Sunday, August 30, 2015
TIMES UP
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Revelation 10:5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and
upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
Revelation 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever,
who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the
things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that
there should be time no longer:
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone
of the corner.- Psalms 118
42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures,
The stone which the builders rejected , the same is become the head of the
corner: this is the Lord's doing , and it is marvellous in our eyes? Matthew
21
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto
them which be disobedient , the stone which the builders disallowed , the same
is made the head of the corner, 1st Peter 2
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Saturday, August 29, 2015
John
2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is
antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
2John
1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the
earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first
beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship
the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Revelation 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the
means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast;
saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the
beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Revelation 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of
the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as
many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich
and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads:
Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is
Six hundred threescore and six [666].
Gematria-
a common use at the time John wrote- which gives each letter of the Hebrew
alphabet a numerical value.
Nero Caesar[
1st century emperor] equals 666.
STUFF
HE DID;
1-Made people worship him- as God [2Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you
by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away
first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.]
2-Castrated
a boy- named Sporus- then married him.
3-Put
tar on Christians- set them on fire and used them as human torches.
Nero
ruled as emperor and persecuted the early church- his rule led up to the
destruction of the Jewish temple in a.d. 70.
The
predictions Jesus gave to his apostles about the destruction of Jerusalem and a
great time of wrath [or tribulation] can indeed be seen as having happened
during the 1st century.
Many
people believed Nero to be the fulfillment of the anti-Christ that the New
Testament speaks of.
John
the apostle wrote that ‘anti-Christ’ were those who denied Jesus- at the time
of his writing [1st century].
John-
who wrote Revelation- said ‘the mind that has wisdom’ will figure out who he is
talking about.
John
sent this letter to actual Christians living in the 1st century.
You
would expect that the readers of the letter would have some clue to who he was
talking about.
As we
go thru Revelation- my intent is not to cover [and debate] all the various
views on all the verses in this book.
I
simply show you this view [which I think is about the best one out there] Because
we live in a day where many of the ‘end times’ teachings seemed to be consumed
with a future leader [a famous preacher just prophesied ‘the anti-Christ is
here’ the other day] who is still to come-
And
that this will set off a cascade of events [most see these events as prophesied
in Revelation- and sort of see it as a play book].
So-
it is quite possible that the anti-Christ was Nero-
And
yes- we live in a wicked world- and sure- we might/will continue to see men
‘rise’ and do wicked things.
But
when Paul and John wrote- in the first century- warning the believers about a
wicked ruler who would do bad things-
I
think it would have been a disservice if he were speaking about a leader- who
would not show up- until at least 2 thousand years later.
BELOW-
I pasted some various views here- just to give you a flavor of the different
ways Christians view some of these things.
At
the end I also added some of the passages I talk about on the video.
Here’s
a quote from St. Augustine- an early Christian leader- referring to the verse I
pasted from 2nd Thessalonians-
"Some
think that the Apostle Paul referred to the Roman empire, and that he was
unwilling to use language more explicit, lest he should incur the calumnious
charge of wishing ill to the empire which it was hoped would be eternal; so
that in saying, 'For the mystery of iniquity doth already work,' he alluded to
Nero, whose deeds already seemed to be as the deeds of Antichrist. And hence
some suppose that he shall rise again and be Antichrist. Others, again, suppose
that he is not even dead, but that he was concealed that he might be supposed
to have been killed, and that he now lives in concealment in the vigor of that
same age which he had reached when he was believed to have perished, and will
live until he is revealed in his own time and restored to his kingdom. But I
wonder that men can be so audacious in their conjectures" (De Civitate
Dei, XX.19.3).
I pasted this
from another site-
In both ancient Greek
and Hebrew, letters also represented numerals (as they do in Latin), their
values assigned according to the order of the alphabet, alpha and aelph,
for example, having the numerical value of 1. By adding these values, words
could be represented as the sum of their numbers. This literation of numbers
and numeration of letters was known as isopsephism by the Greeks and gematria
by the Jews (which, in cabalistic practice, has been used to interpret Hebrew
scripture). If the Greek spelling of Nero Caesar (Neron Kaisar) is
transliterated into Hebrew (nrwn qsr), the numerical equivalent is 666.
What is curious,
however, is not so much that 666 can be decoded to signify Nero but that the
name of the emperor is encoded in this particular number, especially since it
could have been represented more readily in other ways. If "Nero" is
retained in Greek, for example, the numeration would be 955 or, if
"Neron," 1005; in Hebrew, then 256 or 306, respectively. It only is
when the words are transliterated into Hebrew that the numeration adds up to
666 (nrwn qsr, 50 + 200 + 6 + 50 + 100 + 60 + 200). Even so,
this is an alternate spelling, a letter in "Neron" being transliterated
(nrwn instead of nrw) but not in "Caesar" (qsr instead
of qysr), although these forms do appear in both the Talmud and a
contemporary Aramaic scroll from Qumran. It is intriguing, therefore, that 666
encodes the name of Nero in Hebrew when Revelation, itself, was written in
Greek.
One should appreciate,
too, that there were no numbers in Greek or Hebrew and that the "the
number of the beast" was not presented as a figure but as letters of the
alphabet or written in full. That is to say, it was not expressed as
"666" (indeed, discrete Arabic numerals would not be invented for
another five hundred years) but as the numerical values of the three letters
representing 600, 60, and 6.
For Watt, the
significance of 666 is that its expression in Latin is the sequential Roman
numerals DCLXVI, which parallels but is the antithesis of the "Alpha and
Omega" that John uses to characterize both Christ (22:13) and God (1:8,
21:6). As the Deity represents the beginning and end, so the Antichrist is a reversal
of the first and last, D (500) preceding I (1). To phrase this another way, 666
(or rather DCLXVI) signifies the Antichrist because that number signifies Nero,
and Nero—who was a matricide, proclaimed his divinity on Egyptian coins as the
"Savior and Benefactor of the World," and the first emperor to
persecute the Christians—signifies the Antichrist. Indeed, the procurator of
Judea (c. AD 60) refers to Nero as "my lord" (kyrios), the
same title applied to Jesus (Acts 25:26).
If the Latin (rather
than the Greek) spelling "Nero Caesar" (above) is transliterated into
Hebrew (nrw qsr), the final "n" in Neron being
omitted (and its corresponding value of 50), the name computes as 616, which is
the number indicated in the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament (the
fragment illustrated below). If, instead, "Neron Caesar" is correct,
it may be that the Latin was transcribed incorrectly, perhaps because the
copyist realized that this transliteration did not equate to 666 and so omitted
the letter, which changed the sum to 616.
Still, each digit of
666 is one less than seven, the perfect number, and such mathematical play may
have tended to establish 666, rather than 616. Regardless of the number, Nero
is the only name that can account for both 666 and 616, which is the most
compelling argument that he, and not some other emperor, such as Caligula or
Domitian, was intended. Too, for the number to have any significance for a
reader of the first century AD, it would have to refer to a contemporary
historical figure.
Writing a century
later, Irenaeus is the first church father to comment on the number of the
beast, although he apparently was ignorant of what the number actually encoded.
Nor is he correct in assuming that John's vision occurred "almost in our
day, towards the end of Domitian's reign" (Adversus Haereses,
V.30.3; a tradition repeated by Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History,
III.18.3, and by the church fathers), which is to say sometime before AD 96,
when the emperor was assassinated and just a few years before John himself died
of old age. Rather, his presumed banishment to Patmos (where Revelation was
written) seems to have occurred almost thirty years earlier, toward the end of
Nero's reign and before the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, which John otherwise would
have mentioned.
For Irenaeus, 666 was
correct. The Antichrist "sums up in his own person all the commixture of
wickedness which took place previous to the deluge....and also sums up every
error of devised idols since the flood" (V.29.2). The flood came in the
six hundredth year of Noah and the golden image set up by Nebuchadnezzar (who
Shadrach, Meshach, and Bednego refused to worship) was sixty cubits high and
six cubits wide (Daniel 3:1ff). This being the case and "this number being
found in all the most approved and ancient copies....I do not know how it is
that some have erred following the ordinary mode of speech, and have vitiated
the middle number [L] in the name, deducting the amount of fifty from it, so
that instead of six decads they will have it that there is but one"
(V.30.1).
Nero, too, was the
sixth emperor, counting from Julius Caesar (as did Suetonius, for example, and
Josephus, cf. Antiquities of the Jews, XVIII.2.2, where Tiberius is
identified as the third). "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are
seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come"
(Revelation 17:9-10). Of these emperors, it is Nero who had been "wounded
to death" but "his deadly wound was healed" and he still lived
(13:3)—Nero redivivus.
St.
Jerome-"As for the Antichrist, there is no question but what he is going
to fight against the holy covenant, and that when he first makes war against
the king of Egypt, he shall straightway be frightened off by the assistance of
the Romans. But these events were typically prefigured under Antiochus
Epiphanes, so that this abominable king who persecuted God's people foreshadows
the Antichrist, who is to persecute the people of Christ. And so there are many
of our viewpoint who think that Domitius Nero was the Antichrist because of his
outstanding savagery and depravity." (St. Jerome - Commentary on Daniel;
notes on Daniel
11:27-30, -- BAKER BOOK HOUSE
Grand Rapids 6, Michigan 1958)
Some will suggest that the book of
Revelation was written only for those living at the time, and that 666 most
probably applies to Cæsar Nero, who ruled Rome from 54 to 68 A.D., rather than
someone from latter centuries. This point of view, which suggests Revelation
had an immediate application to the first century, is known as preterism. So, just how is Nero
linked to 666?
Preterists take Nero's name, Nero
Cæsar and transliterates the Latin into Hebrew. An "n" is added
to conform with the Hebrew spelling and usage of Nero's name, in a manner
similar to the Greek adding an "s" (i.e., Jeremias, Jonas, etc.). Other
names in scripture where the adding of an "n" may be seen are
Abaddon, Apollyon, and Armageddon. Once Hebraicized, the Latin Nero Caesar becomes "nrwn qsr," which when using the numeric
equivalent of the letters, then adds up to 666 as follows:
Nun
|
=
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50
|
Resh
|
=
|
200
|
Waw
|
=
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6
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Nun
|
=
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50
|
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Qoph
|
=
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100
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Samech
|
=
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60
|
Resh
|
=
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200
|
An example of this spelling has been recently discovered in one of
the Dead Sea scrolls. If you use the same process, but without the added
"n" the result is 616. Interestingly, some early manuscripts have 616
rather than 666, but even scholars such as Irenæus [A.D. 120-202] attribute the 616 to only a
copyist error (Against Heresies: V, xxx) "this number [666] being found in
all the most approved and ancient copies" [of the Apocalypse] and asserts
that "men who saw John face to face bearing their testimony" [to it -
666].
The Seventy Weeks of Daniel Nine
by Prof. David J. Engelsma
I. The Premillennial InterpretationA. Who they are
A. In opposition to the premill view, there are two basic objections as a whole
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All of these occur during the first advent of
Christ Jesus (from His Incarnation through His resurrection and ascension).
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The period begins with the going forth of a
command to build Jerusalem (v. 25).
1) This is the decree of Cyrus that Judah may return to Canaan in 537 B.C. 2) See Isaiah 44:28 and Isaiah 45:13. 3) This was a crucial juncture in Israel’s history and a wonderful manifestation of God’s faithfulness. a) Israel is desolate, doomed. b) God then, amazingly, orders Cyrus to give Israel deliverance, life from the dead.
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Basically, there are two objections; both
concern verses 26-27.
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The 70 weeks are fulfilled in the first advent
of Jesus.
Another interpretation of the 70 weeks given by some Reformed amillennialists is the following. The 70 weeks are the entire period from the command to build Jerusalem to the second advent of Christ, including the present age. From Cyrus’ decree to the first advent is 7 weeks; from the first advent to the appearance of Antichrist in the future is 62 weeks; the 70th week is the brief period in the future during which Antichrist will reign and which ends with Christ’s return. The interpretation is possible because of another possible reading of the last part of verse 25. It is possible to translate the last part of verse 25 as follows: “… unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks; and threescore and two weeks the street shall be built again” etc. According to this translation, the building of the street and the wall, during the 62 weeks, is symbolic of the gathering of the church in the new dispensation. This interpretation is wrong for the following reasons:
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2Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Thessalonians 2:2 That ye be not s2Thessalonians n shaken in
mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that
day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin
be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Thessalonians 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you,
I told you these things?
2Thessalonians 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might
be revealed in his time.
2Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom
the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming:
2Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of
Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.
Matthew 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed
from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of
the temple.
Matthew
24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto
you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down.Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Matthew 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Matthew 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Matthew 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Matthew 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Matthew 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Matthew 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Matthew 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Matthew 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.
Matthew 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Daniel 9:20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing
my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before
the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Daniel 9:21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly
swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
Daniel 9:22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O
Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
Daniel 9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment
came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved therefore
understand the matter, and consider the vision.
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon
thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going
forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the
Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks the street shall be
built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be
cut off, but not for himself and the people of the prince that shall come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood,
and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one
week and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation
to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate,
even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the
desolate.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
REVELATION 6. [Update- just
dropped Pop’s off- some girl was involved in a hit n run- I stopped to help
her. I’ll talk about it on the next video]
On the video I talk about an interesting thing that happened the
other day- I also posted those scriptures at the end.
Revelation 6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,
and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying,
Come and see.
Revelation
6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and
a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.[I’m trying to keep this study simple- and let you see the whole picture. I have many friends who adamantly believe the rider on the white horse to be the antichrist. Some of these friends are indeed smart- and have various reasons they see it this way. I have always [far as I can remember] seen this rider as Christ. Why? Besides the fact that in chapter 19- Jesus is the rider on a white horse- but what see in this chapter is not the WRATH OF THE DEVIL [though later we will see an aspect of this] but we see the WRATH OF THE LAMB.
So- even though the other horses/riders that follow speak of judgments [some see this as meaning the rider on the white horse is the antichrist- because what follows is bad stuff].
In context- these are the judgments of God- being released- by Jesus [remember the last chapter/ Jesus is the only one with the right to open the seals- which are the beginning of these judgments].
We- the church- are spared from the wrath of the lamb- but yet do endure tribulation on the earth.
Jesus indeed is the victor- who rides the white horse- and carries out the judgment of God.
Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Revelation 19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head
were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood: and his name is called The Word of God.] "Who raised up the
righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before
him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and
as driven stubble to his bow." Isaiah 41. I mention this verse because
some see this rider as the antichrist because they see the bow as not being a
symbol that God uses- yet- there are many scriptures that depict Godly uses of
a bow.
Revelation 6:3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
Revelation 6:4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Revelation 6:5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Revelation 6:7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, SAYING ‘ How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth’?
Note- I added the parentheses here- another key to this book [to me] is when we read what the angels/people say- praises- songs- etc.- we too should say these things in prayer- confession- etc.
There are a few of these ‘sayings’ in this book that I use regularly [one daily] and it releases heavenly power to engage in spiritual warfare.
Revelation 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Revelation 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Revelation 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. [Stars falling can refer to the overthrow of wicked leaders- we read of things like God shaking the heavens- and sometimes it means authorities. Either way- in the following verses it speaks of this explicitly- here’s just one verse from Daniel that talks about stars- meaning men- Daniel 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them].
Revelation 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Revelation 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
[Note- HIS WRATH- one of the main themes we see in Revelation is the wrath/judgment of God on sin- sinful systems- leaders- governments- etc. We also see the people of God [righteous people] who suffer from oppression- meaning there are those who oppress- and those who are oppressed.
So- how do humans oppress one another? One of the main ways is thru wicked government- rule- authority [Hitler would be a good example- he carried out atrocities that as one person- would have been impossible.
But as the leader of Germany- he had power to act out his wickedness in a greater way.
So- how does God avenge injustices?
His wrath upon not only personal sin [in all of us] but upon wicked systems/nations.
Keep this key in mind as we continue thru this study]
Ok- the verses below are an extra-
Huh?
Yes- ‘behold- I will show you a mystery’.
‘What in the heck are you talking about John’.
Ahh- you’ll have to watch the video! [watch me forget to mention
it on the video- I do stuff like this]
John 21:9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire
of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
John 21:10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have
now caught.
John 21:11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of
great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many,
yet was not the net broken.
John 21:12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the
disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
John 21:13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them,
and fish likewise.
Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me.
Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of
mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
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