Book of Revelation Chapter by Chapter

Revelation Chapter by Chapter (#1)

WHY READ THE BOOK OF REVELATION?

Verses 1:1-3 - This is How the Book Opens

1. This book is the record of the events that Jesus Christ revealed. God gave him this revelation in order to show to his servants what must happen very soon. Christ made these things known to his servant John by sending his angel to him, 2. and John has told all that he has seen. This is his report concerning the message from God and the truth revealed by Jesus Christ. 3. Happy is the one who reads this book, and happy are those who listen to the words of this prophetic message and obey what is written in this book! For the time is near when all these things will happen.

"If you have ears.. listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.." 2:7;11;17;29; 3:6;13;22

The Seven Letters - Keep our first love for the Lord alive. Persevere, endure, know we are rich. Do not be distracted and sidetracked by other (seemingly) glittery things; or teachings and thus fall away or backslide.

"...He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins" ("sin" - #G266 - "sin, failure, missing the mark" He has freed us from our sin, from our failure, from our missing the mark) - 1:5

Don't fall asleep. Keep safe what we have so our victory be not stolen. We, and our eyes, must be anointed.

"If you do not wake up, I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not even know the time when I will come." 3:3

"The Devil will put you to the test by having some of you thrown into prison, you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to me, even if it means death, and I will give you the crown of life." 2:10

"Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him.." 1:7

"To him who is overcoming -- I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the Garden of God.. (they) will not be hurt by the second death.. I will give (to them) some of the hidden manna, and a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.. (they) will be clothed in white, and I will not remove their names from the book of the living. And in the presence of my Father and of his angels I will declare openly that they belong to me.. I will give (them) the right to sit beside me on my throne, just as I have been victorious and now sit by my Father on his throne. He who is having an ear -- listen to what the Spirit says to the churches!

To those who win the victory, who continue to the end to do what I want, I will give to them authority over the nations, and they shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter they shall be broken, as I also have received from my Father; and I will give to them the morning star.

Because you have kept my command to be patient, I will also keep you safe from the time of trouble which is coming upon the world to test all the people on earth. I am coming soon. Keep safe what you have, so that no one will rob you of your victory. I will make those who are victorious to be pillars in the temple of my God, and they will never leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which will come down out of heaven from my God. I will also write on them my new name."

2:7;11;17;26-28; 3:5;10-12;21

"Listen! I stand at the door and knock.." 3:20

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Book of Revelation Chapter by Chapter (#1)

Why Read The Book Of Revelation?

Book of Revelation Chapter by Chapter (#2)

Revelation Chapters Seventeen And Eighteen - A Two Part Study

- Foundation to the Rest of the Study - Part One - The Beast and the Harlot

- Part Two - and Revelation Chapter to Chapter (#2b) - The City and Merchants

Book of Revelation Chapter by Chapter (#3) - HE is King

Revelation Chapter by Chapter (#4) - The Faith On Earth

Revelation Chapter by Chapter (#5) - The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Revelation Chapter by Chapter (#6) - Time Times And Half A Time

Revelation Chapter by Chapter (#7) - The Iron And The Bronze

What A Paradox

We find ourselves between a rock and a hard place! Perhaps this has been true of life all down through the centuries. These days, we don't want Corporations to be too big and powerful, nor do we want them to be able to abuse and pollute the planet and the air we breathe. For this results in the abuse of people.

On the other hand, we have government, which we can endow with ever more and more administration and offices with ever increasing reach and power, in order to control and curb these corporations. But throughout history, government has done an incredible amount of abusing of the people.

But how clever if both ends of this paradox can make it seem as though they are battling each other, but in truth, both ends (sides) are enabling both! While at the same time, their fiery rhetoric divides people and sows deep dislike even hatred between them. And meanwhile both poles of the paradox stealthily just keep on growing.

And where in history has a nation fared for the better if their division turned so bitter, rioting turned into battles? Isn't that when beasts are able to rise to the top? Or are we to believe humanity has 'evolved' beyond such.. We can't only consider today, but also tomorrow. Where will the trends we set in motion lead?

If we don't like corporations, why don't we quit buying so much of their stuff? Buy less, live simpler lives. Buy local. Do the research. Or will it simply continue (and progress?) this shaking of the fists of people, toward one another?

BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON SEVEN - A LASTING PARADISE

Shrouded in Mystery...

How does it all end?

                                 

Where do we go from there?

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#1 - Jesus returns, all believers are resurrected.

 Jesus sets up a 1,000 year rule on Earth.

#2 - Shortly after His 1,000 year reign..

The rest of all mankind are resurrected

and there is a Great 'Day' of Review

of all history... 

#3 - Then the New Heavenly City called 

New Jerusalem and the Very Throne of God

will Come to the Earth..

"Behold I make all things new.." Revelation 21:5

"God shall dwell with mankind.. will wipe away every tear.. 

there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.." Revelation 21:3,4

"The Son Himself will also be subject to Him, who put

all things under Him, that God may be all in all."

1 Corinthians 15:28 (21-28)

And then shall it be said of all - "...They 

shall sit each under his own vine, and fig tree, 

and there is none troubling.."

Micah 4:4

"The lion will eat straw like the ox..

     

    ...and the bear will graze with the cow.."

 - Isaiah 11:7

He (surely!) is Life itself,

and also Perfection.

We are learning good from evil

Life from death..?

                                             

...an unavoidable lesson, and journey?

If we are to be rational creatures? 

For with thinking ability, 

comes the ability to

make choices..?

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When He endowed thinking ability, surely(?) 

A whole new world (tree) of possibilities came about. 

If He is Life and Perfection, does that make imperfection the opposite of Life?

Surely(?) Perfect makes no mistakes, and can lose nothing. 

Could any mortal ever dream of a better
"happily ever after"
than He can
?

"With God all things
are possible."
Mk 10:27

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BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON SIX - FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

So what does all this mean?

This study in pictures is my theory. A theory is an unproven hypothesis.

The Riddle - Daniel 12:11-12 (YLT):

"(11)And from the time of the turning aside of the perpetual [sacrifice], and to the giving out of the desolating abomination, [are] days a thousand, two hundred, and ninety. (12)Oh the blessedness of him who is waiting earnestly, and doth come to the days, a thousand, three hundred, thirty and five."

The "desolating abomination"...

Once it was a statue of an idol god (Zeus) in the temple of Jerusalem..

Another time it was the Roman standard...

But what will its 'last' days form be?

A footnote in the Amplified Bible

says it will be (the) 666.

Meanwhile...

Or that is, previously...

#1 - A thermonuclear event in or from the Middle East?
(Revelation 8, verse 5 and 6?)

And (a, the) world beast/governing comes to the fore,

strongly promoted by and "given breath" by

the one pointed to at Rev 13:13.

(Revelation 13:1-7,11-15)

(See lesson 3)

#2 - A (seven year) "peace, peace!" treaty is declared..

Daniel 9:27a - "He will confirm a covenant with many for one seven."

1 Thessalonians 5:3 - "for when they may say, Peace and surety,

then sudden destruction doth stand by them".

(Young's literal Translation)

"In the midst of the seven" Daniel 12:11 occurs:

"The perpetual sacrifice" (place of? continual prayer?) "is abolished".

 And also, "in the middle of the seven,

he will put an end to sacrifice and offering." - Daniel 9:27(b)

"..bring a sacrifice of praise" .."and a thanksgiving offering"

(Hebrews 13:15; Leviticus 22:29)

#3 - Drought (Prophet Joel's dry and smoky day) thus shortage..

(Joel 1:10; 2:2; Rev 9:3; 12:16; Luke 23:28,31)

#4 - "Wars/battles and rumors of wars/skirmishes" - Mark 13:7.

and then modern day "loud locust" like - hover? swarm?

and can "sting from their tail"

{5 months marshall law?}

(Revelation 9:3-10)

#5 - Then soon enough, "no one can buy or sell" without the 666

allegiance to the world beast. (Revelation 13:16,17; Daniel 9:27c)

#6 - Which escalates to genocide - Revelation 20:4(d)

via the sword of jihad harnessed..

"appeared as a lamb but

spoke like a dragon"

dove and vulture?

together?

    

"And if those days were not shortened, no one would survive" - Matthew 24:22.

"From the time the perpetual [sacrifice] is abolished, and the abomination of desolation is set up, shall be 3.5 (Hebrew) years (of 30 day months) plus 30 days. Happy/blessed is the one who waits, and comes to 45 days later?" (Daniel 12:11,12, totally paraphrased.)

The foundation of it all is psyche (forehead) Babylon - all untruth.

"For to vanity was the creation made subject, not by its own choice,  but by 

the will of the One who subjected it, in hope.." Romans 8:20.

"For God did shut up together the whole to unbelief,

so that He may show mercy to all" - Romans 11:32.

"Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the husbandman waits patiently for the precious fruit of the earth." - James 5:7

We - made in the image of Him (builders) - are learning

true from untrue. Untrue can only ever be apocalypse, for it is to build upon sand

and not upon The Rock (Truth/Him/Life/Perfection).

#7 - "Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him" - Rev 1:7

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened,

and the moon will not give its light the stars will fall from heaven,

and the powers of the heavens will be shaken."

Will appear to from Earth?

(Matthew 24:29)

"And they gathered to Armageddon.." Rev 16:14,15,16

"In the day.. when the towers fall.. there will be on every high mountain

and on every high hill rivers and streams of waters" - Isaiah 30:25

"And if those days were not shortened, no one would survive" - Matthew 24:22.

"When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven

in blazing fire with his mighty angels.." - 2 Thessalonians 1:7,8

"They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." - Matthew 24:30,31

"On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem,

and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south." - Zechariah 14:4

"The lion will eat straw like the ox..

and the bear will graze with the cow" - Isaiah 11:7

"His Kingdom will never end.." Luke 1:33

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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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