Understanding the book of Revelation
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Senior Teaching Elder L.D. Smith
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Adapted from the Authorised King James Version, 1611.
Adapted: The Divine Names and Titles from the Appendixes of the Companion Bible, The Bullinger Publications Trust, 1964, 1970, 1974, Published by Zondervan Bible Publishers
Special thanks to Dr. J. Sidlow Baxter for his permission to quote from his book, “Explore The Book”, The Mistranslation of the Hebrew word “Mo’Adah”, (Ps 74:V8). Published by Zondervan Bible Publishers
I would like to thank the Lord for blessing me in the study of His Word. I would also like to give a special thank you to my wife and my youngest son for helping me in the publication and completion of this book, all glory and honour be given to the Lord Our God.
UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION
THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD BOOK OF THE BIBLE AND MANY OF THE MODERN DAY THEOLOGIANS HAVE BECOME ITS CRITICS, REJECTING IT AS WORTHLESS TO THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
YET THIS BOOK IS THE CONCLUSION OF ALL PROPHECY AND FULFILMENT OF ALL THE PROMISES OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD TO HIS CHURCH, THE AUTHOR OF THIS STUDY IS NOT SUGGESTING TO KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS, IT IS HIS DESIRE THAT THOSE WHO STUDY THIS WORK, MAY GAIN INSIGHT INTO THE THINGS OF GOD, THUS FURTHERING HIS KINGDOM.
TO COME TO ANY UNDERSTANDING OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION ONE MUST TURN TO THE WORD OF GOD, FOR IT SHALL TESTIFY TO ITSELF, THUS REVEALING THE TRUTH WHICH LIES WITHIN HOLY WRIT.
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(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 1) (JOHN’S VISION OF CHRIST)
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WHICH GOD GAVE UNTO HIM, TO SHOW UNTO HIS BOND-SERVANTS, THINGS WHICH MUST SHORTLY COME TO PASS; AND HE SENT AND SIGNIFIED IT BY HIS ANGEL UNTO HIS SERVANT JOHN.
BEHOLD THE GIFT OF GOD, THE DIVINE LOVE OF THE FATHER,THE SUPREME GIFT OF GOD, CHRIST JESUS HIS SON, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER (john c1:v14; 2cor c9:v15), IN WHOM WE FIND SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE.
IN CHRIST JESUS WAS THE POURING OUT OF GOD’S LOVE TO A WORLD THAT DESERVED IT NOT, THE PERFECT GIFT WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND GIVEN FREELY TO ALL, RICH AND POOR, MIGHTY AND SMALL, IT COULD NOT BE BOUGHT OR MERITED, FOR HIS GRACE WAS SUCH, THAT THOUGH HE WAS RICH, YET FOR OUR SAKES, HE BECAME POOR, THAT WE THROUGH HIS POVERTY, MIGHT BECOME RICH. (1tim c1:v17, 1cor c15:v57, james c1:v17), (2cor c8:v9).
IMMANUEL,(GOD WITH US), (isa c7:v14, matt c1:v23),
CHRIST JESUS, (matt c1:v16).
MESSIAH, (dan c9:v25, john c1:v4).
ANOINTED ONE, (ps 2:v2, ps 45:v7).
GOD IN FLESH, (john c1:v1),
THE GOD WHO LEFT THE SPLENDOUR OF HEAVEN, AND THE WORSHIP OF ANGELS, AND TOOK THE FORM OF MAN, THAT WE MAY, BE DRAWN UNTO HIM, AND FIND PEACE THROUGH HIM, (col c1:v20).
FOR THROUGH HIM, (CHRIST) THE LORD GOD MADE A NEW COVENANT, AN EVERLASTING COVENANT, (heb c13:v20), AND GAVE IT TO ALL WHO RECEIVED HIM AS THEIR SAVIOUR, (john c4:v42), HE IS THE TESTATOR (heb c9:v17), THE APPOINTED, WHO MADE THE NEW COVENANT COME INTO FRUITION, THE MOMENT HE BOWED HIS HEAD UPON THE CROSS AND CRIED, "IT IS FINISHED" (john c19:v30).
THE FRIEND OF SINNERS (matt c11:v19), WHO OPENED THE WAY FOR RECONCILIATION BETWEEN A HOLY GOD, AND SINFUL MAN, (2cor c5:v18: v19). THE MEDIATOR, WHO GAVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM FOR SIN, (1tim c2:v5:v6), CHRIST JESUS, BOTH GOD AND MAN, WHO STANDS BEFORE HIS FATHER REPRESENTING BOTH SIDES, HE IS,"THE HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS ONE” (acts c3:v14, ps145:v17, jer c12:v1), WHO BECAME OBEDIENT TO THE WILL OF HIS FATHER, THAT THROUGH OUR FAITH IN HIM, THE LORD JESUS OUR ADVOCATE, (1john2:v1) BEING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FATHER RESTORES US (WHO ARE SINNERS) TO A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD GOD (ELYON), IN WHICH WE CAN NOW CRY ABBA FATHER, (rom c4:v3, gal c3:v6).
THE GOD GIVEN TITLE OF THIS BOOK, THE REVELATION, THAT IS THE REVEALING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND GODS LOVE TOWARDS HIS CHILDREN.
THE THINGS WHICH MUST SHORTLY TAKE PLACE; THIS IS NOT REFERRING THAT THESE EVENTS SHALL OCCUR IN JOHN’S DAY, BUT SIMPLY THAT WHEN THE EVENTS DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOK START, THEN THEY SHALL COME INTO FRUITION QUICKLY, (see rev 22:v6-v7, 2petc3:v8).
NOTE: THAT GOD GAVE THIS BOOK TO JOHN, THAT IS “ELYON”, (THE MOST HIGH GOD), GOD THE FATHER.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST.
THE GIFT OF GOD,
THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER,
IMMANUEL,
JESUS,
MESSIAH,
ANOINTED ONE,
SAVIOUR,
TESTATOR,
THE FRIEND OF SINNERS,
MEDIATOR,
RANSOM,
THE HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS ONE,
OUR ADVOCATE,
JESUS CHRIST,
“ELYON”,
“ELOHIM”,
“ELOAH”,
WHO BORE WITNESS TO THE WORD OF GOD, AND OF THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, AND OF ALL THINGS THAT HE SAW,
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 2)
THE NEW TESTAMENT TESTIFIES AS TO JOHN’S WITNESSING TO GOD’S WORD AND HIS CHRIST. JESUS OUR PROPITIATION (1john c2:v2) WHO WAS THE ONLY OFFERING THAT SATISFIED GOD THE FATHER, CONCERNING THE SIN OF MANKIND, FOR THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF THE CROSS, THE LORD GOD REVEALED HIS GREAT LOVE TOWARDS MAN, IT WAS AN ACT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL, TO DEMONSTRATE ONCE AND FOR ALL, HIS MERCY AND GRACE TOWARD’S US, ((heb c2:v17), FOR WHILE WE WHERE DEAD TOWARDS HIM, HE WAS ALIVE TO US, (rom c8:v32, heb c2:v17), JESUS CHRIST REVEALED AS THE MERCY SEAT OF GOD, THE PLACE OF PROPITIATION, WHO’S BLOOD WAS SHED FOR THE CLEANSING OF SIN, TO THOSE THAT BELIEVE AND RECEIVE HIM AS THEIR SAVIOUR, FOR IN HIM ALL THEHOLY DEMANDS OF A HOLY GOD ARE MEET (heb c9:v5).
THE WORD OF GOD, THE WORD BECAME FLESH, IT IS THE WORD THAT SANCTIFIES, (john c17:v17), CHRIST JESUS BEING OUR SANCTIFICATION, (1cor c1:v30), ALLOW THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IS PRIMARILY GIVEN TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL, ITS TESTIMONY AS TO THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST IS VITAL AS A WITNESS TO ALL NATIONS, FOR THROUGH CHRIST "THE WAY" WAS OPENED FOR MAN’S RECONCILIATION TO GOD, (2cor c5:v19, rom c5:v10, 11).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST.
PROPITIATION,
THE WORD,
SANCTIFICATION,
THE WAY,
BLESSED IS HE THAT READS AND THEY THAT HEAR THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY, AND KEEP THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN IT; FOR THE TIME IS AT HAND.
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 3)
THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY, CHRIST NOT ONLY THE SAVIOUR, BUT THE PROPHET, (acts c3:v22, deut c18:v15), WHOM GOD RAISED UP, THE IMPORTANCE IS GIVEN HERE AS TO THE WORDS OF PROPHECY, (rev c22:v19).
FOR THE LORD REVEALS HAPPY (BLESSED) ARE THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE GOOD NEWS, BLESSED IS USED SEVEN TIMES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION (rev c14:v13, c16:v15, c19:v9, c20:v6 and c22: v7:v14), "BLESSED" IS A TITLE THAT IS GIVEN TO ,(1tim c6:v15).
THE TIME IS NEAR, THE WARNING IS TO HEED WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN CONCERNING PROPHECY, THAT IS CONCERNING THE PROPHECY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IT IS NOT POINTING TO THE EVENTS THAT SHALL OCCUR UPON THE EARTH, BUT TO THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, FOR MAN’S LIFE IS BUT SHORT HENCE THE CRY,"BLESSED" HAPPY ARE THEY WHO DIE IN CHRIST, (rom c13:v11, 1thess c4:v16 rev c14:v13).
(See appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE PROPHET,
BLESSED,
JOHN, TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES, WHICH ARE IN ASIA:
GRACE BE UNTO YOU AND PEACE FROM HIM WHO IS AND WHO
WAS AND WHO IS TO COME; AND FROM THE SEVEN SPIRITS
WHICH ARE BEFORE HIS THRONE,
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 4)
THESE WHERE SEVEN ACTUAL CHURCHES IN ASIA MINOR,
GRACE TO YOU: THE LOVE OF GOD, DIVINE FAVOUR.
REVELATION STARTS WITH GRACE AND END’S WITH GRACE,(rev c22:21).
PEACE FROM HIM: CHRIST THE PRINCE OF PEACE, THE EVIDENCE’S THAT CHRIST JESUS IS IN ACCORD WITH US. THE SEVEN SPIRITS, WHO ARE BEFORE THE THRONE, REVEALS SPIRITUAL PERFECTION, THE NUMBER SEVEN OCCURS 54 TIMES WITHIN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, AND APPEARS MORE OFTEN THAN ANY OTHER NUMBER, SEVEN WITHIN SCRIPTURE DENOTES SPIRITUAL PERFECTION, FULFILLMENT AND COMPLETION, AND IS ALWAYS LINKED TO THE LORD GOD (gen c2:v2; exod c20:v10; lev c14:v7 and acts c6:v3).
WHO IS AND WAS AND WHO IS TO COME: THIS IS A REFERENCE TO JESUS CHRIST, THE LIVING ONE, (luke c18:v31-v 33 c24:v46, heb c13:v8).
THE GUARDIAN (BISHOP) OF THE CHURCH, NOTE THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FATHER AND SON IS INSEPARABLE, (john c14: v8-v11, c17:v21 IN PROVERBS C9:V1, IT IS REVEALED THAT "WISDOM" HAS BUILT HER HOUSE SHE HAS HEWN OUT HER SEVEN PILLARS, CHRIST, WHO IS THE WISDOM OF GOD: STANDS UPON SEVEN PILLARS.
1 HIS VIRGIN BIRTH,
2 HIS SINLESS LIFE,
3 THE MIRACLES HE WROUGHT,
4 HIS ATONEMENT FOR SIN (THE CROSS),
5 HIS BODILY RESURRECTION,
6 HIS ASCENSION INTO,
7 HIS SECOND COMING,
NOTE: IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DISPENSATION PERIOD THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON MEN (CLOTHED MEN), IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLS, (I.E. CHRIST JESUS CLOTHES HIMSELF WITH OUR FLESH) (num c11:v26, c24:v2, 1sam c10:v6, 2chron c15:v1, neh c9:v30) (acts c2:v4, matt c10:v20, acts c13:v9, acts c4:v8).
(see appendixes on the NAME and TITLES of CHRIST).
PRINCE OF PEACE,
GUARDIAN/BISHOP,
THE LIVING ONE,
THE WISDOM OF GOD,
AND FROM JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS THE FAITHFUL WITNESS, AND THE FIRST BEGOTTEN OF THE DEAD, AND THE PRINCE OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH,UNTO HIM THAT LOVED US, AND WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD,
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 5)
THE FAITHFUL WITNESS: THE TRUE WITNESS, CHRIST JESUS THE VALIDITY OF ALL THAT THE FATHER HAS PROMISED CONCERNING SALVATION, HE IS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, (isa c9:v6, zec c12:v10-v12, heb c12:v2).
THE FIRST BORN OF THE DEAD: THE FORE RUNNER OF THINGS TO COME, (heb c1:v2:v6, ps c2:v7, acts c13:v33, rom c8:v29, heb c6:v20).
RULER OVER THE KINGS: THE KING OF KINGS, (rev c17:v14).
WASHED US FROM OUR SINS: HE WAS THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, THE TRUE FRIEND OF SINNERS, WHO SHED HIS GODLY BLOOD FOR THE REMISSIONS OF SIN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE, (acts c20:v28, rom c3:v25, eph c1:v7, col c1:v14-v15, rom c5:v9, heb c9:v12, c13:v12).
IN HIS OWN BLOOD: THE NEW COVENANT, WHICH TAKES IN ALL KINDRED, TONGUES, PEOPLE, AND NATIONS. (See appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE TRUE WITNESS,
THE EXPRESS IMAGE,
HEIR OF ALL THINGS,
GRACIOUS,
FORE RUNNER,
KING OF KINGS,
THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH,
ADVOCATE,
THE RESURRECTION,
THE FRIEND OF SINNERS,
AND HAS MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS UNTO HIS GOD AND HIS FATHER TO HIM BE GLORY AND DOMINION FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 6)
A KINGDOM, THE EKKLESIA: THE CALLED OUT ONES, A PEOPLE OF GOD, (matt C24:v24, col C1:v18). A HOLY NATION, THE FRUITION OF HIS HANDIWORK, (gen c1:v26,1pet c2:v9), PRIESTS OF THE MOST HIGH (ELYON), THE REDEEMED SHALL HAVE ACCESS TO THE LORD GOD ALMIGHT (EL SHADDAI), DAY AND NIGHT, A PEOPLE FOR GOD’S OWN POSSESSION, THEY THAT LOVE THE LORD GOD AND CHRIST MORE THAN THEIR, OWN LIFES, (heb c7:v26, dan c7:v22, matt c10:v38, gal C2:v20).
GLORY AND DOMINION: FAITHFUL AND TRUE ARE THE WORDS OF OUR CAPTAIN THE LORD JESUS AND MIGHTY ARE HIS WORKS, (ps111, ps145 isa c9:v7, heb c2:v10).
TAKING BACK SOVEREIGNTY LOSTED AT THE FALL OF MANKIND, (ps 8).
AMEN: CHRIST THE GREAT AMEN (SO BE IT), GOD IS LOVE.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
CAPTAIN,
GOD IS LOVE,
ANCIENT OF DAYS,
AMEN,
BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH CLOUDS, AND EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM, AND THEY ALSO WHO PIERCED HIM. AND ALL KINDREDS OF THE EARTH SHALL MOURN HIM. EVEN SO, AMEN.
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 7)
EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM: THIS SHALL OCCUR AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, IT SHALL BE A PHYSICAL AND VISIBLE RETURN, (matt c24:v30, mark c14:v62, dan c7:v30), THOSE WHO PIERCED HIM: A REFERENCE TO THE JEWS.
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST SHALL BE GLORIOUS AND VICTORIOUS, WHERE PEACE SHALL AT LAST REIGN, FOR OUR BLESSED POTENTATE HAS COME (1tim c6:v15).
THE MIGHTY PRINCE, THE PRINCE OF PEACE, THE PRINCE OF LIGHT AND THE PRINCE OF LIFE, AMEN! (isa c9:v6).
THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH: A REFERENCE TO ALL WHO ARE LEFT UPON THE EARTH, AT HIS SECOND COMING, (zec c12:v10, john c19:v37).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
POTENTATE,
PRINCE OF PEACE,
PRINCE OF LIFE,
I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING,
SAYS THE LORD, WHO IS AND WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME,
THE ALMIGHTY,
(CHAPTER1: VERSE 8)
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA: THE FIRST AND LAST, THERE WAS NO GOD BEFORE HIM AND THERE SHALL BE NO GODS AFTER HIM, (isa c44:v8).
WHO IS WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME: THIS REFERS TO CHRIST, WHO IS THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOREVER, (heb c13:v8), CHRIST JESUS APPLIES THE TITLE OF GOD TO HIMSELF, WHEN HE SAYS I AM THE "ALPHA AND THE OMEGA"AND IN JOHN’S GOSPEL, CHRIST REFERS TO HIMSELF AS THE GREAT "I AM", THAT IS, YAHWEH, ELOHIM, AND JEHOVAH, (john c14:v8, col c1: v15-v20).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA,
THE FIRST AND LAST,
THE BEGINNING AND THE END,
IMMORTAL,
I AM,
GOD JEHOVAH,
LORD,
THE ALMIGHTY,
I, JOHN, WHO ALSO AM YOUR BROTHER, AND COMPANION IN TRIBULATION, AND IN THE KINGDOM AND PATIENCE OF JESUS CHRIST, WAS IN THE ISLE THAT IS CALLED PATMOS, FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 9)
PATIENCE: SUFFERING PAIN CALMLY.
FELLOW PARTAKER IN TRIBULATION: JOHN WAS CAPTIVE BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR CHRIST, THE APOSTLES AND THE BELIEVERS (DISCIPLES) IN CHRIST JESUS HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED THROUGHOUT THE CHURCH AGE, NO APOLOGY IS GIVEN HERE FOR PERSECUTION OR TRIBULATION, FOR THE WORLD IS THE ENEMY OF GOD (jam C4:v4), AND THE WORLD IS AT WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND THIS IS HOW IT SHALL REMAIN UNTIL THE LORD’S RETURN, FOR THROUGH CHRIST WE SHALL OVERCOME THE WORLD, (matt c24:v9, mark c10:v30, john c16:v33, acts c14:v22,FOR CHRIST JESUS, IS THE WAY (isa c35:v8, john c14:v6).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE WAY,
THE TRUTH,
THE LIFE,
I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD’S DAY, AND I HEARD BEHIND
ME A GREAT VOICE, AS OF A TRUMPET,
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 10)
A VOICE LIKE THE SOUND OF A TRUMPET: MAKING SURE THAT JOHN COULD HEAR THE VOICE QUITE CLEARLY AND THAT NO MISUNDERSTANDING WOULD OCCUR, JOHN DID NOT DREAM THESE EVENTS, BUT ACTUALLY HEARD AND SAW THESE EVENTS TAKE PLACE, BOTH IN HEAVEN AND UPON THE EARTH, THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT JOHN WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD’S DAY, THAT IS,"THE DAY OF THE LORD", WHICH IS YET A FUTURE EVENT, (isa c2:v12, ezek c8:v3, joel c2:v10, amos c5:v18, zeph c1:v15, isa c24).
NO ONE WHO HAS EVER STUDIED THE BOOK OF REVELATION COULD BE IN ANY DOUBT AS TO ITS YET FUTURE JUDGMENTS UPON MANKIND, AND THAT THESE JUDGMENTS RELATE SOLELY TO THE DAY OF THE LORD, AND THE TIME’S OF JACOB’S TROUBLES.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
INVISIBLE,
SPIRIT,
SAYING, I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE FIRST AND LAST:
AND, WHAT YOU SEE, WRITE IN A BOOK, AND SEND IT UNTO THE SEVEN CHURCHES WHICH ARE IN ASIA; UNTO EPHESUS, UNTO SMYRNA, UNTO PERGAMOS, UNTO THYATIRA, UNTO SARDIS, UNTO PHILADELPHIA, AND UNTO LAODICEA,
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 11)
THESE WHERE ACTUAL CHURCHES IN THE APOSTLE JOHN’S DAY, ALTHOUGH THERE WHERE MANY CHURCHES, ONLY SEVEN OF THESE CHURCHES WHERE SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE ATTITUDES OF ALL THE CHURCHES THROUGHOUT HISTORY RIGHT UP TO THE GLORIOUS SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS, JOHN WAS TOLD TO WRITE WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO BE SHOWN, AND SEND IT TO THE CHURCHES REVEALING WHAT SHALL COME INTO FRUITION, (isa c24, ezek c38, matt c24).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
SOWER,
HEAD OF THE CHURCH,
HIGH PRIEST,
AND I TURNED TO SEE THE VOICE THAT SPOKE WITH ME.
AND HAVING TURNED I SAW SEVEN GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS;
(CHAPTER1: VERSE12)
THE LAMPSTANDS REPRESENT THE SEVEN CHURCHES, (verse20),THE GOING FORTH OF GOD’S LIGHT, (THE WORD), THAT MEN MAY SEE THE DARKNESS (DECEIT) OF THEIR SOUL’S, AND TURN TO THE TRUTH (THE LIGHT) AND BE SAVED, (SANCTIFIED), (john c17:v17,1cor c6:v11, rev c1:v5).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
SANCTIFICATION,
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD,
THE WORD,
AND IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN LAMPSTANDS ONE LIKE UNTO THE SON OF MAN, CLOTHED WITH A GARMENT DOWN TO THE FOOT AND GIRDED ABOUT THE CHEST WITH A GOLDEN BAND. HIS HEAD AND HIS HAIR WERE WHITE LIKE WOOL, AS WHITE AS SNOW; AND HIS EYES WERE AS A FLAME OF FIRE; AND HIS FEET WERE LIKE UNTO FINE BRASS, AS IF THEY BURNED IN A FURNACE; AND HIS VOICE AS THE SOUND OF MANY WATERS.
(CHAPTER 1: VERSES 13-15)
SON OF MAN: A TITLE GIVEN TO CHRIST AND DENOTES HIM AS THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS, (matt c8:v20, ps c8, NOTE! THAT CHRIST IS PRESENT IN THE CHURCHES, ALSO NOTE; HIS APPEARANCE, WHERE HIS DESCRIPTION IS GIVEN AS THAT OF A PRIEST AND JUDGE, (dan c7:v9:v13).
VOICE LIKE MANY WATERS: REVEALS HIS AUTHORITY WHEN HE SPEAKS, HIS HAIR LIKE WHITE WOOL AND SNOW, REVEALING HIS PURITY.
FEET LIKE BURNISHED BRONZE (BRASS): REVEALING CHRIST’S RIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT AND THE CRUSHING OF HIS ENEMIES UNDER FOOT, (1cor c15:v27, heb c2:v8, rev c19:v15).
HIS EYES WERE LIKE A FLAME OF FIRE: REVEALING THAT THE LORD SEES THE HEART OF A MAN, (1sam c16:v7), AND THAT NOTHING IS HIDDEN FROM HIM, AND THAT EVERY WORK SHALL BE TESTED WITH FIRE, (1cor c3:v13).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
SON OF MAN,
JUDGE,
RIGHTEOUS JUDGE,
HIGH PRIEST,
REFINER AND PURIFIER,
JEHOVAH-ZeBA’OTH,
AND HE HAD IN HIS RIGHT HAND SEVEN STARS: AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH WENT A SHARP TWO-EDGED SWORD: AND HIS COUNTENANCE WAS AS THE SUN SHINING IN HIS STRENGTH.
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 16)
RIGHT HAND: PLACE OF HONOUR, (ps c110:v1, eph c1:v20).
SHARP TWO-EDGED SWORD: SWORD IS A SYMBOL OF THE TRUTH (THE WORD OF GOD) THE SEVERITY OF GOD, (heb c4:v12, eph c6:v17).
SUN SHINNING IN ITS STRENGTH: THE GOD OF GLORY, WHERE MERE HUMAN EYES CANNOT LOOK UPON (exod c33: v17:v23, 1tim c6:v16).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE WORD,
POWER OF GOD,
SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
AND WHEN I SAW HIM, I FELL AT HIS FEET AS DEAD. AND HE LAID HIS RIGHT HAND UPON ME, SAYING UNTO ME, FEAR NOT; I AM THE
FIRST AND LAST: I AM HE THAT LIVES, AND WAS DEAD; AND, BEHOLD I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE, AMEN; AND HAVE THE KEYS OF HELL AND OF DEATH,
(CHAPTER 1: VERSES 17-18)
AS A DEAD MAN: (see isa c6:v5).
RIGHT HAND: PLACE OF HONOUR, AND HAND OF FELLOWSHIP, (ps63:v8).
FIRST AND LAST: (see verse 8).
CHRIST JESUS THE LIVING ONE, (luke c24:v5), THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION, (john c11:v25), IF THERE IS NO RESURRECTION THERE IN NO HOPE.
CHRIST JESUS, (rev c4:v9) WHO HOLDS THE KEYS OF DEATH AND HELL, (HADES), THROUGH THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION, (rev c9:v1, john c14:v19, john c16:v16-v17, dan c4:v34, c12:v7).
CHRIST JESUS IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL. (see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE AMEN,
SECOND ADAM,
LAST ADAM,
THE LIVING ONE,
THE RESURRECTION,
THE FIRST BEGOTTEN OF THE DEAD,
THE FIRST FRUIT OF THE DEAD,
THE FIRST BORN OF THE DEAD,
THE FIRST AND THE LAST,
WRITE THE THINGS WHICH YOU HAVE SEEN, AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE, AND THE THINGS WHICH SHALL BE HEREAFTER,
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 19)
JOHN WAS TOLD TO WRITE THE THINGS HE HAD ALREADY BEEN SHOWN, THAT IS, CHAPTER ONE, THE THINGS WHICH ARE PRESENT, THE ATTITUDE OF THE CHURCHES, REVEALED IN CHAPTER TWO AND THREE, AND THE THINGS WHICH SHALL TAKE PLACE AFTER THESE THINGS, CHAPTERS FOUR TO TWENTY-TWO (matt c24:v35).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE TRUTH,
THE WAY,
THE LIGHT,
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS, WHICH YOU SAW IN MY RIGHT HAND, AND THE SEVEN GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS, THE SEVEN STARS ARE THE ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES; AND THE SEVEN LAMPSTANDS WHICH YOU SAW, ARE THE SEVEN CHURCHES,
(CHAPTER 1: VERSE 20)
THE SEVEN ANGELS: THE OVERSEERS, THE MESSENGERS OF THE WORD, (THE GOSPEL), WITH THE FULLNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, (acts c2:v4), (luke c1: v41-v67).
STARS: THE RIGHTEOUS WHO SHALL LEAD MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, (dan c12:v3).
RIGHT HAND: HONOUR AND FELLOWSHIP, ALSO SEE JOHN’S GOSPEL, WHERE CHRIST SAYS NO ONE SHALL SNATCH YOU OUT OF MY HAND, OR MY FATHER’S HAND, F.A.I.T.H. (FATHER ALWAYS IN THY HAND).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
JAH-LORD,
THE WORD,
LEADER,
COMMANDER,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 1) (CHRIST’S LETTERS TO THE CHURCHES)
UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS WRITE; THESE THINGS SAYS HE THAT HOLDS THE SEVEN STARS IN HIS RIGHT HAND, WHO WALKS IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS;
CHRIST AFFIRMS THAT HE HOLDS THE ANGELS (OVERSEER’S) IN A PLACE OF HONOUR, AND HERE CHRIST REVEALS THAT HE WALKS AMONG THE CHURCHES, (gal c2:v20, eph c3:v17, john c14:v16-v 17), CHRIST DWELLS WITHIN THE HEARTS OF THE BELIEVERS CLOTHING HIMSELF WITH ARE FLESH.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
SPIRIT,
INVISIBLE,
I KNOW YOUR DEEDS AND YOUR LABOUR, YOUR PATIENCE, AND HOW YOU CANNOT BEAR THEM THAT ARE EVIL: AND YOU HAVE TESTED THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE APOSTLES, AND ARE NOT, AND HAVE FOUND THEM LIARS.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 2)
PATIENCE: (TO BEAR PAIN CALMLY, TO SUFFERING).
CANNOT ENDURE THE WORKINGS OF INIQUITY FROM FALSE APOSTLES (PASTORS), SATAN’S MESSENGERS, WHO DISGUISE THEMSELVES AS SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND TRY TO CORRUPT THE MINDS OF THE BELIEVERS.
THE REASSURANCE FROM CHRIST, THAT THESE FALSE PROPHETS CAN BE EXPOSED THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD, FOR A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST IS NOT RECOGNIZE BY THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT, BUT BY THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT, (2cor c11:v13-v14, 1john c4:v1, gal c5:v22 eph c5:v9, 1cor c13 and matt c7: v15-v23).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
EL SHADDAI,
ELOAH,
(see appendixes on the spirit of iniquity).
AND YOU HAVE PERSEVERED AND HAD PATIENCE, AND FOR MY NAME’S SAKE HAVE LABOURED AND HAVE NOT FAINTED,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 3)
WE ARE TO HAVE PATIENCE AND TOLERANCE WITH THOSE WHO SPEAK AGAINST THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, WE ARE NOT TO BECOME TIRED, BUT TO TRUST IN THE PROMISE’S OF THE SAVIOUR, (1pet c4:v14, john c15:v20: v21).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST),
SAVIOUR,
CHRIST,
MESSIAH,
NEVERTHELESS I HAVE THIS AGAINST YOU, THAT YOU HAVE LEFT YOUR FIRST LOVE,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 4)
THIS CONGREGATION IS NO LONGER RELYING ON THE OUT POURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT SEEM’S TO BE DEPENDING UPON THEIR OWN STRENGTH, (1chron c21), CHRIST JESUS IS NO LONGER CENTRE IN THIS CHURCH.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
JEALOUS,
REMEMBER THEREFORE FROM WHERE YOU HAVE FALLEN, AND REPENT, AND DO THE FIRST WORKS; OR ELSE I WILL COME UNTO YOU QUICKLY, AND WILL REMOVE YOUR LAMPSTAND OUT OF HIS PLACE, EXCEPT YOU REPENT.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 5)
THE EMPHASIS HERE, IS FOR THIS CONGREGATION TO REPENT (TURN AWAY FROM THEIR SIN), FOR THEY NO LONGER DO WHAT IS PLEASING TO THE FATHER, (matt c12:v50), BUT SEEM TO BE PRACTICING SOME FORM OF ORGANIZED RELIGION, (1cor c1:v12), CHRIST WARNS THEM THAT IF THEY DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM THIS PRACTICE HE WILL REMOVE THEIR USEFULNESS TO HIMSELF, BY THE REMOVAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, (LAMPSTAND), (ezek c18:v32, dan c12:v10, 2thess c2:v10).
(see appendixes on THE APOSTASY FROM THE FAITH).
(see appendixes on the spirit of iniquity)
BUT THIS YOU HAVE, THAT YOU HATE THE DEEDS OF THE NICOLAITANS, WHICH I ALSO HATE,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 6)
NICOLAITANS: A SECT, WHICH ADVOCATED LICENSE IN MATTERS OF CHRISTIAN CONDUCT, INCLUDING SEXUAL IMMORALITY, SEE (acts c6:v5), WHERE NICOLAS A PROSELYTE FROM ANTIOCH, WHERE THERE WAS GROSS IMMORALITY, (1cor c6:v16: v20).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
REFINER,
PURIFIER,
HE WHO HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS UNTO THE CHURCHES; TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES I WILL GIVE
TO EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE, WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE PARADISE OF GOD,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 7)
THE OVERCOMER: A REFERENCE TO THE BELIEVER, (INDIVIDUAL) (1john c5:v5), TO THE BELIEVER WHO OVERCOMES ALL WORLDLY OBSTACLES, AND HOLDS TO HIS FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS, SHALL RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE IN THE PRESENTS OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, (2cor c6:v16, prov11: v30).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH,
AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN SMYRNA WRITE; THESE THINGS SAYS THE FIRST AND THE LAST, WHICH
WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 8)
CHRIST WHO DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE, WHO AROSE FROM THE GRAVE, ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, AND SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER, AND INTERCESS FOR US, HE IS OUR PROPITIATION, (luke c24: v6-v7, col c3:v1,1john c2:v2).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE,
ALPHA AND OMEGA,
I KNOW YOUR WORKS, AND TRIBULATION, AND POVERTY (BUT YOU ARE RICH) AND I KNOW THE BLASPHEMY OF THEM WHICH SAY
THEY ARE JEWS AND ARE NOT, BUT ARE THE SYNAGOGUE OF
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 9)
THESE ARE POOR PEOPLE BY THE WORLD’S STANDARD BUT BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS THEY WERE SPIRITUALLY RICH BY A HEAVENLY STANDARD, WE ARE PILGRIMS JUST PASSING BY ON OUR JOURNEY TO OUR HEAVENLY HOME, THE SAINTS WE ARE TOLD HAD TRIBULATION, (acts c14:v22) AND WERE PERSECUTED BY JEWS, THE JEWS NO LONGER WALKED WITH GOD, THEY HAD BECOME A MAN MADE RELIGION, KNOWN TO THIS DAY AS JUDAISM, IT WAS THE JEWS WHO FIRST PERSECUTED THE CHURCH, AND THEY DID IT IN THE NAME OF GOD, WHILE BREAKING MANY OF THE COMMANMENT OF GOD, MAKING THEM A SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN.
SATAN IS THE GREAT DECEIVER, THE ENEMY OF THE LORD GOD, AND CHRIST JESUS, (2cor C4:v4, C6:v10, john c16:v33).
(see appendixes on the spirit of iniquity).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
"EL",
JEHOVAH,
FEAR NONE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH YOU SHALL SUFFER: BEHOLD, THE DEVIL SHALL CAST SOME OF YOU INTO PRISON, THAT YOU MAY BE TESTED; AND YOU SHALL HAVE TRIBULATION TEN DAYS: BE YOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, AND I WILL GIVE YOU A CROWN OF LIFE.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 10)
DEVIL: SLANDERER.
TEN DAYS OF PERSECUTION: MAYBE A REFERENCE TO THE TIME OF THE BELIEVERS ARREST TO THE TIME OF THEIR EXECUTION FOR IT HAS BEEN THE FATE OF THE CHURCH THROUGHOUT CHURCH HISTORY TO HAVE PERSECUTION THRUST UPON IT, AND IT SHALL REMAIN SO RIGHT UP TO THE ADVENT OF THE LORD JESUS.
NOTE: NOT ALL SHALL PERISH OR BE CAST INTO PRISON ONLY THOSE WHO THE LORD DESIGNATES.
CROWN OF LIFE: (jam c1:v12, 1pet c5:v4, phil c4:v1;1thess c2:v9, 2tim c4:v8).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
PASSOVER,
HE WHO HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS UNTO THE CHURCHES; HE THAT OVERCOMES SHALL NOT BE HURT
BY THE SECOND DEATH,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 11)
THE SECOND WARNING TO THE BELIEVER, TO HOLD TO THE TRUTH, AND THEY SHALL RECEIVE THE PROMISES OF GOD AND SHALL NOT BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH, ALL HEAR THE CALL FOR SALVATION BUT NOT ALL HEED IT, (matt c10:v28, rev c20:v14).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
LIFE GIVING SPIRIT,
PRINCE OF LIFE,
AND TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN PERGAMOS WRITE;THESE THINGS SAYS HE WHICH HAS THE SHARP SWORD
WITH TWO EDGES,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 12)
THE TWO EDGED SWORD: THE WORD OF GOD, LIVING AND POWERFUL, THAT WHICH JUDGES THE HEART AND INTENTIONS OF A PERSON, (heb c4:v12, matt c15:v18:v19).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE WORD OF GOD,
THE POWER OF GOD,
THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE,
I KNOW YOUR WORKS, AND WHERE YOU DWELL, EVEN WHERE SATAN’S SEAT IS: AND YOU HOLD FAST TO MY NAME, AND HAVE NOT DENIED MY FAITH, EVEN IN THOSE DAYS IN WHICH ANTIPAS WAS MY FAITHFUL MARTYR, WHO WAS SLAIN AMONG YOU, WHERE SATAN DWELLS.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 13)
IN PERGAMUM THEY WORSHIPPED IDOLS, IT WAS FILLED WITH THE ABOMINATIONS OF SATAN, AND CHRISTIANS WERE PUT TO DEATH BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT DENY THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST, SATAN IS THE GOD OF THIS WORLD, (AGE), HIS THRONE IS ALWAYS ERECTED WHERE IDOLATRY CAN BE FOUND UPON THE EARTH, AND AS A CHILD OF GOD ENTHRONES CHRIST WITHIN THEIR HEART AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOUR, THE ENEMIES OF THE GOSPEL OF LIGHT, DO THE SAME CONCERNING THEIR MASTER, (2cor c2:v11, c4:v4, rev c17:v1, john C8:v44).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
CHRIST JESUS,
OVERCOMER (CONQUER),
BUT I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST YOU, BECAUSE YOU HAVE THERE THEM THAT HOLD THE DOCTRINE OF BALAAM,
WHO TAUGHT BALAK TO CAST A STUMBLING BLOCK BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, TO EAT THINGS SACRIFICED
UNTO IDOLS, AND TO COMMIT FORNACATION,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 14)
THE TEACHING OF BALAAM: HYPOCRISY, THE PRACTICING OF CORRUPTION AND IMMORALITY, SOME OF THIS CONGREGATION HAD COMPROMISED TO THIS TEACHING OF BALAAM, (2pet c2:v15,jude v11, num c22:v7).
THE NAME ISRAEL: ISRAEL, IS A TITLE, WHICH IS GIVEN TO CHRIST, (isa c49:v3).
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, A WARNING TO ALL WHO WOULD MAKE A CHILD OF GOD STUMBLE AND COMMIT SIN THROUGH HYPOCRISY, (rom c8:v16, rom c9:v26, gal c3:v26, mark c9:v42).
(see appendixes on the spirit of iniquity). (see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
ISRAEL,
SO HAVE YOU ALSO THEM THAT HOLD THE DOCTRINE OF THE NICOLAITIANS, WHICH THING I HATE.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 15)
SOME OF THIS CONGREGATION ALSO HELD TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE NICOLAITANS, ADVOCATING FORNICATION, SOME HOLD THE VIEW THAT THE NICOLAITANS, WHERE A SECT WHICH PROMOTED HIERARCHY WITHIN THE CHURCH, (matt c23: v3-v4, luke c11:v37-v47, SEE PHILIPPIANS C2, FOR THE ATTITUDE THAT CHRIST JESUS DISPLAYED, THIS IS THE EXAMPLE FOR THE CHILD OF GOD.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
SERVANT,
REPENT; OR ELSE I WILL COME UNTO YOU QUICKLY, AND WILL FIGHT AGAINST THEM WITH THE SWORD OF MY MOUTH,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 16)
CHRIST SOLEMN WARNING, THAT HE SHALL DESTROY ALL WHO GO AGAINST HIS TEACHINGS,FOR IT IS HIS WORD THAT BRINGS CONDEMNATION AND JUDGMENT TO THOSE WHO DO NOT RECEIVE IT,(2thess c2:v8, john c12:v46- v50).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE WORD OF GOD,
HE THAT HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS UNTO THE CHURCHES; TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES I WILL GIVE
TO EAT OF THE HIDDEN MANNA, AND I WILL GIVE HIM A WHITE STONE, AND IN THE STONE A NEW NAME WRITTEN, WHICH NO MAN KNOWS EXCEPT HE THAT RECEIVES IT.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 17)
THIS IS THE THIRD WARNING TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CHURCH TO LISTEN TO THE TRUTH, AND TAKE HEED LEST THEY BECOME WORTHLESS SERVANTS, AND TO THOSE WHO STAND FIRM IN THEIR FAITH THEY SHALL RECEIVE HIDDEN MANNA, THE BREAD OF LIFE, CHRIST, FOR ONLY CHRIST CAN FEED THE SOUL AND STRENGTHEN THE SPIRIT, THE MANNA HERE IS THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH SANCTIFIES, FOR HIS WORD IS THE TRUTH, (john c17:v17).
A WHITE STONE: KNOWN IN ANCIENT TIMES AS A VICTORY STONE, WHEN ACQUITTED FROM GUILT.
A NEW NAME: (see rev c19:v12, john c14:v20,) AS CHRIST IS IN US, AND WE IN CHRIST.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE BREAD OF LIFE,
TRUTH,
SANCTIFICATION,
AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF THYATIRA WRITE; THESE THINGS, SAYS THE SON OF GOD, WHO HAS EYES LIKE UNTO A FLAME OF FIRE, AND HIS FEET ARE LIKE FINE BRASS;
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 18)
SON OF GOD: THE ONLY TIME IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION THAT CHRIST IS CALLED THE SON OF GOD, (john c3:v16). FLAME OF FIRE: THAT WHICH REVEALS THE TRUTH AND BURNS UP LIE’S (1sam c16:v7).
FEET LIKE FINE BRASS: FOR THE TREADING UNDER-FOOT ALL THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN, (rev c19:v15).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE SON OF GOD,
THE SON OF MAN,
I KNOW YOUR WORKS, YOUR LOVE AND SERVICE, AND FAITH, AND YOUR PATIENCE AND YOUR WORKS; AND THE LAST ARE MORE THAN THE FIRST. NEVERTHELESS I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST YOU, BECAUSE YOU SUFFER THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL, WHICH CALLS HERSELF A PROPHETESS, TO TEACH AND TO SEDUCE MY SERVANTS TO COMMIT FORNICATION AND TO EAT THINGS SACRIFICED UNTO IDOLS.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSES19-20)
THIS CONGREGATION ARE CHARGED WITH BEING LIBERAL MINDED, TOWARDS FALSE DOCTRINES, WHICH INCLUDE IMMORALITY AND IDOLATRY, IT IS EASY TO FORGIVE SIN, IN THE QUEST TO BE CHRIST LIKE, BUT IF THERE IS NO REPENTANCE, THEN THERE CANNOT BE ANY FORGIVENESS OF SIN,SUCH ARE NOT TO BE TOLERATED, BUT PUT OUT OF THE ASSEMBLY, FOR IF A ROTTEN APPLE IS ALLOWED TO REMAIN WITHIN THE BARREL, THEN ALL WITHIN SHALL BECOME CORRUPT, (luke c17:v3-v4 1cor c5:v9-v13).
JEZEBEL: A NAME GIVEN TO A WOMAN WHO COMMITS ACTS OF GROSS IMMORALITY, (1kings c16, 2kings c9.), THIS JEZEBEL WAS ALSO A FALSE PROPHETESS, THE WORD "WOMAN" SYMBOLICALLY IS A REFERENCE TO THE CHURCH, THEREFORE THIS WOMAN JEZEBEL WOULD APPEAR TO BE ORGANIZED RELIGION. (1tim c4:v1).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
strong tower,
AND I GAVE HER TIME TO REPENT OF HER FORNICATION; AND SHE REPENTED NOT. BEHOLD, I WILL CAST HER INTO A BED, AND THEM THAT COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HER INTO GREAT TRIBULATION, UNLESS THEY REPENT OF THEIR DEEDS.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSES 21-22)
THIS JEZEBEL WAS SHOWN THE GRACE OF GOD, BUT INSPITE OF THIS SHE REJECTED IT, DEPRAVITY ALWAYS SPIRALS DOWNWARDS, THIS SYSTEM OF RELIGION TOOK NO PLEASURE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, THUS COMMITTING SPIRITUAL IMMORALITY, (2thess c2:v12, eph c6:v12).
BED OF SICKNESS: A REFERENCE TO JUDGMENT, FOR GOD IS NOT MOCKED, (gal c6:v7), HE CALLS FOR ALL WHO PRACTICE SUCH ABOMINATIONS TO REPENT AND PUT AN END TO THEIR SIN, IF THEY REFUSE, THE LORD SHALL SEND RETRIBUTION UPON THEM, (nah c1:v2, matt c24:v21).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE,
GRACIOUS,
AND I WILL KILL HER CHILDREN WITH DEATH; AND ALL THE CHURCHES SHALL KNOW THAT I AM HE, WHICH SEARCHES THE MINDS AND HEARTS: AND I WILL GIVE UNTO EVERY ONE OF YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR WORKS,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 23)
DEATH OF HER CHILDREN: GREAT AFFLICTION, (exod c9:v15). I AM HE: EL SHADDAI, GOD ALMIGHTY,THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN FROM HIM, (ps139).
AGAIN THE LORD RE-AFFIRMS THAT WHAT MAN SOWS HE SHALL ALSO REAP, (matt c16:v27).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
I AM,
EL-SHADDAI,
ALMIGHTY GOD,
JEHOVAH-ZIDKENU,
BUT UNTO YOU I SAY, AND UNTO THE REST IN THYATIRA, AS MANY AS HAVE NOT THIS DOCTRINE, AND WHICH HAVE NOT KNOWN THE DEPTHS OF SATAN, AS THEY CALL THEM, I WILL PUT UPON YOU NO OTHER BURDEN.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 24)
TO THE BELIEVERS THAT ARE NOT SEDUCED BY THE TEACHINGS OF JEZEBEL, BUT HAVE KEPT THEMSELVES PURE AND UNDEFILED NO OTHER BURDEN SHALL BE PLACED UPON THEM FOR THE LORD’S GRACE SHALL BE SUFFICE, (2cor c12:v9), THE DEEP THINGS OF SATAN: DOCTRINES OF DEMONS, OCCULT, NECROMANCY, SATAN CAN DISGUISE HIMSELF AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT, AND HIS SERVANTS, AS SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, (2cor c11:v14-v15, 1tim c4:v1, deut c18:v10-v12).
(see appendixes on the SPIRIT OF INIQUITY) (see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
JEHOVAH-SHALOM,
BUT THAT WHICH YOU HAVE ALREADY, HOLD FAST TILL I COME.
AND HE THAT OVERCOMES, AND KEEPS MY WORKS UNTO THE END, TO HIM I WILL GIVE POWER OVER THE NATIONS:
(CHAPTER 2: VERSES 25-26)
HOLD FAST: UPON THE ROCK I STAND FOR WHAT ELSE CAN I DO, HOLD FAST TO YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST, UNTIL HE COMES, THEN HIS PROMISE SHALL BE REALIZE, (1thess c4:v16-v18). KEEP MY WORKS: DEEDS THAT ARE PLEASING OF THE FATHER (john c8:v29, 1thess c4:v1), THE PROMISE TO THE SAINTS IS THAT THEY SHALL REIGN WITH CHRIST IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OVER THE NATIONS, (ps2, matt c10:v22).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE ROCK,
THE DESIRE OF THE NATIONS,
HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON; AS THE VESSELS OF THE POTTER SHALL THEY BE BROKEN TO SHIVERS: EVEN AS I RECEIVED OF MY FATHER.
(CHAPTER 2: VERSE 27)
THIS IS A REFERENCE TO CHRIST, WHO SHALL RULE THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH WITH STERNNESS, (ps2:v9), HE SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT, BECAUSE ALL AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY THE FATHER, AND JUSTICE SHALL BE DONE, (john c5:v27).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
GOVERNOR,
SCEPTRE,
RULER,
AND I WILL GIVE HIM THE MORNING STAR.
HE THAT HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS UNTO THE CHURCHES,
(CHAPTER 2: VERSES 28-29)
THE MORNING STAR: A REFERENCE TO CHRIST JESUS, THE DAY STAR (2pet c1:v19), AND THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR, (rev c22:v16), THE FULFILMENT OF ALL THE PROMISES TO THE CHILD OF GOD, THE FOURTH WARNING TO THE INDIVIDUAL, TO GIVE HEED TO THE WORD OF PROPHECY, FOR THE SPIRIT OF GOD BEARS WITNESS TO THE TRUTH (john c16:v13, 2pet c1).
FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, (rev c19:v10).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR,
DAY STAR,
SPIRIT,
AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN SARDIS WRITE;
THESE THINGS SAYS HE THAT HAS THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD, AND THE SEVEN STARS; I KNOW YOUR WORKS, THAT YOU HAVE A NAME THAT YOU ARE ALIVE, BUT YOU ARE DEAD,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 1)
CHRIST IN SPIRITUAL PERFECTION, (THE SEVEN SPIRITS AND SEVEN STARS).
THIS WARNING IS TO A CONGREGATION WHO GIVE THE APPEARANCE TO THE WORLD OF BEING SPIRITUALLY ALIVE, BUT IN TRUTH THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DEAD, THEY ARE THE CARNAL MINDED, WHO ARE SPIRITUAL DEAD OR DYING, THEY HOLD TO A FORM OF GODLINESS, BUT THEY PROFESS CHRIST ONLY WITH THEIR LIPS, YET THE LORD JESUS SHALL ONLY EXCEPT SOUL WORSHIP AND NOTHING LESS, REMEMBER THE FIRST AN GREAT COMMANDMENT, LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH "ALL" YOUR HEART MIND, BODY AND SOUL, (deut c6:v5, matt c22:v37, rom c8:v9, 1cor c2:v14, jude v190.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE EVERLASTING GOD,
MESSIAH,
BE WATCHFUL, AND STRENGTHEN THE THINGS WHICH REMAIN, THAT ARE READY TO DIE; FOR I HAVE NOT FOUND YOUR
WORKS PERFECT BEFORE GOD,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 2)
A WARNING TO THE CARNAL MINDED BELIEVER TO AWAKEN BEFORE THEY DIE IN THEIR SIN, WHICH MAY RESULT IN THE LOST OF REWARDS OR EVEN THEIR SOUL, REMEMBER THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS, AND THE WORTHLESS SERVANT (matt c25: v1-v30, 1cor c2:v10-v16).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
MASTER,
REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW YOU HAVE RECEIVED AND HEARD, AND HOLD FAST, AND REPENT. IF THEREFORE YOU SHALL NOT WATCH, I WILL COME UPON YOU AS A THIEF, AND YOU SHALL NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR I WILL COME UPON YOU.
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 3)
THE BELIEVER IS WARNED TO HOLD FAST TO THE WORD OF GOD, AND REPENT OF ALL PAST ACTIONS (SIN), AND TO FIX THEIR EYES FIRMLY ON CHRIST, LEST THEY LOSS THEIR CROWN, (rev c3:v11, 1thess c5:v2, 2pet c3:v10, matt c24:v36).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE WORD OF GOD,
YOU HAVE A FEW NAMES EVEN IN SARDIS WHICH HAVE NOT DEFILED THEIR GARMENTS; AND THEY SHALL WALK WITH ME
IN WHITE: FOR THEY ARE WORTHY.
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 4)
DEFILED: SOILED THEIR GARMENTS, NOT SINCERE OF HEART, (rom c10:v9-v10), THE ROAD IS NARROW AND FEW SHALL FIND IT, FOR CHRISTIANITY IS NOT AWAY OF LIFE, IT IS LIFE. WALK IN WHITE: PURE, CLEANSED AND WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. (1john c3:v3, rev c7:v14, 1pet c1:v19, 1john c1:v29).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
JEHOVAH-MOSHICK,
HE THAT OVERCOMES, THE SAME SHALL BE CLOTHED IN WHITE GARMENTS; AND I WILL NOT BLOT OUT HIS NAME FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE, BUT I WILL CONFESS HIS NAME BEFORE MY FATHER, AND BEFORE HIS ANGELS.
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 5)
AGAIN THE PROMISE TO THE CHILD OF GOD, THAT IF THEY STAND FIRM IN THEIR FAITH, THEY SHALL OVERCOME, BUT ONLY THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS, FOR NO OTHER NAME IS GIVEN FOR SALVATION, (acts c4: v10-v12). THE GRACE OF JESUS IS SO ABOUNDING, THAT HE CRIES OUT, COME ALL WHO THIRST, AND DRINK THE WATERS OF LIFE FREE OF CHARGE, THE PRICE OF YOUR SALVATION HAS BEEN PAID IN FULL, THE SURETY, IS RECEIVED, OUR HOPE IS IN HIM WHO HAS OVERCOME, (john c16:v33, rom c8:v37, 1john c5:v4, heb c7:v22, 1tim c1:v1).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
SURETY,
HE THAT HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS UNTO THE CHURCHES,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 6)
TO THE INDIVIDUAL COMES THE FIFTH WARNING TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POINTING TO THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FATHER’S GLORY, (heb c1:v3).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FATHER’S GLORY,
AND TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA WRITE;THESE THINGS SAYS HE THAT IS HOLY, HE THAT IS TRUE,
HE THAT HAS THE KEY OF DAVID, HE THAT OPENS, AND NO MAN SHUTS; AND SHUTS, AND NO MAN OPENS;
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 7)
CHRIST IS REVEALED AS TRUE AND HOLY, THE ONLY ONE WHO HOLDS THE RIGHT, AND THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS BEEN HONOURED TO OPEN OR TO SHUT, FOR HE IS THE "EXPRESS IMAGE OF THE FATHER", (heb c1:v3)C, AND HOLDS ALL AUTHORITY OVER THE CHURCH.
KEY OF DAVID: DAVID WHICH IS A TITLE GIVEN TO CHRIST AND MEANS, "BELOVED", AND THE WORD KEY, DEPICTS HIS POWER AND AUTHORITY TO MAKE DECISIONS, (isa c22:v22, eph c1:v6, 1pet c3:v22.
NOTE ALSO THAT FOUR TIMES IT IS SAID “HE” THIS DEPICTS HIS SOVEREIGNTY OVER CREATION, (col c1:v16; rev c 4:v11).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
DAVID,
BELOVED,
EXPRESS IMAGE OF THE FATHER,
I KNOW YOUR WORKS: BEHOLD I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU AN OPEN DOOR, AND NO MAN CAN SHUT IT: FOR YOU HAVE A LITTLE STRENGTH, AND HAVE KEPT MY WORD, AND HAVE NOT DENIED MY NAME.
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 8)
AN OPEN DOOR:CHRIST IS THE DOOR TO HEAVEN (john c10:v1: v9),THROUGH WHICH THE BELIEVERS ENTER INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE FATHER,SOME BELIEVE THIS DOOR TO BE THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY FOR SERVICE.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE DOOR,
TEACHER,
RABBI,
BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEM OF THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN,WHICH SAY THEY ARE JEWS AND ARE NOT, BUT DO LIE; BEHOLD, I
WILL MAKE THEM TO COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOUR FEET, AND TO KNOW THAT I HAVE LOVED YOU,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 9)
MAYBE A REFERENCE TO WHEN THE JEWS PERSECUTED THE APOSTLES AND THE SAINTS IN THE EARLY CHURCH, FOR THE JEWS BELIEVED THE CHRISTIANS TO BE A SECT, AND IN PERSECUTING THE CHRISTIANS THEY BELIEVED THEY WERE SERVING GOD, BUT CHRIST CALLS THEM A SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN, BECAUSE THEIR ACTIONS VIOLATED THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, (exod c20).
CHRIST REVEALS TO THE SAINTS, THAT THEIR ENEMIES SHALL ONE DAY BOW DOWN BEFORE THEM IN HUMILIATION (isa c49:v23, john c17:v23).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE KING OF KINGS,
THE LORD OF LORDS,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 10)
BECAUSE YOU HAVE KEPT THE WORD OF MY PATIENCE, I ALSO WILL KEEP YOU FROM THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION WHICH SHALL COME UPON ALL THE WORLD, TO TEST THEM THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH,
THIS PROMISE FROM THE LORD JESUS THAT HE SHALL KEEP THE CHILD OF GOD FROM HIS COMING WRATH, (rev c14:v7), NOT THE WRATH OF THE COMING ANTICHRIST, NOR SHALL THE BELIEVERS BE KEPT FROM THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, (matt c24:v31).
PATIENCE: TO PERSEVERE, BEARING PAIN CALMLY.
HOUR OF TRAIL: TIME OF JUDGMENT, CHRIST’S COMING WRATH.
(see appendixes on THE RAPTURE OF THE BELIEVERS) (see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
PASSOVER,
BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY: HOLD THAT FAST WHICH YOU HAVE,THAT NO MAN, TAKE YOUR CROWN,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 11)
CHRIST IS WARNING THE CHILD OF GOD, TO TRUST IN HIM, EVEN IN PERSECUTION, WHICH MAY RESULT IN DEATH, NOT TO DENY HIM, FOR TO SAVE ONE’S OWN LIFE BY REJECTING HIM SHALL RESULT IN THE LOST OF YOUR SOUL, (matt c10:v38-v39, 2tim c4:v18).
CROWN: CROWN OF LIFE, (james c1:v12).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
DIADEM,
HIM THAT OVERCOMES WIL I MAKE A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE OF MY GOD, AND HE SHALL GO NO MORE OUT: AND I WILL WRITE UPON HIM THE NAME OF MY GOD, AND THE NAME OF THE CITY OF MY GOD, WHICH IS NEW JERUSALEM, WHICH COMES DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN FROM MY GOD: AND I WILL WRITE UPON HIM MY NEW NAME.
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 12)
TO THE SAINTS COMES THE PROMISE OF A PLACE OF HONOUR, THE ERECTING OF A PILLAR, AS A MONUMENT TO THEIR FAITHFULNESS WITHIN NEW NAME: (MYSTERY), (see rev c19:v12).
MYSTERY OF GOD SHALL NOT BE REVEALED UNTIL THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, (rev c2:v17, c10:v7, c14:v1, rom c16:v25).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
WONDERFUL,
ETERNAL FATHER,
HEAVENLY FATHE,
ABBA FATHER,
HE THAT HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS UNTO THE CHURCHES,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 13)
THE SIXTH WARNING TO THE INDIVIDUAL, TAKE HEED TO WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS REVEALING, CONCERNING THE PRINCE OF LIFE, (acts c3:v15).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
PRINCE OF LIFE,
AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF THE LAODICEANS WRITE; THESE THINGS SAYS THE AMEN, THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS,
THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD;
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 14.
AMEN: A TITLE WHICH IS GIVING TO CHRIST JESUS, MEANING TRUTH, (SO BE IT), TWO OTHER TITLES ARE GIVING TO CHRIST, IN THIS VERSE, FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS, AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD: MEANING THE ALL POWERFUL, ALMIGHTY (OMNIPOTENT), ALL KNOWING, ALL SEEING, ALL WISE, (OMNISCIENT) "EL" "ELOHIM" "ELYON" "ELOAH","YHWH" PRONOUNCED "YAHWEH", (gen c1:v1, c2:v4, c14:v18: v20, deut c32:v15, John c14:v6, c17:v24, rev c1:v5).
CHRIST ADDRESSES THIS CONGREGATION WITH REBUKE.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
AMEN,
THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD,
THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE,
EL,
JEHOVAH,
I KNOW YOUR WORKS THAT YOU ARE NEITHER COLD NOR HOT; I WOULD THAT YOU WERE COLD OR HOT.
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 15)
A REFERENCE TO THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES THE FRIENDS OF GOD, THE CARNAL MINDED, AND THOSE WHO GO BY THE TITLE OF AGNOSTIC, (gal c1:v7-v10, 2john c1:v9-v11, rom c16:v17-v18),THEY PROFESS TO BE WISE, BUT HAVE BECOME FOOLS, (rom c1:v21-v23).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
EL SHADDAI,
SO THEN BECAUSE YOU ARE LUKEWARM, AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL SPEW YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH.
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 16)
SPEW: VOMIT, THOSE WHO HONOUR CHRIST ONLY WITH THERE LIPS, THEY TEACH EVERY WHIM OF DOCTRINE, SUCH PEOPLE AS THESE HAVE NO PART IN CHRIST JESUS. (eph c4:v14, jam c1:v6).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE TRUE VINE,
BECAUSE YOU SAY, I AM RICH, AND HAVE BECOME WEALTHY AND HAVE NEED OF NOTHING; AND DO NOT KNOW THAT YOU
ARE WRETCHED, MISERABLE, POOR, BLIND AND NAKED:
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 17)
NOT BY WORKS NOR BY WEALTH SHALL ANY ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, (2tim c1:v9; titus c3:v5, matt c19:v23), WRETCHED, MISERABLE: LITTLE HOPE.
poor: SPIRITUALLY, BLIND: IN DARKNESS, NAKED:SHAMEFUL.PRIDE GOES BEFORE DESTRUCTION (prov c16:v18).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE FRIEND OF SINNERS,
I COUNSEL YOU TO BUY FROM ME GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE THAT YOU MAY BE RICH; AND WHITE GARMENTS, THAT YOU MAY BE CLOTHED, AND THAT THE SHAME OF YOUR NAKEDNESS MAY NOT BE REVEALED: AND ANOINT YOUR EYES WITH EYESALVE, THAT YOU MAY SEE,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 18)
A WARNING TO THOSE WHO WOULD CALL THEMSELVES DISCIPLES TO BUY FROM HIM (CHRIST) REFINED GOLD, (FAITH), (1pet c1:v7).
AND ANOINT THEIR EYES WITH THE WORD OF GOD, FOR SPIRITUAL INSIGHT, (acts c28:v27).
WHITE GARMENTS: (TO CONSECRATE), THAT THEY MAY BECOME WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND MADE PURE (HOLY THROUGH CHRIST), (1john c1:v7),
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
COUNSELLOR,
AS MANY AS I LOVE, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN: BE ZEALOUS THEREFORE, AND REPENT,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 19)
REPROVE AND DISCIPLINE: THIS IS THE LOVING KINDNESS OF THE LORD GOD AS A FATHER, (HIS MERCY) (heb c12:v11) FOR THE LORD DISCIPLINES THOSE WHO HE LOVES, (1cor c11:v32), (heb c12: v5-v6),ZEALOUS: BOLD AND ENTHUSIASTIC FOR HIS NAME SAKE.
REPENT: TURNING AWAY FROM SIN, BECOME HOLY (rom c12: v1-v2) FOR CHRIST IS THE HOLY ONE OF GOD, (mark c1:v24, eph c3: v11- v12).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE HOLY ONE OF GOD,
BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR, AND KNOCK: IF ANY MAN HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN TO HIM, AND
WILL SUP WITH HIM, AND HE WITH ME,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 20)
CHRIST JESUS KNOCKING AT THE DOOR, A REFERENCE TO YOUR HEART THIS INVITATION IS FROM CHRIST AND IS GIVEN FREELY TO ALL, REVEALING THE GREAT GRACE OF GOD TOWARDS MANKIND, CHRIST IS INDEED THE FRIEND OF SINNERS, WHO RECONCILES US TO THE FATHER (ELYON),HE IS OUR MEDIATOR AND OUR RANSOM,BUT ONLY TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND ACCEPT HIM AS THEIR SAVIOUR, (matt c11:v19, 1tim c2:v5, gal c3:v22).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
MEDIATOR,
RANSOM,
TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES WILL I GRANT TO SIT WITH ME IN MY THRONE, EVEN AS I ALSO OVERCAME, AND AM SET DOWN
WITH MY FATHER IN HIS THRONE,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 21)
THE ASSURANCE FROM CHRIST TO THE SAINTS THAT THEY SHALL SIT DOWN WITH HIM ON HIS THRONE, AND BECAUSE HE OVERCAME DEATH, THE SAINTS SHALL NEVER SEE NOR TASTE DEATH, FOR O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING? O HADES, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? (1 cor c15: v55, matt c19:v28, 2tim c2:v12, john c8:v51).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
RULER
HE THAT HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS UNTO THE CHURCHES,
(CHAPTER 3: VERSE 22)
THE SEVENTH WARNING TO THE INDIVIDUAL, TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS REVEALING, SALVATION IS WITHOUT A DOUBT AN INDIVIDUAL CALLING, YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST IS A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, AND HIS LOVE FOR YOU IS NO LESS A LOVE THAN HE HAS FOR ANYONE ELSE, (titus c3:v4-v7).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH,
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 1) (JOHN’S VISION OF GOD’S THRONE)
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 HERE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU THINGS WHICH MUST TAKE PLACE HERE AFTER.
THIS DOOR IS A REFERENCE TO CHRIST, (john c10:v1-v4), THE VOICE THAT JOHN HEARD WAS ALSO THAT OF CHRIST, (see rev c1:v12),THE COMMAND TO JOHN WAS TO COME UP TO HEAVEN, (2cor c12:v1-v4), WHERE JOHN WOULD BE SHOWN THE THINGS THAT SHALL TAKE PLACE UPON THE EARTH, WHAT JOHN WAS ABOUT TO BE SHOWN, WAS THE CONCLUSION OF ALL PROPHECY, THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, THE COMING ANTICHRIST, THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM AND THE ETERNAL STATE.
(see appendixes on the NAME and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE DOOR,
THE WAY,
AND IMMEDIATELY I WAS IN THE SPIRIT: AND BEHOLD,A THRONE WAS SET IN HEAVEN, AND ONE SAT ON THE THRONE.
AND HE THAT SAT THERE WAS LIKE A JASPER AND A SARDINE STONE IN APPEARANCE: AND THERE WAS A RAINBOW AROUND THE THRONE, IN SIGHT LIKE UNTO AN EMERALD.
(CHAPTER 4: VERSES 2-3)
HERE IS THE CONFIRMATION THAT THE APOSTLE JOHN WAS IN HEAVEN, LOOKING AT THE THRONE AND THE ONE WHO SAT UPON IT (see isa c6:v1) WHERE IT IS REAVED TO BE THE MOST HIGH GOD (ELYON, GOD THE FATHER), SEE ANCIENT OF DAYS, ALSO IN (dan c7:v22).
WHAT JOHN SAW HE COULD ONLY EXPRESS AS "LIKE", HE SAW THE GLORY OF GOD (ezek c1:v26-v28), NO DESCRIPTION IS GIVEN OF GOD’S APPEARANCE, JUST THE ILLUMINATION OF HIS GLORY, (rev c21:v23).
RAINBOW: THE SEAL OF GOD’S COVENANT NEVER TO FLOOD THE EARTH AGAIN, THIS RAINBOW IS COMPLETELY AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD, REVEALING THE COVENANT OF HIS GRACE, A CIRCLE OF UNBROKEN LOVE, (john c3:v16).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FATHER’S GLORY,
ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE WERE FOUR AND TWENTY SEATS: AND UPON THE SEATS I SAW FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS SITTING, CLOTHED IN WHITE GARMENTS; AND THEY HAD ON THEIR HEADS, CROWNS OF GOLD.
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 4)
TWENTY: FOUR ELDERS: MEN WHO HAVE BEEN REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, (rev c7:v14), CROWNS UPON THEIR HEADS, REVEALS THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS GIVING TO THEM BY CHRIST, SEE (2tim c4:v8) WHERE THE SAINTS RECEIVE CROWNS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
SITTING UPON THRONES: PLACE OF HONOUR!
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
SERVANT,
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,
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 5)
FROM THE THRONE: THE UTTERANCE OF GOD’S COMING JUDGMENTS UPON MANKIND.
THE SEVEN SPIRITS: THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ITS PERFECT FULLNESS (rev c1:v4) THE LIVING GOD (ELOAH).
THE SEVEN FOLD MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, (isa c11:v2), THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD, THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, THE SPIRIT OF COUNSEL AND STRENGTH, THE SPIRIT OF KNOWLEDGE AND OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD ALL ARE CONNECTED TO LIFE ETERNAL AND SALVATION, (ps 27:v1, 33:v11, 73:v26; 84:v7, 111:v10, 118:v14, prov 1:v7, 4:v5).
see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
PRINCE OF LIFE,
AUTHOR OF LIFE,
AND BEFORE THE THRONE THERE WAS A SEA OF GLASS LIKE UNTO CRYSTAL; AND IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE, AND ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE WERE FOUR BEASTS FULL OF EYES BEFORE AND BEHIND.
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 6)
SEA OF GLASS LIKE CRYSTAL: REVEALING THAT NOTHING IS HIDDEN BEFORE THE LORD GOD. FOUR BEASTS: LIVING CREATURE.
FOUR LIVING CREATURES: (CHERUBIM), AN ORDER OF ANGELS WHO HAVE CHARGE OF GUARDING THE THRONE OF GOD, THEY ALSO GUARDED THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, (gen c3:v24, ezek c1:v5:v14).
SATAN ONCE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF GUARDING THE THRONE OF GOD, BEFORE HIS REBELLION, (ezek c28:v14, exod c25:v20).
FULL OF EYES: THE HOLINESS AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. (ekez c1:v18).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
WORTHY,
AND THE FIRST BEAST WAS LIKE A LION, AND THE SECOND BEAST LIKE A CALF, AND THE THIRD BEAST HAD A FACE AS A MAN, AND THE FOURTH BEAST WAS LIKE A FLYING EAGLE.
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 7)
THESE ARE HEAVENLY CREATURES WHICH PORTRAY CHRIST, FOR CHRIST IS PORTRAYED IN THE GOSPELS AS:
THE LOIN OF JUDAH, (MATT),
THE SERVANT OX (CALF),
(MARK), THE SON OF MAN,
(LUKE), THE EAGLE, (JOHN) ALSO SEE CHERUBIM, A WINGED CREATURE WITH A HUMAN FACE, (ezek c10:v14).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
CHRIST,
MESSIAH,
SAVIOUR,
AND THE FOUR BEASTS; HAD EACH OF THEM SIX WINGS ABOUT HIM; AND THEY WERE FULL OF EYES WITHIN: AND THEY REST NOT DAY AND NIGHT: SAYING, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME.
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 8)
THESE FOUR LIVING CREATURES WORSHIP THE LORD IN ADORATION AS THE TRUE AND FAITHFUL GOD, see (isa c6: v2-v3), WHERE ANGELS ARE CALLED SERAPHIM, WHO WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME: A REFERENCE TO CHRIST, (rev c1:v8). HOLY, HOLY, HOLY: THE HOLY TRINITY, FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, (isa c42:v1).
see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
TRUE AND FAITHFUL GOD,
SACRIFICE,
ELYON,
ELOHIM,
ELOAH,
AND WHEN THOSE BEASTS GIVE GLORY AND HONOUR AND THANKS TO HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE, WHO LIVES FOREVER AND EVER,
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 9)
ALL GLORY, WORSHIP AND HONOUR IS GIVEN TO THE LORD GOD, FOR HE ALONE IS OMNIPOTENT, (isa c9:v6, 2cor c6:v18), FIRST COMMANDMENT (deut c6:v5, matt c22:v37).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
WONDERFUL,
THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS FALL DOWN BEFORE HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE, AND WORSHIP HIM THAT LIVES FOREVER AND EVER, AND CAST THEIR CROWNS BEFORE THE THRONE, SAYING,
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 10)
THE ELDERS WHO HAVE BEEN PURCHASE BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST SHALL PROSTRATE BEFORE THE THRONE OF THE LIVING GOD, IN GRATITUDE FOR ALL HE HAS DONE, AND TO SHOW THEIR UNWORTHINESS THEY SHALL CAST THEIR CROWNS BEFORE HIS FEET, (ps 29:v2, 1pet c5:v4).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE EVERLASTING GOD,
AN ANCHOR,
YOU ARE WORTHY, OUR LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOUR AND POWER: FOR YOU HAVE CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR YOUR
PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED.
(CHAPTER 4: VERSE 11)
THE ADORATION OF THE SAINTS, FOR BY HIS POWER ALL THINGS WHERE CREATED, (ELOHIM) CHRIST JESUS, IT WAS THROUGH HIS GOOD PLEASURE THAT ALL THINGS SHOULD BE CREATED, (col c1:v16, gen c1:v1, job c38:v4-v7).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
HEIR OF ALL THINGS,
THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,
ELOHIM,
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 1) (WORTHY IS THE LAMB)
AND I SAW IN THE RIGHT HAND OF HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE, A BOOK WRITTEN INSIDE AND ON THE BACK,
SEALED WITH SEVEN SEALS
GOD ALMIGHTY (ELYON) THE MOST HIGH GOD, WHO IS TO BE WORSHIPPED, SITTING ON THE THRONE, AND IN HIS RIGHT HAND HE HOLDS A BOOK WHICH IS OVER FLOWING WITH WORDS, THIS BOOK IS THE BOOK OF JUDGMENTS, SO VAST IS THE COMING JUDGMENTS UPON MANKIND THAT THEY OVER SPILLED UNTO THE BACK OF THIS BOOK, (ezek c2:v9: v10, zeph c1:v2: v3).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
JEALOUS,
AND I SAW A STRONG ANGEL PROCLAIMING WITH A LOUD VOICE, WHO IS WORTHY TO OPEN THE BOOK, AND TO LOOSE ITS SEALS?
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 2)
THE SEARCH IS ON TO FIND ONE WHO WOULD BE WORTHY ENOUGH TO BREAK OPEN THE SEVEN SEALS AND ALLOW THESE JUDGMENTS TO COME INTO FRUITION, (isa c29:v11, dan c12:v8-v9).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD,
WORTHY,
AND NO MAN IN HEAVEN, NOR IN EARTH, NOR UNDER THE EARTH, WAS ABLE TO OPEN THE BOOK, NEITHER TO LOOK THEREON.
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 3)
THE DILEMMA AT THIS POINT, THAT IF NO ONE WAS FOUND WORTHY ENOUGH TO OPEN THESE SEVEN SEALS, THEN PROPHECY WOULD NOT BE FULFILLED, THIS WAS A CHALLENGE TO ALL, THE PROUD AND THE ARROGANT, TO THOSE UPON THE EARTH AND TO THOSE UNDER THE EARTH, A CHALLENGE TO ALL, WHO WOULD CALL THEMSELVES A GOD, FOR THE SEALS ARE THE PROVE OF THE LORD GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY, (rev c17:v14, c19:v16, isa c9:v6.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
KING OF KINGS,
LORD OF LORDS,
OVERCOMER,
AND I WEPT MUCH, BECAUSE NO MAN WAS FOUND WORTHY TO OPEN AND TO READ THE BOOK, NIETHER TO LOOK THEREON,
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 4)
JOHN WAS DEEPLY MOVED AND WEEPED OPENLY BEFORE ALL,FOR HE KNEW THAT IF THE SEALS WERE NOT OPENED, MAN WOULD REMAIN IN HIS SIN, EVIL WOULD NOT BE DEFEATED AND THE PROMISE OF THE KINGDOM WOULD NOT BE FULFILLED, (1cor c6:v9-v10, 2pet c3:v12-v13).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
CHOSEN,
S
AND ONE OF THE ELDERS SAID UNTO ME, WEEP NOT: BEHOLD, THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, THE ROOT
OF DAVID, HAS PREVAILED TO OPEN THE BOOK, AND TO LOOSE IT’S SEVEN SEALS.
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 5)
JOHN IS COMFORTED, FOR ONE IS FOUND WORTHY, CHRIST JESUS,THE LORD, THE LAMB, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, THE GIFT OF GOD, THE ANOINTED, THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION, HAS BEEN FOUND WORTHY TO OPEN THE SEVEN SEALS, AND REVEAL ITS CONTAINS, (1tim c2:v5, john c1:v14, 2cor c9:v15, ps2:v2, 1cor c10:v4).
THE TRIBE OF JUDAH: LION, (heb c7:v14), THE ROOT OF DAVID, (isa c11:v10), BOTH ARE TITLES WHICH BELONG TO CHRIST, (rev c22:v16, rom c15:v12).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE LAMB OF GOD,
THE SAVIOUR,
THE ONLY BEGOTTEN,
JEHOVAH,
AND I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE AND OF THE FOUR BEASTS, AND IN THE MIDST OF
THE ELDERS, STOOD A LAMB AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN,HAVING SEVEN HORNS AND SEVEN EYES, WHICH ARE THE SEVEN
SPIRITS OF GOD SENT FORTH INTO ALL THE EARTH.
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 6)
THE LAMB OF GOD: CHRIST JESUS, (john c1:v29).
AS IF SLAIN: A REFERENCE TO THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST JESUS, (luke c24:v10, john c20:v20).
SEVEN HORNS: SPIRITUAL STRENGTH.
SEVEN EYES: SPIRITUAL OMNISCIENT.
SEVEN SPIRITS: HOLY SPIRIT IN FULLNESS, PERFECTION AND POWER.
INTO ALL THE EARTH: THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLED THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, (john c16:v13), IT WAS POUR OUT ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST, AND SHALL BE POURED OUT UPON ALL THE EARTH PRIOR TO THE COMING ANTICHRIST, SUCH IS THE GRACE OF GOD, GRACE UPON GRACE, (john c1:v16).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
SON OF GOD,
ELOAH,
AND HE CAME AND TOOK THE BOOK OUT OF THE RIGHT HAND OF HIM THAT SAT UPON THE THRONE,
(chapter 5: VERSE 7)
CHRIST JESUS THE RISEN LAMB, TAKES THE BOOK OUT OF THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER, (acts c5:v31), FOR ALL AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN TO JESUS BY THE FATHER, FOR CHRIST FULFILLED THE WILL OF HIS FATHER, (john c5:v27-v45).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
CHRIST JESUS,
THE RESURRECTION,
AND WHEN HE HAD TAKEN THE BOOK, THE FOUR BEASTS AND THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LAMB, EACH OF THEM HAVING A HARP,AND GOLDEN BOWLS FULL OF INCENSE,WHICH ARE THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS.
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 8)
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES AND THE ELDERS PROSTRATE THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IN HOMAGE, FOR WORTHY IS THE RISEN LAMB, AND NOW THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS SHALL BE REALISED, WITH THE BREAKING OPEN OF THE SEVEN SEALS, FOR NOW SHALL COME GODS JUDGMENTS UPON THE UNGODLY, (rev v8:v3-v4).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
HOPE,
AND THEY SANG A NEW SONG, SAYING, YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE BOOK, AND TO OPEN THE SEALS: FOR YOU WERE
SLAIN, AND HAVE REDEEMED US TO GOD BY YOUR BLOOD OUT OF EVERY KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND PEOPLE, AND NATION;
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 9)
EXALTATION: THE HOST OF HEAVEN SING A NEW SONG GLORIFYING CHRIST, FOR THROUGH HIM, PEOPLE OF ALL RACES HAVE BEEN CLEANSED FROM SIN, AND RECONCILE TO THE FATHER, (2cor c5:v18, heb c2:v17) THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, SALVATION HAS COME TO ALL THAT RECEIVED HIM AS SAVIOUR, HE IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, AND THE HOPE OF THE PROMISE, (1tim c1:v1, eph c2:v13, col c1:v18.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH,
AND HAVE MADE US UNTO OUR GOD KINGS AND PRIESTS: AND WE SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH.
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 10)
THROUGH CHRIST THE SAINTS ARE MADE HEIRS TO THE THRONE,(KINGS),(gal c4:v7,rom c8: v15-v17),AND PRIESTS TO GOD THE FATHER, (1pet c2: v5-v9), AND THEY SHALL REIGN WITH CHRIST JESUS IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, CHRIST HIMSELF IS GIVEN THE TITLE OF,"HIGH PRIEST", (heb c3:v1), AND OUR SANCTIFICATION, (1cor c1:v30).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
HIGH PRIEST,
SANCTIFICATION,
AND I LOOKED, AND I HEARD THE VOICE OF MANY ANGELS AROUND THE THRONE AND THE BEASTS AND THE ELDERS:
AND THE NUMBER OF THEM WAS TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND, AND THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS;
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 11)
ALL HEAVEN REJOICES, ANGELS DO NOT NEED A SAVIOUR, BUT SUCH IS THEIR LOVE OF GOD AND FOR THE THINGS OF GOD, WE ARE TOLD IN THE GOSPELS, THAT ANGELS REJOICE EVERY TIME A SINNER RECEIVES SALVATION, (luke c15:v10).
THE NUMBER IN HEAVEN IS INNUMERABLE. (dan c7:10).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
MERCIFUL,
SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN TO RECEIVE POWER, AND RICHES, AND WISDOM,
AND STRENGTH, AND HONOUR, AND GLORY, AND BLESSING,
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 12)
WORTHY IS THE GOD OF GLORY, FOR HE IS THE FRIEND OF SINNERS, CREATION CRIES OUT FOR THE SECOND ADAM, (1cor c15:v45-v47), WHO SHALL RESTORE ALL THINGS, FOR ALL CREATION SUFFERED AT THE FALL OF THE FIRST ADAM, (gen c3).
SEVEN-FOLD ASCRIPTION GIVEN TO CHRIST, POWER, RICHES, WISDOM, STRENGTH, HONOUR, GLORY AND BLESSING, (rev c7:v12).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and the TITLES of CHRIST).
WISDOM OF GOD,
AND EVERY CREATURE, WHICH IS IN HEAVEN AND ON THE EARTH,AND UNDER THE EARTH, AND SUCH AS ARE IN THE SEA, AND ALL
THAT ARE IN THEM, I HEARD SAYING, BLESSING, AND HONOUR,AND GLORY, AND POWER, BE UNTO HIM THAT SITS UPON THE THRONE, AND UNTO THE LAMB FOREVER AND EVER,
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 13)
THE PROCLAMATION OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS, AS JUDGE, (acts c10:v42), AND THE REAPER, (rev c14:v15), TO CHRIST DOMINION IS GIVEN, WITH GLORY AND HONOUR.
AND ALL RACES, NATIONS AND TRIBES SHALL WORSHIP HIM, AND HIS KINGDOM SHALL BE ONE WITHOUT END, (ps2, dan c2: v34-v35, c7:v13- v14).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
REAPER,
JUDGE,
JAH-LORD,
AND THE FOUR BEASTS SAID AMEN, AND THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS FELL DOWN AND WORSHIPPED HIM THAT LIVES FOREVER AND EVER,
(CHAPTER 5: VERSE 14)
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES KEPT SAYING "AMEN" (TRUTH), (SO BE IT), TO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN, IN THE BOOK OF JUDGMENTS.
THE ELDERS HUMBLED THEMSELVES AT THE FEET OF THE LORD IN ADORATION TO HIS HOLY AND WONDERFUL NAME, FOR CHRIST JESUS IS THE KING ETERNAL, IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, THE POWER OF GOD, TO WHOM ALL HONOUR AND GLORY IS TO BE GIVEN, FOREVER AND EVER,"AMEN"(isa c9:v6, 1tim c1:v17, 1cor c1:v24).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
IMMORTAL,
INVISIBLE,
WONDERFUL,
POWER OF GOD,
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 LOOKED, 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.
(CHAPTER 6: VERSES 1-2) (THE SIX SEALS)
THIS RIDER IS ANTICHRIST, HE IS REVEALED HERE AS CHRIST IS REVEALED IN CHAPTER 19, UPON A WHITE HORSE, IF AS MANY BELIEVE, THIS HORSE AND RIDER TO BE CHRIST, THEN THE REMAINDER OF THE SEALS WOULD NOT BE BROKEN OPEN, SINCE CHRIST WAS THE ONLY ONE FOUND WORTHY TO DO SO.
THIS HORSE WE ARE TOLD HAS GONE FORTH TO CONQUER, THIS HORSE AND ITS RIDER IS DELUSION, (2thess c2: v11-v12), THAT IS ANTICHRIST WHO’S COMING IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ACTIVITIES OF SATAN, WITH POWER AND SIGNS AND FALSE WONDERS.
BOW: LINKED WITH THE FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED ONE, (eph c6:v16).
CROWN WAS GIVEN TO HIM (rev c13:v2), WHERE THE DRAGON (SATAN) GIVES THE BEAST (THE ANTICHRIST HIS SON), HIS THRONE (CROWN) POWER AND GREAT AUTHORITY.
THE BREAKING OF THIS FIRST SEAL SHALL CONSTITUTE A PERIOD OF THREE AND ONE HALF YEARS. (42MONTHS), THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVEN-YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, IN THIS, THREE AND A HALF YEARS THE ANTICHRIST SHALL BRING SOME FORM OF NORMALITY TO THIS SICK SOCIETY AND TROUBLED PLANET. (1thess c5:v3),
(see appendixes THE SON OF SATAN).
AND WHEN HE 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 ON IT TO TAKE PEACE FROM THE EARTH, AND THAT PEOPLE SHOULD KILL ONE ANOTHER: AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A GREAT SWORD.
(CHAPTER 6: VERSES 3-4)
THIS REVEALS THAT WAR HAS NOW BROKEN OUT, UPON THE EARTH THE WORLD AT WAR, THIS RIDER WAS GIVEN A GREAT SWORD, INDICATING THE GREATNESS OF THE SLAUGHTER, (jer c15:v3).
THIS SHALL OCCUR AT THE MID-POINT OF THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, AND IS THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, SO GREAT SHALL BE THE SLAUGHTER, THAT THE LORD GOD HIMSELF SHALL INTERVENE, (matt c24:v21-v22), IT SHALL BE DURING THIS THREE AND A HALF YEARS (42MONTHS) THAT THE ANTICHRIST WILL ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM UPON THE EARTH, (dan c8:v23-v25, c12:v1-v13, zec c14, 2thess c2:v4, isa c21).
(see appendixes on THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY)
AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE THIRD SEAL, I HEARD THE THIRD BEAST SAY, COME AND SEE. SO I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A BLACK HORSE: AND HE THAT SAT ON IT HAD A PAIR OF SCALES IN HIS HAND. AND I HEARD A VOICE IN THE MIDST OF THE FOUR BEASTS SAYING, A MEASURE OF WHEAT FOR A PENNY, AND THREE MEASURES OF BARLEY FOR A PENNY, AND DO NOT HARM THE OIL AND THE WINE.
(CHAPTER 6: VERSES 5-6)
THIS HORSE AND RIDER REVEALS FAMINE, WHICH SHALL COME UPON THE EARTH DURING THE 42 MONTHS OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, IT SHALL BE AS A RESULT OF THE WAR RAGING UPON THE EARTH, (zec c12:v3, isa c24:v5). THERE IS ALSO ANOTHER FACTOR WHICH SHALL CONTRIBUTE TO THIS FAMINE, AND THEY ARE THE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD, WHO SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO SMITE THE EARTH WITH EVERY PLAGUE AS OFTEN AS THEY DESIRE, (rev c11:v6).
MANY BELIEVE THAT THESE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD TESTIFY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, BUT IN CHAPTER 11 OF REVELATION IT SHALL BE REVEALED, THAT THEY START TESTIFYING AT THE MIDPOINT, THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD.
THE OIL AND THE WINE: OIL AND WINE WHERE USED FOR HEALING PURPOSES, BOTH WHERE GIVEN TO MAN BY THE LORD GOD AS A BLESSING, OIL IS A TYPE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, (heb c1:v9, luke c4:v18, 2cor c1:v21), AND WINE ALSO WOULD SEEM TO BE A TYPE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, READ THE WEDDING AT CANA WHERE CHRIST TURNED THE WATER INTO WINE, POINTING TO THE DAY OF PENTECOST WHERE THE BELIEVERS WHERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, (john c2 and acts c2).(OIL IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD, PS 23:v5; AND WINE IS GOD'S BLESSING; PS104: v15;isa c55:v1).
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 THE NAME OF HIM THAT SAT ON IT WAS DEATH, AND HELL FOLLOWED WITH HIM. AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM OVER A FOURTH OF THE EARTH, TO KILL WITH SWORD, AND WITH HUNGER, AND WITH DEATH, AND WITH THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH.
(CHAPTER 6: VERSES 7-8)
SWORD TO SLAY: A REFERENCE TO WAR AND DEATH. STARVATION AND DEATH BECAUSE OF WAR, AND DEATH FOR NOT PAYING HOMAGE TO THE (BEAST) ANTICHRIST, (rev c13:v17).
DEATH: A REFERENCE TO THE SOUL, FOR TO DIE WITHOUT CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOUR, IS TO LOSE ONE’S SOUL, (acts c2:v31, jam c5:v20, matt c16:v26).
BEAST OF THE EARTH: A REFERENCE TO THE NATIONS READ THE BOOK OF DANIEL, (dan c7 and c8), WHERE THE LORD DESCRIBES THE GREAT KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD AS WILD BEASTS.
HELL: HADES, THE PLACE WHERE THE UNGODLY ARE HELD UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, (rev c20:v13).
ONE QUARTER OF THE WORLDS POPULATION SHALL PERISH AS A RESULT OF THE BREAKING OPEN OF THE FOURTH SEAL.
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, OUR LORD, HOLY AND TRUE, UNTIL YOU JUDGE AND AVENGE OUR BLOOD ON THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH? AND WHITE ROBES WERE GIVEN UNTO EACH OF THEM; AND IT WAS SAID UNTO THEM, THAT THEY SHOULD REST A LITTLE WHILE LONGER, UNTIL THEIR FELLOW SERVANTS ALSO AND THEIR BRETHREN, THAT SHOULD BE KILLED AS THEY WERE, SHOULD BE FULFILLED.
(CHAPTER 6: VERSES 9-11)
THIS FIFTH SEAL REVEALS THE SOULS OF ALL THOSE WHO HAD BEEN SLAIN (MURDERED) THROUGHOUT CHURCH HISTORY, THEY WERE MARTYRED BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT GIVE UP THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST, THEIR SOULS CRY OUT, HOW LONG WILL THOU WAIT? WHICH WOULD INDICATE THAT THE SAINTS AT THIS TIME IN CHURCH HISTORY, (THE GREAT TRIBULATION), SHALL BE SLAUGHTERED IN THEIR THOUSANDS ON A DAILY BASIS, BY THIS VILE BEAST, ANTICHRIST, (rev c7:v9:v14, ps17:v10).
THE SOULS OF THE SAINTS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LORD IS SUPREME JUDGE. (DEUT c32:v35, heb c10:v30).
WHITE ROBES: REVEALS THEIR REDEEMED STATE, THE REALIZATION OF THE PROMISE, FOR WE ARE PILGRIMS JUST PASSING THROUGH LOOKING TO OUR CITIZENSHIP OF OUR HEAVENLY ABODE, (heb c11:v13, eph c2:v19).
AND I LOOKED WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE SIXTH SEAL, AND BEHOLD 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 CASTS HER UNTIMELY FIGS WHEN SHE IS SHAKEN BY 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 SLAVE AND EVERY FREE MAN, HID THEMSELVES IN THE CAVES 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 SITS ON THE THRONE AND FROM THE WRATH OF THE LAMB: FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH HAS COME; AND WHO SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND?
(CHAPTER 6: VERSES 12-17)
THESE SIX VERSES REVEAL PHYSICAL DISTURBANCES THAT SHALL COME UPON THE EARTH AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, NOTE IN VERSES 16 AND 17, THAT MEN HIDE THEMSELVES FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THE WRATH OF THE LAMB, AND THAT THE WORDING IS, "THE GREAT DAY OF THEIR WRATH HAS COME" THAT IS, THE DAY OF THE LORD, COMPARE CHAPTER19 VERSE11, OF REVELATION, AND THERE CAN BE NO MISTAKING THIS AS ANYTHING OTHER, THAN THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, THIS SIXTH SEAL ONLY REVEALS WHAT SHALL ACTUALLY OCCUR AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, (isa c24:v19, joel c2:v31, ezek c38:v19).
NOTE: THESE SCRIPTURES IDENTIFY THE EVENTS SUCH AS THE STARS FALLING FROM THE SKY AND THE HEAVENS BEING SHAKEN, AND THE SKY SPILT APART LIKE A SCROLL, (matt c24:v29-v30, isa c24:v4, ezek c38:v20, nah c1:v5.
THEY HID THEMSELVES IN CAVES AND AMONG THE ROCKS, (isa c2:v10: v12, c24:v21), THEY SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS AND ROCKS FALL ON US, (luke c23:v30, hosea c10:v8) THE GREAT DAY OF THY WRATH, (isa c63, joel c1:v15, c2:v1: v3, zeph c1:v14, ps 76:v7, nah c1:v6, mal c3:v2, luke c21:v36). ALL THESE SCRIPTURE ARE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SIXTH SEAL AND ARE TOTALLY TO DO WITH THE ADVENT OF CHRIST.
THE REASON AS WHY THE SIXTH SEAL REVEALS THE ADVENT OF CHRIST IS BECAUSE THE NUMBER SIX IS THE NUMBER DESIGNATED TO MAN BY THE LORD GOD, THUS THE SIXTH SEAL IS USED TO REVEAL WHAT SHALL COME UPON MANKIND, BECAUSE OF HIS SIN TOWARDS THE LORD GOD.
THE SIXTH SEAL IS POSTPONED, FOR THE LORD SHALL NOT PERMIT THE JUDGMENT OF THE SIXTH SEAL, UNTIL THE JUDGMENTS OF THE SEVEN TRUMPETS AND SEVEN BOWLS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED.
SO THE SIXTH SEAL IN REALITY SHALL BE THE SEVENTH SEAL, (1.2.3.4.5.7.6). THE SIXTH SEAL, (CHAPTER6: VERSES12-17) SHALL NOT COME INTO FRUITION, UNTIL THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET, (CHAPTER11: VERSES15-19 AND THE POURING OUT OF THE SEVENTH BOWL, CHAPTER16: VERSES 17-21).
THE JUDGMENTS OF THE SIXTH SEAL, THE SEVENTH TRUMPET AND THE SEVENTH BOWL SHALL OCCUR SIMULTANEOUSLY. SEALS
1 CHAPTER 6:v1-v2 COMING OF ANTICHRIST,
2 CHAPTER 6:v3-v4 WAR UPON THE EARTH.
3 CHAPTER 6:v5-v6 STARVATION UPON THE EARTH,
4 CHAPTER 6:v7-v8 DEATH AND HELL.
5. CHAPTER 6:v9-v11 TO CHAPTER 7:v1- v17, MARTYRDOM OF THE SAINTS.
7. CHAPTER 8:v1-v13 TO CHAPTER 11:v1-v14, SIX TRUMPET JUDGMENT.
6. CHAPTER 6:v12-v17 ADVENT OF CHRIST.
AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW FOUR ANGELS STANDING ON THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, HOLDING THE FOUR WINDS OF THE EARTH, THAT THE WIND SHOULD NOT BLOW ON THE EARTH, OR ON THE SEA, NOR ON ANY TREE,
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 1) (SEALED OF)
THESE FOUR ANGELS MAYBE THE SAME FOUR ANGELS WHO ARE BOUND AT THE EUPHRATES RIVER, OR IT MAYBE A REFERENCE TO THE FOUR ANGELS OF (zec c6:v5) WHO PATROL THE EARTH, (rev c9:v14). FOUR WINDS: A REFERENCE TO COMING JUDGMENT UPON THE EARTH. (hos c8:v7, eph c4:v14, prov c11:v29).
AND I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL ASCENDING FROM THE EAST, HAVING THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD; AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE TO THE FOUR ANGELS TO WHOM IT WAS GIVEN TO HURT THE EARTH AND THE SEA,
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 2)
THE LIVING GOD: ELOAH. THE ANGEL ASCENDED FROM THE EAST, HIS DUTY IS TO PREVENT THE FOUR ANGELS FROM HARMING THE EARTH AND THE SEA, UNTIL THE BOND SERVANTS OF GOD HAVE BEEN SEALED, THESE FOUR ANGELS HAVE SIMILARITIES TO THE FOUR ANGELS WHO ARE RELEASED AT THE EUPHRATES THAT THEY MIGHT KILL A THIRD OF MANKIND, (rev c9:v15, isa c41:v2).
SAYING, DO NOT HARM THE EARTH, NOR THE SEA, NOR THE TREES, TILL WE HAVE SEALED THE SERVANTS OF OUR GOD IN THEIR
FOREHEADS,
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 3)
THE SEALING OF GOD’S ELECT AMONG THE JEWS, GIVING THEM PROTECTION (JEHOVAH-MEKADDISHKEM) THE LORD THAT SANCTIFY, (lev c20:v8), SO THAT THEY MAY CARRY OUT THEIR MISSION, (rev c9:v4, ezek c9:v4).
THE SEAL OF GOD IS A SIGN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH, (rom c3:v26), SEE REVELATION CHAPTER13, WHERE THE ANTICHRIST THROUGH THE FALSE PROPHET MAKES EVERYONE RECEIVE HIS MARK, (SEAL) UPON THEIR FOREHEAD OR RIGHT HAND.
AND I HEARD THE NUMBER OF THEM WHICH WERE SEALED: AND THERE WERE SEALED ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND OF ALL THE TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
OF THE TRIBE JUDAH TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF GAD TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF ASER TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF NEPTHALIM TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF MANASSES TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF SIMEON TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF LEVI TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF ISSACHAR TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF ZABULON TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF JOSEPH TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED.
(CHAPTER 7: VERSES 4-8)
HERE WE ARE GIVEN THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, WITH THE OMISSION OF THE TRIBE OF DAN, MOST LIKELY BECAUSE DAN COMMITTED THE ABOMINATION OF IDOLATRY, (lev c24:v11, judg c18, 1kings c12: v28-v29).
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: SONS OF JACOB, (gen c35:v22-v26, c49).
THESE 144,000 WHO ARE SEALED ARE JEWS AND NOT GENTILES THE SAINTS OF THE CHURCH (BODY OF CHRIST) ARE NOT SEALED HERE, FOR THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN SEALED BY THEIR REDEMPTION, THROUGH THE BLOOD, (eph c1: v7- v13, c4:v30, col c1:v14, 2cor c1:v22, 2tim c2:v19), WHERE AS CHRIST IN HIS CURSING OF THE FIG TREE, (matt c21: v18-v19), ILLUSTRATING THE REJECTION BY ISRAEL OF THEIR MESSIAH, SAID NO LONGER WOULD THEY BEAR FRUIT, AND WE KNOW THROUGH ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET, THAT THE JEWISH NATION SHALL ONLY RECOGNIZE CHRIST JESUS AS THEIR MESSIAH AT HIS GLORIOUS SECOND COMING, (zec c12: v10-v12).
SO THE 144,000 JEWS WHO ARE SEALED WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD, SHALL PERFORM SOME SERVICE FOR THE LORD, MOST LIKELY WITNESSING (EVANGELISING) DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION IN ISRAEL (THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLES), (jer c30:v7).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL,
AFTER THIS I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A GREAT MULTITUDE WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER, OF ALL NATIONS, AND
KINDREDS, AND PEOPLE, AND TONGUES, STANDING BEFORE THE THRONE, AND BEFORE THE LAMB, CLOTHED WITH WHITE
ROBES, WITH PALMS IN THEIR HANDS;
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 9)
THIS MULTITUDE ARE FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE, THEY ARE THE REDEEMED OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, (v14), THEY RECEIVE WHITE ROBES, AND ARE CLEANSED BY THE BLOOD SHED AT CALVARY, (luke c23:v33), THESE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST JESUS WILL HAVE RECEIVED CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOUR, AT A TIME IN HISTORY, WHEN IT WOULD NOT BE POPULAR TO DO SO, FOR IT SHALL RESULT IN MARTYRDOM, BUT THEIR LOVE FOR JESUS SHALL BE GREATER THAN THEIR LOVE OF SELF, (eph c5:v23).
THEIR NUMBER: NO ONE COULD COUNT, MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS ALL REJOICING IN WORSHIP TO THE RISEN LAMB OF GOD, (THEIR SURETY), CHILDREN OF THE COVENANT WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, NOTE: THAT WITHIN THE CHURCH, THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GENTILE, JUST SINNERS SAVED BY GRACE.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
SURETY,
FRIEND OF SINNERS,
GRACIOUS,
GOD IS LOVE,
GIFT OF GOD,
AND CRYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, SALVATION TO OUR GOD WHO SITS UPON THE THRONE, AND UNTO THE LAMB,
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 10)
THE MULTITUDE CRY WITH A SHOUT! "WORTHY", IS CHRIST,(heb c3:v3),AS THEY PRAISE THE FATHER IN THANKS AND IN ADORATION, FOR THE DELIVERANCE AND SAFE KEEPING OF THEIR SOULS, FOR THEIR MESSIAH HAS APPEARED AS THE DAY STAR, AND THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,(2pet c1:v19, mal c4:v2, dan c9:v25).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
WORTHY,
MY SERVANT,
DAYSTAR,
AND ALL THE ANGELS STOOD AROUND THE THRONE AND THE ELDERS AND THE FOUR BEASTS, FELL BEFORE THE THRONE ON THEIR FACES, AND WORSHIPPED GOD,
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 11)
THE HOST OF HEAVEN PROSTRATES BEFORE THE GOD OF GLORY, IN EXULTATION, OF HIS MIGHTY WORKS, HIS GRACE, AND THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, (col c1:v16, eph c3:v9, heb c1:v10, 2thess 1:v11).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
ELOHIM,
THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS,
SAYING, AMEN: BLESSING AND GLORY, AND WISDOM, AND THANKSGIVING, AND HONOUR, AND POWER, AND MIGHT, BE UNTO OUR GOD FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.
(CHAPTER 7 VERSE 12)
A SEVEN-FOLD ASCRIPTION TO THE LORD GOD, RELATING TO HIS SPIRITUAL PERFECTION, THE GOD OF TRUTH, THE TRUE AND FAITHFUL GOD,(john c1:v1,) FOR ALL THINGS ARE IN HIS HANDS,THE AMEN!GOD OF TRUTH,(ps146:v6, ps31:v5,john c14:v6,isa c65:v16,2cor c1:v20).
AND ONE OF THE ELDERS ANSWERED, SAYING UNTO ME,WHO ARE THESE WHICH ARE ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES, AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 13)
JOHN WONDERED, AS TO WHERE THIS GREAT MULTITUDE HAD COME FROM, HE KNEW THAT THEY WERE REDEEMED, BECAUSE HE COULD SEE THAT THEY WERE CLOTHED IN WHITE ROBES, YET, HE COULD NOT ENVISAGE SUCH A GREAT MULTITUDE, AS THIS WAS STILL A FURTHER EVENT, (matt c24:v21, 1john c1:v7, rev c5:v9) CHRIST IS REVEALED HERE AS THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS, (haggi c2:v7).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
DESIRE OF THE NATIONS,
AND I SAID UNTO HIM, SIR, YOU KNOW.
AND HE SAID TO ME, THESE ARE THE ONES WHICH COME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, AND HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES,
AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB,
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 14)
IT IS REVEALED TO JOHN THAT THIS VAST MULTITUDE CAME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, A TIME UPON THE EARTH, WHEN THE SAINTS SHALL BE SLAUGHTERED IN THERE MILLIONS, BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH AND LOVE TOWARDS CHRIST, FOR HE IS THEIR POTENTATE, (1tim c6:v15, matt c24:v22).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
POTENTATE,
MINISTER,
THEREFORE THEY ARE BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD, AND SERVE HIM DAY AND NIGHT IN HIS TEMPLE. AND HE THAT SITS ON THE THRONE SHALL DWELL AMONG THEM.
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 15)
THE SAINTS THAT COME OUT FROM THE GREAT TRIBULATION SHALL SERVE THE LORD GOD IN SOME SPECIAL WAY, FOR THESE SAINTS DID NOT DIE AS A RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT NOR DID THEY DIE OF OLD AGE, BUT WERE PUT TO DEATH BECAUSE OF THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO CHRIST, THEY WERE MARTYRED BECAUSE OF THE TRUTH, (john c14:v6), FOR TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TOO DIE IS BUT GAIN, (phil c1:v21).
See appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST
HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS ONE,
THEY SHALL HUNGER NO MORE, NEITHER THIRST ANYMORE; NEITHER SHALL THE SUN LIGHT ON THEM, NOR ANY HEAT.
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 16)
THEY SHALL NO LONGER HUNGER,FOR THEY SHALL EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE,(rev c22:v14),THEY SHALL NO LONGER THIRST, FOR THEY SHALL DRINK OF THE WATER OF LIFE,(rev c21:v6), THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR ANYMORE IN VAIN, (gen c3:v17) BUT SHALL MINISTER TO THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
FOR THE LAMB WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE SHALL FEED THEM, AND SHALL LEAD THEM UNTO LIVING FOUNTAINS OF WATERS: AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES.
(CHAPTER 7: VERSE 17)
CHRIST JESUS IS THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP, (john c10:v7). THE GREAT SHEPHERD, THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND THE CHIEF SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, (john c10:v11, heb c13:v20).
AND AS A FATHER LOVES HIS CHILDREN, SO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER LOVES US, AND TURNS ARE SORROWS INTO JOY, (rev c21:v4, isa c25:v8:v9, matt c5:v4, AND THE SAINTS SHALL CRY ABBA FATHER, (rom c8:v15, isa c9:v6).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
SHILOH,
LEADER,
SHEPHERD,
AND WHEN HE OPENED THE SEVENTH SEAL, THERE WAS SILENCE IN HEAVEN FOR ABOUT THE SPACE OF HALF AN HOUR,
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 1) (THE SEVENTH SEAL AND FOUR TRUMPETS)
WOE UNTO MAN, WHEN HEAVEN IS SILENT BEFORE THE LORD GOD. JUDGMENT HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED, MAN MUST REAP THAT WHICH HE HAS SOWN, (gal c6:v7), THESE JUDGMENTS REVEAL THE COMMENCING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, (dan c12:v1, matt c24:v21, joel c2).
AND I SAW THE SEVEN ANGELS WHICH STOOD BEFORE GOD,AND TO THEM WERE GIVEN SEVEN TRUMPETS.
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 2)
THE FIRST SIX TRUMPETS WILL CONSTITUTE THE DEVASTATION WHICH MAN SHALL BRING UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, THESE TRUMPETS ARE STILL CONTRIBUTED TO GOD’S WRATH, SINCE NOTHING CAN OCCUR UPON THE EARTH, WITHOUT THE WILL OF GOD, RIGHT THROUGH THE BOOK OF REVELATION IT IS APPARENT THAT THE LORD GOD IS IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE EVENTS, AND THAT EVERYTHING THAT OCCURS IS THE FULFILMENT OF HIS PLAN, (rev c6:v11 c7:v3, c9:v1, c11:v5-v6, c17:v17, c20:v7.
AND ANOTHER ANGEL, CAME AND STOOD AT THE ALTAR,
HAVING A GOLDEN CENSER: AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM MUCH INCENSE, THAT HE SHOULD OFFER IT WITH THE PRAYERS OF ALL THE SAINTS UPON THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH WAS BEFORE THE THRONE,
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 3)
THE LORD GOD ACKNOWLEDGES THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS WHO ARE BEFORE HIM, THE TIME HAS COME, FOR THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD, (isa c34:v8, ps149 v7, mic c5:v15), IN ANSWER TO THE SAINTS PRAYERS. (rev c6:v9: v11).
NOTE: THAT IN CHAPTER 6, THE SOULS OF THE SAINTS CRIED OUT FROM BENEATH THE ALTAR, AND NOW THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS ARE UPON THE ALTAR BEFORE THE THRONE.
AND THE SMOKE OF THE INCENSE,WHICH CAME WITH THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS, ASCENDED UP BEFORE GOD OUT OF THE ANGELS HAND.
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 4)
INCENSE: IS A RICH PERFUME USED IN SACRIFICE, (exod c37:v29), WHICH COULD ONLY BE OFFERED BY A PRIEST, THIS MAY SUGGEST, THAT THE ANGEL HERE IS NONE OTHER THAN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, SINCE HE IS THE HIGH PRIEST, (heb c4:v14), AND ONE OF HIS MANY TITLES, HE IS CALLED, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, (gen c16:v7: v14, judg c2:v1:v4, heb c9:v11, ps110:v4, heb c5:v5:v6).
INCENSE IS CONNECTED WITH SACRIFICE, A REFERENCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MARTYRED, INCENSE AND THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS, IS A SWEET AROMA TO THE LORD’S NOSTRILS, (eph c5:v2, phil c4:v18, IT MAY ALSO BE A REFERENCE TO THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST,WHO WAS THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE,(eph c5:v2,THE RANSOM,(1tim c2:v6), AND OUR MEDIATOR BEFORE GOD, (1tim c2:v5).
See appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST
ADVOCATE,
RANSOM,
MEDIATOR,
SACRIFICE,
REDEEMER,
AND THE ANGEL TOOK THE CENSER, AND FILLED IT WITH FIRE OF THE ALTAR, AND CAST IT INTO THE EARTH: AND THERE WERE VOICES, AND THUNDERINGS, AND LIGHTNINGS, AND AN EARTHQUAKE.
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 5)
BEFORE THE STORM COMES CALM, THEN THUNDER IS HEARD THEN LIGHTNING, AND THEN THE SOUND OF RUSHING WIND,AND THEN DESTRUCTION, THE EARTHQUAKE MENTIONED HERE IS NOT CONNECTED WITH THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE WHICH OCCURS AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, THE ONLY OTHER MENTION OF AN EARTHQUAKE IS IN REVELATION C12:V16,WHEN THE FLEEING REMNANT OF JEWS ARE SAVED BY THE EARTH OPENING ITS MOUTH, CONSTITUTING AN EARTHQUAKE,AND THIS SHALL OCCUR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. FIRE FROM THE ALTAR: A REFERENCE TO JUDGMENT, (ezek c38:v19, ps18:v8).
AND THE SEVEN ANGELS, WHICH HAD THE SEVEN TRUMPETS PREPARED THEMSELVES TO SOUND,
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 6)
NOTE: THE FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS OCCUR SIMULTANEOUSLY, 1st TRUMPET ONE THIRD OF VEGETATION, 2nd TRUMPET ONE THIRD OF SEA SMITTEN,3rd TRUMPET ONE THIRD OF FRESH WATER SMITTEN,4th TRUMPET ONE THIRD OF THE HEAVENS SMITTEN, jer c4:v28).
THE LAST THREE TRUMPETS 5, 6 and 7 REVEAL THE THREE WOES THAT IS THE CALL FOR REPENTANCE UPON THE EARTH, THE FIRST WOE IS THE 5th TRUMPET AND THE NUMBER 5 DENOTES DIVINE GRACE.
THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THER FOLLOWED HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD, AND THEY WERE CAST UPON THE EARTH: AND A THIRD OF THE TREES WERE BURNT UP, AND ALL THE GREEN GRASS WAS BURNED UP.
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 7)
ONE THIRD OF THE EARTH, ITS TREES AND ALL THE GRASS, THIS IS LITERALLY ONE THIRD OF THE WORLD, WHICH SHALL BE DESTROYED, MANY MAY WONDER HOW ALL THE GREEN GRASS IS BURNED UP, IF THIS ONLY OCCURS IN ONE THIRD OF THE EARTH, THIS BURNING UP OF ALL THE GREEN GRASS CAN COME AS A RESULT OF THE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD, WHO HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE RAIN FROM FALLING UPON THE EARTH, WHICH WOULD RESULT IN THE SUN SCORCHING ALL VEGETATION UPON THE EARTH, THEY ALSO HAVE THE POWER TO TURN WHAT WATER THERE IS UPON THE EARTH INTO BLOOD, AND TO SMITE THE EARTH WITH EVERY PLAGUE, (rev c11:v6, isa c28:v2, ezek c38:v22, joel c2:v30).
(CHAPTER 8: VERSES 8- 9)
AND THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED, AND AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE WAS CAST INTO THE SEA: AND A THIRD PART OF THE SEA BECAME BLOOD; AND A THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WERE IN THE SEA, AND HAD LIFE, DIED; AND A THIRD PART OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED.
GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING,MAYBE A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING LIKE A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION,AS A RESULT ALL THE SEA FERRING VESSELS SHALL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD, AND ALL LIVING CREATURES SHALL BE EXTINGUISHED, AND THE SEA SHALL BECOME BLOOD AS A RESULT OF DEATH, (zec c14:v12).
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 WATER; 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.
(CHAPTER 8: VERSES 10-11)
WORMWOOD: A BITTER HERB, THE USE OF THIS WORD: WORMWOOD IS ONLY TO DESCRIBE THE BITTERNESS OF THE WATER, THUS FRESH WATER SHALL BECOME POLLUTED AND IF CONSUMED IT SHALL RESULT IN DEATH. (jer c9:v15), deut c29:v29).
STAR: USED AT TIMES TO DESCRIBE HEAVENLY BODIES, (isa c14:v12, rev c9:v1, c12:v4).
UNLIKE THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR, WHO GIVES WATERS OF LIFE, THIS STAR WORMWOOD GIVES DEATH, (rev c22:v16).
AND THEN 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.
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 12)
THE HEAVENS SHALL BE SHAKEN, (luke c21:v25: v 26), FOR SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS, AND UPON THE EARTH, "GREAT PERPLEXITY" THAT EVEN THE POWERS OF HEAVEN SHALL BE SHAKEN BY GREAT VIOLENCE, A REFERENCE TO THE POWERS OF THE ANGELIC WORLD, THE RULERS OF DARKNESS AND SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS, (eph c6:v12, dan c10:v13, matt c24:v29-v31, mark c13:v24-v27).
AND I LOOKED, AND HEARD AN ANGEL FLYING THROUGH THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, WOE, WOE, WOE,TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH BY REASON OF THE OTHER VOICES OF THE TRUMPETS OF THE THREE ANGELS WHICH ARE YET TO SOUND!
(CHAPTER 8: VERSE 13)
THIS SOLEMN WARNING COMES WITH A SHOUT, FOR ALL TO HEAR UPON THE EARTH, IT IS A SHOUT FOR REPENTANCE, AND A WARNING THAT GRACE IS COMING TO AN END.
NOTE: THAT THE THREE WOES ARE CONTRIBUTED TO SATAN, THE FIRST WOE, STAR, A REFERENCE TO SATAN, THE SECOND WOE, BEAST, REFERENCE TO SATAN’S SON, THE THIRD WOE, WRATH, REFERENCE TO SATAN, (rev c9: v12: c11:v14 c12:v12) THE EVIL TRINITY, (rev c16:v13).
(see appendixes on THE APOSTASY FROM CHRIST JESUS).
(see appendixes on THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY)
AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN UNTO THE EARTH: AND TO HIM
WAS GIVEN THE KEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT,
(CHAPTER 9: VERSE 1) (THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TRUMPET)
STAR: IDENTIFIED AS SATAN, (see isa c14:v12:v14), WHERE SATAN IS CALLED, O STAR OF THE MORNING, SON OF DAWN. LUCIFER: MORNING STAR.
I SAW A STAR FALLEN; (PAST TENSE), (luke c10:v18), WE FIND THAT CHRIST SAW THE ACTUAL CASTING DOWN OF SATAN TO THE EARTH, THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, SHOWS THAT AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO SATAN, TO OPEN THE DOOR OF THE ABYSS, THE ABODE OF THE DEMONS, (jude 6, 2pet c2:v4).
AND HE OPENED THE BOTTOMLESS PIT; AND THERE AROSE SMOKE OUT OF THE PIT, AS THE SMOKE OF A GREAT FURNACE; AND THE SUN AND THE AIR WERE DARKENED BECAUSE OF THE SMOKE OF THE PIT,
(CHAPTER 9: VERSE 2)
THE ENTRANCE TO THE WELL OF THE ABYSS IS OPENED,JOHN DESCRIBED WHAT CAME OUT AS "LIKE" THE SMOKE OF A GREAT FURNACE AND DARKNESS, HE WAS DESCRIBING HELL UPON THE EARTH, WHERE LIGHT (TRUTH) IS NOT FOUND AND DEATH ABOUNDS.
DARKNESS IS A REFERENCE TO DEMONS (2pet c2:v4, jude v6:v13) TERROR HAS COME UPON THE WHOLE EARTH. READ matt c27:v44, mark c15:v33,luke c23:v44, WHERE DARKNESS COVERED THE LAND AT THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST, IT WAS THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF ALL EVIL, WHO THOUGH THEY HAD WON THE VICTORY OVER THE LIGHT.
DEMONS ARE SPIRITS AND CAN ENTER HUMANS, (matt c8:v28).
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,
(CHAPTER 9: VERSE 3)
THESE DEMONIC LOCUSTS SHALL HAVE THE POWER OF SCORPIONS TO TORMENT, AND INFLICT GREAT PAIN, (2chron c10:v11), HERE IT IS REVEALED,THE LORD’S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE DEMONIC WORLD, FOR THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO HARM THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT, (EKKLESIA),(matt c24:v22).
AND IT WAS COMMANDED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HARM THE GRASS OF THE EARTH, OR ANY GREEN THING, OR ANY TREE, BUT ONLY THOSE MEN WHICH HAVE NOT THE SEAL OF GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS.
(CHAPTER 9: VERSE 4)
UNLIKE ORDINARY LOCUSTS,THESE DEMONIC LOCUSTS WERE NOT ALLOW TO HARM THE VEGETATION OF THE EARTH, AS THIS RIGHT HAS BEEN GIVEN OVER TO THE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD, (rev c11:v3-v6).
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 STRIKES A MAN,
(CHAPTER 9: VERSE 5)
THE PAIN FROM THESE DEMONIC CREATURES SHALL BE EXCRUCIATING, AND THEY SHALL TORMENT FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE MONTHS, WHICH IS THE TIME LAPSE BETWEEN THE FIRST WOE AND THE SECOND WOE, (rev c9:v12), THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TRUMPETS.
AND IN THOSE DAYS MEN SHALL SEEK DEATH, AND SHALL NOT FIND IT; AND SHALL DESIRE TO DIE, AND DEATH SHALL FLEE FROM THEM.
(CHAPTER 9: VERSE 6)
MEN SHALL SEEK DEATH (SUICIDE), RATHER THAN SUFFER THE AGONY OF THIS TORMENT, (job c3:v20-v21, c7:v15, jer c8:v3), THE LORD MAY ALSO BE REVEALING A FORETASTE OF THE TORMENT OF THE LAKE OF FIRE, WHICH SHALL NEVER CEASE,IN A FINAL BID TO TURN THEM FROM A LOST ETERNITY, FOR THE LORD GOD TAKES NO PLEASURE FROM THE DEATH OF THE WICKED, (ezek c33:v11).
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. AND THEY HAD HAIR AS THE HAIR OF WOMEN, AND THEIR TEETH WERE AS THE TEETH OF LIONS. 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 INTO BATTLE. AND THEY HAD TAILS LIKE UNTO SCORPIONS, AND THERE WERE STINGS IN THEIR TAILS: AND THEIR POWER WAS TO HURT MEN FIVE MONTHS.
(CHAPTER 9: VERSES 7-10)
IN THESE FOUR VERSES WE ARE GIVEN SOME DESCRIPTION AS TO THE APPEARANCE OF THESE DEMONIC POSSESSED LOCUSTS, JOHN DESCRIBES THEM AS "LIKE", JOEL ALSO GIVES SOME REMARKABLE DESCRIPTIONS IN HIS PROPHECY CONCERNING THE FUTURE DESOLATION AT THE END OF THE AGE, HE ALSO REFERS TO LOCUSTS AS A NATION, WHO SHALL INVADE ISRAEL, AND SAYS THAT THEY SHALL BE MIGHTY AND STRONG AND WITHOUT NUMBER, HAVING TEETH "LIKE" THE TEETH OF A LION, HE ALSO REFERS TO A DAY OF CLOUDS AND THICK DARKNESS.
BEAR IN MIND THAT BOTH JOHN AND JOEL COULD ONLY DESCRIBE THIS ARMY OR ARMIES AS "LIKE", FOR THE EVENTS THAT THEY WERE WITNESSING, WAS TO TAKE PLACE THOUSANDS OF YEARS AFTER THEIR DEATHS, THEY COULD NOT COMPREHEND THESE EVENTS, THEY COULD ONLY COMPARE THESE EVENTS WITH THE REALITY OF THEIR OWN TIMES.
JOEL IDENTIFIED THE LOCUSTS AS A MIGHTY ARMY WITHOUT NUMBER, IT IS THE SAME ARMY THAT JOHN SAW, (rev c9 and c16), THE INVASION OF THE KINGS OF THE EAST, THE DEMONIC POSSESSION OF THE CHINESE ARMY, (joel c1:v1-v6, c2:v2).
CHINA IS ALSO CALLED THE LAND OF THE DRAGON.
AND THEY HAD A KING OVER THEM, WHICH IS THE ANGEL OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, WHOSE NAME IN HEBREW TONGUE, IS ABADDON, BUT IN THE GREEK TONGUE HE HAS THE NAME APOLLYON. ONE WOE IS PAST; AND BEHOLD, THERE COMES TWO MORE WOES HEREAFTER.
(CHAPTER 9: VERSES 11- 12)
ABADDON AND APOLLYON: BOTH THESE NAMES MEAN DESTRUCTION, AND THE KING OVER THEM, IS SATAN, HE IS THE HEAD AND RULER OF ALL DEMONS, (FALLEN ANGELS),(luke c11:v15) ALSO SEE (john c17:v12, and 2thess c2:v3), WERE THE ANTICHRIST IS CALLED THE SON OF DESTRUCTION, (PERDITION).
THE FIRST SERIES OF GRIEF HAS COME TO PAST, HOW WRETCHED MAN SHALL BE, AS THE FIRST WOE PASSES BY.
AND THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED; AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM THE FOUR HORNS OF THE GOLDEN ALTAR, WHICH IS BEFORE GOD,
SAYING TO THE SIXTH ANGEL WHICH HAD THE TRUMPET, RELEASE THE FOUR ANGELS, WHICH ARE BOUND IN THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES,
(CHAPTER 9: VERSES 13- 14)
THE RELEASE OF THE FOUR ANGELS (FALLEN ANGELS),WHO ARE BOUND AT EUPHRATES,THE EUPHRATES RIVER SEPARATES THE EAST FROM THE WEST, AND IS A NATURAL BARRIER, (josh c1:v4).
THE VOICE FROM THE FOUR HORNS OF THE GOLDEN ALTAR: ELyon, THE Most High GOD, WHERE ALL WORSHIP IS TO BE DIRECTED.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
ELyon,
AND THE FOUR ANGELS WERE RELEASED, WHICH WERE PREPARED FOR AN HOUR, AND A DAY, AND A MONTH, AND A YEAR, FOR TO SLAY THE THIRD PART OF MEN. AND THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE HORSEMEN, WERE TWO HUNDRED MILLION: AND I HEARD THE NUMBER OF THEM.
(CHAPTER 9: VERSES 15- 16)
AT THE RELEASING OF THESE FOUR DEMONS,THE WORLD’S POPULATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY TWO BILLION,WITH THE DRYING UP OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER,THIS DEMONIC POSSESSED ARMY OF TWO-HUNDRED MILLION SHALL HAVE EASY ACCESS TO ISRAEL AND THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON, (rev c16:v16, rev c11:v2, zec c12:v3, luke c21:v24).
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 CAME FIRE AND SMOKE AND BRIMSTONE, BY THESE THREE WAS THE THIRD PART OF MEN KILLED, BY THE FIRE, AND BY THE SMOKE, AND BY THE BRIMSTONE, WHICH CAME OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS, FOR THEIR POWER IS IN THEIR MOUTHS, AND IN THEIR TAILS: FOR THEIR TAILS WERE LIKE UNTO SERPENTS, AND HAD HEADS, AND WITH THEM THEY DO HARM.
(CHAPTER 9: VERSES 17- 19)
HELL IS ON THE MARCH, AND SHALL DESTROY ALL IN ITS PATH, NOTHING SHALL BE SPARED, AS LOCUSTS DESTROYS ALL VEGETATION WITHIN ITS PATH, SO THIS DEMONIC ARMY VAST IN NUMBER,SHALL DESTROY BODY AND SOUL,DEATH IS BEFORE THEM AND DESOLATION SHALL BE BEHIND THEM.
JOHN DESCRIBES THEM AS FEROCIOUS (see zep c1:v14-v8),(joel c2:v2-v10).
IT MAY BE POSSIBLE THAT JOHN WAS DESCRIBING SOME FORM OF WAR MACHINE,i.e.(A TANK),FOR ALL WAR MACHINES FROM A GUN TO A NUCLEAR MISSILE, HAVE THE SAME THING IN COMMON, THE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE, (zec c14:v12).
AND THE REST OF THE MEN, WHICH WERE NOT KILLED BY THESE PLAGUES, DID NOT REPENT 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; AND THEY DID NOT REPENT OF THEIR MURDERS, OR OF THEIR SORCERIES, OR OF THEIR FORNICATION, OR OF THEIR THEFTS,
(CHAPTER 9: VERSES 20- 21)
EVEN AFTER THE OBLITERATION OF OVER HALF THE WORLDS POPULATION (rev c6:v8, c9:v15),AND THE DESOLATION OF THE EARTH, PEOPLE WOULD RATHER PUT THEIR TRUST IN THINGS THAT THEY CREATED RATHER THAN IN THE CREATOR,(ELOHIM), SO THEY SHALL CONTINUE IN SIN,AND THEIR ABOMINATIONS TOWARDS THE LORD GOD,FOR THEIR HEARTS ARE HARDENED, AND IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS THEY TAKE THEIR PLEASURES, YET WORSE CALAMITY IS TO BEFALL THEM,(isa c24, ezek c38, zec c12:v12:v13),(dan c12:v10, 2thess c2:v10 v 12, isa c32:v6, ps115:v4:v8, isa c47:v9:v12, jer c1:v16).
(see appendixes on THE GREAT TRIBULATION).
AND I SAW ANOTHER MIGHTY ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, CLOTHED WITH A CLOUD, AND A RAINBOW WAS UPON HIS HEAD,AND HIS FACE WAS AS IT WERE THE SUN, AND HIS FEET AS PILLARS OF FIRE:
(CHAPTER 10: VERSE 1) (THE LITTLE BOOK)
JOHN SEEING THIS ANGEL DESCENDING DOWN,WOULD SUGGEST THAT HE WAS NO LONGER IN HEAVEN,(rev c4:v7),BUT UPON THE EARTH, THIS ANGEL HAS SIMILARITIES TO CHRIST, BUT IT IS NOT CHRIST,MAYBE MICHAEL THE ARCH ANGEL,SINCE HE IS THE ONLY ANGEL DESIGNATED, AN ARCH-ANGEL, (jude 9).
THE NAME MICHAEL MEANS; “WHO IS LIKE GOD".
AND HE HAD IN HIS HAND A LITTLE BOOK OPEN: AND HE SET HIS RIGHT FOOT UPON THE SEA, AND HIS LEFT FOOT UPON THE EARTH, AND CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, AS WHEN A LION ROARS: AND WHEN HE HAD CRIED, SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED THEIR VOICES
(CHAPTER 10: VERSES 2-3)
IT IS HARD TO KNOW WHAT EXACTLY WAS IN THIS BOOK, BUT BECAUSE THE ANGEL CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN TO REVEAL IT’S CONTENTS, AND BECAUSE HE CRIED ALOUD, AND IN VERSE 6 THE ANGEL SAYS, THERE SHALL BE NO LONGER ANY DELAY, BRINGS IT TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THIS IS THE FINAL JUDGMENT OF GOD, THAT IS, THE JUDGMENTS OF THE SEVEN BOWLS, (VIALS), (rev c16:v1).
AND WHEN THE SEVEN THUNDERS HAD UTTERED THEIR, I WAS ABOUT TO WRITE: AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN
SAYING UNTO ME, SEAL UP THOSE THINGS WHICH THE SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED, AND DO NOT WRITE THEM.
(CHAPTER 10: VERSE 4)
JOHN WAS FORBIDDEN TO REVEAL WHAT THE THUNDERS HAD UTTERED, WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THESE PEALS OF THUNDER, IS THAT THEY ARE MENTIONED IN THE SEVEN SEALS, THE SEVEN TRUMPETS AND THE SEVEN BOWLS, ALL OF WHICH ARE TO DO WITH JUDGMENT, THUNDER IS THE FORERUNNER OF THE COMING STORM, (dan c12:v4,rev c8:v5, c11:v19, c16:v18).
AND THE ANGEL WHICH I SAW STAND UPON THE SEA AND UPON THE EARTH LIFTED UP HIS HAND TO HEAVEN, AND SWORE BY HIM
WHO LIVES FOREVER AND EVER, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, THE EARTH AND THE THINGS
THAT ARE IN IT, AND THE SEA AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER:
(CHAPTER 10: VERSES 5-6)
THE ANGEL LIFTED UP HIS HAND TOWARDS HEAVEN AND SWORE BY THE NAME OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, (EL SHADDAI), SIGNIFYING TO ALL CREATION, THAT THE PROMISE OF THE LORD, TO BRING HIS JUDGMENT UPON MANKIND, SHALL NO LONGER BE DELAYED, FOR THE TIME OF GRACE IS COMING TO AN END, AND THE TIME HAS COME FOR MAN TO REAP, WHAT HE HAS SOWN, (dan c12:v7, gal c6:v7).
BUT IN THE DAYS OF THE VOICE OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL, WHEN HE SHALL BEGIN TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD SHOULD
BE FINISHED, AS HE HAS DECLARE TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS,
(CHAPTER 10: VERSE 7)
NOTE: THE SEVENTH TRUMPRT, THE LAST TRUMPET,(1cor c15:v51:v52),THE MYSTERY OF GOD,THE FULFILMENT OF ALL THE PROMISES THAT THE LORD GOD SPOKE THROUGH THE PROPHETS,THE SECOND COMING, THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS,THE MILLENNIUM KINGDOM,THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND THE ETERNAL STATE, (rom c16:v25, eph c3:v3).
AND THE VOICE WHICH I HEARD FROM HEAVEN SPOKE UNTO AGAIN, AND SAID, GO AND TAKE THE LITTLE BOOK WHICH IS OPEN IN THE HAND OF THE ANGEL WHICH STANDS UPON THE SEA AND UPON THE EARTH, AND I WENT UNTO THE ANGEL, AND SAID UNTO HIM, GIVE ME THE LITTLE BOOK. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, TAKE IT; AND EAT IT UP; AND IT SHALL MAKE YOUR STOMACH BITTER, BUT IT SHALL BE AS HONEY IN YOUR MOUTH, AND I TOOK THE LITTLE BOOK OUT OF THE ANGELS HAND, AND ATE IT UP; AND IT WAS AS SWEET AS HONEY IN MY MOUTH: AND AS SOON AS I HAD EATEN IT, MY STOMACH BECAME BITTER.
(CHAPTER 10: VERSES 8-10)
JOHN WAS COMMANDED TO TAKE THE BOOK FROM THE ANGEL AND EAT IT, WHEN JOHN DID THIS, IT TASTED SWEET IN HIS MOUTH, AS THE WORD OF GOD DOES TO MANY WHO READ IT, BUT WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY GO INTO GOD’S WORD IT BECOMES BITTER TO DIGEST, HENCE THE REJECTION AND CONFUSION OF GOD’S WORD WITHIN SOCIETY TODAY, MANY FIND IT PAINFUL AND HARD TO UNDERSTAND AS TO WHY THE LORD GOD WILL BRING JUDGMENT UPON MAN, YET THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE, THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, (rom c6:v23, gal c6:v8, isa c64:v6, isa c53:v6).
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN BEFORE MANY PEOPLES, AND NATIONS, AND TONGUES, AND KINGS,
(CHAPTER 10: VERSE 11)
JOHN WAS TOLD TO PROPHESY AGAIN CONCERNING THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, THIS HE DID IN CHAPTER13, WHEN HE WROTE CONCERNING THE ANTICHRIST HAVING AUTHORITY OVER EVERY TRIBE, TONGUE, PEOPLES AND NATIONS, (rev c17:v15).
(see appendixes on THE GREAT TRIBULATION).
AND THERE WAS GIVEN ME A REED LIKE UNTO A ROD: AND THE ANGEL STOOD, SAYING ARISE, AND MEASURE
THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND THE ALTAR, AND THEM THAT WORSHIP THEREIN.
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 1) (THE TWO WITNESSES, THE SEVENTH TRUMPET)
THIS TEMPLE SHALL BE BUILT IN THE DAYS OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OR JUST PRIOR TO IT, MANY BELIEVE THAT THE TEMPLE THE ANTICHRIST SHALL SIT IN TO BE A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, BUT ACCORDING TO DANIEL THE PROPHET, PAUL THE APOSTLE, AND CHRIST JESUS, THE TEMPLE IN WHICH THE ANTICHRIST SHALL SIT PROCLAIMING HIMSELF TO BE GOD, SHALL LITERALLY BE A TEMPLE OF STONE, (dan c12:v11:v12, 2thess c2:v4, matt c24:v15).
THIS TEMPLE SHALL BE GIVEN OVER TO JUDGMENT, SINCE THE JEWS WILL BE PRACTISING THEIR SACRIFICIAL RITE OF SLAUGHTERING A LAMB AS AN OFFERING TO GOD FOR THE ATONEMENT OF SIN, AND THIS SHALL BE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD GOD, SINCE CHRIST GAVE HIMSELF AS THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR THE FORGIVENESS, OF SIN (john c1:v29:v36, rom c6:v10, heb c7:v27, c9:v28, c10:v10, 1pet c1:v19, c3:v18).
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 2)
BUT THE COURT WHICH IS WITHOUT THE TEMPLE LEAVE OUT, AND MEASURE IT NOT; FOR IT HAS BEEN GIVEN UNTO THE
GENTILES: AND THE HOLY CITY SHALL THEY TREAD UNDERFOOT FOR FORTY-TWO MONTHS,
FORTY-TWO MONTHS, THIS IS THE THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, IN WHICH ALL HELL, SHALL COME AGAINST ISRAEL, RESULTING IN THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM, AND TWO-THIRDS OF THE JEWISH NATION BEING SLAUGHTERED, (zec c13:v8, dan c7:v25, c12:v7).
AND I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES, AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS, CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH,
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 3)
THESE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD,SHALL PROPHESY DURINGTHE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD OF THREE AND A HALF YEARS, SINCE THEY ARE INVOLVED WITH THE SECONDWOE,(see verse14),THEY SHALL BE CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH A WELL KNOWN MANNER OF GOD’S PROPHETS, WHICH THEJEWS ARE WELL ACCUSTOMED TO IN THEIR PAST HISTORY,SACKCLOTH IS A GARMENT THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE WORE FOR MOURNING, IT IS A SYMBOL FOR GRIEF, (isa c22:v12, jonah c3:v6).
THESE ARE THE TWO OLIVE TREES, AND THE TWO LAMPSTANDS STANDING BEFORE THE GOD OF THE EARTH,
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 4)
THE TWO OLIVE TREES AND TWO LAMPSTANDS, A REFERENCE TO THE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD, WHO SHALL BE GOD’S ANOINTED WITNESSING TO THE TRUTH CONCERNING CHRIST JESUS AS SAVIOUR TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE, (zec c4:v3:v14).
THEY STAND BEFORE THE GOD OF THE EARTH, THIS IS A REFERENCE TO CHRIST, FOR IT IS CONNECTED WITH SOVEREIGNTY,FOR CHRIST IS THE RULER OF ALL THE EARTH, THE CREATOR,"ELOHIM",(josh c3:v11, zec c6:v5).
SEE WHERE SATAN IS CALLED THE GOD OF THIS WORLD,(SOCIETY), 2cor c4:v4,luke c10:v18,john c12:v31,1pet c5:v8,1john c5:v19).
AND IF ANY MAN WANTS TO HARM THEM, FIRE SHALL PROCEED OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS, AND SHALL DEVOUR THEIR ENEMIES: AND IF ANY
MAN WANTS TO HARM THEM, HE MUST IN THIS MANNER BE KILLED,
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 5)
IF ANYONE DESIRING TO PHYSICALLY HARM THESE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD,THEY SHALL BE CONSUMED WITH FIRE, AND IF ANYONE ATTEMPTS TO ASSASSINATE THEM,THEY SHALL BE KILLED IN LIKEMANNER AS THEY HAVE PLOTTED,(jer c5:v14, isa c26:v6).
THESE HAVE THE POWER TO SHUT HEAVEN, THAT NO RAIN SHALL FALL IN THE DAYS OF THEIR PROPHECY: AND THEY SHALL HAVE POWER OVER WATERS TO TURN THEM TO BLOOD, AND TO SMITE THE EARTH WITH ALL PLAGUES, AS OFTEN AS THEY WILL,
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 6)
MANY BELIEVE THAT THESE TWO WITNESSES TO BE ELIJAH AND MOSES, SINCE ELIJAH HAD THE POWER TO KILL HIS ENEMIES WITH FIRE,AND TO SHUT UP THE SKY, PREVENTING THE RAIN FROM FALLING, AND MOSES,BECAUSE HE HAD THE POWER TO TURN THE WATER INTO BLOOD, AND BRING PLAGUES UPON THE EARTH,(1kings c17:v1, c18:v41, 2kings c1:v10, exod c7:v12).
WHETHER THESE TWO WITNESSES ARE ELIJAH AND MOSES OR NOT, ONE THING IS CLEAR, THEY SHALL COME IN THE SPIRIT OF THESE TWO GREAT MEN OF GOD, THEY SHALL BE CLOTHED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH POWER FROM ABOVE,(judg c6:v34), SCRIPTURE REVEALS THAT ONLY TWO MEN DID NOT PHYSICAL DIE, ENOCH (heb c11:v5), AND ELIJAH 2kings c2:v11), YET THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY TEACH, THAT IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, MAY BE THESE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD, ARE ENOCH AND ELIJAH.
AND WHEN THEY SHALL HAVE FINISHED THEIR TESTIMONY, THE BEAST THAT ASCENDED OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT SHALL MAKE WAR AGAINST THEM, AND SHALL OVERCOME THEM, AND KILL THEM.
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 7)
THE ANTICHRIST SHALL KILL THE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD,AFTER THEY HAVE BORE WITNESS TO THE NATION ISRAEL THAT CHRIST JESUS IS LORD AND SAVIOUR AND THEIR PROMISED MESSIAH, THIS SHALL OCCUR AT THE CLOSE OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, THEIR PURPOSE WITHIN GOD’S PLAN FULFILLED, (dan c7:v21, zec c13:v1).
AND THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL LIE IN THE STREET OF THE GREAT CITY, WHICH SPIRITUALLY IS CALLED SODOM AND EGYPT, WHERE
ALSO OUR LORD WAS CRUCIFIED.
AND THEY OF THE PEOPLES AND KINDRED AND TONGUES AND NATIONS SHALL SEE THEIR DEAD BODIES THREE AND A HALF DAYS, AND SHALL NOT ALLOW THEIR DEAD BODIES TO BE PUT INTO GRAVES.
(CHAPTER 11: VERSES 8-9)
THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN REVEALED, THEY ARE REFUSED BURIAL,THE HATRED FOR THESE TWO MEN OF GOD IS REVEALED IN THE FACT THAT THEIR BODIES WHERE TO BE LEFT TO ROT AS THE WORLD REJOICES, (deut c21:v23, ps79:v1:v7).
THE GREAT CITY: JERUSALEM THE FOUNDATION OF PEACE (hag c2:v9)WHICH SPIRITUALLY IS CALLED SODOM AND EGYPT: SODOM IS REGARDED IN SCRIPTURE AS A SYMBOL OF GROSS WICKEDNESS,AND EGYPT IN SCRIPTURE IS CALLED "RAHAB", SIGNIFYING "THE PROUD ONE", (gen c13:v13, c18:v20, ps87:v4, isa c51:c9).
AND THEY THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL REJOICE OVER THEM. AND MAKE MERRY, AND SHALL SEND GIFTS TO ONE ANOTHER; BECAUSE THESE TWO PROPHETS TORMENTED THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH. AND AFTER THREE AND A HALF DAYS THE SPIRIT OF LIFE FROM GOD ENTERED INTO THEM, AND THEY STOOD UPON THEIR FEET; AND GREAT FEAR FELL UPON THEM WHICH SAW THEM,
(CHAPTER 11: VERSES )
THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH SHALL BE JUBILANT OVER THE MURDER OF THESE TWO MEN OF GOD, THE REASON FOR THEIR REJOICING IS GIVEN IN VERSE 6,THEY (THE TWO WITNESSES), HAD BROUGHT GREAT HARDSHIP UPON THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD, FOR (3½) THREE AND A HALF YEARS,A TIME OF EXCEEDING GRIEF,BUT AFTER (3½),THREE AND A HALF DAYS, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, SHALL PUT TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THEY SHALL REALIZE THE POWER OF THE LORD GOD, AND THAT RETRIBUTION SHALL FALL UPON THEIR HEADS, (gen c1:v1:v3,c2:v7).
AND THEY HEARD A GREAT VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO THEM, COME UP HERE. AND THEY ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN IN A CLOUD; AND THEIR ENEMIES SAW THEM.
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 12)
THIS SHALL OCCUR AT THE ADVENT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND REVEALS THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS, (1thess c4:v17,1cor c15:v51: v52), IT SHALL BE A TIME WHEN GRACE SHALL END, AND JUDGMENT BEGINS, (THE WRATH OF GOD AND HIS LAMB),(rev c6:v16-v17).
AND THE SAME HOUR THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, AND A TENTH PART OF THE CITY FELL. AND IN THE EARTHQUAKE SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WERE SLAIN AND THE REST WERE AFRAID AND GIVE GLORY TO THE GOD OF HEAVEN.
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 13)
THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IS MENTIONED IN THE SIXTH SEAL, THE SEVENTH TRUMPET, AND THE SEVENTH BOWL, (isa c24, ezek c38, and zec c14),ALL REVEAL AN EARTHQUAKE AND THE ADVENT OF CHRIST JESUS, THIS EARTHQUAKE, IS THE SPLITTING OF MOUNT OLIVES, AS CHRIST’S FEET TOUCHES THE MOUNT, IT SHALL RESULT IN THOSE JEWS WHO REMAIN ALIVE IN JERUSALEM, TO WORSHIP AND GIVE GLORY AND THANKS AND PRAISE TO THE LORD JESUS THEIR MESSIAH.
(see appendixes on THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE).
THE SECOND WOE IS PAST; AND BEHOLD, THE THIRD WOE IS COMING QUICKLY,
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 14)
MORE GRIEF IS COMING TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH, THE THIRD WOE IS THE ULTIMATE OF GOD’S WRATH UPON THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH,(rev c6: v12-v17,c11:v15:v19,c16: v17-v21).
JUDGMENT HAS COME, THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS AVENGED, RIGHTEOUSNESS ESTABLISHED AND THE MILLENNIUM KINGDOM SET UP.
AND THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED; AND THERE WERE GREAT VOICES IN HEAVEN, SAYING, THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD HAVE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER,
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 15)
THIS CLARIFIES THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS (VERSE12), AND THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, AND THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM COMING INTO FRUITION, (ps2, isa c9:v6-v7, dan c2:v44, c7:v14).
(see appendixes on THE RAPTURE OF THE BELIEVERS).
AND THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS, WHICH SAT BEFORE GOD ON THEIR SEATS, FELL ON THEIR FACES, AND WORSHIPPED GOD,
SAYING, WE GIVE YOU THANKS, O LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO IS AND WAS AND WHO IS TO COME; BECAUSE YOU HAVE TAKEN YOUR
GREAT POWER, AND HAVE REIGNED.
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 16-17)
THE ELDERS REFLECT THE ATTITUDE OF ALL THE REDEEMED, IN REVEALING THEIR UNWORTHINESS BEFORE THE GOD OF GLORY, IT IS ALSO CLARIFIED THAT CHRIST HAS BEGUN TO REIGN.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
ELYON,
EL-ELYON,
AND THE NATIONS WERE ANGRY, AND YOUR WRATH HAS COME, AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED, AND THAT YOU SHOULD GIVE REWARD UNTO YOUR SERVANTS AND THE PROPHETS, AND THE SAINTS, AND THEM THAT FEAR YOUR NAME SMALL AND GREAT; AND SHOULD DESTROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THE EARTH.
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 18)
SINCE WE ALREADY KNOW THROUGH VERSES 15,16 and 17, THAT CHRIST HAS BEGUN TO REIGN, THAN THE LATTER PART OF THIS VERSE IS REVEALING THE FINAL DAY OF JUDGMENT, AFTER THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, FOR THE SIMILARITY WITH THE LATTER PART OF THIS VERSE AND THAT OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT ARE THE SAME, (rev c20:v11-v15).
THE MOMENT THAT CHRIST BEGINS TO REIGN, THE FULFILMENT OF ALL PROPHECY IS IMMINENT (ps2:v2, ps115:v3, ezek c37:v4, dan c12:v2).
THERE ARE TWO RESURRECTIONS, THE FIRST RESURRECTION SHALL OCCUR AT THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, AND SHALL CONSIST OF ONLY THE SAINTS, (rev c20:v6).
THE SECOND RESURRECTION SHALL OCCUR AFTER THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM HAS COME TO AN END, AND SHALL CONSIST OF THE UNGODLY, (THE DAY OF JUDGMENT), THEREFORE THIS VERSE SPANS A PERIOD OF ONE THOUSAND YEARS, REWARD: ETERNAL LIFE.
TO THOSE WHO FEAR YOUR NAME: REVERE (LOVE THE LORD GOD).
AND THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS OPENED IN HEAVEN, AND THERE WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE THE ARK OF
HIS TESTAMENT: AND THERE WERE LIGHTNINGS, AND VOICES, THUNDERINGS, AND AN EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT HAIL.
(CHAPTER 11: VERSE 19)
THE ARK OF HIS COVENANT, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS THE PLACE OF HIS PRESENCE,THE ARK OF GOD, THE ARK OF JEHOVAH, THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY,THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, IS THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD IN FULFILLING ALL HIS PROMISES TO HIS CHILDREN THROUGH JESUS CHRIST,(heb c6:v18: 20, titus c1:v1-v3).
THE FINAL OUT POURING OF WRATH BY THE LORD GOD AND CHRIST, THE DAY OF THE LORD HAS COME, (rev c6:v16, isa c 24).
AND THERE APPEARED A GREAT WONDER IN HEAVEN; A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, AND THE MOON UNDER HER FEET, AND
UPON HER HEAD A CROWN OF TWELVE STARS: AND SHE BEING WITH CHILD CRIED, TRAVALLING IN BIRTH, AND PAINED TO BE DELIVERED,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSES 1- 2) (THE WOMAN THE CHILD AND THE DRAGON)
THE SUN AND MOON: A REFERENCE TO THIS WOMAN’S GLORY THAT THROUGH HER, THE WORLD WOULD RECEIVE A SAVIOUR, (GOD’S LIGHT), JESUS CHRIST, (john c8:v12), c12:v46).
THE TWELVE STARS ARE A REFERENCE TO THE TWELVES TRIBES OF ISRAEL, (gen c37:v9, acts c7:v8).
THESE TWO VERSES ARE REFERRING TO ISRAEL, FOR IN VERSES 4 and 5, OF THIS CHAPTER, WE READ THAT THE DRAGON, (SATAN), STOOD BEFORE THE WOMEN, (ISRAEL), WHO WAS ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH TO A MALE CHILD, (CHRIST), SO THAT HE (SATAN) MIGHT DEVOUR IT, (DESTROY), WE KNOW THROUGH THE GOSPELS THAT SATAN USED THE EVIL KING HEROD IN HIS ATTEMPT TO KILL THE BABY JESUS, WHICH RESULTED IN THE MURDER OF EVERY MALE CHILD IN BETHLEHEM, FROM THE AGE OF TWO AND UNDER, AND IN VERSE5, WE READ THAT THIS CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP TO GOD, THIS WE KNOW TO BE A REFERENCE TO CHRIST, (matt c2:v16, acts c1:v19).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE SEED OF THE WOMAN,
THE SEED OF ABRAHAM,
THE SEED OF DAVID,
BABE,
HOLY CHILD,
NAZARENE,
AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER IN HEAVEN; AND BEHOLD, A GREAT RED DRAGON, HAVING SEVEN
HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON HIS HEADS,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 3)
THE GREAT RED DRAGON,A REFERENCE TO SATAN, VERSE 9,SATAN’S PRIDE IS REVEALED HERE WITHIN THE SEVEN HEADS, FOR THE SEVEN HEADS ARE A REFERENCE TO HIS IDOLATRY KINGDOMS,(matt c4:v8), THE TEN-HORNS: A REFERENCE TO THE FEDERATION OF NATIONS THAT THE ANTICHRIST,(SON OF SATAN), SHALL BE IN CONTROL OF DURING THE COMING TRIBULATION PERIOD.
(see appendixes on BABYLON THE GREAT).
AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND DID CAST THEM TO THE EARTH: AND
THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN WHICH WAS READY TO BE DELIVERED, FOR TO DEVOUR HER CHILD
AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 4)
CHILD: BABE, HOLY CHILD, HARMLESS, SEED OF THE WOMAN, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, THE COVENANT, GOD IN FLESH, (matt c1:v16, acts c4:v30, 1pet c2:v3, heb c7:v26, gen c3:v15, heb c12:v2, isa c42:v6, john c1:v1).
FROM HEAVEN TO THE EARTH THEY FELL, SATAN’S PAST REBELLION AGAINST THE LORD GOD, IN WHICH HE (SATAN) AND A THIRD OF THE ANGELS WERE CAST OUT, FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD (HEAVEN), (isa c14:v12,ezek c28:v15).
SEE GEN C6:V2: V4, WHERE ANGELS ARE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD, AND COHABITED WITH DAUGTHERS OF MEN, (gen c6:v2: v4, job c1:v6, HENCE, FALLEN ANGELS, (2pet c2:v4, jude6).
STARS ARE ALSO REFERRED TO AS ANGELIC CREATURES, (isa c14:v12, job c38:v7).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
CHOSEN,
AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH A MALE CHILD, WHO WAS TO RULE ALL NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON: AND HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP UNTO GOD, AND TO HIS THRONE,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 5)
BIRTH: TO A SON, SON OF GOD, CHRIST JESUS, THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF LORDS, IMMANUEL, POWER OF GOD, (matt c4:v3, 1thess c1:v10, rev c19:v16, isa c7:v14, 1cor c1:v24).
CHRIST SHALL RULE THE NATIONS WITH VIGOUR.
REVEALED HERE, IS THE BIRTH, THE ASCENSION AND THE ADVENT OF CHRIST.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
RULER,
GOVERNOR,
AND THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS, WHERE SHE HAS A PLACE PREPARED OF GOD, THAT THEY SHOULD FEED
HER THERE ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 6)
THE WOMAN: ISRAEL, (REMNANT OF ISRAEL), SHALL FLEE INTO THE WILDERNESS FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS (3½), THIS SHALL BE THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, (dan c12:v11), THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLES, (jer c30:v7), WHEN ISRAEL SHALL BE PERSECUTED WITH EXTREME INTENSITY BY SATAN, (zec c13:v8), WERE TWO-THIRDS OF THE INHABITANTS OF ISRAEL SHALL BE KILLED, IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE LORD GOD SHALL TAKE THIS JEWISH REMNANT INTOTHE WILDERNESS, SO TO INSURE THAT THE JEWISH RACE SHALL NOT BE ANNIHILATED, FOR THE PROMISE OF THE LORD GOD IS TO THE JEWS, THAT THEY SHALL LOOK UPON THEIR MESSIAH, WHOM THEY PIERCED, (zec c12:v10).
THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST JESUS INTO HEAVEN, VERSE 5, AND THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, HAVE A LAPSE BETWEEN THEM OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS, THIS PERIOD OF TIME IS CALLED THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES, (luke c21:v24.
(see appendixes on DANIEL’S SEVENTY WEEKS
) (see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
JEHOVAH JIREH,
JEHOVAH RAAH,
STRONG TOWER,
FEEDER,
AND THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN: MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT AGAINST THE DRAGON; AND THE DRAGON AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT, AND THEY DID NOT PREVAIL, NEITHER WAS A PLACE FOUND FOR THEM IN HEAVEN ANY LONGER. AND THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT OLD SERPENT, CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN, WHICH DECEIVED THE WHOLE WORLD: HE WAS CAST OUT INTO THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM.
(CHAPTER 12: VERSES 7- 9)
ANGELIC WARFARE IN HEAVEN, WHICH RESULTED IN SATAN WITH HIS BAND OF REBELLIOUS ANGELS BEING CAST OUT OF HEAVEN, IT IS REVEALED THAT SATAN’S PRIDE WENT BEFORE HIS DESTRUCTION, SUGGESTING THAT HE WOULD RULE HEAVEN, FOR HE SAID IN HIS HEART, "I WILL", FIVE TIMES, (see isa c14).
SATAN IS GIVEN FIVE NAMES IN VERSE 9, DRAGON: DEPICTS DESOLATION AND CRUELTY, SERPENT: DEPICTS WICKEDNESS,DEVIL: MEANING, SLANDERER. SATAN: MEANS, ADVERSARY, DECEIVER: LUCIFER, APPEARING AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.
SATAN WAS ONCE THE GUARDIAN ANGEL OF GOD’S THRONE,(ezek c28:v14).
(see appendixes on KNOW YOUR ENEMY).
AND I HEARD A LOUD VOICE SAYING IN HEAVEN, NOW IS COME SALVATION, AND STRENGTH, AND THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD, AND THE POWER OF HIS CHRIST: FOR THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN IS CAST DOWN, WHICH ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD DAY AND NIGHT,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 10)
THE CASTING OF SATAN WITH HIS BAND OF REBELS, OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD, WAS A SIGN TO THOSE IN HEAVEN, THAT THE ULTIMATE VICTORY OVER SATAN WAS NOW COMPLETE, NO LONGER WOULD SATAN BE ABLE TO ACCUSE THEM BEFORE THE LORD GOD, (zec c3:v1, luke c10:v18).
AND THEY OVERCAME HIM BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, AND BY THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY; AND THEY LOVED NOT, THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 11)
THE PROMISE THAT THOSE WHO DIED IN CHRIST, HAVE OVERCOME SATAN, THAT THE BLOOD THAT CHRIST SHED, HAS CLEANSED THEM FROM SIN, AND THEIR TESTIMONY TO THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST WAS TRUE, FOR THROUGH THEIR TESTIMONY OF CHRIST THEY REVEALED A DEEP SEATED LOVE FOR HIM, FOR IT WAS IN HIM THEY PUT THEIR HOPE AND TRUST. (1john c1:v7, heb c9:v14, eph c1:v7).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
DELIVERER,
HOPE,
REDEEMER,
THEREFORE REJOICE, YOU HEAVENS, AND YOU THAT DWELL IN THEM. WOE TO THE INHABITANCES OF THE EARTH AND OF THE SEA!
FOR THE DEVIL IS CAST DOWN UNTO YOU, HAVING GREAT WRATH, BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE HAS BUT A SHORT TIME,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 12)
SATAN’S ONE DESIRE,HIS ONE OBJECTIVE,IS TO DESTROY THE HANDIWORK OF GOD,HENCE THE PAIN AND SORROW THROUGHOUT CREATION, BECAUSE OF SIN, (gen c2:v14, rom c8:v22).
AND WHEN THE DRAGON SAW THAT HE WAS CAST UNTO THE EARTH, HE PERSECUTED THE WOMAN WHICH BROUGHT FORTH THE MALE CHILD,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 13)
NO OTHER NATION,OR RACE HAVE SUFFERED AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE, SATAN HATES THE JEWS FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS,THEY WHERE THE CHOSEN, FAVOURED BY THE LORD GOD,THAT THROUGH THEM WOULD COME THE MESSIAH,WHICH WOULD RESULT IN A DEATH BLOW TO SATAN AND THE ENDING OF HIS KINGDOM. (DOMINION), gen c4:v15, c12:v2, rev c20:v10, matt c1:v18-v25).
(see appendixes on THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE).
AND TO THE WOMEN WAS GIVEN TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE, THAT SHE MIGHT FLY INTO THE WILDERNESS, INTO HER PLACE,
WHERE SHE IS NOURISHED FOR A TIME AND TIMES, AND HALF A TIME, FROM THE FACE OF THE SERPENT,
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 14)
JEHOVAH-JIREH: THE LORD WILL PROVIDE AND PROTECT THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL,(gen c22:v13: v14, exod c19:v4,deut c32:v11). THEY SHALL BE PROTECTED FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS (3½),UNTIL THE ADVENT OF CHRIST,(dan c7:v25, c12:v7, c11:v44, zec c14).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
EAGLE,
COVERT,
s
AND THE SERPENT CAST OUT OF HIS MOUTH WATER AS
A FLOOD AFTER THE WOMAN; THAT HE MIGHT CAUSE HER
TO BE CARRIED AWAY WITH THE FLOOD,
( 12: VERSE 15)
HERE WE FIND THAT SATAN POURED WATER (RIVER) OUT OF HIS MOUTH, IN A BID, TO DESTROY THE FLEEING REMNANT OF JEWS, BE IN NO DOUBT AS TO THIS VERSE, MANY BELIEVE THAT THIS FLOOD IS ANTICHRIST’S ARMY, SENT AFTER THE FLEEING JEWS, BUT SCRIPTURE TEACHES THAT SATAN CAN CAUSE GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS, (matt c4:v8, 2thess c2:v9).
AND THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN, AND THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, AND SWALLOWED UP THE FLOOD WHICH THE DRAGON
CAST OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 16)
JEHOVAH-RAAH: THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, (ps23), THE LORD IS IN COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THE EVENTS OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, CAUSING AN EARTHQUAKE TO FORCE THE RIVER THAT SATAN POURS OUT AFTER THE REMNANT, TO FLOW INTO THE EARTH, INSURING THAT THE REMNANT SURVIVE, (num c16.exod c14, matt c24:v22).
AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN, AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED, WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
(CHAPTER 12: VERSE 17)
WE KNOW THAT THE NATION OF ISRAEL AT THIS POINT IN TIME DO NOT HOLD TO THE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST JESUS, WE KNOW THEY WILL HOLD TO HIS TESTIMONY AT HIS SECOND COMING, OF WHICH ONLY ONE THIRD OF THE NATION SHALL HAVE SURVIVED, (zec c12, c13).
THEREFORE THESE JEWS WHO SATAN SHALL MAKE WAR ON, SHALL BE THE 144,000 JEWS WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD UPON THEIR FOREHEADS, (rev c7:v1:v8), FOR IN CHAPTER 14, WE LEARN THAT THE 144,000 ARE IN HEAVEN, WHICH INDICATES THAT THEY HAVE BEEN MARTYRED, AND AS THEY ARE WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN, BEFORE HIS ADVENT, IT WOULD SUGGEST THAT THEY WERE MARTYRED AND NOT RAPTURED, (matt c24:v29-v31, 1thess c5:v16-v17) THE REASON FOR SATAN TRYING TO ANNIHILATE THE JEWS BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, LIES WITH THE PROMISE TO THE JEWS THAT CHRIST SHALL POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT OF GRACE AND SUPPLICATION UPON THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND ON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, THIS PROMISE OF THE LORD GOD IS TO THE JEWS AND THE NATION OF ISRAEL, AND NOT TO THE CHURCH (BODY OF BELIEVERS), FOR THEIR BLESSED HOPE IS ASSURED (REALISED), IN THE PERSON OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, SO IF SATAN CAN ANNIHILATE THE JEWS THEN THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR CHRIST TO RETURN, FOR THE PROMISE THAT GOD HAS SPOKEN, IS THAT HE SHALL BRING THE JEWS OUT FROM AMONG THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH AND SHALL MAKE THEM ONE NATION, IN THEIR OWN LAND, AND THIS SHALL OCCUR DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, (ezek c37: v21-v28, amos c9:v13-v15, zep c3:v11-v20, mic c7:v1-v20, isa c27: v12-v13, isa c60:v1-v22, jer c30 and c33).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
JEHOVAH-RAAH,
(see appendixes on THE DECEITFUL ONE).
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AND HE STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA, AND SAW A BEAST RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND UPON HIS HORNS TEN CROWNS, AND UPON HIS HEADS THE NAME OF BLASPHEMY,
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 1)(THE BEAST FROM THE SEA AND THE BEAST FROM THE LAND)
HE (SATAN) STOOD ON THE SAND OF THE SEA, (see rev c20:v8), WHERE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE REFERRED TO AS THE "SAND" OF THE SEA, A REFERENCE TO APOSTASY, AND REVEALS THAT SATAN HAS DOMINION OVER THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, SOME MANUSCRIPTS HAVE "I STOOD", “ I ”, IS A FORM OF SATAN’S SELF-EXALTATION, (see isa c14).
JOHN SAW A BEAST (ANTICHRIST) COMING UP OUT OF THE SEA, MANY INTERPRET THIS SEA AS A REFERENCE TO POLITICS, SINCE POLITICS IS ALWAYS STORMY, AND WE KNOW THAT ANTICHRIST SHALL BE THE HEAD OF A FEDERATION OF NATIONS, SEA IS ALSO A REFERENCE TO WICKEDNESS, (isa c57:v20, isa c27:v1, dan c7: v23-v25, dan c8: v23-v25.
THE TEN HORNS: THESE SHALL REPRESENT THE FEDERATION OF NATIONS THAT THE ANTICHRIST SHALL RULE OVER, FOR CLARIFICATION OF THE SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, (see rev c17).
AND THE BEAST WHICH I SAW WAS LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD, AND HIS FEET WERE AS THE FEET OF A BEAR, AND HIS
MOUTH AS THE MOUTH OF A LION: AND THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER, AND HIS SEAT, AND GREAT AUTHORITY.
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 2)
LEOPARD: SYMBOLIC FOR SPEED.
BEAR: SYMBOLIC FOR FIERCENESS.
LION: SYMBOLIC FOR STRENGTH. WHAT JOHN SAW WAS THE STRENGTH, FIERCENESS AND SPEED, THAT ANTICHRIST SHALL POSSESS, (dan c8: v23-v26, c7:v1-v8).
IT IS ALSO REVEALED THAT SATAN (DRAGON), SHALL GIVE HIS POWER, THRONE AND GREAT AUTHORITY OVER TO THE BEAST (ANTICHRIST) FOR SATAN WOULD NOT GIVE HIS THRONE TO JUST ANYONE, THE BEAST THAT JOHN SAW, WAS "THE SON OF SATAN", (john c17:v12, 2thess c2: v3-v12.
THIS MOVE BY SATAN SHALL RESULT IN DIRECTING ALL WORSHIP TO HIMSELF.
(see appendixes on THE DECEITFUL ONE).
AND I SAW ONE OF HIS HEADS AS IT WERE WOUNDED TO DEATH; AND HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED: AND ALLTHE WORLD
FOLLOWED AFTER THE BEAST,
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 3)
ONE OF THE HEADS LOOKED AS "IF" IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, MANY BELIEVE THIS TO BE AN IMITATION OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, BUT THIS HEAD, DOES NOT BELONG TO THE ANTICHRIST,IT BELONGS SOLELY TO SATAN, FOR IN CHAPTER 12,IT WAS REVEALED THAT SATAN GAVE HIS CROWNS OF GLORY, TO THE SEVEN-HEADS,(HIS KINGDOMS), WHILE IN THIS CHAPTER,(13),THE ANTICHRIST GIVES HIS CROWNS OF GLORY TO THE TEN-HORNS,(FEDERATION OF NATIONS), THEREFORE WHAT SEEMED TO BE THE SLAYING OF ONE OF THE HEADS, WAS TO DO WITH ONE OF SATAN’S KINGDOMS, AND NOT THE ANTICHRIST, rev c17:v9:v10).
(see appendixes on BABYLON THE GREAT,
AND THE KINGDOMS AND ORIGINS OF ANTICHRIST).
AND THEY WORSHIPPED THE DRAGON, WHICH GAVE POWER UNTO THE BEAST: AND THEY WORSHIPPED THE BEAST, SAYING, WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM?
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 4)
NOTE HERE: THEY WORSHIPPED THE DRAGON (SATAN).
HERE IS REVEALED THE APOSTASY FROM THE FAITH IN FULL SWING, THE COMING AWAY FROM GOD AND HIS WORD, AND THE DIRECT WORSHIPPING OF SATAN AND ANTICHRIST, HONOURING THE ANTICHRIST AS SOME GREAT STATESMAN, THE AMBASSADOR OF PEACE, BUT THIS SHALL BE DELUSION, SENT FORTH FROM THE LORD GOD,BECAUSE THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH HAVE REJECTED THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH. (2thess c2: v10-v11, john c5:v43).
AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES; AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FOR FORTY-TWO MONTHS. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH IN BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD, TO BLASPHEME HIS NAME, AND HIS TABERNACLE, AND THEM THAT DWELL IN HEAVEN.
(CHAPTER 13: VERSES 5-6)
NOTE, THAT THE ANTICHRIST WAS GIVEN PERMISSION, AND THAT HE CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE LORD GOD,(EL SHADDAI),THIS SHALL BE THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, WHEN ANTICHRIST SITS IN THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM, EXALTING HIMSELF ABOVE EVERY SO CALLED GOD OR OBJECT OF WORSHIP, HE SHALL CURSE THE LIVING GOD (ELOAH), AND ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN, HE SHALL BE IRREVERENT AND HOLD NOTHING SACRED,HE SHALL HAVE THREE AND A HALF YEARS (3½),TO SLAUGHTER UNRESTRAINED,(dan c7:v25, c11:v36-v44, matt c24:v21-v22).
AND IT WAS GIVEN UN TO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM:
AND POWER WAS GIVEN HIM OVER ALL KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND NATIONS,
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 7)
THE SAINTS IN CHRIST SHALL BE PERSECUTED WITH GREAT INTENSITY BY THE ANTICHRIST, WHO SHALL HAVE ALL AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS AND THEIR PEOPLES,FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS, IT IS THE SAME LENGTH OF TIME THAT THE LORD JESUS HAD DURING HIS EARTHLY MINISTRY, THE WORLD REJECTED CHRIST, BUT THE ANTICHRIST IT SHALL RECEIVE,(dan c9:v27, matt c24:v9, luke c13:v7-v9).
AND ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM, WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, IF ANY MAN HAVE AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR,
(CHAPTER 13: VERSES 8-9)
IT IS AFFIRMED HERE THAT THE SAINTS SHALL NOT PAY HOMAGE TO THE ANTICHRIST, FOR CHRIST REVEALS THAT HE KNOWS THOSE THAT LOVE HIM, (eph c1:v4, 1pet c1:v20, gal c1:v15, rev c17:v8, jer c1:v5, ps139:v16).
THE EIGHTH WARNING TO THE INDIVIDUAL,A CALL FOR REPENTANCE, AND TO ESCAPE THE COMING JUDGMENT,FOR THE LORD GOD TAKES NO PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF THE WICKED, (ezek c33:v11, ezek c18:v32).
HE THAT LEADS INTO CAPTIVITY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY: HE WHO KILLS WITH THE SWORD MUST BE KILLED WITH THE
SWORD, HERE IS THE PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS.
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 10)
THE SAINTS ARE FOREWARNED,THAT IF THE LORD SO DESIRES FOR THEM TO BE TAKEN INTO CAPTIVITY,THEN INTO CAPTIVITY THEY SHALL GO,(SEE REV C6:v11),WHERE THE LORD IS WAITING UNTIL THE NUMBER OF THE SAINTS WHO WERE TO BE KILLED IS COMPLETE.
THE SOLEMN PROMISE FROM THE LORD JESUS, IS THAT ALL WHO LIVE BY VIOLENCE, SHALL PERISH BY VIOLENCE,HERE IT IS REVEALED THAT THE BELIEVERS SHALL GO THROUGH INTENSE PERSECUTION,EVEN UNTO DEATH,WHICH SHALL SHOW THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST, AS A TESTIMONY TO THE UNGODLY, (matt c26:v52, jer c15:v2, 2thess c1:v3-v4).
AND I SAW ANOTHER BEAST COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH; AND HE HAD TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB, AND HE SPOKE AS A DRAGON.
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 11)
JOHN SAW YET A ANOTHER BEAST, THIS BEAST SHALL BE THE FALSE PROPHET, IT IS REVEALED THAT THIS BEAST CAME UP OUT OF THE EARTH,REVEALING THAT THIS BEAST CAME UP FROM AMONG MEN,SINCE THE LORD GOD CREATED MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE EARTH, (gen c2:v7),THIS BEAST IS DIFFERENT FROM THE BEAST THAT CAME OUT OF THE SEA, FOR HE HAS TWO-HORNS LIKE A LAMB, INDICATING THAT HE HAS A VENEER OF CHRISTIANITY ABOUT HIM, FOR THE WORD LAMB IN SCRIPTURE REPRESENTS CHRIST, BUT THIS BEAST GIVES HIMSELF AWAY THE MOMENT HE OPENS HIS MOUTH,FOR HE SPOKE AS A DRAGON,AND DRAGON IN SCRIPTURE REPRESENTS SATAN,(rev c12:v9, c20:v2).
AND HE EXERCISES ALL THE POWER OF THE FIRST BEAST IN HIS PRESENCE, AND CAUSES THE EARTH AND THOSE THAT DWELL IN IT TO WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST WHOSE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED.
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 12)
NOTE; THAT THIS BEAST CAN ONLY EXERCISE AUTHORITY IN THE PRESENCE OF SATAN, THIS SHALL BE THE BEGINNING OF INTENSE PERSECUTION, WITH THE FALSE PROPHET MISLEADING THE PEOPLE TO PAY HOMAGE TO SATAN THROUGH THE ANTICHRIST.
SEE VERSE 4, SATAN HAS NOT DONE AWAY, HE’S JUST DONE HIS FAVOURITE TRICK “THE DISAPPEARING ACT,” ALL WORSHIPED TO ANTICHRIST IS DIRECT WORSHIP TO SATAN, (2thess c2:v4; dan c8: v23- v25; c11:v36-v38).
NOTE: THE THREE BEASTS MENTIONED HERE IN THIS CHAPTER, SATAN, ANTICHRIST AND THE FALSE PROPHET, THEY ARE THE EVIL. TRINITY. SEE REVELATION CHAPTER 16:V13.
(see appendixes on KNOW YOUR ENEMY)
AND HE PERFORMS GREAT WONDERS, SO THAT HE MAKES FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN,
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 13)
THE FALSE PROPHET SHALL DUPLICATE THE SIGNS WHICH THE TWO-WITNESSES OF GOD PERFORM, (rev c11:v5), THIS SHALL BE DONE TO ENABLE THE ANTICHRIST TO DECEIVE THE MASSES,(2thess c2:v9, exod c7),SEE (matt c24:v24), WHERE IT IS REVEALED, THAT THE ELECT, (EKKIESIA), SHALL NOT BE DECEIVED.
AND HE DECEIVES THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH BY THE MEANS OF THESE 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.
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 14)
THE DECEPTION OF SATAN HAS COME INTO FRUITION,THE WORLD FOLLOWS AFTER HIM, DECEIVED BY LYING WONDERS AND SIGNS, NOW COMES THE DIRECT DEFIANCE TOWARDS THE LORD GOD,BY THE ERECTION OF AN IMAGE TO SATAN,(exod c20:v1: v7, 2thess c2:v10), THE WOUND OF THE SWORD: THE WORD OF GOD,(heb c4:v12, eph c6:v17).
(see appendixes on BABYLON THE GREAT).
AND HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST,THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK,
AND CAUSE THAT AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BE KILLED.
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 15)
OPEN PERSECUTION OF ALL WHO DO NOT GIVE ALLEGIANCE AND HOMAGE TO SATAN AND HIS IMAGE, NOTE THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE LORD GOD GIVING LIFE TO MAN, WHO WAS MADE IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT OF THE IMAGE OF SATAN, THIS IS THE COUNTERFEITING OF GOD’S WORK, THE LORD GOD GAVE HIS BREATH TO GIVE LIFE, THE LIFE THAT’S GIVEN TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST IS TO DESTROY LIFE, (gen c2:v7).
(see appendixes on THE DECEITFUL ONE).
AND HE CAUSED ALL, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, RICH AND POOR, FREE AND SLAVE, TO RECEIVE A MARK IN THEIR RIGHT HAND
OR IN THEIR FOREHEADS:
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 16)
THE THIRD PERSON OF THE EVIL TRINITY, (FALSE PROPHET), IS INSISTING ON ALL TO RECEIVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST (HELL), FOR AS THE LORD GOD PUTS HIS MARK UPON HIS ELECT, THE DEVIL LIKEWISE SHALL PUT HIS SEAL OF DEATH UPON THOSE THAT ARE HIS, THOSE THAT RECEIVE THIS MARK OF THE BEAST, SHALL BE AN ABOMINATION BEFORE THE LORD GOD, (rev c21:v8, c22:v15, deut c29: v17-v18).
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,
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 17)
THE FINAL TWIST TO THE PLAN OF THE EVIL TRINITY, THROUGHOUT HISTORY THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THOSE WHO WOULD REBEL AGAINST BEING FORCE TO DO SOMETHING AGAINST THEIR WILL, BUT IN THIS VERSE IT IS REVEALED THAT IT WON’T MATTER IF YOUR RICH OR POOR, INFLUENTIAL OR A NOBODY, IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE THIS MARK OF THE BEAST, YOU SHALL DIE, BY VIOLENCE OR BY STARVATION, (dan c3, mark c8:v35, luke c9:v56).
HERE IS WISDOM. LET HIM THAT HAS UNDERSTANDING COUNT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST: FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN,
AND HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX.
(CHAPTER 13: VERSE 18)
THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES THERE HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT OPINIONS AS TO WHO WILL BE "THE ANTICHRIST" OF SCRIPTURE, SOME BELIEVE HIM TO BE AN ATHEIST OR AN INFIDEL JEW, OTHERS BELIEVE THAT JOHN THE APOSTLE WAS REFERRING TO NERO, AND OTHERS BELIEVE HIM TO BE THE POPE’S OF ROME, IT IS TRUE TO SAY THAT MANY MATHEMATICIANS CAN WORK THE NUMBER 666. TO MANY NOTORIOUS MEN IN PAST HISTORY, BUT THESE CAN BE DISCARDED, BECAUSE THE APOSTLE PAUL IN HIS LETTER TO THE THESSALONIANS FOREWARNED THAT THE ANTICHRIST WOULD NOT BE REVEALED UNTIL THE APOSTASY CAME FIRST, AND THEN AND ONLY THEN WOULD THE SON OF PERDITION (SON OF SATAN) BE REVEALED, (2thess c2).
DANIEL THE PROPHET, ALSO GAVE US INSIGHT INTO WHEN THE IDENTITY OF THE ANTICHRIST SHALL BE REVEALED, HE SAY’S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK, WHICH IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, WHICH SHALL BE THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, (dan c9:v27, c12:v11) HERE DANIEL REVEALS THAT THE ANTICHRIST SHALL PUT AN END TO THE SACRIFICE AND GRAIN OFFERING, AND ON THE WINGS OF ABOMINATION WILL COME AND MAKE DESOLATION, IT WOULD SEEM THAT WHEN THE ANTICHRIST DECLARES HIMSELF TO BE GOD, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, THEN HIS ASSOCIATION WITH THE NUMBER 666, SHALL BE REVEALED, WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST, IS HIS ORIGINS AND THAT IS ROMAN.
(see appendixes on DANIEL’S SEVENTY WEEKS),
THE KINGDOM AND ORIGINS OF THE ANTICHRIST, AND THE APOSTASY FROM THE FAITH.
AND I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A LAMB STANDING ON THE MOUNT ZION, AND WITH HIM ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND, HAVING HIS FATHER’S NAME WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS,
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 1) (THE 144,000 and THE TWO HARVESTS)
THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND JEWS, ARE THE FIRST FRUITS FROM THE NATION OF ISRAEL, IT IS REVEALED HERE THAT THEY ARE IN HEAVEN,(see v3 heb c12:v2), WHERE ZION IS DESCRIBED AS THE HEAVENLY CITY,THESE 144,000 JEWS HAVE BEEN SEALED BY THE LORD GOD, TO SHOW THAT THEY BELONG TO HIM, rev c7:v4),THEIR PURPOSE SHALL BE TO TESTIFY TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, AFTER THEY HAVE FULFILLED THEIR TESTIMONY TO CHRIST AS SAVIOUR, THEY SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH BY THE FORCES OF EVIL.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
DEW,
AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, AS THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, AND AS THE VOICE OF A GREAT THUNDER: AND I HEARD THE VOICE OF HARPISTS PLAYING THEIR HARPS:
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 2)
VOICE OF MANY WATERS: SEE (rev c1:v15).
JOHN HEARD A LOUD VOICE IN HEAVEN, THAT ROARED AND WAS DEAFENING TO THE EAR, THEN HE HEARD A VOICE AND IT BECAME APPARENT TO HIM THAT IT WAS THE VOICES OF THE 144,000, SINGING BEFORE THE THRONE IN PERFECT HARMONY, (ps104:v7).
AND THEY SANG AS IT WERE A NEW SONG BEFORE THE THRONE, AND BEFORE THE FOUR BEASTS, AND THE ELDERS: AND
NO MAN COULD LEARN THAT SONG BUT THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND, WHICH WERE REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH,
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 3)
THE SONG THEY SING IS THEIR’S EXCLUSIVELY, IN PRAISE TO THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND CHRIST, SINCE THEY WERE THE FIRST FROM THE JEWISH NATION TO RECEIVE CHRIST AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOUR ON MASS, (SEE JAMES C1:V18, WHERE THE EARLY BELIEVERS WHERE CALLED THE FIRST FRUITS OF GOD’S CREATION).
THESE ARE THE ONES THAT WERE NOT DEFILED WITH WOMEN; FOR THEY ARE VIRGINS, THESE ARE THE ONES THAT FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES, THESE WERE REDEEMED FROM AMONG MEN, BEING FIRSTFRUITS UNTO GOD AND TO THE LAMB, AND IN THEIR MOUTH THERE WAS FOUND NO LIE: FOR THEY ARE WITHOUT FAULT BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD.
(CHAPTER 14: VERSES 4-5)
THESE 144,000 JEWS ARE VIRGINS AND THEY HAVE KEPT THEMSELVES CHASTE (PURE) UNTO GOD, THEY ARE CALLED THE FIRST FRUITS, WHO HAVE BEEN PURCHASED FROM AMONG MEN, (ISRAEL), PURCHASED WITH THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, THEY SHALL BE TOTALLY DEDICATED TO CHRIST,(1cor c15:v23), THEY ARE BLAMELESS THROUGH CHRIST, PURE BECAUSE OF CHRIST’S PURITY, (1john c3:v3).
AND I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLY IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH UNTO THEM THAT
DWELL ON THE EARTH, TO EVERY NATION, AND KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND PEOPLE,
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 6)
THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST JESUS BEING PREACHED TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH, THE GOSPEL OF GRACE, THE ETERNAL GOSPEL, A CRY FROM THE LORD GOD, FOR PEOPLE TO TURN TO HIM FOR DELIVERANCE, THIS SHALL BE THEIR FINAL WARNING FROM HIM, (1pet c1: v24-v25, ezek c33:v11).
SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, FEAR GOD, AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM: FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME: AND WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS.
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 7)
NOTE: THE NINTH WARNING, NINE BEING THE NUMBER FOR JUDGMENT.
A REFERENCE TO THE DAY OF THE LORD, REVERE THE LORD GOD, FOR HE CAN DESTROY BODY AND SOUL, TO HIM ALL WORSHIP BELONGS, FOR HE IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, THE OMNIPOTENT AND THE OMNISCIENT ONE, (rev c3:v3, matt c24:v36.)
AND THERE FOLLOWED ANOTHER ANGEL, SAYING, BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY, BECAUSE SHE MADE ALL NATIONS DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION,
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 8)
THE EMPHASIS HERE IS ON FALLEN, THIS FALSE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM, THAT PROSTITUTES HERSELF TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR SELF-GAIN.
BABYLON THE GREAT, WHO CAUSED CONFUSION AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, LEADING THEM ASTRAY FROM THE TRUE WORSHIP OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, (isa c21:v9, jer c50:v7, rev c17:v18).
AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, IF ANY MAN WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE,
AND RECEIVES HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD OR IN HIS HAND, THE 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,
(CHAPTER 14: VERSES 9-10)
A SOLEMN WARNING TO THOSE ON THE EARTH, NOT TO WORSHIP SATAN OR HIS IMAGE OR RECEIVE HIS MARK, FOR TO DO SO, SHALL RESULT IN BEING CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, BODY AND SOUL, THE PLACE OF WEEPING AND WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH, (matt c8:v12, luke c13:v28, ezek c38:v22).
AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDS UP FOREVER AND EVER; AND THEY HAVE NO REST DAY OR NIGHT, WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND WHOEVER RECEIVES THE MARK OF HIS NAME,
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 11)
THE ANGEL EMPHASIS THE WARNING TO THOSE WHO WOULD DARE TO SERVE SATAN OR ANTICHRIST IN ANY FORM WHAT SO EVER, OR RECEIVE HIS MARK, FOR THERE SHALL BE NO ESCAPING THE SECOND DEATH,(LAKE OF FIRE),WHO’S TORMENT IS FOR ALL ETERNITY, (rev c19:v20).
HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: HERE ARE THEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND THE FAITH OF JESUS. AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO ME WRITE, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD FROM NOW ON: YES, SAYS THE SPIRIT THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS; AND THEIR WORKS SHALL FOLLOW THEM.
(CHAPTER 14: VERSES 12-13)
DURING THE REIGN OF ANTICHRIST, MANY SHALL HOLD TO GOD’S LAWS AND TO THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS, WHICH SHALL RESULT IN MANY OF THEM BEING PUT TO DEATH, AS A RESULT OF THEIR PERSEVERANCE, THE LORD CALLS THEM BLESSED (HAPPY), WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT THEIR WORKS (WITNESSING) SHALL RESULT IN THE BRINGING OF OTHERS INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD, (ps44:v22, matt c10:v39).
NOTE: THEIR WORKS FOLLOWED AFTER THEM, AND NOT BEFORE THEM.
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 14)
AND I LOOKED AND BEHOLD A WHITE CLOUD, AND UPON THE CLOUD ONE SAT LIKE UNTO THE SON OF MAN, HAVING ON HIS HEAD A GOLDEN CROWN, AND IN HIS HAND A SHARP SICKLE.
ONE LIKE UNTO THE SON OF MAN: MAYBE A REFERRENCE TO MICHAEL THE ARCH ANGEL, SINCE HIS NAME MEANS, “WHO IS LIKE GOD,” OR IT MAYBE A REFERENCE TO CHRIST, THE CROWN WHICH WAS GOLDEN REFLECTS HIS AUTHORITY, THE ANGEL IN QUESTION IS PICTURED HERE READY TO REAP IN THE HARVEST OF THE SAINTS, REVEALING THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS, DEAD AND LIVING, FOR THE HOUR OF GODS WRATH IS ABOUT TO COME, AND THE LORD HAS PROMISED TO KEEP THE SAINTS FROM HIS COMING JUDGMENTS, (rev c3:v10, 1thess c4:v17, 1cor c15:v51-v52).
(see appendixes on THE RAPTURE OF THE BELIEVERS) (see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
REAPER,
AND ANOTHER ANGEL CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE, CRYING WITH A LOUD VOICE TO HIM THAT SAT ON THE CLOUD, THRUST IN YOUR SICKLE, AND REAP; FOR THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO REAP; FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS RIPE.
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 15)
THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL, REVEALING TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO REAP THE HARVEST OF THE SAINTS, FIRST THE DEAD THEN THE LIVING, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, ALL SHALL BE ACCOMPLISHED, (1thess c4:v16, 1cor c15: v51-v52).
NOTE: IF THIS IS THE RAPTURE OF THE BELIEVERS WHEN IT IS ALSO THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, HENCE THE REASON FOR CHRIST HAVING TO BE TOLD, FOR NO MAN KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR OF HIS COMING NOT EVEN CHRIST HIMSELF, FOR THIS MYSTERY WAS KNOWN ONLY BY THE FATHER, (ELYON), (matt c24:v36).
AND HE THAT SAT ON THE CLOUD THRUST IN HIS SICKLE ON THE EARTH, AND THE EARTH WAS REAPED, AND ANOTHER ANGEL CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE THAT IS IN HEAVEN, HE ALSO HAVING A SHARP SICKLE.
(CHAPTER 14: VERSES 16-17)
THIS SHALL BE THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, THE REALIZATION OF THE SIXTH SEAL, SEVENTH TRUMPET AND SEVENTH BOWL, THE SAINTS GATHERED IN, CHRIST PROMISE TO THEM FULFILLED, THE TIME HAS COME FOR HIS WRATH TO FALL UPON THOSE WHO REMAIN UPON THE EARTH, THE GREAT DAY OF JUDGMENT HAS COME, (matt c24:v30, rev c19).
AND ANOTHER ANGEL CAME OUT FROM THE ALTAR, WHICH HAD POWER OVER FIRE; AND CRIED WITH A LOUD CRY TO HIM THAT HAD THE SHARP SICKLE, SAYING, THRUST IN YOUR SHARP SICKLE AND GATHER THE CLUSTERS OF THE VINE OF THE EARTH; FOR HER GRAPES ARE FULLY RIPE.
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 18)
THIS ANGEL WHO HAD THE POWER OVER FIRE IS THE SAME ANGEL AS THAT IN REV C8:V5, WHERE THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS WHERE UPON THE GOLDEN ALTAR, NOW THE TIME HAS COME WHEN THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY SHALL ANSWER THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS, BY AVENGING THEIR BLOOD UPON THE UNGODLY, NOTE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO HARVESTS, THE FIRST HARVEST IS CALLED THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH, (john c17:v14:v26).
WHERE CHRIST STATES THAT THE BELIEVERS ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD, THE FIRST HARVEST SHALL BE THE GATHERING IN OF THE SAINTS, THE FRUITS OF THE VINE, (CHRIST), (john c15:v1), THE SECOND HARVEST IS CALLED THE VINE FROM THE EARTH, AND NOT OF THE TRUE VINE, (CHRIST), FURTHER MORE, WE ARE TOLD THAT THE GRAPES OF THE VINE OF THE EARTH ARE RIPE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD COMPARED THE JEWS TO A VINE, WHICH DID NOT BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT, ONLY BITTER FRUIT AND WILD GRAPES, (ps 80:v8, isa c5:v1- v12), THEREFORE THIS SECOND HARVEST SHALL REPRESENT ALL THOSE OF THE EARTH, WHO WHERE GIVEN EVERY ADVANTAGE, TO REPENT AND TURN TO THE LORD AND BE HEALED (SAVED).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE TRUE VINE,
AND THE ANGEL THRUST IN HIS SICKLE INTO THE EARTH, AND GATHERED THE VINE OF THE EARTH, AND CAST IT INTO THE GREAT WINEPRESS OF THE WRATH OF GOD,
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 19
THE WRATH OF GOD HAS COME,AND ALL THE UNGODLY ARE CAST INTO THE GREAT WINEPRESS OF GOD’S AWESOME WRATH, THIS IS REFERRING TO THE DAY OF THE LORD, (joel c3:v13).
AND THE WINEPRESS WAS TRAMPLED OUTSIDE THE CITY, AND BLOOD CAME OUT OF THE WINEPRESS, EVEN UNTO THE HORSE BRIDLES, FOR A DISTANCE OF TWO-HUNDRED MILES,
(CHAPTER 14: VERSE 20)
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, WHEN HE SHALL JUDGE THE NATIONS WHO ARE GATHERED TOGETHER TO DO BATTLE AGAINST THE KING OF KINGS, (rev c16:v16, zec c14:v12, ezek c38:v23). IT SHALL OCCUR OUTSIDE THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, BETWEEN THE HOLY MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA’S (THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND THE DEAD SEA), AND SUCH SHALL BE THE SLAUGHTER OF THE UNGODLY, THAT THE BLOOD SHALL FLOW A DISTANCE OF TWO-HUNDRED MILES, AND AT THE DEPTH OF FOUR FEET, (dan c11:v45, isa c24, isa c63:v2-v6).
AND I SAW ANOTHER SIGN IN HEAVEN, GREAT AND MARVELOUS, SEVEN ANGELS HAVING THE LAST SEVEN PLAGUES; FOR IN THEM
THE WRATH OF GOD IS FINISHED.
(CHAPTER 15: VERSE 1) (PRELUDE TO THE BOWL JUDGMENTS)
THE OUT POURING OF THE SEVEN BOWLS (VIALS) OF GOD’S WRATH, SOON THE CRY FROM THE THRONE SHALL BE "IT IS DONE", JOHN WAS OVER WHELMED BY THE SIGN THAT HE SAW, FOR HE CALLED THEM GREAT AND MARVELLOUS, INDICATING THAT THEY WOULD BE MIGHTY AND STUPENDOUS,IN THESE JUDGMENTS THE GREAT POWER OF THE LORD GOD SHALL BE REVEALED, AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH SHALL STAND STILL IN AWE OF HIM, (ps33:v8, rev c16).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
JEHOVAH-NAKAH,
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.
(CHAPTER 15: VERSE 2)
SEA OF GLASS: CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT, MIXED WITH FIRE, THIS MAYBE A REFERENCE TO GOD’S BURNING JUDGMENT, (rev c8:v5), WHERE THE ANGEL TOOK FIRE FROM THE GOLDEN ALTAR AND THREW IT TO THE EARTH, FOR WE ARE TOLD THAT ALL THE SAINTS WHO HAD BEEN MARTYRED WHERE STANDING ON THE SEA OF GLASS, WITH HARPS OF GOD,O! REJOICE, MY SOUL, TO THE GOD OF MY SALVATION, (ps33).
AND THEY SING THE SONG OF MOSES THE SERVANT OF GOD, AND THEY SONG OF THE LAMB, SAYING, GREAT AND MARVELOUS ARE YOUR WORKS, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY; JUST AND TRUE ARE YOUR WAYS, O KING OF THE SAINTS. WHO SHALL NOT FEAR YOU, OUR LORD, AND GLORIFY YOUR NAME?
(CHAPTER 15: VERSES 3 - 4)
FOR YOU ALONE ARE HOLY: FOR ALL NATIONS SHALL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOU; FOR YOUR JUDGMENTS ARE MADE MANIFESTED.
HERE THE REDEEMED SING TWO SONGS, THE SONG OF MOSES, GLORIFYING GOD THE ALMIGHTY AND HIS GREAT AND MIGHTY WORKS, (exod c15:v1, deut c32:v3).
AND THE SONG OF THE LAMB, (ps86), FOR THOU ART GREAT AND HAST DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM THE GRAVE O KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, THE RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY ONE.
ALL NATIONS SHALL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE THEE: A REFERENCE TO THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, WHEN EVERY NATION SHALL BOW BEFORE CHRIST JESUS, EVERY KNEE SHALL BEND AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS, THAT "CHRIST JESUS" IS LORD, (isa c66:v23).
AND AFTER THAT I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, THE TEMPLE OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE TESTIMONY IN HEAVEN WAS OPENED:
AND THE SEVEN ANGELS CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE, HAVING THE SEVEN PLAGUES, CLOTHED IN PURE AND WHITE LINEN, AND HAVING THEIR BREASTS GIRDED WITH GOLDEN GIRDLES.
(CHAPTER 15: VERSES 5-6)
JOHN SAW THE HOLY OF HOLIES, THE INNERMOST PART OF THE TEMPLE OF GOD, THE JEWISH HIGH PRIEST ENTERED THE HOLY OF HOLIES ONCE A YEAR, ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (lev c16:v16-v19), THE REVEALING OF THE HOLY OF HOLIES MAY BE A REFERENCE TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, (rev c6:v16), FOR NO MAN CAN SEE THE FACE OF GOD AND LIVE, (exod c33:v20), THE DESCRIPTION OF THESE SEVEN ANGELS, IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF CHRIST AS HIGH PRIEST AND RIGHTEOUS JUDGE, (rev c1:v3).
AND ONE OF THE FOUR BEASTS GAVE UNTO THE SEVEN ANGELS SEVEN GOLDEN BOWLS FULL OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHO LIVES FOREVER AND EVER. AND THE TEMPLE WAS FILLED WITH SMOKE FROM THE GLORY OF GOD, AND FROM HIS POWER; AND NO MAN WAS ABLE TO ENTER INTO THE TEMPLE, TILL THE SEVEN PLAGUES OF THE SEVEN ANGELS WERE FULFILLED.
(CHAPTER 15: VERSES 7-8)
ONE OF THE FOUR BEASTS: ONE OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES, CAME OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF “ELYON,” THE MOST HIGH GOD, AND GAVE THE SEVEN ANGELS SEVEN BOWLS FILLED WITH THE WARTH OF GOD, SIGNIFYING THAT THESE PLAGUES ARE SOLELY FROM THE LORD GOD, AND NO OTHER, FOR NONE WAS ALLOW TO ENTER THE TEMPLE,SO THAT NOTHING OBSTRUCTED THE VIEW OF THE LORD GOD, (SEE REV C6:v16-v17), WHERE THE INHABITANCE OF THE EARTH CAN SEE THE LORD GOD SITTING ON HIS THRONE, IT IS ALSO REFERRING TO THE GREAT DAY OF GOD’S WRATH.
AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF THE TEMPLE SAYING TO THE SEVEN ANGELS, GO YOUR WAYS, AND POUR OUT
THE BOWLS OF THE WRATH OF GOD UPON THE EARTH,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 1) (THE SEVEN BOWLS)
THE LORD REVEALS, THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE ANY MORE DELAY, FOR MAN HAS HAD THE OUT POURING OF GOD’S GRACE TO ITS FULLNESS, AND THE CHANCE TO TURN FROM HIS SIN, JUSTICE SHALL NOW BE EXECUTED. (Ps79:v6, ezek c22:v31, zeph c3:v8).
AND THE FIRST WENT, AND POURED OUT HIS BOWL 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,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 2)
THIS JUDGMENT SHALL ONLY EFFECT THE MEN (PEOPLE) WITH THE MARK OF THE BEAST, WHICH WOULD SUGGEST THAT IT SHALL BE POURED OUT UPON THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE (THE WEST) SINCE THE ANTICHRIST SHALL BE THE HEAD OVER THE WESTERN FEDERATION OF NATIONS, (dan c9:v26, rev c13).
(see appendixes on THE KINGDOMS AND ORIGINS OF THE ANTICHRIST).
AND THE SECOND ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL UPON THE SEA; AND IT BECAME AS THE BLOOD OF A DEAD MAN: AND EVERY LIVING
SOUL DIED IN THE SEA.
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 3)
BLOOD LIKE THAT OF A DEAD MAN, THAT SHALL SOLIDIFY KILLING EVERYTHING WITHIN THE SEA, (see verse 6), WHERE THE LORD POURS OUT THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRED SEE EXODUS CHAPTER 7, WHERE THE LORD TURNED THE NILE INTO BLOOD.
AND THE THIRD ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL UPON THE RIVERS AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS; AND THEY BECAME BLOOD.
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 4)
IN THESE JUDGMENTS OF THE BOWLS, ALL THE EARTH IS SMITTEN, UNLIKE THE JUDGMENTS OF THE TRUMPETS, WHERE ONLY ONE THIRD OF THE EARTH WAS SMITTEN, IN THE POURING OUT OF THE THIRD BOWL ALL THE EARTH’S DRINKING WATER WAS POLLUTED.
THE TWO WITNESSES OF GOD ALSO HAVE THE POWER TO TURN THE DRINKING WATER INTO BLOOD, (rev c11: v6).
AND I HEARD THE ANGEL OF THE WATERS SAY, YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS, O LORD, WHO IS, AND WAS, AND SHALL BE,
BECAUSE YOU HAVE JUDGED THESE THINGS,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 5)
A REFERENCE TO CHRIST, WHO JUDGES ALL THINGS, FOR CHRIST IS THE SAME TODAY, AS HE WAS YESTERDAY, AS HE SHALL BE FOREVER, READ JOHN GOSPEL c12: v31-v32, WHERE THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST BECAME THE CONDEMNATION AND JUDGMENT UPON THOSE WHO REJECT THE LORD GOD’S GIFT OF HIS SON CHRIST JESUS!
FOR THEY HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF SAINTS AND PROPHETS, AND YOU HAVE GIVEN THEM BLOOD
TO DRINK; FOR THEY DESERVE IT,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 6)
FOR THE MURDERING OF GOD’S SAINTS AND PROPHETS,THE INHABITANCE OF THE EARTH, SHALL DRINK BLOOD AS A RETRIBUTION FOR THEIR INIQUITY, IT IS A REFERENCE ALSO TO JUST HOW MUCH THE INHABITANCE OF THE EARTH HAVE BECOME SO DEPRAVED, (matt c24:v22, zec c12:v3).
AND I HEARD ANOTHER OUT OF THE ALTAR SAY, EVEN SO, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS
ARE YOUR JUDGMENTS,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 7)
THIS COULD BE THE SOULS OF THE SAINTS, WHO WERE UNDER THE ALTAR, (rev c6: v9-v11), WHO CRIED OUT TO THE LORD FOR THE AVENGING OF THEIR INNOCENT BLOOD, AND ARE NOW PRAISING HIM, FOR THE FULFILMENT OF THAT PROMISE, FOR VENGEANCE BELONGS TO THE LORD GOD, (ps 119:v160, deut c32:v35-v41, ps 94:v1, heb c10:v30).
AND THE FOURTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL UPON THE SUN; AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO SCORCH MEN WITH FIRE.
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 8)
THIS JUDGMENT SHALL BE SO FIERCE THAT FEW MEN SHALL SURVIVE, see (isa c24:v6), WHERE THE EARTH’S INHABITANCE ARE BURNED, AND FEW SURVIVE, see (zec c14:v12).
AND MEN WERE SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT, AND BLASPHEMED THE NAME OF GOD, WHO HAS POWER OVER THESE PLAGUES:
AND THEY REPENTED NOT TO GIVE HIM GLORY.
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 9)
WHEN THE HEART IS HARDEN, MEN SEEK NOT REPENTANCE NOR FORGIVENESS, JUST VILENESS AND HATRED, THEY SEEK NO MERCY NOR DO THEY SHOW MERCY, THEY BLAME NOT THEMSELVES FOR THEIR SIN, FOR OUT OF THE HEART COMES FORTH ALL EVIL, (jam c2:v13, 2thess c2:v12, mark c7: v21-v23).
AND THE FIFTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL UPON THE SEAT OF THE BEAST; AND HIS KINGDOM WAS FULL OF DARKNESS; AND THEY GNAWED THEIR TONGUES BECAUSE OF PAIN,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 10)
SEAT: THRONE.
KINGDOM: DOMINION.
THIS IS A REFERENCE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ANTICHRIST, THE HEART OF HIS COMMERCE, AND A DIRECT REFERENCE TO BABYLON THE GREAT,A KINGDOM THAT HAS DARKNESS TO ITS CORE, NOW HAS DARKNESS ENGULF IT, (rev c18, zeph c1:v15).
AND BLASPHEMED THE GOD OF HEAVEN BECAUSE OF THEIR PAINS AND THEIR SORES, AND REPENTED NOT OF THEIR DEEDS,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 11)
BECAUSE OF THE PAINS OF THE FIFTH BOWL, AND THE SORES OF THE FIRST BOWL, THOSE WHO HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST WHERE STILL PERSISTING IN THEIR EVIL WAYS OF DESTRUCTION, (isa c8:v22).
AND THE SIXTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL UPON THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES; AND ITS WATER WAS DRIED UP, THAT THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF THE EAST MIGHT BE PREPARED.
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 12)
AS WE ALREADY KNOW, THE RIVERS AND SPRINGS OF WATERS HAVE BEEN TURNED TO BLOOD, IN THE POURING OUT OF THE THIRD BOWL, NOW IT IS REVEALED THAT THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES IS DRIED UP, THIS COULD HAVE COME FROM THE FOURTH BOWL, AS A RESULT OF ITS FIERCE HEAT, WHAT IS CLEAR IN THE POURING OUT OF THE SIXTH BOWL, IS THE FACT THAT THE EUPHRATES HAS BEEN DRIED UP, INSURING THAT THE KINGS OF THE EAST CAN TRAVEL UP IT WITH GREAT EASE AND SPEED,(nahum c1:v1:v4).
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,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 13)
JOHN SAW COMING OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF THE EVIL TRINITY THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS, UNCLEAN SPIRITS ARE TO DO WITH DEMON POSSESSION, THE POSSESSING OF A HUMAN BEING, AN INVISIBLE FORCE, (matt c12:v43, mark c1:v23, luke c8:v29).
THE MOST DEADLY CREATURE UPON THE EARTH IS THE GREEN FROG.
HERE IT IS REVEALED, THE THREE BEASTS OF REVELATION, THE DRAGON SATAN, THE BEAST FROM THE SEA ANTICHRIST, AND THE BEAST FROM OUT OF THE EARTH, THE FALSE PROPHET, THESE THREE ARE CALLED BEASTS NOT BECAUSE THEY LOOK GROTESQUE, BUT BECAUSE OF THE SIN AND INIQUITY THAT IS IN THEIR HEARTS.
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,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 14)
THESE THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS ARE REVEALED AS DEMONS, (DEVILS), THEIR MISSION SHALL BE TO DECEIVE (POSSESS), THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD TO COME AND DO BATTLE WITH CHRIST, IN THE BELIEF THAT THE VICTOR SHALL BE THE MASTER OF THE WORLD, THEY SHALL IN FACT ONLY ACHIEVE TO BRING THE NATIONS TOGETHER, FOR CHRIST TO ENTER INTO JUDGMENT WITH THEM AT HIS COMING, (zeph c2:v3, 2thess c2:v8).
BEHOLD, I COME AS A THIEF.
BLESSED IS HE THAT WATCHES, AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEAST HE WALK NAKED, AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 15)
THIS WARNING IS TO THE SAINTS WHO ARE ALIVE AT THE CLOSE OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, (dan c12:v13), TO KEEP WATCH FOR CHRIST’S ADVENT, AND NOT TO CAST THEIR FAITH ASIDE, IN BELIEF THAT HE SHALL NOT RETURN, FOR IN THE LAST DAYS MOCKERS SHALL ARISE SAYING WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING (2pet c3:v3) NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR THAT HE SHALL RETURN, (matt c24:v24-v26, 1thess c5:v2).
AND HE GATHERED THEM TOGETHER INTO A PLACE CALLED IN THE HEBREW TONGUE ARMAGEDDON,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 16)
THE THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS WHICH CAME FORTH FROM THE EVIL TRINITY WILL HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THEIR TASK OF BRINGING TOGETHER THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, (zec c12:v11), FOR THE FINAL BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, (THE DAY OF THE LORD), AND THEY SHALL ASSEMBLE THEIR ARMIES AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT MEGIDDO AT THE PLAINS OF ESDRAELON, (Zec c14, c2:v5).
(see appendixes on THE GREAT TRIBULATION).
AND THE SEVENTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL INTO THE AIR, AND THERE CAME A GREAT VOICE OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN,
FROM THE THRONE, SAYING, IT IS DONE.
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 17)
THIS IS THE COMPLETION OF GOD’S JUDGMENTS, IT SHALL OCCUR AT THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, THE FINAL WORDS FROM THE LORD GOD, "IT IS DONE", AND ALL THE REDEEMED, AND ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN AND ALL CREATION, SHALL CRY, "AMEN", AS TO THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST FOR THE ATONEMENT OF SIN, WHEN HE CRIED UPON CALVARY’S CROSS; "IT IS FINISHED", (john c19:v30, zec c14, ezek c38).
AND THERE WERE VOICES, AND THUNDERINGS, 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,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 18)
THIS EARTHQUAKE SHALL SPLIT THE EARTH, see (isa c24v19), AND IT SHALL OCCUR AT THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, see (ezek c38:v19-v20).
(see appendixes on THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE).
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,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 19)
THE CITY IN QUESTION IS JERUSALEM IT SHALL BE SPLIT INTO THREE PARTS, (see rev c11:v13), NOTE THAT ALL THE OTHER CITIES OF THE WORLD, SHALL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED.(ezek c38:v20, rev c18:v21).
AND EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND,
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 20)
THE POURING OUT OF THE SEVENTH BOWL OF JUDGMENT SHALL RESULT IN THE ACTUAL FLATTENING OF MOUNTAINS AND THE DISAPPEARING OF ISLANDS FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, FOR ALL THAT MAN HAS BUILT UP, SHALL VANISH IN A DAY, AND ALL OF MAN’S KNOWLEDGE SHALL SIMPLY FADE AWAY. See (isa c24:v1:v6).
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 WAS EXTREMELY GREAT.
(CHAPTER 16: VERSE 21)
THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD’S WRATH SHALL RESULT IN THE WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH’S CIVILISATION, ALL AND EVERYTHING THAT MAN HAS CREATED OR ERECTED, THE LORD GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY, SOME SHALL SURVIVE, BUT THE MASS SHALL DIE, AND EVEN AS THEY ARE DYING, THEY SHALL STILL CURSE THE LORD GOD, (ps11:v4-v6, isa c8:v19-v22).
HAILSTONES: THE WEIGHT OF A TALENT, ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN POUNDS,IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE,THAT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO STONE TO DEATH THE FOLLOWING,THOSE WHO SACRIFICE THEIR CHILDREN TO IDOLS, HOMOSEXUALITY, BESTIALITY, INCEST, MEDIUMS, WIZARDS, HARLOTS ADULTERERS AND THE REBELLIOUS SON ETC. SEE LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
JEHOVAH-EL-GMOLAH
AND THERE CAME ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS WHICH HAD THE SEVEN BOWLS, AND TALKED WITH ME, SAYING UNTO ME, COME HERE; I WILL SHOW UNTO YOU THE JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT HARLOT THAT SITS UPON MANY WATERS:
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 1) (THE SCARLET WOMAN AND THE SCARLET BEAST)
THE RELIGIOUS AND COMMERCIAL SIDE OF THIS FALSE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM, JOHN WAS SHOWN THE JUDGMENTS THAT WOULD BEFALL THIS UNFAITHFUL SYSTEM, THE HARLOT.
MANY WATERS: A REFERENCE TO THE NATIONS, ALL OF WHICH PRACTICES FALSE WORSHIP, (jer c50:v13).
WITH WHOM THE KINGS OF THE EARTH HAVE COMMITTED FORNICATION, AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH HAVE BEEN MADE DRUNK WITH THE WINE OF HER FORNICATION,
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 2)
THE KINGS WHO COMMITTED ACTS OF IMMORALITY WITH THE HARLOT, A REFERENCE TO WORLD LEADERS, (HEADS OF STATE), WHO SHALL ALLOW THE HARLOT, (FALSE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM), TO BE INVOLVED IN THE RUNNING OF THEIR NATIONS, THUS MAKING HER POLITICAL, (isa c47).
SO HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS: AND I SAW A WOMEN SIT UPON A SCARLET COLOURED BEAST,
FULL OF NAMES OF BLASPHEMY, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS,
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 3)
JOHN SAW THE WOMAN SITTING ON SATAN’S IDOLATRY SYSTEM, SEE REV C12:V3, WHERE SATAN IS IDENTIFIED AS THE GREAT RED DRAGON, HERE THE WOMAN IS PROSTITUTING HERSELF TO SATAN’S IDOLATRY SYSTEM, NOTE THAT IN REV C13, SATAN GAVE HIS AUTHORITY, HIS THRONE AND HIS POWER OVER TO THE ANTICHRIST (BEAST), HIS SON, THEREFORE THIS BEAST THAT THE WOMAN IS SITTING ON IS THE ANTICHRIST. (SEE VERSE 16).
AND THE WOMAN WAS ARRAYED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET COLOUR, AND ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS, HAVING A GOLDEN CUP IN HER HAND FULL OF ABOMINATIONS AND FILTHINESS OF HER FORNICATION:
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 4)
TO THE WORLD THIS SYSTEM OF RELIGION, SEEMS GLORIOUS AND SPLENDID IN APPEARANCE, BUT THE LORD GOD REVEALS THAT INWARDLY SHE IS FULL OF CORRUPTION, FOR SHE DRINKS FROM A CUP WHICH IS FILLED WITH THE ABOMINATIONS OF HER IMMORALITY! (jer c51:V7).
AND UPON HER FOREHEAD WAS A NAME WRITTEN, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH,
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 5)
MYSTERY: TO LIE HIDDEN, THIS SYSTEM OF SATAN WAS TO GIVETHE APPEARANCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHEN HIDDEN BELOW HER SURFACE SHE WAS WORKING FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRUPTION, AND LEADING THE NATIONS (PEOPLE) ASTRAY, THE NAME MOTHER OF HARLOTS, IS GIVEN TO THIS SYSTEM, BECAUSE FROM HER COMES ALL FALSE WORSHIP AND TEACHINGS, (2thess c2:v7, gal c1:v8-v10, 2john c1:v10, 2cor c11),
AND I SAW THE WOMAN DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS, AND WITH THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS OF JESUS: AND WHEN I SAW HER, I WONDERED WITH GREAT AMAZEMENT.
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 6)
JOHN SAW THIS WOMAN DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS (THE EKKLESIA), BODY OF BELIEVERS, NEW TESTAMENT, AND THE OLD TESTAMENT PATRIARCHS, (heb c11).
IT IS REVEALED IN THIS VERSE, THAT THIS IDOLATRY SYSTEM HAS BEEN UPON THE EARTH FROM THE TOWER OF BABEL, (gen c11:v9).
AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO ME, WHY DID YOU MARVEL? I WILL TELL YOU THE MYSTERY OF THE WOMEN, AND OF THE BEAST THAT CARRIES HER, WHICH HAS THE SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS,
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 7)
THE APOSTLE JOHN WONDERED GREATLY AT THIS RELIGIOUS SYSTEM, YET THE SCRIPTURES SHALL REVEAL THIS MYSTERY TO US, AND THE IDENTITY OF THE BEAST THAT CARRIES HER, (2thess c2:v7, dan c9:v26).
See appendixes on BABYLON THE GREAT.
THE BEAST THAT YOU SAW WAS, AND IS NOT; AND SHALL ASCEND OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND GO INTO PERDITION:
AND THEY THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH SHALL WONDER, WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD, WHEN THEY SEE THE BEAST THAT WAS, AND IS NOT, AND YET IS.
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 8)
IT WOULD SEEM THAT THIS BEAST (ANTICHRIST) WAS AT ONE TIME UPON THE EARTH, FOR JOHN DESCRIBES HIM “AS WAS”, THIS WOULD SEEM TO BE REFERRING TO SOME KIND OF INCARNATION OF "JUDAS ISCARIOT,” FOR CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF GAVE JUDAS THE TITLE OF “THE SON OF PERDITION” AND PAUL THE APOSTLE IN HIS LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT THESSALONICA CALLED THE COMING ANTICHRIST, "THE SON OF PERDITION", IF ONE LOOKS AT THE LAST SUPPER, YOU WILL SEE THAT SATAN, NOT A DEMON, BUT SATAN HIMSELF ENTERED INTO JUDAS, see (luke c22:v3, john c17:v12, 2thess c2:v3, ps41:v9).
ALSO IN THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, IT IS REVEALED, THAT JUDAS HANGED HIMSELF AND WENT TO HIS OWN PLACE, A REFERENCE TO THE ABYSS, (acts c1:v25).
ALSO IN THIS VERSE 8 (rev c17), IT IS REVEALED THAT THE BEAST SHALL COME UP OUT OF THE ABYSS, AND IN CHAPTER 11 OF REVELATION IT IS CLARIFIED.
see appendixes on THE DECEITFUL ONE.
THE SON OF SATAN
AND HERE IS THE MIND WHICH HAS WISDOM, THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, ON WHICH THE WOMAN SITS, AND
THERE ARE SEVEN KINGS: FIVE HAVE FALLEN, AND ONE IS, AND THE OTHER IS NOT YET COME; AND WHEN HE COMES, HE MUST
CONTINUE FOR A SHORT TIME.
(CHAPTER 17: VERSES 9-10)
THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, ON WHICH THE WOMAN SITS, MANY IDENTIFY THIS SYSTEM AS ROME, FOR ROME IS BUILT UPON SEVEN HILLS,BUT JOHN STATES HERE THAT THE WOMAN SITS ON SEVEN MOUNTAINS AND NOT HILLS, MOUNTAIN; IS THE SYMBOLIC NAME GIVEN TO A KINGDOM,(see dan c2:v35),WHERE THE WORD MOUNTAIN IS A REFERENCE TO THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ARE SEVEN KINGDOMS,JOHN GIVES FURTHER INFORMATION, HE SAYS THEY ARE SEVEN KINGS, FIVE HAVE FALLEN ONE IS, AND ONE IS YET TO COME, AND WHEN HE COMES HE MUST REMAIN A LITTLE WHILE,THE FIRST OF THESE FALLEN KINGDOMS, IS THAT OF THE CHALDEE’S WHICH WAS FILLED WITH IDOLATRY, (gen c11:v31).
THE SECOND OF THESE FALLEN KINGDOMS WAS THE EGYPTIANS, WHO ALSO WAS FILLED WITH IDOLATRY, SORCERY, (exod c7:v11).
THE THIRD OF THESE FALLEN KINGDOMS WAS THAT OF THE BABYLONIANS, (dan c2), WHICH WAS FILLED WITH IDOLATRY, MAGICIANS, CONJURERS AND SORCERY,THE FOURTH OF THESE FALLEN KINGDOMS WAS THAT OF THE MEDO-PERSIAN, AND THE FIFTH AND LAST OF THESE FALLEN KINGDOMS WAS THE GREEK EMPIRE, THESE TWO LAST KINGDOMS INHERITED THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH FROM THE BABYLONIANS (see dan c8:v20: v21), AS DID THE BABYLONIANS FROM THE EGYPTIANS, AS DID THE EGYPTIANS FROM THE CHALDEANS, (dan c1:v4).
ALL OF THESE FIVE KINGDOMS ARE FALLEN, BUT JOHN SAID THE SIXTH KINGDOM "WAS",REVEALING THAT THE SIXTH KINGDOM WAS STILL AROUND IN HIS DAY, WE KNOW THROUGH HISTORY, THAT THE KINGDOM IN POWER IN JOHN’S DAY WAS ROME, ROME WE KNOW LOST ITS MILITARY MIGHT IN THE FOURTH CENTURY A.D, BUT IT NEVER LOST ITS PAGAN WORSHIP OF IDOLATRY, THE ECCLESIASTICAL SIDE OF ROME HAS SPREAD FURTHER OVER THE FACE OF THE EARTH, THAN IT DID WITH ALL ITS CAESARS OF THE OLD ROMAN EMPIRE, AND THIS SIXTH KINGDOM SHALL REMAIN RIGHT UP TO THE FORMATION OF THE SEVENTH KINGDOM, THIS SEVENTH KINGDOM SHALL BE THE UNIFYING OF ALL RELIGIONS INTO ONE WORLD CHURCH, WHICH SHALL BE CONTROLLED BY ROME, BUT IT SHALL ONLY EXIST FOR A BRIEF MOMENT, ALL THESE SEVEN KINGDOMS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON, THEY ARE ALL FILLED WITH THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, AND THEIR TEACHINGS ARE IN DIRECT DEFIANCE TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE LORD GOD, AND THEY ARE ALL FILLED WITH IDOLATRY WHETHER IT IS CREATED BY HAND OR THE IMAGINATION, (exod c20).
(see appendixes on BABYLON THE GREAT).
AND THE BEAST THAT WAS, AND IS NOT, EVEN HE IS THE EIGHTH, AND IS OF THE SEVEN, AND IS GOING INTO PERDITION.
(CHAPTER 17: VERS 11)
NOTE: THE BEAST IS OF THE SEVENTH KINGDOM, AND THE BEAST (ANTICHRIST) WE ARE TOLD SHALL BE THE EIGHTH KINGDOM, THIS SHALL OCCUR AT THE MID-POINT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, WHEN THE BEAST (ANTICHRIST) SHALL TAKE FULL CONTROL, AND SIT IN THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM, DISPLAYING HIMSELF AS GOD, (2thess c2:v4, dan c11:v36) (see rev c17:v16).
THE BEAST (ANTICHRIST) IS REVEALED AS BEING ONE OF THE SEVEN THROUGH DANIEL THE PROPHET, WE KNOW THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS OF ROMAN ORIGINS, (dan c9:v26), THEREFORE THE ANTICHRIST SHALL BE OF THE SIXTH KINGDOM, WHICH IS ROME, AND THAT THE SEVENTH KINGDOM SHALL BE CONTROLED BY ROME.
AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ARE TEN KINGS, WHICH HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET, BUT RECEIVE POWER AS KINGS ONE HOUR WITH THE BEAST. THESE HAVE ONE MIND, AND SHALL GIVE THEIR POWER AND STRENGHT UNTO THE BEAST.
(CHAPTER 17: VERSES 12-13)
JOHN REVEALS HERE THE IDENTITY OF THE TEN-HORNS AS WORLD LEADERS, (dan c7: v23-v24).
THIS SHALL BE THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF CHRIST; WITH FULL MILITARY, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS POWERS FOR ONE HOUR: ONE PURPOSE, THE FULFILLING OF GOD’S PLAN, (verse 17), THESE HEADS OF STATE, (LEADERS OF THE FEDERATION OF NATIONS), SHALL GIVE CONTROL OF THEIR NATIONS TO THE BEAST (ANTICHRIST), (rev c13:v14).
THESE SHALL MAKE WAR WITH THE LAMB, AND THE LAMB SHALL OVERCOME THEM: FOR HE IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS: AND THEY THAT ARE WITH HIM ARE CALLED, AND CHOSEN, AND FAITHFUL.
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE )
THIS IS A REFERENCE TO "THE DAY OF THE LORD", WHEN THE NATIONS SHALL BE GATHERED TOGETHER AT THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON, (rev c16) AND THE SAINTS SHALL BE WITH CHRIST (matt c22:v14), WHAT A HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE IT SHALL BE, FOR THE LORD TO CALL YOU,"CHOSEN", FOR IT IS ONE OF HIS TITLES, (matt c12:v18, luke c23:v35).
See appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST
THE LAMB OF GOD, LORD OF LORDS, KING OF KINGS, CHOSEN,
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, THE WATERS WHICH YOU SAW, WHERE THE HARLOT SITS, ARE PEOPLES, AND MULTITUDES, AND NATIONS, AND TONGUES.
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 15)
THE ANGEL REVEALS TO JOHN, THE WATERS WHICH HE SAW (VERSE ONE), WAS A UNIFIED ONE WORLD CHURCH, (MAN MADE RELIGIONS), IT IS THE APOSTATE CHURCH OF SCRIPTURE, AND SHALL CONSIST OF PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, (rev c18:v4, 2thess c2:v3, matt c24:v9-v11).
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 16)
AND THE TEN-HORNS WHICH YOU SAW UPON THE BEAST, THESE SHALL HATE THE HARLOT, AND SHALL MAKE HER DESOLATE AND NAKED, AND SHALL EAT HER FLESH, AND BURN HER WITH FIRE,
THE FEDERATION OF NATIONS WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE ANTICHRIST (BEAST), SHALL AT HIS COMMAND DESTROY THE HARLOT,(BABYLON THE GREAT),THIS SHALL OCCUR AT THE MID-POINT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD,(see note on verse 11), WHERE ANTICHRIST DECLARES HIMSELF "GOD"), THE REASON FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HARLOT, IS BECAUSE SHE PROSTITUTES HERSELF OUT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, AND LOVES TO SHARE THE GLORY, BUT SATAN AND ANTICHRIST SHALL NEVER SHARE GLORY WITH ANOTHER, (isa c14: v13-v14).
FOR GOD HAS PUT IN THEIR HEARTS TO FULFILL HIS WILL, AND TO AGREE, AND GIVE THEIR KINGDOM UNTO THE BEAST, UNTIL THE WORDS OF GOD SHALL BE FULFILLED,
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 17)
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS REVEALEDHERE,NOTHING CAN OVER RULE THE WILL OF GOD,THE LORD OUR GOD IS ALWAYS IN TOTAL CONTROL,(job c1:v11-v12, luke c22:v31, matt c24:v22).
AND THE WOMAN WHICH YOU SAW IS THAT GREAT CITY, WHICH REIGNS OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH,
(CHAPTER 17: VERSE 18)
THE HARLOT WHICH REIGNS AT THIS PRESENT TIME, IS GIVEN IN VERSES 9 AND 10 OF THIS CHAPTER, THAT SYSTEM IS ROME, THE ROMANIST SYSTEM HAS GREAT SWAY OVER MANY GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD, AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE THE VATICAN SENDS AMBASSADORS TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND RECEIVES AMBASSADORS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, (dan c7:v7-v8), IT IS ROMES DESIRE TO BRING ALL THE CHURCHES (DENOMINATIONS) OF THE WORLD UNDER ITS UMBRELLA,
(see appendixes on BABYLON THE GREAT).
NOTE: ROME CALLS HERSELF THE ETERNAL CITY.
AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING GREAT POWER; AND THE EARTH WAS ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY,
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 1) (THE FALL OF BABYLON THE GREAT)
AN ANGEL WITH GREAT AUTHORITY, THIS MAYBE A REFERENCE TO CHRIST SINCE CHRIST IS CALLED THE ANGEL OF THE LORD OR IT MAYBE A REFERENCE TO MICHAEL THE ARCH ANGEL, WHO’S NAME MEANS,"WHO IS LIKE GOD". THIS CHAPTER SHALL REVEAL THE COMMERCIAL SIDE OF BABYLON.
AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A STRONG VOICE, SAYING, BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND IS BECOME THE HABITATION OF DEVILS, AND A PRISON OF EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, AND A CAGE OF EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATEFUL BIRD,
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 2)
THE EMPHASIS IS ON "FALLEN", TO MAKE CLEAR THAT BABYLON THE GREAT RELIGIOUS AND COMMERCIAL SYSTEM SHALL BE WIPED OF THE FACE OF THE EARTH, NOTE THAT BABYLON HAS BECOME A PRISON FOR EVIL SPIRITS, see (eph c2:v2, 1john c4:v6), WHERE DEMONS ARE REFERRED TO AS SPIRITS, IT IS REVEALED HERE THAT BABYLON IS A VILE AND CORRUPT SYSTEM, WHICH PRACTICES OCCULT WORSHIP, (2pet c2:v4).
BIRD: MAYBE A REFERENCE TO A wicked or evil SOUL, (see ps124:v7).
FOR ALL THE NATIONS HAVE DRUNK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION, AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH HAVE COMMITTED FORNICATION WITH HER; AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH HAVE BECOME RICH THROUGH THE ABUNDANCE OF HER LUXURY.
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 3)
BABYLON DOES NOT CARE FOR THE POOR, THE NATIONS WERE INTOXICATED BY HER IMMORALITY, THE WORLD LEADERS WHERE HAPPY TO HAVE SOCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH HER, AND THE BANKERS OF THE WORLD HAVE BEEN HAPPY WITH HOW SHE OPERATED, FOR THEY ALL HAVE BECOME RICH THROUGH HER SENSUALLY, (john c12:v8, isa c47)
AND I HEARD ANOTHER VOICE FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY NOT PARTICIPATE IN HER
SINS, AND THAT YOU MAY NOT RECEIVE OF HER PLAGUES,
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 4)
THE REVEALING OF GOD’S GREAT LOVE THAT HE SHOULD CRY OUT TO HIS PEOPLE, (THIS CRY IS TO THE CARNAL MINDED), WHO HAVE ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO BE DECEIVED, AND BLINDED BY THIS SYSTEM OF FALSE WORSHIP, THEY ARE TO DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM IT, FOR TO STAY WITHIN THIS SYSTEM SHALL RESULT IN SUFFERING WITH IT, (2cor c6:v16: 17).
FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN, AND GOD HAS REMEMBERED HER INIQUITIES,
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 5)
HER SINS (BABYLON), HAVE PILED UP AS HIGH AS HEAVEN AND AS WE KNOW THE LORD GOD CANNOT LOOK UPON SIN, (habak c1:v13), THIS SYSTEM HAS FLAUNTED ITS SINS BEFORE THE LORD GOD IN DEFIANCE TO HIS HOLINESS.
REWARD HER JUST AS SHE REWARDED YOU, AND DOUBLE UNTO HER ACCORDING TO HER WORKS: IN THE CUP WHICH SHE HAS FILLED, FILL TO HER DOUBLE.
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 6)
FROM BABYLON’S OWN CUP, SHALL SHE BE PUNISHED, AS SHE JUDGED SO SHALL SHE BE JUDGED, THE SHAME OF THE RELIGIOUS OF THE WORLD, IS THAT THEY KILL (MURDER), AND DO IT IN THE NAME OF GOD, WHEN THE TRUTH IS, THAT IT IS QUITE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HOLY-WRIT REVEALS, (exod c20:v13, john c11: v47-v53, c12:v10).
HOW MUCH SHE HAS GLORIFIED HERSELF, AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY,SO MUCH TORMENT AND SORROW GIVE HER: FOR SHE SAID IN HER HEART, I SIT AS A QUEEN, AND I AM NO WIDOW, AND SHALL NOT SEE SORROW.
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 7)
THE BOAST OF BABYLON, SHE SEE’S HERSELF AS A GREAT QUEEN, FULL OF WISDOM AND SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED BUT SHE IS A PROSTITUTE, UNFAITHFUL AND UNTRUSTWORTHY, FOR AS ONE KINGDOM FALLS, SHE IS READY TO PROSTITUTE HERSELF TO THE NEXT, (isa c47:v7, jer c51:v7).
THEREFORE SHALL HER PLAGUES COME IN ONE DAY, DEATH, AND MOURNING, AND FAMINE; AND SHE SHALL BE UTTERLY BURNED
WITH FIRE: FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER.
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 8)
THIS SHALL COME ABOUT AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, AS WE KNOW THE ANTICHRIST (BEAST) SHALL DESTROY THE RELIGIOUS SIDE OF BABYLON AT THE MID-POINT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, (rev c17:v16), WERE ALL WORSHIP SHALL BE DIRECTED TO HIM, BUT HERE IT IS REVEALED THAT THE LORD GOD SHALL DESTROY THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF BABYLON RELIGIOUS AND COMMERCIAL, THE ANTICHRIST (BEAST) MAY HAVE DESTROYED THE HARLOT, BUT IDOLATRY SHALL STILL CONTINUE WITHIN IT, WITH THE WORSHIP OF SATAN AND HIS IMAGE, (isa c47:v9, rev c13:v3).
AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, WHO HAVE COMMITTED FORNICATION AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY WITH HER, SHALL WEEP AND LAMENT
FOR HER, WHEN THEY SEE THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING,
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 9)
THE WORLD LEADERS SHALL WEEP OVER THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON, BECAUSE THEIR WAY OF LIFE HAS COME TO AN END, FOR IT WAS THEY WHO LIVED SENSUOUSLY WITH HER AND PROSPERED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR, (matt c23: v13-v33).
STANDING A FAR OF FOR THE FEAR OF HER TORMENT, SAYING, ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY!
FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME.
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 10)
NOTE: THE WORLD’S LEADERS DID NOT GET TO CLOSE TO BABYLON, WAS IT BECAUSE REALITY HAS DAWNED, HAS NOW THE TRUTH BEEN REALIZE, IS IT NOW TO LATE FOR THEM TO BE SAVED, NOTE THE SWIFTNESS OF BABYLON’S DESTRUCTION,"ONE HOUR", (gen c19:v24: 28, rev c14:v7).
AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH SHALL WEEP AND MOURN OVER HER; FOR NO MAN BUYS THEIR MERCHANDISE ANYMORE:
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 11)
NOTE: AS TO WHY THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH WEEP,IT IS NOT FOR BABYLON, IT IS BECAUSE OF GREED, FOR NO ONE SHALL BUY THEIR MERCHANDISE ANYMORE, AND IF THEY CAN NOT SELL THEIR GOODS, THEY CANNOT BECOME RICH, IT’S BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN SELFISHNESS THAT THEY WEEP, (matt c24:v12, rev c18:v17-v19).
THE MERCHANDISE OF GOLD, AND SILVER, AND PRECIOUS STONES, AND PEARLS, AND FINE LINEN, AND PURPLE, AND SILK, AND SCARLET, AND ALL CITRON WOOD, AND ALL MANNER VESSELS OF IVORY, AND ALL MANNER VESSELS OF MOST PRECIOUS WOOD, AND BRONZE, AND IRON, AND MARBLE, AND CINNAMON, AND INCENSE, AND OINTMENTS, AND FRANKINCENSE, AND WINE, AND OIL, AND FINE FLOUR, AND WHEAT, AND CATTLE, AND SHEEP, AND HORSES, AND CHARIOTS, AND SLAVES, AND SOULS OF MEN:
(CHAPTER 18: VERSES 12-13)
NOTE: THE LIST OF LUXURY ITEMS, ALSO NOTE THAT THE MERCHANTS DEAL IN HUMAN LIVES, AND BY THE ORDER OF THE ITEMS, A HUMAN LIFE SHALL BE WORTH THE LEAST, (mark c8:v36, phil v2:v1:v4).
AND THE FRUITS THAT YOUR SOUL LUSTED AFTER ARE DEPARTED FROM YOU, AND ALL THE THINGS WHICH WERE LUXURIOUS AND SPLENDID HAVE DEPARTED FROM YOU, AND YOU SHALL FIND THEM NO MORE AT ALL,
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 14)
BABYLON HAS BEEN TOTALLY DESTROYED, NO LONGER SHALL MAN FIND A CORRUPT SYSTEM LIKE THIS ONE UPON THE EARTH, LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH, THE LORD GOD LEFT BUT A SCORCH MARK UPON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, (gen c19:v24, isa c47:v9:v15).
THE MERCHANTS OF THESE THINGS, WHICH WERE MADE RICH BY HER, SHALL STAND AT A DISTANCE FOR FEAR OF HER TORMENT, WEEPING AND WAILING, AND SAYING, ALAS, ALAS THAT GREAT CITY, THAT WAS CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET, AND ADORNED WITH GOLD, AND PRECIOUS STONES, AND PEARLS! FOR IN ONE HOUR SUCH GREAT RICHES HAVE COME TO NOUGHT,EVERY SHIPMASTER, AND ALL WHO TRAVEL BY SHIP, AND SAILOR, AND AS MANY AS TRADE BY THE SEA, STOOD AT A DISTANCE, AND CRIED WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, SAYING, WHAT CITY IS LIKE UNTO THIS GREAT CITY! AND THEY CAST DUST ON THEIR HEADS, AND CRIED, WEEPING AND WAILING, SAYING, ALAS, ALAS THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ALL WHO HAD SHIPS AT SEA, BECAME RICH BY HER WEALTH! FOR IN ONE HOUR SHE IS MADE DESOLATE.
(CHAPTER 18: VERSES 15-19)
HERE IT IS REVEALED, THAT THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH JUDGED BY THE WEALTH OF A PERSON, OR A CITY, LIFE WAS FILLED WITH SELFISHNESS AND GREED, NOTE ALSO THE SIX WOE’S (ALAS), THAT ARE MENTIONED IN THIS CHAPTER, REVEALING THAT THESE JUDGMENTS ARE UPON MEN, FOR SIX IS THE NUMBER OF "MAN," (gen c1:v26).
REJOICE OVER HER, O HEAVEN, AND YOU HOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS; FOR GOD HAS AVENGED YOU ON HER, AND A MIGHTY
ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE, AND CAST IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, THUS WITH VIOLENCE SHALL THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON BE THROWN DOWN, AND SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE.
(CHAPTER 18: VERSES 20-21)
ALL WHO HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED BY THIS SADISTIC SYSTEM, ARE TOLD TO REJOICE, FOR JUDGMENT HAS BEEN PASS, SHE IS NO MORE, THE AVENGING OF GOD’S ELECT, (luke c18:v7).
THIS SATANIC SYSTEM WHO DID EVERYTHING IN IT’S POWER TO DESTROY THE WORD OF GOD IS HERSELF DESTROYED BY THE WORD OF GOD, (john c1:v1).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST
THE APOSTLE,
AND THE VOICE OF HARPISTS, AND MUSICIANS, AND OF PIPERS, AND TRUMPETERS, SHALL NOT BE HEARD IN YOU ANYMORE.
AND NO CRAFTSMAN, OF ANY CRAFT SHALL BE FOUND IN YOU ANYMORE, AND THE SOUND OF A MILLSTONE SHALL NOT BE HEARD IN YOU ANYMORE; AND THE LIGHT OF A LAMP SHALL NOT SHINE IN YOU ANYMORE; AND THE VOICE OF THE BRIDEGROOM AND BRIDE SHALL NOT BE HEARD IN YOU ANYMORE: FOR YOUR MERCHANTS WERE THE GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH; FOR BY YOUR SORCERY ALL THE NATIONS WERE DECEIVED.
(CHAPTER 18: VERSES 22-23)
THESE VERSES SEAL THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF A CORRUPT AND EVIL SATANIC SYSTEM, AND THERE IS YET ANOTHER CHARGE PUT AGAINST BABYLON, THAT OF SORCERY, THE DEEP THINGS OF SATAN, (isa c24:v8, ezek c26:v13, nah c3:v4).
AND IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS, AND OF SAINTS, AND OF ALL THAT WERE SLAIN UPON THE EARTH
(CHAPTER 18: VERSE 24)
THIS SYSTEM OF BABYLON, THE GREAT HARLOT WAS THE VERY SEAT OF SATAN, IT WAS SATAN WHO SET THIS SYSTEM UP UPON THE EARTH IN DIRECT DEFIANCE TOWARDS GOD, THIS SYSTEM IS ALSO CHARGED WITH ALL THE MURDERS THAT EVER OCCURRED UPON THE EARTH, (SEE JOHN CHAPTER 8 VERSE 44, WHERE CHRIST JESUS CHARGED SATAN AS BEING A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, (gen c3:v4).
(see appendixes on THE DECEITFUL ONE).
AND AFTER THESE THINGS I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OF A MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE IN HEAVEN, SAYING, ALLELUIA; SALVATION, AND GLORY, AND HONOUR, AND POWER, UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD:
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 1) (THE KING COMES AND THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB)
THE REDEEMED IN HEAVEN, SHOUTING THEIR PRAISES FOR THROUGH THE LORD JESUS, SALVATION HAS COME, AND JUDGMENT REALIZE, "HALLELUJAH", HEBREW WORD SIGNIFYING, "PRAISE YOU THE LORD", THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT HALLELUJAH IS MENTIONED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT IS CONNECTED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED (ps104:v35), SALVATION HAS COME, (john c3:v16), EXCLAMATION OF JOY AND PRAISE.
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
HOPE,
FOR TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGMENTS: FOR HE HAS JUDGED THE GREAT HARLOT, WHICH DID CORRUPTED THE EARTH WITH HER FORNICATION, AND HAS AVENGED THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS AT HER HAND,
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 2)
THE ACCLAIM OF THE REDEEMED, IS THAT THE LORD GOD IS JUST, FOR HE HAS BROUGHT JUDGMENT UPON THE HARLOT, WHO CORRUPTED THE EARTH WITH HER LIES AND HER WICKEDNESS, (deut c32:v43).
AGAIN THEY SAID, ALLELUIA. AND HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER,
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 3)
AGAIN THE REDEEMED GIVE PRAISE AND THANKS TO THE LORD GOD, FOR DESTROYING THIS SATANIC SYSTEM, WHICH BLIGHTED THE EARTH AND THE ASSURANCE FROM THE LORD, THAT BABYLON’S TORMENT SHALL BE ETERNAL, (rev c21:v8).
AND THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS AND THE FOUR BEASTS FELL DOWN AND WORSHIPPED GODWHO SITS ON THE THRONE, SAYING AMEN, “ALLELUIA”
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 4)
THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT FROM THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS AND THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES, THAT THE LORD GOD IS THE "ALMIGHTY", EL SHADDAI AND THEY PROSTRATE THEMSELVES BEFORE HIM, SAYING "AMEN", SO BE IT, THERE IS NOTHING GREATER IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, THAN THE "AMEN", (TRUTH), IT IS A TITLE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, (rev c3:v14).
AND A VOICE CAME FROM THE THRONE, SAYING, PRAISE OUR GOD,ALL YOU HIS SERVANTS, AND YOU THAT FEAR HIM, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT,
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 5)
A VOICE FROM THE THRONE, THIS IS CHRIST JESUS, AS JUDGE, SITTING ON THE GREAT WHITE THRONE, (rev c20:v11), AND ALL IN HEAVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THE GREAT WORK THAT THE LORD GOD HAS DONE.
FEAR: IS TO REVERE, TO LOVE THE LORD GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART, (ps5:v7).
AND I HEARD AS IT WERE THE VOICE OF A GREAT MULTITUDE, AND AS THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, AND AS THE VOICE OF MIGHTY THUNDERING, SAYING, ALLELUIA: FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNS. LET US BE GLAD AND REJOICE, AND GIVE HONOUR TO HIM: FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB HAS COME, AND HIS WIFE HAS MADE HERSELF READY,
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 6-7)
AGAIN THE REDEEMED IN EXALTATION TO THE LORD, GIVING THANKS AND PRAISE TO HIS HOLY NAME, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HE IS THE ALMIGHTY,ALL POWERFUL, WHO SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE HIM (exod c20:v1).
GIVE GLORY TO THE LORD GOD, FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB HAS ARRIVED,AND HIS BRIDE (THE BODY OF BELIEVERS), HAVE BEEN MADE READY,(2cor c11:v2).
REJOICE, REVEALING A TIME FOR GREAT GLADNESS AND JOY, (luke c2:v10).
AND TO HER WAS GRANTED THAT SHE SHOULD BE ARRAYED IN FINE LINEN, CLEAN AND WHITE: FOR THE FINE LINEN IS THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SAINTS,
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 8)
TWO THINGS ARE REVEALED WITHIN THIS VERSE:
1. IT WAS GIVEN TO THE BRIDE TO CLOTH, HERSELF, (BODY OF BELIEVERS), IT IS NOT OF HER OWN, BUT GOD’S WILL.
2. THE FINE LINEN IS THE RIGHTEOUS ACTS OF THE SAINTS THAT IS THEIR GOOD WORKS, THIS REVEALS THAT THE RIGHTEOUS ACTS OF THE SAINTS ONLY REPRESENTS THE LINEN, BUT THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, THE LINEN IS MADE WHITE AND CLEAN,(eph c5:v26, rev c7:v14).
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WRITE, BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE CALLED UNTO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB, AND HE SAID UNTO ME, THESE ARE THE TRUE SAYINGS OF GOD.
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 9)
BLESSED (HAPPY), ARE THEY WHO ARE INVITED TO THE WEDDING SUPPER OF CHRIST, THIS IS NOT THE BRIDE, SINCE THE BRIDE AND GROOM HAVE BECOME ONE, THIS MAYBE A REFERENCE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS,(see james c2:v23, 2chron c20:v7, c41:v8, WHERE ABRAHAM IS CALLED THE FRIEND OF GOD, (john c3:v29) WHERE JOHN THE BAPTIST IS CALLED THE FRIEND OF GOD.
AND I FELL AT HIS FEET TO WORSHIP HIM. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SEE THAT YOU DO NOT DO THAT: I AM YOUR FELLOW SERVANT,
AND OF YOUR BRETHREN THAT HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS: WORSHIP GOD: FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY,
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 10)
JOHN RECEIVES A REBUKE FROM THE ANGEL, AND TOLD NOT TO WORSHIP OR PROSTRATE HIMSELF, TO ANYONE EXCEPT THE LORD GOD! FOR MANS CHIEF PURPOSE IS TO GLORIFY THE GOD FOR THE LORD GOD SHALL NOT HAVE ANY OTHER GOD BEFORE HIM, (exod c20), THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY ONLY BEARS WITNESS TO THE TRUTH (CHRIST JESUS), FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLED THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH AND ALWAYS POINTS TO CHRIST, AND BEARS WITNESS ONLY OF CHRIST, (john c15:v26, 1john c5:v7).
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 JUDGES AND MAKES WAR.
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 11)
THE ADVENT OF CHRIST JESUS, THE TIME HAS COME TO JUDGE THE UNGODLY UPON THE EARTH, THE WHITE HORSE REVEALS HIS AUTHORITY, WE KNOW THIS TO BE CHRIST, BECAUSE OF THE DESCRIPTION GIVEN TO HIM,"FAITHFUL AND TRUE", ALSO CHRIST IS THE ONLY ONE WHO JUDGES AND MAKES WAR IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. (isa c11:v4, ps 45:v6:v7, heb c8:v9).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE,
JEHOVAH-NISSI,
JEHOVAH-ELYON,
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.
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 12)
HIS EYES ARE A FLAME OF FIRE; A REFERENCE TO HIS COMING JUDGMENT, THE SAINTS SHALL BE RAPTURED AT THIS POINT. AND UPON HIS HEAD ARE MANY CROWNS, REVEALING HIS SOVEREIGNTY.
A NAME THAT WAS SECRET, (see judges c13:v18) WHERE CHRIST IS CALLED "WONDERFUL" (SECRET).
AND HE WAS CLOTHED WITH A VESTURE DIPPED IN BLOOD; AND HIS NAME IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD.
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 13)
ROBE DIPPED IN BLOOD: MAYBE A REFERENCE TO THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS, WHO WERE MURDERED FOR HIS NAME SAKE, HE IS RIGHTEOUS, WHICH REVEALS THAT HE HAS THE RIGHT TO AVENGE THEIR INNOCENT BLOOD, AS JUDGE AND LORD, AND HIS NAME IS CALLED,"THE WORD OF GOD" THE REVEALING OF GOD HIMSELF, (JEHOVAH THE ETERNAL ONE), (john c1:v1, isa c63:v3).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE WORD,
COVEN,
ELOHIM,
JEHOVAH,
AND THE ARMIES WHICH WERE IN HEAVEN FOLLOWED HIM UPON WHITE HORSE, CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, WHITE AND CLEAN.
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 14)
HERE WE ARE SHOWN THE ARMIES OF HEAVEN, WHO HAVE BEEN MADE WHITE AND CLEAN THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, THEY (THE REDEEMED), SHALL REIGN WITH CHRIST DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, (rev c20:v6), THE SAINTS ARE UPON WHITE HORSES, WHICH SYMBOLIZE THEIR AUTHORITY THROUGH CHRIST.
AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOES A SHARP SWORD, THAT WITH IT HE SHOULD SMITE THE NATIONS: AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON:AND HE TREADS THE WINEPRESS OF THE FIERCENESS AND WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD,
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 15)
A SHARP SWORD, REFERRING TO THE WORD OF GOD, (rev c1:v16). THE NATIONS SHALL BE JUDGED BECAUSE OF THEIR REJECTION OF THE WORD OF GOD, THIS IS THE FULFILMENT OF PSALM 2, AT THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, HE SHALL WIPE OUT THE ARMIES WHO HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER AT JERUSALEM, THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM SHALL BE SET UP AND CHRIST SHALL RULE THE NATIONS WITH STRICTNESS AND STERNNESS, (rev c2:v27).
AND HE HAS ON HIS VESTURE AND ON THIS THIGH A NAME WRITTEN, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS,
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 16)
THE SOVEREIGNTY AND MAJESTY OF CHRIST AS THE UNIVERSAL RULER, (isa c9:v6-v7) AND HIS NAME IS CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, THE MIGHTY GOD, EVER-LASTING FATHER, THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
AND I SAW AN ANGEL STANDING IN THE SUN; AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING TO ALL THE BIRDS THAT FLY IN
THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, COME AND GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER UNTO THE SUPPER OF THE GREAT GOD; THAT YOU MAY EAT THE FLESH OF KINGS, AND THE FLESH OF CAPTAINS, AND THE FLESH OF MIGHTY MEN, AND THE FLESH OF HORSES, AND OF THEM THAT SIT ON THEM, AND THE FLESH OF ALL MEN, FREE AND SLAVE, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT.
(CHAPTER 19: VERSES 17-18)
SO GREAT SHALL THE SLAUGHTER BE IN THE DAY OF THE LORD, THAT THE FOWLS OF THE AIR, SHALL BE CALLED TO EAT THE FLESH OF CORPSES, THE LORD GOD HAS DESIGNATED THIS AS THE GREAT SUPPER OF GOD, (ezek c39: v17-v 20), WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ALL WALKS OF LIFE, RICH, POOR, FREE, SLAVE, KINGS AND PEASANTS, HORSES, AND CATTLE, (zec c14, jer c46:v10). FOR MAN IS LIKE THE GRASS, (ps37: v1-v 2).
AND I SAW THE BEAST, AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, AND THEIR ARMIES, GATHERED TOGETHER TO MAKE WAR AGAINST HIM THAT
SAT ON THE HORSE, AND AGAINST HIS
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 19)
ARMAGEDDON THE FINAL BATTLE, THE ARMIES OF HELL ARE ASSEMBLED, TO DO BATTLE WITH THE ARMY OF HEAVEN, ALL WICKEDNESS HAS GATHERED IN FORCE, THE DAY OF THE LORD HAS ARRIVED, AND THE WICKED SHALL PERISH, (rev c16:v16, zec c12:v11, isa c3:v11).
AND THE BEAST WAS CAPTURED, AND WITH HIM THE FALSE PROPHET THAT WORKED MIRACLES BEFORE HIM, WITH WHICH HE DECEIVED THEM THAT HAD RECEIVED THE MARK OF THE BEAST, AND THEM THAT WORSHIPPED HIS IMAGE. THESE BOTH WERE CAST ALIVE INTO A LAKE OF FIRE BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE.
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 20)
THIS SHALL BE THEIR FATE, THEY WHO DARED TO STAND AGAINST THE KING OF KINGS, THEY WHO TRIED TO DESTROY THE HANDIWORK OF GOD AND HIS CHRIST, THEIR WORTH, THE LAKE OF FIRE, THEIR REWARD, TORMENT FOR ALL ETERNITY, (dan c7:v11).
AND THE REMNANT WERE SLAIN BY THE SWORD OF HIM THAT SAT UPON THE HORSE, THE SWORD THAT PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH: AND ALL THE BIRDS WERE FILLED WITH THEIR FLESH.
(CHAPTER 19: VERSE 21)
THE REST: THIS DOES NOT ONLY MEAN THOSE WHO RECEIVED THE MARK OF THE BEAST, (ANTICHRIST), BUT ALL WHO OPPOSED THE TEACHINGS OF GOD AND CHRIST, FOR IT IS THE WORD, THAT SANCTIFIES, (john c17:v17), AND IT IS THE WORD THAT BRINGS JUDGMENT, (john c12:v48), AND IT SHALL BE THE WORD OF GOD, THAT SHALL BRING DESOLATION UPON THE ARMIES GATHERED AT JERUSALEM, FOR THE LORD GOD’S LAST WORDS SHALL BE, “IT IS DONE” (rev c16:v17).
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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 OF 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 NOT DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO MORE, TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS SHOULD BE FULFILLED: AND AFTER THAT HE MUST BE LOOSED FOR A LITTLE SEASON.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSES 1-3) (SATAN BOUND: THE THOUSAND-YEAR REIGN; AND THE FINAL JUDGMENT)
THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS RETRIEVED FROM SATAN, (revc9: v1), AND HE IS SEALED IN FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS, (THE DURATION OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM), AFTER WHICH SATAN SHALL BE RELEASED FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, TO FULFILL THE WORD OF GOD, (2pet c2:v14, isa c24:v22).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND I SAW THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED
FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS, AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND WHICH HAD NOT WORSHIPPED THE BEAST OR HIS IMAGE, AND HAD NOT RECEIVED HIS MARK UPON THEIR FOREHEADS, OR IN THEIR HANDS; AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 4)
THIS IS A REFERENCE TO THE CHURCH (BODY OF BELIEVERS), (1cor c6:v2, 2tim c2:v12), WHO SHALL JUDGE THE NATIONS, JOHN ALSO SAW THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO HAD BEEN BEHEADED BY THE ANTICHRIST DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, THEY CAME TO LIFE, (AS DO ALL THE SAINTS OF ALL GENERATIONS WHO DIED IN CHRIST), AT HIS SECOND COMING, THIS REPRESENTS THE RAPTURE OF THE BELIEVERS, DEAD AND LIVING, THEY SHALL REIGN WITH CHRIST DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, (ezek c37:v4-v5, ps104 v30).
BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED, THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 5)
HERE IT IS REVEALED, THAT THERE SHALL BE TWO RESURRECTIONS, THE FIRST RESURRECTION SHALL CONSIST OF THE BELIEVERS (1cor c15: v51-v52, 1thess c4:v17) IN CHRIST (THE SAINTS).
THE SECOND RESURRECTION SHALL OCCUR AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, THIS RESURRECTION SHALL BE THE UNGODLY (john c5:v29), THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE THAT HAS PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION: ON SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HAS NO POWER, BUT THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST, AND SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 6)
THE PROMISE OF CHRIST TO THE SAINTS, WHO HAVE PUT THERE FAITH AND TRUST IN HIS NAME, THEY SHALL PASS FROM LIFE TO LIFE, AND SHALL MINISTER TO THE LORD, (john c5: v24-v25, 1pet c2: v5-v9).
AND WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED, SATAN SHALL BE LOOSE OUT OF HIS PRISON, AND SHALL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE
NATIONS THAT ARE IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO BATTLE: THE NUMBER OF THEM, IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSES 7-8)
THE FULFILMENT OF VERSE 3, (THREE), WHEN SATAN SHALL BE FREED FROM THE ABYSS TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS, FOR THE FINAL TIME, GOG AND MAGOG, THESE ARE THE SYMBOLIC NAMES GIVEN TO THE ENEMIES OF GOD, see (ezek c38), WHERE ALL WHO OPPOSE THE LORD GOD ARE CALLED GOG AND MAGOG, THESE VERSES REVEAL THE FINAL BATTLE, NOT THE SAME AS REVELATION CHAPTER16, WHICH SHALL OCCUR AT THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, BUT AFTER THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, THE NUMBER OF WHICH ARE LIKE THE SANDS OF THE SEA, UNCOUNTABLE, EVEN AFTER CHRIST HAS REIGNED FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS, REBELLION AGAINST RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE REVEALED, AND SHALL REVEAL MAN’S DEPRAVITY, FOR WHICH HE SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO BLAME SATAN, (rom c1:v18-v32).
AND THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH AND SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS, AND THE BELOVED CITY:
AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND DEVOURED THEM.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 9)
HERE AGAIN THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD GOD SHALL ONCE AGAIN SURROUND JERUSALEM THE HEAVENLY CITY, BUT THIS TIME THE LORD GOD SHALL DEAL WITH THEM SWIFTLY AND JUSTLY, (gen c19: v24, gen c13:v10).
AND THE DEVIL, THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, WHERE THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE, AND SHALL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 10)
THE MILLENNIUM PERIOD SHALL BE A TIME WHEN SIN SHALL STILL BE ACTIVE UPON THE EARTH, DESPITE THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, (isa c65:v17-v25).
DURING THE MILLENNIUM PERIOD MISSIONARIES SHALL BE SENT OUT TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, (isa c66).
SATAN JOINS HIS SON (ANTICHRIST), IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, THE REASON FOR SATAN BEING BOUND FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS, IS TO REVEAL THE SINFUL NATURE OF MAN, FOR IT SHALL BE DURING THE MILLENNIUM PERIOD THAT MAN’S REBELLIOUS NATURE SHALL COME TO THE SURFACE, WITHOUT THE INFLUENCE OF SATAN, WHICH WILL SHOW THAT MAN WOULD HAVE REBELLED AGAINST THE LORD GOD, EVEN IF SATAN HAD NOT BEEN AROUND TO DECEIVE HIM, THUS MAKING NO EXCUSE FOR MAN TO BLAME SATAN FOR HIS FALL, IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, (luke c16:v23, matt c25:v41, rom c16:v20).
AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT, FROM WHOSE FACE THE EARTH AND HEAVEN FLED AWAY;
AND THERE WAS FOUND NO PLACE FOR THEM,
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 11)
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT HAS ARRIVED, AND THE DEAD OF ALL AGES SHALL STAND BEFORE THE GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND NO PLACE SHALL BE FOUND, FOR ANYONE WISHING TO HIDE FROM THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST. (1john c4:v17, rom c14:v10, 2cor c5:v10).
AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STANDING BEFORE GOD; AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED: AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE: AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS,
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 12)
ALL JUDGMENT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO CHRIST FROM THE FATHER, (john c5:v22), SO THIS IS CHRIST SITTING UPON THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT, CHRIST THEN OPENS THE BOOKS, THESE BOOKS WHICH CONTAIN THE DEEDS (WORKS) OF ALL THE DEAD, THEN CHRIST OPENS YET ANOTHER BOOK, WHICH IS CALLED,"THE BOOK OF LIFE", (THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE), rev c21:v27), WHICH CONTAINS THE NAMES OF ALL WHO DIED IN HIM.
IT IS REVEALED HERE, THAT ALL THE DEAD THROUGHOUT ALL CREATION, THE SAINTS AND THE UNGODLY SHALL STAND BEFORE CHRIST AT THE GREAT WHITE JUDGMENT THRONE, AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST SHALL JUDGE THEM ALL, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS (DEEDS) DONE IN THE FLESH, THE SAINTS (BELIEVERS) SHALL RECEIVE THEIR REWARDS, (1cor c3: v14-v15) AND THE UNGODLY (UNBELIEVERS), SHALL RECEIVE THEIR PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR REJECTION OF CHRIST (THE WORD OF GOD), WHICH SHALL RESULT IN THE CASTING OF THEM INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, THE SECOND DEATH, TORMENT FOR ALL ETERNITY, (rom c14:v10, 2cor c5:v10).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
LIFE,
LIFE GIVING SPIRIT,
ANCIENT OF DAYS,
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.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 13)
HERE WE HAVE NOT ONLY THE DEAD IN THE SEA, BUT DEATH ITSELF, A REFERENCE TO ALL THE DEAD OF MANKIND,HADES: A REFERENCE TO HELL THAT SHALL ALSO GIVE UP THE SOULS OF THOSE THAT ARE IN ITS CUSTODY, (1pet c3:v22, rev c1:v17:v18).
AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 14)
WE ARE TOLD THAT DEATH (BODILY) AND HADES (HELL) WHICH CLAIM THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO DIE WITHOUT CHRIST, ARE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, WITHIN THE LAKE OF FIRE THE UNGODLY SHALL SUFFER GREAT ANGUISH, FOR WE ARE TOLD THAT THEY SHALL NOT FIND REST DAY NOR NIGHT, (see verse10, 1cor c15:v26).
AND WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE,
(CHAPTER 20: VERSE 15)
HERE IS THE WARNING OF THIS PROPHECY TO THE UNGODLY, (UNBELIEVER) THAT IF THEY DIE WITHOUT CHRIST JESUS AS THEIR SAVIOUR, THEY SHALL SURELY DIE WITHIN THEIR SIN, AND TO DO SO, MEANS THEIR NAME SHALL NOT BE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE, AND IT SHALL NOT MATTER HOW GOOD A PERSON YOU MAYBE, YOU WILL STILL BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. MANY MAY ASK WHAT WOULD BE THE REASON FOR THE LORD GOD TO RESURRECT (BODILY) THOSE WHO DIED WITHOUT CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOUR, THERE ARE MANY REASONS FOR THIS: 1. IS TO SHOW THE GLORY OF GOD AND CHRIST JESUS, AND THE BLESSING THEY COULD HAVE RECEIVED.
2. IS TO REVEAL THE DEEDS OF THEIR FLESH, FOR AS THEY LIVED “THEIR” LIVES SEPARATED FROM GOD AND CHRIST, BY THEIR OWN FREE WILL, THUS BREAKING THE FIRST COMMANDMENT, THE LORD IN RETURN SHALL SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM THEM, FOR THEY DID NOT PUT THEIR TRUST OR FAITH IN HIM, BUT IN THE GOD OF THEIR OWN IMAGINATION, (exod c20, deut c6:v5).
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(CHAPTER 21: VERSE 1) (THE NEW JERUSALEM)
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.
THE POST MILLENNIUM PERIOD, (ps72:v8), ALL THAT IS OF THE OLD CREATION IS DESTROYED, IT SHALL BE BURNED UP WITH INTENSE HEAT, NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH, THE ETERNAL STATE OF THE REDEEMED, THE "NEW EDEN," (2pet c3:v10-v13, isa c65:v17).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
FOUNDATION,
AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND,
(CHAPTER 21: VERSE 2)
THE BRIDE.THE REDEEMED OF ALL AGES, (THE BODY OF BELIEVERS).
NEW JERUSALEM: THE ABODE OF THE SAINTS, (REDEEMED), THE ETERNAL CITY, (heb c12:v22: v24), NOTE THERE IS NO MENTION OF A TEMPLE MADE BY HUMAN HANDS, (see verse22).
AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN SAYING, BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL
WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD.
AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES, AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NOR SORROW, NOR CRYING, AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PAIN: FOR THE FORMER THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY.
(CHAPTER 21: VERSES 3-4)
TABERNACLE OF GOD: "IMMANUEL" GOD WITH US, A HOLY GOD WITH HIS HOLY CHILDREN, THE REDEEMED SHALL LOOK UPON THE FACE OF GOD, WITH GREAT EXULTATION,FOR DEATH HAS LOST ITS STRING AND THE GRAVE IS NO MORE, NO GRIEF, NO ANXIETY NO AFFLICTION ALL BANISHED,(isa c9:v6, isa c25:v8, john c14:v23).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
SHILOH,
AND HE THAT SAT UPON THE THRONE SAID, BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WRITE: FOR THESE WORDS
ARE TRUE AND FAITHFUL,
(CHAPTER 21: VERSE 5)
THERE SHALL BE NO CHARACTERISTIC OF THE OLD EARTH OR HEAVEN NOTHING SHALL REMAIN, NO LONGER SHALL THE LORD BE SEPARATED FROM HIS CHILDREN, FAITHFUL AND TRUE, (2cor c5:v17) "IT IS DONE," IT HAS COME TO PASS. AMEN!
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, IT IS DONE; I AM THE ALPHA AND OMEGA,THE BEGINNING AND THE END, I WILL GIVE THE FOUNTAIN
OF THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY UNTO HIM THAT THIRSTS, HE WHO OVERCOMES SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; AND I WILL BE
HIS GOD AND HE SHALL BE MY SON.
(CHAPTER 21: VERSES 6-7)
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA: THE GREAT "I AM", BEFORE HIM THERE WAS NO OTHER GOD, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE AFTER HIM, (isa c43:v10- v11, isa c44:v8).
HE IS THE "ROCK", (1cor c10:v4), ALL HIS WORKS ARE PERFECT, A GOD OF TRUTH, (deut c32:v4),AND ALL MAY COME WITHOUT COST, FOR THE PRICE HAS BEEN PAID IN FULL, PURCHASED BY HIS OWN BLOOD, (acts c20:v28).
THE SPRING OF THE LIVING WATERS, THE SOURCE OF ALL ARE SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS, (john c4:v10v13, rev c22:v1).
HE WHO OVERCOMES! THOSE WHO CONQUERED THE FLESH, THE WORLD AND THE DEVILTHROUGH CHRIST, (john c16:v33).
SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS: ALL THE PROMISES OF THE LORD GOD THROUGH HIS SON CHRIST JESUS.
AND HE SHALL BE HIS GOD: FATHER (ABBA), (rom c8:v15, gal c4:v6, mark c14:v36). (see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
FOUNTAIN,
BUT THE FEARFUL, AND UNBELIEVING, AND THE ABOMINABLE, AND MURDERERS, THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, AND THE SORCERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND ALL LIARS, SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE THAT BURNS WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH,
(CHAPTER 21: VERSE 8)
WOE UNTO THE UNGODLY: TOTAL SEPARATION FROM GOD.
1. THOSE WHO WOULD NOT PICK UP THE CROSS OF CHRIST, ARE CALLED THE COWARDLY, THOSE THAT WORSHIPPED CHRIST WITH THEIR LIPS NOT THEIR HEARTS, (matt c15:v8, mark c7:v6).
2. THE FAITHLESS ONE, WHO BELIEVED NOT IN CHRIST JESUS AS THEIR SAVIOUR, (1cor c1:v18, 2thess c2:v10.
3. THE ABOMINABLE, THE HYPOCRITES, THOSE WHO CLAIM TO KNOW GOD, BUT BY THEIR DEEDS THEY DENY HIM, (titus c1:v16,1john c2:v4.)
4. THE LIARS: THOSE WHO HABITUALLY TELL LIES, (john c8:v44). (acts c6:v13).
5. MURDERERS: THOSE WHO TAKE PLEASURE IN THE PREMEDITATED KILLING OF THEIR FELLOW BEING, (num c35:v16-v21).
6. IMMORAL PERSON: THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY PROMISCUOUS, AND ACT OUTSIDE THE ORDINANCE OF GOD’S LAWS, (rom c1:v24-v32; 1cor c6:v18-v19; lev c18).
7. SORCERERS: THOSE THAT PRACTICE THE DEEP THINGS OF SATAN, I.E. DIVINATION, INCANTATION, NECROMANCY, WITCHCRAFT, WIZARDRY, CHARMS, SPELLS, ETC, (deut c18:v9-v14, 2kings c17:v17).
8.THE IDOLATERS: THOSE THAT WORSHIP ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE LORD GOD, WORSHIPPING THE CREATED RATHER THAN THE CREATOR, (rom c1:v25).
AND THERE CAME UNTO ME ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS WHICH HAD THE SEVEN BOWLS FULL OF THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES, AND TALKED WITH ME, SAYING, COME HERE, I WILL SHOW YOU THE BRIDE, THE LAMB’S WIFE. AND HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT TO A GREAT AND HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND SHOWED ME THE GREAT CITY, THE HOLY JERUSALEM, DESCENDING OUT OF HEAVEN FROM GOD, HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD: AND HER LIGHT WAS LIKE A MOST PRECIOUS STONE, EVEN LIKE A JASPER STONE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL;
(CHAPTER 21: VERSES 9-11)
THE NEW JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY, THE ABODE OF THE REDEEMED, (john c14:v2), SURROUNDED BY THE GLORY OF GOD, THE LORD GOD REVEALED IN ALL HIS ESSENCE, (ps29:v3), HEAVENLY BLISS, AS THE GLORY OF GOD RADIATES FROM ITS CENTRE, THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FATHER'S GLORY (CHRIST) IS ITS LIGHT, (acts c22:v10-v11; john c1:v9-v10). THE WIFE OF THE LAMB: THE CHURCH (see verse22).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST).
THE BRIDEGROOM
IT HAD A GREAT AND HIGH WALL, WITH TWELVE GATES, AND AT THE GATES TWELVE ANGELS, AND NAMES WRITTEN ON THEM
WHICH ARE THE NAMES OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: THREE GATES ON THE EAST, THREE
GATES ON THE NORTH, THREE GATES ON THE SOUTH, AND THREE GATES ON THE WEST, AND THE WALL OF THE CITY HAD
TWELVE FOUNDATIONS, AND IN THEM THE NAMES OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE LAMB,
(CHAPTER 21: VERSES12-14)
ANGELS STANDING AND GUARDING THE TWELVE GATES: THE ENTRANCE OF THE HOLY CITY, THE NEW JERUSALEM TO PREVENT ANY FROM ENTERING WHO ARE NOT REDEEMED, THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, ARE INSCRIBED ON THE GATES, REVEALING REDEEMED JEWS, (john c10:v16, eph c2:v16). THE TWELVE FOUNDATION STONES ARE THE NAMES OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF CHRIST, NOTE: THAT THE WALL WAS BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION STONES, THAT IS UPON THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, THIS REVEALS THAT THE REDEEMED JEWS ARE THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL THAT WERE SEALED BY THE LORD GOD, DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, (rev c7: v1-v8, rev c14: v1-v5, eph c2: v19-v22, heb c11: v10).
AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME HAD A GOLDEN REED TO MEASURE THE CITY AND IT’S GATES AND IT’S WALLS.
AND THE CITY IS LAID OUT AS A SQUARE; IT’S LENGTH IS AS LARGE AS ITS BREADTH,AND HE MEASURED THE CITY WITH THE REED,
TWELVE THOUSAND FURLONGS, IT’S LENGTH, BREADTH, AND HEIGHT ARE EQUAL, AND HE MEASURED ITS WALL, ONE HUNDRED
AND FORTY-FOUR CUBITS, ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF A MAN, THAT IS, OF THE ANGEL, THE BUILDING OF THE WALL WAS OF JASPER;
AND THE CITY WAS PURE GOLD, LIKE UNTO CLEAR GLASS. AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WALL OF THE CITY WERE GARNISHED WITH ALL MANNERS OF PRECIOUS STONES; THE FIRST FOUNDATION WAS JASPER; THE SECOND SAPPHIRE; THE THIRD CHALCEDONY; THE FOURTH
EMERALD; THE FIFTH SARDONYX; THE SIXTH SARDIUS; THE SEVENTH CHRYSOLITE; THE EIGHTH BERYL; THE NINTH TOPAZ; THE TENTH CHRYSOPRASE; THE ELEVENTH JACINTH; AND THE TWELVE AMETHYSTS, AND THE TWELVE GATES WERE TWELVE PEARLS; EACH INDIVIDUAL GATE WAS OF ONE PEARL: AND THE STREET OF THE CITY WAS PURE GOLD, AS IT WERE TRANSPARENT GLASS,
(CHAPTER 21: VERSES15-21
NO WORDS WOULD DO JUSTICE IN TRYING TO DESCRIBE THE NEW JERUSALEM, ONLY TO SAY THAT IT’S BEAUTY IS UNIMAGINABLE TO THE HUMAN MIND, AND WHAT ECSTASY THERE WILL BE WHEN THE REDEEMED ARRIVE HOME, (eph c2:v19, phil c3:v20, heb c12:v22.
EACH GATE WAS A SINGLE PEARL: CHRIST JESUS, WAS THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, (matt c13:v44:v46), HE IS THE ENTRANCE FOR ALL THE REDEEMED, HE (CHRIST) IS OUR SURETY, (heb c7:v22).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE ROCK,
THE CORNER STONE,
THE CHIEF STONE,
THE LIVING STONE,
THE STUMBLING STONE,
THE REJECTED STONE,
THE TRUE FOUNDATION STONE,
BUT I SAW NO TEMPLE THEREIN: FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE LAMB ARE ITS TEMPLE,
(CHAPTER 21: VERSE 22)
THE FATHER AND SON: A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, READ (1pet c2:v4:v5), WHERE THE SAINTS ARE ADDRESSED AS LIVING STONES, BEING BUILT UP AS A SPIRITUAL HOUSE FOR A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, AND (1cor c12:v27), WHERE THE APOSTLE PAUL ADDRESSES THE SAINTS AS MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE BRIDE (BODY OF BELIEVERS), ARE ALSO THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE WHICH JOHN SAW, (eph c2:v21, FOR THE BELIEVERS AND CHRIST ARE ONE, (john c14:v20, FOR THE MARRIAGE (THE UNION) OF THE BRIDEGROOM (CHRIST) TO THE BRIDE (BODY OF BELIEVERS) THE CHURCH, SHALL MAKE THEM "ONE".
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
HEAD OF THE CHURCH,
HABITATION,
JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH,
AND THE CITY HAS NO NEED OF THE SUN, NOR THE MOON, TO SHINE IN IT: FOR THE GLORY OF GOD ILLUMINATED IT.
AND THE LAMB IS ITS LIGHT.
(CHAPTER 21: VERSE 23)
THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE ITS LIGHT, (mal c4:v2), CHRIST JESUS OUR MESSIAH, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE RADIANCE OF THE FATHER’S GLORY, (see verses 9 and 11).
AND THE NATIONS OF THEM WHICH ARE SAVED SHALL WALK IN THE LIGHT OF IT: AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SHALL BRING
THEIR GLORY AND HONOUR INTO IT,
(CHAPTER 21: VERSE 24)
THE NATIONS SHALL WALK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THEY SHALL HONOUR, THE TRUTH, FOR THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL HAS BEEN REALISED, (isa c60:v3:v19, isa c61:v10).
AND THE GATES SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL BY DAY: FOR THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE. AND THEY SHALL BRING THE GLORY
AND THE HONOUR OF THE NATIONS INTO IT, AND THERE SHALL BY NO MEANS ENTER INTO IT ANYTHING THAT DEFILES, OR CAUSES AN ABOMINATION OR A LIE, BUT THEY WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE,
(CHAPTER 21: VERSES 25-27)
DARKNESS SHALL SUCCUMB TO THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE LORD GOD’S GLORY, AND THE NATIONS SHALL REVERE THE LORD GOD AND CHRIST, AND ONLY THE REDEEMED SHALL BE PERMITTED TO ENTER WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM, (rev c22:v14, luke c10:v20).
AND HE SHOWED ME A PURE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL, PROCEEDING FROM THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB, IN THE MIDST OF THE STREET, AND ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, WAS THE TREE OF LIFE, WHICH BARE TWELVE FRUITS, EACH TREE YIELDING ITS FRUITS EVERY MONTH: AND THE LEAVES OF THE TREE WERE FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS,
(CHAPTER 22: VERSES 1-2) (JESUS IS COMING QUICKLY)
THE THRONE: THE CROWNING OF THE MESSIAH, CHRIST JESUS, WHO IS KING AND PRIEST, (zec c6:v13-v14).
THE RIVER OF LIFE FLOWS FROM THE CENTRE OF THE THRONE, FOR THROUGH CHRIST COMES LIFE, LIFE ETERNAL, THE TREE OF LIFE: THE LORD’S BLESSING TO THE REDEEMED, FOR THE LORD IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, (ps36:v9, prov8: v35, prov 14: v27, 1john c5:v12).
THE LEAVES ARE FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS, (mal c4:v2, c5:v17, ezek c47:v12).
THERE IS ALWAYS HEALING IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD GOD. (see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
PHYSICIAN,
JEHOVAH-ROPHEKA,
AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE CURSE; BUT THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB SHALL BE IN IT; AND HIS SERVANTS SHALL
SERVE HIM: THEY SHALL SEE HIS FACE; AND HIS NAME SHALL BE IN THEIR FOREHEADS,
(CHAPTER 22: VERSES 3-4)
THERE SHALL BE CONTINUOUS BLESSING WITHIN THE NEW JERUSALEM, THE SAINTS SHALL MINISTER UNTO THE LORD IN EXULTATION, THEY SHALL BE HIS PRIESTS, (1pet c2:v9). LOVE AND PEACE SHALL SURROUND THEM, AND THE LORD GOD SHALL NOT HIDE HIS FACE FROM THEM, BUT SHALL SEAL THE REDEEMED AS HIS ELECT, (ps17:v15, ps6:v11).
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AND THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE; AND THEY NEED NO LAMP NOR LIGHT OF THE SUN; FOR THE LORD GOD GIVES THEM LIGHT: AND THEY SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, THESE WORDS ARE FAITHFUL AND TRUE: AND THE LORD GOD OF THE HOLY PROPHETS SENT HIS ANGELS TO SHOW UNTO HIS SERVANTS THE THINGS WHICH MUST SHORTLY BE DONE. BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY: BLESSED IS HE THAT KEEPS THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK.
THE ASSURANCE THAT WHAT HAS BEEN SPOKEN, SHALL COME TO PASS, THE ANGEL AFFIRMS THAT THE VERACITY OF THE WORDS OF PROPHECY ARE FAITHFUL AND TRUE, (2pet c1:v21, rev c1:v1).
BLESSED: HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO HEED THE WORDS OF CHRIST AND ACT UPON THEM, (rom c5:v17, dan c7:v27, rev c1:v5, c19:v11).
AND I, JOHN, SAW AND HEARD THESE THINGS. AND WHEN I HAD HEARD AND SEEN, I FELL DOWN TO WORSHIP BEFORE THE FEET OF THE ANGEL WHO SHOWED ME THESE THINGS, THEN HE SAID UNTO ME SEE THAT YOU DO NOT DO THAT: FOR I AM YOUR FELLOW SERVANT, AND OF YOUR BRETHREN THE PROPHETS, AND OF THEM THAT KEEP THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK: WORSHIP GOD. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, DO NOT SEAL THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK: FOR THE TIME IS AT HAND.
(CHAPTER 22: VERSES 8-10)
THE APOSTLE JOHN WAS REBUKED: FOR WORSHIP TOTALLY BELONGS TO THE CREATOR, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, NOT THE CREATED, NOTE THE WORD BRETHREN, GIVEN TO THOSE WHO HEED THE WORD OF GOD, (THE SAINTS OF ALL AGES) AND THE COMMAND NOT TO SEAL UP THESE WORDS OF PROPHECY, FOR IT IS THE LORD’S DESIRE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD TO KNOW WHAT SHALL BEFALL THEM, (dan c12:v4).
THE TIME IS NEAR: JUDGMENT HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR MANKIND, THESE JUDGMENTS SHALL BE EXECUTED, (luke c21: v20-v36).
HE THAT IS UNJUST, LET HIM BE UNJUST STILL; AND HE WHICH IS FILTHY, LET HIM BE FILTHY STILL; AND HE THAT IS RIGHTEOUS,
LET HIM BE RIGHTEOUS STILL: AND HE THAT IS HOLY, LET HIM BE HOLY STILL,
(CHAPTER 22: VERSE 11)
THOSE WHO HAVE INSIGHT SHALL SEE THE WORD OF GOD’S PROPHECY TO BE THE TRUTH, AND SHALL LEAD MANY TO CHRIST, THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST HAS ALWAYS BEEN FOOLISHNESS TO THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING, AND THEY SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND, BUT SHALL CONTINUE IN THEIR UNGODLY WAYS, (dan c12:v10, ezek c3:v27, 1cor c1:v18).
AND BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY; AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, TO GIVE EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORK, I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE FIRST AND THE LAST,
(CHAPTER 22: VERSES12-13)
REWARD: A REFERENCE TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. (see note on rev c20:v12). THE GREAT "I AM", THE PROMISE OF THE ALMIGHTY THAT HE IS THE ETERNAL ONE, (JEHOVAH) (rev c1:v8).
BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MAY HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER THROUGH
THE GATES INTO THE CITY,
(CHAPTER 22: VERSE 14)
THE BLESSING TO THE SAINTS THAT THEY SHALL HAVE THE GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND THAT THEY SHALL ENTER THE HOLY CITY, (rev c21:v27).
FOR OUTSIDE ARE DOGS, AND SORCERERS, AND THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, AND MURDERERS AND IDOLATERS, AND WHOSOEVER LOVES AND MAKES LIES.
(CHAPTER 22: VERSE 15)
THE TERM "DOG" WAS GIVEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TO DESCRIBE EVIL PEOPLE,(ps22:v16),AND IN THE EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS, IT IS GIVEN TO PEOPLE OF LOW CHARACTER,(phil c3:v2).
I, JESUS, HAVE SENT MY 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,
(CHAPTER 22: VERSE 16)
CHRIST JESUS BEARS WITNESS THAT HE SENT HIS ANGEL TO REVEAL THE WORD OF THIS PROPHECY, REVEALING HIS LOVE FOR THE CHURCH, AS THE ROOT OF DAVID, THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID, HE IS THE "BELOVED", THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR, ALL THESE ARE HIS TITLES THAT HE ASCRIBES TO HIMSELF, (rev c1:v1, isa c11:v1, jer c23:v5).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
DAY STAR,
BRANCH,
THE RIGHTEOUS BRANCH,
AND THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, COME, AND LET HIM WHO HEARS SAY, COME AND LET HIM WHO THIRSTS COME, AND WHOSOEVER DESIRES, LET HIM TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY,
(CHAPTER 22: VERSE 17)
THE SPIRIT THAT BEARS WITNESS TO CHRIST: THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, (john c14:v17, c15:v26, c16:v13) AND THE BRIDE (BODY OF BELIEVERS), THEY THAT BORE WITNESS THAT JESUS WAS THE CHRIST AND SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, SHALL SAY "COME", DRINK FREELY THE WATER OF LIFE, RECEIVED IT FROM THE FRIEND OF SINNERS WHO IS THE BREAD OF LIFE, (john c6:v48:v51, matt c11:v19).
FOR I TESTIFY TO EVERYONE WHO HEARS THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK, IF ANYONE ADDS TO THESE THINGS, GOD WILL ADD TO HIM THE PLAGUES THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK; AND IF ANY MAN SHALL TAKE FROM THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THIS PROPHECY, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, AND FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK:
(CHAPTER 22: VERSES 18-19)
FIRST COMES THE DIRE WARNING NOT TO ADD TO THESE PROPHECIES (prov 30 c6), AND SECONDLY THAT IF YOU TAKE AWAY FROM THESE PROPHECIES OR REJECT THEM, IT SHALL RESULT IN BEING CAST OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD, (gal c1:v8, matt c24:v35, deut c4:v2 c12:v32).
(see appendixes on the NAMES and TITLES of CHRIST)
THE TRUTH,
THE RESURRECTION,
THE LIFE,
HE WHICH TESTIFIES THESE THINGS SAYS, SURELY I COME QUICKLY; AMEN, EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS.
(CHAPTER 22: VERSE 20)
THE SAINTS ARE TOLD TO WATCH FOR CHRIST’S COMING, FOR HIS ADVENT IS ASSURED, FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY BUT HIS WORD SHALL NEVER PASS AWAY, (matt c24:v21).
THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST; BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.
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(CHAPTER 22: VERSE 21)
THE BENEDICTION: THE GRACE (THE LOVE OF GOD, DIVINE FAVOUR) BE TO ALL WITHIN THE CHURCH, FOR BY GRACE ARE WE SAVED, THROUGH FAITH, NOT OF OURSELVES, IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD, CHRIST JESUS, "AMEN", (TRUTH) (SO BE IT), (eph c2:v8).
THE APPENDIXES ON THE BOOK OF REVELATION
(THE SEVEN SEALS, THE SEVEN TRUMPETS AND THE SEVEN BOWLS) THE SEVEN SEALS REVEAL THE EVENTS OF THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, THE FIRST SEAL REVEALS THE COMING OF THE ANTICHRIST, THE SECOND SEAL REVEALS WAR UPON THE EARTH, THE THIRD SEAL REVEALS FAMINE UPON THE EARTH, THE FOURTH SEAL REVEALS THE DEATH OF ONE QUARTER (ONE FOURTH) OF THE EARTHS POPULATION, THE FIFTH SEAL REVEALS THE MURDERING OF THE SAINTS, THE SIXTH SEAL REVEALS THE DAY OF THE LORD, THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, AND THE SEVENTH SEAL REVEALS THE JUDGMENTS OF THE SEVEN TRUMPETS.
THE REASON WHY THE SIXTH SEAL REVEALS THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, IS BECAUSE THE NUMBER SIX (6), IS THE NUMBER DESIGNATED TO MAN BY THE LORD GOD, THUS THE SIXTH SEAL IS USED TO SHOW WHAT SHALL BEFALL MAN FOR HIS INIQUITIES. THE SIXTH SEAL IS THEN POSTPONED AND THE FIFTH SEAL CONTINUES FROM VERSE 11CHAPTER 6 RIGHT THROUGH CHAPTER 7 TO CHAPTER 8
WHERE THE SEVEN ANGELS WITH THE SEVEN TRUMPETS COME INTO FRUITION. THE LORD SHALL NOT PERMIT THE JUDGMENT OF THE SIXTH SEAL, UNTIL THE JUDGMENTS OF THE SEVEN TRUMPETS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED, SO
THE SIXTH SEAL BECOMES IN REALITY THE SEVENTH SEAL, AND THE SEVENTH COMES INTO FRUITION AFTER THE FIFTH SEAL.
THE FIRST SIX TRUMPETS SHALL CONSTITUTE THE DEVASTATION THAT MAN SHALL BRING UPON THE EARTH DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, WITH THE SEVENTH TRUMPET REVEALING THE ADVENT OF CHRIST AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION,THE SEVEN BOWLS SHALL OCCUR AT THE CLOSE OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, AND SHALL CONSIST OF GOD’S WRATH, THE FIRST SIX BOWLS SHALL BE POURED OUT UPON MAN IN A UNBROKEN SUCCESSION, WITH A PERIOD OF TIME BETWEEN THE SIXTH AND THE POURING OUT OF THE SEVENTH, THE SEVENTH BOWL ALSO REVEALS THE ADVENT OF CHRIST NOTE: THAT WITH THE SIXTH SEAL BECOMING IN REALITY THE SEVENTH AND REVEALING THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, AND THE SEVENTH TRUMPET AND THE SEVENTH BOWL ALSO REVEALING THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, WE ARE SHOWN THAT ALL SHALL OCCUR AT THE NUMBER SEVEN, FOR SEVEN IS THE NUMBER OF GOD, (REV1: v4),NOTE ALSO THAT THE NUMBER SIX IS MAN’S NUMBER AND THAT THE FIRST SIX SEALS THE FIRST SIX TRUMPETS AND THE FIRST SIX BOWLS ARE ALL CONTRIBUTED TO MAN.
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THE WORD EARTHQUAKE IS MENTIONED SEVEN TIMES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, (c6:v12, c8:v5, c11: v13-v19, and c16:v18), ONLY ONCE IS THE WORD EARTHQUAKE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE, THIS EARTHQUAKE IS MENTIONED IN (chapter8: verse5), AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FLEEING REMNANT OF ISRAEL INTO THE WILDERNESS, WHERE THEY SHALL BE NOURISHED FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS, (3½), THIS EARTHQUAKE SHALL OCCUR AT THE MID:POINT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, NOTE IN C12:v13, THAT THE EARTH OPENED ITS MOUTH TO SWALLOW UP THE RIVER THAT SATAN POURED OUT AFTER THE FLEEING REMNANT OF ISRAEL, THIS OPENING OF THE EARTH IS THE EARTHQUAKE OFF (chapter 8:verse 5)THE REST OF THE EARTHQUAKES MENTIONED IN REVELATION ARE TO DO WITH THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE, AS TO WHEN THIS GREAT EARTHQUAKE SHALL OCCUR WE TURN TO THE SCRIPTURES OF REVELATION, AND IN THE BREAKING OF THE SIXTH SEAL (c6:v12), THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IS REVEALED, AND THAT IT IS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DAY OF THE LORD, THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS, THE NEXT TIME THIS GREAT EARTHQUAKE IS MENTIONED IS IN (c11:v13), AND THIS IS JUST PRIOR TO THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET, AND THE SEVENTH TRUMPET WE KNOW REVEALS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS, AND IN VERSE19 OF THIS CHAPTER, THE EARTHQUAKE IS MENTIONED WITHOUT BEING LABELLED "GREAT", THE REASON FOR THIS IS BECAUSE IT IS THE SAME EARTHQUAKE OF VERSE 13, WITH THE SOUNDING OF THE SIXTH TRUMPET CAME THE SECOND WOE, IN WHICH THIS GREAT EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED, AND WE ARE TOLD IN VERSE 14 THAT THE THIRD WOE WAS COMING QUICKLY, THE THIRD WOE COMING WITH THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET, THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH TRUMPET SHALL BE SOUNDED CONSECUTIVELY, AND THE SEVEN TRUMPET REVEALS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
THE NEXT TIME THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IS MENTIONED IS IN (c16:v18), THIS OCCURS AT THE POURING OUT OF THE SEVENTH BOWL, WHICH WE KNOWN IS THE FINAL JUDGMENTS OF GOD’S WRATH UPON THE EARTH AND THIS ALSO REVEALS THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT ABOUT AS TO WHEN THIS GREAT EARTHQUAKE SHALL OCCUR, FOR IT IS REVEALED THAT IT SHALL BE AT THE SECOND COMING, THE ADVENT OF CHRIST JESUS.
BUT FOR FURTHER SCRIPTURAL PROOF, WE NEED ONLY TURN TO THE PROPHET EZEKIEL, CHAPTER 38, AND IT IS REVEALED THAT A GREAT EARTHQUAKE SHALL OCCUR AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH IN CHAPTER 14 REVEALS THAT AT CHRIST SECOND COMING, THE MOUNT OF OLIVES SHALL BE SPILT IN TWO, CONSTITUTING AN EARTHQUAKE. AND IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 24, (THE APOCALYPSE), IT IS REVEALED THAT WHEN THE LORD JESUS RETURNS TO THE EARTH TO PUNISH THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, THE EARTH SHALL BE SPILT THROUGH, WHICH ALSO CONSTITUTES A GREAT EARTHQUAKE.
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THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM SHALL BE A TIME WHEN CHRIST JESUS SHALL REIGN UPON THE EARTH FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS, THERE ARE MANY INTERPRETATIONS INTO THE MILLENNIUM PERIOD, AS TO WHETHER IT EXISTS OR NOT, SOME BELIEVE THAT THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE SET UP, AT THE ADVENT OF CHRIST, WHILE OTHERS BELIEVE THAT MEN THEMSELVES SHALL BRING IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, THAT THEY SHALL CREATE HEAVEN UPON THE EARTH.
AND OTHERS BELIEVE THAT THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM SHALL BE SET UP AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, THE BELIEF THAT MAN SHALL CREATE HEAVEN UPON THE EARTH CAN BE REJECTED FOR IT IS TOTALLY UNSCRIPTURAL, THE BELIEF THAT CHRIST SHALL NOT SET UP THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM BUT JUDGE THE UNGODLY AT HIS SECOND COMING, CASTING THEM INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, AND THEN CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH DOES NOT DO SCRIPTURE JUSTICE, IT IS TRUE TO SAY THAT WHEN YOU READ SUCH PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURES AS DANIEL CHAPTER 12 VERSE 2, MATTHEW CHAPTER 25 VERSES 29 TO 31, JOHN CHAPTER 5 VERSES 28 TO 29, CHAPTER 6 VERSES 39TO 45, AND ACTS CHAPTER 24 VERSE 15 AS ONLY POINTING TO A SINGLE RESURRECTION, AND READING SUCH PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURES ONE WOULD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE WAS BUT ONE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.
BUT WHERE THEY FALL DOWN, IS THEIR REJECTION OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THEY BELIEVE THAT IN THE LIGHT OF THE SCRIPTURES QUOTED, REVELATION CHAPTER 20 SHOULD BE IGNORED, BECAUSE IN THEIR VIEW THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS AN OBSCURE BOOK FILLED WITH SYMBOLICS.
BEAR IN MIND THAT ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES QUOTED WERE WRITTEN BEFORE THE BOOK OF REVELATION, AND ALSO BEAR IN MIND THAT THE BOOK OF REVELATION, IS " THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST " GIVEN BY "GOD" HIMSELF TO THE CHURCH, ALSO REMEMBER THAT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THERE WAS NO CLEAR STATEMENT AS TO THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, (see ps16:v8-v11 and acts c2:v24-v25)AND WHEN CHRIST SPOKE OF HIS BODILY RESURRECTION BEFORE HIS CRUCIFIXION, THE DISCIPLES DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, (see john c16:v16-v19), SO TO REJECT THAT THERE SHALL BE TWO RESURRECTIONS WOULD DO A GREAT INJUSTICE TO HOLY-WRIT, (THE SCRIPTURES), THE BOOK OF REVELATION CLEARLY STATES THAT THERE SHALL BE TWO RESURRECTIONS WITH A PERIOD OF ONE THOUSAND YEARS BETWEEN THEM, THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS THE CONCLUSION OF ALL PROPHECY, AND IS THE ONLY BOOK OF THE BIBLE WHICH STATES "BLESSED" ARE THEY THAT READ AND THOSE THAT HEAR THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK, AND IT CLEARLY STATES THAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS TO TAKE HEED OF WHAT IS WRITTEN WITHIN IT.
SEE JOHN’S GOSPEL CHAPTER 16 VERSES 13:v15, WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT SHALL GUIDE THE APOSTLES INTO ALL TRUTH, AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE, YET FUTURE.
SCRIPTURES THAT REVEAL A MILLENNIUM PERIOD, (isa c2:v2:v4, c49:v23, C65:v20:v25, c66:v18:v21, jer c13:v7, ezek c40 to c48, mic c4:v2, Ps 68:v29, ps72:v8:v11, ps 86:v9, ps138:v4. 2TIM c3:v16, THAT ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED BY GOD, AND PROFITABLE FOR TEACHING, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, AND FOR TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, 2PET C1:V20:v21 BUT KNOW THIS FIRST OF ALL, THAT NO PROPHESY OF SCRIPTURE IS A MATTER OF ONES OWN INTERPRETATION, FOR NO PROPHECY WAS EVER MADE BY AN ACT OF HUMAN WILL, BUT MEN MOVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE FROM GOD.
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DANIEL’S SEVENTY WEEKS OF PROPHECY
THE PROPHET DANIEL WAS TOLD THAT SEVENTY WEEKS HAVE BEEN DECREED FOR HIS PEOPLE (JEWS) AND THE HOLY CITY (JERUSALEM) TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION, AND TO MAKE AN END OF SIN, TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR INIQUITY, AND TO BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, TO SEAL UP VISIONS AND PROPHECY, AND ANOINT THE MOST HOLY PLACE, (dan c9:v24).
THE SEVENTY WEEKS WHICH DANIEL SPEAKS OF, ARE OBVIOUSLY; “YEARS", SINCE DANIEL HAD BEEN THINKING OF THE YEARS OF THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, (dan c9:v2), FURTHER MORE, WEEKS OF DAYS ARE SO SPECIFIED IN CHAPTER 10, WHERE THE HEBREW ADDS "DAYS". DANIEL WAS THEREFORE REFERRING TO YEARS.
THEREFORE 490 YEARS WAS GIVEN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO FINISH THEIR TRANSGRESSION AND TO END THEIR APOSTASY, AND MAKE AN END OF SIN, AND TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THEIR INIQUITY, DANIEL WAS TOLD THAT FROM THE ISSUING OF THE DECREE TO RESTORE AND REBUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL MESSIAH THE PRINCE (CHRIST), THERE WILL BE SEVEN WEEKS (49YEARS), AND SIXTY-TWO WEEKS, (434 YEARS),(dan c9:v25), BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF YEARS TO 483.
THE SEVENTY WEEKS (490 YEARS), BEGINNING WITH THE DECREE TO RESTORE AND REBUILD JERUSALEM, THIS COMMAND WAS GIVEN BY ARTAXERXES (neh c2:v5) IN 445 B.C. SOME CHRONOLOGISTS HAVE SHOWN THAT CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED AT THE END OF THIS (483YEARS) FROM THE TIME OF ARTAXERXER DECREE, CERTAIN IMPORTANT EVENTS WERE TO HAPPEN AFTER THE SEVEN WEEKS (49YEARS) AND THE SIXTY-TWO WEEKS (434YEARS), TOTALLING (483YEARS), THAT THE MESSIAH (CHRIST) WOULD BE CUT OFF AND HAVE NOTHING, AND THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE (ANTICHRIST) WHO IS TO COME, SHALL DESTROY THE CITY (JERUSALEM) AND THE SANCTUARY (TEMPLE) AND THAT THE END SHALL COME WITH A FLOOD, EVEN TO THE END, THERE WOULD BE WAR, AND DESOLATIONS ARE DETERMINED, (dan c9:v26).
IT WAS AT THE TIME OF THIS 69 WEEKS (483YEARS), THAT CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED, AND FROM THE TIME OF THE CRUCIFIXION TO THE TIME THAT THE CITY AND TEMPLE WERE DESTROYED LAPSED A PERIOD OF FORTY YEARS, BRINGS ONE TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE PROPHETIC CLOCK STOPPED AT THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST, LEAVING A PERIOD OF ONE WEEK (7YEARS), YET TO BE FULFILLED, THE TIME PERIOD BETWEEN THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE LORD JESUS AND THE RESTARTING OF THE PROPHETIC CLOCK THAT IS THE FRUITION OF SEVENTIETH WEEK, IS CALLED THE TIME OF THE GENTILES, (luke c21:v24), THIS SEVENTIETH WEEK (7YEAR PERIOD), SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, WHEN THE ANTICHRIST SHALL MAKE HIS APPEARANCE UPON THE WORLD STAGE.
THE REASON THE PROPHETIC CLOCK STOPPED AFTER THE SIXTY-NINE WEEK (483YEARS),WAS BECAUSE THE JEWS (THE NATION OF ISRAEL),HAD REJECTED CHRIST AS THEIR MESSIAH, THUS SALVATION CAME TO THE GENTILE NATIONS, YET THE PROMISE OF THE LORD GOD IS TO THE JEWISH NATION ISRAEL, IN SPITE OF THEIR REJECTION OF CHRIST FOR IT WAS THROUGH CHRIST’S ATONEMENT AT THE CROSS, THAT IS THE BASIS FOR ISRAEL’S FUTURE BLESSINGS, THE FORGIVENESS OF THEIR SIN AND INIQUITY, (zec c12:v10, c13:v1, rom c11: v26-v27),FOR THE LORD SHALL BRING THEM INTO THEIR OWN LAND, (ezek c34:v13), WHERE HE SHALL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THEM, (jer c31:v31)AND WHEN THE ANTICHRIST COMES UNTO THE SCENE OF WORLD EVENTS THEN THE PROPHETIC CLOCK SHALL START TICKING AND THE SEVENTIETH WEEK (THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD) SHALL BE FULFILLED.
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THE KINGDOM AND ORIGINS OF THE ANTICHRIST
WE ALREADY KNOW THROUGH DANIEL THE PROPHET THAT THE ORIGINS OF THE ANTICHRIST SHALL BE ROMAN, (dan c9:v26), BUT TO ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM, ONE MUST GO TO THE DREAM THAT DANIEL INTERPRETATED FOR NEBUCHADNEZZAR, IT CONSISTED OF A GREAT STATUE, A HEAD WAS OF GOLD, THIS WAS TO REPRESENT THE BABYLONIAN KINGDOM, THE BREAST AND THE ARMS WERE OF SILVER, REPRESENTING THE KINGDOM OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS, THE BELLY AND THE THIGHS WERE OF BRASS, REPRESENTING THE KINGDOM OF GREECE, AND THE LEGS WERE OF IRON AND THE TOES WHERE OF IRON AND CLAY, THIS WAS TO REPRESENT THE ROMAN KINGDOM, (dan c2).
THE TWO LEGS WERE TO REPRESENT THE ROMAN KINGDOM AT THE TIME OF CHRIST, AND AT THE TIME OF THE COMING ANTICHRIST, AT THE END OF THE AGE, (matt c24:v3), THE TOES SHALL REPRESENT THE FEDERATION OF NATIONS THAT THE ANTICHRIST SHALL REIGN OVER, DANIEL HIMSELF WAS GIVEN A REVELATION BY THE LORD GOD, HE WAS SHOWN A VISION IN A DREAM, IN WHICH HE SAW FOUR GREAT BEAST, DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER, THE FIRST BEAST WAS LIKE A LION, BABYLON), THE SECOND BEAST WAS LIKE A BEAR, (MEDO-PERSIAN), THE THIRD BEAST WAS LIKE A LEOPARD, (GREECE), AND THE FOURTH BEAST WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS, FOR IT WAS DREADFUL AND TERRIFYING AND EXTREMELY STRONG, AND IT HAD LARGE IRON TEETH, AND IT TRAMPLED DOWN THE REMAINDER WITH ITS FEET, AND IT HAD TEN:HORNS, AND BEHOLD ANOTHER HORN A LITTLE HORN, CAME UP AMONG THEM AND THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS WERE PULLED OUT BY THE ROOTS BEFORE IT, THIS HORN POSSESSED EYES OF A MAN, AND A MOUTH UTTERING GREAT BOASTS, (dan c7:v4:8).
THIS FOURTH BEAST THAT DANIEL DESCRIBED WAS THE ANTICHRIST’S KINGDOM AT THE END OF THE AGE, THE LITTLE HORN WAS THE ANTICHRIST HIMSELF, NOTE THAT THE LITTLE HORN CAME UP FROM AMONG THE TEN-HORNS, AND IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17, THE TEN-HORNS ARE IDENTIFIED AS TEN KINGS, (HEADS OF STATE), ALSO IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION THE APOSTLE JOHN DESCRIBED HIS BEAST (ANTICHRIST) AS HAVING ALL THE QUALITIES OF THE THREE WORLD EMPIRES, STRENGTH, SPEED AND FIERCENESS, THIS SHALL GIVE YOU SOME LIGHT ON THE COMING ANTICHRIST, (rev c13).
IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2 IT IS REVEALED THAT THE FEET AND TOES OF THE STATUE WAS PARTLY OF IRON AND CLAY, WHICH SHOWS THAT THIS KINGDOM OF ANTICHRIST SHALL CONSIST OF STRONG AND WEAK PEOPLE, AND THAT IT IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER KINGDOMS, FOR IT SHALL DEVOUR THE WHOLE EARTH AND CRUSH IT.
IT IS ALSO REVEALED THAT A HORN SHALL ARISE OUT OF THE TEN-HORNS, AND THAT IT SHALL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE REST, FOR HE SHALL BE INSOLENT AND SKILLED IN INTRIGUE, AND SHALL CAUSE DECEIT TO SUCCEED BY THE INFLUENCE OF HIS SHREWDNESS, WE KNOW THAT THE ANTICHRIST SHALL BE OF ROMAN ORIGINS, WE ALSO KNOW THAT HE SHALL BE HEAD OF EUROPE, AS THE COMMON MARKET IS THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER WHAT IS CALLED THE TREATY OF ROME, BUT HE SHALL ALSO BE THE HEAD OF THE WESTERN WORLD.
MANY MAY SAY THAT THE COMMON MARKET CANNOT BE THE TEN-NATIONS OF DANIEL’S OR JOHN’S PROPHECIES SINCE THERE ARE MORE THAN TEN NATIONS WITHIN IT, BUT ONE MUST GO BACK TO THE TIME OF CHRIST, WHEN THE PROPHETIC CLOCK STOP TICKING, FOR IT IS TO THE NATIONS THAT THE OLD ROMAN EMPIRE RULED OVER THAT WE MUST CONTENT WITH, FOR OVER THE CENTURIES THE BOUNDARIES OF EUROPE’S NATIONS HAVE CHANGED AND THE FULFILMENT OF THESE PROPHECIES MOST SURELY WILL CONSIST OF MORE THAN TEN-NATIONS, ALSO BEAR IN MIND, THAT THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE WAS COLONIZE BY THE PEOPLE OF EUROPE, THUS THE REASON WHY AMERICA AND OTHER NATIONS ARE NOT MENTIONED WITHIN THE SCRIPTURES, FOR THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE, NOTE ALSO THE TWO LEGS IN DANIEL’S STATUE: ONE LEG, REPRESENTS THE OLD ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE DAYS OF CHRIST, THE OTHER LEG SHALL REPRESENT THE NEW ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE DAYS OF THE ANTICHRIST.
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THE QUESTION MUST BE ASKED, IS RELIGION FROM MAN OR GOD,WHEN ONE LOOKS AT HISTORY YOU WILL FIND THAT THE RELIGIOUS MAN THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES HAVE PERSECUTED THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS, AND ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM, FOR WAS IT NOT THE RELIGIOUS WHO PERSECUTED THE APOSTLES AND EARLY BELIEVERS SOME TO THEIR DEATHS, AND WAS IT NOT THE RELIGIOUS WHO PUT TO DEATH THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, AND DID NOT THE RELIGIOUS OF THE WORLD DO THIS ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD.
IF YOU READ THE OLD TESTAMENT IT SHALL BE REVEALED, THAT THE WORD’S RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS ARE NOT TO BE FOUND, AND THAT THE WORD "SYNAGOGUE" ONLY OCCURS ONCE IN THE OLD KING JAMES VERSION, AND THAT WAS A MISS TRANSLATION, FOR THE HEBREW WORD “(MO/ADAH)” OCCURS 200 TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IS ONLY ONCE (ps 74:v8), TRANSLATED AS SYNAGOGUE, IT SHOULD RENDER, "A MEET PLACE OF GOD OR ALL THE ASSEMBLES OF GOD, AND NOT A REFERENCE TO SYNAGOGUE.
WHEN ONE OPENS THE NEW TESTAMENT IT IS REVEALED THAT THE WORD SYNAGOGUE IS FOUND EVERYWHERE, AND IT IS ALSO REVEALED THAT THE JEWS TURNED AWAY FROM GOD, AND TURNED THEMSELVES INTO A MAN MADE RELIGION, WHICH IS KNOWN TO THIS DAY AS, "JUDAISM", IT WAS NEVER THE LORD GOD’S INTENTION FOR THE JEWS TO BECOME A RELIGION, FOR HE SET THEM ASIDE AND CALLED THEM THE CHILDREN OF GOD, HIS PEOPLE, BUT THEY DID NOT KEEP THE ORDINANCE OF GOD.
WITHIN THE NEW TESTAMENT THE WORDS RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS ARE MENTIONED IN ONLY THREE BOOKS, ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, GALATIANS AND THE BOOK OF JAMES, AND WHEN YOU READ THESE THREE BOOKS, WHERE THE WORDS RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS ARISE, IT SHALL BE REALISED THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH CHRISTIANITY, FOR WHEN THE APOSTLES PAUL AND JAMES USE THESE WORDS, IT WAS SOLELY TO CONDEMN THEM.
PAUL IN ACTS CHAPTER 13, DIRECTLY ACCUSES THE RELIGIOUS FOR THE REJECTION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, (see also john c11:v47: 48), AND IN ACTS CHAPTER 26, PAUL WHEN TESTIFYING OF CHRIST JESUS, REVEALED THAT HE HAD LIVED AS A PHARISEE ACCORDING TO THE STRICTEST SECT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION, HAD NOW THROWN OFF HIS RAGS OF RELIGION, AND IN GALATIANS HE USES THE WORD RELIGION TO DESCRIBE HIS FORMER MANNER OF LIVE IN THE JEWISH RELIGION, AND HOW ONCE HE HAD PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF GOD, AND IN CHAPTER 1 VERSE 11, PAUL IN HIS OWN WORDS SAID THIS, I PAUL WOULD HAVE YOU KNOW, BRETHREN, THAT THE GOSPEL WHICH I PREACH, IS NOT ACCORDING TO MAN, FOR I NEITHER RECEIVED IT FROM MAN, NOR WAS I TAUGHT IT BY MAN, BUT I RECEIVED IT THROUGH A REVELATION OF CHRIST JESUS.
JAMES THE APOSTLE HAD THIS TO SAY, IF ANYONE THINKS HIMSELF TO BE RELIGIOUS, AND YET DOE’S NOT BRIDLE HIS TONGUE, HE DECEIVES HIS OWN HEART, AND THIS MAN’S RELIGION IS WORTHLESS, THE PEOPLE THAT JAMES WAS ADDRESSING WERE JEWS WHO WERE NOW PROFESSING CHRISTIANITY, BUT HAD NOT LEFT THEIR RELIGIOUS PAST BEHIND THEM, THEY WHERE BOASTING ABOUT BEING RELIGIOUS AND UP RIGHT PEOPLE, BUT THE APOSTLE JAMES WAS QUICK TO POINT OUT TO THEM THAT THEY WERE ONLY DECEIVING THEMSELVES, HE WAS WARNING THESE RELIGIOUS MEN OF THE DANGERS OF RELIGION, “IF ANYONE SEEKS RELIGION, THEN LET IT BE THUS,” PURE AND UNDEFILED IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, LET IT BE TO LOOK AFTER THE ORPHANS AND THE WIDOWS, AND TO KEEP ONESELF UNSTAINED BY THE WORLD.
THE RELIGIOUS OF THE WORLD MAY NOT AGREE WITH WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED, BUT TAKE HEED TO THE TRUTH OF GOD, FOR SALVATION CAN ONLY BE RECEIVED THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND NOT BY A SYSTEM OR ORGANISATION THAT MAN HAS CREATED!
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SATAN IS A HEBREW WORD, WHICH SIGNIFIES AN ADVERSARY, AN ACCUSER AND THE ENEMY OF GOD; HE IS THE ORIGINATOR OF SIN. SATAN CAN AND DOES DISGUISE HIMSELF INTO WHAT WOULD APPEAR AS RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY, UNDERNEATH HIS DISGUISE AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT HE IS COUNTERFEITING THE WORKINGS OF THE LORD GOD, AND IS OPPOSED TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE LORD GOD, AS THE LORD JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, (matt c3:v17), WE FIND THAT SATAN ALSO HAS A SON, (2thess c2:v3, john c17:v12, luke c22:v3).
AS ALL AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN TO CHRIST BY THE FATHER, (matt c11:v27) WE FIND THAT SATAN DOES LIKE WISE, (rev c13:v2).
CHRIST JESUS MINISTRY LASTED THREE AND A HALF YEARS, (luke c13:v7, luke 3:v23). THE ANTICHRIST WE FIND ALSO SHALL REIGN FOR THREE A HALF YEARS, (dan c12:v7)WITHIN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS, ITS IS REVEALED THAT THE LORD GOD SHALL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT WITH ISRAEL, (heb c8:v8), AND IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL WE FIND THAT THE ANTICHRIST SHALL ALSO MAKE A COVENANT WITH ISRAEL, (dan c9:v27).
IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION WE READ, BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE AND HE (CHRIST), WHO SAT UPON IT IS CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE, (rev:c19:v11)AND IN CHAPTER 6 OF REVELATION WE FIND A WHITE HORSE AND HE (ANTICHRIST), WHO SAT UPON IT WAS GIVEN A BOW AND A CROWN, (rev c6:v1).
AND IN REVELATION WE ALSO READ, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND IS AND WHO IS TO COME, (rev c4:v8), ALSO IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION WE READ THAT THE ANTICHRIST, WAS, AND IS NOT, AND IS ABOUT TO COME, (rev c17:v8). IT IS ALSO REVEALED IN REVELATION THAT THE BOND-SERVANTS OF GOD ARE SEALED ON THEIR FOREHEADS, (rev c7:v3), AND THAT THE ANTICHRIST ALSO SEALS ALL WITH A MARK UPON THEIR FOREHEADS AND THEIR HANDS, (rev c13:v16,CHRIST JESUS WROUGHT MIRACLES AND WONDERS AND SIGNS, (acts c2:v22), AND IN THESSALONIANS WE READ THAT THE ANTICHRIST SHALL ALSO PERFORM SIGNS AND WONDERS (2thess c2:v9)CHRIST JESUS CAME TO GIVE LIFE, (john c6:v40), THE ANTICHRIST SHALL COME TO TAKE LIFE, (rev c13:v15).
SCRIPTURE SHOWS THAT SATAN SHALL IMITATE AND COUNTERFEIT EVERY SINGLE THING IN THE LORD GOD’S PLAN.
1. THE GOD OF HEAVEN (gen c1:v1), you also have THE GOD OF this world(2cor c4:v4),2. SON OF GOD (CHRIST)(john c1:v14 isa c7:v14), then you have, THE SON OF SATAN (ANTICHRIST)(2thess c2:v3,rev c13:v2), 3.HOLY SPIRIT (matt c1:v18-v20),evil spirit
(2thess c2:v7)4. HOLY TRINITY (john c14:v16-v17), EVIL TRINITY(rev c16:v13),5. HOLY ANGELS (matt c25:v31), FALLEN ANGELS (rev c12:v9), 6. ORDER OF ANGELS,(dan c10: v12-v13), ORDER OF DEMONS, (mark c5:v9)7. THRONE OF GOD,(isa c6:v1), THRONE OF SATAN,(rev c13:v2),8. KING OF KINGS,(1tim c6:v15), KING OF THE ABYSS,(rev c9:v11, 9. PRINCE OF PEACE,(isa c9:,),PRINCE OF DARKNESS,(dan c9:v26), 10 GOOD SHEPHERD(luke c3:v23, WORTHLESS SHEPHERD (isa c10:v14), 11 CHRIST’S MINISTRY,luke c13:v7-v9), ANTICHRIST’S MINISTRY,(dan c12:v7, 12. PROPHET OF GOD(luke c7:v24-v27), PROPHET OF SATAN,(rev c13:v11)13 SERVANTS OF GOD(2cor c5:v20), SERVANTS OF SATAN (2cor c11:v14:v15), 14 CHRIST’S ELECT,(matt c24:v22), ANTICHRIST’S ELECT,(rev c11:v9-v10), 15 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,(matt c5:v3), KINGDOM OF SATAN, (rev c17:v9-v17), 16 HOLY FAITH,(eph c4:v5), RELIGION,(rev c13:v8), 17. MIRACLES, SIGNS WONDERS,(john c21:v25), MIRACLES, SIGNS and false(2thess c2:v9), 18. COVENANT OF peace(matt c26:v28), COVENANT OF SATAN,(dan c9:v27), 19. THE SEAL OF GOD,(rev c7:v2), THE SEAL OF SATAN,(rev c13:v16), 20. WHITE HORSE (TRUTH),(rev c19:v11), WHITE HORSE (DELUSION,(rev c6:v2), 21. CHRIST’S SECOND COMING,(matt c24, ANTICHRIST’S SECOND COMING,(rev c9:v11)),22. REDEMPTION (LIFE),(eph c1:v7), DESTRUCTION (DEATH),(rev c19:v20),23. ALL AUTHORITY IS GIVEN TO THE SON,(matt c28:v27), ALL AUTHORITY IS GIVEN TO THE BEAST,(rev c13:v4).
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THE GREAT TRIBULATION SHALL BE THE MOST HORRIFIC TIME EVER TO COME UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, IT SHALL BE THE CONCLUSION OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OF SEVEN YEARS, THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD SHALL SEE THE ANTICHRIST COMING TO POWER, AS THE HEAD OF THE FEDERATION OF NATIONS OF THE WEST, AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, HE SHALL BE IN COMPLETE CONTROL AND AT HIS GREATEST HEIGHT IN THE POLITICAL WORLD, HE SHALL EFFECT TREATIES AND PACTS WITH THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, THE WORLDS NATIONS SHALL BE DIVIDED INTO THREE MAIN CAMPS, THE ANTICHRIST (THE WEST), THE RUSSIANS (THE NORTH), AND THE CHINESE, (THE EAST), NOT FORGETTING THE ARAB NATIONS WHO SHALL PLAY A MAJOR ROLE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, BUT SHALL FALL AT THE FEET OF THE ANTICHRIST.
THE FATAL MISTAKE THAT THE ANTICHRIST SHALL MAKE, SHALL BE HIS ASSURANCE TO THE JEWISH NATION, THAT THEY SHALL NOT BE THREATENED OR ATTACKED BY THE ARAB NATIONS, THAT BY HIS POWERS AND STRENGTH HE SHALL GUARANTEE THEM THEIR LONG AWAITED PEACE.
BUT WHEN THE JEWS REBUILT THEIR LONG AWAITED TEMPLE IT SHALL GREATLY ENRAGE THE ARAB NATIONS, AND UNREST SHALL SPREAD THROUGH :OUT THE MIDDLE EAST, THIS WILL CAUSE THE ANTICHRIST TO HEAD FOR THE MIDDLE EAST IN STRENGTH, ON REACHING IT HE SHALL BE ATTACKED BY EGYPT AND SYRIA, THE ANTICHRIST SHALL RETALIATE AND SHALL BRING TO HEEL THE ARAB NATIONS WHICH LIE TO THE SOUTH, SUCH AS EGYPT, LIBYA, SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA, HE SHALL ALSO CAPTURE JORDAN, BUT JORDAN WILL BE RESCUED OUT OF HIS HAND, BY SYRIA, SAUDI:ARABIA, IRAQ AND IRAN.
THE ANTICHRIST HAVING PUT EGYPT, LIBYA, SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA FIRMLY UNDER HIS FEET, SHALL THEN TURN NORTHWARDS ENTERING INTO ISRAEL, MAKING HIS BASE (HEADQUARTERS) BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND THE SEAS OF GALILEE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, AT THE PLAINS OF ESDRAELON WHERE THE FINAL BATTLE SHALL BE FOUGHT.
AT HIS BASE AT ESDRAELON, IT SHALL BE FOREMOST IN HIS MIND TO DESTROY THE REMAINING ARAB NATIONS, AND FROM HERE HE SHALL STRETCH OUT HIS ARM OVER THE REMAINING ARAB NATIONS,WITH SUCH ARAB NATIONS AS LIBYA, ETHIOPIA, IRAQ AND SYRIA WHO ARE STAUNCH ALLIES OF THE RUSSIANS, THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT THE RUSSIANS SHALL USE THIS EXCUSE TO MOBILIZE ITS MILITARY FORCES, IN THE PRETENCE THAT IT SHALL DEFEND ITS ARAB FRIENDS, BUT ITS AIMS SHALL BE TO SEIZE CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE WEST (ANTICHRIST), WITH THE MOBILIZATION OF THE RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES, THE CHINESE SHALL MOBILIZE ITS MILITARY FORCES, AND IT SHALL BE BECAUSE OF THESE MOBILIZATIONS OF THESE FORCES THAT ANTICHRIST SHALL BECOME GREATLY ENRAGED, AND AT THIS POINT OF TIME SHALL ENTER THE JEWISH TEMPLE AND PUT A STOP TO THE JEWISH SACRIFICE, SETTING UP THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, AND SHALL EXALT HIMSELF ABOVE EVERY SO CALLED GOD, OR OBJECT OF WORSHIP, THE JEWS SHALL AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNISE HIM FOR WHAT HE IS,"THE ANTICHRIST", A FALSE MESSIAH, AND THEY SHALL TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST HIM, THUS STARTING THE SEIZE OF JERUSALEM, AND FROM THIS PERIOD OF TIME, THE GREAT TRIBULATION SHALL BEGIN, WHICH SHALL LAST FOR 42MONTHS, (3½ YEARS).
DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, THE ANTICHRIST AND FALSE PROPHET SHALL MAKE ALL WHO THEY COME INTO CONTACT WITH, TO RECEIVE A MARK UPON THEIR HAND OR FOREHEAD, TO REFUSE THIS MARK SHALL RESULT IN DEATH.
AS A RESULT OF THE RAGING BATTLES LEADING UP TO THE FINAL BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, THE WORLD SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO FAMINES AND DISEASE WHICH SHALL RESULT IN THE DEATH OF OVER HALF OF THE WORLDS POPULATION.
THE CHINESE ARMED FORCES SHALL SPREAD ACROSS THE FAR EAST LIKE LOCUSTS, PASSING THROUGH MANY NATIONS, UNTIL THEY REACH THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE CHINESE TO CROSS THE SYRIAN DESERT WITHOUT A HEAVY LOSS OF MEN AND MATERIAL, THUS THE LORD GOD, SHALL MIRACULOUSLY DRY UP THE EUPHRATES RIVER ALLOWING THIS VAST ARMY OF TWO-HUNDRED MILLION SOLDIERS, TO TRAVEL UP WITH GREAT SPEED AND EASE, PASSING THROUGH IRAQ AND INTO SYRIA AND ON TO ISRAEL, TO THE PLAINS OF ESDRAELON, MANY BATTLES SHALL OCCUR BEFORE THE GREAT BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, SUCH AS THE SEIZE OF JERUSALEM, WERE TENS OF MILLIONS SHALL PERISH, AND THE STRUGGLE OF THE ARAB NATIONS AGAINST THE ANTICHRIST, THE ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY AND THE ADVANCE OF THE ORIENTALS TOWARDS ISRAEL, AND WHEN ALL THESE NATIONS REACH THE PLAINS OF ESDRAELON FOR THE FINAL BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON THE DEATH TOLL SHALL BE APPALLING, SUCH SHALL BE THE SLAUGHTER, THAT THE BLOOD SHALL FLOW FOR TWO-HUNDRED MILES AT THE DEPTH OF FOUR FEET, NO WORDS COULD DESCRIBE THE CARNAGE, BUT ONE THING IS SURE IT SHALL BE A LIVING NIGHTMARE!
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FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND THE TRUMPET OF GOD; AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL ARISE FIRST, THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR, AND THUS WE SHALL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD. (1thess c4: v16-v17).
FROM THE LATIN FOR "CAUGHT UP" COMES THE TERM "RAPTURE" BUT ALAS THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT BELIEFS AS TO WHEN THIS RAPTURE SHALL OCCUR, SOME BELIEVE IT SHALL OCCUR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, OTHERS BELIEVE IT SHALL OCCUR HALF WAY THROUGH THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, AT THE START OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, AND YET OTHERS BELIEVE IT SHALL OCCUR AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, THAT IS THE END OF THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION, AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO DENY THAT THE RAPTURE SHALL OCCUR AT ALL.
THE BELIEF THAT THE SAINTS SHALL NOT GO THROUGH THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AND THAT THEY SHALL BE SPARED FROM THE WRATH OF THE ANTICHRIST IS WIDELY ACCEPTED BY THE SAINTS OF TODAY.
BUT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE RAPTURE, LET US TURN TO THE SCRIPTURES WHEN WE READ SUCH CHAPTERS AS THAT OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, WE FIND THAT THE LORD JESUS HIMSELF SAID, THAT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION OF THESE DAYS, THAT IS, THE DAY AFTER THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD, THAT THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON SHALL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS SHALL FALL FROM THE SKY, AND THE POWERS OF THE HEAVENS SHALL BE SHAKEN, AND ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH SHALL MOURN, AND THEY SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY, AND HE SHALL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT TRUMPET AND THEY SHALL GATHER TOGETHER THE ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF THE SKY TO THE OTHER, IN THE WORDS OF CHRIST JESUS, HE POINTS TO THE RAPTURE OCCURRING AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, WHEN THE LORD JESUS GAVE HIS PROMISE, THAT HE WOULD KEEP THE SAINTS FROM THE HOUR OF TESTING, THAT HOUR WHICH IS ABOUT TO COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD, (rev c3:v10), IT WAS NOT TO BE INTERPRETED AS THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD, AS MANY HAVE DONE, FOR IF WE READ REVELATION CHAPTER 14, IT SHALL BECOME CLEAR, THAT THE LORD JESUS WAS ONLY PROMISING TO KEEP THE SAINTS FROM HIS COMING WRATH (JUDGMENT)(rev c14:v7), AND IN CHAPTER 6 VERSES 16:17, WE READ THAT THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH HAS COME, (THE DAY OF THE LORD).
IN CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, IT IS REVEALED, BEHOLD I TELL YOU A MYSTERY, WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED, IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMPET, FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED IMPERISHABLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED, (VERSES 51-52). NOTE THAT THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID, AT THE LAST TRUMPET, AND TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS TRUMPET, WE TURN TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND IN CHAPTER 8, WE FIND THAT SEVEN ANGLES ARE GIVEN SEVEN TRUMPETS.
AND WHEN THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED HIS TRUMPET, THE EARTH WAS SMITTEN, AND WHEN THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED HIS TRUMPET, THE SEA WAS SMITTEN AND WHEN THE THIRD ANGEL SOUNDED HIS TRUMPET, THE WATERS AND THE SPRINGS WERE SMITTEN, AND WHEN THE FOURTH ANGEL SOUNDED HIS TRUMPET,THE HEAVENS WERE SMITTEN, AND WHEN THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED HIS TRUMPET, MEN WERE SMITTEN, AND WHEN THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED HIS TRUMPET, MEN WERE KILLED! AND THIS WAS TO OCCUR BEFORE THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET THAT IS THE LAST TRUMPET, FOR THERE IS NOT ANOTHER TRUMPET MENTIONED AFTER THE SOUNDING OF THIS SEVENTH TRUMPET, FOR THIS SEVENTH TRUMPET REVEALS THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (rev c11:v15-v19).
IT WAS INDEED THE SOUNDING OF THIS SEVENTH TRUMPET THAT PAUL THE APOSTLE WAS REFERRING TO AS THE LAST TRUMPET, AND IT SHALL BE AT ITS SOUNDING, THAT THE DEAD, AND THEN THE LIVING IN CHRIST JESUS SHALL BE RAPTURE TO MEET HIM IN THE SKY. IN 2 THESSALONIANS WE READ,THAT THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY IS ALWAYS AT WORK, ONLY HE WHO NOW RESTRAINS WILL DO SO, UNTIL HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY, (c2:v7), MANY INTERPRET THIS RESTRAINER AS THE HOLY SPIRIT, HOLDING BACK THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, AND THEY INTERPRET THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT SHALL BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY, RAPTURED ALONG WITH THE SAINTS, ALLOWING THE ANTICHRIST TO DO HIS WILL UPON THE EARTH, WITHOUT BEING RESTRAINED, BUT THIS BELIEF, THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT BEING REMOVED FROM THE EARTH, WOULD THEN MEAN THAT THE TIME OF GRACE HAD COME TO AN END, BUT THIS WOULD NOT BE SCRIPTURAL, FOR IN REVELATION CHAPTER SEVEN, IT IS REVEALED, THAT A GREAT MULTITUDE THAT NO ONE COULD COUNT, CAME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
AND IN JOHN’S GOSPEL CHAPTER 14 IT IS REVEALED, THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLED THE COMFORTER AND HELPER, AND NOT THE RESTRAINER, FOR THE LORD GOD HIMSELF IS THE RESTRAINER, FOR IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 13, WE READ, THAT THERE IS NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD, AND THAT THOSE WHICH EXIST ARE ESTABLISHED BY GOD, THEREFORE THOSE WHO RESISTS GOVERNING AUTHORITIES HAVE OPPOSED THE ORDINANCE OF GOD (VERSES1-2).
THIS REVEALS THAT THE LORD GOD HAS ESTABLISHED ALL THE GOVERNMENTS IN THE WORLD, IT IS TRUE TO SAY, THAT NOT ALL GOVERNMENTS OR FOR THAT MATTER ANY GOVERNMENTS IN THE WORLD TODAY GIVE HONOUR OR PRAISE TO THE LORD GOD, BUT THE LORD ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD TO EXIST, UNTIL THE FULFILMENT OF HIS PLAN, SO THE RESTRAINER THAT THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS SPEAKING OF, WAS GOD’S INFLUENCING POWERS OR RESTRAINING POWER, THAT HE HOLDS OVER THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD, AND IT SHALL BE, BECAUSE OF THE APOSTASY, THAT THE LORD GOD SHALL RELEASE HIS RESTRAINT OVER THE GOVERNMENTS, SO THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE THE COMING ANTICHRIST, BECAUSE OF THEIR REJECTION OF THE TRUTH, THUS DELUSION SHALL COME UPON THEM. (2 thess c2:v11).
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OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS AGE, AGAINST SPIRITUAL HOSTS OF WICKEDNESS, IN HEAVENLY PLACES, (EPHC5: v12), FOR WE ARE NOT IGNORANT OF SATAN’S SCHEMES, (2cor c2:v11)SATAN WE KNOW IS A HEBREW WORD, SIGNIFYING ADVERSARY, AN ENEMY OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, (ELYON), AND THE ENEMY OF THE CHILD OF GOD, HE IS THE ORIGINATOR OF "SIN", AND CHIEF OF ALL EVIL SPIRITS, HE IS MALIGNANT AND A FOWL SPIRIT, AND SHALL DO ALL IN HIS POWER TO DESTROY THE LIFE GIVING WORD OF GOD,SATAN WAS AT ONE TIME THE ANOINTED CHERUB, WHO OCCUPIED A SPECIAL PLACE OF PROMINENCE IN GUARDING THE THRONE OF GOD, UNTIL PRIDE WAS FOUND IN HIM, AND HE BECAME CORRUPT, TO KNOW YOUR ENEMY, ONE MUST FIRST KNOW HIS NAMES AND TITLES, THAT THE LORD GOD HAS SO GRACIOUSLY REVEALED WITHIN HIS WORD, THE EVIL ONE IS GIVEN THE NAME OF THE “SERPENT OF OLD", THIS NAME GIVEN TO SATAN IS A COMMON SYMBOL FOR EVIL, IT WAS USED BY THE SACRED WRITERS AS AN EMBLEM OF WICKEDNESS, CRUELTY AND TREACHERY AND BE NOT DECEIVED INTO BELIEVING THAT THE SERPENT OF OLD WAS A SNAKE, FOR IT IS A WORD WHICH DEPICTS HIS NATURE, NOT HIS FORM.
HE IS ALSO GIVEN THE NAME, "THE GREAT RED DRAGON", IT APPLIES METAPHORICALLY TO SATAN, FOR DRAGON DEPICTS DESOLATION AND CRUELTY,"GREAT" BECAUSE OF THIS SIN TOWARDS GOD, AND RED BECAUSE OF THE SLAUGHTER HE HAS AND WILL BRING UPON MANKIND, DRAGON IS MENTIONED 13 TIMES WITHIN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, AND DENOTES REBELLION AND APOSTASY, SATAN THE ANGEL OF SIN, WHO SHALL MAKE THE EARTH TREMBLE AND A WILDERNESS, HE IS "ABADDON" AND "APOLLYON" THE DESTROYER, ONLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS SATAN CALLED A "DEVIL", DEVIL MEANS SLANDERER, HE IS THE SUPREME EVIL SPIRIT, THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS MALIGNANT AND FOUL, WHO MAKES FALSE AND MALICIOUS STATEMENTS TO WIN HIS CASE, THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN.
"LUCIFER" SON OF THE MORNING, THE MORNING STAR, WHO APPEARS AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT DECEIVING AND COUNTERFEITING THE THINGS OF GOD, THE NAME LUCIFER ONLY OCCURS ONCE IN THE SCRIPTURES AND IT IS A REFERENCE TO SATAN’S FALL FROM GRACE, "BEELZEBUD" THE CHIEF PRINCE OF ALL DEMONS AND DEVILS, THE LORD OF THE FLIES, A DEITY OF THE EKRONITES, THE JEWS POLLUTED IT BY CHANGING IT TO BEELZEBUL, MEANING, THE LORD OF THE DUNG OR DUNGHILLS, IN THE GREEK IT IS BAAL-ZEBUL MEANING LORD OF ABOMINABLE IDOLS, THE PRINCE OF IDOLATRY, THE CHIEF OF ALL WICKEDNESS, THE JEWS USED THESE NAMES AS AN EPITHET FOR SATAN.
DEMONS ARE DISEMBODIED SPIRITS WHO SERVE SATAN THEIR MASTER, IN OPPOSING GOD AND ANTAGONIZEING HIS WORK UPON THE EARTH, SATAN IS GIVING THE TITLE OF "THE GOD OF THIS WORLD", NOT THAT HE RULES THE WORLD, FOR HE IS NOT SOVEREIGN, IT IS HIS INFLUENCE THAT IS IN QUESTION.
THE ENEMY IS CALLED THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, PRINCE DENOTES RULER, AND HE IS THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS AND KING OF THE ABYSS, HE MAYBE SUPERHUMAN, BUT HE IS NOT DIVINE, HIS POWER MAYBE GREAT, BUT HE IS NOT OMNIPOTENT.
IT IS SATAN AIM TO TRY AND DESTROY THE FOUNDATION OF GOD’S CHURCH, BY UNDERMINING THE CREDIBILITY OF THE VERY ELECT OF GOD, BUT THE LORD GOD IN HIS WISDOM HAS WITHIN HIS WORD (HOLY WRIT), FOREWARNED US HOW THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY OPERATES, THROUGH THE CHANNELS OF SATAN, I.E., THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, (INIQUITY), THE SPIRIT OF BONDAGE, THE SPIRIT OF DIVINATION, THE SPIRIT OF ERROR, THE SPIRIT OF FEAR, THE SPIRIT OF WHOREDOM, THE SPIRIT OF DISSENSION, A LYING SPIRIT, A DUMB SPIRIT, A CONFUSING SPIRIT A FOUL SPIRIT, AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, A FAMILIAR SPIRIT AND AN EVIL SPIRIT. ETC.
THE ONE THING THAT THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY CANNOT PRODUCE, IS THE FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, FOR ALLOW IT MAY GIVE THE APPEARANCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IT SHALL INEVITABILITY ALWAYS GIVE ITSELF AWAY, THE SAINT MUST NOT GIVE THE ENEMY REST, HE IS TO WAGE WAR CONTINUALLY AGAINST SATAN, AND ONE MUST REMEMBER, THAT THE MORE YOU ARE USED BY THE LORD GOD, THE MORE THE ENEMY SHALL ATTACK YOU, THE GREATEST WEAPON THAT THE CHILD OF GOD HAS TO DESTROY SATAN, IS THE WORD OF GOD, THE GREATEST FORCE TO OVERCOME OUR ENEMY SCHEMES IS PRAYER, PRAYING THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST TO OUR FATHER, BUT UNDERSTAND THAT PRAYER DEMANDS MUCH, AND ITS PRICE IS HIGH, AND THE ATTACKS FROM THE ENEMY SHALL BE OFTEN, I.E. PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL, TO BE MIGHTY IN PRAYER IS TO BE MIGHTY AGAINST THE ENEMY, FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT OPERATES WITH THE FULL FORCE OF THE ALMIGHTY BEHIND IT, THEREFORE WE MUST BE MILITANT IN OUR PRAYER AND CHRISTIAN LIFE’S FOR THE CHARACTER OF OUR PRAYING SHALL DETERMINE THE CHARACTER OF OUR GODLINESS, PREVAILING PRAYER IS OUR PLEADING TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, FOR PRAYER IS HUMILITY AT WORK, IT IS LOOKING TO GOD, AND AWAY FROM SELF, A NEGATIVE CHRISTIAN SHALL ACHIEVES NOTHING, THE LORD IS CALLING FOR A PRAYING PEOPLE, THE DANIEL.S OF THIS WORLD, LET US BECOME LIKE DANIEL, IN PERSISTING PRAYER, SO THAT OUR PRAYERS MAY PREVAIL AGAINST OUR ENEMY, AND WE SHALL BECOME OVERCOMERS THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AMEN!
NOTE: SIN ORIGINATED IN THE ANGELIC WORLD, FOR SATAN THE ACCUSED REALISING HIS DOWN FALL CURSED THE LORD GOD AND TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO ADAM, THE CROWN OF GOD’S HANDIWORK, AND IT IS REVEALED THAT THEY (THE FALLEN ANGELS) KEPT NOT THEIR OWN PRINCIPALITIES, SATAN KNEW THAT SIN WOULD ENSLAVE MAN, AND THAT THE WAGES OF SIN WAS DEATH, HE KNEW IN HIS HEART THAT SIN IS A TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW OF GOD, AND THAT IT WAS AN ATTACK ON THE LORD GOD HIMSELF, FOR THE LORD GOD WAS THE GREAT LAW GIVER, AND SIN SATAN KNEW WOULD BE A REVOLT AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND THE VERY FOUNDATION OF HIS THRONE, AND SATAN KNEW THAT THE MOMENT ADAM ATE OF THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT, HE WOULD AUTOMATICALLY PLACE HIMSELF IN OPPOSITION TO THE LORD GOD, THUS TRUSTING NO LONGER IN THE LORD GOD, BUT IN HIS OWN ABILITY, AND BEING BROUGHT INTO SUBJECTION TO THE AUTHORITY OF SATAN THROUGH HIS DISOBEDIENCE TO THE LORD’S SPOKEN WORD, SATAN WAS QUITE AWARE OF THE UNHAPPINESS THAT SIN WOULD BRING, AND THAT THROUGH SIN, MAN WOULD BECOME CORRUPT AND DEPRAVED BY HIS SINFUL NATURE, SUCH AS MURDER, IMMORALITY, IMPURITY, SENSUALITY, IDOLATRY, SORCERYENMITY, STRIFE, JEALOUSY, ENVY, DRUNKENNESS, ETC, THUS SATAN HAS DEVISED SCHEMES WERE POSSIBLE SO TO PREVENT MAN FROM TURNING FROM HIS WAYS!
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THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY SHALL WITH ALL WICKEDNESS DECEIVE THOSE WHO ARE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO REJECT THE TRUTH, THIS SPIRIT WHO IS CALLED THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY IS THE THIRD PERSON OF THE EVIL TRINTY, HE IS THE SPIRIT THAT BRINGS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, HE CAN BE FOUND AT THE HEART AND ROOT OF ALL RELIGION, OPPOSING THE TRUTH OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY, (2thess c2: v7, rev c16: v13, 2cor c11: v3-v4).
FIRST WE MUST ASK THE QUESTION WHAT IS INIQUITY; AND THE ANSWER IS, “SIN”! INIQUITY IS ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND UNGODLINESS TOWARDS THE LORD GOD BY ALL THAT WAS CREATED, IT IS TO TRANSGRESS AND VIOLATE HIS WORD, THROUGHT DISOBEDIENCE OR NEGLECT BY AN ACT OF WICKEDNESS OR DEPRAVITY OF THE HUMAN NATURE, IN MIND, BODY OR SOUL, IT WOULD BE TRUE THEREFORE TO SAY THAT INIQUITY IS EVIL AT ITS WORSE, INIQUITY COMES IN MANY FORMS AND IN MANY DISGUISES, FOR EVIL HAS MANY FACES, REMEMBER THAT SATAN CAN APPEAR AS THE ANGEL OF LIGHT AND HIS MESSENGERS AS MESSENGERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, (2cor c11:v14-v15), REMEMBER WHEN ONE WALKS IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD GOD, THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY SHALL DECLARE WAR UPON YOU, (rom c5:v3, john c15:v20, 2cor c4:v9), FOR NO LONGER DO YOU BELONG IN THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS BUT RESIDE WITHIN THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT, FOR IT IS THE RENEWING OF THE MIND THAT SATAN AND HIS HOST FEAR, (rom c12:v1-v2), FOR IT IS THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL ( THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH) THAT DESTROYS THE WORKS OF SATAN BRINGING HIS KINGDOM OF DARKNESS TO NOUGHT, AND THE OVERPOWERING OF ALL HIS SCHEMES, WE ARE NOT TO BE IGNORANT OF HIS WAYS NOR HIS THOUGHTS LEST HE SHOULD GAIN ADVANTAGE OVER US, (2cor c2:v11).
LET US NOW LOOK INTO THE WORD OF GOD AND SEE WHAT HIS LIGHT HAS REVEALED CONCERNING THE WORKINGS OF THE EVIL ONE, AND WE FIND THAT BECAUSE OF OUR FALLING NATURE WE ARE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE, (UNBELIEF) WHO BY NATURE WALK ACCORDING TO THE COURSE OF THIS WORLD, BY THE POWER OF SATAN AND HIS SPIRIT, THEREFORE WITHOUT THE GRACE OF GOD, WE ARE BY OUR SINFUL NATURE SONS OF SATAN, FILLED WITH UNBELIEF AND WALKING IN ACCORDANCE TO HIS SPIRIT, BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY INTO OUTER DARKNESS AND SEPARATION FROM THE LORD GOD, (eph c2:v3), SO FROM THE DAY OF OUR BIRTH, WE ARE BORN INTO THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS, AS IF WE HAD A VEIL COVERING OUR SOUL KEEPING US FROM THE TRUTH, (2cor c3: v13-v14), AFTER ALL YOU DO NOT NEED TO TEACH A CHILD TO TELL LIES, BUT THANK THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR HIS GRACE OVER CHILDREN, BUT FOR THOSE WHO COME TO THE AGE OF UNDERSTANDING THEY MUST OPEN THEIR MINDS TO THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, AND RECEIVE HIS GRACE WITH A REPENTANT HEART, FOR TO DO LESS SHALL LEAVE YOU IN YOUR UNBELIEF AND IN DIRECT DISOBEDIENCE TO THE WILL OF GOD, (rom c5:v19, eph c2:v2), HELD IN BONDAGE BY THE WORKS OF THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY, (gal c4:v3; heb c2:v14-v15), AND BE NOT DECEIVED FOR THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY CAN WORK MIRACLES, CAN POSSESS, CAN AFFLICT, AND CAN BLIND THE MIND OF A MERE HUMAN KEEPING THEM IN BONDAGE BY IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION SO THAT IT PRODUCES ITS FRUIT OF ARROGANCE AND HATRED, IT IS THIS SPIRIT OF BONDAGE BY THE THRID PERSON OF THE EVIL TRINITY THAT PUTS THE RECIPIENT IN TOTAL SLAVERY TO SATAN, PAYING HIM HOMAGE, HOMAGE FOR WHICH THEY ARE NOT EVEN AWARE OF DOING,( john c8:v44, rev c13:v3), LOOK AT THE HABITS THAT WE FORM THROUGH INIQUITY, NOT THE NORM LIKE SMOKING OR OVER INDULGING IN ALCOHOLOR NOR THE TAKING OF DRUGS, BUT THE INDULGENCE OF OVER EATING, WHETHER IT BE BY CHOCOLATE OR CREAM CAKES ETC, THE SIN SHALL BE THE SAME, IT IS CALLED GLUTTONY AND REPORTED TO BE ONE OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, GLUTTONY IS EATING FOR THE SAKE OF EATING AND WILL KILL YOU JUST THE SAME AS DRUG ABUSE, REMEMBER THE LORD SAID YOUR BODY WAS TO BE A HOLY TEMPLE NOT A CATHEDAL FOR OBESITY, (1c0r c3:v16-v17, c6:v19), AND WHEN WE CRITICIZE AND CLAIM ITS BECAUSE OF THE OTHER PERSONS PRIDE, WHEN IN REALITY IT DOWN TO OUR OWN ENVY, (prov c3:v30, jam c3:v14-v16, 1cor c3:v3), AND WITH OUR TONGUE WE PROCEED TO MURDER THOSE AROUND US BY ASSASSINATING THEIR CHARACTER, AND WE NEVER CALL THIS SLANDER WE DON’T EVEN CALLED IT GOSSIP, FOR SUCH HAS THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY BLINDED OUR MINDS, (1john c2:v9, c3:v15, 2pet c1:v7-v9), YET THE LORD GOD HAS SAID IT IS AN ABOMINATION BEFORE HIS EYES, (prov 6:v16, c12:v22, luke c16:v15), FOR SLANDER COMES FROM LYING LIPS, AND THE FATHER OF LIES IS NONE OTHER THAN SATAN,(john c8:v44), THE GREEK RENDERING FOR SLANDER IS TRADUCER MEANING ACCUSER, SATAN HIMSELF.
THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY SHALL TRAVEL DOWN ALL AVENUES IN WHICH TO ENSNARE YOU, SUCH AS PUTTING YOU IN BONDAGE TO THE SPIRIT OF FEAR, (2tim c1:v7), OR THE SPIRIT OF ERROR, (1john c4:v6), THE SPIRIT OF WHOREDOMS, ( hos c4:v12), THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, (1john c4:v3), THE SPIRIT OF DIVINATION, (acts c16:v16), A DUMB SPIRIT, (mark c9:v17-v19), FOUL SPIRIT, (mark c9:v25), EVEN UNCLEAN SPIIRITS, (matt c 12:v43; mark c7:v25), AND IT IS THE SPIRIT OF FEAR THAT PRODUCES ONE OF THE GREATEST SINS WITHIN CHRISTIANDOM, IT IS ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE POWERS ALIVE, FOR IT PRODUCES HATED AND BIGORTY, INTOLERANCE AGAINST OTHERS ESPECIALLY THOSE OF ANOTHER RACE OR TRIBE, FEAR BREEDS HATE NOT LOVE, AND SADLY FEAR CAN ALSO PRODUCE COWARDS TO AFRAID OR TIMID WITHIN THEIR CHRISTIAN FAITH, TAKING NO STAND FOR CHRIST JESUS, BEING FAITHLESS TO THEIR CALLING, TO SHY TO OFFEND, JUST GOING TO CHURCH AND SITTING QUIETLY IN THIER OWN LITTLE CORNER SECRETLY HIDDEN AWAY FROM OTHERS, HEAVENLY BOUND AND OF NO EARTHLY USE, STUCK IN THE TRENCHES WHILE THE BATTLE RAGES ALL AROUND, NOT HAVING THE SWORD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEIR HEART OR IN THEIR HAND, JUST GRIPED IN FEAR INSTILLED IN THEM BY THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY TO KEEP THEM IN BONDAGE AND ON THE ROAD TO BECOMING A WORTHLESS SERVANT, (prov 28:v1, eph c6:v19-v20, ijohn c4:v17-v19), WHO SHALL BE CAST OUT INTO OUTER DARKNESS AWAY FROM THE PRESENT OF THE LORD GOD, BUT REMEMBER, PERFECT LOVE CAST OUT ALL FEAR. THE SPIRIT OF ERROR IS ONE WITHIN THE CHURCH WHO IS LED BY THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY, A LEADER OR TEACHER WHO DOES NOT PLACE CHRIST JESUS AT THE CENTER OF THEIR LIFES, (gal c2:v4; matt c7: v15-v20), OR THEIR FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHERS, THIS IS SO WIDE SPREAD TODAY AMONG MANY SO CALLED CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPS, WE KNOW THE OBVIOUS SUCH AS THOSE WHO PUT AN EMPHASIS UPON MONEY, BUT THERE IS A MORE DANGEROUS ERROR THAT HAS GONE UNNOTICED WITHIN CHRISTENDOM AND THAT IS THE EMPHASIS THAT IS PLACE UPON THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT BEAR IN MIND THE LORD JESUS DID NOT SAY YOU WOULD KNOW THEM BY THEIR GIFTS HE SAID YOU WOULD KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUIT, REMEMBER THE HOLY SPIRITS ROLE IS SOLEY TO POINT TO CHRIST JESUS, AS THE ONLY WAY FOR SALVATION, YET THE SPIRIT OF ERROR (DELUSION) DOES NOT POINT TO CHRIST JESUS, BUT POINTS TO THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, YET THE GIFTS CANNOT BRING SALVATION TO ANYONE, ONLY CHRIST JESUS HAS THAT RIGHT, (1cor c1:v1-v30, c3:v11, c13:v1-v3, c14:v19 c15:v3), FOR HE ALONE IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, THEREFORE WHEN SO MUCH EMPHASIS IS PUT UPON A GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OR FOR THAT MATTER ONE OF ITS FRUIT, CHRIST JESUS NO LONGER BECOMES CENTERAL TO SALVATION OR OUR WORSHIP FOR WHICH HE ALONE DESERVES, AND “DELUSION” THE SPIRIT OF ERROR HAS SUCCEEDED IN ROBBING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST OF HIS RIGHTFUL PLACE AND MAJESTY, SCRIPTURE CLEARLY TEACHES US THAT IT IS THE LORD JESUS WHO IS WORTHY OF POWER, RICHES, WISDOM, STRENGHT, HONOUR, GLORY AND BLESSING, (rev c5), FOR HE ALONE IS THE RISEN LAMB, AND WORTHY OF OUR WORSHIP.
THE SPIRIT OF WHOREDOM IS ALWAYS CONNECTED WITH IDOLATRY AND UNFAITHFULNESS TOWARDS THE LORD GOD AND CHRIST JESUS BY THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, IDOLATRY IS NOT JUST REFERRING TO THE WORSHIP OF STATUES OR IMAGES THAT MAN HAS CONJURED UP WITHIN HIS OWN IMAGINATION, FOR IDOLATRY BECAME UNIVERSAL AFTER THE FLOOR, FOR IT WAS SATAN WORKING THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY SO THAT THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD GOD WAS FORSAKING BY MAN, WHO WAS HIMSELF DECEIVED AND CORRUPTED BY THE GREAT DECEIVER AT THE FALL, (gen c3), THE REASON WHY MAN LOSTED HIS SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP THAT HE HAD WITH THE LORD GOD WITHIN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, WAS BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN SATANS LIE, THAT IF HE WOULD EAT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE HE WOULD BECOME LIKE GOD, AND SO FROM THAT TIME MANKIND HAS BEEN WORSHIPING THINGS MADE BY HIS OWN HANDS OR THINGS WITHIN HIS OWN IMAGINATION RIGHT UP TO THIS PRESENT TIME WHERE HE IS GENERALLY WORSHIPING HIMSELF THROUGH SCIENCE, PLACING HIMSELF EQUAL IF NOT ABOVE THE LORD GOD, AND THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE SIMPLE ART OF SEDUCION BY SATAN WHO IS A PASTMASTER, WHAT DOES THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY PLACE WITHIN THE MIND, BUT TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, AND WHAT IS THE SIN OF IDOLATRY, PUTTING ANYTHING BEFORE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, FOR HE ALONE MUST BE FIRST AND THE ONLY LORD OF YOUR HEART, FOR IN HIM, THE LORD GOD IS REVEALED, (john c14:v9-v11), HE IS THE IMAGE OF GOD, FOR IN HIM AND HIM ALONE, LOVE IS REVEALED, (col c1:v15, c3:v10).
THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, WHICH IS THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY THAT OPPOSES THE WORD OF GOD AND CHRIST JESUS AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY, IT APPEARS AS A SUBSTITUTION OR IN THE PLACE OF THE LORD JESUS, THIS SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST ALWAYS DENIES THE DIETY OF CHRIST JESUS, I.E. HIS VIRGIN BIRTH, HIS BODILY RESURRECTION ETC, (titus c1: v15-v16, 2pet c2: v1-v3, jude 4), THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST IS MAINLY TO BE FOUND WITHIN CHRISTENDOM RATHER THAN IN THE WORLD BY THE SO CALLED FRIENDS OF JESUS, THEY COME UNDER MANY NAMES SUCH AS AGNOSTIC, HUMANIST AND EVEN ATHEIST, THEY ARE WHAT THE LORD GOD CALLS WORTHLESS SHEPHERDS WHO SCATTER THE SHEEP, THEY ARE WISE WITHIN THIER OWN EYES, THEY CALL THEMSELVES THEOLOGIAN, (rom c1:v21-v23; 1cor c1:v25-v31),YET THEY TAKE A SIMPLE MESSAGE OF SALVATION AND TURN IT INTO A SET OF RULES, THEN THEY PROCEED IN DEBATING THE VERY ORACLES OF GOD, TAKING OUT WHAT OFFENDS THEM AND ADDING IN WHAT IS IN THEIR OWN MINDS ACCEPTABLE TO SOCIETY, YET THE ONLY THING THAT THEY HAVE ACHIEVED IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY, FOR THEY NO LONGER TEACH OR PREACH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEIR GOSPEL IS NOT THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, FOR CHRIST JESUS WAS BUT A MERE MAN ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN TESTIMONY, FOR WHICH THEY HAVE NO SHAME NOR DO THEY FEEL ANY NEED FOR REPENTANCE, BUT ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD NO MAN CAN BE SAVED OF HIMSELF, NOT BY WORKS OR DEEDS OR BY CLEAN OR GOOD LIVING, SO THE GOSPEL THAT IS TAUGHT IN MANY CHURCHES TODAY IS THE GOSPEL OF DEATH, HELL AND THE LAKE OF FIRE, FOR IF CHRIST JESUS WAS NOT THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, WHO THEN CAN BE SAVED, AND FROM WHERE DOES ONE RECEIVE SALVATION, (acts c4:v10-v12), DENIAL AND CONFUSION IS HOW THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST WORKS THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY, BUT THIS CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST IF YOU DO NOT STUDY YOUR BIBLE AND PRAY FOR DIVINE GUIDANCE THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT, (john c16:v13, john c8:v32), THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY CAN ONLY OPERATE THROUGH IGNORANCE.
THE SPIRIT OF DIVINATION IS ONE WHO IS POSSESSED OR CONTROLED WITH BY A DEMON I.E.A MEDIUM (SPIRITUALIST)WHO IS CONTROLED BY A SUPERNATURAL POWER IN THE PRETENCE OF TALKING TO THE DEAD, OR SOOTHSAYING, I.E. FORTUNE-TELLING,ALL FORMS OF DIVINATION ARE DENOUNCED BY THE LORD GOD,(deut c18: v10-v13),AND NO CHILD OF GOD IS TO HAVE MANY DEALINGS WITH ANY OF IT, FOR IT IS SATANIC AND PAYS HOMAGE TO SATAN, THE OCCULT TAKES IN ALL FORMS OF MAGIC, BLACK OR WHITE, WIZARDS, WITCHES, CHANTERS, SORCERERS, CHARMERS, ASTROLOGY, SATAN CAN ONLY DELUDE YOU IF YOU ARE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT A HOROSCOPE OR TO GAZE INTO A CRYSTAL BALL OR BY READING CARDS ETC, CAN PERDICT YOUR FUTURE, DON’T LIVE YOUR LIFE BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE STARS OR BY WHAT SOMEONE SAYS, LIVE YOUR LIFE BY WHAT THE LORD GOD SAYS WITHIN HIS WORD, AND YOU SHALL BE FREE.(john c8:v32).
A FOUL SPIRIT OR UNCLEAN SPIRIT ARE THE MOST GRIEVOUS AND WICKED EVIL SPIRITS THAT CAN POSSESS A HUMAN BEING, FOR THEY TAKES FULL CONTROL OF THE PERSON AND SET OUT TO DESTROY WITH GREAT MALICE NOT ONLY THE PERSON IN QUESTION BUT ALL WHO ARE AROUND THEM, (luke c8: v27-v29; matt c17:v15), THIS IS NOT JUST ANY DEMON POSSESSION IT IS OF A HIGHER ORDER OF DEMONS AND CAN BE CALLED A DEVIL, THE ONE WHO RULES OVER THESE FOUL SPIRIT IS GIVEN THE NAMES OF ABADDON AND APOLLYON, (rev c9:v11), MEANING DESTRUCTION AND DESTROYER, ALSO NOTE THAT IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION THREE UNCLEAN SPIRIT CAME OUT FROM THE MOUTHS OF SATAN, ANTICHRIST AND THE FALSE PROPHET WHICH WHERE THE SPIRITS OF DEVILS (DEMONS), (rev c16:v13-v14), THERE MISSION IS TO BRING ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO DESTRUCTION, DO NOT UNDER ESTIMATE THE WORKINGS OF EVIL SPIRITS, FOR THEY CAN BIND A PERSONS TONGUE THAT THEY SHOULD BE DUMB (mark c9:v17-v25), OR GIVE THEM A LYING TONGUE THAT THEY MAY DECEIVE, (2thess c2:v9, isa c19:v14), ONE HAS ONLY TO LOOK AT THE CHURCH OF THIS GENERATION TO SEE JUST HOW MUCH DAMAGE SATAN AND HIS MESSENGERS HAVE ACHIEVE, MANY WITHIN THE FREE CHURCHES BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN CAST OUT A DEMON BY THE NAME OF JESUS, THIS IN PART IS TRUE, BUT IN TRUTH IT IS NOT TRUE, FIRST THE TITLE, THAT IS THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IS NOT JUST JESUS, IT IS CHRIST JESUS, OR JESUS CHRIST , HIS TRUE TITLE IS, “THE LORD JESUS CHRIST”, AND ALL THE ESISTLES WITHIN THE NEW TESTIMENT CONFIRM THIS FACT, SUCH WAS THE POWER OF HIS RESSURECTION, (rom c1:v4, 1pet c3:v21-v22), THAT THROUGH IT WE RECEIVED POWER FROM ABOVE, (luke c24:v45-v49), IT IS IN THESE NAMES THAT THE CHILD OF GOD IS GRANTED ANY REQUEST WITHIN THE FATHERS WILL, AND SECONDLY THE LORD JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES THAT SOME DEMONS CAN ONLY BE CAST OUT BY FASTING AND PRAYER, (matt c17:v21), DEMONS WE KNOW THROUGH SCRIPTURE CAN BE FOUND IN HEAVENLY PLACES, (eph c6:v12), IN THE AIR, (eph c2:v2), ON THE EARTH, (gen c6:v4, jude 6), IN THE SEA,(matt c8:v32), IN DRY PLACES,(matt c12:v43), IN SWINE,(matt c8:v32), IN PEOPLE (luke c11:v24),AND IN LEADERS OF THE WORLD, (rev c17:v12), AND IN RELIGION, (rev c17:v4), IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE INTENTIONS OF DEMONS TO DESTROY THE SOULS OF MEN, BY DELUSION, TEMPTATION OR BY AFFLICTION, PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR SPIRITUAL, ( BODY, MIND OR SOUL), (rev c16:v14, c13:v15), THE GOSPELS ALSO BEAR WITNESS TO THIS TRUTH, AND IN THE END TIMES MANY WITHIN THE CHURCH SHALL FALL AWAY FROM THE FAITH, AND THIS SHALL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH SEDUCING SPIRITS AND THE DOCTRINE OF DEMONS, (1tim c4:v1),WE LIVE IN TIMES WHERE THE WORD OF GOD IS NO LONGER RELIED UPON FOR GUIDANCE, FOR WE HAVE WHAT CAN ONLY BE CALLED MYSTICISM WITHIN THE CHURCH, A SELF-INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE, NO LONGER HAVING A NEED FOR STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD, OR FOR THAT MATTER EVEN READING IT, FOR IT IS ENOUGH TO ALLOWING YOUR INNER SPIRIT TO LED YOU INTO THE TRUTH, IF IT FEELS RIGHT THEN IT MUST BE RIGHT, (jude, 2tim c3:v1-v7, 1tim c1:v4), THIS IS LIKE BUILDING A HOUSE UPON SAND, AND SATAN WILL HAVE NO PROBLEMS AT ALL IN DECIEVING YOU, IF HE HAS NOT DECIEVED YOU ALREADY, FOR GREAT IS HIS CRAFTINESS, (gen c3:v1), REMEMBER HE WAS ONCE THE GAURDING ANGEL OF THE THRONE OF THE LORD GOD, HE WAS THE SEAL OF PREFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY,(ezek c28), HE CAN APPEAR AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT, (2cor c11:14), HE CAN QUOTE SCRIPTURE, (luke c4:v3), HE CAN AFFLICT, (job), CAUSE STRIFE AMONG THE BRETHREN, (1cor), HE CAN LED YOU INTO TEMPTATION, (matt), HE CAN USE PERSECUTION AGAINST YOU, (rev), OPPRESS YOU, SNARE YOU, SIFT YOU, LIE ABOUT YOU AND USE EVERY IMMORAL SCHEME THAT YOUR FINITE MIND COULD NOT COMPREHEND, HE CAN MAKE GOOD TO BE LOOKED UPON AS EVIL AND EVIL AS GOOD, THAT,S WHY MILLIONS ARE FERVENTLY RELIGIOUS BUT TOTALLY GODILESS, (READ THE SCRIPTURES FOR PROOF), AND WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD ABOUT HOLINESS, IS IT NOT BY HOLINESS THAT WE ARE CALLED TO LIVE, IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE LORD GOD TELLS US TO BE AWARE OF SATAN AND HIS SCHEMES, NOT BY OUR OWN INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE, (2 tim c3:v16, 2pet c1:v20-v21), BUT BY THE RENEWING OF OUR MINDS DAILY,(rom c12:v1-v2), AND WALKING IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD, (eph c5:v8), DO NOT BE FOOLISH BY LEANING UPON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING, (prov 3:v5), BUT TRUST IN THE LORD GOD AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT TO LED
YOU INTO THE TRUTH OF THEIR WORD, (john c17:v17). THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE FRUITS THAT THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY PRODUCES IN ITS BID TO DESTROY THE SOULS OF MEN AND TO UNDERMINE THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS WITHIN THE CHURCH, I.E HYPOCRISY, THOSE WHO ARE DEVILISH (HAVING A BAD ATTITUDE TOWARDS OTHERS) THEY CAN BE CALLED NATURAL DEMONIC, FILLED WITH JEALOUSLY AND SELF AMBITION, POSSESSED WITH DECEITFUL SPIRITS TO SEDUCE THE GULIBLE, THESE ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN SNARED BY SATAN AND HELD CAPTIVE BY HIM TO DO HIS WILL, (2tim c2:v26), THEY ARE NOT HARD TO DISTINGUISH FROM THE TRUE CHILD OF GOD, FOR THEY DO NOT MANIFEST WITHIN THEIR WALK THE FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, (gal c5:v22, jam c3:v17-v18), THEY MAY TALK ABOUT GODILY THINGS, BUT TALK IS CHEAP, (jam c2:v15-v17), THEY MAY EVEN POSSESS SIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT WHAT THEY CANNOT HID IS THEIR TRUE NATURE, FOR SUCH IS THEIR EGOTISM THAT THEIR VERY NATURE ALWAYS PRODUCES ITS FRUIT REVEALING THEM AS LOVERS OF SELF, LOVERS OF MONEY, LOVERS OF PLEASURE, (2tim c2:v2-v7), THEY ARE THE CARNAL MINDED, WHO HARBOUR BITTERNESS WITHIN THEIR HEARTS, NOT ALL WHO CLAIM CHRISTIANITY HAVE FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS, THAT IS WHY YOU MUST TEST THE SPIRIT OF EVERYONE WHO SEEKS FELLOWSHIP WITHIN THE CHURCH INSTEAD OF WELCOMING ALL WITH OPEN ARMS, (1john c4:v1), FOR THE TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD WILL ALWAYS HAVE CHRIST JESUS ON THEIR LIPS, MINDS AND HEARTS, (matt c22:v38), IT IS SAID WITHIN SCRIPTURE THAT THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY, THAT IS THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY IS AT WORK WITHIN THE CHURCH, (2thess c2:v7), THE WORD MYSTERY MEANS SECRET, TO CONCEAL, TO LIE HIDDEN, YET THE LORD JESUS CLEARLY STATES WITHIN SCRIPTURE THAT WE ARE NOT TO BE IGNORANT OF SATANS SCHEMES, REVEALING THAT WHAT EVER IS CONCEALED, WHAT EVER IS HIDDEN OR WHAT EVER IS A MYSTERY, IT SHALL BE REVEALED TO THE CHILD OF GOD, (john c16:v13), THEREFORE FALSE BRETHREN, FALSE TEACHERS, THOSE WHO NEVER GIVE OF THEMSELVES, THOSE WHO ARE ALWAYS QUARRELSOME, THOSE THAT TEACH STRANGE DOCTRINES THAT ARE NOT BIBLICAL, THOSE WHO,S DEEDS ARE SO EVIDENT OF THE FLESH, SHOULD BE PUT OUT AND OSTRACIZED FROM HAVING CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, (eph c5:v11, 1cor c10:v20, 2cor c6:v14), THE CHILD OF GOD HAS ONLY TO READ WHAT THE APOSTLES HAVE RECORDED WITHIN THEIR EPISTLES, TO COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF JUST WHAT HARM THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY CAN DO WITHIN ANY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP IF ALLOWED A FOOT WITHIN THE DOORS OF ANY CHURCH, BUT SADLY MANY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPS TODAY ARE SUFFERING GREAT HURT WITHIN THEMSELVES SIMPLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE COME AWAY FROM SOUND DOCTRINAL TEACHING (THE BIBLE), AND THE ONLY CURE FOR THIS APOSTASY, IS TOTAL REPENTANCE (A TURNING AWAY FROM SIN) AND THE SEEKING OF FORGIVENESS FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
REMEMBER THE CHURCH (THE CHILD OF GOD) IS FORBIDDEN TO BE FRIENDS WITH THE WORLD (MAN IN HIS FALLING STATE) FOR THE WORLD IS THE ENEMY OF THE LORD GOD, AND ANY WHO CALL THEMSELVES FRIENDS OF THE WORLD PLACE THEMSELVES IN DIRECT OPPOSTION TO BOTH THE TEACHINGS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE LORD GOD HIMSELF, (jam c4:v4), AND IGNORANTS OF THE WORD OF GOD SHALL NOT BE AN EXCUSE, ESPECIALLY BY THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIAN, REMEMBER THE WORDS OF THE LORD JESUS, THE ROAD IS NARROW AND FEW SHALL FIND IT, (matt c7:v14), POINTING TO THE FACT THAT THE RESPONIBLITY TO FORM A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD GOD AND CHRIST JESUS SOLEY DEPENDS UPON THE RECIPIENT, FOR CHRIST HAS FULFILLED HIS SIDE OF THE PROMISE, WE IN TURN MUST RESPOND TO THIS GREAT OUT POURING OF HIS LOVE, AND RID OURSELVES OF ALL FALSE HUMILITY AND HYPOCRISY, (matt c11:v28, eph c2:v8)).
THE SPIRIT OF BONDAGE (INIQUITY) ALWAYS PRODUCES BAD HABITS AND BAD HABITS ARE HARD TO BREAK, SIMPLY BECAUSE SATAN THROUGH HIS SPIRIT INSTILLED THEM WITHIN OUR NATURE CORRUPTING THE MIND OF MANKIND, THAT IS WHY THE HOLY SPIRIT TELLS US THAT WE ARE TO RENEW OUR MINDS DAILY, BECAUSE OF OUR FALLEN NATURE WE ARE AT BIRTH ALREALLY CONFORMED TO THE WORLD AND ITS WAYS, WE ARE CHILDREN OF WRATH, (eph c2:v3), AND IF ONE CANNOT AMID TO THIS FACT, THEN THE CHANCES OF PUTTING TO DEATH THE HABITS OF THE WORLD ARE NIL, THE SPIRIT OF INIQUITY FROM THE FALL HAS BEEN ABLE TO INFLUENCE (THROUGH TEMPTATION) MANS THINKING, SATAN KNOWNS THAT THROUGH HIS DECEIT HE HAS POLLUTED AND CORRUPTED THE HEART OF MAN, MAKING MANS HEART DECEITFUL BEYOND IMAGINATION,(gen c6:v5), FOR MANS DEPAVITY AS HISTORY REVEALS GETS WORSE WITH EVERY GENERATION, SPIRRALING DOWNWARDS, HELL BOUND, THIS CURSE HAS COME THROUGH SATANS INFLUENCE, A CURSE THAT HAS SEEN MAN BECOME SELFISH AND CONCEITED TRAP IN THE BONDAGE OF HIS SIN, AND THIS IS WHY SATAN INTENTS TO HAVE YOU CHASING AFTER YOUR HABITS, FOR IT PLACES YOU IN TOTAL SLAVERY, FOR THROUGH HIS DECEIT HE HAS DECEIVED YOU INTO BELIEVING IT IS CALLED LIBERITY, FREEDOM FOR YOU TO MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS, YET HOW CAN ONE MAKE A DECISION WHEN THEY ARE BLIND TO THE TRUTH, YET KNOW THIS TRUTH, THE WAY YOU LIVE AND THE DECISIONS THAT YOU MAKE IN THIS LIFE, SHALL DETERMINE WHERE YOU LIVE IN THE NEXT LIFE.
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SATAN WE KNOW IS THE ENEMY OF THE LORD GOD, AND THAT COUNTERFEITS THE WORKINGS OF THE LORD GOD, WE KNOW THAT CHRIST JESUS WAS THE SON OF GOD,(matt c3:v17), BUT IT IS ALSO REVEALED BOTH BY CHRIST JESUS AND THE APOSTLE PAUL, THAT SATAN ALSO HAS A SON, FOR BOTH CHRIST AND PAUL, GAVE HIM THE TITLE OF “THE SON OF PERDITION", (john c17:v12, thess c2:v3).
IN THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW WE READ THAT ALL AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN TO CHRIST JESUS BY THE FATHER, (matt c28:v18), AND IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, WE READ THAT THE DRAGON (SATAN), GIVES HIS THRONE POWER AND AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST (HIS SON), (rev c13:v2) IT IS ALSO RECORDED IN THESSALONIANS THAT THE SON OF PERDITION SHALL COME IN THE WORKINGS OF SATAN, (thess c2:v9). SATAN WOULD NOT GIVE HIS THRONE OR HIS GREAT AUTHORITY TO JUST ANYONE WHEN WE STUDY THE SCRIPTURES IT REVEALS THAT ONE OF THE TWELVE DISCIPLES, WAS GIVEN THIS TITLE, (SON OF PERDITION), BY CHRIST, IT WAS "JUDAS ISCARIOT", WHOM THE LORD SAID WAS NOT CLEAN (PURE) (john c13:v11).
JUDAS WAS A THIEF AND A LIAR,(john c12:v6),AND CHRIST SAID WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF HE HAD NOT BEEN BORN, (matt c26: v23-v25), (mark c14:v21).
IT IS REVEALED THAT SATAN ENTERED INTO JUDAS, (luke c22:v3, john c13:v27).
NOTE: THAT IT WAS NOT A DEMON, BUT SATAN HIMSELF, ALSO NOTE THAT WHEN JUDAS HANGED HIMSELF HE WENT TO HIS OWN PLACE, (acts c1:v25) ALSO IN REVELATION IT IS REVEALED THAT THE BEAST (ANTICHRIST), "WAS AND IS NOT, AND WILL ASCEND OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND GO TO PERDITION, (rev c17:v8), THE ANTICHRIST WITHOUT DOUBT SHALL BE A MAN AND NOT A SYSTEM, AND WITHOUT DOUBT HE SHALL BE THE DEVIL INCARNATE, (SATAN).
WHAT IS KNOWN OF THE ANTICHRIST (SON OF SATAN), IS THAT HE WILL BE AN INTELLECTUAL GENIUS, (dan c8:v23-v25), AND A MILITARY GENIUS (rev c6:v2).
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THE GREATEST SIGN OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS, IS IN THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE, FOR IT IS THE "ONLY" PARABLE IN WHICH THE LORD JESUS, SAID “LEARN” "NOW LEARN THIS PARABLE FROM THE FIG TREE: WHEN ITS BRANCH HAS ALREADY BECOME TENDER AND PUTS FORTH LEAVES, YOU KNOW THAT SUMMER IS NEAR. "SO YOU ALSO, WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE THINGS, KNOW THAT IT IS NEAR, AT THE DOORS”! ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, THIS GENERATION WILL BY NO MEANS PASS AWAY TILL ALL THESE THINGS TAKE PLACE, (matt c24:v32-v34).
ALL THESE THINGS, THE SIGNS THAT CHRIST DESCRIBED IN VERSES 4 TO 28 OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, FROM MISLEADING THE MANY TO THE GATHERING OF THE VULTURES.
WE KNOW THAT THE FIG TREE IS A SYMBOLIC TERM USED FOR ISRAEL, FOR IN HOSEA CHAPTER 9 VERSE 10, WE READ OF THE LORD SAYING "I SAW YOUR FOREFATHERS AS THE EARLIEST FRUIT ON THE FIG TREE”,(see jer c24) WE CAN NOW UNDERSTAND WHY CHRIST JESUS "CURSED" THE FIG TREE, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 21, BECAUSE IT BORE NO FRUIT, IT WAS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE REJECTION OF THE JEWS, DESPITE EVERY ADVANTAGE GIVEN TO THEM, AND BECAUSE OF THEIR REJECTION OF CHRIST AND THE KILLING OF GODS PROPHETS, THE LORD FORETOLD THEM THAT THEIR HOUSE WOULD BE LEFT UNTO THEM DESOLATE, (matt c23:v38). AND THAT THE PROPHECIES RECORDED IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26, AND DEUTERONOMY CHAPTERS 28 TO 30, WHERE FULFILLED WITH THE SCATTERING OF THE JEWS INTO EVERY NATION, IN THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE, CHRIST DID NOT MENTION THAT FRUIT WOULD BE ON THE FIG TREE, HE SAID JUST LEAVES, THIS WOULD COMPLY WITH HIS WORDS IN THE CURSING OF THE FIG TREE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 21, FOR CHRIST SAID IN THIS CHAPTER THAT NO LONGER WOULD THEY BEAR FRUIT, THERE ARE FOUR THINGS TO LEARN FROM THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE, 1.THE FIG TREE, IS A SYMBOLIC TERM REFERRING TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL, THEREFORE THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE IS REFERRING TO ISRAEL’S RETURN TO THE PROMISED LAND, AS PROPHESIED BY THE LORD GOD, (deut c30:v1-v10).2.THE BRANCH AND LEAVES ARE REFERRING TO THE FIRST GENERATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, WHICH BECAME A NATION AGAIN IN 1948.
NOTE: THE FIRST GENERATION, "THE OFFSPRING" OF THOSE WHO CAME BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND.
3. CHRIST JESUS DID NOT REFER TO ISRAEL BEARING FRUIT, AND AS WE KNOW TO THIS DAY ISRAEL DOES: NOT RECOGNIZE THE LORD JESUS AS THEIR MESSIAH,4. CHRIST JESUS REFERRED TO "THIS GENERATION" WHO WOULD NOT PASS AWAY UNTIL ALL THESE THINGS TAKE PLACE, SOME INTERPRET THIS WORD "GENERATION" TO BE RACE OR FAMILY, BUT WHEN CHRIST JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO THE GENERATION OF HIS DAY, HE SAID THESE SOLEMN WORDS," I AM SENDING YOU PROPHETS AND WISE MEN AND SCRIBES, SOME OF THEM YOU WILL KILL AND CRUCIFY, SOME YOU WILL SCOURGE IN YOUR SYNAGOGUES, AND PERSECUTE FROM CITY TO CITY, THAT UPON YOU MAY FALL THE GUILT OF ALL THE RIGHTEOUS BLOOD SHED ON EARTH FROM THE BLOOD OF RIGHTEOUS ABEL TO THE BLOOD OF ZECHARIAR, THE SON OF BERECHIAH, WHOM YOU MURDERED BETWEEN THE TEMPLE AND THE ALTAR”,"TRULY I SAY TO YOU, ALL THESE THINGS SHALL COME UPON THIS GENERATION, BEHOLD YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE".
AND AS WE KNOW, 40 YEARS FROM THE LORD JESUS SPOKE THESE WORDS, THE JEWISH NATION CEASED TO EXIST AS A NATION.
THE LOST OF LIFE AT THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND ITS TEMPLE IN WHAT WAS CALLED THE ROMAN WARS, IS BELIEVED TO HAVE GROSSED NEARLY TWO MILLION SOULS, AND IT WAS INDEED THAT VERY GENERATION WHICH WITNESSED ALL THAT CHRIST SPOKE OF, SO IF CHRIST JESUS WAS SO EXPLICIT ABOUT THAT GENERATION, IT WOULD NOT DO JUSTICE TO ASSUME THAT THE GENERATION OF THE "PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE" IS A RACE OR FAMILY.
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THE NAMES AND TITLES OF CHRIST JESUS
ABBA (rom c8:v15)(father)
THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD THE ALMIGHTY, IN RELATIONSHIP TO MAN, HE IS THE EVERLASTING FATHER, WHO THROUGH HIS SON (CHRIST JESUS) IN THE SHEDDING OF HIS BLOOD AT CALVARY, HAS OPENED AWAY FOR THE RESTORATION OF FELLOWSHIP TO HIMSELF, THAT WE THROUGH BELIEVING IN CHRIST JESUS AS OUR SAVIOUR, ARE ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD, AND RECEIVE THE BLESSING AS HIS CHILDREN, (gen c3:v8, rom c8:v15), IT CAN BE SAID THAT CHRIST IS INDEED THE ETERNAL FATHER TO THOSE THAT HAVE RECEIVED HIM AS THEIR SAVIOUR, FOR IT IS THROUGH HIM THAT ALL OUR NEEDS ARE MEET, (isa c9:v6, john c14: v13-v14, matt c7:v7).
ADON, ADONAI AND ADONIM(lord)
ARE GENERALLY RENDERED "LORD", (JEHOVAH); THEY DENOTE: LEADERSHIP ONE WITH POWER AND AUTHORITY, MASTER OR RULER, JEHOVAH IS "ELOHIM" IN COVENANT RELATIONSHIP TOWARDS MAN, (2chron c18:v31). ADON, IS THE LORD AS RULER, ADONIM, IS THE LORD AS OWNER, AND ADONAI, IS THE LORD AS BLESSER. THESE TITLES BECAME A SUBSTITUTED FOR "JEHOVAH" BECAUSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT THE NAME OF JEHOVAH WAS SO HOLY, THEY DARE NOT UTTER IT, (lev c24:v16).
ADVOCATE (1john c2:v1).(justify)
ONE WHO PLEADS THE CAUSE OF ANOTHER: ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD (rom c3:v23), SIN IS DEFINED IN SCRIPTURE AS LAWLESSNESS, (1john c3:v4), THAT IS FAILING TO MEET GOD’S STANDARD, AT THE VERY BEST OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SEEN BY THE LORD GOD, AS FILTHY RAGS, (isa c64:v6), AND BECAUSE WE HAVE VIOLATED THE LORD GOD’S LAWS, WE STAND CONDEMNED BEFORE HIM, YET SUCH WAS HIS LOVE TOWARDS US, HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, JESUS, WHO PLEADS TO THE FATHER ON OUR BEHALF, THROUGH HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HIS FINISHED WORK AT CALVARY, (john c19:v17-v37)
ALMIGHTY GOD (rev c1:v8)(holy)
JEHOVAH, EL-SHADDAI, THIS TITLE IS EXPRESSED IN HIS RELATION TO ALL THAT HE HAS CREATED, THE GOD OF GRACE, THE GOD WHO PROVIDES OUR PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS, IT IS USED FOR THE CALL OF GOD’S CHILDREN TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THE WORLD, (2cor c6:v18), FOR WHAT HAS A HOLY GOD GOT TO DO WITH AN UNHOLY WORLD, THIS TITLE OF THE LORD GOD IS MENTIONED TEN TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND IS CONNECTED WITH HIS HOLINESS, (rev c1:v8, c4:v8, c11:v17, c15:v3, c16:v7-v14, c19:v6:v15, c21:v22)
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA (rev c1:v8-v17)(the first and the last)
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE FIRST AND LAST AND THE BEGINNING AND THE END, EL-ELOHIM, GOD ALMIGHTY IN ALL HIS STRENGTH AND POWER, BEFORE HIM THERE WAS NO OTHER GOD FORMED, NOR WAS THERE ANY GOD FORMED AFTER HIM, (isa c43:v10, c44:v6-v8), HE IS THE ONE TRUE GOD, RIGHTEOUS GOD AND SAVIOUR, "HE IS LOVE", (1john c4:v8) IN THE BEGINNING HE WAS, (john c1:v1, gen c1:v1), AND AT THE END HE SHALL BE. (2pet c3:v13, rev c21:v1- v8)
AMEN (TRUTH) (rev c3:v14)
CHRIST JESUS IS PROTRAYED AS THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS, ITS MEANING IS "TRUTH", COMPARE, (isa c65:v16), WHERE "THE GOD OF TRUTH", IS THE "GOD OF AMEN" (SO BE IT), ALL THE PROMISES OF ALMIGHTY GOD ARE CERTAIN OR ONE COULD SAY,"AMEN", FOR THEY ARE MADE SURE THROUGH CHRIST, THE TRUE AND FAITHFUL WITNESS, FOR THERE IS NO GREATER IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, THAN CHRIST, WHO IS HIMSELF CALLED TRUTH, THE AMEN. (2cor c1:v20) AMEN, (SO BE IT), DENOTES COMPLETE ACQUIESCENCE, AND IS USED AT THE END OF PRAYER, AS A SINCERE WISH TO BE HEARD, IT IS ALSO TRANSLATED "VERILY", AND WAS USED BY CHRIST WHEN UTTERING A SOLEMN TRUTH, AND IN REVELATION, CHAPTER 3:v14, IT’S A TITLE WHICH IS APPLIED TO CHRIST, BY THE LORD GOD HIMSELF.
ANCHOR (heb c6:v19)(unyielding)
CHRIST JESUS WHO HOLDS STEADFAST, AND ANCHOR’S OUR SOUL IN THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, HE THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, (heb c12:v2). OUR HAVEN OF REST (matt c11:v28-v29), THE WORLD MAY BATTER US, YET IT SHALL NOT BREAK AWAY OUR MOORINGS, FOR CHRIST JESUS THE ROCK WHICH IS MY ANCHOR, (1cor c10:v4, ps71:v3), WE MAY BE AFFLICTED, BUT WE SHALL NOT BE CRUSHED, PERPLEXED BUT NOT DESPAIRING, PERSECUTED BUT NOT FORSAKEN, STRUCK DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED (2cor c4:v8-v9), NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM THE ROCK THAT ANCHORS OUR SOUL, (rom c8:v35-v39).
ANCIENT OF DAYS (dan c7:v9)(judgment)
THIS TITLE REFERS TO THE END OF THE AGE, THAT IS THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, WHEN CHRIST SHALL CAST DOWN ALL EARTHLY THRONES, AND ALL POWERS THAT OPPOSES HIM, (see rev c20:v11), WHERE THE GREAT WHITE THRONE IS REVEALED AT THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, NOTE THAT ALL STAND BEFORE THIS THRONE, THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE DEPICTS HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD (gen c16:v7-v14)(christ)
FIRST MENTIONED HERE,(gen c16), THE SECOND PERSON OF THE TRINITY, CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF, (see judge c 13) WHERE SAMSON’S PARENTS ASKED THE ANGEL OF THE LORD HIS NAME, AND THE ANSWER THEY RECEIVED WAS, WONDERFUL, THE SAME NAME THAT IS GIVEN IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 9.TO THE MESSIAH CHRIST JESUS, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD NEVER APPEARS AFTER THE INCARNATION OR CHRIST, AND IS NO WHERE MENTIONED AS SUCH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT THE THIRD PERSON OF THE TRINITY, WHICH COMES INTO FULLNESS AS THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, POINTING ONLY TO CHRIST, AS CHRIST POINTS TO THE FATHER, (see acts c2, john c14,c15,c16). (gen c21:v17-v21, c22:v11-v18, c31:v11-v13, exod c3:v2, jud c2:v1-v4, c5:v23, c6:v11-v24, c13:v3-v22, 2sam c24:v16, zec c1:v12, c3:v1, c12:v8. isa c63:v9, 1chon c21:v16.)
ANOINTED(ps2:v2 ,ps45:v7, acts c10:v38)(God)
JESUS, THE CHRIST, THE MESSIAH, THE APPOINTED ONE, THE SAVIOUR, KING, PRIEST, AND PROPHET, (john c1:v29, heb c1:v5-v6, matt c3:v17, c17:v5), THE ETERNAL REDEEMER, ANOINTED TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR, AND TO PROCLAIM THE FREEDOM OF OUR SOULS FROM SIN THROUGH HIMSELF, (luke c4:v18), AND THE OPENING OF THE WAY TO GOD OUR ETERNAL SALVATION, (john c14:v6).
APOSTLE (heb c3:v1)(sanctification)
ONE SENT FORTH, JESUS CHRIST, THE APOSTLE SENT FORTH AS GOD’S REPRESENTATIVE TO A FALLEN RACE, SENT FORTH TO BRING GREAT JOY, (luke c2:v10), THE ELECT OF THE FATHER, (isa c42:v1), FROM WHOM COMES FORTH SALVATION, THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL, THE GOSPEL OF LIGHT, THE TRUTH, THE GOD STORY, FOR IT IS GOD’S GRACE THAT BROUGHT FORTH THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION, (eph c1:v13-v17), IT IS ONLY THROUGH HIM, CHRIST JESUS OUR APOSTLE AND SURE FOUNDATION (1cor c3:v11), THAT WE HAVE HOPE FROM THE DELIVERANCE OF SIN, AND ALL ITS CONSEQUENCES, AND THE SANCTIFICATION OF OUR SOUL, (matt c1:v21, heb c5:v9).
AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH (heb c12:v2)(perfecter)
CHRIST JESUS THE ORIGINATOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH, HE WHO TRUSTED THE FATHER IN ALL THINGS, AND DID NOT HIS OWN WILL, (phil c2:v6)BUT THE WILL OF HIS FATHER, (john c5:v30), WE ARE TO TRUST IN THE LORD, (1tim c4:v10), FOR ALL OUR WELL BEING, AS CHRIST TRUSTED OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, FAITH IS MORE THAN BELIEVING WHAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN, AND IT IS MORE THAN JUST TO TRUST, IT IS THE ASSURANCE WITH A HEART FELT CONVICTION, THAT YOU COMMUNE AND CONVERSE WITH THE LIVING GOD, (isa c1:v18, 1john c1:v7), FAITH IS KNOWING THAT YOU ARE IN THE FATHER’S AND SAVIOUR’S HAND, (john c10: v28-v29), (FATHER ALWAYS IN THY HAND), IT IS TO THIS END THAT WE FIX OUR EYES ON THE RISEN LORD JESUS, AND THROUGH HIM WE CAN CRY ABBA FATHER.
AUTHOR OF LIFE AND PRINCE OF LIFE. (acts c3:v15;john c14:v6)(Eternal)
CHRIST JESUS THE AUTHOR OF LIFE AND THE ORIGINATOR OF LIFE,(gen c1, john c1, john c8:v58),THE EVERLASTING AND ETERNAL GOD, WHO SO EVER FINDS GOD, FINDS LIFE, (prov c8:v35), THE PROMISE OF CHRIST JESUS TO THE BELIEVER, IS THAT THEY SHALL NOT SEE DEATH, BUT SHALL PASS FROM LIFE TO LIFE, (john c5:v24), AND HE WHO BELIEVES ON THE SON HAS EVERLASTING LIFE, (john c3:v36), FOR THE FATHER LOVES THE SON AND HAS GIVEN ALL THINGS INTO HIS HANDS, (john C5:v27), HE IS THE RESSURRECTION AND THE LIFE (john C11:v25).
BABE (gift) (luke c2:v16)
A BABE WAS BORN INTO THIS WORLD, WHO IS THE FULFILMENT OF ALL PROPHECY, FOR IN THE CITY OF DAVID WAS BORN A SAVIOUR, BETHLEHEM SIGNIFIES: "THE HOUSE OF BREAD", AND THIS BABE WOULD GROW INTO A MAN WHO WOULD CALL HIMSELF,"THE BREAD OF LIFE", CHRIST JESUS, (john c6:v35, luke c2:v34, matt c1:v18-v23).
BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD (I AM)(rev c3:v14, prov c8:v22-v31
CHRIST JESUS CO-EQUAL WITH GOD THE FATHER, AND ACTIVE IN THE WORK OF CREATION, (col c1:v15: v16), TOOK HUMAN FORM, THAT WE MAY BECOME A NEW CREATION THROUGH THE SHEDDING OF HIS BLOOD, (eph c1:v7, 2cor c5:v17, gal c6:v15), CHRIST JESUS, THE GREAT "I AM", (john c8: v58), FOR AS YOU SEE THE SON, YOU SEE THE FATHER, (john c14:v9), THEY ARE THE SAME SUBSTANCE, CHRIST IS THE REVELATION OF GOD’S WISDOM, (1cor c1:v24), AND POSSESSES ALL WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE, (col c2:v3), "AMEN".
BELOVED (eph c1:v6)(flavour of God)
BEHOLD MY BELOVED SON, (matt c3:v17), THE ANOINTING OF CHRIST JESUS AS "MESSIAH", KING, (ps2:v7), PRIEST, (matt c17:v5), PROPHET, (acts c3:v22), CHRIST JESUS THE BELOVED OF ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM, AS THEIR SAVIOUR, (john c4:v42), AND ARE WASHED IN HIS BLOOD, (rev c1:v5), eph c5:v23). THROUGH WHOM WE ARE RECONCILED TO THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, NOT ENDURING HIS WRATH, BUT HIS PEACE AND MERCY, (rom c5:v9-v11). THE NAME DAVID, MEAN "BELOVED", KING DAVID WAS CALLED THE MAN AFTER THE HEART OF GOD, (1sam c13:v14), CHRIST JESUS WHO IS GIVEN THE TITLE SEED OF DAVID, WAS THE MAN "WITH" THE HEART OF GOD, (2tim c2:v8)
BISHOP (GUARDIAN )(1pet c2:v25)
CHRIST JESUS THE ELDER AND OVERSEER OF HIS CHURCH, CHRIST SAVES TO THE UPPERMOST, HE DOES NOT FORGET, HE DOES NOT LEAVE OR FORSAKE, NOR DOES HE FAIL US, (heb c13:v5, john c14:v18), TO THE REDEEMED HE IS PROVIDER, PROTECTOR AND DELIVERER IN TIMES OF NEED AND TROUBLE, THE KEEPER OF LIFE, THE DEFENDER OF OUR INTEGRITY AND PRESERVER OF OUR SOUL, HE IS THE CHIEF SHEPHERD AND LOVER OF OUR SOULS.
BLESSED (HAPPY)(1tim c6:v15)
DIRECTED TOWARDS CHRIST JESUS, AS THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, THE BLESSED ONE (rom c9:v5), THE WORD BLESSED WAS USED BY THE JEWS INSTEAD OF THE NAME "JEHOVAH", (mark c14:v61), THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER WHO HOLDS ALL AUTHORITY, (john c5:v27), AND POWER, HE IS LORD AND MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, (heb c12:v24), THE SPIRITUAL COVENANT AND ETERNAL COVENANT, (heb c13:v20),BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT MAKES THE LORD JESUS HIS TRUST, (ps40:v4).
BRANCH (THE RIGHTEOUS BRANCH) (jer c23:v5, zec c3:v8)
BRANCH IS A TITLE WHICH IS GIVEN TO THE MESSIAH, CHRIST JESUS, THE PROMISE IS GIVEN THAT THE MESSIAH SHALL COME FROM THE STEM OF JESSE, (isa c11:v1), THAT IS THE FATHER OF KING DAVID, ALTHOUGH THE TREE HAD BEEN FELLED, (isa c6:v13), IT’S STUMP WAS FIRMLY ROOTED, AND SO THE PROMISE OF THE COMING MESSIAH WAS FULFILLED, THAT FROM THE SEED OF DAVID, (ROOT), WOULD ARISE A TENDER SHOOT OUT OF PARCHED GROUND, REFERRING THAT DAVID’S OFFSPRING WAS EXTINCT, (isa c53:v2, isa c4:v2), CHRIST IS ALSO CALLED THE RIGHTEOUS BRANCH, (jer c33:v15), AND RIGHTLY SO, FOR EVEN IN HIS NATURE HE FAR SURPASSED THE HOUSE OF KING DAVID, IN DIGNITY, POWER AND GLORY, BOTH IN PERSON AND OFFICE, (zec c6:v12-v13).
BREAD OF LIFE (manna) (john c6:v35)
MAN SHALL NOT LIVE, BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD, (deut c8:v3) AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH (john c1:v14), THE INCARNATION OF JESUS THE CHRIST, GOD IN MAN, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, THE MANNA FROM HEAVEN THAT FEEDS THE SOUL, THE CORN OF HEAVEN, (ps78:v25), THE RECEIVING OF CHRIST JESUS AS SAVIOUR, ENSURES THAT THE SOUL OF THE RECIPIENT SHALL NEVER LIVE IN SPIRITUAL DARKNESS, (john c3:v19), FOR CHRIST IS THE BREAD THAT LEADS TO DIVINE REVELATION AND ETERNAL LIFE.
BRIDEGROOM (head) (matt c9:v15)
CHRIST JESUS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH (FAMILY), HE IS THE BRIDEGROOM AND THE CHURCH IS HIS BRIDE, (rev c21:v9), AND THEY SHALL BECOME ONE, AS THE LORD GOD DIVINELY INSTITUTED MARRIAGE BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN, (gen c2:v21-v25), THAT THEY SHOULD BECOME ONE FLESH, SO ALSO WITHIN THE SPIRITUAL REALM, THE BELIEVER AND CHRIST BECOME ONE, FOR AS CHRIST IS IN THE FATHER, AND WE IN CHRIST, (john c14:v20), WE SHALL BECOME ONE.
THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR (THE DAY STAR) (rev c22:v6,2pet c1:v19).
CHRIST WHO IS CALLED THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR, AND THE DAY STAR, EACH OF THESE TITLES ARE NOT WITHOUT SIGNIFICANCE, THE DAY STAR IS A REFERENCE TO RECEIVING CHRIST JESUS INTO ONES HEART FOR THEN THE DAY DAWNS, AND THE DAY STAR TAKES UP ABODE WITHIN THE SOUL, (2pet c1:v19, rev c3:v20). AND THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR IS A REFERENCE TO THE COMING OF CHRIST AS A BABE, ISRAEL’S PROMISED MESSIAH FOR IT WAS THROUGH THE BIRTH OF CHRIST JESUS, THAT THE GOOD NEWS CAME AND THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL WAS REVEALED. THREE TITLES THE ANGEL GAVE TO CHRIST JESUS AT HIS BIRTH, (luke c2:v11), 1.SAVIOUR (THE DELIVERER), 2.CHRIST (MESSIAH), 3.LORD (GOD), WITHOUT LIGHT, THERE IS NO LIFE, CHRIST JESUS IS BOTH LIGHT AND LIFE, AND HIS PROMISE TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE, IS TO GIVE THEM "THE MORNING STAR" (rev c2:v28), THE MORNING STAR BEING ETERNAL BLISS, (rev c22:v16).
BRIGHTNESS OF THE FATHER’S GLORY (EXPRESS IMAGE) (heb c1:v3)
CHRIST JESUS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, (john c3:v16), THE EXACT REPRESENTATION OF GOD’S ESSENCE IN ALL HIS GLORY, (john c17:v21), THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES THE RADIANCE OF THE FATHER AND CHRIST JESUS THE SON, ARE REVEALED THROUGH THEIR MERCY, COMPASSION, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, HUMILITY AND THEIR LOVE TOWARDS MANKIND, BOTH BEING LIGHT (john c1, BOTH BEING TRUTH (1tim c2:v4), BOTH BEING LOVE, (1john c3:v16, john c15:v12-v17).
CAPTAIN (commaner) ((heb c2:v10)
CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, (eph c1:v22, col c1:v18), OUR COMMANDER AND LEADER, THE BEGINNING OF ALL THAT IS REDEEMED, CHRIST JESUS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN NAVIGATE OUR JOURNEY TO THE FATHER, (john c14:v6), AND HIS CELESTIAL HOME, (john c14:v3), WITH CHRIST AT THE HELM OF OUR LIFE’S WE SHALL NOT SUFFER LOSS, FOR HE IS THE PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH, (heb c12:v2), WHO WORKS IN US AND THROUGH US, (2cor c1:v5, rom c11:v36), CHRIST THE KING ETERNAL, (1tim c1:v17), AND THE PRINCE OF LIFE, (acts c3:v15), AND THE RULER OF ALL CREATION, (dan c8:v11)
CHOSEN (MY BELOVED)(isa c42:v1)
BEHOLD MY SERVANT, MY BELOVED WHICH REVEALS THE SERVANT KING MESSIAH, THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, (matt c12:v18-v20, c3:v17, mark c9:v7). THE HOLY TRINITY REVEALED IN THESE SCRIPTURES, THAT THE WORK OF THE CHOSEN IS "REDEMPTION", FOR THROUGH CHRIST JESUS THE VERY NATURE OF THE ALMIGHTY IS REVEALED IN THAT THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS MANIFEST.
CHRIST JESUS (THE ANOINTED SAVIOUR)(matt c1:v16)
CHRIST JESUS WHO HUMBLED HIMSELF BY BECOMING A SERVANT, AND FULFILLING THE WILL OF HIS FATHER, (john c6:v37-v40), IS NOW SEATED AND EXALTED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER, (col c3:v1), EXALTED IN POWER AND HONOUR OVER ALL CREATION, HE WAS OBEDIENT TO THE POINT OF DEATH, EVEN DEATH ON A CROSS, (phil c2:v8), GIVING HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR SIN, HE WHO HAD NO SIN, TOOK OUR SIN, THAT WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, (2cor c5:v21), BEHOLD THE NOW EXALTED ONE, (phil c2:v9).
COMFORT (the Amen) (2cor c1:v3, 2thess c2:v16-v17)
THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT, WHO COMFORTS US IN ALL ARE DISTRESS, WHEN EVERY THING AROUND US SEEMS TO BE FALLING APART, THE LORD JESUS CAN BE FOUND IN THE MIDST OF OUR STRUGGLES, (heb c13:v5), COMFORTING AND STRENGTHENING OUR SOULS, AND LIKE THE GOOD SHEPHERD THAT HE IS, HE SHALL PUT US ON HIS SHOULDERS AND CARRY OUR BURDENS, FOR HE LOVES US WITH AN ETERNAL LOVE AND HE COMFORTS US WITH AN ETERNAL COMFORT,"AMEN".
CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL (the glory of the father) (isa c40:v1-v2, luke c2:v25)
CHRIST JESUS THE PROMISED MESSIAH, GLORY BE TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST AND ON EARTH, PEACE AMONG MEN, AN OLD MAN WAITED PATIENTLY FOR THE CONSOLATION OF THIS SOUL, IN THE PROMISE FROM GOD THAT HE WOULD INDEED SEE HIS MESSIAH BEFORE HE DIED, HE HELD IN HIS HANDS ONE DAY AN EIGHT DAY OLD BABY BOY, AND CRIED OUT, MY EYES HAVE SEEN MY SALVATION, WHAT A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THAT MUST HAVE BEEN, NO WORDS COULD EXPRESS THE FELLING WITHIN THAT OLD MANS HEART, THE CHILD WHICH HE HELD WAS THE BABY JESUS, INDEED THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WAS ISRAEL’S CONSOLATION, AND SHALL BE WHEN HE RETURNS, BUT THAT CHILD WAS ALSO THE CONSOLATION, (COMFORT), TO ALL THAT BELIEVE AND RECEIVE HIM AS THEIR SAVIOUR. (2cor c1:v5, luke c2:v32)
CORNER STONE (precious) (isa c28:v16, 1pet c2:v2:v8)
BEHOLD I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER STONE AND A CHIEF STONE, HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED, CHRIST JESUS IS PORTRAYED IN SCRIPTURE AS THE LIVING STONE, THE CORNER STONE, THE REJECTED STONE, AND THE STUMBLING STONE, TO THE JEWS HE BECAME THE REJECTED STONE, AND THE STUMBLING STONE, TO THE GENTILES HE WAS FOOLISHNESS, cor c1:v23), TO BOTH HE IS A "ROCK OF OFFENCE", BUT TO THE LORD GOD, HE WAS THE PRECIOUS STONE, THE STONE THAT GOD HIMSELF HAD CHOSEN, HE IS THE TRIED STONE AND THE "TRUE FOUNDATION STONE" HE IS THE STONE OF ISRAEL, (gen c49:v24)
COUNSELOR (adviser) (isa c9:v6).
CHRIST JESUS SEATED WITHIN THE COUNSEL OF THE ALMIGHTY, (jer c32:v16:v19), CO-EQUAL WITH GOD THE FATHER, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE PURPOSE OF A COUNSELOR IS TO ADVISE AND LEAD TO THE TRUTH, (john c1), HENCE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLED THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, (john c14:v17), WHO ONLY POINTS TO CHRIST JESUS FOR SALVATION, (acts c4:v12), AND CHRIST HIMSELF IS CALLED " TRUTH", (john c14:v6, c1:v17).
COVENANT (contract) (isa c42:v6)
THE COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND MAN, THE RECONCILIATION OF FALLEN MAN TO THE LORD GOD, JESUS CHRIST FULFILLED THIS AT THE CROSS OF CALVARY, FOR NO COVENANT COULD BE MADE WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD, (exod c24:v8, heb c9:v20), AND THERE COULD BE NO REMISSION OF SINS WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD, (lev c17:v11), CHRIST JESUS IS THE EVERLASTING COVENANT OF THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER, TO A FALLEN RACE, HIS SACRIFICE WAS THE BLOOD COVENANT, (1cor c11), FOR THE ATONEMENT OF SIN, AND THE MAKING OF A NEW COVENANT,(matt c26:v28,,heb c13:v20), THROUGH WHICH EVERY CHILD OF GOD HAS THE ASSURANCE OF THE BLESSING OF SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE, (heb c12:v24, rev c1:v5, c5:v9, c7:v14, c12:v9, c19:v13).
COVERT (SHELTER) (isa c32:v2)
A MAN SHALL BE AS A HIDING PLACE FROM THE WIND, AND A COVERT (COVER) FROM THE STORM, MAN HERE IS (HEB)-ISH,( exod c15:v3, jer c1:v8-v11), THE MAN (THE ANGEL OF JEHOVAH), CHRIST JESUS, IS (ISH)-ELOHIM, THE LIVING WORD, (john c1:v1), COME TO ME ALL WHO ARE WEARY AND HEAVY LADEN, AND I SHALL GIVE YOU REST, (matt c11:v28-v29), FOR UNDER THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS, WE FIND SURETY, (ps91:v4), THE SHEPHERD WHO PROTECTS HIS SHEEP, AND COVERS HIS FLOCK WITH A HEDGE OF PROTECTION, (ps34:v7, job c1:v10).
CREATOR (isa c43:v15, gen c1:v26 ) (ELOHIM)
LET US, IN OUR IMAGE, (PLURAL), THE HOLY TRINITY, FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT, TRUE IN ALL THEIR PROMISES, CONCERNING, CREATION, SALVATION AND JUDGMENT, HERE CHRIST IS CALLED CREATOR OF ISRAEL, YOUR KING, "ISRAEL" IS A TITLE OF CHRIST JESUS, (isa c49:v3), AND IT IS ALSO GIVEN AS A NAME FOR ALL BELIEVERS IN CHRIST JESUS, (rom c9:v6, c11:v26, gal c6:v15-v16). ISRAEL AS A NATION REJECTED GOD AS THEIR KING, (1sam c10:v19). WE AS BELIEVERS RECEIVE WITH GLAD HEARTS CHRIST JESUS AS OUR KING.
(CHIEF SHEPHERD SEE GOOD SHEPHERD)
DAVID (beloved)(hosea c3:v5,ezek c34:v23-v24)
MY BELOVED, THE TRUE SHEPHERD AND THE SERVANT KING, CHRIST JESUS ISRAEL’S MESSIAH, THE BRANCH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, (jer c23:v5), WHO SHALL SECURE FOREVER RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS PEOPLE, (isa c4:v2), KING DAVID WAS A MAN AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART, (acts c13:v22, 1sam c13:v14), CHRIST JESUS BECAME FLESH, WITH GOD’S HEART, BEHOLD MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN, MY BELOVED IN WHOM MY SOUL IS WELL PLEASED, (matt c12:v18), JESUS CHRIST THE BELOVED OF GOD, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER (john c3:v16, THE HEIR TO THE "THRONE", (rev c22:v1, rev c3:v7, c5:v5, c22:v16).
DAYSMAN (job c9:v33) (UMPIRE, ARBITER, MEDIATOR)
CHRIST JESUS OUR DAYSMAN, HE IS NOT BOUND BY THE LAW, FOR HE FULFILLED THE LAW, (rom c10:v4), JESUS CHRIST WHO THROUGH HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS, (john c19:v30), RECEIVED THE RIGHT AS ARBITRATOR (MEDIATOR), (1tim c2:v5), BETWEEN GOD AND MAN, (heb c9:v5), WHO IS THE BLESSED HOPE OF ALL THAT BELIEVE, (titus c2:v130, HE WHO IS BOTH MAN AND GOD, AND THE CURE, (RESTORATION) OF OUR FELLOWSHIP TO THE FATHER, (col c1:v20).
DAYSTAR (SEE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR)(2pet c1:v19)
DELIVERER (saviour) (rom c11:v26)
THE REDEEMER, THE MESSIAH, THE DELIVERER WHO AT HIS FIRST COMING WAS REJECTED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE, THE JEWS, HE FORETOLD OF THIS REJECTION IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 53, AND ALSO THAT HE WOULD DELIVER THEM AT HIS SECOND COMING, AND SHALL OPEN A FOUNTAIN IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM FOR THE CLEANSING OF SIN, (zec c13:v1), AND THAT THEY SHALL WEEP FOR HIM, WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED, IT SHALL BE A GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY, FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE SHALL ACKNOWLEDGE CHRIST JESUS AS THEIR PROMISED MESSIAH, (zec c12:v10), THEIR LORD AND SAVIOUR, (isa c60:v16).
DESIRE OF THE NATIONS (hope) (hag c2:v7)
THIS TITLE OF CHRIST IS REFERRING TO THE END OF THE AGE,(matt c24:v3), THE FULFILMENT OF THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES, (luke c21:v24), IT IS OF COURSE POINTING TO THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS,(rev c19:v11-v16, matt c24:v27-v31, rev c1:v7). THE DAY OF THE LORD, (obadiah v15, zeph c1:v7, zec c14:v1), WHEN MEN SHALL CRY TO THE MOUNTAINS AND THE ROCKS, "FALL ON US AND HIDE US" FROM THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND CHRIST, (rev c6:v16), THUS SHALL THE PRINCE OF PEACE REIGN UPON THE EARTH, AND THE NATIONS SHALL COME AND GLORIFY HIS NAME, (isa c66:v23, rev c15:v4), AND WORSHIP THE ONLY TRUE GOD, (jer c10:v10).
DEW (hosea c14:v5) (BLESSING)
CHRIST JESUS THE BLESSING THAT CAME DOWN FROM ZION, (heb c12:v22, rev c14:v1), THE DEW THAT REFRESHES AND SUSTAINS LIFE, HE IS THE EMBLEM OF SPIRITUAL BLESSING, DEW WAS CONSIDERED A GREAT BLESSING UPON THE LAND, THE ABSENCE OF DEW WAS A CURSE, (gen c27:v28, 1kings c17:v1), CHRIST SHALL BE LIKE THE DEW TO ISRAEL AT HIS COMING, (zec c14: v1-v4, c13:v1), HE SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SPIRITUAL DRYNESS AND AWAKEN THEM TO SPIRITUAL COMMUNION, (ezek c37: v1-v14).
DIADEM (isa c62:v3) (CROWN)
MESSIAH’S INTERCESSION FOR HIS PEOPLE, HERE CHRIST JESUS IS REVEALED AS THE VICTOR WHO WON THE VICTORY OVER THE LAW, SIN AND DEATH THROUGH THE RESURRECTION, (1cor c15: v56-v57, 1pet c5:v4), HE IS THE CROWN OF LIFE, SO HONOURED BY HIS FATHER, (rev c2:v10),CROWN DENOTES, HONOUR, PROSPERITY, BLESSEDNESS AND ETERNAL LIFE. DIADEM WAS WORN BY THE HIGH PRIEST, (ezek c21:v26), AND KINGS,(isa c28:v5), CHRIST JESUS WAS BOTH PRIEST AND KING, (heb c9:v11, rev c17:v14), BEHOLD SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, SURELY YOUR SALVATION IS COMING; BEHOLD HIS REWARD IS WITH HIM AND HIS WORK BEFORE HIM, (zec c12:v10, c13:v1).
DOOR (john c10:v7) (ONLY ENTRANCE)
THE DOOR OF SALVATION BY WHICH ONE MAY ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, AND NONE MAY ENTER UNLESS THEY COME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST THAT IS BY ACCEPTING AND BELIEVING INTO ONES HEART THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAVIOUR, (THROUGH FAITH), THE DOOR OF FAITH IS OFFERED TO ALL, (acrs c14:v27), CHRIST IS THE DOOR (DOOR KEEPER), AND ONLY THOSE WHO ARE HIS DISCIPLES SHALL ENTER THROUGH, FOR NARROW IS THE GATE THAT LEADS TO LIFE, (matt c7:v14), CHRIST JESUS ALONE IS THE DOOR TO LIFE, AND THE DOOR THAT NO ONE CAN SHUT, (rev c3:v8)
EAGLE (Jehovah) (deut c32:v11)
EAGLE: APPLIED TO "EL-ELYON", (deut c32:v8), THE MOST HIGH GOD, IT REVEALS HIS PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE TOWARDS HIS CHILDREN WHEN THEY ARE FRAIL, (IN DANGER), THIS TITLE IS APPLIED TO CHRIST JESUS, AS THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, (luke c1:v35, mark c5:v7), AND IS ASCRIBED TO JESUS IN JOHN’S GOSPEL, FOR JOHN PRESENTS HIM AS, THE SON OF GOD, "JEHOVAH HIMSELF" ISRAEL’S MESSIAH, (isa c40:v9, c53, john c8:v58).
ELECT (isa c42:v1) (CHOSEN)
CHRIST JESUS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, CHOSEN BY THE FATHER AND BESTOWED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO FULFILL ALL THE PROMISES RECORDED WITHIN HOLY-WRIT, CONCERNING MAN’S SALVATION AND COMMUNION WITH THE LORD GOD, (matt c12: v17-v21), THE ANOINTED WHO WOULD BRING LIGHT (SALVATION) TO THE NATIONS, (john c1: v4-v5, John c8:v12), JUSTICE SHALL NOT SEEM TO BE DONE, BUT SHALL BE DONE, FOR THE LORD GOD IS HOLY AND PURE, GOD IS LIGHT, (1john c1: v5-v7), CHRIST JESUS WHO CAME AS A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD, (john c12:v46), THAT MAN WOULD NO LONGER BE EARTH BOUND, TRAPPED BY HIS DEPRAVITY AND IGNORANCE OF DIVINE TRUTH, (eph c5:v8, 2cor c4:v4).
"EL", "ELOHIM","ELOAH","ELYON" (Holy Trinity) (gen c1:v1, deut c32:v15-v17,gen c14:v18-v20)
"EL" IS GOD THE ALMIGHTY, THE OMNIPOTENT, ALL POWERFUL,THE EXALTED ONE, "ELOHIM", IS GOD AS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, ITS FIRST OCCURRENCE IS FOUND IN GENESIS C1:V1, AS THE CREATOR OF CREATION, GOD PUTTING HIS OMNIPOTENCE INTO FRUITION, "EL" IS "ELOHIM" IN ALL HIS STRENGTH AND POWER. "ELOAH", IS "ELOHIM", WHO IS TO BE WORSHIPPED, ELOAH, IS ESSENTIALLY, "THE LIVING GOD", ELOAH IS ASSOCIATED WITH WORSHIP, (deut c32:v15-v17, 2chron c32:v15, eza c4:v24, job c9:v13, ps18:v31), "ELYON", THE MOST HIGH GOD, "EL", THE EXALTED ONE, ELYON IS THE BESTOWER OF ALL BLESSINGS, (gen c14:v18-v20, num c24:v16, isa c14:v14, ps18:v13). IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR MAN TO COMPREHEND THE FULLNESS OF "GOD", IT IS ONE THING TO SEE BUT A GLIMPSE OF THE GLORY OF GOD, YET ANOTHER THING TO SEE THE "GOD OF GLORY", (exod c33:v18-v23), "ELOHIM", SPOKE AND CREATION CAME INTO FRUITION, WITHOUT THE LIFTING OF ONE FINGER, YET "ELOHIM" IN HIS GREAT LOVE TOWARDS MAN, NOT ONLY CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, BUT CREATED MAN WITH HIS OWN HANDS, AND BREATHED HIS OWN SPIRIT INTO HIM, (gen c2:v7), IT WAS "ELOHIM" FREEWILL TO CREATED MAN, THE OUTPOURING OF HIS LOVE UNTO MAN BY HIS SPIRIT, (THE BREATH OF LIFE), AND IN THE LIKENESS OF "ELOHIM", MAN HAD INSTILLED IN HIS SOUL THE LOVE OF GOD, FOR "ELOHIM" IS LOVE, HIS LOVE WAS NOT ONLY EXPRESSED IN THE SPOKEN WORD, BUT BECAME FLESH (THE LIVING WORD), (john c1:v1), CHRIST JESUS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,"ELOHIM THE REDEEMER", THE HOLY TRINITY CANNOT BE SEPERATED, ( john c10:v30,c14:v9-v11, c16:v13. “ELYON “THE FATHER, THE MOST HIGH GOD, (mark c5:v7, luke c8:v28). ELOHIM, THE CREATOR, CHRIST JESUS, (gen c1:v1, john c1:v1, col c1 :v15-v23, rom c11:v36,1cor c8:v6). ELOAH THE LIVING GOD THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, THE SPIRIT OF LIFE, (gal c6:v8, 2cor c3:v6, rom c8:v11).
"EL SHADDAI (gen c17:v1) (GOD ALMIGHTY)
THE ALL SUFFICIENT GOD, "THE GIVER", (exod c6:v3), THE ALL POWERFUL GOD, WHO CAN SUPPLY ALL OUR NEEDS, "EL SHADDAI" STRESSES THE GREATNESS OF GOD, IT DOES NOT REPRESENT HIM AS A GOD OF WRATH, BUT AS, THE GOD OF GRACE, ABRAHAM WAS GIVEN THE PROMISE BY "EL SHADDAI", THAT IF HE WALKED BEFORE HIM BLAMELESS, PUTTING HIS FAITH IN HIM, THEN "EL SHADDAI" WOULD BLESS HIM, AND THIS PROMISE IS STILL AS GOOD TODAY AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM, (2cor c6:v18, rev c1:v8 rev c11:v17, c15:v3, c16:v7, c21:v22).
THE EVERLASTING GOD (gen c21:v33) (ETERNAL ONE),"EL OLAM", THE GOD OF ETERNITY, AN ENDLESS PAST AND AN UNENDING FUTURE,ONE OF THE MANY PROPERTIES (ATTRIBUTES),OF GOD, (ps90),THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE, (Y.H.W.H.) YAHWEH! MEANING, "TO BE", THE GREAT "I AM WHO I AM", (exod c3:v14, ELOHIM).
EXPRESS IMAGE (heb c1:v3)(SEE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FATHER’S GLORY)
FEEDER (isa c40:v11) (SEE GOOD SHEPHERD)
FIRST AND THE LAST (rev c1:v8-v17) (SEE ALPHA AND OMEGA).
FIRST BEGOTTEN OF THE DEAD (rev c1:v5) (SEE RESURRECTION)
FIRST BORN OF THE DEAD (rev c1:v5) (SEE RESURRECTION
FIRST FRUIT OF THE DEAD (rev c1:v5) (SEE RESURRECTION).
FORERUNNER (heb c6:v20)
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THE PROMISE OF THE ETERNAL BLESSING, THE FIRST BORN OF THE DEAD, IN WHOM WE HAVE THE ASSURANCE OF FULL SALVATION, THE FORERUNNER WHO ENTERS INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE FATHER WITH THE NEWS “ IT IS FINISHED", THY CHILDREN COME, (john c14:v3, rom c8: v15-v17). IT IS ONLY THROUGH CHRIST THAT OUR HOPES ARE REALISED,THROUGH HIM, IN HIM, AND BY HIM,NOW WE CAN APPROACH THE VERY THRONE OF GOD, ENTERING BEYOND THE VEIL,(eph c2: v18-v19, heb c4:v16), HE IS THE PROMISE OF OUR CITIZENSHIP OF THE HEAVENLY ABODE.
FOUNDATION (isa c28:v16)
CHRIST JESUS THE SURE FOUNDATION OF THE PROMISE TO COME, THE CHRIST, THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW EARTH AND NEW HEAVENS, (2pet c3), HE IS THE SURE FOUNDATION ON WHICH EVERY CHILD OF GOD BUILTS, HE IS THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION, A TRIED STONE, (1pet c2:v6), HE IS THE FOUNDATION STONE ON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILD, (1con c3:v11, matt c16:v18), THE EVERLASTING COVENANT, (heb c13:v20), THE PRECIOUS CORNER STONE, THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, (1pet c2:v4, col c1:v18), THE STONE THAT SHALL DESTROY ALL IDOLATRY, AND WHO’S KINGDOM SHALL COVER THE WHOLE EARTH (dan c2:v45), CHRIST JESUS THE SURE FOUNDATION TO THOSE’S THAT TRUST IN HIM. (2tim c2:v19).
FOUNTAIN (zec c13:v1) (CALVARY)
CHRIST JESUS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER, (rev c21:v6, jer c2:v13 HE IS THE SOURCE TO ETERNAL LIFE, (john c4:v10), CALVARY WHICH IS THE WAY FOR THE SALVATION OF MAN, CHRIST IS THE FOUNTAIN THAT NEVER RUNS DRY, ALL SPIRITUAL REFRESHMENT FLOWS THROUGH HIM, (joel c3:v18, zec c14:v8, rev c22:v1). HE IS THE ROCK THAT BRINGS FORTH LIVING WATERS, (num c20:v10),THE JOY TO A THIRSTY SOUL, FOR ONLY IN HIM IS OUR HOPE AND CONSOLATION REALISED, (rev c7:v16-v17).
FRIEND OF SINNERS (matt c11:v19)
ABRAHAM WAS GIVEN THE TITLE, "FRIEND OF GOD", (james c2:v23),BECAUSE OF HIS CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, BUT HOW MARVELLOUS AND WONDERFUL IT IS, WHEN THE SAVIOUR CHRIST JESUS CALLS YOU FRIEND, (john c15:v13-v15), IT IS GRACE UPON GRACE, NO GREATER LOVE HAS EVER BEEN GIVEN, THAT THE LOVE OF GOD, WHICH DEMONSTRATED THROUGH THE LORD JESUS, FOR WHEN CHRIST HUNG ON THE CROSS, WE SEE THAT GOD IS LOVE, (1john c4:v8), IT WAS THE LORD GOD WHO CLOSED THE GULF, (BROKEN FELLOWSHIP), BETWEEN MAN AND HIMSELF THROUGH CHRIST, (gen c3:v8-v24), THIS DOES NOT MEAN AUTOMATIC SALVATION FOR ALL, BUT MUST BE RECEIVED AS A GIFT BY EACH INDIVIDUAL (rom c5, eph c2: v1-v8), HENCE CHRIST JESUS IS THE FRIEND OF SINNERS.
GIFT OF GOD (2cor c9:v15) (DIVINE LOVE)
THE SUPREME GIFT OF GOD, CHRIST JESUS HIS SON, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, IN WHOM WE FIND SALVATION, ETERNAL LIFE, IN CHRIST JESUS WAS THE POURING OUT OF GOD’S LOVE, TO A WORLD THAT DESERVED IT NOT, THIS GIFT OF HIS SON IS GIVEN FREELY TO ALL, RICH, POOR, MIGHTY AND SMALL, IT CANNOT BE BROUGHT OR MERITED, IT IS THE SUPREME AND PERFECT GIFT WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, FOR HIS GRACE WAS SUCH, THAT THOUGH HE WAS RICH, YET FOR OUR SAKES HE BECAME POOR, THAT THROUGH HIS POVERTY WE BECOME RICH, (I.E), RICH IN THE LOVE OF GOD, (1tim c1:v17, 1cor c15:v57, james c1:v17).
GOD IS LOVE(1john c4:v8:v9)
CHRIST JESUS IS THE DEMONSTRATION OF GOD’S LOVE TOWARDS US, FOR YET WHILE WE WERE SINNERS, GOD LOVED US, (rom c5:v8), JESUS CHRIST WAS GOD’S GIFT TO A DYING WORLD, SUCH WAS HIS LOVE TOWARDS US, THAT HE HELD NOTHING BACK, AND EVEN BORE THE HUMILIATION OF LOOKING AWAY, WHILE HIS BELOVED SON WAS MOCKED, BEATING AND HUNG UPON A CROSS AS A SPECTACLE FOR ALL TO SEE, HOW COULD ANYONE NEGLECT OR REJECT, SUCH A GREAT GIFT AS CHRIST JESUS, (rom c5: v15-v16, eph c2:v8), FOR GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN, (john c15:v13).
GOOD SHEPHERD (john c10:v11) (the way ,truth and life) CHIEF SHEPHERD (1pet c5:v4) GREAT SHEPHERD (ps23)
ONE WHO LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP, AND AS ANY GOOD SHEPHERD KNOWS, IF THERE IS AWAY TO DIE, SHEEP SHALL FIND IT, CHRIST JESUS IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD, FOR HE NOT ONLY CARES FOR THE SHEEP, HE GAVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR THE SHEEP, FOR NO GREATER LOVE HAS ANYONE, THAN ONE WHO LAYS HIS LIFE DOWN FOR A FRIEND, CHRIST JESUS THE GOOD AND CHIEF SHEPHERD, THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, SUCH IS HIS LOVE THAT HE REACHES OUT FOR THE LOST SHEEP, TO GATHER THEM INTO HIS FOLD, HE IS THE GREAT SHEPHERD, WHO PROVIDES PROTECTS, HEALS, SANCTIFIES, RESTORES AND LEADS HIS SHEEP TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, FOR HE FEEDS NOT ONLY THE BODY, BUT ALSO THE SOUL, HE KNOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF FEEDING THE SOUL, SO THAT THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD MAY ILLUMINATE IT, THAT WE MAY BE LED BY THE NARROW WAY, THAT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS THUS ENABLING US TO WORSHIP THE LORD GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH (john c1:v4, c4:v23, c14:v1-v3, c15:v13).
GRACIOUS (1pet c2:v3) (KINDNESS)
IN CHRIST JESUS WE HAVE RECEIVED THE FULLNESS OF THE FATHER, GRACE UPON GRACE, (john c1:v16, col c2:v9), HE WAS MEEK AND HUMBLE (matt c11:v29) REVEALED UNTO US A LOVE THAT WE DID NOT DESERVE, EVEN UNTO THE UNGRATEFUL AND EVIL HE BESTOWED HIS LOVE, (luke c6:v36), AND UPON THE CROSS HIS LOVE FLOWED UNYIELDING, WHEN HE CRIED FATHER FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO, (luke c23:v34), GREATER LOVE HAS NEVER BEEN REVEALED, THAN THE LOVE AND KINDNESS REVEALED IN THE PERSON, OF CHRIST JESUS, "LOVE UPON LOVE".
GUARDIAN (SEE BISHOP)
HABITATION (ps91:v9) (DWELLING PLACE)
THE UNION (MYSTERY) OF THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT AND THE BELIEVER, (CHILD OF GOD), (john c14:v20), THOSE THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE LORD JESUS AS THEIR SAVIOUR, (rev c3:v20), ABIDE ALREADY WITHIN THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, LOVED BY THE FATHER, LOVED BY THE SON, AND LOVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, LED BY HIS SPIRIT, (THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH), (john c16:v13), THAT REVEALED THE SON, AND THE SON REVEALS THE FATHER, (john c14:v9-v10), BRINGING US INTO FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE PILGRIMS PASSING THROUGH ON OUR JOURNEY, TO OUR HEAVENLY ABODE, (heb c11:v13)
HARMLESS (heb c7:v26) (INNOCENT)
CHRIST JESUS WHO WAS SINLESS AND WITHOUT BLAME, YET HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS, HE RECEIVED MOCKERY, BEATINGS, HUMILIATION AND DEATH, AND THE OUT CRY OF THE RELIGIOUS OF HIS DAY, WAS THAT IF THEY DID NOTHING ABOUT THIS MAN CALLED JESUS, THEN THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD FOLLOW AFTER HIM AND HIS TEACHING, (LIBERTY) (isa c53, isa c61:v1, luke c4:v18-v19, luke c23:v46-v47, john c11:v48).
HEAD OF THE CHURCH (col c1:v18) (UNIVERSAL)
THE REDEEMED, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, (THE EKKLESIA), THE CALLED OUT ONES, THOSE WHO BELONG TO CHRIST JESUS, (gal c3:v28), THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, (eph c2:v21-v22), THE CHILD OF GOD WHO IS A SPIRITUAL STONE (1pet c2:v5), BEING BUILT UP INTO A SPIRITUAL HOUSE, SEE REVELATION CHAPTER 21, WHERE THE LORD GOD AND CHRIST ARE REVEALED AS THE TEMPLE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM, NOTE ALSO, THAT THE BELIEVERS ARE IN CHRIST, AS CHRIST IS IN THE FATHER, (john c17:v21), CHRIST JESUS THE HUSBAND OF THE CHURCH, (eph c5:v30-v32), AND HEAD OVER ALL THINGS TO THE CHURCH, (eph c1: v22-v23), THE RISEN HEAD, (1cor c15:v20), AND SPIRITUAL HEAD, (1cor c10:v4).
HEAVENLY FATHER (matt c6:v9) (ABBA)
ETERNAL FATHER WHEN USED BY CHRIST, IT DENOTES HIS RELATIONSHIP TO THE LORD GOD, AS HIS "ONLY BEGOTTEN SON", YET THROUGH CHRIST JESUS ALL WHO RECEIVE HIM AS THEIR SAVIOUR, TO THEM IS GIVEN THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD, BORN AGAIN, A NEW CREATION, (titus c3:v5, 1pet c1:v23, 2cor c5:v17, IT IS THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS, THAT WE RECEIVE THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION, WHICH THEN ENABLES US TO CRY "ABBA FATHER", (rom c8:v15). "ABBA", IS ARAMAIC FOR FATHER, IT IMPLIES A HIGH DEGREE OF LOVE, FATHER SON RELATIONSHIP, (mark c14:v36, gal c4:v6)
HEIR OF ALL THINGS (heb c1:v2, ps89:v27) (SON OF MAN)
THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, GREATER THAN ALL THAT WAS EVER CREATED, CHRIST JESUS THE SON OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD, WHO WAS THERE WHEN CREATION CAME INTO BEING, (gen c1, john c1), AND WHO SHALL BE THERE WHEN ALL THINGS ARE CREATED A NEW, (2pet c3:v13). CHRIST JESUS THE FIRST BORN OF THE DEAD (rev c1:v5), HEIR OF ALL THINGS, THE FIRST FRUIT OF THEM THAT SLEEP, (1cor c15:v20), THE OFFERING WHICH WAS ACCEPTABLE TO THE FATHER, THE FIRST TO RECEIVE A RESURRECTED BODY, (POWER), THE FIRST BORN OVER ALL CREATION, (col c1:v15, ps 89:v27, IMMANUEL, (isa c7:v14, c9:v6-v7).
HOLY CHILD (luke c2:v27) (SERVANT)
CHRIST JESUS, SENT TO DO THE FATHER’S WILL, THE KING WHO CHOOSE TO SERVE, BORN PERFECT AND PURE, (matt c1:v18-v20), WHO CAME OF HIS OWN FREE WILL, INTO A SIN RIDDEN WORLD, (john c3:v16), THAT WE WHO BELIEVE MAY BECOME THE CHILDREN OF, THE MOST HIGH GOD, (rom c8:v15-v16). THERE IS VERY LITTLE SAID WITHIN SCRIPTURE CONCERNING THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS, BUT WHAT IS REVEALED, IS THE FACT THAT AT THE AGE OF TWELVE HE ASTOUNDED THE RABBI’S (TEACHERS OF THE LAW) (luke c2: v43-v52). THE FIRST RECORDED WORDS OF CHRIST JESUS WHERE! I HAVE COME TO DO MY FATHER’S WILL,(luke c2:v49), AND AFTER HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED THE FATHER’S WILL, (john c17:v4) HIS LAST WORDS WERE, "IT IS FINISHED", (john c19:v30). UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN, (isa c9:v6) AND HE IS CALLED "WONDERFUL"! THE HOLY ONE OF GOD, (mark c1:v24).
THE HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS ONE (advocate) (ps145:v17, acts c3:v14, jer c12:v1)
ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS ARE AS FILTHY RAGS, (isa c64:v6), IT IS SAD TO THINK THAT A RIGHTEOUS MAN WOULD BE PUT TO DEATH FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT, BUT HOW HEINOUS IT IS WHEN PEOPLE CRY FOR A MURDERER TO BE RELEASED, AND AN INNOCENT MAN TO BE PUT TO DEATH IN HIS PLACE, YET THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN THE CASE OF CHRIST JESUS, (acts c3:v14-v15), BUT BECAUSE HE WAS OBEDIENT TO THE WILL OF HIS FATHER (GOD ALMIGHTY), MANY WERE MADE RIGHTEOUS THROUGH HIM, (rom c5:v20), HE IS OUR ADVOCATE BEFORE THE FATHER, IT IS OUR FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS WHO IS CALLED THE HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS ONE, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, THAT WE WHO BELIEVE HAVE BEEN RESTORED TO A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP TO THE LORD GOD, OUR FAITH IN CHRIST IS LOOKED UPON BY THE FATHER AS RIGHTEOUSNESS, (rom c4:v3, gal c3:v6) FOR WITHIN OURSELVES WE HAD NO HOPE, BUT IN CHRIST OUR HOPE IS REALISED (1tim c1:v1).
HIGH PRIEST (minister)(heb c6:v20, c9:v11)
CHRIST JESUS IS THE FULFILMENT OF THE OLD DISPENSATIONAL PERIOD, HE IS THE GREAT HIGH PRIEST OF ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM AND ACCEPT HIM AS SAVIOUR, HE IS FROM THE PRIESTHOOD OF MELCHIZEDEK (gen c14: v17-v20), MELCHIZEDEK WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT HIM, OTHER THAN HE WAS A KING AND PRIEST, AND THAT HE WAS APPOINTED DIRECTLY BY THE LORD GOD, (heb c7:v21-v26). MELCHIZEDEK: MEANS "KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD WAS SUPERIOR TO THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD, (AARONIC), PRIESTHOOD), FOR THE LEVITICAL SACRIFICIAL AND LAW SYSTEM COULD NOT GIVE PERFECTION, CHRIST JESUS DID, FOR THROUGH HIM CAME FULL PERFECTION, THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN AND THE FULL ASSURANCE OF ACCESS TO GOD THE FATHER, THROUGH THE CLEANSING OF HIS , AND THE SEALING OF THE ETERNAL COVENANT, (heb c13:v20)REVELATION PORTRAYS CHRIST JESUS AS A PRIEST AND JUDGE, (rev c1:v13), HIS PRIESTLY WORK FOR THE ATONEMENT OF SIN WAS COMPLETED AT THE CROSS, BUT HIS PRIESTLY WORK OF SUSTAINING THE SAINTS CONTINUES, AS HE MINISTERS AND INTERCEDES ON OUR BEHALF, (rev c2:v1, heb c7:v25).
HOPE (acts c28:v20, 1tim c1:v1) (TRUST)
A TITLE THAT IS ASCRIBED TO THE LORD JESUS WITHIN THE NEW TESTAMENT, FOR THERE IS NO HOPE BEYOND THE GRAVE UNLESS ONES HOPE IS IN CHRIST, (phil c3:v20-v21), AND IT IS THIS HOPE THAT EVERY BELIEVER CAN TRUST WITH ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE, HAVING BEEN GIVING THIS HOPE AND PROMISE BY THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT, AND REVEALING WITHIN THE HEART THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST JESUS, THE FORERUNNER OF US ALL, WHO HAS ENTERED WITHIN THE VEIL OF GOD, (heb c6:v18-v20), THUS ASSURING US OF OUR HOPE IN HIM.
THE GREAT "I AM" (exod c3:v14) (YAHWEH)
THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE, CHRIST JESUS APPLIED THIS TITLE TO HIMSELF, REVEALING HIMSELF AS BEING DIVINE, "THE ETERNAL" "I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE", (john c8:v58), THE REDEEMER OF HIS PEOPLE, "YAHWEH" JEHOVAH, "WHO IS, AND WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME," THE ALMIGHTY" (rev c1:v8, exod c3:v14) JEHOVAH ELOHIM,THE LIVING WATER, THE BREAD, THE LIGHT, THE DOOR, THE GOOD SHEPHERD, THE RESURRECTION, THE LIFE, THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUE VINE, (john c4:v10, c6:v35, c8:v12, c10:v7-v9, c10:v11-v14, c11:v25, c15:v1).
IMMANUEL (isa c7:v14) (GOD WITH US)
CHRIST JESUS THE MESSIAH, THE ANOINTED, A GLORIOUS NAME GIVEN TO THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, (john 3:v16, john c4:v42), GOD IN FLESH, (john c1:v1), GOD WHO LEFT THE SPLENDOUR OF HEAVEN, AND TOOK THE FORM OF MAN, THAT WE MAY BE DRAWN TO HIM AND FIND PEACE THROUGH HIM, (col c1:v20), CHRIST WHO MADE A NEW COVENANT THE EVERLASTING COVENANT (heb c13:v20), TO ALL WHO RECEIVE HIM AS THEIR SAVIOUR, HE GIVES THE PROMISE OF SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE (heb c8:v13, c12:v24, 1tim c2:v3-v6), IMMANUEL WHO STANDS UPON SEVEN PILLARS, (prov 9:v1), THE DEITY OF CHRIST JESUS: HIS VIRGIN BIRTH, HIS SINLESS LIFE, HIS MIRACLES, HIS ATONEMENT AT THE CROSS, HIS BODILY RESURRECTION, HIS ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN, AND HIS SECOND COMING.
IMMORTAL (1tim c1:v17) (life eternal)
EVERLASTING GOD; (gen c21:v33), THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO SHALL NEVER SEE DECAY, WHO IS INCORRUPTIBLE, THE ETERNAL FATHER, (deut c33:v28), THE ETERNAL SON, (2tim c2:v10), AND THE ETERNAL SPIRIT, (heb c9:v14), SELF-EXISTENT, WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END. ETERNAL LIFE GIVEN AS A GIFT FROM THE FATHER THROUGH THE SON AND BY THE SPIRIT (rom c6:v23, heb c13:v20, 1cor c6:v11, john c16:v13), CHOSEN IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, (eph c1:v4, gal c1:v15).
INVISIBLE (1tim c1:v17) THE SPIRIT OF JEHOVAH(gen c1:v2, ps139:v7)
REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE INFINITELY HOLY, WISE, JUST AND BENEVOLENT AND IS THE ONLY OBJECT OF TRUE WORSHIP, (deut c6:v4, isa c44:v8), THE HOLY TRINITY REVEALED, (isa c48:v16), THEIR INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES, POWER AND DIVINE NATURE CLEARLY SEEN, (rom c1:v20), YET WE GIVE THANKS TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER THE INVISIBLE GOD, THAT HE REVEALED HIMSELF FULLY IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO IS THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS NATURE, (heb c1:v1-v3.)
ISREAL (isa c49:v3) (GOD RULES) (gen c32:v28)
A TITLE WHICH IS GIVEN TO CHRIST JESUS, WHO SHALL RULE THE NATIONS AT HIS SECOND COMING, (ps2:v9, rev c2:v27, c11:v15, c12:v5,rev c19:v15), CHRIST JESUS THE SOLDIER OF GOD, AND CAPTAIN OF MANS SALVATION, WHO FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AND PREVAILED AGAINST THE ENEMY OF OUR SOUL, HE IS THE PRINCE OF GOD, (dan c8:v11), THE PRINCE OF PEACE (isa c9:v6), THE PRINCE OF LIFE, (acts c3:v15, THE PRINCE OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, (rev c1:v5), THE PRINCE OF THE SANCTUARY, (heb c8:v2). THE NAME ISRAEL IS ALSO GIVEN TO ALL TRUE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST JESUS. (gal c6:v15-v16).
I THE LORD AM YOUR SAVIOUR (isa c60:v16)(SEE JEHOVAH-MOSHI-EK)
"JAH" (exod c15:v2 (ETERNAL)
“JAH” IS JEHOVAH AS HAVING BECOME OUR SALVATION, THE LORD JEHOVAH IS MY STRENGTH AND HAS BECOME MY SALVATION, SUNG BY THE ISRAELITES AFTER THEY HAD PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA, AND THEREFORE IS CONNECTED WITH DELIVERANCE, IN PSALM 68:v4, JAH IS AN “ABBREVIATION” FOR "YAHWEH", OTHER NAMES USED FOR JEHOVAH, (LORD), ARE ELOHIM, EL-SHADDAI, YAHWEH, JAH-ELOHIM, ADONAI, AND YAHWEH-ADONAI.
"JAH-LORD" (isa c26:v4) (GOD,JEHOVAH)
THE EVERLASTING STRENGTH, THE ROCK OF AGES, IT IS UPON JEHOVAH, THAT THE CHURCH IS BUILT, FAITH IN HIM AND HIM ALONE, (matt c16:v18), HE CHRIST JESUS, IS THE SURE ROCK, (1cor c10:v4), THE ETERNAL ROCK (1tim c1:v17), THE EVERLASTING ROCK (2sam c22:v47), HE IS THE ROCK OF SALVATION, (ps89:v26), THE SURE FOUNDATION, (1tim c2:v19).
JEALOUS (exod c34:v14) (WATCHFUL CARE)
ARDENT AND ZEALOUS OVER THE WORKS OF HIS HANDS, "Y-H-W-H" YAHWEH, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, THE LORD OF LORDS, THE GREAT "I AM", THE MIGHTY AND AWESOME GOD. MAN’S CHIEF PURPOSE IS TO GLORIFY GOD, WITH HIS WHOLE BEING, THE LORD DESIRES SOUL WORSHIP AND NOT LIP SERVICE, HIS COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR US, IS REVEALED AT THE CROSS, WHEN HE SUBSTITUTED HIMSELF, IN OUR PLACE, (matt c27:v46, luke c23:v46.
JEHOVAH (gen c21:v33) (THE EVERLASTING GOD),JEHOVAH (LORD), REVEALS GOD’S CHARACTER TOWARDS HIS PEOPLE, (CHILDREN), AND HIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIMSELF AND ISRAEL, AND THE REDEEMED IN CHRIST JESUS.
JEHOVAH-ELOHI (exod c20) (LORD GOD),JEHOVAH-ELOHIM, IS ASSOCIATED WITH HOLINESS, THE SEPARATIONFROM SIN, (lev c11:v44-v45), JEHOVAH-ELOHIM IS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH GRACE (DIVINE FAVOUR THE LOVE OF GOD) IN THE PERSON OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (john c8:v58).
JEHOVAH-ELYON (ps7:v17, ps 47:v2, ps 97:v9)(THE LORD MOST HIGH)
THE FIRST OCCURRENCE OF THIS TITLE IS IN GENESIS CHAPTER 14, THE POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, IT IS TO THIS TITLE OF THE LORD GOD, THAT CHRIST JESUS IS ASSOCIATED IN (luke c1:v35), EVEN THE DEMONS, GAVE THIS TITLE TO CHRIST JESUS, (mark c5:v7, luke c8:v28) IN GENESIS MELCHIZEDEK THE KING WAS CALLED THE PRIEST OF “GOD MOST HIGH" HE TYPIFIED CHRIST, MELCHIZEDEK’S NAME MEANS, KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, (RIGHTEOUS KING), AND KING OF PEACE, (ps110, heb c7:v2)CHRIST JESUS WAS GOD IN FLESH, MELCHIZEDEK WAS A MERE MAN,(matt c1:v23, heb c7:v4), BOTH WERE KINGS, AND BOTH WERE PRIESTS, (gen c14:v18, zec c6:v12-v13). BOTH WERE APPOINTED DIRECTLY BY GOD, (heb c7:v21), BOTH WERE CALLED RIGHTEOUS KINGS, (isa c11:v5-v9, heb c7:v2), MELCHIZEDEK BROUGHT FORTH BREAD AND WINE FOR ABRAHAM’S SOLDIERS AND BLESSED ABRAHAM, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST HE CRIED! BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD MOST HIGH, WHO HAS DELIVERED YOUR ENEMIES INTO YOUR HANDS, (gen c14:v20). CHRIST JESUS CAME TO BLESS HIS FATHER’S NAME, AND GIVEDELIVERANCE FROM SIN, HE CAME AS THE BREAD OF LIFE, AND SHED HIS BLOOD, THAT WE MAY BE DELIVERED OUT OF OURENEMIES HAND, AND BE RENEWED IN SPIRIT, CLEANSED FROM OUR SIN, CHRIST JESUS WAS NOT ONLY A KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, NOR JUST A KING OF PEACE, NOR WAS HE ONLY A HIGH PRIEST, HE WAS "YAHWEH" THE GREAT "I AM", (john c8:v58).
JEHOVAH-EL-GeMÛWâH (jer c51:v56) (THE LORD GOD OF RECOMPENSE)
VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY, "SAYS THE LORD" (deut c32:v35,rom c12:v19). LET THE LORD GOD PLEAD OUR CASE, FOR HE IS THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE, AND HIS JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE, WE AS HIS CHILDREN ARE TO REJOICE IN THE LORD, WHEN WE ARE BEING PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE, FOR IT IS THE LORD GOD WHO SEPARATES THE WHEAT FROM THE TARES, THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS, GIVING RECOMPENSE TO THOSE WHO TAKE PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, BRINGING UPON THEM THE EVIL OF THEIR HEARTS, (rev c20:v11-v15, john c5:v29). TO PERSECUTE AND HARM A CHILD OF GOD, IS TO TOUCH THE APPLE OF GOD’S EYE, (zec c2:v8)
JEHOVAH-JIREH (gen c22:v8: v14) (THE LORD WILL SEE AND PROVIDE)
THIS IS THE PROMISE THAT WE THE CHILDREN OF GOD MAYBE ASSURED AND ENCOURAGED THAT BY TRUSTING AND PUTTING OUR FAITH WITHIN THE LORD GOD, WE SHALL NOT BE FORSAKEN NOR SHALL HE FAIL US, (heb c13:v5) BUT SHALL REMAIN WITH US AND DELIVER US THROUGH OUR TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, AS HE DID WITH ABRAHAM ON MOUNT ZION, PROVIDING A RAM AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR ISAAC, AND SEEING THAT MAN HAD NO HOPELOST TO SIN, HE PROVIDED A LAMB FOR THE ATONEMENT OF SIN, THAT LAMB WAS GOD HIMSELF, IN THE PERSON OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, (john c1:v29).
THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, (john c3:v16), THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, (john c4:v42), MANS SALVATION IS THE WAY OF THE CROSS, THERE MEN AND WOMEN CAN AT LAST RECEIVE FORGIVENESS, AND ALL THE REDEMPTIVE BLESSINGS IN JESUS CHRIST, FOR THE HAND THAT PROVIDES AND THE EYES THAT SEE ARE JEHOVAH-JIREH.
JEHOVAH-MeKADDÎSHKED (exod c31:v13) (THE LORD THAT DOES SANCTIFY YOU)
THE LORD GOD’S SANCTIFICATION WAS HERE GIVEN TO THE ISRAELITES IN HIS LAWS, WHICH THEY HAD TO ADHERE TO, FOR HE IS A HOLY GOD, THEY AS THE CHILDREN OF GOD HAD TO BE A HOLY NATION, DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER NATIONS, SET ASIDE AS A PECULIAR PEOPLE.
THE LAW OF THE SABBATH WAS GIVEN TO THE ISRAELITES BEFORE ANY OTHER LAW, IT WAS A SIGN OF GOD’S UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL, THE KEEPING OF THE SABBATH WAS BY THE ISRAELITES AN INDICATION OF THEIR SPIRITUAL CONDITION TOWARDS THE LORD GOD, (jer c17:v19:v27, ezek c20: v12-v24).
A DAY IN WHICH JEHOVAH WAS TO BE WORSHIPPED AND HONOURED, IT COMMEMORATED GOD’S REST AFTER THE WORK OF CREATION, (gen c2:v2), IT IS THE ONLY COMMANDMENT OF THE TEN, WHICH IS NOT REPEATED AFTER THE DAY OF PENTECOST, IF THE ISRAELITES HAD KEPT GOD’S STATUTES AND COMMANDMENTS, HE IN TURN WOULD HAVE FULFILLED HIS PROMISE TO THEM, (deut c10:v15), THAT IS THEY WOULD HAVE BECOME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, YET THEIR APOSTASY FROM THE LORD GOD RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF THAT PROMISE. THE CHILD OF GOD LIVES NO LONGER UNDER THE LAW, FOR CHRIST JESUS FULFILLED ALL THE DEMANDS OF THE LAW, AND WE ARE SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD, (john c17:v17-v19), AND BY THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT, (rom c8:v1-v15), FOR WE WALK NOT ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT ACCORDING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT, NO LONGER UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE, (rom c6:v14, lev c20:v8, c21:v8, c22:v32, ezek c20:v12).
JEHOVAH-YESH (Jehovah-moshi’ek, isa c60:v16)(I,THE LORD, AM YOUR SAVIOUR).
DELIVERER, CHRIST JESUS, THE ANOINTED ONE, THE MESSIAH, SAVIOUR, REDEEMER AND BLESSED, HE WHO SAVES AND DELIVERS FROM SIN, (col c1:v13, john c1:v7), BOTH NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, (rom c6), CHRIST JESUS THE SAVIOUR WHO BRINGS SANCTIFICATION TO THE SOUL, AND ADOPTION INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD, (gal c4:v5, eph c1:v5), BEING SET ASIDE AFTER CONVERSION, FOR A HOLY PURPOSE, FORSAKING SIN, BEING CONFORMED INTO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST JESUS, (rom c8:v29, col c3:v10), SOLELY CONSECRATED UNTO GOD, GIVING HIM SOUL WORSHIP, (john c4:v23-v24, matt c22:v37, deut c6:v5).
JEHOVAH-nâKâh (ezek c7:v9) (THE LORD WHO STRIKES)
A PROMISE FROM THE LORD GOD THAT HE SHALL POUR OUT HIS WRATH UPON MANKIND, BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN AND INIQUITY TOWARDS HIM, (isa c21), SRAEL WAS NOT SPARED FROM GOD’S JUDGMENTS, FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, GOD FOREWARNED ISRAEL THROUGH HIS PROPHETS, BUT HIS CRIES WENT UNHEEDED, AND THEY REMAINED REBELLIOUS, AND DID NOT REPENT FROM THEIR WAYS, AND MAN HAS NOT LEARNED FROM ISRAEL’S PAST EXPERIENCE, AND SO GOD SHALL AGAIN POUR OUT HIS JUDGMENTS UPON MAN, IN WHAT THE LORD JESUS TERMED, THE END OF THE AGE, (matt c24, rev c16, ezek c38), MANS CHIEF PURPOSE IS TO GLORIFY GOD, FOR THIS REASON MAN WAS CREATED, YET FROM THE FALL MAN HAS ALWAYS TAUGHT HIS OWN PRECEPTS, FORSAKING THE WAYS OF THE LORD GOD, MANS APOSTASY FROM GOD WILL EVENTUALLY OPEN THE WAY FOR THE ANTICHRIST, (2thess c2:v4), THE WORLD IN GENERAL HAS REJECTED CHRIST JESUS AS THE SAVIOUR, THE VERY RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF TODAY SHALL PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE MAN OF SIN, (SON OF PERDITION), THUS THE WRATH OF GOD SHALL COME UPON APOSTATE MAN, (2thess c2:v9: v12).
JEHOVAH-NISSI (exod c17:v15) (THE LORD MY BANNER)
THE BATTLE AT REPHIDIM, BETWEEN THE ISRAELITES AND THE AMALEKITES WAS NOT JUST A RECORD OF ONE OF THE MANY BATTLES THE ISRAELITES HAD TO FIGHT, BEFORE ENTERING INTO THE PROMISE LAND, BUT WAS THE LORD GOD REVEALING THE IMPORTANCE OF OBEDIENCE, TO HIS CHILDREN, FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE ENEMY SHALL ONLY COME WHEN FIRST WE SURRENDER TO THE LORD GOD, FOR WHEN WE WALK IN THE LIGHT WE HAVE VICTORY, BECAUSE CHRIST JESUS IS IN THE LIGHT, (1john c1:v7)THE EVENTS AT REPHIDIM HAD A SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE, THE AMALEKITES REPRESENTED THE WORLD WITH ALL ITS HATRED AGAINST THE LORD GOD, (john c15:v18, jam c4:v4, 1john c2:v15), THE SPIRITUAL LESSON IS SIMPLE, THE LORD GOD DOES NOT PROMISE TO DELIVER YOU OUT OF YOUR TROUBLES, BUT TO DELIVER YOU THROUGH THEM, FROM THE WORLD THE CHILD OF GOD CAN ONLY EXPECT PERSECUTION AND TRIBULATION, (john c15:v19, matt c5:v11- v12, rom c5:v3 john c16:v33), BUT CHRIST JESUS OVERCAME THE WORLD, AND HE IS THE BANNER WHICH THE CHILD OF GOD CARRIES, AS THEY FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, (1tim c6:v12).
JEHOVAH-RÂÂH (Jehovah-ro’i, ps 23) (THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD)
THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, IN PSALM 23, WE HAVE THE LORD GOD REVEALING HIMSELF, NOT ONLY AS THE GOOD SHEPHERD, BUT AS THE GREAT SHEPHERD (heb c13:v20), AND THE CHIEF SHEPHERD, (1pet c5:v4) IN VERSE 1, THE LORD REVEALS HIMSELF AS JEHOVAH-JIREH, VERSE 2, AS JEHOVAH-SHALOM, VERSE 3, AS JEHOVAH-ROPHEKA, AND JEHOVAH-ZIDKENU, VERSE 4, AS JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH, AND VERSE 5, AS JEHOVAH-NISSI, AND JEHOVAH-MEKADDISHKEM, PSALM 23, REVEALS THE OUT POURING OF GOD’S LOVE.
NO GREATER LOVE WAS EVER SHOWN, THAN THE LOVE OF GOD, HANDING ON A CURSED TREE, (gal c3:v13, 1pet c2:v24), CHRIST JESUS WHO DIED FOR THE SHEEP, (john c10:v11), THAT THE SHEEP MAY LIVE, HE IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD, WHO GAVE HIS LIFE SO THAT HIS SHEEP COULD ENTER IN, THROUGH THE DOOR OF HEAVEN, AND PASS INTO GREEN PASTURES, THE GREAT SHEPHERD WHO AROSE FROM THE DEAD, THE CHIEF SHEPHERD WHO SHALL COME FOR HIS SHEEP, THE ONLY SHEPHERD WHO CAN PROVIDE THE WAY TO GOD THE FATHER, HE IS THE ONLY SHEPHERD IN WHOM THE SHEEP FIND PEACE WITH GOD THE FATHER, THE ONLY SHEPHERD WHO CAN HEAL OUR SOULS, AND THE ONLY SHEPHERD IN WHICH WE BECOME RIGHTEOUS, BEFORE THE LORD GOD, THE ONLY SHEPHERD THAT CAN TAKE US INTO THE VERY PRESENCE OF GOD ALMIGHTY, THE ONLY SHEPHERD WHO HAS GONE BEFORE US AND PREPARED A PLACE FOR US, HE IS THE ONLY SHEPHERD WHO IS CALLED "SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD", AND HE IS THE ONLY SHEPHERD WHO CLAIMED THE TITLE, THE GREAT "I AM" (john c17:v17-v19).
JEHOVAH-ROPHEKA (exod c15:v26) (THE LORD WHO HEALS YOU)
INDEED JEHOVAH DOES HEAL AS THE NUMEROUS STORIES THROUGHOUT HOLY WRIT REVEALS, PHYSICAL HEALINGS IS A SIGN AND A TESTIMONY TO THE POWER AND GLORY OF THE LORD GOD, (john c11:v40), BUT IN THE STORY OF MIRAH, JEHOVAH-ROPHEKA WAS NOT REVEALING PHYSICAL HEALING, BUT SPIRITUAL HEALING, THE HEALING OF THE SOUL, HE REVEALED TO THE ISRAELITES THAT INSTEAD OF GRUMBLING ABOUT THEIR LOT IN THE WORLD, THEY WERE TO BE OBEDIENT TO HIS WORD, (exod c19: v5-v6).
FOR HIS WORD IS TRUTH (john c17:v17), LIFE IS OFTEN BITTER FOR MAN, LIKE THE WATERS OF MIRAH, YET THE LORD GOD SHOWED AWAY TO MAN WHICH WAS THE WAY OF THE CROSS (TREE), HE WAS REVEALING SUFFERING BEFORE GLORY, (luke c24:v26-v46, rom c8:v17- v18, 2tim c2:v11- v12), CROSS BEFORE CROWN, THE SUFFERING OF THE CROSS IS THE OBEDIENCE OF A DISCIPLE, THE EMPTYING OF SELF AND THE FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE LORD DOES NOT FREE US FROM BONDAGE TO BECOME MASTERS OF SELF, BUT A SERVANT OF HIS, A SERVANT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, IT IS ONLY WHEN A DISCIPLE NAILS SELF-WORTH (EGO) TO THE CROSS, THAT THE SWEET WATERS FLOW, THE LIVING WATERS, AND THAT THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS RISES WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS, (john c6:v35, c7:v38, mal c4:v2, ps41:v4).
JEHOVAH-SHÂMMÂH (ezek c48:v35) (THE LORD IS THERE)
FROM EZEKIEL CHAPTER 40 TO 48, WE HAVE A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE MILLENNIUM TEMPLE, SOME BELIEVE IT TO A LITERAL TEMPLE, WHILE OTHERS BELIEVE IT TO BE A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, THESE EIGHT CHAPTERS OF SCRIPTURE RECORDED IN EZEKIEL HAVE BEEN LOOKED UPON BY MANY COMMENTATORS AS THE MOST DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET, BUT WHAT IS TRUE, IS THE FACT THAT IN CHAPTER 43, THE LORD GOD TAKES POSSESSION OF IT BY FILLING IT WITH HIS GLORY.
THERE ARE SEVEN TEMPLES RECORDED IN SCRIPTURE, THE FIRST IS REVEALED IN 1SAMUEL CHAPTER 1:VERSE 9, THE SECOND IS SOLOMON.S TEMPLE, 1KINGS CHAPTER 6:VERSES 5:17, THE THIRD TEMPLE IS ZERUBBABEL’S EZRA CHAPTER 4:VERSES 1:2, THE FOURTH IS HEROD’S TEMPLE, JOHN CHAPTER 2:VERSE 20, THE FIFTH TEMPLE IS THE TRIBULATION TEMPLE IN WHICH ANTICHRIST SHALL DISPLAY HIMSELF AS GOD, (2 thess c2:v4, dan c9:v27, c11:v31, c12:v11, matt c24:v15, rev c11:v1:v2).
THE SIXTH TEMPLE IS THE MILLENNIAL TEMPLE OF EZEKIEL,CHAPTERS 40 TO 48 AND THE SEVENTH TEMPLE IS THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE OF REVELATIONS CHAPTER 21, THE FIRST SIX OF THESE TEMPLES ARE BUILT IN ISRAEL IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, THE SEVENTH TEMPLE WAS NOT BUILT BY HUMAN HANDS, BUT DESCENDED DOWN FROM HEAVEN, (rev c21), THERE ARE ALSO SEVEN REFERENCES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT MENTIONING THE BELIEVERS AS A TEMPLE, 1cor c3:v9:v17, c6:v19, 2cor c6:v16, eph c2:v20:v21, heb c3:v6, 1pet c2:v5, c4:v17).
THE REVELATION OF THE SEVENTH TEMPLE, THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE, IS THAT THE LORD GOD AND CHRIST AS THE TEMPLE, AND THIS REVELATION ALSO REVEALS THAT THE CHURCH, THAT IS THE BODY OF BELIEVERS ARE ALSO THE TEMPLE, FOR AS THE SON IS IN THE FATHER, AND THE BELIEVERS IN THE SON, (john c14:v20).
CHRIST JESUS IS THE LIVING STONE AND THE CORNER STONE, THE BELIEVERS ARE ALSO LIVING STONES, BEING BUILT UP AS A SPIRITUAL HOUSE,(1pet c2). WITHIN EVERY BELIEVER (BORN AGAIN),"GOD REIGNS" "JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH", THE LORD IS THERE!
JEHOVAH-SHÂLOM (judg c6:v23:v24) (THE LORD SENDS PEACE)
THE LORD SPOKE UNTO GIDEON, PEACE BE UNTO YOU, FEAR NOT, FOR YOU SHALL NOT DIE, "FEAR", IS ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS EVER TO COME UPON MAN, GIDEON FACED SUCH FEARS, ONE WAS FROM THE WORLD, (MIDIANITIES), AND THE OTHER WAS FROM SEEING THE FACE OF GOD, IN THE FORM OF THE "ANGEL OF THE LORD", (gen c16:v13, c32:v30, exod c3:v6).
FOR NO MAN SEE’S GOD’S FACE AND LIVES, (exod c33:v20, isa c6:v5,1tim c6:v16) YET GOD GAVE GIDEON PEACE, THE PEACE THAT PASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING, (phil c4:v7), THE BLESSING THAT EVERY CHILD OF GOD RECEIVES, PEACE NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES, BUT RECONCILIATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN, FREEDOM FROM CONDEMNATION, AND THE WRATH OF GOD, THE LORD IS THE SOURCE OF OUR PEACE, WE ARE ACCEPTED BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS, AND ARE TO BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING, FOR CHRIST SHALL SUSTAIN US IN ALL OUR TROUBLES AND TRIBULATIONS, HE SHALL NEVER LEAVE US NOR SHALL HE FORSAKE US, (heb c13:v5).
JEHOVAH-ZEBÂ’ÔTH (1sam c1:v3) (THE LORD OF HOST).
THIS NAME OF THE LORD GOD EMPHASISES THE SOVEREIGNTY AND OMNIPOTENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD, AS THE ETERNAL ONE, THE GREAT ”I AM", WHO CONTROLS AND COMMANDS ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE GOD OF THE REDEEMED, 1kings c22, luke c22:v19, rev c19:v14, 1sam c17:v45, rev c17).
SAMUEL WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST TO USE THIS TITLE OF GOD, HE LIVED AT A TIME WHICH WAS ONE OF ISRAEL’S DARKEST PERIODS, FOR ISRAEL HAD REBELLED AGAINST THE LORD GOD, THEY DID EVERY THING THAT WAS RIGHT IN THEIR OWN EYES, THEY COULD NOT WAIT ON GOD, (1sam c8:v6), AND IT CAN BE SAID WE HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM TODAY, PEOPLE DO NOT REALISE THAT GOD’S TIMING IS PERFECT, ISRAEL AT THIS TIME IN THEIR HISTORY WANTED A KING, YET THE LORD GOD WAS THEIR KING, BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT WAIT ON GOD, THEIR MONARCHY BEGAN WITH SAUL AND ENDED WITH CAESAR, (john c19:v15), SAMUEL WAS THE LAST OF THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL, HE KNEW GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY COULD NEVER BE DISPUTED, (job c26:v7), AND HE KNEW THAT THE WAYS OF THE LORD GOD ARE JUST, TO THE CHILD OF GOD THERE IS ONLY ONE KING, (1sam c2:v10, ps 2:v6:v7, ps75:v3.)
JEHOVAH:ZIDKÈNû (jer c23:v6) (THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS) ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS ARE AS FILTHY RAGS, (isa c64:v6), THE COVENANT TO ISRAEL SHALL BE FULFILLED, FOR FROM THE ROOT OF JESSE CAME A BRANCH A RIGHTEOUS BRANCH, (rom c15:v12, isa c11:v1, jer c23:v5, zec c3:v8).
AND THROUGH HIM MANY SHALL BE MADE RIGHTEOUS, THE BRANCH IS A REFERENCE TO CHRIST JESUS, FOR HE IS THE LORD OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS (zec c14), HE THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN, FOR NONE CAN GO TO THE FATHER, EXCEPT THROUGH CHRIST JESUS, (john c14:v6), OUR FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS IS RECKONED UNTO THE LORD GOD AS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS OUR SALVATION, IN THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST JESUS, FOR IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM A FOUNTAIN SHALL BE OPENED FOR THE CLEANSING OF SIN AND INIQUITY, (zec c13:v1), THIS DESCRIPTION IS OF THE LORD JESUS WHEN HE COMES TO SET UP THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, A PROMISE TO ISRAEL THAT SHALL REVEAL THEIR MESSIAH, KING, JUDGE, AND HIGH PRIEST, A PROMISE FROM THE LORD GOD, WHEN ALL ISRAEL SHALL CRY OUT, "THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS",(zec c13v9).
JESUS (matt c1:v21) (THE LORD IS SALVATION)
JEHOVAH MY SAVIOUR, JESUS IS THE SAME NAME AS THE HEBREW JESHUA, (JOSHUA), (heb c4:v8, acts c7:v45), THE NAME JESUS SHOULD NEVER BE USED FLIPPANTLY BY HIS DISCIPLES, BUT SHOULD ALWAYS BE SPOKEN WITH REVERENCE, TO THE WORLD HIS NAME MEANS NOTHING, BUT TO THE CHILD OF GOD, HE IS LORD, JEHOVAH MY SAVIOUR, GOD IN FLESH, THE ANOINTED ONE, THE MOST HOLY ONE, WHO SAVES HIS PEOPLE FROM THE CURSE OF SIN AND ITS PENALTY, (matt c1:c21, rom c6:v23).
JESUS CHRIST (matt c1:v16, acts c18:v28) (SAVIOUR, MESSIAH)
JESUS WAS THE JEWS EXPECTED KING AND MESSIAH, BUT THEY HAD SHUT THEIR MINDS AS TO WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAID ABOUT HIS COMING AND LOOKED FOR THE PRECEPTS OF THEIR OWN HEARTS AND MINDS, THEY WANTED A STRONG AND GLORIOUS EARTHLY KING TO DELIVER THEM FROM OPPRESSION, THUS THEY DELUDED THEMSELVES AS TO THE COMING OF THEIR MESSIAH, THEY BELIEVED AS FAR BACK AS THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY AND DEFINITELY AT THE TIME OF JESUS, THAT THE MESSIAH WAS AT HAND, BUT JESUS DID NOT FIT THEIR EXPECTATIONS, TRUE THERE ARE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHICH SPEAK OF HIS COMING AS BEING GLORIOUS AND ALL POWERFUL, BUT THERE ARE MANY MORE WHICH REVEAL THAT HIS COMING WOULD BE LOWLY AND HUMBLE AND TO SUFFER AND DIE, (isa c53, ps34:v20, ps31:v5, ps49:v15).
JUDGE AND RIGHTEOUS JUDGE (acts c10:v42, ps 119:v7:v20,2tim c4:v8 , rev c19:v11)
ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN FROM THE FATHER TO THE SON, (CHRIST JESUS), TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT (john c5:v22-v27), CHRIST SHALL SIT UPON THE GREAT WHITE THRONE AND WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS HE SHALL JUDGE THE UNGODLY AND UNBELIEVERS, (rev c20:v11), THOSE WHO REJECTED OR REFUSED TO ACCEPT HIM AS THEIR MESSIAH.
THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS AS MESSIAH SAVIOUR AND LORD SHALL BE REDEEMED AND RELEASED FROM SIN BY HIS BLOOD, (rev c1:v5), AND SHALL NEVER COME INTO JUDGMENT OR CONDEMNATION, (rev c20:v15).
KING OF KINGS ( rev c17:v14) (SOVEREIGN) LORD OF LORDS (rev c19:v16)
JEHOVAH, MY GOD, CHRIST JESUS, GOD IN MAN, (john c1:v7), WORSHIPPED BY ANGELS AND DESPISED BY MEN, (isa c53), YET EVERY KNEE SHALL BEND AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS, THAT CHRIST JESUS IS LORD, (phil c2:v11), AND THE JEWS SHALL WEEP BITTERLY AS THEY LOOK UPON CHRIST JESUS, THEIR MESSIAH AND KING, WHOM THEY PIERCED, (zec c12:v10), FAR REMOVED FROM THE DAY THAT THEY CRIED WE HAVE NO KING BUT CAESAR, (john c19:v15), THIS IS THE FULFILMENT OF PSALM 2, THE SUPREME KING, THE KING ETERNAL, (1tim c1:v17), THE KING OF ISRAEL, (john c1:v49).
LAMB OF GOD (john c1:v29, rev c5:v6) (JEHOVAH-JIREH)
BEHOLD THE LAMB WHICH THE LORD GOD PROVIDED, JEHOVAH-JIREH, CHRIST JESUS, THE LORD’S PASSOVER, (exod c12:v11), FOR IT WAS JESUS CHRIST WHO ACCOMPLISHED OUR REDEMPTION AT THE CROSS, (1cor c5:v7), IT WAS CHRIST JESUS WHO WAS WITHOUT BLEMISH (SIN), (1pet c1:v19), IT WAS CHRIST JESUS WHO GAVE HIMSELF FREELY AS THE ONLY SACRIFICE ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD GOD, (heb c10), AND IT WAS CHRIST JESUS WHO SHED HIS GODLY BLOOD THAT OUR SINS MAY BE FORGIVEN, AND OUR SALVATION ASSURED, (heb c9:v14).
NOTE: THAT THE LORD JESUS IS PORTRAYED WITHIN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, AS THE RISEN LAMB IN ALL HIS STRENGTH, POWER AND PERFECTION AND WORTHY OF ALL WORSHIP, (rev c5)THE WORD LAMB IS MENTIONED FOUR TIMES BETWEEN MATTHEW AND JUDE, AND TWENTY-SIX TIMES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
LAST ADAM (SEE RESURRECTION)
LEADER (isa c55:v4) (COMMANDER)
JESUS CHRIST, THE TRUE AND FAITHFUL WITNESS, THE GREAT SHEPHERD WHO LEADS THE SINNER TO LIVING WATER, (john c4:v14), WHO GIVES THE PEACE THAT PASS ALL UNDERSTANDING, (phil c4:v7), IN THAT THROUGH HIM WE ARE RECONCILED TO THE LORD GOD, WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT WE ARE NO LONGER ALIENS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS, MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF GOD, (eph c2:v19), FOR NO ONE CAN GO TO THE FATHER, UNLESS THEY COME THROUGH CHRIST, (john c10:v3, rev c7:v17).
CHRIST AS ARE COMMANDER WE MUST TRUST AND OBEY, ALL THAT HE TEACHES, HE IS THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SOUL, AND EVERY ONE WHO PROFESSES AND CONFESSES HIM AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOUR, MUST FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, (1tim c1:v18), AS SOLDIERS WE ARE TO GIVE OUR ALL, (2tim c2:v3-v4), FOR WE ARE CALLED TO CONFESS BEFORE MEN THE TRUTH, (matt c10:v32, rom c10:v10, luke c24:v48), FOR ALL THAT TRUST HIM AND OBEY HIM ARE HIS DISCIPLES, (matt c28:v19,john c8:v31, c13:v35, c15:v8).
LIFE (SEE AUTHOR OF LIFE)
LIGHT OF THE WORLD (revelation) (john c8:v12)
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD,AND WITHIN HIM THERE IS FOUND LOVE, TRUTH AND LIFE IN THEIR FULLNESS, (john c1:v5), THROUGH CHRIST JESUS WE BECOME AWARE OF THE SELFISHNESS AND WICKEDNESS WITHIN OURSELVES AND THE WORLD, EVERY CHILD OF GOD THROUGH HIM SHALL WALK IN THE LIGHT,THAT THEY MAY BECOME CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT, (1thess c5:v5, eph c5:v8, 1john c1:v7),FOR THE GOOD NEWS OF CHRIST JESUS IS A LIGHT TO OUR FEET WHICH ILLUMINATES THE WAY TO OUR HEAVENLY ABODE, (ps 119:v105).
THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (rev c5:v5) (JEHOVAH THE KING)
THE TRIBE OF JUDAH WAS THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE TWELVE TRIBES, JUDAH WAS GIVEN THE PROMISE THAT THROUGH HIS SEED, WOULD COME THE MESSIAH, (gen c49:v8-v12), JERUSALEM WAS THE CHIEF CITY OF JUDAH, AND ITS EMBLEM WAS A LION, (ARIEL, isa c29:v1), IS A NAME WHICH WAS GIVEN TO JERUSALEM AND MEANS "LION OF GOD", HENCE THE TITLE "LION OF JUDAH”, APPLIES TO CHRIST JESUS, WHO PREVAILED OVER THE ENEMIES OF GOD AND MAN, AND AT HIS SECOND COMING, SHALL GATHER THE NATION OF ISRAEL TO HIMSELF, FOR IN THE CITY OF DAVID, THE CITY OF GOD, THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING, THE HOLY CITY, THE CITY OF PEACE, CHRIST SHALL OPEN A FOUNTAIN FOR THE CLEANSING OF SIN, (zec c13:v1).
LIVING ONE (eternal one) (rev c1:v18)
"I AM" HE THAT LIVES, AND WAS DEAD, THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION AND ETERNAL LIFE, THE VICTOR OF DEATH AND HELL, CHRIST JESUS WHO HOLDS THE KEYS, AND ALL AUTHORITY OVER PHYSICAL DEATH, AND THE DOMAIN OF SATAN, CHRIST JESUS THE SECOND ADAM, (1cor c15:v45, rom c5:v12-v21).
THROUGH THE POWER OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD, CHRIST JESUS WAS RESURRECTED, (acts c2:v31-v32, ps16:v8- v11), AND IS NOW SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER, WHICH IS THE PLACE OF HONOUR, (col c1:v15, c3:v1).
LIVING STONE (SEE CORNERSTONE).
MASTER (matt c23:v8).(LEADER AND GUIDE)
USED TO DENOTE: LORD,PRINCE,TEACHER, LEADER AND GUIDE,CHRIST JESUS OUR KING AND BROTHER AND FRIEND,AND WE HIS BOND-SERVANTS,BOUGHT WITH A PRICE (1cor c6:v20, c7:v23),THAT CHRIST PAID IN FULL, SUCH A GRACIOUS MASTER, WHO INTERCEDES ON OUR BEHALF BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD, (heb c7:v25),A MASTER THAT NOT ONLY LOVES HIS SERVANTS, BUT IS BONDED TO THEM BY HIS LOVE.
MEDIATOR (1tim c2:v5) (RECONCILER)
CHRIST JESUS RECONCILES BETWEEN MAN AND THE LORD GOD, WHO MEDIATES THROUGH HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS, (heb c9:v15), HE GAVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM FOR SIN, THUS BRINGING IN THE NEW COVENANT, (heb c7:v22).
WHERE MAN CAN BE PLACED IN A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP TO GOD THE FATHER THROUGH HIMSELF, (heb c8:v6: v13), FOR IT WAS SIN THAT POLLUTED THE RELATIONSHIP, BETWEEN MAN AND GOD, (gen c3),THEREFORE CHRIST BECAME SIN, (2cor c5:v21, HE TOOK OUR SIN UPON HIMSELF, AND NOW STANDS BEFORE HIS FATHER IN THE FLESH,(HIS GLORIOUS RESURRECTED BODY), (acts c1:v9), AND MEDIATES FOR MAN, AS GOD IN MAN, REPRESENTING BOTH SIDES.
MERCIFUL (wonderful) (heb c2:v17)
CHRIST JESUS GOD IN FLESH, (john c1:v1), OUR SALVATION COST JESUS HIS LIFE, HE DIED UPON THE CROSS, THAT WE MAY LIVE, (ETERNAL LIFE (John c10:v28).
IT WAS THE ATONEMENT AT CALVARY WHICH SATISFIED GOD’S HOLY DEMAND, (rev c5:v12, isa c53:v10, rom c3:v25), IT WAS THROUGH THE LORD JESUS, THAT THE LORD GOD DEMONSTRATED HIS MERCY (LOVING KINDNESS), TOWARDS US.
CHRIST JESUS THE MERCIFUL BEING THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE FATHER POURED OUT HIMSELF UNTO DEATH, (isa c53:v12),TAKING UPON HIMSELF THE SIN OF THE WORLD, (john c1:v29),HIS NAME IS AS OINTMENT POURED FORTH, (sos c1:v3).
MESSIAH (matt c1:v16) (ANOINTED ONE)
CHRIST JESUS WHO ASCENDED TO THE THRONE OF GOD, THE FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY, ISRAEL’S MESSIAH, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, WHO IS ESTABLISHED AS OUR HIGH PRIEST AND INTERCESSOR BEFORE "GOD THE FATHER", (heb c3:v1, c7:v1-v25, HE WAS ANOINTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT (isa c61:v1-v2, luke c4:v18-v21), WE ARE SANCTIFIED THROUGH CHRIST JESUS BY DIVINE GRACE, THROUGH THE SAME HOLY SPIRIT, (2cor c1:v21, 1john c2:v20-v27).
MIGHTY GOD (isa c9:v6) ("EL")
JEHOVAH THE GOD OF THE REDEEMED, NONE OTHER THAN CHRIST JESUS FOR MIGHTY WHERE THE WORKS THAT CHRIST DISPLAYED, (luke c9:v43, john c21:v25), MIGHTY WAS THE DEFEAT OF SATAN AT THE CROSS, AND MIGHTY SHALL BE HIS SECOND COMING, (2thess c1:v7), CHRIST JESUS IS THE GLORIOUS AND THE VICTORIOUS "MIGHTY GOD", IN WHOM IF YOU PUT YOUR TRUST, HE SHALL NOT DISAPPOINT YOU, (ps 125:v1).
MINISTER (priest) (heb c8:v2)
THE GREAT HIGH PRIEST, CHRIST JESUS, MINISTER OF THE SANCTUARY, REVEALING HIS OFFICIAL CHARACTER, AS OUR HIGH PRIEST, (heb c8:v1), WHO IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER, THE PLACE OF HONOUR, CHRIST WHO INTERCEDES FOR US, (heb c7:v25), OUR ATONEMENT, (rom c5:v11), OUR FELLOWSHIP WITH THE FATHER, AND ALL THE BLESSINGS WE RECEIVE IN THE HERE AND NOW, AND THE HOPE OF THE HERE AFTER, (john c14:v3), COME FROM OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST, AS HE MINISTERS TO HIS CHILDREN DAILY, (2cor c9:v10, gal c3:v5), THE TRUE SANCTUARY, THE BODY OF CHRIST, HIS CHURCH, BOTH IN HEAVEN, AND UPON THE EARTH, (rev c7:v14, 1cor c12:v12).
MY SERVANT (isa c42:v1) (SERVANT OF JEHOVAH)
THE NEW TESTAMENT APPLIES THIS TITLE TO CHRIST JESUS,(matt c12:v16-v21), IN MARK’S GOSPEL CHRIST IS REVEALED AS JEHOVAH’S SERVANT,WHO HUMBLED HIMSELF, ALTHOUGH HE WAS GOD, HE TOOK UPON HIMSELF THE ROLE OF A SERVANT, THAT THE WILL OF THE FATHER, (GOD ALMIGHTY), MAYBE BROUGHT INTO FRUITION, THE BRINGING FORTH OF SALVATION TO THE NATIONS, (acts c28:v28).
NAZARENE (reproach) (matt c2:v23)
PROPHECY FULFILLED, (isa c53:v3, ps22:v6), THE LORD GOD,WOULD RAISE UP FROM THE JEWISH NATION A PROPHET, BUT NOT JUST A PROPHET,(deut c18:v15), WHAT GOOD THING EVER CAME OUT OF NAZARETH WAS THE CRY OF THE JEWS, IN THE DAYS OF CHRIST, TO BE CALLED A NAZARENE WAS TO BE LOOKED UPON AS AN OBJECT OF REPROACH AND CONTEMPT, (john c1:v46, john c7:v52),YET CHRIST JESUS WAS NO ORDINARY PROPHET, HE WAS "THE PROPHET", THAT MOSES AND ISAIAH SPOKE OFF, THE GREAT PROPHET, (luke c24:v19), THE MESSIAH, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW COVENANT, (heb c8:v6, isa c9:v6).
ONLY BEGOTTEN (john c1:v14, ps2:v7), (SON)
CHRIST JESUS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF THE FATHER CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, (matt c1:v18-v21, luke c1:v27-v35), HE WAS UNIQUE, GOD IN FLESH, HE POSSESSED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE DEITY, (phil c2:v6), POWER AND HOLINESS, (rom c1:v3-v4), AND STANDS BEFORE THE THRONE OF THE FATHER, AS GOD-MAN INTERCEDING FOR FALLEN MAN, THROUGH THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION (acts c1:v11, HE IS THE OUT POURING OF GOD’S LOVE, A SAVIOUR WHO CRIED AND FELT PAIN AND GRIEF AND DEATH THAT WE WHO DARE TO BELIEVE IN HIM, SHALL NOT HAVE "SIN" COUNTED AGAINST US, AND THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE IN THE PRESENCE OF A HOLY GOD, AS CHILDREN OF GOD, (isa c53:v12,john c3:v18).
PASSOVER (worthy) (1cor c5:v7)
BEHOLD THE "LAMB OF GOD", (john c1:v29), CHRIST JESUS THE BELIEVERS PASSOVER, HIS DEATH WAS OUR BIRTH, THROUGH HIS SACRIFICE AND OUR FAITH IN HIM, WE HAVE BECOME ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THE FATHER, OUR SINS CLEANSED BY THE SHEDDING OF HIS GODLY BLOOD THE JEWISH PASSOVER OCCURRED ONCE A YEAR, WHERE A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH WAS SACRIFICED, AND ITS BLOOD SPRINKLED OVER THE ALTAR (THE MERCY SEAT) BY THE PRIEST, IT WAS FOR THE COVERING OF SIN,BUT CHRIST JESUS OUR PASSOVER DIED ONCE AND ONCE ONLY FOR THE TOTAL CLEANSING OF SIN,(john c1:v29, isa c53:v7, heb c9:v20-v28, col c1:v19-v20, 1john c1:v7, 1pet c1:v19), WORTHY IS THE LAMB OF GOD TO BE WORSHIPPED, (rev c5).
PHYSICIAN (matt c9:v2 ,luke c4:v23) (HEALER)
A HEALER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SENSE WAS A PERSON WHO HAD THE ABILITY TO HEAL AN AFFLICTION, CHRIST JESUS AS RECORDED IN JOHN’S GOSPEL WAS THE GREATEST PHYSICIAN OF ALL, (john c21:v25), FOR HE NOT ONLY HEALED THE BODY, BUT ALSO THE SOUL, SIN IS THE CANCER OF THE SOUL, TO DIE IN SIN, MEANS TO BE SEPARATED FROM THE LORD GOD, FOR ALL ETERNITY, CHRIST JESUS TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF, TO BEAR IN HIS BODY THE SIN OF THE WORLD, (isa c53:v6-v12, john c1:v29, 1john c2:v2).
THUS TO DIE IN FAITH WITH CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOUR, IS TO ENSURE A PLACE IN GLORY, AND TO KNOW THAT YOUR SINS HAVE BEEN WASHED AND CLEANSED BY THE SHEDDING OF HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD, (1john c1:v7, rev c5:v9, eph c2:v13)
POTENTATE (1tim c6:v15) (KING)
A MIGHTY PRINCE, RULER AND SOVEREIGN KING, USED OF GOD, CHRIST JESUS, AND ONLY FOUND IN 1TIMOTHY, HE IS THE KING OF KINGS, PRINCE OF LIGHT (john c1:v4), THE PRINCE OF LIFE,(acts c3:v15), THE PRINCE OF PEACE (isa c9:v6), NO ONE CAN COME TO THE ALMIGHTY UNLESS THEY COME THROUGH THIS MIGHTY PRINCE, THE KING HIMSELF, CHRIST JESUS, (rev c17:v4, c19:v16), HE IS THE PRINCE OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, (rev c1:v5), TO WHOM EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW IN HOMAGE TO HIM, (phil c2:v10).
POWER OF GOD (resurrection) (1cor c1:v24)
HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORD SHALL NEVER PASS AWAY, (luke c21:v33), AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH, (john c1:v14), IN THE BEGINNING GOD SPOKE AND CREATION WAS BORN, (gen c1:v1), THE POWER OF GOD IS IN THE WORD, CHRIST JESUS WAS THE WORD, (GOD), WHO BECAME FLESH, (GOD IN MAN), (phil c2:v6), CHRIST JESUS SPOKE AND THE SICK WERE HEALED, HE SPOKE AND DEMONS FLED, HE SPOKE AND THE MULTITUDES WERE FED, HE SPOKE AND RAGING SEAS BECAME CALM, HE SPOKE AND THE DEAD WERE RAISED, matt c8:v8-v26, mark c2:v1-v6, luke c8:v27-v33, john c11:v43) BEHOLD THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD,"CHRIST JESUS",(johnc4:v42).
PRINCE OF LIFE (SEE AUTHOR OF LIFE)
PRINCE OF PEACE (reconciliation) (isa c9:v6)
THE PEACE THAT PASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING, PEACE THAT THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE, (john c14:v27, phil c3:v7), THE BREAKING DOWN OF THE WALL, THAT SEPARATED MAN FROM THE LORD GOD, CHRIST JESUS WHO PAID THE PRICE FOR OUR ATONEMENT, SATISFIED THE REQUIREMENT OF GOD’S LAWS, THUS MAN THROUGH CHRIST JESUS CAN APPROACH THE THRONE OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, (eph c2), AND AT HIS SECOND COMING HE SHALL ESTABLISH HIS PEACE UPON THE EARTH, (isa c11:v1-v11, isa c2:v4, mic c4:v3).
PROPITIATION (1john c2:v2, rom c3:v25) (SATISFY)
CHRIST JESUS THE ONLY OFFERING THAT SATISFIED GOD THE FATHER CONCERNING THE SIN OF MANKIND, FOR THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF THE CROSS, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, REVEALED HIS GREAT LOVE TOWARDS FALLEN MAN, IT WAS AN ACT OF HIS OWN FREEWILL, TO DEMONSTRATE ONCE AND FOR ALL, HIS MERCY AND GRACE TOWARDS US, (heb c2:v17), CHRIST JESUS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER BECAME THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SIN, THROUGH THE SHEDDING OF HIS BLOOD AT CALVARY, THE DEMANDS OF A HOLY GOD SATISFIED, (heb c9:v24-v28, rom c3:v25).
PROPHET (CHOSEN) (acts c3:v22)
CHRIST JESUS BOTH PROPHET AND MESSIAH,MOSES PROPHESIED THAT A PROPHET LIKE HIMSELF WOULD ONE DAY COME FORTH OUT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,(deut c18:v15),WHAT IS STRIKING IN THIS PORTION OF SCRIPTURE IS THE FACT THAT MOSES IS PORTRAYED AS A TYPE OR SHADOW OF CHRIST JESUS, PROPHET AND SAVIOUR, AS THE LAW WAS GIVEN THROUGH MOSES, AND ALL PLACED UNDER ITS CURSE, (gal c3:v10-v11),SO GRACE AND TRUTH CAME THROUGH CHRIST JESUS, (john c1:v17),FOR NOT ONLY WAS HE THE GREAT PROPHET WHO UTTERED FORTH THE WORDS OF GOD, BUT WAS HIMSELF THE LIVING WORD, THE LIVING GOD,(ELOAH),(gen c1:v1,john c1:v1,1john c1:v1,john 4:v42).
PURIFIER (SEE REFINER)
RABBI (john c1:v49) (TEACHER)
RABBI: MASTER, TEACHER, AND LORD, A TITLE OF DIGNITY, SIGNIFYING GREAT OR CHIEF, IT WAS GIVEN BY JEWS TO DISTINGUISHED TEACHERS OF THE LAW, RABBONI WAS ARAMAIC WHICH WAS ALSO HEBREW, IT IS SAID THAT IT DEVELOPED DURING THE CAPTIVITY OF BABYLON, IT WAS THE LANGUAGE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, AND WAS REGARDED AS THE HIGHEST TITLE OF HONOUR AMONG THE JEWS, THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT THESE TITLES WHERE APPLIED TO CHRIST JESUS, THE TEACHER WHO TAUGHT TRUTH, FOR JESUS WAS JEHOVAH “IMMANUEL”, GOD WITH US, (rom c8:v3).
RANSOM (matt c20:v28, 1tim c2:v5: v6) (REDEEMED)
PRICE PAID FOR FREEDOM, FREEDOM FROM THAT WHICH PUTS US IN BONDAGE, "SIN", FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, (rom c3:v23, c5:v12),AND THE WAGES OF SIN, IS DEATH, (rom c6:v23), CHRIST JESUS FREED USFROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN, (isa c53), PAID THE PRICE, (1cor c6:v20),HE FULFILLED THE DEMANDS OF THE LAW, RELEASING THE CHILD OF GOD FROM ITS BONDAGE AND POWER, (matt5:v17, rom c10:v4),IN CHRIST JESUS WE ARE NO LONGER SLAVES TO SIN, BUT BOND-SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, (rom c6:v20-v22).
REAPER (rev c14:v14-v15) (LORD OF THE HARVEST)
ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN, ONE OF THE MANY TITLES OF CHRIST, HE IS HERE REVEALED AS THE REAPER OF THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH, BE NOT DECEIVED FOR GOD IS NOT MOCKED, (gal c6:v7), REVEALED HERE IN THE DAY OF THE LORD, WHEN CHRIST SHALL GATHER ALL BEFORE HIMSELF, AND EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS, THAT HE IS LORD, THEN THE HARVEST SHALL BE SORTED, THE WHEAT, (THOSE WHO RECEIVED CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOUR), TO HIS RIGHT HAND, THE PLACE OF HONOUR, AND THE TARES, (THOSE WHO REJECTED HIM AS SAVIOUR), SHALL BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, (rev c20:v11-v15), EVERLASTING CONDEMNATION, (jude 4).
REDEEMER (isa c59:v20, c60:v16 )(RECLAIM)
THE MESSIAH, CHRIST JESUS, WHO’S SACRIFICE AT CALVARY, LIBERATED US FROM OUR SIN, HE PAID THE RANSOM, WITH HIS BLOOD, (rev c5:v9, eph c1:v7, col c1:v14), THUS REMOVING THE CURSE OF THE LAW, (gal c4:v5), AND RELEASING US FROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN, (rom c6:v22), THROUGH HIS GRACE, (1pet c1:v18), CHRIST JESUS THE FULFILMENT OF GOD’S PROMISED MESSIAH, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, (john c3:v16)
REFINER (mal c3:v3) (PURIFIER)
CHRIST JESUS THE PURIFIER AND THE REFINER OF HIS DISCIPLES, (1john c3:v3, titus c2:v14), FOR CHRIST IS LIKENED TO FIRE, (mal c3:v2), AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS LIKENED TO FIRE, (matt c3:v11, acts c2:v3), FIRE IS ALSO USED AS A SYMBOL OF GOD, (deut c4:v24, ezek c1:v4, exod c3:v2), AND A SIGN FOR HIS JUDGMENT, (rev c1:v14, 2thess c1:v8), JUDGMENT BEINGS FIRST WITH THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, (1pet c4:v17), AS THE HOLY SPIRIT DWELLS WITHIN THE BELIEVER, (rom c8:v9), IT IS HIS WORK AS THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, TO REVEAL THE DROSS WITHIN OUR LIVES, AND THEN TO CREATE WITHIN US A CLEAN HEART AND A RIGHT SPIRIT, (ezek c11:v19), THAT WE MAY WORSHIP THE LORD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH,(john c4:v23-v24),FOR EVERYONE WHO PLACES THEIR HOPE IN CHRIST JESUS SHALL BE CONFORMED INTO HIS LIKENESS, (rom c8:v29), FOR IT IS FIRE WHICH PURIFIES AND REFINES, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ETERNAL FLAME OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD, (exod c3:v2, acts c2:v3).
REJECTED STONE (SEE CORNER STONE)
RESURRECTION (john c11:v25) (LIFE)
THE BODILY RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST IS AT THE HEART OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, HE IS CALLED THE LAST ADAM, I WAS DEAD BUT NOW I LIVE, (rev c1:v18), THE FIRST BEGOTTEN OF THE DEAD, (rev c1:v5),THE FIRST FRUIT OF THE DEAD,(1cor c15:v20),THROUGH HIS ATONEMENT AT THE CROSS AND BY THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION, WE WHO BELIEVE AND TRUST IN HIS HOLY NAME, SHALL BE CHANGED FROM PERISHABLE TO IMPERISHABLE AND FROM MORTAL TO IMMORTALITY, (1cor c15:v53), CHRIST JESUS THE SECOND ADAM, (1cor c15:v47), WAS GIVEN AS A GIFT FROM HEAVEN, THE FIRST BORN FROM THE DEAD, (col c1:v18), TO DIE IN CHRIST JESUS IS TO BE RESURRECTED TO ETERNAL BLISS, (rev c20:v4),TO DIE WITHOUT HIM AS SAVIOUR, THE RESURRECTION OF JUDGMENT, (rev c20:v11-v15).
RIGHTEOUS BRANCH (SEE BRANCH)
RIGHTEOUS JUDGE (SEE JUDGE)
ROCK (ps18:v31:v46) (ELOAH)
FOR WHO IS GOD, BUT THE LORD, AND WHO IS A ROCK EXCEPT OUR GOD, FOR HE LIVES, AND BLESSED BE MY ROCK, AND EXALTED BE THE GOD OF MY SALVATION. CHRIST JESUS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, THE ROCK OF MY SALVATION, (1cor c10:v4), AND THOSE WHO ARE WISE SHALL BUILD UPON THE ROCK, (matt c7:v24), AND THE ROCK, CHRIST JESUS, IS WHERE EVERY BELIEVER PUTS THEIR HOPE, FOR HIS WORK IS PERFECT; AND ALL HIS WAYS ARE JUST, A GOD OF TRUTH AND WITHOUT INIQUITY, RIGHTEOUS AND UPRIGHT IS HE, (deut c32:v4), CHRIST JESUS THE ROCK FROM WHICH LIVING WATER FLOWS, HE IS THE ROCK UPON WHICH OUR FAITH IS BUILT, THE IMMUTABLE AND IMMOVABLE GOD AND SAVIOUR, THE ROCK OF SALVATION, (ps89:v26).
ROOT AND OFFSPRING OF DAVID (jESUS) (rev c22:v16)
THE NAME DAVID, MEANS "BELOVED", CHRIST JESUS IS ALSO GIVEN THE TITLE,"BELOVED", (matt c3:v17), HE IS THE BELOVED OF THE FATHER WHO HAS THE VERY NATURE AND ESSENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY, WHICH IS "LOVE", FOR GOD IS LOVE, (1john c4:v8), LOVE IS AT THE VERY HEART OF GOD, WITHOUT LOVE, GOD WOULD NOT EXIST, CHRIST JESUS IS CO-EQUAL WITH THE FATHER, (phil c2:v6), SHARING ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE FATHER, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, (john c3:v16), THE HOLY OFFSPRING, THE BELOVED, (matt c1:v20).
RULER (mic c5:v2, matt c2:v6) (GOVERNOR)
RULER IN ALL ISRAEL, A PROMISE THAT SHALL BE FULFILLED AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS, WHEN HIS FEET TOUCH THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, ALL ISRAEL SHALL RECOGNIZE JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR MESSIAH (zec c14:v3).
AND FROM ALL THE NATIONS HE SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS OWN AS A SHEPHERD GATHERS HIS FLOCK, (jer c31:v10), AND HE SHALL RULE THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, WITH STERNNESS, (rev c2:v27, ps2:v9), HIS AUTHORITY COMES FROM THE FATHER, (john c5:v27).
SACRIFICE (LOVE) (eph c5:v2)
CHRIST JESUS THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, GOD DYING FOR US (MANKIND), TAKING OUR PLACE AND PAYING THE PENALTY THAT WE WERE DUE, (isa c53). THE LAW CAME FROM GOD, AND THE LAW WAS FULFILLED BY GOD, (matt c5:v17), UPON US HE POURED OUT HIS LOVE, IN THE PERSON OF HIS SON, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IT WAS THIS SACRIFICE OF HIS SON THAT IS FINAL, (heb c10:v12), NO OTHER SACRIFICE IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD GOD, FOR SALVATION IS FOUND IN NO ONE ELSE, (acts c4:v12), (john c14:v6), FOR IN CHRIST JESUS IS PAID OUR DEBT FOR OUR SIN, TO THE HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS, AND JUST GOD.
SANCTIFICATION (1cor c1:v30,1thess c4:v3)(HOLINESS)
CHRIST JESUS, THE HOLY ONE OF GOD, (mark c1:v24), CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT,(matt c1:v20),CALLED THE HOLY OFFSPRING, (luke c1:35) THE SON OF THE, MOST HIGH GOD WHO CAME TO FULFIL THE HOLY PURPOSE OF GOD THE FATHER,THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF THE HOLY PEOPLE OF GOD, (ALL THAT LOVE THE LORD GOD), FOR CHRIST JESUS IS OUR SANCTIFICATION, WE AS SINNERS ARE POLLUTED AND CORRUPT, DEPRAVED BY NATURE, YET THE GREAT GRACE OF GOD, IS GIVEN TO US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS,THAT WE MAY BY THE INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST, (rom c8:v29).
SCEPTRE (num c24:v17, gen c49:v10) (RULER)
CHRIST JESUS THE SCEPTRE (RULER) OF ISRAEL, AND UPON HIM SHALL THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD REST, AND WITH POWER AND DIVINE AUTHORITY SHALL HE RULE, (rev c2:v27), THIS SCRIPTURE POINTS TO THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, (ps2:v9), FOR HE IS THE KING OF KINGS, AND SHALL RULE WITH A ROD OF IRON, (STERNNESS), AND CHRIST IS REVEALED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AS THE SCEPTRE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, (heb c1:v8).
DANIEL THE PROPHET PROPHESIED THAT THE MESSIAH’S KINGDOM WILL HAVE NO END, (dan c7:v9-v14), AND IN PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS HE SHALL RULE THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, (rev c12:v5).
SECOND ADAM (SEE RESURRECTION)
SEED (gen c3:v15) (IMMANUEL,"GOD WITH US")(SEED OF THE WOMEN, SEED OF ABRAHAM, SEED OF DAVID)
SEED OF THE WOMAN, BEHOLD A VIRGIN WILL BE WITH CHILD, AND BEAR A SON, AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED "IMMANUEL", (isa c7:v4, matt c1:v23), THE AUTHOR OF LIFE, THE PROMISED SEED, THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS, IT WAS THE WOMAN WHO WAS DECEIVED BY THE ENEMY OF GOD, WHICH RESULTED WITH THE BIRTH OF SIN AND ALL IT’S CONSEQUENCES, YET THE LORD GOD IN HIS MERCY, USED THE SAME VESSEL, TO BRING FORTH HIS SALVATION TO MANKIND, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, THE HEIR OF THE PROMISE, (gal c3:v29), FOR THROUGH ABRAHAM CAME THE NATION ISRAEL (2chron c20:v7), AND THROUGH ISRAEL CAME THE PROMISED MESSIAH, CHRIST JESUS, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM IS TO DO WITH FAITH, TRUSTING THAT WHICH HAS NOT BEEN SEEN, LIVING BY FAITH, (gal c3:v8-v16, heb c11), THE SEED OF DAVID, THE HEIR TO THE THRONE, (2tim c2:v8), THE BELOVED OF THE LORD GOD, CHRIST JESUS THE DESCENDED OF THE LINE OF DAVID, (ps110:v1, matt c1:v23, luke c3:v23), THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF LORDS, WHO SHALL BE SEATED UPON THE GREAT WHITE THRONE, IS THE PROMISED SEED UNTO SALVATION, (gen c3:v15).
SHILOH (josh c18:v1, gen c49:v10) (PLACE OF REST)
A TITLE MADE USE OF BY JACOB, TO DENOTE THE MESSIAH, CHRIST JESUS, AMONG THE MOST LOVED VERSES WITHIN THE NEW TESTAMENT COMES THE INVITATION OF CHRIST HIMSELF, COME TO ME, ALL WHO ARE WEARY AND HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST, (mattc11:v28-v30), AND YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOUL, SALVATION IS HERE OFFERED THROUGH CHRIST, THE DIVINE PROMISE THAT THROUGH FAITH, THE BELIEVER MAY ENTER INTO GOD’S REST, (heb c4), AND FIND PEACE FOR ONES SOUL, (rev c7:v17, c21:v4).
SON OF GOD (matt c8:v29,luke c8:v28) (ONLY BEGOTTEN)
CHRIST JESUS WHO IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER, (luke c22:v69), CHRIST HAS RECEIVED ALL AUTHORITY AND IS INVESTED WITH ALL POWER FOR HE IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE, (john c11:v25), THE FIRST BORN OF THE DEAD, THE FIRST FRUIT, IN RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER, CHRIST JESUS IS THE ESSENCE OF THE LORD GOD’S NATURE IN POWER, WISDOM, FAITHFULNESS AND MERCY, CHRIST’S AUTHORITY IS SEEN IN THE RESURRECTION,(john c5:v22-v27), AND IN JUDGMENT AND HIS DEITY IS ASSERTED IN THE SERIES OF "I AM",(john c6:v35, john c8:v12:v58, c10:v7-v9, c11:v25, c14:v6, c15:v1-v5, WHICH IS THE CLAIM OF “YAHWEH.”
SON OF MAN (matt c8:v20) (HEIR OF ALL THINGS, ps8)
SON OF MAN, THE MESSIAH, A TITLE WHICH WAS GIVEN TO CHRIST JESUS, ISRAEL’S REDEEMER, FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT TESTIFIES TO ONE COMING, LIKE THE SON OF MAN,(dan c7:v13-v14), WHICH IS A REFERENCE TO CHRIST JESUS AT HIS SECOND COMING, HIS FIRST COMING WAS THAT OF THE SECOND ADAM, ALTHOUGH HE WAS GOD, HE CAME IN THE LIKENESS OF MAN, BEING MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, YET HE BEING SINLESS, TOOK UPON HIMSELF OUR SIN THAT WE MIGHT HAVE GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS, (2cor c5:v21), FOR THE FIRST ADAM, (MAN), WAS GIVEN DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF THE CREATOR, (GOD), (gen c1:v26), BUT BECAUSE OF SIN, (gen c3), THE FALL, THE FIRST ADAM, (MAN), FORFEITED THIS DOMINION, BUT CHRIST JESUS BEING THE SECOND ADAM HAS RECEIVED BACK ALL POWER AND AUTHORITY, AND HIS DOMINION, (rev c11:v18),IN LUKE’S GOSPEL CHRIST IS PORTRAYED AS THE "IDEAL MAN", FILLED WITH COMPASSION AND MERCY, SEEKING AND TO SAVE, (luke c19:v10).
SOWER (matt c13:v3)
CHRIST JESUS THE SOWER OF THE GOOD NEWS, THAT THROUGH HIM AND HIM ALONE, SALVATION IS REALISED, (acts c4:v10-v35), THE WORDS OF JESUS ARE ETERNAL WORDS, THEY ARE NOT CORRUPTIBLE NOR SHALL THEY PERISH, (matt c24:v35), ONCE SOWN WITHIN THE HEART, THEY PRODUCE LIGHT, (TRUTH), A LIGHT WHICH SHALL LEAD YOU ON A JOURNEY TO LIFE EVERLASTING, THE WORDS OF THE SOWER (JESUS), SHALL REVEAL THE MYSTERY OF GOD, A REVELATION THAT LEADS UNTO SALVATION.AND THE LORD GOD MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO YOU (john c1:v1-v18).
SPIRIT (1cor c15:v45), (LIFE GIVING SPIRIT)
CHRIST JESUS THE LIFE GIVING SPIRIT IS THE POWER OF GOD,DEMONSTRATING HIS POWER IN THE BODILY RESURRECTION, FROM CORRUPTIBLE TO INCORRUPTIBLE FROM MORTAL TO IMMORTALITY,CHRIST JESUS IS THE VERY BREATH OF LIFE, WHO IN THE BEGINNING BREATHED HIS LIFE GIVEN SPIRIT INTO MAN SO THAT MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL. (1cor c15:v52, gen c2:v7, hosea c13:v14). STRONG TOWER (prov18:v10).
THE NAME OF JEHOVAH IS A STRONG TOWER, THE RIGHTEOUS RUN INTO IT AND ARE SAFE, (2kings c19:v14-v20, acts c4:v24-v33), JEHOVAH FATHER ALWAYS IN THY HAND, F.A.I.T.H., THE PROTECTOR OF HIS CHILDREN, HE WHO GIVES HOPE IN ALL SITUATIONS PROTECTING AND SUSTAINING THEM, (2chron c14:v11, john c10:v28- v29), OUR PRAYERS SHOULD ALWAYS BE OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY AND POWER OF JEHOVAH.
STUMBLING STONE (SEE CORNER STONE)
SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (GOD OF GLORY) (mal c4:v2)
RIGHTEOUS SAVIOUR, THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ARISES WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS, A TITLE WHICH IS GIVEN TO CHRIST AND REFERS TO HIS SECOND COMING WHEN ISRAEL SHALL SEE THEIR MESSIAH, (zec c14), AND SHALL BE HEALED, (rev c1:v16), WHERE CHRIST’S FACE SHONE LIKE THE SUN, SHINNING IN ITS STRENGTH, THE GOD OF GLORY, (acts c7:v2).
SURETY (heb c7:v22) GUARANTEE)
CHRIST JESUS OUR SURETY, WHO NOT ONLY PAID OUR DEBTS BUT OPENED THE WAY TO THE VERY THRONE OF GOD, THUS CHRIST IS OUR GUARANTEE OF SALVATION, IN WHOM WE PUT OUR TRUST, KNOWING THAT THROUGH HIM WE MAY DRAW NEAR TO THE THRONE OF ALMIGHTY GOD, HE IS OUR MEDIATOR AND REDEEMER, HIS NAME AND ONLY HIS NAME IS GIVEN UNTO SALVATION, (acts c4:v12), HE WHO HUNG UPON THE CURSED TREE, AND GAVE HIS LIFE. FOR YOU AND ME, (gal c3:v13, 1pet c2:v24, rom c5:v9-v110.
TEACHER (SEE RABBI)
TESTATOR (heb c9:v17) (THE APPOINTED)
CHRIST JESUS THE TESTATOR THROUGH WHOM THE NEW COVENANT CAME INTO FORCE, HE WAS APPOINTED BY GOD THE FATHER TO BE THE SACRIFICE, BECAUSE HE WAS SINLESS, THE PERFECT SACRIFICE FOR SIN, IT WAS HIS DEATH AND THE SHEDDING OF HIS GODLY BLOOD, THAT OPENED THE WAY FOR RECONCILIATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN, THE EVERLASTING COVENANT, (2cor c5:v18-v19, col c1:v20, heb c13:v20).
TRUE VINE (fruition) (john c15:v1)
ISRAEL IS REFERRED TO IN SCRIPTURE AS THE VINE, VINE PORTRAYS ISRAEL’S BLESSINGS, BOTH TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL, (ps80, isa c5), ISRAEL (THE NATION), AS THE VINEYARD, (jer c12:v10, matt c21: v33-v45), WAS GIVEN EVERY ADVANTAGE BY THE LORD GOD TO YIELD GOOD FRUIT, BUT ONLY MANAGED TO PRODUCE EVIL FRUIT, (SIN), HENCE THE LORD JESUS CLAIM THAT HE IS THE TRUE VINE, FROM WHICH COMES GOOD FRUIT, WHICH PLEASES THE FATHER, (THE LORD GOD), AND THAT ONLY THROUGH THE GRAFTING OF THE BRANCHES, (BELIEVERS), UNTO THE VINE (CHRIST), CAN THEY PRODUCE THE FRUIT, WHICH PLEASES, AND HONOURS THE FATHER,(LORD GOD ALMIGHTY), (john c15),CHRIST JESUS IS HIMSELF GIVEN THE TITLE "ISRAEL",(isa c49:v3), FOR ONLY THROUGH HIM ARE THE LORD GOD’S EXPECTATIONS REALISED, THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND THE NATIONS, TURNING BACK TO THE LORD GOD, AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, (zec c12 to c14).
TRUTH (grace) (john c14:v6)
THE REVELATION OF SALVATION, DIVINE PROCLAMATION, WAS BESTOWED UPON CHRIST JESUS, WHO WAS FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH, (john c1:v14), THE LORD GOD, WHO CANNOT LIE, (titus c1:v2).
CHRIST NOT ONLY BORE WITNESS THAT HE WAS THE TRUTH, HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THE TRUTH, (john c10: v14-v18), THAT WE WHO HAVING NO HOPE WITHIN OURSELVES, MAY COME TO THE TRUTH AND RECEIVE SALVATION, (eph c2: v12-v13), FOR IT IS THE TRUTH THAT SETS US FREE,(john c8:v32), AND IT IS THE TRUTH THAT SANCTIFIES, (john c17:v17),AND IT IS THE TRUTH THAT GIVES US LIFE, (john c1:v4), YET TO MANY THE TRUTH HAS BECOME FOOLISHNESS, (1cor c1:v23).
THE WAY (narrow road)(isa c35:v8 , john c14:v6)
THE HIGH WAY TO HOLINESS, THERE IS AWAY WHICH SEEMS RIGHT TO MAN BUT THAT IS THE WAY OF DEATH, (rom c14:v12, c16:v25), CHRIST JESUS IS CALLED "THE WAY", SIMPLY BECAUSE NO ONE CAN COME UNTO THE FATHER, (THE LORD GOD), EXCEPT THEY COME THROUGH CHRIST (THE SON). SALVATION IS A GIFT OF GOD’S LOVE TOWARDS MAN, YOU CANNOT BUY IT, MERIT OR WORK TOWARDS IT, BUT YOU CAN ACCEPT IT, AND THAT GIFT COMES IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST JESUS, FOR NO OTHER NAME HAS BEEN GIVEN UNDER HEAVEN BY WHICH YOU CAN BE SAVED, (acts c4:v12), HE IS THE NARROW GATE AND THE WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE, (matt c7:v14)
WISDOM OF GOD (understanding) (1cor c1:v24)
IF ANYONE LACKS WISDOM, LET THEM ASK GOD, AND HE WILL GIVE IT TO THEM GENEROUSLY, (jam c1:v5) THAT WHICH COMES DOWN FROM ABOVE, WITHIN THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST JESUS, GOD THE FATHER REVEALS WISDOM, HE IS INFINITELY WISE AND ALL THE TREASURES OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE ARE HID IN HIM, THROUGH CHRIST JESUS IS REVEALED THE NATURE AND WILL OF "GOD” THE FATHER", IT IS WRITTEN IN PROVERBS 9, THAT WISDOM HAS BUILT HER HOUSE, SHE HAS HEWN OUT HER SEVEN PILLARS, HEAVEN IS THE HOUSE WHICH WISDOM HAS BUILT, AND CHRIST JESUS IS ITS PILLARS, CONCERNING THE SALVATION OF SOULS, THE GOOD NEW (THE GOSPEL), IS CALLED WISDOM, (col c2:v2-v3 1cor c1:v30).
WITNESS (faith) (rev c1:v5)
THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS TO THE LORD GOD AND TRUTH,(john c5:v36), THE FIRST BORN OF THE DEAD, (THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY), (col c1:v18), THE CONQUERING OF DEATH AND HELL, (rev c1:v18), UNTO SALVATION, acts c4:v12), TO THE FACT THAT HE IS KING OF KINGS, (rev c19:v16), AND HIS KINGDOM SHALL COVER THE WHOLE EARTH, (dan c2:v35), AND HIS DOMAIN, SHALL BE EVERLASTING, (dan c7:v14).
MARTUR: GREEK SIGNIFYING, "ONE WHO BEARS WITNESS TO THE TRUTH", EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF ONES LIFE, (acts c22:v20)
THE WORD (john c1, rev c19:v13), (THE WORD OF GOD)
THE REVEALING OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, (gen c1), (ELOHIM), WHO SPOKE AND ALL CAME INTO BEING, THE LORD GOD WHO BECAME FLESH, (john c1) "GOD AND MAN", IN THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST, THAT GOD MAY DWELL WITH US, (IMMANUEL), (isa c7:v14), THAT WE MAY HAVE A HOPE, THROUGH HIM “SALVATION", THERE IS GREAT EMPHASIS PUT UPON "THE WORD", FOR IT IS "THE WORD" THAT WE SHALL STAND OR FALL, BE SAVED OR LOST, FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORD SHALL NEVER PASS AWAY,(matt c24:v35,rev c3:v8), ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM AND FOR HIM. (col c1:v15-v17), "FROM THE SPLENDOUR OF HEAVEN, TO EARTH, CHRIST CAME TO DWELL, FROM THE WORSHIP OF THE ANGELS, TO THE LIES THAT MEN TO TELL, FROM A CROWN OF GREAT GLORY, WHICH HE RECEIVED FROM ABOVE, TO A CROWN OF JAGGED THORNS, FROM MEN WHO MOCKED HIS LOVE, IN HEAVEN HE WAS KNOWN AS THE ALMIGHTY, AND EVERY CREATURE THERE IN REVERED, YET UPON THE EARTH HE WAS CALLED A BLASPHEMER, AND WITHHATRED CHRIST JESUS THEY JEERED". IT IS THROUGH THE WORD THAT THE CHILD OF GOD IS SANCTIFIED,FOR THE WORD IS TRUTH, (john c17:v17, john c14:v6, AND THE TRUTH IS CHRIST JESUS, THE WORD OF GOD, (rev c19:v13).
WORTHY (honour) (rev c5:v12)
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WORTHY TO BE PRAISED FOR THE GREAT WORK OF SALVATION,(john c19:v30),CHRIST JESUS WHO WAS WORTHY TO BE HONOURED BY THE FATHER (THE ALMIGHTY GOD), AS HE WAS SEATED AT HIS RIGHT HAND, (THE PLACE OF HONOUR),(heb c12:v2), WORTHY TO BE ADORED, NOT ONLY BY THOSE WHO TRUST AND BELIEVE IN HIS SAVING POWER, BUT BY ALL,FOR EVERY KNEE SHALL BEND AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS, THAT HE IS LORD, (phil c2:v10-v11), WORTHY BECAUSE HE IS THE LAMB UPON THE THRONE, THE FRIEND OF SINNERS,(matt c11:v19),THE SEVEN ATTRIBUTES GIVEN TO CHRIST JESUS,POWER,RICHES,WISDOM,STRENGTH, HONOUR, GLORY AND BLESSING, (rev c5:v12).
WONDERFUL (isa c9:v6) (BLESSED)
AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED "WONDERFUL", THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, SAID UNTO MANOAH, (SAMSON’S FATHER), WHY DO YOU ASK MY NAME, SEEING IT IS WONDERFUL, (SECRET) (judg c13:v18), THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, WAS CHRIST JESUS, FOR IN DEED HE WAS WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL FOR ALL THE SUPERNATURAL THINGS THAT HE DID THROUGHOUT TIME AND ETERNITY, WONDERFUL BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT LOVE TOWARDS US, SLOW TO ANGER AND QUICK TO BLESS, WONDERFUL BECAUSE HE GAVE EVERYTHING UP, THAT WE MAY BE FREED FROM SIN, WONDERFUL BECAUSE HE IS THE GREAT LIGHT, THAT WE MAY FIND OUR WAY TO GOD THE FATHER, WONDERFUL, BECAUSE HE CAME INTO THE WORLD TO BRING GREAT JOY, FOR GREAT JOY IS WHAT WE HAVE WHEN WE RECEIVE CHRIST JESUS AS OUR SAVIOUR, FOR HE OPENS OUR EYES THAT WE MAY SEE, AND BE LED ALONG THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BLESSED IS HE "WONDERFUL", WHO CAME IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, IN TRUTH HE IS CALLED WONDERFUL YET HIS NAME IS TO WONDERFUL FOR ANY MAN TO COMPREHEND, (rev c19:v12).
YAHWEH AND JEHOVAH (Christ Jesus) (exod c3:v14-v15, c6:v3)
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT NAME OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE WORD JEHOVAH YAHWEH (ELOHIM, EL SHADDAI), WAS SO REVERED BY PIOUS JEWS THAT THEY SUBSTITUTED IT WITH "ADONAI" (HEADSHIP) "LORD" ELOHIM AND EL-SHADDAI ARE ALL ATTRIBUTES OF THE LORD GOD, (Y.H.W.H) (YAHWEH), THEY FELT VIOLATED THE COMMANDMENT, THOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD YOUR GOD INVAIN, (exod c20).
YAHWEH IS MENTION NEARLY 7,000 TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,YAHWEH (JEHOVAH), IS THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE,("THE ETERNAL") IT IS THROUGH GOD’S MANY NAMES AND TITLES WITHIN SCRIPTURE, THAT WE ARE ABLE TO COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS WITHIN THE LORD GOD’S HEART, IT IS NOT THAT MAN CAN FIND GOD, IT IS GOD, WHO REVEALS HIMSELF TO MAN.
"JEHOVAH:BORAAKA," (THE LORD YOUR CREATOR), (isa c43:v1)
"I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, YOUR SAVIOUR", (isa c42:v3), (YAHWEH, JEHOVAH, ELOHIM).
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