crown of thorns

I watched this sunset side by side with my beloved, what a revelation this sunset gave me, where should sink, and who should perish.

…………………………………………………——"The Book of Light·Preface to St. Ella Leo"

When it rained in the first days, the people didn't take it seriously, and they continued to do evil and tyrannical acts. The first morning of the heavy rain, there was no one's calf.King Lamech never marveled at the rain.

Until the afternoon of the first day, the flood rose up in vain and could drown one person. King Lamech lived in the palace, but he still didn’t know what happened to the people. now." King Lamech did not listen, and continued to have fun with his daughters.

Until the night of the first day, when King Lamech was in a deep sleep, he heard the eunuch come and report: "My king wake up soon! My king wake up soon!" King Lamech's dream was disturbed, and he was about to kill the eunuch. Suddenly he saw that the flood had reached his dragon bed.The eunuch called: "My king! Hurry up to the boat!"

Seeing this, King Lamech got up hastily, before he could get dressed.

At that time, the sky was dark, and there was a thunderstorm in the sky. For the first time, King Lamech was afraid, so he asked the eunuch, "How is the situation in various places?" The eunuch said, "My king, the whole earth is submerged in water, and all the people cry. No, they're all going to die!"

King Lamech heard someone calling his name outside the gate of the palace, and when he opened the gate, the sight frightened him. The flood had already submerged half of the entire palace, leaving only a few tall pavilions, and the big waves hit him. King Lamei was so frightened that his face was livid, and the boat that the eunuch had found had been washed away at some time.

As the water rose higher and higher, he found a ladder and fled to the top of the palace to watch the situation.

The huge waves were raging, and the lightning flashed and thundered. He saw these things clearly through the lightning: "Who did this! The one who called me king is in this desperate situation! I will kill him!"

All the angels were seated in the air, and they looked at the whole earth. Everyone was drowned in the water. The great waves overturned the boats of the people. There was no ship in the whole earth that was damaged except Noah's ark. I saw that the king of Lamech hated it. Looking at Lucifer, Lucifer said, "He will not repent until he dies, angels, who would want to humiliate him?"

Many of them said, "I will go and shame him."

And an angel went down and appeared before Lamech, with a spear, a whip, a sword, and a sword, and he called out to him, "Lamech, the king whose evil your God has brought upon you, the almighty king of Lamech, You are omnipotent, save yourself!"

When King Lamech saw the angel, he thought it was a god, so he prostrated himself and cried loudly, "God save me!"

The angel went down and slapped him, and shouted, "King Lamech! Who is your god? This is your head, and this is your hand. We have taken it for your god today. You are king, you are omnipotent, you will May it grow again!"

King Lamech was so frightened that he kowtowed to the angels repeatedly and said, "I beg the gods to show mercy and save me. If you are really gods, you will do righteous things."

The angels pulled his ears and humiliated him, saying, "Lamech, do you know the name of your God? If you don't know, why should we save you? You are a king, can you not save yourself? You are not Say, where are there gods, and where are ghosts?"

Lamech was so remorseful that the angel spat in his face and flew back into the sky.It’s just that the flood was going to drown him, and suddenly he saw a big boat sailing in the distance, and he shouted: “Who is on the boat, please save me!”

There were his officials on the boat. He saw his prime minister on board through the thunder, and said, "Prime Minister! I am here, your king!"

The prime minister glanced at him and said, "Aren't you Lamech, the son of the rebellious and stubborn Methuselah? When will you be my king?" As he said this, the prime minister punted the boat and wanted to leave, but he didn't know that a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky. , the prime minister's boat split in two.

King Lamei laughed and said, "I will die after you!"

Suddenly there was the laughter of his father who was forced to death in his ears, and he said repeatedly: "Lamech! You will neither go to heaven nor go down to earth!" Lamech was extremely afraid. When the next day dawned, the flood had already Over the roof of his highest palace, he took advantage of the opportunity to grab a drifting tree trunk.A big wave swept over him, and he was thrown into the water. He saw another big ship in the distance, which was Noah's ark.

All the immortal people saw the boat, but no matter how they swam, they could only see it, but they could not get close to the boat. King Lamech wailed, but no one heard it, because he had never heard anyone cry. .

Do you not know that this flood will fall for forty days, and it will cover the palace of Lamech on the first day; it will cover a small mountain on the second day; In five days, the highest mountain in the whole world will be submerged.Birds will die from exhaustion, beasts that can swim will be struck by lightning, and those that cannot swim will drown.The swarms of insects that can live in water will be killed by thunder, and those that cannot live in water will drown.All the people had boats, but the boats were torn apart by lightning, and those who had no boats to swim died of exhaustion.Those who dream of trees, the trees rot, and everything that is immortal and floats on the water is swept away by the waves, and people cannot see them, and those who cannot swim are drowned.

The whole earth died except Noah and his family.

However, in a mountain in Kitti, there is a cave, although it is full of water, but those who flee in it do not feel suffocated.

Their skin and flesh were ripped apart, and they became a piece of flesh and blood, but they were still alive.

Lucifer's inscription on the stone in the mountain said: "You can't escape from this disaster, but I told you that you are neither human nor thing. You will parasitize people in the future, spread branches and leaves, and reincarnate in other places."

So the clan of Itikiah, the eldest son, the second son, the third son, and the fourth son of Lamech, a total of five clans, turned into a puddle of blood in the cave.This blood is alive, hidden from the eyes of the Lord.

The flood fell for forty days, over the mountains and over the mountains, over the waters and over the waters, until the top of Noah's ark touched the steps of heaven.Yahweh looks at the affairs of the whole earth, but does not speak.

All the angels stood together for forty days. Seeing the scene was extremely sad and bloody, some people closed their eyes, wept silently, and could not bear to look at it. I was terrified in my heart, and I could only hold Michael's hand tightly.

We seven million angels saw this and were silent for forty days.

No one is weary, for this is the Lord's great event.

Every day the LORD speaks only what confirms the hour, for the angel of the Lord's hour watches silently.No one knows what time it is.It's just that I think his voice is getting older day by day, I don't know why.

On the 40th day when the flood fell, Noah's ark touched the first brick of the heavenly ladder.

The LORD said, "All angels, follow me up!" The crowd didn't know what had happened to His voice, but I only felt that His voice was almost old.

We flew up again, to the high sky, to the end of the sky, the crack in the sky was still there, the white sheep knelt on the ground, and the LORD shouted to Michael, "Michael, return the Excalibur to me."

Michael offered the Excalibur, and Yahweh raised the sword and killed the sheep. His hands were covered with the sheep's blood and he said, "This is my blood."

He flew to the top of the zenith, and Lucifer also flew to the top of the zenith with sheep's blood on his hands. They painted the crack in the sky with the blood of the sheep, and the crack began to close and heal.Lucifer said: "The sky must be in one place, eighteen thousand feet."

Yahweh said: "The heavens will be in one place, thirty-six thousand feet."

The clefts of the sky were closed, and no water fell.

Yahweh picked up the dead sheep, and the sheep turned into a ball of fire on him. He put the fire in the palm of his hand, and all the angels followed him slowly.I followed the Lord and walked slowly for a total of 150 days until I reached the edge of the great light near the water. [Note: The great light is the sun. 】

The LORD put the fire into the great light, and the great light immediately turned red, emitting a dazzling red light that was three, seven, ten, or even a hundred times hotter than before.

The water gradually receded from the 150th day.

Yahweh again sent winds to blow the earth, and the might of the flood gradually subsided.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark stopped on Mount Ararat.The water gradually disappeared again, and on the first day of October, the top of the mountain appeared.After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark and sent out a crow, and the crow flew back and forth until all the water on the ground was dry.

He sent out another dove to see if the water had receded from the ground.

But water was everywhere, and the dove couldn't find a place to stay, so it returned to Noah in the ark, and Noah stretched out his hand to take the dove into the ark.

He waited another seven days before releasing the dove from the ark, and at night the dove came back to him with a freshly wrung olive leaf in its beak, and Noah knew that the water had receded from the ground.

He waited another seven days and sent out the dove, but the dove never came back.

When Noah was six hundred and one years old, on the first day of the first month, all the water on the ground dried up.Noah removed the cover of the ark and looked, and saw that the ground was dry.By February 27, the ground was dry. [Note: From "July [-]" until now, the original words of the Bible are directly quoted without changing a single word. 】

The LORD went down and said to Noah, "Noah, come out, you, your wife, your sons, and their wives, for I have driven back the water. Every living thing of flesh that was in your ark, the birds, the livestock, and everything Bring out all the worms that crawl on the ground! Behold, all living beings! I want you to multiply and prosper on the earth!” All the angels gathered behind the LORD and praised the LORD 770 times seven times.

The LORD pointed to the livestock and said, "I used to ask you to kill three sheep, one ram, one ewe, and one lamb. All kinds of livestock today should shed their young at the same time. I will bless all the livestock."

The mother of all the livestock gave birth and gave birth to her young.Noah took all the offspring of the viviparous animal and sacrificed them before the LORD.When the LORD smelled the sacrifice, he said to the angels, "Noah was a righteous man, and you elders blessed him."

Metatron blessed him and said: "Earlier Adam was the father of all, and you will be the father of all peoples in the future. I will bless you and make your family prosper, and your descendants will be like the stars in the sky and the dust on the ground. .”

Lucifer blessed and said: "Your descendants are divided into three branches, one feeds on the land (farming), one feeds on livestock (herding), and one feeds on water (fishing). There is a difference now, and there will be no difference in the future. "

After that, the elders among the angels blessed Noah, and Noah thanked the angels.

A rainbow was released from the sky, and the LORD pointed to the rainbow and said, "Noah! The rainbow is a witness for you and me. I will no longer curse the earth for man's sake, nor will I destroy all kinds of living creatures. All that were born of eggs and wombs are delivered into your hands, and all living animals may be your food. I give you all these like vegetables. But the flesh with blood on it It is its life, you must not eat it. Whoever sheds your blood and kills you, whether it is a man or a beast, I will punish him.”

The LORD said: "Whoever sheds human blood, his blood will be shed—God created man in the image of God."

"I will make a covenant with you that all flesh and blood will no longer be destroyed by the flood, nor will any flood destroy the earth. I will put a rainbow in the cloud, and this is the sign of the covenant between you and me. This is me and all flesh and blood on the earth the sign of the covenant."

The author has something to say: Explanations on several issues in this chapter:

First, the Jews believed that the rainbow was a sign of the covenant between God and them, but the ancient Chinese believed that the rainbow was a sign of prostitution, which was a bad thing.Eastern and Western cultures are different.

Second, when the world was first created, God did not allow any living creatures to eat meat, and all living creatures ate vegetables. This was an orderly arrangement, but since the Great Flood, there have been new adjustments, and one of them is that people can eat meat. one.