THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN

[lastday]

SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN - Posted July 18, 2010; Soon Published Senior Experience, FBCN.
Events of the Lastday Mean the End must Occur at Any Moment

“Wrath-Day Has Come"-[ñlthen; Rev.6:17]; "It Is Done”-[egeneto; Rev.16:17 - Perfect Tense]

The Book of Revelation uses “inverse” parallel statements to highlight different aspects of
specific climactic events. Satan sought to destroy the One who is “about to rule all nations”
but the Woman's Child in Rev.12:5 was “caught up to heaven”. The next verses describe the
Woman fleeing into the desert nearly 2000 years later and Satan persecuting her seed for the
1260 days of God's 2 Prophets clashing with Satan's 2 Beasts. Within three days after the Beast
kills the Prophets, on Tishri 15, God's “Wrath has come; It is Done and Christ begins to Reign”.
Rev.11:3-17.

Here are some of the inverse texts regarding the Endtime (1260 days) that occur before the
Child actually begins to rule all nations. The Woman “flees to the desert and a war in heaven
occurs in which Michael casts Satan and his angels to earth to begin the 1260 days of Great
Tribulation. These days end just before all men see the SIGN of the Son of Man. He appears
with Saints on the Day of Wrath. His Wrath occurs at the 7th Trumpet. Rev.6:17; Rev.11:18.

There's no reference to 2000 years between Rev.12:5 “about to reign” and Rev.11:18 for the
“appointed time for Christ's reign”. But verse 5 is the “inverse” part of a Chiasm* (endnote)
with the end of time at the 7th Trumpet. God's Day of Wrath (Seal 6) and His chosen Time to
Reign (Trump 7) and to execute His wrath are parallel to each other. Seal 7's Court confirms
“God's Wrath has come and Trump 7's Angel proclaims His Reign has begun”. Rev.11:17-18.

Being “about to reign” in Rev.12 is “inverse text” to “God has begun to reign” in Rev.11:17
and Rev.19:6. Just as God's “Day of Wrath” in Seal 6 is inverse to the time chosen to execute
His wrath in Trumpet 7. Inverse parallelisms allow the 2000-year time-gap between Christ's
ascent until His Coronation as well as the 3 or 4 days between the End of Great Tribulation
(after Satan kills the 2 Prophets) and the Day of Christ's Presence at the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Order of Lastday Events, instead of being set in a strict sequence of 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets
and 7 Plagues, is set in the contexts using inverted parallelisms. Christ's reign begins at the
“end of time context” just 3 days (not 4) after the 2 Prophets are killed and Signs of Seal 6
occur and the Court of Seal 7 sits in judgment. The 7th Trumpet of Wrath and Reign sounds
on the Lastday in quick response to the evidence presented in the Court of Seal 7. Six of 7
Trumpet Judgments are reviewed in an open half-hour silent display with Armies already
gathered to Armageddon in the 6th Plague! Then the 7th Trumpet sounds and 24 Elders and
the “great multitude” successively proclaim God has “begun to reign”!! Rev.11:17; Rev.19:6.
On Saturday, Tishri 15, 22 Centerpiece
Events and 100 Verses (among the 250 from Rev.6:12 to Rev.20:6) will be fulfilled!!!

Global Conflict Between God and Satan Ends at the 7th Trumpet as Christ begins to Reign
Rev.13:7-9; Rev.12:7-9; Rev.10:7-9; Rev.11:7-19; Rev.19:7-19 - [Rev.16:15-17]

A 1260-day global conflict launched by the War in Heaven is played out between Satan's 2
Beasts and God's 2 Prophets. The conflict during Rev.11 to 13, and “time” itself, sworn to
by the Mighty Angel, will end within the (3.5) days of the 7th Trumpet. Rev.10:7-9; 12:7-9;
11:7-9. During the final 3 days, the armies of the 6th Trumpet kill 1/3 of mankind, cross the
Euphrates River on dry ground and invade Israel for the slaughter at Armageddon. At the same
time, 144,000 Jews leave their place of refuge in the desert to be sealed with the Lamb's
name and meet their Redeemer on Mt. Zion. Another inverted parallelism in Rev.14:1-3 and
Rev.15:1-3 refers to 2 songs sung by the Martyrs and these Firstfruit unto God in heaven.
Sealed with names of the “Father and the Lamb” and rescued from Mt. Zion, the 144,000 are
taken to heaven and join the Martyrs to sing the “Song of Moses and Song of the Lamb”.

Reason for Inverse Chiasm* - Action of Rev.16:12-17 Immediately Precedes Rev.6:12-17
…..“It is Done” - Rev.16:16,17 - “God's Wrath and Reign has Come” - Rev.11:17,18
...."God Almighty begins to Reign" - Rev.11:17; Rev.19:6.

John's inverse parallelisms disallow a rigid sequence of 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets and 7 Plagues.
Before describing the Plagues, John reveals they first “complete God's anger” (thumos) and
manifest He was “holy and just in His deeds”. Rev.15:1,4. They had completed His anger before
the 7th Trumpet of wrath sounds because the “Temple of the Tabernacle of Testimony” does not
open in heaven for Seal 7's Court and Trump 7's proclamation until the 7th Plague empties! Rev.15:8.

The statement of Rev.15:1 is inverse to Rev.16:1 where the 7 Plagues “complete God's anger”
before the Angels are described as having exited the Temple to empty the 7 Plagues. To verify
this inverse order, John first used the aorist indicative in the inverse text of Rev.15:1 to show
the “completed action”. Then he describes the 7 Angels having exited the Temple to empty the
Plagues. But then he used the aorist subjunctive in Rev.15:8 to indicate that "no one enters the
Temple until the 7th Plagues empties".

The Angels had exited from the Temple to empty their Plagues but only then does John reaffirm
that they had already “exhausted God's anger” (The New Jerusalem Bible shows His patience ends
with the Plagues since “thumos” is part of the word for long-suffering..."macrothumos”). The
ensuing description of the Plagues at Rev.16:1 is retroactive, time-wise, and parallel to Rev.15:1
as God's anger was exhausted at the inverted statement in Rev.15:1. God's patience had been
exhausted as the “Last Plague emptied and the Temple Opens” in Rev.15:5. God's “anger was
exhausted” at the 7th Plague and calls for the Court to Sit in Seal 7.

For these reasons the 144,000 sing the Song of the Lamb and enter the Temple on the Day
of Christ's coronation and God's wrath. They must be rescued from Mt. Zion and taken to
heaven to join all the Martyrs who sing the Song of Moses (after the last Plague empties,
Rev.15:1-3); yet it's before anyone enters the Temple in heaven to praise God or the Lamb.
“No one enters the Temple” for the Court of Seal 7 “until the Plagues finish God's anger”.
Rev.15:8. These parallelisms of Christ “beginning to reign and 144,000 singing the Song of
the Lamb” point to the Day Christ is crowned as King in order for Him to “appear with all
the Saints and give the Kingdom to the people of the Most High”. Dan.7:13-27.

SIGN of the Son of Man Follows Seal 7 and Trump 7 on the Lastday...the Day of Wrath
Matt.24:30; Luke 21:27; Rev.1:7

Jesus places this SIGN “in the days immediately after the great tribulation ends”. These 3
days, during which the 2 Prophets lie dead, allow time for armies to gather to Armageddon.
The SIGN occurs on the Day these 2 rise from the dead and ascend for a Three-Act Drama
that occurs after the “last Plague empties in the air” and the 144,000 Jews sing the Song of
the Lamb and the Martyrs sing the Song of Moses...because God's patience was exhausted
and His righteous deeds manifested by the Plagues. Then heaven's Temple Opens for the
climax of events on that Day. Christ arrives with the Saints and redeems a Jewish remnant
who “escape and are kept alive” in order to inherit their restored Kingdom. Luke 21:31.

Relation of 7th Seal and 7th Trumpet...Concentric Rather than that of Disconnected Events
Rev.11:15-19 Immediately Follows Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5

The Court of Seal 7 (Dan.7) sits after the Plagues “exhaust God's patience”. The Court sits
for the indictment by Seal 7's Angel of Fire. The “smoke of God's power and glory” clears
the Temple. The 144,000 Firstfruit unto God and the Lamb, and Martyrs, including the 2
Prophets, had sung their songs before the 3-Act-Open-Temple Drama began. Here, once
again, we see John's use of inverted texts. The 7 Trumpet Angels appear “out of order” in
Seal 7's open Scroll (Rev.8:2) before John describes 6 of the 7 Trumpets. These “inverted
parallels” point to what Rev. 8:6 to 9:21 describes “after the fact”. Six of the 7 Trumpets
are presented in a silent display of incrimination and lead to the Angel's Verdict in Seal #7!

Plague #7, Rev.16:17, reveals “the End has Come” before the Court sits in Judgment.
Evidence from 6 Trumpet judgments precedes “God's wrath”. Then the Angel of Fire presents
Saints' prayers and the 7th Trumpet proclaims “God's wrath has come”. The Open Temple
Drama ends with 7th Trumpet Wrath. Just as 6 Plagues manifested God's righteous deeds,
so 6 Trumpet Judgments justify God's Wrath before Seal #7 reveals the Angel's Verdict and
Trump #7 proclaims the "appointed time has come to destroy those destroying the earth".
This means that Rev.11:15-19 immediately follows the Verdict of the Court in Rev.8:1-5!!

Six of 7 Trumpets are described after their judgments go on display in the Open Court. It
is “after the great tribulation” that the Angel of Fire renders the Verdict by casting coals of
fire to earth. Trump #7 “sounds (inverse prediction; Rev.10:7; Rev.11:18) because “God's
mystery was finished and His wrath has come” AND the chosen time to judge and reward
prophets and Saints AND to destroy earth's destroyers”...when the 7th Trumpet sounds!!!

The 7 Trumpet Angels appear during the 7th Seal in order to display 6 Trumpet Judgments
which have “passed by” before the 7th Trumpet Angel blasts the 7th Trumpet. Rev.11:14.
Thus 6 Trumpet Judgments are displayed from within the Open Scroll during a “silent half
hour” before the Verdict occurs in the Court Scene of Seal 7. The display of 6 Trumpets
presents the basis for the Saints' Prayers and the Angel's Verdict at the climax of Seal 7.
The 7th Seal Angel signals the Verdict by casting coals of fire off the Altar to earth...before
the Trumpets are described upon which he renders the Verdict! Rev.8:5. The chosen (kairos)
time coincides with that for “the third woe” and requires the 2 Prophets' ascent to heaven.

Inverse parallelism in Rev.10:7 (“God's mystery was finished”) fits the pattern to anticipate
the End as the Prophets are killed and the “appointed end of time” is fulfilled at Rev.11:18.
This agrees with the “inverted” order of completing the Plagues in Rev.15:1 prior to that of
describing them in Rev.16. Yet, time-wise, six Plagues were finished and six Trumpets had
“passed by”. Rev.11:14. The inverse text of 7 Trumpet Angels appearing in Rev.8:2 during
the 7th Seal limits the description to only 6 Trumpets prior to the “wrath of the 7th Trumpet”.

In the Jewish manner of starting the day at Twilight, special meaning is given to the phrase:
“No one knows the Day/Hour” for the SIGN of the Son of Man. It applies to the only Day and
Hour in which their Messiah occurs at “any moment”. As Jews “see these things happening,
they will look up, stand erect...and pray to escape and to be worthy to stand before the Son
of Man”! They know He is “coming with the saints”!! They cannot know whether He will appear
on Saturday or during the Twilight Hour, a Sunday!!! Luke 21:36; Dan.7:22-27; Zech.14:5-7.

The “SIGN of the Son of Man” Revolves Around the Action in 100 Verses of Revelation
Outer Path: Rev.16:16-17; Rev.6:12 to Rev.7:8; Rev..14:1 to 15:5 (Not 14:20) = 40 Verses

The signs in Seal 6 accompany the events of 100 verses on the same day Christ launches
signs of the Day of the Lord. Because Jesus said the SIGN of His coming involves His
“gathering of the elect from earth and sending the angels to gather them to Himself”, the
last martyr must first be “killed” before God “avenges their blood”. Rev.7:9-11. Martyrs
include the 2 Prophets who rise up to “witness in Seal #7” after singing the song of Moses.
They testify as “living witnesses” to verify evidence displayed by 6 Trumpet Angels and
then accompany the Saints, all who come with Christ, soon after the 7th Trumpet sounds.

Believers will expect the SIGN of the Son of Man. Their gathering by the Lord from earth
occurs during the signs of that Day; but after men see the SIGN of His coming . The Day/
Hour of His Presence depends on whether He appears before or during the Twilight Hour!
He is coming FOR as well as WITH the Saints!! [Only Jews and others “left behind who do
not seek to save themselves will beg to be kept alive on that day”]. The “unknown Day”
applies strictly to Jews who do not expect Him until they see its “Signs”!!! Luke 17:30-33;
Luke 21:28-36.

These Signs begin at noon in Israel. Amos 8:9. Jews will not observe the total “blood-red”
lunar eclipse seen westward from the Americas on Tishri 15, the Feast-Day of Tabernacles.
There is an extra sense of certainty in applying the unknown Day/Hour to Christ's visible
return for Israel after they "see the Sign of His Presence". Matt.24:27,30. That Day begins
with the Evil Trio having gathered their armies to Armageddon to fulfill the 6th Plague.
“No one enters the Temple in heaven” for the Drama of the 7th Seal and 7th Trumpet until
the Plagues "complete God's anger" (thumos; not orgay) and the 7th Plague empties in the air.
The Temple Drama includes the 7th Trumpet proclamation of the appointed time having come
for Resurrection, Rewards to Prophets and Saints...and Retribution to “earth's destroyers”.

Open Temple Drama Central to God's Wrath, Christ's Coronation, SIGN of His Coming
….........Middle Path: Rev.11:11-14; Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5; Rev.11:15-18 = 22 Verses.

The Chiasms* in Revelation, the Inverted texts for both the Trumpets (Rev.8:2; 8:6) and
Plagues (Rev.15:1; 16:1), provides a short “time-gap” for 100 Lastday verses. The pivotal
point for the parallelism of 7th Trumpet and 7th Plague is the Court of Seal 7 which signals
the hour has come for “sounding God's wrath! In the days when time is no longer”...at the
End of Time as the ”mystery of God was finished” (aorist indicative)!! Rev.10:6-7. A Key
Phrase, “voices, flashes of lightning, peals of thunder (and great hail as of the 7th Trumpet
and at the implosion of the 7th Plague), climaxes the Endtime at the 7th of each series. The
End occurs as 100 verses (from Rev.6:12 to Rev.20:6) are fulfilled on the Day of Wrath!!!

Zechariah the prophet includes the coming of the Lord with His Saints on the Day of the
Lord. That day is “unique” as it is “neither day nor night”. Zech.14:5-7. The SIGN of the
Son of Man occurs either before or during the “evening time when the light returns” and
Saints are being gathered to meet the Lord. He may appear WITH the Saints before or
during the Twilight Hour. The pivotal point for its timing is a 3rd blast of the 7th Trumpet.
The “mystery of God was finished and Christ begins to reign” at the SAME HOUR as of both
Rev.11:17 and Rev.19:6; for in each case “God Omnipotent begins to Reign”!

The catalytic events of the Lastday begin with the voice-message “out of the Temple”
when the 7th Plague empties in the air...”It is Done”. The final 6-7 hours begins with this
decree...the signal for the Lamb to open Seal 6 at noon. “Lastday Events” continue while
Plague #7 remains suspended in the air. The “inverse parallelism” of 7 Trumpet Angels
appearing in the 7th Seal is like that of the 7th Plague suspended for 6 hours before the
full impact of God's anger and wrath causes the 7th Angel to implode the last Plague at
the Twilight Hour. The Inverse Parallel of all 7 Trumpet Angels (Rev.8:2; 8:6) presents the
evidence from the 6 Trumpets. The 7th quickly fulfills the Inverted Parallel of “God's
Omnipotent Reign” having just begun...at the 7th Trumpet and the rejoicing in heaven.
Rev.11:17; Rev.19:6 - Another Chiasm!!

The Praise in Rev.7:9-17, Prayers in Seal 7's Court-Scene and Proclamations in Trump #7
(that “God's Wrath has Come...and the appointed time” for the End of Days' Resurrection,
Rewards and Retribution) constitute a 3-fold Concentric Path for the Lastday's Drama and
for the “SIGN of the Son of Man's Presence" (parousia) and subsequent coming (erchomai)
with the Saints”. The tribes of earth who mourn are “rescued and kept alive” to populate
the Kingdom. These guests are invited to the Lamb's wedding supper at Israel's special
convocation on the lastday of an 8-Day Feast of Tabs, Tishri 15-23, a Jubilee Celebration
occurring on a Sunday, Tishri 23. Lev.23:34-39.

Time-wise, 7 Plagues complete God's anger before the 7th Trumpet announces His “wrath
has come”! Six Trumpets display incriminating evidence to indict the wicked by which the
7th Trump Angel proclaims “God's wrath has come” to destroy the world system on Tishri 15/
16, a Saturday/Sunday!! This begins Israel's 8-Day Jubilee Celebration laid out in Lev.23:34-39!!!

Chiasm* is Created by the Parallelism of “Wrath because God's Patience was Exhausted”
...Inner Path: Rev.11:19; Rev.16:18-21; Rev.18:20 to Rev.20:6; Rev.14:20 = 38 Verses.

“God's anger was finished” (Rev.15:1; aorist indicative; His anger “would be finished”
(Rev.15:8; aorist subjunctive) as of Plague #7. This is misunderstood by reading English
translations which say God's “wrath was completed”. Thumos and Orgay are combined
in Rev.16:19 (referring to 7th Plague) when God destroys Great Babylon...both city and
system. “Heaven, Saints and Prophets” are summoned to rejoice. Rev.18:20 to Rev.19:3.
“God Omnipotent begins to Reign”...at Rev.11:17 and Rev.19:6. These 2 sets of inverse
texts trigger the final rejoicing in heaven at the first sounding of the 7th Trumpet...at the
very moment of the 7th Trumpet's “God's wrath has come” and “God has begun to reign”.

God's “anger and wrath mix together in the Cup of Wrath” to fulfill Rev.14:10,20 when the
Last Plague no longer remains suspended in the air. [Suspension for Rev.14:10 ends as of the
"Cup of Wrath" in Rev.16:18-21 while the suspension for Rev.14:20 ends as of "anger and
wrath" of Rev.19:15]. The suspension ends when armies are gathered to Armageddon in the
6th Plague after 200 million soldiers kill 1/3 of mankind during the 6th Trumpet.

Time ends at the juxtaposition of Seal 7, Trump 7 and Plague 7! God's anger and wrath destroys
armies as Christ appears with His Saints from heaven!! Unfortunately, aside from the New
Jerusalem Bible and Greek-English Interlinear translations, none recognize “thumos” as part of
cthe compound word for God's “long-suffering” patience...macrothumos!!!

Two acts of “God's anger and wrath” occur as Plague #7 implodes. Rev.16:19; Rev.19:15.
God totally destroys great Babylon as the 7th Plague implodes. He has “begun to reign”.
Rev.16:18-21; Rev.19:6-15. God's Wrath and Christ's Reign begin at Trump #7's first blast.
Saints rejoice and Christ descends to “gather the elect from earth” at its 2nd blast. He will
reward the Saints and continue to reign after Trump #7's 3rd blast. I Thess.4:16; Matt.24:31.

When will we recognize God's wrath begins at the 7th Trumpet on the Day of His Wrath?
We need to see the 7th Plague imploding and God's Cup of anger-filled-wrath exploding
during the “Hour for Testing all mankind”. Confusion over the order of events will then no
longer be such a divisive issue among Believers. The one Day of God's Wrath begins with
Signs of Seal 6 at noon and climaxes at the SIGN of the Son of Man's Presence...and at His
coming in an HOUR that occurs “unexpectedly on all mankind”! He arrives in glory at the
End of this Age and launches the “Age to Come”!! He rescues ALL the Saints so that He may
also come with ALL the Saints...having kept them from the final HOUR of that Unique Day
at the End of the Age!!! Rev.3:10; Luke 21:35; Matt.28:20; I Thess.3:13; Zech.14:5-7.

God's and the Lamb's Wrath are confined to One Day: God Omnipotent begins to Reign.
Since only the Father knows when the last martyr is killed, the SIGN of the Son of Man's
Presence belongs to His chosen Day/Hour! The pivotal-point occurs at the 7th Seal, 7th
Trumpet and 7th Plague with the 3-Act Temple Drama and 6 hours of events “happening
during the signs of that Day and SIGN of the Son of Man”!! At the juxtaposition to “mix
anger and wrath”, deadly wine pours from His Cup of wrath!!! Rev.16:19 and Rev.19:15.

The Book of Revelation Filled with Chiasmus (Chiasms)
Go to Centerpiece
(since 1999) on three Concentric Paths for 100 Verses...Outer Path, Middle Path, Inner Path.

Day of Wrath begins with ”It is Done; Temple Opens and God's Wrath has Come! Rev.16:17; Rev.6:17

“Day of God's Wrath Has Come; God's Wrath Has Come”; ñlthen; Rev.6:17; Rev.11:18.
“God's anger was finished“ as of the 7th Vial Plague - etelesthay – aorist indic.; Rev.15:1; Rev.16:1
“God's mystery/anger was finished“ as of the 7th Trumpet - etelesthay – aorist indic.; Rev.10:7; Rev.15:1
“You, Lord God Omnipotent, have begun to reign” - 7th Trumpet – ebasileusas; Rev.11:17; Rev.19:11
“God Omnipotent reigns“: Christ descends with ALL the Saints – ebasileusen; Rev.19:6; Rev.19:11-14
Inverse Parallel for Armageddon: Rev.16:16; Rev.19:19
Endnote:
* From Wikipedia, “Chiasm is a figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each
other through reversal of structures in order to make a larger point. The clauses display inverted parallelism.
Chiasmus was popular in Greek literature to articulate balance or order within a text.

“Chiasmus [Book of Revelation] is applied fairly broadly to any 'criss-cross' structure. In classical application,
chiasmus structures do not repeat words and phrases, but invert the grammatical structures or ideas that
apply to motifs, turns of phrases, or whole passages”.
Mel Miller Posted July 18, 2010; to be Published Senior Experience, FBCN.