Revelation 11:5 · World English Bible
Revelation 11:5 Meaning If Anyone Desires to Harm Them
If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
What does Revelation 11:5 mean?
Visions like this rise from the deep layer of the mind, where images stand in for forces we do not control. The two figures carry an inner truth the self refuses to give up, and the fire from their mouths is the raw energy behind that truth.
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Visions like this rise from the deep layer of the mind, where images stand in for forces we do not control. The two figures carry an inner truth the self refuses to give up, and the fire from their mouths is the raw energy behind that truth.
The enemies are the parts of us that want that truth silenced. But energy this strong cannot just be pushed down; it has to go somewhere. So the person who moves to silence it is destroyed by the very force he was trying to hold down.
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Live Revelation 11:5 today
- Write down one thing you know to be true about your own life that you have been talking yourself out of. Read it back and let it stand.
- When someone tries to talk you out of your own experience today, you do not have to argue. Say calmly that this is how it was for you, and leave it there.
- In a room where it would be easier to go along with the group, say the quiet true thing once, plainly, without heat. Then stop talking.
What truth in you keeps coming back no matter how many times you try to bury it?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Tao Te Ching
Water is the softest thing, and nothing is better at wearing down the hard. What cannot be stopped does not need to shout.
Stoicism · Epictetus
They can chain your leg, but not your will. The part of you that holds the truth is the part no one else can reach.
Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita
Fire does not burn it, water does not drown it, weapons do not cut it. What is real in you cannot be destroyed by pressure from outside.
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