Blessed is he
that readeth, and they that hear the
words of this prophecy, and keep
those things which are written therein:
for the time is at hand. Revelation 1:3
Satan, Unmasked as the False
Prophet, with a Pack of Lies
deceives the Kings into
Joining Him to Fight God by
Changing Blood Back into
Water
Revelation
16:12 The sixth angel poured
out his bowl on the great
river Euphrates, and its
water dried up to prepare the
way for the kings of the
East.
Jesus had
previously unmasked
Satan by
revealing him as a torturer,
liar, and murderer during the
fifth and sixth trumpets, but
the wicked loves lies and
hate the truth; so they were
willfully deceived by Satan.
But now the wicked are forced
to see through Satan’s
mask because of their
suffering. The wicked
complied with every demand of
Satan, their god, including
being tattooed with
‘666’ and murdering
millions of saints. Now the
wicked see their god cannot
stop their terrible
suffering; therefore they
withdraw their support from
Satan into depression –
they have been willfully
deceived. The
wicked curse God for there is
no love in their hearts
– they reflect
Satan’s image.
Satan has
lost the support of the
people so he turns to the ten
kings of the Earth and their
armies that he made rich.
Satan catches the ten kings
with a pack of lies. Like
frogs catch their prey. The
kings agree to fight God
– their only hope of
surviving is to kill the God
that is causing all their
suffering. The ten
kings join Satan, knowing
that they are serving the
devil, to make war against
Almighty God. The kings see
Satan as a god because of the
signs and miracles he
performs in their presence.
They believe this is a war of
the gods – their god
fighting God.
In
summary, the wicked see their
god, Satan, is unable to stop
their suffering, so then by
the 1,315th
day Satan has lost the
worship and support of his
kingdom that is over two
billion people. Satan knows
the Kings of the East {Jesus
and His Father} are coming to
destroy him. Therefore Satan
and his demons go out to
gather the kings of the Earth
that he made rich during the
Great Tribulation. Satan
convinces the kings with a
pack of lies and miracles,
such as calling fire down
from heaven and turning blood
into water, to join him. They
realize their only hope of
survival is to fight God. The
kings know they are serving
the devil, but their armies
declare war against God. This
war is Armageddon.
The
warning of the parenthetical
remark of Revelation 16:15
seems to be out of place
because the warning Jesus
gives is sixty-five days
after the judgment of the
world is finished; thus
everyone’s eternal
destiny was set in stone by
the end of the 1,260th
day.
Revelation
16:15 “Behold, I come
like a thief! Blessed is he
who stays awake and keeps his
clothes with him, so that he
may not go naked and be
shamefully exposed.”
Jesus is
saying to those of us who
study prophecy. ‘Look at
the suffering of these
foolish people! They loved
the lies and now they have
lost eternal life forever; so
don’t make the mistake
of these foolish
people.’ Obviously the
warning has no meaning for
those that have not
read the
warning, and it does not
apply to the wicked after the
1,260th
days that are lost.
Mark
8:36-37 For what shall it
profit a man, if he shall
gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul? Or what
shall a man give in exchange
for his soul?
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The Global Picture
Revelation
16:12 The sixth angel poured
out his bowl on the great
river Euphrates, and its
water dried up to prepare the
way for the kings of the
East.
Jesus had
previously unmasked
Satan by
revealing him as a torturer,
liar, and murderer during the
fifth and sixth trumpets, but
the wicked loves lies and
hate the truth; so they were
willfully deceived by Satan.
But now the wicked are forced
to see through Satan’s
mask because of their
suffering. The wicked
complied with every demand of
Satan, their god, including
being tattooed with
‘666’ and murdering
millions of saints. Now the
wicked see their god cannot
stop their terrible
suffering; therefore they
withdraw their support from
Satan into depression –
they have been willfully
deceived. The
wicked curse God for there is
no love in their hearts
– they reflect
Satan’s image.
Satan has
lost the support of the
people so he turns to the ten
kings of the Earth and their
armies that he made rich.
Satan catches the ten kings
with a pack of lies. Like
frogs catch their prey. The
kings agree to fight God
– their only hope of
surviving is to kill the God
that is causing all their
suffering. The ten
kings join Satan, knowing
that they are serving the
devil, to make war against
Almighty God. The kings see
Satan as a god because of the
signs and miracles he
performs in their presence.
They believe this is a war of
the gods – their god
fighting God.
In
summary, the wicked see their
god, Satan, is unable to stop
their suffering, so then by
the 1,315th
day Satan has lost the
worship and support of his
kingdom that is over two
billion people. Satan knows
the Kings of the East {Jesus
and His Father} are coming to
destroy him. Therefore Satan
and his demons go out to
gather the kings of the Earth
that he made rich during the
Great Tribulation. Satan
convinces the kings with a
pack of lies and miracles,
such as calling fire down
from heaven and turning blood
into water, to join him. They
realize their only hope of
survival is to fight God. The
kings know they are serving
the devil, but their armies
declare war against God. This
war is Armageddon.
The
warning of the parenthetical
remark of Revelation 16:15
seems to be out of place
because the warning Jesus
gives is sixty-five days
after the judgment of the
world is finished; thus
everyone’s eternal
destiny was set in stone by
the end of the 1,260th
day.
Revelation
16:15 “Behold, I come
like a thief! Blessed is he
who stays awake and keeps his
clothes with him, so that he
may not go naked and be
shamefully exposed.”
Jesus is
saying to those of us who
study prophecy. ‘Look at
the suffering of these
foolish people! They loved
the lies and now they have
lost eternal life forever; so
don’t make the mistake
of these foolish
people.’ Obviously the
warning has no meaning for
those that have not
read the
warning, and it does not
apply to the wicked after the
1,260th
days that are lost.
Mark
8:36-37 For what shall it
profit a man, if he shall
gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul? Or what
shall a man give in exchange
for his soul?
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The Seventh Bowl &
Armageddon
Revelation
16:17 The seventh angel
poured out his bowl into the
air, and out of the temple
came a loud voice from the
throne, saying, “It is
done!”
The
seventh bowl begins on the 1,325th
day; it is
God’s response to
Satan’s and the kings of
the Earth’s declaration
of war against God. The
seventh bowl is ten days long
ending on the 1,335th
day at the Second Coming of
Jesus. There are several
scenes – some scenes are
on Earth and others are in
Heaven. There is a massive
earthquake, the sun turns
black, the moon to blood, the
stars of burning sulfur smash
the cities of Babylon, and
Jesus wakes the sleeping
saints to eternal life.
Six
Scenes of the Seventh Bowl
1. Revelation
16:16-21 is the seventh bowl.
The massive
global earthquake causes
mountains and islands to
disappear. Then there is a
great hailstorm of burning
sulfur smashing the cities of
Babylon and the Second Coming
of Jesus. There is no
ice storm in
Revelation’s story.
2.
Revelation 18:8-24 shows
Babylon burning. The
kings and the merchants are
standing afar off, watching
and wailing, as they see
their treasures go up in
smoke; thus life on Earth as
we know it is finished.
3.Revelation
14:9-11 is the third
angel’s message. Everyone
was warned just before the
1,040th
day not to worship the image
of the beast or accept the
tattoo of ‘666’ on
the penalty of being
tormented with burning
sulfur.
4.Revelation
19: 1-6 is a heavenly scene
of the 144,000 so
loudly praising
God for their
salvation, and God avenging
their deaths, that John
describes the praise as a roar.
And the servants of God are
so excited in their
anticipation of accompanying
Jesus back to Earth in the
Second Coming, they are about
to split at the seams.
5.Revelation
19:11-21 to 20:6 describes
the fury of God’s wrath
and the first resurrection of
the dead. The
whole scene is an analogy of
Jesus riding His white horse
while stomping on the wicked
trading the winepress of His
wrath. There is so much blood
that it reaches the bridles
of His horse and it splatters
on Him. The vesture of Jesus
dipping with blood {the
analogy of Revelation
14:16-20}. The
kings of the Earth, with
their armies, are gathered to
fight God, and they are
destroyed. Satan, unmasked,
is called the false prophet.
He is thrown into the lake of
fire along with the leaders
of Babylon. About two and a
half billion wicked are
killed by the sword coming
out of His mouth {the Word of
God} and by the brightness of
His Coming. The birds gorge
themselves on the dead bodies
of the wicked. Satan is cast
back into the prison of the
Abyss, to wait on death row
for a thousand years; this is
the first resurrection of the
saints back to the time of
Adam.
6. Revelation
6:12-17: the sixth seal is
the Second Coming of Jesus. The
sun turns black, the moon is
blood red, burning stars
falls to Earth; this is the
Second Coming of Jesus.
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Babylon Burns, the Seventh
Bowl - 1,325th Day to 1,335th
Day
Revelation
18:8 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. “When
the kings of the earth who
committed adultery with her
and shared her luxury see the
smoke of her burning, they
will weep and mourn over her.
Terrified at her torment,
they will stand far off and
cry: “’Woe! Woe, O
great city, O Babylon, city
of power! In one hour your
doom has come!’
“The merchants of the
earth will weep and mourn
over her because no one buys
their cargoes anymore.”
The scene
of Babylon burning is the
time of the seventh bowl
beginning on the
1,325th
day. The massive
earthquake and the sulfur
bombs weighing fifty to one
hundred pounds burns Babylon
down. This is the
response to the declaration
of war by Satan and the ten
kings during the sixth bowl.
The burning of Babylon is the
end of the world as we know
it. The kings cry and wail
over Babylon going up in
smoke.
In
summary, the ten kings go to
war against God to save their
great wealth. They know their
god, Satan, masquerading as
God, on earth is a fraud.
This is why John no
longer calls
Satan ‘the lamb-like
beast’ {Revelation
13:11} that masqueraded as
Jesus – now John calls
Satan the false
prophet in
Revelation 16:13. The ten
kings know Satan is the
devil, but Satan convinces
the ten kings to join him in
his war against God by
putting on a supernatural
show, with many miraculous
signs including changing
blood into water. The ten
kings are persuaded by a pack
of lies from Satan that their
only hope of survival is to
kill God.
Absurd
isn’t it! The
war of Armageddon is between
the devil with the kings of
the earth and their armies
against Almighty God. God
responds to their declaration
of war with a hailstorm of
burning sulfur bombs that
destroys the great city of
Babylon, and the cities all
over the world. On the 1,335th
day King Jesus appears in all
His glory with His Father the
King in the clouds of Heaven.
The ten kings cry out for the
rocks and mountains to bury
them and hide them from the
face of God. The wicked are
consumed by the glory of God.
The birds gorge themselves on
the flesh of the ten kings
and the wicked. Cities,
houses, and businesses all
over the world are in rubble
and life on Earth as we know
it is over – Babylon is
in ashes.
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The Torment of the Wicked -
1,325th Day to 1,335th Day
Revelation
9-11 A third angel followed
them and said in a loud
voice: “If anyone
worships the beast and his
image and receives his mark
on the forehead or on the
hand, he, too, will drink of
the wine of God’s fury,
which has been poured out
full strength into the cup of
his wrath. He will be
tormented with burning sulfur
in the presence of the holy
angels and of the Lamb. And
the smoke of their torment
rises for ever and ever.
There is no rest day of night
for those who worship the
beast and his image, or for
anyone who receives the mark
of his name.”
The
torment of the wicked by
burning sulfur begins
sometime after the 1,325th
day and ends on
the 1,335th
day of the Great
Tribulation. Everyone
was warned not to
worship the image of the
beast. Then Satan,
masquerading as Jesus,
ordered the death of everyone
refusing to worship the image
of the beast, beginning on
the 1,040th
day {Revelation 13:15}. All
those who worshipped the
image of the beast and
accepted the tattoo of
‘666’ are tormented
day and night with burning
sulfur, until they are
destroyed on the 1,335th
day at the Second Coming of
Jesus.
The
first lake of fire is
formed by the storm of
burning hail described in the
two previous chapters. The
first lake of fire is a living
nightmare for
the wicked. These people have
made many jokes and laughed
about hell – saying,
‘If I go to hell
I’ll have a lot of
friends there, but nobody is
laughing now. The wicked were
taught by their ministers the
false doctrine of everlasting
hell fire. Now they believe
God is going to cast them
into this lake if fire to
scream in agony forever
– this is their picture
of God {horrible isn’t
it}. Their mental agony
is absolutely horrible –
this is their torment.
Of course what they believe
is a lie. But they don’t
know it! As the sulfur bombs
smash their homes and
businesses the wicked run
this way and that way to
escape the fires and the
tremendous heat. The wicked
would like to rest, they
would like a drink of cool
water, and they would like to
escape the terror by
sleeping. They hated the
Sabbath of the fourth
commandment and refused to
honor God by resting and
studying the Word of God on
the Sabbath day. Now
they have no rest day or
night from their torment that
goes up day and night
forever. The torment of the
wicked last forever because
the wicked are tormented
right up until the Second
Coming of Jesus, which is
their death.
Revelation
22:14-15 Blessed are those
who do His commandments, that
they may have the right to
the tree of life, and may
enter through the gates of
the city. But outside are
dogs and sorcerers and
sexually immoral and
murderers and idolaters, and
whoever loves and practices a
lie.
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The 144,000 Shouting Praises
to God
Revelation
19:1, 2 After this I heard
what sounded like
a roar of
a great multitude in heaven
shouting: “Hallelujah!
Salvation and glory and power
belong to our God, for true
and just are his judgments.
While
Babylon burns during the ten
days of the seventh bowl
between the 1,325th
and the 1,335 day,
John’s eyes are lifted
to a heavenly scene of the
144,000 servant-prophets
praising God for avenging
their deaths. God’s
servants are so excited they
are about ready to split at
the seams. In less than ten
days they will accompany
Jesus in the clouds of Heaven
at the Second Coming to
witness the resurrection of
the sleeping saints back to
the time of Adam and Eve.
In
summary, in Revelation 19:1-6
John’s eyes are lifted
from the horror of cities
being burned all over the
Earth to the scene of the
144,000 servant-prophets
praising God. They are so
excited they are ready to
burst with joy. They have
waited their entire lives to
see Jesus, and now they see
Him face to face {Revelation
14:1-5}. They have waited to
receive eternal life, and now
it’s their forever. They
praise God for His righteous
judgments against the great
whore that killed them for
their testimony to the Word
of God. Yes, God avenges the
death of His servant –
He avenges the blood the
religious wicked spilled. But
as if it were not enough
– they are so excited in
their anticipation of
accompanying Jesus back to
Earth in the next few days,
that their joy and praise
sound like a roar. They are
going to follow Jesus back to
Earth in the clouds of Heaven
to witness the death of the
wicked, and the first
resurrection of the sleeping
saints from all parts of the
Earth back to the time of
Adam.
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.
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The Winepress of God's Wrath
Revelation
19:11 I saw heaven standing
open and there before me was
a white horse, whose rider is
called Faithful and True.
With justice he judges and
makes war.
Revelation
19:19 And I saw the beast,
and the kings of the earth,
and their armies, gathered
together to make war against
him that sat on the horse,
and against his army.
Revelation
19: 17-18 And I saw an angel
standing in the sun; and he
cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that
fly in the midst of heaven,
Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of
the great God; so you may eat
the flesh of kings, generals,
and mighty men, of horses and
their riders, and the flesh
of all people, free and
slave, small and great.
This scene
of the Second Coming of Jesus
on the 1,335th
day focuses on the wrath of
God more than anything
else. Revelation 19:11
to 21 describe the fury of
God stomping the wicked and
casting the leaders of
Babylon and Satan into the
first lake of fire. Satan is
cast into the lake of fire
and his physical body that he
appeared in to deceive the
world, masquerading as God on
Earth. The religious wicked,
that received the mark of the
beast, are destroyed by the
brightness of Christ’s
appearance and His voice. The
voice of Jesus that wakes up
the sleeping saints to
everlasting life
simultaneously kills the
remaining wicked. Jesus shows
His contempt for the wicked
by calling the birds to the
supper of God. The corpses of
the wicked are supper for the
birds, and the saints are the
bride of Christ, invited to
the wedding supper in Heaven.
Then John
sees an angel coming down
from Heaven and locking up
the dragon.
The word dragon
is used to describe Satan in
the spirit world of demons.
Satan, the false
prophet, lost
his physical body that he
masqueraded in as God on
Earth, in the first lake of
fire. Now the devil is again
locked up in the prison of
the Abyss again, but the
language of Revelation 20:1
to 20:3 tells us that Jesus
has locked him up in high
security. Now that the
subjects of Satan’s
kingdom are all dead, Satan
has no one to tempt or
destroy. If Satan was not
chained to prison walls of
the Abyss, he would leave the
dead world of Earth and fly
to millions of unfallen
worlds in an attempt to
continue his war against God
by perpetuating sin. The fear
of Satan gaining sympathy
from just one being somewhere
in the universe would fill
the universe with such a
constant state of anxiety
during the thousand years,
that there would be no peace
anywhere in the universe.
Therefore Jesus is assuring
us that Satan is chained to
the desolate Earth in the
prison of the Abyss.
The hours
and days that Satan waits on
death row will seem like
forever to him. During the
thousand years he is
surrounded by his kingdom of
death. There is nothing for
him to do but think about all
the people he has hurt by
tempting them into sin. Satan
will suffer terribly as he
waits minute by minute, hour
by hour, day by day, year by
year, century by century
contemplating the debt he
owes for his high treason
against God during the last
six thousand years. The
waiting and anticipating the
suffering of being destroyed
in the lake of fire is worse
than death itself.
Matthew
25: 41-46 “Then he will
say to those on his left,
‘Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into
the eternal fire prepared for
the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave
me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me
nothing to drink, I was a
stranger and you did not
invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not
clothe me, I was sick and in
prison and you did not look
after me.’ “They
will answer, ‘Lord, when
did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or
needing clothes or sick in
prison, and did not help
you?’ “He will
reply, ‘I tell you the
truth, whatever you did not
do for one of the least of
these, you did not do it for
me.’ Then they will go
away to eternal punishment,
but the righteous to eternal
life.”
The fire
is eternal
because after the wicked, the
devil, and his angels are
burned up to ashes, the end
lasts forever. God is not
a monster
torturing the devil and the
wicked for endless ages. God
is love – He destroys
the devil and the wicked to
get rid of sin and death.
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Armies of the world gathered
to make war against Lord
Jesus and His angelic hosts
Revelation
19:11 I saw heaven standing
open and there before me was
a white horse, whose rider is
called Faithful and True.
With justice he judges and
makes war.
Revelation
19:19 And I saw the beast,
and the kings of the earth,
and their armies, gathered
together to make war against
him that sat on the horse,
and against his army.
Revelation
19: 17-18 And I saw an angel
standing in the sun; and he
cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that
fly in the midst of heaven,
Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of
the great God; so you may eat
the flesh of kings, generals,
and mighty men, of horses and
their riders, and the flesh
of all people, free and
slave, small and great.
This scene
of the Second Coming of Jesus
on the 1,335th
day focuses on the wrath of
God more than anything
else. Revelation 19:11
to 21 describe the fury of
God stomping the wicked and
casting the leaders of
Babylon and Satan into the
first lake of fire. Satan is
cast into the lake of fire
and his physical body that he
appeared in to deceive the
world, masquerading as God on
Earth. The religious wicked,
that received the mark of the
beast, are destroyed by the
brightness of Christ’s
appearance and His voice. The
voice of Jesus that wakes up
the sleeping saints to
everlasting life
simultaneously kills the
remaining wicked. Jesus shows
His contempt for the wicked
by calling the birds to the
supper of God. The corpses of
the wicked are supper for the
birds, and the saints are the
bride of Christ, invited to
the wedding supper in Heaven.
Then John
sees an angel coming down
from Heaven and locking up
the dragon.
The word dragon
is used to describe Satan in
the spirit world of demons.
Satan, the false
prophet, lost
his physical body that he
masqueraded in as God on
Earth, in the first lake of
fire. Now the devil is again
locked up in the prison of
the Abyss again, but the
language of Revelation 20:1
to 20:3 tells us that Jesus
has locked him up in high
security. Now that the
subjects of Satan’s
kingdom are all dead, Satan
has no one to tempt or
destroy. If Satan was not
chained to prison walls of
the Abyss, he would leave the
dead world of Earth and fly
to millions of unfallen
worlds in an attempt to
continue his war against God
by perpetuating sin. The fear
of Satan gaining sympathy
from just one being somewhere
in the universe would fill
the universe with such a
constant state of anxiety
during the thousand years,
that there would be no peace
anywhere in the universe.
Therefore Jesus is assuring
us that Satan is chained to
the desolate Earth in the
prison of the Abyss.
The hours
and days that Satan waits on
death row will seem like
forever to him. During the
thousand years he is
surrounded by his kingdom of
death. There is nothing for
him to do but think about all
the people he has hurt by
tempting them into sin. Satan
will suffer terribly as he
waits minute by minute, hour
by hour, day by day, year by
year, century by century
contemplating the debt he
owes for his high treason
against God during the last
six thousand years. The
waiting and anticipating the
suffering of being destroyed
in the lake of fire is worse
than death itself.
Matthew
25: 41-46 “Then he will
say to those on his left,
‘Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into
the eternal fire prepared for
the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave
me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me
nothing to drink, I was a
stranger and you did not
invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not
clothe me, I was sick and in
prison and you did not look
after me.’ “They
will answer, ‘Lord, when
did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or
needing clothes or sick in
prison, and did not help
you?’ “He will
reply, ‘I tell you the
truth, whatever you did not
do for one of the least of
these, you did not do it for
me.’ Then they will go
away to eternal punishment,
but the righteous to eternal
life.”
The fire
is eternal
because after the wicked, the
devil, and his angels are
burned up to ashes, the end
lasts forever. God is not
a monster
torturing the devil and the
wicked for endless ages. God
is love – He destroys
the devil and the wicked to
get rid of sin and death.
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The Wrath of God, the Second
Coming on the 1,335th Day
Revelation
19:11 I saw heaven standing
open and there before me was
a white horse, whose rider is
called Faithful and True.
With justice he judges and
makes war.
Revelation
19:19 And I saw the beast,
and the kings of the earth,
and their armies, gathered
together to make war against
him that sat on the horse,
and against his army.
Revelation
19: 17-18 And I saw an angel
standing in the sun; and he
cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that
fly in the midst of heaven,
Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of
the great God; so you may eat
the flesh of kings, generals,
and mighty men, of horses and
their riders, and the flesh
of all people, free and
slave, small and great.
This scene
of the Second Coming of Jesus
on the 1,335th
day focuses on the wrath of
God more than anything
else. Revelation 19:11
to 21 describe the fury of
God stomping the wicked and
casting the leaders of
Babylon and Satan into the
first lake of fire. Satan is
cast into the lake of fire
and his physical body that he
appeared in to deceive the
world, masquerading as God on
Earth. The religious wicked,
that received the mark of the
beast, are destroyed by the
brightness of Christ’s
appearance and His voice. The
voice of Jesus that wakes up
the sleeping saints to
everlasting life
simultaneously kills the
remaining wicked. Jesus shows
His contempt for the wicked
by calling the birds to the
supper of God. The corpses of
the wicked are supper for the
birds, and the saints are the
bride of Christ, invited to
the wedding supper in Heaven.
Then John
sees an angel coming down
from Heaven and locking up
the dragon.
The word dragon
is used to describe Satan in
the spirit world of demons.
Satan, the false
prophet, lost
his physical body that he
masqueraded in as God on
Earth, in the first lake of
fire. Now the devil is again
locked up in the prison of
the Abyss again, but the
language of Revelation 20:1
to 20:3 tells us that Jesus
has locked him up in high
security. Now that the
subjects of Satan’s
kingdom are all dead, Satan
has no one to tempt or
destroy. If Satan was not
chained to prison walls of
the Abyss, he would leave the
dead world of Earth and fly
to millions of unfallen
worlds in an attempt to
continue his war against God
by perpetuating sin. The fear
of Satan gaining sympathy
from just one being somewhere
in the universe would fill
the universe with such a
constant state of anxiety
during the thousand years,
that there would be no peace
anywhere in the universe.
Therefore Jesus is assuring
us that Satan is chained to
the desolate Earth in the
prison of the Abyss.
The hours
and days that Satan waits on
death row will seem like
forever to him. During the
thousand years he is
surrounded by his kingdom of
death. There is nothing for
him to do but think about all
the people he has hurt by
tempting them into sin. Satan
will suffer terribly as he
waits minute by minute, hour
by hour, day by day, year by
year, century by century
contemplating the debt he
owes for his high treason
against God during the last
six thousand years. The
waiting and anticipating the
suffering of being destroyed
in the lake of fire is worse
than death itself.
Matthew
25: 41-46 “Then he will
say to those on his left,
‘Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into
the eternal fire prepared for
the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave
me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me
nothing to drink, I was a
stranger and you did not
invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not
clothe me, I was sick and in
prison and you did not look
after me.’ “They
will answer, ‘Lord, when
did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or
needing clothes or sick in
prison, and did not help
you?’ “He will
reply, ‘I tell you the
truth, whatever you did not
do for one of the least of
these, you did not do it for
me.’ Then they will go
away to eternal punishment,
but the righteous to eternal
life.”
The fire
is eternal
because after the wicked, the
devil, and his angels are
burned up to ashes, the end
lasts forever. God is not
a monster
torturing the devil and the
wicked for endless ages. God
is love – He destroys
the devil and the wicked to
get rid of sin and death.
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The seven religious heads
& the eighth head which
is Satan the false prophet
were burned alive in burning
sulfur at the Second Coming
of Jesus
When all
the specifications concerning
the leopard-like beast are
assembled, Babylon is not too
hard to identify. Babylon
will be a monster-sized
church-state. Babylon will
rule over the nations with
deadly power. It will
persecute and devour those
who oppose it. At first, the
seven heads (the seven
religious systems of the
world) will control the
leopard-like beast. I
understand that the pope will
be selected as the leader of
Babylon and he will lead the
world in appeasing God
(actually blaspheming God)
until the devil appears in
the fifth trumpet. At the
sixth trumpet, the devil will
suddenly abolish the seven
religions of the world and
put ten kings in their place.
Lucifer will assign these ten
kings the task of rebuilding
the infrastructures of Earth.
The devil will demand the
reconstruction of the world
for the pseudo-purpose of
establishing the kingdom of
God and bringing in a
thousand years of peace. Of
course, this demand is a big
lie. The devil will establish
ten kings because he wants
these kings to try to destroy
Jesus at the Second Coming
(perhaps by nuclear arms). It
is reasonable to assume that
labor camps will be set up
and everyone will be forced
into hard labor. Slavery will
be imposed as a form of
punishment. Civil authorities
will punish those who refuse
to work and obey. The
devil will kill most of his
opposition (a third of
mankind) and rule the world
as “Almighty God”
without significant
opposition for almost a year.
It is easy to see how the
leopard-like beast mirrors
its ancient namesake, the
great city of Babylon, whose
temporary splendor was
created through years of
forced labor and destroyed by
God in a single night.
On the 1,335th
day of the Great Tribulation,
the devil, masquerading as
God, along with his entire
evil host and the seven
religious heads and
the religious wicked
will be thrown into the lake
of fire at the Second Coming
of Jesus.
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The Wrath of the Lamb, the
Sixth Seal
Revelation
6:16-17 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
stand?”
The last
ten days of God’s wrath
begins on the 1,325th
day and ends on the 1,335th
day with the
Second Coming of Jesus. It is
important that the student
understands that these
scenes, for the most part,
occur simultaneously during
the last ten days of the
world’s history.
The
seventh bowl begins on the
1,325th
day as the response of Jesus
to the declaration of Satan
and the kings to make war
against God. Jesus answers
their arrogant declaration of
war with a massive earthquake
that causes mountains and
islands to disappear,
followed by a storm of
burning firebombs smashing
and incinerating the cities
of Babylon all over the
world. The kings of the Earth
stand afar off wailing and
casting dust on their heads
as they see all their stuff
go up in smoke. Those that
worshipped the image of the
beast and accepted the tattoo
of ‘666’ on their
right hand are filled with
terror {tormented} as their
cities and homes burst into
flames {Revelation 14:9-11}.
As the
smoke goes up to Heaven the
144,000 are praising God with
such intensity that their
voices sound like a roar
{Revelation 19:1-6}. They are
praising God for His
salvation and for avenging
their deaths. And the
servants of God are also
excited with the anticipation
of following Jesus back to
Earth in the Second Coming.
Then on
the 1,335th
day in Revelation 19:11-21
Jesus leaves Heaven on His
white horse accompanied by
the 144,000 on their white
horses. Jesus is seen
stomping on the wicked as He
treads the winepress of His
wrath. Why is His vesture
dripping in blood? As Jesus
stomps on the wicked in the
fury of His wrath the blood
of the wicked splatters all
over His clothing, just like
stomping grapes in a
winepress with blood that is
so deep it reaches the
horse’s bridle
{Revelation 14:17-20}. The
scene is an analogy. The
name of Jesus is unknown
because anyone that knows
Jesus is saying, ‘Who is
the One stomping on the
wicked with such fury?’
look at the description of
Jesus! Revelation
19:12-13 ‘His eyes
were as a flame of fire,and on his head
were many crowns; and he had
a name written, that no man
knew, but he himself. And he
was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood: and his name
is called The Word of
God.’ Do
you see the paradox? Verse 12
says no one knows
his name but himself, and
with the next breath in verse
13 His name is
the Word of God;
therefore we know the person
is Jesus. Most of us see God
as long suffering and
merciful never losing His
cool, but here Jesus is
executing the judgment with a
vengeance by stomping on the
wicked. Then, after Jesus
kills the wicked by speaking
the Word of God, He calls the
birds to gorge themselves on
the flesh of the wicked to
show contempt for their
arrogant rebellion. And if
this isn’t enough, as
the wicked are dying by
hearing the Word of God, the
sleeping saints are
simultaneously resurrected by
the Word of God.
In
Revelation 6:12-17 Jesus
opens the sixth seal showing
His displeasure against the
wicked by a series of events
that are parallel to the
seventh bowl/plague. The
earthquake of the sixth seal
is the same as the earthquake
of the seventh bowl. God is
saying to the wicked by the
following events: you liked
darkness instead of light
– the sun is black. You
liked to shed innocent blood
– the moon turns to
blood.
You
persecuted the saints and
worshipped the image of the
beast accepting the tattoo of
‘666’ –so
thousands of stars of burning
sulfur fall to Earth
tormenting you and
incinerating the cities of
Babylon. The next scene is
the kings of the Earth crying
for the rocks and mountains
to bury them hide them from
the face of Jesus- for the
Lamb of God is very angry.
Where is their arrogance now?
Revelation
6:16 – ‘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!
God represents Jesus by a
lamb because the lamb is a
quiet, meek, and gentle farm
animal, but here the Lamb of
God is behaving completely
out of character – the
Lamb is very angry, just like
the rider on the white horse
in Revelation 19:11.
The
student needs to understand
that these five scenes
showing God’s wrath is
the reward of those that
rebel against God. These
scenes of judgment should
discourage anyone that is
living a life style of sin
and rebellion. In all these
scenes there is not
a kind word for those that
rebel against God.
Revelation
22:11-15 He
that is unjust, let him be
unjust still:
and he which is filthy,
let him be filthy still:
and he that is righteous, let
him be righteous still: and
he that is holy, let him be
holy still. And, behold, I
come quickly; and my reward
is with me, to give every man
according as his work shall
be. I am the Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end,
the first and the last. Blessed
are they that do his
commandments, that they may
have the right to the tree of
life, and
may enter in through the
gates into the city. For
without are dogs, and
sorcerers, and whoremongers,
and murderers, and idolaters,
and whosoever loves and makes
a lie.
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The Wrath of the Lamb occurs
sometime after the 1,325th
day
Revelation
6:16-17 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
stand?”
The last
ten days of God’s wrath
begins on the 1,325th
day and ends on the 1,335th
day with the
Second Coming of Jesus. It is
important that the student
understands that these
scenes, for the most part,
occur simultaneously during
the last ten days of the
world’s history.
The
seventh bowl begins on the
1,325th
day as the response of Jesus
to the declaration of Satan
and the kings to make war
against God. Jesus answers
their arrogant declaration of
war with a massive earthquake
that causes mountains and
islands to disappear,
followed by a storm of
burning firebombs smashing
and incinerating the cities
of Babylon all over the
world. The kings of the Earth
stand afar off wailing and
casting dust on their heads
as they see all their stuff
go up in smoke. Those that
worshipped the image of the
beast and accepted the tattoo
of ‘666’ on their
right hand are filled with
terror {tormented} as their
cities and homes burst into
flames {Revelation 14:9-11}.
As the
smoke goes up to Heaven the
144,000 are praising God with
such intensity that their
voices sound like a roar
{Revelation 19:1-6}. They are
praising God for His
salvation and for avenging
their deaths. And the
servants of God are also
excited with the anticipation
of following Jesus back to
Earth in the Second Coming.
Then on
the 1,335th
day in Revelation 19:11-21
Jesus leaves Heaven on His
white horse accompanied by
the 144,000 on their white
horses. Jesus is seen
stomping on the wicked as He
treads the winepress of His
wrath. Why is His vesture
dripping in blood? As Jesus
stomps on the wicked in the
fury of His wrath the blood
of the wicked splatters all
over His clothing, just like
stomping grapes in a
winepress with blood that is
so deep it reaches the
horse’s bridle
{Revelation 14:17-20}. The
scene is an analogy. The
name of Jesus is unknown
because anyone that knows
Jesus is saying, ‘Who is
the One stomping on the
wicked with such fury?’
look at the description of
Jesus! Revelation
19:12-13 ‘His eyes
were as a flame of fire,and on his head
were many crowns; and he had
a name written, that no man
knew, but he himself. And he
was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood: and his name
is called The Word of
God.’ Do
you see the paradox? Verse 12
says no one knows
his name but himself, and
with the next breath in verse
13 His name is
the Word of God;
therefore we know the person
is Jesus. Most of us see God
as long suffering and
merciful never losing His
cool, but here Jesus is
executing the judgment with a
vengeance by stomping on the
wicked. Then, after Jesus
kills the wicked by speaking
the Word of God, He calls the
birds to gorge themselves on
the flesh of the wicked to
show contempt for their
arrogant rebellion. And if
this isn’t enough, as
the wicked are dying by
hearing the Word of God, the
sleeping saints are
simultaneously resurrected by
the Word of God.
In
Revelation 6:12-17 Jesus
opens the sixth seal showing
His displeasure against the
wicked by a series of events
that are parallel to the
seventh bowl/plague. The
earthquake of the sixth seal
is the same as the earthquake
of the seventh bowl. God is
saying to the wicked by the
following events: you liked
darkness instead of light
– the sun is black. You
liked to shed innocent blood
– the moon turns to
blood.
You
persecuted the saints and
worshipped the image of the
beast accepting the tattoo of
‘666’ –so
thousands of stars of burning
sulfur fall to Earth
tormenting you and
incinerating the cities of
Babylon. The next scene is
the kings of the Earth crying
for the rocks and mountains
to bury them hide them from
the face of Jesus- for the
Lamb of God is very angry.
Where is their arrogance now?
Revelation
6:16 – ‘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!
God represents Jesus by a
lamb because the lamb is a
quiet, meek, and gentle farm
animal, but here the Lamb of
God is behaving completely
out of character – the
Lamb is very angry, just like
the rider on the white horse
in Revelation 19:11.
The
student needs to understand
that these five scenes
showing God’s wrath is
the reward of those that
rebel against God. These
scenes of judgment should
discourage anyone that is
living a life style of sin
and rebellion. In all these
scenes there is not
a kind word for those that
rebel against God.
Revelation
22:11-15 He
that is unjust, let him be
unjust still:
and he which is filthy,
let him be filthy still:
and he that is righteous, let
him be righteous still: and
he that is holy, let him be
holy still. And, behold, I
come quickly; and my reward
is with me, to give every man
according as his work shall
be. I am the Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end,
the first and the last. Blessed
are they that do his
commandments, that they may
have the right to the tree of
life, and
may enter in through the
gates into the city. For
without are dogs, and
sorcerers, and whoremongers,
and murderers, and idolaters,
and whosoever loves and makes
a lie.
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Seventh Millennium -
Questions, Forgiveness, and
Judgment
Revelation
20:4 And I saw thrones, and
they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them.
Corinthians
6:2-3 Do you know that the
saints will judge the
world... Do you know that we
will judge angels?
By the end
of the 1,335th
day Jesus has awakened all
the sleeping saints from the
time of Adam, and they have
been caught up in the clouds
of Heaven, with the great
multitude that no man can
number, to live with the Lord
forever more. More than two
billion wicked people who
worshipped the devil by
accepting the mark of the
beast are all dead.
At the
beginning of the seventh
millennium Satan is cast back
into the prison of the Abyss
to wait for his destruction.
Because the wicked are all
dead and the saints have been
taken to Heaven there is no
one to tempt, lie to, or
murder; thus Satan is bored,
and would leave if possible.
He would go anywhere to get
away from Earth. He
would go to the nations of
millions of unfallen worlds
looking for sympathy for the
purpose of perpetuating sin
on other world, but he is
unable to leave Earth.
During the
next thousand years the
saints determine the just
restitution of punishment for
the sins the wicked committed
while living. Then at the end
of the seventh millennium
Jesus will wake up all the
wicked, dead people to be
sentenced to death. They will
suffer before they die, to
pay the just restitution for
their sins they committed
against God and their fellow
humans. Some people
will die instantly in the
lake of fire, others will
suffer much longer until
justice is satisfied. After
suffering is finished they
will be reduced to ashes
– this is the second
death, which is eternal
death.
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The Great White Throne Scene
& The Seventh Seal
Revelation
20:11-12 And I saw a great
white throne, and him that
sat on it, from whose face
the earth and heaven fled
away; and there was found no
place for them. And I saw the
dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books
were opened: and another book
was opened, which is the book
of life: and the dead were
judged out of those things
which were written in the
books, according to their
works.
Revelation
20:15 And whosoever was not
found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake
of fire.
Revelation
20:8-9 ‘And [Satan]
shall go out to deceive the
nations which are in the four
corners of the earth, Gog and
Magog, to gather them
together for battle; In
number they are like the sand
of the seashore. They marched
across the breadth of the
earth and surrounded the camp
of God’s people, the
city he loves…
Revelation
20:9-10 But fire came down
from heaven and devoured
them. And the devil, who
deceived them, was thrown
into the lake of burning
sulfur, where the beast and
the false prophet had been
thrown.
Shortly
after Satan is released at
the end of the seventh
millennium the great white
throne scene appears. The
language of the Earth and the
sky fleeing from God’s
presence is analogous
language. This language is
used to describe a scene that
is so awesome that it goes
beyond the ability of human
language. The entire judgment
scene is a supernatural event
that stops Satan and his army
in their tracks. During
the half hour God
supernaturally talks to every
wicked person as though he
were the only person in the
world. {The judgment of the
saints was finished on the
1,260th
day of the Great Tribulation;
this judgment scene only
applies to the wicked}. God
explains to each person as
though he were the only
person on Earth, everything
He did to save them. But each
person chose, by his own free
will, the life of sin and
death instead of eternal
life. Each wicked person sees
all the people God sent to
turn them from their evil
ways. Each person remembers
the voice of the Holy Spirit
begging them to give up sin,
but each person refused.
Every person understands
he/she is lost by their own
choice.
In
summary, at the end of the
seventh millennium Satan is
released from his prison of
the Abyss. He deceives the
wicked again because they
have always listened to
him. The wicked begin
their attack on the New
Jerusalem of God, but the
Lord stops the attack by the
supernatural event of the
great white throne scene.
Jesus removes the last seal
on the Book of Life and the
entire universe sees that God
saw every detail before
creation began. They see that
God did not use His power to
control the outcome of who
would be saved or lost. God
is worshipped by the entire
universe including Satan, his
evil angels, the saints, the
angels, and millions of
unfallen worlds. Then the
devil and the wicked are cast
into the lake of fire and
burned to ashes. Jesus then
creates a new Heaven and a
new Earth where the saints
will live in peace forever.
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The End of the Seventh
Millennium
Revelation
20:11-12 And I saw a great
white throne, and him that
sat on it, from whose face
the earth and heaven fled
away; and there was found no
place for them. And I saw the
dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books
were opened: and another book
was opened, which is the book
of life: and the dead were
judged out of those things
which were written in the
books, according to their
works.
Revelation
20:15 And whosoever was not
found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake
of fire.
Revelation
20:8-9 ‘And [Satan]
shall go out to deceive the
nations which are in the four
corners of the earth, Gog and
Magog, to gather them
together for battle; In
number they are like the sand
of the seashore. They marched
across the breadth of the
earth and surrounded the camp
of God’s people, the
city he loves…
Revelation
20:9-10 But fire came down
from heaven and devoured
them. And the devil, who
deceived them, was thrown
into the lake of burning
sulfur, where the beast and
the false prophet had been
thrown.
Shortly
after Satan is released at
the end of the seventh
millennium the great white
throne scene appears. The
language of the Earth and the
sky fleeing from God’s
presence is analogous
language. This language is
used to describe a scene that
is so awesome that it goes
beyond the ability of human
language. The entire judgment
scene is a supernatural event
that stops Satan and his army
in their tracks. During
the half hour God
supernaturally talks to every
wicked person as though he
were the only person in the
world. {The judgment of the
saints was finished on the
1,260th
day of the Great Tribulation;
this judgment scene only
applies to the wicked}. God
explains to each person as
though he were the only
person on Earth, everything
He did to save them. But each
person chose, by his own free
will, the life of sin and
death instead of eternal
life. Each wicked person sees
all the people God sent to
turn them from their evil
ways. Each person remembers
the voice of the Holy Spirit
begging them to give up sin,
but each person refused.
Every person understands
he/she is lost by their own
choice.
In
summary, at the end of the
seventh millennium Satan is
released from his prison of
the Abyss. He deceives the
wicked again because they
have always listened to
him. The wicked begin
their attack on the New
Jerusalem of God, but the
Lord stops the attack by the
supernatural event of the
great white throne scene.
Jesus removes the last seal
on the Book of Life and the
entire universe sees that God
saw every detail before
creation began. They see that
God did not use His power to
control the outcome of who
would be saved or lost. God
is worshipped by the entire
universe including Satan, his
evil angels, the saints, the
angels, and millions of
unfallen worlds. Then the
devil and the wicked are cast
into the lake of fire and
burned to ashes. Jesus then
creates a new Heaven and a
new Earth where the saints
will live in peace forever.
