Understanding the Book of Revelation Tony and I recently bought a book called A Guide to (Book of) Revelation as Sacred

d Reading. I was also contemplating buying a book called The Apocalypse Letter by Letter from the U.S. through the internet. I found the former book unhelpful; and I have a feeling that the latter would be would be more unhelpful if it is letter by letter! A literal interpretation of the Gospels or the Epistles might get you across a certain distance but not over the spiritual wisdom threshold; but with the Book of Revelation, you will definitely end up sinking in meaningless quagmire! So I read the Book of Revelation a few more times and then just prayer-contemplated on it. So, settle down with a cup of tea or coffee and let me share with you the profound beauty of the Book of Revelation. At the end of my commentary you should know whether you truly understand the Christian faith and who God is and who you are. If you fall within this category I cannot possibly quantify the level of joy in your sense of liberation in the spirit. On the other hand, if you end up still being confused, just relax and let it be. For, rest assured that Christ will be there enduring till the end; till He finds every single lost sheep; whether we are still lost in this life or the next. Let me start by first defining spiritual faith as the inherent quality of numinous awareness of our eternal spirit son of God being or consciousness. Numinous means the combined feeling of attraction and awe characteristic of a mans sense of connection with God. Unless a Christian is awakened in spiritual faith of numinous awareness he will not realise his eternal spirit son of God being in him that is caught within the web of deceit of Satan; embedding him in his worldly false selfego mortal being of the son of Adam after the Fall [separation from God]. We are thereby torn within ourselves, in the struggle between the journey home of the Prodigal Son to eternal life and the eternal damnation of never ending cycles of existences going up and down Jacobs Ladder [Genesis 28:12; John 1:51] [please refer to my previous writings on this point], caught up with the immutable law of reaping what you sow. This spiritual faith is a relative process; relative in that for some it is quick and for some it is slow; for most it is gradual. The starting point of spiritual faith is the arising and the awakening of the eternal spirit son of God being within us from its slumber to fight against our alter ego the worldly false self-ego mortal being of the son of Adam after the Fall. It would be practically impossible for a Christian to truly practise the Christian faith in the sense of fulfilling the Two Commandments [short form] if the initiation of spiritual faith is not associated with the numinous awareness of the Original Sin as being separation from God and that so-called salvation is essentially the self-journey home of the contrite Prodigal Son, bearing his cross and thereby untying the fetters of the immutable law of reaping what you sow. The Garden of Eden that we are actually in transcends beyond the terrestrial world. It also has an aspect [that of being on Jacobs Ladder+ that is supernal and celestial and can be glimpsed only through the inner recesses of our sub-consciousness. It is an uncompromising and relentless world where we reap what we sow. This is the natural immutable law that had been mistranslated by the Jews to mean an eye for an eye. Jesus corrected it and stated quite clearly that it meant that you shall reap what you sow. In relation to each thought, as each thought arises, are we checking whether we should sow it? Is it worth sowing? This is where the spiritual wisdom of being awakened to the spiritual faith comes in. This is what is represented by the 2nd Commandment Love Thy Neighbour as You Love Thyself. For if we realise the universality of the eternal spirit son of God being within us, in every one of us, we would surely even love our enemies. Understanding the Book of Revelation/V. Cheok/Copyright 23/6/2011 Page 1

Are you maintaining numinous awareness? Are you maintaining purity in mind and spirit? Are you practising equanimity towards all worldly experience? Equanimity is when you are indifferent to all things worldly in the sense that you keep checking every decision you make as to whether it pleases God and only God and not as to whether it pleases you [i.e. your worldly false self-ego]. This is what is represented in the 1st Commandment Love God with all your mind body and spirit. The Book of Revelation is simply a misnomer; because it does not reveal anything more that has not been revealed in the rest of the Bible; as to baptism by water and by the spirit and as to salvation as explained in the foregoing. Jesus himself said that He did not come to change a single iota of but to fulfil the Law and the Prophets. Refer Matthew 5:17-18. If there was nothing to change, there was nothing left to be revealed that had to be revealed, as far as scriptures on salvation were concerned. In this sense the Book of Revelation is not to be read or treated at the same paramount status or level as the Gospels. Because the Book of Revelation is not about how an individual go about cultivating his spiritual faith to fulfil the Twin Commandments; that is the exegesis or hermeneutics of the Parables of Jesus; it is therefore not essential or mandatory reading. However, that is not to say it might not be inspirational or useful supplementary reading. Because of its character and style of writing it should be better called the Book of Apocalypse. As a Book of Apocalypse, at least the reader can take and see it for what it is an apocalyptic epic saga of eschatological phantasmagoria [of Christian layman perception of heaven and hell; of how the end of the world is imagined to occur] rather than an exegetical exposition or hermeneutical interpretation of the scriptures, as in the Gospels, and in particular, the Parables of Jesus. So to the casual reader, I say casual because anything about eschatology should best be treated casually by the individual, for he or she has no influence that can matter in the vast drama and gory splendour of the storyline that unfolds. It is more like a dream or movie fantasy, much like the epic sagas like the Greek Iliad or Odyssey, the Hindu Mahabharata, Ramayana and Baghavad-Gita and the Chinese Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Journey to the West or the modern Star Wars and Lord of the Ring. All these epic sagas are about the spiritual struggle between altruistic Good and selfish Evil. Albeit, you will naturally get caught up in all the exciting as well as the morbid details of the fantasia, as if it were in a worldly realm, but the vital sublime message that impacts on your inner consciousness is really about hope, and how Good will eventually triumph or prevail over Evil. So, in reality these epic sagas and their battles take place conceptually at a spiritual level, whether in your inner consciousness or within the psyche of your worldly being. In the Book of Revelation however this classic struggle between Good and Evil comes down to the application of the immutable law of You Sow What You Reap or the Spiritual Law of Cause and Effect. It comes down to us grasping or clinging to our worldly false self-ego mortal being; of being like God to ourselves; of idolising ourselves and what we have in our mortal worldly existence; of prostituting ourselves to our worldly enjoyment and happiness. The battle between Good and Evil when it comes down to the crunch, comes down to the battle within ourselves as to whether to denounce and get away from our inherent corrupt mortal false self-ego of being God and thereby decide to return home to heaven in our divine spiritual pure being as the eternal spirit son of God. The Book of Revelation is therefore not suitable or advisable reading for those still lacking in spiritual wisdom or spiritual practice. This point will become apparent later on; for it would be futile like sending someone from the city into the jungle. This is because it is set at a universal or cosmic level Understanding the Book of Revelation/V. Cheok/Copyright 23/6/2011 Page 2

of faith and salvation and is about the perpetual struggle between Good and Evil; as distinct from the individual going home journey of the Prodigal Son, after the separation from God the Father, and going from mortal worldly life back home to eternal spirit life. To understand the Book of Revelation you must therefore take a total oecumenical view and not an individual view. It is like studying macroeconomics as compared with microeconomics; like public or national psyche as against individual psyche. Because of this gross perspective or overview, the Book of Revelation is meant to be an epistemological vision addressed to the Christian Churches and not to Christians as individuals like the way the Gospels are written addressed to the individual. Here we have a total mission statement for the Christian Churches as to good public spiritual law and order and governance rather than individual spiritual practice of faith, moral & ethics for the Christian individual. By illustration, in simple terms, an individual totally caught up with the turmoil and hardship of daily life, who is more concerned as to whether the price of milk or petrol has gone up, is not going to have the capacity to understand the mechanics and technicalities of subprime mortgage, commercial paper, junk bonds and predatory lending of the public institutions and the concern of the State. Further, apocalyptic writings like the Book of Revelation deal with spiritual morality and its consequences or ramifications and not with worldly logic or prophesy or reality. It is spiritually conceptual in a doctrinal sense as to its warning of dire consequences and as to the solace it provides by way of promulgating steadfast Christian faith for the eventual victory of Good over Evil. So, you take it like a child takes his or her parents warnings about doing bad things; there is nothing to fear nor is there anything to be exhilarated about. You take it ambivalently as part of the guidance and discipline rendered in the development of the growing of your being. In this context it is taken as part of your spiritual development. To understand its spiritual eschatological value, you have put it in the context of necessarily requiring spiritual interpretation by the teacher as well as spiritual perception or awareness by the learner. The spiritual struggle between Good and Evil is eternal; and therefore the battles and struggles depicted within the Apocalypse are illustrative and not fixed in historical or worldly conventional time or dates. There is no one specific absolutely fixed Judgement Day or Armageddon Day, like a specified set trial date. It is in this eternal sense that we say that spiritually there will be a Judgement Day or Armageddon Day. Spiritual eternal time is by this ratiocination beyond worldly reckoning. There is no beginning or ending as we know it in terms of conventional time. As long as we are caught in Satans web of deceit, we are caught within the immutable law of you reap what you sow. In this time warp time is relative. We only say past, present or future, in relation or relative to each of this respective perspective or relative to an arbitrary set time of reference, like Greenwich Time or B.C or A.D. If you freeze any point in time, that picture frame will have elements of the past, present and future in it; like the stars are actually from the past and the children are the future. The degree and extant of the degeneration, depravity, defilement and corruption of your worldly false self ego mortal being [of the son of Adam after his Fall] depends solely on and are also caught within this immutable law of you reap what you sow. When you reap what you sow, all happens in relative time; the reaping is relative to the sowing. It is such that in this time warp, in a relative sense, we are all caught in perpetual eternal damnation, in going up and down the Jacobs Ladder, in various forms or realms of existence. Relative in this context is real and yet unreal, which will become apparent at the end of this article so read on. We all have to struggle Understanding the Book of Revelation/V. Cheok/Copyright 23/6/2011 Page 3

to get out of this evil state of banishment [which is like a bad dream] to embark on the journey home of the Prodigal Son [of the son of Adam before his Fall], of the now Good Son, back to the Father. Spiritual time is therefore not worldly time. The wind comes and goes as it pleases. In the spirit neither Heaven nor Hell is a fixed physical location like the stars or the North Pole. Heaven or Hell is supernal and amorphous like the spirit and beyond worldly concepts of time, being or consciousness. Please think spiritually; think outside the square! Eternal bliss and salvation might turn out to be just like being a microscopic sub-atomic iota of a firefly! The spiritual struggle between Good and Evil goes beyond conventional wars and pitch battles. The Battle of Armageddon is a spiritual struggle within your spiritual heart and mind; and had and has and is still taking place within the struggle of the eternal son of God spirit within you in its separation from God and its trying to cast away its alter ego the worldly false self-ego mortal being. As long as you still here and now, in your worldly being of your false self-ego mortal being, of the fallen angel of Adam, you are and will still be caught within the spiritual struggle between Good and Evil. You are still reaping what you have and had sown in the past or are presently sowing. Unlike the Parables in the Gospels which teach you spiritual wisdom; you have to be already awakened in the spirit, i.e. have spiritual wisdom to understand the warnings in the Book of Revelation. Herein the Book of Revelation, the warnings, inspired by God, are exhorting you to watch where you are heading spiritually; if you continue with the depravity, immorality and corruption of your spiritual self by prostituting yourself like a whore to the sensual desires and ego of your false worldly self, watch out! Beware! The phantasmagoria of the Book of Revelation is not cosmological as to how the world might or will end but instructive of the spiritual struggle between the eternal son of God being in us and our false self-ego mortal being, of the fallen angel of Adam, thinking we could be like God, once we have or had tasted the Tree of Knowledge. The phantasmagoria of the Book of Revelation is replete with symbols and imagery; like lampstands, scrolls, horsemen and various beasts [ox, lion, bear eagle, dragon etc.], various plagues etc. ; all of which must be discounted and put in its Jewish context, and accepted only at face value. They have no significance in their worldly forms but represent rather, certain spiritual meanings or connotations within this apocalyptic context. To the Chinese all things and animals are good in their own way, whether in the Chinese horoscope [12 different animals] or kung-fu [different types of styles refer Kung-Fu Panda] terms. And, in fact, the dragon is the supremo, then the tiger and then the ox. To the practical and pragmatic Chinese all things worldly are dualistic in the yin-yang sense. Like the moon everything has a bright and a dark side. Even the most demented serial killer might also be the worlds most doting father! If you were to read the Book of Revelation broadly or should I say spiritually you should not be reading it in black and white literal terms. In a helicopter spiritual view you move away from the immediacy of the struggle or war between Good and Evil forces to realise and contemplate on the futility of war and the seeds of war. You go beyond the duality and relativity of the differentials. Evil is only evil because it is opposite to what God represents. God represents light and goodness. Jesus said - No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into *eternal+ life, keep the commandments. Matthew 19:17. Word in bracket is added by me. Evil therefore in spiritual terms is simply separation from God or all manner of actions or things that keep you separated from God. That is, Evil in Christian eschatological terms is due to our having a self-ego; that is our Understanding the Book of Revelation/V. Cheok/Copyright 23/6/2011 Page 4

assuming that we are an idol like a God. Getting rid of evil requires us getting rid of the this false self-ego and then taking the journey of the Prodigal Son back home to God the Father; for God is Good by spiritual definition. In the Book of Revelation Jesus confirms what He said in the Gospel [in Matthew 28:20] that He will be with us till the end of time. This confirmation is in Rev. 1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Please do not read this literally. In simple English, God is eternal. There is in fact no beginning and no end to eternity. It is just a manner of expression. In spiritual terms, it should just be God saying I AM. In Hindu terns AUM and in Buddhist terms OM sounds rather similar does not it? I AM is dimensionless. I AM JUST IS or IS THUS. I AM is timeless. Time is only for the worldly false self-ego mortal being. The Book of Revelation should not therefore be read in conventional time. This is because in the spiritual time of eternity - the past, present and future - are imaginary and of no application. So time depends on whether you are looking from the perspective of your worldly false self-ego mortal being caught up in Satans web of deceit or looking at it from the perspective of your eternal being as the spirit son of God. When you extricate yourself from your bad dream you could be back home in heaven with the Father in an instant! When you are separated from God the Father you are in eternal damnation, a time duration for which words like a thousand years seem a mild estimation. When you are away from home, a few minutes feel like a few hours! Do not read the Book of Revelation, chapter by chapter as it is framed. Read it through like a story book and then create your own storyline or headings of the major plots or actions. Here is one I have drafted for you to start off with and then to shorten at your convenience: Storyline Vision of Christ Message to the Seven Churches Scroll and the Lamb Seven seals 144,000 people of Israel and multitudes of others Seven Trumpets Little Scroll Two Witnesses The Woman with Child and the Dragon The Two Beasts The Judgment and the Seven Plagues The Harlot

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The Fall of Babylon King of Kings and Lord of Lords The 1000 Years The Defeat of Satan The Final Judgment The New Heaven and the New Earth The New Jerusalem The Coming of Jesus I could have made a shorter list of the storyline headings. Using my list, when you have read the Book of Revelation a few times; delete what headings you consider minor and just stick to no more than 10 headings. Then, when you read my exposition below, just have your chosen major story line plot headings synoptically in your mind. You cannot and will never understand the Book of Revelation reading it literally, verse by verse, line by line, in sequence. You will not be able to see the forest from the trees. In my commentary below I have chosen my own storyline. Vision of Christ The author of the Book of Revelation could not have been the Apostle John. See Rev. 1:17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, - Do not be afraid: I am the First and the Last. John and Jesus knew each other intimately, here they are like strangers! Who was this John that wrote the Book of Revelation? Nothing that came after Christ can be more revealing in spiritual terms than what has been revealed by Jesus when He was preaching. If the Book of Revelation was meant to be a book on prophesy, the author would have had been a well known prophet! If this John is unknown as a prophet, please try not to place this Book of Revelation on par with the Gospels. As I have explained in my introduction, the Book of Revelation is simply a book of apocalyptic vision, admittedly God-inspired, and must be read in a spiritually visionary sense and not literally in a worldly conventional sense. Message to the Seven Churches The message to the Seven Churches is in fact universal and are for all churches, whether past, present or future. It concerns persecution, false teachings [e.g. simple faith only Protestant and Evangelical doctrine; in particular condemning those churches who preach Christ has died for all our sins, so we do not have to do anything more, so anything goes!] and complacency [I am too busy; I will start attending Church soon; I will serve the Lord one day]. You get the drift? Go back and read what I have written in the introduction about awakening to the spiritual faith. 144,000 people of Israel and multitudes of others

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Rev. 7:9 behold, a great multitude which no one can number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands.. Note: No races are excluded. There is no racism in heaven! If you read the passage in a true spiritual sense you will sense that God is a Universal God and that He is proclaiming Universal Salvation. As a hint - keep in mind God is Good - when you appraise this struggle between Good and Evil. Do not get distracted by the instruments or proponents of warfare on either side. I say this so that you do not get carried away by the Sir Lancelot or Darth Vader equivalents in the various battles. See beyond the imagery of Christ and Satan fighting; or else you will get lost in the battle and detract from the cause. Rev. 7:14 They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. These are people who are already in the Book of Life i.e. they are no longer in Satans web of deceit. Little Scroll Rev. 10:9 And I went to the angel and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth. The Little Scroll contains the Good News eternal life and the Bad news destruction and devastation. Why is it sweet on the mouth? Because the living word of eternal life, is sweet when we recite it and pray to God; conversely Christ teachings would be hard to stomach for those who wish to cling to the worldly life. Jesus said - Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not even the angels of heaven, but My father only. Matthew 24:35-36. Two Witnesses The Two Witnesses, who are they? When you ask this question, you are thinking conventionally! Spiritually, this is only a manner of speaking; for logically and spiritually you cannot just have one witness to attest and to testify. Think deeply! This is the essence of the foundation strength or cornerstone of the Truth in the Holy Trinity. Why do we not just stick to God as God in our Christian theology like the Jews and Moslems do? Because nobody can see God! As humans we require proof by way of 2 witnesses! So spiritually the Two Witnesses in Christian Truth can only be Christ and the Holy Spirit; and by extrapolation, the Holy Spirits divine presence or emanations in Holy Mary and the many prophets of the past [e.g. Moses, Ezekiel, Elijah] or the future. So, the Two Witnesses here in the Book of Revelation are, allegorically speaking, Paracletes, who or which do not have to be named. I say Paraclete because it must be someone with thaumaturgical powers; these have the power to shut heaven over waters to turn them to blood strike the earth with all plagues. Rev. 11:6. In spiritual discourse it is enough if we say that two witnesses are present; for that is how the events or the truth of the matter might be testified. The Woman with Child and the Dragon Here we find Mother Mary and Jesus and our old foe Satan [as the dragon]. We have a flashback in Rev. 12:9 so the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and the Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Understanding the Book of Revelation/V. Cheok/Copyright 23/6/2011 Page 7

We have a restatement of the recipe for salvation in Rev. 12:11 - And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their [worldly] lives to their death. The word in brackets is added by me. Simply put, Christ redeemed the Original Sin; the eternal spirit of the son of God is awakened, and has decided to go home to the Father. The Two Beasts Chapter 13 introduces the Two Beasts. The 1st Beast has 7 heads and 10 horns. The 7 heads represent the seven evil spirits [refer Matthew 12:45 7 evil spirits] which are the spirits that corrupt the 5 senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; and the 6th corrupts the worldly mind and the 7th corrupts the sub-consciousness. Note later in the Rev. 17:11- that the 8th is the 1st Beast himself; the 1st Beast thus represents our worldly false self ego mortal being. The 10 horns are the opposite in nature to the 10 Commandments; so they represent 10 anti-commandments. This part is important- please refer Rev. 17:13 which says these are of one mind and they give their power and authority to the beast. and get in your mind that this 1st Beast is ourselves. Please read what Jesus said in Matthew 12:45 again and again about the unclean spirit going out of man [when he dies] and finally finds another house [worldly existence] together with seven other spirits more wicked than himself to make the last state of that man is worse than the first. I repeat, please get this point cleared up before you read further that this 1st Beast is our worldly false self ego mortal being. By the same token, refer back to my previous writings and understand the full significance of the going up and down Jacobs Ladder. It is paramount that Matthew 12:45 be read in conjunction with John 1:51. Rev. 13:8 says And all who dwell on the earth will worship him [the 1st Beast], whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Words in brackets were added for explanation. So these people who worship the 1st Beast are people who are not in the Book of Life, i.e. people who have not awakened to the eternal spirit of the son of God in them; i.e. people who are still trapped in adulation of their worldly false self-ego mortal being; i.e. people who worship their own image and prostitute themselves to this false God. Rev. 13:11 tells us who our instigator, the 2nd Beast is it is Lucifer [Satan in disguise]; the imp like beast who prods the 1st Beast with the 7 heads and 10 horns. The 2nd Beast is described as he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. Rev. 12:9 [see above] has already described the dragon as Satan. The 2 horns represent separation, as in separating us from God, and duality, as in the world of relativity, where nothing is absolute. In contrast, God is One and God is Absolute. Why is Satan or Lucifer represented by 666? This is because he is coiled to strike like a snake; but he is really Evil, and that is why the symbol is repeated 3 times. The Judgment and the Seven Plagues Chapter 14 sums up and contrast eternal damnation in Rev. 14:9-11 as against eternal life in Rev. 14:13. Chapters 15, 16 and 17 take us to the 7 angels and their 7 vials of plagues [like in the Exodus] all these just add more colour and drama to the phantasmagoria. The Harlot

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In Chapter 17 a woman appears with Mystery - Babylon the Great - The Mother of Harlots and of The Abominations of the Earth emblazoned on her forehead. This Harlot (who is carried by the 1st Beast) represents the Mother of all human worldly greed and temptation and desire; i.e. represents the human world of false self-ego, i.e. represents human civilization in our world of reap what you sow; i.e. represents the world of the false God; i.e. represents man himself. Man [collectively] in his false self-ego is the anti-Christ himself. Man separated from God, separated from Christ, separated from his eternal spirit son of God is the antiChrist himself! In our worldly false self ego mortal beings we are prostituting ourselves to idolising ourselves in our own image as a false God! Collectively, we are The Mother of Harlots! The Fall of Babylon Rev. 18:4-6 is poignant for Gods redeeming call, beseeching us Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive her plagues. For, her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her inequities. Render to her just as she rendered you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix for her double. Now, go back and browse through the Gospels. Suddenly, all the passages and parables about leaving the world behind can now be seen in their true light. Remember the Last Prayer? God is not of this world! To return home to God as the Prodigal Son, we have to leave this world! No, not when we die, but when we are still alive, and start the journey home in the spirit of the eternal spirit son of God within us. For, if we do not awaken in the spirit now, while we are alive, when we die we might still be left with the evil spirit of the false self-ego! Refer back to Matthew 12:45 and John 1:51. Do me a special favour, please go back and read my introduction about being awakened in spiritual faith of numinous awareness so as to realise the eternal spirit son of God being in us. King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev.19:20 say this about Christ He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornification; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her. This is heavy language, but behind the judgement it simply says that Christ will not stop until he finds his last lost sheep. Take comfort. Let me remind you again to go beyond the paraphernalia. The eternal spirit son of God being in us can never die! It is eternal! It is only lost while it is enticed and trapped in Satans web of deceit. Treat our worldly false self ego mortal being as a dream. The dream is nonetheless real, in a worldly sense to our worldly false self ego mortal being but in spiritual terms, to our eternal spirit son of God being in us; it is just a bad ethereal dream. Please note: Any judgment or punishment or death is of the false self-ego mortal being. Salvation is of the lost sheep the eternal spirit son of God. The 1000 Years the Defeat of Satan The Final judgement Having regard to what I have just said in the previous paragraph; do not get caught up in the penultimate battle or the final battle or the 1st resurrection and the 2nd resurrection or the 1st death and the 2nd death; these are all battlefield status reports and outcomes. The fact that Satan was exiled for 1000 years is just a manner of allegorical expression. It could mean like forever or even suggest a never-ending process. The fact is Satan is eternal inferno. Satan is not something that can be exterminated. He is automatically there when we are impure by having a self-ego apart from Understanding the Book of Revelation/V. Cheok/Copyright 23/6/2011 Page 9

God. He is never there when we are not separated from God. He is only our alter-ego when we are on the dark side. The more pertinent question is do we still have the Deil in us? So the battles go on, whether it gets to the stage of the ultimate battle against evil forces from the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog Rev. 20:7 and the 2nd death of damnation Rev.20:14 or not, it is all part of the thrills and spills of the epic saga. The details are of no spiritual importance! Rejoice in the fairy tale ending of the New Heaven and the New Jerusalem and that Christ will be coming quickly Rev.22:20. Rejoice that we in fact eternal in the spirit; that in the spirit we can never die! Therefore we should have no fear of death as such. Death is characteristic of the worldly false self-ego mortal being. What we should be mindful of is the immutable law of you reap what you sow. What we should be mindful of is to be awakened to our eternal spirit son of God being; to enable us to extricate ourselves from the clutches of Satan and his web of deceit about the pride of having a self-ego. Set yourself free and go home to God! Vince Cheok 23/6/2011

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