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 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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Ecclesia

ECCLESIA, then, is a word compounded of ek, "out of," and klesis, "a call, or invitation." Hence an ekklesis is "an invitation to come out;" and the assembly of people convened in consequence of their acceptance of the invitation is an ecclesia.

...an invitation from the Deity to certain things, which, when accepted, became to the invited "the Hope of the Calling." In delivering this message, or invitation, they distinctly defined the things to which their hearers were invited. In doing this, they informed them of the purpose of Deity -- that He had appointed a day in which the whole inhabited earth should be ruled in righteousness by the Anointed Jesus, whom he had raised from among the dead (Dan. 2:44; 7:14; Acts 17:31).

But that, before that "day" of the administration of the world's affairs in righteousness should be introduced, He had, in his great mercy and goodness, determined to invite all Jews and Gentiles to a share in that kingdom and glory with eternal life, upon certain specified and indispensable conditions.

...The invitation was designed, in the words of James,

"to take out of the nations a people FOR HIS NAME."

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Seven Ecclesias

"On the seventh day Elohim ended his work which he had made; and he rested (or ceased) on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."

In this, the ideas connected with the number seven are completion and cessation. Anything denominated by seven, is complete; it lacks nothing to make it perfect, and beyond it nothing remains to be accomplished.

The seven ecclesias ... were selected ... to indicate that what was written to the seven was written to all the "ONE BODY" throughout the Habitable in seven successive states thereof.

... the SEVEN SPIRITS which is before His throne..." ha estin... these seven are not seven distinct and independent spirits, but the One Spirit in sevenfold or perfect manifestation.

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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.

Aions of the Aions

... the reign of the Son of man is decreed of Heaven to continue till this result shall be consummated.

"He must reign TILL he (the Father) have put all enemies under his feet" (Psal. 8:6; 110:1). "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."

The Son, then, is to reign as the Father's kings and priests, until death shall be abolished from the earth. This implies the previous extermination of sin; for death is the wages of sin; and wages are not paid where services are not rendered.

We see, then, that the Son of man is not to reign as the majesty of a priestly kingdom after sin and death are rooted out; and be it remembered, that the kingdom the apocalypse exhibits is the dominion of the Father's kings and priests.

...When the end for which it will be established is accomplished, it will be delivered up, and then "the supremacy" of THE SON, both in respect of "the Head" and "the Body," in other words, of Jesus and his Brethren, will cease. An end will be put to it.

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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.

...the One Yahweh who is coming as the anointed with the Seven Spirits -- "Behold, he is coming with the clouds." Matt 16: 27, 25:31, Jude 14...

"I, Amen, say to you, that ye (my apostles) who followed me, in the Regeneration when the Son of man shall sit upon the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, ruling the Twelve Tribes of Israel; ... ye shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit Life Aionian" (19:28).

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The Aerial

The ruling of the authority of the existing course of things is the Air or Spirit working. It is the Spirit of disobedience incarnate in the authorities exercising dominion and power over the nations, with whom Paul and his co-laborers "wrestled." Thus he says in 6:12, "the contest for us is not against blood and flesh, but with the sovereignties, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this Course with the spirituals of the wickedness, in the upper regions." These uppers are "the Air," which by metonomy is put for all politically contained.

...The Air is twice mentioned in the Apocalypse, where it has no reference to the natural atmosphere; first, in Apoc. 9:2; and afterwards, in Apoc. 16:17. In both these places, it stands for the same thing as in the epistle to the Ephesians, only at widely remote epochs of the times of the Gentiles; the former being the political air, contemporary with the invasion of the Roman empire by the Saracens; the latter, the same Air, only contemporary with the coming of Jesus Anointed with the clouds.

Now the revealed purpose of the Deity is to change "the Air" -- to hurl the mighty from their thrones; exalt them of low degree, and to send the rich empty away (Luke 1:52-55).

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Every Eye

"Every eye," then, is comprehensive of classes of Israelites and Gentiles according to flesh and spirit. The eyes of the latter who shall see him in joy and peace, are the eyes of the Four Cherubic Living Ones, which are "full of eyes" before, behind, and within (Apoc. 4:6,8). These eyes will not weep and mourn, for they will see the King, YAHWEH of armies, whose "Eyes of Glory" they will be (Isai. 6:5).

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see the Deity" (Matt. 5:8)

-- the Deity manifested in spirit-flesh, and of which manifestation they shall be the hypostasis, or substratum.

... "it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory" (66:18).

The glory which they are to come and see, is stated in verses 15 and 16, where it is testified, that

"YAHWEH will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire; for by fire, and by his sword, will YAHWEH plead with all flesh; and the slain of YAHWEH shall be many."

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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.

The symbol in the text is very expressive. It is the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Between these two are twenty-two other letters, which, with the first and last, make one alphabet -- twenty-four in one; an idea still further elucidated in the "twenty-four elders," who are representative of the Almighty Alpha and Omega manifestation of Deity.

In connection with this annunciation, I would recall the attention of the reader to Isai. 41:4, where the Eternal Spirit says,

"I, YAHWEH the First One and the Last Ones, I--HE; the isles saw and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came."

I have supplied the words one and ones to mark the singular and plural of the original. In this, "the Last Ones" are "the Omega," and "the Ending," and the "He who is coming," of the apocalypse.

When this great mystery shall be consummated in the resurrection and the subsequent anointing of the One Body, "the Omega," "the Ending," and "the Who is coming," will be manifested. The whole multitude will be "DEITY MANIFESTED IN FLESH" -- glorified flesh, which is Holy Spirit, the divine nature at present common to Jesus and the angels; and then participated in by all the Saints; all of which is the development of the principle affirmed by him to Nicodemus, that

"that which has been born of the Spirit is Spirit."

...the annunciation before us carries us back no further than that "beginning" to which John had already introduced his readers, in the book he had already written, to convince men that Jesus is the Anointed One, the Son of the Deity; and that believing they might have life through his name (John 20:31) -- the beginning of the pre-existent Deity, by his Spirit-Effluence, or Logos, becoming Flesh; the beginning of the "Great Mystery, Deity manifested in Flesh (1 Tim. 3:16).

This manifestation, then, as we have shown, had its beginning. It began in Jesus, Son of David and Son of Deity.

...Whatever may be the destiny of the earthborns of the Millennial nations in relation to the post-millennial cycle, they will not be ranked with the Alpha and the Omega of this annunciation.

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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.

John and the Seven Ecclesias were in fellowship...Being the brother of these seven, he was, therefore, "a joint partaker in the tribulation." This was a persecution which began to rage against the Christians in the latter end of the reign of Domitian, the last of the Flavian family, who became emperor of Rome A.D. 81. The tribulation commenced A.D. 95.

...While the malignity of Domitian did not forbear to shed the blood of the imperial house, it was not to be expected that he would spare the ringleader of the sect everywhere spoken against to which his relatives belonged. Tertullian accordingly informs us, that, by Domitian's order, John was apprehended, and cast into a caldron of boiling oil; but, after the example of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, came out again from the scalding bath unhurt.

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The Spirit-Man John saw said to him, after he had laid the power of his right hand upon him, by which he was brought out of the death-state, "I am living in the Aions," or thousand years, by which we are taught that the Spirit did not refer to any period of that duration before the resurrection, but to a course of a thousand years after that event, dramatized in John's person.

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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.

And I Turned

12. And I turned to see the voice which spake with me; and having turned I saw Seven [omniscient, and omnipotent] Golden Lightstands, [How brilliant then will be the illumination of the world]

Being now face to face with the Son of man, he was in another state of things -- "the Last." In this last state, he is told not to fear; and this exhortation to confidence and courage, falls upon his ears, while he is recovering from the death state.

"When I saw like a Son of man in the midst of the Seven Lightstands, I fell at his feet as dead" (verses 13, 17).

It was necessary to introduce this action to represent that this vision related to things to be

manifested after the resurrection of John and his brethren from the dead; who are also to be raised by the Spirit, in which he then was; and which is dramatically intimated by "the right hand" of the symbol being laid upon him, which is symbolical of the power of the Spirit.

...In this turning point, or epoch, between the Alpha things, and the Omega things, of the Spirit-Manifestation, the Key-Power unlocks the Gates of the Invisible, and sets the prisoners free from the bonds of death: so that, when the Alphas of the Spirit shall become the Omegas, they will be able to say, as the constituents of the "One Yahweh and One Name,"

" I am the First and the Last, and the Living One: and I was dead, and behold, I am living in, in, for, during) the Aions of the Aions";

or THE THOUSAND YEARS: "Amen." Not that he shall live no longer; but, seeing that the Apocalypse treats almost solely of the Millennial Day and its antecedents, the duration of "the Living One" is only relatively, not absolutely, expressed. As Jesus taught,

"they, who have been accounted worthy of that Aion, and to attain to the resurrection, which is from among the dead, ... cannot die any more: for they are equal to angels, and are Sons of the Deity, being sons of the resurrection" (Luke. 20:35,36).

They live for the Olahm we-ad, the Millennium, and beyond; but it is only necessary to say that they live for the thousand years; for the resurrected who live all this time, will live also beyond, "and die no more."

Eureka 1.5.3.

The area of the vision is the state of being between the resurrection and the entire exhaustion of the wrath of Deity contained in the seventh vial; for until the wrath of Deity is filled up, no man can enter into the Most Holy Place of the Apocalyptic Temple, which is the Millennial Aion (Apoc. 15:1,8). In this post-resurrectional and pre-millennial holy state of being, the saints of previous generations are gathered together in Seven Ecclesias, or in complete assembly, as typified by the seven ecclesias of the proconsular Asia.

Eureka 1.5.4.

In the first century, the Body of Christ was in its childhood, and made up of "babes"; liable to be "tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive" (Eph. 4:14).

The Spirituals, and the privates, apart from the gifts, spake as children, thought as children, and reasoned as children; and, by the truth, looked into a mirror at an enigma: and multitudes of them were

"corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."

But when the Body becomes a Man -- "A PERFECT MAN" -- as represented by "the Son of Man in the midst of the Seven Lightstands with the Seven Stars in his right hand," in the post-resurrectional state of holiness, then there are no childish things found with it. Then every saint of the body will be in accord, seeing face to face, or eye to eye.

Distribution of gifts to individuals only will not recur; and the body will no more be divided into spirituals and privates. Then all will be official and spiritual; and the idiotai subject to their jurisdiction, will be Israel and the Nations.

Every individual member of the Perfect Man, will be omniscient, and omnipotent; for this Man was revealed to John as "He who is coming, THE ALMIGHTY."

The mystery, or meaning, then, of the Seven Lightstands is, that they represent the sevenfold ecclesia; and of the Seven Stars is, that they are symbolical of the Elderships anointed with the Spirit, and shining with the gifts. While an anointed eldership was a lightstand to a particular ecclesia, this ecclesia was itself a lightstand to the pagan and rabbinical darkness on every side.

But in the future state, no such distinction will obtain; for that which is "from parts" being non-existent, and every saint "shining as the sun"; or, "as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars in the Olahm and beyond" (Matt. 13:43; Dan. 12:3), the Sevenfold Ecclesia, as the Perfect Man, will be the Seven-Branched Golden Lightstand of the Earth.

How brilliant then will be the illumination of the world; the whole earth will indeed be enlightened by the glory.

Eureka 1.5.4.

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]

Eureka 1.2.4.

SON OF MAN is a title bestowed upon "the Perfect Man" to indicate his origin. Son expresses the idea of emanation; hence, that seen in the midst of the lightstands, as their stem or shaft, as it were, was an emanation from the race of Adam -- Son of Man.

"his voice was as a sound of many waters";

... importing "peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues"

This idea of a multitudinous Son of Man is clearly exhibited in Dan. vii. 13, in the words,

"I was seeing in the vision of the night, and behold there was coming with clouds of heavens like a Son of Man"

Eureka 1.5.5.

It had the exterior form of a man; but from the description of parts anything than the exact counterpart of a man. The only place where the same similitude is again introduced is in Apoc. 14:14, where John says, he saw "a white cloud"; and then, in order to show what the cloud represented, he tells us he beheld

"upon the cloud sitting like to a Son of Man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle".

Eureka 1.5.5.

Clothed to the Feet

While Daniel informs us that the Spirit-Man he beheld, was "clothed with linen," John states simply, that he was "clothed to the feet." Now, this clothing is significant of the character and office of the persons represented by the symbol. The holy garments of Aaron and his sons were of linen, "to cover their nakedness," that when they ministered in the holy places, "they bear not iniquity, and die" (Exod. 28:42).

"Nakedness," and "iniquity," are convertible terms in scripture; as it is written, "when Moses saw that the people were, naked, for Aaron had made them naked to their shame," -- that is, they had transgressed in worshipping the golden calf; and

"blessed is he that keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame."

Hence, to be "clothed," and to keep the clothing white, and clean, is to be "righteous," or holy.

Eureka 1.5.5.

...the linen clothing of these symbols indicates the persons, their character, office, and nature, of which they are representatives. A glorious body of people prepared to execute righteous judgment upon the nations, and to govern them in righteousness when subdued -- the Son of Man in glory and great power.

Eureka 1.5.6.

A Golden Zone

The next item that arrested John's attention in the glorious apparel of this royal and priestly man, was a Zone of Gold encircling his breast, or, in the words of the English Version, he was "girt about the paps with a golden girdle." This would answer to a breastband rather than to a girdle, which in the dress of the ancients belonged to the loins.

Eureka 1.5.7.

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

His Head and the Hairs

The apocalyptic Son of man is the body, and Jesus Anointed occupies the position of Head to that body. This is the reason why the head is represented as invested with the appearance of wool, white as snow. The whiteness represents the purity of the head, and the wool that head's relation to

"the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world";

and primarily the sin of those who constitute the community represented by the Son of man, of whom it may be said, that they had washed them in the blood of the Lamb, and made them clean; and that

"though their sins were as scarlet they had become white as snow; and though they were red like crimson they had become as wool" (Isai. 1:16,18).

Thus the snow-white wool becomes the emblem of the purity of the whole body in Christ when

"presented to himself a glorious ecclesia, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but holy and without blemish" (Eph. 5:27).

Eureka 1.5.8.

His Eyes as a Flame of Fire.

The eye is the symbol of intelligence, for "the light of the body is the eye."

The nature of the intelligence in predominant activity is expressed by the character of the symbol; hence an eye as a flame of fire, indicates intelligence in wrathful activity. The word for "eye" in the Hebrew also signifies "fountain"; because tears are welled up from the eye as water from a fountain or spring. Hence the eyes of the Man of Multitude are fountains of flaming fire; they pour out flame as "a fiery stream," and he becomes "a consuming fire."

...the mission of the company symbolised by the Son of man is not of peace, but a mission of judgment and retribution upon the nations of the earth.

Eureka 1.5.9

Brass - the censers Num 16v38

The saints, then, are the Feet of incandescent Brass, who have all passed through the fire, and the water of separation, and been consecrated by the blood of the covenant; and "are partakers with the Altar," even with Jesus (1 Cor. 9:13; 10:18; Heb. 13:10,12); and those of them who have been slain, have been poured out "beside the bottom," or "under the altar," from whence the cry apocalyptically ascends to the Father,

"How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth?" (Apoc. 6:10; 11:1).

Israel in the furnace for ages Ezk 8: 7-18 

A furnace glowing with the heat of YAHWEH'S indignation Jer 6:  28

His Voice as the Sound of Many Waters

"many waters" is defined to be "peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues" (17:15).

Ezekiel heard the voice of a multitude of Mighty Ones, speaking as the warriors of a camp in motion against an enemy; and that when they were not in progress, their voice was not heard; "in standing they let down their wings," and consequently, there was no sound of war.

The wings of the Ezekiel Cherubim, and the Man-like Similitudes of Daniel and John, in speaking, sounded forth as the roar of mighty waters.

This was when they were in progress, advancing in body and wings their brazen-footed battalions against the Fourth Beast, or the apocalyptic Beast and False Prophet, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, -- the former utterly consumed in the furnace, or "lake of fire burning with brimstone," and the kings of the earth, and their armies slain with the sword of the resurrected and Glorified Mystic Man.

Eureka 1.5.11.

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.

A sharp twoedged sword

"YAHWEH," saith Moses, "is a Man of War;"

When the word of command passes out of the mouth of a general, it moves armies, and causes them to draw the sword, and to smite their enemies with great slaughter.

...The sword directed by the mouth of the similitude is said to be sharp and two-edged. It is sharp for cut and thrust -- the sword of a Mighty Man ready for execution, and whichever way directed is sure to smite effectively. The voice of the words of the great multitude symbolized by this sword, is the voice of the Eternal Spirit speaking through them as the ministers of his vengeance.

..."The Word of Deity is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart".

The word is sharper now, for it can penetrate in argument where a sword cannot reach.

Eureka 1.5.12.

His aspect as the sun shines in his power

... the general external aspect of the whole figure. [Not just the face]

This was typified in the general appearance of the Alpha on the mount of Transfiguration.

On that occasion

"his face prosopon, shone as the sun, and his raiment became white as the light."

and, says John,

"we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2).

When, therefore, the apocalypse of the multitude of the Sons of God, represented by John's similitude of the Son of man, shall be manifested, being all like to Jesus in transfiguration, the aspect of the Body will be

"as the sun when he shines in his power."

"then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father" (Matt. 13:43)

Eureka 1.5.13.

While the Son of Man multitude is in conquering phase the splendid one will draw in their glory

Zech 14: 5-9

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.

I was dead

But the Spirit never died; therefore, here it must be understood of the Logos speaking from a body, personal and corporate, with whom he has united in a resurrection thereof from the dead.

The Amen

AMEN. This is from the Hebrew ahmain, "faithfulness." The Eternal Spirit, both absolute and incarnate, is "the Amen."

Eureka 1.5.14.

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.