It is now commonplace among scientists and alt thinkers to make the universe a causation. After many decades I heard Psalm 8's meaning with the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained (KJV). Other translations might give "established" for "ordained" but two things at least happen in an ordination. The laying on of hands and the prostration of the candidate. So the universe had Hands layed on it, "created heaven with a touch his fingers, God gave to man dominion of his hands,' and so the universe prostrated itself before the throne, for "His glory is above the heavens' (Psalm 8 again). Now we know what the universe is.
Judgment of the Stars
The Sixth Seal is one of Seven on the scroll that the Lamb opens. This introduces a cast of characters to appear throughout the Revelation, Foul Spirits, Fornication and Finance and in Revelation 18, ten thousand times ten thousand angels, and 24 Elders. The scroll's judgments are delivered with acclaim for the Lamb that every creature, in heaven, on earth, under earth and in the sea hears. Nobody in public life however wants to talk about it, even if everybody knows it is coming. We are invited with John to come and see.
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| El Greco, Fifth Seal |
But before the Sixth Seal opens the Fifth gives an explanation as to why THE STARS FALL and how they are implicated, which is going to take a substantial diversion to explain. Stars represent a usurping system attached to idols to institute worship of themselves. Oddly both the idols and the worshipers worship themselves. That the sword is bathed in the heaven means these self worshipping star idols are massacred. This is both symbolic and literal, not good news for astrology of Hollywood. If the stars fall can the planets be far behind? Too bad about Saturn. But while the stars are stars, the sword is Breath.
What's wrong with star worship? It's upside down. He made the heavens with a touch, his fingers, Psalm 8. The heavens declare the glory of Yahweh, Psalm 19, not of idols, demons, nephilim. The world, palms up, by now is well on the way to its submersion, subversion. The stars fall again and again; the dragon's tail threw a third part to the earth, Revelation 12.5. Critics will lull the reader with the argument that stars are symbols of nations, powers and authorities, the judgment of imperial apotheosis, the sin of empire, that Babylon is a code name for Rome and of all systems that substitute for Yahweh, but symbol aside, the word is stars. Literalists disbelieve deceivers. In sword forums bathing the sword is considered curing in oil or salt or rubbed with garlic to purify. Some say the raised sword is bathed in light when raised, which connects light to heaven, thus the phrase bathed in heaven connotes reflection, but this phrase from Isaiah is a judgment and bringing down of the entire (false) superstructure of the heaven.
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| Fifth Seal |
Back up a little, Abraham had always been a thorn in the side of these Apollonians who say there is no divine being except the stars, not a far reach from modern ET theories which continually seek the star gods with telescopes and space ships, codes and projected Blue Beams. Maimonides says the Sabeans are forerunners of the idea of " the stars as deities, and the sun as the chief. (Guide, III, 135). To put the universe up as an agent of destiny as the seculars do, say hello to Clif High, is to show that this is a current delusion. See Lydia's Vow, who says she is "interacting with the planetary mind." Images of the gods placed in temples attracted a host of correspondences, an idea central to the renaissance, for example, Sir Thomas Browne. This thinking had long exposition before Plato, Plotinus or Ibn Ezra, as Maimonides says, before Babylon "a certain tree, which is peculiar to a certain star, is dedicated to the name of this star, and certain things are done to the tree and in connection with it, the spiritual force of that star which influences the tree, inspires men" (Guide, 139f). So all divination is idolatry modeled on the Sabeans who erect "temples of Intellectual Images (or Forms)" (145), but "it is the principal object of the Law to blot out these opinions from man's heart and make the existence of idolatry impossible" (145). It is obvious that when Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar that his kingdom will be returned to him after "thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule" (4.26) he does not mean the stars. That heavens could be equivocated as stars and universe and turned into astrology is proof text of every occultist from the Sabeans on. See also The War With Egypt
-I will make Jerusalem as unclean as Topheth, by filling the city with your dead bodies. I will do this because you and your kings have gone up to the roofs of your houses and burned incense to the stars in the sky, as though they were gods. And you have given sacrifices of wine to foreign gods. 2 Kings 23:9-11 English Standard Version.
- And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech. 11 And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su-P7BoajCI
The chief survival skills of the apocalypse are spiritual, then social. Remember that the sword is the breath of his mouth in Apocalypse
II. Judgment of the Stars
The Sword Bathed in the Heavens
Enoch I. 18.14f: This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the LORD in the beginning of their rising....
19.1: Here stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods.
And finally this as to whether there are any female angels: "and the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens." 19.3
Behold! His angels He charged with folly! Job 4.18
The heavens are not clean in His sight! Job 15.15
The stars of heaven fell to the earth. Rev. 6.13My Sword shall be bathed in the heaven. Isaiah 34.5
It is polished to make it glitter. Ah! It is made bright. Ezekiel 21.10,15.
Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down," declares the LORD. Obed. 1.4
The Tyger
Blake said, the stars threw down their spears, which allows them shaken to fall like figs. The sword bathed in heaven is the agency of their reaping. Threw down taken first as their light is their surrender. Watered heaven with their tears is their repentance that failed. The tyger of man's invention, his gods, his star worship asks, did he smile his work to see. The answer is Yes! But the manufactured furnace of brain, robot hammer and chain, hybrid alien oppression are overthrown. Smile, I am Yahweh, I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them (Ez 34.27)! So does Blake oppose empire, asks, "have you, a spirit made a live long innate Independence to be free?" If not you're not. You cannot teach to be free. It is innate or not. American slaves never stopped seeking to be free. When you're willing to oppose the mark of your slavery and every demented, reversed, inverted reality the enemy can accuse you of, the very horrors it commits, than you're free.
The whole Burning bright star worship system from Akkadia and Sumer in the forests of the night backgrounds the dark in Blake's compressed Revelation. This is why King David overthrew all the worship of the sun and its idols, counsels of familiar spirits, who said, for all the Elohim of the people are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens (I Ch 16.26). The history of Israel's kings leads to their captivity in Babylon with Nebuchadnezzar. Much is laid to the sins of Manasseh in this, who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood which Yahweh would not pardon (II Ki 24.4), and with workers with familiar spirits, and wizards, and images and idols that Josiah put away (23.24). The provocations of Manasseh (23.26) who burned incense unto Baal involve the sun, moon, and planets, and all the host of heaven (23.5) which explains the shedding of innocent (21.16) sons and daughters made to pass through the fire in worship of Moloch, meaning Saturn. Manasseh massacres innocents to idols to worship heaven: To serve them he built altars for all the host of heavens in the two courts of the house of Yahweh (21.3,5). Manasseh shed innocent blood very much (21.16) When Josiah rediscovered Torah (22.13) he took away the race horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun...and burned the chariots of the sun with fire (23.11). Whatever the worship of the sun, moon and heavens was in its horrors of blood and perversion, its pretense of usurping the true heaven, moon and sun, was worse, as David says, for Yahweh made the heavens (I Ch 16.26).
So "the stars of heaven which have transgressed the commandments of the Lord and are bound in this place until the completion of ten million years (according to the number of their sins" (I Enoch 21.6, also 18.15), hence Jude 13 says they are "wandering stars for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
The Sixth Seal
Isaiah says the stars will fall like figs (34.6), which judgment occurs long before Isaiah if we remember the stars worshiped as idols judged from the time of Moses and before Noah by implication, with Nimrod. So the fall of the stars, the figs, extends through Genesis, Moses, Isaiah, Jesus and into Revelations where in the opening of the sixth seal the stars fall. The fig did not fare well when Jesus signed its judgment but the action doesn't stop there. Revelation is with us today. With the opening of the sixth seal comes the sealing of the saints against the last of the end. Say to the fig be barren. May no one ever eat from you again. Say to the mountain be moved! Say to the storm be still! Say to demons be silent. All spoken by Jesus. If figs are as stars their privy members are like horses, Enoch says, [compare Ezekiel 23.20] and first to be judged. Figs fall when they are ripe. They ripen from their own corruption, long coming, from the beginning of the rebellion, cut down by the sword, the breath of his mouth. Stars fall as figs, this is the moment of the sixth seal.
Prophets are not to be absolved from their details. "Bathed" could be taken as reflecting light of the stars, or anointed with oil. But the heavens viewed as bodies and blood and the sword bathed in the blood of the heavens means all the false ideas of the stars supplanting the true worship of Yahweh for Apollo. Worshiping the throne instead of the ruler ends. But look for a grand finale. We are not told that the Nephilim who fell AFTER the Flood are imprisoned.
We are used to hearing of the judgment of the earth, the apocalypse, the end times but this is a judgment of the heaven, as the writer of Hebrews says, "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven" (12.27). It is not just a single mention in Isaiah 34.6 either, but also at Isaiah 26.13f, "Adonim have had dominion over us...deified men." Compare the Raphaim giant nephilim of Job 26.5 usurping the rule of Yahweh when in Job 29.4 they are brought down as a familiar spirit. The spirit of sleep is poured on them, their eyes are closed, "vision is sealed,' 11, the book is delivered to those who cannot read, 12, and the wisdom of the wise perishes, 14. Amid much talk of covering and divination, Egypt and books, Isaiah 30.8, lie after lie is uttered by prophets, 30.10. In the "breaking that comes suddenly at an instant," 13, THEN thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying, this is the way walk ye in it, 30.21, then "the towers fall, the light of moon is brighter, the sun seven times 25, 26.
The sword is all about the voice, the breath of Yeshua-Yahweh, Isaiah 30.31; 33, which is the sword, the breath of his mouth of Revelation 1: out of His mouth went a sharp two edged sword. This is speech upon speech Isaiah 32. 7; 9. Now will I arise says Yahweh 33.10. Hear, 13, let the earth hear, 34.1. THIS IS THE CONTEXT FOR THE STATEMENT THAT ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN SHALL BE DISSOLVED AND THE HEAVENS ROLLED TOGETHER AS A SCROLL AND ALL THE HOSTS FALL DOWN AS THE LEAF FALLS FROM THE VINE AND THE FIG FROM THE TREE. FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN...THE SWORD OF YAHWEH SHALL BE FILLED WITH BLOOD. Isaiah 34.4-6.
OK, maybe the stars aren't only stars. But Rev 6.13 further says, the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. My sword shall be bathed in heaven, bathed in blood. Heaven's body is to be severed from its belief that the stars are gods, that the sun is a god, old and older than history. All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, the heavens rolled together as a scroll: their hosts shall fall as the leaf falls off the vine, as a fig from the tree. For My sword shall be bathed in heaven. Isaiah 34.5. Stephen being stoned to death says you made gods out of stars, worshiped heavenly bodies, had a portable Moloch for your Saturn to carry the idols you worship, (Acts 7. 42, 43). Deut 4.19 says that they should be driven to worship sun, moon and stars, all the host of heaven and serve them, Zephaniah, that I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims, black-robed priests of idols, with the priests; and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops (1.4, 5), and Jeremiah that "it was there, on the roof-tops, they sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and made offering to alien gods.“The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven” (Jeremiah 19:13). The king “worshiped all the host of heaven and served them” (2 Kings 21:3). Now you know what NASA is doing.
Maps of the heavens as told over millennia reveal an "almost infinite distance between the ancient and modern names. The ancient is full of mysterious significance and grandeur; the modern is puerile to an extreme, a comic! "The Air Pump, the Painter's Easel, The Telescope, The Triangle, the Fly, the Microscope, the Indian, the Fox and Goose, the Balloon, the Toucan, the Cat..." (Bullinger, 43). Representations of the heavens such as at Birs Nimrud, a Babylon Ziggurat, that perpetuate planet worshiping and antediluvian versions along with corruptions of the original in ziggurats and the Illumination of Bel obscure that all creation was bound up in "the hope of a coming redeemer, born of a woman; who should first suffer and afterwards gloriously triumph" (Bullinger 19). If we displace the Roman calendar with the heavenly calendar, as Israel does with Rosh Hashanah culminating in Yom Kippur, New Year to Day of Atonement, all in ten days, and all in September, the year begins in September with fasting, not feasting, and the human creation begins in Virgo and ends in Leo, as the Sphinx suggests, a woman with the body of a lion. A lot to take: the Romans claimed both new years, one at Jan 1 and the other at the spring equinox with feasts, but Israel at Rosh Hashanah fasts.
That the stars will fall like figs can be seen while walking before first light at Rosh Hashana, Orion
and Sirius especially in the east, with Venus above many solitary date palms. The stars seem ascended from the fronds. Palms are more frequent in Judea than figs and the two share much, but only the date palms rise to the heavens. The fig, the date, date seeds, litter the ground so that visually they seem stars like figs in and above the date palms before dawn. Apocalyptic date figs so caught up shine singly from clusters on the trunk. We cannot see more in the dark. The bushy top sticks up. Some bright fig-dates escape. That's what the prophet deemed natural before the figs fell. They had to fall. Figs litter the ground. Date palm, desert fig. You don't have to look up to see a fig, but a palm is eighty feet up. Each trunk a galaxy, each star a universe, but as always there is a good to the bad, a heaven that doesn't fall connoted in the palms, palms that hold up the heaven:
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| Palms in the Abby, Church of Bath |
Ye shall take for you in the first day the fruit of a tree of honor,
spathes of palm-trees, and a branch of a dense tree, and willows of the
torrent (Lev. 23.40).
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| Danby, Sixth Seal |
E. W. Bullinger, The Witness of the Stars.
Falling Stars and Rising Smoke: Imperial Apotheosis and Idolatry in Revelation. Robyn J. WHITAKER here
If you got this far look at The Sun as God here.
