15 - Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves (bunkers?) and among the rocks of the mountains. (🤔 Kings? [[..At, or in preparation for the world’s last battle — Here’s a Cross Reference to chapter 16 — the gathering to and war of Armageddon/Gehenna Valley. Revelation prophecy is not always in strict order, especially as the vision is portrayed three times, from three different angles, not in a straight line. Also, often (almost always?) something is described as its totality, first to last. Often therefor, veiling what it is. Especially the “seals” at the intro and beginning of the vision in this chapter six, ten chapters previous to this cross reference! And is how conditions in the last “hour” of apocalypse are portrayed at the beginning of the vision - does our heavenly Father love a good riddle, or does he love a good riddle!? Misunderstanding chapter six throws off the whole vision, called “sealing the vision”. 🤔Chapter six is the unsealing of the scroll. Seven seals are broken open, and out come seven elements of the gospel going forth AGE, described as their effects first to last. Still in ch.16 cross reference - “Then I (John when he is an old man on an island prison) saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs. They came out of the mouth of the dragon (ch.12, an insert) out of the mouth of the (many headed geopolitical) beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. (What entity puts forth their prophecy - false - strongly trending in today’s modern world? And has a “strong delusion” that caused ‘Christendom’ to “fall away” by “seating man/anthropos as in the temple as God”/highest power? And has many more modern wonders and “miracles to deceive”..?) 14 The spirits like frogs are demonic spirits that perform portends and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them (Mt.13:30!) for the battle on the great day of God the Almighty. 15 “Look, I (Jesus) come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.” (A spiritual meaning.. And perhaps a more literal meaning. I daresay there’s some on Earth now that find theirselves needing to sleep at night in their clothes.) Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.” And Isaiah 24:20 - “The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall totter like a hut. Its corruption shall be heavy upon it, and it (the kingdom/system) will fall, and not rise again.” And, 25:4 - “You are a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, and a shade from the heat.”]]
(Back to Ch.6, and the conclusion of the description of the seal six events start to finish) — 16, And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it? (Wrath as theirs because it was they who made a cause and effect - reap what you sow - universe. Not that there isn’t plenty of oppressions and grave abuses to be angry about. A hebrew word for anger, means to blow hot air out of your nose! (Sort of a fiery blast? A spiritual pun?) And remember Jesus did overturn the moneylender’s tables at the temple! And he seemed to say there’s a special woe to those harming “little ones”, but even then, I think he’s talking about the gut wrenching remorse that will torment such, initially, during “the judgment”. Also, just imagine waking from your grave into Judgment ‘Day’ and you’d been a hitler. But most.. I have to think will be happy to find theirselves alive. There’s bound to be LOTS of closure needed for many.. And for all history and nations throughout these millennia. — Preview of next weeks verses - 7:1,3 - In the vision, four angels are stationed “at the four corners of the Earth” (N,S,E,W) to “hold back the winds.. that they not harm land and trees..” — Note: that is where we are still at. Then comes interruption? Then the winds are held again for a spell?
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