The Key of Revelation

By Cairo César Borges Dias

A modern, broad and scientific study of the Revelation

This book argues that Revelation is the greatest account of all time, covering salvation history and general history from the mid-19th century to almost the middle of the 21st century.

It clarifies the reason for their enigmatic language and provides an understanding of the fig­ures.

It presents indisputable scientific statements that prove the theological veracity of “The Key of Revelation”.

THE KEY OF REVELATION, a modern, broad and scientific study of the Apocalypse

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Jan 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9781667466965

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INTRODUCTION

Much has been tried to understand the Revelation. However, the various interpretations contradict each other since it was written. This universe of ideas pointing in all directions leads nowhere. There are as many interpretations as there are authors.

The most official opinion is the one that holds that the Revelation is a report of events that occurred in the early days of the Church, still in the time of the apostles, in the form of an enigmatic letter to deceive the government of that time.

As no one has the truth in their interpretations and, as each interpreter considers himself possessed of it, there are no means of proof. Thus, it is impossible for anyone to issue a final verdict.

Due to this Babel of ideas, whoever ventures to analyze it runs the risk of falling into disbelief. This leads to people’s indifference to the subject and is more than enough reason to want to abandon the intention of dealing with the subject.

But even so, many people are interested and strive to understand it.

In my point of view, in accordance with the Divine will, from the middle of the 19th century, the conditions began to exist to clarify the messages of the Revelation.

Even if no one could consciously understand it, unconsciously everyone would take cognizance of it, as only the natural causes of history and nature.

After years of studies and research into different religions and philosophies, I feel it is my duty and my right to publish the result of my work, in a humble contribution to the monumental task of correctly interpreting the Revelation. And, for that, I base myself on Articles 906 and 907 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1997), which says, speaking about the lay faithful:

906 – Lay people who are capable and trained for this can collaborate in catechetical formation, in the teaching of the sacred sciences and to work in the means of social communication.

907 - According to the science, competence, and prestige they enjoy, they have the right and sometimes even the duty to express to the sacred pastors their own opinion on what affects the good of the Church and, safeguarding the integrity of the faith and morals and reverence for pastors, and having regard to the common usefulness and dignity of the people, make this opinion known also to other believers.

I know that the correct interpretation is processed with the comparison with other particular interpretation around the Globe and along the stages in the modern history of the humanity. I am aware that I may be wrong on some points, as I believe I may be right on most of them. I declare, textually, not to judge myself with the whole truth, but I think I have part of it. I also declare that countless times I abandoned the project of writing this book, however, I could not contain the impetus; to get rid of the dilemma and to rest for good, I had to.

Many years of study and research were necessary for me to reach a conclusion, and perhaps certainty. Reaching a conclusion is much more comfortable than reaching a certainty. However, if a conclusion is true, what is the difference from a certainty? I prefer to come to a conclusion because I never

have had any supernatural revelations; I never received angels, I never had visions in the night nor was I caught up in the spirit. I consider myself extremely humble in theological and philosophical studies. Due to this extreme smallness of mine, I dare not consider any of my conclusions to be certain. A man has to believe in something; he has to have definitions; he has to formulate his own opinion. Which does not necessarily mean that what he concludes and believes is the Truth. But that, too, can be. He must not and cannot believe in what another believes because he considers him more cultured and intelligent; this man must believe what he himself concludes he must believe, even if his conclusion coincides with that of the one who enabled him to arrive at his own. Otherwise, most people would just be simple puppets.

There are conclusions that are the privilege of a small number of people; others become common knowledge. Others are strictly personal. There are conclusions that, although beyond Man’s ability to understand and accept, are common to all by extra-man determination; this we call Divine revelation (although the very conclusion of acceptance of a Divine Being is relative).

Someone can come to a conclusion through their own experiences and/or others. In these two cases, they may or may not be fallible. When they do not come from their own experience, but from third parties, and if this third party is someone infinitely perfect, infinitely wise, their conclusions are no longer conclusions, but clear and immutable truths, which no longer need to be stated, under discussion and trial. And this third, in my case, is God, and I rely exclusively on His revelations through His servants, the prophets, according to the Scriptures.

I believe in Revelation because I believe in Jesus Christ as God. I have the Revelation as a book edited in the year 96 describing events of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. This is because, once looking for the facts reported there, I only found them in this period to which I am referring, with the exception of the seven letters that are reports from the very time in which it was written. I checked all the possibilities that seemed necessary to me at all times, from that year to the present day, and only here did I find them, in full, which would be equivalent to having a key and a thousand locks to open and there was no other way to find the right one, other than testing them one by one.

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02

REVELATION: PESSIMISM OR REALISM?

There are many people who classify my point of view as pessimistic and defeatist. And I am really worried: – am I not seeing the positive side of hope? Am I a destruction fanatic and can’t see hope anywhere? Removing these atrocious doubts is that I proceed to analyze the whole, part by part and consider the situations. However, at the end of each reflection, I see myself at the starting point, even safer than before. So, let’s look at some examples:

a – REGARDING FOOD IN THE WORLD: Every day I see machines and more machines being invented and ever more perfected for preparing the land, for fertilizing, sowing, cultivating, harvesting, transporting, storing, and preparing man’s meals. I notice the application of chemicals that eliminate insects and weeds. All within the fastest, most efficient, and safe means of production. This is highly positive (not considering, here, the ecological disaster caused by chemical pesticides), it is beautiful! However, this technical-scientific progress does not take away my disappointment in the face of more than 2/3 of humanity going hungry, dying of hunger.

As long as progress is from/in machines, but man is suffering setbacks in his diet; while most people are dying from lack of food, is the realistic analysis of this picture pessimism? Is the blunt analysis pessimism just because it’s too cruel? I don’t care about technical-scientific optimism if people are dying of hunger. For me, optimism is not building modern and efficient machines, but seeing all men across the globe, well fed, healthy, robust, and happy.

When I published this book in August 1986, several important people in Christianity said that I suffered from great pessimism. I am curious to know what they are saying, now, about the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil – CNBB with the theme of the 2008 Fraternity Campaign which is: Fraternity and defense of life with the motto: Choose, therefore, life. In the prayer of this Campaign, one of the verses says the following: "Our selfishness often disfigures the work of your hands, causing death and destruction. Along with the advances, we witness so many threats to life". [Emphasis mine].

b – IN THE ENVIRONMENT: How could you not be worried about the dirt in rivers, lakes, fountains, and seas? With the dirt in the air, with the extinction of forests? Only a fool doesn’t realize that the ecosystem is in mortal agony! And what is worse is that, practically, the majority of restoration programs for destroyed regions have failed, because nature has a biological clock that cannot advance or delay the pointer. It is not possible, for example, for a child to become an adult in two weeks or a year. It is very pretentious to want to recover a forest that takes hundreds, thousands of years to form, in a matter of decades. And they say I’m pessimistic when I say that reforestation doesn’t work via man. Furthermore, these reforestations are always sponsored by interests that wish to reuse the new forest as soon as possible, as soon as it becomes industrialized and profitable.

In the newspaper Diário da Manhã (Goiânia, February 2008), in a complimentary reference by the UN to Brazil’s biofuels program, we have the following statement:

Steiner’s second mention of Brazil came earlier this afternoon, at a press conference. For him, tackling climate change should not be seen as an inconvenience for governments and businessmen, but a business opportunity. In this sense, Steiner said he sees the biodiesel economic exploitation model as an example of social inclusion. [Emphasis mine]. (DIÁRIO DA MANHÃ. Goiânia, February 21, 2008, Brazil/world section, page 7).

The vast majority of industrial waste (physical and chemical) takes hundreds and even thousands of years to decompose naturally, and then, when that happens, how much longer would be enough time for Nature to gather and work with them again? First, the decomposition time is spent and then, only later, are they available naturally.

We cannot forget that the Earth is a living organism, a living body, where a certain focus of destruction endangers the whole, through a chain reaction process.

c – IN HEALTH: Modern medicine reports that there is virtually no cure for cancer. It states that all diseases, including cancer in its primary stage, are curable. Beautiful news. However, entire regions, entire continents, are attacked by epidemics that a simple vermifuge could solve. The increase in people getting cancer is a fantastic thing, not to mention stress, heart disease and diabetes. The rates of sexually transmitted diseases and the brand-new disease, Aids, are on the rise all over the world, dozens of times more deadly than cancer, in fact, so far, one hundred percent deadly, with an additional aggravating factor about this one, that of being highly contagious.

With the advancement of medicine, old diseases should have already disappeared, and new ones would not appear, and worse. Medical progress has been for the better, it is true, but the disease has not stopped getting worse.

When I say that the world is increasingly rotten and sick, they call me pessimistic and defeatist. These false optimists worship the progress of medicine as a golden calf and ignore the progress of disease. They claim that I am pessimistic and defeatist because science and medicine have evolved, capable of feats like test-tube babies and plastic hearts.

If I say that the disease has progressed for the worse, with viruses changing rapidly and bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics, giving rise to the dreaded nosocomial infections, they want me to feel optimistic about the family control program that distributes contraceptives with side effects surprising.

Optimism, for me, is not replacing one or another natural heart with a plastic one, nor being able to generate babies in test tubes. Optimism is seeing all children born, healthy, robust, and happy; it’s seeing all adults, no anemia, no worms, no stress, no high cholesterol. Optimism, as I understand it, is seeing factories and fields full of men and women, healthy and happy.

What we have is a morbid, sick, and dying picture, and it is not pessimism, nor defeatism, it is the naked and raw reality for anyone to check.

And so, it could go on analyzing, one by one, all segments of human life to see that progress is for the worse. I would like someone to be able to contradict me with evidence, with concrete facts and not with hypotheses, nor with programs that can be implemented.

Reality is reality; good or bad, reality is reality.

03

REVELATION: THE MAP OF HOPE

I can compare the Revelation to a perfect map; not an ordinary map that deals only with physical regions, but one that determines facts-events through time. So, it is not spatial, but temporal.

When talking about time, the first idea that comes to mind is dates. The Revelation does not determine any date, as we can see in Mt 24, 38-39:

"...until the day Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. So shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man."

In these verses of Matthew, it is clear that humanity does not have information from the Scriptures, regarding a precise date, as times follow one another without men noticing anything until the day, that is, the exact date of the end.

The day of Jesus’ return is unknown. The reason for the lack of disclosure of this date is not known. However, there is countless information about events close to and after it.

So, it is necessary to pay attention to the events, otherwise there would be no reason for Jesus to recommend, in the same chapter of Matthew, that we observe them: Likewise you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, at the doors.

To find your way around the map I am referring to, you have to go through history (time) looking for the events (signs) described there.

The great difficulty lies exactly there: to recognize in the story the fact described in the Book through the figures. The difficulty exists insofar as the figures can have synonymous interpretations. And another major obstacle is the polarization of opinions that wants to place it, on the one hand, in the time of the primitive Church, and on the other, in the time of the contemporary Church – which is my case.

Regarding the final time (day and hour, month, year) (Christ’s return) there is no reason for any kind of speculation, since Jesus’ statement in Matthew 24:36 is emphatic: From that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

So, as far as the date is concerned, we’re reassured; there is no need for any theological effort to try to determine it. Any prediction that points to any number is absolutely false.

As I establish that the figures determine events in time and not dates and taking into account that this time is the Parousia, because I believe in it, that is, if the time I consider is the time of the end, then I must first section off the approximate period in history that interests me. And then, having agreed on this period, it remains for me to penetrate it and go looking for the events described in the Revelation.

Since the Revelation allows the establishment of a time map, and as I need to identify a certain period, I can make a graph, as follows:

1 – Period of Creation, which begins in Eternity and ends in Adam, where humanity begins.

2 – Creation of Man. The exact moment when Adam is created.

3 – Birth of Jesus Christ. Year 4000. From Adam to Jesus, four thousand years. Year 0 of our era. The fullness of time.

4 – Year 4033 or year 33 of our era. Death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

5 – Year 4096 or year 96 of our era. On this date the Revelation was revealed and published.

6 – Year 5500 or year 1500 of our era. Discovery of Brazil.

7 – Year 5986 or year 1986 of our era. Year of publication of this book A CHAVE DO APOCALIPSE, first edition.

8 – Parousia and Last Judgment.

9 – Period in which, probably, the Revelation takes place: second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 21st century, or a little longer. From then on, one enters eternity, with no more information.

04

PLANET EARTH WITH CAPACITY SOLD OUT:

A NEED OF THE END

One issue that goes unnoticed is Earth’s maximum capacity. When planning, the Designer must have stipulated the closed number for each species, under the risk of causing a fatal imbalance for the entire set of living organisms. And this closed number also stipulates how many human beings can live with full quality of life on the planet.

As is known about ¾ of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and ¼ is solid. This, for the current configuration, as we know it. There really is an inalienable need to have a certain number for human habitation on the planet.

I have as safe references of this closed, finished issue, which cannot be surpassed, mainly three passages of the Scriptures:

If from a single principle he made the whole human race to dwell on the surface of the earth, determined times and the limits of men’s habitat were fixed...

(Acts 17, 26)

Each of them was then given a white robe and told, too, to rest a little while longer, until the number of their companions and brothers, who were going to be killed like them, was completed.

(Rev 6, 11)

For in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are all like the angels in heaven.

(Mt 22, 30)

In order for there to be a perfect ecological balance, where all the elements (powers of the heavens) and the species of life can coexist in harmony, a geographically selective, quantitative, and qualitative distribution is required. All living beings harmoniously coexisting, without invading each other’s space. Each being within the set exchanges with the whole in such