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 mystery of godliness is practically exhibited in the incarnation of the Word in the conception and anointing of Jesus;  in the perfecting of his body at its resurrection, when Deity in Spirit was as visible to the apostles as Deity in Flesh had been to them before the crucifixion.

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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 word anaginoskon signifies one who gathers exact knowledge of a matter or thing. Hence, in my translation I have rendered it, "he that knows accurately." Such a one might assume the position of an expositor; for knowing accurately the words of the prophecy, he would be competent to expound them to others. The first part of the benediction, then, falls upon him -

"Blessed he that can expound the words of this prophecy!"

But, alas! if the benediction were confined to him only, how few in the generations subsequent to John's would be of the number of the "blessed!" Happily, however, it is not so limited. If one come to know accurately, others, who would never have been able to get at an exact knowledge by their own unassisted efforts, may obtain from him such a knowledge as will enable them to be; that is, not only hearers, but hearers who give heed to what they hear, and understand.

They are not to be negligent hearers if they would be blessed; they must keep or

"observe narrowly the things which have been written in it."

...The reason given why they are blessed who know accurately, give heed to, and observe narrowly, the subject-matter of the prophecy, is "because the time is near." ... in respect of this prophecy, symbolised in the Apocalypse, "the time is near." It began to be developed soon after it was published; and its development has been progressing onwards to its grand catastrophe ever since.

... each generation discerning the signs of its own times, while all "the servants of the Deity," whose especial document it is, had among them a scriptural understanding of the consummation it reveals.

"The time is near," then; not that the thousand years should begin, and Christ and the Saints should rule the nations, near to John's time, but that soon after the Apocalypse was revealed to him, the threatenings against the Nicolaitans, the Balaams, the Jezebels, and the "liars," in the apocalyptic and other ecclesias of the time, in which John's contemporaries were personally interested, should begin to come upon them.

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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:

He was not left at liberty to send it to what congregations his own prudence might suggest; but ...to the Seven Ecclesias which are in Asia

In obedience, therefore, to this command, in writing he primarily addresses himself to "the seven ecclesias which are in the Asia."

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THE WHO IS

[THE LORD YAHOSHUA MOSHIACH - PROCLAIMED TO MOSES AT THE BUSH cp. EX 3: 14]

Of these sons, or Elohim, One is 

"the Firstborn" - "the child born, and the son given" (Isa. 9:6). 

He is Eloah in chief, "the Head of the Body;" in whom it pleased the Father that all the fulness should dwell, that among all He might have the preeminence.

This ELOAH is the great theme of prophecy. His manifestation was predicted in the promise of the Woman's Seed (Gen. 3:15) in Isaac (ch. 21:12); of the royal Shiloh from Judah (ch. 49:10) of the sceptred Star out of Jacob (Numb. 24:17); of the Divine Son assured to David (2 Sam. 7:14), born of a virgin (Isa. 7:14) and to rule upon his throne (Isa. 9:6, 7). In these testimonies it was revealed, that he should be both Son of man and Son of Deity.

How this could be otherwise than is related in the New Testament would be impossible to devise.

 "Is there an Eloah without me?" saith the Spirit: "Yea, there is no Rock; I know none" (Isai. 44:8). 

The manifestation therefore, must be by the spirit of the Deity, or not at all. The time of manifestation was appointed and placed on record in Dan. 9:25; and 

"when the fulness of the time was come, the Deity sent forth his son, made of a woman;"

 begotten, not of blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of the Deity; by holy spirit coming upon her, and power of the Highest enveloping her; therefore also the holy thing she bore was called a Son of Deity, and named JESUS (Luke 1:35, 31).

Thus,

 "the Logos became flesh, and dwelt among us," says John, "and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only-begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth;" for "the law was given through Moses; the grace and the truth came through Jesus Anointed" (John 1:14, 17). 

Now, "Theos was the Logos," says John; that is, Deity was the Word; and this Word became flesh in the manner testified. Was the product, therefore, not Deity? Did the unions of spirit with flesh annihilate that spirit, and leave only flesh? Was the holy thing born a mere son of Adam? or "the fellow" and "equal" of the Deity? (Zech. 13:7; John 5:18 Phil. 2:6). The latter unquestionably.

After this manner, then, THE ETERNAL POWER, or Yahweh, became flesh; and commenced the initiation of His promise, that He would be to Israel for Elohim. The chief Eloah was now born; and, as the STAR OF JACOB cradled in a manger, received the homage of the wise, and the acclamation of the heavenly host. This babe was the "body made in secret" through which "THE ETERNAL SPIRIT," when it should attain to "the fulness of the times," designed to manifest himself. That time had arrived when

 "Jesus began to be about thirty years of age."

He was now to be

 "sent forth;" "being made under the law, that them under law he might purchase from it, that we might obtain THE SONSHIP" (Gal. 4:5).

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The Father was one Eloah, and Jesus was another; so that in this unity were developed two, who, in the Hebrew plural, are termed Elohim. Here, then, was a practical illustration of the phrase, so often occurring in the scriptures of the prophets, "YAHWEH Elohim," most incorrectly rendered in the English Version, "LORD God."

Based upon this combination of holy spirit and flesh, Jesus said to Nicodemus,

"I say unto thee, WE speak what WE do know, and testify what WE have seen; and ye receive not OUR Witness".

Here was plural manifestation IN UNITY. This is abundantly evinced in all the New Testament. Hence, on another occasion, Jesus said to the Jews,

"I and the Father are one"

one what? We are, in the words of Moses, "ONE YAHWEH."

..."My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;"

and John also testified that "he whom the Deity had sent, spake the words of the Deity," as Moses had predicted in Deut. 18:18, concerning the Christ, saying,

"I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall be, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which HE shall speak in my name, I will require it of him."

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WHO WAS

"In the beginning was ho Logos, and the Logos was with the Theos, and Theos was the Logos."

Never was there a conceivable point of time, or eternity, when the one existed without the other.

...Theos is the substance called Spirit; as it is written, "Theos is Spirit;" and he who uttered these words is declared to be himself both substance and spirit.

...Deity, then, declares the Divine Substance to be the Disposer and Former of all things; a truth which the Spirit in the scriptures is careful to place prominently before the minds of men.

...We learn from the Bible that the Deity it reveals has both body and parts. Paul teaches us this in declaring that the resurrected and anointed Jesus is the

"apaugasma or reflexion of the glory, and peculiar nature of the substance of the THEOS" (Heb. 1:3).

In other words, he partakes of the Divine Nature; so that what he now is, is what the Deity hath always been. The substance of the Theos is essentially living substance. It could not exist and yet be dead substance, for

"the Father hath life in himself,"

and that life is His inherent peculiarity. It is underived from any antecedent existence; nor can it forsake the Divine Substance, for in that event the Deity would be mortal. But Paul styles Him

"the Incorruptible Theos,"

and says that

"He is the only one having athanasia or deathlessness."

Hence, the essential qualities of the substance, which underlies all that is predicable of Him, are incorruptibility and life.

Incorruptible and living substance, then, is the Body of the Deity; and, as the glorified Jesus is

"the IMAGE of the lnvisible Theos,"

he must have "parts" It is not, therefore, a mere figure of speech to speak, as the scriptures do, of the hand, ear, eye, and so forth, of the Invisible Power. He has form and parts, as well as body, and is the Great Archetype, or divine original, after which all the Elohim, or immortal intelligences, of His universe are modelled and made.

He dwells in unapproachable light, and is "a consuming fire." Light and heat, then, in their essentiality, with incorruptibility and life, are concentred in His substance; for He is the great focal centre of these in all the universe of power.

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WHO IS COMING

[A MULTITUDINOUS FAMILY OF MIGHTY ONES MANIFESTING THE YAHWEH NAME]

Seven is the number of perfection and completeness. The seven spirits are symbolical of the "One Spirit" in perfect manifestation; the seven eyes of omniscience and perfection of vision; and the seven horns, of omnipotence and perfection of power.

Hence, he who was slain is now a perfect manifestation of Deity, omniscient, all-seeing, and all-powerful -

"Jesus Anointed, the faithful witness, the Chief Born from among dead ones, and the Prince of the kings of the earth;" from among those dead, who are to awake from their sleep in the dust of the earth; and Prince in their midst, when they shall reign with him for a thousand years (ch. 20:6).

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That which is perfect, however, is not yet come; but we wait for it. Perfect in conscience and character, we wait, in full assurance of hope, the transformation of our bodies at the Apocalypse of Jesus Anointed;

"for in heavens our commonwealth subsists; out of which also we await the deliverer, the Lord Jesus Anointed: who shall transform the body of our humiliation that it may become conformable to the body of his glory, according to the energy of his ability even to subdue all things to himself" (Phil. 3:20,21).

When this transformation shall have been effected, the prayer of Jesus will have been answered; and his brethren will have been "made perfect in one," as the Father is in Him, and He in the Father, and they one in them both. Such a perfection as this is consubstantiality with the Deity; who, by His spirit is manifested in them all, as the ELOHIM OF ISRAEL, and Sons of the Highest - the "Who" He said He would be, when He communed with Moses at the Bush.

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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.

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; 

 Son of Man 

This does not represent an individual man. It represents Many in One. What John saw among the lightstands was a similitude or likeness, like to a Son of man.

The voice John heard proclaimed the reality of this likeness to be "THE LAST" - the Spirit in the last manifestation; the ONE YAHWEH in many, Elohim. [Isa. 41:2-6]

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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.