Spoke 14

II Chronicles, Zephaniah, Hebrews

And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

Revelation 14

The Bubonic Plague

The Black Death  of the Fourteenth Century killed roughly 25 million people, about one third of the population of Western Europe. The integration with the Inner Wheel of Revelation is striking. The image on the left is from Geoffroy Tory's Horae, printed in Paris in 1525. It portrays Death riding a Horse as in the Fourth Seal, with a Crown and Sickle as described in Revelation 14. The raven appears in Deuteronomy 14.14 as discussed below. A similar connection between a major world calamity and the chapter sequence of Revelation appears in Revelation 16 and the Great China Earthquake.

There is a connection here between the Number 14 and the Number 4, which strongly relates to Death, as explained in the Fourth Seal which describes Death astride a Pale Horse. This seems related to the relation between Death (4) and Rest (14: Nun KeyWord Nuach). It follows the pattern of an affine transformation . I have noticed it with all of the digits - there is a link between N and N + 10. Unfortunately, an exposition of such subtleties must wait until the world can recieve the more elemetary teachings.

The relation between Death and the Number 14 runs deeply through the versification of Scripture, for example, these four verses seem significant:

• Deuteronomy 14.14: And every raven after his kind,
• II Samuel 14.14: For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
• Job 14.14: If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
• Revelation 14.14: And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

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