Something that I ran across:
Exodus 3:14 KJV
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.Israel – Eye ‘s real
I AM
https://forthtell.wordpress.com/page/14/
“In northern Iraq, radical Muslims painted the Arabic letter ?, or “N,” [Nazarene] on the homes and businesses of Christians. The property owners were publicly identified as Christ-followers, and yet they refused to deny their faith.
The Voice of the Martyrs – i-am-n
• Revelation is one of the unique books that gives you the outline of the book.
The Divine Outline:
Revelation 1:19
The Vision of Christ; Chapter 1
Write the things which thou hast seen, the Past
– What he has seen is the “Vision of Christ”.
– And every little label, and every detail in that vision is then used as an identity somewhere later in the book.
– Some of the identities are very obvious and some are subtle.
The Seven Churches:
Revelation 2 & 3
Things which are, the Present;
– That was the seven churches.
– There are seven letters penned by Jesus Christ to the seven churches.
– When we count epistles, we often say that there are 21 epistles.
– There are 14 ascribed to John plus 7 others.
– There is actually another 7 that often get overlooked, and that’s the ones by Jesus Himself in chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation.
Revelation 4 through 22
“Things Which Shall Be Hereafter”;
– Meta tauta, after these things. Is translated in the English as after this.
Revelation 4:1, 5
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first
voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said,
“Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.”
• Hereafter, is meta tauta, after these things...”things which must be hereafter.”
…and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne…
– And the were 7 lamps of fire burning before the throne.
– Jesus identified those lamps in chapter 1, they were the churches.
– In chapter 4, they are in heaven.
The Throne Room of Universe:
Revelation 4
In chapter 4 we are entering the throne room of the universe.
• There is the vision of, Throne of God in Revelation 2, 3.
• You will see this in Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 1 and Ezekiel 10.
– You’ll se things that are consistent and you’ll also notice some subtle differences.
– There are great lessons to be learned.
• The 24 Elders in Revelation 4
• Kings and Priests: and the Redeemed
They are the Redeemed, reigning on the earth!
They are not angels (Revelation 7:11).
Manuscript evidence clearly supports this translation (only one out of 24 suggests otherwise.)
There is much deceit on this issue.
– The only place that 24 appears in the Bible is when David organizes the priesthood.
– The Levitical priests were organized into 24, translated courses.
– And each course officiated in the temple for 1 week.
– And on Shabbat, they shifted to the next one.
– The course that you were in is the one that you always served with throughout the year.
– So, you would serve once every 24 weeks.
• The Seven Lamps burning in Revelation 4
• The Sea of Glass in Revelation 6
– The 24 Elders are standing on a sea of glass
– The throne room is modeled by the tabernacle.
– In the tabernacle there was a huge brass laver called the molten sea, or wash basin that the priests bathe in.
– In the tabernacle, it represented the word of God.
Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
– But here the elders are standing on the word of God’
– On the earth, the redeemed are washed by the word of God, but there we will stand on it.
• The Four Living Creatures (Cherubim) are in Revelation 6-8
– The Four faces of the Lion, Calf, Man, and Eagle
– In Isaiah 6, he calls them seraphim.
Revelation 5:9, 10
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to
open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by
thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast
made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
The 24 Elders
• David’s 24 courses 1 Chronicles 24:1-19
• Non-Levitical Priesthood Orders
– Melchizedek was a non-Levitical priest Genesis 14:18-20; Psalms 110:4; Hebrews 5,6,7.
– Scriptures shows that Jesus Christ is a
– Jethro, Moses father-in-law was a priest of Midian. Exodus 3:1
– Jacob gives tithes in Genesis 28:22, to whom? Could it be related to Melchizedek or something else?
– Jesus, Melchizedek and the Church are both kings and priests, also, the 24 elders.
Revelation 5:8...the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb...10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
The Tribulation doesn’t start until the Lamb starts opening the seals:
• He doesn’t receive the book to open it until after the 24 elders have cast their crowns on the glassy sea.
• The elders are worshipping Jesus Christ before the tribulation starts.
We know that the elders are not angels.
Revelation 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God.
Revelation 5:8-10 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty (24) elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
The Seven Sealed Scroll:
Revelation 5
Revelation 5:1-4
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a scroll written
within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong
angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll, and
to loose the seals thereof?” And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither
under the earth, was able to open the scroll, neither to look thereon. And
I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the
scroll, neither to look thereon.
• When a scroll was written on the backside, that’s not how it was normally done, but when it was it was done with title deeds.
• Because on the backside was written the requirements that it took to open it.
• If you were going to redeem it, the requirements to redeemed it were spelled out on the backside.
• If you were qualified, then you could open it and claim it.
The Kinsman-Redeemer
• The book of Ruth explains the kinsman redeemer.
• The scroll was sealed with seven seals.
• So if you break one you could unroll it part way, you break another seal you could unroll that one part way.
• It was done in sequential order.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the
scroll, neither to look thereon.“...
It required a Man a kinsman of Adam:
• Adam had forfeited it.
– It had to be a kinsman of Adam, to be eligible to redeem it and to open this scroll, a human redeemer to redeem mankind was needed…
– John a redeemed man said, ...”I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the scroll“...
– John understood, that this is tragic, this is scary because it took a man and no man was worthy to do this.
– John is panicked and sobbed convulsively.
• But Jesus was God who became a man to qualify Himself to be able to redeem mankind back to Himself.
– Because man had forfeited his rights to govern the earth.
• And as John turned, he said,...”I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne
and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood the
Lamb as it had been slain“...
• This isn’t a four footed lamb as you see in the renderings of artists, this is a title of Jesus Christ.
• John the Baptist introduced Him publicly as “The lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world”.
• The Lamb is in the midst of the elders, that’s precious.
Revelation 5:5-6
And one of the elders saith unto me, “Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe
of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose
the seven seals thereof.” And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne
and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood the
Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are
the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
The Seven-Sealed Scroll: Chapters 6 & 7
The First Four Seals are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse;
Revelation 6:1,2
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were
the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw,
and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown
was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
The White Horse:
• The 1st seal, the white horseman going forth to conquer.
– The rider on the white horse is a poser, a phony, He is the false Christ.
– And he does such a good job of it, he misleads many commentators.
– bow comes from the Greek word “tikto”, meaning to beget, bring forth.
– In Genesis 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
From the Hebrew, bow translated “qowsh” of bending: a bow, for shooting.
– A token of a covenant, both bows here may be a token of a covenant.
– But the rider on the white horse may be the covenant that defines the 70th week of Daniel.
Revelation 6:3,4
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come
and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was
given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they
should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
The Red Horse:
• The 2nd seal, the red horseman is to take peace from the earth.
– He represents wars.
Revelation 6:5,6
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come
and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a
pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four
beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley
for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
The Black Horse:
• The 3rd seal is an idiomatic way of describing inflation and famine.
– Most famines in the history of the world are due to political maneuvering and not to a shortage of resources.
– He represents famine.
Revelation 6:7,8
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast
say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name
that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with
hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
The Pale Horse:
• The 4th seal behold a chlorous horse.
– The Greek word is actually “chlorous” it’s a pale green.
– He represents death.
– ...”and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. “...
– Hell here in the Hebrew is called Sheol, and in the Greek it’s the word Hades.
– It’s not hell as we think of hell,
– It’s the domain of the departed souls.
– It’s not the grave, the grave the body and can be owned by people, they put their names on the tombstones.
– No one owns Sheol or Hades.
– Hades had two compartments, one side was for those that died godly in the Old Testament and the other side was for those that died evil.
– See: Luke 16:19-31.
– When you see hell, often in the English Bible, it really should be translated, Sheol of the Hebrew Old Testament or Hades of the Greek New Testament.
– Hades will be cast into Hell at the end of the book of Revelation.
– Hades and Sheol are one and the same temporary abodes.
– The idioms are geocentric.
– Gehenna or the thing that we think of as hell is just the opposite.
– Gehenna is the outer darkness.
– So, “Death, and Hell followed with him.”
– ...”And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.“...
– Those beasts might be microscopic, this could include in it’s overview, pestilence and disease of different kinds.
Revelation 6:9-11
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they
held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and
true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the
earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said
unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants
also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be
fulfilled.
The 5th Seal:
• The 5th seal is the martyrs of Jesus Christ.
– These martyrs must have been resurrected to wear robes.
Revelation 6:12-17
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great
earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon
became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig
tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the
heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain
and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and
the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men,
and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and
in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall
on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from
the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who
shall be able to stand?
The 6th Seal:
• The 6th seal is Cosmic Changes.
– This is not the wrath of Satan, this is the wrath of Jesus, the wrath of the Lamb.
– This occurs all through the book of Revelation, but it starts in chapter 6 of Revelation.
– Six, is the number of man.
– The enemies of Joshua tried to hide in the caves, the book of Joshua and the book of Revelation have the same outline.
There is a pattern in the book;
• When there are 7 things, you’ll notice that there will be 6 things and then a break.
– A parenthesis, as the subject seems to change, they talk about something else for awhile and then they give you the 7th one.
• It’s always 6, a break and then the 7th.
– And in this case, we have after chapter 6, the trumpets that are going to follow, they don’t start until chapter 8.
– Chapter 7 is sort of like an insert, or like catching your breath.
The Sealing of the 144,000:
Revelation 7
The 7th Seal:
• The 7th seal is the sealing of the 144,000 Jewish Virgins.
• 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes.
– They are sealed after the rapture.
– Two tribes are missing, Ephraim and Dan.
– Ephraim is there but not by his personal name. It’s like the Holy Spirit has given him the back of the hand. When you mention Manasseh, Ephraim is included because the tribe of Joseph consists of Ephraim and Manasseh. But it’s called the tribe of Joseph.
– The tribe of Dan, people have speculated about this, even in the Old Testament period. And as you study the tribe of Dan throughout scripture you’ll notice that the more you study, the stranger that tribe is.
Why not Dan?
• It’s the tribe through which idolatry entered the land, the golden calf, etc.
Prophecies;
Jacob prophesies over each of the 12 sons, but when he talks about Dan, he calls him a serpent...
Genesis 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
– In the Levitical idioms, that’s pretty disparaging.
– The tribe of Dan has as it’s symbol an eagle with a serpent in its mouth.
– And, Ahesur the head of the tribe of Dan during the time of the Exodus didn’t like the serpent.
– So he had an eagle with a serpent, and that later becomes the symbol of the tribe or simply the eagle without the serpent.
• Moses also, like Jacob prophesied that Dan would leap from Bashan...
Deuteronomy 33:22 Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
– Bashan is what we would call the Golan Heights today, up north.
– What makes this prophecy strange is, after Moses dies Joshua takes over and when they conquer the land.
– The land is then allocated among the tribes.
– The allocation of Dan was west of the tribe of Benjamin.
– That was between Jerusalem and the coast.
– And they can’t hold on to their land there.
– Their biggest hero was Samson, he made a lot of colorful pranks on the Philistines, which are the adversaries there.
– But he really didn’t accomplish much and when he died, they couldn’t hold on to their allotted territory.
– So they sent a military group up north, where they found a town called Laish, in which they capture it and take it over and then move up north.
– So during the history of Israel, the saying goes, from “Dan to Beersheba,” the way we would say, from Maine to California.
– In other words, from Dan up north to Beersheba down to the extreme south.
– But that wasn’t where they were allocated.
– Yet, Moses predicted that they would leap from Bashan, they not only went up there they then leave from there.
– In Judges 18, when Deborah and Barak have this huge victory over Sisera, she compliments the tribes that helped and disparages the tribes that didn’t help.
– Deborah said, “Dan wouldn’t even leave his ships”.
– What’s he doing in ships?
– So we get the impression that Dan, sought their future separate from the Commonwealth of Israel early, even from the days of the Exodus and on.
– It was discovered that both Sparta and Troy were Jewish.
• You can find letters from the book of Maccabees, between the high priest and the king of Sparta acknowledging their common ancestry.
– In 1Chronocles, when they give the genealogies of each of the tribes, they skipped Dan.
– The Spirit of God seems to be at war with Dan from the beginning, probably, it seems that Dan doesn’t want to be fully committed.
Judah 12,000 Simeon 12,000
Reuben 12,000 Levi 12,000
Gad 12,000 Issachar 12,000
Asher 12,000 Zebulun 12,000
Naphtali 12,000 Joseph 12,000
Manasseh 12,000 Benjamin 12,000
Where is the Tribe of Dan?
Where is the Tribe of Ephraim?
The 7th Seal is silence in preparation for the 7 trumpets;
Revelation 8:1,2
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about
the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before
God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Silence in Heaven for ½ an Hour:
• There must not be any lawyers in heaven or politicians, bad joke, my apologies.
– If you have read the story of Jericho, how the Israelites marched around the city for 6 days in silence and on the 7th day, they keep silent and then there was the blowing of the trumpets.
The March Around the City of Jericho;
• There is silence until, the blowing of the trumpets;
• ...”Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth“...
Joshua 6:10-16 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout...... And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward (rereward is; “asaph” the assembly) came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. 14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city.
• The pattern is deliberate and consistent...
• ...”the seventh seal“..., ...”there was silence in heaven..., ...” seven angels““..., ...” seven trumpets“...
The Seven Trumpet Judgments: Chapters 8 - 1
The 1st Trumpet;
Revelation 8:6,7 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Remember 1/3 of the angelic realm followed Satan;
• Is this a judgement on them also?
• The first angel sounded 1/3 of the trees were burned up and all of the green grass was burnt up.
– There is an ugliness on the earth, the beauty is gone, the oxygen and other resources will soon be depleted.
The 2nd Trumpet;
Revelation 8:8,9 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
• A third part of the creatures in the sea and of the ships were destroyed, that sounds like a literal happening in a real sea.
– Is the some new nuclear technology perhaps?
The 3rd Trumpet;
Revelation 8:10,11 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
• The star was called Wormwood, is this a literal star/asteroid or a fallen angel?
The 4th Trumpet;
Revelation 8:12,13 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. 13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
• Wow, the angel is proclaiming that the next three angels are even worse!
– ...”the inhabiters of the earth“...those who have rejected Christ’s free gift of salvation from these things.
– There will be some people saved during this time, God is not through reaching out to man.
– I don’t believe that everyone will continue to reject God, because there will be some that will have the mark of God on their forehead. Revelation 9:4.
The Last 3 Trumpets Are Called Woes;
Woe #1
The 5th Trumpet;
Revelation 9:1-12 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. 12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
• There is only one place that we know of where a pit can be bottomless and that’s at the center of the earth, because the earth continues to rotate creating a never ending center of gravity. All directions are up.
– The “Abussos a.k.a. Bottomless Pit” may be geocentric. Abyss is the Greek word abusso.
Luke 8:31 And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.
– At least it is idiomatically, and the idea that Hades, Sheol, and the Abussos are all geocentric terms when Gehenna is in the outer darkness. Just a thought.
– The word locusts here is idiomatic for a demonic herd being loosed from the bottomless pit.
– Their king is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in the Greek, Apollyon.
– Both names mean destroyer.
• Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
– These locusts are not your average locusts, 1) locusts don’t have a king and 2) these locusts are demonic in nature.
– Amos 7:1 The Lord GOD showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout after the cutting of the king’s hay.
• In the Septuagint, you’ll discover that there is a very big difference in the Masoretic, the Hebrew and the Greek translation three centuries before Christ of that particular verse, to cut right to it, the name of the king of the locusts is Gog.
– Gog and Magog, Gog is a demonic title.
– Magog, is a people.
– The Interlinear Translator;
Nahum 3:17 Your men with insignias are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flit away, And the place where they are is not known.
In the book of Nahum, these men don’t seem to like the light but thrive in darkness, in Revelation 9:2 this demonic horde do the same, are these men possessed by demons or are these straight up demons?
Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
– In the book of Nahum, they come from Assyria, many speculate that the Man of Sin will be Assyrian.
– Amos 7:4 ....And it is devouring the vast abyss, and it devours the land portion.
– There is much study of the scriptures to unlock all of this information.
Woe #2
The 6th Trumpet;
Revelation 9:13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. 20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
• ...”Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates“...
– The passage seems to underscore the fact that demons and some or all fallen angels are geographically bound.
Luke 8:31 And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss. 32 A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission.
– What do these fallen angels have to do with the river Euphrates?
– The river Euphrates will show up several times in the book of Revelation.
– The river Euphrates was the eastern boundary of the Roman Empire.
– There are major negotiations going between Israel and Turkey over the water rights, the water is more precious in the Middle East than oil in some respects.
• Israel, Palestinian Authority reach water-sharing deal July 13, 2017:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/israel-palestinian-authority-reach-water-sharing-deal-170713165223323.html
• Nowhere in the book of Revelation is there repentance, as these events get worse and worse and worse, people will not repent.
A very dismal forecast.
Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
• Pharaoh did seem to repent in verse 16, but as soon as the plague was lifted he hardened himself to keep the Hebrews slaves.
– And because of that decision, the Lord reinforced his hardness so that he would be completely sold out to his decision.
• When there are 7 things, you’ll notice that there will be 6 things and then a break.
– A parenthesis, as the subject seems to change, they talk about something else for awhile and then they give you the 7th one.
Woe #3
– 7th Trumpet ushers in the Bowls of Wrath.
Revelation 11:14-16 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God.
• The seventh trumpet is a declaration that the mystery of God is finished.
– The 7th Trumpet ushers in the Bowls of Wrath.
• Parenthetical:
Chapters 10-14
• Mighty Angel with the “Little Book in Revelation 10
– The book is now unsealed and He tells John to digest it.
– Written “within and on the backside.”
– “Thou must prophesy again…”
• The Seven Thunders utter their voices.
– John was about to write what they said, but forbidden to write.
– A speculative thought, the seven thunders at least puts to silence any attempt to make a doctrine that the Canon of scripture is complete.
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The Two Witnesses:
Revelation 11 “The Coming Temple”
The temple will be standing.
Jesus: Matthew 24{15
John: Revelation 11:1,2
Paul: 2 Thessalonians 2:4
• The temple is measured.
– Outer Court is given to the Gentiles is 42 months.
• The two Witnesses are empowered for1260 days
(Elijah & Moses?)
They can do four different things as mentioned in the book of Revelation;
– They can call down fire from heaven.
– They can shut up heaven so that there is no rain.
– They can turn water into blood.
– They can smite the earth with plagues.
– Elijah called down fire from heaven.
– Elijah shut up the heavens for 3 ½ years.
– Moses turned water into blood.
– Moses smote Egypt with plagues.
• Elijah and Moses had their ministries interrupted.
The only celebration found in the book of Revelation:
• The Beast from the Abousso kills them.
– The Earth-dwellers celebrate, the world exchanges gifts, thrilled that these troublemakers are dead.
– They are resurrected after 3 ½ days.
The Woman and Man-Child:
Revelation 12
• The Woman is Israel and she’s pregnant.
– The Church is supposed to be the Virgin Bride.
– Joseph’s dream of the sheaves and the sun, moon, and 11 stars (the 11 tribes plus his).
Genesis 37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
– With sun, moon, 12 stars.
– And with child.
• The Red Dragon in verse 9 is Satan.
– It has 7 heads, 10 horns, and 7 crowns.
– His goal is to devour the Man-child as soon as He is born.
• The Man-Child is the Kinsman-Redeemer.
– He is to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
– He is caught up bodily, to God and to His throne.
– That alludes to the ascension of Jesus Christ, but could also may include the rapture of the Body of Christ the Church, that may be embedded here.
– The Woman flees into the wilderness, for 1260 days.
Genesis 37:9,10; Revelation 12:9.
• Michael and His Angels.
– Fights the Dragon and his angels.
• The Dragon is cast to the earth.
– The Dragon persecutes the Woman, 3 ½ years.
The Stratagems of Satan
• Corruption of Adam’s line Genesis 6
• Abraham’s seed Genesis 12, 20
• Famine Genesis 50
• Destruction of male line Exodus 1
• Pharaoh’s pursuit Exodus 14
• The populating of Canaan Genesis 15
• Against David’s line 2 Samuel 7
Attacks on David’s Line
• Jehoram kills his brothers 2 Chronicles 21
• Arabians slew all (but Ahaziah)
• Athaliah kills all (but Joash) 2 Chronicles 22
• Hezekiah assaulted, etc. Isaiah 36, 38
• Haman’s attempts Ester 3
New Testament Stratagems
• Joseph’s fears: Matthew 1
• Herod’s attempts: Matthew 2
• At Nazareth: Luke 4
• 2 storms on the Sea: Mark 4; Luke 8
• The Cross
• Summary: Revelation 12…and he’s not through..
The Two Beasts:
Revelation 13
• Beast out of the Sea he is the “Political Prophet”.
– 7 Heads and 10 Horns.
– On his Heads are the names of blasphemy. 2 Thessalonians 2.
– One of his heads receives a deadly wound and is healed.
– Powered by the Dragon for 42 months.
– Overcomes the Saints.
These may be “Post Saints or Post Church”
Jesus said, in Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
– I believe that Jesus was saying the hell would not ultimately triumph over His Church.
There are many saints being persecuted today!
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
– See all of Daniel 8.
Daniel 8: 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
– The Earth-Dwellers worship him, all those who are not written in the Book of Life.
• The Beast out of the Earth who is the “False Prophet”.
– He has two horns like a lamb.
– He speaks as the Dragon.
– He causes the Earth to worship the 1st Beast.
– He deceives the Earth with miracles.
– He forces worship of an image of the 1st Beast, all that receive a mark in their right hands or their foreheads.
– Nebuchadnezzar
No man may buy or sell without the name or the number of the 1st Beast: 666.
The Mark of the Beast
Revelation 13:16-18
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or
the number of his name. Here is wisdom. 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.
• Zechariah 11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd......
– I-D-O-L Shepard
Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon
his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his
right eye shall be utterly darkened.
• He may receive a head wound that is miraculously healed somehow, but he still has an incapacity from that.
– His right eye is darkened and his right arm is dried up.
– The conjecture is, that people who are pledging allegiance to him take his mark on the right hand or on their forehead.
– God gave that mark to His people first in the book of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel 9:4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof..
– Notice, the number 6 here...”verse 2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate,“‘
666 Greek translation interlinear
1812
600
hexakosioi
six hundred
Adj-NMP 1835
60
hexekonta
sixty
Adj-NMP
1803
6
hex
six
Adj-NMP
Transliteration: chxs
Phonetic Spelling: (khee xee stig'-ma)
Anti-Christos, is a pseudo Christ, not against, but in place of or opposite of Christ, and yes he is against Christ.
Forms of Gematria:
There are so many rules, that you can actually make it say anything that you want;
• There are all kinds of people who have all kinds of strange conjectures.
– If you torture the data long enough it will confess to anything.
And that’s pretty much true of mysticism in general and is certainly true of Gematria.
• Ragil (nominal).
• Kolel, the ragil values plus the number of letters in the word.
• Katan, small values; all tens and hundreds reduced to 1 - 9 by
summing the digits (also called “reduced” values).
• Hakadmi, nominal values plus the values of each letter preceding it.
• Hameruba Haklali, the value of the word squared.
• Hameruba Haperati, the sum of the squares of each individual letter.
• Miluy, the sums of the values of the names of each letter that makes
up the word (also called “filling”).
The Seven Bowls of Wrath: Chapters 15 & 16
Revelation 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
• This is the final wrath literally being poured out of these bowls.
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Bowl #1
Revelation 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
• pours on the men with the mark.
Bowl #2
Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
• the sea of blood, all die.
Bowl #3
Revelation 16:4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
• The rivers and the waters become blood.
You never hear of anyone claiming that this is not just, or not deserving.
Bowl #4
Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
• The Sun scorched with fire.
Bowl #5
Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
• Darkness over the Beasts Kingdom.
Bowl #6
Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
• In UFO literature, the heavy ones are the reptilian creatures.
• The Euphrates and the kings of the East.
There is a break here;
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
The Gathering:
Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Bowl #7
Revelation 16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
• ...”the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air“...
– This vial was poured out onto the Prince of the Power of the air.
– It is done.
• There is something interesting concerning the 7 trumpet judgements that we went through.
– You’ll notice that there is a parallelism between the organization of the trumpet judgements and the bowls.
– The trumpet judgements are in a sense like 1/3 of the bowl kind of thing.
– We call these the judgements of the thirds.
– Wether it’s the burning of the ground or the sea of blood and rivers, so forth, the trumpet judgements seem to be very parallel to that.
– 1/3 of the trees and grass, 1/3 of the sea, 1/3 of the waters made bitter, 1/3 of the sun and stars, 1/3 of the men slain.
The Heptadic Structure:
Has a break between the 6th and the 7th seals.
There is much more to find here.
Mount Megiddo
• 60 miles north of Jerusalem.
• Jabin & 900 chariots overwhelmed.
• Gideon’s 300 defeated Midianites, Amalekites & children of the east.
• Samson triumphed over the Philistines.
• Barak & Deborah defeated Sisera.
• Saul slain by Philistines.
• Ahaziah slain by arrows of Jehu .
• Pharaoh Necco slew King Josiah.
...Also, Saracens, Christian crusaders, Egyptians, Persians, Druses, Turks, Arabs, et al. Napoleon’s disastrous march from Egypt to Syria
The Armageddon Scenario: Daniel 11
The Return Sequence
• The believing Remnant will seek refuge in Edom and petition His return (Hosea 5:15).
• He will return by rescuing the Remnant (Isaiah 63).
• He will then return to Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4).
Mystery Babylon: Revelation 17 & 18
• The Great Whore Ch. 17
– Rides the Beast with 7 heads, 10 horns.
– Mother of Harlots and Abominations.
– Drunk with the blood of the saints.
• Babylon the Great (City) Ch. 18
– Kings.
– Merchants.
– Those that trade by sea.
The Two Women
Where?
Mother
Clothed with
Identity
Enemy
Relationship
Sustained by
Headdress
Status
Final location Israel Chapter 12
In Heaven
Of Man-Child
With sun
Sun, Moon, Stars
Dragon
Hated by world
Wings of heaven
Crown of 12 stars Widowed, divorced
New Jerusalem
Purple, Scarlet , Gold
Reigns over Kings of the Earth
10 Kings (Ultimately)
Caressed by world Dragon
Mystery Babylon the Great
“Am no widow…”
Habitation of demons
Destruction of Babylon
The Woman in the Ephah: Zechariah 5:5-11
• Ephah.
– Woman called “Wickedness.”
– Sealed in with talent of lead.
• Carried by two women.
– With wings of a stork.
– Between the earth and heaven.
– “To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be
established, and set there upon her own base.”
The kingdom of Nimrod returns to where it started to receive the judgement of God.
Babylon is being rebuilt.
The “Fifth Horseman”: Revelation 19
Revelation 19:11-16
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon
him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and
make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many
crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And
he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The
Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white
horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.And out of his mouth goeth a
sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them
with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath
of Almighty God.And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
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The Millennium: Revelation 20
Revelation 20:1-3
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the
bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand
years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal
upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years
should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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The Millennium: Revelation 20
• The Millennium was Promised to David (2 Sam 7:12-17; 23:5); under oath (Ps 89:34-37).
• The Millennium was Predicted in the Psalms and the Prophets (Ps 2; 45; 110; Isa 2:1-5;
4:1-6; 11:1-9; 12:1-6; 30:18-26; 35:1-10; 60, 61:3-62; 66; Jer 23:3-8;
32:37-44; Ezek 40-48; Dan 2:44-45; 7:13-14; 12:2-3; Mic 4:1-8; Zech
12:10-14:21.
• The Millennium was Promised to Mary (Lk 1:32; Mic 5:2; Isa 9:6, 7; Dan 2:44; reaffirmed
to apostles (Lk 22:29-30).
• Lord’s Prayer: “Thy Kingdom come” (Mt 6:10, 13; Acts 1:6; Ps 45,
46, 47, 48).
• The Millennium’s Rule (Ps 2; 110) with a “Rod of Iron” (Rev 12:5; 19:15); “Every knee
will bow” (Phil 2:6-11).
• Creation changed (physical changes, Zech 4:9,10; Isa 35:1-10);
curse lifted (Isa 11:6-9); creation redeemed (Gen 3; Rom 8:20-22).
Earth full of knowledge of the Lord (Isa 11:9; Hab 2:14).
Men will have no excuse, yet they still turn from the Lord.
• Yet, not eternity (Isa 65); there is death, sin (Isa 65:20); each to
have land (Mic 4:15) and be fruitful (Amos 9:13).
The New Heavens & New Earth: Revelation 21
Revelation 21:1-2
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the
holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband.
The New Jerusalem
Revelation 21:9-10
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials
full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I
will show thee the Bride, the Lamb’s wife. And he carried me away in the
spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy
Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
• 12 Gates, named with the 12 Tribes.
• 12 Foundations, named with 12 apostles.
• Cubical? [12,000 furlongs in each of three dimensions (1500 miles?)]
• No Temple: dwelling with God.
• No night: Lamb is the light thereof.
• Tree of Life, etc.
Epilogue: Revelation 22
Revelation 22:12-14
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man
according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do His commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
into the city…
Revelation 22:16, 17, 20
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water
of life freely.…Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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