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"The Book of Revelation: Its Astounding Relevance
for the 20th and 21st Centuries."

About 50% of the Book is for Modern Times.

The DEMISE of all the UNBELIEVING, WORST HUMANS on EARTH and of the PLANET ITSELF. IMMINENT?

Section 2 Part 2 of the REVELATION Commentary

Chain 1 of the series of Seven Chains is IDENTIFIED and STUDIED. It is composed of the Sixth and Seventh Seals of the Book of Revelation.

"And HEAVEN DEPARTED as a SCROLL
ROLLED UP..." Revelation 6:14 Young's Literal Translation

WALKING through the FUTURE by means of SEVEN CHAINS of PROPHECIES validated as WORTHY to BE BELIEVED by previous ones already fulfilled. 

On a segment of planet Earth from Africa, the Middle East, to all of Asia, some people representing the areas look up, astonished and very frightened, arms in the air, hands over their eyes, to the skies above Earth as the layers of the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere peel away and roll up like a scroll.

Document 3. Events 5, 6, 7, and 8 prophesied in Chain 1.

Other translations of Revelation 6:14 read: “The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up…” NIV. “The sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up…” RSV. “And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up…” ASV. “Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up…” NKJV. Many versions translate “SKY” instead of “HEAVEN” or “HEAVENS.”

Hello, Mr. Unbelieving Skeptic. I was expecting you to show up for this subject. What do you think about this prophecy, “And heaven departed as a scroll rolled up?” Are you expecting it to be fulfilled, maybe during your own lifetime? Would you be ready for it?

REPLY by Mr. Skeptic, paraphrasing. “Are you kidding me? Not in my lifetime and not until the Sun begins to die a billion years from now. Don’t you see how

unreasonable and ridiculous that so-called ‘prophecy’ is? The Sun has become black like sackcloth, the moon, like blood, and the stars have fallen from heaven, destroying everything. So how could there remain any ‘heaven that rolls up like a scroll and ceases to exist altogether’? Not blows up in a nuclear blast but just rolls up, while the people you unlovingly and judgmentally call ‘the worst on Earth’ flee wildly, crazily preferring death to the heart-pounding terror they are experiencing, as that fatalistic ‘prophecy’ of yours would have us believe.”

Answer, with clarifications, by Mr. Shappley.

Dear Mr. Skeptic, and I will include Professional Self-Assured One, and your like-minded secular, unbelieving citizens of Earth in this cordial greeting, it seems to me that you continue to distort the video vision prophecies of the Sixth and Seventh Seals. I can understand why you might think there are inconsistencies or contradictions in the prophecies. Initially, even after reading them a few times, I thought that too. However, taking care not to allow preconceptions on my part, unrealistic images, video clips, and fantastical cinematographic productions to take precedence in my efforts to understand the prophecies and searching diligently and objectively for “consistency,” I am sincerely convinced that there really is just that in the prophecies.

Please consider the following analysis that has led me to the above conclusion.

When the timeline moment comes for the "Heaven" above planet Earth to begin rolling up “like a scroll,” the Sun, though grayed out and blackened to some degree, and the Moon, though seen as blood-red in color, due to actions and circumstances already related in Documents 1 and 2, ARE STILL UP THERE VISIBLE in THEIR ORBITS! And so, I reason, are the GALAXIES of STARS, with their dark matter, space dust, planets, and moons, if any, in the particular gravity realm each occupies, though they be in death throes initiated by their Creator. This, according to my humble understanding of such tremendous scenarios.

And when that moment comes, some PEOPLE ARE STILL on EARTH! Yes, “the WORST ONES,” and the “less worst” too.

The persecutors and murderers of

the good, just, and righteous.

Career criminals of all kinds. Vice

kings and their enslaved subjects.

Blasphemers, scoffers, and

mockers. Militant atheists. Agenda-

driven worshipers of Darwinian

Evolution. Aggressive, angry,

intolerant social, gender, and

lifestyle engineers. Worshipers

of technology, social media, the Internet, and 24/7 entertainment. Of sensuality, sex, and pornography. Of idols and demons. Of earthly power, riches, and glory, as well as of Earth itself (the Pachamama’s, the Neopagan worshipers of Gaia). Of false, corrupt, politicized religious leaders. These higher and lower level “Worst Ones” are those who survived the “seven last plagues” (Revelation 15:1; 21:9) brought to get them to REPENT, but “THEY DID NOT REPENT.” Revelation 9:21; 16:9

By the way, you accuse me of “unlovingly and judgmentally” calling them what I do. What would you call them? Would you dare excuse or justify them? At least a number of them, perhaps invoking the mantra of “universal tolerance?” Calling the “EVIL” “GOOD” is a certain sign of mental and moral disequilibrium, a certain insanity of the mind and spirit. The “EVIL”  of our times perverts to damaging, unnatural, dark, and destructive purposes even the basically good and useful, for example, AI applications, the Internet, robots, electronic, digital media of all kinds, etc.

By the way, you accuse me of “unlovingly and judgmentally” calling them what I do. What would you call them? Would you dare excuse or justify them? At least a number of them, perhaps invoking the mantra of “universal tolerance?” Calling the “EVIL” “GOOD” is a certain sign of mental and moral disequilibrium, a certain 

insanity of the mind and spirit. The “EVIL” of our times perverts to damaging, unnatural, dark, and destructive purposes even the basically good and useful, for example, AI applications, the Internet, robots, electronic, digital media of all kinds, etc.

An image of city impacted by a strong earthquake, leaving tall buildings leaning or destroyed.

Now, before the moment comes when the “Heaven” will begin to roll up “like a scroll,” the “MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE” has occurred, and those mighty-high skyscrapers in those mighty cities around the globe have come crashing down. “The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell…”

Revelation 1619. The sun has gone from pale to dark, and the moon looks like blood. Meteors and Fireballs, some detonating (Falling Stars), have begun to rain down from leaden skies, some striking vehicles and people.

EVENTS 6, 7, and 8.

"And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder… From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.” Revelation 16:17-21.

“What was that about hailstones weighing a hundred pounds? Absolutely preposterous! Another of those impossible exaggerations of your apocalyptic Book of Revelation that mark it as science fiction in a torturous, beguiling framework of soteriological and phantasmagorical theology.”

                                            Reply to Professional Self-Assured One. Well, now, Dear One,                                              did you ever hear of megacryometeors? The name for large chunks of ice that fall from the Heaven above the Earth. You may wish to retract your testy, critical remark after reading the following: “More than 50 megacryometeors have been recorded since the year 2000. They vary in mass between 0.5 kilograms (1.1 lb) to several tens of kilograms. One in Brazil weighed in at more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds). Chunks about 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) in size also fell in Scotland on 13 August 1849.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacryometeor

The largest diameter hailstone found in the USA measured, officially, 7.9 inches (20 cm). With a circumference of 18.622 inches (47.3 cm). Found In Vivian, South Dakota. 23 July 2010.

The heaviest hailstone recorded weighed 1.02 kg (2.2 pounds) and was found in the Gopalgani District, Bangladesh. 14 April 1986. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail#Size_comparisons_to_objects

An image of the largest hailstone found tin the USA, measuring 7.9 inches.

The destructiveness, fear-inspiring, and death-dealing power of lightning bolts is fully evident all around Earth. In addition to “flashes of lightning, “there were… rumblings, peals of THUNDER.” “The shock wave in thunder is sufficient to cause property damage and injury, such as internal contusion, to individuals

nearby. Thunder can rupture the eardrums of people nearby, leading to permanently impaired hearing or temporary deafness.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder#Consequences

Rapid Succession of Events!

I personally visualize all these
events prophesied for the “Great
Day,” the last day of Time and
Earth, as transpiring rapidly, in
quick succession, one after
another, with only enough time
between each one for those
“WORST PEOPLE” to try to FLEE
to the mountains, rocks, and caves,
even preferring death to the heart-
pounding, heart-stopping, stroke-
causing stress and raw terror, shaking them violently in body, mind, and soul. No doubt, many of them would die on the spot from such conditions. Others, when struck by the fireballs, large hail, and megacryometeors falling from heaven.

An image of terrified people looking up at the heaven above the earth that has begin to roll up like a scroll, with part of the Near East and Asia as a background.

And then, the survivors would witness still another life-sapping phenomenon. The “heaven” still above them to this moment is suddenly “removed as a scroll when it is rolled up…” Revelation 6:14 ASV

Which “HEAVEN” is removed as a "scroll rolled up?"

Logically, the one we humans can see in the daytime, all day long, from early morning to late evening. The visible one, with its clear or semi-clear areas, hazy stratifications, and Stratus, Nimbostratus, Altocumulus, Cirrocumulus, and Lenticular clouds. Where spectacular lightning in infinite configurations is observed, and from which dangerous lightning bolts

come down, striking the earth. Where loud thunder is heard, at times so powerful it shakes hearts and vibrates the terrestrial.

The EVENTS we are studying occur on the “GREAT DAY” of the Wrath of God and his Son, and, logically, during the DAYTIME when people still on Earth can SEE with their own EYES what is happening.

The “HEAVEN” around planet Earth is composed of five spheres reaching up to 190,000 kilometers (118,061 miles). As in the diagram. The Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and the Exosphere.

The “Troposphere” (0 to 12 km. 7.46 miles) is the lowest layer, and that is where we humans live. It contains the air we breathe and almost all of Earth's weather.

These five spheres are presently rolled out above us “like a scroll,” to continue with the metaphor of Revelation. Perhaps most of the inhabitants of Earth taking them

A graphic in tones of blue showing the five spheres, identified and with images of airplanes, satellites, and space vehicles that fly in them, of the heaven above the earth.

for granted, confident they will always be there. Should they begin, on a certain morning, to roll up (except, maybe, for a part of the Troposphere closest to Earth where humans must have oxygen to live), let us say, over Japan, “The Land of the Rising Sun,” and continue rolling up westward over South Korea, China, the Philippines, etc., all communication satellites (GPS, Internet, Starlink, etc.), and the rest of whatever kind (weather, military, scientific, observatories, etc.), would be “rolled up” too! The “GREAT, MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE” has already begun in the named countries, with the Sun turning dark and the Moon like blood. Fireballs, very large hail, and megacryometeors are also impacting the terrified population of the “Unbelieving Ones.” Then, as if anything worse could happen, the FIVE SPHERES in the heaven around Earth begin to roll up! Leaving no doubt but that the definitive END of planet Earth, the heaven above it, and the Unbelieving Humans on it, HAS COME!

As the clock ticks off the last minutes and hours of earthly time, this “CATASTROPHIC INTERACTING COMBINATION of EVENTS” rolls over all of Asia, the Pacific island chains, New Zealand, Australia, the Near East, Africa, all of Europe, and the entire Western Hemisphere, at such a pace that news of its approach, if perhaps registered to some degree, might, for a moment, be considered “FAKE NEWS! A MILICIOUS JOKE,” but would quickly be proven true.

But, again, instead of progressively “rolling over” the land masses of the globe, it might explode, like a nightmarish cyclone of terrestrial-celestial calamities, over highly populated areas, like Europe, and quickly, over other such areas of the planet.

The “Point of Beginning” for the “CATASTROPHIC INTERACTING COMBINATION of EVENTS” could be any latitude and longitude on the globe of Earth.

Could be Eastern Europe instead of Asia. Might be that of the island of Patmos, where the apostle John received the prophecies and visions of Revelation, while he was banished there by the unbelieving Roman Empire authorities. Or very well could be Rome, where the great “FALLING AWAY” from true Christianity began and the “MAN of SIN… the SON of PERDITION” arose, opposing and exalting “himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sits in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12; 1 Timothy 4:1-5. History bears abundant witness to how that theocracy in Rome, corrupt in conduct and doctrine and politicized, has deceived hundreds of millions, persecuting and killing opposers when circumstances allowed.

Whenever and wherever the “CATASTROPHIC INTERACTING COMBINATION of EVENTS” arrives, the PEOPLE STILL on EARTH, yes, “the WORST ONES,” and the “less worst” too, will try to escape. An “Event” included in the next “Document 4.”

Next. Document 4. Every mountain and island moved out of their places. How far. The consequences. Valdivia, Chile 9.5 earthquake data. GPS stations in deep bedrock register tectonic plate movement around the world. Japan 2011 earthquake moves Honshu Island 8 feet (2.4 meters). Japan Sea Wall 400 km long (250 miles) to mitigate the impact of tsunamis. New Heavens and New Earth free of such dangers. Crust and mantle data of Earth. Constants of Earth and Sun orbits, sizes, distances, gravity, etc. Catastrophic Interacting Combination of End-Time Events. Panic, petrifying fear, awe, and amazement of the unbelieving, mighty rulers of the earth, the rich and the strong, CEOs, industry tycoons, digital and Internet lords, etc., as they flee the Events. Fire comes down out of heaven and devours them. Sixth and Seventh Seals of Revelation. Document 4 of Chain 1 of the Seven Chains of Prophecies in Revelation that culminate in the End of Earth and Time. Read time: about 12 minutes. 6 Video clips. 2 Images.

Text and layout by the author Homer Dewayne Shappley. All rights reserved. Not to be sold in any format. The source should be properly identified in any published citation of the content.

A LIST of the CONTENT, with links, of the commentary "Revelation: Its Astounding Relevance for the 20th and 21st Centuries."

This is the title image for the 21st century Commentary on the Book of Revelation by Dewayne Shappley, composed of a horizon background in shades of blue with an explosion of red and white celestial forms on the horizon.
A light brown flat map of the world on a gold-tinted background with the words of the Great Commission in black, blue, and red.

Steps to take to be saved eternally according to the New Testament of Jesus Christ. And be blessed with the imperishable reward of living forever on "the New Earth with New Heavens." "Approaching God in Search of Pardon, Honor, and Eternal Life." Hear the true gospel. Believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah. Repent of sins. Publicly confess that Jesus is the Son of God. Be baptized (immersed in water) "for the forgiveness of sins." Concise text. 33 Bible texts cited. 2 video clips. 6 images. 4-minute read. Este mensaje en ESPAÑOL

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