It is important to understand, though, as Moses and many others wrote, God is not a mortal, nor a man, nor a son of man. Therefore, the use of the term "His Christ" is not actually appropriate. God is God, the eternal LORD of hosts and the omnipresent Great Spirit and Supreme Consciousness. It is more appropriate to say that God is our spiritual Parent, and that in certain respects God has both male and female aspects. The Christ Jesus, who was a servant of God, as he himself said, used the term "our father" only to establish a common frame of reference. That is confirmed by the fact that Jesus told his disciples that "You have not seen the shape of God at any time." And it’s also confirmed by the words of Moses, who wrote "God is not a mortal, nor a man, nor a son of man."
Furthermore, the Christ Jesus will not actually come again in person, as I've explained on other pages such as Prophecies Re: The "One To Come," The Martyrdom of Jesus, and The Virgin Birth Story. Moreover, there are no immortal persons. There never have been, nor will there be. That is why it is written that God, and the Christ (the Ancient One also known by other names by other religions, who is in heaven with God), shall reign forever, because it will be IN SPIRIT and humanity will finally realize it.
Now, as to Daniel’s full interpretation of the dream, it is easy to see that the four parts of the image (the four kingdoms) represent four great world empires. But, the rest of the clues can be understood only in an astrological context, because Daniel was the Chief Astrologer who advised the king of ancient Babylon, and therefore his writing contained astrological symbolism.
The first kingdom or empire was, of course, that of the Babylonians which began during Daniel’s time and is also known as the Chaldean empire. The deity of the Babylonians was the sun god, and gold is the metal associated with the sun in astrological symbolism. That’s why the king had a "head of gold" (even though the Babylonian King Nebuchednezzar misunderstood Daniel and constructed an actual royal image of gold).
The second empire was that of the Medes and Persians. Their religion revered the moon goddess, associated astrologically and alchemically with silver. The third empire was that of the Greeks, who predominantly revered Aphrodite or Venus, hermetically and esoterically associated with copper (erroneously translated as brass in the King James version of the Bible). And the fourth empire is usually considered to be that of the Romans, whose god of war, Mars, is associated with iron.
However, the feet of the image are of both iron and clay, and while some scholars have for various reasons surmised that this refers solely to the Romans, the fact is that it refers also to the empires that have their roots in Rome and have subsequently ruled in the world living by the sword, then by the gun, and then by the bomb. That’s why Daniel said the fourth kingdom would "break in pieces" and become many. Many European empires that claimed to be Christian would become those "pieces." Another piece was the Ottoman Empire, which was an Islamic successor to the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. And today the U.S.A. now epitomizes the biggest piece of the fourth kingdom-empire foreseen by Daniel, and as such it most represents the Babylon in the last book in the Bible, which ultimately falls because it is replaced by the new kingdom set up by God.
This becomes more obvious when you consider that the U.S. definitely has its roots in Rome. The American system of laws are founded on Roman law, and Roman Latin terms are part of its legal foundation and terminology. Also, since the feet are astrologically associated with Pisces and the passing Piscean Age, and since the king (president) of this partisan-ruled divided America could be said to have "feet of iron and clay" it makes it more obvious that we still live in that "fourth kingdom." America is the last great military empire in the world, and its "king" now represents the feet of the image.
The fulfillment of prophecy means that the "stone," which is the message of judgment from the Spirit of truth, shall strike the feet and shatter the image. It is totally symbolic. The stone is merely the esoteric symbol for the divinely inspired truth, and that’s why Daniel said the stone shall grow and become as a great mountain that shall fill the whole earth. The message of truth will shatter the image of the sovereign king (American Head of State and Commander in Chief). It will expose divisive and harmful leadership, dispel myths, expose false beliefs, dissolve the most divisive and harmful patriarchal doctrines and traditions of the passing age, and be spread all over the world.
Then, when humanity accepts and understands the message, the God of heaven shall set up a new kingdom on the earth that shall encompass all kingdoms and nations, and it shall last forever, never to be destroyed. God and the Christ in heaven (aka the Avatar-Buddha-Mahdi-Saoshyant-Ancient One in heaven) will reign in Spirit, and we shall share the thrones of our nations as equal joint heirs. That’s what the fulfillment of Old Testament and New Testament Bible prophecy is all about, and the prophesies of all other religions are based on the same idea and the same reality.
As for the crucial events that are depicted symbolically in John’s book of Revelation, there has been a lot of misinterpretation and misunderstanding about them. We need to realize, for example, that John had been carried away in spirit into the realm of the spirit, where he could see the spiritual reality that is beyond space and time, and yet in a way he could also foresee the distant future. There he saw a dream-like vision of the future fall of Babylon, and he also saw the preparation for the "marriage of the lamb and the bride."
When John fell at the feet of the entity who announced the marriage, John was told: "Worship me not. I am your fellow servant and brother who has testimony of Jesus." Many Christians have thought they figured out what John was writing about, but they have not. I have an idea, and I’ve expressed that in my third and fourth book. But I will say here that John helped to fill in the story in a symbolic depiction of the "marriage" of the current son of man with that which come down out of heaven from God (which John called "the holy city New Jerusalem" and "the bride"), which took place in 1971 when I was carried away in spirit just as John was. And John also symbolically depicted the future fall of the last and greatest religious-military-industrial super power, which will not actually "fall" but be reformed into the greater nation and good example it is destined to be after the reformation of its religion and government.
Another example of the symbolism in the book of Revelation is the "opening of the seven seals," where John partly associated the first four seals symbolically with the "four horsemen of the apocalypse" – the conqueror on the white horse, the warrior on the red horse, the issuer of justice on the black horse, and the usher of death on the pale horse. But while these symbols do indeed symbolize what has been happening during the last 90 years as the end of the age has drawn nearer, they do not necessarily symbolize specific entities or events. In certain instances, they do, such as when the Euphrates river is mentioned.
But, it is important to understand that the prophecies of the wars were written because they were foreseen, not because it was or is God’s will. The wars are the result of man’s vain folly. And the prophecies of wars have been and even now are fulfilled, and there need be no more blood shed to fulfill prophecies.
You see, in one sense the events they symbolize were fulfilled two thousand years ago in the realm of the spirit, while in another sense they have been played out as the passing age has been drawing to a close. This was particularly the case in the Twentieth Century, with the first and second world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and all the other violent and deadly wars, confrontations and even genocide that have occurred around the world ever since, including those in the Balkans, East Timor, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Iraq. All this bloodshed was foreseen, but it does not need to continue. Prophecy has been fulfilled, because what was foreseen has already taken place, or is taking place now.
You should know that in another, more important sense, the opening of the "seven seals of revelation" is quite an individual matter, much the same thing as opening the seven chakras in yogic terms. As John writes, opening the seven seals results in the opening of the spiritual "Book of Life," which is also known as the cosmic Akashic Record in Eastern terms, and it is not until the seventh seal (or the seventh chakra in the crown of the head) is opened or unsealed that the mystery and nature of God is revealed. (See the pages titled The Book of Life, and the Highest State of Consciousness.)
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