Removing Seals:

Making Known What Has Been Secret

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The Apostle Paul wrote, “Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil” (1 Thess 5:20–22 English Standard Version). Biblical prophecy is about what cannot be known by human observation and reasoning, even in an age of global communication, satellite imagining, and computer analysis. Biblical prophecy is about what is outside of space-time, outside of scientific discovery, outside of the material world of nations, peoples, and human governance. Prophecy is ultimately about good and evil, about what happens to the mental topography from which conscious thought originates, this invisible landscape made visible by the geography of the near East. As such, biblical prophecy is about two governing hierarchies, one presently reigning—that of the spiritual king of Babylon—and one soon to come to power, that of the Son of Man.

Beginning with the Reformation Movement of the Roman Church five centuries ago, biblical prophecy underwent a figurative “green revolution” in that biblical prophecy began to promise life through human manipulation of imbedded codes. Charts were constructed to explain timelines that had days representing years and beasts representing kingdoms. Entire ministries were organized around Rome, the Roman Church, and the Roman Pontiff being the endtime beast of the prophet Daniel’s visions, but unlike the kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, and Greece—all of which made earthly Babylon their capital—Rome is not mentioned in the visions of Daniel, either directly or indirectly. The two legs of the human-like image King Nebuchadnezzar saw in vision are not two divisions of the Roman Empire, but the larger two divisions of the Greek Empire: the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires. For the visions of Daniel only reach forward in history as the earthly shadow of heavenly events to when the sons of light [the Maccabees] defeat the sons of darkness [the Syrian Greeks]; for the heavenly sons of light, led by the glorified Christ Jesus, will defeat the sons of darkness in a different manner than did the Hammer.

The person who rereads biblical prophecy mentally returns to ancient Judea to see in geography what occurs in the invisible timelessness of thought; for the key that opens long-seal prophecies is in the night/day, darkness/light, physical/spiritual, hand/heart metaphoric structure of Hebraic poetic repetition and Greek equivocation. In all things theological, the visible reveals the invisible (Rom 1:20), and the physical precedes the spiritual (1 Co 15:46). The things of this world—the subject of ancient prophecies—form the shadow and copy of heavenly entities and events in the portion of the heavenly realm that is in the Abyss.

The present hierarchy governing the mental topography of human persons reigns through darkness/disobedience, and reigns until the Son of Man permanently brings light to this world. Biblical prophecy is about the fall of spiritual Babylon, and rereading prophecy is about the endtime unsealing of prophecies (and all of Holy Writ) through long-neglected typological exegesis.

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