Chapter 15

Book of Revelation

KJV: And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

Seven is a number that means completion.

“Wrath of God” means:

KJV: And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

(NIV)

I was still drinking on and off at the time I had to stand on this sea of glass to clean it up off the carpet. I only had one credit card with a balance of about $100 and that was only to build credit so I could improve my credit rating after the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy to purchase a house by myself. The table broke in July 2006.

Google “alcohol” and “fire”:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=alcohol+fire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=alcohol+fire

“mingled with fire” means the paperwork of my IRA was atop the table and $42,000 of the $55,000 was from Bob’s employer’s plan I had distributed to me after the divorce was final. Bob is the angel with the power over the fire (see chapter 14, verse 18 [Rev. 14:18]).

This is a picture of the glass table in my apartment after He shattered it.

Follows is an excerpt from my book detailing the event and how I figured out I am to write a book that is like “A Million Little Pieces.”

Late August, I got home from work. It was right after Brandon started school. I always changed into summer clothes when I got home. The cost of gas was extremely high at almost $4 a gallon and I conserved gas by not using the air conditioner. Today, the answering machine was blinking with a message. It was Alex from the bank where I had my investments. She left a message that “David saw something” and they wanted me to call and make an appointment to come into the bank. So I went into the living room and retrieved the cordless phone and called her. By the time Alex got on the phone, I had moved into the dining room area where I kept the paperwork and I noticed the glass top of the patio table was broken and shattered all over the floor below the frame of the table. I could now hear Alex on the other end saying, “Yes, David saw something and wanted you to come in…” I cut her off in mid-sentence, “I can’t talk right now. I think someone’s been in my apartment. A table has been broken, I have to go.” I hung up the phone. I’m staring at this huge mess of glass that has shattered into an incredibly large number of pieces. I thought it was a tempered table. My initial thought was that someone had been in the apartment but when I looked around I quickly realized that nothing else was out of place or had been disturbed. Then Brandon walked in and I asked him if he broke the table. He said no I just got in. I already knew he hadn’t been home because I didn’t see his shoes or his book bag or hear the TV on in his room. He often chatted with a neighbor boy that lived on the other end of the building before coming home.

I called Bob and told him about it. He didn’t know what to think. I called Art and he said, “Well, maybe there was a sudden temperature change.” I knew there wasn’t. It was August and the apartment was a steady temperature from the central air and I always turned it up when I left to save on the utility bill. No way.

I was too tired from work and from dieting to take on the daunting task of cleaning it all up right away. I knew something else was going on. I took several pictures of the mess with my 35 mm camera. As I sat on the living room sofa in the evening, a thought occurred to me. I got up where I sat and walked over to the table, or what was left of it, and picked some of the papers out of the rubble and noticed there were tiny, tiny pieces of glass among the papers. I recall removing the little wooden house that I bought from Karen’s garage sale. It was the only thing left perched on the metal frame of the table. I had to put on my shoes to step about the splintered glass. There were so many pieces of glass. I was way too tired to deal with it that day except for removing some of the papers and the larger pieces of glass chunks that had shattered veins throughout their broken pieces. I sat there and thought about that book that man wrote, A Million Little Pieces. Yes, his life was messed up from drugs and he came back with the grace of the Lord and he helped other people with his book even though he admitted he had made some of it up. “A Million Little Pieces.” I thought about the phrase I read from the Book of Revelation from two years prior, “Like a sea of glass laid out before him.” That’s It! That’s what I have to do! I have to write a book about my life. I have the money now! It came to me in an instant. I still didn’t know when and how I would accomplish such a task. My life had been back together, I liked it that way and I didn’t want my good fortune to end. I went on with life as normal, but I knew, yes I knew that it was getting time to write that book I had told Gina about. The one she thought would be a bestseller!

It took me the two evenings to clean up all that shattered glass. I wore gloves and used a broom and dustpan. I vacuumed the remnants. I filled two grocery sacks with all the pieces and I kept them so people would believe me.

As I moved about the kitchen and dining room area cleaning on the first night, some of the glass was so fine, I missed it and while cleaning it with my bare hands and walking in it later in my stocking feet, I got cut on my fingers and I got a bigger cut on the bottom of one foot. I examined the cuts on my fingers and they reminded me of the small cuts I used to get from the double-edged razors Bob brought home from work. We would use the razors to cut the cocaine finer and separate them into lines before snorting the coke. I’d get the same type of small slit shaped cuts. The cuts from cleaning up the glass were a little deeper and I bled.

Being reborn, I knew it was time for me to write what I went through: the bad marriage, the drugs, the sexual abuse, the violence, the abortions and coming back from despair and emptiness because I was without God. I didn’t know then how I would tie it in to the Revelation; I just knew that there were many coincidences and if I wrote the story certain people like priests and theologians could and would figure it out. The bags of green glass sat in the dining room for a couple days or so and then I decided I should keep them for evidence. The glass is a light green color, like emerald or the color of the sea.

KJV: And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

(NIV)

Moses is the prophet before Mohammed. He brought the 10 Commandments down from the mountain to the people. Moses wrote the first 5 books of the Bible, known as the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Torah. These first 5 books comprise the first 5 books of all Christian Bibles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Moses

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of Moses where God first mentions that he will bring his anointed one, the Messiah, and all must listen to him – that means that everything that Jesus said is the TRUTH.

Deuteronomy 18:15-20

[15] The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
[16] According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
[17] And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
[18] I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
[19] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
[20] But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

KJV: Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

(NIV)

“for thy judgments are made manifest” means his judgments are to be made known (revealed).

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/manifest

Apocalypse (Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις -translit. apoca'lipsis, literally: the lifting of the veil), is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind.

The Greek root corresponds in the Septuagint to the Hebrew galah (גלה), to reveal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

Luke 10:21

KJV: [21] In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

babes means literary or poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/babe

Would a calf qualify as a babe? How about a born again Christian who is in their infancy of studying the Holy Bible?

KJV: And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:

A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple