Book XVI - Eschatology - Last things to happen on earth

 

Book 16... Rapture – Tribulations – Seals – Trumpets – Bowls – 4 Horseman – The Return IT’S IN THE BOOK

IT’S IN THE BOOK

THINGS YOU ALWAYS WONDERED, BUT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT.

BOOK XVI

Eschatology
Last things to happen on earth

All Scripture is God-breathed
and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness. - 2 Timothy 3:1

Contributors Michael A. Gorman David A. Gorman Paul B. Gorman

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Book XVI

Holy Spirit - Angels – Antichrist - The Rapture – The Return of Christ - Tribulation Mark of the Beast – Mark of God - The little Scroll - Millennium - Armageddon Judgment - Lake of Fire - New Heaven – New Earth - Eternity

Chapter

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9)

10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 22)

FIRST Vision Jesus and the Church - PAST – Prolog – Things Which Thou Has Seen 10 Letters to Churchs in Ephesus, Smyrna - Things Which Are, The Church Age, The Present 18

Topical Index

For now we see things imperfectly, partially and incomplete, But when He returns we will know completely. 1

Eschatology
Last Things to happen on Earth during this present age

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Letters to the Churches in Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea
SECOND Vision Jesus & the World - Throne in Heaven - Commission of the Lamb The Seven Seals - The Scroll and the Lamb
Breaking of the Seven Seals – The Trumpets
Sealing of the 144,000 of Israel – The Un-numbered Multitude in White Robes
The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer – Sounding of the Trumpets
Sounding of the Trumpets - The Bottomless pit – Locust
The Angel and the Little Scroll/Book
The Seventh Trumpet - The Two Witnesses – The Measuring of the Temple
The Signs - The Woman - The Dragon – The Man Child – The Archangel Michael The First Beast out of the SEA – The Second Beast out of the EARTH
Lamb and the 144,000 on Mount Zion - The Three Angels - The Harvest of the Earth The Seven angels with the Seven Plagues – Singing Saints – Judgments
The Seven Bowls/Vials of God’s Wrath poured out

25 32 38 44 51 56 60 65 68 74 81 89 96 99 106

132 138

THIRD Vision Christ and Victory - The Woman, the Great Prostitute & the Beast FallofBabylon-DemonscalledUP,FaithfulcalledOUT,VoicesMourn,HeavenRejoices 113 Rejoicing in Heaven – Hallelujah! – Rider on the White Horse – Victory over the Beast 118 TheMillennialKingdom–FinalConflictandJudgmentoftheDead-Satan’sDoom 124

FOURTH Vision Christ and Eternity - The New Heaven and the new Earth Epilogue:TheRiverofLife–Christ’sCalltoObedience,LaborandLove

1 1 Corinthians 13:12

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Chapter 16.0

A word study on the last things to happen on earth during this present age

Angels – Antichrist – Armageddon – Babylon – Catholic Church – Christ Killers – 5 Crowns Dead Sea Scrolls – Devine Election – The Emergent Church – Eternity – Jehovah’s Witnesses Judgment - Lake of Fire – Mark of the Beast – Millennium - Missionaries – Mormon Church Muslims – The New Age movement – New earth - New heaven – New World Order – Nimrod Nostradamus – Our Nation – Predestination – Prophecies of Jesus Christ – Queen of Heaven The Rapture – Replacement Theology – The Return of Christ – The Roman Numerals – Satan Seventh Day Adventist – Temples – Holy Spirit – The Nation Israel – The Scroll – Terrorism Tribulation - Unification Church – Where is Satan

Warning – Rapture – Tribulation - Return Millennium – War – Judgment – Eternity

The Bible is the inspired, inerrant, unchanging Word of God. There is no other Book. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. There is no other Way.

Fortune Tellers - Soothsayers, Clairvoyants and Prognosticators.
The probability of picking who will win a football game is a 1 in 2 chance of picking the right

one. Picking the actual score, the probability jumps up to 1 in 5000. Predicting just eleven future events in sequence is one chance in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Ten Billion times a Billion; that’s the accuracy of the Prophets.
 Be born in Bethlehem – Micah 5:2. Be preceded by a messenger – Isaiah 40:3

Eschatology

•   Enter Jerusalem on a colt – Zechariah 9:9.

•   His hands and feet pierced – Psalms 22:16.

•   Sold for 30 pieces of silver – Zechariah 11:12.

•   Betrayal money thrown in the temple - given for a potter’s field – Zechariah 11:13

•   Be silent before His accusers – Isaiah 53:7. Crucified with thieves – Isaiah 53:12

I think we are pretty safe in believing the prophecies in the “Revelation” of Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:20-21- No prophecy came by any prophets own interpretation

20 Above all, you must understand that

NO PROPHECY OF SCRIPTURE CAME ABOUT BY THE PROPHET'S OWN INTERPRETATION.

21 For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke

from God as they were carried along BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. NIV

Be betrayed by a friend – Psalms 41:9 Wounded and whipped – Isaiah 53:5 Spit upon and beaten – Isaiah 50:6

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Interpretation

The smart people say there are four ways to interpret the Bible

1. 1)  Literally...What is says, is what it is... and is the first and most desired interpretation.

2. 2)  Figurative Language... What did the “saying” mean during their time in history?

3. 3)  Symbolically... What could the symbolism mean based on other verses in the Bible and can the

   rest of the paragraph or thought be interpreted symbolically and still make sense.

4. 4)  Parenthetical... A story that reflects on the time period and people hearing the story that has

   another meaning or teaching based on other supporting scriptures in the Bible.

   “When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; Therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise”. (Hal Lindsey)

Approach – The Belief System
There are a number of Belief Systems or approaches to interpreting the Revelation. Here are a few.

•   Belief that the Revelation is just Historical, or Futuristic.

•   Belief in a Rapture; Pre, Mid and Post Tribulation, or no Rapture.

•   Belief that Christ’s return is at the beginning, the middle or the end of the Tribulation

•   Belief that Christ’s reign is at the beginning of the Millennium or at the End

  I am entering the arena with a BS of a Historical, Present & Futuristic mind set;

•   Believing in the taking away of the church before the tribulation begin...

•   Believing Christ’s return will be before the Millennial Reign begins...

  It is my intent to provide scriptures and background information that supports this Belief System. God wants us to know and understand what’s in this Book.

  Revelation 1:3 - BLESSED is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to

  heart what is written in it, because the time is near. NIV

  Revelation 22:7 - "Behold, I am coming soon! BLESSED is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this Book." NIV

  Rabbit Trails

  Rabbit Trails have been included in this study so the student can see that the Revelation is not just a “someday in the future” story, but a dynamic story that’s unfolding all around us NOW, TODAY as we speak. In the last days there will be a falling away from the church, false teachers will creep into the church with false teachings that delude the Bible scriptures.2 Some will deny the supernatural of the scriptures. Others will point to another person other than Jesus Christ or teach “Christ plus” another person who has special enlightenment... Or point to a different god... Or you too can become a god.

  Some will point to another Book other than the Bible or teach the “Bible plus” another book. Many will teach “cross pollination” of religious TRADITIONS OF WORSHIP, and a “deconstruction” of Christian doctrines. I have included historical information, statistics, doctrines, and fun folklore that will pull the student back full circle to the relevance of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

  Credits

 The Stage is the World where life is played out before all creation to watch.

•   In the Old Testament, God is center stage with Jesus and the Holy Spirit in the wings

•   In the New Testament, Jesus is center stage with God and the Holy Spirit in the wings.

•   Today, in Modern Times, The Holy Spirit is center stage with God and Jesus in the wings.

•   Past, Present and Future, the Trinity is always present.

  2 2 Timothy 3:1-7- in the last days Men will creep in having a form of godliness, but denying the power
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•   The Play Title: REVELATION - Apocalypse – (Greek) a revealing or unveiling (of Christ). This is the last recorded writing from the mouth of God to the pen of man.

•   Author - God

•   Written down by – John, known as “The Beloved Disciple” - He was one of the 12 Apostles...

  Jesus committed his mother into John’s care as he stood at the foot of the cross... He was the Pastor of the Church in Ephesus where he brought Mary, mother of Jesus, for her care... He was the son of Zebedee... The brother of James... James and John were called “Sons of Thunder” His mother was Salome who was believed to be the sister of Mary, the mother of Jesus... This would make John a cousin of Jesus... John was a fisherman by trade, he was a relative of the High Priest who was a supplier of fish... His fishing partners were Peter and James... He is the writer of Revelation as well as the Fourth Gospel and three epistles. He penned more of the New Testament than any other Apostle. (This is not John the Baptist)

•   Directed By – God through Jesus Christ by an Angel to John to help steady the Church during the awful days ahead.

•   On Location – John was in a Roman penal camp where he had been sent by Emperor Domitian to silence him, being afraid that killing him would make him a martyr to the Christian Jews. The prison was on Patmos, a barren, windswept, rocky island about 10 miles long and six miles wide, located about 35 miles southwest of the coast of Asia Minor in the Aegean Sea.

•   Time Line: The vision took place on “The Lord’s Day” (not the Sabbath) A.D.95 during the Persecution by the Roman Emperor Domitian. John worked at hard labor in the prison mines and quarries until A.D.96. When Domitian was assassinated, John was released from prison and returned to his home and lived to an old age and his body was buried in Ephesus.

•   Past Setting - 1st Imperial Persecution: Roman Emperor Nero Cesar, (A.D.64-67) had persecuted both Jews and Christians 30 years before the Revelation was penned by John. The Christians were crucified, thrown to wild beast or wrapped in combustible garments and burned as human torches at Nero’s parties.

•   Present Setting – 2nd Imperial Persecution: Roman Emperor Domitian (A.D.81-96) was even more fierce and fiery; over 40,000 Christians were tortured and slain. He promoted Emperor Worship. Everyone was forced to address him as “Lord and God Domitian”. He was the one that exiled John to the Isle of Patmos because of his testimony of Jesus.

•   Future Setting – 3rd Imperial Persecution: Roman Emperor Trajan (A.D. 98) - Persecution of the Christians was just around the corner. John had lived through the first two and now about to enter the third. The Church was starting to show signs of corruption and apostasy Language: Symbols and numbers speak of a certain reality; as an example, our flag’s configuration speaks of the existence of our particular nation. The spiritual symbolism would be clear to Christians, but would make no sense to the Roman persecutors. Persecution was so great that the Christians met often quietly and in secret. If you are into symbols and numbers, there are over 300 symbols. Throne is used 44 times, King, Kingdom or rule about 37 times, Power and Authority is used some 40 times.

•   The Omega Code: The Levitical system of the Old Testament was built on cycles of seven... The number seven was a number of fullness, totality, completeness such as; 7 Churches, 7 seals, and 7 vials, 7 candlesticks, 7 trumpets, and 7 signs, 7 last plagues, 7 dooms, and 7 new things.

•   The Players: Angels, Spirits, a Lamb with 7 horns and 7 eyes, a Red Dragon with 7 heads and 7 crowns, A Leopard like beast with 7 heads, a Scarlet covered beast with 7 heads, 7 mountains, and 7 kings.

•   The Villain: Satan or the Devil... Also known as the Tempter, Prince of Demons, Prince of the Power of the Air, The Great Dragon, The Old Serpent, The Evil One, The Father of Lies, The Thief, a Murderer and our Adversary... He can produce false miracles, and is the source of demonical possession... He has angels and a kingdom... He is thrown out of heaven.

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•   The Hero: JESUS CHRIST who is mentioned as the Lamb 26 times in The Revelation... Also known as “The Messiah” - The Anointed One - Son of Man - First Born of the Dead, - Prince of the Kings of the Earth and Jehovah. God has determined from the beginning that His Son would be the ruler of the Universe. In John’s Vision, Christ receives the Title Deed to all creation; He returns and judges the world and then reigns in Power and Glory.

•   Plot: The Revelation focuses on the coming reign of Jesus Christ on this earth which Satan wants to control. It deals with events surrounding His return & the readiness or un-readiness of the Church to receive Him, a description of tremendous events that will take place in heaven & on earth & describes Christ’s complete and eternal victory over Satan & Satan’s punishment:

•   The Story Episodes begins with; Warnings to the Church’s... then the Rapture of the Church... The Tribulation period... The Second coming of Christ... His Millennium Reign...The Battle of Armageddon... The Great White Throne Judgment... New Heaven... New Earth... then Eternity.

  TimeLine- Reader’sDigestCliffNotesVersion FIRST EARTH AGE - This is eternity past

•   In the beginning God creates the Heavens and the Earth. He sees that it is good - Genesis 1:1

•   Man and animals are created and given free will... They are good

•   The angels are created with free will, including Satan... They are good

•   There is NOT a Law: If you sin, you will die.

•   Satan is given dominion over all of the Earth... But he wants to be worshiped as God

•   Time did not exist... but probably millions of years as we know it would pass by.

•   Satan rebels... so does 50,000,000 angels and they leave their assigned post to follow Satan

•   Man’s heart becomes filled with evil and violence and man wants to do his own thing.

•   All of Heaven is WITNESS and sees what’s happening and waits to see if Satan will succeed.

•   God gives eons of time for Satan and man to come around, but they don’t.

•   Darkness covers the earth as God’s judgment floods the earth wiping out everything.

•   The earth becomes without form and void – Genesis 1:2

•   Heaven is WITNESS and watches to see what Satan is going to do about it.

  SECOND EARTH AGE – This is the present age... but before Jesus Christ is born.

•   The earth is still void and the spirits of the dead are still alive, but they have no bodies.

•   They become Satan’s demonic followers.

•   Time as we know it Begins... Satan has been unable to give life or create anything.

•   God starts over...All of Heaven is WITNESS and is watching to see what Satan will do next.

•   The plan of salvation of man is put into effect. “The law of sin and death”.

•   A mystery is also put into effect. A new ruler of the earth will come and defeat Satan.

•   Everything is recreated or “brought forth” starting in Genesis 1:3... Man has free will.

•   God put Adam and Eve in the Garden... Everything is put under Adam’s authority.

•   Satan is determined he will not report to a man made lower than him, one made out of dirt.

•   God tells Adam “don’t eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil”, or you will die.

•   Satan tricks Adam into eating the fruit... God knew he would... Adam is now a sinner.

•   Adam now has Kids... Satan thinks Able will be the new ruler and gets Cain to kill Able.

•   Now everybody is a sinner... Satan is home free... He is now king and worthy of praise.

•   About 2,000 years passes... Man is hopelessly evil... Heaven is WITNESS; what’s next?

•   God gets Noah and his family to build an ark... fills it with pairs of God’s creation.

•   God Floods the earth for over a year... Only 8 people are saved... This is God’s remnant.

•   Noah’s family and the animals and creatures start over again populating the earth.

•   About 1,000 more years pass... Satan hears the Prophets talk about a hidden MYSTERY.

•   A Messiah is prophesied to come from the Jewish nation to rule the earth.

•   Satan gets Pharaoh to kill all the male children, but Moses is saved... Moses must be the one.

•   Satan gets Moses to kill an Egyptian... Now Moses is a sinner... Satan thinks he is home free.

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THE CHURCH AGE BEGINS – Jesus the Messiah prophesied.

•   Another 1,000 years pass... Satan hears more talk about a “MYSTERY that’s been hidden”.

•   A Messiah is coming, a new ruler of earth; all creation is WITNESSING what will happen.

•   Satan gets the king to kill all the babies two years old and under; But, Jesus is saved.

•   Jesus is found at age 12 in the temple, but does not start His ministry till He is about 30.

•   Satan tries to tempt Jesus into sinning... but is unsuccessful... Satan needs another plan.

•   The Jews are excited... They are looking for a REIGNING Messiah to set up a kingdom.

•   Jews are disappointed... Jesus comes as a SUFFERING Messiah with a message of salvation.

•   Jews don’t understand and reject Jesus as the Messiah... Satan is ecstatic.

•   Satan enters Judas and tricks him into forcing Jesus to take action as a REIGNING Messiah.

•   It didn’t work... This was not God’s Plan... Judas sees he made a mistake and kills himself.

•   The prophets say everyone that hangs on a tree is a sinner.

•   Jesus is crucified on a tree... Sinless Jesus takes all of man’s sins... Satan is dumbfounded.

•   All Heaven, Hell, demons and angels both good and evil are WITNESS to what happened.

  THE CHURCH AGE CONTINUES – More prophecy revealed

•   Jesus goes to a compartment of hell know as paradise or Abrahams Bosom.

•   Jesus preaches to the good guys and takes them to heaven along with the keys of death & hell.

•   Jesus after His resurrection, spends time with His disciples and about 500 others.

•   Jesus is translated to Heaven and sits at the right hand of God

•   The prophets foretell that the Messiah is coming back... This time to be a reigning Messiah.

•   Satan is upset... He knows his time is short. All Creation is WATCHING & giving WITNESS.

•   Time is given to Satan and all in the earth to hear Christ’s message of salvation and repent.

•   John is thrown into the prison on the island of Patmos - Satan starts killing the Disciples

•   God gives a vision to John... He cryptically writes it all down and sneaks it out to the believers.

  LAST OF THE CHURCH AGE – John is given a Vision; the Rapture - the Tribulation – the Future

•   Warnings are given to the Churches of all ages; the body of Christ, about the end times.

•   2000 more years pass; time enough for Satan and all living to respond to Christ’s message.

•   All Creation is WATCHING as a WITNESS of God’s patience and Satan’s total rebellion

•   Satan enters into a man and he becomes his false prophet – The Anti-spirit.

•   Satan enters into another man and he becomes the Antichrist

•   Satan sees himself as God; he now has an UNHOLY TRINITY fooling many, he is like God.

•   The Antichrist is shot in the head and appears dead... is resurrected... similar to Christ

•   Many think he is the Messiah and follow and worship him. Satan is ecstatic.

•   Jesus comes back and raptures the believing church... It happens faster than you can blink.

•   Great confusion exists... Satan, the fallen angels, demons and the wicked are all that’s left.

•   This is the first part of CHRIST’S SECOND COMING... Some get saved because of this event.

•   God seals and marks 144,000 Jews to preach the gospel of salvation one more time

•   All creation sees God’s love for His creation and they are WITNESS to his patience.

•   SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION BEGINS ... Antichrist makes a peace treaty with Israel.

•   Wars, famine, pestilence, boils, sickness, hail, earthquakes, natural disasters are prevalent.

•   Antichrist seals his followers with the MARK OF THE BEAST on their forehead like God did.

•   The Mark of the Beast shows his ownership... The Mark of God shows His ownership

•   They can now buy food and sell stuff... They worship the Antichrist as the Messiah.

•   THEY ARE DOOMED FOREVER – UNPARDONABLE SIN - THEY CANNOT CHANGE THEIR MIND.

•   Some do not take the mark and many are killed. Heaven is WITNESS... The angels ponder it.

•   Antichrist breaks the Peace agreement with Israel 3 1⁄2 years into the agreement

•   Antichrist stops the sacrifices in the Temple

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•   Antichrist sets up an image of Satan in the temple to be worshipped. It can talk; it is worshiped

•   There is war in heaven. Michael, God’s Archangel, defeats Satan and his angels.

•   Satan and one third of the angels are thrown out of heaven.

•   God sends TWO WITNESSES to preach one more time... They do miracles & many are saved

•   The two witnesses might be Elijah and Enoch, both were previously raptured or translated.

•   They preach the Gospel for the last 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulation

•   They are supernaturally protected during their mission

•   They perform great miracles; call down fire from Heaven, and cause droughts

•   When their mission is complete, God allows the Antichrist to kill them

•   They lie in the streets of Jerusalem for 3 1⁄2 days... It’s televised by satellite

•   People are happy and give each other gifts... It might be at Christmas time.

•   The Heavens thunder - The TWO WITNESSES are resurrected and raptured or translated

•   A great earthquake hits... A tenth of Jerusalem is destroyed

•   Seven Thousand men are killed... Survivors recognize the power of God

•   God has everybody’s attention and see His invitation to salvation. All creation is WITNESS.

  THE THIRD EARTH AGE PREAMBLE – War of Gog and Magog; the millennium reign

•   Russia and its allies attack Israel and are defeated by nature... They wind up killing each other.

•   During the entire tribulation period, one half of the world’s population is killed.

•   Birds are summoned to eat the dead. It takes seven months to bury the dead remains.

•   Antichrist and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire.

•   Satan is bound in chains for 1,000 years so he cannot deceive the nations.

•   CHRIST RETURNS AND REIGNS... there is peace and an abundance of everything for 1,000 years.

•   Those born during the 1,000 years have borne WITNESSED to the love and peace of God.

•   Many embraced God because it was politically correct, but they have no relationship.

•   This proves man’s heart is inherently evil and is doomed without the Holy Spirit’s drawing.

•   Satan is released after the 1,000 years for a short time and starts all his deception again.

•   There are a bunch of people without a relationship with God just ripe for the picking by Satan.

•   All Creation is WITNESS that God has let man’s spirit FREELY CHOOSE whom he will serve

•   There is another war – THE WAR OF ARMAGEDDON – 200 million fight against the Antichrist

•   All are defeated... There are no survivors

•   The unsaved are judged and along with Satan are thrown into the lake of fire forever.

•   All creation is WITNESS to the awesomeness of God and tells the story of Satan’s rebellion.

•   There is now no doubt, only the pure and faithful are in the presence of Jehovah God.

  THE THIRD EARTH AGE – Begins

•   There’s a “whole lot of shakin’ is goin’ on”. God does Urban Renewal

•   A New Heaven and Earth are created

•   The New Jerusalem comes down from Heaven already constructed.

•   The HOLY TEMPLE looks like crystal, but with colors like a rainbow.

•   Living water flows out of the throne room both east and west. There is no more sea.

•   The walls are transparent with its twelve gates, each made out of a single pearl.

•   The redeemed of the earth live here. We the redeemed rule and reign with Him forever.

•   The remaining Nations of the earth make annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem to worship.

•   There is no sin – no tears, no trouble. Just peace and abundance of everything.

•   The fruit of the Spirit for the healing of the nations is in everyone.

•   Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

•   The story of Satan and fallen man is told over and over again... It will never happen again

•   Time no longer exist ... Just eternity.

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The Revelation of John seems to address ONLY the Jewish nation of Israel, His chosen seed,3 but, as we move through the scriptures, we find that the prophet Isaiah reported that there would also be a COVENANT for the Gentiles also,4 that Christ “has sheep in another pasture”.5 What good news!

The Apostle Paul said THE MYSTERY OF THE GENTILES was made known to him by the Holy Spirit.6 ... As sons of the light, we are not ignorant of the coming of Christ, He has told us to be watchful, however it is different for those in DARKNESS, (Unbelievers; Make believers) the message is veiled to them.7

Christ’s FIRST coming on earth; knowing of His death on the cross, came to be a “SUFFERING MESSIAH”.8 The Jews were looking for a “REIGNING MESSIAH”, giving them supernatural signs. HE DID NEITHER, that’s why the Jews had a hard time accepting Him as their Messiah.

Signs and wonders are to follow the believer; the believer is not to follow the signs and wonders.

There is no supporting scripture that says Christ came to be a REIGNING MESSIAH, however, that does occur at the beginning of His SECOND coming during the millennium.

The Revelation to John

The Apocalypse

The unveiling of Jesus
Now to the SLOW VERSION of the unpacking of the Revelation.

3 Romans 11:24 - For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree
4 Isaiah 42:6-7 - I will keep you and make you to be a COVENANT for the people and a light for the Gentiles -- Ephesians 1:11 - In him we were also chosen, having been PREDESTINED according to the plan of him who works out everything
5 John 10:16 - Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. -- Romans 11:17 – You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree
6 Ephesians 3:3-6 - The mystery of the Gentiles was made known to me by revelation revealed by the Spirit of God's This mystery is that through the gospel is the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus
7 1 Thessalonians 5:1-7 - For you yourselves know perfectly that THE DAY OF THE LORD so comes as a thief in the night. But you, brethren, are not in darkness You are all sons of light and sons of the day
8 Luke 24:46-47 - This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day -- John 3:14-15 - The Son of Man must be lifted up on the cross -- Mark 14:8-9 - She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial

NOTE: Some chapters in Revelation are reflective and informative

thus they are NOT all presented in chronological order.

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Chapter 16.1

Salutation to the Seven Churches – Prolog – The Past – Things which thou has seen Chapter 1 – The Things Which Thou Has Seen – Vision of Jesus – Past

The Angel – The Blessing

FIRST VISION JESUS and THE CHURCH

Revelation 1:1-3 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending His ANGEL to his servant John,
2 who testifies (signifies) to everything he saw-that is,

THE WORD OF GOD AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
3 BLESSED is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and BLESSED are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

God sends an Angel to John... The Bible doesn’t say who the angel is although some students of the word believe it was Jesus Christ Himself, but I don’t think so. Some think it was an Old Testament prophet, but based on other scriptures my Belief System supports that the angel (messenger) was probably Gabriel (God is my strength).

Right off the bat, John tells us that The Book of Revelation is the REVEALING OF JESUS CHRIST and those who read it ALOUD will be BLESSED. The idea here is that those who “study, obey and practice” this writing will be blessed.

Time is near means; that when the judgment starts if will come swiftly, there will be no delays.

The KJV Bible, instead of using the word “testifies” says “signifies”, which means that the book uses signs and symbols to convey spiritual things. This writing of Revelations would be clear to the Christian, but veiled to the Romans persecutors. Now a quick word about Angels:

•   Common angels - Praise – Guide – Encourage – Interpret - Bring Judgment. 9

•   Angels of the Lord are Special Messengers that carry out the Devine purpose of God.10

•   Archangels war on behalf of Gods people (A Chief Prince ) 11

•   Seraphim’s – (Burning ones) Unearthly beings – have 6 wings 12– Attend the throne of God –

  Ministers of Gods Holy purpose.

  9 Job 1:6 - One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD -- Matthew 26:53 – There are more than twelve legions of angels -- Psalm 148:2 - Praise Him, all his angels, praise him, all his heavenly host -- Genesis 28:12 – In his dream he saw a stairway and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it -- Psalm 78:49 - He unleashed against them a band of destroying angels
  10 Luke 1:19 - Then the ANGEL said, “I am Gabriel! I stand in the very presence of God -- Luke 1:26- In the sixth month, God sent the angel GABRIEL to Nazareth, a town in Galilee - Daniel 8:15-16 - While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man "Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision -- Daniel 9:21 - GABRIEL came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice -- Genesis 19:15 - The angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters – Numbers 22:31 - The LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way

  11 Jude 9 - The archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses said, "The Lord rebuke you!" -- Revelation 12:7 - MICHAEL and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back -- Daniel 10:13 - The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; -- Daniel 12:1 - And at that time shall MICHAEL stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of thy people.

  12 Isaiah 6:2,6 - Above it stood the SERAPHIM’S: each one had six wings
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•   Cherubim’s (Fullness of Knowledge) are Guardian Angels – have 4 wings,13 sometimes depicted with only two - They have specific assignments. They are NOT small children or babies, they are full grown beings. Some are assigned to each side of the throne of God.14

•   Fallen Angels – One third of the Angels (stars) created or about 50,000,000 fell from heaven.15 - The number that remained was 10,000 times 10,000 or 100,000,000.16 Running with that concept, this would mean that there were 150,000,000 angels in Heaven. In my Belief System, I think 10,000 times 10,000 of angels probably means that the angels were innumerable.

  See the Angels Rabbit Trail at the end of this chapter Greetings & Doxology to the Seven Churches

  SEVEN is the number for completeness which I will not cover here. Three is the Trinity, Four is God’s handiwork and added together is Seven... completeness. (Read the book “Theomatics”)

  We know that there were more than seven churches in Asia and the use of seven here addresses the SEVEN CONDITIONS that could exist in any Church, then and now; this will be covered later.

  There were SEVEN CHURCHES around Ephesus in the Roman providence, namely Asia Minor. 17 1) Ephesus... 2) Smyrna... 3) Pergamum...

  4) Thyatira...5) Sardis... 6) Philadelphia... 7) Laodicea
  The SEVEN SPIRITS are the seven characteristics of the Holy Spirit. All together they represent

  the complete Spirit of the Lord. 18
  1) Wisdom... 2) Understanding... 3) Counsel... 4) Power...

  5) Knowledge... 6) Righteousness... 7) Faithfulness.

  Resurrection

  If we do not believe that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, then our Faith is baseless, hopeless and useless.19 NOTE: The empty tomb in Jerusalem is the only tourist attraction on Earth where people line up to see nothing.20 See the Return of Christ Rabbit Trail at the end of this chapter.

  13 Ezekiel 10:20-21 - These were the living creatures I had seen and I realized that they were CHERUBIM. Each had four wings -- 2 Chronicals 3:11 - The total wingspan of a CHERUBIM was Ten cubits
  14 Psalm 80:1 Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel you who sit enthroned between the CHERUBIM -- Psalm 99:1 - The LORD reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the CHERUBIM -- Genesis 3:24 - He placed a CHERUBIM and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life -- 2 Chronicals 5:8 - The CHERUBIM spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles -- Luke 10:18 - I saw the Angel Satan fall like lightning from heaven -- Ezekiel 28:12-15 - You were anointed as a GUARDIAN CHERUB... You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you --
  15 Revelation 12:4 – Satan’s tail drew a third of the stars (Angels) of heaven and threw them to the earth -- Revelation 12:9 - The great dragon was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him -- Jude 6 - The angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home-these he has kept in darkness, BOUND with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day -- 2 Peter 2:4 - For if God did not spare angels when they sinned but sent them to HELL, to be held for judgment
  16 Revelation 5:11 - I looked and heard the voice of many angels, Ten thousand times ten thousand encircled the throne
  17 Revelation 1:11 – The Churches; Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea
  18 Isaiah 11:2-5 – Seven Spirits of the Holy Spirit; wisdom understanding, counsel, power, knowledge, righteousness, faithfulness
  19 1 Corenthians 15:13-14 - If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith
  20 Revelation 20:6 - BLESSED and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years

Revelation 1:4 – John, To the SEVEN CHURCHES in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the SEVEN SPIRITS before his throne. (NIV2011)

Revelation 1:5 – And from JESUS CHRIST, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,

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Clouds can be taken literally here, but may also include clouds of witnesses or saints that accompany Him.21 This passage is not talking about the rapture as we refer to it, since those that pierced him (the un-believers) are dead and cannot SEE him till His return at the MILLENNIAL REIGN and His establishment of His kingdom.22 This is referring to the “second part” of His second coming and is reported out of sequence.

Do not be surprised at this, I have already told you that the Book of Revelation is not necessarily in sequential order and much is given for overall supplemental information on what John sees happening.

First & Last
Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet, meaning Christ is the

beginning, everything in the middle and the end... He is our past, present and future. The Lord’s Day

Interestingly, John was on the ISLAND of Patmos completely surrounded by the sea, but his location did not rob him of his spiritual blessing, as he mentions the sea 25 times in this writing.

There is considerable debate on IF “THE LORD’S DAY” was actually the SABBATH day as seen in John’s vision or was he seeing “The Lord’s Day of Judgment”.

I find no definite supporting scripture either way. But my Belief System embraces the latter since that’s what the revelation is about, the Day of Judgment.

Under the Old Covenant the Sabbath is Saturday... Under the New Covenant the Lord’s Day is Sunday.

The Letters to the Seven Churches

21 Hebrews 12:1 - WE ARE SURROUNDED BY SUCH A GREAT CLOUD OF BELIEVING WITNESSES -- Acts 1:9 - After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a CLOUD hid him from their sight -- Matthew 26:64 - You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the CLOUDS of heaven -- Luke 21:27-28 - They will see the Son of Man coming in a CLOUD with power and great GLORY stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near

22 Matthew 24:30-31 - They will SEE the Son of Man coming on the CLOUDS of the sky -- And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will GATHER HIS ELECT from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other

Revelation 1:6-7 – And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father-to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
7 Look, he is coming with the CLOUDS, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. NIV

Revelation 1:8 - "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." NIV

Revelation 1:9-10 - I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

10 On THE LORD'S DAY I was in the Spirit,

and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, NIV

Revelation 1:11 - Which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the SEVEN CHURCHES: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea." NIV

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These seven Churches are in or around Ephesus in the Roman providence, namely Asia Minor and were selected out of many for TWO reasons;

1. 1)  Because of the typical congregational problems that apply throughout the ages and

2. 2)  It also identifies “in order” the period of time of the church ages.

NOTE: We seem to be presently in the seventh or last period of the church age, the Laodicean Church. Five out of the seven churches were told to repent. Consequently we are led to see that five out of seven believers today probably need to repent.

Seven Lamp Stands

Gold is the most precious of metals and is signifies divine righteousness. While it is easy enough to accept that an Angel was in charge of each of the seven churches, in my BS it seems more straight forward that the literal letters were sent to seven literal PASTORS (Leaders) of the seven literal churches.

Son of Man

The “description” of ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN is of God, in holiness and judgment. 23
NOTE: The title “Son of Man” that is attributed to Jesus is given to Him by God and speaks of His divinity as a man. Remembering that the Son and the Father are one; if you have seen the Father, you

have seen the Son.24 John sees Jesus Christ, no longer in the flesh, but as the Glorified Son.  Fine brass or bronze is symbolic of judgment. 25

Double Edge Sword

The Double edge sword cuts both ways26...
The Sword, which is THE WORD OF GOD, has the same message for today:27

•   It’s Life to the Believer and

•   It’s Death to the un-believer. 28

  23 Daniel 7:13 - One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to THE ANCIENT OF DAYS And was presented before Him
  24 Matthew 16:13-16, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God 25 Daniel 7:9 - His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with fire,
  26 Hebrews 4:12-13 - For THE WORD OF GOD is living and active. Sharper than any DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
  27 Jeremiah 21:8 - Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
  28 1 Corenthians 1:18 - The Gospel is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God

Revelation 1:12 - I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw SEVEN GOLDEN LAMP STANDS,

NIV
Revelation 1:19-20 - The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the ANGELS (Pastors) of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are THE SEVEN CHURCHES. NIV

Revelation 1:13-15 - And among the lamp stands was someone
"LIKE A SON OF MAN," dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
14 His HEAD and HAIR were white like wool, as white as snow, and his EYES were like blazing fire.
15 His FEET were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his VOICE was like the sound of rushing waters. NIV

Revelation 1:16 - In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance. NIV

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John once laid his head on the bosom of Christ, now he falls at His feet in honor and praise. Being “slain in the Spirit” is a term used by the Pentecostal Denominations and with good reason, for someone who because of the PRESENCE, the POWER and the GLORY of God... is overcome and their knees buckle and they fall to the ground (God’s presence is also known as the SHEKINAH GLORY.) 29

Keys to Death & Hell

Satan had the Keys of death and Hell, but Christ descended into Hell and preached the Gospel for three days30 then He took the keys of death and hell away from Satan31 and took the righteous captives that were in the “friendship of God” to heaven; those that Satan had held in captivity.

Christ is the “Keeper of the Keys” and is symbolic of His absolute undisputed authority. Before the Crucifixion, Hell was divided into two compartments; Paradise32 and Torment33 with a great gulf fixed between them... Good guys on one side and bad guys on the other ... The good

guys were held captive in the compartment of hell known as Paradise or Abraham’s bosom.
After Jesus descended into Hell, He did a little preaching to those in the Friendship of God since the Garden of Eden. And then He took these captives who were in in Paradise to Heaven with Him and that’s where the new Paradise is now. We that love the Lord NOW do not go to the lower parts of

the earth when we die,34 but go immediately to Heaven to be with Jesus.35
With the removal of Paradise and the Saints, Hell was enlarged and is already receiving the wicked

multitudes as they die. In my BS, I see Hell as a sphere in the center of the earth, therefore it has no bottom. No scripture, just saying. See the Satan Rabbit Trail at the end of this Chapter.

Hades: (Greek), Sheol (Hebrew for Hades), Hell (Hebrew), and Gehenna (Greek) all SYMBOLIZE the same thing...

Gehenna was a valley outside Jerusalem where garbage and dead bodies were thrown with gnawing worms eating the rotting putrid flesh. It burned and smoked day and night. It is symbolic of Hades. In the Old Testament, Hell was referred to as “the grave” or “going down to the pit.”

Hell: The lower parts of the earth holding the wicked dead till the end of the millennium when it and its contents will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and tormented forever. 36

29 Genesis 17:3-4 - ABRAM FELL FACEDOWN, and God said to him, "As for me, THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH YOU: You will be the father of many nations. -- Judges 13:20 - As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, Manoah and his wife FELL WITH THEIR FACES TO THE GROUND. -- Ezekiel 3:23 - The GLORY OF THE LORD was standing there, like the GLORY I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown -- Matthew 28:4 - The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and BECAME LIKE DEAD MEN -- John 18:6 – When Jesus said, "I am he," The Romans soldiers drew back and FELL TO THE GROUND

30 Ephesians 4:8-9 - Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Now that he ascended, what is it, but that he also DESCENDED FIRST INTO THE LOWER PARTS of the earth? -- Matthew 12:39-40 - For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so THE SON OF MAN WILL BE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH

31 Hebrews 2:14-15 – By Jesus’ death He might destroy him who holds the power of death-that is, the devil... to free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death
32 Luke 16:22 - And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into ABRAHAM'S BOSOM: the rich man also died, and buried
33 Luke 16:23 - In Hades, where HE WAS IN TORMENT, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.

34 John 11:26 - Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?
35 2 Corenthians 5:8 - To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord
36 Luke 16:23-31 - In hell, where the rich man was in TORMENT, he saw Abraham in PARADISE with a great chasm fixed between the two of them so that those who want to go from here to you cannot,

Revelation 1:17 - When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. NIV

Revelation 1:18 - I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for

ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. NIV

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Tartarus (in the Greek) an infernal abyss below Hades... Webster’s Dictionary; A place for punishment for the wicked after death. A place where the fallen angels are bound in darkness away from the face of God.37 (I’m not sure my BS buys into this location, but it’s certainly possible.)

It is an un-seen world of disembodied spirits that are full of remorse, fear, and despair; with memories of what they should have done and didn’t; full of sorrow for their bad examples, and with a hopelessness of escape and in a state of regret over doing evil deeds that cannot be recalled.

They are in despair that they did not listen to God’s word, and now are aware of the sinfulness of their own families on earth, and have a HOPELESS desire to warn them somehow.38

In Hell, you are in the gloom of darkness,39 away from the face of God,40 with a bunch of demons, Satan and his fallen angels,41 and the entire unbelieving bunch of wicked folks, plus you have the ordinary run of the mill burning fire and sulfur to walk around in. There’s not much love in Hell.

In Hell, you are not instantly annihilated, but are tormented in the unquenchable fires42 that go on endlessly, and it gets worse.43 Hell is thrown into the burning Lake of Fire and Sulfur.

Past, Present & Future

•   Things you have seen: The vision of Christ which John saw

•   Things which are now:The seven Churches and the church era up until the rapture.

•   Things which will be: Events after the Rapture of the Saints.

  Return of Christ – Rabbit Trail
  NOTE: A prophetical year was 360 days not 365. So, if you use the 360 days the prophets used, the

  dates and times will work out perfectly. No one knows when Christ will return, but it will be 360 days times 7 years or 2,520 days from the beginning of the tribulation period to his appearing. God said it, not me.

  The concurrent signs of the SECOND COMING

•   The preaching of the gospel in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations:44

•   Many turning away from the faith because of false prophets.45

•   Great Tribulations more intense and extensive such as the world has ever seen since the

  beginning, all occurring about the same time;46

•   GREAT earthquakes; increased frequency of Wars, terrorism, famines and pestilence.47

  37 2 Peter 2:4 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into CHAINS OF DARKNESS, to be reserved unto judgment -- Jude 6 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in EVERLASTING CHAINS UNDER DARKNESS unto the judgment of the great day
  38 Luke 16: 31- He said to him, `If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead. -- Matthew 18:7-8 - If your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire
  39 Matthew 8:12 - The subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the DARKNESS
  40 2 Thessalonians 1:9-10 – In Hell they will be punished with everlasting destruction and SHUT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD and from the majesty of his power
  41 Revelation 20:10 - The DEVIL, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where THE BEAST and the FALSE PROPHET had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever...-- Matthew 25:41 - Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels
  42 Matthew 3:12 - He will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire
  43 Mark 9:43 - If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out
  44 Matthew 24:14- The Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come 45 Matthew 24:10-13 - Many will turn away from the faith and many false prophets will appear
  46 Matthew 24:21-22 – There will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now-and never to be equaled again.
  47 Matthew 24:6-8 - You will hear of wars and rumors of wars

Revelation 1:19-20 - Write, therefore,
what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.

20 The MYSTERY of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches. NIV

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•   Jerusalem completely surrounded by the enemy.48

•   There will always be SCOFFERS concerning the return of Christ, saying, “Where is He?” 49 God

  is not slack in keeping His promises, we must remember that a day to the Lord is lake a thousand

  years and a thousand years is but a day.50

•   The final and great sign of the return of Christ will be a trumpet blast when Christ visibly

  appears in clouds of glory and majesty surrounded by innumerable angels.51

  Angels - Rabbit Trail
  Angels are mention in the Old Testament 108 times, and in the New Testament 165 times. That’s

  273 times, so if we dismiss the notion of angels; we are in essence rejecting the Bible. They serve as a link between God and Believers. While they do provide physical assistance, THEY DO NOT DO MIRACLES or do the work of the Holy Spirit. Believers have probably interacted with an angel at one time or the other and did not even know it.52

•   Martin Luther said, “An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and the church”.

•   Billy Graham said “Angels, who think, will, and display emotions are ministering servants who can appear or remain invisible as they perform the tasks that God assigns them.” 53

•   Michael the Archangel name means “who is as God”.

•   Gabriel’s name means “God is my strength”, other translations say “The mighty one”, “God

  is great”, and “God’s Hero”.

•   Raphael the Angel is mentioned in the second book of Esdras in the APOCRYPHA, but NOT in

  the Bible. I include it here for SEASONING as it is often linked in other writings with Michael and Gabriel.

  Angels are spiritual beings and either posse’s bodies that are real or they assume the form of a man, but still have the spiritual attributes.54 They can pass through material objects55 and are not subject to distance or time. See the footnotes below of Jesus in His spiritual body. 56

  I find no record of Female angels, or baby angels... They do not marry...They can speak our language and have their own language,57 and are in charge of us, to guard our ways to keep us from danger.58

  Wings - Medieval theologians writings portrayed Seraphim angels with six wings,59 Cherubim with four60 and ordinary angels with only two. Nothing in scripture says that ALL angels have wings.

  Scriptures only partially addresses angel wings - much comes from other writings and may be just myth. Angel hierarchy: While I do not find this in the Bible, I do find it in many books on angels throughout the ages. Angels seem to be divided in descending order into three triads of “Choirs”, of

  angels. The term “Choir” is perhaps because we find them singing and praising God in the scriptures. There are NINE groups. (The Choir BS is just fun information and not actually a Bible precept)

  •   First Choir - Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones

  •   Second Choir – Dominions, Virtues and Powers

  •   Third Choir – Principalities, Archangels and Ruler Angels.

    48 Luke 21:20- When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
    49 2 Peter 3:3-4 - In the last day’s SCOFFERS will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires saying WHERE IS HE?
    50 2 Peter 3:8-9 - The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise; with the Lord a day is like a 1,000 years, and a 1,000 years are like a day.
    51 Matthew 24:30-31 -He will send his angels with a loud TRUMPET CALL and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS of the sky, with power and great glory.
    52 Hebrews 13:2 - People have entertained angels without knowing it
    53 Hebrews 1:14 - Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
    54 1 Corenthians 15:39-40 - All flesh is not the same... There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies
    55 John 20:19 - With the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them
    56 John 20:27 - Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe -- Luke 24:38-39 - Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have - Luke 24:42-43 -- They gave him a piece of broiled fish and he took it and ate it in their presence -- Acts 1:10-11 - Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven -
    57 1 Corenthians 13:1 – Angles have their own language
    58 Psalm 91:11-12 - Angels guard you in all your ways they will lift you up in their hands
    59 Isaiah 6:2 - Seraphim’s have six wings:
    60 Ezekiel 1:6 – Each Cherubim had four wings -- Ezekiel 1:11 -Two wings spread out upward and two wings covering its body

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Principalities, Powers and Ruler Angels – There are a group of Angels that I don’t know what to call them, but they are located in heavenly places, and in my BS seem to be the bad guys.61

It seems the last two; Archangels and Angels are the only ones that interface with man. Some domination’s pray to and worship images of angels, believing that some OT saints are now angels. This is a perversion of the scriptures.

Angels through faith conquer kingdoms, administer justice, and shut the mouths of lions, save believers from being killed, turn weakness into strength, place hedges of protection around the Believer, bless the work of our hands,62 and provide favor with others to prosper us.63 Angels escort Believers from this World to Heaven for a royal welcome.64

Satan – Rabbit Trail
Satan was an anointed Cherubim angel created by God. He was “Top Dog”, The Chief of Staff,

the seal of perfection, handsome and full of wisdom.65 God clothed him with jewels; ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl and even gave him a special ability with music. (Which he used to screw up the minds of the teenagers.) Just saying.

He was placed in authority to protect Earth, including the atmosphere, and held court in the “Garden of God”. At this point, man had perfect access and communication with God. But that was not enough for Satan, he wanted to be “WORSHIPED” like God.66 He was certainly not going to report to Adam, a man made a little lower than him and of all things, a being made out of dirt. There’s just no way he would submit to any man.67

Satan in the “Garden of Eden” introduced doubt and unbelief - the doctrine of: “God didn’t really mean what he said” and “You too can become a God”. This sin cut off that perfect access to God. Satan organized his kingdom into “principalities” and appointed “princes” to control the earthly governmental leaders.68 That’s why we should pray for our leaders in government.

Satan rebelled with five I Will’s:69 "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High”.

Did you see it? Genesis; Satan’s FIRST rebellion... in Revelation we see his LAST rebellion.

After Satan’s Rebellion, about 50,000,000 angels70 who left their assignments were kicked out of Heaven and cast into Hell and are currently awaiting judgment. 71

Satan is not a disease or a symbolic principal with horns, a tail and a pitch fork. HE IS REAL.72

61 Ephesians 6:12 - For we WRESTLE not against flesh and blood, but against PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES -- Colossians 1:16-17 - For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities
62 Job 1:10 – Angels provide a hedge around the work of your hands

63 Hebrews 11:33-34 – Angels through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength;
64 Luke 16:22 -The angels carried him to Paradise
65 Ezekiel 28:12-19 - You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty Your heart became proud filled with violence, and you sinned

66 Ezekiel 28:2 - Thou hast said, I am a God, and I sit in the seat of God
67 Genesis 1:26 - Let us make man and let them have dominion over every living thing, and over all the earth,
68 Daniel 10:13 - The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me -- Ephesians 2:2- Satan is the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience
69 Isaiah 14:12-14 - You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."
70 Revelation 12:3-4 – Satan’s tail swept a third of the stars (Angels) out of the sky and flung them to the earth
71 Jude 6 - And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day - 2 Peter 2:4 - God did not spare angels when they sinned
72 Ephesians 6:12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places

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Chapter 16.2

The Things Which Are The Church Age... The Present

Letters to the Church in Ephesus and Smyrna WARNING to the leader or Pastor of the Church at Ephesus. Condition: LOSING THEIR FIRST LOVE. They had not departed from their love of God, but their devotion to Spiritual things had dwindled; their concern for others was lacking. Other worldly issues had taken the forefront. This could be a condition of our Churches today.

Chapter Two - The Ephesus Letter

Revelation 2:1-3 - "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks (back and forth) among the seven golden lamp stands:
2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.

3 You have persevered (Patience is the “Fruit of the Spirit”) and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. NIV

Ephesus - Ephesos: Greek meaning; Desirable, a first love...
Represented THE APOSTOLIC ERA of the First Century Church.
Warning: Danger of the removal of their lampstand
Condition: Lost their first love... They had substituted their LABOR for LOVE
This church is closest to Patmos where John the writer of the “Revelation” was imprisoned. Ephesus

was known as the “SUPREME METROPOLIS OF ASIA”, the market place of Asia. They had an excellent harbor, land traffic and a good commercial and banking centers.

The Temple of Diana was considered ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. The Goddess Diana was the patron of all prostitutes and represented fertility and sexuality. The Temple was 425 feet long, 220 feet wide and 60 feet high with 127 marble pillars.

One of the strong industries was the production of silver images of the “many-bosomed” Diana and Black Magic was practiced there.

The Church was very busy with full calendars and weary workers who would not put up with the worthless evil people and false teachings. However, labor is not a substitute for love. The Christian Church Pastors had been Paul, Apollos, Timothy and John, so they were well taught.

First Love

Revelation 2:4-6 - Yet I hold this against you:
You have forsaken your first love. (Best love... God)

5 Remember (Memories are Course Correctors) the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent,

I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place. 6 But you have this in your favor:
You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. NIV

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Looking at some of the letters, it seems their hearts had drifted away from caring about others as they had earlier.73 They are warned to turn back or their Church will be removed from His sight.

Did you see it? You can be doing good things in the community, food banks, children’s hospitals and going to Church and Christ will say, “I never knew you”.74 It’s your FAITH, not your WORKS.

A bird sings because he is a bird. He is not a bird because he sings. A person does not become a Christian because of his good works. He does good works because he is a Christian.

The removal of the lamp stand affects only the existence of the Church itself not the believing individual. NOTE: Interestingly: the lamp stand of the Church at Ephesus has NOW been removed; the church

is no longer there. Mohammedanism is the religion there now.
The Nicolaitanes (Greek; “to conquer the people”) were a religious splinter group operating under the

Christian umbrella, but were indifferent between truth and error, developed the “PRIEST HIERARCHY”, a separation of “Clergy” and “Laity” in the church, and had unsound, if not wicked doctrines, activities and practices which they themselves blessed and accepted.75

Godappointsunder-Shepard’stocarefortheflockandtokeepoutthewolves. Hedidnotappoint church bosses, special priest or special men to pray for us or listen to our confession of sins. But you can see that this is where all this mess started.

Tree of Life

This message is; whosoever will listen to the Spirit, will live forever with Christ. When man sinned in the Garden of Eden, he became separated from the Tree of Life.76 Jesus has provided THE WAY back to the Tree of Life; everyone who believes in Jesus Christ, confesses his sins and turns away from his wicked ways will eat from the Tree of Life and live forever.77

Judgment #1 – Christ on the Cross
There are five judgment days78... Four more discussed later. Judgment of man’s sins starts with Christ on the Cross79
Christ was declared guilty, suffered and died so that we did not have to.80

Smyrna Letter – No Criticism found.

73 Ephesians 1:15 - I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints
74 Matthew 7:22-23 - Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, `I never knew you
75 1 Timothy 6:10 - The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil; some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith -- Matthew 10:37 - Anyone who loves his father, mother, wife or children more than me is not worthy of me -- 1 John 2:15 - If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
76 Genesis 3:22 - And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the TREE OF LIFE and eat, and live forever
77 1 John 5:4-5 - Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God -- Revelation 22:2 - On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month
78 John 5:24-25 - Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; and will live
79 Isaiah 53:6 - We like sheep, have gone astray, and turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all. 80Galatians 3:13 - Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us; "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree

Revelation 2:7 - He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who OVERCOMES (not grown weary), I will give the right to eat from the TREE OF LIFE, which is in the Paradise of God. NIV

Revelation 2:8-9 - "To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.

9 I know your afflictions and your poverty-yet you are rich!
I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and ARE NOT, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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Smyrna: In the Greek “Myrrh”, a bruised or crushed flower of fragrance...
Represented THE PERSECUTION ERA of the First Century Church.
Warning to the Leader or Pastor of Smyrna.
Condition: Fear of things to come. They were so concerned about their conditions, poverty,

sufferings, prison, and fear of their lives that they were drifting in their trust in God to see them through. Crushing persecution. Myrrh was an aromatic substance that must be crushed to yield its perfume. When the persecuting Roman government crushed the Church it gave a “SWEET-SMELLING” savor

unto God. Smyrna was known as “The Ornament of Asia” because of its beauty.
The city was planned by Alexander the Great and was located 40 miles North of Ephesus and had a very good economy because for their safe seaport. It was the center for Emperor Worship and was overwhelmingly pagan. The main street was called the “Street of Gold”, at one end stood the TEMPLE

OF ZEUS and the other end THE TEMPLE OF CYBELE (the mother of god). Vine’sdictionarysaystheSYNAGOGUEOFSATAN81 wasanassemblyofpeopledominatedbythe

power and activity of Satan that had rejected the Truth. Synagogue means “To bring Together” - “an assembly of people”. In my BS, there may NOT have been an actual “physical assembly”, but were a category of people who just pretended to be Christians. They attended Church, but did not embraced His Truth in their everyday lives. This could apply today in our own church and lives.

Crown of Life

Some scholars think that the TEN DAYS are symbolic of 10 periods of persecution the Church endured: Under Nero 54ad, Domitian 81ad, Trajan 98ad, Adrian 117ad, Septimius Serveus 193ad, Maximin 235ad, Decius 249ad, Valerian 254ad, Aurelian 270ad, and Diocletian 384ad.

Who knows, it could be the 10 YEARS of persecution by Emperor Diocletian or just as it says, just 10 DAYS. In my BS, I think it means that in God’s Sovereign Plan by His grace the time has been limited which we do not understand why.82 TEN represents the Law, Justice.

Satan’s power is limited and controlled by God. Satan cannot make a move against God’s child without God’s express permission. Why would God allow his faithful to be persecuted? Sometimes God allows suffering for his children in order for them to grow spiritually.83

The CROWN OF LIFE84 is one of Five Crowns available to the Believer. See the Crowns Rabbit Trail at the end of Chapter four.

Second Death

81 Revelation 3:8-10 - I will make those who are of the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars-I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you
82 Genesis 24:55 - But her brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl remain with us ten days or so; then you may go -- Nehemiah 5:17- 18 - Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds -- Daniel 1:12-13 - Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink -- Acts 25:6 - After spending eight or ten days with them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he convened the court and ordered that Paul be brought before him

83 Hebrews 12:7-8 - Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. -- 2 Corenthians 12:10 - For Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong Hebrews 5:8 - Although Jesus was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered

84 James 1:12 - Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the CROWN OF LIFE that God has promised to those who love him.

Revelation 2:10 - Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for TEN DAYS. Be faithful, even to the point of death, (Martyred) and I will give you the CROWN OF LIFE. NIV

Revelation 2:11 - He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says

to the churches. HE WHO OVERCOMES will not be hurt at all by the SECOND DEATH. NIV

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•   THE FIRST DEATH is a physical death of the body here on earth.

•   THE SECOND DEATH is the spiritual death in the Lake of Fire85 RESERVED for those who

  do not receive the CROWN OF LIFE. This is NOT symbolism, it is the literal Truth. I didn’t say it, God did !

  Those that are born twice, die only once. Those that are born only once will die twice.

  Pergamum (Pergamos) Letter

Revelation 2:12-15 - "To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.
13 I know where you live-where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city-where Satan lives.
14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.
15 Likewise you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. NIV

Pergamos in the Greek “a sad Marriage.” It was wedded to the state,
Represented THE ERA OF COMPROMISE of the First Century Church - Spiritual unfaithfulness Warning to the leader or pastor of Pergamum. (Pergaamos)
Condition: Doctrinal compromise - Failure to provide a clear distinction between Biblical doctrine

and the world. Some of the followers were allowing doctrines of Balaam and the practices of the Nicolaitans to be mixed with their Christianity. They could follow Christ and live in sin too. They now had Spiritual Dictators who promoted themselves instead of promoting Christ.

Only this scripture discloses that Satan actually held court in this town. The inference is that Believers lived in an extremely evil environment dominated by satanic power and persecution, but still remained faithful.

Some manuscripts even call Pergamum “Satan’s Seat”.

The Roman Empire Pergamos was Famous for its great university with a library of 200,000 books. It was the capital city of Asia Minor and flourished with many palaces, temples and idols. It was given to idolatry more than all of Asia. Satan’s Throne was there; Emperor Worship and mystery cults.

•   The doctrine of Balaam was there; Balaam was a traveling prophet for hire who led Israel into sin for profit. (Balaam corrupted the Israelites with intermarriage with pagan women)

•   The doctrine of the Nicolaitanes; they made a division between priest and the people; Roman Catholicism. (Introduced doctrines of gnostic cults advocating rituals by clergy not by the Priesthood.)

•   There was a temple to Octavius Caesar, where once a year each citizen was required to

  offer incense and declare that Caesar was Lord. – Emperor Worship.

•   There was an alter to Zeus that was a wonder to the ancient world – The patron god

  Aesculapius, the god of healing was worshiped in the form of a living serpent in his temple.

  In A.D.324 Constantine made Christianity the religion of his empire. There was something different about the Christians, they could be trusted and relied upon. He banished pagans from his court and gave their post to Christians. – He “bought” the Church. The local Church was now in spiritual adultery and was no longer the “salt of the earth”. Satan switched his tactics from persecution to protection. State taxes supported and paid its pastors and the church. Satan was excited.

  85 Revelation 20:14- Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death
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King Balak tried to entice the Prophet Balaam, a conjurer for hire, to curse Israel.86 The Angel of God appeared to Balaam and said, “DON’T DO THIS”. At first reading of the entire account, Balaam seems like a true prophet of God, BUT he was false prophet interested only in the money.

Balaam could not curse the Israelites, so he led them to intermarry with the heathen without fear of judgment. 87 This gave birth to the concept of the marriage of the Church and Government.

There are people that at first reading seem like Christians, but you find out different when you see the fruit of their actions - God’s word says, “You shall know them by their fruits”.88

Hidden Manna - White Stone

Manna literally means; What is it?89 It was referred to as Angel’s food90 and the bread of God. It looked like a white round substance as fine as frost, like a white coriander seed,91 and it tasted like wafers made with honey or pastry prepared with oil.

In the wilderness the Israelites were fed a “physical” manna and knew this meaning of “manna”. A golden pot of manna was “hidden away” in the Ark of the Covenant with the Ten Commandments. God promised to feed them a hidden “Spiritual” manna, the bread of Life.92

A BLACK STONE in a court of law was a sentence of condemnation, while a WHITE STONE was an acquittal. Each saint received a new name that was his title to enter into eternal Glory.93

The Thyatira Letter

Thyatira: Greek meaning “Continual Sacrifice.”
Represented THE CORRUPT CHURCH ERA of the First Century Church
Warning to the leader or pastor of Thyatira
Condition: Moral compromise - Toleration of sin by some of the followers in the Church. They embraced pagan philosophy, idol worship, witchcraft and adultery.
Blazing fire and bronze; this is a description of Christ as the righteous Judge.94

86 Numbers 22:4-5 - So Balak son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time, sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor to come and CURSE THE ISRAELITES and be REWARDED.-- Numbers 31:16 - They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and
were the means of turning the Israelites away from the LORD in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the LORD's people
87 Revelation 2:14 - Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality

88 Matthew 7:20 - Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them
89 Exodus 16:15 - When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was
90 Psalm 78:25 - Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
91 Exodus 16:31- The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey
92 John 6:3 - For the bread of God is he (Jesus) which cometh down from heaven, and gives life unto the world -- John 6:58 - This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever
93 Exodus 31:18 - The LORD gave Moses the TWO TABLETS of the Testimony, the tablets of STONE inscribed by His finger -- 1 Samuel 17:49 - Reaching into his bag and taking out a STONE, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The STONE sank into his forehead, and he fell face down on the ground
94 Revelation 1:14-15 - His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace

Revelation 2:16:17 - Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the HIDDEN MANNA. (Jesus is the Bread of Life) I will also give him a WHITE STONE with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it. NIV

Revelation 2:18 - "To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
19 I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first. NIV

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Thyatira’s famous industry was dyeing cloth red or purple. Many trade guilds were in the city and to do business you must belong to one of the guilds. This was a problem for believers because of the paganism and immorality in the Guild Life. There was also a temple for “Fortune Telling”.

This church had grown in their works, love, service, faith and patience, but had false doctrine and false teachers... They had the worst disgraceful religious system every devised for the New Testament Church, The Papal Church – Catholicism. Popery shut out Christ as the head of the church. Rome led the way for Christians to follow Mary instead of Christ. Mary, Queen of Heaven to worship idols, the images of saints.

The doctrine of TRAN-SUBSTITUTION was instituted... that each time the Priest performed mass the wafer became the actual body of Christ and the wine became His Literal blood.

Rome’s doctrines, titles, rites, ceremonies, vestments, holy days and dogmas, are all of pagan origin.

See the Catholic Church Rabbit Trail at the end of this Chapter.

Jezebel

In my BS, Jezebel here is probably SYMBOLIC of the REAL JEZEBEL who lived during Old Testament Times... She was an idol worshiper, practiced witchcraft and persecuted the Prophets of God.95 She was one of the MOST EVIL CHARACTERS in the Old Testament.96

Did you see it? This scripture is NOT talking about being unfaithful and having SEX outside of marriage, but is SYMBOLICE of Israel,97 Gods special people being misled, being unfaithful and whoring after other Gods. 98

Deep Secrets

These deep secrets99 are obtained by communicating with the dead100.... God says don’t do it, so it must be possible to do so. A “spirit guide” is none other than a servant of Satan, who can TRANSFORM or SHAPE SHIFT himself into an angel of light.101 He becomes whoever you desire him to be.

95 1 Kings 18:13 - Haven't you heard, my lord, what I did while JEZEBEL was killing the prophets of the LORD -- 2 Kings 9:22 - "How can there be peace," Jehu replied, "as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother JEZEBEL abound?"
96 2 Kings 9:10 - As for JEZEBEL, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her
97 Jerimiah 3:9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. (Idols) Hosea 1:2 - Because THE LAND IS GUILTY OF THE VILEST ADULTERY in departing from the LORD

98 Jerimiah 7:9 - Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and FOLLOW OTHER GODS you have not known -- Ezekiel 23:37 - They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children
99 Exodus 8:7 - The magicians did the same things by their SECRET ARTS; - Exodus 7:11 - Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their SECRET ARTS

100 Isaiah 8:19 Why consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter and the dead on behalf of the living?
101 2 Corenthians 11:14-15 - Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light; his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness.

Revelation 21:20 - Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman JEZEBEL, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 2:21-23 - I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. 22 So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and

I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.
23 I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and
I WILL REPAY EACH OF YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR DEEDS.

Revelation 2:24 - Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you):

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There were TRUE BELIEVERS that were being called out of Catholicism, and were told to hold on till the Messiah comes again. Jesus is the MORNING STAR102 and promises Himself in the heart of the over comer.

Catholic Church – Rabbit Trail
Almost every Sunday I watch Father Fredric a Catholic Priest on Satellite. If he didn’t occasionally

mention the Pope or the Catholic Church, It would not even occur to me that he was not Protestant. The Catholic Church has the same Gospel Message as the Protestants do, except they also have traditions and doctrines who’s fence post do not line up with the Bible’ fence post.

I have no agenda except to write what my BS understands the fence post as planted by the Word. If the fence post that I plant in my Belief System do not line up with the Bible’s fence post,

then either the Bible is wrong or I am wrong.

The Catholic Church points to the Virgin Mary to be the mediator between God and man, reducing Jesus to infant status. They pray to images of Saints, they “sign” the cross, have rosary beads for rote prayers, confessions to Priest and prayers for the dead. The Bible says, DO NOT have any graven images, it says Jesus is our ONLY mediator between God and man, and when you are dead, its’ all over. No prayers or money paid will change the destination of the dead.

Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of Mary inside the womb of her VIRGIN mother thus preserving her from sin and is the “co-redeemer” of man along with her son Jesus.103

Catholic Catechism: The priest really and truly forgive sins by virtue of power given him by Jesus Christ. The pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ himself, hidden in a veil of flesh.

Catholic Ten Commandments – The second commandment forbidding graven images is omitted; with the 10th commandment split into two, making it ten again.104 (See Wikipedia)

•   Martin Luther – Said the Papacy is the seat of the Antichrist

•   John Calvin - We call the Roman pontiff the antichrist

•   John Knox - The Papacy is the very antichrist, and son of perdition.

•   John Wesley - He is the son of perdition, claiming the prerogatives of God alone.

•   Westminster’s Confession of Faith - The pope is the antichrist, that man of sin, and son of Perdition.

•   The name of the Pope – vicarious filii dei meaning “VICAR”, is “the replacement of Christ on

  earth”. In Latin, the number is: Vicarious (112), Filii (53) Dei (501) equals 666. Just saying

  Deuteronomy 18:10-12 - 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead
  Leviticus 20:27 - A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death
  Acts 16:16 – A slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling Numbers 22:5 - Balaam son of Beor For I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed

  2 Thessalonians 2:7-10 - For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work displaying all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders and every sort of evil
  102 Revelation 22:16 - I AM the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright MORNING STAR -- 2 Peter 1:19 - We have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the MORNING STAR rises in your hearts

  103 1 Timothy 2:5 - For there is one God and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS
  104 Daniel 7:25 - He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to CHANGE the set times and the laws

Revelation 2:25-29 - Only HOLD ON to what you have until I come.
26 To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations-
27`He will rule them (The millennial Reign of Christ) with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery'- just as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give him (Believers who will share in) the MORNING STAR. (Jesus) 29 He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches NIV.

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Chapter 16.3

The Sardis Letter Philadelphia & Laodicea

Messages to the Pastors or leaders of the three Churches

Chapter Three – The Sardis Letter

Revelation 3:1-3 - "To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.

Sardis: Greek “Remnant”, “Escaped ones”
Warning to the leader or Pastor of Sardis
Represented THE AGE OF REFORMATION or Protestantism in the First Century Church Condition: Spiritual Deadness. The church is almost dead, a “Has Been Church” and very little

remains that can be saved. They are living on their great name and past reputation.
In about 500 B.C., Sardis was one of the richest and most powerful cities in the known world. It became ethically complacent and morally degenerate and was conquered by Cyrus of Persia. Then byAlexandertheGreat,thenleveledbyanearthquakeinA.D.17. ItwaslaterrebuiltbyTiberiusCaesar. They were famous for the dyeing of woven garments. Christ promises to the over-comer, “White

Garments”. Christ will return when He is least expected, like when a thief breaks into your home105 The worship of the goddess Cybele was predominant... The Church was guilty of living in the glories of the past. The Church sought to return to the “Pure Religion” which the Apostles had known

and this desire precipitated the Protestant Reformation.
The Reformed Church still fell short by continuing to embracing infant baptism salvation,

candles, robes and the union of Church and state.

White

White means righteous,106 they have been judged worthy. God does not give an AVERAGE grade to the total membership of a congregation, then condemn or reward. God does not grade on a curve.

Each one of us is personally responsible and accountable to God for our personal life.107

105 Matthew 24:43 – Jesus will return when He is least expected. -- 2 Peter 3:10 - Jesus will come unexpected like a thief in the night.
106 John 20:12 – I saw two angels in WHITE, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot -- Acts 1:10 - Suddenly two men dressed in WHITE stood beside them - Isaiah 1:18 - Come now, let us reason together: Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as WHITE as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool
107 Romans 14:12 - So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God

Revelation 3:4 - Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, (garments) for they are worthy

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A cool note here: To blot out, means our name “must already be in” the Book of Life.108 In my BS, I believe it’s not our cleverness, ability or works that saves us, but is by the Grace of God109 and its the FREE WILL decisions we make in our lifetime that determines if our name stays in the book or not.

That the scriptures may be fulfilled, Christ has only lost one that the Father gave Him;110 just the son of perdition, Judas from Iscariot Keroth, who was consumed by the Devil in the Flesh.111

The Philadelphia Letter

Philadelphia: Greek - Brotherly Love... preserved
Represented THE ERA OF REVIVAL AND MISSIONARIES in the First Century Church Commendation to the leader or Pastor of Philadelphia (Only commendation mentioned)
Condition: An excellent Church where no fault was found.
The key of David 112 is the governmental authority, the grace and supplication over the Church to

open and close doors.113 Christ holds all the keys.114
The FALSE CHURCH in its popularity, influence and money tried to close the doors of

opportunity for this church, but could not.
The church was located 30 miles Southeast of Sardis and destroyed in A.D.17 by an earthquake and

then rebuilt by Tiberius Caesar. The population was small because of the frequent earthquakes. Correspondently the Philadelphia church was also small.

It was the center of a THRIVING WINE BUSINESS and the wine became a chronic social problem. Bacchus, the god of wine was worshipped there.

The Church at Philadelphia was commended by the Lord for their “Open Door”, a gateway of opportunity for EVANGELISM and MISSIONS and was promised deliverance from the hour of trial and from conditions that would discourage them from using the “Open Door”.

Christ’s prayer was that the Father would not take the Church out of this world, but that He would keep them from the evil one during their hour of testing. 115

It seems that their “little Strength”,116 is that they were small in number, not small in Faith. They were doing well with the few that they had.

108 Exodus 32:33 - Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of My Book -- Deuteronomy 29:20 - The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven -- Psalm 69:28 - May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous
109 Ephesians 2:8 - For by GRACE are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the GIFT of God -- Ephesians 2:8-9 - Not by works but by GRACE you have been saved, through FAITH-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-

110 John 17:12- None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
111 John 6:70-71- "Have I not chosen you Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot to be one of the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"
112 Isaiah 22:22 – Placed on his shoulder the KEY to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and shut what no one can open 113 Zechariah 12:10 - I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication
114 Revelation 1:18 - I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the KEYS of death and Hades 115 John 17:15 - I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one.
116 Proverbs 30:25 - Ants are creatures of LITTLE STRENGTH, yet they store up their food in the summer

Revelation 3:5-6 - He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Revelation 3:7 - "To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

Revelation 3:8-10 - I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an OPEN DOOR that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

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Hour of Trial

Revelation 3:9-11 - I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars. I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently,

I WILL ALSO KEEP YOU FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL that is going to (about to) come upon the WHOLE WORLD to test those who live on the earth.
11 I am coming soon (suddenly, quickly). Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your CROWN.

In my BS; “Keep you (the true believers) from the HOUR OF TRIAL” seems to me to reference “The Rapture” before the tribulations begin.117 Just saying. This TESTING will occur during the tribulation period for those that have remained on earth; TRIALS are the teaching method used by Jehovah God

to let His people SEE what’s in their own hearts for themselves. Pillar in the Temple

The over comer will be a PILLAR,118 who has been TESTED;119 a strong leader in the Church body that seeks God’s face and guides His people, keeps and defends His’s COVENANT.

I think it’s worth mentioning, that the Pillar in the Temple sure sounds like the Two Pillars in Solomon Temple, one named for the Priest Jakin whose name means “God will Establish” and another was named for Boaz whose name means “Strength”....

Did you see it? Jesus was in the line of Boaz and OUR PILLAR will be in the Temple next to his. The New Jerusalem is the Holy City where God dwells among men.120 We cannot comprehend the awesomeness of our new home with Christ.121 We can only see it in our spirit painted with the limited imagination of what we have seen on earth. The Holy city will be elevated above everything else.122

We have been given the dimensions of the Holy City, the length, width and height, but not the shape. What if it’s not a cube, but a FOUR SIDED PYRAMID, like the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, which prophecies the coming of Jesus Christ? What if the throne is on top and the living waters flows down all four sides? What if the “GREAT PYRAMID” is a shadow of things to come? 123 (BOOK; The Great Pyramid.)

117 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 - God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ
118 1 Kings 7:21 - He erected the PILLARS at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz -- Genesis 35:14 - Jacob set up a STONE PILLAR at the place where God had talked with him -- 2 Kings 23:3 - The king stood by the PILLAR and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD-to follow the LORD and keep his commands, regulations and decrees with all his heart and all his soul -- Exodus 13:21 - By day the LORD went ahead of them in a PILLAR OF CLOUD to guide them on their way -- Jeremiah 1:18-19 - Today I have made you a fortified city, an IRON PILLAR and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land. They will fight against you but will not overcome you, FOR I AM WITH YOU AND WILL RESCUE YOU
119 Revelation 2:10 - The devil will put some of you in prison TO TEST YOU, and you will suffer persecution... Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life -- Judges 2:21-23 - I will TEST ISRAEL and see whether they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their forefathers did. -- Deuteronomy 8:1-3 - The LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and TO TEST YOU in order to know what was in your heart -- 2 Corenthians 13:5 - Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; TEST YOURSELVES
120 Revelation 21:2-3 - I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven. Now the dwelling of God is with men
121 1 Corenthians 2:9-10 - No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him
122 Micha 4:1 - The LORD's temple will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it
123 Colossians 2:17 - These are a SHADOW of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ -- Hebrews 8:5 - They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and SHADOW of what is in heaven -- Hebrews 10:1 - The law is only a s SHADOW of the good things that are coming-not the realities themselves

Revelation 3:12-13 – To him who overcomes I will make a PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and

I WILL ALSO WRITE ON HIM MY NEW NAME. (Universal Passport) 13 He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Laodikeia Greek – “The People’s rights”, “The rule of the people”, “The Judgment of the people”, Represented the era of CHURCH GOVERNMENT during the First Century Church age.
Warning to the leader or Pastor of Laodicea; their works are not good works, but are evil. Condition: Lukewarm, self-sufficiency... The condition here seems to show a slipping away from a

spiritually “on Fire” church toward a “cold dead” church. Outer worship with no inner Spirituality. God said this church made Him want to “THROW UP”.

Laodicea was a Democratic Church with truth deluded with error. It was located 40 miles from Ephesus, It produced wool garments and had a wealthy banking center and its medical school was noted for an eye healing ointment... This city had a huge race track and three lavish theaters. The riches of the town spilled over into the Church and they felt the need of nothing including the power of the Spirit of God. People have taken over the Church and the Lord is no longer the Head. Conventions, denominations, boards, counsels and the like, governed by the people now run the Church with a LUKEWARM-NESS toward God and His Word.

A town on one side of Laodicea was famous for their refreshing hot spring water. A town on the others side had refreshing cool mountain water, but Laodicea’s water was brackish lukewarm water. The literal interpretation is; this church made Him want to “PUKE” them out of His body. God sees and knows our deeds. THE QUESTION;

Revelation 3:14-16 - To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the AMEN (God), the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. (Christ alone, reveals all and tells all truth)

15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!
16 So, because you are LUKEWARM - neither hot nor cold – I am about to spit (puke) you out of my mouth.

Don’t need God

What are YOU doing with

THE GIFTS of the Spirit

that God has equipped you with? 124

Revelation 3:17-19 - You say, `I am rich; I have acquired wealth and DO NOT NEED A THING.' But you do not realize that you are

WRETCHED, PITIFUL, POOR, BLIND AND NAKED.
18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve (of the Holy Spirit) to put on your eyes, so you can see. 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.
So be earnest, and repent. (And get on fire for God)

The typical person in our country does not read the Bible. What they read is the people that represent the Bible. Too often, what they see, does not motivate them to join the fellowship. The actions of the professing members of the church at Laodicea did not look much different than that of their pagan friends. There was little evidence to CONVICT them of being a Christian.

God in His love has just let them know in this letter that if they were NOT His children, He would not have bother to give them a “COURSE CORRECTOR” to get them back on target.125

Nothing in scripture indicates that this “LUKEWARM” Church will be saved.

124 Isaiah 55:1 - "Come, all you who are thirsty, you who have no money, Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
125 Hebrews 12:5-8 - The Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son... If you are not disciplined then you are illegitimate children and not true sons

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Interestingly, Christ is not on the inside of this church, but is on the outside knocking. The door handle to our heart is on the inside, you must CHOOSE to open it and fellowship with Him.

The conditions of the seven churches still exists today; from Ephesus having left their first love
to Laodicea with a lukewarm spirit.

In the end times, “knowledge will abound” and things we could not understand before is now being revealed, the sealed prophecies are now unlocked more and more. Until recently man rode horses, now we go to the moon in a rocket. Think about the telegraph for communicating to the next town, now we have devices in our pocket that can communicate anywhere in the world.

On the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the first five books of the Bible were found in Hebrew. A mathematician discovered the word “Torah” encoded in each of the five books. Today, with the aid of a super computer, “The Bible Code” has been revealed prophesying many events down through the centuries that affect our society including the election of President Obama.

This is the SEALED BOOK mentioned in Isaiah that could not be opened until Knowledge abounds; until the technology of the computer was invented. 126 This just blows me away.

Dead Sea Scrolls – Rabbit Trail

•   The Damascus Testament: Addressing those who God foreknew would reject the Messiah:

  “And they kept NOT the commandment of their maker until His wrath was kindled against them”. “For God chose them NOT from the beginning of the world and before they were formed He knew their works; and He abhorred their generation from old, and hid His face from their land till they were consumed”. In my BS, this sounds like Devine Election/Predestination, just saying.

•   Taxo - Moses speaking... “Receive thou the writing that you may know how to preserve the books which I shall deliver unto thee. And you shall set these in order and anoint them with toil of cedar and put them away in earthen vessels in the place which He made from the beginning of the creation of the world, that His Name should be called upon until the day of repentance in the visitation wherewith the Lord shall visit them in the Consummation of the End of the Days”.

•   The Jeremiah letter - Jeremiah came and found a cavern in the rock, and there he brought in the Tabernacle, and the Ark, and the Alter of Incense; and he made fast the door “Yea, and the place shall be unknown until God gather the people again together, and mercy come; and then shall the Lord disclose these things”

•   Habakkuk Commentary - “For the vision (the end time) is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie.” God’s secrets are wonderful, “but if it delays, wait for it: for it will surly come, and will not tarry”. The times of God will come in due time.

  126 Daniel 12:4 - O Daniel, SHUT UP THE WORDS, and SEAL THE BOOK, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED -- Isaiah 29:11-12 - This whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll and say to him, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I can't; it is sealed -- Isaiah 29:17-18 - And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness

Revelation 3:20-22 - Here I am! I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
21 To him who overcomes,
I will give THE RIGHT to sit with me on my throne,
just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.

22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are the final reference to the Ark of the Covenant and its location.127 Other writing not found in the Bible suggest that Solomon, concerned about an invading army, built a replica of the Ark of the Covenant for protection and that the real Ark was sent to Ethiopia128 for safe keeping with his son that he fathered with the Queen of Sheba and it is under guard there even today awaiting its return.

There is an allusion that the Ark of the Covenant, referred to as God’s Glory and His Banner, will be returned to the Temple.129 It will be returned before the end time invasion by Russia.

Temples – Rabbit Trail
Those destroyed and those yet to come in the future

•   Solomon’s Temple – Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 588 BC

•   Zerubbabel’s Temple – Pillaged and dedicated to the God Jupiter by Antiochus Epiphanes in

  170 BC

•   Herod’s Temple – Built 17 BC and destroyed by Titus in 70 AD

•   Tribulation Temple – To be completed during the first 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulation. The

  plans have been found and reports are that the stones have already been cut. The temple articles have already been made and the Priests are already in training. According to reports that surfaced years ago, THE TEMPLE SOCIETY claim that they are in possession of the Ark of the Covenant. I urge you to google The Temple Society and be amazed at what they have accomplished.

•   Millennial Temple – The Temple of Jesus Christ’s 1,000 year reign before the Great White Throne Judgment.

  Temple Institute – Rabbit Trail

The Temple Institute, founded by Yisrael Ariel is an organization in Israel known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash. The Institute is focused on the controversial endeavor of establishing the Third

Temple. https://www.templeinstitute.org

The primary importance of the Temple Institute is to provide education about the great significance

of Mount Moriah; the Temple Mount in Jerusalem which is the only site in the world that is considered Holy by the Jewish people, and the only site in the world which God chose to rest His Divine presence

through the establishment of the Holy Temple.

Their ultimate goal is to see Israel rebuild the Holy

Temple in accordance with the Biblical commandments.

NOTE: There is a controversy about whether the Temple should be rebuilt by Human hands or Divine hands. Jewish tradition believes that the TENTH and Final Red Heifer will be sacrificed and burned by

the Messiah Himself. The Temple Institute believes that the Jews have the mandate of purification

and the rebuilding of the Temple.

Haggai 2:9 – The Third Temple will be greater than the former

9 The glory (honor) of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,' says the LORD of hosts. 'And in this place I will give peace,' says the LORD of hosts." (NKJV)

The TENTH Red Heifer: The Temple Institute identified two Red Heifer candidates, one in 1997 and another in 2002 which they had initially declared both “Kosher”, but later found each to be unsuitable.

127 2 Chronicals 8:11 - My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, BECAUSE THE PLACES ARE HOLY, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come -- 2 Chronicals 35:3 - Put the Holy Ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; -- Isaiah 18:3 - Hear ye “dwellers on the earth” when he blows a trumpet and lifts up an ensign on the mountains -- Isaiah 18:7 - In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled a nation meted out and trodden under foot to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion

128 Isaiah 18:1 - Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
129 Jeremiah 4:6 - Set up the “STANDARD” toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction -- Ezekiel 39:21-23 - I will display MY GLORY among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay upon them

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In recent years, a cattle breeder in Nebraska has attempted to establish a breeding line of Red Heifers to export to Israel in the hope that this will bring about the construction of the Third Temple and ultimately the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

In January of 2014, a 10th red heifer was found in America, and was raised under strict Jewish laws and guidelines. By August, upon close inspection it had become disqualified on account of a change of pigmentation in a patch of skin, as well as the appearance of white hairs in the affected area and is now unfit according to Biblical law.

On November of 2018, it was announced that a Red Heifer was born and then on March 21, 2019 another Red Heifer was born in Israel and is being raised in an undisclosed location and under special conditions. To be KOSHER, at the age of 2 years, no more than two black hairs can be found on its entire body; February 28, 2021 another Red heifer was born in Israel and we are awaiting the outcomes.

Temple Furniture and Vessels – Rabbit Trail

RITUAL OBJECTS have already been completed by the Temple Institute; the reproduction of over ninety objects that will be used in the new Temple. Here are a few as listed by Wikipedia.

1) Copper Laver: For Kohanim to wash in at the start of the day 2) Small Mizrak: Holds blood from the sacrificial animals
3) Large Mizrak: Holds blood from the larger animals
4) Three-pronged fork: To arrange the offerings on the altar.

5) Measuring cup: To measure meal offerings
6) Copper vessel: To prepare meal offerings
7) Silver Shovel: To remove ashes from the alter
8) Silver vessel: For wine libation, for wine accompanying offerings
9) Lottery box: For Yom Kippur, which is the Day of Atonement. Holiest day of the Year.

10) Silver alter cup: For water libation, for Sukkot
11) Silver libation vessels: For Sukkot, Festival of “Booths” or “Tabernacles”; a dwelling.
12) Sickle: To reap the Omer of barley. The Omer is a unit of measurement
13) Other offering implements: To offer the omer of barley
14) Abby: To roast the omer of barley
15) Menorah cleansing vessel: To clean the Menorah
16) Oil Pitcher: For replenishing the oil in the Menorah
17) Small golden flask: For replenishing individual Menorah lamps
18) Frankincense Censer: For burning incense - Smoke
19) Incense chalice: For Ketoret or incense offering
20) Menorah: The lamp stand for the Temple
21) Table of Showbread: Holds the cakes or loaves of bread that were always present.
22) Incense Alter: For Ketoret or incense offering
23) Ark of the Covenant: Holds the Ten Commandments, Aarons Rod and a golden jar of Manna 24) Crown: Worn by the High Priest, completed in 2007
25) Garments: Worn by the High Priest - completed in 2008
26) Silver Trumpets: Announce special occasions and offerings
27) Gold plated Shofar: For Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
28) Silver plated Shofar: For fast days; Shofar is a hollowed out rams horn
29) Harp: Musical Instrument used by the Levitical choir
30) Lyre: Musical Instrument used by the Levitical choir

For the past 27 years sacred Temple vessels and Priestly garments have been created and fashioned by accomplished craftsmen according to the exact Biblical requirements, specifically for use in the future

Holy Temple where they will be called into Divine service.

The Menorah; (the seven candlesticks) which stands today in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's old city

is the work of the Temple Institute’s full time staff of researchers. It was painstakingly crafted and created after years of extensive research to be used exclusively in the new Holy Temple. It currently overlooks

the Temple Mount. It weighs 1,000 pounds and contains forty five kilograms of twenty four karat gold

and is valued at three million dollars.

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Chapter 16.4

SECOND VISION of Jesus and the World

The Future - Things Which Shall Be Hereafter Throne in Heaven – Commission of the Lamb

Chapter Four - The Open Door - Just before the Rapture

Revelation 4:1 - After this I looked, and there before me was a
DOOR STANDING OPEN IN HEAVEN. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."

John hears the voice of Jesus Christ sounding like a trumpet inviting him into the Heavens.

The open door is the point where we believe the Church is “translated” or “raptured”.130 The Words “AFTER THIS” are bookends opening and closing this scripture; my BS sees the Church raptured.

The word “RAPTURE” is not in the Bible, but the symbolism is certainly there. (The Church is not mentioned again until Chapter 22.)

The Rapture is when billions of people will instantly disappear and then return SEVEN YEARS later with Christ.

Four Doors mentioned in the Revelation

1. 1)  Revelation 3:8 - The door opened for service, opportunities to serve.

2. 2)  Revelation 3:20 - The door closed to Christ, He is knocking to come in.

3. 3)  Revelation 4:1 - The door into heaven, the rapture.

4) Revelation 19:11 - The door out of heaven, Christ coming to judge.
The purpose of the seven year Tribulation is a “FINAL CALLING OUT” to the Jewish Nation,

God’s chosen people, and to punish those that have rejected His word.131
Scripture supports the view that those that love the lord will be delivered from His Holy

Judgments.132 There are extraordinary examples of God’s extraction, just look at the scriptures of Sodom and Gomorrah and the delivery of “LOT” 133and the delivery of “NOAH” and his family during the flood.134 Logic would tell you that the Church will not be present, but will have been extracted. PRAY for a Pre-Tribulation Rapture but... PREPARE for a Post-Tribulation Rapture

130 Luke 11:9-10 - ASK and it will be given to you; SEEK and you will find; KNOCK and the DOOR will be opened to you -- Luke 13:24 - Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to -- Matthew 24:33 - when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door
131 2 Thessalonians 1:6-8 - When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus

132 1 Thessalonians 5:9 - FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ Genesis 7:1 - Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Genesis 7:23 - Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
133 Genesis 19:29 – God brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived -- Genesis 19:16 - When he (Lot) hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and LED THEM SAFELY OUT of the city 134 Genesis 7:1 - Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. -- Genesis 7:23 - Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

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There are TWO letters to the Churches in the Revelation that support the Rapture Doctrine. Revelation 2:25 - THYATIRA

25 Only hold on to what you have UNTIL I COME. NIV

Revelation 3:11 - PHILADELPHIA
11 I AM COMING SOON. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. NIV

Second Coming or Advent of Christ - There are two parts

1. 1)  Christ “Himself” comes back for the Church before the tribulation period starts and meets us in the air; this is referred to as the RAPTURE of the church. When this rapture takes place, no eye will see Christ, it will be in a twinkling of the eye, in 1/1000 of a second. Some call it a secret rapture, but the voice of Christ will be heard as a trumpet blast.135 This gathering will be like in the time of Noah just before the flood; the Ark saved Noah and his family, just as the Word can save us today.136 THIS ADVENT WILL BE IN SECRET.

2. 2)  Then, Seven years later, at the end of the tribulation, Christ returns to the earth and the “Angels” gather His saints of the Tribulation from the four corners of the earth, then reigns for 1,000 years. This time the Advent is public; EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM.137

There will be birth pains; signs before the rapture and tribulation period. There will be religious deception, people claiming they are the Christ138.... International revolution, wars, famines, earthquakes, plagues, and strange stuff happening in the sky.139 Many will make fun of Christian’s beliefs as they did Noah, and will say this is just plain silly.140

The Rapture

Jesus clearly states He is coming back for us141 and will meet us in the air142 and we will receive a crown of glory.143 Christians refer to this as the carrying away or rapture of the Saints.144 John states he was IN THE SPIRIT in Heaven and sees Jesus Christ on the Throne.

Sounds like he was raptured to me. – Just saying.

John’s body was not yet glorified, so only his spirit was allowed before the throne.145 Webster says “rapture” is: A state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion.

135 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with the trumpet call and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR 136 Matthew 24:37-41 - As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man; Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left...

137 Matthew 24:30-31 - The Son of Man will appear in the sky, coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory And he will send his angels and they will gather his elect from the four winds and THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN
138 Matthew 24:4-8 - Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, `I AM THE CHRIST,' and will deceive many -- Mathew 24:21-23 - There will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world and if anyone says to you, `LOOK, HERE IS THE CHRIST!' OR, `THERE HE IS!' DO NOT BELIEVE IT
139 Luke 21:25-28 - There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars, the heavenly bodies will be shaken, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near
140 2 Peter 3:3-4 - First there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts saying, where is the promise of his coming 141 Acts 1:11 - This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, WILL COME BACK in the same way you have seen him go into heaven -- John 14:2-3 - In my Father's house are many rooms I go to prepare a place for you. I WILL COME AGAIN, and receive you
142 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - The Lord shall descend from heaven with a SHOUT, with the VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, and with THE TRUMP OF GOD: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air
143 1 Peter 5:4 - And when the Chief Shepherd appears, YOU WILL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF GLORY that will never fade away
144 1 Thessalonians 1:10 - Wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, WHICH DELIVERED US FROM THE WRATH to come -- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 - To the end HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS UNBLAMEABLE IN HOLINESS before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints
145 Colossians 3:4 - When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory -- 1 John 3:2 - When he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is -- 1 Corenthians 15:51-53 - I SHOW YOU A MYSTERY; we shall not all sleep, but WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,

Revelation 4:2 - At once (immediately) I WAS IN THE SPIRIT, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.

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The Gospel is not MAN centered... its CHRIST centered.
Salvation IS NOT what “you can do”; because you can’t... It’s what Christ has already done. It’s not “Let’s make a Deal” or buy one, get one free. It’s not bartered or traded – You can’t earn it nor buy it. It’s a FREE gift that’s already been paid for. Salvation is like a PASSPORT; you need it to get into a foreign country;
BUT YOU HAVE TO GET IT BEFORE YOU GO

Judgment #2 – Judgment Seat of Christ
This Judgment occurs immediately after the rapture of the church... It takes place in heaven, since all are considered sinless.146 Jesus Christ is the Judge. Consistency of Faithfulness and motive for the believer’s actions are exposed. The works of the saved are declared to be either wood, hay or stubble; or gold, silver and precious stones.147 No one loses their life here as all are saved because Jesus has already paid the price. Various Crowns are given to everyone; some get more than one;

at least five are available.

Here’s where we are

At this point, the Church; Christians, both dead and alive, are now in Heaven and only the unsaved are still on earth. The occurrence of this rapture will witness to 144,000 Jews who are still on the earth and they will accept Christ and become His messengers.

The Antichrist is already on the scene, but is not yet known as a world leader, but helps establish the United States of Europe. Israel is safe in her land, but is threatened by Egypt (South) and Russia (North).

The Antichrist will make a covenant with Israel to protect her land.

The Throne

The rainbow around the throne represents the COVENANT keeping God,148 the symbol of hope and promise given to Noah after the flood. A symbol of the Glory of God. Circles represent eternity.

The Jasper stone was the first stone in the second row of the High Priest breast plate; it represented the tribe of Judah. Jesus, The King of Judah is on the throne.

The Jasper stone (chalcedony) is a semi-transparent green crystal, resembling a diamond.149 It representing Gods flawless perfection and glowing radiance of His Holiness.

The Sardine (sardius) stone is ruby red, representing the immense value of the shed blood of Christ.150 The Emerald stone is green representing “encircling” eternal Life. 151
These precious stones represent the Glory of God. They are described as mounted in the breastplate

of Aaron; they were the first and the last of the 12 stones representing the twelve tribes of Israel.152 Reuben (Jasper) the first born and Benjamin (Sardine) the last born. Christ is the first and the last, the beginning and the end. (Trinity: 4:2, 5 God the Holy Spirit... 4:3 God the Father ... 5:5 God the Son).

The Trinity is on the throne representing everyone from the first person to the last.

146 2 Corenthians 5:10 - For we must all appear before the JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad
147 1 Corenthians 3:11-15 - If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, HIS WORK WILL BE SHOWN FOR WHAT IT IS

148 Genesis 9:13- I have set my RAINBOW in the clouds, and it will be the SIGN OF THE COVENANT between me and the earth
149 Revelation 21:11 - It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a JASPER, clear as crystal 150 Exodus 28:17 - And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a SARDIUS, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row
151 Exodus 28:18 - And the second row shall be an EMERALD, a sapphire, and a diamond
152 Exodus 39:13 - And the fourth row, (Last) a beryl, an ONYX, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings

Revelation 4:3 - The one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and sardine. A (halo), resembling an emerald, encircled the throne.

rainbow

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The twenty-four ELDERS cannot be angels, as angels do not have thrones, crowns or sing the new song of the redeemed. Just for fun, Elder from the Greek is presbuteros which means Presbyterian. The twenty-four elders are representative of all the redeemed Saints from Pentecost to the RAPTURE. In OT times, there were twenty-four courses of priests that represented the 24 orders of priest.153

There were thousands of priest, just as there are thousands of the redeemed.

They could also be representatives under the Old Covenant of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and under the New Covenant the Twelve Apostles. Either way, ALL THE SAINTS, both Jews and Gentiles are represented. Dressed in white means they are dressed in the righteousness of Christ. Only the redeemed wear the CROWN OF LIFE.154

•   The number 12 and its multiple is a number that relates to priestly government perfection.

•   The number 13 and every multiple of it, is in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection,

  corruption, disintegration or other kindred ideas. (No wonder #13 is an unlucky number) Just saying.)

  Thunder and lightning was at Mount Sinai when God gave the Law155 and will be again when God judges by the Law. Some Bible versions include “Voices proceeded”, which are the Judgments of God. The SEVEN SPIRITS are none other than the seven characteristics of the HOLY SPIRIT blazing forth

  in Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Power, Might, Knowledge and Fear of the Lord. 156

•   The Holy Spirit is no longer on earth, but is present before the throne in Heaven with this group of born again believers, indicating His restraining work on earth is removed, but not His grace.

•   The Holy Spirit is pictured today as the SYMBOL OF A DOVE coming in peace, but after the

  rapture, the Holy Spirit will be seen as a SYMBOL OF FIRE, that of judgment. Sea of Glass

  The Sea of Glass, denotes its “appearance”, not the “material” it is made of; in this instance, it is symbolic of the molten sea or lavers157 that was made for cleansing during ceremonial rites in the Temple. The throne is sitting on the cleansing and sanctifying power of the Word of God.

  153 1 Chronicals 6:32 - They ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle as they waited on their office according to their order -- 2 Chronicals 8:14 - He appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service; the porters also by their courses at every gate
  154 James 1:12 - Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the CROWN OF LIFE -- 1 Peter 5-4 - You will receive the CROWN OF GLORY that will never fade away -- Revelation 3:11 - I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your CROWN -- Revelation 14:3 - And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth

  155 Exodus 19:16-17 - On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast -- Exodus 20:18 - When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear -- Acts 26:13 - I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me -- 2 Thessalonians 1:7 - This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels

  156 Isaiah 11:2-9 - The Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD... Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea
  157 Exodus 40:30 - He set the LAVER between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water there FOR WASHING -- 2 Chronicals 4:2 - Also he made a MOLTEN SEA of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height

Revelation 4:4 - Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in WHITE and had CROWNS of gold on their heads.

Revelation 4:5 - From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing.

These are the SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD. (Seven is completeness).

Revelation 4:6 - Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four LIVING creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.

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It is also symbolic of the sea of people that have been cleansed, made Holy and can stand before the throne. The Sea in most other instances is the restless masses of humanity.

Covered with eyes is symbolic of the omnipotence (all Powerful), omniscience (all Knowing), and omnipresence (everywhere all at once.) of God. 158

Living Creatures

The four living creatures (or living beasts in some translations) are Angels; seraphim’s - This is the same description as seen by Ezekiel in his vision.159 Chapter four the emphasis is on the Throne of God and we now see Him making the emphasis that the Creatures before the throne are “Living.”

Number symbolism - Four is the number of Creation thus can be seen as God’s covenant with beast, cattle, man, and fowl. LIVING CREATION IS NOW STANDING BEFORE THE THRONE.

Gospel symbolism as pointed out by Dr. J. Vernon McGee (Thru the Bible series)
1) Gospel of Matthew... Lion - Jesus lived died resurrected and will return as King 2) Gospel of Mark... Ox or Calf - Beast of burden. Jesus is presented as a servant 3) Gospel of Luke... Man - Jesus as the Son of Man, Jesus in His humanity
4) Gospel of John... Eagle - Jesus in His Deity.

Banner symbolism - Each of the twelve tribes had a “BANNER” or coat of arms such as an Eagle, Lion, etc. that they raised to identify themselves.

Revelation 4:7 - The first LIVING creature was like a LION, the second was like an OX, the third had a face like a MAN, the fourth was like a flying EAGLE.

   

The banner of a Lion, (Tribe of Judah), represents Jesus as the King.
The banner of an Ox or calf, (Tribe of Ephraim), He is the faithful servant. The banner of a Man (Tribe of Ruben), He is the human Jesus.
The banner of an Eagle (Tribe of Dan), He is the Devine Son of God.

These FOUR TRIBES pitched their tents on the FOUR SIDES of the Temple.160

Revelation 4:8 - Each of the four LIVING creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings.161 Day and night they never stop saying: "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is the Lord God Almighty, WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME."

Anytime a word is repeated in the Bible, it magnifies its importance. If it was three Woe’s it would mean it’s the worst it could be.162 In this case, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, is as holy as can be.163

“Who was and is and is to come”... Jesus said; I am the Alpha and the Omega, He is the beginning and the end, and everything in between; He is the Almighty.164

158 Job 28:24 - For he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens -- Job 34:21-22 - His eyes are on the ways of men; he sees their every step... There is no dark place, no deep shadow, where evildoers can hide
159 Ezekiel 1:10 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a MAN, and the face of a LION, on the right side: and they four had the face of an OX on the left side; they four also had the face of an EAGLE

160 Numbers 2:3 - On the EAST SIDE toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of JUDAH -- Numbers 2:18 - On the WEST SIDE shall be the standard of the camp of EPHRAIM according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama -- Numbers 2:10 - On the SOUTH SIDE shall be the standard of the camp of REUBEN according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur -- Numbers 2:25 - The standard of the camp of DAN shall be on the NORTH SIDE by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer

Revelation 5:5 - THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its 7 seals 161 Isaiah 6:2 - Above it stood the SERAPHIM’S: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
162 Revelation 8:13 - I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels

163 Isaiah 6:3 - And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory
164 Revelation 1:8 - “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

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The Shekinah Glory of God turns the twenty-four Elders legs into silly putty as they are slain in the spirit and fall to the ground in His presence.165

The CROWNS are symbolic of the POWER TO RULE, and symbolizes Christian triumph; their rewards for service on earth and they place them at the feet of Christ.166 Unlike an earthly crown that can rust, be stolen or lost, these crowns will last forever;167 a crown of life,168 crown of glory,169 crown of splendor,170 crown of righteous171 and crown of everlasting joy.172

The Will of God

This speaks of God receiving glory and praise because it was His plan and His purpose and His Will that by His spoken WORD all things were created173 and that includes mortal man.174 He is Worthy of praise. The creature worships the creator and out of submission they cast their crowns at the feet of Jesus on His throne

Revelation 4:9-10 - Whenever the LIVING creatures give glory, honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders FALL DOWN (Shekinah Glory) before Him who sits on the throne, and worship Him who lives for ever and ever.

They lay their CROWNS before the throne and say:

Revelation 4:11 - You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things and

BY YOUR WILL they were created and have their being." NIV

Crowns – Rabbit Trail
After we receive our crowns, we will sit at the wedding feast as the bride of Christ. The more crowns

we have earned, the more we will have to cast at the feet of Jesus.

•   Imperishable Crown – Those who have victory over their old spirit man. - 1 Corenthians 9:25

•   Crown of Righteousness – Those longing for His appearance - 2 Timothy 4:8

•   Crown of Life – Those that are tested even unto death – The Martyr’s Crown - Revelation 2:10

•   Crown of Glory – Overseers or Elders Crown - Those who serve the flock. - 1 Peter 5:2-4

•   Crown of Rejoicing – Soul Winners Crown - 1 Thessalonians 2:19

165 1 Kings 8:10-11 – Priest; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; could not stand -- 2 Chronicles 5:14 – Priest; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; could not stand - - Daniel 8:17-18 – Daniel; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; fell on his face in a deep sleep -- Ezekiel 3:23 – Ezekiel; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; fell on his face -- Ezekiel 43:2-3 – Ezekiel; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; again; fell on his face -- Ezekiel 44:4 – Ezekiel; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; third time; fell on his face -- Numbers 22:31 – Balaam; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; fell on his face -- John 18:6 – Soldiers; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; fell to the ground. -- Matthew 28:4 – Guards; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; became like dead men -- Acts 26:13-14 – Paul; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; fell to the ground -- Acts 9:2-4 – Paul; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; fell to the ground -- Revelation 1:17 – John; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; fell at his feet -- Matthew 17:6 – Disciples; SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT; fell on their faces

166 Revelation 3:11 - I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown
167 1 Corinthians 9:25 - Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
168 James 1:12 - Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
169 1 Peter 5:4 - And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away
170 Isaiah 62:3 - You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD's hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God
171 2 Timothy 4:8 - Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day
172 Isaiah 35:10 - And the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads.
173 Genesis 1:3 - And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. -- Genesis 1:11 - Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. -- Genesis 1:24 - And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so.
174 Genesis 1:27 - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them

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Chapter 16.5

The Scroll and the Lamb - Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll? No one in heaven or earth or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside.

Chapter Five - The Seven Seals

The scene unfolds in heaven before the Tribulations begin, in fact it is the opening of the seals that causes the tribulations to slowly unfold. Seals can be used to seal up something or a seal can be a MARK OF A COVENANT with someone. Seals are placed by the owner as his mark of ownership.175 Neither Angels, nor Satan himself could open the seven seals on the scroll.

The one who is deemed worthy must be able to open ALL SEVEN SEALS in progression. The Lion

The Seven Seals

Revelation 5:1 - Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on BOTH SIDES and sealed with SEVEN SEALS.

Revelation 5:2-5 - And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?"
3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth
could open the scroll or even look inside it.
4 I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy
to open the scroll or look inside.
5 Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep!
See, the LION of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals."

John is WITNESS as he see Jesus the Christ as the ONLY ONE with the authority to open the seals on the scroll. Roman law required that a WILL must be sealed seven times. The penalty for breaking the seal by someone not authorized or someone unworthy; is death.

The scroll is not named in scripture or told what it represents, however some students of the Word BS refer to the scroll As The Title Deed To Earth as He not only created it, but He also redeemed it. Others BS embraces that the scroll represents the Ten Commandments whereof the earth will be judged. Others BS embrace that it represents the New Covenant with Israel.176 I will put my laws into their hearts and write them in their minds. (Lots of thoughts and emotions on this one to identify what it represents. In my BS; if the scroll had a name THAT WAS OF IMPORTANTANCE, God would have told us so.)

The Book of Revelation is the only place where Jesus is referred to as the “LION”, but it can also be found in prophecies in the Old Testament. In my Belief System, I can just see in the TAPERSTY workmanship of the “THE LION”, seamlessly interwoven in it His majesty, sovereignty, and judgment.

Jesus’ genealogy stems from Judah whose standard or banner was the Lion. 177

175 Romans 4:10 - And he received the sign of circumcision, a SEAL of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised -- Exodus 28:36 - Make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a SEAL: HOLY TO THE LORD -- Matthew 27:66 - So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a SEAL on the stone and posting the guard
176 Jeremiah 31:31-33 - The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people
177 Genesis 49:9 - You are a LION'S CUB, O Judah -- Isaiah 11:1 - A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit -- Isaiah 11:10 - In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a BANNER for the peoples; the nations will rally to him

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Did you see it? John WEPT because he did not know of anyone who was WORTHY to open the seven seals on the scroll, BUT... BUT... I bet you missed it... It was a SET UP from the beginning just for John to report... Heaven has been witness to what has transpired... The 24 Sprit Filled elders surrounding the throne KNEW that the LION of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, is worthy and able to open the scroll with its seven seals.

In my BS I see John and the RAPTURED CHURCH present in heaven being given a sermonette illuminating that there is only ONE that is WORTHY; Jesus Christ the Lamb of God. NOTE: The OT prophets were actors and would act out a scene so that God’s people would remember it and take heed. I can just hear them now.... Let’s go over and see what that old fool PROPHET is going to do today.

The Lamb

The Lamb is characteristic of; Christ at his birth; meekness, grace and as Savior. Notice Christ is standing, He has just returned from earth and has not yet set down at the right hand of the father.

Lamb is used 29 times in the Revelation; the Bible can be summarized by tracing the Lamb through the scriptures. “Behold the Lamb of God”178 – “Worthy is the Lamb”179 - "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”180 - “For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed”.181

Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb and the Lion is the center of chapter five

A HORN was a symbol for a kingdom and the mention of other horns indicates a PROGRESSION of kingdoms. Here the symbol Seven means completeness and is “The complete kingdom of Christ”, which includes Jews and Gentiles.

The SEVEN EYES are the characteristics of the complete Holy Spirit. 182
Man was made a little lower than the angels.183 God sent his son Jesus, also made a little lower than

the angels184 that he should experience everything as man before he is crowned with glory and honor. Right Hand of God

God is the one on the Throne and “THE RIGHT HAND” is His hand of AUTHORITY, POWER and MAJESTY.185 He gives the Scroll to Jesus the Lamb of God who is no longer our INTERCESSOR, because we as the church are now with Him. He is ready to move and to rule as JUDGE. If you do not embrace as Pre-Tribulation Rapture, I can understand that it will be hard for your BS to accept this.

178 John 1:36 - When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!”
179 Revelation 5:12 - And they sang in a mighty chorus: “WORTHY IS THE LAMB who was slaughtered— to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing
180 John 1:29 - The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world - - 2 Chronicals 35:1 - Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the 14 day
181 1 Corenthians 5:7 - Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed -- 1 Peter 1:18-20 - But with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world -- Acts 8:32 - He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth
182 Isaiah 11:2-9 - The Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD with righteousness he will judge with justice he will give decisions Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness his sash
183 Psalm 8:4-5 - What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him. You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor
184 Hebrews 2:7-9 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone
185 Exodus 15:6 - Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power. Your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy. -- Psalm 63:8 - My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. -- Psalm 118:16 - The LORD's right hand is lifted high; the LORD's right hand has done mighty things!" -- Isaiah 41:13 - For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear;

Revelation 5:6 - Then I saw a LAMB, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven HORNS and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

Revelation 5:7 - He came and took the scroll from the RIGHT HAND of Him who sat on the throne.

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Revelation 5:8-10 - And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb.
Each one had a harp and they were holding

GOLDEN BOWLS full of incense,
which are the prayers of the saints.186
9 And THEY SANG a NEW SONG:
"You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God

from every tribe and language and people and nation.
10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."

The singers have to be THE REDEEMED187 from the earth, because angels cannot sing this song. Many people worship God, but not Jesus Christ; this is an insult to the Father. The elders represent the Priesthood of the body of Christ PRESENTING THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS and their harps are symbolic of their offered praise to God and the Lamb

Bunch of Angels

Ten thousand times ten thousand or 100 million is to be taken as a “figure of speech”, as innumerable – such as sand of the sea or stars in the sky.188 Seventy times seven – is a figure of speech... Forgive so many times that you will lose count of how many times you have forgiven someone.189 Remember seven is completeness.

Just for fun, if you take this number LITERALLY, it would mean Satan had already taken one-third or 50 million Angels with him when he rebelled... So it’s still “two to one”, God’s favor. Angels have power, but do not have thrones or crowns or SOULS, so they cannot be saved or redeemed if they sin.

The Angels Sing

These SEVEN words, Power, Wealth, Wisdom, Strength, Honor, Glory and Praise are the attributes of Christ – The number SEVEN is symbolic of completeness.

Did you see it? Scripture says THEY sang... In my BS, I see the “THEY” are the 24 Elders, the Angels, THE CHURCH, and ALL of Gods other living creatures in heaven SINGING PRAISES.

Angels can SPEAK, SERVE, SING, PRAISE, and WORSHIP God.

186 Psalm 141:2 - May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
187 Revelation 14:3 - And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
188 Genesis 41:49 - Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure. -- Genesis 32:12 - I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.” -- Hebrews 11:12 - from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
189 Matthew 18:21-22 - How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, until seven times: but, until SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN.

Revelation 5:11 - Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.

Revelation 5:12 - In a loud voice THEY (the angels and the Church) sang: "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom
and strength and honor and glory and praise!"

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In my BS, I crawl into the room with John as he tries to WRITE and I am overwhelmed as I hear 50 million Angels in the throne room, half in a the circle, SINGING and CHANTING... “Power,” then 50 million on the other half responding, “Wealth” then passing it back to the other side chanting “Wisdom”, then back “Strength”; What an awesome sound; a choir of an uncountable worshipers.

In my BS, as I climb into this heavenly scene, I hear PRAISE, not only in heaven, but on earth, as well as under the earth and even on the sea praising the Lamb for all those that will come to the saving grace of Jesus Christ during this TRIBULATION PERIOD.

ALL OF CREATION praises God each time someone believes in FAITH and receives Jesus as their savior, repents and does a U-TURN back from their wicked ways.190

EACH TIME Satan is defeated and another Soul is plucked from the pit of Hell, I hear the deafening applause as the “HALLELUJAH CHORUS” from Handel’s Messiah rings out even into the depth of earth.

Did you see it? While the Holy Spirit’s restraining forces of Satan activities have now been removed from earth, the Holy Spirit’s Saving grace has remained calling out to all who would hear.

Here’s where we are

•   In Moses time, their tribulation plagues “Passed over” the children of Israel, but not this time. The Jews and the Gentiles get it full force of His wrath, there is no Passover.

•   The tribulation is a seven year period in which God deals with Israel preparing her for the Messiah as well as the rest of the un-believing nations.191 There will be judgments,

  punishment, destruction, darkness and desolation.

•   The tribulation period starts with the opening of the first seal which occurs shortly

  after the rapture or translation of the Church. Many facets of the tribulation began long before the rapture, by as much as 30 years, such as the birth of the Antichrist and False Prophet. So in essence you could say that the rapture and tribulation “sort of” overlap each other.

•   The Antichrist will already be on the scene before the rapture as a peaceful conqueror and helps establish the United States of Europe which we call the revived Roman Empire. He is not a world leader as of yet and by all outwardly appearances, seems to be a good guy.

•   Egypt and Russia have become a threat to Israel. The Antichrist, probably a Nobel Peace Prize winner enters into a Peace agreement between Rome and Israel which starts the time clock on the tribulation period. Israel has peace for 31⁄2 years until he breaks the agreement.

•   Isaiah warned the Jews that the agreement would be an agreement with death.192 The last 3 1⁄2 years are known as the “Great” Tribulations; “Jacobs Trouble”.

  190 Matthew 18:12-14 - If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? HE REJOICES OVER IT MORE THAN OVER THE NINETY-NINE that never went astray. It is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
  191 Malachi 4:5-6 - See, I WILL SEND YOU THE PROPHET ELIJAH BEFORE THAT GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers;
  192 Isaiah 28:15 - We have entered into a covenant with death, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place - Isaiah 28:18 - Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand.

Revelation 5:13-14 - Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, SINGING:

"To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and honor and glory and power, FOR EVER AND EVER!"
14 The four LIVING creatures (Representing creation; beast, cattle, man, and fowl)

said, "Amen," and the elders (Representing the 12 tribes and 12 Disciples) FELL DOWN and worshiped.

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and that he (Israel) WILL BE SAVED out of it. 193

From the Dead Sea Scrolls – The Priestly Messiah
“And now I have much grief, my children, because of your lewdness and witchcrafts, and idolatries which you shall practice.... And ye shall mingle in the abominations of the Gentiles.

For which things sake (The Tribulations) the Lord shall bring upon you famine and pestilence, death and the sword... The laying waste of the land, the enslavement of yourselves among the Gentiles.”

The Scroll - Rabbit Trail
During trying times a Jewish family might have to give their land as a pledge to satisfy a debt. The

debtor could be taken as a slave for six years, but at the seventh go free. Land could not be taken away permanently,194 but could be pledged till the debt was paid.

A scroll was prepared, written on the inside describing the possession, then rolled up. The terms, conditions and qualifications for a redeemer to purchase back the possessions were written on the outside of the scroll and then it was sealed with SEVEN SEALS and placed in the Temple. When a qualified redeemer was found to open the scroll, the possessions were returned.

God gave Adam the right to reign over the earth. He lost that right to Satan when he sinned... the land became cursed with sorrow, thistles and thorns and

Man became a slave to sin UNTIL THE DEBT WAS PAID.

The redeemer of the scroll
had to meet certain qualifications;195

Be a near kinsman; Acting freely on his own; and Have the ability to pay the price.

Upon redemption; the Priest verified the qualifications; the redeemer paid the price196 and then opened the scroll and redeemed the land.

Remembering a day to the Lord is like a thousand years;197 the slave would work 6 years (6,000 years) then go free at the seventh year. We are entering the 7th year (the last 1,000 years; the millennium reign.) when Christ will redeem the saints and the earth; all His creation.

Each seal is a day and at the seventh seal the redemption of man and earth is complete. God made Adam the dictator of the earth, but he lost it... A near kinsman, God’s Son Jesus, was ready, willing and able to redeem the earth and free the slaves to sin.198 Christ’s paid the price with His death on the cross. He has the power to lay down His life and the power to pick it up again.199

DEBT PAID; we have been redeemed and not only do we get the land back, but it is recreated NEW just like it was in the Garden of Eden. PRAISE THE LIVING LORD.

Man’s inheritance was lost in the Garden of Eden, but was redeemed by Jesus at the CROSS.200

193 Jeremiah 30:7 - How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, BUT HE WILL BE SAVED OUT OF IT -- Daniel 12:1 - There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time THY PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED, every one that shall be found written in the book -- Matthew 24:21-22 - For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now-and never to be equaled again If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

194 Leviticus 25:23-26 - The land must not be sold permanently his nearest relative is to come and redeem what his countryman has sold 195 Matthew 3:17 - This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.
196 1 Peter 1:18-20 - You were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
197 2 Peter 3:8 - With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

198 Revelation 22:16 - The Angel gives you this testimony... I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star
199 John 10:17-18 - I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again
200 Romans 8:1-3 - Because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death God did this by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in

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DOOMSDAY CLOCK
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, starting in 1947, displayed a DOOMSDAY CLOCK set at

seven minutes before midnight. This symbolizes how close these scientists feel we are to a NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON. It has moved backwards eight times and forward sixteen times. It has continued to move forward closing the gap towards the total destruction of the world.

•   January 1947, The Doomsday Clock displayed for the first time Seven minutes till Midnight

•   January 1991, The Doomsday Clock was set at Seventeen minutes the largest movement ever.

•   January 2010, The Doomsday Clock was set BACK a single minute for the first time in its 63-

  year history. This moved the clock from the original 7 minutes before midnight to six minutes.

•   January 2021 the clock is NOW setting at 100 seconds until midnight.

  NOTE: Manhasneverinventedaweaponthathehasnotused.201

  There is not an “intermediate place” for the unsaved when they die. There is no purgatory, or money that can be paid, or prayers that can be offered for a loved one. There’s not another chance to embrace Christ. There is no debate with God.202 It’s all over, you CANNOT crossover.203

  Someone dies every 20 seconds in the United States, that’s three people every minute not counting the murdered aborted babies. Everyone will spend eternity somewhere!

  In the true story of the Rich man and Lazarus, when they both died, neither ceased to exist, they were both still alive, but in different places. It’s not a pretty picture. Luke 16:19-31

  Every eight seconds there is a new birth, someone that needs to hear the good news of Jesus Christ. How will they hear when the Holy Spirit and the church are gone?

  If you embrace Christianity just to have a “FIRE ESCAPE”, then you just... “Don’t get it”.

  Luke 16:19-31 – The True Story of a Rich man and a Poor man named Lazarus

  Jesus said, “There was a certain RICH MAN who was splendidly clothed in purple and fine linen and who lived each day in luxury. At his gate lay a poor man named LAZARUS who was covered with sores. “Finally, the poor man died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham. The RICH MAN also died and was buried, and his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Abraham in the far distance with LAZARUS at his side

  The RICH MAN shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have some pity! Send LAZARUS over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. I am in anguish in these flames.’ “But Abraham said to him, ‘Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and LAZARUS had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish. And besides, there is a GREAT CHASM separating us. No one can cross over to you from here, and no one can cross over to us from there.’

  Then the RICH MAN said, ‘Please, Father Abraham, at least send him to my father’s home. For I have five brothers, and I want him to warn them so they don’t end up in this place of torment.’ “But Abraham said, ‘Moses and the prophets have warned them. Your brothers can read what they

wrote.’ The RICH MAN replied, ‘No, Father Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will repent of their sins and turn to God.’ But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses

and the prophets, they won’t listen even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Note: This is a true story, a parable never has a person’s given name recorded.

Christ Jesus -- Hebrews 2:14 - So that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death-that is, the devil -- Hebrews 2:9 - He is now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone
201 Deuteronomy 30:19- I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live – Revelation 3:20 - Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

202 Daniel 4:35 - No one can hold back his hand or say to him: "What have you done?" -- Romans 9:20-21 - But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
203 Hebrews 9:27 - It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment -- Romans 1:32 - Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them -- Romans 2:13 - For it is not those who HEAR the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who OBEY the law who will be declared righteous

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Chapter 16.6

Breaking of the Seven Seals

The Thing that are to Come - The Third Judgment; Israel The Trumpets - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Chapter Six - The Seven Seals

God wants us to understand the ONLY prophetic book in the New Testament, He told John not to seal it up because the time is at hand.204 While it seems like prophecy, he is actually only reporting the conclusion of what the scriptures have already reported

The subject is not Seals, Trumpets or Bowls, but is the unveiling of Jesus Christ and His second coming, it’s about His bride the church, and it’s about Satan, his evil opposition and final defeat. It’s about Israel His chosen people with the Gentiles getting in on the Abrahamic Covenant.

The one who is worthy, Jesus Christ is being revealed; He is directing all the activities from heaven, and is ruling and judging with an Iron Rod.205

Did you see it? Jesus is no longer walking among the Lampstands, these Churches have been removed from earth and are now in heaven with Christ. He is no longer the INTERCESSOR, He is the EXECUTOR of God the Father’s Will.

The Gospel Message of Jesus Christ has now gone out into the uttermost parts of the earth in every language and dialect by way of the Spoken Word, Bibles, Commentaries, the Internet, Radio and Television; everyone has heard. The judgment on earth now begins with the opening of the seals and only those who have rejected the grace of God will enter into the upcoming tribulation period.

NOTE: The Holy Spirit the RESTRAINING FORCE on evil, has been removed from the earth, and things get bad, but it’s the last 3 1⁄2 years that are the worst, there is a war in heaven and Satan and all his rebellious angels are cast down to earth and add to the intensity of the horror, agony and stress; this is known as the GREAT TRIBULALTIONS.

The First Seal - White Horse – Anti-Christ – counterfeit, pseudo Prince of Peace

Scripture says Come to the first horse,
but a more correct translation is a COMMAND meaning GO!

204 Revelation 22:10 - And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
205 Revelation 19:15 - From his mouth came a sharp sword to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an IRON ROD. He will release the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty, like juice flowing from a winepress.

Revelation 6:1-2 - I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the SEVEN SEALS. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!"
2 I looked, and there before me was a WHITE HORSE! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a CROWN, and he rode out AS a conqueror bent on conquest.

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The FIRST SEAL is opened immediately after the RAPTURE of the Church when Christ returns to the Father with the Saints and the Holy Spirit, thus removing all the restraining forces on Satan.206 The scene now shifts from heaven to the earth.

This is the first of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. (Apocalypse means the un-veiling or revelation) The first rider cannot be Jesus Christ because Chronologically, Christ comes “to the earth” at the end of the Tribulation period. This is actually a false Christ.

The horseman rides a victor’s white horse and wears a victor’s crown and has a bow with no arrows. During the tribulation period he will conquer without bloodshed. He will provide a false Peace and become the world ruler or world dictator.207 (This horseman is the anti-Christ).

In your BS, I encourage you to not so much as to think of the anti-Christ as AGAINST Christ, but to see him as INSTEAD of Christ; this is how he wants to see himself. He wants ALL the worship and praise that belongs to the Son of God. 208
We will not know the true name of the rider, the Antichrist, until 3 1⁄2 years into the tribulations.

Scriptures warns us to "WATCH OUT THAT NO ONE DECEIVES YOU,209 for many will come in God’s name, claiming, `I am the Christ,' and will deceive many; then a king of fierce countenance and understanding shall stand up and his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:210 And he will prosper, and will destroy the mighty and the holy people.

He will confirm a COVENANT with many for one `SEVEN. In the middle of the `SEVEN' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering, and then he is going to set up an image of himself to be worshipped in the Holy of Holies in the Temple, this is called the abomination that causes desolation.211

(NOTE: “Seven” is the seven years of tribulation; the “middle” is 3 1⁄2 years into the tribulation.) While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.212

Zephaniah describes the last 3 1⁄2 years of the Great Tribulation, with words like; wrath, distress, anguish, trouble, darkness, gloom, and blackness; building houses, but not live in them... planting vineyards, but not drink the wine.213

Daniel prophesizes that he will show no regard for any god, BUT WILL EXALT HIMSELF above them all and have no regard for women; many students of the word BS holds that he might even be a homosexual.214 He will become very strong, but not by his own power and will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself as superior to all.

Then the lawless one will be REVEALED, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders.215

206 2 Thessalonians 2:7 - For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back (the Holy Spirit) will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way
207 John 5:43 - I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 208 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 - The man of lawlessness is revealed, and will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped PROCLAIMING HIMSELF TO BE GOD
209 Matthew 24:4 -"Watch out that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name, claiming, `I am the Christ,' and will deceive many 210 Daniel 8:23-24 - A king of fierce countenance, and understanding shall stand up, and his power shall be mighty and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people
211 Daniel 9:27- He will confirm a covenant with many for one `seven.' In the middle of the `SEVEN' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And in the Temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him
212 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 - While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape
213 Zephaniah 1:12-18 - Their wealth will be plundered, their houses demolished. They will build houses but not live in them; they will plant vineyards but not drink the wine. The great day of the LORD is near- near and coming quickly. Listen! The cry on the day of the LORD will be bitter, the shouting of the warrior there. That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness; a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and towers.
214 Daniel 11:37-38 - He will SHOW NO REGARD for the gods of his fathers or for the one DESIRED BY WOMEN, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.
215 2 Thessalonians 2:8-9 - Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders

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Prince of princes; yet he will be destroyed, BUT NOT BY HUMAN POWER.216

Judgment #3 – The Jewish Nation is judged.
This occurs during the tribulation period - The location will be in ISRAEL,217 God is the Judge; they will be judged on the rejection of the

prophet’s words, the Jew’s acceptance or rejection of the Trinity; God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

The 144,000 sealed Jews and their converts will be saved

All others stand condemned.

The Tribulation period is primarily about Israel with the Gentiles coming in second; much of it is centered around the Great City of the Lord; Jerusalem.

The Second Seal - Red Horse – War

This is the SECOND SEAL and second of the four horsemen. He has been GIVEN power and he has a large sword. Red and the sword of are symbolic of war.218 Possibly nuclear warfare.

Note: Red is associated with blood, death and terror:

•   The Red Horse of War in Revelation 6:4;

•   The Red Dragon in Revelation 12:3, and

•   The Red Beast in Revelation 17:3.

  This phony rider comes on the scene promoting Peace, but it’s temporary, only 3 1⁄2 years; only Christ will bring permeant peace. As part of God’s Divine plan, He gives the rider authority to TAKE Peace from the world. War is going to be fought in countries that have not seen war on their own soil.

  Eventually, Russia and its allies invade the Middle East and finally attack Israel. The battle will escalate until it involves all the major power on earth and finally becomes the greatest battle in history, the battle of Armageddon.

  It would be my “hearts desire” that everyone could here Glen Campbell’s song, “The four horsemen of the apocalypse”. It will bring tears to your eyes. He was obviously inspired by God during the recording session and with the exception of the identity of the white horse, it is straight from the word of God. You should be able to hear it on the internet. The album is “Show me Your Way”. It will touch you. I promise... play it loud

  216 Daniel 8:24-25 - He will become very strong, but not by his own power He will destroy the mighty men and the holy people. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power
  217 Revelation 16:1-21 - Go, pour out the seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth." and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed, huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. Islands fled away and the mountains could not be found -- Jeremiah 30:4-7 - How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it
  218 Nahum 2:3 - The shields of his soldiers are RED; the warriors are clad in scarlet. -- Joshua 10:28 - That day Joshua took Makkedah.
  He put the city and its king to the SWORD and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. -- Matthew 24:6-8 - You will hear
  of WARS and rumors of wars Nation will rise against nation. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

Revelation 6:3-4 - When the Lamb opened the SECOND SEAL, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" (GO)

4 Then another horse came out, a FIERY RED one.
Its rider was given power to TAKE PEACE FROM THE EARTH and to make men slay each other. To him was GIVEN a large sword.

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This is the THIRD SEAL and the third of the four horsemen and he has a pair of scales. After a war there is always a shortage of food and supplies. Black is symbolic of mourning, suffering, and famine. There is worldwide economic collapse, a financial catastrophe.219

The Ephah was a unit of dry measurement, it was found on medallions and was a symbol of commerce. The medallion had a two winged woman holding the Ephah and a balance scale. It is symbolic of the satanic world system.

The scales are symbolic of measurement during famine. A days wage would buy only one meal of quality wheat, or you could get three meals of cheaper barley for the same wage, but still nothing left over for any other essentials. Barley produced a black bread and was eaten by the slaves and very poor. You would have to share whatever you did get with your family.

The rider of the black horse has some restrictions. The oil and the wine could not be touched allowing the wealthy to still enjoy luxuries of wine, toiletries and beauty aids, but the middle class common man and the poor could simply not afford it. Grain, Oil & Wine were the key products of Israel.

THE TRIBULATION PERIOD IS ABOUT ISRAEL with the rest of the nations secondary. Fourth Seal - Pale (greenish) Horse – Death

This is the FOURTH SEAL. I actually feel like there were 5 HORSEMEN, as Death was the fourth claiming their body, then Hades, the Grim Reaper, “THE FIFTH” followed right behind claiming their souls. Since Hades is also present, you can bet the majority of those killed are the unrighteous.

The Greenish color suggest perhaps an epidemic of leprosy. Worldwide death comes through famines, hunger, disease, epidemics, pestilence and civil violence. There will not be enough antibiotics and penicillin to go around; death and the grave takes the body and Hades takes the spirit.220 Unless you are BORN AGAIN this is what follows; the death of the spirit is eternal separation from God.

Today as of 7/26/2010, there are 6,858,766,806 people in the world. At this point the saved have already have been “RAPTURED” so a fourth of them, 1,714,691,701 unsaved people, will be killed. Don’t get too mathematical with me here, but just run with the concept of the staggering number of dead carcass’s that God feeds to the birds and wild animals, and this is not even the final battle of Armageddon. If the fourth that’s killed is confined to a specific area instead of being spread over the entire world, then the results will be catastrophic, staggering, maybe no survivors at all.

Starving animals will roam the streets and attack men.

219 Hosea 2:8-9 - She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold- which they used for Baal. Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, -- Lamentations 5:10 - OUR SKIN WAS BLACK like an oven because of the TERRIBLE FAMINE -- Jeremiah 14:4 - The ground is cracked because there is NO RAIN in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads -- Lamentations 5:10 - Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger -- Lamentations 4:4 - The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask for bread, and no man break it unto them

220 Luke 16:23 - In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
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Revelation 6:5-6 - When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" (GO) I looked, and there before me was a BLACK HORSE! Its rider was holding a PAIR OF SCALES in his hand.
6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

Revelation 6:7-8 - When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "COME!" (GO)
8 I looked, and there before me was a PALE HORSE! Its rider was named

Death, and Hades was following close behind him.

They were given power over a fourth of the earth to
kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

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This will be World War III and will take place almost immediately after the rapture. Russia invades Israel, but is defeated by divine intervention. It lasts only one day.

The skin, when a pale Greenish color is suggestive of a physically sick person with a deadly fever, maybe germ warfare. Sickness of this magnitude is referred to as a plague such as Malaria, Cholera and AIDS which are deadly. Some plagues today are even given names.

 SMALLPOX(TheRedDeath),
 BUBONICPLAGUE(TheBlackDeath),  TUBERCULOSIS(TheWhiteDeath)

The Prophet Ezekiel says to call out to every kind of BIRD and all the WILD ANIMALS: `Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice where you will eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes.221

Jesus Himself said that before His second coming, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.222

NOTE: The first four seals or FOUR HORSEMEN in Revelation are in the same order as Jesus predicted about the beginning of the TRIBULATION PERIOD. Is that far out or what.

Matthew 24:5-8 - Jesus Predictions of the Four Horsemen

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; (White Horse)

and shall deceive many.

6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of war: see that ye be not

troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom

(Red Horse): and there shall be famines (Black Horse), and

pestilences (Pale Horse), and earthquakes, in diverse places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. KJV

The Four Horsemen ride throughout the entire Tribulation period with ESCALATED activity. Fifth Seal – Souls under the Altar

The scene now shifts to heaven where the alter is present and so is the purifying blood of Jesus Christ.223

Since the “Dead in Christ” have already been raptured, then the souls under the altar are the people who are coming to the Lord during the Tribulation period and sacrificed their lives because of their decision to follow Christ, and even more souls are coming. They are literally being slaughtered on the street.

“Under The Alter” is symbolic of the blood of the sacrifices that was poured out under or at the base of the altar as mentioned in the OT.224

221 Matthew 24:28 - Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather -- Ezekiel 39:17-21 - Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel -- Ezekiel 14:21 - I send my FOUR SORE JUDGMENTS upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast
222 Luke 21:10-13 - Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, great earthquakes, famines and plagues terrifying things, great miraculous signs from heaven, .a time of great persecution. You will be dragged into prisons because you are my followers 223 Hebrews 9:23 - That is why the Tabernacle and everything in it, which were COPIES of things in heaven, had to be purified by the blood of animals. But the real things in heaven had to be purified with far better sacrifices than the blood of animals.

224 1 Kings 8:22 - Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven -- Exodus 29:12 - Take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar -- Leviticus 4:7 - The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar. The rest of the bull's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting

Revelation 6:9 - When he opened the FIFTH SEAL,
I saw UNDER THE ALTAR the souls of those who had been slain

because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

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The Prophets and the Saints want their death avenged, so obviously their murderers are still alive on earth. Because a new dispensation has started, that of judgment and not that of mercy, the souls under the alter are NOT rebuked for asking for “vengeance” for their murder.

These Old Testament and New Testament Saints are given white robe of “righteousness” and are told to wait a little longer for the others that would also be martyred during the tribulation and would soon join them.225 A great host from Israel and many other nations come to the Lord during the Tribulation.

Sixth Seal – The Day of Wrath – Earthquake

In my BS, this is the beginning of the GREAT TRIBULATIONS which occurs 3 1⁄2 years into the tribulation period. This is when War in Heaven breaks out.226 The Archangel Michael and his angels fight against the Dragon that Ancient Serpent called the Devil, or Satan and he is hurled to the earth, with his angels and is mad as hell and unleashes his wrath ADDING to God’s DAY OF WRATH.

The Prophet Haggai says; there will be a Great Earthquake... ‘I will once more SHAKE the heavens and the earth.227 I will SHAKE all nations, from this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the NINTH month.228 (The 9th month translates to our month of December)

In the past 4,000 years we have recorded a loss of some 13 Million lives and this one great earthquake will surpass all of that. Imagine an earthquake that produces DARKNESS that is so dark that you can feel it.229 Using our modern terminology, the prophet Haggai appears to indicate that the date of this earthquake will occur on the December 24th... We don’t know the year, but it’s after the Tribulation.

Stars fall – Mountains move

225 Zechariah 8:20-23 - `Let us go at once to entreat the LORD and seek the LORD Almighty. "In those days ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, `Let us go with you, because we have heard God is with you 226 Revelation 12:7-9 - Then WAR BROKE OUT IN HEAVEN. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. The great DRAGON was hurled down—that ANCIENT SERPENT called the DEVIL, or SATAN. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

227 Haggai 2:6-7 - `In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, -- Luke 21:25-26 - There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea, the heavenly bodies will be shaken -- Matthew 24:7 - There will be famines and earthquakes in various places
228 Haggai 2:18-21 - From this day on, from this TWENTY-FOURTH DAY OF THE NINTH MONTH, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid. The word of the LORD came to Haggai a second time on THE TWENTY-FOURTH DAY OF THE MONTH: "Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I will shake the heavens and the earth.

229 Exodus 10:21-22 - "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt--DARKNESS THAT CAN BE FELT - Joel 2:2 - A day of DARKNESS and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness- Joel 2:10 - Before them the earth shakes, the sky trembles, the sun and moon are DARKENED, and the stars no longer shine -- Joel 2:30-31 - I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to DARKNESS and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful dayoftheLORD --Joel3:15-ThesunandmoonwillbeDARKENED,andthestarsnolongershine

Revelation 6:10-11 - They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true,

until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?"

11 Then each of them was given a WHITE ROBE, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.

Revelation 6:12 - I watched as he opened the SIXTH SEAL. There was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE. The sun turned BLACK like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

Revelation 6:13-14 - and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
14 The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

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my BS also takes it quite LITERALLY as in what happens in a nuclear explosion.230

Isaiah Reports how it all goes down

•   Isaiah 13:9-10 - See, the day of the LORD is coming --a cruel day, with wrath and fierce

  anger--to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it. The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.

•   Isaiah 13:6-8 - Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. Because of this, all hands will go limp, every man's heart will melt. Terror will seize them, pain and anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame. (Sounds Nuclear to me)

•   Isaiah 13:13 - Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.

•   Isaiah 34:4 - All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved and the sky rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

  Stars can also refer to meteors which turn red when they enter our atmosphere. Similarly nuclear tipped missiles turn red when launched from space. Russia has what is known as a “Fractional Orbital Bomb” consisting of a dozen missiles that can be fired all at once from a space platform.

  The earthquake coupled with the darkening of the sun and moon is similar to the results of a NUCLEAR explosion where the atmosphere rolls back on itself, and then rushes back into the vacuum causing tremendous destruction.

  Hide Us

  There is no discrimination, Presidents and plain citizens, rich and poor all seek refuge from His wrath. The caves may also be refuge from the fallout from atomic radiation. Just saying.
  As bad as things get, most will still not accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah.

  The Wrath of the Lamb seems like an OXYMORON; Lamb/Wrath, this is the same thing as the Wrath of God and the Day of the Lord, it speaks of that Great Day of Wrath from the Lord, it is not vindictive, but is WAR declared against all unrighteousness and ungodliness. The Great Day, is the entire tribulation period of seven years. Only those who accept Jesus Christ will be “able to stand”,231 and those who do will be probably be martyred. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.232 - Prepare to meet your God.233

  230 Nahum 1:5 - In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills MELT away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed. - Revelation 20:11 - And I saw a great white throne and the one sitting on it. The earth and SKY FLED FROM HIS PRESENCE
  231 Malachi 3:2 - But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire or a launderer's soap. -- Luke 21:36 - Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man -- Ephesians 6:11-12- Put on the full armor of God, For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms -- Matthew 18:2-3 - I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children BELIEVING WITH FAITH, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven

  232 Hebrews 10:30-31 - The Lord will judge his people; it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 233 Amos 4:12 - Prepare to meet your God

Revelation 6:15 - Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Revelation 6:16-17 - They called to the mountains and the rocks,
"Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne

and from the WRATH OF THE LAMB!
17 For THE GREAT DAY of their wrath has come, and WHO CAN STAND?"

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Chapter 16.7

Sealing of the 144,000 of Israel

The un-numbered Multitude in White Robes Silence in Heaven for Thirty Minutes

Events in the Middle of the Tribulation

Satan and his angels are cast out of heaven – Antichrist breaks his covenant – Temple is taken over by the Gentiles – Two Witnesses are slain and then raised up – Russia is out of the way and the Antichrist begins his dictatorship and his terror is revealed. – Israel is persecuted and many believers are killed.

Events in the Last half of the Tribulation

The Seven last plagues – Fall of Babylon – Battle of Armageddon – Christ returns to earth

Chapter Seven - The Two Groups
There are two groups addressed in the upcoming chapter seven:

1. 1)  The Sealed Jews......... Verses 2-8

2. 2)  The Saved Gentiles... Verses 9-17

Four Angels – Four Winds

Christ taught that the angels would have a part in gathering the elect from the four winds.234 The FOUR ANGELS have authority over weather conditions on Earth. Changes in wind patterns can cause a hurricane, typhoon, dust storms, tornados, roaring seas and strange tides.235

The Winds come from the North, East, South and West.236 These FOUR ANGELS, when directed, can release hurricane force winds237 coming from every direction all at once. Along with ministering angels that have authority over winds are those with authority over fire238 and water;239 things of nature.

234 Matthew 24:31 - He will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will GATHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS
235 Luke 21:25 - There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea
236 Isaiah 11:12 - He will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH
237 Daniel 7:2 - "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN churning up the great sea
238 Revelation14:18 - Another angel, who had charge of the FIRE, came from the altar and called in a loud voice; Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe.
239 Revelation 16:4-5 - I heard the angel in charge of the WATERS say: "You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One

Revelation 7:1 - After this I saw FOUR ANGELS standing at the FOUR CORNERS of the earth, holding back the FOUR WINDS of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.

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The Seal of the Living God speaks of protection and possession. The Christian today is sealed by the Holy Spirit instantly when he receives Christ and inherits eternal life.240 God promised Abraham a son, who would be the beginning of a “special race” of people that would be blessed of God, a race which the Messiah would be born. A people that would be a witness to the pagan world.

Their existence provided the Old and New Testaments and protected and preserved the purity of the scriptures. The Twelve Tribes of Israel produces the 144,000 Evangelist.

144,000

Revelation 7:2-3 - Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:
3 "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees UNTIL we put A SEAL

on the FOREHEADS OF THE SERVANTS OF OUR GOD."

Revelation 7:4-10 - Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
5 From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000,

6 from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
7 from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,

8 from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

All of Revelation is NOT written in chronically order as this sealing occurs before the tribulation gets underway. God seals 144,000 Israelite Jews,241 His servants, to protect them from the wrath that is starting to be unloaded.

Today there are some cults, groups, and dominations that claim they are the 144,000

•   The Mormons claim that they ONLY are the 144,000 who will inherit eternal life and the

  remainder of their denomination will just live in Paradise.

•   Jehovah Witnesses feel that they are the 144,000. However, scripture says there will NOT be

  one Gentile in the whole bunch. NOT ONE!
  These special 144,000 Jews were not true believers before the Rapture, but the rapture witnessed to

  them as well as the preaching of the TWO WITNESSES, as ordained by God.242
  This mark is the seal of the living God signifying His OWNERSHIP and guaranteed PROTECTION.

  It is literally on their foreheads just as the mark of the beast (antichrist) is literal on the forehead or hand of the lost.243

  GOOD NEWS, when we become believers, we are also marked with THE SEAL OF GOD forever.244

  240 2 Corenthians 1:21-22 - He anointed us, and SET HIS SEAL OF OWNERSHIP ON US, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come -- Ephesians 4:30 - Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom YOU WERE SEALED for the day of redemption. -- 2 Corenthians 5:5 - It is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come -- John 6:27 - Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his SEAL OF APPROVAL

  241 Ephesians 1:13 - HAVING BELIEVED, YOU WERE MARKED IN HIM WITH A SEAL, THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT
  242 Revelation 14:1 - Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads
  243 Revelation 13:16-17 - He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead which is the name of the beast
  244 Ephesians 1:13 - HAVING BELIEVED, YOU WERE MARKED IN HIM WITH A SEAL, THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT -- Ephesians 4:30 - Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom YOU WERE SEALED for the day of redemption. -- 2 Corenthians 1:21-22 - He

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Some say the 12 tribes are now LOST, but they are not lost to God. After the rapture, just as the tribulation period begins these Jews will be completed and saved. God by His Devine plan already knows where they are and who they are. They are already SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE NATIONS where they will testify of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth then the end will come.

Oddly enough, there were twelve spies, representing the twelve tribes of Israel that went into the Promised Land, TEN of the twelve came back with a negative report and would not take the land as God commanded. Those TEN TRIBES are now scattered.245

The TEN tribes of the Northern kingdom of Israel were all carried off into captivity and scattered among the nations, lost, vanished. The remaining TWO tribes in the Southern kingdom were Judah and Dan. Judah is where we get the name JEW and is the tribe from which our Messiah Jesus the Christ would be born. The Jewish nation is the only people that did not lose their national identity when stripped from their homeland, but hung to the vision of returning back to the nation of Israel.

The Jews are the “CHOSEN PEOPLE” although they rejected their own Messiah Jesus the Christ just as the prophets taught. This produced the “NEW COVENANT” 246 in which the Gentiles were GRAFTED into the branch and would receive ALL the promises passed down from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Messiah will return to JERUSALEM “the most Holy place in the world”.

SIDEBAR

The tribe of Ephraim is missing from the sealed 12,000 mentioned in Revelation 7:4-10, because this tribe led the way in causing the civil war which divided the ten tribes of the north form the two tribes in the South.

The tribe of Dan might possibly be the source of the Antichrist247 since its tribe is missing in the lineup in Revelation 7:4-10 and thus was substituted.

Did you see it? God Loves Israel so much; that while these two tribes LOST their WITNESS during the tribulation period and their REWARDS later in Heaven, the believers in Ephraim and Dan WILL NOT lose their SALVATION.248

The Saved Gentiles

God had poured out his Spirit on the 144,000 life changers that were endued with the same power as on the day of Pentecost;249 the gift of tongues and with the zeal of the Apostle Paul they testified of Jesus Christ. Every nation and tribe heard them speaking in their own language and dialect.

anointed us, and SET HIS SEAL OF OWNERSHIP ON US, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come -- 2 Corenthians 5:5 - It is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come - - John 6:27 - Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his SEAL OF APPROVAL
245 Numbers 13:31-32 - We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored.
246 Jeremiah 31:31 - The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a NEW COVENANT (Jesus) with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah -- Hebrews 9:15 - For this reason Christ is the mediator of a NEW COVENANT that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance
247 Genesis 49:17 – PROP0HECY - Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward 248 Hosea 11:8-9 - HOW CAN I GIVE UP ON YOU, EPHRAIM? HOW CAN I TURN YOU LOOSE, ISRAEL? I can't bear to even think such thoughts. My insides churn in protest
249 Acts 2:16-21- In the last days, God says, I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL PEOPLE even on my servants, both men and women. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Revelation 7:9 - After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that NO ONE COULD COUNT, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb.

They were wearing WHITE ROBES
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The Scene is in heaven, these are saved GENTILES coming out of the Tribulation; the palm branches are symbolic of VICTORY, of conquering heroes returning from a conquest. Palm branches were waved and scattered before Jesus as their king as He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.250

Our WORKS and efforts are as FILTHY RAGS that have now been transformed into White Robes of purity and righteousness of Jesus Christ and THE WORK HE DID on the cross.

Multitudes of Gentiles, people from every nation were saved,251 not saved because of anything that they did, but because they BELIEVED and were SEALED by the Holy Spirit and ENDURED to the end.252 Many were martyred and lost their earthly life, only to gain eternal life with Christ.

Christ’s Return to earth and His triumphal entry will be with palm branches and so great a multitude of the redeemed that no one can count. This time on a GREAT white stallion,253 not a little donkey.254

Praise, Glory, Wisdom, Thanks, Honor, Power, Strength

Revelation 7:10-12 - And they cried out in a loud voice:
SALVATION belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb. 11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures.

They FELL DOWN on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying: "Amen! PRAISE and GLORY and WISDOM and THANKS and HONOR and POWER and STRENGTH be to our God
for ever and ever. Amen!"

Did you see it? Every time the SHEKINAH GLORY of God is present they can’t stand up255... The Pentecostals would say; they were “Slain in the Spirit”.

The scene presented here is UNIVERSAL WORSHIP in heaven by the four living Creatures, the twenty four Elders, OT Saints, the NT Church Saints and a greater company of Tribulation Saints that were not part of the NT church and it appears that the Angels have joined in too.

Some Students of the Word BS reject the thought of Salvation for angels since they do not have a soul and therefore cannot be redeemed if they sin. My BS says that these are sinless angels, otherwise they could not be present giving PRAISE for every sinner that endured to the end.

The Martyred Dead

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! 256 The “WHO ARE THEY?” are a specific group of souls that will accept Christ as the Messiah during the Tribulation and then lose their lives. They are the martyred dead.

250 John 12:12-13 - They took PALM BRANCHES and went out to meet Jesus shouting, "HOSANNA!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Blessed is the King of Israel
251 Revelation 7:9 - A great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb wearing white robes and were holding palm branches

252 Matthew 24:13 - But the one who ENDURES to the end will be saved
253 Revelation 19:11 - Heaven opened, a WHITE HORSE and its Rider named Faithful & True, judges & makes war in pure righteousness 254 Zechariah 9:9 - See, your KING comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and RIDING ON A DONKEY,
255 Numbers 20:6 - They fell down with their faces ⌊to the ground⌋, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. -- Numbers 20:7 – They went to the entrance of the Tabernacle, where they fell face down on the ground. Then the glorious presence of the LORD appeared to them, -- Joshua 5:14 - I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth
256 Zechariah 9:9 - Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey— riding on a donkey’s colt.

Revelation 7:13-14 - Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes-WHO ARE THEY, and where did they come from?"
14 I answered, "Sir, you know." And he said,

"These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them WHITE
in the blood of the Lamb.

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THE BEAST and loved the Jews and ENDURED the terrible times of the tribulation to their end. 257 His Tent

In my BS, this is not the Church as they are never identified with the temple; these are the Saints who endured the tribulations and most probably were martyred. His tent is His GLORY and Protection covering His saints.258

Did you see it? Those that thirst and hunger after the Word of God did not take the Mark of the Beast and were forced to hide outside with the scorching sun beating down on them. They were forced to beg and steal for food and water. They will never hunger and thirst again. (Praise the Living Lord !)

The Shepherd

The Living Waters is the indwelling in us of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.259 As our Shepherd;

•   He provides a relationship that leads and guides.

•   He comforts, restores, anoints, gives hope, blessings, goodness and love.

•   He supplies our needs in abundance, and takes away all fear.

•   He tests, protects, gives rest, provides healing, and lives with us forever.260

  Awesome! Can you say Hallelujah !!
  OK, this is where we are.

•   Israelisbackintheirland,buttheyareinunbeliefaboutJesusChristastheirMessiah.

•   TheTemplehasbeenrestoredandworshiphasbegun.

•   TheAnti-ChristisrulingtheUnitedStatesofEurope,therevivedRomanEmpire.

•   Thereiswar,famineandtroubleintheworld.

•   TheTwoWitnessesarepreachingtheGoodNewsofJesusChristinIsrael.

•   144,000Jewsarecommissionedaswitnessesof“ChristtheMessiah”totheworld.

•   FirstGroup–144,000Jews,sealedprotectedandSaved–God’sspecialmissionaries

•   SecondGroup–MultitudesofGentilesandJewswitnessedto-ManySaved–Many

  Martyred

  257 Matthew 25:32-33 - All the NATIONS will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left
  258 Exodus 40:19 - He spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle; then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and THE GLORY OF THE LORD filled the tabernacle

  259 Jeremiah 17:13 - They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of LIVING WATERS -- John 4:10 - If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you LIVING WATER -- John 7:38 - Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of LIVING WATER will flow from within him -- Zechariah 14:8 - On that day LIVING WATER will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea, in summer and in winter

  260 Psalm 23:1-6 - The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. - He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, - He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. - Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. - You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. - Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Revelation 7:15-16 - Therefore, "they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread HIS TENT over them.

16 Never again will they HUNGER; never again will they THIRST. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.

Revelation 7:17 - For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their SHEPHERD; he will lead them to SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

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Chapter 16.8

Seventh Seal - Dead Silence
My youngest jokester son said this scripture proves there will not be any

women in heaven because there is SILENCE for thirty minutes... WHAT?
We are not told the reason for the breathless silence. In my BS, I can only imagine that this 30 minutes is just symbolic of a short span of time when all creation in Heaven is SILENT while the 144,000 witnesses are being sealed by an angel with the actual SEAL OF GOD; this seal shows God’s

ownership and protection throughout the tribulation period.
Perhaps All Creation is waiting for what is to happen next, like the foreman of a jury preparing to read

the jury’s verdict. Like the lull before the storm. Perhaps they are just stunned knowing the terror that has already happened and learning of what is to happen next.

The seven trumpets ARE UNDER the seventh seal and expand and enlarge what has already happened under the other six seals.

 The Trumpets sound during the first 3 1⁄2 years; ( The Tribulations)

 The Bowls or Vials are poured out during the last 3 1⁄2 years. (The GREAT Tribulations)
The Trumpets and Bowls are the very same thing except the Bowls INTENSIFY what occurred with

the Trumpets. So in essence, THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE with the Bowls.
Imagine the 7th seal like fireworks; like shooting a sky rocket into the air, then seven more burst

out from that rocket (Trumpets), then seven more burst from each of those (Bowls/Vials). Everything speeds up like a trip hammer. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.

Seven Trumpets – Sounded during the first 3 1⁄2 years – The Wrath of God

The term about Angels who stand before God seem to be a special group of angels. In my BS they are Seraphim and archangels like Gabriel. 261

The TRUMPET was used with different sound blasts for different occasions. Sometimes to call the assembly together as well as to signal for war.262 A single trumpet blast was blown in the wilderness to orderly assemble the tribes for instruction. (Again seven is completeness.) In addition to the Rams Horns, Moses had TWO TRUMPETS made out of silver; for assembly & for starting the procession movement. 263

261 1 Samuel 6:20 - Who is able to stand in the presence of this holy LORD God -- Luke 1:19 - I am Gabriel! I stand in the very presence of God. It was he who sent me to bring you this good news -- Isaiah 6:1-3 - ATTENDING GOD were mighty SERAPHIM calling out to each other, “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies
262 Exodus 19:19 - And the sound of the TRUMPET grew louder and louder. Then Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him -- Numbers 10:9 - When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a BLAST ON THE TRUMPETS - - Leviticus 23:24 - On the first day of the seventh month you have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with TRUMPET BLASTS 263 Numbers 10:1-2 - MAKE TWO TRUMPETS of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the campssetout -Matthew18:16- BYTHEMOUTHOFTWOORTHREEWITNESSESEVERYFACTMAYBECONFIRMED.

The Seventh Seal

The Sounding of the Seven Trumpets The Golden Censer – Silence in Heaven

Revelation 8:1 - When he opened the SEVENTH SEAL, there was SILENCE IN HEAVEN for about half an hour.

Revelation 8:2 - And I saw the SEVEN ANGELS who stand before God, and to them were given SEVEN TRUMPETS.

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thing established. It took TWO TRUMPETS to validate that they were moving out. Golden Censer

Revelation 8:3 - Another angel, who had a GOLDEN CENSER, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.
4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went UP before God from the angel's hand.

5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it (DOWN) on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

In Old Testament times, the priest would take a censer with live coals and incense and swing it back and forth and smoke would rise like PRAYERS and fill the temple and was a sweet aroma to the Lord.264 The prayers of the saints have gone up and received by God. These are the prayers of God’s people. They are NOT prayers given in the name of Saints already in Glory. No Saint or creature was found worthy to open the book except the SON.

The hurling of the censer is symbolic of judgment on the earth and is the beginning of the answer to the PRAYERS of the Saints under the alter.

Did you see it? The Incense of prayers went UP to God and the answer came DOWN in an earthquake. The peals of thunder and rumblings signal the coming upheaval of nature on earth.

1st Trumpet – Hail, Fire, Blood

LAND - 1/3rd of the vegetation is burned up in this plague. Plant life was the first to be created and now first to be annihilated. This is LITERAL and NOT SYMBOLIC. This is similar to the seventh plague on Egypt in the time of Moses.265 The blood is from man and beast that were unable to hide.

2nd Trumpet – Blazing meteorite

Some students of the Word BS believes that “SOMETHING LIKE A MOUNTAIN” is actually BABYLON being knocked down by the fist of God.266 “When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of burnt rubble.”

264 Leviticus 16:12 - He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant INCENSE and take them behind the curtain -- Psalm 141:2 - Accept my PRAYER as INCENSE offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
265 Exodus 9:24-25 - So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

266 Jeremiah 51:25 - Look, O mighty MOUNTAIN, (Babylon) destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy,” says the LORD. “I will raise my fist against you, to knock you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of burnt rubble.

Revelation 8:6 - Then the SEVEN ANGELS who had the SEVEN TRUMPETS prepared to sound them.
7 THE FIRST ANGEL sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a THIRD OF THE TREES were burned up, and ALL THE GREEN GRASS was burned up.

Revelation 8:8-9 - THE SECOND ANGEL sounded his trumpet, and SOMETHING LIKE a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
9 a THIRD OF THE LIVING CREATURES in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

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SEA - 1/3rd of the marine life in the sea literally dies and 1/3rd of the ships are literally sunk as a burning literal meteorite hits the sea. Blood in this passage is symbolic of death. The sea turns blood red around the impact with death to sea life and the men on the ships.

I have no problem believing the water actually turns to blood, it certainly happened in the time of Moses.267 Whether it is actual blood or looks red as blood, the results are the same.

The Red Tide that we see today causes thousands of dead fish to wash up on the shore polluting the beaches and the air for miles. I have been in this YUK and it sticks to your body like oil. This will be a thousand times worse and stink up to “high heaven”.

Some students of the Word BS believe this affects only the Mediterranean Sea; could be; but my BS logically, says its worldwide.

SIDEBAR: There are 13 references to a 1/3rd Part in the Revelation. Some students of the word BS feels like these 1/3rd references affect only the area of land ruled over by the Antichrist’s revived Roman Empire. I can see this, but for a number of reasons, my BS systematic logic says it must affect the whole world. (Just saying)

3rd Trumpet – Blazing Star

RIVERS - 1/3rd of the rivers and springs become poisoned268 - judgment is on nature and men... water is scarce and people die.

Wormwood is an extremely bitter perennial herb used in the manufacture of absinthe; a highly intoxicating liquor269 that is sold in France and is highly destructive to the body.

A bright star named “WORMWOOD” will fall on the earth in the end times and poison the waters.270 This could very well be a nuclear bomb. In Russia, the nuclear fallout from the explosion at Chernobyl poisoned the rain and destroyed their fresh waters.

Interestingly, in Russian, the word “WORMWOOD” is pronounced Chernobyl. 4th Trumpet – Sun and Moon

HEAVENS – 1/3rd of the Sun, moon and stars turn dark. Interestingly, on the fourth day of creation the heavenly bodies were lit up and now with the fourth trumpet, they are darkened.

At this point; food, distribution, water and the growing season has become limited. Terror and Crime waves will increase because of the dark: “Everyone that does evil hates the light”.

It’s worthy to note that the TWO WITNESSES or prophets will use this same plague in the deliverance of Israel. They will turn out the lights.271

267 Jeremiah 9:15 - See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water -- Psalm 105:29 - He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. -- Exodus 7:20-21 - And all the water was changed into blood. The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water
268 Exodus 15:23 - They could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter
269 Jeremiah 9:15 - Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.
270 Lamentations 3:15 - He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with WORMWOOD
271 Matthew 24:29 - “Immediately after the anguish of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will give no light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Revelation 8:10-11 - THE THIRD ANGEL sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky

on A THIRD OF THE RIVERS and on the springs of water-
11 the name of the star is Wormwood. A THIRD OF THE WATERS turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

Revelation 8:12 - THE FOURTH ANGEL sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark.

A third of the DAY was without light, and also a third of the NIGHT.

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Of the Seven Trumpets, four have gone on before and the last three trumpets are separated from the others with the announcement of the Three Woes.... WOE, WOE, WOE. This isn’t so good...

One “Woe” is bad enough,272 but “three Woes” is a disaster. These three perils could come one right after another or perhaps all three at once. This is the last 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulations referred to as the GREAT TRIBULATIONS. This period will be the darkest, most painful and dreadful in human history.

The prophet Joel says in that day there will be darkness with famine; seed and grain dried up, water dried up, no pasture, flocks dying and everywhere they turn to look fire is burning.273 If what has happened is not bad enough, more is coming compounding “Jacob’s Trouble”.

The Inhabitants of the earth are not so much those living ON the earth, but those living FOR the earth, those that lust after the food of Babylon274 and have rejected the MANNA from God.

Some manuscripts substitute “angel” for “eagle.”275 Some students of the Word Belief System bothers them of the idea of a talking EAGLE, but not a taking patriot, or Balaam’s Ass who talked to him. In my BS Eagle or Angel, it doesn’t matter because the results are the same.

Numbers 22:28 - Balaam has a conversation with his ass

28 And THE LORD OPENED THE MOUTH OF THE ASS, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me

these three times? (KJV)

Matthew 24:28 – After Armageddon, the Eagle and Vulture gather

28 For wherever the carcass is, there the EAGLES will be gathered together.

(NKJV)

Jeremiah 30:7 – Jacob’s Trouble
7 ALAS! FOR THAT DAY IS GREAT, SO THAT NONE IS LIKE IT; and it

is the time of JACOB'S TROUBLE, But he shall be saved out of it. (NKJV)

272 Ezekiel 16:23 - Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign LORD. In addition to all your other wickedness -- Luke 6:25 - Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. -- Jeremiah 50:27 - Woe to them! For their day has come, the time for them to be punished. -- Isaiah 3:11 - to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done. -- Isaiah 5:20-21 - Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sigh -- Isaiah 10:1- Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, -- Isaiah 30:1 - Woe to the obstinate children, "declares the LORD, "to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin -- Jeremiah 23:1"Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!" declares the LORD

273 Joel 1:15-2:11 - The day of the LORD Has not the food been cut off, the seeds are shriveled the grain has dried up. The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering. Flames have burned up all the trees and the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the open pastures -- Joel 2:1-11 - Blow the trumpet in Zion for the day of the LORD is coming a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. A MIGHTY ARMY comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. The day of the LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?

274 Philemon 3:18-20 - Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, THEIR GOD IS THEIR STOMACH, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. BUT OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN
275 Hosea 8:1 - Put the trumpet to your lips! An EAGLE is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law. -- Obadiah 4 - Though you SOAR like the EAGLE and make your nest among the stars, from there I WILL BRING YOU DOWN," declares the LORD.

Revelation 8:13 - As I watched, I heard an EAGLE that was flying in midair call out in a LOUD VOICE:

"WOE! WOE! WOE to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!"

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Chapter 16.9

The Sounding of the Trumpets

The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets - Fallen Star The Bottomless Pit - Locust – Plague

Woe Number One
5th Trumpet – Sun and Sky darkened

Revelation 9:1-2 - THE FIFTH ANGEL sounded his trumpet, and I saw a STAR that had fallen from the sky to the earth.

The star was given the KEY to the SHAFT of the Abyss.
2 When HE opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace.

The sun and sky were DARKENED by the SMOKE from the Abyss.

Based on the scriptures, this FALLEN STAR is different,276 it is a Fallen Angel.277 Probably Satan himself,278 who unlocks the ABYSS, which is the abode of demons and beast which release destruction on the world. John reports of a “HE”, a person; Satan’s name is “Lucifer” which means “brightness” or “Morning Star”.279 Satan disguises himself as an ANGEL OF LIGHT.280 This IS NOT the Anti-Christ because the Anti-Christ is a mortal person, this is a fallen angel. He is given the key to the Abyss.

Since Jesus holds all the keys to death and hell, Jesus is the one who gives the Key to Satan who had not just fallen from heaven, but was kicked out and hurled down to earth.281

He now has freedom that he has never had before and from the ABYSS he has at his bidding grotesque demonic creatures that resemble LOCUST.

In the OT this SHAFT seems to be called Sheol and in the NT it is called Hell or Hades. The SHAFT leads to the ABYSS or bottomless pit which is a prison with darkness that is so dark you can feel it.282 This is where demons and the spirits of the dead of all ages are housed in the underworld.283 It is so

feared that even the demons begged not to be sent there.284 Some Students of the Word BS embraces that there is an actual SHAFT on earth that leads down to this ABYSS.

276 Revelation 1:20 - The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches 277 John 12:31 - Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out
278 Luke 10:18 - And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
279 Isaiah 14:12 - How you have fallen from heaven, O MORNING STAR You have been cast down to the earth

280 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 - Even SATAN disguises himself as an angel of light, his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness
281 Revelation 12:9 - The GREAT DRAGON was hurled down—that ANCIENT SERPENT called the DEVIL, or SATAN, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
282 Exodus 10:21 - Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt--DARKNESS THAT CAN BE FELT.
283 Revelation 11:7 -The beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them -- Revelation 17:8 - The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction
284 Luke 8:30-31 And the demons t begged him repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss

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The ABYSS is also SYMBOLIC of horrors to be released; drugs, violence, famine, dictatorships, terrorism, anarchy, natural disasters, weather manipulation, nuclear annihilation, chemical and biological warfare and stuff we don’t even know about yet.

SMOKE from the fire of this great furnace billows forth from the ABYSS creating a vicious worldwide SMOG which darkens the day and pollutes the air making it very hard to breathe; scary stuff.. After the Tribulation, the Angel of God will lock Satan in this same ABYSS during the thousand year

reign of Christ, and then Satan will be released for a short season.285 Demonic Locust - like Scorpions

Scorpions were common to Israel with some species growing to 6 inches in length, scorpions were considered “symbolic” of painful judgment.

SUFFERING - This plague is similar to the one wrought by Moses,286 but this time the locust were not allowed to harm the earth, only evil people that did not have THE SEAL OF GOD. The 144,000 sealed Jews would be safe AND other believers that had accepted Christ. When you receive Christ, you have the “SEAL” of protection and ownership of the Holy Spirit.287

Torture

In addition to all the other plagues, THEY STING LIKE A SCORPION with the pain and suffering they inflict lasting for 5 MONTHS, but it’s not lethal. Death takes a five month holiday. Their soul is griped with terror and horror just seeing one of these creatures. The torment is so intense that men will wish they could die and try to commit suicide, but cannot.

Many students of the Word BS debate over whether it is Satan who wants to keep these people alive because they are the very ones that will be in his corner giving him the worship and praise he so desires OR is it God that won’t let them die because this is the consequences of their sinful rebellion which requires punishment.

At any rate there is no indication in scripture that these wicked unsaved men ever call out to God for help or redemption.

Interestingly God similarly used HORNETS288 to drive people out of the land by stinging them.

Note; when Satan goes duck hunting, he shoots them with his mark, but does not go after them. He goes after the ducks on the ground that are still flapping, because he knows the others are already in his bag.

285 Revelation 20:1-3 - I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a THOUSAND YEARS And He threw him into the Abyss, until the thousand years were ended
286 Exodus 10:12 - Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that LOCUSTS will swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields -- Exodus 10:15 –The LOCUST covered all the ground until it was black Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all of Egypt 287 Ephesians 1:13 - Having believed, YOU WERE MARKED IN HIM WITH A SEAL, the promised Holy Spirit, -- 2 Timothy 2:19 - Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, SEALED with this inscription: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness

288 Joshua 24:12 - I sent the HORNET ahead of you, which drove them out before you
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Revelation 9:3-4 - And out of the smoke LOCUSTS came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
4 They were told not to HARM the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those PEOPLE WHO DID NOT HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD on their foreheads.

Revelation 9:5-6 - They were NOT given power to kill them, but only to TORTURE THEM for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
6 During those days men will seek death, but will not find it;

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Revelation 9:7-11 - The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.

8 Their hair was like women's hair,
and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron,
and the sound of their wings was
like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had TAILS AND STINGS LIKE SCORPIONS, and in their tails they had power to TORMENT PEOPLE FOR FIVE MONTHS.
11 They had as KING over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

In Italy locust are called “cavaletta” which translates “little horses” as some of them resemble a horse. In Germany they are called “Heupferd” meaning “hay-horse”. These are hellish creatures possessed by Hell’s worst demons and fallen angels and look similar to an armored horse. They slowly and uniformly swarm like a locust army, sound like rain and can FLY. This description is LITERAL and you are seeing the true characteristics of a demonic creature. They are “spirit beings” that have been given power and therefore they are indestructible by man.

Locust do not have a king, but these do.289 Their King, Abaddon in Hebrew means “destruction” and Apollyon in Greek means “destroyer”. These are the same two characteristic of Satan and his demons.

The King is a fallen angel, one that rules over the abyss and has been locked away with his demon subjects.290 Their King is not Satan although he is in control.

In my BS, I see these Locust or scorpions symbolic of something that is more advanced than our modern day Apache Helicopter which can unleash hell-fire missiles. The sting of the scorpion could actually be a modern day airborne device spraying bio-chemical and nerve gas. Just saying.

One Woe down - Two more to Go

Revelation 9:12 - The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.

While this woe is past, their SUFFERING continues for 5 months. This first Woe seems to introduce us to the second half of the Tribulations known as the GREAT TRIBULATIONS.

In my Belief System, there are multiple things that mark the beginning of the 3 1⁄2 year mark of the Great Tribulations. Parts of the book of Revelation are not in chronological order and John sometimes pulls up in his HELICOPTER and looks down and gives us an overview of all the incredible sights he is seeing, past, present and future, some things he does not understand, but continues to write nevertheless.

So from time to time we have chapters which I call INFORMATIONAL CHAPTERS that give us insight to things not mentioned before. The next TWO WOES coming up bring on even worse trouble.

This is where we are.

•   The Antichrist is already head of the revived Roman Empire and is supported by the Roman

  Catholic Church plus the United Nations.

•   Russia will invade Palestine around the middle of the Tribulation period, but the Jews are

  reinforced by the Antichrist with his false Peace Covenant with Israel.

•   Russia is judged by God and sent home in defeat. They are not the 200,000,000 man army.

  289 Proverbs 30:27 - LOCUSTS HAVE NO KING, yet they advance together in ranks;
  290 2 Peter 2:4 - God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment

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6th Trumpet – Four angels loosed

The Euphrates River is prominent in history. In the beginning it flowed from the Garden of Eden, later Babylon was situated on it, and soon a 200,000,000 man army will cross it.

Did you see it? J. Vernon McGee says this is in the vicinity of the Garden of Eden, where Adam sinned, Cain killed Abel, the place of the first war, Noah’s flood, tower of Babel and where idolatry began. NOTE: God’s angels are not bound, only wicked angels are bound. It is the VOICE of Jesus Christ that releases these angels and they kill 1/3rd of mankind. This now makes a total of one half of the

world population killed. In case you forgot, that would now be a total of 3,429,383,403 dead people. The HOUR and DAY and MONTH and YEAR means God has LITERALLY a SPECIFIC TIME already

planned for the “DAY OF THE LORD”.
200,000,000 Army – This occurs just before the middle of the tribulation period.

Probably this large number is just symbolic and means that there were so many in the army, you could not count them. This is similar to “ten thousand times ten thousand” angels. But running with this number, the four fallen angels would have command of an army of 50 MILLION demons or men each. Good Grief.

Revelation 9:13-15 - THE SIXTH ANGEL sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God.
14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release THE FOUR ANGELS who are bound at the great river EUPHRATES."

15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very

HOUR and DAY and MONTH and YEAR were released to KILL A THIRD OF MANKIND.

Revelation 9:16 - The number of the mounted troops was TWO HUNDRED MILLION. I heard their number.

Revelation 9:17-19 - The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur.

The heads of the HORSES resembled the heads of lions,
and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues
of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

The four angels at the Euphrates River release an army of 200,000,000 men or demons. We are not actually told where this army comes from, but by the description given by John, you can see clearly that they are DEMONICALLY CONTROLLED and will come overland via the EUPHRATES.

Many students of the Word BS embraces that this is the INVASION of a literal 200,000,000 mortal man army which certainly could be produced by China, Japan and India. Other Students BS embrace that this army is from the demonic world symbolized by the LOCUST.

Population

•   Japan has a population of 127,390,000 – or just 1.85% of the world’s population.

•   Russia has a population of 141,927,297 – mentioned “from the North” a little more at 2.06%

•   U.S.A. has a population of 310,411,000 referred to as the “coastal countries” about 4.52%

•   India has a population of 1,382,000,000 which is a world population of 19.1%

•   China has a population of 1,402,860,000 which is an overwhelming populace of 19.5%.

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In my BS, I feel John is doing the best he can at explaining what he had never seen before; this was actually a description of a huge army from the East in modern warfare with something MORE ADVANCED than our Apache helicopters and tanks. Something that even we have never seen. The fire, smoke and sulfur are certainly characteristics of a thermonuclear war. Just saying

Did you see it? Fire, Smoke and burning Sulfur are the same LITERAL plagues that are mentioned during the complete destruction of Sodom and Gorman.

Whether this INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS are plain old run of the mill demonic creatures from the ABYSS or a great army from the East, the results are the same; it’s bad news and we need to REPENT of our sins. What if this army is in addition to the LOCUST that have already been released? We have had wars all over the world, but never a real WHOLE WORLD WAR with every nations involved.

January 2021, the DOOM’S DAY CLOCK is NOW set at 100 seconds until midnight. See the Dooms Day Clock Rabbit Trail at the very end of Chapter Five

Did not Repent

God in His mercy allowed many to live, but they continued in their sins and did not repent.291 Millions of people are deceived with the ONE WORLD RELIGION as they continued to worship the demonic spirit world and the occult.292 Idol worship is actually demon worship.

The magic arts of the occult refer to the use of DRUGS. Pharmakia; (Greek for pharmacy), further translated means Witchcraft or Sorcerer. There are many organizations of Witchcraft in the world today, just check out “Barns & Nobel” bookstore for an eye opener; they have a whole section on the occult.

The SEVEN BIG SINS during the tribulation are Drugs and Witchcraft, Demon worship and Murder, Crime and Theft, and sexual activity outside of the one partner (male/female) marriage.

You would think that folks would call out to the God, repent and beg for mercy, but NOT. Modern Spiritualism today is things of the world becoming our idol. Being so caught up in how our body looks, our collection of objects, our next car, and the next big step up in the company, this consumes us.

A friend, after looking at HOW MUCH TIME I spent on my Lionel train table and collection; said, “Nice shrine, there must be an ALTER in here somewhere.” Sure made me start thinking.

There are three sins that will cause God to give up seeking after you.293

1. 1)  They knew God, but refused to accept Him.

2. 2)  They did not want the knowledge of God in their mind.

3. 3)  They changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the things created instead

   of the creator.

   Ok, here’s where we are

   We are now in the middle of the tribulation period. – Antichrist breaks his covenant with Israel. - The two Witness are slain – The remnant of Jews are protected – Satan is cast out of heaven – All believers are persecuted – Jerusalem is “trodden under” by the Gentiles.

291 Jeremiah 6:15 - Are they ASHAMED of their loathsome conduct? NO, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. 292 Psalm 115:4-8 - Their IDOLS have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see; have ears, but cannot hear, noses, but they cannot smell; have hands, but cannot feel; feet, but they cannot walk; THOSE WHO MAKE THEM & TRUST IN THEM WILL BE LIKE THEM.
293 Romans 1:21-28 - Although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, their foolish hearts were darkened... God gave them over to shameful lusts and to a depraved mind He gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to do what ought not to be done

Revelation 9:20 - The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still DID NOT REPENT of the work of their hands;
they DID NOT STOP worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood-idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

21 Nor DID THEY REPENT of their murders, THEIR MAGIC ARTS, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

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Chapter 16.10

The Angel & The Little Book

Interlude between the sixth and seventh trumpet. - Seal up what the Seven Thunders spoke Introduction of the mighty angel and the two witnesses – Take and Eat the Little Book

Another Might Angel

The cloud is the deity and glory of God. The rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant and promise of mercy. The fiery pillars are His judgment.

Many students of the Word BS believe that the MIGHTY angel was an Archangel like Michael, since it says another, like the one before; but in my BS I believe the description is more like unto Jesus the Christ.294 The position of His feet on the land and sea are indicative of Christ’s total authority and power over the whole earth. Whichever your BS picks, you will still be in good company.

Some translations of the Bible say “book” others say “scroll”; anyway, the little book or scroll is pictured as “ALREADY OPEN”, so the scroll with the seals and little book are the same. It is the Title Deed of the earth; the earth is His and the fullness thereof.295 It’s in the Book.

It was Christ who took the scroll or book from the Father and opened it.296 Seven Thunders

The seven thunders represent the complete voice of God. Think of the magnitude of a hurricane. This voice IS NOT an invitation of GRACE, but an announcement of JUDGMENT.

It’s Powerful and Majestic, it breaks, strikes, shakes, twists, and strips.297 (7 thunders)

294 Revelation 1:13-15 among the lamp stands was someone "like a SON OF MAN," dressed in a robe with a golden sash around his chest His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire His feet were like bronze glowing -- Daniel 10:5-6 -Before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of the finest gold His body was like chrysolite, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude

295 Psalm 24:1 - The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. -- Leviticus 25:23-24 - The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine; the land that you hold you must provide for the REDEMPTION of the land 296 Revelation 5:1 - Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. -- Revelation 5:6-7 - Then I saw a LAMB...He took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne. --Revelation 6:1 ...the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. -- Revelation 6:3 opened the second seal -- Revelation 6:5 opened the third seal -- Revelation 6:7 opened the fourth seal -- Revelation 6:9 opened the fifth seal, -- Revelation 6:12 opened the sixth seal -- Revelation 8:1 opened the seventh seal.

297 Psalms 29:3-9 - The voice of the LORD is POWERFUL; the voice of the LORD is MAJESTIC. Thunders over the mighty waters. BREAKS the cedars; STRIKES with flashes of lightning. SHAKES the desert; TWISTS the oaks and STRIPS the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, "GLORY”

Revelation 10:1 - Then I saw another MIGHTY angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.

2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand.
He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

Revelation 10:3 - and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the SEVEN THUNDERS spoke.

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These mysteries were SEEN and HEARD by John to “help” in his understanding of the revelation that was being given. What the seven thunders spoke was for John’s ears only.298 This is the ONLY words revealed to John that has been sealed up in the book of Revelation. This is an indicator that there are still mysteries that God has retained for Himself.

I think it is interesting to point out that the remainder of the Book of Revelation IS NOT SEALED because we are told that the time of the end is at hand and God wants us to know about it.299

Revelation 10:4 - And when the SEVEN THUNDERS spoke,
I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, "SEAL UP

what the seven thunders have said and DO NOT WRITE IT DOWN."

Revelation 10:5-7 -Then the angel I had seen STANDING ON THE SEA AND ON THE LAND raised his right hand to heaven.
6 And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, "THERE WILL BE NO MORE DELAY!

7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the MYSTERY OF GOD will be accomplished,

just as he announced to his servants the prophets."

Christ has taken total authority over the Sea and the Land; all the earth belongs to Him. The mystery is of Jesus Christ,300 the second Adam, taking back dominion of the world which Satan had stolen from the first Adam. The scroll contained the “TITLE DEED” to earth. The scroll has been opened, the earth has been redeemed and the slaves to sin are set free.301

Satan was allowed to continue on this earth as an example to all angels, demons, men and creatures that “God is God”, that He is the “I am, that I am” and there is no other.

•   All creation has watched how many times God has provided Satan and man a way back to Him.

•   All Creation has watched Satan try to imitate God, and observed that he could not create anything.

•   All creation will see Satan’s and his followers “works” come to nothing and be burned up.

•   All creation will tell this story over and over again, and shake their heads in disbelief at this

  rebellion. It will never happen again. The Little Scroll

  In my BS, the Angel is actually Jesus Christ who alone was worthy to OPEN the scroll; He is the one with his feet on Sea & Land; other students BS disagree embracing it is actually a Seraphim Angel.

  298 Deuteronomy 29:29 - THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
  299 Revelation 22:10-11 - And he saith unto me, SEAL NOT UP THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK; for the time is at hand. 300 Romans 16:25 Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past -- Ephesians 1:9-10 - And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment-to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ -- Ephesians 3:6 - This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
  Ephesians 3:9 - To make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things -- Colossians 1:27 - To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory -- Colossians 1:26 - The mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints -- Amos 3:7 - Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets
  301 Jeremiah 31:34 - No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, `Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, "declares the LORD

Revelation 10:8 - Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: "GO, take the scroll that lies OPEN in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

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John’s spirit seems to be on earth now as the little book has been transferred to him. Here it is implied that it’s not enough to READ the word; we are encouraged to DINE on it... to digest it... understand it... make it part of our body life... live it... share it ...witness it.302 God’s word, His love and provision is SWEET as honey as it is received by the believer.303

Because of the rejection of God’s supreme plan and the bitterness of the persecution that follows,304 it turns SOUR. Don’t forget, John is already in prison on the isle of Patmos.

It’s SWEET to the believer because of his rewards, but BITTER at the thought of those remaining who are perishing and will be lost forever.305 Thus the term; “Bitter Sweet”

The word came down from the father and was made flesh and lived among us so that we might DIGEST His word into our body and receive eternal life.306

There is a change up here; this next prophesy was not intended just for ISRAEL or the surrounding land, but FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.307 Some students of the word BS believe this specific scripture might suggest that John could be one of the TWO WITNESSES that in the end times preaches to the nations starting in Jerusalem; who knows! Just saying.

Did you see it? The Book of Revelation is a HOPE CHEST containing the plans of God for the Believer of the SWEET things that are to come, BUT for the Un-Believer and Make-Believer these plans are a BITTER pill to swallow. Their CHEST is a COFFIN of BITTERNESS containing NO HOPE.

SEVEN OTHER MYSTERIES – Rabbit Trail These seven were declared to His prophets and are distinct from the “Mystery of God” as mentioned here.

The mystery of ISRAEL - Romans 11:25
The mystery of God’s Will – Ephesians 1:9
The mystery of Godliness – 1 Timothy 3:16 The mystery of Iniquity – 2 Thessalonians 2:7 The mystery of God’s Promise – Ephesians 3:5 The mystery of the Seven Stars – Revelation 1:20 The mystery Woman on the Beast - Revelation 17:7

302 Jeremiah 15:16 - When I discovered YOUR WORDS, I DEVOURED THEM. They are my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies.
303 Psalm 19:9-10 - The ordinances of the LORD are SWEETER than honey, than honey from the comb
304 Acts 8:1 - On that day a great PERSECUTION broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.-- Acts 11:19 - Now those who had been scattered by the PERSECUTION in connection with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, telling the message only to Jews. -- Hebrews 10:33 - Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and PERSECUTION; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated

305 Ezekiel 3:1-3 - The voice said to me, “Son of man, eat what I am giving you—EAT THIS SCROLL And when I ate it, IT TASTED AS SWEET AS HONEY IN MY MOUTH. -- Psalm 119:103 - HOW SWEET YOUR WORDS TASTE TO ME; they are sweeter than honey.
306 John 1:14 - The Word became FLESH and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth -- John 6:53-54 - I tell you the truth, unless you eat the FLESH of the Son of Man and drink his BLOOD, you have no life in you...Whoever eats my FLESH and drinks my BLOOD has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 307 Genesis 18:17 - Should I hide my plan from Abraham?” the LORD asked

Revelation 10:9-10 - So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "TAKE IT AND EAT IT. It will turn
your stomach SOUR, but in your mouth it will be as SWEET as honey."

10 I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It tasted as SWEET as honey in my mouth,
but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned SOUR.

Revelation 10:11 - Then I was told, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings."

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Chapter 16.11

The Seventh Trumpet

The Measuring of the Temple – The Two Witnesses – The Second Woe

Informational Chapter

There is an interlude between the sounding of the Sixth and Final Seventh Trumpet. Having to do with the Jewish Nation of Israel in the middle of the Tribulation period. Chronically, the blowing of the Final Seventh Trumpet ends the Great Tribulation period and ushers in the Return of Christ.

Coming Up Next

•   The temple is rebuilt and the Jewish people are now worshiping... Some are believers.

•   John is told to measure the Temple of God.

•   A measuring rod indicates ownership, symbolic of Devine judgment, like ‘scales’ in weighing.

•   God also evaluates the CHARACTER of the worshipers to see if they are “MEASURING UP”.

  Measuring Rod

  Everyone that was not a Jew was considered to be a “Gentile” and sometimes called “Greek”. Jerusalem is home to many non-Jewish faiths and they have trampled the old Holy City of Jerusalem by building their own holy places. Their dominance and persecution of the Jews will last 3 1⁄2 more years or 42 months which is the last half of the Tribulation period called the GREAT tribulations.

  The MEASURING REED OR ROD is really a MEASURING OF TIME,308 42 months has now been decreed to fulfill the time that remains for the Gentiles and then they will be judged.309

  Here’s what’s going on

 God prepares a SPECIAL PLACE OF REFUGE for the Jewish people in the desert to be protected during the last 3 1⁄2 years;310 the GREAT tribulation period.

 The place of refuge is the modern day Jordan, known as Edom, Moab and Ammon. 311

•   It is highly probable that the inhabitants of these countries, recognizing the “God of Israel”, will take the Jews in their homes and hide them.

•   If necessary, God will supernaturally take care of them and sustain them with Manna from heaven and water from the rocks.

  308 Zechariah 2:1-2 - Then I looked up-and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked, where are you going?" He answered me, to measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and HOW LONG it is." -- Ezekiel 40:5 - I saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring rod in the man's hand was six long cubits, He measured the wall; it was one measuring rod thick and one rod high -- Revelation 21:15 - The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, gates and walls. 309 Luke 21:24 -. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

  310 Revelation 12:6 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore DAYS or 3 1⁄2 YEARS or 42 MONTHS.
  311 Daniel 11:40-42 - Many countries will fall, but Edom, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from his hand.

Revelation 11:1-2 - I was given A REED LIKE A MEASURING ROD and was told, "GO AND MEASURE THE TEMPLE OF GOD

AND THE ALTAR, and COUNT the WORSHIPERS there
2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.

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This 1,260 days of prophecy seem to be the same time period as the last 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulation. The TWO OLIVE TREES and TWO LAMP STANDS are symbolic of the TWO WITNESSES. The Olive oil and lamp stands both GIVE LIGHT and are also symbolic of the “WORD” of God.

•   Jewish Law teaches that in the testimony of “TWO WITNESSES” a thing is establishes as fact.312 NOTE: The Old Testament is one witness and the New Testament is the second witness.

•   There are “TWO WITNESSES” that PARALLEL the Old Testament, when God’s servants and , were chosen to reclaim and rebuild the Jewish temple after the

  Babylon captivity.313 God endued them with His Spirit TO ACCOMPLISH HIS WORK..

•   The Prophet Malachi said; “Look, I am sending you the prophet 314 before the great and dreadful day of the LORD” and it was Jesus that said 315 had the

  Spirit of Elijah as he lived in the wilderness and dressed just like Elijah.
  Did you see it? FIRE comes out of their mouths; Elijah brought down Fire from heaven316 and John spoke of Jesus baptizing with Fire.317 Elijah represents the Old Covenant and John the Baptist represents the New Covenant. Both were forerunners of Jesus Christ, so it seems

  for sure that Elijah would be one of the “TWO WITNESSES”.

•   The TWO WITNESSES, the two evangelist, could also be MOSES and ELIJAH.318 They both

  appeared with Jesus on the Mountain. The miracles that are performed are just like those

  performed by Moses while freeing the Israelites from Egypt.

•   Some also think the TWO WITNESSES might be ENOCH319 and ELIJAH320 since neither of

  them died but were translated directly to Heaven and the Book says that there is appointed unto man ONCE to die and then the Judgement.321 So it appears there is a lot of credible support to believe these two must come back to be slain by the Anti-Christ, and lie in the streets for 3 1⁄2 days and then raptured.

  312 Matthew 18:16 - But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of TWO OR THREE WITNESSES every word may be established -- Deuteronomy 17:6 - At the mouth of TWO WITNESSES, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death -- Deuteronomy 19:15 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of TWO WITNESSES, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. -- John 20:12 - And seeing TWO ANGELS in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain -- Acts 1:10 - And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, TWO MEN stood by them in white apparel -- Luke 10:1 - After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them TWO and TWO before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come

  313 Zechariah 4:6 - This is the word of the LORD to ZERUBBABEL: `Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty 314 Malachi 4:5 - Look, I am sending you the prophet ELIJAH before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives.
  315 Matthew 11:13-14 - All the Prophets & the Law prophesied until JOHN, if you are willing to accept it, he is ELIJAH who is to come.
  316 1 Kings 18:38 - ELIJAH prayed and the FIRE of the LORD flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust

  317 Matthew 3:11 - I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in FIRE:
  318 Matthew 17:3 - Just then there appeared before them MOSES and ELIJAH, talking with Jesus
  Malachi 4:5 - See, I will send you the prophet ELIJAH before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes

  319 Hebrews 11:5 - By faith ENOCH was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God
  320 2 Kings 2:11 - As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and ELIJAH went up to heaven in a whirlwind -- Mark 9:11-12 - "Why do the teachers of the law say that ELIJAH must come first?" "To be sure, ELIJAH does come first, and restores all things -- Malachi 4:5 - See, I will send you the prophet ELIJAH before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes

  321 Hebrews 9:27 - It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment
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Revelation 11:3-5 - And I will give power to my TWO WITNESSES, and they will prophesy for 1,260 DAYS, clothed in sackcloth."
4 These are the TWO OLIVE TREES and the TWO LAMPSTANDS that stand before the Lord of the earth.

5 If anyone tries to harm them, FIRE comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.

ZERUBBABEL

JOSHUA

ELIJAH

JOHN THE BAPTIST

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My BS can easily embraces this as both will die for the first time on earth and then 3 1⁄2 days later raptured. Other students of the Word BS reject Enoch because he was a Gentile and not a Jew. We really don’t know, God can raise up whomever He chooses. Some call them JEHOVAH WITNESSES. Maybe not

The purpose of these two Jews, also known as “prophets” is to display the power of God, and foretell the great events of wrath to come. Jew and Gentile alike will come to the Lord because of their testimony. They will be hated by the Antichrist and his minions, but they cannot be harmed until their assignment is finished. That applies to me and you, we will not die until our part of God’s plan is finished.

I am in possession of Books that are outside the canonized Bible such as The Missing Books of the Bible, The Lost Books of the Bible, The Forgotten Books of the Bible, The Apocrypha, The Nag Hammadi Library and The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.

I want you to read what I found in the

GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS.

Nicodemus Chapter 20 – THE TWO WITNESSES –Taken to Heaven 3... I am ENOCH, who was translated by the Word of God and this man who is with me ELIJAH the Tishbite, who was translated in a fiery

chariot.
4 Here we have hitherto been and have not tasted death but are now about to return at the coming of the ANTICHRIST, being armed with divine signs and miracles, to engage with him in battle, and to be slain by him at Jerusalem and to be taken up alive again into the clouds, after three days and a half.

Plagues

The two evangelists are endued with power and only have to “SPEAK” and fire consumes their enemy,322 very similar to Moses and Elijah. They can bring drought, turn water into blood323 bring on plagues. The Two Witnesses’ power does not seem to have any limit and they remain immortal until they have finished their assignment.

The Beast from the Abyss

The beast from the abyss is the FALLEN ANGEL already discussed... It is not Satan, the Antichrist or his Prophet. The TWO WITNESSES are allowed to be killed after their assignment has been completed. The Greek word MARTUS is where we get our word for Witness and from that we get the word MARTYR.

For THE UNHOLY TRINITY, Satan, the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet; this is only a temporary victory of darkness over light and evil over good. The Antichrist can now take possession of the temple. This is the MIDDLE of the tribulation period and people are still getting SAVED right up to the time of the prophet’s deaths. All creation is WITNESS and watching as to what Satan will do next.

322 Numbers 16:35 - Moses... And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense. -- 2 Kings 1:10 - Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, may FIRE come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then FIRE fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men
323 Exodus 7:17 - I am the LORD: With the staff in my hand I will strike the WATER of the Nile, and it will be changed into BLOOD

Revelation 11:6 - These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have

power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with EVERY KIND OF PLAGUE as often as they want.

Revelation 11: 7 - Now when they have finished their testimony, THE BEAST that comes up from the Abyss

will attack them, and overpower and KILL them.

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Three and a half DAYS are literal; as three and a half YEARS would not work out chronologically. This is victory for the BEAST and his followers; they hated and feared these two evangelists, but they are happy now because they no longer have to fear the wrath of God.

All criminals were granted burial the same day of their execution, however these Two Preachers were not buried. This illustrates the pure hatred and spite towards them, even mocking and gloating over their decaying bodies in the streets. The Two Persecuting Prophets are now dead, so they party like Mardi Gras, celebrating with glee and exchanging gifts like it’s the (Satanic pagan) Christmas season.

With the Internet, satellite and television technology, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL SEE the Two Slain Witnesses lying in the street; this would have seemed impossible 100 years ago.

Those who LIVE, DWELL, or INHABIT the earth is CODE for those that have REFUSED to receive theWordofGodandarePERISHING. CODEistheverysametermusedinthehospitalforsomeonewhoisDEAD.

THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH, ARE THOSE WHOSE NAME HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. 324

Rapture

The world hears an audible voice say, “Come up here”. Via television, the world sees the TWO WITNESSES come back to life and STAND UP ON THEIR FEET and are “translated” into heaven. In the Rapture, the translation happens in the blink of an eye, but this CATCHING UP INTO HEAVEN will be slow enough for everybody to see.

You can be sure, that because of the awareness of this book of “Revelation”, that many cameras including cellphones connected to the internet will be trained on them from every angle possible, including “looking upward”, not wanting to miss a thing. I will get to see this up close and personally, but from up above.

Earthquake

324 Revelation 17:8 - THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH, WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE -- Revelation 13:8 - All who dwell on the earth whose names have not been written in the Book of Life -- Revelation 12:12 - Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the DEVIL HAS COME DOWN to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time -- Revelation 6:10 - How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? -- Revelation 3:10 - I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth

Revelation 11:8-10 - Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
9 For three and a half DAYS men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and REFUSE THEM BURIAL.

10 THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH will gloat over them and will CELEBRATE by sending each other gifts, because these TWO PROPHETS had tormented THOSE WHO LIVE ON THE EARTH.

Revelation 11:11-12 - But after the three and a half days
a BREATH of life from God entered them,
and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a LOUD VOICE from heaven saying to them, "COME UP HERE." And
THEY WENT UP TO HEAVEN IN A CLOUD, while their enemies looked on.

Revelation 11:13-14 - At that very hour there was a
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE and a tenth of THE CITY collapsed.

Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake,
and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14 The SECOND WOE has passed; the THIRD WOE is coming soon.

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As the TWO WITNESSES stand on their feet and begin their ascension, a SEVERE EARTHQUAKE occurs. Seven Thousand men are killed; fear grips the hearts of the survivors. The Jews recognize; that this is THE HAND OF GOD and give him Glory.

At this point one-half of the world’s population have already been annihilated and to this number another 7,000 are added. In my BS I believe that this judgment was on the hardhearted in the city of JERUSALEM, as the survivors gave glory to God.

Did you see it? A great earthquake also occurred at the death of Jesus on the cross at Jerusalem. The Centurion guarding Jesus said, truly this was the Son of God. 325

RECAP of Jacob’s trouble... The Tribulations
Loss of vegetation including grain, wheat, rice and oats – Soil erosion, floods and mudslides – Air pollution from smoke – Sunlight reduced by 1/3 - Ecology thrown out of balance – an enormous meteor or nuclear bomb slams into the sea turning it blood red - sea life and Naval warships and merchant ships are destroyed. – Famine because of the reduction in the growing season, reduction in vegetables, fish, and freighter transportation - A falling star called “wormwood” contaminates 1/3 of all freshwater

sources, killing people; Wormwood is probably a thermonuclear weapon. (Just saying)

INFORMATIONAL and PROPHETIC CHAPTERS follows NOTE: Under the Seventh Seal, are the Seven Trumpets, and under the SEVENTH TRUMPET are the Seven Bowls that are soon to be poured out. They bring THE THIRD WOE.

3 1⁄2 years must still pass before Christ’s reign is fully accomplished on earth.
Verses 15-18 are prophetic in nature of events to come, because chronologically Christ does not

return until verse 19:11, but His praise is already in progress to give us hope and encouragement. Seventh Trumpet – Heavenly voices PROPHESY in excitement of Christ’s return.

Revelation 11:15-18 - The SEVENTH ANGEL sounded his trumpet, and there were LOUD VOICES in heaven, which said:

"The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever."
16 And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before

God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
17 saying: "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and

HAVE BEGUN TO REIGN.

18 The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for REWARDING YOUR SERVANTS the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great- and for destroying those who destroy the earth."

As the SEVENTH and FINAL TRUMPET sounds and the SEVEN BOWLS or vials are poured out in wrath. In all this discouragement, an interlude is inserted by God where He reaches into His WAR CHEST and just for the Believer pulls out HOPE and ENCOURAGAMENT.

For the Believe, the War Chest becomes a Hope Chest as they hear the voices IN HEAVEN announce the prophecy of CHRIST’S RETURN to the earth. The Elders, hearing the prophecy and in anticipation of the events soon to come, give thanks and praise to God as Creator and Redeemer.326

Did you see it? With the blowing of the Final Seventh Trumpet, the Mystery of God is now chronical and logically unpacked step by step as we are look at the entrance to eternity.

325 Matthew 27:54 - When the centurion saw the EARTHQUAKE said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
326 Revelation 4:11 - You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being -- Revelation 5-9 - And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation

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All creation is now WITNESS to what is to take place and there is much JOY as the END OF EVIL is now revealed.

There is much celebration in heaven because the prayer of Jesus is finally now being answered; THY WILL BE DONE.327

Symbolically the scriptures indicate that the sheep are the saved and the goats are the unsaved.328 Verse 18 outlines what is to happen during the last 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulation period.

•   There will be International hatred for Christ and the Jews; persecution will increase.

•   The Tribulation martyrs will be resurrected and receive rewards.329

•   The wicked dead, “those that destroy the earth”, will be resurrected, judged and be destroyed

  by God’s wrath.330

  Ark of the Covenant

  When Heaven opens, the earth quakes with JUDGMENT, thunder, lightning and a great hailstorm come forth. We now get a glimpse INSIDE the Temple, a glimpse of the real ARK OF THE COVENANT. TheArkthatMosesconstructedwasonlyacopy,ashadowoftherealArkinHeaven.331 God will now make a new covenant with Israel and will write it upon their hearts.332

  Jeremiah 31:33 – A new Covenant with Israel

  33 For this IS THE COVENANT THAT

  I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL

  after those days, declares the LORD:

  I will put my law within them, and

  I WILL WRITE IT ON THEIR HEARTS.

  And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor

  and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’

  for they shall all know me, from the least of them

  to the greatest, declares the LORD.

  FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR INIQUITY, AND

  I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SIN NO MORE.” ESV

  327 Luke 11:2 - When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, as in heaven, so in earth.
  328 John 10:14-16 - I know my sheep and my sheep know me- I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. (Jews and Gentiles) -- Matthew 25:32-33 - All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats

  329 Matthew 16:27 – Christ is going to come with his angels, and reward each person according to what he has done. -- 1 Corenthians 3:11-15 – Man’s work will be shown for what it is; the Day will bring it to light If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward.
  330 Matthew 25:31-32 - He will sit on his throne; All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats -- Daniel 12:1-2 - Everyone whose name is found written in the book-will be delivered some will awake to everlasting life, others awake to shame and everlasting contempt
  331 Hebrews 8:5 - See to it that you make everything according to the PATTERN shown you on the mountain they serve as a COPY and SHADOW of what is in heaven -- Hebrews 9:23 - It was necessary, then, for the COPIES of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these
  332 Hebrews 8:8-13 - Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, I will put my laws into their minds, and WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Revelation 11:19 - Then God's TEMPLE in heaven was opened,
and within his Temple was seen THE ARK OF HIS COVENANT.

And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.

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Chapter 16.12

Chapter 12 – is a reflection on history

There are SEVEN players coming up in Chapter 12.

1. 1)  The Woman - Representing the Nation of Israel – Symbolic also of Eve

2. 2)  The Seed – The remnant of Israel

3. 3)  The Man Child – Jesus the Messiah

4. 4)  The Archangel - Michael

5. 5)  The Beast out of the Earth – The Religious Leader – The False Prophet – False Spirit.

6. 6)  The Beast out of the sea – The world Dictator – The Antichrist – False Son

7. 7)  The Dragon – Satan – The Anti-God – False God. (Notice the Counterfeit Trinity)

   Conflict – Forces of Satan vs. People of God

Pregnant Woman - First Sign

Who is the Pregnant Woman abut to give birth? Some students of the Word Belief System says she represents the church of all ages, but the church has already been raptured into Heaven. Others BS say she is the Virgin Mary, and some Female cult founders down through the ages have maintained that they were this Woman, but they DID NOT produce the man child, the Savior of the world

The woman is not a literal woman, but is symbolic of Israel:333 (through Eve) and the man child is the FUTURE eternal king Jesus the Messiah who will rule with an iron scepter.334

The SUN and the MOON symbolize Jacob and Rachel and the TWELVE STARS are their children; their twelve sons or the twelve tribes of Israel. This is fulfilling the Abrahamic Covenant.

Genesis 37:9-10 – Joseph has a dream and tells his father and brothers

9 Then Joseph said, "I had another dream, and this time the SUN and MOON

and eleven STARS were bowing down to me.”

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him

and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your MOTHER and I and your

BROTHERS actually come and bow down to the ground before you?" NIV

Israel cries out in yearning for the “MESSIAH” TO COME FORTH as in child birth.

333 Isaiah 9:6 - For UNTO US a Child is born, UNTO US (ISRAEL) a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.
334 Revelation 12:5 - And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was CAUGHT UP unto God, and unto his throne

The Signs

The Woman – The Seed – The Man Child – The Archangel Michael The Beast out of the Earth – The Beast out of the Sea - The Dragon

Informational Chapter

Revelation 12:1-2 - A great and wondrous SIGN appeared in heaven: A WOMAN clothed with the SUN, with the MOON under her feet

and a crown of TWELVE STARS on her head.
2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

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This is the Second SIGN and is symbolic of the true character of Satan. The word GREAT or ENORMOUS signifies his great power and control of all the nations; if you remember he offered all the nations to Jesus if He would just fall down and worship him.335

•   The word Dragon is not literal, but is symbolic of his vicious character

•   The red dragon is Satan, the anti-God. – Red is symbolic of death and destruction.

•   Red signifies blood and death, Satan was a murder from the beginning.336

•   The third of the stars, or about 50,000,000, are fallen angels that followed Satan.337

  Genesis 3:14-15 – The Red Dragon; Satan hates the Man Child Jesus

  14 So the LORD God said to the SERPENT, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 And I will put ENMITY between you and the woman, and

  BETWEEN YOUR OFFSPRING AND HERS; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." NIV

  The SEVEN HEADS represent political power and are symbolic of the SEVEN KINGDOMS he rules. There are SEVEN CONTINENTAL LAND MASSES; North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica Horns.

  Other students of the Word BS embraces the symbolism of the seven heads to be COMPLETE WISDOM as when he was first created,338 before he became the epitome of Evil. The Book says; he was the model of perfection, exquisite in beauty; HE IS FULL OF WISDOM AND VERY HANDSOME.

  The TEN HORNS are symbolic of 10 kingdoms, some yet to be formed that he will eventually rule. This is the Revived Roman Empire.

  The TEN CROWNS indicate his governmental authority over the TEN KINGDOMS. The number 10 appears often and is significant. The law declared that in the gathering of a Jewish assembly of 10 persons, they could indulge in public readings of the Word of God.

  A THIRD OF THE STARS represents the wholesale rebellion of one-third of the angels who followed the Satan to his destruction.339 They will also drink the cup of God’s wrath to the dredges of the cup.

  Male Child

  335 Matthew 4:8-9 - the devil showed Jesus the kingdoms of the world and all their glory and said “I will give it all to you,” he said, “if you will kneel down and worship me.”
  336 John 8:44 - SATAN WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. HE IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES.

  337 Revelation 12:8-9 - The GREAT DRAGON was hurled down-that ANCIENT SERPENT called the DEVIL, or SATAN, who leads the whole world astray. HE WAS HURLED TO THE EARTH, and his angels with him.
  338 Ezekiel 28:12 - You were the model of perfection, FULL OF WISDOM and exquisite in beauty
  339 Daniel 8:10 - Its power reached to the heavens, where it attacked the heavenly army, THROWING SOME OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS TO THE GROUND AND TRAMPLING THEM. - Jude 1:6 - And I remind you of the angels who did not stay within the limits of authority God gave them but left the place where they belonged. God has kept them securely chained in prisons of darkness, waiting for the great Day of Judgment.

Revelation 12:3-4 - Then another SIGN appeared in heaven: an enormous RED DRAGON with seven heads and ten horns
and seven crowns on his heads.
4 His tail swept a THIRD OF THE STARS out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The DRAGON stood in front of the woman who was about to give

birth, so that he might DEVOUR her CHILD the moment it was born.

Revelation 12:5 – (a) She gave birth to a SON, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.

(b) And her child was SNATCHED UP to God and to his throne.

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The male child is NOT the Church, but is the Messiah, Jesus Christ. John is reflecting back on history in parts of this informational chapter for us to get the full picture of what is happening to Israel. This is not about Gentiles or the Church, it’s about Israel from which the Messiah would come forth.

Note: From (5a) His birth to (5b) the snatched up process,340 there is a period of some 33 years. This is the entire Church Age, as He now sits at the right hand of the Father.341 The snatching up is the ASCENSION of Jesus Christ into the clouds, received into heaven and now sits at the right hand of God the Father making ready to return to return for His Bride; US

God had announced in the Garden of Eden that Eve’s seed would crush Satan’s head.342 Satan was not after the woman, he was after her seed, “The Messiah”.343

Christ was born, then with his death, PAID THE PRICE to redeem men from the curse of the law, and then was “snatched up” to the Father and is “making ready” to come again.344 In cable TV there is a term called “Make Ready.” When a new residential subdivision is about to come on line, you have to move cables around, secure new ones, get electricity and battery backup power supplies for amplifiers and set taps for each home. When the Make Ready is complete, you TURN IT ON and then everyone has the ORPORTUNITY to get in on it at the same time.

1,260 days

The Woman – ISRAEL – The remnant of Jews are helped, protected and HIDDEN BY GOD in a place He has prepared among the believing Gentiles. They are probably hid in the cities of Edom, Moab and Ammon.345 Archeologists have found these cities were carved out of rock which is a perfect refuge.

Some students of the word Belief System ardently and passionately believe that the city will be PETRA which was carved out of rock, but in my BS, I am not so sure how that works out with our modern day Bunker Buster Bombs.

There is a dual war going on - God dealing with the unbelievers and - the antichrist is killing the believers.346 This period of time is shortened because of His elect, the believing Jews, or no flesh would

Revelation 12:6 - The woman fled into the desert to
A PLACE PREPARED FOR HER BY GOD,

where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

survive.347

The 1,260 DAYS are the last 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulation period.
NOTE: If it were not for Israel, we Gentiles would not have a Bible nor a Savior.

Satan - War in Heaven
NOTE: This actually occurs during the last 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulations.

340 Acts 1:9 - HE WAS TAKEN UP INTO A CLOUD WHILE THEY WERE WATCHING, and they could no longer see him.
341 John 19:30 - When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. -- Hebrews 12:2 - Jesus endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now HE IS SEATED IN THE PLACE OF HONOR BESIDE GOD’S THRONE.
342 Isaiah 66:7-8 - She delivers a son. Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment -- Psalm 2:9 - You will rule them with an iron scepter;
343 Genesis 3:15 - And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
344 Daniel 12:1-2 - At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people-everyone whose name is found written in the book- will be delivered.
345 Daniel 11:41 - Many countries will fall, but Edom, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from his hand
346 Isaiah 26:20 - Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; HIDE YOURSELVES for a little while until his wrath has passed by
347 Matthew 24:22 - If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened Psalm 124:1-5 - If the LORD had not been on our side they would have swallowed us alive; the flood would have engulfed us, the raging waters would have swept us away

Revelation 12:7 - And THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN. MICHAEL and his angels fought against the dragon,

and the dragon and his angels fought back.

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There are certainly other Arch angels in Heaven, but in my BS, I see the Arch Angel Michael as attached mainly to Israel and will certainly step in again during the end time tribulation to deliver the remnant of Israel.348

Satan - Kicked out of Heaven

Michael is the Archangel that defeats Satan and casts him out of heaven along with his angels.

Did you see it? We have always thought that Satan had already fallen from heaven, but scripture supports that he is not thrown out of heaven until the MIDDLE of the tribulation period, that is what makes “Jacob’s trouble” in the second half of the Tribulations so “GREAT”.

Did you see it? Satan has been in heaven ALL THIS TIME accusing us before the father until finally he and his angels are thrown out by the archangel Michael and his army of angels..

The Accuser – Satan is thrown out of Heaven

The accuser is Satan who is no longer allowed in Heaven to come before God and accuse us of our sins.349 So now this Devil Angel pursues the Saints on earth,350 primarily the believing remnant of the Jewish nation of Israel. There is JOY in Heaven, but there is WOE on Earth.

The Third WOE - Satan is furious

The believers TESTIFY of the redeeming grace of Jesus Christ’s death at the cross and knowingly will lose their lives because of their testimony.351

The Devil is HOT from being thrown out of Heaven.352 He has been told his fate and is now going to try to trick and deceive as many of God’s creations as he can to take them down with him. 353

This is where the term “Raising Hell” comes from

348 Daniel 12:1 - At that time Michael, the archangel who stands guard over your nation, will arise. Then there will be A TIME OF ANGUISH GREATER THAN ANY since nations first came into existence. But at that time every one of your people whose NAME IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK WILL BE RESCUED.
349 Zechariah 3:1 - Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and SATAN standing at his right side to ACCUSE HIM -- Job 1:6-9 - One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it." "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied.

350 Luke 22:31 - Simon, Simon, SATAN WANTS TO SIFT EACH OF YOU LIKE WHEAT.
351 Matthew 10:33 - But EVERYONE WHO DENIES ME here on earth, I WILL ALSO DENY before my Father in heaven. 352 Luke 10:18 - I SAW SATAN FALL FROM HEAVEN LIKE LIGHTNING!
353 Revelation 20:3 - After that, he must be set free for a short time.

Revelation 12:8-9 - But he (the dragon) was not strong enough, and they (the fallen angels) lost their place in heaven.

9 The GREAT DRAGON was hurled down-that Ancient Serpent

called the Devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. HE WAS HURLED TO THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WITH HIM.

Revelation 12:10 - Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power

and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.

For THE ACCUSER of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, HAS BEEN HURLED DOWN.

Revelation 12:11-12 - They overcame him by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB and by the word of THEIR TESTIMONY; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

12 Therefore REJOICE, YOU HEAVENS and you who dwell in them! But WOE TO THE EARTH AND THE SEA, because
THE DEVIL has gone down to you! He is filled with FURY, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT HIS TIME IS SHORT.

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Because the Messiah comes from Israel, Satan turns on the Jews relentlessly. Two thirds of the Jews are killed... Those that remain are TESTED by God,354 they atone for their sins and are purified.355

The remnants accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah and are saved.356 Eagle Wings

Time, times and half a time is 3 1⁄2 years, the LAST HALF of the 7 year tribulation period. During this “GREAT” Tribulation period, the Antichrist sets up his image in the temple Holy of Holies for worship, this is known as the ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION.357 This is when all Israel flees to the LITERAL desert or wilderness and the mountains. NOTE: This is about God’s grace and not their destination.

Eagle’s wings are symbolic of God’s grace and deliverance of the Woman who is the people of Israel;358 by God’s grace many people hide the Jews as they are dispersed and absorbed among the Gentiles. Some translations of the Bible say God nourished Israel, others say taken care of. In my BS this nourishment can be by God’s predestined hand inspiring men to help or by supernatural means such as MANNA359 from heaven and WATER360 from a rock just as He did when they were in the wilderness for 40 years.

The Jews that have not accepted Christ as their Messiah are still under the old Levitical law. Observing the Levitical laws they are urged to pray that it doesn’t happen on the Sabbath,361 because if you flee too far on the Sabbath you would be breaking the Levitical law.

River of Water

Revelation 12:13 - When THE DRAGON saw
that he had been hurled to the earth, he PURSUED the woman

who had given birth to the MALE CHILD.

Revelation 12:14 - The woman was given the TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE, so that she might fly to the place PREPARED for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach.

Revelation 12:15-17 - Then from HIS MOUTH
the SERPENT SPEWED WATER LIKE A RIVER,

to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.
16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing THE RIVER that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and
WENT OFF TO MAKE WAR AGAINST THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING those who obey God's commandments & hold to the testimony of Jesus.

354 Zechariah 13:8-9 - In the whole land," declares the LORD, "two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it. I will refine them like silver and TEST them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, `They are my people,' and they will say, `The LORD is our God
355 Daniel 12:10 - Many will be purified, made spotless and refined

356 Romans 11:26 - AND SO ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED
357 Matthew 24:15-21- So when you see standing in the holy place `the ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel, then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers
358 Exodus 19:4-5 - You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on EAGLES' WINGS and brought you to myself -- Deuteronomy 32:11 - Like an EAGLE that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that SPREADS ITS WINGS TO CATCH THEM
359 Exodus 16:31 - The people of Israel called the bread MANNA. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey 360 Exodus 17:6 - Thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come WATER out of it, that the people may drink
361 Matthew 24:20-22 - Pray that YOUR FLIGHT will NOT take place in winter or ON THE SABBATH For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now-and never to be equaled again

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“The rest of her offspring” is the believing REMNANT OF ISRAEL, including the 144,000 witnesses. God is reclaiming them a SECOND TIME362 and breathing life back into them.363 The remnant of Israel has accepted God and the Lamb; Satan in great fury immediately goes forth to destroy all of them.

Serpent spewed water is symbolic of Satan pulling out all the stops on his evil organ to destroy the nation of Israel, to make it impossible for God to keep His promise. Some students of the word Belief System believe that the Antichrist being a GREAT ORATOR will speak FLOODS of flattering words to the nations to get them to reveal where the Jews are hiding, but the multitudes do not listen.

Others BS embrace these WATERS to be a FLOOD OF ARMIES coming against Israel. There will be a supernatural intervention that protects Israel whether by angels or nature. 364 My BS embraces both. Down through the ages, those who have persecuted the Jewish Nation have been dealt with severely by God, as like “in ruin”. Egypt, the Assyrians, Babylon and in recent history, the Crusaders, Turks, Arabs, and Nazi Germany are all now “in ruin”.365

The law of retribution is in operation; an eye for an eye.366 Whatever you do to the Jews, God will do to you. (If you bless the Jewish Nation, God will bless you.) 367 Many Jews will be brought back to Israel by force, because of Anti-Semitic hunters.368 GOD brings the INVASION OF ISRAEL in the last days to demonstrate to the nations that there is a God in Israel369 and whoever touches Israel, sticks his finger in the eye of God.370

Ezekiel prophesied twenty five centuries ago of a war between an un-walled city, Israel and a nation to its North, Russia. When Israel became a Nation again in 1948, this war become imminent.

GOG which is the nation of Russia and MAGOG its army of allied nations will invade Israel and there will be an EARTHQUAKE so catastrophic that the whole world will be affected.371 God will rain down hailstones on them with burning sulfur,372 plagues of pestilence, and they will be in such confusion, they won’t even know who they are fighting and will be killed by FRIENDLY FIRE.373 It’s possible the Russian army will be destroyed by their own thermonuclear bomb,374 raining down fire and brimstone. The modern nation’s names are Russia, East Germany, Poland and Bulgaria plus Persia (Iran) Ethiopia, Libya and Turkey.

Note: The Coastlands are the Gentile Nations like the United States who live in safety. However, because on this specific occasion, WE DID NOT HELP Israel when they needed us, so we will receive destruction, probably nuclear.375 Pray that the United States does not withdraw our support of Israel.

362 Isaiah 11:11 - In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people
363 Ezekiel 37:3-6 - Son of man, can these bones live, I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. Know that I am the LORD 364 Isaiah 8:7 - Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a MIGHTY FLOOD from the Euphrates River
Ezekiel 37:3-6, - "Son of man, CAN THESE BONES LIVE, I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life; Know I am the LORD 365 Psalm 2:1-2 - Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain
366 Genesis 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; all peoples on earth will be blessed through you Psalm 2:1-2 - Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain
367 Genesis 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you
368 Jeremiah 16:14-16 - But now I will send for many fishermen," declares the LORD, "and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt down and bring back my people from every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks. For I will restore them to the land I gave their forefathers
369 Ezekiel 38:16 - I WILL BRING YOU AGAINST MY LAND, so that the nations may know me when I show myself holy through you before their eyes -- Ezekiel 38:8-9 - You will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel. You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, ADVANCING LIKE A STORM; you will be LIKE A CLOUD COVERING THE LAND
370 Zechariah 2:8 - FOR WHOEVER TOUCHES ISRAEL TOUCHES THE APPLE OF GOD’S EYE
371 Haggai 2:6-7 - In a little while I will once more SHAKE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, the sea and the dry land and all the nations 372 Ezekiel 39:1-6 - I am against you, O Gog, (Russia) chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. I will send FIRE on Magog (Russia) and on those who live in safety in the COASTLANDS (The USA), and they will know that I am the LORD. -- Ezekiel 38:22 – The plague comes with bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, HAILSTONES and BURNING SULFUR on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him
373 Ezekiel 38:19-23 there shall be a GREAT EARTHQUAKE in Israel, the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground and EVERY MAN'S SWORD WILL BE AGAINST HIS BROTHER. 374 Zechariah 14:12 - This plague will ROT THEIR FLESH while they are still standing on their feet, their EYES WILL ROT in their sockets, and their TONGUES WILL ROT in their mouths
375 Ezekiel 39:6-7 - And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the COASTLANDS. Know that I am the LORD

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Russia has Lignostone, a compressed wood product developed in Holland for weapons. It is strong as steel, light weight, can be pliable and is invisible to radar, but WILL burn. These weapons will be collected and used for fuel.376 My BS thinks of tanks and personnel carriers.

The Russian armies will be defeated without being attacked by any other nation.377 It will take seven months to bury the dead and cleanse the land.378 Only one sixth of the Russian-Iranian armies will be left alive. Five out of six will die, that is a death rate of 84%.379

Oddly enough, the name for the Great Wall of China that kept out the invading armies of Russia was called “Al Magog”.

Russia and its allied troops are Persia (Iran), Ethiopia and Libya. .Noah’s son Japheth380 had SEVEN SONS; they are Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.

Ancient Nations names

Gog* and Magog Meshech* Tubal*
Persia

Ethiopia Libya Ashkenaz Gomer Togarmah

Modern Nation names

Russia and its allies Moscow
Tobolsk
Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan Ethiopia and Sudan Libya

Austria, Germany Eastern Europe Southeastern Europe

Ezekiel 38:3-6 - This is what the Sovereign Lord says THE LORD SAYS: I AM AGAINST YOU,

O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal
4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army-your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.

5 Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with

shields and helmets,

6 also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah

from the far north with all its troops-the many nations

with you. NIV

376 Ezekiel 39:9-10 - Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and USE THE WEAPONS FOR FUEL and burn them up-the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For SEVEN YEARS they will use them for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them.
377 Ezekiel 39:2-16 - I will turn you around and drag you along. I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. On the mountains of Israel you will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.

378 Ezekiel 39:12-16 -- For SEVEN MONTHS the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land All the people of the land will bury them And so they will cleanse the land
379 Ezekiel 39:2 - I will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and bring thee upon the mountains of Israel then turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee.

380 Genesis 9:18 - The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and JAPHETH.
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Chapter 16.13

Chapter 13 is also an “INFORMATIONAL CHAPTER” reflecting back and forth.

I would be amiss if I didn’t point out that there are different Belief Systems about the Antichrist. Some students of the word BS embrace that there is NOT an ACTUAL Anti-Christ but is just anyone who denies the person of Jesus Christ. My BS gets their point, because the scripture does say that those who are not “for God” are against God; they are antichrist. (Little a)... But my BS still hold to an Actual Antichrist (Big A). Anti not only means AGAINST, but also means INSTEAD OF and he is both.

The Antichrist will not just oppose Christ; but will rival Christ; he will raise himself up to receive the Honor, Praise and Worship that is due only to the Son of God381 and will use these little antichrist for his own end.382

Beast out of the Sea – The Antichrist - The political world Dictator – A Gentile

In this chapter we are going to be introduced to two more personages, the two Beast
NOTE: This first beast is not an animal, but a description of animal-like appetites and powers.

•   The Sea in this scripture is symbolic of the sea of humanity, the Gentile nations in chaos.

•   The Beast or Antichrist is a mortal man; he will quietly rise and becomes a ruler of one nation and eventually becomes the political WORLD DICTATOR. He is a Gentile, and may already be

  born. His time line most probably starts before the rapture.

•   The Seven Heads are symbolic of the seven Kingdoms he rules.

•   The Ten Horns are symbolic of ten kingdoms, some yet to be formed that he will eventually

  rule. He will subdue and conquer three of the ten and then dominates the reaming seven.

•   The Ten Crowns indicate his governmental authority over the ten kingdoms.

•   The Blasphemous Names on the crowns of the puppet leaders of the Antichrist’s kingdoms

  are overt indicators of their open opposition to God and Jesus Christ.

  His three point plan is; 1) one world government, 2) one world currency, 3) one world religion

  The Antichrist although active, cannot come on the scene in power until the restraining force is removed which is the Holy Spirit and the Church,383 and that happens at the rapture.

  381 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 – In that day there comes a falling away first; that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is of God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God 382 1 John 2:18 - Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there MANY ANTICHRISTS; whereby we know that it is the last time.-- 1 John 4:3 - Every spirit that confesses NOT that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of ANTICHRIST, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world -- 2 John 7 - For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an ANTICHRIST -- 1 John 2:22 - He that DENIES that Jesus is the Christ is a liar He is an ANTICHRIST that denies the Son 383 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 - You know what is holding him back, (Holy Spirit) so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work. (The Holy Spirit) who holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way

The Beasts

The First Beast comes out of the Sea
The Second Beast comes out of the Earth

Revelation 13:1 - And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a BEAST COMING OUT OF THE SEA.

He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head A BLASPHEMOUS NAME.

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I would be amiss if I didn’t point out that there are varying BS on the identity of the Seven Heads.  My BS is that the Seven Heads represents the SEVEN KINGDOMS he will rule over.
 Others BS holds to the GREAT NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY; Rome, Greece, Media-Persia,

Chaldea, Egypt and Assyria and one yet to come.
 Some students of the word BS embraces that this is the FORMS OF GOVERNMENT: Kings,

Councils, Dictators, Decemvirs, Military Tribunes and Emperors and one yet to come.  Others BS believe that the seven heads are UNMATCHED WISDOM; seven meaning complete.

You would do well to obtain J. Vernon McGee’s “Thru the Bible” commentary series for your library.

The Antichrist has no normal desires for a woman, sex or marriage and is quite possibly a homosexual.384 He probably promotes homosexuality since God hates it. But it could also be a slam against women, specifically the mother of Jesus whose God is Jehovah.

Names of the Antichrist (He is not Satan) Anti-Christ,385 King of fierce countenances,386 King of Babylon,387 Little Horn,388 Man of Sin,389 Wicked,390 Beast,391 Leopard392 and Son of Perdition;393 the number of his name is 666.394

Interestingly, Judas was also called “The Son of Perdition” Does he live again? Just having fun. The Bible does say Judas395 went to “his own place,” 396 and not to the grave or hell.

Prophecy says that before the antichrist can come, the church will start falling away from the doctrines of Christ, then the remaining true church will be raptured. At that same time, the Holy Spirit which is the restraining and hindering force of the Antichrist will be removed letting him operate WITHOUT RESTRAINT, he cannot say he never had the FREE WILL to do good for the Kingdom of God. (Poetic Justice.) Then about 3 1/2 years into the tribulation period, the personage of the Antichrist will finally be revealed.397

The falling away has already started with the NEW AGE MOVEMENT proclaiming the heresy that all the religious “SPOKES IN A WHEEL” lead to the same hub, the same god.

Leopard, Bear, Lion – Power
The Leopard, Bear and Lion are symbolic of the Antichrist’s powerful, diabolical, ruthless and

great POLITICAL POWER as seen in Daniels vision. The Dragon is Satan the puppet master.

384 Daniel 11:37 - Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, NOR THE DESIRE OF WOMEN, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
385 1 John 2:18 - Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists
386 Daniel 8:23 - In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance

387 Isaiah 14:4 - You will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon
388 Daniel 8:9 - And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great -- Daniel 7:8 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn
389 2 Thessalonians 2:3 - For that day shall come when there is a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
390 2 Thessalonians 2:8 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth
391 Revelation 13:1 - And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns
392 Revelation 13:2 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,... the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority 393 2 Thessalonians 2:3 - For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, THE SON OF PERDITION
394 Revelation 13:17 - No man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. -- Revelation 13:18 - Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six
395 John 17:12 - I kept them in thy name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the SON OF PERDITION (Judas); that the scripture might be fulfilled
396 Acts 1:25 - That this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, THAT HE MIGHT GO TO HIS OWN PLACE.
397 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 - Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction And now you know what is HOLDING HIM BACK, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but THE ONE WHO NOW HOLDS IT BACK will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way AND THEN THE LAWLESS ONE WILL BE REVEALED

Revelation 13:2 - The BEAST I saw resembled a LEOPARD, but had feet like those of a BEAR and a mouth like that of a LION. The DRAGON gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.

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Daniel 7:2-8 – Vision of the Four Great Beast
2 Daniel said: "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea.
3 Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea.
4 "THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a man, and the heart of a man was given to it. 5 "And there before me was a second beast, which looked LIKE A BEAR. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, `GET UP AND EAT YOUR FILL OF FLESH!'
6 "After that, I looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked LIKE A LEOPARD. And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.
7 "After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast-terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left.
IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE FORMER BEASTS, and it had ten horns. 8 "While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it.

THIS HORN HAD
EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN AND A MOUTH THAT SPOKE BOASTFULLY.

•   The Leopard is symbolic of the ancient Greek Empire, - Daniel 7:6

•   The Bear is symbolic of the Medo-Persian Empire, - Daniel 7:5

•   The Lion is the Babylonian Empire which is symbolic of Israel’s harlotry. Daniel 7:4

•   The Dragon is none other than Satan, adding his deceiving Satanic Power to the Antichrist,

  this world’s ruler. He will perform counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders.

•   The Antichrist receives his great position authority and empowerment directly from Satan.398

  He is a MORTAL man that is the incarnation of Satan that is TOTALLY POSSESSED

•   The Revival of the old Roman Empire is the continuation of these three kingdoms making up

  a FOURTH KINGDOM which is that of the Antichrist, 399
  Fatal Wound – One of the kingdoms or the Antichrist himself.

  The Belief Systems on this run wide and deep. The first indicators are that this “wound” happens to one of the countries that the Antichrist represents which is devastated, dispersed, and then is revived. Other students of the word BS hold that his could also be the old Roman Empire coming back as the European Common Market, the EEC.

  398 Daniel 8:24-25 - He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 - The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and every sort of evil that deceives
  399 Daniel 11:39 - He will attack the mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price -- Revelation 20:2 - He seized the Dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Revelation 13:3 - One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a FATAL WOUND, BUT THE FATAL WOUND HAD BEEN HEALED.

The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.

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That is what my BS first embraced, but this reasoning with the rest of the scriptures does not seem to hold up. So, I am leaning toward that this could actually be a FATAL wound to the head of the Antichrist. One way or the other, the whole world is amazed – My BS runs with the latter because of related scriptures.

The Antichrist, consumed by Satan, APPEARS TO BE SHOT IN THE HEAD AND DIES, and then is RESURRECTED. Some students of the Word BS embraces this as TRUE because of scripture that seems to apply to this.

Revelation 17:8 - The BEAST, which you saw
ONCE WAS, NOW IS NOT, AND YET WILL COME up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the BOOK OF LIFE from the creation of the world
will be astonished when they see the BEAST, because IT ONCE WAS, NOW IS NOT, AND YET WILL COME. (

Other Students BS embraces that this is actually the old Roman Empire being restored in a startling new manner; it actually does still live on in the nations of Europe today.

My BS is that this is a COUNTERFEIT RESURRECTION to seem like that of Jesus Christ.400 Satan does not have power to give life nor to resurrect a MORTAL man,401 but he can and will perform powerful miracles and illusions that will deceive the world. The world will marvel at this and follow him like he is the Messiah. This is what he wants; the praise, worship & honor that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

This happens 3 1⁄2 years into the TRIBULATION PERIOD, around the time that he sets up his idol image in the Holy of Holies in the Temple to be worshipped.

God will send a powerful delusion402 to further separate the “GOATS from the SHEEP”. World Religion – The Antichrist and Satan

This is the ONE WORLD RELIGION with the Antichrist’s prophet as its leader. The Antichrist, like Satan, desires to be worshiped and wants to be like god.403 Mankind turns to where the “Power” comes from; that is WHOLESALE OCCULTISM AND DEVIL-WORSHIP. This is a time when you are to TEST everything you hear from the Media and even teachers of the Faith. This Anti-Christ is a smooth talker.

Blasphemes God – The Antichrist

Although the Antichrist is actually around for the entire 7 years, the good news if any, is his rule is only for Forty-two months which is the last 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulation period.

There are four power groups, with Israel considered as the geographic center of God’s Plan. On the West is the European Union and America led by the Antichrist; Then Egypt, the Arab nations on the South; Then Russia on the North and with China on the East, leaving Israel hanging out in the middle.

400 John 5:21 - For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so THE SON GIVES LIFE TO ANYONE HE WANTS. - John 5:25 - The time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when THE DEAD WILL HEAR MY VOICE—THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD. 401 John 10:10 - SATAN COMES ONLY TO STEAL AND KILL AND DESTROY. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly
402 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 - For this reason GOD SENDS THEM A POWERFUL DELUSION so that they will believe the lie and so THAT ALL WILL BE CONDEMNED who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness

403 Isaiah 14:14 - I WILL ASCEND above the tops of the clouds; I WILL MAKE MYSELF like the Most High.
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Revelation 13:4 - MEN WORSHIPED THE DRAGON because he had given authority to the beast, and THEY ALSO WORSHIPED THE BEAST and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"

Revelation 13:5-6 - The BEAST was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.
6 He opened his mouth to BLASPHEME GOD, and to SLANDER HIS NAME and HIS DWELLING PLACE and THOSE WHO LIVE IN HEAVEN.

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The Antichrist makes a covenant of Peace just before or at the beginning of the tribulation period to resolve the Islamic/Israeli dispute and to protect and defend Israel.404 Egypt and Russia invade Palestine; the Antichrist keeps his promise and comes to the rescue and defeats Egypt. God then defeats Russia on the mountains of Israel.

The Antichrist decides he wants Israel for himself and breaks his covenant after 3 1⁄2 years. He slanders God’s name and defiles the Temple the dwelling place of God with his own image set up as god.

The Book of Life – Names of the Saved only.

Not all worship the Antichrist; Christians are still around, mostly the Jews. These Saints are those coming through the Tribulations who will be overcome by the Antichrist. The Book of life contains the names of the saved, those that believed on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.405

Retribution – For the Saints.

This can be a little hard to understand, but it’s about free will and Predestination; the HOLY SPIRIT. John is speaking to those who are going through the Tribulations. Don’t overlook the word ANYONE which is ANY man that has ears, so “EVERYONE” is a merging of the doctrines of FREE WILL and ELECTION. If any man (free will) has an ear (filled with the Holy Spirit), let him hear.406 Some people just DO NOT want to hear; the words just wash over them like noise; Free will but no Election, no filling of the Holy Spirit.  The Law of Retribution407- If someone persecutes the saints of Israel, with imprisonment, then they

will go into prison. If they killed them with the sword, then they will be killed by the sword.
 The Law of Seedtime and Harvest408 - What you sow, you shall reap; Sow hate, reap hate. This is

a message of Hope for those living at this time.

The Holy Spirit is holding back and restraining Satan even though it may not seem like it. That all changes at the Rapture when the Holy Spirit leaves; that’s when things really take a turn for the worst. Did you see it? If you are not part of the Rapture, then you will have to endure the tribulations

which calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of those who finally accept Christ. Pray that our nation does not abandon Israel, lest God ALSO abandon OUR great nation.

404 Daniel 9:27 - He will confirm a covenant with many for one `seven. 'In the middle of the `seven' (3 1⁄2 years) he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."
405 Revelation 3:5 - He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from THE BOOK OF LIFE, but will acknowledge his name before my Father -- Revelation 20:12 - Another book was opened, which is THE BOOK OF LIFE. The dead were JUDGED according to what they had done as recorded in the books -- Revelation 20:15 - If anyone's name was not found written in THE BOOK OF LIFE, HE WAS THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE

406 Revelation 13:9 - If any man hath an ear, let him hear.
407 Matthew 5:38 - "You have heard that it was said, `EYE FOR EYE, AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH.' -- Genesis 9:6 - "WHOEVER SHEDS THE BLOOD OF MAN, BY MAN SHALL HIS BLOOD BE SHED; for in the image of God has God made man. -- Matthew 26:52 - Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for ALL WHO DRAW THE SWORD WILL DIE BY THE SWORD -- Romans 12:19 - It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord
408 Galatians 6:7-8 - Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life

Revelation 13:7-8 - He (Anti-Christ) was given power to make war against the SAINTS and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.

8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the BEAST-all whose names HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN in the BOOK OF LIFE belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.

Revelation 13:10 - He who has an ear let him hear.
10 If ANYONE is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go.

If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. THIS CALLS FOR PATIENT ENDURANCE
AND FAITHFULNESS ON THE PART OF THE SAINTS.

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We now have the Satanic Trinity

Satan – The Dragon Antichrist – Beast out of the Sea False Prophet – Beast out of the Earth.

Out of the earth is symbolic that this SECOND beast is a natural mortal man, born in the last days, the same as the FIRST beast. He is symbolic of Palestine, and comes from Israel; HE IS A JEW. He is Satan’s mouth piece, the religious leader and prophet. He lifts up and promotes the Antichrist just as John the Baptist lifted up and promoted Jesus.

The TWO HORNS are symbolic of the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, but he is actually a wolf MASQUERADING in sheep’s clothing; he is a counterfeit Christ.409

He is pictured with two horns; two horns are limited power, seven horns would be complete power.
First – The appearance of a lamb which is a counterfeit meekness like the Christ
Second - His actions and speech is like that of the blasphemous Satan. The appearance is similar

to Jacob’s disguise to defraud Esau of the blessing of his father.410
The time is perfect time to “suggest” an IMAGE to honor THE WORLD DICTATOR and worship him.

The FALSE PROPHET will exercise unlimited authority... Cause fire to streak through the sky to the earth... Perform great miracles... Deceive the population... Force people to wear the “mark of the beast”... Force people to worship THE MAN, the Roman Antichrist... Force people to worship THE IMAGE of the Antichrist in the Temple and Murder the non-conformist.

This is the merging of the religious power and the secular power.
The Antichrist no longer has a need for the World Church as he sees himself as God.

Satan has power to provide SIGNS and he will - He is “The Prince of the Power of the Air”.411 These counterfeit signs include FIRE imitating Elijah412 to deceive all the inhabitants of the earth.

This JEWISH messiah, a False Prophet will rise up in Israel, doing counterfeit signs and miracles413 that will lead Israel to worship the leader of the 10 nations, the Antichrist.

The Antichrist will side with Israel against Russia who backs the Arabs claim to Palestine. He will lead Israel to sign a PEACE TREATY414 with the Arabs. The prophet Isaiah said this would be a contract with the pit (of Hell); death.415

409 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 - SATAN HIMSELF MASQUERADES AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. It is not surprising, then, if HIS SERVANTS ALSO MASQUERADE AS SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
410 Genesis 27:22-23 - Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." HE DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him
411 Ephesians 2:2 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience
412 Revelation 11:5 - If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies -- 2 Kings 1:10 - Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men -- Acts 2:3 - They saw what seemed to be tongues of FIRE that separated and came to rest on each of them
413 Revelation 13:12-13 - He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast.... And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing FIRE to come down from heaven
414 Daniel 9:27 - He will CONFIRM A COVENANT with many for one `seven.
415 Isaiah 24:16-17 - WOE to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!" Terror, the PIT and snare await you, O people of the earth.

Revelation 13:11 - Then I saw another BEAST, COMING OUT OF THE EARTH. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 13:12-13 – He exercised all the authority of the First Beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the First Beast, WHOSE FATAL WOUND HAD BEEN HEALED.
13 And he performed great and MIRACULOUS SIGNS, even CAUSING FIRE

TO COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN to earth in full view of men.

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BEAST comes IMITATING Christ; he is the False Messiah; the False Prophet.416 Image of the beast - The Antichrist

In my BS, the image that is set up is actually an Image of the Ant-Christ that is set up in the Temple Holy of Holies where everyone is forced to worship it, and with Artificial Intelligence it can even speak. It is called the ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION

There are two thoughts on the fatal wound received by the Antichrist. My BS prefer the former, but the rest of the scripture seems to embraces the latter.

1. 1)  Just as our Nation or “kingdom” is represented by a “man” like our President; a “man” can also be considered “the kingdom”. In this case, this is the kingdom that was wounded or desolated and was revived and made whole again and the president or ruler is the Antichrist.

2. 2)  The Antichrist is actually shot in the head and seems to die and Satan produces a counterfeit resurrection.

Satan cannot give life. This miracle is a deception, whether by robotics, electronics, illusion or DEMONIC INFLUENCE, IT IS COUNTERFEIT. THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE.417 This talking Image cannot be explained and is proclaimed a miracle and the world follows after him.

As part of the plan, all creation observes this and is waiting as WITNESS’ to the final outcome.

This is known as the MARK OF THE BEAST.418 Some Students BS see the mark at first will be like a tattoo, with invisible ink on the forehead, revealed with a laser scan at checkout counters or on the hand for use at an ATM and it will have a connection in some way with the code 666. At some point this mark will be desirable and sought after as it marks the person as a spiritually “ENLIGHTENED ONE”.

Other students of the Word BS believe it will be a computer chip seed that is implanted, like that being currently used in animals, but with GPS technology. Your location would be known at any time. Currently at this writing, the GPS technology is accurate within 10 feet.

This mark is used to control the person and clearly identifies that the person is A WORSHIPER of the “IMAGE” of the Antichrist. It is a mark of allegiance and loyalty to this new world leader.

This is a perversion of the MARK OF GOD that was placed on the 144,000 Jews who testified of Christ. Both of these marks are not only a mark of loyalty and allegiance but that of OWNERSHIP.

NOTE; if you receive THE MARK OF THE BEAST, YOU CANNOT REVERSE YOUR DECISION.

416 Matthew 7:15 - Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. -- Matthew 24:24 - For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones. 417 Exodus 20:4 - THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

418 Revelation 19:20 - The beast and false prophet was captured and were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the MARK OF THE BEAST and worshiped his image.

Revelation 13:14 - Because of the SIGNS he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, HE DECEIVED THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH. He ordered them to SET UP AN IMAGE in honor of

the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Revelation 13:15 - HE WAS GIVEN POWER TO GIVE BREATH
TO THE IMAGE of the first beast, so that IT COULD SPEAK and

cause all who REFUSED to worship the image to be KILLED.

Revelation 13:16-17 - He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave,

TO RECEIVE A MARK ON HIS RIGHT HAND OR ON HIS FOREHEAD,

17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had THE MARK, which is the NAME of the beast or the NUMBER of his name.

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Interestingly, many credit cards in the USA have a prefix number of 666, Bell Canada has the prefix 666, the overseas telephone operator number from Israel is 666, and The World Bank code number is 666. I have seen a list of 15 other places over the years, where our government, banking and retailers use the number 666 in one way or another.

The Antichrist - 666

The Beast or Antichrist is a mortal man consumed by Satan, who may already be born and may not come on the scene until he is in his thirty’s, similar to Christ; he is a copycat.

God’s number is SEVEN and is symbolic of completeness... 777 is God magnified to the most perfect. (For a study in Biblical numbers, get Jerry Lucas’s book “Theomatics”)

Falling short of seven is sinful man’s number of SIX. The Antichrist’s NAME is SIX SIXTY SIX, the most sinful and most evil number, magnified to its height. We will not know the NAME of the Antichrist for sure until the middle of the Tribulations, so we can stop trying to figure out who he is.

However, if all your friends have disappeared ......You might want to start figuring.

The Antichrist weapons; deceit, tolerance to false teachings and patience with popular sins.

Jeremiah 17:5-8 – Do not trust ANY man to lead you to peace

5 This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,

who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD.”

6 They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.

7 But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence.

8 They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought.

Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit. (NLT)

Roman Numeral – Rabbit Trail
The first 6 (progression) letters of the Roman numerals add up to 666

Could this mean the Antichrist comes out of the Roman Empire? Just saying

Revelation 13:18 - This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the NUMBER OF THE BEAST, FOR IT IS MAN'S NUMBER.

His number is 666.

I=1 V=5 X= 10 L= 50 C = 100 D = 500

666

Man’s number is 6 – a sinner.
Man was created on the 6th day.
Man was given 6 days to labor.
There are 6 names for man – Four in Hebrew and Two in the Greek. The number 6 was used in the secret mystery religions of the East. There are 6 names for the “serpent”.
The Antichrist’s number is 666 – sin perfected.

Did you pick up on the COUNTERFEIT SATANIC TRINITY woven throughout the text? Satan as God, the Antichrist as Christ and the False Prophet as the Holy Spirit.

Consider the SATANIC TRINITY: Understanding that SIX is the number of sinful man; Satan is SIX, the Antichrist is SIX, the False Prophet is SIX... Did you see it?... SIX SIXTY SIX Just saying.

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Chapter 16.14

The Lamb and the 144,000 on Mt. Zion

The Three Angels - The Millennial Reign on Earth - The New Song

Chapter 14 - Mostly a reflective Informational Chapter Mount Zion

John sees Christ briefly back on earth with the rapture of the entire 144,000 evangelist who were seated with the mark of God, not losing a single one. They are in Jerusalem on Mount Zion when suddenly they are all before the throne singing the song of the redeemed.

Many students of the Word BS embrace this as a picture of the Millennial Reign of Christ with His throne not in heaven, but on the Holy Hill of Mount Zion. Scripture says; I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my Holy Mountain.419

Remember this chapter is not in chronical order and John is giving us a picture of the Millennial Reign that is yet to come. We will see it in Chapt6er 20.

Voices

The sound of waters are the VOICES of the many saints who have now been brought home after waiting for some 6,000 years and are singing a NEW SONG.420 This is the homogenizing of the harps in HEAVEN and the voices on EARTH in the MILLENNIAL REIGN. The Angels in heaven rejoice over every single sinner that comes to the saving grace of Jesus Christ.421

A New Song

419 Psalm 2:6 - For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain.”
420 Psalm 149:1 - Praise you Jehovah. Sing unto Jehovah a NEW SONG, and his praise in the assembly of the saints.
421 Luke 15:7 – There is more JOY in heaven over ONE LOST SINNER WHO REPENTS and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!

Revelation 14:1 - Then I looked, and there before me was the
LAMB, STANDING ON MOUNT ZION, and with him 144,000 who had His name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

Revelation 14:2 - And I heard a sound from heaven like the ROAR of rushing waters and like a loud PEAL of thunder.

The sound I heard was like that of HARPISTS PLAYING THEIR HARPS.

Revelation 14:3-4 - And THEY SANG A NEW SONG before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 THESE ARE THOSE WHO DID NOT DEFILE THEMSELVES WITH WOMEN, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as first fruits to God and the Lamb.

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In my Belief System, I can embrace that that the 144,000 did not marry,422 but more probable it means they did not whore after other god’s, but were like a VIRGIN,423 faithful and true to the ONE God of Israel. They were not deceived by the counterfeit signs and wonders of the Antichrist.424 Anyway at face value, they are all saved Jewish unmarried men without family responsibility, without fault before the one God of Israel.

True Believers

Revelation 14:5 - No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

The 144,000 were blameless Jewish men sought out by the angel of God just after the rapture of the saints to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jews and the world. Only the redeemed can sing this new song of Joy.425 These are the tribulation’s FIRST FRUITS of the Jewish nation during “Jacobs Trouble”, the Great Tribulations. Their devotion to God was true in contrast to others around them who claimed to be followers of Jehovah God, but whose lives indicated something entirely different.426

Answers to the Prayers of the saints under the alter.

Up until now, angles did not bring the Gospel, only the men of earth. This Angel is the first of three we will see bring the Gospel Message to the entire World. In my BS, I think that this angel may have led a multitude of angels that gave the everlasting Gospel just one more time.

This continuous mercy of God, goes out to the Jew and Gentile alike, JUST ONE MORE TIME and the angels in heaven are once again WITNESS to God’s grace; they will say I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY. My BS gets hung up on the fact the Angels were flying in mid-air somewhat like our SATELLITES that broadcast the Good News of Jesus Christ 24/7 to the entire world... Trinity Broadcasting Network,

Day Star... Christian Television Network and the Three Angels Broadcasting Network.
Did you see it? 3ABN; Three Angels Broadcasting Network is named after the three angels of Revelation chapter 14; you need three satellites to cover the entire world. Have you noticed that their

out stretched solar cells look like a pair of wings.

Revelation 8:13 - The Three Angels bring the end time message

13 And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "WOE, WOE, WOE to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of THE THREE ANGELS who are about to sound!"

422 Revelation 14:4 - These are the ones who HAVE NOT BEEN DEFILED WITH WOMEN, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb. These have been purchased from among men as FIRST FRUITS to God and the Lamb.
423 Jeremiah 18:13 - Who has ever heard anything like this? A most horrible thing has been done by VIRGIN ISRAEL. -- Jeremiah 31:4 - I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O VIRGIN ISRAEL -- Amos 5:2 - Fallen is VIRGIN ISRAEL, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up -- 2 Corenthians 11:2 -- I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you AS A PURE VIRGIN to him

424 Matthew 24:24 - False messiahs and prophets will appear with great signs, wonders TO DECEIVE, IF POSSIBLE, EVEN THE ELECT. 425 Psalm 98:1 - Oh sing to the LORD a NEW SONG, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. -- Psalm 40:3 - He put a NEW SONG in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD

426 Romans 1:25 - THEY EXCHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR A LIE, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised -- Revelation 21:27 - Nothing impure will ever enter Heaven, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE -- Revelation 22:15 - Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Revelation 14:6-7 - Then I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN MIDAIR, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to

THOSE WHO LIVE ON THE EARTH - (The perishing)
to every nation, tribe, language and people.
7 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and GIVE HIM GLORY, because THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT HAS COME. WORSHIP HIM who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."

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The eternal gospel sounds like the “good news of Jesus Christ”, but may very well be the announcing of the eternal news that God has now come in Judgment and has established His sovereignty over the world with a command that all should worship and give glory to the creator.

The term “THOSE WHO LIVE ON THE EARTH” is used often and you need to know what it means; these are those that remained on earth after the rapture and go through the tribulations period. Some of these will accept Jesus as the Messiah only to lose their life because of their testimony of the Messiah.

Armageddon has been announced.427 Armageddon in Hebrew means “Mountain of Megiddo”.428 This battlefield lies in the northern part of Israel, east of Mount Carmel and stretches from the Mediterranean Sea eastward across the northern part of Israel. Many wars were fought on the plain of Har-Megedon. The term “Armageddon” was used “symbolically” whenever in a Great War; the need was the greatest for God’s intervention.

God has given Man repeated warnings or “Course Correctors” through the writings of the prophets, and even sent His only begotten Son, Jesus the Christ, to get man back on the path, but most have rejected His efforts.

In the end God will send a deluding Spirit429 to harden their hearts so they are unable to turn back and repent. God gives them what they want.

Facts Surrounding Armageddon
The reason for this war is that everyone will know that there is a God in Israel. “God is God. It

takes place after the seven years of tribulation... immediately after Christ’s second coming... after the marriage Supper of the Lamb. It comes before the Millennium reign of Christ

The participants in Armageddon are the Antichrist’s Gog and Magog and the armies of God from heaven. Gog, Russia and Magog its allied nations; East Germany, Poland and Bulgaria plus Persia (Iran) Ethiopia, Libya and Turkey.

•   It will last exactly one day – in semi-darkness

•   It will be fought in the Valley of Jehosophat – 40 miles North of Jerusalem

•   Horses sink into the blood and mire up to the horses bridles.

•   80% of the armies of the earth have been destroyed.

•   The armies of the Antichrist will be destroyed.- no survivors

•   The Antichrist and the False Prophet are cast into the lake of fire.

•   Satan is bound and cast into the bottomless pit for 1,000 years.

•   The great supper of God begins – The birds of the sky feast on the carnage.

•   The wedding supper of the Lamb begins – (The saved)

•   The 1,000 year reign of Christ begin; ,the Millennium Reign

  Armageddon

  Again, this is a reflective chapter and not necessarily in chronical order. The term “second angel” is an indication that there could be many angels involved, we know there is a progression of at least six. The angel is announcing what is yet to come as if it has already happened and we know it surely will.

  427 Matthew 13:38-43 - The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let hear.

  428 Judges 5:19 - Kings came, they fought; the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo
  429 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 - The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Revelation 14:8 - A SECOND ANGEL followed and said,
"FALLEN! FALLEN IS BABYLON THE GREAT, which made

all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."

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•   Babylon, where the TOWER OF BABEL was built, was a GREAT CITY, but with very GREAT EVIL and GREAT JUDGMENT is on its way.430 Those who drank her wine or PARTICIPATED in her evil will get the SAME JUDGMENT.431 Babylon is the birth place, the fountain head of idolatry, where all the pagan gods got their demonic beginning. The builder of Babylon was King Nimrod who was worshipped as the god BAIL, and his wife Queen Semiramis claimed she was the goddess of Fertility that descended from heaven into the Euphrates River full grown in an EGG. This is where the pagan observance of EGGS on EASTER came from. See Book 10.14 Easter

•   The Antichrist will be attacked by Africa with the Arab nations led by a King of the SOUTH plus Russia the King of the NORTH and their allies,432 but the Antichrist defeats them

•   Later; the battle of Armageddon is between a coalition of armies from Europe and America, the Kings of the WEST controlled by the Antichrist, and the 200,000,000 man army433 from China the Kings of the EAST.434

•   When the sign of the “Son of Man” appears, the combined forces435 of these nations decide to fight the Son of Man instead of each other.436 - They lose

  The battle of Armageddon will take place exactly 1260 DAYS from the time the Antichrist enters the re-built Temple. It is spoken of symbolically as “time, times and half a time,437 then in 42 MONTHS,438 then in 1260 DAYS.439

  The return of Christ in 1260 days is a bold statement, but God said it, not me.

•   After the defeat of Russia, God gives Israel a PURE LANGUAGE, we don’t know if it’s a new language or the language spoken in the Garden of Eden... In my BS, I believe God will restore the Hebrew language to his people.440 This pure language had been dead for 2000 years.

  (Interestingly, there are not any “cuss” words in Hebrew)

•   After the BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, THE ARK OF THE COVENANT will not be needed or

  talked about any longer, because the Messiah, the King is on His throne among them.441

•   After the defeat of Russia, there will be an exodus from Russia much like the one with Moses’

  exodus from Egypt.442

  430 Jeremiah 51:33 - The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled; the time to harvest her will soon come -- Isaiah 13:11 - I will punish its evil and the wicked for their sin. I will crush the arrogance of the proud & humble the pride of the mighty. 431 Revelation 17:2 - With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries -- Jeremiah 51:7 – Babylon; the cup that made the whole earth drunk. They drank Babylon’s wine, & it drove them all mad. 432 Daniel 11:44 - But news from the EAST and the NORTH shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many.

  433 Revelation 9:16 - THE NUMBER OF THE MOUNTED TROOPS WAS TWO HUNDRED MILLION. I heard their number -- Joel 3:1-2 - I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel
  434 Revelation 16:12 - The SIXTH ANGEL poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the KINGS FROM THE EAST might be prepared.

  435 Zechariah 14:1-3 - I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle
  436 Matthew 24:30 - The sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory

  437 Daniel 7: 25 - He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The SAINTS will be handed over to him for A TIME, TIMES AND HALF A TIME
  438 Revelation 13:5 - The BEAST was given a mouth to utter blasphemies and to exercise his authority for FORTY-TWO MONTHS Revelation 11:2-4 - Do not measure the outer court it, because it has been given to the GENTILES. They will trample on the holy city for 42 MONTHS. And I will give power to my TWO WITNESSES, and they will prophesy for 1,260 DAYS, clothed in sackcloth

  439 Revelation 12:6 - The WOMAN fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 DAYS -- Revelation 11:2-4 - Do not measure the outer court it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 MONTHS. And I will give power to my TWO WITNESSES, and they will prophesy for 1,260 DAYS, clothed in sackcloth.
  440 Zephaniah 3:9-10 - For then will I turn to the people a PURE LANGUAGE, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent

  441 Jeremiah 3:16-17 - They shall say no more, THE ARK OF THE COVENANT of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it;. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD
  442 Jeremiah 31:8 - I will bring them from the North Country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth a great company shall return thither -- Ezekiel 39:25 - Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel -- Ezekiel 39:27 - When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight

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Revelation 14:9-11 - A THIRD ANGEL followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and

RECEIVES HIS MARK on the forehead or on the hand,
10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury,
which has been poured full strength into the cup of his WRATH. He will be tormented with burning sulfur
in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives THE MARK OF HIS NAME."

This THIRD ANGEL is just one more of the 100,000,000 angels that are available. If the burning sulfur is symbolic and not actual, then its reality will be even worse; it will be POURED OUT full strength. I don’t know what this sounds like to you, but in my Belief System it sounds like that if you took the MARK OF THE BEAST, you have refused the HOLY SPIRIT and have entered the TWILIGHT ZONE of the “unpardonable sin”. Repentance is too late; there is NO CHOICE now on “smoking” or “non- smoking”. The drink will be full strength, it’s not watered down with grace, mercy or compassion;443

the WRATH will consumed all the way down to the dregs of the cup.444
NOTE: Those that remained on the earth that did not capitulate and receive the Mark of the Beast

will endure to the end and their spirit saved.445 Hang in there!

The faithful are told by the Holy Spirit to ENDURE PATIENTLY and not take the easy way out with the MARK OF THE BEAST. Multitudes of Gentiles will be saved during this time just to lose their life. It’s better to be dead in Christ than alive with Satan. Better is one day in your courts, than a thousand elsewhere.446

Did you see it? The good deeds that you did on earth will follow you to heaven for rewards. You don’t do good deeds to be saved, you do good deeds because you are saved.

World Harvest of Souls

This is a description of Christ ready for the World Harvest.

of many nations -- Jeremiah 16:14-15 it shall no more be said, The LORD lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD lives, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them AGAIN into their land that I gave unto their fathers
443 Psalm 75:8 - For the LORD holds a CUP in his hand that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours out the wine in judgment, and all THE WICKED MUST DRINK IT, DRAINING IT TO THE DREGS.

444 Psalm 75:8 - For the LORD holds a cup in his hand that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours out the wine in judgment, and all the wicked must drink it, draining it to the dregs.
445 Matthew 24:13 - But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
446 Psalm 84:10 - A single day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else! I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.

Revelation 14:12-13 - This calls for PATIENT ENDURANCE on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and REMAIN FAITHFUL to Jesus. 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write:

BLESSED ARE THE DEAD who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit,
They will rest from their labor, for their DEEDS will follow them.

Revelation 14:14 - I looked, and there before me was a WHITE CLOUD, and seated on the cloud was one "LIKE A SON OF MAN"

with a crown of gold on his head and a SHARP SICKLE in his hand.

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WHITE CLOUD; what we are looking at is the Shekinah Glory Cloud 447as was seen when God filled the temple and no one could strand before Him. The Son of Man is none other than Jesus the Christ Himself not coming this time as a PROPHET or PRIEST, but as a KING wearing a Golden Crown. The sharp sickle is symbolic that JUDGMENT of the wicked has begun.448 The day of the LORD will soon arrive in the “VALLEY OF DECISION”.449 Time is running out; decide while you still have a CHOICE.

The Time has come – To Reap

The HOLY SPIRIT’S JOB is to sow the seed of the word,450 OUR JOB is to water the seed and its GOD’S JOB to reap the harvest. Only the Father in Heaven knows “THE TIME” of this harvest. Christ came and the Holy Spirit SOWED THE SEED OF THE WORD drawing men unto God and then Jesus set down at the right hand of the Father and is waiting for the TIME of the harvest. This angel is sent by God to Christ telling him that it’s “TIME”, and Christ stands up and begins the harvest. 451

Did you see it? We are not responsible for sowing the seed that draws man to God, nor the harvest, we are only responsible to WATER THE SEED and give it nourishment. Sometimes as an encouragement to us, we also get to see the sowing and the reaping.

In my BS, based on upcoming verses, this first reaping seems to be the Harvest of the SAVED.452 The Great Winepress - Armageddon

Revelation 14:15-16 - Then ANOTHER ANGEL came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because THE TIME TO REAP HAS COME, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16 So he who was seated on the cloud

SWUNG HIS SICKLE OVER THE EARTH, and the earth was harvested.

Revelation 14:17-20 - ANOTHER ANGEL came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
18 Still ANOTHER ANGEL, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle,

"Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes
from the earth's vine, because its GRAPES ARE RIPE."
19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes
and threw them into THE GREAT WINEPRESS OF GOD'S WRATH.
20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and BLOOD flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a

distance of 1,600 stadia. NIV

When Jesus came the first time, He came as the compassionate SAVIOR and shed His blood for the UNGODLY. Now He returns in WRATH as JUDGE and treads the blood of the UN-GODLY in His winepress and blood splatters everywhere, even on the pure white garments of Christ. The sown seeds of iniquity are coming to fruition, the TARES among the wheat.

The grapes are full to bursting with evil.453 This is the Harvest of the wicked UNSAVED.

447 Ezekiel 1:28 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of THE GLORY OF JEHOVAH. And when I saw it, I FELL UPON MY FACE.
448 Joel 3:13-14 - Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread the grapes, for the winepress is full. The storage vats are overflowing with the wickedness of these people.”
449 Joel 3:14 - Thousands upon thousands are waiting in THE VALLEY OF DECISION. There the day of the LORD will soon arrive.
450 John 6:44 - NO ONE CAN COME TO ME UNLESS THE FATHER WHO SENT ME DRAWS THEM, and I will raise them up at the last day. - John 14:6 - Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.
451 Matthew 13:47-50 - They set down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away; at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous -
452 Isaiah 63:4 - THE DAY OF VENGEANCE was in my heart; THE YEAR OF MY REDEMPTION HAS COME.
453 Joel 3:13 - Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow- so great is their wickedness!

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There was so much blood, that it SPLATTERS up as high as the horses’ bridle as they sank into the mire of mud and human carnage. 454 1,600 stadia is about 185 miles and a horses bridle is about waste or chest high; about four feet.

In my BS, I use the word splattered instead of flowed or rising because that is what happens in a wine press when men are smashing the grapes with their feet, it splatters all the way up to their waist455 and I think that is what John was actually conveying and what scripture suggest.

He will gather all the ungodly into a place called ARMAGEDDON456

The Rapture - Escapism
The Tribulations and Armageddon are both JUDGMENT and our only hope of escape from this

terror is to accept the Work of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
I hope by now your BS has embraced that the church will not be present during the entire SEVEN

YEARS of the tribulation period nor will they endure the Battle of Armageddon. However, I would be amiss if I didn’t note that some students of the Word BS embraces that we will endure the hour of testing of the first 31⁄2 years of the tribulations, but will be kept from the last 31⁄2 years known as the GREAT TRIBULATIONS. I can easily see both Belief Systems arguments, so pray that we miss the tribulations, but live our life like we must endure the TESTING of it.

The church is made up of believers who are filled with the Holy Spirit and when the Church is raptured, the restraining force of the Holy Spirit is also raptured; GONE. That’s what makes things so dastardly bad on earth; Satan, the Antichrist and his minions run full throttle down the world’s expressways with no speed limit.

GOOD NEWS: Although the Holy Spirit’s restraining force characteristic will be gone from earth, the Saving Grace characteristic will still be available for those who would seek Him.

God’s characteristic of love and compassion will not be found in HELL, but the characteristic of His WRATH and FURY will be abundant and relentless and for eternity.457

I deserve to go to Hell,
but I am not going there because of the Work of Jesus Christ on the Cross paying my debt.

Now and Not Yet
Did you see it? You must be a member of the Kingdom of God that is NOW in order to be a member

of the Kingdom of God that is NOT YET. If you don’t have a valid PASSPORT, you cannot enter.

Isaiah 5:1-4 - My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, BUT IT YIELDED WILD GRAPES.

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it?

God has given us a lifetime to find Him; what more could He do.

It’s in the Book

454 Isaiah 63:6 - I TRAMPLED the nations in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground -- Revelation 19:15-16 - Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He TREADS the WINEPRESS of the fury of the wrath of God - Jude 14-15 - ENOCH, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy one. to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly
455 Isaiah 63:1-6 - Why are your clothes so red, as if you have been treading out grapes? In my anger I have trampled my enemies as if they were grapes. In my fury I have trampled my foes. THEIR BLOOD HAS STAINED MY CLOTHES for the time has come for me to avenge my people, to ransom them from their oppressors.
456 Revelation 16:16 - And the demonic spirits gathered all the rulers and their armies to a place with the Hebrew name ARMAGEDDON 457 Revelation 14:11 - And THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT WILL RISE FOR EVER AND EVER. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

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Chapter 16.15

The Seven Angels The Seven Plagues

The Final Judgments – God’s Wrath Completed - The Singing Saints

Chapter 15 is an Informational Chapter and while not reported in chronological order, it is in logical order.

Marvelous Sign – It is Finished

The last half of the tribulations called the GREAT TRIBULATIONS is not so much about Satan, the False Prophet or the Anti-Christ nor even about their minions which are still very active, BUT is about THE DAY OF GOD’S WRATH; it about judgment coming directly from the Throne of God.

The great and marvelous SIGN is the saints playing harps and singing THE SONG OF MOSES and THE SONG OF THE LAMB. This is the prophetic celebration in advance of the coming to an end of the GREAT TRIBULATIONS; it is finished.

The SEVEN ANGELS of wrath are pouring out the bowls of the last of the Wrath of God on the earth. While we see this picture as repetitive, it is now being unpacked and painted for us in fine detail. When I was an communications instructor in the Army, I told them a) what I was broadly going to

teach them, b) then I taught it, c) then I told them what I taught them; adding in more fine detail. This is what is going on in the informational chapters; we are getting the fine detail.

The Victors with harps

The sea of glass is a reflection of God’s pure light,458 transparent with prismatic colors produced by His glory. The fire mingled in is a reminder of God’s WRATH that is about to be revealed. The Victors are those that did not take the mark of the beast. They play harps and sing two songs of praise.

God uses symbols to get us to unpack the depth of His teaching so we can understand it better, the actuality of the symbolic is MUCH LARGER than the symbols seems, whether good or bad.

458 Revelation 21:23 - The city does not need the sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 1 Timothy 6:16 - Who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.

Revelation 15:1 - I saw in heaven another
GREAT AND MARVELOUS SIGN: SEVEN ANGELS

with the SEVEN LAST PLAGUES - last, because with them GOD'S WRATH IS COMPLETED.

Revelation 15:2 - And I saw what looked like a SEA OF GLASS mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name (666). They held harps given them by God

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The Song of Moses represents the Law and the Song of The Lamb represents God’s grace. It is VICTORY over Satan and all the enemies of God and man.459 This is the union of Law and Grace. The Song of Moses460 is about Israel’s faithfulness, salvation and final deliverance from Egypt and is QUITE LENGTHY, and has its own symbolism, but here is some of it for you to get the flavor; I

encourage you to read it in its entirety in your own Bible. Exodus 15:1-21 and Deuteronomy 32:1-42
The King of the Ages is speaking of Jesus as being the object of universal worship and praise

throughout the entire earth.
All the Nations of the earth are in peace and are filled with people who know the Lord, nothing

will be hurt or destroyed on His holy mountain 461

Exodus 15:1-18 – SONG OF MOSES
1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the

LORD: "I will sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted.

THE HORSE AND ITS RIDER HE HAS HURLED INTO THE SEA

17 You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance—
the place, O LORD, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, your hands established. 18 The LORD will reign for ever and ever." NIV

Temple is opened - Ark of the Covenant

This is the second time the Temple in heaven is OPENED for us to see inside. The Tabernacle of the Testimony is the Holy of Holies,462 where the ARK OF THE COVENANT was kept containing the Ten Commandments. 463

Did you see it? The Tabernacle containing the Holy of Holies and The Ark of the Covenant which contained the Ten Commandments that was observed in heaven are actually the ORIGINALS of those that were PATTERNED after and constructed on earth by Moses.464

459 Colossians 2:14-15 - Having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross
460 Deuteronomy 31:30 - And MOSES RECITED THE WORDS OF THIS SONG from beginning to end in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel: -- Deuteronomy 32:1 - Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. -- Deuteronomy 32:43 - Rejoice, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people

461 Isaiah 11:9 - Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, SO THE EARTH WILL BE FILLED WITH PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE LORD.
462 Acts 7:44 - Our forefathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony (Holy of Holies) with them in the desert. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

463 Exodus 32:15- Moses turned and went down the mountain with THE TWO TABLETS OF THE TESTIMONY in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
464 Exodus 25:40 - Be sure that you make everything according to the PATTERN I have shown you here on the mountain.

Revelation 15:3-4 - and sang the SONG OF MOSES the servant of God and the SONG OF THE LAMB:

"Great and marvelous are your deeds,
Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, KING OF THE AGES. 4 Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."

Revelation 15:5 -After this I looked and in heaven the temple, that is, the tabernacle of the Testimony, was OPENED.

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The Israelites believed that by keeping the laws of Moses and the Ten Commandments they did not need a Messiah to deliver them from their sins.465 Jesus pointed out to fail in any point of the Law; you have failed in them all.

Christ says that what happens inside of a man heart is what counts;466 good works should not be produced because of rules of man BUT because of a tender heart full of desire.467

There are over 300 separate prophecies in the Old Testament about the coming Messiah.468 Even though the Jewish Nation KNEW the Old Testament prophecies from the prophet Isaiah about a Messiah, they just did not believe that Jesus was the one that was to come.469

Where was the Sign? WE WANT A SIGN.470 Jesus would not give them a sign; HE WAS THE SIGN. Priestly Garments

The shining linens and golden sashes are reminders of the OT priest and are symbolic of holiness and royalty; “Kings and Priest”, a royal priesthood.471 (Fine linen is symbolic for the righteous acts of the saints, His Bride.)472

Coming to the End

The Seven Angels COMPLETE God’s judgments. The Seven Bowls or Vials are full bringing an end to the WRATH being poured out. In the Greek, “FILLED” is translated; finished - bringing to an end – expire – accomplish - fulfilled.

Shekinah Glory Cloud – Smoke

Interestingly, Man now has access to the temple except during this special time, the KJV says no “man” could enter the temple to intercede for the nations. Smoke is more correctly translated Cloud as when THE CLOUD OF THE SHEKINAH GLORY filled the temple no man could stand near it473

465 Mark 7:6-7 - These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men
466 Mark 7:15 – What goes into a man does not make him `unclean, but rather, what comes out of a man is what makes him `unclean
467 Mark 7:21-23 - For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. -- Matthew 5:27-28 - But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart

468 Isaiah 35:4-6 - Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy.
469 Matthew 11:3-6 - Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?" The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor

470 Matthew 12:39-41 A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah; so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth
471 1 Peter 2:9 - But you are a elect race, a ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellences of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

472 Revelation 19:7-8 - Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and HIS BRIDE has made herself ready Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear."
473 Exodus 40:34-35 - Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and THE GLORY OF THE LORD filled the tabernacle. MOSES COULD NOT ENTER the Tent of Meeting because the CLOUD had settled upon it, and the GLORY OF THE LORD filled the tabernacle.

Revelation 15:6 Out of the temple came the SEVEN ANGELS with the SEVEN PLAGUES. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests.

Revelation 15:7 - Then one of the four living creatures gave to the SEVEN ANGELS SEVEN GOLDEN BOWLS FILLED WITH THE WRATH of God, who lives for ever and ever.

Revelation 15:8 - And the temple was filled with SMOKE from the GLORY OF GOD and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the SEVEN PLAGUES of the SEVEN ANGELS were completed.

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Chapter 16.16

The Seven Bowls/Vials God’s Wrath poured out

The Third Woe – Darkness – Earthquake - Jerusalem splits in half – 100 pound hail - Sores

Chapter 16 is an Informational Chapter Seven Bowls / Vials poured out during the Last 3 1⁄2 Years.

The Third Woe

NOTE: There are SEVEN SEALS, the seventh Seal holds the SEVEN TRUMPETS; the seventh Trumpet holds the SEVEN BOWLS. As we read the scripture it seems like a slow process, but once we hit the seventh seal, its coming pretty fast like a trip hammer. From horrible to the worst to the most excruciating in rapid succession.

The first six seals cover the first 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulation period with the 7th seal covering the last 3 1⁄2 years, unleashing the seven trumpets and seven vials or bowls. Some of the scriptures seem to overlap and are not in chronological order, but from John’s point of view; it’s all happening at once.

1st Bowl - Painful Sores

I feel a need to make the point that this is none other but the finger of God at work, not Satan nor the Anti-Christ. The loud voice from heaven is none other than that of Jesus Christ unto whom all things have been committed. This first angel withdraws and pours out on earth a plague that affects only those who took the MARK OF THE BEAST. The plague covered them from head to foot 474with painful ugly sours including “ulcers” and running “boils” with highly offensive odors, accompanied with pain, fever and suffering and it was INCURABLE.475

Did you see it? In my Belief System, I cannot see how anyone in Israel could be angry with God when He in his compassion FOREWARNED them, that if they refuse to listen and did not obey all His commands and decrees, that all these CURSES would come upon them and overwhelm them.476

NOTE: There was also a remnant still alive that did not take the MARK or worship the IMAGE of the beast and were not affected by this plague, however things were still terrible for them as they could not buy or sell in order to just be able to eat.

474 Deuteronomy 28:35 - The LORD will cover you with INCURABLE BOILS; COVERED FROM HEAD TO FOOT your knees and legs.
475 Deuteronomy 28:27 - “The LORD will afflict you with the BOILS of Egypt and with TUMORS, SCURVY, and the ITCH, FROM WHICH YOU CANNOT BE CURED.
476 Deuteronomy 28:15 - BUT IF YOU REFUSE TO LISTEN to the LORD your God and DO NOT OBEY all the commands and decrees I am giving you today, ALL THESE CURSES WILL COME AND OVERWHELM YOU:

Revelation 16:1-2 - Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the SEVEN ANGELS, "Go and POUR OUT the SEVEN BOWLS of

GOD'S WRATH ON THE EARTH."
2 The FIRST ANGEL went and poured out his bowl on the land, and

UGLY AND PAINFUL SORES broke out on the people WHO HAD THE MARK OF THE BEAST and worshiped his image.

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This plague is similar to what happened with the Seals and Trumpets, but instead of 1/3 of the world affected, these sores are on THE WHOLE WORLD. The Bowls are the last of the plagues and seem tomagnifyandintensifytheprevioussimilarplagues. TheKJVsays;VialsinsteadofBowls;samething:sameeffect.

The plagues of the seven bowls reminds us of the plagues that Moses brought on the Egyptians when he was affecting the Exodus of Israel.477 See Book 7:14 - Plagues of Egypt.

2nd Bowl - Sea Creatures Die

Second Angel, Second Bowl - As the angel correspondently before him, this angels withdraws from heaven and pours out his bowl of wrath on the earth. The SIMILAR plague before affected only 1/3 of the sea, the reservoir teeming with Life; but this plague affects EVERY LIVING THING IN THE SEA, extending, intensifying and magnifying the plagues that have gone on before.

Did you see it? This is just like what happened when Moses turned the water into blood in Egypt. The fish in the river died and the water became so foul that the Egyptians couldn’t drink it.478

3rd Bowl – Rivers, Springs Turn Red

Revelation 16:3 - The SECOND ANGEL poured out his bowl on the SEA, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and

EVERY LIVING THING IN THE SEA DIED.

Revelation 16:4 - The THIRD ANGEL poured out his bowl on the RIVERS AND SPRINGS OF WATER, and they BECAME BLOOD.

5 Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:
"You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were,
the Holy One, because you have so judged;
6FOR THEY HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF YOUR SAINTS AND PROPHETS, AND YOU HAVE GIVEN THEM BLOOD TO DRINK AS THEY DESERVE." 7 And I heard the altar respond:
"Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments."

Don’t you think it’s cool, that the angels have different assignments? God has four angels that are in charge of the four winds, N, E, S, W.479 The angel before this one was in charge of the salt water SEAS and this one is in charge of the fresh water RIVERS and SPRINGS. These rivers and springs waters now TURN BLOOD RED and become unfit to drink; this is symbolic of the avenging the shed blood of the SAINTS and PROPHETS.

The ALTER responds: God is now answering the prayers of these saints who are under the alter praying for vengeance, that were martyred for the word of God; for being faithful in their testimony. 480

This is the law of retribution:

•   Pharaoh of the OT ordered the male Jewish children to be drowned, so God drowned his whole

  bunch in the Red Sea.481

•   Haman had a gallows built to hang the Jew Mordecai on, but instead he and his sons were hung

  on it.482

  477 Exodus 9:8-12 - FESTERING BOILS broke out on people and animals alike. The magicians were UNABLE TO STAND before the boils had broken out on them and all the Egyptians
  478 Exodus 7:20-25 -- As Pharaoh and all of his officials watched, Aaron raised his staff and struck the water of the Nile. Suddenly, THE WHOLE RIVER TURNED TO BLOOD! The fish in the river died and the water became so foul that the Egyptians couldn’t drink it

  479 Revelation 7:1 - I saw FOUR ANGELS standing at the FOUR CORNERS of earth, standing steady with a firm grip on the FOUR WINDS so no wind would blow on earth or sea
  480 Revelation 6:9-10 - THE SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR called out in a loud voice How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood

  481 Exodus 1:22 - Pharaoh issued a general order to all his people: "Every boy that is born, drown him in the Nile. But let the girls live." -- Exodus 15:1 - Moses and the Israelites sang this song to GOD, what a victory! HE PITCHED HORSE AND RIDER INTO THE SEA.
  482 Esther 7:9-10 - Haman has set up a seventy-five feet tall sharpened pole that He intended to use it to impale Mordecai. The king ordered. THEN IMPALE HAMAN ON IT! So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

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In my BS, the implication is; “some people” were scorched.483 I believe that believers as well as creatures are not affected by this plague.484 This burning is not for purification of the people, but for Judgment, you would think men would repent and seek God’s face, but not.485

Jesus said; except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been survived: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.486 That statement is a word study all into its own self; there are many opinions on how short the days will be. My BS is that Israel was in bondage for some 400 years and wandered in the wilderness for some 40 years therefore the last 3 1⁄2 years of the tribulations is a short time... There is a teaching that it will be just 5 months the life of Locust. So what’s in your BS?

5th Bowl – Darkness

Revelation 16:8-9 - The FOURTH ANGEL poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to SCORCH PEOPLE WITH FIRE.

9 They were seared by the intense heat and THEY CURSED THE NAME OF GOD,
who had control over these plagues,
BUT THEY REFUSED TO REPENT AND GLORIFY HIM.

Revelation 16:10-11 - The FIFTH ANGEL poured out his bowl on THE THRONE OF THE BEAST, and his kingdom was

PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS. Men gnawed their tongues in agony 11 and CURSED THE GOD OF HEAVEN because of their pains and their sores, but they REFUSED TO REPENT of what they had done.

This is specifically directed to the Kingdom of the Antichrist. The darkness would turn the earth extremely cold, adding to the suffering miseries. Their pain was so intense that men gnawed their tongues and did not even notice the pain. The accumulation of these plagues is taking a toll on the wicked and now their world has turned pitch dark and instead of turning to God, their blasphemies get worse.

Jesus foretold his disciples that after the tribulations the sun would be darkened and the moon would not give its light.487 This has a familiar ring as we reflect on the plague of Darkness that Moses brought on Egypt, it was so dark you could feel it.488 My BS embraces that along with the darkness, the air was so saturated with moisture that it was very hard to breath and you could not even make a fire to give light.489

Romans 2:4-5 – God uses the Tribulations to bring us back to Him

4 Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, & patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you?
Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? 5 But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself.

For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed (NLT)

483 Deuteronomy 32:24 - They shall be DEVOURED WITH BURNING HEAT with hunger and with bitter destruction and the teeth of beasts and the poison of serpents -- Malachi 4:1 - Behold, the day cometh that all that do wickedly and all the proud shall BURN as an oven; -- Isaiah 24:6 - Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are BURNED, and few men left

484 Psalm 121:6 - The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon at night.
485 Psalm 10:13 - Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?
486 Matthew 24:22 - And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: BUT FOR THE ELECT'S SAKE THOSE DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED.
487 Mark 13:24 - But in those days, after that tribulation, THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, and the moon will not give its light;
488 Exodus 10:21 - “Lift your hand toward heaven; the land of Egypt will be covered with DARKNESS SO THICK YOU CAN FEEL IT.” 489 Joel 2:1-2 - The day of the LORD is upon us, A DAY OF DARKNESS AND GLOOM, a day of thick clouds and DEEP BLACKNESS -- Joel 2:31 -THE SUN WILL BECOME DARK, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and terrible day of the LORD arrives.

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It is reasonable to take this scripture literally. Eastern powers like Japan, China, India and others prepare for an invasion of Israel as the waters in the Euphrates DRIES UP erasing the borders between East and West. The kings of the East combine their armies with the Kings of the North and South.

The Euphrates River is mentioned some 25 times in the Bible, as we open with it in Genesis and close with it in Revelation. It is 1800 miles long and is 10 to 30 feet deep and 300 to 1200 yards wide. It extends Northwestward from the Persian Gulf to present-day Lebanon... This is a big deal.

This is actually a trap prepared by God that triggers the Battle of Armageddon.

Three Evil Spirits – The Satanic Trinity

Satan the Anti-God, the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet make up this counterfeit trinity. These slimy, filthy, loathsome, disgusting frogs are demonic EVIL SPIRITS of propaganda coming out of the counterfeit trinity to seduce all the kings of the world with every avenue of the FAKE news media to come out to the Battle of Armageddon.

Sadly, the whole world would include an army from the United States... It’s in the Book. Armageddon – Har-Magedon

Behold, I come like a thief: where have we heard that before? Jesus has already warned us, that to the Un-believer living in DARKNESS, Christ’s return will be a surprise like a thief in the night,490 but that will not be true for the Believer who lives in the LIGHT, because they are looking for His return.491

In our culture we do not understand the statement of KEEPING YOUR CLOTHES so you may not go naked and shamefully exposed. J. Vernon McGee says that the captain of the temple would make his rounds during the night checking on his guards and if a guard was found sleeping on duty, he would be beaten or his CLOTHES set on fire and he would become naked and exposed; so stay awake, stay alert.

Some Translations of the Bible say HE gathered them together, others say THEY; Belief Systems vary on this. Is the HE, God or is THEY, Satan, the Anti-Christ and False Prophet gathering them? In my BS, I embrace that God is directing all of this and it’s the False Trinity that does the dirty work.

The Evil Demonic Spirits of propaganda will cause the kings of the world to come together to fight the battle of Har-Magedon. See the Word Study IITB 15.15 Armageddon and IITB 15.16 Armageddon Revisited

490 1 Thessalonians 5:2 – To the Un-believer THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT.
491 1 Thessalonians 5:4 - But the Believer is NOT in darkness so that THIS DAY WILL NOT SURPRISE YOU LIKE A THIEF.

Revelation 16:12 - The SIXTH ANGEL poured out his bowl on the great RIVER EUPHRATES, and its water was dried up

to prepare the way for the kings from the EAST.

Revelation 16:13-14 -Then I saw
THREE EVIL SPIRITS THAT LOOKED LIKE FROGS; they came

out of the mouth of the DRAGON,
out of the mouth of the BEAST and
out of the mouth of the FALSE PROPHET.
14 They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs,

and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for THE BATTLE ON THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY.

Revelation 16:15-16 - "Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him,

so that he may not go NAKED and be shamefully EXPOSED." 16 Then they GATHERED THE KINGS TOGETHER
to the place that in Hebrew is called ARMAGEDDON.

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Har means Mountain and Megiddo is a very large fertile plain on this mountain in Esdraelon. There have been Ten Holy Wars or Battles fought in this Valley of Har-Magedon and others not so holy.

The Kings of the South, Arab-African confederacy headed by Egypt and the King of the North, Russia,492 will launch an all-out invasion against Israel. 493

The Arabian Peninsula of Ethiopia is the Arab States – Southern Ethiopia is Africa. – The CIS is the Commonwealth of Independent States.494 There are currently 12 former Soviet Republics, including Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia. There allies are Persia (Iran), Turkey, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer and Torarmah.

•   Russia wants oil... Although they have oil, it’s not very accessible

•   Russia wants a warm water sea port and easy oil.

•   Russia wants the 12 billion tons of magnesium chloride and twelve billion tons of sodium

  chloride in the Dead Sea. There is also 2 billion tons of potash for enriching soil.

•   Russia’s Allies wants the land of Israel. - What a deal.

  There is a classic double cross by Russia against the United Arab Republic495 as they pitch their tents between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and Mount Zion.496

  Remember, in the middle of the tribulation, Russia (Gog) and its allies (Magog) led an attack against Israel in a valley in Lebanon.497 This is a region of mountains with a valley running from North to South. Hamon-Gog in Hebrew means “the multitude of Gog”. This is NOT the battle of Armageddon which will come later. Russia and the Arab nations will come against Israel and cover the land like a cloud.498

  Russia is an atheistic Nation. - Joseph Stalin said,

  “We have deposed the czars of the earth and we shall now dethrone the Lord of heaven.” When Sputnik was launched, Russia said, “Our rocket has bypassed the moon. It is nearing the sun. We have not discovered God. We have turned out lights in heaven that no man will be able to put on again. We are breaking the yoke of the gospel, the OPIATE of the masses. Let us go forth, and Christ shall be relegated to mythology. (John Hagee)

  The nations of the world including the USA, know what Russia and the Arabs are up to499 and do nothing to help Israel, but shamefully simply offer only a shallow rebuke of the actions of Russia.

  The prophet Joel pointed to this same valley where Jehoshaphat fought his battle, where the Messiah would soon destroy the armies of the nations and establish his kingdom.

  492 Daniel 11:40 - At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in battle, and the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots and cavalry and a great fleet of ships.
  Ezekiel 38:11-12 - You will say, "I will invade a land of UN-WALLED VILLAGES; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people-all of them LIVING WITHOUT WALLS AND WITHOUT GATES AND BARS. I will plunder and loot the livestock and goods.

  493 Ezekiel 38:11-12 - You will say, "I will invade a land of un-walled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people-all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. I will plunder and loot the livestock and goods.
  494 Ezekiel 38:15 - You will come from your place in the far north, you and MANY NATIONS WITH YOU, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army.

  495 Daniel 11:40-41 - HE WILL INVADE MANY COUNTRIES and sweep through them like a flood. He will also invade the Beautiful Land. Many countries will fall, but Edom, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from his hand.
  496 Daniel 11:42-45 - He will extend his power over many countries; Egypt will not escape. He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Nubians in submission. HE WILL PITCH HIS ROYAL TENTS between the seas at the beautiful holy mountain.

  497 Ezekiel 38:16 - You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, O Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.
  498 Habakkuk 2:17 - The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. For you have shed man's blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them. -- Zechariah 11:1 - Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars! -- Ezekiel 39:11 - On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, IN THE VALLEY of those who travel east toward the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there.
  SO IT WILL BE CALLED THE VALLEY OF HAMON GOG.
  499 Ezekiel 38:13 - Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages will say to you, "Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?"

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Joel 3:9-14 - The Valley of Decision

9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords

and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, `I am strong!`

11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there.

Bring down your warriors, O LORD!
12`Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the

Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there
I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.

13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow so great is their wickedness!`
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!

For the day of the LORD is near

IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION. NIV

There’s an earthquake that swallows up masses of the enemy,500 fire and brimstone rain down, confusion abounds and the armies start killing each other.501 The nature of forces unleashed on the armies sounds much like that of a nuclear bomb which can generate 150 million degrees of heat in a millionth of a second; you are disintegrated before you hit the ground.502 There is devastation so great, that only one sixth of the Russian army survives.503

7th Bowl - Thunder & Lightning - Earthquake – Hail

This is the last of the Bowl judgments before the return of Jesus Christ the Messiah. This bowl is poured out into the Air. Satan’s title is the “Prince of the power of THE AIR,” 504 and now the domain of Satan is gone.505 Jesus Christ says, “It is done”... “IT IS FINISHED” 506

Did you see it? When Jesus died on the cross, He said His PLAN OF SALVATION was Finished.

500 Numbers 16:30 - And the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and THEY GO DOWN ALIVE INTO THE GRAVE,
501 Judges 7:22 - When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords.
502 Ezekiel 38:22 - I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. -- Peter 3:12 - That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will MELT in the heat. -- Zechariah 14:12-13 - This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: THEIR FLESH WILL ROT while they are still standing on their feet, THEIR EYES WILL ROT in their sockets, and THEIR TONGUES WILL ROT in their mouths. ON THAT DAY men will be stricken by the LORD with great panic. Each man will seize the hand of another, and they will attack each other. -- 2 Peter 3:10 - But THE DAY OF THE LORD will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare
503 Ezekiel 39:2 - And I will turn thee back, and LEAVE BUT THE SIXTH PART OF THEE, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel
504 Ephesians 2:2 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:
505 Matthew 24:29 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the SUN BE DARKENED, and the MOON SHALL NOT GIVE HER LIGHT, and the STARS SHALL FALL from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: -- Isaiah 51:6 -Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke -- 2 Peter 3:10 - But the DAY OF THE LORD will come as a thief in the night; and the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. --
506 John 19:30 - When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “IT IS FINISHED,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

IT’S IN THE BOOK

Revelation 16:17 - The SEVENTH ANGEL
POURED OUT HIS BOWL INTO THE AIR,
and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "IT IS DONE!"

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you IN the flood like he did Noah;508 you have just got to Let Go and Let God. Jerusalem Splits into Three Parts

Revelation 16:18-20 - Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a SEVERE EARTHQUAKE.

No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.
19 THE GREAT CITY split into THREE PARTS, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great
and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20 Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.

No earthquake like it has ever occurred509 since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake that the city was split into three parts. This Great City in my BS seems to be Jerusalem, as Babylon is mentioned often separately; this earthquake convulses Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives splits.510

Note: Israel is often symbolically called Babylon because of their great evil; whoring after other gods. This Great Earthquake occurs at this very same time the TWO WITNESSES are being caught up to heaven.511

100 pound Hail

Joshua reports that in a battle, God destroyed the Amorites with a terrible hailstorm that killed more of the enemy than the Israelites killed with their sword.512 This GREAT earthquake makes islands shift and disappear, mountains and cities are leveled, and what’s left is destroyed with 100 pound hail and MEN STILL CURSED GOD because the plague was so terrible. A talent, or “talantos” in the Greek, is actually translated to be about 114 pounds.

In the OT... a blasphemer was stoned to death... today men “get stoned” and blaspheme God.

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507 Genesis 5:24 - ENOCH walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
508 Hebrews 11:7 - By faith, NOAH built a ship in the middle of dry land. The result? His family was saved
509 Ezekiel 38:19 - In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that THERE SHALL BE A GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 510 Zechariah 14:4 - And his feet shall stand IN THAT DAY upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the MOUNT OF OLIVES shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and THERE SHALL BE A VERY GREAT VALLEY; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
511 Revelation 11:8 - And their dead bodies (Two Witnesses) shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. (Jerusalem) -- Revelation 11:12-13 - And they (Two Witnesses) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, COME UP HITHER....And the same hour was there a GREAT EARTHQUAKE, and the tenth part of the city fell
512 Joshua 10:11 - The LORD destroyed the Amorites with a terrible hailstorm from heaven. The hail killed more of the enemy than the Israelites killed with the sword.

Revelation 16:21 - From the sky huge HAILSTONES
of about a (talent) hundred pounds each fell upon men.

And THEY CURSED GOD on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

THIS EARTHQUAKE AND HAIL BRINGS THE

CONCLUSION TO THE GREAT TRIBULATIONS.

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Chapter 16.17

There are four Women in Revelation

•   Jezebel – Representing apostasy creeping into the church.

•   The Great Prostitute – The Harlot - The final apostate world system.

•   Israel – The Jewish Nation

•   The Bride – The Church of Christ

  The Great Prostitute

  The Great Prostitute or Harlot of the nations, outwardly carries the name of God, but inwardly is utterly evil serving many gods.513 In my BS, this is the part of the church which I call MAKE-BELIEVERS that remained on earth after the rapture and went into the seven year tribulation period; Jacobs Trouble.

  The Many Waters are the great masses of the nations514 ruled and controlled by symbolic Babylon; the many FAKE religions, the apostate, renegade church.515 In my BS I see this as the homogenization of all religions into a ONE WORLD RELIGION which with their political power will GUIDE THE HERD and control the masses. But this is short lived because after it has served its purpose, the Anti-Christ and False Prophet will not want this religion around anymore, because he wants the worship all for himself.

  Kings of the Earth

  The Kings of the earth are the OTHER nations that Israel sought out and made an un-holy alliance embracing their gods, their sacrifices and their rituals.516 This church is very popular and is even supported by some of God’s people, but God will call His people out of it eventually.517

  513 Hosea 4:6-13 - Because you have REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I also reject you because you have ignored the law of your God, and exchanged their Glory for something disgraceful. They have DESERTED the LORD to give themselves to prostitution. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are UNFAITHFUL to their God
  514 Ezekiel 23:28-30 - I am about to hand you over to those you hate, because you lusted after the nations and DEFILED YOURSELF with their idols the shame of your prostitution will be exposed

  515 Ezekiel 16:23-29 - WOE! WOE to you because you built a lofty shrine in every public square, offering your body with increasing promiscuity to anyone. You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians the Philistines the Assyrians including Babylonia
  516 James 4:4 - Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
  517 2 Corenthians 11:2 - I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I PROMISED YOU TO ONE HUSBAND, TO CHRIST, so that I might present you AS A PURE VIRGIN to Him

THIRD VISION Of Christ and Victory

The Beast - The Woman - The Great Prostitute – The Apostate Church

Revelation 17:1 - One of the SEVEN ANGELS who had the SEVEN BOWLS came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of
THE GREAT PROSTITUTE, who sits on MANY WATERS.

Revelation 17:2 - With her the KINGS OF THE EARTH committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries."

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This Beast is the Antichrist out of the sea, previously mentioned.

The woman is the world religion, the great prostitute of the city of Rome. She SITS on or is supported by the Antichrist who also receives directions from her.

The Deception

This woman is in my BS represents the new ONE WORLD RELIGION of Rome that will be revealed 31⁄2 years into the tribulations. Somebody said it, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. This Woman is dressed up outwardly like a stately cathedral with the colors that are used in the Temple. But on the inside she is corrupt like a whitewashed tomb.518 Her Cup is full of abominations; a FAKE gospel; .she is enticing nations to her with new things that “tickle their ears”.519

She is symbolically just the opposite of the woman who worships God and does good deeds for others. The following scripture is addressing GOOD WORKS and not an indictment on jewelry, clothes or hair.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 - I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but with GOOD DEEDS, appropriate for women who profess to worship God. NIV

The Prostitute’s Title

Her title or names are indicative of how far her religion has proceeded from the path of God. Notice she is called the MOTHER OF HARLOTS meaning this One World Religion will have many homogenized religious abominations, with a composite of each religion bringing into the mix their own distinctiveness and peculiarity.

Did you see it? The True Believers have already been caught up and raptured and all that remains on earth are these un-believers and make-believers dragging up confusion and religious error.

Drunk with Blood

518 Matthew 23:27 - you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like WHITEWASHED TOMBS—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity .- Matthew 23:25 - You Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but INSIDE YOU ARE FILTHY—full of greed and self-indulgence!
519 2 Timothy 4:3 - For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having ITCHING EARS, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts

Revelation 17:3 -Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a WOMAN sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had SEVEN HEADS and TEN HORNS.

Revelation 17:4 - The WOMAN was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls.

She held a golden cup in her hand,
filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.

Revelation 17:5 - This title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 17:6 - I saw that THE WOMAN was drunk with the blood of the SAINTS, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

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The wicked and evil Babylon is symbolized as a WOMAN; an adultery, a whore, a harlot. John was astonished as he sees the occult, witchcraft and counterfeit false religions.

THE SAINTS are both the OT prophets and saints as well as the NT believers, the saints that have been martyred for their testimony.

Rome was the center of Pagan worship. Religious Babylon was heavy into the occult and its SECRET ARTS and practices were passed from empire to empire.

Zechariah had a few words to say about this woman and the wickedness of the people.

Zechariah: 3-11 - 3 And he said to me,
"THIS IS THE CURSE THAT IS GOING OUT OVER THE WHOLE LAND;

...6 I asked, "What is it?" He replied, "It is a measuring basket." And he added, "This is the INIQUITY of the people throughout the land." 7 Then the cover of lead was raised, and

there in the basket sat a woman! 8 He said, "This is wickedness," and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed the lead cover down over its mouth.
9 Then I looked up-and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

10 "Where are they taking the basket?" I asked the angel who was speaking to me.

11 He replied, "To the country of BABYLONIA to build a house for it. When it is ready, the basket will be set there in its place."

NIV

Once was – Is not... Will come

Revelation 17:7-8 - Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns.

8 The beast, which you saw,
ONCE WAS, NOW IS NOT, AND WILL COME
up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction.
The inhabitants of the earth whose
NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.

Seven Heads and Ten Horns speaks of the political power of Rome and is symbolically of Babylon where all the pagan religions originated, this is the homogenization of all the false religions into the ONE WORLD RELIGION.

In my Belief System, this is mostly about ROME: Rome was – Rome fell – Rome will rise again as the EEC, The European Economic Community headed by the Antichrist. The Beast powered by Satan is the Anti-Christ who puts the fragmented ROMAN EMPIRE back together again. It is not actually dead, but is revitalized and will rise from the abyss, only to go into destruction by the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. “The Inhabitants of the earth,” (The Lost) are impressed by this revitalization of the now EEC and will be drawn to it.

Other students of the word BS embraces that this angel is talking about the existence of Satan on earth in the past before John was even born... then references to John’s present time when Satan is not on earth, but in the heavens... and then references when Satan is thrown out of heaven to earth, which is a time after John’s death. So the Beast existed on earth before John’s time, but in John’s time is now NOT on earth, but will come again on earth after John’s time.

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Other’s BS is that this also may very well be symbolic of the Antichrist, totally possessed by Satan, as he lives, dies and is pseudo resurrected from his fatal wound.

Again we see this term “the Inhabitants of the earth,” referring to those that remained on earth after the RAPTURE of the true believers; these referred to symbolically as Babylon are those whose names have NOT been written in the Book of Life.

Seven Hills

In my BS, I say the SEVEN hills are the SEVEN cities on SEVEN mountains in ROME; Palatine, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirnal and Capitoline.

The “Seven Hills of Rome” is found throughout Roman literature and on coins of her day. In reality, it seems that these hills are referring to the SEVEN KINGDOMS that co-existed with Israel from her beginning until the 8th kingdom of Gentiles comes and persecutes them.520

There are many Belief Systems on this so it’s OK to disagree... The BEREANS were commended for being OPEN MINDED, but checking out everything that Paul said with the Torah.521 Don’t take what I say as ALL TRUTH, but check it out for yourself with the Book. It pleases God and that’s in the Book.

The FIVE kingdoms that have fallen are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-persia and Greece and the SIXTH is the old Roman Empire. That would make the FIVE fallen kings; Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

The SEVENTH in John’s vision is yet to come and in my BS will be made up of TEN kingdoms inside the old Roman Empire. It will be referred to as the Revised Roman Empire. SEVEN kingdoms agree to an alliance with the Antichrist and he overthrows or annihilates the other three that do not come on board. SEVEN would mean the completion of the Antichrist’s Revived Empire.

Did you see it? Revelation 17:11 says, THE BEAST who once was, and now is not, is an EIGHTH KING; HE BELONGS TO THE SEVEN. So the Anti-Christ is actually part of these Seven Kingdoms, but emerges himself to become the EIGHTH kingdom.

Daniel 7:23-24 – FOURTH BEAST EXPLANATION

He gave me this explanation: `The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. 522

It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it.

24 The TEN HORNS are TEN KINGS who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones;

he will subdue THREE kings. NIV

520 Luke 21:24 - Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. -- Romans 11:25 - I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in
521 Acts 17:11 - And the people of Berea were more OPEN-MINDED than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to

Paul’s message. THEY SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth.
522 Daniel 7:7-8 - After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a FOURTH BEAST-terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns. "While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, A LITTLE ONE, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

Revelation 17:9-11 - "This calls for a mind with wisdom.
The SEVEN HEADS are SEVEN HILLS on which the WOMAN sits.

10 They are also SEVEN KINGS. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. 11 THE BEAST who once was, and now is not, is an EIGHTH KING.

He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.

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Other’s BS is that this is the different forms of government that Roam has passed through down through the ages. The SEVENTH and last form of government will be satanic. The EIGHT Kingdom will be of the Beast or Antichrist which succeeds the 7th kingdom.

Revised Roman Empire

The EEC – The European Economic Community are 10 nations from the old Roman Empire. The kings of the Revised Roman Empire give their allegiance, power and authority to the Antichrist and will continue for 3 1⁄2 years523 and be part of the ARMY against Christ at Armageddon.

ONE HOUR denotes that the ten nations will all come into power in “the same time period” and only for a “short period of time” as the Anti-Christ subdues three of them.

Just as a crown is symbolic of a nation, a horn is symbolic of its POWER. In the book of Daniel the Anti-Christ is identified in his power as the “LITTLE HORN.”

Daniel 7:7 - Then in my vision that night,
I SAW A FOURTH BEAST terrifying, dreadful, and very strong.

It devoured and crushed its victims with huge iron teeth and trampled their remains beneath its feet.
IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM ANY OF THE OTHER BEASTS, and it had ten horns.
(NLT)

Daniel 7:8 - As I was looking at the horns, suddenly another SMALL HORN appeared among them.

THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS WERE TORN OUT

BY THE ROOTS TO MAKE ROOM FOR IT.

This little horn had eyes like human eyes and

A MOUTH THAT WAS BOASTING ARROGANTLY.

(NLT)
Daniel 7:24 - ITS TEN HORNS ARE TEN KINGS who will rule that empire.

Revelation 17:12 - THE TEN HORNS YOU SAW ARE TEN KINGS who have not yet received a kingdom, but who FOR ONE HOUR will receive authority as kings along with the Beast.

War – Against the Lamb

Then another king will arise,

DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER TEN, who will subdue three of them.

(NLT)

Revelation 17:13-14 - They have ONE PURPOSE
and will GIVE their power and authority to the Beast. (Antichrist)

14 THEY WILL MAKE WAR AGAINST THE LAMB, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings- and WITH HIM will be his
CALLED, CHOSEN and FAITHFUL followers."

The seven remaining nations willingly or unwilling become subservient to the Beast, known as the little horn, the Anti-Christ; the puppet master and become SINGLE MINDED with one purpose; to make WAR against the King of Kings, the Lamb of God; Jesus the Christ.

523 Revelation 12:14 - The woman (Israel) was given the two wings to fly to the place prepared for her where she would be taken care of for a TIME, TIMES AND HALF A TIME, out of the serpent's reach -- Daniel 8:25 - He will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power -- Daniel 7:25 - He will speak against the Most High and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a TIME, TIMES AND HALF A TIME.

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Did you see it? When the WAR against the Lamb begins, Jesus will bring with Him His called, His Chosen and Faithful followers; we will be there with Him and get to see the BEAST defeated up close and personal.524 For a detailed description of the war, see Psalm 18:1-50

Waters - Many Nations

The waters525 that make up the 8th kingdom of the Antichrist are the nations gathered from the four corners of the earth; to serve the ANTI-CHRIST in every aspect politically, economically and religiously.526 Unfortunately, that seems to include the United States of America.

The PROSTITUTE is the ONE WORLD RELIGION, the One World Church of Rome, the apostate Church, the church that is now in rebellion. This One World Church is now DIVIDING THE WORSHIP AND GLORY that the Anti-Christ so desires.

One World Religion – Church brought to Ruin

The Antichrist, the World Dictator NO LONGER NEEDS the “PROSTITUTE”; the powerful world church and wants her gone so he alone can receive ALL the glory and worship. He with the “Federation of Nations of Europe” will destroy the World Church of Rome. With the help of the False Prophet, the road has now been cleared to promote the WORSHIP of the Anti-Christ.

Destroying the false Apostate One World Religion seems like a good thing, but it leads into the gloomiest and darkest period of time when man believes the Big lie and rejects the Truth of Christ.

Note: The Antichrist will destroy the “Religious Babylon”, the apostate church, but in the end, it is God who will destroy the physical “Commercial Babylon.”

Daniel 11:36-37 - The king will do as he pleases.

He will exalt and magnify himself above every god

and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed,
for what has been determined must take place.
37 He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the one desired by women, (most probably a homo-sexual)
NOR WILL HE REGARD ANY GOD,
BUT WILL EXALT HIMSELF ABOVE THEM ALL. NIV

Babylon – The Great City
The WOMAN is the great POLITICAL city Babylon, as well as the RELIGIOUS Mystery Babylon.

524 Psalm 18:1-50 - In my distress I cried out to the LORD; then the earth quaked and trembled. The foundations of the mountains shook; He opened the heavens and came down; dark storm clouds. He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies at the blast of your breath, the bottom of the sea could be seen, and the foundations of the earth were laid bare. You have given me your shield of victory You gave me victory over my accusers You hold me safe beyond the reach of my enemies. Your RIGHT HAND supports me; YOUR HELP has made me great. For this, O LORD, I WILL PRAISE YOU AMONG THE NATION

525 Daniel 7:2 - "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the FOUR WINDS of heaven churning up THE GREAT SEA. 526 Isaiah 8:7 - Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a MIGHTY FLOOD from the Euphrates River

Revelation 17:15 - Then the angel said to me,
The WATERS you saw, where the PROSTITUTE sits,

are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.

Revelation 17:16-17 - The BEAST and the TEN HORNS you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish HIS purpose by agreeing to give the BEAST their power to rule,
until God's words are fulfilled

Revelation 17:18 - THE WOMAN YOU SAW IS THE GREAT CITY that rules over the kings of the earth."

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The FIRST HALF of the tribulation.

•   The protestant Church moves closer and finally embrace the World Church of Rome.

•   There is now a union between Church and State.

•   The Vatican finally gets the power she has always wanted.

•   The World Church will try to manipulate and control the political affairs of the world.

•   The Antichrist will support the World Church’s agenda via the Federated States of Europe.

  The MIDDLE of the Tribulation

•   The Antichrist is now revealed for who he is, and wants all the power, praise and worship.

•   He does away with the One World Church with the help of the Federated States of Europe.

•   He breaks his covenant of Peace with Israel

•   The Antichrist sets himself up as god and demands to be worshiped.

•   He still has 3 1⁄2 years to wreak his havoc, fulfilling the Word of God.

  Babylon – Queen of Heaven – Nimrod – Rabbit Trail

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Nimrod wanted to build a tower that reached into heaven, for worship of the many gods and for retreat to if there was another flood.527 You know the rest of the story, God confused their language and scattered them to the ends of the earth which is what God previously commanded them to do.528

Babylon, starting with the tower of Babel with a woman worshipped as the “Queen of Heaven”. Her name was Semiramis the wife of Nimrod. She purports to have had a male child conceived miraculously, named Tammuz who was considered “the savior of the world”; a FALSE MESSIAH. He was killed by a wild beast and then came back to life.

They had secret and mysterious rites used in idol worship with priests who practiced the sprinkling of holy water. They had an order of temple “virgins” dedicated to religious prostitution.

The Babylonians also worshiped, Dagon the fish god, a cult whose priest wore crowns with the inscription “Keeper of the Bridge”. The bridge between man and Satan. “The bridge” is used in the New Age movement today.

Nimrod had many names due to the confusing of the languages by God, one of which was Baal who they worshiped. God saw him as a hunter and murderer of his people.529

The word Babylon is not so much about the city of Babylon, but the religious wickedness embodied in the name “Babylon” that permeated the nations; Mystery Babylon.

The mystery is revealed in the last days; the worldwide apostate church will reject Christ and follows after the Antichrist.

The reference to Israel as “Babylon” is because they whored after other gods.

527 Genesis 11:4 - Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth
528 Genesis 11:9 - That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth

529 Genesis 10:9-10 - NIMROD; a mighty hunter before the LORD. The first centers of his kingdom were BABYLON, Erech, Akkad and Callen, in Shinar.

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Chapter 16.18

There are FOUR VOICES coming up in Revelation 18

The Fall of Babylon

Detestable birds and demons are called UP – The Faithful called OUT The Two Woes – Burning smoke - Voices Mourn – Heaven Rejoices

Voice of Judgment Voice of Separation Voice of Mourning Voice of Rejoicing

1-3 Detestable birds and demons called up
4-8 The faithful are called out
9-19 Woe, Woe – Burning Smoke, voices mourn

20-24 Heaven rejoices - Happy voices of joy. 1 Voice of Judgment - Fallen, Fallen – Detestable Birds and Demons

Revelation 18:1-2 - After this, I saw ANOTHER ANGEL coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor.
2 With a mighty voice he shouted:

"FALLEN! FALLEN is Babylon the Great!
SHE HAS BECOME A HOME FOR DEMONS
AND A HAUNT FOR EVERY EVIL SPIRIT,
A HAUNT FOR EVERY UNCLEAN AND DETESTABLE BIRD.

An angel is dispatched by God to perform His work. This Angel sheds a greater light of authority than was shed by previously angels. This angel is speaking prophetically as if the fall of Babylon has already taken place and it surely will come to pass soon. God declares the end from the beginning. 530

Fallen is used twice and in my BS perhaps it’s to indicate TWO STAGES of destruction of Babylon; A. TheReligiousBabylon,thereligioussystemisdestroyedabout31⁄2yearsintothetribulation

by the Antichrist.
B. The Political Babylon, the Commercial economic system of Rome, near the end of the

tribulation will be blown to bits in a thermonuclear holocaust and the results are that no human being will ever live there again. More specifically it will only be fit for a home for demons.

Spiritual Adultery – Following Other Gods

Committing adultery is symbolic of Israel worshiping and following after other gods, instead of the ONE God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But this is about even more, it’s about committing commercial adultery with their assets, placing all their emphases and time on making Big Money at the expense of seeking things of God.

There was a time in my life that chasing and collecting Lionel Trains became my god, I began to skip church so I could be the first to buy up all the trains offered in the Sunday Paper. After a month, I realized what I was doing and repented;531 I still had a HUGE Layout and an UNBELIEVABLE collection.

530 Isaiah 46:9-10 - I am God, and there is none like me; DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, and from ancient times THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET DONE; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
531 1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

Revelation 18:3 - For all the nations HAVE DRUNK the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth COMMITTED ADULTERY with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."

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The Son of God calls out to the faithful children of Israel532 to come out of the FAKE FALSE church before the plagues destroyed it.533 The unbelieving world cannot be saved.534 This would be about midpoint into the tribulations.

These Believers are those who came to Christ during the first half of the tribulations, they are not the church which has already been RAPTURED. They have no fellowship with their old sin nature,535 but are faithful to the end along with the SEALED 144,000 Jehovah Witnesses. He will not lose even one.536

Double Trouble – Her Sins Stink to High Heaven

Revelation 18:4 - Then I heard ANOTHER VOICE from heaven say: "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, so that you will not share in her

SINS, so that you will not receive any of her PLAGUES;

Revelation 18:5-8 - FOR HER SINS ARE PILED UP TO HEAVEN and God has remembered her crimes.

6 Give back to her as she has given; PAY HER BACK DOUBLE for what she has done. Mix her a DOUBLE PORTION from her own CUP.
7 Give her as much torture and grief as the glory and luxury she gave

herself. In her heart SHE BOASTS, `I SIT AS QUEEN; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn.'

8 Therefore IN ONE DAY her plagues will overtake her: death, MOURNING and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

God has planed the destruction of Political Babylon, paying her back DOUBLE for her blasphemous works, making her drink every last drop to the very brim of her very own cup of iniquity, and then totally destroying her IN ONE DAY.537 In my BS, I’m thinking they are destroyed suddenly, possibly with Nuclear Destruction.

Did you see it? Scripture lists MOURNING as one of the plagues.
3 The Voice of Mourning – First of the WOE, WOES – Burning & Smoke

In my BS, I see the city of Babylon having been rebuilt and is now in splendor with much trading of merchandise and known for its culture, fashion, stocks and bonds. The emphasis has shifted from WALL STREET to BABYLON with the merchants making money hand over fist with no thought of God.

532 Jeremiah 51:45 - Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the LORD -- 1 Timothy 5:22 - Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure
533 Genesis 19:14-15 - Lot went out... He said, Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city! Hurry or you will be swept away when the city is punished -- Jeremiah 50:4-5 - In those days, the people of Israel and the people of Judah will go in tears to seek the LORD their God. They will bind themselves to the LORD in an EVERLASTING COVENANT that will not be forgotten. - - Deuteronomy 4:30-31 - In the distant future, when you are suffering all these things, YOU WILL FINALLY RETURN TO THE LORD.

For the LORD your God is merciful; he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant he made with your ancestors 534 Jeremiah 51:9 - We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed; let us leave her and each go to his own land
535 1 John 1:9 - But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
536 Luke 15:4 - What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

537 Isaiah 63:4 - IT WAS FOR ME THE DAY OF VENGEANCE; THE YEAR FOR ME TO REDEEM HAD COME.
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Revelation 18:9-10 - When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning,

they will weep and MOURN over her.
10 Terrified at her torment, they WILL STAND FAR OFF and cry: "`WOE! WOE, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! IN ONE HOUR your doom has come!'

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Babylon has become the hub, the center of import and export not just for a region, but for the entire world of traders of commerce and is now the center for the ANTI-CHRIST and the nefarious activities of his minions including human trafficking.

TWO Woes are symbolic of a DOUBLE PORTION of wrath being heaped on the city; there is much weeping and MOURNING because of the loss of the vast power, wealth, jobs, and shipping.

1. 1)  The Kings of the earth - Their import and export trading of luxuries is lost.

2. 2)  The Merchants of the earth – Unemployment - Their income is totally lost.

IN ONE HOUR the city is destroyed... In my BS, I see the term “one hour” as symbolic of the WRATH of God that will be accomplished suddenly on this city, maybe in only a minute. That’s probably

why they stand afar off because of possible NUCLEAR RADIATION. Just saying Cargoes Gone – Woe’s defined: Oil, wine, silver, gold, wheat, cattle all gone

Revelation 18:11-13 - The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes any more-

12 cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; 13 cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.

SEVEN Categories of Losses:

1. Gold, silver, diamonds, pearls, rubies and other precious stones

2. Fine linen, silk and scarlet – to make religious clothing

3. Furniture, vessels, items made from wood, ivory and precious metals.

4. Ointments, frankincense, cinnamon – religious odors

5. Sheep, meat, wheat, flour, wine, oil – luxurious living gone

6. Horses and carriages – Today’s Tractor Trailers and BMW’s

7. Merchandising the Souls of men – paying someone to intercede to God on your behalf.

Merchandise Gone – More of the Woes

Did you see it? Because of the splendor of Babylon, the world had moved from seeking basic NEEDS to seeking the DESIRES of their hearts. They were now ACCUSTOMED to being AFFLUENT with the finest in luxuries and fine linen, garments of purple and scarlet. They coveted riches, jewelry and gold, precious stones and pearls; cosmetics and even the finest in GOURMET FOODS. They sought the very best of meats, vegetables, fruits, and breads; WINES and LIQUORS from all over the world, all coming through the center of pagan BABYLON. ALL LOST IN ONE HOUR.538

538 Ezekiel 26:2-21 - The gateway to the rich trade routes to the east has been broken. I will bring many nations against you like the waves of the sea crashing against your shoreline. I will destroy the walls with battering rams and tear down its towers. You will become the prey of many nations, with horses, chariots, charioteers, and great army, your mainland villages will be destroyed by the sword. They will plunder all your riches and merchandise. I will destroy your lovely homes, the whole coastline will tremble at the sound of your fall, everything is lost— your riches and wares, your sailors and pilots, your ship builders, merchants, and warriors. The merchants among the NATIONS SHAKE THEIR HEADS AT THE SIGHT OF YOU, for you have come to a horrible end IN ONE HOUR

Revelation 18:14-16 - They will say, `The FRUIT you longed for is gone from you. All your RICHES and SPLENDOR have vanished, never to be recovered.'
15 The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her WILL STAND FAR OFF, terrified at her torment. They will weep and MOURN

16 and cry out: "`WOE! WOE, O great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls!

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Transportation has been disrupted, empty ships cannot be loaded and the loaded cargo ships cannot be unloaded; sailors and haulers lose their job. At this writing, the COVID 19 Virus has devastated the world economy. There is a shortage of workers; afraid to leave home. Shelves in the stores are sparse, not enough truckers to transport goods. Ships are stacking up waiting to be unloaded.

Corporate Giants, their workers and consumers all watch it unfold from FAR OFF, and in my BS, they STAND FAR OFF because of the devastation of NUCLEAR FALL OUT.

35 years ago, on April 26 1986, there was the worst disaster in history at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat in the Soviet Union. 100 deaths were attributed to the accident and 18 Billion was spent for the decontamination team of more than 500,000.

68,000 people were evacuated and the site will be considered habitable again in 320 years. Shipping Ruined – The Finality of the WOES

It was their custom to kick up dust and sand to show their intense displeasure.539 This is where the term “Raising Sand” came from. Suddenly in SHORT ORDER they have been brought to nothing.

4 The Voice of Rejoicing - Rejoicing in Heaven

Revelation 18:17-18 - IN ONE HOUR
such great wealth has been brought to ruin!'

"Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and ALL WHO EARN THEIR LIVING FROM THE SEA,

WILL STAND FAR OFF.
18 When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, `Was there ever a city like this GREAT CITY?'

Revelation 18:19 - They will THROW DUST on their heads, and with weeping and MOURNING cry out:

"`WOE! WOE, O great city, where all who had ships on the sea, became rich through her wealth!
IN ONE HOUR she has been brought to ruin!

Revelation 18:20-21 - REJOICE OVER HER, O HEAVEN! REJOICE, saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you.” 21 Then a MIGHTY ANGEL picked up a BOULDER THE SIZE OF A LARGE MILLSTONE and threw it into the sea, and said: "With such VIOLENCE the great city of BABYLON will be thrown down, NEVER TO BE FOUND AGAIN.

While they are “RAISING SAND” on earth; they are REJOICING in heaven at the destruction of Babylon. It makes a difference on where your heart is, either you are in the curse of Mourning or in the blessing of Rejoicing.

Our attention is drawn to the sudden VIOLENCE and complete ANNIHILATION of the great city of Babylon. Jeremiah the prophet, testifies that just as a stone disappears when cast into the sea, so shall this city be to rise no more.540 The huge size of this MILLSTONE represents Severe Judgment.

539 2 Samuel 16:13 - And as David and his men went along the road, Shimei went along the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, threw stones at him and KICKED UP DUST.
540 Jeremiah 51:61-64 - When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud; you will destroy this place, so that neither man nor animal will live in it; it will be desolate forever. Tie a STONE to it and throw it into the Euphrates So will Babylon sink to rise no more

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Revelation 18:22-23 - The MUSIC of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters, WILL NEVER BE HEARD in you again.

No workman of any trade will ever be found in you again.
The SOUND of a millstone WILL NEVER BE HEARD in you again.
23 The light of a lamp will never shine in you again.
The VOICE of bridegroom & bride WILL NEVER BE HEARD in you again. Your merchants were the world's great men.
By your MAGIC SPELL all the nations were led astray.

With the destruction of the Great City Babylon, social gatherings and musical performances will no longer be on their mind, craftsmen producing the fine arts will cease, factories will be shut down, the LIGHT of God’s word cannot be found, the lights of the NEON gods they have made in Hollywood will go out, and no one will even think of getting married.

The MAGIC SPELL541 of the ONE WORLD CHURCH is destroyed by the slaying of the Harlot, the false religion that led the nations astray.

“The New Age movement” today has paved the way for many churches to fall away from the basic doctrines of the Bible and are easily seduced into the new “ONE WORLD CHURCH” order.542

“APOSTASY” means an abandonment or desertion of principles of Faith; they will have a form of godliness, but will deny its power.543

The demise of Babylon, the capitol of the BEAST’S KINGDOM marks THE END of the TRIBULATION PERIOD
and sets the stage for the long awaited SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.

Note: Samuel LIVED and SERVED in the Temple of God with the Priest Eli, YET HE DID NOT PERSONALLY KNOW THE LORD.544 (That might be you.)

God had spoken to him on THREE other occasions, but it was only on the FOURTH was he able to receive the Word of God personally for himself. It’s in the Book.

God has sent the Prophets, the Priest, His written Word and His very own Son; and in the end times he will sent 144,000 witnesses, then two more evangelist and finally three angels to share the good news of the GOSPEL message.

How many times must He show you the Way, the Truth and the Life?545 God waited seven additional days for man to come to Him546 then when the time was right God closed the door on the Ark, a door which no man can open.547

You must be a member of the Kingdom of God now, in order to have a PASSPORT to the Kingdome of God that’s yet to come; God has given you a lifetime to find him.

ONCE THE DOOR IS SHUT, IT WILL NOT BE OPENED.

541 Revelation 9:20-21 - They did not stop worshiping demons, and idols o gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood-idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their MAGIC ARTS, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
542 1 Timothy 4:1-2 - In the latter times SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

543 2 Timothy 3:1-7 - People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS but denying its power. Always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.
544 1 Samuel 3:7 - SAMUEL DID NOT YET KNOW THE LORD because he had never had a message from the LORD before.
545 John 14:6-7 - I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me.
546 Genesis 7:10 - And AFTER THE SEVEN DAYS the floodwaters came on the earth.
547 Isaiah 22:22 - I will give him the keys and WHEN HE CLOSES DOORS, NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO OPEN THEM

Revelation 18:24 - In her (Babylon) was found the blood of PROPHETS and of the SAINTS, and of all who have been killed on the earth."

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Chapter 16.19

Rejoicing in Heaven Hallelujah Chorus

Rider on the White Horse – Return of Christ in Judgment Victory over the Beast - The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Hallelujah Chorus

Notice that there is Four HALLELUJAH’S

•   God is on His throne,

•   Sin has been judged,

•   Every Believer everywhere sings praises

•   The marriage of the Lamb has come.

Revelation 19:1 - AFTER THIS I heard what sounded like THE ROAR of a great multitude in heaven

shouting: "HALLELUJAH! Salvation and glory (and honor) and power belong to our God,

After THESE THINGS; which is after the rapture of the church then after that, the agony and terror that took place during the GREAT tribulations period, John is emotionally taken back by the WONDER and PLEASURE of hearing this great ROAR of rejoicing.

In my Belief System, since the twenty-four elders represents the church that was raptured earlier, this great multitude would be the voices of the MARTYRED SAINTS from the tribulation period.

FIRST HALLELUJAH; alleluia or Hallelujah in the Greek means “Praise Jehovah”. NOTE; the word “honor” is missing in some manuscripts, but it’s in the KJV.

In my BS this seems to be reported out of chronical order as this shouting for joy is at the mid- point of the tribulation period, with all that is remaining is for Christ to destroy all His enemies and that’s coming up next.

SECOND HALLELUJAH; God has now AVENGED the death of his servants, the blood that was spilt for their testimony. The SMOKE that goes up from the LAKE OF FIRE is symbolic of JUDGMENT that will ascend up forever and ever.

We all have a Belief System of what is True and Just or the way we would have done things. Perhaps we would have not let believers be martyred, or even let Satan exist; but that is because our understanding is limited, we can only see through a glass dimly,548 we DO NOT know the plans of God...

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Revelation 19:2-3 - For TRUE and JUST are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute

who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
He has AVENGED on her the blood of his servants." 3 And again they shouted: "HALLELUJAH!
The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever."

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beginning. 549 We are not the Judge anyway; VENGEANCE is God’s prerogative alone. 550 Slain in the Spirit - Shekinah Glory

THIRD HALLELUJAH; The Omnipotent (all powerful) God is on His throne and is worthy of praise, honor and glory. Don’t you know that the “Hallelujah Chorus” was just so overpowering to hear and His SHEKINAH GLORY was so strong that the 24 Elders legs become like SILLY PUTTY and they are unable to stand and they just fall to the ground! I was fortunate enough to sing “Handel’s Messiah” with my church choir on some 20 occasions.

As a teenager, seven schools came together at my church which could hold about 700 people to sing the Hallelujah Chorus, I practiced with about 40 other kids just my mundane part.

Sitting on the front row of the Church I heard the orchestra begin and then everyone started singing in HARMONY their mundane part. I was so stunned, the SOUND was just so over the top, the words just vibrated in my body, I was so touched, that tears filled my eyes and I could hardly sing. I think I know what John was trying to describe.

In my BS, I thing in order for Handel to be able to write such a great piece of music, that he must have had a visitation from the Angel of God.

All Heaven Sings

FOURTH HALLELUJAH; This time John hears a LOUD ROAR that he could feel in his body, that of a Great Multitude that included the twenty-four elders, the four living creatures, PLUS ALL the servants of God everywhere joining in with SINGING PRAISES to the Lord God Almighty who reigns forever and ever.

Marriage Supper of the Lamb – The Bridge

TWO EVENTS will occur before Christ returns with us to take His throne.

1. Babylon and its religious system will be judged and destroyed.

2. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be celebrated with the saints.

It is the Lamb that is rejoicing over the bride. The LAMB is Christ; His BRIDE is the saints, who are clothed in the FINE LINEN of righteous. This supper bridges the time between the Tribulation Period and the longed for Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ.

549 Ecclesiastes 3:11 - PEOPLE CANNOT SEE THE WHOLE SCOPE OF GOD’S WORK FROM BEGINNING TO END. - Isaiah 55:8-9 - For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways - MY WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, and MY THOUGHTS ARE HIGHER THAN YOUR THOUGHTS.
550 Romans 12:19 - Beloved, DO NOT AVENGE yourselves, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I will repay," says the Lord

Revelation 19:4 - The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures FELL DOWN and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried: "Amen, HALLELUJAH

Revelation 19:5-6 - Then a voice came from the throne, saying: "Praise our God, all you his SERVANTS, you who fear him, both small and great!" 6 Then I heard what sounded like a GREAT MULTITUDE,
like the ROAR of rushing waters and like
LOUD PEALS of thunder, shouting: HALLELUJAH! For our Lord God Almighty reigns.

Revelation 19:7-8 - Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the WEDDING OF THE LAMB has come,

and HIS BRIDE has made herself ready.
8 Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear." (Fine linen is symbolic for the righteous acts of the saints.)

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•   Each of us will be wearing the wedding garment of our own making according to our righteous deeds. All spots and blemishes will have already been taken away at the Judgment seat of Christ.

•   The Bride is has now become His wife, not through works, but by His grace. 551 The Bride is the Gentiles – The believing Jewish nation of Israel will be gathered in later.552

•   The Wedding has come or rather “has been completed” and the MARRIAGE SUPPER is now ready to be served.

  Marriage/Wedding Supper

  The traditional marriage was in THREE parts:

1. 1)  The Contract where the price is paid (The cross),

2. 2)  The Wedding, where the groom goes and gets his bride (The rapture) and 553

3. 3)  The Wedding Supper when he takes her to his home. (His presence forever)554

   Heaven is where the MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB will be held; not in the air or on the earth Earth is where the MARRIAGES SUPPER555 will be held. It happens on the eve of His “Revelation”, which is His return to earth for His 1,000 year reign.

Bond Servant

A BOND SERVANT was someone who wanted to and chose to be the slave or servant of the master forever;556 such was the case here. John was so overwhelmed that he fell at the feet of the Angel and was promptly rebuked. Throughout scripture an angel was never worshipped. However, when the angel actually represented Jesus the Christ they were not rebuked... It’s in the Book.

We have direct access to God.557 We do not need or an angel, a Saint, Priest, or Mary the mother of Jesus, to intercede for us.558 Some Christian Denomination today allow men to pay homage and respect to them, to bow down before them, kiss their hand or feet. This is idolatry;559 only Jesus the Christ is worthy of praise and honor.

551 Ephesians 5:26-27 - That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish
552 Isaiah 54:6-8 - The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit--a wife who married young, only to be rejected, For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you -- Hosea 2:23 - I will say to those called `NOT MY PEOPLE,' ...`YOU ARE MY PEOPLE';

553 Matthew 25:1-10 - The kingdom of heaven is like ten VIRGINS, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom
554 Matthew 25:10 - The bridegroom came; and those ready WENT IN WITH HIM TO THE MARRIAGE: AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT
555 Matthew 25:1-13 - Then the five bridesmaids WHO WERE READY went in with him to the marriage feast, and THE DOOR WAS LOCKED. Later, when the other five bridesmaids returned, they stood outside, calling, ‘Lord! Lord! Open the door for us!’ But he called back, ‘Believe me, I don’t know you!’
556 Exodus 21:5-6 - And if the servant shall plainly say, I LOVE MY MASTER, my wife, and my children; I WILL NOT GO OUT FREE Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; AND HE SHALL SERVE HIM FOR EVER
557 Hebrews 1:1-3 - In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets but in these last days he has spoken to us by HIS SON, whom he appointed heir of all things
558 1 Timothy 2:5 - For there is ONE GOD and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS -- 1 John 2:1-2 - If anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense-JESUS CHRIST, the Righteous One
559 Acts 10:24-26 - When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him. But Peter helped him up and said, “STAND UP! I MYSELF AM ALSO A MAN

Revelation 19:9 - Then the angel said to me, "Write: `BLESSED are those who are invited to the WEDDING SUPPER OF THE LAMB!'"
And he added, "These are the true words of God."

Revelation 19:10 - At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a FELLOW SERVANT with you

and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

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John begins to write as the heavens open. The bride is now in the heavenly home. This is what all creation has been waiting for; this is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to earth. God has now OPENED THE HEAVENS for Jesus to return to earth to establish His kingdom.

Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, as our suffering GENTLE SAVIOR, now in contrast He is coming in WRATH as JUDGE ridding in on a WAR Stallion.

•   At the beginning of the Tribulation period, The Antichrist, impersonating Christ came riding on a WHITE HORSE.

•   At the end of the Tribulation period, in contrast, the rider on the WHITE HORSE is our faithful and true Savior, Jesus the Christ, riding triumphantly with His army, the OT saints, the raptured Church and the angels.

  A New Name – That no one knows

  The blood is of the slain Lamb of God, and of the martyred saints. Jesus the Christ is the Word.560 The Armies of Heaven

  The army on white horses is the legions of angels and the redeemed saints, the Bride of Christ.

•   The sharp sword is His word; He just speaks and it is done.

•   With an iron scepter561 He is treading on those who have rejected the true living God.

  Christ is no longer on a donkey with tears in His eyes and His body stripped of clothes and His head with a crown of thorns. He is riding a STALLION, adorned with a dazzling robe and a crown of victory. He is no longer alone, but with armies of saints. What a Contrast!

  Matthew 24:29-31 - Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

  30 They will see the Son of Man coming on the

  clouds of the sky, with POWER and great GLORY.

  31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call,

  and they will gather his ELECT from the four winds,

  from one end of the heavens to the other. NIV

  560 John 1:1-2 - In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, THE WORD WAS GOD. He was with God in the beginning. 561 Psalm 2:9 - You will rule them with an IRON SCEPTER; you will dash them to pieces like pottery -- Psalm 2:9 - You will break them with an IRON ROD and smash them like clay pots.’”

Revelation 19:11 - I saw HEAVEN STANDING OPEN and there before me was a WHITE HORSE, whose RIDER is called Faithful and True.

With JUSTICE He JUDGES and makes WAR.

Revelation 19:12-13 - His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns.

He has a NAME written on him that no one knows but himself. 13 He is dressed in a ROBE DIPPED IN BLOOD,
and His NAME is the WORD of God.

Revelation 19:14-15 - The ARMIES OF HEAVEN were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an IRON SCEPTER." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.

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Christ returns to the Mount of Olives from where he had first ascended after his crucifixion562 and now as he touches down the mountain splits in half.563

Great Supper of God – War of Armageddon

God summons the birds and vultures they fly in midair circling the carcasses ready to come down to THE GREAT SUPPER OF GOD which is the bodies of all the unbelievers that have been slain during the battle of Armageddon.564 This is in contrast to THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB that was given for the saved, the redeemed.

NOTE: Some Students of the Word BS embrace that the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be eaten for a duration of 1,000 years during the entire Millennium reign of Christ. This comes from the scripture that says, to the Lord a DAY is but a 1,000 years and a 1,000 years is but a DAY.565... Cool huh...

Kings Gather

The gathered armies are the Kings of the East, Egypt and Russia plus the ten kingdom Federation of Europe which is the REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE. They are gathered on the Plain of Esdraelon in Palestine, a natural battlefield at the mount of Megiddo, thus the name Armageddon.

The kings all make their plans and the God in heaven just laughs at them.566 Hell Opened - Antichrist & Prophet Chunked

562 Acts 1:9-11 - After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. THIS SAME JESUS, WHO HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, WILL COME BACK IN THE SAME WAY YOU HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN -- Matthew 24:27 - For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man
563 Zechariah 14:4 - And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley;

564 Ezekiel 39:17 - I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: There you will eat flesh and drink blood
565 2 Peter 3:8 - With the Lord one DAY is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one DAY
566 Psalm 2:1-4 - Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One. THE ONE ENTHRONED IN HEAVEN LAUGHS; THE LORD SCOFFS AT THEM.

Revelation 19:16 - On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

Revelation 19:17-18 - And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair,

Come, gather together for

THE GREAT SUPPER OF GOD,
18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people,
free and slave, small and great."

Revelation 19:19 - Then I saw THE BEAST and
the kings of the earth and their armies

gathered together to make WAR against the RIDER on the horse and his army.

Revelation 19:20 - But THE BEAST was captured, and with him THE FALSE PROPHET who had performed the miraculous signs

on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the MARK OF THE BEAST and worshiped his image.
THE TWO OF THEM WERE THROWN ALIVE
INTO THE FIERY LAKE OF BURNING SULFUR.

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Before the battle begins the ANTICHRIST and the FALSE PROPHET have the distinguishing honor of being the FIRST to be thrown into the Lake of Fire that was prepared for them; then the rest of the armies are defeated. Satan and the dead in Hell will follow them into the lake of fire next.

I think it is neat to see that the sword that slays the Anti-Christ comes out of the mouth of Jesus Christ, it is just His Word. Jesus just spoke and the world came into existence, it is His breath that saves us, and now He just speaks and His enemies are vanquished, destroyed big time and you hear a call for

CLEAN UP ON ISLE 13.
THE BIRD’S SUPPER is a smorgasbord of goodies. I won’t describe it all here, but they eat their eyes

Revelation 19:21 - THE REST OF THEM WERE KILLED
WITH THE SWORD THAT CAME OUT OF THE MOUTH

OF THE RIDER ON THE HORSE,
and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

first. Yum, Yum.

Isaiah 11:4

4 He will give justice to the poor and make fair decisions for the exploited. The earth will shake at the force of his word, AND ONE BREATH FROM HIS MOUTH
WILL DESTROY THE WICKED.
(NLT)

Hebrews 4:12

12 For the WORD OF GOD is alive and powerful.
It is SHARPER THAN THE SHARPEST TWO-EDGED SWORD, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. (NLT)

Summary of the LAST DAY of the Tribulation Period

•   The Last Day of the tribulation a great earthquake will cause an upheaval of nature which will alter the shape of the earth, possibly returning earth to its correct axis.

•   The Two Witnesses rotting in the street are resurrected and raptured.

•   Men actually hear God’s voice as He calls to them.

•   Great fear grips the hearts of man as the light of this day that is known to the Lord, is “NOT

  NIGHT, NOR DAY”567

•   Satan is bound by an Angel and cast into the bottomless pit for 1,000 years

•   Jesus returns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords with millions of the redeemed to fight the

  Antichrist and his armies at the battle of Armageddon where they are defeated568

•   This last day marks the first day of the 1,000 year reign of Christ.

•   His Saints will rule over those that did not take the “Mark of the Beast”.

•   The remnant nations, those that survived, those that refused the Antichrist will inhabit the

  earth and multiply and every year come to worship King Jesus in Jerusalem.569

•   All Israel – (The Jews that were “SAVED”) return to city of Jerusalem.570

  567 Zechariah 14:6-7 - On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost. It will be a unique day, without daytime or nighttime-a day known to the LORD. When evening comes, there will be light
  568 Zechariah 14:12 - This plague; their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
  569 Zechariah 14:16 - THE SURVIVORS from all the nations will go up to Jerusalem year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles
  570 Zechariah 14:9 - The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and HIS NAME THE ONLY NAME

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Chapter 16.20

The Millennial Kingdom

Final Conflict - Judgment of the Dead - Satan’s Doom

For some reason, when we consider what’s going to happen at “The End of Time” our BS only concentrates on the Battle of Armageddon and ignores the main purpose for the second coming of Christ; it’s really about the MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST; the 1,000 years of PROBATION which is the LAST TIME man and angels get an opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and CHOOSE.

There are a number of Belief Systems on the Millennial Kingdom; of WHEN Jesus will return for His Millennial reign: and each one is due the time and space it deserves to discuss and are a word study all into their own self... See IITB 15.13 Millennialism for an in-depth discussion.

There are THREE basic interpretations

1) Amillennialism: Christ’s Second Advent can be anytime now... There is no “future” millennial reign because it already exist NOW in heaven with Jesus and the saints of old; “A” means NO or NOT; there is not a literal millennium reign, just an unknown period of time. (Revelation is interpreted symbolically.)

2) Postmillennialism: Christ’s Second Advent IS AFTER the 1,000 years reign of peace and righteousness; the preaching of the gospel and the saving work of the Holy Spirit. (Revelation is interpreted symbolically.)

3) Premillennialism: Christ’s Second Advent PRECEDES the 1,000 year reign of peace and righteousness on earth. The righteous are resurrected to rule and reign with Him. (Revelation is interpreted literally.)

In my BS, I support the Pre-Millennial Kingdom of God, meaning that Jesus will return after the TRIBULATIONS have been completed, when Satan has been defeated, and Sin has been conquered.

The Great Chain

Revelation 20:1-3 - And I saw an ANGEL coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand A GREAT CHAIN. 2 He seized the , that ancient SERPENT,

which is the , or SATAN, and
BOUND HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
3 He threw him into the ABYSS, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore

until the THOUSAND YEARS were ended.
AFTER THAT, HE MUST BE SET FREE FOR A SHORT TIME.

DRAGON

DEVIL

Four Names for the Adversary – The counterfeit god of this world

1. 1)  Dragon symbolizes his cruelty.

2. 2)  Serpent symbolizes his cunning treachery and guile.

3. 3)  Devil symbolizes him as the deceiver, the tempter of man.

4. 4)  Satan symbolizes him as the opponent and the enemy of Jesus Christ and His saints.

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There is a lot of different Belief Systems about who this ANGEL is. One BS is that Satan is brought so low that just an ordinary angel will be his Jailor. Others BS feels this to be Michael the strong high Archangel; but my BS tends to embrace that the Angel is Jesus Himself as He holds all the keys.571

•   Satan has been very busy, messing with the lives of the believer and the unbeliever alike. 572

•   Satan is a spiritual being and cannot be restrained by any physical means.

•   This Great Chain is the CHAIN OF EVIDENCE, with every wicked link testifying and

  condemning him to darkness573 away from the face of God and rendering him totally inactive

  from deceiving the nations.574

•   The power of the Great Chain is the blood of Jesus Christ and the Gospel message.

•   This sets the stage for the Millennial Reign of Christ. (Millennial is Latin for Thousand.)

  Judgment #4 – The Gentile Sheep/Goat Nations

•   Occurs at the CLOSE of the Great Tribulation.

•   Christ is the Judge.

•   Everyone is judged in their own country.

•   Each person is judged on their ATTITUDE and TREATMENT of His chosen people, Israel.575

•   The nations that FAIL are Goat nations and are cast into hell and cease to exist as a nation.576

•   The nations that PASS are Sheep nations and continue as a Nation in the coming millennial reign

  of Christ.577

  Millennial Reign

  Those awarded authority to judge and rule the nations are most probable the 12 disciples, the 24 elders, those raptured as well as the body of Christ from all ages.578 Those that “came to life” are the tribulation saints that were just “resurrected”, these are given a different, but special place of authority.

  571 Revelation 1:18 - Behold, I am alive for evermore, and I HAVE THE KEYS OF DEATH AND OF HADES.
  572 Luke 22:3 - Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve -- Luke 22:31 - And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat -- Acts 5:3 - Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost
  573 2 Peter 2:4 - For if God spared not THE ANGELS that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of DARKNESS, to be reserved unto judgment -- Jude 6 – The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reservedineverlastingchainsunderDARKNESSuntothejudgmentofTHEGREATDAY --Revelation12:10-11-ForTHEACCUSERof our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, HAS BEEN HURLED DOWN. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony
  574 Ephesians 2:2 - The prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: -- 2 Corenthians 4:4 - The god of this world hath BLINDED THE MINDS of them which believe not -- 2 Corenthians 11:14-15 No marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness
  575 Matthew 25:45-46 - Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life
  576 Matthew 25:32-33 - All the NATIONS will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the SHEEP from the GOATS. He will put the sheep on his right and the GOATS on his left
  577 Matthew 25:40-41 Then he will say to those on his left, `Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels
  578 Luke 22:29-30 - And I appoint unto you (the twelve disciples) to eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and. sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel -- Revelation 5:10 - And hast made us (twenty four Elders) unto our God KINGS and PRIESTS: and we shall reign on the earth -- Matthew 19:28 - You (Believers) also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel
  2 Timothy 2:11-12 - If we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

Revelation 20:4 - I saw thrones on which were seated
THOSE WHO HAD BEEN GIVEN AUTHORITY TO JUDGE.

And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God.
They had not worshiped the BEAST or his IMAGE and
had not received his MARK on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and REIGNED WITH CHRIST a thousand years.

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Some students of the Word BS symbolize everything in this verse, but in my BS, I believe that everything is literal, THE THRONES ARE LITERAL, the Beast, his image and his mark on their forehead and arm are all literal.

The Millennium is a transition period that is somewhat like how the earth had been in the Garden of Eden and the coming new earth and eternity. Better than it was, but not as good as its going to be.

All of creation is WITNESS and watching what man will do when there is peace and everything is plentiful. After the return of Christ there is an interval of 45 days for installing those who rule and reign with Him and taking care of a little business. 1335 days subtract 1290 is 45 days579

During the Millennium there will be many born and man will still have FREE WILL and sin is still possible, some may choose not to go annually to Jerusalem to worship.580 Ruling with an iron rod,581 Christ will withhold rain from these to give them another “Course Corrector”. Sin will not be totally purged till after the MILLENNIUM when God burns up everything in the earth including the wicked and gives us a brand new earth

In His millennium reign, Christ will rule over the other nations from Jerusalem, aided by many immortal Christians, by King David, The Church, The Apostles, Nobles, Princes, Judges and some lesser authorities.582 Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, IN EARTH as it is in heaven.583

Our faithfulness today determines the extent of our responsibilities in His kingdom.584 Those who were faithful in just a few things will be given authority over much.585

Jesus will judge the Gentile Nations from the beginning of Abraham to the present, on how they treated the Jews and the Hebrew Nation of Israel.

This is in preparation for the Great White Throne Judgment that is to follow for the wicked.
At the FINAL JUDGMENT, the SHEEP will take their INHERITANCE in the Kingdom and the

GOATS follow Satan into the LAKE OF FIRE
Did you see it? Everyone has an inheritance; some everlasting JOY others everlasting TORMENT.

I am including Matthew’s commentary on this as it paints a very clear picture of God’s preparation for the INHERITANCE that every single person will receive.

Matthew 25:31-46 – SEPARATION PREPARATION

31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32 All the NATIONS will be gathered before him, and

He will separate the people one from another

as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his RIGHT
and the goats on his LEFT.
34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, `Come, you who are blessed by my Father; Take your INHERITANCE, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

579 Daniel 12:11-12 - From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days”. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
580 Zechariah 14:17 - If the peoples of the earth do not go to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain 581 Revelation 19:15 - Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter.

582 Ezekiel 34:23 - And I will set up ONE SHEPHERD over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. -- Ezekiel 37:24 - David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have ONE SHEPHERD: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them -- Matthew19:28 - You which have followed me, also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel -- Isaiah 32:1 - Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment -- Zechariah 3:7 - If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts -- Isaiah 1:26 - And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, the city of righteousness, the faithful city

583 Matthew 6:10 - THY KINGDOM COME. THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
584 1 Corenthians 6:3 - Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life?
585 Matthew 25:23 - Well done, good & faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things

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35 I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,

I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me,

I was sick and you looked after me,
I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

37 "Then the righteous will answer him, `

Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or
thirsty and give you something to drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

40 "The King will reply,
I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' 41 "Then he will say to those on his LEFT, `Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat,

I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in,

I needed clothes and you did not clothe me,
I was sick and in prison, you did not look after me

44 They also will answer,

`Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' 45 "He will reply, `

I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46 Then they will go away to ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, but the righteous to ETERNAL LIFE." NIV

The First Resurrection

During THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN the NATIONS will be taught the ways of Christ, there will be no war,586 the ANIMALS will live in peace, the POOR and the NEEDY will be lifted up,587 there will be prosperity and the EARTH will produce a bountiful harvest.

586 Isaiah 2:3-4 - HE WILL TEACH US OF HIS WAYS, and we will walk in his paths: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
587 Isaiah 11:4-86 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace. For he shall DELIVER THE NEEDY when he cries; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. -- Psalms 72:6-12 - He shall come down: as showers that water the earth. The righteous flourish in his days and prosperity. HE WILL RESCUE THE POOR who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper

IT’S IN THE BOOK

Revelation 20:5-6 - This is the FIRST RESURRECTION. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.)

6 BLESSED and holy are those who have part in the FIRST RESURRECTION.
The second death has no power over them,
but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

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There are TWO LITERAL RESURRECTIONS; the FIRST RESURRECTION is for THE SAINTS who will reign with Christ, then a THOUSAND YEARS LATER a SECOND RESURRECTION will take place for THE WICKED, then they are judged.

The First Resurrection of the SAVED in my BS has THREE phases within time;

1. 1)  At the CROSS, when graves were opened and the dead were seen in the city of Jerusalem.588

2. 2)  At the RAPTURE, the resurrection of the dead Saints from all ages prior to the tribulation period589

3. 3)  At the middle of the TRIBULATION, when the martyred saints are translated.590

The Second Resurrection of the UNSAVED happens at the Great White Throne Judgment. 591

All wicked and evil men are now gone from the earth and only the SAVED remain AND MULTIPLY. In spite of a perfect rule of peace and prosperity, sin comes back into the world again, proving man has a sinful nature and cannot change apart from the Holy Spirit drawing him.

Interestingly enough, nothing in the scriptures indicate that those who are born during the MILLENNIUM will be required to make a decision for Christ until after Satan is cut loose from the abyss to deceive the nations again. Some of these people will grow up “conforming outwardly” to Christ and His teachings, but inwardly, THEY REALLY DON’T CARE “ONE WAY OR THE OTHER”. This is so sad, for they will be easy prey for Satan.

Did you see it? This is what happened in the very beginning of time with Cain and Abel, both were conforming to God’s precepts and commands, but Cain was only conforming outwardly, he really did not care one way or the other.592 It was not Cain’s offering that God rejected, it was his inward attitude.

GOD LOOKS ON THE HEART.593

Satan is Released

Revelation 20:7-9 - When the thousand years are over, Satan will be RELEASED from his prison

8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth GOG AND MAGOG-to gather them for battle.
In number they are like the sand on the seashore.

9 They marched across the breadth of the earth
and surrounded the camp of God's people, THE CITY HE LOVES. But FIRE came down from heaven and devoured them.

The Term “Gog and Magog” as used here is symbolic of Ezekiel’s record of a similar battle fought long BEFORE the Millennial Reign. Ezekiel’s battle was primarily with Russia and her allies (Egypt) coming against Israel. Although Russia was defeated, there WERE a number of survivors.

This SECOND BATTLE of Gog and Magog mentioned in Revelation is with Satan enlisting those from THE NATIONS that are still living at the end of the millennium, this includes Russia. God allows armies as numerous as the sand to gather and surround the capital city of Jerusalem, then destroys ALL OF THEM with FIRE. In my BS these NATURAL FORCES from God is actually a NUCLEAR BOMB.

588 AT THE CROSS - Matthew 27:51-53 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many
589 AT THE RAPURE - 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord -- Revelation 20:4-6 - But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION.

590 AT THE TRIBULAIONS - 1 Corenthians 15:22-24 - For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the FIRST FRUITS; afterward THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING.
591 RESURRECTION OF THE UNSAVED - Revelation 20:13 - And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. -- Daniel 12:2 - And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth SHALL AWAKE, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt -- John 5:28-29 - And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE,

592 Genesis 4:3-5 - Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering HE DID NOT RESPECT CAIN AND HIS OFFERING
593 1 Samuel 16:7 - MAN LOOKS AT THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, but the LORD LOOKS AT THE HEART."

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NOTE: Today Satan is free to do whatever he chooses, but with limitations. During the Millennial Reign of Christ, Satan’s authority and control is BOUND and he can do nothing. But then after the completion of the Millennial Reign of Christ, there is a short brief period of time just before the Final Judgment, where ALL of Satan’s restraints are loosed for him to do whatever he chooses to do. So it’s actually a tad longer than 1,000 years before “all Hell breaks loose”.

Exploring the TWO BATTLES of Revelation

It is often difficult to separate the different battles that scripture is referring to. There were two Gog and Magog’s mentioned in scripture, but they were not the same. Ezekiel’s battle of Gog and Magog is lengthy, and I include some of it in the footnotes for you to get the jest of it.594 (Remember Ezekiel’s Battle is NOT the same battle as in Revelation, it just describes what happens.

Gog is a King or leader and in this case is the Antichrist totally consumed by Satan Magog is a people or nations that join up and follow him.

A magician keeps you looking at his left hand while his right hand is doing something else. Don’t take your eyes off the right hand; while you are thinking Russia, China and North Korea; the real players are the Muslims and the Jews; this is what the battle is about.

I could say there is just one battle, but in two phases; it starts, then is put on hold for 1,000 years and then picks up again for the final conclusion. It takes place on the “Hill of Megiddo” which is geographically the center between three continents; Europe, Asia, and Africa.

1. 1)  The FIRST BATTLE is between the Muslims & Jews and last for about 3 1⁄2 years and is about LAND. It begins during the tribulations and just before the Millennial Reign of Christ and is with Russia and her allies against Israel. This battle doesn’t go well and is placed ON HOLD.

   There are SOME survivors.

2. 2)  The SECOND and final BATTLE picks up again 1,000 years later after the Millennial Reign of

   Christ when Satan is released from the pit to gather his armies from the four corners of the earth to join him. This battle is between Satan and Jesus Christ and is about SOULS, and lasts for less than one day. Please see IITB Book 15.15 Armageddon, for more than you want to know.

   There are NO survivors, man nor animal.595

Satan - Thrown into the Lake of Fire

The Antichrist and his Prophet have been in torment in the LAKE OF FIRE for one thousand years, now SATAN joins them. They have NOW been judged. The Lake of fire is a place and it is also a state. It is a place of indescribable TORMENT596 and it is a state of eternal SEPARATION from the face of God. Oddly enough, God is everywhere all at once, He is even in the Lake of Fire,597 but it is only His WRATH that is there, NOT His Love and Compassion.

594 Ezekiel 38:1-22 - Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him I will bring you out a great horde brandishing shields and swords. Advancing like a storm; like a cloud covering the land. They will invade a land of UN-WALLED VILLAGES and plunder and loot. You will come from your place in the far north against my people Israel O Gog. Every man's sword will be against his brother. I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him -- Ezekiel 40:1-18 I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the COASTLANDS, (USA) I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog. Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: They will eat the flesh of mighty men

595 Zechariah 14:3 - Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle -- Zechariah 14:12 - Their FLESH WILL ROT while they are still standing on their feet, their EYES WILL ROT in their sockets, their TONGUES WILL ROT in their mouths. -- Zechariah 14:15 - A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps. 596 Matthew 25:41 - Away with you, you cursed ones, into the ETERNAL FIRE prepared for the DEVIL and his DEMONS -- Matthew 13:42 - And the angels will throw them into the FIERY FURNACE, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. -- Matthew 8:12 - Those for whom the Kingdom was prepared will be thrown into OUTER DARKNESS, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth 597 Psalm 139:8 - If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

Revelation 20:10 - And , who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,

where THE BEAST and THE FALSE PROPHET had been thrown. They will be TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT for ever and ever.

THE DEVIL

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Heaven and Earth Destroyed.
Somehow in my BS, with the Church gone, the Holy Spirit gone, the saved resurrected and

raptured; FEAR and EVIL is running rapid; perhaps the Nations will just start blowing each other up with nuclear bombs, releasing all the fuel and energy that’s stored up within the bowels of earth. Purging the earth of all evil and sin, making way for a new heaven and a new earth. Just saying.

Some students of the Word BS is that the earth will be purged with fire and God will just do URBAN RENEWAL here and we will start over on this renovated earth that has just been purged of Sin.

My BS has another thought. God assigned the EARTH to the “immortal” angel Satan to oversee and protect it, probably forever. Satan with his “free will” desired to be like God and have all the earth worship him. So God just gives the whole thing to him and his friends and then bowls this burning bowling ball of hell fire into eternity somewhere. Although a little toasty, Satan gets exactly what he has always wanted. The earth is now his and is LIT UP like a CHRISTMAS TREE for a solar system somewhere. Just saying, but that’s just my BS

The EARTH and HEAVENS have been burned up, purged of all sin, and now just for the Believers, God creates a New Heaven and a New Earth.598 The New Jerusalem has already been prepared and will come down from the Heavens. In my BS, I think it’s already occupied with the saints of old. (My thoughts only - no scripture – just saying)

The Bible does not say what happens to the Gentiles and the saved Jews when the earth is destroyed, but the scriptures indicate that GOD REMOVES HIS OWN before a total destruction as He did with Noah599 and Lot.600

Great White Throne Judgment - Books are opened

Revelation 20:11-13 - Then I saw a GREAT WHITE THRONE and HIM who was seated on it.

Earth and sky fled from his presence,
and there was no place for them.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and BOOKS WERE OPENED.
Another book was opened, which is THE BOOK OF LIFE. The dead were JUDGED according to what they had done AS RECORDED IN THE BOOKS.
13 The SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD that were in it, and DEATH AND HADES GAVE UP THE DEAD that were in them, and each person was JUDGED according to what he had done.

Many students of the word Belief System is that GOD is the one sitting on the throne, but in my BS, it’s more likely His son, the Lord Jesus Christ.601

The Great White Throne judgment is for the wicked dead because the righteous living and the nations have already been judged. The SAVED were raised in the First Resurrection, and all that are LOST are raised in the Second Resurrection.

598 Luke 16:17 - It is easier for HEAVEN AND EARTH TO DISAPPEAR than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law. -- Matthew 24:35 - Heaven and earth WILL pass away, but my words will never pass away -- 2 Peter 3:10 - On the day of the Lord, the heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. -- 2 Peter 3:12 - That day will bring about the destruction of the HEAVENS by fire, and the ELEMENTS will melt in the heat -- 2 Corenthians 5:17 - We are looking forward to a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH, the home of righteousness. -- 2 Peter 3:13 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

599 Hebrews 11:7 - By faith NOAH BUILT A LARGE BOAT TO SAVE HIS FAMILY from the flood. He obeyed God
600 2 Peter 2:7 - GOD ALSO RESCUED LOT out of Sodom because he was a righteous man
601 John 5:22 - Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, -- Matthew 19:28 - I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, WHEN THE SON OF MAN SITS ON HIS GLORIOUS THRONE, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel -- Matthew 25:31 - When the SON OF MAN comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, HE WILL SIT ON HIS THRONE IN HEAVENLY GLORY. -- 2 Corenthians 5:10 - For we must all appear BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad

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Judgment #5 – The Great White Thrown Judgment602
This is the judgment where books are opened revealing the “WORKS OR DEEDS” during their lifetime

of the wicked dead,603 and their rejection of Christ. Every man gets his day in court.

•   This occurs at the close of the Millennium – The Judge is God the Father.

•   The location of the GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT is somewhere between Heaven where

  there is no sin, and Earth which is under renovation at this time. There is no place to hide.

•   The wicked dead, regardless of their position in life are all standing before the throne and

  receive their sentence which is different levels604 of torment in the Lake of Fire for eternity.

•   They also get something worse, the separation from God for eternity with no hope and no exit.

•   The Saints have already been judged not guilty, rewarded and have received their crowns at the

  JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST.
  Although works will determine rewards, works do not save a man nor get him to heaven,605 what

  follows next at the GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT is ever lasting fire, smoke, worms, wailing and gnashing of teeth.606

  The Second Death

  Did you see it? In case you missed it. Death the last enemy is thrown into the lake of fire. Nobody dies in the new heaven and earth. No one will ever die again. 607

  Your Name

  The Books
   The Bible, which is the word of God that judges them 608

   The Book of Deeds containing the account of man’s works on earth.
   The Book of Life, the names written down of those that accepted Christ as the son of God

  and the Messiah.

  602 Hebrews 9:27 - it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment -- Daniel 12:2 - Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt -- Acts 24:15 - I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be A RESURRECTION of both the righteous and the wicked -- John 5:29 – Those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned

  603 Revelation 20:5 - The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended
  604 Revelation 22:12 - BEHOLD, I AM COMING SOON! MY REWARD IS WITH ME, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done -- Revelation 2:23 - I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds -- Revelation 18:5- 6 - God has remembered her crimes. And will pay her back double for what she has done. Mix her a double portion from her own cup. -- Revelation 20:13 - The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done
  605 Ephesians 2:8-9 - FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; and that not of yourselves: IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD; Not of works, lest any man should boast
  606 Matthew 13:42 - And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth -- Matthew 25:41 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels -- Matthew 25:46 - And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life -- Revelation 14:11 - The smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the -- beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name -- Isaiah 66:24 - Those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched
  607 1 Corinthians 15:22 - Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life -- 1 Corinthians 15:54-55 - DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
  608 John 12:48 - There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day -- Romans 3:19-20 - Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin

Revelation 20:14 - Then DEATH and HADES
were thrown into the LAKE OF FIRE.

THE LAKE OF FIRE IS THE SECOND DEATH.

Revelation 20:15 - IF ANYONE'S NAME WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE,

HE WAS THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

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IT’S IN THE BOOK

Chapter 16.21

FOURTH VISION Of Christ and Eternity

The New Heaven and the New Earth – Eternity is Unveiled.

New Heaven & Earth – It’s out of this World.

Revelation 21:1 - Then I saw a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,

and there was NO LONGER ANY SEA.

The Greek word for “new” means “new in character” as in RENOVATED, (but not destroyed). My BS does not embrace this although many students of the Word do.

The Bible says we get a New Earth free of sin and corruption.609 The earth is not renovated. We are not told any details about the new earth except that there will not be any sea. This is probably because of the pure river of life that flows from the throne of God throughout the whole world.610

You cannot put new wine into an old wineskin... It cannot contain it, the skin would burst611... The wineskin of earth must be purged and a new wineskin of purity must be created to hold this new creation for eternity. (We get a new earth... It’s in the Book)

New Jerusalem

Revelation 21:2 - I saw the Holy City, THE NEW JERUSALEM, coming down out of heaven from God,

prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now THE DWELLING OF GOD IS WITH MEN, and he will live with them.
They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.

The Bride is the CHURCH and the Husband is CHRIST. God now lives and walks among His people, just like He did with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

This Holy City was already in existence, built by God,612 probably housing the resurrected saints in the heavens before the creation of the new earth. Think about this now, in my BS the saints were certainly living somewhere. Just saying.

609 Isaiah 65:17 - I WILL CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind -- Isaiah 66:22 - As the NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH that I make will endure before me," declares the LORD, -- 2 Peter 3:13 - We are looking forward to a NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, the home of righteousness.
610 Zechariah 14:8 - On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea, in summer and in winter -- Revelation 22:1 - Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

611 Matthew 9:17 - Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. IF THEY DO, THE SKINS WILL BURST, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined
612 Hebrews 12:22-23 - But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. -- Hebrews 9:11 - When Christ came as high priest, He went through the greater and more

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This NEW EARTH and Holy City will operate under new laws of nature, there will no longer be any sin, temptation or testing, we will all have GLORIFIED bodies just like Jesus and we will not experience pain; there will be no tears or sorrow or mourning; the term “wiping away of tears” is symbolic of the old things having passed away.

We will have the mind of Christ613 that can retain knowledge and wisdom as well as be able to transport ourselves anywhere we desire at the speed of thought just like Phillip the Deacon did614 as

Revelation 21:4 - HE WILL WIPE EVERY TEAR from their eyes.
There will be NO MORE DEATH OR MOURNING OR CRYING OR PAIN,

for the old order of things has passed away."

and as Jesus did also.615

See IITB Book 8.4 Fourth Dimension

Beloved, now are we children of God,
and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested,

WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM;
FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM EVEN AS HE IS. 1 John 3:2 (ASV)

We will also have no more sea, and since the sea takes up 3⁄4 of the world’s surface, you can certainly see how people will have much more space, plus there will be no water barrier to hinder the expansion of their borders.616 There is a down side however, many people will lose their jobs; jailors, policemen, doctors, funeral directors, and pharmacies just to name a few.

Interestingly, after this, Jesus hands the throne617 over to God618 and then God gives it back to Him.

Starting Over

Revelation 21:5-7 - He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said,

"Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."
6 He said to me: "IT IS DONE. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from THE SPRING OF THE WATER OF LIFE.
7 He who overcomes will inherit all this, and
I will be his God and he will be my son.

God is now on the throne and everything is starting over with the true faithful angels, the redeemed saints, and His sons from ALL ages. His promises are now completely fulfilled.

His government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and

justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate

commitment of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will make this happen! Isaiah 9:7 -

perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a part of this creation. -- Hebrews 11:10 - For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
John 14:2 - In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you 613 1 Corinthians 2:16 - For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. Romans 8:29 - For whom he foreknew, he also FOREORDAINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON

614 Acts 8:39-40 - Philip steps through the Fourth Dimension
615 John 5:13 – Jesus heals a lame man and then steps through Fourth Dimension -- Luke 4:29-30 – Jesus slides through the Fourth Dimension then reappears somewhere else. -- John 8:59 – Jesus while walking among them, disappeared -- John 20:19 – Jesus slides through solid doors and walls
616 1 Chronicles 4:10 - Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and ENLARGE MY BORDER
617 1 Corenthians 15:28 - Then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. 618 1 Corenthians 15:24 - Then the end will come, when HE HANDS OVER THE KINGDOM TO GOD THE FATHER after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power

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Note: Although BELIEVERS are getting a new heaven and a new earth, the lake of fire for the LOST did not change. COWARDS are at the head of the list who will go into the lake of fire. This is those who were afraid to take a stand for Christ and just went along with the crowd, they just followed the herd. Satan knows that if he can just guide the herd, the crowd will follow.

As a teenager, I certainly did not want to experience the Lake of Fire and burn for eternity, however when I became a man, I discovered something worse than that, it was to be SEPARATED FROM GOD for eternity with no hope and no exit from the torment. (THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH)

Did you see it? You might ask why God would be so severe on a sin that might have only lasted for seconds and then you be punished for eternity. God is serious about the smallest of sins, when Uzzah put forth his hand to steady the shaking ark, God killed him there for his error;619 only the High priest touched the Ark.

Note: All sin, the desire for sin, thoughts of sin and possibility of sin, has now been removed and all who enter the Holy City are now worthy.

The Holy City

Revelation 21:8 - But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts,
the idolaters and all liars-
their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH."

Revelation 21:9-11 - One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me,

"Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the HOLY CITY, JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN FROM GOD.
11 It shone with the GLORY OF GOD, and its BRILLIANCE was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.

John now REFLECTS BACK on The New Jerusalem which is The Holy City and describes in detail the construction and brilliance of the SHEKINAH GLORY620 of God shining621 through the crystal like walls. 622 Light in the Greek is “phoster” which means “SOURCE OF LIGHT”.

Some students of the Word BS SPIRITUALIZE the Holy City and believe that spiritually it REMAINS IN HEAVEN, while other students BS believe that the Holy City while physical, does not actually come down to earth, but REMAINS IN MIDAIR as another planet or like a satellite.

Others BS embrace that the EARTH will become a satellite in space orbiting around the Holy City, because it is the center of all activities and it is like our sun now.

Others BS see it as a TRIANGLE much like the Pyramid of Giza which contains in mathematics the Gospel message. Scripture gives us the dimensions for the city, but not the shape. The Pyramid was pure WHITE reflecting the sun to the horizons and seen for miles. Some believe the Shepard Kings built it while other believe it was built by the hand of God. I encourage you to read Great Pyramid Proof of God by George R. Riffert, first written in 1932.

619 2 Samuel 6:6-7 - Uzzah put forth his hand to steady the ark God smote him there for his error;
620 2 Chronicles 5:14 - So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the GLORY OF JEHOVAH filled the house of God.
621 John 9:5-6 - While I am here in the world, I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.”
622 Ezekiel 1:22 - Spread out above them was a surface like the sky, glittering like CRYSTAL.

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Others BS see the New Jerusalem as a CUBE in space while others see it as a cube within a round CRYSTAL SPHERE reflecting light; scripture does not specifically say it comes down to earth.

My BS wants to believe that this New Jerusalem, the Holy City will contain the
of God, The Jehovah Power and Light Company as the shining and reflected through the crystal prisms into every imaginable , lighting up the entire universe with each one of our bodies absorbing some of it.623

This would support the theory that the earth becomes a Satellite that orbits around the sphere of the Holy City. The Good Book says the nations, the twelve tribes will travel there once a year entering through the appropriate one of the twelve Gates to worship, and then to return. So they are going to

travel there by means unknown to us today; maybe at the Speed of thought... Man, I can’t wait. See the Word Study IITB Book 8.04 Fourth Dimension.

NOTE: Only the Bride of Christ that was raptured, will actually live in the New Jerusalem City. We will have a suite constructed specifically for each one of us. I go and prepare a place for you 624 All the other redeemed will live on earth and make regular visits to bring praise, glory and honor to God.

Gates, Foundations

source of pure white light

COLOR

SHEKINAH GLORY

Revelation 21:12-15 - It had a great, high wall with TWELVE GATES and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.

14 The WALL of the city had TWELVE FOUNDATIONS, and on them were the names of the TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE LAMB.
15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.

Twelve is a very prominent number here. The names are in the same order as they were when they encamped about and FACING the tabernacle in the wilderness. It is the number of complete religious government. Each gate is guarded by its own angel. Why, I don’t know as the gates are never shut and only the righteous enter. The sight of the angels must just be overwhelming and stand as a testimony to the awesomeness of God. I bet these angel dudes are 9 foot tall – Just saying

Bringing together the Old Testament with the New Testament are the twelve gates with the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve foundations with the twelve apostles. (I just love it)

Did you see it? The FOUNDATION of our Belief System of the Church was built on the solid foundation of the twelve apostles through Jesus Christ the chief corner stone.

Ezekiel 48:31-34 - THE GATES OF THE CITY WILL BE NAMED AFTER THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. The three gates on the north side will be the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah and the gate of Levi.
32 "On the east side, which is 4,500 cubits long, will be three gates: the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin and the gate of Dan.

33 "On the south side, which measures 4,500 cubits, will be three gates: the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar and the gate of Zebulun.
34 "On the west side, which is 4,500 cubits long, will be three gates: the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher and the gate of Naphtali. NIV

NOTE; I feel a need to point out that some students of the word BS reject MATTHIAS as the12th and replacement disciple for Judas. Stating that they believe that after the coming of the Holy Spirit that PAUL took that position as Mathias was never heard of again. I find no scripture for this.

623 Exodus 34:35 - And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, THAT THE SKIN OF MOSES' FACE SHONE: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
624 John 14:2-3 - In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

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This is an entire city where the base is a four square, 1,500 miles wide, 1,500 miles deep and 1,500 miles high. (It will be about 500 miles bigger than our moon.) We are not told the shape; what if the shape was like a pyramid, like a polished crystal with the river of life flowing down from the top on all four sides. Sure is something to think about, especially if you have read the book, “The Great Pyramid Proof of God” and the symbolism of Christ in it. If you look close, the number 12 is still prominent in verse 16 & 17.

The Wall

This Wall is 144 cubits or 240 feet high, or about 24 stories tall. Tall Wall Y’all
The total area of the city would be 2,250,000 square miles. An approximate area running from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rocky Mountains then from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border.

My BS does not see the wall not so much as PROTECTION, but more of a STATEMENT of the safety and Peace that resides inside. It is made of Transparent Jasper that lets the light flood through, it is one of the hardest of gems. I can’t help but note, that all of the construction material is transparent allowing the SHEKINAH GLORY of God to shine through it.

12 Foundation Layers

Revelation 21:16 - The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be

12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.

Revelation 21:17-18 – HE MEASURED ITS WALL
AND IT WAS 144 CUBITS THICK, by man's measurement,

which the angel was using. 18 The WALL was made of JASPER, and the city of pure gold, as pure as GLASS.

Revelation 21:19-20 - The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The FIRST foundation was jasper (blue), the SECOND sapphire (shade of blue), the THIRD chalcedony (sky blue), the FOURTH emerald (bright green),

20 the FIFTH sardonyx (red & white), the SIXTH carnelian (reddish) , the SEVENTH chrysolite (golden), the EIGHTH beryl (sea green), the NINTH topaz (yellow green), the TENTH chrysoprase (shade of green), the ELEVENTH jacinth (violet), and the TWELFTH amethyst (purple).

In my BS the city seems to be transparent with the SHEKINAH GLORY of God radiating out through the walls and intensifying the colors in the foundation. It gives new meaning to a crystal ball. What an awesome sight. (I added the names of the colors in the text.)

12 Gates

As I crawl into the scriptures, my BS wants to see that there is just ONE STREET of transparent Gold that goes directly through the center of the Holy City, but from which gate does it originate?

What if the ONE Street of Gold just encircles the entire city on the outside of the sphere touching all twelve of the transparent pearl gates? What if this transparent street covers the entire sphere on the outside thereby giving total access? Crawl into the story with me and give me your BS. Note: we live on the outside of our world now, but then we will live on the inside. Good Grief, just ponder that!

Revelation 21:21 - THE TWELVE GATES WERE TWELVE PEARLS, each gate made of a single pearl. The great STREET of the city was of pure gold, like TRANSPARENT glass.

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I think it is interesting that each gate is made out of just ONE GIANT PEARL, Jesus said that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found ONE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.625 Heaven is worth everything.

Did you see it? We have nothing to sell to be able to buy the Pearl of Great Value. Jesus was the one who gave up everything and PAID THE PRICE for the pearl of great value so we could have a way back to the TREE OF LIFE in heaven; WE ARE HIS PEARL.

No Temple.

There is no need for a temple, because the temple is the presence of God and His Son; those that live in His city are a HOLY NATION, A KINGDOM OF PRIEST,626 His Bride, the redeemed believers.

Did you know that the Holy of Holies in the earthly temple is the same shape as she New Jerusalem? No Sun, No Moon, No Night

The true light has come into the world, put your trust in the light of Jesus Christ while you still have it.627 The Light of the SHEKINAH GLORY is testimony of the presence of the one GOD of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob; Jesus is the light of the world. He is the source of all light. 628

Nothing Impure

The gates are never shut to keep the wicked out, because there is a great gulf fixed between the wicked and the good,629 only the true servants, the saints who are present throughout the earth will ever enter in and enjoy it.

In my BS, I can just see the angels at the gates checking the PASSPORTS of all who want to enter, to be sure that their name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

NOTE: You must get your passport NOW to be able to enter into the city of the New Jerusalem.

Did you see it? The earth was first created for man to enjoy Fellowship with the God of this universe. Man now has once again the FELLOWSHIP with God that was lost in the Garden of Eden.

625 Matthew 13:45-46 the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found ONE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, went and sold all that he had and bought it
626 Exodus 19:6 - And you will be my KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, MY HOLY NATION.
627 John 12:36 - Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light

628 John 1:7-9 - The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world -- John 3:19 - This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, -- John 8:12 - I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." -- 1 John 1:5-6 - God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
629 Luke 16:26 - And besides all this, between us and you THERE IS A GREAT GULF FIXED, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us.

Revelation 21:22 - I DID NOT SEE A TEMPLE IN THE CITY, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

Revelation 21:23-25 - The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for THE GLORY OF GOD GIVES IT LIGHT,

AND THE LAMB IS ITS LAMP.
24 The nations (Gentiles) will walk by its light,
and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On NO day will its gates ever be shut,
for there will be NO NIGHT there.

Revelation 21:26-27 - The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter it,

nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but ONLY THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE WRITTEN
IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE.

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Chapter 16.22

Epilogue

The River of Life – The Tree of Life - Promise of the Return Christ’s Invitation, His Call to Obedience, Labor and Love God’s last instructions to man before the return of Christ

River of Life

Revelation 22:1 - Then the angel showed me
THE RIVER OF THE WATER OF LIFE, as clear as crystal,

flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

God has shown us the hardscape of the city and now He begins to show us the soft scape of the kingdom as He discloses the crystal clear WATER that originates and flows from the throne of God. If you remember Jesus talked about the RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS flowing through us.630

Tree of Life

Now we pick up with TREES in the city, where we see FRUITS and LEAVES which keep the nations healthy.

Did you see it? There is a number of fruits, twelve to be exact to provide us a variety and we can even eat the leaves. Some students of the Word BS embrace that “those that live on the new earth” will need to eat these leaves because they have a different body than those who were raptured, the Bride of Christ who actually live in this city.

The number TWELVE as before is apparent here; with the trees leaves providing continuous health. The word healing in the Greek should be translated Health as there is now no curse of sickness.631 The FRUIT of the tree that brings health to the nations is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.632 The nine characteristics make up ONE complete fruit.

The TREE OF LIFE was guarded and access restricted by the Angels in the Garden of Eden,633 so that fallen man would not reach out and eat from it and LIVE FOREVER in a fallen sinful condition, but now its fruit is available to everyone, anytime because there is now NO possibility of SIN.

THE TREE OF LIFE is symbolic of the Cross of Jesus Christ with its leaves providing spiritual living bread. The Tree of Life is more likely “trees” located on both sides of the RIVER OF LIFE. However, the tree could be large enough to span the entire river with the living waters running through it. Anyway the fruit is good eats.

630 John 7:37-38 - Anyone who believes in me may come and drink and RIVERS OF LIVING WATER will flow from his heart
631 Ezekiel 47:11-12 - Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing, HEALTH
632 Galatians 5:22-23 - THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self- control
633 Genesis 3:22 - The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and LIVE FOREVER WITH A FALLEN NATURE

Revelation 22:2 - DOWN THE MIDDLE of the great street of the city. ON EACH SIDE of the river stood THE TREE OF LIFE,
bearing twelve crops of FRUIT, yielding its fruit every month. And the LEAVES of the tree are for the healing (health) of the nations.

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No MORTAL man can see the face of God and live, so these have to be immortal “REDEEMED SAINTS” to be able to have His name on their foreheads and be in His presence and see Him face to face. We will desire to be SERVANTS of the most high God,634 but He will call us; “SONS” of God635 because, His name is written on our foreheads, which is HIS SEAL OF OWNERSHIP.

Reign Forever - The Blessing

Revelation 22:3 - NO LONGER WILL THERE BE ANY CURSE. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city,

and his SERVANTS will serve him.
4 They will see his face, and HIS NAME will be on their foreheads.

Revelation 22:6-7 - .
They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun,

for the Lord God will give them light.
AND THEY WILL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER
7 The angel said to me,
"THESE WORDS ARE TRUSTWORTHY AND TRUE.
The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel
to show his servants the things that must soon take place."
7 "BEHOLD, I AM COMING SOON!
BLESSED is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book.

There will be NO MORE NIGHT

In the beginning of the Book of Revelation, we read these words... “Those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep what is written in it are BLESSED because the time is near”. 636 Now at the end of the Book we are reminded again of the BLESSING and encouraged to keep the words of this book. This is not just information about the end times, but instructions on how to live our life until He returns.

When He says He is coming soon, or coming quickly, the Book is saying that when we get to the Tribulations, particularly the last 3 1⁄2 years, once it starts it will come RAPIDLY to completion according to the plan He has already revealed in The Book... There will be no further delay.

Worship God Only

Again, John is so overwhelmed that he falls down to worship and is REBUKED by the angel. Worship only the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.637

634 John 15:15 - I NO LONGER CALL YOU SERVANTS, they do not know master's business. Instead, I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS,
635 Romans 8:14 - Those who are led by the Spirit of God are SONS OF GOD -- Matthew 5:9 - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called SONS OF GOD -- Romans 9:26 - They will be called `SONS OF THE LIVING GOD. -- Galatians 3:26 - You are all SONS OF GOD through faith in Christ Jesus -- Luke 6:35 - But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, AND YOU WILL BE SONS OF THE MOST HIGH -- Matthew 5:44-45 - I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be SONS OF YOUR FATHER in heaven -- John 12:36 - Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become SONS OF LIGHT -- 1 Thessalonians 5:5 - You are all SONS OF THE LIGHT and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness

636 Revelation 1:3 - The one who reads this is BLESSED, and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep what is written in it are BLESSED, because the time is near
637 Mark 12:30-31 - And thou shall LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH: this is the first commandment. The second Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself

Revelation 22:8-9 - I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them,

I FELL DOWN to worship at the feet of the angel
who had been showing them to me. 9 But he said to me, "DO NOT DO IT! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets and of all who keep the words of this book; WORSHIP GOD!"

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John is told in no uncertain terms, to get this message out quick, that time is short. This message pretty much says, that IF these prophecies are rejected, you might just as well keep on doing what you are doing, because THERE IS NO OTHER HELP THAT CAN BE GIVEN. Whatever condition you are in is now PERMANENT, He will see you on the other side, where you will live forever...SOMEWHERE.

I Am Coming Soon
This is in reference to the Judgment Seat of Christ, where we will be REWARDED for the things

we have done whether good of bad.638

Rite of Passage

Those who have the right to the Tree of life are those who hear God’s word, believe and repent, they will receive eternal life.639 Next up; Jesus, the Holy Spirit & the Raptured Church invite you to COME.

I am He - The Last Invitation

Jesus Himself is personally sending out THE LAST INVITATION to Come to Him, whoever has a heart that is thirsty for the FREE Rivers of water that gives eternal life. I don’t know how the blood of Jesus paid for my sins; past, present and future, but God said it was sufficient and that settles it.

638 2 Corenthians 5:9-10 - For we must all appear before the JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad
639 John 5:24 - I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

Revelation 22:10-11 – Then he told me,
DO NOT SEAL UP THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK,

BECAUSE THE TIME IS NEAR.
11 Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile;
let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy.

Revelation 22:12 – “Behold, I AM COMING SOON! MY REWARD IS WITH ME,

and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.

Revelation 22:13-15 - I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

14 "BLESSED are those who wash their robes, that they may HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE
and may go through the gates into the city.
15 OUTSIDE are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Revelation 22:16-17 - I, JESUS, HAVE SENT MY ANGEL
TO GIVE YOU THIS TESTIMONY FOR THE CHURCHES.

I AM THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID,
AND THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR."
The SPIRIT and the BRIDE say, "COME!"
And let him who hears say, "COME!"
Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes,
LET HIM TAKE THE FREE GIFT OF THE WATER OF LIFE.

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As a covenant of peace between God and man, animals were sacrificed, cut in half and laid to the left and right, and then God passed between the middle of them signifying that if you do not keep this covenant, you will be like these slain animals. Blood was shed with this covenant.

Through Moses, God gave man “animal sacrifices” as a symbolic temporary solution for sin; a “shadow” of the real atonement of sin that was to come. It was Jesus the Christ, our Messiah who came as THE LAST AND FINAL SACRIFICE FOREVER.640

Salvation is FREE, but it did come with a price. His blood was shed at the cross. 641 All other religions tell you what WORK you must do to be accepted by God. Christianity is the only religion that states, man cannot do anything to earn Gods acceptance;642 it’s by His grace alone.

Moses had a “Burning Bush” experience with God,643 a personal calling. We must also have a personal calling; a relationship with God. When we have that personal relationship with God, we will set out to discover the needs of others, the poor, the sick, and the shut in. We will crank up friendships, offer prayers for the needy, and we will share what we have as we have been blessed. We will use our gifts as they have been given by God - When we take a blessing to someone, we will receive one in return.

THE EVIDENCE, purpose and fruit of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is in the SHARING644 of the Good news of Jesus Christ with others.645 This witnessing does not save us, but it is the evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.646

What have you done with the Lord Jesus Christ? At the judgment, you will stand alone, the books with the evidence of your life will be opened; No questions will be asked. You will not speak. The open books are your only defense. 647

We can be encouraged that we are not required to have all the answers to the questions or to figure out all the angles. But simply to just HEAR the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, RECEIVE it, BELIEVE it, and EMBRACE it just as a little child TRUSTS his daddy and jumps into his awaiting arms.648

Jesus Himself said that the deeper things of God are hidden from the “wise” and revealed to people who are like children, to those who are “teachable”.649 When we come to God as a child, with total trust, without doubt, believing what we are told, WE CAN BEGIN to receive Spiritual Knowledge.650

The Wisdom of God is a spiritual mystery and must be spiritually discerned.651 God, through the Holy Spirit inspired men to write down about man’s life, the good, the bad and the ugly, the nasty now and now and the sweet by and by. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that makes Peace between God and the Sinner. God says that anyone that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, He will receive him.652

He has shown us the door, now WE MUST CHOOSE to walk through it.

640 Isaiah 53:3-6 - He was despised and rejected by men surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
641 Isaiah 55:1-11 - Come, all you who are thirsty buy wine and milk without money and without cost I will make an EVERLASTING COVENANT with you Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near... my WORD that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it

642 Isaiah 64:6 - All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags
643 Acts 7:30-33 - An angel appeared to Moses in the FLAMES OF A BURNING BUSH in the desert near Mount Sinai I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Take off your sandals; the place where you are standing is holy ground
644 Acts 1:8- You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
645 Proverbs 11:30 - The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise
646 Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God
647 Revelation 21:27 - Nothing impure will ever enter the kingdom, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. -- 1 Corenthians 3:11-14 - No one can lay any foundation other than Jesus Christ, your work will be shown for what it is, It will be revealed with fire, If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward -- Revelation 3:5 - He that overcomes I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels
648 Proverbs 20:11 - Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right
649 Matthew 11:25-26 - You have hidden these things from the WISE and learned, and revealed them to little CHILDREN.
650 Matthew 18:2-5 - Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven -- Mark 10:15 - I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it
651 1 Corenthians 2:7-14 - The wisdom of God is a mystery, hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world, God hath revealed themysteriesuntousbyhisSpirit:thethingsofGodknowsnoman,buttheSpiritofGodwhichistheHolyGhostteachesus; tothe natural man they are foolishness unto him, because they are spiritually discerned
652 John 6:37 - All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away

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Wisdom of God Footnotes653
Even Satan and his demons believe in God, but they will not enter the kingdom of heaven. It’s

not knowledge of God that saves you; it’s the attitude of your heart.
The scriptures point out the types of individuals that will not go to heaven because of the attitude

of their heart:654 The unbelieving - idolaters - those who practice the magic arts - the wicked - the greedy – swindlers – liars - false witnesses – slanderers – thieves – murderers – drunkards - sexually immoral – adulterers – homosexuals - male prostitutes and cowards.655

In the end times men will be lovers of their own selves – covetous – boasters – proud – blasphemers - disobedient to parents – unthankful – unholy - without natural affection – trucebreakers - false accusers - unrestrained in their passions and appetites for food, sex and drugs – fierce - despisers of those that are good – traitors – haughty - high minded - lovers of pleasure - having a form of Godliness, but denying the power of it - departing from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, and the occult.656

Saying I believe in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit; and uttering a few “Praise the Lords” do not constitute salvation. It’s the changed life, the change in your direction,657 IT’S DOING THE WORD. 658

THE GOOD NEWS

is that a decision can be made right now to change where you live for eternity.659

BODY – SOUL – SPIRIT
In my BS, the Bible seems to teach that man is composed of a twofold nature;660 with a body and

a soul; with the Soul and Spirit being almost indistinguishable or the same.661 However you can understand the WAR that is going on inside a man better when you think of him with a threefold nature, that of a trinity.

653 John 6:47 - I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. -- John 3:18 – Whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son -- Revelation 20:15 - If anyone's name was not found written in the BOOK OF LIFE, he was thrown into the LAKE OF FIRE
654 Proverbs 6:16-19 - THERE ARE SEVEN THINGS THE LORD HATES; haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers

655 1 Corenthians 6:9-10 -- The wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. -- Revelation 21:8 - The cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." -- Matthew 19:16-19 - Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,' and `love your neighbor as yourself. -- Matthew 5:22 - Anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment -- Matthew 5:27-28 - Anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already SINNED and committed adultery with her in his heart.

656 2 Timothy 3:1-7 - In the last days men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: FROM SUCH TURN AWAY.

657 Hebrews 12:8-10 - We have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! -- 1 Corenthians 5:5 - HAND THIS MAN OVER TO SATAN, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord
658 Ephesians 4:22-32 - Put off your old self, be made new in the attitude of your minds put off falsehood and do not give the devil a foothold. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
659 John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life -- Matthew 10:28 - Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell -- Romans 8:10 - If Christ is in you, your body is dead because of SIN, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness
660 1 Corenthians 7:34 - Be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit -- Colossians 2:5 - Though I am absent from you in my body, I am present with you in spirit
661 Genesis 2:7 - The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being -- Ecclesiastes 12:7 - The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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There’s a battle over the control of man’s Soul.

•   The imagination of man’s mind is his Soul, which controls the actions of his Body.

•   God gets to the man’s Soul through his Spirit, feeding from the Soul down to his Body.

•   Satan gets to the man’s Soul through his Body, feeding from his Body up to his Soul. God has given us instruction on how to “renew our soul or mind” through the SPIRIT.

  Repentance is not the same as Salvation

•   REPENTANCE: To perceive afterwards, to change one’s mind, purpose or direction for the better.

•   SALVATION: Granted immediately by God to those who accept His conditions of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in whom alone salvation is to be obtained.

  Add or Subtract Nothing

  Satan would use this scripture to scare us into NOT writing about what God has said, and many of my friends have quoted this verse to me. I have taken my CUE from the Apostle Paul when he would say something and then say that this is what he thought, his BS, and that it did not actually proceed from God.662 You will see my Belief System quoted throughout, so you can see what I think as well as what other students of the Word BS think. You should read the ENTIRE word for yourself.

  Deuteronomy 4:2 - Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the

  commands of the LORD your God that I give you. NIV

  Deuteronomy 12:32 - See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

  NIV
  Proverbs 30:6 - Do not add to his words, or he will

  rebuke you and prove you a liar. NIV

  Revelation 1:3 - BLESSED is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and BLESSED are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

  NIV

  The Bereans were commended because they were more OPEN MINDED that those around them, BUT they always went back to the Torah to see if what Paul was preaching was true, I encourage you to do the same.

  662 1 Corinthians 7:25 - Now regarding your question about the young women who are not yet married. I DO NOT HAVE A COMMAND FROM THE LORD for them. But the Lord in his mercy has given me wisdom that can be trusted, and I will share it with you. -- Acts 15:19 - And so MY JUDGMENT is that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God -- 2 Corinthians 12:2 - I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I DO NOT KNOW, or out of the body I DO NOT KNOW, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven.

Revelation 22:18-19 - I WARN EVERYONE
who hears the words of the PROPHECY of this book:

If anyone adds anything to them,
God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
19 And if anyone takes words away from this BOOK OF PROPHECY, God will take away from him his share in the TREE OF LIFE and in the HOLY CITY, which are described in this book.

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Acts 17:11-12 - And the people of BEREA were more OPEN-MINDED than those in Thessalonica,

and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message.

THEY SEARCHED

THE SCRIPTURES DAY AFTER DAY

to see if Paul and Silas were teaching

THE TRUTH. (NLT)

I feel a need to say this, in my BS, the good works we do on earth will NOT determine how our room is prepared for us in heaven, but of the workmanship of the fine linen clothing we will wear.

IT’S IN THE BOOK Revelation 19:7-8

Come Quickly Lord

When the early Christians would greet or depart from each other they would say. MARANATHA – (meaning; The Lord is coming soon.)

GENESIS

CONTRAST

REVELATON

A new Heaven and a new Earth created
The last Adam Reigning in glory
No need for Sun or Moon - Christ is the Light The paradise of The Holy City
Marriage supper of the Second Adam - Jesus End of Sin - No more curse – no more death Satan doomed – Sorrow, Pain, Tears gone
No more night, no more sea
A tree of Life in the new creation
Men see God Face to Face

IT’S IN THE BOOK

Revelation 22:20-21 - He who testifies to these things says, "YES, I AM COMING SOON."

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen.

•   Heaven and Earth created

•   First Adam reigned on earth

•   The Sun and moon appear

•   The paradise of the Garden of Eden

•   Marriage of the First Adam

•   Beginning of Sin – The Curse

•   Satan appears – Sorrow, Pain, Tears

•   Night and the Sea created

•   A tree of Life in the Garden of Eden

•   Man driven from God’s face in sin

MY OBSERVATION

The Book of Revelation will not make any sense to someone who has not read the Bible, someone who has not digested the word of God over the years. That’s why I have included so much other scripture in the footnotes to try to bring up to speed the new student of the word.

In so many words, the Revelation is meant to be understood only by the serious seeker and the Born Again Believer; otherwise it sounds like John is tripped out on Crack. It’s just foolishness.663

My heart’s desire is for someone to read this and gain understanding that will lead them to make a decision for Christ. When this happens, all the angels in heaven will be shouting for joy.664

I’m just one beggar... trying to show another beggar where to find bread.

663 Amos 3:7 - Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to His servants the prophets.
664 Luke 15:7 - I say unto you, that even so THERE SHALL BE JOY IN HEAVEN OVER ONE SINNER THAT REPENTS, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.

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there is wisdom. Proverbs 11:14

IT’S IN THE BOOK

I am grateful to those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical information, and scripture verses. Because of them I can stand on their shoulders and see further that I otherwise ever could have.

Writings outside of the Bible should be viewed as “informational”, but not authoritative. They give insight to customs, manners and thoughts of a particular culture at a particular time in history.

Along with the Apocrypha, I have also enjoyed
“The lost books of the Bible” and “The forgotten books of Eden”. Many of these will include folklore, superstition and “embellishments”.

Prove scripture with scripture, line upon line, and precept upon precept.

.American Standard Version Bible – ASV .Amplified Bible – AMP
.Dake annotated Reference Bible – DAKE .English Standard Version Bible – ESV .King James Version Bible - KJV .Message Bible; The – MSG

.New International Version Bible – NIV
.New Living Translation Bible – NLT
A Planned Deception – Staging of a New Age Messiah – Constance Cumbey An expository Dictionary of Biblical Words – W. E. Vine
Angels A-Z – Lewis Oliver
Angels: Gods Secret Agents – Billy Graham
Anointed with the Spirit and Power – Dr. John Harvey
Apocrypha, The – Edgar J. Goodspeed
Armageddon-Appointment with Destiny – Grant R. Jeffrey
Bible Code, the – Michael Drosnin
Bible on the life Hereafter, The – William Hendriksen
Can America Survive? – John Hagee
Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry – CARM - www.carm.org Countdown to Armageddon, the 1980’s – Hal Lyndsay
Dead Sea Scrolls Translated, The – Florentino Garcia Martinez
Encounters with Angels – L. W. Northrup
Escape from Armageddon – Thomas Reed
Final Dawn over Jerusalem – John Hagee
Forgotten Books of Eden, The - World
From Daniel to Doomsday – John Hagee
Great Doctrines of the Bible 5 – Soteriology – W. A. Criswell
Great Doctrines of the Bible 6 – Christian Life – W. A. Criswell
Great Pyramid, The – George R. Riffert
Guide to Survival – Salem Kirban
Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, The – Constance Cumbey
In the beginning was the End – Wim Malgo

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Invisible War, The - Donald Grey Barnhouse
Islam and the Bible – David Goldmann
Jerusalem Countdown – John Hagee
Last Days collection, The – Pretty Good Publishing Late Great Planet Earth, The – Hal Lindsey

Lost Books of the Bible, The - World
Matthew Henry’s Commentary – Zondervan
Mormon Mirage, The – Latayne Colvett Scott
Mystery Mark of the New Age – Texe Mars
Naves Topical Bible - Nave
New Millennium, the – Pat Robertson
Nostradamvs & the Millennivm – John Hogue
One Minute after you Die – Erwin W. Lutzer
Person & Work of the Holy Spirit, The – R.A. Torrey Revelation of Jesus Christ, the – Walvoord
Revelation Seminar, The – 1975 - Hilton Sutton Revelation Study, The - 1973 – Dr. Warren Wiersbe Revelation, The – verse by verse – Oliver B. Green Satan’s Underground – Lauren Stratford
Satanism – Ted Schwarz & Duane Empey
Secret Kingdom, The – Pat Robertson
Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls – Hugh J. Schonfield Theomatics – Jerry Lucas
There’s a war going on – Eldred Echols
Today’s Dictionary of the Bible – T. A. Gryant Whose Bible is it? – Jaroslav Pelikan
Wikipedia
Wycliffe Bible Commentary, the – Moody Press

IT’S IN THE BOOK

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