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God’s Timing – *AT Aleph Tov
Hebrew AyT: God’s Autograph
The Book of Revelation, evidence of Prophecy from Above strengthening the believer for decisive victory: they will prevail in the testing times – the Truth shall banish fear. John 8:31, “Then Jesus was saying to those of the Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” Eph. 1:17, “The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in full knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your heart be enlightened that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints 19 and what the exceeding greatness of His power unto us who believe, by the working of His mighty power 20 He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavens…” Imagine now after 2,000 years with the same resurrection power that raised Jesus once again will raise all the dead in Christ, in the Church! And along with this power we who live in this age if we will be found righteous, we will not die to experience death. We have that opportunity that no human being, not even Christ, has ever been given, to wholly avoid the taste of death. So now we must commit to preparing how to be worthy, that once and for all at the Rapture we will be transformed into eternal glorious bodies. See: Our Ever-Great Victory: We Conquer Death! (0o).
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*AT- Aleph Tov Hebrew AyT God’s Scripture Autograph, similar in Greek: A Ω - Alpha Omega, Jesus’ Signature on His Army, Joel 2:11,Rev. 6:1,2 /A Z.
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Invoking Jesus’ Forbearing Approval
Or do we provoke His Judgment for Disapproval?
Chapter Revelation 12 lifts the top urgent prophecies in the 70th Week, the 7-year Tribulation period. Like the Table of Contents in the heart of 22 Chapters, it shows the headlines of God’s Plan. It is the guiding Light over the Church to the Lord’s Day with Grace and Truth, towards deliverance from Judgment to grant us the Approval of His Acceptance.
Our Christ in Chapter 12 links the 11 prior chapters to the 11 chapters by the middle arraying our mission for a victorious grand finale! Divine Wisdom draws our commitment in this spiritual struggle how we must advance shoulder-to-shoulder as an army to prevail over deception and all evil schemes taking by storm the world till we will be justified in God’s eternal glory.
Chapter 12, the Events Center, the Heart of Revelation of the Lord’s Plan we must focus on. See The Revelation uplifts the major events: (0e).
We locate the book center by accumulating all characters of the original text in Greek that amount to 54,070 characters; then by dividing 54,070 into 2 comes to 27,035 characters where the half of content’s total is in the middle of the book. There we find the axis that balances the whole book ‘the Heart of Revelation.’ To our amazement middle points to Ch. 12, Rev. 12:11 onto Church’s prominent prophecy in the end-times how to overcome: “And they, the faithful will be victorious over him, Satan.”
This means we expect to be at war, and not at a premature escape as those of Pre-tribulation view which obviously preach in error that is not supported by Scripture. Our powerful counsel is to stand in battle vested in God’s armor as He is providing us three winning Weapons:
Weapon 1) “By the Blood of the Lamb.”
Weapon 2) “By the Word of their testimony – it is Jesus’ witnessing we must declare by the book of Revelation – and
Weapon 3) “that they did not love their soul unto death.”
These are three invincible powers: the Blood of Jesus, our testimony with the Truth, and our courage of standing on the Faith. They constitute the Sword of the Spirit [‘makhaira’ Gk #3162; knife (a sizable cutting knife for battle)] in the full armor of God in Eph. 6:14-18. Now there is a call for perfecting our Revelation in which God promises great power. If we engage in God’s Word with the required research to perfectly understand the prophecies in the Truth, then “the Word of our testimony” [‘martyria’ fem., Gk# 3141; a report with ascertainment] a powerful Weapon at carrying out an Effective Message (0c). See the message in Matt. 24:14, Guidelines in the Will of God (7n).
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Our Word to bear an Effective Message
The Weapon 2) “The Word of our testimony” becomes our powerful message of the Truth in witnessing [martyrion’ neut. Gk #3142; tangible evidence, effective] when is carried out.
Luke 21:10, “(Jesus says to the disciples “Nation will rise against nation, and regime against regime, 11 and will be great earthquakes and in various places pestilences and famines; and there will be terrors and from heaven will be great signs. 12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, turning you over to committees and jails, taking you before kings and governors on account of My name. 13 It shall result in an opportunity for your witnessing [martyrion’ neut., Gk #3142; testimony tangible, the message is effective] to be carried out. 15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or contradict. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death -as in the type of Smyrna church. 17 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. 18 But not a single hair of your head shall be lost. 19 By your patience you will possess [‘ctaomai’ Gk #2932; to have under your control] your souls.” See more: In His Own times (4c).
The power of our testimony is Weapon 2) “the Word of our testimony” besides helping other believers’ growth and edification in the truth it raises us to Luke 21:15, “we will be given a mouth and wisdom to fight back all the opposing us” they will have the world control, Beast-4 government [Gk ‘to catekhon’ ‘possessing, controlling’] See SIGN SIX (9g), also SIGN NINETEEN (9i).
In God’s high positive commission service, we win with the Weapon 1) “With the blood of the Lamb” and with the Weapon 2) “With the word of our testimony” - so that the weapon 3) will not be needed. For that we ensue to know perfectly the prophetic Word in the Truth, for God’s commission to help others in our fellowship during the hard times. The first two Weapons 1) and 2) are decisive and irrevocable in the first 3 ½ years and we will not come to die with Weapon 3), in the second 3 ½ years.
Others may be like the unwise virgins not prepared for this spiritual fight in the first 3 ½ years they will miss the Rapture, and they will find themselves in the need to depend on Weapon 3). Then, warns the Word, for the second 3 ½ years to survive at government grilling interrogation asking to deny their faith in Christ, the believers “they will not love their souls unto death,” so in death by beheading they will gain their entry into heaven.
How can we overcome persecution, anger and threats coming at us as to facing death? God promises us to our advantage the most positive undertaking: To overcome with the Weapon 1) “With the blood of the Lamb” and Weapon 2) “With the Word of our testimony;” then Weapon 3) will not be used for holding our salvation under the threat of death. If we succeed to know the Truth and use it perfectly in our message with the Weapon 2) “the Word of our testimony” the first two Weapons 1) and 2) will be decisive and irrevocable and we will not need the Weapon 3). God will have us exempt from any persecution, and from future wrath of government forces.
Others may be like the unwise virgins not prepared for this contest in the first 3 ½ years, will be forced in their situation to rely on Weapon 3) to prove “that they did not love their souls unto death.” Then by beheading they will gain their entry to the Kingdom of heaven, in Rev. 14:13, “And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time on…” It is written about the beheading.
Therefore, we must discern and learn as thoroughly as possible the correct teaching, through prophecy to follow those who know the truth, and to share it. This is the Will of the Lord, for us to serve in His end times army to gain entry to heaven with the Weapon 2) “By the Word of our testimony,” by the knowledge of truth, “and the truth shall set us free.” (John 8:32).
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Question: Where does the 7-year period start in the book of Revelation?
True Answer. The book of Revelation begins to speak for the 7 years and continues into the Millenium. There is no prophecy in this book pertaining to the Church for the previous 2,000 years.
Error #1. Teachers who preach that the 7 years start at the 4th Chapter cause misinformation for not correctly deciphering God’s Time, and they do a disservice to the Revelation of the Truth. In the entire book of Revelation, including the reports to the 7 churches, all that is written by signs in visions John the apostle saw and by words he heard exclusively for the 7-year period and after. There is nothing for the reader about the 2000 Church era; it is a prophecy guidance only for the benefit of an end-times reader.
Here, John the apostle writes about one of his visions:
Rev. 4:1, “After these things I looked, and behold a door [‘thyra’ θύρα Gk #2374; door] open in heaven and the first voice which I heard like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me said, “Come up here, and I will show you, what things must take place after these things” [Gk ‘μετὰ ταῦτα.›]
What are “these things” and “after these things”?
In Pre-tribulation view, the things in first three chapters are wrongly regarded as things from a distant past, because they are trying to support an early Rapture prior to 7 years. By their false perception of the Seven Churches in End Times (5a), by Error #3, Pre-tribulation scholars are straying the prophecies from future events to displace them to past events. Here, Error #1 the Pre-tribulation thinking does not meet the timeline order recognized by the Plan of God. Their sudden abrupt ‘imminency’ doctrine Error #5 cannot withstand any prophetic fulfillment before the Rapture. So, the proponents want to believe the following assumptions as:
*A) Rapture occurs at any time before the 7-year period.
*B) “These things” about the 7 churches are displaced into the 2,000 years Church era. The Rapture starts at Rev. 4:1, when John states, “the first voice which I heard like the sound of a trumpet… and He said, “Come up here.”
*C) Since the Church has been caught up to heaven, there is nothing written in the book of Revelation about which the believer is to be concerned. So, they disregard the entire book.
*D) The term ‘Church’ is not mentioned in Revelation chapters 4 to 18 of the whole book. They assume that can be their proof.
The following Answers refute the Pre-tribulation theory and put the record straight:
Answer A). The imminency theory on the Rapture as ‘once at any time’ a sudden event is a figment of imagination, incoherent, arbitrary and unsubstantiated. There is no such word equivalent in the Greek text, and it is not proven by the context in the Bible. All prophecies, signs, events and situations that John saw and heard must occur within the 7-years in chronological order as the Rapture comes in the first 3 ½ years and after the Rapture. This Truth is verified in the flow of interpretations in the pages of this book.
Answer B). “These things” are God’s consideration on the condition of His people and not events that occur in any season to adapt as historical facts to the past. They are an account to which the members of the classified churches in the first 3 ½ years are given the option to respond and make changes for correction in a proximal time that report cannot be displaced to other eras, because Rev. 1:1 defines, “The things, which must take place speedily – in short time.” We can compare with Jesus’ Revelation of Things (4a) and (4b).
Answer C). Correctly, for evaluation purposes in the 7 years, the Lord classifies all Church members into 7 churches (7 types of believers). During the first 3 ½ years, Jesus seeing the condition of the 7 types of believers wants to prepare each person before he faces Judgment, accordingly as he / she belongs in one of the seven churches and not as to one Church. This precise admonition in God’s Plan is addressed to guide, discipline, and upgrade each person individually before the Rapture. So, the guidance here to the 7 churches is not given just as historical inference, but it is proposed in connection with Judgment and the Rapture.
It would be such awkward negligence to displace from Revelation three chapters to history and apply the rest of its chapters as to other than Christian people or to the Jewish tribes. The whole book would be deemed useless. It would be a total disregard of the holy Scripture purposes to enlighten us in the Truth!
Answer D). Yes, the word ‘church’ is missing. It is typical in the book of Revelation not to find the word ‘church’ Gk ‘ec-clesia’ for the main reason: Jesus will judge us individually. And when He classifies the Church on type and character to 7 churches as members of certain range of faith, and He calls leaders and followers His Judgment is not on one Church. We should not be mistaken that mainly in this book God uses symbolical speech for various tasks, and intents the church and every church member is signified symbolically to be in Ch. 12:
‘The woman’ and ‘the bride,’ as the congregation, ‘the male child’ as the leaders;’ Rev. 6:6, ‘the oil,’ ‘the wine,’ ‘the trees’ yielding fruit, ‘the earth,’ ‘the woman’s seed, and more.
Plus, the church members are identified as called saints,’ ‘martyrs,’ ‘servants,’ ‘the prophets,’ and are qualified in Rev. 11:18, 19:5 as in phrases, “the small and the great,” “those having the name of Him and of the Lamb having been written,” “having been purchased,” “the ones following the Lamb wherever He may go,” and others.
It is wrong and very misguiding to suggest that the book of Revelation does not involve the church in its texts and ignore the useful counselling and direction contained in its Scripture passages. It is inconsiderate, shortsighted, and so worthless the approach of those who insist upon following a gross lie to throw off the Bible the most vital guidance for the Christian believer.
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/ 1,185 days + 75\ D Parousia G Christ’s Return
/ - 3.5 years days\ - 3.5 years | on the
/ A - - - - B - - - C \ F — — — - earth | H 1,000 years
/ A - beginning of 7 years - — - — - to Eternity I
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Revelation lifts God’s Plan major events:
A) At this point the 7-year period of temptation, deception, and tribulation begins. The first 3 ½ years of our holy ministry God’s mission the 5th Feast of Trumpets begins to offer knowledge, understanding, and wisdom to the faithful people.
B) Tribulation is Judgment on God’s people by nations.
C) Tribulation intensity is raised to Great Tribulation. As Rev. 12:12 b, “Dragon [Satan, the Devil] is cast down to the earth and has great anger” – but God still has the highest control does not allow Satan to act yet on the level of wrath.
D) The Lord’s Parousia, the righteous Resurrection of the Church dead and the Rapture of the living “are gathered like eagles flying” Matt. 24:28 to Jesus in mid-heaven, up at the firmament.
E) In Matt. 24:30 Jesus gives the Answer to two Questions by the phrase: And then, Καὶ τότε; Gk Kai conjunction ‘And’ -τότε toteh adverb ‘then’ - Καὶ τότε 2 words together:
“And then,” pointing to Jesus’ Answer statement. In Matt. 24:30 a, at first “And Then” He answers to Question 2. See below: 2.
E) “What will be the Sign of - D) - Your Parousia coming?” D) The Rapture occurs, in Matt. 24:28, 29, “And then,” E) the Sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky.” The Sign proves the Rapture and Parousia have just occurred.
This Sign is prophesied in Rev. 8:12, “The sun, moon, and stars are darkened by 1/3 of their light,” when darkness symbolizes harmful events of wrath is God allowing to occur on the earth.
Notice, after the first “And Then” which occurs in the middle of 7 years, the text in Matt. 24:30b with the second “And Then” takes a jump all the way to
G) to the End of the 7 years. In chronological sequence the next series of events counted as F) for the second 3 ½ years are skipped, totally missed by Matthew between the first “And Then” and the second “And Then!”
F) The disciples did not ask any Question about the things that will happen to those who remain on the earth at the Rapture in the second 3 ½ years. These are included in F) the events in second 3 ½ years, and they are taken from other prophecy texts, in Rev. 9:1-21, 11:1-18, 13:1-18, 14:6-20, 15:1-8, 16:1-21, etc.
This period involves the saints who, after having been deceived by doctrines of demons, now come to their senses as Satan and his incarnate man Antichrist makes war against them. As they are threatened by unexpected circumstances for their faith Christians and Jews being not sealed – only 144000 are sealed for protection. G) The events at the End of the second 3 ½ years.
G) Later comes the second “And Then” after the second 3 ½ years at the end of the period, “And then, in Matt. 24:30b, all the tribes of the earth will bewail – be mourning - as they will see the Son of man coming to the earth with His saints” to act out His final Judgment to all the nations. The consummation of the age begins at the end of 7 years with the restoration of Israel in H)
H) The Lord Jesus has established His Regime on the earth and continues the consummation of the age with the restoration of Israel for a Thousand years – the Millennium and to I) Eternity.
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/1,185 days + 75\ D Parousia G Christ’s Return
/ - 3.5 years days\ - 3.5 years | on the
/ A - - - - B - - - C \ F — — — - earth | H 1,000 years
/ A - beginning of 7 years - — - — - to Eternity I
Revelation clarifies the sevenfold A - G events in 7 years and the start of H event.
God answers on His Timing Plan the 1 to 4 Questions posed in Matthew:
1 for events (A,B,C), 2 for (E,D), 4 for (G,H);
Questions in Mark:
1 for (A,B,C), and 4 for (G,H);
Luke touches on all 4 Questions on events: (A,B,C), (D,E), F) and (G,H);
John 14:1-3, answers Question 2 for (D).
The Question in Matt. 24:3: “As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately asking Question 1, 2. and 4.
[except Question 3. F)], saying, ‘Tell us,
Question 1. A) “When this begins…B, C) will these things be, and
Question 2. E) What will be the Sign of 2 D) Your Parousia coming?
Question 3. F) In Matt. 24:3 the disciples omitted this Question 3 F) on the next event in chronological order.
But they asked it in Luke 21:7, “and what will be the Sign when these things will come into action in the future? [‘mello’ Gk #3195; to occur in future time - after the things of Question 1 (A,B,C) and Question 2 (E,D)]. No English verb can imply what the Gk verb ‘mello’ identically speaks of “things to occur afterward.” It means the things in the second 3 ½ years in the duration of the next period in 3 F) Question, from Question 2 [ on D) Parousia and E) the Sign] and after, while the D) Sign – the darkness in heaven - stays on.
Question 4. “And of the consummation of the age?” - the sign of 2.
E) remains the same darkness will remain in the sky through the second 3 ½ years to 7-year End not restored, until Jesus answers this Question 4 in Matt. 24 at the 2nd “…and then” from Matt. 24:30b to 24:31. Matt. 24:4: And Jesus answered…” their questions.
In our study we match each Question with the text where Jesus responds by His Answer. Besides the gospels there is more pertaining to Events A, B, C, and D by prophecies in the Scriptures mainly in the book of Revelation. This 66th final book begins at the start of the 7-year period covering all situations A, B, C, and D, E, in the middle to F to G the end of the 7 years, plus it extends into the consummation of the age to H Events and Situations in the Millennium till Eternity.
Step No. 1 – Alpha -
Grace
In Christ, we should not neglect to propose the utmost need of everyone as it takes priority before everything else: Each person must be born again by Jesus from above, to live in Christ’s Spirit.
The INTRODUCTION in this book offers this experience how Jesus sparks the light in man’s existence to be with God! See The LIGHT of Salvation (1c), The No. 1 Question – Always (87a), and the Answer to No. 1 Question (87b).
As a newly born-again person always with thanksgiving to Jesus, we commit to be His disciple following Christ as our Lord and we confirm with the right behavior as disciplined by God’s Word. And in gladness, now for the End times, we would ask the same questions as the disciples did,
in Luke 21:7, “saying, teacher,
1 When will these things be? The Answer is in (4a), (4b), (4e), The last Awakening (6d),
2 and what will be the sign of Your Parousia coming? See above (0e) E), SIGN THIRTY-TWO (9n), and
3 When will these things come into future action?” [‘mellonta’ partc., ‘mello’ Gk #3195; to occur in the future] in the timing order contemplated in Luke’s gospel, for things that was no Question in Matthew and Mark. See above (0e) F),
4 Question 4 is omitted in Luke: The consummation sign is the same in Question 2 it remains until the end. Luke 21:25, “there will be signs in sun and moon…” 21:27, “And then, the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” See (1b) CHARTS (C) Note; in (D) Columns 15,16; EXPLANATIONS (9c), (9d).
Then, in Mark 13:4,
1 When will these things be? We must receive the complete answer to the above times, including the events in Question 1, in PART I (4a), (4b), (4e), 6d).
2 Question 2 omitted in Mark –does not state about the Sign at the Day of the Lord, until Question 4.
3 Question 3 omitted in Mark, omitted also in Matthew.
4 What is the Sign when will come into action in the future [mello’ Gk #3195; to act in the future] all these things to be consummated?
See (1b) CHART (D) Column 16;
AT THE END OF THE AGE.
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Step No. 2 - Omega - Truth
We must seek the complete answer on the times, on events, and be focused on the main event and Sign of Question 2, which is the Day of the Lord. We see how the Holy Spirit constructed to each Question the order of its Answer giving us the benefit of sorting out His teaching from both sides of view. We see in Matthew’s Olivet Discourse most of the information given in all detail about this critical to us situation through the first 3 ½ years in Question 1, we need to know about the times and things in the prophecies for us still being here; and not what will take place in the future in the second 3 ½ years in Question 3 after we will be gone to heaven.
That is why the disciples in Matthew’s account after they reunite with the Lord in Question 2, they didn’t ask to know what would happen in the world after they leave - and we hopefully learn how to have left the earth. Thus, the Holy Spirit, the Author Who constructed all Scripture, has skipped Question C which is the next portion of time.
Luke’s account always gives an extra insight by the Holy Spirit Who is observing all from Above. [Learn from the book ‘AWFA’ ‘A Word from Above’ pp. 169-174, Luke’s gospel really is the Holy Spirit’s Gospel! Of course, God tells us about the future in all prophecies without Question. Here the gospel of Luke answers Question 3 in Luke 21:33-36, the key Question in Luke 21:7 that clarifies by the verb ‘mello’ the change from the first 3 ½ to the second 3 ½ years, “when the things in the future [Gk ‘mellonta’ things to come] must happen” after these things.
Herein God’s Timeline Plan is set in order by the Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, with the book of Revelation thoroughly answering Question 5, the Acts in Heaven to Eternity: what will happen on the earth and in heaven after the 7 years into the Consummation of the Age, Millennium, and Eternity. See 5 “These things” in the Mission-message (4e) and in Humanity Plan Managed from Heaven (8j) That is a great help we hope we deserve to know. Thanks to the All-Wise LORD our GOD! Give HIM the Glory, Forever, Amen.
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The Word divides the times into two parts of 3 ½ years and wisely puts Question 2 in the middle of the seven years. There in the middle points to us the Answer 2 for the Day of the Lord with the Sign of His Parousia. The answer to Question 1 in Luke 21:28, “And when these things begin to happen” in the first 3 ½ years, - arise and lift your heads for your redemption is near” –in the middle of 7 years is the redemption, at His Parousia. It does warn us, “after they begin to occur “ from Rev. 1:1 on to look for the Day in the middle. When John writes he was found by the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, it does not mean the last day of the week we call Sunday, but it means the glorious Day expected in the future. Rev. 1:10, “I came under the Spirit that led me on Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice sounding like a trumpet 11 saying ‘What you see write in a book.” John was brought there to start. And from there the standpoint in the middle of 7 years Jesus commanded in Rev. 1:19:
“Write 1) the things that you saw” – from the beginning of the first 3 ½ years, “and 2) the things that are” -in the middle where John was in the Spirit in the Day of the Lord, “and 3) what things will be of the future [‘mello’ Gk #3195; are seen in the future] to take place after them.” In the same exact order, the disciples’ questions refer to the future in Luke 21:7, by the Question C to the second 3 ½ years period, and in Matt. 24:3, by the Question D to the 7-year end. The sign of the Son of man occurs in the middle, it coincides with the Day of the Lord.
That is “the Sign of Your Parousia” in Matt. 24:3, to occur at the time of the Rapture, when the believers will go up —for time, times, and half a time. And during that time, in the second 3 ½ years, Satan’s wrath will be allowed in Rev. 12:17 and Rev. 13:7, to execute war against the saints, beheading the remnant of believers who missed the Rapture for being the 5 unwise virgins. Then they will realize their fault and confusion from not knowing the prophecies had followed teachers who are preaching untruth.
These teachers are copying from one to another the common teaching of Pre-tribulation rapture whom the epistle in 1 Tim. 1:6 condemns by the verb; to miss aim /the target [‘astocheo’ Gk# 795; to miss the aim; (stochos, aim, target) to err, deviate, be strayed; as also in 2 Tim. 2:18, “concerning the Truth, saying the resurrection as already having taken place and overturn the faith of some who hear them.”
Concerning the faith to miss ‘astocheo’ Gk# 795; to fail, synonym is verb ‘hamartano’ Gk# 264; to miss the mark, to sin; from which comes the definition of sin, noun, ‘hamartia’ Gk # 266; sin, missing the true end and the scope of our lives]. 1 Tim. 6:20 “O Timothy! Guard the mission that was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— 21 by professing it some have missed aim [astocheo’ Gk# 795; to miss the aim; (stochos, aim, target) to err, deviate,] concerning the faith. Grace, be with you. Amen.” How to be found worthy is based on our Commission Ordinance to Timothy and to us: To teach the true principles in the 3 ½ years until the Rapture - to the middle of the 7 years.
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Identifying “these things” in their correct order from “the things after these things”
The difference about “the things” is given between the two times John heard Jesus’ voice like the sound of a trumpet:
1 the first voice which I heard as the sound of a trumpet,
2 speaking with me again as the sound of a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you
3 what things must take place after these things”
Rev. 4:1, “After these things I looked, and behold a door [‘theera’ θύρα Gk #2374; door] open in heaven and 1 the first voice which I heard like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me said, “Come up here, and I will show you, 3 what things must take place after these things” [Gk ‘μετὰ ταῦτα.›]
EXPLANATIONS
1 the first voice like the sound of a trumpet, in Rev. 1:10, “I heard behind me a great voice like a trumpet, 11 saying, ‘What you see write in a book and send to the seven churches.… 19 Therefore write the things you saw, and things which are, and the things which are for the future [‘mello’ Gk #3195; to take place in the future] to occur after these things.” The command to write is given in Rev. 1:11, 1:19, and to each letter to the 7 churches but the things to write were not all shown in Chapters 1 to 3; there is more to be reported in the book. Insofar the message is to the seven churches and description of symbols about the churches, no events are developed yet to report.
2 speaking with me again like the sound of a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you…” John is called to see things of action after the situation described in the 7 churches of things that were for praise or reprimand about forbearance or judgment in the first 3 ½ years
3 what things must [‘dhein’ infn., Gk #1163 or ‘dhei; it must, it is necessary (to)] take place after these things.” After these things written to the churches, there will be events given in prophecy that “these are the things that must occur” still in the first 3 ½ years. Here the verb is not on the future [‘mello’ Gk #3195; to be acted in the future] in the second 3 ½ years; there is prophetic information that must be known [‘dhein’ Gk #1163 or ‘dhei; it must], will be necessary for the people of God because they will be here before the Rapture.
(0i) Prophecy report appointed in Time Answers to A, B, C, D, and E Questions in (0f) Rev. 1:19, “Write therefore γράψον οὖν the things which, you saw ἃ εἶδες - John saw in heaven what the angel has shown him to occur quickly concerning the 7 churches in the 7 years. They match Question A: When will these things be? They will occur in the first Period A in the first 3 ½ years - and the things which are, and καὶ ἃ εἰσὶν καὶ
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Prophecy report appointed in Time
Answers to A, B, C, D, and E Questions in (0f)
Rev. 1:19, “Write therefore γράψον οὖν
the things which, you saw ἃ εἶδες -
- John saw in heaven what the angel has shown him to occur quickly concerning the 7 churches in the 7 years. They match
Question A: When will these things be? They will occur in the first Period A in the first 3 ½ years -
and the things which are, and καὶ ἃ εἰσὶν καὶ
- Things already are in prophecies as Signs. They match
Question B: What will be the Sign of Your Parousia(?) This is the 1st Sign in the middle of 7 years - will stay on to the end,
as the Answer to Question D. the things which in the future -‘mello’ Gk #3195] ἃ μέλλει will come to take place after these” γενέσθαι μετὰ ταῦτα. - to transpire, be facts separate from things previous of Period A.
Question C: When will these things come to take place in the future? [‘mello’ Gk #3195] They will occur in 2nd Period B of the second 3 ½ years -
Question D: What is the Sign which will come to occur in the future [‘mello’ Gk #3195; to become fact in the future] when all these things will be consummated? This is about the same Sign the disciples asked for in Question B in the other two gospels of Matthew and Luke.
Question E: All that pertains to Millennium till Eternity.
(3) Rev. 12:3 and 12:7-9 - In time order, the Dragon, Satan will be thrown down to the earth 75 days before the Rapture.
In 75 days, Casting down of Satan, Dan. 12:12
The Mystery of Iniquity /Lawlessness from Times Old
“The possessing /controlling” [masc., ‘o catekhon’ Gk#2722;
one having emphasized] the firmament; [from ‘cata’ emphasis and verb ‘catekho’ #2722;
to hold fast, control, possess authority, seize, occupy], 2 Thess. 2:7, the Dragon, Satan, also in Rev. 12:3,
Rev. 12:3, And was seen another καὶ ὤφθη ἄλλο
sign in heaven: σημεῖον ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ,
and behold, a dragon καὶ ἰδοὺ δράκων
red as fire, great, having πυρρός μέγας, ἔχων
heads seven κεφαλὰς ἑπτὰ
and horns ten καὶ κέρατα δέκα
and on the heads of his καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτοῦ
were seven diadems. ἑπτὰ διαδήματα.
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“The mystery of iniquity /lawlessness surely is already operating,” influencing, acting, Scripture undoubtedly warns in 2 Thess. 2:7, - “the one possessing, controlling, holding on” is: Satan the spirit occupying the firmament area with his fallen angels from there prompting the people to enforce and cause situations.
The correct meaning is “The possessing” [masc., Gk ‘o catekhon’]– and not *hindering or *restraining of translations in error. Interpretations distort the truth and develop a false disastrous teaching. The spirit, noun masc., the influence of evildoing in Eph. 6:12, “has his thrones and leads over world rulers” and 2 Thess. 2:7a, “For surely the mystery of iniquity /lawlessness is already at work”
- in intense action, is energized [‘energeitai’ ἐνεργεῖται being in energy, involved
– in present tense mid voice of ‘energeo’ Gk #1754; to act, work;
with prep., en + ergeo doing ‘ergon’ noun Gk #2041; work, deed, operation (continual)
– as Eng. ‘energy,’ ‘current’ the flow of electric charge is continually in operation.
2 Thess. 2:7b,
“…1 Only 2 the possessing /occupying 3 the air 4 at this point of time 5 until 6 out of the midst will be taken 7 it will be a fact” – it will occur.
EXPLANATION:
1 Only - with the drawback [‘monon’ μόνον adv. Gk# 5440;
only, howbeit, nevertheless, although, except that] it means: though Satan is now there, the exception would be – that God will enforce the removal of him, He will cast the mystery of iniquity, Satan, down from midheaven.
2 the possessing - occupying [‘o catekhon’ ὁ κατέχων (he, masc.,) partic., Gk# 2722; the one controlling, having authority in the firmament] is Satan. This controlling person/spirit will be removed from maintaining the lead position in mid-heaven - from being “the god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4), “the prince of the air” (Eph. 2:2), etc.
3 the air - air ‘aer’ Gk ἀήρ #109; the area that filled the space between the earth and moon – the Greeks considered to be thick and misty in contrast to the very pure higher substance which they called ‘aither;’ here in Homer, the original word in its old definition: αὔηρ ‘afeer’; a high area where it affects a drawing back from verb αὐερύω: to cause turning back]– So, ‘aer’ 3 the air means the area where gravity ceases its power to drawing things down to the earth; this area is the firmament at midheaven, way up in the space.
4 at this point of time [arti’ ἄρτι Gk# 737 -up to now to the present time] - from then to now in no interrupted span of time
5 until [eos’ ἕως adv., Gk# 2193; as long as, during the protraction of this action, before it is interrupted] when a new action will occur, which is:
6 out of the midst [‘ec mesou’ – ‘ec ἐκ prep., Gk#1537; out of, from (in connection) with mesou’ μέσου gen., of ‘mesos’ adj., Gk#3319; middle, the midst (used of time or place)], here means the space in midheaven in the firmament over the earth Satan is occupying between God and God’s people. Rev. 12:10c, “for he is cast, the accuser of our brethren, the one accusing them before our God, day and night – Midheaven area now is vacant.”
7 it shall become a fact [‘genetai’ γένηται Gk ‘ginomai’ #1096; to begin to be, to grow into, to form, become fact, occur, result; by verb ‘ginomai’ comes as noun ‘genesis’ #1078; generation, origination, new fact of being], that may occur that he, Satan, will be taken out. It is a matter of time, and this event will occur exactly in the way God preordained it in Rev. 12:7-9,12b, by the war of archangel Michael and his angels in heaven. We are approaching the time he will be taken out of the midst - ἐκ μέσου from the space in mid-heaven and in the firmament above the earth he is occupying. See Illustration C.
It shall not be as a voluntary move as if it were to mean God, but as result of the verb ‘genetai’ meaning by an incident that must occur [‘genetai’ γένηται Gk ‘ginomai’ #1096; to begin to be, to grow into, to form, change the state], 7 it shall become - a fact [‘genetai’ γένηται that Satan will be taken out.
This event will occur exactly in the way God preordained it in Rev. 12:7-9,12, by the war in heaven. We are approaching the time he will be taken out of the midst - ἐκ μέσου from mid-heaven in the firmament space above the earth, which he is occupying, as ‘o catekhon.’ “To be taken out of the midst” refers to archangel Michael, Rev. 12:7-9, that will engage war in heaven and force Satan to fall on the earth from his place. There, Satan “has been the accuser in the midst of God on high and the brethren - God’s people below,” Rev. 12:10c. Until then “he will be in the midst;” as he appears symbolically in Rev. 12:3, “the dragon red as fire, great, having heads seven and horns ten and on the heads of his were seven diadems.” - Having diadems on the heads means the empires /kingdoms have been using dictatorial power by him on the earth [to catekhon’ τὸ κατέχον (it, neut.,) noun Gk # 2722; the established controlling system on the earth governing the world]. On Previous verse 2 Thess. 2:6 refers to every empire in world history that ruled in succession as seven empires. See empires See Satan’s last days activity and ‘Fall of Satan’ (17c), (17d), (17k), and empires in succession (14f).
Rev. 6:13, “The fig tree throws the immature figs— it means Satan’s spirits - will fall as when shaken by a strong wind, 14 and heaven parted like a wrapped scroll.” The Dragon will fall, mid-heaven is freed from demonic activity, the area is cleansed, the firmament becomes a peaceful untainted area.
The firmament is cleansed, ready for Christ’s Parousia and Rapture.
There is the place where the male son and the woman both will be received up at the Rapture. The male child signifies leaders which will be unified with followers in the woman.
A “woman” is used as symbolic term for a group of people who are either in belief under God or in deviation under another authority; woman, mother, daughter, or son are collective terms that consist of groups aggregated by time-period, as in the Old Testament era, or New Testament, or millennium, a grouping of God’s righteous people or the unrighteous through generations.
Rev. 12:14. “The woman flies in that deserted region which is her place.” How long will we be up there? “For time, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.” It is three and a half years. - The timing is right – from the middle of the 7 years to the end of this designated period! The Word says so!
(4) Rev. 12:4 a - the falling away Teachers, Isa. 9:14,15
(5) Rev. 12: 4b - 12:5 - the Christian leaders as “the male child,” prominent forerunners, teachers of God’s Truth.
These are called watchmen who will sound the Trumpet on the urgent times to alert the Church’s flock until the Rapture. God’s call is: Would you commit to become one of the watchmen? See Confirming God’s Call by Holding our confession
(4f) in C - - -TO - - - D Christ’s Call (13b) to Trumpets Commission in the First 3 ½ Years.
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In the Middle of the 7 Years
(6) Rev. 12:6, The Woman, now, represents the Jewish nation, the 12 tribes of Israel, and those in Judea who are not believers yet, are advised to run away to the mountains for God’s supernatural protection during the second 3 ½ Years.
(7) Rev. 12:11 a b, Those of the Church (2) Rev. 12:2, they become victorious over the Devil by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of their witnessing - the testimony of Jesus who acquire the Spirit of Prophecy – are leaders and the followers who have chosen the right leader as their watchman are of the 5 wise virgins who are ready for the Rapture in next
(8) Rev. 12:14. (8) Rev. 12:14, Christians of “the Woman” (2) Rev. 12:2, the Church followers of “the watchmen” prominent leaders, forerunners in the Truth (5) Rev. 12: 4b, 12:5, now all together are received in heaven at the Rapture, at one hour, once and for all.
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(9) Rev. 12:17, the left-behind Christians, who will not be received at the (8) Rev. 12:5, Rev. 12:14, event of the Rapture will remain on the earth in Satan’s wrath to face Antichrist’s war against the saints.
(10) Rev. 12:11 c, the left-behind Christians of (2) Rev. 12:2, the Church will be victorious over the Devil, first, having repented by the Blood of the Lamb and having restituted the Word of their witnessing, and using their last Winning weapon 3) they are ready to die for the name of Jesus. Now they are at the point to exercise their faith by Ww 3) “because they do not love their soul unto death.”
To this Group belong those who symbolically will stand in their faith allowing the earth, the flesh, their body to pump up to them a spiritual victory, in Rev. 12:16, “The earth - their nature / the body – opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
”Throughout our Revelation study this is general rule: By the first word “Revelation” means that God will reveal hidden mysteries and not things we would have known from the other books of the Bible. It serves to help us now in the end, in the end-times when we enter the 70th week [of years] “The covenant will be strengthened with many” (Dan. 9:27a), and “the words are secret and sealed till the time of the end” (Dan. 12:9,10). It is in our times to find out what it says about our benefit and blessing to be “blessed.” It does not tell us about Christ’s nativity, or ministry, nor of His ascension when He was promoted into heaven (Acts 1:10,11); and not about the Church era, in the last 2,000 years. These things are revealed in many books that we know already from the other 65 books of the Bible.
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To distinguish “the woman” – the Church, Rev. 12:14
However, now, the hot Question 1) is focused on “the male son and the woman” Rev. 12: 4b, 12:5, “this woman, the one who has given birth to the male child, Rev. 12:13b is the woman, the Church from Rev. 12:2, 12:4 and 12:5, distinguished from the other woman in Rev. 12:6. The woman in Rev. 12:6, is the woman which is fleeing – not flying - to uninhabited areas on the earth, and she does not have yet a child as the Church has – meaning has not presented any prime contestants, forerunners, because the woman in Rev. 12:6 represents the Jewish nation, the 12 tribes of Israel they are not yet believers, they are under protection, sealed, for their special hour to believe, when the LORD prophesied. His prophecy is in Zech. 12:10, “And I will pour upon the House of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” See GOD’S CREATION Recapitulation “Woman” symbolic representations (3a).
A woman is used as symbolic term for an entity of humanity that is subordinate to God or to another spiritual authority; a collective term that consists of people of a belief, or deviation, in a time-period, as in the era of the Old Testament, or the New Testament, or the millennium, or a grouping people as God’s righteous —the leaders or the followers— also as the unrighteous across generations.
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Parousia and Rapture Timing,
Rev. 12:14 Revelation of times (‘kairoi’ Gk #2540; circumstances, changing conditions; also used as symbolic term for years’ counting, in “time, times, and half a time”), and duration (‘chronoi’ pl. Gk #5550; quantitatively measured duration of years).
The distinguished woman, Rev. 12:13b who gives birth - reaches the Rapture with the male child, in Rev. 12:14, where it says, “And were given to the woman the two wings of the Eagle the Great that she might be flying – not fleeing - to the uninhabited (‘eremos’ Gk #2048; desolate, deserted, lonely - cleansed from evil occupation) heavenly area, in her place - the woman Church’s as the Bride’s deserved place, where she is nourished there - so long: a time, and times, and half of a time away from the face of the snake - the serpent.”
Psalm 90:10, “The days of our lives are actually 70 years, and if we are in strength 80 [as science provides in our days]. But the best part of it is also toil and pain, and we fly.” To the term of 80 years in a short time they will be complete from 1948 to the year 2028 when the Rapture must be at hand, as Psalm 90:10, “and we fly.” Rev. 12:14, says, “And the woman was given the two wings of the Great Eagle to fly—not just to flee—to fly towards the uninhabited [the ‘deserted area’ ‘eremos’ Gk # 2048; desolate, deserted, lonely; it is the heavenly place freed and cleansed from Satan’s possession, Rev. 12:7-9] in her rightful place as the woman Church, the bride of Christ, (Eph. 5:23, 25,27,29,32], where she is fed there for time, times, and half a time away from the face of the serpent” 3.5 years. So now we are entering the first 3.5 years of the 7-year period – we see the abnormal, immoral, falling away, a condition leading to Judgment.
It means, the Church will escape into heaven for 3 ½ years, from the middle of Dan. 70th week until her return to the earth when the serpent will be taken and thrown into the underground shaft at the end of the 7 years. Rev. 20:1, “And I saw an angel descending, coming down out of heaven having the key to the abyss and chain a great on the hand of him. 2 And he laid hold of the dragon the snake of the beginning serpent who is the Devil the Satan [ὁ Σατανᾶς] the one deceiving the inhabited earth] and bound him a thousand years. 3 And cast him into the abyss - the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not be deceiving any longer the nations, until the thousand years would be completed, after these having passed it must be for him to be released for a little time.”
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The Ever-Great Victory: We Conquer Death!
The ‘Omega’ Generation in End-times.
In this generation we can be the people who for the first time ever will live through this triumphant victory over death. The victory none has experienced before, neither Jesus Who tasted death and was placed in the tomb; from the tomb He was risen to life in a glorified eternal kind of body. This promise will be fulfilled on us at the Rapture; directly as we are from Gk ‘bios’ / living the physical life we will be transformed to receive the same new glorified eternal body Jesus has with no passing through death. This feat is not as sharing the success as consequence of an event that we usually celebrate the victory [‘nike’ Gk #3529; victory (abstract, passing-by win or lose)]; now this is a felt, we experience the achievement [‘to nicos’ neut., Gk# 3534; surpassing victory, tangible, solid, unshakable – a victory won both spiritually and physically without any wrestle]. It is unpreceded, confirmed straight from being alive to receive the eternal glorified body. This has never happened before, 1 Cor. 15:53–58, it is not a resurrection from having tasted death. See more About the Rapture - Victory at Christ’s Parousia (50a).
Now after 2000 years have passed, we arrive with Christ at Eph. 4:10, “He after descending also the One ascending far above all heavens must fulfill all things [the prophecy, which the Church was entailed to achieve], 11 And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfect training of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 until we all can arrive in the unity of faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God at perfect manhood, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children – in infancy, wandering about by every wind of teaching, by the sleight of men, in cunning cleverness unto the craftiness of the deception; 15 But speaking the truth in love we may grow in all respects into Him, Who is the Head, Christ, 16 from Whom all the body fitly joined together, and being compacted through every touch of the effectual working supplying in measure that each member participates in the increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.” (Eph. 4:10-16)
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Hermeneutics
Meanwhile, in the interpretation analysis we admit the recognition of certain rules universally known, which we recommend the reader to also follow these Common Hermeneutics. Hermeneutics (/hɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/) is interpretation theory especially the interpretation method of biblical texts. Reasoning performance, proof, is more than interpretive principles or methods used when direct comprehension fails and includes the art of understanding and communication. Here are some useful content links that we should all consider about the interface:
1. Let Scripture interpret Scripture.
2. The meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or paragraph must be derived from the scriptural context.
3. Interpret the Scriptures literally unless you have a good reason to believe that the statements are figurative.
4. Do not interpret Scripture considering personal experience but interpret by experience in the light of Scripture.
5. When interpreting the Scriptures, search the meaning of keywords in their original languages.
6. Interpret the Scriptures bearing in mind that many commands, directives, and duties were made to an individual and not to all people
7. Interpret the Scriptures bearing in mind that Biblical examples are authoritative only when supported by a command.