Agamben 1/7/2025
History will not end and the final judgment will not be pronounced until the number of the righteous killed is completed
The number of those killed
Again and again we need to meditate on the passage from the Apocalypse (6:9-11) in which we read: "And when (the lamb) opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they had borne. And they cried out with a loud voice, saying: 'How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not execute judgment and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' And a white robe was given to each of them, and it was said to them that they would linger a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers, who must be killed as they were, was completed."
. Is this perhaps what is happening around us? And how many more righteous must be killed, as we see them dying every day? Of course, history is a history of wars, deaths and killings. But the meaning of the opening of the fifth seal is not that, in the time we are living in, we must wait inertly for the number of the slain to be completed. Even if the newspapers do nothing but count them every day, we do not know what this number is, just as we do not know when the judgment will take place and if it will ever take place. We live in an intermediate time and, like those who have been slaughtered, we must testify to what we see and what we believe. Our task is nothing else before the number of the slain is completed.
January 7, 2025
"Do not fear those who take your life; fear the One that takes your soul..."
Testify before who, exactly? In my experience (last week), those who took jabs are not open to the prognostication of their injury or death. More specifically, they literally seem not to be able to hear the words I am saying; is this because their brains are already turning to mush? I told an old much jabbed friend that I would not socialize in a roomful of jabbed, though it saddens me. I told her why (because of shedding of the jab ingredients). A few days later, she called me and asked why I was not at the gathering, though I had been quite clear. She COULD NOT hear me.
As for those who see, well, yes, I would love to talk to those people personally, but I find myself secluded in this respect.