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The
Prophecies of Daniel and Revelation
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The Timeline of
Daniel and Revelation
The story begins in 605 BC
with Daniel a captive in Babylon.
Daniel’s first dream of the great
image is the figure of a man. ‘The
great image’ of the man
is the foundation of the story. It
is a representation of
all the kingdoms of the world until the
Second Coming of Jesus. |
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The Great Image of
Daniel 2:31-35
God uses metals to show the
value of each kingdom starting with gold,
which is very precious;
and ending with iron mixed with clay that
is worthless. As
time passes the kingdoms of the earth
degenerate morally and financially from
precious as gold to worthless as iron
mixed with clay. The kingdom of iron and
clay represents the last generation of
the world just before Jesus comes. What
is the strength or value of a building or
machine of iron mixed with clay? |
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"The Great
Image of Daniel 2:31-35 is a
'part' of the world that represents 'the
whole world.' The way God treated the
kings and the inhabitants of the
Mediterranean area represents how God
loves and disciplines all His
children in the entire world."
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Daniel 2:34 'While
you were watching, a rock was cut out,
but not by human hands. It was
moving at the speed of light from the
heavens.'
This phrase means the end of the
world, but the end will not occur by the
hands of people. Jesus, the Rock, will
bring this world to an end. |
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'The Rock [Christ]
struck the statue on its feet of iron and
clay.'
The Rock represents Jesus,
the King of Kings and Lord of Lords
coming on His white horse, in Revelation
19:11, to save the saints and destroy all
earthy kingdoms that are worthless as
iron mixed with clay. Then Jesus sets up
His everlasting kingdom. |
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Daniel 2:34
'...and smashed them.'
The Rock represents Jesus,
the King of Kings and Lord of Lords
coming on His white horse, in Revelation
19:11, to save the saints and destroy all
earthy kingdoms that are worthless as
iron mixed with clay. Then Jesus sets up
His everlasting kingdom. |
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'Daniel 2:45
This is the meaning of the vision of the
rock cut out of a mountain, but not by
human hands - a rock that broke the iron,
the bronze, the clay, the silver and the
gold to pieces. "The great God has
shown the king what will take place in
the future. The dream is true and the
interpretation is trustworthy." |
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Daniel 2:35 '...[The
Rock - Christ] became a huge mountain and
filled the whole earth.'
[Christ’s kingdom
is global] The ‘Rock’ breaks
all the different metals at the same
time. This means that all the different
kingdoms will be present at the end by
their cultures, traditions, religions and
politics. The beast of Revelation 13:1-2
is the global crisis government of the
future Great Tribulation, which is a
composite beast of the past |
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"Four Winds
are a Global Event."
Daniel 7:2 Daniel said:
“In my vision at night I looked, and
there before me were the four winds of
heaven [global] churning up the great
sea. Four great beasts [kingdoms], each
different from the others, came up out of
the sea [many people]. |
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Babylon 605 B.C.
“The first was
like a lion [Babylon 605 BC], and it had
wings of an eagle [fast]. I watched until
its wings were torn off and it was lifted
from the ground so that it stood on two
feet like a man, and the heart of a man
[like King Saul] was given to it.” |
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Medo-Persia 538
B.C.
“And there before me was a second
beast, which looked like a bear
[Medo-Persia 538 BC]. It was raised up on
one of its sides, and it had three ribs
in its mouth between its teeth. It was
told, ‘Get up and eat you fill of
flesh!’ |
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Greece 331 B.C.
“After that, I looked, and there
before me was another beast, one that
looked like a leopard [Greece 331 BC].
And on its back it had four wings like
those of a bird. This beast had four
heads [four generals], and it was given
authority to rule.” |
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Pagan Rome 168 BC
“”After that, in
my vision at night I looked, and there
before me was a fourth beast [Pagan Rome
168 BC] –terrifying and frightening
and very powerful. It had large iron
teeth [like the legs of the image]; it
crushed and devoured its victims and
trampled underfoot whatever was left. It
was different from all the other former
beasts, and it had ten horns [division of
Rome 476 AD]. |
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Papal Rome 538 AD
to 1798 AD
“While I
was thinking about the horns, there
before me was another horn, a little one
[papal Rome 533 AD], which came up among
them; and three of the first horns were
uprooted [538 AD] before it [three
kingdoms]. The horn had eyes like the
eyes of a man and a mouth that spoke
boastfully [ruled for 1,260 years 1798
AD].” |
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Daniel 7:9-10
"As I looked, "thrones were set
in place [in 1798AD], and the Ancient of
Days took his seat. His clothing was a
white as snow; the color of his head was
white like wool. His throne was flaming
with fire, and its wheels were all
ablaze. A river of fire was flowing,
coming out from before him. Thousands
upon thousands attended him; ten thousand
times ten thousand stood before him. The
court was seated, and the book were
opened." |
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A Restraining
Order Against the Little Horn 1798
The scene is dated by the
Ancient of Days passing a restraining
order to stop the persecution of the
papacy against the saints that lasted
1,260 years [Daniel 7:25]. Look at Daniel
7:21-22 " As I watched, this horn
was raging war against the saints and
defeating them, until the Ancient of Days
came and pronounced judgment in favor of
the saints of the Most High, and the time
came when they possessed the
kingdom" |
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Judgment of the
World 1844 AD
The date that God chose to
judge each person and cleanse the
sanctuary of each person’s sins was
set by God before the world began in 1844
AD or two thousand there hundred years
from the date of Medo-Persian King,
Artaxerxes, signed the decree to release
Israel to go home and finish rebuilding
Jerusalem. The judgment of the world is
done by the process of cleansing the
sanctuary. As each person is forgiven
throughout their lives – all of
their sins are transferred
to the altars in the heavenly sanctuary |
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Jesus starting the
judgment of mankind with Abel being the
first to be judged
Beginning in 1844 Jesus reviewed the life
of Abel, the first person to die, and
Abel’s sins were cleansed from the
sanctuary because he had faith in the
Saviour; thus Abel was sealed with
eternal life. Then Jesus opened the books
of the next person’s life and so
forth down through the centuries of time
sealing some with eternal life and
condemning others with eternal death. |
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Horn Boasts Again
in the Future Great Tribulation
Satan, the
little horn of Daniel 8:11,
appears physically, masquerading as
Jesus. Jesus allows Satan, masquerading
as God on earth, to cast Truth to the
ground for the purpose of creating the
greatest possible contrast between truth
and lies. Those that worship Satan are
lost and those who worship God are saved;
therefore the cleansing of the sanctuary
comes to an end by the choices each
person makes. |
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Jesus Burns the
Beast at His Secong Coming
The story of apocalyptic
prophecy begins with the Kingdom of
Babylon in 605 BC, and ends with the
burning of the beast in the first lake of
fire, that is created by Jesus with the
seventh plague of sulfur bombs, just
prior to His Second Coming [Revelation
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Abel - Genesis 4
All the examples of Abel,
Noah, Abraham sacrificing lambs, and the
story of Abraham sacrificing his son
Isaac, was to teach Israel that God was
going to send His Son to give His life
for the sins of the world – to pay
the debt of sin, which is death. By the
time of Jesus, Israel had completely lost
the meaning of the evening and morning
sacrifice that foreshadowed the
Messiah’s death. |
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Abraham as God the
Father & Isaac as Jesus the Son of
God
All the examples of Abel,
Noah, Abraham sacrificing lambs, and the
story of Abraham sacrificing his son
Isaac, was to teach Israel that God was
going to send His Son to give His life
for the sins of the world – to pay
the debt of sin, which is death. By the
time of Jesus, Israel had completely lost
the meaning of the evening and morning
sacrifice that foreshadowed the
Messiah’s death. |
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God's Original
Plan
Jesus was born to reveal the
love of the Father and to die to redeem
the world from sin. Jesus would have
voluntarily walked into the temple on
Passover, giving His life freely for the
sins of the world. The High Priest would
have been in agony – his eyes would
have been filled with tears streaming
down his face as he pierced the throat of
Jesus. Then on the third day Jesus would
have been raised from the dead, and
Israel would have taken the gospel to the
entire world. |
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Israel's Leaders
Murdered the Son of God
It was not God’s
plan for Israel’s leaders to murder
His Son. But the Jewish
leaders hated the truth. They had become
so self-righteous in their own eyes they
had no need of a Saviour; thus they
rejected the altogether lovely character
of Jesus. They were not interested in
truth or being redeemed from sin. They
wanted money, power, prosperity, fancy
houses, and national supremacy –
they wanted to be the ones ruling, and
not to be ruled. Literal Israel missed
the birth of Jesus and His anointing
because they were teaching the traditions
of men just like the churches today.
Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD because
Israel had rejected and murdered the
Saviour of the world, their Creator. |
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The Birth of Jesus
& The Dragon - 4 BC Birth of Jesus
& The Devil's Attempt to Kill Baby
Jesus
This prophecy of Revelation
12:1-6 begins in 4 BC. A picture is worth
a thousand words. Even though Mary was
chosen by God to bring Jesus into the
world, the glorious, cosmic picture of
the woman clothed with the glory of God
represents much more than the mother of
Jesus – the woman represents not
only God’s church on earth, but the
church of the entire universe
anticipating Christ’s birth. The
life of Jesus has saved millions of
unfallen worlds from the fear and doubt
created by the intruder of sin.
Lucifer’s hideous behavior has
answered their questions concerning
Lucifer’s accusations against God. |
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30 AD Christ's
Ascension to God's Throne
After the ministry of Jesus,
He ascended back to heaven in AD 30.
Jesus had defeated the devil by His life
and death on the cross as the second
Adam. Jesus redeemed Adam’s failure
by living a perfect life while being
tempted as a man. Jesus paid the price
necessary to redeem the human race from
eternal death by His death on the cross. |
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1260 Years of
Papal Persecution 538-1798 AD
The Roman Catholic Church
ruled with cruel and absolute power. If
you dared to disagree with Papal Rome you
did it at the risk of being tortured and
then burned at the stake. This prophecy
shows what the world was like when
religious leaders controlled worship of
God with the use of civil power. God
allowed Papal persecution to continue for
1,260 years to keep the church pure
[Daniel 7:25].
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Napoleon Put the
Pope in Prison 1798 AD - Persecution
Ended
The persecution ended when
Jesus sent Napoleon to put the pope in
prison in 1798 as predicted by Daniel
7:25 which inflicted a deadly wound upon
the Roman Catholic Church. |
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30 AD War in
Heaven
Revelation 12: 7-8
"And there was war in heaven:
Michael [Jesus] and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon
[Lucifer the devil] fought and his
angels, and prevailed not; neither was
their place found any more in
heaven.” On
resurrection morning in 30 AD Jesus
ascended back to heaven and war broke out
between Michael [Jesus] and the dragon
[Lucifer]. Lucifer had been previously
cast out of heaven over four thousand
years before this time, but had regained
access to heaven by causing Adam to fall
and taking his place in the heavenly
counsel [Job 1]. |
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30 AD Evil Angels
Cast into the Abyss
After Jesus was resurrected
in 30 AD He returned to heaven and fought
Lucifer, the angel of hate that Jesus had
created for a service of love. Then Jesus
[Michael] threw Satan and his evil angels
out of heaven the second time, but this
time they were cast into the prison of
the Abyss to wait on death row for their
execution. They were all guilty of high
treason for attempting to overthrow the
government of God and instigating the
murder of the Son of God. |
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The Jailhouse of
the Abyss
The prison of the Abyss
limits Satan’s activities compared
to his previous powers displayed in Job
1, the New Testament, and other books,
but he is still allowed to tempt men into
sinning. After 30 AD Satan corrupted the
apostolic church into the Roman Catholic
Church. After the Catholic Church
received total sovereignty from Emperor
Justinian over all the matters in 533 AD
it persecuted the Protestants that
worshipped God according to the Holy
Bible. The Roman Catholic Church did not
allow anyone to disagree with its
teachings on penalty of being burned at
the stake. The persecution continued for
1,260 years ending just as Daniel 7:25
predicted when Jesus sent Napoleon to put
the pope in prison in 1798 AD. |
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33 AD Stephen
Stoned - Early Christian Persecution
The four hundred and ninety
years of Daniel 9:24 was Israel’s
last opportunity to become a spiritual
nation, but they failed because the
leaders of Israel loved the worship of
men more than they loved God. The leaders
rejected the Messiah and murdered him,
but God was merciful and He gave Israel
the second half of the seventieth week to
repent from the murder of their Creator
by the testimony of His resurrection.
They fought God Himself by persecuting
the followers of Jesus. The stoning of
Stephen in 33 AD was the end of the
seventieth week and the end
of literal Israel’s sacred
opportunity. |
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538-1798 AD Papal
Persecution
By 538 AD Satan had totally
corrupted the early apostolic church into
what became the Roman Catholic Church.
Catholicism taught salvation by works and
sold indulgences for money, which
automatically forgave sins of adultery,
lies, etc., similar to the Pha r isees in
the time of Jesus [Mark 7]. The
Protestants were persecuted for teaching
that salvation comes by faith in Jesus
alone. This greatly undermined the
authority of the Roman Church and reduced
their revenue. The persecution against
Protestants ended in 1798 AD when
Napoleon put the pope in prison where he
died. Then Satan went off in a rage to
plan his next war in our near future
against all those that keep the
Commandments of God and hold the
testimony of Jesus in their heart. |
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1500's Saints Fled
to the New World
Satan from his unseen spirit
world of the dragon turned the religious
leaders of the papacy into a vicious
killing machine, hiding their murderous
character under the clock of religious
piety. After 1492 AD the devil\rquote s
plans began to end and he went into a
rage in 1798 when the pope was put into
prison by Napoleon ending persecution.
Satan was doing so well killing
Protestants that refused to stay in
seclusion, but after America was found,
the Papacy that ruled Europe for 1,260
years ended in 1798; so the dragon
[Lucifer] goes back to his War Room to
plan his next War, which will occur in
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Then [in 1798 AD]
the dragon [Lucifer] was
enraged at the woman [the saints]
and went off to make war [to plan
future war] against the rest of
her offspring - those who obey God's
commandments and hold to the testimony of
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Before Creation
& Sin
The Book of Life was written
and sealed with seven seals by God the
Father, before creation began more than
six thousand years ago. It is still
sealed shut – it has never been
opened since it was written before the
first being was created. The
Book of Life is not used in the judgment
of the world. Some believe
that the Book of Life is opened from time
to time and names are added and others
are blotted out as they are condemned, but
this is not true. The
judgment of each person is determined by
each individual’s choices or
behavior. The Book of Life proves that
even though God’s foreknowledge is
perfect, each person is judged by the
choices he/she makes. The Book of Life
will prove to everyone in the universe
that even though God is all powerful He
did not use His power to determine who
would be saved or who would be lost. The
Book of Life proves the freedom of
choice. |
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Names of all the
Living
The Book of Life is a record
of God’s perfect foreknowledge of
every living being written before
creation began. |
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God Blotted Out
the Lost
God saw it all before He
began creation. He did
everything He could do to save each and
every person, but He foresaw that no
matter what He did some would choose
death instead of life. God blotted
out the names of all the
lost before creation began and then
sealed the book with seven seals.
Everyone is judged by the
books the angels recorded
before the end of the sixth millennium.
When the Book of Life is
opened at the end of the seventh
millennium the entire universe will see
that God foresaw it all. Everyone will
see God loved the lost just as much as
those that choose life instead of death. |
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God Sealed the
Book with Seven Seals
The Book of Life
sealed with seven seals will demonstrate
the revelation of all that Jesus Christ
really is. The first
seal is Jesus
announcing Himself as Saviour
of the world . The second
seal is God's
Word and the Bible given to
the entire world through bible societies.
The third seal
is the judgment of the world
which is the cleansing of the sanctuary
[Daniel 8:14]. The fourth
seal reveals the authority
of Jesus. Jesus sends
judgments upon the earth by s ounding the
first four trumpets that destroy
one-third of the earth and kill
twenty-five percent of the global
population. The fifth
seal is the faith
of Jesus is revealed by the
saints giving their lives for the word of
God and their faith in Jesus. The saints
would rather die than break any of God' s
commandments. The sixth
seal is the climax of
the seven bowls of wrath that
is God's vengeance against
the wicked for persecuting and killing
the saints and prophets. When the seventh
seal is removed from
the Book of Life, the book is opened for
the first time since before creation. The
entire universe will see that God foresaw
it all and they will see the Righteousness
and Justice of God. |
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Then Jesus Began
Creation
Many people see Jesus a son
of God like sons on earth, but this is
not so. Before Creation began the Second
member of the Godhead humbled Himself to
the position of the angel named Michael.
Michael [fully God] worshipped before God
the Father to show the proper way to
worship God their Creator. The Second
Member of the Godhead is called Michael,
Jesus, the Prince of the host, the Great
Prince, the Christ, the Son of God,
Immanuel, the Prince of Peace, the King
of Kings, the Rock, the Saviour, the Lamb
of God, and the list goers on. Michael is
the name that Jesus uses in heaven.
Michael became the human called Jesus
while He was on earth, but after He
ascended back to heaven Jesus is called
Michael again. Jesus is the One creating
everything that exists. |
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The Cornonation of
Jesus in 1798 AD
Daniel 7:13-14 “In
my vision at night I looked, and there
before me was one like a son of man,
coming with the clouds of heaven. He
approached the Ancient of Days and was
led into his presence. He was given
authority, glory and sovereign power; all
peoples, nations and men of every
language worshiped him. His dominion is
an everlasting dominion that will not
pass away, and his kingdom is one that
will never be destroyed.” Jesus
is crowned king in 1798. The coronation
of Jesus is so understated and humble
that it goes unnoticed by most. Jesus had
been in submission to the Father
for at least five thousand
eight hundred years before He is crowned
King in this scene. Those present in the
throne scene are: God the Father, the
twenty-four elders redeemed from the
earth, the four living creatures that
represent the Holy Spirit, Jesus the Lamb
of God, and a myriad of angels. The Jesus
is found worthy to receive the book of
seven seals [Book of Life] and to set the
stage for beginning the judgment of the
world. Each seal Jesus removes from the
Book of Life reveals the steps Jesus
takes to save as many of His children as
possible to the end of the world. |
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Jesus Found Worthy
The Second member of the
Godhead agreed to give His life for this
world before Creation began. He first
humbled Himself as Michael the arch angel
worshiping the Father with Lucifer the
other covering Cherubim. After Lucifer
sinned by coveting the position belonging
only to God, he was cast out of heaven.
He became the ruler of the world by
causing our first parents to sin. Then
Michael the arch angel humbled Himself
again by becoming ‘a human,’
the Son of God and a son of humanity. The
Almighty God left the universe of
indescribable glory to become our
brother. After His death and resurrection
Jesus continued interceding for all His
brothers and sisters pleading His shed
blood for the forgiveness of sin. In 1798
the Ancient of Days crowned His Son, the
son of humanity, the King of Kings and
Lord of Lords and He was found worthy to
finish the plan of salvation by the
process opening the seals on the
Lamb’s Book of Life one by one. |
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There stood A Lamb
as if it had been slain. And I beheld,
and lo, in the midst of the throne and of
the four beasts, and in the midst of the
elders, stood a lamb as it had been
slain, ... And he came and took the book
out of the right hand of him that sat
up[on the throne
Revelation
5:9 “And they sang a new song:
“You are worthy to take the scroll
and open its seals, because you were
slain, and with your blood you purchased
men for God from every tribe and language
and people and nation.” The
following is an outline of
the seals; it shows the
final steps Jesus takes to finish the
plan of salvation, saving the greatest
number of people possible.
1.
1st
Seal – Jesus revealed
Himself as the Saviour of the world by
ending Papal persecution in 1798 AD in
Europe that had gone on for 1,260years.
2.
2nd
Seal – Jesus made the
Word of God available to the entire world
in 1814 AD.
3.
3rd
Seal – Jesus began the
judgment of the dead starting with Abel
in 1844.
4.
4th
Seal – In the near
future Jesus will create a global crisis
for the purpose of judging all seven
billion living people in the world.
5.
Near End of 4th
Seal [5th
trumpet] –Satan,
impersonates Jesus, counterfeiting the
second coming of Jesus and tortures those
who refuse to worship him into
submission.
6.
5th
Seal – Jesus, as a last
ditch effort, sends His very best saints
to give testimony to the truth that
causes their death.
7.
6th
Seal – Jesus punishes
the wicked for killing the saints and the
prophets. A one thousand year
gap of time is given for the
saints to determine the punishment of the
wicked and for billions of people to ask
Jesus about their lost loved ones.
7th
Seal – At the end of
the seventh millennium Jesus returns to
earth and God raises all the wicked dead
since the beginning of time; then God
silences the entire universe. God
explains everything He did to save each
lost person. Then God burns
the devil, his demons, the wicked, and
the earth to ashes.
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First Seal Opened
in 1798 AD
Revelation 6:1 I watched
as the Lamb opened the first of the seven
seals. Then I heard one of the four
living creatures say in a voice like
thunder, “Come!”
“A white horse – The
white horse is an analogy of the battle
fought and won by Jesus our Saviour. He
sent Napoleon in 1798 to bring papal
persecution to an end. Papal
persecution had gone on for over twelve
hundred years by the terrible monster
{Rome} with iron teeth and the little
horn of Daniel 7:8 {papacy}. Papal
persecution began relent because God
opened the mouth of the earth in
Revelation 12:16 by the discovery of
America. The Protestants fled to the land
of religious freedom. The end of papal
persecution is ‘a part’
representing ‘the whole.’ Just
as God revealed His sovereignty in the
affairs of men by ending the 1,260 years
of papal persecution exactly as He
predicted in Daniel 7:25; so Jesus will
end the war against the saints on the
white horse of Revelation 19:11.
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Second Seal Opened
in 1814
‘A large sword
– the large sword is
the Word of God. In 1814
Jesus gave the printed Bible to the world
by the American Bible Society, the
British Bible Society, and many others. Matthew
10:34-36 “Do not suppose that I have
come to bring peace to the earth. I did
not come to bring peace, but
a sword. For I have
come to turn ‘a man against his
father, a daughter against her mother, a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law
– a man’s enemies will be the
members of his own household.” |
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Third Seal in 1844
‘Holding a pair of
scales in his hand’ – King
of Babylon Belshazzar was weighed in the
balances and found wanting: Daniel
5:27 ‘You have been weighed on the
scales and found wanting.’ The
pair of balances is the judgment of the
world beginning in 1844. The date of 1844
for the beginning the judgment of the
world is understood by the cleansing of
the sanctuary beginning two thousand
three hundred years (Daniel 8:14) after
the Medo-Persian King Artaxerxes signed
the decree in 457 BC (Daniel 9:24) to
release Israel in the first month (Nisan)
of the twenty-first jubilee cycle that
was on a Sunday year as recorded in Ezra
7 to finish rebuilding the temple and the
walls of Jerusalem to make preparation to
greet the Messiah. If Israel would have
accepted the Messiah the High Priest
would have killed Jesus on the altar of
burnt offering on Passover. Israel would
have participated in finishing
evangelizing the world. The process of
the judgment of the world is understood
by the priest cleansing the sanctuary on
the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16. Two
altars were cleansed of Israel’s
sin: the golden altar and the altar of
burnt offering. |
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Jesus our
Intercessor
In order to understand
prophecy it is necessary to understand
how God deals with sin. The sanctuary is
God’s court room. God’s
sanctuary or court room has an order of
service, and each piece of furniture in
the sanctuary tells us what Jesus is
doing, depending on the time He is doing
it. The two altars in the sanctuary
reveal two different levels of atonement.
The altar of burnt offering
is for individual forgiveness,
and the golden altar is for
corporate forgiveness, but
at different times the altars have
different meaning depending on the time,
the date, and the occasion. The
evening and morning intercession of the
priest on earth was a living puppet show
revealing that Jesus our intercessor has
been pleading His blood for this world
ever since Adam and Eve sinned in the
Garden of Eden. The story of prophecy
tells us what happens when
Jesus ends the continuous
intercession at the golden
altar (the evening and
morning intercession). |
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A Group Asking
Forgiveness Corporately
After the priest has killed
and burned the morning lamb and
interceded for Israel at the golden
altar, a group of people would come to
the sanctuary to worship God and ask to
forgive their sins. They would bring a
young bull to kill showing they really
wanted to be forgiven. A bull was very
valuable and killing it was a financial
loss; thus showing their resolve to be
forgiven. Each person would place his
hand on the bull’s head and then one
person would kill the bull. The priest
would catch some blood in a vessel. The
bull would be burned on the altar; then
the priest would take some of the blood
into the Tent of the Meeting {the Holy
Place} and put some of the blood on the
horns of the golden
altar, and the group of
people were forgiven {corporate
forgiveness}. The Tent of
meeting is a tent where several pieces of
furniture are kept and it has two
compartments divided by a curtain. The
first compartment is called the Holy
Place and the second is the Most Holy
Place. The first room of the Tent of
meeting contains the candlesticks, the
table of showbread, and the golden altar
of incense. A curtain separates the Holy
Place from the Most Holy Place where the
Ark of the Covenant was kept. The
Ark was a beautiful piece of furniture
that contained the original Ten
Commandments that God gave Moses on Mount
Sinai in 1437 BC after Israel left Egypt.
The priest put the blood on the golden
altar that stood before the curtain. |
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When the priest
put the blood on the horns of the golden
altar, offering a prayer of intercession,
the sins of those people were forgiven
and transferred to the golden altar in
the sanctuary; thus the sanctuary was
contaminated with the sins of Israel day
after day
Once a year on the Day of Atonement
the sanctuary was cleansed of all the
sins for the whole year. When we confess
of our sins God forgives us because Jesus
gave His life as our substitute. The
sanctuary reveals that God so loves the
world that He is willing to forgive the
world corporately, with
the condition that they acknowledge their
sins by confession, repentance, and
making restitution. The sanctuary also
reveals that even though there are
billions of people in this world He hears
the prayers of a single person {the
individual}. |
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Individual
Forgiveness
When an individual went to
the sanctuary to ask for forgiveness, he
was required to bring a lamb that
represented the future death of Jesus.
The person laid his hand on the head of
the lamb and then cut the lamb’s
throat, killing the lamb as he confessed
his sins, and his sins were forgiven;
thus the sins were transferred to the
lamb, representing Jesus dying in his
place. Then the priest would take some of
the blood and put it on the horns of the altar
of burnt offering thereby transferring
the individual’s sins to the altar
of burnt offering. It is
very important to distinguish the
difference between how God deals with
sins committed by a group {corporate
atonement) and sins committed by a single
person {individual atonement}. |
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