Our Lady of the Apocalypse
Our chapter-by-chapter Bible study on the book of Revelation continues! For the first seven chapters, click here. Please note that our source material comes from the Taylor Marshall Show podcast.
The Book of Revelation
Apocalypse, “The Unveiling”
Chapter 8—Seven
Trumpets
A pause at the seventh seal recalls Sabbath rest. Silence
indicates the presence of God about to do something amazing. This seal brings
forth seven angels (archangels?) bearing trumpets, like Joshua’s conquest of
Jericho. A priest-angel brings the prayers of the saints to God’s altar as
incense. The censer is filled with fire from the altar and thrown down to
earth; this is the answer to the martyrs’ prayers. The first four angel trumpets
bring forth cosmic catastrophes that mirror thematically the 10 Plagues of
Egypt. Wormwood (Satan?) reverses the miracle of Moses purifying poisoned
waters with wood (Cross?). The eagle’s triple superlative “Woe!” is a prophetic
warning for the next three angels.
Chapter 9—The
Locust Legion
The fallen star is given the key to the shaft of the
bottomless pit (Satan and Gehenna). Locusts stream out from the flames and
smoke of hell a la the prophet Joel. Locusts take away everything that you
worked so hard to produce. They are not allowed to harm those with the seal (Baptism)
upon their foreheads, but torture others nonlethally for five months, the life
cycle of a locust. Also, the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans lasted five
months. What’s with the crazy description of the locusts? Consider the
constellations visible over Jerusalem at the Passover and during the Jewish War:
Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius the warrior, Hydra and Ophiuchus (the serpent
and serpent-bearer). Abaddon/Apollyon means Destruction/Destroyer. Vespasian
and his son Titus destroyed Jerusalem and conquered Rome. Titus was the
commander of Legion XV Apollinarius. The second woe occurs when the sixth angel
blows his trumpet and a huge mass of bizarre cavalry come forth. They punish unrepentant
idolaters (Romans) and murderers (the apostate Jerusalem establishment that
murdered John, Jesus, James and James).
Chapter 10—Heaven’s
Giant
The “gigantic angel” appears to be Jesus: holding the
scroll, clothed in cloud, ringed with rainbow, face like the sun, pillars of
fire, lion’s voice. These are all divine attributes. The sea represents the
Gentiles and the land represents Israel. John is not permitted to write what
the seven thunders say. Thunder is God’s voice, the Holy Spirit. Mankind gets
the little scroll instead. We cannot know everything, the entire mind of God.
We are given what we need. With His feet touching the earth and sea He swears a
New Testament by Heaven. The hidden mystery now revealed is that the Gentiles
are fellow heirs of God’s promise; all nations are to be brought into God’s
people Israel. “Take and eat” the little scroll. The scroll is the New Covenant,
the Eucharist. It is both sweet and bitter.
Chapter 11—Two
Witnesses
When John measures the Temple he is “canonizing” it for
God. 42 months is 3 ½ years, the length of Jesus’ ministry but also the length
of the Neronian persecution. The two witnesses dress like Elijah, God’s
champion against idolatry. Zechariah spoke of two sons of oil, Joshua the
priest and Zerubbabel the king. The fire from their mouths is the Word of God.
They have Moses’ talent for plagues. Who are they: the Law and the Prophets;
Elijah and John the Baptist; Peter and Paul? Or, as some Church Fathers
believed, are the two witnesses Enoch and Elijah, the only two men who never
died? Augustine and Aquinas affirm that Enoch and Elijah will return in the
future. The Beast (Satan, animalistic sin) rises up from the Abyss (Gehenna)
and kills the witnesses. Then the seventh trumpet sounds, and the Kingdom of
God is unleashed upon the earth.
Chapter 12—Our
Lady of the Apocalypse
Heaven splits open and the Ark of the Covenant is
revealed: not a box but a woman. In 2 Maccabees 2, Jeremiah declares that God
will keep the Ark hidden until He regathers His people in mercy. According to
Aristotle, everything below the moon was mortal, and everything above immortal
and incorruptible. She stands above the moon. But how can Mary and the birth of
Christ occur here before the fall of Satan? According to tradition, Lucifer
rebels on the first day of Creation because God shows to the angels a future
vision of the Incarnation. 12 stars indicate Virgo, as well as 12 Apostles and
12 Tribes. The red dragon (Satan) has attributes of Daniel’s four beasts;
Michael casts him down. The dragon pursues the woman: Eve or Mary? St. John
took Mary from Jerusalem to Ephesus for her protection. The woman is Israel,
and Mary, and the Church. If you bear witness to Jesus, you are a child of the
mother of Jesus.
Chapter 13—Beasts
of Earth and Sea
The sea represents the Gentiles and the land ancient
Israel: Rome and Jerusalem. The sea beast has seven heads and 10 horns like the
dragon, again from Daniel. 10 crowns relate to 10 Roman principalities and
Daniel’s 10 toes. Is the head wound from Genesis 3:15? The pagan Roman kingdom
has received its deathblow but it doesn’t know it yet. The Caesars call
themselves “lord,” “divine,” and “savior,” which is blasphemy. The land beast,
with horns like a lamb (like the Messiah) but the dragon’s voice, is a false
prophet. The land beast ministers in the presence of the sea beast, serving and
worshipping Caesar. The false idol refers to those synagogues that follow the
false high priest, persecuting the Church by expelling Jewish Christians from
their synagogues. 666 is “Nero Caesar.” In Exodus the Law is to be tied to the
forehead and the right hand; false law mocks this.
Chapter 14—The
Grapes of Wrath
The new song for the 144,000 is the liturgical song of
victory. The faithful army of Christ is not swept away by spiritual adultery,
and they speak the truth. One angel calls us to worship and honor God with our
lives; another declares the fall of “Babylon.” This draws imagery from Ezekiel
and Jeremiah, prophets who speak of Jerusalem as God’s unfaithful bride turned
prostitute. The old city is fallen and will be destroyed. A third angel warns
that those who worship the land beast and its idol will be punished. Christ
reappears as Daniel’s Son of Man, holding a sickle. Two swings reap both wheat
and grapes. The Old Testament calls Israel and especially Jerusalem God’s
vineyard. Terrible bloodshed is coming to Jerusalem, but a harvest is reaped.
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