THE APOCALYPSE

 THE APOCALYPSE

I love learning new meanings and interpretations, and this one was really surprising to me! It comes from “The Book of Mysteries” by Jonathan Cahn (pg. 139). It was something I had never considered before!

I had always considered the word APOCALYPSE with a negative image in my mind. A time of the destruction and cleansing. But this definition sheds such a positive light upon what will really be happening. It represents a great day for the righteous, and likely a dreadful day for the wicked.

“The word ‘Apocalypse’ comes from the Greek ‘apokalupsis’, which, in turn, comes from two root words: ‘apo’, which means to remove, and ‘kalupsis’, which means a veil or covering. So apocalypse is the removing of the veil. It speaks of the revealing, the opening of the vision concerning the end. But there’s another connection. When you get to the end of the Bible and to the end of the apocalypse, you find there is a bride and a Bridegroom. You find a wedding. In the ancient Hebrew marriage, on the day of the wedding, when the bride and groom, after their long separation, now stand face-to-face, the bride lifts the veil from her face – the removing of the veil, the apokalupsis, the apocalypse. So the two stand there, with no veils and no more separations, face-to-unveiled-face. In the same way, there will come a day, a wedding day, when all veils will be removed and we will see Him as He is, and He will see us as we are, unveiled, face-to-face. You see, we are all heading to one apocalypse or another, the apocalypse of judgement, or in salvation, the apocalypse of the wedding. And if you are of the wedding, then you must even now come before Him and remove your veil and your coverings, with no more separations and nothing hidden. For only if you come as you are, can you know Him as He is. And only then will He be able to touch you and you must be touched and changed. Learn the secret of living as on the day of the wedding… even now… with no coverings… in the apocalypse of the bride and groom… face-to-face… and beyond the veil.”