AN ATHEISTIC SCEPTICAL BIBLE READING OF
REVELATION CHAPTER 22
The chapter that ends Revelation, the Bible and all.
God allows a river of life to flow by the golden city of the New Jerusalem. There is a tree of life on its banks. Its leaves heal the wounded planet and the people allowed to live there. Most of us are dead and residing in Heaven as spirits. Only the 144,000 regarded as supremely righteous are actually left alive. Jehovah’s Witnesses especially take this number literally, despite there being over a million Jehovah’s Witnesses. Perhaps they’ll draw lots to pick who gets in.
Why God didn’t just create the World in this way in the first place is unclear. It might have saved so much suffering and grief.
The prophet John sees the celestial holiday resort and instructed again to write it all down to report it back to us now through Revelation. He is to advise that the events unfolding in these 22 chapters are imminant. 2,000 and more years on, we are still waiting for our just deserts.
John uses the closing verses of The Bible to warn us not to alter or edit the book in any way from the version presented – especially from Revelation itself. Anyone falsely editing the text loses their leaf in the tree of life and a chance of a happy ever here-after. They presumably join us atheists with Satan, Dragons, the Whore Of Babylon and the cool stuff in the brimstone fire lake that is Hell.
With a final promise that this is all coming soon, John leaves us with a last cheery ‘Amen’ and the Bible ends.
It’s been a rough ride, with floods, famines, wars, a God crucifying himself, an army of armour plated locusts, etc. Since then we’ve had crusades, suicide bombers, the Nazi Holocaust, The Black Death, the Spanish Inquisition, etc. Having in effect read the Bible right through, I can’t say I’m impressed. This God does not deserve belief, faith or love.
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