Psychopath Christian religious officials, but I repeat myself, have sold millions upon millions of dollars of written and spoken words in a futile effort to explain “the image of the beast” referred to in Chapter 13, verses 14-15 of the Revelation of John—in specific violation, by the way, of the command of Jesus in Chapter 10, verse 8 of the Gospel of Matthew: “Freely you have received, freely give.”
But this, of course, is how they ‘earn’ their living: by lying; that is, by claiming to have a Knowledge that they do not have.
But it is not nearly so complicated.
And their witless followers, but I repeat myself, should have spent their money on, instead, housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and/or caring for the sick and the elderly; rather than on purchasing the nonsense concocted by the “beast of the earth” consciousness of the ‘thinker’ (Chapter 13, verses 11-12 of the Revelation of John), all in the absence of Revelation, for the purpose of constructing numberless churches and/or Christian evangelical media empires.
That is, according to the Knowledge Revealed through both the Vision of the “Son of man” and the Revelation of “the resurrection”, the “dragon” is, in terms of consciousness, the origin of the duality; in the context of which the “beast of the sea” (Chapter 13, verse 1 of the Revelation of John) is the dualistic, ‘fallen’ consciousness of the “self”; the “image of the beast”, then, being the image of a 3-dimensional ‘curved’ spatiality of consciousness—referred to in Genesis as the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”—which, in opposition to the Moral Law, identifies the “self” and the pleasures of the “self” as the source and manifestation of all Good, and identifies the “not self” and the sufferings of the “self” as the source and manifestation of all Evil.
Thus, it is the ‘worship’ of this image of the “self”—and the universal willingness to commit, literally, any act of violence in the preservation of this “self”—which is the foundation of the theological conflicts between the “false prophet” Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious officials (including the conflict over Jerusalem, by the way) which are pushing this civilization into Daniel’s “time of trouble”.
Michael (Chapter 12, verse 1 of the Book of Daniel; Sura 2, verse 98 of the Quran; Column XVII of the Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light) and
Sarah–>Elijah–>Daniel–>John the
Baptist–>Mohammed–>Elizabeth
For:
Esau–>the apostle, Judas–>Susan (1970)
Hagar–>the apostle Mary–>Danielle (1982)
Isaac–>the apostle John–>Robin (1986)
Jacob– >the apostle Thomas– >Linda (1987)
Ishmael–>the apostle Peter–>Cindy (1992)
Isaiah’s wife–>the apostle James–>Kimberly (2000)