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(Note 1) For the first and second seals, see blog № 13. For the third and fourth seals, see blog № 14. For the fifth and sixth seals, see blog № 15. For the seventh seal, see blog no. 16. (Note 2) See blog no. 16. (Note 3) See blog № 12. |
118. Prophetic Composition of Revelation 1/3
Previously,
we have examined the theme of the Successors of the Apostles painstakingly,
from slightly different angles, referring to Revelation and the biblical
writings. From this examination, we can see that the verses about the fourth
Blessedness, of which the angel announced, "'Write this: Blessed are
those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.' And he said to me,
'These are true words of God.'" (Revelation 19:9), are a prophecy of
the completion of the liturgy of the Mass. We will now move on to further
examination of Revelation after identifying its structure from a prophetic
point of view.
At
the outset, Revelation writes that Jesus Christ is "the faithful
witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth"
(1:5), "who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood"
(1:5), and who "made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father"
(1:6). And it describes him as the one who "have the keys of Death and
Hades" (1:18) in an image that causes fear in the viewer (cf.
Revelation1:13-16).
That
is because the earthly life of Jesus was a day of constant encounters with
adversaries as God desired to erase the memory of sin from the Bible and
decided to fulfil his desire by God's becoming humanity. Jesus trained his
disciples as 'a kingdom, priests to his God and Father' and made them a new
people of God who proclaimed the Gospel. The Holy Spirit testified to these
facts with a new Bible (cf. blog №117). Within it, the Book of Revelation was
also written as a training book which infuses post-Pentecostal believers, who
do not know Jesus, with the worldview of Jesus Christ and directs them towards
the liturgy of the Mass.
It
depicted the prophecy about Jesus Christ, who is with the Church, in Chapter 1,
the prophecy about the problems faced by the church community and their
solutions in Chapters 2-3, and the prophecy of the establishment of the New
Testament in Chapters 4-11. It had a unique structure because it assumed that Revelation
was to be contained within the New Testament (cf. figure above; blog № 87).
These
prophecies protect the Church and direct it towards the prophecy of the
completion of the liturgy of the Mass (chapters 19-20) amid the prophecies of
the fate of the Church with the priesthood and the sacrament of the Eucharist
hidden in the wilderness and heaven (chapters 12-16) and of the fall of the
Church (chapters 17-18). Hence, the Church is now in the vortex of chapters 17-18
(cf. blog № 89).
