Revelation 18 9-24

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      By Necessity Slightly 

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9 - And the kings of earth, who committed sexual immorality {were in bed with ‘her’} and lived in luxury with her, will weep and mourn when they see the smoke of her {$ity Babylon upon the seven continents/hills} burning. 10 They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and will say, “Alas! Alas! That great city, that mighty city, Babylon! For in one hour your judgment comes.” 

     11 And the merchants of earth will weep and mourn for her. For no one buys their cargo anymore, 12 products of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen and silk and scarlet cloths, all fragrant woods, and articles of ivory, and fine wood, bronze, iron and marble, 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumes and ointments, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, slaves, and human souls [psuche - soul, life, self, inner being] {human beings}. 14 “And the ripe fruit of you and the delicacies for which you lusted/longed for have gone from you. All your sumptuous splendors are lost and will not be found again.” [Ripe fruit - opóra - harvest, late summer, autumn.]

     15 The merchants of these things, who grew wealthy from her (the $ity) will stand far off, in fear of her torment, loudly weeping and mourning, 16 “Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls! 17 For in a single hour all that wealth has been laid waste.”

     And all shipmasters and seafaring men/traders, sailors and all whose - trade is on the sea - {in the past much more was done by sea} stood far off 18 and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, “What city was like the great city?!” 19 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, for the great city - where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her costliness! For in one hour is she has laid waste.

20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God, for you, has given judgment against her!” {As you have done so shall it fall upon you.. reaping what you sow..}

     21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more, 22 and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be no longer be heard in you, and no craftsman of any craft will be found - in you - any more, no more sound of the mill, will be heard in you. 23 The light of a lamp will not shine in you any more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you any more, for her merchants were the great ones of earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery [pharmakeia - sorcery, witchcraft, magic, enchantment, spells, deception, corruption, beguilement]. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of - all - who have been slain upon earth.” {Empire.}

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Revelation 18 1-8

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1 - After this I (John) saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, for the earth was made bright with his glory. 2 And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen! Fallen! is Babylon the great! ‘She’ who became a dwelling place for demons! A haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, for every unclean and detestable beast. {Spirits like, and act like, unclean birds/vultures and detestable beasts.} 3 For all nations have drank the {unclean} wine of the passion [orge - passion, translated often as wrath] {so includes consequences?} of her sexual vices.

     The kings {leaders} of earth {are in bed with} have committed immorality with her. And the merchants of earth have grown rich from the power [dunamis - power, strength, ability, might, miracle, dynamic] of ‘her’ indulgent and wanton/loose living.”

     4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, and thus share in her plagues. 5 For her sins are heaped high as heaven {‘she’ shakes her fist at heaven?} and God has remembered her iniquities [adikéma - wrongdoings, injustices, offenses]. 6 Pay to her as she has paid to others, and repay her double for her deeds, mix a double portion for her in the cup - she - mixed. 7 As she glorified [doxazó - bestowed glory, honored, praised] herself and lived in indulgence and wantoness, so give her its torment and mourning. Because in the heart of herself she says, ‘I am a queen, not a widow, and mourning I shall not see.’ 8 For this reason her plagues [plégé - plagues, wounds, afflictions, blows] will come in a day, death, mourning, famine. And she will be destroyed by fire, for mighty is the LORD God who judges her.” {Only Good and True can stand, and endure.}

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Revelation 17 11-18

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(The angel continues.) 11 - “As for the beast that was and is not, it’s an eighth but it belongs to the seven {final fulfillment, seven become one?} and it goes to destruction. 12 And the ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings - for one hour - together with the beast{/entity/institution}. {Ten horns, kings, seats, divisions, toes-Dn2.} 13 These (ten) are - of one mind - and they hand over their power and authority TO the beast. 14 They will make war against the Lamb (Ps.2, Rev.6:3-4) and the Lamb will prevail [nikaó - prevail, subdue, overcome, conquer, from nikē - victory] for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”

     15 And the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.16 And the ten horns and the beast {political} will hate the prostitute {$ity Babble}. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour {consume, waste} her and will burn her with fire {warfare}17 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”

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The Rev vision is told 3times, joining at trumpet 7. The seals description-as their full effects-veils much. Vs.13:13 was by an office. A weekly study.

Revelation 17:1-10

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1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven (concurrent?) bowls came and said to me, “Come, I’ll show you the {meanwhile} judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of earth have committed fornication.” {I.e, powers and politicians are in bed with her.} “And the dwellers upon Earth, have become drunk with the wine of her indecencies.” 3 And then he carried me (John) away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of insulting slanders, and it had seven heads and ten horns. {A many headed geopolitical beast, Dan.7:7,19.} 4 The woman {riding the beast} was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup (to drink) full of abominations and impurities. {Drinking her effects and side effects.} 5 And on her forehead was written a name, “Mystery Babylon the Great, Mother of Prostitution/Sex Slavery [porné - probably from pernémi - to export for sale] and of all Earth's Abominations [bdélygma - from bdelýssō, derived from bdēō, to reek {stink to high heaven ..as the saying goes} abhorrent, detestable]”. {$ity Babylon with it’s bright but garish streets and dark alleys, with a forehead/psyche/mind of ‘mystery babble’ - all confusion. Beast & $ity, Socialism & Capitalism both gone extreme. Oligarchy, but which ends up going all armageddon at each other(? in the valley when assembled against Israel? Just a recurring question. Yet verses 12 and 16 for sure.}

     6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of saints, and of martyrs, and of Jesus.” And when I saw her I wondered greatly. 7 But the angel said, “Why do you wonder? ..I’ll tell you the mystery of the woman ($ity) and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. 8 The beast you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the abyss” {of potential, which imperfect is} “and goes to destruction.” {History repeats, first was the Roman Empire later ‘Holy’ Roman Empire; then a modern last days “was, wasn’t then was again” after the 13:13 event. Which event was carried out by an oFFice.} And those upon earth whose names are not {yet} written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder, seeing the beast that was, and is not, and will be {and will become biG, finally given breath”/life/authority especially when one from the 13:13 office lawlessly steps in}. 9 This all calls for a mind with wisdom.

     The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated. {Empires?} 10 They are also seven kings, five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.”

     {Note - Prophecy repeats -> ‘smaller’ scope to —> full scope at culmination of history. Spiritually Babel Tower restored, all hell breaks loose, but slowly from our point of view, at least until the ‘cresting’ and culmination? Jn.15:4,5 “I am the vine, ye are the branches, abide in Me.”}

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Revelation 16:17-21

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17 - The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and then a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

     18 And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was upon the earth, so great was that earthquake. 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drink fully the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. {Full cup of consequences.} 20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. 21 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven. And they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so great. {The last of “seven thunders”(?) with flashes of lightning, rumblings, and great hail. The higher and faster moisture rises, the greater the hail. Making the earth shake to and fro, Is.24:20.}

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WeeKly BooK oF Revelation 16:8-16

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8 - The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun {‘code’? The sun is thermonuclear, God’s ‘wrath’ is cause and effect, Ps.90:3,5-7} and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. {Where the numbers of the beast come up, suggests apocalypse is totally done by mankind, for we are carbon based. Carbon has six protons, six neutrons and six electrons.} 9 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. {If creation had no option to stray, it would be an ant farm. And if you don’t let it run its course, what would be the point?} They did not repent {and relent?} and give him glory.

     10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom became more dark. People gnawed their tongues in frustration 11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent/relent of their deeds.

     12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13 For I saw having come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. {Leave a terrible taste. From the dragon, a two pronged work, via the modern day many headed geopolitical beast/entity/institution, and an of-the world false prophet, whose “flood” of a “strong delusion” of “seating man in the temple as god”/highest power, has caused the west, once called Christendom to “fall away”. It has more modern wonders and “miracles to mislead” and of course prophesies.} [From the dragon — the big {world? for both it and last days Babylon sits on all seven continents/hills} beast (Rev.13:1, Dan.7:7,19) and a false prophesying one]{/entity/institution(s).} 14 For they are demonic spirits, performing portends, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. (Ps.2; Rev.6:3,4) {The consummation of history, like other judgments, is called Day of the LORD. The ‘shape of prophecy is in increasing scopes to full scope. Both world and advents.} 15 (“Behold, I am coming {unexpected} like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, staying fully clothed, that they may not go about naked and be seen unclothed!”) 16 And they assembled at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. {Logically, Mt.13:30, “gather first the tares” is this gathering to Armageddon battle — verses 14(15)16.}

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Logic of things allowed to run their course.. Next week’s verses - 16:8-16

Revelation 16:1-7

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1 - Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out upon the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”

     [God’s ‘wrath’ — Ps.90:3,5-7 — “You return man to dust and say, ‘Return, oh children of Adam!’ 5 You sweep them away as with a flood. They are like a dream, like grass that is sprouts in the morning, 6 it flourishes and is renewed, and in the evening it fades and withers. 7 For we are brought to an end (entropy - effect from cause) by your anger (cause and effect). By your wrath we are dismayed.] — (Imo, cause and effect.. oR you have to have a mere ant farm. Yes, even in the revelation vision, these seven final ‘plagues’ from the foaming cup of effects, and side effects, of mankind’s own doings. Apocalypse as man done, we have man’s number. We are carbon based which has six protons, six neutrons and six electrons.)

     2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a wound, evil [kakós - an adjective, and the root of kakía - inner malice – properly, inwardly foul, rotten, poisoned] and grievous came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and were worshiping its image. 3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea (Mediterranean?) and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea. (All seas.. would be massive! Which it will be, but that massive? “Seven thunders” all together, Is.24:20.) 4 The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers [potamos - a river] and upon the springs (of earth) and they became blood (contaminated). 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, “You are just, O Holy One, who is and who was, for these things you have judged. 6 For THEY have poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and to them you have given [didómi - to give, lit or fig) blood to drink and worthy they are. (Cause and effect.)

     7 And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty true and just are your judgments!” [Ro.3:4 - “That You (God) may be justified in your words and prevail when You (God) are judged”.]

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Logic of things allowed to run their course.. Next week’s verses - 16:8-16