About the Author

Hello. I’m John Cassinat. Welcome to my website, which is devoted to: (1) Unveiling Jesus Christ in the lives of individuals today and, (2) Unveiling Jesus Christ at the Second Coming in the near tomorrow. In addition to producing the content in this website with the help of several technical wizards, I have also written and published a verse-by-verse commentary about the Book of Revelation called Unveiling Jesus Christ in the Book of Revelation. This scholarly and heavily footnoted text is the foundation for Unveiling Jesus Christ both today and tomorrow.

My journey to this point began when I was eight years old‒the same year I learned to drive trucks and farm equipment on my grandfather’s ranch in Saratoga, Wyoming. I resolved at that very young age to read an old family Bible cover-to-cover. I began my reading in earnest, but somehow lost my resolve in the regulatory recitations of the Mosaic Law in Leviticus or Numbers. I won’t say that the Law of Moses stunted my spiritual development, but it took more than ten years before my resolve to read and study the scriptures was again restored.

In 1978, I was called on a full-time mission to the Netherlands Amsterdam Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here, my study of the gospel and the scriptures began anew. I read and studied them with renewed fervor. After returning from the Netherlands in 1980, I continued my scriptural studies even more earnestly. I resolved that for every hour I spent studying for my industrial management degree at the University of Wyoming, I would spend another hour studying the scriptures and related commentaries. By 1984, I had my Bachelor of Science degree and a heavily annotated set of scriptures with many margin notes. My philosophy of scripture study was to read between the lines for understanding and then write between the lines to record my impressions.

Two things were missing from my religious self-studies at the University of Wyoming. First, there was insufficient space between the lines and in the margins of my scriptures to record the complete content of my many mini-commentaries. Second, I didn’t have the skills or resources to research the immense world of religious literature. Fortunately, within a few short years these problems found their solution.

When I began law school in 1984, my eyes were opened to a whole new world of research techniques and resources for the study of legal issues. Then, with the advent of personal computers and the internet‒including electronic search capabilities‒it became increasingly possible to research gospel topics in the same way I learned to research legal issues.

I graduated from the University of California at Davis with my Juris Doctorate degree in 1987. Early in 1988, I began my active-duty service in the United States Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate. I achieved the rank of captain and prosecuted more than 100 courts-martial during my three-year tour of duty at Camp Pendleton, California. While on active duty, I also went to night school at the University of San Diego and graduated in 1991 with a Master of Laws degree in taxation. When my active-duty service was complete that same year, I began my 35-year career as a civil trial attorney. For most of those 35 years, I owned my own law firm, called Cassinat Law Corporation, located in Elk Grove, California.

My trial practice was based on a rather simple philosophy. In every lawsuit, I carefully investigated and researched the facts and the law until I was confident that I knew more about both than anyone else in the courtroom. For the last 16 years I have applied that same philosophy while researching and writing Unveiling Jesus Christ in the Book of Revelation. But hold that thought. I’m getting ahead of myself.

After my schooling and military service, my religious studies were frequently focused on specific volumes of scripture as I taught early morning seminary and institute courses for more than ten years. When my studies were not focused on specific course curricula, I researched and wrote about a variety of gospel subjects thinking that one day I would publish “the great American religious textbook.” Candidly, the Book of Revelation was never on my radar. My topical studies and writings began at the beginning with the premortal existence, including the study of intelligences, the spirit creation, the grand council, and the war in heaven. I extensively researched the physical creation, including the study of geology, evolution, plate tectonics and the flood. I then began researching and writing about the fall of Adam, with the intent to research and write about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. That’s where I found myself in 2009.

In the spring of that year, I was released from my seven-year call as a Bishop. In September of the same year, I was called to be the President of the Sacramento California Stake. Shortly after my call, I had a very strong spiritual prompting that I must stop my current research and writing project and focus exclusively on the Book of Revelation. That was 16 years ago. Now, after many thousands of hours and about 17,000 footnotes later, I’ve published Unveiling Jesus Christ in the Book of Revelation.

During the last 16 years I have carefully studied every word of John the Revelator. I have studied the words of Daniel and other prophets, both ancient and modern, as they apply to what John both saw and heard during his vision on the island of Patmos in 96 AD. I have studied the words of John through the eyes of many scholars, theologians and church leaders from a variety of different religions going all the way back to the writings of the Christian Fathers. Finally, I have prayerfully sought the guidance of the Spirit until I can now say with Joseph Smith that the Book of Revelation is indeed “one of the plainest books God ever caused to be written.” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, comp. Joseph Fielding Smith [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1938], p. 290). My hope, of course, is that John’s plainness in the Book of Revelation has found its way into the pages of my doctrinal commentary and that every attentive reader will see that plainness without investing 16 years of intense study in a single book of scripture.

Some readers may not perceive the plainness of which I speak. Others will undoubtedly disagree with some of my conclusions that materially differ from their own preconceived notions about what John said and what he intended. Still others will say that some of my conclusions are speculative. I accept and expect such criticisms, and ask but one thing before you summarily dismiss what I have to say in my book and in the materials on this website. Consider first that Jesus Christ frequently taught doctrines that contradicted the common perceptions and beliefs of His Jewish audience. On one occasion, Christ spoke about the controversial ministry of John the Baptist and Jesus said, “If ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear” (Matt 11:14-15). What can I say more about the discourses you’ll discover when reading Unveiling Jesus Christ in the Book of Revelation.