About This Book

This is the second volume in the series The Seven Mysteries. The first volume, The Mystery of Christ and the Bride, followed the true King: how the last Adam won back the crown and the Bride that the first one forfeited. This volume follows the shadow — the ancient serpent who tries to counterfeit everything that is real, and who in doing so reaches for the throne of God.

Two mysteries run through this book, and Scripture calls them both by the same name — in Greek a mystērion. There is the mystery of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:7): the man who reaches for the throne. And there is the mystery of the great Babylon (Revelation 17:5), written quite literally on the forehead of the harlot: the woman who sits on the beast. A counterfeit king and a counterfeit bride — together the dark mirror of the first book, where the mystery of Christ and the mystery of His Bride came together.

The book has two layers. The main text reads as one continuous story and is accessible to everyone. The indented deep-dives dig deeper — into the original text, the history of interpretation, and the honest weighing — for those who want to go further. You can skip them without losing the thread, or just as easily linger in them.

Whoever wants to follow the end-time architecture behind this book all the way to the bottom — the world empires, the wound of 1917–1924, the Mahdithe MahdiThe awaited Islamic end-time figure; read here as a counterfeit redeemer opposite the Goel. and the Islamic Isa, the covenant with the manycovenant with the manyThe covenant that the coming prince (weighed) makes strong with overwhelming force for the many in Daniel 9:27, for one week; in the half of the week he makes sacrifice and offering cease., the digital throne — will find it worked out in The Covenant with the Many and in the trilogy The Master Clock of Revelation, God's Algorithm, and The Architect's Seal. This book is the accessible entrance; the full underpinning lies there.

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