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Making Sense of Revelation: A Revolutionary New Explanation

From Fear To Love: Transforming Revelation
by David Brubaker

There is no fear in love;
but perfect love casteth out fear. -- 1 John 4:18

What if Revelation, the primary doomsday manual for “The end is near” prophets for 1900 years didn’t say that the end is near? What if, instead, it said that the end is far off and it told us what to do about that?

What if Revelation were instead an inspiring and uplifting exploration of the nature of God and the angelic possibilities of people? What if we could transform Revelation into a useful spiritual resource instead of a doomsday story?

I spent many years studying and trying to figure out the book of Revelation in the Bible. Gradually, I figured it all out and found that it doesn’t have anything at all to do with doomsday predictions. It isn’t a story of God “comin’ to gitcha.” Rather, it’s a God-is-love-not-wrath story of humans' spiritual evolution from almost primordial times through the founding of Christianity and on into the distant future, an epic story of vast reaches of time. There is plenty of the wrath of God there, to be sure, but it’s all in the earlier parts of the story, the earlier parts of the story of our evolution of spiritual consciousness.

It also isn’t a crazy, chaotic story either; it’s a perfectly organized story in which everything fits together, everything happens at exactly the right time, and it all makes sense. Even all the many Biblical allusions are perfectly placed and are meaningfully connected to the part of the story where they occur. To read more about this radically different and radically sensible explanation of Revelation, click the link. Or read some short articles about Revelation which tell more about this new explanation.

My Newest Thing: Online Stores on Zazzle.com

Print-on-demand publishing makes it possible to create one-of-a-kind or one-at-a-time printed products such as T-shirts, bumperstickers, coffee mugs, baseball caps, and all sorts of other products--quickly, easily, and at a reasonable cost. You can create your own design and have a single item printed for you. You can also go to a site such as zazzle.com and choose from literally millions of designs that people have created and made available for you to order whenever you choose.

I've created several stores on Zazzle. Well, actually I'm in the process of creating several stores. If any of these links don't work, check back again in a couple days. These are my stores:

• diphernt, a store with funny, goofy, whimsical sayings, sometimes with a deeper message than the whimsy. Here are some samples:

• Two more stores, that don't even have names yet--it's going to be awhile before they are up: one will feature beautiful nature and travel photography; the other will feature spiritual messages and positive thinking affirmations.

Getting My Geek On

I'm a technical writer in Silicon Valley. I used to be a software engineer, and most of my technical writing has been for very technical audiences such as software engineers and system administrators. I've done quite a bit of documentation for things such as APIs and SDKs.

My resume is here.

Assorted Things

Does the Federal Reserve play politics with the economy to influence presidential elections? I've discovered a pattern in the Fed's handling of interest rates that strongly suggests so. In every four-year presidential term (and equivalent presidential election cycle) since the Kennedy administration, they have followed this pattern. They behave in one of two diametrically opposite ways, depending on whether the incumbent president is a Democrat or a Republican. Read about it here. I haven't updated this paper for the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, but I have verified that the same pattern held for those two election cycles. I haven’t checked it for the 2012 election.

Some Short Articles About Revelation

To read some short articles about Revelation and my very new and different way of understanding Revelation, please go to my Articles page. To give you an idea, here are a few samples of the articles:

A Brief Summary of the Book of Revelation
Questions About Revelation to Make You Think
How my view of Revelation is different from all the others
The Down Side of Heaven
Why are there so many beasts and antichrists in Revelation?
Armageddon--A “War” Between Truth and Falsehood, and Why It Has that Strange Name
Revelation and the Big Questions of Spiritual Life