Böcker av Geoffrey Gardner

This book explains how the thread of modern history was originally penned in the Revelation by the Apostle John during his exile on the isle of Patmos in 92A.D. It was a vision given to him by Christ that details in sublime language the various eras down to the present day. The destruction of the World Trade towers on September 11 2001, or 9/11 is part of this explanation. The twin World Trade Towers in New York city were the pride of America. Their construction began in 1968 and represented the prosperity and culmination of the postwar era and America's superpower status. Destroyed in one day in 2001 their significance goes to the heart of our existence here on planet Earth and is part of the conflict at bottom in this world. The towers in New York were the 'trade towers.' For the first one hundred thousand years of our existence as fully formed human beings we were hunter-gatherers and later on, when the big game became depleted; farmers. Apart from simple bartering there was no trade for gain. We had no knowledge of weights and measures then, or packaging up goods for a price. These practices only emerged some six thousand years ago; and is what the story of Adam and Eve, and particularly Cain, their son, is all about. Cain is the divine analogy of the emergence of trade within the human experience, and its disastrous effect upon the purity of the human spirit. Although the practice of trade may have been quite a natural evolution and has brought many benefits to mankind, trade for gain also brought depravity to human nature; and tarnished our primitive purity and character, or image of God in which we were created. This was the Fall of man, where the evil spirits of envy, greed, deceit and murder emerged and became universal. Cain 'built a city.' Not only so, but rival city states and their attendant war machines. The world six thousand years ago marked the appearance of armed pillaging hordes and the first empires. The 'Assyrian wolf that came down on the fold.' The emergence of trade for gain proceeding from crop surpluses marked one of the most significant changes of life on Earth. From being created in the image of God, mankind became engaged in rivalry featuring depraved practices for gain that a formerly generous population had no knowledge of. The World Trade Towers were destroyed by Islamic terrorists. Struck down by terrorists proceeding from the Islamic world out of a clear blue sky on a Tuesday morning, representing probably the greatest single act of terrorism of all time. The Islamic faith is the violent reaction proceeding from the spiritual realm to Roman Catholicism. When Pope Boniface IV in 609AD dedicated the universal Church to the worship of the Virgin Mary, owned only by Christ, Mohammed appeared with his teachings the following year. A further false faith and one of the sword, that swept North Africa and West Asia from India to Spain. Swiftly rendering some of the richest parts of the habitable Earth hostile to European activity, particularly trade. So the World Trade Towers, destroyed by the reaction to Western idolatry fits with the overall direction of history and the religious conflict the world, and the Revelation, when everything is boiled down, is really all about. This work explains how the vision given at the end of the first century down through eras of time fits with world events.