If you read the Bible for many years and get acquainted with the history of God’s people, you will find a pattern repeated almost constantly. The pattern tells the story of two brothers both sons of God, Adam and Christ. One rejected the paternity of God and set mankind and the world into a collision course with the natural order. Christ, the other brother, accepted the paternity of God and made the ultimate sacrifice to return the world to the path intended by the Father’s will.
After Adam’s fall, his own children reproduced the same disagreement. Cain and Abel played that ancient drama for the first time and so, one after another, we find so many characters in Scripture repeating the same type. In time, God selected a nation for the purpose of revealing the Obedient Son to the world. This Son, the Messiah or Christ, had to be the opposite of the original by atoning and repairing the damage caused by Adam. They both produced an offspring, one according to the flesh –keeping Adam’s course and perishing– the other according to the spirit, making all things anew. Both peoples are progeny and enemies of God at the same time, mixed until the end of the age of sin when they will be separated and judged. (See Matthew 13:1-23)
Please read the following texts carefully and see if you can detect the connection between them.
Israel rejects God: “But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, ‘Give us a king to govern us.’ Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.” (1 Samuel 8:6-8, NRSVACE)
Israel rejects Jesus, the Christ: “When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, ‘Here is your King!’ They cried out, ‘Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!’ Pilate asked them, ‘Shall I crucify your King?’ The chief priests answered, ‘We have no king but Caesar.’ Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.”
God’s people create their own god in accord with their religious leader, Aaron: “When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ Aaron said to them, ‘Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.’ So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, ‘Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord.’ They rose early the next day, and offered burnt-offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.” (Exodus 32:1-6, NRSVACE)
A very insightful comment by Fr. Leonardo Castellani circa 1950: “The Church, assisted by the Holy Spirit, impedes that manifestation and lessens it, resting on the human order that the Roman Empire organized in a body of laws and political practice; but the day will come for the end of this age, and the One who now holds it back, the Obstacle, will be removed. The Holy Spirit will perhaps abandon that social-historical body we call Christendom, sending his own to the most barren isolation, giving them “the wings of the great eagle to fly to the wilderness.” And then the existing temporal structure of the Church will be caught by the Antichrist and will fornicate with the kings of the Earth (if not all the Church, at least a noticeable part of it, as it has already happened in history) and the abomination of desolation will enter the holy place. “So when you see ‘the abomination that causes desolation’ standing where it ought not …” then it is fulfilled.” (Will Christ return or not? published in Spanish as Cristo ¿vuelve o no vuelve? 1951 by Paucis Pango, chapter 6 p. 30 “The Mystery of Iniquity.”)
A representation of the Church after fornicating with the kings of the Earth: “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the judgement of the great whore who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and with the wine of whose fornication the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.’ So he carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: ‘Babylon the great, mother of whores and of earth’s abominations.’ And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.” (The Apocalypse of Saint John 17:1-6, NRSVACE)
The faithful brother and the unfaithful brother continue to echo through history. One says “Where else are we to go? You have words of eternal life!” and the other is saying: “We don’t have any king but Caesar!” Their offspring is still divided between those who recognize the paternity of God and those who prefer to build themselves an image of the golden calf, a false god and a false aleph, an illusion behind which there is no power to give life, an abomination that can only cause desolation and death.
The day the people of Judea elected Caesar over Christ two churches were born. One was born in Calvary from the side of Christ after He was pierced by the spear of a Roman centurion. Curiously, one of the translations for ‘Cain’ is ‘spear’ and the Hebrew word sounds very close to kina, the Hebrew word for ‘envy’ ! What an image! The heart of the Son is cut open by the ones He created and refused to be sons of the Father. The other church is the antichurch of Revolution. See, the French Revolution was not a new idea, it was a rehash of the old rebellion against the Father that began in Heaven crying “Non serviam!”
The actors of this drama are three: The Church that the Father has sent into the world as an expression of His love for humanity, the temporal human order represented by Caesar in the cry of the people of Judea before Pontius Pilate, and the Revolutionaries, the anti-Chirst mob, who seek to hijack the powers of this world to make war on Christ and his Church. When the end of the age arrives, the age of the Ten Kings and the Beast, the Revolutionaries have finally managed to control though infiltration the Church that Christ established. They have also infiltrated and controlled the powers of this world, the remnants of the old Roman order. That is represented by the beast that the Harlot is riding. See, this is a very unstable situation. A woman rides a powerful beast and she is drunk. Not exactly a representation of peace and stability, the image transmits a terrifying message, one that would not be missed by a king of ancient times, the King of Babylon (of all places) who asked to use the sacred vessels of the Temple of Solomon to drink merrily with his courtiers. It was late at night when that king got a message from Heaven:
King Belshazzar made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring in the [sacred] vessels of gold and silver that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. So they brought in the vessels of gold and silver that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the wall of the royal palace, next to the lampstand. The king was watching the hand as it wrote. Then the king’s face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together. […] Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king the interpretation. Then King Belshazzar became greatly terrified and his face turned pale, and his lords were perplexed. (Daniel 5:1-19 NRSVACE)
Then Daniel answered in the presence of the king: […] “You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know; but the God in whose power is your very breath, and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored. So from God’s presence the hand was sent and this writing was inscribed. And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene, mene, tekel, and parsin. This is the interpretation of the matter: mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; tekel, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting; peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’ […] That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. (Daniel 5:17; 23-31 NRSVACE You can read the whole chapter here.)
It was the Father of king Belshazzar who had a dream that Daniel interpreted, the dream of the great statue with a golden head and feet of clay mixed with iron. (See Daniel 2)
“As the toes of the feet were part iron and part clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so will they mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay. And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall this kingdom be left to another people. It shall crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand for ever;” (Daniel 2:42-44)
Those ten toes of clay mixed with iron are the ten kings of the last hour of mankind, and the ten horns of the beast that the harlot rides. The harlot is the unfaithful church, the ape of the real Church. That false entity fornicates with the powers of the world represented by those ten kings, toes or horns. The Scriptures we are quickly reviewing today are all variations of the same theme. Like the dizzying images of the Mandelbrot set, they have been appearing through history over and over again but what is important to us is how the story ends: the God of Heaven is about to establish His Kingdom, our patria. That is the land of Our Father, our true homeland, the Kingdom we pray for when we say “Let your kingdom come!”
In the days to come we will see many odd and extraordinary things happen. We have seen some already. The evil powers that run this world are well aware that their eleventh hour has come. They are gathering the nations of this world as one large army to wage war against the King that is coming to claim what is rightfully His. They will try to revive the old order of the Roman Caesars, the closest thing that ever existed resembling a World Order. But Caesars they are not. They will collapse before the awesome power of God for whom they amount to nothing. Their epitaph will be the confusion and terror of the damned descending into the fiery abyss.
Our part is to give the witness of Jesus Christ and remain completely unmoved. They can kill our bodies, in fact this has –since the days of Cain– always a matter of killing those who are faithful to God. Those who expect a benevolent new humanist order for this world are as naïve and misguided as the Russians who expected Lenin to be a benevolent and illuminated leader of a New Russia. The final days of this world will be a brutal festival of murder and mayhem that will begin with the persecution of the saints and then continue with the destruction of the harlot, the unfaithful church.
That is why we don’t have to be disturbed if crooks take over the country and place the Beast in power. They are allowed to do that by God who sees much more of the world’s evil activities than we do. Remember their days have been counted and they have been weighed on the divine scales and found wanting.
Finally consider these words from Psalm 2:
Why do the nations conspire,
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,
‘Let us burst their bonds asunder,
and cast their cords from us.’He Who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord has them in derision.
Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
‘I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.’ (Psalm 2:1-6 NRSVACE)
One more time: Stay still and see how God purifies the world. The signs are everywhere.
Carlos Caso-Rosendi 
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I truly enjoyed Ann Barnhardt’s article Feeling Whipped? which I reached via the Vox Cantoris blog. Please read it before reading the comments below.
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I was very young when I discovered that Noah had to be a good carpenter to build his Ark. The connection did not escape me that Jesus was also a carpenter like St Joseph who was a dreamer, like the other Joseph, who went to Egypt like Jesus did when the Holy Family escaped from Herod’s persecution. There I paid attention to the imago noticing that Joseph the son of Jacob was held in a dry well. The well clearly points at the Holy Sepulcher but also at being reborn of the depths of the earth and that seems to point at Mary who conquers for herself the place of the Bona Dea as it was suggested to Augustus in the vision that gave origin to the Ara Caelis: “That Baby shall reign over the whole earth” and that leads us to Nicodemus’ question: “‘How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can a man enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’”
There is more to the image at the Praetoria.
Pontius (his name means ‘bridge’) Pilatus (his surname means ‘pillar’) plays a ‘pontifex’ washing his hands just like the Hebrew priests of ancient times, and he unwittingly invites the populace to shout “let his blood fall upon us and upon our children” and the image again comes of the Hebrew High priest sprinkling the blood of the Lamb of Passover over all the men of Israel.
The Passover is a new beginning and that is suggested in the name Sejanus (Lucius Aelius Sejanus) quite possibly connected to Janus, the pagan god presiding over things with two “heads” before-after, war-peace, and … the gates of Hades. Two faces, one looking back and one looking forward. Bar Abbas the revolutionary and the Son of the Father born to turn the world upside down.
Lucius Aelius means Luminous and Sun (Helios in Greek passes on to early Latin as Aelius). He suffered death for conspiring against Tiberius who was completely crazy, almost surely a soul possessed by the devil. The ramifications are many but the important part is that the three ‘orders’ are there. First the Retainer, Rome, the strongest of the beasts to reign over mankind (according to Daniel) and then the Revolutionaries, represented by the Judean populace who hypocritically declare to be for Caesar when what they really wanted was to conquer the world for themselves (self-Messianism) and were upset at Christ for not being a great Jewish general (even to this day) and finally Jesus, the Logos, the perdurable order that will crush the revolutionaries and also the Roman order that survives until the days of the Ten Kings who reign with the Beast for one hour (I personally believe we are about to enter that moment in history) after the US (the ones who serve the god of the strongholds, owning the most powerful army and arsenal in history!) has come to “its own end.”
The Antichrist is the Jewish general that the populace wanted that afternoon in Jerusalem. He will seat in Rome (as promised by Our Blessed Mother in La Salette) and subject the Roman Order to his own lawlessness. He will seat in Pontius’ judicial seat, he will claim to be Pontifex and Pillar, a Sun, the Light of Men. His candle will shine until Christ extinguishes him with His Breath. I thought of all these things while reading Barnhardt’s article over and over.
RESPONSE BY J.H.
One of the proofs that Scripture is not of human origin is the Mandelbrot series of ever increasing interconnection as one goes deeper into the text. This is not an original thought. I was thrilled that you mentioned Chuck Missler in your comments. His explorations of the interweaving in the Bible are stunning.
I am reading Paul Johnson’s book “Modern Times” at the moment. The Twentieth Century was actually worse than we have been told. I am in the chapter about Africa at the moment. I thought Russian history was depressing. Hooo!
Due to the Mandelbrot design of history, a thing may have more than one meaning and a meaning may refer to more than one thing – all equally true. To me, after much recent reading and viewing, the beast is plainly the vision of man without God. Strip away the possibility of the supernatural and there is only the natural. As such, man is just the most evolved animal – a beast. Since we seem – as beasts – to be able to self-identify as whatever, it is also true that without a Creator we self-identify as a beast. All of the atheistic ideologies and all of the ideologies that put man forward as the arbiter of good and evil are part of the rebellion. In my view the false prophet is the false prophet who has been warring against the believers for 1300 years – interesting number that… Counterintuitively, the beast and the false prophet share a goal – the destruction of the Church. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The beast – naturalism without a Creator, has been given great power through scientism – seen as empirical operations without reference to Truth not allowing metaphysical claims, but making metaphysical claims by the act of denying them. Truth then becomes partial, only what we know now empirically and subject to change or reversal as additional tests are done generating more data. No wonder the scientistic thinkers believe that truth is relative and subjective. Any proposition is always just one test away from being turned on its head. Your results may differ.
Morality functions as a restrainer. Morality must have a source. If God is the source, then morality can never change. If man is the source (or scientism) then morality changes continually. With God, morality is an expression of His love. With man as the source, man as beast, then morality is an expression of dominance – hence power based – hence political – hence of the beast. Christianity restrained pure dominance by looking to a higher off-world source for morality. When it is removed, as we can see in 20th Century history, pure dominance is unrestrained. Pure slavery, mass murder, confusion, collapse, poverty, war, famine, and ecological damage is the result – the chalices of judgment are poured out. Christianity has been caged by the beast. Its ability to restrain has been negated. The beast is now free to act according to its nature without the restraint of grace and morality. The US was one of the last holdouts. It interests me that the mischief visibly evident during the last four years has revealed for all to see what they are voting for. No excuses for what is coming. The Mandelbrot series points to the coming of an individual to personify this world without God, without law, with only force and dominance. The smaller designs reflect this in a series that includes all of the tin pot dictators of the last century, and there were thousands. Most people know only the top three or four. And that series goes all the way back to Cain.
The highest ranks of the church meanwhile have decided to ride the beast to partake of its wonders – as foretold; unfaithful in every sense of the word and giving of herself uncleanly for blandishments and gold. The entire Bible, old and new Testament is one story of unfaithfulness and redemption followed in time by unfaithfulness and then judgment. The big Mandelbrot design covers from the first temptation to the reign of the anti-Christ and the second coming. The little designs repeat the arc of the narrative on ever smaller stages down to the rise and fall of families.
It is hard to believe the rapidity and completeness of the triumph of the beast. We are becoming the planet of the apes as we cast aside our filial relationship with the transcendental Father and make ourselves blood brothers with the beasts of the earth. Soon enough, and quite soon, we will have the morality of the beasts world-wide, red in tooth and claw. We know how the story goes for so it is written. Some of us have not forgotten Who wins in the end.
Sejanus – Janus, as noted, looked backward and forward. The cross stands at the exact balance point of history when the veil of the temple was rent. We remind ourselves that Apocalypse means
J.H.
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