So... before anyone reads this, please understand I am only posting this because I should. I am fully confident that as as soon as anyone speaks of Revelation to Bible readers the Blinders are put on and the Critical Error Seeing Eyeglasses come out. So... that's not much faith in people, huh? Anyways, I love the story. I think God is good. Proceed to disable this post or condemn or redline it or disable this user account. But even if you do all that, I am okay with that and expect that, even rumors later. Still, please read it? Please? Please read it.
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Revelation
Note: As I was working on this, glitches started happening, Wordpad acted weird... thank you spiritual warfare... sheesh. I responded with dropping the internet, an offline antivirus scan, installing Suricata, and updating rules for Suricata. I have no idea how to use Suricata yet, so I guess I'll have to watch some videos.
Revelation
A book of the last days. Traditionally, the Jews hold that when their calender hits year 6,000 that the world ends. Actually, they all know of the 6+1 pattern throughout the Bible, even from Genesis One of six created days and one day of rest, but the Jews have no answer to that day of rest. In Revelation, there's a 1000 years, a day of rest which finishes the 6+1 pattern found throughout the Bible(As the Jews don't believe in the New Testament, they don't have that answer). The current day according chabad.org is 23 Adar, 5782. That is 6(6000) is approaching quickly. Last days. Last 300 years is probably a HUGE technology increase so mankind can really have the best technology they could ever invent so they can pridefully come to battle to try to defeat Jesus, where everyone on the battlefield who fights against Jesus will have their dead bodies eaten by birds. Still, I'm certain the technology useful for warfare in that day will be the stuff of Science Fiction writing.
Three hundred years behind 6000 in Nisan(or March) was 1940, a year among many that IBM helped the Nazis keep track of the vast quantities of Jews among other people groups with computers. That is to say... the beginning of the technology rocket began with using computers to compute the deaths of the attempted genocide of Israel. Symbolically, I mean. So, the story of people against God being eaten by birds is totally understandable. What's 300 years to God? Even if you go with a 24 hour day view at a 1000 years a day inside a week of years, strictly Biblical, you come out to about 42 years per 1 hour. This makes it a rough 7 hours from computing the Holocaust with computers to the battle of the world against Jesus. (crazy how it was about 7, right? didn't even know that until right now when I just threw it in a calculator)
Revelation
Relying on Leviticus 25, that view of time and Genesis 41, a 7 year week is totally a God timing thing. We can use this to look at the Seals, Trumpets, and Thunders as individual 7 year periods. We know that from Revelation 6 onward that the events are affecting the entire world, not a single empire of any sort, or an 'idea' of the world. Seeing events in rough 7 year periods puts World War One in Seal One as it was roughly a week of years long. Again, seeing events in rough 7 year periods put World War Two in Seal Two as it was roughly a week of years long.
So what about Seal Three? Seal Three is a famine of needs with FULL access to luxuries. There'll probably even be new luxuries in that week. The idea is simple... people will have all their wants(what they covet) and starve to death. It takes a week of years for this to happen. I tend to see the Coronavirus#7 as the catalyst for Seal Three. It was actually March 2020(Nisan, first month of the Jewish Year), when the worldwide pandemic was in full swing and people were dying from that virus left and right around the world. For countless reasons, this lead to stores having bare shelves where needs were concerned. Even now, Russia is attacking Ukraine which will drive the price of Wheat up and other needs. Computer chips larger than a certain nm, maybe 15nm, are hard to get, so the very enjoyable technologies are redesigning to use all 15nm and smaller luxury computer chips so they are accessible for purchase. If we were to use days of the week, mar2020-2021(Sunday), mar2021-2022(Monday), mar2022-2023(Tuesday), and it's a long way to Saturday. Certainly enough time to bring fascinating new technologies and usher in great starvation. I have considered different months in the past, as the start points, even back in the pumpkin harvest time of 2019... however, mar2020 was truly a memorable month.
This is to say, it's a great time to read the Bible as a book from the first page of Genesis to the last page of Revelation. A great time to pray.
Revelation
A quickie on the story of Revelation. Revelation is written about score of years after Jesus has ascended to the Father. At the introduction, we meet Jesus Christ as He really is, beautiful, terrifying, and kind. It's quite a different visual than in the Gospels. In the introduction, we also establish symbolism that a star means an angel and a lampstand means a church. Also, the purpose of the book is established to let the servants of God know what is to come in the last days. What follows is a message to seven churches which were in Asia at the time of writing the book of Revelation, now know as western Turkey. After this, John is brought up to Heaven, all in Heaven are giving glory to God and Scroll of the event that 'must'(Rev1:1) come to pass. (So don't try to pray against what 'must' come to pass. Pray for your peeps.) No one who has ever lived, is living, or will live is found worth to open this scroll. The Lamb, Jesus, is found worth to open this scroll sealed with 7 seals. These first four seals are four angels on horses(The Four Horsemen). There are 7 seals, though. The 7th seal opens 7 trumpets. The 6th Trumpet opens 7 thunders. The 7th Seal is land re-claiming. God created all the Universe and He's come back to re-claim it. (No, it doesn't matter if there are colonies on every planet and moon in the Solar System. The Creator of the Universe, remember?) Read the Landowner parables in the Gospels.
After this long period of time where God is trying to get people to turn to Him with tribulations and saints speaking the news of the gospels and loving on others, God sends a last call with two prophets for 3 and half years. After this last call, the devil is allowed to try to be a fake God with a fake trinity(beast from the earth, beast from the sea, image of the beast) and be worshipped by all the world for 3 and a half years. He tries another genocide of the Jews, because if all the Jews are dead then God won't be able to rescue a remnant, but it fails as God protects the last 144,000 Jews left on the planet. This makes the bad guy super mad and so he goes after the saints and is allowed to kill them all. God raptures these 144,000 remaining Jews on the planet and proceeds to pour bowls of Wrath upon the people in the world. After 7 bowls of 7 years each I'd guess, then God destroys Babylon. All the fighting sort are gathered to the battleground to take on Jesus, and they die. The people of the world left over get to live on the New Earth under a ruling like a rod of Iron by Jesus. The evil one is thrown in a falling jail for a day(a 1000 years). The saints are raised from the dead to rule the New Earth with Jesus. This raising from the dead at this point is called the first resurrection, because at the great White Throne judgement everyone dead is before God to be judged, but those of the first resurrection know they'll be in Heaven for eternity.
Oh right, for those reading Revelation, additional symbol equivalents have been added at this point, frogs mean demons, dogs are people without the mark of God, and there's probably others I'm not thinking about right now. Sorry, just rushing through this so you've read the story.
At the end of the day, the evil one is released and moves all those of the world on Earth to try to fight against Jesus again and they are all killed and the evil one is thrown into the Lake of Fire(an eternal torturing prison). In fact, out of all the books in the Bible, Revelation is the only book where Satan obtains his dream to be worshipped by the world as a fake god, rules the whole world, gets sent to jail, and gets sent to eternal prison. For over 5,000 years before this, Satan caused and instigated many sins through planning and his fallen angel army, at least to the extent that God allowed. In Revelation we see the end of this story, and indeed Satan gets locked up and tortured forever.
After these 6 days and 1 day, or 7000 years, the Great White throne occurs and the books are opened(some seriously detailed world history) to judge. Those found in the Lamb's Book of Life get to spend forever with God... for even death is thrown into the Lake of Fire! Those found only in those books that are opened, they are thrown into the Lake of Fire(For Hell is also thrown in the Lake of Fire).
So, yes, the three enemies of man, the evil one, death, and hell are all thrown into the Lake of Fire forever in Revelation. Those in the Lamb's Book of Life are with God forever. Those who are not are in the Lake of Fire forever. Have you given your life to Jesus? Have you asked Jesus into your heart?
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Revelation
Note: As I was working on this, glitches started happening, Wordpad acted weird... thank you spiritual warfare... sheesh. I responded with dropping the internet, an offline antivirus scan, installing Suricata, and updating rules for Suricata. I have no idea how to use Suricata yet, so I guess I'll have to watch some videos.
Revelation
A book of the last days. Traditionally, the Jews hold that when their calender hits year 6,000 that the world ends. Actually, they all know of the 6+1 pattern throughout the Bible, even from Genesis One of six created days and one day of rest, but the Jews have no answer to that day of rest. In Revelation, there's a 1000 years, a day of rest which finishes the 6+1 pattern found throughout the Bible(As the Jews don't believe in the New Testament, they don't have that answer). The current day according chabad.org is 23 Adar, 5782. That is 6(6000) is approaching quickly. Last days. Last 300 years is probably a HUGE technology increase so mankind can really have the best technology they could ever invent so they can pridefully come to battle to try to defeat Jesus, where everyone on the battlefield who fights against Jesus will have their dead bodies eaten by birds. Still, I'm certain the technology useful for warfare in that day will be the stuff of Science Fiction writing.
Three hundred years behind 6000 in Nisan(or March) was 1940, a year among many that IBM helped the Nazis keep track of the vast quantities of Jews among other people groups with computers. That is to say... the beginning of the technology rocket began with using computers to compute the deaths of the attempted genocide of Israel. Symbolically, I mean. So, the story of people against God being eaten by birds is totally understandable. What's 300 years to God? Even if you go with a 24 hour day view at a 1000 years a day inside a week of years, strictly Biblical, you come out to about 42 years per 1 hour. This makes it a rough 7 hours from computing the Holocaust with computers to the battle of the world against Jesus. (crazy how it was about 7, right? didn't even know that until right now when I just threw it in a calculator)
Revelation
Relying on Leviticus 25, that view of time and Genesis 41, a 7 year week is totally a God timing thing. We can use this to look at the Seals, Trumpets, and Thunders as individual 7 year periods. We know that from Revelation 6 onward that the events are affecting the entire world, not a single empire of any sort, or an 'idea' of the world. Seeing events in rough 7 year periods puts World War One in Seal One as it was roughly a week of years long. Again, seeing events in rough 7 year periods put World War Two in Seal Two as it was roughly a week of years long.
So what about Seal Three? Seal Three is a famine of needs with FULL access to luxuries. There'll probably even be new luxuries in that week. The idea is simple... people will have all their wants(what they covet) and starve to death. It takes a week of years for this to happen. I tend to see the Coronavirus#7 as the catalyst for Seal Three. It was actually March 2020(Nisan, first month of the Jewish Year), when the worldwide pandemic was in full swing and people were dying from that virus left and right around the world. For countless reasons, this lead to stores having bare shelves where needs were concerned. Even now, Russia is attacking Ukraine which will drive the price of Wheat up and other needs. Computer chips larger than a certain nm, maybe 15nm, are hard to get, so the very enjoyable technologies are redesigning to use all 15nm and smaller luxury computer chips so they are accessible for purchase. If we were to use days of the week, mar2020-2021(Sunday), mar2021-2022(Monday), mar2022-2023(Tuesday), and it's a long way to Saturday. Certainly enough time to bring fascinating new technologies and usher in great starvation. I have considered different months in the past, as the start points, even back in the pumpkin harvest time of 2019... however, mar2020 was truly a memorable month.
This is to say, it's a great time to read the Bible as a book from the first page of Genesis to the last page of Revelation. A great time to pray.
Revelation
A quickie on the story of Revelation. Revelation is written about score of years after Jesus has ascended to the Father. At the introduction, we meet Jesus Christ as He really is, beautiful, terrifying, and kind. It's quite a different visual than in the Gospels. In the introduction, we also establish symbolism that a star means an angel and a lampstand means a church. Also, the purpose of the book is established to let the servants of God know what is to come in the last days. What follows is a message to seven churches which were in Asia at the time of writing the book of Revelation, now know as western Turkey. After this, John is brought up to Heaven, all in Heaven are giving glory to God and Scroll of the event that 'must'(Rev1:1) come to pass. (So don't try to pray against what 'must' come to pass. Pray for your peeps.) No one who has ever lived, is living, or will live is found worth to open this scroll. The Lamb, Jesus, is found worth to open this scroll sealed with 7 seals. These first four seals are four angels on horses(The Four Horsemen). There are 7 seals, though. The 7th seal opens 7 trumpets. The 6th Trumpet opens 7 thunders. The 7th Seal is land re-claiming. God created all the Universe and He's come back to re-claim it. (No, it doesn't matter if there are colonies on every planet and moon in the Solar System. The Creator of the Universe, remember?) Read the Landowner parables in the Gospels.
After this long period of time where God is trying to get people to turn to Him with tribulations and saints speaking the news of the gospels and loving on others, God sends a last call with two prophets for 3 and half years. After this last call, the devil is allowed to try to be a fake God with a fake trinity(beast from the earth, beast from the sea, image of the beast) and be worshipped by all the world for 3 and a half years. He tries another genocide of the Jews, because if all the Jews are dead then God won't be able to rescue a remnant, but it fails as God protects the last 144,000 Jews left on the planet. This makes the bad guy super mad and so he goes after the saints and is allowed to kill them all. God raptures these 144,000 remaining Jews on the planet and proceeds to pour bowls of Wrath upon the people in the world. After 7 bowls of 7 years each I'd guess, then God destroys Babylon. All the fighting sort are gathered to the battleground to take on Jesus, and they die. The people of the world left over get to live on the New Earth under a ruling like a rod of Iron by Jesus. The evil one is thrown in a falling jail for a day(a 1000 years). The saints are raised from the dead to rule the New Earth with Jesus. This raising from the dead at this point is called the first resurrection, because at the great White Throne judgement everyone dead is before God to be judged, but those of the first resurrection know they'll be in Heaven for eternity.
Oh right, for those reading Revelation, additional symbol equivalents have been added at this point, frogs mean demons, dogs are people without the mark of God, and there's probably others I'm not thinking about right now. Sorry, just rushing through this so you've read the story.
At the end of the day, the evil one is released and moves all those of the world on Earth to try to fight against Jesus again and they are all killed and the evil one is thrown into the Lake of Fire(an eternal torturing prison). In fact, out of all the books in the Bible, Revelation is the only book where Satan obtains his dream to be worshipped by the world as a fake god, rules the whole world, gets sent to jail, and gets sent to eternal prison. For over 5,000 years before this, Satan caused and instigated many sins through planning and his fallen angel army, at least to the extent that God allowed. In Revelation we see the end of this story, and indeed Satan gets locked up and tortured forever.
After these 6 days and 1 day, or 7000 years, the Great White throne occurs and the books are opened(some seriously detailed world history) to judge. Those found in the Lamb's Book of Life get to spend forever with God... for even death is thrown into the Lake of Fire! Those found only in those books that are opened, they are thrown into the Lake of Fire(For Hell is also thrown in the Lake of Fire).
So, yes, the three enemies of man, the evil one, death, and hell are all thrown into the Lake of Fire forever in Revelation. Those in the Lamb's Book of Life are with God forever. Those who are not are in the Lake of Fire forever. Have you given your life to Jesus? Have you asked Jesus into your heart?
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