Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

Other Scriptures also indicate that a final great persecution of the elect will occur during the last three and a half years of the beast’s reign. For instance, Daniel prophesied: “… it will be for a time, times, and a half [i.e., this refers to three and a half years] … when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people” (Dan. 12:7, ESV). So there will be many of those sanctified by Jesus during the end times who will be broken and killed during the last half of the beast’s reign. Yet all who have ever died in the Lord Jesus “will be resting from their painful toils,” as “their works follow along with them.” And those who will die during those last three and a half years of the beast’s reign will be particularly blessed, since these ones will be resurrected to life on earth again on the day Jesus returns. Then these shall serve Jesus during the millennium. Some of these might even live for a thousand years, during the entire millennium, although the Scriptures do not actually say they will.

Of course, the final rest for all the elect will be in their Father’s homeland of heaven. But, in the meantime, after the millennium, the martyred elect will go to judgment day at heaven’s gates. And, although the city gates in earthly Israel, where their judgments took place, were sometimes large courtyards with shelters and facilities, heaven’s gate will be very vast, since it will accommodate all the humans who ever lived on the earth. And it will likely be filled with God’s natural creations of plants, trees, angels and other creatures, along with perfectly crafted amenities to accommodate the extensive teaching times for individuals, which is always a part of all biblical judgments. And it will be located above heaven’s New Jerusalem and heaven’s mainland, since all the elect will descend to Jerusalem after the long judgment day, which may be equivalent to a thousand earthly years or more.

After a brief judgment of the non-elect, who will all be herded into hell within the first moments of that last day, the peaceful, bright lands at heaven’s gates will provide a very refreshing rest from the vexing and painful toils of earthly life. And the Scriptures imply that the elect who die in those days will need this rest. Yet “their works will follow along with them.” Their works will accompany them into the lands of heaven, and will always be with them. We will not forget our experiences on earth. However, we will then fully understand why we had to do them and see the absolute final results of our works, once Jesus greets us on that last day. And that complete understanding, along with a view of the effects of our works, up to the end of all earthly time and into the days of heaven itself, will perfectly comfort our souls. Seeing it all, and learning from it all, will grant us a deep peace and joy for our spirits, with great praise for our God Jesus who predestined it all for our spirits’ education.

 

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We often see people dream about living on earth forever, in an eternal state of youth, vigor, wealth and comfort. But older and wiser souls, who have dealt with injustice and many troubles, never think that way. The wise battle against ignorance, sin and evil on earth as long as they can, taking a few moments of rest in the simple pleasures of sharing life and love with others. But, while Satan rules this world order, no elect soul can ever find enough rest in any kind of earthly life to make it worth living forever. The older you get, the more you realize that one’s spirit needs to leave its limiting earthly flesh, receive a cooperating body made of spiritual substances, then enter one’s eternal home of heaven, in order to find all the love and joy required to live forever. So one can do some wise and just works on earth through the spirit’s love, to gain some rest for the spirit. Yet the ruthless lies and sins from the citizens of Satan’s world order, with all the suffering they cause, will surely make one extremely weary. And that makes the spirits of the wise joyfully long for the death of their flesh, and its great gain in all truly valuable treasures, although they also want to serve Jesus on earth as well.

Right now, while there are so many evil souls deceiving so many dupes and causing so much death and suffering, no elect soul even wants to live too long. However, once Jesus revives His true church and returns to serve as its High Priest, as well as the just King of the world, then the awakened elect will want to live longer on earth, even for a thousand years. Once we enter the true church as priests, as servants of Jesus, we will never want to leave our workplace at the end of the day or for a weekend, but will always want to be in the presence of our High Priest and Lord. And a true priest’s work is also everywhere, all around him or her, no matter where one might be. So we will always be at our workplace, in the continuous presence of Jesus. Nor will a true priest ever want to retire, since his or her works through love are the primary source of one’s inner joy. In fact, when Jesus calls one to serve in His true New Covenant priesthood, one will even eternally serve Him in heaven as well.

Of course, before Jesus returns, a true priest’s works will still be the greatest source of one’s joy, but those works will also involve Satanic attacks, losses, frustration and pain. Depending on the kinds of works God calls one to do, while Satan rules the world order, those works might even be extremely dangerous. And literally all His works will be emotionally and physically exhausting, very hard on the body of flesh, often done without adequate resources or help. So, even though most elect will become active and effective workers in God’s priesthood, after the revival in the era of the sixth seal, many will become very weary, especially when the beast persecutes them because of their works for God. Since many elect in the end times will suffer years of unceasing hardship, pain and persecution, some will actually be glad to find rest in death. But after some of the elect die for awhile, and receive the deepest of spiritual refreshment in heaven, Jesus shall bring those mature spirits back to the earth when He returns, in the first resurrection. And these will joyfully serve Him during the millennium.

These resurrected elect will continue their works for God on the earth, but under much more joyful circumstances, without opposition, with all the resources they need and much help from other priests bearing the same calling and zeal. For Jesus, the King of the world and High Priest over the one and only true church, will ensure that His just and loving works on earth shall be completed in full. And Jesus will want these resurrected ones to serve Him at that time. For they experienced hardships unto death, and will be the most qualified to explain how the lies of theistic and secular humanism result in nothing but horrors. These resurrected ones, after experiencing the wrath of Satan’s world order, will also cherish Jesus and His true Gospel more than most, and will also have received some rest and training during their brief visit to heaven’s gates. Thus, compared to most of the elect survivors, these resurrected ones will be some of the most qualified to rightly serve God during the millennium.

After the hardships of the end times, almost all the people of Jesus’ revived true church will be far more qualified to serve as His faithful priests of God than the elect are today. For today’s elect, even

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those who suffer many hardships, are thoroughly corrupted by humanistic lies. But, after the revived true church witnesses the overt evils of Greco-Roman humanism in false churches and in the beast’s secular kingdom, they will be purged of that devil’s religion. But the time Jesus returns, they will become a bride made ready for Him, with many men serving as genuine teaching and judging elders among them. By then, God will have been able to thoroughly teach and train the spirits of many elect, in ways that have not been seen since the days of the apostolic church in the mid-first century.

So the elect who are beheaded or killed in other ways during the last three and a half years of the beast’s reign, then are chosen for the first resurrection (see Rev. 20:4-6), will be very valuable and faithful servants of Christ. Also, by the way, some Scriptures might suggest that other deceased elect souls from other times in history, some faithful elect who were not murdered during the end times, could be raised to life on earth when Jesus returns too. But the elect who are killed by the beast’s persecution will make up the majority brought back to earth during the first resurrection. Most will be “the dead who die in the Lord from now on,” those who died during the last three and a half years of the beast’s seven-year reign, although the Scriptures do not specifically limit the first resurrection to them. So we might even see some ancient prophets and apostles rise to life then too. Yet Jesus’ Holy Spirit will direct all the other elect into a wise application of His truths during the millennium as well. Therefore, all will become valuable servants in God’s priesthood after the return of Jesus.

When the beast’s seven-year reign is about to end, this prophecy goes on to proclaim: “Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head, and a sharp sickle in His hand. And another angel came out [from] the temple, calling with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, ‘Put in Your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.’ So He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped” (Rev. 14:14-16, ESV). Many of His faithful elect have spent their entire lives striving to nullify the works of Satan, so they can build up the just, loving kingdom of God. And their works have ended in frustration until they died, although they learned many lessons and gained many spiritual blessings in heavenly places by doing those works. But, clearly, our heavenly Father’s appointed time for the complete elimination of all the wicked on earth was never meant to occur in our time. The “harvest” of Satan’s brood was ordained for the day Jesus returns to the earth. In the meantime, we continue to destroy Satan’s works, seemingly without end, and strive to build up God’s kingdom on earth, although it is repeatedly torn down, as training for our spirits, since we learn to love by doing those works, then begin to trust in Jesus and His words.

This chapter further describes the harvest like this: “Then another angel came out [from] the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, ‘Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.’ So the andgel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia” (14:17-20, ESV). So all this is a figurative overall description of what is coming, of how our God Jesus is about to destroy the beast’s kingdom with the seven bowls of His wrath, then personally slaughter the beast’s armies and all the ruthless non-elect on earth, while casting the beast and Satan into hell, on the day He returns.

Of course, Jesus is the “Son of Man” seated on the cloud. Then each angel is a messenger, and one angel signals Jesus when the right moment for the “harvest” arrived, that is, when all was in place for the destruction of all the wicked on earth, and the deliverance of all His elect siblings. And this was referring to the harvest of the grain on earth, because it uses a form of the verb ξηραίνω to

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indicate the harvest of the earth (ἐξηράνθη ὁ θερισμὸς τῆς γῆς), which means that the harvest had “dried” and “shriveled.” Only grain is harvested when it has dried. So this indicates that Jesus was coming to harvest literally all the wicked on earth, as in the vast fields of small grains. Of course, Jesus was right there, looking down upon all the earth. So He did not need to be told when to begin the harvest, since He came out on the cloud specifically to do the harvest. Thus, when that angel came out from the temple grounds in heaven, to tell Him to “put in” His sickle and “reap,” Jesus already saw that it was the “hour” of the “fully ripe” earth. Consequently, this angel must have told Jesus this because the predestined time up in heaven had also arrived at the same time. Times in both heaven and earth were synchronized. The prophesied appointed times in both places came at once, simultaneously. And this was announced for our benefit, not because Jesus did not know the time.

After this, another angel came out from the temple grounds in heaven, also carrying a sickle. Then the angel who had been granted “authority over the fire” of the altar in heaven’s temple grounds also announced that the time to “wield” his “sharp sickle” had come, and “gather the bunches of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are mature” (14:18, ALT, from: τρύγησον τοὺς βότρυας τῆς ἀμπέλου τῆς γῆς, ὅτι ἤκμασαν αἱ σταφυλαὶ αὐτῆς). The angel at the alter held authority over the prayers of the elect on earth, which is what the fire and smoke of heaven’s altar represented. And the “grapes” were the more valuable harvest, that is, the soldiers in Satan’s world order were considered to be more valuable than the common people. And all the soldiers of the secular world were gathered in the international army of the beast, at Armageddon in Israel. But Jesus did not come to harvest them, only the grain, only the common non-elect souls on earth. Rather, Jesus appointed this angel to harvest the armies of the beast upon His earthly property, with a “sharp” and effective “sickle.” For Jerusalem will be surrounded by those armies by the day of His return, and the prayers of His elect would be urgent on that day. So those armies of the beast had to be harvested first, before the grain.

The description of this grape harvest was graphic. It would be bloody, with not one soldier left alive after it was completed. These “grapes” or soldiers would be a “harvest of the earth,” an international army “thrown into the great winepress of the wrath of God,” all gathered together into one location, at Armageddon in the valleys of Israel. All would be “trodden outside the city,” for they will not be able to enter the area of Jerusalem before the angel will kill them, chiefly by causing various factions of this international army to turn against each other and slay one another. Then there shall be places where the blood would pool “as high “as high as a horse’s bridle,” about two or three feet (under about a meter). And there would blood covering the ground in the valleys of Israel, on all sides of Jerusalem, for about “1,600 stadia” (which is about 184 miles or 296 kilometers, since a Roman stade was 606.9 feet or about 185 meters). But, of course, like any fluid on uneven and sloping ground, it would not be consistently two or three feet deep, as some say. Nevertheless, that is a lot of blood, and there will be hundreds of thousands of the beast’s soldiers killed on the day Jesus returns.

This prophecy in Rev. 14:6 to 16:1 synopsize three main events: (1) the pouring out of the seven bowls of God’s wrath upon the beast’s kingdom during the last few weeks or months before Jesus physically returns to the earth; (2) a bloody slaughter of the beast’s international armies through violent internal strife on the very day of His return, after that army gathers in Israel’s valleys below the beast’s headquarters at the fortress hill of Armageddon; and (3) the deaths of all the wicked (the non-elect) everywhere on earth, all killed directly by the “sickle” of Jesus, presumably by simply commanding their life-giving spirits to leave their bodies of flesh, which will not involve shedding blood. So parts of this prophecy tell us what will occur in heaven while Jesus prepares to return to the earth in His body of flesh. Then other parts describe the events on earth (Rev. 14:14 to 14:20, cf. 19:11 to 20:3), while His body of flesh descends to the earth, as His body touches the “clouds” in the

 

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first heaven (i.e., in the atmosphere above the earth) on the very day of His return, that is, both after and while the other events occur in heaven. It is talking about two overlapping time periods here.

Incidentally, let me also repeat that the title “Son of Man” and “Son of God” mean the same thing, when referring to the Messiah. Both indicate that God, who is a Spirit, entered a male human body living on earth. God entered the real material space-time continuum that He causes the minds of our spirits to perceive. And, when He came as our teaching and saving Messiah, God did not simply miraculously create His body of flesh on earth, as He did when He came to Adam and Eve, or to Abraham, Joshua and others. Rather, our God Jesus came in a way which follows the laws and principles He created for this material universe, that is, through birth from a woman, but not with a created life-giving human spirit in that baby, but rather with His own Spirit of God. And the word “Son” cannot, of course, indicate a male human being who was born as a result of the Spirit of God having physical sex with a human woman, since a spirit cannot have physical sex. For God is not like the gods of Greek and Roman myths, with physical bodies bearing biological offspring after having physical sex with human women. Thus, God miraculously made the egg in Mary’s womb fertile, likely by creating the physical genes of Joseph in that egg, so a human baby would be born.

Among true Jews, who believed God is a Spirit existing outside of the time, space, energy and things made of energy, outside of all that exists in His earthly or material creations, as well as outside of all in His eternal spiritual creations, expressions like “Son of God” and “Son of Man” referred to the Spirit of the Creator God within the material body of a human man. And true Jews did not even consider any pagan or sexual implications whatsoever, although the humanistic false Jews and false Christians found it impossible to comprehend such things, since all their anthropological doctrines came from pagan Greco-Roman philosophies, and those humanists believed none of the biblical anthropological doctrines. To the true Jews and true Christians, the word “son” simply indicated shared attributes with a father or another man. So terms like “Son of Man” and “Son of God” meant the Messiah shared the attributes of both human men and God Himself, where His material attributes were those of a human male and His spiritual attributes were those of the whole of the Creator God.

For instance, this idea of the shared attributes of a “son” was illustrated in the way the Jews called totally unrelated disciples of rabbis and prophets the “sons” of their teaching elders, because those disciples shared similar attributes regarding their beliefs and behaviors with them. In the same way, Jesus the “Son of Man” and the “Son of God” because His body bears all the attributes of a male body of human flesh and His Spirit bears all the attributes of God. For no life-giving human spirit existed in the Messiah’s male human body. Jesus’ Spirit was not created in God’s image, but was fully God’s utterly holy, omnipotent and omniscient Spirit, which communicated many concepts to His mind of flesh within the chamber of His soul. These are the biblical doctrines of incarnation, freed from pagan Platonic anthropological doctrines, which most humanistic theologians believe.

So the term “Son of Man” placed a greater emphasis on the full humanity of our God and Messiah, while the term “Son of God” focused more on the full deity of our human Messiah. And here John used the title “Son of Man” to emphasize that Jesus will come again in a human body on the clouds, which only exist in the first heaven around the earth (i.e, in the earth’s atmosphere). Yet look at how John and many other Scriptures describe the glory of His human body. And remember, they spoke in this way about Christ’s body of flesh in the first century, when almost all secular scholars and rulers were Middle Platonists, whose pagan anthropological doctrines were adopted by false Jews and false Christians very soon after the true apostles died. And these Platonists also believed that the physical body was repulsive and the inglorious effects of corrupting processes, not good creations made directly by God’s hands and through God’s will. To all respectable pagans of the day, everything

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physical was mundane, ignoble, inferior and ungodly, contrary to what Plato described his impassive pagan high god to be. Therefore, because of the corporeal nature of the Messiah’s body, and due to many other truly spiritual aspects of biblical teachings, which Platonists could not comprehend due to their definition of “spiritual” things as figurative material things, the secular Greco-Romans had always disdained biblical Judaism and Christianity. Then humanistic Jews and Christians did so too.

Because of that prevalent humanistic disdain, God caused His prophets, like John, to emphatically glorify the physical body of the Messiah Jesus, to ensure that first-century readers, and believers in our day, would know that the Messiah’s physical body will indeed return to the earth, and that His rule on earth in the flesh will surely be spiritually glorious, just, beautiful and loving. His body will come upon a radiant white cloud, calmly and comfortably riding His gleaming white battle horse down to the earth, terrifying and slaughtering His enemies. John also tells us how the Father placed a simple, golden crown on His head by this time as well, likely just after the seven bowls of His wrath were poured out. As the Father did at Christ’s first advent, our Father shall once more declare that Jesus is the high King of heaven’s lands and all the world, wherever His human children shall dwell. And, from the day that the first bowl of wrath pours out upon the beast’s kingdom until the earth ends, God will utterly destroy Satan’s rule as the prince of the world order. From the day Adam first sinned until the day Jesus returns, God allowed Satan to rule over the unrepentant sinners on earth.

But let us also remember that God put Satan in a semi-autonomous subject kingdom on earth, where he was a prisoner of God, then also allowed the other captive fallen angels, like Mammon and Baal, to join Satan as his royal court. So all these shackled lords and their entire kingdom remained limited by God, and were only permitted to hold physical power over certain people and lands, while God set repentant sinners free from them. Yet this limited power of Satan and his demon army seemed almost invisible to men, because the infantile spiritual power of men was indeed far less powerful than the spiritual power of those demons. So, whenever men turned away from the High King, their God, they were handed over to Satan, to the ruler of the world order. And Satan overpowered them all, but was never kind to them, nor to any other creatures on earth or in heaven. In fact, demons like to feel like gods. And they induce this deluded emotion by exerting their destructive power. They entertain themselves through their ability to cause pain and death for men and God’s other creations.

But, on the day the seven bowls of God’s wrath begin to pour out upon the incarnate Satan in the beast, and upon his entire earthly Roman kingdom, that devil will know his subject kingdom on earth is about to be removed, and he will be cast into the spiritual prison of hell. Our High King will soon rule the entire world Himself, and only allow the elect to live on earth, only those He has paid the price of redemption from their unintentional sins, those whom Jesus will also teach until they also repent from their intentional sins, to make them also become unintentional. Never again will God hand elect sinners over to Satan, to become slaves and citizens of his kingdom of the world order.

On the day Jesus physically returns to the earth, Satan, the ruler of the subject kingdom of sinners, will be deposed. Then he and the non-elect principal citizens of his kingdom, both the fallen angels and his human children, will be removed from the earth. Satan, the beast whom he inhabited, and his demons will be cast directly into prison, and all non-elect human spirits will be granted new bodies made of spiritual substances, then cast into the skies above heaven to await their judgment. All this is prophesied to occur on the day our Sovereign High King, Jesus, comes to personally rule the earth.

Jesus, together with His vast armies of angels, will easily subdue all who resist this regime change, and He will put to death all the war criminals who willingly followed the unjust commands of their king, Satan, or Satan dwelling in his own lying and murdering messiah called the beast. The sharp

 

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sickle in our King’s hand indicates that He will destroy all of Satan’s non-elect human children in the devil’s kingdom too, as the work of His harvest. And this harvest of the non-elect will be bloodless, although the harvest of the beast’s armies in Israel will be extremely bloody, since His angel shall cause them to war against one another. None of those evil multitudes will be able to resist the power of God, and shall all perish. And, yes, ending of Satan’s kingdom took Jesus a long time to complete. But we must remember that He had many lessons to illustrate in many different ways, with different aspects emphasized in each illustration throughout history. And His elect children on earth are very slow to learn those lessons. Besides, linear earthly time and non-linear spiritual time are relative to God’s will, so even millions of earthly years are actually a brief perception granted to eternal spirits.

Now the King of the future, just, loving kingdom of God on earth during the millennium will reward the elect with the earthly inheritance He promised them in the beginning and through His Abrahamic and New Covenants. After the millennium, Jesus will return Satan to the earth for a short time, so that devil will sow his own noxious weeds of non-elect humans led by the nations of Gog and Magog among His good seed. Yet, after lessons about the evils of the more ancient forms of humanism are taught through their actions, Satan will be returned to hell and those non-elect will be cut down and burned (Rev. 20:2-3,7-10; cf. Mat. 13:37-43). So we need not picture strong warriors of God struggling against almost equally strong enemy warriors of Satan. Instead, we are a host of grain and vineyard laborers beside the Owner, sometimes made able to destroy the works of Satan and sometimes able to build up God’s earthly kingdom. But we do so as immature children, or as civilians in His kingdom, not as professional warriors. And we strive to gather in the long-awaited spiritual rewards that will be useful in our peaceful heavenly home, not temporary earthly plunder.

By the end of the beast’s seven-year reign, a full dichotomy which separates the elect from the non-elect will be achieved. And, with the repentance of the elect by the day of Jesus returning, and soon after that, Jesus will be able to judge the entire earth in a way that completely eliminates Satan’s unjust kingdom of unrepentant sinners. By then, all the elect will be called out of all false churches and synagogues, as well as out from all secular institutions which agree with the core doctrines of the beast and Satan. By that time, all the non-elect will have heaped up their guilt and damnation to the limit, without any inner ability to true repent. All the citizens of Satan’s world order will have amply earned their place in hell. So the spirits of its civilians will be removed from their bodies of flesh, and the pride and strength of Satan’s kingdom, his warriors, will be crushed in the wine-press of God’s wrath, releasing their blood into the vat of Israel. Jesus will then quench the thirst of God’s creation for peaceful justice, where all His creatures may freely love. None will be coerced into a cruel survival through violence, and both human and literal lions will rest in peace with the lambs.

Now I repeat, many colorful descriptions and artworks depict these events in heaven and on earth, but most seem to see this prophecy as exalting the wills of men, or the glory of churches led by wanna-be human gods. And everything is about the humanistic concept of equating justice with violent revenge, or about superiors commanding the blind obedience of inferiors. In reality, nothing about revenge and autocratic commanding is implied, only God’s just wrath, intending to redeem and restore the earth, and gentle communications between heavenly beings. For an angel from the temple grounds acts as a messenger who respectfully announces times and events to his Commander, to Jesus, simply telling Him that heaven is ready for Him to wield His sickle. And the verb the angel uses is in the imperative mode which, in context, indicates an entreaty to his master. The aorist imperative verb πέμπω in, Πέμψον τὸ δρέπανόν σου καὶ θέρισον, was politely asking Jesus: “Please complete the sending of Your sickle and harvest ...” This angel was politely begging Jesus to harvest the dried harvest of grain, representing the general population of the non-elect on earth. Likewise,

 

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the angel from the alter of prayers politely asked another angel, Πέμψον σου τὸ δρέπανον τὸ ὀξὺ καὶ τρύγησον τοὺς βότρυας τῆς ἀμπέλου τῆς γῆς (“Please complete the sending of your sharp sickle and gather the grapes of the earth’s vine”). So neither angel reflects the Greco-Roman humanistic beliefs and interpretations we so commonly see in most of our churches, both today and in most of history.

Also consider the hand tool used to eliminate all the non-elect upon the earth, including the armies of the beast, who will be armed with far more deadly weapons of war. Jesus and the angel used a mere farmer’s sickle against them, and called their work a harvest. Furthermore, the harvest was a time of celebration, when food became cheap and plentiful, when the rewards of the whole year’s labors could be most enjoyed. Both Jesus and the angel acted more like agricultural workers, happily gathering in the grain and clusters of grapes to begin a new season of joy and prosperity for their people in God’s kingdom. Yet this was the time after the bowls of God’s wrath poured out, and for the slaughtering of the wicked to be completed. So this harvest with sickles signals that we, the elect who live for just, responsible love, based on spiritual and material truths, should rejoice when the unjust, lying, murdering subject kingdom of Satan is being entirely removed from the earth. Neither God nor His elect can rejoice over the deaths of the wicked. But we can rejoice over the new season of peaceful, responsible freedoms the restored earth will grant us when Jesus becomes its only King.

Just below this prophecy, in the 15th and 16th chapters, Jesus’ prophecy revealed to John expounds on what will happen on earth through the seven bowls of His wrath, and also describes what happens to the seven angels and their bowls of wrath in heaven, before they are sent to the earth. Immediately after the angels pour out the seven bowls of wrath onto the beast’s kingdom, Jesus and His angels will descend to the earth, killing all the non-elect upon the earth, including the armies of humanists that have come from all the nations to join the beast at Armageddon. And this will be when “the wrath of God is finished” (15:1). After this, no more of God’s wrath will fall upon the whole earth, only His wrath upon individual sinners or those who commit exploitative sins as a nation or group.

The slaughter of the beast’s followers, and the removal of Satan, together with all the spirits born of Satan, will cleanse the earth, so the remaining elect, with spirits born of God, can be taught the truths about both good and evil more effectively by Jesus, without the censorship and corrupting lies of the non-elect to hinder them. The sickle also reminds us that this slaughter will be a mere harvest of the wicked, not merely out of revenge, but specifically and primarily for the redeeming and restoration of the elect and God’s earthly kingdom. And all Jesus and the angel needed for this harvest of the non-elect were sickles. For even the bullying hordes of the beast’s armed warriors will be as threatening to Jesus and His angels as grain in the fields or a cluster of grapes on a vine are to a harvester. Satan and his kingdom will have no power to stop the works of the almighty God Jesus.

Jesus and His angels will come against an enemy that is totally incapable of any effective resistance. So it will be a mere harvest labor, not a pitched battle between powerful enemies. It will be a simple and easy slaughter of the enemies murdering civilians and troops, not really a war at all. The beast’s international army that will be killed outside “the city” of Jerusalem will be extremely large and well armed, since they will come to annihilate millions of Jews and Christians in the region. Yet they will all shed their blood on that same day, over a cumulative distance of about 1,600 stadia (about 184 mi. or 296 km.). In other prophecies, we are told the beast’s armies will amass west of Jerusalem in the valleys of Israel, as well as to the north and south. But some also gather in places located north-east of Jerusalem, just before they are slaughtered by Jesus and His angels. There will be hundreds of thousands of the beast’s troops dying on that day, mostly by infighting, one nation against the other.

 

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This prophecy also spoke about “those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name” (15:2). These were in heaven, “with harps of God in their hands,” obviously having died on the earth by this time. And they were standing in heaven upon “a sea of glass mingled with fire.” They were not standing “beside” the sea of glass, as the ESV says (since the preposition used here is ἐπί, meaning “on” or “upon” it). Actually, this was describing the floor of the place, of the temple grounds where Jesus’ throne was located. That floor is made of a material which looks like “a sea of glass mingled with fire.” And those standing “upon” it would be elect Christians and Jews beheaded by the beast during the last three and a half years of his seven-year reign. Since “they sing the song of Moses,” they will sing about the just, loving righteousness of God, His core attributes, the Law of God which the Holy Spirit of God in Jesus now fulfills in us and through us for our eternal salvation.

Moses also might be among those martyrs for Jesus. After all, the two prophets in Jerusalem were the fist to be murdered by the beast at the very start of his last half of his seven-year reign. And those two prophets seem to have been the spirits of Moses and Elijah, reincarnated into new bodies of flesh on earth, even as a sign of the resurrection on earth of all the other martyrs killed by the beast during that time period. And, when they sing the song of Moses, perhaps it was Moses who penned that song, from the concepts God poured into his spirit while he walked among those martyrs in the temple grounds. Perhaps Moses even led that choir. Either way, they sang about God’s loving ways.

The way that these elect martyrs “conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name” was through the truths that Jesus’ Holy Spirit poured into the minds of their spirits, the spiritual and material truths about God, about themselves, about others and about all God’s creations. Then this truth built up love for God, for one another and for His creations. By having His just and loving Law written on the minds of their spirits, upon the entire essence of their beings, their spirits ruled over the thoughts in the chambers of their souls. And that just love worked in them by God, produced and empowered by the almighty Holy Spirit, would not allow them to esteem and serve the beast, would not let them wear the name or number of the beast, as a sign that they worshiped him, as a sign that they trusted only in the words and will of that beast. By refusing to worship the beast or his image, and by not putting the mark of the beast on their foreheads or hands, the worshipers of the beast deemed them to be traitors. And the beast’s blind, manipulated worshipers killed anyone who was not blind like them, through an irrational fear that truths might hinder their national efforts to destroy everyone around them and themselves, through the lying and murdering Satanic ways of the beast.

So the beast and his dupes will behead true Christians and Jews in their Roman kingdom, and in any other land where his dupes might gain the power to do so. They will kill the elect for the falsely perceived “sin” of resisting the will of their wanna-be god. For all of Satan’s puppet dictators have always killed any who do not worship them, because dupes who worship those human wanna-be gods also worship Satan, and Satan’s most core desire is to become the one and only worshiped god ruling over his own destiny and all that the real God created. So, if Satan cannot gain absolute god-like control over someone or something, he will destroy that person or thing, in his vain attempt to deprive the real God of any control over that person or thing. And Satan, along with all his puppets, like to ignore the truth that all spirits maintaining all life on earth are eternal, and cannot die, as well as the truth that God can recreated bodies of flesh and other earthly things whenever He chooses to do so. Therefore, our God Jesus will indeed bring those beheaded martyrs back with Him when He returns His own resurrected flesh to earth. He will return their earthly flesh in the first resurrection.

Now the “sea of glass” most likely refers to a shining floor that is semitransparent and looks like a perfectly calm and very large body of water, since a sea or lake only looks like glass when there are absolutely no winds of false doctrine to disturb it. And this would be the floor of the temple grounds,

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where the throne of our God Jesus is located, and where Jesus is the only true Temple of heaven. All is peaceful there, and all truth has settled into the hearts of these martyrs, as well as into everyone and everywhere else in heaven. Yet these martyrs and all of heaven will be kept pure by the fires in the waters of God’s truth, burning within Jesus and these floors in His temple grounds, as Jesus will teach them His truths in an ever deeper and more effective way throughout eternity. This eternity will be a series of linear times, for rest, perfecting and completing, but where past and future linear times can be accessed at any time, non-linearly, since all times will exist at the same time. This is the place which the previous angel had spoken about (14:13), where His blessings will exist at all times.

The martyred elect will need this rest and purification at the gates of heaven, with the teaching and training of Jesus, before they return to the earth during the first resurrection. For, after they are resurrected into flesh on earth, they will serve as priests of Jesus, possibly during the entire length of the millennium, for more than a thousand years. While they are being refreshed in heaven, these martyrs are also given harps, so they might sing from their hearts and restore their strength. Their service on earth after their resurrection will likely by why only they shall learn the song of Moses, which primarily deals with strategies of just love on earth, where the amoral and loveless mind and body of flesh interferes with behaviors, causing harmful or even deadly sins, even among the elect.

But singing is not only mnemonic device useful for learning. It is often also an exercise engaging both the mind of the spirit and the mind of flesh in the chamber of the soul, which can aid in healing both minds, both emotionally and spiritually. And John learned the names of two songs they sang in his presence. One was “The Song of Moses, the Servant of God,” and the other was “The Song of the Lamb.” For the Lamb of God died on a Roman cross to forgive the unintentional and repented sins committed by His loving elect younger siblings against God’s Law, which restored His close relationship with them, so His Holy Spirit could teach and train their spirits for their salvation and healing, to free them from their enslaving lies and sins. John also provided some words from the songs they were singing, so we might know the songs were filled with prayers and praise for God.

The songs included lines like these: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord and God, the Omnipotent; Just and truthful are Your ways, O King of the ages; Anyone who may not show any reverence at all, Lord, even that one will glorify Your name, because only You are divinely holy, because all the nations will come and fall prostrate before You, because Your just deeds will be made manifest” (15:3-4, ALT, from: · Μεγάλα καὶ θαυμαστὰ τὰ ἔργα σου, κύριε, ὁ θεός, ὁ παντοκράτωρ· δίκαιαι καὶ ἀληθιναὶ αἱ ὁδοί σου, ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν αἰώνων· τίς οὐ μὴ φοβηθῇ, κύριε, καὶ δοξάσει τὸ ⸀ ὄνομά σου, ὅτι μόνος ὅσιος; ὅτι πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἥξουσιν καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν ἐνώπιόν σου, ὅτι τὰ δικαιώματά σου ἐφανερώθησαν). Here John was not likely writing down the words of only one song, but paraphrased verses from both songs, with reference to verses in the Old Testament (Ps. 139:14; Amos 4:13; Deut. 32:4; Jer. 10:7; Ps. 86:9; and so on). Thus, it is most likely that John was simply telling us some of the kinds of things these martyrs wanted us to know, such as that Jesus is the omnipotent God and the “King of the ages,” that He always has been the ultimate Ruler of the earth and the lands of heaven, since the beginning, and always will be. Although many elect do not now respect or even realize His control and influence over their lives, He is the Teacher of their spirits, who governs all that trains them to love. And literally all the elect will glorify His name and love Him eventually, after seeing His works, either after His return to the earth or on the last day.

Then John saw another event take place: “After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened, and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests. And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever, and the

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sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished” (Rev. 15:4-8, ESV).

Here the word ναός is translated as “sanctuary,” but likely should be translated as “temple,” and would refer to the inner part of the temple, where the throne room of our God Jesus is located. This Temple (ναός) belonged to the “tent of witness/testimony in heaven.” Then this “tent” refers to Jesus (see Rev. 21:22). The word “tent” (σκηνή) often figuratively indicated the temporary human body on earth. While in heaven, Jesus’ body was transfigured and made of spiritual substances. But Jesus was about to descend to the earth in a body of material flesh, and His body had become an earthly “tent” again. So Jesus seems to have testified about the beast’s kingdom to the seven angels, just before the temple opened. Then these seven angels came out and the four living creatures, who guarded the throne of Jesus, gave each of the seven angels a bowl of God’s wrath. Each angel was to pour out a plague from his bowl, onto the beast’s kingdom of seven European nations, to express God’s wrath against their unjust murdering of His elect servants among them, and against their other lies and sins.

Now John stated that Jesus is the only Temple in heaven. And John expressed joy about this, because he finally saw Jesus respected as their Lord and King by everyone in heaven. While on earth, Jesus told the elders of the church that “[an entity] greater than the temple is here” (Mat. 12:6). But they did not believe Him, and disrespected Him. Those humanists only respected other human sinners like themselves, and made some into the false heads of their false church, esteeming and serving some sinners as though they were gods. They worshiped heaven’s least esteemed human beings far more than they esteemed Jesus, their God incarnate. So Jesus was a “tent of witness/testimony” on earth at one time, a shelter for the elect on earth, made of earthly materials and worshiped by the true church of Israel as they wandered in the wilderness outside of heaven, as we still do to this very day.

And remember, before Moses, Israel lived in Egypt’s “wilderness,” outside of the promised land, and even became slaves of the pagan unbelievers and idolaters there for a time. Then Moses revealed the attributes of God in the Law from God. But Israel had to wander in the pagan wilderness for another generation because—even after seeing God’s power over all people, living creatures and inanimate substances on earth—they still did not trust in God and in His words. Furthermore, during Israel’s Exodus out of Egypt, and for centuries after they entered their promised land, their worship of God’s presence was done in a tent. That tent held the “Ark of the Covenant,” a wooden chest containing two copies of the Ten Commandments written on stone (i.e., God’s copy and their copy, to indicate that both were bound by it, and that God’s ten archetypal laws were as permanent as stone), a jar of manna (a sign that God would feed their spirits with food from heaven) and Aaron’s staff (a sign that God would shepherd the world through His priesthood of Israel). And only certain Levites were allowed to carry that ark on their own shoulders, symbolizing that the duty of the entire priesthood of Israel was to guard God’s authoritative ways and laws, provide the necessities of life for the people and shepherd the world. So God’s works could only be done by those whom He Himself had chosen.

Consequently, this tent was with them, but was transitory and constantly being moved, needing to be set up and repaired every time it was moved. The priesthood of Israel did not have a consistent and uninterrupted relationship with their God. Then, in the days of David’s son, God let Israel build a permanent stone temple, as a prophecy that a descendant of David’s flesh, our Messiah and God Jesus, would someday permanently dwell in Israel, to rule the entire world through the kind of justice summarized by the Ten Commandments. But, when that happened, Jesus would Himself write a fulfilled version of that same Law from God in our hearts and on our minds, by establishing an eternal New Covenant with His international priesthood of Israel, to replace the temporary Old Covenant. Our God, the Messiah, would personally teach each of us His full Law, the whole of His

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attributes, and remain among us forever, even after the earth ends. So Jesus’ body of flesh will be a tent among us, a body of human flesh. But He will soon be among us like a stone temple, which will never be torn down nor need to be repaired, permanently dwelling in Israel as the King of the earth.

In our day, the true church is to take up the priorities of true priests of God: to administer restoring, equitable, loving justice; feed the spirits of God’s people with the truths of God; and shepherd souls into the abundant life of godly loving and being loved. Our primary goal is to build up God’s loving kingdom on earth, although we also need to nullify the lying, murdering works of Satan at the same time. These are the priorities of the “royal priesthood,” which is now called true Christianity, and the priorities of our eternal High Priest, Jesus. These are the works that the spirits of all true members of Christ’s household deeply long to do, above all else. And the physical ark in the physical tent that Israel carried from place to place, was actually a symbol of what our Messiah and God Jesus brought to this earth, both through His Holy Spirit from the beginning of human existence and in His body of flesh during the first century. The ark in the tent represents the perfected attributes of the Creator’s true, elect priesthood and their eternal High Priest, the Messiah Jesus, empowered and guarded by elect spirits of angels, whom our heavenly Father sends. God designed this to convey a message with meanings we could comprehend and ponder. The tent represented the body of the Messiah and God, Jesus, while the ark in it represented His heart and our hearts in Him, the thoughts of all our spirits.

The tent and stone temple of God represented Himself dwelling in a human body among all of the Father’s elect children on the earth, with His taught and trained priesthood of elect within Him. For, from the ancient times of Abraham and Job, biblical tradition referred to our temporary bodies of flesh as “tents” (e.g., Job 4:21; Ps. 52:5; II Cor. 5:1-5). After we die and enter the promised land of heaven, our bodies will be made of an infinitely more permanent, solid, spiritual substance, which can be like comparing stone to the animal skins and fabrics of a tent. Yet our bodies will still be mobile, like “tents,” merely not be as fragile, weak and prone to sin, not needing frequent repairs, like our earthly “tents” of flesh. So the heavenly temple-tent in this prophecy of the Revelation is clearly figurative and, as is confirmed later (Rev. 21:22), the “tent” is Jesus in a body of human flesh, about to come back to earth after the seven angels destroy the beast’s kingdom with His seven bowls of the Father’s wrath. It means the time of His return is imminent and Satan’s earthly kingdom will soon be taken away from the earth, for the seven bowls of His wrath will pour out very quickly.

Here the tent of Jesus will be opened to the seven angels, meaning He shall openly reveal and fully proclaim to them the reasons for His wrath against the beast’s lands and all the wicked, selfish souls in them. For the sake of the elect, whose spirits remained lost and ignorant of His Gospel while those saboteurs confused and nullified His words, Jesus had to remain silent for a long time. But, by this day in the end times, He will have finally completely separated the elect from the non-elect, and the priesthood of His true church will have parted from the fake churches. His true Gospel and His New Covenant salvation will be known throughout the whole earth. So now His wrath could be finished.

For millenniums, Jesus had to endure the sight of the wicked causing pain and death for the flesh of His beloved siblings in His family of God. Jesus had to watch slanderers unjustly enslave and kill their flesh for millenniums. Yet the wicked could never truly destroy His elect, since all will receive the healing, completing and perfecting of their spirits at heaven’s gates on the last day, as well as new and much stronger spiritual bodies after their flesh dies. None of the elect can actually die, and the death of their flesh is always a great gain for literally all of them. Jesus also cared for their bodies of flesh, while teaching and training their spirits on the earth. And Jesus knew life in the flesh, in a body of flesh that entered the one time of earth, which consists of all its past and future times. And His flesh experienced all the spiritual attacks of Satan, as well as the emotional and physical pains

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that Satan’s kingdom caused through those lies. So Jesus empathizes with us, feels all that we feel when we are attacked. Jesus has always been just as hurt as we are, whenever the wicked force us to partake in His suffering on the cross. Yet He always had to lock all that pain inside His heart, until the time came when He could provide enough truth for the elect to repent and divide from the non-elect, whose sins were deliberate and unrepentant. Yet, since the genuine Gospel will have reached the entire world by this time, the heart of Jesus will open wide to pour out His wrath, without limit.

The original Greek text (καὶ ἐξῆλθον οἱ ἑπτὰ ἄγγελοι οἱ ἔχοντες τὰς ἑπτὰ πληγὰς ἐκ τοῦ ναοῦ), means “the seven angels having the seven plagues departed/came out/went out of/from the temple” (Rev. 15:6). The prepositional phrase (ἐκ with a genitive object) here seems to indicate “from.” That is, this prepositional phrase appears to reveal the source of the power and authority to inflict “the seven plagues,” tells us where this action originated from. Since the “temple” is Jesus, and cannot possibly be anyone or anything else, the translation of this clause, in context, would be something like this: “the seven angels, those having the seven plagues [and the power and authority to inflict them] originating from the Temple, departed.” John was simply telling us that the seven angels came to the foreground, after being in the background. And these angels received the power and the authority to inflict plagues upon the people whom Jesus commanded them to destroy. This power and authority to inflict these plagues came from one source, from Jesus, who is figuratively called “the Temple.”

All the Scriptures rely on both the local and global context for an accurate interpretation. So this should be interpreted by looking at the context, how this text relates to the next verse (v. 7) and to Rev. 21:22. And it cannot actually mean that the seven angels came out of an inanimate building called a temple or sanctuary. Nor were the angels carrying the bowls of wrath when they came out. For the next verse tells us that these angels were given their bowls of wrath later, by one of the “four living creatures,” and those bowls were “full of the wrath of God.” Then God’s power carried out the actions of the plagues against the beast’s European kingdom, not His wrath directly. Each bowel of wrath represented a reason for God’s power causing each plague, but was not each physical plague itself. Thus, when the angels came into the foreground, and John saw them as they departed from the Temple, from Jesus, this occurred after Jesus granted the seven angels, who were all standing in a group beside Him, His power and authority to pour out the wrath. Then He would cause the plagues.

Since the seven angels did not yet have the bowls filled with His wrath, it was only their power and authority to pour out God’s wrath which came from the Temple (who is Jesus, our God). Just as Jesus gave His disciples the power and authority to do miracles in His name (i.e., each according to His commands to their spirits, but where His power actually performed those works), Jesus here gave these seven angels His power and His authority to reveal His wrath to all those observing what would He would do to the beast’s kingdom, when His power inflicted the seven physical plagues on those physical lands. Also notice how Jesus gave all seven angels this power and authority at the same time, and how one the “four living creatures” then gave each bowl of God’s wrath to each of the seven at the same time. Therefore, the granting of these seven bowls will be one series of events occurring within one brief period of time near the end of the beast’s reign, all within the seventh trumpet’s period of time, and the seventh trumpet’s period of time occurs in the seventh seal’s era.

These seven angels, who pour out God’s wrath causing death and destruction in the beast’s kingdom, are described as having garments of “pure, bright linen.” This signifies a holy work, and all holy works are loving works of God. So even this death and destruction of the beast’s slandering, ruthless, murdering people and kingdom were holy and loving deeds of God, designed to put an end to the lies and sins against the innocent. Thus, neither our God Jesus nor His people are pacifists, but are just and loving when they prevent unrepentant non-elect psychopaths from committing evil deeds.

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The garments worn by the seven angels are symbolic. In heaven, Jesus grants garments made of spiritual substances. And those garments represent the holy and righteous attributes of those wearing them. God has always used outer garments to symbolically represent inner attributes, and also the kinds of decision-making authority He has granted. For instance, God told human priests to wear symbolic sashes around their lower chest, much like the golden sashes these angels wore, to indicate that He bears and enforces His power and authority all around them, that He will work through them.

Thus, these angels will be elect, holy, loving, good, authoritative and empowered servants of God, obedient to God, like true priests. They are not mere cold-blooded killers or soldiers sent out to slaughter an enemy and blindly obeying orders. Rather, they are all informed by Jesus regarding all the reasons for their actions, exactly why and how they were to perform them. Yes, they will do this odious task of pouring out God’s wrath, which will reveal the reasons for seven deadly plagues upon the beast’s kingdom. But each one’s duty will last only for a moment in the eternal existence of those seven angels. And the rest of their eternal times in heaven, all seven will minister to the truly living.

The principal ministry of these seven angels obviously will involve something much more complex and positive in nature than simply flying to a specied location and pouring out a bowel of fluids. So, since these intelligent and authoritative decision-making angels do God’s will by pouring out those bowls of wrath, it means that they will be doing something like actually explaining the reasons for God’s wrath against the beast’s kingdom, to the elect in the true church. For it is ultimately Jesus who, through the plagues, will cause the physical death and destruction of all the beast’s people, and He will want His people to know why He must do this. Many false churches and unbelievers portray Jesus as a weak little pacifistic lamb who is far too timid, simple-minded and feeble to destroy the grand, inflated egos of the wicked, to stop them from accomplishing whatever unjust and evil deeds they choose to do. They think Jesus is such a meek little lamb that He needs deluded churchians and angels to protect Him and fight for Him. So they take up the roles of heroes and gods, pretending to be greater, smarter and more powerful on earth than Jesus. Some even think they are the most devout and loving servants of God on earth, the most faithful human beings, greater than the real God or His elect angels, since they find it easy to kill and destroy those whom they slander and falsely portray as God’s enemies. But their judgments are based on willful ignorance, on the preferred lies they tell to themselves and to others. And all their thoughts come from Satan, or other demons like Mammon.

The awakened elect and God’s angels do not do such things. They realize that, in reality, their acts of necessary destruction require far less intelligence and effort than their works of building up loving and just communities for God. And their first and foremost priority is to build up, not destroy and kill, although both kinds of works are required while Satan and his offspring dwell on this planet. Furthermore, the awakened elect priests in God’s true church of Israel realize that all knowledge, wisdom and judgments they can possibly possess originate from the teaching, training, power and authority of their Lord and God Jesus, never from their own infantile spirits or weak minds of flesh.

It takes far less intelligence and strength to kill a person than it does to nurture, teach, protect and love a sibling in the family of humankind. And it is especially difficult if that sibling is an elect soul who is deceived into lying and sinning, until Jesus awakens that sibling and he or she becomes more spiritually mature. So the greatness and strength which the wanna-be gods of churches and nations boast about is a total delusion, and actually reveals their vast spiritual weakness, because they have none of God’s truth and power in them, nor working through them. The wicked are actually the most ignorant, foolish, weak and useless beings on earth, and most of the non-elect are parasites, more destructive and less valuable to God than the spirits of plants and animals. But the loving elect do not cling to such delusions, but are repulsed by them, and seek all that Jesus provides. The elect

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respect and fear Jesus. For we know no power exists that cannot be instantly subdued or destroyed by Him. There is no life that Jesus cannot personally manipulate, delude, imprison or outright kill instantly through His own will and power. Yet Jesus hates to do those easy kinds of works of death and destruction. For Jesus is loving, intelligent, wise and powerful. His favorite activity is building up life, which is the most difficult, taxing, insanely complex and challenging kind of work possible.

So first Jesus told the seven angels the reasons for His wrath, so they could reveal those reasons to His awakened elect on earth. Then He gave them the power and authority to do that work, before His power inflicted the plagues on the beast’s kingdom. This is surely what it meant when it declared that the angels departed from the Temple, from Jesus. The four guards of Jesus’ throne actually gave the seven bowls of God’s wrath to the seven angels, so everyone in heaven and on earth might see why God was going to pour out these plagues upon the wicked as they poured them out. But these bowls will merely contain the reasons proving that our God Jesus will be justified in sending those plagues, and will indicate that it is the right and appointed time to inflict these plagues upon those deliberately lying murderers and torturers. Then, immediately after the seven angels will be granted these bowls, Jesus will command them to pour the bowls on the beast’s lands, through His own authority as their God. So all the actions of the angels will be for the purposes and glory of Jesus.

And notice how God’s wrath was figuratively placed in “bowls” or “cups” (φιάλας). So God’s wrath is likened to a strong alcoholic beverage, which was served in “bowls” back then. It is likened to that which dulls the thoughts and judgments of the people who drink it, which deludes or inhibits their normal mode of thinking. And the beast’s people will be forced to “drink” God’s wrath—to be filled with fear as they realize His utter condemnation, until they stagger and fall in terror, confusion and uninhibited rants against God, resulting from their overwhelming anxiety and dread, like fools drunk on hard liquor. Meanwhile, the Tent, the earthly body of Jesus, will overflow with God’s glory and power and descend to the earth as the last of His wrath is poured out to destroy Satan’s world order.

Clearly, John is using figurative ecclesiastical language here. Just as God descended onto Mount Sinai with fire and smoke, so none could tread upon it (Ex. 19:18), the earthly tabernacle or tent of Jesus will be filled with a cloud of smoke and the glory of God, so none could enter it (Ex. 40:34-35; I Kings 8:10-11). Jesus will be filled with impenetrable glory and unstoppable wrath against evil at this time, so none will be able to “enter” Him during the last few weeks or months before His return. In other words, none will be able to repent to Him while the seven bowls of His wrath are being poured out on the beast’s kingdom, although He will be able to reach out to all His elect during this time. For His Holy Spirit’s works of comfort, teaching and training for His elect never cease. But the elect Jews belonging to the Old Covenant church on earth will not repent to Jesus until His wrath has completed the destruction of the beast’s armies in Israel. Only then will all Israel enter His salvation.

As we interpret the Revelation, we must avoid speculations, hasty conclusions and materialistic interpretations. And I admit, I may sometimes speculate more than I should. But, considering the local and global contest of this prophecy, John is not describing the Tent or Temple in heaven as structures made of inanimate materials, but as someone who informs and speaks to those seven angels before they embark on their mission. The Temple is Jesus, and the Tent must be His body. For heaven is a completely different space-time continuum, and the earth is merely a temporary facsimile which contains only some representations of things in heaven, but also some evils found in hell too. So we cannot automatically assume that tents and temples are the earthly structures found on earth.

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hell. Physical reality on earth merely represents some of what exists in heaven and hell, in a temporary and approximate way. The reason God made the earth to resemble heaven and hell, in some of those aspects, was because He intended to use the earth as a training ground for the eternal spirits of His elect human children, and for the other eternal spirits of life on earth, such as the life-giving spirits of plants and animals, to prepare all these spirits for their lives and works in heaven.

Thus, as a place to train spirits for works in heaven, earth and heaven share at least some aspects in common. But God allows evil to exist together with good on earth, because it is a training ground, where adversities affecting our temporary flesh trains our spirits to be stronger, wiser and more mature as we pass through our perceptions of time on earth. Yet God never allows any evil in heaven. Only that which is good and pleasing to God is gathered into the sphere of heaven, while all that is evil and offensive to God is gathered into the sphere of hell. Then God placed an impassible gulf between heaven and hell. This gulf may allow a spirit to peer into the other sphere, but a spirit can never pass from one to the other. Once the elect enter the gates of heaven, God will never expel any of them from heaven, will never cast any elect into hell. And the non-elect can never escape hell.

Of course, every good living creation of God experiences spirits on earth who were made to be their opposites, the demonic fallen spirits called demons and the human offspring of those demons, made to be evil. For this is how God trains His elect spirits to grow a greater cherishing and love for His good and loving creations and for Himself, much more than they could if they had never experienced any evil that opposes His attributes and will. So some of God’s earthly living creatures need to be the opposite of God, missing the good attributes of God, especially His attribute of love. God created some creatures that cannot love, but all those are non-elect human beings. That is, all the spirits of plants and animals can love in different ways, although they cannot discern between good and evil, because only elect human spirits were created in God’s image, with the ability know and partake in the thoughts and attributes of God, with the capacity to know what God’s Spirit loves and hates. So animals experiencing evil on earth will be joyful and more greatly appreciate their eternal lives in heaven, but not in the deeper and more full way that God’s elect and beloved children will do so.

But, if God created only what was good on earth, as a temporary facsimile of heaven, if God did not create Satan and allow him to create loveless human spirits who could work evil on earth, then none could learn to fully and truly appreciate His good creations while living on earth, nor even learn to fully cherish His truly loving created spirits, nor even Himself. And life on earth would serve no real purpose at all. For the only reason we call something good is because we compare it to something bad. If all was good, then nothing would seem good. Rather, all existence would seem mundane, possibly even futile, empty, purposeless and worthless. Also, in the same way we do not appreciate things that seem to have no relevance or purpose in our eyes, until we discover how critical those things are to our lives, we do not cherish the truths and principles of God, nor the loving spirits He created, until we experience the lies and actions which oppose those good truths and beneficial principles or those loving spirits. Furthermore, no spirits animating flesh on earth can be merely “neutral,” and it certainly is not true that all humans were created “good” until they became evil through “free will” choosing to interpret experiences in earthly life. For neutrality itself only exists as that which can be used for either good and evil. Thus, only inanimate things can be truly neutral.

We must realize that, without the contrasts of good and evil on earth, nothing good and meaningful can possibly exist in a way that we would truly cherish, neither in heaven nor on earth. Without these extremes, there could never possibly be anything that any spirit’s will would ever learn to desire and strive after with the spirit’s zeal. All creatures would lose purpose, and have no ability to find any purpose. Even in heaven, we will need to often remember our past earthly experience with both good

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and evil, the love and lack of love we experienced there, even down into hell to observe how those loveless beings, striving to be gods through their dark lies and delusions, produced only torment for themselves. If God did not create Satan, hell and evil, we could never increase our desires for good.

We need choices before we can have desires. And we must have desires before we develop our own wills to make those choices. So God must create the wills of elect spirits with a propensity to desire His good and love, then shape our wills, through His teaching and training of our spirits, so we can learn to desire good and love. Eventually, God causes us to desire all that is related to His kind of love. And, to do this, God had to make opposites of all His good and loving creations, the opposites of spirits who can build love upon truths, even opposites of Himself. Otherwise, no elect will could ever grow genuine love for Him, no or for anyone or anything else. For, although God knows what is is or is not Himself, we would not be able to know that without experiencing what is of God and what is not of God, as our spirits perceive experiences of life on earth. The human elect were made in the image of God, so our infantile spirits possess the “genetic” potential to know what is known in the mind of God, the inherent ability to discern between good and evil. However, our lifetimes on this earth provide the teaching and training of our spirits, so we might learn to discern between good and evil, while developing an ever-growing closer relationship with our God, Jesus and our Father,

Thus, on earth, we not only experience opposite spirits existing side by side, but also things that are neutral, inanimate things that can be used for either good or evil, things that require us to make choices about how we will use them. Through all this, God trains and shapes the wills of the minds of our spirits. And God personally educates our spirits, through His final and eternal New Covenant promises, in order to build up our close relationship with Him. Then a time comes when we will no longer need this training on earth, and we will go to a “school” at the gates of heaven, where all will be explained in detail, so that, with our improved new spiritual bodies, we will know and act with a completed and perfected knowledge and wisdom. After that, we will enter into heaven’s mainland, into our eternal home, and begin to wisely apply that knowledge in our works that we will do beside our oldest Brother and Father. This is the ultimate goal of our salvation, to be like God in our works and in our thoughts, to be one with Him, to share His joy in serving all of His eternal good creations.

Heaven and hell are the extremes of all God’s creations. In heaven, everything is good. In hell, absolutely nothing good exists, not even a neutral grain of sand, since the loveless non-elect spirits there would find some way of using it for evil purposes. Hell is for Satan, his fallen angels and the spirits of his children, a vacuum, a bottomless pit for them and their dark delusions. Because they are in hell, where nothing “neutral” exists, nothing neutral can be used for evil. But, since those spirits only desire to be gods, who can use and abuse both other spirits and neutral things in the ways their own evil wills desire, they will torture one another and grow infinitely frustrated because they will have nothing neutral to use or abuse for their loveless purposes. Meanwhile, in heaven, the elect will love God and one another more and more each moment, as well as the spirits of life from earth and the angels. Even the common neutral things there will be used for good alone, and will become holy.

It is only because opposites exist side by side on earth, that earth can be used for the teaching and training of elect spirits, for educational purposes. It is a temporary place where elect human spirits, together other created spirits of plants and animals, can learn to love God, God’s ways and God’s other living and inanimate creations. Our wills grow as we learn to desire God and His kind of just love, because we experience the pains of evil caused by the words and works of Satan, of his hord of demons and his human children. Yet evil’s darkness of delusions and lies, and its effects of suffering and death, can never enter or even touch heaven. For God is almighty, and does not allow evil there.

 

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Now, at the time that John wrote down this Revelation, John was taken up to heaven itself, to see heaven’s reality; the source of all the holy spiritual substances in heaven, the source of all the spiritual light of truth, and the power that holds all things together, causing all to function perfectly there, for all eternity. Whether he was there only in spirit, or in his transfigured body, John saw Jesus Jesus face to face. So John figuratively called Jesus the only Temple in heaven, since Jesus performs the same function in heaven that the physical temple did in Israel. For the presence of God’s Spirit actually dwelt in the earthly Jewish temple, and represented God to the people, served as a source of God’s light of truth and power, which brought peace and loving justice to them. The temple placed God’s name on earth, God in and among His priesthood, just as Jesus is eternally in and among us.

And, since Jesus and the Father are both the source of all light, peace and loving justice in heaven, and heaven’s Temple is Jesus, where our heavenly Father dwells (Rev. 21:22), both Jesus and our Father are One, each inseparably the whole of the one Creator God relating to us as two Persons. The temple on earth was a temporary representation of this, of our eldest Brother and Lord of our lives, as well as the Father of our spirits. And Jesus will soon return to this earth, in a body of flesh, as the true and eternal Temple on earth, until the earth ends. He will remind us that our God and our permanent home is actually in the genuine reality of heaven. We must remember this, lest we might revere earthly temples instead of focusing entirely upon our God, His realities and our true home.

Yes, Jesus, overflowing with glory and power, will send seven angels with seven destroying and killing plagues upon the beast’s lands. And Jesus’ power and authority will cause these deadly and painful plagues. But they will be done for the truly just and, therefore, loving purposes of God. Each plague will demonstrate God's wrath against evil, so the awakened elect and the beast's people will know, with all certainty, that God will not tolerate loveless evil against His beloved elect or against any of His other good creations. Many non-elect spirits like to delude their minds of flesh into thinking that their own spirits do not exist, and that a Creator Spirit does not exist. But their spirits know that they exist and God exists—just as the spirit of Satan, their lying and murdering father, knows God exists, and trembles at the mention of His name. Likewise, God will force the citizens of the beast’s kingdom to realize these facts as He sends His seven plagues upon them. Of course, not all plagues occur due to the wrath of God. God sometimes sends plagues for training purposes, or to discipline His children, or for other reasons. But there will be no mistake about these plagues. All will know they are sent due to God's wrath. Jesus will release His fury against those wicked souls.

By the way, as mentioned, since Jesus speaks to the seven angels at the same time, and a “living creature” gives each a bowl in the same short period of time, it is just one event occurring within the time of the seventh trumpet, and all the seventh trumpet’s events occur within the era of the seventh seal. So the doctrine which teaches that these seven bowls are just reiterations of the seven seals and seven trumpets, telescoped in a so-called “Semitic” numbering system, is proven false. Besides, the plagues of the seven bowls differ from the plagues of the seven trumpets and seven seals. Some may resemble one another, but the seven bowls of wrath strike only the beast’s kingdom, while the plagues of the seven trumpets and seven seals are world-wide, and vary greatly in duration. Each bowl brings a very brief, new and unique plague upon a specific group of people, upon the beast’s followers in his European kingdom. The first five plagues of God’s wrath, and the seventh, fall only upon the beast's people during the last two or three months of his reign. Then the sixth plague draws the beast’s allies to him, to be destroyed with him. Consequently, interpretations by the “Semitic numbering system,” which telescope the seven bowls, seven trumpets and seven seals into only one series of seven events, is definitely wrong and must be discarded. The revealed facts in this prophecy force us to take John's heptary numbering system literally. For it is obvious that all the events of all

 

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seven bowls occur within the time of the seventh trumpet, and all the events of all seven trumpets will occur within the era of the seventh seal. This was indeed using a heptary numbering system.

A heptary numbering system (base 7) was employed by the Jews and other cultures for timekeeping, since a week consists of seven days, the seventh week begins the Pentecost, the seventh year is a Sabbath year, and the seventh Sabbath year is a year of Jubilee. So times are divided into sevens, in the Jewish timekeeping system. And most of the lesser series of sevens are embedded within the the last or seventh unit of a higher order of time measurement. That is, the seventh year becomes the Sabbath year, and the seventh Sabbath year becomes the Jubilee. Likewise, the seven events of the bowls of wrath are embedded in the events of the seventh trumpet, and the events of the seven trumpets are embedded in the era of the seventh seal. And the numerals in these heptary numbering systems begin with one, not with a zero, since 0 to 7 is actually eight numbers. They can only begin with the first day, since there was no such thing as a day or year that can be called a zero day or zero year. So a mathematical heptary numbering system would use a number of the second order (21) to represent the first unit of the second series of seven, equivalent to the 8th unit in a decimal system. Or we might use a system like 2:1, or Roman numerals with numbers (II:1), to represent the first unit in the second series of seven, instead of 21. So the sequence would be: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31 and so on. Or we could replace the 21 and 31 with 2:1 and 3:1, or with II:1 and III.1.

Below, I will use upper-case Roman numerals to indicate the third power of seven, that is, to represent the eras of the seven seals. Then I will use Arabic numerals to indicate the second power of seven, that is, to represent the times of the seven trumpets. Lastly, I will use lower-case Roman numerals to indicate the first power of seven, that is, to represent the times of the seven bowls of wrath. That is, to recognize John’s heptary timekeeping system, each of the seven bowls of wrath will be represented by a number like VII:7:i, which represents the plague of the first bowl of wrath, which occurs in the time of the seventh trumpet, which occurs within the era of the seventh seal. So “VII” represents is the era of the era of the seventh seal, “7” represents the period of the seventh trumpet, and “i” represents the plague of the first bowl of God’s wrath. I know this seems to be unnecessarily convoluted and complicated, but it is important to realize that it is a heptary system.

The prophecy about the seven bowls of wrath begins by saying that the first bowl will be poured out on the “earth.” But here the word “earth” (γῆ) would be better translated as “dry land,” since these seven plagues will not affect the whole “earth.” All seven bowls will only be poured out on “the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image” (16:3). And the only ones on earth who will bear the mark of the beast will be the citizens of the seven nations belonging to the beast’s European kingdom, primarily as a means of his autocratic economic control over his own lands. All the other nations on earth will have completely different economic systems and do not worship him.

The first five bowls of God’s wrath against the beast’s kingdom are brief acts causing suffering for his citizens. And, by this point in time, all his citizens will be in complete agreement with that beast, all avid zealous supporters and enablers of the beast. All will be one with the ruthless, demonically controlled beast, and will have already slaughtered or expelled all the opponents of the beast in their entire kingdom. So all will be entirely culpable for all the lying and murdering done by their beast.

The sixth and seventh bowls of wrath initiate the beast’s attack against Israel and the Middle East with his international armies. Because many other prophecies also relate to them, these last two bowls of wrath will require more lengthy explanations, with references to those other Scriptures.

VII.7.i. The First Bowl of God's Wrath:

 

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God's wrath is against secular humanists who worship the mortal beast as their highest god, trusting him to ultimately shape their destinies, as they also worship themselves. God will make an example of their ruthlessness in torturing and murdering their siblings in the family of humankind, which they have done to make themselves feel like powerful gods, for their own pleasures. God will cast the same pains upon them that they caused for others, and plunder their possessions, which they stole from their neighbors. God will strike at what is most precious to humanists, their bodies of flesh, which they worship carefully and with much reverence, which they highly esteem and rely upon to provide them with all they can use to gratify their selfish desires and arrogance of their own flesh.

Revelation 16:2 (ESV): “So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the [land], and

harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and

worshipped its image.”

Let me point out once more that this, and all the subsequent bowls of wrath, will only be poured out upon “the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped his image,” not upon all the people of the “earth.” God begins by striking the citizens of the beast’s kingdom with a plague of painful sores or tumors on their flesh. The sores also cause injurious effects (κακός), likely permanently marring their flesh. Thus, God strikes at their vanity too. So the first priority of God’s wrath is to directly and openly condemn their obsession with catering only to the selfish ambitions and desires of their flesh. And this is also an obvious sign that God will not show mercy for the flesh of those who showed no mercy when they tortured and murdered the flesh of His elect children and His other creations. Throughout the next few weeks or months, while all seven bowls pour out upon the beast’s kingdom, the pain of these sores on their flesh will replace the pleasures of the flesh they sought for their flesh. This pain will not cease until Jesus kills them all, until the beast’s entire kingdom is gone.

VII.7.ii. The Second Bowl of God's Wrath:

Revelation 16:3 (ESV): “The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became

like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.”

Keep in mind that these plagues of God’s wrath are specifically against the people and the power of the beast, since it declares this in verses 2, 6 and 10, and by saying that all “these plagues” fall on the same group of people (16:9). Thus, when it says the sea (singular) turns to “blood,” it must refer to the one “sea” which belongs to the beast's Roman or European kingdom of seven nations. That is, it must refer to the Mediterranean Sea, which his dominant world power would control with absolute authority by this time. And making its waters become “like the blood of a corpse” probably means that the Mediterranean will be polluted with iron oxide from a “heavenly” source, that is, most likely from meteors falling from the sky. This would also kill much of the marine life in it, causing a great stench around the beast’s lands. During the last half of his rule, the beast and his people beheaded Christians and Jews, as though those loving, just souls were his enemies. Since they made a “sea” of blood by killing God's people, their own beloved and much enjoyed Mediterranean becomes blood.

VII.7.iii. The Third Bowl of God's Wrath:

Revelation 16:4-7 (ESV): “The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the

springs of water, and they became blood. And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say,

‘Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for You brought these judgments. For they

have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. It is

what they deserve!’ And I heard the altar saying, ‘Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just

are your judgments!’”

 

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When this says that they receive this plague because “they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,” this shedding of blood refers to the beast’s persecutions of the true Christians in his kingdom during the last half of his seven-year reign. For the beast, with the full cooperation of his worshiping citizens, will behead the awakened elect then, including their “prophets” who will speak God’s words to that kingdom. So this fact also indicates why these plagues will fall only upon the beast’s lands. Also, when this prophesies that the rivers and springs of water turn to “blood,” it only refers to fresh water sources in the beast's European kingdom. And this also seems to be caused by fragmenting meteors “from heaven,” polluting the waters with iron oxide, turning the water red. And this judgment will force the beast's kingdom to drink the blood of the beheaded believers they killed.

VII.7.iv. The Fourth Bowl of God's Wrath:

Revelation 16:8-9 (ESV): “The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was

allowed to scorch people with fire. They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed

the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give Him

glory.”

God will plague the beast’s kingdom with an extreme heat wave, while they are also suffering from a lack of potable water to drink, since their fresh water sources will be turned to “blood.” They will also not be able to cool themselves by swimming in the sea, since that too will be polluted with “blood.” Since the beast's kingdom inflicted the “heat” of death threats upon Christians and Jews, relentlessly and without mercy, without providing any means of escape or relief for them, God will not grant mercy to them either. They shall reap the harvest they sowed, constant heat without relief.

Notice how these secular humanists, these God-mocking atheists who are all just like the beast by this time, will still be fully aware of the existence of the real God. For they will curse “the name of the God who had power over these plagues.” They will not curse the “gods” of any other religions, nor their own worshiped human god called the beast. Rather, they will specifically curse the one real God by name. So even the non-elect spirits of those lying, murdering atheists will know the God of the Bible is the real Creator God, the God who brought these plagues upon them because of their lies and sins. Just like Satan their father, their spirits are always aware that the one real God exists. All their spirits know this, with absolute certainty, and that Israel’s God condemns them. For they would not hate and curse Him unless their hearts knew He existed. The worship of God is not a superstition or delusion, but a genuine, permanent, inner awareness of the actual reality of God and His creations.

Scriptures say the beast will worship no gods except himself. Thus, he will be what we now call an atheistic secular humanist. And his citizens will be atheists too. But, in reality, the spirits of atheists actually know that God exists, while their own spirits delude their minds of flesh into thinking that the Spirit of God and their own spirits do not exist. Since they want to be their own gods, they tell themselves there is no real Creator God and they can live entirely for their flesh, doing only what is expedient for themselves. And this is the purest form of Satan’s religion of humanism, since it allows his duped puppet people to build kingdoms for themselves, where they exalt themselves as superior gods over their siblings in humankind, producing virtual or literal slave societies that can exploit others and God’s creations. Then some humanists grudgingly admit that the spirits of men and gods exist, but also lie to themselves about those spirits, to make themselves believe they are gods who are able to control the behaviors of those other spirits and do whatever they desire for themselves.

Similar kinds of delusions have existed in the hearts of men since the days of Cain and Abel. But Satan perfected those kinds of lies in Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, by developing his efficient religion of hierarchical humanism, to cause his dupes to build more massive, ruthless, oppressive,

 

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destructive slave societies on earth. For that devil’s greatest pleasure is to bind or destroy the good creations of God, especially God’s elect children, and to torment the lives of all other living spirits on earth, since it makes Satan feel like a powerful god when he can cause men to do this. So the best way for that malignant spirit to sabotage God’s good on earth was to further delude sinners, whom God handed over him. First he made them into entirely blinded and manipulated slaves, without any wills of their own. Then he made them think they were actually almighty gods, who controlled their own destinies, and even the destinies of all those whom they could deceive or terrorize into bowing before them. Of course, those human “gods” actually became the weakest and most useless parasites on earth, who could only survive by sucking the life-blood from others. But their delusions made those slaves of demonic spirits think they were in control, even when all the spiritual and physical realities existing all around them proved otherwise. Even as those humanistic kings, despots, lords, popes, priests and other wanna-be gods laid their heads below the feet of demons like Mammon and various other spirits ruling over their carnal desires, they still somehow thought they were in control.

So the demonically controlled beast will be nothing more than just another parasitic slave of Satan, building a destructive empire for himself, so he can delude himself into thinking he is a god. That weak fool will be an atheistic humanist, knowing that God exists, but he will allow his own damned non-elect eternal spirit convince his mind of flesh that nothing exists except his spirit’s perceptions of the material universe, which God controls in the mind of his spirit. And, after that beast has killed or expelled all those who oppose his delusions, only the people who are deluded atheistic secular humanists will remain in his kingdom. Therefore, all in that kingdom will be lying, murdering parasites just like that beast, all just as culpable for the lies and sins of that kingdom as the beast.

Now some might now say, “But, if they are all deluded puppets of Satan, it is not their fault that they lie and sin. It is Satan’s fault. And why couldn’t God free them from those lies and delusions, to save them from suffering and dying when the seven bowls of God’s wrath pour on them?” Well, God first handed those citizens of the beast’s kingdom, and all humanists, over to Satan because they were unrepentant sinners. None of their spirits desired or heeded the truths that God clearly revealed in His spiritual and physical creations, nor the wisdom of His Word. And, actually, many elect spirits among them will repent, either during the end times or at the gates of heaven on the last day. Yet the vast majority of the beast’s citizens will have non-elect spirits, created by Satan in his image, and Satan was a liar and murderer from the beginning. So those non-elect will never possess even the slightest desire to repent into the truth, and never build up just, God-like love within themselves. So there is nothing left for them except to be eternally separated from all God’s good creations in hell, where none can ever again exploit, imprison, oppress, torture or corrupt any of those good creations.

Atheistic humanists are not innocent, since their spirits actually know that God exists, and that spirits maintain the life in all living entities. For, if life did not dependent upon eternal non-material spirits, as they claim, and if life had only brains of flesh, as they claim, nothing “abstract,” such as concepts of good or evil, and especially the non-emotional actions of consistent love or hate, could actually exist either. Yet non-material “abstract” things definitely do exist, and it is only those “abstracts” which motivate all the actions of all life on earth. And these “abstracts” exist apart from all desires and needs of the material flesh, since material flesh actually possesses no genuine motive to exist, no more than a brainless inanimate rock on Mars has any motive to exist. In fact, the only reason all that exists can exist is if a non-material or spiritual Creator caused it all to exist, for His own purposes alone. And a Creator God did create all, which is why even the animals survive and multiply, solely through their spirits’ love and hate, even though animals can never develop any real consciousness of good and evil. Then human beings also survive and multiply because their elect and non-elect human

 

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spirits are motivated to keep themselves alive through their own love or hate. But humans have an acute awareness of good and evil too, which either condemns or excuses their actions before God.

If love or hate and good or evil could never be perceived, we could suspect that there might not be non-material entities like spirits or a Creator God. But, even then, that would be an irrational idle speculation, based entirely on what we do not see or do not want to see. It would not be based on any real empirical evidence, interpreted through rational inductive or deductive reasoning. And, if only material things existed, we also would realize that literally everything is utterly meaningless, which is what atheists actually do. Atheists love to reason that their lies and sins are meaningless, without any meaningful consequences for themselves, even as they eagerly desire and pursue whatever they deem to be meaningful to themselves. Yet they cannot justify what is meaningful to themselves in any real rational way either, since their own existence is utterly meaningless in the eyes of all others.

If we were truly rational beings, and if it were indeed true that no God and no spirits exist, then we would have no spirits that could perceive material space-time, which all exists within one time and cannot be perceived by brains of material flesh that are trapped in its timeless existence. And there would be nothing inside us that would want to live and learn about the “abstracts” of life, no longing to grow a morally directing love or hate within ourselves, and no compulsion to war against either evil or good. Nor would a rational being possess even enough motivation to continue to do anything for one’s own survival. We would see love and hate as foolish, empty, useless emotions of the flesh, and would consider them to be nothing. And we would have no love, hatred or fear of God, nor of God’s people, nor of anything else. So there would be no reason for any morals. Nor could we even desire pleasures for our flesh, since pleasures would be meaningless and temporary, followed by pain and death, certainly not worth the effort of living. But humanists, especially atheists, are not rational.

Humanists do love themselves and love their lies. They do want to live, and even want to be the gods of their own lives, while justifying their sins by falsely reasoning that morals and love are merely emotions of the flesh, which they have “bravely” and “rationally” overcome. Then they certainly do hate other people and things, even railing against “evil,” which they define as anything which might interfere with their selfish ambitions or pleasures. And all this proves that they do have spirits. All of this must be spiritual, not biological. So the atheistic humanists of the beast’s kingdom will prove, by their irrational hatred of God and His people, that they do indeed have spirits, and that their spirits are culpable for the lies they believe, the lies which caused them to murder innocent souls. Their love and hate, their desire to live, and their strong belief that they must form self-serving kingdom of the beast as the ultimate purpose of their lives, could only originate from the minds of their spirits, never from their minds of flesh. If any truly believed that absolutely nothing can be morally right or wrong, that love is nothing, that all thoughts are totally meaningless “accidents” produced by mere electronic impulses in brains of flesh, this would nullify every reason to do anything they will do for the beast. It would totally nullify any desire to make any effort for the survival of their society. Thus, all those in the beast’s atheistic secular humanist society will be held guilty for their spiritually evil lies and sins, and literally all of them will be fully aware that it is the real Creator God who will be making them pay for those lies and sins as the plagues of the seven bowls of wrath fall upon them.

Surely, if those atheists truly believed there was no God, and that they had no eternal spirits, they would also believe that their brains of flesh were not capable of any truly rational thoughts either, since they would realize that accidental electrical impulses in brains of flesh can only produce random and meaningless thoughts. And, if they rationally perceived that they were irrational beings, it would not matter to them what anyone else thought or did. If others became religious, why would they care? If anyone chose to think and act as though there were no effective principles governing

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life, no truths created by a Spirit who sought to build an abundant life of loving and being loved for some of His creations, that too would be acceptable to atheists, but not a necessary belief. For all rational beings, who know they are irrational beings, could never even begin to seek to enforce any kind of rules or lifestyle upon anyone else, nor even find any valid reason to keep themselves alive.

So the atheists in the beast’s kingdom will indeed have thoughts originating from their rebellious and wicked spirits inside them. For a rational belief that all existence is material, that all is merely a cosmic accident and not designed by non-material Spirits, would rationally force them to ignore themselves, along with all other religions. They would have no feelings or impulses to persecute other relgions, especially the religions of pure biblical Christianity and Judaism, which teach about a loving, just, equitable God who beneficially serves all the earth. For their kingdom would actually benefit from the honesty, works and moral integrity of such people. And it would not be worthy of their time or energy to murder them, even if they could gain a few modest possessions by plundering them. In fact, they would dismiss literally everything in their lives as senseless and meaningless.

Since literally everything is a waste of time and effort for a “rational” atheist, and the wasting of time and effort is itself irrational, they rationally should treat all their own thoughts, feelings, words and deeds as utterly worthless and irrational. Only if a rational non-material Creator Spirit exists can anything be treated as rationally worthy of anyone’s time and effort, and then only what that Creator Spirit has deemed to be worthy. So not even seeking their own physical needs, like food, can actually be worthy of their attention, if there is no God and they do not have eternal spirits. It should be of no rational consequence to them if they feel pain or pleasure, live or die. No necessities, no laws to govern actions, no pursuits of any effects for any reasons, should be worthy of rational attention. The very concept of anything being worthy of attention must be rationally rejected as a waste of their time and efforts. Yet atheists very eagerly pursue the lusts and pride of their flesh, with great zeal, night and day, as fearing slaves compelled to perform those irrational and self-destructive impulses.

So the beast’s kingdom of atheists will reveal the hypocrisy of their wicked spirits in them. The wills of their spirits will want to remain alive in the flesh, and their fear of dying in the flesh will prove that their spirits know there shall be nothing waiting for their spirits in the eternal spiritual realm, after their flesh dies, except the dark emptiness of hell. Then the fact that they will want to be their own gods, ruling their own destinies on earth, also means that they will know they have spirits in them, since only a spirit can desire to be a god. For an amoral mind of flesh can only seek its own survival if the spirit in it causes and motivates that flesh to remain alive. And, while the flesh pursues life through its own lusts, cravings, and pride in its own power or survival techniques, it is incapable of thoughts pertaining to an abstract-oriented future, cannot desire control over moral aspects of life. The mind of flesh does not desire, and is not able to control the inward thoughts of itself or others, for the sake of being esteemed and served (i.e., worshiped), since that is a moral and spiritual desire.

The only reason the atheists in the beast’s kingdom will hate God and His people will be because they will know God exists, and that He will judge their spirits after they die. The very fact that they will curse the God of the Bible when He sends plagues to interfere with and nullify their wickedness, and the fact that they will hate and murder anyone who believes that this biblical God exists, exposes their spirits’ belief that the biblical God exists. These fruits of their spirits, these actions expressing what their spirits know and fear, will prove that their spirits fully recognize the existence of the one and only Creator God described in the Bible. The only possible reason they will hate and kill those who know and love the real God, even as they ignore the Great Prostitute and other fake humanistic Christians living among them, will be because God's true people will remind their wicked, lying, murderous spirits that God will indeed judge them, and that hell awaits them. They will kill God's

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faithful ones so their wicked spirits can maintain their delusions in their minds of flesh, and continue to feed the lusts of their flesh—not actually because they will ever truly believe that no God exists.

Now look again at how John prophesied about no one being able to enter into heaven’s Temple until the seven angels finish pouring out the bowls of God’s wrath, until these last plagues are completed (Rev. 15:8). What this seems to mean is that He will not grant anyone the ability to repent during this brief time, which will last several weeks or a few months. Only God can cause repentance, can rebuke and teach our spirits until we repent into a realization of truth (truth = ἀλήθεια, see II Tim. 2:25, indicating objective spiritual and physical realities, the verities of His ways and wisdom). So, all who did not yet repent into the truth by this time will either die or bear witness to the extreme wrath of our God Jesus against lies and sins. For Jesus will want all to know that His patience with sinners did not meant that His heart does not rage against lies and sins. And all the non-elect will die by the time Jesus returns, just as the last of the seven bowls pours out. But, after Jesus completes His destruction of the beast’s kingdom, He will allow the surviving elect to draw near Him, for He is able to redeem them into the truth and God-like love; including all the Old Covenant elect Jews on earth, who insist on still practicing a humanistic form of obedience to God through the human will.

During this time of pouring out His bowls of wrath, God may actually harden the hearts of the elect around the world, and the few elect remaining among the beast's people. This may occur in much the same way that God hardened the hearts of the elect among the Egyptian people, as His wrath sent plagues on their land in the days of Moses, until He completed their appointed punishment. Back in the days of Moses, God did not want His elect to approach Him and pray for Him to stop pouring out His deadly wrath against the oppressive, murderous lies and sins of those intentional sinners. For He knew that some elect possessed a misguided and deceived affection for even psychopaths, for any who spoke softly to them and tricked them into thinking they actually cared for them. Those brutal exploiters in Egypt were much like Hitler and Trump, and may have even told the elect that they were doing God’s will for those elect, by enslaving them, although they ruthlessly took advantage of the elect for their own personal gain. Thus, the times come when the elect must face the truth about those those evil, selfish wretches. Although psychopaths like to emulate nice people and deceivingly behave friendly towards the elect at times, to cajole them, those lying monsters will never stop lying and sinning against God and His beloved. That brood of Satan must be eliminated from the earth.

God will not hear the prayers of the elect which are based on the deceptions of the wicked, and will not be stopped from completing His just punishment of loveless sinners, who have intentionally lied and sinned to gain years of profitable cruel exploitation. Rather, God’s wrath will pour out against those oppressing murderers, in a way that shall serve as an example to future generations. Likewise, God will not want any of the beast’s non-elect citizens to even pretend to repent at this time, lest He must stop their just punishment for all their vile, horrifying sins, just because His elect might be fooled by their fake displays of “love” for Him. Of course, even if a small remnant of a wicked people truly repent, by turning their whole spirits to God and His ways, God will spare all the people in that land (Gen. 18:23-32). For God will assist the few elect, help them redeem and restore that land, as He nullifies the works of Satan. God will lend His power to that repentant remnant. So, even for the sake of a small remnant of faithful elect in a land, God’s power will remove all major forms of wickedness and injustice from a land, and will not destroy it. But, when too few elect remain in a land, when a dictator kills and expels almost all the elect, all the people must perish in God’s wrath.

VII.7.v. The Fifth Bowl of God's Wrath:

 

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Revelation 16:10-11 (ESV): “The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the

beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish

and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds.”

Again, this prophecy specifies that this plague is only against the beast’s kingdom, and is not a plague which will fall upon the whole world. Only “the throne of the beast and its kingdom was plunged into darkness.” However, this darkness will follow the beast and his armies into Israel, when they go to destroy Jerusalem and God’s people. After the heat wave burns the beast's kingdom and weakens them, God casts the beast’s land into a darkness representing the spiritual darkness of their irrational, unjust delusions and lies. In their darkened minds, they justified their evil and unjust ways, their exploitation, oppression and murdering of other siblings in the family of humankind, all for the profit and pleasures of their own flesh. And God handed them over to Satan, to be deluded by these lies and delusions, to be enslaved by them, because these non-elect had never loved any truths.

Since delusions and lies always result in harmful spiritual and physical effects, if a people refuse to repent into the wisdom of the principles God teaches in His creations and in His Word, the spiritual darkness of delusions and lies will destroy their ability to live and love, as well as their flesh. Then God will also grant the lying and deluded citizens of the beast’s lands a physical darkness too, partly as a sign of their impending doom, but mostly to demonstrate why He shall destroy this land, so all the world might know that this land is dark and deluded. Also, here we see that these bowls of wrath will occur in rapid succession, since we are told that the beast's people “gnawed their tongues in anguish and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores” at this time. So they will still be suffering from the plague of painful sores, and those sores came with the first bowl of God’s wrath. Thus, the first five plagues will all occur within a few weeks or a couple of months of one another.

And notice how the beast’s people will still refuse to repent. Such plagues usually turn an elect soul away from a life of sin and delusions. Yet God hardens the hearts of the beast's wicked people, so not even an elect soul trapped among them will repent. For God rules the thoughts of all hearts. Besides, most of the beast’s people will have non-elect spirits born of Satan and will love darkness. So most of them will be unable to repent, and will cling to their dark delusions forever, even in hell, longing to be their own gods, even when they forever fall through their own darkness into the bottomless pit.

VII.7.vi. The Sixth Bowl of God's Wrath:

Revelation 16:12-16 (ESV): “The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river

Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. And I

saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the

mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. For they are demonic spirits,

performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle

on the great day of God the Almighty. ('Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one

who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen

exposed!') And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon .”

Remember, according to Daniel’s prophecies, a ruler from the east will war against the beast, and so will another ruler from the north. The nation from the east will actually start a war which will kill a third of the earth’s population, during the time of the sixth trumpet. But it seems that the beast will intervene to stop that war. Now God provides an opportunity for both of the eastern and northern enemies of the beast to travel by land to Israel, to join the beast’s armies in his war against God’s people in Israel and the Middle East. These likely will include armies from China, since it appears to

 

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be the most aggressive and well-armed land east of the beast’s Roman kingdom, the nation that is most likely to conquer lands up to the Euphrates River, with an army of about two hundred million.

Then the land to the north might be Russia, or a confederacy of multiple nations. But this will be an international army, and probably will gather secular humanists from all the nations on earth. Many will likely march across Euphrates from the east and north across the land bridge of Turkey, through what is now Syria and Lebanon, then south to Israel. There they will meet with the beast in the valleys below the hill fortress of Armageddon. And the beast’s headquarters will be upon that hill.

However, most of the beast’s own armies will come from his seven European nations. So they would cross the Mediterranean by ship, then probably land at the port in Haifa, since the valleys below Armageddon are just beyond Haifa. Some secular humanists from other places around the world also would arrive by ship to Haifa as well, then proceed from there to the valleys of Armageddon. And all the armies would gather in separate divisions according to their own nationalities and languages, throughout most of Israel, killing and pillaging the cities and villages along the way. But many of the Jews will flee to their capital and most heavily populated city of Jerusalem, as well as to the area around it. For that is the natural place where they will try to make their last stand against the beast.

Here we see that Satan (who is called “the dragon”), along with the beast and the second beast (who is the false prophet serving the first beast) will convince rulers from the east (and likely from the north) to join them in their campaign to destroy Israel and all traces of the biblical religions. And this action of convincing them is described by saying that “three unclean spirits like frogs” came out of the “mouths” of these three entities. So a demon, with the appearance of a “frog,” came out of each one of their “mouths,” presumably to deceive the eastern atheistic secular humanists to join the beast’s campaign against God. Some sources say the ancient Romans associated frogs with fertility and harmony, possibly also with an even more ancient Egyptian superstition that frogs also brought prophetic utterances or wisdom. But in the eastern Chinese culture, a frog may represent healing of the enmity between them and the beast, and the chance of gaining substantial profits by conquering the Middle East. On the other hand, biblically, a frog may represent a foolish, destructive spirit that does not commit to either the land or water, that cannot make a stand on any principles. And, since these international armies will soon slaughter one another, this is most likely the intended meaning.

Yet a holy, elect, sixth angel of God will facilitate and ultimately cause these humanistic nations to gather at Armageddon. For it is ultimately our God Jesus who will lure all the armies of His enemies from around the world to Armageddon, for their destruction. And our God Jesus is able to give His angels the power to manipulate the minds of even Satan and the beast. In turn, God’s elect angel will then command Satan to manipulate the minds of the first and second beast, as well his other secular children, in a way that causes the soldiers among them to gather for this war against God and Israel.

Since Jesus is “coming like a thief” to those murdering souls, it is clear that they will not expect Him to come. Those vile haters in the beast’s army will be completely confident of victory over Israel and the surrounding recently formed Christian lands in the Middle East. So the manipulation of all those secular humanists into attacking Israel will be an easy task. But their ruthless killing will expose the evil in their spirits, revealing them to be void of dignity, lacking in the power to make even the most basic wise decisions for good of their people. So the people of the world will disdain them all, and see them as criminals. Yet their flesh will grow wealthy and with plunder for a brief time, since they will be fully armed and equipped for their military campaign, entirely arrogant and feel fully self-justified in their resolve to commit their wicked deeds. As humanists, they will feel like gods who bear the power to take human lives at will, or steal property and hope from the lives of God’s elect.

 

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Jesus tells us that He plans to come when His enemies least expect Him, just like a thief plans to rob the house of an evil tyrant when his victim least expects it. But His awakened elect children who know the Scriptures will not be caught off-guard. For Jesus gave us this prophecy, and warns us to remain alert, realizing that He will return as soon as the seven bowls of His wrath are poured out. He wants us to prepare our spirits for His arrival, by keeping our “garments” of just, equitable love wrapped over our souls at all times. These “garments” represent our whole beings, all our thoughts and works through God-like love (see Rev. 20:8). And there will be many godly works for us to do, both before and after Jesus arrives. We will need Jesus’ Holy Spirit guiding us every step of the way, to maintain loving, righteous lives throughout the end times, and certainly after Jesus returns to us.

But the beast and his people never possessed any “garments of righteousness,” only the filthy rags of loveless evil. And the beast’s people will not believe the prophecies in God’s Word, since most will not be willing to hear them. So they will not know that the bowls of wrath signal the imminent arrival of Jesus. Only those who know and believe God’s Word will realize that Jesus is about to return after the beast’s armies gather at Armageddon. This hope of the awakened elect, through their faith in Him and in His words, will keep them turning to Him in their spirits’ prayers. And He will make them able to love others in a just, equitable, responsible way, will enable the elect to nullify Satan’s works and to build up His loving kingdom on earth, in preparation for His second advent.

To overcome the beast’s religious power of lies and counter the atheistic secular humanism that he will surely evangelize throughout the world, the elect will need to know spiritual and physical truths, then gain the wisdom which can rightly apply those truths, so they can build love for the just and loving God, for one another and for His other good creations. For Satan’s brood primarily gains power by pitting identifiable groups against one another through lies and delusions, the same deceptions which convince his greedy core of dupes into relying on him as their only savior and god. Then Satan sends his minority core of dupes out to kill his opposition and terrorize the fearful into submission. But that devil’s non-elect core can never be fully united or even entirely faithful to their own elite god, since they are incapable of truly loving and they hate the truths which build true love.

Therefore, while Satan’s kingdom always remains paranoid and internally distrustful of one another, and must even guard themselves against the destructive whims of their human god, they are weak and ready to collapse at any moment. Meanwhile, the awakened elect can build strong and powerful unions with deep love and commitment for God and one another. They can practice true restorative justice and equity through God-like love, completely apart from the entirely materialistic kingdom of Satan. And, if the elect wisely maintain humility and peace, the loveless, greedy, selfishly ambitious, back-stabbing dupes seeking money and power in that devil’s world order will utterly ignore those loving, sharing elect who build up one another in the eternal Sabbath rest of God. So, with the power of God enabling those elect to love, God’s kingdom will gain power daily, and gradually perfect itself until it is the only kingdom the people can go to for any kind of true justice and equity, even for any kind of reasonable coexistence and survival. Then, as long as the awakened elect remain in the humble, just, loving kingdom of God, with Jesus as their only Head, they will administer the land.

The only way to nullify the works of Satan, and break the power of his kingdoms, is to overpower his lies and delusions with the truth. This sometimes means confronting lies with the truth, but not always. What is far more important is to wisely live those truths in communion with the God who created those spiritual and physical realities. We conquer Satan by walking according to the just and equitable spiritual principles of God-like love, by bearing the attributes of God, whose essence is this kind of just, equitable, serving love. If we do not build up God’s kingdom on earth, then we cannot nullify the works of Satan by replacing that evil with true good. And if we do not live and actually

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demonstrate the truth, the people will not turn away from Satan’s kingdom, then flee into God’s just and loving kingdom. But Satan’s kingdom will only crumble when the people do that, when people no longer want or fear Satan, nor his chosen human parasites whom he raises up as their elite gods.

Truth cannot nullify lies solely by providing a “free press.” Lies can only be killed through the wills of the awakened elect to humbly, honestly, diligently and responsibly build, support and maintain God’s freedoms in His kingdom, through love built upon His real truths. Then God will help these elect gradually develop, perfect and maintain their wills to do His will in their elect hearts. The Holy Spirit of Jesus will grant them faith in Him and in His ways, in all the principles which He wrote in creations and in His Word. And all wisdom to rightly apply those truths actually comes from God.

Having our elect spirits personally taught the truth directly by the Spirit of the Creator God, as well as receiving His training to wisely apply that truth, is the salvation God promised to grant us through His Messiah’s New Covenant relationship. For God alone can quicken our spirits enough for Him to pour His concepts into the minds of our spirits, even His genuine and objective understandings of all the truths He created and maintains on earth and in heaven. Although God grants only a few truths at a time to our ignorant and infantile spirits, to gently and gradually build them up within us, both individually over each one’s lifetime and collectively among all His elect throughout history, this does not mean that He has not been saving us. Rather, the fact that God has indeed been teaching and training the spirits of His elect at all means that He is fulfilling the promises of His New Covenant.

And now the end times are almost upon us, when our God Jesus will return to rule the earth as the High Priest of His priesthood of Israel, and as the King of the world. The time has come when we should know enough to become His bride dressed in the “garments of righteousness,” although we are not yet perfect, nor will we be perfect when He returns. For we know that Jesus will not finish His salvation works of utterly perfecting and completing the teaching and training of His truths and wisdom for literally all of His elect until the long judgment day has passed. Nonetheless, we can build upon what He has revealed thus far, and become a just, equitable kingdom of God on the earth.

Our merciful God Jesus grants His free and unmerited grace to very imperfect, ignorant and sinful elect souls like us. His grace empowers even a tiny minority of His very fallible elect to do His wise works of creating, refining, perfecting, growing and maintaining His kingdom on earth, His people who also nullify the lying and murderous works of Satan. But His weak and stupid elect children must learn to trust and heed their wise heavenly Father and eldest Brother, as well as wisely share the knowledge, skills and God-owned resources He grants to each individual among them, or else they will never accomplish anything good. If the elect behave like citizens of Satan’s world order, they will reap the rewards of Satan, not the rewards of God. If they worship human gods, and do not cooperate with God and His people, they will not overcome the gates of hell, but will be overcome.

Nor is it burdensome, difficult or frustrating to do the true works of God: to plan ahead in the best way one can, through shared information and advice, but keeping the mind of one’s spirit open to all the changes that God inevitably makes; to naturally and often spontaneously do whatever God calls one’s spirit to do each hour or day, while entering God’s Sabbath rest, which frees one’s life from selfish ambition; to become aware of the spiritual, physical and emotional needs of others, even if it means giving them loving, timely and carefully worded rebukes at times, so one can responsibly care for others while enjoying the just and equitable freedoms of our Lord; and to continue to always let one’s spirit hear and heed the Holy Spirit of Jesus, so one may be taught and trained to do His will.

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Prostitute, led by a worshiped, psychopathic, human god. So it will be very much like Hitler’s or Trump’s unjust and ruthless kingdoms, but even more empowered by Satan, producing even worse lies that cause even more destruction. Still, the awakened elect of the true church, after the revival of the sixth seal, will not fear that beast’s kingdom. Instead, that true church will focus on building up God’s just, loving kingdom in many places on the earth. And this will nullify the works of Satan in those places. None of the prophecies in God’s Word says that the Christian nations that form during the end times will build huge armies to war against the beast, although those lands will oppose the lies of the beast and anger him. In fact, prophecies say that some Christian nations will be quickly and easily conquered by the beast’s armies during the first half of his seven-year reign, especially the Christian nations in the Middle East. Therefore, the armies of Christian nations will be small, likely acting only as policing agents. And, after they are invaded, those Christian nations will simply wait for the beast’s armies to leave their lands, in the middle of his short reign, as prophesied. Then they will free themselves and wait for Jesus to destroy the beast’s kingdom, as prophesied. According to the prophecies, only Israel, where most elect Jews will remain in an Old Covenant relationship with God until the day Jesus returns, will have a substantial army that will try to battle the beast, but fail.

“Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay, says the Lord” (Rom. 12:19; Heb. 10:30; cf., Duet. 32:35; Ps. 94:1). So the physical vengeance against the beast’s empire, along with the physical deaths of all his armies and all the non-elect of the world, will be performed by God Himself, by our God Jesus, not by us. Of course, Christians are not pacifists who allow evil to unjustly trample the innocent. We oppose evil and sometimes even need to use deadly force. But we primarily seek to take captives of God’s enemies, or chase them away. We do not seek bloody revenge, nor even economic and other forms of vengeance. Rather, we focus on restoring what was lost and rebuilding what was destroyed.

Since none but God can judge the motives and intentions of spirits, we leave all vengeance to God, and simply do the works of God, which build up His kingdom in ways that also nullify the works of the devil. Then God will judge. He will call and help us to save whom He wills to save. And God will determine when it is best for other flesh to die, as well as when spirits will to go to either heaven or hell. God alone will avenge those who justly deserve His wrath, even with His mercy of an instant physical death. And He will also allow the non-elect to forever keep their beloved lies and delusions in hell. So we can be sure that God will gather the loveless humanistic international armies of the beast, the core power of the tyranny in many evil nations, into Israel. Then our God Jesus will exact vengeance upon their souls for willfully seeking lies and murdering the innocent through those lies.

Most flesh partaking in terrorism, self-serving exploitation or other unjust deeds for the sakes of wanna-be human gods in humanistic hierarchies, will die on the day Jesus returns. Worse yet, the loveless ones will soon be imprisoned for eternity, with their preferred lies and delusions painfully eating at their souls forever. Even the beast’s former enemies, the humanists from the nations to the north and east of the beast’s lands, will join him and his destruction at Armageddon. Then Jesus will come to serve as the just and loving King of all the elect He leaves alive on earth. Our God Jesus will destroy the wicked on that day, not us. So let us cast aside the unjust humanistic Roman concept of justice, which seeks vengeance, then focus solely upon building up God’s just, loving kingdom.

Armies of humanistic God-haters from many nations will join the beast in his attack on Israel and surround Jerusalem. They will include armies from the east, seemingly from the same place which drew the beast out of Israel previously, in the middle of his seven-year reign (see Dan. 11:44). So this eastern army will likely be the remnant of the army of 200 million that killed a third of mankind before their defeat, during the time of the sixth trumpet (Rev. 9:13-19). For what other eastern power would have any remaining armies at this time, after that massive army killed a third of mankind in a

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great world war, and where most casualties would be in the east itself? But, after that eastern power was defeated, it appears to have been split into smaller kingdoms, since it now has “kings” (plural), and no longer seems to be one united power. On the other hand, the plural “kings” might refer to the both the king of the north and the king of the east, fighting together with the beast. For Daniel also suggested that the king of the east previously joined forces with the king of the north to war against the beast. So now both might join the beast at the same time too. And we know that, if the armies of Russia to the north and China to the east had to move armies to Israel by a land route, they would need to cross the Euphrates river in Iraq and Syria to get there. Thus, this may be what Daniel was indicating when he prophesied about the destructions of the beast’s armies and allies at Armageddon:

“But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to

destroy and devote many to destruction. And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea

and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him” (Dan.

11:44-45, ESV).

The beast, after conquering Israel and the surrounding nations during the first three and a half years of his reign, will “go out with great fury,” half-way through his seven-year reign. Then the beast will “destroy” the armies from the east and north, and “devote many to destruction,” which probably means that he will execute many from those armies. And this world war will take some time. So the beast and his armies probably will leave Israel and the Middle East for more than three years, until nearly the end of his seven-year reign. Then, when he returns, he will set up his army headquarters at Armageddon, which is actually “between the [Mediterranean] sea and the glorious holy mountain” of Jerusalem’s temple. This prophecy alludes to some kind of alliance between the kings of the east and north, where the beast conquers both at one time. Then, near the end of his seven-year reign, the beast returns to Israel, to finish what he started during the first three and a half years of his reign. But he shall “come to his end, with none to help him” at that time, in Israel. Actually, this phrase is better translated as, “and none shall help him.” For it is clearly speaking about Armageddon, and armies of kings from the east and around the world will actually try to help the beast. Yet those other armies and their kings will not help at all. For Jesus will destroy them all, together with the beast’s armies.

One of the reasons the beast will raise this vast army to utterly annihilate everyone and everything in Israel seems to be because the beast will be angry, with the same kind of “great fury” he had when he saw the armies of the east and north causing trouble for him. So the beast will be a typical volatile and very angry humanistic dictator, who demands that his will shall be done at all times, because he will believe that he is an omniscient god whose speculations are always absolute truths. So his vain wrath will be directed toward Israel and her allies for some reason. And that reason would probably be because Israel and the surrounding nations had rebelled against his scant occupying forces after his main forces left the region more than three years earlier. The beast had likely left Israel and that region thinking that all the people there would adopt the false reasoning of his irrational atheistic secular humanism, and abandon their “superstitious” religions of Judaism and Christianity, after he forcefully “freed” them from the “bondage” of their “blind beliefs.” But, instead, the people of the region overcame the beast’s occupying forces. Then Israel once more worshipped in their temple and the highway from Egypt to the former lands of ancient Assyria began to see heavy traffic again, with countless Christians coming to visit the temple of God in Jerusalem. So this would enrage the beast enough to want to kill every worshiper of God in Israel and the region, all who were not atheists.

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those lands when armies from the east and the north threaten his power and homelands. And when the beast withdraws, he likely will likely leave a remnant of his armies and some political appointees behind, who will all be atheistic secular humanists like him. Therefore, as soon as the beast’s main forces withdraw, it is perfectly feasible that Israel and the region will rebel and take back their lands.

Then, at the end of the beast’s seven-year reign, the infuriated beast, with his own armies and the armies of other humanists, will come to Armageddon in Israel, and try to permanently eliminate faith in the God of the Jews and Christians throughout the world, by turning Israel into an empty and desolate wasteland. For superstitious, irrational humanists have always been too ignorant to realize that true faith in the real God comes from the people’s spirits, not from a physical land or a temple. Elect human spirits trust in God, who is a Spirit. So materialistic humanists, who worship physical humans and physical things that provide pride, power and pleasures for their physical flesh, will not even imagine that the Spirit of God is manipulating their spirits to gather for their own annihilation.

Almost all who shall run with the beast to destroy Israel will be God-hating secular humanists. For this will actually be a religious war, the beast’s attempt to force all the world to blindly believe in his religion of atheistic secular humanism, primarily so that all will worship him alone. And, in the beast’s lands, the people will already have murdered or expelled all who do not worship him. Even the humanistic Great Prostitute and her harlot daughter churches will be dead by this time, and all the elect trapped in them will have been called out of them, into the revived true church. Then all the most zealous God-hating humanists in the world will eagerly volunteer for this crusade to kill all other religions, and establish a theocracy ruled by their god, the beast. Thus, everyone joining the beast’s international army will have loveless non-elect spirits filled with pure evil, and God can then justly destroy them all, without causing the deaths of His elect, since the elect will not join them.

The faith of materialistic humanists will be far too blind to realize when they are being manipulated by God, who wants to gather them in Israel for their judgment at His second coming. For their spirits are seldom aware of any spiritual realities existing all around them, unlike the awake among God's elect, whom God chastises and causes to be honest, to see those realities. From the very beginning, from the days of Nebuchadnezzar, humanists have remained deluded, dull in their reasoning, too vain to see real truths or genuine realities, too absorbed in worshiping themselves or their human gods. Their thinking is always clouded by carnally inspired biases. So, when God dries up the Euphrates, the armies of the east will be easily drawn to their stupid cause. They will jump at the chance to strike a blow at God and immediately move their armies across the river to Israel. And, by the way, the Euphrates is where the eastern army of 200 million were finally defeated by the beast in the days of the sixth trumpet. I say this because four angels were sent from the Euphrates to stir up that army at that time, and this would indicate the limit that their conquests would reach (Rev. 9:14).

There will also be the three “unclean spirits” sent to delude and drive those international armies of the beast toward their own destruction. One will come from Satan, one from the beast and one from the beast's assistant, the “false prophet.” John identifies these as demons, for he states that “they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty” (Rev. 16:14, ESV). So the beast and his assistant will have no real minds and wills of their own. They will be mere puppets of demons. Yet our God forces even demons to obey His will and fulfill His purposes. So, when God decides to destroy the murdering brood of Satan, He commands demons to do some of that work for Him. And demons love to kill creations of God, such a human bodies. So they seem eager to slaughter the flesh of their own children, and drag their spirits home to hell. Thus, these demonic spirits shall willingly delude and manipulate those humanists, unite them for this common cause, making them believe they can

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somehow destroy faith in God by annihilating Jerusalem’s temple and murdering all who trust in God. For humanists have always been the most irrational and deluded people of blind faith on earth, total slaves to the demonic spirits who easily manipulate their thoughts and cast them into delusions.

In the valleys below Armageddon, our God Jesus will first cause those international armies of the beast to quarrel and slaughter one another. Then, since all those humanists will be zealous enemies of God, Jesus will remove the life-giving spirits from all their survivors, and instantly destroy them. So there will be tens of thousands of dead bodies laying in the valleys of Israel, to demonstrate Jesus’ power at His return. The mightiest army that the earth will have ever seen shall fall in a day. For no power on earth or in heaven will ever win any kind of real victory against Jesus, neither a spiritual nor a physical victory. Jesus can easily destroy all His enemies in a moment, and even make them eternally non-existent, whenever He wills to do so. However, He only wills to destroy the wicked if it glorifies His own loving, just, equitable attributes, if it proves that His kind of just love will truly benefit His people and His other creations. Therefore, Jesus will wait until the day when all His elect Jewish people in Israel have separated from their humanistic invaders and from the Jewish non-elect who sided with the beast, which will be just after all the world’s Gentile elect have cast aside the humanism of false churches, before He comes to destroy all the lying, murdering non-elect on earth.

Jesus’ own personal destruction of the beast’s armies will also prove that He needs no help from men. And we need to know this. We need to realize that, in reality, the best that any elect human being can become on earth is an inept and failing assistant of our God Jesus, a sinful and ignorant disciple who is slowly and inadequately learning to do His just and loving will on earth. Then we also need to realize that all those godless human gods, dressed in self-aggrandizing clothes, are mere parasites stealing their nourishment from the lives of God’s people and from His other creations, weak and utterly powerless worms whom Jesus can easily squash in an instant. For, even the great and supposedly “invincible” armies of the beast, with help from many other nations, will fall dead before the face of our God Jesus. Meanwhile, literally all of His elect will helplessly stand by in Jerusalem and around the world, as He descends from the sky to rid the earth of our worst threats.

But, before the beast’s army even reaches Jerusalem, they will hear dire news about a disaster in their homeland, caused by the seventh bowl of God's wrath. Of course, this will only further enrage the beast against God, so he will command his armies to press on towards Jerusalem. But, while they are marching through the valleys of Israel, Jesus will return. Then Jesus will summarily cast the beast and Satan into hell, just before He slaughters last survivors in their army and all of that devil’s non-elect offspring on the earth. This will finally end Satan's world order, his rule over unrepentant sinners, which began as soon as Adam sinned. No longer will anyone be chosen by Satan to exalted to positions of power on earth. The demonic hierarchies of elite wanna-be human gods sucking the life-blood out of artificially deemed “inferiors,” and the financial systems which enable them to do so, will not exist on earth any longer. No unjust despots will rule on earth after Satan and his horde of fallen angels are cast into hell. All the political, economic and military systems of the devil's unjust, ruthless world order will vanish, never to be seen or suffered again on the face of the earth.

VII.7.vii. The Seventh Bowl of God's Wrath:

Revelation 16:17-21 (ESV): “The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud

voice came out of the Temple, from the throne, saying, 'It is done!' And there were flashes of

lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been

since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. The great city [This particular ‘great

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head.] was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered

Babylon the great [i.e., the city of Rome and the Roman Empire is Babylon], to make her drain the cup

of the wine of the fury of His wrath [The beast’s lands drink up the seventh bowl of God’s wrath.]. And

every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. [This indicates that the beast’s lands

will include some islands in the Mediterranean sea, since this plague only affects the Roman beast’s lands

beside that sea.] And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on

people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.”

This prophecy clearly states that the God-hating humanists in the beast’s lands “cursed God,” the God from whom this prophecy came, that is, the real God. So they will know that the God of the Bible is the one who will have sent this plague. And they will also know why He sent it, because they hated Him, tried to censure and silence Him, then killed His children. Yet, as God’s just wrath falls upon them, to punish their merciless injustice, they will still curse Him and refuse to repent.

Now look at the “loud voice” which “came out of the Temple, from the throne, saying, 'It is done!'” Since Jesus is the only real Temple in heaven (Rev. 21:22), this voice actually came from the temple grounds. But it came from the “throne” of the temple (and this throne was also called a “cloud” in Rev. 14:14), a place where only Jesus can sit. Therefore, this is the voice of our God Jesus. So this was an infallible and immutable declaration of God that “it is done,” immediately after the seventh bowl of His wrath was poured out. Yet the perfect indicative active form of γίνομαι here actually means something like: “It has been caused to happen and the effects/results are now currently being seen.” Since John was hearing that voice at a future time, after the seventh bowl had poured out, the effects of the earthquake and killer hail stones were seen by him at that time. But this implied that the past action of pouring out the last bowl of His wrath would have an even greater effect than the mere destruction of Rome. For this is when Jesus Himself will begin to descend to the earth below.

Now, when the “great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth” will split apart the “great city” of Rome, “the cities of the nations fell” too, and “every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found.” So, will some places outside of the beast’s kingdom be destroyed? No. Nothing here indicates that any other region on earth will be severely harmed by this plague, only the beast’s Roman kingdom. For we must remember that the beast’s kingdom will consist of seven nations, each with its own capital cities and other cities. Then the reason for this earthquake was because “God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.” Since the fourth demonic kingdom of Babylon is the Roman Empire, all these “cities of the nations” will be in the seven nations of the beast’s final Roman Empire. Also, the city of Rome was famous for its seven hills or “mountains.” So it is these seven “mountains,” and possibly some others in the area, that will no longer be found. That is, the “mountains” or hills will mostly or entirely collapse, and the lands where they stood will be leveled. Furthermore, this will be such a severe earthquake that “every kind of island vanished” (πᾶσα νῆσος ἔφυγεν), that is, from the beast’s kingdom at that time. In other words, the people on the islands near Rome will be wiped out, likely by tsunamis. So, yes, all these bowls of God’s wrath will be poured out solely upon the beast’s lands.

This will the most severe local earthquake that will ever occur in all history, although it will not be a world-wide earthquake, nor a series of earthquakes occurring all around the world, like the sixth seal’s earthquake will be. Then, probably due to dust it raises into the atmosphere, extreme, deadly hail stones of a massive size will fall on epicenter of this earthquake, killing most of the people in Rome. Since the lightning and hail will come from the skies, God will be indicating that this is His wrath from heaven above. But this earthquake will occur while the beast and his international armies are gathering at Armageddon, and just before Jesus returns to destroy them. So this will be a very

 

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brief plague on the beast’s lands, and likely just a day or two before Jesus returns. Then news of this disaster, which will kill the families and friends of the beast’s own soldiers, will probably make his armies pause. And, by this time, they will likely be surrounding Jerusalem, ready to destroy it. So this seems to be when the armies from the various nations turn against one another, slaughter one another, and produce rivers of blood in the valleys. For the beast’s soldiers will be shocked, stopped in their tracks, then enraged by God’s actions. They will be in an extremely foul mood. Thus, if the other armies are eager to finish the battle, by destroying Jerusalem standing right in front of them, it may cause a bitter dispute between them and the beast’s insanely upset armies. Then a few shots may be fired and escalate into a deadly and catastrophic conflict. And, almost immediately after most of them kill one another, Jesus will come to kill the rest. So most of the elect who fled into Jerusalem will feel doomed for a time, as the beast’s massive armies surround them. But, in the end, they will safely watch their enemies destroy themselves. Then they will see Jesus descend to destroy the rest.

When this prophecy talks about the destruction of “the great city,” it definitely refers to Rome, which the Jews and the Jewish apostles traditionally called “Babylon” (e.g., I Pet. 5:13). And when it refers to “Babylon” it means Rome and the beast’s final Roman Empire of seven nations. This was because Daniel’s prophecy said the head of all of the devil’s four kingdoms was Babylon, which was ruled and represented in its whole by its king, Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:38). Then, after John prophesied about this destruction of secular Rome, his next words were: “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute’ ... And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations” (Rev. 17:1a,5, ESV). So this false church was also Babylon, and in the city of Rome, bearing the essence of the Roman Empire within her, filled with the devil’s lies of humanism.

The Great Prostitute is actually greater than the future secular beast will be. After all, for almost two millennia now, her evangelism of Greco-Roman humanism kept the Roman Empire alive, since her religion has always been the life and essence of that fourth kingdom. And it was the lies of this Great Prostitute that gave birth to, weaned, raised up and sent out the Roman despots throughout history, including Rome’s most recent fascists, like Hitler, Mussolini and Trump. So she is not only the mother of the world’s spiritual “prostitutes,” who are the humanistic false churches, but also the mother of the worst of all the “earth’s abominations” too. For the Roman humanism she evangelized throughout this world has been responsible for the vast majority of wars and unjust persecutions in history, either directly through her Roman Catholics, or through the humanism she caused to be syncretized into other religions like the Protestant fake churches and Islam, or through the secular humanism she kept alive in secular systems of ruthless colonialism, capitalism, communism and fascism. When Jesus gave this Revelation to John, He knew all this would happen through the Great Prostitute in the future, which is why He caused John to see and record this vision of her at this time.

So, when this part of the Revelation pauses to describe the Great Prostitute after it prophesies about the seven bowls of God’s wrath, it might confuse some readers. Some may then think this means the Great Prostitute will come after the seven bowls of wrath. However, the destruction of the Great Prostitute will be just prior to the pouring out of those bowls. For it is the beast and his minions who will destroy the Great Prostitute with fire. And that beast will go to Israel while the bowls of wrath are being poured out, likely while the sixth bowl is poured out. Then the beast will meet his eternal end while he is in Israel, when Jesus casts him into hell. Therefore, it would be impossible for the beast to destroy the Great Prostitute after the seventh bowl of wrath is poured out. Logically, the beast must destroy the Great Prostitute just before the bowls of wrath are poured out, or while some of the first bowls are being poured out. Then Babylon, the city of Rome, not the Great Prostitute,

 

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will be split into three parts by the great earthquake when the seventh bowl of God's wrath is poured out. Thus, the reason John digresses into a description of the Great Prostitute (in Rev. 17:1) is simply to provide some background information about her, since she is critical to understanding the events of the last days, of the times from the end of the first century all the way up to the day Jesus returns.

The beast will burn the Great Prostitute sometime before the sixth bowl of wrath is poured out, and probably before the first bowl of wrath will be poured out. Also, it is clear that, when the beast destroys the “great city” called “Babylon” (here referring to the Great Prostitute’s city within the city of Rome), the beast will only burn the part of the city of Rome which belongs to the Great Prostitute, not all of Rome, since Rome is the beast’s capital of his kingdom. The beast will only burn the part which is now called the Vatican City in Rome, the part belonging to the Great Prostitute. The Vatican is located in the western part of the city of Rome, but it is a “city” and even a state unto itself. So, when the beast burns the part of Babylon (Rome) belonging to the Great Prostitute, he certainly will not harm the secular part of his capital city at the same time, but will leave his secular part intact. It will be God, through His plague of the great earthquake and hail, as the seventh bowl of His wrath pours out, which destroys secular part of Rome. This can be the only possible sequence of events.

Jesus Returns, Destroys the Beast

When the seventh bowl of God’s wrath will finally repay the secular Roman Empire for her centuries of self-serving deceptions and psychopathic deeds, that kingdom will drink the cup of God's wrath to the dregs. For its extremely zealous religion of humanism had plagued the earth with countless wars, incessant injustice, self-destructive vengeance and endless oppression for more than two millennia. So it was time for our God Jesus to eliminate Rome and return, to restore His earth for His creations.

Daniel prophesied that, just before Jesus returns, Jesus will utterly crush the beast's kingdom into such fine dust that it will be blown away by the winds of time, without even a trace left for posterity. Yet it seems that the whole world now somehow believes the lies of pagan Rome, and many will still believe them when the beast arrives, just seven years before Jesus returns to destroy that final vestige of Satan’s fourth kingdom. And, after Jesus comes, His power and wisdom shall answer those lies of the devil’s humanistic religion. So all elect spirits on earth will be awake, cast those lies aside and soon forget them, saying to themselves: “How could I have believed such selfish, evil nonsense?”

Daniel 2:34-35; 44-45 (ESV): [Here Daniel describes what happens to the statue representing the four

evil kingdoms of Satan’s beast, which the king saw in his dream] “As you looked, a Stone was cut out

by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in

pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken

in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried

them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the Stone that struck the image

became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

“[Here, in verses 44-45, Daniel provides the interpretation of the verses above.] ... And in the days of

those kings [i.e., after the fourth kingdom is completed.] the God of heaven will set up a kingdom

that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break

in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever , just as

you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces

the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the

king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

 

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Since Daniel’s spirit received the revelation of the dream and its interpretation directly from God, it “is certain, and its interpretation sure,” it is infallible and we can fully trust every word of it. Yet he saw the statue break apart in the king’s dream. Thus, it will indeed break apart, into dust blown away by the wind, even though it still looks strong now and will look even stronger in the end times. This breaking apart will be done by the Messiah, who is the “Stone” that shall come to set up His small but ever-growing kingdom “in the days of those kings,” that is, after the kings of all four parts of the demonic kingdom are established. These four parts, represented by the gold, silver, bronze and clay-iron parts of the statue, were the empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. And Jesus did come just after the fourth empire of Rome began. During His first advent, Jesus kingdom of God was small, but it did grow and begin to break apart the humanistic precepts of Satan’s fourth kingdom.

In the first century, Jesus established a small true church which began to strike at the “feet” of the beast’s image, that is, at the beliefs held by the lowest classes in the humanistic hierarchy. This true church introduced biblical concepts to slaves and working people, principles that were the antithesis of Greco-Roman humanism. Jesus’ works nullified the works of Satan’s new world order based on that devil’s invention of the religion of humanism. Of course, those cracks in humanism alarmed the Romans, and they found it impossible to eradicate those truths after they escaped into the world. So they did the next best thing. By the second century, Roman humanists had slandered and bullied all true Christians so much that none could show their face in public, while those Roman humanists also took over all the churches, so they could poison and corrupt the words of God in them. This stifled God’s truths and kept God’s just, equitable, loving kingdom from growing as quickly as it did in the first century. However, they could not destroy the written words of the true New Covenant church that Jesus formed in the first century, nor the words of the prophets in the Old Covenant Scriptures, lest the people might then recognize them as fakes. They actually tried to destroy those words, but God did not let them succeed. So those fake churches had to keep the Scriptures in tact, in order to pretend to be a real church. And many elect throughout history saw the real truth in those words.

So, century after century, God awakened the spirits of some of His elect, taught and trained them to know and effectively apply some of His truths in His Word. Thus, once those truths escaped, they caused more and more cracks in the brittle mixture of clay and iron that is the Roman Empire. So the initial form of the fascist fourth kingdom of Satan has already begun to weaken. It can no longer remain its old lying, entirely psychopathic, terrorizing, murdering, vengeful self, because elements of God’s just, equitable and loving truths continuously strike it and cause cracks in it. Yes, Rome fights back against God’s truths, with the most slanderous lies imaginable. And parts of Rome’s highly factious kingdom still attempt to restore its old fascist self, by brutally terrorizing their people into submission. Some Roman nations even succeed in suppressing any mention of biblical truths among their people. But, underneath, among their slaves and oppressed commoners, biblical truths still circulate. Thus, as Rome evangelized its religion of humanism throughout the world, God’s own kingdom of just and loving elect also grew and expanded throughout the world. Now the conflict between the two kingdoms is intensifying, in a way which draws the elect closer to God and draws the non-elect into Rome. Thus, the final vestige of the four kingdoms will soon arise. That is, the demonically controlled beast will form the last headquarters of the Roman Empire out of only seven European nations. And that beast will try to defeat God, but will fail and will be crushed into dust.

God’s kingdom has always struck the feet of rulers who dared to set themselves up as gods of their nations. Even before His New Covenant kingdom, God struck at the feet of kingdoms. For, when God destroyed Egypt in the days of Moses, God struck at their feet, by revealing His truths to their slaves. And Jesus chose slaves and common people for His New Covenant church as well. “God

 

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chose the foolish things of the world that He might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that He might put to shame the things that are strong. God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, that no flesh should boast before God” (I Cor. 1:27-29, WEB).

We should recognize that the statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream not only represented four successive kingdoms (Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome), but the gold, silver, bronze and clay-iron parts also represented four classes of people in the hierarchies found in all humanistic bodies (one head, the elite authorities, the intellectuals or highly skilled, and all the others). For only one man, the king Nebuchadnezzar, was the golden head. And the head itself is more than eight percent of the entire body’s weight. Then the two legs and feet are only a little more than six percent of body’s weight, yet they represent the vast majority of people, the common people, the countless souls forced to bear the weight of the whole kingdom. So the one head has more authority and weight than the entire majority of the people in any humanistic system. The power and authority in all humanistic systems is always held by a minority of elite, either in an oligarchy or dictatorship. And all four of Satan’s successive kingdoms had hierarchical systems. The religion of humanism demands that a few artificially deemed “superiors” must lord it over artificially deemed “inferior” siblings in the family of humankind, and wars against equality and biblical democracies. So the four parts of the statue did indeed represent four classes of people in Satan’s unjust religious kingdom of oppressive humanism.