OVER THE WALL OF OPPRESSION
& THE BOOK OF REVELATION
By Dr. Leland Jensen
ENDNOTES
Biblical and Quranic Sources
Numerous Biblical verses are used throughout the book. Verses are from the Revised Stand Version, New testament, copyright 1946 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Old Testament copyright 1952 by same. The King James was copyrighted 1970 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All Qur’anic references come from The Holy Qur’an, translation and commentary by Abdullah Yusaf Ali, published by Tahrike Tarsile Quara, Inc., Elmhurst, New York.
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Introduction
1 Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Wilmette, IL; National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States, 1944), 15.
2 Qu’ran 29:2
PART I
Chapter One - Over the Wall
4 Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha’u’llah (Wilmette, IL; Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1974), 144.
7 The Will and Testament is an integral part of the Covenant of Baha’u’llah.
8 Laura Clifford Barney, Some Answered Questions, Collected and Translated from the Persian of ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1964), 199.
9 An unauthorized body not appointed by Shoghi Effendi nor found in any of the Baha’i Writings.
10 The Lamb will be fully explained in Part II.
11 Revelation 14:1 KJV
13 Matthew 7:13-15
14 Romans 1:3 KJV
15 Psalm 89:4, 29, 34-37 KJV
16 Jeremiah 33:17
17 Will and Testament, 25, 26.
18 Revelation 22:12
Chapter Two - Remedies
19 II Thessalonians 2:10-12 KJV
20 Matthew 24:5
21 Hebrews 6:20
22 Matthew 24:4,5 KJV
23 Revelation 21:10, 11, 14 KJV
24 Ibid., 1:1 and 4:1.
25 Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, translated by Marzieh Gail (Baha’i World Centre, Haifa, Israel, 1978) 166.
26 Daniel 7:3-6
27 Zechariah 13:7-9 KJV
Chapter Three - New Criteria
28 Isaiah 7:14 KJV
29 Matthew 1:23 KJV
30 Matthew 1:25 KJV
31 Matthew 2:5, 6 KJV
32 Micah 5:2 KJV
33 Matthew 2:2 KJV
34 For a fuller explanation refer to ‘Abdu’l-Baha in Some Answered Questions, 48, 49.
35 Luke 3:21-23, footnote “k”, RSV. Notice here Jesus was baptized by John when he was about 30 years old, showing that God was not his physical father as the Christians believe: “God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son.” This refers to when he was baptized by John: “The heavens opened and the spirit of God descended on Jesus saying, “This is my only begotten Son,’” which is the revelation in the potency of the Son that God gave Jesus. The Word was the begotten Son, not Jesus. He was called the Son because he gave the Word, or revelation.
36 Mark 8:38
37 Hebrews 9:15-18
38 Hebrews 9:26-28
39 Exilarchs were the Monarchs, or the descendants of King David, in exile.
40 ‘Abdu’l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1983) 36.
41 Ezekiel 43:1, 2
42 Ibid., 4, 5
43 Ibid., 6, 7
44 Ibid., 1, 2
45 Isaiah 35: 1, 2
46 Isaiah 2:2
47 Isaiah 2:1,2
48 Matthew 24:3-5
49 Mathew 25:15
50 John 10:7-9
51 Daniel 8:13,14
52 Daniel 12:1-4
53 The dictionary definition of the name “Michael” is “Who is like God” [Hebrew] (Masculine Name, Great Encyclopedia Dictionary, Readers Digest.
54 Isaiah 9:6, 7
55 Matthew 10:24
56 Daniel 12:10
57 Daniel 12:11
58 Shoghi Effendi, Messages to the Baha’i World: 1950-1957, 149.
59 Ibid., 152
60 Shoghi Effendi, Cablegram, April 25, 1951; Messages to the Baha’i World: 1950-1957, 13.
61 Shoghi Effendi, Messages to the Baha’i World: 1950-1957, 7, 8.
62 Baha’i Prayers, “Tablet of the Holy Mariner,” 223, 224.
63 Revelation 8:8; 16:3 KJV
64 Revelation 16:17-19
65 ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, 66.
Chapter Four - The Return of Jesus
66 Revelation 5:6,7
67 Ibid., 8-10
68 Revelation 6:1,2 “And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth’” (Genesis 9:12,13).
69 Revelation 19:11-16
70 Ibid.
71 J.E. Esslemont, Baha’u’llah and the New Era (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1970 ed.) 249, 250.
72 Zechariah 3:1-9 KJV
73 Zechariah 3:9, other Bibles translate this as “the land.”
74 Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, Readers Digest.
75 Le-land\’le-land\ [fr. A surname] Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
76 Revelation 19:11, 12 KJV
77 The stone wall is considered as one stone that surrounds the prison in Deer Lodge, Montana.
78 Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
79 Zechariah 3:7 KJV
80 John 8:58
81 Leland was the only Promised One who entered prison on August 8 and spent his first full day in prison on August 9, 1969, the date given by the prophet George Williams. Williams prophesied that Jesus, a descendant of the King of Denmark, would come to a temple built of stone from the surrounding mountains in Deer Lodge, Montana on August 9, 1969. This was the very day that Dr. Leland Jensen spent his first full day with the “stone with seven eyes” before him.
82 I Corinthians 15:24-28 KJV
83 The injustices inflicted upon Dr. Leland Jensen by a very corrupt society of this day.
84 Zechariah 3:9 KJV
85 Zechariah 3:10 KJV
Chapter Five - Joseph Smith
86 R. A. Brown, Memories of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 117.
87 Joseph, who was the youngest son of Jacob.
88 Spencer, Have You Witnessed to a Mormon Lately? 207.
89 Wayne L. Cowdrey, Howard A. David, Arthur Vanick, Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma (St. Louis, MO: Concordia, 2005) 74.
90 Charles A. Shook, The True Origin of Mormon Polygamy (Cincinnati, OH: The Standard Publishing Company, 1910). It was also cited by Dr. W. L. Dodd, Early History of Amity, Pa. 1770-1870 (Private publication, 1940).
91 Pilgrim notes of Ramona Browne, in Memories of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 117.
92 Wing Anderson, Prophetic Years 1947-1953 (Los Angeles, CA: The Kosmon Press, 1946) 34.
93 Normon C. Pierce, The Three-and-One-Half Years 14, 15.
94 Revelation 22:12
95 Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah (Wilmette, IL: The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the US, 1952) 118, 119.
96 This pertains to Islam.
97 Revelation 16:10 KJV
Chapter Six - The Advent of the City of God
98 Isaiah 49:8, 9, 11, 12 KJV
99 Zechariah 6:1 KJV
100 Tom Stout, Montana, History and Biography, Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, 1921, 836.
101 Zechariah 6:2-5 KJV
102 William A. Linn, The Story of the Mormons: From the Date of their Origin to the Year 1901 (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1902) 430.
103 Ibid., 276
104 Ibid., 285, 286
105 See ‘Reorganized Church vs. Church of Christ, et al, 60 fed.937,’ cited in: Inez Smith Davis, The Story of the Church (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1959) 486.
106 Linn, The Story of the Mormons, 444.
107 Charles Kelly, Hoffman Birney, Holy Murder: The Story of Porter Rockwell (New York, NY: Milton, Balch and Company, 1934) 219, 220.
108 C. Leroy Anderson, For Christ Will Come Tomorrow: The Saga Of The Morrisites (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1981) 174, 175.
109 Revelation 21:21, 18, 16
110 “The Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the Most High [Morrisites] officially disbanded in 1969 [on August 9].” (MCLU) index book, Morrisites Collection: Marie-Eccles Caine Archive, Logan UT at the Utah State University.
111 George Williams letter to Erasmussen, December 27, 1881, from notes and letters in the special collections division of Utah State University, Logan, UT.
112 George Williams, Vision of Muhammad.
113 Laura Clifford Barney, Some Answered Questions, Collected and Translated from the Persian of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Chapter 10: “The Traditional Proofs Exemplified from the book of Daniel” (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1964).
114 Baha'u'llah, SÚRIY-I-VAFÁ (Tablet to Vafá), Tablets of Baha'u'llah Revealed After the Kitab-i-Aqdas (US Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1988) 184.
Chapter Seven - The Danish Connection
115 David H. Greene, editor, The Voyage of Bran, An Anthology of Irish Literature.
116 Baha’i World Faith: Selected Writings of Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Wilmette, IL: National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States, 1976) 260.
117 Genesis 49:16, 17 KJV
118 II Kings 18:11
119 Herbert Armstrong, The United States and Britain in Prophecy (Pasadena, CA: Worldwide Church of God, 1980) 99, 96.
120 Ibid., 97
121 Frederich Goodman, Magic Symbols (London: Brian Trodd Publishing House Ltd, 1987) 6, 7.
122 The other Manifestations were for specific people, like Moses for the Israelites and
127 Ibid, 12, 13
128 Genesis 10:8-12 KJV
129 Isaiah 14:12-14 KJV
130 Brian Branston, Gods and Heroes from Viking Mythology (New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1987) 48.
131 Will and Testament, 12, 13.
132 ‘Abdu’l-Baha reiterated that the Hands cease to function as Hands at the death of the Guardian when he explained that the Hands are “heirs” to nothing’ meaning (as an heir inherits only after the death), those who were “Hands” are not heirs to the title “Hands” or to anything else at the passing of the Guardian, and therefore cease to be Hands altogether when the Guardian dies. ‘Abdu’l-Baha said. “…The Hands of the Cause in this dispensation are NOT heirs of any name or title [i.e., they cease to be Hands at the passing of the Guardian].” (‘Abdu’l-Baha, Lights of Guidance, 3rd ed., 1979) 322.
133 Cablegram, The Baha’i World, Vol. 13.
135 Ibid. 3
136 Branston, 41, 42.
137 I Kings 16:31
139 H. M. Balyuzi, Eminent Baha’is in the Time of Baha’u’llah, xii, xiii.
Chapter Eight - Balder, Hoder, Tyr and Heimdall
141 Branston, 42.
142 H. R. Ellis Davidson, Scandinavian Mythology, 51.
144 Branston, 42
145 Ibid.
146 Zechariah 3:7 (KJV)
147 Revelation 19:12
148 J.G. Klausner, The Messianic Idea in Israel (New York, NY: Macmillan Company, 1956) 515.
149 World Order of Baha’u’llah, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, 17.
150 Branston, 42
151 Revelation 11:15
152 H.R. Ellis Davidson, Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe, 211.
153 Ezekiel 43:2
154 Revelation 17:15
155 H.R. Ellis Davidson, 211
156 Revelation 5:6-10
157 Revelation 19:15
Chapter Nine - The Kabbalah Tree
158 Genesis 3:22-24
159 ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Star of the West, Vol. XIII, Tablet by ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 19; also Baha’i World Faith, 429.
160 Genesis 11:26
161 Amraphel is supposed to be the incarnation of Nimrod by the Holy Spirit, which was the habitation of Semiramis’ womb; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the trinity.
162 She was a Hand, and a member and Liaison Officer of the first International Baha’i Council, but with Shoghi Effendi’s death she was nothing, and the succeeding guardian would take over 10 Carmel Avenue.
163 Other versions of this is that Abraham was thrown into the fiery furnace and escaped and went up to Haran.
164 This is the same kind of bread and wine that Jesus gave his apostles. He said this bread is the body of my teachings and the wine is my Covenant.
165 S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Kabbalah Unveiled, 28.
166 Some Answered Questions, 45, 46.
167 Gherardo Gnoli, ‘Saoshyant’ from The Encyclopedia of Religion, Volume 13 (New York, NY: MacMillan and Company, 1987) 69.
168 Ibid., 70.
169 The Beast of Revelation 13 has the body of a leopard, feet of a bear, mouth of a lion and eagle’s wings. See also Daniel 7:2-6. These four beasts: the leopard, France; the bear, Russia; the lion, England and the eagle, the United States, are nuclear powers and charter members of the United Nations, thus they control the United Nations.
170 Revelation 9:15
171 M. Levering, ‘Amida’, from Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions (Abingdon, 1981) ed. Keith Crim, 25.
172 Lewis R. Lancaster, ‘Amitabha” from The Encyclopedia of Religion (New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing, 1988) 136.
173 Ibid.
174 Joseph M. Kitagawa, ‘The Many Faces of Buddha’ from Maitreya the Future Buddha (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1988) ed. Alan Sponberg, 10.
175 Ibid., 7
176 The Encyclopedia Britannica, Vo. XIII, 11th edition (New York, NY: Encyclopedia Britannica Co., 1911) 447.
177 H. B. Earhart, ‘Pure Land’ and ‘Pure Land Sects’ from Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions (Abdingdon, 1981) ed. Keith Crim, 586.
178 Joseph M. Kitagawa, 11.
179 Lancaster, 139.
180 Ibid.
181 William K. Mahony, ‘Cakravrtin’ from The Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol. 3 (New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing, 1987) 5.
182 Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha’u’llah (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1938) 156.
183 Lancaster, 140
184 Mahony, 6
185 Ibid.
186 This means that he was the last prophet to prophesy the eschatology of the end times and the Advent of the Bab, Baha’u’llah, the Return of Christ, and His establisher, the Return of Jesus the High Priest, or Jesus the Lamb.
187 Qur’an 3:84. This Sura and all Qur’anic references come from the Holy Qur’an, translated by Abdullah Yusaf Ali, published by Tahrike Tarsile Quara, Inc., Elmhurst, New York.
188 Qur’an 46:61
189 Qur’an 4:159
190 Qur’an 36:15
191 Qur’an 36:29-32
192 Qur’an 72:25-27
193 Qur’an 34:7,9
194 Mark 8:38
195 “And the Lord shewed me Joshua/Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord and Satan stood on his right had to be his adversary.” Zechariah 3:1, Douay Catholic Version.
196 “…he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.” Revelation 5:7
197 Hebrews 6:20
198 Hebrews 9:28
199 Zechariah 3:9
200 Ezekiel’s Temple, which is the Montana State Prison where he made his proclamation.
201 Being of the tribe of Dan (Dan meaning the judge), makes Leland Jensen, who is a direct descendant of the Kings of Denmark (Dan’s-mark), whose ancestor was Dan (who was one of the sons of Jacob), the judge in the Day of Judgment.
202 Which is not the Baha’i Universal House of Justice, but an ugly Headless Monster.
203 Kitab-i-Iqan, 151-154.
204 Suriy-i-Vafa, Tablets of Baha’u’llah, 184, 185.
205 Luke 22:28, 29 KJV
206 Matthew 25:41 KJV
207 Revelation 9:14, 15
208 Great Falls Tribune: March 11, 1967; April 24, 1967; January 24, 1969: The Geology and Geochemistry of the Copper Basin Stratabound + Vein Copper-Silver Deposit, Helena Formation, LINCOLN, Lewis and Clark County, Montana by Gregory B. Byer, University of Montana, 1987.
209 This is similar to Moses having twelve tribes of Israel in the desert for forty years. The first International Baha’i Council was in the desert (deserted), that is, it never had a meeting, nor did it ever make a decision, until it became the second International Baha’i Council.
210 To go against Shoghi Effendi is to go against God. (Will and Testament, 11).
211 John 16:12, 13
212 Shoghi Effendi, Messages to the Baha’i World 1950-1957, 7, 8.
214 Messages to the Baha’i World 1950-1957, 8
215 Jeremiah 5:31
216 Ibid. 38, 39.
Chapter Ten - The Great Pyramid
217 Revelation 18:10,17
218 Jude 14
219 This same history of Enoch being the architect of the Great Pyramid to preserve the prophecies of Adam is found in the history of Josephus as well as that of pseudo-Hermes (as quoted by Cedrenus). D.D. Davidson, The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message, 11th edition (1948) 435n.
220 The great step at the upper end of the Grand Gallery is referred to as the Altar Stone. This refers to the Bab’s proclamation on May 23, 1844 and the beginning of the Babi/Baha’i calendar on March 21, 1844.
221 Isaiah 19:19 KJV
222 They have built a wall of oppression around their followers, preventing them at the threat of expulsion and damnation if they even read the explanations showing that the ones they are now following are the Covenant-breakers. This is the main reason they forbid their oppressed followers from investigating the truth of the matter for themselves. They have gone against Shoghi Effendi and the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, doing away the Executive branch, which is an integral part and head of the Universal House of Justice, having them turn to their Headless Monster, which is not a Universal House of Justice at all, but a mockery.
223 Zechariah 3:1-9
224 Isaiah 19:20 KJV
225 A pyramid inch is 1.0011 of an English inch and is found in the boss on the Granite Leaf in the Antechamber.
226 Anno Kalendar. “The initial ‘K’ for ‘C’ is intentional, to avoid using A.C.” (Davidson, 35).
227 Immanuel Velikovsky, Ages in Chaos (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952).
228 John H. Dequer, The Word in Stone.
229 Ibid.
230 Deuteronomy 28:1, 2 KJV
231 Deuteronomy 28:15 KJV
232 Deuteronomy 28:64 KJV
233 I Kings 11:5-8 KJV
234 I Kings 11:9, 10 KJV
235 Romans 11:17-21
236 Isaiah 11:11, 12 KJV
237 Isaiah 11:1 KJV
238 I Samuel 16:11-13
239 Psalm 89:20 KJV
240 Genesis 49:10 KJV
241 Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I am,” meaning that he (Jesus) was in the plan of God before Abraham was born. In the same way, Zoroaster was in the plan of God at the time of Adam.
242 “This Century is the Century of the Sun of Truth. This Century is the Century of the establishment of the Kingdom of God upon the earth.” (Star of the West, Vol. IX, p7, cited in Baha’u’llah and the New Era, “Prophecies of Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha,” 1950 edition) 302.
243 Mark 8:38
244 Daniel 8:13, 14
245 Hebrews 9:24
246 For more on the Baha’i Calendar see The Baha’i World, Vol. XII, 1950-1954, 553, 554.
247 Revelation 19:16
248 Daniel 12:11 KJV
249 Revelation 6:9-11
250 Ibid.
251 Hebrews 9:2, 3
252 Hebrews 9:24, 28 KJV
253 Exodus 20:2-5 KJV
254 Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Baha’u’llah, 8 and 147.
255 Hebrews 6:20 KJV 256 Hebrews 9:2-4 KJV
257 Hebrews 9:2-7 KJV
258 Matthew 21:9,12, 13 KJV
259 Deuteronomy 18:15 KJV
260 Hebrews 6:20 KJV
261 Meaning “city”.
262 Hebrews 7:1 KJV
263 Hebrews 7:3 KJV
264 Baha’u’llah and the New Era, “Prophecies Fulfilled,” 1950 edition, 302, 303.
265 This number is given by John H. Dequer in his book, The Word in Stone, 109.
266 Zechariah 3:1 KJV
267 Ruhiyyih Khanum
268 John 14:6
269 Until the next Manifestation comes in a thousand years.
Chapter Eleven - The Antichrist
270 Hal Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1970, 1977) 92.
271 Ibid., 94
272 Ibid.
273 Ibid., 98
274 Revelation 13:2
275 Revelation 1:1 KJV
276 Revelation 4:1 KJV
277 Revelation 13:2
278 Daniel 7:2-6 KJV
279 Matthew 1:16 KJV
280 Luke 3:31 KJV
281 “seed” was translated from the Greek word “sperma.”
282 Romans 1:3, 4 KJV
283 Luke 1:5 and 36
284 I John 2:18 KJV
285 I John 4:2, 3 KJV
286 I John 2:22 KJV
287 Those who have their headless Universal House of Justice on Golem Street on Mount Carmel.
288 Psalm 89
289 Mark 8:38 KJV
290 Isaiah 9:6 KJV
291 Matthew 22:21 KJV
292 Matthew 10:34 KJV
293 Daniel 12:1 KJV
294 Daniel 12:2, 3, 10 KJV
295 perdition: Eternal damnation; the utter loss of the soul, the place of eternal damnation.
296 II Thessalonians 2:1-4 KJV
297 II Thessalonians 2:5-12 KJV
298 deified: 1. To make a god; 2. To regard or worship as a god.
PART II
Book of Revelation
299 New Keys to the Book of Revelation, XV.
300 Baha’u’llah, Kitab-i-Iqan, 31.
301 Ibid. 161
302 Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 15.
303 Ibid.
304 Ibid.
305 Proclamation of Baha’u’llah, 89.
306 Will and Testament, 15.
307 J. E. Esslemont, Baha’u’llah and the New Era, 1950 ed. 303, 1980 ed. 250.
308 Some Answered Questions, 51, 52
309 Ibid. 12,13.
310 Ibid. 20
311 Footnote from the Bible: “About two hundred miles.” Trodden “outside the city” is outside the city of the New Jerusalem, which is the New Law of God (Covenant). The Covenant-breakers are outside of the New Law of God. Therefore, they will be destroyed in the oncoming nuclear war. One thousand six hundred stadia equal about two hundred miles, or a one-hundred-mile radius from the epicenter of the nuclear explosion to the circumference of the circle. The radiation will cause destruction for one hundred miles in each direction from the epicenter.
312 Baha’u’llah and the New Era, 1980 edition, 250.
313 Will and Testament, 15.
314 World Order of Baha’u’llah, 17.
315 Ibid.
316 Will and Testament, 15
317 Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 166.
318 Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, 119.
319 Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 166.
320 Will and Testament, 15.
321 Ibid.
* When Dr. Leland Jensen explained to his students the book of Revelation, he would have them read these explanations of ‘Abdu’l-Baha on the 11th and 12th chapters.