016 The Revelation of Jesus Christ

 Revelation 1

1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

1st Seven Churches

Christ introduces the first of many sevens.

4John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

2nd  Seven Golden Candlesticks in Revelation 1: 12

3rd Revelation 1:16 Seven stars   

In 1:16 the explanation of the seven stars and seven candle sticks.

4th Revelation 4:5  Seven lamps 

And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.  

5th Seven Seals

Revelation 5:1  

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

6th seven trumpets

Revelation 8:2  

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

7th Revelation 10:3 seven thunders

And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

8th Revelation 15:1  seven last plagues

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.

The number 7 

The number 7 occupies so large a place in the works, and especially in the Word of God as being inspired by the Holy Spirit.

The word Seven occurs 287 times, or 7 x 41.

The word "Seventh," the fractional part, occurs 98 times, or 7 x 14.

The compound word "Seven-fold," occurs 7 times.

What about our savior Christ

"Jesus" occurs 14 times (2x7) (seven times alone, and seven times with "Christ")

"Lord"* occurs 21 times (3x7)

* The greek word  for “Lord”  gave some trouble. For the Concordance gave 22. This was good enough, being 2 x 11. But being in the Apocalypse (The Revelation ) we expected a multiple of seven, and this led to a more careful examination.We found that the RV omitted the greek represenation, on due authority,   in Revelation 16:5 and 19:1, while it inserted it in 11:4 instead of the word "God," thus leaving exactly 21 as above.

Seven represents perfection. 

In Revelation we will see perfect timing perfect, mercy foresight, perfect longsuffering, perfect love, perfect justice.

We have been learning that God does nothing by chance, the contents of the revelation is indeed most important but even the system of revelation tells us from whom the Bible originates.

Who designed this system of Revelation ? This is an important question.

It determines how we treat divine revelation, would we accept some and discard parts of the revealed word of God ?

To do this would be to reject God altogether

Who inspired Holy scripture  and even this numbering system was it God or man?

Daniel 8:13 

“Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?”

That Certain Saint in the Hebrew is The Holy one  

He is in Hebrew. Palmoni "the numberer of secrets, or, the wonderful numberer .

What are the Seven churches?

What  are seven seals?

What are the seven thunders?

What  are the seven trumpets?

The seven last plagues?

The following posts will go through each of these in detail,

See you in another one.

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Signs miracles and lying wonders

2Thessalonians 2 

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

How does Satan work? signs and Lying wonders!

How does he gain control of the world? Through the man of sin,

How does the man of sin gain control? 

Revelation 13:

11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

12And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

13And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

Note the Second Beast had power to work great wonders, miracles plural, even representing this power as causing fire to come down from heaven in the sight of men.

So much so these miracles and wonders move men to worship the first Beast.

The gospel of the 3 angels will have to break through the spell of lying wonders

The power of Miracles to convert  but not all miracles will cause men to be saved

Acts 8:

5Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.

6And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

7For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

8And there was great joy in that city.

9But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

10To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

11And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

Last days deception such as was not seen before prophesied

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25Behold, I have told you before.

Revelation 16:13 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.

14For 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.

15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

The world is preparing to receive great deceptions.

Movies music was and is a way that Satan use to decieve souls ,but now modern avenues will introduce a neo spiritualism to come in.

Pushing boundaries of Artificial Intelligence ( AI) for economics , Alexa Siri,bluring the lines btween the real and unreal creates entering wedges for demons to personate the dead . Computers are now  reading stories in the voice of dead loved ones.Who can question when demons personate loveones?

Machine learning is moving to the development of “ humanoids”to the point where they appear to have feelings and memories seeming to acquire (sentient :- state of consciousness) which in reality not possible.

Concerning our dead relatives

Psalms 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Ecclesiastes 9:5  

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

May we not be among those who Christ said in John 4:48 

Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

Who is Michael and what happens when He stands up

  Daniel 12:1

“And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and 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.”

What time? Daniel 11:44&45.

Who shall stand up? Michael, Who is Michael?

Jude 1:9

“Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.”

1 Thessalonians 4:

13But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16For the Lord himself 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:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Strong's Concordance

Mikael: "Who is like God?" an angel, also a number of Isr.

Original Word: מִיכָאֵל

When Michael stands up what does it mean ? To be given power

Daniel 11:20  

Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

Daniel 8:21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.

When one is given power what does he have?

1 Corinthians 15:24 

Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

Did not Christ have power already? Yes but now he is given the kingdom promised,He can claim the saints as His own.  

Daniel 7:13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

14And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

Who then they possessed the Kingdom

Daniel 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Now the bible says Christ stands up for the children of thy people (Daniel’s people)

Who was Daniel's people?  Israel -see Daniel 9!

Is it litteral Israel ?

 1 Cor 15 :43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Spiritual Israel is the people Christ will stand up for in the time of Trouble, None else.

These are the ones under his protection just before and during the plagues.

Who are the spiritual Israel that Michael /Christ would stand up for?

Revelation 14:12

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

These are the ones Christ will stand up for .

Why Michael will stand up ? “there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:”

Matthew 24 details the trouble, the great tribulation

4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Tribulations ,trouble judgments on the earth such as never was but God shall deliver his people. They keep God’s commandments and have the faith of Jesus.

Trouble in Isaiah 19 trouble, Luke 21, Mark 13 

Then the plagues

Revelation

Chapter 16

1And 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.

2And 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.

3And 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.

4And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

5And 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.

6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

7And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

9And 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.

10And 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,

11And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

12And 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.

13And 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.

14For 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.

15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

16And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

17And 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.

Revelation 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus

There is a time for everything according to Eclesiastes

Time for God to work

Psalms 119:126  

It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law

Strange work

Isaiah 28:21

“For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.”

Revelation 2:22 

Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

Tribulations ,trouble judgments on the earth such as never was but God shall deliver his people. They keep God’s commandments and have the faith of Jesus.

This does not mean there would not be trials,

Daniel 12:10

“Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.”

Many will be like Jacob in his transition to being renamed Israel. We will go through Jacob’s trouble. It is trouble that perfected Jacob ,and as a result he was renamed Israel. The same will happen to Gods people.

  

See in Isaiah 27 Jacob sins purge in time of trouble in time of strife,note winds are symbol of strife

Isaiah 27: 8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

 

 

Daniel 11:45 Enforced state religion

 Daniel 11:45

“And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

Plant means to establish by work

What is a used for Tabernacle? Holy things, worship.

Numbers 1:50

“But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.”

Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Numbers 4:4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:

What is the Palace used for ? for Kings

Esther 1:5 

And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;

Ezra 4:14

|Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

2 Chronicles 9:11

And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

So you see a combination of Church craft and Statecraft,this is nothing short of State enforced religion.

So enforced state Religion will be put between the seas and the glorious Holy Mountain.

What does seas mean?

Revelation 17:15

“And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”

Daniel 11:26  

Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.

Between the seas (people) where? In the glorious holy mountain!

What is the glorious Holy mountain?

Ezekiel 20:40  the house of Israel

For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

Daniel 9:20 the people of Israel

“And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;”

Zechariah 8:3 The Holy Mountain of the Lord Zion

Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

State enforced Sunday worship will be between the multitudes and nations and kindred and tongues and the Holy mountain of God.

Who is the Holy mountain of god?

Isaiah 51:16And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

So state enforced Sunday worship , the mark of the Beast will be between people in the Holy mountain of God. What does that mean ?

State enforce religion will cause a shaking a separation among the people in the church in Zion, in modern Spiritual Israel

What does it mean “Yet He shall come to his end”?

Ezekiel 7:3-5

3Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

 

Psalm 37 the end of the wicked

35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

37Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

38But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

39But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

40And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

He comes to his end but God's people are saved

Daniel 12:1 “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and 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.”