ENDTIME KEY

[lastday]

IV. ENDTIME KEY - FIVE ENDTIME CATALYSTS

Having considered Lastday events, let us return to the start of the 42-month Endtime. Endtime events are determined by FIVE CATALYSTS. They launch the judgments that cover 3 1/2 years. The number of days, 1290, covered by these events will be cut short by 30 days. The Catalysts are not found in chronological order. The order is determined by the Ten Keys to Revelation. Here are the five Catalysts.

I. Ten Kings destroy Babylon by fire in one hour - Rev.17:16, Rev.18:8
II. War in Heaven. Satan expelled - Dan.12:1, Rev.12:7-9,12-14
III. Antichrist defiles Temple, takes peace from earth - Dan.9:27b, Dan.12:11, Rev.6:4
IV. Two Prophets of God's Kingdom Power - Zech.4:11-14, Matt.17:11, Rev.11:3,4
V. Kingdom Power precedes Kingdom Reign - Rev.12:10, Mark 9:1, Matt.16:27

FIVE ENDTIME CATALYSTS LAUNCH FINAL 42 Months; 1290 Days; 3½ Times.
Beast's 7th Head: “Wounded and Healed – Beast Was, Is Not, Yet Is”
1. Great Babylon destroyed by Ten Kings - Rev.17:16; Rev.18:1-19
a. Following her "short rule" as 7th King - Rev.17:8,10
b. Beast, 8th King, takes over at Midweek - Rev.13:3; 17:8,11
2. Satan cast from heaven - Rev.12:7-14; Dan.7:25; Dan.12:1,7,11
a. 2nd of Five Endtime Catalysts.
b. Satan expelled from heaven and confined to the earth.
3. Temple defiled - Dan.12:7,11; Matt.24:15; 2 Thess.2:4; Rev.11:2
a. Outer Court and Jerusalem controlled by Gentiles 42 months.
b. Armies from east were prevented from destroying Israel.
4. Two Prophets' 1260-day Task - Rev.11:3-11; Zech.4:11-14; Rom.11
a. We believe they are Elijah and the Apostle John – See Two Prophets.
b. They demonstrate God's Kingdom Power for 1260 of 1290 days.
5. God's Kingdom Power precedes Christ's return - Rev.12:10-11
a. "Many will be purged, purified and refined". Dan.12:10-11
b. But this is the beginning of the “restoration of all things”!

CATALYST #1. Ten Kings destroy Babylon by fire at Mid-Week. Rev.17:16. This is God's purpose. Rev.18:8. They receive "power as kings at one Hour with the Beast. Rev.17:12. God puts into their minds to agree and to give their power and authority to the Beast." Rev.17:17.

Revelation is not written in sequential order. All five Catalysts occur at the same time. But #1 involves Babylon's first fall by fire and occurs after the description of her second fall by earth's greatest quake. It is clear that Rev.17:16 and Rev.18:8 (first fall) is found after but occurs before Rev.16:18,19 (second fall). The first fall, literally by fire, is also described in symbol by the "Beast that was carrying the Woman." Rev.17:7,8,11. That first fall terminates the rule of the City and unseats the Woman carried by the Beast, but it does not terminate the Babylonian System. It is confiscated by the Ten Kings.

The second fall, literally by earthquake in Rev.16:19, is also described symbolically by the great millstone cast into the sea in Rev.18:21-24. Babylon's "short" rule occurs prior to the Endtime. Rev.17:10. The Beast, which was carrying the Woman but is personified as one of the FIVE CATALYSTS, incorporates her global Network of power. Rev.17:11. Her first fall occurs at mid-point of Daniel's Week #70. The Beast, as a person, takes over the global System to begin the Endtime. Babylon is a seventh king. The BEAST, personified as an eighth king, launches the Endtime through the combined power and authority of these Ten Kings who fulfill God's purpose! Rev.17:17.

BABYLON'S fall is alluded to in two paradoxical statements: "One of the heads on the Beast was wounded as it were to death and the deadly wound was healed." Rev.13:3. And "The Beast was, is not, yet is." Rev.17:8,11. These paradoxes present the twofold existence of the Seventh World Empire ... first under Great Babylon, then under the Evil Trio: Satan, the Beast and False Prophet. A sudden catastrophic event occurs after BABYLON rules for a short time. Ten Kings destroy the City by fire in one hour. This is the first of five Catalysts occurring at about the same time. Rev.17:16, Rev.18:10,17,19.

CATALYST #2. War in Heaven results in Satan's eviction. Confined to earth for the Endtime, Revelation verifies the time by its only reference to "time, times and half a time." Dan.7:25, Dan.12:7, Rev.12:7-14. This is where we see Daniel's 1290 days cut short to 1260. Rev.12:6. Michael casts Satan from heaven as Daniel predicted. Rev.12:7-10; Dan.12:1. John identifies Satan's short time of 42 months to empower the Beast. See "DANIEL" and "NO. SEVENTY" for discovering the secret that the 1290 days point to 30-day months for both the 69 Sevens and the 70th Seven.

The 1260 days are the 42 months of Rev.13:5 and the time for more Endtime Catalysts, God's Kingdom Power demonstrated by the Two Prophets who feed the 144,000 in the desert. Rev.12:6; Rev.11:3. When this occurs, Satan knows his time is short. Rev.12:12. What Satan knows, Believers will also know for the start of the Endtime countdown.

Michael wins the war in heaven and forcibly evicts Satan and his angels. Satan comes to earth in great anger because he knows his time is short. Rev.12:12. He empowers the Beast that was "wounded" in its seventh head. Its 7th head, healed, becomes an 8th king. The wounding and healing are symbolic. But Satan indwells a person who is himself called the Beast. The Beast changes from an Entity representing world power (symbolically) under Babylon to the Person who fulfills the role of Antichrist. This change ("wounding and healing") coincides with Satan's eviction from heaven and the Beast's ascent from the Abyss. The Beast comes up from the Abyss when the Ten Kings destroy Great Babylon. Rev.13:3,4, Rev.17:8,11.

Satan sought to kill Christ at His birth. A Double Perspective of Satan's goal appears in Rev.12. First, to kill the seed of the Woman at Jesus' birth. Second, to kill the remnant and those of her seed during the Endtime. Rev.12:4,5,17. Satan brought his angels to earth to kill Jesus at birth. In seeking to kill Him, the physical seed of the Woman, Herod killed all the babies. Jesus was taken to heaven and "is about to rule the nations ... when God's Kingdom comes in power and Elijah comes to restore all things." Rev.12:5,10, Matt.17:11.

This word "about" is Endtime relevant because Jesus must "remain in heaven until the times for restoring all things." Acts 3:21. We also note there are two stages in the restoration of all things ... one being that under Elijah as one of the Two Prophets. Jesus predicted, after John the Baptist died, that "Elijah will restore all things." Matt.17:11. By this knowledge we understand the Endtime as a necessary preparation for the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel. Jesus Himself points to this for the Lastday when Israel, not the Elect believers, beholds Jesus appearing in the clouds and begs for mercy. Luke 21:31,36.

Satan, evicted from heaven, indwells the Beast and, having failed to destroy the Woman in his anger (Rev.12:13-16), turns in wrath to destroy the "rest of the seed of the Woman who keep the word of Jesus Christ" during the great tribulation. Rev.12:17. That seed is the Church with whom "the judgment of God must begin." I Pet.4:17. It does not include the yet unredeemed remnant of Jews who embrace Christ when He appears in heaven on the Lastday. However, the 144,000 Israelis who flee to the desert will be "protected and fed by the Two Prophets for 1260 days" until the 7th Trumpet is about to sound. God's Two Prophets have "power to perform any plague they wish." Rev.12:6,14, Rev.11:3-6.

This catalyst is at the very center of the entire text of Revelation's 404 verses. Verse #202, Rev.12:8, reveals that no place or time remains for Satan to access heaven. This agrees with Dan.12:1 and Rev.12:7 that the Endtime begins as a direct result of the War in Heaven between Michael, "who stands guard over the sons of Daniel's people," and Satan whom he casts out with his angels. "Many will be purged or purified and refined." Dan.12:10,11; Rev.12:10,11.

CATALYST #3. Antichrist breaks the Covenant and sets up the Abomination in the Temple. As the Red Horseman of the Apocalypse, he takes peace from earth and persecutes all who refuse to worship him. Rev.6:4; Rev.13:8; Rev.17:8. This results from Satan being cast from heaven and giving his power to Antichrist. It also results from Ten Kings giving their power and authority to him after they destroy Babylon. The Ten Kings "eat the Harlot's flesh" by confiscating the global System set in place by Great Babylon. God's purpose lets these Ten continue until "the words of God are fulfilled." Dan.9:27b, Rev.17:16,17.

CATALYST #4. The Now of God's Kingdom Power fulfills Christ's Mission Mandate. "Now," after Satan's banishment from heaven and Babylon's fall and the broken 7-year Covenant, "the Kingdom of God comes in Power and with Christ's authority." When Daniel's Endtime is Here, we will know Christ is ABOUT TO COME in glory. His Mission Mandate is that "some will by no means taste death until after He comes in Kingdom Power" through the Two Prophets. Matt.16:27,28, Mark 9:1, Rev.12:10,11.

NOW we see the concentric focus of the five Catalysts about which all of Revelation revolves. The Three Concentric Paths for events of the Lastday emerge from the crises of Endtime forces. This central passage of four verses in Rev.12:7-10, purposefully and textually, lays out the final conflict between God and Satan with the battle being waged for the hearts of mankind. God's two Prophets and Satan's two Beasts make war for and against the rest of the Woman's seed for 42 months. Vividly delineated from Rev.12:12 to Rev.13:18, we are struck by what Scriptures describe as causing "rejoicing in heaven and bringing woe to the inhabitants of earth." Rev.12:12.

The conflict rages 42 months in the greatest tribulation of all time. God's Two Kingdom Power Prophets oppose Antichrist and set things right among His people before Christ comes. Just as one swore to Daniel in the Creator's name that Time would end after a final three and a half times, so the Mighty Angel swore to John in the Creator's name that Time will end "in the days Trump Seven is about to sound." Dan.12:5-7, Rev.10:5-7.

CATALYST #5. Two Prophets fulfill the Mandate of God's Kingdom Power. "Elijah comes and will restore all things." Matt.17:11. Predicted by the Mighty Angel, the Two Prophets carry out the Mandate to stand as the Two Olive Trees before the God of earth. They are among the "some" who will taste death after Christ comes in Kingdom Power. Mark 9:1, Zech.4:3-14, Rev.11:3-11. The two branches, being redeemed Israel and the Church, are united only when the full number of Gentiles are grafted into the natural Olive Tree. The Two Prophets, with Elijah representing OT Saints and John representing Church Saints, fulfill their task and rise up on the Lastday. Rev.11:12, Rom.11:22,25. Mel

[wesley]

Thank GOD that we as believers know when the two prophets are killed that shortly Christ will gather his believing people. Mark9:1. I understand more clearly on the word "some"; only a few will die ; because Christ will be seen to gather his elect soon. Not much time left for Satan to kill God's people after the Two Prophets are killed...and only 3 or 4 days until Christ comes.
wesley

[lastday]

Wesley,

Very good observation as to why Jesus said that only a few ("some") will taste death
"after they see God's kingdom having come in power". It's only in Mark's account that
the participle refers to the "few" who must still taste death after the Two Prophets
"complete their 1260-day task" of demonstrating God's Kingdom Power. Rev.12:10.

By the way, the text for "completing their task" is recorded "in the days" just before
the 7th Trumpet sounds that "God's wrath has come". That not only shows the 1260
days of Rev.11:3-7 are fulfilled "in the days" after the great tribulation because the
countdown ends with their deaths..."in the days whenever the 7th Trumpet is about
to sound"! It also shows the events of the Lastdays are not presented chronologically!

So I believe the "end of Time and completion of God's Mystery" of Rev.10:6-7 refers
to the end of the two Prophets' 1260-day task and coincides with Rev.11:6-7 which
ends 3 or 4 days before Christ comes with all the Saints. Unbelievers will celebrate
over their deaths...totally unaware of imminent destruction, including the sudden
killing of 7,000 VIPs in a tenth of Jerusalem on the Lastday. For in that same hour the
Two Prophets arise from death and ascend to heaven. Rev.11:7-13.

The parallel nature of these events (end of time, end of their task, end of God's
Mystery and events of the Lastday) shows strong reason why Revelation is not to be
fulfilled in the sequential order suggested by 7 Seals, then 7 Trumpets, then 7 Plagues!
The 7th of each series occurs "in 3 or 4 days" after the death of the two Prophets!!

I really appreciate your insight!!!
Mel