REVELATION: the backstory Part 1

You all have a rough idea of the prophecy, or prediction, known to the world as the biblical Book of Revelation.  Now it is time for the story you do not yet know.  It is the story of the fulfillment of that prophecy.

We’ll skip the first portion, the events known to have occurred at the end of the first millennium, and focus on the events which are now unfolding.

Our story begins with a young orphan, a boy whose life was to have been devoted to the fine arts -- a pursuit for which he was actually quite suited.  But he was born at a time which marked the dawn of an era of Judgment and rapid change.  He entered life in a time devoted to war.

A brave lad, whose temperament was suited for the saving of lives, he joined in the conflict and served in a medical unit.  Unfortunately, it was a unit which was assigned to a brigade of the damned; he had been assigned to help those who had been judged to die.  He too died.  But it was the death of the undead – his eyesight was taken and he was faced with a choice of a life without the career he had dreamed of, or death.

But to die was not his fate, it would be his choice.

He could recover and follow a path which would lead to “eternal fame” beyond the normal scope of the expectations of a young aspiring artist, or he could remain blind.

But, there was, of course, a catch.  His fame would not be that of an artist – though his art work would endure and be prized.  Rather he would be the counterpart to another artist, one whose fame would also endure  and be interlocked with his own.  Neither man being known for his art, but rather for their opposing leadership.

The boy, which it would later be revealed was Jewish and of the same genetic blood  as one of the greatest scientific minds of the Century, was offered the position of the White Horseman of the Apocalypse.

He would be reviled, hated, revered and quoted.  he would be a “Man of the Year” and a force that would live in history.  He would be the one to bring about the RAPTURE.  But, as significant as it was, his role, and the true nature of the occurrence, would go unnoticed for a century from the time he decided that the fame offered was better than the obscurity of a blinded artist.