Platos Alegory
Plato’s AlegoryShort Paper#1 Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Victor Houteff and the Shepherd’s Rod
The Cave Walkers/ Puppet Masters: Born in 1886 in Raikova Bulgaria, Victor Houteff migrated to the United States and joined the Seventh Day Adventist. As an Adventist, Houteff found it difficult to accept the fact that the Church did not have a Prophet. While searching for a prophet he became the assistant superintendent of the Sabbath School of the Olympic Exposition Park Seventh Day Adventist Church in California.
Cave Prisoners: In 1929, without the permission of the church, Houteff reworked the class curriculum to include his interpretations of the Book of Revelation. In 1935 Victor Houteff led a small group of followers into the “midst” of the land, Waco, which he believed to be a gathering point for the faithful. Victor believed that he and his followers would only remain in Waco for a year before migrating to Jerusalem for the Second Coming. When Houteff first arrived at Waco his group did not have an official name, in ‘42 Houteff changed the name to “Davidian Seventh Day Adventist.”
The Object/Puppet: The authority of the prophet, or Fourth Angel, solidifies itself in the Symbolic Code, the Shepherd’s Rod’s magazine which published the secret codes needed to understand the Bible. Houteff used a complex series of numerical and linguistical codes to interpret the Bible. One of the keys used by Houteff and the subsequent angels was the use of “types” and “antitypes.” The Bible could not be read literally, but as a prediction of modern circumstances. In other words, the key to understanding the Bible is to know which modern group is typical or antitypical of which biblical group or term. The Symbolic Code provided the DSDAs’ with the definitive key to knowing whom...
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