The peaceful origin of Judaism, when both humans and animals obeyed the vegetarian covenant, and no creature preyed on any other, described in "Genesis" 1: 29-30, should be juxtaposed and seen as parallel to the final times, in which there is no sorrow or crying or death for any creature, "Revelations" 21: 1-4.

 "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.  And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." Gen: 1: 29-30.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.
Revelations 21:1-4.

    In order to understand John of Patmos' narration of the events and prophecies of "Revelations," or "The Apocalypse,"  that is, the final times, it is necessary to see them in context of the Fall away from the vegetarian covenant in Genesis,, and in context of the portrayal of God in the presence of Noah as cursing all creatures to live in fear and dread of humanity after the Deluge.

    Indeed, the final times described in "Revelations" lift the curse which is portrayed as being inflicted on creatures by God in Genesis 3:14:

"The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle and above all wild animals."

    So too we see an elaboration of this curse against other creatures in the ninth chapter of Genesis, in the covenant of carnivorism that was obviously rewritten into the scriptures.

"The fear and the dread of you shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the birds of the sky--everything with which the earth is astir--and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hand. Every creature that lives shall be yours to eat; as with the green grasses, I give you all these." Genesis 9: 2-3.

    In Genesis 1:29-30 we have a very legitimate Lord of the Sabbath who came from the Shaivite Hindus.  Saba, or Sheba, Lord of the Sabbath or Shabbath, is known as Lord of Creatures and Protector of Cattle.  To Him the scriptures of Gen. 1: 26-28 and Gen. 9: 2-3 would have been anathema, forbidden.  The image of God presented by most of the scriptures of the Torah, is, from one point of view, a logical advertisement for the slaughterhouse temples of Jerusalem and Samaria, as well as for the butcher shops and eating places which radiated from these carnivorous hubs.  Animals were sacrificed everywhere, of course, but the center of sacrifice for the Jews was the temple in Jerusalem where the sacrifices were conducted according to the prescriptions of the Pentateuch.
 

   Let us quote Revelations 21:1-4 again:

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.

"the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. There shall no more be anything accursed..." Revelations 22:2-3

       The works of Hal Lindsay warning the world of the Antichrist who will come to control the earth have their own type of legitimate inverted insight, if we examine his evidence clearly.

     Lindsay says that the Antichrist will come to topple the orthodoxies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  What do these three immensely influential world religions have in common?  They believe in the legitimacy of the state, in the institution of slavery, in economic elitism, in the rich ruling the poor, in sexism, in the superiority of men over women, in bigotry towards homosexuals, in the brutality involved in animal sacrifices, and in the disease breeding diet of carnivorism.

       No wonder the "Book of Revelations" warns of the Beast Spirit. Whatever we suppress or repress WILL come back to haunt us, and the vast majority of people in the orthodox Judaeo-Christian-Islamic traditions have been involved with the suppression of the Beasts, with subduing beasts, and with having dominion over them, as sanctioned by the false scriptures of Genesis 1: 26-28, which were inserted quite deliberately before the vegetarian covenant that immediately follows, in an attempt to modify the condemnation of all flesh eating that followed. False scriptures are seen as well in the extremely brutal scriptures of Genesis 9: 2-3, quoted above, sanctioning carnivorism and the instilling of terror and dread among the other creatures of earth, as well as by abundant scriptures in the Quran, which were revised in the Caliphate of Abu Bakr, who denied that the vegetarian Ali was the legitimate heir of Muhammad, whose preferred diet, even Sunni Muslims admit, was also vegetarian.

   All except the most hardened of carnivores committed unthinkingly to orthodoxy admit that these scriptures sanctioning dread and terror in Gen. 9: 2-3 are extreme. (So too in my conversations with people claiming to be orthodox, very seldom have I met one who totally affirmed the institution of slavery.)  Thus, there is a lag, or gap, between orthodox scriptures and orthodox believers.  We see it for example also in the fact that millions of Roman Catholics practice birth control and accept homosexuals as equals, in the fact that the Missouri Synod of the Baptist Church has condemned its own past affiliation with slavery and racism.  In order for the healing to continue among these orthodox people they must simply honestly reexamine the history of their own religions.  A Catch 22 exists in the fact that monotheistic orthodoxies condemn polytheistic religions as unworthy of examination.  Thus, as Jesus said: