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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
1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven (concurrent?) bowls came and said to me (disciple/apostle John) “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 those upon Earth have become drunk with the wine of her indecencies.”
3 And the angel carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of slanderous insults/blasphemes, and it had seven heads and ten horns. {A many headed geopolitical beast, Dan.7:7,19, a key - the iron and bronze of Dan-2.} 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. {‘Her’ fruits and side effects.}
5 And on her forehead was written a name, “Mystery Babylon the Great, Mother of Prostitution [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 go extreme, free trade gone nutz and indecent. 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, which says “the ten horns ..are ten kings who for one hour receive authority ..along with the (many headed geopolitical) beast” of the hour “they will hate her, bring her to ruin, and consume/deplete her, and raze her with fire..” She rides the huge beast, but what will happen when the huge beast rides her?}
6 And I saw the woman {empire} 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 (the $ity) and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.” {She rode the beasts, soon one, to all seven hills/continents.}
8 “The beast you saw was, then is not, and is destined to rise from the abyss” {of potential that imperfect is?} “and go to its 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, an event 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 then is.
9 This all calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated. {Seven hills/continents.} 10 They are also seven kings {world empires?} five have fallen, one is (Rome and all Roman based? During which there is “wars to the end” Dan.9:26) the other (global) has not yet come and when he/it does come, it must remain only a little while.” {Alas, though lauded as peace, peace! will only last seven years? And be broken in the middle against Israel (Luke 19:41,44?) Then - Dan.12:11 - “1,290 days later - that is 3.5 hebrew calendar years plus 30 days later - will be set up the (final) abomination which causes desolation” ..This time upon the human temple meant for God’s Spirit/Presence? 1Corinthians 3:16 - “know you not, you are a temple of God?” And then, next verse, Dan.12:12 - “blessed is the one/those who wait, and come to, the days, 1,335” which is 45 days later? The last “ten days” escalating to most critical-Rev.2:10? “until the end that is decreed is poured out..” Dan.9:27.}
Next - 17:11-18
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BOOK OF REVELATION
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’s 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. {Isaiah 24:2/Rev.1:4.}
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 the mountains were not found. 21 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven [ouranos - heaven, heavens, sky]. And they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so great. {The higher and faster moisture rises, the bigger and greater the hail. And it forms in layers.}
Next - 17:1-10
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8 - The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun and it was - allowed - to scorch people with its heat. {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 great drought? 12:15} and they cursed the name of God who had power to act over these plagues. {This is post surely(?) thermonuclear activity, the whole split atom thing is how I think of it.. messing with God’s building block.. harnessed for war, go figure.. “thunders, lightnings, temple in heaven splits, lightning, hail.. ..thermonuclear lightning.. hello? where do we think all this division/blame/hate leads!? Sky scrolls.. the higher and faster moisture rises, the greater and larger the hail. But alas, broken record, if in creation, there was no option to stray, creation would be an ant farm, and no paradise. And if you don’t let it run its course, what would be the point?!} But 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 dark. People gnawed their tongues in frustration 11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores, but did not relent/stop nor repent 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 — THE THREE which gather the nations to armageddon — the voice of the dragon - “god of this world”, and the voice of the beast of politics/many headed geopolitical, and the voice of the {of the world} false prophet, the WORLD’s version of a voice crying in the wilderness, which goes before, whose “flood” - a “strong delusion” {enchantment} - of “seating man in the temple as god”/highest power, has caused the west, once called Christendom to “fall away”. And this (of the world) “false prophet” has more modern wonders and “miracles to mislead” and of course a prophecy.}
14 For these (three) are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for battle on the great {culmination} day of God the Almighty. 15 “Behold, I am coming {unexpected} like a thief! Blessed is the one who is watching and clothed, that they may not go about naked and seen unclothed.” 16 And, they assembled at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. {Logically, Mt.13:30, “first gather the tares”.}
Next - 16:17-21
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BOOK OF REVELATION
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 sprouts in the morning, 6 it flourishes and is renewed, and in the evening it fades and withers. {Time flies.} 7 For we are brought to an end {entropy - effect from cause} by your anger {imo, cause and effect}. By your wrath we are dismayed.] — {oR you have to have a mere ant farm?}
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a wound, sore and grievous came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and were worshiping its image. {Dn.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44 and 1Cor.3:16.} 3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea {Mediterranean?} and it became like the blood of a corpse {contaminated} and every living thing died that was in the sea. 4 The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers [potamos - a river] and upon the springs (of earth) and they became like blood. 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 a voice from 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”.] {End result, all will praise God for this quick one and done proof, and what it is he is creating.}
Next - 16:8-16
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BOOK OF REVELATION
1 - Then I (John) saw another sign in heaven, great and awe inspiring, seven angels with seven plagues [plégé - blow, stripe, wound, affliction, plague] which are the last (effects, pinpointing cause) for with them the wrath [thymós - expressed passion, fierce anger, indignation] of God is finished. {The culmination of cause and effect.. To be angry and indignant against evils carried out is only righteous. Worldly trying to influence is a trying to enchant. God doesn’t like dog eat dog?}
2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass as mingled with fire {life as we presently know it..? imperfect, still beautiful, but also an abyss of potential} and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. 3 And they sang the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and wonderful are your works [érgon - from ergō - to work, accomplish] O LORD God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! 4 Who will not fear/revere, O LORD, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.” [Ro.3:4 “..as it has been written about God, ‘That You (God) may be justified in YOUR words, and will prevail in Your being judged’."]
5 After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tabernacle/tent of witness/testimony in the heavens was opened 6 And out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven (final) plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests. 7 And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath {final results of “seven thunders”?} of God who lives forever and ever, 8 and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed [teleó - to bring to an end, complete, fulfill; from télos - consummation, completion, this root (tel-) means "reaching the end (aim)." It is well-illustrated with the old pirate's telescope, unfolding (extending out) one stage at a time to function at full-strength/ultimately full scope] - }Examples, 70 CE, smaller scope, history’s consummation, full scope. Jesus’ first so brief advent, smaller scope, and long, second advent, full scope}.
Next - 16:1-7
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{A wheat harvest, and later a grape harvest.} 14 - Then I (John) looked, and I saw a radiant cloud, and sitting upon the cloud was one like the Son of man. He had a crown of gold on his head, and a great sickle in his hand. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle! And reap! For the hour has come. The harvest is ripe!”
16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and it was reaped.
17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven. And he too had a great sickle. 18 I saw another angel coming away from the altar, an angel who has authority over fire. [Same angel as Rev.7:3-5?] And he cried out with a loud voice to the one who had the sickle, telling him “Put in your sickle! And gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.” 19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. {Amageddon. Surely? Fiery, Is.24:20, the last of “seven thunders”?) 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood” (oil?) flowed from the press, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia. {Compared to the wheat and tares parable, here, the ‘wheat’ is mentioned first, whereas in the parable, the tares are gathered first. It’s an easy explanation, there is the gathering TO Armageddon, then the wheat gathered, barely previous, or perhaps even simultaneous with the fiery culmination of the battle, which coincidentally is where the first of three mentions of a lake of fire is.}
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{Note also a grape harvest that is “after the thousand years” and after GWT judgment ‘day’. This is revealed in 1Cor.15:22-24,28 wiTh Mt.13:33, key word 3, three harvests - barley, wheat and grape - The Verses:
Matthew 13:33 - “The kingdom is like a woman working leaven into three batches of flour, until all (of it) is leavened.” With - key word 3 - 1 Corinthians 15:22-28 - “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 BUT each in their own order: (1)Christ the firstfruits (barley) then (2)at his coming those who belong to Christ (the wheat). 24 Then comes the end (3)when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying - every rule, and every authority, and eveRy power. 25 For Christ must reign until he has put aLL enemies under him.” [“Whoever is friends with the world is at enmity/war with God” James 4:4.]
26 “The last enemy to be abolished [katargeó - rendered inoperative] is death. 27 For “God has put all [pas - every, all, the whole] under him.” But when it says, “all are put under him,” it’s plain that he is excepted who put all under him.
28 And then when all (of the #3 harvest, the overflowing grape harvest, so “all”) are (truly, manifestly and literally/spiritually) under him (subdued/reconciled during GWT judgment/discernment/review/closure for all ‘Day’ - Jn.12:32 - then the Son will openly submit himself to he who arranged all as under him [hypotássō - from hypó - under, and tássō - arranged] that God may be all in all.” Each one of these seven all’s are from the Greek word “pas” which means all. Five were translated into “all things” but not the last two - and “so God will be all in all” …after the second vivification and fiery “palin/again-genesis” of Rev.21:5 - “Behold! I make all new!” (Greek word “pas” - all, every, the whole).}
Next - 15:1-8
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