Revelation. The Chronology of End-time Events. by Daniel J Waddick. Melchizedek Studies

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2 Revelatin The Chrnlgy f End-time Events by Daniel J Waddick Melchizedek Studies dwaddick@mediacmbb.net Website: ALL SCRIPTURE REFERENCES ARE TAKEN FROM THE KJV OF THE BIBLE. Cpyright by Daniel J Waddick Script date: 03/29/18 ~ 1 ~

3 Preface One f the first things yu may ntice abut this chrnlgical study f Revelatin is that it nly takes in chapters The reasn fr this selectin f chapters is because thse are the chapters that predminantly list the many end-time events. Althugh, as mst f yu already knw the Bible des nt always present chapters r events in apparent chrnlgical rder. The next thing yu may ntice is that I'm using the same clr-cding I have used thrughut all my ther studies. Hwever, here I have used clr-blcks ( ) at the head f the verse reference t depict the predminate time perid(s) being spken f, vs. clr-cding individual wrds that can als shw a variety f ther meanings. Hw t use this study bklet: Scrll t the chapter index and chse any chapter reference heading fr chapters six thru twenty. Next, click n any chapter reference text fund at the tp f each clumn (black arrw) that cntains the verse synpsis yu've chsen and yu will be sent t that chapter's start page. At the end f each chapter there is als a Return t Chapter Index link t send yu back t the apprpriate chapter index page: The Clr Key at the end f the chapter index shws the main event(s) that will take place during each clr cded referenced time perid. This matches the clr-bars (green arrw) in frnt f each verse tpic reference. Yu will ntice there are gray and black cded bxes. The events marked in gray actually take place right befre the black clred time-perid begins. Hwever, these gray "midnight" references are the main trigger events that bring frth the black bxed time perid (the great tribulatin). Therefre, I felt the need t shw these gray perid events in greater detail frm what takes place all thrughut the great tribulatin time perid. Likewise, the white r blank bxes express events and r spiritual prnuncements that have r are ging t take place befre midnight begins. ~ 2 ~

4 Revelatin Chrnlgy f Judgments Chapter Index (Chapters 6-20) Revelatin 6 (pg. 5) Revelatin 7 (pg. 8) Revelatin 8 (pg. 9) Seals pened there is the sund f thunder. 4-angels n 4-crners f earth hld the 4-winds. 7 th seal pened; silence in Heaven ½ hur. 1 st S: white hrse ges frth t cnquer. 144,000 sealed befre the earth is hurt. Seven angels given 7-trumpets. 2 nd S: give pwer red hrse, takes peace/kills. Saints with white rbes frm great tribulatin. Angel with glden censer: prayers f the saints. 3 rd S: black hrse with balances; hurt nt GOD shall wipe away all tears. Censer cast; thunder, lightning, an earthquake. 4 th S: pale hrse; pwer ver 4 th part f earth. The trumpets prepare t sund. 5 th S: suls under the alter given white rbes. 1 st T: hail, fire, bld; 1/3 trees all g. grass. 6 th S: earthquake, sun black, mn t bld. 2 nd T: great muntain burns 1/3 sea bld; ships. Stars f heaven fall like figs shaken mighty wind. 3 rd T: great star falls lamp 1/3 waters wrmwd. Heaven departs like a scrll. 4 th T: 1/3 sun, mn, stars, day, darkened. Kings, men, hide in muntains say fall n us. Angel flies: we x 3 because f last 3-Trumpets. They say, "The wrath f the Lamb has cme " Revelatin 9 (pg. 13) Revelatin 10 (pg. 17) Revelatin 11 (pg. 19) 5 th T: star frm heaven falls pens pit with key. Mighty angel with a little bk abut t read. Measure temple, leave ut uter curt. Sun, air, dark by smke; lcusts. Seal up what the 7-thunders uttered. Pwer given 2-witnesses clthed in sackclth. Hurt nt grass r any green thing, nly unsealed. Time N Lnger! After 42-mnths beast ut pit kills Witnesses. Trment as a scrpin sting lasts 5-mnths. 7 th T. : the mystery f GOD is finished Great vice says: cme up; Witnesses ascend. 6 th T: 4-angels lsed frm Euphrates hr, day, m. [last trump: dead "in Christ" raised: 1-Cr 15:52]. Great earthquake; 10th f city falls; 7000 killed. 1/3 f men killed by fire, smke, and brimstne. Jhn eats the little bk and prphesies. Remnant [f remaining Church] gives glry. Men nt killed by the plagues repented nt. 2 nd we past, third cmes quickly. 7 th angel sunds, great vices in Heaven. Natins were mad, wrath cme, dead judged. Temple was pened in Heaven. Lightning, vices, thunder, earthquake, 100-bl hail. Revelatin 12 (pg. 22) Revelatin 13 (pg. 28) Revelatin 14 (pg. 32) Wman clthed with sun stands n the mn. 1 st beast ut f the sea with 7-heads 10-hrns. Lamb, 144,000 redeemed frm the earth sing. Wmen travails t give birth. Beast like a lepard feet like a bear, muth lin. Angel flies with gspel; hur f judgment cme. Dragns tail cast 1/3 stars f heaven t earth. His deadly wund was healed. 2 nd angel says Babyln is fallen (failed). Dragn is waiting t devur man child. 1 st beast given pwer 42-mnths. 3 rd angel says dn't take the mark f the beast. Wman gives birth; man child is caught up. 2 nd beast f earth has 2-hrns like a lamb. Blessed are the dead that die hencefrth. Wman flees t wilderness; fed 42-mnths. 2 nd beast des great wnders; deceives men. Sn f Man cmes n clud in the Spirit. War in heaven; Michael & angels fight dragn. 2 nd beast says make an image f 1 st beast. Angel frm temple tells Sn t reap the earth. Devil cast t earth; we earth; devil's shrt time. 2 nd beast gives life nt the image f the beast. 2 nd angel frm temple cmes t gather wicked. Dragn ges after wman in the wilderness. 2 nd beast makes all take the mark r die. 3 rd angel tells 2 nd angel t reap the vine f earth. Dragn cast fld after wman; the earth helps. His deadly wund was healed. Cluster f the vine f earth cast int winepress. Dragn mad at wman; makes war with seed. ~ 3 ~

5 Revelatin 15 (pg. 36) Revelatin 16 (pg. 38) Revelatin 17 (pg. 42) Sign in Heaven; 7-last plagues. Great vice t 7-angels: pur ut the vials. 1 f 7-angels shws judgment f the great whre. Sea f glass, saints sing the sng f Mses. 1 st V: pured ut; sres upn men. Wman n scarlet beast; names f blasphemy. Temple f the Tabernacle pened in Heaven. 2 nd V: sea t bld; all living suls in sea die. Mystery, Babyln The Great, Mther f Harlts. 7-angels ut f temple with 7-last plagues. 3 rd V: rivers, funtains, water, turn t bld. Mystery f the wman (the whre) revealed. 1 f 4-beasts gives the 7-angels vials f wrath. 4 th V: sun scrches men; they blaspheme Gd. The Beast that was, is nt, and is yet t cme. Temple fills with smke; shut until 7-plagues end. 5 th V: pured n the seat f beast, darkness, pain. 7-kings, 5-fallen, 1-is, 1-cmes, then an 8 th cmes. 6 th V: great Euphrates dried up fr kings f East. 10-kings/hrns get pwer 1-hur with beast. 3-frg spirits ut muth: dragn, beast, prphet. Hrns make war with the Lamb & His army. Frg spirits d miracles; gather all t Battle. Lamb cmes with the called, chsen, & faithful. [Jesus] Behld I cme as a Thief (t steal, kill, ). 10-hrns will make the whre naked & burn her. 7 th V: pured int air; great vice says, it is dne. Wman (whre) is that great city ver kings. Revelatin 18 (pg. 51) Revelatin 19 (pg. 54) Revelatin 20 (pg. 58) Angel says Babyln ("the city" USA) is fallen. Heaven prclaims; the whre was judged. Angel has the key t the bttmless pit & chain. Vice frm Heaven says: cme ut f her. Marriage f Lamb came; bride was ready. Devil is bund, shut up, sealed, 1000-years. Receive nt f her plagues. Blessed are thse called t marriage supper. Saw thrnes; judgment was given t the saints. I sit as a queen and shall see n srrw. Heaven pened, white hrse cmes t judge/war. Overcmers reign, the dead live nt again until... Her plagues cme in ne day, death, murning,... Armies in Heaven fllw n white hrses. Once the 1000-years expire Satan is lsed. Kings bewail when she burns; judgment in 1-hur. Sharp swrd t smite and rule natins. Gg & sand f the sea sinners fight believers. Merchants murn; they can't sell anymre. Winepress: fierceness and wrath f GOD. GOD kills Gg and cast them all int lake f fire. Heaven rejices because Babyln is judged. Fwls tld t cme gather t "the supper." Great white thrne; earth & heaven flee away. Millstne cast int the sea, thus Babyln shall fall. Beast & kings make war with Heaven's armies. Dead cme frth; bks pened; the dead judged. She had the bld f prphets in her. Beast & False Prphet cast int the lake f fire. The sea, Death, and Hell give up their dead. Remnant slain; fwls eat supper f the Great Gd. Death and Hell cast int the lake f fire. Remaining sinners cast int the lake f fire. Seals Trumpets Vials 1 st S: vershadwing/secret cming takes place. 1 st T: the actual beginning f midnight. 1 st Vial: sres upn men. 2 nd S: great swrd t take peace frm earth. 2 nd T: great muntain: Plitical USA. 2 nd Vial: sea t bld; death (in the natural). 3 rd S: wrldwide famine. 3 rd T: great star "as a lamp": backslidden USA. 3 rd Vial: all waters t bld (in the natural). 4 th S: Nw cmes death vs. trment/stinging. 4 th T: darkening f uter-curt and sanctuary. 4 th Vial: sun scrches men with great heat. 5 th Martyred wman waiting t resurrect. 5 th T: fallen star (Satan) pens pit; makes war. 5 th Vial: darkness (misery) n seat f beast. 6 th Witness killed; the Indignatin; mn t bld. 6 th T: 4-spirits released frm Euphrates. 6 th Vial: Euphrates dried-up fr kings f east. 7 th Yeshua returns: dead in Christ rise 1 st. 7 th T: Yeshua & His army returns; Armageddn. 7 th Vial: wrst earthquake ever hits; 100-bl hail. 1/3 Part 1/4 Part 1 st Trump: 1/3 f the trees burnt up. 4 th Seal: pwer given ver ¼ part f earth 2 nd Trump: 1/3 f the sea turned t bld. 3 rd Trump: 1/3 f the waters turned wrmwd. All 4 th Trump: 1/3 f the sun, mn, stars, darkened. 1 st Trump: all the green grass is burnt up 6 th Trump: (natural) 1/3 f men are slain. 2 nd Vial: every living sul in the sea dies Rev 12: 1/3 f the stars f heaven cast t earth. Rev 16: the great city divided int 3-parts. ~ 4 ~

6 The Three We's 1 st We ( Rev 9:1-11; 5 th Trump): star (Satan being cast t earth) with the key t the bttmless pit (nuclear, chemical, wrld war) Gg's glbal attack; the great tribulatin begins after America is taken ut at midnight. 2 nd We 10-Hrns released frm Euphrates; False Prphet/Antichrist/little hrn remves 3-hrns. Witnesses killed; the mn t bld; the Indignatin/Lamb's wrath: the 1 st 6-vials released (Isa 26:20-21) 3 rd We (Rev 11:15-19): 7 th vial: GOD'S ferice wrath; Armageddn; 100-lb hail stnes (Rev 16:21); Heaven pened (supernatural penly manifests); Yeshua returns with armies frm Heaven: Rev 19:11-21 Clr Key Clumns Pre events Midnight Great Tribulatin Indignatin Fierce Wrath 1000-yr Reign New Heavens (1-C 10:11) (Mat 25:6) (Mat 24:21-28) (Isaiah 26:20) (Rev 19:15) (Rev 20:4) (Rev 21:1) He delays Shake Natins 42-mnths Lamb s Wrath Armageddn 7 th Millennium 8 th Millennium (Mat 24:48) (Hag 2:6-7) (Rev 11:2) (Rev 6:16) (Rev 16:16) (Zec 14:16-21) (Rev 20:7) He tarries Nrthern Army 1,260-days 1,290-days 1,335-days 1 st Resurrectin Wrld frever (Mat 25:5) (Jer 6:22-23) (Rev 12:6) (Dan 12:11) (Dan 12:12) (Rev 20:5-6) (Eph 3:21) BC Travail Midnight The Time f Jacb's Truble The 1000-yr Reign...and Beynd Chapter 6 SEALS OPENED: "And I saw when the Lamb pened ne f the seals, and I heard, as it were the nise f thunder, ne f the fur beasts saying, Cme and see." Revelatin 6:1 The 1 st seal represents the secret cming (Malachi 3:1; Jhn 7:10) f Christ as seen in type. In Haggai 2 Gd says He will begin t shake all things: heaven, earth, sea, dry land, and the natins. Gd says when this shaking ccurs He will fill the "latter huse" with His "greater glry." That filling ccurs after Zin first travails. This shaking takes place during the trimming f the lamps time perid as the Bridegrm cntinues t "tarry" and "delay" His cming. Christ must wait until His bride is fully awakened t her lack f cmplete/perfected relatinship and righteusness. The Bible says Gd will even give her a little incentive ("travail") t accmplish this cmmand (Matthew 5:48). Hwbeit, this travailing must precede that which will becme the time f "great tribulatin" (Matthew 24:21). 1 ST SEAL: "I saw, and behld a white hrse [the Hly Spirit (Revelatin 19:11)]: and he [the man child] that sat n him had a bw [pwer]; and a crwn [authrity; 2-Timthy 4:8; 1-Peter 5:4] was given unt him: and he went frth cnquering [1 st thrugh the tw witness/man child ministry], and t cnquer [then later thrugh Yeshua at Armageddn]." Revelatin 6:2; p.p. Revelatin 11:3 Here we see pwer is given t the Tw Witness C./the Man Child Cmpany's birth (triggering the 42-mnths/Great Tribulatin t begin). Jesus tld His disciples that the day was cming where they wuld d even greater wrks than they had seen Him d; this event will initiate that prmise. Als, ntice hw the hrses and the riders are always shwn as separate entities, with the hrse representing a strng spirit (gd r evil) ging frth, and the rider representing a persn, r a natural manifestatin f that spirit's abilities. This 1 st seal represents the appearing spken f in Malachi 3:1, Obadiah 1:21, and Jhn 7:10. Many Christians (and all secular interpreters) see this first "white hrse & rider" as sme evil end-time entity, but it's nt. At this pint it is a picture f the ~ 5 ~

7 secret cming f Christ int His remnant, vercming, wise virgin bride, in the wedding chamber: Matthew 25:10. 2 ND SEAL: "And there went ut anther hrse that was red [Satan being cast t the earth (/ut f the tw witnesses and the 2nd heaven) and empwering evil natins and militaries]: and pwer was given t him that sat theren t take peace frm the earth, and that they shuld kill ne anther: and there was given unt him a great swrd." Revelatin 6:4 This includes Gg's first (nuclear: "a great swrd") attack against the USA. "Red" speaks f bld; it speaks f Satan (being cast t earth); it speaks f a wrldwide cmmunist & Islamic release f murderus spirits. This red hrse & its rider (the first part f the "fur winds" that are lsed) fllws the sealing f the "144,000" (Ezekiel 9:4). 3 RD SEAL: " and l a black hrse; and he that sat n him had a pair f balances in his hand. And I heard a vice in the midst f the fur beasts say, A measure f wheat fr a penny, and three measures f barley fr a penny; and see thu hurt nt the il and the wine [Gd's aninted: the Tw Witnesses Cmpany's supernatural prtectin: Revelatin 11:5]." Revelatin 6:5b The black hrse speaks f glbal famine. This includes the inevitable breakdwn f the wrld's mnetary system, thus the ability t distribute and prduce fd (especially pst nuclear fallut) will be drastically reduced. This same famine judgment/"plague" is shwn in places like Ezekiel 4:16, 5:16-17, 14:13. At this same time the Tw Witness C. & the Wman in the wilderness brethren will be cvered ver, hwbeit at tw differing levels f prtectin during the 42-mnths; ne cmpletely, and ne partially, respectively. Als ntice hw the 1 st thru the 4 th seals are pened almst simultaneusly. 4 TH SEAL: " and behld a pale hrse: and his name that sat n him was Death [which will be the spirit theref pssessing evil men], and Hell fllwed with him [in ther wrds thse killed by this Death are ging int Hell]. And pwer was given unt them [the last 3 hrses & riders] ver the furth part f the earth, t kill with swrd [red hrse + rider], and with hunger [black hrse + rider], and with death [pale hrse + rider], and with the beasts f the earth [evil men: 1-Crinthians 15:32; Titus 1:12]" Revelatin 6:8b These last three hrses riders are given pwer ver the "4 th part f the earth," which crrelates with the 6 th Trumpet (which kills a 1/3 rd part f men) and Revelatin 12:17 ( and went t make war with the remnant f her seed). This speaks f the fur beasts in Daniel 7 that cme up ut f the sea (the natins). The 1 st represent the USA. The 2 nd represents Russia. The 3 rd represents Germany and the ther members f the "G-4." The 4 th is Gg, that being Russia nce it unites with the hrns in Ezekiel 38. The Witnesses allw themselves t be killed by this 4 th beast in Daniel 7; the 1st beast in Revelatin 13, and the ne that cmes a little later called the False Prphet/Antichrist. 5 TH SEAL: "I saw under the altar the suls f them that were slain fr the wrd f Gd, and fr the testimny which they held: And they cried with a lud vice, saying, Hw lng, O Lrd, hly and true, dst thu nt judge and avenge ur bld n them that dwell n the earth? And white rbes were given unt every ne f them; and it was said unt them, that they shuld rest yet fr a little seasn, until their fellwservants als and their brethren, that shuld be killed as they were, shuld be fulfilled." Revelatin 6:9b-11 These "slain" will be thse f the wman in the wilderness church that will be able t lay dwn their lives during the 42-mnths. These will have "understanding" at "midnight," but they will nt intimately "knw their Gd": "And such as d wickedly against the cvenant shall he crrupt by flatteries: but the peple that d Knw their Gd shall be strng, and d explits [have/be given a "duble prtin" f pwer]. And they that Understand amng the peple shall instruct many: yet they [thse that nly understand: Daniel 11:35] shall fall by the swrd, and by flame, by captivity, and by spil, many days" Daniel 11: S the saints under the altar must wait a little seasn until "their fellwservants" [G4889: c-slaves (the tw witness/man child brethren)] and their brethren [G80: a brther (fellw fld saints in "the wilderness")] shuld be killed as they ~ 6 ~

8 were." Thus, the Tw Witnesses C. and apparently mre frm the wman church will be these fellwservants and brethren wh are killed later n after the 42-mnths are cmpleted. We knw these under the alter are killed during the great tribulatin because the Bible says s in Revelatin 7:14, and it says there are still "servants" (c-slaves) left t be killed at that time wh are shwn t be segregated frm just the plain ld "brethren." The cnntatin being the c-slaves are the tw witnesses/man child/vercmer saints wh are yet t lay dwn their lives after the 42-mnths. Chrnlgy is king brethren when it cmes t prphecy. 6 TH SEAL: " there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackclth f hair, and the mn became as bld; And the stars f heaven fell unt the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken f a mighty wind." Revelatin 6:12b, 13; p.p. Matthew 24:29 The start f the "Indignatin" cincides with the death f the Witnesses. The "great earthquake" symblizes the death f the Tw Witnesses (i. e., the sun/gd's light n the earth turning black: being put ut). It says in Revelatin 11:13, "And that same hur was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part f the city fell (i.e., Gd's prtin: His first fruits), and in the earthquake were slain f men seven thusand [reserved remnant saints " wh have nt bwed the knee t Baal"]." Then the mn turns t bld, which is a symblic rendering fr many f the hly place/wman brethren being martyred after the 42-mnths; after their prtectrs are remved. Chrnlgically these "stars f heaven" that fall t earth ("except there cme a falling away..." 2-Thessalnians 2:3) are backslidden Christians wh turn apstate in a vain attempt t save their lives ("...such as d wickedly against the cvenant"). The "mighty wind" is the LORD arising t shake terribly the earth as seen in Isaiah 2:19. "And the heaven departed as a scrll when it is rlled tgether; and every muntain and island were mved ut f their places. And the kings f the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bndman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rcks f the muntains; And said t the muntains and rcks, Fall n us, and hide us frm the face f him that sitteth n the thrne [the Ancient f Days], and frm the wrath f the Lamb." Revelatin 6:14-16 The Indignatin is als called the "Lamb's wrath" (r judgment) upn mankind: "Cme, my peple, enter thu int thy chambers, and shut thy drs abut thee: hide thyself as it were fr a little mment, until the indignatin be verpast. Fr, behld, the LORD cmeth ut f his place t punish the inhabitants f the earth fr their iniquity: the earth als shall disclse her bld, and shall n mre cver her slain" Isaiah 26:20-21; p.p. Isaiah 2:19. Nw this might sund like Armageddn t sme but it's nt. The wrd "indignatin" as used predminately thrughut the Bible speaks primarily f Gd's "anger" and "rage." Whereas the "fierceness f his wrath" speaks f His burning anger and fierce fury: "Wh can stand befre his indignatin? and wh can abide in the fierceness f his anger? his fury is pured ut like fire, and the rcks are thrwn dwn by him" Nahum 1:6. The Lamb's wrath, r "indignatin perid" as I call it, is when the wrld will begin t witness Gd's undeniable supernatural pwer as the Lamb starts t pur ut the many supernatural cataclysmic events upn the earth. Whereas mst everything that happens prir t the 42-mnth's end, will have been the result f man's actins; man's bmbs, man's weapns f war, man's cruelty against his wn kind, etc. Nw cmpare the Lamb's wrath being pured ut, t the Witnesses' using their pwer judiciusly t "smite the earth" nly as needed. Strangely thugh we never d read f them using their pwer ther than when Revelatin 11 describes what culd happen if they chse t. Thus, the Indignatin will be pured ut nly after the wrld rejects Gd's sns' again! Gd will have given that generatin their last chance t hear His Wrd. Nw it says they will kill (murder) the Tw Witnesses by rder f the False Prphet/the Ppe and "send gifts ne t anther; because these tw prphets trmented them that dwelt n the earth." Once that happens Gd will have had enugh f man's unrepentant inslence. Again, the key wrd here is "wrath." It is nt until after the first six f the last seven plagues r vials (as stated in Revelatin 15:1-7), that GOD'S "fierce wrath" begins t be pured ut at Armageddn. ~ 7 ~

9 "Fr the great day f his wrath is cme; and wh shall be able t stand?" Revelatin 6:17 Once mre a quantifier verse specifically defines that it is "his," the "Lamb's wrath" that cmes frth at this time, vs. "the fierceness and wrath f Almighty Gd" (Revelatin 19:15). It's all there fr us t see brethren. Never assume it is k t meld titles tgether, fr ur GOD is very specific with the wrding f the Bible. Keep in mind, titles almst always signify what manifestatin r nature is seen as cming frth. Return t Chapter Index Chapter 7 "And after these things I saw fur [hly] angels standing n the fur crners f the earth, hlding the fur winds [fallen angels] f the earth, that the wind [f adversity] shuld nt blw n the earth, nr n the sea [natins & sinners], nr n any tree [including Christians: Mark 8:24]." Revelatin 7:1 This "pre-midnight" verse speaks f the time when the LORD wuld be "tarring" and "delaying" His cming, that is until "the sealing" is accmplished (Ezekiel 9:1-4; Daniel 7:2-7; Habakkuk 2:3; Matthew 24:48; 25:5; Hebrews 10:37; 2-Pet 3:9). This is where we will be at until midnight arrives. Here we see fur f GOD'S angels hlding back r resisting fur evil angel princes frm initiating what is described as midnight, what fllws is the great tribulatin. Midnight is what will make the Bride ready. This gives us a gd picture f hw things first start in the spirit realm befre they can cme frth in the natural realm. "Saying, Hurt nt the earth [nature], neither the sea [the peples f the natins], nr the trees [all Christians], till we have sealed the servants [the man child/tw witnesses/wise virgins/vercmers] f ur Gd in their freheads. And I heard the number f them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and frty and fur thusand f all the tribes f the children f Israel." Revelatin 7:3-4 The fullness f this same sealing is als fund in Ezekiel 9:4. Whereas the inceptin r first instance f this sealing is spken f in places like 2-Crinthians 1:22, and Ephesians 4:30. This sealing is actually taking place right nw, and it will cntinue right up until the actual marriage (Matthew 25:6-10). This is why in Matthew 25:6 nly the cry is heard being made, "Behld, the bridegrm cmeth [nt, has arrived], g ye ut t meet Him." Then it says all the virgins had t arise and "trim their lamps" (underg a final purging/cleansing/cmpletin f the sealing) befre the bridegrm can return, "...nt penly, but as it were in secret (Jhn 7:10)." It's imprtant that Christians understand this time perid because it will try everyne's faith t the cre; 30, 60, and 100-flders alike. N ne is ging t be "beamed up," nt yet away (Revelatin 11:12)! Yu shuld als be aware that this is nt described as a passive sealing prcess. This is when the wman "laburs," when Zin "travails," and when darkness cvers the earth. The three Hebrews experienced this sealing in type in the fiery furnace. In Matthew 25:10 it says that nly five virgins enter in (were sealed), and five had t g ut and "buy" (suffer/pay the price/get sanctified fr the 42-mnths) t get their il (aninting/relatinship) back. The 144,000 is nt a natural number. These are the men f war; thse in the army f GOD (Numbers 31:5) that are sealed including, the man child/wise virgins/tw witness c. wh made themselves ready. Then later n in Revelatin 7:9, after the 42-mnths, Jhn sees "a great multitude that n man culd number." This is when the 144,000 wh were sealed (with the mind f Christ) at the beginning f the 1,260-days, and thse "under the alter" wh were killed (martyred) in times and ages past, which make up "the great clud f witnesses," shall meet and rejice: "And these all, having btained a gd reprt thrugh faith, received nt the prmise: Gd having prvided sme better thing fr us, that they (the "great clud f witnesses" brethren) withut us (the great tribulatin witnesses/martyrs) shuld nt be made perfect" Hebrews 11: ~ 8 ~

10 " and he said t me, These are they which came ut f great tribulatin, and have washed their rbes, and made them white in the bld f the Lamb." Revelatin 7:14b This verse signifies the end f the 42-mnths and the very beginning f the indignatin, when there will be a reunin f srts fr all thse wh "lved nt their lives nt the death" in their lifetimes. It als depicts a time f reward fr the martyrs'. Chrnlgically this chapter ges right frm the sealing, t the death f the Witnesses. It skips ver the 42-mnths f great tribulatin. "Fr the Lamb which is in the midst f the thrne shall feed them, and shall [future tense] lead them unt living funtains f waters: and Gd shall wipe away all tears frm their eyes." Revelatin 7:17 What is really amazing abut this verse is that it says there is smething mre that awaits even the vercmers after the great tribulatin. It says they "shall" be lead int apparently greater depths f "living funtains f waters." Later n Revelatin 21:4 tells us when the fullness f "GOD Himself" wiping away "all tears" event takes place: nce "death and hell" are cast int the lake f fire, which is after the thusand year reign at the "Great White Thrne Judgment." Return t Chapter Index Chapter 8 7 TH SEAL: "And when he had pened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven abut the space f half an hur." Revelatin 8:1 The 7 th seal, like the 7 th trumpet, and the 7 th vial, signifies the wrst f the wrst. It's the time f Gd's "fierce wrath" and what's called the "winepress" judgment (Revelatin 14:9, 19:15). It's the time fr Gd t cmplete His end-time judgments. I believe the "silence in Heaven" signifies the cessatin f all ther business that's usually carried ut in Heaven, except fr answering the prayers f the saints in Revelatin 8:3. It may als be because Heaven is cming dwn t earth at this pint. The King f kings, His army, and the angels are all cming t fight at Armageddn, s in essence Heaven will be emptyed ut. Nw even thugh the 7 th seal is nt described fr us in this chapter, we knw chrnlgically it must invlve the battle f Armageddn since it fllws the 6 th seal. "And I saw the seven angels which std befre Gd; and t them were given seven trumpets." Revelatin 8:2 Here again like many places in the bk f Revelatin, Gd ges back (rewinds) t an earlier pint in end-time chrnlgy t shw Jhn yet anther perspective f the things that will happen. Frget chapter integrity and verse chrnlgy; Gd des nt always fllw ur rules f perceived rder. Still, the "7 th seal" remains the 7 th seal; it's nt a trumpet. In their basic frm seals are meant t secure things (like spirits) that are yet t be lsed, whereas trumpets prclaim things (like future judgments) whse appinted time has cme. "And anther angel came and std at the altar, having a glden censer; and there was given unt him much incense, that he shuld ffer it with the prayers f all saints upn the glden altar which was befre the thrne." Revelatin 8:3 These prayers include the prayers f all the persecuted saints that ever lived, starting with righteus Able. Gd has always stated, "Vengeance is Mine says the LORD"; at this pint it (Gd's Spirit f vengeance) begins t be released in a limited fashin. The trumpet judgments that fllw are nly the beginning f "Jacb's truble." Hwever, things will cntinue t grw increasingly wrse as the fllwing 1,335-days f Daniel 12:12, which the ttal sum f the great tribulatin, the ~ 9 ~

11 indignatin, and the battle f Armageddn/ the battle f that great day f Gd Almighty begin t unfld. "And the angel tk the censer, and filled it with fire f the altar, and cast it int the earth: and there were vices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake." Revelatin 8:5 Whenever yu see the phraselgy, "vices, thunderings, and lightning's," it usually signifies that GOD is abut t unleash r allw sme type f judgment t cme upn the earth. "Earthquakes" speak f the grund (the sul) being trn pen. The perfect strm that is being fretld (the "vices") is abut t be unleashed: "Thu shalt ascend and cme like a strm, thu [cntextually meaning Gg] shalt be like a clud t cver the land, thu, and all thy bands [the fld f waters: Revelatin 12:15], and many peple [the swelling f Jrdan: Jeremiah 12:5] with thee" Ezekiel 38:9. "And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves t sund." Revelatin 8:6 I believe the first fur f these trumpet judgments will happen befre the 42-mnths f great tribulatin even start. I als believe the first fur trumpets are what cause Zin t travail, the wise virgins t wake up and "trim their lamps," and fr the wman t ultimately give birth t the man child/tw witness c.; this all happens during the midnight time perid. Yu will see that the 3 rd & 4 th trumpets are paralleled in Revelatin 12:4 as Satan's "tail" ministry (end-time false teachers & teachings: Isaiah 9:15-16) that cntinue t cause many in the church t "fall," (be cast t the earth/carnality). Whereas the 5 th trumpet (the 1 st We) signifies the start the 42-mnths/1,260- days/the great tribulatin "trampling" perid f the uter curt, and the start f the "cleansing f the sanctuary" as described in Daniel 8:13. 1 ST TRUMPET: "The first angel sunded, and there fllwed hail and fire mingled with bld [persecutin], and they were cast upn the earth: and the third part f trees was burnt up, and all green grass [meaning this grass had sme life frm Gd in it] was burnt up." Revelatin 8:7 "Hail" and "fire" are used in the Bible t represent bth physical and symblic judgment(s) r impending military destructin: "Behld, the Lrd hath a mighty and strng ne [Ezekiel 38:17], which as a tempest f hail and a destrying strm, as a fld f mighty waters verflwing [Jeremiah 47:2-3], shall cast dwn t the earth with the hand. The crwn f pride, the drunkards f Ephraim, shall be trdden under feet [Daniel 8:13]:" Isaiah 28:2-3. The judgment against the trees and "all green" grass (the latter grwth/new grwth aninting) is actually speaking f the same thing: the last day backslidden, sleeping, hly place ministries' will be the first t be judged because they have lst their place with Gd. If it were natural grass at this 1 st trumpet, the 5 th trumpet in Revelatin 9:4 wuld nt still be mentining grass and green things. "We t them that are at ease in Zin, and trust in the muntain f Samaria [mixture/cmprmise], which are named chief f the natins [favred pastrs, preachers, and teachers: Micah 3], t whm the huse f Israel [brnagain believers] came... V.7 Therefre nw shall they g captive with the first that g captive [Ezekiel 9:6], and the banquet [carnal prfiting] f them that stretched themselves [are at ease ] shall be remved V.14 But, behld, I will raise up against yu a natin [Gg: Russia + his cnfederacy f 10-hrned natins], O huse f Israel, saith the LORD the Gd f hsts; and they shall afflict yu frm the entering in f Hemath unt the river f the wilderness" Ams 6:1, 6:7, 6:14, "Thus hath the Lrd GOD shewed unt me; and, behld, he frmed grasshppers [aka, lcusts: persecutrs] in the beginning [f the 21 th century] f the shting up f the latter grwth [the latter rain]; and, l, it was the latter grwth AFTER the king's mwing [after the midnight travail]. And it came t pass, that when they [the lcusts eaters: Jel 2:25] had made an end f eating the grass f the land, then I said, O Lrd GOD, frgive, I beseech thee: by whm shall Jacb arise? fr he is small" Ams 7:1-2. Of curse the answer t Ams's questin wuld be the "tw witnesses"/"man child" brethren. This first trumpet judgment is annunced against bth the uter curt hst and the illess virgins sleeping in the sanctuary (Daniel 8:13; Ezekiel 9:6). It will begin with "changed times and laws" that will increase the persecutin upn Christians. The 1 st trumpet annunces the arrival f increased persecutin that will tuch every believer, nt just thse pr saints we hear f in places like Nrth ~ 10 ~

12 Krea, China, and Iran t name a few. Fr even the realm r relatinal experience called "Zin," must be shaken t the cre, and that cannt happen when things like cnstitutins, plitical prtectins, and s called "freedm f speech" laws are still in effect. The remaining trumpets cntinue t add further assaults mainly upn Christianity. Ultimately, these attacks will cme t natural Israel as well, but the Bible tells us that Israel in part is allwed t survive, yet they will be besieged at Armageddn and attacked until they cry ut "blessed is he that cmes in the name f the LORD" Nw sme see the trees and grass in verse seven as the uter curt being trampled, and technically a prtin f it is. Yet the fullness f that judgment which is against what culd be called the clergy class f Christians, des nt fully kick-in until the 3 rd trumpet. Sme cnfusin may arise here seeing the Church is actually subdivided int three levels f maturity r accuntability that being, "little children," "yung men," and "father" levels, r 30, 60, and 100-fld brethren that Gd must judge accrdingly (see link). 2 ND TRUMPET: "And the secnd angel sunded, and as it were a great muntain burning [plitical USA] with fire was cast int the sea: and the third part f the sea became bld; And the third part f the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part f the ships were destryed." Revelatin 8:8-9 In Zechariah 4:7 Gd is shwn rebuking smene r smething He refers t as a "great muntain." I believe the cntext f the surrunding verses define "that great muntain" as the last dminant kingdm r wrld pwer in the sixth millennium: "that Great City Babyln," great wrldwide last-day Babyln, which is primarily America. I believe this "burning muntain" judgment may be speaking f the wrld's ecnmy crashing f which America will receive the wrst f it. This is when the wrld starts t cme under judgment as the backslidden America is the first t be judged and cast dwn (Obadiah 1:4; Revelatin 8:10) fr her fallen state: Revelatin 17:9-11, 18:8-21. In Jeremiah 51 there is anther prnuncement invlving a mighty destrying muntain that shall be set ablaze: "And I will render unt Babyln and t all the inhabitants f Chaldea all their evil that they have dne in Zin in yur sight, saith the LORD. Behld, I am against thee, O destrying muntain, saith the LORD, which destryest all the earth: and I will stretch ut mine hand upn thee, and rll thee dwn frm the rcks, and will make thee a burnt muntain" Jeremiah 51: S technically Babyln's fall begins befre the 42-mnths even start. America (the great "city" f Babyln: Revelatin 14:8) is ne f the first t be judged. As a result f her judgment the rest f the wrld will begin t suffer as Gg seeks t cnquer all thers (Revelatin 18). 3 RD TRUMPET: "And the third angel sunded, and there fell a great star [ne time Christian America] frm heaven, burning as it were a lamp, [Matthew 5:14; as it was nce a light t the wrld] and it fell upn [it affected] the third part f the rivers, and upn the funtains f waters; And the name f the star is called Wrmwd [G894: bitterness]: and the third part f the waters [the uter curt] became wrmwd; and many men died f the waters [Revelatin 17:15: evil natins & peples], because they were made bitter." Revelatin 8:10-11; p.p. Numbers 5:12-28; Jeremiah 9:15; Micah 3 This "great star burning as it were a lamp " is a picture f the USA (a lamp: the light f Gd t the natins) being cast t earth after lsing its place in the heavens. At ne time America represented herself as having been built upn the fundatin f GOD'S Wrd. Althugh, America's past has sme very lw pints in it where wicked leaders and certain peples allwed ppressin f ther peples and races. Nevertheless, a gd prtin f this great natin never participated in these atrcities. Other leaders wuld be prayed int ffice and then take ver and cntinue n in a place mre representative f a Christian natin; mre s than any ther natin in the wrld. Yu will nt find this in the histry bks. Yet tday she is mre likened t what the Bible calls, "the great whre that sitteth upn many waters" and "that great city Babyln" (Revelatin 17:1, 18:10) because f certain plitical and religius leaders actins (r nn-actins) and the peple that fllw them. Prverbs 5 tells us why this "great star" is called wrmwd: "Fr the lips f a strange wman [a harlt] drp as an hneycmb, and her muth is smther than il: But her end is bitter as wrmwd, sharp as a tw edged swrd" Prverbs 5:3-4. Obadiah says it this way speaking f "Edm," as in Jacb's [Israel's] twin brther Esau, which America representing the wild live branch has becme, "The pride f thine heart hath deceived thee, thu that dwellest in the clefts f the rck, whse habitatin is high; that saith in his heart, Wh shall bring me dwn t the grund? Thugh thu exalt thyself as the eagle [America's natinal symbl], and thugh thu set ~ 11 ~

13 thy nest amng the stars [i.e., the stars f heaven: Revelatin 8:10], thence will I bring thee dwn, saith the LORD" Obadiah 1:3-4. When this "great star" falls called wrmwd [G894: bitterness] which Prverbs 5 just tld us is the end f a whrish wman, that a "third part" f the rivers and funtains f waters were made bitter. This speaks in part f the fallen 1/3 "ministers and ministries" cming under Gd's judgment fr preaching a plitically crrect gspel that leads the saints dwn the wrng path. Whereas the uter curt backslidden self-impsed laity class f Christians will get theirs in the next trumpet blast. This "rivers and funtains f water realm," is the realm f thse wh are suppsed t issue frth Gd's Wrd, nly here it cmes frm the great harlt church. "He that believeth n me, as the scripture hath said, ut f his belly shall flw rivers f living water" Jhn 7:38. America is already persecuting Christians by taking away their liberties as the spirit f plitical crrectness ges frth. An example f the "bitter waters" judgment is als fund in Numbers 5: "Speak unt the children f Israel, and say unt them, If any man's wife [the sleeping bride] g aside, and cmmit a trespass against him, And a man lie with her carnally [she's married t the babylnish church system], and it be hid frm the eyes f her husband [Matthew 13:30], and be kept clse [in her heart], and she be defiled, and there be n witness against her [because the Church lacks discernment], neither she be taken with the manner [she still acts religius]; And the spirit f jealusy cme upn him, and he be jealus f his wife, and she be defiled: r if the spirit f jealusy cme upn him, and he be jealus f his wife, and she be nt defiled [the wise virgins]: Then shall the man bring his wife unt the priest, and he shall bring her ffering fr her, the tenth part f an ephah f barley meal; he shall pur n il upn it, nr put frankincense theren ["give us f yur il; fr ur lamps are gne ut"]; fr it is an ffering f jealusy, an ffering f memrial, bringing iniquity t remembrance. And the priest shall bring her near, and set her befre the LORD: And the priest shall take hly water [Gd's Wrd] in an earthen vessel; and f the dust that is in the flr f the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it int the water [this dust speaks f the witness f departed Christians: Daniel 12:2]: And the priest shall set the wman befre the LORD, and uncver the wman's head, and put the ffering f memrial in her hands, which is the jealusy ffering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse" Numbers 5: "And when he hath made her t drink the water, then it shall cme t pass, that, if she [the spiritually adulteress Christian] be defiled, and have dne trespass against her husband [the LORD], that the water that causeth the curse shall enter int her, and becme bitter [Jam 3:11], and her belly shall swell [like leaven], and her thigh shall rt [bareness]: and the wman shall be a curse amng her peple. And if the wman be nt defiled, but be clean; then she [a wise virgin] shall be free, and shall cnceive seed [the man child]" Numbers 5: S here's an example f "bitter waters" (tribulatin & travail) being used t prve faithfulness, vs. whredm. All thse wh have turned aside frm the LORD will nly harden their necks further when the bitterness f judgment cmes upn them. 4 TH TRUMPET: "And the furth angel sunded, and the third part f the sun was smitten, and the third part f the mn, and the third part f the stars; s as the third part f them was darkened, and the day shne nt fr a third part f it, and the night likewise." Revelatin 8:12; p.p. Revelatin 12:4; Ezekiel 32:7-9 This alternative depictin f the "darkening" als happens during "midnight." The carnally crrupted 1/3 part realm f the "flck," including, "the sinners in Zin" (the sun Church: Isaiah 33:14), "the wman" wh sits upn the beast (the 1/3 part f the mn: Revelatin 17:3), and "the curt which is withut" (the 1/3 part f the stars: Revelatin 11:2, 12:4) shall be the first t be judged. Since the first five chapters f Revelatin are nt included in this study, we shuld bear in mind that Revelatin 1:20 says that stars can als represent messengers (ang'-el-s). Anther example where a star ministry is "darkened" r "falls," can be seen in Thyatira's rebuke: "Ntwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thu sufferest that wman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prphetess, t teach [minister] and t seduce my servants t cmmit frnicatin, and t eat things sacrificed unt idls. And I gave her space t repent f her frnicatin; and she repented nt. Behld, I will cast her int a bed, and them that cmmit adultery with her int great tribulatin, except they repent f their deeds" Revelatin 2: In Ezekiel 32 the darkening f these same celestial bdies are revealed in yet anther way: "And when I shall put thee [meaning wrldly Egypt (America)] ut, I will cver the heaven, and make the stars theref dark; I will cver the sun with a clud, and the mn shall nt give her light" Ezekiel 32:7. Thus, if yu take all these verses ~ 12 ~

14 int prper cntext, the darkening f these heavenly bdies, like the "bitter waters" judgment, signals the start f the 42-mnths, when the "uter curt" AND "the sanctuary" (Daniel 8:13) begin t be "trampled & trdden under ft." S in essence the religiusness f mdern day Christianity, alng with its traditins and denminatinal systems will nt nly be judged at midnight, but they will cntinue t be judged all thrughut the 42-mnths. Whereas mst f the true persevering Church will have t g undergrund, int "the wilderness" as it were, if they hpe t survive until Yeshua physically returns at Armageddn 1,290-days later (Daniel 12:11). "And I beheld, and heard an angel flying thrugh the midst f heaven, saying with a lud vice, We, we, we, t the inhabiters f the earth by reasn f the ther vices f the trumpet [5 th, 6 th, & 7 th "we" trumpets] f the three angels, which are yet t sund." Revelatin 8:13 It shuld be nted here that Gd made a pint t separate the trumpets int tw grups. I believe the grups are pre and pst, secret cming: Matthew 25:10. Hwever, everything that happens befre the 5 th trumpet will have still been very, very, bad fr many peple. The first we which predminantly speaks f Satan being cast t earth, takes place at the same time that the uter curt is given ver t the Gentiles, even thugh chrnlgically it is mentined immediately after that event begins. Thus, the wman/flish virgins find ut they d nt have the "il" and flee int the wilderness. At that same time the uter curt begins t be trampled, and that is when Satan steps up his assault: "And the serpent cast ut f his muth water as a fld after the wman, that he might cause her t be carried away f the fld" Revelatin 12:15. This "fld" speaks f all ut war against Christians wrld-wide. It begins as the wman has t flee int the wilderness. Keep in mind; symblisms have the tendency t make things appear much wrse than they may actually be. Even s, nce the "1 st we" begins the wrld will knw what "great tribulatin" is all abut: "We t the crwn f pride, t the drunkards f Ephraim, whse glrius beauty is a fading flwer, which are n the head f the fat valleys f them that are vercme with wine! Behld, the Lrd hath a mighty and strng ne [Gg], which as a tempest f hail and a destrying strm, as a fld f mighty waters verflwing, shall cast dwn t the earth with the hand. The crwn f pride, the drunkards f Ephraim [the uter curt], shall be trdden under feet" Isaiah 28:1-3; "If thu hast run with the ftmen, and they have wearied thee, then hw canst thu cntend with hrses [strng(er) spirits]? and if in the land f peace [pre-midnight], wherein thu trustedst, they wearied thee, then hw wilt thu d in the swelling f Jrdan [the fld f waters]?" Jeremiah 12:5. Yu can search this ut, but the "fld f mighty waters" (interpreted by sme as "muddy waters" i.e., false dctrine in their minds) that is sent after the wman in Revelatin 12, is actually a symblic picture f the multitude f armies that will verflw the land. Nw the "tail ministry" which is spken f in Revelatin 12:4, is seeking t crrupt the Church thrugh false dctrine, which type is established in Isaiah 9:15. Brethren, the Bible must interpret the Bible. If yur interpretatin came frm yur wn understanding and nt the Bible, I guarantee yu yu're dctrine is in errr. Return t Chapter Index Chapter 9 5 TH TRUMPET (1 st we): "And the fifth angel sunded, and I saw a star [a prince: Ams 5:26] fall frm heaven unt the earth: and t him was given the key f the bttmless pit." Revelatin 9:1 The "star" f the 5 th trumpet will be Satan being cast t the earth and entering the False Prphet/Antichrist f Revelatin 16, 19, and 2-Thessalnians 2:9-10, wh then becmes the "eighth beast" f Revelatin 17:11. This is a picture f Revelatin 12:9 (great dragn being cast ut f the 2 nd heaven) and is the start f the 1,260-day lng great tribulatin. This verse explains hw Satan can be bth shwn as falling r being cast ut dwn t earth, and yet Revelatin 11:7 says f Satan that he is "the beast that ascendeth ut f the bttmless pit " S hw can that be? Jesus says in Revelatin 1:18 that He "has the keys f hell and f death," which He tk frm Satan at Calvary. Thus, Satan will have t be temprarily given these keys back t bring up his hrdes frm Hell t accmplish Gd's master plan f judgment upn the wrld: "And the angels which kept nt their first estate, but left their wn habitatin, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unt the judgment f the great day" Jude 1:6. ~ 13 ~

15 Once Satan is cast ut he enters the "false prphet," wh I believe will be the presiding Ppe at that time. Daniel 11 talks abut a man wh cmes frth at this same pint in time wh is described as a type f wrld leader that will be vastly different frm thers wh held the same ffice befre him: "Neither shall he [the "False Prphet"] regard the Gd f his fathers, nr the desire f wmen [i. e., churches: religius views/peple's faith], nr regard any gd: fr he shall magnify himself abve all. But in his estate shall he hnur the Gd f frces: [military might/crpral pwer] and a gd whm his fathers knew nt [Satan incarnate] shall he hnur with gld, and silver, and with precius stnes, and pleasant things. Thus shall he d in the mst strng hlds with a strange gd, whm he shall acknwledge and increase with glry: and he shall cause them t rule ver many [Revelatin 13:15], and shall divide the land fr gain" Daniel 11: This is the man whm the scriptures shw Satan will pssess. Ntice all the references t Gd; that's because this man's business is religin, thus the title "the False Prphet" wh des great wnders, and miracles, just like the antichrist described in 2-Thessalnians 2:9-10. The "5 th trumpet" will certainly be the undisputed start f the great tribulatin. 5 TH TRUMPET (cnt.): "And he pened the bttmless pit; and there arse a smke ut f the pit, as the smke f a great furnace [Matthew 13:40-42]; and the sun and the air were darkened by reasn f the smke f the pit." Revelatin 9:2 The 5 th trumpet initiates the "1 st we"; it crrespnds with the start f the 42-mnths and all ut war, including nuclear, chemical, and bilgical warfare: "smke f the pit"/hell unleashed. Isaiah 14:31 als speaks f "smke" as the manifestatin f armies bringing destructin. As stated this falling star represents Satan being cast t the earth and having t pssess ne persn f bth religius and gvernmental pwers; he will be able t use Gg's militaries, just like the Pharisees used Pntius Pilate t kill believers. He, the Ppe, will nt run arund tssing hly water and encurage his 1.8 billin member flck t kill real Christians. Hwever, later n in chapter 13 when this star leader is typed as the beast with "tw hrns" (i. e., the wrds that he speaks will be backed up by the pwer that Satan gives him) he will be given supernatural pwer t d "great wnders" and "miracles." S what will happen is that great turmil (natin against natin) will begin t escalate at the 1 st trumpet, and by the time we get t the 5 th trumpet it will explde int an all ut wrld war. 5 TH TRUMPET (cnt.): "And there came ut f the smke lcusts [armies: Jel 2:25] upn the earth: and unt them was given pwer [dminin], as the scrpins f the earth have pwer. And it was cmmanded them that they shuld nt hurt the [remaining 2/3 f the] grass f the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but nly thse men which have nt the seal f Gd in their freheads [the first 1/3]. And t them it was given that they shuld nt kill them, but that they shuld be trmented five mnths: and their trment was as the trment f a scrpin, when he striketh a man." Revelatin 9:3-5 Once this army cmes frth the wman in Revelatin 12 will have a prvisin (in the Spirit) in "the wilderness" frm "the face f the serpent." This speaks f the wman ging undergrund; n mre pen meetings. This time the allegric references t the grass f the earth, green things, and trees nt being hurt, includes nly thse wh have the mind f Christ, whether they be the newly saved r latent Christians wh have finally cme int the place f bedience t the will f Gd. The difference between the "1 st we" and the "2 nd we," is that Satan is nly given permissin t trture the lst, the uter curt, and sanctuary (hly-place) Christians that d nt have the mind f Christ, r what's called, "being IN Christ." This is a higher level f Christian maturity where ne is being lead f the Hly Spirit as t what t d, where t g, and hw t stay safe. Thse withut this mind r "seal" will suffer accrdingly. As fr the 2 nd we, it says there will be much death; the 1/3 part f men slain by Gg and the 10-hrn army. Nw physically, the wman in the wilderness is cvered ver (hidden) in the places f refuge that the LORD has been preparing fr thse wh can still hear His vice. Althugh, as previusly mentined, "sme f them f [with nly] "understanding [yet lacking a deep persnal relatinship with Christ] shall fall, t try them, and t purge, and t make them white, even t the time f the end: because it is yet fr a time appinted." Daniel 11:35. Nevertheless, ne thing we knw fr sure, thse "that sigh and that cry fr all the abminatins that be dne in the midst theref ["thse that knw their Gd"]" Ezekiel 9:4, will nt suffer the same fate. ~ 14 ~

16 As fr the scrpin's sting, we must keep in mind this is applied t the lcust army. This seems t be yet anther way f shwing that this army will nt be predminately ging frth during the 1 st 5- mnths f the war just t slaughter peple. I am sure peple are ging t die at this time, but the real killing des nt take place until the 6 th Trumpet releases the hrns t d s 5-mnths after they helped Russia attack America (Revelatin 17:16). S just as a scrpin sting usually des nt bring death, s t this army will be restrained by Gd; I believe this is t give peple time t repent as they see what's cming: "Men's hearts failing them fr fear, and fr lking after thse things which are cming n the earth: fr the pwers f heaven shall be shaken" Luke 21:26. Yu will see ther verses in chapter 9 that shws these lcusts t be invading freign armies, nt sme mnstrus natural mutant lcust swarm frm hell that yu wuld see in ne f thse lw budget Syfy Channel mvies. As fr the five mnths f trment, it may very well mean just that; Gd will allw the wrld's sinners, including uter curt Christianity, a perid f 5-mnths t repent nce this judgment cmes frth befre they are just utright killed. Like in Luke 1:24 where it says "Elisabeth" was hid [purged/went t purchase her il] five literal mnths "t take away her reprach amng men," And yet a "virgin named Mary" was just "vershadwed" by the Hly Spirit. 5 TH TRUMPET (cnt.): "And the shapes f the lcusts were like unt hrses prepared unt battle; and n their heads were as it were crwns like gld, and their faces were as the faces f men. And they had hair as the hair f wmen [1-Crinthians 11:14-15: speaks f a cvering (frm GOD: Ezekiel 38:16-17)], and their teeth were as the teeth f lins. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates f irn; and the sund f their wings was as the sund f charits f many hrses running t battle." Revelatin 9:7-9 Once again the Bible reveals these "lcust" creatures are nthing mre than a mechanized human army being described in the symblic terms f Jhn's day. Symblic rendering is nthing new fr GOD, yet it seems Christians smehw frget this when it cmes t the bk f Revelatin. It says, "they had hair as the hair f wmen " This symblically refers t a glrius cvering frm GOD. This means this army will be sent, they will be supprted, and they will be given anything they need because GOD is sending them: "Therefre, sn f man, prphesy and say unt Gg, Thus saith the Lrd GOD; In that day when my peple f Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thu nt knw it? And thu shalt cme frm thy place ut f the nrth parts [Russia], thu, and many peple with thee [the 10- hrns], all f them riding upn hrses, a great cmpany, and a mighty army: And thu shalt cme up against my peple f Israel, as a clud ["smke f the pit"] t cver the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may knw me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gg, befre their eyes" Ezekiel 38: TH TRUMPET: "And the sixth angel sunded, and I heard a vice frm the fur hrns f the glden altar which is befre Gd, Saying t the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Lse the fur angels which are bund [frm killing the 3 rd part f men] in the great river Euphrates [Islamic natins frm the regin theref]. And the fur angels were lsed, which were prepared fr an hur, and a day, and a mnth, and a year, fr t slay [vs. trmenting at 1 st we] the third part f men." Revelatin 9:13-15 This is when the 10-hrns f Gg's cnfederacy (Psalms 83:5) r calitin if yu prefer, are allwed t g frth t nt nly trment thse they have been attacking, but nw Gd allws them t kill them as well. The lsing f the fur angels appears t chrnlgically insinuate these 10-hrned Islamic natins dn't cme frth until 5-mnths after America is attacked, but it is nt saying that. Yes, the 5 th trumpet describes the "1 st We" as Satan being cast t the earth and all that entails as far as the start f wrld-wide great tribulatin, after which it says the 1 st we is past. Hwever, this des nt and will nt prhibit the 10-hrns frm cming frth befre Satan is cast dwn during the midnight time perid. What is past is Satan cming t earth and the "5-mnth" grace perid (Acts 2:21) Gd apparently gives t thse wh are abut t die and enter eternity. Sure they are ging t suffer hrribly (radiatin, starvatin, rape, etc., but the alternative is instant death and then t Hell fr mst. "Therefre rejice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. We t the inhabiters f the earth and f the sea! fr the devil is cme dwn unt yu, having great wrath, because he knweth that he hath but a shrt time" Revelatin 12:12. This is why any and all imprtant events in the Bible need t take int accunt at least tw r three ther references, especially when it cncerns chrnlgy f events. "And the ten hrns [frm the Euphrates area/linage: Ezekiel 38:1-16] which thu sawest upn the beast, these shall hate the whre [America], and shall make her ~ 15 ~

17 deslate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire" Revelatin 17:16; p.p. Jeremiah 51:7-9. S wh are these mdern-day hrns? Well, there is Russia wh are the descendants f "Gg" (the land f Magg); there is Turkey wh are the descendants f "Meshech & Tubal"; Iran wh is "Persia"; " Ethipia, and Libya with them; all f them with shield and helmet: Gmer, and all his bands [including Germany & eastern Eurpe]; the huse f Tgarmah f the nrth quarters, and all his bands (Armenia): and many peple with thee" Ezekiel 38:5-6. And f curse the three hrns that the "Little Hrn" remves r rbs them fr their natural resurces, "Sheba, and Dedan (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Dubai), and the merchants f Tarshish [Spain], with all the yung lins theref [ther resurce rich natins], shall say unt thee, Art thu cme t take a spil? hast thu gathered thy cmpany t take a prey? t carry away silver and gld, t take away cattle and gds, t take a great spil? Ezekiel 38:13. Of curse they will first practice this n America after she's nuked. The Gg cnfederacy will cntinue t attack all ther natins and peples wh ppse their rule thrughut the great tribulatin. Their end will cme at Armageddn, althugh the Tw Witness/Man Child C. will be able t limit their slaughter f the "wman in the wilderness" type Christians during the great tribulatin. As fr Revelatin 9:5, I believe it speaks f a 5-mnth perid where nly faithful "sealed" believers (the tw witness/man child saints) are prtected while the rest f the wrld falls under this "sting f a scrpin," trmenting judgment at the start f the great tribulatin. Keep in mind, America's judgment cmes during "midnight, which takes place right befre the great tribulatin begins." Actually, America's judgment is what prpels the rest f the wrld int great tribulatin; that, and the sn's f GOD cming frth. "Fr the time is cme that judgment must begin at the huse f Gd: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be f them that bey nt the gspel f Gd?" 1-Peter 4:17. Anther passage in Ezekiel 9 says it this way, "And the LORD said unt him, G thrugh the midst f the city, thrugh the midst f Jerusalem, and set a mark upn the freheads [i.e., the mind f Christ] f the men that sigh and that cry fr all the abminatins that be dne in the midst theref [speaking f Christians that daily examine themselves t see if they still be in the faith: 2-Crinthians 13:5]. And t the thers he said in mine hearing, G ye after him thrugh the city [Revelatin 17:18], and smite: let nt yur eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly ld and yung, bth maids, and little children, and wmen: but cme nt near any man upn whm is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were befre the huse. And he said unt them, Defile the huse, and fill the curts with the slain: g ye frth. And they went frth, and slew in the city" Ezekiel 9:4-7. This is why the nce faithful Christian natin America is the first t get it; judgment must first start at the husehld f GOD. Yet Gd is merciful and allws the rest f the unsaved wrld a little mre time as it sees Hell being unleashed upn the earth. Billins will die that Jesus suffered fr; He still lves sinners and anything shrt f instant death gives that sinner yet ne mre chance t cry ut, "Jesus frgive me, I have been deceived, let nt my sul g dwn t Hell this day (Acts 2:21)." I believe nce the 5-mnth grace perid is ver the False Prphet/Antichrist/Little Hrn will cme alng and remve three f the first hrns fr whatever reasn. Either Satan will see these three as being weak r nt willing t cntinue in his wrld-wide slaughter f natins and peples. He may als just need t take their fuel reserves and deplete their cunties beynd any acceptable limits; s they will be taken ver: Ezekiel 38:13. S it said in Revelatin 9:12 that the "1 st we" has past, yet the secnd we (which starts with the hrns being allwed t kill a 1/3 f mankind after the 5-mnths) is nt ver until Revelatin 11:14, which includes the 1 st six vials judgments ging frth even thugh it des nt directly mentin them in chapter eleven. Therefre, nce the indignatin/vial judgment starts, is when Isaiah 26:20-21 cmes int effect. Yu have t use ther chapters in Revelatin and Daniel t derive the beginning and end f the "3-wes" they are hid smewhat frm us. Yu als have t have the understanding f the end-time time perids fund n this page link. The 6 th trumpet invlves an even greater increase in this ultimate wrld-war by releasing the angels (peples and armies) f the Euphrates river area. Yes America gets it first, but there will be three and ne half years f war and killing still t g. We knw the 5 th trumpet releases the "smke f the pit," the "lcust army" (Russia + ten hrns), which represents Gg's cntinued cnquests after annihilating America, and the wrld's diminished ability t stp him/them. S this is when the secnd ~ 16 ~

18 3 rd part f humanity gets it (Zechariah 13:8-9). The reference t the "great river Euphrates" indicates the Islamic spirit f murder being released in thse natins in the area that river flws thrugh. Thus, the 10-hrns will becme a killing machine at this time. Yu've seen the vides f what they're already ding t infidels; it's ging t get wrse: "Every ne that is fund shall be thrust thrugh; and every ne that is jined unt them shall fall by the swrd. Their children als shall be dashed t pieces befre their eyes; their huses shall be spiled, and their wives ravished. Behld, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall nt regard silver; and as fr gld, they shall nt delight in it. Their bws als shall dash the yung men t pieces; and they shall have n pity n the fruit f the wmb; their eye shall nt spare children" Isaiah 13: If this desn't make backsliders repent and tune t the LORD I dn't knw what will. There's n Rapture flks (Matthew 24:9)! "And the rest f the men which were nt killed by these [first six] plagues yet repented nt f the wrks f their hands, that they shuld nt wrship devils, and idls f gld, and silver, and brass, and stne, and f wd: which neither can see, nr hear, nr walk." Revelatin 9:20 Here again Gd uses quantifier verbiage t separate the first six trumpets frm the last ne; the 7th trumpet, the 3 rd we. The 6 th trumpet begins the time f the "2 nd we," which includes the hrns killing 1/3 f mankind, and the indignatin/the 1 st 6-vials when the Lambs wrath will be released. Chapter nine (the 5 th & 6 th trumpets) initiate the 1 st and 2 nd wes, yet it des nt state the end f the 2 nd nr the beginning f the third we; it nly shws the time-frame f the great tribulatin. Whereas Revelatin 11:14 tells us the 2 nd we has past after the tw witness vercmers are killed. Hwever, the ending f the 2 nd we seems t chrnlgically take in the 1 st six vials. Return t Chapter Index Chapter 10 "And I saw anther mighty angel cme dwn frm heaven, clthed with a clud: and a rainbw was upn his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars f fire: And he had in his hand a little bk pen: and he set his right ft upn the sea, and his left ft n the earth, And cried with a lud vice, as when a lin rareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their vices." Revelatin 10:1-3 "Speaking f the 3 rd we," here it is abut t cme frth. In all accunts f the 3 rd we (which is never actually mentined as beginning r ending) it invlves the 7 th seal, the 7 th trumpet, and the 7 th vial. It is when Yeshua physically returns with His army f saints at Armageddn as the thief t "steal [lampstands], kill [sinners], and destry [the wrks f Satan]." What is taking place here in theses verses is the "spiritual" annuncement f Yeshua and His heavenly army returning t fight at Armageddn. Yeshua's actual return is shwn in greater detail in Revelatin 19: The 7 th trumpet is als the start f the prphetic events shwn in Habakkuk 3: The "little bk" is the bk Jhn eats in verse ten f this chapter. Althugh, it is nt the bk Jhn has been writing in since Revelatin 1:11. We knw this because Jhn said he was abut t write smething in the bk he already had, while the angel/the LORD was still hlding n t the little bk He had. My understanding is that the little bk seems t invlve the cncealing f certain prphetic events ("the mystery f Gd") until the time f the end. "And when the seven thunders had uttered their vices, I was abut t write: and I heard a vice frm heaven saying unt me, Seal up thse things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them nt." Revelatin 10:4 It wuld seem the "sealing" f these vices has t d with cncealing "the day & the hur" f the LORD'S actual physical return at Armageddn. I believe what was spken in Jhn's presences invlved the timing f the last perid f judgment (Armageddn: Gd's fierce wrath), which bviusly will nly be knwn when the LORD physically returns t the earth with the vercmers. This is the event that is ~ 17 ~

19 spken f in the Bible that n man was t knw abut. Part f what I base this understanding n is fund in Zechariah 14: "And ye shall flee t the valley f the muntains; fr the valley f the muntains shall reach unt Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled frm befre the earthquake in the days f Uzziah king f Judah: and the LORD my Gd shall cme, and all the saints with thee (Revelatin 19:14). And it shall cme t pass in that day, that the light shall nt be clear, nr dark: But it shall be ne day which shall be knwn t the LORD, nt day, nr night: but it shall cme t pass, that at evening time it shall be light" Zechariah 14:5-7. Anther reasn that I came t this cnclusin is because every time a reference is made in the Bible t "nt knwing the day nr hur" f the LORD'S physical return, it always cntextually frames "Armageddn" as the time in questin, nt the "beginning f srrws," which is the secret cming in the Spirit t nly the "remnant"; "And the dragn was wrth with the wman, and went t make war with the remnant f her seed, which keep the cmmandments f Gd, and have the testimny f Jesus Christ" Revelatin 12:17. "And the angel which I saw stand upn the sea and upn the earth lifted up his hand t heaven, And sware by him that liveth fr ever and ever, wh 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 shuld be time n lnger." Revelatin 10:5-6 Here is yet anther example where the bk f Revelatin marks a delineatin between the different time perids. It says, "there shuld be time n lnger." What will happen at this pint is that "the 1 st beast" cmprised f Gg's remaining hrn rulers and armies f the earth (Revelatin 19:19) and "the false prphet"/"man f sin"/the Ppe pssessed f Satan, will be "cast alive" int the lake f fire (i.e., Numbers 16:28-32), and then "As cncerning the rest f the beasts [peples f the natins], they had their dminin taken away: yet their lives were prlnged fr a seasn and time" Daniel 7:12. Keep in mind, the beast that is mentined here in chapter 10, is described later n in chapter 13 as a many membered beast cnfederacy (Psalms 83:5). Thse whse lives are prlnged in Daniel 7, are the multitude f civilians the "frg spirits" tried t enticed t help fight at Armageddn: "Fr they [the frgs] are the spirits f devils, wrking miracles, which g frth unt the kings f the earth and f the whle wrld, t gather them t the battle f that great day f Gd Almighty" Revelatin 16:14. Gd needs this battle t take place; He must clean huse. Additinally, whenever Revelatin mentins "miracles," "great signs and wnders," the "false prphet" ("the tail": Isaiah 9:15), "wrshiping the beast," etc., this manifestatin is ging t cme frm sme great wrld renwn religius leader that has als been invlved with gvernmental rule. I believe we all knw wh fits that descriptin. This ffice has a histry f rdering the murder millins f believers because they refused t submit t this Mther f harlt's church. The Vatican itself is recgnized as a svereign cuntry with its wn army, etc. "But in the days f the vice f the seventh angel [the 7 th Trumpet], when he shall begin [This wuld be the very start f Armageddn] t sund, the mystery f GOD shuld be finished, as he hath declared t his servants the prphets." Revelatin 10:7 There are many "mysteries" mentined in the Bible. Fr this ne, timing wuld define the mystery; it is the LORD'S return; His physical return where "every eye shall see Him." It (the "mystery f GOD") is the mystery that the Bible says nly "Gd the Father" wuld knw f (Matthew 24:36). This may be why the 7 th seal remained silent: s the mystery (the timing) f Yeshua's actual return wuld nt be revealed befrehand. This is als when the dead "in Christ" are raised: at the start f the "last trump" (1-Crinthians 15:52), which wuld be the 7 th trump. "And I went unt the angel, and said unt him, Give me the little bk. And he said unt me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy muth sweet as hney." Revelatin 10:9 Jhn is prtrayed as an ambassadr fr the Church when he receives the Spirit f prphesy at the end f the trumpets. One wuld expect this verse t be ne f the last verses in the bk f Revelatin, but it's nt. Once again Gd prves He des nt fllw ur crn rw mentality when it cmes t His Wrd. Why is it that Gd's Wrd always seems t sund s gd when we first read f it, r hear f GOD'S pwer and might, but when we have t walk in its requirements, "Oh my," it's anther stry altgether. We read hw they crssed the Red Sea, hw Daniel and his friends were ~ 18 ~

20 saved frm certain death, and it all sunds s gd! Hwever, when it is ur turn t "walk the talk" that wuld release Gd t d the same fr us, all f sudden it's nt s exciting anymre; it is dwnright "bitter." Thus it will be in the end times. Why, even the Tw Witnesses are shwn t g frth in "sackclth and ashes." This will nt be a pleasant time fr sinners nr saints my friend. "Three and ne half years" (r 1,335-days ttal t be exact: Daniel 12:12) is a lng time t endure what's cming: "We unt yu that desire the day f the LORD! t what end is it fr yu? the day f the LORD is darkness, and nt light. As if a man did flee frm a lin, and a bear met him; r went int the huse, and leaned his hand n the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall nt the day f the LORD be darkness, and nt light? even very dark, and n brightness in it?" Ams 5: Return t Chapter Index Chapter 11 " measure the temple f Gd, and the altar, and them that wrship therein [Ezekiel 9:4]. But the curt which is withut the temple leave ut, and measure it nt; fr it is given unt the Gentiles: and the hly city shall they tread under ft frty and tw mnths." Revelatin 11:1b-2 Chapter 11 starts nce again at the beginning f the great tribulatin. It tells f the judgment that will befall backslidden (uter-curt & hly place/the sanctuary) Christians. The "curt which is withut," is a reference t the "uter curt" f the Tabernacle that Mses built. It's the first f three levels f maturity (uter curt, hly place, and the Hly f hlies) the believer must press int t cme int the fullness f Christ. The "uter curt" is where death t the wrld shuld have taken place, but the mdern day Christian has set up camp there and refuses t g any further with Gd. The "hly city" represents the hly place in Gd's sanctuary/temple (Daniel 8:13-14). This is where death t sin and self shuld take place at the altar f incense, but that has als been neglected by many believers. S these "hly place" hypcrites' and uter curt campers will be "tread under ft." Whereas the wman in the wilderness brethren (the flish virgins wh d find their il), will be prvided a place f hiding during the 42-mnths f the great tribulatin. N rapture will circumvent this 3 1/2 year time f judgment. As a matter fact, nce saved, judgment and tribulatin are the very tls Gd uses t deliver His children frm their latent sin nature. "And I will give pwer unt my tw witnesses, and they shall prphesy a thusand tw hundred and threescre (1,260) days, clthed in sackclth. These are the tw live trees, and the tw candlesticks Lampstands standing befre the Gd f the earth." Revelatin 11:3-4 These "tw witnesses"/"tw live trees"/"tw lampstands" are nt tw literal prphets as sme "tail" ministries wuld like yu t believe. In fact, these tw witnesses (tw martyrs') parallel the arrival f the "man child" in Revelatin 12:5, and are als symblically referred t in many places thrughut the Bible including Zechariah 4:11. They cannt be Mses and Elijah as many like t teach because Mses already died, and Elijah with Mses, bth appeared in a glrified state with Jesus n the munt f transfiguratin: Luke 9: This in itself prves thse tw have already crssed int immrtality; they cannt becme mrtal again and then die again (Hebrews 9:27) like it says the witnesses are ging t at the end f their ministry. The "pwer" (althugh this is derived as such) is given t them when Gd "secretly" returns t His temple in the midst f the feast/week (see link) as symblically rendered in places like Matthew 25:10, Jhn 7:10-14, Habakkuk 3:2, and Malachi 3:1. This appearing f Christ in these wise virgin brethren is biblically symblized as "the secret cming," "the marriage," and, "the LORD whm yu seek, shall suddenly cme t His Temple" appearing. "And when they shall have finished their testimny, the beast [Satan using the 2 nd beast f Revelatin 13:11*] that ascendeth ut f the bttmless pit shall make war against them, and shall vercme them, and kill them." Revelatin 11:7 S the Witnesses finish their testimny and are killed "immediately after" (Matthew 24:29) their 1,260-day ministry. I believe the making "war," "vercming," and "killing" f these saints will be a ~ 19 ~

21 very quick prcess. Just like it was fr Jesus nce they were allwed t take Him. S the sns' will be runded up in places all ver the wrld and killed all in ne day. *The beast ut f the pit can nly be Satan (" the devil is cme dwn unt yu, having great wrath, because he knweth that he hath but a shrt time). Satan is nt Omni present, meaning he can nly pssess ne persn at a time. He cannt pssess Gg (a many membered cnfederacy), s he must enter int and pssess the beast with "tw hrns like a lamb"; like thee Lamb: Jesus. Only this ne will speak as a [the] dragn. Even thugh this may nt seem likely nw t sme, this secnd beast/the False Prphet f Revelatin 16:13, will be the presiding Cathlic ppe at that time. This man will have Satan (that ld dragn) wrking his will thrugh him t kill Christians and Jews because f his psitin in the wrld as the main religius leader. Histrically mst ppes have been well embriled in plitics and sme military matters. That papal ffice has put t death many believers thrughut histry and as Revelatin 18 says cncerning religius Babyln, "And in her was fund the bld f prphets, and f saints, and f all that were slain upn the earth." Revelatin 18:24. S in essence, a ppe type figure wuld make the perfect hst fr Satan t nce again try t purge the earth f all true Christians. "And after three [literal] days and an half the Spirit f life frm Gd entered int them, and they std upn their feet; and great fear fell upn them which saw them. And they heard a great vice frm heaven saying unt them, Cme up hither. And they ascended up [just like Jesus did] t heaven in a clud [f great witnesses: Hebrews 11:40]; and their enemies beheld them." Revelatin 11:11-12 Three and ne half literal days int the Indignatin time perid, these saints will literally cme back t life, the wrld will see them, and GOD will literally call them up int the realm f Heaven. "Nw there's yur biblical rapture flks." S the martyred witnesses, and nly the martyred witnesses will physically ascend up just like Jesus did n the munt f ascensin. Sme Christians I talk t dn't see this, but what else are "their enemies behlding" if nt a natural event? They will "behld" this event because Gd wants them t. This will be Gd's "cup de grâce" (final prf) that these saints were really the Sn's f GOD. The wrld will then knw fr sure that these Christians were als preaching the "everlasting gspel." There will be n mre excuse fr the sinner r the remaining remnant church, ther than t repent and d all that the Witnesses preached they shuld d. Thse wh still refuse will be destryed r greatly afflicted by what fllws, the Lamb's wrath. "Fr, behld, the LORD cmeth ut f His place t punish the inhabitants f the earth fr their iniquity" Isaiah 26:21. Yet we knw the 1 st six vial plagues will nt kill all the wicked because Armageddn must still be fught. The vials are mre the last supernatural warning t the wrld that they have been fllwing the wrng leader, and like Pharah, Satan in the "Man f Sin" will nt be able t stp these plagues either. This "clud" as stated befre hand, is just anther way the Bible describes the departed vercmers. It's a symblic rendering f Hebrews 12:1. "And the same hur was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part f the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain f men seven thusand." Revelatin 11:13a We see Gd ding this quite ften in His Wrd. That is, He tells a thing ne way, and then immediately shws the same thing with a cmpletely different set f allegric types. It's like hw they edit films t shw the same scene ver and ver again frm different angles fr effects sake. Only GOD des this t shrud these events in mystery until the appinted time. Here it says, "And the same hur," meaning, at the same time [that the witnesses are killed] this earthquake will hit. Nw when Jesus died n the crss it said "the earth did quake, and the rcks rent," s there was that great natural earthquake. Nevertheless, symblically this type f "earthquake" represents the sul being shaken as the "veil f flesh" is finally ripped apart and destryed in these brethren. That veil that has always separated them frm receiving the fullness f GOD'S Spirit within. When Paul and Silas were in the prisn at midnight they prayed and sang praises t Gd, "after which" it says there was such a great earthquake and everyne's bands were lsed (bndage t sin). Thus, an earthquake in the Bible usually means that smebdy's sul is getting great deliverance frm smething. Nw having said all that, I believe this "great earthquake" that takes place in verse 13 is just anther symblic rendering that shws the Witnesses laying dwn their lives and permanently entering int the "Hly f hlies"; never t cme ut again. The "tenth part" f the city that falls wuld cnfirm this interpretatin because as yu knw, GOD'S prtin is the tenth part (Isaiah 6:11-13). I als believe the "seven thusand men" that are slain (martyred) in this great earthquake represent the "seven thusand men" (nt necessarily a literal number), spken f in 1-Kings 19:18, and Rmans 11: "I have reserved t myself seven thusand men, wh have nt bwed the knee t ~ 20 ~

22 the image f Baal" Rmans 11:4. Furthermre, if this great earthquake "were t be" a natural event, then there shuld be mre than seven thusand killed. I mean what's "seven thusand" when cmpared t the millins and billins wh wuld have already died; why wuld Gd need t emphasize such a small number if it's just a natural head cunt? " and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glry t the Gd f heaven." Revelatin 11:13b The Bible tells us that mst peple (sinners) are still ging t curse Gd nce the vial judgments/plagues begin t be pured ut. Fr that reasn I believe this "remnant" that are affrighted "and give glry t Gd," are the same remnant f believers' wh are then tld in Isaiah 26:20 t "hide themselves." I believe part f the reasn this wrld-wide remnant f newly saved saints are frightened is because thse saints wh were prtecting them thrughut the great tribulatin were just killed, resurrected, and taken up frm them. This is why they are tld via the Spirit t g int hiding nw. This remnant will als cntain the remaining "wman in the wilderness" saints (thse wh were nt martyred-yet), the un-blinded re-grafted Jew that believed the Witnesses' wrd, and anyne else that turns t the LORD during the 42-mnths and remains alive. "The secnd we is past; and, behld, the third we cmeth quickly." Revelatin 11:14 Here in verse 14 it wuld appear that the "secnd we" ends right after the witness cmpany ascends, but yu will cme t see ther verses tell us the 2 nd we cntinues t encmpass the whle f the Indignatin time perid, which includes the first six vials. This is hw the gspels were written; yu have t read all fur t see the cmplete picture f what tk place. S in the Bible yu will see seemingly different accunts always add t, they dn't take away frm the whle. "And the seventh angel sunded; and there were great vices in heaven, saying, The kingdms f this wrld are becme the kingdms f ur Lrd, and f his Christ; and he shall reign fr ever and ever." Revelatin 11:15 This annuncement prclaims the victry f the vercmers t have rebuked Satan frm ut f their suls nce and fr all. It annunces that Jesus has finally received the "first fruit harvest" fr His suffering n the crss (Revelatin 14:4). It speaks f Christ bringing the first f mankind thrugh "the fire" nt cmpletin, and f the gvernment f GOD cming back t eliminate all remaining ppsitin t His Kingdm. "And the natins were angry, and thy [GOD Almighty's fierce] wrath is cme, and the time f the dead ["in Christ shall rise first": 1-Thessalnians 4:16], that they shuld be judged, and that thu shuldest give reward unt thy servants the prphets, and t the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shuldest destry them which destry the earth." Revelatin 11:18 This verse is a chrnlgical synpsis f the last trumpet's activity invlving Gd's fierce wrath [the winepress judgment] upn mankind (Revelatin 19:15). Gd said He must wait until "the abminatin that maketh deslate" is (fully) "set up" befre He purs ut His last and fiercest wrath upn mankind. The "abminatin" speaks f Satan's nature being allwed t cme t its fullness in man and in a gd prtin f the church (666). That can nly fully manifest after the Witnesses have been remved (called up) and Satan is given free curse t nt nly tempt, but t rule ver mankind. Althugh, nce the Witnesses are killed, Gd begins t pur ut His indignatin, r what is als referred t as "the wrath f the Lamb." This is definitely an increased supernatural set f judgments frm the 42-mnths, but it's nt the fierceness f GOD Almighty's wrath, which will shrtly fllw. Once mankind cmes int the fullness f Satan's nature by creating his image r nature in their beings, Gd says "there shuld be time n lnger": Revelatin 10:6b. "The dead" that were judged and given rewards wuld be "the dead in Christ." This includes thse wh return with Yeshua, and thse wh have part in the 1 st resurrectin that are gathered frm the fur crners f bth Heaven and earth (Revelatin 14:14-16). "And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather tgether his elect frm the fur winds, frm the uttermst part f the earth t the uttermst part f heaven" Mark 13:27. "Behld, the Lrd GOD will cme with strng hand, and his arm shall rule fr him: behld, his reward is with him, and his wrk [destrying the remaining beasts: Daniel 7:12] ~ 21 ~

23 befre him." Isaiah 40:10. Then the rebellius natins (the spirit f Babyln) are fiercely destryed. Keep in mind, the vials are just the beginning f GOD'S wrath upn Babyln nce the Witnesses are killed. Her final crprate "Great Babyln" destructin cmes when Yeshua returns with the armies in Heaven which is when "every eye shall see Him": "And the great city [the whrish church] was divided int three parts, and the cities f the natins fell: and great Babyln came in remembrance befre Gd, t give unt her the cup f the wine f the fierceness f his wrath" Revelatin 16:19. "And the temple f Gd was pened in heaven." Revelatin 11:19a A new phase f mankind's relatinship with Gd will begin after this pint. The supernatural will cme t earth and Gd will cntinue t reveal Himself t and thrugh thse wh "fllwed the Lamp wheresever He went." Remember, "Flesh & bld cannt inherit the Kingdm f GOD." Others must wait until their "change cmes" (Jb 14:14) befre they can see and experience what thse reigning frm the "MT Zin" and "New Jerusalem" realms will see and experience. This 7 th Millennium "higher calling," "first fruits," "100-fld," "remnant," vercmer" experience, was shwn in type n the Munt f Transfiguratin event: "And after six days [after 6000-yrs] Jesus taketh Peter, James, and Jhn his brther [type f the remnant], and bringeth them up int an high muntain [Zin] apart, And was transfigured befre them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light" Matthew 17:1-2. "...and there was seen in his temple the ark f his testament: and there were lightnings, and vices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." Revelatin 11:19b Here is the last and final (r fullness) f these "lightnings, vices, thunderings, and an earthquake" judgments, nly nw there will be killer hail. We saw this in Revelatin 8:5, nly nw there's hail, and yu will see it again in Revelatin 16:18. I tend t believe this time, this last f all the judgments, the 7 th seal, the 7 th trumpet, and the 7 th vial including the "lightnings, vices, thunderings, earthquake, and great hail, will all manifest in the natural. Nte hw the "great earthquake" and the "great hail" are spken f in Revelatin 16:18-21 in literal terms. If yu search this ut, the hail is ne f Gd's last judgments upn mankind during the sixth millennium. Yu can prbably imagine the damage a 16-pund bwling ball wuld d if it was drpped frm an airplane. What kind f damage d yu think millins and millins f 100-pund frzen balls f ice will d because that's what a biblical talent weights (Revelatin 16:21)? Return t Chapter Index Chapter 12 "And there appeared a great wnder in heaven; a wman clthed with the sun, and the mn under her feet, and upn her head a crwn f twelve stars [apstlic authrity]." Revelatin 12:1 Here is a picture f the present day "3-fld" Church. T see this yu must first have the understanding that a "wman" in the Bible is mst ften symblized as part f the Church; a third part. She is the 60-fld Church, representing thse wh have cme ut f the uter curt (child stage) and mved int the hly place (life prducing realm) f the Tabernacle/Temple. Nevertheless, she will still have t g thrugh anther metamrphsis as it were, befre she (the seed she carries: Isaiah 65:23) can enter int the Hly f hlies. As in the natural, the mn can nly receive and reflect light frm the sun, just as a wman can nly receive seed (t be "clthed with," cvered ver, dwells in the secret place, etc.) frm her husband. The fullness f this end-time event (the wman prducing the man child) is prtrayed in Ruth chapter 3. Here we see Ruth (type f the wman travailing in pain, Isaiah 66:7-8; type f wise virgin trimming lamps; the faithful seeking Shulamite: Sng 3) ging dwn t the "threshing flr" at "midnight." This threshing is meant t bring frth the man child (mature sn) cmpany f faithful il/hly Spirit filled saints. Thus, the wman standing n the mn in this verse shws us the mn realm is just anther stepping stne ~ 22 ~

24 int snship: the "100-fld"realm. It is the place f her current fundatin; the place f receiving light, but nt yet able t prduce Sn light seven-fld (Isaiah 30:26), yet the 12-stars n her head shw she's destine t. "And she being with child cried, travailing [G5605: experience pain] in birth, and pained t be delivered: And there appeared anther wnder in heaven; and behld a great red dragn, having seven heads and ten hrns, [the hrns are sn t be leaders; the heads are the G-7 and the crwns are their leaders] and seven crwns upn his heads." Revelatin 12:2-3 The allegric picture f the "great red dragn" is shwing us that Satan himself will be using and wrking thrugh this many membered cnfederacy f wicked natins and peples lead by Gg. One must keep in mind these end-time prphesies relate t the wrld's current situatin. I'm sure things will be changing at sme pint very sn, but right nw we need t match existing realities t the prphesies. "Travailing in birth, and pained t be delivered"; where else have we seen this situatin? Well, ne place it is fund is in Isaiah 66: "Befre she [the wman/wise virgins] travailed, she brught frth; befre her pain came, she was delivered f a man child. Wh hath heard such a thing? wh hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made t bring frth in ne day? r shall a natin be brn at nce? fr as sn as Zin travailed [yu see, even Zin must still travail; sme], she brught frth her children" Isaiah 66:7-8. Anther place this situatin is spken f is in Matthew 25: "And at midnight there was a cry made, Behld, the bridegrm cmeth; g ye ut t meet him [cme ut f the place f cmplacency yu've been in]. Then all thse virgins arse, and trimmed their lamps [repent and allw the Light t shine brightly nce again; that is, thse wh have "il" left t burn]. And the flish said unt the wise, Give us f yur il [Hly Spirit aninting/relatinship]; fr ur lamps are gne ut. But the wise answered, saying, Nt s; lest there be nt enugh fr us and yu: but g ye rather t them that sell, and buy fr yurselves [pay the price: suffer & travail]. And while they went t buy, the bridegrm came [secretly]; and they that were ready went in with him t the marriage: and the dr was shut" Matthew 25:6-10. Isaiah 26:18 shws a mre detailed versin f the "flish virgin's" attempt at birthing: "We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brught frth wind [speaking f frustratin]; we have nt wrught any deliverance in the earth " Meaning t say they have nt vercme the ld nature; they were nly "60-fld" r less prducers. "And his tail drew the third part f the stars f heaven, and did cast them t the earth." Revelatin 12:4a Originally I saw these stars as nly the uter curt Christians, but the Spirit shwed me there are backslidden Christians in every level f Gd's huse/temple (the fallen 1/3). Fr it says there are even "sinners (hypcrites) in Zin": Isaiah 33:14. Nw I'm taking fr granted yu already knw that the Bible predminately uses "stars" t symblically represent Christians. Hwever, ministers, great plitical and religius leaders saved r nt, and fallen angels (H3556:princes; Ams 5:26) have als been likened t stars in the Bible. The dragn's "tail" speaks f false prphets, false teachers, and f curse, false dctrine in the end-time. It speaks f thee "False Prphet" cming frth t deceive thse wh can be deceived even in the husehld f Gd. The main star leader f curse will be the "man f sin," a ppe pssessed by Satan himself. Hwbeit, many will call this end-time leader "the Antichrist," even thugh the bk f Revelatin never mentins that title in the KJV. "The ancient and hnurable, he is the head; and the prphet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. Fr the leaders f this peple cause them t err; and they that are led f them are destryed" Isaiah 9: S this end-time tail ministry will bring Christians back dwn t the earth; t the place f carnality. The "casting dwn" f the stars is shwn in part in Daniel 8: "Then I heard ne saint speaking, and anther saint said unt that certain saint which spake, Hw lng shall be the visin cncerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgressin f deslatin, t give bth the sanctuary (Ezekiel 9:6) and the hst t be trdden under ft? And he said unt me, Unt tw thusand and three hundred days [see: then shall the sanctuary be cleansed [but ntice, nt the hst]" Daniel 8: The sanctuary speaks f the "hly place" in the Tabernacle/Temple, and the "hst" speaks f 1/3 f the hst f heaven that falls: the backslidden apstate masses. The "trdden under ft" judgment in Daniel 8 parallels the "tread under ft fr 42-mnths" judgment that is fund in Revelatin 11:2. Actually, the peple f the tail ministry have ~ 23 ~

25 been crrupting the Church with false dctrine fr centuries, yet the fullness f this tail ministry deceptin seems t fcus n the last half (42-mnths) f Daniel's 70 th week. This is a study in itself, but briefly, each day f Daniel's 70 th week types ut t be a prphetic year, just as it des in Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6. Additinally, we find that Gd uses exact 30-day prphetic mnths, seeing hw the 1,260-days in Revelatin 11 divides int 42-mnths exactly. Thus, a year in prphesy is nly 360-days lng. The math wuld lk like this: 7-years x 360-days = 2520-days; = 1,260-days each, fr bth Jesus and the Witnesses t minister: " and the dragn std befre the wman which was ready t be delivered, fr t devur her child as sn as it was brn." Revelatin 12:4b This, "std befre the wman" verbiage, is describing a present day situatin. Actually, it describes a prcess that has been playing ut fr a very lng time; it is just that nw it is cme t its fullness. One culd say we saw this same situatin with Able, Jseph, Mses, and Jesus, back when Satan rse up t kill these deliverers. Once mre we need t turn t the bk f Daniel t reveal the bk f Revelatin. In Daniel 7 we see this same picture f Satan trying t keep the "Sn's f GOD" frm cming frth. Only Daniel shws the persecutin cming thrugh the man knwn as the "little hrn": "And he shall speak great wrds against the mst High, and shall wear ut the saints [std befre the wman ] f the mst High, and think t change times and laws: and they [the wise virgins] shall be given int his hand until a time and times and the dividing f time [3½-yrs: until the start f the great tribulatin/the 42-mnths (Lamentatins 4:22). In ther wrds, until this persecutin (which is allwed by Gd) has awakened the sleeping and slumbering virgins and shaken them frm their 21 st century deceptins]" Daniel 7:25. Her child will be thse f the wise virgin grup wh will cme frth as the man child in ne day. My studies in chrnlgy have shwn this t be the same exact pint in time when the "Tw Witnesses" cme frth. This ne fact alne prves these tw witnesses are nt merely tw super saints, but a remnant grup f sld-ut saints wh receive the "latter day" duble prtin f GOD'S pwer; the frmer and latter day rain cmbined. I believe increased persecutin begins t take place at what the Bible calls midnight. Actually, this persecutin is rdered by Satan himself against thse he knws will vercme; thse wh are sealed (Ezekiel 9:4). We see Satan's heightened expectancy at this pint that smething is abut t cme frth frm the wman. Thus, her travail takes place during the midnight time perid. There are many verses that speak f this midnight time perid. Sme can be fund n the link belw under the clumn titled Midnight: "And she brught frth a man child, wh was t rule all natins with a rd f irn: and her child was caught up [in the Spirit] unt Gd, and t his thrne." Revelatin 12:5 The child being "caught up" (a spiritual event) is a picture f the wise virgins entering int the wedding chamber with the bridegrm (Matthew 25:10). This is nt a physical "rapture" event as many misguided Christians believe. It's mre in tune t what Paul experienced when he was "caught up" t the third Heaven; his bdy was here, but his sul was translated t glry. It is a picture f the "natin that shall be brn in ne day." It is the LORD secretly and "suddenly returning t His temple" in the midst f the week (Malachi 3:1; Jhn 7:10). It is the 144,000 and thse that "sigh and cry " in Ezekiel 9 being sealed right befre the "fur winds" are lsed. This birth is what signals the start f the 42-mnths f great tribulatin. Hwever, it shuld be bvius that smething ut f the rdinary caused this child t be birthed. It is called midnight; it is the travail; persecutin. Knwing the different perids f end-time judgment, greatly helps t align the many end-time prphesies int their prper chrnlgical rder. There is a key in Daniel that unlcks much f this understanding and it has t d with the "days" mentined in Daniel 12: They are used in cnjunctin with the "days" in Revelatin 11:3 t segregate three different perids f ever increasing judgment. Anther verse that prves this ut is Matthew 24:29, which invlves the perid mentined in Daniel 12:11. Again, the Jacb's Truble link helps t reveal this revelatin. The meeting at GOD'S Thrne is paralleled in Ezekiel 9:4 and Revelatin 7 as the vercmers are sealed. ~ 24 ~

26 "And the wman fled int the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared f Gd, that they shuld feed her there a thusand tw hundred and threescre days." Revelatin 12:6 "This wman" will be cmprised f thse wh remain in the sanctuary/hly place/flish virgin church nce the man child is birthed. Gd calls His Church t "Cme ut f her my peple"; cme ut, cme ut, and cme up int the realm f "Mt Zin" (Revelatin 18:4). Hwbeit, sme will have t first "wash their rbes in the bld f the Lamb" during the great tribulatin befre they are wrthy t see the same glrified Jesus that Peter, James, and Jhn (types f the remnant vercmers) saw n the munt f transfiguratin. Thse that remain in the wman church after the marriage (Matthew 25:10) are thse wh must seek fr the "il" in the wilderness (Isaiah 43:19). Althugh, their wilderness experience will help sme f them t even lay dwn their lives if need be during and after the 42-mnths. This same grup is mentined in Daniel 11: "And sme f them f understanding shall fall, t try them, and t purge, and t make them white, even t the time f the end: because it [Armageddn/"the end"] is yet fr a time appinted [Daniel 12:12]" Daniel 11:35. The 1,260-days are the "42-mnths, and the "time, times, and an half" (Daniel 12:7). Yu shuld all knw the Bible equates "a time" as ne year. These are all prphetic 30-day mnths, 360-day years; still, we are basically talking abut 3½ years f great tribulatin. Hwever, there are tw ther very shrt time perids revealed in the Bible that immediately fllw the great tribulatin: "Immediately after the tribulatin f thse days shall the sun be darkened, and the mn shall nt give her light, and the stars shall fall frm heaven, and the pwers f the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign f the Sn f man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes f the earth murn, and they shall see the Sn f man cming in the cluds f heaven with pwer and great glry" Matthew 24: One f the places these ther perids are mentined is in Daniel 12: "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fught against the dragn; and the dragn fught and his angels, and prevailed nt; neither was their place fund any mre in [the 2 nd ] heaven." Revelatin 12:7-8 Here again GOD rewinds the scene t shw the man child's birth frm yet anther heavenly perspective. Thus, the wman "travailing and pained t be delivered," is nw prtrayed frm a spiritual aspect. This will be an "all r nthing," "d r die" situatin fr these saints. Satan will nt nly be bted frm the secnd heaven by Michael at this pint, but he will be frever cast ut frm having access t the vercmer's suls. It is a study in types, but briefly we knw GOD dwells in the "3 rd Heaven," Satan ges t and fr in the 2 nd heaven, and the earth is cnsidered the first heaven. Likewise, man's spirit is the higher heaven, his sul is the 2 nd heaven, and his flesh is the first heaven. Keep in mind, GOD cunts "three" as the fullness f a thing, nt ne. S this picture f Satan being cast ut in Revelatin 12:9 is telling us that sme saints (the vercmers) are ging t dispses the adamic nature/satan frm their suls as the result f the wman's travail. These "wise virgin" saints will in type experience what the three Hebrews did because f their testimny fr GOD. We see they were cast int the fiery furnace heated seven times htter than it ever nce was. "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth fr the children [sn(s)] f thy peple: and there shall be a time f truble [travail/midnight], such as never was since there was a natin even t that same time: and at that time thy peple shall be delivered, every ne that shall be fund written in the bk" Daniel 12:1. Remember, sme deliverance cmes thrugh death (Luke 21:16-19). In reality this "war in heaven," the secnd heaven, has been ging n ever since iniquity was fund in the "Aninted Cherub" Heylel, but mre precisely, this war is talking abut the "wise virgins"/"zin" waking frm their slumber and birthing/becming the man child. This "man child" terminlgy means nthing mre than t say that these nes will have becme mature sns in GOD'S eyes. Yet there is a very imprtant understanding that thse wh will be cunted as vercmers need t have; GOD is ging t let yu be tried like never befre. Gd must allw even the wise virgin brethren t experience the purging (persecutin/+ captivity) prcess many prphesies describe happening t the end-time saints t birth this man child. Were nt Paul and Silas whipped and beat befre they earnestly began t pray and sing praises t Gd frm ut f prisn and captivity? Hey, keep in mind, Paul, Peter, and sme f the thers were still having quarrels amngst themselves at that time. If Jesus Himself had t endure 40-days f fasting in a desert and extreme tempting befre He went frth in pwer t minister, wh are we t think that living in ne f the mst crrupt and blinded generatin that have ever existed n the face f the Earth, smehw qualifies us fr the duble prtin f pwer? Surely the light has been dimmed smewhat in even the ~ 25 ~

27 mst faithful f end-time Christians (Luke 18:8). Our standard, the true "plumbline," has t be restred nce again in the earth fr the light t shine "sevenfld" (Isaiah 30:26). "And the great dragn was cast ut, that ld serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whle wrld: he was cast ut [f his usurped place f authrity in the temple f Gd ("the sides f the nrth": Isaiah 14:13; Matthew 20:23)] int the earth, and his angels were cast ut with him. And I heard a lud vice saying in heaven, Nw is cme salvatin, and strength, and the kingdm f ur Gd, and the pwer f his Christ: fr the accuser f ur brethren is cast dwn, which accused them befre ur Gd day and night." Revelatin 12:9-10 This marks the beginning f the great tribulatin perid; Satan and his minins are nt ging t take a little vacatin befre destrying GOD'S creatin. This re-winded synpsis is yet anther view f the man child cming frth. If ne lks ahead t Revelatin 12:13-14 we see that Satan starts t persecute the wman as she flees fr the 3½ yrs int the wilderness. Nw it says in Revelatin 12:4 that "the dragn std befre the wman which was ready t be delivered, fr t devur her child as sn as it was brn." This seems t insinuate that Satan was already cast dwn befre the wman brught frth, but it is the seven headed ten hrned dragn manifestatin that is trying t destry Christianity in the wrld up until that pint, nt Satan himself. This will als mark an increase in human pssessin at this time seeing that all Satan's angels are cast int the earth with him. These spiritual beings will need human hsts t manifest thrugh. S what des it mean, "Nw is cme salvatin " I thught we were saved when we accepted the bld? This is where the verse Philippians 2 cmes in t play: " Wherefre, my belved, as ye have always beyed, nt as in my presence nly, but nw much mre in my absence, wrk ut yur wn salvatin with fear and trembling" Philippians 2:12. Yu see brethren, "salvatin" is a prcess. Jesus said "Be ye therefre perfect, even as yur Father which is in heaven is perfect" Matthew 5:48. Ephesians chapter 1 says it this way, "In whm ye als trusted, after that ye heard the wrd f truth, the gspel f yur salvatin: in whm als after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that hly Spirit f prmise, Which is the earnest f ur inheritance until the redemptin f the purchased pssessin, unt the praise f his glry" Ephesians 1: Paul said he was pressing "tward the mark fr the prize f the high calling f Gd in Christ Jesus." Well, this is it brethren; these vercmer man child (mature sns) brethren are the first-fruit f thse t btain perfectin r what the Bible calls "cmpleteness" IN Christ. These brethren will be the first t receive the fullness f GOD'S pwer at this time, nt just a part like each member f the bdy has nw: "Fr nw we see thrugh a glass, darkly; but then face t face: nw I knw in part; but then shall I knw even as als I am knwn" 1-Crinthians 13:12. Here is anther aspect f these prphesied saint's high calling, "Ntwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they cntinue in faith and charity and hliness with sbriety" 1-Timthy 2:15. The primary meaning f 1-Timthy 2:15 was fulfilled when Jesus was brn. The secndary end-time/"evening sacrifice" meaning begins t be fulfilled in Revelatin 12:9-10. This is when the man child is finally able t receive the fullness f Gd's authrity thrugh much suffering and pain (Isaiah 48:10; Philippians 1:29). This suffering r travail will finally give GOD cause t "lse Michael" wh is able t banish Satan frm frever afflicting their suls again. I believe the wise virgin's travailing prcess will nly be a span f a mnth r tw, nt years. "And when the dragn saw that he was cast unt the earth, he persecuted the wman which brught frth the man child. And t the wman were given tw wings [the Spirit & the Wrd] f a great eagle, [Christ: Ezekiel 17:7-8] that she might fly [flee] int the wilderness, int her place, where she is nurished fr a time, and times, and half a time, frm the face f the serpent." Revelatin 12:13-14 The dragn persecutes the wman because he will finally realize he has lst his authrity, his psitin, and his pwer in the realm f the 2 nd heaven (Revelatin 8:10) and ver the man child/tw witness brethren. This is the place he had f "ging t and fr, and up and dwn in the earth." This is when the "great tribulatin" cmes upn the earth: Matthew 24:7-28. At this pint Satan will have t enter int smene like the "false prphet"/antichrist t accmplish his plan. If yu study ut what the "tw wings f a great eagle" represent, yu will eventually cme upn Ezekiel 17, which is ne f the harder cnundrums, ("dark sentences") that is fund in the Bible. Nw even thugh this chapter ~ 26 ~

28 in Ezekiel 17 had its natural meaning fulfilled back in the days f Nebuchadnezzar (the king f Babyln), the "end-time" allegric analgy f the "tw great eagles" is als meant fr thse whm the end f the age has fallen upn. "Nw all these things happened unt them fr ensamples: and they are written fr ur admnitin, upn whm the ends f the wrld [G165: age] are cme" 1- Crinthians 10:11. Essentially, the tw eagles in Ezekiel 17, bth f which have "great wings" (spiritual pwer & authrity) are shwn t land in the tp f the same cedar tree, which represents the huse f Israel. Bth f these eagles (Satan and the LORD) are shwn t cntend fr Israel by eventually crpping ff the yung sprig (the latter grwth) frm the tp f this tree and carrying it away captive. S the rebellius huse f Israel (sprig) ges int Babyln, and the ther sprig, "the tender ne," is carried by the secnd eagle ("the 2 nd Adam") up nt a high muntain (t Mt Zin), where it grws int a mighty tree. The "twinning" f the tw eagles in this parable insinuates the situatin invlving the tw trigs will take place simultaneusly. The "end-time" applicatin f Ezekiel 17 tells us Gd will deliver the bedient wman (the wise virgins) if she can frsake Babyln in her heart: "Be in pain, and labur t bring frth, O daughter f Zin, like a wman in travail: fr nw shalt thu g frth ut f the city, and thu shalt dwell in the field ["the wilderness/the wrld"], and thu shalt g even t Babyln; there shalt thu be delivered [starting at midnight]; there the LORD shall redeem thee frm the hand f thine enemies" Micah 4:10; "Ye have seen what I did unt the Egyptians, and hw I bare yu n eagles' wings, and brught yu unt myself" Exdus 19:4. Simply put, "eagle's wings" speaks f Gd's deliverance via the Spirit & His Wrd. The "time, and times, and half a time" (3.5-yrs) is the 1,260-days. Being hide frm "the face f the serpent" speaks f the undergrund church situatin the wman will have t functin in during the 42-mnths +. "And the serpent cast ut f his muth water as a fld after the wman, that he might cause her t be carried away [captive] f the fld. And the earth helped the wman, and the earth pened her muth*, and swallwed up the fld which the dragn cast ut f his muth." Revelatin 12:15-16 When the Bible speaks f "water as a fld," it's primarily speaking f militant trps verflwing the land. Here in this instance in Revelatin 12, it's speaking f persecutin rising up against the wman: "Behld, he [Gg] shall cme up like a lin frm the swelling f Jrdan [fld waters] unt the habitatin f the strng: but I will make them suddenly run away frm her [Jel 2:20]: and wh is a chsen man [man child], that I may appint ver her [the wman & Israel]? fr wh is like me? and wh will appint me the time? and wh is that shepherd that will stand befre me?" Jeremiah 50:44; "Behld, the Lrd hath a mighty and strng ne [Gg: the army in Jel 2], which as a tempest f hail and a destrying strm [Revelatin 8:5-7], as a fld f mighty waters verflwing, shall cast dwn t the earth with the hand. The crwn f pride, the drunkards f Ephraim [backslidden Christianity], shall be trdden under feet" Isaiah 28:2-3; "Let nt the swift flee away, nr the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall tward the nrth by the river Euphrates. Wh is this that cmeth up as a fld, whse waters are mved as the rivers? Egypt riseth up like a fld, and his waters are mved like the rivers; and he saith, I will g up, and will cver the earth; I will destry the city [f Gd] and the inhabitants theref" Jeremiah 46:6-8. As fr "the earth pening her muth and swallwing the fld" [f sldiers], I guess that pretty much describes Krah's judgment in Numbers 16: This judgment/prtectin will be happening all ver the wrld n behalf f the many islated grups f believers, wh had "ears t hear" where the places f refuge are that Gd has established fr them. "But if the LORD make a new thing, and *the earth pen her muth, and swallw them up, with all that appertain unt them, and they g dwn quick int the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have prvked the LORD." Numbers 16:30; p.p. Matthew 24:7. "And the dragn was wrth with the wman, and went t make war with the remnant f her seed, which keep the cmmandments f Gd, and have the testimny f Jesus Christ." Revelatin 12:17 The dragn is "wrth" at this pint because what remains f the "sanctuary" brethren will have scattered (gne undergrund) after just experiencing the first "midnight" nslaught f persecutin. Frm that time nward the il seeking Wman Church will be much wiser and harder t find. S Gg's trps will be swallwed up ne after the ther by the plague f earthquakes called frth by the Tw Witness brethren if they cntinue t attack the wman in the wilderness. Whereas, "the ~ 27 ~

29 remnant f her seed" (the remnant man child brethren/tw witness brethren) will be penly preaching and teaching the true Kingdm message, and n ne will be able t stp them fr 42- mnths. Since the wman is in hiding, Satan will nt nly be able t use Gg and his 10-hrn trps, but he will have t als cnvince the peples f the wrld t hunt these brethren dwn, and he'll d it thrugh lying signs, wnders, and miracles brught abut by "the sn f perditin"; the reigning ppe at that time. Yet there will came a day when he will be allwed t kill even the man child brethren by using all the beast natured and religius peples f the wrld, great and small. Remember, this will all pattern Jesus' time n earth t a great extent. Return t Chapter Index Chapter 13 "And I std upn the sand f the sea, and saw a beast [the 1 st beast] rise up ut f the sea, having seven heads and ten hrns, and upn his hrns ten crwns, and upn his heads the name f blasphemy." Revelatin 13:1 This first many membered beast as described in Revelatin 13 and ther places, has actually been "rising up ut f the sea" (the natins) fr sme thusand years nw. Part f this cnfederacy f natins (the ten hrns) is wh the "little hrn/the king f fierce cuntenance/the 2 nd beast (Revelatin 13:11) frm the earth" will be able t use as Satan himself directs him t. Revelatin 17:9-17 tells us the seven heads f the 1 st beast are seven muntains n which the wman sits. I believe these t be the G-7 natins, f which America hlds the dminate rle. Althugh things are changing fast. The 10 hrns are the same as the 10 tes in Daniel's visin. These will be predminantly present day Muslim leaders that have, r will have great pwer given t them at that time. We see that sme f the "ten hrn" cuntries listed in Ezekiel 38 were even nce America's allies, but nw they are beginning t turn their gvernments ver t thse wh wuld frce the wrld t bey Islam: Turkey (Meshech and Tubal); Iran (Persia); Ethipia (Ethipia); Libya (Libya, Egypt); Germany & eastern Eurpe (Gmer); Armenia (Tgarmah) " and three f the first hrns were plucked up..." Daniel 7:8 (p.p. Ezekiel 38:13) Yemen, Oman (Sheba); Saudi Arabia, UAE, Dubai (Dedan); Spain (Tarshish). The "names f blasphemy" (Revelatin 13:1) n the seven heads/muntains are the religins, gvernments, and the psitins f leadership/titles that have been established cntrary t GOD'S will. Names like Islam, Cathlicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Atheism, Mst Hly Father, Reverend, ecumenicalism, Dictatr S and s, Supreme leader, Scialism, etc., etc. The "All Mighty" is nt pleased with this blasphemy f equating men as near gds: "And upn a set day Herd, arrayed in ryal apparel, sat upn his thrne, and made an ratin unt them. And the peple gave a shut, saying, It is the vice f a gd, and nt f a man. And immediately the angel f the Lrd smte him, because he gave nt Gd the glry: and he was eaten f wrms, and gave up the ghst" Acts 12: GOD has als shwn the judgment that cmes when men set ut t rule their wn lives apart frm GOD: "And the LORD said, Behld, the peple is ne, and they have all ne language [New Wrld Order]; and this they begin t d: and nw nthing will be restrained frm them, which they have imagined t d. G t, let us g dwn, and there cnfund their language, that they may nt understand ne anther's speech. S the LORD scattered them abrad frm thence upn the face f all the earth: and they left ff t build the city. Therefre is the name f it called Babel; because the LORD did there cnfund the language f all the earth: and frm thence did the LORD scatter them abrad upn the face f all the earth." Genesis 11:6-9. Hwbeit, man nce again is trying t reestablish the spirit f Babyln nly in a greater measure. My gsh, there is even a new language teaching cmpany ut there called Babble. This is why this end-time beast has predminately ne muth (f a lin, i.e., the symbl f England, thus the English language), n mre being divided by different languages. ~ 28 ~

30 "And the beast which I saw was like unt a lepard, and his feet were as the feet f a bear, and his muth as the muth f a lin: and the dragn gave him [them] his pwer, and his seat, and great authrity." Revelatin 13:2 This beast was shwn ne ther time in the Bible back in Daniel 7. "And fur great beasts came up frm the sea, diverse ne frm anther. The first was like a lin, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings theref were plucked, and it was lifted up frm the earth, and made stand upn the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given t it [this describes America's fall frm grace and her subsequent demise]. And behld anther beast, a secnd, like t a bear, and it raised up itself n ne side, and it had three ribs in the muth f it between the teeth f it: and they said thus unt it, Arise, devur much flesh [this describes Russia and its end-time rle as Gg. The 3-ribs I believe are the 3-hrns that are remved by rder f the little hrn]. After this I beheld, and l anther, like a lepard, which had upn the back f it fur wings f a fwl [the Black Eagle symbl]; the beast had als fur heads; and dminin was given t it [This ne's a little harder t nail dwn, but current gvernments & symblism shw us this t be Germany and its three ther heads: France, the United Kingdm, and Italy (the G-4/The Big Fur). After this I saw in the night visins, and behld a furth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strng exceedingly; and it had great irn teeth: it devured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet f it: and it was diverse frm all the beasts that were befre it; and it had ten hrns. I cnsidered the hrns, and, behld, there came up amng them anther little hrn, befre whm there were three f the first hrns plucked up by the rts: and, behld, in this hrn were eyes like the eyes f man, and a muth speaking great things" Daniel 7:3-8. Even thugh Daniel describes the individual members and players in this end-time scenari, Revelatin 13 shws them mre as a cnglmeratin r cnfederacy f Gg's frces, minus America's rle. S Daniel 7 shws part f a picture f the wrld's cnditin (at least America's) pregreat tribulatin, and Revelatin 13 is mre a picture f the wrld after America is taken ut at midnight and the great tribulatin gets underway. Once America is gne there will be n stpping this satanically aninted beast cnfederacy; Satan will be persnally directing it/them thrugh the False Prphet manifestatin, r what Christendm likes t call The Antichrist. Yet like I've said befre, yu will nt find that title in the KJV f Revelatin. What yu will find is the persnified individual beast called the "False Prphet," whm again I believe will cme ut f the ffice f the biggest histrical persecutr f true Christianity; the Rman Cathlic Ppe. "And I saw ne f his heads [the eighth: Revelatin 17:11] as it were wunded t death; and his deadly wund was healed: and all the wrld wndered [G2295: t admire] after the beast." Revelatin 13:3 This head is ultimately speaking f Satan being dealt a death blw at Calvary, but the Church failed t cntinue the fight and destry his wrks frm the earth and nw he is abut t cme frth nce again. This head is speaking f the same wunded head fund in Revelatin 17, seeing that Jesus tk away the keys f death and Hell frm Satan. This verse expses Satan's timeless ability t mve t and fr in the earth, ging frm ne leader t the next, generatin after generatin t accmplish his lng term plan. "And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and ne is, and the ther is nt yet cme; and when he cmeth, he must cntinue a shrt space. And the beast that was, and is nt, even he is the eighth, and is f the seven, and geth int perditin" Revelatin 17: If yu haven t figured ut yet what "and all the wrld wndered after the beast" refers t, then just turn n yur TV and watch a few shws, r the main stream media; yu'll catch n. True Christians are admnished t "lve nt the wrld neither the things that are in it " "And there was given unt him a muth [CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, AP, the UN, Plitically Crrect thelgy, etc.] speaking great things and blasphemies; and pwer was given unt him [the many membered 1 st beast] t cntinue frty and tw mnths." Revelatin 13:5 T keep these allegries in perspective, we need t keep in mind the three main players that are mentined in Revelatin 16: the (great red) "dragn"/satan, the (1 st ) "beast" cnfederacy f wicked natins and rulers, and the "false prphet"/the 2 nd beast/sn f perditin/little hrn. Nw tell me where yu see the Antichrist; lk if yu will, but yu will nt find the title f "Antichrist" mentined in the KJV f Revelatin. Even s, the 2 nd beast/false Prphet f Revelatin 13:11 will be the ~ 29 ~

31 individual Satan ultimately pssesses and uses as his persnal muthpiece. Satan will give this "False Prphet"/Ppe type figure his wn supernatural miracle wrking pwer because he will have been cast frm his frmer realm f manifestatin ("prince and pwer f the air "), and with that he will lse certain abilities t manifest his will n the earth that he nce enjyed. In essence, he will have t enter int this man just like he did Judas. "And I beheld anther [2 nd ] beast [Daniel 7:20] cming up ut f the earth; and he had tw hrns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragn [he's nt just given Satan's pwer: v. 13:2, this beast speaks fr Satan]. And he exerciseth all the pwer f the first beast befre him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein t wrship the first beast [Satan was thee first beast], whse deadly wund was healed." Revelatin 13:11-12 Here we are fficially intrduced t the 2 nd beast, wh at this pint is allegrically described t pssess similar pwer and authrity like Jesus had. "Hrns" in the Bible represent pwer and authrity. Jesus' tw hrns were the Spirit & the Wrd. Yu see Jesus spke the Wrd, and His Father's Spirit (the pwer behind the Wrd) backed it up (Jhn 14:10-11). This is what the 2 nd beast will d; he will say "Kill thse self-righteus bigts wh bring destructin t ur cities and ur peple!" Later, after he rders them killed by Gg's military might and any beast minded peples arund the wrld. He will say, "Thse peple yu just saw ascend (Revelatin 11:12); they were devils!" And t prve it he will manifest Satan's pwer at that time t "call dwn fire in the peple's sight." Withut a dubt, the False Prphet will have t prduce sme f his greatest "miracles" and "lying signs" after the Witnesses ascend, that is if he wants t keep his fllwing. In the past I had mistakenly assumed this man culd nt be the ppe because it says in Daniel 11:37 that this man will nt "regard the Gd f his fathers," nr anyne's gd. It says he will hnr "the gd f frces," which speaks f militaries but ultimately speaks f Satan's innate aggressive warring nature. And f curse this man will d this because Satan is in pssessin and lving himself. Anyway, this nt regarding the Gd f his fathers, nr anyne's gd statement had caused me t think this wuld nt be in character with the mdern day r any histrical Cathlic ppe, especially when it seems this False Prphet is able t cmmand Gg's hrns as needed. Hwever, the LORD crrected me n this matter. He gave me the understanding that the very last Ppe will be pssessed by Satan Himself, which is why we see the apparent change in character and authrity in this religius leader. It will be t late by then fr any gd Cathlics t cry ful! All hell will be breaking frth n the earth at that time. N Cnstitutin and n cannn f law will stp this ppe's authrity nce Satan enters int him. Furthermre, it's really nt that much f a change frm what sme f the ppes f ld have dne. Histrically, sme ppes have rdered the deaths and trture f millins f s called "heretics" during the purges f the Inquisitin and the Crusades. The Ppe's/Cathlic church's wrd use t be the law f the land at ne time, and s in essence past ppes have even cmmanded militaries t g frth. It really just cmes dwn t if yu can believe this will happen nce again; yu knw what they say abut histry repeating itself. Once the False Prphet (the dragn's tail) starts t use the lying signs and wnders manifestatins, yu can bet that any sign seeking, idl wrshiping, religius peples r cultures will als be sucked in t d his bidding. Simply put, when the 2 nd beast in chapter 13 is described allegrically as "the False Prphet" in chapter 16 (ne f many allegric titles ascribed t him), he will be given the pwer t frce peple t wrship the 1 st beast, which beast is Satan wh is mentined in Revelatin 13:14 as the beast that "had the wund by a swrd, and did live." S nce Satan, the riginal beast frm the pit wh was wunded at Calvary, begins t manifest miraculusly thrugh the false prphet expressin knwn as the beast with "tw hrns like a lamb," the peple will willingly bey his every wrd, even if it means t murder (Jeremiah 4:31; Daniel 11:36-37). This is als "the ther" beast mentined in Daniel 7:20. "And he [the beast w/tw hrns] deth great wnders, s that he maketh fire cme dwn frm heaven n the earth in the sight f men, And deceiveth them that dwell n the earth by the means f thse miracles which he had pwer t d in the sight f the beast " Revelatin 13:13-14a I lve definitin! Here we are psitively tld it is the "2 nd beast" in this chapter that will wield Satan's pwer t d the miracles. This is why I can tell yu with cnfidence this secnd beast is the ~ 30 ~

32 s called "Antichrist" that many have been lking fr. I knw this because 2-Thessalnians chapter 2 tells us wh he is; "Even him, ["that man f sin, the sn f perditin"] whse cming is after the wrking f Satan with all pwer and signs and lying wnders, And with all deceivableness f unrighteusness in them that perish; because they received nt the lve f the truth, that they might be saved" 2-Thessalnians 2:9-10. The False Prphet/Antichrist will be given pwer like sme say Nimrd and Alexander the Great were given pwer. He will have pwer like Pharah's magicians had pwer: t try an ffset the pwer the Witnesses will be given. "In the sight f the beast," simply means the pwer f this false prphet will nt nly be recgnized by all the peple f the Earth, but als by Gg's 10-hrn leaders. "Then I wuld knw the truth f the furth beast, which was diverse frm all the thers, exceeding dreadful, whse teeth were f irn, and his nails f brass; which devured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; And f the ten hrns that were in his head, and f the ther [beast] which came up ["frm the bttmless pit": Revelatin 17:8], and befre whm three fell; even f that hrn that had eyes, and a muth that spake very great things, whse lk was mre stut than his fellws" Daniel 7: Nw let us answer this questin nce and fr all, "Wh is the Antichrist?," and where d we find him in the Bible. Well, many already believe the reigning Ppe r ne wh assumes that psitin at that time will be the Antichrist, yet there is n ne mentined in the Bible wh is referred t as "thee Antichrist"; this title is nt even mentined in the bk f Revelatin (KJV). The reasn the Bible desn't cme ut and say there will be ne individual referred t as "the Antichrist," is because antichrist is a "spirit": "And every spirit that cnfesseth nt that Jesus Christ is cme in the flesh is nt f Gd: and this is that spirit f antichrist, wheref ye have heard that IT [the spirit f antichrist] shuld cme; and even nw already is IT in the wrld" 1-Jhn 4:3. G ahead, search ut the ther three verses in the Bible that mentin the wrd "antichrist," and yu will find that Jhn was speaking f "a spirit" in the peple that was t cme, nt ne individual. Nw having said that, if anyne culd be cnsidered t be the cnsummate persnificatin f the ultimate antichrist as spken f in 2-Thessalnians 2:9-10, it wuld mst certainly be this great wnder wrking "beast with tw hrns" f pwer and authrity. " saying t them that dwell n the earth, that they shuld make an image t the beast [becme like Satan], which had the wund by a swrd, and did live." Revelatin 13:14b This beast is referring t "the beast that ascendeth ut f the bttmless pit " in Revelatin 11:7, nt the many membered beast mentined at the beginning f this chapter. We must keep in mind that Satan is a jealus devil wh seeks all glry. The meaning f this "image" in its purest frm wuld be Satan's nature manifesting thrugh mankind (666: the fullness f carnal, adamic mankind). An image f smething can als pertain t hw yu think, nt just what smething lks like. Thus, the "mark in the frehead" symblically represents the mind and hw ne thinks. In like manner any pliticians and actrs try t sell the public an image f themselves that is usually nwhere near the truth. Imagery (the imaginatin) is that part f the sul that enables peple t idlize Hllywd stars, sprts heres, and s called great men in leadership, even in the Church. It is the carnal mind believing it can slve all f its prblems withut the help f GOD, r at the least, denying the pwer theref, trusting instead in human abilities. Therefre, the 2 nd beast/false Prphet will direct peple t frsake true faith in GOD and His Sn. Hwever, d nt lk fr it t be said that plainly. The beast in this verse is the riginal beast. The "wund by a swrd" reference refers t Jesus triumphing ver Satan at Calvary thrugh His death and resurrectin. Yet Satan was allwed t resuscitate his nature in the earth, because we as the bdy f Christ have failed t "first" destry the wrks f Satan in ur wn members. "And he had pwer t give life unt the image f the beast " Revelatin 13:15a This verse speaks indirectly f the ability and charisma Satan gives this religius leader. Pharah's wise men and magicians were given a type f this f pwer: "Then Pharah als called the wise men and the srcerers: nw the magicians f Egypt, they als did in like manner with their enchantments. Fr they cast dwn every man his rd, and they became serpents: but Aarn's rd swallwed up their rds" Exdus 7: S there yu g; it says "there is nthing new dne under the sun." As fr the "life" (G4151: spirit) that will be given t "the image"; have yu ever heard the expressin "S and s has breathed new life int ur rganizatin?" This man will be able t encurage and incite all peples thrughut the wrld t cme frth in this new satanic embdiment. He will them ~ 31 ~

33 have them g frth t kill any Christians because mb mentality will rule the day. Here again many Christians have been taught in errr t lk fr sme supernatural rbt r cybrg that the antichrist will bring t life t hunt Christians dwn, which is ridiculus! N, it's just Satan reviving and stirring up the sin nature within t fully seal his servants in their hearts and minds. "But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will nt have this man [Jesus] t reign ver us" Luke 19:14. " that the image f the beast [Satan's nature in men's hearts] shuld bth speak [dictatrial pwer], and cause that as many as wuld nt wrship the image f the beast [embrace hate, lies; the adamic nature] shuld be killed. And he [the False Prphet/Antichrist] causeth all, bth small and great, rich and pr, free and bnd, t receive a mark [Rmans 16:17] in their right hand [their wrks], r in their freheads [their minds]." Revelatin 13:15b-16 Befre this time cmes frth mst peple will have nly talked abut what they wished wuld happen t thse "n gd, self-righteus Christian hypcrites." "Thse extremists wh speak f faith in Christ alne, and nt in the plitics and abilities f gd men. Thse lsers wh feel they must cntinually expse mankind's sinful nature." Furthermre, the image the wrld has f Jesus will be s cmpletely backwards and crrupted by then that they will believe killing Gd fearing peple is actually a gd thing. This "image" f the rebellius nature has been and will be further excused and accepted by the masses as nrmal. The unified mb mentality f the deceived will be encuraged (rdained) by the 2 nd beast leader with tw hrns t nt nly speak against, but t kill any dissenters t their resurrected Baal religin f hate. Return t Chapter Index Chapter 14 "And I lked, and, l, a Lamb std n the munt Sin, and with him an hundred frty and fur thusand, having his Father's name written in their freheads. And I heard a vice frm heaven, as the vice f many waters, and as the vice f a great thunder: and I heard the vice f harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new sng befre the thrne, and befre the fur beasts, and the elders: and n man culd learn that sng but the hundred and frty and fur thusand, which were redeemed frm the earth. These are they which were nt defiled with wmen [Daniel 11:37]; fr they are virgins." Revelatin 14:1-4a Here is a picture f the same 144,000 shwn in Revelatin 7 nly nw they are shwn preparing t g frth t minister. This is when they are spiritually caught up t GOD'S thrne in the wedding chamber (Matthew 25:10). It's said in chapter 7 that these brethren will eventually cme ut f "great tribulatin." Meaning, they will be the saints wh are killed after the 42-mnths. This "munt Sin" event is a spiritual gathering f the end-time vercmers pre-great tribulatin, that is als described in Revelatin 12: "And she brught frth a man child, wh was t rule all natins with a rd f irn: and her child was caught up unt Gd, and t his thrne" Revelatin 12:5. The timing f this "befre the Thrne" event cmes int questin smetimes, but the rest f chapter 14 reveals certain events like the "everlasting gspel" being preached and Babyln's (America's midnight) fall taking place. Furthermre, verse 9 warns abut "wrshipping the beast" and "nt taking the mark," which f curse such warning will d little gd after the great tribulatin has taken place. Revelatin 14:14 chrnlgically shws the start f the indignatin perid. This clud harvest f the earth is the Tw Witness Cmpany being resurrected and called up. The cnfusin cmes in because these same tw witness/man child/ 144,000. Saints are first caught up (like Paul was) t the third Heaven t be indued with pwer and given their 42-mnth cmmissin. Then after the witnesses are called up ("cme up hither") they are gathered tgether with the great clud f witnesses that have been waiting fr the rest f their first fruit vercmer brethren t jin them (Hebrews 11:40). ~ 32 ~

34 Nw as stated, this first catching up will nt be a physical ne like Revelatin 11:12 will be; it's a picture f the sealing ( name written in their freheads) that is spken f in places like Revelatin 7 and Ezekiel 9: "Saying, Hurt nt the earth, neither the sea, nr the trees, till we have sealed the servants f ur Gd in their freheads" Revelatin 7:3; "And the LORD said unt him, G thrugh the midst f the city, thrugh the midst f Jerusalem, and set a mark upn the freheads f the men that sigh and that cry fr all the abminatins that be dne in the midst theref" Ezekiel 9:4. It's "the marriage"; it's the "secret" cming f Christ t His temple, and it cmes right befre the "2 nd seal" in Revelatin 6 is pened: the red hrse harbinger f great tribulatin. Nt being "defiled with wmen," tells us these sealed (wise) virgins did nt participate in the Cathlic "clergy, laity," structured church system that wrships and idlizes mere men. What's wrse is that the "daughters f harltry" have fllwed their "mther f harlts" be reprducing the same pyramid structured pwer system within Prtestant, Evangelical, Hliness, and all ther denminatinal churches (see link). "And I saw anther angel fly in the midst f heaven, having the everlasting gspel [the Kingdm message] t preach unt them that dwell n the earth, and t every natin, and kindred, and tngue, and peple, Saying with a lud vice, Fear Gd, and give glry t him; fr the hur f his judgment [G2920: tribunal; justice (this is nt Gd's wrath which cmes later: G2372: passin; indignatin; fierceness)] is cme: and wrship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the funtains f waters." Revelatin 14:6-7 This "gspel" is the gspel that has yet t be preached in its fullness (Matthew 10:23), and by that I mean with true pwer! "And this gspel f the kingdm shall be preached in all the wrld fr a witness unt all natins; and then shall the end cme" Matthew 24:14. This is the gspel that will be preached by the Tw Witness saints during the 42-mnths, minus all the false dctrine and denminatinal adherences. It als wuld nt d any gd t withhld the "everlasting gspel" frm thse wh need t hear it until many f the sinners were killed ff during the great tribulatin. Here again anther Christendm fairytale teaches that sme big fast mving angel is ging t be up in the cluds cvering every square inch f the planet yelling ut verses as he cruises by; prbably at Mach-1 speed. Hey, I can make this sund as silly as yu wuld like, but the truth is always much mre entreatable. This angel releases a message, but it's the witnesses that give vice t that message which they will be receiving via the Spirit. They are the nes wh " shall prphesy [Revelatin 19:10] a thusand tw hundred and threescre days, clthed in sackclth" Revelatin 11:3. "And there fllwed anther angel, saying, Babyln is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all natins drink f the wine f the wrath f her frnicatin." Revelatin 14:8 It says the "great city" Babyln is "fallen," which I believe at this pint chrnlgically and primarily emphasizes backslidden nce great Christian America getting it first (Obadiah 1:4). Gd said He will send Gg (Russia + allies/the ten hrns) t take her dwn: Jeremiah 50, 51; Ezekiel 38. Nevertheless, the spirit f "Babyln the Great" will remain in the wrld until Revelatin 16:19. It will nt be until the time f Gd's "fierce wrath" that wrld-wide "Great Babyln" (the children f the Mther Harlt) is finally destryed: " and great Babyln came in remembrance befre Gd, t give unt her the cup f the wine f the fierceness f his wrath. It, crprate wrldwide Babyln, will have crssed the line with GOD fr the last time nce they kill the Witnesses: GOD'S faithful Sns'. Frm that pint n the peples f the wrld will be given n mre mercy fr their sins. They will either repent r die perid! Babyln the Great will never rise again frm that pint n. It says in Revelatin 18 referring t America as the great city Babyln that she " has becme the habitatin f devils, and the hld f every ful spirit, and a cage f every unclean and hateful bird" Revelatin 18:2b. Nw America did nt start ff t be a wicked natin. Althugh, her past treatment f sme natins and races f peple has nt been withut fault befre Gd's eyes. Even s, Babyln's first blw will be like the preverbal first dmin in a three and ne half year perid f ever increasing judgments fr the rest f the wrld. Since America caused the rest f the wrld t partake f her sins, they t must be judged: "Fr all natins have drunk f the wine f the wrath f her frnicatin, and the kings f the earth have cmmitted frnicatin with her, and the merchants f the earth are waxed rich thrugh the abundance f her delicacies" Revelatin 18:3. ~ 33 ~

35 "And the third angel fllwed them, saying with a lud vice, If any man wrship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his frehead, r in his hand, The same shall [future tense] drink f the wine f the wrath f Gd, which is pured ut withut mixture int the cup f his indignatin; and he shall be trmented with fire and brimstne in the presence f the hly angels, and in the presence f the Lamb." Revelatin 14:9-10 Here again, this prclamatin wuldn't d much gd after the three and ne half years nw wuld it? By then "the mark" wuld be pretty much emblazned int the hearts and minds f every sinner that is left. N, this prclamatin (hwbeit first a spiritual ne) is prclaimed at the beginning f the 42-mnths. This same warning will manifest thrugh the Witnesses' ministry. These verses shw GOD is all abut chrnlgy; He wants us t understand the timing f events brethren. As fr wrshiping the beast r his image r receiving the mark in the frehead r hand, we are talking abut nature here. This verses when understd in its prper symblic rendering is speaking f the adamic r Satan's nature being fully frmed in mankind. The mark means a persns nature like when Rmans 16 says, "Nw I beseech yu, brethren, mark them which cause divisins and ffences cntrary t the dctrine which ye have learned; and avid them" Rmans 16:17. Or hw abut Philippians 3, "Brethren, be fllwers tgether f me, and mark them which walk s as ye have us fr an ensample" Philippians 3:17. The "mark" in the frehead speaks f the way a persn thinks, and the "mark" n the hand speaks f a persn's wrks; the things they d. Why d Christians all f a sudden lse their ability t see types and symbls nce they get t the bk f Revelatin? Blws my mind. "And I heard a vice frm heaven saying unt me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lrd [the dead "in Christ"] frm hencefrth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest frm their laburs; and their wrks d fllw them." Revelatin 14:13 The wman/flish virgins that "d get their il" ut there in the wilderness, and end up having t lay dwn their lives during the 42-mnths, will be the first t receive this blessing. "And they that understand [vs. "the peple that d knw their GOD " Daniel 11:32] amng the peple shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the swrd, and by flame, by captivity, and by spil, many days. Nw when they shall fall, they shall be hlpen with a little help: but many shall cleave t them with flatteries. And sme f them f understanding shall fall, t try them, and t purge, and t make them white, even t the time f the end: because it is yet fr a time appinted" Daniel 11: Nw Revelatin 12 says, "And when the dragn saw that he was cast unt the earth, he persecuted the wman which brught frth the man child. And t the wman were given tw wings f a great eagle, that she might [here is the freewill clause] fly int the wilderness, int her place Revelatin 12:13-14a. Yu see, sme teach the wman can't be tuched during the 42-mnths, just like the man child brethren, but that's nt what's being said here. The wman will have a place, but she has t get there thrugh bedience t Gd's Wrd. Yes, many are hid it seems, but remember, "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lrd frm hencefrth " [Fr they nly had "understanding" (Daniel 11:33) and needed sme persecutin t "wash their rbes and make them white." Fr they must als "knw their GOD" intimately (Daniel 11:32)]. Once mre the Bible tells us Christians are present during the great tribulatin; nt new Christians, nt Jews that just gt saved, but Christians that have knwn their GOD lng befre this persecutin came alng. "And I lked, and behld a white clud, and upn the clud ne sat like unt the Sn f man, having n his head a glden crwn, and in his hand a sharp sickle." Revelatin 14:14 I call this the 1 st clud harvest f the saints, and the secnd secret cming f the LORD. This is why His presence remains hid in the heavenlies with the great clud f Witnesses surrunding Him. As I have stated in ther places, the "Sn f man" and the "Sn f Gd" titles represent tw different types f appearing in the Bible; ne in the natural as the Sn f man, and the ther in the spirit realm as the Sn f Gd. The verse in Revelatin 14:14 abve is the nly verse in the Bible that wuld seem t cntradict that assciatin. Hwever, the verse itself says " like unt the sn f man," meaning nt exactly like Jesus the man. S weather Jesus is spiritually manifesting in the heavenly realm where nly spirit beings can see Him, r He's in physical frm way up there in the cluds like where He had last ascended t makes n difference; this is nt the appearing where every eye will see Him; almst, but nt yet. That "every eye" appearing, takes place 30-days later (see link). "Behld, he cmeth with cluds [Revelatin 19:11-14]; and every eye shall see him, and ~ 34 ~

36 they als which pierced him [the Jews]: and all kindreds f the earth shall wail because f him. Even s, Amen" Revelatin 1:7. Yet we knw there is als a day when the LORD will physically appear in a glrified state with the armies in Heaven, but this is nt that day; this is the appearing (the clud harvest) right befre that appearing, where nly the result f His presence is made knwn: "And then shall appear the sign [G4591: an indicatin, especially ceremnially r supernaturally: - miracle, sign, tken] f the Sn f man in heaven [which will be the resurrected Witnesses ascending], and then [meaning a little later after that] shall all the tribes f the earth murn, and they shall see the Sn f man cming [at Armageddn] in the cluds f heaven with pwer and great glry" Matthew 24:30. S this 1 st clud harvest is where the LORD stays "ON a clud" as it were, in the Spirit, and receives the dead in Christ first. Then a shrt seasn later there will fllw a gathering nt Him f all the living saints after the battle f Armageddn. "And anther angel came ut f the temple, crying with a lud vice t him that sat n the clud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: fr the time is cme fr thee t reap; fr the harvest f the earth [James 5:7] is ripe." Revelatin 14:15 This same situatin is shwn in Mark 13: "Let bth grw tgether until the harvest: and in the time f harvest I will say t the reapers, Gather ye tgether first the tares [sinners], and bind them in bundles [natins, cities, sects, rganizatins, etc.] t burn them [which same binding/like-minded gruping is already happening]: but gather the wheat int my barn" Matthew 13:30. S even thugh the tares are said t be gathered first in this parable, it is the "harvest" f the earth [believers] wh are actually first put int the LORD'S barn, which is the chrnlgy fund in Revelatin 14: Yet yu will see in Revelatin 14:18 that it is the "vine f the earth" sinners (thse rted in earthiness/carnality) that are first bundled and then later burned. Whereas believers cme frm the true Vine wh is Christ. In reality these tares have been being gathered fr sme time nw. All ne has t d is t lk at the legislatin that sme states pass, r the rebellius grups that find sanctuary predminantly in the West cast r Liberal strnghlds. There are cities that spnsr things like Mardi Gras, Gay pride days, LBGT days, rdain public nudity, etc., and that's just in America, the suppsed Christian natin. In GOD'S eyes these are all bundles r "clusters" t be burnt. S these tares are yet t be burnt at Armageddn, nce they are fully gathered tgether r as Revelatin 16 says, "Fr they are the spirits f devils, wrking miracles, which g frth unt the kings f the earth and f the whle wrld, t gather them t the battle f that great day f Gd Almighty" Revelatin 16:14. GOD will wait until the great tribulatin has purged His children as silver and gld are tried: "And I will bring the third part thrugh the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gld is tried: they shall call n my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my peple: and they shall say, The LORD is my Gd" Zechariah 13:9. The feast that is mentined in Jhn 7:2 was the seven day lng feast f "Tabernacles." This invlved three divisins f harvest r ingathering: 1 st ) the labr f the field, 2 nd ) the fruit f the earth (Revelatin 14:15-16), and 3 rd ) the ingathering f the threshing flr and f the winepress. During this feast the Jewish peple were t leave their hmes and g int the wilderness (Revelatin 12:6) t live in bths in remembrance f hw Gd delivered them frm the hard bndage f the Egyptian Pharahs. "And anther angel came ut f the temple which is in heaven, he als having a sharp sickle." Revelatin 14:17 This secnd angel cmes ut t "gather" the remaining wicked "t the battle f that great day f GOD Almighty" (Revelatin 16:14). As yu will see in the next verse, this is the spiritual manifestatin f burning the already gathered bundles f the remaining wicked. America's bundled wicked will have already been dealt with during the midnight assault against it by Gg. ~ 35 ~

37 "And anther angel came ut frm the altar, which had pwer ver fire; and cried with a lud cry t him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters f the vine f the earth; fr her grapes are fully ripe." Revelatin 14:18 Here a third angel cmes frm the altar (Revelatin 6:9-11) and tells the secnd angel t gather (Revelatin 16:16) the clusters ["bundles" f the rebellius] f the vine f the earth. This is unlike the first harvest which insinuates a harvest f crps, like wheat. Whereas the 2 nd harvest is said t be f the "vine" f the earth," insinuating wild grapes fr the winepress judgment. That "vine" grws up frm Hell nt the earth; it is nt "thee Vine" which came dwn frm Heaven: "I am the [true] vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth frth much fruit: fr withut me ye can d nthing. If a man abide nt in me, he is cast frth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them int the fire, and they are burned" Jhn 15:5-6. Yu will find that bth f these gatherings (the harvest & the cluster f grapes) are paralleled many times ver in the Bible. Althugh, the chrnlgy and the symblisms d differ. It's imprtant t ntice they are still nly being gathered at this pint (Revelatin 16:14); we have nt yet reached the 7th seal. "And the angel thrust in his sickle int the earth, and gathered the vine f the earth, and cast it int the great winepress f the wrath f Gd [Isaiah 34:6, 63:3]. And the winepress was trdden withut the city [f GOD, meaning this judgment is just fr the sinners], and bld came ut f the winepress, even unt the hrse bridles, by the space f a thusand and six hundred furlngs [Jeremiah 31:39-40]." Revelatin 14:19-20 Here again, the events frm Revelatin 14:14-20 are presented in a cndensed synptic frmat. This is ne f the ways Gd plays hide the manna. At first glance these verses seem t cmpletely skip ver the first six vial judgments, and g right t the 7 th vial: "the winepress judgment." Althugh, like the gspels, missin f an event r tw des nt mean they did nt r will nt happen; they just were nt mentined at that time. This is the time when the 7 th seal, the 7 th trumpet, and the 7 th vial cme frth. It's when the wrst f the wrst cmes frth. "And, thu sn f man, thus saith the Lrd GOD; Speak unt every feathered fwl, and t every beast f the field, Assemble yurselves, and cme; gather yurselves n every side t my sacrifice that I d sacrifice fr yu, even a great sacrifice upn the muntains f Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink bld. Ye shall eat the flesh f the mighty, and drink the bld f the princes f the earth, f rams, f lambs, and f gats, f bullcks, all f them fatlings f Bashan. And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink bld till ye be drunken, f my sacrifice which I have sacrificed fr yu. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with hrses and charits, with mighty men, and with all men f war, saith the Lrd GOD" Ezekiel 39:17-20; Ezekiel 39 is paralleled in Revelatin 19, "And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a lud vice, saying t all the fwls that fly in the midst f heaven, Cme and gather yurselves tgether unt the supper f the great Gd; That ye may eat the flesh f kings, and the flesh f captains, and the flesh f mighty men, and the flesh f hrses, and f them that sit n them, and the flesh f all men, bth free and bnd, bth small and great" Revelatin 19: Return t Chapter Index Chapter 15 "And I saw anther sign in heaven, great and marvellus, seven angels having the seven last plagues [r vials]; fr in them is filled up the wrath f Gd." Revelatin 15:1 Nw Jhn's visin rewinds a bit back t the start f the vial judgments, which wuld be the start f the indignatin perid. I shuld pint ut here that technically Gd calls everything that happens after the Witnesses are killed and called up, "His wrath," the "Lamb's wrath," etc. Hwever, He als makes it a pint t tell us there is an even greater, "fierceness f wrath" t cme after the Lamb's wrath. One where Yeshua Himself physically returns t smite the earth in all His fury and rage. Yu will begin t see the labeling f these different time perids and levels f increasing severity as yu ~ 36 ~

38 search the scriptures n this matter. These seven last "plagues" are the seven "vial" judgments mentined in Revelatin 15:7. Read Revelatin 16:9 and yu will see hw the vial that gets pured ut in Revelatin 16:8 upn the sun, is nw called a "plague." Other translatins might call them the "bwl" judgments. Either way, yu will find ut that the first six vials r plagues cme frth during the Indignatin perid (Jeremiah 10:10), and the last, "7 th vial," like the "7 th seal," and the "7 th trumpet," all cme frth during Armageddn. The first f these vials cmes frth right after the Tw Witness C. resurrects and ascends int the cluds f Heaven in Revelatin 11:12. Yu see, Gd's indignatin will have risen up at this pint because the wrld will have just killed the sn's f Gd and they are even rejicing ver it (Revelatin 11:10). The wrath f the Lamb is abut t be unleashed; n mre mercy. "And I saw as it were a sea f glass mingled with fire: and them that had gtten the victry ver the beast, and ver his image, and ver his mark, and ver the number f his name, stand n the sea f glass, having the harps f Gd. And they sing the sng f Mses the servant f Gd, and the sng f the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellus are thy wrks, Lrd Gd Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thu King f saints." Revelatin 15:2-3; p.p. Revelatin 7:9-17 The "sea f glass mingled with fire," speaks f a purity gained thrugh great tribulatin: "Behld, I have refined thee, but nt with silver; I have chsen thee in the furnace f afflictin" Isaiah 48:10. These verses are talking abut the gathered vercmers in Heaven; thse which were just called up after the 42-mnths, and thse wh have been waiting in Heaven called the great clud f witnesses. This is the very situatin Hebrews 11:40 was referring t. "And after that I lked, and, behld, the temple f the tabernacle f the testimny in heaven was pened." Revelatin 15:5 The "tabernacle" f the testimny being pened, speaks f the "Hly f hlies." It delivers them frm the ther side f the veil (the Hly place) where these perfected saints have been wrshiping the LORD frm; they nw have access t that which they've been crying ut fr. This als speaks f Gd's stred vengeance that is due all martyred and persecuted saints; the place where the prayers ( smke f the incense; Revelatin 8:4) f the saints have been stred up. In ther wrds, the time f Gd's stred vengeance will have arrived because man has finally cme t the place where the fulfillment and accuntability f this dispensatin will have been satisfied. The "testimnies" in that tabernacle are thse f martyred saints frm all ages wh GOD is abut t avenge. "And the seven angels came ut f the temple, having the seven plagues, clthed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with glden girdles." Revelatin 15:6 In reality, all the judgments frm the start f the 42-mnths until Armageddn are called "plagues," and like in Egypt, they will grw increasingly wrse as the time prgresses. Still, "these plagues" unlike the first plagues mentined in Revelatin 11:6, which take place during the 1,260-days, wn't be cming frm empwered saints. They will be cming ut f Heaven frm the Temple f the Testimny, and just like Egypt's plagues, these last vial judgments are fr the mst part ging t be literal manifestatins f supernatural events; water t bld, massive slar flares, massive earthquakes, 100-lb hail stnes, etc. "And ne f the fur beasts gave unt the seven angels seven glden vials full f the wrath f Gd, wh liveth fr ever and ever." Revelatin 15:7 These fur beasts, which we first saw in Ezekiel chapter ne, represent the sul f man. They have undergne a transfrmatin by the time they get t Revelatin 4. I believe these fur beasts represent the perfected image f the sul f man. The "fur" beasts have "fur" faces, but nw they have six wings instead f the fur they had in Ezekiel 1. Remember, it was the beast that was created first n the six day, then the man. There are fur parts t the sul that crrespnd with the fur faces f the heavenly beasts: the mind that can sar in thught like an eagle; the will that can be as anchred r stubbrn as an x, r later we see as submissive and tender as a calf; the emtins that can rar and rage as a lin, and lastly, the desires, in which nly mankind can desire ~ 37 ~

39 bth Heaven and Hell, gd r evil. There are said t be "fur crners" t the earth (earthiness; carnality; fleshly) frm which the man came frm. Thus, fur symblically represents the sul, nly these fur beasts with fur faces fund in Ezekiel and Revelatin seem t be hybrid mdels f the sul f man. It is as if Gd kept the master mld in Heaven f what the sul was r is t becme nce the "change" has taken place. Either way, the time f the vials is the time f "Gd's wrath," nt mans'. "And the temple was filled with smke frm the glry f Gd, and frm his pwer; and n man was able t enter int the temple, till the seven plagues f the seven angels were fulfilled." Revelatin 15:8 This temple (the Temple f the Testimny) seems t bear witness t thse in Revelatin 12: "And they vercame him by the bld f the Lamb, and by the wrd f their testimny; and they lved nt their lives unt the death" Revelatin 12:11. It says "n man culd enter until," whereas previusly the vercmers were wrshiping the LORD in this Temple, but here it is temprarily clsed, fr Gd will nt be receiving praise frm man at this time; He will be venting His stred anger and vengeance against all the ungdly that remain upn the earth. Return t Chapter Index Chapter 16 "And I heard a great vice ut f the temple saying t the seven angels, G yur ways, and pur ut the vials f the wrath f Gd upn the earth." Revelatin 16:1 At lng last we are abut t see sme f the details pertaining t the Lambs wrath, aka, the "Indignatin." Hwbeit sme will say, "It says Gd's wrath, nt the Lamb's?" Yu have t keep in mind nt every verse gives all the details f any situatin every time a pertinent situatin is mentined in the Bible; like with the gspels. Additinally, mst every time end-time judgment is mentined it's called "Gd's wrath" because ultimately that is what it is. Hwever, finer pints f detail are there fr thse wh lk fr such. Furthermre, yu will ntice there is n mentin f the LORD Jesus physically manifesting n earth during the first six vials, whereas in Revelatin 16:15-16 Jesus says He is abut t return at Armageddn. S we can place the first six vial judgments r plagues befre the LORD physically returns, that is, befre "the Day f The LORD" breaks frth. This time perid is shwn t be apprximately ne mnth lng. We are tld the "great tribulatin" perid will be 1,260-days lng, but in Daniel 12:11 there is a time perid stated that will cntinue n until "1,290-days" are accmplished, r as Matthew 24:29 puts it, "Immediately after the tribulatin f thse days shall the sun be darkened " Nw the next verse in Daniel 12:12 says there will be yet anther time perid that ges n until "1,335-days" are accmplished, r apprximately 1½-mnths past the end f the 1,290-days. The key t interpreting these numbering f days is fund in the fact that they all start r run cncurrently starting when the 1,260-days start. Thus, in actuality the 1,290-days will nly extend 30-days past the 1,260-days, and the 1,335-days nly extend 45-days past the 1,290-days (see chart). "And the first went, and pured ut his vial upn the earth; and there fell a nisme and grievus sre upn the men which had the mark f the beast, and upn them which wrshipped his image." Revelatin 16:2 As previusly stated, these vials seem t smewhat mimic the plagues that came upn Egypt, nly nw they will cme upn the whle wrld. These vials are manifesting as natural events; n mre hiding things in the spiritual realm. At this pint these plagues are still judging the "seat f the beast" and the general ppulus that they might yet repent and turn t the LORD. Hwever, nce Gd's fury is unleashed at Armageddn it will be primarily directed at the rulers and militaries t utterly destry them, just like with Pharah and his army in the sea. And just like the plagues f Egypt, the peple f Gd are warned t take cver: "Cme, my peple, enter thu int thy chambers, and shut thy drs abut thee: hide thyself as it were fr a little mment [30-days], until the indignatin be verpast. Fr, behld, the LORD cmeth ut f his place [at the right ~ 38 ~

40 hand f the Father, but He remains n the clud: Revelatin 14:14] t punish the inhabitants f the earth fr their iniquity: the earth als shall disclse her bld, and shall n mre cver her slain" Isaiah 26: "And they shall g int the hles f the rcks, and int the caves f the earth, fr fear f the LORD, and fr the glry f his majesty, when he ariseth t shake terribly the earth" Isaiah 2:19. Ntice hw the verses in Isaiah d nt mentin the LORD'S actual return at this time. "And the secnd angel pured ut his vial upn the sea; and it became as the bld f a dead man: and every living sul died in the sea." Revelatin 16:3 As stated befre, I believe mst f the vial plagues are natural manifestatins as the next passage in Revelatin implies: "give them bld t drink " The bld f a dead man is sme pretty nasty stuff: black, fetid, putrefying, bi-hazard slime. Furthermre, if "the sea" in this verse is truly suppse t symblically represent the natins, then wh fights at Armageddn because it says "every living sul died in the sea? D yu knw hw many peple depend n the sea fr their fd? GOD'S trying t save peple, nt whales (Gen 9:2-3; Acts 11:6-7). Believe yu me, I can find a type in almst anything in the Bible, but these last seven vial judgments will be very much a literal expressin f GOD'S stred wrath; it's the fullness f judgment where bth spiritual and natural cme frth at the same time. It ges withut saying that symblgy has always been Gd's g-t tl t teach us spiritual truths, while at the same time requiring faith t perate. Nevertheless, at this pint in time the schling prcess will be ver; the mystery f GOD will be revealed. "And the third angel pured ut his vial upn the rivers and funtains f waters; and they became bld. And I heard the angel f the waters say, Thu art righteus, O Lrd, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thu hast judged thus. Fr they have shed the bld f saints and prphets, and thu hast given them bld t drink; fr they are wrthy." Revelatin 16:4-6 This time the rivers and funtains f waters are actual wells & drinking surces, whereas the 2 nd vial upn sea will be t remve a fd surce. Nw in Revelatin 8 we were tld that a 1/3 part f the rivers and funtains f waters were made bitter and men died. S hw d yu nly pisn a 1/3 part f a natural river r a sea with smething strng enugh t kill men as Revelatin 8:11 said it wuld? Again brethren, there is a time when the Bible des prtray natural events, even thugh Revelatin fr the mst part was meant t be claked predminately in symblisms. These things were meant t remain hid frm man's understanding fr a lng time. Yet here the verse itself tells us this will be a natural event. "And the furth angel pured ut his vial upn the sun; and pwer was given unt him t scrch men with fire. And men were scrched with great heat, and blasphemed the name f Gd, which hath pwer ver these plagues: and they repented nt t give him glry." Revelatin 16:8-9 Talk abut slar flare! If peple refuse t repent nce they knw, that they knw, that they knw, that it is truly GOD wh is judging them fr their evil, then they deserve Hell r wrse; the wrse being called "the Lake f Fire." Scientists tell us the sun is capable f prducing these massive slar flares, but that which is released frm the sun during the 4 th vial will apparently be many times wrse than mankind has ever experienced. Here again is why the LORD tells His peple t "hide themselves till the indignatin (the vials) be verpast." The Hebrews had t in like manner d this r that when the plagues hit Egypt f they t wuld have experienced judgment r died. "And the fifth angel pured ut his vial upn the seat f the beast; and his kingdm was full f darkness; and they gnawed their tngues fr pain, and blasphemed the Gd f heaven because f their pains and their sres, and repented nt f their deeds." Revelatin 16:10-11 "The seat f the beast," wuld be the gverning seats, heads, and hrns f pwer that are all cnspiring t ver thrugh the wrld at that time. "The darkness" that cmes upn his kingdm speaks f despair, chas, and misery. They have misery and despair because all their plans and schemes will be ging up in smke literally, as Gd cntinues t pur ut the remaining vials. These evil rulers and peples f the wrld will finally realize that Gd "is GOD," and everything Satan deceived them int believing will be cming apart at the seams. I believe there will als be a time f ~ 39 ~

41 literal darkness that Egypt said culd be felt. Gd wants these remaining sinners t knw full-well what is in stre fr them in the pit if they still refuse t repent; eternal darkness and despair. Althugh this next verse is speaking f the backslidden Christian's judgment, it is still shwing an aspect f Hell. "Raging waves f the sea, faming ut their wn shame; wandering stars, t whm is reserved the blackness f darkness fr ever" Jude 1:13. They "gnaw their tngues" because they will realize t late that there is an actual eternal "Lake f Fire" and that they will sn be in it. "And the sixth angel pured ut his vial upn the great river Euphrates; and the water theref was dried up, that the way f the kings f the east might be prepared." Revelatin 16:12 Think brethren, nce that massive slar flare frm the 4 th vial hits earth, nthing electrical r mechanical that depends n electrical current is ging t wrk; vehicles, tanks, planes, etc. Ships cannt navigate in jell. The Euphrates River basically separates mst f the Mideast and Asia. S yeah, drying up that cagulated, bldy, maggt infested bihazard river will be a big help at that time. Usually in time f war mst bridges are destryed and if yu are n hrseback r walking yu are nt ging t walk hundreds f extra miles just t crss a bridge. Nw having said that, there is a symblic understanding that culd als be applied here. That being that the militaries in the Euphrates River basin are ging t be smehw eliminated, but I dn't think s. Thse armies are part f the "Ten-Hrns" wh will be fighting at Armageddn. S in essence they will be allies with the "Kings f the East." Gd's will want all remaining peples t cme t His "supper" at Armageddn/Megidd (Ezekiel 39:17; Revelatin 19:17-18), even the rebellius in Asia. "Fr they are the spirits f devils, wrking miracles, which g frth unt the kings f the earth and f the whle wrld, t gather them t the battle f that great day f Gd Almighty" Revelatin 16:14. Nw having said all that, there is als a prphecy in Daniel 11 that crrelates with this same pint in time. Nevertheless, I believe that prphecy in Daniel is speaking f the LORD returning with the Heavenly hst (Revelatin 19) t smite thse wh will have gathered t fight at Megidd befre they can cmpletely decimate Israel: "But tidings ut f the east and ut f the nrth (the nrth can als speak f GOD'S Thrne: Psalms 75:6-7) shall truble him [the False Prphet/the Antichrist/Satan]: therefre he shall g frth [ut f ccupied Israel] with great fury t destry, and utterly t make away many" Daniel 11:44. The fllwing prphesies all speak f this same time f the end battle f that great day f the LORD. Israel must cme t the place where they cry ut t GOD admitting that they and their fathers, fathers, fathers, have been deceived abut Messiah (Hsea 5:15). Befre this happens it seems the Jewish peple will need t be cmpletely and utterly brken, and that is what the "time f Jacb's truble" (link) is all abut: "Set the trumpet t thy muth. He shall cme as an eagle [Luke 17:37] against the huse f the LORD, because they have transgressed my cvenant, and trespassed against my law. Israel shall cry unt me, My Gd, we knw thee. Israel hath cast ff the thing that is gd [the Messiah]: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but nt by me: they have made princes, and I knew it nt: f their silver and their gld have they made them idls, that they may be cut ff" Hsea 8:1-4; "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prphets, and stnest them that are sent unt thee; hw ften wuld I have gathered thy children tgether, as a hen dth gather her brd under her wings, and ye wuld nt! Behld, yur huse is left unt yu deslate: and verily I say unt yu, Ye shall nt see me [until Armageddn: Matthew 24:30b], until the time cme when ye shall say, Blessed is he [either the Tw Witness ministry preaching during the great trib, r Yeshua with the armies in Heaven] that cmeth in the name f the Lrd" Luke 13: "Then said I, Lrd, hw lng? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted withut inhabitant, and the huses withut man, and the land be utterly deslate, And the LORD have remved men far away, and there be a great frsaking in the midst f the land. But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an ak, whse substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: s the hly seed shall be the substance theref" Isaiah 6: "And I saw three unclean spirits like frgs cme ut f the muth f the dragn, and ut f the muth f the beast, and ut f the muth f the false prphet." Revelatin 16:13 Even thugh this is the first f three references mentined in Revelatin were these three main players are shwn t cnspire with each ther, it's nt the first time we heard f them. Althugh, this is the first time we hear f the attributed title called "the False Prphet." Jesus did this same thing in Jhn 1:42 when He changed Simn Peter's name t "Cephas," which reflects the nature Christ wuld ~ 40 ~

42 wrk int him. In like manner, this is when I believe the ne called "the False Prphet" (the man f sin: 2-Thessalnians 2:9) will d his greatest miracles as his religius title suggests. Apparently this reference t the false prphet gives us yet anther attribute r title f "the little hrn"/"king f fierce cuntenance"/"vile persn"/"sn f perditin"/the 2 nd /"anther beast," namely that he can perfrm great wnders and miracles like calling dwn fire frm abve. Thus, the 2 nd miracle wrking beast with "tw hrns like a lamb" described in Revelatin 13, is nw persnified as ne individual whm Satan ("the dragn") will be wrking thrugh. Since this reference in nw chrnlgically linked with the time f the vials, it shuld tell us smething; namely why the miracles nw? Well think fr a mment; if yu are claiming t be the persnificatin f Gd, and all f a sudden the true Sns' f GOD wh yu had just rdered t be killed three days prir, resurrect (and put their heads back n) and ascend up int Heaven, hw d yu (as Satan in this man) cunter that display f pwer? Easy, yu bring ut the big guns; yu cmmand yur puppet ppe prphet t call dwn sme fire in the sight f men (Revelatin 13:13). Mrever, it will nt be just the false prphet manifesting this miraculus pwer at this pint in time, it will als be cming frm the beast cnfederacy f wicked leaders and their armies wh will pssess sme frm f supernatural pwer that they did nt have up until that pint. I als believe the cnfederate beast's pwer may include a supernatural prtectin frm what wuld have been certain death befre that time: "Befre their face the peple shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men f war; and they shall march every ne n his ways, and they shall nt break their ranks: Neither shall ne thrust anther; they shall walk every ne in his path: and when they fall upn the swrd, they shall nt be wunded" Jel 2:6-8. "Fr they are the spirits f devils, wrking miracles, which g frth unt the kings f the earth and f the whle wrld, t gather them t the battle f that great day f Gd Almighty." Revelatin 16:14; p.p. Jel 2:1-13 It shuld be apparent these devil frg spirits have been gathering the wicked all thrughut the great tribulatin, but here they are shwn t sme receive extra pwer and abilities at this pint in time t d even greater wrks: "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whm the Lrd shall cnsume with the spirit f his muth [Revelatin 19:15], and shall destry with the brightness f his cming: Even him [the False Prphet], whse cming is after the wrking f Satan with all pwer and signs and lying wnders, And with all deceivableness f unrighteusness in them that perish; because they received nt the lve f the truth, that they might be saved. And fr this cause Gd shall send them strng delusin [fire frm heaven?], that they shuld believe a lie:" 2-Thessalnians 2:8-11. "Behld, I cme as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them tgether int a place called in the Hebrew tngue Armageddn." Revelatin 16:15-16 These verses tell us quite a few things. They bring t light ne f the many cmings r appearings f the LORD, f which nly this last ne is a physical return. If Jesus said He is cming as a thief, there is a reasn fr it. A very wise brther nce tld me t let the Bible define the Bible; I have tried t adhere t that glden rule ever since. S what des the Bible say abut the "thief?" Well, Jesus Himself said: "The thief cmeth nt, but fr t steal, and t kill, and t destry " Jhn 10:10a. Jesus als said: "Fr yurselves knw perfectly that the day f the Lrd [which is Armageddn] s cmeth as a thief in the night" 1-Thessalnians 5:2. Thus, "the day f the Lrd" and "the thief cming" are synnymusly linked in the Wrd. This is when Jesus Himself is cming back t "steal" r remve lamp stands frm apstate Christians [Revelatin 2:5]; t "kill" unrepentant sinners, and t "destry" the wrks f Satan. This return is the fulfillment f the 7 th seal, the 7 th trumpet, and the 7 th vial, which initiates "the battle f the great day f the LORD": Armageddn. "And the seventh angel pured ut his vial int the air; and there came a great vice ut f the temple f heaven, frm the thrne, saying, It is dne." Revelatin 16:17 "What is dne?" "And I will send a fire n Magg [Russia], and amng them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall knw that I am the LORD. S will I make my hly name knwn in the midst ~ 41 ~

43 f my peple Israel; and I will nt let them pllute my hly name any mre: and the heathen shall knw that I am the LORD, the Hly One in Israel. Behld, it is cme, and IT is dne, saith the Lrd GOD; this is the DAY wheref I have spken" Ezekiel 39:6-8. Therefre, the seventh angel and his 7 th vial will release what is called "the Day f the LORD." Yu will find that Jel chapter 2 has a lt t say cncerning the "day f the LORD." Whereas Isaiah chapter 65 and Ezekiel chapter 39 starts t expund n life in the seventh millennium immediately fllwing the battle f Armageddn and the Judgment Seat f Christ. "And there were vices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was nt since men were upn the earth, s mighty an earthquake, and s great. [1.]And the great city was divided int three parts [Jeremiah 22:1-10; Matthew 25:], [2.]and the cities f the natins fell: [3.]and great [crprate, wrld-wide] Babyln came in remembrance befre Gd, t give unt her the cup f the wine f the fierceness f his wrath." Revelatin 16:18-19 Here we see Gd makes a pint t let us knw this wrath will be His wrse fiercest ver-all wrath. We knw the "great city" (America) is typed as part Babyln which will have already received its judgment early n at the beginning f the great tribulatin perid. S nw we see that "the cities f the natins" are getting the fullness f their judgment 3½ years later at Armageddn. I believe this great whrish spirit that has defiled nt nly the wrld, but many f GOD'S peple thrughut the ages, is ging t be annihilated at this time. Even thugh this will be the wrst f the wrst f all the end-time judgments, a repentant 3rd part f this divided "great [wrldly] city" will survive and enter the seventh millennium alive: "And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even t the LORD, and he shall be intreated f them, and shall heal them. In that day shall there be a highway ut f Egypt t Assyria, and the Assyrian shall cme int Egypt, and the Egyptian int Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst f the land: Whm the LORD f hsts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my peple, and Assyria the wrk f my hands, and Israel mine inheritance" Isaiah 19: Return t Chapter Index Chapter 17 "And there came ne f the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unt me, Cme hither; I will shew unt thee the judgment f the great whre that sitteth upn many waters [many natins]." With whm the kings f the earth have cmmitted frnicatin, and the inhabitants f the earth have been made drunk with the wine f her frnicatin" Revelatin 17:1-2 T fully understand wh and what this "great whre that sitteth upn many waters" is, ne must first understand that GOD is shwing us situatins the way He sees them. We are seeing a picture that incrprates bth spiritual and natural entities; persns, places, rganizatins, and natins f peples int ne superimpsed multi-layered allegric rendering. I'm jumping ahead a bit here t briefly describe this situatin because I feel it is necessary t understand the rest f this chapter, actually, the whle f Revelatin. Therefre, what we are seeing in this chapter is basically a pyramid structure with Satan at the tp as the "scarlet beast," "the great red dragn," "the beast that was and is nt," and, "the beast that ascendeth ut f the bttmless pit." I believe the fllwing verses in Isaiah 14 give us the actual interpretatin f "the beast that was, and is nt, and yet is." "Hw art thu fallen frm heaven [meaning he was in Heaven], O Lucifer [Heylel], sn f the mrning! hw art thu cut dwn t the grund [nw he's nt], which didst weaken the natins! Fr thu hast said in thine heart, I will ascend int heaven, I will exalt my thrne abve the stars f Gd: I will sit als upn the munt f the cngregatin, in the sides f the nrth: I will ascend abve the heights f the cluds; I will be like the mst High [thus, Satan still has sme plans, r as Revelatin 17:10b says: "the ther (the eighth king) is nt yet cme; and when he cmeth, he must ~ 42 ~

44 cntinue a shrt space."]. Yet thu shalt be brught dwn t hell, t the sides f the pit" Isaiah 14: Then what yu see as yu cntinue dwn Satan's end-time multi-headed beast are leaders f natins (great and small), militaries (mdern and nt s mdern), and sme religius leaders that will all have a part in cntrlling the ther natins and peples f the earth. I believe the greatest f these end-time great tribulatin religius leaders will eventually standut as the ne Satan pssess wh many nly knw t be called the "Antichrist," but wh Revelatin 16:13 and 20:10 call the "False Prphet," and Revelatin 13:11 calls the beast with " tw hrns like a lamb..." The spirit f the "great whre," althugh described here in its end-time fullness, dates back t the time f Nimrd, and ne culd even say t "the garden." Fr she, it, this rebellius spirit has been crrupting the hearts and faith f untld multitudes fr thusands f years. She can lk like the Church, and act like the Church, but her heart has fallen far frm the living GOD. Her pwer has been gained thrugh plitics, plicies, and dctrinal laws. The fruits f her spirit are cmprmise, cndemnatin, and cntrl. Her desires are mre fr filthy lucre and cntrlling Gd's peple all peples. The spirits she mves in are respect f persns, false dctrine, false aninting, and self righteusness. We've all seen these grups and individuals within and withut f denminatin Christianity. Gd is nt pleased with a peple wh call themselves by His name and then get as far ff base as this wrldwide, crprate, "clergy + laity" structured church system has gtten. Yet many f us with "understanding" have fllwed the same system f structure f rganizatin when it cmes t fellwship and church rder. T better understand wh and what a whre is in Gd's eyes just study yur Bible. The type f harlt described in this chapter and in many ther places thrughut the Bible, speaks mre f an unfaithful wife that ges after ther lvers. "And in all thine abminatins and thy whredms thu hast nt remembered the days f thy yuth, when thu wast naked and bare, and wast plluted in thy bld. And it came t pass after all thy wickedness, (we, we unt thee! saith the Lrd GOD;) That thu hast als built unt thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Thu hast built thy high place at every head f the way, and hast made thy beauty t be abhrred, and hast pened thy feet t every ne that passed by, and multiplied thy whredms. Thu hast als cmmitted frnicatin with the Egyptians thy neighburs, great f flesh; and hast increased thy whredms, t prvke me t anger" Ezekiel 16: "Surely as a wife treacherusly departeth frm her husband, s have ye dealt treacherusly with me, O huse f Israel, saith the LORD. A vice was heard upn the high places, weeping and supplicatins f the children f Israel: fr they have perverted their way, and they have frgtten the LORD their Gd. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal yur backslidings. Behld, we cme unt thee; fr thu art the LORD ur Gd" Jeremiah 3: Thus we als see in Jeremiah 3 hw the LORD equates whredm with "backsliding." Of curse thse in this cnditin will never see these things fr what they are, but judgment is cming t the backslidden il-less part f the Church just the same; the uter curt and the sanctuary will be given ver and trdden under ft by the ten ted/hrned Gg cnfederacy. Sme many say Jesus is talking abut natural Israel as the great whre, but this is "the time f the Gentiles," and present day Israel des nt "sit n" r cntrl many "waters" (natins) at this time by any stretch f the imaginatin. The nce great Christian natin America fulfills that psitin, even literally as the leading wrld pwer f the G-7 natins. Keep in mind, this judgment will manifest individually, crprately, and natinally upn thse wh nce called n the name f the LORD, and wh thrugh prcess f time turned their backs t Him by ging after ther lvers, ther desires f the heart. "S he carried me away in the spirit int the wilderness: and I saw a wman sit upn a scarlet clured beast, full f names f blasphemy, having seven heads and ten hrns. And the wman was arrayed in purple and scarlet clur, and decked with gld and precius stnes and pearls, having a glden cup in her hand full f abminatins and filthiness f her frnicatin:" Revelatin 17:3-4 This wman is made up f a cnglmeratin f backslidden apstate Christians frm many lcals and peples (Egypt/the wilderness) that fremst speak f America's prevailing influence in the wrld. She wears the label f "Mystery, Babyln the Great " which dentes the gvernmental aspect f this wman. Hwever, she als wears " The mther f Harlts" title which wuld include all Prtestant, Evangelical, and Bible believing denminatins, alng with any brn-again individuals r grups that at ne time had accepted the bld. If yu knw yur types yu will have nticed all the symblic ~ 43 ~

45 "brn-again" attributes this wman pssess. Furthermre, her title als includes " Abminatins f the earth," which yu will shrtly see. This my friend, describes her backslidden apstate cnditin fr which she is judged. If yu nticed I was careful nt t include Cathlicism in this list because it/they are nt a "brn-again" Church. Even thugh sme f this "wman's" attributes d strngly apply t this nn-scriptural idlatrus rganized pyramid f pwer religin. S in essence, the Cathlic church is nt, and never has been cnsidered "the bride f Christ," r belnging t Christ, by thse are wh truly the brn-again saints f Gd. Having said that, much f what the whrish wman church is infected with, has cme directly frm the Vatican, Rman, and ancient Babylnian practices. This is why Revelatin 17:6 and 18:24 state the whre has the bld f the saints and prphets "in" her. Yu shuld see this as mre spiritual DNA, than having the actual peple wh killed the saints all thrughut the ages still present in this wman. Withut a dubt, the Rman Cathlic church has been the biggest perpetratr f said shed bld than any ther entity in histry. This wman is said t "sit upn a sarlet clured beast"; what we are talking abut here is the "great red dragn." "Sitting," in the Bible refers t a seat f authrity and pwer. Thus, this whrish church thinks she is still serving the true Gd thrugh her participatin in gvernmental and wrld-wide religius affairs, but she is deceived and is serving the "Prince f the pwer f the air" as he ges abut t establish a "plitically crrect" gspel and a "new wrld rder" (the image f the beast), which all lead t Hell. "Wherein in time past ye walked accrding t the curse f this wrld, accrding t the prince f the pwer f the air, the spirit that nw wrketh in the children f disbedience" Ephesians 2:2. Let's reverse engineer this brethren. If the members f this great whre nce served the LORD and then backslid, d they nt g back t "walking accrding t the curse f this wrld?" "The beginning f the wrd f the LORD by Hsea. And the LORD said t Hsea, G, take unt thee a wife f whredms and children f whredms: fr the land hath cmmitted great whredm, departing frm the LORD" Hsea 1:2. Additinally, we need t take int accunt there are many wmen types mentined in the Bible; sme whrish, sme nt; sme f the natural branch, sme f the wild branch. A wman in the Bible always symblically represents a church f sme type. She is usually seen as bringing frth a sn (-church). The wman must receive life (seed) t bring frth life, in the same way the mn (a type f the end-time wman church) must receive her light frm the sun t reflect it upn thers; a light she cannt prduce by herself. In Revelatin 12 we see yet anther wman type, the true Wman Church wh the dragn is incensed t hunt dwn and destry. Hwever, the wman wh sits n the beast is an anti-type r hybrid f the true, faithful, end-time Wman n the mn, because she, the wman n the beast, cntains yet anther 3 rd part called "Babyln." This beast mentined here in Revelatin 17 is the same beast mentined in Revelatin 13:1. Here ne must first understand that Gd calls mst all living creatures that He created "beasts." Gd referrers t men as beasts all thrughut the Bible (Titus 1:12; 2-Pet 2:12): "If after the manner f men I have fught with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise nt? let us eat and drink; fr tmrrw we die" 1-Crinthians 15:32. Furthermre, we see that even the beast and the man were created n the "sixth day." Revelatin 11:7 and 17:8 describe Satan (a fallen angel) as "the beast that ascendeth ut f the bttmless pit." Thus, in the bk f Revelatin these beasts are smetimes superimpsed ne n tp f the ther t shw as it were, a type f spiritual hierarchy f wh's cntrlling wh. The "names f blasphemy" in the scarlet clred beast represent all the names used by Satan thrughut histry t disguise this rebellius GOD hating thing that is the wman. These names include isms, frms f gvernment, denminatins, plitically crrect laws and dctrine, and any belief r system that denies the true pwer and wrking f the Hly Spirit thrugh Christ Jesus. The fact that this harlt wman is "arrayed" in s many symblic clrs representing the true Church shws yu just hw successful Satan's deceptin has been at infiltrating and deceiving many in the Church and even sme in the Bdy. The "glden cup" speaks f her wealth, success, and acceptance by the wrld. Examples f America's "abminatins and filthiness" are seen when she pays fr ther natins and cuntries t entice their citizens int having abrtins, prpagates same sex marriage, and LGTB special rights abve all thers. Of curse there is mre than enugh hetersexual wickedness she turns a blind eye t als. There is the "filthy lucre" she cntrls as she alne can print the wrld's mst dminant reserve currency and then cntrl wh rises r falls accrding t whatever the current administratin desires. ~ 44 ~

46 "And upn her frehead was a name written, MYSTERY, [1.] BABYLON THE GREAT, [2.] THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND [3.] ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." Revelatin 17:5 Names are very imprtant t Gd in the Bible; they can represent the nature f the persn, place r thing. This wman has taken n many names thrughut histry. Ancient names frm pagan devils that have mrphed int the very things we see the wrld nw recgnizes as their Gd. The "frehead" reference like all frehead references in the Bible refer t the mind; the way ne thinks. S here the nature f the peple and the spirit f Babyln, and the nature f a harlt are all attributed t this wman that sits (dminates) a multi-headed beast system. The "mystery" as the Strng's says, "secret," invlving this end-time leading wrld pwer (America), is that Satan has been planning t have her in this exact place fr thusands f years. Babyln represented nt nly a city, but a way f life, including gvernmental functins and religius practices. D a study n "Nimrd the Mighty Hunter" and yu will understand what Babyln is t a greater measure (see link). America has becme a fallen Christian wrld super pwer. America cntrls mst f the wrld's ecnmy because the U.S. dllar is accepted as the wrld's cmmn exchange currency. America als cntrls much f what ges n in the wrld because f her very great military might. Mst f the wrld speaks English ("the muth f a lin"), and it is still very much a true saying that "When America sneezes, the rest f the wrld catches cld." Hw is it that Gd had blessed this mighty natin with many blessings that ther natins just did nt have? Unfrtunately, Satan is turning all these blessings against America and Gd's peple, because n a natinal level Gd's spiritual bride America has gne a whring after ther lvers. Anther imprtant pint t remember is that "Gg" (the "nrthern army"/russia + 10 predminately American/Christian hating Islamic cuntries) is sent by Gd Himself t take dwn "the great city Babyln" and later "Babyln the Great" (Ezekiel 38:16). The first being apstate America, the secnd being wrld-wide Babyln. This fact alne tells us that Gg is nt being cntrlled by this wman as all the ther natins are. Hwever, nce Gg has dne its wrk, Gd will punish and destry it fr its arrgance: Ezekiel 38:3-6; Revelatin 19:19-21 Why is America and uter curt Christianity t be seen as "the Mther f harlts"? Well, much f what Christendm has practiced r called church fr centuries, has cme frm the Rman Cathlic church. Here again, it is really hard fr me nt t side with thse that see the Cathlic church as the sle "Mther f Harlts," because in a great sense she is. Still, she was never biblically betrthed t Christ, and her gvernmental wrld pwers are f her wn inventin. Meaning, that practice f secularly ruling ver the affairs f men was never cndned as a ministry f the Church. The Cathlic church was funded actually rdered int existence by Cnstantine the Great and his mther Helena, nt Peter, and definitely nt Jesus. Sadly, every Christian church in America and mst thrughut the wrd have structured themselves after the Cathlic (universal) pattern. This system puts ne man up frnt, and the faithful flck ut in the pews. This is called the clergy, laity system, where the clergy always remain the clergy and the same with the laity, but GOD'S Wrd says this: "Hw is it then, brethren? when ye cme tgether, every ne f yu hath a psalm, hath a dctrine, hath a tngue, hath a revelatin, hath an interpretatin. Let all things be dne unt edifying" 1- Crinthians 14:26, and it desn't end there. There is a basic pyramid rganizatinal structure that the Cathlic church uses that dates back t antiquity. They have a Ppe at the tp; cardinals are next, then bishps, priests, etc. Mdern end-time brn-again Christianity basically fllws suit, nly they insert mre biblical titles in their pyramid. Nnetheless, the Bible says we are all t submit ne t the ther; a plurality f elders as it were (see link). The wrld gvernments and militaries als use this same Niclaitan system t rule ver their peple, which thing Gd hates. Keep in mind we are talking abut a hybrid religius/plitical harlt that passes her trade t ther harlts by many means: "Therefre shall her plagues cme in ne day, death, and murning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire [Revelatin 17:16]: fr strng is the Lrd Gd wh judgeth her. And the kings f the earth, wh have cmmitted frnicatin and lived deliciusly with her, shall bewail her, and lament fr her, when they shall see the smke f her burning, Standing afar ff fr the fear f her trment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city [Revelatin 17:18] Babyln, that mighty city! fr in ne hur is thy judgment cme" Revelatin 18:8-10. Thus, Babyln prduces Babyln, and the mther harlt prduces ther harlts thrugh tainted dctrine and unscriptural traditins that have been passed dwn frm ne generatin t the next. ~ 45 ~

47 "And I saw the wman drunken with the bld f the saints, and with the bld f the martyrs f Jesus: and when I saw her, I wndered [G2296: t admire] with great admiratin." Revelatin 17:6 Histry tells us that many peples and religins have murdered the saints all thrughut the ages, starting with Cain. Yet, this end-time whre has the bld f the saints and f "the martyrs f Jesus" in her (Revelatin 18:24). This tells us this whre was killing saints back in the Old Testament (Hebrews 11) lng befre the Cathlic church came int being. Ntice hw the distinctin is purpsely made between "the saints" vs. "the martyrs f Jesus"; the latter denting New Testament Christians. Nevertheless, the Cathlic church is still respnsible fr mre Christian bld being shed thrughut histry than any ther church r gvernment knwn t man. We are talking abut millins upn millins wh were murdered during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisitin. Hwbeit, America has given safe harbr t this drmant killer f saints religin. The Puritans fled England t cme t America t escape the unbiblical practices and persecutin f Papal rule. Back then they mistakenly labeled her as the end-time great whre f Revelatin, but keep in mind, America was still in her infancy at that time, and the Ppes inquisitins were still fresh in the minds f the saints. Nw having said that, the Cathlic church was still cmplicit in the murdering f Christians well int the 20 th Century during WWII (see link). Histry shws that nce the Cathlic church arrived in America, the Vatican began t place its members in every strategic psitin f pwer and authrity that they culd. They then began a systematic rebranding f themselves as the benevlent embdiment f Christ's Church n earth. Did yu ever wnder why Hllywd came t the Vatican's aid, even after the atrcities cmmitted by her during WWII started t be revealed? There were mvies like The Bells f St Mary, White Christmas, The Sund f Music, and even The Singing Nun all tried t prtray this murderus institutin as smething gdly. Did yu als knw that mst all f the hlidays that America and the rest f the wrld penly celebrate, have little r nthing t d with true biblical dctrine. Take fr example Christmas; a Mass fr Christ; what has this gt t d with fllwing the Wrd f GOD? Where did this hliday cme frm because it is nwhere in the Bible? As a matter f fact, GOD'S Wrd explicitly cndemns ne f the mst cmmn practices that mst every Christian believer participates in every December: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn nt the way f the heathen, and be nt dismayed at the signs f heaven; fr the heathen are dismayed at them. Fr the custms f the peple are vain: fr ne cutteth a tree ut f the frest, the wrk f the hands f the wrkman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gld; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it mve nt. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak nt: they must needs be brne, because they cannt g. Be nt afraid f them; fr they cannt d evil, neither als is it in them t d gd" Jeremiah 10:2-5. We wn't even bring up the big fat guy. I guess like always, if the Bible cndemns smething, the wrld is ging t lve it, and s it is. Yet it still amazes me hw a peple, r a natin, r a wrld, can s abhr the Wrd f GOD that they wuld march and prtest t change the laws f their land barring GOD'S wisdm frm mst anyplace they can. Only t turn arund and participate in smething they think is meant t hnr GOD, but f curse it is nt; that's why they can still find pleasure in it. Nwadays Christians are mre cncerned that the wrld lves them, and they will cmprmise t almst any extent t gain that favr, including siding with and catering t thse wh will eventually martyr Christians nce again. "And the angel said unt me, Wherefre didst thu marvel? I will tell thee the mystery f the wman, and f the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten hrns." Revelatin 17:7 Here the angel further explains the revelatin f "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH" that is fund in Revelatin 17:5b. This is an authritarian, plitically mtivated, ecumenical cmprmising natin f rganizatins and peples that are sn t be persecuted by Gg (Revelatin 17:16). This whrish wman church that has always mingled itself with the ways f the wrld is well defined in Ezekiel 23. It's the stry f the tw sisters, "Ahlah the elder," wh represents the first natural live branch: natural Israel, and her sister "Ahlibah," the yunger ne (the latter grwth), wh represents the spiritual wild live branch. In this stry bth f these sisters/wmen/whres have their part symblically in the wman that rides the beast in Revelatin 17. Basically, it's the stry f natural Israel's rejectin f Messiah, and spiritual Israel's (the Gentile believers') rejectin f Jesus' Lrdship thrugh sanctificatin ver their lives and Gd's slutin t this prblem. ~ 46 ~

48 One must keep in mind that the beast that the wman rides, has cexisted with her in ne frm r anther fr as lng as believers have been cmprmising with the wrld: "The beast that thu sawest was, and is nt; and shall ascend ut f the bttmless pit, and g int perditin." Lng ag this beast began t replace true religin and true gvernment with his cunterfeit brand f pius traditins and human wisdm; this actually began with Eve. Sadly, many in the true Church have fallen prey t the beast's enticements and carnal interactins ver the ages. The main beasts that are mentined in Revelatin 16:13 have three distinct manifestatins; ne as Satan (the ne frm the pit), ne as a multinatinal cnfederacy f natins (the ne with seven heads and ten hrns/tes/gg: Revelatin 13:1), and ne with "tw hrns" that speaks as a dragn; the False Prphet wh des the miracles and wnders (2-Thessilnans 2:8; Revelatin 13:11). This will be the last un-saved individual human ruler that the wrld will ever knw. This last beast is als fund in Daniel 8:9-12 where he is called "the Little Hrn," meaning ne part f many with authrity; an individual. I believe he will be the last Cathlic ppe pssessed f Satan t reign ver the natins. I believe he will cme frm either Syria, suthern Turkey, r nrthern Iraq (Isaiah 10:5). I als believe he will be f Muslim decent. It says this last hrn/ppe/great religius leader will be unlike all thers because he will ttally reject the true GOD and prclaim himself as Gd: Daniel 11:36-39 "The beast that thu sawest was, and is nt; and shall ascend ut f the bttmless pit, and g int perditin: and they that dwell n the earth shall wnder, whse names were nt written in the bk f life frm the fundatin f the wrld, when they behld the beast that was, and is nt, and yet is." Revelatin 17:8 Here again the hierarchy f beasts is expsed by shwing Satan, wh is als the "scarlet" part f the beast in Revelatin 17:1, and the "great red dragn" in Revelatin 12:3 (same as the "red hrse" and its rider in Revelatin 6:4) as having supremacy ver all the ther beasts. Yu will find this ("eighth") beast is the same as "the little hrn," "the man f sin," "the sn f perditin," the antichrist, and "the False Prphet." I believe this beast that "was," represents Heylel befre the time f his fall. He was in Heaven; he was the aninted cherub; he was perfect and cmplete, yet he fell and was cast ut f the 3 rd Heaven and nw has access t the 1 st heaven, earth (Ezekiel 28:13-15; Luke 10:18). Hwever, at the time Jhn received the revelatin Heylel, nw transfrmed int Satan, was in the realm f the 2nd heaven as the "prince and pwer f the air" tempting and cntrlling peple thrugh their thughts and lusts. Yet, we knw he's cming back fr "a shrt space" t try and destry the sn's f GOD. Satan has a nasty habit f trying t destry the male sns (man child: mature sns) right befre a deliverer cmes n the scene. Thus, Satan himself "was" in a place f righteus authrity at ne time, he "is nt" anymre, and he "yet is" ging t ascend ut f the pit fr a shrt time t try and stp the vercming saints frm cming frth in the perfectin he lst. I believe he ges int the pit with the key that is given back t him in Revelatin 9:1. He ges back t Hell t bring up his hrde f evil spirits t assist him in the pssessing f the hrns, their armies, ands any ther Christian hating sul that wuld murder the saints. "And here is the mind which hath wisdm. The seven heads are seven muntains [the G-7 natins], n which the wman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen [past majr wrldly leaders], and ne is [Caesar Dmitian], and the ther [the False Prphet/Antichrist] is nt yet cme; and when he cmeth, he must cntinue a shrt space [Revelatin 12:12]. And the beast that was, and is nt, even he is the eighth, and is f the seven, and geth int perditin." Revelatin 17:9-11 Here the angel specifically tries t explain the status f the "heads" which are likened t seven muntains that the wman sits n. Meaning t say she has sme plitical authrity ver them because f her riches. Believing this wman, this great whre t be America, we shuld then knw wh these seven muntains are; they are the G-7 natins: "*The Grup f Seven r G7 is a grup cnsisting f Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdm and the United States. These cuntries, with the 7 largest advanced ecnmies in the wrld, represent mre than 62% f the glbal net wealth ($280 trillin)." As fr the kings; there were bviusly great wrld leaders in their day. I culd guess as t wh they were but I will nt. Althugh, the ne that was present ("and ne is ") at the time Jhn gt the revelatin was the Rman Cesar Dmitian. The "eighth" beast, the beast "that was, and is nt" is Satan. This eighth beast "is f the seven," because his adamic nature has always been in the earth and in the peple since the fall. This is what is meant when Revelatin 13:14-15 talks abut making "an image t the beast." This image is Satan's nature pssessing the whle f ne's sul. We are talking "666"; the fullness f the beast nature in man. This is the spirit f ~ 47 ~

49 humanity that the wrld exalts and wrships whenever it temprarily vercmes a disaster r great tragedy; they will nt give GOD the glry. *Taken frm Wikipedia.rg "And the ten hrns which thu sawest are ten kings, which have received n kingdm as yet; but receive pwer as kings ne hur [G5610: fr a shrt seasn; a time] with the beast. These have ne mind, and shall give their pwer and strength unt the beast." Revelatin 17:12-13 The Bible says this last unified alliance f evil men will be unlike anything that was ever befre it. It will be filled with the mst vilent and Gd hating generatins t ever walk the face f the earth. Its distinctin will lay in the fact that it will lack the frmer individual svereignties. N mre will these natins and kingdms temprarily unite fr a cmmn gal. N mre NATO r Warsaw pact natins jining ranks t fight the ther. The "ten tes" in Daniel's visin represent the ten hrned leaders f what will becme the newly frmed beast cnfederacy during the great tribulatin. It says the hrns receive their pwer fr "ne hur," which cannt mean a literal hur accrding t the events that take place at this time. It's like the parable in Matthew 20:12 where the end-time believers are said t be given "ne hur" t serve the LORD. This phraselgy is cmmn in the Bible and is used mre t refer t a certain shrt space f time, usually denting the end f a thing. Althugh, there are times when the Bible says "ne hur," and means exactly that; the cntext is what sets the tw meanings apart. These hrns will end up cmpletely surrendering their frmer svereignties s as t frm ne new militant war mngering super natin (Revelatin 17:13). These hrns and their armies may even be in psitin right nw t g frth, but they themselves have nt received the "pwer" t as f yet. Once that happens there will be n mre Nrth Krea, n mre Turkey, n mre Iran, n mre Libya, n mre Germany as we knw it, r any f the ten hrn natins except fr what the Bible calls "Gg": the "Nrthern army"/russia (Isaiah 10:5-34; Ezekiel 38). Keep in mind that Satan has been cast t earth by this time s he will need united human hsts nw mre than ever t d his dirty wrk. The "ten tes"/"ten hrns" have already begun t, and will cntinue t unite in ne accrd (Jel 2:7) as they see Israel cming int a greater unity with the USA. Hwever, it's nt until the 42- mnths actually begin which is after "midnight," that the final "eight ted/hrned" alliance finalizes their allegiance. I believe Russia will attack bth the east and west casts f America with submarine based nuclear cruise missiles. China will still be allied with Russia at this time hwever I cannt say what part they will fulfill. America's interir will then be invaded frm the nrth and suth and gds, cattle, and useful peple will be carried away captive (Ezekiel 38:11). I als believe this attack will be withut warning and will precede the great tribulatin during what the Bible calls "midnight" (Revelatin 18:8-10). Once America has been attacked is when the "ten-hrns" decide t penly jin up with Russia (the "nrthern army") t frm Gg (Ezekiel 38:7; Revelatin 9:1-15). The vlatility f these end-time alliances is witnessed nce Satan is cast t the earth and enters the False Prphet/Antichrist. It says three f these natins will be remved, r as the Bible says, "I cnsidered the hrns, and, behld, there came up amng them anther little hrn, befre whm there were three f the first hrns plucked up by the rts: and, behld, in this hrn were eyes like the eyes f man [meaning Satan will have t wrk thrugh this human hst nw that he is cast ut; he will have n mre spiritual advantage f ging "t and fr " in the realm f the spirit], and a muth speaking great things" Daniel 7:8. I believe Ezekiel 38:13 hlds the key t wh these three natins and leaders are that get "plucked up." Keep in mind, nce America is remved as the wrld's "bread basket" and ecnmic facilitatr, ther resurce rich natins will have t prvide fr this lack, but especially fuel fr Gg's military. Nt all will be s willing t give up their supply f resurces. "Sheba [Sudan], and Dedan [Saudi Arabia], and the merchants f Tarshish [Spain], with all the yung lins theref, shall say unt thee, Art thu cme t take a spil? hast thu gathered thy cmpany t take a prey? t carry away silver and gld, t take away cattle and gds, t take a great spil?" Ezekiel 38:13. ~ 48 ~

50 "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall vercme them: fr he is Lrd f lrds, and King f kings." Revelatin 17:14a Here is a quick reference t Gg's cnfederacy which include, 1.) Satan pssessing the little hrn/false prphet/antichrist/8 th beast: Revelatin 17:11, 2.) the 7-wrld pwers/hrns that remain, 3.) and their armies as they gather t fight at Armageddn. Parallel verses in Daniel 7 and Revelatin 19 give us a little mre insight cncerning the rder f events at Armageddn. Yu will have t frgive me fr all the busyness f the fllwing verses, but it became necessary t draw the cnnectins f wh's wh in this end-time cnfederacy: "I beheld then because f the vice f the great wrds which the [little hrn/false prphet, etc.] hrn spake: I beheld even till the beast [which is described as the "4 th kingdm in Daniel 7:23, and as the (1 st ) beast frm the sea in Revelatin 13:1. The Bible calls this beast "Gg." It attacks the new wrld rder/babyln the Great] was slain, and his bdy [their armies were] destryed, and given t the burning flame. As cncerning the rest f the beasts [the remaining sinners f the natins], they had their dminin taken away: yet their lives were prlnged fr a seasn and time [meaning until an appinted time]" Daniel 7:11-12 "And I saw the beast, and the kings f the earth, and their armies, gathered tgether t make war against him that sat n the hrse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prphet [the (2 nd ) beast leader frm Revelatin 13:11] that wrught miracles befre him [the Antichrist: 2-Thessalnians 2:8-10], with which he deceived them that had received the mark f the beast, and them that wrshipped his image. These bth [The 1 st & 2 nd beasts described in Revelatin 13] were cast alive int a lake f fire burning with brimstne. And the remnant were slain with the swrd f him that sat upn the hrse, which swrd prceeded ut f his muth: and all the fwls were filled with their flesh" Revelatin 19:19-21 "And I beheld anther beast cming up ut f the earth; and he had tw hrns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragn. And he exerciseth all the pwer f the first beast befre him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein t wrship the first beast, whse deadly wund was healed. And he deth great wnders, s that he maketh fire cme dwn frm heaven n the earth in the sight f men, And deceiveth them that dwell n the earth by the means f thse miracles which he had pwer t d in the sight f the beast; saying t them that dwell n the earth, that they shuld make an image t the beast, which had the wund by a swrd, and did live" Revelatin 13:11-14 T understand the afre mentined passages, ne must remember that the Bible is full f all "beast references." Fr example, Satan is called a beast in Genesis 3:1, and Revelatin 11:7. Man is referred t as a beast in places like Psalms 73:22, Jeremiah 31:27, Daniel 7:12, and Revelatin 13:11, and f curse there are many references t natural beasts f which the ther human beasts are symblically likened t. Gvernments, armies, and kingdms are even referred t as beasts in Daniel 7:3-7, and Revelatin 13:1. S in essence, using the symblgy f "beasts" t describe the end-time players is just anther way Gd has "sealed up" and hid the knwledge f the end times, that is until the appinted time came frth. This sealed knwledge is being released nw brethren. It was meant fr thse "upn whm the ends f the wrld have cme," and it is meant t give us sme understanding f the time f "ur visitatin." Therefre, there is Satan the riginal beast, there is man wh has a beast nature, and there is a system f gvernments r isms that man perates in utside f Gd that is als described as a multi headed beast cnglmeratin. " and they that are with him are called, and chsen, and faithful." Revelatin 17:14b This is anther quantifying verse. Here we are tld it will nly be the resurrected vercmers returning with Yeshua; thse wh have been identified as passing thrugh all three levels f Christian maturity. These are the nes that will have part in the "first resurrectin." These are they that "vercame" the flesh (Revelatin 12:11), thse wh will rule and reign fr the thusand years with Yeshua, bth n earth and in the Heavenly realms called "Mt Zin" and "New Jerusalem." This passage als rebukes the rapture dctrine that says "every brn-again Christian ges up" n-matter what level f service and bedience they may be in, because that's nt wh cmes dwn t rule and reign with Him. This same scene is prtrayed in Revelatin 19:14. ~ 49 ~

51 "And he saith unt me, The waters which thu sawest, where the whre sitteth, are peples, and multitudes, and natins, and tngues." Revelatin 17:15 This verse reveals the whre's influence is a crprate wrld-wide cnditin. She has gne ut and infected many peples with her frnicating ways. She has exerted her pwer and authrity ver ther lands and bviusly there has been great resentment ver this situatin. Even t the pint where many f these ther lands and natins are willing t see she brught dwn and destryed. "And the ten hrns which thu sawest upn the beast, these shall hate the whre, and shall make her [1.]deslate and [2.]naked [Ezekiel 16:36-39], and shall [3.]eat her flesh, and [4.]burn her with fire. Fr Gd hath put in their hearts t fulfil his will, and t agree, and give their kingdm unt the beast, until the wrds f Gd shall be fulfilled." Revelatin 17:16-17 I hpe all Christians just gt what that passage said? "Fr Gd hath put it in their hearts " t unite and attack the uter curt, the sanctuary, and His backslidden church (Ezekiel 38:16). These verses shw what in reality will be, and is already, a prgressive judgment that ges frm bad t wrse. This will take the full 3½ years (42-mnths) fr sme, whereas America and its backslidden apstate Christians will get theirs in "ne day," in "ne hur!" The judgment f the whrish babylnish cllective church, which des and will include all thse that have "left their first Lve," and thse wh are "the sinners in Zin" (Isaiah 33:14) is described as a prcess. The prcess starts when the uter curt and the sanctuary are first given ver t be trampled fr the 42-mnths ( and shall make her deslate and naked). As was stated, this judgment upn the great whre actually begins when America is first struck dwn right befre the 42-mnths begin. "Then I heard ne saint speaking, and anther saint said unt that certain saint which spake, Hw lng shall be the visin cncerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgressin f deslatin, t give bth the sanctuary and the hst [hst f heaven/the stars, i. e., the uter curt masses] t be trdden under ft" Daniel 8:13. The whre's judgment will cntinue t grw in severity right up until wrld-wide "Babyln the Great" gets her's (Revelatin 14:8). These verses als tell us the three hrns that are remved by the little hrn must happen smetime after the great tribulatin begins. Many f the end-time events happen at the end f the "midnight" time perid, and the start f the great tribulatin. Daniel 7:20 describes a time where there will be nly "8-hrns" left, including the "little hrn." This tells us the Whre's judgment must at least "begin" when the riginal "10-hrns" are first given their pwer. And yet this 8 th little religius hrn leader is the ne wh is said t rder the killings. "And he had pwer t give life unt the image f the beast, that the image f the beast shuld bth speak, and cause that as many as wuld nt wrship the image f the beast shuld be killed" Revelatin 13:15. This is hw chrnlgy is pieced tgether, but it des take sme effrt. "And the wman which thu sawest is that great city, which reigneth ver the kings f the earth." Revelatin 17:18 "Fr thus saith the LORD unt the king's huse f Judah; Thu art Gilead unt me, and the head f Lebann: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness [Revelatin 17:3], and cities which are nt inhabited. And I will prepare destryers against thee, every ne with his weapns: and they shall cut dwn thy chice cedars, and cast them int the fire. And many natins shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man t his neighbur, Wherefre hath the LORD dne thus unt this great city? Then they shall answer, Because they have frsaken the cvenant f the LORD their Gd, and wrshipped ther gds, and served them" Jeremiah 22:6-9. Just like we saw in the last verse, the angel nw rewinds the picture a bit t shw us this whrish church system/spirit has been arund fr a lng time crrupting hearts. She/it has been crrupting and influencing the hearts f mankind with a frm f religin that denies the pwer f Gd and the wrking f His Hly Spirit. Yu knw it is a very hard thing t tell carnal Christians that mst f what they d in the name f Gd is nthing mre than ld-time pagan religin; a religin that made the rules and rdinances up as they went, and still d. The Bible calls it "Babyln the Great, the Mther f Harlts, and Abminatins f the Earth" which as yu shuld have nticed is actually three separate titles. Babyln the Great represents the Churches influence int gvernmental affairs, the Mther f Harlts represents the Churches prmiscuus ability t reprduce her unfaithfulness in thers, and the Abminatins f the Earth title represents her backslidden cnditin and the fruit theref, r what ~ 50 ~

52 she has brught frth (Isaiah 26:18). Hwever, since this wman is said t be prstituting herself with the wrld, and ther verses call her adulterus, (Revelatin 2:22) it prves she was riginally married t smene else, smene like Christ. "But as a wife that cmmitteth adultery, which taketh strangers instead f her husband! They give gifts t all whres: but thu givest thy gifts t all thy lvers, and hirest them, that they may cme unt thee n every side fr thy whredm" Ezekiel 16: There are sme very gd bks ut there that expse this spirit fr what it is. One is called The Tw Babylns, by Alexander Hislp. Althugh I hear the newer versins have been watered dwn a bit. The ther is ne f Clayt Snmre's bks called Beynd Pentecst. Return t Chapter Index Chapter 18 "And he cried mightily with a strng vice, saying, Babyln the great is fallen, is fallen, and is becme the habitatin f devils, and the hld f every ful spirit, and a cage f every unclean and hateful bird." Revelatin 18:2 A key factr t understanding this verse is t understand what this "falling" is. It is nt the very beginning f her judgment as sme may think. Yu've prbably heard the saying, "He's fallen, but he's nt ut," r, "S and s has fallen frm grace." It speaks f the first sign f smething ging bad. America has fallen frm the place she nce had with GOD. Her laws nw cnfrm t the gd f plitical crrectness that makes a man an "ffender fr a wrd" (Isaiah 29:21). S even thugh America has already crprately fallen as a natin, her judgment has nt yet cme fully t pass, but when it des, she will be the first end-time natin t get it (Revelatin 18:10, 17, 19). This is the chapter in Revelatin that really begins t layut and explain wh r what this great Babyln symblgy represents. Yu have t believe brethren that if there's an end-time spiritual Babyln, America, the greatest super pwer n earth is the biggest part f it. "Babyln is suddenly fallen and destryed: hwl fr her; take balm fr her pain, if s be she may be healed. We wuld have healed Babyln, but she is nt healed: frsake her, and let us g every ne int his wn cuntry [immigrants?]: fr her judgment reacheth unt heaven, and is lifted up even t the skies" Jeremiah 51:8-9. Yu will see later n in this chapter f Revelatin that the "great city" f Babyln is mre equated t what can nly be America, which is described as fallen, but has yet t be destryed. Her destructin cmes even befre the great tribulatin starts. This happens at what the Bible calls (spiritual) "midnight." Yu see Gg/Russia can't attack the rest f the wrld until America is taken ut. Nevertheless, we knw fr a fact that a prtin f Babyln, "Babyln the Great" (wrldwide Babyln) is still functining at least t sme degree apprximately 3½ years after this pint. That is when "GOD'S indignatin, fury, and fierce wrath" begin t be pured ut n it in full measure. T me, chrnlgy is the great definer; it helps t interpret the prphesies almst as much as typlgy des. When studying the Bible, cntextual framing must als be used fr the chrnlgical placement f events. Placement must then be witnessed by ther verses that witness t the same event t cnfirm the timing f events, be it the beginning, middle, r end theref. In ther wrds, biblical chrnlgy is built upn much cnfirmatin f parallel verses in the Wrd, using distinct details as anchr pints n any given timeline. "And I heard anther vice frm heaven, saying, Cme ut f her, my peple " Revelatin 18:4a; p.p. Revelatin 14:6-10 Even thugh we were just tld in verse 2 that "Babyln has fallen," Gd is still calling His peple ut f her. Yu will ntice that her plagues d nt even start until smetime after Gd says she has fallen. This essentially establishes that this verse is taking place right befre the great tribulatin. Here again we see the spiritual manifestatin taking place befre the natural manifestatin can cme frth. Gd's "peple" are fund thrughut the wrld. His call t them is even taking place nw thrugh many faithful watchman (Sng 5:7; Jel 2:1). ~ 51 ~

53 " that ye be nt partakers f her sins, and that ye receive nt f her plagues. Fr her sins have reached unt heaven, and Gd hath remembered her iniquities." Revelatin 18:4b-5 Remember, Gd has waited thusands f years t judge this spirit f adultery. If He has t wait a few mre years t ttally annihilate her, He will. Again, we are tld that her "plagues" have nt yet begun at the annuncement f her fall. Keep in mind; Gd's judgments are usually prgressive, even thugh this first ne against America will start ff with a bang! "Hw much she hath glrified herself, and lived deliciusly, s much trment and srrw give her: fr she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am n widw [She still thinks she has the favr f GOD], and shall see n srrw." Revelatin 18:7 Anyne wh lives in America knws what this means. America the Great; America the tp super pwer in the wrld; America, the ne time Christian natin that has turned its back n Gd and His Wrd and went a whring after ther wrldly gd's. Gds like the gds f entertainments, sprts, plitics, religius arrgance, prestige, and f curse filthy lucre. "Behld, I have made thee small [H6962: f little imprtance] amng the heathen: thu art greatly despised. The pride f thine heart hath deceived thee, thu that dwellest in the clefts f the rck, whse habitatin is high; that saith in his heart, Wh shall bring me dwn t the grund? Thugh thu exalt thyself as the eagle, and thugh thu set thy nest amng the stars, thence will I bring thee dwn, saith the LORD" Obadiah 1:2-4. "The heads theref judge fr reward, and the priests theref teach fr hire, and the prphets theref divine fr mney: yet will they lean upn the LORD, and say, Is nt the LORD amng us? nne evil can cme upn us" Micah 3:11. "Therefre shall her plagues cme in ne day, death, and murning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire [this is nuclear fire]: fr strng is the Lrd Gd wh judgeth her." Revelatin 18:8 I persnally believe this is speaking f Russia (Gg's) first nuclear attack against America. Many true prphets f Gd have said as much, fr I believe Gd has shwn t sme f them this attack thrugh dreams and visins. "And I will shew wnders in the heavens and in the earth, bld, and fire, and pillars f smke [mushrm cluds]. The sun shall be turned int darkness, and the mn int bld, BEFORE the great and the terrible day f the LORD [Armageddn] cme" Jel 2: This first decisive strike against America is actually defined in this chapter; that is nce yu understand that America types ut t be the end-time "Great City" f Babyln. Yu will see the fllwing passages describe the sudden destructin f ne end-time natin that has things attributed t it that nly America culd pssess. This natin is shwn as thee majr imprter f ther natin's gds. It is even symblically shwn t be a Christian natin in Revelatin 18:16, 18:23. It shws her as a natin f wealth and prductin like n ther natin. Lastly, it shws that she has becme an evil apstate Gd hating natin like every ther natin that sught t kill Christians (Revelatin 18:24). "And the kings f the earth, wh have cmmitted frnicatin and lived deliciusly with her, shall bewail her, and lament fr her, when they shall see the smke f her burning, Standing afar ff fr the fear f her trment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babyln, that mighty city! fr in ne hur is thy judgment cme." Revelatin 18:9-10 Again, we must keep in mind there is a natin(s), a peple, a religin, and an ecnmic practice all called Babyln in the Bible. If yu think abut it, there are nt many natins that can fit this descriptin, and nly ne can epitmize it perfectly. Like it r nt, this natin (the USA) has turned its back n Gd in its curts, its schls definitely in Hllywd and in the hearts f many American citizens including church members (2-Thessalnians 2:3). My Bible says that judgment must first begin at the husehld f Gd. Other natins and kingdms make n bnes abut their secular life styles and the types f gvernments they have chsen. Other natins have always allwed such crass behavir as public nudity, r they butcher their neighbrs fr nt wearing enugh clthing. Many allw drinking, drugging, and marrying at "any age." They repress wmen and children, they still sell slaves, and they murder believers in their hmes and churches, but then again, they dn't prfess themselves t be "Christians" nw d they? And yet the wrld still cmes t America fr her ~ 52 ~

54 fd, her military might, her riches, and her wisdm, but the next tw verses tell us all that's abut t end. "And cried when they saw the smke f her burning, saying, What city is like unt this great city! And they cast dust n their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reasn f her cstliness! fr in ne hur is she made deslate." Revelatin 18:18-19 This same "ne hur" is prphesied many times ver thrughut the Bible. I believe this time it is taking abut a ne literal hur that will hit shrtly befre the 42-mnths begin. And yet there will fllw apprximately 3½ mre years f ever increasing judgments fr the rest f the wrld. The suddenness and the shrtness f this first end-time attack culd nly cme abut thrugh the use f nuclear weapns (the red hrse rider given "a great swrd"; "the arrw the flieth by day"). It speaks f Jel chapter 2 " bld, and fire, and pillars f smke." "Rejice ver her, thu heaven, and ye hly apstles and prphets; fr Gd hath avenged yu n her." Revelatin 18:20 The heart f the true believer shuld distain anything that speaks f Babyln, "eastern," r "westernized." This may be very hard fr sme American Christians t accept, but we are tld t be "sjurners in a strange land." We are nt t be lifting up ur natinality in any way shape r frm. Jesus did nt die fr Ireland, r Germany, r Brazil, nr fr America r any cuntry. He died fr His Father's Kingdm sake. "Fr accrding t the number f thy cities were thy gds, O Judah; and accrding t the number f the streets f Jerusalem have ye set up altars t that shameful thing, even altars t burn incense unt Baal" Jeremiah 11:13. S why d we still think nce we are saved we must defend ur "natinal pride" at all csts? Since the Bible tells us we are t be lking fr "a city whse builder and maker is GOD." I say "let her burn," let it all burn if it's nt f Gd. This spirit f natinality is a cancer that will kill us all if given enugh time, but Gd said He wuld even save us frm urselves, "r n flesh wuld be saved." "And a mighty angel tk up a stne like a great millstne, and cast it int the sea, saying, Thus with vilence shall that great city Babyln be thrwn dwn, and shall be fund n mre at all." Revelatin 18:21 Again, ntice hw it is the "great city" prtin f Babyln that takes the first hit. Yu will see that Babyln is segregated int certain different categries. In ne place it is called "Babyln," in anther "the Great City Babyln," then "Great Babyln," and finally "Babyln the Great," which represent a wrld-wide cnditin. These segregatins r titles reflect the different ways and the different peples this "Baal" spirit has affected. They als reveal the timing f the different judgments that shall befall thse wh have mved in this spirit. Gd did nt use these titles flippantly brethren; they are there t give us understanding. "And in her was fund the bld f prphets, and f saints, and f all that were slain upn the earth." Revelatin 18:24 T understand America's part in this prphesy, ne must understand that Babyln r Baal is a spirit, just like antichrist is a spirit. I knw sme will say, "What abut the Cathlic church?" "What abut the bld f the saints that she shed?" I wuld then answer, "Hey, what abut Israel?" "And say, If we had been in the days f ur fathers, we wuld nt have been partakers with them in the bld f the prphets. Wherefre ye be witnesses unt yurselves, that ye are the children f them which killed the prphets. Fill ye up then the measure f yur fathers" Matthew 23: There is the bld f the saints n many hands. As fr America, it has allwed this same GOD hating, Christian hating spirit t cme nt its shres and crrupt her because she t has nw becme part f the mystery f Babyln. I remember as a child in the early 1960's hw things were; mst f these spirits that are nw in the peple, in the schls, in the gvernment, and even the churches, wuld have never been allwed t manifest back then like they d nw. And that was nly the sixties! Nw, as it says, " she is becme the habitatin f devils, and the hld f every ful spirit, and a cage f ~ 53 ~

55 every unclean and hateful bird [again, evil spirits]. Therefre, America did nt start ff as such, but she has "becme" ne with the beast nature in a very shrt time. As a matter f fact, she has helped t spread this spirit arund the wuld like n ther befre her: "Fr all natins have drunk f the wine f the wrath f her frnicatin, and the kings f the earth have cmmitted frnicatin with her, and the merchants f the earth are waxed rich thrugh the abundance f her delicacies" Revelatin 18:3. Return t Chapter Index Chapter 19 "And after these things I heard a great vice f much peple in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvatin, and glry, and hnur, and pwer, unt the Lrd ur Gd: Fr true and righteus are his judgments: fr he hath judged the great whre, which did crrupt the earth with her frnicatin, and hath avenged the bld f his servants at her hand." Revelatin 19:1-2 S nce mre GOD rewinds back t the beginning f Jacb's Truble and gives us a very limited chrnlgical synpsis f events starting with America's judgment art midnight. This is then fllwed by the great tribulatin, and finally the vial judgments at the indignatin. Yu will see this re-telling f events in verses What is abut t fllw is the end-game. This is when this wrld-wide babylnish spirit f false religin, pagan idlatry, and unrighteus gvernmental authrity will finally be brught dwn nce and fr all. S there is a judgment upn "Babyln," and there is anther judgment fr thse wh have fllwed the great whre spirit as she persecuted the true saints f Gd all thrughut histry. "Let us be glad and rejice, and give hnur t him: fr the marriage f the Lamb is cme, and his wife hath made herself ready." Revelatin 19:7 This marriage triggers the start f the 42-mnths. Althugh as stated, here in chapter 19 this statement is just a recunting f past events. What fllws 1,290-days later will be the start f the fullness f the "marriage supper," as Revelatin 19:9 describes. Nw yu can search this ut, but ancient Jewish traditin has always placed the marriage supper "after" the grm and bride have cnsummated their marriage (Matthew 25:10) fr seven days. This in "type" wuld be after the 7- years ttal ministry f Yeshua: 3.5-years fr Jesus, years fr the Witnesses, which bgrings us t Armageddn. "And he saith unt me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unt the marriage supper [Revelatin 19:17] f the Lamb. And he saith unt me, These are the true sayings f Gd." Revelatin 19:9 "This supper," like the ld Jewish traditin, happens at the end f the wedding ceremny. If yu search ut each reference in the Bible t either a wedding supper, r like in Luke 14 "the LORD'S supper," yu will find ut that "that supper" is never quite defined except fr in Revelatin 19: Yu will ntice it is nly "the wedding" r "the marriage" that the peple are described as attending: "And the lrd said unt the servant, G ut int the highways and hedges, and cmpel them t cme in, that my huse may be filled. Fr I say unt yu, That nne f thse men which were bidden shall taste f my supper" Luke 14:23-24; "G ye therefre int the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid t the marriage. S thse servants went ut int the highways, and gathered tgether all as many as they fund, bth bad and gd: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in t see the guests, he saw there a man which had nt n a wedding garment: And he saith unt him, Friend, hw camest thu in hither nt having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king t the servants, Bind him hand and ft, and take him away, and cast him int uter darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing f teeth. Fr many are called, but few ~ 54 ~

56 are chsen" Matthew 22:9-14. Hwbeit, Revelatin 19:9-18 tells us fr the first time what the "wedding supper" actual is, and it's nt tatters and gravy; it's bld and guts! I was taught that this supper (fr there are many suppers mentined in the Bible) is, and has been taking place fr a lng time, but I believe I was taught this in errr. The fllwing verses are used by sme t justify the pre-marriage wedding supper belief: "Behld, I stand at the dr, and knck: if any man hear my vice, and pen the dr, I will cme in t him, and will sup [G1172: t dine] with him, and he with me" Revelatin 3:20. Jesus als said we need t eat His flesh, and feed n His Wrd, but that's anther meal altgether. Then there was the supper that the twelve had in the upper rm in Luke 22. There is the supper Jesus talks abut in Luke 14:12 that we are t invite thers t, and there is a supper mentined in Jhn 12 with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. And finally there is the LORD'S supper mentined in 1-Crinthians 11:20. Therefre, we shuld nt teach that all these suppers are the same. Sure we are t be "supping" with the LORD right nw; we are t be having fellwship with Him in the Spirit right nw. That's nt what I am talking abut here. What I am talking abut is "thee wedding supper," which can nly be fulfilled nce the grm and the bride return frm cnsummating their marriage. S it's betrthal (the present), cnsummatin/a natin brn in ne day (the very near future), and then the meal which yu are abut t see takes place at Armageddn. "And I saw heaven pened, and behld a white hrse; and he that sat upn him was called Faithful and True, and in righteusness he dth judge and make war." Revelatin 19:11 I like t use this verse in my time lines t define the start f the "fierce wrath f GOD Almighty," which is His respnse t the natins gathering t fight at Armageddn (Revelatin 16:14-16). This is the appearing where the LORD will physically appear. This is when "every eye shall see Him." "THIS IS THE DAY" which n man nr angel culd knw the time theref. Yu need t search this ut. Every reference that talks abut nt knwing "the day nr hur" is cntextual talking abut His pen, "every eye will see Him cming" at Armageddn. If yu believe the "nt knwing " references in the Bible are referring t the beginning f the great tribulatin, I must tell yu, yu are in errr and yu need t study this fr yurself. Nt knwing "day nr hur" is always referring t Jesus' pen/physical appearing in the Bible. Here t we see that the LORD'S ging frth is represented by a "white hrse." This same symblic white hrse wh is the Hly Spirit, is shwn cming frth in Revelatin 6:2 nly then the "rider" is the Tw Witness/Man Child cmpany ging frth with the "greater wrks," "duble prtin" ministry. Hrses in the Bible represent strng spirits, either gd r evil. "And the armies which were in heaven fllwed him upn white hrses, clthed in fine linen, white and clean." Revelatin 19:14 Yeshua and the armies in Heaven cme frth physically. This army is made up f the vercming great clud f witnesses, sme wh've been waiting a very lng time, and thse wh just came ut f great tribulatin and washed their rbes white in the bld f the Lamb. This cming r appearing, is what the "tw angels" prphesied was t cme when they said, "Ye men f Galilee, why stand ye gazing up int heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up frm yu int heaven, shall s cme in like manner as ye have seen him g int heaven" Acts 1:11. Meaning, Yeshua wuld be physically returning t the earth smeday, and here it is in verse 14. Jesus is nt a yy; He des nt physically return at the beginning f the marriage/great tribulatin, g back up, cme back dwn when the Tw Witnesses resurrect, g back up when the 6 th vial is lsed, and then cme back dwn again at Armageddn fr the pening f 7 th vial. S study this ut; this last Armageddn appearing is the nly ne that is described in physical terms. "And ut f his muth geth a sharp swrd, that with it he shuld smite the natins: and he shall rule them with a rd f irn: and he treadeth the winepress f the fierceness and wrath f Almighty Gd" Revelatin 19:15 Here is anther ne f thse chrnlgically descriptive verses that places the last and wrst judgments that Gd dishes ut at the end f this age. It's the "2-minute warning" befre the end f ~ 55 ~

57 the age. I am sure yu have all seen at least ne carnal artistic depictin f this event. It will shw Jesus n a white hrse with sme big ld swrd sticking ut f His muth riding int battle like sme Transfrmer bt. In the Bible the "swrd," the swrd f the Wrd has always been just that; GOD'S Wrd. The pwer f GOD'S Wrd, the pwer f the Truth being unleashed against the wicked is what will drp them dead: "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart t lie t the Hly Ghst, and t keep back part f the price f the land? Whiles it remained, was it nt thine wn? and after it was sld, was it nt in thine wn pwer? why hast thu cnceived this thing in thine heart? thu hast nt lied unt men, but unt Gd. And Ananias hearing these wrds fell dwn, and gave up the ghst: and great fear came n all them that heard these things" Acts 5:3-5. "And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a lud vice, saying t all the fwls that fly in the midst f heaven, Cme and gather yurselves tgether unt the supper f the great Gd. That ye may eat the flesh f kings, and the flesh f captains, and the flesh f mighty men, and the flesh f hrses, and f them that sit n them, and the flesh f all men, bth free and bnd, bth small and great." Revelatin 19:17-18 Nw here is the "wedding supper" brethren, fr the Grm and His new Bride. The fllwing verse als places "this supper" smetime after the first six vials, during "the day f the LORD": "Hld thy peace at the presence f the Lrd GOD: fr the day f the LORD is at hand: fr the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests [fr the wedding supper]" Zephaniah 1:7. Keep in mind this battle takes place ver in Israel because that is where the beast will have set up his thrne in mck victry ver GOD Almighty. "And he shall plant the tabernacles f his palace between the seas [the Mediterranean & the Dead Seas] in the glrius hly muntain [Mt Zin]; yet he shall cme t his end, and nne shall help him" Daniel 11:45. "Beautiful fr situatin, the jy f the whle earth, is munt Zin, n the sides f the nrth, the city f the great King" Psalms 48:2. "Hw art thu fallen frm heaven, O Lucifer, sn f the mrning! hw art thu cut dwn t the grund, which didst weaken the natins! Fr thu hast said in thine heart, I will ascend int heaven, I will exalt my thrne abve the stars f Gd: I will sit als upn the munt f the cngregatin, in the sides f the nrth: I will ascend abve the heights f the cluds; I will be like the mst High. Yet thu shalt be brught dwn t hell, t the sides f the pit" Isaiah 14: This battle invlves the remaining hrn kings and their armies, the pssessed false prphet, and any and every sinner wh still has nt repented f their evil. They t cme t this battle t kill Christians and Jews because f the ld hatred. These unrepentant civilians are called the "remnant" in verses 19:21. Even thugh the Bible nly described the battle f Armageddn, which apparently takes place nrth f Jerusalem in Megidd, I believe Gd's army will be ging thrughut the earth slaying the wicked and delivering the just. Remember, this last perid f judgment takes apprximately 45-days t accmplish. I am sure knwing Satan he will als try t destry Jerusalem nce he finally gets it int his thick skull that he has lst and is abut t be cast int the pit. It is the ld, "If I can't have it, nbdy will." Nevertheless, this will be the prime time fr the natural Jew t finally cry ut, "Blessed is he wh cmes in the name f the LORD" as they see Jerusalem being destryed. "And Jesus said unt them, See ye nt all these things? verily I say unt yu, There shall nt be left here ne stne upn anther, that shall nt be thrwn dwn" Matthew 24:2. "And I saw the beast, and the kings f the earth, and their armies, gathered tgether t make war against him that sat n the hrse, and against his army" Revelatin 19:19 Only the unredeemable wicked will be fighting the LORD when He returns. Mst believers wh have nt fallen away r been martyred during the great tribulatin, will still be "in hiding" as Isaiah 26:20 said they shuld be. Other prphesies state that at the LORD'S return He will utterly destry all militaries and gvernments that ppse His imminent rule, but He will leave any cmmn peples that remain t repent f their sinful ways: "Fr the indignatin f the LORD is upn all natins, and his fury upn all their armies: he hath utterly destryed them [the armies], he hath delivered them t the slaughter" Isaiah 34:2. Gd will be gathering sme sinners even at this late hur. Why else wuld Gd allw this last perid f judgment t take apprximately 1½ mnths t be accmplished (frm the 1,290-days t the 1,335-days: Daniel 12:11-12)? "Glly," the LORD culd finish this thing ff in 1-secnd if He wanted t, but He wants t save suls, even in the midst f ttal destructin and despair: "And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they ~ 56 ~

58 shall return even t the LORD, and he shall be intreated f them, and shall heal them. In that day shall there be a highway ut f Egypt t Assyria, and the Assyrian shall cme int Egypt, and the Egyptian int Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst f the land: Whm the LORD f hsts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my peple, and Assyria the wrk f my hands, and Israel mine inheritance" Isaiah 19: "And the beast [the 7-head 10-hrned beast f Revelatin 13:1] was taken, and with him the false prphet that wrught miracles befre him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark f the beast, and them that wrshipped his image. These bth [these all] were cast alive int a lake f fire burning with brimstne." Revelatin 19:20 We need t clarity here in defining wh this "beast" is. Let us lk back t Revelatin 16; "And I saw three unclean spirits like frgs cme ut f the muth f the dragn, and ut f the muth f the beast, and ut f the muth f the false prphet" Revelatin 16:13. Nw it says the Beast and the False Prphet are cast int the Lake f Fire, which is the finally resting place fr all thse still in Hell. If yu study this ut, Hell, as bad as it is, is nt the wrst place t end up. It is mre like a temprary hlding cell until the Great White Thrne judgment cmes frth. Since it is bvius that the False Prphet has already been established as ne individual wh will have been pssessed f Satan, we need nly t identify the Beast in this passage, and there are nly tw pssibilities left. One is "the beast that ascendeth ut f the bttmless pit," wh is Satan. The ther ne, the ne this verse is referring t is the beast spken f in Revelatin13:1; the many membered beast cmprised f Gg, the Hrns, and their armies. This is prved in Revelatin 20:1-3 when the angel binds Satan and casts him int the "bttmless pit," nt the Lake f Fire. Furthermre, the reference t this beast being "cast alive," gives the inference t thse that are still mrtal being cast int an eternal realm, nt ne that is already immrtal like Satan is. Then the remaining beasties wh make it thrugh Armageddn will get theirs at the judgment seat f Christ: "I beheld then because f the vice [Satan's vice speaking thrugh the False Prphet] f the great wrds which the [little] hrn spake: I beheld even till the beast [with 10-hrns] was slain, and his bdy [their armies] destryed, and given t the burning flame. As cncerning the rest f the beasts [the remaining wrldly sinners], they had their dminin taken away: yet their lives were prlnged fr a seasn and time [meaning fr a certain mnth and a certain year: the Judgment Seat f Christ]" Daniel 7: "Why prlnged" yu ask? It's t give the peple a chance t cme ut frm under Satan's ppressin, t see where their hearts truly lie. Many will have fllwed the beast gvernment ut f sheer fear alne, but GOD is a gd Gd; He is righteus and still willing that nne shuld perish: "The Lrd is nt slack cncerning his prmise, as sme men cunt slackness; but is lngsuffering t us-ward, nt willing that any shuld perish, but that all shuld cme t repentance. But the day f the Lrd [Armageddn: Revelatin 16:14-16] will cme as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens [peple] shall pass away with a great nise, and the elements [elemental beliefs and systems f man] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth [the flesh] als and the wrks [f flesh] that are therein shall be burned up" 2-Pet 3:9-10. But amazingly the bdies will still be left n the same ld Earth (Ezekiel 39:11-12). S dn't fall fr the ld "everything in the universe gets bliterated" literal interpretatin that many like t preach here because it is nt ging t happen: This is very bvius symblic language, r nthing and n ne wuld be left. "And the remnant were slain with the swrd f him that sat upn the hrse, which swrd prceeded ut f his muth: and all the fwls were filled with their flesh." Revelatin 19:21 This is when the last f the rebellius get theirs. Nw keep in mind, just because Gg will have cntrlled the mst aggressive Gd hating military the wrld will have ever seen, desn't mean that nce he's gne ther equally wicked grups f sinners will nt raise up t vent their anger and resentment at GOD by cntinuing t attack Israel (Revelatin 16:9). As fr what the "swrd" judgment will cnsist f, I think the fllwing verses pretty much describe natural manifestatin f this judgment: "And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the peple that have fught against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall cnsume away while they stand upn their feet, and their eyes shall cnsume away in their hles, and their tngue shall cnsume away in their muth. And it shall cme t pass in that day, that a great tumult frm the LORD shall be amng them; and they ~ 57 ~

59 shall lay hld every ne n the hand f his neighbur, and his hand shall rise up against the hand f his neighbur. And Judah als shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth f all the heathen rund abut shall be gathered tgether, gld, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. And s shall be the plague f the hrse, f the mule, f the camel, and f the ass, and f all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague" Zechariah 14: I have heard sme brethren describe GOD'S glry, the Light f GOD, as mre pwerful than ur strngest laser beams. We als knw the Bible says GOD is a cnsuming fire; "Understand therefre this day, that the LORD thy Gd is he which geth ver befre thee; as a cnsuming fire he shall destry them, and he shall bring them dwn befre thy face: s shalt thu drive them ut, and destry them quickly, as the LORD hath said unt thee" Deuternmy 9:3. The fllwing is a fairly lng passage that shws the reality f what will be happing "after" this event, but it's wrth the reading seeing hw it sheds mre light n this last battle. These passages als prve everything Isaiah 34:4, 2-Peter 3:10-12, and Revelatin 6:14 say, are t be taken metaphrically. I mean why wuld thse ld dead stinky bdies and the weapns f war frm Armageddn need t be recreated and then put back n a brand new Earth, because after all it says all this is suppsed t be burnt up and disslved? Furthermre, I hpe yu knw the new Earth event des nt happen until after the White Thrne Judgment takes place a thusand years later (Revelatin 20:11; 21:1): "Behld, it is cme, and it is dne, saith the Lrd GOD; this is the day wheref I have spken. And they that dwell in the cities f Israel shall g frth, and shall set n fire and burn the weapns, bth the shields and the bucklers, the bws and the arrws, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: S that they shall take n wd ut f the field, neither cut dwn any ut f the frests; fr they shall burn the weapns with fire: and they shall spil thse that spiled them, and rb thse that rbbed them, saith the Lrd GOD. And it shall cme t pass in that day, that I will give unt Gg a place there f graves in Israel, the valley f the passengers n the east f the sea: and it shall stp the nses f the passengers: and there shall they bury Gg and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley f Hamngg. And seven mnths shall the huse f Israel be burying f them, that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the peple f the land shall bury them; and it shall be t them a renwn the day that I shall be glrified, saith the Lrd GOD. And they shall sever ut men f cntinual emplyment, passing thrugh the land t bury with the passengers thse that remain upn the face f the earth, t cleanse it: after the end f seven mnths shall they search. And the passengers that pass thrugh the land, when any seeth a man's bne, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley f Hamngg. And als the name f the city shall be Hamnah. Thus shall they cleanse the land" Ezekiel 39:8-16. As I previusly stated, by the end f this present age "types & shadws" will have been replaced by the literal reality. Mankind will be mving int the next level f the Kingdm experience, including a greater level f accuntability. Remember Ananias & Sapphira? Guess why that stry was put in the Bible? Return t Chapter Index Chapter 20 "And I saw an angel cme dwn frm heaven, having the key f the bttmless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hld n the dragn, that ld serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bund him a thusand years." Revelatin 20:1-2 It says here that Satan is bund a thusand years in the "bttmless pit," nt the "Lake f Fire" like the hrns and the False Prphet wuld have just been cast int. This is when the saints' begin t rule and reign fr a thusand years while the rest f the dead (thse believers wh did nt qualify t cme frth in the "1 st resurrectin" accrding t Revelatin 20:4 belw) "lived nt again until the thusand years were finished." This "thusand year" time frame is mentined quite ften in Revelatin because it is the very thing that establishes s many dctrinal pints. I have heard ne dctrine that says all the dead saints will be resurrecting thrughut the seventh millennium as they learn hw t vercme the things they fell shrt in by watching ther living saints vercme. These ~ 58 ~

60 same brethren culd nt tell that what they were actually preaching was a frm f Ultimate Recnciliatin; smething they rightly spke against. Hwever, this is blatantly wrng and in errr because verses like Revelatin 20:5 tell us they r any dead cannt resurrect during the 1000-year reign. "But the rest f the dead lived nt again until the thusand years were finished. This is the first resurrectin" Revelatin 20:5. "And I saw thrnes, and they sat upn them, and judgment was given unt them: and I saw the suls f them that were [1.]beheaded fr the witness f Jesus, and fr the wrd f Gd, and which had nt [2.]wrshipped the beast, [3.]neither his image, [4.]neither had received his mark upn their freheads, r in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thusand years." Revelatin 20:4 This event takes place at the Judgment seat f Christ, and nly the vercmers will have a part in it: "And Jesus said unt them, Verily I say unt yu, That ye which have fllwed me, in the regeneratin when the Sn f man shall sit in the thrne f his glry, ye als shall sit upn twelve thrnes, judging the twelve tribes f Israel" Matthew 19:28; "Knw ye nt that we shall judge angels? hw much mre things that pertain t this life?" 1-Crinthians 6:3. This als marks the beginning pint in the Wrd fr the seventh millennium t begin, althugh mst preachers are saying we are in the seventh millennium right nw. S when Revelatin mentins the "thusand years" SIX TIMES, GOD was nly kidding. He really meant 1000-years plus... Als ntice hw Revelatin 20:4 states fur qualifying factrs t be ne f thse that will rule and reign with Christ. Mst believers at the time f their deaths will nt have reached the "be ye perfect" level f Christianity; the 100-fld realm. They will have still been partaking t sme degree in sme frm r fashin f ne r mre f the beast nature's transgresses. "But the rest f the dead lived nt again until the thusand years were finished. This is the first resurrectin." Revelatin 20:5 The 1 st resurrectin as I have pinted ut, is nly fr thse Christians wh were just described in verse 4. We are talking abut "100-fld" believers. On the cntrary, the stry f Lazarus being in the grave fr "fur days," was put in the Bible t teach us wh is in the last resurrectin. I believe Lazarus (in this stry) is a type fr the Christian that accepted "the bld" and died, just like the thief n the crss. "Fr this cause many are weak and sickly amng yu, and many sleep" 1- Crinthians 11:30. Or a Christian that at first gladly received the "free gift," but then after finding ut that sanctificatin cmes with a price, never went n t "knw the LORD" and turned his back t the plw. These chse instead t "stand idle in the marketplace" f the uter curt campgrund. The stry f Lazarus keeps making a pint t emphasize the "4 th day," which symblically wuld be the beginning f the 4 th thusand year frm Jesus' resurrectin, that being the time f the White Thrne Judgment. "After tw days [2-thusand years since His death & resurrectin] will he revive us: in the third day [the 7 th millennium] he will raise us [the vercmers] up, and we shall live in his sight [n the furth day thse wh are fund in the bk f life but are still "bund hand and ft," will als resurrect; lse them, and let them g]" Hsea 6:2. "And when the thusand years are expired, Satan shall be lsed ut f his prisn." Revelatin 20:7 I call this "The Final Shifting," which will be necessary because the free-will is nt taken away frm thse wh are "alive and remain," thse that enter the next millennium as mrtals. Mrever, the generatins brn in the seventh millennium will have t at sme pint accept "the bld" fr themselves. Unfrtunately, as time ges n, and n, and n, sme f these peple will have either refused t accept the bld, r after ding s they will fail t g n t knw the LORD, which is when they wuld have received "their change in the twinkling f an eye": "And it shall cme t pass, that every ne that is left f all the natins which came against Jerusalem shall even g up frm year t year t wrship the King, the LORD f hsts, and t keep the feast f tabernacles. And it shall be, that whs will nt cme up f all the families f the earth unt Jerusalem t wrship the King, the LORD f hsts, even upn them shall be n rain. And if the family f Egypt g nt up, and cme nt, that have n rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that cme nt up t keep the feast f tabernacles. This shall be the punishment f ~ 59 ~

61 Egypt, and the punishment f all natins that cme nt up t keep the feast f tabernacles" Zechariah 14: "Oh," did yu think sin was ablished after Armageddn? Or did smene tell yu that the seventh millennium was ging t be just like the Garden f Eden again? It wasn't GOD; GOD is nt dne "cmpleting"/"perfecting" His creatin until Revelatin 21:6. "And shall g ut t deceive the natins which are in the fur quarters f the earth, Gg and Magg, t gather them tgether t battle: the number f whm is as the sand f the sea. And they went up n the breadth f the earth, and cmpassed the camp f the saints abut, and the belved city: and fire came dwn frm Gd ut f heaven, and devured them." Revelatin 20:8-9 This reference t "Gg and Magg" tells us wh the leader f "the sand f the sea" sinners will be. It appears that sme f thse frm the frmer Gg cnfederacy whse ancestr's will have repented way back there after the Great War when Yeshua came back dwn, will be taken again by the same familiar spirits that had taken their ancestrs nce Satan is lsed. What really blws me away is that there will be thusands upn thusands f these sinners wh were just waiting fr the right pprtunity, the right leader t cme alng and help them verthrw "these Christians wh rule ver us." It's like the TV shw: The Wrlds Dumbest Criminals Sinners. Anyway, GOD releases Satan t draw ut these last tares, and then He casts them all int the Lake f Fire nce and fr all. "And the devil that deceived them was cast int the lake f fire and brimstne, where the beast and the false prphet are, and shall be trmented day and night fr ever and ever: Revelatin 20:10 At this pint Gd will be dne using the Devil. All thse wh were brn in the seventh millennium, r died in it (Isaiah 65:20) r at this last attack f the wicked, are t be judged at the White Thrne Judgment. They will have had their chance t decide fr GOD r nt; if they wanted the bld t set them free frm their adamic natures. There will be n excuse fr these seventh millennial sinners. Yeshua, the resurrected saints f ld, miracles and such, will have all been manifesting daily. The supernatural will have becme the natural. "And I saw a great white thrne, and him that sat n it, frm whse face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was fund n place fr them." Revelatin 20:11 If the Bible ever tells f a time when GOD Almighty wuld bring frth a "new heaven and earth," this wuld be that time. Many teach this event happens right after Jesus suppsedly bliterates the whle csms including the Earth at Armageddn, but we knw that cannt be the true interpretatin f 2-Peter 3:10. We knw this because we are als tld in Ezekiel 39 that the peple will have t burn weapns and bury bdies fr many mnths and years after that battle. Think brethren; Gd creates a brand new earth but leaves all the ld stinky dead bdies? N way! This new creatin event happens as the "White Thrne Judgment" cmes frth. Faith will still need t perate during the seventh millennium. Things like "plagues" (Zechariah 14:18) famine and "death" are still spken f during this dispensatin f the fullness. Things that are needed t try the sul and bring peple t the place f crying ut fr their deliverance. "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand befre Gd; and the bks were pened: and anther bk was pened, which is the bk f life: and the dead were judged ut f thse things which were written in the bks, accrding t their wrks." Revelatin 20:12 This first grup that stands befre Gd are the "furth day" believers. They are sme f the nes whse names "will be fund in the bk f life," yet their "wrks" are judged fr reward sake, and I believe fr their placement in the Kingdm. Yu will see that the secnd grup t resurrect (see next verse) and be judged, apparently have already lst any pssibility f being fund in "the bk f life" because it is nt even mentined during their time f judgment. Remember, Judgment must first start at the husehld f GOD. "Fr the time is cme that judgment must begin at the huse f Gd: and if it first begin at us [the "small and great"], what shall the end be f them [v. 20:13] that bey nt the gspel f Gd?" 1-Peter 4:17. Yet, ne cannt build dctrine slely because f ~ 60 ~

62 missin. Just the same, I have dne sme intensive studies n this subject. The links belw tuch n sme f it and why I have cme t the cnclusins that I have in this matter. "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man accrding t their wrks." Revelatin 20:13 The secnd grup f "the dead" that cme frth t be judged cnsist exclusively f sinners. Again, ntice hw there is n bk f life mentined here when it cmes t these suls. That is because since these will have rejected "the bld," they will nw have t shw that their wrks were perfect if they hpe t enter the Kingdm f GOD and His Christ. Of curse nne will, but GOD is just and will still give them an pprtunity t see fr themselves that their judgment is true and just. "And death and hell were cast int the lake f fire. This is the secnd death" Revelatin 20:14 I believe these were and are, spirits and principalities in high places. Places where the wicked dead dwelt pre-lake f fire. S in essence, these verses are talking abut permanently relcating all the wicked t a warmer climate with lake frnt views. Anther little telling pint f dctrine is the transfer f nt nly the dead, but Hell itself ges int this Lake f Fire. As far as judgment, things always g frm bad t wrse with GOD. This Lake f Fire situatin must be the wrst f the wrst f the wrst. This Lake thing is n metaphr brethren. Hell is said t have pits, gates, bars, chains, chasms, darkness, and fire. Still, Hell was, and is, nly meant as a temprary hlding place fr what I believe t be a medicre punishment f the sul, until nes resurrectin frm the dead and their insuring judgment cmes frth. A lake f fire judgment wuld be an all cnsuming submersin in liquid fire that wuld make lava seem like a pl f cl water. The bdy and suls f these eternally lst will eternally rejuvenate themselves as they wither and twist in mind-melding, never-ending, unbearable anguish and trture; frever and ever, and ever, and ever and after 100,000,000, light years f this judgment the sentence will be n less served. Brethren, yu dn't want yur wrst enemy t end up in this place. We dn't want t frsake such a great salvatin either. "Fr it is impssible fr thse wh were nce enlightened, and have tasted f the heavenly gift, and were made partakers f the Hly Ghst, And have tasted the gd wrd f Gd, and the pwers f the wrld t cme, If they shall fall away, t renew them again unt repentance; seeing they crucify t themselves the Sn f Gd afresh, and put him t an pen shame" Hebrews 6:4-6. "And whsever was nt fund written in the bk f life was cast int the lake f fire" Revelatin 20:15 "Whsever " Nw why even put that in this verse unless there might be sme wh "will be fund" in the bk f life? Once mre this tells us sme f the brethren wh did nt have part in "the first resurrectin," will still cme frth at this time. This is the whle reasn I believe Gd put the stry f Lazarus and the "furth day" resurrectin in the Bible: t give sme hpe t thse wh will rise last. Return t Chapter Index ~ 61 ~

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