REVELATION - 18 9-24

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     9 - And the kings of earth, who were in bed with her and lived in luxury with her, will weep and mourn when they see the smoke of her burning. {$ity Babylon - who rode the beasts to all seven hills/continents.. Free enterprise highjacked. Rode (and traveled with) the beasts which will join but not really (Rev.13:1 w/ Dan.7:7,19, and Dan.2:36-45 shows us the metals are Rome and Greek, aka a western roots and foundation, many headed geopolitical beast/entity/institution. Within it, is ‘dove’ and vulture, Mt.24:28. The fallen as prey,  the west once called Christendom having fallen away into “lawlessness” and deterioration.}

     10 They will stand far off, watching from a distance in fear of her torment, and will say, “Alas! Alas! That great city {that ruled} that mighty city, Babylon! For in one hour your judgment has come.” 

     11 And the merchants of earth {also} will weep and mourn for her. For no one buys their cargoes anymore. 12 Products of gold and silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, silk and scarlet cloths, all fragrant woods, articles of ivory and fine wood, bronze, iron and marble. 13 And cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumes and ointments, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, slaves, and human souls [psuche - soul, life, self, inner being] {human beings}. 14 “And the ripe fruit of you and the delicacies for which you lusted/longed for have gone from you. All your sumptuous splendors are lost to you and will not be found in you again.”

     15 The merchants of these things, who grew wealthy from her (from the $ity, a modern day Baal?) will stand far off, in fear of her torment, loudly weeping and mourning, 16 “Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, and jewels, and with pearls! 17 For in a single hour all that wealth has been laid waste.”

     And all shipmasters and seafaring men/traders, sailors and all whose - trade is on the sea - stood far off, 18 and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, “What city was like the great $ity?!” 19 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, for the great city - where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her costliness! For in one hour has she been laid waste.”

     20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment against her! {As you have done so shall it fall upon you.. reaping what you sow..}

     21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more, 22 and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will no longer be heard in you, nor any craftsman of any craft will be found in you, nor sound of the mill, be heard in you. 23 The light of a lamp will not shine in you, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you any more, for her merchants were the great ones of earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery [pharmakeia - sorcery, witchcraft, magic, enchantment, spells, deception, corruption, beguilement.. {power to influence}].

      24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of - all - who have been slain upon earth.” {Empire, personal or collective.}

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REVELATION - 18 1-8

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     1 - After (all) this I (John) saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, for the earth was made bright with his radiance.

     2 He called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen! Fallen! Babylon - the great - is fallen! ‘She’ who became a dwelling place for demons! A haunt for every unclean predatory bird and spirit. {Truly dog eat dog?} {City Babylon sits on all seven hills/continents.. rode there upon the beasts of earth that will join into one beast.}

     3 For all nations have drank the wine of her passion [orge - passion, wrath]. {This is the word translated wrath when it comes to “God’s wrath” which I think of as God’s “passion”. His passion being cause and effect because an Ant Farm is no paradise. And because it’s running its course even though he, as Life, witnesses and lives through all atrocities. I can’t help thinking some actual anger, however does come into play sometimes. The old Testament word means “smoke out the nose”. Lol. Can’t forget nations around Israel were sacrificing children and babies to a fire ‘god’. And preflood was hands off..?}

     All nations have drank the wine of the wrath of her immorality. The kings of earth {are in bed with} have committed immorality with her. And the merchants of earth through her sensuality have grown rich. {Not only from free enterprise highjacked and gone extreme, but also by harnessing immorality, greek word porneia.].”

     4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, and thus share in her plagues. 5 For her sins are heaped high as heaven {‘she’ shakes her fist at heaven?} and God has remembered her iniquities [adikéma - wrongdoings, injustices, offenses]. 6 Pay to her as she has paid to others. Repay her double what she has done, mix a double portion for her in the cup, she herself mixed. 7 As she glorified [doxazó - bestowed glory, honored, praised] herself and lived in indulgence and wantoness, so give her its torment and mourning. Because in her heart she says, ‘I am a queen, not a widow. And mourning I will never see.’ 8 For this reason her plagues [plégé - plagues, wounds, afflictions, blows] will come in a day, death, mourning, famine. And she will be destroyed by fire, for mighty is the LORD God who judges her.” {Only Good and True can stand, and endure, an iron measure. Truth is, and Truth rules. But this contrast was all set on fast forward by fallen angels being involved.. Otherwise why did God wait …so long? Not only for the first bound to occur rebel thought to occur, but to mature into outright sedition, before creating the universe, earth and man and woman?}

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REVELATION - 16 - 17-21

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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

BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON FIVE - THE FALSE PROPHET

His face is hidden.

NoT yesteryear's false prophet!

But "the man of sin" collective..

(Oh but for the grace of God, there go I..)

He shakes his fist at the heavens / God..

He began as a man..

Caused a great falling away..

And changed Western Civilization..

He now has many miracles and modern wonders!

Including the capability of Revelation 13:13..

                                                                  which he gave to an office in 1945.

And this false prophet has a lot up his sleeve yet.

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  {But we've been given a little time to get out of Babylon?}

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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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NOTORIOUS BOOK OF REVELATION outline

An Outline Before Proceeding Further

Chapters 2 and 3 - The Letters To The Churches

Chapter 6 - Six Seals of the Seven Seals of God (on the Scroll)

     ~ broken, and described

     ~ as a blend of their beginning and their maturity

Chapters 7 - 9

     ~ 144,000 Israelites and numberless gentiles

     ~ the Seventh Seal

     ~ and the first 6 Trumpets in it

Chapters 10,11,12, and 13 

     ~ for the most part are inserts

          - chapter 10 - mystery of the seven thunders

                "at the time of the 7th trump,`it is done`"

          - chapter 11 - measure the sanctuary, not the court

                7th Trumpet is sounded, earthquake, lightning, hail

          - chapter 12 - a history of the faith on earth

                first Israel, then christianity, then again Israel

                just before His return (Mt 23:39 & Rev 16:14-16)

          - chapter 13 - last days politics (last beastly empire)

                a world beast(ly) verses 1-10, was, expired, was again

                a 'little' beast, an individual & the office in at one time or another

                     verses 11-18 (13:13 identifies/pinpoints the office)

Chapter 14 - two harvests - wheat into barn, tares to Armageddon

Chapters 15,16 - the seven final consequences called Bowls in the 7th Trumpet

                and the gathering to Armageddon

Chapter 17,18 - meanwhile the crashing and collapse of Babylon, of

                which religion gone astray is part, but not the whole (18:11)

Chapter 19 - marriage supper of the lamb and the world beast and

                false teacher/teaching go down in flames and are nevermore

Chapter 20 - Satan bound 1000 years, the 1000 year reign, then the 2nd

                resurrection and the long 'day' of review/judgment, a day of deep

                mourning and regret..

Chapter 21 - The Son gives over the Kingdom to the Father who will now

        & 22 dwell (Tabernacle) with mankind on an earth made new in a

                universe made new. God becomes "all in all". (Death and

                the grave/hades/hell are cast into the Lake of Fire, the 2nd death.)

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Revelation #7 - Crash In One Hour

 ~ ~ ~ This is Prophecy Sentence Part 7 ~ ~ ~
= also (R.18:2-19,24 + 17:2) ( the 2nd = part of the prophecy sentence)
Revelation 18:2-19, 24 (Young's Literal Translation)
"..and the angel did cry in a great voice, saying, `Fall, fall did Babylon the Great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird - because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom" (greek word "pornos") "have all the nations drunk" (and seven hills/continents) "and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom" (were in bed with her) "and merchants of the earth from the power of her enchantments were made rich. - And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues, - because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven" (she shook her fist at heaven) "and God did remember her unrighteousness. - Render to her as also she did render to you, and double to her doubles according to her works; in the cup" ("golden cup" of side effects, i.e. perversions, murders, abortions, etc, etc) "that she did mingle, mingle to her double. -  `As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see; - because of this, in one day, shall come her plagues, death, and sorrow, and famine; and in fire she shall be utterly burned, because strong [is] the Lord God who is judging her; - and weep over her, and smite themselves for her, shall the kings of the earth, who with her did commit whoredom and did revel, when they may see the smoke of her burning, - from afar having stood because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! Babylon, the strong city! because in one hour did come thy judgment. - `And the merchants of the earth shall weep and sorrow over her, because their lading no one doth buy any more; - lading of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyne wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most precious wood, and brass, and iron, and marble, - and cinnamon, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies and souls of men. - `And the fruits of the desire of thy soul did go away from you, and all things -- the dainty and the bright -- did go away from you, and no more at all mayest thou find them. - The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, far off shall stand because of the fear of her torment, weeping, and sorrowing, - and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, that was arrayed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and gilded in gold, and precious stone, and pearls -- because in one hour so much riches were made waste!" (collapse in one hour) -  `And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea" (i.e. trade) "far off stood, - and were crying, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city is] like to the great city? - and they did cast dust upon their heads, and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! in which were made rich all having ships in the sea, out of her costliness -- for in one hour was she made waste... ..On the streets of Babylon is found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."
Revelation 17:2 - (Contemporary English Version)
"Every king on earth has slept with her, and her shameless ways are like wine that has made everyone on earth drunk.” (And immoral.)
---- These studies are not necessarily in the order they occur in the Book of Revelation.----
Revelation #1 - The Bible Tells Us All Things - (USA)
Revelation #2 - Fat Man and Little Boy
Revelation #3 - Not Even One Stone
Rev #4 - Drought Ends World Peace
Rev #5 - A Happy Dragon
Rev #6 - Last Ten Of 45 Days
Rev #7 - Crash In One Hour
The whole sentence:  R.12:14(USA) + (R.6:12-17 + 13:13@1945) + (Mt.24:1,2 + Dan.12:11a) + [Lk.23:31 + R.12:16 + Mk.13:8] + [Dan.12:11,12 + R.13:17 + Mt.24:15] = [R.20:4b\R.2:10 + Dan.12:12] + (R.18:2-19,24 + 17:2)
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In other words, what I have gathered will likely unfold concerning Bible 'end' times prophecy is there will be a seven year peace treaty of the nations of the world. (Or just in the Middle East as some think?) In "the midst" or middle of this 'peace' the Wailing Wall, a place of daily worship and petition in Jerusalem, will be taken away and removed. And roughly three and one half years later, the "abomination which desolates" (666) will be "set-up" affecting "buying and selling" for forty five days, with the last ten days becoming critical (Revelation 20:4b and 2:10). [Daniel 9:27; 12:11,12 and Matthew 24:1,2]
 ~ I'm on the look out for a verse or verses which mention a 'marriage' of two world political powers.. The (world) beast of Rev 13:1-10 married to or infiltrated by the political force which has in it Rev 20:4b.