THE APOCALYPSE 1

THE APOCALYPSE 1

[EUREKA TRANSLATION]

When The Apocalypse was written

It was communicated to John after his removal from judea from some cause; and subsequently to his going to Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, where also he sojourned in tribulation and endurance.

This is all he considered necessary for the reader to know, and therefore with this scanty information we shall endeavor to be satisfied.

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1. A REVELATION of Jesus Anointed which the Deity committed to him to exhibit to his servants things which must be speedily accomplished; and he indicated them by sign having sent by his messenger to his servant John,

The apocalypse is an exhibition of things to be transacted subsequently to the communication of it; and when we look into it we find its signs, scenes, and so forth, all tending to, or terminating in, the personal manifestation of Jesus Christ before the nations, the overthrow of their dominions, and the victory of his Brethren, the Saints, over the grave, and over the Satanism of "Christendom"

...This contemporary glorification of Jesus and his brethren of the Abrahamic Family is the subject matter of their apocalypse

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"The Revelation;" which, indeed, expresses the truth; for the book is a revelation, and one specially imparted: but still, the name is objectionable, inasmuch as it is only a very small part of revelation;...many are accustomed to anglicize the Greek name, and to style it THE APOCALYPSE. For this reason, which appears sufficient, I have concluded to adopt it also

...Thus "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews," is brought before the reader as the only personage from among the dead, or among the living, who could open the words and unseal the mystery of God, as he hath declared the glad tidings to his servants the prophets (10:7).

...Having established his worthiness in this moral conflict with the world and the flesh, God accepted him as the most excellent of all the intelligences of his universe; and in consequence gave to him what no one else possessed, namely, power to unroll the scroll and to loose its seals.

"A revelation of Jesus anointed which God gave to him;" not to be held as a secret with himself, which no other intelligences should know, until the things revealed should burst upon the world, and take even the saints at unawares.

This was not the purpose for which it was given to him; simply, as it were, to make the Son equal in knowledge with the Father; and more intelligent than the angels in heaven. It was given to him as

"The Head of the Body the Ecclesia; the Beginning, the first begotten from among the dead, that he might be among all preeminent; for it pleased that in him all the fulness should dwell" (Col. 1:18).

He was to be the depository of wisdom, knowledge, and power for the heirs of the world. The apocalypse of his future was given to him for their benefit, that they might know the things which must be accomplished speedily. 

... It was not communicated for the information of the wicked; for it had long before been noted in the scriptures of truth that

"None of the wicked should understand" (Dan. 12:10). "To the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee" (Psal. 50:16).

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THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES

The event that marks the end of the period is THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, which is thus expressed,

"When he (Michael the Great Prince that liveth for the Aion) shall have finished the scattering of the power of the Holy People, all these times shall be finished."

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WHO ARE THE SERVANTS OF THE DEITY?

"his sheep scattered among the nations and generations of centuries"

He hath magnified His word above all the attributes of His name; (Psal. 138:2-4); and it was foretold in commendation of Messiah, that when he should be revealed, he would

"magnify the law and make it honourable" (Isa. 42:21).

"I came not," said he, "to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil; for the heaven and earth may pass away, but not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

He continually impressed upon his hearers the necessity of believing the words of God, and of doing his commands: and never ceased to make the "obedience of faith" the test of man's devotion and affection for him. "If ye love me," saith he, "keep my commandments"; and

"ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you" for "love is the fulfilling of the law."

To believe and do is the only evidence a man can give that he does not cast Yahweh's words behind him.

"Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"

"The gospel of the kingdom" is "the word of the kingdom," which he sowed in his field. By faith in this word men will be justified; without it, they will be condemned; for the words of Jesus are,

"He that believeth not shall be condemned."

...the grand prerequisite for an expositor of this wonderful little book is, that he understand the gospel of the kingdom as exhibited in the prophets; the preaching of Jesus as the Christ; and the revelation of the mystery as set forth by the apostles.

He must have a comprehensive understanding of the Scriptures from Genesis to Jude; for the light shining from all these testimonies converges upon the apocalyptic page, whose crises, as a mirror, reflect the kingdom promised to the saints.

"The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ" is then for the servants of God: -- for those who believe the Gospel of the Kingdom it exhibits; and have been "washed from their sins in his blood," in being baptized into his name.

"Know ye not," says Paul, "that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of SIN unto death, or of OBEDIENCE unto righteousness?"

...Paul reminds the Saints in Rome that they were all the servants of sin once; but thanks God in their behalf, that they had been freed from sin, and were now the servants of righteousness,

"having obeyed from the heart A FORM OF TEACHING, into which they were delivered" (Rom. 6:17).

When a man's body and spirit become another's property, all property in himself is surrendered to the purchaser. All that he used to call his before he was sold, is transferred to his owner; and, if allowed to retain it, he must use it as the steward of his lord.

Redemption is release for a ransom. All who become God's servants are therefore released from a former lord by purchase. The purchaser is Yahweh; and the price, or ransom, paid, the precious blood of the flesh through which the Anointing Spirit was manifested. It is therefore styled, "the precious blood of Christ": as it is written in the words of Peter to his brethren, saying,

"Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conduct paternally delivered; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without spot and without blemish" (1 Pet. 1:18.)

They are flesh and blood, but they do not walk after, or according to, its impulses; living a life of self-denial, being led by the spirit, in being led by the truth understood, believed, and affectionately obeyed, as it is written:

"As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."

... No man is led by the Spirit of God who is not led by an intelligent belief of the truth.

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ELOHIM ANGELS

In their former state they were Sons of God subject to evil as we; in their present, they are sons subject only to good. Men are invited to the same destiny. They are invited now to enter Yahweh's family, and to become his sons and daughters, with the promise of hereafter being promoted to a physical equality with the angels. 

...Addressing the sons of God in Galatia, Paul says:

"In Jesus anointed ye are all sons of God through the faith: for as many of you as were immersed into the Anointed have put on the Anointed. And if ye be the Anointed's, then ye are the seed of Abraham, and Heirs according to the promise" (ch. 3:26-29).

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 2. Who testified the word of the Deity, and the testimony of Jesus Anointed, and whatsoever things he saw. 

3. Blessed he that knows accurately, and they who give heed to the words of the prophecy, and observe narrowly the things which have been written in it; for the time is near.

THE SALUTATION.

4. JOHN to the Seven Ecclesias which are in the Asia; joy to you and peace from THE WHO IS and WHO WAS and WHO IS COMING; and from the SEVEN SPIRITS which is (a eotlv)(1) before His throne:

 5. And from Jesus Anointed, the Faithful Witness, the Chief born from among the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth: to him having loved us and washed us from our sins in his blood, 

6. And made us kings and priests for the Deity even our Father: to Him be the glory and the supremacy during the AIONS of the Aions. Amen.

(1) A symbolic plurality the nominative to a singular verb - an ungrammatical construction having a doctrinal signification.

Vision of the Son Of Man in the Lord's Day.

7. BEHOLD he is coming with the Clouds, and every eye shall see him, and whosoever pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall wail before him. Yea verily; so let it be.

8. I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and ending, saith the

Lord, Who Is and Who Was and Who is Coming, the Omnipotent.

9. I, John, both your brother and joint partaker in the tribulation, and in the kingdom and waiting for Jesus Anointed, was in the isle called Patmos on account of the word of the Deity, and on account of the testimony of Jesus Anointed.

10. I was in spirit in the Lord's Day; and I heard behind me a loud voice as of a trumpet, 

11. Saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last; and what thou beholdest write for a scroll, and send it to the Seven Ecclesias which are in Asia - to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

12. And I turned to see the voice which spake with me; and having turned I saw Seven Golden Lightstands, 

13. And in the midst of the seven lightstands I saw like to a Son of man invested to the feet, and compassed about the breast with a Golden Zone; 

14. And his head and the hairs white as it were wool, white as snow: and his eyes as a flame of fire;

 15. And his feet like to incandescent brass, as if they had been glowing in a furnace: and his voice as a sound of many waters; 

16. And having in his right hand Seven Stars; and out of his mouth a sharp double-edged longsword proceedeth; and his aspect as the sun shineth in his strength.

17. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying to me, Fear not! I am the First and the Last 

18. And the Living One: and I was dead, and behold I am living for the Aions of the Aions; Amen: and I have the keys of the Invisible and of Death. 

19. Write the things thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass after these.

20. The mystery of the Seven Stars which thou sawest at my right hand, and the Seven Lightstands which are golden, is this: the Seven Stars are the Angels of the Seven Ecclesias; and the Seven Lightstands which thou sawest are Seven Ecclesias.