The Revelation of History

By Geoffrey Gardner

This book explains how the thread of modern history was originally penned in the Revelation by the Apostle John during his exile on the isle of Patmos in 92A.D. It was a vision given to him by Christ that details in sublime language the various eras down to the present day. The destruction of the World Trade towers on September 11 2001, or 9/11 is part of this explanation.
The twin World Trade Towers in New York city were the pride of America. Their construction began in 1968 and represented the prosperity and culmination of the postwar era and America’s superpower status. Destroyed in one day in 2001 their significance goes to the heart of our existence here on planet Earth and is part of the conflict at bottom in this world.
The towers in New York were the ‘trade towers.’ For the first one hundred thousand years of our existence as fully formed human beings we were hunter-gatherers and later on, when the big game became depleted; farmers. Apart from simple bartering there was no trade for gain. We had no knowledge of weights and measures then, or packaging up goods for a price. These practices only emerged some six thousand years ago; and is what the story of Adam and Eve, and particularly Cain, their son, is all about. Cain is the divine analogy of the emergence of trade within the human experience, and its disastrous effect upon the purity of the human spirit. Although the practice of trade may have been quite a natural evolution and has brought many benefits to mankind, trade for gain also brought depravity to human nature; and tarnished our primitive purity and character, or image of God in which we were created.
This was the Fall of man, where the evil spirits of envy, greed, deceit and murder emerged and became universal. Cain ‘built a city.’ Not only so, but rival city states and their attendant war machines. The world six thousand years ago marked the appearance of armed pillaging hordes and the first empires. The ‘Assyrian wolf that came down on the fold.’ The emergence of trade for gain proceeding from crop surpluses marked one of the most significant changes of life on Earth. From being created in the image of God, mankind became engaged in rivalry featuring depraved practices for gain that a formerly generous population had no knowledge of.
The World Trade Towers were destroyed by Islamic terrorists. Struck down by terrorists proceeding from the Islamic world out of a clear blue sky on a Tuesday morning, representing probably the greatest single act of terrorism of all time. The Islamic faith is the violent reaction proceeding from the spiritual realm to Roman Catholicism. When Pope Boniface IV in 609AD dedicated the universal Church to the worship of the Virgin Mary, owned only by Christ, Mohammed appeared with his teachings the following year. A further false faith and one of the sword, that swept North Africa and West Asia from India to Spain. Swiftly rendering some of the richest parts of the habitable Earth hostile to European activity, particularly trade. So the World Trade Towers, destroyed by the reaction to Western idolatry fits with the overall direction of history and the religious conflict the world, and the Revelation, when everything is boiled down, is really all about. This work explains how the vision given at the end of the first century down through eras of time fits with world events.

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• Release date: Dec 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664107137

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1     The Empire Is Fading

Chapter 2     The KEY to the REVELATION

Chapter 3     HISTORY WEIGHED In The BALANCES

Chapter 4     The END of the WORLD

Chapter 5     fall of the EMPIRE in the WEST

Chapter 6     THE BYZANTINE ΣXARCHATΣ

Chapter 7     ARMAGEDDON the ANTICHRIST and the MILLENNIUM

Chapter 8     CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

Chapter 9     UNLOCKING APOCALYPTIC TIMES

References

Appendix

THE REVΣLATION OF HISTORY

HOW MODERN HISTORY, penned during

the FIRST CENTURY Anno Domini

is traced in the REVELATION

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BY GEOFFREY GARDNER

INTRODUCTION

September 11 2001. 9/11 Why the towers were destroyed; goes to the heart of our existence here on planet Earth

The twin World Trade Towers in New York city were the pride of America. Their construction began in 1968 and represented the prosperity and culmination of the postwar era and America’s superpower status. Destroyed in one day in 2001, their significance goes to the heart of our existence here on planet Earth and is part of the conflict at bottom in this world.

The towers in New York were the ‘trade towers.’ But for the first one hundred thousand years of our existence as fully formed human beings, we were hunter-gatherers and later on when big game became depleted, farmers. Apart from simple bartering, there was no trade for gain. We had no knowledge of weights and measures then or packaging up goods for a price. These practices only emerged some six thousand years ago; and is what the story of Adam and Eve, and particularly Cain, their son, is all about. Cain is the divine analogy of the emergence of trade within the human experience, and its disasterous effect upon the purity of the human spirit. Although the practice of trade may have been quite a natural evolution and has brought many benefits to mankind, trade for gain also brought depravity; and tarnished our primitive purity and character or image of God in which we were created.

This was the Fall of man, where the evil spirits of envy, greed, deceit and murder emerged and became universal. Cain ‘built a city.’ Not only so, but rival city states and their attendant war machines. The world six thousand years ago marked the appearance of armed pillaging hordes and the first empires. The ‘Assyrian wolf that came down on the fold.’ The emergence of trade for gain proceeding from crop surpluses marked one of the most significant changes of life on Earth. From being created in the image of God, mankind became engaged in rivalry featuring depraved practices for gain that a formerly generous population had no knowledge of.

The World Trade Towers were destroyed by Islamic terrorists. Struck down by terrorists proceeding from the Islamic world out of a clear blue sky on a Tuesday morning, representing probably the greatest single act of terrorism of all time. The Islamic faith is the violent reaction proceeding from the spiritual realm, to Roman Catholicism. When Pope Boniface IV in 609AD dedicated the universal Church to the worship of the Virgin Mary, owned only by Christ, Mohammed appeared with his teachings, the following year. A further false faith and one of the sword, that swept North Africa and West Asia from India to Spain. Swiftly rendering some of the richest parts of the habitable Earth hostile to European activity, particularly trade. So the World Trade Towers, destroyed by the reaction to Western idolatry fits with the overall direction of history and the religious conflict the world, when everything is boiled down, is really all about.

The twenty-first century draws the merchant-minded world to a scheduled close. The use of exalted title and the retreat from truth and the installation of idolatry by Constantinople and Rome in the Christian era implement the time-table for the ends of eras. Times also change from the accompanying secular libertinism, toward one of opposing mores in an era that is not going to go quietly.

It rarely does. The end of our age compares with the close of the ancien regime where autocratic French monarchy; also at the end of its tenure, was dismantled during the Great Revolution. Where rule after 1794 was formed into systems of parliamentary government and eventually, universal systems of democracy that changed the world.

Although democracy and human liberty are taken for granted by many now, these progress as detailed in the Apocalypse, penned during the first century, where an explanation of human history is necessary because life on earth consists of a conflict of which we are all part. One side of which; perhaps both to a degree, keep the bulk of the Earth’s degraded populations in the dark. The two world wars of the twentieth century as the focus of entire generations are now superseded in the twenty-first by the events of September 11 in 2001.

In the twenty-first century, with the postwar era over and the world embroiled with the burgeoning of the conflict that began with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian Ayatollah’s Islamic revolution of 1979, events give the hint. The Titanic disaster of 1912 represented on board a gargantuan ship, a complete microcosm of industrialised Edwardian society, foreshadowing in its demise the doom to follow ending the Edwardian era a few short years later in the Great War. The crumbled World Trade Centre towers prefigure the demise of the trading superstate societies they embodied. The original fall of man on the ground stemmed from crop surpluses disposed of for gain after hunting declined. Degrading the human spirit after some one hundred thousand years of existing in the divine image in which we were originally created.

Civilisation is now afflicted with the same forces that culminated in the seige of 1453 which ended the last Roman government of antiquity. Namely, militant Islam, coinciding with an idolatrous and permissive European culture engendering decay. Nevertheless, predominant ruling systems have appointed life-spans traceable through history, where end of tenure is seen by identifying the beginning of the day of power. The institution of idolatry set the schedule, insisting upon a careful study of relevant world history. Such an examination involving the pertinent thread of written history allows an anticipation of the future with the sure knowledge of the past. The key to which is God’s Apocalypse. The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John given on the isle of Patmos in 92 A.D.

The tragedy of September 11 2001 did not happen in a vacuum but belongs to an advance of events proceeding step by steady step over many years; the end of which can be charted from various beginnings in late antiquity. Times well documented by established scholarship, alongside the keys of the apocalyptic chronologies that provide the structure of this study.

The Authorised King James Version as the divine text of allegory and actual happenings produces the language and the chronologies that provide the framework tracing the course of human history to the twenty-first century when long eras of idolatry are scheduled to close, and the war fought down the ages is brought to its final end.

The data given in the Holy Bible fits within itself, where detailed time lines are harmonious within the wider parameters given. For example, the older testament king lists of given tenure between the first national covenant of Abraham bestowed 1913 BC - during the twentieth century before the common era - to the destructions visited upon the original Jerusalem in 586, as always for one form of idolatry or another that culminated in the diaspora of its people by Nebuchadnezzar II. These would certainly cause trauma if they did not. Recognised publications of universally accepted scholarship are the histories here used to detail how the Apocalypse, that provided in the first century the course of human history on the path of false worship through time, and actual events are entwined. Ordered not so much to provide a literary effort, but to clarify history’s revelation.

GG September 2021

I

THE EMPIRE IS FADING

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...which of the gods was it that made

them quarrel?                 The Iliad

One year after Adolf Hitler came to power as German Chancellor on January 30 1933, his deputy Chancellor, Franz von Papen declared, The Third Reich under the leadership of Adolf Hitler is the first state in the world in which the higher principles of the Pope are not only recognised but carried out in practice 1

The devious Papen, whose intrigues and conservative alignment with Hitler had helped pave the way to power for the Nazis, inadvertently reveals here in the midst of totalitarian intoxication and arrogance, the great division of religion in the world. Where life at centre consists of a religious war that during the Christian era burgeoned in Constantinople during the fifth century under the Eastern Roman emperors. Eight centuries before Christ, the Greeks had codified their Olympian gods in The Iliad. Homer began his epic of the Trojan War with the question, Which of the gods was it that made them quarrel? Reducing the common plaint, ‘religion causes wars’ to benighted understatement. The consequences of false-faithism that generated Islam that from the seventh century has participated in the war of the world and remains the prime spiritual reaction to corrupted worship instituted in 609, with the official alternative worship of saints.

The Bishop of Rome, Boniface IV; his office elevated by Constantinople to the offensive title Oecumenical Patriarch or Universal Bishop, then instituted the idolatry of the Virgin in the public worship owed only to Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Then, in 610, Mohammed of the Koreish began receiving his illuminations from the spiritual realm of a further false faith and one of the sword. Events penned in scripture, noted by the Apostle John, exiled five hundred years earlier on the isle of Patmos:

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And they had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abbadon, but in the Greek tongue Apolluon. [That is to say, a destroyer] 2

Thus Islam: the false faith born of the new false faith of the papacy, in the same way fascism as Churchill put it, was the "ugly child of communism.’’ A faith of the sword. The star, emblem of the gospel ministry comprehends the Bishop of Rome succumbing to worldly service and profit, with the key of the bottomless pit, the official idolatry of the Virgin. ‘The place this star fell from, namely heaven, denotes the glorious and holy state of the church, that apostatizes from the service of Christ to the service of the world and Satan.’ 3

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And their power was to hurt men five months.

The initial impulse of the angel conquered the Arabian peninsula and Syria, Mesopotamia and Armenia to the eastern extent of the Roman dominions in Asia. In North Africa, the Muslims swept into Egypt, Libya and Morocco and into Spain: until constrained one hundred and fifty years on (five months) by an expanding Frankish empire. In Asia, the Arab conquest extended east to the Indus and to the limits of Tang expansion beyond Samarkand, where the Arabians fought and overcame a Chinese army at the Talas River in 751. The effect of which was to curtail European activity - particularly trade - in the richest parts of the habitable earth. Sixteenth century seer Nostradamus wrote, an Arab-Chinese alliance would be driven off by one of ‘Germanic heart.’

Freedom from major war is usually established only after enduring war. Nelson prevailing at Trafalgar in 1805, and Wellington’s and the Prussian Blucher’s victory at Waterloo over Napoleon Bonaparte a decade on, established the Victorian era in long years of peace and prosperity. A thousand years of peace is written in the Holy Bible for the seventh millennium after the initial rise of trade and the first cities, in the ordinary course of events upon earth.

The spiritual benightedness of our era can be dispersed with a working knowledge of world history where antagonisms can occur for any number of reasons; stemming from economic, territorial, and trade conflicts. But for historical knowledge to be properly interpreted and of value, it must be combined with the correct reading of God’s Apocalypse where the course of human history over the last two thousand years was penned during the first century, not by the will of man, but by the Holy Spirit. Kemal Ataturk, who led the Turkish forces at Gallipoli and went on to lead the Turkish republic said in a 1934 interview with General MacArthur, then United States Chief of Staff, that the Treaty of Versailles had done nothing to remedy the root causes of the First World War and would lead to Germany launching a second international conflict.

He said war would break out between 1940 and 1945 and result in the defeat of France. American intervention would bring about Germany’s defeat, but the real victor would be Soviet Russia. Which would use methods unknown to the Europeans and Americans to advance the Bolshevik cause in Europe and Asia.

Although a great seer, Nostradamus was a Christian believer under the kings of France during a day when to be so risked death. He published his findings in code, or in quatrains of four lines, often with alternating rhymes. Like Ataturk, he was well informed and able to fathom the future. An ability that proceeds not from some mystical quality, but from having a clear understanding