WeeKly BooK oF Revelation
paraphrased study
8 - Then I (John) saw a second angel following the first across the sky, crying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She who has given all nations to drink the wine of her passionate immorality and corruption.”
9 And another angel, a third, followed, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on their forehead or hand, 10 they also will drink the cup of the wine of God's wrath (consequences, Obadiah 1:15, Ps.90:3,5-7) poured undiluted. (Things are being allowed to run their full course. Otherwise why bother?) And they will be tormented with fire and sulfur (EARTHLY event) before the holy angels and the Lamb. (“All the world is a stage” Shakespeare.) 11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. (There’s a “palin/again-genesis”, so that must be the smoke of the torment/destruction “rising age to age” in the memories and record of all things.) And they have no rest, day or night, those worshipping the beast (many headed geopolitical) and its image. And who receive the mark [charagma - a stamp, impress, originally an impress on a coin or a seal, later an identification marker, owner's unique brand-mark) of its name.”
12 Here is a call for the endurance (Dn.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44 and 1Cor.3:16, escalating? Rev.2:10) of his people, all those who keep the instructions of God and their faith in Jesus. 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!” (Straightaway.) (“Seven thunders” as Is.24:20?)
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Logic of things allowed to run their course..
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