Broad meadows

In this installment I will be writing about what appears to be a passing of the cup from one entity to another and how that plays out in the book of Revelation. Jeremiah 49:12 says this, “This is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.” Who are they that don’t deserve to drink the cup? Presumably, the church, as we have seen in previous installments. Who are they that do? Presumably, the wicked.

Ezekiel 23:31-34 says,

“You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup into your hand.
“This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“You will drink your sister’s cup,
a cup large and deep;
it will bring scorn and derision,
for it holds so much.
You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
the cup of ruin and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria.
You will drink it and drain it dry
and chew on its pieces—
and you will tear your breasts.”

As I noted in the previous installment, the “cup of ruin and desolation” is also the one filled with abominations in Revelation 17 and would be the abominations that causes desolation. So if the first sister is the Catholic Church, then who would be the second sister? As I noted in earlier writings, the Lutheran Church also practices a literal view of what constitutes the Lord’s Supper, that they are drinking Jesus’ blood and eating his flesh. But does the interpretive model I’ve been using predict that?

In Revelation 12 and 13 we are introduced to two beasts, one out of the sea and one out of the earth. In the same way, this entity would arise from the other and would carry an idol of the first beast into it. In Ezekiel 23, those entities would be related. As we have been all along discussing the meaning and substance of Christianity’s sole ceremonial meal, and collecting the nouns and verbs associated with that meal to gain sometimes very precise prophetic information, we have to look at a strange encounter in Revelation 10 between the angel and the prophet.

Revelation 10:9-11 says, “So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’” I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.” As we were able to observe the dichotomy of belief and its consequences in Psalm 16, here we just see the consequences, one sweet and one sour.

Many years ago when I was expressing my concerns to my Lutheran pastor, he gave me some reading material on the history of the church and among the writings was a little pamphlet and below was how it was formatted and what it said:

Small Catechism

By

Pastor
Martin
Luther

Comparing the size of the scroll to the one in Revelation 10 and the three sixes of his name, we can then “see” Martin Luther using this method of interpretation in Revelation 13. To be clear, I’m not saying that Luther is the Antichrist, only that we can see through the symbols presented of the future history of the church to the point of being able to reasonably see someone outside of biblical times being precisely identified. (I was able to do the same thing with Islam, and thus Muhammad, in Example 2 in the story of Jacob and the well in Genesis 29).

The next installment will be a summary of this study and some conclusions that we can draw. I am currently debating on continuing the prophetic analysis we have been doing with a different set of symbols and their meaning in the book of Revelation or writing on the biblical aspects of current events concerning law and justice. I’ll have to pray on that.