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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BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON ONE - CHAPTER TWELVE

The Woman ~ The Faith

A woman with twelve stars around her head,

gives birth to a manchild (Son of man).

Revelation chapter twelve is an insert and a history all its own.

Many have mistakenly sealed all of Revelation in a box called "7 years".
This greatly obscures the message.

A red dragon tries to devour the child as soon as he is born.

 (Herod the Great ordered all young boy 

children in Bethlehem be slain.)

But the child was caught up to God's throne.

Ephesians 1:20 - "God raised Him from the dead and seated 

Him at His right hand in the heavenly places."

And the woman "fled".  

(A migration of the faith "to a new place".)

70 a.d.

...And war broke out in heaven..

..and the dragon was

no longer allowed access to the heavens..                   

"Rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the inhabitants of the earth.. For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath.."

                                                                                 -- Verse 12

                                                           

  

        " And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, 

                                           he persecuted the woman.." [the faith] -- Verse 13

"But the woman" (the faith) 

"was given two wings of an eagle.."

"that she might fly to a wilderness place.."

                                                                                                       --Verse 14a

"...to be nourished and safe from the face of the dragon 

for 3.5 divisions of time.." -- Verse 14c

 + 350 =

"Then the serpent" (guise of the dragon) 

"spewed water out of his mouth like a flood, 

after the woman, that he might cause her 

to be swept away by the flood..." -- Verse 15

"But the Earth will swallow the flood." -- Verse 16

i.e.

 "The earth will swallow the flood."

"Then the dragon.. went off to wage war against the rest of the woman's children —  those who keep God’s commands and" (by then) "hold fast their testimony about Jesus." -- Verse 17

"Jerusalem you shall see me no more, until, you say -
'blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'  " Mt. 23:39

                

"Then I John saw three unclean spirits like frogs.. out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, spirits of demons.. to gather the kings and all the world to that great day of Armageddon.. `lo, I do come as a thief, happy is the one who is watching'.."

 - Revelation 16:14,15

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, 

then know that the desolation thereof is nigh." - Luke 21:20

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A Riddle ~ "From the time the daily/perpetual sacrifice" (or current place of continual prayers?) "is removed ~ 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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When Comes The Crash?

Early on in my walk with the Lord, before I knew His Word at all, He ministered a verse to me. What I was getting my reading from in those first days was a book of daily scripture readings organized into related verses. I had no idea of context at that time.

The verse He ministered was "blessed is she who believes for there shall be a performance of those things told her by the Lord". Which I read as He will do what He has said He will do.

And He did.

In my morning reading and prayer time today, when I read Paul, while at storm tossed sea saying, "take heart men, for I believe it will be just as God has told me". I immediately thought of Bible prophecy, which I've gone into elsewhere on here, and blogged a "super short summary" of yesterday.

'But when does Babylon crash?" I thought, realizing it to be a hole in what I've learned as to upcoming things. So I prayed, asking the Lord, when does Babylon (the whole money thing) crash.

Then I was reminded there will be drought - Rev. 12:16 and Luke 23:28,31. And next, how the drought condition is caused by some sort of thermonuclear, war related event. The 'pause' of Rev. 7:1 being over.

Sounds logical, right? The Great Money System crashes after these two.

After thermonuclear, I would imagine is when the world beast/governance (of Rev. 12:1-10) becomes stronger. In the course of that of course is the seven year false peace treaty. (Middle East and Israel? And called 'world peace'?)

"In the midst of the treaty, the" (place of?) "daily prayers is taken away," Daniel 12:11.

"One thousand two hundred and ninety days - three and a half Hebrew years, plus one Hebrew month, which is thirty days - later, will be set up the abomination" (apparatus?) "of desolation" (666?).

"And blessed is the one who waits, and comes to the one thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days" - which is forty-five days later(?) - Daniel 12:12.

But the question partly remains. When 'exactly' does Babylon crash in the midst of all that.

After thermonuclear, after drought.. "The ten kings which rule one final hour with the" 'big' (world) "beast will desolate Babylon" the great $ity which embraced "pornos" (the Greek word translated "harlot") which enchanted the nations and seven continents, "ruining the earth". (See Rev. 12:15)

"The merchants will weep. For no one buys.. anymore."

1 John 2:27 was also in my morning readings.

Rev. 14:6-9 - Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’ which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”

A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, he too will [have to] drink of the wine of the wrath of God.. (Man's fiery results.)

Super Short Summary of the Book of Revelation - Apocalypse and Bible Prophecy

Keys ~ The Seals are elements of the last age/hour and are described as a blend of what they are when they begin and what they are at full maturity. Chapters 12 and 13 are an insert.. 13 describing how 12:17 will be carried out.. 12 is the history of the faith (Son of man, Herod the Great-indirectly, the 70 a.d. razing, the inquisitions, the Mayflower and verse 17 being the gathering to Armageddon (16:14-16; w/cross ref=Mt 23:39; And a cross-ref for 12:16 is Lk 23:28,31).

The false prophet/teacher/teaching has caused the falling away, and great delusion, of society and culture, turning Christendom on its ear.. $ity Babylon the harlot/"pornos"- (the greek) crashes in an hour and falls in a day, the merchants will weep for no one buys... Capitalism embraced pornos, and enchanted, thus ruining, the 7 continents. The kings/politicians are in bed with her and she reigns over them.

She rides the first beast of Rev 13, which 7th head, manifestation, expired but was rebuilt after the fire (13:13) upon earth by the 2nd (little) beast of chapter 13, which pinpoints, an office, and occurred in 1945 - so big and in our face (like the false prophet) no one sees it. The 'little' beast will (finally) give breath/authority to the 'big' (world) beast/governing and in the last hour ten kings of it/divisions/toes/horns, will raze the harlot, of babble-on and on. Socialism will finally devour Capitalism. The 'big' beast - the 'dove' will compatriot with the vulture - Rev 20:4d. ("Five months" helicopter enforced Martial Law under the 'destroyer'/anti-Christ.) Postscript: Weird Things In The Book of Revelation

Daniel 12:11,12 - in the midst of the 7 year 'peace' treaty, when the (place of?) daily prayers in Jerusalem is removed (Mt. 24:1,2 "not one stone of all these shall remain atop another") then, 3.5 (Hebrew) years plus 30 days later, the abomination (apparatus?) that desolates (666?) will be set-up. Happy the one who waits and comes to 45 days later. The last "ten days" escalating from cannot buy or sell, to will be killed? Day 45 = 7th trump. The bowls are just about(?) concurrent.. 2 Thess 1:7,8.

Currently we are in a pause (Rev 7:1,3) after seal 6 which was 13:13.

Peace.. and God bless..

Two All Important KEYS To Unlock The Revelation Vision

Without these two keys, the vision remains confused and obscured. What are the keys?

#1 - Chapters 12 and 13 are inserts, and are histories all on their own, able to stand alone.

#2 - The Six Seals of chapter 6 are described as a blend of two things - what they are when they first begin, and what they are at full maturity at the 'end'. This is especially true of Seal Six. In this way, things are told here, in chapter six - so early on in the narrative - which do not occur until very late days on the planet.

Other Keys:

The vision is like a stage production - God's truth proving drama, the letting of man (and angel) choices to run their natural course. Choice, is an offshoot of thinking ability. Apocalypse - Greek = the "unveiling" (of true from untrue / good from evil / life from death) - All which is built on sand, rather than upon The Rock/truth, can only fall - to wander away from God who is life can only ever end in a self destructive wisp of smoke... Each element of Revelation, once it begins, continues to the 'end'.. Like notes in an orchestra, continue playing. For example the four horsemen's gallop being their progression. And their 'gallop' continues throughout. The six seals are the elements of the latter age, the years of our Lord, a.d. In the 7th seal are the 7 trumpets and in the 7th trumpet are the last results, the 7 bowls, which occur pretty much concurrently. (2 Thessalonians 1:7-8)

[God is perfect, and He is life. To be imperfect, is the opposite of Life. Therefor the rescue was built in from the beginning ("foundation") since God Himself opened this Pandora's box by endowing thinking ability. "If I am lifted up from the earth" Jesus said "I will draw all to me" - John 12:32. Italics in the text are words added by the translators.]

In the description of Seal Four, which is the fourth horse and rider of the apocalypse, the word "hell" should read "grave" and in this description, includes the mass grave(s).

The return of Jesus (and the first resurrection) occurs at the last (7th) trump, and Revelation chapter 16, verses 14,15,16. (2 Thessalonians 1:7-8; Matthew 24:29a,31)

Revelation 13:13 is the same event as Seal Six. It pinpoints an office occupied by the AC at some point. The "fire" occurred in 1945 (I always want to add "dah!".)

There are TWO beasts of chapter 13. The world beast/body (verses 1-10) and the one of 13:13 (verses 11-18) who is NOT the "false prophet" though the false prophet gave the fire of 13:13. 'He' began as a man, but now is a white smocked magician who produces modern miracles and wonders and produces the desolating apparatus (of verses 16-18) which will escalate during its last "ten days" from "cannot buy or sell" to "will be killed". The desolating apparatus will hum along for 45 days - count the days - Daniel 12:11-12 (which I have blogged about previously). This false prophet (teacher, teaching and "strong delusion" which does include a sort of prophesying) has turned Christendom (Western Civilization) on its ear, causing a "great falling away".

In chapter 12, we can find Herod the Great (albeit indirectly); 70 a.d.; two for the large part, migrations of the faith - now the mantle worn by Chrisitianity; the inqusitions; the Mayflower; and the gathering to Armageddon-cross reference Matthew 23:39.

"The beast" - the one of verse 1-10 of chapter 13 (the world beast/body) and the "false prophet" are not humans but are institutions of man "active" during last days, and at the time of Jesus' return.

God bless..

Key Word - LOVE

Bible prophecy, and the Book of Revelation, is not "God's Wrath"! It's simply prophecy. But it's prophecy from the ultimate source! And though I do not think the book's fulfillment is imminent, I do think it's very interesting and could be a handy thing to pass on to our children and grand children.

"God is LOVE" - 1 John 4:8.

"...we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men --" 1 Timothy 4:10. He made the sun to rise and the birds to sing.. Bible prophecy is the story of what man does. But it's told in bold and colorful images and in rich language. You can hear a symphony as you read it.. Well, not really, but I got caught up in the moment! And you almost can! The symbols of Revelation are like music notes of an orchestra, and once a note begins it continues to the 'end'. [In this way, things which occur very late, are told here at the beginning!]

I believe there's at least two keys needed for understanding the Book of Revelation. The first is in chapter six, where the prophecy begins, the "seals" are described as a blend of what they are at their beginning, and what they are fully grown and progressed.

The second key is to realize chapters twelve and thirteen are inserts. They are each a complete story and history on their own.
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