THIS IS THE NEXT TO THE LAST POST ON THIS SERIES ABOUT THE SYNOPTIC HIGH POINTS OF THE BIBLE, COVERING NOW THE BOOK OF REVELATION. FOR NEARLY A YEAR, THIS SERIES HAS DECIPHERED MANY OF THE PINNACLE POINTS OF SCRIPTURE SO THAT ANY LAYMAN CAN UNDERSTAND. I HOPE YOU HAVE FOLLOWED ALONG AND THAT YOU FIND YOUR OWN INTEREST IN READING THE BIBLE COVER TO COVER EACH YEAR AS A STANDARD FOR IMPROVING LIFE IN THESE END TIMES.
KEEP IN MIND THAT THE PROPHECIES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION ARE NOT GIVEN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
REVELATION CHAPTER 19 SYNOPSIS:
JOHN HEARS A GREAT VOICE OF MANY PEOPLE IN HEAVEN, SAYING, “ALLELUIA; SALVATION, AND GLORY, AND HONOR, AND POWER, AND UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD: FOR TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGEMENTS: FOR HE HAS JUDGED THE GREAT WHORE, WHICH DID CORRUPT THE EARTH WITH HER FORNICATION, AND HAS AVENGED THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS AT HER HAND”.
“AND A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE THRONE, SAYING, PRAISE OUR GOD, ALL YOU HIS SERVANTS, AND YOU THAT FEAR HIM, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT”.
JOHN HEARS THE VOICE OF A GREAT MULTITUDE SAYING, “ALLELUIA: FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNS. LET US BE GLAD AND REJOICE, AND GIVE HONOR TO HIM: FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB IS COME, AND HIS WIFE HAS MADE HERSELF READY”.
(COMMENTARY: THE WIFE OF THE LAMB JESUS ARE THE SAINTS OR THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH).
“AND I (JOHN) SAW HEAVEN OPENED, AND BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE; AND HE THAT SAT UPON HIM WAS CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE, AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE DOES JUDGE AND MAKE WAR. HIS EYES WERE AS A FLAME OF FIRE, AND ON HIS HEAD WERE MANY CROWNS; AND HE HAD A NAME WRITTEN, THAT NO MAN KNEW, BUT HE HIMSELF. AND HE WAS CLOTHED WITH A VESTURE DIPPED IN BLOOD: AND HIS NAME IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD.
AND THE ARMIES, WHICH WERE IN HEAVEN, FOLLOWED HIM UPON WHITE HORSES, CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, WHITE AND CLEAN.
AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOES A SHARP SWORD, THAT WITH IT HE SHOULD SMITE THE NATIONS: AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON: AND HE TREADS THE WINE-PRESS OF THE FIERCENESS AND WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD. AND HE HAD ON HIS VESTURE AND ON HIS THIGH A NAME WRITTEN,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
“AND I SAW AN ANGEL STANDING IN THE SUN; AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING TO ALL THE FOWLS THAT FLY IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, COME AND GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER UNTO THE SUPPER OF THE GREAT GOD; THAT YOU MAY EAT THE FLESH OF KINGS, AND THE FLESH OF CAPTAINS, AND THE FLESH OF MIGHTY MEN, AND THE FLESH OF HORSES, AND OF THEM THAT SIT ON THEM, AND THE FLESH OF ALL MEN, BOTH FREE AND BOND, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT”.
“AND I SAW THE BEAST, AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, AND THEIR ARMIES, GATHERED TOGETHER TO MAKE WAR AGAINST HIM (JESUS CHRIST) THAT SAT ON THE HORSE, AND AGAINST HIS ARMY”.
(COMMENTARY: CAN YOU BELIEVE THE PATHETIC ARROGANCE OF THE ANTICHRIST, THE E.U. (POSSIBLY) AND ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH SUPPOSING THEY CAN FIGHT CHRIST AND THE ARMY OF HEAVEN?)
“AND THE BEAST WAS TAKEN, AND WITH HIM THE FALSE PROPHET THAT WROUGHT MIRACLES BEFORE HIM, WITH WHICH HE DECEIVED THEM THAT HAD RECEIVED THE MARK OF THE BEAST, AND THEM THAT WORSHIPED HIS IMAGE. THESE BOTH WERE CAST ALIVE INTO A LAKE OF FIRE BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE.”
“AND THE REMNANT WERE SLAIN WITH THE SWORD OF HIM THAT SAT UPON THE HORSE, WHICH SWORD PROCEEDS OUT OF HIS MOUTH: AND ALL THE FOWLS WERE FILLED WITH THEIR FLESH”.
REVELATION CHAPTER 20 SYNOPSIS:
“AND I (JOHN) SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND”.
(COMMENTARY: THIS ANGEL IS LIKELY MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL WHO DEFEATED SATAN IN THE WAR IN HEAVEN DURING THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF MAN IN THE SPIRIT WITH GOD).
“AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, AND BOUND HIM A THOUSAND YEARS. AND CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND SHUT HIM UP, AND SET A SEAL UPON HIM, THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO MORE, TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS SHOULD BE FULFILLED: AND AFTER THAT HE MUST BE LOOSED A LITTLE SEASON”.
(COMMENTARY: THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS A JAIL CELL THAT SATAN WILL BE CONTAINED IN DURING THE 1000 YEAR MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST.
HE WILL BE LOOSED AGAIN AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM (AROUND 3000 AD) FOR ANOTHER SPIRITUAL TEST OF THE WORLD’S EARTHLY MASSES — THIS TIME HE WILL HAVE NO SUPERNATURAL POWERS OR ONE WORLD SYSTEM TO MANIPULATE MINDS, JUST THE BASIC SHORT CON).
“AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGEMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND I SAW THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS, AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND WHICH HAD NOT WORSHIPED THE BEAST, NOR HIS IMAGE, NEITHER HIS IMAGE, NEITHER HAD RECEIVED THE MARK UPON THEIR FOREHEADS, OR IN THEIR HANDS; AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS”.
(COMMENTARY: START TODAY USING GOOD JUDGEMENT BASED ON YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND I ASSURE YOU THAT YOU WILL HAVE NO DESIRE TO TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS! YOUR FAITH WILL BE TOO STRONG FOR SUCH FOOLISH NOTIONS.
I PROMISE YOU THAT YOU WILL BE REWARDED IN ETERNITY, INSTEAD OF CONTINUING TO SELFISHLY LOOK FOR A SHORT TERM SOLUTION OR REWARD IN THE AWFUL LOADED DICE SECULAR WORLD SYSTEM THAT HAS ARISEN RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES.
I IMPLORE YOU WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING TO GIVE UP YOUR FLEETING ILLUSORY HOPES OF REWARD HERE IN A FLESH DRIVEN WORLD.
IT IS TRUE THAT THOSE OF US NOT RAPTURED— SOON WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.
THOSE OF US WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND/NOT RAPTURED WILL BE FACED WITH TWO CHOICES: JOIN WITH THE SHORT SIGHTED ONE WORLDERS AND FACE HORRIBLE JUDGEMENTS FIRST IN THE FLESH AND THEN ETERNITY, OR CHOOSE CHRIST AND RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT ONLY TO FACE BEHEADING FOR YOUR FAITHFUL WITNESS OF THE TRUTH.
MY MAIN REASON FOR WRITING THIS SERIES HAS BEEN FOR ALL OF US TO EXAMINE OUR OPTIONS IN A WORLD RAPIDLY SWIRLING INTO UTTER MADNESS AND DESTRUCTION. I SINCERELY PRAY ALL OF US SURVIVE WHAT IS COMING AND WITH OUR SOULS INTACT. MAKE THE CHOICE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT TODAY. FOR ALL OF OUR ETERNITY TOGETHER AS FAMILY IS AT STAKE!)
“BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION”.
(COMMENTARY: THE FIRST RESURRECTION= THE RISING OF THE SAINTS, I.E. THE ELECT OF GOD WILL OBTAIN ETERNAL LIFE.)
“BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE THAT HAS PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION: ON SUCH THE SECOND DEATH (COMMENT:THE POSSIBILITY OF THE SPIRITUAL DEATH OF THE HUMAN SOUL BY THE INCORRECT ACTION OF FREEWILL) HAS NO POWER, BUT THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST, AND SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS”.
(COMMENTARY: THESE PERSONS OF THE FIRST RESURRECTION ARE THOSE RIGHTEOUS DEAD RAPTURED FROM THEIR GRAVES FROM THE 6000 YEAR HISTORY OF EARTH. THESE PERSONS RETURN TO EARTH AFTER THE TRIBULATION TO RULE WITH CHRIST FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS, ALONG WITH THOSE SAINTS WHO WERE RAPTURED IN THE FLESH BEFORE THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, AND WITH THE SAINTS WHO WERE BEHEADED FOR THEIR FAITH IN THE TRIBULATION.
THESE ARE THE THREE GROUPS OF RIGHTEOUS SAINTS AND THEY ALL RETURN TO EARTH WITH CHRIST AT THE SECOND COMING TO REIGN FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS.
“AND WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED, SATAN SHALL BE LOOSED OUT OF HIS PRISON.”
(COMMENTARY: GOD WILL TEST THOSE FACING THE POSSIBILITY OF THE SECOND DEATH. GOD WILL TEST THEM AT THE END OF THE 1000 YEARS BY RELEASING SATAN AMONG THEM FOR THE BATTLE FOR THEIR SOULS CIRCA 3000 A.D. THIS IS THE MANNER IN WHICH GOD CONTINUES TO PROVE THE VERACITY OF MEN’S SOULS THROUGH THE AGES.)
“AND SHALL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH ARE IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO BATTLE: THE NUMBER OF WHOM IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA.”
(COMMENTARY: AFTER ALL MANKIND WENT THROUGH IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, THERE WILL STILL BE AN INNUMERABLE HOST OF PERSONS IN THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST THAT SATAN WILL ALLURE TO BECOME SPIRITUAL GOG AND MAGOG (EVIL) AND THROUGH THEIR FREEWILL! BUT THEN AGAIN WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE MILLENNIAL REIGN AS THE WORLD BEGINNING ALL OVER AGAIN. EVEN THOUGH CHRIST WILL BE PHYSICALLY AMONG US, WE SHALL STILL HAVE FREE WILL. SOME SCHOLARS HAVE SAID BECAUSE CHRIST WILL BE AMONG US THAT THERE SHALL BE NO MORE FAITH TO EXERCISE BECAUSE WE WILL SEE HIM EVERY DAY.)
“AND THEY WENT UP (TO BATTLE) ON THE BREADTH (FACE) OF THE EARTH, AND COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, AND THE BELOVED CITY (JERUSALEM): AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND DEVOURED THEM.”
(COMMENTARY: THE WICKED OF THE EARTH NATIONS ACTUALLY ATTEMPT TO FIGHT GOD ONCE AGAIN! HOWEVER, AT THIS POINT GOD REMOVES THEM FROM AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS FOREVER.
I WANT YOU TO REALIZE THAT GOD GAVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE IN THE MILLENNIUM, ANOTHER 1000 YEARS, TO WORK IT OUT. IN THE END, THEY WILL GET WHAT THEY DESERVE.)
“AND THE DEVIL THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, WHERE THE BEAST (THE ANTICHRIST) AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE, AND SHALL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER.”
(COMMENTARY: SOME BIBLE SCHOLARS SAY — “TORMENTED . . . FOREVER AND EVER” = HEBREW FOR ~ GONE FOREVER, I.E. THEY DON’T EXIST ANYWHERE ANYMORE.
THEY ARE AS THE SMOKE OF THE FURNACE, REVELATION 19:3.
THE SAME SMOKE OF ISAIAH 34:10
THE SMOKE DISSIPATES INTO NOTHINGNESS AS IT ASCENDS.)
“AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT . . . ” (THE JUDGEMENT THRONE OF GOD.)
“AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STAND BEFORE GOD; AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED: AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE: AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS.”
(COMMENTARY: ALL THE MASSES THAT REMAIN ARE JUDGED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR WORKS IN THE MILLENNIUM, FOR THERE IS NO MORE FAITH IN CHRIST IN THAT TIME BECAUSE THE MASSES WILL HAVE CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF HIM AS THEY PHYSICALLY LIVE WITH HIM.)
WHO JUDGES THE MASSES? EZEKIEL CH. 44:22-23 AND ESPECIALLY REV. CH. 20:4 PROVIDES YOUR ANSWER—
THE ELECT OF GOD JUDGE THE MASSES, NOT GOD HIMSELF. ALL THE DECISION TO GRANT ETERNAL LIFE OR NOT IS WITH THE ELECT!
THE ELECT WILL JUDGE THE PEOPLE WISELY.)
“AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT; AND DEATH AND HELL DELIVERED UP THE DEAD WHICH IN THEM: AND THEY WERE JUDGED EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS.”
(COMMENTARY: “SEA” IS A REFERENCE TO THE WORLD MASSES. SEE REV. 17:15 FOR VERIFICATION. YOU WILL BE JUDGED BY WORKS IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THIS GROUP LIVING POST TRIBULATION PERIOD UNTIL THE APPROXIMATE YEAR 3000 A.D.)
“AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE: THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.”
(COMMENTARY: AFTER THE FINAL JUDGEMENT OF MAN THERE WILL BE NO MORE DEATH OR HELL.)
“AND WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.”
(COMMENTARY: ANYONE ALIVE FROM POST TRIBULATION TO THE YEAR 3000 ERA THAT DOESN’T HAVE ENOUGH GOOD WORKS IN THE END OF THAT 1000 YEAR MILLENNIUM REIGN OF CHRIST WILL BE DESTROYED IN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT, SEE REV. 21:8.
IT WILL BE AS IF THAT INDIVIDUAL NEVER HAD EXISTED — FOR THERE WILL BE NO MENTION OF THAT PERSON ANYMORE FOREVER.)
NEXT . . . REVELATION CHAPTERS 21 AND 22 THE LAST TWO CHAPTERS OF THE BIBLE!