◆　"The Sea of Glass Like Crystal" as the Screen

　I explained the principle for simulating the movement of energy in space-time using the example of "the ripple of pond," and showed that by such principles, actually there may be the prophecy about the humankind's future. Next, I have to explain "the stage or the screen" for reproducing the energy of movement. Although the description about this screen appears in only two places among all of the texts in the Revelation, if you read carefully the text before and behind the word and can have the fertile imagination, it will emerge on the bottom of your mind as the subject with clear concreteness. This word of the title appears in [4-6] and [15-2].

　These texts show that John was led by God, his soul separated from the flesh and ascended to Heaven, and he saw a huge screen before the throne of God. In the texts from [4-1] to [4-11], the sights about the throne of God, twenty-four elders and "four living creatures" as the symbol of the attribute of God, have been described, and you could picture the image on your mind that the throne of God is in the higher position, and twenty-four elders and many angels surround "the sea of glass like crystal."

　Although now the technology called hologram, which applies laser beams and projects three-dimensional virtual images on space, is already developed, "the stage or the screen" in the Revelation is for projecting the world on earth in 3 dimensions. When we look at the Earth from space, clouds whirl and the whole Earth is shining blue, that is, such spectacle is expressed as "the sea of glass." It looks also like the water surface which shines brightly, and the spectacle in which many angels are watching will appear on your mind as the vision. And the word "mingled with fire" suggests the sight that the world on earth is burned by many fires of war.

　Heaven (and Hell) and the world on earth do not exist independently, these have very close correlation, and if angels look at the world on earth, it is just like the stage of theater. Many audiences, scenarists, producers, lighting technicians, and various property men、are watching advance of the drama, and of course, there will also be owner of this theater. That is, the equipment for reproducing the drama is "the sea of glass like crystal," which is the screen for projecting the actual world on earth, and also could project the past and the future like a film and a tape being carried forward or returned. When we consider this with such high viewpoint and the grand scale, all of you will reach the conclusion that the idea that science, technology, or art in the world on earth have progressed rather than Heaven, is the surprising conceit of man, namely, Heaven should have evolved in all fields more highly than the world on earth.

　God has shown a glimpse of his figure to terrestrial humankind several times in the history, however this figure is one of the expedients for making terrestrial humankind understand, and the man of today is alive in the time when the image to God, which ancient people visualized, should be thrown away. You must not forget that this stage setting is also prepared and described as the figure, which John could understand. If it is the writing for leaving to humankind in the future 2000 years after from now, "John who is a man of today," should be shown the another sight by God, for example, it might be the sight like that he is in the control room of spacecraft, which appears in the SF, and is surrounded by monitor panels and computers.