The Holy Spirit Gives Spiritual Messages that
God Has for His People, in Symbolic-Apocalyptic language.
…
Of course,
in the specific case of Bible reading & study,
The Holy Spirit IS Required
& Absolutely Necessary
to Understand The Spiritual Messages
God Has for His People
and specifically more so
in the Symbolic-Apocalyptic language,
“UNVAILED” for us,
in The Book of Revelation.
…
And so, we begin with the idea
that “reading the written words”
and making a learned
determination of their meaning,
WITH THE Help of The HOLY SPIRIT
is necessary to see what God Says.
…
1 Corinthians 2:13;
“And this is what we speak,
not in words taught us by human wisdom,
“but in Words Taught by the Spirit,
expressing Spiritual Truths
in Spiritual Words.
14 “The natural man
does not receive the” (SPIRITUAL)
“Things that Come
from The Spirit of God.
“Because they
(i.e., The Spiritual Teaching
by God’s Words in The Bible)
“are foolishness to him,
“and he”
(in the natural-born
Spiritually Dead,
Lost flesh, WITHOUT GOD
& WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT)
“cannot understand them,
“because they are
Spiritually Discerned”
(Comprehended Only
by The Enablement
of The Holy Spirit).
…
Now, there is
an Astounding Teaching
in The Bible
concerning this point.
…
When God has Given Over
individual souls
to their love of sin and Hatred
of The One and Only,
True and Living, God of The Bible,
The Old Testament Prophets,
Jesus, Paul, and The Apostles,
and
other New Testament Writers,
and John
in The Book of Revelation,
PRONOUNCE JUDGEMENT
on the lost.
…
AND THEN WHAT?
The Old Testament Prophets,
Jesus, Paul, and The Apostles,
and other New Testament Writers,
and John in The Book of Revelation,
>> then <<
SPEAK in FIGURATIVE,
SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE,
TO GOD’S CHILDREN!!!
…
However, the Symbolic,
Figures of Speech
ARE NOT UNDERSTOOD
by THE LOST SOULS.
THAT THE LOST
WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND
IS THE ACTUAL
Purpose of Jesus’ Parables
…
12 “Whoever has
will be given more,
and he will have an abundance.
Whoever does not have,
even what he has
will be taken away from him.
13 “This is why
I Speak to them
in parables:
‘Though seeing,
they do not see;
though hearing,
they do not hear
or understand.’
…
14 “In them
the Prophecy of Isaiah
is fulfilled:
‘You will be ever hearing
but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing
but never perceiving.…”
…
THE GODHEAD in
THE BOOK of REVELATION.
…
GOD The FATHER,
GOD The SON
and GOD The HOLY SPIRIT,
have Existed throughout Eternity,
in The ONE DIVINE ESSENCE
of The ONE and ONLY
TRUE and LIVING GODHEAD.
To this day
The ONE and ONLY
TRUE and LIVING GODHEAD
are Revealed to us
throughout the NEW TESTAMENT
WHEN THE BOOK of REVELATION
is Properly Divided,
BY ITS “DIVINE VISIONS”.
This is The Divine Interpretation
Contained within
SEVEN PARALLEL SECTIONS,
i.e., “SEVEN DIVINE VISIONS”
of 2 to 4 chapters each,
in
THE BOOK of REVELATION.
***
Introduction – Revelation
EACH of These
“SEVEN DIVINE VISIONS”,
of 2 to 4 chapters each,
in THE BOOK of REVELATION
DEPICT the ACTIVITY
of THE TRIUNE GODHEAD,
from Different Viewpoints
and in Increasing Degrees
of REVELATION.
ALL SEVEN DIVINE VISIONS, also,
HAVE A TIMELINE that Runs,
at least,
from THE ASCENSION
of JESUS CHRIST
BACK to HEAVEN from EARTH
until JESUS’ SECOND COMING
to EARTH
at THE END of THE WORLD.
*****
Principle #1:
THE DIVINE INTERPRETATION of
THE TWENTY-TWO CHAPTERS
of The Book of Revelation
REVEALS and GIVES to us
The Book of Revelation
DIVIDED INTO SEVEN SECTIONS,
and, actually, SEVEN VISIONS
that are parallel to one another
AND EACH DESCRIBES
THE SAME LENGTH of TIME.
***
THAT TIMELINE,
of THE SAME LENGTH of TIME,
that EACH
of the “SEVEN SECTIONS”,
or “VISIONS”, DESCRIBES
will EACH be seen to Span,
at least,
The “ENTIRE ERA
of JESUS’ CHURCHES”,
from
the First Coming of JESUS to EARTH
at HIS ASCENSION BACK to HEAVEN
until
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
to EARTH in JUDGEMENT
at THE END of THE WORLD.
***
The BOOK of REVELATION’S
FIRST DIVINE VISION of
The SEVEN Total DIVINE VISIONS
contains 3 chapters and concerns
“Christ in the Midst of the Lamp-stands
( which are JESUS’ CHURCHES)”
in REVELATION 1:1 – 3:22,
in which John, “was in The Spirit”
/ having this FIRST “VISION”.
***
REVELATION 1:1 – 3:22
Gives us An INTRODUCTION
to THE REVELATION
of JESUS CHRIST,
or “UN-VEILING” of JESUS CHRIST,
CALLED, “THE APOCALYPSE.”
*****
REVELATION Chapter 1
The predominating thought
in Revelation chapter 1
is that of the Exalted
and Glorified Jesus Christ
Amidst the congregations
of His churches,
His Constant Attendance
with His churches
that JESUS FOUNDED, ORGANIZED
and PROMISED to BE WITH,
UNTIL THE END of THE AGE
and JESUS’ Concern
to Bring COMFORT
to His churches
that JESUS FOUNDED, ORGANIZED
and PROMISED to BE WITH,
UNTIL THE END of THE AGE.
when JESUS WILL RETURN AGAIN.
*
REVELATION Chapter 2
Revelation chapter 2 contains
the first four of the seven letters
to the churches of JESUS CHRIST
which ( the seven churches)
received as special
“END TIMES” communications
from the Lord Jesus Christ
through the apostle John
as Jesus’ intermediary;
these ACTUAL CHURCHES
of JESUS CHRIST being:
Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira.
*
“The Lampstands”
in these first 3 chapters of Revelation
represent the seven churches
(in REVELATION 1:20)
which
ARE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS
of THE SPIRITUAL STATE
of VARIOUS churches
of THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
in VARIOUS PERIODS of TIME
throughout the present CHURCH AGE
between
Jesus Christ’s First
and
Jesus Christ’s Second Comings.
***
“Thus interpreted, each individual church is,
as it were, a type,
not indicating one definite period in history,
but describing SPIRITUAL conditions
which are constantly repeated
in the actual SPIRITUAL life
of the various congregations
(throughout The Entire Era
of The Church Age)”
( Hendriksen, p.16)
*
So, in REVELATION’S
“FIRST VISION”
of SEVEN “DIVINE VISIONS”,
which is divided into 3 chapters,
we see, in these first 3 chapters:
The First Coming
of Jesus Christ to EARTH,
here;
“Him that Loved us,
and Washed us from our sins
in His Own Blood”,
where
The First Coming
of Jesus Christ to EARTH
is mentioned in Revelation 1:5;
*
“And from Jesus Christ,
Who is the Faithful Witness,
and the First Begotten
of the Dead, and the Prince
of the Kings of the Earth.
To Him that Loved us,
and Washed us from our sins
in His Own Blood”
*
THEN, also.
In REVELATION’S
“First Section
of SEVEN “DIVINE VISIONS”,
there is the mention
of
The Second Coming
of JESUS CHRIST
to EARTH in JUDGEMENT
at THE END of THE WORLD,
which is found in
REVELATION 1:7;
“Behold,
He Comes with clouds;
and every eye
will see Him,
and they also
which pierced Him:
and all kindreds of the earth
will wail because of Him.
Even so, Amen.”
We, therefore, have
“The Beginning of The Church Age”
and“The End of The Church Age”,
both mentioned,
in these First 3 Chapters.
REVELATION Chapter 3
Revelation chapter 3 continues
with the last three letters
to the seven letters
to the seven churches;
to Sardis (Revelation 3:1-6),
to Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13),
and to Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22).
********
NEXT:
In REVELATION’S
“Second Section
of SEVEN “DIVINE VISIONS”,
which includes 4 chapters, is:
“The Vision of Heaven
and the Seals”,
and
“The Vision of Heaven
and the Seals”
ALSO,
COVERS THE SAME
PERIOD of TIME
throughout
the CHURCH AGE,
from the First Coming
of JESUS to EARTH
at HIS ASCENSION
BACK to HEAVEN
until
The Second Coming
of Jesus Christ
to EARTH in JUDGEMENT.
***
“The Vision of Heaven
and the Seals”
is the Second Section
of Seven Divine Visions
and contains the 4 chapters in
REVELATION4:1 – 7:17.
*
Revelation Chapter 4
At this point in Chapter 4
is the beginning of the Visions,
within “The Age of Churches”
in which are shown
“The SUPERNATURAL
EVIL SPIRITUAL Forces”
which affect the life
of JESUS CHRIST’S churches,
throughout “The Church Age”.
…
“These SUPERNATURAL
EVIL SPIRITUAL Forces”
by which the life of the churches
of JESUS CHRIST are affected,
are Revealed to us, here,
by God Almighty,
IN VISIONS,
by the use of SYMBOLIC figures,
of the Beast and the False Prophet
that are the instruments of the very real
SUPERNATURALLY
EVIL Devil,
*
In this Second Section
of Divine Divisions
containing the 4 chapters in
REVELATION 4:1 – 7:17;
“She”
( THE LORD’S CHURCHES )
are shown God and the Lamb,
the Devil, the Beast,
the False Prophet, and the Apostate City.
*
Then,
“She”
( THE LORD’S CHURCHES )
are shown the Victory of Jesus Christ,
and the Eternal Defeat
of these
SUPERNATURAL
Powers of Evil.”
***
Revelation Chapter 5
Without any doubt whatever,
this chapter is a continuation
of the Throne of God scene in Revelation 4.
*
Revelation Chapter 5
CONTAINS:
The same Throne,
the same Living Creatures,
the same angels,
the same 24 elders,
the same Solemn Worship,
and the same Person on the Throne,
are present here in Revelation 5
that were seen in Revelation 4.
*
The Great New Element
that comes to Light
in Revelation 5,
in this portion of the Vision
is that of the Lamb of God,
Jesus Christ, The Son of God, is:
“in the Midst
of the Throne”,
with God The Father.
*
Revelation Chapter 6
The general Biblical assumptions,
of Divine Interpretation,
by comparing Scripture with Scripture
that are
underlying this interpretation are:
*
(1) that the succeeding series
of VISIONS of Seals,
Trumpets, Bowls, etc.,
and “onward from chapter 6
are a Panorama
of Parallel VISIONS of Judgments”;
&
(2) that
“The millennium”,
( spoken of by ‘men’,
regarding:
the “1,000 years”,
in REVELATION 20 )
and the
Present Church Age
are one and the same thing”;
&
(3) that the true key to unlocking
the mysteries of Revelation
must be sought in
the Olivet Discourse by Jesus,
in Matthew 24,
with its parallels in the other Gospels,
and in other Scriptural passages,
from THE ENTIRE BIBLE.
*
Revelation Chapter 7
An ANGEL stands in the Vision
as an executor of the Will of God,
and we see the big thought of the passage
relating not to the identity of
The ANGEL which stands in the Vision
as an executor of the Will of God,
but to The Great Authority
of this ANGEL from God,
which stands in the Vision
as an executor of the Will of God,
as This ANGEL controls nature itself
in order to prevent any frustration
of God’s Plans to Seal His servants.
*
Again, This
“Second Section of Seven”,
“The Vision of Heaven
and the Seals”
in
REVELATION
4:1 – 7:17
which begins with Jesus Christ
Exalted on His Throne
Opening the scroll with Seven Seals.
***
The Lamb, having been Slain,
now Rules in Glory.
*
History unfolds
as a sequence of Judgments
visited upon mankind
which concludes
with a depiction of Final Judgment.
***
Revelation is a series of 7 Visions.
They run concurrently with one another,
with each covering the timespan
between Jesus’ First Advent and His Second Advent.
To ‘read’ Revelation chronologically through,
from one chapter after another,
leads to nothing but unmitigated disasters
in wild, rash, purely skeptical deductions.
It is not presented that way.
This Second Section begins
with events associated
with Jesus Christ’s First Coming
in Revelation 5:5,6;
“And one of the elders
said to me,
Weep not: behold,
the Lion of the Tribe of Juda,
the Root of David,
has Prevailed
to Open the Book,
and to Loose
the Seven Seals thereof.”
*
“And I beheld, and, there,
in the Midst of the Throne
and of the four beasts,
and in the midst
of the elders,
stood a Lamb
as it had been Slain,
having Seven Horns
and Seven Eyes,
which are
the Seven Spirits of God
Sent Forth
into all the Earth.”
*
And then, this
“Second Section
of Seven VISIONS”,
in REVELATION,
ends with events associated
with
Jesus Christ’s Second Coming
in Revelation 6:17; 7:16, 17;
*
“For the Great Day
of His Wrath is Come;
and who
will be able to stand?”
*
“They will hunger no more,
neither thirst anymore;
neither will the sun
light on them,
nor any heat.
*
“For the Lamb
which is in
the Midst of the Throne
will Feed them,
and will Lead them to
Living Fountains of Waters:
*
“and God
Will Wipe Away
all tears from their eyes.”
***
REVELATION’S
“Third Section
of Seven VISIONS”
concerns
“The Seven Trumpets”
in
REVELATION
8:1 – 11:19
The Trumpets Announce
Judgments on the World.
***
Jesus’ churches in chapters 10 & 11
continue to Bear Witness.
…
At the end of this
“THIRD SECTION of SEVEN VISIONS”,
an allusion is again made
to
The Final Judgment,
in REVELATION 11:15,18;
“And the seventh angel
sounded;
and there were
great voices in heaven,
saying,
The kingdoms of this world
are become
the Kingdoms of our Lord,
and of His Christ;
and He will Reign
For Ever and Ever”
***
“And the nations were angry,
and Your Wrath is Come,
and the Time of the Dead,
that they should be Judged,
and that You
should Give Reward
to Your servants
the Prophets,
and to the saints,
and them
that fear Your Name,
small and great;
and should Destroy them
which Destroy the Earth.”
***
REVELATION’S
Forth Section of Seven
describes
“The Persecuting Dragon”
in
REVELATION
12:1 – 14:20.
***
This Forth Section begins
”FURTHER BACK IN TIME”
( than JESUS’ EARTHY MINISTRY )
and encompasses
The Entire History of the World
from Creation
to JESUS’ FIRST COMING
and then
to JESUS’ SECOND COMING.
***
Christ’s First Coming
is summarized in REVELATION 12:5;
“And she brought forth
a Man Child,
who was to Rule all nations
with a Rod of Iron:
and her Child
was caught up to God,
and to His Throne.”
***
As Jesus Christ
is now Enthroned,
the Dragon makes war
against the saints,
employing the services
of the Beast
in REVELATION 13:1;
“And I stood on
the sand of the sea,
and saw a beast
rise up out of the sea,
having seven heads
and ten horns,
and on his horns ten crowns,
and on his heads
the name of blasphemy.”
***
The Second Beast
or False Prophet
is EMPLOYED
BY THE DRAGON:
in REVELATION 13:11,12;
“And I beheld
another beast
coming up out of the earth;
and he had
two horns like a lamb,
and he spake as a dragon.
And he exercised
all the power
of the first beast
before him,
and caused the earth
and them
which dwell therein
to worship the first beast,
whose deadly wound
was healed.”
***
And the Whore
– Babylon
is EMPLOYED
BY THE DRAGON:
in REVELATION 14:8;
“And there followed
another angel,
saying,
Babylon is fallen,
is fallen,
that great city,
because she made all nations
drink of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication.”
***
Jesus Christ’s Second Coming
in Judgment
is seen at the End
of this
FORTH of SEVEN SECTIONS
in REVELATION 14:14-16;
“And I looked,
and behold a white cloud,
and on the cloud One Sat
like the Son of Man,
***
having on His Head
a Golden Crown,
and in His Hand
a Sharp Sickle.
***
And another angel
came out of the temple,
crying with a loud voice
to Him
that Sat on the cloud,
Thrust in Your Sickle,
and Reap:
***
for the Time is Come
for You to Reap;
for the Harvest
of the Earth is ripe.
***
And He
that Sat on the cloud
Thrust in His Sickle
on the Earth;
and the Earth
was Reaped.”
***
The Fifth Section of Seven
concerns
“The Seven Bowls”
in REVELATION 15:1 – 16:21.
***
In this Fifth Section
is another Description
of the Judgments of God
which concludes
with
The Final Judgment
in REVELATION 16:20;
“And every island fled away,
and the mountains
were not found..”
***
The Sixth Section of Seven
concerns
“The Fall of Babylon”
in REVELATION 17:1 – 19:21.
***
The World System
which prevails
between the First Coming
and Second Coming
of Jesus Christ to Earth
is defeated by Jesus Christ at
THE RETURN of JESUS CHRIST.
***
JESUS’ RETURN is described in
REVELATION 19:11-16;
“And I saw Heaven opened,
and behold a White Horse;
and He that Sat on 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 Robe;
Dipped in Blood:
and His Name is called
The Word of God.
***
“And the armies
which were in Heaven
followed Him on 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 will Rule them
with a Rod of Iron:
and He Treads
the Wine-press
of the Fierceness
and Wrath
of Almighty God.
***
“And He has on His Robe
and on His Thigh
a Name Written,
***
“KING OF KINGS,
AND LORD OF LORDS.”
***
The Seventh Section of Seven
concerns
“The Great Consummation”
in REVELATION 20:1 – 22:21.
***
Here we meet up with
the final demise of Satan.
***
We are told in REVELATION 20:2,3
of Satan being bound for 1,000 years
– a binding which commenced
in Jesus Christ’s First Coming
(cf. Mt 12:29;)
“Or else
how can one enter
into a strong man’s house,
and spoil his goods,
***
except he first bind
the strong man?
and then
he will spoil his house.”
***
And this “binding of the strong man”, Satan,
Spoken of in Matthew 12:29, by Jesus Christ,
parallels Satan being “cast out”,
when John mentioned this,
in REVELATION 12:9;
“And the Great Dragon
was cast out,
that old serpent,
called the Devil,
and Satan,
which deceives
the whole world:
***
“he was cast out
into the earth,
and his angels
were cast out with him.”
***
This “1,000 years”,
SPOKEN of “SYMBOLICALLY”,
DEPICTS “A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS”
PERIOD of TIME ( a 1,000 years ),
AND YET THAT PERIOD of TIME
IS FINITE !
***
A “calendar” PERIOD of TIME,
of 1,000 “ACTUAL” years
IS NEVER INTENDED.
AND:
A word about “a millennium”,
or a “THE” ‘millennium’,
IS ALL A BUNCH OF JUNK MADE-UP ,
BY SATAN and his use of MAN’S FLESH.
is also
NO WHERE TO BE FOUND IN THE BIBLE.
“TALK” AND “REASONING”
WHILE USING A SIN-CURSED MIND
ABOUT: “a millennium”,
or a “THE” ‘millennium’,
IS ALL A BUNCH OF JUNK MADE-UP ,
BY SATAN and his use of MAN’S FLESH.
***
This “1,000 years”,
SPOKEN of “SYMBOLICALLY”,
DEPICTS
the PERIOD of TIME
and the ACTIVITY
of THE TRIUNE GODHEAD
from
THE ASCENSION
of JESUS CHRIST
BACK to HEAVEN
from EARTH
until
JESUS’ SECOND COMING
to EARTH at
THE END of THE WORLD.
***
AFTER,
THIS PERIOD of TIME,
BETWEEN
the FIRST COMING of JESUS
and JESUS SECOND COMING
there is “a little season”
in which Satan is loosed,
in (REVELATION 20:7;
“And when
the thousand years
( SPOKEN of “SYMBOLICALLY”,
and DEPICTING
“A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS”
PERIOD of TIME ( a 1,000 years ),
AND YET THAT PERIOD of TIME
IS FINITE !)
“are expired,
Satan will be loosed
out of his prison”
***
SATAN’S DOOM
WHEN THE DRAGON
is finally overthrown
is in REVELATION 20:10;
“And the devil
that deceived them
was cast into the Lake of Fire
and Brimstone,
***
“where the Beast
and the False Prophet are,
and will be Tormented
Day and Night
For Ever and Ever.”
***
The Book of REVELATION
consists of Seven Sections,
***
These Seven Sections
run parallel to one another.
***
Aware of The Godhead 