Revelation 13:5 · World English Bible
Revelation 13:5 Meaning A Mouth Speaking Great Things and Blasphemy
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
What does Revelation 13:5 mean?
The mouth speaking great things is the ego given language, the coarse self that swells with its own importance and blasphemes the divine seated within a person by claiming everything for the outer man. It is granted a voice and a stretch of time in which that voice runs unchecked.
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The mouth speaking great things is the ego given language, the coarse self that swells with its own importance and blasphemes the divine seated within a person by claiming everything for the outer man. It is granted a voice and a stretch of time in which that voice runs unchecked.
The span it is given is 42 months, which is 1260 days, and that number reduces to 9, the number of consciousness. So the boastful outer self is not loosed forever; it is loosed across a measured turn of consciousness, a state of awareness in which the earthbound ego holds the floor and speaks. What happens in a person is that the loud outer nature governs for its allotted season of consciousness, and no longer.
Mouth: the ego given language, the coarse self that magnifies the outer man 42 months: 1260 days reducing to the number 9, human consciousness
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Live Revelation 13:5 today
- Today, when you catch yourself rehearsing a line that makes you look good, let it go unsaid. See what the conversation does when you leave that space empty.
- In a meeting or a group chat, let someone else have the last word on something you could have won. Agreeing out loud when they are right costs nothing and changes the room.
- When you feel the urge to defend your record after a criticism, pause and ask a question about their point instead. The urge to perform usually passes within a minute if you do not act on it.
Where does your loudest voice do the most talking?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 22
The person who does not boast is the one others actually trust. Claiming greatness is how you spend it.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The loud self that wants to be admired is small and short-lived, and it will be forgotten along with everyone admiring it. Do the work and let it speak for itself.
Judaism · Pirkei Avot
Silence is a fence around wisdom. The one who talks most about their own importance has the least room left to learn anything.
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