The Sixth Hour

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:5ff (Spoke 6, Cycle 3)

The sun went dark at the sixth hour when Christ - the Light of the World - was crucified:

And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

Luke 23:44

Exactly the same phenomenon is seen when the Sixth Seal of Revelation is opened in Revelation 6:

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

Revelation 6:12 (Spoke 6, Inner Cycle 1)

This then forms a Spoke 6 KeyLink from the Inner Wheel of Revelation to the Inner Wheel of Isaiah, based on the set (black*, sackcloth) ^[Verify], which appears only in Revelation 6.12 (above) and this verse from 0:

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Isaiah 50:3 (Spoke 6, Inner Cycle 3)

Using modnotation to write 50 = 6 + 2 x 22 = 6₂, we have the following KeyLink:

KeyLink Set: (Black*, Sackcloth)

PRevelation( 61 ) PIsaiah( 63 )

The profound integration of Isaiah 50 and Philippians (Book 50), which contains the text of the kenosis (self-emptying), is discussed in The Humilation of Christ. The explicit declaration of Philippians in the quote at the head of this page that Christ was "found in fashion as a man" links to the fundamental meaning of the Number 6 as the Number of Man - whose creation occurred on the Sixth Day, and whose destruction is prohibited in the Sixth Commandment.

Thus, we have a full integration of the surface text - the Sixth Hour being the time the sun was darkened - with the internal structure of Revelation, Isaiah, and the Christian Canon.

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