Who is like god?

"At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people -everyone whose name is found written in the book- will be delivered.

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
 

"Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. But you, Daniel, keep these words secret and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam about, and knowledge will increase."

What's all that about?
And this too. The code deepens, deepening on your view. A lot of people already know the answer to the mystery and it surprises me that there aren't more. Think of all the coders and crossword puzzlers that have lived since the time of print. Now more than ever there are people in every street in every country working on codes.

Seal up the book for many will roam

After this I saw, and there in the sky was an opened door; and the first voice that I had heard, as if of a trumpet talking with me, saying

“Come up here and I will show you what must take place after this.”

At once I was in the spirit, and there a throne stood in heaven, and on the throne one was sitting; and he who was sitting there was in aspect like a jaspid stone and a sard; and a rainbow around the throne, in aspect like an emerald. And around the throne twenty-four thrones, and sitting on the thrones twenty-four aged men clad in white clothes, and on their heads golden wreaths.

And out of the throne go lightnings and noises and thunderclaps; and there are seven torches of fire burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God; and before the throne is what seems as if it were a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the middle of the throne and round about the throne four creatures full of eyes before and behind, the first creature being like a lion and the second creature like a steer, and the third creature with a face like a man’s, and the fourth creature like a flying eagle, and all four creatures with six wings apiece; they are full of eyes all around and inward, and they have no rest day and night saying

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, the one who Is and Was and Is Coming.”

And when the creatures give glory and honour and thanks to him who sits on the throne, him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four aged men will throw themselves down before him who sits on the throne and do reverence to him who lives forever and ever, and drop their wreaths before the throne saying:

“Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, because thou didst create all things, and at thy will they were and were created.”

And I saw lying in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a book written on the inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals; and I saw a strong angel making proclamation in a loud voice:

“Who is worthy to open the book and break its seals?”

And nobody in heaven nor on earth nor under the earth could open the book or look at it. And I wept much because nobody worthy to open the book or look at it was found. And one of the aged men said to me:

“Do not weep; here, the Lion out of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has won the day to open the book and its seven seals.”

And in the middle of the throne and the four creatures, and in the middle of the aged men, I saw standing a lamb looking as if it had been slaughtered, with seven heads and seven eyes, which are God’s Seven Spirits sent out into all the earth; and it came, and it took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. And when it took the book the four creatures and the twenty-four aged men threw themselves down before the lamb, having each one a harp, and golden saucers full of incense which are the prayers of God’s people. And they sing a new song,:

“Worthy you are to take the book and open its seals, because you were slaughtered and bought men for God with your blood out of every tribe and language and people and race, and made them a kingdom and priests for our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”

And I saw and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the creatures and the aged men; and their number was thousands of thousands and millions of millions, saying in a loud voice:

“Worthy is the slaughtered lamb to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.”

And every created thing that there is in the heavens and on the earth and under the earth and over the sea, and everything in them, I heard saying:

“To him who sits on the throne, and to the lamb, belong blessing and honour and glory and might forever and ever.”

And the four creatures said:

“Amen”
And the aged men threw themselves down and did reverence. And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four creatures say in a voice that sounded like a clap of thunder:

“Come!”

And I saw, and there was a white horse with a rider that had a bow and was given a wreath and went out victorious and to win victories. And when he opened the second seal I heard the second creature say:

“Come!”

And another horse went out, a red one, with a rider to whom it was given to take peace from earth and that they should slaughter each other; and he was given a great sword. And when he opened the third seal I heard the third creature say:

“Come!”

And I saw, and there was a black horse with a rider that had a balance in his hand; and I heard what seemed to be a voice among the four creatures say :

“A quart of wheat for a shilling and three quarts of barley for a shilling; and do not injure the oil and the wine.”

And when he opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth creature saying:

“Come!”

And I saw, and there was an ashy horse with a rider whose name was Death, and the Grave followed with him, and they were given dominion over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword and by starvation and by epidemics and by the beasts of the earth. And when he opened the fifth seal I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and of the testimony that they had. And they cried out loudly:

“How long will it be, holy and true Master, before thou wilt do justice and avenge our blood upon those who live on earth?”

and they were each given a white robe, and were told to rest a little while longer till the number of their fellow-servants and their brothers, who were to be killed the same as they had been, should also be completed.

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like haircloth, and the whole moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig-tree shaken by a great wind throws off its green fruit, and the sky broke away like a sheet of paper rolling up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places;

and the kings of the earth and the magnates and the generals and the rich and the strong and every slave and freeman hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, and kept saying to the mountains and to the rocks:

“Fall on us and cover us away from him who sits on the throne and from the lamb’s anger, because the great day of their anger has come, and who can stand?”

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow over the land nor over the sea nor on any tree; and I saw another angel coming up from the eastern horizon with the seal of the living God, and he cried out loudly to the four angels to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea:

“Do not injure the land nor the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel: out of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed, out of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, out of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand sealed.

After this I saw, and there was a great crowd, that no one could count, out of every race and tribe and people and language, standing before the throne and before the lamb, clad in white robes and with palms in their hands, and they cried loudly:

“Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb.”

And all the angels stood round about the throne and the aged men and the four creatures, and threw themselves down on their faces before the throne and did reverence to God, saying:

“Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength belong to our God forever and ever; amen.”

And one of the aged men answered by saying to me:

“Who are these that are clad in the white robes, and where did they come from?”

Said I to him:

“Sir, you know.”

And he said to me:

“These are the ones who come from the great distress, and who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. This is why they are before God’s throne and worship him day and night in his temple, and he who sits on the throne will spread his presence over them; they will hunger no more and thirst no more, nor shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat, because the lamb in the centre of the throne will take care of them and guide them to springs of waters of life; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

And when he opened the seventh seal there came a silence in heaven for a half-hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God; and they were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and took his stand on the altar with a golden censer, and was given much incense to use for the prayers of all God’s people on the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense went up before God out of the angel’s hand for the prayers of God’s people.

And the angel took the censer, and he filled it with fire off the altar and threw it on the earth, and there came thunderclaps and noises and lightnings and an earthquake; and the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared to blow. And the first blew, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown on the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green herbage was burned up.

And the second angel blew, and what seemed like a great mountain on fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea turned to blood, and a third of the live creatures in the sea died, and a third of the shipping was wrecked.

And the third angel blew, and there fell out of the sky a great star blazing like a torch; and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water; and the star was named Wormwood. And a third of the waters turned to wormwood, and many of the men died of the waters because they were turned bitter.

And the fourth angel blew, and a third of the sun was blasted and a third of the moon and a third of the stars, so that a third of them should be darkened and the day should not be light for a third of it, and likewise the night.

And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying in the zenith say loudly:

“Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, from the remaining trumpet-notes of the three angels that are to blow.”

And the fifth angel blew, and I saw a star from the sky fallen to the earth, and it was given the key to the well of the abyss. And it opened the well of the abyss, and smoke came up out of the well like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the well.

And out of the smoke grasshoppers came out upon the ground, and they were given such powers as the scorpions on the ground have, and were told not to injure the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, anything but the men who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads; and it was given to them not to kill them, but that they should be tortured five months (and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it strikes a man), and in those days men should look for death and not find it, and should desire to die and death should be fleeing away from them.

And the semblance of the grasshoppers was like horses prepared for war; and on their heads were what seemed to be wreaths like gold, and their faces were like faces of human beings, and they had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions, and they had coats of armor like iron armor, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of many-horsed chariots galloping to war. And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to injure men five months.

They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language he bears the name Apollyon.

The one Woe has gone; two more Woes are coming after.
Well that all went quickly enough. What did any of it mean?