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• The Revelation vision is told three times. Then rejoins at trumpet 7 [6:1-2 to 11:19; 12, but Mt.23:39 w/ vs.17; and 13:1 to 19:11].
• The seal descriptions at the beginning of the vision, as their full effects, first to last, veils much.
• Vs.13:13 pinpointed an office.
Through the Book of Revelation in a Year. Verses are paraphrased.
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BooK of Revelation
a paraphrased study
1 - “And to the angel {angelo - messenger} of the church in Sardis write: ‘These are the words of he who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars - I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you’re dead {are lacking life}. 2 Wake up [ginomai grégoreó - be watching, vigilant, alert] and strengthen what remains, but is about to die, for I’ve not found your works complete in the sight of God. 3 Remember what you received and what you heard. Keep it, and repent [metanoeo - think better and turn]. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you won’t know at what hour I come {unavoidably} against you. {In other words? Get it together!} 4 Yet you have still a few in Sardis who have not soiled their garments {contaminated/diluted their walk? Because the doctrine/belief is soiled?} and they will walk with me in white, for they’re worthy. {Having “washed their robes/garments in the blood/Life of the Lamb”. Ultimately all will be clear as crystal. Jn.12:32} 5 For the one who overcomes [nikaó - from níkē - victory; to conquer, overcome, prevail, carry off the victory, come off victorious] will be clothed in white garments, and I will never remove their name from the book of life. I will confess their name before my Father and before his angels. 6 Whoever who has an ear, let them hear. (What the Spirit says to the churches/believers).’
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BooK of Revelation
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12 - “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of he who has the sharp two-edged sWord. 13 I know you live where Satan's throne {seat, authority} is.” {Hateful things? Fruit. The Pergamon altar (building) shaped like an altar, now displayed as part of a museum in Berlin?} “Yet you hold fast to my name, and you didn’t deny me in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 14 But I have a few things against you. You’ve some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the nation of Israel, so they would eat food {🤔meaning doctrine? which fits, the feasts portrayed the beliefs, teachings and doctrine} sacrificed to idols and to {thus?} practice sexual immorality. 15 So also you have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans [a commentary quote - often associated with moral laxity and idolatry, promoting a lifestyle that compromised with pagan practices.. A former or semi believer Nicalaus(?)] {said listen to and come follow me? An all about Moi teaching and where they lead?}
16 Therefore repent [metanoeó - repent, to change the mind and turn course, change the inner person; from metá - changed after being with, and noiéō - think, properly, think differently after].
“If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sWord of my mouth.” {With Truth! Cause and effect is brutally honest.} 17 “Whoever has an ear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To those who overcome [nikaó - from nike - to conquer, prevail, gain the victory, carry off the victory, come off victorious, verb implying a battle; subdue, prevail, overcome] I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give to them a white stone, with a new name written on it, that no one knows except the one who receives it.’ {Like an ancient ticket..? New names were common.. Saul, Paul; Simon, Peter; Jacob, Israel..]
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8 - “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, the oNe, who died and is alive. 9 I know your tribulation [thlipsis - oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits, pressed/pressure faced] and your poverty - but you are rich - and the slander of those who say they are genuine and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. {Are a teaching of the adversary - we can tell pseudo truth by its fruit, key word here is slander?} 10 Don’t fear these things you suffer. Look, some of you will be tested when the devil casts some into prison. For ten days you will have {great?} tribulation.” {The last ten days will be an acceleration..? “In the last hour” - there’s rev.17:12,16, the fall {crashing} of $ity Babylon that sits on seven continents/hills; the triple six is running; and the nations/unbelievers are being gathered to the final armageddon battle.. So the last “ten days” of things, is an escalation in each one these?} “Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of Life. 11 Those who have an ear {🌽} let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers [nikaó - from níkē - victory - to conquer - overcomes, prevails, gains the victory] will not be hurt [adikeó - acted unjustly towards, injured, harmed] by the second [deuteros - duo - two, in second place, for the second time; second in order, rank, or time; the concept of "second" often implied a position of lesser importance compared to the "first," but it could also indicate a necessary step in a sequence or process, in scriptural tradition, the number two can symbolize witness or confirmation, as seen in the requirement for two witnesses to establish a matter] {everyone suffers two, to believe is to not be injured or hurt by the second/lesser(?)} “death.’”
{The 666, logically, being Daniel 12:11-12 with Luke 19:41,44 (hello?) and 1 Corinthians 3:16. Armageddon being Isaiah 24:20, Rev.10:4 (Ps.91). Matthew 13:30 being Rev.16:14-15-16 and Matthew 25:1-13.}
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BooK oF Revelation
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1 - “To the angel of [en - in, on, at, by, with] the church in Ephesus write - ‘The words of he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and who walks among the seven golden lampstands/menorahs. 2 I know your hard work, your patient endurance, and how you can’t bear with those who do evil, but have tested those who call theirselves apostles but are not. And you found them to be false. 3 You have had perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and haven’t grown weary. 4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you first had. 5 Try to remember what it was like at the beginning {of your adventure of believing/knowing}. And return to the love enthusiasm you felt. If not I will have to come and remove your lampstand (menorah/church) out of its place, unless you repent/change course. 6 Yet this you have, you hate [miseo - hate, detest, love less] the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. (Nicolaitans mAy have began as a following of a christian in error, and their works/things they did and believed were scandalous and corrupt.)
7 Whoever has an ear 🌽 let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (Plural.) To the one who is victorious [nikaó - conquers, prevails, from níkē - victory, properly - conquers, overcomes, carries off the victory, comes off victorious] I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’”
..How do we come off victorious? Bread and wine -> communion, God’s Spirit/Presence, and Truth, 1Cor.3:16 & 2Tim.3:16.
Important NOTE - It helps to understand the scripture translation errors ..due to partial dis-belief?
I made a short, partial list..
Changed “all” whenever possible, to “all things” [[ Rev.21:5, Eph.1:10, Jn.13:3, 1Cor.15:27, five times! And so repeating what 5 times?! ..And more. But not 2Tim.3:16 or 1Cor.15:28, for example.]]
Often rendered not, into never. And aion/eon into forever.
Translating hamartia - missing the mark, into “sin” (trespass) misses the mark a little. (God is Life, and “is perfect” Mt.5:48, a conundrum for imperfect/missing the mark (entropy). But! No option to stray in Eden, and creation would have to be an ant farm?)
Of course five separate words were turned into ‘hell’, even pit when “dust of” is in the verse & Ps.30:9. The three mentions of lake of fire are at very large, fiery events. Not very understandable in 95 CE or thereabouts, Is.24:20, Rev.10:4 (Ps.91,46,23, Rev7:15-17)
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BooK oF Revelation
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9 - I, John, your brother, in tribulation and in the kingdom, and in the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the prison island called Patmos on account of the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet sounding 11 saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches of Asia - Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”
12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking, and I saw seven gold lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands was one like a Son of man, clothed in a long robe, with a gold sash around his chest. 14 The hairs of his head were white, like pure white wool, and pure snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 and his feet were like polished bronze, glowing in a fiery furnace. His voice was like the voice of great waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sWord (“thy word is Truth” Jn.17:17). His face was like the sun in its brightness. 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid, I’m the first and the last, 18 the living one. I died, but look, I’m alive. And I have the keys of death and of the hades/grave [originally sheol “where there is no doing nor knowing”/awareness, Eccles.9:5,10]. 19 Write therefore the things you see, what is and what will take place later. 20 As for the mystery of the seven stars I hold in my right hand, and the seven gold lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. [In the prophecy, “the stars are angels”. The lampstands are the currently believing.]
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4 John, to the seven churches that are in Asia —
Grace to you and peace from he who is, and was, and is to come. And from the seven spirits (“seven angels of the churches”) who are before his throne. 5 And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from death, and the {to be} ruler of kings upon earth. To he who loves us and has freed us from our sins [hamartia - missing the mark] by his blood {Life} 6 and has made us to be a kingdom. A kingdom of priests to his God and Father - to him be glory and dominion forever and ever! Amen! 7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and EVERY eye will see him {if not alive at his return, then upon GWT Judgment ‘day’, great ‘Day’ 0f Review} and anyone who pricked/pierced him, and all tribes of earth will mourn because of him. Truly, amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the LORD God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” {Who forever was, and who forever shall be.}
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