JOHANAN BOOKS

Summaries of the books​

The book reviews the entire Bible. In both the New and Old Testaments, an attempt has been made to find references to the beyond reality and to use them to understand the lost story of Christ and man. Allegorical references have also been identified. In addition to the Bible, the research has focused on Jewish traditional literature, which provides significantly more evidence for the existence of the story.

There are many passages in the New Testament books that can be interpreted as references to the supernatural story of Christ and man. They are especially found in the letters of the apostle Paul, the letter to the Hebrews, the letters of Peter and the book of Revelation. They are also seen in many of Jesus’ teachings, which are collected in the Gospels. This is because Jesus revealed himself as the central figure of that eternal story, the heavenly Messias King, who was given all power in heaven and on earth in the eternal past. Christ and man have belonged together already in the original creation and in all subsequent stages of the original invisible creation. The fact that Christ also came to this visible world to save man is part of the eternal story of Christ and man.

The Old Testament contains both explicit and allegorical references to the eternal past. One starting point for the allegorical interpretation of the books of the Old Testament is that the natural creation and its early history, as presented in the Bible, are a picture of the afterlife, i.e. the invisible creation and its history. This view originates from Jewish mysticism, where the books of Moses are interpreted in precisely this way. Thus, the books of Moses contain various images of the eternal past, both broad overviews and glimpses of its individual events. Explicit confirmation of this interpretation is found, for example, in the book of Job. The same allegorical reading that has been applied to the five books of Moses can also be extended to the books of the prophets of the Old Testament. The books of the prophets relate to the history of Israel after the time of King David, but they tell of similar things on the level of the world of souls. The earthly history of the people of Israel up to this day reflects the events of salvation in the world of souls.

To the study of the beyond reality confirmation was sought also from non-Biblical Jewish traditional literature, such as the Talmud (oral Torah), the Zohar (secret Torah) and the Aggadah literature. The Books of Enoch and the literary production of Philo of Alexandria, which have a looser connection to today’s Judaism, but which definitely also belong to Jewish traditional literature, were also included. All of these sources openly speak of the ancient Messias King of the Jews, through whom both visible and invisible creation was created and who at all times maintains them together with the Most High God. This book mirrors Jewish traditional mysticism in the mysticism of the New Testament and especially that of the apostle Paul. Many of Paul’s teachings turn out to have their roots in Jewish traditional mysticism. Such are, for example: the doctrine of the divine origin of Christ, the doctrine of the triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), the doctrine of the Spirit of God (power, love, wisdom and understanding, etc.), the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins through the sacrifice of Christ, the doctrine of the communion created by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, the doctrine of the inner and outer man, the doctrine of human predestination, etc. In addition, many concepts, such as the body of Christ, the mythical olive tree, the King and His kingdom, the Bridegroom and His bride, the heavenly Jerusalem, etc., originate from Jewish mysticism.

According to Jewish tradition, God told the story of Christ and man to the first people immediately after the Fall of Paradise. At the same time that God promised the coming of Christ into the world to atone for man’s sins, He revealed His entire plan of salvation, which begins in the eternal past and ends in the eternal future. He told the entire story of Christ and man, going through all the ages until the eternal future. Although the story has not yet been fulfilled, its fulfillment is certain, because it is God’s plan. Both the end of this world and the world ages that will follow will be fulfilled precisely according to God’s plan.

Through the story, God gave the answer to all of man’s existential questions. Who is man? Where did he come from in this world? Is there a profound purpose to man’s life? Where is he when his earthly life is over? God has answered these questions precisely by revealing to man the eternal story of Christ and man. The story also brings comfort to man’s cosmic longing and other emotional needs in this area. If only man had held on to this story as his most precious treasure, he would not have to grope in ignorance or sink into hopelessness today when faced with these questions. Unfortunately, this story has long been buried in the darkness of history for various human reasons.

The story of Christ and man surpasses all imagination. It is tragic, but it has a happy ending. It has the makings of the best play. Just like the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, it tells of a prince (Christ, the Son of God) and a royal maiden (man), the intervening power of evil, and ultimately of love that conquers all. It is the greatest love story ever told. It not only reveals man’s problems, but also provides a solution to them. It reveals the purpose of life from God’s perspective. The goal of His plan of salvation is eternal life in union with Christ in the coming age. Through Christ, God will restore creation, which was destroyed by Satan’s rebellion and man’s fall into sin, to its original state.

The story of the starry sky is based on the patterns drawn by God in the starry sky, through which He informs people about His wonderful deeds in the eternal past, present and future. The images are divided into 12 sectors of the starry sky, which together form a clock face. All the times and eras of mankind on the natural and supernatural level have been revealed in it, things of the future in advance and things of the past in retrospect.

The narrative has a coherent and understandable plot. The story begins with Satan’s rebellion in the eternal past and ends with his destruction in the eternal future. In between, there are several eras when God, through Christ, will again and again save people whom He created, but who were deceived by Satan in the eternal past. Times change and world scenes change, but Christ remains faithful to his mission: He wants to save mankind and make it a people for himself. Christ could have destroyed Satan sooner, but in order to give people time to be legally saved from the “law of sin and death” and come under the “law of the spirit of life,” He had to delay the execution of Satan’s judgment.

The story of the starry sky reveals to us God’s great love for man. It tells what all Christ has been ready to do for the people He loves despite the fact that they had fallen and lost their position in God’s relationship. He has been ready to do everything, even to sacrifice his life for people, so that they could be freed from the slavery of sin and Satan and find their way back to God. The story ends happily, but unfortunately not for everyone. Although Christ has done his best to clear the way for people to be saved, not everyone wants to grasp His saving hand. Not everyone wants to acknowledge Him as his/her Lord and Savior, and so is excluded from salvation. Either way, this story is the greatest love story of all time, full of drama, romance and even tragedy.

The aim of this book has been to reconstruct the patterns of the starry sky in their original form and to give them the explanation that God gave them in the beginning. The reconstruction has been necessary because patterns were deliberately distorted in ancient Babylonia. From there, they were transferred to Egypt, Greece and Asian countries, where they were transformed even more according to the gods of each country. However, the original pattern of the starry sky can be restored with the help of the Bible, which contains the necessary grounds for reinterpreting the patterns, e.g. in the book of Revelation, the book of Job, the books of the prophets and the letters of the New Testament. Some old star maps and books outside the Bible have been helpful in making the patterns original.

I hope this book will be of use to many who are searching for deeper meaning in their lives. Always and everywhere people have searched for answers to their existence: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going after this life? And what is the purpose of life? The story of the Starry Sky tells us exactly about these things. It gives us a wider and deeper perspective than this world to look at these questions. Through the book, we understand the spiritual roots of our own existence, which are much deeper than the soil of this world. The story of the starry sky also tells about us, who are the objects of Christ’s saving works. We too have a dimension beyond this world.

The revelation of the starry sky gives us a very different answer to the basic questions of life and existence than the modern natural scientific explanation. It is an explanation that moves on a completely different level, because it covers both the spiritual and the physical side of a person. Only God can speak to a person on such a profound level as the person would like to reach with his questions. The knowledge acquired by man himself can never build such a foundation that would satisfy him with these questions.