Many authors have attempted to interpret Revelation, but there is no consensus on what it means. I believe that the Book of Revelation is a puzzle that God wants someone like me to solve. I have not solved it completely, but I am making progress. This group is where I report my progress.

The eschaton will be the end of history as we know it when Jesus Christ’s return in glory will be seen by the whole world on global television and when the whole world will be transformed into the Kingdom of Heaven. I believe that it will occur near the end of this century and the first sign in the sky will occur April 12-14, 2016. That sign will be the return of the comet I call Vulcan, AKA the Star of Bethlehem. Between then and the eschaton, mankind must endure the tribulation.

The tribulation will be terrible but survivable. The main threats will be asteroid impacts, earthquakes, tsunamis and famine. In the Kingdom of Heaven, the Sun will be larger and hotter than it is here and now. The Earth would be much too close to the Sun for comfort in the Kingdom of Heaven if it did not expand its orbit out as far as Mars before its transformation. That orbit expansion process will be the cause of the tribulation because Earth must move through an asteroid belt to get to Mars.

Immanuel Velikovsky wrote in his 1950 best-selling book Worlds in Collision about Venus and Mars nearly colliding with Earth some 3500 years ago. Astronomers denounced that book severely. Velikovsky had some dates wrong, but my version of the tribulation involves near collisions with Earth by Venus and Mars.

I intend to show how these near collisions can occur by invoking my own bi-directional time theory that nobody I know believes. This theory involves the concept of negative time and negative mass, the existence of which conventional physicists would dispute.

God has no choice but to work within the constraints of physical laws. Otherwise mankind would not have to endure the tribulation.

Glen Deen