BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON FOUR - THE MYSTERY CITY

Chapters 17 And 18

A strange thing!

A city,

                          called a woman,                      

"..riding upon a (red) beast..
 ..having seven heads and ten horns" (17:3)

We met this beast in Lesson Three.

The woman, called "Babylon"

And Harlot - Greek word "pornos"

- Who did corrupt the earth with her "porneia"

(translated wantonness, etc.) (From 19:2)

- The city reigns over the kings/politicians of the Earth, who are in bed with her.

And she made the merchants wealthy.  (Verse 18:3)

 

In one hour such great wealth is brought to ruin! -

The merchants will weep because no one buys their merchandise anymore — cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and chariots; and human beings as slaves. (Verses 18:11-13,17)

She sits on seven hills, 

making them drunk with her wine (17:2,9) Corrupting the earth. (Verse 19:2)

Her judgment/results/consequences will come in one day,

death, mourning, famine and fire. (18:8)

And great hail... debris? (16:21)

Come out of her, my people - (18:4)

The ten horns of the red beast, which are kings/divisions/toes during very last days,

will hate her, consume her, and make her desolate. (17:16)

Extreme socialism will (at last)..

 ..do away with extreme capitalism

(which embraced "pornos" to "sell").

And on her forehead (psyche)...

Is written,

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS

AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS

OF THE EARTH.

(Mystery Babble - all untruth?)

And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints,

and of all who were slain upon earth. (18:24)

"In one hour" she crashes?                              

                                 And "in one day" she will fall.

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BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON THREE - BEASTS ON THE SCENE

Long ago... And far away.. King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream...

Of a mighty statue standing on the Sands of Time..

Daniel (the prophet) interpreted the dream. Its head was gold - 

"the head is you oh King, you are Babylon".

The chest and arms were silver, 

a mighty empire would follow Babylon,

the mighty Media-Persia.

The torso and thighs were bronze,

Mighty conquering Greece.

The two legs were iron,

That mighty iron of Rome.

And lastly, the feet,

right down to

the ten toes.

Part iron

and part

clay.

After some time. Daniel had a dream,

of four great and terrible beasts.

The first three creatures,

again, Babylon

Media-Persia

Greece.

Then a fourth creature "more terrible than the others".

And stronger.

It had great iron teeth..

(The 'iron' columns of Rome!)

And its claws were bronze.

"What the iron didn't break,

the bronze trampled and scattered."

And it had seven heads

and ten horns.

This is the beast which opens Revelation chapter 13.

It has iron/bronze roots, a metamorphosis,

with heads seven and horns ten.

The 'big' beast of the chapter.

(Verses 1 to 10.)

Then we are shown a 'little' beast, who brought

a new fire to earth in chapter 6 (lesson two).

Thought of as a man, but an office is more true.

~ One that will give breath/strength (authority) ~

to the 'big' beast, who at one time expired, its head not signing on after all.

But after the fire, brought to earth, in the sight of men (13:13)

man, with lofty goal, rebuilt the 'big' beast.

And gave it an image.

The two beasts (big and little) they will morph into one.

And release 666, before all is done.

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A Riddle ~ "From the time the daily/perpetual sacrifice" (or current place of continual prayers?) "is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set  up ~ there will be 1,290 days.  Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches, the end of the 1,335 days." (45 days later)  ~~ Daniel 12:11, 12

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BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON TWO - BREAKING OPEN THE SEALS

Like a mighty symphony..

Each note (and scene) of the Book of Revelation once begun,

                                                               continues throughout the rest of the production.

In this scene, the Lamb is worthy to unroll the scroll.
~ The scroll which is the Book of Revelation. 

Each time one of six seals (of seven) on the scroll are broken, 

the Book of Revelation scroll is unrolled a little further.

Many believe the seals are only late days influences.
Book of Revelation in a box called 7 years.

I believe they are elements of the latter age ~ the years of our Lord A.D.

                                                   

When the First Seal is broken open...

A white horse and rider come forth...

"conquering and to conquer.."

(the gospel rides forth)

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The First Four Seals are called,

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Their rides continue to the end of the age.

And escalate as time progresses.

When the Second Seal is broken open...

A red horse and rider come forth, called war.
(Ancient, relentless. It is "given a long sword".)

When the Third Seal is broken open,
A black horse and rider, holding scales, comes forth.

When the Fourth Seal is broken open...

A pale horse and rider come forth,
whose "name is death and the grave follows"
including the mass grave (grave often translated 'hell').

[War's other companion, pestilence, including chemical.]

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When the Fifth Seal is broken open...
Like the blood of Abel, the blood of martyrs calls out to the LORD..
(Martyrdom throughout the age / and escalates.)

When the Sixth Seal is broken open..

Hiroshima

* The Seals are described as a blend of what they are

[1] - at their first, and

[2] - at their last        

In this way, things which occur very late upon the planet,

are described here, in chapter 6 - so very early in the narrative.

~ By this fancy footwork ~

A lock upon, and confusing of the vision,

"for many days".

"...hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.." Revelation 6:15

(Remember 'bomb shelters' back in the day?)

After this element (Seal, the split atom) was opened,

"..four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds"

 .."Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until 

we put a seal on the foreheads of 

the servants of our God'.”

Rev 7:1-3

"144,000 of Israel... and a great crowd from 

every nation and tribe.."

7:4 and 9 

                                                             

   

~ Interlude / pause of the split atom as warfare. ~

[Where we are now.]

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BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON ONE - CHAPTER TWELVE

The Woman ~ The Faith

A woman with twelve stars around her head,

gives birth to a manchild (Son of man).

Revelation chapter twelve is an insert and a history all its own.

Many have mistakenly sealed all of Revelation in a box called "7 years".
This greatly obscures the message.

A red dragon tries to devour the child as soon as he is born.

 (Herod the Great ordered all young boy 

children in Bethlehem be slain.)

But the child was caught up to God's throne.

Ephesians 1:20 - "God raised Him from the dead and seated 

Him at His right hand in the heavenly places."

And the woman "fled".  

(A migration of the faith "to a new place".)

70 a.d.

...And war broke out in heaven..

..and the dragon was

no longer allowed access to the heavens..                   

"Rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the inhabitants of the earth.. For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath.."

                                                                                 -- Verse 12

                                                           

  

        " And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, 

                                           he persecuted the woman.." [the faith] -- Verse 13

"But the woman" (the faith) 

"was given two wings of an eagle.."

"that she might fly to a wilderness place.."

                                                                                                       --Verse 14a

"...to be nourished and safe from the face of the dragon 

for 3.5 divisions of time.." -- Verse 14c

 + 350 =

"Then the serpent" (guise of the dragon) 

"spewed water out of his mouth like a flood, 

after the woman, that he might cause her 

to be swept away by the flood..." -- Verse 15

"But the Earth will swallow the flood." -- Verse 16

i.e.

 "The earth will swallow the flood."

"Then the dragon.. went off to wage war against the rest of the woman's children —  those who keep God’s commands and" (by then) "hold fast their testimony about Jesus." -- Verse 17

"Jerusalem you shall see me no more, until, you say -
'blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'  " Mt. 23:39

                

"Then I John saw three unclean spirits like frogs.. out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, spirits of demons.. to gather the kings and all the world to that great day of Armageddon.. `lo, I do come as a thief, happy is the one who is watching'.."

 - Revelation 16:14,15

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, 

then know that the desolation thereof is nigh." - Luke 21:20

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A Riddle ~ "From the time the daily/perpetual sacrifice" (or current place of continual prayers?) "is removed ~ and the abomination that causes desolation is set  up ~ there will be 1,290 days.  Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches, the end of the 1,335 days." (45 days later)  ~~ Daniel 12:11,12

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