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Lastday events employ 100 verses, 25 percent of Revelation, 40 percent of the prophetic text from Rev.6:1 to Rev.20:6. These verses in Revelation describe Lastday Events. One of TEN KEYS to Revelation. |
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| A-MILLENNIALISM (See Millennium) |
A-millennialists believe the first resurrection in Rev.20 is not the resurrection which takes place at Christ's coming. It is a spiritual resurrection whether it is those who have already died, who reign with Christ from heaven, or those who are still alive and reign as Christ's ambassadors here on earth. The Millennium begins with the resurrection of all the Martyrs.
This teaching denies the belief in a literal 1000-year reign of Christ on the earth over all nations. It is based on interpreting "The Resurrection; The First Resurrection" of Rev.20:5 as referring to a spiritual rebirth. This view fails to apply the onset of a 1000-year reign to those who had been "beheaded for Christ." Rev.20:4. It claims the renewal of life applies only to their souls. For if it is allowed to refer to their bodies, the 1000 years could not begin until all the martyrs are killed and God avenges their blood. Rev.6:9-11. The martyrs would each individually begin to "serve God day and night as pillars in the Temple" from the moment of their spiritual salvation rather than from the last day of this Age and the first day of the Age to Come...after appearing before God prior to the opening of the Temple and then entering the Temple to praise God and the Lamb on the Lastday. Rev.15:1-5; Rev.3:12; Rev.7:15-17; Rev.20:4.
This 1000-year reign concerns the martyrs for Christ. Their reward is to "serve God as pillars in heaven's temple day and night," a reality that could not accrue if the New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven when Christ returns to resurrect the dead. For there will be no day or night nor even a temple in the New Jerusalem. Rev.21:22-25. A-millers cannot find a reference to the fact or timing of the bodily resurrection in Revelation because they assume "the resurrection; the first" is another reference to our spiritual rebirth prior to the bodily resurrection. One of their proof-texts is Acts 26:23 where Christ is "a first among the dead to be raised." To liken this to the rebirth of the souls of the martyrs is to identify Christ as one whose rebirth becomes the first among many. Since "a first resurrection among the dead" in Acts 26:23 is physical, "the first resurrection of the dead" in Rev.20:4-5 is physical. That resurrection cannot occur until Christ comes in glory!
Since the "second death" clearly involves the bodily resurrection of the "rest of the dead" (rather than a new birth of spiritual life), how can A-millers claim the renewal of life is not a physical resurrection of those who have been "beheaded" as verse four states? May they compare apples with oranges as the saying goes? In order to affirm a spiritual "resurrection, the first," A-millers must deny "the resurrection" can even be considered as a possible reference to the body only (article "the" appears for each of these two words in Rev.20:5). But no article appears in John 5:28 for "an hour" and none in John 5:29 for "a resurrection to life." Therefore, Jesus must have two separate "hours" and two separate "resurrections" in mind.
Why is the Millennium mentioned only in Revelation 20? Because, aside from Satan's binding in the Abyss and the rest of the dead not living until 1000 years should be finished, the reward is exclusively won by those who give their lives up physically for Christ until the Lastday! They alone win the reward of Rev.3:12 and Rev.7:15-17 to "serve God as pillars in heaven's Temple day and night." Surviving believers will reign on earth over the nations with a "rod of iron"! Rev.2:26-27.
The Martyrs must serve God "day and night in the temple" before the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven because there will be "no night, no day and no temple" in that City after the Millennium. They are given the name of that City and obtain the blessings of that City 1000 years before the nations can enter that City after the Sheep and Goat nations are separated at the end of the Millennium! Rev.7:15-17; Rev.21:24-26; Matt.25:31-46.
The "rest of the dead do not live until the 1000 years should be finished." The living again of the martyrs is aorist indicative. That of the rest of the dead, at which "the 1000 years should yet be finished," is aorist subjunctive and therefore subsequent to the first physical resurrection. As the "second death" includes a bodily resurrection of all those not written in the Book of Life, so the "first resurrection" includes the martyrs of the Endtime who receive their reward to "serve God in the temple day and night for 1000 years prior to all believers serving God in the Temple" thereafter. Rev.21:3; Rev.22:3. No believer will ever die during the Millennium! See "Nations" below for those who inherit an eternal kingdom afterward.
These Martyrs come out of from under the Altar just before Christ returns. Their reward for 1000 years is future to that of avenging their blood when Christ appears. Therefore "the resurrection, the first" occurs as they receive their glorified bodies. The reward for 1000 years is that of "serving God as pillars in heaven's temple day and night while the Lamb shepherds them." Rev.3:12; Rev.7:15-17. Serving God in heaven is the Martyrs' exclusive reward. Surviving Saints will reign on the earth for 1000 years. Rev.2:26-27; Rev.5:10. See END below. |
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| ABOMINATION |
Jesus, Daniel and Paul gave us the first universal sign to identify the Endtime. Jesus said: "When you see the Abomination spoken of by Daniel ... then shall be great tribulation” (Dan. 12:1,11) which lasts for 3˝ years; Dan.7:25, Dan.12:7, Rev.12:14. This tribulation is the "greatest since creation and greater than any that will ever happen." So it could not refer to AD 70. Matt.24:15,29. The great tribulation includes the killing of a "third of mankind at an appointed year, month, day and hour," the 6th Trumpet judgment, the second of three woes. Rev.9:15. The Generation (see below) of believers that "sees the Abomination standing in the Temple" will "know the end is near” before Israel as a nation knows their Redemption and Kingdom are Near." Matt.24:33; Luke 21:28,31. Jews must "beg to be prevail and to escape all these things being about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man on the Day He actually appears. Luke 21:25-36. |
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| ABOUT (Mello; #3195) |
"About" in the present tense applies to the imminence of the day Christ comes. The Present Tense of "Mello" is used in Matthew and Revelation (Rev.10:7) of the Elect "knowing the End is Near" and, in Luke, of the Jews "knowing their Redemption and Kingdom are Near." Believers must be willing to taste death until He is about to come and reward them. Matt.16:27-28. Some will taste death after they see Him coming in Kingdom Power through the Two Witnesses for 1260 days. The 144,000 Jews are among the Elect; but none of these taste death. The Lamb rescues them from Mt. Zion. "Purchased from earth," He takes them "before the throne" in heaven to sing the song of the Lamb at the beginning of the hour or two in which all Israel will see Christ coming in the clouds. Rev.14:1-4; 15:1-4. These events are among 100 verses to be fulfilled on the Lastday during the 7th Plague's suspension in the air and during the hours of Seal 6's Day of Wrath. |
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| ABOUT TO COME |
Christ’s return like lightning has been near since His ascension, that is, from God’s perspective of time. Matt.24:27; Rev.12:5. This key phrase places Christ's return as "known to be near" for the Elect who "begin to watch" in earnest at the Abomination in the Temple. They are "blessed" for watching with the greatest anticipation while armies are gathering to the Armageddon. Rev.16:15. This is the final blessing for Believers given by Jesus before He appears to gather the "rest of the elect"; for He will rescue the 144,000 after the first signs of the Day of Wrath. Rev.7:1-8; Rev.14:1-5. Jews who survive the 42 months of great tribulation will "look up and stand erect when they "see the Son of Man coming with all the Saints...including the 144,000 whom I think will be seen ascending to heaven as the Son of Man stops to reap the earth!
They see these things "happening" before He appears and are prepared to "beg to stand before the Son of Man" after He appears...for the "firstfruit unto God and the Lamb" must be rescued from earth before the Three-Act Temple cam occur in heaven. Rev.15:1-5 occurs in the Temple during the events in Luke 21:25-36. They see Him bringing the Saints with Him to "give the Kingdom to the people of the Saints."Dan.7:22-27. "The Elect" are not deceived by "The Lie" when the Abomination stands in the Temple. 2 Thess.2:11. When Jesus said "you will know your redemption...and God's Kingdom are near," He had Jews in mind who "mourn when they see the Elect gathered together above unto Jesus." Matt.24:30-31; 2 Thess.2:1; Luke 21:25-28,31,36. "All these things happens" (plural subject; singular verb) on the day that comes as a "snare". Luke 21:34-35. |
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| ABOUT TO HAPPEN |
Greek word for "about" (Mello) occurs over 100 times in the NT in the present tense, but only a few times where it actually refers to future events. It indicates believers are "about to be rewarded" when Jesus comes with the angels; but that some must taste death after they see Him coming in Kingdom Power. Matt.16:27; Mark 8:38; Mark 9:1. Jesus employed "mello" in the present tense except for Matt.24:6 where it applies to future wars. That which is Near relates to specific signs of God's purpose during the "kairos" Endtime of 1260 days, not to “chronos time” of 1290 days which will be cut short by 26 to 28 days. The Endtime of known and exact countable days ends with the killing of the Two Witnesses.
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| ACHRI |
This terminal particle occurs ten times in Revelation. It has the force of a future perfect. Believers are to overcome until (achri) the End ... Rev.2:25-26. From God's perspective, Christ is "about (mello, present tense) to come" since His ascent to heaven. Rev.12:5. To "overcome" involves the Church to the "End" of the Age when those who continue to "overcome to the End will be given authority to reign with Christ over the nations". |
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| ALREADY, NOT YET |
A "coined phrase" that fails to explain the so-called "tension" between Christ being "about to come" and "knowing God's earthly Kingdom is Near." The tension vanishes, from our perspective of time, by knowing it applies to us only during the Endtime until Christ appears. This theory seeks to explain the concept of a deferred Kingdom. Christ did not intend the literal Kingdom for the Jews at His first Advent because of their unbelief.
It came in a spiritual sense. It is yet to come in a material sense but will be manifested in real Power for 3˝ years through the Two Witnesses. Rev.12:10,14. It was never postponed, for Jesus taught of His going to "receive the Kingdom, then of coming to destroy His enemies." Luke 19:11-44. Yet He wept over their failure to "know the day of visitation" had come. That is why He spoke of being "about to come in glory." Matt.16:27, Greek. The "generation that sees all these things happening" applies to believers who will "not taste death by any means until they see God's Kingdom coming in power" through the Two Prophets. That is when Elijah will come to restore all things and we "know the End is Near." Rev.11:3-11; Matt.16:28; Matt.17:11; Matt.24:33. See KINGDOM. |
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| ALTAR |
God avenges the souls of the martyrs waiting beneath the golden altar (and raises their bodies) only after the last one is killed and they sing the Song of Moses, present the Son of Man to the Ancient of Days and then "sit in judgment" during the Court of Seal 7. Rev.6:9-11; Rev.15:1-5; Rev.20:4; Dan.7:13,22. This singularly points to the Day of His wrath... the Lastday. Jesus raises every/all believers on the last day, "gathering the Elect above on one of the days after the great tribulation." There is no resurrection until the day Christ comes for all the Saints and is glorified in all who believe. John 6:38-40: Mark 13:24,27; Matt.24:31; I Thess.4:13-17; I Cor.15:51-52; 2 Thess.1:7-10. "We shall all be changed...at the same moment." |
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| ANGELS |
Jesus raises the "Elect from earth to heaven...in the days after the great tribulation." Mark 13:24,27 (3rd Person singular). At the same time He sends the angels and "they gather (3rd Person plural) the Elect from all extremities of the heavens." Matt.24:31. Luke omits angels gathering the Elect since he addresses the Jews who will "know the Day of the Lord has come and their Kingdom is Near when they see all the Saints, including the dead in Christ, appearing with the Son of Man." Dan.7:13,27; Zech.12:10; Zech.14:1-7; I Thess.3:13; I Thess.4:13-14; Rev.1:7. That is when Jews pray to escape. Luke 21:25-31.
When Jesus speaks of the "holy ones" coming with Him in glory, He refers to them specifically as "angels"...not just as "holy ones". Matt.16:27; Mark 8:38. When Paul speaks of the Saints "coming with Jesus" in I Thess.3:13 and of Christ being glorified in "all who believe on that day", he specifies the time to deliver the Saints from tribulation. The Saints are worthy of Jesus and, like Jesus, Paul mentions the angels separately to indicate that Jesus rescues the Saints "on the same Day He comes to destroy those who disobey the Gospel"! 2 Thess.1:7-10. |
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| ANGER |
God's anger is "long"...patient, but temporary. His anger becomes "exhausted" as of the armies gathering to Armageddon in the 6th Bowl Plague. A single day for Him compares with a 1000 years for us. His wrath is short...impatient, but eternal in its consequences. His anger fills the Cup of Wrath on the last solar day of this age. Deliverance/Destruction occur on that Day. It is the only day in which His anger and wrath are combined after being predicted in Rev.14:10. See Rev.16:19; Rev.19:15. Endtime wrath prior to that day is a misnomer! The New Jerusalem Bible (Doubleday Pub.) and Interlinear Greek-English New Testament shows "the Plagues exhaust God's anger" instead of "completing His wrath". See Baker Book House, George Berry's 1897 translation of the KJV; or Zondervan's Parallel NT with Alford Marshall's Greek-English translation in 1958. Click on or Observation 2 or 3 below.Day of the Lord |
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| APOSTASY |
The restrainer of 2 Thess.2:7 existed in Rome's rule of law, the "iron" of Democracy in Daniel's Image. The restraining force passed on through the extension of Roman law and jurisprudence. Democracy is being expanded as the White Horse Rider prepares for Babylon the Great. His victorious march (vital to the restraint against evil) has been operative since the defeat of Japan by the Bomb. From 1945 to 1989 the cold war was evidence that the bomb represented a MAD deterrent against total destruction (Mutually Avoided rather than Mutually Assured Destruction)! This Pre-Endtime force for human rights holds back forces of evil until God judges Great Babylon for incorporating elements of a lawless System. The Iron of Daniel's Image, mixed with Clay in "the seed of men", fails to cling together in the feet and toes. Dan.2:40-44.
Because of technology, modern forces enable Democracy to hold sway until Daniel's midweek when the Beast System, under Great Babylon, is "wounded" to death. The network System remains...the Beast is "healed." The "falling away" from God's laws weakens the force to restrain evil and also the will to restrict men with evil designs. The Democracies will be infiltrated by the clay of subversive forces. Ten Kings will then destroy Babylon, removing the restraint by confiscating the System, controlling the world oil supply and, with God's approval will support Antichrist. Rev.17:17. Babylon, a City, creates a global System during the Pre-Endtime that includes all nations and peoples under her administrative rule as the first phase of the 7th Kingdom. See Beast, Wounded, Ten Kings. BABYLON |
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| APOSTLE JOHN |
The Apostle is uniquely qualified to be one of the Two Prophets. He understands the Mission Mandate given by Jesus concerning God's Kingdom Power. Read the nine reasons for this Mandate being hidden from the Church. Read Apostle John
Two Prophets
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| ARK OF COVENANT |
The Ark will not be seen until the last Plague empties and the smoke clears from heaven's Temple on the Lastday; nor until the Court sits in judgment in Heaven's 6th of 12 Scenes and the 7th Trumpet sounds in Heaven's 7th Scene. Rev.15:8; Rev.11:19. This occurs after the Son of Man reaps the wicked to the great Winepress of God's "anger; thumos". Having rescued the 144,000 Jews ("Firstfruits to God and the Lamb") from Mt. Zion, He takes them to sing before God; and the Martyrs sing the Song of Moses. The Firstfruit come with Him on the clouds and present Him to the Ancient of Days. Rev.14:1-4, 14-19; Dan.7:13. In Act Three of the Temple Drama, He is crowned with many crowns.
The Ark appears in the open Temple. I believe the Priestly Tribe of 12,000 will bring the Ark to earth for the Millennial Temple of Ezek.40-48. Rev.11:15-19. That Temple should be dedicated on Kislev 30, Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights, 75 days after the Feast of Tabernacles. Under Heaven's 12 Scenes, click on Act Three of the Temple Drama.Heaven's 7th Scene |
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| BABYLON THE GREAT |
The City and its global System administer the first phase of final Gentile world government until mid-point of Daniel's 70th Set of Seven. Ten Kings destroy her by fire in one hour (Rev.17:15 to Rev.18:19) and confiscate the System. Satan "heals" the wound by the Beast from the Abyss. The symbolism "personifies" the Beast as the Antichrist dominated System continues 3˝ years until the nations' cities fall by world-quakes. Rev.16:18-21; Rev.18:20-24. See Apostasy above. |
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| BEAST OF DANIEL |
Daniel's Beast has the same Ten Horns as the Beast of Revelation. Its "little horn" becomes the 8th King as the personified Beast of Rev.13:3 and Rev.18:8. In the 7th World Power, before it is "wounded and healed," the Iron of Democracy prevails over evil forces. Babylonian Mysteries, at work since Paul's day, eventuate in an economic and religious Pre-Endtime rule of Great Babylon over all nations. God hates the System. The Beast is "wounded" as Ten Kings "hate and destroy the City; but healed as they `burn her with fire and eat her flesh' (destroy the City but confiscate the System)". Satan "heals the Beast" symbolically but empowers the Beast literally with a demon from the Abyss. The 7th head is "personified" as the Beast which "devours the whole earth." Dan.7:23. |
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| BEAST OF REVELATION |
Only in the second phase of its 7th head is the Beast "healed" to represent a human called Antichrist. During its first phase, the symbolic beast supports the world power of Babylon the Great. The Antichrist exists as a mere human, the 11th king of Daniel's image, until Ten Kings destroy Babylon. He is not assassinated, nor resurrected. The wound affects the Beast's support of Babylon's world power. The Sea-Beast is "wounded" so that Babylon no longer rules. One of her seats is the Beast in the Wilderness. When the Ten Kings destroy her, the Beast from the Abyss takes her place as well as the role of the Sea-Beast and Wilderness Beast. Only then does it become a human, with the ten horns also being personified. It had been "wounded and healed." Personified as a human, he comes "out of the 7th world empire and is called the 8th king, the little horn of Daniel." Rev.17:11; Dan.7:8,20-25. |
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| BIBLICAL TIME |
Daniel's prophecy is based on "seventy sevens" of 84 thirty-day months (7x12=84 x30=2520 Days for each cycle of 70 Sevens). There are 2520 days in each seven-year period (360x7; 84x30). The the fulfillment of the 70th Seven (2520 days) is overlaid on 85 thirty-day months of 365-day years (7x365=2550 or an extra 30-day month). Sixty-nine sets of prophetic sevens (7x69=483 years) were fulfilled in sixty-eight sevens on a solar calendar. It was 476 years (7x68) from BC 445 to AD 32 (476 % 7=68 sevens). Biblical prophetic fulfillment was cut short by 21 days, from Nisan 30 to Nisan 9 which was Palm Sunday in the final month of Daniel's "69th Seven." Jesus was "cut off five days later on Nisan 14. Solar time of 476 years or 68 solar sevens allowed only 173,859 days (476x365.25=173,859. The Biblical count called for 483x360 or 173,880 days. See
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The 68 solar sevens was three weeks short of 69 prophetic sevens (69x7x360=173,880 days). The shortage of 21 days forced the prophecy to be fulfilled on Palm Sunday, Nisan 9, three weeks before the 69th Anniversary Date of the Decree allowing Nehemiah to restore Jerusalem. Neh.2:1. The countdown from that Decree began with the month following Nisan 30, BC 445. The 69th occurrence of Passover on Friday, Nisan 14, is the basis for the 70 Sevens. Passover fell on a Friday only once every seven years when calculated on a 360-day continuous countdown.
This is the unique evidence showing why Jesus "knew on this Day" (Luke 19:42) that it was the "appointed time" to fulfill Zech.9:9 and Lev.23:5...riding into Jerusalem as Messiah the Prince to fulfill Dan.9:26 on Palm Sunday. And hailed as King, but crucified (five days) "after" that appointed day on Nisan 14. No wonder He "wept." See the Topic on the Seventy Sets of Seven as well as a Power Point Presentation of God's Timing. Power Point Presentation of God's Timing Also see Forum on GOD'S TIMING shown in monthly chart forms.
LAST DAY could occur on Tishri 15-16/2033(5794
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| BIRTH of Christ |
See Chart on the date of Christ's Birth near the end of the Topic "When Believers Know the End is Near" (Christ's Birth and Death Chart) OR near the end of the charts in Outlines under REVIEW on "The Birth and Death of Christ". Ernest Martin determined that Christ was born Sept.11, BC 3 on the Gregorian (Julian) Calendar and Tishri 1, BC 2 on the Hebrew Calendar. Sept. 11 on the Julian Calendar was the start of BC 2 on the Hebrew Calendar. The two come into sync so that in the Spring of BC 2 on both calendars Jesus was ˝ year old. Go to Martin's website for Star of Bethlehem or go to "MSNBC for a video.
In the fall of BC 2 Jesus was One year old no matter which calendar was used. He was Two in the fall of BC 1 and Three in the fall of AD 1. (No "0" year; so from BC 1 to AD 1 was one year). By adding 27 years, He was 30 in the fall of AD 28. Then, after 3˝ years of ministry, He died on Friday, Nisan 14, in the spring of 32 AD at 33˝ years.
For the view of Christ's death in AD 33 and the total Lunar eclipse for Christ's second coming, go to Chart on Birth and paragraph on Second Coming under topic of When Believers Know the End is Near. (Go to Christ's Birth and Death Chart)
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| CATALYSTS OF THE ENDTIME |
- Also see Topic on Endtime Catalysts - Endtime Key
I. Ten Kings destroy Babylon in one hour by fire. Rev.17:16-18; Rev.18:8-9, 17, 19.
II. They support Antichrist. He desecrates Temple and removes peace. Rev.11:1-2; Rev.6:4.
III. War in heaven. Michael’s angels cast Satan and his angels to earth. Rev.12:7-9.
IV. God’s Kingdom Power demonstrated as Saints suffer for 3˝ years. Rev.12:10-17.
V. Two Witnesses from heaven “stand against” Antichrist for 1260 days. Rev.11:3-7.
Five events launch the Endtime: Satan cast from heaven; Great Babylon destroyed by fire; Ten Kings give power to Antichrist; Antichrist breaks Mideast Covenant; Two Prophets manifest God's Kingdom Power and feed a remnant in the desert for 1260 days. The five Catalysts launch the Endtime of 3˝ years or 1260 days or 42 months. See ENDTIME for Outlines of Endtime Events in addition to
Five Catalysts of Endtime Events. Note relation of Daniel's "Iron and Clay" image (below) to these Catalysts. For relation of Five Catalysts to Mystery of God
Endtime Catalysts
Endtime Key
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| CENTERPIECE |
"Click" on CENTERPIECE for 100 verses in Revelation describing 22 major Lastday events. Armies from the East set the stage for The Sign of the Day of the Lord. As Armageddons threaten the existence of Israel, that sign occurs which affects the sun, moon, stars, the heavens and is accompanied by a great quake...at the time of the full moon. Seven classes of mankind will be hiding in the mountains from these armies as the 7th Angel empties the Last Plague out of its Bowl.
A Decree out of the Temple, "It is Done," signals the Lamb to open Seal Six. It warns of impending wrath while the Last Plague suspends in mid-air during the Three-Act Temple Drama which comprises Scenes five through seven of Heaven's 12 Scenes. The Plague implodes its contents as the Drama ends with Trump Seven. God "remembers" Babylon in His Wrath. The Cup of Anger and Wrath launches the "Hour to Test" all mankind. The "Hour to Reap" the earth symbolically and the Three-Act Temple Drama culminates in announcing "God's wrath has come and the appointed (kairos) time to judge and reward the Prophets and Saints, small and great." Rev.11:18.
The souls of all the Martyrs, having come out of the great tribulation and from under the Altar, and the 144,000 Jews having been redeemed from earth shortly after The Sign of Seal Six, will sing two songs before God to trigger the "Hour" for this 3-Act Temple Drama with its Testimony, Tribunal and Triumph. The Lamb first rescues the 144,000 "Firstfruit" from Mt. Zion and the Son of Man reaps the wicked Armageddons to the "great Winepress of God's anger; thumos" (not wrath).
The reaping precedes the Temple Drama and Hour of Judgment in Seal Seven and the Hour of Testing when Christ appears with all the Saints. The Martyrs include Jewish and Gentile believers. The 144,000 Jews are sealed immediately after The Sign of the Day of Wrath as the "Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb" are rescued on this same Day. The Firstfruit are rescued first; then the Two Witnesses rise up and ascend to heaven. The dead in Christ rise up "in their own order: Christ, the Firstfruit of the dead; then, on the last day, the rest of the dead at His Presence...gathered unto Jesus at the Synagogue in the sky" Rev.7:1-8; Rev.14:1-4; Rev.11:11; I Cor.15:20,23; I Thess.4:13-17; Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31; 2 Thess.2:1.
The 144,000, rescued on Mt. Zion, accompany the Lamb to heaven and join the Martyrs in one of two songs. The souls of the Two Prophets are among the Martyrs singing the Song of Moses. The 144,000 sing the Song of the Lamb which only they will have learned. The Sign of that Day begins with a "great quake" and the Two Prophets, after joining the martyrs to sing the Song of Moses, rise up bodily "in the same Hour." In that Hour the Lamb rescues the 144,000, reaps the wicked to the Winepress in great anger and all the Saints in heaven join in Testimony, praising God and the Lamb.
The Holocaust of Trump Six has "passed by, time is no longer and the mystery of God was finished" (up to 3 or 4 days) before God's voice "comes out of the Temple saying: 'It is Done.'" When the Two Prophets rise up to heaven, the 7th Trumpet is "about to sound that God's wrath has come." The Last Plague (having been suspended in midair during both the Outer and Middle Concentric Paths of the Lastday) suddenly implodes after the Three-Act Temple Drama...when "God remembers Babylon"...a second time within 42 months. Rev.11:14; Rev.10:6-7; Rev.11:6-7; Rev.16:18.
Our Centerpiece outlines these Paths and shows all the Saints praising God and the Lamb by name in the drama of Act One, hearing the verdict against the wicked (Seal 7; Daniel 7) in Act Two, and observing Christ being crowned with many crowns as King of kings (Trump 7) in Act Three. Immediately the final scenes in heaven occur from Rev.18:20 to Rev.19:10. See Concentric Paths and Finished below. See CENTERPIECE
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| CHRONOLOGY |
Revelation doesn't always present events chronologically. See Flashbacks and Two Prophets below. Also see ENDTIME
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| CHURCH |
Body of Believers since Pentecost. Church is a part of God's Family in Eph.2:19. See "New Building." Mystery of Church. Mystery of Christ. Saints of Old and New Covenants "grow as one Building unto a Holy Temple of the Lord." The Bride of the Lamb will inhabit the New Jerusalem forever. Those nations who inhabit the Kingdom on earth after the Millennium will bring their glory into the New Jerusalem but, unlike the Bride, must eat of the leaves and fruit of the Tree of Life for "healing." Rev.21:2,9 (Bride); Rev.21:24,26; Rev.22:2,14 (Sheep Nations enter the City for continued healing.) The latter inherit the earthly Kingdom at the end of the Millennium. Matt.25:34. See "Relation of Mystery of God to Israel and the Church".Relation of Mystery of God to Israel and the Church |
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| CONCENTRIC PATHS |
In order to better visualize the events of the Lastday, as seen in 100 verses of Revelation, three paths like those of a Concentric Castle are presented beginning with THREE CONCENTRIC PATHS. The Outer Path covers 40 verses from the onset of the Lastday with "It is Done, the End has come" to the Great and Wonderful Sign of God's righteous deeds manifested by the 7 Last Plagues as sung by the Martyrs in the Song of Moses and by the 144,000 in the Song of the Lamb. Forty Verses. Rev.16:16-17; Rev.6:12 to Rev.7:8; Rev.14:1 to Rev.15:4. See Meditations below.
LASTDAY OUTER PATH TWO
LASTDAY OUTER PATH THREE
MIDDLE PATH events begin with "after these things, I looked and behold" in Rev.15:5 and Rev.7:9. Twenty-two verses cover the Three-Act Temple Drama through the Testimony, Tribunal and Triumph of the Martyrs coming out of great tribulation to praise God and the Lamb. They view the evidence and hear the verdict of the Angel of Fire in the 7th Seal (Dan.7:9-10) and the victory of taking the Kingdom of this world in the 7th Trumpet. The 22 verses are Rev.15:5; Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5; Rev.11:12-18.
INNER PATH events begin with God's anger turning to wrath as indicated by the Storm Theophany that ends Seal 7, Trump 7 and implodes the contents of Plague 7...the wine of the Cup of God's anger and wrath. Here there are 38 verses with Rev.11:19 and Rev.16:18 giving the back-to back outbursts of "flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder and a great quake...the greatest in history. Thirty-eight verses: Rev.11:19; Rev.16:18; Rev.18:20 to Rev.20:6; Rev.14:20; Rev.16:19-21. For Detail Concentric Paths, go to CENTERPIECE.
CONCENTRIC PATH ONE
THREE CONCENTRIC PATHS
LASTDAY OUTER PATH TWO
LASTDAY OUTER PATH THREE
MIDDLE PATH
LASTDAY INNER PATH
CENTERPIECE
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| COVENANT |
Daniel's 70TH SEVEN begins the final seven years that climax with Christ's return to "give the Kingdom to the Saints and to the people of the Saints." Dan.7:27; Dan.9:27. "All Israel (remnant of 1/3 survive great tribulation) will be saved as Messiah comes out of Zion." This is the time to fulfill the "everlasting Covenant" to David and descendants if the 12 Tribes. Zech.13:8-9; Jer.34:14-26; Luke 21:32.
See New Covenant below. It was made effective at the Cross for inheritance by Old and New Testament Saints. Heb.9:15; Eph.2:16. This same Covenant will become effective for "all of redeemed Israel" when Christ returns. But the New Covenant will also include fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant. Jer.31:31: Rom.11:26-27, Heb.8:8-12; Luke 21:28-31.DANIEL'S 70TH SEVEN |
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| CUP OF ANGER and WRATH |
The Cup of Anger and Wrath contains a TRANSLATION KEY to Revelation. It seems to empty immediately after the Last Plague empties. But first the Lamb opens Seal Six, rescues the 144,000 from Mt. Zion and, as the Son of Man, reaps the earth while angels symbolically collect the wicked Armageddons to the "great Winepress of God's anger; thumos." Rev.14:10,14-19. (Verse 20 anticipates the actual "treading of the Winepress" on the same day; but as of Rev.19:15). The Three-Act Temple Drama occurs in heaven before God's wrath literally explodes in Rev.16:19-21. This Drama must occur before the wine of God's Cup of Wrath pours out.
John reveals why the Concentric Events of the Outer and Middle Paths (see Concentric Paths above) occur between Rev.16:17 AND Rev.16:19 (with Babylon destroyed by earth's and history's greatest quake in Rev.16:18 at the same time the action shifts from the Temple Drama to the final rejoicing in heaven. Babylon's fall and Heaven's final rejoicing constitutes the opening phase of the Inner Concentric Path. The Saints rejoice in Heaven's 8th of 12 Scenes at the same moment the great quake strikes Babylon (see Heaven's 12 Scenes below).
The Cup of anger and wrath of the Inner Path will affect "all the inhabitants of all the earth" as the nations' cities and mountains disappear by the quake's global aftershocks. Here Luke 21:34-35 agrees with Rev.3:10 and Rev.16:19-21 for the total effects of God's combined anger and wrath as soon as the Court at Seal 7 reaches a Verdict followed by the Coronation of Christ at the first blast of the 7th Trumpet.
Following the rejoicing in heaven and the fall of Babylon, Believers are "kept from God's wrath" which spreads across the earth. At the second blast of the 7th Trumpet, Christ "gathers the Elect from earth to heaven...raising up every Believer and, at the third blast, He sends the angels to gather them from all extremities of the heavens." Mark 13:27; John 6:39-40; Matt.24:31. The appointed (kairos) time for God's wrath is announced in the 7th Trumpet, Heaven's 5th Scene, Act 3 of the Temple Drama...on the 3rd or 4th day after the countdown of 1260 days of "chronos-time" ends. Rev.11:18; Rev.10:6-7.TRANSLATION KEY |
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| DAN, TRIBE OF |
Because Dan established a temple in northern Israel and committed the sin of idolatry, his descendants do not appear in the chronicles of those who inherited the land under Joshua. Nor do they appear with 144,000 Jews, the "Firstfruit of living survivors unto God and the Lamb." Rev.7:1-8. But God is faithful to His promise so that the Tribe of Dan is the first name in the list in Ezek.48 in the division of the land to be maintained during the Millennial Reign of Christ. |
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| DAY OF LORD |
Its events are confined to a single solar day ending at twilight. In our view, most errors respecting Christ's coming result from extending this Day into a period of 30 days or 5-18 months or 7 years. Jesus separates The Signs of that Day from the Hour He appears in glory to "raise up and reward every believer." Why? We see that one hundred of the 404 verses in Revelation must be fulfilled on the Day Christ appears! The last Martyr is killed on that Day. The 144,000 Jews are sealed and taken to heaven, the Two Prophets arise and the 3-Act Temple Drama climaxes with Christ's Coronation before "every one who believes Jesus died and rose again is caught up at the Presence of the Lord." See "Gegonen" below for the unique word that triggers the Day of the Lord and the opening of Seal Six when the 7th Plague empties in the air.!
Prophet after Prophet state the "Day of the Lord is Near." With The Signs of that Day having occurred, Believers are no longer concerned with prior Endtime signs. The Endtime signs include Five Catalysts which collectively begin the 1260 days that span the Endtime before "God's Mystery is finished" and the 7 Plagues exhaust God's patience on the Lastday. (See Catalysts above). The Signs of that Day concern God's ultimate Purpose for the Great Tribulation. Jesus taught that "all these things are about to occur on the Day He is revealed; the Day of His apocalypse." Luke 17:30; Luke 21:28-32. Here is the only time Jesus used this word while He was on the earth.
See DAY OF LORD with its chart of "Ten Goals in Gathering the Elect”. This chart occurs just before "Observation Six" concerning the Signs of that Day which include The Sign of Christ's Presence. Luke 21:25,27. Also, check out 12 VITAL TOPICS on the Day of the Lord. DAY OF THE LORD IN DANIEL. And look at Eight OBSERVATIONS below...
DAY OF THE LORD could be Tishri 15/16/5794; Oct.8/2033
LAST DAY COULD OCCUR IN 2033
DAY OF LORD
12 VITAL TOPICS
DAY OF THE LORD IN DANIEL
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| DAYS OF VENGEANCE |
Luke describes these as days of "wrath" for Israel at the total destruction of the Temple in AD 70 and continuing under Gentile domination "until the Times of the Gentiles are finished." Jews knew their redemption and Kingdom is NEAR at the Hour the Son of Man appears just as they know the Day of the Lord is HERE at The Signs of that Day. Luke 21:20-32.
Please note the word "DAYS" is a plural word! Other views of the DAY of the Lord assume the single word "DAY" is a plurality of Days and even Months or Years!! The DAY of the Lord is a single 12-Hour Day and nowhere does the Greek text use the word "wrath" in conjunction with 6 of the 7 last Plagues or 6 of the 7 Trumpets!!! [In Rev.15:1,8 and Rev.16:1 the Plagues "exhaust God's patience"]. |
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| DIASPORA |
What happened in AD 70 was an act of God's wrath. But it was not the "Day of the Lord". That Day is confined to the Day of Resurrection and of Israel's and Judah's Redemption and Restoration and Kingdom. |
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| DISPENSATIONALISM |
Pre-Trib teaching consider the End of the Age as prematurely taking place for the Church seven years before Christ returns. They delegate the task of preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom to the 144,000 during the Endtime. Their approach is excellent with respect to unfulfilled O.T. prophecies regarding national Israel's coming restoration under Messiah King. But they fail to recognize the role of the Church must continue until the end at which time the 144,000 are the living "Firstfruit" of the Endtime harvest unto "God and the Lamb." Rev.14:4. See "Mystery" below. |
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| DOCTRINAL KEY |
Jesus raises all Believers to Himself on the Day of the Lord. This is the only way that "all the Saints come with Jesus. The Pre-Trib doctrine agrees that Jesus comes "with the Saints," but not with "all the Saints." I Thess.3:13. The Day this happens is identified, even in the O.T., as being the Day Christ comes with the Saints to destroy the Beast and give the kingdom to the people of the Saints. Dan.7:27; Zech.14:6-7. God includes the "souls of all the martyrs" among the Saints in heaven who come with Jesus at the Rapture and join surviving overcomers of the Beast. But first the Martyrs sing the victory Song of Moses before they stand before God and the Lamb in glorious praise. Rev.15:2-3; Rev.7:9-14; Dan.7:9-14. Revelation includes the 144,000 Jews among these survivors who "sing the song of the Lamb and follow the Lamb wherever He goes." Rev.14:1-5; Rev.15:2-3.
"God will bring those that are asleep with Jesus first" (including all the martyrs). Then those who are alive and remain will be caught up to meet them in the air." I Thess.4:13-17. See DOCTRINAL KEY...Key IX of TEN KEYS to Revelation ...for "Thirty reasons why signs in the sun, moon and stars signal the Second Coming"...at the very end of the Article on the Doctrinal Key.DOCTRINAL KEY |
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| EIGHTH KING |
Antichrist becomes the final world ruler after Ten Kings destroy Babylon the Great, the Harlot ruler of the "seventh kingdom," in one hour. Rev.17:10,11,16; Rev.18:8,10. We will not "know the End is Near" for certain until both of these events occur. Antichrist becomes the 8th, not by assassination and resurrection, but by the Beast from the Abyss becoming incarnate in "one of many" who sign a Covenant 1260 days before the Ten destroy "Babylon by fire in one hour". |
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| ELECT |
"The called, Elect and faithful" come with Christ. Rev.17:14; Dan.7:22-27. Tribulation Saints are Elect, including 144,000 Jews..."the Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb". Rev.14:4. They are taken to heaven by the Lamb on the Lastday... but before Jesus "gathers the rest of the Elect from earth." Pre-Tribbers limit the Elect of Matt.24:31 to Jews "re-gathered to their land." Jesus states He will "gather these Elect from earth to heaven on one of the days after the tribulation." The 144,000 are taken from earth to heaven and changed into His image "on the last day." Luke 21 does not mention the Elect since it is surviving Jews who "beg to stand before the Son of Man" when He appears. On that Day they "stand erect and look up; for their redemption and Kingdom have drawn near." Luke 21:27,28,31,36. DAY OF LORD - Observation Four |
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| ELTHEN |
"Has Come" - Seven Passages on Things that "Has Come" on the Lastday.
The decree, “It is Done,” and two references that Babylon “has fallen, fallen” are anticipatory of 8 Lastday things that "has come" because her fall is part of the Hour of Judgment that “has come.” The judgment is authorized by the Verdict of Seal 7 and Victory of Trump 7. “God’s wrath has come.” The Greek, elthen, applies to each of 8 Lastday things, for even the Lamb’s wedding “has come.”
[One: Day of Wrath - 6:17; Two: Hour of Judgment - 14:7; Three: Hour to Reap - 14:15;
Four: Multitude out of G. T. - 7:13; Five: Angel of Fire - 8:3; Six, Seven: God's Wrath; Judge and Reward Saints - 11:18 (two); Eight: Wedding of Lamb - 19:7]. The Lamb takes His Bride to Himself on the same day, and in the same hour, that the Harlot begins her eternal torment. Rev.19:3,7. |
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| END |
The completion of the Ages is used in Heb.9:26 of Christ's first coming. But He references the Harvest at the End of this Age as of His second coming in Matt.13:30,49; and of enduring to the End in Matt.24:13, Mark 13:13 and of preaching the Gospel to the End in Matt.28:20. There is very good reason for the "End" in Rev.2:26 to require overcomers in the Church to be faithful until Christ comes in order to "rule the nations with an iron staff.” Overcoming to the End cannot be taken as a "pre-trib" event based on the only context in Revelation using "End" with respect to Christ's coming to rule.
This is one verse about "overcoming to the END" that renders a death-blow to A-Millennial beliefs. If Rev.2:26 refers to physical death at the end of each overcomer’s life, when does he begin to exercise "power over the nations"? If all Believers exercise "power over the nations," all SURVIVING Believers must be "overcomers." What, in that case, is the added challenge for those who "overcome to the End"?
A special reward awaits Martyrs who overcome by "not loving their life unto death"! Rev.12:10-11. They will "serve God in the Temple of Heaven 'day and night' for 1000 years"...the reason for referencing the Millennium at the end of prophetic time, i.e., Rev.20:4. This reference reverts to the "souls" under the Altar (Rev.6:9-11) and to their outburst of Praise in Act One where they learn of their reward
for having won the reward of Rev.3:12 for "overcoming". They receive 3 Names..."New Jerusalem, Name of the Father and of the Son".
Jesus promised to be with us to the END (telos) of the Age, not to the end of each one’s life even though that is true for all believers. "Sitting with Christ in the heavenlies" since the new birth is not what John is talking about in Rev.20:4. There the Martyrs sit in Judgment, via a flashback, to the Court of Seal 7. Jesus promised overcomers to the End will "sit on thrones while ruling the nations with a rod of iron...after He comes as a King with all the Saints". Rev.2:25-27.
It is obvious that believers, in spreading the gospel, are not already ruling the nations with a rod of iron during this present lifetime. Especially as many are being martyred. And we do not qualify for that reward simply because we are "born again". The condition that must be fulfilled applies to those who survive until Jesus comes in glory or who have been martyred. John is primarily concerned with Martyrs in Rev.20:4-5.
Jesus promised to be with all believers to the End of the Age, not just until we die. It applies to those who overcome to the End of the Age whether they survive or die. Martyrs will "serve God as Pillars in the Temple" after they rise up in THE First Resurrection on the Lastday. Only then do they begin to serve God day and night until the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven. For there will be "no night and no temple" therein after the Millennium. They cannot begin to reign with Christ or serve God in heaven until they have been avenged and resurrected! Rev.21:22,25; Rev.6:9-11; Rev.7:15-17; Rev.20:4-6.
Twice in Revelation, in reference to eternity, Jesus spoke of Himself as the beginning and the End, the first and the Last. Rev.21:6; Rev.22:13. In each case He added a word about "Overcomers" that can only apply to the Millennium. He that overcomes will inherit all things; and the nations that have obeyed His commandments (during the Millennium) will have the right to enter the gates of the New Jerusalem and be healed by the leaves of the Tree of Life (and bring their honor and glory into the City). Rev.21:7,24-26; Rev.22:2,14.
A-Millers have no room for sheep and goat nations who will be separated after Christ sits on His throne and Satan can no longer deceive them. Matt.25:31-46; Rev.20:8-10. The evidence of faith during the Millennium requires restoration of the sacrificial system of Ezek.40-48; Zech.14:16-21. Only then will descendants of the Tribe of Dan be reinstated among the Tribes of the Land. Ezek.48:1.
With all this in mind, we understand why survivors, even a remnant of Jews who pray to escape, will be saved physically and "kept from the hour of trial after enduring to the End" Matt.24:14; Mark 13:13; Rev.3:10; Luke 21:28-31, 34-36. We understand the resurrection of the body (including that of Daniel at the End; Dan.12:4,11,13) occurs after the 1290 days are cut short to 1260 days...plus 3 or 4 days. John primarily has the martyrs in mind in Rev.20:4, not those who survive! Yet they all rise up "on the last day". John 6:38-40,44,54.
With the deaths of the Two Prophets, the 1290 day-countdown of chronos-time ends and no more than 3 or 4 days remain until they arise from physical death...on one of the (3ś) days after countdown-time ends! Rev.10:6-7; Rev.11:6-7; Mark 13:24. So all Believers must rise up physically on the very last day...to begin their rule over the nations if they survive to the End; or, if martyred, to begin "serving God day and night as pillars in the temple of heaven" for 1000 years...while the nations come to Jerusalem to worship God or finally become the "goat nations cast to Hell" because of their mistreatment of the Jews! Zech.14:16-21; Heb.8:8-13; Rev.3:12; Rev.7:15-17; Rev.15:4; Rev.2:27; Rev.20:4-5; Matt.25:32-46. |
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During the ENDTIME we will "know the Day of the Lord is Near." Jesus has prepared the generation that "knows the end is near " to also realize when the Endtime is Here. Matt.24:15,33. Luke 21 does not deal with Believers enduring to the End (as in Matthew and Mark) because his concern was for the Jews who suffer among the nations until Gentile Times are fulfilled. Luke 21:24. They will know the End is Near when Christ appears. Luke 21:25-31. They will "pray to escape"! Luke 21:36.
But Matthew and Mark deal with a third Temple and with questions that require the Gospel to be preached in all the world until the End of the Age. Israel must become "jealous" by the testimony of Believers before their blindness is removed and their eyes open. Rom.11:11. Signs of the End and The Sign of Christ's coming are linked in Matthew, but not Luke 21, to the mandate to spread the Gospel until the End of the Age... until Day #1260 and the "fullness of the Gentiles"! Rom.11:25. In Luke 21 we don't see this Gospel mandate because Luke deals with Jews and the destruction of the 2nd Temple and the "Days of Vengeance and wrath" until Gentile Times are fulfilled. Luke 21:22-24. The End of the Age did not occur in AD 70! |
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| END OF TIME |
http://www.lastday.net/lastday/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=586 - TISHRI 15/16/5794; OCT.8/2033?END OF TIME |
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ENDTIME
Daniel's 3ś year period begins with 5 Catalysts: Babylon destroyed, Ten Kings support Antichrist, Temple Desecrated, Two Prophets come from heaven and they manifest God's Kingdom Power for 1260 days. This is when we "know the End is Near." Matt.24:33. Pre-Endtime below precedes Daniel's final 1290 days. See Catalysts above. ENDTIME |
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| EVERY EYE |
John writes that "every eye will see Christ coming" and also, simultaneously, even the Elect that pierced Him as they come with Him on the clouds of heaven. Rev.1:7. "Every eye" includes those who pierced Him as they come with Him. They include those who would "not see Him again until He comes in the clouds of glory." Even Caiaphas may have come to believe before he died. Every eye also includes the tribes who mourn and who "beg to escape.". Matt.24:30; Matt.26:64; Luke 21:36. |
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| FEAST OF TABERNACLES |
This FEAST commemorates the favor and grace of Jehovah in delivering Israel from the bondage of Egypt and the provision of food during their 40 years of wandering in the desert. It is filled with rejoicing for the gathering of the annual fall harvest and with many prayers for the culmination of Jehovah's plan to "restore all things" at the End of the Age. Mal.3:4-5. The Apostle Peter predicted that, after Messiah had returned to heaven, "He must remain in heaven until the times for the restoration of all things". Acts 3:21. After John the Baptist was dead, Jesus referenced the future coming of Elijah; not only to fulfill Malachi, but to "restore all things". Matt.17:11.
The last recorded question of the Disciples concerned the time for the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel. Acts 1:6. Not until He comes on the first or second Day of Sukkot, the day/night of a full moon, would the Jews of the final generation "know their kingdom is near or their redemption is near". Luke 21:28,31. Such a day is always Tishri 14, 15 or 16. Seal 6, with its full moon and signs that the Day of the Lord has begun, launches that day as the sun turns dark at NOON in Israel. Rev.6:12; Amos 8:9. Seal 7 of Revelation, the Court of Judgment on that Day, reveals the Turning Point immediately precedes the coronation of Christ and His coming with the Saints to "give the Kingdom to the people of the Saints". Dan.7:14; Rev.17:14.FEAST OF TABERNACLES |
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| FINISHED |
Aorist form of "telew" in the indicative mood (Rev.15:1, Rev.10:7) shows the Plagues "were finished and God's Mystery had been finished" prior to the Great and Wonderful Sign (G&W) of 7 Angels who had emptied these Plagues. No one enters the Temple in heaven until the smoke of God's glory and power clears the Temple on the Lastday. Rev.15:8. The End comes when the Martyrs and 144,000 Jews sing their songs and enter the Temple for Testimony in Rev.7:9-17, the Tribunal of Seal 7 and Triumph of Trump 7.
What "was finished" (because of the aorist indicative at the G&W Sign in Rev.15:1,4) appears as NOT yet finished in Rev.15:8! So John changed to the subjunctive mood of the aorist tense in verse eight to reveal the 7 last Bowl Plagues were not finished when the seven angels exited the Temple in verse six! But they were all emptied as of verse one! The aorist indicative in verses one and four require the Plagues to have completed God's anger and His righteous deeds to be manifested before the G&W Sign appears in heaven!
God’s mystery was finished by the Two Prophets before the events of the Day of the Lord...a 12-Hour Day! The Martyrs and 144,000 sing the songs of Moses and the Lamb after the 7th Plague empties in midair and God decrees: “It is Done.” God's anger and His righteous deeds must be finished in the 7 last plagues before the Martyrs and 144,000 enter the Temple, as of Rev.15:5 and Rev.7:9. No wonder the significant phrase, "after these things, I looked and Behold," appears in the KJV only in these two places after Rev.4:1. This is a vital key to understanding Revelation. |
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| FIRSTFRUIT |
Christ, FIRSTFRUIT of the dead and 144,000 Jews, the Firstfruit of the living...and also a Firstfruit of the restored nation of Israel.
Note the Events under CONCENTRIC PATHS above concerning the Firstfruit are #3 and #4 in the 22 major events of the Lastday. Prior to the Lastday, during the 5th Trumpet Judgment, the locusts know who are sealed and do them no harm during the "first woe". They were already sealed with the Father's name as indicated by Rev.14:1. But now the 144,000 are sealed with the name of the Lamb...Rev.9:4; Rev.7:1-8 (though not mentioned in the KJV. Being sealed with the Lamb's name is mentioned in most versions and in the Aramaic N.T). Rev.14:1. Note here, in the textual order of Rev.7 and 9, that knowing those who are sealed is revealed two chapters prior to the first woe. They are "kept safe" for the entire great tribulation of 1260 days. Not one of the 144,000 dies and none were harmed by the locusts. Being kept safe during the five months of the 5th Trumpet should be true of all Believers when men seek but do not find death.
I believe John expresses great glory accruing to God and the Lamb when these 144,000 are sealed with the name of the Lamb in the 4th Outer Path Event on the Lastday. For the Lamb rescues them from Mt. Zion immediately after the chapter on the Beast's 42 month rule over all mankind. They join the Martyrs and the Two Prophets in heaven as these Two Groups stand before God and sing the Song of Moses and Song of the Lamb! They enter the Temple together to glorify God and the Lamb by name before a Court of Judgment sits in the 7th Seal (6th of 12 scenes in heaven; 3rd of 6 Lastday scenes) and before Christ is crowned at the 7th Trumpet's first of 3 blasts and, following the rejoicing in heaven, He comes to gather all the Saints.
These Jews are literally sealed a second time on the Lastday with the name of the Lamb (first, the Seal of God in Rev.9:4; second, that of the Lamb in Rev.14:1) and taken to heaven by the Lamb after Seal Six opens on the Lastday...before the "dead in Christ (and living survivors) rise up at His Presence, each rising up in his own order." I Cor.15:23. The Son of Man redeems the Harvest Firstfruit from earth to present them as the Bridegroom's gift to His Father. They also "present Him as the worthy Son of Man to the Ancient of Days". Crowned as King, for He has rescued the Firstfruit of the Harvest at the End of the Age on Day One of a 1000-Year-Day of the Lord, He comes triumphantly with "all the Saints at the Feast of Tabs" in order to bring blessing to all mankind. Dan.7:13-27; Zech.14:5-16.FIRSTFRUIT |
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| FLASHBACKS |
Each of five FLASHBACKS in Revelation climaxes with Lastday events. In addition to four major flashbacks, Rev.20:4 gives a final backward look at all the Martyrs seen as "souls sitting on thrones." This occurs because they "sit in judgment" on the wicked during the Court Scene of Seal 7; and receive the highest achievable reward in heaven before Christ comes with rewards for every Believer. Rev.3:12; Rev.7:14-17; Matt.16:27; Rev.22:12.
In the Flashback from Rev.15:5 to the Temple Drama, Act One, one of the 24 elders informs the Martyrs of their reward to "serve God in the temple of heaven" within the hour before the dead in Christ rise up in the "first resurrection"! See SEQUENCE KEY below to help unlock the order of events that begin with the Signs of the Day of the Lord. See the Sequence Key on Flashbacks in the Forum on Summaries and read Topic on the http://www.lastday.net/lastday/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=111.
All those “having come out of great tribulation” and from “under the Altar” (Rev.6:9; Rev.7:9) are seen in the Temple in Rev.7:14 after Seal Six opens. But, in the order of Lastday events, they do not enter until Rev.15:5. For "no one can enter the Temple until the last Plague empties in the air and the smoke of God’s glory and power clears the Temple". Rev.15:5, 8. Therefore the 38 verses in the Outer Path (see Concentric Paths above) occur before the Temple opens as of Rev.15:5.
This is basic to not accepting the common belief that 7 Trumpets follow 7 Seals and 7 Plagues follow 7 Trumpets. The Plagues must "exhaust God's patience and demonstrate His righteous deeds" before the Temple opens to Judge the wicked or destroy those who are destroying the earth". The significance of this is revealed by the only Great and Wonderful Sign for the Turning Point of events in Revelation. The Turning Point occurs as the Temple Opens for its Three-Act Drama on the Lastday. Rev.15:1-5; Rev.7:9.
The 40 verses for the Outer Path events are finished when the Temple opens at Rev.15:5 and, in a Flashback to Rev.7:9, the Flashback starts the Middle Path at Rev.7:9 (see Concentric Paths above). Over 60 of 100 Lastday verses, from Rev.6:12 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.14:1 to Rev.15:5 and Rev.11:11 to Rev.11:19 will be fulfilled while the 7th Plague remains suspended in the air on the Lastday!
Then, at the 7th Trumpet, Act Three of the Temple Drama, "the Ark of the Covenant appears” and all heaven will rejoice while the Cup of God's anger and wrath pours out its deadly wine on Great Babylon. Rev.18:20 - Rev.19:10; Rev.16:18. See, next, the events of the Inner Path of three Concentric Paths above. Or go to PURPOSE OF FLASHBACKS
FLASHBACKS
SEQUENCE KEY
PURPOSE OF FLASHBACKS
GATHERED TOGETHER ABOVE - Jesus "gathers His Elect from earth to heaven on the four winds in the days after (the 1260 days of) great tribulation and demonstration of His Kingdom Power by the Two Prophets. On one of the 3 or 4 days, while the Two Prophets lie dead, they rise up to witness at the Tribunal of Seal 7. This Tribunal, Act Two of the Temple Drama, must occur before the Last Trump sounds a 3rd time for angels to "gather the elect out of the same four winds at the sound of a great trumpet". Matt.24:31.
All Believers are "raised up on the same day as Jesus sends angels to gather them above out of the (same) four winds on which He raises them." Mark 13:24,27; Matt.24:29,31. They meet at the Synagogue (gathering together place) in the Sky. Paul used a noun form and appealed to the "word of the Lord" that this gathering to the Synagogue above corrected the false view in the Church that the Day of the Lord had already come. Angels "gather the Elect above to be with Jesus" on the Last day. 2 Thess.2:1; John 6:38-40.
This "gathering" must be preceded by 22 major events on the Lastday before "God brings the souls of those that sleep in Jesus with Him...and also brings the 144,000 "Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb" as His Harvest Ingathering for the Feast of Tabernacles on Day One of the 1,000-Year-Day of the Lord...so that "all Israel, being made jealous at the sight of their Messiah's return", rejoices at the restoration of all things". They are included in the New Covenant that replaces the Old for ethnic Israel..."the old covenant is about to disappear" so peoples of all nations will "know the Lord...from the least to the greatest"! Acts 3:19-21; Acts 15:16-18; Heb.8:8-13; Jer.31:31-34. God concludes that Gentiles are as "disobedient" as Israel before He "shows mercy to all mankind" in a manner never before imagined! Rom.11:26-33.
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| GATHERED TOGETHER ABOVE |
Jesus "gathers His Elect from earth to heaven on the 4 winds in the days after (the 1260 days of) great tribulation and demonstration of His Kingdom Power by the Two Prophets. On the third day while the Two Prophets lie dead, they rise up to witness at the Tribunal of Seal 7. This Tribunal, Act Two of the Temple Drama, must occur before the Last Trump sounds a 3rd time for the angels to "gather the elect out of the same 4 winds at the sound of a great trumpet". Mark 13:24-27; Matt.24:29-31.
All Believers are "raised up on the same day as Jesus sends angels to gather them above out of the (same) 4 winds on which He raises them." John 6:38-40. They meet at the Synagogue (gathering together place) in the Sky. 2 Thess.2:1. Paul used a noun form and appealed to the "word of the Lord" (that this gathering to the Synagogue above)corrected the false view in the Church that the Day of the Lord had already come. Angels "gather the Elect above to be with Jesus" on the Last day.
This "gathering" is preceded by 22 major events on the Lastday. "God brings the souls of those that sleep in Jesus with Him"...and also brings the 144,000 "Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb" as His Harvest Ingathering for the Feast of Tabernacles on Day One of the 1,000-Year-Day of the Lord. "All the remnant of Israel, being made jealous at the sight of their Messiah's return", rejoices at the restoration of all things". They are included in the New Covenant that replaces the Old for ethnic Israel..."the old covenant is about to disappear" so peoples of all nations will "know the Lord...from least to the greatest"! Acts 3:19-21; Acts 15:16-18; Heb.8:8-13; Jer.31:31-34. Gentiles are as "disobedient" as Israel before He "shows mercy to all mankind" in a manner never before imagined! Rom.11:26-33. |
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| GEGONEN |
With the last Plague hanging in suspension at the end of this age, "a great voice comes out of the Temple, saying 'GEGONEN'" before the Temple Drama begins. This signals the Day has come to execute God's wrath. Being in the perfect tense, it summarily authorizes the Lamb to open Seal Six with The Signs of the Day of Wrath. Seal Six opens right after the last of 7 Plagues to reveal "God's patience was exhausted" and to warn of impending wrath.
The Great and Wonderful Sign in Rev.15:1-4 attests to the completion of God's anger and is the Turning Point for the Three-Act Temple Drama that takes us, retroactively, from Rev.15:5 to Rev.7:9. This unique word and Seal Six begin the action in 100 verses of Revelation on the very Day the Lamb rescues 144,000 trophies of His grace. "They follow Him wherever He goes" before and after He is crowned King of kings and Lord of lords.
Time-wise, therefore, Rev.6:12 to Rev.7:8 and Rev.14:1-15:4 occur before the Temple opens in Rev.15:5 for the 2nd time...once for the 7 Angels to exit and empty their bowls and again for the Three-Act Drama starting at Rev.7:9. This Drama occurs from Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.11:15-19. This means the actual fulfillment of Rev.16:12-17 precedes that of Rev.6:12-17. In a real sense the Decree, "Gegonen", coerces the Drama to generate the "Cup of anger and wrath" that immediately follows the 7th Trumpet.
"Gegonen" occurs twice. Once to open Seal Six for 22 Lastday events. It occurs after the last Plague completes God's long-standing "patience" with wicked men. God's Day of Wrath waits until the 7 Plagues "finish manifesting God's righteous deeds and reveal His judgments are true and holy." Rev.15:1,4. Men refuse to repent. His long-standing patience expires in the Plagues and explodes as of the 7th Trumpet.
The second time occurs at the end of the age to come. It is unquestionably the voice of God Himself that speaks directly: "Gegonan"; It (All things are Done; plural). Rev.21:5-6. There's no more Temple then. Martyrs reign 1000 years before heaven's Temple becomes the eternal New Jerusalem positioned upon or above the new earth. God and the Lamb become its Temple. Rev.21:22. All things will have been accomplished. Even death, the last enemy, will forever be abolished so that the "Son Himself is subject to God that He might be ALL in all things." I Cor.15:26-28.
With the last Plague suspended in midair at the end of this age, "the voice comes out of the Temple" to signal the Lamb to open Seal Six prior to the Temple Drama. With armies gathered against Jerusalem, the single word coming out of the Temple triggers the signs and 22 major events of the Lastday. The 1260 days of great tribulation, plus up to 3 or 4 days, will already be completed. Rev.16:12-17; Rev.6:12-17.GEGONEN |
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Jesus refers to "this Generation that sees all these things *about* to occur" whenever He is *about* to come in glory." See "About to Happen " above, "Watch" below. The only generation of Jews that lives to "know their redemption and kingdom are Near" sees the Son of Man appear with all the Saints on the Day "all these things are *about* to happen." The Jewish remnant of that final generation will "know their redemption and kingdom are near." They pray to escape all these things. Luke 21:28,31,36.
That generation also involves "all those dwelling on all the face of all the earth". All men are affected by events of Luke 21:25-36. All the events of Luke's passage occur on the single 12-Hour Day of the Lord. See DOCTRINAL KEY in the Forum on TEN KEYS. |
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| GOSPEL AGE |
Not limited to the time between Pentecost and an unproven Pre-Trib Rapture. There is no evidence that preaching the Gospel of grace ends while preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom is confined to the Endtime. This responsibility was given to the Church to be completed at the "end of the age." Christ made His personal return contingent on its completion. Those who "endure to the end are saved from the hour of Trial." The preponderance of evidence in Luke 21:25-36 shows that Hour occurs on the Lastday. It will affect "all those who dwell on all the face of all the earth". Matt.24:13-14; Luke 21:34-35; Rev.3:10. |
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| GREAT AND WONDERFUL SIGN |
GREAT AND WONDERFUL SIGN in Rev.15:1-4 calls attention to the setting for events of the Open Temple Drama. It attests to the "completion of God's anger" as the Turning Point for the Three-Act Temple Drama that takes us, retroactively, from Rev.15:5 to Rev.7:9 and continuously from Rev7:9 to Rev.8:5. "Gegonen", the unique word that launches the signs in Seal Six also initiate the action in 100 verses of Revelation on the very Day the Lamb rescues 144,000 trophies of His grace. "They follow Him wherever He goes" before and after He is crowned King of kings and Lord of lords.
Time-wise, therefore, Rev.6:12 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.14:1-15:4 occur before the Temple opens in Rev.15:5 for the 2nd time...once for the 7 Angels having exited to empty their bowls and again for the Three-Act Drama starting at Rev.7:9. This Drama occurs from Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.11:15-19. This means the actual fulfillment of Rev.16:12-17 precedes that of Rev.6:12-17. In a real sense the Decree, "Gegonen", coerces the Drama to generate the "Cup of anger and wrath" that immediately follows the 7th Trumpet.
"Gegonen" occurs twice. Once to open Seal Six for 22 Lastday events. It occurs after the last Plague completes God's long-standing "patience" with wicked men. God's Day of Wrath waits until the 7 Plagues "finish manifesting God's righteous deeds and reveal His judgments are true and holy." Rev.15:1,4. Men refuse to repent. His long-standing patience expires in the Plagues and explodes as of the 7th Trumpet.
The second time occurs at the end of the age to come. It is unquestionably the voice of God Himself that speaks directly: "Gegonan"; It (All things are Done; plural). Rev.21:5-6. There's no more Temple then. Martyrs reign 1000 years before heaven's Temple becomes the eternal New Jerusalem positioned upon or above the new earth. God and the Lamb become its Temple. Rev.21:22. All things will have been accomplished. Even death, the last enemy, will forever be abolished so that the "Son Himself is subject to God that He might be ALL in all things." I Cor.15:26-28.
With the last Plague suspended in midair at the end of this age, "the voice comes out of the Temple" to signal the Lamb to open Seal Six prior to the Temple Drama. With armies gathered against Jerusalem, the single word coming out of the Temple triggers the signs and 22 major events of the Lastday. The 1260 days of great tribulation, plus up to 3 or 4 days, will already be completed. Rev.16:12-17; Rev.6:12-17.
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| GREAT TRIBULATION |
Second half of Daniel's 70th Seven. First half is not Great Tribulation. Nor is either half a period of God's wrath. Wrath comes in the "days after the tribulation...after the Plagues exhaust His patience." Rev.15:1-4. Neither half of the great tribulation is a time of God's wrath. The 7 last Plagues "complete God's anger" before anyone "enters the Temple in heaven". Rev.15:1,8. Therefore, completion of the Plagues anticipates His anger-filled-wrath. Both elements, the full outpouring of God's "Cup of anger- filled-wrath and treading of the great winepress in anger and wrath" are combined only on the Day of the Lord, after Christ appears with all the Saints. Rev.16:19; Rev.19:15. The initial outpouring of that Cup affects Babylon as the Saints rejoice in heaven. Rev.16:18; Rev.18:20-24.
See Gegonen above and KEY PHRASE for the fact that, Time-wise, Rev.6:12 to Rev.7:8 and Rev.14:1 to Rev.15:5 anticipate Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.11:12-19. These texts must be inserted between the Decree of Rev.16:17 and history's greatest earthquake in Rev.16:18. God's great anger is red hot even before the Temple Drama of Testimony, Tribunal and Triumph. Babylon falls a 2nd time by history's greatest quake in Rev.16:18 as heaven rejoices. Rev.18:20 to Rev.19:3. Then global aftershocks of this quake cause the mountains and the nations' cities to disappear during earth's "Hour of Trial...as God's Cup of anger and wrath empties." Rev.16:19-21.
"All believers will rise up on the last day" during the Hour Christ appears to execute God's anger and wrath. John 6:39,40,44,54. God's anger does not pour out on all mankind until Christ appears with all the Saints in glory...after "the last 7 Plagues complete His anger." Rev.15:1 (Greek thumos; patience). Rev.16:19-21; Rev.19:11-15; 2 Thess.1:7-10. Events of Daniel's 70th Seven prepare Israel for the Messiah. Therefore, it is not a time of God's wrath. Satan seeks to destroy Israel. God redeems Israel on the Day of His wrath. |
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| HEAVEN'S 12 SCENES |
See List of HEAVEN'S 12 SCENES at Topic: THIRD SCENE
Seven of these 12 Scenes, #3 to #9, involve Martyrs in heaven. This reveals the central theme in Revelation concerns suffering Saints. It also reveals the Turning Point from the exhaustion of God's patience to the execution of His wrath. Scene 3 (the Prayer of the Martyrs for God to avenge them; Rev.6:9-11) occurs near the end of the Great Tribulation. On the Lastday, Scene 4 (Scene One of 6 Lastday Scenes), shows them singing the Song of Moses regarding God's justice and His desire for all men to come to Jerusalem to worship. Rev.15:1-5. These two songs launch the 3-Act Temple Drama from Rev.7:9 to 8:5 and 11:15-19.
Martyrs exit from under the Altar for Scene 4 when the last one (who is destined to be killed) sets the stage for the Two Prophets to rise up and join them for Scenes 5-7, the 3-Act Drama in the Temple and for Scene 8's rejoicing in heaven. [Rev.7:9 to 8:5 and 11:15-19, Scenes 5-7); Rev.19:1-10 (Scene 8)]. Scene 9 is a mini-flashback, looking retroactively at the role of Martyrs in the Court of Seal 7 and Dan.7.
These 7 scenes concentrate on events of the Lastday to provide vital evidence that 100 verses encompass the crises, catastrophes and three CONCENTRIC PATHS to fulfill 40 percent of the prophecy of Revelation on the single 12-Hour Day of God's Wrath.HEAVEN'S 12 SCENES
THIRD SCENE
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| HERMENEUTICS |
Principles of Bible Interpretation. One Principle: A word may have different meanings. Forcing a word to have only one certain meaning, regardless of context, can lead to false doctrine. "Heaven" can refer to the Throne of God or to the atmosphere above the earth. "Day" can mean 12/24 hours or, as a comparison to God's viewpoint of time, be likened to a 1000 years. "Hour" can mean a given part of the Day or to an unknown but specific and limited period of time. In Matt. 24:36, the unknown Hour is part of the Day of the Lord on which Day Christ appears in glory. "Elect" can only refer to Saints who will come with the Lamb, the Lord of lords and King of kings. Rev.17:14. "This Generation" can refer to people who lived when Jesus was alive but primarily to those who are alive when He is "about to come."
This phrase, in Luke 21:28-36, applying to what is "about to happen", occurs three times in Luke 21 after Christ appears on the Day of His glory. Always used in the present tense (except Matt.24:6), the KJV usually fails to translate mello (about to happen) as a present-tense hope up to the Lastday's expectation. Luke 21:28,31,36. Note Rom.8:18, 2 Tim.4:1, Rev.3:10, Rev.6:11, Rev.10:7, Rev.12:5. These are times for expecting Christ's return until it is certain to be imminent. The word "Here" refers to the Endtime persecution when Christ is "about to come; and believers still face death." Matt.16:28, Rev.13:10, Rev.14:12. "Now, God's Kingdom Power and Christ's authority has come", in Rev.12:10-14, refers to the context of Revelation's 42 month or 3 1/2 year Endtime.
The words "raise up and the (first) resurrection" in John 6:38-40 and Rev.20:5 must include the physical resurrection because Jesus is talking about the "last day" and what cannot occur until all the martyrs have been beheaded and are given life at "the resurrection, the first." The "second death" occurs 1000 years after Christ comes to avenge the blood of the martyrs. They begin to "sit on thrones to reign with Him, after being beheaded by the Beast, and they will serve God day and night in heaven's temple." Rev.3:12; Rev.20:4. They are given special assurance of the reward even before Christ raises them from the dead.
The resurrection of John 5:28 occurs during "an hour" that may apply to separate times since the article is not used as in Rev.20:5. Jesus speaks of "a resurrection unto life" and "a resurrection unto judgment in John 5:29. In Rev.20:5 we have "the resurrection, the first one." Contextually, because the rest of the dead rise up after the 1000 years should be finished, the correct correlation requires that the first resurrection applies to the martyrs who had died in the "first death"! Otherwise, the physical resurrection of the primary subjects in the Book of Revelation is not mentioned. They are called "souls" and they would only rise up spiritually! They are called souls, not because they live apart from the bodily resurrection, but because they are seen sitting on thrones in a flashback to Rev.7:15 prior to the resurrection. Until the last martyr is killed, these souls, though dressed in white clothes, remain "under the Altar." Rev.6:9-11.
The “Endtime” scenario reveals a Second Principle: The meaning must agree with the Context. Applying the meaning of a word to a situation out of context often leads to a false pretext. Pre-Tribbers apply "watching" for the Son of Man's coming, with signs in the "clouds of heaven," to an "any-moment" sign-less, secret Rapture because Jesus said "no man knows the Day or Hour." That (out of context) setting allows the pretext for a Pre-Trib Rapture. Jesus specifically indicated that the Day of Wrath follows the great tribulation and the Hour follows "The Signs" of that Day.
Preterists restrict "beholding His coming in the clouds" to the first century by citing that only those still living then, as with Stephen, could actually see Him "sitting on the right hand of power." This view ignores the literal meaning of the word “see” in the context for when it occurs. John says every eye will see Him (and the Saints) coming with Him...so that every believer, even Nicodemus and others in the Sanhedrin, will see Him coming. Rev.1:7; Matt.26:64. Preterists build false doctrine by assuming “this generation” must refer to the past instead of to God’s perspective of time that includes all generations since then.
Pre-Tribbers identify His coming "as a thief" only with the Rapture when Jesus also identifies it with His coming to destroy the armies at Armageddon. He blesses those who "watch" until that Day. Rev.16:15. The Sign of that Day's wrath occurs and continues to warn of impending wrath prior to filling the Winepress in "great anger," prior to the Hour of Trial and prior to "treading that winepress in anger and wrath."
Time-wise, Rev.16:15's "watching and blessing" applies even to the hours between the Sign of the Day of Wrath in Rev.6:12-17 and the Hour heaven opens for Christ's coming in Rev.19:10. The "Hour of Trial at His coming" in Rev.3:10-11 allows those who mourn to escape the wrath that will affect "all others dwelling on all the face of all the earth." Luke 21:34-36. It is a pretext to claim this Hour includes the entire period of Great Tribulation when Luke shows instead that "The Sign" of Christ's Presence precedes the global fear and the opportunity for those who survive to "beg to escape what is about to happen" on that Day. Luke 21:25-27,35,36, Greek. |
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| HIDDEN KEY |
"Second woe has passed by and third woe comes quickly"...at the 7th Trumpet. Rev.11:14. This HIDDEN KEY to Lastday events reveals three factors which jump start God's wrath on the Day of the Lord. The final Holocaust to kill a third of mankind has "passed by" when the Two Prophets arise and Trump 7 sounds that "God's wrath has come". One Factor: When they are killed, the countdown of 1260 days ends. Two: The unknown Lastday must occur within 3 or 4 days. Rev.11:7-11. Three: Recognizing the Holocaust having "passed by," and the 7th Trumpet being about to sound, the time for God's wrath coincides with the Day the Two Prophets arise. Rev.11:12-14. These factors require the armies of Trump #6 and Plague #6 to set the stage for final events of the 12-Hour Day of the Lord...including the resurrection of these Two Witnesses.
7th Trumpet sounds "in the days whenever delay ends and God's mystery was finished". Rev.10:6-7.
These days occur "after the great tribulation" in contradiction to the "Pre-Wrath View" that six of the 7 Trumpets are part of an "extended" Day of the Lord rather than part of the great tribulation. That view refuses to let the 7th Seal, 7th Trumpet and 7th Plague occur on the single 12-Hour Day
of Wrath. Events of the 6th Trumpet and 6th Plague are operative before the Day of Wrath begins.
Armies having crossed the Euphrates River, after killing a third of mankind in the 6th Trumpet, invade Israel in the 6th Plague just before the 6th Seal flashes its dreadful warnings that God's Day of Wrath "has come". This revelation is one of seven things...each of which "has come" on the Lastday! For a list of these seven (8) things, See ELTHEN, "Has Come", above.HIDDEN KEY |
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| HOUR OF JUDGMENT |
Like the "Hour to Reap," it occurs on the Day of the Lord and involves the execution of God's wrath at Armageddon and the Cup of Wrath with earthquakes that try all the people on all the face of all the earth. Rev.14:7; Luke 21:34-35. The entire 14th Chapter of Revelation describes Middle Path Events on the single 12-Hour-Day of God's Wrath.
There's no reason this hour should last a period of years or months. Even the Plagues "complete God's anger (patience)" before His wrath begins. During this Hour, earthquakes destroy mountains and cities and cause the islands to move out of place on a single solar...after Christ gathers all the Saints together above and appears with them in glory! Rev.16:19-21; Luke 21:25-36. This Hour occurs "after the great tribulation".
HOUR OF TRIAL - This Hour does not precede, but follows, Christ's return in glory. Luke pinpoints "all these things come upon all those dwelling on all the face of all the earth" after men see the Sign of the Son of Man and faint from fear. Luke 21:35; Rev.3:10. All Believers are kept from this hour and all who beg for mercy will "escape" physical death. Luke 17:33; Joel 2:32. On the Day of the Lord men's hearts "fail from fear." In order to bolster the idea of a Pre-Trib Rapture, its advocates assume this Hour includes the years of great tribulation. This "Hour" is one of God's Wrath. See God's Purpose for Tribulation Martyrs and those who survive to the End - viewtopic.php?f=33&t=176 |
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| HOUR OF TRIAL |
This Hour of Trial does not precede, but COINCIDES with Christ's return to gather and wed the Elect as they are "gathered together above". Luke pinpoints "all these things come upon all those dwelling on all the face of all the earth" after men see the Sign of the Son of Man and faint from fear. Luke 21:35; Rev.3:10. All Believers are kept from this hour and all who beg for mercy will "escape" physical death during this Hour of Trial. Luke 17:33; Joel 2:32. On the Day of the Lord the hearts of men "fail from fear." In order to bolster the idea of a Pre-Trib Rapture, its advocates assume this Hour includes the years of great tribulation. This "Hour" is one of God's Wrath on the Last Day. God's Purpose for Tribulation Saints who survive to the End sees them "gathered together above" as His wrath occurs on the earth. Hour of Trial |
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| HOUR TO REAP |
Many take the Hour to Reap literally as referring to Rapture and Resurrection.
The 14th Chapter of Revelation describes Middle Path Events of the Lastday including the rescue
of 144,000 Jews, three messages across the sky (one being the good news of the impending Hour of God's Judgment that "has come". Rev.14:7. In Rev.14:15-16, the Angel of Fire announces the "Hour
to Reap has come" (one of 8 things that "has come" on the Lastday) and the Son of Man reaps the
earth symbolically...because the Hour of Trial during Inner Path Events is the time for Judgment.
This Hour at the "end of the age" harvest (Matt.24:30-41) also includes the act of three Angels in "collecting the over-ripe fruit", the vintage already gathered to Armageddon with the Saints still being "blessed as they watch for Christ's coming as a thief". Rev.16:14-16. Verse 20 concerning
the "treading of the winepress" anticipates the imminent slaughter and the feast for the birds at
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| INNER CONCENTRIC PATH |
See Concentric Inner Path above. |
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| INTRODUCTION TO REVELATION |
Understanding Revelation
Ten Keys to Revelation
Structure of Book of Revelation
Table of Contents
User Guide to Forums
Order of Endtime Events
Order of Lastday Events
My Personal Search
Endtime Catalysts Hidden in Flashbacks
Ten Keys to Revelation
Table of Contents
Structure of Book of Revelation
Understanding Revelation
User Guide to Forums
Order of Endtime Events
Order of Lastday Events
My Personal Search |
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| IRON AND CLAY |
The Iron, like the White Horseman of Seal Six, represents the spread and defense of Democracy among the nations since the Roman Empire. Iron prevails over the Clay of other forms of government until they "mix" under Babylon the Great. Before God uses Ten Kings to "remove" this form of rebellion, His people must "come out of her" or suffer material loss. Rev.17:16, Rev.18:4-8.
We believe Paul has Mystery Babylon in mind as the "restrainer that must be removed" in order for
the Antichrist to be revealed. Five Catalysts of the Endtime at Midpoint of Daniel's 70th Seven are instrumental in the Lawless One being revealed. 2 Thess.2:7-8. The revelation of Antichrist is just one of the five Endtime Catalysts. Another is that of Michael's act in casting Satan from heaven to empower the Antichrist. Rev.12:7-9. See Catalysts above |
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On July 20, 1999, President Clinton and Prime Minister Barak reached a broad new understanding that significantly enhances the unique bilateral relations between the U.S. and Israel, and raises their friendship and cooperation to an even higher level of strategic partnership. This new partnership was designed to underpin their joint effort to put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict and achieve a comprehensive peace in the Middle East."
On September 4, the parties agreed to implement the Wye River agreement and chose September 10 or 13, 2000, for the "final status" and peace of Jerusalem. Speculation about the Endtime having begun will continue until "one of many" signers reveals himself as the Covenant breaker. Breaking the Covenant is one of five Catalysts that launch the Endtime.
Read why the YEAR 2008 could not qualify as the start for Daniel's 70h Seven. |
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| IT IS DONE |
Rev.16:17. See Gegonen
Endtime events begin with a War in heaven prior to events on earth; but Lastday events begin with the Decree out of the Temple of Heaven “It is Done”! Of the 7 Seals, only the 5th and 7th take place in heaven…the 5th to record the prayer of the Martyrs to be avenged and the 7th for the Verdict of heaven’s Court as it sits in judgment on the wicked!! Of the 7 Trumpets, only the 7th takes place in heaven to record the immediate results of the Angel’s Verdict as the 7th Trumpet Angel proclaims “God’s wrath has come...and the appointed kairos-time to judge and reward (resurrect and rapture) the prophets and saints, both small and great and to destroy the destroyers of earth”!!! Rev.11:15-19.
[Rev.11:15-19 follows Rev.8:1-5 immediately as both occur in the Temple of Heaven only after the Last Plague empties! Rev.15:8. Six of the 7 Trumpet Angels "replay" their trumpets (described as a Flashback from Rev.8:6 to Rev.9:21)!! This "playback" of the six judgments occurs during the Trial of Seal 7, for "about a half hour", constituting the evidence recorded within the "Inner Scroll"!! Seal 7 opens after the Great Tribulation...on the Day of Wrath...while signs of Seal 6 continue to warn of impending wrath...until the 7th Angel's first blast of the last trump signals "God's wrath has come"]!!!
The Storm Theophany reveals that Rev.16:18-19 immediately follows Rev.11:18-19. The rejoicing in heaven over Babylon's fall (Rev.18:20) coincides with her fall by a great millstone...by history's greatest quake. Rev.18:21-24; Rev.16:18. This is followed by the Hour of Trial as wave after wave of earthquake aftershocks "destroy earth's cities and mountains and complete the movement of islands out of their places". The description of mountains and islands "moving out of place" begins on the same day as part of the effects of the 6th Seal. But Armageddons will die at the same time as the Lamb comes with the Saints and the armies of heaven. Rev.6:14; Rev.16:20; Rev.17:14; Rev.19:14. |
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| JESUS |
Son of Man and Son of God. Being obedient unto death, the Father exalted him. His subservience reveals the humanity of Jesus continues even to the "end of the ages when all things are subdued unto him. Then the Son will be subject to the One having subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all." Both God and man, He is a Jew forever glorified as the perfect Son of Man. That's why the first act of the Lamb, after opening Seal Six, sees him rescuing 144,000 "blameless" Jews from Mt. Zion as His living "Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb." He will take them to heaven to sing the Song of the Lamb and they present him to the Ancient of Days. Then the Court sits in judgment on the Beast. I Cor.15:28, Rev.14:3,4, Rev.15:3,4, Dan.7:11,13,26, Rev.8:1-5. |
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| KAIROS TIME |
See Trump Seven where the 1260-day countdown of Chronos Time has ceased and Kairos time occurs climactically at the 7th Trumpet...the appointed time to resurrect and reward all the Saints and destroy the wicked. Rev.10:6-7, Rev.11:18. |
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| KEY PHRASE |
Wrath comes with theKEY PHRASE of the Book of Revelation: "Voices, thunder, lightning and earthquake." It is a storm theophany that concludes the Court of Seal 7, the Coronation of Trump 7 and launches the Catastrophes of Plague 7. This Storm Theophany is a single storm with three phases as it concludes Seal 7's Trial of the wicked, intensifies after Trump 7's Coronation of Christ and causes the implosion of Plague 7. God decrees "It is Done."
The aftermath of this decree results in God's Cup of Anger and Wrath as history's greatest earthquake destroys Babylon, the City. It destroys her support System as the nations' cities and mountains disappear and islands move out of place in a global "Hour of Trial." The Trial needs not to last for even 60 minutes! So the "great hail" in the Theophany of Trump 7 and that after the Theophany of Rev.16:18 launches the Hour of Trial coming on all the face of all the earth. This is the Hour of God's Cup of Wrath. Rev.14:10; Rev.16:18-21. The destruction of Babylon by history's greatest quake actually precedes the descent of Christ from heaven to "tread the great Winepress of God's anger and wrath"! Therefore Rev.14:10 references Rev.16:19 and Rev.14:20 references Rev.19:15...both taking place in the same Hour!KEY PHRASE |
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| KEYS |
See KEY PHRASE under Format of TEN KEYS. [And see HIDDEN KEY above]. |
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| KINGDOM OF GOD |
Already present in the spiritual Body of Christ. Yet to be manifested with "God's Kingdom Power and Christ's Authority." Rev.12:10. Demonstrated by Two Prophets during Daniel's and Revelation’s 3ś year Endtime...until they "finish their task" on Day #1260. Jesus predicted that Elijah must precede His coming in glory and in Person. Elijah was in mind when He spoke of "some not tasting death by any means until after He comes in Kingdom Power." In kingdom power, they will begin to "restore all things." Rev.17:11; Acts 3:21. See "Already, not Yet" above. |
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| KINGDOM POWER |
"God's Kingdom Power" comes by the Two Prophets for 1260 days acting in conflict with Satan's two Beasts until the Beast kills them on Day #1260...3 or 4 days prior to the Lastday. On resurrection day, they join the martyrs in singing the Song of Moses at Scene Four of
Heaven's 12 Scenes; Scene One of Six Scenes on the Lastday. Then, resurrected and ascended, they join in the Testimony, Tribunal and Triumph of heaven's Three-Act Temple Drama.
That is when "the Ark of the Covenant is seen in the Open Temple and the appointed time has come to judge and reward all the Saints, small and great, and to execute God's wrath on those destroying the earth." Rev.11:11-12; Rev.15:3-4; Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5; Rev.11:18-19. See Centerpiece Centerpiece |
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The Last Trump Sounds Three Times. The Seventh Trumpet may truly be called the Last Trump. It first sounds immediately at Christ's Coronation as all heaven rejoices because God reigns, the great whore has been judged and the wedding of the Lamb has come. Then heaven opens as the Last Trump sounds again to raise up the dead and catch up the living survivors in Christ. Mark 13:24-27; I Thess.4:13-17. Jesus predicts the great Trumpet sounds (a 3rd time) after the Great Tribulation as angels gather the Elect from all extremities of the heavens. Matt.24:29-31. See also LAST TRUMP THE 7TH TRUMPET
This gathering by the Angels occurs after the 2nd sound of the Last Trump for Jesus to gather all the surviving Saints from earth to heaven at the same time "God brings with Him the souls of the dead that sleep in Jesus." He (3rd Person singular) "gathers the Elect from earth to the extremities of heaven; then sends the angels, with that (third) trumpet sound, to gather them from all four extremities of the heavens! Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31.
When will modern scribes acknowledge the simplicity of His promise that He (singular) will "raise up every believer on the last day...and He will send the angels to gather the Elect from earth to heaven"? He sends the angels and they "gather them from all the extremities of the heavens. The angels gather all believers of all time to the Synagogue in the Sky. 2 Thess.2:1. "God brings the souls of those that sleep in Jesus (and Enoch who never died, the Two Prophets who have just arisen and 144,000 Firstfruit of the surviving harvest) with Him" from the third heaven to join those who are resurrected and/or who overcome and survive until the End. See "One Taken, One Left" below to occur after Christ appears. I Thess.3:13; I Thess.4:13-17; Rev.2:26. Concomitants of Last Trump Concomitants of Last Trump
Last Trump Sounds Three Times
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| LASTDAY |
The Single 12-Hour Day of the Lord. Events of the last day are described in Dan.7, Joel 2-3, Zech.14, Matt.24, Mark 13, Luke 21 and in 100 verses of the Book of Revelation. All the Saints come with the Lamb...the "called, Elect and faithful" of Rev.17:14; 2 Thess.3:13. "Every eye will behold Him coming with all the Saints.” Rev.1:7. This company includes all "whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the world's foundation"...even a soldier who literally pierced Him...and the last martyr...because he believed in Jesus as the Christ. Rev.13:8.
John employs 100 verses (quarter of Revelation) to describe Lastday events. These events begin with the decree coming out of the Temple, from the Throne, saying: "It is Done." This decree signals the "last martyr has been killed," God's anger is exhausted and the 3-Act Drama in heaven's Temple will begin quickly. The Lamb immediately opens the 6th Seal. Rev.16:12-17; Rev.6:12-17.
LAST DAY could be Tishri 15-16/5794(10/8/2033)
LAST DAY could be Tishri 15/16/5794 (2033) |
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| LASTDAY KEYS |
This Key has a ten-fold base that applies strictly to events after the Endtime tribulation when the last Martyr arrives in heaven. That Day's events are described from Rev.6:12 to Rev.8:5, Rev.11:11-19, Rev.14:1 to Rev.15:5, Rev.16:16-21 and Rev.18:20 to Rev.20:6. Four Endtime Flashbacks add separate details for this Key. TEN KEYS. ORDER OF TOPICS AND INTER-RELATED EVENTS.
ORDER OF ENDTIME EVENTS. ORDER OF LASTDAY EVENTS.
Heaven's Three-Act Temple Drama follows the last Plague but is precipitated by the Martyrs' Petition in Song. Rev.15:11-4. The Lamb also presents 144,000 Harvest Firstfruit to God. They, in turn, present the Son of Man to the Ancient of Days with the (new) Song of the Lamb. Rev.14:3-4; Rev.15:3-4. God's wrath is neither announced from heaven nor executed on earth until Trump Seven sounds to conclude the Temple Drama. His vengeance awaits the last Martyr and the Court of Seal 7 and Dan.7 in order to realize God's anger being mixed in His Cup of wrath. Rev.14:10; Rev.16:19.TEN KEYS
ORDER OF TOPICS AND INTER-RELATED EVENTS
ORDER OF ENDTIME EVENTS
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| LEFT BEHIND |
GOD'S WRATH, Last Trump on Day of Lord. Then One Taken; One Left. Both the one taken and one left are "unbelievers" at the moment of Christ's appearance. One will be taken in judgment; one will be left to enter the Kingdom because he does not seek to save himself. This action is not a separation of believers from unbelievers; but of the wicked from those who "beg
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| LOT'S WIFE |
Why Jesus said: "Remember Lot's Wife" once the DAY OF LORD has come. The angels gather the Elect above to the "gathering place to Jesus." 2 Thess.2:1. Those left must choose life
or death. See Observation Five below and Observation Eight for "Remember Lot's Wife".Remember Lot's Wife |
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Luke's Gospel over and over repeats "all things as being fulfilled" after Christ appears ... on the Day of the Lord. He predicted the effects of God's wrath on Israel in AD 70. The Diaspora continues in part until Gentile Times are finished, then the Day of Redemption/Destruction comes “like a snare on all those dwelling on all the face of all the earth." Hour of Trial occurs when the Son of Man appears. The Jews' appointed (kairos) times of subservience to Gentiles ends with The Sign of the DAY of the Lord and with their "redemption and kingdom Near" at the HOUR the Son of Man appears. Luke 21:24-31,35,36. That is when they "beg to escape God's wrath." That's why Luke skips the final desecration of the Endtime Temple as found in Matthew and Mark. Luke goes directly to the effects of the Signs on the Day Christ appears. |
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| LUNAR ECLIPSE |
For the view of Christ's death in AD 33 and the total Lunar eclipse for Christ's second coming, go to Chart on Birth and paragraph on Second Coming under topic of Wise Men
Wise Men |
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| MAGI |
See Wise Men and Christ's Birth. For the total Lunar eclipse for Christ's second coming,
go to Chart on Christ's Birth under topic of WISE MEN and paragraphs on SECOND COMING.
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| MARTYRS |
Prime Subjects of Revelation's Endtime. "Overcomers" who know Christ will raise up their bodies on the Lastday and who "love not their life unto death". Rev.12:10-11. "God brings their souls with Jesus." I Thess.3:13; Rev.4:13-14. After the resurrection, they begin to serve God in heaven's Temple for 1000 years. None of those whose names are "written in the Lamb's Book of Life will worship the Beast or receive his mark." Rev.13:8; Rev.17:8. God alone knows when to avenge the last Martyr. Rev.6:9-11. For that reason Jesus said He did not know the last day or hour. When the last martyr dies, God determines the Hour of Testimony, Trial and Triumph of the Lastday's 3-Act Temple Drama.
IMPORTANCE OF MARTYRS IN REVELATION
Martyrs will return to heaven to serve God in the Temple day and night. For that reason their Millennial reign is not mentioned until after they are "alive again." Rev.7:15-17; Rev.20:4-5. Their reward is associated with the New Jerusalem. Rev.3:12. But there would be no time left after the last martyr dies to serve God day and night in the Temple for 1000 years if the New Jerusalem came down from heaven at once. No night nor Temple will exist therein during eternity. There will be no need for the sun or the moon. Rev.21:22-25.
Martyrs win the highest reward given to the Church. They escape the heat of the sun. They must be rewarded for 1000 years as promised! Rev.3:11-12, Rev.7:15-17; Rev.20:4. In contrast to these who physically die for Christ it is said: "The rest of the physically dead live not again until the 1000 years were finished"! Rev.20:5-6. But of the martyrs it is said, just before the Son of Man receives the command to reap the wicked to the Winepress for judgment, "those who die in the Lord are blessed." Not only blessed while they "die from now on" (a lesser emphasis)," but blessed because they "rest from their labors from NOW ON and their work follows with them for 1000 years"! Rev.14:13. Martyrs are the prime subjects of Revelation during the Endtime of 42 months.IMPORTANCE OF MARTYRS IN REVELATION |
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| MEDITATIONS #24 to #48 |
Meditations #24 to #48 deal with Three Concentric Paths for 22 major events of the Lastday. The Outer Path begins with the Decree: "It is Done" as the Lamb opens Seal Six, rescues the 144,000 from Mt. Zion and, as the Son of Man, reaps the wicked to the winepress of God's great anger from a white cloud. He then takes the Firstfruit of the living harvest to heaven (on the clouds; Dan.7:13) and presents them to the Ancient of Days. They, in turn, present Him as the Son of Man worthy to wed His Bride and take possession of His Kingdom on earth. Dan.7:22-27. The Outer Path ends with the two songs of Rev.15:3-4 during the only Great and Wonderful Sign in heaven that God's righteous deeds had been completed in the seven last Plagues. The Seventh Plague remains suspended in mid-air until the Three-Act Drama of the Middle Path concludes.
The Middle Path begins with the pivotal verse for opening the Temple for its Three-Act Drama. Rev.15:5. The key phrase (of Rev.4:1) repeats in Rev.15:5 and Rev.7:9 as all heaven praises God and the Lamb in *Testimony* to their salvation for the first time. Rev.7:9-17. The Lamb opens Seal 7 for the half hour *Tribunal* to judge and sentence the wicked gathered to The Armageddon. Immediately, in Act Three, the 7th angel sounds the last trumpet (see below) in *Triumph* because "the kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ." Dan.7:14-27. The only announcement from heaven occurs at the 7th Trumpet: "God's wrath has come and the (kairos) appointed time to judge and reward all the Saints and to destroy the destroyers of earth." Rev.11:15-18. Go to Middle Path Topic: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=100
The Inner Path immediately follows the 7th Trumpet which (being the last trump will sound 3 times) sounds as the Storm Theophany becomes more intense than it had been at the conclusion of Seal 7. Voices, flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and a great quake shows that God's anger fills the Cup of Wrath. Rev.11:18-19; Rev.16:18-19. But the 7th Plague does not implode and the wine of that Cup does not destroy earth's cities and mountains until heaven opens and Christ descends. So the Inner Path begins at Rev.11:19 and continues in Rev.18:20 to Rev.20:6.
In an interesting juxtaposition of verses, Rev.11:19 and Rev.19:11, the Temple was "open" as the Ark of the Covenant appears and then, after the Saints rejoice, Heaven "opens" for Christ to gather all the Saints and tread the winepress of God Almighty's anger and wrath! deal with Three Concentric Paths for 22 major events of the Lastday. The Outer Path begins with the Decree: "It is Done" as the Lamb opens Seal Six, rescues the 144,000 from Mt. Zion and, as the Son of Man, reaps the wicked to the winepress of God's great anger from a white cloud. He then takes the Firstfruit of the living harvest to heaven (on the clouds; Dan.7:13) and presents them to the Ancient of Days. They, in turn, present Him as the Son of Man worthy to wed His Bride and take possession of His Kingdom on earth. Dan.7:22-27. The Outer Path ends with the two songs of Rev.15:3-4 during the only Great and Wonderful Sign in heaven that God's righteous deeds had been completed in the seven last Plagues. The Seventh Plague remains suspended in mid-air until the Three-Act Drama of the Middle Path concludes.
The Middle Path begins with the pivotal verse for opening the Temple for its Three-Act Drama. Rev.15:5. The key phrase (of Rev.4:1) repeats in Rev.15:5 and Rev.7:9 as all heaven praises God and the Lamb in *Testimony* to their salvation for the first time. Rev.7:9-17. The Lamb opens Seal 7 for the half hour *Tribunal* to judge and sentence the wicked gathered to The Armageddon. Immediately, in Act Three, the 7th angel sounds the last trumpet (see below) in *Triumph* because "the kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ." Dan.7:14-27. The only announcement from heaven occurs at the 7th Trumpet: "God's wrath has come and the (kairos) appointed time to judge and reward all the Saints and to destroy the destroyers of earth." Rev.11:15-18. Go to Middle Path Topic: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=100
The Inner Path immediately follows the 7th Trumpet which (being the last trump will sound 3 times) sounds as the Storm Theophany becomes more intense than it had been at the conclusion of Seal 7. Voices, flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and a great quake shows that God's anger fills the Cup of Wrath. Rev.11:18-19; Rev.16:18-19. But the 7th Plague does not implode and the wine of that Cup does not destroy earth's cities and mountains until heaven opens and Christ descends. So the Inner Path begins at Rev.11:19 and continues in Rev.18:20 to Rev.20:6.
In an interesting juxtaposition of verses, Rev.11:19 and Rev.19:11, the Temple was "open" as the Ark of the Covenant appears and then, after the Saints rejoice, Heaven "opens" for Christ to gather all the Saints and tread the winepress of God Almighty's anger and wrath!Meditations #24 to #48 |
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The first 36 cover a series of subjects that I consider basic to the Mission Mandate given by Jesus relative to those who must "taste death" before He comes in glory to reward every Believer. The test of faithfulness is the proof of worthiness. This proof becomes the supreme evidence of "God's Kingdom Power" during the Endtime demonstration of that power by the Two Prophets. Matt.16:27-28; Mark 8:38; Mark 9:1; I Thess.3:13; Rev.12:10-11; Dan.12:10-11.
Meditations #1 to #23. Also see Meditations #24 to #48 below.
See Concentric Paths above.
Meditations #1 to #23
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| MESSIAH |
Messiah comes with all the Saints. I Thess.3:13; I Thess.4:13-14; Rev.17:14; Zech.14:5. In order to do that, He promised to "raise up all Believers on the Lastday (each group in their own order), to gather them from earth to heaven and to send the angels to gather them out of the four winds from all extremities of the heavens." John 6:39-40; Mark 13:24-27; Matt.24:29-31. He also comes with the Ark of the Covenant (Rev.11:19), having been anointed as the Most Holy One, to give the kingdom to the "people of the Saints." Dan.7:27; Dan.9:24-27. |
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| MID-TRIB and PRE-WRATH Rapture |
These terms are misleading. The former implies Daniel’s entire 70th Seven is a time of tribulation. The latter does not include the Trumpets and/or Plagues as part of the great tribulation. It is better to relate Pre-Endtime events (War of Ezek.38-39, the White Horseman of Seal One, Rule of Babylon the Great and Covenant allowing worship in a third Temple; Rev.11:1-2) to a Pre-Endtime period as opposed to Daniel's 3ś year Endtime. |
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| MIDDLE CONCENTRIC PATH |
Middle Path
The [b]Middle Path[/b] begins with the pivotal verse for opening the Temple for its Three-Act Drama. Rev.15:5. The key phrase (of Rev.4:1) repeats in Rev.15:5 and Rev.7:9 as all heaven praises God and the Lamb in *Testimony* to their salvation for the first time. Rev.7:9-17. The Lamb opens Seal 7 for the half hour *Tribunal* to judge and sentence the wicked gathered to The Armageddon. Immediately, in Act Three, the 7th angel sounds the last trumpet (see below) in *Triumph* because "the kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ." Dan.7:14-27. The only announcement from heaven occurs at the 7th Trumpet: "God's wrath has come and the (kairos) appointed time to judge and reward all the Saints and to destroy the destroyers of earth." Rev.11:15-18.
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| MIGHTY ANGEL |
This angel revealed to John what was kept from Daniel until the Endtime...except for the Endtime's length and the abomination being set in the Temple. Dan.7:25; Dan.12:4-11. “Chronos-Time will be no longer and God's mystery finished in the days whenever Trump 7 is about to sound.” Rev.10:6-7; Rev.11:6-7. During the Endtime of 42 months or 1260 days, Two Prophets demonstrate God's Kingdom Power according to Mark 9:1; Rev.12:10; Rev.11:3-11. They perform any plague they wish to manifest that God is holy and true in His judgments. The angel and a voice from heaven informed John he must "prophesy again before many kings and nations and peoples for 1260 days." The Lastday comes and they rise up during one of the 3 or 4 days after the Beast kills them and leaves their bodies on a street in Jerusalem. Rev.11:7-12. |
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| MILLENNIUM |
See Martyrs for the reason the 1000 years of their reign is not mentioned until the last thing before it states "the rest of the dead lived not for 1000 years." This fact highlights the supreme motivation for Endtimers to "love not their life corporately until death" prior to the 1000 years. Rev.12:11. They are highlighted, along with 144,000 Jews, as the primary ones whom John sees during the Outer and Middle and Inner Paths of Lastday events. They receive a higher reward than that to Church members who "overcome to the end." Rev.2:26; Rev.3:11-12; Rev.7:15-17.
John sees the Martyrs in Rev.15:2-4 and Rev.7:14-17 and, finally, in Rev.20:4-5 as a flashback to the scene of Rev.7:15; and I believe to the Court Scene of Seal 7. Rev.8:1-5. Just before the Son of Man receives a command to reap the wicked at the winepress for judgment, once again those who die in the Lord are "blessed." Not while they "die from now on" (a lesser emphasis)," but because they will "rest from their labors from NOW ON and their work follows with them for 1000 years" while the Lamb shepherds them and they sit on thrones and serve God as pillars in heaven's temple day and night"! Rev.14:13; Rev.7:15-17; Rev.20:4.
The Martyrs sitting on thrones cannot begin to reign until their souls come out from under the Altar when the last martyr has been killed! Rev.6:9-11. This refutes the Amillennial doctrine that the "first resurrection refers to the new birth since Christ died." The point of "living" again as souls reunited with their bodies begins with their 1000 year reign with Christ. They "live and reign together for 1000 years" after all are beheaded, not as each one is beheaded. The reality of rulership in the second part of Rev.20:4 must apply to their resurrected state after "both the dead and living in Christ arise and are gathered together above."
In Rev.20:3,5,7, John changes from Aorist indicative to subjunctive to indicate that Satan is bound before the reign of 1000 years begins. After using the indicative to "bind Satan in the Abyss" at Christ's coming in glory (verse 3), Satan cannot deceive the nations until the 1000 years "should be finished" (aorist subjunctive, future fact). John repeats the subjunctive in verse 5 with respect to the "rest of the dead" who live not until the 1000 years "should be finished" because they will not take part in "The Resurrection, The First." It must therefore be a physical resurrection. For the third time the subjunctive appears in verse 7 showing that Satan will be loosed from the Abyss whenever the 1000 years "should be finished." The binding of Satan precedes the 1000 years; but begins with Satan's banishment to the Abyss when Christ appears in glory; not when He arose from the dead.
There are two references for inheriting the Kingdom of God beside that of Revelation 21:7 to inherit all things.
One: "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom" until the resurrection and translation of Saints occurs at the last trump, the last day of this present age. I Cor.15:50-52.
Two: In the Millennial age to come, sheep and goats will exist as nations under Christ's rule. The sheep will finally be separated from goat nations who are cast into Hell at the end of the Millennium. These righteous nations will then "bring their glory into the City that comes down from heaven." Whole nations and their kings will "bring their glory into the New Jerusalem" after the Millennium. Satan is released from the Abyss a short time to deceive the Goat Nations into attacking the earthly city of Jerusalem. The separation of Sheep and Goat nations occurs at the same time so that only the former "inherit the earthly kingdom prepared for them from the world's foundation". Matt.24:31-46; Rev.21:24-26.
At Christ's second coming, the tribes of earth may choose life by "willingness to die and begging to escape God's wrath." Luke 17:33; Luke 21:28,31,36. They and their offspring are the candidates for sheep or goat nations. But at the end of Christ's reign, before handing the Kingdom over to the Father, the righteous sheep nations will be separated from the unrighteous "goat nations" and the latter cast into Hell. No separation can occur until the alignment of nations is fully revealed by the massive attack against Jerusalem at the end of the Millennium.
The Amillennial view that the "first resurrection" of Rev.20:4-5 refers to a spiritual "new birth" removes from the Book of Revelation any reference to a physical resurrection of Believers! The reference to the "resurrection" refers primarily to those "beheaded" for refusing to worship the Beast or his image. Therefore, their reign is restricted to 1000 years with Christ after the explicit reference to the Martyrs serving God in heaven and their restoration to physical life. Serving God is their reward for faithfulness unto death. A "first resurrection" is not a reward or a matter of spiritual regeneration! The first resurrection is the beginning of 1000 years of personal service to God in heaven by Martyrs...while those who endure to the end reign on the earth. Rev.2:25-27. See RESURRECTION; END. |
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| MISSION MANDATE |
Two Prophets fulfill Christ's Apostle Johnin Matt.16:28; Mark 9:1; Rev.12:10. Nine Reasons why this Mandate has been "hidden" from the Church. See APOSTLE JOHN
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| MY SEARCH |
My Search
When the Sign of the Day of the Lord occurs.
Step One: This Sign occurs "in the days after great tribulation"
Step Two: "Day of Lord" a single solar 12 Hour day. Its events may occur in less 12 hours.
Step Three: The Hour Christ appears is subsequent to Sign of that Day.
Step Four: Seal Six, not the Great Tribulation, launches that Day.
Step Five: Unknown Lastday comes suddenly; but not secretly.
Step Six: Plagues exhaust God's anger before it mixes with wrath.
Step Seven: What is "about to happen" depends on specific Endtime signs.
Step Eight: The Lastday begins with The Sign of Rev.6:12-14.
Step Nine: Gentile Times are over and finished when Christ appears.
Step Ten: Believers watch for The Sign; then for the HourMy Search |
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| MYSTERY |
One: The Mystery of the Church refers to all who are in Christ as the Head. The Mystery of Christ is more inclusive with Old and New Testament Saints continuing to "grow into a holy temple in the Lord." That Holy Temple will also include Millennial Saints. Eph.2.
Two: The Mystery of the Harlot continues Babylonian mysteries to the Endtime when Babylon the Great rules the nations. God removes this restraint against the Lawless One at Babylon's destruction "in one Hour with fire." We see this is one of 5 Catalysts resulting in the revelation of Antichrist.
Three: The Mystery of God concerns the grafting of Israel back into her own olive tree after the "full number of Gentiles has come in." The Mystery of God "was finished (past tense) in the days whenever the 7th Trumpet is about to sound; when Chronos-Time shall be no longer, God's wrath comes and the appointed Kairos-Time" for the three R's: Resurrection and Rewards to the Saints and Prophets and all who fear God, both small and great and Retribution to those who are destroying the earth"! Rev.10:6-7; Rev.11:6-7; Rev.11:18. Nations, New Building, PRIMEKEY. See "New Building" below for Relation of the Mystery of God to the Mystery of Israel. Mystery of God
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| NATIONS |
Sheep and Goat nations will develop during Christ's Millennial reign as He sits on His earthly throne. Matt.25:31-32. Survivors of the nations that come against Jerusalem must come to Jerusalem annually to worship the Lord or else receive no rain for their crops. Zech.14:16-17. The sacrificial system will be observed as a required testimony by all those who worship Christ as their sin-bearer. Those who obey become the Sheep Nations. Its members will never die as they maintain life and are healed by the fruit and leaves of Millennial tree of Life. Ezek.47:12.
Sheep and Goat nations will formulate and the Sheep will finally be separated from the Goat nations to be cast into Hell at the end of the Millennium. The righteous nations and their kings will then "bring their glory into the City that comes down from heaven." This judgment occurs at the end of the Millennium after Satan is released from the Abyss a short time to deceive the Goat Nations into attacking the earthly city of Jerusalem. The separation of sheep and goat nations occurs at the same time so that only the sheep inherit the earthly kingdom "prepared for them from the world's foundation." Only the Lamb's Bride will dwell in the New Jerusalem. Matt.24:31-46; Rev.21:2,24-26.
At Christ's second coming, the tribes of earth may choose life by willingness to die and begging to escape God's wrath. Luke 17:33; Luke 21:28,31,36. Their offspring are the candidates for sheep or goat nations. Before handing the Kingdom over to the Father, the righteous sheep nations will be separated from the unrighteous "goat nations" and the latter cast into Hell. The separation occurs an alignment of nations revealed by a massive attack against Jerusalem at the end of the Millennium.
"Sheep nations" will enter the New Jerusalem and "bring their glory into it." Rev.21:24-26. They will continue to partake of the fruit of the tree of life for "healing" during eternity. Ezek.47:12; Rev.22:2,14. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God until Christ comes in glory. So the procreation of generations of flesh and blood during the Millennium means the sheep nations will wait to inherit the kingdom "prepared from the world's foundation" after Christ separates them from the goat nations after His "reign over the nations by a rod of iron." Rev.2:27; Rev.12:5; Rev.19:15. See last paragraph in POST-TRIB gathering below!
Members of the goat nations may die during the Millennium. Goat nations and the rest of the dead will be raised up, judged and cast into Hell. But at the second death, with death destroyed forever, Jesus will "hand over the Kingdom of God to the Father and be in subjection to Him that God might be all in all. For Jesus must reign until He puts all enemies under His feet." Matt.25:31-34,46, I Cor.15:24-28,50. |
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| NEW BUILDING |
Mystery of Church and Mystery of Christ in Eph.3:4-6 shows the New Building is more inclusive than the Church since Pentecost. Christ is the Foundation in the "Mystery of the Church". He is the Cornerstone in the "Mystery of Christ" which includes OT and NT Saints. This New Building is growing unto a Holy Temple in the Lord. It will be completed on the Day Christ appears in glory. See Relation of Relation of Mystery of Church to Israel. Also see New Covenant next.Relation of Mystery of Church to Israel |
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| NEW COVENANT |
The Ark of the Covenant, seen in heaven's Temple moments before Christ descends in glory with all the Saints, suggests that the New Covenant of Jer.31:31; Rom.11:27 and Heb.8:8-12 involves the restoration of the Davidic Kingdom with Israel at the head of all nations. This does not annul the Covenant of Grace but is more striking and fulfilling than the present Covenant (in a national sense) because the entire Jewish remnant, by God's Sovereign Act, suddenly "know their redemption and earthly kingdom" have come. They will mourn and "beg to escape all these things coming on all inhabitants of earth and to stand before the Son of Man." Luke 21:28-36.
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| OBSERVATIONS |
OBSERVATION ONE for Day of the Lord: For up to 3ś days, the Two Prophets will remain dead after they finish their 1260-day task and bring the Endtime conflict to a climax. This occurs while massive armies threaten Israel, displaying the depths of depravity to which evil men descend in their animosity to God and His people. With the last martyr killed, God's decree comes out of the Temple, on the Lastday, indicating His righteous judgments have exhausted His patience and demands that His "anger be poured unmixed into His Cup of Wrath." Rev.14:10.
OBSERVATION TWO for Day of the Lord: May Christ come at "any-moment, Perhaps Today"? Jesus reveals that "knowing the Day of the Lord is Near" depends on seeing Daniel's Abomination standing in the Temple. Matt.24:15,33. Observing this specific Sign is the condition for Believers to "know the End is Near." See Hour to Reap for what is Imminent, Thief-Day, MY SEARCH
OBSERVATION THREE for Day of the Lord: Christ's concern for Israel means the "any-moment" hope of His coming must wait for and be derived from what is "about to happen" on the Day of the Lord. This point focuses on God's people being purified and refined in 3ś years of great tribulation while being prepared for their restoration. Dan.12:1,7,9,11; Rev.12:10-14. Until the “last martyr who must be killed, is killed." Rev.6:11. His surviving Elect Saints will be found blameless. I Thess.5:23.
OBSERVATION FOUR for Day of the Lord: Who are the Elect in Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31? The answer determines your view of when Christ's coming is imminent. The Elect on the Lastday are already in the Lord's Presence while Jews are "begging to escape the Hour of Testing coming as a snare on all inhabitants of all the earth." Luke 21:25-36. The Sign of the Day of the Lord precedes both the rescue of God's Firstfruit from Mt. Zion and the gathering of the Elect from earth to heaven...in the days immediately after the greatest tribulation of all time, past or future." Mark 13:24-27; Matt.24:21,29-31; Rev.14:1-5. Surviving Saints are kept from this Hour. Rev.3:10-11.
OBSERVATION FIVE for Day of the Lord: Jesus and Paul, exclusively, add EPI (above, upon, to) to "sunago and sunagog" to gather us to the meeting place above on the last day. John 6:38-40. This is the Hour of Christ's glory, Saints' rewards, Gentile judgment and Israel's restoration as God's light to the nations. Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31; 2 Thess.2:1; I Thess.3:13.
OBSERVATION SIX for Day of the Lord: The Sign of Christ, coming like lightning (Matt.24:29-30; Luke 17:24), applies to the Hour of the Day of Wrath in which He appears in glory. Seal Six signals the start of that Day's events. The Sign of His Presence signals the Hour "every eye sees Him and those appearing with Him". The Sign of His coming is for Israel's redemption. How could redemption for Israel occur during Great Tribulation or in AD 70? The Lastday sees Deliverance for Saints and God's former people whom He has not forgotten. They will be restored as "a people of God." Heb. 8:8-12. This is the Day of the Lord which Prophets since Isaiah 13:6 declare is "near"...because it is from God’s time-perspective.
OBSERVATION SEVEN for Day of the Lord: John employs 100 verses (quarter of Revelation) to describe Lastday events. These events begin with the decree coming out of the Temple, from the Throne, saying: "It is Done." This decree signals the "last martyr has been killed," God's anger is exhausted and the Three-Act Drama in heaven's Temple begins quickly. Rev.16:17. See CENTERPIECE
We offer a plan for the order of events. Each one of four Flashbacks ends with Lastday events. The Key Phrase ends the 7th Seal and 7th Trumpet and triggers the execution of God's Decree of wrath ...in that order. The third instance of this Key Phrase, Rev.16:18, does not immediately follow Rev.16:17. It signals the opening of Seal Six and fulfillment of 100 verses on the Lastday. The Voice out of the Temple from the Throne signals the Lamb to launch the Day of the Lord; the Day of Wrath. The Drama begins after 7 last Plagues complete God's righteous judgments. See TEN KEYS
The Lamb opens Seal Six, and as soon as 144,000 Firstfruits to God and the Lamb are sealed on Mt. Zion, He rescues them and "reaps the wicked to the Winepress of God's great anger." Rev.14:1-19. This occurs with millions gathered to The Armageddon. The Storm Theophany and God's Decree (It is Done), Seal 6, Seal 7 and Trump 7 show the apocalyptic immensity of the crisis. See DAY OF LORD
OBSERVATION EIGHT for Day of the Lord - Instead of Jews being "re-gathered to their land" at The Sign of that Day, as taught by the Scofield Bible for over nine decades, Jesus gathers the Elect from earth to Himself. (Scofield Notes, P.1033, Point 5, prior to 1984 edition, refers to the Elect as Jews being "re-gathered to Israel" in Matt.24:31. The 1984 edition attaches the note to Matt.24:34 instead of verse 31). Scofield doctrine rejects that Jesus describes the Rapture of the Elect "from earth to heaven in the days after great tribulation." That is withering to the faith of Martyrs and devastating to the Lord’s promise that He will raise up “all believers on the last day...at the last trump”. Mark 13:24,27; Jno.6:38-40; I Cor.15:52; Rev.11:18.MY SEARCH
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TWO PROPHETS. They fulfill Zech.4:11-14; Rom.11:23-36; Rev.11:3-11. One prophet, Elijah, represents Israel before the New Covenant people partake of Faith and the other, John, represents the Church in this present age...until Israel, grafted back into her own natural Olive Tree, partakes of the New Covenant on the day Messiah comes out of Zion. Rom.11:17-27. See APOSTLE JOHN
As a renewed people of God (Heb.8:8-12), their kingdom of righteousness spawns two sets of nations, the righteous sheep and the unrighteous goats. None of the sheep will die physically, but must partake of the fruit of the Tree of Life during the Millennium as well as during the "eternal" Kingdom which the Sheep Nations "inherit" when Christ hands the rulership of all things over to the Father that God might be all in all. The Bride of the Lamb "inherits" the Kingdom at Christ's coming and "inhabits" the New Jerusalem into which the Sheep Nations bring their glory and continue to eat of the leaves and fruit of the Tree of Life to maintain their healing. Matt.25:31-46; Ezek.47:12; Rev.21:24-26; Rev.22:2,14.APOSTLE JOHN |
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Jesus describes the suddenness of His coming like lightning and then its effect upon unbelievers who react by "mourning and begging" for mercy or by rejecting His mercy for the last time. Almost everyone has assumed one of every twosome is a believer before Christ appears. Every eye sees Him after He gathers the Saints to his presence. Jesus would not need to warn one of every Twosome who survives to "remember Lot's wife." Nor would He add that "he who is willing to die may preserve his life." Luke 17:32-33.
There is no question but that all surviving Believers will be saved, raptured and gathered together above at the Synagogue in the Sky. Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31; 2 Thess.2:1. If the unbeliever wants to live, he must beg for mercy, else he will be left to the vultures. Luke 17:37. In the Seventies, the Pre-Trib doctrinal view switched from "one taken to heaven in the rapture" to "one taken in judgment at the second coming." See "Last Trump Card Game" in DAY OF LORD, Observation Eight. |
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Seven Last Plagues empty prior to Seal Six and prior to the Temple Drama in Heaven! The Great and Wonderful Sign of the Seven Angels with the last Plagues justifies the Pilot Key's requirement that all the Plagues must empty before the Day of the Lord begins!! Rev.15:1-5. "No one can enter the
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LAST PLAGUE- The Last Plague of God's Anger (thumos; patience) empties before heaven's Temple opens for the Middle Path of Lastday events. Rev.15:8. The pivotal verse, Rev.15:5, ends the Outer Path and launches the Middle Path from Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.11:11-19. The Saints enter the Temple in heaven only after the "last plague empties in the air". Rev.15:5; Rev.7:9.
When the Last Plague empties, God's anger is exhausted and His wrath is about to explode. The Last Plague remains suspended in midair until the start of the Inner Path. For the wine of the Cup of God's wrath does not pour out upon all mankind until events of the Inner Path take place at the pivotal verse of Rev.11:19. That Inner Path goes from Rev.18:20 to Rev.19:11. The 3rd surge of the Storm Theophany launches the Hour of Trial referenced in Luke 21:25-35; Rev.3:10 and described in Rev.16:18-21; Rev.14:20; Rev.18:21-24; Rev.19:15-21. Heaven opens for Christ to execute God's wrath on all who blaspheme His name to the very end. Rev.16:21.
A Great and Wonderful Sign anticipates the Drama in the Middle Path. Rev.15:1. All the Martyrs sing Moses' Song and 144,000 Jews, "Firstfruit to God and the Lamb," sing the Lamb's Song. Rev. 14:3-4, Rev.15:3-4. With the Last Plague suspended in midair, the Decree coming "out of the Temple, from the Throne," signals the Lamb to open Seal Six because the "Day of God's wrath has come".
POST-TRIB (the correct Pre-Wrath) gathering of Saints - The strongest argument for our view is that "all the Saints" must come with Christ (I Thess.3:13; Zech.14:5-7) on the day the sun darkens until twilight. He cannot come with all the Saints unless He first gathers them from "earth to heaven." Mark 13:27. And this cannot occur until the Three-Act Temple Drama ends triumphantly with the proclamations of the 7th Trumpet Angel...the only time given for our resurrection and rewards.
Jesus said He will "gather the Elect from earth to heaven in the days after the great tribulation... that every believer will rise up on the last day." With that word of the Lord, that "every one who believes in Him will rise up," Paul added that this occurs for every believer "at His Presence." Modern scribes, including the proponents of a Pre-Wrath Rapture doctrine, ignore the plight of Believers and infant children on the Day of God's Wrath...either by denying a Post-Plague Rapture or by suggesting there are two "raptures" or by rejecting God's promise to "glorify all who believe".
A few subscribe to two "raptures" lest they deny that "when Christ appears, we (including Trib- Saints) shall appear with Him in glory...in glorified bodies". They claim a blessed hope of Titus 2:13 occurs at a Pre-Trib Rapture, that the "glorious epiphany of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ" does not include Great Tribulation Saints coming with Him in glory. See "No Fear of the Storm" by Tim LaHaye, 1992, P.63. He writes that: "Paul's blessed hope is the Rapture...but the Glorious Appearing, on the other hand, is not for the Christian but for the remnant at the end of the tribulation. If Christ does not rapture the Church before the tribulation", he writes, "much of the hope is destroyed and thus it becomes a 'blasted hope.'"
Messiah's coming is also a "restored" hope for Jews. What is hope for the Jewish remnant is hope for all Trib-Saints, for both groups are "kept from the Hour of Trial" and gathered together above. The one difference is that Trib-Saints, including the 144,000 Firstfruit unto the Lamb, are part of the Bride of the Lamb. The saved nations during the Millennium will "inherit the kingdom" which the nation of Israel rules for 1000 years. The restored houses of Israel and Judah will lead all the nations to the worship of God, requiring the restoration of the Temple and sacrificial system...not as a means of salvation but as the required testimony to their faith in Christ. David, the Prince, will establish the House of the Lord over all nations. Jer.34:14-26; Ezek.40-48; Heb.8:8-12. For the
former covenant, "being about to vanish", will have passed away. Heb.8:13.
The Kingdom established on the New Earth is an eternal kingdom to be "inherited" by the Sheep Nations who must eat the leaves of the Tree of Life for healing during the Millennium as well as throughout all eternity. Ezek.47:12; Rev.22:2, 14; Rev.21:24-26.LAST PLAGUE |
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Three events precede the Endtime. One: The White Horse Rider represents the spread and defense of Democracy before and during the Seventh World Power under Babylon the Great. His victorious march (part of the restraint against evil) has been visibly operative since the defeat of Japan by the Bomb. From 1945 to 1989 the cold war was evidence the bomb represents a MAD deterrent against total destruction (Mutually Avoidable rather than Mutually Assured)!
Two: Babylon rules a short time until God employs Ten Kings to remove the final restraint against evil forces for "committing fornication with all nations and rulers and tongues." BABYLON THE GREAT. MYSTERY BABLYON
Three: Daniel's 70th Seven may begin with Mideast peace under the aegis of Babylon the Great. During the first half of the final Seven, Believers must prepare for the Endtime or suffer great loss when Babylon is destroyed by fire in one hour. Rev.17:16; Rev.18:4-8.BABYLON THE GREAT
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Belief in a Pre-Seven-Year evacuation of Saints to heaven. Some prefer a Mid-Trib Rapture so as to escape the Great Tribulation of 3ś years. This teaching has become a "left behind" destiny for unbelievers and also a second "left-behind" destiny for those saved during the Endtime. Trib-Saints cannot be "left behind" since all the Saints must be gathered together above in order to come with Christ. I Thess.3:13. See LAST TRUMP Card Game at Day of Lord, Observation 8.
Paul reveals, "by the word of the Lord," that every one who dies in the Lord must do so before the Resurrection can occur. I Thess.4:15. "Because all the dead in Christ must rise first." I Thess.4:16. What was that word of the Lord? "Every Believer will rise up on the Lastday." John 6:38-40. Trib- Saints die "in the Lord"; their names are all written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Rev.13:8; Rev.17:8.
Paul reveals the dead in Christ arise at the sound of the Last Trump. "By the word of the Lord" he agrees that, after Jesus "gathers the Elect together above" (Mark 13:24-27), at a final sound of the Last Trump (the 7th Trumpet), He will send the angels to "gather these Elect together upon and out of all four wind directions in the heavens" on one of the days *after the tribulation.* Matt.24:29-31.
All Believers rise up on the last day. The pre-trib doctrine is based on half-truths which in turn excludes Trib-Saints from the promise that "we must all be gathered above after the tribulation, on the last day and be changed in order to inherit the Kingdom." I Cor.15:52.
Flesh and blood may "inhabit" the Millennial kingdom on earth; but cannot "inherit" the Kingdom given them from the foundation of the world until the Goat nations are separated from the Sheep nations at the end of the Millennium. Matt.25:31-46. |
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Preterists say God's Kingdom came in power (Mark 9:1) when the Temple was destroyed in AD 70. They see the end of the age and "Gentile times fulfilled" in AD 70 rather than at Christ's return in glory. Their greatest fault is to claim that "every eye saw Christ coming with all the Saints" in the first century. It allows no reference to His visible return after Gentile Times are finished. |
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The Prime Key to Revelation refers to the 100 verses describing Lastday crises. This is highlighted by a Great and Wonderful Sign in heaven which follows the Last Plague's suspension in mid-air, the decree out of the Temple and anticipates Heaven's Three-Act Temple Drama. The Drama is the focal point of the Lastday. What happens in 100 verses forms the Centerpiece of that Day. God's anger mixes "full strength in the Cup of Wrath" after the open Temple's Testimony, Seal Seven's Tribunal and Trump Seven's Triumph. Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.11:15-19.
The Last Plague remains suspended until the wine of wrath's Cup destroys Babylon. Seal Six's warnings escalate during the Temple Drama after the Martyrs sing the Song of Moses and 144,000 Jews sing the Song of the Lamb. #VIII of TEN KEYS, CENTERPIECE.Prime Key |
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Refers to "catching up at Christ's Presence of all who believe Jesus died and rose." Jesus "raises up every believer on the last day...at His Presence. He gathers the Elect together above (episunago)." Jesus used this word for gathering the Elect from "earth to heaven after the great tribulation." Mark 13:24-27. He used it of sending the angels to "gather these Elect from all extremities of the heavens." Matt.24:29-31. Paul used the noun form of this "word of the Lord," episunagog, for the meeting place of all who "believe He died and rose...even the dead in Christ." 2 Thess.2:1. The "dead in Christ" include all Great Tribulation Martyrs. Rev.14:13. They join the survivors at His Presence when "God brings their souls with Him!" I Thess.4:13-14.
Pre-Trib Rapture teachers, prior to 1970, assumed "the ones taken" above referred to Church Saints who secretly disappear prior to the great tribulation. Since then, they have switched "the ones taken" above to unbelievers taken in judgment at His apocalypse. Luke 17:30-35. Future Trib-Saints would be "left behind;" not appearing with Christ at the Rapture." Then they would be "left behind" a second time when Christ appears with the Church Saints.
This view denies many promises to Endtime Saints by saying they are saved too late for the Rapture ...such as "we must all appear with Christ when He appears in glory." Trib-Saints cannot "appear with Him" if they are "left behind" in non-glorified bodies to bear children in the earthly Millennial Kingdom. Col.3:4. This view would have Church Saints ruling over Trib-Saints for a 1000 years! See Meditation #22 showing those taken and left refer to Unbelievers wherein one is "kept alive" among those that perish. He who is willing to die will be "kept alive" and the one "left" fed to the vultures. It is only of Unbelievers that Jesus says: "Remember Lot's wife" or be fed to the birds. Luke 17:37. |
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This must occur symbolically before the righteous are gathered above. Matt.13:30,38. The Hour to Reap (announced to the Son of Man in Rev.14:15 as having come) sees the wicked incarcerated in the "Winepress of great anger" before they are indicted in the Tribunal of Seal Seven and Daniel 7. The Last Martyr dies before the command from God on the Throne signals the "Hour of Judgment and Hour to Reap" have come. Rev.14:7,15.
The Son of Man waits on a white cloud for an angel from heaven to inform Him: "Reap! The Hour to Reap has come." The Angel of Fire tells a third angel to collect the vintage into the winepress. The Son of Man does not know the "hour of judgment" has come until the angels come from the Temple. Just as the Lamb does not know when to open Seal Six as the Sign of "the day of their wrath" until God's voice comes out of the Temple, from the Throne, declaring: "It is Done." Only after the last Plagues demonstrate God's righteous deeds can the Martyrs sing their song of Victory and enter the Temple for redress. That is when the "Temple of the Tabernacle of Testimony opens". Rev.15:8. |
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Paul wrote that Antichrist (the Lawless One) will not be revealed until the restrainer is "taken out of the way." We believe the final form of restraint against evil will exist under the Apostate world governance of Babylon the Great "for a short time." Rev.17:10. Removing the restrainer shows an act of judgment which must "begin with the household of God." I Pet.4:17. This act is one of five Catalysts that initiate the Endtime of Great Tribulation. See Catalysts above. |
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Christ was the Firstfruit of the dead; the rest rise up at His Presence..."each group in its own order" on the Lastday. I Cor.15:23; John 6:39-40. First, 144,000 Jews will be taken to heaven to sing the Song of the Lamb as the "Firstfruit" of the Endtime Harvest. The Two Prophets will be raised up to join the martyrs in praising and prayers to God. The "Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb" need no resurrection. They attend the Lamb wherever He goes following His first act after opening Seal 6...He rescues them from Mt. Zion as soon as they are sealed with His name. Rev.14.
Those who "sleep in Jesus" will come with Him from heaven to receive their resurrected bodies, to meet their surviving fellow-servants and to be rewarded as all the Saints glorify His Person. That is why Jesus "brings His rewards with Him to reward every believer" at His Presence with "all the Saints." Matt.16:27; Rev.22:12; I Thess.3:13. After the marriage supper of the Lamb, Martyrs will return to heaven to serve God in the Temple day and night for 1000 years. There would be no time left after the last martyr dies to serve God or to act as Pillars in that Temple if the New Jerusalem came down from heaven at once.
In John 5:25,28, Jesus is not comparing a "resurrection" of the body with the rebirth of souls. This is so important for the proper interpretation of Rev.20. Neither does He contrast the present or past rebirth of our souls with a future resurrection of our bodies. There were several "hours" during which He raised the dead. Lazarus was raised at one of these hours. There will be "an hour" when God raises up the Two Witnesses and "an hour" when He raises up all the Elect from earth to meet Jesus at the Synagogue in the sky...including the Martyrs and all believers who survive to the end.
Jesus was not talking about two kinds of resurrections, but of two destinies, one for the believer and one for the unbeliever. He did not speak in John 5:25 of the soul being resurrected on one hand and the body being resurrected on the other hand. The "now is" refers to anyone raised up from physical death, but the bodies of all believers will be raised up on the last day.
The subject in John 5 is the physical resurrection, not the spiritual birth of the soul. Jesus is the "Firstfruit of the physically dead," but not of the spiritually dead. See Acts 26:23; I Cor.15:23. It is not a question of timing, but of subject matter, the final destiny of the body. Amillers remove the physical resurrection, the first for the Martyrs, and the one mentioned for believers in Revelation, by changing it to a spiritual rebirth that forfeits receipt of the highest possible reward promised to those who "die in the Lord and their works follow them" after the first resurrection. Rev.14:12-13.
Jesus is not dealing with two subjects at once. He is dealing physical resurrections. He does not need to recognize the Millennial time-span between the two by speaking from God's viewpoint of time. He said He was "about to come in glory." So "an hour" refers to both the resurrection unto life and that unto damnation without distinguishing a time-gap. This principle of a "time-gap" also applies to the "last enemy" to be destroyed. I Cor.15:26.
Jesus must reign until the LAST ENEMY is destroyed. I Cor.15:25. For Believers this occurs at Christ's second coming. But He and overcoming Believers must then "sit on thrones ruling the nations with an iron rod." We are now risen with Christ spiritually, but we have not experienced "sitting on thrones on the earth to rule the nations with an iron rod." Rev.2:26-27.
The "Last Enemy" cannot be destroyed until the Sheep and Goat Nations are formed during the Millennium. Jesus, in Matt.25:32, anticipates their separation at the final rebellion when Satan is released from the Abyss for a short time. When Jesus comes, He does not "gather all the nations." He destroys the wicked and "those left of the nations that come against Jerusalem must come annually to worship God at Jerusalem." Zech.14:16; Rev.15:4.
So Jesus contrasts the physical resurrection of believers to that of unbelievers and their divergent destinies. Each verse (John 5:25,28) speaks of an hour that is "coming," one for Believers and one for unbelievers. Martyrs rise up in "THE first resurrection" as Jesus rose up in "a first resurrection." Both verses use "an hour comes" to indicate each reference applies to its own physical resurrection coming at a given, separate hour; but only Believers rise up on the last day of this age.
The prime reason, in Rev.20 alone for mentioning 1000 years, is that those "beheaded by the Beast" cannot begin to "serve God day and night in heaven's Temple" until every last one of them has been killed and God avenges their blood. Rev.6:9-11. This great number of souls, first mentioned in Rev.7:14-17, is then about to serve God as pillars in the Temple as promised in Rev.3:12.
These "souls" martyred by the Beast sing the victory song of Moses because (and please note this especially) it is now time for the "NATIONS to come (to Jerusalem) to worship God!" Rev.15:1-4. It is the Lastday and Jesus is "about to rule the nations with a rod of iron." Rev.12:5; Rev.19:15! Survivors to the END are about to sit on thrones and share that iron rule. Rev.2:25-27.
So John sees them in Rev.20:4, in retrospect, as "souls sitting on thrones" before the 1000-year reign begins. That reign depends on their participation in the Court Scene of Seal 7 and the "first resurrection." In the process of that first resurrection, Jesus and 144,000 Jews and the Two Prophets and the Elect, with all the martyrs, will meet together at the Synagogue in the Sky. I Thess.3:13; 2 Thess.2:1. The Apostles will sit on thrones to judge the 12 tribes of Israel. They experience the 1000-year reign on earth while Martyrs serve God in heaven. Matt.19:28. |
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"Ten Goals in Gathering the Elect Above." Day of the Lord, Observation Five. Special Reward promised to the Martyrs who "love not their life unto death" (Rev.12:10-11) for overcoming to the End
(Rev.3:12) as they Praise God in Act One and learn they will serve God in the Temple of Heaven (Rev.7:9-11) for 1000 years. Rev.20:4.Day of the Lord |
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Includes Endtime Believers and 144,000 Jews redeemed from earth as well as OT and Tribulation Saints. They "come with Christ." Rev.17:14; I Thess.3:13. To claim they are not part of the “gathering unto Jesus” places a disparaging question mark on Jesus' integrity. He promised to raise all Believers on the Lastday. Three times He repeated this is His Father's will...so that not one is left out of those the Father has given Him. John 6:38-40. We dare not deprive Him of the fullness of glory for which He prayed and that we all might behold and share His glory. John 17:24. |
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Cast from heaven by Michael as one of five Endtime Catalysts. Satan's banishment from heaven inspires his anger and wrath against the remnant. The Two Prophets partially thwart his efforts by feeding the remnant in the desert for 1260 days and performing any plague they wish. This is when "God's Kingdom power and Christ's authority" comes in fulfillment of Matt.16:28 and Rev.12:10-11. Satan turns in "wrath" against those having the "testimony of Jesus Christ" during the Endtime conflict. "They love not their life unto death and overcome Satan" by their testimony. |
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SCOFIELD Bible Notes - see Day of Lord, Observation Eight.
SEALED FOREHEADS - Those who are "sealed" in Rev.9:4 should include all Believers. But among them are 144,000 Jews who are sealed with a second seal in Rev.7:2-3 and are seen with a name given them by the Lamb on the Lastday. Two names appear on their foreheads in Rev.14:1. The sealing of the 144,000 occurs after The Sign of the Lastday. The Locusts "may not harm anyone except those NOT sealed since (by inference from Rev.7 and Rev.12:6,14) they are kept safe for 1260 days." God protects them and the Two Prophets provide food for them until the last day of great tribulation. Those nourished and safe in the desert are off limits. The 144,000 "Firstfruit of the living harvest to God and the Lamb" are sealed with an additional name given them by the Lamb. Three names are given to overcomers who become pillars in the Temple! Rev.3:12.
SEAL ONE - We see this Horseman representing the restraint against evil during the present time. A crown is given to the White Horseman going forth conquering in order to prevail. He continues to display the strength symbolized by that crown. His victorious march has been operative since the defeat of Japan by the Bomb. From 1945 to 1989 the cold war evidenced the bomb represented a MAD deterrent against total destruction (Mutually Avoidable rather than Mutually Assured)!
SEAL TWO - Occurs in the midst of Daniel's 70th Seven as the Red Horseman "takes peace from earth." God planned that mankind "subdue the earth" after it is populated. Modern inventions and technology are making global governance under Babylon the Great an imminent reality. But God will hate the admixture of "clay" with the "iron" of Democracy...though the two do not "cling together." Dan.2:40-44. The end result of the White Horseman's crown, in the form of Mystery Babylon, will allow Ten Kings to work within the System until they "wound the 7th head of the Beast" of world power. Then Satan "heals" the wound as its final head is personified by the Beast from the Abyss. Antichrist "takes peace from the earth." Rev.6:3-4.
SEALS THREE AND FOUR - These encompass Endtime judgments that include Six of Seven Trumpets and Plagues as part of the Great Tribulation. They do not constitute God's wrath, but reveal His righteousness and truth...until there is no remedy except wrath. Seal Four, where death covers a quarter of the earth, allows a third of mankind to be killed by the armies of the 6th Trumpet before they cross into Israel for Armageddon. God's righteous judgments, manifested by the 7 Last Plagues, are evaluated in the Great and Wonderful Sign of Rev.15:1-4. The Martyrs sing the Song of Moses because His righteous deeds show the time has come for "all nations to come and worship God."
SEAL FIVE - The Martyrs under the altar ask how long they must wait before God "judges and avenges their blood." They must wait a short time for His wrath..."until the last one is killed who must be killed." Rev.6:9-11. God's anger fills His Cup of Wrath after the Two Prophets rise up from death and ascend to heaven, after the wicked are reaped to the Winepress in great anger for Seal 7's Tribunal and after Christ is crowned King of kings. Rev.14:14-19; Rev.8:1-5; Rev.11:15-18.
SEAL SEVEN - The Court Scene described by Daniel 7:9-27. This is Act Two of the Temple Drama. Rev.8:1-5. The first use of the Key Phrase (Rev.8:5) reveals the climax of history has come. The evidence in Seal 7 is written on the inner side of the open Scroll (Rev.8:6 to Rev.9:21). Knowing the order of events on the Lastday is an important key to the Book of Revelation. While the accusing evidence against the wicked is displayed in the open Scroll during the half hour of this Seal, six Trumpet Judgments (and six Plagues) actually occur before Seal 7 opens. The 6 Trumpets do not follow Seal 7; but describe the evidence found in the open Scroll after the Tribulation ends.
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Primary Key to Revelation
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| SECOND COMING |
SECOND COMING TISHRI 15/16/5794; OCT.8/2033?
Term used for Christ's return in the clouds of heaven. Key Scripture text is Rev. 1:7: "Behold, He is coming with the clouds. Every eye will see Him and those who pierced Him coming with Him." The words "pierced Him" are critical. Do they refer only to Zech.12:10 and the House of David who mourn when they look on the One they pierced? Does it mean "every eye will see Him...EVEN those who pierced Him"? In that case, those who see Him coming have often tended to implicate only the Jews.
Or should we read: "Every eye will see Him AND those who pierced Him"? In that case, the mourners see Him coming with those Believers who took part in crucifying Him. That means all Believers since Abraham. Those left on earth may mourn. He predicted that "they would see Him coming in the clouds of heaven...with many having already seen Him seated at the right hand of power." This dashes the Preterist's claim that Jesus had to come the second time in AD 70!
For Chart on Christ's Birth and Death and the Lunar eclipse for His Second Coming, go to the topic of MAGI (WISE MEN).
SECOND COMING TISHRI 15/16/5794; OCT.8/2033? |
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| SEQUENCE KEY |
Sequence Key hidden in Flashbacks
Each of four FLASHBACKS climaxes with Lastday Signs. The Sign of the Lastday itself occurs prior to Christ's presence. Broadly speaking, the Flashbacks are Rev.10-11; Rev.12-14; Rev.15-16 and Rev.17-18.
But even the description of Six Trumpet Judgments may be considered a Flashback to the incriminating evidence upon which the Court of Seal 7 renders its Verdict on the Lastday.
At the end of the First Flashback, specifically to the finished task of the Two Prophets (Rev.11:1-11), at the end of "time", John looks back at the final Holocaust having taken place (Rev.9:15-21) at an "appointed year, month, day and hour." He reveals their demonstration of God's Kingdom Power against the Beast for 1260 days until "Time is no longer". But then Act Three of the Temple Drama occurs as soon as the Court's Verdict has been rendered in Seal 7. These Prophets arise and ascend to heaven for the Three-Act Drama on the Lastday.
The Second Flashback describes the conflict between God and Satan since the birth of Christ until Satan's eviction from heaven when God's Kingdom visibly confronts Satan's two Beasts through the Two Prophets. It ends as the Lamb rescues 144,000 Jews from Mt. Zion and the "Son of Man reaps the wicked to the Winepress of great anger" on the Lastday. These Lastday Signs show three angels flashing messages of doom across the heavens. Rev.12:1 to Rev.14:20.
The Third Flashback reveals all the Martyrs and 144,000 "Firstfruit to God and the Lamb" singing the Songs of Moses and the Lamb before the Temple opens for a Three-Act Drama. But the
song of the Martyrs rests upon the 7 Plagues having already "exhausted God's patience". Rev.15:1.
The word "thumos" should have been translated "anger; not wrath"; for they "complete His anger".
A "Great and Wonderful" Lastday Sign shows the Angels with Seven Last Plagues having manifested God's righteous judgments in order that all the Martyrs and the "144,000 redeemed from earth" might petition God for "all nations to come to worship Him." Rev.15:1-4. The Plagues have been emptied as part of the Flashback, but the last Plague suspends in mid-air during Heaven's Temple Drama. Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5; Rev.11:15-19. Flashback #3 includes Rev.15:6 to Rev.16:17.
We believe the Decree out of the Temple, at the 7th Plague, signals the onset of Signs of the Day
of God's Wrath...even after 6 Plagues of the Flashback to the Great Tribulation end "in the days when" the 6th and 7th Seals open and the 7th Trumpet is "about to sound"! Rev.10:6-7. In other words, our premise is that Rev.16:12-17 will be fulfilled immediately before Rev.6:12-17!
The Fourth Flashback concerns the Pre-Endtime rise and rule of Mystery Babylon until she falls by God's judgment. This is one of five Catalyes that launch the Endtime. Ten Kings confiscate the System and support Antichrist. God finally, a second time, judges Babylon, the System, when the Temple Drama ends on the Lastday. Both history's greatest quake and Christ appearing with all the Saints follow the Temple Drama and rejoicing in heaven. Then a series of world-quakes fill the Hour of Trial as Christ appears. Rev.18:20-24; Rev.16:18-21; Luke 21:25-35; Rev.3:10-11. Flashback #4 is Rev.17:1 to 18:19. From Rev.18:20 to Rev.19:10 we see heaven rejoicing after the Temple Drama.Sequence Key |
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| SEQUENCE OF EVENTS |
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=83 - This is one of Ten Keys. |
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| SEVENTY |
Daniel's 70th "Seven" will begin with the peace treaty for the "final status" of Jerusalem. Its total length will be 2520 days (360x7) and will not be "cut short". The first half will end with the Ten Kings who destroy Great Babylon, the City, and by Michael casting Satan from heaven to empower the Antichrist. And by the Two Prophets sent from heaven to contest the Beast's power and demonstrate God's Kingdom Power for 1260 days; and by the Ten Kings giving their collective support to the Beast in the global campaign to destroy Jews and Christians. The second half will end with the Beast killing the Two Prophets on day #2520. Christ will return in glory and power on one of the 3 or 4 days of death by the Two Prophets. That day begins with the whole (full) moon turning to blood. The exact date cannot be set in advance. But the full moon factor will guide in knowing whether the "final status" treaty has actually begun when the papers are signed. |
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| SHORT TIME |
Satan will "know when his time is short." Believers will "know the End is Near." Daniel's Endtime of 1290 days is "cut short," after the great tribulation, by 26 or 27 days (3˝ days) when the Two Prophets are killed. Chronos-Time ends. “God's Mystery was finished” before they rise up and Trump 7 is about to sound. Rev.10:6,7,11, Rev.11:6,7,11.
There are three "short-time" periods: Babylon rules a "short time" until Satan is cast from heaven knowing he has a "short time." After Christ's reign on earth, Satan's second "short-time" after being bound 1,000 years ends with a new heaven and earth and Satan cast to Hell. Rev.17:10, Rev.12:12, Rev.20:3,7-11. The "short time" for the Martyrs to wait for vengeance ends with the 7th Seal. |
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| SIGNS |
Two Signs are given by Jesus for the Day He is revealed: The Sign of the Day of the Lord and the sign of the Son of Man. Matt.24:29-30. He separates them by saying "no man knows the Day or the Hour." He reveals the Sign of that Day occurs on "one of the days after great tribulation" and Daniel and Revelation reveal His Presence occurs after He is crowned King of kings at the 7th Trumpet. Revelation describes in 100 verses over twenty events between the signs of that day and the hour Christ appears. The popular view sees 42 months between the Signs and Christ's coming. The "Left Behind" fiction series sees 63 months between Seal Six and Christ's return in glory. What a negation to what Jesus said! When the truth is acknowledged, Believers will unite on viewing the Day of the Lord as a single solar 12-Hour Day.
GREAT AND WONDERFUL SIGN of Heaven's 4th of 12 Scenes; Scene One of Six on the Lastday. |
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| SINGULAR DAY OF EVENTS |
“All these things happens.” DAY OF LORD, Observation Two. A plural subject with a singular verb is unique in the Synoptic Gospels but only in reference to all that happens on the Day Christ appears in glory! Matt.24:34; Mark 13:30; Luke 21:32. |
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| SON OF MAN |
Israelis know, from Daniel, "the Son of Man will come with all the Saints to give them the Kingdom." Dan.7:22-27. When Jesus urges those standing there to "beg to escape the hour of trial coming on all those dwelling on all the face of all the earth...and to prevail to stand before the Son of Man," He is not speaking to or of the Saints or the 144,000 Jews who will have already been "gathered above and appeared at His Presence." Saints are "kept from that Hour" (Rev.3:10) without begging to escape. Just as Israel knows the DAY of the Lord is HERE when the sun ceases to shine, so they will know their "Kingdom is NEAR" when they see the Son of Man appear with all the Saints. Luke 21:27,28,31,35,36; Isa.13:6; Joel 2:32; Rom.11:25-26.
"There is no evidence in Judaism that the Son of Man was ever understood as an Angel" (Darrell L. Bock, Baker's Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Vol.2, 1994, Page 1684). Israel will recognize Him coming on the clouds with Believers who pierced Him. Zech.12:10; Rev.1:7.
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| STRONG DELUSION |
The "teaching" that says Christ will take millions suddenly to heaven before Antichrist appears sets the stage for the strong delusion. This error is part of "the lie" that declares: "Christ is not coming. All things remain as they were since the creation." And so this doctrinal error proposed by "crazy people" will be turned against them. They will be killed because Peter warns those who "twist the teaching of Paul will do so to their own destruction." 2 Peter 3:16.
Millions may be unprepared for the sufferings from which believers will be delivered "on the Day Christ comes to destroy those who disobey the Gospel and to be glorified in all who believe".
2 Thess.1:7-10.
For Paul taught: "The Lawless One must be revealed before the Day of the Lord"...before the Day all the Saints meet Jesus Christ at the "gathering place above...when He destroys the Lawless One with the brightness of His Presence". 2 Thess.2:1-8.
Another part of the "delusion" will be a reaction and rebellion against the truth that Christ alone is the way to heaven. All religions, except the faith of Christ, will become as One. The rebellion is now building among opposing religious groups as Satan's supreme distortion of the truth. |
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| SYNAGOGUE in the Sky |
Lastday has coined this phrase to reflect Paul's use of the noun form of sunago to indicate the "gathering place above unto Jesus." 2 Thess.2:1. “Epi” appears before and after “sunagog” to reveal this truth we have placed in quotes. Jesus uses the verb epi-sunago in Mark 13:27 and Matt.24:31 for His “gathering the Elect together above...and His sending the angels to gather them out of all extremities of the skies”. Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31. |
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| TEMPLE DRAMA |
Act One: All martyrs and 144,000 Jewish Firstfruits praise God and the Lamb. Act Two: The Court presents the evidence of six Trumpet Judgments against the wicked and hears the prayers of the Saints. Act Three, Christ crowned King of kings, God’s wrath is announced. "God's wrath has come and the appointed (kairos) Time to judge and reward prophets and Saints." All Saints come with Him after He gathers us from earth to heaven and angels gather us together out of the four winds to the Synagogue in the Sky. Act One: Rev.7:9-17; Act Two: Rev.8:1-5; Act Three:
Rev.11:15-19.
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| TEN KEYS |
TEN KEYS
DAY OF LORD
Basic to understanding the Book of Revelation. See also "Hidden Key" above.
TEN KEYS
DAY OF LORD |
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| TEN TOES |
Not the same as Ten Kings in Daniel or Ten Heads of the Beast in Revelation. Ten Toes and Babylon the Great grow out of extended influence of the Roman Empire and the iron of Democracy...finally as it seeks to mix with the "clay" of autocratic rulers. Instead of being the
Ten Toes representing elements of endtime expansion of the Roman System, the Ten Kings are part of the integrated global System. They destroy the City and confiscate the System because of God's judgment on Babylon's sin of "fornication" with all the nations. These Ten "fulfill God's will". Rev.17:16-17. |
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| TENSION COMPLEX |
We avoid any complexity about the time Christ returns by "knowing when the End is Near"...right up to the Day Christ appears. We cannot expect to be certain of this until Antichrist, the Abomination of Daniel, stands in the Temple. Jesus removes any Tension Complex about the time He comes by telling us when to "know the End is Near." Tension arises by failing to realize that what is "about to happen" includes Lastday events. Or it arises by not heeding Jesus' caution to recognize false teachers. We cannot know the Day is Near until the Abomination stands in the Temple. Matt.24:15,21,33. DAY OF LORD, Observation Two and Five or see above. |
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TEXT KEY
TEXT KEY
Lastday events employ 100 verses, 25 percent of Revelation, 40 percent of the prophetic text from Rev.6:1 to Rev.20:6. These verses in Revelation describe Lastday Events. One of TEN KEYS to Revelation. |
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| THE SIGN |
The sun refuses to shine, the moon turns to blood and the stars fall from heaven. "The Sign" of the Hour of His Presence differs from The Signs of that Day. Matt.24:29-30 distinguishes between the signs for events of that Day and the Sign of Christ's Presence at an unknown Hour. |
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| THIEF-DAY |
Day of the Lord, Armageddon-day. Rev.16:15-16. Jesus links this Day with His coming to destroy the wicked. Thief-day in reality applies only to unbelievers. No Believer will be surprised. It occurs after great tribulation and the deaths of Two Prophets...with armies gathered from the East. The concept of a Pre-Trib Rapture assumes Christ comes as a thief prior to great tribulation. It assumes the Saints disappear before THE SIGNS of that Day! That day comes as a thief, but not to Believers. I Thess.5:2,4; Rev.16:15. |
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Future countdown "Biblical KAIROS Time," inoperative from Dan.9:26 to Midweek of Dan.9:27 and from Rev.12:5 to Rev.12:6, fulfills the "3˝ times" of Dan.7:25, Dan.12:7 and Rev.12:14. Daniel 9:26b was fulfilled in AD 70. Jesus refers indirectly to Daniel's prophetic Time period in Matt.16:28 when the Two Prophets and others "will not taste death...until their task is finished...until Chronos Time is no longer in the days Trump Seven is about to sound. Rev.10:6-7; Rev.11:6-7.
Kairos Time is when Jesus Christ is about to come to judge and reward all the Saints, the living and dead who are in Christ. Mark 9:1; Rev.11:7; Rev.10:6-7; Rev.11:18; 2 Tim.4:1. Only Rev.11:18 uses “kairos” of Lastday events. The Endtime is the NOW of God's Kingdom Power for 3˝ kairoi times or Daniel's "time, times and half a time." It fulfills Matt.16:27 where Christ is "about to come"...the "appointed time for those standing here" in the situation of God's Kingdom Power. GOD'S TIMING
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TIME KEY
Under TEN KEYS, see Time Key for difference between "when" and "whenever" in what is "about to happen." This Key arises from recognizing that what was (and still is) "about to happen" applies to "whenever" the Endtime climaxes with "the unknown day." Jesus puts that day "in the days after the tribulation." The Endtime is triggered by five "Catalysts." But the 12-Hour DAY OF LORD is triggered by The Sign given by Jesus, Revelation and the prophets.
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| TIMES AND SEASONS |
Chronos Time in general is an indefinite period until Daniel's 3˝ "times" begin with five "Catalysts." Dan.7:25; Dan.12:7; Rev.12:14. Fulfillment of the appointed plural Kairoi Times of Luke 21:24, and the above 3 verses, point specifically to Daniel's Endtime. "Chronos Time is no longer when Trump 7 is about to sound." Rev.10:6-7. Daniel's Kairoi Times climax Gentile Times on the day the Two Prophets are killed...with up to 3˝ days (3 or 4) remaining before the 1290 days of Dan.12:11 are "cut short" on the Lastday! Matt.24:22. The single "Kairos Time" appointed for God's wrath and to judge and reward all the Saints, small and great," occurs on the Day ONE of the Lord's 1000 year rule on earth. That day climaxes with a Three-Act Temple Drama in heaven. Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.11:15-18. See ENDTIME or 70th SEVEN
Prophetic "Times and Seasons" count when the Two Prophets begin their 1260 day task...a task that will not be cut short. Chronos Time in general ends so that the "Chronous times of restitution" may begin under the Two Prophets and be completed when Daniel's Endtime of 1290 days is cut short at Christ's coming. Until then, "He must remain in heaven." Acts 3:21. Christ was and is "about to come" even during the Prophets' "days of death." The Two Prophets are among "those who will not taste death until after God's Kingdom comes in power." Matt.16:28; Rev.12:10; Rev.11:3-12.ENDTIME
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| TRANSLATION KEY |
God's anger is completed prior to pouring out the wine of His Cup of Wrath. Key #VI to the Book of Revelation.TRANSLATION KEY |
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| TRIB-SAINTS |
Prime subjects of Revelation are Martyred Saints whose souls are among those that "God brings with Jesus" when He raises all Believers above and sends angels to "gather resurrected (and surviving) Saints from all extremities of the skies. He gathers them to meet Him at the Synagogue in the Sky on one of 3 or 4 days after the great tribulation." The Two Prophets also arise on that day. I Thess.4:13-17; 2 Thess.2:1; Mark 13:24-27; Matt.24:29-31; Rev.11:12.
The 144,000 Israelis do not suffer death and are not among survivors being raised up with the martyrs. But they are "redeemed from earth as the Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb". The 144,000 are sealed and He takes them to heaven to sing the Song of the Lamb prior to the Temple Drama. They accompany the Lamb from Mt. Zion as His trophies...the Firstfruit of the living harvest.
All Saints rise up on the last day; each group in its own order." John 6:39,40,44,54; I Cor.15:23. Jesus "gathers the Elect from earth to heaven on a day and at an hour known only to the Father... after 1260 days of tribulation." That day alone qualifies for the Two Prophets to rise up, 144,000 Firstfruit taken to heaven and the Elect gathered to meet Christ. He appears on the Day of the Lord ...at The Sign of His Presence...on the 3rd or 4th Day. Mark 13:24,27,32; Matt.24:30; Rev.11:7,11. |
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| TRIBULATION |
See Great Tribulation, Rapture, Pre-Trib Rapture, Post-Trib Gathering; Trib-Saints.
Predicted in Dan.7:9-27. Fulfilled at Seal Seven. Rev.8:1-5. Since no one knows in advance when the last Martyr dies, Seal 7 alone of the 7 Seals, opens with the uncertain timing of "whenever." All the other Seals open with "when." The Lastday begins with the Decree out of the Temple "when" Seal Six opens; but the "whenever" underscores the fact that, even with the Day of the Lord having begun, only the Father knows when the Last Martyr dies and three angels are sent to the Son of Man with the command to "Reap" the wicked into the Winepress of God's great anger. Then the Great and Wonderful Sign appears in heaven's first of six scenes on the Lastday. All the Martyrs and the 144,000 appear before God, seated on a river of fire to symbolize God's great anger. They sing the songs of Moses and the Lamb just prior to the Drama in the open Temple. Rev.15:1-5; Rev.7:9-17. |
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Trump Seven is not a prolepsis of events that are still future because this last Trumpet alone introduces the Kairos-Appointed-Time for the climactic events of the Lastday. There are Twenty Reasons the 7th Trump sounds on the Lastday. "Time and God's Mystery are finished whenever Trump Seven is about to sound." Rev.10:6-7. As the Last Trump, it sounds more than once. It announces "God's wrath has come;" and with it, on the same day, "the appointed time to judge and reward the prophets and saints and those who fear His name, SMALL AND GREAT, and to destroy the wicked." The 7th Angel sounds his trumpet immediately after Seal Seven's Tribunal!TRUMP SEVEN |
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| TRUMP SIX |
This Trumpet and Plague Six describe armies gathering for Armageddon after they destroy a third of mankind in one hour. God's wrath has not begun; for the Plagues "exhaust His anger" first. Rev.9:15.
TURNING POINT from God's anger to His wrath. |
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| TURNING POINT |
Turning Point among Heaven's 12 Scenes...from God's anger to His wrath.TURNING POINT |
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| TWELVE SCENES IN HEAVEN |
TWELVE SCENES IN HEAVEN |
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| TWO PROPHETS |
Demonstrate God's Kingdom Power for 1260 days. They are the Two Lampstands and Two Olive Trees who fulfill the prophecies of Zech.4:11, Rom.11 and Rev.11:4. The Beast kills them in the days when "Time is no longer (in the days after great tribulation); when Trump 7 is about to sound."
These Two finish their task and ascend to heaven in Rev.11:12-14 just before Trump 7 occurs and Kairos-Time occurs. Rev.10:6-7. They fulfill Christ's Mandate during the last half of Daniel's 70th Seven. It shows Revelation is not written with a chronological order in mind. All the Martyrs appear on the Lastday in Act One of the Temple Drama...FOUR chapters prior to Trump Seven. John knows what its all about as he talks to one of 24 elders just prior to Trump Seven. Rev.7:12-14. Why John is one of the Two Prophets: APOSTLE JOHN.TWO PROPHETS
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| WATCH |
Christ commends believers who "watch and wear their garments" right up to Armageddon Day. He intended the generation that sees "all these things happening," including the Day He appears (Luke 21:28,36), should apply only to those knowing the "Endtime is Here and the End is Near." Jesus intends for us to expect Him when "Time is no longer...in the days Trump Seven is about to sound because God's mystery was finished." Rev.10:6-7. |
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| WISE MEN |
See Magi |
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| WOUND |
Beast of Revelation changes from an image of world power to the person of Antichrist as its 7th head is "wounded" (Babylon falls) and then "healed" as the Beast from the Abyss. This is one of five Catalysts that launch Daniel's Endtime period before Christ returns. Antichrist will not be raised from the dead by Satan. The "Beast" does not begin to represent Antichrist as a person until the Beast no longer represents the global rule of Babylon the Great. Her destruction as a City, by the Ten Kings, constitutes the "wound" that Satan heals by the Beast coming up out of the Abyss. Rev.17:8,11. |
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| WRATH |
What Determines God's Wrath? GOD'S PATIENCE - God's patience ends at the 7th Plague...prior to the Cup of Wrath. See also the http://www.lastday.net/lastday/viewtopic.php?f=31&p=139WRATH
STRUCTURE OF REVELATION
STRUCTURE OF REVELATION |
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| YEAR 2008 |
This cannot be the year to begin the 7-Year Covenant of Daniel. http://www.lastday.net/lastday/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=155
NO DATE IN 2008 |
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