1. And the Sorcerers who use their Pharmakeia to deceive the whole world...
Check.
2. And from the Smoke of the Pit emerged as it were locusts ('akri' - destroyers; men who only know how to destroy), arrayed like warhorses for battle, with long hair like women and teeth like lion's teeth and they took such as did not have the mark on their foreheads, and held them for five months and the pain of their stings was like that of the poison of the desert scorpion; that men wished they would die but could not. And they had a demonic king over them, whose name is 'The King of the Realm ('Dunya') of the Abyss (M'abus).
Check.
But still this was not yet the end.
You'd be a brave betting men to go against all of this at this point.
Worse is still to come.
None of this is, nor ever was (it), simply a metaphor or metaphorical speech.
But what you should know now is what was kept sealed up in the book until the time...
And here is what was 'sealed' (kept held back) in the 'book' or at least in the passages in those writings given to those to write down but whose work was kept back from everyone until now:
Tacitus: (Writing in 70 AD) "...There were flying machines over Jerusalem."
Pliny the Elder: "During the time of the Cimbrian Wars (113 - 100 BC), when Gaius Marius was Proconsul, an air battle was fought over Umbria, and those flying machines which came from the Eastern skies prevailed over those that came from the Western skies."
And Heliodorus, and Strabo.Pliny the Really Older...
And many others.
This, so that all conjecture may be removed from your mind.
Turn your mind to the full material and conscious wide-awake understanding that there are spacecraft.
And there are space-people.
They are much different than people (generally) imagine.
The gods rule by attenuation, by splitting up into small and finely-spread pieces.
The wider human race - is a disturbed thing. Ruled by Lies. Tries to rule by lying. Argues with fact and with Truth. Most unwilling to face facts.
It is that which is being conquered.
People ask 'why does god permit suffering to happen?
Because humans are not all that peaceful.
But you, you who understand all these things, you must go up to the mountain.
No harm will come to you.
Step into the Light. It will not harm you.Step into the Light...
There you will find peace. There you will find people that you can at last fully admire and be at one with in all things.
...It's just that some of them have six fingers or six toes!
LOL
But otherwise they are quite 'normal.'
Here, look here. None of this is metaphor. And now you know the time-frames too -, because you are able to gather so from the chronological distance between Item 1. (as first mentioned above), and the end of the time for Item 2.
And therefore between now and when the absolute and methodical destruction involving multiple armies takes place, you can, instead of crying for a physical meeting with an ET Alien who will bring you all sorts of technology goodies for you to mess with like some Cosmic, Galactic eBay deliverer, you can try your best to first become a friendly being with a broad mind and a great heart and a sound critical mind but not with a stupid ignorant 'perma-skeptoid' one whose clear purpose is simply to be an affront to anyone in your path. In order to overpower them? Though not with actual logic and good thinking, but with a stilted and fractured willfulness substituted in place of real thinking.
How can it be that they were so sure all of these things would happen exactly as they have happened to date and will go on happening according to what looks like a script?
Well hang on, any kind of half-way decent detailed-enough scenario planning and computer modelling will show you that type of projection.
Together with a bit of hands-on manipulation...
It's really no big deal.
The big deal is getting you to the stage where they will accept to meet with you f-t-f.
Look at the problem at hand: yes the end of the world is probably at hand although it may seem like a while still to go yet -, but no, there is not so much time left for us all to get with the program! If we are really going to work on it for real.