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Tablet Five
CHRISTIANITY AFTER
CHRIST,
AND REVELATION OF
THE REVELATION
<1>After
Christianity
started to flourish and was accepted by the
Elected Ones,
its followers were persecuted because of its depth, truth, and being
against the worldly interests of many. However, it could not be
stopped, because of the vigorous preaching of the true gospel by
Christ's disciples
and their willingness to
sacrifice all
things for their ideology.
<2>So, many churches were founded, and with
the great struggle by
Christ's disciples and many others, the seed of
Christianity was planted.
<3>However, as it is revealed in the books
after the four gospels in the Bible, from the very beginning
many
false teachers
wished to influence
Christ's teachings in
one way or another (Acts 8:1-24, Jude 4). The apostles fought
vigorously with these influences and somehow established a pure
ideology of Christ's
teachings.
<4>These true teachings lasted about four
hundred years until
Christianity was accepted by Rome's emperors and then by the
majority of the people.
<5>Thousands of people started to accept
Christianity as
their religion. But they did not want to give up their previous
beliefs completely and follow
Christianity
wholeheartedly. Many of these people had previously followed the
worshipping of the sun-god. They had many pagan ideas, festivals,
holidays, etc., but their religions lacked the universal outlook. They believed in the sun-god, but Christians believed in the
Father, the
universal, invisible
God who had complete
power over the whole universe, even over the sun.
<6>Also the concept of
Christ as being born
from a virgin mother (which he was) fit into the belief of the
followers of
Mithra (sun-god of
Zoroastrians) that
Mithra would be born
from a virgin to save the world. Many of the Romans were followers
of
Mithra.
<7>With all these factors presented, and also
because of the freedom-loving and democratic ideals of the Romans,
people were left to make anything they wanted out of
Christianity.
<8>The sun-god was replaced by the
son of God. The
Virgin Mary took the place of the Virgin Mother. The Saturday
Sabbath
was changed to Sunday (their day of worshipping the sun),
God's festivals
(revealed in chapter 23 of
Leviticus
in the Bible as Holy Days to keep for ever and ever) with
pagan festivals (refer to encyclopedias about the origin of
Christian festivals). <9>In fact,
Passover, the Feast of the
Tabernacles, and other Holy Days of
God were
observed by the apostles and many of their followers until about 700
A.D. Many other things were changed which cannot be found in the
Bible but are now followed by many.
<10>However, those who were to be saved by
him were saved in the first four hundred years of
Christianity. Those who had not been saved eventually will be after many lifetimes
or in future creations.
<11>This is, however, a historical
explanation. These happenings were revealed many centuries before
they occurred in the prophecies in the book of Daniel (the
dream of King Nebuchadnezzar, the vision of the
four beasts, and
the vision of the ram and the he goat), and in The Revelation
(the third church, Rev. 2:12-16).
<12>In the visions of Daniel,
the little horn,
which is the symbol of the intellectualization of things, is
prophesied to change the true religions "the same made war with the
saints" (Daniel 7:21), and to try to replace the truth by believing
that the intellect
of man is superior to all things (read
Commentaries on Prophecies in Daniel, Period of Intellectual
Domination).
<13>Also, in The Revelation, the last
book of the
Bible, in the message to the third church (which is the third
sign in
The Greatest
Sign, the cross), it is revealed that in this church there
are still some who "hold the doctrine of
Balaam,..." (Rev.
2:14). The "doctrine of
Balaam" is the pagan ideas and festivals which entered into this
third church.
<14>So
God had revealed many
centuries before what will happen in the future. Now it is time for
the human to see the limits of his
intellect
and understandings, then surrender himself to
God
and the words revealed through His
Prophets, and
overcome the confusion between them by understanding
The Greatest
Sign. Then the glory of
God will be realized and His Kingdom will come on earth as it is
in heaven.
<15>Because these things should have happened
and because intellectual domination should have continued for two
thousand three hundred years -- "unto two thousand and three hundred
days" (Daniel 8:14) -- and also because
God had a Master Plan in
the future to be fulfilled and He wanted to complete His great book
(Bible) as one of the bases for all religions, He revealed
The Revelation as the last book of the Bible.
<16>The first book in the Bible (Genesis)
is the description of creation and other events which can be viewed
as an introduction to the
Bible and that which would happen later on. <17>The
Revelation
is the last book or the summary and conclusion of the Bible
(like a good book with an introduction, main part, with summary and
conclusion at the end).
<18>The Revelation, therefore, can be
viewed as a mini-Bible. Also it reveals the whole Plan of
God, what will happen in
the future, and how. So, whoever understands the first book (Genesis)
and the last book (The Revelation) can understand the rest of
the Bible also. The description of some important verses in
The Revelation follows.
THE REVELATION
<19>The second and third chapters of The
Revelation
have a twofold purpose. First of all, they are a prophecy of what
had happened in the past, what was happening at the time they were
revealed, and what would happen in the future.
<20>At the same time, they are related to
each individual's progress on the spiritual path.
<21>From chapter 4 on, it is explained what
had happened, what is happening, what will happen to humanity, and
how only those who overcome the pitfalls of the spiritual path,
which are related to each
chakra, can really
understand all the realities in the Scriptures. Those humans will
eventually establish the
Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth.
<22>Some of the verses of the book of
The Revelation
are given here. For a complete commentary on the book, read the book
Revelation of
The Revelation.
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