The Prophecy Books

When the prophet Daniel received the visions he recorded the angel of the book of Revelation informed him that the book was to be kept shut and secret until the end of the age. The author believes we are in that critical period now.

Many books have been written in an endeavor to clarify the meaning of Daniel's visions and solve the chronological factors hidden in the numbers given to him by the Angel of Revelation. In spite of the attempts to master these problems, however, the Book of Daniel has persisted in remaining an enigma. Until now no writer has been able to penetrate its intricate mysteries.

When Daniel received the revelations the Angel informed him that the book was to be kept "shut as a secret" until the crisis at the end of the age. Now, for the first time, the key that unlocks the secrets sealed in Daniel's records is known. Readers of this book will understand the method by which the Angel revealed, and at the same time concealed, the full knowledge of the future in the statements made to the prophet.

Part I is devoted to the history of World Empires as was given to Daniel before any of those world empires had come into being. The accuracy of prophecy is demonstrated as nation after nation marched onto the stage of world activity in fulfillment of the Prophet's recorded accounts.

Part II is devoted to the remarkable visions seen by Daniel, describing in symbol the great political, economic and religious systems of the nations and the order of world warfare. Concealed in these visions is the minutely detailed account of the order of events leading to the climax of the ages and, by the marvelous chronological measuring rods used to define the time period, we are given an exact time table of their occurrence. These are the facts which were to be revealed just at the crisis period.

It was Mr. Rand's opinion, based on his earnest study, that we are in that critical period now and, for the first time since Daniel received those remarkable revelations over twenty-five hundred years ago, the seals are broken. Daniel's inquiry was, "O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?" The author believed that we now have the answer to that question.

Study in Daniel is a must for Prophetic students and for all who are numbered among those of whom the Angel was speaking when he said, "The wise shall understand."

Hardcover
458 pages

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This book should be be in every home and read by all. The book is a history of the 2 kingdoms (spiritual and literal) that should be a required course of study for all high school students. Excellent book.

The Obedience described by Saint Benedict is based in consensus and discernment of gifts and abilities and callings and weaknesses. Saint Benedict ever calls for consideration for the weak, the elderly, the infirm, and above all that none may lose heart.

In fact Obedience is not a Benedictine vow, but Stability, Poverty and the conversion of ways. Humility is an ideal to work towards assiduously, and the path upon which we travel. The Abbot finds who bears the proper charisma and abilities to bear certain offices and responsibilities, and frees each one in his charge to their true vocation in a process of liberation ("obedient and free" as Father Leclercq here writes) to the spirit. In fact in this book we often read of spiritus libertatis: the liberty of the spirit, or the spirit of liberty.

Thus when military men returned from the SEcond World War to take over our monasteries as seemingly fitting to their customary and severe regime, they had no idea what they were doing and turned monks into their slaves, to take orders without question but with joy. This is not the spirit and the rule of Saint Benedict, who humbly saw his as a rule for beginners, and better to follow that of the great Saint Basil.
With the military regime in place the monastery become not the angelic and liberating path to heaven but a cruel Trap.

Thus this fragmentary record of correspondence reads like an inexorable and tragic novel of opportunities for spiritual growth purposefully and seemingly maliciously and carelessly cut off by ignorant authorities, like something out of Gogol, without the dreamy madness of Kafka, but much as his The Trial, in which incomprehensible and unappealable but grotesquely unjust and life-destroying decisions are made by nebulous and all-powerful absent authorities.

Merton was nearly self-taught as a Catholic, even after his entrance into the monastery, where he read and studied and meditated his reading without end. These letters reveal him at the intellectual and spiritual level of the great European monks of Saint Benedict, but without their rich and deep seed bed in which to sprout and to grow. He had to do it all on his own, at great cost and effort, and unimaginable agony as he confronted the hard wall of the inexperienced and superficial American monastic life, under an unbending military officer, as if in Kafka's The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, an officer moreover with little perception of the true monastic vocation and the way of the hermit, the first and greatest of Christian monks.

Thus his European correspondent can merely stand by baffled at the purposeful destruction and frustration of all of Merton's true and holy monastic aspirations, at the unfeeling and senseless rubbing out of his great vocation. Had Merton been free to live out the vocation God planted in his fruitful heart and soul, for one thing he would still be alive, and for another, so would American monachism. Many observers note his return to Gethsemane took place aboard a military plane, without autopsy, in a closed coffin provided no other monk, in that year of the slaughter of three American prophets of peace. Many draw the obvious parallel to the absurd accident which reportedly killed the great French worker-priest, Father Perrin, SJ.

Whatever be the true cause of his death, whether faulty wiring in a fan as we are supposed to believe, or his public and prohpetic opposition to war in a year in which war was very profitable indeed, preceding this his physical death, were long years of little murders of his true vocation, senseless and against the will of God, as we see so well chronicled in this good book.

Had Merton been a European monk he would have been well trained, well fed, well respected, well educated, and still writing. Instead we find none of this. The loss is ours, and we weep to read it here. The loss is to our Holy Mother Church, who weeps with us, like Rachel for her lost child.

To learn our true and glorious Church, read this book, and see why we cannot have extra-sacramental Oaths of Fidelity which bind will and intellect in obedience to anyone but our God, who is all loving compassion and mercy, who draws all of us home together as one, who commands us to Love one another, not to brutalize, humiliate and rub out, but to support and to encourage in Love.

By the way, early on is mentioned the Abbot of Clervaux, Dom Michel Jorrot, who made the correspondence available and who served as my Pere Zelateur at Solesmes over a quarter century ago, and who was indeed very encouraging. Also frequently mentioned is Regina Laudis (now Abbey) as a frequent site of Father Leclercq's conferences, and where I gratefully lived before and after Solesemes and remain in contact. Please see as well Mother Benedict: Foundress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis. She courageously faced the monastic life and brought it to America, where her Abbey still thrives and gives us hope.

I may have slight quibbles with some of the Latin translations here inserted by the editor, and with the introduction by Abbot Weakland, but this is an extraordinary and powerful work which subtly builds to its ultimately tragic and senseless sacrificial ending, or beginning. At this price you cannot afford not to read this book. I began it after the midnight hour and could not put it down until it was time to go to work, much as the hermit monks of old would read at vigil in their solitary cells. It is long past time to recognize our noncanonical American Saints: Day, Merton, Romero, Chavez, RFK, and the other such of our great PATRIOTIC American and staunchly Catholic heroes and martyrs and Saints.

We must especially dare bring to light the full implications of the passion, suffering and violent death of Father Louis, OCSO, Thomas Merton, and how he brings light and life and hope and peace to us even now in this present darkness. Let this book be a portal to more complete understanding and appreciation and prayer with this great, intelligent, persevering, obedient, brilliant and Faithful saint. Let it also serve as gateway to more complete collections of his correspondence, such as The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers (The Thomas Merton letters series), and all of his still crucial writings, from The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter 'Doctor Mellifluus' to Cold War Letters.

Tome Mertone, ora pro nobis, filiorum tuorum. Amen.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book can't wait to read the rest of the story. Could not put it down. If you enjoy fantasy,fiction,murder and mystery, Mr. Krueger weaves a twisted tale of love betrayal and justice.... Can not wait for book two. I really enjoy being pulled into the story,this book does just that. Superb read!

Anynone who is interested in looking at the details of the tabernacle that God commanded to be built in the wilderness will be amazed as the symbolism and metaphors you discover through reading the building of the tabernacle. J. Vernon McGee gives you great insight into the meaning of the seven pieces of furniture used, and shows you how the Trinity and, particularly Christ, is continually revealed throughout each part of the tabernacle. This will open your eyes into many levels of understanding of the old testament tabernacle and its unique importantance to the Israelites. I highly recommend this book.

The illustrations are beautiful. The text is well written and easy for the beginner or the experienced card reader.

How many times have we been scared, fascinated, or just plain amazed by psychics and people who seemed to see the future and predict what was going to happen? Kathleen Krull, the writer of the great "Lives of..." series, outlines the subject perfectly clearly with this book, which goes over events that date as far back as Ancient Greece and as recent as the present, that seemed to do with mysticism and people who seemed to see life through a crystal ball, and it's easy to get intrigued by, or at least interested in. This book is highly recommended for anyone, from kids who want to have their parents read to them or adults. Even those who aren't interested in the psychic arts will love it. I guarantee!

This book appears to have not been edited at all. It took me a few pages to get past all the typos; I mean seriously, a LOT of them. But then you realize it really flows. Some of the typos are actually creative wordings. Even though they appear at first to be mistakes, they are purposeful and add to the free and creative spirit of the book. In a way, I suppose having all the mistakes and creative use of new words is a functional part of helping to facilitate the mind to shift. If it was all tightly written, it would definitely have a different feel, and the message would come through differently, and perhaps not in quite the right way, if that makes any sense. The content itself is fantastic. I found it enlightening, yet simple to understand. It pulls you in and takes you through, and you find yourself just following. But it is also provocative and it makes you think. You still have to decide and figure it out for yourself! What I love about it is, it gives real information, that to me makes more sense than almost anything I've ever heard. I frequently felt pulled back into the thoughts and feelings of my childhood, to a time when I sensed what was real, before it all got skewed by family and societal conditioning. Also, I have read many books in all the areas of spirituality and self-help, and this seemed to pull it all together. It brings it all right down to the very essence. In some ways, I feel that all the books I have previously read prepped me and helped me to easily digest and integrate the ideas in the book. On the other hand, you could read just this book alone, and get the same basic idea that all the other books are trying to convey, but without all those other (now seemingly) unnecessary details.

This short little book provides a surprisingly thorough explanation of the fulfilled prophecies of Revelation in fairly easy to understand format. Adams does a great job defending his amillennial interpretation. In order to keep his text brief and as uncomplicated as possible, he does not consider any of the opposing end time views. I also recommend as a companion book, The Time of the End, which provides a similar treatment of the prophecies of the book of Daniel.