
foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that
was slain."
9 "If any one has an ear, let him hear:
10 If
any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if any
one slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.
Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the
saints."
All the nations of the world have established
themselves with great force and the consequence is that they
will fall by the sword. They are doomed to suffer their
downfall in the same fashion in which they established
themselves, and this includes America.
11 "Then I saw
another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns
like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon."
This "beast"
represents what is left of the dragon when it came to an end
in 1921.
The "two horns" symbolize the two main Islamic
sects: the Shiite and the Sunni.
12 "It exercises all the
authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the
earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose
mortal wound was healed."
"The first beast" is the leopard
beast described in verse two.
The Islamic nations will
cause the thermonuclear war which is the first wind of
destruction. This is now taking place with the UN's and the
United States' devastating war on Iraq: their killing of
innocent men, women, children and small babies in Iraq,
where they were meddling in the internal affairs of a
sovereign democratic country, because Kuwait was once the
nineteenth Province of Iraq. The United States (the big
bully on the block) now is going to try and assassinate
Saddam Hussein. The code name for this plot is "Jackhammer."
Should they succeed in assassinating the president of this
sovereign democratic country, Iraq will retaliate by bombing
the UN building with a nuclear bomb. This would demolish the
entire city of New York and the radiation would spread one
hundred miles in all directions, killing millions. Madam
Albright (who isn't too bright) said if Iraq should do this,
the United States would utterly destroy Iraq with nuclear
weapons. When any of the superpowers uses nuclear bombs in
this fashion, we are into World War III.
13 "It works great
signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in
the sight of men;"
The "fire [which] come[s] down from
heaven" is the thermonuclear war which the Arab nations will
trigger by their actions, in response to the big bully.
14
"and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the
presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth,
bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded
by the sword and yet lived;
15 and it was allowed to give
breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the
beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not
worship the image of the beast to be slain."
In order to
get the Germanic people to accept the idols of the church,
using sorcery, the priestcraft got the statues to come alive
by having them bleed (goat's blood), making their eyes to
move and even causing the idols to speak (with recording
devices placed inside the statues). Thus, "it deceives those
who dwell on earth."
The "image of the beast" is the
crucifix. When the Holy Roman Empire was being established,
Charlemagne carried the crucifix in one hand and a sword in
the other. If the people did not accept the Trinitarian
beliefs, which the crucifix represented, he had their heads
chopped off. Thus, this image brought the beast into
existence, with millions of people in northern Europe and
among the Saxons (Germany) being put to death by Pepin's and
Charlemagne's armies.
16 "Also it causes all, both small
and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be
marked on the right hand or the forehead,"
For the people
of Islam it is customary to pray five times a day at
specific times. When they pray they must touch their
foreheads to the ground. In order to avoid breathing in the
dust when they do this, they cover their mouths with their
right hands. The result is a dust mark "on the right hand"
and on "the forehead". This is the mark prophesied in this
verse.
17 "so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the
mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its
name."
In the corrupt Islamic faith, which had replaced the
true religion of Muhammad, the rights of non-Muslims in the
Islamic Empire were completely laid aside. These people were
treated in the most cruel manner imaginable. For example, if
a Christian should accidentally brush the coat of a Muslim
as the two were walking down the street, the Christian would
be put to death.
Because these people (non-Muslims) were
not followers of this corrupt Islamic religion they did not
abide by the law of prayer described in 16. Therefore, they
did not bear the mark on their hand or forehead. Muslim
merchants or traders would not do business with someone who
did not have the mark. If he did so he would risk
punishment, even possible death.
18 "This calls for wisdom:
let him who has understanding reckon the number of the
beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred
and sixty-six."
In most translations of this Holy Text the
number of the beast is given as 666. However, as it states
in footnote "G" of the Revised Standard Version to
Revelation 13:18, "other ancient authorities read six
hundred and sixteen (616)." Six hundred and sixteen is the
correct "number of the beast." As explained before, this
beast is the corrupt Islamic religion which began when Abu
Sufian first opposed Muhammad. In 616 AD, Abu Sufian became
Emir of Mecca. He was Muhammad's chief persecutor. His son
Mu'awia brought the dragon into existence and laid aside the
true Islamic faith. Therefore, the number of the beast is
616 AD, as that was the date it came into existance.
REVELATION CHAPTER 14
1 "Then I looked, and lo, on Mount
Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four
thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on
their foreheads."
"Mount Zion" represents the house of
David. Baha'u'llah is the second Messiah (Christ) who is a
descendant of King David that is anointed. "Mount Zion is a
hill in Jerusalem, the site of the temple and the royal
residence of King David and his successors" (bible
dictionary). Baha'u'llah moved Zion and the throne of David
that He sat upon to Mt. Carmel. This is the place where the
"New Jerusalem" (the "new Law of God") was located. When the
Covenant-breakers did away with Shoghi Effendi's son (the
first International Baha'i Council) they did away with the
Davidic lineage (`Abdu'l-Baha's son, Mason Remey) which is
the executive Branch of the Universal House of Justice.
Then Mason Remey moved to America. The Lamb, on January 9,
1991, had the embryonic International Baha'i Council of
Shoghi Effendi born into the world as the second
International Baha'i Council with the son of Mason Remey as
its president. Thus he reestablished Shoghi Effendi's son,
the embryonic International Baha'i Council in the mountains
of Missoula, Montana, making Missoula Mt. Zion, as wherever
the Davidic lineage is, that is where Zion is.
When New
York City is nuked there will be 144,000 Covenant-breaking
Baha'is come under the Provisions of the Covenant and under
the second International Baha'i Council. Therefore the Lamb
will be standing on Mt. Zion with 144,000 who have his name,
"Leland", and his Father's name, "Baha'u'llah", written on
their foreheads. The frontal lobe of the brain is where the
intellect is located. "Written on their foreheads" means
these 144,000 Baha'is will be using their intellects to
discern the truth. The rest of the Covenant-breaking Baha'is
are for the fire of the thermonuclear war because they
refuse to use the intellects that God gave them and the
principle of the independent investigation of the truth that
Baha'u'llah gave them. In their ignorance and disobedience,
they will burn in both the fire of this world and the fire
of the next.
The Lamb, as explained before, is Dr. Leland
Jensen.
144,000 is the number of people who will become
believers in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah through the
explanations and proofs of the Lamb before the first wind of
destruction is let loose.
Having "his name," Jesus the
Lamb's name (Leland - the land) "and his Father's name,"
Baha'u'llah, "written on their foreheads" means that through
the intellect situated in the forebrain they will be able
to discern that Leland fulfilled prophecies for the return
of Jesus the Lamb and that Baha'u'llah fulfilled the
prophecies for the second coming of Christ.
2 "And I heard
a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like
the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the
sound of harpers playing on their harps,"
"Heaven" is the
Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
The "voice from heaven" is
"like the sound of many waters." The "many waters" are many
nations, peoples and tongues (See Rev. 7:9), and "like the
sound of loud thunder," means what John hears is very loud
because it is the sound of voices from so many people you
couldn't count them all.
The voice "like the sound of
harpers" comes from the 144,000 believers.
3 "and they sing
a new song before the throne and before the four living
creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that
song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been
redeemed from the earth."
The "new song" is the
explanations and commentaries of the Lamb that are found in
this book, which the 144,000 believers will proclaim to all
the people of the world.
The "throne" represents the living
guardian seated on the throne of King David, which is to
exist forever (see Psalms 89).
The "four living creatures"
are those four world powers which presently rule the world
as the beast. After the first wind of destruction has been
let loose, the people in the countries that make up this
beast will be converted to the Baha'i faith by the
explanations and commentaries of the Lamb. These countries
will become believers in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah
through the explanations and commentaries of the Lamb.
Having thus received a branch of the Holy Spirit from
Baha'u'llah, they will no longer be beasts but are "living
creatures." Following this, there will be mass conversion
throughout the world.
The "elders" are the 24 Apostles of
Jesus the Lamb. There are twice the number that Jesus had on
his first coming.
"No one could learn that song except the
hundred and forty-four thousand" means that only these
144,000 persons are jarred loose from their lethargy by the
bombing of United Nations building in New York City.
Therefore they are able to understand the explanations of
the Lamb because they "had been redeemed from the earth"
meaning they are freed from all indoctrination.
4 "It is
these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they
are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he
goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits
for God and the Lamb,"
They have "not defiled themselves
with women," meaning the 144,000 believers are not lost in
the theologies of the corrupt, apostate religions, including
the "Hands'" faith. The "women" represent the many different
denominations or sects which exist in the world. They are
like whores because they are corrupt.
They are "chaste,"
meaning the 144,000 who are believers have not become
indoctrinated in these apostate religions.
They "follow the
Lamb wherever he goes" means they are in his service and
believe in him because of the proofs and explanations he
gives.
5 "and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are
spotless."
Once the 144,000 become believers they begin to
proclaim this Revelation of Baha'u'llah by spreading the
explanations of the Lamb. The proclamation they give is the
true meaning of God's Word.
6 "Then I saw another angel
flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to
those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe, and
tongue and people;
7 and he said with a loud voice, 'Fear
God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment is
come; and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and
the fountains of water.'"
This "angel" is `Abdu'l-Baha. By
His own command Baha'u'llah appointed His son `Abdu'l-Baha
to be the Center of the Covenant, the one to whom all should
turn when Baha'u'llah passed on from this world. No one
could better fulfill the words "another angel flying in
midheaven" than `Abdu'l-Baha. Here, heaven again refers to
the Revelation of God which Baha'u'llah manifested. Along
with his Father, `Abdu'l-Baha was imprisoned and exiled from
one prison to another for most of his life. No one was
closer to Baha'u'llah than His beloved son. During
Baha'u'llah's lifetime, as well as afterward, `Abdu'l-Baha
served his Father and the Cause of God with complete
devotion. Until his death in 1921 `Abdu'l-Baha spent every
moment of his life proclaiming the Revelation of God and
beckoning mankind to heed God's Message. "Midheaven" refers
to `Abdu'l-Baha because his explanations came midway, after
Baha'u'llah's explanations and before those of the
Lamb.
`Abdu'l-Baha wrote the Divine Plan which was to bring
the Message of Baha'u'llah to all nations. Shoghi Effendi,
by having two seven-year plans and a ten-year world crusade,
carried out `Abdu'l-Baha's Divine Plan and the Baha'i Faith
was brought "on earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue
and people."
8 "Another angel, a second, followed, saying,
'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all
nations drink the wine of her impure passion.'"
This
"angel" is Mason Remey, the first fallible guardian of the
Baha'i Faith. In accordance with the Will and Testament of
`Abdu'l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi, during his lifetime, appointed
`Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son, Mason Remey, to be the president
of the first International Baha'i Council. Because the
guardianship is an hereditary position it is passed on down
from father to son, and as these guardians are descendants
of King David, this guardianship will last forever. This
council was the Universal House of Justice in embryo, and as
the head in embryo is the head when it is born and the head
when it becomes an adult, Mason Remey, or his son, or
grandson, or great-grandson is to be the head of the adult
Universal House of Justice, as this lineage is hereditary.
This council was Shoghi Effendi's son and his successor
when he passed from this world of matter. When Shoghi
Effendi's son (the first International Baha'i Council)
becomes an adult (the Universal House of Justice) it has the
lineage of King David as its president to distinguish the
true Universal House of Justice of Baha'u'llah from all
counterfeits.
The meaning of all this was hidden from the
believers, in order to test them to see if for any reason
they would go against the Covenant and become
Covenant-breakers; he wanted to see if they would go with
the crowd, like dead fish floating down the river, or go
with the minority that go by the provisions of the Covenant,
like live fish that swim up the river and are with Jesus the
Lamb. As has previously been shown, and as you can see, all
the believers except for a few became Covenant-breakers.
Unless they repent and come back under the provisions of the
Covenant they are assigned to hell's fire, losing forever
the high station that God had set aside for them. Sorry, but
this had to happen, but it didn't have to happen to you. If
you are with these Covenant-breakers it was by your own free
choice. This test is essential so that down the road into
the future, because of this debacle, nobody will dare to
deviate even a hair's breadth to the right or to the left of
the Covenant. This is necessary to assure a full thousand
years of bliss and peace for all the peoples of the
world.
Babylon was a city of old which God destroyed
because it was a wicked and tempestuous city. Whenever
"Babylon" is used to refer to something it symbolizes the
wicked and ungodly persons who ignore the true word of God
and cling to their own desires and needs. In this, "Babylon"
represents the followers of the apostate Baha'i Faith, that
is, it refers to those persons whom Shoghi Effendi, in his
lifetime, appointed to be the Hands of the Cause of God, and
to the mass of believers who remain with these Hands in the
greatest violation of God's Covenant.
Concerning the Hands
of the Cause of God `Abdu'l-Baha writes:
"O friends! The
Hands of the Cause of God must be nominated and appointed by
the Guardian of the Cause of God. All must be under his
shadow and obey his command. Should any, within or without
the company of the Hands of the Cause of God disobey and
seek division, the wrath of God and His vengeance will be
upon him, for he will have caused a breach in the true Faith
of God. This body of the Hands of the Cause of God is under
the direction of the Guardian of the Cause of God. The Hands
of the Cause of God must elect from their own number nine
persons that shall at all times be occupied in the important
services in the work of the Guardian of the Cause of God.
The election of these nine persons must be carried either
unanimously or by majority from the company of the Hands of
the Cause of God and these, whether unanimously or by a
majority vote, must give their assent to the choice of the
one whom the Guardian of the Cause of God hath chosen as his
successor" (Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha, pp.
12-13).
After Shoghi Effendi passed away, the Hands of the
Cause came out from under the direction of the succeeding
Guardian and took over the affairs of the Baha'i World
Faith, which had been brought to all the countries of the
world. By continuing to teach and spread their apostate
religion, these people have "made all nations drink the wine
of her impure passion."
For three years following Shoghi
Effendi's death, Mason Remey appealed to the Hands of the
Cause of God to realize their wrongfulness and amend their
actions. Instead, they denounced him and labeled him "a sick
old man," warning all believers not to listen to him.
Finally Mason Remey had no choice but to announce to the
Baha'i World Faith that, being the president or head of the
Universal House of Justice in embryo, he or one of his
successors would be the head of the Universal House of
Justice when it became an adult, and as the head of the
Universal House of Justice, he is the guardian, for the
head of the Universal House of Justice is the guardian. He
was the one appointed to the guardianship by Shoghi Effendi
and he was to expose the doings of those Hands who had
opposed him. He then declared that these Hands and their
followers were to be considered Covenant-breakers in
accordance with the Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha, and
treated in the manner which `Abdu'l-Baha commands: (The
following applies to them because they have destroyed the
Cause of God and replaced it with the "Hands faith") "And
now, one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of
the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the
Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause
of God, exterminate His Law and render of no account all
efforts exerted in the past" (Will and Testament of
`Abdu'l-Baha, p. 20).
9 "And another angel, a third,
followed them, saying with a loud voice, 'If any one
worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark on his
forehead or on his hand,'"
The "image" of the beast is the
crucifix. In the eighth century, when Charlemagne conquered
the Saxons, he held the crucifix in one hand and the sword
in the other, telling them they must either bow down to the
crucifix or he would lop off their heads. Thus, he made the
crucifix the symbol of the beast. The "mark on his forehead"
and "on his hand" refers to the Muslims who pray five times
a day by touching their foreheads to the ground. They cover
their mouths and noses with their hands to keep from
breathing in the dust. This leaves them with dust marks on
their foreheads and on the back of their hands.
10 "'he
also shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed
into the cup of his anger, and he shall be tormented with
fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in
the presence of the Lamb.'"
This means if both the
Christians and the Muslims don't accept the coming of
Baha'u'llah Who is promised in the "Book" (Bible) they both
claim they believe in, they will be destroyed in the
oncoming thermonuclear war.
"Fire and brimstone" represent
the nuclear holocaust which will destroy the beast and its
followers. "The holy angels" are the 144,000 believers who
will become believers in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah
through the explanations of the Lamb before the holocaust.
11 "'And the smoke of their torment goes up for ever and
ever and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers
of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of
its name.'
12 Here is a call for the endurance of the
saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith
of Jesus."
Those who fail to recognize and follow the true
commands and purpose of God will suffer torment "for ever
and ever." In this life only do we have freedom of choice,
as well as the greatest opportunity to attain the station
God has ordained for us. Our progress hereafter is dependent
upon the Mercy of God. When our lives on this physical plane
are done, we are dealt with according to our merit. There
will be no chance to come back and do it over if we should
fail to earn our station. There was no freedom of choice
when we were in the womb and when we leave this life and
enter the next there is no longer any freedom of choice. So
the decisions we make here and now determine whether we will
have everlasting life or everlasting shame and contempt.
13
"And I heard a voice from heaven saying, 'Write this:
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth.'
'Blessed indeed,' says the Spirit, 'that they may rest from
their labors, for their deeds follow them!'"
Those "who die
in the Lord" are the ones who attain their spiritual station
by recognizing and accepting the true meaning of God's
Revelation and become firm in God's Covenant and by doing
that which God did ordain.
14 "Then I looked, and lo, a
white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man,
with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his
hand."
The "one like a son of man" is the Lamb.
The
"white cloud" symbolizes his spiritual body - the aura. It
is white because he has acquired the spiritual qualities and
attributes of God that make a pure soul. White represents
purity. As most people don't see auras, the Promised Ones
are veiled from the people, so they then only believe by the
proofs. Those who are gifted so they can see auras become
believers in Jesus the Lamb, as they see his white aura.
The "golden crown on his head" symbolizes his spiritual
intellect, or his halo. This is produced when the intellect
is connected with the Holy Spirit. The crown is the crown of
authority. Gold represents the spiritual.
A "sharp sickle"
represents the explanations and commentaries of the Lamb who
gives the meaning of God's Revelation. It is the sickle of
the harvest, when the wheat is put in the barn and the weeds
are put into the fire.
15 "And another angel came out of
the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat upon
the cloud, 'Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to
reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully
ripe.'"
The "temple" is Baha'u'llah when He was on the
earth, just as Moses was the temple when he was on the
earth, but when Moses passed on, the Presence of God was in
the temple (a tent in the desert divided by a curtain,
making the Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies). With
Baha'u'llah, the Presence of God is made manifest in His
Covenant and the Will and Testament that the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is have so grossly violated.
This
"angel" is one of the Apostles of the Lamb who believes in
the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, and is firm in the
Covenant.
"Put in your sickle and reap" means that this
Apostle of the Lamb gives the Lamb's explanations and
gathers the true believers back into the Covenant.
The
"harvest of the earth" are the elect, those who accept the
Revelation of God by the Lamb's explanations and
commentaries.
16 "So he who sat upon the cloud swung his
sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped."
"Swung his
sickle upon the earth" means the Lamb has given his
explanations and the 144,000 believers are being gathered.
When this is finished the first wind of destruction will be
let loose.
17 "And another angel came out of the temple in
heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
18 Then another angel
came out from the altar, the angel who has power over fire,
and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp
sickle, "Put in your sickle, and gather the clusters of the
vine of the earth, for the grapes are ripe.
19 So the angel
swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the vintage of
the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the
wrath of God:
20 and the wine press was trodden outside the
city, and blood flowed from the wine press, as high as a
horse's bridle, for one thousand six hundred stadia."*
*
Footnote from the Bible: "About two hundred miles."
Trodden
"outside the city" is outside the city of the New Jerusalem,
which is the New Law of God (Covenant). The
Covenant-breakers are outside of the New Law of God,
therefore they will be destroyed in the oncoming nuclear
war. One thousand six hundred stadia is about two hundred
miles, or a one-hundred mile radius from the epicenter of
the nuclear explosion to the circumference of the circle.
The radiation will cause destruction for one hundred miles
in each direction from the epicenter.
REVELATION CHAPTER
15
1 "Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and
wonderful, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the
last, for with them the wrath of God is ended."
A "portent"
is an indication or sign of what is to happen, especially of
something momentous or calamitous. These will be the plagues
or calamities that will have to befall mankind before they
will give up their evil ways and their opposition and
hostilities to the Covenant, and to the Lamb that God has
sent to establish the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
2 "And I
saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire,
and those who had conquered the beast and its image and the
number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with
harps of God in their hands."
The "sea of glass" symbolizes
the Revelation of Baha'u'llah which is clear, like glass.
With the explanations and commentaries of the Lamb, this
Revelation is easy to understand. The other Revelations of
previous Manifestations are like rivers that lead to the
sea.
It is "mingled with fire" showing that the nuclear
holocaust must take place in order for God's Revelation to
be established.
Those who are "standing beside the sea of
glass" are the people who become believers in Baha'u'llah or
come out of the great violation of the Covenant-breakers
through the Lamb's explanations and commentaries. And of
course they also come out of the other Revelations, for
example the Christians who are now coming into the
Revelation of Baha'u'llah through the Lamb's
explanations.
3 "And they sing the song of Moses, the
servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, 'Great and
wonderful are thy deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and
true are thy ways, O King of the Ages!'"
The "song of
Moses" is made up of the three portions of his Covenant: 1)
the promise of what would be if the people obeyed that
Covenant, 2) the warning of what would be if they did not,
and 3) the promise for the regathering of God's Chosen and
the re-establishment of the temple, which has the Presence
of God (Deuteronomy, chapters 28-30). This includes the
re-establishment of the Covenant and the high priest, the
return of Jesus the high priest after the order of
Melchizedek (Hebrews 6:20 and Zechariah 3:1-9).
The "song
of the Lamb" is the explanations he gives for the Revelation
of Jesus, as found in this Book of Revelation.
4 "'Who
shall not fear and glorify thy name, O Lord? For thou alone
art holy. All nations shall come and worship thee, for thy
judgments have been revealed.'"
Those who survive the four
winds of destruction will worship God and serve Him by
establishing His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. The
severity of mankind's chastisement will prevent him from
ever turning away from God, the way he has during this
present cycle of man's existence.
5 "After this I looked,
and the temple of the tent of witness in heaven was
opened,"
Each Manifestation of God has given His Revelation
with a potency befitting that time in which He appeared. The
Revelation of Jesus was of the potency of the "Son." The Bab
was the Door and Baha'u'llah was in the potency of the
"Father." These Revelations are symbolized by a "temple,"
for the potency of the Bab's Revelation is that of the
Sanctuary and the potency of Baha'u'llah's Revelation is
that of the Holy of Holies, and in the Holy of Holies
appears the Ark of His Covenant. The Lamb fulfills the
prophecies for the re-establishment of the high priest and
as the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, he stands
in the Holy of Holies before the Ark of the Covenant and
takes the Covenant of Baha'u'llah (Kitab-i-'Ahd) and the
Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha out of the Ark. By his
explanations he re-establishes the Covenant that the
Covenant-breakers violated, which led the mainstream Baha'is
astray. The only one who is allowed to go into the Holy of
Holies and do this is Jesus the High Priest after the order
of Melchizedek (Hebrew 6:20).
6 "and out of the temple came
the seven angels with the seven plagues, robed in pure
bright linen, and their breasts girded with golden
girdles."
The "seven angels" have been previously
explained. Four of them are bound at the River Euphrates
(Rev. 9:14) and are now holding back the "four winds of
destruction." The fifth angel is Ali, the sixth angel is
Quddus and the seventh angel is Dr. Leland Jensen, who is
Jesus the Lamb.
The "seven plagues" are the various
afflictions that will befall mankind as a result of the
nuclear holocaust.
"Pure bright linen" symbolizes the
spiritual bodies or the auras of these angels.
"Their
breasts girded with golden girdles" means that these angels
will be God's judges.
7 "And one of the four living
creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of
the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever;
8 and the
temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from
his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven
plagues of the seven angels were ended."
"The temple was
filled with smoke" means the Covenant of Baha'u'llah
(Kitab-i-'Ahd) and the Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha
are clouded with smoke or a veil, that is, they weren't
understood by the rank and file Baha'is. Because of this the
Arch Covenant-breakers Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands" got
control of the administration, the properties and the
moneys. They got their hands in the cookie jar. The "smoke"
clarifies that Baha'u'llah did not break the seven seals.
That which Baha'u'llah, `Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi did
not explain was left until the Lamb appeared, for he was the
one who was prophesied to clear out the smoke.
"Glory of
God" is English for the Aramaic word "Baha'u'llah."
The
"seven plagues" must take place to eliminate those
non-believers who do not want to understand or accept God's
Revelation and to eliminate the Covenant-breakers who remain
in violation of that Revelation.
REVELATION CHAPTER 16
1
"Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven
angels, 'Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the
wrath of God.'"
"A loud voice" signifies that this message
of the things that are going to fall upon man will be heard
and understood by a large number of people, because the
Christians have not recognized the return of Christ in
Baha'u'llah, and because the Baha'is have broken the
Covenant of Baha'u'llah.
2 "So the first angel went and
poured his bowl on the earth, and foul and evil sores came
upon the men who bore the mark of the beast and worshipped
its image."
The plague from the first angel will be the
radiation burns in a nuclear war. This will affect those
within a one-hundred mile radius of the target areas for
those who are not killed by the blasts and are not in proper
shelters to protect them from the radiation. This will take
place in the Muslim Middle East, as they are the ones who
have the mark of the beast on their foreheads and on the
back of their hands, and among the Christians who worship
the image of the beast, the crucifix. This beast is the four
nations that have the veto power on the Security Council of
the United Nations (England, France, the United States and
Russia), and thus they rule the world, but they will get
into a fight amongst themselves, specifically Russia, and
the United States with its allies, England and France.
3
"The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and it
became like the blood of a dead man, and every living thing
died that was in the sea."
This plague is the nuclear
attacks on the submarines which are positioned in the seas.
No living thing, man or creature, will survive these attacks
in the immediate area where these bombs are detonated.
4
"The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the
fountains of water, and they became blood."
"The fountains
of water" are the snow-capped mountains which melt and form
the rivers, thus they are the fountains of water. These are
man's source of drinking water. The plague of the third
angel is the radioactive fallout which falls into the rivers
and onto the snow-capped mountains, contaminating them and
making that water deadly for those who drink it.
5 "And I
heard the angel of water say, 'Just art thou in these thy
judgments, thou who art and wast, O Holy one,
6 For men have
shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given
them blood to drink. It is their due!'"
Every time a
Promised One of God appears, the people are worshipping the
previous Manifestation, but are the enemies and persecutors
of the one God sends to them in their day. Jesus said: "Woe
to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the
tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the
righteous, saying, 'If we had lived in the days of our
fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding
the blood of the prophets.'...You serpents, you brood of
vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
(Matt. 23:29-33). Today, the Christians are going to church
and worshipping Jesus as God, and on Christmas they
celebrate his birth in a big way, although Jesus has
returned as the Lamb and is among them now. When Jesus
returned as the Bab (translated into English as "the door"-
John 10:7), he and ten thousand of his followers were
cruelly put to death. And when he returned as the second
coming of Christ, Baha'u'llah, He was thrown in a dark
dungeon for four months, then exiled and finally sent to the
prison of Acca for twenty years. Today, Jesus has returned
here in America as Jesus the Lamb, but the people are
adoring Jesus on his first coming as God and praying for him
to come again, looking at the sky instead of heaven for his
return, believing the lie that his physical body went up
into heaven. Because of this, they are like the people of
the past, going by the interpretations of the clergy and
becoming the enemies of Jesus the Lamb. Because of this, God
is going to pour seven bowls of wrath on the earth and on
the sea and on the rivers and fountains of waters.
7 "And I
heard the altar cry, 'Yea, Lord God the Almighty, true and
just are thy judgments!'
8 The fourth angel poured his bowl
on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch men with
fire;"
The plague of the fourth angel is the intense heat
which results from the fusion of the nucleus of two hydrogen
atoms. The nuclear bomb duplicates what occurs in the sun.
Its heat is the same as that of the sun. The earth and
mankind will be burned as a result of this plague.
9 "men
were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name
of God who had power over these plagues, and they did not
repent and give him glory."
"Glory" is the English
translation of the Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke) word,
"Baha." The nuclear war will be fought over one-third of the
earth. In those areas which are not involved in this
exchange of bombs, people will become even more idolatrous,
claiming that the gods of their religions are what saved
them.
10 "The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne
(seat, KJV) of the beast, and its kingdom was in darkness;
men gnawed their tongues in anguish
11 and cursed the God of
heaven for their pain and sores, and did not repent of their
deeds."
"The fifth angel" again refers to Ali who promoted
the Revelation of Muhammad. The Muslims martyred the Bab and
ten thousand of his followers, and placed Baha'u'llah in the
dungeon of Tehran and had Him exiled and persecuted Him and
placed Him in the most great prison in Acca for twenty
years. Currently, the bulk of the Covenant-breaking Baha'is
are in Iran, so these areas of the world have plenty of bad
karma. After the United States assassinates Saddam Hussein,
Muslim Iraq will bomb the United Nations (UN) building in
New York City which is the seat of the Beast. Fallout will
cover a 100 mile radius in all directions, and 30 million
people will likely be killed. The nuclear war, however, is
not to be limited to the United States and Europe, but will
include a large portion of the Islamic world.
The
Revelation of Muhammad so overpowered the Christian doctrine
of the incarnate God lie and the Trinity (which the papacy,
the false prophet, had promoted), that the leaders who
adhered to that tenet, in order to save it, taught their
followers that science and learning were unclean. They
destroyed the libraries and institutions of learning, and
then descended into the dark ages of ignorance, poverty,
disease and squalor.
The only way they could cling to the
false doctrines they had invented that brought them into the
dark ages was to avoid accepting the Revelation of Muhammad.
The dark ages of Europe were so dark that there was no
written history of what transpired for two hundred years.
This was at the time of Caliph Al Rashid, when Islam was
entering into its most brilliant age of enlightenment in
science and civilization. They invented the university
education system. They established the first universities in
the world in Damascus, Syria, Alexandria, Egypt, and
Cordova, Spain. The Europeans started sending their sons to
the University of Cordova, which brought Europe out of the
dark ages and into the Renaissance.
12 "The sixth angel
poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water
was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the
east."
The "sixth angel" is Quddus. His bowl is the
earthquake which took place on July 9, 1850, immediately
following the martyrdom of The Bab. This earthquake caused
the Euphrates River, which until that time had emptied into
the Persian Gulf, to change its course and empty into the
Tigris River, and its bed was dried up. The "kings from the
east" are Baha'u'llah and His descendants who sit upon the
throne of the Davidic Kingship.
13 "And I saw, issuing from
the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and
from the mouth of the false prophet, three foul spirits like
frogs;"
The "dragon" is the corrupt Islamic Faith. The
"mouth of the dragon" is the lamb with two horns, Shiite
and Sunni Islam.
The "beast" is the four world powers
united in the United Nations on the Security Council, which
rules the world and has not received the Divine Spirit of
Baha'u'llah.
The "false prophet" is the papacy and clergy
of Christendom that led the Christians astray, and in the
Baha'i faith, the "false prophet" is Ruhiyyih Khanum, who
led astray the mainstream Baha'is, making them
Covenant-breakers.
The "three foul spirits" symbolize the
corrupt and apostate teachings of these three powers of the
beast, the dragon and the false prophet. They are compared
to "frogs" (in that frogs live in slimy marshes along with
slithering reptiles) to show how undesirable these spirits
really are.
14 "for they are demonic spirits, performing
signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to
assemble them for battle on the great day of God the
Almighty."
"They are demonic spirits" means they are as
demons; they have no likeness of God. The United Nations has
separated religion and statehood, and the papacy is the
prophet of the anti-Christ who invented and fostered the
incarnate God lie. The anti-Christs are those who are
opposed to Jesus' lineage through his father Joseph back to
King David (See Luke 3:23-31 and Romans 1:3). The meaning of
the word "Christ" is an anointed male sperm descendant of
King David. The Christians are taught that God was the
physical father of Jesus. If that was so, then Jesus could
not be the Christ, for God is not a descendant of King
David.
15 "'Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who
is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and
be seen exposed!'"
"Coming like a thief" is a warning that
the Spirit of God will appear while the mass of the people
in the world are asleep in their traditions,
interpretations, materialism and Covenant-breaking. For
instance, the mainstream Baha'is don't know they are
Covenant-breakers because they didn't use the intellects God
gave them or the principle that Baha'u'llah gave them to
independently investigate for themselves who is or who is
not a Covenant-breaker. They just follow blindly the Arch
Convent-breaking "Hands." I once asked a thief how he robs a
house. He told me he first cases the joint to see if there
is a dog or some sort of alarm system. Then some night, when
it is real dark out, he slowly and cautiously raises a
window and lets himself in. Then he goes and collects the
jewels, puts them in his bag, lets himself out and closes
the window behind him, and then he is off. The householder
doesn't know he has been robbed until some time later. "He
who is awake" refers to those who are not lullabied asleep
by false leaders. They will recognize the Spirit Jesus when
he appears a second time. The one who collected the jewels
is the Lamb, and the jewels are those who use their
intellects to investigate the truth for themselves. Jesus
said to seek the truth and the truth will set you free. The
Christians who belong to one of any of the 22,000 sects of
Christianity are, for the most part, firm in their false
beliefs, and the Covenant-breaking Baha'is are in bondage,
oppressed by the Arch Covenant-breakers in that they are
prevented from investigating the matter for themselves
through the threat of expulsion and shunning. This
narrow-mindedness will lead to their destruction in the
oncoming catastrophe. Jesus has returned as the Lamb to set
free any that will listen to him. The rest will die in their
sins.
The "garments" are the true beliefs based on proofs.
Don't ever accept something just because some person or
group of people say so, like the clergy or the "Hands." Go
to the text of the scriptures or the writings of
Baha'u'llah, `Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi, and see for
yourselves. For instance, the Baha'is should go to the Will
and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha on page 15 and see that the
true Universal House of Justice has both the executive
branch and the legislative branch. The Covenant-breakers
have only the legislative branch, whereas those who are
turning to Jesus the Lamb have both the legislative branch
and the executive branch.
"That he may go naked and be seen
exposed" means that those who recognize the Spirit have a
true understanding of God's Revelation which is the white
garment. Those who are not awake do not recognize the Spirit
of God (Jesus). `Abdu'l-Baha referred to the Spirit of God
as Jesus. When He appears, he will be ashamed of their
ignorance and wrongdoing. They will be ashamed to "go naked
and be seen exposed," meaning their sins are glaring.
16
"And they assembled them at the place which is called in
Hebrew Armageddon."
The battle of "Armageddon" will be over
the state of Israel. The plain of Maggido is in that state.
Most of these Arab states that surround Israel do not
recognize the right of Israel to exist. In order to
eliminate Israel, the Arabs will allow the oil to become the
issue which causes the nuclear war between the nations.
17
"The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, and a great
voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, 'It
is done!'"
"The seventh angel" is one of the titles of the
return of Jesus the Lamb who is Dr. Leland Jensen, who
fulfilled prophecies, just as both Jesus and Baha'u'llah
fulfilled prophecies.
His "bowl" is his explanations and
commentaries. In April, 1980 he was interviewed by
television and radio stations all over the world. When the
144,000 believers are gathered, he will once again be heard
around the world. Everyone will see him and he will "pour
his bowl (of God's wrath) into the air" via television,
radio and the internet.
18 "And there were flashes of
lightning, loud noises, peals of thunder, and a great
earthquake such as had never been since men were on the
earth, so great was that earthquake."
This refers to the
four winds of destruction which will follow the gathering of
the 144,000 believers, with the seventh angel's explanations
being heard around the world.
The "loud noises" will be
the cries of mankind, pro and con, as they hear his
explanations, and the sound of the detonation of nuclear
bombs.
The "great earthquake" happens when a great meteor
like a huge mountain hits the earth, jarring it so the
cities of the nations fall, which will be followed by the
earth's shifting crust which will take place before the year
2000 AD. This will be the fourth and final wind of
destruction which is let loose upon mankind.
19 "The great
city was split into three parts, and the cities of the
nations fell, and God remembered great Babylon, to make her
drain the cup of the fury of his wrath."
Spiritually, the
"great city" represents the Law of God. That Law has been
divided into three parts: the Jewish, Muslim and Christian
religions. The three parts also refers to living the life,
teaching the cause and being firm in the Covenant. If any
one of these parts are missing, the Holy Spirit is cut
off.
The "cities of the nations" are the many denominations
which have come into existence through these three
religions.
When the four winds of destruction have all
been let loose upon mankind, "great Babylon," as well as
those denominations which have sprung from her, will give up
their false doctrines and become followers of the true
Religion of God.
Materially, the "great city" refers to the
city of Jerusalem. During the earth's shifting crust, which
is the fourth and last wind of destruction to be let loose,
this city will be divided into three parts, as a fault runs
through Jerusalem. One part will slide northward and another
will slide southward and part will stay where it is.
20
"And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be
found;"
This also refers to that time following the earth's
shifting crust. There will be many changes in the structure
of the earth. As the western hemisphere of the earth slides
southward about two thousand miles, many mountains will be
moved out of their place (that is, in relation to the stars
up above) and islands will be submerged. New mountains and
new islands will be formed where there were none
before.
The spiritual meaning of this is that those things
which are the cause of division among mankind will
disappear.
21 "and great hailstones, heavy as a
hundredweight, dropped on men from heaven, till men cursed
God for the plague of the hail, so fearful was that
plague."
When the nuclear bombs explode, great amounts of
dirt and water will be sucked up in the mushroom cloud or
thrown above the atmosphere where the temperature may be
minus two-hundred and forty degrees. This water will freeze
and fall back to earth as hailstones, some weighing tons.
REVELATION CHAPTER 17
1 "Then one of the seven angels who
had the seven bowls came and said to me, 'Come, I will show
you the judgment of the great harlot who is seated upon many
waters,'"
The "great harlot" is the Trinitarian Roman
Catholic Church that has corrupted the religion of Jesus
Christ with the Trinity. The Trinity crept into Christianity
when the Pagan Greeks and Romans who held to that doctrine
became converted to Christianity. The Trinity was invented
by Semiramis, the widow of Nimrod, in about 2000 BC. She
claimed that Nimrod impregnated her womb which was the
habitation of the Holy Spirit, sometime after he was
executed for heresy by the 72 judges of the court in Egypt,
and that her baby was the son of, as well as the
reincarnation of his father Nimrod. Thus she created the
doctrine of the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and
God the Holy Spirit. This new religion replaced the empire
of Nimrod which included the Middle East all the way to the
Straits of Gibraltar. Then this Trinitarian religion crept
into almost all the religions of Mediterranean Europe and
Asia, including Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and
Christianity.
The "many waters" symbolize the many
nations, peoples and tongues in which Trinitarianism is
established.
2 "'with whom the kings of the earth have
committed fornication, and with the wine of whose
fornication the dwellers on earth have become drunk.'"
The
"kings of the earth" are the rulers of the various
countries.
These rulers "have committed fornication" with
the harlot in that they have succumbed to, tolerated, and
even supported the corruption of this religion. Some have
even adopted her Trinitarianism as their state
religion.
The "wine" is the false explanations and
interpretations of this church which were foisted on the
people against their will. These explanations and
interpretations have made people confused and caused them to
lose their ability to reason. This is what is meant by "the
dwellers on earth have become drunk." This also applies to
the Baha'i faith, in that the Arch Covenant-breakers have
foisted on their flock a headless monster House of Justice
(which isn't a House of Justice at all, as it doesn't have
the executive branch as its head, and it was not elected by
all nations, as there were no Baha'is in the Communist
Soviet Union when it was elected) and they prevent their
flock from contacting those who are under the provisions of
the Covenant by labeling them Covenant-breakers that are to
be shunned, making their followers drunk with their bad
wine. That is, they no longer possess reason.
3 "And he
carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a
woman sitting on a scarlet beast, which was full of
blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten
horns."
The "wilderness" symbolizes the wildness in
concepts and confusion of religious beliefs in our present
civilization. It is called a wilderness because it is
meaningless and in violation of the true spiritual Law of
God, the Covenant, and is speeding pell-mell into
destruction.
The "woman," again, refers to the Catholic
Church.
The "scarlet beast" is the four world powers.
"Scarlet" symbolizes the sins of the beast in that red is a
color associated with a harlot or a whore (the scarlet
woman). In the Old Testament, corrupted religions were
referred to as whores.
"Blasphemous names" represent the
apostate religions, sects and denominations that masquerade
as Christian, such as Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist,
Methodist, Episcopalian, etc. In 1 Corinthians 1:12-13 it
says, "What I mean is that each one of you say, 'I belong to
Paul,' or 'I belong to Apollos,' or 'I belong to Cephas,' or
'I belong to Christ.' Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified
for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?" And
further on, "For while there is jealousy and strife among
you, are you not flesh, and behaving like ordinary men? For
when one says, 'I belong to Paul' and another, 'I belong to
Apollos,' are you not merely men? Who then is Paul, and who
is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed," (1 Cor.
3:3-5, KJV). What Paul is saying here is that when one says
they are Baptist or Lutheran or some other denomination,
they are no longer Christians but some other religion. They
are Baptist, Methodist, or some other man-made
religion.
When the Baha'is went against Shoghi Effendi and
threw out the executive branch that Shoghi Effendi placed at
the head of the embryonic Universal House of Justice (IBC),
they were no longer Baha'is but some other religion
masquerading as Baha'is. They were removed from the Baha'i
faith as Covenant-breakers in the first epistle of the
second guardian.
4 "The woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls,
holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and
the impurities of her fornication;"
"Purple" is the color
of the royal robe (secular government) which the Pope donned
in 731 AD when Gregory III declared the Holy Roman Empire to
be separate from what was then the Roman Empire and attained
temporal power over the city of Rome and a part of Italy.
"Scarlet" is the color of the cardinals and the cardinals
elect the papacy.
"Gold and jewels and pearls" symbolize
temporal wealth. The Catholic Church has enormous wealth. It
is probably the biggest business in the world. When my wife
visited the Vatican, her guide took her into a very large
room that was laden with these jewels. He told her there was
more wealth in this room than all the wealth in any country
and a half of Europe.
The "abominations and the impurities
of her fornication" include the idolatry, icons, or idols
(statues or pictures) found in the churches and homes of the
so-called Christians--the idols that people pray to, which
is forbidden in the second commandment. The abominations and
impurities also include the rituals, dogmas, and observances
which the followers of this religion pay money to bow down
to and worship. Idolatry is the biggest abomination of the
church, and the Trinitarian doctrine and incarnate god lie
are the primary impurities.
5 "and on her forehead was
written a name of mystery: 'Babylon the great, mother of
harlots and of earth's abominations.'"
"Mystery" refers to
the Trinity created by Semiramis, which is explained as a
mystery. Babylon is the birthplace of the harlot that later
moved to Pergamum, then to Rome where it was incorporated
into Christianity by Pope Damases. It is called a mystery
because of the incarnation of three gods in one: God the
Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The mystery is
in how the incarnation is possible. It isn't a mystery. It
is a Pagan concept that crept into Christianity. There are
not three gods. There is only one true invisible God. This
is the God of Isaac, Jacob, and all of Israel. Rome is
likened to "Babylon the great" which is known as that wicked
and tempestuous city of old. Therefore, Rome is the second
Babylon.
I attended a Cathedral where the Anglican
Bishop had for his sermon a discussion of the Trinity. I
attended this service to see what the Anglican concept of
the Trinity was, and how they explained it. The Bishop
started his sermon saying that the Trinity is a mystery and
we can't explain it. Then he spent the next 45 minutes
talking about it, which proved his point that he didn't know
what he was talking about. It's a mystery how there could be
three gods in one god (the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit), making Jesus God incarnate, because there are not
three gods in one God. There is just one true invisible God
Who has no peers. Jesus never claimed to be the Father, but
the Son, and this referred to the potency of his Revelation
in contrast to that of the other Manifestations such as
Moses the Lawgiver, or Abraham, the Friend of God.
Jesus
emphatically claimed to reveal God, Whom He called the
Father, but continually differentiated himself from the
Father. In many references such as: "Him that sent me," "my
Father is greater than I," "I go to the Father," I will
pray the Father," "I do nothing of myself; but as my Father
hath taught me," he referred to himself as a prophet, that
One would come after him, "he, the Spirit of truth," Who
would reveal the things which Jesus did not: "I have many
things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. When
the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the
truth;" Then he tells us who this person is: "For whoever
is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and
sinful generation, of him will the Son of man [a man] also
be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of the Father
[Baha'u'llah]."
"Harlots" here symbolize the many
denominations or religious sects of Christianity which exist
in the world. The Catholic Church is called the "mother of
harlots" because she is the beginning of Trinitarianism and
the incarnate god lie in Christianity. This started in the
days of the Apostles and has continued on down to today. As
the Protestants (protesting against the papacy) broke away
from the Catholic Church, they became daughter harlots
because they retained the Trinitarian doctrine and incarnate
god lie which the church had assimilated. Those who broke
away from the daughter harlots became grand-daughter harlots
and those who broke away from them became great
grand-daughters, etc. In other words, they are all
harlots.
"Earth's abominations" are the false doctrines and
interpretations that the Catholic Church invented which have
resulted in our corrupt civilization. Trinitarianism started
to enter into Christianity in the days of Paul. As the
Trinitarian pagans converted into Christianity they brought
their Trinity with them. The Trinity became Roman law with
Constantine and his Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.
6 "And I
saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled
greatly."
The "saints" and "martyrs of Jesus" are those
persons whom the Papacy caused to be killed from the time of
the Council of Nicaea on, especially those killed by
Charlemagne and during the inquisition. These people did not
go along with the abominations and the impurities which the
Church invented and assimilated from paganism.
7 "But the
angel said to me, 'Why marvel? I will tell you the mystery
of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten
horns that carries her.'"
The "beast with seven heads" is
the United Nations which is composed of all nations of the
world. These various nations each have one or another of the
seven different alive revealed religions: Jewish, Hindu,
Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and Baha'i. The ten
horns are the ten nations that the Ottoman, or Turkish
Empire ruled over. Turkey ceased to rule over these nations
when it was defeated as an ally of Germany in World War One.
These ten nations then joined the League of Nations in 1921
and became the ten horns of the United Nations, or the
beast.
8 "'The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is
to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and
the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in
the book of life from the foundation of the world, will
marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is
to come.'"
"Was" means that this beast existed in John's
vision. "Is not" means that it is not a reality in the world
at the time John is receiving his vision. "Is to ascend"
means that this beast will come into existence at a later
time.
The "bottomless pit" is the pit of error or the
waywardness of the world. It is symbolized at the end of the
descending passageway in the Great Pyramid as the bottomless
pit. "Go to perdition" means the beast will eventually be
completely and utterly destroyed in the oncoming
thermonuclear war.
The "foundation of the world" is the
true Revelation of God. It is the Revelation of Baha'u'llah
revealed in the last century. This foundation of the world
is not the apostate Baha'i faith corrupted by the
Covenant-breaking Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands" who threw
out the executive branch (W&T, p. 15). This foundation of
the world is alive in the world in the "Baha'is Under the
Provisions of the Covenant," that was reestablished as the
second International Baha'i Council by the promised return
of Jesus the Lamb.
"The dwellers on earth whose names have
not been written in the book of life" of the Lamb are those
people who do not recognize and accept this Revelation as
explained by the Lamb. By not being written in the Lamb's
"book of life," they go blindly into the fire of the
thermonuclear war that is about to take place.
9 "'This
calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven
hills on which the woman is seated;'"
The "seven hills"
symbolize Rome which is surrounded by seven hills. "The
woman" is the Catholic Church or mother church (mother
harlot) which is the seat of the Trinitarian religion.
10
"'they are also seven kings five of whom have fallen, one
is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes he must
remain only a little while.'"
The "seven kings" are those
individuals or dynasties that have caused the corruption of
each of God's Religions.
The "five have fallen." These are
the founders of the dynasties that took over the Jewish,
Hindu, Zoroastrian, Muslim and Buddhist religions. Like the
Bani Umayyad who corrupted Islam at the passing of Muhammad,
those who corrupted these religions are no longer in
existence.
The "one is" refers to the papacy that
corrupted Christianity which began in the days of the
Apostles and continues to exist until it is destroyed in the
fire with the beast. The Catholics claim that the papacy was
the successor to Peter who had gone to Rome. This is
supposed to give the papacy of Rome its authority.
The
king, or dynasty who "has not yet come" refers to the "Hands
faith," which is the apostate Baha'i faith. By doing away
with the executive branch of the administration and opposing
the continuation of the Davidic Kingship at the head of the
Universal House of Justice (which Shoghi Effendi had placed
as the president of his embryonic Universal House of
Justice), these apostate Baha'is have violated Baha'u'llah's
Covenant and thus corrupted God's Revelation to mankind for
this day.
Baha'u'llah, a descendant of King David,
continued the Davidic (lineage) Kingship in the world by
appointing His son `Abdu'l Baha to be His successor when He
died (see Rev. 4:2). `Abdu'l-Baha continued this Davidic
lineage by adopting Mason Remey to be his son. Shoghi
Effendi continued this lineage by appointing `Abdu'l-Baha's
son Mason Remey to be the head of the first International
Baha'i Council. This council is Shoghi Effendi's son and his
successor that is to go through four stages and effloresce
into the Universal House of Justice. These "Hands", who were
the Hands of Shoghi Effendi and were to cease to exist as
Hands with the passing of Shoghi Effendi took over the
administration at his passing and offensively went against
Shoghi Effendi and threw out his four-stage plan for a plan
of their own. In their plan they set up a headless monster
(without the executive head) which they called the Universal
House of Justice, in the place of Baha'u'llah's Universal
House of Justice. It is this headless monster that the
Covenant-breakers adhere to today, making themselves the
laughing stock of this century. No one in his right mind
would go for these shenanigans, only simpletons and fools
who don't use their intellects that God gave them and the
principle of the "independent investigation of the truth"
that Baha'u'llah gave them. They don't seek the truth for
themselves and thus go into perdition.
11 "'As for the
beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to
the seven, and it goes to perdition.'"
The "eighth" beast
is a religious irreligion. It replaces the religion of God.
It is a political union. It lacks the spiritual, therefore
it is a beast. It has created a civilization that separates
church (religion) from statehood. The United States
pioneered this religion. Now, following the United States,
most of the countries on earth are of this new religion,
that is, secular. These include the four world powers: the
United States, England, France and Russia. These four beast
countries sit on the Security Council of the United Nations,
having, along with China, the veto power. Therefore, this
beast controls the entire world, "and it goes to perdition"
meaning it goes into total destruction.
12 "'And the ten
horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received
royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for
one hour, together with the beast.'"
The "ten horns"
represent the ten Arab or Islamic nations that were part of
the dragon, the Ottoman or Turkish Empire that came to an
end in 1921. When Russia attacks Israel in its move to
stabilize the Mid-east, these ten nations will join in for
one hour and support this attack. These nations imagine the
end result to be the re-establishment of Islamic rule over
all the other nations of the world.
13 "'These are of one
mind and give over their power and authority to the
beast;'"
Their "power" is their oil. Their "authority" to
be a viable religion is that they are Muslims, receiving
their authority from God through Muhammad, who was
prophesied to come in both the Old and New Testaments.
14
"'they will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer
them, for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and those
with him are called and chosen and faithful.'"
"For he is
Lord of Lord and King of kings" is an interpolation. Bible
scholars tell us that this phrase in this chapter was not
found in the original text. All the nations of the world,
including Islam, will oppose the Lamb. But when his
explanations and commentaries are heard he will be accepted,
as he is the establisher of God's Cause that Baha'u'llah
brought, and thus he will conquer those who come against
him. His followers, those who recognize and accept his
explanations, "are called and chosen and faithful." That is,
they are chosen by God, and are faithful to the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha.
15
"And he said to me, 'the waters that you saw, where the
harlot is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and
tongues.'"
The "harlot" is the corrupted Christian religion
that is found in every country, the texts of which are
translated into all the languages (tongues) of the world.
The "waters" are the people who are corrupted by the false
interpretations and theologies invented by the Christian
clergy. This harlot also applies to the corrupted Baha'i
faith that was corrupted by the Arch Covenant-breakers and
established in all nations, peoples 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'" (KJV).
The
"ten horns" are the ten countries that the Turkish empire
ruled over. In 1921, with the collapse of this Ottoman
empire, these ten countries (horns) joined the United
Nations which is the beast. Thus, these ten Islamic
countries placed these horns on the beast. These ten horns
(Islamic countries) hate the harlot which is the Trinitarian
Christian religion. Muhammad exposed the Trinity as a
corruption of Christianity. Muhammad said: "Why say three?
There is but one God."
17 "'for God has put it into their
hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and
giving over their royal power to the beast, until the words
of God shall be fulfilled.'"
These people know from the
writings of Muhammad that the incarnate god, or Trinitarian
doctrine, is a lie and they hate the Catholic Church for
incorporating this pagan doctrine of Semiramis into
Christianity. By joining with Russia and causing a nuclear
war they know they can bring about the destruction of this
harlot. They aim to get the Christians into a war,
destroying each other. They would then be able to make Islam
the world power, but the Lamb will conquer them with his
explanations and commentaries.
18 "'And the woman that you
saw is the great city which has dominion over the kings of
the earth.'"
The Catholic Church ("the woman") and Rome
("the great city") reigns over the "kings of the earth"
through the influence of the Trinitarian doctrine and the
papacy.
REVELATION CHAPTER 18
1 "After this I saw another
angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and
the earth was made bright with his splendor."
This "angel"
refers to Dr. Leland Jensen. He comes "down from heaven"
meaning that he comes from the heaven of prophecy, or the
heaven of God's Will. He was prophesied by name, the land.
He was prophesied by address. He was prophesied by date by
Daniel. His mission is to establish the Kingdom of his
Father, Baha'u'llah. This gives him "great authority". There
is a greater and lesser Covenant. The lesser Covenant is the
Covenant the Manifestations make designating their
successors. In the Baha'i faith it is the Covenant
(Kitab-i-'Ahd) that Baha'u'llah made concerning His
successors. The greater Covenant is the one God makes
concerning the coming of a Promised One of God. Dr. Jensen
does not come under the lesser Covenant that Baha'u'llah
made concerning His successors, but is under the greater
Covenant. He was prophesied by the name he would have, "the
land" (Leland, Zechariah 3:9). He was also prophesied by the
date he would come. That date is April 21, 1963. Daniel gave
four dates for the coming of Jesus. The first was 490
days/years (each day is a year: Numbers 14:34). This is
figured from the order to restore and rebuild Jerusalem in
457 BC, which brings us to 34 AD, the date of the
crucifixion of Jesus. The second date is 1260. This was for
the Bab who made his proclamation in 1260 AH (After the
Hiegera of Muhammad). The Bab set up the Baha'i calendar
starting on March 21, 1844 (which is the same year as 1260
AH). The third is 1290. This is 1290 lunar years from the
proclamation of Muhammad to the proclamation of Baha'u'llah.
The fourth date is in Daniel 12:12 where is says: "Blessed
is he who comes to the 1335 days/years."
"'Abdu'l-Baha's
tablets make it clear that this prophecy refers to the one
hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Baha'u'llah in
Baghdad, or the year 1963 AD." (Baha'u'llah and the New Era,
p. 250; 1980 ed.). This is when he began his mission by
being opposed by Satan. This date is calculated from the
victory of Muhammad in 628 AD: 628 + 1335 = 1963. He will be
victorious by the end of this century in establishing the
Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. Daniel said,
"Blessed is he," meaning he is "Blessed" by God. That is,
his inspiration is not from himself but is from God.
However, he is not a Divine Manifestation of God bringing a
new Revelation direct from God. He is the establisher of the
Baha'i faith, like Joshua was the establisher of Moses'
Revelation and Paul was the establisher of Christianity and
Ali was the establisher of Islam.
The address for his
coming is the "stone with seven eyes" which is in Deer
Lodge, Montana, where he resided for four years. Also, Deer
Lodge is between two mountains of brass or copper, in Butte
and Lincoln, Montana, which are the two biggest mountains of
brass or copper in the United States.
His mission is to
reestablish in the world what the Covenant-breakers threw
out when they went against Shoghi Effendi, namely, they
threw out the executive branch of the Universal House of
Justice. Without the executive branch there could be no
justice and without justice there could not be a Universal
House of Justice: "The legislative body must reinforce the
executive, the executive must aid and assist the legislative
body so that through the close union and harmony of these
two forces, the foundation of fairness and justice may
become firm and strong, that all the regions of the world
may become even as Paradise itself" (Will and Testament,
p.15).
"Having great authority" means he comes under the
"greater Covenant", that is, he is prophesied in scriptures
and will be able to do that which is God's Will. Through his
explanations and commentaries, the Revelation of Baha'u'llah
will be established, as will the Kingdom of God.
2 "And he
called out with a mighty voice, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon
the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt
of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful
bird;'"
The "mighty voice" is the explanations of this
Promised One.
"Babylon" again refers to the city of Rome,
which is the seat of the Trinitarian religion and the cause
of a wicked and tempestuous civilization.
3 "'for all
nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion, and the
kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and
the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth
of her wantonness.'"
By adhering to the Trinitarian
doctrine and the incarnate God lie of the papacy, the
nations and kings of the earth have gained their temporal
power and great wealth. When the kings "fornicated" with
this diseased whore, they caught her disease. It is like
comparing this spiritual disease to AIDS today. It is
deadly.
4 "Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
'Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues
5 for her sins are heaped high
as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.'"
The
"voice" is that of the return of Jesus the Lamb calling
God's chosen to come away from Babylon (the Trinity
doctrine) and seek the truth so they do not commit the same
wrongdoings and therefore suffer with her the horrible
things that are to befall this city and those who remain
indoctrinated in her lies and dogmas. It also refers to the
144,000 Baha'is who are pure of heart but entrapped by the
Covenant-breaking, mainstream Baha'is.
6 "'Render to her as
she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her
deeds; mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.
7
As she glorified herself and played the wanton, so give her
a like measure of torment and mourning. Since in her heart
she says, 'A queen I sit, I am no widow, mourning I shall
never see,'"
The Catholic Church claims to be the bride of
Christ, therefore she believes she is a "queen." She sets
herself supremely above all the religions of the world,
believing she is unequaled in power, wealth, glory and
authority. She fears nothing, thinking no harm could
possibly fall upon her. By her wantonness she has seduced
the kings of the earth to fornicate with her.
The voice
from heaven says to give her more than what she has earned
by her deeds, deeds that have merited nothing but "torment
and mourning."
8 "'so shall her plagues come in a single
day, pestilence and mourning and famine and she shall be
burned with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judges
her.'"
The nuclear war will take no more than a "single
day". This will be the time of judgment for the papacy which
was the creator of the anti-Christ. They went against the
genealogy of Jesus through his father Joseph back to King
David by saying God was his physical father. The meaning of
the word "Christ" is an anointed sperm descendant of King
David. If God was the physical father of Jesus, Jesus could
not be the Christ, for God is not a descendant of King
David.
The "plagues" referred to here are the result of the
nuclear holocaust. This prostitute religion and the city of
Rome will be utterly destroyed.
9 "And the kings of the
earth, who committed fornication and were wanton with her,
will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her
burning;
10 they will stand far off, in fear of her torment,
and say, 'Alas! Alas! thou great city, thou mighty city,
Babylon! In one hour has thy judgment come.'"
The "kings
of the earth" are those governments that have supported the
dogma of the papacy (the Trinity). They will grieve over her
destruction.
It takes twenty-five minutes for a missile
leaving its base in Russia to reach and explode over its
target in the United States and then another twenty-five
minutes for a missile leaving its base in the United States
to reach its target in Russia. The exchange of nuclear
warheads will be over "in one hour" and Babylon will have
received its "judgment".
11 "And the merchants of the earth
weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo any
more,
12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, and pearls, fine
linen, purple, silk and scarlet, all kinds of scented wood,
all articles of ivory, all articles of costly wood, bronze,
iron and marble,"
These elements are basic to almost
everything manufactured in the world. The reason "no one
buys their cargo anymore" is a third of mankind will have
perished in the nuclear war in one hour.
13 "cinnamon,
spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour
and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and
slaves, that is, human souls."
By supporting the papacy,
the "merchants of the earth" have gained much of their
wealth. After the nuclear holocaust, the great productivity
of the nations will either be destroyed or greatly reduced.
Mankind will no longer have the temporal wealth nor those
things that the merchants have to offer as their gods.
14
"'The fruit for which thy soul longed has gone from thee,
and all thy dainties and thy splendour are lost to thee,
never to be found again!'"
Rome will be destroyed and will
never be rebuilt. The wealth and power that it has acquired
will be lost forever. First it will be destroyed by fire
(nuclear), and then it will be inundated by the earth's
shifting crust.
15 "The merchants of these wares, who
gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her
torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
16 'Alas, alas, for the
great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and
scarlet, bedecked with gold, with jewels, and with
pearls!'"
"Linen" refers to the clerical robes. "Purple" is
the cloth of royalty and symbolizes the temporal power of
the papacy. "Scarlet" is the color of the cloth of the
cardinals and the cardinals are the ones who elect the
pope.
17 "'In one hour all this wealth has been laid
waste.' And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and
all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off
18 and cried
out as they saw the smoke of her burning, 'What city was
like the great city?'
19 And they threw dust on their heads,
as they wept and mourned, crying out, 'Alas, alas, for the
great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her
wealth! In one hour she has been laid waste.'"
All those
who have gained their wealth through the "great city" will
mourn over her loss and realize that the source of their own
wealth is gone, never to be regained.
"One hour" is the
time it will take for Rome to be destroyed in the
thermonuclear war.
20 "'Rejoice over her, O heaven, O
saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment
for you against her!'"
Through the destruction of Rome,
which is the seat of the whore (Catholic Church), justice is
given to those who were wronged by her. These Holy Ones are
told to rejoice over her demise.
21 "Then a mighty angel
took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the
sea, saying, 'So shall Babylon the great city be thrown down
with violence and shall be found no more
22 and the sound of
harpers and minstrels, of flute players and trumpeters,
shall be heard in thee no more; and a craftsman of any craft
shall be found in thee no more; and the sound of the
millstone shall be heard in thee no more
23 and the light of
a lamp shall shine in thee no more; and the voice of
bridegroom and bride, shall be heard in thee no more; for
thy merchants were the great men of the earth, and all
nations were deceived by thy sorcery.'"
Rome is the second
Babylon. Just as ancient Babylon was the wicked city of
Nebuchadnezzar, who conquered Judaea and destroyed the
temple, so Rome, the city of the papacy, conquered
Christianity and destroyed the temple, which is the presence
of God, and replaced it with the pagan Trinity and the
incarnate god lie.
As a "great millstone" (about 16 tons)
would sink to the bottom of the sea, so will the city of
Rome as it is inundated during the earth's shifting crust.
Materially and spiritually this city will be lost forever
and never be rebuilt.
"Thy sorcery" refers to the idols
that were made to cry with tears, bleed, moan, etc. The
church deceived many people with these idols by making them
believe that Christ himself caused these actions. The Shroud
of Turin is an example of the church's deception.
24 "'And
in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of
all who have been slain on earth.'"
The deaths of the
"prophets and saints" and of the believers and seekers of
truth are blamed upon that great city, Rome. Bringing
Trinitarianism and the incarnate god lie into Christianity
was spiritual death, accomplished through the Inquisition
(in which millions perished) as well as through Pepin's and
Charlemagne's slaughter of millions of non-Trinitarian
Christians in Europe, including the Saxons. The papacy
brought the beast into existence and will be destroyed in
the oncoming nuclear war, the physical death.
REVELATION
CHAPTER 19
1 "After this I heard what seemed to be the
mighty voice of a great multitude, crying, 'Hallelujah!
Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
2 for his
judgments are true and just; he has judged the great harlot
who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has
avenged on her the blood of his saints.'
3 Once more they
cried, 'Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up for ever and
ever.'"
By the time the destruction of Rome and its
Trinitarianism is complete, all of mankind will realize
Rome's true state of corruptness and ungodliness. Then they
will praise God for destroying her and know that His
Judgment is just.
"The smoke from her goes up for ever and
ever" again symbolizes that this city is never to be rebuilt
or re-established.
4 "And the twenty-four elders and the
four living creatures fell down and worshipped God who is
seated on the throne, saying, 'Amen. Hallelujah!'"
As
explained before, "the twenty-four elders" are the
twenty-four Apostles of the Lamb who are now seated in the
second International Baha'i Council, which will go through
three more stages to become the Universal House of Justice.
"The four living creatures" are the four world powers that
were once described as beasts because they were void of
Spirit. After the whore is destroyed, these four world
powers will become spiritual by recognizing the true
Revelation of God through the Lamb's explanations. That is
why they are then seen as "living creatures", as they take
on the Spirit of Baha.
"God who is seated on the throne" is
represented by the guardians who are the descendants of
Baha'u'llah, who was a descendant of King David seated on
the throne of David. All who are believers in the Revelation
of Baha'u'llah will understand through the Lamb's
explanations that the guardian is the sign of God on earth.
Therefore, they will worship God.
5 "And from the throne
came a voice crying, 'Praise our God, all you his servants,
you who fear him, small and great.'"
The guardian in turn
will forever be devoted and steadfast in his service to God
and will call all mankind to the service of God.
6 "Then I
heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like
the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty
thunder peals, crying, 'Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the
Almighty reigns.'"
The "voice of a great multitude"
symbolizes all of mankind that is still living after the
four winds of destruction are complete, for at that time
everyone will be Baha'i.
7 "'Let us rejoice and exult and
give him the glory [Baha], for the marriage of the Lamb has
come, and his Bride has made herself ready;
8 it was granted
her to be clothed with fine linen, bright and pure' for the
fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints."
The
"marriage of the Lamb" is the mass conversion of mankind to
the Revelation of Baha'u'llah through the Lamb's
explanations and commentaries. His "Bride" symbolizes the
pure Revelation of Baha'u'llah, or Law of God.
9 "And the
angel said to me, 'Write this: Blessed are those who are
invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.' And he said to
me, 'These are true words of God.'"
"Those who are invited
to the marriage supper of the Lamb" are the believers in God
and His prophets, who assist the Lamb in establishing God's
Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. The Lamb is not found
among the Covenant-breakers, for they are for the fire. They
keep their followers ignorant. This group accuses the true
Baha'is, who are obedient and faithful to the Covenant, of
being the Covenant-breakers and thus they have created a
great wall of oppression which keeps the pure-hearted and
sincere seekers among them from investigating the truth of
the Covenant. They are a stubborn people. They, however, are
guilty because they don't use the intellects that God gave
them or the principle of the independent investigation of
the truth that Baha'u'llah gave them to know the truth;
thus, they will go into the fire in their sins.
10 "Then I
fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me,
'You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and
your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!'
For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
The
return of Jesus is not a Manifestation of God and the people
are not to bow down to him or worship him. The whore, which
is the Trinitarian religion, portrays Jesus as God instead
of a prophet or Manifestation of God. In this verse, it is
made clear that Jesus is but the "spirit of prophecy" and
that everyone should worship only God.
11 "Then I saw
heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! He who sat upon it
is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges
and makes war."
"Heaven opened" means that which was in the
annals of God of what was to come in the future was made
known to John in a vision of a man on a white horse.
The
"white horse" symbolizes strength, white symbolizing the
purity of God's religion. "He who sat upon it" is Jesus the
Lamb. Shoghi Effendi knighted Dr. Leland Jensen, along with
his wife Dr. Opal Jensen, as knights of Baha'u'llah.
"He
who sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness he judges and makes war." He makes war against
the five million Covenant-breaking Baha'is, who did away
with the executive branch of the Universal House of Justice.
Without the executive branch there could be no justice (W&T,
p.15) and without justice there could be no Universal House
of Justice. He also makes war against the Christian clergy
that has destroyed the Christianity of Jesus and the
Apostles with the Trinity and the incarnate god LIE, leaving
nothing but the dead carcass which is Christian in name
only. This dead carcass is not only dead but it stinks to
high heaven, and it is time that it is buried and put into a
grave, which will happen in the oncoming thermonuclear war.
Also, the dead carcass of the Covenant-breakers' UHJ that is
a dead monster without a head also stinks to high heaven and
will be buried and put into a grave with the oncoming
thermonuclear war.
12 "His eyes are like a flame of fire
and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name
inscribed which no one knows but himself."
The one that has
"eyes..like a flame of fire" is the return of Jesus the son
of God: "...the words of the son of God, who has eyes like a
flame of fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze"
(Rev. 2:18). "Eyes like a flame of fire" means he is a flame
of fire to the malefactors and miscreants in both
Christianity and the Baha'i faith. He exposes these
evil-doers to the people of the world.
The "many diadems"
are the many titles used to refer to the Lamb in the various
verses of the Holy Text--the Lamb, the seventh angel,
Joshua, Jesus, the Establisher, Blessed is he, the Land, the
High Priest, etc.
The name which "no one knows but himself"
is the name of the return of Jesus the Lamb as "Leland" -
"the land," as prophesied in Zechariah 3:9. Nobody knew "the
land" was Leland. "Le" is the French word for the English
word "the." Leland is a French surname and an English given
name. It means the land.
13 "He is clad in a robe dipped
in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of
God."
"A robe dipped in blood", or a robe spotted with
blood is the robe of the high priest who sacrificed animals.
Jesus returns as the High Priest after the Order of
Melchizedek. The robe dipped in blood is also the Revelation
of Baha'u'llah ushered in with the blood of 20,000 martyrs.
Baha'u'llah, in various verses of His writings, refers to
His Revelation as a robe: "A robe that cannot be outworn,"
etc. (See The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah and various
prayers). 'Abdu'l-Baha referred to Jesus as "the Word," so
the return of Jesus is the Word of God.
The mission of the
Lamb ("The Word of God") is to establish in the world the
Revelation of Baha'u'llah and His Covenant, mainly the
Davidic Kingship which is the head of the TRUE Universal
House of Justice. That is, the UHJ must have both the
executive branch and the legislative body (Will and
Testament, p. 15).
14 "And the armies of heaven, arrayed
in fine linen, white and pure, followed him on white
horses."
Those who follow the knight on the white horse
become knights also. 'Abdu'l-Baha said the knights of the
Lord would have the victory.
He in His parting message to
the cousin of the Bab, uttered these prophetic and ominous
words: "How great, how very great is the Cause! How very
fierce the onslaught of all the peoples and kindreds of the
earth. Ere long shall the clamor of the multitude throughout
Africa, throughout America, the cry of the European and of
the Turk, the groaning of India and China, be heard from far
and near. One and all, they shall arise with all their power
to resist His Cause. Then shall the knights of the Lord,
assisted by His grace from on high, strengthened by faith,
aided by the power of understanding, and reinforced by the
legions of the Covenant, arise and make manifest the truth
of the verse: 'Behold the confusion that hath befallen the
tribes of the defeated!'" (The World Order of Baha'u'llah,
Shoghi Effendi, p. 17).
Shoghi Effendi said: "Stupendous as
is the struggle which His words foreshadow, they also
testify to complete victory which the upholders of the
Greatest Name are destined to eventually achieve"
(ibid).
The "armies of heaven" are the 144,000 people who
will accept the Revelation of Baha'u'llah through the Lamb's
explanations after New York City is destroyed by a nuclear
bomb, and before the first wind of destruction is let loose,
which is the nuclear war, or World War III.
"Fine linen,
white and pure" symbolizes the aura (spiritual bodies) of
these people. They are white and pure showing that they have
acquired God-like attributes and qualities.
15 "From his
mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations,
and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the
wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the
Almighty."
The "sharp sword" is the explanations of Jesus
the Lamb that issue "from his mouth". Like a two-edged sword
that cuts with either edge, the explanations of the Lamb
separate the good from the bad (the sheep from the goats).
With his explanations, the anti-Christ Christians and the
beast nations that they created, as well as the
Covenant-breakers (mainstream Baha'is), are exposed, and
then they either return to the true Baha'i administration or
will be destroyed, along with their Covenant-breaking
followers, whereas the righteous will enter the Kingdom. The
wine press is the bombing of New York City. The tall
skyscrapers will collapse and compress the people inside
these buildings as a wine press compresses grapes.
16 "On
his robe and on his thigh he has a name inscribed, King of
kings and Lord of lords."
The garment that the Lamb wears
is the Revelation (robe) of Baha'u'llah. Like a knight on
his horse carries into battle a banner or the name of the
king he is serving written on his chaps, thighs, and robe,
the Lamb carries the name of Baha'u'llah who is the King of
kings and Lord of lords on his robe and on his chaps,
symbolically, as he goes forth into battle to establish His
Cause and His Kingdom on earth. Baha'u'llah was born a great
prince because His father sat upon the throne of King David,
which Baha'u'llah inherited and sits upon. Baha'u'llah in
His proclamation, page 89, stated that He rules "upon the
throne of David."
17 "Then I saw an angel standing in the
sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that
fly in mid-heaven, 'Come, gather for the great supper of
God,'"
"The sun" symbolizes the Manifestation of God,
Baha'u'llah. The "loud voice" means he is heard throughout
the world on radio, TV, newspapers, news magazines, etc.
This "angel" is standing firm in the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah. The "birds that fly in mid-heaven" are the
jet-planes and missiles with nuclear warheads. Mid-heaven is
the sky between the earth and outer space. It also means the
formative age which is between the apostolic age, that of
the martyrs, and the age of the established kingdom. The
supper of God is the battle of Armageddon. "... They are
demonic spirits, performing great signs, who go abroad to
the kings of the whole world to assemble them for the battle
on the great day of God the almighty." This is the supper
of God.
18 "'to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of
captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and
their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave,
both small and great.'"
The missiles from Russia will fly
over the north pole and bomb the big cites of 100,000 or
more, as well as military sites in the United States, which
is now the leading world power, and will be hit the hardest.
The missiles from the United States will fly over the north
pole and drop their bombs on Russia, Iraq and Iran. Iran has
the largest Covenant-breaking Baha'i population in the
world, and is dubbed by Bill on the hill as a terrorist
nation. Most of the countries of Europe will be hit hard,
especially Britain and France, as they are also world powers
and are allies of the United States.
19 "And I saw the
beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered
to make war against him who sits upon the horse and against
his army."
All those who are not true believers
(Covenant-breakers) of Baha'u'llah's Covenant and the Will
and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha, along with the kings of the
earth, will oppose the Lamb (the Knight of Baha'u'llah
seated on the white horse), and his followers.
This knight
who is seated on the white horse in this chapter is the same
Knight of Baha'u'llah in chapter 6 who has the Covenant
(bow) of Baha'u'llah in his hand and who "went out
conquering and to conquer."
20 "And the beast was captured,
and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked
the signs by which he deceived those who had received the
mark of the beast and those who had worshipped its image.
These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns
with brimstone."
The "beast" is the United Nations,
dominated by the four world powers: England, France, Russia
and the United States, who, along with China, have veto
power on the Security Council. The Security Council of the
UN makes all the decisions concerning war and peace. It is
called the beast because it is not spiritual, it is only
secular. Therefore, this beast is leading the entire world
pell-mell, smack-dab into hell and destruction.
The "false
prophet" is the papacy that has led the Christian world
astray with its false interpretations, dogmas and rituals,
such as the resurrection of Jesus' physical body rather than
the resurrection of Jesus' body of believers: "..for the
church [congregation] which is his body" (Ephesians
1:22,23). It was this body that resurrected, that is, became
believers again. Christians are taught that Jesus ascended
up into the sky, instead of heaven. Thus the Christians
today are looking for him to come out of the sky rather than
out of the heaven of prophecy, even though he came out of
the heaven of prophecy on his first coming. Jesus said: "And
no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down
from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven" (John
3:13 KJV). Jesus said he was "in heaven" when he was on
earth, so heaven is not a place but a condition.
Those "who
had received the mark of the beast" are Muslims. Those "who
worship its image," the crucifix, are the Christians. The
"lake of fire" is the nuclear war.
21 "And the rest were
slain by the sword of him who sits upon the horse, the sword
that issues from his mouth; and all the birds were gorged
with their flesh."
"The rest" are those people who survive
the destruction of the nuclear war but are slain by that
which issues from his mouth, which are his explanations and
commentaries.
"Slain by the sword" means the flaming sword:
"he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to guard the way to the tree of life" (Genesis
3:24). `Abdu'l-Baha said the tree of Life is the Covenant.
Those who become firm in the Covenant through explanations
that issue from the mouth of the Knight of Baha'u'llah,
enter into the Kingdom. The sword is a two-edged sword that
cuts both ways. For those who go against the words (the
sword) that issues from the mouth of him who is seated on
the white horse, the birds will be "gorged with their
flesh." The birds are the missiles with nuclear warheads.
REVELATION CHAPTER 20
1 "Then I saw an angel coming down
from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain."
This "angel" again refers to the
Lamb. "Heaven" is the heaven of prophecy. He is prophesied
by name Leland, "the land." He is prophesied according to
where he will be found, in "the stone with seven eyes" at
Deer Lodge, Montana, and also in Missoula, Montana. The date
for his coming was given by Daniel (chapter 12:12) where it
says, "Blessed is he,..." [a person, "Leland."] That date is
April 21, 1963, when he began his mission, marked by being
opposed by Satan. His mission is that of "the Son" returned
to establish his Father's Kingdom. It is to get the
Christians to return to the religion of Jesus and the
Apostles, giving up the corruptions that crept into
Christianity such as the Trinity and the incarnate god lie,
which paganized it. For the Baha'is, it is to get them to
return to the provisions of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah
(Kitab-i-'Ahd) and the Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha
which were set up by Shoghi Effendi, thus giving up the
corruption that recently invaded the Baha'i faith through
the Arch Covenant-breakers Ruhiyyih Khanum and the
Covenant-breaking "Hands" who bypassed Shoghi Effendi's son
and did away with the executive branch of the Universal
House of Justice, setting up a headless monster in its
place.
The "bottomless pit" is the pit of error: the
waywardness of the world or the turning away of mankind from
God and His Messengers who are prophesied in Holy Writ, and
the corrupting of their messages, such as the Trinity
doctrine and the incarnate god lie of the Christians, and
the Covenant-breaking of the mainstream Baha'is. By exposing
their corruption and violation, they are given an
opportunity to return to the true teachings of Jesus and to
the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, and avoid being thrown into the
fire of purification.
The "key" refers to the exposing of
the corruption so it can be thrown into the bottomless pit
and no longer corrupt and plague mankind, so that we can
enter into the promised thousand years of peace.
A "great
chain" symbolizes the great catastrophes that are to be so
severe and destructive that the minds of man will be chained
up so they won't even think about going against the Promised
Ones and their messages including the explanations and
commentaries of Jesus the Lamb.
2 "And he seized the
dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan,
and bound him for a thousand years,"
The "dragon, that
ancient serpent who is the Devil and Satan," is the twisted
intellect of anyone who goes against God and His Promised
Ones. The "serpent" is a symbol of the intellect through
which we know all things, both secular and spiritual. The
doctors have for their symbol two serpents around the staff
of life. The two serpents represent both physician and
surgeon who are knowledgeable in that profession.
3 "and
threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him,
that he should deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for
a little while."
And "threw him," meaning the twisted
intellect of man, into the pit and sealed it over for a full
thousand years. It was the twisted intellect that created
the doctrine of the Trinity of the Christians and the
headless monster UHJ, created by Ruhiyyih Khanum and the
Covenant-breaking Hands.
The four winds of destruction
will be so severe they will bring an end to man's rebellion
against God and His Will for a full "thousand years." This
means that for one thousand years, mankind will follow the
laws, teachings and the Covenant of Baha'u'llah which have
been revealed by Baha'u'llah and explained by the Lamb. Men
will reject all satanic impulses. They will not swerve a
hair's breadth to the right or to the left because of the
severe punishment of the four winds of destruction that fell
upon wayward mankind.
`Abdu'l-Baha was appointed by
Baha'u'llah to delineate His Revelation of a Universal House
of Justice. Shoghi Effendi, appointed by `Abdu'l-Baha as the
first guardian of the Cause, developed two seven-year plans
to bring the administration of the World Order of
Baha'u'llah into being. After this, he began his ten-year
world crusade in 1953, establishing the first International
Baha'i Council as the embryonic Universal House of Justice,
with the Davidic guardian as its president and head. He
brought this plan around the world, but the wicked Arch
Covenant-breakers, upon the passing of Shoghi Effendi, did
away with Baha'u'llah's Universal House of Justice by doing
away with the executive branch (W&T, p.15) which was
Baha'u'llah's lineage back to King David and was to last
forever. The Lamb is reestablishing that lineage of
Baha'u'llah, the executive branch, back into the world so we
can have universal peace.
After the one thousand years have
passed, another Manifestation will appear, and He will be
rejected by the people. Mankind will again fall away from
God, pursuing his own desires and satanic ways but this will
last "for a little while" only. Then Satan will be destroyed
for ever.
4 "Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were
those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls
of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus
and for the word of God, and who had not worshipped the
beast or its image and had not received its mark on their
foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned
with Christ a thousand years."
Those "to whom judgment was
committed" are the twenty-four elders, each seated upon
their own throne. These are the Apostles of the Lamb. They
are members of the second International Baha'i Council, and
to them judgment is committed.
The "souls of those who had
been beheaded" are the first International Baha'i Council
that was beheaded by Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands" in
1959. The Apostles of the Lamb, through their testimony of
Jesus, are not part of the Covenant-breakers who have a
headless monster. "They came to life" in the second
International Baha'i Council which gives its testimony to
Jesus on his second coming, and to the Word of God. Its
members do not worship the beast, the United Nations, or its
image, and they do not have its mark on their foreheads or
their hands. The first International Baha'i Council which
was embryonic during the life of Shoghi Effendi, and was
dead among the Covenant-breakers but resurrected in 1991 as
the second International Baha'i Council. This was
accomplished through the testimony of Jesus on his second
coming, and it will reign with the second coming of Christ,
Baha'u'llah, for a full thousand years. It will effloresce,
according to Shoghi Effendi's plan, into Baha'u'llah's
Universal House of Justice which has the executive branch at
its head. The word "Christ" refers to the Davidic lineage of
Baha'u'llah and His successors as the executive branch of
the Universal House of Justice.
Baha'u'llah is the second
Christ. "Christ" means the Davidic Kingship which was
Baha'u'llah's heritage and was continued in Baha'u'llah's
Covenant in which he appointed `Abdu'l-Baha to be His
successor. `Abdu'l-Baha adopted Mason Remey to be his son to
continue the Davidic lineage in a gentile. Shoghi Effendi
placed him at the head of the International Baha'i Council,
making him and his successors the heads of the Universal
House of Justice. This lineage of King David (Christ) will
last forever (Psalms 89). The Covenant-breaking Baha'is, who
are dead through their violation of Baha'u'llah's Covenant,
have thus prevented the mass of believers from recognizing
the return of Jesus the Lamb and being guided by him.
Therefore, during the great catastrophe they will suffer
immensely. Suffering along with them will be the Trinitarian
Christians who are looking at the sky instead of heaven for
the return of Jesus, thereby missing him on his second
coming and missing the guidance of the one God sent to save
them. When the four winds of destruction are completed,
God's Kingdom will be established on earth as it is in
heaven. Then the whole world becomes Baha'i and comes to
life; that is, they will reign with Christ for a thousand
years. The Covenant-breakers will either perish in the great
catastrophe or become believers in this Davidic lineage that
they had thrown out.
5 "The rest of the dead did not come
to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the
first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he who shares in
the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no
power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and
they shall reign with him a thousand years."
The "rest of
the dead" are those people who will fall away from God and
turn to the ways of Satan when he is let loose again from
the pit after the one thousand years have passed and the
advent of the next Manifestation is proclaimed. He will be
opposed by Satan, the twisted intellect, that will have been
let loose from the pit.
The "first resurrection" occurs
when one accepts the Revelation of Baha'u'llah. At this time
they become spiritually alive, or are born of the spirit.
The "second death" refers to the physical death - that of
the body. If one is alive spiritually, this second death
does not affect him.
Again, "Christ" refers to the Davidic
lineage of both Jesus the Christ and Baha'u'llah the Christ.
He "who shares in the first resurrection" refers to those
who survive the four winds of destruction. "They [the Baha'i
world ] shall reign with him a thousand years" means they
will serve the Davidic Kingship (the guardian) until the one
thousand years have passed.
7 "And when the thousand years
are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison
8 and will
come out to deceive the nations which are at the four
corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them
for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea."
The
"nations" will be those countries which exist in the world
at the end of the one thousand years. They will be victims
of Satan's deception (their own twisted minds) and won't
recognize or accept the new Manifestation of God when He
appears and proclaims Himself, just as the Christians today
don't accept the return of Christ in Baha'u'llah, and the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is don't accept the return of Jesus
in "the land," Leland. "Gog" today is the Russian ruler who
is drunken and sick with a severe heart condition and has
the nuclear button in his hand all the time. All he has to
do is punch it and we are in World War III. "Magog" is the
Russian empire that will unite for one day (the day of the
nuclear war) with Iran and Iraq. In a thousand years there
will be another nuclear war and the situation will be
similar to today.
9 "And they marched up over the broad
earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved
city; but fire came down from heaven and consumed
them,"
The "saints" are those who remain firm believers in
the Covenant and the true Revelation of God. But they will
be deceived by the Covenant-breakers like the so-called
mainstream Baha'is now, who are deceived by Ruhiyyih Khanum
who murdered Shoghi Effendi and tried to murder his
son.
The "beloved city" refers to the Law of God. "Fire"
symbolizes a second nuclear catastrophe which will again
destroy those who have turned away from God.
10 "and the
devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire
and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet were,
and they will be tormented day and night for ever and
ever."
The "lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and
the false prophet were" symbolizes the nuclear war that is
upon mankind at this very time, in which the "beast" and
"false prophet" will be destroyed. In one thousand years,
there will be a second nuclear war to destroy the
Covenant-breakers and Satan (their own twisted intellects)
"who had deceived them," like Ruhiyyih Khanum and Hasan
Balyuzi had deceived the entire Baha'i world except for a
very few.
"They will be tormented day and night for ever
and ever" means the minds of men may be tormented by desires
that are counter to God but those satanic minds will never
again be able to oppose God. However, those who led the
entire Baha'i world astray today and those that will lead
them astray a thousand years from now will suffer eternally.
They would have been better off if they were never born into
this world. The worst thing that can happen to anyone is to
know the truth and then go against it. These violators knew
what they were doing. They thought they could remain in
control like the papacy remained in control of Christianity
ever since the time of the Apostles.
11 "Then I saw a great
white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence
earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for
them."
The previous verses revealed those events which will
take place one thousand years after God's Kingdom is
established. This verse begins with "Then I saw" to indicate
that this part John's vision is not a continuation of what
he has seen will happen a thousand years from now. What is
now revealed to John pertains to this period of time that we
live in now, which is prior to the establishment of God's
Kingdom.
12 "And I saw the dead, great and small, standing
before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book
was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were
judged by what was written in the books, by what they had
done."
The "books" are the many writings of Baha'u'llah,
Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi. The other book that was
opened is "the book of life" of the Lamb, that contains the
written explanations of the Lamb, which includes the
explanations found here in this writing.
The "dead" are
those who have not yet read these books, especially the
Covenant-breakers who have not read the book of life of the
Lamb. This is because they have been lied to by the Arch
Covenant-breaker, Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands." They hate
the ones that they were told to hate by their very wicked
Covenant-breaking bosses. Therefore, they are shut out of
salvation, as the message they need for salvation is the
explanations and commentaries of the Lamb's book of
life.
"And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the
Lord Jesus shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and
shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him,
whose coming is after the working Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders, and all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for
this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
believe a lie. That they all might be damned who believe not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2
Thessalonians 2:8-12, KJV).
This LIE of course is the lie
of the Arch Covenant-breakers who, with their lying epithet
of "Covenant-breaker", slander those who are faithful to the
Covenant. Their purpose is to have their deceived followers
shun those who are faithful to the Covenant. This tactic is
to keep their betrayed followers from learning the truth of
the matter.
This also applies to the Christians: "Let no
man deceive you by any means; for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin
be revealed, that son of perdition; Who opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that he is called God, or that is
worshipped; so that he is God; so that he as God, shewing
himself that he is God" (2 Thess. 2:3,4).
"That day"
pertains to today, the day of the establishing of the
Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven, but that day cannot
come unless the son of perdition is exposed by the return of
Jesus the Lamb. Perdition means utter destruction. In the
days of the Apostles there were no church buildings or
cathedrals. All meeting places, be they a house, a barn, or
a tent, were called temples. For example, Moses set up a
tent and called it a Tabernacle or temple. The Christians
deified Jesus making him God, and placed him in the temple
as God in the place of God and worshipped him as God as they
do today in the various churches and cathedrals. Thus, this
deified Jesus of the Christians today is the man of sin
worshipped as God in the place of God. The lie is that they
say God became incarnate in Jesus, and thus Jesus is God.
This is a boldfaced LIE. Jesus the Lamb on his return has
revealed who this man of sin is that the Christians worship
as God in the place of God. That is, the Christians hold
that God became incarnate in Jesus, or the incarnate God
lie. "And for this cause God shall send them a strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie" (2 Thess. 2:11,
KJV).
Today, Jesus is telling the deluded Covenant-breaking
Baha'is and the deluded Christians the same thing that he
told them in the gospels, circa nineteen hundred years ago:
"Come out of her my people that you don't partake of her
sins or share in her plagues for her sins are heaped as high
as heaven." The plagues that they are about to go through is
the hell fire of the thermonuclear war, where they will burn
in the cities of America, Europe and the Middle East. And
their plight in the next life will be even worse than their
burning in their cities here. It will be everlasting hell
and damnation, and there will be no escape. The invectives
and vituperations that some Christians and Covenant-breakers
are hurling against the second coming of Jesus the Lamb are
about the same as those the Jews hurled against Jesus back
then, such as "Beelzebub," "the Devil," etc. (Matt.
12:24).
13 "And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and
Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what
they had done."
The "sea" is the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
The "dead in it" are the Covenant-breakers. "Death and
Hades" pertains to all the other apostate religions. The
dead in it are those who are indoctrinated in the false
teachings of these apostate religions which exist in the
world today, each claiming to be the true religion of God.
"Death and Hades" also represents those people who are on
the outside. They do not accept the indoctrination of these
apostate religions but neither do they seek the true
Revelation of God. Hades means hell. Hell is not knowing the
Manifestation of God and His establisher the Lamb;
therefore, they are going away from God rather than drawing
nearer to Him. This is spiritual death, or hell.
14 "Then
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is
the second death, the lake of fire;"
This means that in the
nuclear war, Death and Hades will be destroyed. That is,
after the catastrophe, all of mankind will become Baha'is.
Spiritual death, the failure to recognize the Manifestation
of God, or the will to go against Him, will cease to exist.
All will be spiritual. "Death and Hades" will be no more.
The "second death" is the physical separation of body and
soul. If one is alive spiritually, there is no sorrow in the
second death. However, those who are not spiritually alive
have much reason to dread the second death.
The physical
existence we have is our opportunity to recognize and accept
God. In doing this we acquire Godly attributes and are able
to advance toward God and possibly obtain that station which
God has ordained or put aside for us in the next life. We
can hasten or halt our progress toward that station by our
beliefs and the deeds that we do in this life. If we do not
accomplish this during our existence here on the physical
plane, we enter the next life handicapped. Our progress
toward that station in the next life is only by God's Mercy.
There is no free will in the next life. Those who come into
the Kingdom here on earth receive the pearl of great price,
for they used their free will to come into the Kingdom. This
pearl of great price is the high station that God had set
aside for them, which is glorious beyond all
conceptions.
15 "and if any one's name was not found
written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of
fire."
Those who are written in the Lamb's "book of life"
are those who come into the Kingdom by the Lamb's book of
explanations and commentaries, and inherit eternal bliss.
Those who are without this guidance become victims of the
oncoming thermonuclear war and the other three catastrophes
that follow. Everyone will get what they deserve.
REVELATION CHAPTER 21
1 "Then I saw a new heaven and a new
earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed
away, and the sea was no more."
The "new heaven" is the
Revelation of Baha'u'llah. The "new earth" is the new
civilization that will be established when the four winds of
destruction are done. There is still another meaning to
this: The fourth wind of destruction is the earth's shifting
crust which will be the last wind of destruction that will
take place in this century. There will be a whole new
physiognomy and physiography and a whole new mapping of the
earth. For instance, the United States will move several
thousand miles south and the central portion of the United
States will be inundated. The stars that are now above us
will be further north. For more information read The
Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood, for which
Einstein wrote the foreword. This reading was recommended by
the second guardian.
"The sea was no more" means all the
Revelations of God which were revealed before the Revelation
of Baha'u'llah will be fulfilled as Baha'u'llah's Revelation
is established in the world. Mankind will not be separated
by different religions again.
2 "And I saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband;"
The "holy city, new
Jerusalem" is that part of God's Revelation which reveals
the laws, ordinances and teachings for an ever advancing
civilization. This part of God's Law changes with each
Manifestation, depending upon the needs and conditions of
that civilization at the time of the appearance of His
Manifestation.
This "new Jerusalem" comes from the
Revelation of Baha'u'llah and is as pure "as a bride." It
brings about the new civilization which establishes God's
Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
3 "and I heard a great
voice from the throne saying, 'Behold, the dwelling of God
is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his
people, and God himself will be with them;'"
The throne is
the Davidic throne. The one that is seated upon it is
Baha'u'llah, as He fulfills the prophecies for the second
Christ. Jesus Christ was also a descendant of King David,
but his genealogy shows that none of his ancestors were
seated on the throne of David, except David himself, whereas
all of Baha'u'llah's ancestors were seated on the throne of
King David.
Each Manifestation of God is the presence of
God. For instance, Moses was the presence of God. He
continued this presence by building a tabernacle in the
desert and divided it in two with a curtain, creating the
Holy of Holies and the Sanctuary. Moses placed the presence
of God (the shikena), his writings, in the Ark of the
Covenant in the Holy of Holies. This is the continuation of
the presence of God. Likewise, Baha'u'llah continues the
presence of God in His Covenant. This Covenant is the
Kitab-i-'Ahd. In this book He continues this presence by
appointing `Abdu'l-Baha to be His successor. `Abdu'l-Baha
passed this presence to Shoghi Effendi. Shoghi Effendi
passed this presence down to his non-biological son, the
first International Baha'i Council. The Arch
Covenant-breakers did away with this presence of God when
they bypassed Shoghi Effendi's son and, in its place, set up
a headless monster, which they said was the Universal House
of Justice, which was neither the presence of God nor a
House of Justice. It was, at most, nothing but a bog, or a
bunch of goo, or a quagmire that once you get into it, it's
almost impossible to get out of it. Jesus the Lamb has
reestablished this presence of God by reestablishing Shoghi
Effendi's son back into the Baha'i faith under the
provisions of the Covenant. Then this presence is continued
in the Baha'i faith.
When man accepts the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah, all of his past ways are forgiven. He then has
the presence of God. The Covenant-breakers don't have this
presence of God. They threw it out. Jesus the Lamb, with his
explanations and commentaries, provides a strong cord
through his mercy to those poor saps who followed the
corruption and got themselves in this terrible quagmire.
These explanations and commentaries are their only chance of
getting back under the shikena, the presence of God.
4 "he
will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall
be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor
pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
All
pain and suffering are a result of man's error or
wrongdoings. Since man will be free from error for one
thousand years, this will eliminate suffering of any kind,
and spiritual "death will be no more".
5 "And he who sat
upon the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.' Also
he said, 'Write this, for these words are trustworthy and
true.'"
The "throne" is the throne of David which
Baha'u'llah sat upon. Both Jesus and Baha'u'llah were
descendants of King David, making them "Christs." The
meaning of the word "Christ" is a male sperm descendant of
King David that is anointed. The difference between Jesus
and Baha'u'llah is that none of Jesus' ancestors sat on the
throne of King David. Jesus was descended from David through
Nathan, the brother of King Solomon (Luke 3:23-31). He was
anointed with the Holy Spirit. However, all of Baha'u'llah's
ancestors sat on the throne of King David. Baha'u'llah's
father sat on the throne of King David, and His grandfather,
in an unbroken chain all the way back to King David.
Baha'u'llah, in His Proclamation on page 89, said that He
"ruleth upon the throne of David." This lineage of King
David is to last forever: "Once for all I have sworn by my
holiness; I will not lie to David. His line shall endure
forever, his throne as long as the sun before me. Like the
moon it shall be established for ever" (Psalms 89:35,36).
Baha'u'llah continued this lineage in His Covenant,
appointing `Abdu'l-Baha as His successor and then it is
continued on in `Abdu'l-Baha's son, Mason Remey and his
descendants, as a line of guardians, to sit as presidents or
heads of the Universal House of Justice. The great sin of
the "Hands" is that they took an ax and swung it at the very
root of this Davidic lineage that Baha'u'llah had set up to
succeed Him, and thus they tried to do away with this
Davidic lineage that is to last forever. Then they foisted
this Covenant-breaking outrageous violation onto the mass of
the foolish and ignorant Baha'is, who gobbled this
gobbledygook (violation) as if it were a delicious meal,
making them very sick Baha'i lepers
(Covenant-breakers).
The one "who sat upon the throne" in
this part of John's vision is Baha'u'llah. With His
Revelation, He renews the Divine Law (Holy of Holies) and
then He establishes the new city of God, the New Jerusalem.
This is the new Law of God, the Universal House of Justice
with the Davidic lineage as its president, or head, that the
Arch Covenant-breakers and their blind, deaf and deluded
followers rejected.
6 "And he said to me, 'It is done! I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To
the thirsty I will give water without price from the
fountain of the water of life.'"
The "fountain of the water
of life" is the Revelation of God through the Manifestation
Baha'u'llah. It is given without price in that there is no
professional clergy sapping the life's blood (money) of the
faith. Those who seek God will be shown this Revelation
free, based on their desire, or thirst.
7 "'He who conquers
shall have this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall
be my son.'"
"He who conquers" are those who overcome the
hindrances which come from the theologies (mythologies) of
the priestcraft and clergy of Christendom (such as the
fetish of worshipping Jesus as the incarnate God, and the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is with their headless monster) and
come under the provisions of the Covenant.
8 "'But as for
the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers,
fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot
shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone,
which is the second death.'"
The "cowardly" are those who
don't accept the Lamb's explanations because they are
fearful of the ridicule of family, friends, and/or the
society of which they are a part. The "faithless" of
Christendom are those of Christendom who no longer believe
that Jesus the Lamb would come and establish the Kingdom.
The "faithless" of the Covenant-breaking Baha'is are those
who no longer believe that Shoghi Effendi had a son to
succeed him, and then went astray following Ruhiyyih Khanum
and the Covenant-breaking "Hands'" creation of a headless
monster in the place of Baha'u'llah's Universal House of
Justice. The "polluted" are those who harbor these false
doctrines of Christendom and of the Covenant-breaking
Baha'is.
The "fornicators" are those people who are
attached to some church, all denominations being harlots,
and the Baha'is who go with the crowd instead of the
Covenant. God tested the Baha'is at the passing of Shoghi
Effendi. The test was that they could either go by the
Covenant or go with the crowd. They opted to go with the
crowd. God used this test, as people find safety in numbers,
so it was known from the beginning that they would fail the
test. They didn't put their trust in God and in
Baha'u'llah's Covenant, but in the crowd. Thus they became
Covenant-breakers of the worst kind. This test was not so
God could know who was and was not a Covenant-breaker, as He
is Omniscient. Rather, it was so the Baha'is could realize
that they failed the test because they were going with the
crowd instead of the Covenant, so that in the future this
wouldn't happen again.
The "sorcerers" are the clergy of
Christendom. In addition, they are the "Hands" of the Baha'i
faith who manipulated the text to promote their sect by
stating that Shoghi Effendi did not have a son, without ever
having looked for his son, so they could establish something
else, thus placing themselves in command. Therefore, this
sorcery was a fundamental means of their accomplishment, for
Shoghi Effendi did have a son.
The "idolaters" are those
people who have an image of God either in their minds or in
a carving, a mold, or picture that they turn to and worship.
In the Baha'i faith it is the image of the Arch
Covenant-breakers Ruhiyyih Khanum and the "Hands" that they
turned to instead of turning to God.
Those people who do
not become believers in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah
through the Lamb's explanations are dead spiritually and
will die "the second death" in the thermonuclear war and
perish because they were not reborn spiritually.
In
Christianity the "liars" are the clergy who mainly teach the
incarnate god lie. Other lies they teach are: that God was
Jesus' physical father instead of Joseph, as the Bible says;
that Jesus physically ascended up into the sky and would
return from the sky instead of the heaven of Revelation, or
the heaven of His Will that pervadeth all created things. In
the Baha'i faith the "liars" are mainly the conclave of
"Hands" and Ruhiyyih Khanum telling the lie that Shoghi
Effendi didn't have a son to succeed him. Through this lie,
Ruhiyyih Khanum and the Hands "seized control" and led the
entire Baha'i faith, except for a very few, astray. These
Covenant-breakers use many other lies to back up the Big Lie
of the Covenant-breakers. For example saying that those who
are faithful to the Covenant are the Covenant-breakers and
should be shunned. Thus they deflect their duped and
ignorant followers forever from realizing that they
themselves are the Covenant-breakers and therefore for the
fire. A Covenant-breaker is one who breaks the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah (Kitab-i-'Ahd) and/or the Will and Testament of
`Abdu'l-Baha. The Covenant-breakers broke the Covenant when
they threw out the executive branch found on page 15 in
`Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament, because `Abdu'l-Baha was
the delineator of Baha'u'llah's Covenant.
9 "Then came one
of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the
seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, 'Come, I will
show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.'"
The "Bride" is
the New Jerusalem which is the Covenant, which is the new
Law of God. The "Lamb" is the reestablisher of that Covenant
(Bride).
10 "And in the Spirit he carried me away to a
great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem
coming down out of heaven from God,"
A "great, high
mountain" is Mount Carmel. On the top of Mt. Carmel is where
the TRUE Universal House of Justice will be established. The
Covenant-breakers have their phony House of Justice (without
the head) on Golem Street, which is evil.
The "holy city"
again refers to the Law of God. The laws, conventions,
rites, and material regulations are the city of Jerusalem
which comes from the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, the new
heaven, and is established by the explanations and
commentaries of the Lamb.
11 "having the glory of God, its
radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as
crystal."
The "glory of God" is the English translation of
Baha'u'llah. Jesus spoke a Syrian dialect of Aramaic. Jesus
said "Baha'u'llah," which was translated into English as
glory of God. The holy city was Baha'u'llah.
The Law of God
is "clear as crystal" meaning that it is easy to understand
through `Abdu'l-Baha's explanations, for he is the
interpreter of God's Word which was revealed by the
Manifestation Baha'u'llah (Refer to the Will and Testament
of `Abdu'l-Baha).
The Law is compared to "a most rare
jewel, like a jasper." The "jasper" symbolizes the races.
Jasper can be red, brown or yellow. This refers to the first
principle of Baha'u'llah which is the oneness of
mankind.
12 "It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates,
and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names
of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were
inscribed;"
The twelve gates are twelve Apostles of Jesus
the Lamb through which the multitudes enter into the
Kingdom. Nobody gets into the Kingdom without going through
these gates.
A "great, high wall" symbolizes the theologies
and concepts which prevent mankind from entering the true
Revelation of God. It is also the wall of oppression of the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is that prevent them from entering
the city. No Covenant-breaker is allowed to enter the
Kingdom of God. The "sons of Israel" are those who strive
with God as Jacob Israel strived with God.
13 "on the east
three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three
gates, and on the west three gates."
`Abdu'l-Baha said,
"These twelve gates are souls who are as guiding stars, as
portals of knowledge and grace; within these gates there
stand twelve angels. By 'angel' is meant the power of the
confirmations of God - that the candle of God's confirming
power shineth out from the lamp-niche of those souls -
meaning that every one of those beings will be granted the
most vehement confirming support. These twelve gates
surround the entire world; that is they are a shelter for
all creatures. And further these twelve gates are the
foundation of the city of God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and
on each one of these foundations is written the name of one
of the Apostles of the spirit Jesus. That is to say, each
one maketh manifest the perfections, the joyous message, and
the excellency of that holy Being" (Selections from the
Writings of `Abdu'l-Baha, p. 166).
The twelve gates are the
twelve Apostles, or angels of the Lamb and are the members
of the second International Baha'i Council. This second
International Baha'i Council who will go through four stages
as laid down by Shoghi Effendi, and become the Universal
House of Justice. Thus the twelve gates are the foundation
of the Universal House of Justice. That is, they "surround
the entire world" as a "shelter for all creatures".
14 "And
the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the
twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb."
These
twelve Apostles are also the twelve foundations, that is,
their decisions form the foundation of the Universal House
of Justice. Their names are the names of the twelve Apostles
of the Lamb, who are seated on the second International
Baha'i Council that becomes the Universal House of
Justice.
`Abdu'l-Baha said no one enters the Kingdom unless
they pass through these twelve gates: "The meaning of the
passage is that this heavenly Jerusalem hath twelve gates,
through which the blessed enter into the City of God"
(ibid).
The "twelve gates" and "twelve angels:" twelve
times twelve equals 144. When the Lamb gets 144 disciples,
then New York City will be bombed as Nostradamus prophesied.
Then there will be 144,000 believers and God will cause
"that which will cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then
and only then will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the
Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody" (Gleanings from
the Writings of Baha'ullah, p. 119). Thus the 144 represent
the 144,000 who will become believers before the
thermonuclear war. Twelve is the square root of one hundred
and forty-four. Through these 144,000 believers, the rest of
mankind comes into God's Revelation.
15 "And he who talked
to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and
its gates and walls."
The "measuring rod of gold" is the
golden criteria by which the truth is determined and
established. That is, the Promised One is recognized by his
fulfillment of prophecies such as the prophesied name,
address, date and profession. This is the same type of
"calling card" that each Manifestation of God was given in
order to be recognized and accepted.
16 "The city lies
foursquare, its length the same as its breadth; and he
measured the city with his rod, twelve thousand stadia; its
length and breadth and height are equal.
17 He also measured
its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits by a man's
measure, that is, an angel's."
In chapter five of this book
under the subtitle of "The First Vision", I showed that this
was literally, or physically, fulfilled in the city of Deer
Lodge, Montana. But here I give a spiritual
explanation.
"Twelve thousand" times twelve equals one
hundred and forty four thousand, which is the "length and
breadth and height" that are equal. These measurements refer
to the 144,000 who will accept the Revelation of
Baha'u'llah through the Lamb's explanations before the four
winds of destruction are let loose.
18 "The wall was built
of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as
glass."
The color "jasper" symbolizes the oneness of
mankind.
"The city" (the Law of God) is as "pure gold."
Gold represents the spiritual. "Clear as glass" means that
the Law of God is solid and easy to understand through the
explanations and commentaries of the return of Jesus the
Lamb.
This is explained as follows: In the dispensation of
Moses, the spiritual leader, the high priest, who was the
only person who could go into the Holy of Holies, was Aaron,
the brother of Moses, and Aaron's biological descendants,
that is, his genealogical descendants. This is symbolized as
a tree (a rod of wood), as a tree reproduces itself. But
with Jesus the Christ who didn't have a son, and with
Muhammad who didn't have son, it was through spiritual
successors: Jesus' twelve apostles and Muhammad's twelve
Imams, who were not biological sons. These are symbolized as
iron, as iron doesn't reproduce itself.
In the Baha'i
dispensation the successor of Baha'u'llah is the Universal
House of Justice. This is a combination of Baha'u'llah's
genealogy, which is of wood, as He was a male sperm
descendant of King David which is symbolized as wood, as a
tree reproduces itself, and the appointed or elected body,
which is symbolized as iron. The executive branch is
hereditary and was passed down in His Covenant, the
Kitab-i-'Ahd, to `Abdu'l-Baha and to his son Mason Remey and
his descendants, and this forms the executive branch of the
Universal House of Justice. Therefore this executive branch
is symbolized as wood. The body of the legislative branch,
which is first appointed and then will be elected, is
symbolized as iron. `Abdu'l-Baha said: "And in this present
cycle, because it is the mightiest of dispensations, that
rod grown out of the vegetable kingdom [wood] and that of
iron will be transformed into a rod of purist gold, taken
from out the endless treasure houses in the Kingdom of the
Lord. By this rod will the people be trained" (Selections
from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha, p. 166).
The
Covenant-breakers are Covenant-breakers because they broke
the Covenant, when they threw out of their concocted
administration the executive branch, which is an integral
part of the Universal House of Justice (W&T, p. 15). What
could be a more glaring violation of the Covenant than their
created "Head-less monster?"
19 "The foundations of the
wall of the city were adorned with every jewel; the first
was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth
emerald,
20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh
chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth
chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth
amethyst."
The "foundations of the wall" are described as
precious stones. These stones have a spiritual significance.
Each stone symbolizes one of the twelve basic principles of
Baha'u'llah's Revelation. Together these principles
establish peace in the world and bring about God's Kingdom
on earth as it is in heaven.
"The first was jasper"
symbolizes the oneness of mankind. "The second sapphire"
symbolizes independent investigation of truth. "The third
agate" symbolizes the oneness of religion. "The fourth
emerald" symbolizes religion, a source of unity for all
mankind. "The fifth onyx" symbolizes the principle that
religion and science must agree. "The sixth carnelian"
symbolizes the equality of men and women. "The seventh
chrysolite" symbolizes the removal of all prejudice. "The
eighth beryl" symbolizes universal peace. "The ninth topaz"
symbolizes universal education. "The tenth chrysoprase"
symbolizes the spiritual solution to all economic problems.
"The eleventh jacinth" symbolizes one universal language to
be taught to all peoples. "The twelfth amethyst" symbolizes
The International Tribunal.
For more information on these
twelve basic principles refer to the book Paris Talks by
`Abdu'l-Baha.
21 "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls,
each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of
the city was pure gold, transparent as glass."
The "twelve
gates" represent twelve individuals. They are seen as
"pearls" which symbolize the spiritual station of these
individuals. The pearl of great price is the heavenly aura
of those who gain this station through their detachment from
all things save God.
The "street of the city" is described
as "pure gold," symbolizing the unadulterated Revelation of
God, compared to that of Christianity and Islam which was
iron
Again it is said to be "transparent as glass" meaning
that this Revelation is clear or easy to understand through
the explanations and commentaries of the Lamb.
22 "And I
saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God
the Almighty and the Lamb."
The temple is the shikena, the
presence of God. What is being said here is that the only
place in this whole, wide world where this presence of God
can be found is where the Lamb reestablishes the Universal
House of Justice in its childhood form, the second
International Baha'i Council.
In the Baha'i faith, when we
live the life, teach His Cause and are firm in the Covenant,
we receive the bounty of the Holy Spirit. This is the
presence of God, or "Shikena." However, if any one of these
is cut off, then the Holy Spirit is cut off. The so-called
"mainstream Baha'is" broke the Covenant when they did away
with the executive branch. Therefore, they do not have the
"Shikena" (the presence of God). Thus, they are cut off from
the bounty of the Holy Spirit, which is spiritual death.
When they die the physical death they will be DEAD-DEAD.
23 "And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon
it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the
Lamb."
"Glory of God" is the English translation of the
title Baha'u'llah. His Revelation is the light and the lamp
that this light shines from is the Lamb, that is, there is
no other place or condition in this whole, wide world to get
this light except where the Lamb is.
24 "By its light
shall the nations walk; and the kings of the earth shall
bring their glory into it,"
Those who come into the
Revelation of Baha'u'llah by the explanations of the Lamb or
come under the Lamb's commentaries are in the city. All
others are not in the city, that is, not under the Law of
God, and need to be resurrected out of their tombs into the
"light" of Baha'u'llah that shineth forth from the lamp of
the Lamb. By this light coming from the lamp of the Lamb,
the nations will walk and the kings or rulers of the world
will bring their Baha'is into it. This will take place right
after the nuclear war.
25 "and its gates shall never be
shut by day - and there shall be no night there;"
Its
"gates" are The Twelve Apostles of the Lamb. They are the
active members of the second International Baha'i Council
which becomes the Universal House of Justice. The people
must pass through these gates to enter the city. They give
the Lamb's explanations to the people of the world and all
those who become believers come in through the
"gates."
"Day" refers to that time of wakefulness when the
people become awake to the true Revelation of Baha'u'llah as
explained by the Lamb. With the Lamb's explanations and
commentaries, there will be no night season (the Revelation
won't become corrupted) like in the past. Right after the
four winds of destruction, which will be devastating,
everyone will cry out, "God, please stop! We surrender! We
have had enough!"
26 "they shall bring into it the glory
and the honor of the nations."
They will bring the nations
into the new city, or the Kingdom of God on earth as it is
in heaven.
27 "But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any
one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those
who are "written in the Lamb's book of life."
None of the
Christians that cling to the Trinity and the incarnate god
lie will get into the Kingdom. Nor will any of the
Covenant-breakers get into the city. Only those of mankind
who accept the explanations of the Lamb and come under the
provisions of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah will be in the new
city. All non-believers and wicked wrongdoers will either
become believers or perish in the four winds of destruction
that are to be let loose upon mankind between now and the
end of this century. So don't wait until your family is
destroyed, or when your city is destroyed; become a believer
in the Lamb now, before it is too late, when the ones you
love the most are taken from you. Your salvation is in your
own hands.
REVELATION CHAPTER 22
1 "Then he showed me the
river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from
the throne of God and of the Lamb"
The "river of the water
of life" is the Revelation of Baha'u'llah and it is
explained by the Lamb.
"Bright as crystal" means that it is
made easy to understand through the Lamb's explanations and
commentaries.
The "throne" is the throne of King David that
is to last forever. Baha'u'llah is a male sperm descendant
of King David seated on this throne, which is the meaning of
the word "Christ," therefore Baha'u'llah is the second
coming of Christ. In His Covenant (Kitab-i-'Ahd),
Baha'u'llah continued this lineage through His son,
'Abdu'l-Baha, then `Abdu'l-Baha continued this lineage in
his son Mason Remey. Mason Remey continued this lineage in
his son Joseph Pepe Remey. Shoghi Effendi, the guardian of
the Baha'i faith, placed Mason Remey at the head of the
embryonic Universal House of Justice (the first
International Baha'i Council) where "all the difficult
problems are to be resolved" and "the guardian of the Cause
of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for
life of that body." Thus this lineage of King David is
continued in the executive branch, or head of the Universal
House of Justice. Shoghi Effendi was not a male sperm
descendant of King David; therefore neither he nor his
(biological) son could, if he would have had one, sit at the
head of the Universal House of Justice because Shoghi
Effendi was only a descendant of `Abdu'l-Baha through
`Abdu'l-Baha's daughter, who was his mother. The Davidic
lineage is only passed down through the male line. However,
Shoghi Effendi did have a non-biological son, which was the
first International Baha'i Council that had `Abdu'l-Baha's
son as its president. This council was his successor, to
whom the whole Baha'i world should have turned, instead of
turning to the Covenant-breaking "Hands."
The Lamb is the
return of Jesus, as the Lamb, to whom all the people of the
world are to turn.
2 "Through the middle of the street of
the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of
life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each
month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of
the nations."
The "city" is the New Jerusalem, the "Holy
City". This refers to the material Law, which is described
as the Holy City. The tree of life is the Covenant.
The
"river" is the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.
The "tree of
life" is the Covenant of Baha'u'llah. Unless one eats of
this tree he doesn't inherit eternal life. The
Covenant-breakers eat of the fruit of the tree, the twelve
basic principles, but they don't eat of the tree itself.
Therefore, they don't inherit eternal life.
The "twelve
kinds of fruit" are the twelve basic principles of the
Baha'i faith which were previously described as precious
stones.
The "leaves of the tree" symbolize the believers of
this Revelation who are under the provisions of the
Covenant. By teaching God's Word and establishing His Cause,
they heal the nations. The leaves also symbolize the
spiritual part of Baha'u'llah's Revelation.
3 "There shall
no more be any thing accursed, but the throne of God and of
the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall worship
him;"
"Any thing accursed" is the breaking of the Covenant;
therefore, this afflicts mankind, leading them into
perdition.
The "throne of God" is the Davidic lineage
seated on the throne of King David, which `Abdu'l-Baha
continued in the guardianship.
"The Lamb shall be in it"
means his explanations and commentaries will guide the House
of Justice.
All those who become believers in this
Revelation through the Lamb's explanations will realize that
the guardian is the sign of God on earth and is the head
(executive) of the legislative body of the Universal House
of Justice. Without both the executive branch and the
legislative body there could be no justice, and without
justice there could not be a Universal House of
Justice.
"The legislative body must reinforce the
executive, the executive must aid and assist the legislative
body so that through the close union and harmony of these
two forces, the foundation of fairness and justice may
become firm and strong, that all the regions of the world
may become even as Paradise itself." (Will and Testament, p.
15).
4 "they shall see his face, and his name shall be on
their foreheads."
"They shall see his face" means mankind
will recognize Baha'u'llah as being the Manifestation of
God, as the Manifestation represents the face of God.
"His
name shall be on their foreheads" means they are believers
because they have used their intellects, which is in the
forebrain, to discern the proofs of the Manifestation of
God, rather than accepting Him based on blind faith.
5 "And
night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or sun,
for the Lord God will be their light, and they shall reign
for ever and ever."
All the past Revelations of God have
reached their zenith wherein they became corrupt, and the
true meaning of that Revelation became misinterpreted and
was lost. This is what is referred to as darkness or
"night."
The Revelation of Baha'u'llah will never become
"night." The Universal House of Justice prevents
misinterpretation or usurpation of this Revelation. "If that
House of Justice shall decide unanimously, or by a majority,
upon any question not mentioned in the Book (Kitab-i-Aqdas)
that decision and command will be guarded from mistake."
The Revelation that Baha'u'llah has brought will suffice
mankind for five hundred thousand years. There will come
sub-Manifestations about every thousand years or so to make
changes for the exigencies of the times. This is to be the
first time in the history of man's existence that the
Kingdom of God is established and it will last for half a
million years. Then God will send another Manifestation of
the potency of Baha'u'llah and He will unite this planet
wilh another planet.
6 "And he said to me, 'These words
are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the
spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his
servants what must soon take place."
The "angel" is the
angel that Jesus sent to John (see Revelation 1:1) and whose
purpose was to prophesy what was to come in order for the
Kingdom of God to be established.
7 "'And behold, I am
coming soon.' Blessed is he who keeps the words of the
prophecy of this book."
This is a warning that the time for
these prophecies to be fulfilled is soon. Two thousand
years, from Jesus of Nazareth to now, is a short time
compared to the four billion years of the life of this
planet.
"Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy
of this book" is the Lamb. The meanings are to be understood
through the Lamb's explanations and commentaries only.
8 "I
John am he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard
and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the
angel who showed them to me;
9 but he said to me, 'You must
not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your
brethren the prophets, and with those who keep the words of
this book. Worship God."
John was overwhelmed by the
visions the angel had revealed to him and wanted to worship
the "angel." But the angel told him not to do this; to
"worship God" only.
10 "And he said to me, 'Do not seal up
the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is
near.'"
Some of the visions which were revealed to John
began to be fulfilled shortly after he received them. For
example, the anti-Christ had already begun to exist, and
shortly after this the dragon came into existence and began
its corruption of the Revelation of Muhammad.
11 "'Let the
evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and
the righteous still do right, and the holy still be
holy.'"
This means that following the time when John
receives these visions, mankind is to continue in their ways
for a while.
12 "'Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my
recompense, to repay every one for what he has done.'"
This
means the Christians will not be saved by their beliefs, as
their religion soon became corrupted by a clergy class
beginning in the days of John, as they are followers of
anti-Christ. Anti-Christ, meaning they are against the
genealogy of Jesus through his father Joseph back to King
David. They claim God is Jesus' physical father, making them
anti-Christ. The apostate Baha'is have broken the Covenant
of Baha'u'llah. Everyone will receive what they deserve
based on the deeds they have performed. Those who have
turned toward the Kingdom, explained by the Lamb, will be
rewarded, and those who have turned against it will receive
punishment as their recompense.
13 "'I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the
end.'"
This refers to Jesus who gave this Revelation to
John, making him the first, and to the return of Jesus as
the Lamb who made these explanations, "the last."
Baha'u'llah came over a hundred years ago. However, Jesus
the Lamb comes at the very end of the Adamic cycle that
began in 4000 BC and comes to an end exactly 6,000 years
later on December 31, 1999 AD. Only Jesus knew the meanings
of this book of Revelation, as he revealed it to John who
wrote it down. That is, Jesus was both the first and the
last. Nobody in the entire world up to now knew the meanings
of this Book of Revelation. Neither the Christians nor the
Baha'is knew the meanings of this book except the few parts
that 'Abdu'l-Baha explained in Some Answered Questions, and
these explanations pertain mostly to the advent of Muhammad
and the coming of the Bab and Baha'u'llah. Therefore, only
the knowledge of these explanations of the Lamb will be able
to save people from the perdition that is upon us, both
physically and spiritually.
14 "Blessed are those who wash
their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of
life and that they may enter the city by the gates."
"Those
who wash their robes" are the people who will turn to the
explanations of the Lamb and clean up their acts, and get
rid of their fallacious beliefs, for they are all erroneous.
This applies to all the people of the world including both
the Christians and Covenant-breaking Baha'is. Their "robes"
(beliefs) are as dirty as a pig wallowing in the mud. Nobody
is going to get into Paradise, either in this life or the
next, wearing these very dirty robes. The Christians sing a
song that goes something like this: "Wash your robes in the
blood of the Lamb." Jesus made it clear that the blood or
wine is a symbol of the Covenant.
In abiding by God's Will,
the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, they shall be under
His Covenant; that is, the "tree of Life" through which they
gain "the right" to "the city" of God, and "the gates" are
the Apostles of the Lamb and then the 144,000 believers
after New York City is nuked. When these believers go out to
spread the explanations of the Lamb, the people will begin
to accept the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, thus entering into
"the city by the gates."
15 "Outside are the dogs, and
sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and
every one who loves and practices falsehood."
This refers
primarily to the clergy who have continued to mislead the
mass of mankind so that they have failed to recognize the
true Religion of God. This includes also the leaders of the
Covenant-breaking Baha'i faith. They are "outside" the city
meaning they are not under the provisions of the Covenant.
The dogs return to eat their own vomit. That is what the
Arch Covenant-breakers do, eat their own vomit. They became
believers in the headless monster they created. The
"sorcerers" are the clergy who cause their statues to cry
and their hands to bleed, etc. The "fornicators" are those
who embrace false religions, like one or another of the
22,000 sects or denominations of Christianity, as well as
the Baha'is who have intercourse with the Covenant-breaking
religion of the "Hands faith."
The Christian clergy became
believers themselves in the dogmas, rituals and false
concepts that they created. They are like the idolater who
stays up all night to carve a statue and then the next day
he bows down and worships it as God, or like the
Covenant-breaking Baha'is who abide by the false Universal
House of Justice, a headless monster, that doesn't have the
executive branch which is an integral part of the Universal
House of Justice. Thus they worship their own creation.
Therefore they are the dogs that return and gobble up their
own vomit (gobbledygook). Without the executive branch,
justice is impossible. Without justice there cannot be a
Universal House of Justice (see page 15 of the Will and
Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha).
16 "'I Jesus have sent my angel
to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root
and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.'"
Aha!
Here Jesus establishes his lineage by stating he is "the
root and offspring of David," meaning he is not the physical
son of God, or God, as the clergy have led their befuddled
followers to believe.
The "angel" is the intermediary
between Jesus and John who has been sent to reveal a message
that is to be given to all mankind.
17 "The Spirit and the
Bride say, 'Come.' And let him who hears say, 'Come.' And
let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the
water of life without price."
The clergy charge money to
get what they call salvation, whereas in the TRUE Baha'i
faith, it is without price.
The "Spirit" is Jesus who is
referred as the spirit. Jesus on his return is the Lamb who
alone gives the pure water of life, which is free of all
pollutants and is without price.
The "Bride" is the Kingdom
of God on earth as it is in heaven which was prophesied by
Jesus, brought by Baha'u'llah, and is being established by
Jesus the Lamb.
Together, "the Spirit," "Jesus the Lamb,"
and the "Bride" beckon to all who are seekers of truth to
come and take "the water of life," that is, the knowledge of
God. This knowledge is given in abundance and at no cost to
those who desire it.
18 "I warn every one who hears the
words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them,
God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
19
and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life
and in the holy city, which are described in this
book."
These two verses warn of the consequences which one
will suffer if he dares to alter the prophecies that have
been revealed, or adds to them or subtracts words. To alter
in any way these prophecies would create a misconception.
This misconception would prevent one from recognizing the
Kingdom and he would thus be cut off from it. The Book of
Revelation was written in such a manner that no one
understands it, so they don't try to alter it. If they
understood it, it would have been altered.
20 "He who
testifies to these things says, 'Surely I am coming soon.'
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be
with all the saints. Amen."
The "saints" are those who turn
to the Lamb and go out and teach the true Cause of
Baha'u'llah, without charge.
"Jesus," in these two verses,
refers to the Lamb who is the return of Jesus, just as John
the Baptist was the return of Elijah. They are two different
persons, but one is fulfilling the other's mission. Jesus
gave the prophecies to John by sending his angel to him.
This angel returns to the Lamb, Leland, and gives him the
interpretation, as this is the Revelation of Jesus the Lamb
who stood before the angel that knew the meanings or correct
interpretations.
THE SEVEN CHURCHES
The seven churches
of Revelation, chapters two and three are symbolic of seven
groups calling themselves "Baha'i," only one of which is the
true Baha'i Faith. Shoghi Effendi provided only one criteria
in order to determine who was and who was not a true
Baha'i:
"Regarding the very delicate and complex question
of ascertaining the qualifications of a true believer,... [I
only state]... the principal factors that must be taken into
consideration before deciding whether a person may be
regarded a true believer or not: Full recognition of the
station of the Forerunner, the Author, and the True Exemplar
of the Baha'i Cause, as set forth in 'Abdu'l-Baha's
Testament; unreserved acceptance of, and submission to,
whatsoever has been revealed by their Pen; loyal and
steadfast adherence to every clause of our Beloved's sacred
Will; and close association with the spirit as well as the
form of the present-day Baha'i administration throughout the
world -- these I conceive to be the fundamental and primary
considerations that must be... ascertained before reaching
such a vital decision."
This criteria was used as the
Baha'i faith membership card in the days of Shoghi Effendi.
A true believer was someone who had loyal and steadfast
adherence to every clause of the Will and Testament of
'Abdu'l-Baha. An administration that does not incorporate
all the elements of that Will and Testament cannot be said
to embody "loyal and steadfast adherence to every clause of
our Beloved's sacred Will." Such an administration is not
composed of true believers and thus is not the true Baha'i
Faith.
Six of the seven churches described in chapters two
and three of the Book of Revelation are not in accordance
with every clause of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament, and
thus are false claimants to the name "Baha'i." Five of
these six false groups came into existence after the passing
of Shoghi Effendi when the Baha'is were scattered by the
inaugural Covenant-breaking of the Hands of the Cause. The
sixth one is a dissident group which broke off later from
the true Baha'i Faith.
The principal factor at issue in
Covenant-breaking is always the matter of successorship. At
the passing of Baha'u'llah some did not want to accept His
successor 'Abdu'l-Baha; at the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha some
did not want to accept his successor Shoghi Effendi. At the
passing of Shoghi Effendi the entire Baha'i world was in the
dark concerning his successor, and to this day some do not
comprehend that he even had a successor.
The successor to
Shoghi Effendi was his lineal descendent, the first
International Baha'i Council (IBC). This IBC was the
embryonic stage of the Universal House of Justice (UHJ), and
thus it was the same entity as the UHJ, just as is the case
with the stages of growth of human beings and other
life-forms. The membership of this council was directly
appointed by Shoghi Effendi, thus it is his "lineal"
descendant, coming from him in a straight line. Shoghi
Effendi's successor was alive and in the world six years
prior to when Shoghi Effendi died in 1957.
At the head of
this council Shoghi Effendi placed, as the president and
member for life, Charles Mason Remey. This, and the fact
that Mason was 'Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son, qualify Mason as
a guardian. This is in accordance with the clause on page 12
of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha -- that the
succeeding guardian must be a son and he must be appointed
by the preceding guardian, during his lifetime. Page 14
gives us the clause that the guardian of the Cause of God is
the head of the UHJ.
Shoghi Effendi's interpretation of his
unique station was that even though he was the guardian of
the Cause of God he was not a member and he was not the
president/head of the IBC/UHJ. This is because the very last
page of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha -- "Part
Three," provided that Shoghi Effendi was the "Center of the
Cause." The Center of the Cause is a station in addition to
being the guardian of the Cause. The Center of the Cause
provision places Shoghi Effendi in the position to
infallibly guide and rule the Baha'i faith by himself,
without assistance from any other individual or
administrative body.
As the infallible Center of the Baha'i
faith, Shoghi Effendi was restricted from membership on that
IBC or on any of the stages of that Universal House of
Justice, including the final stage. This is due to the fact
that 'Abdu'l-Baha stated, in Some Answered Questions, that
no single member of the UHJ has infallibility but only the
general body has conferred infallibility. Thus, the head or
president, the member for life, does not have infallibility
and therefore Shoghi Effendi could never be the head or even
a member of that institution as it is not possible for him
to abdicate his station of infallibility as the Center of
the Cause.
Therefore, Shoghi Effendi's placement of Mason
as a guardian who fulfills the role of the president of the
UHJ does not give Mason, or any succeeding guardian, a
station like that of Shoghi Effendi, as Shoghi Effendi's
station began and ended with him in the same way that
'Abdu'l-Baha's station began and ended with 'Abdu'l-Baha.
Only the entire body of the IBC/UHJ has a similar position
of being the center of authority, the center that wards off
differences, as provided on pages 11, 14 and 20 of the Will
and Testament.
The institution of guardianship, now
restricted to being the presidency of the UHJ, remains the
"Sign of God" on earth, meaning that whatever Baha'i
administration has this sign from God, the guardian, at its
head, that is the true Baha'i administration.
Only one of
the seven churches adheres to the true guardian, to the true
institution of the guardianship, and to every clause of the
Will and Testament. The other six have broken off from the
guardianship to varying degrees and their status is
determined according to their theology about the institution
of guardianship and their adherence to the true
guardianship.
Four of these groups are identified in the
Covenant-breaking publication, Bibliography of
English-Language Works on the Babi and Baha'i Faiths, by
William P. Collins, George Ronald Press; and Encyclopedia of
American Religions, 3rd Edition.
The messages to each
church cite what counts in their favor and what counts
against them. At the end of each message is a general
announcement: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the
spirit says to the churches," referring to those "who
conquer." I will just quote the passages specific to each
church, thereby identifying it.
In the Book of Revelation
events are not always recorded in chronological sequence. In
order to address the churches chronologically as they
emerged in time we depart from the order in which they are
recorded in Revelations.
The six false groups:
CHURCH OF
THYATIRA
The church of Thyatira are those who followed
the Hands. Today they accept the illegitimate UHJ, and
constitute the "mainstream" Covenant-breakers who call
themselves the "Baha'i World Faith." This largest group is
divided into two parts. The first part of the message is to
those who accept the lies of the Hands of the Cause and
their illegitimate UHJ, and who have no love for the truth.
The second part of the message to Thyatira is for those who
will come out of them, the 144,000.
Rev. 2:19-23: "I know
your works, your love and faith and service and patient
endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. But
I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman
Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and
beguiling my servants to practice immorality and to eat food
sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she
refuses to repent of her immorality. Behold, I will throw
her on a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I
will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her
doings; and I will strike her children dead. And all the
churches shall know that I am he who searches mind and
heart, and I will give to each of you as your works
deserve."
The latter works that exceed the first means the
works of the 144,000 exceed the works of those people among
the Covenant-breakers who were in the faith before 1957.
These 144,00 will have to re-establish the Faith in all the
countries of the world as in the Ten Year World Spiritual
Crusade.
But the main body of Covenant-breakers adore the
Jezebel, Ruhiyyih Khanum. Historically, Jezebel was the wife
King Ahab of Israel -- the Northern Kingdom. She instituted
paganism among the ten northern tribes who had split off
from the Kings of David. This is descriptive of Ruhiyyih,
the wife of the guardian, instituting false teachings among
the modern-day Israel (Israel means "those who strive by the
word of God") that has split off from the Kingship of David,
which is the guardianship.
Jezebel had the prophets of
Israel put to death. Ruhiyyih has put to death the spirit of
the faith among the group that follows her. In history,
eventually Elijah rose against Jezebel's pagan priests,
putting them to death at the foot of Mt. Carmel. Jezebel was
put to death with trampling by chariots, then her body was
thrown outside the city and consumed by dogs. The "body" of
Ruhiyyih Khanum is the body of that false UHJ, and the dogs
(infidels) that consume this body are the followers of that
body. They are outside the city of the Covenant and outside
the faith.
The Nicolaitans were a sect that brought
paganism into Christianity. They were identified as those
who ate food sacrificed to idols. The mainstream
Covenant-breakers are the Nicolaitans. Revelation 2:6 says
God hates their works. The eating of the food sacrificed to
idols is their taking part in that false administration
(idol) fashioned by their own hands, seeking spiritual
sustenance from it rather than from the Revelation, and
expecting that their salvation is found in being members of
it.
Those who follow Jezebel are those who commit adultery,
which is symbolic for idolatry. This is connected with
Revelation 18:7; Ruhiyyih Khanum, Jezebel, is like the
adulterous harlot of Rev. 18 who says: "A queen I sit, I am
no widow, mourning I shall never see."
The sickbed of
Jezebel indicates that spiritual disease of
Covenant-breaking, which is a blood-born disease, such as
AIDS, that they contract from intercourse with the harlot,
as blood in scripture is a symbol of the Covenant. Her child
is the false UHJ she created and its followers are "struck
dead" spiritually by accepting her false teachings.
Rev.
2:24-28: "But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not
hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the
deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay upon you
any other burden; only hold fast what you have, until I
come. He who conquers and who keeps my works until the end,
I will give him power over the nations, and he shall rule
them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in
pieces, even as I myself have received power from my Father;
and I will give him the morning star."
For those who disown
this false group great things are in store. They have "power
over the nations," meaning they will be among the 144,000
who will teach the nations, bringing them into the kingdom.
These nations shall elect the body of the UHJ which is the
iron rod, and the UHJ shall rule over the nations. This UHJ
breaks up the earthen pots of the man-made governments,
including the man-made UHJ of the Hands.
The city of
Thyatira was different from the others in that it was
populated by a large mixture of races. The mainstream
Covenant-breakers, unlike any of the other groups, are from
all the different races and nationalities, from over the
planet.
It is written that if the Baha'is should deviate
from the Covenant there would arise in a short period of
time many opposing "Baha'i" sects. The result of the
violation of the Hands was that it initiated the birth of
other "Baha'i" sects, all of which is divisive and
confusing. The group following the Hands and their
illegitimate UHJ is itself, in essence, divided up into
thousands of sects, as each person has their own
interpretation of what it means to be a "Baha'i." They say:
"I'm a Christian Baha'i," or "I'm a Buddhist Baha'i," or
even, "I'm a pagan Baha'i." They do not have the
understanding that the Baha'i faith is not a social
movement, such as Secular Humanism or other philosophies. It
is the religion of God and when you enter the religion of
God you leave your past ways behind. The veil has not been
removed for these people.
At the council of Badasht,
Tahirih appeared in public without her veil, her face
exposed to all eyes. This demonstrated graphically to the
Babis that they were no longer Muslims: that there was no
such thing as a "Muslim Babi." You were either a Babi or
something else, but not both. Likewise, you are either a
Baha'i -- who accepts absolutely the Covenant -- or you are
something else. You cannot, in your heart, be a member of
another religion and be a Baha'i also. Baha'u'llah said in
the Persian Hidden Words (#26, #27), that we should cast the
stranger out of our hearts so that the Friend might abide
there.
The question comes up repeatedly: Why did this
happen? In 1961 Dr. Leland Jensen visited the guardian,
Mason Remey, in Washington D.C. This question came up
amongst the believers assembled there. Mason explained that
this was a test, that iniquities must come as it says in the
Bible, and this is to test the believers. Doesn't it warn in
the Q'uran that if you claim you are a believer you will be
put to the test?
Either the Baha'is knew the Covenant and
were pure in heart and therefore they passed the test; or
they didn't know the Covenant (as was the case with the
majority of the believers), or they didn't have a pure heart
(as was the case with the Hands), and so they failed the
test.
Mason explained that those gathered had already
passed this first test on whether or not the guardianship
would continue. Then he told them that the next test would
be that the Baha'is would not know who the next guardian
was. After stating this, Mason Remey proceeded, over the
course of several years, to appoint several different
persons to be the guardian. For instance, he appointed an
IBC, naming the different members of it "vice-president
number one," "vice-president number two," and so forth, with
the implication that the highest one up on the list would
have the first shot at being the next guardian upon his
death. Then he appointed elders with the same program. In
addition, he wrote that letter to Joel Marangella.
Finally
all the believers fell away, following after different
guardians, even before Mason was dead. But none of these
supposed guardians were adopted by Mason Remey as his son,
with the exception of Joseph Pepe. Mason said they wouldn't
know who was the guardian, and this was because they didn't
know the Covenant. In the Will and Testament, it gives the
criteria for recognizing the guardian: that he should be a
son and he should be appointed by the previous guardian.
Instead of going by this criteria, the followers of these
ones looked at the personal qualities of the candidates for
guardianship, thinking they could judge by how "spiritual"
they were. This was the test, whether or not they would
follow the Covenant in trying to discern who the guardian
was. Despite their knowledge of the violation of the Hands,
these Baha'is still hadn't learned to follow the
Covenant.
Since then these followers have split off into
different groups as follows.
CHURCH OF LAODICEA
Those
who followed "the Man," Jamshid Ma'ani, who claimed an
independent prophethood. The group was organized around John
Carre and called itself the "Faith of God," the "House of
Mankind" and the "Universal Palace of Order."
Rev. 3:15-17:
"I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that
you were cold or hot! So, because you are luke-warm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. For
you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing;
not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind,
and naked."
This church hasn't even a semblance of the
Baha'i administration. They centered around the "Man," who
claimed independent prophethood and threw out the teachings
of 'Abdu'l-Baha. They are lukewarm because they no longer
care about the guardianship or the Baha'i faith and are no
longer active (listed as "defunct" in Encyclopedia of
Religions). They have their own plan which may or may not
include a guardian. The guardianship is not of any
particular importance in their teachings.
CHURCH OF
EPHESUS
The church of Ephesus are those who followed
Joel Marangella, organized as the "Orthodox Baha'i Faith,"
and the "Mother Baha'i Council."
Rev. 2:2-6: "I know your
works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you
cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call
themselves apostles but are not, and found them to be false;
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my
name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this
against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at
first. Remember then from what you have fallen, repent and
do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you
and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
Yet this you have, you hate the works of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate."
At the urging of Rex King, Joel
Marangella claimed the guardianship, abandoning Mason Remey
while he was still alive. This is the meaning of, "you have
abandoned the love you had at first," meaning this group is
not firm in the Covenant. Still, they teach and accept that
Mason was the guardian of the Faith so they have not fallen
as far as four of the other churches. They are also very
active against the mainstream Covenant-breakers
(Nicolaitans).
CHURCH OF PERGAMUM
The church of
Pergamum are those who followed Rex King as the regent
guardian, who are now organized as the "Orthodox Baha'i
Faith Under the Regency."
Rev. 2:13: "I know where you
dwell, where Satan's throne is...."
Rex King tried to usurp
the guardianship from Mason Remey, wanting Mason to name him
as a regent guardian. Mason Remey designated him the Satan
of this period. Rex King split a large group of believers
away from Mason in the Marangella group, then he split off
from Marangella, thus forming his own private sect. Like
Satan of old, he turned the people away from the true faith.
Today, this group rejects the fact that Mason was a
guardian. They also reject the administration as set up by
Shoghi Effendi. Instead, they have a council of regent
guardians that they plan to follow until such time as a
descendent of Baha'u'llah appears and assumes the
guardianship.
CHURCH OF SMYRNA
The church of Smyrna
are those who accepted Donald Harvey as guardian after Mason
Remey's death. They are loosely affiliated in the "Charles
Mason Remey Society" of Francis C. Spataro.
Rev. 2:9-11: "I
know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich)
and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are
not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear what you are
about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of
you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days
you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I
will give you the crown of life."
Donald Harvey did not
arise to claim the guardianship until after Mason's death
when Joseph Pepe Remey, Mason's adopted son, directed the
people to follow Harvey. Pepe had convinced Mason to write a
letter making Harvey the guardian. Thus his followers are
"rich." They believe in the guardianship but they are also
"poor," being they don't actually have a guardian. Francis
C. Spataro was the one who endured the slander of the
synagogue of Satan when he was rejected by the Rex King
group. Today they follow Jacques Soghomonian as the
guardian.
CHURCH OF SARDIS
Dissidents to the Lamb and
the Covenant
The church of Sardis are those who believed in
Dr. Leland Jensen as the return of Jesus the High Priest
based on his proofs, but broke off from him to form a
loose-knit group having individual interpretations of the
meaning of the Covenant and became united only in their
opposition to Jesus on his return. At first they accepted
the guardianship of Joseph Pepe Remey, but since then some
of them have signed a document declaring allegiance to
Jacques Soghomonian. They are organized through "The Friends
Newsletter."
This newsletter contains the editorial
statement: "The Friends Newsletter is a way for Baha'is to
stay in touch and become unified in the Revelation, and
still feel free to express their thoughts, whatever they may
be;" Also, "It [the newsletter] strives to foster unity...."
Comparing this with the Writings, we find that this motto to
be in conflict with the Writings.
"To none is given the
right to put forth his own opinion or express his particular
convictions" (Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha).
This
group continues to use unity as their excuse.
"...with
Divine Unity for his excuse deprived himself and perturbed
and poisoned others" (Will and Testament of
'Abdu'l-Baha).
Rev. 3: 1-5: "I know your works; you have
the name of being alive, and you are dead. Awake, and
strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I
have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.
Remember then what you received and heard; keep that, and
repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and
you will not know at what hour I will come upon you. Yet you
have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled
their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for
they are worthy.
"He who conquers shall be clad thus in
white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book
of life; I will confess his name before my Father and before
his angels."
This group claims to be the true Baha'is
having the "true spirituality" and the true understanding of
the Covenant. This is the "name of being alive." But they
are spiritually dead because they knew more of the truth
than the other groups did, and they turned against it. What
they received and heard is the proofs of name, date,
address, and mission; none of the other groups go by
proofs.
The "few names" are those who were poisoned by the
twisted thinking and doctrine of Sardis, and because of that
they left the BUPC. But they don't swallow the lies of
Sardis either, and aren't actively attacking the Baha'i
Faith, thus they have not "soiled their garments." This is
like the story of Snow White: the evil queen gave her a
poison apple which was supposed to kill her but it got
caught in her throat and she didn't swallow it. But the
poison made her fall into a deep, deep sleep, until a Prince
(Knight on a white horse) came along and, giving her a kiss
(voicing the teachings), revives her.
Then it says: "I will
not blot his name out of the book of life." The only names
written into the Lamb's book of life are the names of those
who accepted the return of Jesus, the Lamb. Having a name
blotted out means that name was written in the book to start
with and then had to be erased. This clearly identifies the
dissident group, as they are the only group who originally
accepted the Lamb and then turned against him, thus they are
under the threat of having their name blotted out unless
they repent. None of the other groups accepted the Lamb and
then rejected him. Most have yet to discover him.
The
seventh church is the true one, continuing the Baha'i faith
as revealed by Baha'u'llah, interpreted and delineated by
'Abdu'l-Baha, and first instituted by Shoghi
Effendi.
CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA
The City of Brotherly
Love
The church of Philadelphia are those who follow the
Lamb wherever he goes, known as "Baha'is Under the
Provisions of the Covenant."
Rev. 3:7-11: "The words of the
holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens
and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens.
"I know
your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door,
which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but
little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not
denied my name. Behold, I will make those of the synagogue
of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie --
behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet,
and learn that I have loved you. Because you have kept my
word of patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of
trial which is coming on the whole world, to try those who
dwell upon the earth. I am coming soon; hold fast what you
have, so that no one may seize your crown."
This is the
only group that knows the meaning of the word "Christ," and
the true meaning of the guardianship, the Christ of the
Baha'i World Order. Thus the "key of David" is mentioned.
Because of this knowledge they know that the other groups
are false. The term "Christ" designates a
male-sperm-descendant of David. The "key of David" is the
meaning of the word "Christ". Baha'u'llah came from this
genealogy and so did His son 'Abdu'l-Baha, who adopted Mason
Remey. Mason Remey became the next Davidic King after
'Abdu'l-Baha. Shoghi Effendi then appointed Mason as the
president/head of the IBC/UHJ, making him the next guardian,
thus the Davidic Kingship continues on in the institution of
guardianship. There are two criteria for a claim to the
guardianship: the first is that the claimant must be,
physically or legally, a son; the second is that he must be
appointed by the previous guardian.
Who "opens and no one
shall shut, who shuts and no one opens," refers to the doors
of interpretation. "Having but little power" refers to the
power of the large numbers of people which we do not have;
this is because God wants the people to know it is by His
power that the Kingdom will be established.
The "synagogue
of Satan" is the Rex King group. When Dr. Jensen was
released from Deer Lodge Prison he traveled around the
country amongst the different Baha'i groups, hoping to
educate them. After he had visited the Rex King group they
asked one of their followers, Francis Spataro, to write a
refutation of Dr. Jensen's claim. Instead of doing that,
this person wrote a refutation of the Rex King group! They
threw him out for that and afterwards he started the "Mason
Remey Society," uniting the loosely affiliated Donald
Harvey group through a newsletter. In the early 90s he
became an Episcopalian minister but in his last newsletter
he declared that Dr. Jensen was the Knight and the true
establisher of the Baha'i Faith and that the true line of
guardianship was just as Dr. Jensen had said, going from
Mason to Pepe Remey, and not from Mason, to Donald Harvey,
to Jacques Soghomonian.
Philadelphia is the only church of
which nothing negative is said. Unlike the other groups it
hasn't gone against God in any way whatsoever.
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