Anything that is terrestrial is shrouded in mortality because time is the constant companion of this plane of life. Just as we can kill time that transport us to the land of timelessness, mortifying our own body lead to the land of the Living. The penultimate mortification of the Church is imperative for the Groom to come and collect the Bride from this solid earth. As the chaste apostolic faith of the Church is its breath, the evaporation of the sanctity and the holiness from the very core of the Bride is the penultimate disappearance of it from the face of this world. The reason for Jesus to state emphatically that “When the Son of Man comes, he won’t find faith” on earth, Lk.18: 8, is for the rulers and the ruled to realize that the Lord’s coming is not very far of. One day or other the purity and the survival of the church coming to a state of sedation is inevitable for the Lord to come and collect the Bride from a stage of ruin.

That which is mortal also is folded in the mysteries that are usually revealed by parables, allegories and symbols. A bare outline of the flowering and ripening of the Church is apparently brought to surface by St.John in the book of Revelations, 5-7. It is revealed to us by the magical number of SEVEN, the maximum time a number used in the bible; seven stars that represent seven angels are guardians of 7 churches, metaphorically portrayed as 7 lamp stands. These 7 lamp stands is likely the symbolic forms of the 7 stages of the church that has to pass through the ordeals and tribulations before it sees the Groom in the bridal chamber, or perhaps the 7 churches that stand for place names are also given in nominal symbols, Rev.2-3, the merits and weaknesses of those churches are also delineated in a hidden way. The last church in the list is the church in La-odice, and this church is presented as neither cold nor hot because it is an amalgam of profanity and purity of the last age, proclaiming that it is a mixture of secular and religious laws and regulations of the age of the apocalypse that write the post-mortem of the church.

Then the Lamb of God sitting on the throne of Heaven and the Heavenly hierarchy worshipping Him is portrayed in a vivid form and splendor. “ And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with 7 seals….And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it….”, Rev.5: 1- 5. Only Jesus has the power of opening these scrolls. Just like having a book of Life, like the colossal software system, there are other books, Rev.20: 12, depicting the history of the stages that comes to the fruition of the end. The devil’s electronic seal that he inscribes, either on the wrist or forehead, is no. 666.Rev. 3: 17; 20: 4; 14: 11. The revelations of the apocalypse that buttresses with the prophesies of prophet Daniel also proclaim about the doomsday which force the Saviour to come down and fly away to another planet with the Bride. Seven seals are the development and progress of Church’s evangelization schemes over a period of time that accomplishes the mission and the coming of the Lord to airlift the Bride.

Signs of the Doomsday Catastrophes:

1. First Seal-White Horse: “Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals…a white horse. And its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer”, Rev. 6: 1-2. As Jesus is the embodiment of purity, the white horse that represents Jesus and His era upon which He rides is the result of the opening of the first seal. “The Lion of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals, Rev.5: 5. The Holy Church, the Bride of the Bridegroom, therefore, is the litmus test, also in collusion with the Jewish historical and covenant accomplishment, of the fulfilling of the subsequent prophesies that monitors the future times and the signs of the ripening of the age.

2. Second Seal-Bright Red Horse: The rider was permitted to take peace from the earth. This period unlocks the persecution that flowed rivers of blood, ordered by the cruel Roman Empire and its ferocious subjects. “Martyrs’ blood is the seed of the church”. The church sprouted by the nutrients of the blood of the saints and believers during that period.

3. Third Seal-Black Horse: Emperor Constantine’s conversion that liberated the church from the red tentacles of the horse gave into the germination of heresy was the wide door which opened for Satan to get in and prod over the church. The imperial church that smothered the true church which still tries to cultivate the right faith was throttled by the birth of Islam and its imperial expansion by continual bloodshed, particularly to the Orient, and the crippling result of crusades fragmented the church into pieces, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches, that either neutralized the pagan elements or liberalized the true canons and doctrines, dawning the period of Renaissance and colonialism. It was a long period of struggle and strife between different religions and denominational churches.

   The age of Feudalism and the religious and moral decadence of the Medieval Period that highlight the atonement of sins by the label of the note of Indulgence invited various forms of unchristian recipes of sacrileges and blaspheme. Those disenchanted ones took their shelter under the precipices of art and culture, drifting away from the body of the church that led them finding the refuge under the pavilion of sex and its obscenities and promiscuities. Materialism, the byproduct of such profanities, simmered the heat of the flesh and its lusts. An adventurous lifestyle that spiraled by the wind of worldly desires for amassing wealth and triggering the passions of body life boiled the spirit of this world for putting a foundation stone for the Satanic kingdom for ever. The Western colonialism that led to materialism and its sophistications is the obvious product of such exoteric and exotic outlook on life, despite there were many contributions that triggered to high quality of life that eliminated certain superstitions and psychological and social oppressions that were rampant then.

4. Fourth Seal-Pale Horse: “I saw a pale horse, and its rider’s name was death, and Hades followed him; and they were given power over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth”, Rev.6: 8. It resembles about the flowering of the Western colonialism that took over its power towards the fourth of the earth. In order to plunder the wealth of the world they killed and besieged the land and its inhabitants in the four quarters of the world. The horse seemingly looked pale and anemic due to starvation for lack of nutrients, the reason for them to meander around the world to pluck the sweet fruits of the earth, paving the way for Industrial Revolutions and Herculean-like scientific discoveries. The high-tech culture of computerization is a death trap for the religious elites and worshippers; perhaps there are huge advantages in the creative field. It also could mean that paleness or yellow colour reflects the colour of saffron, the dress of the mystics because of the undercurrent result of global Christian evangelization by the Christian West, despite the main aim of the invasions were to loot the prosperity of the occupied lands. Christian missionaries also followed the occupiers, although they were officially banned by the invaders.

5. Fifth Seal: When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne; they cried out with a loud voice, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood….They were all given a white rob and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren should complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been”, Rev.6: 9-11. This piece is quite self-explanatory.

6. Sixth Seal-Cataclysmic Destructions:Climate change that invited the tsunamis of multiple tides has created a new world order of sufferings and wailings, due to the over use of lethal and other chemicals, gases and poisons. Owing to the absence of at least two super powers, the birth of human bombs, bramashstra, out of frustrations, have multiplied the problems in geometrical progression, affecting the fear of free movements that spending billions for security in all vistas of our life and spending billions and billions in the defense budgets that use the weapons of mass destructions for supersonic wars.

   The chemicals and poisons that are produced for such vendetta, together with the cravings of leading a high-flying life, have the capability of ejecting byproducts of Himalayan proportions of lethal chemicals and gases which can devastate the planet for its ultimate death. Drinking water is a problem for half of the world; the uprooting of towns, cities and villages due to the madness of power games and dominations have created a chaos of pandemonium that cannot be tackled by any human mediations/interventions and inventions. The super-tech lifestyle is a curse that cut the root of spiritual aspirations, and has handed over the human race to the abysmal powers for a total run over. Suppression, oppression and repression are the hidden weapons that rule the world in all quarters of the globe. We are still probably sitting at the edge of the first step of the sixth seal; the full swing of it comes gradually.

7. Seventh seal - Furies of God: “When the Lamb opened the seventh seal …there were peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightening, and an earthquake. Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made ready to blow them. The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and a third of the heaven was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up… Read the chapters of Revelations from 9 to 12 that portray the work of seven angels and their trumpets which blossom the woes and 7 plagues one after the other in a sequence. God writes His seal on the forehead of His servants, Rev.7: 2-6, who pass through these ordeals, so that they avoid abusing the name of the Almighty God. The crushing of the church and a remnant of the true church that goes underground due to severe and ferocious persecutions is portrayed in ch.12.

Secular Influences:
The absurdity of the demolition of the values of the church that once dictated the social ethos is because of the materialism that gulped all that is sane and holy, opening the way for the atheists and agnostics and pagans to dictate the secular rulers to rewrite the laws and statutes to their tastes. The democratic system of governments that people chose didn’t mean to change all that is pushed and pressurized by a firebrand minority that pull the plug of a silent majority. However, the flesh that is weak looked for a high- skating pleasurable life where the mundane daily life has its own sufferings, accepted the fast rack lane for an easy-going high-tech life style, forgetting that everything that is transient will eliminate a spiritual life that lead to a land of the living. Democracy is the best form of Government, but the sensual freedom that overtakes the duties and responsibilities of afterlife is suicidal. The lax freedom that allows anyone to fiddle with one’s own flesh is a highway that leads to eternal darkness, the fruit of which is the gnashing of teeth and biting of the undying worms because there is no more death in the land of Death. One day when the evil trinity is thrown into the lake of fire where the eternal sulphur burn, Rev.19: 20; 2o: 10, we also become the shareholders in that alien land of gloom and darkness. Choose now either the Father’s Kingdom, or the devil’s empire of Bottomless Pit.

The rulers also have a duty to safeguard the welfare of their subjects in the land of the Living that lies beyond the grave, whereas they equip them to that everlasting land that has no rays of light whatsoever. Those who sit at the helm of affairs have tried to give electricity and its light of materialism to everyone, thereby denying the accessibility of light in that land of weird aliens, not in the land of God’s angels. Democracy is an ideal form of Government, provided it can offer alternate routes to the alien land of the living, too. Definitely it can’t offer any health resorts in the celestial heights because the rulers of today has no concern or right to do so because everything is under scrutiny and challenge by a worldly code of rules and wild ethics, Eph.6: 12. Unless one accepts that man has a soul that to be accommodated while he is here in this sod, how can he restore for his nourishment while he is in his inter-planetary module that may be set out at any moment? Man has no right for concrete freedom because he is only a momentary breath that is not constrained within the limits of loose freedom which the abysmal forces indulge in this planet of transitory laxities and imperfections. The last church -at La-odicea -is neither cold nor hot, and this represent the church of today that embraces from the pagan, street and heterogeneous social culture for its carnivorous survival in the land of all profanities and vices. Commercialization of spirituality is necessary for the money-making tantrum which guarantees salvation for anyone who indulges with money because giving money to the religious sycophants is treated as salvation premiums. Truth is the language of the unseen, not in this plane of ephemeral vulnerability. Truth only can set us free.

Finally when the seventh angel blew his trumpet, there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever”, 11: 15-…These are all the delineations of the supernatural and unnatural events that are hidden from our sense and sensibilities which are to be consumed for enabling us to mingle with the realities of the celestial mysteries. “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how you can believe if I tell you heavenly things?”, Jn.3: 12. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”, Rev.3: 22