So Called Image Of The Beast

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"..and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak.." Revelation 13:15.

The word "image" here, is G1504 in the Greek concordance - "eikon - a likeness of, from 1503, eiko - through the idea of faintness as a copy".

APOCALYPSE IN FEW WORDS

FIRST A QUICK SUMMARY OF THIS OUTLINE:

        a. This outline ignores inner, spiritual symbolisms other than how, ultimately, `
            all which is built upon untruth, can only fail and fall.
        b. The Hiroshima, Nagasaki thermonuclear bombing in 1945 was the breaking
            open of a sixth seal on a scroll called the Revelation vision, or Apocalypse.
            Following this, a pause.
        c. Until limited thermonuclear. (In or from the Middle East?)
        d. The office which began its use and a world body become much stronger
            and join forces; Peace treaties.
        e. Peace treaty w/ Israel is broken, (and the place of?) daily prayers is
            removed/ceased/taken away.
        f. Much drought - Regional conflicts of the world flare back up - Marshall
           Law five months - Mega troops from China to Middle East
           battleground - Man's global "city" had crashed? now falls.
        g. Three years plus seven months (made up of 30 da. months) after the treaty
            w/ Israel is broken, the notorious '666' is "set up". And "blessed is the one
            who comes to (the) forty-five days later".
            (Daniel 12:11,12; all other verses are in the outline.)
             ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____
     ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____

I. Revelation 13:13 occurred in the year 1945, pinpointing an office.
   This is also "Seal Six" of chapter 6, verses 12 through 17.
        a. The "Seals" are described as a blend of
            (1) what they are at their beginning, and
            (2) what they are as fully grown and at full maturity, at the 'end'.
            This obscures much of the Revelation vision.

II. We are in the pause of thermonuclear as warfare. (Rev. 7:1 to 8:6)

III. (Rev. 8:5, and later 8:7-12) - Limited thermonuclear warfare (in or from
      the Middle East?) This is the breaking (open) of the "Seventh Seal" on the
      scroll which is the Revelation vision. At the breaking of the 7th Seal things
      escalate. The scroll is fully unrolled.
        a. Seven angels with "Trumpets" prepare to sound with these results:
            (1) Environmental woes
            (2) Droughts (Rev. 12:16 + Luke 23:28,31)
            (3) The (two horned) office of Rev. 13:13 or one of that office (at one time?)
                  takes his/her seat in the prime office(?) of Rev. 13:1-10 a world beast/body
                  "which was, then wasn't" (when its head expired, not having signed on
                  after all) then after 13:13 "was once again" but lacks "breath"
                  (much authority) for some time (verses 14,15).
                  Treaties, especially between the dove and the vulture?
                  A (world?) Great Treaty? (Or just w/ Israel?)
            (4) Israel's (place of?) daily prayers and praise is taken away.
                  Aka? Matthew 24:1-2, "..not one stone will be left one atop another"..?

IV. Global Babylon (called harlot, the Greek "pornos" and "to sell") of the Earth
      crashes "in one hour.."

V. Three final "Woes" (results of mankind's doings)
        a. Five months of Marshall Law, via helicopters, or? (Rev. 9:5-10, written 90 C.E.)
        b. Troops from China to the Middle East battleground / Great War (Rev. 9:14,16)
        c. Daniel 12:11,12 - From the time Israel's (place of?) daily prayers and praise is
            removed, until 666 is "set-up" will be 3.5 Hebrew years, plus thirty days.
            Blessed is the one who makes it to day 1,335.. which is 45 days later.

VI. Babylon the Great / Global Babylon,
      whose forehead (psyche) is "Mystery Babble" (all untruth)
      falls "in one day.." (Rev. chapters 17 and 18)
         a. (During?) "...will lead to streams of living water" (Rev. 7:17)
             "..waters in the day when the towers fall". (Isaiah 30:25)
         b. "Immediately after the tribulation of those days.. they will see the
             Son of man coming on the clouds with power and great glory."
             (Matthew 24:29,30)
           
             "When Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels and in fire ..He
             will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather
             His own from the four winds of Earth."
             (2 Thessalonians 1:7,8; Matthew 24:31 )

             "The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
             of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise,
             and those believers who are alive shall be caught up together with them in
             the clouds to meet the Lord.." .."He comes on the clouds with ten thousands
             and thousands of His holy ones." (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17; Jude 1:14)

             "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trumpet  ..the dead
             shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed, for this corruptible
             must put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality..
             swallowing death in victory". (1 Corinthians 15:52-54)
             "As we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the
             image of the heavenly." (Verse 49)

             "When the 7th angel sounds his trumpet, loud voices in heaven say, 'The
             kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of our LORD (God) and
             of His Christ (Messiah) and He shall reign forever and ever'." (Rev. 11:15)

        c.  "...lightnings, noises, thunderings, earthquake, and great hail.."
             (Great debris? when the towers fall?) (Rev. 11:19)
             "Come out of her (city Babylon) my people.." (Rev. 18:4)
        d.  "And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount(ain)
             of Olives," Jerusalem. (Zechariah 14:4)

VII. His return is called the "Second Advent" and the "millennium" ("Day of the LORD")
        a. "He shall judge nations.. they shall beat their weapons into plowshares
            and pruning hooks.." (Micah 4:3)
        b. The millennium of Jesus lasts 1000 years.

VIII. "When the 1000 years are ended.." (Rev. 20:7)
        a. "the dead, small and great, stand before God" - this is the 2nd resurrection,
            which is of all those not resurrected in the first one,
        b. and which, at the conclusion of, "death and the grave" (usually translated 'hell')
            are no more .(Rev. 20:7-14)
        c. "The books are opened" - A great 'day' of the review of all mankind's
            history and doings? "I will put my law into their hearts. And in their
            minds I will write them." (Hebrews 10:16 & Jeremiah 32:33) "The queen
            of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation ...for
            indeed a greater than Solomon is here..." ( Luke 11:31)
            "All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all
            the families of the nations will worship before Him." (Psalm 22:27)
                (1) If Jesus' 1st Advent is said to have fulfilled Israel's ancient Spring
                     Holy Days (as prophecy)
                (2) Won't the three peaks of His long 2nd Advent fulfill the stretched
                      out Autumn Holy Days of :
                       #1 - Trumpets - 10 days (1000 years) later
                       #2 - Day of Atonement - with the next, #3, 5 days (500 years) later
                                a. Day of Atonement was an annual, historic, national day
                                    of great mourning, repentance and forgiveness.
                                    (1) "Whatsoever soul will not be afflicted in that day will be
                                          cut off from among his people." (Leviticus 23:29)
                                    (2) All Jubilee's began on a Day of Atonement.
                                 b. (Then) "anyone whose name is" (still) "not written in the Book
                                     of Life" (still not believing/redeemed/reconciled/in love
                                     with God) "are cast ("age-lasting"-per the Aramaic and the
                                     Greek words used vs the English) "into the lake of fire".
                        #3 - (Until finally) Tabernacles - God, the Father "will now tabernacle"
                               (tent/live with) man on Earth made new, in a universe made
                               new - "Behold. I make all things new." (Rev. 21:3,5)
                                 a. The heavenly Father, "God" who "is Love," Life, Perfection
                                     (1 Jn 4 and 5) "will be all in all". (1 Corinthians 15:21-28)
                                 b. "All things in heaven and earth having been gathered
                                     into Jesus" (Colossians 1:20)
                                 c. "Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life,
                                     clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and..
                                     ..on each side of the river.. the tree of life, bearing
                                     twelve manner of fruit each month.. and the leaves
                                     of the tree for the healing of the nations.. Behold,
                                     I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the
                                     words of the prophecy written in this scroll..
                                     ..And God will wipe away every tear.. there shall be no
                                     more death, nor sorrow, pain, nor crying."
                                     (Rev. 22:1-2,7; 21:4) "The lion will eat straw like
                                     the ox. The bear will graze with the cow."
                                     (Isaiah 11:7)


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THE BEAST

I'm sure you have heard of "the beast" in Bible prophecy, and that it has to do with that mysterious number, 666. This is in the Book of Revelation, chapter 13.  But did you know there are two beasts? The most prominent beast - the one I would call "THE beast" - is verses one through ten. A 'big' beast. And verses eleven through eighteen are a 'little' beast.

Beast one is a world beast, or that is a world empire or world body, which rises to much power. Beast two is a prominent office of man. Yes, he's the famous 666 one, but it's - an office - which is pinpointed, here, in Revelation chapter 13. And dig this, the verse which pinpoints the office? Verse 13:13.

So picture this, verse 13 says, "he performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." For the life of me I can't imagine why this doesn't ring more bells! Like man's splitting of the atom isn't in Bible prophecy! (Maybe hints at it in Ezekiel.)

Revelation 13:13 - "he.. makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men" - 1945, fire, upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Earth's final antiChrist (it's a person, for we have his number, and yes there's been others) will be associated with that same office which brought down that fire. Likely associated with the office, previously to being in the main seat of the world beast (of verses one through ten).

The world beast here, and also in the book of (in the writings of) the prophet Daniel, is described as having ten horns. (Leading us to believe there are clues and information about it in both Revelation and Daniel.) Daniel is second only to the Book of Revelation when it comes to latter day Bible prophecy. Revelation (about 90 a.d.) says he "has seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns" (from Revelation 13:1-3). And Daniel (about 550 b.c.) says he has "ten horns in his head.. with iron teeth and bronze claws" (from Daniel 7:19 and 20).

In the next lesson, we will discuss how we know the "iron" is Roman (based) and the "bronze" is Greek (based). The last days world beast will be something which sprang up upon Roman and Greek (Roman/Graeco) foundations, what is called "the classical world". And what was built upon it? Western civilization. Think Roman politics, courts, senates, architecture; along with Greek drama, arts, philosophy, universities, etc. A world body rises to power, having iron teeth (columns!) and with bronze claws "breaks apart" or "scatters". [This is not to say nations of the Middle and Far East are not also players in the Book of Revelation vision.]

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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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APOCALYPSE MADE PLAIN

An Overview Before Proceeding Further
Revelation Chapters 8, 9 and 14

So What's Next? Now that we know we are in the pause of the splitting of the atom used for warfare, what can we expect to occur next?

If you remember, man's splitting of the atom, was the opening of the `sixth seal` on the scroll which is the Book of Revelation vision.

"The Day Which Shook the Earth"
 - Hiroshima witness, Hachiya, Michihiko - "two bright flashes, darkness, ppl wounded, walking but silent" - Hiroshima Diary (1955) - "Surviving the Atomic Attack on Hiroshima, 1945," -- from "EyeWitness to History" - http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hiroshima.htm (2001)

"When the Seventh Seal is broken, there is a hush in heaven for the space of about half an hour." - Rev 8:1
..And seven angels are given seven trumpets and prepare to sound.. Another angel is given incense to mingle with the prayers of the Lord's people.. Then the angel fills his censor with fire from the altar and casts it to Earth.. There is noises.. thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake.

The Seventh Seal - An Overview

a - hush in heaven (clandestine goings on, on earth? or, last days thermonuclear [#1]?)
b - Lord's people graced with greater spirit of prayer..?
c - thermonuclear - [#1?] (thunders, lightnings, earthquake)
d - seven angel trumpeters sound - Rev 8 and 9
   1 - hail, fire, blood, 1/4 green of earth burned up [#2?]
   2 - burning mountain into sea [#3) a misfire? to John's eyes, fiery mountain rising?
   3 - large star to earth as torch [#4 as missile?) "wormwood" on rivers and streams
   4 - the light of 1/3 of the sun, moon and stars are diminished
        (smoke/drought - Rev 12:16; Lk23:28,31)
   5 - out of the smoke comes marshall law for five months, helicopter
        enforced (9:3-10, locust like, strike fast)
   6 - troops at the Euphrates, tanks, 1/3 (remaining?) mankind killed
        for 3.5 years two witnesses prophecy in Jerusalem
        the gathering to Armageddon, 16:14-16
        666 for 45 days (Daniel 12:11,12)
               [[chapters 10,11,12 & 13 are inserts]]
e - gathering to Hinnom / Armageddon - 16:14-16
   7 - "at the time of the 7th trump" - Rev 10:6,7 - "finished / consummated"
        The Kingdom Is The Lord's - 14:1(spiritual until)14-18,
        which is the two harvests of the earth
        final thermonuclear - 14:19,20; 2 Thess. 1:7,8 -
        lightnings, voices, earthquake, great hail
        - (or debris? when towers / global Babylon falls -17:1,2
        note, the 14:8 fall/crash, is not 17:1!)
        Verse 20 = oil?

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WHERE IN REVELATION CHAPTER TWELVE IS THE U.S.?

Can you tell me where in the chapter is the U.S.?

Is the U.S. in Bible prophecy? In the Book of Revelation?
Before we move on from the pause of thermonuclear being used as warfare, it's important to note a second way in which the Revelation vision is obscured. At least three chapters are inserts. The most prominent being chapters twelve and thirteen. Each one is a history and account of its own.

Revelation chapter twelve begins by showing us a woman. One with a circle of twelve stars around her head and who is about to give birth to a manchild (Son of man). She is Israel. But even more so, she is the instrument of God.

The dragon (called Satan, verse 9) tries to devour the manchild (Son of man) as soon as He is born - "and Herod had the male children of Bethlehem put to the sword" - but He was caught up to God and His throne, where He now sits on the right hand of God (Ephesians 1:20).

The dragon, enraged, pursued the woman (Israel, 70 A.D.) and the woman fled, a first, for the most part, migration of the faith. Christianity, now, for a time, the instrument of God, begun with the twelve apostles. (Note: Disciple Judas was replaced, Acts 1.)

There is war in heaven, Satan and his one third angels are no longer allowed celestial access, and he in great wrath persecutes (inquisitions) the woman. But she is given the two wings of an eagle that she may fly (sail?) to a new place where she is kept safe from the face of the dragon for 3.5 (modern) divisions of time.

There may indeed be a days of great tribulation fulfillment of Revelation chapter 12, with the 3.5 being computed differently, but I see this as 1620+350=1970 when the serpent (guise of the dragon) spewed water as a flood (vomited a proliferation) after the woman in an attempt to wash the woman (the faith) from off the Earth. But the Earth opens its mouth and swallows the flood (resulting in drought, see Luke 23:29,31).

Then the dragon returns his attention (fully) to the remainder of the woman's children who has the commandments of God and (by now) the testimony of Jesus (see Matthew 23:37,39 and Revelation 16:14,15,16).

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FAT MAN and LITTLE BOY Leap Upon The Stage

We're going to jump ahead for one moment to Revelation chapter thirteen.

Revelation 13, verse 13 - in Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

"..and it" - the second 'beast' of the chapter - "doth great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men.."

Many believe this will be a supernatural act, a magical trick of some sort. But I believe it occurred in 1945 at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I also believe it is the sixth seal, of the seven seals of chapter six. The scroll is unrolled, breaking the seal, revealing the vision, the earth shakes, and mighty men of the earth hide in caves. I remember hearing of the bomb shelters that were built after that day.

The Seals of God are described in a blend of two strands:
 - #1 - what it is when it begins, and,
 - #2 - what it is at the 'end' in its full growth (gallup) and maturity.

This is never more true than with the sixth seal. But with the emphasis on its full blown effect.

Revelation 6:12-17 - Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

"And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth -- as a fig-tree doth cast her winter figs, by a great wind being shaken -- and heaven departed as a scroll rolled up, and every mountain and island -- out of their places were moved; and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains, and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,' because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?"

And after this -

Revelation 7:1 - King James Version (KJV)

"And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.."

The Winds of the Sixth Seal are held back. Its winds are paused, and this is exactly where planet Earth is now in the unfolding of Bible prophecy. How long we remain here, would likely be the question. During the pause "servants of God are sealed on their foreheads, a hundred and forty-four thousand of Israel, and a great crowd from every land, nation and tribe". (The order being vice-versa, as shortly after Israel recognizes Jesus as Messiah, is when Jesus returns, Mt 23:39.)

Then, when the seventh seal on the scroll is broken there is silence in heaven for half an hour. I believe the seventh seal is broken when the pause of thermonuclear warfare is broken. Seven angels who stand before God are given seven trumpets, and they prepare to sound. (Things escalate.)

The seven trumpets are in that last seal. In order to keep this study brief and to the point, I am assuming it's likely any reader of this is acquainted somewhat with the Book of Revelation and knows what the Seals, Trumpets, and Bowls or Vials are. I would be more than happy to reply to the question if not however.

By describing the sixth seal in its maturity of effect, the vision is in a degree, locked. For it describes things which happen very late on the planet, here so early on in the narrative!

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