‘The stars clearly indicate that we are at the end of one dispensation and the commencement of another. The whole world is undergoing upheaval and radical change and the struggle to adapt causes some to be preoccupied with all the horrible things foretold in Bible and Pyramid. Their hysteria is an expression of their own inner anxieties and fears.’ Elbert Benjamine
Bible prophets, ancient astrologers and modern-day psychics have all made dire predictions regarding humanity’s future and in 2024 doomsday mongers who preach the end of the world have plenty to crow about.
Christians believe that famines, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions will precede the end days. And Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist, reckoned it will all end with a collision with a comet.
That said, humans have been fascinated by the demise of the world since ancient times; and in the very modern Aquarian Age, according to a December 2022 Pew Research Center Survey, many American Christians feel that the day of God’s judgment is imminent. 39% of those polled believed they were ‘living in the end times,’ while 10% said that Jesus will ‘definitely’ or ‘probably’ return in their lifetime.
But the secular view of apocalypse in 2024 includes scenarios in which humans can actively participate: a nuclear apocalypse – the doomsday clock is set at 90 seconds to midnight; a climate apocalypse; a pandemic-disease apocalypse; and an AI apocalypse – some say machines will take over within five to ten years.
So, it’s easy to see why many people view these four scenarios as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The Christian Apocalypse
Early Christians believed that Christ would be absent from the earth and Satin would be earth-bound for 1,000 years; and in 999 Christians throughout Europe, believed the world was going to end and prepared for Christ’s return.
When he failed to appear, biblical scholars recalculated his return date as the year 2,000.
Now in this Godless-materialistic era millions of Fundamentalist Christians believe that following the evils wrought by Satin, the Antichrist, war, and devastating natural disasters – the day of judgment – Christ will return and herald a 1,000-year period of perfect peace and harmony.
The word Apocalypse means ‘to disclose and reveal’ or ‘widespread destruction and disaster’. It also refers to something revealed by God via a vision or divine revelation as in the Apocalypse of St John the Divine; and the belief that the millennial year AD 2000 would be of extraordinary significance had its foundations in sacred Jewish and Christian texts. But nothing happened.
The timing of Biblical prophecy requires a start or creation date and Archbishop Ussher (1581-1656), an Irish Protestant prelate, calculated that the world and mankind were created in 4004 BC; and many fundamentalist creationists firmly believe the world and all life were created that year.
(The age of the universe was estimated to be 13,797 billion years, but new research models in 2023 have doubled that making the universe 26.7 billion years old. The age of the Earth is estimated to be about 4.6 billion years.)
Christian-Pyramid prophecy
Pyramid prophecy involves the timing of future events and conditions by the dimensions of the Great Pyramid at Giza. It’s the largest Egyptian pyramid and is estimated to have been built around 2,600BC.
So based on the Earth’s 4004BC creation date the point at which the Pyramid’s upward-sloping tunnel broadens into the Grand Gallery represents the birth of Christ; and the doorstep at its mouth symbolizes Christ’s life and crucifixion in 33AD. And over the years pyramid scholars have coincided almost every major world event with some dimension, passage or chamber in the Great Pyramid.
Max Toth, author of Pyramid Power and Pyramid Prophecies, interprets the measurements as highlighting July 1992 as the beginning of what he calls the ‘end time’. He predicts fierce storms and volcanic eruptions from 1995; the collapse of civilization in AD 2025; the appearance of the Messiah in the sky in AD 2034; and that the Messiah will live on Earth for 76 years after assuming a human appearance in AD 2040.
The ‘pyramid inch to a year’ rule used by Christian scholars to date the return of Christ was also used by Elbert Benjamine to date 1881 as the year the Age of Aquarius would commence.
The great Pyramid at Giza rarely makes the news these days, but in 1993 Rudolf Gantenbrink, a German researcher, using a remote-controlled device, discovered a new chamber deep in the rock of the pyramid. (According to an ancient Hermetic tradition many sacred books from Atlantis – written in an unknown language – have been stored in a secret room in the head of the Sphinx.)
Christian prophecy in the Age of Pisces
Some Piscean Age astrologers made accurate predictions. William Lilly (along with Mother Shipton and Nostradamus) predicted the Great Fire of London in 1666. But the evidence reveals a trail of hopeless failure.
Unaware of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto they primarily focused on Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions.
Astronomer-astrologer Tycho Brahe discovered a new star in 1572 and claimed it heralded the second coming. The German astrologer Mussemius decided that Christ’s birth had followed a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the zodiacal sign Virgo and reckoned that Antichrist would be born in 1544 when they again formed a conjunction in the zodiacal sign Pisces.
Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions have regularly heralded the end of the world.
Nostradamus believed the world was created in 4137 BC and using this date as the get-go his Quatrain X-72 predicts:
‘The Year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror:
To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
Before and after Mars reigns.’
Mars is the god of war and the great King of Terror is believed to be nuclear weapons but July 1999 passed without incident.
Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, predicted Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ in the year 1874.
When it passed without incident, he re-did his calculations and decided on October 1, 1914. Again, nothing happened, so his prediction was updated to 1975. And when nothing happened it was moved forward to 1999.
Seventh Day Adventists await the end of the world, but when it failed to transpire on October 23, 1844, they gave up playing the prediction game.
Madam Blavatsky, a Russian-American mystic who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875, predicted that when life on Earth comes to an end with the 7th root race it will start again on Mercury and that the Age of Aquarius would begin in 1911.
In the Age of Aquarius many psychics have tried and failed to predict the year the Aquarian Age would start: 1931 (Alice Bailey) and 1943 (Edgar Cayce) and many fortune-tellers got excited when Jupiter and Saturn formed a conjunction in Aquarius on December 21, 2020.
Psychic Jean Dixon predicted the end of the world on February 4, 1962 and when nothing happened she moved the date forward to 2020; and Edgar Cayce – the sleeping prophet – predicted World War 3 in 1999 and a shift in the world’s axis around the year 2,000.
Apocalypse now or just another crackpot prediction
You’re living in the age of knowledge when scientific discoveries and techno-progress have made religion obsolete, atheistic astronomers declare God is dead, rational thought denies the existence of the soul, and apocalypse predictions keep on coming.
Biblical scholars spend their time trying to make sense of the mysterious prophecies made in The Revelation of St. John the Divine famous for its Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And in 2024 they’re commonly associated with nuclear war, climate change, a covid-type pandemic and artificial intelligence.
But you need to know that the Bible and in particular the Book of Revelation is saturated in astrological and Tarot symbolism and Elbert Benjamine stated that ‘the whole Apocalypse, whoever its author may have been, is based upon the Tarot. In fact, each of the twenty-two chapters is an exemplification of one of the twenty-two Major Arcana in its relation with the others, as applied to prophecy’.
So, making sense of the Christian Apocalypse – check out Revelation 6 verses 1-8 – requires a thorough understanding and meaning of astrological and Tarot symbolism and even with a little awareness of the planets, zodiac signs and decanates you’ll be able to identify the symbolic references.
The Four Horsemen correspond with the first four seals opened by the Lamb (a young Aries ram) as He opens the scroll of judgment in heaven (Revelation 5.) And when the Lamb opens the first seal, one of the living creatures (sign of the zodiac) before the heavenly throne says to John, in a voice like thunder, ‘Come!’
John then records what he sees:
‘I looked, and there before me was a white horse (Sagittarius)! Its rider held a bow (Sagittarius), and he was given a crown (Corona Australis: the southern crown of victory – the third decanate of Scorpio), and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest’ (Revelation 6:2)
‘Then another horse came out, a fiery red one (Mars). Its rider was given power to take peace (Venus) from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword (Mars)’. (Revelation 6:4) and then
‘There before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales (Libra) in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, ‘A quart of wheat for a day’s wages (Virgo), and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages (Virgo), and do not damage the oil and the wine!’ (Revelation 6:5-6) and finally John says,
‘I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death (Saturn), and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, (Mars), famine (Saturn) and plague (Saturn), and by the wild beasts (Mars) of the earth.’ (Revelation 6:8)
And there’s a fifth seal: ‘And when he opened the fifth seal (John) saw under the alter (Ara: the alter – the second decanate of Scorpio) the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for testimony (Mercury) which they held. And ‘they called out in a loud voice, how long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?’ (Revelation 6:9-10)
It’s easy to see how those suffering from fear and anxiety on reading these revelations literally can easily jump to horrible conclusions. But they’ll all be wrong because their accurate interpretation requires a clear understanding of the language in which they are written.
A seal is the design or emblem itself, belonging exclusively to the user and in regard to the seals which John opens Elbert Benjamine explained:
‘Opening the first he takes there from a quiver of arrows and a crown. It represents Sagittarius and the planetary seal of Jupiter. Opening the second seal he takes out a sword, signifying the sign Aries and the seal of Mars. Opening the third seal he takes out a balance, representing Libra and the seal of Venus. Opening the fourth seal he removes a skull, indicating the pale horse death, the sign Capricorn and the seal of Saturn. And opening the fifth seal he finds a cloth stained with blood, symbolizing the sign Virgo and the seal of Mercury.’
A list of apocalyptic predictions can be found on Wikipedia.
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