REVELATION CHAPTER 10 & 11
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“17th-century American Puritan father and son Increase and Cotton Mather”
were the first to re-discover the concept of a Rapture that would happen to the Church
in the last days (according to Wikipedia). Prior to that the Rapture
was lost knowledge, though it clearly exists in Scripture. Chapter 10 of
Revelation occurs in the timeframe between the
sixth and seventh trumpets; another book comes forth, a little book, and its
contents is not divulged. The seventh trumpet is about to sound; it is the last trumpet, and we all know what that
means, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet… the dead will be raised” (1Cor 15-52). Dan 12-4 speaks of
a book that was concealed,
and later revealed to be the book of seals that Jesus opened in Revelation
chapter five, but it appears the new covenant has a sealed book too. John did not write what the seven peals of thunder said, concealing
its contents; why did God refuse to tell us
the contents of this little book? Its missing knowledge pertains to the timing
of the First Resurrection/Rapture, which is the very next thing to happen! This
missing knowledge has raised such a ruckus in the Church, effectively dividing
it since the 17th century when the Mather (father and son) first posited their
concept of a Rapture. God
wanted to hide the Rapture's sequence in endtime events, because he knew there would be a controversy
over it and the majority would settle on an early rapture that promised to deliver
them from the trials of the last days, and in fact deliver them from preparing
their heart for those days. God's attitude is that if people want to
believe in falsehood, then He will let them; in fact He
will help them. The timing of the Rapture holds many secrets to God’s character and
His overall plan for the Church. This little book is still
open, suggesting that it is still possible to know its contents as John did, further suggesting
that He is not averse to revealing it to those who seek Him,
but to those who do not seek Him it remains concealed. That is to say, there will be
two kinds of Christians in the last days, those who seek God and
those who don’t, just like the parable of the ten virgins revealed two kinds of
Christians, those who were wise and those who were foolish. See also: Ten virgins; Rev 10,4-10;
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108i / Preparing for His return;
Lk 12,35-46; 237d
(108i) Thy kingdom come >>
Faith
>> Revelation of Jesus Christ
>> Revelation of the mysteries of God
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Chapter ten of Revelation speaks of a little book that tastes good but gave
John a stomachache when he ate it. The words were sweet
but their implications were bitter. The angel told John not to divulge its contents. This is exactly what
happened in Daniel 12-4, Daniel, whose secret book was disclosed in breaking the seals
of God's judgment in chapter five, but what secret remains hidden in the
little book that john ate that was sweet to the taste but was indigestible? It was about the time of the Rapture, about the apostasy and
about the false brethren riddled in churches throughout the world, who call themselves Christians,
who are duped
in the false teachings of easy-believism, who would never believe the truth even if
it were described to them. The Rapture is about to take place at the seventh
trumpet, and they refuse to believe it to their own peril. There is one other thing that was
contained in the little book, the knowledge of a Great Endtime Revival,
starting sometime during the seals and continuing throughout
the trumpet judgments. This is another truth that the false brethren will
never believe; hence, they will not join this revival but will call it a
trick of the devil.
See also: Great Endtime Revival; Rev 11,1-6;
50h / Bitter/sweet; Rev 10,4-10; 99aa
(111j) Thy kingdom come
>> Faith >>
Spirit and the word >> Word and the judgment
of God
(172a) Works of the devil
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Manifestations of the devil >> Tares among the
wheat >> Devils among the saints >>
False brethren among the people of God
>> Antichrists among Christians –
Between the ninth chapter and the eleventh chapter is obviously the tenth
chapter, which often receives sparse attention in endtime prophecy Bible studies,
since most people don’t know the relevance of it. The tenth chapter displays
God’s foreknowledge in that He knew the Church would wax into apostasy in
the last days through the teachings of easy-believism, specifically those who believe
in the Pre-Tribulation Rapture as the very first thing to happen in the fulfillment
of endtime prophecy. This is one of the most beguiling deceptions Satan has
ever devised. It has led countless millions who call themselves Christians to
feel there is no need to prepare for the last days, since they won't be here. Meanwhile the Rapture is not scheduled to occur until just before
the bowls of God fierce wrath, which is two-thirds of the way through endtime
prophecy. The Church will have to go though both the Seals and
the Trumpets before the Rapture finally occurs at the Last Trumpet. God didn’t want to tell
us when the Rapture would occur, except
that He did. He knew that the Church would be so steeped in blinding heretical
apostasy that they would not believe the truth even if He told them, and it didn't help the blind to see. He said that the Rapture would occur
at the last trumpet (1Cor 15-52), and almost nobody believes it. See also: Rapture; Rev 10,4-10;
99aa / Literal manifestations; Rev 10,5-7;
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Rev 10,1-7
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Servant >> Angels execute Judgment >> For the sake of the Church
Rev 10-1
(112b) Thy kingdom come
>> Faith >> Light >> Jesus’ light overcomes darkness >>
The light of His power
(113a) Thy kingdom come
>> Faith >>
The anointing >> Heaven’s clothes >>
Protection >> Covering
(221k) Kingdom of God
>>
The elusive Kingdom of Heaven >> Kingdom hidden
behind the veil from the world >> God hides from
sin >> He hides behind unbelief –
If this wasn’t Jesus… do other angels have rainbows over their heads? With
so many queers in the world today claiming Him to be their Jesus, Homosexuals
have stolen the rainbow above Jesus’ head. God didn’t give it to them; God
gave the rainbow to all mankind, symbolizing His promise that He would never
flood the earth again; next time He will judge man by fire. He was clothed
with a cloud to hide His glory from unbelievers. It says that His face was
like the sun; we can’t look at the sun, except with a sun filter, but we can
see everything else because of the sun. Nobody could actually look at this
angel that descended from heaven; John said, “No one has seen God at any
time.” Even if He were to come, no one could look at Him. Whenever the Bible
speaks of God visiting His people, He is always behind a cloud, and that cloud
represents our unbelief, in that if we did believe in Him, He would reveal
Himself to us (Jn 14-21). Disobedience and unbelief are one and the same
thing; this cloud represents our sin, the reason we can’t see Him. God hides
behind our unbelief. This cloud also represents the veil of the old covenant
Jewish temple that God commanded Moses. They placed the veil in front of the
doorway of the Most Holy Place, keeping unbelief from spying on His glory. God
does not hide from unbelief; he hides behind it, using it as a veil. If
unbelievers saw the glory of God, it wouldn’t’ change their unbelief, and
they would be obligated to obey Him, or judgment would fall on them. That is,
they would continue in their unbelief, though they saw God. If that seems
unbelievable, that is exactly what happened when Jesus came; people stood in
front of Him and still refused to believe in Him; in that sense His flesh was
the veil. If we want to see God, we must believe in Him, and then the veil is
taken away (2Cor 3-16). People say it isn’t right that God should hide from
unbelievers, but it is their own unbelief that is hiding Him from them. See
also: Homosexuality; 2Pet 2-6; 104c
Rev 10-3,4
(106h) Thy kingdom come >>
Faith
>>
Hearing from God >> Means of hearing from God >>
Through His Son -- These verses go with verses 8&9
(246e) Kingdom of God
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Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm >>
Literal manifestations >> The literal mystery of
godliness
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Thy kingdom come >>
Endurance (Thorn in the flesh) >>
Enduring the will of God >> Enduring the word of God >> Endure Hearing
the word of God – There were seven peals of thunder, suggesting
there were seven pages to the little book. When John ate its contents, it was sweet to
the taste but gave him a stomachache; that is, the truth was bittersweet. What
information did the book contain, introduced just before the last trumpet? Any
student of the Bible immediately recognizes the phrase "last trumpet"
as something the Apostle Paul said in First Corinthians chapter 15, "The last
trumpet... will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable" (v52). Revelation chapter ten is a mixture of
sorrow and sweet joy, because of so many people who have fallen away from the faith before the seventh trumpet
is blown to become the Church's sworn enemies. The false
brethren will be plentiful according to the parable of the ten virgins that
depicts half the Church will be foolish at the time of the end. The true saints
know their flesh is lying to them, who know the truth by the Spirit of God who dwells in them, but the false brethren don't
have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them; they allowed their flame to die. See also:
Bitter/sweet; Rev 10-7; 237b / Ten virgins; Rev 10,1-11;
50i / Rapture; Rev 10-4;
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Rev 10-4
(132d) Temple
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Your body is the temple of God >> Holy Spirit is
in God’s people >> God gives his spirit as a
pledge >> His Spirit is a seal
(230j) Kingdom of God
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God’s kingdom is a living organism >> Mystery
of godliness >> Mystery of the trinity >>
Word of God is the mystery godliness –
Something very similar was written in Daniel 12-4, “But you, Daniel, shut up
these words and seal the book until the time of the end.” Daniel was not
allowed to write, but kept it a mystery what the angel said to him. However, when the new
covenant came and the book of Revelation was written, all the mysteries of Daniel were
revealed in the book of Revelation, yet in chapter 10 we see another prophecy
that was kept from us, and this mystery won't be revealed until the events
take place at the end of the age. At the end of chapter 11
and at the seventh and final trumpet there was near silence, accounting for
the mystery of chapter 10. Six trumpets were blown; each judgment was more severe
than the one before it, making the seventh trumpet the most severe
of them all, as it was written after the fourth trumpet, "Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!"
(Rev 8-13). Yet, when the seventh trumpet sounded, nothing much happened. The narrative merely flips to a
scene in heaven, and there was lightning, thunder an earthquake and a hailstorm
that also happened in Rev 8-5, nothing special compared to the previous trumpets with two
hundred million demons emerging from the earth to torment and kill mankind. The Last Trumpet must
have been the judgment that God commanded John not to write, and what did Paul say about
the last trumpet? “Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all
sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised
imperishable, and we will be changed” (1Cor 15-51,52). So the Rapture occurs at
the Seventh Trumpet! Some would say, 'That can't be right, because it says no
one knows the day or the hour.' God could tell them the day and the hour, and
they still wouldn't know; plus, God didn't say we won't know the
year, month and week! As the judgments grow more severe with each trumpet, it
makes the Rapture the worst judgment of all to those who will not partake of
it,
though it is the glory of the Church. Now God’s full fury is ready to be
unleashed on the inhabitants of the earth in the bowls of His mighty wrath.
God did not allow John to write about the Rapture, giving opportunity for
charlatans to devise teachings and doctrines instructing people that God
will come before anyone suffers. Martyrdom has always accompanied faith in
Jesus Christ; what makes us think we will escape persecution in the last days,
especially when the Bible promises it will be more prevalent than ever? 1The 5-9 says, “God has not destined us for
wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” God will not subject the Church to His judgments, but He will allow
us to suffer under Satan’s wrath, which will test and strengthen the true saints
and chase away the false brethren, allowing the Church to finally unify, which
is a prerequisite to the second coming of Christ (Eph 5-27). In order to attract people to their
churches, scoundrels have introduced doctrines of easy-believism, such
as the Pre-Tribulation Rapture hoax, Eternal Security and grace minus the need
to obey,
and those with itching ears have clambered to them, so when Christ doesn’t come when they expect and they begin
to suffer from the evils of the world, they will curse God and abandon the
faith. See also: Rapture; Rev 10-7; 231f
Rev 10,5-7
(215c) Sovereignty
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God controls time >> God’s timing >>
Fulfillment of God’s time >> The moment we
have all been waiting for – People have been waiting for God for
millennia, ever since Jesus promised to return. He said that He would
delay His return, and when God says He will delay, we can be sure it will be a
long time. Two thousand years might be a mere delay for someone who lives in the realm of
eternity, but for we mortals it is an eternity in itself. With God, time is relative. He has existed
from eternity past and will live forever in the future. He has so much time, we can spend our entire lives waiting for Him and when He
returns, He didn’t consider Himself late. For this angel (Christ) to say
that there should be delay no longer, He was referring to the manifestation of
God’s kingdom on the earth, and He meant there should be delay no longer even
from a human standpoint! See also: Literal manifestations; Rev 11,3-7; 131g
Rev 10-6
(151j) Witness
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Validity of the Father >> Witnesses of the
father >> Creation is evidence of God >>
Living things reflect the nature of God
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(44a) Judgment
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Satan destroyed >> Complete >>
It is finished >> Fulfill God’s will
(231f) Kingdom of God
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God’s kingdom is a living organism >> Mystery
of godliness >> Revelation of Jesus is the
mystery of the kingdom >> Jesus reveals the
mystery of the kingdom
– The mystery of God is the Church Age. Eph 3,2-6
says, “If
indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace which was given to me
for you; that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote
before in brief. By referring to this, when you read you can understand my
insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made
known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and
prophets in the Spirit; to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and
fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ
Jesus through the gospel.” Paul just said that “the mystery
of Christ” is the Church, so in this verse when it says, "the mystery of God is
finished," it is referring to the end of the Church age, which is
concluded by the First Resurrection/Rapture. When the seventh angel sounds his trumpet it will mark the end
of the Church in the world. God will resurrect His people and gather them to
Himself, marking the beginning of Christ's eternal kingdom with the commencement of
the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. See also: Rapture; 237b
(237b) Kingdom of God
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Pursuing the kingdom >> Transferring the kingdom >> The Church is transferred to the kingdom
>>
The rapture >> Last trumpet –
In verse four of this chapter we read that God does not allow John to reveal
the knowledge that he learned from the seven peals of
thunder. There is another account of this in Daniel 12-4 that says, “Seal up
the book until the end of time.” There is a popular saying, “The Old Testament is
the New concealed, and the New Testament is the Old revealed.” By that we understand
Daniel sealed up the book so nobody would understand endtime prophecy until
the new covenant
was written, but if the point of Revelation is to reveal the Old
Testament, why was John not permitted to reveal the seven peals
of thunder (Vs1-4)? When
John took the little book that the angel instructed him to eat, warning him
that it would be bitter/sweet, tasting like honey in his mouth but turned his stomach bitter because of
what it said, he
was prohibited to write that the Rapture would occur at the seventh trumpet.
Had he been allowed to write, it would have cleared up a lot of confusion and
prevented charlatans from inventing doctrines of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture that brought people into their
churches and made them popular and wealthy, but if people wanted to believe a
lie, who was God to stand in their way? Paul
specifically mentioned the last trumpet in connection with the Rapture,
but it hasn’t seemed to help most people in the Church understand the
sequence of endtime events. “Then the seventh angel sounded.” People refuse to believe that
Paul’s “last trumpet” (1Cor 15-52) is Revelation's seventh trumpet (In Rev 11-15), because it conflicts with their beloved
Pre-Tribulation Rapture theory. See also: Bitter/sweet; Rev 10-9,10; 63a
/ Rapture; Rev 10,8-11; 40g
Rev 10,8-11
(40g) Judgment
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Judgment of Christ >> God’s word judges the
world >> It does not believe in Him – Most
Christians these days make the assumption that the Rapture occurs in chapter
four when God told John, “Come up here.” They say that the Church is never
mentioned again, and of course what they mean is that the word “Church” is
never mentioned again. However, in later chapters it speaks about a multitude
that cannot be counted that suddenly appears in heaven, but they say,
‘That’s got nothing to do with it.’ Their doctrines are contrived based
on what they want to believe and what they don’t want to believe, but if
they are going to read the Bible that way, they will never arrive at the
truth. God knew the Church would gravitate toward this Pre-Tribulation Rapture
hoax, simply because it appeals to the flesh. They want God to Rapture them
from the world’s problems that they helped cause by their omission of
righteousness. They fail to remember that millions of God’s people
throughout the centuries have suffered at the hands of their persecutors, and
God did not insulate them from suffering, because God does not view suffering as evil, but we
equate suffering with evil as though there were a direct connection between
the two. Evil people certainly cause others to suffer, yet to think suffering
is evil is like comparing apples to oranges. God has every intension of
protecting the Church from judgment that He intends for the world, but He
doesn’t have to Rapture us to do that. God has a plan, but the Church is not
interested in God’s plan. Those who know and love the truth will enjoy
heaven, because Jesus is there, and He is the truth, but those who resist the
truth will never see heaven. See also:
Rapture;
Rev 10-9,10; 36a / Suffering
and evil (temptation of Christ); 1Cor 10,1-6; 105la
(49b) Judgment
>>
Nations are destroyed >> God judges the nations
through the Church
Rev 10,8-10
(69k) Authority
>> Righteous judgment (outcome of discernment) >> Executing God’s judgment by His
authority –
John didn’t see the one who was speaking; he only heard the voice tell him to take the
book from the angel’s hand. So he received the book by the authority of
Christ,
knowing the angel would oblige him. Communicating
in heaven flows without a ripple in a hierarchy of authority, where everyone
knows his place.
(123b) Thy kingdom come
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Manifestations of faith >> Being bold in the
position God has given you
Rev 10-8,9
(106h) Thy kingdom come >>
Faith
>>
Hearing from God >> Means of hearing from God >>
Through His Son -- These verses go with verses 3&4
(245k) Kingdom of God
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Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm >>
Literal manifestations >> Manifestations of the
devil >> Manifestation of sin
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Sin >> Consequences of sin
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Death is the fruit of the world
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Paradox >> Anomalies >> Righteous deception >> God deceives
His people – The little book tasted sweet as honey because it was
about the Rapture and the salvation of God's people, but it made his stomach
bitter because the truth involved many Pre-Tribulation Rapture believers who
fell
away from the faith waiting for the Rapture to deliver them from their misery. John was the only person in the
Church who knew what the angel said, yet individuals can seek God to learn what
was written in the little book, because it remains open. The original teachings of
the apostles have been maligned over the centuries by people seeking an
advantage and creating opportunities to become rich and famous off the backs
of church goers, who have introduced "destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves"
(2Pet 2-1). The gospel was skewed through various doctrines that people have come to
believe, though the truth is still plainly written in the Bible
for anyone to read. The Church’s main focus is on the grace of
God, which sounds like a good thing, but they have taken it to an extreme and made the
Bible say that a person can live any way he wants and still be saved, so long as he
believes in certain doctrines. This is not the gospel
according to Scripture. See also: Bitter/sweet; Rev 10,1-11; 108i
/ Rapture; Rev 11,3-14; 148b
(218e) Sovereignty
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God overrides the will of man >> God’s will
over man >> Reaping the harvest >>
We choose our actions, not their consequences >>
Reaping the harvest of our works
Rev 10-11
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Witness >> Validity of Jesus Christ >> Works of the Church bear
witness to Jesus >> Evangelism >> Authority of the rhema given to
evangelism >> Receiving authority from God personally
(152kb) Witness
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Validity of the Father >> Witnesses of the
father >> The Church holds the position of a prophet >>
True prophets >> Prophesying the future – Chapter ten ends on the note that prophesying is not
complete, that is, evangelism is not complete, but “many peoples and
nations and tongues and kings” must hear the word of the Lord by the mouth
of the 144,000 witnesses, and then
chapter eleven begins regarding the Two Witnesses. They will prophecy to the
entire world with media coverage. They will remain in
Jerusalem, and their ministry is to protect the 144,000, who have fled into
the wilderness, whose ministry is to
the gentile nations.
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(28c) Gift of God
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God is our advocate >> God protects the Church from the world – Apart from those who would wage
war against the lamb, there will be a remnant that
migrated to Jerusalem for refuge from the world and from its antichrist,
who repented of their unbelief and did not take the Mark of the Beast. Ironically,
Jerusalem will be the safest place on earth for them, though it is the
place where all its enemies will gather for the Great War against God with
intensions of leveling the holy city and destroying its inhabitants. When it
says to measure the temple but not the outer court, the
outer court refers to the natural realm, whereas the temple itself refers to a spiritual
place, not located in Jerusalem but in wilderness places spotted around the
globe, where God will hide His people
from the wrath of the dragon, and to measure the temple means to count the
people who dwell there. See also: Remnant will migrate to Jerusalem; Rev 11,3-14; 148b
/ Those left behind who have not taken the mark will migrate to Jerusalem
between the trumpets and the
bowls;
Rev 20-4; 144b
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Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations
>> Second half of the tribulation
>> Two witnesses - adjudicators of God's judgment –
The whole point of miracles is to get people’s attention to hear the word
of God; miracles always accompany revivals orchestrated from heaven. Revival is coming to this world,
and signs and wonders will return as a divine means of
ratifying the word of God and positively identifying the bearers of
truth. During genuine revival we know who is telling the truth
based on those performing miracles; just follow the miracles to the source and
we will find the truth. The devil may try to mimic God and perform lying wonders, but those
kind of miracles are more in line with magic arts, whereas the miracles that God
performs are things that nobody else can do, not even the devil can
replicate them, nor would he care to try.
Jesus used miracles of healing and went around doing good, because it is not
something the devil wanted to imitate, works that oppose the will of
Satan. If the devil had the power to perform miracles, he would not use it to heal
anyone but to steal, kill and destroy. The darker the world
gets, the less people
look for revival, yet the purpose of revival is to dispel the darkness, which can get so thick that
people begin to question the existence of God, yet sure as there is a God revival is coming.
See also:
Great Endtime Revival; Rev 11-1,2; 210i / Mature past Christians who have been saved for years; Gal 6-1;
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Rev 11-1,2
(140b) Temple
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Temple made without hands >> Hiding place >>
Worshipping God in His temple --
These verses go with verse 16. John was
told to measure the temple of
God and the altar and those who dwell in it but not to measure the outer
court, “for it has been given to the nations, and they will tread underfoot
the holy city for forty-two months.” The courtyard of the temple
represents Jerusalem. To measure something is to
give attention to
certain features, but the outer court does not get this attention. The outer court of
the temple consists of a gated fence surrounding the temple. This fence was
originally made of porpoise skin, a
durable material
intended to symbolize our own skin, which the apostle Paul
coined "the flesh". This suggests that anyone who walks in the flesh, will be trampled
underfoot by the antichrist and his cohorts, but those who walk in the spirit
will become as it were invisible to their enemies. This is Jerusalem, and during the
days of the Two Witnesses whatever happens there will happen throughout the
world through the trumpets of God's judgments. The gentiles
will tread the inhabitants of Jerusalem underfoot for 42 months, during the
period of the trumpets, because it refuses to enter the
temple but remains in the courtyard, which is the domain of the antichrist,
suggesting that a more spiritual form of worship will be required to protect us from the evil that is coming, but those who refuse to worship God in Spirit and truth, who are content to loiter outside the temple in the courtyard will be subject to the
devil’s hoof.
Rev 3,8-10 says, "Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie -I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.
Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth."
God will
protect His people who enter this higher realm of worship that He offers, but those who prefer to walk in the flesh will be trodden
underfoot by men. He will protect His
people in the last days using the Two Witnesses, who light the way to a Holy Place with
God. These are "the two lampstands that stand before the Lord
of the earth." Within the temple there was a Holy Place where the lampstands
light the table of showbread on the way to
the golden altar of perpetual incense representing prayer, which led the way into the
Holy of Holies, where we fellowship with God. See also: Temple; Rev 11,7-10; 199h
(210i)
Salvation >> Jews and gentiles are being saved >> Salvation is
from the Jews >> Jews are believers >> Gospel
belongs to the Jew first
– God will provide a way of
escape (1Cor 10-13) by offering His people a doorway that leads to a spiritual place,
like the the Most Holy Place in the old covenant temple of worship. The
Two Witnesses will call to those who are idly standing in the courtyard and
beckon them to enter the holy chambers of God’s presence. Rev 2-17 says,
"To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna;"
and Heb 9-3,4 says, "Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the
manna." Shortly into the Seals God will call the Two Witnesses into a ministry of restoration
of the Jews who in turn will restore the Church to the true doctrines of the
faith,
and they will conduct a benevolent evangelism campaign prior to the seven angels sounding their
trumpets and lead the gentiles
into the greatest spiritual revival the world has ever known, starting in
Jerusalem. However, immediately after the First Trumpet the Two Witnesses will
switch from benevolent ministers to flaming adjudicators of God's judgment, and the 144,000 will flee into
the wilderness, establishing camps (how many is unknown) throughout the earth
in wilderness places in third-world countries. There the gentiles will come to them by the millions, leaving the
cities and joining these camps. They will be saved, and God will nourish
and protect them.
Jerusalem will be trodden underfoot during the seals, until the ministry of
justice begins with the Two Witnesses. God will give them authority to call down fire on their
enemies, attracting attention of the whole world, as a duck would
steer predators away from her chicks. Whatever judgments they inflict on
their enemies to protect Jerusalem God will do the same to the whole
world to protect His people in the wilderness in the trumpet judgments. The fact that the two witnesses were
clothed in sackcloth is iconic to the 144,000 (the
woman) with the gentile Church (her children), who have fled into the wilderness
for a 42-month period of prayer
and fasting during the days of their
prophesying (Revelation chapter 12). See also: Great Endtime Revival; Rev 11,3-14;
148b
(237e) Kingdom of God
>>
Pursuing the kingdom >> Transferring the kingdom >> The Church is transferred to the kingdom
>>
The rapture >> Selective rapture
Rev 11-2,3
(214k) Sovereignty
>>
God controls time >> God’s timing >>
God Has Good Timing >> God synchronizes events
in His time -- These verses go with verse 7
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(68d) Authority
>>
Jesus Delegates Authority To Execute Judgment >>
Against sin
(148b) Witness
>>
Validity of Jesus Christ >> Works of the Church bear witness to Jesus >> Evangelism >>
Solemnly testify against unbelief –
Sackcloth signifies that the Two Witnesses were not here for a party;
rather, sackcloth represents fasting, prayer and repentance, and in the last days it will
also represent martyrdom of the saints. Sackcloth is essentially burlap, which is a scratchy material,
very uncomfortable to wear. Whenever Israel saw the end
of their ways and repented, they clothed themselves in sackcloth and ashes
with fasting and prayer. The Two Witnesses are not literally Moses and
Elijah, though their ministries will model after them. They didn’t always wear sackcloth, but began wearing
it on the day they were called to this 3½-year period of the Trumpets.
Before this time
their ministries were symbolized by olive branches and lampstands,
representing revival in the light of God’s word. Genesis 8-10,11 says,
"Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth."
Therefore, the olive branch represents salvation in the midst of judgment. The
Two Witnesses’ ministry will bring revival in times of terrible persecution
and martyrdom during the Seals of Satan's wrath prior to the Rapture. Most people don't see a revival in the
last days, yet the Bible speaks of it in the book of Joel, and those who
see revival coming believe it will occur after the Rapture. The popular belief
is that great masses will finally awaken after they realize they have been
“left behind”, but this will not be the case. The Rapture won't come
until the seventh trumpet, and then some will be left
behind, but their numbers will be few, and they will be required to migrate
to Jerusalem before the Bowls begin and await the return of Christ. The antichrist will begin to
martyr Jews and Christians almost immediately after the global economic
collapse, which is the first seal, and revival will erupt almost immediately
after that, resulting in Christians blowing the whistle on the antichrist, exposing him as the
person of the Bible
prophesied to come. The Church will proclaim that anybody who takes the Mark
of the Beast will find
his place in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. See also: Remnant will migrate to
Jerusalem; Rev 11,3-12;
50cc / Moses and Elijah; Rev 11,3-7; 131g
/ Great Endtime Revival;
218c / Rapture; Rev 11,7-14;
50i
(153a) Witness
>>
Validity of the Father >> Witnesses of the
father >> Church bears witness of the Father
through Christ
(218c) Sovereignty
>>
God overrides the will of man >> God’s will
over man >> You cannot control the judgment of
God >> You cannot control how God responds to
persecution –
Believing in Jesus is a matter of life and death, in that we who believe
inherit eternal life, but those who don't believe will be damned (Jn 3-36).
However, in the last days believing in Jesus being a matter of life and death
will take a different meaning in that many Christians will lose their lives
because they believe in Jesus.
Currently, most people’s commitment to Christ is
lackadaisical, one of a hundred low priorities in their lives. They go through the ritual of Sunday morning service, their faith being
anecdotal at best, but in the last days the true
saints will become part of a great revival the likes no one has
ever seen. People will be zealous for God; signs, wonders and
miracles will become commonplace, and people will recognize the antichrist by
the light that the Two Witnesses are
shining in his eyes. God will not allow mankind to be engulfed
in darkness (see Joel
chapter two and Mat 22,1-14). See also: Great Endtime Revival; Rev 11,3-12; 50cc
Rev 11,3-12
(45k) Judgment
>>
Spiritual warfare >> Subjecting your flesh >>
Satan VS the saints
>> Defeating Satan in weakness of sinful
flesh –
The Two Witnesses, having given the Church to protect for Jesus' sake and
mankind to judge for worshipping the antichrist, after induced a large body of evidence
that confirmed God’s existence and His
love for mankind, still the world worshipped and served the devil. Man was made in
God's image
and was created to become what Lucifer desired and was given a position on God's
throne higher than Lucifer before his transgression.
(50cc) Judgment >>
Last Days >> Jewish Led
endtime revival >> Jews become obedient in the last days –
The olive tree represents life, having received the latter rains. Olive oil
has been a favorite for thousands of years. It is extracted by great pressure, sending the olives through a press and
squeezing the oil from the fruit. This is precisely what will happen to
the Church in the last days in a great and terrible persecution when thousands
of Christians will be required to give their lives for their faith during the
seals of Satan's wrath. The
precious oil coming from them, the oil of anointing, will be used
for their lamps that shine the light on Satan's kingdom, bringing about a Great Endtime Revival. The Two Witnesses are coming to straighten out the doctrines of
the Church and to end all schisms and denominations, so that all believers
become a single, united Church, huddled around one truth. Everyone
participating in this revival will
receive the doctrines of the 144,000, who received them from
the Two Witnesses; but if anyone rejects the doctrines and teachings of
the faith disseminated from the throne of God, he simply will not be part of this
revival, subject to the antichrist and his mark. With few exceptions, all
peoples, nations and tongues will either receive the teachings of the
Two Witnesses and inherit God's mark on their foreheads (Rev 7-3; Ezekiel 3-8,9;9-4)
or they will receive the Mark of the Beast (Rev 13,16-18). Those who receive
neither, if they survive the tribulation, will be required to migrate to
Jerusalem during the bowls of God's fierce wrath (watch the movie "The
Road"). See also: Remnant will migrate to Jerusalem; Rev 11,7-14; 50i
/ Great Endtime Revival; Rev 11,7-14; 50i
Rev 11,3-10
(201g) Denying Christ
>>
Man chooses his own destiny apart from God >>
Jesus is an offense >> Jesus offends the world >> The Church offends the world
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(131g) Thy kingdom come
>>
Manifestations of faith >> Unity >>
Interdependence >> Serving one another –
The Two Witnesses will have the ministries of Moses and Elijah, one will
confront the antichrist as Elijah confronted King Ahab and Jezebel (1Kings chapters
18,19), while the other will lead the Church into the protection of the
wilderness as Moses led Israel's exodus from pharaoh. Some say the Two Witnesses will
literally be Moses and Elijah; that is not true, but they will have similar ministries.
For example, when it says in verse
6, “They have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike
the earth with every plague, as often as they desire,” it takes us back to
the ministry of Moses and the plagues that God unleashed on pharaoh through him. There
is the first century and the last century, and everything
in-between is a spiritual wasteland by comparison, on
account of man’s disobedience and unbelief. We will see the Church in all of
her glory, as the gospel of John chapters 14 through 17 culminate in
Jesus’ high priestly prayer that He spoke possibly with tears in His eyes,
knowing the Church would never obey Him to see these things come to pass for
two Millennia, until the end of the age. He so earnestly desired His Church to
live and walk in unity, but they
denied Him generation after generation, century after century, millennia after
millennia throughout the age of grace. However, God will get His way in
the last days; He always does. See also: Moses and Elijah; Rev 11-5; 28b
/ Literal manifestations; Rev 11,3-6; 245g
Rev 11,3-6
(5c)
Responsibility >> Advocate God’s cause
>>
Disciples finish the course
(49b) Judgment
>>
Nations are destroyed >> God judges the nations
through the Church -- These verses go with verses 15-17. The plagues of the
Two Witnesses fit the
description of the plagues that God pronounced against the world during the
trumpets, suggesting that as they call down fire from heaven on their enemies,
God calls down fire on the whole world, and as they turn the waters into blood
in the vicinity of Jerusalem, God turns water into blood on one third of the
earth. Those who seek to harm
them will be fire-balled, and one of the trumpet judgments is an fiery
asteroid plunging to the earth, impacting it with a force of a rock six miles
across would make, traveling at ten thousand miles an hour, creating a
plumb of dust and smoke that will block out the sun. So the two witnesses will have
the backing of heaven. As they
pronounce judgment against their local enemies in Jerusalem, God will unleash His trumpets,
which will bring the same plagues against the nations, and in that sense the
Two Witnesses control the trumpets, and the whole world will be wishing for
their death. When they are finally killed, people declare it a holiday and
exchange presents, as it were the new Christmas, the day the world killed
God's prophets. The world will know that these two men were from God, yet
they will seek to kill them, even as they killed Jesus, and as a result peoples’ hearts will turn to stone. These will be days
when every person will either be for the Two
Witnesses
and join the Church and be
saved, or they will be against them and for the antichrist, in which case they will damn themselves
to hell with a reprobate mind, incapable of repentance and faith, with few
exceptions.
(69i) Authority >>
Righteous judgment (Outcome of Discernment) >> Passing judgment by the authority
of God
(101c) Thy kingdom come
>>
Zeal >> For the manifestation of God’s kingdom >> Zealous for God’s works
(111j) Thy kingdom come
>> Faith >>
Spirit and the word >> Word and the judgment of
God—Spirit -- These verses go with verses 11&12
(152kb) Witness
>>
Validity of the Father >> Witnesses of the
father >> The Church holds the position of a prophet >>
True prophets >> Prophesying the future -- These verses go with verse 18
(245g) Kingdom of God
>>
Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm >>
Literal manifestations >> Manifestation of God’s
righteous judgment >> Manifestation of God’s
justice -- These verses go with verse 17. Death of the Two Witnesses gives the appearance of failure;
that is what
God would have the world and its antichrist think. Those who have received the mark of the
beast will feel vindicated that the antichrist through his power of darkness
overcame them, and for three days they will believe they made the right decision to
follow Satan. They will reflect on the last 3½ years and conclude that it was
all an elaborate hoax, until they see the Two Witnesses stir, then slowly
stand and rise into heaven. Then they will realize that what they witnessed
for the last three years was the manifestation of hell itself being anxious for lost
souls, demonic entities emerging from the abyss to torment and kill mankind who
had
the Mark of the Beast and drag their souls to hell. Those who survived the trumpet judgments will deny
these things ever happened, and they will lie to their own hearts. See also: Literal manifestations; Rev 11-17;
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(6c)
Responsibility >> Advocate God’s cause
>>
Jesus’ yoke of evangelism
Rev 11-5,6
(22b) Sin
>>
Greed tries to satisfy man’s need for security >>
The idolatry of greed
Rev 11-5
(28b) Gift of God
>>
God is our advocate >> God protects us through
our faith –
The Two
Witnesses will never leave Jerusalem, being stationed there by God to
protect the holy city, and the antichrist will also be established there. They
call the city Sodom and Egypt, meaning that Israel will continue acting
corruptly like ancient Egypt during the days of Israel’s slavery to pharaoh,
suggesting the antichrist will place the world in bondage while residing in
Jerusalem. These Two Witnesses represent Moses and Elijah, and they
have come to set the Church free from the pharaoh of antichrist. It also says
the city will resemble Sodom, meaning it will be sexually immoral, depraved,
rebellious and unrepentant, until God reins down fire from heaven as
He did to Gomorrah. It is no wonder the world rejoiced when these Two
Witnesses
were killed.
See also: Moses and Elijah; Rev 11,3-14; 148b
(104c) Thy kingdom come
>>
Purifying process >> Purified by fire >>
Purified through fiery judgment
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(50i)
Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations
>> Second half of the tribulation >> The seventh seal - trumpets of God's judgment
>> The First Resurrection –
The description of the Two Witnesses coming back to life suggests they are the
first fruits of the resurrection (Rev 14-3,4), and of course Jesus was the
very first fruit (1Cor 15-20). According to the examples of the Two Witnesses,
the First Resurrection will not happen in the blink of an
eye like the Rapture; rather, life will enter the dead in Christ and they will slowly ascend into heaven in the presence of their
enemies, shortly after the Two Witnesses rise from the dead, and then the Rapture will occur.
The Two Witnesses will have testified of the truth and restored the Church to the true doctrines
of the faith and established a global revival with
millions of believers in attendance. The 144,000 Jews will have dispersed
throughout the earth, having set up camps in wilderness places as leaders of a global
revival, away from major cities, where many
will come and be saved. It is written, “Come out of her, my people, so
that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues” (Rev
18-4). No one will be able to harm them so long as they remain in these camps,
representing the land of Goshen.
After the First Resurrection/Rapture, the remaining populations of the earth
will be curtailed to those who received the Mark of the Beast and those who did not
receive it, nor did they believe in Jesus. After the
Rapture most who did not receive the mark will come to believe, though they will be
relatively few in number. They will be required to migrate to Jerusalem,
God’s only approved safe haven, and there they will live under
the city in the catacombs, and God will nourish them until He returns. See also:
Remnant will migrate to Jerusalem; Rev 11,15-19; 50j
/ Great Endtime Revival; Rev 11,7-10; 199h / Rapture; Rev 11,11-15;
237b
Rev 11,7-13
(219i) Sovereignty
>>
God overrides the will of man >> Predestination >>
Predestined according to the word of God
Rev 11,7-10
(16a) Sin
>> The sin nature is instinctively evil >>
Man’s flesh is related to the devil >> Man's sinful nature wars against
God
-- These verses go with verse 18.
The book of
Revelation depicts a time when man will give himself
completely over to his sinful nature. People who live in this time will want nothing to do with God, and will graft onto a
satanic replica of Him.
This "god" of theirs will steal from them, kill them and destroy
their world, yet they will continue worshipping him. We could prove God’s benevolent intent for mankind and still they
would not
repent of their disobedience and unbelief, because they hate God and have made up their minds to worship
demons instead.
(16h) Sin
>>
Man’s willingness to be evil >> Being
punished for doing God’s will
(25d) Sin
>>
Poverty (Forms of fear) >> Murder >>
Persecution to the death >> Murder is the way
of the world –
A beast that has authority over the abyss is mentioned earlier in Rev 9,1-3
as part of the trumpet judgments, when the smoke of a furnace was released,
and from the columns of smoke locusts-like creatures emerged that were
commanded to torment mankind, and later they mutated their form and killed those who did not have the mark
of God on their foreheads. This very beast that was in charge of the abyss
killed the Two Witnesses. The dragon was responsible for the creatures that
came from
the abyss and tormented and killed 1/3 of mankind, but instead of blaming
him, the world blamed the Two Witnesses and worshipped the beast that killed
them. Satan always seems to walk
free of accountability, and man never faults him for anything he does; instead, God and
His people get the blame.
(43a) Judgment
>>
Satan destroyed >> Conform to the Resurrection
of Christ’s death
(164j) Works of the devil
>>
Manifestations of the devil >> The world is at
enmity with God >> The world hates the Church
(185c) Works of the devil
>>
The origin of lawlessness >> Mystery of
lawlessness >> Having no grounds for your hate >> Hating the Church without a cause
(189f)
Die to self (Process of substitution) >> Separation from the old man
>> Martyr >> Martyrs bring about the judgment of God – Martyrs were named as the fifth
seal; but
once the trumpets began to blow, martyrdom was no longer mentioned until now,
because the Two Witnesses effectively stopped martyrdom in
its tracks.
(199h) Denying Christ
>>
Man chooses his own destiny apart from God >>
Rejecting Christ >> The world rejects God >>
Rejecting Christ to keep the world –
The
world chose the antichrist over the Two Witnesses, according to the well
worn path of Man’s choice of Satan
over God, a never-ending replay throughout all of human history. For Jerusalem to be called Sodom means it has
become a place of demons and intense wickedness. The Jewish Torah speaks
blasphemously against
Christ and His worshipers, like something that would come from Sodom
and Gomorrah. Many Jews will not believe in Jesus and
will not take part of this revival. Their influence will invite the antichrist to establish His kingdom
in Jerusalem during the seals of Satan's wrath in effort to squash this revival.
Satan originally established his kingdom in Rome in response to the revival,
but after it became obvious that the Pope posing as Savior of the world
was not curbing the revival, the false prophet killed the Pope and set his
city on fire (again; Rev 17,16-18), and then he moved to Jerusalem and posed
as Israel's Messiah, setting-up shop beside the
Two Witnesses. He will enter the temple "(let the reader understand),"
and as he exits the temple he will order both Jews and Gentile Christians to
be killed (Mat 24,15-22). He will personally kill the Two Witnesses, who had
transformed their ministries from benevolent ministers of the gospel,
establishing the great endtime revival to fierce adjudicators of God's
judgment with the aim of directing the Church into the wilderness and
protecting them throughout the Trumpets. They were responsible for tormenting the
nations by unleashing the trumpets on them (v10). At the end of the
Trumpets, the fact
that the people of the whole earth rejoiced in their death is evidence that
they never repented
of their unbelief. The world at large has
rebelled against God from the greatest to the least of them in spite of
God's manifested presence in His Two Witnesses. See also: Great Endtime Revival; Rev 10,1-11;
108i / Temple; Rev 11-19;
133e
/
Last days (Church wanders
in the wilderness); Rom 8-15; 24a
(242a) Kingdom of God
>>
Opposition toward the Kingdom of God >>
Persecuting the kingdom >> Persecution to the
death >> Killing God’s prophets
Rev 11-7
(214k) Sovereignty
>>
God controls time >> God’s timing >>
God Has Good Timing >> God synchronizes events
in His time -- This verse goes with verses 2&3
Rev 11-8
(135c) Temple
>>
Your body is the temple of God >> Sins of the
body >> Immorality >>
Homosexuality –
Jerusalem was called Sodom and Egypt, equating the
holy city with Sodom and Gomorra, and enslaving God's people like the pharaoh
of Egypt, after it had fallen into depravity, the
antichrist having set-up shop beside the Two Witnesses, like a competing hamburger
joint builds next to another restaurant, neutralizing the locale variable.
Rev 11-9,10
(65g) Paradox >>
Anomalies >> Satan unites the world for the
cause of persecution –
Although they have already gone through the seals and the trumpets of God’s
judgment, still there is a global television network in operation that will air
the death of the Two Witnesses, allowing most of the world to see
their dead bodies laying in the streets of Jerusalem. This suggests that much of
God’s judgment up to this point has left man’s technological infrastructure
relatively intact. It is during the Bowls of God's fierce wrath that man’s fragile,
modern world incurs total
destruction.
Rev 11-10
(19d) Sin
>>
Mocking God Without a cause >> Motivated by
the flesh
(174j) Works of the devil
>>
The religion of witchcraft >> Form of
godliness >> Form of godliness but denying the
truth
(179d) Works of the devil
>>
Practicing witchcraft >> Wolves >>
Stir up the crowd >> Stir up the crowd through
jealousy
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(237b) Kingdom of God
>>
Pursuing the kingdom >> Transferring the kingdom >> The Church is transferred to the kingdom
>>
The rapture >> Last trumpet –
The three woes that John mentioned in verse 14 he also mentioned in Rev 8-13
"Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!"
This refers to the last three Trumpet blasts (5,6&7). The fifth trumpet
releases demonic creatures that crawled from the abyss and tormented mankind,
and the sixth refers to those same creatures that mutated and then killed a
third of mankind, which would be hard to top in severity. When the seals were broken the curses they
released progressed from
bad to worse, and when the trumpets sounded, they too progressed from bad to
worse, and when God spilled the bowls on the earth, they too progressed from
bad to worse, so the pattern is well established. This means the seventh
trumpet must be worse than the sixth, but what happened? Lets
tally up the events of the Seventh Trumpet and compare it to the sixth. There were loud voices in heaven; the twenty-four elders worshipped
God; the heavens were opened and revealed the Ark of the Covenant, but all
these occurred in heaven. Finally, there was
lightning and thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm, but it was local. Compared to the
sixth trumpet it reads like a blank page. Rev 11-16,17 says, “The twenty-four
elders fell on their faces and worshipped God, saying, we give thee thinks, O
Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast, because thou hast taken thy
great power and hast begun to reign,” but it doesn’t say what God did to
begin His reign. This should be the most horrendous trumpet of all, yet there was nothing John reported that
topped fire breathing horses with orders to kill. There is something missing, something John didn’t tell us,
but why? It goes back to chapter 10 about the little book. John was ordered to “seal up the things which the seven peals of thunder have spoken, and do
not write them” (Rev 10-4). So, what did the seven peals of thunder say?
They spoke of the First Resurrection/Rapture! The
Seventh Trumpet is the last trumpet, depicted in 1Cor 15-52, and it occurred after the
two witnesses were raised from the dead, signifying the First Resurrection. By voiding this information, God has given opportunity
for those unwilling to follow
Christ to devise
doctrines that would excuse them from serving Him (Lk 14,15-24). Instead
of trusting Christ to the point of possibly becoming martyrs, many have adopted the
Pre-Tribulation Rapture doctrine that falsely promises God will deliver
them from going through the Tribulation. This is God screening the disingenuous
from His true worshipers, who promised to test those who dwell on the
earth, including and especially His Church (Rev 3-10). Those who adhere to
the Pre-Tribulation Rapture know they don’t have faith to go through the tribulation,
nor do they have the
heart to seek God for truth. God has long suffered mankind throughout all
time, especially after Christ spilled His blood for the sins of the world and
no one seems to care. He has given us the promise of the Holy Spirit to live
an abundant life, yet man has consistently rejected God’s plan and
interpreted a more carnal and secular view of the gospel, but in the
last days God will expect us to follow Him into the fire, for His kingdom is
about to be manifested on the earth and those who partake of it must prove
themselves worthy by giving God the reverence He deserves and follow
Him wherever He goes. If we get the sequence of the
Rapture wrong, almost nothing makes sense of endtime prophecy. See also: Rapture; Rev
11-11,12; 38i
Rev 11,11-14
(49f) Judgment
>>
Enemies of the prophets are destroyed -- These verses go with verses
18&19. The
first woe is Satan’s wrath, the second woe is the Trumpets that are
judgments for sin that act as a diversion from martyring the saints, and the third
woe is the Bowls of God’s wrath.
Rev 11,11-13
(88h) Thy Kingdom Come >>
Fear of God >>
Fearing the judgment of God is the beginning of wisdom >>
Fear the sovereign hand of God on your life
Rev 11-11,12
(38i) Judgment
>>
Jesus defeated death >> Resurrection of the
righteous – The
Two Witnesses were resurrected from the
dead, signaling the First Resurrection.
It is not every day that people are raised from the dead. Elijah raised the
widow's son during the great drought that occurred in those days (1Kings 17,17-24);
Jesus raised
Lazarus and others from the dead during His ministry, and the early apostles raised a handful of
people from the dead during their ministries, and it is even possible that others were
raised throughout the 2000-year age of grace, but none of them ascended to
heaven except Jesus (Jn 3-13) and the Two Witnesses, proving that this is indeed the
First Resurrection, spoken by Paul (1The 4,13-18 & 1Cor 15,50-58). After
God raised Christ from the dead, He ascended to heaven as the first fruit of
the resurrection (1Cor 15-23), and then the Two Witnesses ascended to heaven as
the first fruits of Church's resurrection (Rev 14-4). Their resurrection/ascension occurred just prior to the
Last Trumpet, and when it sounds, those
who have died in Christ will follow the Two Witnesses to heaven in like manner.
The First Resurrection cuts in two ways: from the standpoint of the
wicked as the seventh trumpet it is the most severe trumpet judgment of
all, and from the standpoint of the righteous it is the
greatest blessing of all time. Proverbs 10-29 says, “The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright,
but ruin to the workers of iniquity.” Therefore, the wicked hate the righteous for what they hope. See also: Rapture; Rev 11,15-19;
50j
(111j) Thy kingdom come
>> Faith >>
Spirit and the word >> Word and the judgment of
God—Spirit -- These verses go with verses 3-6
(237i) Kingdom of God
>>
Pursuing the kingdom >> Transferring the kingdom >> The Church is transferred to the kingdom
>>
The ascension >> Believers’ spiritual ascension
Rev 11-13
(40m) Judgment >> God is glorified >> God defends His righteous ones through judgment
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Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations
>> Second half of the tribulation >> The seventh seal - trumpets of God's judgment
>> Seventh trumpet - Rapture of the Church – To the
ungodly and to the false brethren and unbelieving, the First
Resurrection/Rapture will hit them harder than all prior judgments combined;
it will be more horrific than stinging demons and fire-breathing horses gallivanting
the countryside killing one third of mankind. They were faced with the stark reality
that they were wrong about serving the antichrist, and they were wrong about killing the saints and
about taking the Mark of the Beast, and now they must face the bowls of God's fierce
wrath, and afterward they will become constituents of God's eternal judgment in
hell. However, not everyone who
faces the bowls is doomed to hell, for there will be a remnant who will be saved,
who didn't take the mark of the beast, whom God will call to
Jerusalem where they will find safety and protection from the bowls. Jerusalem
is the only safe place on earth, for God promises to protect her
in order to establish His thousand year reign upon her ancient ruins.
Ironically though, from a human standpoint, Jerusalem
will also be the most dangerous place on earth in that all the nations will
gather together to destroy the antichrist who has chosen to harbor in
Jerusalem, and the world
will have realized that he has deceived and betrayed the world and will come
seeking vengeance, but God will stop them from killing the remnant who have
come there for refuge, for He has plans for them and personally wants to take vengeance on the
antichrist. See also: Remnant will migrate to Jerusalem; Rev 11,1-6; 28c
/ Rapture; Rev 11,15-17; 49b
Rev 11,15-17
(49b) Judgment
>>
Nations are destroyed >> God judges the nations
through the Church -- These verses go with verses 3-6. This
passage occurs immediately after the seventh and final trumpet that Paul
said would signal the resurrection of the righteous and the catching up of the
saints. The elders worshipped God, saying that He has taken His great power and
begun to reign. Before this, God assigned seven angels to blow their trumpets
and released the seven plagues that were prepared for the wicked in those days,
each being a more severe judgment than the previous one. There were five seals, representing the antichrist’s reign of terror; the sixth seal
was a tremendous earthquake, initializing God's involvement in endtime prophecy with the
seventh seal containing the seven trumpets, but when the seventh trumpet sounded, John was silent about what
happened. This is when Jesus said in Mat 24,29-31, “Immediately after the tribulation of
those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and
the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
And then the sign of the son of man will appear in the sky, and then all the
tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the son of man coming on the
clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And he will send forth his angels
with a great trumpet and they will gather together his elect from the four
winds, from one end of the sky to the other.” This passage is a summary of God's
judgment starting with the sixth seal, which is a colossal earthquake, and
extends to the last trumpet that signals the First Resurrection and the Rapture
of the Church. The sign of the son of man refers to clouds, only not white,
puffy clouds but an ash plume after a giant asteroid strikes the earth, and
Jesus will be riding on the shockwave that will circle the earth in a matter of
hours, collecting His people just before it reaches them. Rapture; Rev 11-15; 136i
Rev 11-15
(15i)
Servant >> Angels execute Judgment >> For the sake of the Church
(136i) Temple
>>
Your spirit is the temple of God >> The body
of Christ is the Church –
This is the last trumpet, which designates the
Rapture, but a lot of people don’t believe this, though Paul clearly
stated it in 1Cor 15-51,52. The saints in heaven and on
earth have been anticipating this day since the resurrection of Jesus
Christ. The First Resurrection/Rapture is the greatest day of the
saints, but it is the worst judgment of the seven trumpets, even worse than
the slaughter of one third of mankind, in that the other two-thirds will realize they
have been tricked by
the devil, and it will be too late to repent of those who have received the
Mark of the Beast. See also: Rapture; 237g
(229a) Kingdom of God
>>
God’s kingdom is a living organism >>
Kingdom grows by itself >> Growing In Numbers
Corresponds With Spiritual Growth >> Kingdom
slowly spreads and overtakes darkness
(237g) Kingdom of God
>>
Pursuing the kingdom >> Transferring the
kingdom >> The Church is transferred to the
kingdom >> The rapture >> The Church in heaven –
The seven trumpets increase in severity with the fifth angel opening the bottomless
pit and demonic creatures crawling out and tormenting people who
did not have God's mark on their foreheads. The sixth trumpet was even worse; it released four
angels that released an army of demons riding fire-breathing horses that killed a third of mankind. Therefore,
when the seventh angel
blew his trumpet, something worse than these things should have happened to
fit the pattern of escalating judgments, but the Scriptures merely depict a
scene in heaven and an earthquake that killed seven thousand people, a mere
fraction of the two billion that were killed throughout the trumpet
judgments. The loud voices in heaven were saying, 'Come up here!' God
was in the process of manifesting His kingdom in the natural realm, and the
resurrection of the Church was the first step, and Rev
10-4 explains the silence. See also: Rapture; 237g
(237k) Kingdom of God
>>
Pursuing the kingdom >> Transferring the
kingdom >> The Church is transferred to the
kingdom >> Transferred from darkness to light –
In Rev 8-13 the eagle (Cherub) said, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the
earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels
who are about to sound!” signifying that the remaining trumpet judgments
will be far more severe than the previous ones, suggesting that there will
be a graduating scale of intensity from one trumpet to the next, making the
seventh trumpet the most severe judgment of all, and what was the great and
dreadful judgment of the seventh trumpet? “There were loud voices in
heaven” and an earthquake. Trumpets five and six were horrendous, but the seventh trumpet,
which should have been the worst, appeared to be a dud. What was the
seventh trumpet's judgment? Paul said that the
First Resurrection/Rapture would occur at the last trumpet. While the world
followed Satan and committed its atrocities, they believed, at
least in part, that they were doing the right thing. We don’t know how they
could believe that, but this has already happened in the past. Look
at Hitler’s regime; people followed him believing they were doing the
right thing. Also, people who get sucked into a cult think their church is
godly and preaches the truth, when in fact the opposite is true. People can get deceived. The antichrist deceived the whole world
into following Him, and the First Resurrection/Rapture woke them from their delirium
to realize they have been following the wrong person. Taking the Mark of the Beast has sealed their fate,
and they will realize there really
is a God and they have been martyring His people, and they are really going to
hell, and the First Resurrection made them realize that, and so the First
Resurrection is
indeed the worst day
of their lives. See also: Rapture; Rev 10,1-11; 50i
(243l) Kingdom of God
>>
The eternal kingdom >> There shall be no end
to his increase >> He shall reign forever and
ever
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(140b) Temple
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Temple made without hands >> Hiding place >>
Worshipping God in His temple -- This verse goes with verses 1&2
Rev 11-17
(245g) Kingdom of God
>>
Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm >>
Literal manifestations >> Manifestation of God’s
righteous judgment >> Manifestation of God’s
justice -- This verse goes with verses 3-6. God’s
kingdom will forever represent Him to His creation. God always was, and He is
now, and His kingdom will remain forever. God gave the earth to
man and commanded him to take care of it, but during the tribulation of the
last days after man made a bloody mess of
everything, God proceeded to take control of the earth, quelling the rebellion
and destroying those who destroy the earth. When the dust settles, the only one
standing will be Christ and His people. He will place all His enemies under His feet. It is
something He has always known; He never questioned His own ability to overcome
darkness and evil. Light is greater than darkness; truth is greater than error, and love is greater than hate. The
principles He uses to establish His kingdom will ensure He will reign
forever. No created being will fall into sin again, because He has reestablished
order in His creation so these things cannot happen. He could have kept sin
from taking root in the first place, but that was not His plan. God could have
merely told man about sin, but He would
have gotten blank stares from His audience. No one would have understood what
He was saying, but now we know about sin: it is direct rebellion against God, and now man knows the consequences of sin, that it causes
separation, which is the definition of hell. Sin is doing what we know is wrong, reigning by our own authority and building
kingdoms that glorify self to the exclusion of God. When we are under God’s
authority, we are living under His righteousness, but when we use our will to
rebel against Him, nothing we do will stand.
The Bible teaches that sin will never raise its ugly head again; we will have
learned our lesson; sin will become a distant memory. We will teach God’s
creation that obedience is the only real choice we have, and if anybody wants
to dabble in rebellion against God, we will be there to correct them, for if God
corrected them we would be right back to the Adam and Eve story. See also: Adam and
Eve / Literal manifestations; Rev 11-18; 24g / Holy Spirit (anointing) is the essence of God's Kingdom; Act 4,8-12; 110l
Rev 11-18,19
(49f) Judgment
>>
Enemies of the prophets are destroyed -- These verses go with verses
11-14. There
were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder, and an earthquake
and a great hailstorm. These were local events that happened on earth, no
doubt above the head of the antichrist who was located in Jerusalem. We can be sure of one thing: this is
not the extent of judgment resulting from the seventh trumpet.
Rev 11-18
(12k) Servant
>>
Bond servants the prophets
(16a) Sin
>> The sin nature is instinctively evil >>
Man’s flesh is related to the devil >> Man's sinful nature wars against
God -- This verse goes with verses
7-10
(17m) Sin
>>
Unrighteous judgment >> Discerning by the
flesh >> Judging the sins of others that you practice
(24g) Sin
>>
Poverty (Forms of fear) >> Envy >>
Angry at God because of their poverty – It says the nations were
enraged with God. This is why they were seeking to destroy the saints: they hated God and
everything that belonged to Him. The last days will be a time of literal
manifestations; in this case people will manifest their absolute hatred
of God. The more He punished them, the more they hated Him. Man has always
hated God. Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil was an affront to His absolute authority. That tree was their only
means of sinning, and ironically it was their only means of expressing an interest in being
more like God (according to the devil), though they were originally created
in His image. What made eating the forbidden fruit so evil was not man's interest
in being more like God but an interest in replacing Him. He gave them the
world, but it wasn’t enough; they didn't want to be under His
authority; rather, they wanted authority of their own, and they
despised God for having authority over them; it made them feel
impoverished. Their eye became envious
of God, just like Lucifer, and they would never rest until they got what
they wanted, and
when they bit into that fruit in defiance of His authority, they
obtained what they sought, but it didn't make them happy. The world
has not veered from the course that Adam set for man,
and at the end of days the fullness of evil that eating the forbidden fruit represented will finally be realized. See also: Literal manifestations; Rev 10,1-11; 172a
/ Adam and Eve;
157e / He chose Eve over
God; Mat 24,37-39; 168d
(26h) Sin
>> Consequences of sin
>>
Death is the result of sin –
God will reward His bondservants, the prophets, the saints and those who fear His
name, the small and the great, but those who do not believe in Him are dead. That is how Jesus put it in His parable
of the rich man and Lazarus, saying that Lazarus died and the angels carried
him to Abraham’s bosom, but when the rich man died, he was just buried (Lk
16-22). The rich man’s soul was already dead before his body died, because
he was separated from God, and that which is apart from Him is dead (Eph
2,1-3). When the rich man died, his soul had nowhere else to go, so he
bypassed the grave and went straight
to Hades. The White Throne Judgment will judge the wicked between creations,
after He destroys this present creation and before He creates the new one, according to Rev 20-11, “Then I saw a great white throne and Him who
sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place
was found for them.” God gives everyone a multitude of opportunities to repent of their
unbelief, for there is every
reason to believe God exists and that He is a rewarder of those who
diligently seek Him (Heb 11-6), but when a person dies without Christ, he is
condemned. Repentance is taken off the table, hence redemption is
impossible.
(48b) Judgment
>> God judges the world
>>
Eternal judgment – This verse is saying that the kingdoms of men
have come to an end. That was the message of the seventh trumpet; it marked
the end of man’s reign on earth. The tribulation is over for the saints. They
call it the seven-year tribulation because of Dan 9,25-27. The Church will
be here during those seven years encompassing the seals and the trumpets,
defining the tribulation of the saints. All that is left is to finish the bowls, which
will be a hellish time on earth. The first four Trumpet judgments afflicted
only 1/3 of the earth, and the fifth and sixth Trumpets did not target
the saints, whereas the bowls will afflict the entire earth, so there will
be nowhere to hide, and for this reason God raptured His Church.
(55h) Paradox
>>
Opposites >> People preserving
the earth will destroy it
(152kb) Witness
>>
Validity of the Father >> Witnesses of the
father >> The Church holds the position of a prophet >>
True prophets >> Prophesying the future -- This verse goes with verses 3-6
(157e) Witness
>>
Validity of the believer >> Evidence of being
hell-bound >> Being displeasing to God >>
Walking in disobedience –
God will reward His people for their faithfulness with the First
Resurrection, but He will destroy those who destroy the earth.
Subduing the earth is one thing, as He said to Adam (Gen 1-28), but destroying
it is another, and man doesn’t seem to know the
difference. Animals have various means of survival, and man has civilization.
God
removed man from the Garden of Eden and shoved him into nature, and man and nature incompatible, so
he must create civilizations for the purpose of survival,
and in his empires he thrives, but he tears down and destroys nature in the
process. Nature has rejected man, so he builds
civilizations from materials he finds in the earth, which calls for a restructuring of nature, and in
his greed-driven restructuring he destroys the earth,
polluting lakes, streams and oceans and cutting down every tree for thousands of square
miles of virgin forest, and then he goes to war. This has happened
throughout man's barbarous reign, and Christ is coming to end the perpetual
carnage. See also: Adam and Eve; Rev 11-17;
245g
(172d) Works of the devil
>>
Manifestations of the devil >> Tares among the
wheat >> Communion between the world and the Church >> Worldliness in the Church
(226f) Kingdom of God
>>
Illustrating the kingdom >> Rewards of the Kingdom of Heaven >> Reserved in heaven >>
Eternal rewards
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(133e) Temple
>>
Your body is the temple of God >> Holiness >>
The body of Christ is holy >> The temple of God
is holy –
It says that the temple of God in heaven was opened and the Ark of the
Covenant appeared in His temple. Paul said, “We are the temple of the living
God” (2Cor 6-16). We
go to church and sing songs and give tithes and
hear sermons, shake hands, socialize and
go home, and we say this is church. It gives everyone the impression that
Church is a building when in fact it is the people. Moreover, heaven is
technically the New Jerusalem and the New Jerusalem is His temple, and the outer court is the wall of costly stones that
surround the holy city; in Moses’ day the outer court was made of porpoise
skin. There is the
temple consisting of the people and the temple building in heaven, and the
two are one. Just as there was an Ark of the
Covenant that resided in the most holy place of the earthly tabernacle that God
commanded Moses, so there is also an ark of the
covenant in heaven. It is the most holy feature of the temple; it is God’s
throne. When the New Jerusalem descends upon the earth, it will be called the
Most Holy Place (Rev 21-2,3), and earth will be called the Holy Place, and the
outer court will be the entire universe. The greatest mystery of heaven is the substance
of the new creation; our bodies will never get old or wear out. It is
impossible to wrap our heads around something that time cannot destroy. In the natural
realm, just sitting here, we are getting older, and eventually we will fall
apart like everything else, including mountains of solid rock, but the new
creation will support God's kingdom that He will establish on the new earth
that will remain forever and ever. See also: Temple; Rev 11-1,2; 140b
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