The Key of the Apocalypse (Revelation)

1. Explanation of Numbers and Symbols

1.1. The number “666”

1.1.1. 666 talents of gold

We have seen that the number “666”, the number of the Beast, indicates to the 666 talents of gold that Solomon received annually from neighboring countries (1 Kings 10,14 / 2 Chronicles 9,13). Israel today, dreams of having in its coffers, annually, an identical entry that would be equivalent to more than 17,000 kgs of gold (17 tons!). Such wealth that can be taken from the Arabs by Israel (oil etc…), would not only considerably raise Israel’s economy, but signify Israel’s moral hold over the Arab nations… even the whole world. The number 666 symbolizes thus, the zionist pretense: Greater Israel.

1.1.2. Symbol of failure

The number 6 is the symbol of failure. It is the fate of the 6-pointed Star, symbol of Israel. Prophetically speaking, the number 6 is the symbol of Evil and imperfection, in contrast to the number 7, symbol of good and perfection. When Jesus asks to forgive “7 times or 77 times” (Matthew 18,21), it should be understood that forgiveness must be granted fully to those who ask for it sincerely, not only the number of times (7 times), but far beyond this, until the symbolism of the number 7, to forgive perfectly, with all one’s heart. Likewise, the “7 seals” of the Book signify that its secret is perfectly guarded. The “7 horns of the Lamb” indicate his Omnipotence, and his “7 eyes”, his perfect vision of the soul (Revelation 5,6).

In the context of the Revelation, the number 6, one degree below 7, is thus the symbol of a work that is fruitless, aborted, which flows in an eternal torment, instead of leading to the rest of the “7th Day”. God created the Universe in 6 days, but “rested on the 7th day” (Genesis 2,2). The man under the sign of “7” enters into God’s Repose. St. Paul says that the “rest of the 7th day” is reserved to Jesus’ disciples. This is why he invites the recalcitrant Jews to believe in Jesus: “none of you must think that he has come too late for it (to God’s Rest)… There must still be, therefore, a place of rest reserved for God’s people, the seventh-day rest (Jesus disciples)… We must therefore do everything we can to reach this place of rest” (Hebrews 4,1-11).

Jesus, Himself, invites all men to enter this Rest: “Come to me, all you who labor and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (Matthew 11,28-29). We pray that the Jews answer to this invitation by the Messiah. They will then understand that the zionist plan reserves for them neither peace, nor security, and that the only true Rest is found in the faith in Jesus. Those who refuse to go to Him are themselves condemned to an eternal exhaustion; they are marked by the devil’s seal: the “6”: they will never penetrate the “7th day” of eternal Rest. This is why God says in the Apocalypse (Revelation 14,11):

“The smoke of their torture will go up forever and ever. There will be no respite, night or day, for those who worshiped the Beast or its image”

As for those who combat the Beast, they are those who, maybe not known to them, practice the “resistance in the Saints who keep the commandments of God and faith in Jesus” (Revelation 14,12). They will be introduced into God’s eternal repose:

“Happy are those who die in the Lord! Happy indeed, the Spirit says; now they can rest for ever after their work, since their good deeds go with them.” (Revelation 14,13)

1.1.3. The alliance of the three protagonists of evil

The triple repetition of the number 6 (666), represents the alliance of the three protagonists of evil: “the Dragon”, “the Beast”, and “the second Beast”. These three allies are marked by the number 6 and are united under one number: 666, as they work together to build the Empire of the Beast. In one hand, “the Dragon had handed over to it his own power and his throne and his immense authority” (Revelation 13,2), and in the other, the second Beast, it as well, “exercised all the power of the first beast on its behalf” (Revelation 13,11-12), with its “ten kings, who are all of one mind in putting their strength and their powers at the beast’s disposal” (Revelation 17,12-13). It indeed is, an evil tripartite alliance.

The world press reports ceaselessly that the leaders of the two Beasts continually cover the earth to assemble the kings of the whole world – especially Arab leaders and kings – so to rally them onto the American position and impose peace with Israel. This “false peace” will end up as a war symbolically called “Armageddon”. John says: “I saw three foul spirits come… they were demon spirits… going out to all the kings of the world to call them together for the war of the Great Day of God the Almighty… They called the kings together at the place called, in Hebrew, Armageddon” (Revelation 16,13). The Apocalypse stresses that this name is in Hebrew. In this language, this means Mountain of Megiddo (Ar, in Hebrew, means mountain). Megiddo, near Haifa, is the place of the Israelis’ troops total defeat against Egypt in 609 B.C. (2 Kings 23,28-30 / 2 Chronicles 35,19-25). The Pharaoh Neko killed king Josiah, in whom the Israelis had put all their hopes. This was the beginning of the collapse of Israel. In fact, about twenty years later, Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple of Solomon, putting an end, for the first time, to the Israeli kingdom. Since then, to the Jews, Megiddo became the symbol of defeat and extermination of Israel. A new Megiddo, as great as a mountain (Ar), is reserved for the Beast… and its allies.

1.2. The “42” months

“For 42 months the beast was allowed … to do whatever it wanted” (Revelation 13,5), and “the pagans (the Beast) will trample on the Holy City (Jerusalem) for 42 months” (Revelation 11,2). This means that the Beast and the pagans are one and the same. However, God will raise against them his “two witnesses to prophesy for those 1260 days” (Revelation 11,3), which is to say that they will prophesy against the Beast during the whole period of its occupation of Palestine, as the “42 months” equal “1260 days” (42 x 30).

During this same period, the “Woman”, symbol of the Apocalyptic Apostles, flees “away from the Serpent into the desert, to the place where she was to be looked after (by the Apocalyptic Message) for a time, two times and half a time (three times and a half)” (Revelation 12,14). These three times and a half are the “42 months”, or “1260 days”, that are equivalent to three years and a half. This same period is also symbolized by “three days and a half” (Revelation 11,9), period of the persecution of God’s two Witnesses, on whom “Men out of every people, race, language and nation will stare at their corpses, for three-and-a-half days” (Revelation 11,9). Television has showed “to the peoples” of the whole world, the Palestinian and Lebanese victims persecuted by Israel. They were, and always still, killed, imprisoned, and expelled from their demolished homes and lands, to be replaced by Israeli settlements.

Since the prophet Daniel, this period of “three times and half a time” has become the symbolic duration of all injustice and persecutions in general (see Daniel 7,25).

This period, which is presented differently every time in the Revelation, misleads the reader, and contributes in making the text impossible to comprehend. Here is the explanation: The Beast must occupy Palestine for “42 months”. During this time, which equals “1260 days”, God’s “Two Witnesses” resist it, and the Apostles of the Apocalypse, the “Woman’s” children, are chosen and isolated, as in “a desert”, to “be looked after” by the Book of the Revelation (Revelation 12,14). They are invited “to take” this Book from the Angel’s hand who holds it open, and “eat it in order to be able to prophesy AGAIN”, them too, with the Two Witnesses, “against many different nations and countries and languages and kings” allied to the Beast (Revelation 10,8-10).

1.3. The “horns”

The horns symbolize power. Satan appears in the Revelation in the form of a “huge red Dragon (sign of fury) with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet” (Revelation 12,3). The Beast also has “seven heads and ten horns, with a coronet on each of its ten horns, and its heads were marked with blasphemous titles” (Revelation 13,1).

An important detail passes unnoticed: The Beast has “seven heads and ten horns”; the crowns are not on its heads, but on its ten “horns”, symbol of the “ten kings”, who put their power at the Beast’s disposal. As for the Dragon, who bears his crowns on “each of the seven heads”, as he draws his power from himself. He is the crowned king of Evil.

1.4. The “4 horses” and their riders

The 4 horses of chapter 6,1-7 are the same entity: The Beast. They oppose the “4 Living Animals” around the throne (Revelation 4,6-8) who represent the 4 Evangelists. Each Evangelist allows one of the 4 horses to come into the world with its rider in shouting: “Come!” The 4 Evangelists have given life to the world. On the contrary, the power given to these 4 riders is “to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague and through wild beasts” (Revelation 6,8). These wild beasts are the two Beasts of the Revelation, which are allowed to “come” and put man to the test.

1.5. The Apocalyptic weapons

St. John saw three types of weapons that were nonexistent at his time: the planes, the bombs and the tanks. These are the Apocalyptic weapons that make up the Beast’s power.

1.5.1. The “locusts” (planes and helicopters)

John saw apparitions of strange “locusts” of war. They are planes and helicopters:

“… locusts dropped on the earth… these locusts were like horses armored for battle (these are weapons of war)… and faces that seemed human (they are conducted by men)… They had body-armour like iron breastplates (the plane’s metallic body), and the noise of their wings sounded like the racket of chariots with many horses charging (the din of the motor engines in the wings)” (Revelation 9,3-11)

Air battles are a new dimension of war and signal the apocalyptic times. The warplanes are Israel’s principal military power, conferred to them by the U.S.A.

Israeli aircrafts

1.5.2. The “Hail” (the bombs)

Bombs are represented by “great hailstones” predicted in the Revelation, and that was never before seen in the world. Each piece weighs “a talent” (the size of modern bombs). This dreadful hail causes terrible disasters on the earth: “And hail, with great hailstones weighing a talent each, fell from the sky on the people… it was the most terrible plague” (Rev 16,21).

Israeli missiles

This disastrous hail appears at the same time as the “locusts” of war. The bombs, including fragmentation, napalm, and nuclear, used by the two Beasts and their allies, are powerful weapons against all those who resist them. This scourge was announced by the prophecies to signal the Apocalyptic times.

1.5.3. The “horses” (the tanks)

John says: “In my vision I saw the horses, and the riders with their breastplates of flame color, hyacinth blue and sulphur yellow; the horses had lions’ heads, and fire, smoke and sulphur were coming out of their mouths” (Revelation 9,17).

Israeli tank

The prophecies on the Apocalyptic arsenal could not be understood before the appearance of predicted weapons, which was unthinkable in John’s time, and even till the beginning of the XX century.

1.5.4. The geographical place

Palestine is the principal centre of the Apocalyptic events. Two texts draw our attention to this country, and especially towards Jerusalem, the “Holy City”, and the “Beloved City”. It is here that the Beast’s appearance is prophesied:

“The pagans will trample on the Holy City for 42 months” (Revelation 11,2)

“Satan leads astray all the nations in the four quarters of the earth… for war… They came swarming over the entire Country (Israeli settlements on the whole expanse of Palestine), and besieged the Camp of the Saints, which is the Beloved City (Jerusalem, particularly longed for by Israel as the capital)” (Revelation 20,7-9).

The country, where Satan assembles his men, is recognizable by the citation of the “Beloved City”.

1.6. The characteristics of the Beast

1. It existed in the past, disappeared, and must reappear.
2. It reappears in Palestine with power and it seems invincible.
3. It had a deadly wound, but recovers.
4. It holds a great international power.
5. It represents a group of men.
6. A powerful nation supports it and imposes it on the world.
7. It appears with airplanes, bombs and tanks.
8. It will shed a lot of innocent blood.
9. It denies that Jesus is the Christ.
10. It will be destroyed by the Armageddon.

The appearance, in 1948, in Palestine, of the State of Israel supported by the US, a State formed by Jewish colonists who flocked in from the 4 corners of the earth, to settle themselves on the whole extent of the country in order to proclaim Jerusalem as capital, is a sign that the Apocalyptic Time is here.