D A 11:15-. The sounding of the seventh trumpet in heaven.
B a -15-. Great voices in heaven.
b -15. Their utterance.
B a 16. The twenty-four elders.
b 17,18. Their utterance.
A 19-. The opening of God's Temple in heaven.
15: And the seventh angel sounded (this seventh trumpet embraces the seven vials, or last seven plagues, which make up the third woe, and reaches on to 18:24, if not 20:15.);
and there came to be great voices in heaven,
saying, "The kingdom (i.e. sovereignty) of this world is become the kingdom of our LORD, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever." (See Ex.15:18. Ps.146.10. Here and only here do we gather back to Christ the True One, in our eternal spiritual bodies.)
16: And the four and twenty elders, which sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces, and worshiped God,
17: Saying, "We give You thanks, O LORD God Almighty, Which is, and was, (now, here He has come); because You have taken Your great power, and reign.
18: And the nations were angry, and Your wrath came,
and the time of the dead that they should be judged
(judgment both good [rewards] and bad), to give the reward to Your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that revere (or love) Your name, the small and the great; and to destroy them which are destroying
(=corrupting, they are found in Chapters 18,19,20.) the earth."
19: And the Temple of God which is in heaven was opened (it's not anywhere here on earth), and there was seen in His Temple the ark of His covenant: (foolish men can look for it all they want to here on earth and they won't find it, men could not be trusted with it.):
and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and a great earthquake, and great hail. (this hail corresponds with 16:21. He's not mad at you only His enemies)
1: And a great sign was seen in heaven; A woman
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and over her head a crown of 12 stars: (Represents mother Israel not the "church". It is the 12 Zodiacal signs, representing the Israel nation in embryo. See "the stars also")
2: And she being with child cries out, travailing in birth (i.e. birth of a new age), and pained to be delivered (lit. tormented).
3: And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold, a great red dagon (=Satan), having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns, upon his heads. (Look across the abyss. This is the same as it will be in the end. These are "signs" of universality and earthly powers, i.e. political system-one world system, new world order. Satan uses the same power structure that he used in the first earth age.)
4: And his tail drags the third part of the stars of heaven (Refers to Satan's first rebellion and to those who followed him.), and drags (see John 21:8) them to the earth (its because of him we are here. God had to destroy that world age and we had to be born innocent of woman, to prove whether we will love Him or follow Satan.): and the dragon is standing before the woman which was ready to be delivered, in order to devour her child as soon as it was born. (This was in the garden of Eden. Eve was not talking to some snake, but to Satan himself. From Gen.3:15 till now Satan stands ready to devour the promised "seed".)
5: And she brought forth a man child (1st advent, Christ, as in Luke 2:23), Who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: (2nd advent. See 2:27) and her child was caught up to God, and to His throne. (the Ascension of Christ)
6: (Anticipatory, the flight being consequent on the war in heaven.) And the woman fled to the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (The earth protects us. By the reckoning of Dan, 1897 A.D.approx., then things began to happen, and Israel became a nation once again in 1948 fulfilling the parable of the fig tree)
7: (Now we start to zoom in on the time of this generation that we live in) And there came to be war in the heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war with the dragon (Satan); and the dragon fought against his angels,
8: And he prevailed not (he is a natural born looser [that is to say a natural created looser, he was never nor will never be born of woman]), neither was their place found any more in heaven. (they were booted out. See 8:1)
9: And the great dragon was cast down, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceives the whole world (EXCEPT those sealed by God with His truth); he was cast down into the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. (just like the days of Noah)
10: (The central verse of Revelation) And I heard a great voice saying in heaven, "Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser (=Satan, see Job 1:6-11.) of our brethren was cast down, which accuses them before our God day and night.
11: And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to death. (Satan is death)
12: For this cause, all you heavens, and all you that dwell in them. Woe (third and most terrible of the three woes) to the earth and the sea! (=peoples of the world, see 17:15) for the devil is gone down to you, having great wrath (1st tribulation), knowing that he knows that he has but a short time." (=5 months, see 9:5)
E4 W 12:13-17. The effect as regards Israel
X 13:1-18. The effect as regards the earth.
13: And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman (= Eve & mother Israel & Mary) which brought forth the man child. (=God's elect & Christ)
14: And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle (=the 2 witnesses & the LORD, see Deut. 32:11), that she may fly into the wilderness (= the world) to her place, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and a half time (3 1/2 years, see 11:2), from the face of the serpent.
15: And the serpent (Satan) cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman (i.e. flood of lies. See Dan.11:22), that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. (of lies. e.g., the "rapture" theory.)
16: And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon (Satan's role at the end) cast down out of his mouth. (the earth protects us. See Isa.59:13-21)
17: And the dragon was wroth with the woman (because they were sealed with the truth. See Isa.43:1-13.), and went away to make war with the remnant of her seed, which kept the commandments of God, holding the testimony of Jesus Christ (God's Savior the Anointed One of God).
1: And I stood over the sand of the sea (=peoples, see 17:15), And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, (=the one world political system, false government & religious system ), having seven heads and ten horns and ten crowns (text reads, "having ten horns and seven heads. See also 12:3; 17:7-12. Three more added here, see Dan.7:24), and upon his heads the names of blasphemy.
2: and the beast which I saw was like a leopard (=Kenites=the sons of Cain. They are not like us, their spots [marks] can be spiritually discerned if you know & understand the Truth = the Word of God.), and his feet were as the feet of a bear (=Russia, not the people, the system, communism), and his mouth as the mouth of a lion (vicious, he is the spurious messiah=Satan): and the dragon gave him (i.e. the being of the abyss [17:8]; the "another" of John 5:43, and see Luke 4:6) his power, and his throne, and great authority. (Its sourse will not be recognized by the people [the Biblically illiterate] at the onset.)
3: And one from among his heads as it were slain to death (i.e. the political system); and his deady wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (=the one world system, the new world order)
4: And they worshiped the dragon (proclaiming "peace, peace") which gave power to the best saying, "Who is like the beast? who is able to make war with him?" (You are! with the help of Christ)
5: And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given him to do (or act) (2 Thess.2:3 records the coming of "the man of sin [lawlessness]", who is this beast from the Isa. In 2 Thess.2:8 "that wicked"="the lawless one", who is the beast from the earth, vv.11-18 here.) forty two months. (prophecy regarding Satan, see 11:2 & 9:5)
6: And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His Name (i.e. the Christ of God), And His tabernacle, that is those that dwell (lit. tabernacling) in heaven.
7: And it was given to him to make war with the saints (not the term in v.4, but indicating a special attack upon "the saints"), and to overcome them (but he won't): and power was given to him over every tribe and people, and tongue, and nation.
8: And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose name has not been written in the book of the life of the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. (see 17:8)
9: If any man has an ear, let him hear. (eighth and last occurrence. Here to individuals, no longer to corporate churches. He is talking to the elect)
10: If any one is for captivity, into captivity he goes (=captivity of the mind); if any one is killed with the sword, with the sword he is killed. (=spiritual death. These are Hebrew idioms for destiny. See Jer.15:2; 43:11. Ezek.5:2,12. Zech.11:9. None will escape the beast, except the elect who have the seal of God [His Truth] in their foreheads). Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
11: And I saw another beast (=religious) coming up out of the earth; and he had two horn like a lamb (=Satan, he's the great pretender, pretending to be Christ), and he was speaking as a dragon. (because the dragon is Satan)
12: And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast (=the political system), whose deadly wound was healed.
13: And he does great wonders so that he makes lightning also come down from heaven on the earth in sight of men,
14: And he deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in sight of the beast (Such as that in v.13. For miracles of themselves; are no proof of a Divine mission. The Lord's miracles were "signs" for His people to ponder. The miracles here are to impress credulous unbelievers. See and cp. 2 Thess.2:9-11. 1 Tim.4:1-3.); saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound of a sword, and lived again.
15: And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast (=the one world system), in order that the image of the beast should both speak, and in order that as many would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (are you afraid? see Matt.10:27-32)
16: And he (i.e.the second beast, the religious system) causes all, small and great, and rich and poor, and free and bond, to recieve (lit.in order that they may be given) a mark in their right hand (idiom = to do Satan's work, not a micro chip. See Mark 13:17), or in their forehead (=planted with his lies in their forehead, not a stamp on your forehead. How easily are you deceived?)
17: And that no man should be able to buy or sell (the great boycot of the future), except he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (=being a member of his congregation)
18: Here is wisdom. He that has understanding calculate (see Luke 14:28) the number of the beast: for it is a man; and his number is Six hundred sixty six. (Satan arrives at the 6th seal, the 6th trump, and the 6th vial. Can you recognize the previous signs and teaching to know when this will be? If you are in the flesh and someone comes performing unbelievable miracles and claims he is God , you'll know that this is Satan. We will not meet Christ UNTIL we are changed into our spiritual bodies. A word to the wise is sufficient. That ancient "mysteries" and modern "beliefs" are becoming closely allied, witness the rapid growth and spread of Spiritism, Theosophy, and Occultism of every kind.)
1: And I saw, and lo, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and His Father' name sealed in their foreheads. (secretly sealed within the mind. See Ezek.44. This is not the elect.)
2: And I heard a voice out of heaven, as a voice of many waters (see 1:15 & 19:6), and as a voice of great thunder: and the voice which I heard was that of harpers accompanying the voice with their harps: (they were loud and singing)
3: And they sing as it were a new song (cp. 5:9) before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders: and no man could learn the song (only instance where the words of the song are not given. A new song, by a new company, by a new theme.) but the one hundred and forty-four thousand, which had been purchased (bought by the blood of Christ) from the earth.
4: These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. (both instances no gender intended. This is spiritually speaking. The reference is to the pollutions of the mind connected with the great religious system, the false teaching of the so called "rapture" under antiChrist [=Satan] in the coming days). These are they which follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were purchased from among men, being first fruits to God and to the Lamb. (i.e. after the victory & after the 7th trump. They came out of confusion after they realized the truth of the witness of the elect and the two witnesses.)
5: And in their mouth was not found the lie (i.e. that Satan is Christ): for they are without fault. (see Eph.1:4)
E5 A i. a 6. The first angel.
b 7. His proclamation.
ii. a 8-. The second angel.
b -8. His declaration.
iii. a 9-. The third angel.
b -9.-13. His denunciation (-9-11). His consolation (12,13)
A B iv. a4 14-. The Son of Man.
b4 -14. What He had. A sharp sickle.
v. a5 15-. The forth angel. {the harvest}.
b5 -15,16. His command to the Son of Man.(-15). Its execution (16).
{the harvest.}
B b6 -17. What he had. a sharp sickle.
vii. a7 18. The sixth angel. {the vintage}.
b7 -18-20. His command to the fifth angel (-18). Its execution
(19,20). {the vintage.}
6: And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven (remember that the wings that angels have are not on their body but what they fly in. What does an airplane have? wings. We were created in the image of God and the angels. Look behind you do you have wings attached to your body?), having the everlasting gospel to preach (this word is forever, preach discipline in it) to them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue and people;
7: Saying with a great voice, "Revere God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come (=the day of wrath, & the great white throne judgment. Cp. Isa.61:2 and the point where our Lord stopped in His reading [Luke 4:19]): and worship Him That made heaven, and earth, and sea, and fountains of waters."
8: And another, a second angel, followed, saying,
"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great (Babylon = confusion), which made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." (=idolatry, seducing by religion)
9: And another, a third angel followed them, saying with a great voice,
"If any man (no gender intended) worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in their forehead, or in their hand (=doing his work),
10: He also (emphatic) shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured undiluted into the cup of His indignation (this is the cup that Christ prayed would pass from Him); and he shall be tormented with fire (i.e. not a literal fire burn a fire that burns within oneself. See 9:5) and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11: And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever (=into nothingness, their works); and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image (i.e. anti-Christ=Satan & the one world order), and receives the mark of his name." (see v.9)
12: Here is the patience of the saints: they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. (i.e. the faith which Jesus gives.)
13: And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, 'Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth (i.e. from John forward. See 1 Pet.3:18); in order that they may rest from their toilsome labors; for their rewards do follow them. (show your works and see your faith. See 19:8)
14: And I saw, and behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud One (i.e. Christ) sitting like the Son of Man (because He was), having on His head a golden crown (Crown of crowns, King of kings)
and in His hand a sharp sickle. (for those who don't care)
15: And another angel came out of the Temple, crying with a great voice to the One sitting on the cloud,
Thrust in Your sickle, and reap: for the hour is come to reap; for the harvest on the earth is ripe. (lit. dried up. These are not His children but the tares=the Kenites=the sons of Cain=the sons of Satan.)
16: And He That sat on the cloud cast in His sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
17: And another angel came out of the Temple which is in heaven,
he also having a sharp sickle.
18: And another angel came out from the altar (see 6:9), the one having power over the fire;
and he called with a great cry to him that had the sharp sickle, Cast in your sharp sickle (the sickle for the grain, = the tares of v.15, not for the grapes), and gather the cluster of the vine of the earth (=anti-Christ=Satan); for her grapes are fully ripe.
19: And the angel cast in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God. (=the cup of wrath, for correction)
20: And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the horses bridle, as far as a thousand and six-hundred furlongs. (=180-200 miles.)