A special focus on the Tribulation Saints of the Sixth Seal and how it eventually lead me to the understanding of all the harvests. This topic has been the most challenging to articulate.
The sixth seal rapture timing viewpoint seemed to be the most neglected viewpoint for believers looking to prove just one harvest event, as I used to. It was the obvious conclusion to come to when studying the New Testament in the most basic and direct way, taking it at face value in order not to miss whatever might be straight forward. I took that approach because I needed to extract myself from all the opinions that were opposing each other and surrounding me on every side. What came to really stand out to me was how so many Bible teachers were ignoring the uncountable multitude of saints that St Paul saw standing in God’s throne room at the end of the sixth seal.
9After these things I looked, and this is what I saw: a vast multitude which no one could count, [gathered] from every nation and from all the tribes and peoples and languages [of the earth], standing before the throne and before the Lamb (Christ), dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands; 10and in a loud voice they cried out, saying, “Salvation [belongs] to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.” 11And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the [twenty-four] elders and the four living creatures; and they fell to their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and majesty and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might belong to our God forever and ever. Amen. 13Then one of the elders responded, saying to me, “These who are dressed in the long white robes—who are they, and from where did they come?” 14 I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” And he said to me, “These are the people who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” [because of His atoning sacrifice].15For this reason, they are [standing] before the throne of God; and they serve Him [in worship] day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them and shelter and protect them [with His presence]. 16They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any [scorching] heat; 17for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their Shepherd, and He will guide them to springs of the waters of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”
With time and closer inspection, I discovered that the sixth seal harvest, although by far the largest harvest of the body of Christ, is not the only harvest. I saw that my sixth seal harvest perspective was flawed; And although its ‘flaw’ seemed to be remedied in part by leaning preferentially on St. Paul’s teachings, I actually had to embrace the full complexity of the New Testament, piece by piece, to resolve all the issues. Only then did I come to understand that the core of the disagreements among Pastors, Bible teachers, scholars, saints and scholars came from the fact that the vast majority of them hold to the conviction that there’s only one harvest of saints.
But before I knew all that, and while my initial studies were still clearly pointing me to the sixth seal as the harvest of all of God’s new covenant saints, I began making basic preparations in order to survive the great tribulation of the 4th seal. (not God’s wrath which is the greatest tribulation that starts at the 7th seal) My preps were partly spiritual and partly physical, such as learning how to fish and garden. I stocked up on coffee, water, medicine and extra resources to help others, especially Christians, to make it through what I deduced would be about a year long trial.
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Then things changed – a personal note – preparing a ‘time capsule’ for the left behind:
After further study and prayer, I realized there’s also an earlier harvest for the bride of Christ, which most likely includes the bridesmaids. (See posts 1 and 18)I’ve been glad that some of the preps I’d made might become useful for those who’ll be left behind (hopefully to soon become tribulation saints); So I continued prepping somethings for them. But for myself, I came to focus on insuring that I am truly betrothed to Jesus Christ through obedience, abiding in Him and His word. Also of course, hearing His voice, bearing fruit for Him and doing the works He made for me, in order that I may be clothed with them for eternity.
Soon I discovered other watchers who were making kits for the left behind and I sort of joined them; I started to consider AlephTav.blog to be in part a service to the left behind, yet it’s also good to divert believers from getting left behind, for understanding the signs of the end-times and for resolving prophesies. I think we should all try to seek out individuals to whom the Lord might want us to leave other things, survival things; but truth is of the highest priority; “Man can not live by bread alone but on every word that comes out of the Mouth of God”(Matt. 4:4). Daniel 7:25 informs us that the Beast is going to try to eliminate Biblical calendrical knowledge by changing the ‘times and laws’ probably by rewriting Bibles. AI has already been adulterating online Bibles and a very wealthy Muslim family just purchased one of the largest Christian book companies. Woe to those who can’t tell the difference! The Bible warns about a ‘dessert of the WORD.’
So the early harvest for the bride and probably the bridesmaids that I came to focus on is: Jesus Christ’s Open Door for His Church of Philadelphia; I’ve been praying to be invited through His open door. He Himself is The DOOR .
IJesus am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” John 10:9-11
Eventually this understanding completely took over for me. Although it wasn’t possible until I fully understood that the mistranslations of 2 Thessalonians 2 had deceived me into thinking that the bride/true church wouldn’t be redeemed until after the Antichrist sits in the holy place. See post:
But this post is not about the the harvest of Christ’s bride,
its about the harvest of the tribulation saints.
Situating the Sixth SealHarvest:
… in the context of the fourth, fifth and the beginning of the sixth seal …
A quarter of humanity perishes at the fourth seal;The fifth seal show martyrs under God our Holy Father’s alter crying out for justice . . .
< 4th seal 5th seal >
Next, 144,000 Israelites are Sealed by Angels
with the Name of
God the Holy Father and the Holy Son
written on Their Foreheads.
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Only after that are the Tribulation Saints seen in Heaven
As the harvest of the trib. saints is separate from the harvest of the bride, (discussed abovebut proofs are on other posts), the harvest of the trib. saints is also separate from the harvest of the Jews .
When comparing parallel passages in the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) to the very similar words in the Book of Revelation at the conclusion of the sixth seal, it was once mind boggling to me that I’d rarely heard the possibility of ‘a sixth seal harvest’ mentioned by Bible teachers, preachers or commentators. The idea itself wasn’t even broached, not even for the purpose of pointing out how similar its verses seems to the ones in the Olivet Harvest see below! Perhaps they’re afraid of the topic. It can’t be that they understand so clearly that they’re separate harvests to the point where they feel ‘far above’ even being interested in the topic, or that they just didn’t want to confuse people by bringing up the similarities for concern that it might make believers conflate the two harvests; Those can’t be the case since I’m talking about ‘the majority’ who are of the absolute conviction that there is only one harvest! as mentioned above
How Exactly Do Revelation’s Sixth Seal Verses Line up with the Olivet Discourse?
Although the cosmic signs do seem to line up amazingly, there are actually 4 other very impressive earthquakes and many similar cosmic events in the sun, moon and stars, occurring in God’s final ~4.5 years before His Millennial Kingdom begins;Each time dramatic signs and events occur, they’ll frighten people. (But it’s worth noting that ‘frightening the people’ isn’t mentioned in Matt. 24 and Mark 13.) And since we’re teasing out every detail . . . The ‘redemption of the tribulation saints’ isn’t mentioned in Rev. 6. The Tribulation Saints are only seen as having arrived safely in God’s throne room, immediately after the sealing of the 144,000 (Rev. 7); If the Olivet Discourse were the same harvest, wouldn’t the 144,000 pure, virgin, obedient Israelite brothers of Christ sealed to remain on Earth safely have been mentioned by Jesus? Those are the 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Jacob/Israel!Think about it; The Olivet Discourse was given by Jesus Christ the Jewish Messiah while sitting on the Mount of Olives with His select Jewish apostles, while they were looking down upon Jerusalem and the 2nd temple; Jesus indirectly gave them instruction for their future Jewish brethren, exact instructions about how they must flee Jerusalem when they see the end of time abomination of desolation being setup on the wing of the 3rd temple!
Here’s another divergence between the two harvests. It’s between the descriptive phrases ‘the heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up’ Rev. 6 vs ‘heavenly bodies will be shaken The Gospels. Only the Rev. 6:14 verse implies an actual displacement of Earth’s axis and/or orbit that will move every mountain and island from its place.
Although there are three ‘synoptic’ gospels, there was only one Olivet Discourse in which Jesus Christ revealed what’s to come for the Jews at the end of this age.
But the synoptic gospels have been recorded from three different vantage points and that’s not the same as three different witnesses from three separate prophesies. Now many modern Bible expositors hold the belief that Matthew Mark and Luke each hint at a different harvest: Matthew to the Jews, Mark to the tribulation saints and Luke to the bride of Christ. And although the individual points they make to defend their hypotheses sound intriguing, I’m unconvinced. Therefore, on this post, I’m sticking with the unmistakable things that apply only to the final harvest, the grape harvest of the Jews.
The Revelation 6: 12-17 verses dazzled me . . .
. . . so much at first, that they kind of blinded me when the frightened people say, “Hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?” Since I was a bit dazzled, I fully equated that with the Olivet Discourse harvest which says, . . . “when you seethe Son of Man coming in the clouds with power and great glory.” But . . .
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Here’s the first thing I overlooked:
Revelation’s Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse can’t be referring to the same harvest because the Olivet Discourse clearly describes the Son of Man coming to harvest the Jews after the greatEST tribulation on Earth, (although God will provide a 1260 refuge for them after they flee) while Rev. 6:17 only says “the great day of their wrath has arrived,”which was announced right after the one who sits on the throne became visible to the people on Earth – showing that His wrath was just about to begin! And then very soon after that brief introduction to wrath, the tribulation saints were seen in heaven having escaped it.
These are the verses from the synoptic Gospels:
Olivet Discourse – Matt. 24:21,“For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.”(Only after this, in verse 29, signs in the cosmos were mentioned.)
Olivet Discourse – Mark 13: 19-20, “because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again. If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.” (Only after the Jews see the A.O.D. and flee, signs in the cosmos are mentioned in verse 24.)
Olivet Discourse – Luke 21:22, “For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.”(Only in verse 25 are signs in the cosmos mentioned and with the ‘tossing of the sea’ added.)
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There’s even more proof below, that the Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse Harvests are different, but first one more proof here:
No throne of God the Father appearing in the heavenlies to everybody on Earth was mentioned the Olivet Discourse accounts. So what could be more impressive than God Almighty’s throne appearing to all humanity from the heavens above? And what could be more unlikely than Jesus Christ not mentioning His Fathers’ very first appearance to all the people on Earth, in His longest and most detailed prophetic discourse?
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The Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse harvests are clearly not the same!
The rest of the explanations of why the Sixth Seal and Olivet Harvest are different are given below at marks: 2.15, 2.20, 2.26 and 2.28.
If scribes or Bible translators or their institutions held to the belief that the Olivet and the Sixth Seal harvests were the same, they would’ve been more likely use words to translated with thatmade the verses seem to be a bit more closely aligned than theyotherwise would have.
I tried to cover the 5th seal martyrs and martyrs in general here,
But it turned out to be too lengthy to keep and too important to ignore, so it’s here:
The First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from the ‘Bosom of Abraham’ in Hades when “He took captivity captive.”Also, my interpretation of the two grape harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second one is the grapes of wrath.
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Back to: Why the Rev. Sixth Seal Harvest isn’t the Olivet Discourse Harvest:
The great multitude of Tribulation Saints:
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Revelation 7:9
So Important!: The Olivet Harvest is unlike the Barley Harvest (His bride) and Wheat Harvest (tribulation saints) in that it’s not for every nation, tribe, people and language. The Olivet Harvest is the harvest that’s overwhelmingly for the Jews. There’s a complete proof study here . . .
Now finishing up this post with something related but a bit different . . .
Increased Biblical knowledge leads us to let go of a few cherished simpler explanations.
Biblical knowledge has been increasing dramatically, and through this new learning process many of us, including myself along with my family in Christ, locally and online in watcher communities, have come to fully understand from scripture, that there are three different crops of saints, each with first fruits, an owners portion and gleanings.
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This viewpoint fits best when the Book of Revelation is understood to bewell ordered and chronological.
I see the Book of Revelation as an exceptionally orderly book in the sense that, when zooming out, it’s chronological, despite the fact that it contains one huge parenthetical section with symbolism that reaches back in time to the three ascensions of the body of Christ: First Christ’s own resurrected body ascended; Next, about 1,996 years later, His bride (and possibly His bridesmaids) ascended; And not long after that, His tribulation saints ascended. All those make up ‘the body of Christ’ who’ll rule Earth by Christ’ side with an iron rod.I used the past tense since the parenthetical Revelation 12 sign passages are a figurative summary only shown to St Paul after the Lord had already shown him many chronological future end times events, and that Christ’s bride and tribulation had already been taken off the earth before the parenthetical section. Together all true Christians are ‘the body of Christ and share in the unimaginably generous inheritance that God our Father has given His Son Jesus Christ. So why does the Revelation 12 sign start by showing the Body of Christ coming out of the woman ‘Hebrew-Israel’? It’s because that sets the stage for us to focus on the final crop of saints, the main part of the grape harvest of the Jews! The woman ‘Hebrew-Israel’ then immediately flees satan, who’s represented by the dragon in Revelation 12. Satan first tried to destroy Christ and then the body of Christ but was unsuccessful because both His body was caught up to heaven. Then Satan turns against the woman who runs to a safe place in the wilderness that God has prepared for her.
8/30/26 Update: 9 years, representing 9 months of gestation have passed since the very famous 2017 Revelation 12 sign appeared in the heavens. We believe that water broke on August 29 when the blood moon was in Aquarius. (“came by water and blood.” John 1 5-6) It’s time for Christ’s bride to be lifted up, likely on Sept. 11 ’26; I think His tribulation saints will follow within a year.
In addition to the great parentheses of Revelation 12, The Book of Revelation also uses a few simple temporal overlaps:
An example of a forward overlap: The chain of events released when Jesus breaks the first, second and third seals (horsemen) overlap each other combining to bring about the death of a quarter of humanity at the fourth seal.
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Also backward overlaps arecommon to storytelling: To tell a complex story people must consistently ‘go back’ and ‘pick up threads’ that were left off since it’s impossible to forward relate everything at the same time.
Diverging to the harvest of Christ’s bride and how it sets off the great tribulation and the harvest of His Tribulation Saints.
Understanding the timing: How the Open Door Harvest aligns with the climactic moment when the Lamb of God, the only worthy one in the universe to receive the scroll of the Deed to Earth from the hand of Holy Father Almighty, requires flexibility on our part. For example, if Christ’s tarry began before and continued on for awhile after what I call the Midnight Cry Event, which was the day He broke the first seal of the scroll, about 6 months before ‘the beginning of the end of the church age’ on April 9 ’24 ADsee post 3, his bride might wonder what she should be doing now, while persevering through the final wait. I believe the bridesmaids are persevering too, those who have enough oil. Wouldn’t Jesus Christ want His bride to be working in order to edify and ready the bridesmaids, martyrs and tribulation saints for their respective roles? After all the role of the wife has always been to be the beloved helpmate of her husband. If the betrothal is modeled on ancient Jewish tradition, there’s a waiting period after the betrothal while the groom builds her a house; But I think there’s also another waiting period for the bride of Christ after the midnight cry. Symbolically that’s the time in His parable of the 10 virgins when the 5 unwise virgins went out buy more oil for their lamps, which were going out. Now His betrothed saints are not the very same as the wise virgins, but its all about entry to His marriage supper event in heaven. Since all 10 virgins fell asleep while waiting for the midnight cry, the thing that differentiated the bride might be that she never fell asleep (slipped back into living for the world). His bride’s been watching carefully for awhile now, and it seems that she’s being shown the glory of the meanings of the wait itself as well as of the stepping stones that have been marking the times of the wait, and why it’s magnificent, glorifying Jesus Christ even more!
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Many believers have been taught that Christ’s bride must be physically present in God’s throne room, before God our Father presents the Lamb of God with the scroll of the Deed to Earth. That’s why so many Christians think the 24 elders are the bride. Huh? The 24 elders can not be the bride, as the 24 elders sang a song to praise the Lamb of God for redeeming ‘them’ with His blood. Who do the 24 elders mean by the word ‘them’?
There are 7 very conspicuous blazing torches in God’s throne room in front of His throne, which were noted by St John in the 5th verse after the evaluation Jesus Christ gave regarding to the 7th ‘lamp stand’ the final church! After that, St. John saw the open door to heaven; In the next verse he saw a throne (in the center of which the Lamb who was slain will soon appear); In the third verse he described someone awesome on the throne and in the forth verse he saw the 24 elders surrounding the one on the throne. Then he saw the blazing torches or lamp stands. After that he saw a sea of glass followed by the four living creatures in the center around the throne. Next Father God holds out a sealed scroll with His right hand, but nobody in the universe is worthy to break it’s seals. St John cries and cries until one of the elders says:
Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals. Rev. 5:5
Then the Lamb who was slain appears at the center of the throne surrounded by the 4 creatures and 24 elders worshiping Him. He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne!
About the blazing lamp stands in front of God’s throne, does anybody think God needs firelight in order to see? Revelation specifically states that there will be no need for the sun and the moon on the New Earth; Although they’ll still exist, they’ll be ‘put to shame’ by the most holy light of Father God and Jesus Christ themselves. So lets consider the 7 blazing lamp stands/torches in the throne room of God, which St. John saw just two verses after he saw God sitting on the throne. . .
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The song that the 24 ‘elders’ sang, referred to ‘them,’ as those who were redeemed by Christ’s blood. . . How are ‘they’ represented in God’s throne room?
The following is the Greek word for ‘they.’ Almost every translation gets it right but both King James versions got it wrong by translating ‘it’ as ‘us’ when it literally means ‘not us’!
them {into} αὐτοὺς (autous) Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural Strong’s 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.
How is Christ’s bride represented in God’s throne room until she arrives there in her glorified bodies? It’s the lamp stands of course! They’re presence represents the condition of Christ’s bride, while she remains on Earth, like a measuring device in which the flames constantly indicate her role in being the light of the earth, which is only possible when she allows the the Holy Spirit to work through her.
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The precedent was the Menorah. It Served Practically the Same Purpose in God’s Old Covenant Temple.
This is recorded in the Talmud . . .
. . . that from the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the menorah constantly blew out for 40yrs. until the temple was destroyed. The earthly temple was a reflection of God’s heavenly temple; They’re linked and that means there was also a seven branched menorah in God’s throne room reflecting what the Old Covenant temple priests were doing on Earth.
While in God’s throne room, St. John saw the seven fold spirit represented by 7 blazing torches before God’s throne (also reflecting the New Covenant betrothal). He wrote about it just verses after he’d seen Jesus walk among 7 lamp stands in his vision on the Island of Patmos. Then immediately he went up though the ‘Open Door’ to God’s Throne Room. St. John would have seen the bride of Christ standing there if she were actually present when the 24 elders burst into their famous song about Christ having redeemed ‘them’ (His bride and possibly His bridesmaids) with His blood.. After all, St. John later saw the uncountable number of Tribulation Saints in bodily form, standing in Gods throne room, wearing long white robes, singing songs of praise and waving palm branches in Rev. 7: 9-17.
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The very act of witnessing the blazes of the 7 lamp stands before God’s throne, as they simultaneously reached their radiant fullness must have been the indicator that Christ’s bride’s has made herself ready meaning it’s time for Jesus Christ, the Worthy One, to begin breaking the seals of the scroll; That’s what caused the 24 elders to burst into their most special song of praise!
7 Full Blazes . . .
. . . must mean that every one of the 7 church types will have Holy Spirit anointed members who are not grieving the Holy Spirit, even at the end of this age; They’ll be alive and actively burning forth the light of truth into this, dark world for the Lord! Those are the saints who’ll be consuming Him, THE WORD, and shining it forth. I think that’s what convinces Father God to hand the scroll to Jesus. I’m not saying that God wouldn’t have known about it without the lamp stands and the flames as the indicator. He’s all-knowing; I’m saying that the lamp stands/torches are also placed there for His pleasure and to show what’s important to Him. The lamp stands/torches also serve to continuously demonstrate to the all intelligent inhabitants of the third heaven, the state of the Christ’s bride at a single glance. There can’t be a Kingdom with only a King and a planet. A King requires subjects; When Jesus has His first, closest and most passionate large group of tested loyal subjects, His bride and bridesmaids, His Kingdom is ready to move forward! The scroll is the Deed to Earth, and the time for Him to begin breaking the seals will have arrived and so He will bring back the foundation (eden)! We can celebrate that now because it’s happening right now! We will miss that opportunity if we believe we must wait until we arrive in God’s throne room. (In my opinion)
O Wonder Beyond Wonders, Righteousness, Power, Amazement!
Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
“Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, proclaiming victory, mighty to save.”
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This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Jesus will never let go of our hand.
1 John 4: 9-10, “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”
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Protoevangelicum
Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Jesus Christ is the Name Above All Names.
1 Corinthians 15: 24-27 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For he “has put everything under his feet.”
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The Victory Belongs to Jesus Christ
Great video!
EVIL is RISING as the END TIMES APPROACH || Are You Truly Prepared for What’s Ahead?
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities (Satan and his fallen angels), he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Colossians 2:13-15
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He Feels Our Pain
He has our Holy Father’s Heart
Jesus Christ is the Judge of All
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John 5: 22-23 “For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father.
Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.”
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
Revelation 4:4-5
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Who are the 24 Elders in Our Holy Father’s Throne Room?
I think the 24 elders are the Old Testament saints who Jesus Christ released from captivity in Hades, from the bosom of Abraham. Where did Jesus take them?
I think Jesus brought them to God our Father’s throne room as the first fruits offering of the Barley Harvest of Saints. They may’ve been the ones who had faith in the Son of God Yeshua Messiah before He even came to Earth, as they saw Him, as through a glass darkly.
“Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.” (John 8:56)
Only after examining every theory out there in great depth, did I come to that conclusion, but only after the Holy Spirit spoke to me once, when I was going down the wrong track.
Note: As far as I know, the 24 elders were never ‘seen’ in any of the Old Testament prophet’s visions, but God. YHWH mentioned them once to Isaiah (Isa. 24) in a vision of the far future, after the Millennium and before the new Universe, when Earth was torn apart completely. I don’t think God was necessarily indicating that the elders were already in His throne room before the time when Isaiah lived.
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The 24 Elders as the First Fruits of the Barley Harvest of Souls:
Of the two grape harvests of Rev. 14, I think only the second harvest is the grapes of wrath.
First Fruits of the Barley Harvest may be the people whose bodies rose from their graves after Jesus died on the cross, and later got up and walked into Jerusalem after Jesus Christ was resurrected. Those might’ve been the formerly captive souls that Jesus brought up from Sheol, whobythe power of Jesus Christ, re-entered their bodies; They may have risen to heaven at the same time Christ did, meeting Him in the clouds. If so, Christ would’ve brought them to Father God as the First Fruits, of the Barley Harvest.
Because no one appears before God empty handed: Exodus 3:21, 23:15; Deut. 16:16.
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1 Corinthians 15:20-26 ESV
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
Rev. 4:9-11
. . . the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”
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At times, God has considered certain men to be in His divine assembly.
For example, the ‘gods’ of Psalm 82; They aren’t the same as the 24 elders. The Psalm 82 ‘gods’ were unrighteous, the 24 elders, righteous.
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Psalm 82
God presides in the great assembly; He renders judgment among the ‘gods.’ “How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. “I said, ‘You are ‘gods’; you are all sons of the Most High. But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler.”
Jesus told us who the ‘gods’ of Psalm 82 really were:
Jesus answered them (the Pharisees), “Is it not written in your Law (Psalm 82) ‘I have said you are “gods”’? If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside –what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world?
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Isaiah 24:22-23
“In that day the Lord will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below. They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days.The moon will be dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the Lord Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory.”
Before I understood who the 24 elders really are, the best candidates were the ‘elect angels.’ I’ve left some remnants from the prior argument below because the study elements still glorify Jesus Christ!
From Moses’ song:
Deuteronomy 32: 8-9 “When the Most High apportioned the nations, when He divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the ‘gods’ (elohim); the LORD’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.” (The Septuagint translated elohim to angels.)
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Jesus Christ put all the Principalities to Shame:
Colossians 2:15
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Colossians 2: 10-14, 15-17
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. .Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
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In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross. (Colossians 2:15 NLT)
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. (Colossians 2:16)
The last enemy to be destroyed is death. “For God has put everything under His feet “Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. (1 Corinthians 15: 26-28)
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7 Blazing Torches in Front of God’s Throne.
This is a fascinating topic:
St. John saw the seven blazing torches and was told they’re the seven spirits of God. Is that description only focusing on the oil part, since oil represents the Holy Spirit in the Bible? Isn’t the living WORD Jesus Christ the actual light part? But wait . . . there’s no light on lamp stands unless their oil burns;
Let’s examine it:
It makes sense that together the lamp stands symbolize the entire church – all 7 types or models, as described in Rev. 2-3. At the time of St. John’s throne room vision, each lamp stand was in the blazing state that God desired. At that time they all will have sufficient holy spirit oil and will be lit with blazing flames being fanned; All 7 lamp stands will be and now are shining forth the light of truth into this dark world; The 7 lamp stands collectively must represent the completed, mature, true church that Jesus Christ died for, His bride and his bridesmaids. I think the fact that all 7 are lit also shows that she’s at least somewhat mature, although she remains on Earth. The blazes on the torches serve like a meter in God’s throne room; And at the time of St. John’s vision they’re indicating to all the living beings in God’s throne room that it’s time for the Lamb of God to take the scroll of the Deed to Earth from His Father’s hand, and get ready to break its first seal; Thus the 24 elders broke out into song, praising Jesus for purchasing ‘them’ while YHWH handed the scroll to His Son, the Worthy One, His Perfect Sacrificial Lamb.
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Jesus Christ had spoken something to St. John, just 8 verses prior to that, before St. John ‘looked’ and ‘saw’ the open door in heaven and heard a voice like a trumpet saying “COME UP HERE”:
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Here’s what Jesus Christ said:
“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write”
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open doorthat no one can shut.
I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. Since you have kept My command to endure patiently,
I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.(Rev. 3:1-13)
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The ‘open door’ concept was described twice in a row, first in Rev. 3:8 and then in Rev. 4:1.
The greater context: The Book of Revelation opens with St John’s vision of Jesus Christ walking among 7 lamp stands; He tells us what they are:
I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lamp stands, and among the lamp stands was someone like a son of man, dressed in . . . (It’s Jesus in His Glory.) ‘The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lamp standsis this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches. . .’ (Rev. 1:12-13, 20)
Then Jesus gives a ‘progress report’ to each church. And at the end of each progress report, seven times, He concludes with, “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
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After that, St. John is transported to heaven and he sees this:
From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne,seven torches were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. (Rev. 4:5)
In St. John’s first vision on the island of Patmos, he didn’t mention whether or not the lamp stands that Jesus walked among were lit. The focus was on the churches. A church isn’t the flame, but the device that holds up the oil, and the flame, if it’s lit. It’s the responsibility of a church and it’s congregation to spark and fan the flame and to not quench the Holy Spirit.
I like this picture; but there’s no need for each of the seven lamp stands have more than one lamp.
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What sparks the flame and what fans the flames of the Holy Spirit to make a blaze?
Jesus seems to have said that it’s listening and hearing what the spirit says to the churches. How do we hear what He said? I think we better read Rev. 2-3!
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To Ephesus, Rev. 2:7, “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.”
To Smyrna, Rev. 2:11, “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.”
Pergamum, Rev. 2:17, “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.”
To Thyatira, Rev. 2:26-29, “To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’ – just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give that one the morning star. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
To Sardis, Rev. 3:3-6, “Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. . . . Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. Hold it fast, and repent. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
To Philadelphia, Rev. 3:11-13, “I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
To Laodicea, Rev. 3:19-22, “Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hearsmy voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
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The rewards that Jesus promised point to the time of the end of the age:
The Church of Philadelphia was given the promise by Jesus that they’d be kept from the hour of trial that was coming upon the whole world;The 7 churches must be representative of all the churches, those from each of the 7 types, that have existrd from the first century all the way until the time until the end, because the hour of trial that comes upon the whole world, that Jesus spoke of, is the beginning of great tribulation.
Recap: In Revelation 4:1, St John looks and sees a door: “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
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. . . Rev. 4: 2-3-5, “At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.”
‘7’ is God’s number of perfect completion and can be likened to 100%. There’s only ‘one’ Holy Spirit, and God is completely holy, I’m sure God wouldn’t uphold or edify any ‘other’ spirits in front Himself, not as a central feature in His throne room while He sits on His throne. Therefore the Holy Spirit, must be ‘seven fold’ in its ‘oneness’ since He is called the seven spirits of God. This is my opinion, but it’s strongly backed by the fact that Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God, had 7 horns on his head when St. John saw Him standing in God’s throne room: That represents 100% of might so Jesus Christ is almighty; And, there’s also the amazing fact that Father God designed the entire time scheme of the universe according to units of ‘7’. And the Holy Spirit can be represented as 7 fold in more than one way; For example, the seven eyes of the head of the Lamb of God in Rev. 5:6were described as being ‘the seven spirits of God.’ That indicates that Jesus Christ is omniscient. (Sometimes the Holy Spirit is reckoned differently, such as in the way He’s distributed Himself as earnests among all the individual saints. And I’m not very sure if the following is of the Holy Spirit, but the 4 chariots described in Zechariah 6 are said to be ‘4 spirits of God’; Perhaps those are the spirits of the four living creatures who are closest to God’s throne.) I deduce that all the saints who’ve received the Holy Spirit, must fit best into one of the seven ‘church types’. And that’s true whether or not they’re a part of a traditional church congregation, because it must be the particular challenges, strengths and weaknesses of the members of those churches that differentiate the type. For example, if a believer’s’ most difficult challenge is overcoming sexual immorality they are of the church of Thyatira. Etc. . . .
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. . . turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lamp stands, and among the lamp stands was someone like a son of man . . . . Rev. 1: 12-13
Does the presence of the 7 blazing torches/lamp stands in God’s throne room, indicate that the church will have already have been physically redeemed before the Lamb of God takes the scroll from the hand of our Holy Heavenly Father?
Don’t be confused by this picture, St John did not see two additional menorahs in the back of Gods throne room. That’s merely an artist’s rendition since menorahs symbolize the Old and New Covenant betrothals between God and humanity.
Our precedent was the Earthly Temple of God: Did the flames of God’s heavenly menorah go out whenever the flames of the menorah in the earthly temple went out?
I’m not implying that that’d mean the Holy Spirit would ever cease to exist!
What I’m suggesting only regards the menorah and/or the 7 lamp stands as being a beautiful device that serves like a barometer, indicating to all who enter there room, what the condition of the relationship with God’s betrothed is, as she’s still on Earth. For example: When Father God’s Old Covenant wife wasn’t in good standing, such as when the priesthood was causing the Holy Spirit to grieve and God’s covenant people were sinning badly, the flames would grow dim.
That happened after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Sanhedrin, Pharisees and the Jews of the nation as a whole, were held responsible for it by God Almighty. So after that, the flames of their menorah went out continuously for 40 yrs, until God destroyed the 2nd temple.
What I just described was recorded by the Jews in their Talmud: “The flames continuously blew out for 40 years, and also the temple doors kept flying open and the red cord never again turned white.“
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After the 2nd Temple was Destroyed: There was an Enormous Change:
A New Nation of Priests to God had Taken its Stand: The True Church of Jesus Christ.
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Christ’s 7 Fold Church
The church is represented by the 7 lamps in God’s throne room. It’s not a menorah but it’s like a menorah whose flames or absence thereof stand for the strength of their relationship with God – each type of church – as it varies over time. As mentioned above, each type has different challenges that they need to overcome. Individuals of: Ephesus must regain their first love, Smyrna will need to endure 10 days of suffering and possible martyrdom, Pergamon must cease to sell the gifts that the Holy Spirit gave them, Thyatira must cease their physical and spiritual prostitution, Sardis must stop being dead, Philadelphia saints must only hold on to their crowns, and Laodicia must stop being so comfortable in this world.
Individual saints are the living stones of God’s living temple, so there’s no longer any need keep a physical flame burning continuously on a physical menorah in a masonry temple. The saints themselves are the light of the world. Every saint drinks of the same Holy Spirit, who indwells each saint. The Holy Spirit and the WORD is what holds the living temple together making it possible for spiritual light to shine. The physical light on the lamp stands in God’s throne room can be likened to the words of truth, which make up the spiritual light that shines forth from believers who speak them.
Something very significant happened after the Lamb of God took the scroll from His Father’s hand, but before He broke the first seal. The 24 elders sang “You have made them(not us) to be a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” Notice that it’s in the past tense ‘you have made’. So Jesus had already ‘made’ His kingdom of priests. They’re ready, but that doesn’t necessarily mean His kingdom of priests had yet been transported to heaven before the 24 elders sang their song. The 24 elders would’ve known that Jesus’ Kingdom is ‘ready’ just by observing the quality of the blazes on the 7 torches standing before the Worthy Lamb. If the bride of Christ had already been transported to heaven, wouldn’t they have literally been seen standing there by St John? St John saw the tribulation saints standing before the throne of God at the sixth seal.
Finally, Jesus Christ will Rule the World as King Over All Nations.
And, His beloved resurrected saints will serve Him faithfully on Earth, as judges, priests princes and enforcers for a thousand years. Some will be made to be kings over the remaining nations.
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He’ll rule His Millennial Kingdom with an iron rod to fulfill God’s promises to Abraham. And, He’ll defeat all remaining dark powers and authorities before returning the universe to God His/Our Father.
Differing interpretations of the neglected Isaiah 24 chapter:
My interpretation is that, 1,000 yrs before the events of Isaiah 24, after the greatest tribulation/The Time of Jacobs’ Trouble has been brought to His victorious conclusion, Jesus Christ will, with great power, rapidly and supernaturally, repair and revive this Earth, eliminating nuclear radiation and toxic waste, etc.; Then He will rule the Kingdom that God that promised to Abraham’s descendants, including all those of the spiritual seed of faith in Jesus Christ who will rule beside Him. In that way God delays His final destruction of this Earth until all His promises to Abraham have been fulfilled.
And only then will God the Father create the New Heavens and New Earth.
A response to the interpretation that He will destroy Earth before the Millennial Kingdom:
It doesn’t make sense for the promises God made to Abraham not to be fulfilled on this same Earth.
Part of the Glory of Jesus Christ is that He has the power and will to make this corrupt fallen world into a just world via an iron rod, before He annihilates it. We know there will be one brief final rebellion at the end of Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom, just before His Great White Throne Judgment. But in contrast to the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, there will be no real tribulation since the rebellion will be instantly and completely put down. And there will be no more second chances.
Regarding the Consummation of this Present Era
God said He’ll cut his wrath short for His elect, otherwise there’d be no more flesh. By comparison, Isaiah 24 seems to be much more intensely dramatic; In time it’s horrifically condensed, as if God finally gets to spend that very last part of His wrath, the part He held back for the sake of the last remaining elect prior to the Millennium. You might very rightly ask: Doesn’t Matt. 24 say there will be no greater tribulation? There’s a big difference between going through prolonged tribulation, which includes amplified temptations and very real heart wrenching soul choices- the entire future hanging in the balance – as long as salvation is still possible, and simply being annihilated spectacularly and quickly.
There will be no cutting short and no holding back by God then. Those who belong to Christ, having already received their glorified bodies, will not be hurt by it. The final uprising against Jerusalem will be put down very very quickly. It’s the final Gog Magog rebellion and it will be brief. Satan will finally be thrown into the eternal lake of fire where the beast and false prophet will have already been for a 1,000 years.
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The New Jerusalem in Heaven
In My Father’s house are many abodes. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”…
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Psalm 24:7-9
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
The Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ
A Thousand Years of Rest for God and the Saints
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John 17:9
“I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.”
Doubting Thomas of John 20:24-29
“Now Thomas (also known as Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!
But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” . Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” . Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” . Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
The only person in the universe worthy to break the seals of the scroll of the Deed to the Earth is Jesus Christ the Lamb of God. As Jesus Christ breaks the first, second, and third seals, their effects pile up and compound, only peaking when He breaks the fourth seal:
But just before catastrophe reaches the point where it’d scourge His bride, He will redeem her from Earth.
When I first started this post, the first seal of the scroll, of the Deed to the Earth, seemed to have already been broken by Jesus Christ from God’s Throne Room in Heaven…
. . . but since Sept. 23 ’25 three or perhaps even all four horsemen seem to have begun their marches!
Under the First Seal
When Jesus Christ breaks the first seal, the first horseman, the one who rides a white horse carrying a bow with no arrow and wearing a crown of achievement is released.
Presenting with a ‘stephanos’ crown doesn’t exclude the first horseman from being a king.
Even King Jesus wore one once (Rev. 14).
This Horseman of the Apocalypse is the ‘little horn’ the future Antichrist, before he displaces the three horns/kings of Daniel 7:8.
The White Horseman is thought to represent ‘false peace,’ but in the ancient world, a rider on a white horse represented conquering victory. This rider does conquer, but in the beginning, since he carries no arrow for his bow, he conquers without war or physical violence but instead by diplomacy and deceptive strategy. He’ll most likely present himself as sheep-like, when he’s really a wolf. He’s the Beast so he must be the ultimate crafty user of deception using both subtle and blatant seduction, bribery, propaganda, flattery, threats and much, more. Those techniques themselves are a type of sorcery, but this rider will also represent darker occult practices since he’s the one Satan will possess: (That’s either satan by himself directly or through Abbadon/Apollyon who he will call his son; or possibly through Ashur the principality behind the historical national god of Syria).
The Foreshadower
The Beast was foreshadowed by the 3rd king of the north who historically was Antiochus IV Epiphanes. He’s described in Dan. 11:21-35; An abomination of desolation was mentioned in verse 31. But a later ‘end-times‘ abomination of desolation was written about in Daniel 9:27;That’s the one that will be in the image of the Beast. For the Old Greek translations, which give the full timeline, See post 4.The Countdown.
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Is Daniel’s 4th king the Beast?
Dan. 11: 36-45 (Lexham Septuagint 1st ed.Old Greek ), is about a 4th king. That passage really begins at the second half of what’s been labeled as ‘verse 35’ . . . (The Koine Greek, it has no periods or verse numbers) . . . The second half of the verse mentions ‘the appointed time of consummation’ which is the very same wording used in Dan. 9:27 for the utter end of God’s entire plan for this age; It also says: “there is yet an appointed season”, which is an indicator that the angel Gabriel was changing the focus to the future; And that leads directly into ‘the king’ . That’s the 4th king, the one that reads like he’s the Beast: Dan. 11:36, “He will be exalted above every god, and against the God of gods. He will utter excessive arrogance, and he will prosper along his way until the appointed wrath is accomplished for him, for a conclusion is coming” . Dan. 11:37, “… in every way he will be exalted, and powerful nations will be under him…” Dan. 11:39, “He will act concerning cities, and for a powerful stronghold.” Dan. 39, “He will increase his influence and it will gain dominion over him greatly and the land he will divide up as a gift”. (I think ‘the land’ there is Israel.)
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It’s certainly taking place in the end-times and he’s very Beast-like . . .
But, the verse that immediately follows states that the archangel Michael will stand up then, and it says it's the day of greatest affliction; Then it says:
“And in that day all the people, whoever may be found inscribed in the book, will be lifted up. 2 And many of those sleeping in the breath of the earth will arise, some into everlasting life but some unto reproach, and some to dispersion and everlasting disgrace. 3 And those who are prudent will shine like the luminaries of heaven, and those who learn and master my words, like the stars of heaven unto the era of the ages.” My understanding is that ‘the day of greatest affliction’ is not just a 24 hour day; It’s the Time of Jacob’s Trouble that’s being described, which lasts 3.5 years, the same duration of time that God will allow the Beast his free reign. I don’t I think that all the saints of Daniel’s people will rise on the same day. This is all about the grape harvest; The first fruits will go up first, being led by those who belong to the first fruits who’d been sleeping in the earth. Soon after that, at the early part of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, a large number of Jews will flee to the safe place that God has prepared for them in the mountains and will remain there for 1,260 days before being lifted up as the main part of the grape harvest, of which Christ is the owner.
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Taking all the above into consideration, and realizing that it could also, as it did with the harvests, take 3.5 years for the 4th king to do all the things mentioned in Dan. 11: 36-45, in addition to all the things that weren’t mentioned or were vague; For example the 1,290 days from the ceasing of sacrifices, the time in which the setup of the ultimate abomination of desolation will begin, until it’s near completion when Jesus destroys it. That’s an important part, but it’s mentioned in Daniel only after bringing up the archangel Michael, 11 verses after the verse that tells of the demise of the King of the North!But that may simply be backtracking. Over all, these passages seem to strongly support that the 4th king is the Beast;We know that Jesus will first destroy the Beast and 30 days later He’ll destroy the abomination of desolation. Nevertheless, on post 13.The Scarlet Beast https://alephtav.blog/13-beast/ I explored the possibility that the fourth king might be the ‘right hand man’ of the Beast, and who he might be. That seemed possible because there will be 7 horns/kings working with the Beast in the beginning of his reign. It’s worth considering because of the uncertainties I explained above and also because it says the 4th king died ‘between the two seas,’ not at Megiddo, which is where we expect the Armageddon armies of the final war to gather; Perhaps the king of the 4th North will lead an arm of the Armageddon army that will spread South from Megiddo.
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Regardless of the Kings of Daniel 11: Gog, the chief prince of Magog, is a title of the Antichrist. . .
In the history of the Biblical conquerings of Israel, whenever an enemy was said to be ‘from the north’, it usually meant that the armies approached Israel or Judah from the North, not necessarily that the lands they came from were literally situated to the geographical North of Israel or Judah.
That’s partly because the Upper Great Rift Valley (from southern Africa through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba to the plains of Syria) prevented armies from reaching them from the East. But the North was also the area they feared and ‘North’ came to be used for many dangerous or unknown military enemies; As the Hebrew word translated as ‘north’ also means dark, hidden and above. Keep this in mind when we try to discern the place from which Gog the Beast hails.
A little background . . After the Tower of Babel, the Magog tribe spread the farthest and widest on Earth, conquering other nations. But, although the Antichrist may come from any far corner of the earth, he will nevertheless have a central role in fulfilling the major end time prophesies that are centered on Jerusalem.
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The very last thing Dan. 11 says about the 4th king is:
“And he will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.”
(Daniel 11:45)
The area ‘between the two seas’ is most likely Gaza.
From Gaza to Jerusalem is 49 miles and it’s about 58.7 miles from Jabalia, Gaza to the Dead Sea. Megiddo is where most scholars believe the final end time battle will take place. It’s not ‘between the two seas.’ It’s possible that the battle may not take place, at Megiddo but instead all around Jerusalem, between the Mediterranean and the Dead seas or that the armies will fill the entire region from Megiddo to Gaza. The more I work on this interpretation, the more likely I think it is that the 4th king of Daniel 11 is the Antichrist.
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Jared Kushner’s Project Sunrise plan for Gaza. Hmmm! Can’t make this stuff up! I don’t think Kushner’s the top candidate to be the king of the North, but many people do. He is certainly going to make Gaza more accessible to the king of the North, whether that someone is the Beast, his right hand man or the one who paves his way! Even if his construction doesn’t get very far, it’ll give access privileges to many of Israel’s enemies under the guise of peace and security. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is one of those; He’s signed on to the Board of Peace.
What Jared Kushner Just Did May Stir The WRATH of God! (The Gaza Prophecy)
The relatively quiet events under the first seal makes the year in which Jesus Christ breaks it less obvious; The historical credentials bolstering the white horse rider’s station may have taken Satan centuries to build up. God allowed it, but Jesus Christ has been ‘holding the reigns’ at just the right level, not releasing the first restraining seal, until the perfect moment according to His perfect plan.
Sept. 17, 2023 may’ve been the day the Precious Lamb of God broke the first seal:
I’ve written in other posts about why I call that day the ‘Midnight Cry Event,’https://alephtav.blog/3-the-cry/ which happened 6 months prior to the start of the 70th week of Daniel, which began after the Aleph Tav solar eclipse sign across America concluded, at sunset. That’s according to my calculations of Biblical prophesy. See post 4.The Countdownlinked below.
It’s very significant that the event was announced with trumpet blasts, as it happened immediately following the 2023 Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets. The event culminated with the ratifying of the Sustained Development Goals 2030 Agenda.
Every nation signed it, but the one whose really behind it didn’t need to. see link below, 13. The Scarlet Beast
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Unfortunately, this is its logo: The agenda was a powerful strengthening, for 7 more years, of a prior 7 year United Nations agreement. That’s why it garnered a lot of attention from watchers; Unfortunately, most of their videos have since been shunned by search engines. But, thank God, many can still be accessed from a list I made: See bottom of post 3. Midnight Cry Event. This event seems to have awakened some sleeping Christians from their slumber, because it seemed to be a perfectly match the Daniel 9:27 ‘agreement with many.’ That’s at least as it appears in most translations today, which are derived from the ‘Masoretic text’. It certainly did serve the purpose as major HEADS UP for those with ears to hear.
Why is its logo is offensive? . . . see post 8
Although counting from that day brings a large swath of the end time Biblical calendar together, as mentioned above, again, it’s still not the event that began the final week of years of this current age.
The first seal of the scroll of the Deed to the Earth, which God Almighty hands to His Precious Lamb, releases the white horseman carrying a bow with no arrow who sets forth to conquer.
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Genesis 9: 13-15
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
The expiration of God’s final 7 years for mankind’s rebellion, which if we count it to the first day of the final year, lands on March 24, 2030 AD (Torah calendar begins in Spring), overlaps with the very year that the SDG 2030 Agenda expires.
Although it’s not exact, the Olympic logo is reminiscent of a rainbow, and its outer rings are reminiscent of a bow.
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The 7 rings represent the 7 continents coming together for one purpose. The rebellion of mankind at Babel was when all humanity came together for the solitary purpose of reaching heaven without God.
Most of humanity is clueless, swallowing up anything titillating. That’s how they get brainwashed to accept the enemy. The Antichrist, the first horseman of the apocalypse, will most likely eventually be possessed by Satan, Abaddon or Assur (the Assyrian principality) who are fallen angels, symbolized by the wings here.
Still skeptical? The inverted pentagram sphere, representing Earth being embraced by spiritual darkness, was the center peace for the Winter Olympics in Milan. They called it the cauldron.
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Point in case: The spirit of Antichrist is rising and it’s being openly celebrated.
The Second Seal -War Horse Rider
When Jesus Christ breaks the second seal, He releases the red horse, who’s rider is either an angel, like the horsemen in Zechariah 1, or a spirit of God being represented symbolically.(Zech. 6, describes 4 chariots being driven by many horses of the same colors or coats as those in Rev. 6. And they’re said to be ‘the four spirits of God’.)
The Rider of the Red Horse Carries a Sword and Removes Peace from Earth.
Since God’s prophesies are ultimately Jerusalem-centric we might consider the red horse when we examine the Hamas brutal attack on Israel that took place at the Nova Concert on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed over 1,200 people, torturing many of them, even children, in ways that are actually unspeakable, due to their supernatural hate; That part has been completely hidden from most of the public, including those who only watch mainstream news outlets. And it happened just 21 days after Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets 2023.
’21’
. . . is one of the most highly symbolic numbers in the Bible, even regarding time.
’21’ is the Number of God in His triune nature: 3 x 7.
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The Hamas massacre happened 21 days after Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets; But this is making it look like Jesus may have broken the second seal on Sept. 17 ’23, not the first seal. Which is it? Well, that wasn’t the first attack on Israel, since it became a nation again in 1948; And the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are ultimately global, so let’s think it through.
On the Oct. 2, ’24 Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets, the UN Pact for the Future was signed by 193 nations, this time giving unprecedented power to the UN. (See posts 3, 5, 6 & 8.) It changed the UN from a cooperative entity to a governing entity and the atmosphere of the world changed completely.
Since then, extreme war threats have been escalating. Since Trump got into office on Jan. 20 ’25, after winning the election on Nov, 5 ’24, which was one month after Yom Teruah (Trumpets). Bombings and threats of nuclear bombings have become daily news. This is the bigger shift of ‘the removal of peace from Earth’. It can be argued that Israel has become even more central now on the world stage, as the screw has taken its first turn; The Russia Ukraine war gets less attention because the situation with oil has drastically increased world tensions; There are many nuclear threats; The nuclear code channels are full of traffic. All that’s why I think October 2 ’24 is more likely to have been the day Jesus Christ broke the second seal.
Removing His bride is the indirect way in which the Lamb of God will bring about the removal of the one nation on Earth who has been, in some ways, holding back the Beast System. That of course, is the United States.
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A portion of the church will departupward
the rest are already departing downward
the two sides of the apostasy:
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God’s restraining power has been working through the USA to hold back the Beast System.
Only the United States of America has been holding back the World Bank Digital Currency
I’m not saying the motives were good, just that it happened. Perhaps Trump merely wants to set up the Beast’s monetary system himself, so that it’ll stem from the US, and America wasn’t ready then due to its former AI immaturity.
Trump Just Delayed the Beast System-But He Can’t Stop What’s Coming
The Luciferians, (most of the elite), seem to have been preparing someone that people will accept as ‘the Christ,’ who’ll actually be the spirit of Apollo, the son of Satan, in bodily form. Their modus operandi is to consistently do some very good things publicly, to gain trust, while they’re simultaneously pursuing their ultimate evil goal; On the other hand, they also flaunt some of their evil works, expecting people to overlook and/or tolerate them on account of their good works; They want to train people to habitually overlook those, to make excuses for them, so they can get away with more and more. In that way they lure the public into facilitating them in their/satan’s nefarious plan, the ultimate depths of which are carefully hidden. And they’ve long been infiltrating ‘Christianity’ in America and other parts of the world. Back to the main point: Who are they preparing as the antichrist? Well … D. Trump has installed images of Apollo all over the ceilings and the walls inside the White House. Just saying! But, I don’t think its him because he doesn’t have an empire. King Charles III also keeps images of Apollo and He’s the King of the Commonwealth Realms and he has converted to Islam, but refuses to bow. Who will sit in Almighty Gods temple declaring himself to be God? (see post 13.The Scarlet Beast)
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Update archive, late 2025: The US is likely to bomb Iran again. The latest international force is set to take over Gaza, with Trump requiring Israel to give back the part they’d conquered at great cost to themselves and which is still God’s land. So, I can’t say that America is really standing for Israel. There’s another agenda going on there. In fact, since America’s leading the non-Israeli control of that land: WOE to America. God will bring judgment.
January 23 ’26, Important Update:The Board of Peace was ratified at Davos.
For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief. (1 Thess. 2-4)
When Jesus Christ harvests His bride, the portion of the Holy Spirit who resides in her will be removed from the world, including from the USA. But, it’s been the USA that’s been the most truly Christ following nation over the past 2.5 centuries, evidenced by the fact that, even with the currently falling away, but not completely ‘fallen’ state of Jesus Christ‘s church in America, it was still the only powerful nation that stood strong for Israel.
Revelation’s Silence About America Isn’t an Accident—It’s a Prophetic Clue
Jesus Christ removes the Holy Spirit the restrainer in steps.
I think the Holy Spirit works to restrain the spiritual darkness on Earth largely through Christ’s body/church, but not exclusively:
The way in which the part of the Holy Spirit that resides in Christ’s bride and bridesmaids will effect the world when the part of Him that dwells in her is removed from Earth when she’s harvested will be disproportionately according to how the USA responds to the loss. When the true part of ‘the church’ is gone from the world, the Luciferian ‘false light’ will rapidly take over America.
About dispensations
Although I acknowledge that God Almighty has been using ‘dispensations’ ever since the Garden of Eden, contrary to the popular simplified model, I hold that God’s final set apart ‘week of years’, which was especially designated by God for the Jews to come to Christ, will actually begin before the great tribulation does. In other words, although the ‘final dispensation’ of this age is the 70th week of Daniel, the great and greatEST tribulations will only be loosed when Jesus Christ breaks the 4th and 6th seals of the scroll. I’m saying that the fourth horseman of the apocalypse IS the great tribulation (not to be confused with the greatEST tribulation/God’s wrath, which begins immediately after that). So, after the precious Lamb of God breaks the fourth seal, but before the ‘hour of trial’ that will come upon the whole Earth, King Jesus, the bridegroom, will harvest His bride !
Then . . . I expect that the great tribulation will last about a year, maybe less if it’s mostly nuclear. 1/4 of humanity will perish. (Rev. 6:8)
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The Fifth & Sixth Seals
After Jesus Christ breaks the fifth seal, (Rev. 6:9) St. John saw the souls of the martyrs of God’s barley harvest. They’d been killed during the great tribulation, and their spirit-souls were crying out for justice from under God Almighty’s alter; Then God responds immediately, as evidenced by Jesus Christ breaking the 6th seal: The 144,000 are quickly sealed followed by the tribulation saints being safely redeemed. St. Paul saw them in God’s throne room singing songs of praise to God with great joy, while waving fresh palm branches in the air. After that GOD’S WRATHbegins. There’s an ominous marker – a ‘half hour of silence’ in heaven, which is the prelude to God’s 7 Trumpet Wrath-Judgments!
Regarding the ‘hour of terrible trial’ that Jesus Christ will harvest His bride to protect her from, it could begin soon or immediately after or even simultaneous with the harvest: Time’s showing us that all this will occur be about two and a half years into Daniel’s 70th week; I think the 3rd temple will go up rapidly, shortly after that, possibly even as the great tribulation is occurring. According to my calculations, the greatest tribulation, which is God’s wrath, will begin on or near Oct. 1-3 ’27. It fits the timeline. The delay of Christ’s gathering of His bride is independent of and doesn’t alter the timeline of the events of God’s final ‘week of years’, which has primarily been assigned to the Jews as their last chance to get it right. See Daniel 9:24 and . . .
After all the saints of God’s Barley Harvest have been redeemed from Earth, so also will be the main part of the restrainer, as the Holy Spirit who indwells the saints will be gone.
Hold on to your heart dear brethren! I didn’t imply that the bride of Jesus Christ, who’ll be removed from the whole Earth, only comes from America!
I’m mainly saying that when Jesus Christ harvests His bride, that the greatest effect it will have on the world, will be: The US will no longer be able to hold back the Beast System. After the bride is removed, the USA will fall deeply into the Beast System and may even lead it.
Perhaps shocked and horrified, back-slidden or formerly nominal Christians, will make up a very large proportion of the Tribulation Saints; and the rest? Hopefully many people who never thought they’d in a million years become a follower of Jesus Christ will be among them. I used to be one of those. All Glory to Jesus Christ the miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness! Amen! Holy Holy Holy is the Lord!
But what about the Gleanings of God’s Barley Harvest? Who are they? I think those martyrs will be martyred almost instantly, after the great tribulation starts because without much, if any of God’s restraining power remaining on Earth, after the Holy Spirit departs with the bride of Christ, they’ll be immediately targeted by hosts of dark entities who’ll kill them if they resist. Since the martyrs are part of the Barley Harvest of saints, could they also be part of the bride or the bridesmaids of Christ? Who are they?
In Rev. 2 the church of Smyrna was not reprimanded for anything at all; yet Jesus told them they were going to be the martyr church type. He gave them some helpful instructions but He didn’t explain why they were chosen for that role. Perhaps He wanted to make the point that martyrs were not inferior. Here’s a clue; One of the reasons Jesus Christ promised to keep His Door Open to the Church of Philadelphia, the church that most Bereans today believe is His bride, was that she has ‘little strength’. My interpretation of this is that members of the Church of Philadelphia are the ones who have already been living their lives sacrificially for Him, not perfectly, but seriously; And that they will have already worn themselves out by doing so persistently under difficult conditions.
I think Jesus will use the barley harvest gleanings – the martyrs – to demonstrate the strength of their faith to the world just as it enters it’s darkest time; That alone will shine enough light to influence the Tribulation Saints to ‘wash their robes.’ The 144,000 sons of Jacob who’ll be sealed as first fruits of the wheat harvest, during the short time between when the martyrs die and the trib. saints are redeemed, may also be greatly encouraged by having witnessed such an enormous show of faith to the glory of Jesus Christ!
There’ve been many real historical foreshadowings of this ultimate episode of martyrdom, but there’s a huge silver lining that only applies to the end-time martyrs; For them it will be a very quick escape from the horrors while they’re beginning to gear up upon Earth.
Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown. (Rev. 2:10 – to the church of Smyrna)
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I think the Holy Spirit will continue to indwell new saints on Earth after Jesus Christ rescues His bride, including the 144,000, the two-witnesses and all new believers; But His power will be expressed differently, without a unified nation or established church congregations to work through.
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The Third Seal black horse, food shortage rider
It’s nowhere written that when Jesus Christ breaks a seal, that the full force of it must happen instantly and simultaneously everywhere in the world, so it probably means that things have been loosed so they may begin to move in the direction of the prophesied outcome. See the quote below; It says ‘in various places.’ We need to be able to recognize when the third seal has been broken even if we ourselves can still afford food.
Matthew 24:7 “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.“
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It’s not been written that the seals must be broken at a rate of ‘one per year.’ The Sept. 23 ’25 Feast of Trumpets, as observed by the Orthodox Jews, was a very interesting day. For the first time since Israel became a nation again, 100 times trumpets were blown by them at the wailing wall! It was recorded live; I watched it. . .
And I was wondering why nothing extra special seemed to be happening, until I found out what was happening at the UN! That was the day Donald Trump snatched the unnamed UN Gaza Peace Plan right out of the hands of the whole world, and basically handed it Jared Kushner! They call it Trump’s peace plan for Gaza or The American Resolution. It’s based on the 20 point plan (which later became 21 points).
1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (Just to show how the KJV uses the word ‘trump’ instead of trumpet.)
Did Jesus Christ break a seal on that day?
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The question is, did Jesus Christ break another seal on Sept. 23 ’25 AD, and if so which one.
Maybe. But before analyzing that, a warning: We need to be careful not to fall into a pattern of over-simplification. I say this because, sadly, it’s been happening so regularly in the churches that it’s become a major obstacle to truth. Why does this happens so much? It’s partly because true saints want people to be saved, so they try and try; But after having had so many repeated experiences of people fleeing when the Bible gets more than overtly ‘simple’, saints often over ‘bend over backwards’ to try to oversimplify it, removing the meat of it. That’s because in out hearts, we feel urgency; Out of love, we want to keep those we witness to from the eternal lake of fire. But multitudes of believers become stunted and never get past the ‘milk’ into the ‘meat’ of what it means to follow Jesus Christ. As witnesses with brief contact time, we may not have any other option. The greater problem is that, in America, when new ‘milk’ believers join a congregation, very very often, pastors just continue on and on with the milk; They consistently avoid following up with ‘hard truths.’ Now, I’m not saying that every believer needs to be an absolute Bible expert, just that they should at least hear enough in their own church to realize that there’s a whole lot that they don’t know! Simply realizing that they have a lot to learn should keep believers humble and may even support an interest in going deeper. But, instead, America has produced an overconfident generations of believers, who’ve embraced ‘easy believism’ which doesn’t cost them anything! Perhaps milk is better than nothing. God knows. But since there’s such a huge multitude of ‘easy believers,’ they’ve become like an army of offense toward anybody speaks truth beyond their slim comfort zones. So, in that way satan uses them to suppress the truth and oppress those who speak it. I’m concerned for them because since they don’t understand the temporary ‘real cost’ of following Christ, they’re not equipped for what’s coming. We try to warn these vacuous believers and are usually met with harsh resistance; Most of them will become apostate when conditions get tough, and they will betray other Christians.
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Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. At that time many (in the church) will fall sway and will betray one another. (Matt. 24 9-10)
Back to the timing pattern, but without the popular oversimplifications:
The most interesting metaphor Jesus Christ gave us about the timing pattern at the end of this age is: In Matthew 24:8 He describes it as like birth pangs; The signs come closer together and stronger as the birth draws near.
Therefore, I think it’d be highly negligent not to ask ourselves if Jesus Christ may’ve broken the 3rd seal, six months instead of a year after the 2nd seal, and therefore the 4th seal instead of the 3rd seal on Sept. 23 ’25 AD. It’d make sense since the USS Abraham Lincoln was sent on its mission to head to the Persian Gulf on Jan. 8 ’26.
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Rational:
If Jesus Christ uses a ‘one seal per year’ pattern to break the first 4 seals, there won’t be any time to get the ball rolling before the fourth horseman destroys 1/4th of humanity, because in that case the fourth horseman would be released on Sept. 11 ’26 which is 9/11, implying that nuclear bombs would go off instantly on that day. Okay maybe that model could work, but breaking a seal doesn’t mean everything has to happen on that day. The best estimate for the time that the Beast’s free reign will begin, according to my understanding, is no later than Oct. 1 of 2027; There has to be enough time for him to take control, rising out of the chaos of the great tribulation.
Which was the Yom Teruah (Trumpets) upon which Jesus broke the fourth seal?
Although very interesting, it makes little difference personally to the bride of Christ whether Jesus Christ broke the 4th seal in 2025 or will do so in 2026; As it’s already July 6 ’26 as I’m making this edit, and 9/11 is only 67 days away. If the birth pangs haven’t increased yet in frequency, then at that time they will. Between 9/11 ’26 and Oct. 1 ’27 the Barley Harvest gleanings (martyrs), the tribulation saints and the two witnesses all must rise to heaven, according to my best calculations. (There is leeway in my calculation since I counted the most relevant prophesy ‘to the day’ which is very elegant; But it’s actually only necessary to recon it to the year)
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That’s just enough time for the New World Order to snap into place. After the main nuclear events have been spent, the Antichrist will rise as the world’s solution. Israel will accept him as their Messiah and let down their defenses. Most likely on Oct. 1-2 ’27 AD, the false messiah will get empowered by satan in the abyss from which He’ll emerge with the power to kill the two witnesses, who’ve must already been on Earth for 2.5 yrs. as I write this, assuming no translation errors have been passed down to us. There are some good candidates, see post 15. They’ll be killed in Jerusalem soon after the 3rd temple goes up but immediately after the Beast/False Messiah comes out of the abyss, perhaps young again, with a new body made from a clone of himself, yet possessed by a terrible darkness.
Update July 7: Regarding Digital ID: Trump just confirmed that it’s going to be set up in America.
What he’s not telling us: The plan is to integrate it with AI, which can control the mind, even without implants by using the new G6 and G7 microwave technology. It’s the setup for the Beast system to snap into place very quickly once the Church has been redeemed by the Savior King Jesus Christ. The world will attribute our disappearance to the aliens. They’ll be given ‘credit.’ But the aliens are not benign extraterrestrials who want to help us; They’re fallen angels who want to destroy humanity. They’re deceivers who say they desire to help humanity ‘evolve’. And they’ll say that they had to remove the Christians because Christians would’ve prevented the necessary evolution from happening. The remaining leadership and media will blame Christ’s saints for every horrible thing that happens. Most people will be fooled, and the brainwashed people will integrate themselves more and more into tech and DNA alteration, losing their freewill; It will all be presented in such a seductive way as to appear intriguing to most people in the beginning; The whole truth will be hidden from the public; And whatever temporary apparently ‘good effects’ there will be for some, will corrupt and degrade. Daniel 2:23, “And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.” The decimated hybrids will become murderous and zombie-like . People will also take the mark of the beast rendering them no longer human. DNA corruption of humanity was the ultimate goal of the activities of the fallen angels before the flood , because of the protoevangelicum; All Jesus’ promises are good for real humans only.
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Yom Teruah, Isn’t the Only Time YHWH Prescribed Regular Trumpet Blowing in Torah.
What about the trumpet sounding pattern? Trumpets are also blown at other times of the year, most significantly on the first day of the first month on God’s calendar, which is of very special importance; It’s the true Rosh Hashanah (God’s head of the year in the Spring). It’s also the anniversary of the day God gave the calendar to Moses! Note: Immediately after the Great America Eclipse concluded, the true Rosh Hashanah began (Nisan 1 ’24 ADT.) and the 70th week of Daniel began! It fell 6 months between Jesus’ breaking of the 1st and the 2nd seals. This tell me that Jesus is using ‘half times.’ That’s a term God uses to delineate His ‘seasons’ of holy convocations, two per year. See post 4. The Countdown mark 4.30-4.31 & 4.33:https://alephtav.blog/4-last7yrs/
If God ‘s uses ‘half times’ for the breaking of the seals, then it’s likely that Jesus Christ broke the third seal releasing the Black Horseman, on ‘God’s Rosh Hashanah’ in the Spring of 2025, allowing the ball to start rolling toward ‘food shortages and famine’.
The Rider of the Black Horse of the 3rd seal, seems to be an angel or spirit bringing food shortages, along with famine, to various places.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. (Matt. 24:7 NIV)
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Millions of lives at risk, warn UN food agencies, as hunger crisis worsens
The Fourth Seal, pale horse, death rider, Hades follows
The ashen horse rider will bring death to 1/4 of humanity by sword, famine, plague and wild beasts of the earth.
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It’s difficult to describe all that, but:
The video below, although it’s about the destruction of Babylon the Great and not directly about the ‘great tribulation’, it captures part of its spirit, with a dramatic, artistic, musical rendition of a large scale destruction, followed by another artistic work, that’s on the brighter side, a short musical drama of the Lion of Judah rescuing the sheep fold by bringing her to the ark. (I guess I should mention that, maybe I’m blind, but I’m not fully convinced that ‘Babylon the Great’ is New York City, although I’m leaning in that direction. Yet, I appreciated the video, because I think America will be a huge target for destruction during the great tribulation, just for other reasons.)
Immediately after that Jesus Christ breaks the Fifth Seal. St. John was shown many martyrs under God Almighty’s throne in heaven. They were crying out for justice; Right after that, Jesus Christ broke the Sixth Seal; St. John saw the 144,000, from the 12 tribes of Israel receiving protective seals on their foreheads for their assignment to remain on Earth, (most likely on a mission to witness to the lost Jews). And after that, he saw the uncountable number of saints who’d ‘come out of’ the great tribulation who were standing and joyously singing songs of praise in God Almighty’s throne room, wearing pristine white linen while waving palm branches in the air.
It’s my opinion that Jesus Christ breaks the first four seals to allow forces of worldliness/lawlessness and their own consequences to proceed; That’s the first part of His end of the age judgements upon the world; What I mean is that they’re not the same as when God expresses His personal long accumulated wrath. That’s partially why I only call the last 3.5 years of Daniel’s 70th week, the 42 months in which the Beast is satanically possessed and is given free reign by God Almighty, The greatEST tribulation/The Time of Jacob’s Trouble/The Day of the Lord. In other words, the first four seals are broken in order to set the stage for the Beast system and to bring an uncountable number of people to their knees so they may call on the name of Jesus Christ to receive salvation.
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After the 5th seal reveals the martyrs and the sixth seal reveals the 144,000 and the tribulation saints, then . . .
The Sixth Seal Concludes with the Introduction to God’s Wrath!
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“Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
Revelation 6:15-17
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Billionaires are buying islands and building secret bunkers, but why?
It’s quite clear that that’s the announcement of the beginning of God’s Wrath, which is synonymous with the Day of the Lord/Time of Jacob’s Trouble!
The sixth seal is also the time when Jesus Christ gathers His greatest harvest of souls at the Wheat Harvest. They’re the main part of the body of Christ.
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In what order do things happen after Jesus Christ breaks the sixth seal?
At the sixth seal, the One-Seated-on-the-Throne and the Lamb are seen up in the high heavens by all the terrified unrepentant sinners on Earth as they experience a monumental earthquake combined with terrifying events in the cosmos. Then there’s a pause: 144,000 servants of God, from 12 tribes of Jacob, are each given the ‘seal of the living God’ on their foreheads by angels, in order that they may remain unharmed on Earth for awhile longer. Finally an uncountable number of saints that are said to have come out of the great tribulation, are seen by St. John, standing before the throne of God and before the Lamb, praising God with great holy joy in heaven!
WRATH – The 7th Seal Releases God’s 7 Trumpet Judgements
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This post was for the 7 Seals, but they lead right into the 7 Trumpets so here’s a quick synopsis of those:
Seemingly one right after another- the first four trumpets of the seven trumpets are directed against vegetation, water, marine animals, and the lights in the cosmos. But the fifth trumpet gets personal: The abyss is unlocked and opened. Demonic locusts with tails like scorpions come out and attack everyone earth, except the 144,000 sealed servants of God. Then after the sixth trumpet, 1/3 of humanity, whatever is left of it, is killed by a supernatural evil army led by three unnamed fallen angels that have been released from their bondage at the Euphrates river.
The Sixth Bowl: Euphrates Dried Up
Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. Rev. 16:12
Throughout the first six trumpets, the main Body of Christ was already gone, and nobody else on Earth repented!
Then, it Gets the Most Interesting!
There’s a large parenthetical section between Rev. 9 & 11, before the final trumpet:
This is the first mention of Jerusalem and the Temple in the Book of Revelation, and it’s full of important characters including the two-witnesses, the Beast when he comes up from the abyss, satan, the religious Jews and the gentiles.
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St. John’s transported, in the spirit, to the future. He measures the 3rd temple and he’s told about the two-witnesses, that they’ll minister to the world and that when they’re threatened, that with great Holy Spirit power, they’ll cause very harsh conditions to occur on Earth, similar to what Moses did with the plagues in Egypt, in order to be able to finish delivering their message. When they complete their witnessing, God will allow them to be murdered in the streets of Jerusalem by the Beast, after it emerges from the abyss; The world will celebrate, not allowing them to be buried. After 3.5 days, God will resurrect the bodies of the Two Witnesses and rapture them to heaven. Immediately after that, a great earthquake followings; A tenth of Jerusalem collapses killing 7,000; Then the people in Jerusalem become terrified and give Glory to the God of heaven!
Then many Jews will flee Jerusalem to the safe place God prepared for them. The only ones who’ll know about the safe place will be those who’ve read Jesus’ Olivet Discourse, so they must inform the rest very quickly, probably by contact lists on their devices. (The abomination of desolation setup begins right after the earthquake.)
When the Two Witnesses with their Holy Spirit powers are raptured, the temple of God becomes accessible to the Beast.
Prior to that, the Two Witnesses, must’ve held back all the attempts by the Antichrist/Beast to remove the regular sacrifices and libations in the temple: The Beast will want to remove them in order to make way for himself to sit in the Holy of Holies proclaiming himself to be God, and begin to set up his abomination of desolation.
But, this part of the timing of Daniel’s 70th week is tricky. I examine it at the bottom of:
The Kingdom of the World has become the Kingdom of our Lord!
14.38 The Deed, Glory to God
The Seventh Trumpet Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
Rev. 11: 15-18
14.38 The Deed, Glory to God
Yay – Peals rumbles flashes a great earthquake and a great hailstorm! Hallelujah! Back on Earth, the False Prophet is now introduced. The Beast, is seen again, but this time, he’s seen to be raising up from the sea (representing that many peoples support him). And he’s enraged against the people of Jacob/Israel who’d just fled to the mountains where God has prepared a safe place for them, for 1,260 days.
If by now, the Antichrist hasn’t yet been revealed, it’s ripely time!
Is the ‘The Prince Who is to Come’, prophesied in Daniel 9:27 the Antichrist/Beast?
Watchers have been keeping their eyes peeled for ‘the prince who is to come.’ I think he might be the Antichrist/Beast, but I’m not sure. I have some reservations.
Many Bible teachers think, based on 2 Thess. 2:3, that we can’t know who the Antichrist/Beast is until he sits in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God. If so, then it’s unclear how the ‘prince who is to come’ could be the Antichrist/Beast.
14.39 Addendum The Deed, Glory to God
Now we implore you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto Him, for you not quickly to be shaken in mind, nor to be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as if by us, as that the Day of the Lord is present. No one should deceive you in any way, because it is not until the apostasy shall have come first, and the man of lawlessness shall have been revealed—the son of destruction, the one opposing and exalting himself above every so-called god or object of worship—so as for him to sit down in the temple of God, setting forth that he himself is God. (2 Thess. 2: 1-4 BLB)
The ‘prince who is to come’ must be prophetically active years before the Antichrist sits in the temple, because the prince supports the building of the temple of God. So perhaps the key phrase, 2 Thess. 2, verse 4, is merely describing the ‘defining act’ that the Beast will perform, without intending to imply that absolutely no one will know who the man of perdition (antichrist) is, until the very moment he sits in the temple.
Many Jews will align with ‘the prince who is to come’ because he’ll facilitate the building of the 3rd temple and the return of the Old Covenant; Therefore, it does seem like this prince is the one Jesus warned us about, the one who the Jews will accept as their Messiah despite the fact that he will not come in God’s name but in his ‘own name.’ If they’re the same man, then any wide awake Christians who are still on Earth will realize he’s the Antichrist before he sits in the temple!
14.40 Addendum The Deed, Glory to God
Trump?
May believers think it’ll be Trump because of the Cyrus coin and how he loves to build things and to think of himself as king; and because he has had a lot of support in Israel and even observes Hanukkah instead of Christmas in the White House. But, the white horseman of the apocalypse is shown under the first seal to have no arrow for his bow. When I wrote this paragraph, Trump had already bombed Iran, pointed nukes toward Russia, captured a Russian oil tanker as well as the Venezuelan president, and now he’s threatening Mexico and Columbia. So that seems to be a problem, unless we assume we we’re already past the ‘white horse phase.’
Feb. 7 ’26 Archived Update: The USS Abraham Lincoln nuclear capable air craft carrier has moved near to Tehran. The talks in Oman and further talks have failed and news such as MSN headlines read: US Iran war: US nuclear warship to attack Iran any moment now? USS Abraham Lincoln moves near Tehran.
Predictive Programming
I don’t usually talk about predictive programming on this site; But, it was absolutely correct in predicting that the World Trade Center Towers would come down on 911;
There’s been a Feb. 8 ’26 programmed date, and it seems that on that day a portal that’s connected to a second 911, may have opened. Therefore, I’m providing the following explanatory link; It could be a trick or decoy, or it could be real again.
FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT – FINAL WARNING TO FEBRUARY 8, 2026 SUPER BOWL 60
More on the above predictive programming, of which I Pet Goat II is a core part:
The I Pet Goat II, predictive programming, written in 2012, seems to show the sinking of the USS Abraham Lincoln in what appears to be the Straight of Hormuz, and it was implying that Superbowl Feb. 8, ’26 had something to do with it. The pivotal scene showed a portal in the heavens, which was open with something coming out of it; Most decoders missed that part. (Super Bowl half time shows have long been the largest venue for occult rituals in the USA.) On Feb. 8 ’26, Lady Gaga, queen of the American occult, was there. She was interacting with ‘Bad Bunny’ who was dressed in white. The white rabbit is a huge occult symbol used in predictive programming and the Luciferian Masonic agenda. False Christians like Candice Owens refers to it openly in conjunction with the Pi pit. Turning Point is Masonic. In the scene that I’ve been describing, there’s what appears to be a nuclear mushroom cloud in the background of woman in mourning. She was covered completely in black and was floating on a shell-like raft in the sea while holding a dead boy with a ruined right eye. Her body language had Feb. 8 and 911 boldly coded into it. Her tears made a III on her forehead (WW3?) She held up a purple bottle of potion with a hidden ‘XX’ floating inside. That’s the simplest Free Masonic signature; It seems to show who’s behind it all. As her raft floats, the open top of her potion bottle comes into perfectly alignment with the pedestal of the mushroom explosion, at timestamp 3:14. 3:14 is pi. Pi is central to the entire Masonic, satanic cult which has most of the elite of the world in it’s grip. Pi, as used upside down by satan, representing the downward vortex – the rabbit hole of the abyss. see post 24.Mark of the Beast NO Chance of Salvation https://alephtav.blog/24-markbeast/ at mark 24.2-3.
14.42 Addendum The Deed, Glory to God
Systematic destruction has been orchestrated in advance. Most presidents and other world leaders are puppets.The following is the core ideology of 33 degree Free Masons: They have the satanic delusion that if they destroy the world something good will come out of the ashes, which is the same delusion as that of the Hindu Shiva cult and other ‘destroyer idol’ cults such as the Zeus/Apollo cult, which is very active among the elite. The Luciferians have been carefully planning the near total destruction of Earth, which is why they’ve all built under ground bunkers for themselves. But they won’t escape. (Rev. 6)
It’ll probably be associated with a nuclear event and Jesus Christ’s raising up of His bride. The New World Order will snap into place, including the actions of the ‘prince who is to come’ who will catalyze the third temple of God to be built and the Antichrist to fully reveal himself (They’re could be the same person).
14.43 Addendum The Deed, Glory to God
Keep in mind that the true white horseman/false messiah may be in the background now, quietly and persistently, carefully and discretely positioning his chess pieces, manipulating Trump, or someone else to be the most visible person involved with many things including the temple rebuilding. If so, what if the New Sanhedrin already knows who he is; someone who has ancestral Messianic qualifications, in their eyes. It’s easy to keep most of the world in the dark with AI generating false news images like they were doing with the false starvation campaign in Gaza and the AI generated videos of Netanyahu when he went missing in the third week of March.
Note: According to the corrupted Masoretic text (Theodotian based) which most Bibles are based upon, the prince-who-is-to-come will clearly confirm a covenant. By comparison, in the Old Greek text, the prince is certainly aligned with The Mosaic Covenant. There may be a document to sign, but details of his initial role aren’t given, not even after reading 4 translations in the Old Greek. (Which is only available in very few Septuagints translated to English.)
I’m not sure if even the true church of Christ will be able to figure out who ‘the prince who is to come’ is definitively. We’ll be gone soon. But, I wrote a major post about it. There is one astonishing candidate:
The 70th-Week is a seven year period ending with a Jubilee-Sabbath year.The 70th-Week is set apart from the prior 69 weeks of the Daniel 9:24 prophesy by a 2,000 yr. ‘gap’ or ‘time out’that was placed by God Almighty within the 69th and 70th weeks of the Daniel 9:24 prophesy.Most Christians call that gap ‘The Church Age.’ It began the year after the Holy Spirit anointed Jesus Christ the Jewish Messiah, the Son of God, our Eternal Lord, and is usually thought to conclude before the first year of Daniel’s 70th-Week begins.I think that’s over simplified, and that the Church Age will end when Christ gathers His bride, up to 30 lunar months into the final 7 years, immediately before the ‘great tribulation’ begins, but that ‘grace’ will extend until Jesus Christ gathers His grape harvest of Jews at the very end of the 7 years.
The Church Age ends sometime in the first half of the 70th week of Daniel, just before the massive death toll begins.
Jesus strongly implied He’d tarry. So the first half of the final 7 years is a highly motivational time for Christ’s mature bride; She has work to do for those who are at risk of being left behind. And, perhaps it’s also a test of her perseverance. There’s a whole lot of evidence that the final week has begun and that we’re deep into His tarry. And most importantly, and I can’t reiterate it enough, the Bible never, never, never says that the Church will be removed before Daniel’s 70th week! See post:
The main purpose of the final week-of-years before the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ:
Assigned by God, it’s for the bringing about of the consummation of His awesome plan! Daniel 9:24 is the part that describes the gap and what the Jews must do; It’s their last chance.
24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place. (Dan. 9:14 NIV)
Then, in Dan. 9: 25-26, Daniel describes the events of the Messiah’s first arrival and His being cut off, but only Daniel 9:27 describes the events that actually take place in the final week of years, the 70th week, beginning after the gap.
Only the translations that were ultimately based on the Theodotion redaction of the Book of Daniel, such as the Masoretic Text (which has no underlying source document) make it appear definitive that the final seven years begin the exact moment a particular agreement is signed.
14.46 Addendum The Deed, Glory to God
That’s why it’s important to know what the Old Greek says:
Old Greek Daniel 9:27
Many will support a ruler/prince who will bring back to life (Mosaic Covenant) rebuilt with length and width according to end time standards after 7 x 70 appointed times (Shmita cycles) also with 62 clansmen (temple guards). Until at the right moment for the consummation of joint sin debt payment, war will be against it, attempting to desertify it. The covenant will be greatly prevailed upon after many weeks. By the time the ‘weeks’ will be taken away, sacrifice, libation and the great sacred thing, it (the Mosaic Covenant) will have reached its perfect/fulfillment. Abomination causing desolation will exist until a joint sin debt payment for public burdens is given – great desertification.
The final 7 years don’t have to begin exactly with the agreement . . .
To keep it short, no one should use the Masoretic Daniel 9:27 passage as the main foundation piece upon which to put together all the other pieces of the end times prophetic puzzle, especially without even realizing it has no source manuscripts and is quite different than the Old Greek, which has source manuscripts!
It’s extremely likely, in my opinion, that the seven year countdown has already begun. I’ve done extensive research, although I’m not dogmatic about it I find it difficult to talk about it with other believers, as the majority of them are so certain that the final 7 years can’t start until Jesus takes His bride that they’re unable to discuss other possibilities.
But the Bible simply never says that; It only says that He’ll keep the door (Himself) open for the Church of Philadelphia to keep her from the hour of trial that’s going to come upon the whole world. (Rev. 3:8) Only the HOUR!
Bible educated brethren, can only point to the throne room scene as their evidence, because the 24 elders were seen to be there by St. John, prior to when Jesus Christ took the scroll from the hand of God the Father. I understand and sympathize with the desire for us to believe that the 24 elders represent the true church/bride of Christ in order that we may envision ourselves safely in God’s throne room before the final 7 years begin; And that desire is understandably especially strong for those who think that the great tribulation is the same thing as the greatest tribulation, God’s wrath, which comes next!
14.48 Addendum The Deed, Glory to God
But the Bible never directly reveals who the 24 elders are! I studied this part very deeply. It was painfully difficult to resolve. I went through every single possibility, and each one appeared to be correct as long as I consumed media produced by someone supporting that view. And now it’s gotten worse, with AI scenery, dramatic music and artificially authoritative voices that draw people in, a seduction to a viewpoint, but without offering careful, meticulous or true references. Thinking all this through with Bible passages, I found fatal errors in every established viewpoint. . . . This went on and on for up to a year maybe, altogether.
But, during that time I gradually began to study the deeper meaning of the lamp stands. It was so deep that I became cautious, realizing it was very important territory. I put it away for awhile, but it had already enlightened me enough to really see something: Jesus walked among the 7 lamp stands in Rev. 1, which are the seven church types; He gave His progress report to each of those seven types, and just 8 verses later St. John saw the Lamb of God in Almighty’s throne room surrounded by 7 blazing torches (Rev. 5). Then the Lamb of God appeared in the middle of God’s throne. I can no longer act like all that means nothing, that suddenly there’s no connection between the 7 lamp stands that are Christ’s 7 churches types, and the 7 lamp stands in God’s throne room in front of God’s throne in the center of which Christ stands as the Lamb of God who died for His church! His church is represented in a 7 fold way as the 7 types! Why are they’re rarely even mentioned in throne room discussions? They’re us. Can’t we recognize ourselves? For a deep study-seemark 10.16-10.21 in . . .
Assuming the 24 elders are the bride, forces the entire time line to conform not only to Jesus having broken no seals yet, when world events are showing something very different; But also, the timeline, which is built on solid prophesies with precise end dates would have to be severed, twisted and squashed to accommodate that view, to the point where God’s Torah calendar wouldn’t even work!
I appreciate and genuinely love the watchers who’ve made monumental efforts with alternate calendars.
But some of the timelines end up delaying the 7th week of Daniel, making it appear that time might allow the bride to be raptured before it begins. Many believers who strongly hope there’s a ‘rapture before the final 7 years’ think that ‘dispensations’ make their hope certain. I agree that God has instituted dispensations, but there are some overlaps happening now that we’re at the tail end; Most Christians embrace a simplified view. But, as for me, I love God’s calendar It’s the only calendar in the Bible. And everything seems to be turning out perfectly on it. see:
1. THE BARLEY: 24 Elders, the Bride of Christ and the Fifth Seal Martyrs
2. THE WHEAT: 144,000, the Tribulation Saints and the Two Witnesses
3. THE FRUIT: Resurrected O.T. Saints, Remnant Jews and the Last Martyrs
1. TheBarley Harvest
The First Fruits of the Barley Harvest
The 24 Elders
My studies have revealed that the 24 elders are either those who came up out of their graves on the Mount of Olives and walked into Jerusalem right after Jesus Christ was resurrected; Matt. 27:52-53, “And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” Or, they were among those who were in Hades/Sheol/Hell the good part, which was ‘the bosom of Abraham’. They both rose at the First Fruits of the barley harvest; They could be the same saints who rose in two parts.
Some of them may’ve been from among those mentioned in Hebrews 11 – the Hall of Faith. 8 out of 22 of the Old Testament saints mentioned in Hebrews 11 were not Israelites; For example, Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah and Rahab. Verse 32 states that the writer didn’t have time to write about all of them, so we can speculate: Surely Deborah the prophetess, military leader and 4th and only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel belongs in the Hall of Faith! Job certainly belongs and he wasn’t an Israelite. The Barley Harvest is for all nations, just like the Wheat Harvest and doesn’t exclude Hebrew Israelites. The Fruit or ‘Good Grape’ Harvest seems to be the only harvest of saints that’s mostly (but not completely) exclusive to the Jews.
When did the 24 elders arrive in God’s throne room? I agree with most Bereans that it was sometime after Jesus Christ’s Resurrection, probably at the time of His Ascension.
“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. . . Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.”
Revelation 3: 8,10
Although the following is from the Olivet Discourse, this passage backs up the concept. Luke is considered, by many, to be the gospel to the bride; The following passage isn’t in Matt. or Mark.
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life — and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth. So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man. (Luke 21 34-36)
Many Bereans think, and for quite a few good reasons, that since the body of Jesus Christ has different parts for different purposes, that His bride is one special part of His body. I believe it. If it’s true, I think she must be mainly the Church of Philadelphia, because out of the 7 church types, only to her did Jesus Christ the, Bridegroom, give the special promise that He’d keep her from the hour of trial that’s going to come upon the whole world to test its inhabitants. Perhaps they’re the ones who loved Him the most, having proved it by keeping themselves apart from worldliness, hating the state of this fallen world, while still loving the people in it. This is the group who will have been waiting longingly for Him every day and when He arrives and will LOVE His appearing!
The saints in the Church of Philadelphia are ‘watching’ for Him, not living for the world. They’re eagerly awaiting and praying every day for our Lord and Savior to come. In Revelation 2-3, the seven types of churches are evaluated by Jesus Christ. It seems like, ultimately, some saints from each of them will also be brought through His open door; But as just mentioned, the promise was only given to the Church of Philadelphia, who seems to be the model of the ‘bride of Christ’; I think the wise bridesmaids will be brought through Jesus’ door also, and that they’ll be from the other 6 church types.
St. John is the Individual Model for the Bride of Christ.
St. John, who is called ‘the one Jesus loved,’ was the only apostle who stayed at the cross during Jesus’ crucifixion; 65 years later, immediately after St. John experienced His first amazing Revelation vision, of Jesus Christ walking among the seven golden lamp stands, which represent the 7 church types, St. John looked and saw an open door. “He heard God say ‘Come up here’ and he went up and saw seven blazing torches before the throne of God; then he saw the Lamb who appeared to have been slaughtered in the center of the throne.” (Rev. 4:1)
The fact that St. John saw all seven lamp stands before the throne of God, and that they were all blazing, seems to indicate that at least some saints from every one of the seven church types, even the five faltering ones, will be gathered by Jesus Christ unto Himself at His Open Door Harvest.
What I’m calling the Open Door Harvest is the harvest that more and more modern Bereans are calling the Barley Harvest, the owner’s portion of it.
In St. John’s Rev. 2-3 vision, Jesus gave a stronger warning to two of the 7 church types. He said He’d remove their lamp stands if they didn’t repent. I think it highlights Jesus’ grace that, none of the lamp stands were ultimately removed! If my interpretation is right, the great news of Rev. 4:1 is: All 7 church types will come to be eternally represented as Christ’s true church, the other six, at least as His bridesmaids. Perhaps some of those He will count as being of His bride also; I hope so. It’s not a value judgment, saints have different roles; for example the 24 elders, who are the first fruits of the same barley harvest, although not of His bride, have their own thrones in God’s throne room!
The very next thing St. John sees in God’s throne room is the Lamb of God breaking the seals of the scroll of the Deed to Earth.
So when do the saints of the Open Door Harvest arrive in heaven? If the blazing torches in the throne room of God Almighty are symbolic of the seven fold church being full of the holy spirit and shining their light into the world, does that mean that automatically mean that the individual members of the bride of Christ will have already arrived in the third heaven before Jesus Christ takes the scroll from His Father’s hand?
Or, is His bride still on Earth when the Worthy One begins breaking the seals?
Did St. John witness only the church’s ‘symbolic’ representation in God’s throne room, with the flames on the lamp stands being indicators of the condition of God’s church on Earth, at the time immediately before Jesus breaks the first seal?
It makes sense that the Lamb of God would begin breaking seals right after all 7 lamp stands begin blazing in unison, indicating that His 7 fold bride and bridesmaids are ready. and therefore that it’s time for Him to receive the scroll from His Father and begin breaking its seals!
It’s very important for me to understand this because I see so much evidence that our Lord and Savior has already begun breaking them.
The ‘watching’ part of the church seems ready now, and hopefully with representatives from each of the 7 church types. (But, I’m praying more saints will wake up just before His Open Door Harvest. I don’t see any reason why that can’t be, as long as His bride’s still on Earth, even if Jesus has already begun breaking seals.)
When will the Open Door Harvest take place? At first it seemed, to me, that it’d be on one of God our Father’s Torah Law appointed-times/holy convocations, since Jesus Christ was sent to ‘fulfill the law’.
Matt. 5:17-18, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law ’till all is fulfilled.”
In the year of His crucifixion, Jesus Christ fulfilled at least 3, but maybe 4 of the 7 yearly Torah holy convocations/appointed-times, in perfect order. Some think the fourth one, Shavuot/Pentecost, hasn’t been completely fulfilled since Jesus Christ was in heaven, not on or near Earth when He asked Father God to send the Holy Spirit down to Earth, 10 days after His Ascension. Also, Shavuot is a pilgrimage holy convocation, meaning it requires a return trip, and we know that the Holy Spirit must return back to heaven along with the saints.
For a brief overview of God’s 7 holy-convocations/appointed times see:
But there’s not Presently a Temple of God standing in Jerusalem!
Since the masonry temple, with its priesthood, sacrifices and proper time keeping, was central to the keeping of God’s appointed-times, especially the highest-holy-days, the fact that it currently doesn’t exist as it did when Jesus Christ walked the earth, makes it seem like God’s final appointed times can’t be fulfilled yet. Nevertheless, I still watch each of the 7 holy convocation time slots on the calendar carefully. Thankfully, as I’ve matured in my understanding, I’ve discovered that there are quite a few other prophetic high watches that we should be aware of, ones that don’t center upon the temple of God. (See post 1.)
We can already perceive the accelerating convergence of Old Testament prophesies in addition to many of the cosmic and cultural signs Jesus described in His Olivet Discourse. Even though some of those events will occur after the church is gone, the storm clouds are forming now. I mean it’s time for Jesus Christ to collect His bride and He could do it at any moment. To understand what’s happening in the world right now requires a pretty good foundation in Old Testament prophesy, after all, He was talking mainly to ‘Jews’ with His Olivet Discourse, but we also need to be able to properly integrate that knowledge into New Testament prophesy.
Revelation Type Events Are Approaching Us Daily
Artificial intelligence is doubling its power every three months, trans-humanism is about to irreversibly take hold; These are parts of Mystery Babylon, and so is their tampering with the DNA of everything. The things they’re doing literally underground are unspeakable. See links by Sling and Stone, in post:
Before they become an overwhelming threat to the mind, body, soul and spirit of His bride/true-church, I believe Jesus Christ our faithful Bridegroom King, will gather His Barley Harvest Bride through His Open Door Self.
That must be why He said “I know you have little strength” and promised to keep the Church of Philadelphia from the hour of trial. Again, Rev. 4:1 seems to demonstrate that individual unsoiled saints from the other church types will also be redeemed at the same time. Hallelujah!
I’ve not found any verses in the Bible stating that our glorious Lord, Savior, Bridegroom Christ will come for His Church exactly when the 70th week of Daniel begins, exactly when the final Daniel 9:27 agreement is signed (if it is a signed document) or exactly 7 years before the first day of Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom. (See post 3.) Although it’s been frequently taught, the Bible simply never says that!
Most Christians conflate the harvests, which is necessary, at times, because they have many similar elements. Complete information about them hasn’t been clearly given to us, because certain things are revealed to us only as needed; This is true, especially in these last days, because satan is most jealous of the bride of Christ and although he wants us out of here, he will also try to ruin Jesus’ plan.
I’ve mentioned that the bride/true church of Christ must be the Barley Harvest: Barley bows its head while wheat is stiff necked. Barley pearls come right out, while wheat ears must beaten with a tribulum.
Jesus Christ was resurrected on the third holy convocation, which is called ‘First-Fruits’ and it marks the beginning of the barley harvest, when a sheaf must be presented to God in his Temple.
In the three days that His body lay dead, Jesus Christ rescued captives out of Sheol, from Abraham’s bosom. Where did He take them? Either He took them to His Father, in His throne room, as a First-Fruits offering of the Barley Harvest of saints; Or He brought them to paradise, which is the place in heaven where saints who died wait for their glorified bodies that they’ll receive later, when the rest of the church is harvested.
As mentioned above, and this is speculation: If Jesus brought the sheaf of souls out from Abraham’s Bosom in Sheol, perhaps they made a pit stop on Earth to animate their old dead bodies, which may’ve been those that came up out of their graves on the Mount of Olives when Jesus died.
Shavuot/Pentecost, God’s fourth holy convocation is actually the day in which the first fruits of the wheat harvest is presented to God in His temple; But, it also marks the fulfillment of the barley harvest; So Pentecost/Shavuot is also the model for the fulfillment of the barley harvest of saints, including the gleanings of the barley saints who must be martyred. The greatest martyrdom will happen at the 5th seal, immediately before the first fruits of the wheat harvest of saints when the 144,000, are sealed; at the beginning of the sixth seal. see below …
The 7 Year Countdown Begins Before the Church Age Ends:
I think the ‘great tribulation’ (not to be confused with God’s wrath) begins soon after Jesus Christ breaks the FOURTH SEAL. The ‘hour of trial’ is not specifically about Daniels entire 7 year period on Earth at the end of this age. Nevertheless, since time is utterly elastic when traveling in the cosmos, it’s still possible that the bride will spend exactly 7 years in God’s heaven, as per God’s will, before she returns to Earth with Jesus. The first seal’s events don’t cause great worldwide tribulation, since they’re the releasing of the diplomatic exploits of the future antichrist before the restrainer’s fully removed. The second seal removes peace, but it’s a process that doesn’t happen all at once, not going nuclear until the fourth seal. The third seal is similar: Food prices begin rising, more and more, but the full impact isn’t fully reached until the process reaches the fourth seal, which is when multitudes start dying from the sword famine, pestilence and wild animals with the march of the black horse. This is supported by Matt. 24:7, which informs us that the famines will occur ‘in various places.’ I think the ‘beginning of sorrows’ becomes the ‘great tribulation’ at the 4th seal; When the Lamb of God breaks the fourth seal, a 1/4 of humanity will die due to the cumulative effects of all that was let loose into motion when He broke the first three seals. That’s opposed to the trumpet and bowl judgments, which are the wrath of God. Breaking the seals are mainly God way of allowing the world to progress toward the Beast System. God’s harvest of the core of Christ’s ‘true church’ will take place just before the ‘hour of trial which will come upon the whole Earth sometime after Jesus Christ breaks the 4th seal. That’s also when the greatest part of the Holy Spirit’s power will be removed from Earth.
the tarry
Jesus Christ our Bridegroom strongly implied He’d tarry! But, why would He delay gathering His bride? What if the bride of Christ is busy serving our Lord by warning and/or making preparations for those who’re not getting ready, and are about to enter the great tribulation? I sometimes feel as if that’s what I’m doing.
The limit of the timing of the Open Door Harvest is that it must happen before the death of the 5th Seal Martyrs. According to Levitical Law the owner’s portion of any harvest, must be gathered in completely, before any of the gleanings are touched by the poor or the stranger (which in the case of the end time tribulation will be the ‘Beast System) until the owner (God) has taken the entirety of His portion. That’s according to God’s Levitical Law. But that doesn’t mean satan won’t break God’s law; Nevertheless, we can be fully assured that Jesus Christ will arrive with His Door Open before all the 5th seal martyrs arrive under Father God’s alter! Hallelujah! Perhaps we’ll watch King Jesus break the fifth seal when we arrive in God’s throne room!
The gleanings are the part of a harvest that‘s given over to the stranger and the poor who become the new owners. In the case of the harvests of souls at the end of the age, the gleanings are given over to the world. Even though the whole field of the souls of the Barley Harvest had become holy when the sheaf of the First Fruits offering, of saints (the 24 elders)was accepted by God Almighty, God won’t take back for Himself any part that was given over to a different owner, unless they’re put to death by the enemy. This is true in the case of souls in the time of the end, because the new owner, will be the world of the Beast.
Rev. 6: 9-11 “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?’ Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were was completed.”
12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, Dan being replaced by Levi, are the first fruits of the Wheat Harvest. What suddenly triggered so many Sons of Jacob to begin following Jesus Christ? It’s likely that after living through the many events that occurred after Jesus Christ broke the first four seals, and seeing so many Christians go missing from Earth because of Jesus Christ’s Open Door Harvest, they figured out who their Messiah really is.
The Owner’s Portion of the Wheat Harvest
The Tribulation Saints
It’s a metaphor. Wheat is the largest harvest of the year in Israel. Wheat requires a beating by a ‘tribulum’ to become useful. Such is not the case with barley, which is why the true church or the ‘bride of Christ’ is referred to as the ‘Barley Harvest.’ The tribulation saints will makeup the greatest harvest of saints ever to be seen in heaven. Their unaccountable multitude was witnessed by St. John after Jesus Christ broke the sixth seal! They’re gathered to heaven by our Lord and Savior, at the conclusion of the ‘great tribulation’ but before God’s wrath begins. The tribulation saints are part of the body of Christ and they include both gentiles and Hebrew Israelites, a fact that’s underscored by God requiring two loaves of leavened bread as the first fruits offering of the wheat harvest on Shavuot. https://biblehub.com/q/Why_use_leaven_in_Lev_23_17_loaves.htm
(I call God’s Wrath the ‘greatest tribulation’ to avoid confusion.)
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:14
In the Book of Revelation, the first mention of the ‘wrath of God’ (which is the greatest tribulation) is at the end of the sixth seal after the ‘great tribulation’ has reached it’s conclusion, the martyrs have been killed and the 144,00 have been sealed. Then there’s announcement of God’s wrath:
Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?’
The Two Witnesses will come on the scene 1,260 days before the Beast (King, Caliph, Mahdi, Emperor of the Beast Empire) comes up from the abyss after having been greatly empowered there. That means the two witnesses must arrive very early in Daniel’s 70th week. A careful analysis of the passages reveal that St. John only reports on the actual whereabouts of the Two Witnesses as they’re killed and lay in a street of Jerusalem for three days;That’s before they’re resurrected and raptured from that very same spot. The Two Witnesses were not ever described as having been inside the temple courts or on the temple mount. Although it seems to us that they’ll be drawn there. The angel told St. John all about the two witnesses right after having instructed him to measure the 3rd temple of God, but not the outer court because the gentiles will be trampling it. That’s why most people assume that the two witnesses will begin and carry out most of their their ministry around the temple. Because of that assumption, and because their foreshadowers Zerubabbel and Joshuah were Jews, the narrative that believers have clung to, is that the Two Witnesses are sent to witness and prophesy only to the Jews;But the Two Witnesses are described by the angel as ‘the 2 olive trees andthe 2 lamp stands.’ I interpret that as meaning they must also prophesy and preach to Christians including to Christ’s bride and bridesmaids in the beginning, since they’ll begin their ministry before she’s gathered.
The 7 church types or church models in Rev. 2-3, hold up the 7 lamps – that’s reminiscent of one menorah. God has two betrothals in the Bible, one inthe Old Testament and one in the New Testament. The two menorahs represent the two brides/wives, the Israelites betrothed to Father God YHWHand the true church, which is a part of the body of Christ,betrothed to God the Son Jesus Christ. (As I edit this on August 4 ’26: Assuming there’ve been no mis-translations of the text, the two witnesses began their ministry 2.3 yrs. ago. So they must be hiding in plain sight on the World Wide Web! That’s according to my calculations, see post 4. The Countdown.)
Zechariah wrote about the original two witnesses: Joshua and Zerubabbel:
And interestingly, there’s no record of their deaths. In Zechariah’s vision he saw that they were introduced to their Savior Messiah as the ‘chief corner stone’ (with 7 eyes on it); That’s the chief corner stone of the temple they were building. So, yes; I think they’ll be here, on Earth as the 3rd temple is being built. And, in the same way that Elijah returned as the spirit of John the Baptist, for anybody who’d believe it, I think they grew up on Earth. I think at some point they’ll became completely and continuously filled with the Holy Spirit; That means they’ve been granted virtually unlimited defensive powers by God; But, I believe they’ll only use those powers in the final year and a half before they’re killed. Unfortunately, just as the Jews recognized neither Elijah nor their Messiah, I suspect that most ‘Christians’ won’t recognize the Two Witnesses. I’ve started a list of possibilities on post 15.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
We’ve all heard of the Grapes of Wrath, but I think there’s also a Good Grape Harvest since Jesus himself is the good grape vine.
Grape Harvest Passages
Grape Harvest Passages
Then I looked, and there before me was a white cloud. Sitting on the cloud was someone like a Son of Man seated on the cloud was one like a son of man (Jesus) with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. (Rev. 14: 14-16)
I think Jesus Christ harvested the living branches, those who were attached to Himself. SinceJesus is the grape vine, His true follower are the ‘good grapes’ on the branches that are attached to Him. Although this harvest, which is the first Rev. 14 harvest, isn’t specifically said to be grapes, the barley and wheat harvests had already been completed before Rev. 11. Olives and figs were the only other important late season crops in Jerusalem.
The Other Rev. 14 Harvest is the ‘Grapes of Wrath’
Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great wine press of God’s wrath. They were trampled in the wine press outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. (Rev. 14 17-20)
Those are the wild grapes that remained, after Jesus took His good grape harvest.
It started with the First Fruits of the ‘Good Grape’ Harvest
Resurrected Old Testament Saints
Soon after the war with Michael and satan breaks out in heaven, there’s a very large resurrection of Old Testament saints. They’re the first fruits of the Good Grape Harvest.
Daniel 12: 1-2 “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life others to shame and everlasting contempt . . .”
With 3 mentions of ‘time’ in just those two verses, perhaps we should ask: ‘when’? The answer is found in the context of the end of Daniel 11, (the final King of the North invading Israel) and also in Revelation 12 7-9 see below:
Revelation 12: 7-9 “Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”
TheMain Good Grape Harvest (owner’s portion) is the Rev. 14: 14-16 harvest by Jesus Christ, when He sits on the clouds with His sickle: It takes place after Rev. 12 when the abomination of desolation (A.O.D.) is initially set up and the Jews flee to the mountains to a place God will have prepared for them. We know they’ll stay there for 1,260 days. The sickle Jesus is holding is symbolic; Jesus’ Olivet Discourse tells us that when He harvests them, He’ll be seen across the entire sky by everyone on Earth, from the East to the West, in great glory; And that He’ll be with a host of His angels who’ll gather them. But, this isn’t Jesus Christ’s second coming, when He’ll be accompanied by all His saints – a huge standard – all of us on white horses together with myriads and myriads of good angels. This is only the Olivet Discourse Harvest. No horses are mentioned. The wedding feast hasn’t happened yet in heaven and Armageddon will begin very soon.
This group isn’t part of Christ’s church, since they’ve already suffered through the seven trumpets of God’s judgment/wrath onto the earth. The church, is not appointed to God’s wrath. But, I think this group will still be invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb since they’ll arrive in heaven before the wedding feast.
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” (Rev. 19:9)
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Gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest of Revelation 19
The Last Martyrs
The last martyrs are described by St. John who saw them toward the end of his journey in the spirit. He saw them standing in heaven beside what appeared to be a sea of glass and fire, and heard them named “those who defeated the beast and his image.” These are the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest. Although they will be mostly Jews, I think there will also be some gentles among them because . . .
.The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days. … .Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring – those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus. (Rev. 12:6,17)
“And it was given unto him (the Beast) to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.”
Revelation 13:7
The Revelation 12 woman is Israel, but satan couldn’t get to her, so instead he went after whoever else left on Earth was following her son Jesus Christ, the body of Christ. All those who follow Jesus Christ are considered to be her offspring also, because they abide in Jesus.
None of the last martyrs, whether Jew or gentile, are part of Christ’s church, because they come out of God’s wrath. The church is completely gone by then, nevertheless there seems to be a group of gentile stragglers who missed the entire church age, yet are somehow humbled after seeing the Two Witnesses resurrected. Perhaps they find some Bibles in their hideouts as they’re trying to dodge the beast; They’re saints too. And they seem to arrive in heaven just in time, for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb! See:
Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” (Rev. 19:9)
And he added, “These are the true words of God.” (Rev. 19:9) For God did not appoint us (the church) to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 5:9)
The Last Martyrs will come out of the Wrath of God
None of these will have repented until after the sixth trumpet judgement (the second woe). Not even being tortured for five months by demonic locusts from the bottomless pit, at the fifth trumpet judgment, without being able to die although wishing to, impressed them enough to call on Jesus Christ’s name for help. Only later, after hearing the powerful testimonies of the Two Witnesses and seeing the beast come out of the bottomless pit and kill them, and then seeing them resurrected 3.5 days later, followed by a great earthquake that destroys a tenth of the Jerusalem, killing 7,000, did they finally get humbled and turn to Jesus Christ!
In Rev. 20, St. John sees the souls of the last martyrs, and then sees them come to life and reign with Christ for a thousand years!
First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from Hades, the ‘Bosom of Abraham’, when He “took captivity captive”.My interpretation of the two harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second harvest is the grapes of wrath and the first one is the smaller harvest of good grapes.
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Final thoughts about gleanings:
As mentioned above, according to Romans 11:18, When the first-fruits of something offered to God is holy, the whole lump is holy; This applies to fields of grain and other crops. The gleanings of a holy field (lump) are given over to the poor and the stranger who become its new owner.
Leviticus chapters 25-27 relates to harvests, valuation, vows, redemption and many animal offerings, which are also holy to God.
God has given rules about their redemption, including cases when the animal must be killed. see post 2
(((These are not the regular alter sacrifices.)))
As far as I understand it, no living thing that’s holy to God, and is then given over to another owner can be redeemed back to God except by death. The corners of a field are holy to God, if that field had been dedicated to God. But, God has commanded in Torah for the corners to be given over to the poor and the stranger passing through. The corners are the gleanings. Therefore, regarding God’s harvest of souls, those saints who find themselves as part of the gleanings in the end times, having actually been given over to the world Beast/Antichrist system, must be martyred by the enemies team. That’s the only way God will take them back.
That’s an example of gleanings of a holy batch. I believe that verse is also about the portion of the Good Grape Harvest that must be put to death in order to to be redeemed back to God, and that similar things happened with the Barley and Wheat Harvests.
Besides the Antichrist, the other worst enemy of God described in St. John’s Book of Revelation is . . .
Babylon The Great, Mother of all Whores and of The Abominations of the Earth.
Written on her forehead is:
((( Mystery Babylon the Great Mother of all Whores and of the Abominations of the Earth )))
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. (Revelation 17:6)
She’s two things: a very powerful economic city (or conglomerate of cites) necessarily with tendrils reaching around the whole Earth physically and virtually, and a satanically inspired man made, false, unholy, religious/spiritual belief system, often referred to as ‘Mystery Babylon.’ Revelation describes her as a mystery. Why is it so difficult to figure out who she is and is becoming? Maybe because she’s been hiding in plain sight for thousands of years; But she’s fulminating in these last hours. . .
Many people interpret a certain Bible verse, (Zech. 11:17) in such a way that makes them believe that the Antichrist will have a corrupted right eye. The 666 hand symbol covering the right eye is a sign of loyalty to the Antichrist who will be possessed by satan.
Therefore, these plagues will overtake her in a single day – death and mourning and famine. She will be completely consumed by fire, for the Lord God who judges her is mighty. (Rev. 18:8)
God Almighty won’t completely destroy Babylon the Great until the Day of the Lord/Time of Jacob’s Trouble peaks during the second half of the final 7 years of this age. We’re already 2.5 yrs. into the first half, which began immediately after the conclusion of the Great American Eclipses, in my opinion.
Therefore, Los Angeles itself can’t be Babylon the Great, although she’s of the same spirit. Nevertheless, these fires should be recognized as a great foreshadowing; Believers, especially American believers, should pay very close attention.
After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. With a mighty voice he shouted: “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries. Rev. 18:1-4
22.2 Glory of God Beyond
“Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.” Rev. 18:5-6
Give back to her as she has given; pay her back double for what she has done. Pour her a double portion from her own cup. Give her as much torment and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. In her heart she boasts, ‘I sit enthroned as queen. I am not a widow; I will never mourn.’ Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her. (Rev. 18:7-8)
Revelation 18:23 “And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorcerieswere all nations deceived.”
22.3 Glory God Beyond
INSANE Terrifying NEW LAW for Christians 2023, by Sling and Stone
The main tendrils of economic power have already come together at the World Economic Forum and Black Rock. I’ve seen different numbers; It’s reported that the controlling interest of Black Rock is Vanguard. I don’t know about in the past, but Vanguard currently points to the British Royal Family. See posts:
The Book of Revelation seems to be saying it will be in a wilderness and on a major shipping route. The word translated as ‘wilderness’ primarily meant ‘dessert’, such as the Negev or Sinai, in the Old Testament.
Until the California fires, I hadn’t really considered LA/ Central California, but it’s certainly one big diffuse Babylonian style ‘city’ in a dessert, with great access to shipping. L.A. isn’t even close to being the largest port for manufactured goods, but they might have the largest human trafficking industry.
LA is primarily a seed that broadcasts its product: seduction by deception and moral decay, throughout the whole world. It’s dependent upon digital media these day; So, Silicon Valley’s proximity has been significant. Secret product is traded via the deep web.
Be careful what your eyes see. They seem to be using the homeless for . . .
22.4Glory God Beyond
. . . human trafficking.
This Situation Is Way Crazier Than I First Thought (Something Massive Exposed) by Sling and Stone
Urgent update:I’d previously rejected the view that the city ‘Babylon the Great’ could be NYC, because of the phrase ‘in the wilderness’ used by St. John’s in his Rev. 17-18 vision. But after reviewing and writing about the world’s great dessert seaports and not finding an existing city that’s a perfect match, I watched the below video by Brian of Barley Harvest, someone I respect, see link. . . So I’ve come to realize that the word ‘wilderness’ could have referred to Manhattan as it was before it was settled by the Dutch; Manhattan in the Lenape language meant ‘place where we get bows.’ In fact all of North America was basically wilderness then; Both Zechariah and St. John were describing a far future site; Zechariah chap. 5 described the spirit of wickedness being carried from Israel to the ‘New Babylon/Shinar’ by ‘two women with wings like storks.’ (symbolically) Storks are migratory birds that travel over 4,000 miles on a single migration; Learning this kind of puts a damper on my previous focus, which was that Babylon the Great was in Arabia, and my honing in on the Mecca/K.A.E.C. dipole. Also, I’ve realized since then that the reason the great merchants of the Earth will weep when she’s destroyed is mainly due to her purchasing power not her exports.
Mystery Babylon & the Flying Scroll | She’s Been Hiding in Plain Sight
Yuval Noah Herari was called Charles Schwab’s Right Hand Man
22.6 Glory God Beyond
Babylon the Great represents the uttermost monstrous, satanic, whoredom against the true God who created everything. God Almighty has been allowing its spirit to rise, only so that when it falls, its fall will be spectacular and complete, never to rise again. Idol worship has been heading toward its ultimate lowness. In this generation, right now, it’s often in the form of self worship or worship of someone who’s tied into ones own ego, which is self worship by proxy. But, it can also incorporate paying homage to many lifeless images, symbols and the demonic myths that go with them, not only ancient ones, but any additional delusions people wish for. Such people are opening doors to unclean spirits whether they realize it or not. Babylon the Great is, day by day, mounting up its seductions, influence and control.
Who Are the World Economic Forum’s ‘Young Global Leaders?’ The Names May Surprise You.
Babylon was the Name of the Original Rebellious City on Earth, after The Flood.
All people on the Earth joined together against God to utterly reject God’s one command, which was to spread out and make separate communities. Instead they joined together and did everything they wanted with complete unity.
22.7 Glory God Beyond
They started building the Tower of Babel, which may have, among other things, been an attempt to reach above the clouds in order to present sexual temptations to fallen angels, like the ones who corrupted the seed of humanity before the flood.
God Almighty, who knew exactly what this cumulative rebellion would lead to in the last days, frustrated humanity’s plans for thousands of years by confusing their languages, which forced them to separate into diverse nations. Yet, each group took the ungodly spirit of Babylon with them. They based their subsequent beliefs upon them, in every culture and city they built, and throughout all generations.
Humanity wished for the forbidden knowledge that the fallen angels had given them before the flood.
The fallen angels gave it to them in orderto destroy mankind.Right now, we’re in the final 7 years of God’s 6,000 year allotment for mankind to live in rebellion against Him. Although God’s been keeping it on a leash, God said He’ll let it go (perhaps in phases) allowing mankind’s rebellion to utterly fulminate in the last 3.5 years.
How I envision it is: Jesus Christ has already begun removing the restrainer in steps by breaking the seals of the scroll.
I believe our Lord and Bridegroom will gather His bride at the perfect moment, within the seal breaking process. That indicates that the seven blazing torches/lamp stands in God’s throne room are like a barometer in that they represent the condition of the church saints who are on Earth. Therefore, Rev. 4:5 shows us that there must be at least some saints, who are eirher part of either Christ’s bride, or his bridesmaids, in each and every one of the 7 church types, not only the Church of Philadelphia. Again, that’s indicated by the fact that all 7 torches/ lamp stands are lit in God’s throne room. The condition of the saints represented by the lit flames not only have the Holy Spirit, symbolized by the oil, but they’ve ignited it. They’re ‘lit’; And that means they listen to and/or read The WORD of God, and are actively shining it forth being the light of the world!
Something Biblical is Happening in China and No One Can Explain It
This is speculation, but I envision that sometime soon after the precious Lamb of God breaks the fourth seal, He’ll set out toward Earth to gather His bride. I certainly don’t think God the Son, Jesus Christ, the King of the universe needs to travel that way! Yet He may choose to bring an ark; In fact, He may have even already sent a ship and dropped off space tabernacles near Earth, for later use to transport His bride, millions of people or more I expect; Those are two different possibilities, but I’m just speculating. People have been having some very interesting visions. There may be a significant bit of traveling time if Jesus decides to do it that way. We don’t know! (But if so, I’m not saying we won’t first meet Him in the air, as per 1 Thess. 1:4, before boarding. It’s just that the Bible doesn’t actually say how we get from the clouds to God’s throne room.) It seems clear that the cumulative effects of the powerful processes released by Jesus Christ when He breaks the first three seals, will still be compounding and accumulating, when He breaks the fourth seal, leading to the death of 1/4 of humanity. And, in my opinion, it’s under the fourth seal that the ‘hour of trial’ that will come upon the whole Earth, to test the people of the earth, will arrive, and that Jesus will gather His bride just before the tipping point.
After that, it seems that something may need to be removed . . .
Only the United States is holding back the international, Revelation/Beast style, digital-monetary-system! Trump signed an executive order, the very day after he entered office, that banned central bank digital currencies in America, calling them a dangerous threat to freedom. Most of the rest of the world, except Israel, wants the USA out of the way.
Trump Just Delayed the Beast System—But He Can’t Stop What’s Coming
If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. (Matt. 18:6)
In your face and behind your back bashing of the followers of ‘the way, the truth and the life’ is being tolerated by those who are perishing; That’s the world, even in America. They call those who love Jesus Christ ‘haters’.
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with mennor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)
22.10 Glory God Beyond
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. (Rev. 22: 14-15)
The truth is: Parents who don’t want their children to inherit God’s eternal wrath and therefore tell them the hard truths are the ones who really love their children.
Believers who speak the truth to homosexuals, and other lost souls, who’ve given themselves over to deranged sexual indulgences, are warning them, an act of love.
Acting as if we support what they do, so they’ll like us, is selfish, cowardly and shameful!
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Romans 1 :32
End Times
For the purpose of her utter condemnation, God Almighty will allow the final Babylon, Babylon the Great, to (nearly) reach the pinnacle of her vileness . . .
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: (Rev. 17:4)
22.11 Glory God Beyond
. . . As each depraved layer is unwrapped most of humanities conscience will become seared and people will become unsavable. Babylon the Great is the core, the ultimate hub of rebellion against God. A type of idol worship that mainly worships SELF, but satan’s behind it; The false beliefs promote the most extreme indulgences and grossest excesses: heartlessness, unbridled greed, extreme sensuality, the ‘sensa parade,’ unlimited extremes of sexual perversion and abuse, every kind of filth, oppression, mockery and murder of the saints, false and self serving psychopathic culture posing as religious belief.
People are making up ‘false morals’ in order to feel ‘self righteous’ while practicing blatant sorcery, doctrines of demons, hatred of the truth, the true God and the one who paid our sin dept, who is Jesus Christ. Many of them worship a false Jesus,’ exploiting His Holy Name. There’s all manner of puffed up pride, murderous thoughts and actions, especially against those who speak the truth; unrestrained abortions, abortions with satanic rituals (a service provided for those who want satan to reward them for making the termination of ‘innocent’ life as an offering to him), prostitution both spiritually and carnally, sacrifices of live infants – as in the days of Moloch – boiling or burning babies and young children alive in fire as offerings to to idols. It actually gets worse and even much worse.
Update April ’26 – Since I wrote this post, the Epstein files have come out, proving Rosanne Barr was telling the truth when she said that they drink the blood of babies in L.A.. But, the files also revealed that they eat babies. And there was (is) much worse going on: I don’t follow the details, I focus on the Kingdom of Righteousness coming with Jesus Christ, but my watcher community has reported enough, so I know that a laboratory for genetic manipulation was found on Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. I’m assuming readers have heard the witnesses. Only Jesus Christ can stop it. It runs so deep that He’ll have to destroy this entire age with fire as God did with water with Noah’s flood. See this video for some of the early clues, from the time before all the proofs came out:
22.12 Glory God Beyond
The following video starts to bring out something that’s even worse than the worst thing I’ve ever heard of in any sci-fi or horror movie. Sling and Stone, discusses evidence of the unspeakable beyond the unspeakable.
Denver Airport Truth, Creepy Video I Can’t Explain, by Sling and Stone
Since social sexual restraints are being removed, even as to the sexualizing of children and adolescents, to feed the appetites of predators, trafficking in human lives has become an enormous industry. Another missing child, adolescent or young adult, and another one and another one, they’re hauled by shipping crates – way too many to keep track of. There’s evidence that they’re breeding people, literally underground, to feed the addicts, who always require greater perversion and cruelty, just to temporally satisfy their appetites. Their unrestrained wicked imaginations desire to see how far they can take their perversions – new ways to torture and dispose of their victims. Every evil possible, including sexually manipulating fetuses, experimenting on them in utero, even corrupting their DNA to the point of making them no longer human, but monsters, and zombies combined, manipulated by soulless machinery. This is in line with the main goal of the fallen angels, which was to corrupt human DNA; They’re tryingto prevent the Genesis 3:15 protoevangelium from coming true.
It’s a very good thing that we have a God of justice.
The Vatican Places Giant Statue of Molech at Colosseum Entrance
Mystery Babylon is probably a cesspool of all the world’s false, self serving ideologies and theologies stamped with an Islamicized or Chrislamicize cloak to fool the willfully blind. But, that’s my speculation; It seems to fit.
Isaiah 5:20-23
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!
22.13 Glory God Beyond
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Jesus Christ said He’d not return until the Jews say to Him “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD.” Satan’s main goal is to prevent Jesus Christ from returning. Satan and his minions think that if can they get all of humanity, especially the Jews, to become transhumans or to be infected with nonhuman DNA, or both, then Jesus won’t return. There’s evidence that the Mark of the Beast will possibly contain some DNA equivalent from or designed by the fallen angels. That’s probably why they’re posing as extraterrestrials, to do experiments and getting it ready. But, the Mark of the Beast could also start out as simple bar or QR code, so be wary of everything. Even tattoo ink can transport DNA into the cells. There are ways to corrupt peoples DNA by making it voluntary, seducing people with all kinds of false promises, even of eternal live without Jesus. It’s already happening so don’t waddle after the masses.
22.14 Glory God Beyond
by Kap Chatfield:Is Transhumanism the Final End-Times Deception? An interview with Peter Thiel.
God said “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” (1 Peter 2:9)
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. (John 6:63)
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36)
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
2 Thess. 2:9-12
22.16 Glory God Beyond
Is it possible for a person to be saved/forgiven after taking the Mark of the Beast?
Rev. 14:10, ” . . . he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.”
Once the line is crossed and a person is no longer human he/she can no longer be saved. Jesus Christ only paid the price with His human blood, to cover the sins of humans.
In St. John’s vision, the Woman Sitting on the Beast Represents the final Obscene City and Ideology..
She passionately loves and promotes the Beast. The Beast appears scarlet in the vision when she rides him, when he is supporting her. I think The Beast/Antichrist Empire will first go through a sort of Islamic State/Caliphate phase, but then either the Caliph will morph into the Mahdi or more likely, the Mahdi will come from somewhere else since he’s the Gog of Magog.
The Antichrist Was Just Revealed to the World (But Everyone Missed It)
And then Gog/Mahdi/Antichrist/Fake-Jewish-Messiah will sit in the temple of God’s Holy of Holies and declare himself to be God. He will have certainly changed/compromised some of the rules of the Caliphate by that point, so it can expand faster and take over the rest of the world.
Not long after that, the Beast will turn against Babylon the Great, but it’ll be God Almighty making it happen. The one true Almighty God, who created everything, will cause ‘the final ten kings’, possibly hybrid creatures, as per Dan. 2:42-44, to align themselves with the Beast against the abominable Mystery Babylon. So, God Almighty will actually use the Beast to destroy her. God’s purpose is righteous and Holy. (These are not the same 10 kings, of which 3 will be subdued, that were on the head of the Beast when the little horn arose.) The Beast is also shown in St. John’s vision as having blasphemous words written on all its heads – lies slandering God.
22.18 Glory God Beyond
Tower of Babel
The literal material hub of Babylon the Great is described as being in a wilderness (or dessert) and on a major shipping route.
I’ve been thinking it could be the Mecca-King-Abdullah’s-City dipole, an option shown in the next post. But, they’ve been other candidates at least worth noting. Notice Dubai, UAE has its Tower of Babel called the Burj Khalifa; And, Abu Dhabi has built the One World Religion headquarters.
But, King Abdullah’s Economic City is the fastest growing port, as large as some of the great ports in China, and is in reasonably close proximity to Mecca. (see next post)
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