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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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3 - And there shall be no more curse nor cursed (accursed) for all [pas - all] curse [katanáthema - from katá - according to, down, which intensifies anáthema - a curse – properly, an oath-curse which "devotes something to destruction" literally, to take it down] shall no longer be.
And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it (the New Jerusalem) and his servants will serve him. [Latreia - from latris - render technical, acceptable service because qualified.] 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. (No more ‘mystery babble’/all confusion on the forehead of the world.) 5 And by-night will be no more. They will not need the light of a lamp nor of the sun, for the Lord God will be the light of them, and (so) they will reign [basileuó - exercise dominion] (over creation and well being, not over others, lol) age to age.
6 “These words are faithful and true” the angel said, “and the Lord God of the spirits [pneuma: wind, breath, spirit] of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must come to pass in quickness [tachu - quickly, speedily]”.
7 “And behold, I come quickly [tachu]. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw all these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, 9 but he said, “You mustn’t do that! I’m a fellow servant with you and the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
10 Then he told me, “Don’t seal up the words of this book of prophecy, for the time is near at hand. {Entropy is ever progressing.} 11 The ones being unrighteous, let them be unrighteous still. (Until then! And INITIALLY during GWT judgment/discernment/review/closure for all ‘Day’.) And the ones who are vile, let them be vile still. (Until then! And INITIALLY during GWT ‘day’.) And those being righteous, let them practice righteousness still, and those who are holy let them be so still. [Holy - hagios - the fundamental (core, basic) meaning of hagios is "different" – thus a temple in the 1st century was hagios - holy, sacred because different from other buildings; different from the world because like the Lord - biblehub dot com.] 12 “Behold, I’m coming quickly, bringing with me what’s due [misthos - pay for service, literally or figuratively, good or bad] to repay each for what they have done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so they may have right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. 15 Outside (now, and initially during GWT ‘day’) are the dogs and sorcerers [pharmakos - poisoner, sorcerer, magician] and the sexually immoral [pornos] and murderers and idolaters [eidólolatrés - an image worshiper] and everyone loving and making/doing a lie. 16 I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things to the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”
17 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And the one hearing let them say come. And the one thirsting let them come, and the one desiring, let them take the water of life freely. 18 And I testify to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described. 19 And if anyone should take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in what is described in this (Rev.) book, the share out of the New Jerusalem and out of the tree of life (the healing of the nations). 20 And He who is testifying of these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
The End.
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📜🗞️ The revelation vision is told 3 times: 6:1-2 to 11:19; chap.12 w/ Mt.23:39; and 13:1 to 19:11, the three rejoining at the 7th trumpet’s sounding.
Jesus’ brief first advent perfectly fulfilled the ancient Spring Holy Days, more perfectly than is easily seen. So logically his long second advent will fulfill the Autumn Holy Days (of Lev.23) their names and pattern:
TRUMPETS (of Rev, return at 7th during the concurrent bowls) - 10days/1000yrs - to ‘DAY’ oF ATONEMENT - 5days/500yrs - to TABERNACLES — a fiery regenesis, “All new.. God will now tabernacle with mankind” Rev.21:1-5.
Next - 1:1-8 in mid September
The 52 studies are still posted.
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(After the 7th and 8th millennium (aka, the second advent of Jesus) and after the “palin(again)genesis” another biG bang into the universe (as is) theN set in motion..)
23 - The New Jerusalem doesn’t need the sun or the moon, for the glory of God is its radiance, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 And by its light the nations will walk. And {those who were} the kings of earth will bring [pheró - carried, to be conveyed] {turn over} their glory into it, 25 and its gates will not be shut by day. There will be no night in the city. 26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 Nothing impure will enter it, nor anyone who practices what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. [Jn.12:32, 1Tim.4:10]
22:1 - Then the angel showed me the river of the water of Life, clear as crystal flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 And through the middle of the street of the city, and on either side of the river, is the tree of life bearing twelve kinds of fruit, each for its month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing [therapeia - healing, service, care] of the nations.
{Life, clear and pure as crystal.. How do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact? Total ant farm versus total ‘herd’ immunity.. the dis-ease as part of the cure?}
Next - 22:3-21
There’s one more week to this year’s study. The new study will begin in mid September.
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10 - And he (an angel) carried me (John) in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and he showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem. It was coming down from God, out of heaven, 11 and it shone with his glory. It’s radiance was like a most precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal.
12 It had a great, high wall of twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates. And on them were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. {Upon believing, we’re “grafted into Israel” Ro.11:17-26.} 13 There were three gates facing east, three facing north, three south and three west.
14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold with which to measure the city, the gates and the walls. {Note - a rod is a measuring stick, the “iron rod” Jesus will rule the nations with is Truth, which is unbreakable, an unbreakable measure, that breaks all that isn’t true.}
16 The city was as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. [Stadia - a greek measurement, stadium length, the length of a race course, furlong which is an 8th of a mile - 12,000 stadia, between 1,300 to 1,400 miles?]
17 The angel measured the wall using human and angel measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. 18 The wall was of jasper, the city of pure gold, pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The city had twelve foundations, each made of a precious stone, the first jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were of pearl, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure and clear as glass. 22 I didn’t see in the city, a temple, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
{Truth/Logos is far and wide.. and overflowing with radiant gems..?}
Next - 21:23-22:2
There’s two more weeks to this year’s study. The new study will begin in mid September. Maybe some prophets in between?
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[A voice from the midst of the throne continues, makes proclaimation] - 4 - “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death is no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor pain. For the former has passed away.”
5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all new.” [All - pas - every, all, the whole]. And he said to me (John), “Write for these words are faithful, and they are true.
6 It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning — and the end. To the one thirsting, I will give from the spring of the water of life freely. {Now.} 7 The one overcoming will inherit all and I will be present with them and they will be my sons and daughters. [Eimi - to be, to exist, to happen, to be present.]
8 But” {I think of this as narrative spoken outside of the vision} “as for the cowardly, the faithless” {now, and still at Jesus’ appearing} “the having become abominable, the murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers [pharmakos], idolaters, and the liars - their portion is in the {armageddon} lake burning [kaió - kindled, set fire to] with fire and sulfur which {ultimately} is the second death.” {First death is the one through Adam, second, is the death of death? And of imperfection/entropy. The armageddon lake is the death of empire.. half done.. Or one third done, as there are the three mentions of lake of fire - At Armageddon; At the adversary’s fiery final defeat; And at the fiery Regeneration/Regenesis, Greek word, palin(again)genesis. ..Interesting, death of empire, death of the adversary, which both belong to death, so all wound up in the death of death. All of it the second (and final) death. Per God’s plan who saw all possibilities from the beginning.} {Armageddon, and the entire apocalypse is man done - made up largely of carbon which has 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons - not God done except he created a cause and effect universe (as opposed to an ant farm?) Total Ant Farm versus Total ‘Herd’ Immunity.}
9 Then came to me (John) one of the seven angels, the one who had been holding the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues [plégé - a blow, stripe, wound; an affliction, plague] {imo, thermonuclear effects, Isaiah 24:20/Rev.10:4}. And now he said to me, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Next - 21:10-22
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11 - Then I saw a great white throne (GWT) and he who was seated upon it. And from his face the earth and heavens fled away, and no place was found for them.
12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead [nekros - dead, deceased] were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, death and hades [“place of the dead”] {the grave, state of being gone} [hades - not seen] gave up the dead which were in them and they were judged, each one, according to what they had done. {Same as we were and even now are? And.. “all the world’s a stage”.. (Shakespeare) - proving to one and all, and all together at once..}
14 Then Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. [2Pet.3:12-13 “..the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, the heavenly bodies melting.. (then) a new heavens and a new earth..”] This is the second death, the lake of fire. {The end of death and imperfection/“missing the mark” - One and done! 1Cor.15:24-26. First death is the one come about through, and “in Adam”.}
15 And if [ei - whether, iF] anyone was found, whose name was not written in the book of life {by then} they were thrown [balló - thrown, cast, hurled, put, placed] into the lake of fire. 21:1 - And I saw - a new heavens, and a new earth - for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, [were “set on fire” and “dissolved”, the “heavenly bodies/planets and stars melting”] and the sea {separation upon earth} was no more. (Isaiah 11:7)
2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, radiant as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will tabernacle/tent/dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.”
Next - 21:4-9
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7 - And when “the” thousand years are ended, Satan will be released 8 and he will come out to mislead the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog {these are, logically, descendants of mortal survivors of the (man done) apocalypse} and he gathers them for battle. Their number is like the sand at the seashore. 9 And they marched up over all the broad plain of earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. {Do we imagine this takes but a moment or two..?} But - fire - came from the heavens and consumed them. 10 And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and false prophet had been thrown, and {he} will be tormented day and night - to - the ages of the ages. {The two others are institutions active at Jesus’ return.}
Next - 20:11-21:3 🗝️
