Introduction to this Book

This book contains my research results on the fulfilment of prophecies from the Bible particularly the Book of Revelation in present and recent times. I have compared these prophecies with predictions from other prophets to detect similarities and parallels pointing to the same time and place. Many prophets have made accurate predictions about the present, and I am also explaining their prophecies about the future. Browsing through these pages the title at the top of the screen will tell you where you are.

What is new about this Interpretation of Prophecies?

Methods:

1. Keep as close to the original text as possible! The more literal the fulfilment, the better.

2. Symbols you need to know to understand Bible Prophecies are:
   • The "Four Elements" (not to be confused with chemical elements): Earth, Fire, Water and Air as basic principles of nature and life;

   • Mythical and heraldic beasts: The Dragon, the Lion, the Unicorn (Rev 13:3), the White Horse (Rev 19);

   • Babylon, the symbol of our worldwide modern culture represented by the country where it originated.

You will find separate articles on how to understand prophecies and symbols included in this book.

Conclusions:

• The Prophets do not predict the End of the World but the End of the Age and the time they mean can be recognized according to predictions which have been and are being fulfilled today.

• Life including politics and economics is applied religion. Today many political and business activities can be understood as ritual worship of money. Politicians, business managers, journalists and lawyers act as priests of this cult. Under this religion there is no such thing as an Atheist.

• As in the Old Testament prophecies the Book of Revelation condemns the worship of false artificial gods in chapter 14, verse 9, ff.: The Unholy Trinity of Modern Life: Money, Superstars, the State. We are facing severe destruction, unless we abandon the worship of these false gods, which bring environment pollution leading to freak weather disasters, trade in lethal weapons, wars, violence, crime, unemployment, misery, poverty and death affecting an increasing number of people. Destruction through these man-made disasters is necessary to force a new way of thinking on us, to end the present civilization and to create a new world in the New Age about to begin.

• Isaiah chapter 41, ff. and Revelation chapter 13 identify Britain and the reign of the present "Queen" as the time and the place, where crucial events are happening. Britain and London thus symbolize our era, the last 300 years, as much as Rome symbolized the time 2000 years ago, when Christianity arose. In criticizing Britain, the prophets condemn our whole "Western Civilization" for its materialistic culture and destructive greed. The verdict of the prophets John and Habakkuk about the Anglo-American culture echoes the verdict of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Jesus about the ancient Jewish Establishment. My explanation of these prophecies takes up the tradition of Puritan writers in the era of the 17th century English Revolution.

• From the point of view of Jewish prophets predicting our times from 2000 - 2600 years ago there is no reason to make differences between Jews, Christians and Muslims. We all belong to the same tradition as the future of Jewish culture predicted by ancient Bible prophets. Traditionally most people who claim to be followers of these religions disregard the teachings of their prophets in everyday life.

• The Anglo-American world-culture is here to stay. It is the fulfilment of the old Jewish dream of world-dominance as God's chosen people in Messianic Times. This culture will now have to change from the Babylonian type condemned by the prophet Habakkuk and Revelation 17 and 18 to the New Jerusalem variety predicted in Revelation 21 within the next 20 years, or else there won't be any future for the human race.

Obviously the question of fulfilment depends on interpretation, but interpretation has to be separated from facts and from fiction, something that people often fail to do.

What is Interpretation?

What are Facts?

For example: If someone literally fulfils all the features to recognize the Beast 666 from Revelation 13 in every detail, this is a fact. It makes no difference whether you like that person or not, whether you think it is clever, a joke, an insult or a sign of insanity for me to show this.

Other examples: The fulfilment of the predictions about the sea (Rev. 16:3) and the sun (Rev. 16:8) by modern environmental problems, predictions about earthquakes and thunder (Rev. 6:12, 11:19, 16:18) by modern nuclear weapons.

Eventually there will be two ways of interpreting these facts, and the interpretation you prefer will depend on your background, on what you want to believe as much as on the facts explained in this file: You can either reject them as meaningless coincidences or you can conclude that there are so many accurate predictions that we can also use them to look into the future. We can then compare these prophecies with our own expectations and the results of scientific research. The possibility of making such accurate predictions also raises the issue of the nature and the intentions of higher forces behind them, usually referred to as God or the Holy Spirit.

What is Fiction?

Examples of biased ideas without any base in the Book of Revelation: Any heroic figure predicted anywhere has to be Jesus. Therefore, the Son (Rev. 12:5) (of the Woman) has to be Jesus, because he will rule all the nations with an iron sceptre. The same applies to the Rider on the White Horse from Revelation 19. He will defeat the Beast, which means he is Jesus and the Beast is the Antichrist if not Satan or the Devil himself. Further myths about the Beast can be found in my summary of Chapter 13, second part. People who believe this should realize that they are making their own scripture. There is nothing wrong with trying to be your own Evangelist as long as you do not pretend to explain someone else's prophecies.