2022/06/20
In
an age when the word "information" did not exist, people tried to
understand the accidental information that occurs when creatures are multiple
by personifying them. "Man's accidental information," compared to the
"serpent" in Genesis, soon became personified as the devil and Satan,
and so on. The Holy Spirit, however, inspired John to describe it as a great
dragon and write, "that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and
Satan, the deceiver of the whole world" (Revelation 12:9). The Holy
Spirit communicated the existence of this "information," which could
not be expressed in words at that time, to people so that they could identify
it. The dragon is pure "information" because it signifies "man's
accidental information," called "serpent" in Genesis, that has evolved
with people. The contrast between the dragon, which is "information,"
and the beast rising out of the sea at the beginning of Revelation 13 illustrates
well how people took "information" and made it into "human
knowledge." The dragon is described as having "seven heads and ten
horns, and seven diadems upon his heads" (Revelation 12:3). The fact
that the number of "heads" representing "information" and that
of diadems boasting "information" are the same and consistent
indicates that the dragon is pure "information." The number of horns
suggests that people made "information" into "human knowledge."
The beast from the sea, on the other hand, is described as having "ten
horns and seven heads, with ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name
upon its heads" (Revelation 13:1). The beast is depicted with its
heads and horns in the reverse order of the dragon. In addition, the diadems
are on its horns instead of its heads. That expresses people are prouder of what
they did and said by making this information into knowledge than the
"information" itself they have. By saying that the dragon is an
"ancient serpent," Revelation suggests the author wrote these things above with the account in Genesis 3 in mind. There are seven scenes in
Genesis 3 where the man and his wife took in "man's accidental
information." So, Revelation puts seven diadems on the seven heads of the
dragon, the "information." Ten instances are in these seven scenes where
the two persons made this "information" into "human
knowledge," and then into words and actions. Therefore, the beast in
Revelation has ten diadems on its ten horns. The breakdown of the ten horns is
as follows: three actions that the two did together, for a total of six horns
for the two of them (cf. Genesis 3:6-8), two actions of excuse by the man (cf.
Genesis 3:10,12), one action of excuse by his wife (cf. Genesis 3:13), and
finally, one action taken by the man alone (cf. Genesis 3:20), for a total of
ten horns. The "blasphemous name"
is the name traced back to Eve because the last action taken by the man, naming
his wife, was an act of blasphemy. People further evolve by taking information that
gives the "power and throne, along with great authority"
(Revelation 13:2) and making it "human knowledge." God, on the other
hand, with "divine knowledge," had already fulfilled for those who
love him what no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived
(cf. 1 Corinthians 2:9).
Maria
K. M.
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