Science and Religion deal with the One Reality. One should approach both science and religion with both awe and ardor to comprehend the creation of the Creator. It is well that one combine their search with the innate aloofness and suspicion with which intellectual beings have been endowed, regarding any theory. In science we speak of proof, but there is always just an accumulation of evidence to give us confidence in our conclusion. That too is our intent here, to seek the evidence that supports whatever is then our conclusion.
Here we are examining The Book of Revelation, a two thousand year old book which many consider to be a prophecy about the present day. Our purpose here, is not to use it as a tool to prophecize events to come, but rather to test its accuracy on the basis of what it has already foretold, so that we may have confidence in it as a source of guidance.
Contained within these pages is what is called, "The Most Clear and Conclusive Proof". This is a mathematical proof, and one should thoroughly understand it before they have the audacity to dismiss it. That proof, combined with the internal evidence of The Book, that it is formatted in a distinctive reliable pattern that repetitively addresses the seven historical religions that are extant in the world, in the same order as which they first appeared, seems to lie far beyond what one might attribute to coincidence. That plus the fact that often the internal references to those religions are of such a nature that when one examines the reference, and then from external observation queries which of the seven religions that might apply to, they find yes, it is the religion in that sequential order which the religions appear. Details of this pattern are summarized in the Introduction.
The symmetry of all this properly brings awe and appreciation to the unbiased observer who can approach this material objectively without being prejudiced by an attachment to a previous position of pseudo-scientific anti-religion or a dogmatic sectarian interpretation of the subject matter.
Humanity's expanding conciousness that in the last two thousand years has created a comprehension of continents beyond one's own, and of ever widening horizons out into galaxies galore, stands now ready to comprehened the religious Message that was foretold to it two millenia ago, in what has until now been a "Sealed Book". This astounding and astonishing message requires a truly receptive scientific and religious state of mind that can lay aside prejudices and preconceived ideas to comprehend ideas that humanity was incapable of understanding for the last two thousand years, but which had been revealed, hidden in plain sight, and protected for that day which has now come.
The Message that "Jesus Speaks to the Religions of the World" is one far beyond what any of the religions of the past were capable of accepting. The traditional Christian view of Jesus and His Message in the Book of Revelation scratches but the surface. The Book of Revelation is not merely another Book in the Bible - it is the MOST IMPORTANT Book in the Bible. It is the only Book revealed by Jesus Christ Himself. The whole of the Bible was about Jesus. The purpose of the Old Testament was to prophesy a Messiah to the Jews - and Jesus was that Messiah - and the Book of Revelation was HIS Message.
The Jews failed to recognize Jesus, their Messiah, and the importance of their Messiah, because He was the Messiah to the whole of the world. Christians too, had a far too small concept of Jesus, seeing Him as a one-time-event in one-locale, rather than recognizing Him as the Manifestation of God that appears from Age unto Age, throughout the totality of the universe, concepts which are still beyond them. They even failed to recognize the significance of His Book, thinking it more or less as just one more book in the compendium they called the Bible. They thought it addressed to none other than themselves, and indeed some were of the opinion that it was addressed entirely to seven insignificant and now sometimes now non-existing local institutions in the Middle East.
Jesus was addressing His Message in the Book of Revelation, to another time, to the "time of the end" of His Age, and to a different audience than the seven local churches, or even the Christian Church, as might be imagined by the Christians. He was addressing the whole of the world and specifically the Seven Major Religions or cultures that would exist up until that time. An outline of the Message can be seen by viewing the Table of Contents of this book. More specifics regarding its structure are presented in The Introduction.