steve howard's retelling of the new testament
BARBARALBA BIBLE

THE NEW NEW TESTAMENT

The Revelation to JOHN

 

chapter 19

vs. 2: True and just are his judgements! He has condemned the prostitute who was corrupting the earth with her immorality. EQ.

John means Babylon. The rule of tyranny.

Vs. 9: … “These are the true words of God.” EQ.

“We might want to say words of the gods.”

“Or we will just say, let the truth of our present situation be revealed.”

Vs. 11: … it is with justice that he judges and fights his battles. EQ.

Not will weapons but with words.

“Words are weapons.”

“Words are language and we must save our language. It has been violated with lies.”

vs. 13: The robe he wore was covered in blood. His name is “The Word of God.” EQ.

There is not a God to tell anyone what to do or write. And the blood was from many generations. Slaughter after slaughter to accumulate wealth.

“Unless instinct is the will of God.”

“Instinct, common sense, is the will of the gods. It is the nature of life. And for living creatures, Life is God. It is not an entity to be worshipped. It does not have a book of rules. It is how it is and we can learn how it is and learn to evolve in it and through it. It’s magic is real and we can also learn what that is. There is no such thing as supernatural. Anything that is or can be is natural for all things are physical. And all that is physical is basically energy in a symphony of variations.”

Vs. 16: On his robe and on his thigh was written the name: “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” EQ.

We need to get over the idea that Jesus Christ or the Lord God Almighty or whatever name the idea is given will claim his castle to rule the world. It ain’t how it happens. How it happens is that we learn to rule over our own individual kingdoms and not over the kingdoms of anyone or anything else.

Then we have an angel standing on the sun. He called out to the birds to eat the flesh of everyone. A little over the top.

“Unless we do have one last great battle.”

“We have had a long great battle over many generations. It is time to wind it down. And decide on our own destiny. Build a new future free of paranoid belief.”

Vs. 19: Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to fight against the one who was riding the horse and against his army. EQ.

Now John might envision such a thing on the hope, perhaps the assumption, that someone or some many would stand up against Babylon. Babylon has a mighty army. The army of Babylon is always the same. They are the poor that have opted to fight for Babylon against their own families for fear of poverty. Babylon pays their army with the riches stolen from the slave class. Some armies are paid directly with plunder.

To fight Babylon we must stop fighting among ourselves. Violence supports military rule. The war must be without weapons or we cannot win. The fucking stupid game.


chapter 20

Jesus laughed.

This gets a little hard core.

“A little.”

“Okay, this book is hard core. We must remember it was written from the voice of a prisoner. His fellow Christians were being brutally persecuted. It is an angry attack on Babylon. It is also justification for Christianity; which is basically Judaism. And ultimately, they are tools of Babylon. So it is necessary to turn the whole thing around.”

Angels come down from heaven. Maybe they will. Maybe before the last ice age a ship left. But not likely. We are very young. We are just waking up. And we do not know yet what we are or what we have. So up in the sky there will be only us and the birds.

And some rocks and comets.

What we do with the War Lords and the prostitutes that call themselves religious leaders, is up to us.

If we murder them all and replace them, there won’t be any improvement.

vs. 4: ... I also saw the souls of those who had been executed because they had proclaimed the truth that Jesus revealed and the word of God. EQ.

Many of those souls never heard about Jesus. Anyone standing up to the ruling class tyrants have been executed. John is trying to encourage the Christian churches not to give up faith as they are being executed like diseased rats. We have to remember this when applying his hysterical vision to a world a little different from his.

Vs. 7: After the thousand years are over, Satan will be let loose from his prison, 8. And he will go out to deceive the nations scattered over the whole world, that is, Gog and Magog. Satan will bring them together for battle, as many as the grains of sand on the sea-shore. EQ.

The biggest problem we have is that we tend to want to believe all that we are told. Like little children. There are many varying opinions as to who or what Gog and Magog is. Most agree that he was the grandson of Noah and the resulting nation. And there we must set the alarm. The concept that everyone descended from the three sons of Noah is simply absurd. There were humans in the Americas at the time of Noah. He is fiction. As is the flood. We are trying to make meaning of a fairy tale. Applying it to how we act is not advisable.

Let the crazy story go and focus on the real. Israel is not God’s chosen race. And Satan is a concept. An evil personification for the rulers of the enemy force. We have been fighting mighty battles for long enough. The military mad men making trillions on war have to be stopped. The resources cannot be wasted on such brutal myopic money games.

Wake the fuck up and stop showing the pricks any regard or respect. They are pathetic.

There ain’t going to be a thousand year rule of Jesus. There has been far too much militant rule. We must work toward less rule and more common sense. Which means less lies and less gold fever.

Tormenting the Pope and people like him forever and ever is too Jewish. Jesus ain’t into revenge. A global wake up is what he longs for.

Forget the seas of fire and vengeance.

Forgive them even if they did know what they did. Not because we are holy. Just because vendettas are a trap. Hate circles. Eternal war.

Vs. 12: … Books were opened, and then another book was opened, the book of the living. EQ.


chapter 21

Fantastic nonsense not at all relevant to the world of the real. To finish off the book for the Christians, a retelling of the book for the Jews. To be followed by the book for the Moslems. Obedience to children’s horror revenge fantasy.

The bible is backwards to most stories. Most of the books of the bible are full of shit and somewhere in the middle of them is coded information. Vague meaning open to interpretation and extrapolation.

Vs. 1: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth disappeared, and the sea vanished. EQ.

Just a reminder, John was having a hysterical vision. Not at all scientific. Heaven is a big place. All of our universe, which is likely one of countless, will one day either fade out or be suck through black holes and give birth to new heavens. Such a cycle is many billions of years. And we are yet to understand it. And though earth seems to be very unique. It is not the reason for the universe. And when the seas vanish it is game over for the earth.

Vs. 2: And I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared and ready, like a bride dressed to meet her husband. EQ.

No, God is not going to build a square luxury city in the heavens and lower it down on the destroyed planet. Jerusalem, I hate to reveal, is not significant. It is a city like many other cities. Except that it is in a fog of mad religious belief. There may one day be a space ship built but it will not come down to earth. And when the earth is dead we will have to be gone.

The new Jerusalem is fantasy.

A big square city of luxury for nice Israelites comes down out of the sky. Heaven and Earth are all new. The carrot in front of the donkey.

Vs. 5: Then the one who sits on the throne said, “And now I make all things new!” He also said to me, “Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted.” EQ.

This is the same justification Moses used. The Lord said so it must be true. The model of patriarchal dictatorship.

“Big Daddy said, so who is to question Big Daddy.”

vs. 6: ... “It is done! I am the first and the last... EQ.

It is never done. The meaning of ‘I am the first and the last’ is the idea of the eternal in us. The nature of the universe. We are part of that.

vs. 7: Whoever wins the victory will receive this from me: I will be his God, and he will be my son. EQ.

Again, this is the same as the Torah. Fight my fight and I will take care of you. Give you water and manna while I eat roast beef and baked goods. Drink the finest wines. Till we murder our way to the promised land.

And if not.

Vs. 8: But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols, and all liars – the place for them is the lake burning with fire, and sulphur, which is the second death.” EQ.

Simply put. Obey or be tortured forever.

The Holy City was made of precious stone.

Vs. 12: It had a great, high wall with twelve gates and with twelve angels in charge of the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the people of Israel. EQ.

Vs. 14: The city’s wall was built on twelve foundation-stones, on which were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. EQ.

12 astrological signs. 12 tribes. 12 disciples. 12 eggs. All the precious stones. Shining. No sex. No magic. No night. Singing forever praises to Lord Moses. A truly mad fantasy. An assault on the physical real.

Vs. 16: The city was perfectly square, as wide as it was long. The angel measured the city with his measuring-rod: EQ.

And it was fucking big. A brilliant luxury hotel. A grand disguise for the shopping mall of hell.

Vs. 18: The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself was made of pure gold, as clear as glass. EQ.

The description goes on. So that anyone in his or her right mind will know it is madness. And greed. Pure gold cannot be used as a building material. Our building material of the future is pure carbon. And it will change architecture to make the world a new world.

But what we have here is bullshit for the churches in Asia Minor to hold as a dream as they suffer the poverty and persecution that War Lords force upon the world.

Vs. 24: The peoples of the world will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their wealth into it. 25. The gates of the city will stand open all day; they will never be closed, because there will be no night there. EQ.

Eternal taxes.

“The internet.”

Vs. 27: But nothing that is impure will enter the city, nor anyone who does shameful things or tells lies. EQ.

Jacob’s curse. The holy shining shopping mall with 144,000 Israelites.

It ain’t it. Trees are it. Forests. Jungles. Wild creatures. An ocean full of fish.

Don’t believe luxury promises or revenge on the bad people. We are all in it.


revelation chapter 22