7.Mistranslated 2nd Thessalonians

08/28/202406/03/2026 ~ gloriyahway

Talking about the timeline, whether we’re in the 7 year countdown or are just about to be, how can we be ready for God’s harvests of our spirit/souls?

7.1 See the Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

If you believe that the entire body of Christ will have to witness the abomination of desolation before any saints are rescued – then the following is for you:

Many people have been led astray, especially those who believe, as I used to, that the body of Christ must witness the abomination of desolation before the coming of our loving Lord and Savior to gather us to Himself in the clouds, our blessed hope.

This is a short but difficult post to grasp. Click to skip to:

8. Dividing God’s Land

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/25/8-false-peace/

I don’t know how Bible teachers can teach that Jesus Christ is coming to gather His church before the man of lawlessness is revealed (which turns out to be true) when 2 Thess. 2:1, the most prominent passage on the issue, is almost always mistranslated to say the very opposite!

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Two examples of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 mistranslations:

2 Thess. 2: 1-4^{_{NASB, 1}}Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, ^₂that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. ^₃No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ^₄who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

2 Thess. 2: 1-4^_NIV, ^₁Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him, ^₂we ask you, brothers and sisters,not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. ^₃Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. ^₄He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

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As you can see, these mistranslations seem to say that Jesus Christ won’t gather His beloved bride until the apostasy occurs and the Antichrist is fully revealed.

That’s not true! I’m going to talk about two reasons and first I’ll focus on the Antichrist being revealed. At the end of this post I’ll tackle the apostasy issue, as there’s always been rebellion in the Church.

Not only do these wrong translations say that Christ won’t gather His true church until the man-of-lawlessness is revealed, it also implies that he won’t be considered to be ‘fully revealed,’ until he sets himself up in God’s Temple! That’d cut too deeply into Daniel’s 70th Week!

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I hope all teachers/pastors/and believers who got the pre-tribulation rapture right were using the King James Version, which scored a bullseye on 2 Thess. 2:1 translation _{^{(see below)}}! But, if that were really the case, I don’t see how there wouldn’t have been a single person, since I became a serious believer, to show me the clear KJV verse that underlies their blessed hope. Maybe someone eventually would have. . . but I didn’t wait.

When I was a newbie in Christ, bringing up this verse in study group, got me a response that looked something like this! But, I don’t want anybody to be overly put off by this early experience of mine; Since then, I’ve found serious, capable brethren online who understand and gracefully handle this topic, such as Soothkeep. see below.

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I came to realize that church members often don’t know why they believe what they believe about our being gathered by our Lord and Savior. They don’t even know about the deeply insidious mistranslation, and seem to be merely going by ‘wishful thinking gone viral’ having gotten the existence of a pre-tribulation rapture ‘rightish’ by accident! God bless them! But that’s not really a firm foundation; Also their fear and anger is very destructive toward those who really want to understand. Those are often the same people who ignore the huge, uncountable number of tribulation saints harvested at the sixth seal, or who refuse to watch for the soon coming of our Lord, even as the signs converge upon us and Jesus is at the Door!

Proof

The rest of this post is to show the correct translation and why it’s correct. I hope it’ll help a brother or sister. This is a gift: I don’t get anything in return from other believers, but Jesus Christ gave me His approval. I did this for my own understanding and to please our Lord and King, Jesus Christ. Here’s a thorough proof regarding the mis-translation with links, not just videos but meticulous documentation. . . .

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Mistranslation of the Greek Preposition ‘huper‘

Correct translations of huper: by, on account of, on behalf of, for, for the sake of. Those are the normal, ordinary, common uses. In contrast, translating ‘huper’ as: concerning, about, with regard to, with respect to, or regarding, is sadly wrong.

Those mistranslations of ‘huper’ make it appear that Day of the Lord is the same thing as the brief episode, when Jesus Christ will approach Earth to gather His bride. But, the truth is that the great tribulation begins immediately after Jesus gathers His bride; Only then God’s wrath, which is the greatEST tribulation, is initiated (Rev. 6:17), after a half hour of silence in heaven. God’s wrath begins with the first of 7 trumpet judgments and ends with the last of 7 bowl judgments (Rev. 8:1).

A suggestion:

After reading the correct translations below, go back to the passages in the yellow boxes above, and look again at how they twisted it; It’s insidiously subtle.

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Now we can read it with the verse correctly translated:

. . . an example with a (rare) correct translation of the Greek preposition ‘huper’ (the original KJV also got it right):

2 Thess. 2: 1-4^_BLB, ^₁Now we implore you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto Him, ^₂not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come. ^₃Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed. ^₄He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

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2 Thess. 2: 1-4^_KJV, ^₁Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, ^₂That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. ^₃Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ^₄Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

What is St. Paul really saying?

St. Paul and his brethren are earnestly imploring the Church of Thessalonica to take comfort in the knowledge that the Day of the Lord (the Lord’s wrath) will not happen until after the event of ‘the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to gather us to Himself,’ which is our blessed hope. The concern of these first century Christians was that the Day of the Lords Wrath had already begun and that they were going to have to suffer God’s wrath.

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Here’s the excellent video by Lee W. Brainard that proved the ‘huper’ mis-translation to me. I verified every point with Koine Greek lexicons.

https://soothkeep.info/2-thess-21-3-powerful-proof-of-the-pretrib-rapture-translation/

I meticulously checked on every single reference that Lee Brainard mentioned in the ‘Soothkeep’ video above. Here they are:

My hand written ‘huper’ study notes:

https://alephtav.blog/sk-handwritten-notes/

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Apostasy the other error . . .

2 Thess 2:3 contains a second potentially misunderstood word: ‘apostasy.’ In most pre-1611 Bibles it was translated as ‘departure.’

Old English apostasy translated as ‘departure’ passages

https://alephtav.blog/2-thessalonians-23-old-bibles/

The above shows the 2 Thess. 2: 1-3 verses in the following Bibles: WC Wycliff 1388, Tyndale 1522, Coverdale Bible 1535, Thomas Matthew’s Bible 1537, the Great Bible 1539, The Geneva Bible 1560 and the Bishop’s Bible 1568.

Only after 1611 AD, did ‘apostasia’ come to be understood as a spiritual ‘falling away.’

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The Greek word ‘apostasia’ can mean a spiritual departure and it can also mean a physical departure! The spiritually departed are the left behind and the mature church or bride will depart Earth as she’s harvested by Jesus Christ!

It can be seen this way: The church splits as the bride separates herself from worldliness, the worldly church and finally, the world.

2 Corinthians 11: 2-4, I (Paul) am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I’m afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

“you put up with it easily enough“

A different Jesus? Church members putting up with a different Jesus! That’s like not bothering to discern if the person, who’s just got in bed with you, is your spouse! Do you think Jesus will lift up anyone who does that? This must be the other group, those who’ve divorced the true Jesus (the downward apostasy).

It Can be Seen as Two Divorces!

The wore ‘apostasy’ has been most consistently translated as ‘divorce,’ which becomes clear if one researches it deeply enough; When the ‘worldly church’ divorces the true Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ’s bride, the true church, divorces the ‘worldly church.’ Jesus takes His bride up while the ‘worldly church’ goes down with the world. Another way to look at it is that the bride and the rest of the church divorce each other. _{^{The good news is that through the great tribulation, a great multitude of nominal Christians who went down with the world, will wash their robes to be truly redeemed as part of the Tribulation Saints, along with many repentant formerly lost humans who’d never been part of the church, but who will, through the blessing of tribulation, come to join the body of Christ and be saved from eternal damnation.}}

I’d been thinking about these things, when I discovered the below CJ Lovik video.

Although, at the time he made his video below, he hadn’t yet come to understand the huper mis-translation, that I proved in this post. He’s a very serious Bible expositor who I give credit to for seemingly being the first person to understand God’s four final Great Jubilee Cycles (see post 4 ). I thank Jesus Christ for him!

The way he understands the 1 Thess. 2-3 verses is: The revealing of the Antichrist immediately follows the tipping point of the splitting of the church including the departure of His bride; The ‘Day of the Lord’ begins then. Somehow the Holy Spirit has shown CJ Lovik a way to get around the ‘huper’ mis-translation stumbling block, and still differentiate between the day Jesus Christ comes to gather His bride and the Day of the Lord which is Jesus Christ’s wrath! Perhaps he simply uses the King James Translation, KJV.

I’m linking his long video, because at the end of it, CJ Lovik introduced his version of the idea of a double apostasy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYZk3dSUg8&t=1174s _{^{NOTE: I respectfully disagree with him that the first day of Daniel’s 70th week, the gathering of Christ’s bride and the Time of Jacob’s Trouble/The Day of the Lord necessarily all start on the same day.}}

Being indwelled by the Holy Spirit doesn’t mean Bible expositors don’t have to go through the long, intense, struggle of putting together the prophetic puzzle pieces that are contained in scripture, as well as those revealed in other ways, such as mentioned in Daniel 12:4 regarding the last days. There’s trial and error involved on our part, but that’s a big part of the glory of God! It pleases Him to watch us hunt for the treasures that He hid in scripture; There are many cul-de-sacs, and when we come to the end of ourselves, He gives us clues. How else could we truly appreciate the value of it when we have a breakthrough?

Proverbs 25:2, It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

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Next

8. Dividing God’s Land

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/25/8-falsepeace/

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27.The Beast is a Gog

08/07/202406/04/2026 ~ gloriyahway

Gog is a Title of the Antichrist/Beast.

But, there are two other Gogs, one before and one after the Beast. The Gogs are all descended from Magog, a descendant of Japheth, after the flood.

All the following seem to be the second Gog:

The: Beast, Antichrist, Little Horn, Lawless One, Son of Perdition and possibly the ‘Prince Who Is to Come’

. . . and maybe also The Assyrian, from the Book of Daniel.

I was amazed when I first learned that the Antichrist is the Gog of the end of this age. . .

The Consummation of an Age by Joel Richardson

https://youtube.com/shorts/4_CYnrNxPhE?si=cfEzNTCWgDrS3ss_

. . . because it means the world won’t necessarily have to wait until after the Gog-Magog War before expecting the Beast to be revealed! That’s because the Gog-Magog war may segway directly into Armageddon, since both wars are led by Gog the Antichrist!

Gog could already be known, to the people in the organizations who are preparing his way! _^See:

14. The Scarlett Beast, mark 14.3 for details

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/20/14-beast/

27.0 Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

To review Gog passages in the Bible, see Joel Richardson’s well documented video:

It covers everything except the Messianic prophesy of Numbers 24:7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F199jXhmIMU.

But, to understand, we must examine the Messianic Numbers 24:7 prophesy:

Balaam, a man who knew YHWH and was gifted with the spirit of prophesy, nevertheless corrupted his gift for money. He mixed it with divination and was not concerned with truth. Around 1440 BC, when the Israelites were in the dessert traveling toward the promised land, Balak the King of Moab was concerned when he saw them setting up camp as they were passing through his territory. So he called on Balaam. King Balak offered Balaam a high price to prophesy bad things against Israel, essentially to put a curse on them.

But, God Almighty sent His spirit strongly onto Balaam so that he’d know the truth and not be able to resist telling about the greatness of the future seed (King) of the Messianic Kingdom of Israel. 7 times God made the truth come out of Balaam’s mouth, including when he said:

27.1 Glory of God

I see him, but not here and now. I perceive him, but far in the distant future. _{^{(Numbers 24:17)}}

God revealed the Messianic Era to Balaam.

God caused Balaam the prophet not to be able to resist making 7 true prophesies about the Israelites and their future glory. After speaking against his own will, Balaam was angry and wanted revenge. So he taught Balak, the King of Moab how they could lead the Israelites into terrible sin.

About the modern day false prophet, Joshua Mhlakela.

https://alephtav.blog/joshua-m/

Balaam’s most famous Messianic Prophesy:

He makes water flow from his buckets, And his seed [is] in many waters (peoples); And his King [is] higher than Gog And his kingdom is exalted. A star will rise from Jacob; a scepter will emerge from Israel. It will crush the heads of Moab, cracking the skulls of the people of Sheth. Numbers 24:7 & 17 LSV

The verse that you just read, Numbers 24:7, is the Literal Standard Version, which is unique in that it draws upon both the Septuagint and the Masoretic texts of the Old Testament.

27.2 Glory of God

In the Septuagint version of this verse, ‘Gog’ is the title of the final enemy of Israel, before the Messianic Era begins.

But, most English Bibles on anyone’s bookshelf today say Agag! Why?

The Hebrew Bible was ‘revived,’ long after the Hellenistic period ended. _{^{(The Jews had become very Hellenized even by ~200 BC, almost forgetting to speak Hebrew; which is why the Hebrew Bible was saved by being translated into Koine Greek).}} About 1,300 years later, certain Rabbinical Jews, the Masorites, tried to remedy that by reconstituting the Tanach (Old Testament) in Hebrew using the Masoretic Text, a version which had ‘diacritics’ which they added to indicate vowel sounds. Normal Hebrew had only consonants, assuming people knew the vowels, but obviously they had been long forgotten. The Masoretic Tanakh was probably completed in the 10th century AD, although it wasn’t published until 1524 AD. The Masorites are the ones who substituted ‘Agag’ for Gog.

Why?

The Messianic theme of this passage was an extremely touchy issue with them, because they’re the ones God Almighty holds responsible for the crucifixion of His Son whose name is ‘Yeshuah’ in Hebrew (meaning Savior) and ‘Mashiach’ (meaning anointed one), or Jesus (Savior) Christ (anointed one). (He’s also called God the Son, the Worthy One who is the exact likeness of YHWH in the flesh, perfect and sinless.)

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Unfortunately, almost all available Bibles, even the King James Bible, used the Masoretic text as the only source from which they’ve translated the Old Testament!

Hello Proofs!

The complete James Moffatt Bible got it right, it says ‘Gog.’ See verse 24:7 in the photo below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffatt,_New_Translation

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Proofs continued . . .

Here’s the passage in the Koine Greek Septuagint: **It’s good to look at the verse, then scroll down a bit and see: Γωγ = gōg.**

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lxx/num/24/1/t_conc_141007.

This link contains the entire Numbers 24 chapter in Septuagint Old Greek. It’s for proof. Check out verse 7 and look for the word Gog in Greek: Γὼγ

https://www.septuagint.bible/-/arithmoi-kephalaio-24

And here’s an English translation (by John William Wevers) directly from the Septuagint. It’s the entire Book of Numbers:

https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/04-num-nets.pdf

Scroll way down to get to chapter 24.

I’ve been trying to find it in the the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q27) but the Numbers 24:7 verse seems to be missing from the fragment! (Hmm, I recently found out that chapter 9 of Daniel is also missing – hmmm, other highly sensitive Messianic passages!)

Gog is the head of the fully formed Beast

The world will be awed by the rapid revival of the 7th head of the beast. I think it’ll be a unified Islamic State (or Caliphate) coming in great power.

https://biblia.com/bible/nkjv/revelation/13/3-4,

But when the Islamic Mahdi/ Jewish False Messiah (Gog) arrives, the Beast Empire will quickly morph into something that makes the whole world embrace it.

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The world will be frightened by its threats but also seduced by its power, wealth, deceptions and influence. It will be greatly overbearing upon the world, becoming its preeminent power for 42 months.

In St. John’s vision from the Lord, which he described in the Book of Revelation, the seven heads of the Beast in chronological order represent:

1. Egyptian Empire

2. Assyrian Empire

3. Babylonian Empire

4. Medo-Persian Empire

5. Greek Empire

6. Roman Empire

7. Islamic Empire

They were the great gentile empires of middle Earth, the main historical enemies of Hebrew Israel.

In St. John’s vision, the seventh head of the Beast suffered a fatal head wound.

That’s the Islamic Caliphate, which ceased to exist in 1924 after the Ottoman Caliphate was defeated in WW1. It was decapitated when its head (Caliph) was replaced by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a secular president, and the empire ceased to exist. But roots remained, that later came out as horns, ten of them were significant and a new head will come up out of them.

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The Decapitation of the Caliphate is the Fatal Head Wound.

It was a seemingly fatal head wound in St. John’s vision. But, St. John also saw that the ‘seventh head’ will be revived (a Caliph will arise again). The Caliph or the ‘Mahdi’ will be considered as the ‘eighth head’ of the beast.

St. John wrote that the eighth head will replace the seventh head; It will be ‘of the (spirit of the) seven’ and will drive the whole Beast.

It will be the ultimate Beast, which will reign for the last 42 months of the 6,000 years of God Almighty’s allotment for mankind’s rebellion.

It may have its most severe impact on the ‘greater MENA (Middle East, North Africa area) in the beginning, because the concept of ‘the world’ in the Bible is from the vantage point of Jerusalem. The territories/ethnicities of the end time Gog coalition of Ezekiel 38, all have their roots in most of the nations directly surrounding Israel today.

People of the whole world will succumb to the ‘Beast’ and worship him, or submit to him in other ways, such as bowing down to him or his image. The true living Almighty God will allow the satanically empowered Beast Empire to become the preeminent world power, for the described ‘short time,’ in order that it may fully express its evil intent against God and all God’s – people to its own utter condemnation. It’s also being used to test the Jews, bringing 1/3 of them to salvation.

When the Cup of its Wickedness Reaches Fullness

Jesus Christ will return to conquer and overthrow it, the entire Beast System. He’ll throw the Beast and his ‘false prophet’ into the ‘lake of fire,’ which was originally made for satan and his fallen angels – burning torment without end; And the Beast’s followers will be degraded and killed, but they won’t actually be judged until after the 1,000 year Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ, when the dead will be raised naked into their old reconstituted bodies, to be judged.

The Millennial Kingdom will be ruled with an ‘iron rod’ by Jesus Christ Himself as King of Kings and High Priest, along with all His saints, who are Priests; His saints will also be the judges. Some of His saints will be enforcers of justice and Jesus will assign some of them to be princes and ‘kings’ over the remaining nations. The following verse is an example of that, to the ‘over comers’ of the Church of Thyatyra, which had the difficult challenge of overcoming the local sub-culture, which required extreme sexual and spiritual sin to be practiced in order for anybody to join a guild so they could get the higher paying jobs.

To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations —
‘He will rule them with an iron rod;
he will dash them to pieces like pottery’ —
just as I have received authority from my Father. (Revelation 2:26-27 )

Will Christ’s saints be allowed to use force in the Millennial Kingdom?

Vengeance belongs to God. All people have sinned against God Almighty and are only saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ’s perfect blood. Therefore, saints during this present ‘age of grace’ must deal with unrepentant sinners with compassion, by preaching the Gospel of salvation to them out of love, realizing they’re lost souls, just as we used to be. That includes giving the necessary warnings.

But, after our old ‘sin bodies’ are shed and replaced with Jesus’ gift to us of glorified bodies, that have no sin nature; only then, will some saints be assigned to righteously enforce Jesus Christ’s iron rod rule in His Millennial Kingdom, where sin will not be allowed to take a foothold. (The Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ is not the same as the New Heavens and New Earth that Father God will speak into existence 1,000 years later where there’s no mention of such things.)

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

Colossians 3:10

“Put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”

Our greatest purpose in the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ will be as priests, a worshipful role in which we’ll also intercede on the behalf of sinners. But God never changes. His goodness and love define Him, but there is no real love without justice. Father God will avenge the ones He loves in the cases where they are mistreated by wrongdoers during the Millennium. From what I gather, it is only those who’ve overcome the particular challenges of just one church type, who’ll be assigned an enforcement role. As mentioned above, that’s the Church of Thyatira, which is the church type that allowed the infiltration of extreme sexual immorality into itself via tolerating an occult priestess to remain among them, enticing them to pagan rituals for economic gain.

The Reason for the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ is to fulfill God’s Promises to Abraham

It’s also the last test for the elect of fallen humanity. For the first time, humanity will be under ‘righteous rule’. The King of Righteousness, Jesus Christ will have chosen only those He deems ‘sheep’ and not goats, to enter His earthly kingdom, but they will still have the corrupt sin nature that they inherited from Adam. The age of grace will have ended. Some form of Old Covenant Law will be instituted. Animal sacrifices will be required, but sin will be greatly reduced.

Judgement at the Great White Throne will take place after those 1,000 years have ended.

And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
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.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Revelation 20: 11-13

13. The Scarlet Beast

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/21/13-beast/

27.^₇ See the Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

Note

28. The Lucifer Impostor

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/05/28-satan/