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CHAPTER  15 

REC  #2    HATONN 

MON., OCTOBER 26, 1992   11:19 A.M.   YEAR 6, DAY 71 

MONDAY,  OCTOBER 26,  1992

Again, for a bit of calming inspiration I turn to Silverhawk to share and gain stability and pur­pose, mission and direction be­fore we enter again into the “mark of the beast” in which the very telling bombards the soul with dankness.

“WE ARE THE MINUTEMEN OF THE GREAT SPIRIT, WE HOLD THE TRUST OF GOD

WE GO FORTH UNTO VICTORY, WE ARE THE ONE WITH OUR STAR, WE RIDE THE MIGHTY WHIRLWIND, WE SEE BEYOND THE VEIL

ALL LIES WILL TURN TO DUST IN US, WITH LIGHTNING WE PREVAIL

THE TIME HAS COME UPON US, TO TAKE OUR STAFF AND WALK

WITH EYE OF LIGHT AND WORDS OF TRUTH, ALL MYS­TERY WE UNLOCK

THE DARK IS FADING QUICKLY NOW, ‘FORE THE MIGHTY SON/SUN

‘FORE LONG WE ALL WILL REALIZE, IN TRUTH WE ALL ARE ONE

...WHEN MAN FINDS FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD AGAIN...

HIS WORD IS LAW...

          HIS VOICE IS THUNDER...

                          HIS EYES ARE LIGHTNING

HIS LIFE IS EVERLASTING...” 

AMEN, AH HO

THE RANGER

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TO CONTINUE, THE MARK OF THE BEAST

TYING  IN  WITH  DANIEL

Now you are getting some more tying in with Daniel.  The dragon that stood before the woman, ready to devour her child as soon as it was born, had seven heads and ten horns. (Revelation)  Daniel’s fourth beast, which was the Roman Em­pire, had ten horns.  The dragon of course is Satan.  Here you have the tie-in emphasizing the satanic character of the Roman Empire.  Remember what it degenerated into, under the emper­ors.  In its early days under the republic, they produced some men of stern and great character although, even at that stage, their morals had decayed pretty badly.  Under the emperors it reached the point where it could not have gotten any worse—about like Hollywood today, plus more murders.

Satanism is the unifying theme which runs through all of this, showing its origin.  The dragon stood before the woman to de­vour her son.  Herod the Edomite “Jew” [H: To have “meaning” of definition to you readers, we are reduced to labeling (incorrectly but nonetheless for your perception and intent) by the now accepted term “Jew”], you re­member, tried to murder the infant “Jesus” (Esus Immanuel), and in the second chapter of Matthew we are told about that.  He slaugh­tered all the male children up to the age of two, in Bethlehem, just to make sure that he wouldn’t fail to kill the right one.  So you see, if you ever needed it, this is further confirmation of the satanic origin and character of those “Jews”.

Let us now get back to the Book of Revelation.  We will go on to the thirteenth chapter, where we are beginning to come to the beasts.  John says, “I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea...”  So remember now, this beast is coming up out of the great mass of the non-Israel enosh people, a beast having seven heads and ten horns.  What did the dragon have?  Seven heads and ten horns, and the dragon of course is always representa­tive of Satan.  “And upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion.”  It designates one beast, but having the composite charac­teristics of the earlier ones, so that, whereas each of these had originally in its turn been, all by itself, a world empire; now you have something which would succeed them, which would take in all of these previous empires and all the same satanic character.

“And the dragon gave him his power and his seat, and great authority.  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded unto death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world won­dered after the beast.  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, say­ing, Who is like unto the beast?  Who is able to make war with him?  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him to con­tinue forty and two months.  And he opened his mouth in blas­phemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them and power was given to him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” (Revelation 13:1-8)

It is interesting to note some of the symbolism here, for you are dealing with something smaller than world wide conditions, you are dealing with a single kingdom.  Rivers are often used to symbolize a mass of people; Assyria and Egypt especially have been thus symbolized.  In Revelation 12 verse 15, speaking of that woman Israel who was persecuted by the dragon, it says, “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.”  That would seem most likely to refer to the flood­like invasion of the Huns under Attila, in the middle 400s A.D.

You will remember, the people of Israel on their march out of western Asia, from the southerly end of the Caspian Sea, some of them came up around the eastern side of the Caspian Sea, others came up around the westerly side of it, through the Caucasus Mountains.  And north of the Caspian Sea they joined forces again, moved along the easterly end of the Black Sea, crossed the Crimean Peninsula, found the Danube Valley, and started northwesterly up into Europe.  But it took them across the path taken by the invading Mongolian Huns under Attila.

Satan would have been trying to cut them off, the people of Israel, from getting to their ancient home lands.  The frightful numbers of these Huns, had they been and remained in the path of them, could have literally overrun them and exterminated them, or at least swept them up in the mass and mongrelized them.  But God didn’t allow that.  God had promised, in Isa­iah 43 verse 2, “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.”

When this flood of the Huns came, to intercept and carry them away, God held them back until the people of Israel had crossed his path.  The very southern-most portion of them were still in the path of the invading Huns, but the rest of them had moved north, on up into Ger­many and on to the Scandinavian peninsula.

The tribes of the Goths were being driven westward.  They came in in the southerly por­tion and were in the path of Attila’s invasion, and they were driven westward before it.  And the Visigoths, the west Goths, starting from where they had been in Hungary, moved on across into northern Italy, sacked the city of Rome and, as I say, as a body, although they probably left a few stragglers behind, the great bulk of them moved on into Spain and settled there.

Then later, almost a generation later, as the flood of the Huns was coming in now, snap­ping right at their heels, the Ostro­goths, the east Goths, split; some of them drove north, clear to the shores of the Baltic where they formed northeastern Ger­many, and part of them split off and went westward into north­ern Italy—and those remained there.  They set up a Gothic king­dom that lasted for some years in northern Italy, although even­tually they were overthrown, but their people remained there.  In Italy you will find today, in northern Italy, tall, blond, blue-eyed people who are in no way related, racially, to the short, swarthy people of southern Italy and Sicily.  Those are the peo­ple now remaining of that Gothic invasion.

In tying down, firmly, our interpretation of the significance of water, in symbolism, the Book of Revelation, in chapter 17 verses 1 and 15, shows that the Bible is consistent in its sym­bolism, it being used the same in the Book of Revelation as it was in the Old Testament.  John said, “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven veils, and talked with me saying unto me, Come hither, I will show unto thee the judg­ment of the great whore that sits upon many waters.  And he said unto me, the waters which thou sawest, where the whore sits, are peoples and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”  So out of the sea, this conglomer­ate mass of all the non-Israel peo­ple, rises this composite beast, that has in one beast the iden­tifying characteristics of all four of the beasts that Daniel saw separately in his vision.  The ten horns show that it is satanic and they also show that it is a continuation of the Roman Em­pire, which was the fourth beast of Daniel’s vision.

Daniel then says, “I saw one of his heads as it were wounded unto death; and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world wondered after the beast.” (Revelation 13:3)  Now the head of the western Roman Empire was wounded by the Visigoths in A.D. 410, wounded unto death it would seem, because they not only took away everything that had been under Roman domina­tion in that area, but they captured and looted the city of Rome itself.  The city was at­tacked by the Vandals in 455 A.D. and the Ostrogoths in 493 A.D., and then Theodoric the king of the Ostrogoths made himself king of all Italy.

[H: Please, readers, don’t assume that because I offer this interpretation unto you that it is totally correct—but the his­torical line of sequence is beautifully presented and in each “great era” there will be other empires which will have all the qualifications of meeting the guidelines of Revelation.  The major point of this whole outlay is to allow you to see, not the specific projections—BUT THE CONTINUITY OF THE SAME PEOPLES AND ACTIONS IN THEIR PUR­SUIT FOR ULTIMATE WORLD DOMINATION OVER THE GODLY PEOPLE OF THE GLOBE.  ALWAYS THE SAME GROUPINGS WILL APPEAR AGAIN AND AGAIN DOING THE SAME WARRING EVIL.]

Rome had now changed from a military and political capital to a religious capital; it was of no serious military or political importance after about 400 A.D.  The capital of the empire, in a political sense, had been moved to Byzantium (Constantinople) in 330 A.D.  So here was one head of the beast, it would ap­pear, wounded as it were unto death.  [H: You must also real­ize that “religion” is the greatest “POLITICAL” action of ALL.]

These events had occurred in the meantime: The Emperor Constantine had issued his edict of toleration of Christianity in the year 313 A.D.  Before that time, paganism was the leading power in Rome; the emperors were deified and worshipped as gods, along with all the others: Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and so on.

So Christianity became an officially recognized and tax sup­ported religion.  [H: Proof of its political nature!?]  Just how much of a Christian Constantine was, is something that is open to very considerable debate.  [H: Well, he was smart enough to handle it politically, was he not?  He is sometimes care­lessly referred to as the “first Pope”.]  He put up statues of pagan gods in Rome: all of this after he issued his edict of tol­eration of Christianity in 313.  In 324 A.D., this Pontifex Maximus, this chief priest of Jupiter, presided over the Christian Council of Nicaea.

There was a great deal of division among the early Chris­tians.  Some of them said, “We have three gods, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and they are three different individuals, and somehow or other they are still one—but it is a great mystery be­cause we have no understand­ing of it at all.”  And believe me, it was a mystery to them, all right.  The others said, “No, we have one God.”  [H: And, world, how far have you come to this day?]

They were quarreling bitterly over that point, and this council was called at the demand of Constantine.  He said, “You are not going to continue fighting over this; you are going to a council and get together and decide this.”  It so happened that at this Council of Nicaea, the trinitarians outnumbered the believers in one God, so on the Supreme Court’s famous “one man one vote” basis, the trinitarians won and Christianity, which would have been a monotheistic religion, continued to be a polytheism of three gods who in some unknown way constituted one God.  [H: Good old democracy at work—just “vote-in” what you want, right or wrong.  It seems quite obvious to me that the facts are that you have ONE GOD but one who manifests Himself in many ways as presented in the One, but who is also the Holy Spirit—and the “Father”.  Good old Constan­tine who is often dubbed that first Pope was actually not even a Christian and was not baptized or sanctioned until he was on his very deathbed, in the year 337 A.D.]

Up to about 376 A.D. the Roman Senate had a statue of “Victory”, where they burned in­cense to this goddess of victory, at the opening of each session.  The rise to power of the bish­ops of Rome began when Pope Leo the Great persuaded Attila the Hun to accept a huge money bribe [H: Really, things don’t change at all, do they?] offered by the emperor, instead of capturing and looting the city of Rome, in 452 A.D.  And by the middle 700s A.D., Rome was really governed by the Pope.

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Let us have a respite break please.  Thank you.

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