£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 12 7-12

        WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

After the manchild(/Son of man) was taken up to God’s throne where he will rule with the unbreakable measuring rod of Truth, and the faith had fled.. (migrated) 7 - War arose in heaven, Michael and his angels warred against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels warred against Michael and his angels. 8 But the dragon hadn’t the strength, and no longer was a place for them found in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent (oR “cherubim” from Ezek.28:12-  “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre.. you were in Eden, the garden of God.. an anointed covering cherub [kerub - an order of angelic beings, cherub, cheribim]. I appointed you on the holy mountain.. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness [evel or avel or avlah or olah - unrighteousness, injustice] was found in you..”

     (Like David is used as a representation of Christ in prophecy, so too are despotic kings used as a representation of Satan the adversary.)

     9 And the great dragon was thrown out, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown to the earth, and his angels were thrown with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come! For the accuser of our brethren has been thrown out, who accused them day and night before our God. 11 And they have overcome him through the blood of the lamb, and through the word of their testimony, and (word for word) and (they) not loved the life of them unto death”. (I think we may have misread this? — didn’t love their life that leads to death? Perhaps, in this verse anyway, in Rev.20 is different?🤷🏼‍♀️) 12 “Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come to you in great wrath, because he knows his time is short.”

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£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 12 1-6

     WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - A great sign appeared in heaven! A woman who was clothed with the sun and the moon was under her feet. Upon her head was a crown of twelve stars. {She was a virgin! Code for innocent and of purity. God’s spiritual ideal and blueprint. But if there had been no option to stray in Eden, no power of choice in creation, creation would be an ant farm. So, first, this unavoidable, yet all important contrast is being gone through by “all in heaven and earth” (the angels and humanity).}

     2 She was with child and was crying out because of her birth pains and the torment of giving birth. 3 And then another sign appeared in heaven - behold! A great red dragon. This dragon had seven heads and ten horns. And on the heads were seven royal crowns. [“The ‘god’ of this world” 2Cor.4:4 (who ends up having/being seven “changing” versions of false “light”/entities/‘world’ empires, throughout Earth’s ages.] 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. {Obviously, this is one third of the angels, as surely(?) some angels followed the cherubim which plotted his revolt using Eden - “you were a covering angel [kerub - probably an order of angelic beings, cherub, cherubim — “Yahweh Sabaoth throned on the cherubim” 1Sam.4:4, referring to the Ark of the Covenant. A symbol. Cherubim - a high angel devised in his heart to “ascend above God”. And from being a high angelic being, became a dragon.}

     And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth [to the Son of man, Messiah Jesus] so that when she bore her child he might devour [kill] it. 5 She gave birth to a manchild, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron (with Truth, a measuring rod that cannot be broken). But instead the child was caught up to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman (after the razing of Jerusalem in 70 CE) fled into the wilderness, where she (the faith) had a place prepared by God, in which she was to be fed [trephó - made to grow, nourished] for 1,260 days.

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KEYS to the REVELATION vision

      🗝️ The ‘end’ of the story 

     puts the jigsaw pieces together.                                  

Jesus went from ascension to rev.5?

   🍃The Book of Revelation seals are described as their full and entire effects, first to last which veils what they are and much of the vision.

   🍃The vision is told three times - [#1] 6:1-2 to 11:19 [#2] ch.12 w/ Mt.23:39 [#3] 13:1 to 19:11.

   🍃It’s $ity Babble-on that sits on all 7 continents/hills which the kings of earth/politicians are in bed with, yet already they’re gearing up to consume away and raze her in the last hour - 17:12,16. Socialism will finally do away with free enterprize/captalism (gone extreme).

   🍃13:13 pinpoints(ed) an oFFice not yet a person - who will lawlessly step into the main seat of todaY’s many headed geopolitical beast/entity/institution, after a crises that consolidates its power. An oFFice which is noT the “false prophet” who enabled it, and who’s “strong delusion” hAs “seated man/anthropos in the temple as god”/highest power causing the west once called Christendom to “fall away”. And it has many more (modern) “miracles to mislead” and of course a prophecy it puts forth to those upon earth.

   🍃After the consolidation of power, a lauded treaty which alas will last only 7 years and will be broken in the middle against Israel - Dn.12:11 with Lk.19:41,44 (and 1Cor.3:16).

    🍃Dn.12:11-12, a math problem revealing the duration of the triple six abomination? (Upon 1Cor.3:16). With the last “10 days” rev.2:10, escalating to most critical?

   Revelation is an annual study posted weekly.

£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 11 15-19

      WeeKly BooK oF Revelation ⭐️

                paraphrased study

[2Thessalonians 1:8,7 - “…when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in a fire of flame, inflicting [didómi - to give - in various senses lit. or fig. includes allowing, yielding, granting, pouring, permitting] vengeance [ekdikésis - vengeance, vindication, defense, avenging, pay back, “full” and “complete” punishment] on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. (The culmination of history. Conclusion and end of the story, Mt.13:30 - “Let both” - the wheat and the tares, psuedo wheat, which we all were - “grow together until the harvest, and at the harvest I will tell the reapers, ‘Gather the weeds first, and bind them in - bundles - to be burned, and then gather the wheat into my barn.” And Revelation 16:14,16 - “..demons performing signs ..to the kings of earth gathering them for battle.. and assembled them at Armageddon” (Gehenna Valley).

     Rev.11:15 - And the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our LORD and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying, “We give thanks to you! Lord God Almighty! Who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and have begun to reign. 18 The nations raged” (Ps.2 and 2nd horseman of the apocalypse and 2nd seal/element of the age) “but your wrath came. [Wrath - orgé - wrath, vengeance, from orgáō, "to teem, swelling up to oppose, a fixed, controlled, passionate feeling against, a settled indignation.] (Imo, his wrath is cause and effect, “his” wrath because it is HE who created a cause and effect universe. Consequences, life as we presently know it, this all important contrast and gehenna crucible, that flares up into judgments, results, versus creation as an ant farm.) And the time [kairos - time, season] came for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and to destroy [diaphtheiró - from dia - intensive, through and through, and diaphthorá - thorough decay] those destroying earth.” (Imo, spiritually destroying.) 19 Then God's temple in heaven was opened (I always think split, the word anoigó, does include broken, open). And the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and great hail.

      (Isaiah 24:20) - the higher and faster moisture rises, the larger and greater the hail. And surely(?) it is thermonuclear lightning.. rumbling and thunder.. “seven thunders”? Counting the first occurrence which was Rev. 13:13 in the third telling of the vision - but the occurrence pinpointed an office, not yet an individual. Which was also the first seal six occurrence, but it’s veiled by the seals being described at the beginning of the vision, as their full and entire effects, first to very last. This also veils much of the entire vision. Kudos to any understanding any of us has had! — Next week we begin the second telling of the vision, which is Revelation chapter 12. All three end, and rejoin, at the 7th trumpet’s sounding.. “The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our LORD and of his Christ.”

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      The logic of things running their 

         course as opposed to some

                    sort of ant farm.

£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 11 1-14

       WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - Then I (disciple/apostle John) was given a measuring rod like a staff (clue about the “rod of iron” Jesus will rule the nations with after shattering them with it). And I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, 2 but don’t measure the court outside the temple. Leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months”. (Cross reference? - 1Cor.6:19 - “do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit”/Presence of God.. I.e. waiting for a ‘third temple’ in prophecy, could be an error?)

     3 “And I will grant authority to my two witnesses (Rev.7:9,4?) and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” (Poverty, mourning, and has to be during the second half of the lauded treaty that will last only seven years and be broken in the middle against Israel, Dn.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44-which verses prove the “70 weeks” gap between 69 and 70; and w/ 1Cor.3:16. A math problem revealing what?) 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and utterly ruins their foes. If anyone wants and is willing to harm them, thus it is [dei - necessary, inevitable] they will be killed. 6 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may rain during the days of the prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they wish. 7 And when is completed the testimony of them, the beast rising from the bottomless pit (from the abyss of potential that imperfect/straying is) will make war upon them and will conquer them and will kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. (Which was “outside the gate” of Jerusalem, so outside Jerusalem, not solely Jerusalem as Sodom and Egypt.) 9 And will gaze those of the peoples, tribes and tongues, and nations, upon them for three and a half days, not allowing them to be put into tombs/graves. 10 And they will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to them. 11 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up in a cloud, as their enemies watched. 13 And at that hour, there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. (Zech.14:4)

     14 The second woe has passed, behold, the third woe is coming quickly. [The word is tachu - quickly. But translated here and elsewhere as ‘soon’. Which is not quite the same.]

£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 10 8-11

        WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

8 - Then the voice that I [John] had heard from heaven spoke to me again, “Go, and take the open scroll from the hand of the angel who is standing upon sea and land.”

     9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. And he said, “Take and eat it.” [Katesthíō - from katá - down, and esthíō - eat all the way down] (eat all your food.. the translators favored devour, go figure..) “It will turn your stomach sour (it’s a bitter cup/drink) but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’” (Prophecy - and the little book of the revelation vision is an intriguing and fascinating study! Riddles needing keys. But, nevertheless, it’s a bitter pill. Yes? The little scroll, separated like this, shows its importance. The key being, an overall key to the littler keys, lol, is “the end” puts it all together. The consummation, the full and mature fruit, consequences, results, tells the whole story. Straying cannot work. God iS life, and he “is perfect”. Self first, dog eat dog cannot work. ‘Parable’ of the decomposing ‘apple’ and its “worm that doesn’t quit”. The decomposing, fading away doesn’t stop ..imperfection is the worm, because God iS life. But, no option to stray in Eden would mean creation as a mere ant farm.)

     10 So I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and I ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.  (Fulfilled just as told.) 11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.” (I.e. the vision/prophecy continues..)

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€XpLoR!n9 ReVeLaTion 10 1-7

       WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - Then I (John) saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. I looked, and I saw he was wrapped in a cloud, and a rainbow was above his head. His face was shining like the sun, and his legs were like mighty pillars of fire. 2 He held a little scroll open in his hand. (Open.. meant to be understood?) And he stood with his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot upon the land. 3 And he called out with a loud voice that was like a lion when he roars. And when he called out, seven thunders sounded. 4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said! And do not write it down.” (Daniel 12:9, “Sealed until the time of the end” and as to what the seven thunders said, or are, how couLd they be understood until about the time of the end? Aka, modern capabilities.)  5 And then the angel standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven 6 and he swore by he who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and all in it, the earth and all in it, and the sea and all that is in it, saying - “There will be no more delay! 7 But in the days of the trumpet call sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.” (We are currently at 7:1,3 where we’ve been for some decades now.) (Take the vision out of the silly box titled “7yrs only”. It’s a treaty that alas will last only seven years.. The math problem that reveals everything is Daniel 12:11-12, w/ Lk.19:41,44 and 1Cor.3:16.) I post my own studies for those who want to know. But most importantly, God is Love and 10000% trustworthy. And — “Love never fails” 1Cor.13:8.

     FROM a commentary, slightly edited for modern reading - Barnes at biblehub dot com, concerning “fulfilled at the 7th trumpet’s sounding” — is “the setting up of his kingdom, which had been progressively revealed by the prophets. That purpose would be finished, or consummated, in the time when the seventh angel should begin to sound. Then all the mystery would be revealed; the plan would be unfolded; the divine purpose, so long concealed, would be manifested, and the kingdom of the Messiah and of the saints would be set up upon the earth. Under that period” (NOTE, mine: the period being “the” millennium, aNd, the following GWT judgment ‘day’ - they being the Day of the LORD, the long second advent of king of the earth Jesus, which is bookmarked by two huge fiery events, 2Pet.3:10/2Thes.1:7-8 and 2Pet.3:12-13. The two fiery events being the armageddon battle, Is.24:20, and the “fiery” “palingenesis” or that is, the again-genesis of Rev.21:1-5. It’s during the whole period in between that) “the affairs of the world will be ultimately wound up, and the whole work of redemption completed.” (Rev.20-but described like describing the crests of waves without describing the in between.)

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€XpLoR!n9 ReVeLaTion 9 13-21

       WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

13 - When the sixth angel blew his trumpet, I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 and it said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, day, month, and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.16 The number of mounted troops - twice ten thousand times ten thousand is the number I heard. 17 And this is how the horses appeared and those who rode them - they wore breastplates the color of fire (red, red-orange) hyacinth (deep blue), and brimstone/sulfur (yellow) and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads (big) and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire (red), smoke (deep blue?) and brimstone (yellow) coming out of their mouths. (Rev.8:13 had said, “Woe! Woe! Woe [ouai - alas! woe!] to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts (that were) about to be sounded by the other three angels!” Trumpets five, six and seven.] 19 For the power of the horses [6th trumpet] is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

     20 The rest of mankind, who weren’t killed by these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries [pharmakos - poisoning, sorceries, magic (modern(?) “miracles to mislead”, and enchantments, mesmerising)] nor repented of their sexual immorality and thefts. (As opposed to Jn.3:33.)

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